Disclaimer: Aki, the gang, Arika, Johnathan, and any other OCs are mine, but that's all! I can't even afford to pay attention in class.
AN: It's been a couple of days since I've updated but, I still feel the need for excuses. I have a project to do on Fiji!!! I hate projects! then there's homework, other ppl on the puter and the whole Shakzaa. Oh well. Enjoy the chappie!! Hee Hee, I just got 4 chocolate bars from my buds!! I'm going to be sick... Oh, and there may be OOCness in this one.
Black Hair and Gray Eyes
Chapter 5
"You gotta love the outdoor courts!" Aki grinned happily she closed the gate behind her. Heero was out brooding about how an indoor one would be safer, and Relena was setting up the ball machine. "Mom, you just go and stand over there, and I'll start this up." She squatted beside the thing and began to play with the knobs after turning it on. when the first ball came out, it was too high. Then too hard. It was five balls after before it was perfect.
Walking over to her mother, she noticed that the technique she was using was perfect. "I guess I'll just pick up the balls you hit over." She picked up the hopper (basket you pick up the tennis balls with) and walked to the other side.
Aki had taught herself how to play tennis with some equipment that was thrown out around the colony they had found. It took her nearly three years to learn, but she had figured it out. It was shortly after that when she was trapped under the debris, and Trowa had met her sister. She hadn't played the sport since, but it was like riding a bicycle; once you learn, you don't forget.
"Aki, do you mind speeding it up a little?" Her mother called over to her just as Heero came back into the court. The little girl shrugged and moved the knob up to five. "More!" surprised, she moved it to five and a half. By now, Relena had to stand at the base line to hit the balls. "A bit more honey!" It went up to six and Relena took a step behind the baseline. "Perfect!"
Aki stood up and rubbed the back of her head. 'Maybe she used to play this?' Shrugging, she stood to pick up a few balls at the back fence. She bent down and saw a tennis ball get stuck in the chainlink fence. Trying to get it out, another one got stuck elsewhere.
"Aki!" It was Heero. Confused, she walked over to the bodyguard and stood beside him. "You should wait until she runs out." it was a statement, not a question.
"Why?" As if on cue, there was a popping sound. Her eyes widened as she turned to the back fence, in just enough time to see the ball that had made that popping sound rolling on the other side. She gulped. "Maybe this wasn't all that good of an idea?" A few more balls flew into the fence without bouncing. She turned to question her mother when she noticed something yellow heading straight for her.
"Duck!" Another popping sound could be heard over her head as Aki crouched on the ground beside Heero. "I see your point. I think I'll stand behind her." They both hurried over to try and keep away from the dangerous tennis balls.
"Sorry about that Aki." Relena hit another ball perfectly, focusing everything she had into hitting the balls. Small beads of sweat began to form on her forehead, and her arm began tiring.
"Maybe you should just attack a punching bag?" A ball flew over the ten foot fence on the other side of the court and Aki gulped. "I bet it would be a lot less hazardous."
Relena laughed and her shots grew weaker. "Sure, the ipacifist/i Vice Foreign Minister caught practicing on a punching bag, that's would give the press a field day." She switched to her backhand.
"Hey Heero, I'll give you five bucks or something if you pick up a hopper full of tennis balls." Relena laughed again and her hits loosened a bit. "Come one! I wanna see this!" There was a grunt in reply and Relena could see her daughter shoving Heero towards the other side ot the court. "Please!"
There was grumbling as Heero began to walk over to the other side and picked up the hopper. As he began to pick them up, Relena noted her daughter grinning from ear to ear at this.
"Aki, how do you expect to get five dollars?" Her grin disappeared a bit before coming on again. 'I'm not going to like this.'
"That reminds me. Mom, can I have five bucks?" The Vice Minister laughed out loud and missed a ball. Unfortunately, Aki had been standing somewhat behind her mother. "Ow! Hey keep your guard up there Mom!" Aki grinned to show her mother that she was just joking, and she laughed again before blocking the next one coming.
"Okay, okay. It iwas/i your fault though." She took the moment to wipe a tear from her eye before another ball was spat out of the machine. She hit it... it began to fly up... up.. then it began heading down... and down... before...
