Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters plus I don't own the Queer as Folk series.

Chapter 7

Debbie just looked down at the two boys and gushed as they were both so handsome and she couldn't wait to introduce Michael to them, he had never met anyone other than her grandfather once.

Vic was delighted that he had nephews and they were nothing like his good for nothing bigot brother, which was excellent.

"So," Debbie said, "A boarding school? How long are you guys going to stay there for?"

"Umm," Andrew said, "Until I graduate but the Headmaster there officially adopted me into his family and he wants me to consider staying on as one of the staff there."

"Ooh a teacher, that's going to be fun and," Debbie looked at John and added, "What do you want to do after school?"

John shrugged and said, "Possibly go into a journalism course, Grandpa said I had the talent to do that."

Debbie smiled softly and said, "If I had known about the two of you then I'd have come to visit you two but your father."

"Yeah," John grumbled, "Why'd he cut ties off with you two?"

Vic sighed and said, "That would be my fault; Jacob hated the fact that I'm gay and he had a real problem about it, we all tried to talk to him about it but he wouldn't listen, he kept screaming that I was a fag and I shouldn't be tolerated and when our parents wouldn't cut me out of our family he disappeared one night and he would only talk to our father."

"Why didn't Grandpa tell you guys about us?" John asked, "I mean obviously we aren't the best family but you would think he'd tell you about us?"

Debbie sighed and said, "Because he didn't want to cause trouble, your father has an incredible temper."

John snorted and said, "Yeah, I know and so does Andy."

Vic sat down next to John and said, "Could you tell us why Jacob kicked you out John? We won't judge you, I promise."

Andrew nodded, they had only been talking for a couple of hours but he supposed they could be trusted alright. John grumbled, "We're mutants, though dad doesn't know about Andrew as his powers manifested shortly after we got to the boarding school."

A short uncomfortable silence suddenly happened, Bobby gave a sheepish smile he was ready to bolt and he could probably create a wall of ice to block them.

John uncomfortably flicked open his lighter, he would hurt them if they complained or made one remark.

Vic looked at Debbie and smiled softly, "We don't care if your mutants, look at me: I'm hated by people because I'm HIV positive and if I started to hate you guys because you're mutants, well I would just be the worst kind of person, wouldn't I?"

Debbie nodded her agreement and hugged both boys close to her as she grinned and said, "You're family and you guys can just come over and spend the week with us and besides you have to meet your cousin, he's going to be so happy to meet you."

John shrugged and said, "Sure, sounds good."

Debbie laughed and said, "Wait here, Mikey and his friends will show up for lunch," and then she looked at Andrew and said, "You look thin, you guys need to eat a bit more."

Before they could make a noise she told Vic, "Let's get a couple more burgers for them," and in a couple of minutes there were a couple of burgers for them

"Please Aunt Debbie," Andrew said with a smile, "I don't eat that much."

"You're too thin," Debbie said, "Now eat your burgers, Mikey will be by soon and he's going to want to meet you."

Andrew sighed as he ate the burger; he was so going to have the runs tonight. As he ate, John smirked and whispered, "You are too thin, you should work out a bit more."

John laughed and rubbed Andrew's hair while Andrew glared at him.

They continued to eat when the door opened, John looked up and saw four men walk in, he looked at them through narrowed eyes and from Aunt Debbie had said, one of them would most likely be their cousin.

Debbie rushed towards one of the dark haired ones and whispered loudly, causing the four of them to stare at them.

John noticed one of the tallest ones look at him and he looked right back, he had an idea that this guy was either trying to devour him or intimidate him, the two continued to stare at each other.

"Jeez John," Bobby said, "Why don't you just punch him and get it over with? The last time some looked at you like that you tried to break his nose."

"Because I'm not going to embarrass Aunt Debbie yet, we can embarrass her later," John said with a smirk and turned to look at Andrew and said, "He doesn't want to fight, does he?"

"No," Andrew said as he focused on the man, "He's kind of attracted to you; it's not emotional, it's purely physical."

The dark haired man Debbie was talking too suddenly came over and had a large smile on his face and John groaned, "Of course the cute one has to be our cousin!"

Andrew slapped John's side and said, "You're, like, sixteen."

"Wouldn't be the first time I had to lie about my age," John said with a smirk and laughed at Andrew's face turning red.

"Umm hi, I'm Michael," he said as he held his hand out to John.

John smiled and said, "I'm John and this is my little brother Andrew and our friend Bobby."

Michael nodded and said, "It's, umm, nice to meet you. I wasn't even aware that I had family outside of Pittsburgh."

"If it helps we only knew about Aunt Debbie, we didn't even know about her kid," John said as they looked at each other.

Andrew looked at Vic and said, "We didn't even know about Uncle Vic either."

Debbie smiled and said, "Michael, your cousins are going to be staying for awhile with me so I expect you to come for dinner so you can meet them good and proper."

Michael nodded while John looked at him and said, "He seems nice."

