It was hard trying to keep my distance from Lucious for the next week after our break. I was still working for him at his office since I really liked my job, the only apartment I could find to move into was down the hall from his, and we even had the same schedules for our superhero work. It was difficult for the both of us as we tried to avoid each other.

I could tell by his expression whenever I saw him that he was hurting. A part of me just wanted to go back to him, and give into my desires to let him have his way with me. But my better half knew better.

As much as possible, I teamed up with Mr. Incredible for his advice and his support. That was difficult at times, for he wanted to invite Frozone along. I don't know why, but I felt compelled to keep our past relationship a secret from Mr. Incredible. He never suspected anything at the time, even though we were both acted a bit awkward around each other and he knew both of us were going through a break up. It just didn't catch on.

One hot summer day I was with Mr. Incredible, and we were battling a giant monstrous lizard that was attacking the city. The battle was strenuous since the reptile showed very little signs of it wearing down. They called in the military, but we had to distract the beast long enough for them to arrive.

"What are we going to do?" I asked Mr. Incredible as I was panting from exhaustion. "We can't keep this up. At this rate the monster will kill us."

"I know," Mr. Incredible said as he tried to catch his breath as well. "We need backup. We should try to contact Frozone. He might be in the area."

"He might be busy." I tried to give an excuse.

"For a giant reptile?" Mr. Incredible inquired. "Nonsense! Besides, his freezing ability might be helpful for this cold-blooded monster..."

"That's it!" I realized. "We need to cool it down! From the looks of it, it's a dry reptile. It must have come here in search of heat. The pavement in the city has been absorbing the sunlight all day."

"So then we do need Frozone."

"We might," I awkwardly admit. "But we'll have to find other means to cool the beast down. We need to find a lot of ice and water…"

"There's the water tower in the center of town," Mr. Incredible told me. "But it won't be cool enough to freeze this thing."

"I'll try to find an ice truck," I told him. "There's a company in the city that ships it all over."

"That's why you're the brains," he told me. I was really touched by that comment.

And so we went to work. The people of the city had already cleared that area, so it gave us some time before the monster reaches more civilians. I looked all over for an ice truck, but had no luck finding one. The company might not have had any on schedule. Finally, I found a better source of ice from a dry ice company truck, so I hotwired it and drove it back to behind the monster. Mr. Incredible met up with me there with the top of the water tower.

"Alright," Mr. Incredible began to tell me. "I called Frozone. He is on his way, but it will still be about five minutes."

"No time. We need to get on top of one of these buildings and pour the mixture of ice and water onto the monster before it destroys even more of the town."

Mr. Incredible nodded and we went back to work. I helped steady the water and the truck with my stretching arms as he threw them up on top of a building. Then he carried them over to a building I predicted where the monster was heading. He did so and we set up the trap. The monster came and he poured the ice water onto the monster. The monster screeched and roared as the ice water hit it. It began to shiver, but it was now outraged at us. It began to focus its attack on us.

I was worried for our safety as we had to dodge its attacks. Suddenly, it shot its sticky tongue out at me and it got my leg. I wrapped my arms around a lamp post as it tried to recoil me into its mouth. My arms began to slip and I thought I was a goner. Then Mr. Incredible came in and pulled my leg free from the creature's grasp. The monster fell back a bit and I rested on the ground at the light post. Mr. Incredible came up to kneel before me.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah," I assured him as my limbs felt pain. "I just need to rest a bit before-"

Just then, I noticed at that instance the sticky tongue shooting straight towards my head. Terrified, I shielded my face with my arm. I was surprised when I felt no saliva sticking to my face. I looked up, and I saw him shielding me with his back. I was in total awe.

"I couldn't let him have you," Mr. Incredible told me. I began to reach up to him, but he shot backwards into the creature's mouth. I screamed out in panic as he tried to hold the mouth open with every muscle in his body. But eventually, the beast's mouth shut with Mr. Incredible inside. It looked like the beast tried to swallow him whole, but he put up a fight. Suddenly I saw the beast shake its head, and it began working the man around in its mouth and chew. Though the creature wasn't able to chew through Mr. Incredible's invulnerable body, it still left some bruises and cuts all over. Mr. Incredible yelled out in pain. It kept on chewing until Mr. Incredible went unconscious by the sheer amount of torment, and it swallowed him whole.

