Jade thought for about a second before smiling at him. She tried to smooth his hair down again without much sucess. She sighed a bit.

"I vote we should go to my mom first, she will be so happy to see me! She will love you and not only that she will proably think youre handsome. But hey I already knew that." Jade smiled, tail wagging back and forth.

“That’s settled then, we’ll go and see your mom first. Give me a few days and I’ll have a jet capable of vertical take off ready for us to travel in. It’s almost finished, but as per usual I got distracted by another project.” That happened a lot, it was a wonder that he ever got anything finished.

The extra days would also give him time to finish the suit. While he wouldn’t tell Jade, he would keep it nearby incase anything happened. “So, where is your mom then? Do you know where she lives or are we going to have to go searching for her?” he said with a grin.

"When Linda and I looked my mom still lived in Salem. She still has the same address to!" Jade exclaimed, tail waggin back and forth eagerilly. It was easy to see that she was very eager to see her mother

She yawned a bit, nuzzling her head against his neck. "You know your shoulder makes a good pillow Vincey. I think i may just go to sleep here."

“Well your head’s pretty comfy too, so I might just go to sleep as well,” he said with a small smile. Falling asleep with her in his arms like this would be bliss, and he couldn’t think of how he could have a more comfortable sleep.

*****

He was making the final adjustments on the jet. The suit had been finished a few hours before, and was already on autopilot. It would remain out of site, but he only had to push a button on his watch and it would come to him at top speed.

With a final check of the wiring he began to close up the panel. Everything seemed to be in order and he was about to run some pre-flight checks. He just hoped that Jade had nearly finished packing.

(OOC: Hope you don’t mind the time jump, but I thought we could get the trip underway)

Jade dragged thier suitcases into the jet, in her husky form. She dropped Them in the back of the planed before settling in her seat. She turned into human form and buckled her seatbelt tightly.

"Come on Vincey lets get this metal monster moving!" Jade exclaimed, tail wagging back and forth happily

She was excited, eager and a little bit scared by all of this. Jade didnt quite know how her mother would react upon seeing her little girl again

Grinning Vincent screwed the panel shut and hopped into the pilot seat. “Well in that case let’s get this show on the road.” Flicking a couple of switches he ran through the pre-flight checks and all the lights were green.

“Here we go,” Hitting the ignition switch the engines started up and the jet began to rise. The roof retracted and they rose up over the island. Plotting in their heading Vincent swung the jet around.

“Next stop, Salem.” With that he hit the main engines and the jet shot off. Walking out of the lab Vincent’s armoured suit, dubbed Dreadnought, laid in the same heading and activated it’s own rockets, taking off after the jet.

Jade yelled "Yahooo!" Just as they took of in the jet.

*******

Jade sighed gently as she knocked on the door to her old home. She paused, waiting for an answer, when the door did open a woman about in her sixties with curly red hair stepped into the light. Her blue grey eyes looked at Jade as if she had seen a ghost.

The older woman reached up and touched the side of the young woman's face.

"My....baby?" She managed to get out, eyes gathering tears rather quickly.

"Hi mom...long time no see." Jade said slowly before her mother grabbed her in a fierce hug.

She squeezed her daughter tightlyshe rocked the girl back and forth as if she was a child.

"My baby! my Baby is alive thank you god! Thank you!" Jade's mother exclaimed, before noticing Vincent.

"And who is that strapping young gentleman over there?" Jade asked her daughter giving her a mischevous look.

"Mom thats Vincent, he is my boyfriend, he is also one of the people responsible bringing me here.

Jade's mother broke from her daughters hug, walking up to Vincent. "So you are responsible for bringing my daughter back to me." She looked at him for a moment before hugging him tightly. "Thank you for bringing my baby back. I knew Heaven would send her an angel and my dear boy you fit the bill to a t."

Vincent couldn’t help but smile at Jade’s reunion with her mother. Seeing Jade happy made him happy, and the joy on her mother’s face was self evident. Vincent was caught off guards when she hugged him, but returned the hug none the less.

