Chapter 2:
Ana was sitting on the couch watching TV when Indiana stormed into the house. "What were you thinking, Ana? You know I hate it when people find out what I do!"
At that moment Ana turned off the TV, stared at Indiana and shouted back, "I thought you were a college professor! Why wouldn't you want people to know about that?! I'm more surprised that you don't care that I ran off!"
"Well yes, that makes me mad, but I hate it when that little detail about Indiana Jones gets let out. Do you know how much trouble I have gotten into with other countries? I was young, I didn't care! Now I do! That shows no responsibility for keeping other people's interest at heart!"
Ana desperately wanted to say: that explains why Mutt was born but knew if she did Indy would go over the top. She knew her limits and then her back-up limits. Instead she decided to be smart. "The fact that you can be blackmailed makes you think I'm not responsible! Really?! Wow! Why don't you do what the last five families have done with me? Send me to an orphanage or a foster home I won't care! It's happened so many times in my life one more time won't totally kill me!!" She left the room and almost ran into the kitchen. Indy was now starting to take this into effect and lightened up on the yelling aspect, but continued with stern parenting. "Because, that is what your mother wanted." That was really all he could think of.
"You mean Marion? Yeah right, she's not my mom. But at least she's closer than you. Closer than you could EVER be!" She really wanted to hit him with something but she knew even she couldn't take on the great Indiana Jones.
Indy was confused because this actually hurt him in a way he couldn't comprehend. "Well, she is your mother now. And I am your father, get used to it!" To Indy's relief, Marion walked in. "Hello you two, can you help me with dinner?"
Before either Ana or Indy giving her a straight answer Indiana's lid blew again and shouted, "Guess what YOUR DAUGHTER did at school today!" Marion thought she should have some fun with this, "What did she do? Break a globe?" That made Ana laugh and Marion looked at her to get her to stop because whatever it was Indy was furious.
"Oh no. She beat up two boys and shouted to the whole office I was Indiana Jones! I had to go pick her up because of the fight!"
"You only had to pick me up because it was the third fight this week, professor…" For some reason this made Indy think of Colonel Spalko from Akator but he couldn't figure out why. Marion had no idea how to respond and was afraid the two of them would go for each other's necks so in order to calm her husband down she assigned Ana to be grounded for a week. This made Indiana even madder because he felt as though she should be grounded indefinitely. But to Ana's luck, Mutt walked in.
"Did you let Ana quit school? Why can she quit? Just because she is adopted doesn't mean—"
"Your sister ran away from school, Mutt." Was all Indy was willing to say on the subject for the time being.
At that very moment, there was a knock on the door and Mutt said; "A car followed me home."
Marion and Indy went to answer the door where at that point Marion told him, "You need to relax. Ana is a sweet girl. You have to give her a chance."
"You are the one who wanted to adopt her. It isn't a puppy. I hope you realize that now. Ana is just… she… chalk one up to Marion on the whole 'I never won a fight' deal."
"Hang out with her without yelling at her, please. That's all I'm asking."
"I won't promise anything…there is something about her…"
"Hey! She's a teenage girl! She is a girl at heart, no matter what her exterior. You need to calm down and realize the two of you are very similar and there isn't anything you can do about it. You will learn to love each other."
"Yeah right." After his final statement, which sealed the end of the argument for the time being, Indy opened the door.
Cool! Who's at the door? I don't know, well yes I do but yeah… I'll leave you on a bit of a cliffhanger for the night. Comment please!
