Kevin pulled up outside Gwen's house, lights off, engine down to a low humming noise. Gwen sighed as she removed her hand from the steering wheel and avoided eye contact with the boy.

He noticed her hazed eyes and placed his fingers just under chin so gently to lift her head up.

"I had fun" She mumbled trying to force a smile but it wore off quickly.

"You don't have to go in there on your own" He muttered back looking over to the door of the Tennyson residence. Gwen sighed thinking about it. Thinking about running away and never coming back to Bellwood. To this back-water town but Ben would find her; he always did and as much as he hated to admit it; he needed her there to back him up, to hold him and heal his wounds everytime he had fallen down.

"I can't avoid it. The longer I leave it; the worse it's going to be" She took hold of his hand still currently on her chin and placed it against her cheek.

"Thanks for letting me drive your car, Kevin"

He stiffened, realising that he hadn't actually let anyone else drive his ride since he had gotten the car over a year ago.

"I'll see you again, right?" He asked, eyes searching desperately into hers.

"Yeah, just need to talk to my cousin first" She removed his hands off her cheek before unclipping her seatbelt and opening the car door. He instantly grabbed her forearm not wanting to let go. She stared down into his eyes, seeing the lost-puppy that he was.

"If he hurts you, I'll beat his ass" Kevin threatened. She gave him one last hopeful smile before letting go. He watched as she walked over to the door twisting the knob before she left to go inside. He moved into the driver's seat starting up the car before he could hear the screams from her cousin. He winced his eyes, smacking his forehead against the steering wheel.

"Stupid; stupid; stupid" He muttered over and over to himself as he heard them argue. He bit his lip reversing the car before driving down the street.

Gwen was greeted by a barage of screams and yells. Mainly from her cousin in particular. Holding a phone out in one hand and a vicious scowl in the next, Ben raised his voice up again.

"HOW COULD YOU BETRAY US?" Ben screamed his lungs out as she sat on the couch in her living room.

"THIS IS DISGUSTING; HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?"

"I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" He gritted his teeth grabbing his hair about to pull it out. Gwen was hunched out, tears in her eyes.

"YOU'RE NEVER SEEING HIM AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME?" He grabbed her chin a little too roughly and stared into the depth of her red, puffy eyes. He was so enraged and blinded by his anger to see how badly he was hurting her. Her teeth clenched as his fingers curled around her chin.

"I asked if you were listening to me, Gwen?" He snared at her like a savage dog without a leash. There was no holding back on her. She knew that she had done something or, that she was perceived to have been doing something wrong. So she should have called and told them that she would be late home but it wasn't fair.

"Ben, please!" She whispered her voice hoarse from crying. He gritted his teeth, eyes drawn down to her. He was in no mood, not in the least.

"I told you Gwen, you're not dating Kevin"

She winced her eyes, drawing her head back into her chest. Gwen shook her head, wiping her eyes. She had been trying to argue with him for over an hour but nothing seemed to work. There was no getting away from the fact that her cousin just wanting to scream his head off at her and get all his anger out in the open. She had never seen him this mad at her before, except after there parents died. He couldn't stand to look at her.

He gritted his teeth angrily, hissing with spite. She turned to her grandpa hoping he would say something but he just remained quiet. Quiet and uneasy about the whole situation. He sighed taking a step forward, placing a hand on the redhead's shoulder trying to comfort her as much as possible.

"Ben and I need to have a chat, Gwendolyn" He muttered towards the girl. She stood up quietly before making her way up the stairs towards her room. Max placed a hand on his grandson's shoulder trying to calm him down.

"You shouldn't be yelling at your cousin. You two are partners"

Ben crossed his arms.

"Partners don't betray their family" Ben stormed off towards the stairs getting ready to confront his cousin once again.

Gwen wiped her eyes, composing herself before she grabbed her phone out from her bag checking her messages.

