Leo stood in fear of his grandmother as she glared at both him and Donald, but mostly at his dad. Of all the days, of all the moments in the world, of all the holidays (Christmas), she had to find out about a secret that Leo had been sworn to keep in secrecy. Something both he and Donald had promised Tasha before she left for the charity drive at their high school. The worst thing his mother feared had come true: Rose had discovered he had a bionic arm. He and Donald were just playing with the snowball launchers, when his grandmother caught him using his bionic arm. He could tell that Donald was worrying because he was somewhat shivering upon facing his mother-in-law. He was more scared of Rose than Leo was.

"Bionic arm!" Rose yelled. "You have a bionic arm!"

"I can explain, Rose," Donald began

"Don't you dare!" Rose snapped. She glanced at Leo. "Leo, what is going on and don't even think about lying to me?"

"I, uh,' Leo began but his grandmother's stare made him freeze in place. He did not know what to say.

"Alright, what other machinery did that monster put in you!" Rose shouted, grabbing her grandson's chin and tilting it backwards, looking for more bionic parts.

"Rose, I did not give him bionics. My brother did," Donald said.

"Still your flesh and blood!" Rose yelled, stabbing her finger at Donald.

"Come on, Grandma, you don't know Douglas like I do," Leo said.

"How can that be when they are basically the same person?" Rose questioned, hands on her hips. "I knew your mother was not thinking clearly when she married that technology maniac! And now my grandbaby is now a bionic freak!"

"But you don't understand," said Leo, "Douglas is helping me train with it."

"WHAT!?" Rose yelled. She glared at Donald. "You let your son with your brother? If you think I want him to be like Adam, Bree or Chase..."

"Hey, it was Tasha's idea, not mine!" Donald said, raising his hands up in defeat.

Rose snapped this time. "I knew it was a bad idea to let Leo and Tasha live here with you. You and Dr. Evil!"

"Well technically, he flunked med school..." Donald began.

"Like I care about that!" Rose snapped. "You, Donald Davenport, are a bad father!"

Leo's mouth dropped. "What?"

"You heard me, he is a bad father," Rose answered, glaring at her son-in-law. Meanwhile, Leo could not believe his grandmother had said that. Before the bionic secret was revealed, he and his grandmother were very close, despite her babying him, and it didn't even matter. At least, until he was twelve years old, that was when Leo had grown tired of it and wanted to be treated like an adult and not a little kid. Before he and Tasha moved into Davenport's mansion, it was too difficult for Leo, despite having his grandmother around to help raise him. His biological father was, different, to say the least; his father had paid little attention to him because he hadn't been cut out as a father figure, nor a good husband to Tasha. After his dad left, Leo took on his mother's maiden name because she did not want to associate herself with him. Rose had been there for him when his dad left him and his mother at the age of five to be with some other woman, he was having an affair with Of course, there were the fights in-between his mother and grandmother when dealing with their raising of Leo; however, Rose knew how much that man had hurt both of them. Now that was the worst father figure he ever had. Leo knew that his mom wanted to find happiness, while also providing Leo with one thing he did not have: a father, hence why she started online dating. Then she met Donald, then everything changed. At first, Leo was not sure if Donald and Tasha would be the perfect match, even after all this time, given they were polar opposites when they met (and still are). He was an imaginary kid growing up and knew the stereotypes that all step-parents have faced, so at first, he did not approve of Donald's or Tasha's relationship.

"Leo, know that I do not want to replace your father," Donald had said, at least a year before he married Tasha. He had thought Leo was resentful towards him the first times he met him, but in that moment of their conversation, Leo bitterly responded he did not have a father, because he died the day, he left him and Tasha. That was the time in which Donald and Leo had fully bonded. The day he really wanted to have Donald as a step-father did not happen until the year later when Donald would sometimes take Leo to the Davenport Industries (He had to resist touching things but Leo was not allowed in the lunch cafeteria after accidentally destroying one of Donald's coffee makers). Of course, Donald was a little mad at first but he understood it was an accident. There was also times Leo wondered where Donald would sneak off to from time to time when he kept brushing off every invitation Leo had. It was not until Leo met Adam, Bree and Chase that he realized Donald was busy with them too before they were even siblings. However strange the marriage was starting off, Leo grew accustomed to having a father around again and being whole with his siblings, his parents and his step-uncle. However, now was the time to pay penance. Rose had been aware of Adam, Bree and Chase (boy did she freak out when she learned that Douglas did not die in a volcano, and that the three kids were bionic.) However, she now knew her grandson became a bionic person like them. Donald was many things, but a bad father was not one of them.

"Are you sassing your grandmother?" Rose snapped. "That is disrespectful!"

Leo's looks faltered. "What's disrespectful is the way you treat me, like I'm five years old again. I'm sixteen now. Big D is not a bad father, he's a good one." A sadness reached Leo's looks. "Better than the dad I used to have."

Donald looked at his son. "No, Leo, you don't have to…"

"No. I have to because kids always defend their parents when the time asks for it," Leo said. " Yes, I have a bionic arm, now but if Douglas didn't save it with Big D's technology, I would have never been able to move it or use it again. Yes, you're my family, but so are Douglas and Big D, even Adam, Bree and Chase. Because without them, I would not have great parents, amazing siblings who have been my best friends, and a crazy uncle who is both a second father and a mentor. I've been able to go this far. And I can help other people. Even help you shopping on Black Friday next year."

Rose realized what her grandson was doing. "Wait a minute, are you standing up to your grandmother?"

Leo nodded, swallowing fear. "Yes I am. If you're okay with that." He smiled nervously.

"Well," Rose said, her anger slowly going away. "It seems you have become a man at last." Leo softly smiled at her. "Look, I don't approve of your bionic arm, but I have to accept every part of you, machine or otherwise because I love you."

"Okay, Grandma, that's it. I tried to accommodate you but I can't take it anymore.

She hugged Leo, who returned it.

"Actually, the person you should hug is right over there," Leo said, pointing at Donald, who smiled.

"Bring it in, Rose," Donald said with a smile. Rose looked at her son-in-law skeptically.

"Oh, what the heck, it's Christmas!" Rose said and both she and Donald hugged each other, as Leo smiled.

After the hug, Rose released Leo and looked at her grandson.

"There is just one thing that is bothering me, Leo," Rose said, coming to put her hand on his shoulder.

"How did you get the need for this bionic arm in the first place?"

"Well—" Leo began.

"It's quite simple really," said Donald, ignoring Leo's warnings.

"A bionic madman was trying to kill him for the fourth time and had a soldier girl drop a ceiling beam on top of him…"

Rose looked to him in a complete and utter panic.

"Then Douglas snuck Leo out without permission and gave him the bionics," Donald said, giving his mother-in-law a smile.

"Your brother abducted him!"

"Well, he didn't kidnap Leo, more like snuck him out of the hospital without permission..."

That's it, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. You Better Hide! I'm about to take this," She took the snowball shooter off of the couch. "And freeze your outsides with it!"

She started chasing Donald around, who tried to avoid being burned by it as Leo looked on in complete humor and terror at the same time.

This was going to be a Merry Christmas indeed.


A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long. I had a busy schedule. This is the last one-shot chapter before the story resumes. Rewrite of one scene in the Christmas episode but instead of Donald being the one Rose insults, it is both him and Douglas'