Chapter 18
The next day during French class the children were having a dictation, which the teacher was reading out loud from a book.
"The waiter brought Nicole her meal she had been waiting for. Her dish consisted of three extras. Meat, Rice and Peas," Mrs. Donner read watching the students point down the sentence. "The waiter brought Nicole her meal she had been waiting for. Her dish consisted of three extras. Meat, Rice and Peas,"
The children had finished the sentence, then awaited their teacher to continue.
"The waiter wished the woman to enjoy her meal and she thanked him. At the end of the meal, Nicole received a delicious desert." The teacher read, afterward observed the students doing their job and she repeated the phrase again. "The waiter wished the woman to enjoy her meal and she thanked him. At the end of the meal, Nicole received a delicious desert." A moment later the kids were ready again, then Evangeline read down the last sentence of the book, so the children would appoint it. "Nicole received a chocolate muffin. Yummy!"
The students wrote down the last sentence, followed by hearing the teacher repeat the last phrase afterward they dropped their pencil as they finished the task and waited for the remaining students, which were still on it.
"Okay, finish your sentence and I will take your sheets back. Don't forget to write your name on it," Warned the teacher approaching the front desk to watch the two siblings finish the last sentence before returning it to the teacher. She went on to collect all the sheets given by the students, then stopped by Rouven, which was erasing a word he had written and rewrote it again and looked up to see his teacher stood there waiting for him, afterward he held the sheet up, so the teacher would take it. She took Zheng's afterward, then moved back to Nathalie and Eireen, then noticed one of the sheets didn't have the name and showed it to the girls.
"Both of you forgot the name," Commented the teacher watching the girls took their sheet back to sign their name, thereafter Eireen have it back to the teacher and observed Nathalie, which had written her full name on it. "You don't need your family name on it,"
"I want to practice to write my full name," Commented Nathalie making Mrs. Donner nod, then took the sheet back to see her full name on it and nodded.
"So my dear class, I will see your work over the rest of the day. As you remember, yesterday you handed me out your essay about your parents and I had read all of them. I was quite fascinated about a few of you. I'll will give the sheets back to you, besides three of you. The last three were my favorite ones and I would love if you would read your essay to the rest of the class," Explained the teacher making a few students nod, afterward she returned to her desk to get the work from her class.
Cody looked aside at his friends, then earned the attention of the Danish girl.
"Who have you written about?" Questioned Cody. "I wrote about my dad,"
"I couldn't decide first, who I should write about. I went with Rose. The woman with the blonde hair," Explained Eireen, then Cody looked at Nathalie.
"I choose my dad," Answered Nathalie, then looked at Rouven, which nodded.
"So did I," Answered the French boy. "Zheng, who did you write about?"
"I wrote about my mother this time," Commented Zheng.
Cody looked at Elliot, which had been listening to the conversation and furrowed his eyebrows, wondering if he was asked as well.
"I wasn't sure about, who I should have picked. I went with my mom," Answered Elliot making Cody nod, then Mrs. Donner appeared to hand out the blonde her sheet, afterwards walked to the front to give Duarte his sheet.
In the meanwhile, Cody took a look at Elliot's sheet to see he had received one star on the edge of the sheet and he had under it a 3F marked on it with a red pen.
"I have made three small mistakes," Commented Elliot making Cody nod.
"That's cool," Commented Cody, then received his sheet as well and observed the teacher hand out the next sheet to Johnny and vice versa to their table. "I've got 6 errors,"
"That's cool," Commented Cody, then looked at the girls beside him and Nathalie held up her sheet to show two stars and the number of her mistakes, which was low.
"I only made two mistakes," Stated Nathalie earning a thumb up from Rouven.
"Great, I've got seven," Commented Rouven hearing Zheng chuckle, which showed his sheet to his deskmate.
"Only one," Commented Zheng proud, making Rouven frown from seeing the boy have a better result. "No one can top me with this result,"
"Ruby can," Said a voice, then Zheng looked along with Rouven at Johnny, which pointed at his deskmate to see Ruby look at her sheet, which had three stars and the number zero under it with the word bravo spelled in capital letters beside it. Rouven laughed along with Johnny, making Zheng frown and look down at his sheet to read his writing, afterward Evangeline stood at the front of the class and leaned her back against her desk.
