"What’s your plan? Stay with us and pay this bitch every month till she fucking dies? You have a nice safe home in America. Over here if the Baroness doesn't get her tribute you have an early death. See that what they're carrying? Those needles are dipped in arsenic. If you're a borrower, then you know full well that humans call the shots. Us tiny folk can only hope we have a kid before we die...that's it. No happy ending. No whirlwind lifetime romances. Not so much as a fucking dead-end job we can complain about. And before you crack wise about this being my job...no... this is survival" she said kicking him out the way. Klara yanked the part through the small door as Keith got to his feet.

He was not in time to stop Klara from approaching the titanic woman sitting on the sofa in her nightgown. A large crowd of gremlins stood before her with their tribute. Some as young as ten years old. Others no older than 40. All grimy from using the sewer or just regular dirt. The giantess grinning and playfully scrunching her toes at the simple riches she was brought. "Very nice my little thieves. Hmm...I see one Hand has not brought me anything. In fact, one person short" she said after looking carefully. Keith was surprised she would even notice. He got very wary as he suspected this female must've had a photographic memory. It didn't bode well if he was seen. "My apologies my Baroness! We had tribute, but Hershel was attacked by a sewer rat as he carried a sapphire necklace! We had no choice but to flee!" a young man said.

"Then you should've used the chance of retrieving it as it ate him. You know the penalty of failure for cowards" she said snatching him right up. "I gave you a home. Protection from bad humans and all I ask is to be compensated. And you and the three others disrespect me with your cowardice. No you disrespect our family. Get in the water bowl" she said dropping him on the coffee table. The young man took off his clothes and climbed into a dish full of water. He scrubbed every inch of his small body until not a trace of dirt remained. "Are you clean?" she asked. "Yes..." he said shivering not from being cold but sheer terror. She held her hand out as he stepped into it. "Are you ready?" she asked. "Please Baroness! I won't fail you again!" he pleaded. "Do not compound your cowardice earlier with another act now. Especially with your son in my care. Now I ask again. Are you ready?" she asked.

The young man sobbed. "Yes Baroness. You...you can eat me" he said between sobs. She tossed him into her mouth and swallowed. "Now that your leader was punished. Time for you three. Hmmm...I guess I can show mercy. It was his failure not to give you orders. You will be assigned a new member. You. You're the new leader of your Hand" she said pointing to a woman in her 20's. "As you command! I will not fail you!" the gremlin girl yelled. "See that you don't unless you want to end up in my belly" Baroness coldly said.

"Ah...there's my Klara. What do you have for me?" she said seeing her. "Oh shit!" Keith thought. "An engine computer control module from a Mercedes. Does...does it please you?" Klara asked worried. Baroness motioned for her to come closer. Just as quickly as before, she snatched her up. Baroness licked her face and playfully sucked on her tiny head. "You're even clean too" she grinned as Klara shivered in her fist. "Yes, it does please me. I can fence this well. Your little autohaus is safe" Baroness replied as she placed her on the carpet. Klara turned to see Keith and she gasped. "You didn't leave?" she whispered quietly. "Oh? Who is your friend Klara? I have not seen him before. I would remember such a cute gremlin" Baroness said locking onto Keith. Keith wanted to enlarge right then and there but figured with so many arsenic tipped needles they all carried, he'd be dead before he got 500 ft. Well over 150 gremlins were before her and they could turn in him with but a word from her.

"A friend! Just a friend that helped me!" Klara said. "Well have your friend come closer" she said. "Just stay calm" Klara told him. Klara led Keith closer and closer to her. He was inches from her bare toes.  "What’s your name?" she asked. "Keith" he replied looking up at the giantess. "That's an English name. How strange. Normally gremlins have German, French, or even Italian names. Stranger still you're nicely dressed and taller than the others. You're a borrower, aren't you? Your owner lost you here in holiday didn't she...or he?" Baroness smirked. "Of a sort" Keith said trying to be unassuming. "Well my little Klara here says you helped her. Those that help her help me. And those that help me...are compensated. You will have the pleasure of joining me tonight. For the rest of you. Place your tributes in the correct boxes so my fencers can still them later. Dismissed" she told the crowd. Klara hesitantly left knowing she could do nothing for Keith. She had seen gremlins she favored chosen by her before. Usually they were seen again...usually.

