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Season 5 ep.20
When we got back Mole and a few others were waiting for us, "Did you kill him?" Mole asked Alec, "The ass shot me before he and Zack went at it." everyone turned to see Zack looking beaten, bloodied and bruised, "He beat a retreat when Max came in." Zack explained, "Good, he's on the run. Does that mean we get to burn down that site?" Mole asked.
"I'm not goin' to be responsible for the government crackin' down on us for burning down government property now. Manticore was one thing, it was on the books as something else and no one knew that I caused it but Ross's place..." I let that one go. Alec and I saw their wonderment over the issue. "Let it become squatter heaven after we send a team out there to take what TC could use. I doubt Lane and his crew will stay there. The place has been totally compromised twice over now." Alec explained.
I nodded in agreement, "We'll send a team out in an hour. I'll - " I got cut off by a not so subtle coughing from Alec. I look over to find that grin on his face. I rolled my eyes, "I'll have Syl lead the team in." he smiles, recalling my technical promise earlier.
"Sounds good to me." Mole agreed, "Mole, you and Joshua should go on it to for ammunitions and 'specialty lists'. I'll have Gem and the others write up anything that could be of use from there. You all might wanna take the moving van to." I suggested, "Got it." Mole stated. I had Alec lean against me as I walked him to the med bay for treatment.
Once through the double doors to get in I saw the doc there, "Another bullet hole?" she asked. "Yup. But I think it might be a through and through. Didn't really get a chance to examine it too much on site." I explain. Alec hopes up on the table as the doc grabs the scissors and cuts open his jeans to gain access to the wound, "Most of the bullet is out but there is still a few fragments." I furrowed my brows.
"Really?" I asked, a bit stunned. "Yes. Very few hand guns have the ability to leave a 'spray pattern' with their intended target. It's usually only shot guns that have that effect." I nodded, "I see...nothing with long term damage was hit was it? No nerve damage?" I asked.
"None that I'm seeing. Alec here will be fine in roughly a week. Maybe less if you keep him off of it." I got a nice little grin on my face as to how to keep him off of it, "I think I can find a way to keep him on his back." he sent me a smoldering look before biting at his lower lip. I swallowed feeling a little warm. I guess the doc saw the looks cause her next statement had me blushing, "And for the record nothing to sexually straining. I don't want to have to re-do these stitches...again." Alec only grinned, "Not a problem."
As the doc pulled the two fragments out she stitched him up, "See me again in three days to remove the stitches so you can heal more naturally." he nodded. "Hang on a moment while I get your antibiotics." she left out through the door to the medical inventory. "Come here." Alec cajoled. I walked up to his out stretched hand. Placing my hand within his I didn't see the devil he had inside his eyes as he pulled me forward, yanking me half way over his body, "The doc will be back in a few minutes." I hissed.
No she won't. She did that so we could have a bit of time to ourselves." I eyed him then the door before eyeing him again. "I doubt she would want us to christen her medical area. Wouldn't it be like contaminating or something?" I asked.
It was then that the doc walked out, "If you'll excuse me the antibiotics needed are in another department." she walked out before either of us could say anything, "Okay that's complete bull, and even you should figure that one out." Alec exclaimed. I rolled my eyes, "Hang on." I leave his side to secure the doors. "I'm not giving a show to whomever walks in." I explain as I walk up and crawl on top of him, making sure to avoid his hurt leg.
"Nope just to me." He gruffed out, his voice getting a bit rough from the movements of my body. My hands skimmed his legs from the upper thigh to his hips before un-buckling and un-buttoning his pants. Pushing aside the flaps I pull him through the flap in his boxers and gently start to pump him. His eyes close allowing me to gently get off and bend down. "Max I said I wan - oh god yeah!" he gasped out when my tongue licked the head of him briefly before slowly engulfing him.
It was the sucking as I started to come off that had him writhing in pleasure as his hips went to buck up into my face. I placed my hands on either side to prevent him from moving as I neared releasing him, "Alec..." I purred, my teeth lightly holding his head in place to speak his name. He looked down at me. Seeing my teeth for a few moments I wrapped my lips around him again before sinking down achingly slowly, suctioning the air and making my mouth tighter for him, "Oh Max - oh Max - oh..." he groaned.
I did this for several more minutes keeping him on the edge, not letting him pass or fall over that cliff he wanted to go over
"Max please..." the plea was in his eyes as much as it was in his now quivering lip. I leaned up abandoning his member and whispered into his ear feather soft, "Wanna come?" I near taunted. He nodded unable to process a lot of thought right now. I smiled and eased back down. Coming back to him I enveloped his member back in my mouth only this time the rhythm was totally changed. I speed up and used more force as he bite on his lip to prevent the string of curses from leaving his mouth.
