Blaze Of Glory

PikaDarkness

Chapter 20

Dawn

"So are we cool?" Emma asked, Brock nodded. "I meant no harm in anything that I said to you."

"I know and its mutual to me too." They shared a hug before putting their hands in their pockets, swaying, and looking the other way.

"Do you want to go out tomorrow? Ash and Misty too of course." Emma asked, biting her tongue as soon as the offer was out.

"Yeah sure… just as friends I don't want to upset you again." Emma pushed Brock who laughed.

"I'm not going to get upset again. Trust me." Emma grinned, Brock flashed his smile and it was like a light had hit her, it was surreal.

"We should ask Ash and Misty first, and Delia and Dad." Emma broke eye contact and walked into the kitchen where Jeff and Delia were.

"Why're you telling Jeff and Delia?" Brock asked confused. Emma looked at him. "Oh right, we need parental permission before we can really go anywhere."

"Yeah! I cant believe smart old Brock completely forgot that vital piece of information… that's just so incredible!" Emma teased getting a so what look from him.

Walking in the kitchen Emma decided to cut to the chase. "Hey guys…" oh Emma! That is not the chase! "What are you doing?"

"Standing and talking." Jeff looked at her weirdly then crossed his arms. "What are you planning?"

Emma looked at him open mouthed. "Just because I come in here trying to make civilised conversation-"

"Or but into it." Jeff supplied looking at Emma coolly "Whatever it is its no"

"I didn't even ask yet!" Emma was happily shocked.

Jeff shook his head. "When you do this something bad always happens… no."

"Nothing bad will happen!" Emma promised. "Dad, nothing bad will happen I swear!"Jeff did a 'mmm hmm." noise "And every time you say that something goes bad."

"Yeah like you!" Emma was upset that he didn't trust her. She turned away looking Jeff up and down with pretend disgust and walking out of the room, Brock following.

"What are you doing we need permission!" Brock whispered to her looking at her like she was crazy.

"I know what I'm doing this works almost every time so just shut up and keep walking." Emma muttered back. Indeed it did work, Jeff came out of the kitchen two minutes later and called Emma down.

She came down the stairs with her hands in her pockets, Jeff put a hand on her head. "You have great methods to make me do what you want to do… so what was it you wanted to do tomorrow?"

"Me and Brock wanted to know if we - Ash and Misty included, could go out and just do some stuff… no cars included." Jeff laughed, the last time they innocently went out to mess around Emma got upset with Jeff kissing Delia ending up with her running off with him following and being hit by a car.

"Alright, just don't run across driveways! I couldn't take it the first time!"

"I learned my lesson." Emma smiled sincerely, Jeff pulled her into a tight hug. Emma returned it.

"Alright then, just go ask Ash and Misty." Jeff released her and watched her run upstairs.

"You let her get away with to many things." Delia noted, walking into the room. "You should know when to say no and stick with it."

"What can I say? I just wanna make her happy." Jeff shrugged, Delia kissed him, love still didn't feel right with him. "Delia, look… I'm not comfortable with being in love again… it feels like I'm disrespecting Andrea because when I got together with her I was with her for life! Even after 7 years it doesn't feel right."

"I understand." Delia nodded, feeling a little let down but she needed to know how he felt about them together. "Thanks for being open with me."

"Anytime." Jeff grinned. "Just friends?"

"Just friends… for now." Delia winked, Jeff chuckled.

Emma was standing over the banister, "Well done dad…" she was proud of him for being honest about his feelings, looks like he's gone from rushing head-on into things to just taking it slow and steady, preparing for the next hurdle in life. She turned and walked into her room to ask the others if they wanted to come with her and Brock.

***

"Alright so you all set?" Jeff asked.

"Dad we're not on a field trip!" Emma teased, cocking her head with a bright expression. She was wearing a midnight blue jacket and navy jeans and a black hat. Jeff grabbed the brim and pulled it over her face, she heatedly pulled it back up and righted it.

"Well get going!" Jeff ushered them out the door.

***

"Oh man!" Ash exclaimed, licking his ice cream (Chocolate with hot fudge) "That game arcade was the best! Brock you couldn't beat me at the racing cars!"

Brock blushed. "I was trying my best!"

Emma laughed, "You came last every time!" Brock didn't notice where he was walking and crashed right into a girl fixing her make-up, she screamed as her lipstick went vertically up her face.

"I'm so sorry!" Emma beckoned everyone else to leave Brock with her. "I didn't mean to…" it took all of Brocks self control to not laugh at her.

"You should be!" She cried, using a tissue she had in her pocket to wipe the lipstick off her. "Your going to pay!"

"It was an accident!" Emma felt the need to come back over.

"Hey guys." Emma bounced to Brock's side. "You gotta little lipstick all over your face." Emma drew her finger all over the girl's face.

"Shut up!"

"Who are you?" Emma asked, shaking her head slightly.

The girl stared insolently at her. "The name is Dawn."

"Right now you look like an apocalypse not a sunrise!" Emma burst out laughing bringing Brock in it."

Dawn suddenly ran off bringing back tough looking men and women. Ash and Misty came beside Brock and Emma.

"Heard you been hating up on Dawn." One of them said, he had no shirt on revealing ab's.