Keith kept calm as she picked him up. He planned to do to her what Klara did to him. Pleasure her till she fell asleep and sneak out. She lived decadently. Lace drapes. Egyptian cotton sheets. Down pillows. She placed him on the bed as she took off what little clothes she had on. "Least she isn't ugly" he thought looking at her naked body. She plopped onto the bed causing Keith to tumble. She laughed as he scrambled to his feet. She placed her legs on either side of him openly exposing her giant pussy to him. "It's only fair you get naked too" she said. Keith stripped off his clothes. "Is this alright Baroness?" he asked. "Call me Eva tonight and yes I do. Not as muscular as a gremlin but pleasing nonetheless. "Was you mistress this beautiful?" she asked tossing her hair making sure to jiggle her giant tits as she did. "No she wasn't" he said. If Aspen was his mistress, Keith told a bold face lie. If Eva was a smoking 8, Aspen was a barn burner 10.

Eva moved her right foot in front of him. Not needing to be told, he walked to it and began running her bare sole. "Have you been here long?" she asked. "Since last month. Klara found me tonight and asked for help in exchange for some food" Keith replied. "A kind girl. Good Keith. Now between the toes" she said lowering her foot slightly. Keith loved giant girl's feet. Mostly Aspen's but he was not aroused by Eva's. Bunions on her big toes from wearing heels too much. Nails chipped. A pair of feet a foot fetishist would call a "fixer upper". Anyhow, he did do it to please her. Rubbing his hands along the moist skin between her toes. Clenching slightly as it tickled, Keith winced as it felt like his fingers would be crushed by the enormous digits.

"You're pretty good at that. Take it you rubbed you owner's feet plenty of times" she said.  "A few times when she was tired. Licked them to please her" Keith replied. "As tempting as you licking the sweat from my pretty feet, I have other uses for that little tongue. You're not a virgin are you?" she asked. "No... I was allowed to mate with a female borrower as a stud. My owner was paid $100 for it" Keith said. Keith needed to sound sympathetic so she wouldn't hurt him. He had already seen her eat someone. No telling what she would do in this case.

"Then your sperm must be very good. Good enough for me I think. Come Keith and fuck your Baroness" she said spreading her pussy for him. Well that's what Keith did. Fucked her long and hard...well hard enough as he was pretty tired.  Baroness was impressed as he hadn't cum very quick as so many others did. A good reason for that. Keep in mind Keith had blown his load twice with Klara just two hours earlier so his batteries were low so to speak. However, giant pussy feels good no matter if it belongs to someone you love or in this case a giant German gangster. Keith released his cum into her before collapsing on her soft cleft.

"My little guy is tired?" she cooed picking him up. She teased his tiny scrotum with her fingertip. It was gentle kisses as first and then she slipped her tongue underneath his ass. Keith wanted to pass out. He hung onto her nose as she played with him. "Hnnngh!" Keith groaned as his prick slipped into her mouth. How long did she blow him...half hour...45 minutes. Keith didn't know but he could feel aching as she had sucked his little dick for so long. The very last of his semen shot into her mouth and Keith collapsed against her palm. Eva poked him a few times. "I'll leave it at that for tonight. You did good work today after all. Serve me well Keith the borrower. I don't wish to eat you" she said playing the passed-out Keith next to her on her bed.

Klara returned to her home. She was very worried about Keith but was confidant he would survive tonight. She took off her boots and tip toed through the house. With her father and the blonde borrower there, she didn't want them hearing her footsteps. If anything, gremlin hearing was more sensitive than a borrower’s. "Paranoid. They're in their rooms. They won't hear me" she thought relaxing. As she rounded the corner she heard voices.

