Angel sat in Pro's room, collecting emergency medical equipment, just in case. He turned when he sensed someone at the door, and looked over his shoulder to see Drew standing in the doorway.
"You know, it's going to be kind of hard to rescue your girlfriend if your sitting up here brooding. Plus, Alexz and Spike are downstairs playing escape and evade in the shadows, and Cordelia, Nefertiti and I are getting a little tired of getting 'accidentally' tackled."
"Drew, you heard the tape. We don't know what kind of shape we're going to find Pro and Kesal in." Angel said, going back to his packing.
"True." Drew said, shrugging his shoulders and coming the rest of the way into the room.
"And I was NOT brooding." Angel said, shouldering the medical pack and walking past Drew and down the stairs.
"Yeah right, and I'm Lydecker." Drew shot at his 'brothers' back.
"Nice to meet you Deck." Angel fired back.
Drew smirked, glad that his 'brother' had his somewhat not-existent sense of humor back and followed him down.
Connor turned from the bloody and unconscious mess that was his little sister. Chuckling to himself, Connor carefully cleaned his knife as he left her cell, leaving the door open.
"You bastard." Kesal managed to spit out through his cut and bruised lips. To keep Kesal busy while he was 'working' on his 'sister', Connor had ordered a squad of ten X7's into his cell to basically beat the hell out of him, after giving him an injection to slow Kesal's healing of course.
Kesal couldn't stand on his own, but was using the bars of his cell to support himself. His whole body felt like one big bruise, and he was pretty sure that most of his bones were broken. His face was covered in blood and bruises and he couldn't see out of one eye.
"Shut up Kesal." Connor said. He opened the door, and backhanded Kesal across the face. It was too much for the younger and smaller boy, and he fell to the ground, barely hanging on to consciousness. Weakly, he grabbed Connor's ankle.
Connor simply glared at the boy before kicking him in the jaw, and flipping him onto his back. Kesal groaned, his eyes fluttering. Connor smiled once evilly before stomping on Kesal's face. Finally, Kesal's world went black.
Unnoticed by Connor, Pro had not really been unconscious, just pretending. As Connor was concentrating on making Kesal miserable, Pro had swung her legs off her cot and was sneaking out of her cell. Her wounds were all bandaged, except for her broken arm, which swung loosely at her side for a moment before Pro cradled it against her stomach. She didn't really notice the pain. One of the things about her heat was that it dulled all the pain.
Pro slipped out of the cell, and noticed a spare piece of metal that was laying on the ground. Pro picked it up and released some of her mutant powers. All the V's had them, but all of them had different powers. Pro had the ability to tap into the potential energy contained within an object and transform it into kinetic energy. When Pro charged an object with kinetic energy and threw it at a target, the object released the energy explosively on impact.
Pro wasn't supposed to use her powers when she was in heat. They were to hard to control. But desperate times called for desperate measures. . . Pro picked up the metal bar and charged it, fighting hard to control her powers. She was lucky this time. She was able to keep her powers under control, and not alert Connor to her presence.
Pro waited until the bar started to glow a bright gold, then threw it at Connor's back. She dived to the side, throwing her arm over her face to protect her from the blast. The bar exploded, and threw Connor into the wall, knocking him out. Kesal, who had just woken up, managed to stand, his legs starting to heal.
"Pro!" He yelled, stumbling to the open door of his cell. Sure enough, his sister was grinning at him, one of her arms pulled up against her chest.
"Hey 'bro'. Let's blow this joint." She hurried to him and offered as much support as she could to help him stand up straight. "Listen, you get out of here. I can handle myself, and with my broken arm, I'll slow you down. Plus, we'll have a better chance of getting out of this if we split up."
"Pro, I'm not leaving you. Angel would kill me!"
"He'll never know!"
"Pro, he can read minds! Did you forget that little fact?"
"Oh yeah." Pro said quietly. "Well, don't let him read your mind."
"Are you out of your damn mind girl?! If I try and block him out, he'll know something is up!"
"No he won't!" Pro was as close to whining as she was ever going to get. Kesal instantly looked at her suspiciously.
"Pro, are you up to something?"
"No!"
"You are too! I can see it in you eyes!"
"Kesal! I'm insulted! My own brother doesn't trust me!"
"Pro, promise me your not going to go find that X5 if I leave."
"I promise." Pro said, crossing her fingers behind her back.
