Author's Note: Here's the next installment. Hope you like it.
Special Abilities
By 18lzytwner
Chapter 1
August 15, 2011
It had been four years since Amanda and Robbie had announced they were getting married and three since their actual marriage. The two were eating breakfast together wondering what to do today.
"You know I've been thinking." Amanda said.
"Uh oh. What did I tell you about that?" Robbie teased.
"Listen Mr. Sarcastic, maybe we should have kids." Amanda told him. Robbie practically choked on his breakfast cake.
On the other side of town, Joshua was already up and running around the apartment. He was now five years old and would start school in three weeks. His twenty-seven year old mother was making breakfast. Sportacus walked into the kitchen, fresh from the shower.
"Ouch." He said.
"Is it your back again?" Stephanie asked. He nodded.
"I guess being thirty-nine has its disadvantages."
"Well I'm sure my twenty-eighth birthday won't help in October. Come on, I'll get the heat wrap." Stephanie said as she helped him sit down at the kitchen table. Then she went down the hall and grabbed the heat wraps from under the bathroom sink.
"Daddy, you ok?" Joshua asked.
"I'll be fine buddy. Your mommy is taking good care of me." Sportacus smiled despite the sharp pains in his lower back.
"Here lift up your shirt." Stephanie said walking back into the kitchen.
"Tempting but I think you might have to do it." Sportacus told her. Carefully, she lifted the back of his shirt and put a heat wrap on it.
"I wish you'd go see Dr. Feels Good." His wife pleaded.
"I'll go see him today as soon as I can stand up straight." The above-average hero promised.
"Mommy?" Joshua asked from the living room floor.
"What is it sweetie?" Stephanie asked.
"Can you help me too?" He asked. Stephanie smiled.
"I'll be right there honey." Slowly putting Sportacus' shirt back down, the mother and wife walked over to her son.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"There's nothing wrong with me." Robbie said.
"I didn't say that." Amanda told him.
"You really want a kid?" Robbie asked trying to get the conversation away from where it was headed.
"Well you seem so good with Joshua and I think we can handle having our own baby." Amanda said.
"I guess I just never thought about having one to be honest. I'm afraid that he or she might turn out to be like the old me." Robbie confessed. Amanda hadn't thought about that.
To Be Continued…