Hey guys! Finally, I bring you chapter 12! I'm so sorry it took me this long, again, to put this out but between moving back to my home for the summer and catching up with family, I took a break from writing and now finally managed to finish this.

I know you guys hate waiting and I hate it even more to stalk for this long but you guys have to know one thing. No matter how long it takes me, I'm never gonna stop writing this story until it's completed. I have the whole plot planned out and I want you guys to read it so never think I'm leaving you hanging.

I'll try to update faster next time and shit is about to go down so I hope I haven't lost my readers! Remember, reviews prompt me to update faster!

I hope you enjoy this! Happy reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kickin'it.


Victories And Losses


Jack narrowed his eyes and raised his arms, clenching his hands into fists and then began circling around the fairly large space he and Nate had created in the middle.

He watched as Nate got into his stance too and soon, the air was thick with anticipation as everybody could now feel the tension between the two men.

Jack personally had no idea how he and Nate had managed to generate this much interest in the others, after all, in their eyes, it should just have been a simple sparring match as only he, Jack, should've seen it as some sort of rivalry.

He realized a little too late that this tension was now tangible to the campers too and he was pretty sure they could all practically see an overly tensed, imaginary rope between himself and Nate that was bound to break soon.

Jack took a brief look at the girls he had heard talking earlier and found them wide eyed with concern and curiosity written all over their faces. It was the curiosity that he needed to feed and so, he attacked.

He vaguely heard the crowd's sharp intake of breath as he focused entirely on his opponent. Jack dived right in and aimed at Nate's side with a roundhouse kick, which the latter was quick to duck. Nate responded with a front snap kick of his own that caught Jack in the chest. Jack grunted and flew back but quickly stabilized himself.

Before he could attack, Nate went at him again with a punch Which Jack easily caught and then shoved his arm back. Nate stumbled back and Jack backed up too, the two of them now rounding eachother again. They were bouncing on their feet while the crowd was bouncing with excitement on their own.

Jack's eyes swept again through the crowd and this time sought out someone in particular. It didn't take long, she was in the frontline and was one of the only two that looked positively worried and shocked. The blonde watched on with disbelieving eyes and felt stupid for overreacting.

It was just a sparring match for goodness' sake!

Jack quickly brought her back to the right as he moved first again, throwing a punch that got blocked and ended up receiving a sidekick to the back of the knee. Jack didn't dare to drop down though and acted quick, grabbing Nate's arm and preventing him from doing anything with it. Then, he hooked his other arm under Nate's armpit and hoisted himself up, carrying the other man's weight too as he lifted him off the ground and flipped him.

Nate was caught completely off guard so he wasn't able to soften the fall, thus he painfully landed flat on the ground. Jack huffed and began bouncing on his feet again, knowing that the other brunet wasn't about to give up that easily.

And he was right. Nate grunted as he stood back up and wiped some sweat off his forehead. Just then, they both seemed to realize that a borderline was needed and someone to countdown whenever one of them went down. Jack didn't think the latter was necessary because this seemed more like a fight that wouldn't end until both of the opponents were completely wiped out.

"Elimination line?" Nate panted out.

"Pretty much falling on the crowd." Jack answered back before ducking as Nate stacked first this time.

He kept attacking and Jack couldn't get out of defence mode. He didn't understand the sense of this method because continuous attacking left one person winded in no time but then he quickly got why Nate was doing this when he thrown to the ground, and finally saw that the man only wanted to see Jack down for one time.

Jack panted and stared up at him, feeling all his sides ache but he was a master of the pain. He glanced at the crowd again and found K, this time with her arms crossed and an attentive and analyzing expression on her face. They locked eyes with K shifting a bit and Jack still panting on the ground.

Then, he set his hands down and hoisted himself up, never leaving eye contact. K's eyes followed him up and she glared at him once he was on his feet. He kept his eyes on her for another second and shot her a krooked smirk before turning to his opponent, ready to throw him down once and for all.

