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if he only knew gwevin part 4

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Gwen awoke the next morning to see that Kiley was nowhere to be seen. Trying to get to her feet, but falling back down from the pain, it was then that she noticed that someone -probably Kiley- had stoked and fed the fire early this morning. It was crackling nicely and some new logs had been thrown on. She quickly surveyed her surrounds, looking to her left and right, to try and figure out where he'd run off to.

'Has he left me to fend for myself?' Just then a rustle came form the bushes to her left, she cringed and shook. "H h h h hello Kiley." she said hopefully, but no such luck. A small boar came charging out of the bushes strait at her, but Gwen didn't panic. She threw a small gust of wind, knocking it back, but unfortunately that didn't discourage the little beast like Gwen had hoped it would. It just got back to its feet and prepared to charge her again. Gwen didn't know what to do thinking, 'With my injured leg I'm useless, I couldn't stand up to fight it.' She tried to come up with a plan fast, before the boar got back to its feet, but nothing was coming to mind.

That's when Kiley appeared from out of some hedges to her right. He was dripping wet and had several fish in his arms. 'He'd left to get us breakfast.' Gwen thought, relieved.

His eyes instantly focused on the boar that was about to charge her. She could see an intense look in his eyes as he drooped the fish near the fire and tackled the boar to the ground, holding it down with one hand.

Then looking at her he says, "Are you OK, Gwen?"  

"Yeah, I'm fine." she says looking at her feet, not able to look at him.

So Kevin released the boar, giving it a little shove as he says, "Get out of here."

"I could've taken that thing on my own." Gwen says, looking away, arms crossed, but she was just trying to hide the fact that he'd made her smile once again. 'He came to my aid, even if it was something little that I probably could have taken by myself.'

Kevin just laughed saying, "Do you want me to go find it again?"

She gave him a look, then laughed saying, "No, its gone, just leave the poor thing alone."

Kevin, still laughing was thinking, 'She's sooo cute.' He set the fish on a stick by the fire to cook them. Then he sat beside her, she was looking at him now.

"What?" Kevin asks, shrugging.

"You're soaking wet... What did you do? Jump in the water with the fish?" Gwen said laughing.

"Yeah, soooo...? It's the best way to go fishing." Kevin said shrugging.

Gwen just laughed.

But Kevin just looked to the sky laying on his back thinking. 'Ever since I was little I leaned many survival skills the hard way. How to get food, water, clothes. If I didn't steal food, I had to hunt for it. and even up until i met quarrel I even had to learn how to live and survive in the null void prison and after quarrel died i had to learn how to survive the null void all on my own. All I know was leaned the hard way. In New York I would dive into one of the rivers and see what I could find. There was no one to show me or teach me. Being an eleven year old on the streets was no walk in the park. It made me hard and strong, but also it made my heart cold. I'd seen lots of nasty thing, and for a long time I had excepted that that's how my life would be, and nothing would change that. All I could do was take all I could get, and payback anyone who had wronged me. All the dreams I'd had as a five year old kid I thought I had to forget. And I did for awhile. But it was her who'd shown me that things could change for the better, and how to try. Now I'm here with her as a ten year old, and she doesn't seem all that different. Why didn't I see what kind of person she was five years ago? I used to have a dark outlook on life, which she has changed for the better.'

The smell of burning fish snapped him out of his thoughts, along with what Gwen was saying; "Earth to Kiley. Kiley!"

"Oooooh shit, the fish!" Kevin says, grabbing them from the fire and handing the best looking one to Gwen. "Here, sorry they're a little burnt."

"That's OK." Gwen said eating it. "Trust me, if you haven't tried Max's cooking yet -word of warning- don't!! This is worlds better, compared to Grandpa's cooking."

"Why.. he can't be that bad. Not like I can cook either." Kevin says with a mouth full of fish.

Gwen just laughed hard saying, "You really have never seen his cooking, have you?"

"What." Kevin says with a eyebrow raised. "Its not like he would make a roasted cockroach salad."