At the angel comment he could feel himself blushing as he replied, “I’m no angel Mrs Morrian, just a guy who wanted to help. I’m just glad that I can help reunite the pair of you.”

Mrs Morrian looked at Vincent smoothing his hair down, the same piece that Jade had smoothed down days earlier.

"Honey call me Pearl!" Pearl replied with a small chuckle. "Mrs Morian sounds so formal. Besides I havent been married in years."

Pearl opened the door wider to the house. Her whole body seemed to wiggle in excitement. The autumn breeze blew across the street and leaves fluttered into the house.

"Now you two will catch a death of cold if you stay out there in those short clothes! What do you think we live on an Island?" Pearl asked

Jade laughed, tail waggin back and forth. "Actually Vincent and I currently live on an Island."

Peral looked at her daughter with her mouth agape. "He owns his own Island? Not only does he love you but he owns his own damn island?! Dear lord in heaven If I knew I would have him as a son in law I would have never let you dated in High school!"

((Vincents turn to lead them into the warm pyschedelic house))

Vincent blushed all the more as Jade mentioned the island. And then the word son-in-law was used. Son-in-law meant marriage. While he loved Jade to bits, the idea of marriage was still a little daunting to him.

Following Mrs Morrian, Pearl he corrected himself, into the house he was slightly taken aback but the place. The colours were all very bright and it had the sixties written all over it. “Wow, this place sure is vibrant.” Vibrant seemed to be a bit f an understatement, but he didn’t want to offend either of them.

Jade smiled, spinning around in circles with her arms outstreched. She enhaled deeply before exhaling the smell of insence reaching her nose. It was just as it was the day she left, stuck eternally in the sixties. But she loved it that way.

"She is just like she was when she was a little girl." Pearl whispered into Vincent's ear. "As free spirited as a bird in the sky."

"Mom do you still make those cookies that I used to love so much?" Jade asked, tilting her head to the side like a curious dog.

"Why yes I do, let me see if I can scrounge up the recipie for mommy's double chocolate fudge cookies for her little girl." Pearl cooed, toddling off into the kictchen.

Jade then hugged Vincent around the neck kissing him on the lips. "Isnt mama great?"

Vincent smiled watching Jade take in her old home. The mention of cookies intrigued him, as he was getting a little hungry. Smiling as Jade kissed him he said, “She’s amazing, so full of life. Now I see where you get it from.”

“So how does it feel to be back here then? Bringing back old memories?” The place had the feel of somewhere that you could find a lot of happy memories. If only the walls could talk, what stories they’d tell.

"So many memories! This was the best place to grow up in! It's so warm and Happy it makes me smile everytime I come in here. I love it here so much, when I have kids someday, I want them to come home to something like this." Jade responded, sniffing the air.

She tiptoed into the kitchen before a large rukus was heard, such as pots and pans falling.

"JADE MORRIAN! YOU GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF HERE AND LET ME MAKE YOUR COOKIES IN PEACE!" Pearl's voice resounded in the house as Jade scurried out of the kitchen, hiding behind Vincent.

"Oh yea, things are definatly back to normal." She whined

Vincent smiled as Jade recalled her happy times at home. It was good to see the happy times in her past for a change. As she tiptoed towards the kitchen he began to think about kids. They would defiantly have kids, there was no question about it. He loved children, and a lot of his robots were designed to interact with them.

He snapped back to the present at the sound of Pearl yelling. Cringing slightly he saw Jade zip out of the kitchen and hide behind him. “I take it she like the kitchen to herself when she’s cooking?”

Jade nodded furiously, turning into her husky form. She put her paws over her head in a defensive pose, whimpering.

"My mom is really scary when she is in the kitchen." Jade barked, tail drooped between her legs.

"You two youngun's get your tail's in here and eat these cookie's before I do!" Pearl exclaimed from the kitchen.

This made Jade leap up from her spot and bound in the kitchen.

"Jade what did I say about dog form's in the kitchen?" Pearl asked, her daughter who back out onto the shag rug.

Jade merely turned into human form before walking back into the kitchen. "sorry mom." She said with her mouth about to chomp down on a cookie.