I sucked harder and made my pumping motions on him faster, making sure not to be too excessive and use all of my transgenic strength. This was still a very sensitive portion of the body. The repeated motions send him hurtling towards climax in just a few minutes. His length thickening in my mouth signaling his oncoming release even as I added just the slightest pressure of my teeth at the base.
"Oh fu - " he grabbed his pillow from the side and smashed it over his face, biting into it as he released himself, bucking up into my mouth in gushing torrents of heat. I swallowed every drop as his body trembled coming back down from his high, the pillow leaving his face and thrown back behind his head as he swung his body to lay down. His breathing on an exhale as I climbed up his body and gave him a passionate kiss.
He reciprocated and wrapped steel band like arms around my back, keeping me in place. His hands subtly massaging wherever they could. I bite back a moan of pain when he pressed into a bruise that I hadn't been fully aware of on my side, "Next time..." I began as I nipped at his lips leaning away, "You cuff me to a bed..." I suckled on his lower lip before releasing it, "It better be for sex and not for anything else." I warned before getting off the bed and walking to the door, keeping myself from wincing.
He had enough to deal with, why put more strain on him that I have a few bumps and bruises?
Unlatching the door I open it to find the doc waiting outside, "Bout time." she muttered. I nodded and walked off to go home. I wondered if those icy hot patches were still any good that we had. I closed our door behind me and shucked off my boots in the apartment. Putting my jacket on the bar stool I went to grab one in the bathroom when my cell went off in my jacket pocket. Without a second thought I went back and pulled it out then hit the accept button.
"Max here." I answered, "Need you in HQ. Daniel and Mole are goin' over how to end White's reign for good." I nodded without thinking, "I'll be there in two minutes." putting my boots and jacket back on I walked to HQ.
Seeing everyone's near hustle I reached the top where Dix thumbing the meeting room. Walking in I saw Daniel, Mole, Cece, their baby, and Joshua in the room. "So what'd I miss?" I asked, walking inside and closing the door.
"Since Ross is gone and Lane is running amuck wherever we figured it's time we got rid of White for good. The man can't be in a good positioning right now with his wacky breeding cult." Daniel explained. "Let me call Gamble see how things are looking." I pulled my phone out and placed him on speaker, "Where's Alec?" Mole asked, "Med bay. Took a few bullet fragments. He'll be out by the end of the day." I told him.
"Hello Max." he answered, "Hey Gamble, can you talk?" I asked. He seemed to be walking about, "For a few minutes why?" he asked, "We want to know the situation with White. How's it lookin' for him?" I asked.
"Not so good. White doesn't know it yet but a kill order has been put out on him for his repeat failures. Once he finds out his only option, besides voluntary death would be to kill you and bring your corpse to the conclave for proof." I cringed at the description.
"Great so he's a wild card now." I muttered, "I think you might wanna stay in Terminal City for a few days. At least until I find him myself and get a tracker put on him so you can avoid him." I looked around to the others in the room, "I ran for half my life Gamble, if White wants to find me I won't stop him."
The others looked to me, "Besides I've got a small idea that might work on nailing him up the wall. A little trick I learned from Alec." I heard Gamble sigh though, "As nice as that would be the conclave would just send someone else to take his place." I frown, "Okay so how do you stop a thousand year old breeding cult when their sole occupation has been planning to be the sole survivors of the human race?" I asked sarcastically.
It was his answer that shocked me and everyone else in the room. "You want my honest answer?" he asked. "Yeah." I answered.
"Assassinate the leading council members that hold the most power. Without them the others won't have any direction. Chaos and in fighting will be inevitable. For some differences will be set aside, allegiances will be made for others. Rest assured if you want to kill the conclave you need to kill the heads off of all the snakes in charge." we were all a bit stunned, "How?" I managed a steady voice. "There's got to be how many members and if their all high ranking how are we supposed to kill them all?"
It's not like a simple B & E here... "There will be a gathering in a weeks' time. It's done annually where the head priests and priestesses gather together to perform a ritual. They always without fault meet at an asylum, where they keep conclave members that rejected the faith but whose family wants them to be kept alive." memories of CJ came to mind.
"Like White did with CJ." I muttered. "There's more where he came from." Gamble stated. "So in order to save the world from these cult freaks we have to committee mass murder on their head officials?" Daniel asked a bit in disbelief. "Considering what they've done to ours and what their intentions are for the norm's it wouldn't be mass murder. We'd be doing the world a justice by killing them." Mole stated around his cigar.
"We need to bring Alec in on this. It isn't a decision to be made by us alone, Gamble we'll get back to you on that." I end the call. "I need to think on this, you guys can wait on the issue till morning. Right now everyone needs a good night's sleep." both agreed even as Cece stood up and followed Daniel out with their baby in tow. I looked to find Joshua staring out the window, "Big fella?" I questioned.
