Cheshire, Canuckle, Retro ... can always depend on you for some good reviews. Appreciated as always.
Canuckle - gimme a bit more time and I promise ... I'll finally give that Colton backstory. Sooner than later ; )
Cheshire - more colton focus coming right up. and you know he's only this good cause of greer.
Retro - sorry for the confusion but don't worry ... explanations on the way.
Rest of you ... sorry for the slower chapter postings. But you never know ... maybe a few more previews can get me typing a bit faster ...
Finals were coming to an end and summer had officially hit Xavier's. And while most students had finished their tests and abandoned the library for the grounds or the pool, a sizable amount of students found themselves outside for what had somehow to the teacher's amusement become something of an event: K's first final.
He'd been wondering what exactly she'd been up to with the excavator and all the time she'd spent alone or mostly alone for the past week ... and although he'd seen the ... course she'd set up? It hadn't made much sense until he watched her run it with one of the horses. Still- until that Friday morning, when the entire school had gathered to either test or watch, he hadn't realized the oversized obstacle course was a timed trial.
Water hazards, logs, hills, tricks - entirely on horseback.
While the students found themselves cheering on their classmates and taking bets on staff, Greer found herself right there with them. By the time the teachers got involved Greer was almost tempted to take K up on her offer to get her on a horse ... almost. But for now she was happy to be leaning on the fence with Kitty and Amara and enjoying the show. Then things got interesting when K and Logan trash talked their way into a head to head run.
"Five bucks on Logan." Kitty shot out.
"Pfff ... Easy money. K rides better than she walks." Greer smirked and Kitty just laughed as the two turned back to watch the race.
The two little ferals were teasing each other as much as they were flirting as they led their horses to the start, with Scott positively grinning as he proctored the race. At the word go, Logan got the jump on her, but ... it was no measure of how the race would go. Somewhere in the treetops over looking the race, Apex couldn't help but think as he watched that if he ever had to outrun K ... he'd better make sure she didn't have a horse. Back in the race, Logan would gain ground just to lose it to K at the next obstacle and then back again. It was head to head until K leaned across, halfway hanging on her horse to act like she was untying Logan's saddle as they ran.
When he reached her way to try and do the same, she broke out laughing and just seemed to let the horse go. They'd been running but under K's direction - that horse just flew to give her the win by two lengths.
"YES!" Greer's roar startled some nearby students but she didn't notice as she stuck out her hand with a victorious grin as Kitty grumbled and dug into her pocket.
Apex had a headache. He hated headaches. Particularly when psychics were involved.
"This is progress," Betsy had her eyes closed as she walked out of the Danger Room with a hand on the bridge of her nose, "give it a couple days and we can try -"
"Tomorrow." Betsy stopped at the panther's rumble and shot him a look that had her hands crackle.
"I told you that I'd help you with this. That doesn't mean you get to monopolize all of my time. Unlike you I have other things that require my attention."
Apex paused and half-turned to face the much smaller but still deadly psychic.
"You're not doing this for free. You owe me."
Betsy's shoulders dropped as she opened her mouth to say something once ... twice and finally just gave her head a sharp shake.
"Nine tomorrow night. Don't be late." She snapped as she stalked past him, a nearby bottle thrown into a nearby wall as Betsy passed it. The two had spent the last couple of days since his trigger working to recreate what had caused it. They had gotten close but ... his seeming refusal to verbally guide Betsy had led her to try guiding him psychically. Hence the mutual headaches.
Besides talking about why he didn't like watching students get killed in front of him left him feeling ... tense. Letting out a breath he checked the time and was headed upstairs to find Greer when he stopped mid-step and growled low to himself. Stupid ... Greer had left for the city to visit her mother last night. Something about 'summer break' with 57 of the 86 students gone.
Letting out a huff Apex considered his options and decided to head for the forest. After Greer it was the next best thing in terms of getting his mind back to where he needed it. Besides ... with Greer gone he had things to do. The names on the wall needed his attention. He'd run into a lack of reliable intel and he wanted something to hunt. He had his own debts to pay.
The panther was half-way through the Mansion when Scott slipped next to him. He didn't bother slowing down until Scott finally decided to talk.
"I have a job for you ..."
K had watched as Colton passed by the kitchen but she sat up a bit straighter when she saw Scott intercept him. Her eyes narrowed as the panther's stance shifted and he stoically focused on whatever Scott was saying. As if K didn't know.
