"We have to go to the school." Myka announces after hanging up the phone. "Apparently there was a fight and Sophie was involved."
"That's because you're kids a hellion." Artie grumbles with a fond smile. Sophia was very much like her 'mum/mummy' Helena, a true spit-fire, so she was always up to something. Unfortunately it seemed as she was gifted with the smarts from both of her parents, she was just too smart for own good. But with a little bit of training Artie had made Sophie somewhat of his 'assistant', it kept her busy and he had someone to eat cookies with other than Pete.
"I beg your pardon, she is no such thing." Helena gasps as she smirks, knowing that her child is if anything a replica of her from her youth.
Claudia and Leena come into the room with their keys and a frown, "The principal called to say that Claire was in a fight and that we had to come pick her up." Claudia says with confusion lacing her words.
"Claire?" Everyone in the room asks at the same time. If Sophie was a hellion, then Claire was an angel. She was as sweet as her 'momma' Leena. Like Sophie she was too smart for her own good, but she had a hard time connecting with people and making friends. Except with Sophie, those two were as thick as thieves. They did everything together, Sophie thought of it as her job to watch over Claire like a hawk. The adults of the house liked to think that Claire helped balance out Sophie when she became a little hectic like Helena sometimes.
"We got the same call—I hope everything is alright. Let's go in the same car." Myka says as she reaches for her keys. Helena, Leena, and Claudia follow her out the house and into the car.
"I wonder what they did." Claudia questions from the backseat. "It can't be that bad they're only in fourth grade."
"Let's just hope for the best." Myka mumbles as she turns into the school parking lot.
"I'm sorry to bring you all here today, but this incident could not be over looked." A small balding man says from behind a desk. He continued to look at the gaggle of parents in the room with a small frown gracing his face.
"Bring in the children." The man calls to his assistant outside. A young woman ushers three children into the room, Claire, Sophie, and three boys. The boys had obvious bruises, scratches, and bite marks on them; and the girls weren't fairing any better.
As soon as the Claire notices her mom's she run's/limps over to the them, "Momma!" Leena scoops up her daughter and hugs her, while Claudia looks her over. Sophie just looks at her parents with a similar smirk to what Helena was sporting earlier as she walks over to them.
"Hey Mum, what are you doing here?" Sophie asks as she looks at her Mum with a twinkle in her eye.
"I don't know why, how about you tell us." Helena replies with a matching twinkle and chuckle.
"Yes, we would like to know our sons have all these bruises." One of the boy's mothers says with a huff.
"We don't know how this actually happened; this is how the teacher found them." The principal admits, "And none of them have said a word since we brought them inside."
"Well I'll tell you how it happened." Sophie declares as she walked into the middle of the room. "And maybe Claire can too." Sophie looks at her friend who still had her head in the crook of Leena's neck. "Or not."
"It was recess and we were by the swing set. Claire was working on finishing her puzzles and I was taking a break from trials with the swings. Jon walks over and starts being a jerk to Claire."
(flashback)
"What are you doing, weirdo?" Jon asks as he comes over towards them. Claire looks at him with a faraway look and then goes back to her puzzles. "I'm talking to you!"
"She's being smart, unlike you. So leave her alone." Sophie replies as she writes something down in her notebook.
"You guys are weird. You never do nothing fun." Another boy says.
"We never do anything fun." Sophie corrects him with a huff.
"That what he said dummy! You guys are freaks. Just like your parents." Jon declares as he snatches Claire's puzzle book and throws it into the mud.
"But I wasn't done yet." Claire mutters as she looks down at her book with tears in her eyes.
"That was mean and…and, uncalled for! Yeah! Uncalled for. Now pick it up Yankees!" Sophie shouts.
"No, I'm not helping a freaky retarded girl out." The third boy yells as he points at Claire whose eyes were wide and were leaking tears.
"She is everything but retarded. Now apologize." Sophie movies towards Claire but the boys block her path.
"Shut up Hermione! She never does nothing 'cept puzzles and talk to you." All the boys laugh.
"Great joke" Sophie scoffs.
