Summary: Everyone his a dark secret, rather its simple like a ticklish spot or a liking for something weird, or something not as simple. The Stone family have a sick secret, which they have kept from society for decades. As unhappy as HotStreak is with that secret, he does have something that keeps him alive, a little girl named Tina.

Psycho Chan's Note: I really don't have much of a flow for this story. To be honest, I'm pulling the idea out of my ass. Twitter Chan and I have a story history with everyone that may get tweaked a bit with each story. Which is why in all stories Francis's father is a complete bastard who everyone hates, it's just the history we gave him. This is another one which goes into depth at the kind of person his mother really is. She's motherly and at the same time, not.

Disclaimer/Claimer: I don't own Static Shock or it's characters. I'm just using them for my own sick desires and I love myself for it. I do own Diana and Tina though. I'm not sure if Jay's gonna get involved but if he does I own him too.

Tina in the Park

It had been a long week for the hero. A really long week. Virgil shouldn't have to deal with this kind of stuff. Here he is, at sixteen, and still, he has not girlfriend and still gets his ass handed to him on a daily basis. Luckily, RubberBandMan and Gear had told him he could take a break after messing up on an attempt to lock up Ebon. That was epic failure on Static's behalf. He had mistakenly fallen asleep on the job, letting the shadow man run past him. Shortly after, Talon and Shiv were free along with Ferret, Kangorr, Puff and CarmenDillo. Now they have to lock them up again.

But at the moment, that was Gear's job. Not his. Happily, Virgil plops himself on a park bench, sinking lazily. It was a great day. Sunny and no clouds. Perfect lounging weather to do absolutely nothing in. He's sleep but he could do that all night. The park was full of people. Everywhere, people. It felt great to be among them. "This is how it's suppose to be…" Virgil mutters to himself. "Not chasing bad guys around playing hide and seek."

Sitting around felt awesome to the hero. He could feel his muscles relaxing for the first time in a long time. His father was relieved to hear that Static was taking a break, since Robert found out about Virgil, he had been worried sick. Worried that his son wouldn't come home one night. Now he could sleep. For a while that his.

A faint giggle catches his attention. Opening his eyes, Virgil cocks his head enough to see a little girl sitting next to him, looking up at him with large green eyes. "Hi." The girl smiles.

"Uhhhh…" The hero on vacation looks around, wondering if her parents were around. "Hello…" He spoke distracted, searching. "Where are your parents?"

"I donno." The blonde girl shrugs, kicking her feet freely from the bench. The girl wore a light blue tang top with blue jeans. Her blue flip flops hung loosely from her swaying feet, her long blonde hair trailing down her backside. "I came here alone cuz Mommy and Daddy were fighting again. Then Grandpa game home and started hitting Mommy so I ran." The girl's smile doesn't fade a bit, as if this were normal to her. "Daddy'll pick me up soon."

Virgil stares at the girl. Everything in her explanation, no matter how cutely it was said, was wrong. "Wait, you get abused?" For some reason, he had to make sure. Didn't sound right, but he guesses the smile was just off putting his judgment.

"Abused?" The girl looks up again, in confusion.

"Hit. You said you get hit."

"Oh." The confusion flickers away. "Not all the time. Daddy protects me." That smile seems to widen. "I like Daddy."

"What about your Mom?" That stung a bit. The girl had a mother, he didn't. As immature as that sounded, it still hurt deep inside.

"Mommy isn't as nice as my daddy." The girl gets up, getting sad. "She makes Daddy do things he doesn't like to do." Feeling uncomfortable, the girl turns away.

"Whoa, hand on." Virgil follows her. "You can't wonder around alone all day. That isn't safe."

"You wanna play then?" The blonde youth smiles again.

Defeated, Virgil nods. "Okay." Surely, saving the city is just as important as helping a little girl for a while. "By the way, I'm Virgil." He introduces himself in hopes of getting the girl's name.

"I'm Tina." Tina grasps Virgil's blue jeans. "I'm almost six years old." She states proudly. "How old are you?"

With his own smile, Virgil follows Tina onto the grass of the park. "I'm sixteen."

