Recicup:AAWWW! I'm glad you liked it. The emotional part was tough to nail since I'm not good at describing it but thanks! I'm glad your opinion of him improved even though it's going to get tough to keep it there. He's going to be a 'hate/like' character.

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Season 3 ep. 18

Once we made it to HQ Mole came down the steps, "Got some intel for you. Your RED guys out there made some requisitions that hit a red flag on the black market. Here's the place they're making their trade at." Seeing the address on the monitor I nod my head before blurring or at least making an attempt to blur.

Alec hauled me up off my feet and to the side of the wall before I could utter a word of protest. Setting me down he slammed his palm against the wall and spoke in un arguable terms, "You're staying here. I will go with Cece. I'll make sure Daniel stays here to keep an eye on you…seems to be the only way to ensure your safety."

He knew I would be trying to think of a retort so he stole a quick kiss before blurring away with the address. By the time I reached my bike to follow I noticed it wouldn't start. Looking at my baby I saw the reason why, he took out the spark plugs preventing me from leaving.

I was surprised that my back hadn't hurt from the blurring I had done but before I could contemplate that Daniel's voice boomed out with, "So I guess I'm playing baby sitter again." I look to him, waving his phone he says, "Alec just called and said he needed me to keep you here…again." like I was a nuisance to him.

This job was ours not just his, this was my future here too…I was going. And Daniel's constant pestering was driving me nuts! Lashing out against his comic edge of 'poor me' I slammed him in the groin as hard as humanly possible. Didn't want Cece to upset with me over that.

He doubled over in pain as he fell to his knees then his side holding his groin. Looking up to me he grunted out, "What the fu-" slam! One kick to the head and he was out. Felt good to knock him out. Seeing his bike in the lot I picked his pocket for his keys before searching the motorcycle one.

Luckily motorcycle keys are more distinguishable from regular apartment and locked door keys. The 1,000 lb 2009 dark blue Ducati was a different series than my black ninja 650 not to mention heavier but it was something to get me there faster than time allowed for Daniel to wake up.

Starting her up I checked all the gears on it for a minute before speeding her out of there and down to the tunnels entrance to leave out. I remembered the address from the monitors screen and knew where the place was. I knew this city better than Alec did so my timing misfortune should be equaled out to his mental city GPS.

Taking a few shortcuts I looped myself around outside passing by the sectors that I knew for a fact wouldn't be able to catch up with me. By the time they make the call I'd be a half a mile from them. The delivery point was only two hours away out by the harbor, I had gone out there one time to save Logan's ass.

What a pain in the ass that was…but at least I did stop a bad guy from making young 13-15 year old girls into being prostitutes in a foreign country. So that was worth it. I managed to cut my time down an extra 15 minutes by jumping four sector check points. When you're driving past someone at oh say 65 miles an hour it kind of makes it hard to figure out if their male or female.

Stopping outside the loading area I see its clear of anyone…must have even beat the RED's here. I drive to a safe point 15 yards away and hide the bike while I make my way inside the building. Security consisted of seven guys on patrol that only carried a baton and a flashlight, hardly a threat.

I made my way upstairs before seeing Alec's ride come up. So he beat the RED's to…I thought. Seeing him make the same moves as I did I began to wonder 'who got what from who?' Did he learn that from me or did I just pick it up from him? Berating myself for getting distracted I saw him hide on ground level as a van pulled up.

Could you be anymore conspicuous? Idiots! I opened the window I was at silently just enough to eavesdrop in on the convo. Kani came out and I saw two of his lapdog soldiers come out as his back up as a high upscale car came up. These must be some of the guys they get their funds from.

He rolled his window down but from the back seat the window only went down so far and not enough to catch more of a half a face even from my angle. I tried using my vision but it was a no go. Instead I focused on the convo, "Here's the list you required. Be sure to eliminate them all. No accountability."

He said in a gruff voice. "I thank you. Once we have all these people eliminated we can be sure than she will be caught or die trying. Either way we win." Facial expressions were hard to tell from up here given my angle so I couldn't tell if he was smiling or just plain angry that he had to come out here.

Rolling his window back up I wondered to myself…why come out here? Who not email it? One of the soldiers stopped him, "What was the point of coming out here? That could have been sent another way." seems I'm not the only one. "He wanted to see how you were all fairing with the implant."

Somehow I didn't completely believe him…I wonder why…now just to get that list. I ditch my post, go downstairs and watch the soldiers get in. Kani the one holding the list is my target. Swiftly I blur up to him catching him by surprise before slamming the driver's door into his face.

I had used the move several times in the past to knock men out or on their asses. Looking around I know I can't take all these RED soldiers out on my own so I grab the list and blur my way out of there; I just wasn't counting on one of the soldiers jumping out at just the right time to nail me in the side with a freaking taser.