Later, everyone piled into the V's private plane. Max had raised an eyebrow, but decided she really didn't want to know where the plane had come from, especially after the looks Alexz and Spike had gotten on their faces when she had asked about it. Alexz and Drew had a fast and furious fight over who got to pilot.
"I wanna fly!"
"NO! I'm flying the plane!"
"I wanna fly!"
"Alexz, you are not flying this plane."
"I wanna fly!"
Angel growled, and left his seat to walk up to his 'sister' and 'brother'.
"You guys, fighting is not going to get us there any faster."
"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Alexz and Drew yelled at the same time. Angel rolled his eyes and pinned Alexz to the wall.
"I'll fly!"
"I wanna fly!"
"I'll fly!"
"I wanna fly!"
"Angel! Alexz! Fine, Angel let Alexz fly, she's the baby." Drew said, rubbing his forehead.
"Na, I don't wanna fly." Alexz said, slipping out from under Angel's arm and walking to the back of the plane to sit with Spike. They whispered together for a while before a tickling fight broke out.
"Hey you two! Knock it off! The last thing we need right now is you two joining the Mile High Club!"
"SHUT UP DREW!" They both yelled, blushing. Drew was amazed.
"Oh my God! You two are blushing!"
Alexz threw a cushion at him.
Pro slipped through the shadows of the corridors, making sure that she stayed all the way in the shadows. She heard someone coming down the hall and flattened her body against the wall. When she saw who it was, her heart sped up, just a little bit and she licked her lips. It was X5-949. He ran a hand through his hair and yawned as he opened the door to a small barrack.
Pro finally gave in to her urgings, and with a growl, she let out of the shadows and landed on his back, knocking him into the room. She kicked as they fell, closing the door behind them.
Drew set the auto pilot and walked into the back to check on his 'siblings' and their guests. Lydecker was sleeping quietly, thanks to the knock-out pill Cordelia had slipped him. Logan was also asleep, his chair all the way back. Max was sitting on his lap, her head on his chest, eyes closed. Drew could tell she wasn't asleep. Zack was also laying back in his seat, eyes closed. Syl was behind him, staring out the window.
Drew passed her and moved into the V section of the plane. Angel was sleeping, as was Nefertiti in the seat next to him, and so was Spike. Alexz was asleep too, snuggled up next to Spike. His arm was around her, his cheek resting on her head as she used his shoulder for a pillow. Drew smiled at them and gently put a blanket over the two of them. In the last seat, Cordelia was laying back, her eyes closed, but Drew knew she wasn't sleeping. She never did.
"Hey." He said quietly, sitting down next to her.
"Hey." She whispered back, not opening her eyes. She was silent for a moment, and Drew saw her start to twist her fingers together. He reached out and covered them with one of his own.
"Their okay you know. They have to be." He assured her.
"I hope so." Cordelia opened her eyes, and Drew was shocked to see tears in her beautiful brown eyes.
"They are."
"How do you know?"
Drew smiled at her as he laid the seat back so that he was laying next to her. Cordelia turned on her side so they were facing each other.
"Hey, I'm the big 'brother' remember? I know everything." Drew said. Cordelia smiled and smacked him gently.
"Cockiness is not a virtue."
"Hey, it got you to smile."
"Thanks." Cordelia said, resting her forehead on his.
"Any time." Drew leaned foreword and kissed her, once, gently, before getting up and heading back towards the front.
Cordelia watched him go, and a huge smile spread across her face and she touched her lips gently.
"Aww, Cordy and Drew sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I. . ." Spike sleep filled voice drifted back to Cordelia before Alexz slapped a pillow over his face and told him to be quiet.
"I'm killing my siblings." Connor announced as he walked into his apartment. The very obviously pregnant lady on the couch looked up at him.
"What?" She asked, confused. She was about 5'6, and usually skinny but muscular. The bulge at her stomach was about nine months along. She had long red hair with orange streaks, and hazel eyes. She was V0-02-05, Victoria Loiselle-O'Connol, Connor's wife, and Spike's unknown sister.
"What was that sweetie?" She asked, trying to get up off the couch, but falling back. Connor laughed at his wife annoyed look, the sound warm and loving, very different from the laugh that had sent chills up and down Kesal and Pro's spines.
"Here honey, let me help you." He said, coming over and pulling her off the couch and into his arms. He rubbed her stomach affectionately. "How's the bump?" Vicky smacked his shoulder, hard.
