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P.S. Characters:
Lawrence Crock/Grandpa Crock/Crusher = Sports Master
Joar Mahkent/ Papa Jo = Icicle Sr.
Lian Harper = Red Arrow and Cheshire's daughter from the comics and like one episode in the show
Isabelle Mahkent = Icicle Jr. and Artemis/Tigress daughter from the comics
Isabelle was ecstatic.
Today Papa and Grandpa were taking her and Lian to the beach. Isa had never been to the beach before, but she knew that there was the ocean and pretty shells and fishies.
It was the first time all summer that she got to wear her sparkly purple and green swimsuit, and she couldn't be happier.
Isabelle was starting to get a bit agitated with her top, at six she could do many things, like brush her hair and zip her jacket up (not that she needed one), but tying string behind her back still alluded her.
"Do you need help?" Lian asks.
"No!" Belle snaps, giving her cousin 'the eye'.
Isabelle was still furious at the older girl for getting her in trouble last night.
"I said I was sorry!"
Isabelle ignored her, trying again and again to tie the strings. Finally with a defeated sigh Isabelle goes and stands in front of Lian waiting for her to tie the string.
Lian smiles tying the little laces into a bow. Her own swim suit is red, and she loves it.
"Let's go find some sunscreen!"
(..)
Lawrence could kill every living sole on I44.
He hated driving in traffic, and probably would have turned around and went back home if the girls smiles weren't so big.
"How much longer Grandpa?" Isabelle asks from the backseat of the suburban he and Joar had... Obtained earlier that day.
"Not much longer Rosie Girl," he promises.
"I'm hungry," Lian whines.
"Me too!"
"So am I,"
Crusher shoots his companion a look.
Joar shrugs.
"Just get off here and go to that McDonalds across the way, better for them to eat now then there. Cramps and all that," He says.
Lawrence takes the advice, swiveling through four lanes of traffic, ignoring car horns and flipping people the bird as he goes.
"Can we eat inside?" Lian asks.
Lawrence doesn't respond, but parks the car and gets out. After about 45 minutes of debate, Lian insisting she gets a Mighty Kids Meal, not a Happy Meal, and Belle showing the lady behind the counter exactly what toy she wants, they eat their over priced fast food and are ready to leave when Isa says she has to pee.
"You and Li go on I'll wait on the munchkin," Joar says.
Lawrence nods and leads Lian outside to the car.
(..)
After standing outside of the lady's room for a good 10 minutes, Isabelle's head emerges from inside.
"Papa I need to wash my hands and I can't reach the sink!" She says, pulling the door open as far as it can go, "will you turn the water on for me?"
Joars eyes go wide for a second. He has many options here. He could take Belle to the men's room and risk people being at the urinals and scaring her for life, going into the woman's room and holding the girl while she washes her hands, and going and getting Lian from the car to do it.
He chooses option 2. In his head he reasons that no one will be angry at a man for helping his granddaughter, and goes into help her.
(..)
Lian was hot.
Her and Grandpa had been sitting in the car for what felt like forever waiting on Jo and Izzy to get back from the bathroom.
"I'm going back inside" Grandpa says.
As he opens the car door, the front doors of the restaurant open and Joar is tossed roughly out onto the sidewalk, and Isabelle walks out after him. Jo dose a lot of cursing and shouting before getting back into the car, face red.
"What the hell was that about?" Grandpa asks.
"Weeeeeell, I needed to wash my hands, and Papa helped me, but i forgot my purse in the potty so i went to get it and then this lady camed in and started shouting lots and then the counter lady had Papa ahscorted out," Belle explains.
Joar doesn't say anything and Grandpa starts the car. 25 minutes later Lian spots the ocean and screams in excitement, waking Isa up from her nap in the seat next to her.
When the car stops she hops out, Izzy right behind her and the girls run for the water.
(..)
Lawrence has to admit, the drive was worth the day.
The girls had made sand castles, found seashells, poked jellyfish, ate ice cream, and some nice teenage girl had even given Lian a surfboarding lesson.
At the moment Lian was unaccounted for, as was Joar, so he figured they were together, and Isabelle had fallen asleep next to him in the sun and sand.
Yeah, he never got to spend time with Artemis and Jade like this, and somehow he felt that spending time with his granddaughters made up for it a bit.
Today could not get any better than this.
(..)
Lian was starting to see black dots.
Her lungs and legs and arms hurt, and she couldn't touch anymore.
She had just wanted to go swimming again before it got to dark, but now she was wishing shed stayed on shore. She was starting to get sleepy, her body felt heavier and heavier each passing second, and she was scared.
Her head goes underwater and she closes her eyes.
Suddenly she can breath again and shes pretty sure someones holding her, but all she can see is orange.
"Do not worry, I have you," Some kind of familiar voice says.
She feels the sand on her back, and then its like the waters been sucked from her lungs. Her vision clears a bit and she sees the one and only Arthur Curry.
Ugh, great. Saved by a gill head.
Maybe he wouldn't recognize her?
"Wait one moment, aren't you Roy's daughter?" Crap.
Lian's saved by Jo and Grandpa, who come running up the beach to her.
"Jesus kid, are you alright?" Jo asks worriedly.
Lian nods, feeling tears well up in her eyes.
"Icicle? Sportsmaster? What is going on here?" Aquaman asks.
Grandpa shoots him an annoyed look before picking Lian up and carrying her off in the direction of the car.
"Get Rosie?" he asks Joar, Who nods and walks the other direction.
Lian buries her face in his neck and hopes he never puts her down.
(..)
Joar had forgotten a few things over the years.
Having a son with powers over ice hadn't always been easy, and he probably wasn't the best teacher he could have been, but there were always perks to it.
Junior had been great free air conditioning, someone to patch him up when he was hurt, and he had always been just sly enough to be funny. 'Course those things got overlooked at times, like when the damn kid had frozen the shampoo isle in Wall mart at 15 trying to impress this girl whose shorts were a little to short for her.
Yeah, Junior was a walking head ache.
He had forgotten how bad he could be when he got upset in the winter time and icicles hung from the sealing, how sweaty the kid got when it was real hot.
How bad he could sunburn, even with the gray skin.
Isabelle was so red Joar was afraid to touch her.
"Isa, wake up,"
She dose, and Lord dose she notice the burn fast. The little girl starts screaming her head off, bawling about how bad it hurts, and Joar decides that they need a lot of Aloe.
As he helps her to the car, he thinks that this three weeks was going to be way longer than he thought.
I am a terrible person i know.
Maybe they should watch them better. Its not all my fault.
Next time: Prison! House party's, Superheroing and more!