After the given time, Jackie, Becky and friends arrived at the given address. They found it a bit weird that Jackie's cousins just gave them their addresses so effortlessly but whatever.
Jackie nervously walked up to the two story blue house and rang the doorbell. He had a nice little garden growing in the front and she wondered what it was like in the back. The door opened after a minute.
There to greet them was her cousin who's hair was still dripping wet presumably from his shower. He was still drying his hair off with a towel.
"Come on in." As soon as they walked in they were sniffed by a large black dog and two smaller dogs. They were all well groomed dogs.
Becky, Bob and Tobey sat on one couch and Sam, Jackie and Benedict sat on the other one. No one said or did anything for a while until Becky leaned forward to pet the big black dog who in turn sniffed her and started licking her hand. Becky pulled her hand away a bit startled and then the dog barked at her a couple of times.
"Bartholomew, bad dog." Benedict told the dog whose ears drooped and he immediately started whining. "We do not bark at people." Bartholomew walked out of the room and into the kitchen. The smaller dogs followed him.
"Do you always call him by his full name?" Jackie asked Benedict, with her eyebrow raised in confusion.
"Only when he's in trouble. I normally just call him Bart. Anyway, we are not here to discuss my dogs. We are here to discuss how we are related." He said, waving his hand back and forth between him and Jackie.
Jackie sighed and quickly transformed in front of him. His eyes widened. "You're envy?"
A little while later...
After filling him in on pretty much every detail of her life that we all know so far, it was his turn to transform. With a snap of his fingers, he was wearing a violet colored suit that looked finely tailored with a violet luchador looking mask.
"And we took down Doctor Two Brains by working together and destroying his latest version of a ray that turns things into cheese related products." She finished her story with wild hand exaggerations and enthusiasm.
"If you haven't already guessed it I'm Pride. I am also the head of this family." He sighed before continuing. "To my understanding, you are dating a fellow super hero."
"Yes? What of me dating this fellow super?" Jackie asked, feeling confused and a little weirded out because she thought the question was a bit too intrusive. Not even Sam or her dad would ask her those type of questions.
He sighed before clasping his hands together. "This isn't my place to be saying anything but I feel like you should break up with him." He told her as serious as possible.
"WHAT?! WHY?!" Jackie and Becky asked at the same time. Both of them almost leaping at him to ask him why he was doing this to them.
"This is going to sound a bit weird but it's because it will kill you." He told her but not exactly explaining why.
"Huh? Please explain." Tobey said, speaking up for the first time since they got there.
"Your mother died not too long after having you, right?" He told her and them.
"Where are you going with this?" Asked Jackie, really not getting it.
"What I mean is if you continue with this relationship then it will eventually lead to you getting pregnant and you will die." He told her.
Jackie rolled her eyes at this. She had already gotten the talk from her dad. Rex didn't want to try that with her just yet so for the time being they were bonding over mutual interests and shared experiences. For her he was willing to wait. "I am willing to wait to do that." She blushed angrily. "Haven't other women in our family gotten pregnant, had kids and not died?" She asked him seriously.
"All the ones that have gotten pregnant have died not long after. Your mother ran off to get away from this family. She ran away and made a mistake." He told her with anger in his eyes. "And look at what happened. She died because of her mistake."
That was the last straw and Jackie got up with tears in her eyes and ran out the door. Not knowing what else to do, Jackie, Tobey and Bob ran after her.
Sam turned to Benedict. "Thanks a lot asshole. She was already sensitive about her mother and you just had to call her a mistake."
"I didn't mean it like that." He said. "I just...wanted to warn her..."
"I think we should just leave." Sam told him as he got up from the couch and shut the door behind him.
Everyone was out on the front lawn since Sam kind of had the only keys to the vehicle. Becky and Tobey were trying to calm down a crying Jackie and Bob was eating from a pack of peanuts while being perched on Becky's shoulders.
