Author: Synthera
Story: The Pair
Chapter 6: Are you my sister?
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I only own Lexa and Vin…The rest belong to someone else.
Lexa walked in the restroom and looked at herself in the broken mirror. He was here. After all this time searching for him she had found him by pure accident. She had spent only a short amount of time with him and she had felt drawn to him. No matter how hard she had tried to resist him. 'Shows the doc's back home knew what they were doing huh?' she thought to herself. Now she only had to figure out how to tell Vin. Then they would break it to him.
She wondered how he would take it? Would he be excited? She hoped so. They had spent all of their time trying to find him after they had heard Manticore had been burnt down. She took a deep breath and pushed at her hair. She leaned her head against the mirror trying to gather her thoughts.
Meanwhile..
Vin looked up at Lexa's seat noting that she hadn't returned. He looked through the crowd trying to find her. Not seeing her he went back to concentrating on the game. Alec was good but he was distracted. Vin knew that he had been watching Lexa out of the corner of his eye and it looked like he was also waiting for her return. He frowned. Lexa hadn't taken interest in a guy in a while. The last time she had been in a relationship it had gone bad.
The guy had been very possessive and had been jealous of Vin and their relationship. One night he had tried to hit her. Before Vin could do anything however, she had broken that same arm. Then she had spent the rest of the night crying in their room inconsolable.
Vin noticed a woman with long dark hair walk up to the table where Lexa's friend Original Cindy was at.
"Hey boo. This is Vin" OC said pointing at him "He is with Lexa, the new chick from work. She is in the bathroom she will be back."
He saw a flurry of emotions cross the young ladies face. "Hello." He greeted her. "You must be Max, right?" He wondered if this was the Max from Lexa's stories from before she came to his unit.
"Hey." She turned to OC and asked, "Have you seen Logan? He was supposed to meet me."
"No boo. I haven't seen Richie Rich yet." This received her a look from Max.
In the Restroom…
Lexa thought of the last time that she had seen Alec. She had known him as only 494 back then.
..Flashback…
"Half of my old unit left you know. One night they escaped to the Outside." Lexa said as the three of them sat on 693's bed. She was still hurting badly from the beating she had received a few hours earlier although the bruises were starting to fade already.
"I wonder what it is like out there." Vin had said.
"My brother Ben used to tell us that no one got yelled at out there. He always had answers for our questions. Sometimes I think about escaping too." Lexa said with a faraway look.
"I don't. Good soldiers don't think about aborting their mission. We are not supposed to talk about this. Those soldiers who left were traitors." 494 said with passion.
"Aren't you tired of all of the drills? The beatings? The experiments? Aren't you tired of waking up in pain because of all of the needles?" Lexa had replied with just as much emotion.
"It is just helping us to be good soldiers. I want to be the best solider."
"I don't. I want to be normal. I want a life like the guards talk about when they think we aren't listening."
"We can't. We were made to be special."
"Enough! I agree with 427. What if the next time the Colonel gets angry and hits her, he doesn't stop?"
"He only does it to keep us in line. I don't want to talk about this anymore." 494 got up off of the bed and lay down on his across the room.
"Are you serious about leaving?" Lexa asked
"Yes. Do you know how we can get out?"
"We can use the same window my family did." She replied
"Okay. Lets go after lights out. I don't want to take any more chances."
Lexa had been startled at hearing that he wanted to leave so soon. They both agreed that they needed to wait until 494 went to sleep to leave. They didn't want him to alert the guards.
After lights out came they all laid in their respective beds. Once 494's breathing had became deep and even Lexa and Vin had slipped from their beds and dressed in a hurry. As they were leaving Lexa stopped at the door and motioned to Vin to wait for a second.
She crept back to 494's bed one last time and looked at him while he slept. Then she leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead and whispered. "Goodbye. I will remember you."
Then she had rejoined Vin and they had sneaked through the halls to the window she had jumped out of so many years before. They broke the glass and the alarms tripped. The pair hurried through the woods going so fast that to the human eye they were just a blur. A few guards got off a couple of shots at them and as they hit the ground around them it stirred up dirt.
