Out of Reach Chapter 2: Orders Defied, a dark angel fanfic

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Rules Broken

Viper was laying on his bed with his arms behind his head. He had his eyes closed and was thinking that he was really starting to get tired of being a pawn. He was thinking that he would become one piece in the game that changed it's worth. He was thinking that he should become a piece such as a knight which was so much more dangerous than a pawn. A pawn was controlled and manipulated which was something that Viper was truly tired of. He wanted to be his own person like Max was but he just didn't see how that was going to happen.

Viper felt that even though he wanted to become another piece in the game of chess he knew that he was stuck as a pawn. He moved his hands down to his side and rolled onto his side. He was nearing sleep when he heard steps coming towards his room. He knew that it was a army boy since the boots made a specific sound on the tiles. Viper rolled over and sat up. He let his eyes adjust to the light as he turned his light on.

Viper looked over and saw that it was light outside and he knew that he had been up all night brooding over something that had never bothered him until Max had shown up and talked to him. She was a enchanting woman he thought. She would make a man very happy if she ever found one that she could love with all her heart. Viper hoped that she could.

There was a knock at his door which he had been expecting since the steps had stopped. "Come in," Viper said as he pulled on a shirt. He hated to be disturbed but he knew that he could do nothing about it. He looked over and saw a familiar lackey of the Director's. The man standing there was Ralin and he was nervous though Viper couldn't blame him. Ralin had seen Viper tear the throat out of a man for hitting one of the girls from the X-7 group. Viper had shown no remorse and to tell the truth he hadn't felt any. Any man who would hit a girl was a man who needed to be hurt.

"What do you want," Viper demanded and had the satisfaction of seeing Ralin move from one foot to the other nervously.

"I was told to tell you that you are to go to Max's room. You know the X-5," Ralin said as he looked at Viper though he tried not to look Viper in those strange colored eyes.

"First of all you will refer to her as Max at least in my presence. If you ever refer to her as the X-5 again I may have to remove a bodypart. Second why am I to go there," Viper said coldly.

"Yes fine whatever. You are to go to her because according to her and the Director she is in heat. You are to do your duty," Ralin said and a small smile played about his lips.

"My duty," Viper asked not understanding what they he was talking about.

"You are to sleep with her in other words. Make her happy. She needs to breed you fool and hopefully you know what you are to do with that thing between your legs," Ralin said as he laughed. "Now hurry up and get dressed though those cloths won't stay on long from what I am told."

"Fine," Viper said as he finished dressing. He didn't like what he had been told. He knew what being in heat was and he guessed that it was a side effect of the animal genes in Max. He didn't really want to have her in that way though. She didn't love him and he didn't want to take advantage of her because of a weakness. He knew that she loved someone else but he would do his duty as he had always done.

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Max was wondering what was taking them so long. If she had really been in heat then she would have been going crazy by now. They really didn't know how to treat a lady though she would never admit to being a lady. She paced back and forth in her room wearing nothing but her nightgown that they had given her. She had not wanted it to begin with but then she had thought that if she was going to be there she might as well use what they gave her. You never knew perhaps something would come in handy.

She kept glancing out the window and watched as the sun slowly climbed higher and higher in the sky. She had guessed that the man had been gone for about an hour or so when she heard footsteps coming towards her door. She counted two sets so that meant that one of the men was for her and the other was escorting him to her. Her heart sank. She figured that if one of them was being led to her then they wouldn't have let him have his gun or knife or anything which meant that her ruse had been called.

She walked over and stood in front of the door and waited. She put her hands on her hips and thrust her hip out a little to entice hoping that she could take them both by surprise. She was willing to use sexual suggestions to her advantage if they worked but she didn't know if they would. She flipped her hair back over her shoulder and just watched the door with all the intensity that a animal could muster.

She felt like an animal she decided. She was trapped and surrounded by enemies. She wanted to get away and yet they kept her in captivity. She knew that freedom was there but it was just out of her reach and if she could just reach a little farther then it would be in her grasp. She smoothed her face and waited as she let a small smile play about her lips.

The door opened and in stepped a man who she had never met before. It wasn't the man that she had sent off to get her a man to bed though that was for sure. This man had the look of a officer of some kind. He held himself well and seemed to know what to expect. He looked her up and down like many a man had and she ignored his gaze, "So it seems to me that you could have taken even longer if you tried. A girl gets mighty lonely here all by herself." Max nearly purred on those last words hoping that he was the man that was sent to her.

