I'm so sorry this took so long to get out. As I've said in my profile school has occupied my free time. So anyway here it is.
Babysitting Job
"Alex...Alex…Alex," said a voice, softly next Alex's ear and she just grunted. "COME ON ALEX WAKE-UP! I'M BORED!"
Alex then threw her pillow at the voice and it said, "Fine, then I'll just eat these jelly beans that you have out."
Her eyes shot open when she heard those words and shouted, "Don't touch those!"
She jumped out of bed and found Damian almost inserting a small jelly bean in his mouth.
"Why?" he inquired.
"Those aren't jelly beans," Alex started to explain as she took them away from Damian. "There're explosives."
"Then why were they in the form of candy?!" said Damian in freaked-out tone.
"Fools enemies," said Alex.
"Interesting," said Damian. "Mind if I borrow some of those for a couple of pranks."
"No, they're dangerous, I only use them in an emergency," said Alex, sternly and then she became fully aware of what was going on. "Wait what are you doing in my room, let alone my apartment?"
"Your parents and my parents went out to see the Statue of Liberty for the day," explained Damian, "So you've got to take care of us."
"Ok, cool, wait what about Elena?" asked Alex.
"I don't know, she went out shopping like few minutes after our parents left, but I have no idea why," said Damian.
"So, she just left you here even though I had no idea what was going on?" inquired Alex.
"Yep," answered Damian in a cheerful tone. "Besides you were sleeping like crazy, I mean it's like noon now."
"Yeah thanks for info," said Alex sarcastically. "Where's Kayla?"
"She's in the living room watching T.V.," he said plainly.
"No offense or anything, but if she's blind then why is she watching T.V.?" asked Alex curiously.
"I don't know, she likes listening to it," said Damian with uncertainly.
"Anyway I need to get dressed, so you need to get out," said Alex as she pushed Damian out of her room.
She then got dressed into casual clothes and started to brush her hair. Just as she was putting up her hair in a high pony tail, her eyes suddenly got wide. It was September thirtieth, the day before her and Elena's birthday. She had almost completely forgotten with the recent events that have been happening. Alex didn't even have the time to go and get a present for her. That must've been the reason why Elena went out shopping in the first place. Alex went into the living room to find Kayla sitting there calmly while Damian was trying to annoy her.
"Hi Alex," greeted Kayla happily.
"Hey, Kayla," said Alex.
"Alex could you tell Damian to stop talking because all I hear from him is monkey sounds," said Kayla, annoyed.
"Damian stop talking," ordered Alex.
"But I was only telling her the cool trick I can do," explained Damian.
"And your trick is…?"
"Ok, check this out," said Damian before disappearing and reappearing at the other side of the living room on top of the dining table. "Cool trick, huh?"
"I have to say I'm impressed, but my parents would kill you if they saw you on top of the table," said Alex.
"I have to try out time traveling one day," he said while jumping off the table.
"Whoa, let's not get carried away here," said Alex. "Time traveling is big, and I'm surprised you're in charge of it."
"What's that supposed to mean?" said Damian offended.
"I'm just saying, time's big and if you make one little mistake you could change history," explained Alex.
"Ok, I get it, no time traveling," said Damian bothered.
"Hey, don't feel bad, we all need to learn how to control our powers, even I'm having trouble," comforted Alex.
"Yeah, but unless we get a hold of someone who is like us and has experience, we're toast," said Kayla negatively.
"Actually—," said Alex, but she was cut off by the phone. She went to go answer it and the voice said, "Hey it's me, Kia."
Alex recognized the voice and said, "Hey Kia, what's up."
"Not much, just hanging with Kyle and his friends," said Kia, "You?"
"I'm stuck here babysitting my cousins," said Alex.
"Ouch! You crashed into me!" shouted Kayla.
"What was that?" asked Kia.
"That was my cousin fighting with her brother," said Alex. "Oh yeah, did I mention they have powers?"
"Seriously," said Kia in disbelief and Alex explained the story of her cousins.
"Wow, that's pretty cool," she said after Alex was done explaining.
"Um Alex, could you come here for a sec?" asked Damian in a nervous tone.
"Hold on," said Alex before putting the phone against her shoulder. "What is it?"
"I think Kayla learned a new trick too," said Damian pointing his finger at a floating chair right in front of him.
"Kayla could you please put it down?" asked Alex.
"I'm trying, but it keeps going at Damian," she said frustrated and the chair went flying at Damian. He started to run, but it followed him.