"He came to me directly. The professor has to be kept away from it. So whatever it is you need to do just -"
"What's going on here boys?" Both Scott and Apex looked down in surprise at K's sudden appearance, both hands resting on her hips as she glared at Scott. "And by that I mean what the actual fuck do you think you're doing?"
"Nothing you need to worry about." Scott tried sounding relaxed but K's glare just hardened.
"You did not just try to brush me off, did you? You think just because Greer's not here you get to pull this crap on him?" K jerked her thumb towards Apex but still kept her eyes on Scott.
"K relax. It's just a little favor I need his help on."
"You ... you do not get to ask him for favors. Not after you left him out to dry last time." Scott gave her a crooked smile with a chuckle of a laugh
"I don't know what you're talking about." Scott lied smoothly before he shook his head and turned his back to her, continuing to tell Colton what he wanted done, but before he could get more than a few words out of his mouth though, K seemed to pop up between the panther and ol' fearless.
"I'm sorry have we met?" K hissed out as she got right up into his face.
Rogue had been nearby and moved to intervene but Remy grabbed her arm and held up one hand.
"Let's see how this goes," he whispered out low just before K snapped, shoving Scott back bodily away from Colton.
"You know damn well what I'm talking about, Scott. I don't give two shits about how important you think this is, if you want it that badly, why don't you nut up and get your OWN hands dirty for a change?"
"What are you doing?" Apex rumbled in some confusion at the smaller feral but she just pointed a finger in his direction.
"You hush."
"K-" Scott tried to regain his footing but she wasn't having it.
"What part of 'No' don't you understand? NO." This time K's voice was tinted by a very clear growl and the smile immediately dropped from Scott's face.
"You're serious." It was as if Scott was just seeing K standing in front of him.
"What the hell made you think otherwise?"
Scott had backed off after that but it turned out this wasn't a one time event. Any attempt Scott or anyone K clearly thought was operating on Scott's orders that tried to talk to Apex outside of a meal was blocked by K. Any attempt to get around her was be met with dirty tricks meant to cause as much pain as possible without leaving a mark, though there was more than one person walking away with a limp. It was clear pretty quickly that K wasn't messing around.
"I can take care of myself." Apex muttered as he kept disassembling and cleaning the assorted rifles he and Logan kept locked in the school after keeping silent until Scott once again skulked away. Logan was working on his own pile and had kept his comments to an amused smirk.
"If you could take care of yourself you could tell him 'no' sometimes." K looked him up and down. "Go ... relax. Meditate. Hunt. Whatever. Greer deserves to come back to find you in one piece ... at least give her that much before you let Scott or anyone else," K shot a strange look at Logan "use you again."
K's words from the other day still rang in his head as Logan turned the corner on his way to the gym and paused as he passed by the hall that led to the Danger Room at the sound of a low growl.
"Problem?" Apex looked Logan's way for a second before he looked back at the console outside the Danger Room he'd been abusing for the last few minutes. .
"Someone locked me out." Logan's head tilted as if he hadn't quite heard what the panther had said.
"That possible?" Logan knew that outside of Kitty, Colton was arguably the most adept hacker in the building, at least when it came to security platforms. Regardless, Logan was fairly certain that the kid had built in his own backdoors to most every corner of the Mansion's security. Not that he should need it when it came to the Danger Room.
"I don't know." Apex punched in another line of code ... and snarled as again he was locked out. How was this even -
"Something wrong, boys?" Both male ferals looked down the hall to find K calmly walking toward them, looking as innocent as she could manage.
"What did you do?" Apex's eyes narrowed. He should have known better ... Logan meanwhile was slowly looking from his fiance to the panther beside him. This couldn't end well.
"Nothing really. I just switched over Danger Room access to a bio scan for the summer. You know - with so few students wandering around seems like unneeded temptation for them. And right now ... I happen to be that bio scan that will get you inside." K slipped herself next to Logan and kissed his cheek as Apex continued to glare.
"Then let me in." K looked up at him for a moment as if she'd just seen him there. She seemed to consider this for less than a second and shook her head.
"Yeah, no."
"K ... maybe you should -" Logan tried cutting in but K simply dug her nails into his back to not so subtly tell him to can it.
"I said let me in. Now." Despite the growl K stayed relax and again shook her head ever so gently.
