Keeping Faith In Humanity

[Freak Boy]

The movie gets to the Roman Empire, in which Mel Brooks plays a stand-up philosopher named Comicus.

Unemployment lady: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-Up Philosopher.
Unemployment Lady: What?
Comicus: Stand-Up Philosopher. I combine new ideas in a comical and interesting event for people to enjoy.
Unemployment Lady:*angrily* Oh! A bullnuts artist. Did you bullnuts last week?
Comicus: *bitterly* No...
Unemployment Lady: Did you TRY to bullnuts last week?
Comicus: *angrily* Yes!

Freak Boy's sense of humor is Monty Python and Mel Brooks films. He enjoys in your face humor and, on ocasion, has a more dark sense of humor. e.g. Johnny the Homocidal Maniac.

[Hatake Kakashi]

"Oh. Well, that's easier than. I think I have some food still here." Kakashi walks into the kitchen and checks the fridge, "Ya, I have some fruits. Good stuff, not what we used to have back home but as good as the humans can manage." He turns back to Fascia. "And the couch is only for a night or two, then we'll be able to get another bed." He chuckles and tickles Illidan, "Feels kinda weird, doesn't it? Almost a year apart and we're suddenly trying to act like a family. I hope we can do this..."

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov starts to feel a little sleepy. His head droops to the side and his eye lashes flutter a few times as it gets later.

[Fascia]

"I'm sure that we'll manage somehow.

My goodness, this must be some good fruit to keep so long. I thought you hadn't lived here in awhile. It must be one of those hybrid fruits."

[Freak Boy]

and so, after covering the Roman Empire and making some Jesus jokes, they cover the Spanish Inquisition with a cute musical number that involves swimming Nuns and singing monks and friars, and finally the French Revolution, where they insult King Louie XVI and make fun of the cowardly French. Finally, before the credits roll...

Mel Brooks: WAIT! Where are you going? Coming soon... The History of the World Part II!! See... HITLER ON ICE!

[Ice Skating Hitler skates across the screen doing an amazing routine to some German music]

A VIKING FUNERAL!

[The Vikings burn a ship and remove their horned hats, which aren't horned. The Vikings themselves are horned.]

And... JEWS IN SPACE!

Jews: We're Jews! We're Jews in space! Flying along, protecting the Hebrew Race! [Short, short musical piece with Rhabbis piloting spaceships shaped like the Star of David]

By the end, Freak Boy's joint is gone and he had been laughing up a storm. He had mellowed out slightly since his laughing fit and looked to see how Bassarov was doing.

[Hatake Kakashi]

"Well, I don't have many good things to say about humans, but they do now how to make food keep. Anyway, it'll have to do for now. I'll restock tommorrow. Here, take Illidan so I can go and get the spare blankets and pillows."

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov finally zonks out on the couch, tired from his long day.

[Fascia]

For the second time today, I hold my son in my arms. I feel the softness of his skin, the fuzzy dark hair sprouting from his head. He is absolutely perfect. I say sweet things to him in his ear, telling him things that a mother tells her small child, knowing that he cannot understand but thinking somehow that he does anyway.

Family. How strange. Trying to put three strangers into a house together and call them a family. It doesn't seem like it would work, but somehow right now I have all the confidence in the world. It feels as if nothing has changed, even though so much has. There are some things that I wish that I could change back... but what will be shall be. For now, I hold my son and dream up grand futures for him, knowing that he will become a strong, self-assured elf someday.

He has his father's eyes, and my dark hair... such an interesting little package of genes, placed precisely in the right places. How amazing that two people could form parts of them into such a perfect little child.

[Freak Boy]

"G'night, Bassarov... man." Freak Boy says. He looks around at the trippy room and then to his hands.

"Whoah... my hands... they're huge.... Like boxing gloves..." Freak Boy says, looking at his hands. He continued thinking stoner thoughts before falling asleep himself... when Freak Boy slept, you could almost think he was normal... ALMOST.

[Hatake Kakashi]

"Amazing, isn't it?" Kakashi has slipped silently up behind Fasica, managing to be silent even with his arms full of blankets and pillows. "To see a part of yourself in another person?" Kakashi shifts his load to one hand and reaches out to tickle their son's chin, reaching around Fascia to do so. "He's got your hair. Black, not blue, but it's still your hair. No one on my side of the family has anything but blonde or white hair."

[Carter O'Neil]

"Somebody help us! We're trapped down here!" Carter yells from the basement. He hopes that Peter, Lena, or someone else will hear the call and know to dig through the rubble for them.

[Fascia]

"It's the dark elf in me, half, remember?

Ah, he would have been lovely with golden hair. Yours has always seemed so pleasant to me, but he is perfect just the way he is.

How can two elves create such a thing? What is the mystery that can bring it into existence? He is from you and I, and yet he is his own... thinking and breathing and living. It's incredible."

Standing here with my son, with Kakashi standing behind me, so close that the blankets and pillows press into my back, it all seems so right. How could I have ever lived my life and thought it fulfilled without this?

[Alahmoot]

I begin clearing away some rubble.

"How many are down there!?" I call to Carter.

[Carter O'Neil]

"A half a dozen I would estimate...all of the Eternal Light people who came here for a meeting." Carter calls back to the voice.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Kakashi smiles. He looks at Fascia, then at Illidan. He is unable to resist the moment, and kisses Fascia on the cheek, then steps back and heads to the bedroom to put the blankets on the bed.