I hadn't been expecting the blinding pain so I nearly lost my blurring balance. However I was slowed down enough to for him to grab and throw me into the side of the van. I felt the van dent significantly upon impact my weight…or rather the force that I was slammed into it with.

FUCK! The pain from the gun earlier shot immense pain through my body stunning me far worse than the taser had. I was blinded by impact briefly when I noticed not all the RED's were on trying to kill me. Looking to my right I saw Alec. He came out from his own hiding place and was fighting them off.

Briefly I wondered how he was actually fighting off so many and still effectively, but Alec's actions with Daniel earlier reverberated through my memory. Alec was deadly serious about Daniel's flippant words. He's fighting for his mate's life therefore his own life is inconsequential to him.

My thoughts remind me that Alec's primitive side the one to protect what's his was unleashed the moment he saw me in serious agony. Now however I was being held up by the only RED soldier that decided to pay homage to my soon to be battered body. So I bite down on the pain that I told myself I didn't feel.

I tried to remember words White used on me one time 'Pain is a phantom of the mind'…I threw that out the window and remembered something Lydecker told us a long time ago 'Pain lets you know your still alive'. So seeing as it wasn't going away anytime soon I decided to use my anger to get one up on him.

Using my cat reflexes I jumped up and wrapped my thighs around his neck before using all my strength to twist us both and go down. My side was in the up position for most of the movement taking most of the pain along with it and making it worse. I saw that with the motion I had succeeded in taking him down…for good.

Feeling for a pulse in his neck I realized that in using all my strength RED soldier or not he was dead. I had snapped his neck with the twist…you may be as strong as us but even you aren't immune to a snapped neck. With the list still in hand I shoved it into the inside of my jacket pocket before seeing how Alec was fairing out.

Having to deal with three of them I could see the rage that he was giving to him the strength and will to fight. That added to his seeing me get beat in a little bit can give you added reason to kick their asses.

But I could also see that with him taking them on he was also taking in the bruises and bloodied bites and dishing them out as equally if not more so than himself the RED's weren't showing signs of slowing down at all. I had fought these guys before…twice; the only way to beat them was death, just like the familiars.

I started to blur up to the one with his back turned to me when I heard a, "STOP!" coming from Kani. I stopped mid blur and saw the gun he had pointed at me. It was shaking as was his hold. His other hand was to busy trying to put pressure on the bruise to his head.

I smiled…problem for Kani though, which was something that Logan didn't understand no matter how many times to you tried to tell…or show him was that when it came to us it was that we were faster than a human's reaction to pulling the trigger…not a speeding bullet itself.

I remembered that when I got shot in sector four getting gas of all things. It was funny actually when you think about it. You hear of food riots, gas prices sky rocketing, even ration cards are ridiculous these days. With all that you'd think that a highly trained super soldier could take on anything.

Hell I'd taken down military convoys, Manticore snipers, gangsters, a prison warden who was trying to make me into his own personal sex slave, hired bounty hunters working out of Tacoma working for bad guys with deep pockets, Zack on bad days…a serial brother…Lydecker, Renfro…

Even that X5 back at Manticore during training…and here I got taken down by some wack punk ass jerk who was waiting in line for gas same as the rest of us. I'd still like to know why he thought pulling out a gun in front of two sector cops was gonna work in any situation.

And to top it off the stupid sector cops in their idiocy pointed the random shots into the direction of the crowd. How freaking stupid can you get? Seeing everyone in front of me disperse was nothing new but seeing that kid standing there in the crossfire…it did something to my insides. I didn't want the effects of the pulse to take a young life that was right in front of me.

So when I took the bullet and got sent to the hospital I wasn't surprised to find Logan walking in…five minutes before visitation was over. He couldn't have come earlier? You couldn't have called Alec to help me out earlier? Daniel's words had me now realizing how selfish his actions really were back then.

And then for him to tell me 'I thought you were suppose to be faster than a speeding bullet?' we're faster than people NOT bullets. I had swallowed my initial thought down my throat 'You know what I just took a bullet here so bite me.' but I didn't, instead I bite my tongue and was trying to be nice about it.

Why I don't know but now seeing Kani pointing his weapon at me reminded me of this fact. I wanted to smirk at this realization, the more and more I spend with Alec, Cece and Daniel the more my eyes are opened up. I blurred before he could pull the trigger knocked the gun out of his hand before knocking him right back out again.

I again went to help Alec when I saw he was being held back now. I guess he saw I was okay and got mildly distracted. Damn…these guys were death row inmates to they'd have no problem killing him if needed. "Let him go." A useless demand but my words held venom in them.