"No. You need a break. And before you waste your time ... gym's locked too."
Apex took a step closer and towered over K, Logan tensing on instinct at her side but still ... K somehow stayed relaxed and just stared up at him. If someone had simply seen a picture of the scene it would have almost seemed comical. Except that was ignoring the three highly trained and lethal ferals standing in that small space.
Apex seemed ready to either roar or simply tear his way through to the Danger Room but K beat him to it.
"It comes from a place of love." she said with a tight smile and cold eyes.
A moment passed and Apex actually took a small step back. He looked from one berserker to the other and with one final stare at K, he snarled and stalked down the hall, his growl echoing in his wake.
Logan didn't waste any time getting K alone, taking her by the hand to the nearest empty ready room and pulled her close. "Darlin' he does NOT need you to play interference for him."
""He should be thankful that I am. Cuz from where I'm sitting? That's bullshit." K tried to pull away from him, but her statement got a frown and a tighter grip from him.
"Now damnit, what did I do?" She frowned at him and tried harder to pull away with no luck, refusing to talk. "Woman ... I ain't Summers. Talk to me." Logan said with a definite growl that finally got K to finally look him in the eye.
"He tried to kill me because he was convinced I was a weapon," K said with her eyes narrowed, Logan just frowned.
"Yeah. All the more reason on why I'm confused you care if he goes on Scott's errand." She shook her head, her brows drawn together.
"No. That's not - you don't understand what I'm telling you. You can't see it because you're doing the same damn thing Scott is. He's still a weapon. And you're taking advantage of it just as much as Scott is. It's not fair to Greer."
Logan let that process for a second.
"I'm not -"
"You are. All of you are. Watch him. He is still a weapon."
"He's not."
"He IS a weapon." K growled.
"Stop sayin' that." Logan's voice had no tone to it. Somewhere in his head he knew K was right. He just wasn't ready to say so yet.
"I'll stop when you listen. He is - no, stop shaking your head, because I will not so happily point out the many reasons that you are wrong." K shot back.
"He's not. Same thing you said about Greer. None of us are weapons. Not him. Not her. No more than you or me."
"Ah. You brought up one point all on your own. Watch him when he has nothing to do. He'd probably have a stroke if he tried to relax. Look at him. How he moves. How he thinks. He's not happy unless he's got a purpose. An objective. A target. He can't stand down. That's from them and it's not going away on it's own."
"This why you stepped in on his training?" Logan tried to change the subject but just K barked out a laugh.
"In what alternate dimension is beating the hell out of himself training?"
While the two older ferals went a few rounds, Apex headed upstairs intent on going straight for the forest ... or as far away from K as possible. That comment ... how she'd looked at him in the Danger Room ... her interference with Scott ... it - it infuriated him. No one made him feel this way. He'd been tortured for days at a time and he'd never been this frustrated. And what annoyed him more was the part of him that might actually apprecia -
"You remembered!" Apex froze and looked into one of the living rooms to see Amara bounce off a couch and head straight for him, "lemme just go grab my stuff and - wait are you going to change?" Amara gave the shirtless and shoeless feral an obvious once over.
"Change for what?" Apex gave Amara a distrustful look right back but suddenly the fiery brunette pulled back a little as she ducked her head.
"I just - I thought you were finally taking me up on us catching up. Forget it ... I know you're busy. Just - sorry." Clearly embarrassed Amara quickly turned back towards the couch. Apex watched her go three steps before his tail gave an audible thump.
"I'm driving."
Amara seemed to turn around in a blur.
"Really! You sure you're free?"
Apex was tempted to take the out but just let out a low breath.
"We're not going into town."
That was a headache he only reserved for Greer.
"Yea sure. Fine. No problem." Amara was already running for the stairs and Apex slowly followed her. This had nothing to do with K. Amara was one of the few people who actually seemed interested in spending time with him. K had nothing to do with it.
"Get's me far away from her." Apex snorted and headed for his room.
Later that night Jubilee seemed a bit dazed as she came into the kitchen. K and Logan were sitting next to each other though there was a bit more distance between them as usual ... though Logan kept shooting her looks as if she couldn't tell.
"What happened to you?" K asked with a raised brow as Jubilee leaned on the island.
"Nothing I just ... have either of you been downstairs lately?" K and Logan shared a brief glance.
