Chapter 6
June 2, 2006
The sun rose over LazyTown and it was going to be another warm day but Robbie and Amanda weren't paying attention. The couple had been arguing for the past twenty minutes. Helga had been up early and Robbie hadn't slept so they woke Amanda up. They told her that she was going to offer the challenge to Sportacus.
The girl was getting tried of Helga and the whole charade. She hadn't slept very well and she finally snapped. Robbie could feel her frustration but he didn't want her to mess up everything.
"Amanda you will do as you are told! I will not stand for this insubordination!" Robbie fumed.
"I'm not taking orders from you anymore! You can just kiss my…" she didn't get to finish as Robbie's hand slapped her across the face. Shocked, Amanda said nothing as she held her cheek. She looked at him with sad eyes and began to cry. Robbie's look on his face was one of confusion. He couldn't believe what he had just done. The ex-villain started to apologize but the words wouldn't come. Amanda ran from him and Helga.
Stephanie and Sportacus were still sleeping when they heard the above-average hero's crystal sounding. It was closely followed by someone pounding on their front door. Sportacus quickly got up and slipped on his bathrobe. Stephanie did the same and the couple rushed to the door hoping that something terrible hadn't happened to Joshua. They got the shock of their lives upon opening the door and finding Amanda standing there in pajamas crying her eyes out.
Stephanie grabbed her friend and helped her to the couch. She tried to ask what had happened but she couldn't decipher what Amanda was saying between sobs. Sportacus saw that the distraught girl was holding her cheek and guessed what had happened. Quickly he got some ice and handed it to Stephanie.
"Amanda, we need to see your face. Please move your hand." The girl obeyed her friend's request and slowly pulled her hand away. A big red welt appeared and Stephanie was taken aback.
"Who hit you?" She asked as she put the ice on the mark.
"Robbie." Came the one word response. Stephanie turned to her husband and saw the look on his face. The usually dormant anger had started to surface. Things had gone too far and now it was time to act.
"Stephanie, stay here and tend to Amanda. It's time that we ended this." Before his wife could say anything, Sportacus raced back down the hall. Stephanie didn't want to leave Amanda but she also didn't want her husband rushing headlong into something either. When he emerged from their bedroom moments later, dressed in his blue uniform, she confronted him.
"You can't just rush in without thinking. This wasn't part of the plan. Things have changed." Stephanie told him.
"If it's a fight Robbie wants than it's a fight he'll get." The above-average hero stated flatly.
"I don't want to have to tell everyone, including our son, that you're dead. All I want you to do is think, before you act." Stephanie's words snapped him back from his anger. He smiled and kissed her.
"I promise this will work out. Don't worry. Tend to Amanda and I'll be home soon." Sportacus said. Hugging her, the above-average hero left the apartment.
To Be Continued…