"World not the world anymore. The lines between enemy and friend are starting to blur together. Gamble once enemy now friend. White always enemy needs to die. Conclave needs to die. If they don't..." he looked to me worry in his eyes, "Conclave will hurt world, hurt friends, family...innocent people. Conclave needs to be taken care of if we are to protect the world. Father would have wanted it that way." I looked out the window and down cast my eyes, "I've kill very few people my whole life Joshua." I admit.
He looks to me, "I know they deserve it, I just..." I have a really difficult time with blood on my hands… "Max very strong, Max can do anything she sets her mind to. You need to have confidence in yourself that what you're doing what the new plan is isn't wrong, it's the right thing to do. Manticore made fighters...defenders to the innocent people in the world. Sometimes to protect the innocent you can't be innocent. There will be bloodshed."
I smiled at Joshua's words of wisdom. "Yeah...I guess being a mom now has made m -" he waved me off in a cut off formation.
"Motherhood only strengthen Max, not do anything else. You understand bigger picture. Conclave is now bigger picture." I nod, "But we still have Lane's ass to deal with." I looked out solemnly out the window. "Lane will meet his end soon enough. I feel it." he tells me. I smile, "I hope so." we both walk away from the window as I walk towards the day care to pick up the girls. Arriving there five minutes later I find to my shock Sketchy passed out asleep with two bassinettes rocking in time with his form.
I had to laugh that he fell asleep while rocking them. I gently shake him awake. He emerged from his sleeping depths and saw me, "Am I still dreaming...?" then he looked down, "Nope, you're still clothed." I wacky him in the head, "How were the girls?" I asked after a minute, "Angels...for all of two minutes. Then it was like they figured out I wasn't speedy like their parents and decided to blur all over." he grumbled.
"Nikita knocked herself out with a sugar high while Nyx blurred herself tired." he explained as I picked up both girls. Seeing the double carrier nearby I placed them in it as I secured them in place, "I'll take them home and you can then go home to. I'm sure your exhausted." he yawns proving my point, "Yeah I think I'll crash once I get there." he waves me off.
"Did you girls make it difficult for him?" I whispered to their sleeping forms.
Obviously no response. "Good. If you're that sleepy then putting you to bed will be easier." I walk them quietly to the apartment. Getting inside everything is ultra-quite, no sounds as I lifted them from the carriers and put them each into their cribs.
Closing the door gently I peel off my clothes and shuck my boots off as I slip into the bathroom, taking the baby monitor with me. Getting the water ready I turned the shower head on and began washing up. Twenty minutes later I left out, only grabbing my panties, some half cheek showing white ones while I grabbed a white t shirt of Alec's and walked into the living room. Settling down in front of the t.v. I debated before giving up as I didn't want to wake the peaceful somber of the environment. Getting up I went to the bedroom and grabbed a book.
Something Kendra gave me years ago that I never got around to reading. I got a few pages into it when the sex in it hit me hard. I began looking around without thinking and started to imagine myself and Alec as the main characters locked in the passionate embrace. Letting my hand not holding the book travel over me I could feel my body react.
My nipples perked up and strained a bit roughly against the fabric of the top before I dipped my hand lower to dance around the edge of my panties for a bit. "Would you just put your hand down there already?" Alec's growl had me gasping and nearly screeching in fright. I hadn't heard him coming in. Sensing I was seconds away from waking the girls with my un-controlled response he jumped from his own good leg onto the bed and held me pinned down, his hand over my mouth.
"Not entirely sure you wanna wake the girls." he looked down seeing my form breathing rapidly as he could also smell my arousal. "What were you reading?" he grabs the book before I can protest it, "It's just a book!" I hiss.
Ignoring it he brushes his nose onto my face, "So were you going to get yourself off?" he asks.
"Maybe..." I trail off as his hands trace my body beneath him. "I think I have some repaying to do for you after the med bay bit." he travels down my body and slowly peels off the panties.
"I should have known I'd pay for the torture." I comment, "But it makes it so much more intense." I look down at him, "Alec everything with you is intense. And I love It." he smiles at my words before dipping his head lower. Pulling the shirt up he moaned as his tongue briefly tracing my belly button before kissing my stomach. I gave tiny whimpers in hopes that he'd not stop. The subtle gesture incredibly sweet and a bit arousing.
Finally he reached lower and missed the top of my mound, "Alec..." I whimpered softly. Watching him as his head dipped down lower and felt his lips and tongue gently coax themselves between my neither lips. Finding my bundle of nerves fast. He worked the area gently and teasingly but effectively. I felt on the verge of coming when I saw how hard he looked pressed up against the seam of his jeans.
"Alec..." I gasped, trying to tell him I wanted him inside me already.