Lexa and Vin reached the fence and jumped over it. They kept running and didn't look back for fear they would find someone behind them….
End flashback.
With another deep breath she gathered herself mentally and walked out back into the bar. She headed to the table looking at Alec and Vin. She allowed herself a minute to study Alec. He was leaning over to make a shot and his lips were pursed in concentration. He made the shot resulting in a solid colored ball sinking into the pocket. A brief smile crossed his face before he started considering his next shot.
Just then Vin looked up and caught sight of Lexa returning. She saw a look of relief cross his face. She motioned to him and he met her a few feet away from the table. "Are you alright? You look like you have seen a ghost." He asked her.
"Not a ghost but someone we have been looking for. Check out Alec's neck." She replied.
Vin's eyes widened. She nodded. As Alec leaned over Vin saw his barcode. It was as familiar to him as Lexa's or his own. "How do we tell him?" came his next question.
" I don't know yet."
At that moment Original Cindy spoke up "Hey Lexa, come meet my girl Max." This turned Lexa's attention to her. 'Could it be Max? My Max? After all if Alec is here maybe it could be her.' Lexa thought.
She took in the face of the girl OC had gestured to. It could definitely be her. "Hi." She said and saw that the girl was studying her face just as cautiously. "You look familiar. Are you from Wyoming by any chance?" Lexa said trying to hint to her. If it were Max then she would understand where she was getting at. "I have family there." Max said.
"So do I. A couple of brothers and sisters." Lexa added.
Max's face lit up, as did Lexa's. Then they remembered where they were at and toned it down.
"Nice to meet you." Max said. "So you work at Jampony now huh?"
"Yep. Thanks in part to Original Cindy. That guy Normal wasn't too amped on hiring me." She answered.
"I told him that she had already turned Alec down so that she was safe." OC added.
This earned her a dirty look from Alec who didn't look too happy to be reminded of that particular event.
"Cool. So where are you staying?" Max asked.
"We are holed up in a motel in Sector One. We are looking for a new place though." She told her.
"So you are thinking of staying a while?" This came from Alec who until then had been listening with avid interest.
"I don't know." Lexa shot a look at Vin "It is kind of up to Vin too."
" I would like to find somewhere kind of permanent" Vin said in his deep voice.
"That's cool. Original Cindy and I share a place. Maybe we can help you two find one."
"Thanks. I thought I would start looking this weekend. Vin usually leaves that kind of thing up to me." She looked at him as he and Alec went back to their pool game. She had to figure out how to get the two of them alone.
"What's up everyone?" A voice came from behind Lexa. She turned and saw a guy with glasses stand by the table with a blond haired woman in tow.
"Nothing. Glad you could make it." Max answered then she turned to Lexa "Lexa, this is Logan and Asha."
Lexa notice that when she had said the woman's name Max's voice had taken on a bit of a chill. From what was said earlier she had figured out that Logan was Max's boyfriend but why would he have this woman with him? She was hanging on his every word.
"Hi, nice to meet you. That's Vin over there with Alec."
"Your boyfriend?" the woman Asha said looking him up and down.
Lexa took an instant dislike to the woman. "No, you could say he's my brother."
"Logan, Lexa is from Wyoming." Max said with making wide eyes at Logan.
"Oh that's nice," Logan said a little confused. Then he caught on "OH" he turned to Max and she nodded.
"Well, as interesting as this conversation is I think I am going to call it a night." Alec said as Vin sank the eight ball. He was annoyed at the fact that everyone seemed to be flocking to Lexa and he hadn't had a chance to really talk to her. "Night." He put down his pool stick and walked towards the door.
"I think we had better too Vin. We both have to work in the morning." Lexa agreed. "Well, I guess we will see you all tomorrow."
They followed Alec and caught him at the door. "Alec!" Lexa called after him.
He turned around and smiled. "Ah, let me guess you want me to walk you home since it is such a bad neighborhood." He said when he saw her. Then he saw Vin and his frown faded. "Oh, I see you already have a bodyguard."
"It's not that. Alec, we need to talk." She said looking into his green eyes momentarily losing herself. 'Now how do I say this she thought.'
****To Be Continued
Sorry to leave you all hanging. More coming soon! I promise!
