Ammy?s Eye Com exploded into sound with repeated refrains of ?Incoming Transmissions? voiced by the Decepticon cartoon character Sound Wave. Ammy blearily woke up on the couch, her hands searched for the Eye Com that had fallen onto the floor during restless sleep. Fingers touched the sleek head set and mumbled sleepily, ?Play messages?? She turned over to go back to sleep.

*Messages inbound from Marilla.* Spoke the voice of Sound Wave. *First message: Hey girl, just a heads up. Morry's coming over to house in Den City. Second message: Oh... and I should mention he's not happy. He wants Fleety there, too. No choice involved. Third message: He's the Alpha of you both. You both can't walk away from this. Fourth message: Please show up, both of you. Love you both and be safe.* Sound Wave?s voice ended.

Ammy sat up in a hurry, the sleepiness her depression put on her evaporated hearing the big guy was coming to see them both. Her heart hammered hard in fear. How did Morry find out about this? She rubbed the sleepy gunk from her eyes and groaned. She got up and noticed out of the corner of her eye Myrlene vanishing around the corner of a wall and into the hall. She had a sinking suspicion people have been talking. Well she couldn?t do anything about it now. When Morry made up his mind to leave the space station to visit people for any reason there was no talking him out of it.

She got off the couch and headed for the bathroom and a shower. She shivered a bit feeling a royal chew out was headed her way.

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Fleety had left the Rhy?Din realm and entered the sentient realm known simply as Lurky. Lurky was a refuge to the family offered by Aribius and it was a safe haven. It was also the best place a being with command of all magical energy to go when someone didn?t want to explain why half a city blew up from a bout of emotional distress. Shi?d found a small island to camp on, well away from any living being so shi?d not be distracted from searching hir feelings about Ammy and to lick hir wounds from the fight.

A lot had been said that night. So much of it seemed to make sense then during the turbulent emotions, the verbal stabbing and personal assaults of character. Now, as shi sat on a log, a swirling maelstrom of wind and rain reflecting hir inner mood, the facts of what all was said seemed to make less and less sense to hir. Shi couldn?t tell how things had gone so bad and ended up with hir separated from Ammy, holding her ring and questioning hir memories of the marriage.

Hir cell phone, thanks to Ammy?s Magic Net modulator, began to play ACDC?s ?Thunder Struck? alerting hir to messages flooding in. Shi pulled the device out, stared at the number and blinked a little slowly in surprise. Why was Marilla contacting hir? Flipping it open, shi read the text messages.

Marilla to MagicalSpark Fleety, when you get this message head home in Den City. Morry's coming and wants you there. He isn't happy.
Marilla to MagicalSpark And no, Fleety, this isn't optional. If you aren't there, Morry will tear your tail up.
Marilla to MagicalSpark He's the Alpha of you both. You both can't walk away from this.
Marilla to MagicalSpark Please show up, both of you. Love you both and be safe.

Morry wants to talk to us? Is he going to force us to break up for good? Or will he side with Ammy? Fleety sighed.

Shi slowly stood up, the rain swirling about hir came down in heavy sheets now, yet shi never got wet. Shi could stay and not show up, but would that really help anything? Shi had a feeling it?d make things worse. Morry was good in hir books. To piss him off made hir feel like just burying herself in a grave already and acting like shi was dead for the rest of eternity. Looking around at hir little haven shi?d enjoyed for a few days, Fleety rubbed hir neck and trekked for the nearest portal out of Lurky.

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The second floor living room, often the family room for the kids of the Spiritor family to play in had been cleaned up, tidied and made free of children. They?d been sent to enjoy time with Grandma Alitia and Grandpa Spiritor out in Den City. Myrlene finished placing the last tray of various snacks upon the coffee table and set up a pot of coffee, several bottles of soda and lots of water. No liquor or peanuts were present at all. She wanted this intervention to work. If her parents split now, she was going to be very upset with them both.

