DunDunDUN! Part 2! YAY!
Alright, there's going to be a TON of Holix in this, especially since they're a couple now. And, people, it's M for a reason, now. If/When there's a lemon, I'll label it, so you can still read the fic without being traumatized too harshly. Also, there will be a lot more Circex than the last one, so Circe haters, hang it up now. I really don't want any flames just b/c someone doesn't like Circe.
OK. I think that about covers it. As planned, this fic is going to be a lot longer than the original, but I'm still not sure on that one yet. ALSO, the updating. I understand that I updated the last one almost daily. That may or may not happen here. I'm about to start getting pretty busy, so we'll just have to see where all this goes.
One more thing, Six may be a bit ooc when he's alone with Holiday, but that's because... well, that's just because. I mean they're an official couple & she's a telepath, so it's kinda hard to hide his emotions around her now lol.
Alright, NOW, I think I'm done.
If (by some miracle lol) you haven't read part 1, head over to my profile for the link, cuz I highly doubt you'll get what's going on without the original.
Aight, let's get the ball rolling.
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"I'm still alive, but I'm barely breathing-"
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"Now, renegades are the people, with their philoso-"
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"I won't let you in again. My messages, I try to send-"
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"All that's lost again, but I'm not giving-"
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Holiday walked in her lab, shifting through some new reports. Upon hearing, what sounded like, her radio having a mental breakdown, she looked up to see Rex sitting at her desk. He hadn't noticed her yet, so she just watched him.
His head was propped up in his hand, looking bored, while he flipped through the stations on her radio. He had been sitting there awhile.
"Break away from everybody. Break away from every-"
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"Rex?," she asked.
He didn't look up, mind way too busy. Instead, he just said, "hmm?"
"Every night I rush to my bed."
Rex's head perked up.
"For hopes that maybe I'll get a chance to see you when I close my eyes."
"That's it!," he screamed, standing up and hugging the radio from pure joy, "I found it! This is perfect!" Then, he noticed Holiday in the room, staring at him with an expression between confusion and laughter.
"Augghhhh!," he screamed, "Don't sneak up on me!"
The side of her mouth quirked up when she noticed he was blushing. "Ok, what's going on?"
"Nothing," he answered a little too fast.
"Uh-huh," she replied, keeping her smile.
"I'm going outta my head
Lost in a fairytale
Can you hold my hands and be my guide?"
"Umm," his eyes darted between Holiday and the radio, "Uhhh, well. I gotta go and uh, um, well-"
It took everything she had to not laugh at him. "Yes, Rex. What is it?"
"I need to borrow the radio," he blurted out and promptly started making a bee line for the door.
"Do you, now?," she asked, trying to keep him for as long as possible.
"Clouds filled with stars cover your skies
And I hope it rains
You're the perfect lullaby"
"Yes, um," now he was looking between her and the exit, "I, uh, I'll just give it back later." He dashed for the door.
"Rex, I didn't say if you can take it."
"Thanks again, Doc!," and he was gone.
Holiday tried, she really did. She tried swallowing, she tried clearing her throat. It was almost gone.
Then, Six came in, looking over his shoulder at Rex's retreating form, like the kid was an idiot.
The music flowed in through the door.
"-sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare"
That was it. She doubled over, laughing.
He looked over to Holiday, who was trying despreately to stop giggling, and realized what was going on.
With a sigh, he walked closer, so the door would close and the music would stop. "He's trying way too hard."
She straigtened up, hand over her mouth and tears about to spill out of her eyes. After attempting to respond and failing, she just nodded, trying to hold it off.
Six just watched her and waited.
She looked back at him, but had to close her eyes. It started as a snicker, then a minor giggle, then she doubled over, again.
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Circe was finally able to read a decent book. Finally, just some time with a book.
If it wasn't a random Evo, it was training with Six, briefing with Calan, gossiping with Holiday (or, in her case, Em), or trying to avoid Rex. She liked him. She really, really liked him. He really liked her, too. Lately though, he had been trying to prove just how much he liked her.
First, it was chocolates. Of course, Rex had no money, so he tried to make them. In short, he now had cleaning duty for a month, after the... incident. There was still some brownish-blackish, pasty thing stuck to the ceiling in the kitchen, that not even Holiday could get off. Six had told him the punishment lasted for either a month or until it fell down, whichever came first. She figured a month was more likely.
Then came the flowers. After a failed escape attempt, he decided to get the flowers from the petting zoo. The only wound he carried was a small cut to the cheek. Circe actually thought that was kinda cute, until she sneezed and realized she was allergic. Also, her sneeze, apparently, woke it up. They both screamed and tried to run when it's eyes opened, but the 'flower' caught up to them. After that, the only wound he carried was a fractured rib, gash in the arm, and a huge, suction cup looking, ring on his face, where it had latched on.
After that was the teddy bear and it was cute... the first time. Apparently though, one teddy bear just couldn't express his love. Circe glanced up from her book, to look at her room. There about twelve in one corner, fifteen in another, six on the book shelf, eight on her night stand, five on the bed with her, and about ten or eleven stuffed in her dresser. They came in all sorts of different colors and sizes. A few talked. One singed 'More Than A Feeling', or did sing until she accidently stepped on it one day and it wouldn't shut up. It took all of about three hours for her to finally snap and throw it down the hall. The next day, she found it sliced in half and figured it was Six's doing, not that she blamed him.
