We Meet Again

Nine

(Karen)

I sat with everyone except BB, discussing what to do next. We all knew that this young child belonged to Gar, and when the DNA came back, three hours later, it confirmed it. 99.9% was in fact the mark up is of our best friend Garfield Logan. And when he finally came out of interview room 2, we handed him the results, and he looked down at the floor, with a small grin on his face.

"Now what?" Star asked excited for BB, but yet concerned.

"Well I guess my guest room will be a seven-year old's bedroom. There's no way that I'm turning him over to CPS (Child Protective Services). I'm talking my boy with me." He said and looked over at Jr peacefully sleeping across two chairs, covered with BB's jacket as his blanket.

"Man tough break BB. Do you even know how to care for a kid?" Ric asked about to laugh. "We all know that you can't even keep a Cactus alive, let alone." He continued.

We all chuckled at this.

"I mean how hard can it be. Feed, water, clothe, and then bedtime... right?" He said and I hoped that he wasn't being serious.

"Ugh!!" We all said seemingly at the same time. Just then Bruce came in summoning the guys to follow him. BB gave me and Star a 'pa.... leeeaaassseee'  look after my son expression. We nodded, giving him reassurance that we'd let nothing happen to the little one. Then the guys left.

"Well I'll like to be the first to say that I will be charging by the half-hour on the first babysitting job in my life."

"I second that!" Star agreed and we both chuckled and went back into the interview room.

(A few minutes later)

(BB)

"Well it looks like your situation has changed Logan. I see that you are a father of a child that was in the organization of Scathe. Mind explaining how that's possible?" Bruce asked me, and I gave him a 'what'  look.

"Uh, well... about eight years ago, I had sex and..." Bruce cut me off whilst Richard and Vic chuckled.

"I don't mean how it happened doh-doh! I mean why is your kid in that organization. And don't give me some silly answer Agent!"

"Well isn't it obvious that one of the members is the kid's mother? I don't know! I didn't know about little dude until after you all!. All I did was wake up this morning to a puppy that peed on my rug, come down here to not only a vague message from Victor, but to be staring at a kid that I had no idea existed until a few hours ago. AND... not to mention I got my ass handed to me by Rose Wilson in the dead of night, while all I was trying to do is take out my freaking garbage... in minutes by the way! So you tell me Chief, how did I know that I had a kid in the Scathe organization! Please tell me, I'm all ears!" I scoffed at him. My emotions were all over the place. He's going to find out that Raven is Jr.'s mom, and in turn learn that she's Beast, then want her head on his desk by Monday morning...literally, and ruin my life all over again.

"So... where did the puppy come from?" Vic said nonchalantly.

"He was down by the dumpsters... wait... WHAT! You're seriously asking me that right now?" I almost fell for it, heh-heh.

"The more pressing matter is the assignment Friday.  Agent Logan, in light of recent events, I'll allow you the rest of the day off to figure out what to do with the kid. The rest of you follow me."

"Wait!! Don't leave me with him! I don't know the first thing about being a dad dude. That's a job for a woman... right?" I was extremely nervous all of a sudden. I mean with Terra's kid, she did most of the work, then when Dylan daddy'd himself, resembling his true father, it was curtains, lights out...exit stage left on that! I know I wanted Jr, but... you know, baby steps.

"Oh you'll be fine agent. Just do like I do, feed it... or something. I don't know. My wife usually handles those things. I just give money and sign permission slips for field trips. You can do it." Bruce said leading Ric and Vic out of view.

"Yeah BB, you got this. If you can hit a tiny target from 350 yards away, I'm sure you can handle a seven-year-old." Vic gave me thumbs up.

"I'll be sure to fill you in on the discussions today. No mess up's on Friday! You know fatherhood is a very draining process... ah-heh!" Ric had too much glee in his voice for my taste. I have to remind myself to make him pay for that later. I stood along the wall with so much confusion going on in my head, then Star and Karen came walking up with Jr. The smile he had on his face was enough to calm me down.

But only a little.

"So Mrs. Karen and Mrs. Star said that I can go home with you. Is that okay?" He looked at me kind of nervous himself. I gave him a warm smile and said...

"Yeah. My boss gave me the rest of the day off. We can go whenever you're ready." Jr gave Karen back her phone, again, then ran up to me and grabbed my hand, I assumed ready to go. I nodded my head and we started to walk away, but not before QB stopped me.

"Uh... that will be $100 dollars."

"WHAT! Why?" I was shocked.

"Well that's for our babysitting fees... Garfield." Star jumped in giggling.

"Babysitting? You were just doing your job! Remember, you're at work!"

"Well... let's just call it a best friend mutual agreement. Jr is not just some SV (Special Victim), he's a friends son, so $100 dollars agent!" QB grinned whilst Star leaned on her shoulder as she emphasizing the T in agent! Even my son giggled at me. 

This is ludicrous.

"Ugh, fine! Here... I hope you get a speeding ticket!" I said and handed over $200 dollars to these pirates!

"Nice doing business with you Mr. Logan. I'm free on weekends!" Karen mocked me and Star stuck out her tongue, giggled, then both ladies talked amongst themselves, going back to their respective assignments, whilst I semi panicked. It was just me and my kid now, oh boy!

"That was nice of you." Jr. said, and I grumbled.

"Gee thanks. Huh, okay let's go home." And with that said, we did.

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(Edited 2021)