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The Misadventures of Jonny Quest	By : RoseOSharon Category: +M through R > New Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Views: 2466 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Quest Compound – Maine

“Look, Artemis,” Jonny Quest, a somewhat famous, son of an even more famous phenomenologist scientist father, a certain Dr. Benton Quest, and a handsome, eighteen year old male with shoulder length blond hair and bright blue eyes, swallowed at his equally handsome, though darker companion. “I’m not really sure how this is going to go over, okay? I’m just warning you now . . .”

“And you have been warning me since we left France. So, please, I do consider myself well-warned, and in advance. But I do wish you wouldn’t worry so, Jonathon,” the handsome twenty-two year old male smiled, took Jonny’s face in his hands and kissed him gently on the lips, his Greek accented voice soft. “We faced down my parents, and they accepted us. Perhaps your family will as well. You can never tell about these things.”

Jonny looked down at the ground as he and his companion stood beside a beautiful silver BMW, and sighed. “I’m pretty sure I know how it’ll go down, Artemis, but I want you to know if my Dad tries to make me choose . . .” Pain throbbed in his voice, and it dropped to a whisper. “I . . . I’ll choose you.”

“Jonathon, if, as you believe, things do not go well, I want you to know -- again -- that I chose you the very minute you stepped off the train at that damned boarding school and stood so lost and alone on the platform. No matter what happens with your family, I’m not going to let you go now. Especially since it took so bloody long to get you to see me as anything other than a mere friend.”

“Okay, then,” Jonny smiled, though there was still trepidation in his eyes. “Let’s get this over with.”

They turned and walked away from the car, up to the front of a very large mansion that was only a small part of the Quest compound which overlooked a very large cliffside. Jonny hesitantly knocked on the door and a moment later, it was all but thrown open. It took even less time for him to be engulfed in a very tight hug from two very powerful arms, and Jonny grinned as he was set down.

“Welcome home, kid!” The tall, muscular man with brilliant blue eyes and snow white hair cut into a military flattop boomed, and Jonny grinned.

“Hey, Race,” Jonny pointed to his companion. “This is . . .”

“Jonny!” A female voice squealed, and Jonny was almost bowled over by a very beautiful woman with flame red hair and green eyes. “It’s SO good to have you home! I . . . we all . . . missed you SO much!”

“And I missed you, too, Jesse,” he said, but before he could say anything else, another voice sounded.

“It was indeed very dull without you here trying to overload the equipment and blow things up every chance you got,” a quiet, calm, East Indian accented voice said, and Jonny’s grin widened as he looked over at the tall male in the turban, and they too hugged.

“Man, Hadj! You are looking good! Being a King has really treated you well, I see!” Jonny exclaimed happily, and he laughed as his old friend and brother encompassed him in a great big hug.

“There you are! Finally!” A male voice exclaimed, and Jonny smiled as he gazed at the tall, red-headed male who leaned heavily on a silver cane.

“Hey Dad,” he greeted the man with a hug, and swallowed as he thought about how he’d stopped talking to him for almost a year after he’d sent him to boarding school. In fact, it was Artemis who had talked him into finally forgiving, and then writing the man. Eventually, they had come to a mutual understanding, and while their relationship would never be what it had been, they at least were comfortable speaking to one another.

“Welcome home, son!” Dr. Benton Quest threw his arms around his son, and grinned at him. “These last four years have done you good, though you could certainly use a hair cut. Anyway, Come in. Come in. Dinner will be served around eight. . .” He looked at the car, Jonny’s companion, and then back at Jonny, obviously confused. “But, Jonny, I thought you were going to be bringing someone with you. I was actually looking forward to meeting the girl who finally helped you get over being mad at me for sending you to boarding school.”

“Yeah,” Jesse looked around, confused as well. “I wanted to meet the girl you dumped me for,” she grinned widely as Jonny looked uncomfortable, and then grinned widely as she grabbed Hadji’s hand. “I wanted to thank her for giving Hadji the nerve to ask me out, even if it was just a sympathy date. But man, one thing led to another, and look!” She held out her hand, and a large diamond sparkled in the sun. “Hadji and I are getting married!”

“Whoa! Jess! Haj!” Jonny grinned, relieved, pleased, proud, and above all, almost giddily happy for both of them, as he hugged them both again. “I hope I get an invite to the wedding!”

“Well, actually, Jonny,“ Hadji smiled, though it was calm. “I was going to ask if you’d be my best man.”

“And I thought maybe your girlfriend would like to be in the wedding as a bridesmaid. After all, without her Hadji and I wouldn’t be where we are now!” Jesse said enthusiastically, and Jonny cleared his throat. He knew that the time had come, far sooner than he had wanted it to, to reveal the exact nature of his and Artemis’ relationship.

“Um . . . guys,” Jonny licked his lips, and looked at Artemis. “May . . . maybe I should have said something before now, but well, I didn’t expect a marriage announcement. No one said anything before, and . . .”

“We wanted it to be a surprise,” Jesse said, as she giggled, and Jonny smiled, though it was sickly at best.

