Title: Deception 1/?
Author: Murdock's Crazylady
Rated: G for now
Summary: Face has his hands full with a now 6-year-old Alex, and when he punishes her and doesn't believe her side of the story, which is the truth, Alex runs off. How will Face get himself outta this one?
Disclaimer: I don't own the team. Not that I wouldn't mind having Dwight for a big brother though
Copyright: 2000
Author's notes : Expect a lot more from this, especially a twist, this is my first FanFic, so please don't be too hard on me!
Chapter one
Deception
(C.) 2000 Murdock's Crazy Lady
A slam suggested another fight. Face might have known. He came across the big, lucius house and as soon as he came into the family room, he knew what the slam had been. "Dah, would you look at this? He said to himself, looking around at the room. It was in shambles, complete with 500 hundred dollar lamps broken, shattered into a million little pieces on the hard wood floor, and expensive paintings and framed pictures knocked off of the walls, their glass frames shattered as well. There was also the over-turned furniture. It was leather, and VERY expensive. He ' d just had this whole room remodeled, and now it looked like a stampede had run through it. Face knew yet another martial arts death match had begun, again, between his two kids.
"I did not!" Alex yelled as she flew in and drop- kicked Trent. He was hit hard in the stomach, and he fell, hitting his head on the hard wood floor. He yelled out in pain. He didn' t get the chance to stand back up because Alex was back on him like white on rice. "You better take that back fool, for I knock your head off!!" Alex screamed, seeing red. Trent tried to push her off. She was amazingly strong for her size and age. "NO! Get offa me ya punk!" Trent yelled back. Alex growled and was about to put Trent into la-la land when she was grabbed from behind. She soon heard her father ' s voice as she was pulled off of her still almost fainted brother.
"Alex, How many times do I have to tell you no fighting in here?" Face asked. Alex kept her glare on Trent as he struggled to move. "You both know I just had everything remodeled and I don ' t want any more fights in the house." Face said, still holding onto Alex ' s arm. He knew if he let go she ' d go back in for the kill. She yanked it and he let go.
Trent finally made it to his feet and Alex went back into her ready position. "Alex stole Murdock ' s chopper keys." Trent said, smirking evilly at her. Alex lunged. A dropkick to the gut again and Trent was back to kissing the floor, sprawled out on his stomach, groaning. "Alex!" Face yelled shocked as he grabbed his 6-year-old again. "I did not!" Alex screamed as she struggled against Face ' s grasp. Face was shocked. He always was when Alex acted this way. He knew she ' d inherited it, but he still didn ' t like his baby to be so mean in anger.
"Alex, go upstairs, now!" Face yelled giving Alex a small push toward the stairs. As soon as he let her go behind him, she went back into her ready-position. Face turned around and caught her. "Alex, NOW!" Alex gave in and ran upstairs, almost breaking her door in half by slamming it. Face went to Trent and helped him up. "Trent, Alex has the chopper keys. You ' re sure?" Face asked. Trent, now standing by himself, shook his lying head.
"Saw her put em in her backpack, and when I asked her why she had em, she said because now you can ' t let her behind on your next mission, or make her fly without Murdock." Trent said, and Face, as usual, fell for it. Face looked over to his right and saw Alex ' s Bag on the floor.
Just to be sure, Face went over to the camoflaudged back-pack sitting in the middle of the mess and peered inside of it. Seconds later, he sighed. He pulled out the rabbit ' s foot key-chain, and dangling from it ' s chain were Murdock ' s chopper keys. Face rattled them and then put them in his back jeans pocket. Trent smiled. His own mission had been a success.
"Alex, it ' s daddy." Face said as he knocked on Alex ' s still surprisingly standing door. No response later, Face opened the door and noticed Alex was gone, or out of sight as least. Face looked around and knew where she was. " Alex, why ' d you take Murdock ' s keys You know you can ' t fly without him with you. You ' re not good enough at it yet." Face asked as he opened a tall, thick, wooden door. The small figure sitting inside was quiet.
"I dinnit."Alex said a second later. "I don ' t scam stuff from my big brother. Trent ' s lyin an he ' s gonna pay!" Alex said as she came from her dark closet. She crawled out and sat down beside her bed. Face ignored the ' gotta pay ' part and closed her closet door.
"I can ' t prove who did what Alex. But I did find these in your back-pack." Face said pulling the chopper keys from his pocket. Alex looked at them and snarled. "Trent put them there." Alex said as Face put them back in his back jeans pocket. "You are grounded Alex, for wrecking up my family room. Trent is also. I can ' t I prove anything with the keys, so no one is in trouble for that. But you are both grounded for fighting in the house. a week, no tv." Face said and Alex scowled. Mission kill Trent ran into her mind without a cigar and she smiled. "Stay outta trouble, huh Alex? B.A. will be here soon. He ' s gonna spar with you, so behave." Face said, he hated seeing his baby scowl.
