"Decided to bring you a little something, 734." 510 chirped cockily, throwing her two dinner rolls. She caught them. "Glad to see you aren't still recuperating from that ass-whopping I gave you."
"What, is it in your DNA to forget important details?" She snapped before downing the two rolls. "What are you doing in my cell anyway?"
She pulled her knees closer to her chest as she glowered.
"Don't you know?" He whispered in her ear. She inched away, hoping he didn't notice her cringe.
She just glared at him.
"So, will you start undressing, or will I? Or we can make a game of it." He suggested happily, scooting closer to her.
"Slow down, tiger!" Vada ordered, her eyes widening. "There will be no undressing of any kind!"
"Our orders, 734." 510 reminded her, placing two fingers on the hem of her gray t-shirt.
"Our orders are bullshit." Vada hissed, slapping his fingers away.
"Bullshit they may be, but.." He sort of let his arms snake around her waist. "Bullshit is fun."
Vada rolled her eyes, and pushed his arms off of her. "The only way you're going to 'copulate' with me is if I'm unconscious."
"That wouldn't be too fun." 510 said with a smirk. "You'd be limp and unresponsive."
"Just like certain parts of your body, soldier." Vada muttered.
"You want to make sure that you can still kick my ass?" He challenged, raising an eyebrow and standing up.
"I don't need to check." Vada grumbled in reply. "I could give you a one-way ass-kicking from here to eternity. Pack your bags if you want to swing at me."
"Let's make this a fair fight then, Vada." He retorted, and she narrowed her eyes, standing up.
"You are the bastard who kidnapped me." She snapped.
"One and the same." He was smirking, his arms out in this sort of 'who-me?' expression.
Vada was holding back a bit, and she punched him.
Instantly, he grabbed her arm and stopped it.
She tried punching him again, and he had a tight grip on her arms. She tried to kick her way out of it, but she ended up turned around with her arms pinned behind her back. She let out a little whimper.
"Oh, is this hurting the big, bad Virus?" 510 mocked.
"Oh, no." Vada whispered, oozing in fake pain. "But this will."
She aimed her kick right at what male strippers call 'the moneymaker'.
She bent over his curled-up figure. "That's as close to copulating as we're ever going to get."
Tristan and Alec were still arguing and Max wanted to scream.
So she did.
"Will somebody please explain who this damn girl IS so I can help you and we can go home?" She shrieked.
Alec looked at her painfully. "We believe she shares some of the same DNA coding with you, as well as the same surrogate mother, so in technicality, this girl is your only family left."
Max swallowed thickly. "You were defending my baby sister?"
Alec nodded, and he swore that Max had a tear in her eye. But even his transgenic eye couldn't spot it after a moment.
"She was the equal of a daughter to me, Max. I can't lose her. In a way, she's the only family I've got left." Alec was ignoring the other ten million thoughts running through his head. "We've got to find her, Max. We have to."
"Then we head back to Seattle for the one resource we have left." Max said finally.
"Logan." Alec spat in explanation to Tristan, who he STILL didn't get along with.
On the drive back, Max figured something out.
"Turn around. I know where she is and we're going to need back-up." She ordered, taking in a sharp breath.
"What are you talking about, Maxie?" Alec whispered.
Max tried to ignore the fact that his breath felt nice on her ear, and she tried to ignore the pang in her heart when he called her that name.
"Your Manticore instincts are right." She replied breathlessly. "They've started it on this air base called Rawlings. It was not easy taking down Manticore the first time, and it shouldn't be easy now."
She knew it the instant she woke up and 510 was unconscious on the floor. It wasn't normal for her to be wanting him, and she thought back, hoping her cycle wasn't—
Okay, 510 was becoming irresistible. No doubt about it.
Her feline DNA was SO not helping right now.
She did only what she could do. She started shoving 510 out of her cell and locking it behind him.
She couldn't stay here much longer without bursting. Or turning into one of them.