Over 100 from Ben; 6 from Max; 1 from Julie and 1 from Kevin. She sighed, sitting at her desk opening her computer and bringing up her assignment, overdue by four weeks. Luckily Ben had spoken to her teacher about letting her off for the rest of the semester. Without Gwen's knowledge, of course. She stretched her arms in front of her before beginning to type. She sighed as she heard her door being knocked and opened before she could even say 'come in'. So, she knew exactly who it was. She sighed not even bothering to turn around as Ben came into the room and closed the door without uttering a single word.

He came over and sat on her bed, legs crossed just staring at her. He must've calmed down from the talk from her grandfather.

"Enough shuddering in silence, we haven't finished talking"

"Were we talking? Sounded like you for just yelling at me for over an hour" Gwen muttered, turning round to him her eyes darkened and her head hung low.

"Your right! I shouldn't have yelled at you" He stood up.

"But that doesn't mean you didn't deserve it; you went on a date with Kevin E. Levin. He kidnapped you and tried to kill me on several occasions. You dating him shouldn't be up for discussion"

She looked up at him slightly hopeful that Max had changed his opinion but it went South pretty quickly.

"Because it's not; you're not dating him, Gwen"

"It's not your choice"

"It's not your's either. We're suppose to be a team Gwen, not being stabbing each other in the back"

"I wasn't-"

"I said it's not up for discussion, Gwen" Ben crossed his arms lowering his eyes. She breathed out lowering her head and hunching her body over her legs.

"What do you want, Ben?" She asked not even bothering to look up at him.

"We've got a mission tomorrow. Need to know that you're committed?"

She looked up at him staring daggers into his eyes.

"Do I even have a choice?" She whispered.

Kevin was pretty disappointed when Gwen didn't ring back, though he kinda expected as much. He could hear screaming the moment she entered the door, dragged in by her cousin as she immediately placed her keys into the lock and was shouted at to no end. He constantly checked his phone, waiting for an update from her; a text; a ring; something to say that she was alright and was being interrogated to ends with her pathetic excuse for a cousin.

He needed to get his mind off her, anything would do. He looked over to his second car opening the bonnet and beginning work.

6:45AM in the morning and she was already dressed for a running session before having to deal with her obnoxious cousin for the rest of the day. Earphones set to a foreign language as it repeated over and over in her ears. She really didn't want to get out of bed today but she had more motivation for her cousin not to see that he was getting to her. She opened her bedroom door to find Ben staring back at her.

'Oh no' She sighed. Her day was already ruined.

"I've got something for you" He grabbed her hand leading her downstairs. She could already see what he wanted to give her. She arched her eyebrow at the objects set up on the table. She walked over to the white and black armour looking slightly more hightech then her last set. Obviously Cooper had made some alterations to her new suit.

"Fully equipt with a Anti-energy stealing device so no one will be able to touch you powers" Ben tapped the heavy armour remembering the incident with Michael Morningstar.

"Plus" He hit the side of one of the arms and showed her the glowing bars of white energy. Gwen could already feel the radiation of manner from the containment.

"Reserve energy" Ben smiled at her.

"And," He smacked the side of the thigh plates showing two concealed pistols; one loaded with bullets and an extra magazine, the other empty. She arched her eyebrow picking the hollow one up.

"Cooper made it so you could focus your energy into one single and accurate blast" She looked through the scope of the pistol.

"Huh," She placed it to the side before she stared towards her cousin.

"Hopefully, you won't get blasted this time" He threw her one last signiture smile before he walked off getting ready for the mission. Gwen sighed, nervous about going back out into the field. She ran up stairs throwing on her underarmour before grabbing the rest of her equipment getting ready to face Ben's adoring fans and the public eye once again.

Gwen watched the make-up artist in front of her cousin apply small amounts of concealer to his face. She rolled her eyes, scowl on her face and arms crossed over her chest. Yes, she was mad at her cousin and no, she wasn't going to stop bickering with him until he had finally given in and says: 'Yes, yes you can date Kevin Levin or; do whatever you want; what do I care'.