But my body was becoming far too gone. His tongue repeatedly darting inside, not giving me a break making the oncoming orgasm that much more intense. For a split second I was torn between shoving him away with the intensity and pulling him closer because of it.
I gripped his head in my hands torn even as he drove me to greater heights. However it was the subtle movement that should have been my indication as his hand reached down and gave my clit a sudden twist. So sensitized by his tongue and lips I clamped my own hand over my mouth as I came hard and intense. Sweat dripping from me even as Alec was still fully clothed.
I grabbed his belt buckle, "You heard what the doc said." he furrowed his brows. "Yes, but she never said anything about me not ridding you." I flip him over and grab at his pants, taking the belt off and un-zipping him before un-buttoning him again. His eyes darkened by the intensity of everything as he instead of helping me preferred to touch me anywhere he could.
It was when I grabbed ahold of him that he stuttered in his exploration. His body without thought bucked up try to gain access to my center. I squeezed a little bit tighter, making his eye roll back into his head, "Want something?" I asked.
He opened his eyes to reveal lust crazed hazel orbs. "You." he muttered, low, husky like.
I smiled and maneuvered myself over him.
The love making that night was extra slow. A torture to us both as we ascended to the highest of pleasure. His thrusts were powerful but deliberate as he caressed every inch of flesh presented to him even as I held on tightly to his strong frame. Feeling wiped out from the intensity he picked me up with strength I knew only came from being a highly energized transgenic and placed me on the bed with himself behind me. "Sleep well." Considering he all but knocked me out I surely would, "Love you."
"You know I've been thinking..." I remarked, standing by the window to the bed as I looked out at the moon light. I had a sheet wrapped around me as I felt Alec's breathing shift once he realized I was no longer next to him. Days had been passing by so fast I felt the need to go to the space needle to reflect a bit. I had yet to move from my position by the window though.
Having become entranced in the moon light, "What's that?" he asked, laying on his side on the bed. The sheet barely covering his lower half. "That we'll actually win this fight. That we'll be free once we make this strike on the Familiars happen, once we rid ourselves and the world of them and Lane. I've been trying to come up with a plan of action to take out Lane and the group that's gathering for the familiars all at once." to this I felt Alec get up.
Wrapping his arms around me I felt his body molding into my backside. His arm tugged at the sheet around me till I gave it up, not seeing anyone about with my enhanced eye sight. His nude form now touching every inch of mine. I shuddered at the feelings it sent through me, "Even after all this time..." I muttered under my breath. He kissed my neck lightly, "Even after all this time what?" he asked.
I turned around and felt my breasts brush up against his chest, "You still make me feel tingles of pleasure with just a simple touch." he relaxed his arms around me, barely touching my bum with his fingertips. "I know the feeling..." he moved one arm up and caressed my face before taking my lips in his own. It was a gentle kiss that belayed the passions beneath. His mouth then traveled downwards, leaving a hot trail down my neck. I knew we shouldn't do this here. The open window provided too many advantages.
But I couldn't manage to make myself care. Turning us both around I felt myself become just a little bit wet. His hand left my upper body to slip between my lower lips, caressing me. I gave a small whimper to the mounting sensations. My lips becoming more slippery he missed my nub several times. I smiled, "Lean against the window." he did as told, leaning his butt up against the open window. Granted it had a small balcony, big enough to accommodate the people escaping from a fire on it but nothing more.
I bent my leg at the knee and lifted myself up and over him to slide down.
Dropping the sheet completely I wrapped my arms shamelessly round his neck and back as he wrapped his arms around my lower back. One went about my waist while the other fisted into my hair, angling my head and neck for his mouth to devour, "I love you…" he nipped at my neck, "I love you to…" I pumped up and down gently at first, driving us both nuts with the pace before clenching deliberately tightly.
I was hoping he'd get the point. And boy did he. His eyes meeting the devil within my own he rose up with me still on him, "You wanna play huh?" he asked. I giggled, "What are you gonna do about it?" I asked. Going onto the bed he placed me there before removing himself and flipping me over. I turned my head around curious to the positioning. He then grabs my arms and pulls me into him only to turn us towards a wall.
Pushing me against it I have very little warning before his hard length slams into me from behind, "Alec!" I cry out, my voice muffled by his demanding lips as he pulls my face towards his. Pinning me otherwise his body gives me a demanding pace that drives me utterly insane. It was a slow push and pull but it had a hard thrust that had enough power to knock the air outta me. I loved it!
But I also loved to feel his speed. I felt the depth but I wanted more from him. I knew I could get more, and it was this that I was entirely grateful for the feline within me that could accomplish this, "Oh baby…is that all?" the purring that came from my throat took the 'begging' from it and turned it into a 'come hither' statement. It was the ONLY chance I had to make that sound like that otherwise begging was what that would have been.