"Wow!" Tina is amazed by this. "That's old!"

Virgil laughs at this. Really, he did, feeling a bit old even. "I suppose I am."

As Tina walks, she looks into the grass. "I love grass. It's my favorite color." She laughs rather pointlessly. Virgil was just amused at how simply random this girl was. She was surprisingly happy from a girl in an abusive home.

Tina flops down onto the freshly cut grass without a problem, where as in Virgil had to slouch down to even get close enough to swing his feet below his body. "How long do you think before your dad picks you up?" As adorably fun as this was, he didn't want to hang out with some strange girl for the whole day.

"I donno. It's usually dark before he leaves home."

So much for getting home before dark.

"You're not afraid of the dark?" Virgil remembered being afraid of the dark as a child. His mother showed him that there was nothing to be afraid of, but it didn't look like anyone in her family would do that.

"Nope." Tine plucks grass with the most fascinating look in her large eyes. "Uncle Ebon showed me that the dark is nothin' to be scared of." That struck Virgil as beyond weird. It was fucked up in fact.

"Uncle…Ebon?"

"Uncle Ebon. His name is Ivan but he goes by Ebon. He's really nice and helps me when Daddy is in the hospital."

"Hold up…Ebon Ebon? Shadowy guy who's metahuman and wants to take over Dakota? That Ebon?"

"Yup."

Virgil needed a moment to absorb this bit of information. Really. Ebon being kind. And with a child? Really?! That was just fucked up, and he's gonna have to check with Adam if his brother is good with kids. Ebon seemed…screw that. He's just violent. Just that. "Wait, hospital?"

"Daddy goes to the hospital a lot too when he's not in jail. Sometimes people take him away and he's all bloody. I don't like that but Mommy and Grandpa tell me that he brought it on himself…"

Virgil was extremely worried now, but there was nothing he could do only knowing the girl's first name. "Your dad should go to the police about th-"

"Tina." Another's voice from behind catches Virgil's attention. A panting, raspy voice actually. "Mom's lookin' for you. We need to go home." HotStreak. Virgil saw HotStreak.

"Is it okay? Is Mommy okay?" The young blonde asks, obviously concerned.

Virgil, obviously, was confused. He stood up, gaining the other man's attention.

"Hawkins?" Francis didn't like this.

"She came up to me and I didn't want her to be alone so I hung around…" Virgil quickly defended himself, still afraid as long as he wasn't in uniform.

"Virgil was really nice to me." Tina jumps up, running over to Francis, clinging to his leg. "I like him bunches." Her smile widens, showing white teeth.

Feeling grateful yet resenting it, HotStreak's green eyes gaze over in Virgil's direction. "Thanks for watchin' her Virg."

"It was no problem." Hell, he was just surprised that Francis was acting civil. "This isn't my business but she said some things that I…I'm just wondering…why don't you just…call the police? Tina is scared…that isn't the place for her…or you." Though Virgil had to admit that it explained why F-Stop was such a nasty person in high school.

"Well," HotStreak assumes that Tina had only mention Diana. "She's our mother…no matter what she's family. You can't turn your back on family."

Virgil didn't know that Francis had any siblings, well, there was Jenna but she died years ago. She was on the news for quite a while. "But she shouldn't be abusing her children."

"She doesn't abuse us. My father does, Mother just needs things her way."

"She lets him just beat her kids? You're his kids too…" Virgil was just confused, looking down to see Tina nuzzling Francis's black jeans.

"He beat me cuz I'm his kid. Tina isn't his."

"Oh." This was weird. What was also weird was that Virgil and Francis were just talking. Talking. Guess time settled the man down a bit. "Well, I wouldn't really recommend it but…I think you should get your sister out of there." Virgil was at a loss. Francis was eighteen now and it sounded like he is stuck at home to protect Tina from her own family.

"She ain't my sister." HotStreak hoists the girl into the air, setting her on his hip. "Lets' go Tina."

Before Virgil can even place a question for his absolute confusion, Tina rests her head on HotStreak's shoulder, wrapping her arms round his neck. Then everything was explained in a sleepy yawn from Tina.

"Okay Daddy."