One hour later, Douglas was checking his e-mail on his phone when Chase started to wake up. Douglas quickly put away his phone and smiled at Chase: "Hey. How are you feeling?"
"Tired and a little sore overall", Chase answered "But not bad, actually."
"Good", Douglas answered with a smile "Donnie is fidling with your chip. He'll be done any minute."
Chase sat up straight as he answered his biological father: "Good."

An akward silence followed, wich Chase broke after a few seconds: "Thanks for what you said."
"You remember that?", Douglas asked surprised.
Chase nodded: "I don't really know why though. Maybe because it was a glitch instead of my commando app?"
"Maybe. Anyway, you're welcome", Douglas shrugged. After that, he quickly looked at the door to check if Donald wasn't standing there before turning back and whispering: "And I meant it".
Chase blushed a little, but smiled gratefully.

At that moment, mr. Davenport entered: "Hey guys. Everything alright in here?"
Douglas nodded: "Sure. What could possibly be wrong?"
"Oh, I don't know", Donald returned, sarcasm clear in his voice "Why wouldn't I like the idea of you being alone with the kids?".
Douglas sighed, trying to hide a small grin: "It was fifteen years ago, Don! Get over it!"
While the Davenport brothers were bickering, Chase was just looking at them and smiling, knowing they didn't plan on hurting each other anymore. They were careful with their words.
Well, most of the time.

Two weeks before, mr. Davenport and Douglas had started bickering and Donald had let his ego get the upper hand, resulting in Douglas leaving the house and mr. Davenport being out to look for him for four hours, since he wouldn't pick up his phone.
None of them had wanted to say what had happened during those hours, only that they had managed to solve their problems.

Chase was pulled out of his thoughts by Donald, directing his attention back to his son: "Anyway. Chase, I'm done with your chip. What do you think? Do you want it back immediately?"
Chase nodded immediately: "Yeah".
Douglas' eyes grew when he heard that: "Wow, that's sounds confident for a guy who almost killed his entire family only a couple of hours ago due to that chip!"
Donald glared at his younger brother, but Chase spoke up before he had a chance: "It's okay mister Davenport, he's right. But I do want it back. It's part of me and so is Spike. Plus, if I don't do it now, I might never dare again. I've just got to get back on the horse."

"Okay, then", Donald said, glad his son sounded confident "Let's do this".
Chase stood up from the bed, but immediately swayed a little and fell back down. "Wow", he said "Spike did more damage than I thought!"
Donald went to stand next to Chase and put Chase's arm over his shoulder: "Better?"
Chase nodded gratefully.
"Take all the time you need", Donald said, motioning for Douglas to get everything ready to give Chase his chip back.
After Douglas had left, Chase waited a few more seconds to regain his balance before nodding: "Okay, I'm ready"

While they slowly walked to the lab, Donald spoke up: "Once you've got your chip back, you'll feel a lot better."
Chase nodded, mainly focussing on staying upright.
Once they entered the lab, Chase stepped in his capsule while Douglas finished the calculations on the cyberdesk needed to give Chase's chip back.
Once he was finished, he looked at Chase: "Ready?"
Chase looked scared, but took a deep breath and nodded.
Douglas pushed the button and looked at Donald, both fearing that Spike would be back.

Once the light had died down, Chase stepped out and stretched his muscles.
"You were right, I feel much better", Chase smiled.
"That's great!", Donald smiled "Now, let's try your bionics. Lift that pen on my desk over there with your molecular kinesis"
Chase lifted the pen without any problem and moved it straight into Douglas' waiting hand, who was leaning against the cyberdesk.

"Great!", Donald said with a big smile "Now… Try your forcefield."
Once again, Chase did as he was told and put up his forcefield.
"Good!", Donald reacted "Now there's only one thing left that I would like to test."
Douglas frowned and turned to his older brother: "And what's that?"
Donald whispered something in Douglas' ear, which made Douglas grin in response: "Okay then… As you wish. But if this goes wrong, I'm blaming you!"

Douglas limped to Chase and looked him straight in the eye: "You are a short, lady-like excuse of a man and, even with your bionics, you'll never get a girlfriend."
Suddenly, Chase glared at Douglas with a look that could kill.
Douglas gulped: "Uhm… Don? How's your CPR?"
"Why?", Donald asked, just as scared as his brother.
"'Cause I think he's gonna try to kill me!", Douglas answered.

At that moment, Chase used his molecular kinesis to throw Douglas' crutches into the corner. Next, he used it to push Douglas up the wall without hurting him.
"Don?", Douglas asked.
"Yeah?", Donald answered, briefly taking his eyes of his youngest son to look at his brother against the wall.
"I'm blaming you!", Douglas yelled.
Donald rolled his eyes, but didn't reply. Instead, he focused on Chase: "Chase, stop!"
"Yeah!", Douglas chimed in "And why do you always have to charge me?! Why don't you take Donnie for a change?"
When he heard that, Chase turned around and pushed Donald up the wall as well.

Donald struggled, but quickly realised it was useless.
"Great, thanks Douggie!", Donald yelled, sarcasm dripping down his voice.
"I hate it when you call me Douggie!", Douglas yelled back.
"And I hate it when you call me Donnie!", Donald replied.

Suddenly Chase dropped them to the ground.
While Donald was still struggling to catch his breath, Chase walked up to him and stood still about 4 inches in front of him.
When Donald looked up, he yelled the first thing that came up in his mind.
"Not the face, not the face!", he screeched.
When Chase heard this, his blank face turned into an evil smirk.

Author's note: I'm sooooo grateful for everyone who is still reading this story, even though my updates are incredibly slow… At the moment, I'm studying for my exams so the next update could once again be very late.
Anyway, thanks for all the reviews and the messages! I appreciate every single one of them! :D