"Ok, Kayla, just calm down, take deep breaths," said Alex and she obeyed. Once this was done the chair went down and Damian was relieved.
"Thank goodness, I thought my life would end with a chair trying to kill me," said Damian relieved.
Alex went back to her phone call and said, "Sorry about that Kia, Kayla made a chair go after Damian."
"That's sounds like a very entertaining babysitting job," said Kia sarcastically.
"Yeah, no kidding, anyway I still need to get Elena a birthday present," said Alex.
"Can't you just go to the mall with your cousins, I'm pretty sure they'll enjoy the fresh air," suggested Kia.
"Yeah, I'm gonna have to do that, anyway I'll see you later, Kia," said Alex.
"'K, I'll probably see you tomorrow," said Kia before Alex hung up the phone.
"Since when can you move things with your mind?" said Alex addressing Kayla.
"Since now, I guess," shrugged Kayla.
"Ok, well it looks like you have telekinesis," said Alex.
"What's that?" asked Damian.
"Kayla can control objects with her mind," explained Alex.
"But if she can't see them, then why is she controlling them?!" Damian freaked out.
"You know I can still see them, just the way you can!" Kayla shouted at Damian.
"Ok, guys calm down, now let's just go to the mall for now," said Alex calmly.
"Ok, who are you and what did you do with Alex," said Damian.
"Hey, I need to go to the mall to get Elena's birthday present," said Alex slightly offended. "And I'm going to have to watch you guys at the mall."
"Sweet," Damian said cheerfully.
"By the way if you're thirteen then why are still being babysat?" asked Alex.
"Because the last time he tried to babysit me he nearly almost blew up our apartment building," explained Kayla.
"I was making macaroni and cheese," protested Damian.
"Now that I mention it, the fire did smell a bit cheesy," said Kayla.
"Ok, then let's just get ready to go," said Alex.
Alex got her bag, put-up sticky notes on the wall, letting Elena know where they were, and were on their way out of the apartment, but before they reached the door, the phone rang.
"Hey, aren't you gonna get that?" asked Kayla as she was being pushed out the door by Alex.
"No, just let the machine get it," said Alex before she closed the door behind her.
"Hello this is the Bennet residence," said the answering machine. "We're not here right now, so leave a message after the beep." Beep "Hello, this is Reed Richards, I'm calling back about the discussion you had with Johnny and Ben. Anyway were coming over in about a couple hours to talk to more about the situation, so we'll see you then."
Meanwhile Alex, Kayla and Damian were making their way to the closest mall. Once they had gotten inside the first place they went to was V&M Fashion Store. While they were searching Damian was complaining about being the only boy in the store and Kayla was trying to help, but couldn't because she couldn't see the patterns of the clothes. Finally after many bickering, Alex found Elena a birthday present. It was a sterling silver necklace with a small opal jeweled butterfly charm that hung down from it.
"Great now that we've found a present for her; let's go grab some chili dogs!" declared Damian before he ran out of the store.
Alex and Kayla ran after him and followed him to the food court. Damian got his chili dog while Alex and Kayla were waiting for him to eat it up.
"Hey Alex, I was just thinking," said Kayla. "What if we could use our powers to save people?"
"Yeah, but first things first we need to learn how to control them," Alex said sternly.
"True we don't want incident like we did earlier," said Kayla.
"Please, don't let it happen again!" Damian begged.
"Relax, I'm pretty sure Kayla's got the general idea on how to control her power," reassured Alex.
"Uh, speaking of powers, I can feel Elena coming," Kayla warned.
"And that's a problem because…?" Damian said with his mouth full.
"Well wouldn't it look suspicious if Alex was here and had to drag us along here in the process?" said Kayla.
"Okay let's go," Alex said quickly as both she and Kayla stood up at the same time.
"Wait! What about my chili dog?!" moaned Damian.
"C'mon you big idiot!" shouted Kayla before she grabbed him by the shirt and dragged him off his seat.
They hurried off in the other direction of the mall and went back out to the streets of New York. Alex quickly sped Damian and Kayla back to apartment just in case Elena saw them leave the mall. Once they got back to the apartment, Alex quickly stashed the present in her lab in a vault with a combination that only she knew. Alex then ran into the living room, jumped on the couch, and turned on the T.V. Right when she hit the couch, Elena walked in the through the door.
"Hey guys, what cha watching?" She asked, carrying many shopping bags.
"Uh…" Alex said flabbergasted.
"The News," Kayla answered.