Jack took his stance and motioned for Nate to come at him, istigating him. He was successful because Nate jumped into action with a series of punches, all of which Jack blocked. Once again, Jack was on the defensive while Nate on the offensive and it didn't seem like it would change until Jack caught Nate's arm and twisted it. Nate screamed in pain but Jack quickly realesed him.

He gave Nate enough time to turn around before he ended the matters. Nate yelled and swiped is leg under Jack's feet in order to throw him off balance but that was just what Jack needed. He leapt into the air and suddenly for everyone watching, It was like the show had been switched to slow motion.

The kids and K watched astonished as Jack's body twisted in mid air, his right leg stretched out completely and his left one bent. In a single moment it was clear to everyone that he was performing a flying dragon kick, one that was executed perfectly as he hit Nate square in the chest. And then, the slow-mo had been turned off and they all watched as Nate flew back from the force of the blow.

He was down and wasn't getting back up.

Jack landed right on his feet and everything quited down.

He had won.

He panted and bent over, resting his hands over his knees and hearing the crowd snap out of their shock.

Whatever happened afterwards was all just a blur for Jack as people swarmed him from all sides, complementing both men but mostly him. He just smiled and in the middle of it all, looked over and saw K, who was already looking back at him as she helped Nate up, glaring at Jack all the while.

But this look was different, it was filled with confusion and he couldn't get why.

What was there to be confused about? It was just a sparring match and he had won, that was it.

Not wanting to get drowned in that look, Jack averted his gaze elsewhere and grinned at his crowd, starting to celebrate with them. He shrugged off any feeling that wasn't satisfaction and right there, right then, he felt like he could win anything.

He felt like this victory held a deeper meaning in itself but again, he ignored it.

After all, he had become a master at ignoring feelings a long time ago.


All day, Olivia had been anxious. In Gabe's words, she was fidgety, unable to stand still for a couple of minutes and this newly developed link of hers had already driven him crazy hours ago. Now, he just stopped complaining.

Until they were going through with the day's activities that had kept her occupied, she was fine, but ever since they had started training in karate, it was like her mind wouldn't let her rest.

For Gabe it was pretty strange how playing Capture The Flag kept her at ease while karate tensed her up. He wanted to know what was up but he had the strong feeling that even she didn't know.

They got partnered up for some kata exercising and in her nervous flailing she had managed to hit him four times when she wasn't even supposed to.

After practice, they had all sat down to make some craftwork, the two of them paired up again to make a clay structure and Gabe had thought that this would make Olivia relax a bit. She liked crafting after all.

But he was wrong. The slowly growing penguin they were making turned into a splattered butt on the ground as it got knocked off the table by the little blonde and Gabe honestly couldn't stand the apologetic look she had given him, not because of harsh feelings but because at the end of the day, he didn't even find himself angry at her.

He was worried, really worried because he was the one that messed things up, not her. Something was wrong, she hadn't even bickered with him all day, nor hit him whenever he behaved stupidly, and trust him, he had done some pretty crazy stuff to get a reaction out of her.

But nothing, she continued being fidgety and he continued being miserable. More than once during the day, Gabe had wished for his little ginger genius to be by his side, not only because he missed him but also because he would've fixed Olivia by now.

Bet he wasn't here right now so Gabe decided that it was time he did something on how own. He was going to 'fix' his best friend.

"Hey Liv." He softly said as he sat down on the grass next to Olivia. The sun was close to setting and they were getting r day to leave.

"Hey." She replied in a voice way softer than his and taht was when Gabe had enough. This was his chance.

"What's wrong Liv? And don't say nothing, I know there's something bothering you." Gabe blurted out, quickly backing himself up and making sure he got his answer and not some nonsense.

He expected her to start denying but instead she turned to him with wide eyes and just stared. For a while, neither of them spoke until Olivia finally broke.

"I don't know." And Gabe knew she wasn't lying. There was no mistaking the blank innocence her eyes were reflecting him and he had expected it all along after all. Now he just felt even more sorry for her.

This wasn't fair, a five year old wasn't supposed to be subjected to this kind of mental torture. They should just be about carefree fun, instead here there were with more weight on their shoulders than they could handle.