She saw mom walk up the stairs and into the living room. She saw mother stare at her hard but Myrlene said not one word. This wasn?t her show or her fight. She simply indicated to the chairs or couches for mom to sit. Soon Myrlene walked to the entry way of the living room and blocked the exit and the stairs. She was in her ice blue coat of scale mail and had made herself 6 feet tall with a variety of weapons hung upon a belt for a bit of intimidation.

After a few minutes, behind Myrlene, Fleety would tap her shoulder. Myrlene looked back to Fleety and nodded, letting hir through. Fleety saw Ammy and flinched. Shi began to back away and Myrlene cleared her throat, unsheathed her sword and planted the tip with a meaty ?thunk? into the floor. She shook her head at her father, not letting hir pass by.

Fleety swallowed, moved to a chair and would then sit down, across from Ammy. Fleety was simply dressed in a blue shirt and blue jeans. Ammy wore a plain gray shirt and gray jeans. They both stared at each other for several minutes. Emotions flooded their bond link and the tension in the room grew heavy.

The appearance of Aribius in the living room had both Ammy and Fleety breaking off their hard stares. Ammy crossed her arms as she heard Aribius and set her jaw in silent defiance at being told anything by the evil deity when it came to her personal matters. Fleety on the other hand no longer stared or even glared at Ammy. Thunder cracked outside rattling the windows, the only note to indicate the turmoil shi felt at the moment.

Myrlene tilted her head slightly as she listened to the start of this hopeful reparation of a union. She remained silent but did lift a hand and would usher a tray of drinks and snacks to rest on a tray table next to Aribius. She'd never budged from the exit and would remain so waiting for the Alpha of all of them, Morry.

Ammy glanced over to Fleety and loosened her jaw. "Still using magic to do your talking for you? You know this whole mess could've been avoided? Oh wait, did you see this too in your future seeing spell? Hmm? Us sitting here like we are drug addicts getting talked to by an evil racoon wannabe?"

Fleety looked up and avoided her eyes to stare at row of books to her left. "Ammy. Just, stop. None of what I saw in the future happened like it was supposed to. The agonies and pain still came just in different forms." Shi said.

Ammy harumphed at Fleety then looked at Aribius. "I didn't start this perpetual torment that has hit everybody. Shi did by trying manipulate our family to avoid the future."

Fleety's ears flattened and shi started to growl a bit. Hail was thudding against the roof and sides of the house causing Myrlene to flap her wings; she set up a large dome of magic to contain the severe weather to the house and spare the rest of Den City her father's emotions.

"Ammy... I wanted to work this out. You. Pushed me. Away." Shi said. "The far seeing spell wasn't the start of this mess, it was just the catalyst." Shi said.

Fleety seemed hesitant to speak further as if shi was holding back some heavy crushing weight on hir shoulders.

Hearing Aribius, Fleety sighed and kept quiet. Shi'd already known shi made heavy mistakes. The past 5 years had shown that to hir quite painfully. Ammy was about to dig into Aribius for calling her an alcoholic when the sound of the front door was heard being opened and then closed. The house's wards told her it was Morry and she went quiet.

Fleety watched her swallow hard and shivered a bit. The weather outside had turned into a sharp cold blizzard blowing snow against the windows; snow banks rapidly formed outside by the second. Myrlene seemed to wince as if straining a bit to contain her father's emotional magic. She did give a sigh of relief feeling Morry's hand on her shoulder and watched the giant of an anthro wolf move into the room. She felt the situation was safely secured with Morry present that she shrunk to her diminutive 3 foot stature. Her sword was sheathed, a testament to her dislike of having to show force especially in the house. Myrlene drew a chair to her and she sat by the door.

Fleety watched Morry enter and the former Alpha of the house had an immediate change in attitude. Fleety softened into an attitude of submission to someone shi severely respected. The fact that he was here to fix something shi failed to made hir tremble in fear. At the command to sit together with Ammy, shi stood up and with hesitation moved for the couch in front of Morry's chair. Ammy on the other hand was paralyzed with fear seeing Morry. She didn't want to move or get closer to him or Fleety. She knew what Morry could do when this agitated.

