Author's Note:

This is the first chapter revised and rewritten. I felt that I didn't exactly get the characters in the right character the first time. It's nothing too serious; it's mostly Dick and Carter that I worked on. Either way, I think it's better than the original version. Enjoy!

Oh, K, you've really blown it this time.

Carter's tires screeched as he took a sharp turn into their neighborhood. All he could really think about was getting Agent K home. After giving her body an x-ray, he knew she wasn't feeling too good in his backseat.

His transmission shifted just when she moaned into his blue leather upholstery.

He cursed as he pulled wildly into the driveway, his left side parallel to the garage.

"Carter…?" She hissed as she attempted to sit up. She knew she was injured, but she had to try to complete the mission. She couldn't fail.

"You can forget about the mission, Agent K. We've arrived back home," he muttered as he lifted her from the seat. "He got away."

"How could he get away?!" K screamed as a spasm of pain shot up through her leg.

"Karen Jane! Try to calm down! You're not doing any good for your leg. Please, try to cooperate with me for once. We're not going to succeed every time, dear." Carter laughed.

She is so persistent, even when her femur is broken.

Car sighed as she groaned in complaint. "But we never fail! The last time we lost a mission was back in… I can't even remember!"

"Yes, I know, but you are going to learn from your mistakes. Taking on twenty robots at the same time was a ridiculous idea. You had better not do that next time. It makes the Royal Spy Academy look bad."

K smirked, knowing that Carter was just concerned for her safety, not about the image of the Spy Academy.

He held her under her arms as she limped into the garage. The front of his bumper stayed close to her in case he had to catch her from the back.

"Now, let's try and see if we can get that leg straightened out. That bone needs to get back in place so it can heal right again. Honestly, I've lost track of the amount of times you've broken something in your body. You really should be more careful."

He laid her down onto his hood and gripped her leg before she could reply. Right when he was beginning to feel K dig her fingernails into his hood from the pain, the garage door swung open.

"K! What happened to you?" Dick asked her as he took in her face scrunched up in agony.

His eyes widened as he mistook Carter being the cause of K's suffering, obviously not getting how the spy car was trying to relieve her of her pain. "Hey! Car, what are you doing? Can't you see you're hurting her?"

Car growled in frustration at Dick's obliviousness to her injury. This was something that he didn't want to happen

"Dick, you halfwit! Leave us be. I'm helping her! I'm just trying to put her bone back in…"

"No way, I know pain when I see it." Dick jerked her into his chest from Carter's hands.

"Oh yeah? You want to know pain when you feel it, too? Just come a little closer and you will!" He clamped his literal iron fists together. His fury and hatred toward Dick completely distracted him from what was happening to Agent K.

They both heard her gasp and shortly after her eyes rolled back into her head. She had passed out.

"Dick! You're harming her more than helping her!" He held out his hands for her.

"Uh, no! Does she look 'in pain' to you? She's so relieved that she's sleeping!"

"Did that last stunt knock your brain clear out of your head? Or whatever brain you had before!"

Car's engine growled in disgust. "How on Earth can you be anything to her? If I were human I would have made sure she married me! You'll never love her as much as I do." He rolled forward slightly to make his point clearer.

"Well, apparently she didn't love you back all that much! 'Cause look who she married in the end!" he shouted, his actual anger being directed at the spy car for once.

Car's V-8 engine faltered as he rolled back away into the dark driveway.

Who said that words can't hurt more than sticks and stones? Was he going to let his tough outer shell fail due of a complete imbecile like Dick Daring? But one thing was for sure, he definitely hadn't expected a comeback like that from him.

Dick was right in every way, no matter how much Car hated to admit it.

He looked through Dick and saw a certain red headed teenager standing in the doorway with her mouth gaping open.

"Make sure Dick doesn't do anything stupid. Because he's all you guys have now." He reversed into the street and peeled out away from the house.

Riley ran past Dick and the unconscious Agent K into the yard just in time to see Car's taillights gleaming like hot coals at the end of the neighborhood. Her shoulders slumped as she heard his engine fading down the street.