"So, perhaps you have already figured it out the few with the fewer errors, but my pick didn't go to the ones with the less mistakes, it went to the feeling the text gave me as you told me about your parent. The ones I have picked were Eireen, Duarte, Ruby, and Nathalie," Explained the brunette woman, then looked around the class and pointed at Eireen.
"Eireen, will you read your text for us?" Questioned the woman watching the students look at her, making her look around a little worried.
"Erm can I go second?" Questioned Eireen, then Duarte lifted up his arm.
"I will go first if that's okay," Offered the Portuguese making the teacher nod and Duarte got up, then stood at the front beside his teacher with his sheet, so he could read his essay about one of his parents.
"I'm talking about my mother," Announced Duarte. "My mother is called Eva Lopes. She grew up in Portugal in a city named Setubal. She and my father grew up together and studied together at the school and became police officers. My mother was offered a better police job here in Paris and she came here. Over the time my father had come along and received the chance to work together with her. My mother began to fall in love with my dad and at the work, both couldn't be together because of the rules of the work. They were bothered by that because it makes them feel unfree because they could at the work stay professional. The problem just was they couldn't literally be lovers in their free time without being eyed by people. Both had enough and confessed what was up and to their luck, they were headquartered in another police station around Paris and they felt more natural about their relationship. My mother is very strict with us at the home. Sometimes she gets a bit scary for me, but the best about her is that we make her feel better when she's down. She is always grateful for us and I'm happy for her as well. She always helps me when I need it. She wants us to be good people when we get older. Be responsive...responsible...this was corrected by Mrs. Donner," Pointed Duarte out making the teacher smile. "Be responsible and well-educated" Duarte finished taking his sheet down, afterward the class applauded making Duarte grin slightly embarrassed, and returned to his seat.
"This was an enjoyable read for me and as you see your classmates enjoyed it as well," Mentioned the teacher, then watched Ruby raise up her hand so she could go to the front. "You can come, Ruby," Asked the teacher watching the girl come towards her and prepare herself for the read.
"I chose to do this essay about my father, Pedro Langerak. He works at the theatre behind the stage and is responsible for the organization of the various shows and their needed materials on stage. What does this mean? For example, when there's gonna be a small concert he and his work colleagues have to bring out the needed instruments and prepare the lighting for the concert. If there's gonna be a theatre or a musical he needs to organize backgrounds along with a construction team and follow a couple of sketches to know how exactly the end result of the stage has to look like for the actors. One day he had brought me there and I had seen all of his friends work together with him and this looks very difficult as it sounds to other people. My dad met my mom at school. He knew her for a few years but they have barely interacted with each other. In his last two years of high school he was offered by my mother to help him out with learning a few topics at the school he wasn't doing well with it and over the time both became friends. Sometime later their friendship has altered and they assumed one official relationship. My mother at some point started her education for journalism while my father after school began to work and helped her out with paying for her course as well. Besides my grandmother of my mother's side, he was very willing to help her with it, even though it was already fine with my grandma's help only. When my mother was done with her school about a year later they had gotten me together at the hospital and this year at some point of the year I'm going to have a baby brother. Eventually, he will have the name Robert, if there won't be anything special that my parents like. I'm not sure how it will be but I will make sure I'll be a good big sister to my little sibling," Read Ruby earning an applause from all her classmates. "Thank you very much"
"Okay, Eireen, you want to come now?" Questioned Evangeline making Eireen nod and stand up to go to the spot Ruby had been standing
"But mine isn't that long," Warned Eireen making the brunette nod.
"It's fine, just read what you've got,"
"I've been adopted for about two months ago. At the moment I don't have a parent I could consider my favorite or who I find interesting to talk about. I've got two mothers, unlikely any of you. I choose Rose Lavillant, who you all have seen on the first school day. She works at the salon and does the hair of the people, paint nails of women and a few men. There aren't a lot, but a very few. My mother is a very kind and positive woman. She says, that in every person there is a good heart, even in those you think are not. She's very patient and happy. I have never seen her sad or angry yet. I feel around her safer now and believe she's going to help me out,"
"That's nice," Stated Mrs. Donner beginning to clap, then watched Nathalie come to the front as Eireen returned to the back and Nathalie stood there looking at the classmates.
