A/N: might as well start up another Gwevin-y one… you guys always want more Gwevin, dontcha?
Disclaimer: I do not own the original version and I do not own the characters. But thank you so very much to Man Of Action for owning them and letting us use them on FanFiction
Real Version:
Episode: 'What Little Girls Are Made Of'
Scene: The rooftop after Gwen storms away from her parents and Verdona. Kevin and Ben go after her. We all know what happens next, right? I'm hoping we all do.
My Version:
Episode: 'What These Emotions Are Made Of'
Scene: Clearly this couldn't've happened, but what if only Kevin had gone after her? (of course, Ben's input was needed for this episode, but for FanFiction purposes, I don't need it)
"This is your choice, Gwen," said her father, eyes compassionate behind the thin rimmed glasses he wore. "We can't tell you what to do. None of us are Anodite like you and your Grandma Verdona."
Her emerald eyes stared at the people around her. People she loved. People she cared about. Gwen looked at Kevin for mere seconds and she thought she saw fear flash behind his obsidian eyes. A different kind of fear than she ever thought she would see from him.
And her cousin. Ben's face was so sad as he stared down at the cookies and tea on his lap. He wouldn't even look at her. Because what if she did leave?
Clearly her parents didn't care. Her mother was glaring at Verdona and her father was watching her with those eyes that she had seen a thousand times before. He was being kind to her as always. Never forcing, but never suggesting either. He was impossible to deal with when she could never get a straight answer from him.
Without a reply, Gwen just put a hand up to her temple and ran for the stairs, going to her bedroom to escape out the window. The roof was her hideaway from the real world. It was her own space.
The stairs were taken two at a time as she disappeared to the second level.
Hell, he wasn't about to watch her disappear without his opinion on the subject. Kevin bolted up the stairs after her a few seconds later after saying, "Lemme talk to her." The words were a lost jumbled mess as he hustled up the stairs after his redheaded beauty.
Ben just sat there, engulfed in his cookie eating even though the green tea (or whatever it was) sucked.
Gwen was perched on the shingles, heels holding her from sliding down the rooftop and down two stories to the cold grass below. She tucked her knees to her chest and curled herself together into a tight ball.
A teen dressed in all black dropped beside her, silent as ever. Kevin looked up at the stars, watching them twinkle and sparkle and shine in the darkness of the night's sky. "What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking I'm scared." Gwen watched the sky with him. It was easier than meeting his harsh obsidian gaze. She didn't want to look at him yet. She wasn't sure if she could take it.
"Why?" Kevin kept his voice light.
Her emerald eyes followed the stars of the Little Dipper. "I don't want to make the wrong decision. I don't want to lose what I've got here for something there that I may not like."
Leaning back, Kevin put his hands behind his head and stretched out across the roof. He let his muscles relax, for once able to calm down and think things through. Did he want her to leave?
"I could stay here and be with you and Ben and save the planet, but I could get stronger and come back in- what did she say again?" Gwen looked over to Kevin, sprawled across her roof like it was the couch in his garage.
"Seventy five years."
Her heart froze and threatened to stop. Gwen felt her face assume a shocked expression. She would be gone for seventy five years? That was… a really… really long time… She took in a deep breath of the cold night air. "I don't know if I want to leave for seventy five years."
Kevin seemed to pause before asking, "Why not? You'd be stronger. You'd be able to do anything, Gwen."
"Why would I want to do anything if I couldn't have what I wanted right here?" She leaned back, stretching out a bit, her legs still bent in the same position as she held her torso up with her hands pressed against the shingles of the roof behind her. "I mean, I can hang out with you and Ben and I can just relax instead of constant training and I've got karate and so many other things that I would miss too much."
He was a bit disappointed that he and Ben had been mentioned at the same time, but Kevin got over it easily. "So do you want to stay?"
"I want to stay."
"Then why is this a problem?" asked Kevin. He eyed her carefully as her jade gaze met his. "Why do you keep asking yourself why you want to go?"
"I want to learn." She looked away from him immediately when she felt him being a bit harsh with his words. "It's a natural instinct for me to learn something new and to enhance my powers and to find something new to work towards."
"Saving Earth isn't important enough?" retorted the dark teen, taking his gaze off of her.
She sighed. "Kevin, it's not that-"
"Then what is it?"
"It's that I don't know where some of this stuff could go." She looked at him. "The right way, the wrong way, somewhere in between. It's regret or enjoy and I don't want to be regretting not leaving. My powers could save the world or they could leave the world destroyed. It all depends on if I leave or not." Gwen didn't want to take the subject where she really hoped it would go. She'd leave it mutual for now. "And I think I'm needed here."
"So stay." He was watching the stars again, a quiet fury blazing behind the darkest pits of his obsidian orbs.
Gwen felt herself growing angry with him and his simple words. This wasn't simple. "I want to learn."
"You don't have to."
"And why do I have to stay here?"
"Because maybe someone here needs you."
Gwen was silent. She watched the sky's twinkling stars and the shine of the brilliant white moon.
"Maybe someone here needs you more than you think, Gwen." Kevin's voice was hardly more that a whisper, but she knew she heard him say it.
She stared up at the moon. It was so far away, but yet so close. Maybe what she'd been all along was right there in front of her. "Someone here does need me," she agreed, thinking over his words. "More than I know."
His smile was wide and his dark eyes shut slowly as he took a few seconds to just let himself breathe.
"Thanks for talking some sense into me, Kevin." Gwen moved so that she was looking down at him in his peace. "I really appreciate it."
He gave her a silent nod. "Just keep in mind that I don't want you to leave either, Gwen."
"You're much more helpful than Ben."
"Ben got absorbed by his cookies."
"His brain probably got eaten by those cookies."
Kevin laughed, unable to contain himself in the stress of the moments before. He couldn't believe that the anxiety from only moments ago had already been washed away without even trying. "Poor cookies. They'll probably regret it in a few hours."
Gwen giggled. "Come on," she sighed quietly, rising a little bit so that she could get back to her window. "We should probably get back downstairs before my parents get worried."
Agreeing, Kevin pulled his hands from behind his head and moved across the roof towards Gwen's bedroom window.
"Hey, Kevin?"
He turned to look at her only to find a soft and gentle kiss being placed on his cheek as she darted off and through the window. Her beautiful and lithe frame disappeared inside the dark room.
And he was glad he had gone after her in the first place. He needed her more than she knew.
A/N: I'm considering doing other scenes from this episode. It was very Gwevin-y and not to mention had a lot of funny stuffz in it!
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