Rating: PG 13- for language/violence/romance
Genre: Action/drama/romance
Summary: Shalimar and Brennan's baby is born, but it has a strange ability that intrigues Eckhart into devising a plan to kidnap the child. Only the very protective parent won't give up their child without a fight. My suggestion is that you might want to read Who's the Daddy before you read this story.
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Story by: Quest – shadowfox_fuse@yahoo.com
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Chapter 9: Becoming A Teenager
ONE YEAR LATER: MAINEFox was having trouble keeping the now twelve-year-old Sydney in the house. Even though there was no one within five miles, she desperately wanted to leave. He knew that he would have to let her out into the world some day but he wasn't ready for that just yet.
"Grampy, why can't I go to town?" Sydney asked standing in the doorway of his office with her hands on her hips. Her shoulder length hair framed around her thin face as see glared at her grandfather with her Feral eyes.
"Because you can't," Fox replied bluntly.
"I haven't seen another kid my age for a long time. Wait I haven't seen another kid period," Sydney said smartly.
Fox looked up at her, she had grown up so fast it was hard to accept. "Because I said so, why do you need to go anyway?" Fox asked firmly.
Sydney rolled her eyes. "It's that time of the month, ok!"
"What?" Fox asked not realizing what she meant.
"Do you want me to spell it out for you. I STARTED MY PERIOD!" Sydney yelled at him.
Fox blushed and looked down at his desk. "Go bug Sarah or someone."
"They told me to come to you," Sydney snapped back.
"Just tell them, that I want one of them to go in and get you what you need," Fox said returning to his work.
"FINE!" Sydney huffed rolled her eyes, then walked out of his office and down to the game room to play with Rob. She stormed into the room getting Rob's immediate attention. "Hey Syd what's wrong?"
"Grampy won't let me leave the house," Sydney explained walking towards the center of the room.
"Maybe he has a good reason to," Rob suggested to the young teenage girl.
Sydney sighed. "Yeah whatever."
"Alright I'm going to have you do an advanced game today," Rob told her trying to get her off of the subject.
"Good I need a challenge," Sydney said before Rob left the room so she could start the program.
"Don't use any of your powers or you lose," Rob yelled out to her.
Sydney threw up her arms. "That's no fun!"
Rob just laughed.
Soon several 3D lifelike people showed up in front of Sydney. Sydney took a defensive stance and the programs began. Each of the characters had a different weapon, which left some real marks on Sydney skin when they hit her. The first three characters moved forward and started attacking Sydney with punches, kicks, and their weapons. She moved quickly to the left and the first character ran right by. She then threw a backwards kick hitting the character straight in the center of its back. Causing it to fly across the room slamming into the wall, it slowly disappeared and another character soon generated in front of her.
Sydney tried to fend off the characters in the game but there were too many of them. She had several bruises and cuts, but that didn't stop her from attacking them. Her ponytail whipped in the air as she did a roundhouse kick right into the faces of three characters. As soon as they were down six more popped up, it was like each time one went more two more showed up. After taking down a few more characters, there were just too many to fend off. Sydney was surrounded and there was no way she could win, she was being thrown up against the walls of the room and onto the floor. One of the characters came up to her with a huge broad sword as she lay on the floor, flat on her back. It took one big swing down towards her neck, Sydney cringed waiting to feel the sword on her skin, but she didn't feel anything. She opened her eyes and saw the sword only centimeters away from her neck, and the character was frozen. Sydney heard the door open.
"You Lose!" Rob's voice echoed through the room.
All the characters disappeared as Rob turned off the program. Sydney slowly got up and straightened out her shirt. "Yeah I know!" She answered angrily, then stormed off to her room disgusted at herself for not being able to beat the program.
THE SANCTUARYDevon crouched down in a defensive stance looking at Emma who was taking the responsibility of training the young boy that day. Emma told Shalimar that she would not let him use his powers so he could practice on his free form.
Emma crossed her arms and gave Devon a weird look. Devon stood up and just stared at her, he looked her quickly up and down but Emma didn't notice. Devon couldn't help but stare at Emma with mischievous eyes; he thought Emma was beautiful even if she was all sweaty from sparing, he thought about her all the time. "What?" Devon said with a shrug.
Emma laughed. "You're so much like your mother, in fight stances and attitude. It's just funny," Emma explained. Devon raised one of his eyebrows just like his mother did when she's not impressed with something. "Like I said just like your mother in every way."
"Oh come on
you've got to be kidding," Devon said wiping the sweat from his forehead and
walked closer to Emma.
"No you attack like your mom,
you talk like her, and you even fight like her." Emma explained. "The only
thing you got from your father is his height, spiked hair and a little bit of
his powers."
Devon immediately ran his had through his hair that was spiked up about an inch off his head like his father only Devon's hair was a lot shorter. "Oh, man," Devon said with a slight blush.
"I think that's enough for today," Emma final said seeing the glow in Devon's eyes just like Shalimar when she wanted to fight more.