“And it is, but well, I’ve got to tell you, I never said Artemis was a girl.”

Silence filled the doorstop, and Jesse looked at him as if he’d grown a second head. A look which was quickly echoed by each and every member of the Quest team.

“But . . . but Artemis is a girl’s name,” Jesse’s voice was just shy of a full blown squeak, and Artemis smiled at her.

“In Greece, it is a rare name used for both girls and boys,” he said. “I’m Artemis Bartholomew Celestia.”

“And . . . you’re a . . . a boy,” Race said through clenched teeth as he stared at both Jonny and Artemis, his face frozen in shock.

“Well, technically, by law, both Unites States and International, I am now a man. I am, after all, four years Jonny’s senior. I was an undergraduate when he was a freshman.”

“You seduced my son!” Benton suddenly roared, and Jonny shook his head.

“Dad, no wait! That’s not what happened at all . . .” He suddenly tilted his head. “Well, no, that’s not right either. I mean, it’s sort of right, but . . .”

“You dumped me for a GUY!?” Jesse’s voice was a screech, and she put both hands on her hips and glared at Jonny.

“But . . . but you and Hadji are . . . got . . . getting . . .” Jonny said and stepped back as the crowd that had welcomed him with opened arms advanced on him, suddenly very angry.

“That’s not the point!” She hissed. “You dumped me for a guy! What’s the matter!? Wasn’t I pretty enough for you!? Did I kiss so badly that you felt you had to turn to a guy!?”

“Sure, you were . . . are . . . pretty,” Jonny shrugged. “And you kissed just fine. Better than fine, in fact,” he tried to assure her. “It’s . . . it’s just that he kisses . . . better . . . differently, I mean,” he finished lamely, and her face grew red-hot with anger.

“Probably not the best way to put that Jonathon,” Artemis said quietly, and took Jonny’s arm, and tried to gently steer him toward the door.

“You kiss!?” Race looked thoroughly disgusted, and glared at the other man. “And when did you do that!? He’s only eighteen now! Just barely the legal age for . . . for that kind of thing, especially with someone like you! And, as for you, Jonny,” he swung his head angrily in Jonny’s direction and glared at the younger man. “Just exactly when were you planning on telling us about this . . . this thing!?”

“Uh . . . Race,” Jonny swallowed. “For one thing, in France, I was old enough. And as for telling you, well, we were going to tell you this weekend, but all this came . . .” he looked at Jesse and Hadji. “Came out,” he cleared his throat at the unintentional pun. “So to speak, sooner than expected. I mean, I know it’s kind of shocking . . .”

“That would be a good way to put it,” Hadji’s voice was calm, though he looked as if he’d been hit with a bomb, and he stepped a few inches away from Jonny and Artemis. “I for one certainly had no idea you leaned . . .” He tilted his head. “That way. Certainly nothing in your history would have given rise to such a suspicion.”

“Well, maybe it would have if you’d been paying more attention,” Jonny frowned, tired of holding things in and tired of being on the defensive.

“You . . .” Hadji’s eyebrows shot up, and just about hid under his turban. He was extremely shocked and very surprised, and obviously had no idea that Jonny had ever felt any kind of physical attraction to him. “You . . . Were . . . uh . . . attracted, so to speak . . . to . . . me?”

“Yes, and to you,” Jonny spit out. “And if you really want to know, Haj, I was more than just attracted. I wanted to jump every bone you had so hard you wouldn’t be able to walk for a week! Does that make it all clear to you now!?”

“Jonathon,” Artemis said quietly as he watched the faces of the people on the doorstep. “Now would very probably be a good time to stop talking. Perhaps, now that everything is out, it might also be a good time for us to retire -- somewhere else -- so that your family can absorb what has obviously been quite a series of . . . revelations.”

“You don’t tell my son what to do!” Benton stabbed Artemis with an angry glare, and Jonny shook his head.

“And you don’t tell Artemis what to do! If he hadn’t told me what to do, you and I still wouldn’t be speaking!”

“Forgive me,” Hadji’s voice was low, and he bowed his head. “But I am afraid all this . . . negative energy is affecting my . . . my um . . . mental . . . psychic balance. I will retire to my room and do some deep meditating for a while. I don’t think I’ll be able to speak of any of . . . this for a while, so I respectfully ask not to be disturbed. Please excuse me,” he turned and with as much dignity as someone who had just found out that their adopted brother wanted to pound them into the mattress, could, walked inside the house.

Jesse, as ever, wasn’t nearly as tactful. “I am never talking to you again, Jonny Quest, you . . . you . . . PERVERT!” Jesse flung the hateful name at him, and as she flounced into the house after Hadji, she missed the pained flinch Jonny made.

“Well,” Race scowled deeply at Artemis, and snorted at Jonny. “You’ve made your choice and your decision, and I really hope you can live with it, and every consequence that comes from it,” he shook his head sadly, turned, and entered the house, leaving Jonny, his father, and Artemis.

“You certainly got your revenge on me, didn’t you, Jonny?” Benton’s voice was cool and calm, and Jonny knew exactly how much he had angered his father.