"Come with us willingly and we will." One of them said. I looked to Alec…his head was in a lock and his jaw locked with it. He was using his remaining strength to keep from passing out. Ultimately this was my fault, if I hadn't…not the time for that I need to save him…I made myself stand stronger than what I felt.

I made myself appeared what I wasn't, calm, cool…collected.

Acting like there wasn't a fire spreading in my back from the pain currently shooting through it I remarked, "Bite me." just as I had said before…to the last batch of RED soldier's and just like then this was gonna end with someone getting bloodly. I watched his hand tightened on Alec's neck.

I saw his eyes telling me, not asking telling me to flee… 'RUN!' They yelled out. I felt like he was my CO for a moment there, so commanding, it reminded me a tinge bit of the commanding presence he held while in the bedroom…I nearly laughed to myself despite the situation.

Alec'd love the fact that even now I managed to get as sex crazed for him as he is for me, if only he knew. Putting my thoughts on the back burner I looked to him as my eyes I spoke to his, eye to eye 'sorry I can't'. He was about to protest but saw the resolution on my own.

His was now of defeat, he knew I was too stubborn to leave, I couldn't abandon him, I loved him beyond what I thought possible for love. "Let him go or…" it was a threat pure and simple as that I looked to the first guy and saw his eyes blink for a fraction of a second…it was all I needed.

I had killed a RED soldier before, two in fact…well…if you count the one I blew up with the grenade then its three. This was the first time I sought to kill someone…other times it was either in self defense or they were going to kill someone needed…though Deck was a questionable save no matter what.

I blurred up to him when he blinked, kicked out his leg from under him as I had done to the 'transgenic wannabe' who had been hopped up on transgenic blood by that Marrow ass, before using his now shortened height to snap his neck in one fatal move. I backed up only two feet having gained ground without the third one there. I aimed the gun at them. It was the first time in over ten years that I held a gun in this pose.

Well a handgun…I had no choice when I was recaptured by Manticore, but that was a semi automatic not a hand gun. Last time I even touched a hand gun was at the genetics conference with Deck when he had me hand him back his gun that he had Kendra stash in her purse.

One of the most terrifying feelings of my life thanks to that dick and here I am holding the very ban of my existence as a threat to the men who are threatening to take away what I hold dear the most…besides my sibs and OC and Scetchy. I could never forgive myself if I had the chance to save any of them and I refused over a gun issue.

I cocked it back and thank whatever deity out there that during my blur they didn't snap his neck. I was nearly at my breaking point with all of this, I HATED guns and the feel of cocking this piece of metal was making me feel weak. I literally felt Eva's death rearing its head again trying to luring me back into memory lane.

Avoiding that I want to make sure these guys know how serious I am, "Let. Him. Go." I ground out putting all of my anger and malice in those words. I watch as they look in between each other seeing that as how their not as fast as me. One guy opens his mouth; I beat him to the punch.

"I guarantee you a transgenic shooting a gun is a hell of a lot faster than a regular human shooting it. Let. Him. Go and go home or…" the shot that rang out purposely flew only a mere centimeter to the left of the one RED's head. His jump was visible and made the others think twice.

The desired effect, "OR…I guarantee the next one will be closer to home. Though I do promise one thing…it'll be quick." I felt sick using this thing, but I know that if I didn't I wouldn't have anything but myself to use against two of these supercharged feel no pain death row assholes.

Alec is released as the one holding him bites out, 'This isn't over." Alec can't help but rasp out, "Looks over to me chuckles…" he coughs a little as we ease our way back. I can tell the hold was worse than when Zack had held him when we saved him from the steel heads. Alec was in more pain.

I felt bad once again for having thought so negatively for him…hell I even left Alec there only focusing on Zack. A part of my wondered if he was okay but I made myself not care saying 'he was an ass that deserved it.' I was a bitch who got what she deserved when I had to give Zack up.

I knew that at the end of that day when I let him go it was for a reason. It took me a few weeks of mopping around to realize it was what some people refer to as karma. I treated Alec horribly after he was nearly chocked to death by my brother and ignored the twinge of my gut telling me to check up on him.

I wanted to think 'he deserved it for scamming Scetchy into selling steroids' or 'he'll do something else stupid' anything to avoid knowing that in the end Scetchy is a grown man and did what he did for the extra cash. That Alec was another transgenic same as me….of course trouble follows us around.

In the end I knew that I was in the wrong and shortly after sending Zack off I went to visit Alec on my off day from work, ignored Logan's pages just to be sure Alec was okay. By that time he was up and running again, so I ignored the nagging feeling that told me to stay that night.

Just to be sure I told myself, at first. Instead I made myself leave, feeling that something would have happened, something I wasn't ready for. I still remember reading it in his eyes that night. There was something there even then that I ignored, feeling that deep down I was betraying Logan…even though I had no loyalties to him in that way I still felt like I did.

