James took a deep breath as he finished to clean his lab, it was just when Clarion come down the stairs holding little Crystal.
"Hello 'bro!" She greeted cheerful.
"I not knew you was here." He commented distracted.
"I was, since the Arcade opened. Are you busy?"
"Not so much now. Why?"
"I need you to take care of Crys while I go to pick up a thing I forgot in Sugar Rush."
"Right. It will take so long?"
"No. I will be back before you can count from one to fifty or less." The girl put the youngest on the ground. "Just keep an eye on her. I will be fast, I promise."
James just rolled his eyes as his sister runned outta the house. Yesterday was one of her's work days. Since Crystal was two months, Clarion normally just shown up in Sugar Rush two random days every week. The little girl was now one year old, and Clarion keep babysitting her, since both her parents have jobs for do, just Tory normal was babysit by his own mother, since she haven't a job and he was still a newborn.
James thought was easy to take care of his little adoptive sister for some minutes 'till his twin sister come back, but as him distracted for a minute he looked around and she had disappeared. He found her at the kitchen. The little girl had somehow climbed on a chair, and worst, she had something in hand who don't looked a good thing for the boy. He grabbed the little bottle and threw it in an opened cabinet and so catched the little girl and take her back to the living room, but as he put her back on the ground she runned away.
At the time Clarion came back he was really tired to chase the little girl around the house.
"How you do this every day?" He asked as Clarion grabbed Crystal. "She don't stopped to run around and mess with everything!"
"She is just a little hyperactive." Clarion laughed, playing around with the little girl.
"A little? You mean a lot, no? She managed to mess up everything I put in order early, and in just five minutes."
"Oh your little brat, you give Genius Boy so much trouble?" Clarion laughed, throwing Crystal into the air and catching her again while the little girl was laughing. "C'mon Jay, she can't be so bad to handle."
James just rolled his eyes and sat back on the couch.
The Arcade was finally closed and Felix headed the twins workshop to pick up the kids. He wide smiled when he saw Clarion and Crystal sleeping on the blue cotton candy carpet. That little moments when Clarion seemed just a little innocent girl, she was so cute.
He entered the kitchen where he found James. The boy was sat down on a chair, playing patience. He stopped as he noticed he wasn't alone anymore.
"Clar!" The little boy called.
"She's still sleeping." Felix replied. "And how was your day?"
"Tiring. Clar asked me to take care of Crystal and... well, let me just say I prefer the races." He chuckled.
"You haven't Clar's abilities. Rarely is a good deal let a kid take care of another kid, but she can do it."
""She's a lot special. But a lot crazy too." The boy stood up and walked to a balcon. "What about a refresh?"
"It would be good. And would be good if you go to wake your sister up so we can go."
"Going for it right now." James smiled, placing a refresh cup on the table and running off.
Felix smiled seeing the boy and drank the content of the cup.
Clarion was still angry because James had wake her up. She was the first to enter the kitchen and the first thing she saw shocked her. Felix was laying on the floor but someway he seemed different. the little girl immediately ran to him.
"Daddy!" She called nervously. "Please, talk with me!"
Felix moaned and turned to face her.
"Who are you?" He slowly asked.
So she noticed what she had taken by wrong, there was a younger version of Felix, around his fifteen years. And he was unconscious again. Clarion shook her head nervous and took him to her old, almost abandoned, semi-destructed bedroom and went down to find her twin.
But James wasn't on the living room and while she was doing her way back to the kitchen the doorbell rang. Letting out an annoyed sigh the girl went to open the door, where was no one than her adoptive mother, Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun Fix-It.
"Hey. Hi mom!" She greeted, trying to apparent naturally.
"You're still here? Where is your father?"
"I dunno." Clarion shrugged. Lucky she was the best liar of the Arcade. She couldn't just tell her mother what happened, even because Clarion herself don't knew what just happened.
"Strange. He should had passed here by now."
"Yeah, I'm getting worried too." The girl lied once again.
"May I come in?"
"Of course. The 'do not disturb' signs are just to keep annoying people away."
Well, that wasn't a lie.
"And Crystal?"
"Sleeping there on the carpet where I let her."
"And James?"
"Try the kitchen, or his lab maybe." Clarion shrugged.
"So much trouble with Crys today?"
"Nope. I like this job. But James seems not having a good hand with kids."
"I imagined it. Well, I think we can try the kitchen. If your brother wasn't there, the fridge is."
Clarion giggled and followed Tamora into the kitchen. James wasn't there and the girl scanned the room for any sign that could blown up her lies, but there are nothing but a cup on the floor. Clarion quickly picked it up and put it back at the table, while the sergeant had just found a jar on the table and was serving herself a glass of juice.
Clarion kept scanning the room, searching for something suspect. In one of the open cabinets she found an open empty bottle.
"I really need to find James. I told him a lot of times to keep his strange things on his lab. Hope it wasn't a problem."
Clarion received no reply. She looked back and saw no sign of her mother. Worried she runned to the other side of the table where she saw the same scene for the second time.
"Not again." She muttered, doing her best to carry little Tamora back to the living room and put her on the couch.
Beginning to get angry, the redhead stormed on her brother's lab, just to find it empty. So she heard Crystal crying and walked back.
"Come here dear." She took the little girl in her arms. "Don't worry, I will take care of all this."
Clarion couldn't take care of her sister and the problem in hands right now, so she runned the first place she could think where she could let Crystal safe.
Tatiana don't made so much questions about why she let Crystal there or where were the girls' parents. Ralph by another hand insisted with Clarion for the truth 'till she made her way back to her workshop and locket him outside. That was going to be a long night...