Alright, it seems that in the last chapter I had forgotten to do a disclaimer so I'mma do here. I don't own Cars at all. Yep. Also, this might be a bit out of character. I don't know. I'm sorry. I tried.

Lightning knew that his dad was making his way towards him. He could feel his gaze on his back. A part of him wanted to stand up and walk away so that he didn't have to deal with this. He was having a good time, with people that actually seemed to care for him, and then suddenly his dad, dad, of all people, had to show up.

A part of Lightning wanted to stand and up walk away so he didn't have to deal with this, but the rest of his body didn't want to cooperate with him. It felt like he was out of his body and he couldn't control anything, so he had to just sit there and wait to see what happened next. He sat there and watched as his friends curiously looking at the mysterious man who had stopped in front of their table.

"Hey there kid," the man started with a fond, gentle smile, "you've grown a lot since I've last seen you."

And, as much as that stung Lightning, he couldn't help but feel a little lost. Hearing his dad's voice made him feel so lost and young again. It made him feel that the past 13 years hadn't happened and he was back in a place he once considered home where his family was whole again; where his mom wasn't dead and his dad hadn't left them.

That feeling lasted until Sally spoke up.

"Do you two know each other?"

And then, that perfect picture in Lightning's mind, where both his parents were still together and he was a perfectly happy, normal child, was shattered. Memories of his dad leaving them out of nowhere and his mom struggling everyday just to provide her child came back, and Lightning a slow anger began to build up within him. His dad however, answered the question as if he had done so a thousand times, fueling Lightning's anger even further.

"I'm his dad."

While Lightning gritted his teeth in anger, Sally and Mater took a few seconds to absorb this new information before firing questions at Axton nonstop.

"Were you the one who got Lightning into racing?

"Did you teach Lightning everything he knows about racing?"

"Were you even a racer?"

"If you were, did you ever raced against Doc Hudson? The Fabulous Hudson Hornet?"

"Is Lightning's name really Lightning?"

Axton was caught off guard with the questions and took a moment to think about them. But before he could even get a syllable out, Lightning exploded.

"I don't what you think you're doing here, but I want you outta this town. If you came here just to see me, then leave. If you think that you can just waltz back into my life after abandoning me for thirteen years, you are dead wrong. I hope you didn't expected me to be overwhelmed with happiness or anything by seeing you, cause you are the last thing I ever wanted to see in my life."

At this point, Lightning had gotten the attention of everyone around Flo's. His chair was knocked over. His eyes was filled with a type fire no one had ever seen before. His voice was raised loudly. And yet, his dad, on the other hand, was completely calm in his response.

"I didn't expect you to be happy to see me or anything, but I am hoping that you'll give me a chance to make it up to you."

"And how would you do that, huh? By apologizing for disappearing for 13 years and never giving me and mom a call to see how we were doing? By showing up and hoping that would make everything okay? That it would work itself out? Because that won't cut it."

His dad blinked. "I… I should have expected this…"

Lightning blinked too, and then, using his anger as a crutch, he . "Maybe you should've, because, I don't know too much about having kids or anything, but I'm pretty sure that when you abandon them, when you leave their lives without leaving a trace, never contacting them, will leave them with a lot of questions. So I don't know what you expect or want from, you're most likely not gonna get anytime soon."

Axton nodded solemnly and took in a deep breath. "I know. I deserved that. And I'm sorry."

His tone was so pitiful, so regretful. It sounded like he wished that he could've gone back and fix every mistake he had ever made. And Lightning couldn't handle it. How dare he come back, offering a small, lousy apology, and thinking that that would make things fine between them.

But in spite of that, despite how much he wanted to yell and scream at his dad, he knew how much of a scene he was making. He could feel everyone's eyes on him. His friends and tourists alike were all watching the argument unfold with so much anticipation. And as much as he didn't want to care about them, he did. Because they didn't need to know about this. They didn't need to know about his childhood. They didn't need to know about this man standing in front of him.

So with a split second decision, Lightning decided to go with the most reasonable, most sensible path.

He looked his dad right in the eye and hissed two words at him before storming off.

"Fuck you."

Ugh, I can't believe I wrote that.

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