"Tomorrow's weather is a little overcast in the sky, but it should clear up in the afternoon," said the anchor person on the T.V.
"The News?" questioned Elena, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I mean there are no reruns," Alex said.
"Ok, whatever, I going put my stuff away," Elena said as she walked to her room.
"You know you guys have a message here on your phone," informed Damian.
"I'll listen to that later, I need to go talk to Elena," said Alex before walking off into Elena's room.
Alex went through the hallway and barged through Elena's door without any warning she was coming inside.
"Knock much," Elena said annoyed.
"Tell me what's going on much," Alex shot back.
"Oh, right," she said guiltily.
"Next time, just at least try to wake me up," said Alex.
"Well sorry for your sleeping patterns," argued Elena.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Alex said, slightly offended.
"It just means you've been sleeping in a lot," she said.
"Well junior year in high school isn't that easy," Alex shot back.
"I know that, but you used to always be one of the first that was up in the morning," explained Elena.
"Yeah, just like mom and dad used to be home all of the time," said Alex, glumly.
"That's one thing we can agree on," said Elena. "I'm sure their jobs are just more demanding than they were in California."
"Anyway, I don't think I should've left Damian and Kayla alone, so let's make sure they didn't destroy the city," advised Alex as they headed back to the living room.
When they got to the living room, they found Kayla lying on the couch and Damian talking to someone on the phone.
"Sorry Kyle, Alex isn't here right now," said Damian.
"What are talking about I'm right here!" said Alex.
Alex quickly dove in to grab the phone, but then Damian disappeared and reappeared at the other side of the room. She sped to where Damian was, but again, he disappeared and reappeared somewhere else.
"Come-on, I'm not going to play head games with you," shouted Alex as she kept chasing Damian around the room.
"If you want the phone so much, you're going to have to catch it!" he teased.
"El, could you at least try to help!" Alex complained as she past her in a heartbeat.
"What do want me to do? I can't go as fast as ether you!" said Elena.
"Just do something!"
Elena began splashing water where ever Damian appeared, but it still didn't work and it just more of a mess of things. Alex kept running around making the apartment windy and everything was damp because of Elena's splashes. Damian stopped for one spilt second to catch his breath when suddenly Alex crashed into him and they both fell to the ground.
"Give me that!" Alex said as aggressively took the phone from him. She put her ear to the phone and said, "Hello?"
Instead of hearing a response, she heard a long beep on the phone.
"He hung up."
"Actually, he never called," Damian smiled mischievously, as he got up from the ground.
"Say what?" Alex said in disbelief.
"Yeah, you see I was testing you to see how desperate you were," Damian explained, smugly.
"Why you little—!"
"Guys, I think Damian's the least of our problems, look around," Elena said worriedly as she pointed around the room.
Everything in the whole entire living room was ruined. The dining table was damp; all of their family pictures were on the floor and almost all of the furniture was broken.
"We need to clean this up right now before our parents come home," said Alex as she slowly got up.
"Why? I think everything looks fine," Kayla teased.
"This is not a joking matter," Elena said darkly.
"Just trying to brighten up the mood here," sighed Kayla.
"C'mon guys, let's just get to work for now," Alex said. "Elena you take the water out of everything and put it into a bucket. I'll look in my lab and see if there's anything to fix the furniture, while you, Damian will pick up the photos and put them back in their place."
"What about me?" asked Kayla.
"Well since you didn't do anything to cause this, you can just hang out for now."
"Ok, fine with me."
Kayla went to go sit down in one of the chairs that wasn't soiled by Elena's water while everyone else went straight to work. Alex found some hot glue in her lab and began to glue the furniture back together and Damian put the family photos in their right frames. An hour or so passed and everything was almost fixed, Damian just had to finish putting away the family pictures. Their parents had a habit of keeping many pictures of them since they were just infants. Elena and Alex began to help Damian when the doorbell rang.
"Kayla could you get that?" shouted Elena.
"Sure, I'll just answer the door because I can see who's there," she said sarcastically.
"Great, you do that," Elena said absentmindedly.
Kayla shrugged her shoulders and went to answer the door. She opened the door and a kind voice from the door said, "Hello is Alex and Elena Bennet home?"
"It depends, who are you first of all?"
"You mean you don't know who we are, kid?" said another mischievous voice.
"Johnny you don't need to be so rude!" hissed a female voice.
"What?! It's true, I mean if you think about it we are mentioned in the news most of the time," said the mischievous voice.
"Whoa, you just sounded like my brother there for a second," Kayla said surprised.