Before I got too lost in my own thoughts I took a quick scan of things. We were okay and in the clear from any other enemies. I didn't need any surprises, I thought we were home free but an impromptu Daniel came speeding in with Cece in the passenger side of a little crappy sports car.

She points her gun out the window, recognizing the guys she starts to shoot. However due to Daniel's lousy swerve in driving she missed the head shot and nailed two shoulders and one leg. She yells, "GO!" we run to our respective bikes and jump on them before the RED's can make an attempt to follow.

I know Alec's gonna be pissing mad that I showed up but he can't expect for me to let him fix or fight my battles. These RED's were mine! For right now he was just retaining just enough energy to drive his bike back to TC. If you don't make it back to TC I'm gonna tear this city apart looking for you.

That drive was the fastest I'd ever driven anywhere…and it still wasn't fast enough in my opinion. When I got back I ended up waiting ten minutes…I swore it felt twice as long before his bike's engine sounded signaling his return. Daniel and Cece weren't far behind driving just a few feet behind him.

Alec I could see took a severe beating more so than I'd seen in anyone ever…I don't remember him looking this bad at the JP siege…but then again…he was only up against one female familiar, not three RED soldiers…I reacted on instinct and ran to him. I cradled his head within my arms.

Silently I was berating myself yet again for going…but my pride dismissed it since these were my fights and not his own. Yeah but all four of them could have killed you…he saved your life…again. I refused to let the tears slide, not in front of anybody. But one tear escaped and fell into his hair.

"Maxie…" he breathed out. For a moment I felt relieved that he spoke, then the next I wondered if I was suffocating him. Releasing him only a little I looked at the damage done to his face. His jaw was severely bruised, eye was blackened, nose was full of blood, I briefly wondered if it was broken.

His lips were both split…I traced my memory for the fight. Remembering now what I blurred through, I saw him fighting the RED's. He was doing well, better than I knew I had upon first fighting them…and I used a fire extinguisher! He'd nailed one in the ribs several times making sure at least a few were going to be broken.

The other one he'd managed to dislocate his shoulder only to have the ass pop it back into place five seconds later. No pain no gain asses! He had been about to snap the neck of the third one that he'd whipped around when he saw me blurring towards him…he got distracted…he got nailed.

I was the reason his vision was faltered…he was fighting hard and well against them and I messed up by just my presence alone. If he hadn't been trying to fight my fights…I hadn't realized we'd gathered an audience till Daniel touched my shoulder. Seeing some TC residents there I let Daniel escort Alec to the med bay we had.

Cece came up to me, "Go with him. You need to let Dr. Carr take a look at you to." As if the reminder was enough I noticed now the intense throbbing in my back. I felt all the pain now. How is it I didn't feel it all the way here? Seeing my expression Cece explains, "Max your mind was so focused, so adrenalized that…"

I knew where this was going… "I couldn't feel the pain…but now…" I groaned in agony since the crowd had dispersed and Alec was already near med bay. Cece escorted me there as well. Seeing Alec sitting on the bed I was formerly on I wondered how bad his level of wounds were.

He looked up to me with a nearly completely swollen eye and a big fat lip. It looked bad now but we both knew that by the end of the week they would be gone. Courtesy of our advanced healing. Seeing Carr there I asked him, "How's he doing?" I knew Alec wouldn't tell me the full deal.

Men always make it out to be not a big deal or they over exaggerate. Alec's the type to not make a big deal. "Sitting right here." He remarked. "Alright, you gonna tell how you are?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest. "I'm alr-" I knew it! "No your not alright, Sam?" I asked.

Turning back to me he replied, "Besides a concussion, a black eye, a busted lip and bruises all over the place he'll be fine. Just give it a week before you two do any strenuous activities." His meaning clear, no sex for a week. Alec's eyes bugged out, and his jaw dropped an inch.

I wanted to laugh at the look; it was like watching someone remove a child's favorite toy from them after play time was over. At first his mouths was moving with no sound like he was in disbelief over what he'd heard and was trying to come up with a way to avoid that option.

"What? Doc are you serious?" he looked to the doc then to me, then back to the doc again, "Are you nuts?" indicating me he says, "Have you NOT seen Max? I can't avoid sex with my mate for a week." I felt my cheeks flame up as his bluntness; "I feel fi-" he sat up to prove his point only to feel the repercussions of the actions.
All the bruising done to him was starting to swell up forming the pain. I rushed over to 'gently' ease him back down.

"Stay down and chill out pretty boy. Or I'll make Daniel stay at our place for the week to ensure that you stay down. You want that or you want me to help you out?" I asked. He looked back and forth again. "But…" he groaned out in pain once again, though this time I wasn't sure if it was pain over the loss of sex for a week or his bruises.

