Author's Note: Sorry for the delay in when we post these chapters, I just got back from my vacation while Misfit has school and work.
Either way, we hope you continue to enjoy the story.

Kain's POV

After a half hour of a silent drive I had finally snapped. This was ridiculous for him to be so quiet when I knew he wasn't like this before we left the house.

"Dad, what's wrong?" I started, causing to jump a bit in his seat.

"Nothing, why?" He glanced at me then back at the road.

"You seem tense? Kai said you were avoiding him."

"He doesn't know what he's talking about." He butt in. If I hadn't already suspected him being pissed at the old man, that would have surprised me.

"Okay, but that doesn't explain why you're acting like this." I motioned towards him. He hit the brakes at a red light, throwing me slightly forward.

"Kain Taxon, I am not having this discussion with you. I am fine, drop it. What happens between your father and I is our business. Butt out for once." He scolded, which took me back. Sure, I've been yelled and scorned a good amount of my life, but rarely was it ever with his eyes slit like they were now, or his fangs bare.

I didn't know what to say to that so we ended up just staring at each other for a minute until he blinked, his pupils dilating, and he sighed.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to snap at you." He shook his head.

I reached over and placed a hand on his shoulder. "It's alright, I haven't made this easy on anyone." I said, but I thought we were all past that?

"It's not that Kain... Just..." He looked at me, and he studied my face for a long time before reaching out and placing a hand on my cheek. "You look so much like him." He sighed, patting my cheek a few times before backing away and placing his hands on the steering wheel.

If Kai was confused by dad's weird behavior, I was fixing to join him in that corner. What the hell was that all about anyways? Trying to rack my brain for something to say, a hint maybe from this morning that I had missed from the parts of the phone call I could hear.

"Do you still love him?" I asked after a moment of silence, and I could have sworn he almost choked on his own spit.

"NO! Why would you think that? After what that arrogant bastard did! Taking Kyra away, avoiding you all your life." He kept going switching to Chinese, which is always hilarious because he gets higher pitched in his anger.

Finally, the tirade stopped as we came to another stop light, he was breathing heavily and ran a hand through his bangs. I just looked at him, smirking.

"Feel better?" I asked, nudging him in the shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He nodded, laying his forehead against the steering wheel.

"I already talked to him, I forgave him for what happened between us and you should to." I told him, he didn't even react. Why does he have to be so damn stubborn?!

"Look, in the end its both of your fault for separating us. It's not just yours and it's not just his, I thought we've been over this." I breathed out, shaking my head.

He finally sat up, a nice red mark from where he had pressed his forehead against the wheel now marred his skin.

"I know, I know... It's not that, I've forgiven him too I really have. I'm glad you two talked, how was it?" He asked, glancing at me for a second before following the line of cars as the light turned green.

I shrugged my shoulders. "It was... Emotional? On my part at least, nice I guess... I don't know, it was kind of awkward. You know how I get when I'm upset, I like to be cuddled and he doesn't seem like the kind, but I leaned into him anyways and he kind of hugged me?" I explained it best I could, and dad was trying his best not to laugh in my face.

"Sounds like your father." He chuckled, reaching over and ruffling my hair. "He's not very affectionate, least not with those he's not close to. Give him some time, I can't promise it'll be the same as if it were me, but he can be a good support when you need it."

"So, I shouldn't invite him to cuddle under warm blankets and eat ice cream while watching soap operas?" I laughed, and he followed suit.

"Hey, that's our thing. You two find something else to bond over." He fake pouted at me, nudging me in the arm.

"No, the soap operas are your thing. I just like the warm blankets, cuddles, and ice cream."

He rolled his eyes, pulling up to the house. "I'll remember that when a new episode is on, I won't invite you. I'll have all the ice cream and blankets to myself." He laughed, stepping out of the car while I jumped out after him once getting the gifts for the twins.

"Hey! No that's not what I meant." I latched to his arm with my free hand, as we stepped up to the front door while he dug for the keys. "Gonna be weird not being able to just walk in whenever, hu?"

He paused for a second, the key in the lock as if he had become frozen by my words. "Yeah..." He mumbled, unlocking the door.

"Nobody's home." I frowned as I stepped into the house, taking off my shoes at the door and stepping in.

