even in knowing i live, i learned what life is - Taylor

"I don't blame you but I do need you to know that the magic is only going to get us halfway. From what Tayla says you do make it through though there are times where it is push and go and that scares the shit out of me but I am not going to worry about it now simply going with the flow."

It was hard but he knew he could do it and plus he was not going to have any moments of craziness that would take over, he was simply going to allow himself to be for once. "You hate Monopoly though," he said as he laughed. "I thought for once we would do something else. Something simple." No chances, no risks. "Why push against a current and fight it when we both know what we know now?" Why take the chance? "I know you make it but Carter it does not mean the road is easy so why risk the pain now, we can just sit here and be good."

Being scared was eye opening too. "Telling myself that you come out okay is getting me through it but then I realized, Tayla only really confirmed you get through it nowhere in her speaking did it say that it was smooth. Push and go can have so many meanings so slow, turtle pace." He took a minute. "So I don't want to play Monopoly, I just want to digest what this could mean. Not to mention by that time baby Tayla will be here too." It was a lot, so so much.

"There are still the questions of what actually happens to even get you to that state, do you not see that?" Being a survivor. "I'm so glad that you do survive, I'm just not sure what you go through is easy and we still have that road." He was so calm about it all, was that how he functioned.

"Why do I have this magic if not to save you? Why is it that the magic only gets me half way?" Because he had to want it, he had to learn to be still, sit down and appreciate the moment because you were busy making the moments it did not mean that you took the time to appreciate them but that is life. Those are the lessons we learn when we can not see the answers clearly.

"I don't get it Carter, I don't understand the lesson that is to be learned here and why it has to be you." Do not back down, flush through your emotions and be still. Be still and be strong and halfway is going to be nothing less of epic.

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

"The dog is lame," he said as he thought about this and he took a seat. "Well all I do is worry so there we go that fits as to why we work," he said. "You better be right about us being better at being oddities," he said as he took a second and pushed his hair back. "I'll take the.." he paused. "They had updated the pieces?" he was shocked. All that time travel through the magic did have him a little confused.

"I need food if I'm just going to be," he said. "Take out of some sort will work because I do not feel like cooking," he said. "I want Mexican," he said as he looked at Carter and laughed. "Oh my god," he said as he smiled at him. "You want some Mexican?" LOL.

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

"Right," he said. "Maybe you are right and I will. I just it's so fun," he said as he laughed. "I'd like that," he said but it felt different. "I like this game because the outcome is not predictable even if you sit down with the same people you never know what is going to happen." It made for situations that you had to adjust to even if they hurt and you had to bankrupt a bitch.

"Honestly I don't know there is just something about time with you doing whatever." Because it was precious. "We don't fuss much and we don't, we are just us and that is so important to me." It was hard to know when to be still and when to go but sometimes your hand got forced when you least expected it.

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

He was so enamored with Carter at the moment maybe it was because he was getting to see him without any resentments or maybe it was time spent with him, either way he knew he had time with him now and even for a while after the tough road that still laid ahead and yet it did not seem to matter as much. "Get a dog, check, I'll make a mental note and hm," he said.

"First off if you are going to cheat need to make sure it's worth it when I still win," he said. "I bet," could it be anything that was the question that ran through his mind and yet he still felt like he knew the answer. "I bet a head scratch the deep kind that feels like a massage that you cannot do it."

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

"Don't tell them that," he said as he thought about this. Yeah screw it he wanted his head scratched as awakward as it sounded there was something about the touch of someone else that he thrived on for it was almost the time of year where the giving and receiving should be able to be switched as needed as he laid his head in Carter's lap and closed his eyes. It was also hard at times for him to be quiet and just let things be but it was something that he needed to get better at. "Okay, I'm ready," he said. For once he was not going to push the lines of asking for cuddles at least not yet.

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

Still at the point of this being the most that he had been still it was the time that seemed to slow down but yet kept moving as time does. There were even a few "hmm?"'s that escaped Taylor's mouth as he was thinking. Most the time when he found himself thinking it was so much at once that one thought would not have a chance to finish before the other came in and yet at this moment he simply was learning to take it in and feel it, emotionally. Yet tying himself to another person thinking about all the happy moments that were to come, and all the mush that he could fit in now that his work has slowed down a bit.

The sigh that escaped was enough of a noise to fill the room and yet somehow not disturb the mood at all, for love was happening though it already existed. The deepness that was beginning to surround it seemed like an invisible cloud that held nothing but happiness, excitement, yet not rushed. "Are you asking me to sing you a song?" he asked quietly. Somehow in all his gestures that was the one thing he still had not gotten around to as his mind did drift to Cami and the baby, he wondered how her birth was coming along with Tayla if it had happened yet. "We'll start with the magic," he said. "I," he paused.

Did he have a preference of side? He did not think so especially since he was such a big picture person in the end. "I guess left," he said. "I do need a song that captures you and Cami now, how exciting that is going to be."

Dr. Carter Q. Stratin

Four days ago, Tayla Stratin baby form had arrived. It was also just a small part of why she had sent them away but no secrets here and no magic just a soul that needed healing because the journey ahead was going to take all three of them to the limits but the hope after, the relief that would help all three of them completely worth it. As for Cami herself, she looked over the baby.

"Alright kid, you're here," she said. There was still a small part of her that felt this was supposed to be a boy. She could have swore she had seen a boy on the ultrasound but it was not like those were one hundred percent accurate. "You are the piece they need."



She picked up Tayla and she spoke. "Alright kid, one key at a time when the time is right," Cami said as she deeply chanted over Tayla and sprinkled the light blue dust over her.



"May you remember when the time is right and may the numbers lead you right where you need to go." She hoped Carter was right for THEIR daughter was going to help Taylor save him all the while working towards a better future for ARI, for you see this is not a story of just children, but a strain of innocent children who change the world and change the woman behind the research in Avery Ashford as well, but that love story, the reason behind it it's not time for it to be shown just yet. Tayla was a Stratin, which meant her siblings with the Stratin name had to get their mother on board too but without Avery knowing it because if it was one thing Avery Ashford seemed so hard against, it was knowing that she too could change.

Dr. Taylor Quinzell
Dr. Carter Q. Stratin
justice for you two i hope XD