"Not since this afternoon. But if you're trying to get into the gym you're gonna need me. Just gimme a few minutes and I'll -" K was gathering up her paper but it was Jubilee that shook her head this time.
"No ... no I don't think that's a good idea. Besides ... getting into the gym wasn't exactly the problem." Now K was curious and sensing it Jubilee continued, "The ummm ... Colton kind of - I mean the doors were - someone ripped them off." she finished quickly but looked up in surprise as K chuckled a little and went settled back into her seat.
"Amara went out this afternoon right?" K didn't bother looking up as Jubilee nodded and she let out a sigh, "Just give him some space if you can't ignore him. Sure Fuzz will burn himself out eventually."
"Are we giving away our stuff? Greer asked in surprise before quickly rushing over to help Marie who had almost lost her balance trying to haul a box twice her body-weight.
"I got it mum…" the tigress grinned, easily lifting the box onto her shoulders while Marie just watched shocked.
"You got to be careful, you are going to damage your back like that…" the reporter couldn't help but point out but Greer just laughed.
"This? This is nothing… I caught a car once… And Colton has me bench pressing eight tons every time we train…"
"He does huh?" and Greer noted the sudden shift in her mother's tone… Alarm bells going off in her head…
"It's not what you think! He's not torturing me or anything… I could actually lift ten before my…" and Greer considered her choice of words carefully. "Accident… He's just getting me back to where I was…" and Marie tried to process that and respond to that statement as if it was the most normal thing in the world… Her daughter could lift ten tons… That was both terrifying and definitely not normal… Though… If she was going to be honest, having spent the last () days with Greer… It really felt like things between them were back to normal… Really back to normal…
The older woman leaned her head onto her arm, content with just watching the tigress go on about Colton and the mansion, and her friends… She couldn't remember the last time Greer had been so open with her… So to have her daughter suddenly be so eager to finally tell her what's been going on in her life after six years… Marie had to admit… It was… Nice… And speaking of nice… Marie didn't know if Greer was aware of this but… Greer really was acting like Greer again… The confident, self-assured cheer captain Marie was so scared she had played a part in changing… With all that crap she had said to Greer… God she couldn't believe she had actually said those things… So she couldn't describe her surprise and relief when her daughter had done away with that silly inducer thingy in the house… It brought Marie some peace of mind… First off… that Greer was finally and truly comfortable with her and secondly, that Greer had finally taken what she said to heart… Nothing hurts a mother more, then to see her own child… Be so afraid of herself…
"Hey mum, you didn't answer my question, are we giving these away?" and Greer 's question finally got Marie to snap out of her revere…
"Donating, not giving away. Big difference." and Greer raised an eyebrow at that. Her mother had always talked about doing something like this but never actually got around to doing it… She wondered what changed...
"Well ok, who are we donating these to? The local church?"
"Not exactly. As you know, after Gabe moved out with Lauren and you're outright refusal to move back in with me, I suddenly realized I had a lot of free time and money…" and Greer rolled her eyes, trust her mother to sneak in a sly dig at her…
"So I thought about how I could fill up my time… And well… I started a society in the local community club…"
Greer blinked.
"Society?"
"Well I would hesitate to call it that since I've only got five members so far… Might as well be me alone… The other four barely do anything…" Marie grumbled sarcastically. "But what can you do, it's hard running an out reach program for mutants… " and Greer paused completely… Her ears going straight up… Her tail going limp…
There was a pause between the two women…
"Wait… You created and out reach program for mutants… And this…" and the tigress mentally counted the boxes that filled their garage…
"This is all for them?" she asked quietly, still not quite really believing it…
"Pretty much." and Greer couldn't help but smile…
"That… That's really cool of you mum…" she said genuinely though her enthusiasm ebbed away a little when she noticed how her mum had strategically had her back to her throughout the whole conversation… As if unable to look her in the eye…
"Well have to undo some of that damage I did don't I… Otherwise… I can't live with myself…" a Greer's ears lowered… Her mother had said that so… bitterly… Putting down the box she had been carrying, the tigress made her way to Marie before wrapping her arms around those trembling shoulders and nuzzling in…
"Hey… Don't say that… I forgave you a long time ago…" she purred softly trying to ease the tension radiating from her mother… There was another pause..