"Do you want to stay and wait for them?" Dad asked as he followed me in, taking his own shoes off and heading to the kitchen.

"If you don't mind, I'll text Matt and see where they are." I told him as I stepped up to the bar of the kitchen, placing the boxes down on the counter top.

I texted Matt, but he didn't respond for five minutes and I placed my phone in my back pocket. Dad had been watching me carefully, sipping at a glass of water across from me in the space of the kitchen.

"No answer?" He asked, and I shook my head.

"Can we wait a bit longer?"

He nodded his approval, so I got up to head to my room to grab a few things I would need for the rest of the month. I don't know why dad decided to follow me, but he did, and he sat down on the edge of my bed on the left of the room by the door.

"Looks like Matt's been cleaning, good I almost killed myself coming in here when you were at camp."

I rolled my eyes at him, rummaging through my closet for some heavier clothes since it was getting colder.

"I didn't mean to snap at you earlier, I'm sorry. There's just a lot going on right now." He picked up from our conversation earlier, and I simply nodded to let him know I was listening.

"With the restaurant having troubles, to Gabe being gone almost all the time now. With what you did to me, and then having to rebuild a relationship with my own daughter... It's a lot right now."

I turned to face him, pulling out one of Matt's shirts to take with me and leaned against the frame of the closet. I wasn't going to bring up Gabe cheating, he wouldn't believe me anyways. I didn't have evidence to support my idea that Gabe is the one stealing from the restaurant, and we had already been over my plan of bringing everyone here. So, that left me with the last topic; Kyra.

"Why is that so hard though? I thought you two were bonding? You've done a lot more than I have with the old man."

He shook his head a bit. "We have, and it's been wonderful to hear about her dreams for the future and what she wants to do. It's great to know that she's had a good childhood, but it's still hard because I wasn't there. I'm the one who gave birth to you two, you have to remember that. I bonded with the both of you before you were even born, and for a while it was just her and I." He paused for a minute, and I finally got tired of standing so I sat on the bed beside him.

"Your father had to work a lot, even when Kyra was just an infant. So I had her all to myself during the day because at night the second Kai got home, he'd take her from me. Not that I minded since I needed the break, but we had a bond, a strong bond like you and I have now. To have to rework that, to get what I used to have..."

"It'll happen." I said, patting his back. "She kind of reminds me of Kai, like she has her own walls up. Maybe she doesn't understand why you never tried to get in contact with her all these years? That was my question to Kai at least."

He seemed to think it over, and nodded his head once more. "Maybe... It wasn't like I didn't want to, I just didn't know where to start."

"Don't tell me, tell her." I chuckled, and he smirked at me.

"Sorry."

"It's alright, I'm just telling you I'm not the right kid to be spilling your heart out to at the moment. Not that I don't mind it, I'm always here if you need me." I said, laying my head on his shoulder.

"Since when did I become the son and you the father?" He laughed, placing his head upon mine and purring softly. He hasn't done that since I was a child, and so I purred back for him.

"Dunno, just felt like giving you an extra shoulder to lean on if you need it. Should teach Kyra how to purr." I pulled away, grabbing the clothes I had pulled from the closet and stuffing them in my back pack that was crammed under my bed.

Dad watched me, eyeing the shirt for a second before shaking his head. "That's stealing, and she did know when she was a toddler. It was you I had a hard time trying to teach." He laughed, and my face turned red.

"Oh, that's pretty funny, how come? And he won't notice, plus it'll help me actually sleep."

"You weren't a happy baby, Kyra was a lot easier to console... You've not been sleeping well?" He inquired.

I shook my head. "Not really no..." I breathed out, zipping my bag closed before sitting back on the bed with him.

"Wanna talk about it?"

"Maybe later, with blankets and ice cream." I smirked, and before he said anything back my ears perked as the front door opened.

"I'll let you two talk, don't be stupid." He warned, placing a quick kiss to the top of my head.

"Hey." I swatted at him, rubbing at the spot as he laughed and walked out of my room.

It didn't take long before Matt stepped into our room, carrying the box I had left on the counter in the kitchen for him. I waited, fidgeting on my bed as he came in and sat down in the corner of the room at the desk. He barely even looked at me, keeping his back to me the entire time.

"You can open that." I told him, trying to peer over his shoulder.