"Its okay Sam I'll make sure he stays down." Plus there are other ways of being intimate without having direct sex. After checking me up and giving us both the right pain meds Alec and I both head up to HQ to work on paper work. If it was one thing we could do to pass the time we could just get all of our paper work done for the week.

Presenting the possible solution to Alec that's what we ended up doing…for four straight days in a row in the same room. We'd over heard a bet going on that we couldn't last a week without any type of sex from each other, so even blowing him and him licking my every crevice out wasn't going to happen.

I didn't realize how sex starved for him I would feel but the side bet we'd placed with Mole would be worth it in the end. We'd managed to corner Mole after we found out and told him to put us each down for our duties. Not very much money was around here so we went by goods and duties to use.

It was all written down so nobody could play it off. Alec and I would be latrine duty free for a month and the names we'd put on there were our last name as Alec dubbed us now, McDowell. Apparently he was determined to show me also how much he believed our mating was real.

Plus no one else knew what it was since no one ever referred to anybody as their last name…the exceptions being Cale and Lydecker for obvious dislikable reasons.

Mole smiled at the ease deals that were about to be made all we had to do was be any type of sex free for a week. Hell the night after everything happened the closest we came to sex was giving each other a full body massage. The warm oil making our hands slippery as we both purposely teased each other.

Only our strong wills kept us breaking and mindlessly screwing each other till pain would erupt. But hey it would have been fun…just thinking about it made me want to throw the papers to the floor and… "Hey Maxie you got the piping reports…Maxie?" I shook my head to clear my thoughts.

Seeing him hunched over in his little chair as we both used the table to work on our papers was enough to make me want to…I closed my eyes to gather myself. I don't know how he managed to always look so calm around me. Usually when he found something sexy or inviting his eyes would be the proof for the rest of his body.

Right now…he was engrossed in his work. I hadn't thought so much of sex like this since my last heat, I even did a mental calculation of the next one that was due…just a week over two months. Nine weeks and I would go into heat again and Alec and I could start trying for a family.

We'd been having so much sex you'd think that we were already pregnant, but the estrogen levels are severely dropped when not during the cycle. Nearly acting as a metaphoric condom on the in between. It's why I never had to worry over birth control in the past.

The levels weren't high enough to produce offspring so even with all the endless love making it had to literally be the right time for us to try and have children. I guess it was Manticore's way of making sure we wouldn't have 'mediocre' specimens, and have just one more way of controlling us.

Probably why as much as Alec was the playboy in his day he used condoms religiously, it wasn't needed but the chances were still out there just in case a human female was near her regular cycle time. The chances were greater then for conception to. And I didn't see Alec back then as the type to ask 'you on your dragon?'

Nope it was easier to act normal and use a condom rather than explain to the one night stand how it's a rarity for a transgenic to get one pregnant or become pregnant out of a cycle. Not easy…anyways I'm drifting here and Alec's waving his hand in front of my face. "Yes?" I ask.

"Piping reports you finishes with them?" I look down to where I'd started on them…half an hour ago…only three pages into a 12 page report…exactly where I remembered drifting off into drool over Alec moments. I groaned internally at my thoughtless distractions lately. It wasn't like me to be so easily distracted.

Maybe I was just not training enough…exercise helps to train the mind as well as the body. Handing him the reports I stand up and stretch all the kinks out noticing how his eyes lit up for a second before shoving his nose back into his papers. He was ignoring me to avoid getting a hard on.

I think… "I'm gonna go work out, do some presses in the gym, something small and minute." I saw his chest heave in protest before he calmed himself, "Be careful alright?" four days and this was getting on my last nerve but strangely enough I was using my strength of will from when I couldn't touch Logan for this.

Yes now that I see it, it would have been easy to avoid touching him but at the time it was hard…more out of fear for his life than anything. But I had to laugh know that the same methods I developed for avoiding Logan were being used with Alec for this week. Sam had left for his office days ago leaving us to do this on our own.

Going back to our apartment I changed before heading out to the gym. Alec may be on a strenuous free week but I'm not. The bullet fragment was out and I had healed up two days ago just as the doc said I would. Though I still have a minor back ache its nothing compared to Alec's bruising.

Getting down into the training room I do as I stated…I do sit ups, push ups, just trying to work my muscles over so I'll be worn out and be to physically exhausted to even want sex. Alec was still in to much bruising pain to do so. While doing my sit ups I tried to come up with a way of beating the RED's that didn't involve killing them.

Though I knew I just had to a few in the past things were getting ridiculous with their never ending obsession to create another version of Manticore. If one enemy isn't trying to kill us another wants to use us. Maybe if we send a huge message to their big boss they'll leave us alone.

Question is how would we proceed in doing that? And even more so how would we do this without exposure to our location into the world? The moment anyone finds out we're out of TC it'd be a man hunt of 'who brings in the trannie'. Thinking on it I see the back lights going out.