"I know…" came Marie's rattled response…
"But … the fact of the matter is I still haven't forgave myself and I don't think its happening fairly soon… So I better buck up because I can't wait to get this weight of my chest…" she said a matter factly, trying to escape and break away but Greer only held onto her tighter.
"K ... I really think you should wait for Scott's team to return." Ororo sounded anxious over the coms but K's tone was confident if not impatient with the African queen as she typed.
"I really think you need to worry about yourself. You said yourself it was low risk and high priority." K could almost feel Ororo's unease.
Ro had heard that tone from K before when she tried soothing Logan over ... right before she did something crazy.
"I did but ... maybe you should at least wait for Logan."
"Never thought I'd hear you telling me to wait for a man to protect me," K squinted at the screen as she memorized the layout to memory, "Alright, listen up, my lovely Goddess friend, I'm not waiting around for anyone. If you think I shouldn't go alone and you're that worried about it - suit up and hop in. From what I was told, you're a better leader than Scott anyhow." K finished with a glare at the comm that she knew Ororo could feel.
"You know I can't leave right now," Ororo replied. "Or you know that I would. I just - don't like the idea of you running this one alone."
"Storm, it's fine. Please. Relax. I'm going to observe - not liberate. Unless someone really asks for it." K couldn't help but let out a sigh as she signed off. "Besides, I'll be back before Logan. Unless he noses around or you tell him, he'll probably not even realize I was gone." And before Storm could say anything else K switched off the link and headed to get her gear as she muttered to herself.
"As if a certain someone is going to miss the chance to stretch."
K took the jet and it wasn't long that she was laid out on an outcropping overlooking a small military compound(?). K judged it to be some type of training camp that was back in use by yet another scum group blaming mutants for their pathetic messed up lives. She let an hour past before she finally got impatient.
"I'm pretty sure there's some beef jerky in the blackbird if you're hungry. Otherwise quit staring at my a**, Fuzzy," K said in a smooth, rolling tone.
To anyone else it would have looked like K was talking to herself, but a few seconds of dark quiet passed before Apex silently approached. K had figured something like this would happen when Logan had told her he had Avenger's business. Old man had always been protective and even with Creed gone ... seemed some habits died hard. Though she had to admit him having Colton ... watch over her ... was an interesting choice. Course kid did have some experience on the matter.
"Your objective was surveillance," Colton rumbled out low. K didn't bother looking up as she kept her eyes trained below.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" She peeked around the rifle scope then made a slight adjustment on the ring.
"What's the rifle for?" He asked. K smirked a little as her cheek rested on the stock.
"Binoculars are worthless to shoot with."
Apex just huffed and K went back to her lethal surveillance.
"Ah. There's the little scumbag of the hour," K said with almost a purr just before she flipped the safety off on the rifle. "How fast are you, Fuzz - I know you can't beat my bullet - but - how many rounds am I going to get off before you make it down there?"
K frowned a little and finally looked over her shoulder.
"You really just gonna stand there and -" but there was no one behind her. K smirked and settled back into her position as she slowed her breathing and lined her first shot.
...
This shouldn't take this long.
This really shouldn't take this long.
K gave a silent curse and stashing her gun out of sight made her way down the rocky hill towards the compound. This had been simple ... and there was no way these guys were either trained or armed well enough to give Fuzz any problems. But as she sprinted on level ground towards the outer barracks she heard the first roar and a torrent of gunfire. That ... couldn't be good.
The grounds were littered with the few bodies she'd laid out as cover and once she turned the corner to the inner part of the compound following the trail to Colton wasn't difficult. The place was a mess ... though she counted less than a dozen men in pieced together body-armor. If you could even call it that. Firearms were all factory made ... nothing you couldn't get from the right seller at a gun show.
The next roar drew K's attention and she headed over to one of the larger buildings and only stopped when she almost stepped right over the man she'd been sent to observe. Course now his throat was torn out. But if he was already dead ... what the hell were they both still doing here?
K dropped any sort of subtlety and simply kicked the door in, slicing her way through the three militia that had shouted at her sudden appearance. She didn't need to scent out where the missing panther was as that damn roar echoed towards her, K wincing slightly at the sound and growling as she stalked towards it.
Only seven left.
Most of the men had run for exits once he'd gotten through their perimeter but he'd already locked the doors from the outside. Locked them inside with him ... forcing them to fight. He wanted them to fight.
A grenade shot shrapnel into his arm.
six left.