"I didn't get you anything..." He mumbled, spinning around in the chair to face me while eyeing the box in his lap.

I shrugged. "That's fine, not like I was here to open it anyways."

He nodded, tearing into the paper and pulling the tabs apart. His brilliant blue eyes widened, looking inside the box before at me and back again a few times. Each time he did that, my smile just got bigger as I watched him. If I hadn't said it before, I'll say it now, he's just so damn adorable.

"Kain... I... Thank you, this is amazing." He pulled out the new launcher and blade, as if they were made of glass before setting the box down by his feet.

"Did you make this?"

I nodded. "Most of it, yeah. I had some help though, used some better spare parts from Driger since I got an upgrade myself. Kyra and Dimi helped with getting some of the parts, he said he's really sorry for that battle at camp."

He shook his head, waving off my words while still checking everything out in his hands. "Tell him not to worry about it. This, this is amazing though. You guys did awesome, thank you." He finally looked up again and I had to thank the gods for blessing this beautiful man with the most adorable smile ever.

"Not a problem, I messaged you a bit ago, but you didn't answer."

His face fell a bit and he shifted in the chair. "Sorry about that, phone got broken. We just came back from getting a new one, I haven't even bothered to turn it on."

"How'd your other one break?" I asked, arching a brow at him. It wasn't like him to be clumsy with his electronics.

"Brittany smashed it." He chuckled. "Right before she broke up with me yesterday, after you and I talked."

I had to hide my smile, while trying to frown at the same time I wanted to shout for joy at that. He didn't look all that upset about them not being together, if anything he looked pissed off because of his phone getting busted.

"So... What happened, you flirt with her cousin or something?" I snickered, and he shook his head.

"Nope, apparently she didn't like the fact I'm bisexual." He shrugged like it didn't bother him, but between the two of us he was still having troubles accepting himself.

"Oh... How'd she even find out?" I asked, I wasn't that obvious at dinner that day when we went to the mall, was I?

Sure, I had spent a good few hours of starring and trying to talk to him, since he was still avoiding me and focusing on her the entire time. That was one of the reasons I ended up talking to Kai half the night afterwards, in all honesty I don't even remember what we talked about though. Beyond that dinner, Brittany hadn't really seen much of me around Matt so how did she find out?

He started to laugh, shaking his head. "It was my fault really. I left my phone on the table and she went through it, saw some photos of us I never deleted. She actually screamed like she was dying, and acted like it was the end of the world." He laughed harder and I found myself chuckling along.

"Please don't tell me she saw those photos I sent you for your birthday." I asked, though really, I didn't care if she did.

He shook his head harder. "God nooooo, I actually deleted those ones the second I got them. What were you thinking sending me those anyways?" He laughed, his cheeks turning pink.

I shrugged my shoulders at him. "Thought it was a nice present." I smirked showing him my fang. "You didn't complain when you got them either, if I remember right you." He shot up so fast, pressing a hand to my mouth before I could even finish.

"Let's not talk about that, okay?" He asked, his face still tinted pink.

I just stared back for a minute into those blue eyes of his, the warmth of his hand on my lips was enough to make my head go foggy and all I could manage to do was nod. He pulled away and I almost reached out to pull him on top of me on the bed, but I didn't think it'd be a good step in the right direction. He wanted space and time, and I would give it to him.

He walked over to his own bed in the opposite wall mine sat on, laying down on his back starring at the ceiling.

"I should prolly get going, surprised my dad hasn't come in here yet." I chuckled, feeling the air around us grow tense.

"How is everything over there? Are you actually doing alright?" He asked rolling on his side to look at me.

"For the most part yeah, I'm fine. The first night wasn't easy, by any means, and for dad and the others it got better."

"Why not for you?" He asked after he heard the waver in my voice.

"Well I screwed up the first morning they were all there, and going through some other stuff of my own that was just weighing me down I guess. It's gotten better since the ice rink and mall though; Kyra and I talk a lot and I've actually talked with my other old man." I explained, and he smiled at me a bit.

"So, it worked out in the end? That's good, I'm happy for you."

"Not everything is as easy as that though..." I said and ground my teeth, Matt gave me a questioning look, so I moved across the space of the room and sat down beside his bed getting as close to him as I could without making him uncomfortable.

