A/N: They can't all be only children, rite? Ik Gwen has Ken and stuff and Ben has no siblings, but Kevin? Here's my take on things.


"Get on in," Kevin said, opening the passenger side door.

"'Kay." Annie crawled up into the seat.

"We have to pick up Gwen and Ben before I drop you off, alright?"

"No."

He grinned. "Why not?"

"'Cause I said so."

"Why?"

"Because I don't like going to daycare. It's boring!"

"Seriously?"

"Yes."

"You are so much like me."

"We both got Mom's behavior. Stubborn and annoying and funny."

"You are not funny."

"But I am adorable."

Kevin didn't argue, but he smiled. So much like Annie to start off a perfectly good day with a good heated discussion over any stupid thing she could think of. He watched as she folded her arms across her chest and flipped her natural curls over one shoulder. Funny, he thought. Funny the way it is.

Minutes later, he was getting Gwen from her house.

"Gwen, backseat," Kevin said softly before Gwen opened the passenger side door.

"What?" Gwen asked, a bit shocked. Her green eyes widened. "Why? You know that I'm always passenger seat! It's like my spot! Who outranks me for my seat? It's mine."

The dark teen only chuckled. "And you say I argue." He opened his own door and slid into the driver's seat, a smirk still plastered on his face.

She didn't get the chance to look. She only sat where she was told. Then looked.

A girl about eight years old was sitting there. Her blonde hair fell around her freckled face in angelic curls. She smiled and stared out the front window. "Now can we go to school?" she asked quietly. Her voice was sweet and musical.

"Gotta pick up Ben first."

"But I'm already gunna be late," the girl whined. Not a happy camper.

"You're fine."

This is a heck of a change, Gwen thought. Her mind was reeling. A little girl took my seat? How does that happen? I'm his girlfriend! Not officially, but he's just waiting for the right moment and- WHO AM I KIDDING?! I'm outranked by an eight year old?! Still confused beyond belief, she stayed silent.

"Gwen, this is Annie. Annie, this is Gwen," Kevin said. He wasn't sure how his team would react. Hopefully, it wouldn't be a total disaster.

"Hi!" Annie said cheerfully, looking over her shoulder at the redhead. Fake smiles and joy.

"Hi…" Gwen said, still pissed about her seat being taken.

At that moment, Ben slid into the backseat and Gwen moved over to make room for him. "Woah. Since when did you sit here?" he asked. His gaze flicked to the passenger seat.

"Hi!" Annie repeated and gave a tiny wave to the newcomer.

Ben stared back for a second. "Hi…"

Kevin was laughing in his head. The cousins had the same reaction. He only smiled. "Ben, Annie, Annie, Ben," he introduced quickly.

"Now school?" the girl asked.

"Yeah, yeah." Kevin waved his hand dismissively. "You'll get there when you get there."

"You are really annoying."

"It's in my blood."

"It's in mine too, you know."

"Yup, but that doesn't mean I have to accept it."

He revved the car's engine and sped away, shaking his head with a pleased grin.

There was an immediate awkward silence.

Ben was the first to speak up. "Alright, this is killing me! Who's the twerp?" he asked after what felt like an hour of him fidgeting. So weird to have Gwen sitting next to him. There was no space for him to stretch or sleep or put his feet up without Kevin noticing or hide a smoothie that was forbidden in the car after the whole spilling incident…

"She's not a twerp," the driver defended quickly as the car swerved into a parking lot. "Come on, Annie."

The little girl opened the car door, pushing hard to get it open enough so she could squeeze through.

Kevin helped sweetly without a complaint. It was his job.

Once the door slammed shut, Ben was instantly talking. "Who is she? Why are you back here? How am I supposed to sit with you back here? This is so uncool! Since when did you get kicked to the back for a little girl? I thought Kevin liked you more than that!"

"He does," Gwen replied softly. "She's just probably… Okay, I have no idea and this is eating me alive. When is he gonna get back?" Her green gaze flickered to the building the two were heading towards. He was carrying Annie the rest of the way to the door. "But she means a lot to him. A whole lot."

"More than you?"

She couldn't stop the sigh that escaped her lips. "I hope not."

Kevin was holding the girl and he dropped her off like he did every weekend. "Be good."

"Like that'll happen," Annie retorted. She hugged him tightly.

"That's what I thought," Kevin snickered. He knew her so well, but it wouldn't hurt to tell her those same two words every weekend.

She skipped off inside.

He turned, ready to put on his bad boy image again for the Tennysons. Having double personalities can be hard work. Especially when they're two complete opposites. Kevin slammed the car door shut behind him. He laughed lightly when he saw that Gwen had already taken up her usual spot once again. "You really don't like sitting in the back, do you?"

"Not one bit." There was an icy tone in her voice, one that convinced him that she was angry. "Not enough space."

"Definitely not enough space," Ben agreed. He stuck his head between the front seats.

There was a silence.

And once again, Ben was the one to break it. "So who was she?"

Kevin was quiet for awhile, trying to think of the thousand ways they'd react when they found out the truth.

"And how come she got my seat?" asked Gwen, her voice fierce and thoroughly angry.

"She's my sister for crying out loud. Didn't know that'd bother you guys so much," Kevin said as he put the car into drive.

The cousins went into a bit of shock.

"How come you never told us you had a sister?" Gwen asked.

"Never came up."

"And you didn't want to just tell us?"

"Didn't think it was important."

"Why did you have to drop her off?"

"I watch her for a few hours every weekend. I never really get to see her any other time. And since we have a mission, I had to drop her off and she was pretty pissed about it. She likes spending time with me. It means she doesn't have rules, doesn't have to listen, and she can just chill for a while."

"And what do you do when you watch her?"

"We drive around pointlessly or I get her a smoothie and we sit around. No work, no cleaning, nothing to worry about."

That sounded like something Kevin would do, Gwen realized. He would never be smart enough to actually do something nice and educational. Smoothies and driving. Of course.

Ben took his turn to speak up. "Why doesn't she look anything like you? Usually siblings look at least a little like each other."

"I look exactly like my dad. She just looks like him."

The redhead understood this word more than Ben did. The step. "So she's only your half-sister?" Gwen asked nicely. There was no way to word something like that nicely.

"Yeah."

She could hear the light tension and grief in his voice. It was very hard to understand the pain he felt. The gentle pain that he would hide so deeply. Knowing that he had no full family. A step, a half-sister, and a mom that hardly cared much anymore. It had to hurt him.

"So what's the tech deal we get to bust up today?" he asked, pulling the car onto an abandoned road that looked like it hadn't been used in years.

"Forever Knights," answered Ben, forgetting the whole thing. He leapt out as the car skidded to a stop in front of a castle.

Gwen looked to Kevin and said, "You're really different sometimes."

"It's hard to always be the bad boy," he breathed, ready for a fight. He absorbed the roof of the car, getting prepared.

"I like the better side of you," she murmured and leaned over to place a soft kiss on his cold, metal cheek. "Now let's go fight some of those knights." She opened the door and left to find Ben. Gwen hoped that he hadn't destroyed anything and wasn't dead yet.

He had to think for a second and only nodded. His lungs felt like they were going too explode. Finally, a fight and a little bit more of Gwen. Exactly what he needed. Kevin got out of the car.


A/N: So that's Annie! just thought I'd introduce her. R&R! and btw, if you've read 'Life's Little Instruction Book', you'll remember the cookie thing. My sister just ate the last cookie……… I'm not happy about it.