Sam approached the teens and monkey. "Come on kids, let's get a motel room for the night. We're going to need it."
They all climbed into the vehicle and using their phones they found the closest and cheapest motel for the night. After checking in they got two separate rooms. Sam and Tobey shared a room and Becky shared a room with Jackie and Bob. Bob really couldn't stand to be away from Becky for long. They both knew that Bob would be coming with Becky when she went off to college.
Becky and Jackie began exploring their room. The bathroom gave them chills because it looked like something out of a horror movie. They took turns showering.
Bob decided to take an hour long bubble bath when they were done using the bathroom.
Becky decided that while Bob was not in the room would be the best time to talk about what happened.
"Jackie.." Becky began. "I don't know why he would think that but maybe we should have let him explain more on what he meant. Maybe he didn't mean anything bad by it.."
Jackie cut her off. "You seriously think he didn't mean anything bad by calling my entire existence a mistake? Until it happens to you, you don't know how I feel. You don't know how it feels to not be wanted by someone you call a part of your family." Jackie began crying.
"You're wrong about one thing. I do know what it's like to be rejected by people I called a part of my family. Ever since I ended up on Earth by birth parents back on Lexicon never thought to come looking for me. They never sent out a search party or anything. If they cared I'm sure they would have found me by now but they haven't. I used to be so hopeful as a child that maybe one day they would come back for me. As a teen, I hated them for it. Now, I have learned to accept it. As of right now the only family I need is my family here on Earth. I don't even know how to get back to Lexicon to find out what happened to them but you can find out more about your family. Maybe if we go back he'll apologize for what he said, maybe you'll learn more about what your mother was like. Don't throw away what could be your only chance to know more about her."
Becky sighed and fell back on the king sized bed. They agreed to share a bed for the night to cut down on costs. Jackie didn't mind sharing it with Becky but it was Bob she was worried about.
Meanwhile Bob was playing with the tiny shampoo bottles he found. He was making them reenact a scene from Titanic and enjoying every minute of it.
"Fine." Jackie whined. "I will ask uncle Sam if we can stop by again tomorrow. For now we should probably get to bed."
Bob almost fell asleep in the tub until the water turned cold. He finished up and dried himself off. After doing his bedtime routine, Bob climbed into the bed in between Becky and Jackie.
Becky had never had to share a bed with Bob before so she wasn't used to this.
Both Becky and Jackie had trouble sleeping with Bob in between them.
First of all Bob snored, second of all Bob slept on top of their pillows and he spread out like a starfish, taking up most if not all of the head room.
He at some point started pulling their hair, causing one of the girls to reach out and hit the hand holding their hair. Halfway through the night, they made Bob go sleep in the tub because he wouldn't stop hair pulling.
Becky felt bad that they had to make him sleep in the tub but if they hadn't they would have been very tired in the morning.
Jackie didn't feel as bad about it. She would have been ok with Bob sleeping next to her if he wasn't hogging the pillows and pulling her hair so much.
The next day...
The group checked out of the motel in the morning and after grabbing a quick breakfast, they headed on over to Benedict's place.
After some time and talking it over, Benedict apologized to Jackie and began talking to her normally.
"Look, it's not that I don't want you to date but it seems that with almost every significant other that has been in this family or just a small part of it has died. This is why none of us have significant others. It's a family curse."
Jackie's eyes widened at this. She cared about Rex and didn't want anything bad to happen to him.
"Are you for real?" She asked him. She then thought real hard about it. "Wait...if it only happens to significant others, why did my mom die and not my dad?" She asked in confusion.
"Your mother's love for your father was deep enough to reverse the curse."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Sorry for such a short chapter. Hopefully the next one can be longer. What did you guys think of it? Please let me know in the comments.
I used the name Benedict because Benedict Cumberbatch is one of my favorite actors. I just really liked the name Genevieve and they all have the same last name because I was too lazy to come up with different last names.
