Hero?

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"Michael," Jacob warned, "if you keep that up Ana will be more than a little vexed with you. Smile at people and if you can't be nice than don't say anything or do anything."

Michael sighs, "Not bullying is harder than I thought it would be. Does she have something against bullies or something?"

Jacob does all he can to hold back his laugh. "Oh, you could say that. Ana was bullied her whole life until Damon had me become her first body guard. She had decided on Trinity being her bodyguard even though he was Hawk's son, because he stopped a bully from picking on a foster kid. She had never even met him.

"Now, what do you do if someone knocks into you?" Jacob demands as he returns to his teacher mode.

"Threaten them," Michael replies smartly.

"Michael, do you remember the day you almost knocked me over?" Ana calls out sweetly as she comes up behind him.

"Yeah, you called me names and..." Ana shakes her head slowly.

"I told you that an apology is what a decent person would give. When you threatened me what did I do?" Ana demands.

"You laughed at me. I think that hurt more than a physical fight would have." Michael says honestly. He'd been a victim too and it still hurts.

"Yes, humor makes a lot of things better. If I had actually fought you, you'd have been dead. There will always be bullies, but when we decide to stop being victims we need to be careful to not become the bullies in turn. There are some that say that I'm a bully although I try not to be. I might be psychopathic though." Ana shrugs doesn't really matter to her.

"Tell me, do you have any happy memories to pull from?"

Michael looks down and kicks his foot into the grass. "Not many, mostly of what my mother did before my sperm donor killed her."

"Did your mother ever bully anyone?" Ana asks gently.

"No, not really she was too retiring and gentle. Snake did his best to make sure that she was too terrified to do much of anything." Michael says with a great deal of vitriol.

"Then think of what your mother would do around other's. You don't want to turn into your father and I won't let you." Ana avers.

"Yeah, you told me you'd kill me." Michael says bitterly.

Ana takes out of her gun and cocks it at him, "Do you want me to do it now? I think you have a great deal of promise and I want you to reach that potential. It's why I didn't kill you before. Now if you want to prove your father right I'll pull this trigger right here, right now."

Michael looks at Ana with wide eyes, "You really think I have potential?"

"If I hadn't I would have killed you when I found out who your father was." Ana waits for him to make up his mind before putting her gun away.

Michael stands up straighter and has a more determined look in his eye. "Okay pretty boy let's do this again."

Jacob sighs, he hadn't minded the nickname at first but now it's getting old. At the laughter he sees in Ana's eyes though he thinks that he's stuck with it.

"Okay one more time," Jacob says with amusement. He's beginning to like Michael.

Ana walks off with Trinity by her side. "What are you doing with that kid Ana?"

"Like I said, he has a lot of potential and I want him to reach it. His father very nearly destroyed him," Ana smiles, "and soon I'm going to destroy his father."