Chapter 14

Okay, this was starting to get annoying. Six kept his eyes on the hallway in front of him, and ignored the fourth man to accidentally walk into the wall, instead of the door they were trying for. The fourth man, in ten minutes that is. He felt his temple start to twitch uncontrollably as he heard the half whispered conversations that sprang up behind him.

"Did you see-"

"Yeah, do you think it's-"

"I never thought-"

"Agent Six, I can't believe-"

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes-"

Six tightened his fingers into fists, resisting the all encompassing urge to send his katana into their brains. That would have to come later, he had things to do right now. He walked just a little bit faster, and another of the grunts hit the wall. Six gritted his teeth, and fingered the trigger to flick out his swords. It was going to be one of 'those' days, and it was all Rex's fault.

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"I thought he was gonna die." Rex grinned. "He looked like Christmas with his face all red like that." Rex leaned back against the headboard, still grinning at the blonde in front of him.

"He wouldn't say anything? Like, at all?" Noah questioned as he snickered slightly as he spun around lazily in his computer chair.

"Nothing." Rex confirmed. "He just walked me to my… uh." Rex stopped suddenly a pink tinge impeding on his dark complexion. This immediately alerted Noah, who put both feet on the floor, and gave full attention to his friend.

"He walked you to… where?" Noah coaxed, leaning forward in the chair.

"Uh…" Rex's face got a little redder. "Just my room, it wasn't any big deal."

"Uh huh." Noah raised an eyebrow. "So, just walked you there, then turned around and walked to his, right?"

"Uhm.." Rex's face was quickly approaching fire truck red. "Well, he did come in. We just sorta watched this movie."

Now Noah was just trying to see how long he could keep the questions going. "So as soon as the movie was over, he left, right?"

"Yeah!" Rex nodded a little too enthusiastically as he jumped on the unexpected respite. "He left after the movie." But, it was almost as if he couldn't stop himself from saying the last word. "Eventually."

"Eventually." Noah couldn't stop the slight incredulity from creeping into his voice.

"Yeah well, we talked about the movie for a while, and we got onto other things." By now Rex just couldn't stop his mouth from moving.

Noah raised an eyebrow. "So, you talked."

Rex stood suddenly, face bright enough to see from space. "Yes, we talked." He reached over and grabbed a basketball, desperate for a change in discussion. "You want to loose at basketball?"

Noah, much to Rex's relief, decided to let the line of questioning go, and stood up as well. "I'll play, but you are gonna loose."

Rex grinned at his friend. "Not in this life."

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"Well, it certainly is a-" a giggle broke through Holiday's wavering self-control "different, look for you."

"I don't want to talk about it." Six's voice was carefully concealing the rage that bubbled just beneath the surface of his skin. He was almost impressed at himself, there wasn't steam pouring from his ears yet.

"Sure, Sure." Holiday turned away to conceal an ever growing smile. "So, how is Rex?" She almost laughed again, but held it in at the last moment. "Is he sporting a similar…mark?" a chuckle broke through, though she was trying to control herself.

"We are not talking about this." Six growled as he sat behind the large desk that dominated the room.

"Of course not." Holiday smirked. Six ignored her, picking up his pen. She countered by sitting on his desk, and crossing her legs as she watched him struggle, and fail to put her out of his mind and start on his paperwork.

"Get off of my desk."

"No." She uncrossed her legs and started swinging her legs gently off of the tall desk.

"Don't you have something more important to do?" Six snapped, giving in after only a few moments.

"Of course I do." Holiday replied easily as she examined her nails. "The Evo Problem isn't going to solve itself."

Six waited a moment, but she didn't elaborate. "Then do it." He growled, less than half a second from forcefully shoving her through the door. He wouldn't even open it first.

"Can't" She replied as she tried to pick something from under the edge of her thumbnail.

"Why not?" Six's temple was starting to twitch again.

"They let Calan off of bed rest today." She said this like it would explain everything. Maybe to anyone except Six, this would have.

"So?"

"The safest place for me is as close to you as possible. You can stop him form doing anything…. crazy."

"Stop him." Six deadpanned, raising an incredulous eyebrow.

"Yup." Holiday confirmed, nodding.

The other eyebrow reached up to join the first. "You realize, at this point I would probably help him hide the body."

Holiday's mouth dropped open, then she snapped it shut with a small click. Still though, she stared wide-eyed at the man in green who stared at her calmly from his seat behind the desk. By the time he had picked up the pen to continue his paperwork, her red heels were already clicking towards the door. Six filled out the first page with neat handwriting. As he pulled the second page from the rather impressive stack, he allowed himself a small smile. Peace at last.

The sound of the door swishing open almost made him want to slam his head against the desk. Repeatedly. "Well, you look like you're having a good day." Six looked up slowly at the grinning form of the blonde. Calan didn't know it, but the only thing that saved is life was Six's jacket hanging on a hook next to the door. It was okay though, Six knew at least three ways to kill him with the paper that was now crumpled in his fist. The possibilities with the pen were practically endless.

"Go away." Six growled, pressing the wrinkled as flat as he could, and trying to focus on his very-fucking-important paperwork.

"No." Calan replied cheerfully, and in the exact same voice and tone as Holiday had used only minutes before. He settled himself on the green faux leather couch that faced Six's desk.

Six muttered incoherently for a few moments before throwing his pen down in defeat and reaching in his desk for the bottle of Aspirin he kept for times like this. "She isn't here you know." Six informed the man as he rubbed his temples and prayed that the medicine would kick in soon.

Calan smiled gently, though something dark glinted in his eyes, and propped his feet on Six's desk. "Yeah, I saw her leave." He shrugged and tucked his hands behind his head. "I'm letting her freak out a little before I do anything. Knowing her, whatever she can think up is way worse than anything I could anyway. That woman is demonic."

"Just make yourself comfortable." Six mumbled, still waiting for the meds to reach his poor brain.

"What?" Calan looked up, confused.

"Nothing." Six sighed. "And demonic is just a bit harsh isn't it? She is a brilliant woman, she wouldn't be here if she wasn't."

"Brilliant doesn't always mean mentally balanced." Calan snorted.

"Fine then." Six shrugged. "Is there any particular reason that you are here then?"

The wicked grin reinstated itself on Calan's face. "Of course." Six felt his eyebrow starting to twitch again.

"I don't think it is any of your concern." Six deadpanned, correctly interpreting Calan's words.

"Are you kidding?" Calan laughed as he spoke. "I'm surprised that they haven't alerted the media! Agent 'stick-shoved-so-far-up-his-ass-you-can-see-it-if-he-opens-his-mouth-too-wide'Six has of all things, a-" the rest of his sentence was muffled as Six slammed his hand over Calan's mouth.

"It is none of your concern." He growled, as he let go and scooted back off the desk he was now draped over.

"Fine then." Calan winked at the man has he swung his legs down and started for the door. Right as he hit the button to close the thick steel does however, he put his last two cents. "Even if you want to pretend its not there, and it's still a hicky." Not half a second after the door's lock clicked shut, there was a loud band against the other side, as if someone had thrown something big at it. Something like a desk.

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An: I AM SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT AND I DIDN'T TRY TO ABANDON YOU ITS JUST THAT I COUDNT THINK OF ANYTHING THEN SUDDENLY IT WAS THREE MONTHS LATER AN I AM SOOOO SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE MY HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PACEING!

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