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Rating: (As for Chapter One, nothing's changed)
A/N: I'm
developing a really bad habit of picking my writing to pieces. So in future I'm
letting it all just follow. If it doesn't make any sense we'll, you'll just
have to put up with it. :o)~
*****
Eva woke up hot and sticky, she felt really agitated considering she'd slept for a full five hours she couldn't figure it out. Wasn't sleeping supposed to help you feel relaxed? Snuffy was nowhere to be seen; Logan must have let him out. Good thing too, the last thing she wanted was to wake up to Snuffy's howling. Then it slowly dawned on her, her body was telling her something and she just groaned.
Oh no…please not now… It had been more than six months since the last time. If anything you could safely say that she was about as predictable as sunshine in Seattle. She was in heat, sure, while she'd been on Danes Isle she been able to deal with it. Alone in her house she'd just lock herself up till it passed and go on as normal. But being in the vicinity of an attractive male with only a thin wall to separate them.
Oh God, please save me… No, save Logan. What am I gonna do?
She couldn't stay in the room all day. But then again she couldn't go out on the street, Seattle was sure to be crawling with male bodies. Eva gripped the bed sheets tighter. She didn't realize how tightly till she heard a tearing noise.
Good lord, woman, get a grip.
Eva hauled herself out of bed and threw her gear on. She didn't have any other clothes; she was going to be wearing the same outfit as yesterday. Brushing her hair and tying it in a messy ponytail she took a deep breath and opened the door.
The male scent assaulted her nose the moment she edged the door open. This was not good. She had about ten seconds to get pass Logan and out the front door before all hell broke loose. She held her breath and ran, straight by Logan who was cooking in the kitchen and out the front door, she slammed it behind her. She sagged on the other end of the door, well so far so good. At least she wouldn't be trying to bed her sister's man.
Logan had seen a figure dash past him at an incredible speed, he been about open his mouth to ask Eva what she'd like for breakfast when someone had flown past. His door slammed and he closed his mouth. He guessed that he'd be dining alone.
Well more for me. That's when Snuffy started howling. Great here we go!
"What? You want out?"
Logan opened the door but the dog just sat there and continued to howl. "What do you want? If you don't keep it down, I'm going to get the neighbors coming up here."
Snuffy continued his howling. "Yeah, and you owner says you're a smart dog."
Logan shut the door and trudged back to the kitchen. A minute more of this and he was going on a hunt for his earmuffs.
It was five in the afternoon when Zack and Max wandered into Logan's apartment. All the way up in the elevator they heard howling.
"What is making that noise?"
"My guess would be Snuffy, Eva's dog."
"Don't dogs bark?"
"Snuffy's part wolf or something."
"Great."
The elevator stopped and slid open. Logan's door thrown wide open? That was strange.
"Logan." Max ran straight in. "Logan, where are you?" She was running through the apartment. She found him at his computer, with headphones on. He didn't even hear her come up. "Hey, Logan!" She knocked the headphones off.
"Hey what…Oh, Max." He glared at Zack who'd come in behind her. "What brings you to Seattle?"
"Logan, where is Eva? And why is Snuffy howling? It's a horrible noise."
Logan pushed himself away from the desk, "You've had to hear it for a few minutes, I had that racket all day. I've already had half the building turn up at the door. I expect animal control any time now." He stood up and stretched, "I bet he's just missing Eva, but why he just doesn't go after her I'll never know." When Logan looked at Zack again he raised an eyebrow. "What's up?"
Zack had caught a scent in the air, he sniffed, it was faint but he could definitely smell something. He followed the trail. It led him to the guest room. The sheet was torn and the bed sheets were trailed on the floor. It was an unmistakable smell and damn, it heated his blood like wild fire. He swore.
"What is it? Zack?" Max had followed him and all she could smell was sweat.
"Pheromones, Eva's in heat." He swung around and caught Logan by his jumper. "If you so much as touched her, I'll kill you."
"She raced out of here like death was after her and that was this morning. She hasn't been back."
Max knew why Eva would have run, to protect Logan. In her heart she thanked her sister. Even in her desperate state, she'd still thought of others above herself. But now they had to find her, Seattle was very different from Danes Isle and who knew what kind of trouble she could get herself in.
******
"Come here, baby, you have something I want."
Eva stood in the middle of Crash. She had her sights on a muscled man wearing a loose sweatshirt, he was giving off the strongest smell. And if he didn't come to her soon, she was sure that she'd go over there and strip him before they even made it out of the joint. Earlier in the day she'd almost jumped two-sector policeman before freaking out and running for her life. Her rational self had been fighting the urges all day and she was beginning to lose the battle. She'd realized that locking herself up in the bathroom back at Logan's would have been a much better idea than pressing her luck on the streets of Seattle. Her body was aching in more places than she could count and her skin was on fire. She didn't even have the will power to drag herself out of this place, unless she took a male body with her.
"Eva!"
She whirled at the sound of Max's voice. That toned body had just started to make a move towards her. Oh, Max, I can't help it. I can't stop this.
Her man had put his strong arms around her and pulled her into a passionate kiss. That kiss dissolved her rational being altogether. She grabbed the front of his sweatshirt ripped it open and ran her hands down his naked chest. All of a sudden that great muscled body disappeared from her arms. She opened her eyes. Zack stood in front of her, eyes blazing.
"You're going, now." Zack was having trouble controlling his own actions. He had to concentrate all his energy into not jumping her himself. Boy, she was giving off strong. "Max, you take her and keep her away from Logan. And get her under the shower."
