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Six of Cups

Six of Cups

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Danny took a deep breath as he sat across the kitchen table from his parents. They both looked at him with a mix of curiosity and concern, but stayed silent as he gathered his thoughts.

“I have to tell you guys something,” Danny began, “And your first reaction is going to be to interrupt or not believe me, but I need you to listen until the end.”

Maddie and Jack shared a look for a moment. When they turned back, Maddie smiled reassuringly and said, “Danny, we trust you enough to know that you wouldn’t lie about something you’re so serious about. Whatever it is, we’ll believe you.” Jack nodded firmly but remained silent, uncharacteristically serious.

Danny rubbed the back of his neck. “I uh, I don’t really know how to start. I guess, um… Mom, you already know this first part, but,” he turns to look more at Jack, “Vlad Masters has been obsessed with mom for a long time. He’s been trying to find a way to split you two up for years so he can get with her.”

Jack started to say something, probably a denial, but Maddie put her hand over his, stopping him. They made eye contact and seemed to communicate silently. Maddie nodded minutely with a regretful expression, seeming to confirm Danny’s statement and apologize for not telling Jack earlier. Jack’s expression flickered between confusion, distress, and anger before he seemed to push this realization to the back burner for the moment. He nodded tightly and focused his attention back on Danny.

Seeing his chance, Danny hurried to continue explaining. “I think, subconsciously, he realized a few years ago that he’ll never be able to get with mom, so he switched some of his efforts somewhere else. He wants a son. Specifically, he wants me to be his son, and he started trying to get me to, I don’t know, run away from home and go live with him?”

Both of his parents were starting to look like they were seconds away from hunting Vlad down and murdering him on the spot, so Danny quickly moved on to the next part of the story.

“He realized pretty quickly that he wasn’t going to get ahold of me any more than he was going to get ahold of mom. That’s when things got… weirder. He’s apparently spent some of the past few decades studying, um, human cloning.”

At this point, Maddie began to look far more concerned. She started to say something, but this time it was Jack’s turn to squeeze her hand and remind her to let Danny finish.

Danny wasn’t meeting their eyes anymore, instead staring up at the ceiling with an unreadable expression. “Her name is Danielle,” he said, “but she prefers Dani, with an ‘i’. She looks like she’s about fourteen, but she’s only two years old.” At this point, Danny looked back at them with an intense, almost desperate gaze. “I helped her escape Vlad, but. She’s just a kid, you know? She doesn’t have anywhere to go.”

Jack and Maddie looked… beyond shocked. Something like grief and fury and horror mingled on each of their faces. It took several moments before either of them spoke.

“Can… can we meet her?” Jack asked in the quietest voice Danny had ever heard him use.

Danny sprung out of his chair the moment the words left Jack’s mouth. “Yes! I mean, uh, yes, she’s um, up in my room.” Here he looked kind of sheepish at admitting he had let a relative stranger into the house without telling them. Jack and Maddie both stood up without a word, so Danny led the way upstairs.