~ One month ago ~
"They're gone. Alexis Davenport and Nina Brown have officially left the primer and this organization. What now Sir?" Max reported
"I want you and a company of a hundred of men to get me that fucking flashdrive immediately!" He replied
"With all do respect what will happen to Alexis and Nina?" Trent asked
"They're a liability and at this point disposable because you didn't wanna do you're damn job! I can't believe I actually expectated more from you Garcia and now I'm gonna have to lose four of my best agents." He said
"Four?" Michael questioned before feel the barrel of gun against the back of his head
"WAIT A MINUTE! I CAN STILL GET IT!" Trent yelled feeling the gun behind his head
"To late for that now boys." Max said slowly warping his finger around the trigger
"If you kill us she'll really go on a rampage and destroy everything. I know her and I know for a fact you if send in Max she'll just murder his entire squad cause you pissed her off again just look at how many men you've lost already. Give me a second chance and I swear on my life I'll get you what you want without any casualties. You won't have to lose anybody else." Trent begged
Stryker raised his hand while Max gritted his teeth lowering this guns, "And you give me not only your word but a guarantee you'll be able to give me that flashdrive by the end of next month?" He asked
"That's all the time we'll need." Trent replied
"We? This is a one person operation." Stryker said
"I need Michael for ummmm...support." Trent lied
"Fine but you better watch over him. I'm getting reports about your intoxication behavior Holmes and let's just leave it at this if you don't pull your head out of your ass Miss. Davenport won't be the only one falling down a flight of stairs. You're dismissed." Stryker said walking to his sit
Trent pushed Michael towards the door, "You're welcome for saving your sorry ass and if you make me regret it than I'll kill you myself." He quietly said
"Do you think he'll be able to get the flashdrive Sir?" Max asked after making sure the boys left
"Don't worry Max cause if he doesn't get it I'll just make him. Just like how I made him do everything else." Stryker answered
When we got to the house I went to my room while Trent was looking around and picking up the last of his stuff until he noticed a package sticking out of his closet.
"Alex what is this?" He asked walking in with a warped up box
"Just take it and leave. It's nonrefundable and I can't do anything with it hopefully you can." I said typing on the computer while I had the chance
Trent sat down on my bed and tared off the warping paper before opening the box and staring at everything that was inside, "This the deed to the place we had our first date...Why would you have this?" He asked
"After 39 years of being together you're still able to look me in my eyes and tell me you can't trust me. Why? I get it you have trust issues your dad disowned you and your mom left but that doesn't mean I'll do that to you. Hell I got my own problems with my dead beat dad to deal with." I said turning around facing him
"I do trust you it's Michael who I don't trust." He replied
"You trust me it's Michael you don't trust but you took his side...Yeah that makes sense." I said looking more confused than ever
"At least I was honest with people when we first met. I was an open book Michael on the other hand is a damn snake. He would date vulnerable and insecure girls and after he got what he wanted he'd leave. I believed him because you were in that state and Nina was gone for awhile." He said
"So you believed him because you thought he would take advantage of me?" I asked
"I know he was my brother and he had Nina but he always felt entitled to everything. That's why his ass really ended up in Washington Academy because parents cut him off and threw him in there after he got in trouble with the law." He said
"For what? Stealing from a baby? " I asked
"Attempted murder. Michael is more fucked up than you guys actually know but you noticed it cause he's always able to hide it. At one point I saw him taking pills for schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder." He said
"Seriously?" I questioned
"Yeah. So I did have more reasons to believe him over you but I should've trusted you more." He said
"Do you think he's that way around my sister?" I asked
"No. She's different no matter how much shit comes up out his mouth he actually cares about her and he's genuinely sorry about everything just like how I am." He said
"I'm tired of hearing you apologize. Why are you so apologetic anyway I really don't blame you for losing it but I do blame you for leaving." I said
"Leaving? Now we're really getting somewhere." He said while I sighed and folded my arms, "You didn't understand what I was going through than." He said
"Well can you tell me now cause I'm still trying to understand. Why did you start using after the surgery?" I asked
"Cause...if it wasn't for me none of this would've never happened." He said
"How was all of this you're fault when Michael was driving and our parents allowed Stryker to start the surgery?...Well most of our parents anyway." I questioned
"It's my fault because I got Michael drunk that night and told him to drive. He was only gonna have maybe one beer until I kept giving him one shot after another. I knew I should've died that night but waking up seeing you hurt in that hospital bed made me feel...I don't know it should've been just me. I felt so guilty about everything I thought it would've been better if I had never existed at all. Nobody would noticed anyway my dad didn't give a damn about me my mom abandoned me so who is left to care if I was gone?" He asked
"Me. I'd care if you were gone." I answered
"I doubt that. You wouldn't even say two words to me before today and you should just say you hate me already because I know I deserve it." He said
"I don't hate you. I could never really hate just a strong dislike at the moment more importantly I hate the idea of not having you around more if that makes sense." I said
"I get it but I couldn't tell when you burned my skateboards and trophies." He said
"That was just some plywood I copied your designs onto and those were my trophies Stryker gave me. You're stuff is still in the closet." I said