"Gabe is cheating on dad, I don't know how long he's been doing it but yesterday he was gone all day and came back smelling like sex." I whispered out to him and his own eyes went wide, his jaw setting as he ground his own teeth together.

"You haven't told him?"

I shook my head. "Do you think he'd believe me?" He seemed to understand and shook his own head. "I can't tell him because of that, while if Kai tells him he'll just brush it off and it'll be the same with Kyra."

"So, what're you going to do?"

"Kai and Tala, that's Dimi's papa, are looking at why the restaurant has had so many problems. I think it's Gabe, since they found out someone is stealing from dad. Kai doesn't think so, but I want to look into Gabe more." I explained still in the low whisper, it wasn't often dad eavesdropped on conversations, but I wanted to make sure.

"And how are you planning to do that?" He asked, leaning a bit closer to me as he whispered. There was a mischievous glint in his eye, no wonder our fathers always complained about not being able to sleep because of us.

My smirk widened as I shifted up closer, leaning on the edge of the bed as I kneeled on the floor.

"What I do best of course."

"Need help?" He smiled that devil grin of his that rarely came out, sometimes I wondered what kind of person he'd be if I hadn't corrupted him.

Besides the whole investigating Gabe thing, there was one other thing he could have helped me with, but once again I was caught between that and giving him his space. I backed away, running a hand through my bangs.

"Need all the help I can get, when I get back I'm going to get Kyra and Dimi on board with everything." I explained while standing up, I don't know why or if I was only seeing things, but he looked slightly upset after I had backed away.

"Do you need the laptop? I don't want to use the computer at Gabe's."

He sat up, that still upset look in his eyes as he leaned back on his hands stretching out his back. The view itself would have made straight men drool, not many people know it, but he's got a six pack under all those baggy clothes of his. Okay, now that's just not fair Matthew, I'm trying to give you your space and you go and look like that? I swear he was making this hard on purpose, so I turned my back to him, so I didn't have to look at him.

"Nah, go ahead and take it. If there's something you need me to do, just let me know."

"Thanks man, I appreciate it." I told him over my shoulder, heading to the desk to collect the laptop. "Better head out now." I tucked the laptop under my arm, retrieving my back pack off my bed.

"Alright... Keep me updated." He called as I stepped closer to the door. "Don't get in too much trouble, I'm not there to save your ass."

I turned and flipped him the bird, that damn smirk of mine back in full force. "I'll call ya if I need it savin."

He just smiled back, that same mischievous glint coming back as he nodded his head and waved bye to me. I came back out into the main room of the house, dad and uncle Max stopped their talking at the bar and both gave me this smile as if they knew something I didn't. Immediately my face got hotter and I had to look away quickly, nothing happened you two old perverts!

"Ready to go Kain?" Dad asked, that stupid smile not leaving his face.

"Yes!" I shouted, marching to the door stiffly and they just laughed at my back. "Nothing happened!" I yelled, my face hotter now.

"No one said anything son, calm down." Dad chuckled coming over to put his shoes on. "Think you can drive us home?"

"Yes!" I snatched the keys he pulled out, only to have him snatch them back.

"Well too bad." He laughed, sticking his tongue out at me. "I'll see you later Max." He waved, and Max waved back to us.

"We'll see you in a few days." Max said, his expression changing quickly. What was that about?

"Please don't look at me like that." Dad sighed out, rolling his eyes.

"I know, I'm sorry. I just wish you would really consider having the wedding so early now." Wait, the wedding isn't until February, that's a month away.

"It's out of my hands right now Max. Gabe wants to have it on the fifth, I see no reason not to." My mouth dropped, when the fuck did this get decided?!

I kept my mouth shut, deciding it best to consult the old man and Kyra about this together. We barely had a week to stop this, how the hell was I supposed to get my evidence in time?

"I know... I'll see you then." Max shook his head a bit, and I realized I'd need his help too as a few ideas were starting to come to mind.

If we couldn't stop the wedding from coming up, the most we could do is stop it from actually happening. Which to me sounded more fun anyways, if dad was surprised when I brought everyone here he sure as hell will love it when I expose his cheating, stealing boyfriend at the altar. Now it was just a matter of convincing the old man and my sister to go along with this plan, shouldn't be too hard.