Mordecai could be considered a smart man. He knew how to keep himself alive, even on a planet like Pandora. He could find game in the most barren slopes of the badlands. He had spent years perfecting his talents, calculating just what was needed to make the perfect shot. Despite all this, however, he was beginning to frustrate Lilith's temper, and that was both idiotic and dangerous. The siren had burnt lesser men alive for crossing her, and doing the same to the hunter was beginning to sound appealing.

It had been over ten days since Mordecai had last made contact with Sanctuary, two weeks since his most recent visit to the city, and even longer since he bothered to answer any of Lilith's echoes. While normally such aloofness wouldn't have bothered the siren so much, (It wasn't unheard of for the hunter to disappear every once and a while; often looking into something curious he'd caught sight or sound of) keeping Sanctuary running had begun to wear on her already short fuses.

So, when Lilith noticed Maya and Axton wandering into Moxxi's bar one afternoon she followed, with every intention of hiring someone that could tear the hunter apart on her behalf.

"I got a job for you." Lilith greeted her fellow siren as she slipped into a empty barstool next to her. "Mordecai hasn't been answering his echo device and I need to make sure he hasn't finally drunk himself to death. Or worse. "

Initially the younger siren didn't answer, an odd light flickering in her eyes as she simply stared into a glass of booze for a few awkward second. Just as Lilith moved to repeat herself, (for maybe her meaning had been misheard from the bar's over-powering music) Maya replied.

"I'm not exactly the best person suited for that job. Wouldn't know how to scale that tower of his."

"How about your boyfriend then? Know were I can find him? He seems like the flexible type."

"You can echo him, but I doubt you'll get an immediate reply. Hammerlock lured him and most of the team away with promises of a weekend hunted down exotic creatures on Aegrus," Maya spoke with a chilly hushness.

Her features took on a weary sharpness as she momentarily shifted her gaze to the commando who was chatting up a heavily clothed, yet curvy woman a few seats down . "And if you don't mind, I haven't exactly told everyone I've got myself a boyfriend yet. The information isn't exactly a secret, but I think for now the fewer that know the better. Not everyone in Sanctuary is above saying something stupid about my taste in men, and my taste in men isn't the type to hold back in retaliation."

"Right. What about you soldier boy?" Lilith sighed leaning back to talk around Maya and at the commando. His seat had become vacant however, the ex-soldier and his lady friend no where in sight.

"If you're concerned, why not go check up on Mordecai yourself?" Maya inquiry followed an aggravated curse that had hissed from her fellow siren.

"I'd rather not leave Sanctuary right now, especially not after that recent black out. Scooter still can't tell me what exactly happened and I wouldn't want to be away if something more serious than the lights broke down." Again a mischievous look flashed in the younger siren's eyes. Her lips parting and snapping shut as if she had just swallowed a sharp word.

"Know something I don't?"

Maya looked up from her drink, giving Lilith a better view of sinful gleam in her silver irises. Before speaking she gave the room a once over, as if trying to determine whether what had to be said was appropriate for Moxxi's bar.

"I don't know anything," Maya shrugged innocently, "but I have heard gossip. Rumors. A few curious whispers that could, or could not be fact. Nothing I really need to worry you about."

"Not your call to make, killer. Either you let me in on these rumors or I phase you into Eiridium Blight's volcano."

"Fine." Though Maya's tone was dishearten when she spoke a tiny grin pulled at her lips. Her eyes still shimmering. "He's interested."

"What?" Tension that had been kneading at Lilith's brain melted, quickly replaced with a tingling sensation that only twisted strained features more.

"He's interested." Maya repeated with another shrug, "Physically. Could be emotionally interested as well."

"Mordecai? Interested?" Lilith found herself snorting. "You trying to be funny killer?"

"You know as well as I do practically every guy on this planet has had fantasies about a siren or two and you don't think Mordecai could be one of them? "

"I'm not his type."

"Hot isn't his type? Honestly Lilith, you believe after all this time, between every fuck we've been handed, he hasn't once stolen a look? Wondered what a night with you would be like?"

"Why would he? We've screwed around before."

Maya turned fully away from her alcohol at that, an icy eyebrow raised in question.

"Long time back." While Lilith's eyes rolled at the alarm in her junior's expression a mild heat tickled her skin at the memory of night. "One night thing. Before the first vault opened."

"Listen." Maya began, her gaze locking with Lilith's as if ready to challenge the other woman to a duel. "I don't know shit about your relationship with the hunter and it's really not my business, but if Mordecai is perfectly fine out their in the Tundra you should figure out why he's gone AWOL. Head out there. I can keep a watch on things around here for an hour or two."


Going to blame the slow update on the same things that delayed the Namesake story ( AnimeIowa, moving, finishing cosplays, no Internet for two weeks). My apologies for life being so demanding. Also, I know this isn't the most exciting of chapters but going straight from point A to point B didn't feel like it flowed right, thus this. As always thankies for reading and please review!

(P.S. my beta recommended I try switching between Mordecai's and Lilith point of view every chapter. If this takes away from the story at all (or maybe adds to it?) let me know and I'll figure something out.)