"Ow!" There was cursing on the other side of the court as Heero was hit on the head. Both mother and daughter on the other side fell over laughing. Relena failed to block the next three balls which all hit Aki. But the girl was too busy laughing to care very much. The machine was turned off and all that was heard in the courts were the girls' laughing. That is until...
"Hey! What was that for?" Relena rubbed her head where most of the balls had fell. Heero stood over her, smirking slightly. He held the hopper upside-down with only one or two balls still stuck inside it.
"You thought it was pretty funny didn't you?" He dropped the basket beside him and crossed his arms, still smirking. Relena grinned a picked up three balls, one of them being in her right while the other two in her left.
"Oh, so you want to play like that, do you?" Jumping to her feet, Relena was about to throw the ball in her right hand when she stepped onto another ball and fell. There was another round of laughter, but something was wrong. There were two voices, but Relena wasn't laughing. Aki was laughing, that was for sure, but the other person couldn't possibly be Heero, could it?
Relena looked up, suddenly stunned at what she saw. Heero was laughing. She had made him laugh! Grinning, she jumped up and loaded up again. "I made you laugh!" she said in a sing-song voice. Heero realized her words and began to sober up, until a ball hit him lightly on the head.
Blinking, he looked up to see Relena grinning at him, with another ball ready to be thrown. "I'm not going to fall this time." She threw it, and it hit him a bit harder. Completely forgetting everything, he smirked and quickly picked up a few tennis balls of his own. Relena began to laugh and run away, and he followed.
They took turns running after eachother. Heero could've easily beat her, but he ran slowly to give her a bit of a chance. Then again, she was pretty fast too. They'd hit the other and began to run away. Relena couldn't remember the last time she felt so light hearted. Heero couldn't remember smiling so much; he couldn't seem to stop. Finally, Relena grew tired and fell into the corner, with Heero collapsing in front of her.
She finally calmed down and looked at the man leaning over her. She never noticed how handsome he was. His eyes seemed clear for once, and his muscles showed easily through the tight blue t-shirt he was wearing. The healthy glow in his cheeks made him seem boyish, and his hair was a ruffled as ever. Her hand went up to carress his cheek. He was so close...
"Heero..."
Heero looked at her up and down. This was the first time he'd seen her like this. Her breathing was ragged and her cheeks glowed a healthy pink. Sky blue eyes stared at him softly. Her hand felt so good, her mouth was slightly parted, and her hair was a mess in it's ponytail. He watched as her chest rhythmatically rose and fell. He leaned in towards her slowly.
"Relena..."
Her eyes suddenly widened. "Wait." She barely breathed it. Her soft hand ran down his cheek, across his throat and departed his body just below his chest. "Not in front of... of... Aki!?" She was widely alert now as she searched the court for her daughter.
"Dang!" The voice was familiar enough. Looking up, they saw Aki looking at them from atop the tall fence. "You're not suppose to stop!" She whined teasingly. Realizing what she meant, Heero and Relena pulled away, blushing."Oh well." Something metal appeared beside her and their faces turned away just in time as a tirade of tennis balls showered on them.
"What? Did you think I'd stay away from this?"
*~*~*~*~*
The three people slid into the limosine breathlessly laughing.
After the little incident, the manager had come out and told them to clean up, since the were being too disruptive. But as they were picking up the balls, someone had acidently been hit with one, and the entire ball war started up again. They were kicked out after the manager had supervised them clean up the court.
Calling Pagan, he had agreed to drive them home as none of them seemed capable to right then. Heero sat on the far left, Aki in the middle and Relena sat on her other side. Their heads were held back as they tried to calm themselves down.
But that didn't last too long. Aki legs were crossed when she began to laugh again, memories of earlier that day flowing back to her. They were both also close to the two adult's stomaches. Relena began to laugh as her daughter's legs tickled her. Heero, on the other hand, wasn't tickled much by it, but saw it as a way to cause trouble.
Soon, an all-out-tickle-war was occuring in the back of the limo. Pagan had to lower his window to check on them a few times as the laughter kept leaking out of the back.
He was most surprised, though when he saw the usually stoic soldier laughing as he tickled the girl and her mother. He was even more surprised when he saw Relena and Aki tickling him back. They eventually stopped, when they were only a minute from the mansion.
That last minute was was used to calm down before they got outside. Heero stopped in his tracks he reconized the person on the steps. A cold expression covered his face and he slid past the man to stand against the wall. He should've known he would come back.
