Alter-Native

Chapter five

Later that night Jensen struggled to get some sleep, visions of his family being taken kept popping in his head and he tried everything to ignore them. However, it was beginning to get harder for him.

Jensen found himself racing into his apartment to find that it had been completely torn up. Panicked, he called out to his family but when no one answered he started to look throughout the apartment fearing the worst. He got to the living room where a man stood by the television, it was on a screen that had no cable. The man standing in front of him was 5'8" and seemed to twitch at certain intervals.

"Where are they?!" Jensen yelled, his voice being drowned out by the static from the TV. "What have you done to them?!" The man smirked and laughed maniacally.

"You want to know? I can send you to them," He answered and his eyes flashed black causing the scene around him to glitch out. "This world is mine and now you're mine." Jensen covered his eyes and found himself in what he assumed was Anti's hideaway, a sign hung against a wall with the words 'The Black Cat' written on it. It also took a moment for Jensen to pick up on what Anti said and instantly he yelled at him.

"I am not yours!" Jensen yelled but rather than answering, Anti showed Jensen's family trapped in Cryo chambers. Jensen's stomach dropped as he raced toward them, fear engulfing him which was eventually replaced with anger. "Don't you dare hurt them! Or you will regret it!" Anti didn't answer as he gazed down at Jensen making him feel small. It took him a while to realize that Anti was actually getting bigger and Jensen began to panic.

"I see you, I am watching you, I can always find you, perhaps I am watching you right now." Anti said.

Jensen bolted awake, his heart raced and he glanced around his and Danneel's room. Nothing had changed and his wife was safe, carefully he climbed out of the bed without waking Danneel and made his way to JJ's room. He slowly pushed the door open and saw his daughter sleeping peacefully, as if she was undisturbed. Her bear had fallen so Jensen walked over and picked it up before placing it carefully under her arm and pulling her blanket over her shoulder. He kissed her forehead before walking out of the room and closing the door behind him.

He walked out of the apartment trying to collect his thoughts. The dream was so vivid that he was sure it was real. Everything that happened so far he blamed it on himself, letting Mark get into his head and forcing him to lose his main focus. He walked through the halls deep in thought. The only way he could get through this was to stay one step ahead of Mark and Anti, but the question was how was he going to do that. He wanted to just go back to his room and have Dannel comfort him, but he felt like he was suffocating. So when he left his apartment to get some air, he passed a blue haired man pushing a cart of cleaning supplies.

"Hello," he said in a British accent. "You're out of bed after lights out."

"I needed some air okay," Jensen said. "Shouldn't you be in your room too?"

"Oh no I clean the halls at night, my wife and I live in the basement." He answered. Jensen turned away from the man and walked to the greenhouse where he at least felt slightly at peace. He walked over to a rose bush and plucked a flower from it. It was against the rules technically but he didn't care as he cared more about his family. When he got back to his room he touched Daneel gently on the shoulder causing her to wake up.

"Jensen, what are you doing up this late?" Jensen handed the rose to his wife who politely took it. "What's this for?"

"It's for always putting up with me honey," Jensen said. "What I do is dangerous and you've stuck with me for this long, I just wanted to make sure you know that." Danneel smiled but noticed how tired he was.

"Alright what's wrong?" Danneel asked.

"Nothing.. I.. nothing." Jensen rubbed the back of his neck.

"Is this about what happened on that mission?" Jensen remained quiet, not willing to risk saying the wrong thing. "Sweetheart, what happened? You've been quiet about that all evening and you're awake, so you have to tell me what's going on."

"What if I can't keep you and the kids safe?" Jensen asked. "The mission today was to arrest Mark and Ethan, we only caught Ethan, Mark escaped. He got under my skin."

"Hey stop it," she told him sternly. "By thinking this you're letting him win, and you can't let him get to you," she continued. "Things are hard I know but the only way you can get overcome this is you realize something."

"And what would that be?" Jensen asked, fidgeting with his hands.

"You don't have to do everything alone Jensen, there are people who will help you," She responded. Jensen didn't say anything and she purposely grabbed onto him so that he would fall onto the bed. "Don't start your emo act, you know I can't stand the voice." Jensen gave in and allowed himself to relax for the time being, in the morning he would have to deal with Chase being angry at him. But hopefully he wouldn't get fired, that was something he definitely didn't want to go through.

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The next morning Jared was awoken by the sounds of his sons running into his bedroom, Gen was already awake as she been up since 3am throwing up.

"Daddy get up!" Tom exclaimed. "Uncle Jensen comes today."

"Okay you win I'm up," Jared answered. "You boys should be sleeping."

"Sleeping is boring," Shep said immediately. "And there's a man at the door." Jared blinked he hadn't asked anyone to come over at this hour so he told his boys to go eat breakfast while he went to check the door. The two instantly agreed and asked him to come play with them when he was done. Jared got dressed and walked out of the room to find Gen standing at the door clutching her stomach and a man with blue hair standing on the other side.

"I don't recall getting told that you were scheduled to come," Gen said. "And I didn't ask for you, I can easily clean myself."

"Of course ma'am but I'm just doing as I was told," Dan answered. He looked at the small baby and noticed the wedding ring on Gen's finger. Jared cleared his throat wanting to know what was going on. "Oh hello Agent Falcon"

"That's not, oh whatever, what do you want?" Jared asked.

"Oh nothing, just doing my job." Dan said and finished cleaning up. As he finished up, Jared opened the door to find Jensen, he let him in, giving Dan the chance to walk out of the room.