"I'm writing about my father, Nathaniel Kurtzberg. He has a job at a comic book store and sells various types of comics. He also can sell figures inspired by the comic book characters. My dad also makes his own comics based on the superhero Super Nathan. Some of his comics have other superheroes too, which are the ones from Paris like Miss Vixen or Ladybug. My dad is very friendly and supportive. He has always time to play with me, when no one is around, even when he doesn't like the games I'm interested to play," Read Nathalie making a few students giggle. "My father and I grow very close, on the few months my mother was away for work. We're both similar in one way. According to my mother, we're both silent, but quite talkative, when we're comfortable with somebody. He's the most caring dad out there. He can forgive and understand bad mistakes I do and still talk to me. I don't really get scolded as I've seen others or it still is seen as scolding for my dad, but he says he doesn't like to talk loud. He's also the most honest and kindest person there is. He confessed to me, when I was in my mother's belly, he was scared he wouldn't be a good father to me, but now I'm here telling you all this, that he is a good father and I love him for that,"
Evangeline applauded along with the class making Nathalie smile and return to her seat watching Zheng give her a thumb up, while Rouven smiled at the essay of her friend. "Alright, those were the ones I was interested to have you hear it. Now I would like to do a small group project with you for the next twenty minutes about four different topics and with four groups. Sport, House, Heroes and Job are the topics you can pick. Each group will receive a large sheet and make like this a mind-map. I'm not sure, if you have seen this before, but it's done like this," Evangeline explained making her way to the board to create an oval in the middle and wrote the word animal on it. Evangeline drew five lines to the side and on each end, she demonstrated, what she had to do. "I have to write down here, what exactly is related to this topic. For a better understanding, I have to look now for animals, not for the specific name at the moment, but for the set of them. Let me make one example, mammals. They're one sort of animals," The teacher said writing that word on it, then circulated it and moved another line away from there. "Now I've got a new category and this one is now meant to have the actual names of the animals. Usually, the second category tends to have more options than the previous option here. So does anyone know an animal, that can be considered as a mammal?" Questioned Evangeline watching three-quarters of the class raise their hands and the woman moved her hand at Kodiak.
"Cats," Answered the boy making the woman nod and write down the word on the blackboard, followed by making a circle around it. "Got more animals in mind?" Asked Evangeline moving her hand to Johnny.
"Dogs," Responded the blonde watching the teacher do another line from the word mammal down at the cat to add the dog option on it.
"Good, the next one?" Asked Mrs. Donner looking at Rouven, which was holding his arm up, while holding his other hand under his elbow.
"Raccoons!" Responded Rouven making his teacher nod and add the noun under the canine.
"I've got one too," Announced Elliot making the teacher nod. "Red Pandas,"
"Very well," Complimented the teacher writing down the animal on it. "Okay, as you see, this is quite easy. The rest you'll have to do would be add more circles with the category and subcategories "Here to make it clearer I'll draw the category reptiles and add afterward two or three other animals. See here a turtle and a snake for example,"
"It looks easy," Admitted Rouven making the kids around him nod, then Mrs. Donner picked up from the inside of a shelf four large A3 sheets and gave at the left side at the first student.
"Debby, you build a group with Duarte, Emily and Jake," Ordered the teacher earning a nod from the classmate. "You all will be a group inside that line you're sitting," Explained the woman handing the next sheet to Johnny afterward approached Elliot from the last row to give out the sheet. "Row 1 will pick the topic house, Row 2 Sports and Row 3 Heroes. That's it so far. Gather together around one table and start working on it,"
"Okay, Johnny has the paper, let's go to his table," Asked Rouven earning a nod from his deskmate, then got up along with him.
"Elliot, let's go to the girls. We've got space there," Offered Cody standing up, followed by Elliot and both took the chairs of the raven-haired students to get closer to the table of the girls.
"Okay, who will write?" Asked Eireen watching Nathalie take out a black pencil making the boys nod. "Okay, so we have to do heroes?"
"Kind of a difficult topic to be honest," Mentioned Cody watching Elliot write the word heroes in the middle of the sheet.
"Well, we could just pick three or four heroes. That's a good start," Offered Nathalie making Cody nod.
"I think I know, what we can do as the next category" Spoke Eireen. "Looks, Personality, and powers," Suggested the Danish girl making Elliot nod.
"That's a good idea," Said Elliot. "What superheroes shall we put?"
"Let's put four as asked," Said Nathalie. "What about Super Nathan?"
"Yes I will put him," Commented the blonde writing his name on it.