"Hold it here I am not for you. No the Director has decided that you need more of a man than any of us so she sent you a special gift," the man said smiling widely at her. What the hell could he be smiling about. They surely couldn't have known her plan could they? Of course not she hadn't told anyone and they weren't that smart. She decided to play along though.

"Oh and who does she feel that is right for me," Max asked as innocent as she could though she let her eyes play over Ralin like a man does to a woman. It was the look that said she needed him and he was her prey. She had gotten the look many a time but of course the men were fools and they weren't the hunters.

"Well you will just have to see. Now I must retreat and let him in here. I do hope that the two of you hit it off right away and enjoy yourselves," he said as he backed out the room with a large smile plastered across his face which Max would have been more than happy to wipe off.

She was ready for anything or so she thought. She had prepared herself for the worst when he had said that the Director had chosen. She had thought that it might be one of the X-7 boys or even a very ugly stupid man who they had picked up off the street but who stepped into the room shocked her. She did a good job of hiding her shock though or so she hoped because who walked into her room and shut the door behind him was the man she had spoken to in the yard. Standing across from her was the man they called Viper.

The only two in the room were Max and Viper and she could tell that he didn't know what to do and she wasn't sure that he knew what the deal was. She was too surprised to speak for a couple of minutes and he did his job of being quiet while she recovered herself. She looked at him and couldn't deny that he was handsome but to be honest with herself she had no wish of attempting to beat him in combat because she was pretty sure that she would lose.

"Do you know why you are here," Max finally asked though it was a stupid question and she knew it as soon as the words left her mouth.

"Yes I believe that I do. Now if you will excuse me for a second," Viper said as he walked over to the camera that was hidden in the wall. Viper puched through the wall with a ease that made Max nervous. He pulled the camera from it's niche and smiled into it. "Well director I am here but I must say that I don't appreciate a audience." He then smashed the camera on the floor.

"They had that there the whole time," Max said and it was not a question. She should have known but she had been heart-broken over Zack to even truly think properly. When she did they sent her Viper and her plan went all to hell. She wished that they would have been stupid and sent her a normal man with his weapons. She would have liked that because she might have been able to get away.

"I understand why I am here but I am sure that what you told them was just a ruse am I right," Viper said as he gave her a half smile.

He knew! How many others had guessed she wondered. Well she figured that Viper was a bit smarter than the others and if he was the same way that she was then he might be able to tell if she was lying or not. She guessed that Viper was just smarter though and the others had no clue that she was faking.

"Well if you know then what are we going to do," max asked as she sat down on the edge of her bed.

"We are going to sit here and talk. And after a while I will leave and they will never be the wiser unless you wanted something else," Viper said as he raised an eyebrow.

"No I would like the talking part I think," Max said as she laid back on the bed then and looked up at the ceiling.

"Very well then what would you like to talk about," Viper asked in all seriousness which almost surprised her though it shouldn't have. Viper was different than other men she could tell. He didn't want to do anything that would harm a woman and she knew that he would do his best to keep her happy since she was a prisoner.

"I want you to tell me about yourself," Max said though she knew that he wouldn't answer. Of course when he spoke he surprised her yet again.

"About myself huh. Well there isn't much to tell. I don't remember most of my youth. All my memories of are of death and destruction. There is a little training mixed in with those memories but not much," Viper said as he thought about the question.

"That's not what I wanted to know. I want to know about you, about what you think and what your dreams are," Max said hoping to get him to open up. She knew that if he didn't one day he would go off the edge of humanity and he would become nothing but a killer that didn't care about anything. She didn't understand why she cared but for some reason she did. Maybe it was because he was so different than everyone or maybe it was because he was kind to her when a lot of people weren't.

"I am Viper Max. That is my name and truth to tell thanks to a lot of testing I have the quickness of one. I also have the strength of a rhino which they tied in with other animal genes to make me exceptionally strong. I have the sight of an eagle and the hearing of the best of animals. I am the product of research upon you and other groups. I am the fruitation of all their work and I have the best of all the animal kingdom has to offer," Viper said formally as he felt he was talking to someone superior at that question which he wasn't sure but he might just be. She was superior to him in the knowledge of how people interact. He had no clue about that and knew that if he ever left this place then he would be a hermit.

Max didn't like that and she knew about being part animal. She also knew that he didn't care what had been done to him. He had accepted it and had grown to love himself she thought. It was strange she was thinking and then she caught a look at his neck. There was a barcode there but it wasn't numbers. It was a single word and it said DEATH. She didn't comment on it though and instead asked him, "Viper have you ever loved anyone."