"We aren't hating, we're just trying to help her locate her lipstick-"

"On her face." Misty put in. Suddenly a fight broke out, it was like an inferno. Passers by had to walk on the gutter to avoid being hit. Within five minutes Police officers swarmed in and broke the fight, taking them all to the station.

Emma sat with handcuff's on her wondering what Jeff would say when he came in, for they called him and Delia.

Jeff immediately raced to Emma the minute he walked in. "What were you thinking?!"

One female officer that was at the front desk faced Jeff. "Who are you?"

"I'm her father." Jeff gestured at Emma. The officer nodded.

"Come here and sign these papers, and we'll release her." Jeff went to the table signed the papers, the officer then walked to Emma and the handcuff's came off. "Don't go doing that again."

Emma nodded, then walked out the door with Jeff's hand on her back. Once they got outside Jeff started.

"What the hell did you think you were doing?!"

Emma didn't flinch, she wasn't scared. "Look all we were trying to do was-"

"I don't care what you were trying to do, you got yourself in trouble when you promised me you wouldn't! I cant trust you anymore Emma."

"That's unfair dad."

Jeff shook his head. "What's unfair is you breaking your promise getting into a fight with a stranger then dragging me down to the police station to get you."

"I wasn't trying to get into a fight, I was helping the girl get all the lipstick off her face." Emma looked at Jeff as if he was joking, rubbing her wrists to get the circulation back.

Dawn and her dad walked out of the station. "That's her dad!" Her father made a beeline for them. Jeff walked out to meet him so he wouldn't get passed to get to Emma.

"Who are you?" The man asked.

Jeff playfully thought for a moment. "I'm her father."

"Smart mouth… what's your name?"

"Jeff Hardy… and yours?"

"Frank Corby" (I don't know Dawns last name!)

Jeff nodded, then turned away, Frank grabbed Jeff and spun him back around. "If your daughter is anywhere near Dawn I'll personally track you down."

Emma walked up and gave Frank the look of ominous death. "I don't have any intentions of going near Dawn, it almost killed me to do it once." Frank looked enraged, but Emma and Jeff were already walking away.

"You have some smart ass comments" Jeff shook his head, grinning.

Emma looked at Jeff. "Dad aren't I going to be punished for getting into a fight."

"Honestly I cant be bothered." Jeff admitted. "Your not going to learn from it- I never did as well."

"No way! Your lecturing me about all this and you never did what you were told!" Emma was indignant.

"You told me the other day that you took after me, why is this such a sh-"

Frank had run up to them the moment they were out of range of the police video camera's and punched Jeff in the face.

"Dad what the hell?" Dawn shrieked. "Just leave them alone, this whole fight thing- its over!" Dawn and Emma tried to break up the one sided fight, Jeff was on defensive more then attack. Frank was throwing one punch after another. Emma had to get the police.

"Dawn we have to go back!" Emma grabbed her arm and hauled her off.

"But I don't want to turn my dad in!" Dawn cried, stumbling trying to keep up with Emma who was practically flying down the street.

"Then let me do the talking!" then Emma sped up. The desk officer looked frightened to see them crash through the door.

"What in the world do you think your doing?" She asked disgruntled.

Emma pointed to the door. "Outside…"

Dawn filled in. "My dad is fighting hers, my dad started it by… chasing him after the police camera's couldn't see them and started to hit him."

The woman came from behind the desk. "Johnson! Come with me!"

Running towards the place where the fight began, Frank was still punching Jeff tirelessly, Jeff was covering up, he still couldn't hurt people it still wasn't his thing.

"Police! Freeze!" that stopped Frank- until he stupidly ran. Emma rushed straight to Jeff. He was bleeding heaps bad.

"Dad are you ok?"

"Peachy…" then Jeff fell down backwards tired and hurting. Emma cringed as he showed neck wounds, cuts and bruises nothing major.

"How much does that hurt?"

"GERROF ME! LEMME GO!" Frank was kicking and shouting trying desperately for release. "DAWN YOU TRAITOR!"

"I'm no traitor… you are." Dawn grinned, happy to see her father being carted off.

"Do you have a place to stay?" Emma asked, Dawn nodded.

"Oh yeah, my mum always lets me stay whenever I need to, so I should be fine with her."

Emma nodded. "Take care of yourself."

"You too Emma." And the two girls shook hands.

Emma turned to Jeff. "Lets get you back home."

"I wont say no to that." Jeff allowed her to help him to his feet and go home (they walked).

When they arrived back home they decided to play snap, Jeff had the fastest reflexes and dominated 99% of the game.

There was a knock on the door and Jeff went to answer it.

A blond haired woman was standing at the door with a pained expression.

"Mum?"

To Be Continued…

Cliffy aye? God I have loads of these! Hey good news is I have already finished chapter 21 - well almost- and I'm just about ready for chapter 22 and maybe this story will exceed to chapter 27 maybe 28 depends on how I get all these obstacles out of the way and guess what? I decided you'd get Jeff Andrea and Emma's prequel straight after! I'm just so anxious to start it! Then it's the sequel then Jordan Delia and Ash's prequel then the third. If you want I can continue with 1 more sequel thing and then that's the closing number to a great series! Nah I'll just go for the three.

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