"Really?! Yay!" Alex ' s scowl turned to smile as she jumped up and grabbed Face ' s waist, jumping up and down. He laughed as she let go and ran off down the stairs yelling happily. Face followed seconds later. Alex watched out the big bay window with her knees in the couch, and her chin propped up on her hands, waiting for B.A. to arrive.
Twenty minutes later, Alex yelled,"There comes the van! Uncle B.A. ' s here!" Alex screamed as she jumped down from the couch and ran out of the house. Alex ran out of the gate and waited for The van to be parked before she ran over to it. B.A. was just getting out when he heard Alex coming. "Hi uncle B.A.! daddy says you ' re gonna spar with me." Alex said as he got out and closed the door. He put his keys in his pocket and Alex hugged him. He hugged her back and smiled.
"Are ya?"Alex asked again as she let go and he picked her up gently and carried her with one arm. She smiled as he got to the corral where they usually sparred and he sat her down on the top of the wooden fence. "You look like you ' ve been on the jazz already Alex." B.A. said and Alex thought to herself, ( Yeah, and I feel like it too.) Alex got down pretending not to hear him and got into her ready position. B.A. laughed and they sparred for awhile. B.A. was very careful not to hurt Alex as he fought with her, and taught her how to fight. He taught her a new move almost everyday, and the one she learned today is a move that even a 6-year-old can use to take down a 6-foot-man. It ' s a flip-kick, and Alex picked it up fast. She loved it.
"That was good Alex. Try it again." B.A. said as he watched Alex practice her new move. "Hey! Wanna fight?"A voice came from behind Alex and she landed her new flip once again, landing at ready, with her fists raised and her feet slid apart. "Let ' s do this!!" Alex yelled growling, wanting revenge for earlier. Trent went ready, and with B.A. as the ref, they went at it.
"Yeah!" Alex yelled as she landed a great kick into Trent ' s ribs. Trent painfully blocked another shot to the ribs and watched as he was about to get a dose of Alex ' s new move....Alex jumped up, turned around and around in a ball, with her knees tightly pressed against her chest..and then, her leg shot out like a bullet and hit Trent point blank in the mouth. "Yeah!! Haaaa!"Alex yelled, landing at ready again. Trent landed in a pile on the ground, and dust surrounded him and Alex smiled on proudly.
"Take that ya ugly mudsucka!" Alex said like Murdock sometimes did as she smiled over at B.A. The tall, muscular, gold-ridden guy stood there with a thumbs-up sign and a smile back to Alex. Alex was still at ready when Trent got up again, thinking he ' d caught Alex with her guard down. "I ' ll get you Alex!" He yelled. Alex ' s head turned quickly away from B.A. her short, brownish, blonde hair flying around as she looked to Trent, and then falling back into place the way it was layered. Her eyes and facial features now changed from smiles and happiness, to focused and angry as she watched him, not blinking.
Trent ran towards Alex like a rabid dog, he lunged for her throat. Alex was ready, and with a smirk of concentration and readiness, she blocked his arms and hands from getting to her throat and he went for a low stomach kick. Alex yelled, "Yahh!" as she caught his knee, lifted him up and threw him backwards. " Game over, slime ball!" Alex yelled as she waited to see if Trent would come back for more. But when he got back to his feet, he turned and ran into the house. Alex then finally went back to normal, and wiped her sweaty forehead.
B.A. walked over and put his hand on her shoulder. She looked up and smiled. "You ' re gettin real good at it Alex. See what practice can do? You sure gave it to Trent!" B.A. said and Alex was proud. "Thanks uncle B.A. I know he deserved it."Alex said as she fixed her t-shirt underneath her overalls.
"Why?" B.A. asked as he helped Alex with her overall ' s buckles. " B ' cos earlier the mudsucka told daddy I stole big brother Murdock ' s chopper keys! He got me grounded and I would never scam anything from big brother, you know that." Alex answered and B.A. knew it alright. He knew Alex would die before she ' d ever scammed anything from Murdock. She worshiped the ground the crazy fool walked on. "I know Alex. Scam anything from anyone for anything, except for crazyman." B.A. replied and Alex laughed. B.A. ' s calling Murdock crazy man always made her laugh, and he knew it.
Just then, Alex was about to sit down on her wagon when a loud yell of her name made her wince and turn around so fast that she nearly tripped. B.A. steadied her and with his hands on her shoulders and he saw whom was stomping towards them. "Alex!" It was a very angry Face. B.A. rarely saw Face mad, and right off, he knew it was Trent ' s doing again. "Alex, go inside." Face said and Alex looked up at him confused. "What did I do?" Alex asked as she figured Trent was the culprit once again. Face was angry, but he wouldn ' t say why.