"Johnathan..." Relena stood a ways from the limosine door so the her daughter could close the door. Aki turned around at the name and stared at the man that had been addressed. So he was the ignorant imbecile.
The guy had reddish brown hair, and dark eyes. From where she was, she couldn't tell the coloour of his eyes, but from her mother's descriptions of him, she knew that they were black. His hair was neatly combed into a pretty-boy look, and that was the one thing that made Aki distrust a normal looking person. Nothing good had ever come out of those kind of people for her.
"Relena... I'm so sorry, I was just upset that you had made this decision without confronting me." Aki was about to choke. He was trying to get back together with her mother! But she wanted Heero as a father, he seemed great. Speaking of the guy...
She shot a glare at the boy, but he stood there looking away from the scene a ways below the steps. Aki tried to urge him with her body language but he didn't budge. She felt like getting sick. 'Don't tell me that scene in the courts wasn't real.' She was about to walk up towards the bodyguard when an arm pulled her to her side.
It stank of cologne.
"So, is this the girl?" Johnathan's voice was deep alright, but there was a tone Aki didn't like in it. She saw her mother nodd but never taking her eyes off of the man that was now examining her. She sent a pleading look at both her mother and her bodyguard, but neither helped her. Her thoughts began to drift to whom out of these three adults were bigger imbeciles. "She seems okay, but what drew you to her? She's nothing special."
"What?" Everyone, including Pagan, turned to her at the outburst. "Who the hell do you think you are? You prance in her unannounced, then stereotype me before you ever even heard my voice. I mean, really. You can't say that the first time you meet me!"
"Akira Peacecraft." Her mother's voice rang throught the air and all attention turned directly at her. "You must remain calm and polite when talking to your elders." Even as she said it, though, Aki could feel the anger coursing through her mother's veins. It couldn't be directed at her, could it? Her question was never answered because her mother had calmed herself down when she spoke again.
"Johnathan. Thank you for your offer, but I must decline."
"What? But, Relena honey, just think about it." There was a moment of silence as her eyes wandered through everyone. Heero looked away, Aki looked straight at her, and Pagan simply had his head bowed.
"Ok, Johnathan, I'll think about it."
~*(Aki's POV)*~
I stormed into the house after Heero when she said that. Heero was faster, and I expected that. When he was about to close the door, I slipped in unnoticed, since he had kicked it closed.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I strode forward and forcefully pushed him onto his bed while he was still surprised. "God, after that scene in the court, I was so sur-" That creep of a guy cut me off.
"I had no right to do what I did." I don't know what happened, but his head was bowed and I could've sworn my eyes just blazed. Was this what people meant by thick-headed guys?
"What do you mean!? You had every right to do what you were doing. She wasn't bound to anyone! Didn't you see her looking at you for help out there? Didn't you see me asking for help? Didn't you want to help?" I felt like banging my head on the wall until it bled. I did not want to have that guy in my life. Pretty-boys were the worst kind of people I met.
I know I shouldn't stereotype, having just accused the guy of it, but I've never met a good pretty-boy in all of my years...
"Oh, and you're calling me selfish." I looked up at him, suddenly forgetting my anger. "All you want is for Johnathan not to be in you're family. You're even risking you're mother's happiness for it. I was at least giving her a choice."
"You were turning your back on her! If you had actually looked at her, she would've chose you! Not that, tha-" He did it again.
"And how would you have known I would've treated her better? I'm a war soldier. I grew up being trained for the war. I don't know how to love. I wouldn't o-" My turn.
"Of course, you don't know how to love. What the hell do you think you were doing on the courts and on the limo? Do you think that it what a man who didn't know how to love would do?"
"You still don't know that I'd be better for her." I had beat him. I had finally gotten through to him. He didn't have anything else to get back with.
I felt the sense of pride building up on me, but there was also something pushing it down. I knew that we'd both walk out of this with something to think about. For me, it would be the possibility that Johnathan wasn't all that bad, that maybe I was just mad he seemed to have ruined my progress with the two. And for Heero, it would be the possibility that he was a good guy after all, that he was worthy of my mother.
I slipped out of the room quietly, and fell onto the couch, as my room was being painted right then.
Wait, what colour did I say for the room to be painted again?
*~*~*~*~*
Ooooooooh. Tension arises in the Peacecraft household. So how'd you like this chapter? I personally like it. R&R please! Feedback always helps!!
