AN:// About time. Enjoy

Past Revelations

"You're a jerk. I hope you know that."

Joey smirked as Kevin continued to complain about the ach in his backside. They were still watching football, even though Joey thought he should be grounded from it. "Yeah, and you're a brat. Now shut your mouth and watch the game."

Kevin grumbled something completely incoherent before looking up to see his father's face. "Hard to watch with a sore behind."

"Maybe I should have just sent you off to bed then-" Joey raised an eyebrow questioning him.

"No. I'm fine right here. Besides I can't wait to watch you team lose." Kevin turned to grin at his father when instead he found a face full of popcorn coming his way. "Hey! Watch it! You could poke an eyeball out with one of those things!"

Joey half heartedly laughed before answering "I doubt a flimsy piece of popcorn would do you much harm."

"I wouldn't be so sure. I might think about working out if I was you." Again Kevin grinned smugly at his toned father, sure he was muscular and strong but a little grief from your kid never hurt.

"I'll think about working out on your ass." Kevin grimaced at that.

Okay so maybe it did.

"You've never looked better." With that Kevin's team scored another goal. A huge grin plastared across his smug face.


It was a little over half time and the game had wore down, Kevin's team kicking his Joey's. The game was already set but they still watched because hell, it was football.

It was a bonding experience that they both eagerly needed.

Kevin couldn't keep his mind on the game any longer.

After all these years, is father had been searching for him too.

"Joey. Can we talk?" Kevin thoughts were skipping over and over replaying everything in his mind… trying to calculate out his life, and that of his fathers.

Joey picked up on Kevin's uneasiness and clicked off the television, which really didn't bother him in the least. "I thought you wanted to watch the game?"

"I did." Kevin looked over towards he father. "I just, there is a lot on my mind."

Joey suspected that this would eventually happen. The exsplaining of everything that had ever taken place in both of their lives, Kevin had a right to know. "Alright, what is it your thinking about that you can't even concentrate on the game?"

It took a moment to collect his thoughts but something was plaguing him in the back of his mind. "The story you told me the other night. You said everything was completely true, right?"

"Yes, Kevin what is this about?" Joey knew damn well where this was going. He should have sent Kevin to bed.

"What happened to your parents?" Kevin wanted to know if he had any more family. He wanted to know that there was still more people out there… that it could be possible his-

"They died Kevin. It's just me." Joey could feel the disappointment radiating off his son. "I'm sorry. I really wish there was more to us, but there isn't."

Kevin knew that he had hurt Joey's feelings a little. Suggesting that he wanted more than just a father. "It's okay, at least I have you." Kevin smiled a little turning back to the blank Television. "Joey, what happened to…"

"My family? My parents died in an invasion along with my Uncle and his children. They killed what family I had left, I had become such a problem that they didn't care who got caught in the cross fire. They just wanted me dead."

Kevin swollowed hard. They wanted him dead, and the Null Void Commanders didn't care who was killed in the proccess so long as Joey was gone. What scared Kevin the most is that Joey was so much like himself. What if he was staring at his future? Was he going to lose the ones that he loved as well?

"What about your grandparents?"

Joey inhaled trying to suppress the mixed emotions. "They died when I was much younger." Sighing Joey turned to meet Kevin's eyes. "I tend to lose everyone I love. Including your mother."

Silence cut the air as both minds seemed to wander in different directions.

"Joey, I don't want to lose you." Kevin mumbled. "I just found you."

Joey knowingly nodded. "You won't lose me, even after I die."

Warmth surrounded Kevin and a smiled a bit. "What about your 'brother' the one you lived with? What was he like? What happened to him?"

Joey smiled at the memory. "Bent, was my best friend. He was more than my brother. The professor had adopted us both. He didn't have any super powers like I did and only the professor knew where he had come from… but the old man always refused telling us." Joey felt his smile fade. "Bent died in an explosion while I was still here on Earth. He went searching for where he had came from, on his own self mission. Really it was self mutilation, I stopped hearing from him eventually… and it was far after I found your mom, when I was called back to duty, that I heard he had died."

"I'm sorry, Joey."

Joey nodded his head. "Don't be. It's what kept me from home, from you and your mother. I couldn't stop thinking about how he had died and how I just let him disappear like that."

"No, it's okay. I have you now."

Turning away from Kevin Joey closed his eyes. "There is nothing better than that… I just wish I could go back and change things." There had been something on Joey's mind as well. "Kevin, I looked for you every day when I came back. I was just too late. Your mother had taken you, like she promised she would if I left. She changed your last names and even what she looked like; I was able to find her after she died, after I found you."

"Why would she take me away from you?" Kevin wanted to burst out into tears. "Why would she do that?"

It was a long moment before Joey responded. His face thick with agony. "To protect you from myself." Joey's voice caught and he had to take a moment to breath. "I wasn't a good father, Kevin. I wasn't home with you or your mother. I had left you two, and I regret that every signal day."

"I can't take that back."

Kevin pictured his mom's broken features. Her frail body, her every weak movement, her dull sunken eyes and face, she was lost without him. He couldn't understand why she would take both of them away, just to face worse. "You would have been better then what I got instead." The words came out harsher then what Kevin wanted but it was spoken from his heart.

"I know that now, and I won't ever make that mistake again."

AN://Trying to get the next chapter up soon, will see.