Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot, I borrowed Ricky from thesolitary-dragon, who I love!! author of Simple Kiss at which got me to love Rocket Power even more! and she got me to write this fic so this is dedictated to her!!

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Simply Beautiful

The day was going to be rough for seventeen year old Regina Rocket, who was known only by Reggie. Today was the twelve year anniversary of her mothers death, who died of cancer when Reggie was five years old and her little brother Otto was only three.

Otto, was like most fifteen going on sixteen year old, dreaming of freedom and a drivers licence and of course of girls. But for Otto, he never really knew the woman who gave life to him, except what he is constantly told about her love for her son, that was all he needed to get on with life.

Every year on January 23rd, Reggie would lock herself into her room and hid from the world. As everyone knew it, Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez was only one closest to helping her grieve for the woman who died all those years ago. And he was determined not to let her lock up from the world alone, even though he barely knew the mother Rocket by he had a lot of respect for the daughter she bore into this world.

"Reggie." yelled Ray, her forty-two year old dad from the kitchen. "Breakfast is ready."

Reggie sighed, looking at the picture of her mom. "Coming dad." she yelled back and headed down the stairs into the kitchen.

"I made your favorite ." said Ray. " Strawberry pancakes and whipped cream." It was the breakfast they had only once a year and on this day in particular.

Reggie smiled at his attempts to cheer her up knowing it was extremely hard on them both. "Thanks dad."

Otto came down the stairs and sat on the bar stool digging into the pancakes. "Cool! Strawberry pancakes." he said but went to far. "You should make this more often."

Reggie dropped her fork, and started at her plate. The noise the fork made was almost deafening.

"Ah Reg, I am sorry." said Otto, "I didn't realize that today was . . ."

"Its ok Otto." interrupted Reggie almost in a whisper. "I would imagine you would forget, you've been busy and with everything going on."

She took another bite and went back to staring into space.

"Reg, I am really sorry, I shouldn't have said that." He said sincerely.

"It ok Otto." She sighed looking at her watch. "We should leave if we are going to meet up with Twister and Sam."

"Ok." Otto said standing up then his face filled with worry. "Oh man, I didn't print my history report."

"Well hurry up, I'll meet you outside." she said walking out of the door.

As she walked out, she spotted Twister sitting on the curb waiting for her. He stood up as she neared him and said. "I beat you out here." she smiled a little.

"Yes for one." She said looking at her shoes.

"It will be alright, Reg." He said.

"Of course it will be." she said sarcastically. "It has been alright for the past twelve years." Her eyes started to water.

"Come here, Reg." He said opening his arms to her which she stepped into his embrace and he wrapped his arms around her small waist ans she started to cry into his chest, he held her as tight as he could as she grieved. "Its ok Reggie." he whispered in her ear as her brother and Sammy walked over to the two. Twister shot Otto a glance and Otto smiled and dragged Sammy away.

"Otto? What is wrong with Reggie?" He asked.

"Today has been the twelve years since our mom died." Otto said gravely.

"Oh, I forgot." said Sammy looking at Twister trying to comfort Reggie.

Otto glanced over also and smiled at his best bro, at which he knew of his secret crush on his sister and he was happy for his bro. 'One day' he thought.

"How come Reggie goes to him?" asked Sam, Otto glanced at Sam. "I mean, I watched her practically run into his arms."

"Well, they have his connection." started Otto. "They always have and it is unbelievably strong on this day every year."

"I can see that." Said Sam and then shot Otto a confused glance. "Since when did you become a relationship expert?"

"Ah I read it in a book once." Otto said covering his knowledge of romance.

Sam stared at Otto. "I didn't know you could read." he said seriously, then started to laugh.

"Shut up Squid, of course I can read." Otto shot back as Twister and Reggie walked over to the other members of Team Rocket.

"You ok Rocket Girl?" asked Otto.

"Yeah." she said, her eyes were red and she was holding Twisters hand as a lifeline and Twister didn't seem to mind. "We better head to school before we are late."

"We'll lets go." said Otto, who usually would have made a joke but held his tongue. He walked a head and dragged Sam with him.

As Otto and Sammy walked ahead Reggie stopped and so did Twister. "What's wrong Reg?" asked Twister.

Reggie leaned up and kissed Twister on the cheek. "Thanks Twister." she whispered as she buried her face into his chest, taking in his scent.

"Any time Reggie, and I mean it." said Twister with a blush.

"Oi, you two, we've got to get to school before we are late." said Otto who was about 50 yards away.

Twister looked again at Reggie. "You sure you want to got to school? I will skip with you if you want."

"No, I guess we have to go to school." she said.

"Ok, but if you need anything, come get me, promise?"

"Promise." she said unsurely and they caught up with Otto and Sammy.

