The Gallagher Home

Sam shrugged. "I almost want to invite him, but he's still mad that I'm a super. I haven't seen him in so long...but, Yeah...Jon is like dad. In some ways."

Mari nodded. "See? He loves Jon, if I remember correctly."

Sam nodded. "Unfortunately...They share being scatterbrained, being bad cooks and being very smart. that's it."

Mari smiled. "You should invite him over. We'll be nice."

Sam shook her head. "It's not that you'll be nice. I know that...It's that he hates supers. No matter what. he can't stand supers."

((New Timeline, just when they find Mal, Jamie and Lyn missing))

Mari walked - No, ran, - into her brother's house. "Jon?!"

Jon poked his head over the railing. "Yeah, sis?" He then saw the look on her face. "What's wrong?" When Mari didn't answer, he said, "Marisol Gallagher. Look at me."

She looked up at him. "I can't find Mal... She was supposed to show up at the hospital after going to talk to Lynda and Jamie. I haven't seen any of them since yesterday, when Jamie came to pick Mal up from the Hospital."

The younger Gallagher twin rushed down the stairs, careful not to trip. "No, I haven't..."

Harry slammed the front door. "Dad! I'm home! Mom said she'd be back for lun--Auntie Mari?"

Mari pounced. "Hare! Have you seen Mal, Jamie and Lynda?"

Harry shook his head, shocked. "What?"

She shook her nephew lightly. "Have. You. Seen. Mal. Jamie. And. Lynda. Today?"

Harry shook his head. "No, I haven't. Auntie Mari, what's going on?" Harry had a pretty good idea, but he sure as hell wasn't going to tell.

Sam sighed as she opened the door. "And all this annoying yelling is over what?" She asked as she set down her bag. "And, why am I missing my favorite students?"

She looked at Mari. "Ah. So that's what the shouting's about. Are you going to make me try to track them down? Cause I have to say, I'm not going to be any good at it."

((It's summer, Kat. They're going to college, remember?))

Mari hadn't let go of Harry. "Have you seen them?!"

Harry shook his head. He knew where they were but he honest to he gods hadn't seen them.

Jon pried his sister off Harry. "Mars..."

She turned into him sobbing. Mal had ran away before, when she, Lyn and Mari had had one big giant fight. "Dammit, Jon! All three are gone! Where the hell?!"

Sam sighed. "Mari, they can take care of themselves until we find them. Why don't we calm down and try to figure this all out?"

Jon threw his wife a look that said, "Let her cry this out. It's the only way she'll deal with it." Out loud he said, "Sam, go call Blake and James."

Sam smiled gratefully. She was no good with crying.

She grabbed the phone, calling up Blake and James.

((Blake's office, voice in italics))

"Blake Seaton, Flash News Crime Desk."

Meanwhile, Jon had led Mari over to the couch. "Sis, Mars Bars, look at me."

Mari did so, crying. "I should be out looking for her. Lisa'd never forgive me if I lost Jamie and Lynnie."

Sam glanced at Jon. "Um...Blake. Can you show up at my house like...now?"

Jon was at his wit's end. Something was up with Mari and not just Mal, Lyn and Jamie.

"Why, what happened?" He started shuffling papers. Covering the mouth piece he called out, "Hey, Sethie, somethings wrong with Mari. I gotta go home."

"Er...Mal, Jaimie and Lynda are missing, and Mari's crying. might want to get here quick." Sam said quietly.

"WHAT?!?!" Blake was already out the door. "I'll be right there. Keep her at your place."

Mari was still sobbing into her brother's arms.

Sam put the phone down and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water for when Mari stopped sobbing on Jon.

Mari stopped but the door burst open, revealing a very stressed looking Blake. "Call James," he said to Sam. "He'll want to know. Make sure he gets his butt down here."

Looking at him now, you would have thought he was a cop, but alas, he was a reporter.

Sitting on Mari's other side, he took her gently in his arms. "Shh... It'll be fine... I promise you, 'Sol..."

Sam sighed, picking up the phone and calling, passing the information on before she sat down to wait.

Mari sobbed a few more minutes as Jon got up and sat beside Sam. "Something's up... I just haven't decided what..."

Sam smiled slightly. "Of course you haven't. she'll tell us eventually. in the meantime, let her cry, and don't make me try to comfort her."

Jon grinned and kissed his wife's cheek. "If she's pregnant again, I'm going to kill her."

Sam blinked. The idea hadn't occured to her. She looked at Mari, then at Jon, then longingly at her backpack- she could leave, go back to school...

((oh, you don't know how tempting that is to make her pregnant again.))

Jon grabbed her arm. "Oh, no you don't... You do not go anywhere and leave me with my crying sister, and her hysterical husband."

And it was true. Blake was freaking out, with Mari crying on his shoulder.

Sam frowned. "I wasn't going to leave." She said, then huffed. "Ok. I'll guess she's not pregnant. She's happy when she finds out she's pregnant."