I was completely mortified. Determined to save him, I got to my feet and began to race straight at the monster. The monster opened its mouth and was about to bite me, but I just leapt into its mouth and dove into its throat. It was dark, confining, and wet with slime, but I didn't want to let him die like this. I reached out with my arm as I allowed my body to slide down faster and faster as I stretched myself out. Finally I managed to grab his ankle before we reached the stomach. With my other hand, I stretched it back up the monster's throat and grabbed onto something. With my uncanny luck, it must had been the uvula. When I grabbed onto it tightly with mine and Mr. Incredible's weight anchored on it, the monster began to heave. As quickly as the monster was able to shoot out it's tongue, it threw us back up.

I laid on the ground next to Mr. Incredible in a giant puddle of monster vomit. It didn't disgust me that much as I crawled up to his unmoving body.

"Mr. Incredible?" I asked him. He remained unconscious. "Mr. Incredible, wake up!!!"

I kept trying to call out to him and began to give him CPR until he finally coughed up some monster saliva. He remained laying on his back as he started at me.

"You risked your life to save me…" I explained as tears streamed down my face. "That was stupid! You could have been killed!"

"Yeah," he moaned. "I know…"

"But I'm glad you saved me," I told him with a smile. "Thank you."

"Thank you," he told me. We kept staring at each other.

Just then we noticed the monster had finished throwing up and was charging at us. We were too tired to move, but luckily Frozone finally showed up and finished off the monster with a few blasts of his ice powers. The monster shivered spastically until it collapsed.

"You two alright?" he called to us.

"Yeah," I told him while staring down at Mr. Incredible as I cradled his head.

"Hey listen," I whispered to Mr. Incredible. "Would you like to do something with me tonight?"

"Like what?" he asked with a clueless expression.

"I don't know, whatever you usually do on a date…"

He seemed surprised and his grin began to widen. I smiled back at this funny moment. "I'd love to."

We continued to stare at each other with smiles on our faces when I suddenly realized something.

"Oh, thank you for the rescue Fro-" I turned my head towards Frozone's direction, but he was gone. I was a bit puzzled at first, but then I realized why he left as I turned back to Mr. Incredible. He seemed puzzled at my expression of Frozone's disappearance, but I gave him a quick smile and he dismissed the thought of it.

After we went our separate ways to go home and take a shower, we came back together and went to a baseball game. We just sat on a billboard that overlooked the park. I was never that much of any sports fan, but Mr. Incredible filled me in so that I would get what was going on. He did talk to me about other things too so that I wouldn't be bored. He even treated me to some ball park food while we were there. He was a gentleman.

Suddenly the ball was hit in our direction. I stretched out my arm and caught it as it was about to sail over the billboard.

"Wow!" Mr. Incredible exclaimed. "You're great at catching."

"I've gained experience over the years from my hero work."

"I hear ya…"

We got the ball signed after the game, though the team was more astonished to meet us than we were to see them. I let Mr. Incredible keep the ball since he was a fan of the team. We journeyed back to our starting place and told each other goodnight. I leaned forward to kiss him, expecting a good make out session, but Mr. Incredible just gave me a peck on the lips and smiled. I opened my eyes to this unexpected move.

"My…" he said. "That was amazing. I look forward to this possibly becoming more serious."

"Yeah…" I agreed, finding those words heartwarming. I felt like I finally found someone I could keep a relationship with. "I do too."

With that, we made plans to see each other again and were off.

We had been going out for a week and we were really getting to know each other. I wanted to get more physical with him, but he seemed a bit nervous yet. I wasn't sure how much longer I could take that.

As for me and Frozone, I only saw him at work now. He seemed to had been avoiding me for the past week as I went out with Mr. Incredible. But even at work, Lucious barely even looked up at me when he gave me orders. I did notice that he often stared at me while I sat at my desk. Finally I went into his office to confront him.

"Lucious, are you busy at the moment?"

"What is it?" he asked as he kept his eyes on his papers.

"We need to talk," I told him as I stepped forward and placed my hands on his desk. "What's been going on with you lately? Are you angry at me? Do you hate me?"

