With the oldest Silver boys done, now it's time for the stories of the last two.

When pacifist Michael Silver flat-out refused to enlist in the military, his father Grant disowned him and kicked him out.  Fortunately, through scholarships, financial aid, and part-time work, Michael was able to get through university.  While there, he roomed with a young man named Luther who had left his uncaring foster parents and was also at university on scholarship.  Together the two young men worked their ways through four years to their diplomas.  While at the university, Michael met a young woman named Natalie Rutherford, who was studying business administration and taking culinary classes--her dream was to own a chain of fine-dining restaurants across the country, if not around the world.

After graduation, Michael and Luther went their separate ways, but Michael also started dating Natalie.  Eventually he worked up the courage to follow Natalie home to Old Town and propose to her.  When she accepted, he moved in temporarily with her family.  The two moved out later when they had enough to put a downpayment on their own home.  Michael also changed his name from Silver to Smith.  Now he put his developing psychic abilities to good use and began working in the Paranormal field.  Natalie, in the meantime, began working on her own dream.  In short order, he had risen to become an Exorcist while she had not only attained her dream of owning a chain of restaurants but had also gone on to become a Celebrity Chef.

Around this time Luther reentered their lives.  He dropped into town on assignment for the newspaper he was working at--despite his science background, journalism had been the only field available--and the hours were taking their toll.  Michael invited Luther to move in and stay with them until he could get his life back into order.  Grateful for the opportunity, Luther quit his job and in a few weeks an opening at the nearby community college enabled him to reembrace his dreams of a laboratory job.  His old skills came back to him and he quickly rose to become a Theorist.

Michael, Natalie, and Luther often went out together on Natalie's rare nights off.  On one such occassion, Luther ran into--literally, since he was running to the restroom--a young woman named Lisa Farmer.  After apologizing profusely to her, he promptly asked her out.  She accepted, and in short order she became Mrs. Luther Smith, moving in to the Smith household.

Lisa had dreams of becoming a big Rock Star and with Luther's support (and Michael's financial backing) began pursuing a career in the music industry.  With a natural talent for performance, she quickly rose to become a Rock Star.  She even entertained dreams of going to Studio Town to be discovered, but being unable to control herself around celebrities, she gave it up.  Too soon she and Natalie realized that their late hours were taking tolls on their relationships with their husbands, and--both being a little tired of being out all night--decided to quit their evening jobs to look for something in the daylight hours.  Lisa, whose other interest was science, decided to work with her husband in the lab and through hard, diligent work became a Theorist herself.  Natalie, who had discovered she now possessed a sort of sixth sense--possibly due to her relationship with Michael--decided to study and develop it, and soon became an Exorcist like her husband.

With their relationships back on track, and intimacy soon following, it wasn't long before Natalie presented Michael with a son, Kevin.  Not long after Lisa presented Luther with a daughter, Gwendolyn.  The two children have been raised as brother and sister and, despite knowing the truth, regard each other as such.

It was shortly after Kevin and Gwendolyn began middle school that Michael's younger brother, Casper, resigned from the military for being in a relationship with a man and was subsequently disowned and kicked out by their father, Grant.  Michael invited Casper to move in.  He was a little reluctant to let Casper's boyfriend Ned Talbot also move in, but when he saw how much the two loved each other, he readily welcomed him into the family.

After a few weeks of doing nothing all day--to deal with the turmoil surrounding recent events--Casper and Ned decided the time had come to stop being freeloaders and start contributing to the household.  Using some of Lisa's old contacts, the two soon worked their way to the top of the music industry.  Now they are the Rock Star duo known as Casned.

Though Grant Silver initially moved his family into Old Town intending to revenge himself on his three sons who dared find happiness outside of the family legacy, he found he couldn't:  Warren was a Police Chief and was too well connected thanks to the Jacqueline Gold and the businesses she represented.  Casper, as a famous rock star, was too public a figure and beyond his reach.  And Michael...well, Michael scared him, despite his pacifist nature: Grant didn't understand paranormal powers, and what he didn't understand he either ignored or feared.  So all three disowned Silver sons were now beyond his reach.

After Grant left the Silver family, Gertrude made overtures to her outcast sons, and though they aren't necessarily friendly, they are at least reconciled now.  Neither Michael or Casper, however, have any intention of ever talking to their father again, however.

Hmm...maybe that's too much drama?  Nah!