The walked in silence until they got to school, the bell rang to get to class and the four went their separate ways. Reggie started out with Pre Calculus, her least favorite class, because of Ricky Steward, a neighbor who lived next to Twister, was in her class.

Ricky was new in the neighborhood, ne was smart, sophisticated and to most girls drop dead gorgeous and spoke foreign languages and he was out for Reggie.

"Hello Regina." he said sitting next to her. "Are you ready for Pre Calc on this fine and bright day?"

"No." she choked

"Are you alright?"he asked putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Fine everything is fine." she said in a whisper.

"You want to talk about it?" he prodded

"No." She said "Please leave me alone."

"Come on, Reg. Lets get together after school." He said pulling her closer.

"Leave me the hell alone." she said pushing him away, as the teacher came in and started the class.

The class was the longest Reggie had to endure, with Ricky prodding her to talk and trying to catch the concept of quadratics, she felt like she was going to scream.

When the bell finally rang she took her time going to history, the funny thing was her , Sam and Twister were all in the same class because it was a multi grade class. When Reggie entered the room she took her seat next to Twister.

"Hey." he said

"Hi." She answered lamely and laid her head on the desk.

"Math that bad?" he asked

"Ricky wouldn't leave me the hell alone and I hate quadratics and my head hurts like Hell."she said in a rush

"Reggie breathe." He said putting a hand a hers, it wasn't normal for her to swear and for her to do it twice in the same sentence was pretty bad.

She took a deep breath. "Thanks Twist, I don't know what I'd do with out you."

"Probably go crazy." He said

"Yeah" she said

"Ok class." said Ms. Phillip. "Today we are going to discuss England in the twelve century current era." The class moaned except for Reggie, History was one of her favorite classes, she took out her notebook and began scribbling away notes as if nothing had been wrong. Twister smiled at her and then resumed his position of sleeping on his desk.

Sam who was on the other side of Twister, looked at Reggie; he admired her for the courage and strength she had. In Sam's eyes she was perfect, she stood up for him and helped him every way she could, eyes followed down her sitting form and looked at Twister, Sam envied him, Twister was handsome, fun to be with, but he could be immature yet a genius at the same time. ' There are plenty of fish in the sea.' he thought, knowing that Twister feelings for her ran deeper than his would ever go.

But Otto still confused him, his best bro was falling for his sister and yet he wasn't upset at all. Sam's grin grew wider, maybe he is growing up, he thought.

As class grew to the end Reggie's smile began to fade realizations of having to leave her thoughts scared her. And as Twister could sense her fear he reached out and took her hand and gave it a squeeze and she seemed to calm down.

When the bell rang, Reggie gather her things, stood up and started to sway.

Twister wrapped his arm around her waist to steady her. "You alright Reggie?"

"Yeah,"She lied. "Just stood up to fast."

"Ok, lets get you to lunch and we will decide what to do." he said with a hint of worry evident in his voice.

After standing in line, grabbing their lunch they quickly found Otto and Sam.

"Hey guys."Said Otto, "Are you alright Reg, you look pale."

"Yeah, Im fine." she lied again she began to slowly eat her lunch when Ricky came over to Team Rocket.

"Hey Reggie." he said and she tensed up.

"What do want Richard." said Twister

"Excuse me, but I was talking to Reggie, Maurice." he sneered

"Yo, leave us alone." said Otto "Or you will wish you were back where you came from."

"I can talk to Reggie if I want to it is a free country." He said wrapping his are around her waist. "Come on Reg, lets ditch these lame-o's."

Reggie was getting upset. "God damn it, leave us the hell alone." she yelled and every one in hearing distance looked at Reggie in shock.

"Man do you kiss your mother with that mouth." It was as if the world had stopped Reggie slapped him across the face, dumped her tray on his lap and ran out of the cafeteria.

"Ricky you better scram before you lose something valuable." said Eddie Prince of the Netherworld.

Twister stood up as did Otto, "Go find her and take her home." said Otto.

"Ok, what about Raymundo?" asked Twister.

"I will deal with him, Reggie doesn't need to deal with this." said Otto and Twister ran out of the cafeteria."Sam, can I borrow your cell phone?" and Sam handed him his phone.

After dialing the number, Raymundo picked up on the third ring.

"Shore Shack, can I help you?" he asked.

"Ray." said Otto

"Otto? What's up?" he asked.

"Reggie, Twister is taking her home." said Otto

"Is she not going to make it? I told her not to go today." Ray sighed.

"Well she was fine till Ricky Steward opened his big mouth."

"What did he say." Ray asked

"Well he came over and started crap with me and Twister and he put his arms on her and she started swearing up a storm, and he asked if she kissed her mother with her mouth and she slapped him across the face, it was kind of cool."

Ray sighed. "Why today?" he asked himself.

"Twister thought it was best that she went home, so he took her home."

