Racing Love
Chapter 2
Me: A late birthday present for Eairty. Again I own nothing.
Kevin sighed as he slipped on a good button up shirt and looked at himself in the mirror on the other side of his bed where he sat. There he saw a man that finally grew to his large facial features, arms ripped, abs toned, and legs strong and sturdy. He had no hair on his chest, arms, or legs, his daughter wouldn't come near him if he did. What did she say, "Only cave women like that much hair on her man, and society is way too advanced for that, so shave all that unsightly shit off or I'll wax you!" At first he didn't comply and scolded her for swearing at him, but when he woke up in the morning covered in wax strips that were booby trapped to be yanked off as soon as he moved, he knew she was serious, and he quickly took to shaving himself clean. He wasn't a fan of mustaches or beards so he kept his face clean out of habit and thankfully Aqua had left the hair around his more private parts alone. He once asked he about that in a teasing manner and she said as long as she didn't see it, she could pretend it didn't exist. Well that lead him protesting against his legs, which she smacked him in the face with his shorts. Chuckling to himself he moved to stand and button up his shirt before smoothing out his best jeans.
'So much has changed, I wonder where my place is.' He wondered and was startled out of his thought by banging on his bedroom door.
"Lets go Dad, we'll be late!" Aqua yelled for him through the door and walked away. He smirked and placed his worn red hat on, his only piece of his childhood left. Opening the door he saw his daughter in an embellished tank top, jean skirt, and flip flops. She had yanked her stubborn hair back into a pony tail and wore no make up. Grabbing his keys off the small table next to the door he slipped on his tennis shoes and held the door open for his daughter, she walked out and following he locked up the house, a paranoia left over from Vanilla Bay. He knew there was no theft in Peach Creek, but habits were hard to break. Crossing over to Nazz's he heard the party going on in the back and the went around the house to see many already there. Nazz was sitting with Sarah by a small blow up pool that two little girls were splashing around in. He noticed that Sarah, while giving her attention to Nazz, had a hawk's eye on the pool. Sarah had grown slender but strong and a ring winked at him from her finger. The door to the house opened and he saw Jimmy come out with a plate of drinks and glasses. The only recognizable feature about him was his face, other than that Jimmy was slender but he could see a well balanced muscle structure under pale skin. Ed was already there with Rolf, the son of a sheppard had grown bulky and strong, a little more rugged with the arm hair and facial stubble but he had to admit, it suited him. He watched as Rolf handled Fallon with sure but gentle hands. Rolf was alight with a father's happiness and he smiled, Rolf deserved a family. He turned to Nat and Eddy. Nat who was perched on the picnic table top with his feet planted on the bench part rubbed Eddy's back soothingly while the smallest of the Eds leaned into Nat's bulked frame. Nat's face held a frown as did Eddy's. Something must have happened since he saw them since lunch. He watched as a red head approached them with two glasses of lemonade. Her hair was straightened and pulled back revealing brown eyes. She was dressed in a white and red polka dotted shirt, jeans and sneakers.
"Thanks Lee," Nat said as he grabbed the offered glass and Eddy gave a small smile as he excepted his. She hiked herself up next to the couple and leaned into Nat, sipping from her own glass. Kevin gaped. That was Lee Kanker? Looking around, he spotted May over by Ed and Rolf, chatting happily, and the blue haired Marie was missing, as was Edd. Nazz rushed over to them, finally spotting them.
"Kevin, you made it." Following his eyesight to Nat, Eddy, and Lee she smiled tightly. "Aqua, why don't you go see that my husband doesn't burn anything on the grill, he's got a habit of doing that if he isn't monitored. A sound of disgruntlement came from the grill.
"It was one time, you burn hot dogs one time and the wife never trusts you again." Shaking his head he grinned. Aqua walked over to them.
"Eddy and Nat got a call from the adoption services. Their case fell through, they can't adopt now." Kevin gave a frown and looked at Ed and Rolf who were so happy with little Fallon and then at Eddy and Nat, who were so miserable in return. "Lee, who lives with them, feels bad, cause the adoption representative said they could just use her as a surrogate mother instead." Kevin snorted.
"Women aren't breeding stock for gay men." Nazz nodded.
"I keep telling them to bug Double D with this but they won't cause they don't want to burden Double D."