"Come on Claire. You still conscientious about this after all these years?" Aspen asked holding Claire spread eagle over the toilet. "How would you feel if you had to depend on a giant to take you to the bathroom? Got me spread out all weird and shit. Like potty training a puppy" Claire snipped back. "When you love someone you don't sweat this kind of stuff. If you think this is bad, wait tell we get old. Two words...adult diapers" Aspen said. Klara cautiously tip toed past the door. "Klara? Thought you were asleep. Why are you dressed?" Claire asked spotting motion with her borrower eyes. "Just grabbing some water" Klara replied. "You need to carry your boots for that?" Claire asked. "Klara. Don't tell me you snuck out to see that Baroness bitch" Aspen said. "Fuck is it to you?" Klara snapped back. Aspen was not having that attitude. Claire motioned for them to calm down and has Aspen lower herself down to Klara. "Klara. She's dangerous...she threatened...why do you smell like Keith?" Claire asked picking up his scent.

"We fucked. He was good. I was better. End of story. Got a problem? Thought you two were lesbians" Klara replied.

Aspen slapped her bare feet on the bathroom tile very close to Klara. Hearing her boast along with her attitude was ticking her off. "What's the noise?" Wulf asked yawning coming to them. "Your daughter snuck off to the Baroness" Aspen replied. Wulf looked pissed. "Look are problems are over and I'm sure he'll be fine" Klara said. She tensed up realizing she just said something she really shouldn't have. "He? You better not mean Keith! He followed you didn't he?!" Aspen howled. "Yeah he did trying to stop me. She saw him and took him to her bedroom. She just fuck him and send him on her way...probably" Klara said. "Or else what?" Claire asked. "She's been known to uh...eat them. She won't though! He's cute!" Klara said seeing she was getting deeper by the second. A stinging rage came over Aspen. Aspen knocked Klara on her back with her big toe and pressed it over her chest.

"You telling me you just fucking left him there?! Someone I love could be fucking dead because of your fucking immature ability to listen to reason?!" Aspen growled. Klara felt the air pressed from her lungs as the warm meaty giant toe pressed into her chest cavity. Klara looked to her dad to save her. The man looked away disgusted at her. Claire held her hand up for Aspen to get her toe off Klara. "Thank you, I..." she was saying before Claire kicked her in the face with her bare foot. Her nose was bleeding. "Don't you fucking dare thank me. You're going to take us to where he is or so help me god I will fucking feed you to my lover. Understand?" Claire asked. The girl quickly nodded. Aspen and Claire got dressed. Wulf put his clothes on and stood at the door. "Father I should've listened" Klara said walking to him. Wulf didn't even look at her. "Ja. A man that showed you kindness could be dead because of your actions...or inactions. You disappointed me daughter. I raised you better than that" Wulf said. Klara shed silent tears as he didn't gaze at her the entire moment.

"Get in the fucking purse" Aspen said to Klara. Klara climbed in and sat next to Claire. "He better be alive" Claire said eerily with little emotion. "I will join you. The least I can do" Wulf said climbing in as well. Aspen left in the middle of the night heading to rescue Keith.

Keith awoke to an ungodly sound. Turns out it was Eva snoring. Her fingers draped over his body. Her clock said 4:49 a.m. "Here's my chance" he thought. Carefully wriggling out her reach, Keith went to get his clothes still on the bed. He put them on and climbed off her bed. To his horror, his size watch beeped signaling he had 2 hours left before he had to enlarge. She shifted in the bed and he froze. Eva didn't get up. Keith breathed a sigh of relief. He looked down to see the button on his watch and pressed it. Within a second he was back to normal, but the lights came on. Eva had seen everything. "How...you're..." she stammered. "Uhh...it's a dream?" Keith shrugged. Eva hopped out of bed and put her nightie on as there was a slight chill in the room. "You're human size. Explain" she said sternly. Keith unconsciously hid his watch with his hand. Eva gripped his arm and yanked it.

"This did that? Give it over. Now" she said pulling a Luger pistol out of a nightstand drawer. She pointed it right at Keith's head. Keith undid the strap button and handed it over. Eva gave it a quick look and Keith nudged closer to her. "Close enough! It seems my borrower had something extra for tribute. Plus...minus...contact? Settings no doubt. With this I can shrink down myself or others. This Olen's new possibilities. Shrink luxury cars and steal them. Eliminate enemies. Hide from them. Get rid of evidence. Oh yes..." she sneered. Then the sound of a door opening downstairs took that sneer away. "Because for all we know she could've squashed us the second we appeared. That's why I didn't shrink" Aspen whispered. Keith heard her with his borrower ears but she hadn't. Keith panicked. Aspen was in danger of being shot by this bitch. 