"Let's add Cat Noir and Viperion," Suggested Kodiak making Elliot nod.
"I'll add Honey Bee too. Now we've got the four,"
"Hey now around the name of all four superheroes we have to write the next categories, like this she showed before," Eireen said making Cody nod.
"Take your pencils and each of us takes a circle," Suggested Kodiak making the group members nod and add the mentioned words on it.
"What words, did we agree on? Looks, Powers and…..,"
"Personality," Mentioned Eireen making the boy smile.
"I think I have a good idea. We can start with the easiest option first, as the looks. That's very easy," Commented Nathalie making Eireen nod.
"What about the eye colors? I don't know anyone's eye colors, besides Cat Noir's," Mentioned Eireen.
"Super Nathan has blue eyes," Responded Nathalie. "And he's got purple skin,"
"Have you ever met him in person?" Questioned Eireen curious making Nathalie nod.
"Cool," Commented Eireen. "Where did you met him?"
"I don't remember. I just knew him," Commented Nathalie making Eireen bewildered.
"Wait, she doesn't know about Miss Vixen," Mentioned Elliot making Cody nod.
"What's with Miss Vixen?" Questioned Eireen. "Does she know Nathalie too?"
"It's a long story, perhaps you don't know anything about it. Your mothers haven't told you anything about Nathalie's parents, right?"
"Uhm…...just that they were friends of hers and that they're Nathalie's parents,"
"I think after school we could get together somewhere and tell her a few info?" Questioned Elliot. "You know, if the most of us know, it would be good if she knew it as well,"
"Good point," Agreed Cody. "Hey each of us works on one of the circles and we discuss with each other, what we are going to put on it," Suggested the French boy making his friends nod. "I'll do Viperion. Nathalie can do Super Nathan without a problem, right?" He asked the brunette, which nodded. "Good!"
Outside on the stairs in front of a Parisian capsule hotel, Durant Lefebre sat with a newspaper in his hands analyzing the job advertisement, then searched on his smartphone for information about a certain job as a photographer.
"Ah here are additional pieces of information. Good knowledge of the use of photo manipulations applications, speaks at least two languages or more, own a driving license category A or B, eventually an own vehicle, and…..ugh really, why does a photographer need to show a criminal record?" Questioned Durant himself with a sigh, then closed the newspaper and lied it down beside him. "Perhaps I have to start down in a lower level, like dish-washing or cleaning. What did the one at the prison say, God always offers us a second chance in life. He's got it easy to talk, he didn't fuck up his own life as I did,"
Durant watched a person race by him almost tripping over him but instead pushed the newspaper downstairs almost ripping it off and he got up to pick up the newspaper to fold it together, then spotted a small advertisement for a retirement home inviting people to visit it.
"What does it say here?" Spoke the man looking at the small tile with an image of a retirement home. "Come visit our new, renovated cafeteria Soleil and appreciate coffee and cake at a lower price. Head chief Dominique Fontaine is pleased to receive you at the retirement home and show you around the housing,"
Durant kept analyzing the ad to figure out what the visiting date was for the next week and he took out his smartphone to ad the name of the retirement home on the browser and got into the page to see various open jobs for the home. "Good, they're looking for people" Commented the man clicking on the number five, which was the needed persons for the retirement home and he spotted three different jobs. "They need two caregivers, a cook and at housekeeping…..Short note for housekeeping, we're considering at the moment people above 1'60m and, or strong at lifting things, usually, every second week bidon changes are needed in the laundry,"
Durant took a screenshot of the homepage, then placed the newspaper under his arms and looked forward.
"Well sending there a curriculum is a good start. I don't know how high the chance is to immediately find one, but at least it's not asking for a criminal record. "I think I should go now take a look at the library and start working on it before students or other people come and occupy it," Durant ran downstairs, then made his way towards the zebra crossing to leave the capsule hotel to look for a library.
Lila was in the bedroom looking at a drawer, where she had a few large textile storage boxes and one of them was filled with various colored nail varnishes.
"I don't remember having my drawers sorted so well," Commented Lila
By the door, Nathalie showed up to look into the room to spot her mother looking at the varnishes, then stepped into the room to watch the woman sort one out to look at it.
"You taught me last year how to paint your nails," Spoke Nathalie catching the attention of her mother, which looked back at her, then smiled.