Story: The Pair
Chapter 6: Are you my sister?
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I only own Lexa and Vin…The rest belong to someone else.
Lexa walked in the restroom and looked at herself in the broken mirror. He was here. After all this time searching for him she had found him by pure accident. She had spent only a short amount of time with him and she had felt drawn to him. No matter how hard she had tried to resist him. 'Shows the doc's back home knew what they were doing huh?' she thought to herself. Now she only had to figure out how to tell Vin. Then they would break it to him.
She wondered how he would take it? Would he be excited? She hoped so. They had spent all of their time trying to find him after they had heard Manticore had been burnt down. She took a deep breath and pushed at her hair. She leaned her head against the mirror trying to gather her thoughts.
Meanwhile..
Vin looked up at Lexa's seat noting that she hadn't returned. He looked through the crowd trying to find her. Not seeing her he went back to concentrating on the game. Alec was good but he was distracted. Vin knew that he had been watching Lexa out of the corner of his eye and it looked like he was also waiting for her return. He frowned. Lexa hadn't taken interest in a guy in a while. The last time she had been in a relationship it had gone bad.
The guy had been very possessive and had been jealous of Vin and their relationship. One night he had tried to hit her. Before Vin could do anything however, she had broken that same arm. Then she had spent the rest of the night crying in their room inconsolable.
Vin noticed a woman with long dark hair walk up to the table where Lexa's friend Original Cindy was at.
"Hey boo. This is Vin" OC said pointing at him "He is with Lexa, the new chick from work. She is in the bathroom she will be back."
He saw a flurry of emotions cross the young ladies face. "Hello." He greeted her. "You must be Max, right?" He wondered if this was the Max from Lexa's stories from before she came to his unit.
"Hey." She turned to OC and asked, "Have you seen Logan? He was supposed to meet me."
"No boo. I haven't seen Richie Rich yet." This received her a look from Max.
In the Restroom…
Lexa thought of the last time that she had seen Alec. She had known him as only 494 back then.
..Flashback…
"Half of my old unit left you know. One night they escaped to the Outside." Lexa said as the three of them sat on 693's bed. She was still hurting badly from the beating she had received a few hours earlier although the bruises were starting to fade already.
"I wonder what it is like out there." Vin had said.
"My brother Ben used to tell us that no one got yelled at out there. He always had answers for our questions. Sometimes I think about escaping too." Lexa said with a faraway look.
"I don't. Good soldiers don't think about aborting their mission. We are not supposed to talk about this. Those soldiers who left were traitors." 494 said with passion.
"Aren't you tired of all of the drills? The beatings? The experiments? Aren't you tired of waking up in pain because of all of the needles?" Lexa had replied with just as much emotion.
"It is just helping us to be good soldiers. I want to be the best solider."
"I don't. I want to be normal. I want a life like the guards talk about when they think we aren't listening."
"We can't. We were made to be special."
"Enough! I agree with 427. What if the next time the Colonel gets angry and hits her, he doesn't stop?"
"He only does it to keep us in line. I don't want to talk about this anymore." 494 got up off of the bed and lay down on his across the room.
"Are you serious about leaving?" Lexa asked
"Yes. Do you know how we can get out?"
"We can use the same window my family did." She replied
"Okay. Lets go after lights out. I don't want to take any more chances."
Lexa had been startled at hearing that he wanted to leave so soon. They both agreed that they needed to wait until 494 went to sleep to leave. They didn't want him to alert the guards.
After lights out came they all laid in their respective beds. Once 494's breathing had became deep and even Lexa and Vin had slipped from their beds and dressed in a hurry. As they were leaving Lexa stopped at the door and motioned to Vin to wait for a second.
She crept back to 494's bed one last time and looked at him while he slept. Then she leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead and whispered. "Goodbye. I will remember you."
Then she had rejoined Vin and they had sneaked through the halls to the window she had jumped out of so many years before. They broke the glass and the alarms tripped. The pair hurried through the woods going so fast that to the human eye they were just a blur. A few guards got off a couple of shots at them and as they hit the ground around them it stirred up dirt.
Lexa and Vin reached the fence and jumped over it. They kept running and didn't look back for fear they would find someone behind them….