"I could never hate you," he told me as he slowly lifted his eyes revealing his sorrowful expression. "I love you with all I am."

"Lucious…" I began to tell him as I turned away. I couldn't bare to see him in pain. "I'm with Mr. Incredible now, your friend. Can't you be happy for us?"

"I thought I'd be able to move on," he told me as he stood up from his chair. He began to walk over towards me. "But I can't stop thinking about you. I've realized that you were right all along, that we should both feel the same way about each other. Helen, I want to be with you and only you."

"Lucious," I told him as I stepped away. "It's too late."

"You've only been dating him for a week. Are you already that serious with him?"

"Not yet, but I still want to date him."

"Can't you give me another chance?"

"Maybe if it doesn't work out with him, but things are going great with him."

"Is it now?" Lucious asked as he took a step towards me again.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I've known the guy for quite some time, and he was never as quick as me or you when it came to relationships," he explained as he placed his hand on my shoulder. "You've desired to get more physical with him, right?"

I stared into his eyes as he looked down at me. "Yeah I do…"

He places his other hand on my chin and led my mouth to his to share a passionate kiss. I felt like a slut, but I couldn't help myself as we wrapped our arms around each other. He began to slide his hands to my chest, squeezed my breasts and began to unbutton my shirt. At that point, I pushed him away as I realized this was wrong.

"Is this all you see me as?" I angrily asked him. "A sex doll?"

"No! I…" he tried to explain himself. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it. I want to be with you so badly again. Please Helen, give me another chance…"

"I…" I began to turn him down, but I did miss him as well. "Alright. I'll give you another chance, but I'm not giving up on Mr. Incredible and we're going to take things slow. Alright?"

He smiled at me. "Thank you."

With that, he came up to me, held my face with both hands, and gave me a light kiss on the mouth. I couldn't help but blush as he kept staring at me.

I kept on going out with the two men for a month. I went out with Mr. Incredible more often, but Lucious and I were moving more quickly with our make out sessions. I couldn't help it, I saw him on secret dates, at work, and now along with Mr. Incredible as the three of us worked together in crime fighting. It was a bit difficult at times with the three of us since Frozone kept giving me glances whenever Mr. Incredible turned away and Frozone looked away whenever I kissed Mr. Incredible.

At the rate things were going, I wasn't sure who to break up with because I only wanted one boyfriend. I finally came to a conclusion one day to break it off with Mr. Incredible because our relationship was lacking intensity and it appeared to me that Frozone wanted me more. I was about to one night while we were out on a date.

He took me to a restaurant while we were still in costumes. We got lots of stares and some interruptions, but we were still able to have a fun time. I began to doubt my decision to dumping him that night. I was really happy with him and I didn't want him out of my life, but I was sure I was making the right choice.

We were getting out of the restaurant when Mr. Incredible suddenly pulled me into an alley. I was confused by his impulsive behavior.

"What are you doing?"

He pushed me against the wall and held my arms with minor strength. I must have been staring at him with wide eyes because this was entirely unlike him. He looked down at me with such longing yet he was very timid as he bit his lip. Slowly he came in closer and closer. I closed my eyes and awaited for his mouth to smother mine. And then it happened, he gave me a real kiss. He finally gave me the kiss I was looking for, the kiss he truly wanted to give me. I kissed back with equal forcefulness, massaging his tongue as he massaged mine with his own. At that moment, I knew I found someone unlike anyone else and I desired to be with him.

We slowly broke away from our kiss, smiling as we leaned our foreheads against each others'.

"That was… incredible," I told him.

"I wanted to kiss you like that for so long," he told me. "But I was afraid you'd think that I was just using you for sexual pleasure like all the other guys you told me you about."

"Yes there were guys who only thought of me as a sexual being," I explained. "But I really wanted you to kiss me like that. I needed you to show me that you want to progress in our relationship."

Mr. Incredible sighed and laughed at that. "Sorry I kept you waiting…"

"It's okay. Your kiss made up for it."

"So," he began to ask. "What else would you like from me?"

"How about… I show you who I am under my mask and you show me who you are under your mask."

