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"Can't you fix it? Mommy said you work with robots!" Peyo's eyes grew wide with excitement, almost as if he were admiring Liam. Liam puffed out his chest. "I sure do! Of course I can fix it!" Liam pulled out a screw driver and began unscrewing the face plate of the microwave and prodding around. Peyo watched in anticipation. He loved fireworks. Rufus snickered and snuck away again outside, this time to the fuse box. He opened and flipped the main switch and suddenly all the power in the house turned off. Liam looked around, "Hey! What happened?" Peyo pretended to whine and acted out his part well. "Ahhh.. Liam, I'm scared! Fix it! Fix it now! Waahh!!" "Ok! Ok!" Liam immediately began prodding the microwave again with his screwdriver dangerously close to a few electric circuits. Waiting for a few moments, Rufus flipped the power on again and jumped at the light show that came afterwards. "AHHH!!" Peyo's eyes opened wide in amazement as Liam lit up like a light bulb and sparks flew from the microwave.

Liam flew backwards onto the floor with a loud crash as his body kept twitching like a live wire. Laughing inside, Peyo yawned as he began planning a new way to torture Liam. "I'm sleepy. Nighty night." He walked out the kitchen, leaving Liam on the floor and went upstairs to his bedroom. In his room, Rufus was waiting for him with a little black book that belonged to Ian. The duo smiled at each other as Peyo took the book from Rufus and with the house phone in his hand, he dialed the first number that was listed under 'M.' "Hello, Moira here." No answer. "Hello?" Peyo hung up the phone and waited. Minutes after, he heard the phone ring in the kitchen.

Liam stared at the phone menacingly. He cautiously answered it. "Hello?" "Liam? What are you doing calling this hour of the night? Are you at Ruby's place?" Liam quickly gulped but tried to casually laugh it off. "Moira! Heh, hey babe! Ruby asked me to baby-sit Peyo, with Ian not around and all." "Oh, that's so sweet of you Liam!" Peyo clicked on the phone and had decided he had enough of listening to their conversation and clicked over to three-way calling. Both Liam and Moira heard the click and dialing and ringing but before Liam could hang up, Vanessa's voice was heard on the phone. "Hello, Durem Salon, this is Vanessa speaking." "Vanessa!" Liam yelled in disbelief that both Moira and Vanessa were both on the line. "Liam? I've been meaning to call you. Are we still on for our date Friday night?" "Date!?" It was now Moira's turn to be shocked. "Liam, you're going out with Vanessa too?!" "Moira? Is that you? What do you mean by 'too?' Liam?" Hearing anger in Moira's and Vanessa's voice, Liam panicked. "Well, Vanessa, you know I care about you!" "What about ME!?" Moira yelled, just waiting to hear the answer. Vanessa was intrigued as well. "Well, Moira, you know I love you." The phone exploded in angry yells of women and threats of bodily harm, specifically castration. Then the line went dead as they both agreed to harm him and hung up at the same time. Liam's face was completely white. All that could be heard was laughter somewhere on one of the ends of the phone.

At first Liam thought he was going crazy. Then the laughter became clearer. That bratty kid and that damn cat! "Damn you!" He yelled through the phone before slamming it down. Peyo, who had been laughing uncontrollably in his room and listening to the conversation suddenly shot up straight and through a worried glance at Rufus. "Uh-oh." Rufus looked wide eyed in fear as sounds could be heard of Liam storming through the house and closer to the stairs. "Wait till I get my hands on both of you!!" Peyo quickly scrambled to his toy chest and pulled out a huge tin box. Rufus ran to the closet and pulled out an assortment of toys. Liam began stomping up the stairs. "Wait!" Peyo ran to the hallway and stood on top of the stair well. "Don't take another step! Or else!" He pulled out a toy gun and held it to his head. "Don't make me!" He yelled in pretend fury. "Oh please, kid!" Liam continued barging up the steps. "I warned you. Rufus!"


At Peyo's call, Rufus appeared on the side of him with the tin box and opened revealing Peyo's extensive marble collection. He poured it down the stairs and watched Liam opened his mouth in shock at his forgetfulness of the oldest gag in the book. Liam lost his slip and tried holding onto the bare walls in vain as he fell backwards and down the stairs, landing painfully flat on his back. Peyo fell to his knees laughing. "Wait till I get up kid!" "I don't think you'll be going anywhere anytime soon," thought Rufus as he pushed Ruby's size 14 bowling ball to the stairs and let it fall. Hearing loud crashes on the stairs, Liam looked up in horror at what was coming. Rufus and Peyo, who had stopped laughing long enough to watch the grand finale, looked on as the bowling ball dangerously gained momentum. A sickening sound was heard, followed by three long hisses of pain as the bowing ball landed heavy and snug in Liam's crotch.