With her distracted, Keith grabbed for a table lamp and smashed it against her head. Eva fired off shots barely missing him. Hearing footsteps closer Eva bolted. "ASPEN TAKE COVER NOW!" Keith screamed. Aspen saw a barely dressed woman fly down the stairs with a gun. Aspen took cover behind a sofa and pressed her size watch to max shrink. Just in time too as Eva pulled the trigger. Aspen shrank down just as a bullet the size of a battleship shell (to her anyway) zipped overhead. Aspen was tinier than an ant. Claire and the others the size of dust mites. Even the carpet fibers were taller than she and in the sea of whiteness, she blended in perfectly. "Fuck are you?!" Eva yelled stomping the carpet. A monolithic foot crashed down not far from them. Aspen had made it under the sofa just in time to avoid becoming a pinhead sized red smear under her pink sole. The sheer power of her stomps was like small earthquakes. The wind blowing her hair back.

"It's over Eva! You didn't know I had my phone and I recorded everything! I'm forwarding the vid file to Interpol as I speak! You don't own them do you?!" Keith yelled. Eva trembled and gripped her gun. Keith came down the stairs. "Don't bother. My friend has a similar watch on her and you're right about the contact function. She just needs to touch you and you're just as fucking tiny. One way or another...your life is about to end" he said coldly. Eva looked at her feet franticly. She didn't see Aspen. Terrified of being shrunk or getting arrested she ran right out the front door. "She's gone. You can enlarge" Keith said. Aspen appeared a moment later. "We got to go after her!" Keith said. "Are you nuts?! She has a gun!" Claire yelled popping out of the purse. Oh you mean the one that looks like a fucking Nazi relic?! Yeah I noticed Claire! She's got my watch!"

"You have any idea what misery she could inflict with that? Not to mention the watch has GPS data on it! She will know where we live!" Keith yelled. Aspen and Claire wasn't liking the idea of a gangster knowing where they lived. A witness to her crimes at that. "Point taken" Aspen said. They raced out after her not even sure how to stop her without being shot.

"She's heading for the tram" Keith said looking at his phone. "Any idea how to stop her?" Aspen asked. "You shrink her. I hold her and you shrink" Keith replied. "My battery is almost dead. If your watch shrinks with her, we might not be able to recharge my watch in time before the time limit is hit." Aspen warned. "This is how many fucks I give" Keith said using his fingers to indicate zero. "Keith, she could shoot you" Claire said. "I've been shot before. I'll manage" Keith said. "Stop being like that! Didn't you promise me you would..." Claire said crying. Keith stopped running to look at the tram station. "I haven't forgot. Not one second have I forgot" he said quietly. Aspen was curious to what they meant. "There!" Keith yelled seeing a woman in her nightie standing at the platform impatiently. The sun was rising as they ran full speed to it as a tram car was making its way to it. They got there just in time as she boarded the front and they the back.

"What the tram?" Aspen asked. "My guess is she's going to the airport. This line goes right to it" Wulf replied looking at a map on the wall. "But won't they see her in such odd clothes and that gun?" Klara asked. "Frightened people can do stupid things" Wulf said looking at her. "Nice and slow Aspen.  Slow" Keith said tip toeing through the car. Thought the door onto the next car. People rode to their early morning jobs or their simple lives. They didn't know the strange woman in the far front was a criminal with a deadly weapon. Eva got many a stare. Barely dressed. Her bare feet dirty. Hair messy. The gun was carefully concealed under her nightie held by her right hand. If anything, people avoided the crazy looking woman.

"Don't move. You fire the gun and they will arrest your ass at the next stop. You shrink and I'll fucking step on you. Try to shrink me and she will put you down and likewise for me. That watch only has one shrink left in it before it dies. Give up and give it to me. I'll let you go and you take your chances" Keith said standing in front of her. Eva looked at him coldly and handed him the watch. Just before he had it she grabbed Keith and put the gun to his head. People screamed and fled the car. "Take your watch off or he dies" she warned. Keith shook his head. "This is going to be loud" he thought. Now remember, borrowers are stronger than humans (in scale) by as much as three times. Keith being human sized translated that perfectly. "Bad move" he whispered. He grabbed her wrist and squeezed crushing it. Eva screamed in pain and dropped the gun.