Huh…guess I was lost in thought longer than I thought I was…getting up I wipe a small amount of sweat from my forehead before leaving the gym area. Seeing a figure at the door I enhance my vision to spot Daniel. "You trying to give me a hint or something?" I ask indicating the lights.

He stands casually by the door, arms folded over his chest he replies, "Sucks doesn't it?" he asks…I quirk my eye brows at his question. You talking about the 'none sex week' Alec and I are having? "If it's referring to what I think it is then either way it's none of your business." I'm not that open with this guy.

"Sure it is, cause now you know how I feel." Okay what? Seeing my expression even without the lights he comments, "When Cece went into heat you kept her from me. Now with Alec hurt you have to wait a week to be with him again…doctor's orders." He makes it sound like he had something to do with it.

"Look Cece didn't want to be with ANYONE during that time we've already discussed this. If you're trying to say something spit it out." I snapped getting irritated at his bizarre point of conversation. He holds his hands up like he doesn't have a care in the world before laughing a bit.

"Do you honestly think that one hit to the groin on an X5 male would be enough to take him down long enough for you to get to a bike? We were trained in extensive pain therapy remember?" for a moment there the memories assaulted me. I do remember, I hated it to.

We were tortured for days on end to see the extent of our own abilities, to see how much pain we could handle before we gave in. One of the worst weeks of our lives…but to now know what he was saying made me mad. But it didn't make any sense why would he…? I walked up a few more steps.

"Are you basically telling me you purposely let me leave so I could distract Alec and let him get beat down long enough to be bruised for a week just so I could experience no sex for a week because I wouldn't let you bang Cece when you could have?" that sounds stupid even as I say it.

He laughs, "What are you on? No! I just meant that you took me by surprise in the lot was all. We X5's can take a lot of damage so next time I won't be caught off guard." Oh…well now I felt kind of stupid and here he was laughing at me. I felt angry at his insinuation…even if he didn't mean it.

Not to mention that I was physically frustrated, and a bit mentally as well, I blurred up to him before tackling him to the ground. We both slide from the impact a good ten feet on the mats. I was mildly glad that he'd walked forward during the little exchange. Once we stopped I let it out.

I rained hit after hit of pent up frustration out on him till he subdued me by using a move I hadn't learned yet and gaining the upper ground. Next thing I knew he was straddling me while I was pinned.

Leaning down he whispered in my ear, "Just because your frustrated doesn't mean you get to treat me like a wash rag. I'm not Alec, I'm not going to take extensive abuse from you because I li-…just because you're our C.O.!" getting up he left me there on the mat. I felt angered by his words.

I didn't used to be that bad, "Alec and I may have been rocky before but we were at least friends then. I didn't treat him that badly." Did I? He laughed again, "Wow either your blind to your past actions or he's a glutton for punishment." What did he mean? Before I can yell at him he disappeared.

He has been acting strange lately…maybe he's just being himself more so now. Going back to my place with Alec I entered our place seeing that he was already asleep in bed, Cece was once again sleeping on our ratty as hell couch. The only reason I wasn't waking her up was due to the bet.

The residents that had the bet going on decided for proof on things to have her 'need time to think' away from Daniel. He wasn't to happy bout it but for the bet's sake she stayed over. Their reasoning no matter how silent you try to be with sexual activities you can't escape the hearing of a transgenic.

Letting it go I stripped down, took a warm shower before preparing for bed. Once my mouth was cleaned up and minty fresh I went to sleep. Alec's hand like always reached over and rest comfortably on my stomach. The side of his head rested in the crook of my neck while his right leg slid between my own.
These were the only moments we allowed ourselves for the week to touch. Mainly because it was so innocent, and because in the end we were too tired to do anything but sleep…it had been Alec's reasoning on that note. Feeling his breath fan out against my skin sent pleasure shivers down my spine.

But they weren't sex pleasure shivers they were comfort pleasure shivers, I felt safe and comfortable. "Have a pleasant conversation with Daniel tonight?" he asked not sounding one bit sleepy. I frowned for a moment. Did he see the bitter exchange? "Daniel bitch to you that I bitched at him a little bit?"

His hold on me shifted, "Nope…" his mouth slid closer to my ear now, "I had a front row view." Why did this sound like it was going down a dark path? "So you saw me tackle him down and fight him." Till he got the upper hand…I added bitterly to myself. "What I saw was his flipping you over so he was on top of you."

His voice held something in it that I didn't recognize…just yet. "Yeah I was beating on him when he gained the upper hand…not one of my finer moments." I admitted. Feeling him shift from me slightly I felt worried about what he was thinking. Did he seriously think that there was something going on between Daniel and myself?