Mr. Incredible gulped. "Alright…"

That made me laugh, and I swung him around, pinned him against the wall and kissed him again. Afterwards we made plans to go out again.

The next day I went back to work. I went to Lucious's office as soon as possible before it got to be really busy. I took a deep breath before entering his office for I felt uneasy about what I was about to do.

"Hi honey," Lucious greeted me with a big smile. He strode right over to me, embraced me, and gave me a quick passionate kiss before I could react. "So, what do you want to do tonight? I assume you're available since you told me you were going to let Mr. Incredible go."

I almost felt compelled to go out with him still, but I knew better.

"Lucious, I have to tell you something…" I confessed as I broke out of his embrace. "I'm staying with him."

"What…?

"I'm sorry Lucious, but he finally kissed me last night. I realized that he is what I really want right now."

"But Helen," Lucious objected. "What about us?"

"I'm really sorry Lucious, but I can only be your friend. You'll have to find someone else."

"Helen," he told me as I headed towards the door. "I'm not going to give up on you."

"Lucious…"

"Helen, I love you," he told me as he came up to hold my hand. "I don't want to lose you."

"Lucious, I want you to be happy. But I can't be with you."

"Have you told him about our past relationship?"

"Ugh… Not yet."

"You should tell him."

"How will he react?"

"I've known him to overact before, but if he truly loves you he'll understand."

"I don't know if I can yet…"

"Helen," Lucious told me placing his hand on my chin. "I will always come back to you if you need me."

"Thank you," I told him. I gave him a light kiss and then left his office. I immediately went to the bathroom to cry.

A week went by. Things had been going smoothly with Mr. Incredible. There were times when it was very uncomfortable for me whenever Frozone was teaming up with us, but I was able to hide that from Mr. Incredible.

Than one night I brought him back to my place to reveal my identity to him. I sat him down on the couch and brought his hands up to my mask.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" he timidly asked me. "Once we do this, there's no going back."

"I'm ready."

With that he nodded and took off my mask. He appeared speechless as he gazed upon my face. He didn't budge for one moment as I reached up and took off his mask as well. I smiled as I gazed up into his eyes.

"Hello Mr. Incredible," I jokingly told him. "My name is Helen, Helen Truax."

"Have I seen you somewhere before?" he asked me.

Suddenly I began to remember that this man had came to our work numerous times to speak to Lucious. I just smiled and turned away.

"I don't believe so… Anyways, what is your name?"

"My name… is Bob, Bob Parr."

I smiled and leaned in to kiss him. "Nice to meet you Bob."

From there we began to make out.

A few more months went by and my relationship with Bob continued to flourish. Now that we knew each other's secret identities, we were able to get more and more physical with each other and we were able to meet each others' families. Our families were a bit skeptical of us being together, but they let us be. Though some of my family members asked me what happened to Lucious, and they kept telling me how great we were together while Bob was not around. I argued with them to drop it.

Then one day Bob came in to my work to see Lucious. I hadn't noticed him coming in until he came up to my desk.

"Helen?"

"Bob!" I exclaimed. "What are you…?"

"I came here to visit my friend Lucious," he explained. "You work here?"

"Yeah, I was going to tell you where I worked, but I just never got around to it."

"That's alright," he shrugged. "It is neat that you work for my friend. I can visit you both at the same place. How is it working for him?"

"It's very exciting. I can't imagine working for anyone else."

"Say…" Bob inquired. "You don't happen to know Lucious's secret do you?"

"Ugh… Do you mean like the secret we share?" I asked. I was worried he would find out much more than I wanted him to.

"Yeah," he whispered into my ear. "So you know that he's…?"

"Frozone?" I whispered back. "Yeah, I know."

"Okay then," he smiled and kissed me. "Well, I have to talk to your boss now. I'll talk to you after work."

He entered the office and began talking to Lucious. I watched through the glass window in his office as the two of them talked. Both of them cast a loving glance towards my way as I continued to stare. I kept on having sexual fantasies of them both during that period of time. I began to wonder why I had equal attractions to the both of them.

And then it finally happened one day, only a week later. One day when I was on patrol with Bob, we were helping innocent civilians through a rough hurricane. We were working together to help people get to safety as the powerful winds howled and relentless rain poured. I had just stopped a tree from falling on a couple as Bob had pushed a truck out of the way of a pinned guy on the ground. We escorted them to safety and then met up.