"Gwen, you want some?" He asked obviously signalling to the blonde haired, blue eyed woman above him. Gwen shook her head, resting her back on the wall of the space-craft as she waited for Ben to finish up 'dressing himself' approprately before he went on camera.

"Come on, cheer-up. I practically saved you from making the biggest mistake of your life" He relaxed in her seat of the Rustbucket II as the woman patted his face, lightly with a brush.

"It was my mistake to make not yours" Gwen scowled eyes glaring at the woman who was obviously slowing her movements down so she could score on the latest Tennyson gossip.

"He was just using you to get to me" Ben stood up, walking over to her and staring directly into her shaded eyes. She uncrossed her arms and stood up trying to tower over her cousin and show her that she wasn't intimidated by him.

"And what if you were wrong" She hissed back bashing with her shoulder blade as she moved past him and out the door of the large space-craft so Ben could go make his stupid speech before the mission, followed by the camera crew invading there ship and their privacy as they headed out towards the bad-guys.

"Ms. Tennyson!" Gwen looked over to see the woman carrying a pad of concealer. Gwen arched her eyebrow before walking over to the woman who gently took the girls chin and gently applied the make-up to the small but apparent bruises lining her jaw. Ben sighed walking out of the room, waving his hand to the cheering crowd.

"Wouldn't want your fans seeing those marks on a powerful woman" The woman forced a hopeless smile towards the redhead before walking out of the room. Gwen was shocked at her words, not knowing what to do. Instead, she turned watching the woman exit the craft. It made her sigh thinking about Ben practically ruling her life. Maybe Kevin was right. She pulled out her phone making a phone call.

"Kevin!" She couldn't help but smile so brightly into the phone.

"Gwen?"

"Yeah, Kevin it's me" Tears were threatening to spill down her face just hearing her call her name.

She quietly exited the space-craft not causing too much of a scene or commotion as her cousin stood up on stage answering questions from his adoring fans. She smiled as a little girl crawled past the barriers of the grounds and ran over to the girl with a phone in her hand. Gwen just smiled, giggling lightly as she walked over to the girl, crouching down to take a selfie with the 10 year old before signing an autograph and taking the girl's hand leading the small child back to the crowd. Gwen instantly recognised the similarity between the mother staring directly at her daughter. The redhead lifted the small brunette haired girl up and back into her mother's arms. A polite smile and 'here's you kid back' before she signed a few more autographs and selfies and heading back over to her cousin who was currently standing on a podium having a tiny argument with one of the journalists.

"No, my cousin is not dating anyone" Ben was going beat-red in the face just listening to the journalist.

"But reports say that this isn't the first time the couple has been seen together. At, one, 'auto-show' within it Ms. Tennyson was seen sharing a smoothie with a dark haired man- the same one seen at the restaurant with each other holding hands" The Jounralist hit back reading the report from her iphone. Ben gritted his teeth before turning to his cousin, practically death-staring her down. She just shrugged shaking off Ben's feeble attempts to intimidate her.

He growled turning to the next journalist.

"Yeah, you" Ben pointed to a redheaded woman with ocean blue eyes. She smiled happily before speaking into the microphone.

"Reports have said that you have been dating Gwen Tennyson"

This time it was Gwen's turn to go completely red in the face.

"I'm NOT DATING MY COUSIN"

"But the current trend is shipping: Bwen!"

She turned round to her phone trying not throw a fit and act professional but Ben was already to close to going off the rails with these people.

"I mean you two are always seen together, you never leave each other's side. It must be" She continued.

This time Gwen took the microphone off Ben and answered the question before Ben blew a casket.

"That's solely because we're partners" Gwen stated hoping it answered the woman's question but she just shrugged.

"I think we both know there's more to it then just 'partner's'" the woman stated. The redhead backed away from the microphone trying not to lose her mind with arguing with the woman, unlike Ben.

