Black Eyed Beauty

Part 5

//The Next Morning//
Edd wakes up to go make breakfast, the scent of bacon jolting Alex awake immediately, Tom walks in, and notices her and Liz, "Oh, Good morning Alex." He says, in a tired way.

Alex replies in a cheerful tone, "Mornin! Liz, get up."
Liz groans, slowly sitting up, "Ugh, what?" Alex says simply, "Breakfast."
Liz opens her eyes, "Alright, give me a minute." Alex nods, "Ok then"

"Do you know what it is? Breakfast, I mean." Liz asks.

"What the hell do you mean what is it? What kinda fuckin question is that? Excuse my language." Alex says,
"I mean what did he cook" She says looking like a living meh emoji
Alex sniffs the air, "I smell.... Bacon.... Eggs....and toast!"
"Some nose ya got there, Lex."
"Oh, thanks! Maybe it's a hereditary thing?" Liz smirks, "Hey, Edd, how good would you say your nose is?" He pokes his head out from the kitchen, "Pretty decent, I guess, why do you ask?"
"Just answering a question." Edd shrugs and goes back to cooking, Liz looks at Alex, "There you go."

Alex gets up and heads to the bathroom,
Edd had fixed everyone's plates, Liz walked in and sat down, "So, we've got time to kill. Can you spare how you and Tom met?"

Edd sits across from her, "Oh, well we met in high school, and after college Tom, Matt, Tord and I moved in together and eventually Tom and I started dating and, well, you can guess what happened next."
"Thanks for sparing the details." She says, Tom smirks, "Well if you wanna know the juicy details-" He jokes, and Liz's face flushes, "No, no I'm good."
"I was joking." He says, frowning a slight bit

Alex finally comes out of the bathroom, her hair brushed into a neat ponytail.
"Damn, thought you were gonna miss breakfast." Liz says, Alex sits down, "Shut up, I never miss food."
"Dont I know it."
Alex sits down next to Liz,
(Mental convo alert)

'They sure are nicer parents than Tord'

'Ain't that the truth, though Paul and Patryk were nice'
'

Yeah the were good dudes, good thing they raised you better than that asshole Demonspawn'
'Yeah, I'm glad'
(End of Mental convo)

"So Alex, where have you been all these years?" Tom asks,
Alex takes a deep breath, "Well, I was obviously taken, and I was raised by the Red Army, though I left recently.... You can see why."
Tom stiffens slightly, "Red Army, you mean Tord?"
Alex nods, "Y-yes"
"He didn't do anything to you, did he?" There was obvious venom in his voice,
Alex shakes her head, "No! Absolutely not, he never even pays any attention to me! I was raised entirely by two of his soldiers, Paul and Patryk! They didn't do anything either!" She says.

Edd puts a hand on Tom's shoulder, and he puts his hand on Edd's, "Fuck, I'm just glad your back and your ok, because if something happened to you, I'd have someone's ass to beat."

(Mental convo)
'Don't do that.'

'Huh?'

'I can read minds now, yay!'

'And talk through them to, apparently'
(End of convo)

"So, you and Liz are just friends?" He asks, raising a brow semi-smugly,
Alex blushes, "Yes! Yes we are!"
"So you two met in the base?"
"Yeah"
He nods, "Do you know about Liz and Tords relationship?"
"They're friends"
"Relatively." Liz chimes in
"Whatever"

(Another mental convo)
'Okay, so my daughter has powers, not odd at all, I mean considering the shit that's happened, this is nothing'

'Where did I get it from?'

'I'm not sure but-'

'What?'

'This may seem weird, but do you have some other form?'

'Uhhhhh..... Kiiiiinnnndddaaaaa???'

'Show me.'

'Well, here's the thing, it only happens when I'm upset'

'Ah, fuck. Come with me.'
(

End of mental convo)

Alex follows him to another room

"So, what upsets you?" He asks, Alex sighs, "A lot of things."

"Well I'm not gonna torture you... Damn, I can't work with that."

Alex looks at her father, concerned,

"What are you talking about?"

He sighs, "Alex, there's something I want to show you, but I don't know if I can."

"What is it?"

"That other form? It came from me. I needed to know because if you have powers...." He falls silent, his daughter
looks at him,

"I can make this work, just give me a second."

Alex steps into another room.
"Right."

Alex whispers to herself, "Okay, you've got this, you can do this. This is the only time your gonna do this."
Tom says through the door, "Don't stress yourself out to much, if it gets to a point where it bothers you, quit, Ok?"
Alex replied, "Okay, I'll be fine."

Her eye starts to glow a bright magenta color, as a pair of pinkish purple horns start to sprout from her head, her ears becoming longer, and pointier, also turning purple at the tips, and a long purple tail forms behind her, and she emerges from the room, "This is about as far as I go normally."

Her father smiles, "Looks about right. My turn?"
Alex shrugs, "I guess so...."

He closes his eyes, and his ears grow larger, becoming more of a purpleish blue, his horns and tail of the same color, and his eyes Navy blue instead of black, and his fangs grew.
"Ta-da! Told ya."

Alex stares with a big smile, "That. Looks. So. COOOL!!!!" She squeals, then hugs him, and he hugs back, "So do you." Alex looks up at him, "Yours is cooler." She says, hugging him tighter, "Thank you. But does anyone else know about this?" He says.
Alex shakes her head, "I've never told anyone."
"So Tord doesn't know?"
"No, and I'm glad."
"So am I, he should never know."
The venom creeping back into his voice.
"Dad, your freaking me out again."
"Sorry" He says with a sigh.
"So should we change back and head back to the others?"

Alex nods, "Sure, but it takes awhile for me to go back 100%" Her horns, ears and tail shortened, and lightened up in color.
"Well if you practice, it would take you less time." He says, quickly going back to normal, "I could teach you."
"Ok!"
"It's a deal?"
"Yeah!"
"Great."
"I need cola."
Tom laughs, "You'll have to fight your father for it, he's a cola fanatic."
Alex smirks, "Ok." She attempts to sneak a can of cola out of the fridge, only for it to be snatched from her hands by Edd immediately.
"HEY!!"
Tom grins, "I warned you."
Alex stomps her foot, "SON OF A MUFFIN!"
Liz laughs taking a sip from her flask, "Definitely related."
Alex glares, "ZIP IT!"

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