"There's nothing to worry about Alec. Daniel's nothing more to me right now than a pain in the butt friend that helps out with Cece on occasion. He just insulted me earlier and I lost a bit of control on my anger." His body language was indicating that he was thinking about it.

"Maxie…you do know that I was once a pain in the butt friend who helped out on occasion?" his statement as more of a question than a statement. I attempted to turn around when his arm and leg held me pinned in place. "Alec?" I questioned. I wasn't use to him acting like this.

"Do you like him Maxie?" he asked. It sounded like he was angered, jealous, and partially broken all at once. I needed to end this right now. Using my own strength and my speed I broke the hold he had on me before straddling him and pinning his arms and legs to the bed.

Getting in close to his face that had those very expressions running through him I whisper out, "I love you Alec. Only you, Daniel is just my friend…NOTHING more. Your annoying antics were something I grew to enjoy being around, they made me laugh, Daniel's antics make me angry." Please believe me.

"You're the one I'm mated to…isn't that enough?" I ask him, looking forlorn into his eyes. I can see him gulping just the slightest bit, "Or do you hold the same beliefs he does about mating? That's its not real unless it's done through heat." I ask faltering slightly. It seems I answered my own question when I received his silence.

Getting up off him I felt empty inside, "Well I believe it. I love you, more than I've ever come to love anyone. Throughout all the heats I've been through I've never actually sought out just one male before, till you came along. But I guess you believe I'll try and jump it with any guy who irritates me."

My sarcasm mixed well with my hurt.

I swung my legs out from under the covers. Feeling the slight chill in the night air I resisted the urge to slide back in and snuggle back next to Alec. Besides oddly enough it fit my current mood, "I believe that we mated that night, it felt right…better than anything I'd ever had before." I told myself I wouldn't tell him.

I didn't want his ego to be overly inflated. I angled my head to curve into my shoulder slight I finished off, "My imagination…what I had dreamed of on occasion so very vividly…before hand couldn't…it hadn't even compared to the real deal." Looking back to him I see his slight worried look'

Good you should be, it's not fair to be assumed of things based on temper mental actions and accusations.

"I'm sorry you don't feel the same way, and I'm sorry that you don't feel that I love you enough to be completely and utterly faithful to you. I'm not the type of person to scratch an itch with multiples." Unlike you have in the past…I still remember those JP girls before they quit.

Angry cause you were seeing them both at the same time and they didn't even know it, and even worse since they worked together. By now the tears were slipping from my eyes down my cheeks and he looked slightly panicked. I hated to show weakness in front of people, but who else if not your mate?

I managed to walk to the door before he blurred to block my path. Taking my hands in his own he held them close to himself as he said, "That's not what I meant. I just, I saw him on top of you, then when I went to confront him about it he just told me to ask you before smiling and walking off."

Daniel's stupid actions are going to get him into serious bouts of trouble and not just with me and Alec but Cece as well. Does he ever think before he speaks? "I love you and feel the same way you do, and I would never think of you as what you though I thought, I just…I guess I got a bit jealous." I smiled at his puppy dog look as I noticed that he was just fearful about what he saw and Daniel's implement.

Taking his face in my hands I said on no uncertain terms, "Alec, you are a goofball, an annoyance…" his face asked 'what else is wrong with me?' I answered, "a good fighter, and a great sportsman, but your best qualities aren't the facts of the battlefield or in a conversation, it's what you hold in your heart that has made me fall so deeply in love with you." He smiled before hugging me close.

Wrapped around him tightly I fought the over whelming urge to incline him into make up sex, "You know for a couple the thing to do right now would be to have really great make up sex." I smiled before letting out laugher at his statement especially seeing as how I was thinking of doing just that.

Looking up at his face I say, "How do you know what I'm thinking?"

Before he can retort my phone goes off, grabbing it I read the caller I.D. as Dix, "What's up?" I act sleepy into the phone hoping if it's not important he'll say it can wait till morning. I was starting to get tired for once. Shark DNA or not even we need sleep. So if it wasn't life threatening it could wait a few hours.

"Got a hit on that list from your RED friends. Turns out from the names there's one of them just about a 100 miles from the sector border of TC." That was close by. I was grateful with any luck we could go over and get him to take out the implant and I would be RED zone free.

"Thanks Dix we'll check it out in the morning, give us the directions then, in the mean time, get some rest its after midnight." Shutting my phone down I look at Alec's expression, "So we're going to get that implant out tomorrow huh?" he says, both excited and scared for me.

Wrapping my arms around his neck I say, "Yes we're going to take care of it, in the mean time that sleep goes to us to." I shove him none to gently back into bed before we settle in for the night. Just three more days and I can sink onto him as many times as I want and yell out his name into the night skies as I make him do the same.

