Legends [1] ▻ Sweet Pea

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At the Cooper residence, Izzy sat downstairs in the living room with Polly, Betty, and their mother, playing with Polly's two babies, Juniper and Dagwood.

Chic walked down the stairs in his bijou work uniform and gave the group a confused look. The group was too busy paying attention to the babies to notice that he was waiting for the something, "Mom!" He called out, causing Alice to look up, "I'm late for work, can you drive me?"

"Not right now, Chic," She told her son, "I'm with the twins. Take the bus or walk."

Izzy wanted to let out a laugh when she saw Chic's face. He was shocked by her response and even more when Alice went right back to paying attention to my babies.

"Izzy?" He called out, causing the only brunette in the room to look up.

"Yeah?" She replied.

"Walk with me? I don't want to walk alone?" He asked her and Izzy sighed, getting up from her seat next to Polly.

"Sure," she nodded, picking up her jacket, "Got nothing else better to do."

When Izzy wasn't looking, Chic smiled, thinking he still had one of the family members wrapped around his little finger. But boy, was he wrong.

Betty gave the girl a confused look, wondering why she agreed to walk with him. Izzy only shrugged in response, thinking of it as a chance to question her brother.

Izzy sighed before she got up and followed her brother out the front door.

  As they walked, it was utterly silent and Izzy hated it more than anything, "So, you going to talk? I sure as hell know you didn't ask me to walk with you for 'quality time with your younger half sister'." She asked him and Chic sighed.

  "Don't you think it was better when it was just you, Betty, Mom, and I?" He asked Izzy, who only scoffed.

   "What are you trying to say? You want Polly and the twins gone?" She questioned and Chic shook her head.

  "No, it's just—" He started, but she quickly cut him off.

    "I swear to God, Chic. If you're planning on getting rid of Polly and her kids like you did with Hal..." Izzy trialed off, "What's your endgame in all of this? Get Alice alone? Destroy this perfect family?" She questioned and Chic was speechless.

  "Why do you think that low of me?" He asked her concerned.

     "Because you're low, Chic. I know you're planning something. I can feel it in my gut. Hey, I might like having you around, but I don't want you ruining this family. They've gone through enough. So have I."

••••

Later on that night, Betty ended up finding some of Chic's floss and handed it in for blood testing. She ended up finding out the Hal wasn't Chic's dad.

  After showing Chic the paper, Izzy stood next to Betty as she questioned Chic about it. Izzy didn't really believe that Chic wasn't her brother any longer.

She simply believed that Hal wasn't his father and Alice was his mother just as it was with in her case.

  "This is what you didn't want to take the DNA, isn't it?" Betty questioned him angrily, "Because you knew what the results were gonna say. That you have no Blossom blood." 

  "Of course I don't. I'm not a Blossom. I don't even know them." Chic explained.

  "Blossom blood is Cooper blood, Chic! My dad was a Blossom which means you would have tested positively for Blossom DNA, but you didn't, because you're an imposter!"

  "Betty, calm down!" Izzy shouted at her, "Take it down a notch!"

  "No, I will not take it down a notch, Izzy," Betty argued with attitude before snatching the paper from Chic, "Mom!"

Only a few minutes later, the whole group, including Alice was downstairs, "Betty, Izzy. The truth is Chic's DNA match because Hal isn't his father. Just like in Izzy's case," she explained before turning back toward Chic, "But I am your mother, you understand me?"

  "Hang on, what? Again?" Betty asked, referring how this same thing happened just a few months before with Izzy, "What? Then who is Chic's father? FP, like in Izzy's case?" Betty questioned.

  "God, no," Alice denied it,  "Chic's my son! And whoever the father is, is not gonna be a part of our lives. So there's no reason to open old wounds that have healed many times over!"

  "Come here." She told Chic, pulling him in for a hug.

  Chic slowly looked up at Betty and evilly smirked at her, causing Izzy to scoff.

  "I'm out. I'm going to the Wyrm." She told them and Betty got up, too.

  "Can I join? Please, Izzy?" She asked and Alice quickly pulled away from Chic, staring at her youngest daughter shocked.

  "What did you just ask, Betty? To go to the Wyrm?" Alice scoffed and Izzy sighed.

"I'm sorry, Betty," Izzy apologized quietly before leaving without another word said.