Chapter 6.

Later That Night...

Wildwing sighed as he bookmarked a page in his book and soon closed it as Nosedive revealed himself with a cup of tea in his hands. "Hey, I made you a goodnight drink and I put honey in it this time instead of lemon juice so it won't do anything to you I promise." The older Mallard smiled taking the fine China cup from his little brother thus blowing away the steam and taking a small sip as well while Dive looked at him for quite sometime.

"I guess I have a little explaining to do. I'm sorry baby bro that I didn't tell you about my little problem; but even looking at a glass of lemonade for too long would make me swell up. Which is why I have to take penicillin in order to not look like a blowfish." The younger mallard shook his head as he soon climbed towards his top bunk moving a comic book aside to get under his covers.

"Don't worry about it, I had no idea that you were allergic to anything citrus." He tried to keep a concern expression but he silently kept snickering at the funny face that the elder gave off from earlier that the image itself was planted in his head. Wing looked at him confused soon turning off the light to get under his own sheets saying goodnight to the young crime fighter.

"Hey bro, I was thinking, maybe after this whole lockdown charade is over with, we can go downtown and probably do some karaoke together, plus we can also bring Duke along to see just how well he sings his heart out." As the words passed his beak, Wing instantly sprang back to life wondering where on Earth he knew about his little "secret" hobby from but Dive on the other hand, closed his eyes pretending that he had soon fallen asleep too quick trying hard to not give out a chuckle in the middle of the night or else the elder would instantly get suspicious.

Over the next few days, Nosedive was having the time of his life reading more of Wing's personal thoughts to the point it was a lot better than sitting around moping all day long. Dragaunus and his idiotic cronies haven't caused any havoc recently with only the exception of a few inexperienced criminals causing trouble with just robbing banks and jewelry stores; leaving the heroes to finish up the job quick as a wink as well as leaving them to have nothing to do only practicing and playing hockey whenever there would be a game coming up.

The pitter patter of the never-ending rain could be heard from outside as Tanya was busy at work fixing the Aerowing after another one of the long battles with Wraith and Siege. Going into her toolbox to get her wrench thus seeing that it wasn't there, she rolled her eyes knowing that it was one of Nosedive's never-ending pranks, she soon found herself in front of the Flashblade siblings' door giving it a couple of knocks before she could hear a thud on the other side as she knocked again only for the door to slide seeing the younger brother tuck a strand of blonde hair behind knowing that she was going to have it out towards him.

"Nosedive, have you seen my wrench? I need to finish fixing up the Aerowing." Nodding, he then dug it out of a pile of dirty clothes that were on the floor as he then placed it into her hands about to close the metallic door, when she used her foot to stop the movement.

"What was that noise I heard?" She asked as he soon shook his head vigorously.

"Those were my comics, I've been meaning to move them." He laughed nervously but the tech female was not convinced.

"Uh-huh... Nosedive, your comics are too light to make that kind of a hard thudding sound. So tell me the truth, what was it that I uh just heard?" The blonde male sighed. He knew that he could never lie to Tanya. She was a little more stern than Mallory and could be somewhat scary than the red head as well; she was more of the den mother that Dive saw as and never wanted to cause any problems for her either. He soon sighed walking away from her to pick up the silver patterned book seeing her grow confused as to why he would hide a book but he wasn't done there. Letting her go through the pages, she was soon surprised thus getting a little mad at him in return.

"Nosedive, why in the world would you be reading Wildwing's diary? This is his most pri-pri... secret possession!" He soon shushed her wanting for her to be quiet despite them being the only two ducks since the rest of them had gone out for lunch.

"First of all, it's a journal-

"Regardless, you know better than to be uh snooping around and reading his per- pers- deep dark secrets!" She yelled out causing him to step back a little and look down at the floor like it was the most interesting thing to do right now like he could just melt right down into a puddle.

"If I tell you, will you promise me that you will keep your beak shut and don't say anything?" Tanya sighed thus nodding her head slightly.

"Okay, the only reason why I'm reading his journal is because it is my form of revenge for getting back at him after he punished me for coming in so late that night after I had a blast with Thrash and Mook." The blonde tech stared at him with a deadpanned expression as she blinked twice.

"Seriously? That is one of the reasons? Nosedive..."

"I know, I know it's wrong to be invading his privacy, but to tell you the truth, I just can't stop reading so many facts, secrets, and not to mention gossip." Getting the book from her, he soon scanned the other set of pages. "Half the time, he can't understand a word that Grin says even if it's the simplest quotes." He turned to another page. "Mallory needs to start dressing up like a real civilized young woman more often, I would feel sorry for any man who comes across her path."

Another page. "At times I wish I could tell Duke how I really feel about him. The way he moves, the way he talks, and the way he smells after he puts his cologne on in the morning, makes my blood boil to the point, it feels like I just want to have him all to myself. But I can't be thinking like that to know that I'm fawning over one of my team-mates as well as being afraid to come out of the closet especially to Dive. He would never understand..." Dive and Tanya soon looked at each-other flabbergasted on the last entry as the younger blonde soon closed the book and everywhere became silent around them.