"Love is nothing but a relative term. To love is just to like someone real well. Who is to say though that love is truly a emotion but not a way of our bodies to procreate. Who is to say that the feelings we interpret as love are not but pulses that our bodies send out to ourselves letting us know that it would do good to mate with a certain person. I believe that love is a means to an end for our bodies and genes. So in answer to your question Max no I have never loved anyone," Viper said and stood up and walked over to the wall and leaned against it.

He looked at Max and couldn't help but say, "You are truly beautiful. You are the most beautiful woman that I have ever seen. Your eyes hold a depth of pain and understanding that few people could ever comprehend. They are eyes that know about the world and know how to help others see the good even if you don't see it yourself. Your eyes don't lie to you. Your hair is the perfect shade for you and you are nearly perfect." He was embarrassed that he had said that and he could tell that she was uncomfortable with what he had just said. He felt that he should say something else.

Max hadn't believed the answer he had given for the question that she had asked. He had never loved anyone or anything from what she could tell. She was then taken aback by what he said after answering her question. She couldn't believe that he had said that. She had been told she was beautiful before but what else he had said was all new to her.

"Listen," Max said. "If we don't at least make some noise they will know that I was faking and then we will both be in trouble."

"Fine do whatever it is that you do or tell me what I am supposed to do," Viper said. Max gave that sultry look that she knew she was so good at giving and smiled ever so slightly at Viper. She threw herself from the bed at him and he caught her and she threw her body against his to make it sound like they were thumping the wall.

* * * * *

The Director wasn't happy that Viper had torn the video camera out of the wall and what he had said had also made her angry. He had been a fool by tearing that out of the wall though he didn't know it. He had done the same thing with his room and made periodical checks to make sure that no new camera's were installed. He really didn't like being watched she gathered though she didn't really care. She had needed to know if Max had been telling the truth or not. Now she didn't know.

As she sat there she started to get angry at Viper and at Max. She hated Viper and he knew it. Of course he also knew that he was too valuable and that she wouldn't risk killing him until one of the X-7's bested him in combat. At that time she would finish him off if the X-7 didn't. She was looking forward to the day when she could put a bullet in his head. He was too smart and too good at what he did for his own good.

She sent for Ralin after about twenty minutes without knowing if Viper and Max were having sex or not. It was not a good twenty minutes and she had built herself to such a fury that when Ralin appeared she said, "Go get Viper and escort him back to his room at gunpoint if necessary. Take Max to the torture chamber because I need to know how much pain she can take if she is going to be one of our operatives. I need to know so that I know how much torture she can take before she breaks. Go now."

Ralin did his job without question but he wondered if that was the best course of action considering how Viper felt about Max. He was protective of her for some reason and Ralin didn't want to take any chances. Ralin though knew his job and so went and got five men. They went straight to Max's room.

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Max was sitting on the edge of the bed with her hair mussed. She had mussed it on purpose hoping that it would seem like she had had a wild one. She had gotten on the bed because she had wanted them to think that she had gotten respectable for the men when they came barging into her room. Max and Viper had heard them coming and so had prepared themselves.

The door burst open then and three men walked over and seized Viper. "We are to escort you back to your room Viper," one of the men said.

"All right," Viper said and as they started to lead him out of the room and thought came back to him. A name floated to the forefront of his thoughts and he knew who that name belonged to. He knew that the name was his and he wondered how he could remember it now but he knew that he had to tell Max.

"Hey Max," he called to her as he started out the door. He saw that Ralin and two other men had her and we starting to lead her out of the room. He wondered what they wanted with her but he figured that it was something to do with the director. He needed to tell her though. "Max."

"Yeah what you are so damn clingy," she said in a hard voice. He knew that it was for the benefit of the guards. She didn't want them to know that they were fast becoming friends or at least it seemed that way to Viper.

"You can call me Kale from now on," he said as he was lead away with a gun in his back. Apparently it hadn't worked out the way the director had wanted. He had done something wrong and now he was to be punished for it and that was fine by him. They wasn't much they could do to him anymore that they hadn't already done.

He hoped that Max was going to be fine though. He didn't want to get her in trouble. He liked Max too much to allow her to get in trouble but he had a feeling that she was to at least be yelled at and possibly confined to her room for awhile for a slight that Viper had done to the Director.

He was taken to his room and then he was shoved into his room and he heard the door slam behind him and heard it locked. He gave a small smile because he knew that the door couldn't hold him if he wanted out but he decided that he would wait for the Director to come to him and when she did he and her would have a little talk.