Star and Sky did make love to each other that morning like it was indeed their last month as lovers. The intensity that they always had was that much stronger now, quickly pushing them both to that mutual climax once more. And just as before, when they reached that point, their powers did manifest.

Only, this time it happened in a completely new and terrifying way. They both felt that release while their bodies were joined as one; Star atop Sky’s hips as he poured himself into where she too was feeling that climax. And at that final moment, the two simply vanished, leaving nothing behind except an indentation in sweat-dampened sheets.

When Brie came to restock the fridge later that day, she was more than a little surprised that Sky and Star had not yet made their way out of the bedroom for either breakfast or lunch, according to the monitors she glanced at before leaving the lab. After putting the groceries away, and still seeing no sign of the teens, she sighed and slowly made her way toward the master bedroom.

Upon stopping outside the door, she moved to listen at it, just in case she would simply be interrupting some particularly passionate, and lengthy, tryst between them. After several seconds of hearing nothing from inside, she assumed they had just gone back to sleep after such an activity. With a sigh, she knocked at the door, just to make sure they were still breathing. After all, them no longer continuing to do so was a very real fear.

“Kids?” She asked worriedly through the door. At this point she was actually hoping to get a response of annoyance for disturbing their rest, despite it being already after twelve.

For the first time, she found herself wishing that the bedrooms also had clear glass doors and walls; though, this room was surrounded by a door and walls that were made of thickly frosted glass where you could barely even make out shadows or colors behind them, especially when the room was dark; as it was currently. After all, with the cameras on, there was no need for clear glass doors and walls in the non-common areas of the house. However, she had given in to agreeing to turn the cameras off in at least that room and its adjoining bath to just try and make up for some bit of the victimization and exploitation the teens had already endured.

After several more seconds of getting no response, that was when Brie did begin letting a bit of fear in. She bravely knocked at the door more loudly and waited several more moments on some kind of response. Eventually having to accept the fact that they were not able to respond, for whatever reason, Brie braced herself and moved toward the keypad next to the door. But she hesitated, and instead moved her attention to the intercom.

“Connor, are you in the lab still?” she asked after pressing the button.

“What is it, Brie?” he answered with his usual distraction and disinterest.

“Might you happen to know where the kids are?” Brie asked with a slight breath.

Connor narrowed his eyes, glanced at the monitors nearby and replied, “still in the damn bedroom from what I can tell. Typical” he added under his breath.

“So they haven’t left the bedroom at all today?” Brie asked with a bit of worry.

“So much for his bullshit about how difficult it was for them to still wanna do that with each other constantly” Connor scoffed.

“I already tried calling to them and knocking at the bedroom door. They’re not answering” Brie told him with increased worry.

“Guess they’re just not into threesomes with their adopted mom. But fucking who they thought was their own twin? That? Totally cool with it” he added sarcastically.

Brie let out a sigh of frustration at his continued blasé attitude, “Connor, will you please just come up to the house?”

“What for? I doubt they’d want a threesome with me either” he scoffed again.

“Connor, come on. I don’t think they’re in there having sex. I hear nothing. They’re not even answering at all. Will you please just get in here?”

“For fuck’s sake, Brie, you know all the codes. Just open the damn door yourself. They’re already pissed at us. What’s one more transgression of their precious privacy?” Connor replied shortly.

Brie took another shallow breath before responding, “I don’t wanna open the door.”

Connor scoffed again, “then why are we even having this conversation?”

Brie forced down her own pride and responded, “I’m afraid to open the door, Connor” she told him in a near whisper.

Connor simply sighed with his own frustration then, But he still stood to make his way from the lab to the main house. Once he reached where Brie gnawed at her nails outside the bedroom door, he greeted her with “what exactly are you afraid of again?”

“We know how suicidal they are. Both of them, now. I don’t wanna open the door and have to see... that. Test subjects or not; I still raised them from the time they were babies. Earlier, even” Brie confessed the true reason she was so terrified of finding out why they weren’t answering.

“You really have gone soft, haven’t you?” Connor retorted, though his voice was somehow gentler then, as surprising as that was.

“I notice you’re not rushing to open the door either” Brie stated softly.

Connor just sighed again, squared his shoulders, and moved to type in the door code. The door easily whooshed open to allow them to finally solve the mystery of what was on the other side of it. Though, Connor simply looked a bit confused himself as the door had still been locked from the inside, but all they found there were a few scattered clothes on the floor next to a disheveled bed.

“Um...” Brie stammered as she made herself peer around Connor to see what waited inside the room at last.

“Where the fuck are they?” Connor asked Brie, almost accusingly.

