Super Villain Dad by R. J. Ross

Author:R. J. Ross [Ross, R. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

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He doesn't like it. Sure, they've been on their own for two years--other than a foster family, but they’re still brand new to their powers. Nico scowls as he pulls the Firebird to a stop in front of the school, looking at his kids. This time Zoe has called shotgun. He looks at his daughter, seeing her mother in her bright green eyes so clearly that he almost has to shake his head. "Alright," he says. "I'll be here at three exactly--if you're not out, I'm coming in, got it?"

"We'll be fine," Zoe says, rolling her eyes. "It's just school." She grabs her backpack and fights to get the door opened. "I really don't get you," she adds as she climbs out of the car. She's got an attitude problem the size of a small continent--and Nico's pretty sure where she got it from. It isn't her mother.

"At least he didn't make us go down the elevator," Sunny says as he crawls out over the back of her seat.

"Call me if anything happens," Nico says. "Actually, screw that, just shout."

"You're going to be doing construction--do you really think you'll hear that?" Zoe asks.

"I'll hear," he says. She's annoying, but it's because she asks so many questions. Hearing her ask things he's already asked himself, well, a part of him can't help but be amused. He doesn't need a blood test. Even if her powers weren't obviously his, her thought process would be. He bets she would hate to hear that.

Thing is, though, he's had a lot more practice thinking that way. His kid... his kids, actually. There are two of them. They are more vulnerable right now than they ever will be for the rest of their lives.

If he were a true villain he would have finished them off already, Nico admits silently, or brainwashed them into doing his dirty work, maybe. For a full grown cape they're like cubs--sure they've got claws and teeth but they're tiny and don't do that much damage. It doesn't change the fact that they'll grow into big, dangerous predators--regardless of Zoe's insistence on being good. The ones that would kill her now aren't the type to sit down and check her stance on good versus evil.

Yes, there are a handful of capes out there that would find out he has kids, assume they will be evil as adults, and finish them off. There are others that would kidnap her, or both, using them as leverage to get him to do what they want. In fact, Mastermental's idea for a school is a dangerous undertaking for that very reason. Putting all of the capes' kids in one convenient basket is just asking for trouble--

Nico scowls, realizing that he's been sitting in front of the school for the past three minutes. There's someone standing at his window. He leans forward, cranking the old fashioned window crank and looking at the woman standing there.

"Excuse me, sir, but your car has no license," she says.

"Oh, right, sorry--I keep forgetting to put up that temporary thing," Nico says, cursing his idiocy.

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