But when Gwen giggled Kevin knew. "Wait. You really weren't joking about that?" his jaw dropped.

Gwen laughed as she said, "That sounds like something he would make.”

Kevin just scrunched up his face saying, "Yuck, ick.” Then laughing, he said; "And I chewed Ben out for yelling at you about it." He keeps laughing and Gwen laughed too, as they finished off the fish. Kevin put out the fire, then knelt down, offering her a piggyback ride. "Ready to go?" Gwen nodded and stumbled onto his back again, Kevin making sure she was on good before walking off.

They had walked for a while and she was now griping his shirt very tightly. Looking at her he could see a look of pain she was trying to hide. "Your leg, is it bugging you? We can rest for a bit if you like." Kevin ask worried.

"No, I'm fine. Just keep going." she said griping his shirt hard as she said it.

Kevin could tell she was lying and that they need to find the RV soon, but Kevin wanted to make sure there wasn't anything seriously wrong with Gwen's leg, so he bends down near a tree to let her off.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Gwen asks. "I said I was fine."

"I know, but I just want to take a look. Maybe rebandage it, then we'll keep going, OK? So let me see the first add kit." Kevin said worriedly.

"Fine." Gwen said rolling her eyes, then resistantly hands it to him.

As she sat leaning against the tree Kevin found a new pack of gauze and even an antiseptic swab to clean the cut with. He then gently removed the old banged thinking, 'No wounder she was in pain. The wound looks nasty and deep.' As he unwrapped the swab she cringed, a faint “no” and whimper came from her.

"Sorry. This will probably hurt." Kevin said looking at her.

"It's OK." she quickly said.

Kevin wiped the wound so gently Gwen was surprised when it didn't hurt. The cool damp cloth felt good on her inflamed wound. The new bandage he put on felt even better, as he gentle tied it in a bow. All Gwen could do was smile at him and she barely manged to say "thank you".

But Kevin didn't say anything, just smiled as he got up, then looked up at the tree. "I bet if I was high enough I could see the Rust Bucket from here." a sneer crossed his face. Gwen watches as he begins to climb up the tree, and he yells down; "Just wait there."

"Yeah sure. Where am I going to go?" Gwen yelled up at him.

Kevin snickers and says sarcastically, "You tell me. Your the one who keeps trying to walk on an injured leg." He kept climbing.

"Ha, ha, very funny." Gwen yells up to him. "So, can you see anything yet?"

"Just give me a minute." he yells down just as he reaches the top. Looking over the treetops to his right nothing but trees and some tents in the foreground, as far as the eye could see, but not even one RV. Then looking to his left he sees it. The Rust Bucket. It was parked on top of a hill, and it was only a short distance away, maybe a three hour walk.

Kevin comes down, jumping out of the tree in front of Gwen and slightly scaring her. As she jumps a bit and gives Kevin a dirty look she asks, "So, what'd you see?"

"We're not far. A three hour walk maybe." Kevin say bending down. "Let's go." She gets on and they keep going.

Kevin looks over his shoulder to see that Gwen was looking a bit better, and that made him smile. She was just quietly resting her head on him with her eyes closed, a peacefully look spread across her face. Kevin thought, 'She looks so cute and happy... I don't want to disturb her.' even when she opened her eyes slightly to see him looking at her, he just shook his head as if to say it's nothing. Getting it, she smiled and closed then again.

They walked like that for the two and half hours it took them to get to bottom of the hill. Just as Gwen opened her eyes to finally recognize where she was, she looks at Kevin and he nods. "Almost there."   

Gwen was alert and siting up on Kevin's back now as they walked up the long hill. 'It had to be a twenty minute walk just to get to the top, and there are still nothing but trees on all sides of us.' Kevin thought. But as they keep walking Kevin feels an uneasiness, caused by a blue blur that keeps appearing from out of the trees on his left and right. Something was circling them, or they were surrounded. But Kevin tried to play it cool as he caught another glimpse of it out of the corner of his left eye as it sped away before he could make out what it was. Kevin keeps his cool so as not to draw attention to the thing following them, or to alert Gwen that he knew of its presence. Kevin just kept walking, trying to act like nothing was wrong while still trying to keep an eye on whatever was following them.

