Thicker than Water-

Chapter-14

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Throttle half walked, half staggered behind Rain with his tail thrashing in irritation while he mentally swore. God in heaven- He was starting to think that the mother of his young was more like him than even he cared to admit. Which might explain why his young was such a vicious bloodthirsty little tyrant.

He might have thought it over a little more if he hadn't felt Rain pull painfully on his ear to maneuver him over to a chair that she had just pulled out for him then let go of him and shoved him down into the seat before he could react.

He rubbed his throbbing ear and glanced up at Rain while she pulled out the seat across from his own and gracefully took her seat. "Now that we're away from most prying eyes, Mr. Throttle. Why don't you explain to me what the hell you were doing with my daughter? And how you know who I am. Before I decide to call the cops and have you arrested."

Throttle stopped rubbing his sore ear and stared at her for a moment while thinking in amusement, Well she doesn't beat around the bush. Does she? He admired that in a woman.

He held up one finger and took asecond or so to think before Rain growled at him, impatient for an explination. "Well? I'm waiting."

"Just a sec, Miss Andrews. I need a second to think about how to explain things to you without frightening you more than you already are."

Rain bristled a little bit at his tone. "I'm not scared of you." She said in an icy tone as she glared at him. Throttle's lips curved up in a small smile as he mused, No you wouldn't be. And rightly so since he was one of the few people who would never do anything to hurt her or her daughter.

"Let me start at the beginning-" Throttle said after a moment or so before continuing, "My name is Throttle Thornboy...and several years ago you were, uh...impregnated mysteriously and..." He paused and scratched behind one of his ears and looked uncomfortable. "I-I-I'm...not sure how to say this- It's just so weird. But um, y-you had my kid..." He said the last part in a rush and looked at Rain to see if she was still following his explination.

She had a wide eyed look on her pretty face for a second before her expression blanked. "Say that again." Throttle flinched at the fury in her tone and tried not to squirm in his seat as he met her eyes.

"I-I'm Shira's dad." He said lamely and waited for Rain to react.

He wasn't disappointed, though he would have liked to avoid the hard slap he got across his face for his efforts. His head jerked to the side violently as his cheek started to burn and throb where her hand had connected with his face.

"Ow!"

"How dare you-" Throttle blinked back tears as he looked at rain and rubbed his cheek.

Ouch, christ. The woman was more violent than he had initally thought. It wasn't that he didn't think that she wouldn't be. I mean, she had been raising his young alone for the past few years so it had occurred to him that she would react violently to knowing that he was around.

He just wished that he had seen her hand coming at his face so that he could have ducked. "How dare you waltz in here off the streets and claim to be my daughter's father!"

"It's not a claim. It's the truth. And I didn't waltz anywhere. I walked here-Omff!" She slapped him again, this time with enough force to nearly knock him out of his chair. Which impressed the hell out of him considering that there weren't any females to date that could pull such a feat.

He took a second to open and close his mouth to make sure that she hadn't broken his jaw and pulled himself upright in his seat and flattened his ears back against his head feeling torn between crying and...well crying, but for a totally different reason.

"Could you please stop hitting me?" He asked as nicely as he could give the circumstances, but his temper was dangerously close to exploding due to the ass kicking he'd recieved from his daughter.

And now the ass kicking his young's mother was giving him, was pushing his limits considerably.

"Could you please stop lying to me?" Rain snarled at him as she got up from her seat. Throttle made an irritated sound and got to his feet so that he towered over her, hoping that the drasic change in height might cool her temper a bit and make her a little more aware of the fact that if he were a sadistic bastard, he could hurt her easily.

Unfortuantly she misread him and his intention as a threat of some sort and before he could react she laid him out flat with some sort of karate move that he never saw coming. She snarled something at him as he lay on his back on the floor of the cafe, his eyes impossibly wide over the rim of his skewered shades, a stunned/shocked look on his face as he thought,

Ah. Now it makes sense.