++++++ Another day, another chapter.

This is a continuation of the last chapter.

There is no time jump in this one.

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Six

Nervously Gaia's leg twitched as she sat in the park, hands stuffed in her pocket. She was waiting for her target Aaron Mason. Having been briefed by her mother just that morning the situation was as follows:

Aaron Mason was a mafia man. Born into a family with deep roots in the Italian Mafia his criminal record stated at the age of thirteen. He had his fingers into everything. Prostitution, gun running, counterfeit money, drugs-you name it-he did it.

He was brilliant and always up for newer, bigger, better things.

His bosses were happy with him.

That was until he decided to steal twenty million dollars.

Now his bosses wanted him dead.

And both Deadpool and the Jade Drago were happy enough to comply-for the right fee.

Well Gaia was anyway.

Gaia had chosen not to tell her mother what had happened with David and Jean so when she came home via the roof, she lied and said she wanted to mix it up. She hoped that Shelby had bought it.

Every morning at 6 am Mason would go for a run with some hired goons he had hired. It was Gaia's job to take them out. All of them.

Hence the nervous twitch in her leg.

Gaia looked over the top of her book and watched as a small group of men dressed in running gear came by her. This was the third time they'd come past. Swallowing her nerves, Gaia got to her feet and followed him. "You're Aaron Mason, yeah?" she asked.

His entire entourage stopped in the middle of the tracks.

"What the fuck do you want?" he snapped.

"My friend Stacey said that her friend Andrew said that his girlfriend's cousin Annie said that you could supply some really good shit for a little party we're having this weekend." God Gaia hated speaking teenage lingo? Take a breath for fucks sake.

Mason stared her down. He flicked her wrist and Gaia suddenly found herself frozen in place. She could breath and she could move her eyes but everything else just refused to work.

Great.

He's a mutant.

Who the hell neglected to tell her that little tidbit?

"How the hell did you find me?" he snapped.

She gulped. "My friend Stacey's friend Andrew-"

"Shut up," he snapped. "What do you want?"

"Party drugs?" she guessed. "Stacey usually gets them, she's sick."

"I don't know any damn Stacey or Andrew," Mason snapped. "But-I can make the baby girl a deal." He cupped her face. "What can you do for me?"

Gaia's face grew dark. "What?"

"What can the baby virgin do for me?" he asked her again.

"Nothing!" Gaia snapped. "I am not having sex with you for drugs! That is not part of any deal!"

"Then piss off before I rape your ass anyway," he snapped, letting her go.

"Can I just have one more-" Gaia objected.

"Buzz off little girl," Mason hissed. "I don't give a fuck how old you are-I will put a bullet in your head."

"You first," Gaia deadpanned. She drew her guns, getting her first shots off but missing him altogether. She swore under her breath and took cover behind the trees, knowing that bother her parents were watching. Shelby would be more relaxed, Wade would be itching to get down her and kill them all for even shooting at her.

Taking a deep breath, she waited and then fired. This was going to make the news tonight. Two bodies dropped to the ground and she grinned, taking cover again

Something dropped at her feet and exploded.

Gaia was thrown across the clearing. All his guards were dead so it was just him and her. She got to her feet, a slight rumbling was happening below her.

Mason's eyes opened wide. "What are you?"

Tree roots shot out from underneath her and wrapped around Mason's legs. The ripped him to the ground, more roots came from the earth and wrapped around his body.

Gaia walked up to him, nose bleeding. "Down boy," Gaia snapped, foot to his throat.

He struggled against her but the roots were too strong and too thick for him to move. "Let me go" he shouted. "There's twenty million stashed away…let me go and I can cut you in on a deal."

Gaia ignored the feeling of her nose trickling blood down her face, into her mouth. She aimed her gun at his head. "I don't need the money, thanks," she smiled.

A gun shot rang out across the park clearing.

Seconds later a man wearing a police uniform came out of nowhere. His image shimmered and he turned into Shelby. "Rather messy don't you think?" she teased.

Gaia held her hand out. "Give me your knife. We only need the head, right?"

Shelby took her hunting knife from her belt and handed it to Gaia. She watched as the girl set to work, hacking the guy's head off with a weird look on her face. She watched her daughter with a mixture of worry and pride on her face.

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Wade pouted for a whole week because he never got to kill anyone.

When they got back to New York, Wade wandered off to go spend some time annoying the crap out of the web slinger which he often did when he never got to kill anyone.

Shelby watched out for Gaia-you never really know how killing someone can affect them without someone being killed. She was taking it generally well, even going back to school when they got back with a nice sum of money in her own bank account.

Unofficially, Gaia got her first tattoo as well. A tally mark on the inside of the wrist-an insignificant little thing but that's how Gaia wanted to measure her kills so she did. Something which Wade cried over, having to remove his mask to dry away the tears before knocking out and typing up the tattoo artist for seeing what he looked like.

When Wade came back to their apartment, Gaia and Chaos were sound asleep in the backyard in a bed of the softest grass ever. Shelby was sitting at the table working out their bills.

"About time you got home Wade," Shelby muttered, looking over the electricity bill. "There's Chili Con Carne in the microwave. Heat it up if you're hungry. Gaia cooked."

"Nice to see you're still alive," he noted.

Shelby raised an eyebrow. "Listen…I've been going over the bills and figure we have enough money to buy the apartment next door and renovate."

Wade made a farting noise. "Why?"

Shelby rolled her eyes. "Because we're running out of room," she told him. She got up and crossed into the kitchen. "You remember how much you liked having Gaia around the place?" she asked.

"She was fun!" Wade grinned. "Now she's boring!"

Shelby chuckled. "No she's not. Look, the reason I'm asking is because we're going to have another mouth to feed."

"Really?" Wade gasped. "Do we get to kill people and steal another kid?" he asked her.

Shelby could have smacked herself in the head. "I'm pregnant Wade," she told him. "We're having a baby."