The time together isn't ever quite enough... when you and I are alone, I've never felt so at home... the time together isn't ever quite enough... only time. only tiiime.

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Chapter Fourteen: Normal?

Three Months Later

SMACK

You hit Lust across the face. She grabs your hair, and you slide under her arm. You stab her in the stomach with your auto mail arm dagger. She lets go of you and you jump up and kick her and shove off of her and flipped backwards. This fighting stuff was getting easier, but you hadn't mastered landing yet. You quickly jumped back up, just dodging her fingers. "Run," you yelled over your shoulder. Her fingers grazed your face as you turned back and faced her. You sliced her neck and while she was regenerating, you got out of the building. Running down to the barrier surrounding the house, you jump behind it and almost land on Jean Havoc. "Boom," you said gasping for air with a short laugh, as Sean set off the bomb, blowing the building to bits. "Maybe we got her this time," you said to Havoc.

"Hopefully," Havoc said.

You and a few others got into a jeep and drove off to Central HQ.

CENTRAL HQ

You went to Roy's office, your favorite hang-out besides the cafeteria in Central HQ. Roy was talking on the phone and Maes was talking to Roy, who wasn't really answering him.

"Remember when I used to call you about Glacia and Elisha? And you told me not to? Well, you talk to Rebecca all the time and I don't see any—" Maes was getting on to Roy for tying up a phone line talking to Rebecca, which Maes had done talking to people about Elisha, his daughter.

"She's helping us, or should I say you, in the investigation. You did go over to that house and search it thoroughly, didn't you? Did you find anything?"

"Yeah, everything Rebecca and Ed said was right. I'm serious Roy, after she has her baby, you should hire her back on Investigations she's good. Remember when she found Liz and her sister five years ago? She was on the case for a week and found them. It took everyone else almost five."

"She did want to come back and work. She hates sitting around the house all day," Roy said to Maes. "Yeah, I'm talking about you," he said to the phone, which was Rebecca you guessed.

"Hey Hughes! Hi Roy!" you said. Maes said hi back, but Roy just looked at you.

"Yeah, it's Liz," Roy muttered. He held out the phone and said to you, "I know you're dying to talk to her." You took the phone.

"Why did you do this to me? On second thought, don't answer that," Rebecca was saying. "I hate you so much right now."

"What did I do?" you asked, knowing she meant it about Roy.

"Oh, sorry Liz. I thought Roy still had the phone."

"Why do you hate him?" you asked.

"When do I get to talk to her?" Maes asked Roy.

"Get in line," Roy replied. He went back to a new paper shuffling technique he was working on.

"I'm as fat as a sheep!" Rebecca replied.

"Not a cow?" you asked.

"Are you calling me a cow?"

"If she's trying to tell you she's fat and you believe her, don't. You can barely even tell she's pregnant," Maes interjected. "I mean, Glacia was huge!"

"That is true," Roy muttered.

"No, not calling you a cow," you said, laughing.

"Hey, when you're done over at Central you should come by. It's Ed and Elisha's birthdays, and Kristin, Glacia, Hillary and I made a chocolate cake." Your mouth dropped.

"It is?"

"Yeah, cakes come in chocolate, Liz. How long have you been out of it?"

"Not cake! Ed," you said. Maes then took the phone from you.

"Your minutes are up," he said. "Rebecca! Hi!" he said then paused. "Yeah, well, you and Ed were right." He paused then continued, "Yeah but…hmm, I'll get some people on that…tomorrow. You know Elisha's turning five today and I'm really busy…Really? She is? Oh…Roy's giving me the Evil Eye, so you can talk to him now," Maes gave the phone back to Roy.

"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…" you said, making the talking gesture with your hands. Roy threw a stapler at you, and you ducked. It hit the wall.

STAPLE

"Oww!" you said.

"It didn't even hit you," Roy said.

"I was speaking for the wall," you said.

"She's talking for the wall, something's wrong," Maes said.

"Yeah, yeah," you said, walking out the door. You weren't watching where you were going, and walked into Ed. Ed took a step back and you fell over. "Ed, you suck, get out of my way. I gotta go see Becca."

"I think I'll come too, just to bug you," he said.

"Just don't get in my way," you said. You started walking away. Ed ran up behind you.

"Have you seen Al?"

"I'm not your brother's keeper," you said.

"Sorry, I just asked," he said. "I guess someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."

"Nope, just haven't had enough coffee yet."