Emotions

2. Fear, Disgust, and Anger

Tine skip a few months

It seemed that Matthew had a big sister named Lucille (Monaco). She looked like Mattie's mama, Jeanne, if she had longer, braided hair and glasses.

"Mama can I do Mattie's hair?" Lucille asked when we were eating dinner. Disgust which we called Feliks had told us it was broccoli so we had made sure that Matthew wouldn't be poisoned.

By throwing it on the floor.

With most of it landing on papá.

"Maybe later if Mama and Papá finish zheir work. We 'ave to supervise you when your with with Matthieu, okay." Mattie's papá, Francis, said. I felt Fear next to me take a deep breath and calm down.

Fear's name was Feliciano but everyone in Headquarters called him Feli for short.

"I thought for a second Papá was going to say yes. Little ribbons hurt and did you know that most babies die from suffocation?! Mattie could choke and-"

"You didn't hear did you? You bloody idiots! Papá did just sell us out and he's going to be watching when we get hurt!" Anger or Arthur set his newspaper down and started yelling at the injustice of it all. Feli started having a panic attack and couldn't breathe right.

"Artie chill dude. Pops wouldn't do that to us." I say trying to stop the chaos around me and a sharp cry rings out.

Mattie's in trouble!

And there standing at the console was Ivan pressing a few buttons. I rush over and knock both of us to the ground. I get up and quickly rush back to the screen where I see Jeanne picking Matthew up from his highchair, tears streaking down his face. I turned back to Ivan who was still on the floor, his eyes looking at the blue memory orb coming in from the shoot. He turned back to me.

"Why'd you do that dude?"

"I just-"

"Your hurting Mattie when you mess with the controls. Just stay away Ivan. Just come here." I helped him up and took him to the back of headquarters. Grabbing a nearby book off the shelf I hand it straight to him. "Look. Memory removal part 4. Wow sounds intriguing. Your the lucky one reading all this cool stuff while I got to go work." Making a bunch of exaggerated hand gestures I walk over to the control panel where the others are.

"Mum just thinks it was because we missed nap time. Thank god." Arthur sighs.

"You need to, like, totally keep Ivan away from the panel. I thought you were like the hero?" Feliks said. He pressed a button and turned a lever. Matthew started getting fussy and was put back in his high chair. "You need to try harder Alfred. Not just for us but for Matthew too."

"I will." Feliks moved over and I took my usual spot in front of the main screen and panel. "Tomorrow is a new day. Another day that we can make Matthew happy."