Avenging You

Chapter 8

Ryan

Parker AJ, and Blaze joined us about a week ago. Honestly, having Blaze around was nice everybody seemed to enjoy having a pet again.

But it’s still really awkward between me and Parker. I can’t help it I just feel so angry with her.

AJ seems to be like a little light for everyone here. He’s a funny kid, full of energy and questions, and everyone laughs whenever he calls me RyRy. I need to ask Parker where he got that from, but right now since things are still tense between the two of us, I’m not going to try asking her any questions.

Right now, everyone went out to do something and I stayed here while AJ napped. I could tell that Parker was hesitant to leave just the two of us here, but Emma and Ava didn’t give her much of a choice.

I sigh as I find something to eat and I hear a door open. I look towards AJ and he runs up next to me and asks, “Whatcha doing?”

“Making lunch, shouldn’t you be napping?”

He huffs and throws his head back dramatically, “I’m not tired!”

I chuckle at his reaction especially since he looks like a miniature Ashton. I ask, “Well, what do you want to do?”

He shrugs, “I don’t know. Can I hang out with you?”

“Will your mom get mad?”

He tilts his head to the side as he looks at me and asks, “Why would she? Your color is blue, she always said you were one of hers and daddy’s best friend, you’re RyRy why would she get mad if I hung out with you?”

“Okay, what do you mean my color is blue?”

“You’re good and you have powers like mommy. You’re not bad.” He answers like this should be obvious information to me.

Does he have powers? Is it even possible to have powers that young?

“Okay, well what do you want to eat?”

“Do you have popcorn?”

I nod and find it and he says, “Yay! That’s perfect for us to watch a movie.”

I chuckle and get it prepared as he runs towards our TV and goes through our DVD’s. When I come in the room he asks, “What cartoon was my daddy’s favorite? I want to watch whatever he liked.”

Man, if Ashton could only see how much his son admires him. I grab Finding Nemo remembering that it was one of Ashton’s favorites and I start the movie. I sit beside AJ and he gets close to me and sits up with excitement to watch the movie knowing that his dad enjoyed it. I notice Blaze comes into the room and sits right under AJ and I can just tell he is way more protective over AJ than he ever has been with anyone else.

Parker

I hate leaving AJ alone when I don’t know the exact time that I’m going to return. I trust Ryan and that he is capable of taking care of AJ, but I haven’t really been away from AJ in five years that going away from him is really weird. It’s also nice to know that Blaze is there too… if anyone posed any threat to AJ I know Blaze would attack if he needed to.

We’ve been here a little over a week and I can tell that AJ is thrilled with the extra attention he is getting. I already did workouts to keep up with everything back in Paris, but actually sparring with someone is completely different and, on the rounds, we do without using powers I find myself struggling to defeat anyone.

It drives me insane because Skye acts so smug whenever she is able to pin me down.

Right now, Ava and Emma are driving me around town and catching me up on everything that has happened and the damage that Hunter has caused.

He definitely became more destructive since I left, but I can’t figure out why. Used to he was obsessed with me and it doesn’t seem like he even bothered looking for me at all in the past 5 years.

Why is that? Without Ashton around wouldn’t he be trying harder to make me fall in love with him?

Or did he know that wouldn’t ever happen because he’s the one who killed Ashton and he knows I could never forgive him for that.

I ask as we drive, “Where’s Travis?”

The air is thick with tension and Ava mumbles, “He didn’t make it.”

I ask, “When?”

Emma answers, “He was one of the first that Hunter killed, Par. Don’t know why.”

I scowl at the thought of him killing somebody else in our group and mentally add it to the list of reasons that I will destroy him.

My eyes widen when we pass HQ and I see that it is completely destroyed. I gasp in surprise and Ava says, “Yeah, we probably should’ve warned you. Sorry, just forgot it happened so long ago. The Aberrations raided the place. That’s where we lost a lot of Originals.”

Emma adds, “To be honest, we don’t even know how many other Originals there are outside of us.”

I purse my lips as I take in everything they have said. I ask, “Can we go back to the bunker?”

They both nod and take us back home. As soon as we get there, I go down in there first. I hear the sound of Finding Nemo playing and I smile as I see Ryan and AJ sitting on the couch, eating popcorn, and watching the movie.

I quietly sit down next to AJ to join them. He looks at me with happiness filled in his eyes. He lays in my lap and says, “Mama, RyRy told me this was daddy’s favorite cartoon.”

I smile and nod, “Yeah, it was, love.”

He sighs and after another minute passes he looks at me grinning and says, “I want to be just like daddy.”

I nod as I play with his hair and say, “Well, you already look just like him so you’re already halfway there.”

Ryan chuckles at my comment and I smile softly towards him feeling like maybe our friendship could be restored. Ryan then says, “Don’t you want to be like your mommy, AJ?”

He looks at Ryan and seems surprised by his comment and then says, “I’m already like mommy. I’m strong and brave just like her. I want to be like daddy because that would make mommy happy. She misses daddy so if I’m like him then it won’t make her as sad.”

Tears begin to fill my eyes as I hear his reasoning and I pull him into my lap and say, “Listen, you, you be yourself. You make me happy. You don’t have to be your daddy to make me happy because you make me happy every day by doing things only you can do.”

He smiles at me and wraps his arms around my neck squeezing me tight. With him my heart is complete.