Authors Notes: I had so much fun making these chapters today. It was just so quiet and I would have been bored otherwise. Lots of love and I'll be back for New Years for Tipsy Angel

Jinxed Ice

Drabble 6

Love

Uncle Echo

Ty stood clinging to her fathers arm as they stood outside a huge wooden door. They were on the same island as Zane found his father again. Within the lighthouse was Zanes guarded secret. Mostly because Zane didn't want said secret to be found by anyone and hurt.

The door slowly opened and Ty could see a golden eye staring back at them. The door closed again and she could hear a whole bunch of locks being undone. Ty jumped when the door was flung open.

"Brother!" Echo yelled throwing his arms in the air. Ty gasped hiding behind Zane. Zane noticed that Ty became incredibly shy around new people.

Echo watched the new kid disappear behind his brother. It was something brand new, something he had never seen before. It was definitely lot like them at all.

"Ty...this is my younger brother Echo." Zane offered trying to get her to step out from behind him.

"Is she...a Nindroid like us?" Echo asked gently with an even voice. He didn't want to scare the young thing.

"No, she isn't one of us. She's a Solarin from another world."

"I read a book about them a few years ago." Echo said pointing to a book rack in the back of the room. Ty peaked out seeing the book shelf. She pulled her hair away from her golden eyes.

"She has my eyes!" Echo said loud. Ty gasped hiding again. "OOps..." Echo looked around at the books and smiled.

"Would you like to come see?" He said holding out his hand to Ty. Ty peaked slowly out and nodded her head taking Echos hand. He gently steered her toward the book shelf. She paused seeing Echo limping. Zane had noticed as well.

"I...I fell down the stairs again." He said and showed a few dents. Zane bawked at a huge one on his hip.

"Doesn't it hurt you?" Ty asked holding his arm up to look at the dents.

"Well of course I just...well I'm not human of course. I don't work like them. I can survive a tiny tumble." He said very proud. Ty took his hand forcefully and sat him down on a seat.

"Just because you can fall and survive doesn't mean you've got to do it and not complain. Its okay to tell us you're hurt." Echo looked at Zane and then back at Ty again.

"You sound just like brother." He crossed his arms and humphed.

Zane brought over some tools and they both got to work on Echo.

After a few minutes Zane finally pipped up and began to talk.

"Nya has informed me of a small discrepancy in your vocabulary Ty."

"She tell you I cursed or something?" Ty asked welding a wire back together.

"No...no nothing that bad just...worrisome. She says you do know know the word love." Zane said. Echos optics grew wide.

"You don't know...what love is?" Echo asked. Ty stopped and glared at Zane for a moment before going back to work.

"Whats so wrong with that?"

"Well in order to not know what love is, means you were never shown it to begin with." Echo said looking down at the young girl.

"Got to have family for that."

"But you do have family Ty...your mom and dad..."

"Dad was killed, so was my mom. I don't really remember them. All I know is my mom tried to kill me. I don't even know if I had siblings or not." Ty said throwing the welder down. She sat back in the chair.

"So go ahead and tell me what love is? Since your the expert on the term." Ty said glaring at Zane having felt like she was in trouble now.

"Love is a feeling, it can't really be explained only felt."

"Emotions brother...thats a new found experience for me as well." Echo said. Zane nodded showing why he was there in the first place.

"I see...so...nindroids don't have the ability to..."

"No!" Zane stopped her right there. "We have the capacity to love...we are Artificially Intelligent...therefore we can learn to have emotions. We just have to be taught. If it weren't for our fathers love...I wouldn't know what it was. I see what he's done, and I am doing the same for you Ty. I...love you."

"How do you know its the feeling then if you can't explain it?" Ty asked. Zane put his hand over his power source and smiled. "Because its there, and it makes my spark beat so strong. Its a great feeling, what else could it possibly be?" Zane said looking down at the young girl who tried to figure out her feelings for Zane.

"So...these butterflies I have in my stomach right now, the light hearten good feeling I'm having right now is love?"

"Very probably." Echo nodded his head. "As long as they're not really butterflies."

"So...I might actually have a crush on Lloyd."

Zane stood there his look of surprise not leaving his face.

"Zane?" Echo touched his brothers hand. "You okay brother?"

"Did...Did father leave any weapons behind?"