She fell to her knees and kicked out at Keith. Keith stumbled, and Eva used that chance to grab the gun on the floor with her left hand. Eva fired just as Keith moved. Three shots and her gun was empty. She looked up to see Keith punch her as hard as he could in the jaw.  He heard it. Aspen heard it. Claire, Wulf, and Klara heard it. That snap of neck vertebrae. Keith had punched her so hard he broke her neck. She slumped to the floor dead. Aspen ran to him and checked his body. Seeing him unharmed she hugged him tightly. Their happiness was short lived as a hard jolt sent them and some passengers into the right wall of the tram car.

Claire looked out the window. The buildings were being passed at an unusual speed. "Uh...aren't we going a little fast?" the little girl asked. The car shuddered, and the lights flickered causing some to whimper and cry. "Yeah...too fast. What is the train conductor...fuck my life" Keith hissed looking at the conductor cockpit. A single bullet hole had blown through the plexiglass door window and a foot ahead was the conductor slumped over the controls. Keith yanked the door open. "Hey buddy! We're going...too...fast. Aw crap" Keith muttered as he pulled the conductor up. Dead as a door nail. The bullet had gone through his back and out the front where his heart was.  Killed instantly. The panel underneath his body was sparking and covered in blood. "This is unreal" Aspen said seeing the corpse. " The deadman switch should engage and slow us down" Klara said looking. Seconds passed and if anything, the tram was speeding up as it went down an embankment.

"It's not stopping" Keith said. He took his hand and wiped an LED console free of blood. The conductor was pushed to the floor. "Some help Wulf?  Keith asked not knowing what the German words were on the screen. "Warnung! Sichere Geschwindigkeit übergeben Sicherheitsbremse eingerastet. It means "Warning. Passing safe speed. Safety brake engaged" Wulf replied. "Yeah I call bullshit on that!  Claire yelled holding on to the purse lip. "I must also call bullshit father. Why are we not stopping or at least slowing down?  Klara asked. "I don't know child. Keith. Place me on the console" Wulf asked. Keith did and watched the gremlin man wedge himself into the bullet hole in the console. He emerged covered in human blood. "It is an absolute mess. Blood everywhere. An electrical wire leading to the relay has been severed and this poor man's blood is causing a ground short. One system cannot speak to the other. That's why it won't engage and that is only the start of our trouble."

he said pointing to a separate screen on the wall. "Is that saying what I think it says?" Aspen asked. "That this line dead ends in four stops at the airport? Yes. We will hit the barricade at over 88 kph. Those on this tram will be killed and anyone at the platform as well" Wulf said. Keith and Aspen looked back into the car. A few had their phones out calling. For help of loved ones they didn't know. One or two filmed them. The others looking right back at them helpless. "Hundreds...hundreds of casualties" Keith said.  Wulf looked on at the people. A sign about exterminating gremlins hung on the wall but sitting in a seat underneath that sign was a woman consoling her crying toddler child. "I can stop the train" Wulf said taking his clothes off. "Wait...what are you doing?" Klara asked. "I can't wear anything that can be an insulator" he said getting naked. "Insulator? Father no!" Klara yelled seeing him look at his hands.

Klara scrambled out the purse into the console. "I will do it! This is my fault!" Klara screamed. "No! You...you have a life ahead of you. And a father does what he must for his child...even a foolish one" he said hugging the tiny teen tightly. "Wulf...I know what you're thinking. There's got to be another way" Keith said. Wulf shook his head. Gremlins know how things work just with a glance. My fate was sealed the moment I looked at that wire. See my daughter safe. I beg you this" Wulf said kissing Klara on her tiny forehead. Wulf pulled away and Klara scrambled to stop him. Keith held her in his fist. Her tiny fists beat on his fingers. Her legs and feet kicking trying to get free. She cursed and screamed in German as her father climbed back into the console.