"That ain't the half of it." I looked back to see the panther in his own eyes as his length strengthened his thrusts – as if that were possible – and slammed himself harder and faster within my body. His grunts of pleasure were being muffled with his teeth digging into my neck from behind while mine were being muffled by biting my lip hard enough to break the skin. His hands moved to my hip where he knew he'd have more control.
"Oh yes…" I whimpered feeling his fingers momentarily dance around my hard, sensitive nub while going to reach my hip to join the other hand. "Oh Maxie I haven't even begun to make you beg." His fingers danced all around the area before his hand finally made it down to the other side of my hip. I whimpered at the loose before I could catch it. Then as if it had no effect on him he pulled out.
I turned partially around, "Alec please I need you…" I loved and hated that he could turn me into a begging mess. Turning me back around he grabbed my thighs, lifted me up, parting them to accommodate himself before shoving me back against the wall and giving me all he had. I was in heaven, "When good girls beg they get rewarded." He grunted. "I better be the only damned girl period. Good or not." I mildly warned while grunting.
He smiled at me, "Even when there was other women it was you that I was thinking of, dreaming of…" his hand touched the side of my face, "Getting off to…" I smiled, "I like that…" I admit, not yet willing to admit myself that I had had a few wet dreams with him as the star in my fantasies, no one knew of those. Besides it'd make his head swell even larger than it already was, "Tell me I'm not the only one." he demanded.
I looked at his face and decided let it go. Reaching up I caressed his face, "You weren't…there were a few dreams where you did take me in my cell. Or that time that we were on the space needle…I felt the urge but never acted on it cause I was supposed to be in love with Logan. I couldn't get myself to let go of a year's worth of frustration just to find something that made things so frustrating in other ways but also made things easier."
He looked at me differently, "I once told OC that you drove me crazy with your laughing and you're talking and your breathing…in reality her response was right…I had issues. I just never knew it till you came along. So yeah I had fantasies. I even…" I blushed at this. He pulled my face up, "What?" He asked, "I even had this dream like fantasy while I was in the hospital that you were gonna come in and say you were my husband." He pursed his lips.
"I really wish Logan would have told me. I could have gotten you out of there sooner and with less injuries." He sighed at the lost time, the lost chance and the anger at Logan's near failed attempt to play the hero role. "We can't do anything about the past except for amend it in the future. You've had my back no matter what and for that I know you're the one. The only one for me." I tell him.
"Tell me you want me." he says after a moment. "I want you." Giving him the green light he begins ramming into me as hard and as fast as possible. Loosing himself in the need to plant himself as deeply in me as possible just as I was lost in needing to feel him to the deepest reaches of my inner core. "Take me!" I bite out. He slams himself into me without mercy as I accept everything he gives and give it back with the vice grip clenching of my inner muscles.
He swears, I moan and in the middle, somewhere we collide into the orgasms in sync but total un -aware. I swore I felt him invading my inner most depths while he watched the lighting pass through me. "Mine." The word was so soft, had I not been transgenic I wouldn't have heard it, "Yours." My acceptance as love filled as his own soft spoken word. Once the world stopped spinning we were able to focus once more.
"That was amazing." I uttered, "I was going to say what a hell of a way to wake up but that works to." Alec laughed and I couldn't help but join him. Ten minutes later we got dressed and went to see the girls in their room. Both happily asleep before we walked in. Then the cry out for food came once they were woken up, "We should just have let them sleep." Alec remarked, taking Nikita in his arms and getting her bottle, checking her bottom along the way to make sure she didn't need a change.
"Change her Nix needs it to." he put the bottle down and took her to the changing table as I had with Nyx. "Sure would be nice to do this with a few more..." he stated in a nonchalant manner, changing her.
"When we get to my next heat we can try for another one." I amend, seeing as how he was for whatever reason baby crazy. "I'd like that. That way we can give you some more sisters, a brother..." he coddled Nikita. "Just remember that's that much more food, diapers, and sleepless nights. I may be able to handle decent chunks of that but shark DNA be damned YOU will have to deal with it to." I warned.
He smiled, "happily." I saw the way he was with Nikita and how he cooed at Nyx on the table. "Is it bad that were about to plan a strike on really major set of bad guys and here we are first and foremost changing diapers?" it was odd but he mostly just smiled, "It just means we can parallel process and multitask like there's no tomorrow." I smile knowing the truth of it. "Let's get them feed before taking them to daycare, we'll be in the meeting room for at least a good several hours before lunch time even hits." I nod.
