Clarissa giggled, and asked "Chocolate, maple, or berry?"

  Tim led the way, having asked for the room Penny was in when they arrived, and hoping May would come with him.

May followed after Tim unsure exactly why she was doing so. She'd more than fulfilled her obligation to the man, she'd helped him out like her momma taught her, he didn't need her  help anymore. So why was she still here? What was it about him she found so....intriguing?

  Tim peeked around the doorframe of Penny's room, and said "Ah, hey.  Jack, Penny, ah, Ozzy, Clarissa, this wonderful lady with me is May, she ah, found me in her living room . . . "

Jack looked up as Tim peeked his head around the door. "Tim! What happened to you?!" Jack rushed up and hugged his friend looking down to notice he was wearing girls yoga pants and a pink fuzzy bathrobe. "And WHAT are you wearing?"

  Tim blushed, and said "Well, I WAS in the chemistry lab at school when it blew up . . . but I didn't die.  I don't know exactly WHAT it did to me, but I don't . . .stay solid?"

"You were actually IN there?! And you don't... DUDE! You have powers now?!" Jack squeezed his friend in another tight hug. "You scared the crap out of me. I'm glad to hear your okay. Now." He pulled away taking his friend by the arm. "You've GOT to meet your niece."

May hung back as Tim's friend started talking to him. She let out an 'awww' at the cute baby in the asian girls arms but she was feeling more than a little out of place."

  Penny smiled, and said to May "Come in here, your future is involved too, May.  I'm Penny, the fellow with me is Jack, and the lovely lady in my arms is Victoria."

Family and friends were gathered now at Penny's side. There was no need at the present for the venerable Shaolin monk to remain, and so he used the busy entrance to begin to make his exit.

"Take care all of you...and Penny, know that if you need me, I'm there."

  Penny sent to Ju-Long {{Don't be a stranger.  You know you've become part of my family too, Ju-Long.}}

Ju-Long smiled at that as he walked out of the hospital room.

"I will always be close, child. For you are also part of my family."

In reply to Seer (msg # 522):

May blinked as the asian girl called her by name. Who are these people? She stepped forward and then the girl said something about her, future? "Excuse me, this concerns my what?"

  Penny smiled, although her eyes didn't track May, and she said "This affects your future too.  I'm sorry if I seem a little cryptic, but while I get flashes and tidbits, I don't know everything about the future.  Just enough to know yours and Tims are intertwined at least a bit."

May just sort of stared at the tiny asian girl nursing the baby. "You can see the future? And ours are connected? But we only just met today. I'll admit its the first time a boy just appeared in my living room but, this is all just a little strange for me. I'm just a regular girl."

  Penny nodded, and said "Come take my hand, I may get a clearer reading, or a full vision.  Yes, I'm a bit of a seer.  I'm also blind.  Come on in, we don't bite, really!!"

"Ummm Okay." May slowly stepped close and took the little asian girl's hand.

  Penny's eyes flared white, and she shivered, then said softly "Wings of an Angelic soul to hold the Lightning to the right."

May blinked in surprise at the girl's words. "Wings of? What does that even MEAN?"

  Penny admitted "I don't know exactly what it means, but I think it means you need to check it out.  I'm fairly sure that your  destiny, and Tim's, are involved with each other.  I just get flashes of the future, I can't always get the whole story."

Ozzy grinned at Tim and May and said, "Nice to meet you. I'm Ozzy Gysbourne, aka Painter, and this is my lovely wife Clarissa. We're friends of theirs. Glad to see you guys here. And, well... not to make a liar out of you, Penny, but I do bite. But only if you ask real nice, and Clarissa's okay with it."

Aaaand the trollface was back.

  Clarissa poked him in the belly, and said "Not sharing, so no biting her!"  Then she offered May her hand, her other one still wrapped around Ozzy's middle so she could give him belly pokes without warning.

Ozzy grinned and said, "Yup. Thus the joking tone. Anywho, good to meet you. Fair warning, my sense of humor is a bit all over the place. If you're the sort who can't stand a dark sense of humor, say so now so I can try to censor myself. Try."

  Clarissa grinned at him, tipping her head back as she leaned against his shoulder to look up, and said "But, I LIKE your sense of humor.  It is so compatible with mine, and we have such enchanting, life-altering fun times with it!!"

"Ummm hi. Nice to meet you." The obviously confused and nervous girl said to the group. "Umm why do they call you painter? Who are you people?"