#Roy and Mari sulked they couldn't help

[rougerave]

Mafia Au

He was young when he became a father. A decent age young, he was nineteen. So decent. But being a young father didn’t scare him. What scared him was that he had to do it alone. When his girlfriend died during childbirth, he felt what being alone was for the first time. Then he remembered that he wasn’t alone. He had his father, and his best friend and the whole community, well more like gang. Wait no, his father’s empire, the Hood Mafia. So no he wasn’t alone, just stressed.

When his little girl was born, his father was giving him control of the gang. They had talked that as soon as he got his degree, he would take over the mafia. He was home schooled so he had the opportunity to finish school early. His daughter was relatively easy to manage. It only started going downhill when she turned six.

As soon as she learnt how to climb, hide and seek got a whole lot harder. Glitter meant you had to make sure you weren’t the next victim of the next prank, but pranks were usually pulled on the newer recruits. God help them all when the first of October hit. No one was safe, even his dad, who by the way, lived on another continent. But otherwise, she was she was a bundle of joy really.

But all this doesn’t help his nerves when it comes to this talk. No not the talktm, but a talk. He shouldn’t be nerves talking to his thriteen year old daughter about this. I mean he was the Red Hood, ruthless mafia leader, who inspires fear to everyone that get on his bad side. This should be easy.

“Jay as your best friend, it’s my job to punch you in the face to tell you to calm down, but as your right hand it’s my job to tell you that you have to do it or else I will. You pick.” Roy said with a hand on his shoulder.

Jason looked up from his hands to his best friend, then took a calming breath before he nodded his head. He was ready. Just as he was about to pick up his phone to text his daughter to come to the kitchen, Marinette rushed in with a water-balloon in her hand and super glue in the other. She look around before she ducked into the pantry. The two adults looked at each other confused. Just then her best friend/brother (he was adopted after an incident with his family), Nino, rushed in covered in water, glitter, and glue. The two adults looked at him wide eyed.

“Were. Is. She?” His voice was low and angry. The adults looked at each other before they pointed to the pantry. One thing about Nino, is that you don’t cross him when his angry. He walked over and in a few seconds there was sounds of screaming, a bang, crash, and then silence. Absolute silence. They went to go investigate.

When they opened the pantry door, it looked like a bomb had hit, both kids laying on the floor breathing heavily, tomato paste everywhere.

“Okay go clean up both of you, then meet us in the car. We’re going to base.” Then he and Roy left.

“I don’t know what scares me more. The fact that she’s willing to get Nino angry or the fact that she has glitter and glue with her.” Roy said once they sat in the car.

Jason snorted. “I got a call for my dad this morning. Apparently sixty boxes were delivered to him. He now has two thousand hot pink Hawaiian shirts. I didn’t know if I should laugh or be concerned that she found his location. I settled for an eye roll because I was busy with an interrogation.”

“So babu (grandpa) liked my ‘gift’.” Mari asked as she got in the car.

“Ndio, aliipenda, but you should stop hacking him. Let him enjoy his retirement please. His gonna have a heart attack before seventy.”[Yeah, he loved it.]

“Kwa nini tunaenda msingi?” Nino asked. He looks calmer now, looking out the window to avoid eye contact with Mari, afraid he might laugh when his supposed to angry at her. [Why are we going to base?]

“We need to have a talk.”

--

“So, I wanted to ask, but you don’t have to give me your answer now or today, but do you want to take over the gang when you hit twenty, or would you rather not? Remember you can answer no. It’s okay to not want to take over.”

“And who would take over if I don’t? Did you think this through? Dad I’m your only heir, and do really think that I would pass out the chance to be the first female mafia boss in our family?”

“So that’s a yes then?”

“Obviously.”

“See, you had nothing to worry about Jay.”

“You were gonna punch me if I didn’t talk to her. I had every right to be worried! You’re built like a tank! What do you go to the gym every day?!”

“You’re one to talk.” Roy huffed.

“Hey Nino, is it me, or is the sexual tension in here suffocating?” Mari asked whispering to her friend, so that the two bickering adults didn’t hear them.

“It’s the sexual tension. We should go. Our tutor is about to arrive.” Nino replied, while backing out slowly. Mari nodded, following him out the door.

They slammed it shut.

“We should tell them.” Roy said once the door was closed.

“Nah. Let them figure it out. Besides, we don’t want to break them.” Jason said, smirking in the direction of the door.

Roy snorted.

--

Two years later.

“We’ll be back in a few days. All you’re doing is making sure you go to that meeting on my behalf and to not start a war. Can I trust you to do that?” Jason said from the other end of the line.

“Sure. I have babu on speed dial just in case I need advice and I can’t reach you.”

“You also have Nino. He is your right hand and your ndugu [brother]. Make sure his opinions are heard, okay.”

“I know and I will. Be safe, love you.”

“And I you. Be safe, oh and one more thing. If you have to threaten someone and it gets physical, you can’t break more than an arm, wrist and fingers. Okay?”

Marinette sighed. Damn it. So much for the body cast or bag.

“Okay.” She responded reluctantly. Her farther nodded then dropped the call.

“Mari are you ready? That meeting is in fifteen minutes. We can make it to the location with five minutes to spare if we leave now.” Nino said as he came down the stairs, no wrinkle on his crisp black suit. He doesn’t wear a dress shirt, but a white polo neck with a silver chain, his black high tops, glasses, and hair is it usual curly mess, but not messy enough that it’s in his face.

“You look nice,” She said as she got up from the stool in the kitchen. “and baba said hi.”