Taking the girls into the bar area we pull out their baby food. Placing them in the high chairs we manage to sneak the baby food into their mouths. Having mastered by now the art of feeding baby transgenics. It was just a matter of timing as they realized their parents figured out their little tricks to avoid eating peas and carrots. "Not wise to try and up the mouth that feeds you." I remark. Nyx gave me a near raised brow before opening her mouth to laugh. I stick the food in there as she gulps it down like a starved hungry body.
"Your growing body needs more believe me this is good for you." Nikita laughed this time, only her laugh was filled with food. I got a random splatter on my face from the effect. Nyx seeing this opened her mouth for the food so she could do the same, "Nice try." I wiped my face with the rag I had set next to me as Alec came back out of the bedroom with their strollers and toys all packed up.
"Nice try what?" Alec asked me, "Nyx wants to pull a Nikita and use laughter as a food launcher towards me. Nice try." I tell the girls. They laugh regardless. "Food launching aside we need to meet everyone for the debriefing." Alec commented, gently caressing the hair on our daughter's heads. They looked up to their father with glowing faces. Daddy's love…it knows no bounds. It was obvious that he would do anything for them.
For me… "Let's go. We can drop the girls off at the nursery with Gem and Cindy and still be there in 15 minutes." He supplied. Kissing each girl on the head he picked them both up and put them in the stroller, while I grabbed my boots and sweater. "Daddy and mommy are going to be doing everything in their power within the next few weeks to make sure the bad guys of the world can't ever hurt you. So if you don't see us one night don't worry."
It was a sweet thing to say to the girls who more than likely couldn't process anything that he was saying just yet. I smiled, "Let's go 'daddy' so the girls can play with their playmates in the play pen at the nursery." He smiled before walking the stroller out.
After the drop off we went to the meeting room in HQ, signaling Mole, Krit, Daniel, Syl, Zack, Joshua and a slightly heavy Cece. They followed without hesitation. Once inside I spoke, "Were taking some advice from a friend and cutting the heads off the snake cult." a lot of confused yet willing to listen faces popped up, "By friend you mean Gamble." Zack stated. I nodded.
"And what makes you think it's not a trap? That he's not playin' you since he feels your 'friends'." he near demanded. "He hasn't lead us astray ever. I have faith in him." I tell my brother. "He can't be trusted." then he stood up from his leaning position, "Has it ever occurred to you that he's faking being on our side to get on your good side? To find your weaknesses. To eventually assassinate you or the rest of us!" his words were harsh but understanding to an extent.
"I may not like him either but he seems to be on the level with us." Alec defended. A lot of people looked to him knowing his dislike of Gamble and why. "I don't like it." Zack stated stubbornly. "I know...anyways..." I waved him and his ideals off for the time being, "We might have a sizable in within the next week or two." that got everyone attention, "What's going on?" Syl asked, her hand playing with Krit's sweater covered arm against the bar we had. Both sitting on the stools.
"Some cult ceremony." I explained not caring what it was for exactly only in where and what time it was. "I'll get Gamble to meet with me with the floor plans of the place once he finds out the location of the asylum and when it'll be. And were not about to stake out every mental ward in Seattle just to find it ourselves." I cringe at it in minor in irritation.
"Not to mention having so many people going 'bow down to the snake god, give me strength to fight the transgenic' doesn't bode well for whatever locals are out there." Daniel said, moving from his position against the wall to be more in-depth into the conversation. Krit laughed and bumped knuckles with him. "True." he remarked, "When's your meeting with him?" Mole asked. "Sometime today, he couldn't give a specific time frame for receiving or meeting him." I answered them all.
"Considering the circumstances I understand." Alec stated. A few people looked at him, "I may not like him but considering he and White are under a microscope with the conclave I'm not surprised that he has to be extra careful. Who knows who's watching him. He has to be on guard at all times." they all nodded.
"So what we play the waiting game?" half upset half acting bored Zack smarts off…again. "For now. Once I hear from him we'll move our plans into action. We can't formulate a strike without knowing the ins and outs of a building." everyone agreed. "So how are we gonna to handle Lane and his sore ass loser friends?" Daniel asked," I smiled, "I want to try and get him in the place before it goes down."
I got a few odd looks, "You mean like tell him it's a showdown and trap him with the other familiars?" Mole asked. "Exactly. I want him to piss to even think twice about where he is only that his target is in front of him." Zack smiled.
"You can always use me as bait!" I sighed at Zack's idea, knowing he was just trying to get a rematch with his twin. "I don't think you'll work." I amend.
"Me on the other hand..." I look to Alec so he can understand I would be a better target, "I'm not a straight kill for him. Besides after what I did to him he'll want me to suffer. You..." I looked to Zack, "He figures he can kill you any time." not completely true but I was a better target from Lane's rage. Alec and I both knew that. Didn't mean he liked it...either of them really.
