Family 4.
Chapter 4:
Wildwing carried the still sleeping Lizzie into the infirmary and placed her down on one of the beds, he stole a quick glance at his best friend who was also sound asleep. Tanya set the medicomm on scan and concluded that all Lizzie had was a sprain, a bump to the head and a slight fever that was probably caused by getting so wet. She ushered Wildwing out of the room and called Phoenix in to help her change Lizzie into some drier clothes.
The next morning Wildwing walked into the infirmary and sat by her bed, stroking her hair and thought. "what the hell happened last night? And why was her car trashed?"
"Not bad," said a groggy voice from the other bed, Wing looked up at his friend, "she may not be from our world but I can see exactly why you hooked up with her, she is fit!"
"Hey, that's not the only reason." Wing replied indignantly.
"Uh huh, yeah right," Canard rolled onto his side and propped himself up on his elbow, "so she good in bed?"
"What?!"
"I said. . . "
"I know what you said and I wouldn't know." Wildwing began to blush, which made Canard want to tease him even more, but before he could;
"Will you two shut up, I have the worst headache ever and your discussing my sex life," Lizzie sat up and stretched, "oh and Canard, he'll tell you soon enough." That made Wildwing blush even more, so he decided it best to change the subject.
"You feeling okay baby?" Wildwing leant down and kissed her cheek causing Canard to roll his eyes, "What happened last night?"
"Would you believe that I accidentally blew up my car and ran into the woods for shelter?" Wildwing crossed his arms and gave the look that Canard thought was reserved for Dive alone, "Okay fine, but you'd better promise that your not going to freak out on me?" He continued to glare at her so she took a deep breath and said as quickly as possible, "Well you see I was in the woods and I saw these lights so I turned off my lights and then one of the guys from the car smashed my window so I hit him with the door, then I ran into the woods and fell down a hill and then you came and the rest you know," it was blatantly obvious that she wasn't telling him something so Wing continued to glare, "that's all that happened honest!" He glared some more, "Oh all right one guy grabbed me and tried to have some fun, but I stopped him so that's okay," Wing looked horrified, so she looked over to Canard for support and he wore the same expression.
"He tried to rape you?!" Wing said quietly not really digesting this information very well.
"Well, yes, but he didn't so every thing's okay!"
"Your okay?" Asked Canard, "your okay with someone attempting to rape you?"
"Look the jerk didn't get very far and it's not like I was stupid enough to face all five of them."
"There were five of them?!" Wildwing yelled this time, "that's it I'm not letting you out of my sight!"
"Oh no," Lizzie crossed her arms now, "I will not be babied by you or anyone else, I refuse to let this change my life in any way, and if you even think of trying to protect me every single minute of the day I swear I'll kick your butt," she brushed a strand of un-gelled hair out of his eyes and looked into them, "Am I making my self perfectly clear honey?"
"Sheesh," Canard chuckled, "if you think your going to stop that guy from protecting you you've got another thing coming."
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It was a few days before either Canard or Lizzie were let out of the infirmary, which wasn't too painful as it gave Wildwing and Dive a chance to catch up with their sister. It was a Saturday, most of the team were still inside as it was winter, plus they had no intention of making the same mistake as the year before, namely getting mixed up with any Christmas shoppers (there was two weeks to go before old st. Nick came down their non existent chimney). Canard was at the breakfast table in a pair of sweat pants and a shirt, his arm around Silver's waist. Wildwing couldn't see Lizzie though, Canard noticed this and;
"In there," he pointed his thumb over his shoulder towards the ready room containing Drake one, "She's thrashing your brother at video games." Wildwing raised an eyebrow and carried on towards the door. When he entered he found two chairs pulled up close to the screen, Nosedive was on one, a controller in his hands looking intently at the game, and Lizzie was in the other, her legs were crossed and she was leaning forward with a look of complete concentration on her face, her mouth with a slight smile in the corners. Suddenly Dives character flew out of the screen and the screen showed 'Game Over'.
"Ha!" Laughed Lizzie pointing at her opponent, "I win again, maybe next time you won't tell me girls can't play video games, Blondie!"
"Quit calling me that, besides, how'd you get so good anyway?" Dive gave her a questioning look and Lizzie just shrugged.
"Remember that friend I was supposed to be visiting the other day, Taisha?"
"Yeah?"
"Well she's a complete genius at everything, kinda like Tanya, she graduated at school at about twelve, which is so depressing," she paused and smiled at his bewildered look, he hadn't thought humans could be that smart, not like Tanya anyway, "Well anyway, she used to thrash every body at video games cause she could work it all out in an instant, so I thought I'd get my own back."
"Did you?" Wildwing asked causing them to jump, he walked up to the pair and leant down kissing Lizzie on the cheek whispering in her ear, "are you sure you should be up yet you still look a little pale?"
"I'm fine Wing, and no I didn't but I have three different consoles at home that I practice on, sad I know but I've been trying for years, who knows maybe I'll beat her one day."
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Wildwing dropped Lizzie off at her apartment, and walked away a little reluctantly, their relationship grew more and more serious by the day, it also became more and more public, it wouldn't be long before Draganus found out. He took a deep breath to steady his nerves when he thought of what he might do to her if he caught her, what would he do to get back at him. Draganus knew that Wildwing treasured his family, he only had to look at the relationship between the two brothers to guess that. If he took Lizzie would he just kill her or would he do something worse. He kept going heading back to the pond pondering this and finally decided that he would ask her to move into the pond with him and the others, but fist he'd have to check that the rest of the team would be okay with yet another person living at the already crowded pond.
Lizzie sat down and opened the book she had neglected the last few weeks and started to read, her ankle was totally healed by now and she could move around with no problem, it had only been a bad sprain. It wasn't long before she felt herself drifting off to sleep, the book falling to the floor.
"Now siege, whilst she's asleep!" Said Wraith quietly. Siege smashed through the window only to wake Lizzie up who fled as soon as she saw who had smashed her window. Unfortunately the chameleon was waiting for her in one of his many morphs and over powered her, she tried to scream for help but Siege hit her hard across the back of the head with his laser gun and she fell into blackness.