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Lioness had been regretting closing the door in Shark's face earlier but there was no way that she wanted to go back to the aquatic centre with him. It wasn't him that was the problem, it wasn't Hawk and it certainly wasn't King. It was Axel who was the reason why she never wanted to return there. It had been her home over the past couple of years and they were her family but in that minute of conversation the other day she felt as if she meant nothing to them. Not part of the family, not part of the team, not part of anything and it killed her inside to think that he would want to ditch her like that.

Sitting on the couch, she flickered through the channels while Liza just sat next to her half asleep. Lioness had always been closer to her cousin than anyone else in her family. At times she even felt closer to Liza than most of her friends. As Lioness carried on changing tv stations, she stumbled on a news channel. She let it play as she noticed it was a piece about Paine.

"The mastermind criminal Alexander Paine was released on Bail from prison earlier today. The criminal was known for robbing banks and causing all over carnage." The news reporter announced.

'A bit bloody late' Lioness thought to her self.

"Paine had been brought to justice by the fantastic a.t.o.m. team who have not yet made a statement about what they thought of the news. We will stick with the story all night and update you as we find out more information. Now to the weather ..." Lioness turned off the television before any more could be said on the matter.

Curling up into a ball, she shut her eyes aiming to fall asleep just as her cousin was doing next to her.

Shark was back to pacing around his room. He really wanted Lioness to come back to be with the team, to be with him but he knew it would take a lot to persuade her to come back. It would also have to include Axel to be a friend to her but with his not caring about her family that would be a hard task.

Strolling into the living room, he slumped down in to one of the big bean-bags. King and Hawk were no where to be found but Axel on the other hand was sat watching a news report. It was mentioning about how Paine had been released on bail. Shark could see that Axel was clenching his fists so hard that his knuckles had started to turn white. Axel had taken it hard the whole time Paine had previously been roaming Landmark City but his anger seemed to be worse this time.

"Shark what do you think to this?" Axel's voice echoed around the walls, venom in his voice.

"I think they got the scoop to late" Shark said not daring to look at Axel any longer.

"Yeah but how long will it take for the police to keep him locked up?"

Shark just shrugged not daring to even answer.

"Wheres Hawk? We need to get Lioness back and take Paine down now." Axel seemed to have forgotten the reason why she had left, he was just too caught up in trying to stop Paine that he didn't pay attention to anything else around him.

"He's with King in the Kitchen" Shark replied trying to stay out of the way as much as possible.

"HAWK" Axel shouted and within seconds both Hawk and King appeared in the living room. "Where Lioness?" Axel's temper was getting worse and worse by the minute.

"Well shes not here." Hawk replied trying to get out of telling him the truth.

"I can see that. Now where is she?" He was fuming, his face turning red with rage.

"She safe where you can't get to her" Shark butted in.

"What do you know about where she is?" Axel turned all his attention to the surfer.

"Just that she doesn't want to come back to us as long as your temper is like this."

Shark turned and started to walk towards his room onto find Axel had lunged at him and taken both of them to the ground.