"That's bull! You're letting her - ?!" Zack started. Alec cut him off, "No one lets Max do anything, no one tells her what to do. She does what she wants when she wants." Alec's words had a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement. "Got a point." Mole nodded his head in agreement, puffing through his cigar, "Back on topic here." I refocused. "I'll be the bait. He can follow me inside, on the way the charges can be set." I spoke waiting for any objections.
None. "Okay moving on." I stated. "Okay but now I wonder, where will we get the explosives from?" Syl asked. Daniel spoke up, "Let me handle that. I've got it covered." he nodded to me. I accept it, not wanting to know anymore. I just surmised that he probably did demolitions for Manticore back in the day. I'd rather not know of anything further than that.
"We just need Gamble to give us the blue printed location for the meeting." Several heads were in agreement over it before my phone went off, "Speak of the devil." I remarked pulling my phone from its spot and answering it, putting the device on speaker. "You're on speaker." I tell him. Gamble's voice comes over, "Took me a while but I have the location and date." I had to ask. "You have a time frame to?"
"No not yet." he sighed, I amended, "What you've gotten so far is great. We really appreciate it." Silence on his end, "Gamble you okay?" I asked. "I think the conclave is getting wind of things with me. I've shifted a lot to White but I can't keep doing that." he admitted. "Why not?" I asked. "Because if he does it could raise more questions and suspicion." Alec explained.
"What you've got for us is great we appreciate it." He told gamble. "I'll feel better about this when their dead. Maybe then I can use my position to better the city and help you all out without them watching me every two seconds." he exasperated. We smirk, "Breathing down your neck?" I asked, "Yeah I do have something additional for you." Alec and I both asked, "What?" "Proof that White tried to kill the former mayor." Everyone's eyes light up.
"That's great! We can use it to keep him off our backs till we get rid of them." I figured this way he'll be running to his conclave for protection and won't have anywhere else to go. "The evidence is a clear conversation I tapped a while back between White and McKinnley about planning the former mayor assassination attempt. I've been sitting on it due to my connection with McKinnley." he told us bluntly.
"What connection." Syl asked. "My guess is a family bond." I stated, "Names can be changed. I his son by guardianship." We furrowed our brows at his words, "Come again?" I asked, "He and my father were good friends. When my father passed he took me in." he said. "McKinnley is in his late 50's at best." I stated. "Sorry I should clarify, he took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. He treated me like a son despite our age range." we accepted that. "So you feel guilty over past relations." I muttered, understanding but not liking it.
"Yes but they need to be stopped. With this it will ensure they'll be at the ceremony." I nodded. "This is good Gamble, you've done a lot for us already. Where do you want to meet?" I asked, "I have a place here in the city, sector 9." he responded. Everyone looked to me. "Okay Alec and I can be right over." I tell him, "630 summer side court." Alec preps to leave, "We can be there in 30 minutes." I state. "Fine with me." hanging up Alec and I vamoose out of there leaving everyone in the meeting room to disperse as will.
"We need to take the bikes. Easy in, easy out." he didn't question it at all. Grabbing a back pack from out apartment just in case the plans were rolled up, I straddled my bike with the back pack on moments later. "I think I might have to scrub the idea of simple lives as part time messengers at Jam Pony." he looked at me like 'duh!'
"What can I say I'm glad we at least tried?" I defended, "Max for us simple is taking care of the girls...which by the way, we both know is NOT easy." his voice rang out. I conceded his point as we rode out. Riding our bikes and having this conversation wasn't smart for normal riders but for us...we were good at it. Reaching the high rise area, I wasn't surprised to see a guard manning a booth at a gate.
"Figures." I mutter out loud. Riding up I kick my bike into neutral, "We're here to see mayor Gamble. I'm Max Guevara - McDowell. This is Alec McDowell." I announce. The guard calls up to I presumed Gamble's place, "Hyphenated name huh?" he asked, waiting for the other line to pick up. "Yup." I answered, not really wanting to get into it and explain mating to him.
The guard spoke to Gamble before opening the gate. Kicking my bike back into first gear I rode in with Alec behind me. "A whole neighborhood sectioned off..." I gazed a bit amazed. All the home's sorry manors were high end. "Redecorate the house to match the cat." I muttered, "I guarantee you these places are between $750,000 - to millions a piece." I tell him. "Don't care, which one is he in?" Alec asked. I looked and found the numbers given. "There." we rode up past the small gate where the numbers were on and up the long drive way.
Pulling up alongside his own car I placed her back into neutral and put her kick stand down before turning her off and getting off. Gamble came out to greet us, "So why are you not at the office?" Alec asked, "I claimed sick and left." Gamble explained, "Doesn't matter you got the plans?" I cut to the chase. He motioned for us to follow him inside. Once within his home I couldn't help but marvel. "Familiars pay no expense huh?"