"Burden, Double D would jump at the chance to help them." Kevin snorted. "Hell if anyone could do it, Double D would be your man, dude seriously has a knack for loop holes, he should have been a lawyer." Nazz grinned and her eyes darted over behind Kevin, to which he looked over his shoulder. There was Marie in camo capris and the ever present black skull shirt, black combat boots laced on her feet and an army cap nestled on her short blue locks. Behind her was what stunned him though. There was Edd in tight dark blue jeans, heeled boots and a halter style shirt that was only held on by a thick neck collar and a silver chain that was attached at one end of the shirt and linked behind his back and attached to the other side. He had his hair up still and a platter was resting in his hands.
"Sorry we're a bit late, Nazz would have killed me if I had shown up in my work clothes." He chuckled as he passed them and headed over to the other picnic table where the food rested and that's when Kevin's legs gave out under his shock. There, on sun kissed skin covered back was a TATTOO. And not just any tattoo it was of a black panther, body curled to face front on all four paws, head lowered and blue eyes piercing, and a tiger, his body bowing the opposite way than the others' to make an oval shape with their bodies, the tiger looking more vicious than the panther, with green eyes narrowed and head down low, lilies and cherry blossoms surrounding the two cats. It was done in vivid colors and neat elegant lines. It was bold, sensual, intimidating, it was perfect.
"Like it do you." Kevin looked up to see Marie staring at Edd's back with him.
"Yeah, it's amazing. I didn't even know he had it."
"Most don't until he wears a shirt like that, best piece of skin I have ever done." Kevin looked again at her while struggling to his feet.
"You did that?" She nodded.
"He was my very first customer. I own a tattoo parlor with my sisters, however we're still having trouble getting people in, however when we do we make it soar. May does the designing, Lee chooses the colors, and I do the actual piece, but I can't do it all without them. So to help keep our heads above water the Eds helped us by taking one of us into their homes. Lee manages the house for Eddy and Nat while they're away at work, May does chores on the farm with Rolf, Ed, and Ricardo, the help hand. And Edd has me stay and do chores or help with cars when I've got the time to spare. We did however make a pit stop before coming over here." Marie switched the topic as she saw Edd go over to the distraught couple. "We went to Ed's and Rolf's old case worker and got a copy of the rules and regulations for the Adoption Agency. Edd could tell something was up and got me to get Lee to find out what was going on. He's going to look it over when we get home, and hopefully find a loophole for Eddy and Nat. They really want that Raven kid." Kevin grinned at Edd, his intuition was spot on as usual. Nazz started saying something to her husband which caused Aqua to laugh. When suddenly the back gate opened again and Kevin's blood froze as well as heard Aqua gasp. Everyone turned to the new comers.
"Raven!" Eddy called out, jumping off Nat's lap and walking over to the small boy that couldn't have been more than eight. Nat too got up and started to walk towards the boy with a smile.
"Not so fast, I only brought him here to say goodbye." Nat's smile dropped and Eddy glared at the woman that had manicured nails digging into the boy's thin shoulder causing the boy to flinch. Kevin gritted his teeth and walked over and grabbed her wrist harshly, causing her to let the boy go. The small boy immediately ran to Eddy's arms and started to cry.
"What in the fuck are you doing her Edina?!" Kevin glared at the black haired woman who smiled viciously at him.
"My job, to make sure disgusting people like you don't taint the youth of our country." Kevin threw her wrist away and glared at her, Edd getting on his cell phone registered on his radar, but he thought little of it. Edd did creep closer after he had the caller on speaker up and came up right behind Kevin.
"Oh so you want to keep kids from having a good home, because of your prejudiced ways?! And like you were such a good mother to our own daughter!" Nazz's eyes widened at that before shooting Aqua a glance. Now that she saw this woman she could see the resemblance between that woman and Aqua.
"That child was an abomination caused by an experimenting gay man. She's not even fit to exist! I regret the day she ever came out of my body!" Edina snarled. She shot Edd a look. "You only wanted me because you couldn't get him to spread his legs for you." Edd's cyan eyes narrowed, it was true, the woman did resemble him quite a bit, especially when he was cross dressing like now. However, Edd was far more pleasant to be around, despite having the same black hair and cyan eyes.
