Brie and Connor were still sitting, shocked in the living room as Star headed back outside. Brie took another long breath and spoke again, “how is it even possible that Star would ever cheat on Sky? Let alone, with one of his only friends? Just how?”

Connor sighed heavily, “is the teenage drama aspect really the most important problem here?” Connor asked her.

Brie scoffed, “well I for one am slightly dreading what will happen when one alien with psychic powers finds out that the other alien with psychic powers, who he was totally in love with, and who he lives with, cheated on him with a friend of his, who might also, now have psychic powers” Brie explained sarcastically.

“What the fuck did we do?” Connor mumbled, shaking his head then as well.

“I just, I don’t even know where to...” Brie shook her head again.

Connor then took a few more breaths, “maybe Sky cheated on her with Mr. pretty purple locks” he scoffed sadly.

“That is not helping” Brie bit back. She then added, “besides, it was Star who told us to test those pretty purple locks. It was obviously her that had sex with him... and without a condom” she added with another dismayed shake of her head.

Connor took another long moment before speaking again, “well maybe the teenage drama part won’t be near as bad as we think. I mean, the two were pretty open about both of them sleeping with other people in other lives. Weren’t they?”

Brie just shook her head, “great, so maybe there won’t be any psychically powered jealous rages if we’re lucky. But it still doesn’t fix the problem that we now probably have three alien hybrids to deal with. One of which doesn’t even know it yet and will probably flip out when he finds out it happened at all, let alone how it happened. And we know nothing about this kid who is now, probably just like our kids” she shook her head with ever increasing upset.

When Star stepped back through the patio doors a moment later, the look on her face told Sky all he needed to know, as his dark eyes dropped too. She approached the table where he and Kole sat quietly and gave Kole a sad smile before speaking, “mind if I borrow Sky for a few minutes?”

“You had him first” he offered, attempting a smile, but more than a little concerned about what exactly was going on today; it was obvious there was some sort of drama happening here, but he couldn’t quite figure out what it was just yet.

A moment later, Sky had followed Star back inside the patio doors that she shut firmly behind them, Kole watching them warily as they whispered back and forth, both obviously more than a little upset by something. His first thought of course was worry that something else had happened with Curt. But he figured if that were the case, they likely would’ve told him as soon as he arrived. So he remained wary as he watched their muffled conversation through those glass doors.

“I suppose I don’t have to ask” was the first thing Sky said as Star shut those doors behind them.

“They have to test his blood to be absolutely sure, but he has ‘anomalies’” Star shook her head sadly.

“And we know all too well how many bodily fluids he’s shared with both of us” Sky sighed with more kinds of regret than he could count right then. After another moment, Sky made himself continue, “I should probably be the one to even try and explain any of this to him. After all, I’m the one who he finally opened up to about the worst shit in his past. Guess I’m the one who has dues to pay now” he stated, eyes down again.

“But I’m the one who... hybridized... him, Sky” Star stated with her own huge helping of despair.

“Um, no you’re not” Sky corrected her.

“Really?” Star raised a brow, “I was with him when you were still deflowering Crista” she reminded.

“And do you recall the night before, in that fucking supply shack?” Sky reminded, “and how much of my DNA Kole was swallowing at the time?”

“Fuck” Star said as her eyes dropped then.

“So, I probably fucking in--- hybridized” he chose the slightly less acerbic term, “him and Crista both. Your conscience is clear” he shook his head again, fighting back any tears that wanted to surface then.

“Fucking hell” Star whispered as she rubbed at her eyes with even more stress, “honestly, we should probably tell him together. In case he wants to stab us in the heart now. Not that I could really blame him” she added, biting back her own tears.

Sky took a deep breath as he glanced at where Kole was still watching them curiously through the glass doors. “So, worst case scenario? We rewind time again? But this time only go back a week or two instead of three years?”

“Exploding heads here we come” Star mumbled, but nodded.

They then both stepped back outside, “shall I get popcorn to see the end of this family drama?” Kole greeted them with a smirk as they returned to the table he was still seated at.

“We need to talk” Sky attempted.

“Nothing good has ever followed those words” Kole replied as he tensed a bit and braced himself.

Then Star began, “we’re not witches, Kole.”

“Really now?” he raised a brow, “are ya positive?”

Sky took a breath as he looked at Star then back at Kole, “Sky and Star? Adopted? Our parents are scientists? Genetic engineers to be exact? They really did make us Kole; just not in the traditional way, so to speak. Think more sci-fi than horror” Sky added sadly.