"Twister?" asked Ray.

"Yeah, don't worry about him."said Otto

Ray sighed again. "Ok, but I will be home early today. . ."

"Don't worry about Reg, she is in good hands. Twister wouldn't dare touch her when she is this vulnerable. So don't worry."

"Your right." Ray said "I must go now."

"Ok see you Raymundo."

"Bye Otto."

Otto turned off the phone and handed it back to Sam.

"Ray against Twister taking Reg home?" asked Sam.

"Yeah, but Twist won't do anything he really, really likes her, he won't mess up any chance he has got with her. Besides he knows I will whomp him if he tried to touch her when she is vulnerable."said Otto.

"But. . ." stuttered Sam

"No, that's not what I meant." said Otto. "Sure I will let him hold her, but not take advantage of her."

"Oh I get it, I think." said Sam. "Do you like the idea of your best bro and your sister being together?"

"If it makes Twister and more importantly Reggie happy then I am all for it." said Otto.

"Yeah, I see where you are coming from." Said Sam almost put down.

Meanwhile Twister ran out of the cafeteria in search for Reggie.

"Trish, have you seen Reggie?" He asked in a rush

"Yeah she went that way, she looked upset." said Trish pointing.

"Twister ran in the point direction he saw Reggie with her head resting against a locker.

"Reg!" He said running to her as he got closer he could tell she was crying. "Reggie." When he was next to her, he again held his arms out for her and she stepped into his embrace. "Its alright, Reggie."

"No its not, he had no right to say that." she sobbed into his chest.

"Your right, lets take you home." said Twister

"But we still have two more class." she said

"It's ok I talked to Otto, and he called Raymundo so you don't have to worry."

The walk home was fast and when they reached the cul-de-sac, Twister broke the silence.

"Your house or mine?" he asked

"Yours, I don't want to think of my mom at my house."

"Alright." said Twister taking her to his house.

As they edged closer to his house Reggie yawned and her eyes were blood shot.

"Lets go to my room." he said leading her up the stairs. "You need rest."

When Twister opened the door, his room was surprisingly clean.

"You cleaned your room?" she tried to joke

"Yup, last night." he said proudly.

"Were you bored?" she asked.

"No, my mom threatened to send me to my aunts house in Mexico for spring break."

"Bust." said Reggie with a smile Twister sat on his full size bed.

"You want a change of clothes, just to be comfortable."

Reggie looked at her clothes, jeans and a button down shirt. "Yeah I guess." she said and he stood up and opened his dresser pulled out a pair of blue plaid boxer shorts and a long sleeve white t-shirt with a Rocket Boards logo on the front.

"Here they maybe big but their comfy." he said walking to the door. "Change in here and make yourself at home. I'm going to leave a note on your door so nobody freaks out."

"Smart idea." she said he smiled and headed out of the bedroom door.

It didn't take long for Reggie to change so she took her time looking around, he had pictures on his bed side table, one of him, Otto, Sam, and Reggie and one of his family, one of his parents and the one closest to the bed was of him and Reggie, when they were in New Zealand and they were playing frisbee on the beach and Reggie had tackled her.

"My favorite." said Twister from behind.

"Twister, you startled me." she said putting her hand of her chest. "I didn't hear you come in."

"Sorry, Yeah I really like that picture."he said coming close behind her.

She reached behind her and pulled his hands around her waist then leaned back against him. "The one of your family is nice too, you all look so happy, I don't know if I've ever told you but I think your mom is very pretty."

"Thanks." he started. "You miss her don't you." referring to her mother.

"Like not other." she sighed. "I remember when she first got sick, it was when Otto barely turned two, she was always so positive about it, when the year progressed she started staying at the hospital, one night dad pulled me onto his lap and told me she was dying and she was going to heaven." she said and her eyes started to water, yet Twister remained quietly behind her and tightened his hold on her. "A week later we were back in the hospital and something was happening so me and Otto had to leave the room and Otto kept asking me to play with him and what's wrong with mommy, and I couldn't tell him mommy was going to heaven. So I sat there until daddy came out and knelt before me and said that she's gone." said Reggie.

"Oh Reggie."said Twister yet she continued.

"It was always been hard but when I was twelve and going through growing up and I had no one to turn to, especially when it came down to liking guys and girl stuff like that."

"Ok Reg, I had no idea." he said turning her around and looking in to her tear filled eyes and he pulled her into his arms and she sobbed into his chest.

Five minutes of standing there and as Reggie sobs subsided.

"Feel better?"He asked and she nodded. "You want to take a nap?" and she nodded again.

"Will you hold me?" she asked weakly.

"I won't ever let you go." he said as she crawled under the covers and he followed, he sat with his back against the head board , and she sat on his lap burring her face into the crook of his neck and almost instantly fell asleep.

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