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Ben stepped back and fell into a chair, trying to seem shocked at what had just come out of Kevin's mouth.


"Uh, no. She never told me anything about that." Ben stammered, not able to keep Kevin's gaze. His eyes darted back and forth between Kevin and the door.

"Yeah. Right. Spill it, Ben." Kevin demanded, walking too close to Ben for Ben's comfort. Kevin had a feeling Ben knew something about it by the way he was acting.

"I don't, I'm serious!" Ben said, his voice shaking some. He had definitely not prepared for this. Kevin grabbed Ben by the collar of his shirt, pulling him up from the chair and forcing him to stare him in the eyes.

"You tell me right now who raped Gwen, or you get a good pounding from me. Got it?" Kevin said menacingly. Ben stared at him with wide, trembling eyes. Kevin glared down at him and whispered in a deep, dark warning tone, "You tell me now, and I won't suspect it was you."

Ben's pupils grew large and he started shaking in Kevin's grip. Kevin's eyes narrowed before he reached back to punch him. "Tennyson, if it was you, you will wish that you never existed."

"Kevin Ethan Levin!" a female voice called from the doorway. Kevin immediately recognized the voice and threw Ben across the room. Ben looked over at Gwen who stood like a strong bamboo stalk in front of the doorframe.

"Gwen!" Kevin said, his face going as pale as a dove. He rushed over to her and wrapped his strong, built arms around her, pulling her close to him. "Baby, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have. I know, I know. You're really mad at me." he started saying in a fast-paced, nervous voice.

"Kevin..." Gwen said quietly, hugging him back tightly. "Kevin, it's okay. I knew you would do something like this, but I did nothing to stop you. I didn't even tell you not to."

"Gwen, I'm so-" Kevin started, but was cut off by Gwen's words. "Kevin! He's getting away!"

"What the-? What are you talking-. Oh my God, it was him, wasn't it?!" he says, his voice getting louder with each word. He turned around and pulled a steel marble out from his pocket, one that Gwen had given him long ago. He absorbed as much as he could into his arm and ran as quickly as possible in the room to the window, his fist clenched as he went to slam a punch into Ben's gut. Ben opened the window and escaped before Kevin could get to him.

"What the hell!" Kevin yelled at Gwen as he turned around to face her. "You could have easily got him with your mana, but you-" he cut himself off as soon as he saw Gwen on the floor. Her knees were up to her chin, and she had her arms tightly wrapped around her legs. Every bit of skin around Gwen's eyes was swollen as the two orbs swelled up with tears.

"K-Kevin..." she gasped after several quiet sobs. "I'm so sorry."

"Babe, what's wrong?" Kevin questioned as he walked over to her and wrapped his strong arms around her frail body. He was completely shocked when she tried to push him away.

"Kevin, no. I need some time." Gwen sighed, moving Kevin's now limp arms off of her and stood up slowly. Her long, ginger hair (and with just a tint of gold) swayed back and forth across her back as she walked quickly out of the apartment, her figure somewhat slumped.

"Dammit..." Kevin muttered to himself. "What did I do wrong, Gwen, just tell me already."


Gwen sat in the grassy patch in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. "Hurry up, Benjamin." she breathed.

"I'm here." said a man's voice from behind her as arms enveloped her.

"Ben! Thank goodness." Gwen sighed, relief yet nervousness apparent in her voice.

"What d' ya want? You knew I'd be here, so why'd you come for me?" Ben said in an almost interrogating voice.

"I... I just wanted to catch up, I guess. I mean we are cousins and I shouldn't be scared of you anymore and we really need to get along better and I hate not seeing you anymore and I miss having you by my side when fighting DNAliens and whatnot." she said in just one breath.

"You're such a bad liar, Gwen." Ben said with a strange tone in his voice. Gwen recognized that tone immediately.

"Ben-" she started, but was almost immediately cut off by Ben's hand smacking her across the face. He stood, towering above her. She looked back and stared up at him to see the expression in his eyes, no matter how badly she did not want to look. "But, B-" she was cut off again, but this time by his firm hands pushing her onto her back forcefully. "Stop!" she said, going to stand up, but his hands kept her firm on the ground.

"You aren't going anywhere, Gwen. You hear me?" he growled, staring down at her with a horrid expression of dominance in his eyes. She bit her lip and didn't answer him, not even a meek little sound. "I asked you if you heard me!" he yelled at her, smacking her across the face again, only this time much harder, leaving a red mark on her cheek.

"I-I understand." Gwen whimpered. Ben's sudden attitude change had startled Gwen into thinking she could get away from him.


Sorry this is so short – again. This will be a three chapter situation spread over, of course, three chapters. This one and the next one will be short, but after that, they'll get much better.

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