"Why did you have me believe you destroyed everything?" He asked
"Because you had me believe you'd always be here for me." I said
"I left so I could get better for you." He said
"Well maybe I didn't want you to leave. I hate it when you're away and you act like you don't even noticed it but I'm miserable without you. It drives me crazy to find myself wondering why am I so loyal and faithful to you when you're just gonna leave me hanging. You don't even trust me so why are we even together?" I asked
"We're together because I know you better than you know yourself and vice versa. You hate beinging alone during thunder and lighten storms. You hide you're emotions because you think of it as a weakness and that no one will listen to you. And even though you're being defensive and grauded like this you really want me to stay...Right?" He asked before getting up, "If I leave I'm not coming back unless you admit that you want me here...so if you want me to stay I need you to say it." He said walking towards the door
"Wait! Don't leave...not again. You're right ok? I've always been afraid of completely giving myself to someone else because I'm terrified of being abandoned again. I keep myself guarded like this because this all I know how to do and I wasn't raised any different either. I was told to believe that being guarded was the only way to live and being over protective is the only way to show love but then I met you. You showed me something completely different and I don't want that to end. I know you don't know exactly how to love but you do know more than me so can you teach me how?" I asked
"If you think I know how to love than your mom must have really fucked you up. I changed because of you. I went to jail to rehab tried to hang myself and got shipped off to a halfway house because of you. I hated myself because of you and the reason I blame you for all of this...is because I love you more than I could ever care about myself. The last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt you and that's exactly what happened." He said pulling me out the chair and holding me tightly, "I don't wanna risk losing you ever again because you're the best part of me." He lightly mumbled
Maybe it was the honesty and sincerity in his voice or it was the distances between us that made me miss him or it was the way he was keeping me close like this either way having him back made me feel complete. He felt warmer than usual and the way he had this tight grip on me it was like he was terrified to let go. When he finally did let go there was this look in his eyes that I had never seen before. One kiss that's all it took to spark the light back into our relationship and for one thing to quickly lead to another until we were in bed together. Everything pause time seemed to seceded and the only thing that seemed to change were the positions we were in. Each kiss was more addictive than the last every touch lingered and I couldn't help but indulged in every feel. The seconds quickly faded into minutes and the minutes eventually turned into hours and a long the lines of wearing our hearts on ourselves I noticed how all of it felt different compared to the other times. Everything felt more passionate more lasting even without a taser it felt endless and than it hit me he wasn't trying to make it feel like the first time but make it last as if it was the last.
I woke up maybe ten minutes later after everything in a daze. Reality felt more like a dream dreams were nothing but fantasies and the outside world didn't exist. There was a little light pecking in from the window a cool breeze coming from the vent layered over the thin sheet that covered our bodies and even though the breeze felt nice it wasn't powerful enough to dull his warmth. I had never known him to be injuried or hurt before so when I saw the cuts scars and buries on his skin my curiosity lefted me wondering. I lightly stroked over a few with my fingertips just to see how he would reacted. The newer ones tend to make him hiss or tighten up while the old ones didn't make him do much but nothing got my attention more than the puncture wounds on his inner elbow.
"I thought all of Max's puncture wounds healed up." I mumbled to myself before glancing up at him and slowly moving my hand across his chest
As soon as I laid a finger on just one of the wounds his body instantly tensed up while he grabbed my hand, "Those wasn't from any tranquilizer dart those are from something else." He said catching his breath and lacing our fingers together
"I'm sorry." I said quietly
"No matter how old they get those will always hurt the most. I have a few questions I wanna ask but if you answer you have to be honest alright?" He asked while I nodded, "Are you still mad at me?" He asked
"No. Not anymore." I answered
"Do you still love me?" He wondered
"I couldn't really stop even when I was mad." I confessed
"Can you promise me something?" He asked
"Anything." I said
"Can you promise me you won't go back to Xavier's school?" He asked
"Why? Is there something wrong?" I asked
"Just promise me you won't go back." He said
"Ok I promise I won't go back." I reluctantedly said
"Thank you now lets go back to sleep." He softly said closing his eyes and falling back to sleep
I stayed up for a few minutes before falling back to sleep and as soon as I did Trent openned his eyes and patiently waited for the right moment to sneak out of bed. When he did move he grabbed some tweezers a hairpin and a bottle of water. After biting the hairpin straight and gently moving my arm towards him he started using the hairpin and tweezers to try to crack open the wrist shackle. It took him awhile before he got it off and started unwrapping the first layer of duck tape. When he came up to the second layer he poured water on his fingers before carefully and quietly moving it off along with the last layer. He grabbed the tweezers and removed the fake layer of skin on my wrist before using them to slide out the flashdrive. I pulled the covers over me and rolled over unaware of what just happened. Trent glanced over at me before putting on his clothes whispering something in my ear and eventually leaving.
