Frank walked up the stairs towards his daughter's room to check if she was okay. In truthfulness, he wanted to check that she had not heard him talking to Max. "Gwenny?" He called out knocking on her door and walking in to see Lily sitting there with the girls head cradled in his wife's lap. She was brushing the girl's hair with her fingers soothing her shallow breaths as she slept.
Frank smiled as he stared down at the two. "Is she alright?" He asked bending down and slowly caressing her cheek. "She's okay, she didn't tell me what happened" Lily whispered moving the girls head onto the pillow. Lily smiled down at her. "I wish we had another child" Lily whispered tucking the girl up.
Frank frowned.
"Ken wasn't a handful enough" Frank chuckled lightly thinking about the rascle he raised.
"I mean a daughter. I always wanted one but never had the chance" Lily whispered as Frank frowned.
"Do you remember our daughter?" Frank asked. Lily turned to him. "Yes but I remember something odd about her" Lily thought to herself. "No, no, no. She was perfect" Lily crossed her arms. "Frank, her eyes glowed. She was a monster. Where ever she is she's better off just, as long as she's away from us" She whispered with such hatred that it awoke the young redhead. Her eyes fluttered open before she stared up at the two bickering to themselves. "What's going on?" Gwen asked as she sat up rubbing her eyes.
"Nothing, Gwen. Go back to sleep" Frank whispered sitting down next to her and tucking her up. Gwen breathed out staring over to her mother as she laid her head down on the pillow. "What were you talking about?" She asked. Lily stared down at her. "Nobody Gwen, nobody that you'll have to worry about" Lily whispered.
"No one's a nobody" Gwen whispered closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep. Frank rubbed her cheek before standing up and walking at the door upset at his wife.
THE NEXT DAY
Gwen giggled lightly as Ben and her played in the street throwing a small ball towards one another.
"You know for something so simple, this is kinda fun" Gwen laughed as she threw the ball towards him. Ben smirked too caught up in her appearance to noticed the ball coming towards him. He couldn't help but notice her gleaming red hair caught in the suns raised as she pranced around catching and throwing the ball without a sign of desperation or exhaustion. She was simply happy. "oof" The ball smacked Ben straight in the face.
Ben held his nose in pain wincing as the ball rolled away. Gwen's eyes lit with fear as she noticed the red liquid escape Ben's nose through his fingers.
"Ben!" She raised up to him at light speed. The wind gusted upon Ben as he winced before he hand and cheek were gently taken by the beauty. He stared up at her worried eyes too caught up in her elegance and splendor to draw any attention to his nose. "Does it hurt when I do this?" Gwen asked as she gently pinched the top of Ben's nose. "Oh, OW!" Ben winced in pain as he was brought back to reality. "Wait, hold still" Gwen whispered before looking around making sure no one was around before her hand came upon the bridge of Ben's broken nose. "What are you doing?"
Her eyes and hand lit up before her eyebrows narrowed. "I said: hold still" In an instance Ben felt a zap and snap in his nose. He winced in pain feeling his the broken bones in his nose return back into their original position stronger than ever. Her eyes and hand soon dulled down and returned to their usual human like form. "Better?" She asked. Ben felt his nose. "Yeah, how did you do that?"
Gwen smirked. "Go get the ball" She rolled her eyes and walked back to her original place. Ben turned round walking over to the nearby drain and picked the ball up. He heard a car engine cease as he turned round to see non only than Kevin E. Levin standing right next to the love of his life, kissing her hand in a flirting manner. Ben noticed the blush of red cross Gwen's face as Kevin touched and caressed her hand. Ben's shocked stare turned to anger. He stared down at the base ball in his hands before flicking it and ditching it straight into the side of Kevin's head. "OW!" Kevin winced holding his head in pain as Gwen took a step back hands covering her mouth. Ben raced over to them waving a hand and smiling at them.
"Took your time, Ben" Gwen gave him a nudge in the shoulder with her knuckles as Kevin finally shook off the blow.
"Tennyson!" Kevin growled knowing that the boy had hit him in the head on purpose. "Hey Kevin, how was your holiday?" Ben asked silently creeping a hand around Gwen's side and laying it on the side of her right ribs. Gwen turned to him with an arched eyebrow before she smirked and turned back to Kevin giving the attention he deserved. "It was fine, just been working on my car making sure you can't ever break it again" Kevin rubbed his head before his attention turned to Gwen's side noticing Ben's hand. "Oh," Kevin breathed out.
