FREAKING PLOTHOLE WARNING!

so someone (more than one at this point) pointed out that Candace's mom couldn't have Phineas if she hadn't seen him in like . . . . 10 years when Phineas is 6, so (sorry I forgot your name. Im a horrible person) just pretend now that YES Candace did meet her dad but she doesnt remember cuz she was too young when she did and Linda met up with doof again they. . . .hooked up again. So doof doesn't know he has a son but he knows about Candace.

Chapter 2

six years later

Heinz Doofenshmirtz stood on the edge of the balcony, hands on the wall and leaning over it irritably. Where was Perry the Platypus? He should have been there by now! Honestly it was taking forever.

Doof looked solemnly over at his newest inator, sighing sadly to himself before walking over and placing a hand on it, shutting it down. It was no fun testing out a new inator if there was no one here to thwart him.

He suddenly placed his hands together in a cold sweat. Oh he hoped that his nemesis hadn't been demoted or promoted to a new villain. That's happened once, and Doof hated it. No one was allowed to take Perry the Platypus away from him! Was Perry maybe lost? No they'd be nemesis' for years now. He couldn't just forget where he lived. Maybe he was getting old. How long did platypus's live anyway?

He sighed again and rolled his eyes when Norm called out, "It's muffin time Sir!"

"No thanks Norm."

"But you have to eat a muffin!"

"I do not. Besides, I'm not hungry."

"But it's muffin time Sir!"

"Norm I'm not in the mood okay?" Doof shouted, slamming his fist down on the table as he glared at his invention.

Norm put on his sad face. "Why am I not loved?" he asked in his robotic voice.

Doof rolled his eyes at him in annoyance and continued to stare out at the balcony. He let out a long sigh and facepalmed himself, muttering something about 'not being on time' and 'stupid blue platypus'.

Norm, overhearing, called out, "Technically he's a turquoise platypus Sir!"

"Seriously Norm should I care?" Doof asked, annoyance dripping in his voice. "Just go away and leave me alone all right?"

Norm left without another word and Doof brought out a chair, sitting down in it on the balcony and staring out at the city before him, eagerly and impatiently awaiting for his nemesis to show up. What was keeping him?

~somewhere else in the city~

Perry struggled against his owners as they tried to force him to the long white table. Perry chattered at them angrily and tried to force their hands off of him. But they were too strong for him and they forced him down on the sterilized table, pressing nearly all of their body weight on the seemingly small and weak platypus. Perry looked up in fear as the vet prepared the needle. "Now, this is his rabies shot."

"It won't hurt him will it?" Phineas asked, the thought of poor Perry being hurt in any way making him flinch mentally at the thought.

"Oh don't worry it'll be just a slight pinch," the vet reassured him, before gently pricking the platypus's skin with the needle.

Perry nearly passed out when he felt the substance being pressed in to his body and in to his blood stream. He felt himself go limp and the vet gave him a gentle pat on his side. "There now Perry. It wasn't so bad now was it?"

Perry nearly glared at her but he didn't answer. It was strange to think that after years of battling Doof that something as small as needles would freak out out. But it did. It was a normal animal fear apparently. He couldn't shake it off.

Phineas held Perry in his arms and they carried him out in to the lobby, placing the clip on his leash so it was on better. "It's okay boy. We can go to the store now and get you a treat, okay? You were a good boy."

Perry rolled his eyes to himself and was passed on to Ferb, who held his platypus carefully in his arms, cradling him like a baby the way he held him.

His family carried him in to the store after driving there and Perry was placed in the cart too. He lay down on the webbed metal and watched the store go by with a bored and normal platypus expression on his face. His eyes flickered over to Doof at one point. This didn't cause him to blink twice. He had seen him at the store dozen of times before now. It was nothing big.

But for some reason, when Linda stopped the cart in the middle of the aisle as she turned to look at the shelves and shelves of food, Doofensmirtz had froze where he stood to stare in their direction.

Perry narrowed his eyes suspiciously. He would have understood if Doof had been staring at him because that little light of recognition would have gone off in Doof's head. Actually Doof was able to recognize Perry in disguise on the spot since their last big adventure with the fire.

So, why was Doof staring at Linda?

Doof's eyes flickered over Linda, and then Candace, Ferb and Phineas with her. He stared at Perry with wide eyes finally, questions in his eyes. He obviously recognized his nemesis, and wanted to ask him something, something that was extremely urgent, but Doof wouldn't let out Perry's secret like that. In Doof's mind, that was playing dirty, and also he could only imagine the trauma that Perry would go through if his family found out everything about him.

So Doof turned a blind eye and left the store at a hurried pace.