"I told you, it's not like that, I liked who you were, but as soon as you saw my graduation album you assumed things and pushed me away. Hell, I don't even remember the number of times I had to stop you in the middle of the night from going to an abortionist. I had to sleep in front of the fucking front door!" He balled his fists up and locked his jaw.
"You locked me up and kept me from making the choice I wanted." She hissed.
"It wasn't just up to you! She's my child too, and now she's only my child. How the hell did you end up here anyway, I left you and your asinine beliefs back in Vanilla Bay.
"I transferred here before you moved here. You followed me here not I followed you!"
"Wrong, Kevin came home!" Nazz snapped, which caused her husband to gather their two young sons to him and two teenage boys halted after stepping out of the house with a cooler.
"Keep your nose out of this you blond skank, you're no better than this piece of filth and his disgusting hell child." Kevin snapped up and grabbed Nazz's arms before she followed through with a punch. Now he regretted letting him and Nat to teach her how to fight.
"Let me go Kevin, I'm gonna barrel that whore over." That cause quite a few gasps, for Nazz never swore. A hand came down on Nazz's shoulder and she locked eyes with Edd who just shook his head.
"So there is no other reason to keep that child from Eddy and Nat, other than your personal life experiences and beliefs." Edd questioned her.
"Well of course not, we're well off and can provide for him and Eddy's therapist gave us the green light to adopt, I have copies of the papers at home." Nat said, as he clutched the two sobbing persons to his chest. "That's why we've been having so much trouble, we even requested a different case worker but she deigned us." He stated angrily.
"Well then I think that sums that about up, wouldn't you say, Miss Eairty?" Edd said into the phone.
"It most CERTAINLY DOES! EDINA LOCKHEART YOU ARE FIRED! Nat, Eddy, keep Raven with you over the weekend, I'll be there Monday with the papers for the finalization of the adoption, and good day Eddward, thank you for calling me." Edd smiled evilly.
"You are most welcome, see you soon for a tune up on the car."
"Stupid piece of junk it is. Good Day." The phone then went silent and Edd swiped his finger to end the call. He looked at Edina who was staring at Edd, actually everyone was staring at him.
"You knew the head of the Adoption Agency?" She whispered.
"I have for a while, I fix her car for her and go for tea with her. When I figured out who was giving Nat and Eddy such a hard time, I dialed her up for your whole conversation." He cocked a hip and placed a hand on it. "And quite frankly there is nothing wrong with gay men, they do not use woman for breeding stock and can make terrific parents. You are the one who isn't meant to exist if you can dismiss your own child just like that." Nat smiled down at Eddy and Raven, clutching them close again and crying with them, only with tears of joy.
"You little, you just cost me my job!" She lunged at Edd, who merely grabbed her arm and flipped her over his hip so she thudded into the ground.
"I'm a black belt in four different martial arts, do you want to be humiliated further, now go, before Kevin loses his grip on Nazz, and she's a strict street fighter, she won't pull punches." The woman got to her feet and fled the area. Nazz finally went limp in Kevin's arms.
"Let me go Kevin, I need to go clean." He let her go and Nazz rushed inside to do some demolishing to her house in cleaning format.
"Edd, thank you." Edd looked at his best friend.
"You're welcome Eddy, if anyone deserves Happy Ever After it's you, now go be with your new family." Eddy smiled and hugged him before rushing over to Raven, Nat, and Lee. Edd turned to Kevin who gave him a grateful smile and turned his attention to Aqua, who was curled into Nazz's husband's shoulder. Kevin crossed over to the crying girl and took her into his large arms. She curled into him and Kevin rubbed her back.
"You know, she's wrong Aquata." Aqua looked over at Edd. "None of us think of you like that, and will never think of you like that. You can rest easy now, you're with family and friends." She smiled and nodded, accepting a hug from the raven haired male. Suddenly a loud curse filled the air.
"Dear!" Nazz popped her head out of the back door, scowling and glaring at the man she married. He sheepishly grinned and turned off the grill.
"Well the hot dogs and hamburgers are done, who likes charred?" That caused everyone to laugh and Nazz to sigh as she shook her head and smiled.
"Clean it off the grill dear, I've got replacements thawing." Kevin grinned as her husband grumbled, it was good to be home again. He caught the cyan eye of Edd, and smiled. And if this was just the first day, he couldn't wait for tomorrow.