"Stop that! I told you, HER name is Mikayla."
"Okay, okay. How's Mikayla?"
"Practicing kick boxing." Vicky said. The baby seemed to hear her, because she kicked hard just then, right where Connor's hand was. He jumped.
"Whoa! She's got a hell of a right kick."
"I noticed." Vicky said with a winced. "Now, what about your siblings?"
Kesal stumbled into the woods, falling down a third time. He simply lay there in the wet mud for a while, not wanting to get up, knowing he had too. Knowing Connor, as soon as he figured out what had happened, he'd send the squads after him. Pro's face flashed through his head, as well as Syl's.
Kesal forced himself to get to his feet, ignoring the way his left leg kept bending in the wrong place. He had been in worse situations. He couldn't think of any at the moment, but he knew there were some. He stumbled a few more yards, before he had to grab onto a tree to keep from falling. He tried to get up, but his leg refused to support him and he fell down again. Kesal again tried to get up, and again he fell down.
Kesal gritted his teeth and forced himself to try a shut away the pain. He once again forced himself to his feet, grabbing onto the tree and pushing off of it. And he fell again. But before he hit the ground, someone's arms caught him.
"Kesal? Kesal? Are you okay? Come on Hawk, talk to me." Only one person called him hawk. . .
"Hey Drew." He whispered as he fell into the darkness.
Renfro finished the lab report, and closed it, setting it on her desk. She steepled her fingers as she moved her chair from left to right, keeping her piercing eyes on the two lab technicians who sat in front of her desk.
"How far along is she now?" Renfro asked, keeping her eyes on the technicians.
"Nine months Ma'am."
"Why wasn't I informed about this earlier?"
"Well, the test we were running were very difficult to run on the small samples of blood that we had from her. It took a while for all the tests to finish."
Renfro nodded, and fell into silence, still moving her chair from left to right. Then she stopped and stood up. The lab technicians stood up as well.
"Keep me informed. I want full reports on her condition at all times. The minute she goes into labor, move her to the lab."
"But Ma'am, she used to work here. She'll realize what's going on."
"Yes, but by then, it will be too late."
"But what if she fights back? She is a V after all. And what about her husband? He's also a V."
Renfro's eyes turned cold. "Yes, I realize that."
"So, what if they fight us?"
"Kill them. I want that baby."
"You know, it's going to be kind of hard to rescue your girlfriend if your sitting up here brooding. Plus, Alexz and Spike are downstairs playing escape and evade in the shadows, and Cordelia, Nefertiti and I are getting a little tired of getting 'accidentally' tackled."
"Drew, you heard the tape. We don't know what kind of shape we're going to find Pro and Kesal in." Angel said, going back to his packing.
"True." Drew said, shrugging his shoulders and coming the rest of the way into the room.
"And I was NOT brooding." Angel said, shouldering the medical pack and walking past Drew and down the stairs.
"Yeah right, and I'm Lydecker." Drew shot at his 'brothers' back.
"Nice to meet you Deck." Angel fired back.
Drew smirked, glad that his 'brother' had his somewhat not-existent sense of humor back and followed him down.
Connor turned from the bloody and unconscious mess that was his little sister. Chuckling to himself, Connor carefully cleaned his knife as he left her cell, leaving the door open.
"You bastard." Kesal managed to spit out through his cut and bruised lips. To keep Kesal busy while he was 'working' on his 'sister', Connor had ordered a squad of ten X7's into his cell to basically beat the hell out of him, after giving him an injection to slow Kesal's healing of course.
Kesal couldn't stand on his own, but was using the bars of his cell to support himself. His whole body felt like one big bruise, and he was pretty sure that most of his bones were broken. His face was covered in blood and bruises and he couldn't see out of one eye.
"Shut up Kesal." Connor said. He opened the door, and backhanded Kesal across the face. It was too much for the younger and smaller boy, and he fell to the ground, barely hanging on to consciousness. Weakly, he grabbed Connor's ankle.
Connor simply glared at the boy before kicking him in the jaw, and flipping him onto his back. Kesal groaned, his eyes fluttering. Connor smiled once evilly before stomping on Kesal's face. Finally, Kesal's world went black.
Unnoticed by Connor, Pro had not really been unconscious, just pretending. As Connor was concentrating on making Kesal miserable, Pro had swung her legs off her cot and was sneaking out of her cell. Her wounds were all bandaged, except for her broken arm, which swung loosely at her side for a moment before Pro cradled it against her stomach. She didn't really notice the pain. One of the things about her heat was that it dulled all the pain.