Hours later Perry crashed in to Doof's lair, landing in a perfect fighting pose, but wobbling slightly from the shot he had gotten earlier. Doof turned to face him, his eyes annoyed rather than pleased to see him. "Ah Perry the Platypus finally decided to show up have you?" Doof sighed. "Just relax I don't have a plan right now to take over the Tri-State Area or anything."

Perry relaxed and stared up at Doof. Now that he got a good look at him, he looked, nervous. Scared. He held his hands in front of him, moving the fingers and twining them with his eyes wide. "Perry, can I, ask you a favor?"

This made Perry pause. He looked up at Doof with one eyebrow raised before shrugging his shoulders. Doof kept twining his fingers this way and that, eyes shifty and frightened. "So you know earlier today when I saw you at the store with your owners?"

Perry nodded, suspicion growing in him. He tensed up his muscles gently. After the fire when Perry was in the hospital with Phineas and Ferb recovering, Doof had come and promised that he would never use his knowledge of who Perry's owners were to use as an advantage during their battles.

Doof swallowed and Perry was starting to get annoyed with Doof. Why doesn't he just hurry it up so they can get this over with?

"Perry," he asked, not adding the extra title at the end of Perry's name. "do you, by any chance, have a picture, of your family?"

The blue platypus stiffened for a moment, eyeing his nemesis quietly, not saying anything until he finally decided to trust him. He reached in to his fur like a coat and pulled out a small wallet. He fished through it for a moment and pulled out a picture of his entire family, including himself. He held it in his paw for a moment, glancing up to Doof, who held up his hands, palms up, a sign of innocence. "I promise I will do nothing evil to it or do anything evil with it. I swear on my life." Doof placed a hand over his heart.

Wordlessly Perry handed it over and Doof took it from him silently, his eyes deadly serious. Perry kept that wallet with the picture with him at all times, in case he went on a mission far away from home if he had to be gone for a while. That way they would always be with him. And in the case that he ever died, he wanted them to be the last thing he saw before he passed on.

Doof looked over the picture and Perry watched his reaction. Sadness. Regret. Shock. Confusion. All of them negative. "Is this her husband?" Doof asked, placing a finger where Linda's face was, close to Lawrence's.

Perry nodded.

"Are these all her children?" he asked, his voice a hoarse whisper.

Perry shook his head and came up. He pulled Doof's arm down so he crouched down next to Perry. Perry pointed to Lawrence, then to Ferb.

"So that boy is the man's son?"

Perry nodded, pointed at Linda, then at Candace and Phineas. He glanced to Doof as he choked out, "And, these two? They are, hers?"

Again Perry nodded.

"And they are not her husband's children?"

Perry shook his head. Why was Doof so interested in his family all of a sudden? Was he giving away too much information?

He looked up with wide eyes when he saw Doof's lower lip begin to tremble. His hand flew up in front of his mouth and he took a step back. Tears watered in his eyes and almost mechanically, he began to shake his head back and forth. "I, I'm a horrible person. I knew that she would have one, but, a-another. I- I don't know what. . . a son."

Doof's legs buckled beneath him. Loosing all feeling they crumpled to the ground. Perry rushed over to him and placed a hand on his nemesis' shoulder gently, watching him and waiting for him to say what was going on, because Perry didn't understand anything that was. But Doof just sat there, slowly shaking his head back and forth with a pained expression on his face. "Perry," he whispered. "I-I don't deserve to live. How-How could I have . . . ?"

Doof's eyes spied the remote to a destroy-inator and they held there for a moment. Perry followed his gaze, his mind putting all of this together slowly. He didn't quite understand but he did understand one thing in that moment, and that was that Doof might want to kill himself.

Perry formed this conclusion faster than Doof did and he launched himself at the remote, smashing it with his beaver tail before Doof could reach it. Doof lay on the floor, clutching the picture in his hand. His other arm went over his face and he began to sob. "Curse you Perry the Platypus!" he sobbed in to his arm, his voice muffled slightly.

Perry froze, unsure of how to react in this sort of situation. He stood there for a few moments before walking over and again placing his small hand on Doof's shoulder. Doof's free fist clenched tightly as if wanting to squeeze the life out of them. Perry chattered at him gently and gave his shoulder a few gentle pats before the doctor looked up with watery eyes. They both stared at each other for what seemed like eternity before Doof sat up best he could and thumped his hand on the patch of floor next to him, gesturing for Perry to sit. "Come Perry the Platypus." His voice was still choked from tears and his face was a bright red, his usually bright teal eyes now a bloodshot pink.

The platypus looked at him for a moment before coming over and sitting next to Doof. Doof wiped his nose with his sleeve and Perry wordlessly handed him a tissue. Doof took it with a quiet 'Thank you Perry the Platypus' before starting.

"Perry," he said quietly, gently touching his fingers where the faces of Candace and Phineas were, "these two, they're my son and daughter."

lolz never saw that coming did ya? Lol jk X)