"I understand that I have a deadline Senator Kelly. I just need a few more months." Stryker said over the speakerphone
"You're already three months pass the deadline and if you keep this up than I'll have no choice but to fire you." He replied
"But this is StrikeLight Inc. first ever major project if you cut us off than you'll have to start all over and all of our research goes to waste. We're trying to develop a global mutant tracking and hunting program within all the Sentinels but my engineers haven't exactly mastered the technology yet." He said
"Global? As in worldwide?" Senator Kelly said
"Yes but we need a little more time." He said
"Fine but this is the last extension you'll get. You have until the end of the March to show me at least one completed and fully functional demo Sentinel. I have a lot riding on this so don't disappoint me." Senator Kelly said before hanging up
"No I wouldn't want to disappoint the man who'll help me kill off those freaks of nature cause after they have been wiped out it'll be even easier to take over this piece of shit planet with my android army. So cheers to the first of many idiotic Senators government officials and congressmen/women who'd rather embrace hate then to try to understand what they don't know." Stryker proclaimed before taking a drink
"Where The Hell Is He!?" Trent yelled walking around
"He's in a meeting right now. What are you doing here anyway?" Max asked blocking the door with a few grauds
"I need to speak to Stryker now." He answered
"Do you have authorization to be back here?" Max asked
"I'm the Captain I don't need authorization." He replied
"Well I'm Colonel and I say you need authorization." Max said
"You think just because you sucked Stryker's dick to get that rank people are gonna take you seriously? You're a fucking joke and am I laughing myself to death watching you trying to run something. Look here bitch I've been through way to much bull shit to take orders from a punk who let's his daughter fight for him. Now let me pass before I put my foot so far up your ass my leg will coming out your fucking skull." He said
"Let him pass. We obviously need to talk." Stryker said over the intercom
"But Sir..." Max started
"You heard me let him pass." Stryker said
"Yeah. Let me pass." Trent said pushing him out the way
"Captain Garcia that was a major form of disrespect not just towards an higher ranking officer but to me as well. Now I don't know where did this attitude come from but you know your place I recommend you keep your ass there before somebody gets hurt. What is it that you wanted to talk about?" He asked before Trent slammed the flashdrive on the table
"I already checked it twice everything is on there now give me our contracts back." He said
Stryker looked over the flashdrive before looking up at Trent and having somebody from the research department come in, "I want this flashdrive analysed from top to bottom if something needs to be copied copy it if something needs further research look it up and I need this done by the end of the hour. Got it?" He asked
"Yes Sir right away." The man said taking the flashdrive and running out
"Now about our contracts." Trent said
"What about them?" Stryker replied
"Can I have them back?" He asked
"Why of course you can. I am a man of my word." He said going to the safe and setting them on the table
Trent glanced at Stryker before looking over all the paperwork, "This is only half of the the original contracts. Where the hell is everything? We Had A Deal The Flashdrive For..." He started
"YOUR FUCKING LIFE! You better be grateful I gave you that you fucking cockroach." Stryker said
"You know we can't do anything with this shit!" Trent yelled throwing the papers all over the room, "You have no fucking idea what I had to do to get that flashdrive you prick! YOU OWE ME!" He yelled
"I DON'T OWE YOU SHIT EXPECTED A BULLET IN BACK OF YOUR DAMN HEAD! Last month we had a new agreement saying if you didn't give me that flashdrive I take you're life. Now if you can get me Cerebro by sunrise than we can talk about the contracts." Stryker replied
"And what if I refused?" He asked
"Ever heard of the Cincinnati Slayer? Born as Joshua Rogers he had a very sick and twisted sense of humour even at a young age. He liked to torment small animals to see how much pain their bodies can handle. As he grew older there wasn't much of a change in his hobbies expected a desire for to test his torment on humans. Females were his favorite victims because of the different body structures he would come across. When the authorities put out aman hunt for his arrest legend says he committed suicide to avoid capture but a body was never found. After a surgery to repair his mental blocks, a few decades in hiding, and a new identity as Matthew Pattinson aka Mad Max he openned his own auto repair shop that you're cousin is now stationed at." Stryker explained, "If you don't get me that program I'll have Max round up everybody you care about and force you to watch as he torture them to the point of where they beg him to kill them but don't worry about Alexis. He'll take good care of her he'll turn her into his sex slave until he's bored with the bitch and than he'll slice her throat while you watch. Now I'm not asking you I'm ordering you GET ME CEREBRO!" Stryker yelled
"Fine." Trent said
"Good boy now give him his treat before he leaves." Stryker said lighting a cigar
Max grabbed Trent in a headlock shoved a needle in his left temple before releasing the nanites directly in his brain and letting him go. Trent screamed out covering ears and curling up on the floor while the nanites slowly took control of his mind and body.
"God I hope you fail. The only reason I let my daughter take her ass out is because if I did you wouldn't have seen her again. Get up go to the training room master the upgrade get all the supplies you need and get the fuck out of here. If you try to run I will track your ass down if you hide I'll hunt you down and if you think you can get out of this like your little girlfriend did than I won't hold back when it I capture her." Max said leaning down near Trent
"Touch her and I'll kill you." Trent managed to mumbled passed his pain
Max stood up and stomped all over Trent for a moment before leaving him coughing up blood, "You got an hour to master the upgrade and two to get me Cerebro before sunrise. Don't disappoint me or it's your suffering." Stryker said