*HELION*{SEQUEL TO SWITCHBACK!}

*Seventeen*

Klayton put his weapons away...then looked at me, and said there was, however, a few things he wanted to do first...then he looked over at Criss and asked him if he and Rachel wouldn't mind taking care of his boys for the night...Criss gave him a wicked grin and said he would love to...then he grabbed Mickey, and Rachel lifted Kiefer from Klayton's lap...with Johnny trailing after his daddy. As soon as they left Klayton walked over to me and held out his hand to me...I gave him a little smile and placed my hand into his...then he pulled me up into his arms...and carried me into the bedroom.

For the longest time, after he laid down beside me...all I could do was just lay there close to him and cry on his shoulder...still not believing that my husband was back...because it was too good to be true...even though he was no longer human...he was still internally the same loving man I married so long ago...after I put out the lights...he moved in slowly to me like a wildcat...after he removed his clothes...and we spent hours getting to know each other again...he still felt human...and had full emotions like he used to...only they were just a little bit more amplified...I couldn't tell if that was because he was really in the mood and missed me...or that's just how he was going to be from now on since he was transformed.

I didn't care though...he was still the sexiest man I ever met...and had the pleasure of having as my own...after several hours of love we shared I realized that he no longer ran out of energy...for I was wearing out and he still hasn't even broken a sweat yet...he kept going a little more...until he calculated my heart rate, and my energy level and realized that he wore me out...so he stopped and relaxed on top of me...and just snuggled up to me...and told me how much he's missed me...even when he couldn't remember...he always had an image, and a fractured memory of me...and he never gave up searching for me...I playfully rolled him over to where I was on top of him...and told him that my love for him would never weaken or die...Klayton looked up at me and brushed my hair from out of my face, and told me he knew that...that's why he never stopped searching for me...because his heart told him that I was still waiting for him...and that as long as I was waiting...he would always come back to me...no matter how long it takes him to do it.

When I woke up that morning Klayton was standing by the window looking out fully dressed except for his shirt...with Stutter laying across his shoulders...just like he used to. I slowly slid out of bed...and got dressed, and asked him if he was hungry...he turned to me with a smile, and said not at all...that he didn't need to eat to live anymore because he always felt full. I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his waist and just held him for a while until our room was flooded with the scampering of little feet along with massive giggling...Klayton and I both turned to see our boys and Johnny running thru the house heading right to us...or I should say to Klay...I snickered at the sight of all the kids using him as a playground...they were climbing all over him...Klayton finally gave in and calculated what they wanted him to do...so he dropped down and began to play with them.

Criss and Rachel came in smiling at the sight...and they both realized that things were going to go back to the same...as they saw their friend and brother back home where he belonged...Klayton stood up and all the kids were hanging off of him...wanting to be held at the same time...so with his new armored suit, he had adamantium tentacles come out and wrap around two of them, while he was holding Johnny in his arms...Kiefer and Mickey thought it was fun being swung by them...Rachel and I both told him how crazily weird it looked...he looked up at us both and said oh really...then he instantly had two more pop out and wrapped around us both and lifted us both upside down in the air Criss looked at his wife and told her how silly she looked...Klayton placed Rachel into Criss's arms and turned her loose...then pulled me closer to him still upside down where he placed a huge sloppy kiss on me before he turned me loose.

After Klayton wore out all the kids...he turned to Criss and Sully and told them he was just about ready to go after King Tal and kill anyone that tried to stop him...then he looked at them devilishly and asked either of them if they'd like to join him...Tron stepped out of the shadows and said he would...Klay gave him a nod in approval...then Criss and Sully both said what the hell they needed the exercise...then they kissed their wive's and after Klayton kissed me they all headed out of the palace...until I followed him and told him I wanted to go with him...because I wanted to see Tal dead...

Klayton pulled me into a hug...and told me to stay there with our kids...that it would be too dangerous for me during battle...and he needed to be assured that I was safe at all times...I let out a deep sigh...but told him I would stay...he smiled at me and told me he'd be back before I knew it...with a King's crown on his head...and the King's head on the end of his spear. As they all left on the dragons that he called to the surface...Sandy, Kim, Rachel and I all hollered after them to fight bravely and safely...then return home preferably in one piece. Criss, Sully, and Klayton all blew kisses to us...and told us in unison that it was the only way they knew how to fight...Tron turned around and waved back to his sister...until they vanished out of sight into the setting sun.