"Well anyway I'm Reed Richards," introduced the kind voice. "This is my wife Susan, my brother in law Johnny Storm, and my friend Ben Grimm."
"Oh, you're the Fantastic Four, sorry I can't see," said Kayla.
"What do mean you can't see there's nothing in front of your eyes?" said Johnny.
"Let me put this in a form that even my brother can understand," Kayla said, frustrated, "Me blind."
"Yeah right," Johnny laughed.
"No, she's telling the truth Johnny," corrected Ben. "See how she's not looking at us in the face as we talk."
"Then why are you answering the door?" asked Reed.
"My cousin asked me open the door for her, I tried use sarcasm to get out of it, but turns out she it turns out she's a big-airhead."
"So are Alex and Elena home?" Reed repeated.
"Oh yeah, follow me," she said before turning around and heading back into the apartment.
Kayla led them back into the living room where Elena, Alex, and Damian were still organizing the scattered pictures.
"Geez, I thought my mom was bad, keeping baby pictures of me," said Damian.
"Yeah, no kidding," agreed Elena.
"Well maybe you'll think twice before you time traveling all over the place," advised Alex.
"Well at least my ability doesn't leave a mess," he snapped.
"Whatever," Alex ignored.
"Uh guys," Kayla piped up. "We're you expecting any guests?"
"Not that I know of, why?" said Alex, still having full concentration on the pictures.
"Because the Fantastic Four is here to see you," she said.
They all turned around, shocked, to find the Fantastic Four standing behind Kayla. Alex jumped up to her feet and said, "Oh hi, we weren't expecting you guys to come today."
"Sorry about the late notice, but we did leave a message on your phone," said Reed.
"Oh yeah, I listened to that message" said Damian, "and I was going to tell you guys about it too, but then I thought of a perfect prank to pull to make you mad."
"I swear I have half a mind, to drown you," threatened Elena, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Ok, let's not get too hasty here, El," Alex warned. "Anyway, we're almost done here, so just chill for now."
"On second thought," Elena smiled mischievously, "Damian can pick up the rest of the photos while we talk."
"Actually, I like that idea way better," agreed Alex.
"Same here," added Kayla.
"Ok, so while we go talk about…stuff, you'll clean up what's left of this mess," Elena pointed at Damian.
"And, Kayla, if he doesn't corporate I will allow you to send the chair after him again," said Alex.
"Sweetness," she smiled.
"Hey don't I get a say in this?!" shouted Damian.
"Say's the one who caused the problem," said Alex.
"O-ok, then I'll just clean up the rest of this mess," said Damian, flabbergasted.
"C'mon, we'll talk in the kitchen" Elena gestured.
They walked into the kitchen in silence until the door was fully closed.
"So, who are those kids out there again?" asked Johnny.
"They're our cousins," explained Alex.
"Damian and Kayla," added Elena.
"I see well anyway, Ben," Reed faced Ben, "which one did you say could hack?"
"The one with the black hair…Alex right?" answered Ben looking at Alex.
"Yeah," nodded Alex.
"So you're the one NASA's been complaining about," said Reed facing Alex.
"You mean they found out—I mean…I guess so," cracked Alex.
"Smooth genius," smirked Elena.
"And you are?" asked Reed.
"Elena."
"That's strange," muttered Reed.
"What's strange?" asked Alex.
"Oh—nothing," he said. "So is it true what Johnny and Ben have been saying? That you have powers?"
"Well it's not a lie, so we're gonna have to go with yeah," answered Elena.
"Did anything strange happen that caused you to have these powers?" asked Reed.
"Not that we know we know of," said Alex. "We've most likely have had our powers ever since we were born."
"Wait didn't mom used to video tape us all of the time?" asked Elena.
"Yes, but what does that have to do with this?"
"Well I was thinking, what if we did something behind their backs."
"Like what?"
"I don't know something…abnormal," Elena shrugged.
"Wow, you've successfully used a big a word," teased Alex.
"C'mon, let's go put in those videos," said Elena, rolling her eyes.
They went back into the living room and sat down while Alex took out a box full of videos. She pulled out a video and put it into the VCR.
"What's this one?" asked Elena.
"It's when mom and dad were feeding us, on our third birthday," explained Alex sitting down on the carpet.
The video began to play showing two little girls in highchairs. One girl had black hair tied into pig tails and was wearing a light blue sun dress. The other girl had blonde hair that rested on her shoulders and wore a pink sun dress. They both kicked their feet against the high chairs and waited calmly.