"Look just because my cousin 'technically' has no DNA because she's an Antodyte doesn't mean that we're dating each other" Ben stated. She tensed instantly at the amount of people raising there microphones up stating that there was a very likely possibility that they were in fact dating. Gwen slammed her head into her hands trying to ignore the people making the accusations.

Rustbucket II

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!" Gwen gritted her teeth angrily towards her cousin. Ben just sat in his chair and shrugged his shoulders.

"What?"

Gwen crossed her arms furrowing her eyebrows. "The 'BWEN' community, as they like to call themselves, has literally shipped us to freakin' mars" She exaggerated.

"I don't see what the problems is Gwen, it's not like we're even related by blood"

"That's not the p-" She turned watching the camera crew enter the ship. She growled angrily. She hated the crew members that consistently followed the two around a bird of prey swooping down at the small animals that lurked below. That's how Gwen felt around them, they were just there to extort both cousin's weaknesses by making a stupid show out of it.

"Why don't you go meditate or something; it'll cool you off" Ben suggested closing the ramp to the ship and beginning to operate the controls. She stormed off allowing the camera crew to pass her on her way out.

One of the men in a suit smiled towards the Tennyson in the chair.

"This is big Ben, if we can get you two as a pair then we'll sell billions" He smiled brightly almost cheering.

"I still have a girlfriend, you know"

"That's alright, it'll only be in front of the camera. World's most powerful woman with the World's most powerful man well...boy"

Ben narrowed his eyes.

"Man!" The man corrected himself.

Ben stared back over to the other room where his cousin had disappeared. It wouldn't be such a bad idea and he was sure his cousin wouldn't mind; that mind.

"Also, just a reminder to get your cousin to sign her new contract with us, I'm sure she'll like the new one" The man smirked passing Ben the piece of paper and pen. He smiled back.

"No problem"

Rustbucket II Quarters

Gwen sighed walking into the room where the two bunk beds laid unused for some time now. Over in the corner a dog slept soundly; Ben's wonderdog to be put nicely. Though there was nothing 'wonder' about him. He's just a regular dog which would fill in during the time-slots where it was safe to put the dog into the camera. Gwen removed the timer from her pocket and walked over to the dog, placing a gentle hand on the mutt as she collapsed her back against the wall. Timer set to 3 hours; Gwen removed her phone from her pocket and began reading through her messages.

Julie: 'Gwen, coming round tonight. Girls night in XX'

Grandpa: 'Hey, Pumpkin. Good luck with your first mission on your own. Don't kill each other'.

Emily: 'Are you dating your cousin? not that I'm judging or anything but the media's having a field-day'.

Kevin.

Her eyes lit up when she saw his name. It only read two words but it was enough to make Gwen blush. 'Driving lesson?' Gwen couldn't help the smile that came upon her face, she just couldn't held it. She leaned her back against the wall before answering him back.

'On mission with Ben, can't tonight have company'.

She placed her phone down but as soon as she did she heard her phone vibrate.

'I could sneak in'

Gwen picked up the phone and typed.

'Unless you want to risk it with Ben?'

'He won't notice'

Gwen thought about it for a moment. There grandpa would be on another date with Verdona- catching up together. What could she possibly have to lose. Ben would pick Julie up, allowing Kevin to sneak in, she'll yell at Ben; they'll get into a fight; she can go into her room and...yeah this could work. Kevin can just sneak out when Ben falls asleep.

'Sounds good, I'll tell you when'

Gwen smirked.

'Cya soon, Tennyson'

Gwen rolled her eyes, placing her phone into her pocket before she began meditating.

I received an inbox wanting to know what exactly happened to Ben and Gwen's parents, so I will write a chapter on that so I put some hints in this chapter to see if you can figure out what exactly happened to their folks.

I know this wasn't the most romantic chapter but believe me the next one is.

Yes, there is a slight amount of BWEN in here just cause I thought it would be funny as most of my stories are about them together.

In addition, don't forget to review. It's keeping this fanfic going.