Operation: F.A.T.E.

F – Fate

A – Already

T – Told

E – Eternally

Spiders in your garden or snakes in your bed?

It was now in the wee hours of the morning. Nigel sat up in bed staring coldly in front of him. Lizzie had abandoned him. Hoagie had betrayed him. Abby was the only friend left that he could trust. Wally probably hated him after everything the KND spoon-fed him. Traitors to the KND weren't tolerated.

Suddenly the door to the bedroom he was using while he stayed at the mansion opened.

Nigel jumped but quickly recovered and grabbed his sunglasses before the light was turned on.

"Well hello dear nephew," Father said after he flipped the light switch.

"Don't call me nephew," Nigel said darkly.

"Well, someone is upset," Father said sarcastically.

"Leave me alone," Nigel said and turned his back on his uncle.

Suddenly he felt a hard tug on his red shirt and was forced to look Father in the face.

"Listen to me you little shit," Father snarled, "I saved you as a favour to my brother," he said, "so you BETTER start acting more grateful!" he shouted.

Nigel's sunglasses had fallen off and he now looked at Father completely horrified.

"Put my son down," Mr. Uno said.

Both looked to see Mr. Uno standing at the door looking very unhappy.

"Ahem," Father said and threw Nigel down, "Good Morning."

"It's 2 a.m.," Mr. Uno said, "is this part of your early morning routine?" he questioned.

Father looked taken aback. But he simply cleared his throat and left.

"You have to be careful around my brother Nigel," Mr. Uno told his son, "he has a violent temper," he stated.

"I know," Nigel responded.

"Good," Mr. Uno said brightly, "well goodnight, oh I mean good morning," he said and turned off the light.

"Wait Dad," Nigel said, "can I sleep with you?" he asked.

Mr. Uno blinked, too surprised to speak.

"Um, sure," Mr. Uno said breaking the silence, "course my boy," he said with a smile and held out his hand.

Nigel slipped on his sunglasses and took a pillow and walked up to his father.

Mr. Uno lovingly took his hand and they both headed towards the room where Mr. Uno was staying.

Meanwhile Hoagie slowly walked into the holding cell where Wally was staying.

"Numbuh 362 told me to talk some sense into you," Hoagie said.

"They're not holding you?" Wally asked.

"Nah, I'm not that good with Rachael," Hoagie said with a laugh, "I'm as much a prisoner here as you are."

Wally chuckled.

"What?" Hoagie asked.

"I thought you'd walk in here singing praises of Numbuh 362's decision to protect the KND above all else," Wally said.

"Hmph, I've learned that protecting things over people isn't a very good idea," Hoagie said softly.

Wally noticed a forlorn look in Hoagie's eyes as his foot rubbed across the floor.

"What's wrong?" Wally asked.

"The teenagers took Lizzie," Hoagie revealed.

"What!" Wally shouted, "how the hell did that happen?" he demanded.

"I don't know," Hoagie admitted, "but Wally, Abby was with them," he told Wally.

Wally froze.

Did he just say Abby? Wally thought.

"No," Wally said shaking his head, "no, no, no, no," he said in denial.

"She acknowledged Cree," Hoagie told him, "they're best friends now Wally."

"Liar!" Wally screamed and attacked Hoagie, "you already caused the death of Kuki!" he shouted and punched Hoagie in the face, "I'll kill you if you caused something to happen to Abby!" he shrieked, "I swear I'll kill you!"

"Hey!" a KND operative cried and opened the cell, "you can't attack an inmate like…"

The operative had no time to finish when Wally launched at him and practically beat him to a bloody pulp.

Hoagie meanwhile crawled into a corner and shivered fearfully.

Wally stopped beating the operative as his rage dissipated.

Hoagie eventually looked up and saw the beaten bleeding operative.

"Wally," Hoagie said.

Wally sat over the unconscious operative with bloodied hands.

"Wally you…you…you've got to go," Hoagie told him.

"What's the point?" Wally asked in an empty voice, "Kuki's gone, Mushi's being brainwashed to hate us, Abby's even joined the teens according to you."

"Maybe I was wrong," Hoagie said, "we can't change the past Wally," he said honestly, "but we can save the future," he told him.

"What future?" Wally asked, "you get Lizzie, I get…." he said but stopped.

"You won't be stuck with him Wally, I promise," Hoagie promised.

"How can you still believe you can change fate?" Wally asked him.

"Because we can," Hoagie said firmly.

"Then why were you with Lizzie when she was kidnapped?" Wally asked him.

Hoagie froze.

Shit, Hoagie thought.

"You like her," Wally said, "Nigel's girlfriend," he added.

"I told her how I felt and planned to leave," Hoagie revealed, "I told her enough so she'd hate me," he continued, "enough of the truth."

"What?" Wally asked confused.

"I told her everything," Hoagie revealed to Wally, "how I caused Kuki's death, all of my stupidity, everything," he said, "she didn't hate me," he said surprising Wally, "in fact she talked about how not moving on can kill you and something about losing those you love."

"So she doesn't hate you?" Wally asked.

"No," Hoagie responded.

"Tramp," Wally said angrily.

"Hey!" Hoagie shouted, "Lizzie's a great and confident woman!" he declared.

"That's why you love her?" Wally asked.

"I didn't choose my feelings," Hoagie said in his own defence.

"Neither did I for Jerry," Wally countered.

"Ewww, you like Jerry?" Hoagie questioned.

"No!" Wally cried incredulously, "I'm not gay!"

"Alright," Hoagie said, "we have to get out of here."

"You actually want to escape?" Wally asked him.

"I made a mistake once," Hoagie said as he rose to his feet, "I let the KND handle something we from sector v could've dealt with ourselves," he said, "I made the mistake and allowed us to be pulled apart," he continued, "Nigel and Abby on the run, Kuki was practically in exile before she died and you getting locked up here," he listed.

"So you finally see that the KND can't handle everything," Wally said and rose to his own feet as he wiped the blood on his hands into his orange hoodie.

"I'm beginning to wonder if they can handle anything," Hoagie responded frankly.

At the same time elsewhere on the Moon Base.

Numbuh 362 locked herself in a broom closet. She needed some time to think. She needed…

My baby, Numbuh 362 thought.

Numbuh 362 lit a cigarette and started to smoke it. She had first stolen cigarettes from a teenager as research two years ago. Now she was an on off addict.

I wonder if the KND is really worth the struggle sometimes, Numbuh 362 wondered.

Problems and stress left her body with every puff she took. She could see her life demons in the wafts of smoke around her.

Numbuh 362 took a deep breath of it.

"Smells like chaos," Numbuh 362 said.

Done

I bet some readers were like "what?" Well thank you for reading and please review. I also want to specially thank all my reviewers. I really appreciate you (all) taking the time out to give me your opinions and evaluations of my story. I really appreciate it. Oh and if you're confused about the title it simply means it's bad either way. More complicated version: 'Spiders in your garden' means troubles around you and 'Snakes in your bed' means enemies or betrayers right beside you. Yeah, simple aint it? Oh and if anyone's a fan of Foster's I have a fic up called 'A Broken Heart'. It's the sequel to a fic by Queen Datsuh, both short two-shots.