Thicker than water-

Chapter 12

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Throttle blinked down at his daughter and slowly closed the cell before asking tentatively, "You need something sweetheart?" While trying to figure out what the girl was doing outside of the store and away from her mother when it would be easy for any Tom Dick or Harry to simply drive up and grab her.

She looked at him through garnet red eyes and he nearly scrambled away from her. His fur bristled and stood on end for a second as she gave him a smile that had subtle under tones of cruelty to it.

Oh shit- He thought as Modo's words came back to haunt him. Looks like his baby girl did have his personality after all. Which meant that she probably had his territorial impulses too.

"Who are you? And don't think that you can lie to me and get away with it-" A question followed by a threat. Awesome. This wasn't exactly how he pictured his first conversation with his young.

"I'm..." He wracked his brain for an accurate answer. Maybe one that would allow him a little more time to prepare telling her and her mother who he was, but was coming up blank.

"Think carefully before you say the word 'no one' and consider what will happen if I scream kidnapper or pedo." The girl said in a dark tone and Throttle got a look of shock that could easily be mistaken for comical horror on his face as he thought warily, Well that's one way to confirm who she gets her personality from.

Dear god the next few years were going to be hell on him. Especially since the only one who could reign her in was her mother and he was fairly certain that she didn't like him much at the moment.

"Uh- Well it's like- I'm-" He started to pull a Darth Vader and say 'I am your father' but after a second or so he knew that he'd sound rather ridiculous if he said it like that, so he chose to try and shift her attention to more pressing matters and snapped, "I'm going to ignore that question for now. What the hell are you doing out here kid? Does your mother know that your out here?"

He saw a funny look cross the little one's face and nearly smirked. Oh, so it was like that huh.

She must have snuck out of the store without her mother's knowledge. Throttle was of half a mind to grab her by the scruff of the neck and drag her back into the store and hand her to her mother and tell her to keep a better eye on their daughter. But knew that doing so would only upset Rain further and effectively end his chances of ever building a life with her and being a part of his daughter's life as well.

"Mind your own business man." The little girl snarled at him, her expression mean. Throttle's lips twitched as he thought. One day you find out that you have a young, then years later you meet that young and said young threatens you... Ah, good times.

He'd be sure to pay Modo back ten fold for this fucking jinx. Especially since he had been the one to point out the potential disaster.

"I am minding my own business, bratling." He said affectionately after a second or so causing the child to hiss at him like a cat.

Outrage written all over her face and he had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing even as his fingers itched to grab the front of her shirt and jerk her off of her feet so that he could head butt her like his mother had used to do to him when he had talked to her so disrespectfully.

"I'm not a brat!"

"You look like a brat-" He said teasingly. A smirk curving his lips.

"Watch your mouth old man!"

"You kind of sound like a brat too-" Throttle commented as he scratched behind his left ear.

The kid gaped at him for a second before shrieking, "So help me god if you call me a brat one more time-"

"Brat, brat, brat, brat, brat. Hey lets make a song out of it. There was one a kid who was a brat-"

"Semper Fi asshole, I'm going to destroy you!"

Throttle stopped trying to serenade his daughter and got a dark look on his face at her use of language. "Does you're mother know that you use such unlady like language?" Throttle growled at his daughter. The girl looked taken aback by his question for a second before growling at him.

He rolled his eyes at her antics, his patience wearing thin when she lunged at him. He reacted quickly. And maybe without thinking-

Lifting one of his feet and stopped her lunge by planting his foot against her chest. There was no pressure behind the action. No force or strength to speak of since she was-what- Two feet tall to his six foot eight? Couple that with the fact that he wasn't actually trying to hurt her and he supposed that he might have been doing okay if she hadn't fallen down and automatically started crying as if he had just kicked her puppy or something.

His fur stood on end for a moment as his blood pressure spiked in alarm. Oh shit, had he just hurt her? He wondered as he shifted away from the wall and dropped to one knee beside the sobbing little girl feeling ten times an ass for making her cry and started to reach out to pick her up so that he could look her over when she flipped herself up on her feet and threw her small body against his chest and smirked at him a second before she opened her mouth and sank her sharp little teeth into his shoulder.

Shira knew it was petty to pull such a fast one on the guy, but she really didn't like being made fun of. When she said she was going to destroy someone, she meant it.

The guy yelped and started to grab her when she let go of his shoulder and reared back her little hand and slapped him as hard as she could-