Chapter 7

Alex had been doing her sit ups when Michael and Grandpa Percy came charging into the hub
fighting.
It sounded ugly too. She kept doing her sit ups but she could hear every word they were saying to each other.

Percy walked to the elevators pushed the button and when the doors slid open, he got on and they slid shut behind him.

Alex was still doing sit ups when Percy had disappeared as she came up form a sit up she saw Michael.
"My my setting a bad example this morning," she said, then raised her eyebrow in question as if to ask if he was okay, he looked pretty pissed off right now.

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Percy left on the elevator as Michael watched with disgust. He was grumbling to himself when he turned around, seeing Alex there. "Watch it, Alex!" Michael said in a grumpy tone. "I'm not in the mood for your sarcasm." Bad enough he was still reeling from that sizzling kiss they had shared but did not speak of... now this!

"Okay Sully, just doing my sit ups," Alex pointed out as she continued to do them.
Sully as in Sully from Monster Inc, the big growly monster because that's what Michael seemed to be like.
Yet he seemed to have his moments too, as Sully had his soft spot for Boo.
Kindda hard to believe this growly man was the same one who kissed her senseless a few weeks ago.
Neither had mentioned it, and she wasn't going to and not that she there would be a time or place to mention it.

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"Sully?" Michael repeated as he had no clue what Alex was talking about. Was she referring to his sullen mood? Yeah, he was definitely sullen. He barked at everyone staring at him. "Get back to work!" he growled, making all who had been looking at him jump. He slammed out of the room, trying to get as much distance from all those questioning eyes as possible.

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Once Michael had disappeared Thom turned to Alex," What are you doing!" he hissed at her, while they were both doing sit ups.
"Have you lost your mind? Or do you just have a death wish?"

"What?" Alex whispered back.

"Provoking Michael is going to get you canceled faster than you can blink. Are you trying to put a gun to your head?"

"What so now its my fault he's all growly today?" she whispered back.

"Look Alex, Michael will cancel you so fast you won't have time to be scared. He never misses a shot with a gun. He won't feel sympathy for you at all I promise you.
He will pull that trigger and not even think about it, it wont bother him."

"Relax," Alex murmured," I'm behaving," she pointed out, as they finished doing their sit ups.
He never misses? Alex wondered, she vaguely remembered her first week here and he had come back
one night from something and had a sling around his arm, after having gotten shot. The only reason she remembered is because she had been working on something on the computers and he had stopped to check on her.
He'd been pretty decent that night, hmm maybe he was just tired after getting shot.

"Well just watch your back is all I'm saying," Thom said as he finished and they both stood up.
"Come on you still have alot to learn with the Bo Staff."

Alex groaned and followed, Bo Staff was not something she was particularly good at.
It was a form of Martial arts with this huge stick.

Birkhoff was up in Operations, monitoring everything that was going on right now for their OPs. Nikita hadn't surfaced anywhere yet. The other OP was a terrorist in Pakistan, but Percy had left leaving Michael in charge of it so if this
terrorist surfaced guess it was in Michael's hands now.

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Michael had gone off to spend some time alone so he could just cool off and get his bearings. After awhile, he showed up in Operations, discussing things with Birkhoff. They had a great deal of work to do now that Percy had just ditched the place. He started barking some orders to Birkhoff, pissing off the other man. Birkhoff grumbed under his breath as he hated Michael's horrific attitude.

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