Chapter 12

Agent Sindri fired his weapon hitting Eysteinn in the left knee. The villain fell down and Halldór cuffed him. Then he ran over to his partner.

Anna had been lucky. As any good agent would, she had worn her bulletproof vest. The Kevlar had stopped the bullet from piercing her skin. If Anna hadn't been wearing it she would have died. Slowly, Halldór helped her to her feet and the two rushed over to Sportacus.

Stephanie had fallen to her husband's side. She didn't think she could handle losing Sportacus too. Agents Brynja and Sindri were there in an instant.

Sportacus looked up and saw Stephanie's brown eyes filled with concern. He smiled and sat up. Slowly he lifted his shirt to reveal a bulletproof vest. The bullet had struck just six inches above the bottom.

Eysteinn couldn't believe what he was seeing. Maybe it was all the pain he was in but he could've sworn he saw Sportacus stand up and the pink-haired girl wrap her arms around him. Then the bunch headed his way.

"So you're the man who killed my father." Sportacus said. His voice filled with disgust. Eysteinn didn't answer and continued to clutch his knee.

"Who do you work for?" Anna asked him. Again Eysteinn didn't answer. She then tried in German and Russian. Agent Sindri asked him in Icelandic but every time Eysteinn refused to answer. Fed up, Sportacus did something no one was expecting.

He stepped on Eysteinn's wounded knee, hard. The villain cried out in pain. Then bending down so that only Eysteinn could hear him, Sportacus said,

"You killed my father and I want to know who you are working for. If you ever intend to use your left leg again, you'll tell me, you son of a bitch." Eysteinn just smirked and responded,

"You'll never get anything out of me. I'll die before I betray my brothers. Odin will welcome me with open arms for what I've done." Sportacus was about to do something when Anna stopped him.

"We'd better get him to a doctor." She pulled the hero away before he did something he might regret.

"Come on, Sportacus lets go." Stephanie said taking his hand. He started to object but he knew that his wife wouldn't hear of it. The two left the Interpol Agents to handle Eysteinn.

Amanda and Robbie sat at the Mayor's house waiting anxiously. Bessie was in the kitchen trying to busy herself and Uncle Milford was busy doing what he did best, being a worrywart. There was a knock at the door and the four of them practically knocked each other over to get to it.

Amanda was the first to the door. Flinging it open, she saw Stephanie and Sportacus standing there. The girl wrapped her arms around the couple. Bessie and Uncle Milford hugged them too. Robbie waited and then shook Sportacus' hand and gave Stephanie a hug.

"You could've joined in our group hug you know." Amanda told him.

"I'm still not quite ready for group hugs. Besides family first." Robbie explained. The girl smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The group settled down in the living room and Sportacus explained everything. Everything that is, except for the whole son of a bitch part.

Eysteinn was carted off to FunTown hospital. Agents Brynja and Sindri didn't let him out of their sight. The nurses wheeled him into surgery.

Stephanie held Sportacus' hand as they walked back to the airship. It had been a very trying afternoon and she could tell that her husband was tired (even though he refused to admit it). The two climbed the ladder and went into the airship.

"You gave me quite a scare today." Stephanie said as she sat down on the bed.

"Well getting shot at wasn't exactly part of the plan." Sportacus replied sarcastically as he pulled off his shirt.

"I thought I'd lost you and here you are being snippy with me." She said feeling hurt.

"I'm sorry. It has just been very stressful lately and I can't seem to handle it." He said lying down on the bed. Stephanie crawled over to him and put her head on his shoulder.

"It's ok." She told him.

"No, it's not ok. Just because things have been stressful doesn't mean I should get snippy with you." Sportacus said pulling her close.

"It's been pretty hard for all of us but now its over. We can go back to being normal or as close to normal as possible." Stephanie replied kissing him on the cheek.

"Well how about I make it up to you?" her husband asked.

"Oh and how to you propose to do that?" she wondered. Without saying a word, Sportacus rolled her onto her back and kissed her.

"Hmm, you're going to have to do a lot better than that." Stephanie teased.

"Oh trust me, I will." Sportacus smiled and kissed her again.

"I thought you were tired." She flirted as she started to pull off his pants.

"Not that tired." He answered.

To Be Continued…