AN: It's been a couple of days since I've updated but, I still feel the need for excuses. I have a project to do on Fiji!!! I hate projects! then there's homework, other ppl on the puter and the whole Shakzaa. Oh well. Enjoy the chappie!! Hee Hee, I just got 4 chocolate bars from my buds!! I'm going to be sick... Oh, and there may be OOCness in this one.
Black Hair and Gray Eyes
Chapter 5
"You gotta love the outdoor courts!" Aki grinned happily she closed the gate behind her. Heero was out brooding about how an indoor one would be safer, and Relena was setting up the ball machine. "Mom, you just go and stand over there, and I'll start this up." She squatted beside the thing and began to play with the knobs after turning it on. when the first ball came out, it was too high. Then too hard. It was five balls after before it was perfect.
Walking over to her mother, she noticed that the technique she was using was perfect. "I guess I'll just pick up the balls you hit over." She picked up the hopper (basket you pick up the tennis balls with) and walked to the other side.
Aki had taught herself how to play tennis with some equipment that was thrown out around the colony they had found. It took her nearly three years to learn, but she had figured it out. It was shortly after that when she was trapped under the debris, and Trowa had met her sister. She hadn't played the sport since, but it was like riding a bicycle; once you learn, you don't forget.
"Aki, do you mind speeding it up a little?" Her mother called over to her just as Heero came back into the court. The little girl shrugged and moved the knob up to five. "More!" surprised, she moved it to five and a half. By now, Relena had to stand at the base line to hit the balls. "A bit more honey!" It went up to six and Relena took a step behind the baseline. "Perfect!"
Aki stood up and rubbed the back of her head. 'Maybe she used to play this?' Shrugging, she stood to pick up a few balls at the back fence. She bent down and saw a tennis ball get stuck in the chainlink fence. Trying to get it out, another one got stuck elsewhere.
"Aki!" It was Heero. Confused, she walked over to the bodyguard and stood beside him. "You should wait until she runs out." it was a statement, not a question.
"Why?" As if on cue, there was a popping sound. Her eyes widened as she turned to the back fence, in just enough time to see the ball that had made that popping sound rolling on the other side. She gulped. "Maybe this wasn't all that good of an idea?" A few more balls flew into the fence without bouncing. She turned to question her mother when she noticed something yellow heading straight for her.
"Duck!" Another popping sound could be heard over her head as Aki crouched on the ground beside Heero. "I see your point. I think I'll stand behind her." They both hurried over to try and keep away from the dangerous tennis balls.
"Sorry about that Aki." Relena hit another ball perfectly, focusing everything she had into hitting the balls. Small beads of sweat began to form on her forehead, and her arm began tiring.
"Maybe you should just attack a punching bag?" A ball flew over the ten foot fence on the other side of the court and Aki gulped. "I bet it would be a lot less hazardous."
Relena laughed and her shots grew weaker. "Sure, the ipacifist/i Vice Foreign Minister caught practicing on a punching bag, that's would give the press a field day." She switched to her backhand.
"Hey Heero, I'll give you five bucks or something if you pick up a hopper full of tennis balls." Relena laughed again and her hits loosened a bit. "Come one! I wanna see this!" There was a grunt in reply and Relena could see her daughter shoving Heero towards the other side ot the court. "Please!"
There was grumbling as Heero began to walk over to the other side and picked up the hopper. As he began to pick them up, Relena noted her daughter grinning from ear to ear at this.
"Aki, how do you expect to get five dollars?" Her grin disappeared a bit before coming on again. 'I'm not going to like this.'
"That reminds me. Mom, can I have five bucks?" The Vice Minister laughed out loud and missed a ball. Unfortunately, Aki had been standing somewhat behind her mother. "Ow! Hey keep your guard up there Mom!" Aki grinned to show her mother that she was just joking, and she laughed again before blocking the next one coming.
"Okay, okay. It iwas/i your fault though." She took the moment to wipe a tear from her eye before another ball was spat out of the machine. She hit it... it began to fly up... up.. then it began heading down... and down... before...
"Ow!" There was cursing on the other side of the court as Heero was hit on the head. Both mother and daughter on the other side fell over laughing. Relena failed to block the next three balls which all hit Aki. But the girl was too busy laughing to care very much. The machine was turned off and all that was heard in the courts were the girls' laughing. That is until...