The blood was sticky and gooey from the warmth inside. His bare feet felt like he was walking through red glue. There they were. A yellow wire severed and tiny sparks from the tips. 230 volts normally ran through that wire. More than enough to cook a tiny man his size. He held the edges of the insulation with each hand. "Klara...I love you. And Emma...I'll see you soon my love" he muttered before slipping his hands on the exposed wire. Wulf didn't scream. He stood his ground. He endured it.

A bright spark and a snap came from the console and the tram lurched as it slowed down. The brakes hissed and screeched as it passed the second to last stop. Slower and slower until it stopped just 20 ft. before the barricade. There was an undeniable smell coming from the console and it was not burnt plastic insulation. Trails of smoke from the hole. "Papa?" Klara asked. Keith took a look. "I'm so sorry sweetie" Keith said relaxing his grip. "PAPA! Papa..." Klara wailed. Keith held the girl to his cheek and let her cry. A few passengers seeing they were still alive were wondering what had occurred. "Gremlin!" a man shouted reaching for Klara. Keith grabbed his wrist painfully. "Her father just saved our lives. Back the fuck off!" Keith hissed. The man looked at Klara and his malice disappeared seeing a tiny teen girl sobbing for her father. "Not so easy to kill them when you see their suffering so close is it?" Aspen asked.

"Father saved us?" he asked looking at the hole. He peered in and jerked back. "Mein gott" he said. The man walked back and some asked what he had seen. He told them and they looked at the group and especially Klara with pity. A young man did something small but special after hearing what the man had seen. He tore off the poster about killing gremlins and ripped it up. "We should go before the authorities arrive" Claire said. Aspen and Keith nodded. Keith pocketed his size watch, stepped over the corpse of Eva and left with the others.

It was all over the news that day. How a gremlin gave his life to save hundreds of humans. Eva the Baroness had been exposed and authorities from Berlin were coming in to investigate. A bittersweet ending to the affair...but it wasn't completely over yet. A summer storm has blown into the area dropping rain. Klaus was moving about in his garage trying not to think about the loss of his surrogate gremlin son. He would stop now and then to wipe his tears away. Aspen, Claire and Keith was soon to leave on a late-night flight and poor Klara walked aimlessly in the garage. She wasn't wearing her gothy clothes at the moment. A long white shirt and baggy khaki pants. She had no shoes or socks on so the cold concrete under her tiny bare feet helped things feel "real" to her. The last few hours felt unreal to her. Her father dead. Deader than dead and it didn't help she couldn't see his body. Keith made sure of that as the ghastly sight would never be forgotten by her.

Klaus was struggling to reach for a lug nut connecting a fly wheel in an old engine. "Damn. Wulf can you..." he was saying until he remembered. "Can I help grandfather?" Klara asked. "Klara! Of course you can. Aw...I have told you not to walk in bare feet in the garage. Dangerous. Come here now" he said holding his hand out. Klara climbed into his hand before he carried her to his bench. He had a small bowl of water put aside to clean his hands. He had Klara sit on the edge and out her feet in. "So dirty!" he chuckled at her blackened with grease feet. He soaped up his fingers and delicately cleaned her feet. Her feet between his fingertips as he rubbed the grease off. He was quiet. "Much better. Like rosy porcelain" he said smiling. "Es tut mir leid! I'm sorry!" she cried. "There there. We are not perfect Klara. Even our best intentions can fail. What is important is how we forgive ourselves for our mistake and carry on" Klaus told her. He tickled her tiny feet with his fingernail to hear her laugh. "See? You can smile again and I know you father would want you to not lose that pretty smile" he said.

"How do I start to carry on? It feels so empty inside me" she said. "You can start helping me with this lug nut" he chuckled. "I love you grandfather" she said looking up at the elderly giant. "And I love you too my tiny angel" he kindly said cradling her to his cheek. There was a small knock on the garage door. Aspen, Keith and Claire came into the garage. All were worried as it was possible the authorities had tracked them down. Keith raised the door. "Oh wow" he muttered seeing over a hundred gremlins there. "Josef? Heinrich?" Klara asked recognizing two of them. "Klara. We...we have nowhere to go. She's gone and humans...police are at her home" Josef said. "Well come on in son. Get out of the rain. All of you come in" Klaus said.

