A/N: Sorry for the VERY late update. I will try to update at least weekly but no promises. Anyways, here is a new chapter TA-DAAA!
"Is the tracker in place?" a shadow voice asked.
"Yea boss. They are heading towards Xavier's place." Came the reply.
"Good."
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Father and son rode their bikes side by side without saying a word, but each knowing what the other was attempting to say.
"I know dad." Trent said suddenly.
Logan looked over at his oldest in relief that he understood that Logan was going to be there for him no matter what. By the time they got to the front gates of the mansion, the others were already inside and getting debriefed by the professor. They parked their bikes and just as Trent opened the garage door leading to the kitchen, Duenan burst through and tackled him in the chest. Trent caught her out of reflex and stumbled back into Logan a bit.
"Hey Squirt. We were right behind ya the whole time. No need for the banzai attack!" Trent said trying to the lighten the mood.
"Are you ok big bro? Like for real for real?" Duenan asked looking up from his chest. Logan noticed how Trent's shoulders sagged a little. He walked past them to give them some sort of sibling moment.
Trent watched as his father walked away from them and grabbed a beer from his 'hidden stash' before exiting the room. Trent looked down at his sister and kneeled down so that they were at eye level to each other.
"Yea, I'm ok for real for real. It's just I finally realized why she was after me before. I knew she was bad news. I mean she didn't even want me as a baby. But now that I know why she had us, it changes things." Trent said, resting his forehead against Duenan's.
"Hey Trent, why do you look different?" Duenan asked after getting a good look at her brother now that they were eye to eye. Trent could only chuckle at how quickly his sister changed the subject once she deemed it ok in her book.
"It's one of my abilities. Whenever I feel very scared or very sad I change how I look. How I look depends on how much of either I am. I was very scared and sad when she took you." He said, wrapping her up in a hug. When he stood up, Duenan gave him another look.
"What?"
"You are back to normal. Does that mean you're not scared and sad anymore?"
"Yes, that's exactly what it means. Now let's go find Dad and jump on him."
"Really? What if he gets mad? He got mad last time one of the other little kids fell on him! And that was an ACCIDENT! We are going to do it on purpose?"
Trent grinned at her and Duenan knew that whenever he grinned like that, trouble usually followed soon after. He motioned for her to follow him.
"Think of it as training. If you can sneak up on Dad with his amazing senses, then you'll be able to sneak up on anybody!"
Duenan thought about it and could find a logical excuse not to follow through with it. She nodded at him and listened as he explained how they were going to proceed with jumping on their father.
Logan grinned as he overheard his kids plan on ambushing him. 'I'll let them get away with it this time… They need to act as kids once in a while.' He then proceeded to sit in his favorite couch in the living room and turned on the T.V to the first sport channel he could find.
"Finally, he left." Trent said, grinning knowing his father was eavesdropping on them. Duenan looked at him with a matching grin of her own. This was starting to get fun. Slowly, her kid mind came out to play as her kidnapping trauma melted away.
"So what is the real plan big brother?"
"We are not going to do anything…. At least not right away. He is going to be expecting us now. Let him sit and wonder. Just act normally and I'll signal when the time comes."
Duenan raised an eyebrow at her brother in an attempt to look like her father. Trent only smiled and walked out of the kitchen and went upstairs to the room that he was assigned to use during his stay. 'I am going to pull a prank on him though. Just have to make sure that it can get past his frikken sense of smell.' With that he began to set his plan into motion.
