Sun and Shadow

Chapter 10 - A Generous Inheritance

"Well..." Adam takes a deep breath "I guess I should tell you about your grandfathers."

"My grandfather?" Connor asks confused. He is standing in his garage glowing and generating heat and his dad isn't freaking out but rather looking happy.

"Grandfathers Connor...plural. Both your mom and my dads were supers" Adam tells him. "Looks like you might have a mix of them." Adam looks at his son and smiles "But why don't we go inside...you can grab a shower and change and we can talk."

They walk into the house and Connor is feeling really strange. His dad is acting like he did way back when, before he found out that Connor was gay and dating Jude. He looked at him like he was...proud?

Connor stepped into his bathroom and stripped off his dry clothes before looking at himself in the mirror. The mud, now dried, had gotten everywhere, especially his hair and ears. Otherwise he looked good. He had thought that he might have some bruises or something from his rather harsh crash landing or where the lightning bolt had hit him, but there was nothing. His skin was unmarked with no sign of a bruise or cut.

Jumping in the shower he quickly washed up, including shampooing three times to get all the mud out of his hair and everywhere else...it really had gotten everywhere! He stepped out and reached for a towel before stopping and looking back at the mirror and smiling. He thought back to the garage and found himself warming up again and he watched as the water steamed away leaving him completely dry in a few seconds. The only problem was that his hair was a mess. He laughed and grabbed some gel to fix it. He dressed quickly and headed down the stairs to hear his dad's voice.

"I'm not sure how long I just found out a few minutes ago. Definitely heat and light but that's all I know so far" Adam was saying before pausing. "Yes I know" another pause "I will tell him. Are you coming down?" another pause "okay...we will see you tomorrow....bye."

Connor stepped into the room and saw his dad putting down his phone. He looks at him for a second before Adam looks up at him and smiles "Your mom says hi...congratulations...and she will see you tomorrow" he tells Connor.

"That was mom? She's coming?" Connor knew he was babbling. "You told her about me?"

"Of course I did Connor" Adam said as he moved to sit down in his chair. "We both wondered if you would be a super once we realized that both of our dads were supers so there was a pretty good chance you would be one."

Connor flopped down on the couch stunned. "But...but...grandpa?" he finally asked.

Adam laughed. "Connor...is the heat and light it so far? I mean have you noticed any other abilities or anything?" Adam asked him leaning forward.

Connor was still shaking his head. "Connor!" Adam snapped his fingers causing Connor to look up at his father. "Any other abilities?"

Connor nodded. "I can fly...really fast. I got struck by lightning when I was flying through a cloud and it didn't really hurt" Connor looked at his dad whose eyes had widened. "And when I crashed in the back yard, it didn't hurt. I was able to dry off after my shower without a towel" Connor said and couldn't believe that his dad was smiling like that. "Oh" he suddenly remembered "I also lifted up your car last night so super strength" he adds.

Adam starts shaking his head and laughing and leans back in his chair. "Connor...you" he keeps laughing "son you never do things halfway do you?" he laughs.

"What do mean?" Connor asks trying to understand why he is laughing so hard.

Adam gets control and wipes tears of laughter from his eyes before looking at Connor. "My dad, your grandfather Stevens, was a super like I said. He had this power he called "The Glow", in fact that was his code name. He could glow and generate light, he also had super strength and was nearly invulnerable."