Fleety saw her frozen and shi didn't sit. She chose to be a bit compassionate and walked over to Ammy. Shi grabbed her arm and lifted her. She protested in small snarls, but with Fleety using unnatural strength thanks to Emma's augmentations on hir, Ammy weighed little to hir. Shi sat Ammy down on the couch gently and then took a seat next to her. Ammy's fear wavered in the face of anger being touched by Fleety again. She struck at hir face and Fleety simply blocked the blow having been hit in the last argument already. Fleety would stay quiet and Ammy lapsed into nervous stoicism on the couch as Morry began to talk.

They all listened to him and how severe things had gotten. Ammy was looking to Fleety to see how shi reacted, but Fleety just stared at Morry's chest, not matching eyes with the Alpha. Ammy then looked to Myrlene and her daughter shivered a moment feeling like her mother could rip into her at any moment. She returned her attention to Morry when she was suddenly being called out to speak and to be honest. That was a hard thing for her, playing her cards close to her chest so many years in the different fields and jobs she's done and currently doing. She'd risk getting hit to ask Myrlene something before answering Morry.

"Alpha of the household? When did this happen, Myrlene? Why didn't you tell me and why did you speak to Morry about your father and I? Our problems, not yours." She said.

Myrlene, silent and vigil rubbed her forehead a moment. The magical field was a headache on its own and now mom wanted to start in on her. If that's the way mom wanted it, fine, she'll play along with the big dogs.

"Would you have heard me even if I tried to tell you that I took on the mantle of House Alpha? No you would not have. You've been in and out of a depressive sleep not to mention the bottle. Aribius has been correct in calling you an alcoholic. I had to step in. Why? We have a house full of children and people recovering from every form of PTSD. The house needs leadership. Someone to look to as well as a second in command when the Alpha is not present. You two go off for fireworks and only one comes home. The other is not seen for a month now. The leadership vanished and the second in command curls up into her own ball of misery.

I took over because it was needed. I hate leading this house and have no intentions of doing it any longer. I am thankful Morry is relieving me of the stress. This family is such a patchwork of neurotic people it makes herding cats look easy. I did it to protect these fragile, neurotic lives from what Spiritor would do if he caught wind that dad was being a little whiny boy again. As for telling Morry about this, mother, use your head. Your performances during your shifts have eroded into dismal quality. Me, Nicky and Otana have been running around behind you to fix mistakes and to take care of the work whenever you crumble and just sleep. We've been nice in helping, but everything has been noted in your records. If it continued, I'd have had to speak with Morry about correction and possible removal. It's my job to ensure my staff functions well and when they don't, Morry is alerted and we find out why.

Marilla is only looking out for you and the family, mom. She finds this family precious and to be honest, she knows you can be a psychotic bitch some days if you are left alone to your misery. Now, listen to Morry and Aribius, cooperate and try really, really hard to make this work. Oh and another thing, don't hate me for this."

Myrlene stood up and walked over to the couch. She spoke in ancient magic and in small hands formed two collars of crude black metal. Ammy and Fleety began to protest and she shook her head. She latched the collars around each of their necks. "They come off at the end of this meeting. Dad, your magic is too straining for me to hold it much longer and mom, do I need to say more about what you can do?" She left them and returned to her chair and sat down. She looked to the group and would listen now.

The collars were infused with dark magic older than Aribius and it simply made Ammy and Fleety's magic not exist. It didn't block it. It fully nullified it. Ammy stared wide at Myrlene and Fleety fingered hir collar with a look of further humiliation. The storm outside ceased and Myrlene dropped the dome of magic allowing the clouds to dissipate and the sun to shine to clear away the snow.

Ammy looked back to Morry and sighed. "What's on my mind?" She said and rubbed her hands together. She couldn't mess this up. So much was riding upon her to be truthful. She looked to Fleety and sorted out her thoughts then looked back to Morry. She held his stare. To not do so while talking would get her a hit guaranteed.

"I can't trust Fleety and I've become inundated with goddess powers and learning them all. I... hate myself most days for what I've done in my lives and I just... get so damn set in defending myself, wanting things to work my way. I'm stubborn, a liar, a drunk and now emotionally compromised in everything. I was hoping, hoping that the meeting I had with Fleety would be one to bring us close under the fireworks. Alone time that we craved so badly.

