A/N: gah! 'Escape from Aggregor' is brilliant! I loveeeee Aggregor! Best. Villain. Yet.

Time for a cute Gwevin fic when Kevin's upset about something. Something that could be a bit of a prediction for the end of the season or something. I clearly don't know yet…

Disclaimer: own diddly squat of this.

Osmosian

Kevin's eyes were dark as he drove Ben home. When the brunette Tennyson had jumped out of the car and raced indoors to catch the end of the Sumo Slammers marathon, Gwen and her boyfriend were left alone in the car.

It had been a long night. Dealing with the night's story of escaping Aggregor and Ben scanning in a new alien's DNA signature had left them too wiped to do anything except drive home. Not like the dark teen was going to do anything different and he didn't want to go into the issue of how broken up he felt inside…

The redhead looked over at the guy she loved she could feel the pain emanating from him. How he was having a terrible internal struggle that was eating away at him. Gwen let her mind whirl as she thought over the idea of how to take care of Kevin and his growing list of too many problems. She leaned over and let her head rest itself on his broad shoulders. Her delicate hand found his and their fingers intertwined. "What's wrong?" she asked, voice soft as velvet in the car's immense silence.

"He's…" Kevin's voice broke off as he jerked the wheel in the direction of Gwen's house. He still had a few more minutes to drive yet with her still in the passenger seat of his car.

She reached over and twirled a few strands of his ebony hair around her index finger, it feeling like silk against her warm skin. "Aggregor?" she asked, trying to clarify what he was talking about.

"He's just like me." The air in Kevin's chest suddenly felt sour and he wanted to pull over right there and stop so that he could take a breather instead of just sitting there and feeling so sick that he wanted to die. "An Osmosian. And he can actually take powers instead of just covering himself, but…"

Gwen knew he wasn't going to be manageable in this state. He looked like a mess and she knew he wasn't going to make it much longer. "Pull over."

Instead of arguing, Kevin let the green car with its black stripes drift to the curb and settle on the side of the road as other cars pulled around him. He pulled the seatbelt off, finding it feeling like his airways were just shut off when it was across his chest. One calloused hand ran through the strands of his jet-black hair. "Gwen, you don't know how hard it is to know who I am now. After all these years. And to know that I am the same thing as he is…"

"You're not him," the redhead assured her boyfriend, as she gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. "You're Kevin. You've changed."

A small smile was able to turn up the corners of his thin and pale lips. "I have," he agreed, "but not enough to be able to say I'm nothing like him." His head turned to look to Gwen, his eyes piercing hers with a nearly terrifying glow of threatening pain. "Once a monster always a monster."

She felt the car rumble beneath them as the engine roared to life with vicious snarls that became a purr as the wheels once again touched the black paved road. The white dashed line darted behind them, beneath the car as it ate the road. "You can't keep saying that," she said, still trying to soothe his nerves and calm him down before he did something stupid that he would regret. "You're not a monster."

"Not now, but that could always change." His gaze was now focused on the dark road ahead.

Gwen had to get his self-confidence up. But again, Kevin was never the kind of guy where you could just say something and he would be all smiles and all happy and cheery. "You're better than that-"

"I'm no better than he is. Don't try to tell me anything different."

The redhead suddenly found herself silent. Her mind was trying to find the easy stuff behind telling him how incredible he really was for turning himself around and being able to change more than most people could, but now she was stuck and confused. "Kevin, will you please listen to me?"

"Not if you're not going to listen to me." He kept his words simple and he stayed focused on the road as the speedometer's bright red needle dipped past a hundred miles an hour.

"There's an advantage to having him being Osmosian. There's a good chance that if we can find out something about you, it'll be the same as him. You're the same on the outside, but too different on the inside." She reached over and covered his hand with hers to show that she was going to be there for him. "If we can find a weakness of yours, we can find a weakness of his."

Suddenly, he turned to her, obsidian eyes livid with ferocity. "And what if I don't want you to find my weaknesses?" he countered with a snarl. "I want to take down this moron as much as you do, but I'm not going to be your freaking guinea pig for fighting him."

Despite of his sudden outburst, she wasn't scared of him. "Kevin, you won't be." She tried to give him her best encouraging smile. He didn't respond with anything but more intense focus on the street that loomed ahead. "Kev…" She took her hand from his and placed it on his broad shoulder instead. "You know it's not like that…"

"No, I don't know." His muscular frame was rigid with rage.

"It's not," she insisted, trying to calm him further. "I would never do anything to hurt you and you know that." She let her fingers trace along his jaw line. "If we can figure out a way to keep you from absorbing then we can stop him from taking the powers of other aliens and-"

His teeth clenched together tightly as he tried to stop the anger from boiling in the blood beneath his skin. "What if I want to absorb stuff?" His voice was a low growl. "What if I don't want to be useless? I'm already not your chauffer anymore and I'm kind of feeling useless so I'd really like to keep my powers, thank you very much."

Gwen pulled away from him, now mad that he was being sarcastic with her. "It would only be temporary-"

"And what if it's not, huh?" he suddenly shouted, the car's silence now shattered by his growing irritation. "What if you do find something, but it doesn't get reversed and I'm stuck normal forever, huh? Then what are you going to do? Leave me to rot in the garage while you two parade around in the car that I built for Ben while I sit there wondering when you guys are gonna come hang out with me again?" His heart was thundering in his chest. "There's no way I'm letting anyone try to fix my powers again."

Her green eyes understood at last. The time with Darkstar had left him a bit traumatized. She got it. "Kevin, it's us. We wouldn't dream of doing that to you. And Cooper would-"

"No." That was his final answer. He wasn't letting anyone screw him up again just for a personal game. His powers were the only thing he had anymore too enjoy. That and the car and the red haired beauty next to him. And even now he was having second thoughts about her.

The girl rested her head against the window. "You're dad made a sacrifice to save the world. Now you can too."

The rest of the ride was deathly silent.

A/N: I mite make this into a shorter-ish story thing because I think it's a pretty good idea. It'd give us some Kevin insight if they pursued this on the show… if you like it, please leave me a review so that I know. Thank you!

~Sky