"Hey! What was that for?" Relena rubbed her head where most of the balls had fell. Heero stood over her, smirking slightly. He held the hopper upside-down with only one or two balls still stuck inside it.
"You thought it was pretty funny didn't you?" He dropped the basket beside him and crossed his arms, still smirking. Relena grinned a picked up three balls, one of them being in her right while the other two in her left.
"Oh, so you want to play like that, do you?" Jumping to her feet, Relena was about to throw the ball in her right hand when she stepped onto another ball and fell. There was another round of laughter, but something was wrong. There were two voices, but Relena wasn't laughing. Aki was laughing, that was for sure, but the other person couldn't possibly be Heero, could it?
Relena looked up, suddenly stunned at what she saw. Heero was laughing. She had made him laugh! Grinning, she jumped up and loaded up again. "I made you laugh!" she said in a sing-song voice. Heero realized her words and began to sober up, until a ball hit him lightly on the head.
Blinking, he looked up to see Relena grinning at him, with another ball ready to be thrown. "I'm not going to fall this time." She threw it, and it hit him a bit harder. Completely forgetting everything, he smirked and quickly picked up a few tennis balls of his own. Relena began to laugh and run away, and he followed.
They took turns running after eachother. Heero could've easily beat her, but he ran slowly to give her a bit of a chance. Then again, she was pretty fast too. They'd hit the other and began to run away. Relena couldn't remember the last time she felt so light hearted. Heero couldn't remember smiling so much; he couldn't seem to stop. Finally, Relena grew tired and fell into the corner, with Heero collapsing in front of her.
She finally calmed down and looked at the man leaning over her. She never noticed how handsome he was. His eyes seemed clear for once, and his muscles showed easily through the tight blue t-shirt he was wearing. The healthy glow in his cheeks made him seem boyish, and his hair was a ruffled as ever. Her hand went up to carress his cheek. He was so close...
"Heero..."
Heero looked at her up and down. This was the first time he'd seen her like this. Her breathing was ragged and her cheeks glowed a healthy pink. Sky blue eyes stared at him softly. Her hand felt so good, her mouth was slightly parted, and her hair was a mess in it's ponytail. He watched as her chest rhythmatically rose and fell. He leaned in towards her slowly.
"Relena..."
Her eyes suddenly widened. "Wait." She barely breathed it. Her soft hand ran down his cheek, across his throat and departed his body just below his chest. "Not in front of... of... Aki!?" She was widely alert now as she searched the court for her daughter.
"Dang!" The voice was familiar enough. Looking up, they saw Aki looking at them from atop the tall fence. "You're not suppose to stop!" She whined teasingly. Realizing what she meant, Heero and Relena pulled away, blushing."Oh well." Something metal appeared beside her and their faces turned away just in time as a tirade of tennis balls showered on them.
"What? Did you think I'd stay away from this?"
*~*~*~*~*
The three people slid into the limosine breathlessly laughing.
After the little incident, the manager had come out and told them to clean up, since the were being too disruptive. But as they were picking up the balls, someone had acidently been hit with one, and the entire ball war started up again. They were kicked out after the manager had supervised them clean up the court.
Calling Pagan, he had agreed to drive them home as none of them seemed capable to right then. Heero sat on the far left, Aki in the middle and Relena sat on her other side. Their heads were held back as they tried to calm themselves down.
But that didn't last too long. Aki legs were crossed when she began to laugh again, memories of earlier that day flowing back to her. They were both also close to the two adult's stomaches. Relena began to laugh as her daughter's legs tickled her. Heero, on the other hand, wasn't tickled much by it, but saw it as a way to cause trouble.
Soon, an all-out-tickle-war was occuring in the back of the limo. Pagan had to lower his window to check on them a few times as the laughter kept leaking out of the back.
He was most surprised, though when he saw the usually stoic soldier laughing as he tickled the girl and her mother. He was even more surprised when he saw Relena and Aki tickling him back. They eventually stopped, when they were only a minute from the mansion.
That last minute was was used to calm down before they got outside. Heero stopped in his tracks he reconized the person on the steps. A cold expression covered his face and he slid past the man to stand against the wall. He should've known he would come back.