“You also look nice,” And she did in her sharp grey pants suit, black polo neck with a gold chain, black high tops, and hair in a neatly tied bun that was clipped together by a gold flower hair pin. “and did you tell baba that babu is already in Oman for Isra and Mi’ja?” He asked as they made their way out the house and towards the car. They nodded their head in greeting to their personal guard Deze as they got in the car.

“I did. He said that we’ll go when he comes back, but we’ll still have three weeks before the festival, so we should have enough time to greet family and site see. Did you put eye drops. You're blinking a lot.”

“I need new eye drops.”

"And you didn't say anything because,"

"I forgot. Don't antagonis me for forgetting about something. Okay? Okay."

"Just checking."

They fell into a silence after that.

--

When Dawn woke up this morning to get ready for his meeting today, he expected to meet the fierce leader of the Hood gang. He was not prepared however for the little fourteen, maybe fifteen year olds to step out the car. What in the bloody hell.

“Is this some kind of joke?” He asked when one of them walked up to greet him. It was the little girl.

“I can assure you Mr. Dawn that this is no joke.” Her voice was calm and collected, cold, sharp and void of all emotion.

“Listen girle-” He was cut off. Rude, he thought.

“It’s Miss Todd to you Mr. Dawn. I am simply taking care of business while my father is away dealing with something personally. Now I believe we have matters to discuss privately.” She said as she made a move to walk passed him. He grabs her shoulder, and that is when things started going downhill for him.

“Now listen here girle-”

Big mistake. She grabs his arm and twits it in a weird angle making sure to listen for the pop before kicking him under his legs to get him on his stomach, before proceeding to break his wrist. He let out a scream in anguish. His guards start to run to go help him, but the Hood gang stop them with guns to their faces.

Nino sighs. It hasn’t even been five minute since they got here. Mari snorts before she crouches down to be eye level with Dawn. “I told you my name to you is Miss Todd, and like my father and grandfather, I do not like my time wasted, and my patience runs out a lot quicker than my brother over there. Another thing, touch me again and I won’t  be so willing to follow my father’s rule to only break an arm and wrist.” She straightens up and wipes of the dirt on her person, before she looks down on the leader of the Fire Triangle. “I will give you five minutes to gather your bearings and I will meet you inside. If you are not inside by then, I can simply ask my men to follow through and blow up your territory. I am not so cruel to target your family, but make no mistake; do not take my permissive behavior today as a sign of kindness or mercy. I can at any time target your family. Five minutes Mr. Dawn.” She walks into the restaurant head held high.

Nino walks up to Mr. Dawn. “I would count myself very lucky. Our father did not give me any rule and therefore I can put you into a body cast. I would be very careful with your next choice of words for the rest of the meeting.” He then turns him head to the gang and nods his head. They stand down as he and Deze make their way into the restaurant.

By the time the meeting is over, everyone is positively terrified of the two fifteen year olds.

--

A few days later Jason and Roy return from Tokyo. They first make a stop at base so they can see if everything is normal. “Well at least we know they kept their promise.” Roy said as he closed the door to the office.

“They did more than keep their promise.” Jason said from his seat behind his desk, looking over some documents.

“What did they do?” Roy asked as he led over Jason’s shoulder to see what his fiancé was looking at. His eyes widened in shock as he read over the documents.

“They completed the budget for five months, finalised trade deals, managed to get the truce with the Fire Triangle signed, and from this note brought a dog. Wow.” Roy said as he looked over the note.

“What note?”

“This note.” Roy said as he handed the note over.

‘Don’t be mad. We borrowed two grand to buy a puppy. We joined out allowance to buy supplies for her. Her name is Tikki and she is a Great Dean, she’s very playful but don’t worry, we put her through training so she is potty trained. We’ll pay back the 2000£ by the end of the month, with interest because that is the right thing to do.

-Mari and Nino’

Jason laughs. Well this is a surprise. “I think we should get some rest. We’re still going to Oman tomorrow.” Jason said as they made their way out the door and to the car.

“I’ll meet you guys in Oman. I still have to go to Star City for a couple of days. You know, just to make sure Oliver isn’t dead.”

“Okay. Just call when you reach Oman so we can pick you up.”

Roy nods his head. When they finally reach the house Roy makes his way to pack his bag for his flight in the morning and to take a shower. Jason makes his way to the sitting room only to come face to face with a sight.

Mari and Nino are fast asleep on the couch, blankets everywhere, an empty tube of ice-cream on the table, and Bambi play. He shakes his head fondly. He fixes their blankets, switches of the TV, rinses of the spoons and throws away the empty tub.

As he makes his was up-stairs, he runs into Deze.

“Hey Deze. Mind telling me what happened at the truce.”

“She broke Dawns arm because he called her ‘girle’ twice, wasted her time and because he put a hand or her shoulder when he tried to stop her. Nino threated to put him in a body cast and I’m pretty sure he made some of Dawns men pee themselves when he stared at them like he would kill them at any moment. Then in the restaurant they let him talk for about half an hour. They just stared at him, hardly blinking, making sure he was nice and uncomfortable. When he was done Mari read over the contract asked if he was okay with the terms of the contract the made him sign, grabbed the paper and left. Nino gave him a smirk that for sure made him pee himself. Nino didn’t stop laughing for like two minutes and Mari was really trying not to but ultimately failed. We pass a pet store and on impulse they agree to buy a puppy. When they got home things were pretty chilled.”

“Wow that - that is something.” Jason said with a shake of his head smiling fondly. “Thanks for keeping an eye out Deze.”

“No problem boss. See you tomorrow.” She said with a wave of her hand as she made her way out the house.

 Roy cackles when Jason tells him what he heard from Deze. “Oh man, these are the people we’re raising. Terrifying little gremlins that become five year old at the site of a puppy.”

“Yet we love them all the same.”

“Yes, yes we do.”