Here is the last chapter! The conclusion to Uncle Someone. I'm still not really happy with it, but oh well. You guys just want to see them make it official huh? I'm not a professional writer, I just write for fun and sometimes I forget that. Hope you enjoy it.


"So did you find out how Shelby knew who you were?" Jasper asked the blonde boy.

The two had been sitting on the couch in the man cave. It was early, as they had gotten back from rescuing Charlotte just a few hours ago. The boys had gotten in a bit of a nap, but were awake early as Schwoz and Ray had gone out to find Jeff and Shelby and wipe their memories.

"Well actually we realized Shelby didn't know who I was originally when I invited her over to my house that one night for games. But you remember her uncle, who we now know is Jeff, was picking her up just as you were walking Charlotte home. Jeff must've seen Charlotte and recognized her. He must have bribed Shelby to help him kidnap her. Jeff probably had a debt to pay to Drex and he was repaying him by bringing him a friend of Captain Man and Kid Danger." Henry munched on some snacks on the table in front of them. "He's such a spineless worm."

"Who? Drex or Jeff?"

"Both. Jeff for selling out a small defenseless girl, and Drex for what he did to her." Henry sighed. "I'll never forgive them for it."

"I'm sorry bud." Jasper clasped Henry on the shoulder. "But at least she's safe now. She still sleeping?"

Charlotte had fallen asleep pretty fast on the way home, after telling Ray and Henry what she had gone through. He had carried her into the spare room when they got back to the man cave and she had been sleeping ever since. "Yeah. I'm going to let her sleep as long as she wants to. I imagine it will be awhile until she wakes up."

"Did you guys talk about what you said at the dance?"

"Oh yeah! She had just been tied up and beaten so I asked, 'What hurts? And by the way, what are your thoughts on us trying to be more than friends?'"

"I'm sorry, I just thought maybe you guys had talked. You had been on a roll last night with romantic gestures, you know dancing with her, telling her you loved her, saving her life. I figured Charlotte would have been all over that, especially since she's liked you since we were 12."

Silence filled the room for a moment as Henry tried to process what Jasper said. "Wait a minute. Did you say Charlotte likes me? How do you know that?"

"She told me."

"And you didn't think to let a guy in on this information?!" Henry smacked his friend on the chest. "Jasper!"

"Look man, she made me promise not to say anything. I've always known that you two had a thing for each other okay, for a long time I've known. She just confirmed it to me recently. I didn't want to betray her trust."

"I get it. That's really great of you man. You're a good friend." Henry fist bumped his friend. "I hope this is okay with you, you know, me and Charlotte. Not that we are 'me and Charlotte' yet, but if we were, you would be okay with it?"

"I appreciate you asking but it's cool man." Jasper said as he stood from the couch. "Well I had better go upstairs. I've got to open the doors to the shop in about 30 minutes. You want to come up with me, forward the alarm to your watch?"

"Nah, I should stay. Just in case she wakes up or something. I don't want to leave her alone."

"That's probably best. I'll see you at lunch." Jasper entered the elevator and went upstairs to open Junk N' Stuff.

Henry leaned back against the back of the couch seat. He was pretty tired still, seeing as he had been at the dance the night before and then had been up late getting Charlotte back to the man cave. Not to mention all of the stress he was being put through. And only having a few hours sleep wasn't helping.

His emotions had been all over the place. He had been so nervous last night, dancing with Charlotte. He didn't know what possessed him into telling her how he felt. Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the evening, listening to the music. Perhaps it was how pretty he thought she looked, although he always thought she looked pretty. Or perhaps it was the fact that he couldn't stand the thought of someone else being her date, even if it was just Jasper.

And even though he was nervous telling her about his feelings, he was also sort of excited about it. He was bummed when he came back inside of the school and found out that she had left. As if she wanted to run from him in fear of what he had previously said. When he found out that wasn't the case and she had been kidnapped, his heart dropped into his stomach. He couldn't imagine anything happening to her, especially because of him.

Henry stood up and went to the computer to forward the alarm to his watch, that way he would know instantly if there was trouble in Swellview. He was going to spend the rest of the morning in the guest room with Charlotte. Even if she was sleeping, he wanted to see her.

He made sure he slipped in quietly, careful not to wake her up. He saw she was still sound asleep, however she was no longer in her dress. She was wearing a t-shirt and he assumed some form of shorts/pants covered by the blanket. Ray must have gotten them for her sometime while he was asleep. He took a seat on the bed next to her and pulled out his phone to browse through the internet. About 25 minutes had passed and he saw Charlotte begin to stir.

"Hey. It's just me here. You're okay." He wanted to reassure her since the lights were still off and he didn't want to startle her when she realized someone was sitting with her on the bed.

She sat up and looked around the room for a minute. "What time is it?"

"It's about almost 9am. You can go back to sleep if you want." He suggested to her as she laid back down against the bed.

She sighed. "Nah, it's okay. I'm not sleeping well anyway. I keep having these dreams and waking up. It's probably best I don't."

He turned on his side towards her. "Did Ray give you those clothes?"

"Yeah, I got up a while ago to get a glass of water and he thought maybe I could use something more comfortable to sleep in."

"Is that my shirt?" He asked.

"Um, I think so. You probably left it here before and he just kept it incase we needed it. Good thing too, that dress is uncomfortable to sleep in. I already had to get a piggyback ride in it. That was enough." She smiled at him.