Since then, Rex had stepped up his game, giving her a diamond... the size of his fist... and belonged to Providence and one of Holiday's machines. Something about the way the light reflected out of it made the computer do something, but she didn't really pay attention to that lesson. She just fussed at Rex to bring it back. The next day, he had come back with, what look like, the same one. He said it was just glass and it wasn't the real thing, so she kept it. It now sat on her bookshelf, in between some bears. When the light reflected out of it, it sparkled all sorts of colors against the room and it was absolutely beautiful. She sometimes wondered if it was a fake...
Though the 'diamond' didn't really do it for Rex and that's why he was currently trying to beat down her door. At least, that's who she assumed was knocking like that.
"Circe!," his muffled voice screamed in from the other side, "I got something for you!"
Oh god.
Did she want to get up? Curiority got the best of her.
She sighed and walked over to the door. Upon opening it, she seen a smiling Rex holding out a radio to her.
"Isn't that Em's?," she asked him, wondering if he stole something else.
"No, no," he explained, "I'm just borrowing it. Listen."
She listened.
"I mention you when I say my prayers
I wrap you around all of my thoughts
Boy, you're my temporary high"
"Hey," she said, pointing at it with a smile, "I love that song."
"Yeah," he casually said, leaning against the doorframe, "I just happened to hear it playing and thought about you."
Smooooooooth.
Her face lit up and she giggled, "I suppose you want to come in?"
"Nah," he said, barely managing to keep his cool, "I was just wondering if you were hungry. Saved you some pizza."
In reality, he faught with Bobo for almost thirty minutes over the pizza. In the monkey's defence, he did buy it.
"I wish that when I wake up you're there
To wrap your arms around me for real and tell me you'll stay by my side
Clouds filled with stars cover your skies"
"Really?," she said, still smiling, "I haven't had any pizza in awhile."
"Well then, mi bella," he said, holding out his arm to her, "dinner awaits."
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"So," Six said, finally managing to piece this together through Holiday's random fits of 'the giggles', "he... stole the radio."
She chuckled, fiddling with some nanite samples on her desk, "Pretty much. I don't see why he feels the need to prove so much to her."
"I don't think that's it," he said, leaning against the desk and looking at the door
Still smiling, she looked up at him, "So now you're relationship guru?"
He turned to face her. "You haven't figured it out," he stated, rather than asked.
"Figured what out?," she scoffed, taking a few samples and walking over to a newly purchased scanner. It, pretty much, read the DNA inside of the nanites.
Instead of answering, he smirked, "I know something you don't know, all knowing and all seeing Doctor."
She turned back to him. "I'm so sure," she said, before turning the machine on. Nothing happened. Holiday blinked at it, stumped. A light cut on and shone through the top layer. That was supposed to happen, but it was obvious something was wrong with the scanner. Even the light didn't look right, it was usually white, but now it was yellowish and almost wavy. She blinked again.
Behind her, Six seen the problem before she did and sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
Holiday turned to him and he pointed to the ceiling. She looked up and, sure enough, in the light there was a plain as day 'Rex + Circe' backwards, like it was seen looking through a mirror.
She blinked again. "I would laugh, if I wasn't confused," she said, turning it off and unlatching the sides to take out the lens, which just happened to be a very big, very expensive diamond.
Six leaned off the desk, "I'll go get him."
"No, wait," she said, stopping him, "It's just..."
"What?," he said, walking over to look at it.
"It's... It's a diamond. He etched their names... in a diamond. How did he do that?"
Oh, wow, that was a good question. There were many answers that flew through the agent's mind, but most of them included illegal actions that he was pretty sure he would have heard about, by now anyway. Instead, he just stared at it for a few seconds.
Holiday could almost see the wheels turning in his head.
Finally, he spoke. "It's a... well... You sure that's real?"
"It's supposed to be," she answered, looking back down at it, "but, from the light it reflects, I'd say he must of switched them out."
"So... how do we know if it's real or not?"
Silence.
"I'm a scientist not a jeweler."
"You're the all knowing and all seeing scientist."
"Oh, stop that."
He snickered, but kept silent. They were both quiet for a minute, before she spoke up, "I guess we need to go find him."
"I could try to, you know," he offered, "crack it."
"As hilarious as that sounds," she told him, "finding Rex would most likely prove to be the easier route."
Six looked at her for a second, "He either just carved their names into a diamond or has done god knows what with the real diamond. I could obviously see how that would be the easier route."
She huffed and started walking to the door. "Come on, agro-nanny."
"Don't let him hear you call me that. I'll never live it down."
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Part 2! *runs in a circle*
Ok, ok, so! The songs. The first one was (duh) Breakeven by The Script, then Renegades of Funk by Rage Against The Machine, then Bulletproof by La Roux, then I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin, then Break by Three Days Grace, THEN our new song. Sweet Dream by Beyonce. It's not Circex's song, it's Holix's song, Rex was just borrowing it lol.
So, a lot of Circex in this chap, thanks to Laruna b/c she came up with the diamond thing. It actually is going to fit extremely well into this. Some Holix flirtations in this chap, but nothing more. Urmmm.
Oh! &, More Than A Feeling is by Boston, so look that up. XD Imagine listening to that for three hours straight.
& yes, the 'flower' was an Evo.
Google Translator is going to be my best friend :D
Also, if anyone gave me a review for 'The Flu' chap 2, I didn't get it. I think I got one or two. Anyway, decided to die that day in the reviews department. So, if I don't respond to something you may have said or asked, sorry.
So, uh, any suggestions on Six or Holiday's names? I was thinking, maybe, Laura for Holiday, but I'm not sure yet. I draw a blank with poor Six. So, suggestions would be awesome.
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