"Familiars pay for it all. How do you think we've gotten as far as we have. We've been manipulating financial gain for years to put ourselves in high, positions of authority." Alec and I looked to one another, "Makes sense I guess." I remark.
The meeting will take place at this asylum on the edges of Seattle. It's very old and large. It looks a bit like an old castle." We saw the plans being laid out for us and our eyes widened, "This is a lot to cover." I noted right away. "This is a five man job easily." Alec remarked biting his thumb in contemplation, "We have the men what we need now is the soft spots of where to put the explosives." I iterated.
"That's easy to figure out. Daniel could take a look at the structures supports and do that in record time." I nod, "Where inside is this thing being held and what time frame exactly?" I asked Gamble. "Give me time for that but the location is in the center of the main floor right here." he pointed to it. "Heart of the matter. Okay. We'll formulate a slick team to be in and out in no time and a plan of attack to ensure maximum damage. We'll keep you posted and you'll do the same for us." I told Gamble. He nodded as we left.
"More than likely they will have guards - my guess is 'Phalanx' guards for the ceremony so they won't have to worry about being intruded upon." I said an hour later as Alec and I had left Gamble's sizable manor to Terminal City to go over the floor plans. "Probably post at all the entrances and exits to assure no one can get in or out without security knowing. It's going to be tight." Alec admitted leaning over the desk where we had the floor plans speed out. "Don't forget air vents for whatever youngin's are there." Mole groused around his cigar.
He had come into the meeting room once we had returned, "I doubt the kids will be there." Daniel spoke up, sitting in a seat, tossing a ball the size of a hackie sack up and down. "He's right if it's for the heads then then there's no point in having kids in there." Cece remarked. Having lost some weight from the baby she was now starting to feel more like herself again.
"Not even the telekinetic freaky kids? Or their parents?" Krit asked, sitting next to Daniel as he every now and then watched the ball jump up and down within Daniel's hand, his inner cats need to bat at it quelled by his more human nature. "No not even them. This from the sounds of it will be a big meeting for top ranking members only. Probably a ceremony to rejuvenate or something." I mutter crossing my arms over my chest. I noticed a small eye shift with Alec as his eyes darted to the area momentarily before re - adjusting himself.
"Daniel are the 'red' overlaying dots the bomb marks?" Alec asked. "Yup." he answered. We had put a very thin plastic sheet over the building plans to help strategize. It worked for writing out 'bomb hit #1' and so on. "Then what's with the yellow?" I asked not seeing a label. "Areas nearby that will collapse when the charges go off." Daniel explained. "So basically 'caution'." I dead panned.
He nodded, "Pretty much yeah. Are we sure this will work?" he asked. "Yeah I am actually. If we eliminate them all then we've also eliminated their contingency plans as well. They have to have some basic go to system to function in case a situation would present itself." I explain to them all. "Or they could have none." Krit asked, "We're talking about a 1,000 year old breeding cult that has spent its formative years excelling to be the best and take the best from others. They have no natural enemies other than us. I doubt they would." He presented a logical point.
"If they weren't then they will be now." Alec concluded. "We're talking about people whose sole focus has been to rise from obscurity and plan a 'world take over' in their own delusional way."
Krit shot back, "Their self-defense plans didn't start till we came along, till Sandman made us."
"That means they've had easily 20 plus years to come up with a contingency plan." Alec remarked. Krit nodded conceding his point. "Not to mention what we are and what were capable of..." Alec let Krit's imagination take it from there. "So what are we missing then?" Krit asked. "Exact time frame the 'conclave' will be at its weakest." I told him.
"So heads bent down, mid ceremony type of thing?" he asked. We nodded, "I've seen it before, when they were initiating Ray. Granted it was a different ceremony but in pretty sure the similar principals apply at some point." I tell them. They agree.
"Okay plans: check, date: check, entrances and exits covered: check, just need time and were good to go." Mole smiled around his cigar. "I'll stay behind and quarterback the op." Cece volunteered. "I'll stay with her as second just to be safe if something goes wrong" Krit said. He would be needed on site but it would be good to have two commanding officers to command orders out if something happens to us. Not to mention he wasn't a huge fan of his previous fights with them.
"That leaves you, Mole, Zack, Daniel, and myself to go inside…we should have back up waiting outside though, to ensure if we fail they can activate the plan...think that'll be enough?" I asked Alec. Needing his professional opinion here. "Yeah we can handle it. But mind you all..." he looked to everyone, "When it comes to these people, DONT hesitate. They won't and WE CAN'T afford It." they all nodded.
"We'll get an exact time frame closer to the date obviously but till then we need to prepare everything needed for this mission. It needs to be clean. Surgical." I tell them, "You got it." Mole tells me. Everyone was on board.