"I did?" Questioned Lila curious making her daughter nod. "Cool,"
"You also painted my nails before you left to go work in Italy on your Tv show," Added Nathalie making Lila nod. "You made them dark red, cause Isabella on the TV show's color is that. Not only her clothes but according to the first episodes as my dad says, her color matches perfectly with the light-brown skin of hers," Explained Nathalie making Lila nod.
"This explains, why in most of the images I wear red jackets," Commented Lila. "But if I look at all of them, they do really look good on me. Whether they're a brand product or not,"
"According to Rose, you grew around people like here, who belonged to other families, which didn't have much money like your parents,"
"Rose…..that name rings a bell to me,"
"It's Eireen's adoptive mom. The blonde woman, that gave you one photo album," Stated Nathalie making Lila nod.
"Well, I will remember her someday, hopefully," Spoke Lila, then watched Nathalie glimpse into the nail varnish box, while Lila glimpsed into another box, which contained jewelry from every sort from earrings down to corsages. The raven-haired woman analyzed rummaged the box gently to analyzed the content and encountered a silver-colored armband, where she saw the first three letters N, A and T. Lila picked it out, curious to know what was written there and it came with another similar armband attached to it. She saw the second one had her name on it, while on the first one it said Nathaniel. Lila unlocked hers out of the other one and took a closer look at it, then closed her eyes as she felt something from seeing them.
Lila opened a small box to see inside it two bracelets, the one on the top had her first name written on it and she removed it from the box to look at it.
"Aww so we can match together, that's great," Lila commented.
Seconds later, her flashback showed Lila shoving the armband with her name on it on a foreign teenage boy's arm, which she couldn't recognize on her flashback and heard his voice thank her for it.
"Mommy?!" Nathalie barked a little louder pushing her mother out of the flashback shrieking the girl as well, which grabbed the woman by her hand. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to scare you," Commented Nathalie watching her mother sigh in relief and caress the girl on the shoulder.
"Sorry, I had just remembered from where I had gotten these. Sadly I couldn't recognize the person, who gave it to me. But I know we both have worn it for a while,"
"I don't remember seeing these before," Admitted Nathalie making Lila nod neutrally and see her daughter hold an orange nail varnish.
"What are you going to do with them?"
"I thought if you'd like you could paint my nails," Mentioned Nathalie moving circles with the edge of her foot. Lila smiled at the idea of the girl, then glimpsed into the box and took out a darker tune and handed it out to her daughter.
"What about we two paint each other's nails?" Offered Lila. "Or better, we use both colors and paint one finger after each other in another color?"
"Cool," Responded Nathalie making Lila smile and place her hand behind her daughter's back to walk her out. "I believe I could make on your hands the thumb, the middle, and the pinky finger orange and the other ones red. For me, you do it the other way around. What do you think?"
"I like it," Commented Nathalie leaving the bedroom along with the Italian woman.
In the middle of the night, the Kurtzberg household went to sleep with Nathaniel still remaining on the couch as promised from the beginning. On top of the lean of the couch, Karaa lay as well, being near of her owner.
In the corridor, where the entrance of the house was the door handle was moved down gently and the door got opened back slowly to reveal two persons covered with go-kart masks. The second one, looked behind to make sure no one had attempted to step on the house lot and moved the door back to keep it a gap open. The taller guy, who came in first shrieked as he noticed from the living room a blinking from a TV screen and glanced into the room carefully to spot the redhead sleeping on the couch while facing the TV screen. The thief looked back at the shorter person, which seemed more of a feminine stature, and pointed at the living room whispering in a foreign language. The woman nodded and stared into the living room to analyze the contents inside the room, then looked at the taller man, which spoke at her and moved back to the other side, where the kitchen was. The woman moved away to watch the man take out his smartphone to turn on its light to analyze the entire kitchen. The woman went upstairs slowly, following the railing of the stairs up, and took a glimpse around the corridor to spot four doors, all of them opened. She leaned herself on the wall to sneak close to the first room, then entered into it staring into the dark area, then took out her smartphone to turn on its light and placed her hand in front of the light to cover the full light only show a ray of light, almost forming a vertical light across the room and she spotted on the side a small desk with a toy box beside it. The woman slowly moved further into the children's bedroom, which she could recognize as she encountered at the end of the room by the wall a dollhouse and a few small lego buildings. The woman slowly moved the camera aside to spot the girl Nathalie sleeping while cuddling with the plush fox making the woman swallow hard from seeing the girl had her face towards her direction. The woman tripped over something and flew against the lego houses causing them to get destroyed. At the fall the woman had dropped the smartphone, which had his light now fully shown and the woman groaned in pain, then looked aside to see the girl open her eyes to shriek at the woman's sight. The woman held her finger in front of her mouth to order the girl to shut up, but instead, Nathalie ran off, yelling in fear.