Liam cried from the pain and let himself pass out a few moments later. Peyo hopped down the stairs two by two and decided to land on the bowing ball then the floor with Rufus following suit. They both skipped into the kitchen to treat themselves to a dinner of ice cream, root beer and Lucky Charms cereal. Two hours later Ruby came home and found Liam sleeping on her floor surrounded by marbles (Peyo had removed the bowling ball on his way to bed), Rufus and Peyo snuggly in bed and her kitchen a mess of ice-cream floats. Upon checking her phone messages, she also found out that someone had also called twice to Durem, once to the Salon and another to the shopping district, but not to H.R. Wesley.

Her face became dark and cloudy as she reached down and slapped Liam in the face with the back of her hand. "Liam! Look at my kitchen! Look at my house!" Liam came too and stared up at the furious Ruby. "Ruby! It was that kid!" Ruby slapped him again. "Don't you dare blame this on Peyo! You know how shy he is around new people!" "But Ruby!" Liam slowly got up, his face wincing in pain. "You have to believe me!" "I also received a call from Moira of what's been going on here! I can't believe you!" Ruby had heard from both Moira and Vanessa well all about Liam?s reputation. She almost didn't believe it until she heard it from Josie when she visited Liam once in Aekea. "Get out of my house! Get out of my house NOW!" She was infuriated. "But Ruby!" Liam himself was now getting angry. "Dammit woman! Listen to me! It was that damn b*****d kid!" He pointed upstairs and stared back at Ruby with an attempt to scare her.

A whimper was heard from the stairway as Peyo looked up at Liam with genuine tears in his eyes. There had always been speculations of his father and nothing hurt him more than that burden on him and his mother. "Peyo!" Ruby turned to her son with her eyes full of compassion. Peyo refused to stay and ran back upstairs slamming his door hard enough to shake the whole house. Ruby turned to Liam with a death stare and dangerously whispered her words to him. "How dare you." It was all she said before she punched Liam swiftly in the mouth without warning. Liam held his jaw in disbelief as he was being manhandled by a woman. Ruby grabbed Liam by his collar and dragged him out of the house, closing the front door behind her. She punched Liam in the jaw again then in the stomach. A last time, she punched Liam again square on the chin with an uppercut knocking him out on the pavement by the side of her house. Ruby walked back to her home and slammed the door closed. She decided Peyo needed no more baby-sitters for a while, just her, his mom.

It was early in the morning when Liam came to. He found himself tied to a stake in some warehouse in a back alley in Durem and a pair of burning blue eyes staring at him and smiling maliciously. "Batneko!" He about wet his pants as he woke up to the familiar scene. "Hello Liam." Batneko spoke to him in a sickening sweet voice but her nature always revealed her thoughts of him to be those of hatred and disdain. "Batneko! Please! I've had a rough night!" He attempted to plead with her but it was not to her whom decided his fate. "Oh but Liam, your day is about to get even rougher. All of Gaia has heard of your night!" Her eyes turned from a clear and calm blue to a fire burning red, her pupils no longer visible. "Poor Peyo. You really are an a*****e Liam! Fortunately for you, I won't be the one to bring you pain today." Liam sighed in relief. Screw the rest of Gaia. There was nothing they could do to him.

"Moira, Vanessa and surprisingly Leon have donated generously to the L.A.A. They'll be your 'company' for today." Batneko grinned wide, her smile striking fear into Liam's heart. "Leon? Leon! But he's the guard!" Liam couldn't believe even Leon, who might be pushy but was generally passive would want him harmed. "Yes Leon. He and Ruby were a really sweet couple back in the day. This was before you arrived to Gaia of course. Leon is quite protective of Ruby and Peyo as well. I'm sure you'll have fun Liam." Batneko cut her eyes at him and disappeared in a thick black mist before his eyes. Liam looked around and thrashed at his bonds in vain as three figures came closer and closer to him.

heheh......Tough luck stuff like this doesn't happen in the real storyline......Or will it ninja

*loads last part of story*

Took a while too. A empty afternoon and a mad writting spree. I was going to have it all NPC's, but I forgot who I was talking too who said to put Batneko in the story as well.

i rate this storry 8/10