"You two...are...together?" Kevin stared at Ben awkwardly wondering how he could even get a girlfriend as hot as the fiery redhead. Ben nodded smirking happily as he held Gwen closer in his arms.
"Kevin, this is Gwen," Ben introduced her. "Kevin, Kevin Levin" Kevin shook Gwen's hand. Gwen smiled. "It's nice to meet you, Kevin" She smiled back politely.
"Well, Gwen and I need to be off. I promised I'd show her the awesome smoothies we have in Bellwood" Ben smirked nudging her lightly and pulling her closer into him. "It was nice meeting you Curtis" She walked off with Kevin. "It's KEVIN" He shouted out as they walked to Ben's car.
Not too far away two people watched the trio through the survelliance camera's. "See I told you. She's an alien" One man with a bold spot in the middle of his head stated. The man with the grey hair and suit smiled. "Perfect" Harangue smirked as he watched the girl over and over again fix Ben's nose with her powers before hugging him. "huh, and it looks like she has a boyfriend; Ben Tennyson"
"Find where she's going and grab her"
Burger Place
"It's called a beef burger" Ben sat down in the red booth and setting the meal down. Gwen's eyebrow arched before she pointed towards the chips. "I thought they'd be bigger" She breathed out as Ben sat down grabbing a cup of cola and stabbing the straw through the lid before passing it to her. "Those are called chips" He passed her her drink. "And this is called cola" He smiled before he grabbed his beef burger and took a bite. "Mmm..." He moaned enjoying the cheeseburger taste. Gwen looked down at her plate grabbing the burger and taking a bite. Ben watched as her eyes lid up in amazement.
"Wow! this is amazing" Gwen took another bite chewing the food down. Ben chuckled lightly before he noticed some small ketchup in the corner of her lips.
"You got something there" Ben grabbed his cloth leaning in closer with the napkin and wiping her lip. Gwen gasped but leaned in catching on to his intentions. Gwen leaned forward and closed her eyes. Ben closed his eyes and took the back of her head kissing her tenderly on the lips.
"Ben!" He was interrupted by a female voice. "Ben!...Ben!...Ben?" Ben opened his eyes to see Gwen with an arched eyebrow staring at him as she ate her chips.
"You okay? You kind of just blanked out a minute there" She wiped her salted hands on her servet before turning back to Ben making sure he was okay.
"Yeah, sorry Gwen" He smiled at her in reassurance. "Ben?" Gwen turned to see an Asian American standing opposite them. Ben's eyes widened in shock. "Julie?" Ben stood up in a hurry trying to secretly shoo her off before Gwen noticed her. Unfortunately for Ben, Kevin walked up to them grabbing Julie's shoulders and shoving the three of them into the booth squishing Gwen. Kevin with Gwen, Ben with Julie. Kevin smirked turning to Ben watching the two sit together.
"So Julie" Ben began wrapping an arm around Gwen's seat. Gwen felt uncomfortable by the situation and shuffled in her spot moving slightly away from Kevin's grasp.
"It's so good to see the love birds together again" Kevin smirked before Ben's eyes lit up.
"Huh?" Gwen stared as Julie grabbed Ben's arm and cuddled him. Ben straightened himself careful not to make the next move in order to not hurt both girls. "Yeah, didn't ya know Gwen. Julie and Ben are together" Kevin chuckled moving his arm closer to Gwen's shoulders. A pain weighed on the redhead's heart. She couldn't tell if it was a mixture of pain, guilt, betrayal or embassement. She had never felt this way before and out of all of it she felt slightly jealous for Julie.
"I'm sorry" The dark haired girl turned to Gwen.
"Have we met before my names Julie" She smiled so politely and innocently at Gwen that it just made her feel worse. Gwen slowly removed her hand out from under the table and shook Julie's hand weakly in a poor effort but Julie still retained her sweet smile.
"You from around here?" She asked the redhead. Gwen slowly shook her head.
"No," Gwen answered. "And to be honest" She stared down at her hands.
"I don't think I should be here either" Gwen shook up squeezing through the seat and Kevin in order to leave. "I'm so sorry" Gwen whispered to Julie.
"Huh? for what?" Julie answered. Gwen then stared over to Ben but as soon as his eyes glanced at hers she refused to meet them. She closed her eyes shaking her head before forcing a small poor excuse for a smile. "I should leave. I promised Lily I'd help her with something anyway" Gwen moved over to the door in a hurry as Ben called over to her trying to get out of the booth but found himself trapped. He sighed in defeat before looking over to Kevin noticing his cunning smirk. "I should go and see how she is?" Julie stood up leaving the two boys alone.
