My Ruby Redfort One-shots

They're Related

Ruby stares in shock at the papers. She just can't wrap her mind around what they're saying. There's no way this is true. There's no way this is correct. But, the papers don't lie. And, it would explain some differences.

It would explain how she was so bright while her parents weren't. How she liked T.V while they despised it. How she yearned for adventure, while they thought it was fun to watch but didn't want to get involved. How she loved codes, and they could barely figure out how to do a puzzle. Her love for books, and they're preference of those stupid magazines.

How she's a genius, and aware of her surroundings, while they can't even put together that they're daughter is a secret spy.

Ruby Redfort is not really a Redfort; she's adopted. Her entire life was a lie. And, it looks like she killed her father.

It all started with a DNA project at school. She noticed how both of her parents had O+ blood type, while she had B-, an irregularity that normally doesn't happen. She got curious, as she always did, and got DNA samples from hers, and her parents, then slipped into the Spectrum lab and ran them.

And, now, she has the results, and they're not her real parents. No, freaking Bradley Baker, the dead wonder agent that she killed with her stupidness, and the Ice Queen, the leader of Spectrum, LB, the person who should hate her but doesn't are her parents.

Well, that explains how LB said she didn't blame me. She thought that she couldn't. After all, she had to know that I'm her daughter. I guess that's why she assigned her best agent; Hitch too. Had to make sure her daughter, her bloodline was protected well.

And forgiving me for breaking into the gadget room; of course she did. I'm a living legacy of the two best Spectrum agents; they'll never let me out.

And the field agent training, she had to. She got me in the life, so she felt that she had to protect me. Had to deal with the mess she made. Never mind the fact that she could have actually gotten close to her daughter through that. But, no, she had to hide it.

Ruby runs out of the lab, not being able to contain this news. She feels as if she doesn't tell someone, it doesn't really matter who, it just has to be someone, she'll burst.

So, she runs home, and doesn't go to her room to call Clancy, but down to Hitches' room.

"Where's the fire, kid?" Hitch questions, as Ruby pants and slams the door shut.

"Not a fire, though something close. Take a look at this," Ruby replies, waving the papers around before handing them to Hitch.

He quickly reads over them, and shakes his head. "Well, this certainly does explain some things," He finally remarks.

Ruby scoffs in remarks, though gives him this go on look. "I always felt like LB had a soft spot for you. You got away with things that other people would, at the very least, get a month of desk work for. Giving you so many chances to be a field agent, even, when, sometimes I thought it might be for the best if you just stayed a code breaker until you were eighteen.

"And don't give me that look, kid. Around October, you were a mess. I was worried that if we let you keep going, we weren't going to get you back alive within a year, which is something that no one wanted. LB thought you could handle it, but I raised it to her attention. She said Baker went through the same thing; that it was a teenage thing. I suggested that it was something more, and a compromise that we have you take a psych eval, and if you failed, you were off until you could get your head on straight, but if you passed, no problem.

"Also, she pushed you. She gave you the hardest stuff, to try to get you to grow. She was hard and harsh to you, but it was what you needed at the time.