-1Chapter 8

Momentary Refuge

Todd and Daisy were racing down the street, trying to get as far away from the Brother Hood house as they could. They had already made it to the 3rd block by the time Victor came out of the house dragging Victoria behind him.

Victor looked up to see the faint figures of him older daughter and Todd running for their lives down the street, he growled when he felt a brisk breeze with the scent of Pietro flowing past him. He opened up the passenger side door of his jeep and threw Victoria in.

"Don't move." he ordered, he then slammed the door shut and went after Daisy and Todd, "I have other business to attend to."

Pietro sped up next to Todd and Daisy, "Hello, guys. Sorry, but I have to pull Toad here away for a good 24 hours for his safety sake."

"No-Wait-" Todd tried to object, but Pietro grabbed a hold of him and sped off all the way to the other side of town.

"Shit!" Daisy was all by herself know. The sounds of heavy footsteps were right behind her, she looked back to see her father charging after her, "Oh, shit!" she doubled her pace, but Victor was still hot on her trail.

"You can keep this up, girl, but I'm gonna catch ya sooner or later! I've got more stamina than ya."

"Can't we talk about this!"

"Yeah, we can talk… Right after I beat your ass to next Sunday!"

"GAH! I think I'll take my chances with out running you!"

Meanwhile, Peitro had taken Todd pretty much to the X-Mansion, but he stopped at the gates.

"There. That should keep a safe distance between us and that psychopath." Todd pulled away from Pietro and began hitting him repeatedly, "OW! Stop it, Toad!" he pushes Todd away, "What the hell's the matter with you! I just saved you!"

"You bastard! You left Daisy behind!"

"Daisy will be fine. Now calm down-"

"Fuck you, Pietro! I'm going back to help her!"

"Uh, Earth to Toad. Daisy is the daughter of Sabertooth! She is in less danger, than you if she gets caught. The worse that he'll do is probably whoop her ass. That or… Ground her from ever seeing your ass again. Ha Ha"

"Shut up! It's not funny!" Todd began pacing back and forth, stopping again to yell at him again, "Take me back there! I'm gonna help her!"

"And how, pray tell, are you going to do that? Overpower him with you stench and hope that he passes out and becomes submissive? Huh?"

"Well, uh-"

"Sabertooth is a very strong and dominant man, Toad, and you are nothing more than a stain on his boot. If you want to still see Daisy, then I suggest that you keep your distance, and wait until she is alone, so you can talk to her. Alright?"

"I don't like it."

"You don't have to like it, Toad. Either way, Daisy is in deep shit right now with her dad, and the only thing that you can hope for is that her dad calms down and allows her to see the day of light again."

"I still don't like it."

A couple hours later, Pierto took Todd back to the Brother Hood house once they thought that Sabertooth was possibly gone. His vehicle wasn't there when they arrived, so they felt a little relieve when they entered the house. Freddy was sitting in the living room in the recliner with an ice pack on his knee.

Lance had just came from the kitchen, bring a tray with some food on it to Freddy, "Here ya go, Freddy." he looks up to see Pietro and Todd standing in the door way, "Oh, hey guys. I see you two survived the wrath of Sabertooh."

"Todd wouldn't have if it weren't for me. This dumb ass wanted to go back and help Daisy."

Lance's jaw dropped, "Dude! What the hell! I mean, I'm not that good at math, but I can sure as hell measure the chances of you winning a fight between the building with claws and your scrawny ass."

"He's just worried about her, you guys." Freddy defended, "Like I'm worried about Vicky."

"Yeah!" Todd walked over to Freddy's side and place a hand on his shoulder, "How long ago did they leave?"

"10 minutes ago right before you two popped through the door. Vicky called the house phone and said that they were gonna be okay, but they might not get to see us for a while."

"Man… I feel like fucking shit for gettin' Daisy in trouble with her old man."

"Yeah, well, you weren't the only one who got them in trouble. Only reason I'm still worried about Vicky is the fact that Sabertooth hit her and called her a slut when she tried to explain to him about accidentally falling asleep. I'm worried that he might do worse to her."

"I've talked to Sasha about Vicky before." Pietro moved over to the couch, "Vicky and their dad don't exactly have that bonding relationship and he treats her differently than the rest."

"What do ya mean differently?"

"I don't know. Sasha wouldn't tell me anymore. All's she said was for me to keep my nose out of other peoples business."

"Man! This fucking sucks!" Freddy punched the wall, leaving a crumbling hole, "I shouldn't have let Sabertooth take Vicky! I don't know where she lives, so I can't go get her! And my knee if fucking broken because of that ass hole!"

"Calm down, Freddy." Todd hopped onto the back of the recliner and thought for a moment, "Monday after school I can follow the girls to their home and the next time something bad goes down we can get Daisy and Vicky. No problem."

"Yes. Problem." Pietro jumped in, "I know where they live and even I can't get in there. Their dad has done something to that place to where not even I can sneak in, I just bounce right off of an invisible wall, and then get shot at by laser guns. I have to practically wait for them to acknowledge my presence, then to turn the blasted thing off, and come get me. It ain't no easy task of going in and out of that place, guys."

"What are we gonna do, Freddy?"

"I don't know, Todd. I just don't know."