“What do you mean?” He asked, confused.

“You said, on the very day I put you on that plane to France, and to that boarding school, you’d find some way to make me sorry I ever did it . . .”

“Dad, this isn’t it. In fact, I forgot all about that, but you still don’t get what you did to me that day. You sent me away,” Jonny’s voice wavered, and his heart constricted with the remembered hurt and pain. “You took me away from everything . . .”

“It was for your own good, Jonny! When are you going to get that through your thick skull!? You weren’t doing as well in school as you could have done -- as well as I knew you could -- not with the brains you inherited not only from me, but from your mother as well!

“You spent more time in Questworld, with your friends, and/or your hoverboard, than you ever did with your studies! You even had the nerve,” Benton’s hands clutched at the head of his cane. “On the night of a final chemistry test, to ask, completely without any kind of regard for the importance of the test at all, if you could go with Race to Washington! And then, even though I made you stay home, you did less than stellar on it anyway!

“There was no way you could have gotten into any semi-decent college with what you were doing! And speaking of that, you haven’t even told me what college you’re going to go to! You’ve been gone for four years, and
I feel like I don’t even know you any more!”

“You never wanted to know me, dad,” Jonny said, his voice bitter. “And, since I’m disappointing you anyway, I might as well tell you this too -- I’m not going to college. Not yet, at any rate. Artemis and I are going to . . .“

“You’re not WHAT!?” Benton’s mouth fell open, and his voice was louder and far more angry than Jonny had ever heard it. “Oh no. I know I just didn’t hear you right. You and this . . . this perverted child raper aren’t going anywhere! You are going to go to college, alone, get a degree, and have a proper family! Damn it, Jonny! That’s all your mother ever wanted for you! An education, a home, and a family! And now, you can’t give her even that, can you! You are so selfish and want to get back at me so badly that you would use the one rule in this family that you knew was completely uncompromising, to get back at me!” He shook his head sadly, and leaned heavily on his cane as he hung his head.

“You know, Jonny,” he said, his voice suddenly low and sad. “For the first time since your mother died, I am glad she’s not here, especially to see this. I honestly don’t know how she would have handled the disappointment you’ve become. All she ever wanted for you was the best. And so did I. And this . . .” He all but snarled at Artemis. “Is what I get. You going off with some depraved lowlife who has somehow convinced you that you are better off with him than with a woman you love, creating a real family, and leading a normal life. ”

Any and all blood drained from Jonny’s face, and it was all he could do to remain standing. “I knew, dad,” he all but whispered, and his voice reflected the pain and shame his father’s words had caused him. “I knew how you’d react, but I didn’t think it’d be like this. Not spewing this much hatred and venom at any rate. And I never, not once, not even for a brief moment, thought you’d ever say anything like that about Mom. That was cruel, Dad,” his voice shook, and his blue eyes swam with tears he refused to shed. “That . . . that was way low, and you couldn’t possibly have said anything else that would have convinced me exactly how much you hate me. I’ll have you know too, Dad, that this isn’t a new thing. This isn’t some way of just getting back at you. This is who I am. Who I’ve been for a long time. And for your information, Dad, Artemis is the best for me. And whether or not you like him, whether or not you even like me anymore, this is my life.

“So, I guess nothing else needs to be said, so, I’ll just go, and we’ll never have to see each other ever again. I’m sure that’ll make everyone involved real happy,” he looked up at the windows, and saw Jesse and Hadji as they looked out the window, and they turned away.

“Have a nice life, guys,” he said, and the tears dripped slowly down his cheeks. Artemis placed his arm around Jonny’s shaking shoulders and steered Jonny toward the car as the mansion’s door closed behind them.

“I’ll drive, Jonny,” Artemis’ voice was low, and Jonny looked at him, his blue eyes dark with his misery.

“I . . . I knew it’d be bad, but I didn’t think . . .”

“They’ll come around, Jonathon. It’ll just take time.”

“But, I don’t think I will,” Jonny’s voice shook, and he looked helplessly up at Artemis. “I . . . I really think it’s over. I . . . I’ve hurt them one time way too many. They’ll never forgive me. And . . . and my Mom . . .” Jonny raked a hand through his hair, and trembled, unable to speak.

Artemis pulled Jonny into his arms, and Jonny clung to him as he sobbed. Artemis all but carried Jonny to the passenger’s side door of the vehicle, and helped the trembling figure to sit.

“Jonny,” Artemis gently reached under Jonny’s chin and turned his face up, until Jonny was forced to gaze into his dark, compassionate eyes. “My Love,” he said, his voice strong. “Your mother isn’t here,” he said gently. “So we’ll never know, realistically, what she’d say, so, while it seems cruel of me to say this, that part of things is really of no great significance here and now. Dearest Jonathon, I know it isn’t much consolation, but I love you, and I’ll be here for you, always . . . whatever you decide to do about your family -- whether you decide never to contact any of them again, or whether, eventually, you decide the time would be right to attempt a reconciliation.”

He'd gently kissed Jonny’s salty lips, climbed into the driver’s seat, and driven away, never to look back.

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