"Mama! Help!" Yelled Nathalie running out of the room making the thief facepalm.
Down in the kitchen, the second thief heard the voice of the child and looked across the kitchen to see the redhead get up and follow the noise with his eyes making the thief shut up his eyes and jumped out of the kitchen to met up Nathaniel right as he got out of the living room and the redhead shrieked at seeing the thief there. Nathaniel frowned annoyed to see the criminal, afterward the thief pulled out of his pants a fire gun to point at the redhead, which shrieked after realizing the thief was armed.
"Get out of here, immediately!" Ordered the thief.
"N….no one's allowed to hurt my family!" Shivered Nathaniel slightly pressured from not being under the protection of his superpowers, then the thief packed Nathaniel by his arm and shove him towards the door, and pushed him down. In the meanwhile, Karaa had appeared and watched the situation, then flew out of the door before the man closed the door. Nathaniel ran at the door to push it back but watched the criminal run against the door to close it again, making Nathaniel trip and fall down on his back, while the man closed the door again.
"Crap!" Shouted Nathaniel, then raced against the door and pushed it forward to notice the door got blocked by something, which prevented Nathaniel from opening it.
"I'm here, Nathaniel. Don't worry, we got this," Promised Karaa making Nathaniel nod self-assured. "Karaa, Stripes on!" Shouted Nathaniel to take on the secret identity of Super Nathan.
Upstairs, Nathalie had disappeared into the bedroom, where she had awakened her mother, which tried to listen to the daugther, which in panic was stammering with her message to the woman.
"Slow down, I can't understand you," Mentioned Lila unsure of how to calm the girl down, then heard a loud man's voice in another language and Lila dropped her chin, understanding, what was going on. Lila grabbed her daughter to hold her beside her, while the girl embraced her mother tightly. "Don't worry, everything will be fine," Lila attempted to calm down the daughter, then saw at the door the tall criminal appear along with the crime partner and watched Nathalie dig her head against Lila's chest, having tears flow down her cheeks due to the fright.
"I don't know, how you two got here, but I want you out of here immediately!" Shouted Lila annoyed with the thieves, then the man held up his gun towards Lila making her wide her eyes in surprise.
"We're not going anywhere until we get, what we want," Announced the male criminal, then rolled his eyes at the partner to sign her to move along the house and he approached the woman, which flinched her teeth in anger and mom-seatbelted her daughter to avoid the criminal to get any closer to the duo. The man chuckled as he observed the way the woman held the girl, then aimed the gun at the woman while Nathalie cried more in fear of the bad guy.
"Ah if that isn't Lila Kurtzberg, the famous actress from the Isabella TV show?" Asked the man. "I guess I have won the checkpoint tonight,"
"Take whatever you want, but take your dirty hands with you. If you dare to touch any of us, I'll make sure you'll rot somewhere, where the sun doesn't shine!"
The criminal laughed, then passed the point of the gun on Nathalie's chin, making her whine louder and have Lila rage on and head bump the man on his head, causing him to fall down on the ground.
Meanwhile, by the window, Super Nathan appeared hovering in the air with a mini hoverboard and used his tablet to capture the window to erase it from the real-life, then spotted inside the room the criminal get up from the ground to approach Lila and move his gun up in the air to slap Lila with it on the forehead. Super Nathan gasped at seeing his wife being injured by the bad guy, then he used his tablet to recall a medium-sized boxing glove to launch it against the criminal, causing him to fly against the wall. Lila gasped at seeing the man lying on the ground, then watched the purple-skinned superhero stomp inside the room with a serious face to look at the man lying on the ground.
"Violence is no solution!" Warned the redhead, then looked down at the two women and noticed Lila had a small mark from the gun on her head. "Everything will be fine," Promised Super Nathan watching Lila pass her hand over her injury then looked up at the superhero in front of her and stared dazed at the familiar blue eyes of the man. Lila's cheeks turned pink at his sight, then felt Nathalie get off her arms to embrace the superhero tightly.