"What are you scared that I'm going hurt you?" Devon asked with a huge smile.
"YES!" Emma huffed throwing her arm around Devon's neck and pulled him down to give his head a hard rub with her knuckle.
"HEY LEAVE THE HAIR ALONE!" Devon yelled.
"Fine, get out of here," Emma said releasing Devon from her grasp.
Devon smiled. "I see ya later," Devon said and without hesitation slapped Emma ass and ran out of the training room, leaving Emma stunned.
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Emma walked through the rec. room door and found Brennan and Shalimar cuddling on the couch and Jesse in one of the chairs watch TV. "You will not believe what just happened!" Emma announced walking over to the couch.
Brennan and Shalimar's heads popped up over the couch and looked at Emma. "What?" They both asked in unison.
"I think your son had a crush on me." Emma explained.
Shalimar burst out laughing along with Brennan and Jesse. "No he doesn't," She replied.
"No!" Emma placed her hands on her hips. "Then why did he smack my ass?"
"HE WHAT?" Shalimar and Brennan asked shocked at Emma's accusation.
"He smacked my ASS," Emma repeated.
"I'm going to have a talk with that boy." Shalimar replied a little angry that her son was hitting on her best friend.
Brennan untangled himself from Shalimar and stood up. "No, I'll talk to him," Brennan said before heading off to find his son. Brennan opened up the rec. room door just in time to see his son running up the stairs. "HOLD YOUR HORSES HORMONE BOY!" Brennan yelled out, the three inside the rec. room couldn't help but laugh at Brennan's smart-ass order to his son.
Devon stopped dead in his tracks and turned around slowly, he knew his father was mad just by the tone in his voice. "Yes Dad?" Devon asked.
Brennan snapped his finger and pointed for him to come in front of him. "HERE NOW!"
"But Dad, I was going to go watch some TV," Devon whined.
Brennan huffed. "I know you were going to go watch some sexy Baywatch type show, where the girls run around in bathing suits and stuff. GET OVER HERE!"
Devon rolled his eyes and walked over to his father. "So what do you want?"
"DON'T TAKE THAT TONE WITH ME BOY!" Brennan said angrily.
"Sorry." Devon said softly.
"Come take a walk with me, we need to talk," Brennan said.
"Okay," Devon said walking up next to his father and they started walking down the hall. "So what did you want to talk about?"
"I wanted to ask you a question." Brennan said.
"Alright," Devon replied knowing already what his question was.
Brennan took a deep breath, stopped walking and waited for his son to look at him. "Did you slap Emma's butt?"
Devon looked away from his father. "Yes sir," Devon said softly.
"Now why did you do it?" Brennan asked.
"I don't know why I did it," Devon explained. "I guess I like her, I think. Oh I don't know what I'm feeling."
"Hey man, it's ok, I went through the same stage when I was almost thirteen," Brennan told his son trying to connect with his son.
"You did?" Devon asked glad to know that his dad knew what he was going through.
"Oh ya, but it's okay just go with it," Brennan said. "It's natural."
Devon looked confused. "You mean its natural to think my mom is hot."
"WOO, no I didn't say that!" Brennan said a little shocked at his son's reply. "Only I'm the one to think that."
"Oh," Devon said blushing.
"Whatever you do, don't express that feeling, keep that to yourself," Brennan explained.
"I can do that," Devon said with a smile.
"You can talk to me about anything that you might have questions on," Brennan said placing his hand on his son's shoulder.
"Thanks dad," Devon replied.
"No problem," Brennan said then started back towards the rec. room. "And whatever you do don't hit on Emma or your Mom again," Brennan said over his shoulder.
Brennan entered the rec. room and saw three pairs of eyes staring at him. Shalimar walked over to him. "So did you talk to him?"
"Yup everything is under control," Brennan said wrapping his arm around Shalimar's shoulders and walked her back over to Emma and Jesse who were sitting together on one of the chairs.
"Are you sure?" Shalimar asked still not convinced that he got through to Devon.
"I'm sure," Brennan said kissing the top of Shalimar's head.
"I wonder who he got those hormones from?" Jesse asked jokingly.
Shalimar and Emma admittedly pointed to Brennan. Brennan looked shocked. "ME?" He asked pointing to himself with his free hand.
"Yes you!" Shalimar told him.
"I know, but I only do that to you," Brennan replied. Shalimar raised her eyebrow questioning her husband's statement. "It's true! I love you Shal and I would never do it to anyone else. Why would I, I couldn't find anyone hotter."
Shalimar smiled and gave him a quick passionate kiss. "Did I really deserve that?" Brennan asked her questioning her reaction.
"Yeah you did," Shalimar said leaning her body up against Brennan's chest, and he wrapped his arms around her tightly holding her close to him.
TBC
A/N: All right I hope everyone liked that chapter. If you did thank Gabs for the idea! Also to Kipurrz who help out on correcting the chapters!! The next couple of chapters will be R-ish just to warn people for some language and violence. The next chapters I know you'll like I'm not going to say why but there going to be good. Please Review!!