A/N: Sorry for the long wait. Real life has parked itself firmly in front of me (and my beta) leaving virtually no room for writing. Chapter 29 is almost halfway written and hopefully (*crosses fingers*) it will be up soon. As always nothing except Caeli, Livinia and the idea belong to me. Enjoy :)

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TARDIS-2008

Owen paced the control room, unknowingly retracing John's path from two hours before. His thoughts echoed his brother's as well, alternating between worry over Nathan and Caeli and trying to make sense of the situation they found themselves in. But since Gran went into the Zero Room to help Nathan, Owen's worry for him had lessened. His worry for Caeli on the other hand, well...

"C'mon old girl," the Doctor's cajoling drew Owen away from his thoughts for a second.

The Zero Room wouldn't work with both Nathan and Caeli in it, apparently with two unstable minds the Zero Room couldn't function, at least that's Owen and older brothers were told. So Caeli was placed in one of the many bedrooms in the TARDIS. And when the great-grandfathers went to go help her, they found themselves stuck outside a shielded room.

This led to the situation Owen and the rest found themselves in- the Doctor trying to convince the TARDIS to release the shield and open the door, while the Master and John, if the thumps and thuds Owen heard were any indication, were trying (and failing) to break down the door. All this left Shawn and Owen with nothing to do.

Owen resisted the urge to punch something; the only thing stopping him was not knowing how the TARDIS, as a sentient ship, would react. So, instead he continued pacing.

Curses drifted in from down the hall and Owen felt like cursing himself. He was a doctor. Every bone in his body was screaming at him to do something, anything, to help. The fact that the would-be patients were his siblings made the fact that he couldn't do anything hurt. What was ailing Nathan and Caeli was all mental, sure Nathan had some cuts and bruises from the lab explosion but those had been dealt with in Eureka.

Owen was a doctor without anyone to doctor. As he passed Shawn on his next circuit, he paused. Shawn had been shot and then checked out of the hospital AMA. And now that he looked, Owen saw a faint expression of pain on his face.

As if sensing his stare, Shawn looked away from watching the Doctor's seemingly never-ending argument with his ship. Upon seeing Owen's look he started shaking his head while muttering, "No, no. Don't even think about it Owen."

Ignoring his older brother, Owen looked around for the bags he had hastily thrown into the TARDIS before leaving Eureka. Finding the med kit that he always traveled with, Owen quickly grabbed it before jogging back to Shawn.

"You can never be too prepared," he told Shawn when he saw his brother's raised eyebrow.

Shawn laughed, "What are you, a boy scout?"

"As if they'd let me in," was Owen's response as he began to check Shawn's wound. When he pulled back the bandages, he was amazed that despite happening less than two days ago, it was almost completely healed.

"It's all gonna work out in the end, you know," Shawn told him and whatever look he saw on Owen's face prompted him to add, "trust me."

Owen couldn't help the choked laugh that escaped, "You told me to trust you when you said that we were definitely getting a younger brother."

"Please, that was twenty-one years ago and looking at it logically, Mom already had four boys, what were the odds we'd end up with Caeli? Can't you come up with something more recent?" Shawn scoffed before wincing as Owen pushed particularly hard on the wound.

"Odds are still 50/50. And how about when you, and Nathan and John, said that Mom would eventually come back, that she always did? Or when you said you'd be at my graduation? From high school, university, and med school. And most recently, when you said that in no way were you going to assist Caeli in her ridiculous notion of making sci-fi gizmos a reality?"

Shawn's response was lost as shouts of triumph echoed down the hall. The Doctor looked about a step away from kissing his ship, he merely said, "Thank you, girl," before taking off towards the shouting.

Shawn and Owen barely shared a glance before following the Doctor. They arrived at the door just in time to see the door closing behind their great-grandfathers. John stood, arms crossed, on the opposite side of the hallway surrounded by the various tools and weaponry used to break the shield.

Looking between his two older brothers, who looked almost as lost as Owen felt, he asked, "So now what?"

They shared a glance before Shawn suggested, "Kitchen?"

John cracked a smile, "Kitchen works, considering we never finished those sandwiches and Owen, you have to be hungry. Besides, who knows how long all this is going to take."

As one they gave the bedroom door one last worried look before turning and heading to the kitchen.

End Note: What I know about the Zero Room comes from fics I've read and the little I've found about it on Wikipedia. But my idea of it is that it's really only meant to help one person at a time, if both Nathan and Caeli were to be in it at once then they could possibly be messed up more. Hope that clarifies a few things. :)