Gabe honeslty didn't blame anyone, not Olivia and not Uncle Jack for all this stress because he knew that his uncle had always tried his best to make sure that he was enough for Olivia and in these last few weeks, he had tried to lift all the negative weight off her but he had himself to handle too and there is just so much a persone can take.

Uncle Jack may be physically strong but being strong at heart is a whole other thing and Gabe knew that. Now, he was afraid that camp would be the end of the two Brewers and he didn't want that. He needed them both he needed his little Olivia so right then, he promised himself that he would shield her from the world and keep her safe like a glass artifact.

Gabe moved closer to Olivia and wrapped his arms around her. She hugged him back tightly and he knew then that she had just needed a hug, something to comfort her.

"It's okayLiv. Everything's gonna be fine."


"Gabe…we have a problem." It was the first thing Lance said to him as soon as they were alone.

Lance and the others had arrived with a man Gabe had never seen before a little after he and Olivia did. Everybody was exhausted but Gabe was happy to see Lance again as he had missed his best friend. He had hoped to chill with him for the rest of the evening while sharing the day's events but Lance was in no way about to bring good news and after his own day, Gabe didn't need any of that.

Hearing Lance, Gabe's eyes widened as of right now, he couldn't imagine anything worse that was yet to happen.

"What?" His voice was urgent and demanding, wanting to quickly get over it. He saw Lance gulp before he stared the matters.

"K has a boyfriend."

"She what now?!" A statement that was to be followed by a stunned silence, got a yell in response as Gabe finally cracked. This was just it, it was too much.

They now officially had in their hands a little girl that believed her counselor to be her mother, but said woman had a boyfriend and now they were to expect a clash of the titans between this new guy and Uncle Jack?

When did the Brewer's life turn into a soap opera?!

"Shh! Keep it down! I don't want Olivia to hear us!" Lance hissed as he looked around to make sure they were alone. But Gabe now was on the roll.

"I can't keep it down! I just had a disaster of a day here with Olivia all slouchy and now you're telling me this?! This is just going to break her!" Gabe groaned and slapped his hands on his face.

"Besides, how do you want to keep it from her? She's gonna realized it soon enough." He added and looked at Lance in a way that pretended he fix everything.

"I know, I know but I don't want to say it now. I want a break from my own disaster of a day. You weren't there to see Uncle Jack go through his moods swings Gabe, he was punching a tree one second and the other he was acting like he didn't care. It all ended then a spar between him and Nate and Uncle Jack won. Him and K haven't talked since the little face off they had before practice and I'm just coming back from a heated atmosphere so please don't look at me like that! I don't know how to fix this!"

Lance's voice grew louder with every word he said until he burst at the end. Now he was panting hard and Gabe found it a good thing that he took it all out. God knows he could've exploded with all this pent up stress.

"Hey hey, relax. I'm sorry, now please calm down." Gabe ran a hand up and down his friend's back and began walking him to their cabin. They went inside and dropped onto Lance's bed, the little guy now breathing soundly.

"I'm sorry I snapped but now you know what happened with me. This is bad Gabe, bad. It was enough that Olivia thought K was her mom, it was enough stress for Uncle Jack but this is hitting him on a level none of us understands. What can we do?" Lance buried his face in his hands and hoped to find some reassurance in Gabe.

"I don't know Lan…I don't know. All I know is that…if this is what has to happen, if K was brought back into Jack and Olivia's life, there must be a reason for it. Maybe we should just let it go. I want to say the same to Liv but this is about her too so she can't let go that easily. What we need to do is just stay back and watch." Gabe was staring out of the window as he poured out his feelings.

"I'm tired of this mess, I know that Uncle Jack will find a way to deal with this. He always does." Lance looked at him and then out of the window too.

He sighed, Gabe was right. They couldn't do anything but watch and support.

"He'll come to know what he really wants, it's just a matter of times. I mean, how much longer can this admitting and denying go?"


"Hey Liv, we're back. Sorry we took so long." Gabe said as he and Lance took their reserved seats next to Olivia while she glared at them.