Pro slipped out of the cell, and noticed a spare piece of metal that was laying on the ground. Pro picked it up and released some of her mutant powers. All the V's had them, but all of them had different powers. Pro had the ability to tap into the potential energy contained within an object and transform it into kinetic energy. When Pro charged an object with kinetic energy and threw it at a target, the object released the energy explosively on impact.
Pro wasn't supposed to use her powers when she was in heat. They were to hard to control. But desperate times called for desperate measures. . . Pro picked up the metal bar and charged it, fighting hard to control her powers. She was lucky this time. She was able to keep her powers under control, and not alert Connor to her presence.
Pro waited until the bar started to glow a bright gold, then threw it at Connor's back. She dived to the side, throwing her arm over her face to protect her from the blast. The bar exploded, and threw Connor into the wall, knocking him out. Kesal, who had just woken up, managed to stand, his legs starting to heal.
"Pro!" He yelled, stumbling to the open door of his cell. Sure enough, his sister was grinning at him, one of her arms pulled up against her chest.
"Hey 'bro'. Let's blow this joint." She hurried to him and offered as much support as she could to help him stand up straight. "Listen, you get out of here. I can handle myself, and with my broken arm, I'll slow you down. Plus, we'll have a better chance of getting out of this if we split up."
"Pro, I'm not leaving you. Angel would kill me!"
"He'll never know!"
"Pro, he can read minds! Did you forget that little fact?"
"Oh yeah." Pro said quietly. "Well, don't let him read your mind."
"Are you out of your damn mind girl?! If I try and block him out, he'll know something is up!"
"No he won't!" Pro was as close to whining as she was ever going to get. Kesal instantly looked at her suspiciously.
"Pro, are you up to something?"
"No!"
"You are too! I can see it in you eyes!"
"Kesal! I'm insulted! My own brother doesn't trust me!"
"Pro, promise me your not going to go find that X5 if I leave."
"I promise." Pro said, crossing her fingers behind her back.
Later, everyone piled into the V's private plane. Max had raised an eyebrow, but decided she really didn't want to know where the plane had come from, especially after the looks Alexz and Spike had gotten on their faces when she had asked about it. Alexz and Drew had a fast and furious fight over who got to pilot.
"I wanna fly!"
"NO! I'm flying the plane!"
"I wanna fly!"
"Alexz, you are not flying this plane."
"I wanna fly!"
Angel growled, and left his seat to walk up to his 'sister' and 'brother'.
"You guys, fighting is not going to get us there any faster."
"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Alexz and Drew yelled at the same time. Angel rolled his eyes and pinned Alexz to the wall.
"I'll fly!"
"I wanna fly!"
"I'll fly!"
"I wanna fly!"
"Angel! Alexz! Fine, Angel let Alexz fly, she's the baby." Drew said, rubbing his forehead.
"Na, I don't wanna fly." Alexz said, slipping out from under Angel's arm and walking to the back of the plane to sit with Spike. They whispered together for a while before a tickling fight broke out.
"Hey you two! Knock it off! The last thing we need right now is you two joining the Mile High Club!"
"SHUT UP DREW!" They both yelled, blushing. Drew was amazed.
"Oh my God! You two are blushing!"
Alexz threw a cushion at him.
Pro slipped through the shadows of the corridors, making sure that she stayed all the way in the shadows. She heard someone coming down the hall and flattened her body against the wall. When she saw who it was, her heart sped up, just a little bit and she licked her lips. It was X5-949. He ran a hand through his hair and yawned as he opened the door to a small barrack.
Pro finally gave in to her urgings, and with a growl, she let out of the shadows and landed on his back, knocking him into the room. She kicked as they fell, closing the door behind them.
Drew set the auto pilot and walked into the back to check on his 'siblings' and their guests. Lydecker was sleeping quietly, thanks to the knock-out pill Cordelia had slipped him. Logan was also asleep, his chair all the way back. Max was sitting on his lap, her head on his chest, eyes closed. Drew could tell she wasn't asleep. Zack was also laying back in his seat, eyes closed. Syl was behind him, staring out the window.