I should've kept my muzzle shut asking what happened to our love that we used to have in the old days. That's what started the arguing. The explanations all bled into hate, anger and defensiveness as well as back stabbing. What is on my mind? Everything. Even with Fleety back home, I still mind everything and keep track of everything. Shi tries. I know shi does. I've seen hir do well, but I still cannot get my mind to stay at ease around hir. Shi slept with another male and bore his child and married him and joined into another family. All without me knowing it.

Shi broke my trust and our open marriage rules. That breaking is what has burned the most in me when I look at Fleety. The rest? I Hate Myself!" she snarled the last out, feeling a festering wound open in her soul. "I hate myself." she said a bit quieter and leaned back on the couch. She didn't shed any tears. She wouldn't give Aribius the satisfaction to gloat about her crying.

Fleety had to force hirself to look up and into Morry's eyes. He'd see Fleety had gone completely submissive and down several pegs below an alpha at fault. Shi clasped hir hands and spoke.

"Okay. To get this out of the way first. I did try really hard to be the alpha you wanted me to be. I failed. I tried to be the alpha my father wanted me to be and I failed him too." Shi said with a swallow.

Myrlene flicked fingers and a bottle of water would be in her father's hands as well as one for Ammy too.

"What bothers me the most about Ammy... it's hard to explain but I'll try. I honestly want to trust her, Morry. I can't. From the days we found each other, past the marriage and up to this point, she's done things that have come back to bite us hard without telling me about them until after the muudrah hits the fan. This really hasn't been a new issue and it has come and gone repeatedly over the six years. I can forgive her some of the accidents that happened when she protected herself too much, or when lending aid to those in need.

What hurts is when she keeps getting into trouble in cases where she knows she shouldn't. Some examples to think about. She went to a realm to learn Alchemy from people that viewed her as nothing but a freak creature to be killed when convenient. She brought that trouble back here to us as well as stealing a variety of things from that realm in the attempt to 'punish them for the horrible things they did in the name of alchemy'. Another time she submitted herself to serving a Lich King to get her shattered soul back which put her as someone to chase out of the city, the populace would not tolerate a daemon Lupinossai in their midst. I could have collected her shattered soul had she spoken to me about it. She's even actively produced weapons and armor to aid a known drug lord in some crazy claim to earn his salvation back. That aid got her viciously attacked by vampires that lead to the goddess powers she now stresses over. Then there's Mirius. Her mating with Mirius hurts me as much as my mating with Tairen hurts her.

That is not what hurt the most though, Morry. The single point of lost trust has been the hardest one for me to let go. Back when Myrlene was born and just a puppy of a few months, Ammy took her to the local Inn. During her time there, people got rowdy and she took it upon herself to join in the bar fight to settle things. She left our daughter unattended. Unattended in an Inn full of strangers that could have stolen our daughter. Gods... I wish it had been a person that stole her, the consequences and resolutions would have been straight forward. During this fight the Nexus flickered. This Nexus is the odd energies that surround this realm and bring people here from other realms. Sort of like a Bermuda Triangle effect but on people. Everyone in the Inn vanished and came back in a few minutes as the Nexus flickered and spat them into different realms. This is what Ammy has told me and that when they all reappeared, Myrlene was missing. She never came back." Shi said, hir hands trembled from the memory.

"Now, maybe if she'd been with Myrlene they'd have come back together, maybe not, but the fact that she left our child alone to get involved in something that was not her business hurts me. How can I have trust that she will care for and keep our children safe? As it was, she did tell me right away, I came to the Inn and told her to go home. She was a bloody, bruised mess and a bit drunk as well. I ripped through 12 different realms that night, slashing through barriers and searching every realm thoroughly before I found Myrlene and brought her back. The incident was traumatic. My daughter was no longer a pup of a few months but a six year old girl, aged rapidly by the Nexus. I lost 60 years of my lifespan burning through those realms and in the coming months had a heart attack from the strain."