They'd started small ... harassing local mutants. Then they'd moved up to beatings. Last week they lynched two mutant college freshmen on their way home.
five left.
A bullet through his side ... no major organ.
four left.
Slash wound to the forearm ... stab wound in the right shoulder.
Three left.
Now they're screaming at each other. Come on ... fight ... FIGHT!
Apex roared at the last survivors but cut short as all three fell in quick succession as three gunshots rang out.
He turned to see K standing there and all he could do was bleed and regain his breath as she looked at him with clear, utter disappointment. She met his eyes for just a moment before she shook her head lightly and let out a derisive sigh then simply turned her back on him and headed back to the jet.
Apex wasn't a psychic and he was lucky he wasn't as K silently seethed on the silent ride back as K drove the jet and he sat as far in the back as he could.
When they got back to shack, Apex wasn't certain where the smaller feral disappeared to until she came back with her uniform half unzipped with the arms wrapped around her waist and half an empty bottle clasped in her hand. From the way she was walking ... he assumed that would be bottle number three.
"You're an idiot ... you know that?" K wasn't looking for an answer as Apex simply glared at the wall littered with Weapon X directors.
"While you're pushing for Greer to be safe ... it didn't even occur to you that maybe that girl needs you to be safe too? Idiot." K didn't sound angry ... more like resigned though it was clear he'd fallen a few notches in her book. But now K was on a roll.
"I thought I needed to get her to show that she was serious about you - but I can see that was backwards. Either act like a man and take care of your woman or just make a clean break because from where I'm standing - you don't give two shits about that girl and she deserves someone who does." K grumbled as she dropped to sit on the table in the middle of the room that they used for briefings, but Apex just continued to keep his back towards her while she drank and glared at his back - the faces on the wall. The way he was standing. She wasn't impressed with any of it.
"Colton, I don't get you. Hell ... I bet you hate when they call you that don't you? 'Colton.' God only knows WHY but that tigress loves you. And instead of giving it a chance, of giving any of them a chance ... you're CHOOSING to be a weapon and just ... string her along." K took another pull as Apex tensed slightly. "Is that all it is? You just using her in your spare time?"
"Leave," he growled out.
"Make me."
"I don't need your help." He growled again, his brow lowering in clear frustration as he bled onto the floor, not bothering to have bandaged himself.
"That's why you're fucking this up with Greer. Because you dont' need help. You're as much a danger to her as you are to yourself." She almost didn't react fast enough as with a roar the panther whipped around, his teeth and claws bared. K's own claws shot out on instinct, but the bottle she held managed to land perfectly upright.
"BACK OFF! I didn't do a damn thing to get the snarl, mister, but if you really wanna go just because I'm the only one in this place willing to tell you the truth? FINE." K roared right back, squaring up. She'd had enough of dancing around him. Too much. Too damn much.
"LEAVE!" The room shuddered with the roar but K barely flinched despite her ears ringing. Everyone else might back down to him ... but never her. Not to anyone.
"AND I TOLD YOU TO MAKE ME. Whatever the hell you did ... or think you did that's got your head rammed this far up your ass ... just stop." K let out a breath and straightened up before she lowered her hands and retracted her claws. She lifted them again to show him the backs of her hands as they sealed up.
"I don't need the bandaging. But you do." she tipped her chin toward him. "You think I don't know that you don't tear into me for Logan? Let me be clear - I'm just trying to make sure you don't kill yourself and leave her alone. It's not for you. It's for her." She didn't wait for him to respond before she took a few steps forward, but Apex took a measured step back, getting K pause.
"Why?"
"I don't want you're help."
K shook her head and looked up at him.
"No why ... why all this?" She'd seen Apex fight ... both up close and objectively. He could have gone into night and simply snatched their target and never been seen or taken the entire base without taking nearly this type of damage. But the way he'd fought tonight ... had been to take as much damage as possible. She'd seen him keep the tigress he loved at arms length. The students he protected he refused to engage. The kid seemed driven to punish himself. It just didn't make sense.
K's simple question hung out until she finally turned and headed for the exit. But as she reached the door, for the first time ... Apex actually answered a question.
"I killed them."
K turned with a slight frown on her face.
"Killed who?"
But Apex wasn't really looking at K anymore, his mind going someplace else as he whispered out his response.
"I don't know."
NEXT CHAPTER: WHO IS COLTON HAYNES?