But halfway up the hill Kevin was hit and knocked flying into a tree by an unseen force, Gwen snatched off his back in the process. Stunned by the sudden attack, he lay at the base of the tree for a second, but when he was able to shake it off and open his eyes Kevin was annoyed..... he was looking up at Ben, or more accurately it was XLR8. The speed alien was proudly holding Gwen in his hand, she too was shaken up by what had happened.

As Kevin slowly sat up he heard Ben say, "Careful buddy, I don't know who you are, but no one messes with my cousin."

A sneer crossed Kevin's face as he thought, 'Ben blankly made a rash accusation that I was the one who harmed Gwen. Without even knowing who I am or what happened. It's funny.'

When Ben saw the smile he didn't like it, and put Gwen down by a nearby tree. Then before Kevin could get to his feet he grabs him by the scruff of his shirt, lifting Kevin up so they were eye level to each other.

But when Kevin looked into Ben's angry eyes the only thing he could see was all the past misery Ben had put him through, and a swift feeling of rage overcame Kevin. Looking into that look of Ben's that reminded him of all the fights they'd had, all the thing he had miserably gone through, caused Kevin to make a rash decision as well.

Still in Ben's arms looking at the boy, Kevin's eyes widened as he said, "You want to fight? Fine. Lets fight." Then without warning Kevin threw a punch Ben wasn't ready for, right into his jaw, which released Kevin from Ben's grip. Ben went flying, rolling on the ground a few times before he got back up and sped to the strange boy before him.

But Kevin knew, from being XLR8 and having his powers to fighting Ben as XLR8 in the past, that using your vision to fight him wouldn't work. So instead, Kevin closed his eye and was able to make out the majority of Ben's moves by sound alone, dodging most of Ben's attacks. As Ben tried to hit him from his left Kevin jumped to his right, then hearing Ben coming back at him from behind Kevin was able to jump over Ben and even hit him in the back of the head.

The smile grew on Kevin's face, he was having a blast. As he heard Ben coming at him again, this time from the right, he waited until Ben was just close enough, then threw XLR8 a swift kick, knocked him into a tree. When Kevin heard the sound of Tennyson slamming agent wood he opened his eyes to see Ben sitting agent a tree with a stupefied look plastered on his face. Kevin walked over to him a thought crossed Kevin's mind, 'This is the perfect chance to finally get rid of Ben for good.' But the thought made his stomach turn, even the fact that it had crossed his mind made him sick. The urge to kill Ben had left Kevin a long time ago. Instead Kevin just offered Ben a hand up saying, "You had enough yet?"

The fight only lasted two minutes, and Gwen had finally looked up to see what was going on, to see Kiley offering Ben a hand up, and an untrusting look in Ben's eye, so she yells; "Ben! He's not our enemy!"

Looking at Gwen then back at the older boy, Ben takes his hand and Kevin helps Ben to his feet, just as the watch times-out. And in a flash of red light Ben was standing there in his human form. Looking over at Gwen as he says, "Then who is he?"

"This is Kiley." Gwen explains. "He saved me from that Vulpimancer that attacked me."

"Oh." Ben said, looking at the boy. "Sorry." he gave a nervous laugh.

"No big deal." Kevin said shrugging, not really wanting to stay on the subject, knowing he had made an inexcusable decision when he'd kicked Ben's butt. He knows he was just as much to blame for the fight as Ben was. He knelt down for Gwen to get back on his back, and when she was on, he kept walking up the hill.

But now Ben was following. Ben looked up at Gwen on Kiley's back as he asks; "Where did he come from?" as the three of them now walk to the RV.

To be continued........
ok sorry for the wait


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The way Kevin used brain over XLR8 bronze from knowing how the powers work because Kevin had them before was GENIUS.