"This is ridiculous!" I shouted to Bob. "We've been saving people over and over again as this natural disaster wrecks the town! There has to be an end to this!"

"We have to make sure that everyone makes it to the shelter!" Bob shouted back. "I don't think anyone else is out here right now with all of the storm warnings sounding off!"

Just then there was a bus driving past us, sliding and swerving on the road uncontrollably. We began to run after it as it slid off the road into the river. We could see the inside of the bus was flooding fast, and most of the people inside of the bus were trapped. I stretched out to grab a hold of the bus and a nearby tree to prevent it from sinking completely. Bob tore off the back door and began to lift people out as the shore was still a distance away. I began to lose my grasp as the rain poured making the bus very slippery.

"Mr. Incredible!" I shouted to him. "Could we please switch? You'd be able to hold this thing better than me!"

"Alright," he told me as he leaped out and swam underneath the bus. He began to lift it back up. I was about to let go of the bus to get the people inside out when Bob began to sink in the surface underneath. Apparently both of us needed to keep a hold of the bus, but we needed someone else to help the people get out of the bus. Luckily, Frozone arrived and helped the people in the bus get to safety with an ice bridge.

Afterwards, I let go of the bus and Bob came back up to the surface. The two of us sat down on the shore to take a breath after our strenuous rescuing as Lucious led the people to the shelter. When he came back, we were feeling better and standing up.

"Thanks Lucious," Bob told him. "We really needed the help."

"No problem Bob, Hellen."

"Yeah, thank you," I said. "It was lucky of us that you were nearby."

"Well the whole city is in danger and I've been just about everywhere helping people out. How has it been for you two?"

"It's been very rough," Bob commented. "We've been at this for hours."

"Well, the weather is letting up," Lucious assured us. "This storm is worse than the one in Africa, right Helen?"

"Huh?" Bob was confused. "What about Africa?"

I began to dread what was about to be realized.

"Well, Helen and I have been to South Africa when there was that huge hurricane last year. We had to help a ton of the locals in the areas as the storm moved along the continent."

"You knew Frozone already?" Bob asked me.

Lucious glanced at me and realized the mistake he just made.

"Well," I began to explain. "Yeah, we have worked together before. In fact… we were in a serious relationship…"

"What?!" Bob exclaimed. "You two had… When?!"

"Well…" I was about to explain.

"Wait…" Bob came to a realization. "Was Lucious the one you were about to…"

Lucious and I glanced at each other and then I turned away feeling guilty.

"Oh…" Bob came to a sad realization. "I didn't know…"

Bob began to walk away. I was suddenly worried for Bob and ran after him.

"Bob!" I exclaimed. I stood in his way to stop him. "Where are you going?"

"I need some time to think," he sadly told me. "You didn't tell me about this. You lied to me…"

"Bob, I… I just couldn't tell you yet. I was, but I was scared you might take it the wrong way. I love you Bob…"

"I love you too," he told me as he walked past me. "But I still need time to think…"

I stared at him as he disappeared into the distance. The rain slowly came to a stop, but my cheeks still felt quite wet. I stared up at the sky in search of an answer.

"Helen," Lucious came up to me. "If you need me, you can come back to my place."

"I don't think right now is the best time," I told him.

"I'm just offering a consoling hand."

I turned to him and gave a weak smile. "Alright then."

With that, he led me back to my place to pick up some stuff and go back to his place.

Nearly a week passed by and neither Lucious nor I heard from Bob. He seemed to have been keeping his distance from us both for the time being, even as our superhero identities.

I spent my time with Lucious. I was still sad that I might have lost Bob, but Lucious was able to cheer me up at times. By the way things were going with him, it seemed that I was going to go out with Lucious again. We went out on dates just as we used to and made out just the same. I might have just been using Lucious to cover up my sorrow, but I couldn't stop myself.

We were making out on his bed one night. Lucious was touching me all over and stripping off my clothes. I breathed heavily as he kissed my neck. We were in an intense passion, and I thought we were about to have sex even though I was thinking of Bob. I began to take his clothes when I suddenly realized something critical.