"Alex, just go." Face tried to say calmly. It came out in more of a growl, and B.A. didn ' t like it."But what..." Alex began to ask as she walked past. Face told her to just go again, and Alex did, but not without Face catching her behind with a swat. Alex went inside and up to her room, not even sure why her daddy was mad at her. She closed her bedroom door and went into her closet. She vowed to kill Trent if she got...No, she told herself to be quiet. She was sure it wouldn ' t go that far.
"What ' s up man, why you bein so hard on Alex fer? I was right here, she ain ' t done nuthin." B.A. asked face as Face seemed to calm down a little. "Trent says she attacked him, he ' s got the blood coming from his face to prove it, B.A. I didn ' t even see any dirt on Alex. She didn ' t need to attack Trent." Face replied and B.A. shook his head. "Alex DIDN ' T attack Trent Face, Trent asked for it, He wanted to spar with her and she won." B.A. said and Face was quiet. He was confused, but blood was a clear road out to him. He decided B.A. and Alex were lying. B.A. would lie to save Alex from trouble, no matter what. "Trent was attacked, I saw the blood, and now Alex is in trouble." Face said as he walked off. "Hey man, Alex didn ' t...." B.A. tried to say. But he only shook his head as he watched Face leave. Face disapeared into the house, leaving the screen door slam behind him. "If he hurts her, I ' ll Knock him into next week." B.A. said to one of the wooden posts. He knew, in a way, that Face was going to hurt her, but he hoped for Face ' s and Alex ' s sakes,(but mostly Faces, because he ' d have to kill him) that he ' d only bruise Alex ' s pride and not her behind. He punched the post and growled. He never liked it when Face even yelled at Alex. All he himself had to do was raise his voice and Alex would apologize or whatever, without even thinking about it first. Another dozen punches into the pole, and B.A. went inside.
"Alex, being a poor sport and attacking Trent were both wrong. You can ' t just go around blaming Trent for something you do, or for being in trouble." This is the speech Alex got from Face before she got so mad she almost burst with anger."Uncle B.A. SAW us sparrin daddy, I DINNIT DO NUTHIN!" Alex yelled in defense. Minutes later, Face had spanked her and was leaving when B.A. came into Alex ' s room and glared at Face. "You hit her again Face, and I ' ll knock your head off your shoulders!" B.A. yelled, the anger was red in his eyes.
Face just stood there, as Alex cried underneath her Horse-print-ridden comforter. B.A. grabbed Face '' s shirt and drug him out into the hall. Alex heard them go, and slowed crying so she could hear what they were saying...Maybe daddy believed her now...
"Listen Face, Alex didn ' t do nuthin, Trent ' s lyin man. I was right there...you know I ain ' t got no problem with how you raise your kids Face, but hittin Alex for somethin she didn ' t do ain ' t fair an I ' ll say somethin about it an then knock you out!!" B.A. said and Face still believed Trent ' s story. Face knew B.A. for years, and he never did step in unless he knew one of the kids, mostly Alex, was innocent. "What ' s goin on Face? Big guy?" a voice asked coming around the corner from the stairs. He heard crying and knew.
"Did it again, huh face?" Murdock asked, looking angry and insane at the same time. Face was quiet. Alex heard Murdock ' s voice, and then her door knob moving, and she thought Face was coming to apologize to her. She sniffed underneath her comforter where she lay in a ball. Face sat beside her on her bed and Alex curled tighter and farther away from him.
"Alex, I believe T..." Face said and Alex knew now, he still believed she was wrong. Her own father didn ' t believe her. Alex got out from under her comforter, off of her bed, and ran from her room, past Murdock and B.A. Trent was outside, and seeing Alex ' s red face made him laugh. Alex wanted to kill him, but she kept heading towards her stable. Alex found lil '' T and climbed onto his shiny, bare back with nothing but a halter and a lead rope. She kicked him into a gallop and rode him 6-miles out into the land, where her tree house was.
Murdock and B.A. had helped her build it when she was three, and only Murdock and B.A. knew where it was. It was kept a secret, and they never told anyone, not even Face and Hannibal, where it was or how to get to it. This was because of Trent, and it seemed now that even Face had forgotten that.
"Easy boy."Alex said to Lil ' T as she stopped him and climbed off of his back. She pulled the lead down and lead him into the corral underneath the tree house. She closed the gate and locked the chain around it. Then Alex sniffed and climbed up the rope ladder. Soon she came to the trap door and pushed it open. She climbed up into the tree house, and pulled the rope up. Then she latched the trap door and crawled over to her sleeping bag. She buried her face into her pillow and cried as hard as she could, until it hurt her lungs and she was afraid she ' d not be able to breathe if she didn ' t slow down. It wasn ' t fair. She hated daddy, and she knew that eventually someone would come after her. And, she knew, she ' d be in more trouble when they did.
End of part 1. Part 2 being written. Will be up in next few days. Please let me know what you thought, any ideas, and any comments or questions. Thanks. Murdock's Crazy