"Johnathan..." Relena stood a ways from the limosine door so the her daughter could close the door. Aki turned around at the name and stared at the man that had been addressed. So he was the ignorant imbecile.
The guy had reddish brown hair, and dark eyes. From where she was, she couldn't tell the coloour of his eyes, but from her mother's descriptions of him, she knew that they were black. His hair was neatly combed into a pretty-boy look, and that was the one thing that made Aki distrust a normal looking person. Nothing good had ever come out of those kind of people for her.
"Relena... I'm so sorry, I was just upset that you had made this decision without confronting me." Aki was about to choke. He was trying to get back together with her mother! But she wanted Heero as a father, he seemed great. Speaking of the guy...
She shot a glare at the boy, but he stood there looking away from the scene a ways below the steps. Aki tried to urge him with her body language but he didn't budge. She felt like getting sick. 'Don't tell me that scene in the courts wasn't real.' She was about to walk up towards the bodyguard when an arm pulled her to her side.
It stank of cologne.
"So, is this the girl?" Johnathan's voice was deep alright, but there was a tone Aki didn't like in it. She saw her mother nodd but never taking her eyes off of the man that was now examining her. She sent a pleading look at both her mother and her bodyguard, but neither helped her. Her thoughts began to drift to whom out of these three adults were bigger imbeciles. "She seems okay, but what drew you to her? She's nothing special."
"What?" Everyone, including Pagan, turned to her at the outburst. "Who the hell do you think you are? You prance in her unannounced, then stereotype me before you ever even heard my voice. I mean, really. You can't say that the first time you meet me!"
"Akira Peacecraft." Her mother's voice rang throught the air and all attention turned directly at her. "You must remain calm and polite when talking to your elders." Even as she said it, though, Aki could feel the anger coursing through her mother's veins. It couldn't be directed at her, could it? Her question was never answered because her mother had calmed herself down when she spoke again.
"Johnathan. Thank you for your offer, but I must decline."
"What? But, Relena honey, just think about it." There was a moment of silence as her eyes wandered through everyone. Heero looked away, Aki looked straight at her, and Pagan simply had his head bowed.
"Ok, Johnathan, I'll think about it."
~*(Aki's POV)*~
I stormed into the house after Heero when she said that. Heero was faster, and I expected that. When he was about to close the door, I slipped in unnoticed, since he had kicked it closed.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I strode forward and forcefully pushed him onto his bed while he was still surprised. "God, after that scene in the court, I was so sur-" That creep of a guy cut me off.
"I had no right to do what I did." I don't know what happened, but his head was bowed and I could've sworn my eyes just blazed. Was this what people meant by thick-headed guys?
"What do you mean!? You had every right to do what you were doing. She wasn't bound to anyone! Didn't you see her looking at you for help out there? Didn't you see me asking for help? Didn't you want to help?" I felt like banging my head on the wall until it bled. I did not want to have that guy in my life. Pretty-boys were the worst kind of people I met.
I know I shouldn't stereotype, having just accused the guy of it, but I've never met a good pretty-boy in all of my years...
"Oh, and you're calling me selfish." I looked up at him, suddenly forgetting my anger. "All you want is for Johnathan not to be in you're family. You're even risking you're mother's happiness for it. I was at least giving her a choice."
"You were turning your back on her! If you had actually looked at her, she would've chose you! Not that, tha-" He did it again.
"And how would you have known I would've treated her better? I'm a war soldier. I grew up being trained for the war. I don't know how to love. I wouldn't o-" My turn.
"Of course, you don't know how to love. What the hell do you think you were doing on the courts and on the limo? Do you think that it what a man who didn't know how to love would do?"
"You still don't know that I'd be better for her." I had beat him. I had finally gotten through to him. He didn't have anything else to get back with.
I felt the sense of pride building up on me, but there was also something pushing it down. I knew that we'd both walk out of this with something to think about. For me, it would be the possibility that Johnathan wasn't all that bad, that maybe I was just mad he seemed to have ruined my progress with the two. And for Heero, it would be the possibility that he was a good guy after all, that he was worthy of my mother.
I slipped out of the room quietly, and fell onto the couch, as my room was being painted right then.
Wait, what colour did I say for the room to be painted again?
*~*~*~*~*
Ooooooooh. Tension arises in the Peacecraft household. So how'd you like this chapter? I personally like it. R&R please! Feedback always helps!!