Andrew nodded and said, "He is nice, that's what I was getting from him; he seems genuinely happy to see us."

"That's good," John said, "Now take a look at his friend," as he pointed towards the man Michael was sitting next to.

"Alright," Andrew sighed as he looked at the man next to their new found cousin and said, "His emotions are guarded; he's attracted to Michael but there's a great deal of loneliness in there too, he feels isolated."

"Well that says nothing to me," John said and smiled at Andrew's look and said, "Yeah, he's interesting but not my type."

Andrew giggled a bit at John's standoffish facade and said, "Yeah, I know but you still find him hot, don't you?"

Debbie gave them her address and they agreed to meet her there later as Andrew wanted to see the sights while they were here, John simply wanted to rest and relax while Bobby agreed with Andrew as this was his first visit to Pittsburgh.

John sighed, next time he went on a road trip he would definitely go with Andrew alone, that way he could out vote his little brother on trips and there wasn't any danger of Bobby and Andrew outvoting him.

Andrew dragged John and Bobby everywhere showing them the main sites, John grumbled, 'What would he be like at a larger city, like New York?' But he laughed, 'If that happened the Professor could handle him.'

John looked at his watch and said, "We're going to go visit Aunt Debbie now and remember; we're here to get to know her and Uncle Vic."

Debbie was busy making a large dinner for her nephews, Michael and his friends, she knew that Michael was going to be a bit nervous around them and she knew that she raised him better than to hate people for what they were.

She heard someone knocking on the door, she opened the door and saw her newfound family and brought them in and said, "Hello guys, it's so good to see you."

John looked at her and said, "You saw us this morning?"

"Yes, but I want to know more about you guys and we really didn't have enough time this morning," Debbie said as she looked at them and smiled.

"So," Debbie said, "What are your mutant powers? I am just kind of curious but if you don't want to tell me you don't have to."

Andrew brightened and said, "I'm an Empath: I can feel other people's emotions and I can also manipulate them too but I don't like to do that."

John shook his head and said, "Don't be modest Andrew; he can heal people too. The Professor found that he can actually remove all traces of disease or injuries from people."

Debbie looked at Andrew more respectfully and then thought, 'Maybe he could heal Vic too?'

She was about to suggest it when Andrew shook his head and said, "I'm not sure I can do that, to heal diseases I have to bring them into my body where my immune system destroys them but I'm not sure about HIV."

Vic, who had been listening in, walked over and said, "I wouldn't want you to try anyways, no nephew of mine is going put himself in danger for my sake."

"Maybe," Andrew said, "When I'm older and my powers get stronger."

John grinned and said, "To change the subject, I can control fire, I can't produce it but I can definitely manipulate it."

Debbie looked at Bobby, who rubbed the back of his head and said, "Well, I can control ice, I'm still not good at it but I'm getting better, I can make drinks cold pretty fast."

"Hey," John said, "He'll get better, I know."

Andrew grinned as he sat down and said, "You didn't tell Michael about us, did you?"

"No," Debbie said, "And it wasn't because I am ashamed of you two, it's because I'm not sure how he would take it, though I raised him to be better than that."

John shrugged, "If he doesn't accept us because we're mutants I say fuck him!"

Debbie laughed sharply and said, "Did you take lessons from Brian Kincaid or something? You have the same exact attitude that he has when someone gives him shit about being gay."

"Sounds like an okay guy to me," John said, "I mean anyone who stands up for themselves I can respect that."

Soon Brain and Michael came over and they began to talk to Debbie who wanted them to reveal to Michael that they were mutants; she wouldn't tell Michael or Brian their secrets.

As Debbie served dessert John decided to stop dancing around the subject as Mikey pretty much told him that he was gay, so John decided to tell him about himself and Andrew.

"Look Mikey, you seem like a nice guy," John said, "So I'm going to be honest, me and Andrew; we're mutants."

Michael froze as did Brian and Brian shrugged, "I heard bad things about mutants," John stared at Brian who continued, "But these things come from the same fuckers who kept telling me that I was unnatural for being gay."

"Yeah," Michael said, "You won't get any trouble from us and besides, my mom would kill me if I showed any distaste."

"So," Brian said looking at John, "How old are you?"

John simply shrugged and said, "You guess how old I am."

Andrew sighed, 'It was going to be one of those weeks,' and went back to eating the pie that he was eating.

"So," Debbie said, "Where you guys going to go after you leave us?"

"We have an Uncle out west somewhere," John said, "Not really sure yet but the Professor's looking for us, he's going to get back to us soon."

Michael looked at Andrew and said, "Is he related to me and my mom?"

"No, he's related to us through our mom," Andrew said, "And from what we heard; mom's family wasn't exactly thrilled with her marrying dad."

TBC

A/N: Alright, tomorrow I'm going to introduce the other family members and I got some good ideas though I am still taking suggestions though a friend suggested someone I hadn't considered; Jonathon Kent but I'm not sure.

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