Writing this yet again because of my last version still not being the way I wanted it! But I think that I finally have a good plot and good characters!


Chapter 1- Lucy's nightmare

Lucy's green eyes flashed open. She couldn't move an inch and couldn't speak as she felt something cold and sharp press against her throat. She directed her eyes upwards to see a dark figure looming above her, holding a knife in his hand. He had a strangely familiar menacing grin on his face. Was it El Macho? No, this guy's face was too thin. It could be Balthazar Bratt but surely she'd be able to see the outline of his mullet and facial hair?
Then it dawned on her. It wasn't a recent villain, it was one who had died years ago. He had chased Lucy and her friend Jake to the ends of the earth, trying to dispose of them. Lucy had mostly stopped thinking about it, but certain things would trigger bad memories of the things they endured.

The villain's name was Drisk.

"Hello Lucy, dear, did you miss me?" Drisk asked pressing the knife down on her neck harder. Lucy squirmed as hard as she could but the blade wouldn't budge, digging deeper into her flesh.

She looked up and couldn't see Drisk anywhere, despite the knives presence on her neck. She scanned for him in the darkness but couldn't see anything. She couldn't feel anything, except from the pain of the blade cutting her.

Everything began to get darker and blurier before her sight completely cut off. She came to the realization that she was dead.

Lucy's eyes opened in shock as she screamed in terror. She bolted forwards and sat there, panting like a dog.

"Lucy? What is it?!" Gru asked, his eyes wide open, sitting up beside her.

"D...Dr.." Lucy gasped, shaking.

"Calm down, it's alright, I'm here." Gru said, putting his arms around Lucy, feeling her racing heart.

"It was... Drisk...He...He..." She rasped before dissolving into tears.

Gru didn't know much about Lucy's story and what was so traumatic about it as Lucy hated talking about it. Certain things would trigger bad memories for Lucy, such as the feeling of being trapped or restrained.

Lucy and Gru lay in the bed, hugging tightly. Lucy's head was buried in Gru's chest as tears rolled down her face. She would occasionally choke out dry sobs that would make Gru hug her harder.


It seemed like decades to Gru, before the sun finally shone through the curtains. He didn't have a wink of sleep since Lucy's nightmare. He held her in his arms the whole night, looking at her tear stricken face. He couldn't take his mind off her nightmare, he needed to ask her what was wrong, as this wasn't the first time this had occurred. Gru realised Lucy from his arms, waking her up as she hit the mattress.

"Hmmm?" She mumbled, rubbing her eyes.

"Morning, honey." Gru whispered.

"Morning" Lucy sighed back "I'm sorry I woke you last night."

"Don't worry about it. What was that nightmare about anyway?" Gru asked, as Lucy stood up.

"I'd prefer not to say" Lucy muttered, walking towards the closet and taking out a pink dress.

Gru frowned in confusion as he took out his usual wear and put it on.

They didn't say another word to each other until they where outside the kitchen door, about to go in and make the girl's breakfast.

"I'm sorry, I'll talk about it later, I don't really want to talk about it in front of the girls." Lucy said.

"Ok" Gru said, giving her an understanding smile.

"Morning, Gru and Lucy!" The girls chorused as their adoptive parents came into the room.

The girls where sitting round the laid breakfast table, patiently waiting to be served pancakes. Dru was either on a heist with the minions or he was asleep, the couple assumed the latter.

"Morning gorls!" Gru exclaimed, making a start on breakfast.

"Morning!" Lucy beamed.

Lucy did her best to be cheerful at breakfast, despite the nightmare still parading around in her mind. She talked with the girls about school, friends, boys and teachers. She spoke to Gru a couple of times and kissed him on the cheek at least once, which made Edith grimace. But behind all the smiles, kisses, laughter and bouncy speaking, Lucy felt terrible.

"Excuse me a minute" Lucy said, getting up and heading out of the room.

She walked into the downstairs bathroom, locked the door and gripped onto the edge of the sink, knuckles white. She felt an uncontrollable trickle of tears roll down her face. She couldn't help sobbing, she couldn't stop thinking about her nightmare and wondering if it was a sign.

A sign for what, though? Drisk and his henchmen were dead, they couldn't harm her anymore. But she still had a pit in her stomach and her mind was racing like a speeding car.

"Mum?" Came the small voice of Edith from outside the door. Lucy's heart still melted if any of the girls called her mum.

"Yeah?" She answered, mopping the tears from her cheeks.

"Dad was asking if you want another coffee?"

"Um...Yeah sure, why not?. I'll be out in a sec." She said, splashing water on her face.

Lucy came out of the bathroom and sighed, before forcing herself into the kitchen.

"Yoo, ok?" Gru asked, as he bent down to put down a bowl of food for Lucky, the goat, who instantly gobbled it up, much to Agnes' delight.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Lucy shrugged, taking the coffee in the pink spotty mug on the worktop.

Gru noticed that Lucy's voice seemed flat and wavery.

"Are yoo absolutely sure?" He asked again.

"Yes!" Lucy snapped, causing her husband and her girls to look at her in shock. "Sorry." She muttered, putting her face in her hand.