******
If their suspicions were right, they'd reached Eva just in time. It had been too
close. Max blushed just recalling the embarrassing display. She'd pulled Eva
out of Crash but not before she'd noticed an open mouthed Sketchy and
shell-shocked Original Cindy. "Geeze, girl, and I thought you got it bad.
That girl's just got no control."
You don't know that half of it, boo.
Eva was standing shivering under the cold shower. Max had to hold her under because like a real feline, Eva was itching to jump a mile way from the icy spray.
"Everything okay in there?" Logan tapped on the door
"We're fine, Logan." Max pushed Eva back in the shower; she'd tried to get out when she heard Logan's voice.
Max breathed in relief when Logan moved away from the door. She heard his footsteps retreating down the hall.
Logan had watched Max drag a dazed Eva through the apartment straight to the bathroom. They hadn't come out for the past hour. He could hear spluttering and yelling but still no one came out.
At least the dog stopped howling. Praise God for small mercies.
He'd gathered that Eva was going through one of those cycles that Logan knew Max always dreaded.
"They probably won't come out till morning."
Damn. Logan cursed, he'd just never get to liking the guy. The one thing that he hated most about Zack, despite the fact that he was in love with Max, was that he'd always come out of nowhere and he always turned up uninvited.
"So you're just going to hang around."
"Well, I'm taking Eva as soon as she's able to leave."
Typical. Zack never asked if you wanted to go, he just turned up and expect you to leave. Logan was past even discussing people's feelings with Zack, the man had nothing else on the brain except his mission, protecting his siblings. Nothing else mattered.
******
"Maxie…"
Max ran a hand over Eva's damp forehead. She'd never seen a cycle that was so bad. She'd never been through anything so strong herself. Eva had been under six cold showers and her skin was still like a torch under her cool touch. Max could tell that her sister was struggling to fight the urges that were controlling her body and her mind.
It wasn't till early morning that Eva finally succumbed to an exhausted sleep. Her body was drenched with sweat and she felt weak, completely drained. Never in her life had she experienced such a strong hit. It scared her, if it hadn't been for Max, she would have had sex with that boy and afterward she would have hated herself. She'd never ever lost control before.
When Eva next awoke, Max wasn't at her bedside. She looked down at herself, her body felt slick and the robe she was in clung to her. Urgh, you need a shower girl. She felt a little lightheaded but at least the worst of her cycle had past. She no longer felt the uncontrolled urge to have sex. She was wearing a bathrobe, an oversized one at that. Must be Logan's…yep the worst is over. Or wouldn't I want to run out of room and grab the guy Well she badly need to change and she wasn't about the wonder around in the clothes she'd worn for the past two days already. She'd have to ask if Logan could loan her something.
Eva opened the bedroom door and peered out, the place looked deserted. Looking out of the window the sun was high, it was getting close to midday. Well that would explain why the penthouse was so quite. But where was Snuffy?
"Logan, are you here?" She, tried calling again but still there was no answer.
Oh well, I'll just help myself.
She went through Logan's closet and grabbed a t-shirt and a pair of drawstring shorts. At least she could pull the strings tight and the pants wouldn't fall off. She had a quick cool shower and pulled on the clothes. They were huge on her; she had a small frame and was only 5ft 6 inches tall. Logan's shorts hung to her shins and his t-shirt looked more like a nightshirt. She looked like a toddler dressed in teenager's clothes. She giggled.
Well, I hope that Max comes back first and I can grab something better than this, cause I must look like a dag.
She made herself some porridge with oatmeal Logan had in the cupboard and sat at the bench to eat. Humming away some tune that she just made up.
Hours past and no one came. Where was everyone? She wasn't too bothered because she was sure that they'd all wonder back eventually. She had occupied herself using Logan's computer just playing around on the Internet. It was about four in the afternoon when she stumbled onto something.
What the…?
It was all her Zedcon research material. It was in a recently copied file. She opened the folder that Logan had downloaded. She scanned and read all the data in a matter of minutes. She was ecstatic; Max wouldn't have to find her a lab, why hadn't she thought of it before.
Thanks, Logan, you're a lifesaver.
She couldn't believe her luck. All they had to do now was get her equipment from the lab. She could set up anywhere once they got hold of her stuff.
When Max turned up an hour later, Eva had already hacked into the government mainframe and dumped the layout of a laboratory in Oregon onto Logan's hard drive. She's then got blueprints of the lab's security by swiping them from the security company. By the time Max wondered into Logan's office, Eva had her mission all planned out.
"Eva, what are you doing?"
"Max, we're going to get my stuff. I'm going to take it from the lab I used to work at."
"How do you know it will still be there?"
"Before I left I hid all my equipment and my files in the underground basement. It's locked up in a safe." Eva could barely contain her excitement.
"Tell me what to do because you're staying here."
Eva dropped the plan she'd been studying on desk. "But you can't go alone…"
Max cut her off, "I'm not giving you a choice. There are people looking for you, I found this," Max handed Eva the missing person's notice. She deliberately left out the part of where she got it. "Besides wouldn't the people at the lab recognize you."
Eva's shoulders dropped, "You've got a point. But I just don't like the idea of you going alone."
"I do crazy stuff all the time, it's the story of my life." Max smiled and grabbed Eva's hand. "Besides, you're doing this for me. I wanna help out."
Eva eventually agreed that she'd stay behind and let Max go. Max made her promise not to say anything to Logan, saying he'd freak. Eva promised, on the condition that if anything were to go wrong, she'd call for help. Max just nodded and gave her sister a huge hug before grabbing the plans and dashing out the door.
She had a few things to organize before she jumped on her bike and headed for Oregon. One of those things involved Zack.