The horde of tiny wet people looked miserable. "Wait here" he said. They were frightened. What was this human like? Did he eat gremlins? Rape them? Crush them? The Baroness had but she gave them food and shelter. Klaus returned with food and a pot of warm tea. "Come and get it everyone" he said. Gremlins approached carrying rings, coins, and anything they had of value. Children themselves had what they could give encouraged by their mothers to gain favor. They had learned that humans tended to hesitate to kill children first. "You don't need to do that. I'm doing this because I cannot because I want payment" he said. The gremlins looked confused but nodded.

Klaus sipped his tea and smiled at them as they ate. Aspen, Keith, and Claire looked on in amazement at how so many had flocked here. Klaus smiled as he gave a chunk of bread to a cute gremlin boy. The tiny child smiled at the giant. Aspen and Claire got into helping feed them. Claire was surprised the be hugged by one young girl after giving her food. Claire ruffled her hair grinning. She watched her return to her mother. Claire began to think about how it would feel to be hugged by her own child. The sound of a car staring up scared the shit out of Klaus and the others. "That Citroen hasn't ran in 20 years. It used to belong to my wife" he muttered. "Forgive us sir. We saw the problem and was compelled to fix it. We had to do something for payment" Josef said to him. Klaus reached for the young man. Josef readied himself for his punishment. He hoped being eaten wouldn't hurt too much. "Thank you young man" Klaus said patting his tiny head.

"I think you found some help" Keith said. "If they want to? Do you?" Klaus asked them. All of them nodded. "Very well. Welcome to Klaus Auntohaus" the old man grinned. Klara went over to Keith. "I'm sorry for putting you in danger. One final fuck before you go?" she asked blushing. "Tempted but no. Besides I think that Josef guy likes you as he keeps staring" he said pointing. Josef was sipping tea staring at her until he spilled it on himself. Klara laughed at him. "Go" he said placing her back on the floor. Soon it was time to leave them. "I lost a son but gained sons, daughters, and grandchildren. I hope I can keep them safe" Klaus said to them. "Maybe you won't have to. Maybe Wulf's death will mean more than saving the lives of those people on that tram and platform. Guess you'll have to stay healthy long enough to see. Watch that ticker old man" Aspen said pointing to his heart. "Will do. Safe trip home" Klaus said hugging each one.

18 hours later...

"Good to be home" Aspen said plopping on the sofa. "No kidding" Keith said putting the luggage on the floor. Claire spread out on the sofa cushion and kicked off her shoes. Aspen turned the tv on to see if anything had happened since they left Germany. "Still making headlines in Germany. Eva Hohenheim aka The Baroness was found dead on a subway in Cologne. Interpol has said they had suspected her of running a massive fencing operation from the city but lacked evidence or sources to collaborate. Apparently, she tried shooting American tourists early Sunday morning and caused the death of the conductor and damage to the train operation. Shockingly, a gremlin saved the passengers by using his body to complete a circuit to activate the emergency brakes. Cell phone footage showed a female gremlin crying for her father, apparently the gremlin who gave his life."

"Speculated that gremlins are nothing but borrowers with a destructive pathology, they were hunted and exterminated whenever found. Recent events suggest otherwise, and the prime minister has used her authority to suspend these actions as a review panel discusses possible ways to reeducate gremlins. Right now, the vote is deadlocked as the controversy surrounds the topic of funding and success. In local news. Borrower rights advocates cite Germany as another example of how tiny people rights should be acknowledged and are pushing Congress to organize a committee into making the sale of borrowers illegal. Right now, no congressman wishes to sign in on it but that may change as events in Germany progresses and international pressure from Germany and Japan weighs in. Now for your local weather" the news caster said.

"Chalk that to another win!" Claire yelled. "Yeah I count that as a win" Aspen yawned. Aspen got up and went upstairs. Keith said down to rest a bit. "What's on your mind Claire?" he asked as Claire stared off in the distance.  "Thinking about that gremlin girl that hugged me. It felt do good. Keith...I want a baby" Claire said looking at him. Keith swallowed some air. "Alright. Tell Aspen about your decision and we'll work from there" he said. Claire nodded and hopped off the sofa. Keith turned the tv off.  

"The things we do out of love. The things we do..."