Imagine: The List
Fic posted by members of Vo's Imaginings YahooGroup


Back on the bus, Buck plants himself in front of the grill, a pair of tongs in his hand and a 'kiss the cook' apron over his clothes as he turns on the burners. The steaks and chicken are marinating in pans as Ryan tosses a salad and Spence and Daniel put out the rest of the food.


I lean over the railing when a car pulls up, Nathan getting out and looking up as he sees everybody on top of the bus.


“What are you doing?” he asks, shaking his head.


“Cooking out, it's going to be a beautiful night.” I call down. “Did you need something?”


“Yes, can I talk to you a moment? Can you come down, Alex is asleep in the car and I don't want to leave him too long.”


“Bring him up.” I call.


“How do I get up there?” Nathan opens the back door and removes the car seat.


“I'll come down and get you.” Without thinking about it, I teleport from the roof to the bottom floor. The 9th Doctor and his Jack have seen me do this before of course, so they're not surprised but the other three Doctors are stunned.


“I take it she didn't do that when she was with you?” 9th Jack asks.


“No.” the 8th Doctor says, stunned.


The 4th Doctor looks at Greta. “Is that how you always managed to move from one end of the compound to the other without anybody seeing you?”


“Yup.” Greta says.


“Where did Josette go?” the 8th Doctor finally asks.


Greta looks over the railing. “The first floor probably, she didn't 'port outside.”


If Nathan is startled to see me at the door seconds after he saw me on the roof he doesn't show it. I open the door and lead him down the hall to the elevator that comes down at the push of a button. We ride up to the top and Nathan looks around.


“I wouldn't have thought the bus was this big.” he says quietly. Meanwhile Immortal Doctor and Jack are looking at the baby in the carrier in his hand. Alex is snoring softly as he puts the carrier down on the table and takes the seat I wave him towards. Immortal Doctor finally gives in and walks over to look at him.


“He's adorable.”


Now.” Nathan says. “He was pouting most of the day since Gregory wouldn't let him run like he wanted.”


“He's walking then? How old is he?” Immortal Doctor asks.


“Just over eight months old. I had a couple of questions I wanted to ask you.” he reaches over and strokes Alex's cheek as he coos in his sleep. He curls into his daddy's touch, blinking himself awake. He begins snuffling and Nathan lets him out of the carrier, holding him in one arm when he squirms to be let down.


“Questions?” I ask. “Ah let him down, Dr. Stark, we have a baby gate over there to keep them from getting stepped on while we're cooking.


Nathan walks over, smiling as he sees the two other babies curled up in the corner of what is a play area created by nets strung across the spaces between planters, which are covered in soft bumpers as far up as a baby can reach. He sets Alex down and he's off toddling around the area investigating anything.


“How long has been walking?” Immortal Doctor asks. He looks over at Ianto who's sleeping in a soft basket


“A little under a month. He went from crawling to running.” Nathan looks over at Alex babbles something, pointing at a tail stretched over the side of a planter. “Yes Alex, that's a kitty cat, like Ms. Kitty.”


I look over, “That's Cream.” I open the gate and step in, picking up the orange cat with white chest and feet lying on the planter and crouch down. “Would you like to pet him, Alex? Careful, you have to be gentle.” Nathan comes in and guides Alex's hand petting Cream who's sucking up the attention and I put him back down on the planter, he gets up stretches and jumps from planter to planter until he reaches the dish of cat food Greta put down with a smirk.


“Questions?” I ask again when Alex is sitting on his father's lap.


“Oh yes, Ms. Lupo told me that Gregory is a family member. . .”

“House.” Jo says as everybody looks at her.


“What the hell's he doing in Eureka?” Greta asks. “I would have thought he'd still be at PPTH scaring the nurses and annoying Cuddy.”


“There was a few . . . situations at Princeton-Plainsboro, after Alex was delivered to us he took me up on the standing offers from the DoD to come back to Global Dynamics. He brought two doctors he worked with, Robert Chase and James Wilson.”


“How exactly is Gregory related to you?”


“His grandfather is our older brother.” Nathan looks around. “No, he stayed in our world, along with our other two brothers and our oldest sister.” Nathan looks at us and I snicker. “We're a long-lived family.”


“Your other brothers.”


“Two older, one younger.” Jo says. “The order is Stefan, Cupe who's Greg's grandfather, Xe our oldest sister, Bucklin, Daniel, Peter, me, Blair, Ryan and Spence who are twins, Gar and Greta who are twins, and Josette.”


“May I ask why you were away from Eureka on April the 30th?”


“Sure, it was Josette's birthday, we were having a huge blowout party. Since it was on a Thursday the parents were making it a weeklong bash at the beach house in Florida so whoever had some time off could drop in when they're off work and spend some time with the family.”


“I'm sorry your birthday got . . .”


“fucked up by this?” I say. “Don't, it's not the first time, it won't be the last time.” Nathan and all the Doctors wince, somebody that young shouldn't be so jaded about life. Each man is thinking the same thing, maybe he can do something special for her while they're there.


“I'm going to be calling Jack O'Neill tomorrow, maybe I can get him and our Daniel Jackson in Eureka in a couple of hours. Is there anything else I need to know?”


“Is John Sheppard still on Jack's project?” Daniel calls from his spot at a table. Nathan looks over and nods. “ Have him bring him if he can, he's a relative too. He's Cupe's son.”


“Any other relatives I should ask about? Your brother Stefan perhaps?”


“Stefan's Greta's adoptive father, he raised her and Gar.” Jo snorts. “Greta's got two younger sisters, but since they're only three and five, I doubt they're going to be showing up unless Stefan and his husband do as well.”


Nathan finally emerges from the bus fifteen minutes later, Alex squirming in his car seat fussing loudly. “Shhhh Alex, we're on our way home. You'll be able to get up and roam in a few minutes.”


Alex gives his father a 'hmph' look and folds his arms over his chest as his car seat is fastened back into the base. Nathan pulls his new teddy bear out of the bag and puts it in Alex's arms, listening to his son coo as they pull out of the driveway.


Jack looks up as the door opens. Alex is taken from the carrier and toddles across the room to his other daddy, teddy bear dangling from one hand as he lifts his arms to be picked up.


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