Ten Years Later

Chapter 2- Gymnastics and IQ

A child's giggles can be heard as a very fast young girl ran away from her father. Now normally the dad wouldn't be able to kept up with the girl but well her family was anything but ordinary. You see Dorothy Rogers' (who's the girl that's running) dad is Steve Rogers or formally know as Captain America but he doesn't do that anymore. And the super serum, yeah, turns out that if you have that and have a kid your kid will also have the super serum. There's another name for it a more official name but that does not matter.

"You can't catch me." Dorothy says in a sing-song voice than laughs.

"Oh really?" Steve replies gaining up on her. The only reason he hasn't yet is because she started earlier.

"Yup, causes up I go." Dorothy says stopping in front of the tree in their front yard and Steve is just a few feet away but she climbs fast, like a monkey. Steve stands at the base of the tree and shakes his head he isn't out of breath he has enough practice not to be.

"Dorothy come down from there."

"No, na no,no." Dorothy sings with a grin on her face.
"Okay but if you don't come down you don't get lunch or get to go to your gymnastics class."

"No, gymnastics?" Dorothy says in a quiet voice and biting her lip she weighs her options. Dorothy may have her kid moments but she's smart like a genius (if you want to blame anything blame the serum) so she knows that the threat isn't no food (they wouldn't do that) it's the no classes and Dorothy loves her gymnastics classes. Dorothy sighs and starts to climb down when her dad can catch her she jumps of with a laugh as her dad pretends to drop her.

"Come on in." Her mom shouts laughing also.

"Coming." Dorothy and her dad shout back together. They go inside and sit at the table after they pray they start to eat. There's sandwiches and mac-n-cheese, and plain water.

"So I got a call from your school Dorothy." Steve says, "Do you know what that's about."

Dorothy looks at her plate and moves the food around with her fork and shifts a little in her chair.

"I would take that as a yes." Rose says she had finished her sandwich and lays the fork down on the plate. "Would you like to tell us what that is about."

Dorothy mumbles a response.

"Now speak up." Steve says.

"We took an IQ test." Dorothy says.

"Oh sweetie." Rose says as she and Steve look at each other. Rose was slightly no really mad, you can't just make a child take a test without informing the parents that their child is taking it. "Did they tell you what you made?"

"No," Dorothy says shaking her head, "But I do know that they told Jamie and John."

"Oh the twins?" Steve asks.

"Yup, and John says if you treat it like golf he made to better score then Jamie said she did because this wasn't golf."

"Wait why didn't they tell you your score?" Rose asks.

"I don't know something about how Tony Stark is coming to present me an award because I am smart and some smart school and I don't know I really didn't listen."

"Tony Stark?" Steve says he had finally finished his meal and got the other plates because they all were done.

"Yes, but I not for sure why."

"Did they tell you when he'll come." Rose asks.

"Not that I heard."

"Okay go upstairs and get changed."

"Alright."

After Dorothy goes upstairs humming a song Rose turns to Steve with an arm on her hip.

"Why didn't they tell us that they made Dorothy take an IQ test?"

"Because Rose, they knew if they told us it never would of happened."

"Right, because I don't want Dorothy to be measured by what they say is her IQ!"

"I know and I don't either but we have more pressing challenges. Tony Stark is coming here, maybe."

"Well you grew a beard."

"Still, ugh we'll talk about this later. It's your day to take Dorothy. I'll reopen the bakery."

"Right love you hon."

"Love you too." They kiss for a while before they hear a yuck and look to see Dorothy in her outfit making a disgusted face. Steve smiles and rubs her hair to which Dorothy ducks away from.

"See you later." Steve tells them.

"Bye daddy." Dorothy says as she waves.

"Come on." Rose says leading Dorothy to one of the two cars.

After they drive the five minutes it takes to get there Dorothy races out of the car and into the gym ready to start. Rose shakes her head and follows her in. As she signs her in Dorothy is already in class. As Dorothy stretches Rose goes to talk to the other moms.

"So have you heard they made everyone take an IQ test." Mrs. Johnson (Jamie and John's mom) says.

"Yeah I was mad, I only found out today on Saturday." Rose says shaking her head.

"Really? I found out yesterday." Mr. Barnes says shaking his sandy blond hair.

"Yeah." As the parents talk about the test the kids tumbled, and did stuff that the parents can not do at all. Ouch.

"Mommy." Dorothy calls just before she jumps into Rose's arms. "Did you see what I did?"

"Yes I did and I must say you were the best out of all of them."

"Really?"

"Really."

Dorothy smiles a big smile as she then talks a lot about it and what had happened. When they got home Steve had been there for a bit so he started some pasta. As he listens to Dorothy talk about what happened that day he and Rose forget about the problem at hand and just listen to their daughter go on and on about the wonders of gymnastics. They can worry about the IQ test and the other problems later.