"You're here!" Cheered the brunette hugging the disguised father, then Super Nathan lied his chin over her head as he wrapped his arms around his girl as well.
"Don't worry, princess. I'm here," Spoke Super Nathan, then rolled his eyes at the criminal, which tried to get up after the hit, and looked at Super Nathan, which stood beside the women.
"You're…..I'm going to prosecute you," Threatened the criminal making Super Nathan snort.
"For what? Serving the citizens. We don't have the protect and swerve quotes as the police, but we're practically the same in a way or another," Mentioned Super Nathan. "You've got two traumatized witnesses, Mrs. Kurtzberg here is injured by your gun, which obviously has your fingerprints on it, which the police can analyze. There's the husband you have locked out, the other criminal, and our most important witness is this child here. And we all know, that most of the children are always honest towards dark situations, each in a different way,"
The criminal growled, then aimed his gun at the superhero to shoot a bullet, which ended up being ricocheting due to the suit's magic textures. The man growled, then ran out of the room and Super Nathan pursued the man along the corridor to watch him encounter the woman, which was carrying a multicooker and she was yelled at by the man, which helped her drop the device, then both disappeared by the exit leaving Super Nathan upstairs, which passed his hands on each other to wipe the dust off his hands.
Super Nathan got back into the bedroom to observe Lila sitting on the ground along with the daughter trying to cheer her up. He approached the girls, then got down on his knees to look at them and Nathalie moved her head up to the superhero, then got into his arms to get embraced.
"I hope I didn't scare you with the way I reacted. I can't take it to see the people I love getting hurt," Mentioned Super Nathan. "Mostly the two of you," Whispered the redhead, then looked at the raven-haired woman, which looked at the superhero amazed. Super Nathan gave the woman his hand, then helped her get up and looked up at the forehead, where Lila had gotten hit.
"How are you?" Questioned Super Nathan making Lila nod.
"I'm better now," Responded Lila. "I'm very grateful, you appeared to help us out….how…...did you know about this?"
"Well I…...was above the other roofs and spotted in front of the house the man named Nathaniel Kurtzberg, which saw me and asked me to come to help you," Announced Super Nathan.
"Is he okay?" Questioned Lila. "He was locked out according to the criminal," Lila gasped afterward remembering, that Nathaniel hadn't shown up yet. "Is he still out there?"
"Right…..Right! I have to go out and see if he's still safe or not," Lied Super Nathan departing, leaving the women back and Nathalie was about to run off as well, but was packed by Lila on the shoulder.
"Wait! We have to make sure, everything is alright," Lila warned walking at the exit, then walked slowly along the corridor and stopped by the stairs to see the door closed. Nathaniel Kurtzberg returned to the house, then looked up to see Lila there waiting.
"You're alright?" Asked Lila, then walked down to meet Nathaniel close by the stairs.
"I saw Super Nathan entering the house to help you. You're alright?" Questioned Nathaniel making Lila nod.
"Thank goodness. I was worried something had happened to you,"
"I'm fine. Most importantly, that all of us are alright," Stated Nathaniel looking at Nathalie standing on top of the stairs, then he moved up his hand to get the girl's attention, which ran down towards her father's arms. "I think the reason these two criminals got in here was because I forgot to lock the door. Stupidly this has been happening a lot lately. I only end up realizing that the next morning. I'm sorry, I'll try to keep attention to the door or only unlock the door when we're about to leave,"
"It just had to happen now, don't put the blame on you. No one of us got hurt, that's the most important thing right now," Commented Lila making Nathaniel nod, then look down at the daughter.
"Do you think we should call the police?" Questioned Nathaniel making Lila shrug her shoulders.
"Perhaps it's a good idea. Afterward, we can go to bed peacefully," Stated Lila, then Nathalie looked up at her mother.
"Is it okay, if I sleep with you tonight?" Questioned Nathalie making Lila nod.
"Of course, I really don't want you at the moment to be alone, after what happened," Lila said watching Nathaniel caress his daughter's back.
"I'll see, where I placed my phone and explain, what happened," Nathaniel said walking into the living room and Lila grabbed Nathalie's hand to earn her attention, then rolled her eyes up at the second level.
"Come let's get up," Asked Lila walking the girl upstairs, while Nathaniel stood in the living room waiting for his call to get directed to the police.