After All, It Has To Be You

Summary: A Lexony story with twists.

Rating: PG13 for the most part I think.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, the Tribe and the characters and the property of Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas.

Chapter One

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ebony's mind screamed as the treachery sank deep into her soul filling her with repulsion for that which she had once loved. There was nothing in her life anymore, nothing which could bring her joy the way that his smile had – when she had thought that it was only she that could cause such a reaction.

Since the day that she had stepped foot in that accurse mall there had been no joy or order in her life, only the mundane ordinary life which bored her to tears. Everyone there hated her, that she knew well and normally she convinced herself that it held no bearing on her mood yet in that moment when reality hit she knew that she could no longer lie to herself.

Although it was true that Ebony did not want the love of a bunch of rats she did wish that there was someone in the word who would look at her like she was worth something and hold her in their arms like a precious object rather than a whore that they wanted to screw.

Yet none of that mattered any longer. She knew that the reason that she had ever even looked at Lex twice was in an attempt to sooth her heart and aching soul into believing that he might be the one who would bring something good out of her.

Why oh why had she been so stupid? In those few months that she had been with Lex she had been what one could almost consider to be content, the thrill of doing something behind the Mall Rat's back was always a thrilling prospect … not to mention the fact that the sex had been pretty good too.

In short every aspect of their affair had been perfect until the day that she had made the mistake of staying the night. Once they had had sex Ebony either left or pushed him out of the door but one night she had stayed in his arms feeling comforted and fell asleep … that was where the trouble had started.

After that fateful night she had started to feel for him and he had fed her all of the lines that she had wanted to hear, how could she ever have been so stupid as to let Lex hurt her like this? Earlier that evening she had been almost happy enough to sing when she thought of her rendezvous with Lex yet now as she stood there looking on at the sight of him and some whore from another tribe she couldn't help but know how stupid she had been.

Her heart felt like it had been run through with a knife and her throat had knot the size of a tennis ball in it but Ebony would not shed a tear over this foul Lex creature. No she would become stronger once again and leave those damned Mall Rats, there was no way that she was going to stick around and let anyone know of her shame for falling for a man who didn't care about her.

Before another thought had time to register she turned on her heals and stormed back to her room where she packed up all of her bags and took all of her stuff so that all was left was an empty room with no signs that anyone had ever lived there expect the red silk nightly which she left on the bed with a note on top of it.

"Dear Lex,

Hi 'sweetheart' please let the rest of the losers who inhabit this rat's nest know that I have left … for good. I am not sure if they are smart enough to work it out for themselves, although come to think of it you will have to get one of them to read this for you won't you deary so I hope that they enjoy this next bit.

Remember all of those long hot nights that we spent together? Well here the thing, they weren't all that hot. In fact they were barley luke-warm, but I put on such a good little show for you didn't I? I wonder how many other girls have done the same thing. As you can see I left my nightie because the thing is that I am never going to think of you again but I am damned sure that you will think of me every day of your life as you will wish that you were good enough to be with me. But guess what … you aren't.

So goodbye Lex.

All my pity,

Ebony"

Ebony read over her letter a few times until she was satisfied that it was cutting enough, she wanted to make sure that even if her latter wasn't true and that even if she was hurting that Lex would never know and that he would never know that she had seen what he was doing behind her back. No she wanted everyone to believe that she was the same Ebony that she had always been, a cold ruthless bitch.

But as she left the Mall for the last time with her bags in her hand, she couldn't help but shed one silent tear as she thought about all of the times that she had been wrong about love in that place and all of the times that men had stomped on her heart in this city.

As she finally got the courage up to leave the city she hoped that it would be enough to rid her of the bad luck that she seemed to be having with men and with well … everything in her life. She didn't care that the Technos had invaded; she didn't care that they could all die. All that she wanted to do was leave.

That was what gave her the strength to walk all night until she reached a town with a banner that read 'Liberty' as the sun rose signally the start of a new day and hopefully a new start for Ebony.