“So, you’re not witches... but aliens?” he just nodded his head, obviously not quite buying the story just yet, “intriguing. Worrying that I seem to be the most mentally stable one here now. But intriguing” he stated again, still looking at them both skeptically.

Sky then took another sad breath, “it’s true, Kole. Though we’re technically hybrids. Mostly human I believe is what they said” he sighed again, “and we just found out, like literally half an hour before you got here, that apparently making an alien hybrid is pretty fucking easy to do; if you already happen to be one” he stated warily, Star and he grabbing one another’s hands for strength then.

“Right” Kole replied, “I always knew the hot ones were also the crazy ones. Why should I be surprised, right?”

Star spoke then, “believe me Kole, this is the last thing we wanted to tell you. You’re the last person we wanna...” she then shook her head, “god I don’t even wanna use the word alienate, but yeah, that. We really like you, both of us; and we honestly didn’t wanna ever have to explain this. But now we kinda have to” she whispered the last bit sadly.

“And why do you have to tell me this wonderful story?” Kole stated as he was then the one rubbing away a bit of his dark eye makeup then.

Sky spoke again then, “like I said, we literally just found out that we’re apparently... contagious?” he shrugged.

“What?” Kole asked more worriedly then.

Star tried to clarify then, “anyone who comes in contact, intimate contact, with our DNA... Well, wait til you see what kind of powers you could have now, Kole” she attempted a smile, but it didn’t quite come to be on her pretty, full, red-stained lips.

“Powers?” Kole said, a bit of interest peeking through his obvious upset then.

Sky spoke then, “why do you think we didn’t need candles and shit? And new age is kind of accurate still; just that new age being science, and apparently evolution.”

“Powers?” Kole repeated as he leaned forward in his seat, “like Curt hearing shit that no one else heard? Nickels not seeing what everyone else could see? That was your... alien mojo?”

Star tried that smile again, “yeah, that’s exactly what it was.”

Kole blew some air through his own pleasantly glossed lips then as he thought on their words. He then looked up, “so if you’ve got these powers...” he began as he raised a brow.

“Then why didn’t I use them on Curt that day?” Sky guessed at his question.

“For starters, yeah” Kole nodded as he looked at them expectantly.

Sky took a breath, “you were right about our bond. Only witchcraft wasn’t responsible for it. That’s our DNA. Our one drawback to being what we are. Safety in numbers really is true with us. If we’re by ourselves...” Sky just shook his head.

“Fuck” Kole breathed as he reached for a cigarette in thought. After lighting it and taking a few drags, “and I’m supposedly one of these... hybrids now cause of our... romantic week together?” he decided on.

Star swallowed again, “I’d say ninety-five to ninety-eight percent chance” she told him in a tiny voice.

“Fuck” he repeated as he took another drag.

Star looked at Sky questioningly then back at Kole, “not gonna try to stab us in the heart are you?”

Kole scoffed, though almost smiled, “I try to save my knives for asshole rapists, not people that have given me the most... memorable week of my life” he took a breath at those memories.

“So you don’t hate us?” Star stammered.

“I take it this means that if I were to ever sleep with someone else, besides you two, I’d have to be really fucking careful?”

“To put it mildly” Sky answered quietly.

“Well I fucking hate condoms. So I guess I’ll just have to keep you two around, huh?” he smirked back at them as the two actually allowed a small laugh then, their relief almost outweighing their worry about Kole’s future then, almost.

After several more moments of the three silently pondering their futures, Star looked up at Sky, "I guess we need to find a way to get Crista tested now too?”

Sky sighed heavily as Kole raised a brow, “no we don’t have to involve her until we know for sure. I mean, it was only foreplay with her before I put the condom on. Maybe...” he just shook his head.

“Did she blow you?” Kole asked.

Sky blushed slightly, “may have happened.”

“And how did I get hybridized again, Sky, dear?” Kole told him pointedly, to which Sky only groaned.

“So, we have to call Crista now too? Pull out a strand of blue hair to give mom and dad to test along with the purple one I already gave them?” Star asked.

“You sneaky little...” Kole smirked over at Star, then took another drag of his cigarette.

“No, they can just test her blood” Sky sighed.

“I can see that phone call” Star scoffed, “hey Crista mind coming over so my mad scientist parents can give you a blood test?”

Sky shook his head, “no, I’ve still got...” he shook his head. “laundry hasn’t been done yet. I just have to go get the pants I had on that day” he offered with another blush before heading back inside.

Kole looked after him and then back at Star, “strange, strange lives indeed.”