Brie just scoffed, “oh I’m sure I helped them escape then called you up to the house to discover the fact. If that had happened, I probably would have just waited to see if you even noticed they were gone before the month was up” she retorted angrily, moving forward to glance around the empty room once more.

“Door locked from inside. Kids gone. In the words of our wayward son, what in the actual fuck?” Connor replied.

“No idea” Brie admitted as she took another step into the room, then glanced at the bathroom door, “mind checking in there too?” she asked him in a whisper.

Connor only scoffed as he moved to push the bathroom door open. Again, there was nothing to be found in there, including two star crossed teens possibly bleeding out together in the tub. “Not here either.” Connor sighed as he tossed the bathroom door shut again behind him with a bit of a slam.

“Let’s try to think logically here” Brie began, “if they had just run, then you would have seen them on the monitors. And they could have just fried them again to hide their escape. They didn’t do that either. And they obviously didn’t do what I was afraid they might have” she took another breath, “so what other option is there?”

Connor just let out another frustrated sigh. “Guess we have to find out.”

“Ya think?” Brie returned sarcastically. But before she could say more, Connor started out of the bedroom and back toward the lab. Hurrying to catch up with his longer stride, “care to share what you’re suddenly rushing off to do while our kids are missing?”

“I’m going to find out why, and how, and when. That’s what we do” he returned, not breaking his pace as he moved toward the door that connected the house to the lab.

“And how do you plan on doing that?” Brie pressed, continuing to follow him into the lab.

“Gonna watch the fuckin footage” he bit out shortly.

“Footage?” Brie scoffed, “I turned the cameras off in there.”

“And I turned one of them back on” Connor told her bluntly, ignoring her glare as he reached the monitors and began searching for the footage in question.

“The one in the fucking vent?” Brie returned angrily.

“You really think I was gonna let our two little sex-bombs go unmonitored? Come on, Brie.”

“You’re unbelievable” Brie bit out angrily.

“Well, you don’t have to sit here and watch. Unless of course you wanna know what actually happened” he added smartly as he cued up the footage that began with Star gently placing kisses over Sky’s stomach as he slept.

“You’re really gonna sit here and watch this? After I promised them the cameras would be off?” Brie shook her head again.

“As far as you knew, they were. Besides, shouldn’t you be thanking me?” he stated as he began fast forwarding through that morning, “now we’ll actually be able to figure out how they vanished.” Brie continued to shake her head as their lovemaking began. Though at least it was in fast forward, and not exactly the clearest view from behind the vent the camera was hidden in. “The kid’s got moves at least” Connor stated wryly as he continued to fast forward.

Brie scoffed again, "They’re our children Connor” she complained with disgust. But before they could debate the ethics of watching the two teens make love, it got a bit more uncomfortable, if possible, as Star moved to the dominant position above Sky’s hips. “What, no comments on the moves our seventeen year old daughter has too?” Brie bit out.

But before Connor could try to make another glib comment to deflect the very real discomfort at seeing Star making love to Sky then, instead of the other way around, the two sat up to lean in, trying to decipher what had just taken place in the footage before them.

Staring intently at the screen, the two of them were beyond perplexed but what had just happened. Finally, Brie found her voice, “well, you did say vanished.”

After another long moment of painfully rewinding and watching as their orgasms overtook the teens at the same moment that they disappeared from sight, the two finally had to admit to having no clue what on earth they had just witnessed. Then, Connor finally managed some comment to hide his own discomfort and confusion, “I know it’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how sex is supposed to end.”

Brie just sighed again as she finally pulled the keyboard away and turned off the video. “And I’m pretty sure watching it another hundred times isn’t gonna make it end differently.”

“But seriously” Connor began, obviously in a very foreign place of not understanding how something works for once in his life, “what the hell just happened?”

Brie thought a long moment, trying to look at the situation from a purely scientific perspective, as difficult as that was. “They’re getting older, stronger. We barely know anything about their powers as it is; and they’re likely to just keep growing and changing. They already went from having no control over them to making what they specifically wanted to happen, happen. Right?” she attempted to reason it out aloud.

“That’s all well and good, but come on. Look at what they did. That’s what they wanted to happen? They wanted to just vanish into thin air?” Connor scoffed as he looked back at the now blank screen once more.

Then Brie almost laughed, “did you really just ask that?” Connor simply looked back at her, eyes narrowed. Brie shook her head over at him again, “of course all they wanted to do right now was just disappear. Where have you been?” another pause as she looked at the blank screen as well, “they wanted to just get away from all this, to be gone, to not have to guess at what was gonna happen with this experiment, one way or the other. And it looks like they got their wish, doesn’t it?”