"Hey girls, how old are you today?" said their father's voice.
"Umm, let me think," said the girl with blonde hair, tapping her chin.
"I'm gonna bet that's Elena," said Damian, making himself comfortable.
"Wait, are you done cleaning up?" asked Alex, sharply.
"Yeah, I just finished," he said, but Alex gave him a sharp look. "Ask Kayla."
"Don't worry about it he's off the hook for now," said Kayla.
They shrugged and continued to watch the video. Young Elena was still thinking of their age until young Alex went in and said, "We're three today!"
"I was going to say that!" argued Elena.
"Then why didn't you?!"
"I don't know," she shrugged.
"Honey could you come here for a sec?" said their mother's voice.
"Coming," he set down the camera on a flat surface.
"Hey, Allie, look what I can do and you can't," Elena moved her hand over her cup of juice and pulled it up into the air.
"That's not fair!" Alex cried.
"Yes, it is," teased Elena, looking smug.
"No, it's not."
"Yes, it is."
"No it's not."
"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"Ha! I got you to say it!" Elena said in triumph.
Before Alex to reply, she wiggled her nose, took a deep breath and sneezed, causing Elena to fall out of her high chair.
"Mommy, Daddy! Allie made me fall!"
"I think that's enough," Alex stopped the tape.
"Oh yeah, I remember that," Elena said resentfully.
"Well excuse my big breaths."
"Did your parents ever notice this?" asked Susan.
"Nope, they just thought Elena was crazy," said Alex.
"When did they realize that you had powers?"
"When we were ten," answered Elena.
"Oh right, Johnny and Ben told us that story," said Reed.
"At least you didn't have to go through pain, when you got your powers," moaned Damian.
"I know," agreed Kayla. "I had to suffer with a broken rib for months."
"At least you guys survived," Alex said optimistically.
They both nodded their heads in agreement.
"Wait, what are we talking about here?" asked Johnny, confused.
All of them looked at each other and began to explain how Kayla and Damian received their powers.
"…so that's pretty much how they became this way," Alex finished explaining.
"That's kinda the same as when we got our powers," pointed out Ben.
"It must've been the same type of force that hit them," pondered Reed.
"Yeah, except they didn't have to go up to space," said Elena.
"Sure talk about us like we're not here," Kayla said bothered.
"Sorry," Alex and Elena apologized at the same time.
"So, do you pretty much have control over your powers?" asked Reed.
"Yes and no," answered Elena.
"It gets confusing sometimes, I mean we have to be very calm for it to stop," added Alex.
"We were at that stage for awhile too," reassured Ben.
"Do you think you guys can train us?" Damian proposed.
"I don't know," said Reed.
"It doesn't sound like a bad idea, Reed," said Susan.
"Yeah, the kid's got a point, you know," said Johnny. "I mean we had to teach ourselves to keep our powers under control, but in their case, they can be taught by trained professionals."
"You might have a point there Sparky," teased Ben.
"That does sound like a good idea," agreed Susan. "What do you think Reed?"
"I think it sounds like a good idea, but is it doable?" answered Reed glancing at Alex, Elena, Kayla, and Damian.
"We don't have anything going on after school," answered Alex.
"And all we really do after school is help around the pizza shop and do some reckless slave work for our teachers," said Damian.
"You mean homework?" Kayla corrected.
"Yeah, same thing."
"Okay, so after school sound fine with you guys?" asked Reed.
They all nodded in response.
"Great, so do you want to start tomorrow?"
"Oh, we'd love to, but tomorrow's our birthday," said Elena, "and we don't know what our parents planning for us."
"How old are you turning?" asked Johnny, curiously.
"Sixteen."
"I remember my sweet sixteen," grinned Susan.
"Well we'd better go," said Reed, taking a look at the clock. "We'll see you guys on Monday then."
The Fantastic Four got up from their seats and headed for the door while Alex followed behind. Reed went out the door, but then turned around to Alex.
"Oh yeah, before I forget," he waved a stern finger, "don't cause NASA any more trouble."
"Got that, no more hacking," answered Alex.
"I mean it," he said sternly before walking off into the hallway.
Alex gave an awkward look as she closed the front door.
"Geez, he acts like my father."
Thanks for reading. Again sorry a million times for updating late again. As for the next chapter's release, that is not certain, but it's not too long. I have a cold now, so I'm just slowly trying to get better before Thanksgiving.
Anyway, Have a Happy Thanksgiving!