Ben waited patiently for Julie to leave before directing all his attention to Kevin.
"Why did you do that?" Ben asked. "Simple. You can't have two girlfriends" Kevin shrugged. It's not right" He picked up Gwen's forgotten cola and took a sip. "How'd you manage to get a girl like that anyway?" Kevin asked. "It's a long story and she's not my girlfriend"
"So she's available"
"NO!"
"But you just said-"
"I know what I said and NO she 'not avaliable' our relationship with each other is complicated" Ben explained but even he knew on the inside that it was a stupid answer.
"So wait, let me get this straight. Your dating Julie at the same time your dating...what was her name again?"
"Gwen"
"Right, and your saying it's complicated. Does she even know you have a girlfriend?" Kevin asked.
"Julie and I were on a break before I left, I didn't think it mattered that I was seeing another person"
"Or in this case a hot, fiery redhead" Kevin winked making Ben groan. "So who you gonna choose?" Kevin asked. Ben turned away and stared towards the window. "It doesn't matter, after this i'm sure they'll both want to rip my head off" Ben breathed out. Kevin smirked at his friend.
"So, does this mean that she's avaliable now?" Kevin's eyes lit up with such glee that it made Ben want to consider dumping the rest of the drink on Kevin's smug face. "GUYS!" Julie bursted in the room.
"Some people just grabbed Gwen" Julie's eyes lit up with worry. Ben and Kevin turned to each other before jumping up from their seats running out the door following Julie.
"There" She pointed at a white van speeding off into the distance. "Ha, i've got them now' Ben looked down at his omnitrix summoning up the alien he desired. "JETRAY" He screamed at the top of his lungs ready to pounce into the sky before he found himself weighing over a tonne of pure diamond. "AWE man, DiamondHead" Ben frowned. "Ben, what are you waiting for; catch them" Julie screamed at him. Ben nodded before running after them but they were gone to quick and Ben was left standing there only a couple of metres away from his worried friends.
Just outside Antodyne
Verdona's foot kicked back and forth as she awaited impatiently for the Plumber to come back in with a report. "So," The giant frog like alien sat down and reviewed the file. "Gwen, was it?" He asked.
"Yes, my granddaughter" Verdona nodded as Sunny sat next to her board.
"Have you any word of her?" Verdona asked. The man turned to the computer with a bored face apparent. He began typing and typing as the veins in Verdona's temple began to grow bigger and bigger. "Last name Tennyson?" He asked. Verdona nodded. "When was she last scene?" He asked.
"Over a fortnight ago" Verdona answered. He nodded not bothering to look and her only referring to his screen.
"Now is there any news of her?" Verdona asked. "Well...there is something" Verdona and Sunny's eyes lit up. "Plumbers on Earth reported a found Antodyte missing from her home but that notice was taken down two days ago" The Plumber informed them. "Was she attacked. Was she being chased down by a bounty hunter?" Verdona was almost on the edge of her seat. "Well yes" He answered. "Then that must be Gwen" Verdona smiled.
"The thing is. The notice was taken off. That means someone's already claimed her" Verdona eyes lit up in confusion before turning to rage.
"WHAT?" Lights flickered and eventually broke. Utensils, stationary and computers hovered ready to drop to the floor and break at any second as Verdona's rage for now having her granddaughter drew. "You tell whatever Plumber that sent that that Gwen's grandmother is coming to Antodyne to collect her granddaughter. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" He voice boomed through the halls as Sunny's smile widened at her grandmother. The cowering Plumber nodded. "I'll send a call out right away, Miss Tennyson" He grabbed his phone as Verdona began to calm. "Good," She then turned to Sunny. "Come on then, we better go take your cousin home" Verdona smiled at her granddaughter.
SOMEWHERE ON EARTH
Gwen winced her eyes in pain as she noticed the dreary and uncomfortably light hanging from the ceiling swinging from side to side over her restrained body. She breathed out through the gag as she tried to move her hands from being bound to the stainless steel chair. For some reason, she couldn't use her powers not matter how much energy she put into it. She closed her eyes attempting to home in on the cause of this before the basement door swung open and there stood a man grinning from ear to ear.
"Don't bother, i've disabled your powers" He stated walking down each step. Gwen narrowed her eyes at him noticing that it was the same man who had plucked her from the street before knocking her unconscious. "Gwen, was it?" He sat down next to her he leaned his head in close making sure he could see her face. "My names Will Harangue and I know exactly what you are; alien" Gwen's eyes lit up in shock as she stared at the man.