Saturday
Safehouse A

Dr Bennett had finally proclaimed us all well enough, to go home.

I still felt very sore and so did Josh and Chloe, but that was an unfortunate side effect of being a vigilante. The explosion had been on all the news networks and was in most of the newspapers. For now the explosion was down to a 'gas main issue', as the City didn't want to cause any undue alarm for the general public. But of course, we knew better!

Josh and Chloe had come back home with us, while Cathy had taken Curtis back home.

Early afternoon
West Ridge

Dave had been behaving very strangely, since we had got back home.

The reason for this strange behaviour knocked on the door, soon after lunch. Dave had gone to answer the door.

"G! Come on in my man!" Dave said and brought a strangely familiar man into the living room. Even stranger was the fact that Sophia jumped up, with her tail wagging madly!

"Damn! You are a lot hotter now, than the last time I saw you!" The man said to me and I felt myself blushing. Who was this man?

"Dave!" I said, in worried confusion.

"You probably wouldn't recognise him out of costume and the last time that you saw him without his costume... Well things kinda got a little busy... It was at the funeral!" Dave explained.

"Oh, right; sorry, things were a bit busy that day!" I replied, still confused.

"This is Isaac Swanson," Dave announced. "Otherwise known as Dr Gravity!"

Wow! This was one of the founding members of Justice Forever; he was in the picture, at the safehouse. He had fought alongside me.

"It is really good to see you again; I owe you a debt!" I said, happily, shaking his hand.

"No problem! Always knew that you two would get together!" Isaac replied. "Congratulations on the engagement, Hit Girl!"

"Thanks! You knew who I was, at the funeral?" I asked.

"I had a faint idea when I saw you at the funeral, yes."

"How come you're here?" I asked.

Just as Isaac was about to respond Josh appeared from upstairs, where he had been with Chloe since we had got back.

..._...

"What is Mr Swanson doing here? Whatever it was, I didn't do it!" Josh announced, looking and sounding guilty.

Now, I was confused and so, apparently, was Dave.

"You know Mr Swanson?" Dave asked.

"Of course! He teaches me and Chloe Physics, at school," Josh explained.

Isaac laughed.

"Oh, this explains so much!" He said.

"Please explain?" I asked, curiously.

"Well, young Mr Williams here, has a habit of making things go bang! No matter what it is, he somehow manages to make it explode; I have to follow him around with a damn fire extinguisher!" Isaac explained, dryly.

"Isaac, meet Jackal!" I said with a laugh.

"So, my British Physics pupil, who likes to blow things up, is a vigilante that runs with Hit Girl!"

..._...

"What's going on?" Chloe asked, appearing in the living room and looking worried.

"Ah! The redoubtable and intrepid Miss Bennett; Mr Williams' partner in crime!" Isaac announced. "More questions answered!"

Chloe looked even more confused and looked more worried.

"Isaac, this is Shadow! Josh, Chloe; please say hello to Dr Gravity!" Dave said.

"Our Physics teacher was a vigilante!" Josh and Chloe exclaimed together.

"You'd better believe it!" I announced, grinning. "Dr Gravity fought against Chris D'Amico, side by side with Hit Girl and Kick-Ass!"

"And I thought you were just a normal, boring teacher!" Josh said.

"My teaching bores you?" Isaac asked, with a smirk.

"That was not what I meant!" Josh said, quickly.

"I'm really pleased to see Sophia, too!" Isaac said, stroking the big dog.

We all sat down, on the couches and got back to the original conversation.

"I've managed to stay in touch with the other original members of Justice Forever. Admittedly, though, some are no longer around. The Colonel, obviously. Night Bitch was murdered last year," Isaac said and looked at Dave.

"I know. I read about it, in a paper."

"Insect-man; he was murdered around Easter, but I don't know the details."

"What! That's horrible!" Dave responded, sounding really hurt.

"At one stage I thought somebody was hunting us again!" Isaac said. "Well, Shannon called me and let me know about that wonderful thing you all did!"

I saw Dave and the kids, start to look uncomfortable and I felt it too.

"You did good, finding Tommy... that was awesome!"

"Shannon gave me Dave's number and that's how I got in contact. I moved to Chicago over the summer and started teaching these delightful children, Physics!"

"Well, by 'delightful', you're obviously excluding these two!" I said, with a smug grin.

Chloe scowled, while Josh just ignored me.

"Chloe and Josh are among my better students...," Isaac said and I got smug looks from both kids.

"... When they can both keep their hands and eyes off of each other!" Isaac added, dryly and both kids hid their faces behind their hands!

Dave and I laughed.

"How are Tony and Shannon?" I asked.

"Not good. They blew everything they had on finding their son; their business has collapsed and... I don't know."

I looked at Dave and he nodded.

"We need to help them. I owe them; they both stood beside me at that warehouse and fought alongside us," I said, firmly.

"I agree!" Dave added.

"Let's get them up to Chicago. I can put them up, for now, in one of my apartments; we still have a couple empty," I decided.

..._...

We chatted for a bit longer and then it was time for Isaac to leave.

"Remember, anything you need, I'll help. But, for now, I'd like to keep out of harm's way!" Isaac said, as he got up to leave.

Dave looked at Josh and Chloe.

"Remember you two: Mr Swanson is your teacher and for now, neither of you know him personally. Understand!" Dave said.

"Yes Dave!" Both kids acknowledged.

"Does this mean that we'll automatically get an 'A' in Physics!" Chloe asked, hopefully.

"It certainly does not, young lady!" Isaac replied, with a chuckle. "Look after yourselves, guys!"

"That was a bit surreal!" Josh said.

"Yeah, never thought teachers actually had a life, outside of school!" Chloe admitted. "But, we have the coolest Physics teacher ever!"

"You two can go back to your fucking now!" I said, with an evil smirk.

Chloe glared and Dave laughed.

"We were not fucking... We're not there yet!" Chloe responded and both kids blushed, then bolted for the stairs.

I looked at Dave.

"Well that answers one question; cherry not yet popped!" I quipped.