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Growing Pains! (DW & Gos)

Original Darkwing Duck
Darkwing & Gosalyn
Takes place after the Darkwarrior Duck episode!

Something had been different with Gosalyn for a while. About a month ago she had seen the future and she excepted Drake's punishment without hesitation. The whole time she was grounded she stayed as close as possible to him. She did homework and chores with no fight. It was strange but when Drake asked if she was okay, she shrugged it off. He knew the change in behavior was weird.

About a week after the punishment was lifted she was kidnapped by Negaduck, who for some unknown reason returned her safely. Now she was acting normal-ish again. She dodged homework but she still wanted to be close to Drake. Although now she would lock her door at night and he had caught her attempting to sneak out a few times. Again she dodged his questioning.

Tonight he was back from a undercover job with SHUSH and the first thing he did was go to her room. The door wasn't lock tonight so he sat on her bed. Instantly, she blinked awake. She was definitely a light sleeper. Though that wasn't what concerned him. Drake had forgotten he was in the Negaduck costume and went to tell her that it was really him Darkwing but he frowned when she spoke.

"Dad?" Her eyes adjusted. He'd give her the benefit of the doubt. They look similar, enough that he went undercover as him, and she just woke up. However, she flung herself at the man who was supposed to be the enemy. "Dad! You shouldn't be here Darkwing comes back tonight."

He thought his soul might break. What had that villain done to his daughter? He mustered every bit of anger at Negaduck he could into two words.

"Get up." It was a growl. Primal and full of hate and fear.

"I told you I can't. Dad gets back tonight and if he catches me leaving the house one more time I'll be grounded for life. That for sure." He huffed in agreement, especially if her outings where to go see his arch nemesis. She seemed irritated that her father would grounded her for sneaking out but Drake's brain was going a hundred miles a minute to note her amusement that was fading away. "Are you okay?"

"Get up," he repeated gruffly. He was afraid anything else might lead to his voice breaking. Gosalyn looked annoyed but obeyed better than she did Drake or even Darkwing he had to admit, which stung. She followed him to the kitchen. He pointed at a chair. "Sit down."

Drake didn't know what to do. He wanted to know what kind of relationship they had, why she called him Dad, and if she was being corrupted by him. His fist where tightly wound and he wanted to hit something. Is this how Negaduck felt hundred percent of the time?

"Dad?" she whispered again.

"Don't call me that," he slammed his fist on the table and Gosalyn jumped.

The sting in his hand felt good and calmed him slightly. She didn't look scared or like he would hit, more uncertain of the sudden change in personality and the outburst of anger.

"Okay. But why not? You've never had a problem with before," she raised an eyebrow. "Is this about me breaking Megavolt's stabilizer thingy? You know I didn't know what it was and besides it was pretty funny! Even you laughed!"

She thought Negaduck was about to scold her? He knelt beside Gosalyn and stared at her. He tried to control his anger. After all he wasn't angry at her just the man manipulating her.

"What is it? Just tell me? Is, is it about Dad?" she whispered the ending and barely managed the next sentence. "Did something bad happen?"

He saw the fear on her face and rushed to answer that question.