Shi broke eye contact with Morry to look at Ammy. Ammy just stared at Fleety in pure sadness. She remembered all of that all too well. Fleety's hand raised, shi wanted to strike Ammy for being so careless, but lowered the hand and instead drank some water and continued, hir gaze locked back onto Morry's eyes.

"Call me a fool, a failure or a horrible Alpha, but I made sure my kids stayed safe when I watched them. Myrlene may not have had the trauma she suffered had she been safe that day. Instead, she was older, confused, nightmares, magic suddenly increasing and then we got a dark goddess interested in this suddenly powerful young child. I don't need to tell you about that mess. I know Myrlene has disclosed things to you about all of that Morry, and if she hasn't, ask her. I was not present all the time for that series of horror.

It is this build up of mistrust, one after the other that has me distant from Ammy. I love her. Gods know I really love her, but as soon as I trust her and move us forward, she does something without consent and we wind up back to square one. Hell, she went and joined your squadron Morry. Granted, I said yes to that one but what happened? First day of training she's gone, caught up in some galactic mess and rescued in a tortured and broken state. She goes and finds your cousin Nicky and arranges an elaborate marriage to save her and brings her in as another mate. That's been fixed, I know, since Ammy created Dante as his own being and not some Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hide alt of herself.

She's also gone and fell in love with a reindeer named Leroy. I am not against other species and mixed marriage. Don't get me wrong, but it was during a time that we were growing closer then next thing I know she's asking about bringing in another person to join our small trinity of me, her and Mirius. Any she and I get closer, someone new show up in the picture as if I scare her or something. I did take time to think and finally gave my permission. Leroy is not a bad person. He is a solid male in my books that I'd trust with anyone, but what is to stop her from picking up another mate, then another? Leroy was the only one she asked me about. That's one out of three that have happened. I've only failed to tell her about Tairen. I know there's been other arrangements, the bond link we share shows this, but she was honest about those over the link and asked permission when I couldn't be physically present. Maybe it was because she had no way to omit what she was doing. I do not know.

It's the nature of Ammy that disturbs me. She loves to research things. I am okay with that. She loves to make things. I am okay with that. But when she starts making and selling weapons and armor for people outside of the family just increases our family?s chance at being hurt by either greedy customers or those hurt by what was used on them made by her hands. It?s me waking up at nights or in the morning to find her injured, sporting artificial limbs or something wrong with her mind, soul or body that is suddenly on a ticking clock of destruction.

Ammy claims I am not home most of the time. Some days this is true. I have been home solidly every day I can be since Emma put that chip in my head to help my mind. What is not being said is, I am not the one that stays out all day and all night often researching, teaching, running a store, working on a city, carousing at nights with people at the Inn or getting into situations that suddenly has her missing for days or too tired to do things. Mirius and I have done a lot in that house to take care of the family. Myrlene? Gods, I am so blessed to have her as my daughter. She's pulled more weight and responsibilities in this growing family when I and Mirius were already overloaded. When Ammy is home, she will help and does a lot of things, but she's committed on purpose to doing things outside of the home, daily. Oh, and play nurse for you squad is another thing. Now she's a sun goddess?

Should I just let her go, do her thing, 'go on love, be you' while I take care of the whole family with Mirius? Is being a goddess now mean that she's never going to deal with her family anymore? Every turn, something different and new happens to her and I see her taken more and more from us." Shi rubbed hir head in frustration, blue locks of hair being tousled in nervous disarray.

Myrlene watched her father bare all of this in the open and she was stunned. She'd never known shi was so frustrated and worried. She barely remembered being lost as a puppy and this recounting had her memories coming alive clearly. She drew her knees up to her chest, hugged her legs and watched the discussion through eyes dimmed with pain and remembered fear as she sorted out the memories, accepting them as being a part of her.