The whole kitchen remained silent apart from Lucky and Kyle munching on their food and Gru and Lucy sipping their drinks.

"Come on gurls it's time to get ready for school!" Gru cheered, finally, breaking the silence.

The girls reluctantly got up and went upstairs to get dressed.

"Now, can yoo please tell me what's going on? You're really scaring me."

Lucy sighed, put her empty mug in the sink and sat at the table.

"Ok, so, last night I had a nightmare, that I was strapped to a metal table, unable to move, I tried to scream for help, you know, for you, for Dru, for the minions, for anybody, but I couldn't. I felt something sharp and cold press against my neck. I relized that it was a knife. I looked up and I saw that someone was holding it against me. I couldn't tell who it was at first, but then they came closer and I saw Drisk's face staring down at me."

Gru put his arm around Lucy, who looked at the floor.

"And then, he said "Did you miss me?" In that creepy way, pressing the knife harder so that I couldn't breathe. I then felt pain as it cut me, then everything went blurry and dark... then I woke up." Lucy continued "but the dream did remind me that I haven't actually told you about my past. The only thing I've every really said is how Drisk chased my friend, Jake and I around, trying to kill us. But I've never filled in the blanks. But now that we have been married for almost two years, I think I am ready to tell you."

"We'll talk about it after I've dropped the girls off at school yoo've got to tell me all about it." Gru replied.

"Ok. I will." Lucy breathed as Gru ran off to call for the girls.

She leaned back and stared at the ceiling, sighing. Had she made a mistake? Was it a mistake to tell Gru? How would he feel about everything she'd faced? Would she have to tell Dru and the girls eventually?

Lucky, the unigoat, nestled his head against Lucy's leg and chewed her shoe strap, noticing she was upset. Kyle came over too and curled up next to her. Lucy picked up Lucky and held him on her lap, laying a hand on Kyle's head. She had always been an animal lover, she used to really want a dog when she was younger, but her family didn't have the time to look after one, so she was thankful to now own two pets, despite their strange breeds.

"I'll be alright." She muttered, trying more to convince herself, than the pets.

"Morning, Lucy! How's my favourite sister-in-law this morning?!" A shrill, squeaky voice, rung around the kitchen, making Kyle, Lucky and Lucy jump out of their skin and fur.

Dru strolled into the kitchen in his pyjamas, his hair an absolute mess. He was beaming from ear to ear.

"Morning Dru, I could be better." Lucy muttered, worried that she sounded rude.

"Oh, what's wrong?" He asked, his smile fading.

"I'll explain later, I wanted to wait until the girl's where out of the house." Lucy replied, running her fingers through Lucky's fur.

Dru nodded and sat down next to Lucy, pulling out a comb from his pyjama pocket and combing his hair.

"We thought that you where on a heist?"

"Yeah, we where but we where stopped by the stupid AVL." Dru sulked.

Lucy couldn't help but force a small smile, knowing that she had contacted them to go after him, last night.


"Is mum ok?" Margo asked as Gru drove his tank towards Agnes' kindergarten.

"She's fine, vhat are yoo talking 'bout?"

"You know what I'm talking about." Margo said impatiently.

"She's just got a lot of AVL stuff on her shoulders right now, ok?" Gru lied, cringing. He felt awful lying to them, but he didn't want to worry the girls even more.

Margo sighed and stuck her earphones in as she stared out of the window. Edith was on her I pod, watching some YouTuber that Gru and Lucy had banned her from watching over and over again but she wouldn't listen. She had her pink, cat ear headphones on, so that Gru wouldn't hear. As for Agnes, she had her nose deep in a book about unicorns, that Lucy had given her for a Christmas present when her and Gru where still dating. She had read it plenty of times before but she loved it so much that she read it over and over. It was her second favourite book after One Big Unicorn.

Gru pulled up to Agnes' kindergarten and walked her to the gates, leaving Margo and Edith in his car. Margo had a sinking feeling about Lucy, worrying about what was really going on. She could tell that it was clearly not work stress, it was definitely something else, something worse.


When Gru finally got home, he found Dru sitting at the table in the kitchen, while Lucy was making drinks.

"Hey brother!" Dru shouted.

"Hello Dru, how was de heist?" Gru asked.

"It didn't go as I planned, the stupid AVL caught me and escorted me home." He pouted, looking like a bratty child.

Gru winked at Lucy, knowing that she probably had called the AVL to be on the look out, but she didn't wink back. She looked even more unhappy that she did before he took the girls to school.

"I'll help yoo with those and we can have a chat about yoor story." Gru said, taking the drinks and sitting down on the kitchen sofa.

"Vhat story, it's not bedtime yet!?" Dru asked.

"Lucy is going to tell us her life story, as she feels comfortable to discuss it with us." Gru explained.

"Ok." Lucy breathed "It all started in 1982, when my mum was heavily pregnant with me and my twin sister, Amy" She begun.

To be continued...

So, that was chapter one of this pretty long story I have planned! More should be on it's way as soon as possible! Reviews are always appreciated!