Drew passed her and moved into the V section of the plane. Angel was sleeping, as was Nefertiti in the seat next to him, and so was Spike. Alexz was asleep too, snuggled up next to Spike. His arm was around her, his cheek resting on her head as she used his shoulder for a pillow. Drew smiled at them and gently put a blanket over the two of them. In the last seat, Cordelia was laying back, her eyes closed, but Drew knew she wasn't sleeping. She never did.
"Hey." He said quietly, sitting down next to her.
"Hey." She whispered back, not opening her eyes. She was silent for a moment, and Drew saw her start to twist her fingers together. He reached out and covered them with one of his own.
"Their okay you know. They have to be." He assured her.
"I hope so." Cordelia opened her eyes, and Drew was shocked to see tears in her beautiful brown eyes.
"They are."
"How do you know?"
Drew smiled at her as he laid the seat back so that he was laying next to her. Cordelia turned on her side so they were facing each other.
"Hey, I'm the big 'brother' remember? I know everything." Drew said. Cordelia smiled and smacked him gently.
"Cockiness is not a virtue."
"Hey, it got you to smile."
"Thanks." Cordelia said, resting her forehead on his.
"Any time." Drew leaned foreword and kissed her, once, gently, before getting up and heading back towards the front.
Cordelia watched him go, and a huge smile spread across her face and she touched her lips gently.
"Aww, Cordy and Drew sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I. . ." Spike sleep filled voice drifted back to Cordelia before Alexz slapped a pillow over his face and told him to be quiet.
"I'm killing my siblings." Connor announced as he walked into his apartment. The very obviously pregnant lady on the couch looked up at him.
"What?" She asked, confused. She was about 5'6, and usually skinny but muscular. The bulge at her stomach was about nine months along. She had long red hair with orange streaks, and hazel eyes. She was V0-02-05, Victoria Loiselle-O'Connol, Connor's wife, and Spike's unknown sister.
"What was that sweetie?" She asked, trying to get up off the couch, but falling back. Connor laughed at his wife annoyed look, the sound warm and loving, very different from the laugh that had sent chills up and down Kesal and Pro's spines.
"Here honey, let me help you." He said, coming over and pulling her off the couch and into his arms. He rubbed her stomach affectionately. "How's the bump?" Vicky smacked his shoulder, hard.
"Stop that! I told you, HER name is Mikayla."
"Okay, okay. How's Mikayla?"
"Practicing kick boxing." Vicky said. The baby seemed to hear her, because she kicked hard just then, right where Connor's hand was. He jumped.
"Whoa! She's got a hell of a right kick."
"I noticed." Vicky said with a winced. "Now, what about your siblings?"
Kesal stumbled into the woods, falling down a third time. He simply lay there in the wet mud for a while, not wanting to get up, knowing he had too. Knowing Connor, as soon as he figured out what had happened, he'd send the squads after him. Pro's face flashed through his head, as well as Syl's.
Kesal forced himself to get to his feet, ignoring the way his left leg kept bending in the wrong place. He had been in worse situations. He couldn't think of any at the moment, but he knew there were some. He stumbled a few more yards, before he had to grab onto a tree to keep from falling. He tried to get up, but his leg refused to support him and he fell down again. Kesal again tried to get up, and again he fell down.
Kesal gritted his teeth and forced himself to try a shut away the pain. He once again forced himself to his feet, grabbing onto the tree and pushing off of it. And he fell again. But before he hit the ground, someone's arms caught him.
"Kesal? Kesal? Are you okay? Come on Hawk, talk to me." Only one person called him hawk. . .
"Hey Drew." He whispered as he fell into the darkness.
Renfro finished the lab report, and closed it, setting it on her desk. She steepled her fingers as she moved her chair from left to right, keeping her piercing eyes on the two lab technicians who sat in front of her desk.
"How far along is she now?" Renfro asked, keeping her eyes on the technicians.
"Nine months Ma'am."
"Why wasn't I informed about this earlier?"
"Well, the test we were running were very difficult to run on the small samples of blood that we had from her. It took a while for all the tests to finish."
Renfro nodded, and fell into silence, still moving her chair from left to right. Then she stopped and stood up. The lab technicians stood up as well.
"Keep me informed. I want full reports on her condition at all times. The minute she goes into labor, move her to the lab."
"But Ma'am, she used to work here. She'll realize what's going on."
"Yes, but by then, it will be too late."
"But what if she fights back? She is a V after all. And what about her husband? He's also a V."
Renfro's eyes turned cold. "Yes, I realize that."
"So, what if they fight us?"
"Kill them. I want that baby."