"About time you two showed up. Dinner started 10 minutes ago! Where were you?" She asked them in her condescending tone and the boys couldn't help but smile at eachother at her antics. Apparently in the end, no matter what situation they were in, Olivia could well return to her usual self and as of right now, there was nothing more relieving than this for the two boys.

"Lance took too long to pee." Gabe said nonchalantly and started on his food, completely ignoring Lance's incredulous look. Then, he looked at Olivia and found himself thankful that the lie worked, no matter what and who was implied. If you wanted to get Olivia off your back, just say something nasty and she'll be running away.

"Okay ew, I don't need to listen to that now. Just…eat." She hastily said and they all dived into their food, none of them saying anything until their eyes met and out of nowhere, the three of them burst out laughing.

They went on laughing good heartedly for a solid couple of minutes for no reason at all other than the fact that just watching eachother losing it, prompted the others to continue too. It's true when they say laughing is contagious.

After a while, they stopped and tried to catch their breaths, all of them feeling light and happy. They didn't feel the need to say anything else so they went back to eating. Lance's eyes casually scanned the mess hall and they noticed that Uncle Jack wasn't there.

At that, his eyes flickered to Olivia who was happily eating and apparently didn't know that her father wasn't having dinner with them. Lance frowned as he thought about Jack, feeling that Olivia would question about his whereabouts soon as she hadn't seen him all day. He knew Jack probably was in their cabin, relaxing and not feeling hungry after all he had gone through during the day but how could Lance explain to Olivia why her dad wasn't here without revealing the real reason? A simple 'he must be too tired' wouldn't work, they all knew how Jack couldn't go without seeing Olivia for too long and viceversa.

Lance swallowed his bite and hoped stopped thinking about that, hoping that things would go smoothly when Olivia looked up.

"Hey have you seen my dad?" She furrowed her eyebrows and Lance just couldn't take the look. He almost spilled everything when Olivia looked to the side and smiled. Lance thought for a second that it was Jack but as soon as he and Gabe looked the same way, he choked on his own spit.

There were, a few tables away from them, K and Nate sitting together and eating. That wasn't the bad part, it only came when Nate leaned in and kissed K right on the lips and if the gasp Lance heard from behind him wasn't enough of a sign of shock, he didn't know what was.

The boys' heads snapped her way and they saw Olivia with wide incredulous eyes and her mouth hung open. She stared and stared at the couple, torturing herself more and more by the second until Gabe called for her.

"Liv…" His voice was weak, he himself didn't know what to say or do. He already knew about it but it was way different than watching it happen right in front of your eyes. He couldn't even begin to imagine how Olivia must be feeling.

Olivia snapped her head towards them and the shocked expression was permanently stuck on her face. Her lip was beginning to quiver and her eyes were slowly beginning to fill up with tears but she didn't let them fall. Not yet.

She looked back the K and Nate just as they broke apart and K turned her head back, catching Olivia's eyes. She was smiling at first but as soon as she caught a good look at the little blonde, the smile got wiped off her lips and now, there were two blondes staring at eachother from either endof the hall.

"Liv." Lance calle d'amore forcefully, hoping to get her eyes off K because this self torture couldn't go on for much longer. She needed to get it out and the boys knew that.

"Lance…where's my daddy?"

Lance looked at Gabe but he just looked back helplessly.

"I don't know Liv…"

Olivia sniffed as she kept on looking K's way. "If you see him…just tell him I hope I never dream again."

And with that, she turned back to the boys so they could see her red eyes filled with still unshed tears before she got off the bench and ran out of the hall.

Only three pairs of eyes watched her go away and only two could feel her pain. Only one couldn't and for some reason, felt hollow.

Lost in his foggy thoughts, Gabe heard a distant voice in his head that the night wasn't over. The drama had only just begun.


And there you go! I hope you liked this and as always, please review! Thanks guys and stay tuned in for chapter 13! Also, I know that I'm making Gabe and Lance too mature for their age but please go with it? I need it for the story and thanks!

Until next time,

-Alex