"Babsie! You're walking!" Rita exclaimed, joining her and giving a huge.
It was just after New Years day, and Taylor's family and Xavier had finally returned home from tour.
"Well, in a manner of speaking," she grinned. "I'm still a little unsteady but - Xavier?"
"Hi Mum," he smiled, hugged her too.
Babsie could only stare for a moment.
"Wow," she gasped. "You've changed so much!"
"And so have you!" he grinned. "If you're not careful, someone's going to mistake you for a mop."
"And someone's going to mistake you for a long-haired basketball player. How tall are you now?"
"Tall enough to reach all the high cupboards in the kitchen. So you'd better find a new place to put all those containers labeled 'keep out of reach of children'."
Babsie laughed.
"I take it back, you haven't changed a bit."
"I'm so glad you're awake."
"I'm glad I've finally gotten to see you again! How was the tour?"
"It was fun. But when I found out you were awake it felt like it was dragging - I wanted to get back that much!"
"Oh!" Babsie replied, hugging him. "It's so great that we have such a good relationship with each other. Some people cannot get along with their parents, and some parents with their kids at all."
"Yeah. Hey, you spoken to Grandpa yet?"
Babsie gave him a confused look.
"Grandpa?"
"Yeah, your dad."
"Not recently, no," she replied, quietly.
"Oh. Well, you should -"
"Hasn't Isaac told you?" Rita interrupted.
"Told me what?" asked Babsie.
"About Larry."
"Who's Larry?"
"He's Grandpa's evil twin!" Xavier grinned. "That much I know, and that he's the reason why you don't like your dad, except you didn't know it because you didn't know that Grandpa had a twin."
"I would have thought Isaac told you already."
Babsie stared.
"Harry has a twin?"
"Yes."
"Named Larry."
"Yes."
"Identical?"
"Of course. That's why you mistook him for Harry," Rita gave Xavier a sidelong glance that he didn't notice, "that thing, umm, when you were twelve."
"Hang on - you know? How do you know? The only one I ever told was -"
"Jarod told Isaac when Shane first attacked you. It wasn't until after you went into a coma that Isaac remembered that Harry told him he had a twin - who was in prison."
"What did happen when you were twelve?" Xavier asked, then, getting a distressed look on his face: "No one will tell me!"
"Some things are best kept quiet, Xavier, let's leave it at that. I better talk to Isaac... and Harry," then she laughed. "An evil twin?"