"I haven't taken my birth control pill today!" I told Lucious as I sat on top of his lap with only my underwear on.

"Can't you skip one day?"

"No," I told him as I scrambled through my bags. "It doesn't work that way… Damn it! I'm out. I must have left the spare packages back at my place."

"Are you sure you really need it?"

"Yes I'm sure," I told him as I redressed myself. "Just wait here for me and I will be right back…"

"I love you Helen…"

"I love you too…"

I jumped out the open window and swung back to my apartment. Truthfully I was not out of birth control pills. I really just wanted to give Bob another chance.

I got back to my apartment, buried my face in my hands, and just cried. I missed Bob and I couldn't believe that I nearly gave myself to Lucious so easily. I felt so disgusted with myself.

Just then I heard a tap at the window. I went to it and found Bob waiting there. I stood there for a moment, then I rushed over to let him in.

"Bob!" I exclaimed as I hugged him after he came in through the window. He embraced me with equal tightness. We remained in each others' arms for a few more minutes. "I'm so sorry, I…"

"It's okay," Bob assured me. "I don't care about who you've dated in the past. I just want you in my life again."

"Oh Bob…"

We began to make out passionately, and we were much more physical than we ever have been before. We removed our clothes, but still remained in our underwear. We made out on my bed for the rest of the night until we got too tired and fell asleep in each other's arms. That was the first night we shared a bed together.

A year passed by and I was still together with Bob. We had our little playful scraps and then we had our intense fights and nearly broke up a few times. At those critical times in our relationship, I went out with Lucious again. I never had sex with either of them during this time period, but I remained quite physical with them both. I was truly in love with Bob, yet I couldn't help myself with Lucious whenever I got into a serious argument with Bob. I wasn't picturing leaving Bob, so I often told Lucious that he should try to date other women. He wasn't listening to me at the time.

At last it finally happened one night. Bob took me out to dinner in our normal attire to a very fancy restaurant, and afterwards we walked along the nearby beach. We sat down as the sun was setting and gazed at the various colors of the sky.

"This is beautiful," I told him with a smile. "I can't imagine this night being any better than this."

"Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about…"

"What is it Bob?"

"Well, I know how you have always been very independent and dedicated to your superhero work like me, but I can't help my feelings anymore. I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"I want to too," I assured him. "We're very busy with our lives, and I know how difficult it has been on the two of us to keep this relationship going."

"I know," he told me so sweetly. "And this relationship is worth these hardships, so I was hoping to…"

He began to get up but then just settled on one knee. He got out a little black jewelry box out from his back pocket. I could have sworn that my heart skipped a beat at that moment. He opened the box to reveal the diamond ring. I could see our names inscribed onto it.

"Helen Truax… Elastigirl… Will you marry me?"

"Oh Bob… Yes!"

We smiled, laughed for sheer joy, and kissed there on the beach for the remainder of the night.

The next morning I went back to work. Lucious was waiting in his office as I came in to tell him the news.

"Hi Helen," he greeted me. "What's up?"

"Hi Lucious. There's something I have to tell you…"

"What is it?"

"Bob… proposed to me," I told him and paused for a moment to allow him to take in the situation. "And I said yes."

"Are… Are you serious?" He asked with disbelief.

"Yes, I am."

"Wow," he whispered. He then smiled and came up to hug me. "That's great! Congratulations!"

I was a bit surprised by his reaction, but I was glad he was happy for me or at least allowing me to be happy. He broke away from our embrace and headed back to his desk.

"That is great. Bob had told me that he was going to propose to you eventually. I just had no idea it would be this soon."

"And you're really okay with this?" I asked.

"Of coarse I am," he assured me. I could sense he was faking this joyous expression. "I always knew you two were meant for each other."

"So what are you going to do?" I asked.

"Oh don't worry about me," he told me with an even more fake smile than before. "I'll be fine. There's been a woman that I've been interested in recently and I have been meaning to ask her out."

I walked over to him as he immediately went back to work. I kissed him on the forehead and hugged him. I could tell by his long pause that he was really in deep sorrow.

"I will miss you," I whispered into his ear. I left him sitting there to think to himself. I was hoping he would just move on.