End flashback.
With another deep breath she gathered herself mentally and walked out back into the bar. She headed to the table looking at Alec and Vin. She allowed herself a minute to study Alec. He was leaning over to make a shot and his lips were pursed in concentration. He made the shot resulting in a solid colored ball sinking into the pocket. A brief smile crossed his face before he started considering his next shot.
Just then Vin looked up and caught sight of Lexa returning. She saw a look of relief cross his face. She motioned to him and he met her a few feet away from the table. "Are you alright? You look like you have seen a ghost." He asked her.
"Not a ghost but someone we have been looking for. Check out Alec's neck." She replied.
Vin's eyes widened. She nodded. As Alec leaned over Vin saw his barcode. It was as familiar to him as Lexa's or his own. "How do we tell him?" came his next question.
" I don't know yet."
At that moment Original Cindy spoke up "Hey Lexa, come meet my girl Max." This turned Lexa's attention to her. 'Could it be Max? My Max? After all if Alec is here maybe it could be her.' Lexa thought.
She took in the face of the girl OC had gestured to. It could definitely be her. "Hi." She said and saw that the girl was studying her face just as cautiously. "You look familiar. Are you from Wyoming by any chance?" Lexa said trying to hint to her. If it were Max then she would understand where she was getting at. "I have family there." Max said.
"So do I. A couple of brothers and sisters." Lexa added.
Max's face lit up, as did Lexa's. Then they remembered where they were at and toned it down.
"Nice to meet you." Max said. "So you work at Jampony now huh?"
"Yep. Thanks in part to Original Cindy. That guy Normal wasn't too amped on hiring me." She answered.
"I told him that she had already turned Alec down so that she was safe." OC added.
This earned her a dirty look from Alec who didn't look too happy to be reminded of that particular event.
"Cool. So where are you staying?" Max asked.
"We are holed up in a motel in Sector One. We are looking for a new place though." She told her.
"So you are thinking of staying a while?" This came from Alec who until then had been listening with avid interest.
"I don't know." Lexa shot a look at Vin "It is kind of up to Vin too."
" I would like to find somewhere kind of permanent" Vin said in his deep voice.
"That's cool. Original Cindy and I share a place. Maybe we can help you two find one."
"Thanks. I thought I would start looking this weekend. Vin usually leaves that kind of thing up to me." She looked at him as he and Alec went back to their pool game. She had to figure out how to get the two of them alone.
"What's up everyone?" A voice came from behind Lexa. She turned and saw a guy with glasses stand by the table with a blond haired woman in tow.
"Nothing. Glad you could make it." Max answered then she turned to Lexa "Lexa, this is Logan and Asha."
Lexa notice that when she had said the woman's name Max's voice had taken on a bit of a chill. From what was said earlier she had figured out that Logan was Max's boyfriend but why would he have this woman with him? She was hanging on his every word.
"Hi, nice to meet you. That's Vin over there with Alec."
"Your boyfriend?" the woman Asha said looking him up and down.
Lexa took an instant dislike to the woman. "No, you could say he's my brother."
"Logan, Lexa is from Wyoming." Max said with making wide eyes at Logan.
"Oh that's nice," Logan said a little confused. Then he caught on "OH" he turned to Max and she nodded.
"Well, as interesting as this conversation is I think I am going to call it a night." Alec said as Vin sank the eight ball. He was annoyed at the fact that everyone seemed to be flocking to Lexa and he hadn't had a chance to really talk to her. "Night." He put down his pool stick and walked towards the door.
"I think we had better too Vin. We both have to work in the morning." Lexa agreed. "Well, I guess we will see you all tomorrow."
They followed Alec and caught him at the door. "Alec!" Lexa called after him.
He turned around and smiled. "Ah, let me guess you want me to walk you home since it is such a bad neighborhood." He said when he saw her. Then he saw Vin and his frown faded. "Oh, I see you already have a bodyguard."
"It's not that. Alec, we need to talk." She said looking into his green eyes momentarily losing herself. 'Now how do I say this she thought.'
****To Be Continued
Sorry to leave you all hanging. More coming soon! I promise!