Don't get me wrong a week was easy…for me. I have no problems since I got used to spending most of my time working, hanging with Cindy, Scetchy, Sky, Kendra and trying to be normal. The few guys I did hook up with were through heats and I really didn't want to be around some of them for stretches at a time.

Probably why some of them ended up cheating on me. Remembering Darren was like a hazard light…cute as he was his need for sex when I wasn't in heat was greater than the average man. When I found his head under a friend of mines skirt I was stunned. Lost the friend then lost him.

Anyways that's time frame is like a month for guys…but Alec's love of me…the request from Sam to him… and the bet has really been helping his self control cause I guarantee you had I gone into heat this week bruises or not the pheromones would have over run any sense of judgment.

And Alec would be in pain for an extra week…or two. I smile at the thought as I fall in to slumber with him. It wasn't my cell that woke me up but the sun coming in through the window in our room. I'd turned around during the night and saw it shining brightly through the half assed curtains.

I noticed I was the only one in bed and decided to get dressed thinking Alec for once beat me into HQ. Slipping on my black jeans, black tank I threw on my brown slightly off the shoulder sweater to go over it. It was a deep v neck so the black tan covered up the chest area very well.

Add some white socks and my biker boots and I was ready to role. I threw the brush through my hair quickly before applying my cherry chap stick and strolled out. Walking into HQ I nodded a few times at different people giving me a thumbs up. I knew it was due to them winning the bet.

Dix handed a piece of paper to Alec. Walking up the steps I asked, "That our address?" he looks to me, "Yup. You ready?" before I can retort a voice breaks out, "Whatever you got planned sister we're helping." I turned to see Cindy, Scetchy, and Joshua. I was shocked.

How'd you…?" I couldn't figure it out. OC walked up to me, "Alec's butt dialed me by mistake this morning, I over heard and now we're helping, no 'if's', 'and's', or 'but's', you got it?" I was stunned. I looked back to Alec who held up the phone. "Thought I shut it off, didn't hold the end button long enough...and Cindy is on speed dial."

My eyes rolled around in irritation, how could one stupid little phone cause this stir up? Before I can even protest I see that their already packed up and ready to go. It's the first time ever that I've seen Scetchy with a weapon, a little four inch knife but hey to each his own I guess.

And the bad part is once OC and the rest make up their minds about someone they care about no one's gonna stop them. Had they been transgenics they'd be nearing the proverbial top of the food chain. I relented… "Fine. But I guarantee you this if any of you are injured beyond a scrap your never permitted to do this again. Am I clear?"

OC just looked at me, "Maxie…be for real now, you know we love you, we were there during the Jam Pony siege, we can help you out, we can handle our own, you are our own Maxie." I just didn't want them to get hurt. If they did…I could never forgive myself. "I-" Cindy's words went on.

"Maxie this isn't going to deter us or you. We're in this fight just as you are. Its not just about you anymore however I want to do whatever I can to help my girl. You risked your life for me time and time again…" before I could utter a word Daniel came up and asked, "What do you mean?"

It was directed at Cindy, "This girl put that bitch in her head to get my back when it was against the wall and near death." Tears formed in her eyes. No longer talking to Daniel she spoke back to me, "Its time I repay you back in some way. Sides gotta even the 'save the ass score' somehow." I laughed a little.

Forgot how she could make my girlie side feel better and at ease. It doesn't kill off the feeling of dread for her and the rest but it quells it a little…for now. Looking to Daniel and Cece I tell them on no uncertain terms…after OC leaves to help Scetchy get more ready, "Daniel, Cece I want you two to be spilt up on this one."

He was about to protest when I shut him up, "Consider it punishment for your idiotism last night." Hew was silent and Cece looked curious, "Daniel your with Cindy, Cece your with Scetchy and Joshua. He's got power as well as height on his side. He'll make up for Scetchy's lack of."

She agreed before they both walked over and talked to their partners; if I were to be honest I wanted them to get to know my friends better. Was it so bad that I wanted everyone I loved and cared about to get along on some sort of civility level? Because Cindy and Scetchy are my family to.

Hopefully this goes as planned cause if not…..I don't even want to go there…life's complicated enough…somehow I really wish Alec and I did have make up sex last night, that way just in case-no! Don't think like that…you'll be fine; you've got all your loved ones here for supports.

I would try and have Krit and Syl come along but it'd be best to do that when they can actually get along with Alec, going at each other's throats while on a mission of any kind wasn't a good idea. As we leave off and out we pack our bikes up with everyone. The drive was going to be long but the result would determine the worth of it.

Three and a half hours later we arrived a block from the place. Somehow this area looked familiar to me…must have broke in a few years back and jack a few items from it. Guards looked average sized, ease to take down, but a take down was what we were looking to do. Getting a plan formed in my head I start to deliberate.