"And when she isn't getting herself hurt, maimed or neck deep into more duties, she'll often be dealing with depression, stress and burnout from everything so she drinks. I failed there too. I thought I had gotten her to stay dry for 3 years. Guess I was wrong. I came home too many times finding her in her own vomit and Myrlene left alone, scared, staring at her mother and often dirty and not kept clean. Morry, I had to threaten to take my child out of the picture if she didn't sober up. I was going to take our child and break everything off if I found her drunk one more time. It worked, for a while. She sobered, never drank and stayed true her word. I don't know where she started drinking again, but she does drink and I have felt it, here..." Shi tapped hir chest over hir heart. ".. over the bond link that she goes and drinks until she forgets things and has to have someone take her home. What bothers me? What really bothers me?" Shi looked to Ammy.

"I can't trust you!" Shi said.

Shi wiped at hir eyes a little. "I know we agreed upon an open marriage when we ended up away from each other for a little while doing things, but it was only to take someone in for comfort and maybe, maybe marry them if it was truly needed. Now? I feel it?s an open invitation for her to flirt with every guy and girl she sees. You tell me how many people she's been with on that space station? Hmm? I hold nothing against her being with our Alpha, but others outside of our inner circle?" Shi leaned back tired. "I don't know if I have anything left to say. You tell me, Morry. Can you trust her? I sure as hell can't."

The room was silent. Myrlene stared from her seat, wrapped in memories and watching her parents through misty eyes. Perhaps they weren't going to work things out. If she'd been in her father's position, mom would've been left long ago. How did her father have this much patience and tolerance to put up with everything? Hells, shi wasn't, Myrlene realized. That's why they were on the couch with Morry to keep peace. She rubbed her face a bit. The family was severely fubar'd. Quietly, she got off of her chair and stepped out of the room. She was still listening but she couldn't be sure of keeping herself together in the room with so much energy swirling about in the emotions. She leaned against the wall and took long breaths.

Ammy swallowed a few times and just stared at Fleety the whole time shi spoke. Could she smart mouth her way out this? Maybe if Morry didn't deck her and he was faster than her at close quarters fighting. Could she turn this on Fleety as hir being the issue? She had thought she could, but now, she felt a hard cold pit in her stomach as she went over what she had said against what Fleety had said. It didn't take much for her to see the blazing signs in front of her that there were problems with her. She was more to blame than Fleety in this whole mess. She had issues, major ones with a few subscriptions thrown in for half the price. She took a long, deep breath, sighed once and bowed her head. She was at fault and she couldn't avoid the consequences. She looked up to Morry and sat very still, bracing to face her punishment and his decisions.

Ammy and Fleety both flinched from the decisions. They're faces stung from the physical discipline. They looked to each other then back to Morry and then to Aribius as well.

"Okay Morry." Ammy said defeated. She'd been assessed quite accurately.

"Agreed Morry." Fleety said. "May I ask how much of the family is required to move? Our immediate family or the extended as well? I can see taking the children with us, but the rest may not adjust well to life on a space station full of technology." Shi said.

Hearing the discussion end and the verdict out, Myrlene stepped back into the room and moved over to Ammy and Fleety. She removed the collars and had the devices vanish. She gave both of her parents a long hug. "For the best. You two need each other, but you both need to really work on it. Really want it. Okay?"

Myrlene then moved over to Morry, bowed then knelt. "Alpha, may I request one addition to their rework as you say. May I suggest the matter of the open marriage be considered and perhaps be closed, restraining them to the official mates they have taken? Would this not help temper their trust and prevent further betrayals? As well as arranging permission for them to see their mates that are not here. Those would be Mirius, Tairen and Leroy. They should not have to suffer due to the actions of Ammy and Fleety. Also, may I suggest as head nurse that we implement bracelets that Glimmer had to wear, modified for this specific situation?" She asked, unsure of the efficacy of her advice.

Fleety flinched from the verbal correction by Morry. "Yes, Alpha."

Myrlene stood up from her kneel and bow. "Apologies, Alpha. Old habits." She looked to Ammy and Fleety in thought.

"Dad, you go back to Lurky. It'll be safer there and give you time to be you. As for you mother." She walked to the wall near the entertainment area and hit the intercom. "Akira, sweety, prep the hot tub and put in two cups of the soothing lavender beads. I am sending Ammy down to soak. She is not allowed to leave this house."