He could see that the smile wasn't a full smile, and that concerned him. From her story last night, he knew she had been bound by the rope the whole car ride, and had been pretty roughly handled. Drex ended up leaving bruises that he could see and he was sure some that he couldn't. He didn't know who in their right mind could hit and rough up a girl, especially one as small and fragile as Charlotte. It made him physically ill, and he was glad the lights were off so he couldn't see her too clearly. "Do you need anything? Pain meds, food? I can get you whatever you want."

"No thanks. I'm alright." She stared at him for a moment. "Thank you, by the way. For everything."

"I don't deserve your thanks."

"Henry, if you start blaming yourself I'm going to be pretty mad at you."

"You should be mad at me, Char. I left you alone and got you kidnapped."

"We were at a school dance, not on some dangerous mission. We had no clue what was going to happen. I don't blame you, no one does. Besides you."

Henry sighed. "I'm going to try to move past that. It will probably get easier when I can't see the bruises anymore to remind me of what happened." When Charlotte frowned and looked away from him, he realized what he had said. "No, I didn't mean it like that. They don't even look that bad. You can barely see them. I promise."

"Thanks for reminding me that I'll be ugly for a while."

"Charlotte! That's not how I meant it."

"I know you don't. Doesn't mean I'll feel any better about them though."

"Well you know I always think you look wonderful. No matter what." He smiled at her.

There was a few moments of silence between the two of them before Charlotte spoke up. "So this whole 'becoming more than best friends' thing…is that something we should talk about?"

He shrugged. "I'm guessing you want to since you've liked me since we were 12." Henry chuckled as he watched her face change to shock.

"Oh my goodness, I'm going to kill Jasper." She sat up in the bed.

"Don't be mad at him. I've been pretty upset so I think he just figured I needed to hear something positive."

"Okay, so maybe I won't kill him. But I'll remember this when he wants me to keep his next secret." She closed her eyes. "But he's telling the truth. Since we were 12, and I never wanted you to find out."

"Why?" He questioned.

"What if you didn't like me like that? Would you really have wanted to still hang out all of the time knowing I was interested in you? To preserve our great friendship, I just sacrificed something that wasn't even a guaranteed thing. It seemed like the best option."

Henry looked at her, really looked. As much as he could at least with the lights off, although his eyes had adjusted pretty well. He wanted her to be his girlfriend so much, but after last night he realized the danger he could be putting her in. "Maybe us being together as more than friends isn't such a good thing."

"But I thought we were both on the same page here. You told me you wanted to be more, and I've wanted to be more since forever. What's wrong?"

He sighed. "Look at what happened Char. You were kidnapped and beaten because you are my friend. What would happen if people know we were more than that. They would know that you mean the world to me. I can't risk that."

"Henry. Just think about this for a second. What happened tonight, was a freak occurrence. Jeff recognized me for some reason, but Ray is making sure he and Shelby won't remember anything about me. And you guys took care of that with Drex last night. And even if we weren't seeing each other, just me being attached to 'Kid Danger' and 'Captain Man' makes me a target. You would pretty much have to stop being friends with me to ensure my safety."

"I don't like the fact that I couldn't protect you."

"Please stop blaming yourself. You may be Kid Danger and a superhero, but at the end of the day you're just a teenager. You put too much pressure on yourself to be more than that."

Henry stood up from the bed angrily. "I should put pressure on myself, at least when it comes to you and your safety." He turned towards her. She was still sitting on the bed. "I mean come on, Charlotte! Someone TOOK you and dragged you two hours from here, tied up, in a warehouse with a very dangerous man who beat you and if we hadn't of gotten there in time, could have done who knows what else to you!"

She climbed over to the side of the bed where he stood to grab his hands, but she saw him pull away and sigh. "Henry."

"I don't deserve you, Charlotte."

"Henry. Talk to me here." She got out of the bed. He noticed she was wearing pajama pants that belonged to him too. "What exactly do you think he would have done to me if you hadn't come, huh? Do you think he would have continued to beat me? Rape me? Kill me?" He wouldn't turn to meet her eyes, but she saw him shrug. Obviously this bothered him. "Listen to me. I meant what I said to him. I am loyal to you and Ray, and I don't care what he was going to do to me, I was not going to give away your secrets. When I started working here, I knew what it meant. None of this was your fault and you have to let it go. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but you can't hold onto this guilt forever."

Charlotte saw his head turn to look back at her. He sighed and took her hand. "I'm just so sorry. I care about you so much, and I feel like I let you down."

"The only way you can let me down, Henry, is by letting this affect us more than it has to. I'll be okay, I promise, and I want you to be okay." She pulled him by the hand down to sit on the bed with her. "Let's just not talk about it anymore. Let's talk about something else. Like us. Are you willing to get over yourself and try to become more than friends?"

"I really want to. We know so much about each other already, and I think we can really be good for each other. I mean look at us right now. I'm flying off the handle and you're pulling me back in."

"Well someone has to, or you'll be crazy forever."

"Oh haha, you're so funny." He rolled his eyes at her joke. "So can we make it official? You and me?"

"Yes, Henry. We can make it official. You and me." She smiled.

"Seal it with a kiss?" Henry wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"That was corny. But yes, please."

He slowly leaned forward and their lips finally met. After a few moments they separated. "That was awesome." Henry tried to keep his smile to a minimum but was having a difficult time of it. "I'm going to hug you now, but I'm going to try not to hurt you."

"It's worth it. Hug away!" She reached forward and wrapped her arms around him as he did to her. The two of them had always been the best of friends, and now, they were even more.


Well there ya have it. Let me know what you thought of the story. Now onto focusing on my new story. If you haven't checked it out yet, it's titled Spring Break, Baby! A college aged fic. Until next time, TTFN!