"I bet it's because she has two mom's instead of a normal family." One of them remarks.
"Normal is boring." Claire whispers.
"Say something freak?" Jon taunts Claire, and steps closer to her, all of the boys did.
"She's not a freak!" Sophie, starting to lose her cool, began to step closer to the boys.
"You're all freaks, you're whole family! You're all freaks and weirdoes." He lightly pushes Claire back down after noticing she was trying to get away from them.
"My mum says it's not fair to attack an opponent from behind, so I need you to face me please." Sophie asks politely. They all turn around, too stupid to understand what she meant.
Quickly Sophie had launched herself at the Jon. The other two boys were too shocked to do anything at first, but after their friend called for help they jumped in to the scuffle. Until that point Sophie was doing alright, but three against on was anything but fair, and the odds were quickly turning against her favor. So she did the one thing she knew best, played dirty; biting was now in the mix of punching and kicking.
Claire, not wanting to see her best friend hurt, tried to figure out what to do. Does she get a teacher? Or jump into the fight too? Claire was weary of the latter do to her being so little, she was the smallest of the class. But if Sophie was willing to get into a fight for her then she would get into the fight too.
The small girl jumps on top of one of the boys who was about to punch Sophie, and blinds his eye, while trying to remember a little bit of what she had heard her Uncle Pete say about fighting. Before she can think of anything the boy was able to shake her off into the mud and tackle her. The sudden fall caused her to gasp loudly as she tried to push the boy off, gaining Sophie's attention from trying to bite and kick the other two boys. As Sophie tried to reach her Claire got a spark in her eye, she grabbed the boys head and head butted the boy with a thud. Sophie pushed the boy to the ground and was ready to punch him in the mouth when she heard the sound of people running their way.
"It looks like you will be saved for today, but if you ever touch Claire again I will do something horrible to you. I don't know what yet, but something very creative." Sophie whispers into Jon's ear before releasing him.
(End Flashback)
"That's when the teachers found us." Sophie finishes the story and looks across the room looking for her mum's approval. She finds it along with the rest of her families, they were all proud of her.
"Not hearing any objections from any of the other students we will believe Ms. Bering-Wells. I think punishment enough was the fight, I'm sure it will not happen again. You may take your students home for the day." The principal announces as he stands up. There was some grumbling about a more severe punishment from the boy's parents, but they were silenced with one look from Leena 'Ultimate Momma Cub.'
Not wanting to be there any longer Helena leads the small family quickly out the door while Myka held her daughters hand and Leena carried Claire. After placing the children in the middle seats Claudia and Leena moved into the back seats. It had been decided that they would go home get cleaned up and then take everyone out to dinner. Of course after they all had their separate talks.
"You were great out there Claire, you were like a superhero!" Sophie yaps away with her voice full of enthusiasm as they got in the car.
"No I wasn't, I was the sidekick." Claire whispers looking down at her hands.
"Uh-uh, you were awesome, just like me. How you jumped on Jon's back and then head butted him was so intense! You were so Poison Ivy, and I was obviously Harley Quinn!" Sophie tells her friend as she grabs her hand.
"I thought they were villains?" Claudia asks with a smile as she looked back at her 'niece'.
"Well, yeah. But they're cool, so it's worth it. And really super-duper pretty, Uncle Pete let me some of his comics." All the adults look at Sophie as they noticed the dreamy air in her voice.
"They weren't that pretty." Claire corrects with a small frown and a huff.
"Not as pretty as you darling, never." Another thing Sophie had gained from Helena was her charm. Said adult was smirking at Claudia and mouthing 'darling'. Myka only shook her head as she listened to her daughter's antics; chuckling as she remembered how many times Helena had gotten out of things by saying that word. Leena was the only one actually looking at them, it was then that she noticed a change in their aura; but she would worry about that later. Much later hopefully.
There will be more to this story, it isn't complete. The talks and dinner are coming up next. I'm also planning on writing 2 prequels involving Claudia/ Leena and Helena/Myka on they got together . I hope you enjoyed, and please review!