“Dad, are you sure about this?” Gina looks at her father as they walked around outside the castle wall.

“Yes, I’m sure, Gina. Go ahead and take everyone home. I’m going to be awhile here, straightening out your grandmother’s will.” Jack knew it was going to take about a week to go over the will and straighten things out.

“If you say so, dad.” Gina increases her pace as she slaps her father on his arm.

A smile appears on Jack’s face as he chases after Gina. It was an old game they uses to play when Gina and Julia were little. He increases his pace to try and tag his daughter. He knew Gina was the fastest runner among all his children.

Gina knew her father was hot on her heels as she increases her speed. She was still feeling a little under the weather, but she could outrun her father. By the time they arrived at the main gates of the castle walls. Gina slaps the wall and look at her father with a smile on her face.

“Still faster then you, dad.” Gina was smiling at her father.

“That you are sweetie.” Jack didn’t mind losing to his daughters.

He looks at Gina and could sense something unusal about her health. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but he knew there was something different about her. He gives her a hug and releases her “go and tell everyone to get ready to leave.”

“Will do, dad.” Gina kisses her father on the cheek, as she leaves.

Jack watches as Gina walks off towards the castle. He starts walking towards the old church to pay his respects one last time to his mother. He was sad to see his mother go, but relieved as well. He knew she didn’t like feeling useless and being in pain.

As Jack is walking towards the old church, a young teenage woman with long black hair tied back in a ponytail comes running up to him. She was wearing an outfit that looked like it belonged on the Black Widow from Marvel comics.

“I can’t believe you let you daughter beat you.” Stephanie saw everything as she glided down from the sky.

“Where did you just come form? And I didn’t let my daughter beat me. She’s an extremely fast runner.” Jack glance at his cousin as she walks next to him.

“From a mission in Iraq. I would had been here sooner, but my special abilities and skills were needed.” Stephanie knew her cousin Jack uses to do her type of work.

“What was the mission about?”

“You know I can’t go into details about the mission, cousin. However, I can tell you it involved six terrorist and a barrel of VX gas.” Stephanie shivers just thinking about the barrel of VX gas that could had killed her. She wouldn’t have been the only one affected by the gas either. It would had killed several other British citizens at the embassy as well.

“Who was the MI 6 agent in charge?” Jack just to know the MI 6 agent that had Iraq.

“MI 6 wasn’t involved with this mission.”

“Then who was in charge of it?” Jack looks at his cousin. He still couldn’t over the fact that she had been turned into a teenager while working n her lab.

“You know I can’t tell you, Jack. The agency I work for operates outside of MI 5 and MI 6.” Stephanie remember the day she was recruited by Duke FitzWalter. She was recovering in the hospital from injuries she sustained from the explosion that destroyed her lab.

The chemicals she was working with and storing in her lab changed her. An electrical short had set off a highly unstable chemical sitting nearby. The last thing she could recall was waking up in the hospital as they rushed her to the emergency room.

“Another secret agency inside the British government.” Jack knew the British government was famous for having secret agencies that no one knew anything about.

“Hey, we do a lot of good work. There are things that MI 5 & 6 can’t do or aren’t allowed to do. That’s where the agency I work for comes into play. You of all people know how bad things are or can get.” Stephanie knew her cousin and his partner were well known among the intelligence community.

“I know. Just be careful.” Jack walks into the church where his mother was laying covered in flowers.

Stephanie walks over and takes her necklace she always wear off and lay it on Cara Bounty’s neck. She looks at her great aunt “may your journey end your suffering and join those who have gone before us, Cara Bounty.” She places a kiss on Cara’s forehead.

Jack looks down at his mother’s lifeless body. He hates to see her go, but he knew she would be waiting for him and everyone else when they die.

“See you in haven, Mom.” As Jack closes the lid on the casket.

“She’ll be missed, Jack. I don’t know of any other woman who wasn’t born a Bounty that could tame this family.” Stephanie was glad to be alive and safe.

“When will they come and pick the casket up?” Stephanie looks at the wolf head design on top of the casket.

“In about an hour. What are your plans?” Jack wonders what his cousin is going to do.

“Stick around here for a while. I have some time saved up and my new supervisor wants me to use some of it.” She couldn’t get over the fact that Cladus wanted her to take some time off.

“Well, I’ll be in town taking care of my mother’s will. Why don’t you join me and my wife for dinner tonight?”

“Sounds good to me. I’ll go and see if Sabrina has some clothes I can change into.”

“You two are about the same size, so she should have something for you to wear. By the way, I like your work clothes. Where did you get it?”

“From our special development department. The four people that work int hat department can design the wildest things.” As she disappears from sight, except her head.

“Damn, is it bulletproof?”

“It’s as bulletproof as the ones you designed. There are a few more things this suit can do. Well, I better go and see Sabrina.”

Jack watches as Stephanie walks off. She hasn’t always been a girl. The accident she was in, changed her physically and mentally. Whatever chemicals she had been storing or working on had unusual effect on her body.

Jack waits for the family hearse to arrive to take his mother to her final resting place. He’ll follow behind with his wife and his siblings.

Epilogue:

Cara Bounty is lower into the ground next to her husband. Overseeing the burial was Jack, Bruce, Charlotte, and Anika. Just Cara’s four children. They watched as their beloved mother is lowered into the ground, next to her husband.

A few days later, Cara’s will is read. Mona and Seamus along with Jack’s daughter were requested to appear. Mona was given the property where Cara lived along with everything in the house.

All the heirlooms that she has collected were to be split among the grandchildren. A large account had been setup for Mona to be used to maintain the property and pay taxes on the place. A smaller account has been set up for Mona, to go to college and to buy groceries and fuel for the vehilces.

Smaller accounts had been setup for Jack, Bruce, Charlotte, and Anika. Lady was to remain on the property to protect it. Should something happen to Mona, the house, property and funds that have been setup are to be returned to the family trust.

As for Jack, he meets his new daughter and learns about her. He and Debbie invite her to come to Montana with them for her to meet her other sisters.