A perky voice responded. *Okay Lene! I'll get it all ready.*

Ammy blinked and huffed. "I can leave if I wish to. House arrest was never mentioned by Morry."

Myrlene was swift and quick. She was in front of Ammy in a heartbeat and an open hand slap to her mother muzzle. "Alpha prefers to be called Alpha, pup." She said in a simple manner. "Now go soak. You leave the house for a day and I know what will happen. You'll get depressed, possibly drink and the last thing we need is you driving and getting into a wreck. So, you spend your day here. I'll make sure none bothers you much."

Ammy rubbed her muzzle in shock. Myrlene had never struck her before. She was speechless. Myrlene pointed to the stairs in silence. Ammy got up, still rubbing at an appearing slap mark and went downstairs. Myrlene waited a bit and sighed in relief as the wards on the house reported Ammy was in the hot tub with Akira standing guard. Fleety got up quietly, shi would give Myrlene a silent hug, though shi felt like hell and a look of understanding to Morry. Shi didn't say anything and went downtairs, through the portal in the hallway and back to hir little island in Lurky.

With Fleety and Ammy gone Myrlene crumpled onto a chair and rubbed her head. She'd wave a hand and a bottle of aspirin appeared in her hand. She took some with water, closed the bottle and tossed them to Morry. He could take some if he wanted to or he could not. She looked from Aribius to Morry and back for a few moments. "Level with me, Aribius, Alpha.... is there any hope for them to be salvaged, or am I going to have to take care of my siblings and raise them myself?"

She rubbed at a growing headache and appeared to be a little shaken and stressed. Myrlene did take a moment to pull her control back together and then gave a more professional attitude to Morry. It was her Head Nurse attitude of 'I'll fix it or do my best to manage the problem'.

"Alpha, may I suggest you just rest for now, recover from your trip here while I get ahold of the family and bring them all here for you to meet in one go. I'll also compile a list of who all is in the family and whether they are immediate and need to go to the station or if they are secondary and can handle staying here. As to Fleety and Ammy and checking them, they will both get and updated physical and baseline when they get to the station then we'll know if they are getting better or worse.

At some point too, Morry I'll draft up a new marriage agreement for all of them to read. If the agree and sign it, then I can take it in, get it legalized and the marriage will be closed and they can only have the mates they have now. Which means that they'll have to restrict a lot of their 'comfort cuddles' aboard the space station to a select few that are approved."

Myrlene would sip more water and rub her nose. "By the way, would you like something in particular to eat Alpha? I can get it arranged and brought to you. I'll tell you now though, with out without that compiled list of family there are only two people you'll need to keep aware of that may challenge you for authority. Alitia Spiritor and Spiritor, fathers parents. Alitia lives here with her daughter and fathers sister, Akira. Spiritor visits from Lupinoss from time to time. Alitia is often quiet and fierce, like your mother, Alpha. Spiritor though, is... well... he's been looking for any failings in father so he can swoop in and take Alpha status of the family. Outside of them, Mirius and Leroy are the only others with a legit claim to Alpha status. Mirius I am sure won't be an issue between you and Aribius. Leroy, I think just might need to be updated on what all is going on reassured on some things."

She drank more water letting what all she said sink in. She look tired and a bit overworked, but she still had drive to keep things working.

Myrlene would sigh then nod. "Okay. I'll hang on to hope and I'll at your disposal Morry."

She sipped more water thinking about Ammy and Leroy's children. "As to Leroy's children, that is, Jake and Mabel, the other child is Ruby, my youngest sister from mom and dad. I would suggest this; let Ruby go with the other children to be with mother, but we let Alitia care for Jake and Mabel here in Rhy'Din. She's a good mother and raising the younglings could do her some good. She has a good head on her shoulders and will make they are well cared for, taught, fed and kept healthy. This will allow Leroy to continue being their father and being in their lives here. On some days, I'll come here and take them to the station to be Ammy for the day then bring them back. It's a bit tedious but it keeps the kids and Leroy happy."

She rubbed her head more as the tension from all of this built behind her eyes. "How about I show you to the guest room and let Aribius get back to what he needs to do with Mirius."