Author: Synthera
Story: The Pair
Chapter 14: Alone in Empty Beds
Rating: R
Author's Note: Sorry it has taken so long for me to update. Things are kinda crazy here. I promise to be better! (hint: Reviews are very good motivation :)
**Warning! Off camera rape!!**
And on with the show!
!~!!~!~
Alec woke to the sound of water running somewhere in the apartment. He opened his eyes and found that he was laying on his stomach with his right arm wrapped around Lexa's second pillow. He took a deep breath inhaling her scent before frowning. The fact that the spot next to him on the bed indicated something was wrong. He didn't think she wouldn't wake him when coming home.
He rose from the bed and pulled on his pants from the night before, and padded barefoot to the living room to see if she had perhaps slept on the couch. Finding the room empty he walked to the door of the bathroom and knocked.
"Lexa there is no way I am giving up my hot water for you this morning!" came Vin's cheerful reply.
"Hey man, it's me. Did she sleep in your room last night?" Alec responded.
"No, I thought you guys, you know, made up." he said slowly
"I don't think she came home last night."
"Give me a second." Alec heard the water shut off and the curtain pull back. Seconds later the door opened and Vin stepped out clad in only his boxers with a towel draped over his shoulder.
"So she didn't sleep here.. Did you call Max?" he inquired.
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" He pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed Max's number. He waited impatiently for her to answer.
Instead he got Original Cindy. Avery pissed off OC at that. "Yeah?" she answered.
"Hey it's Alec. I'm looking for Lexa. She didn't come home last night. Is she there?"
"No." Came the frosty reply
"When was the last time you saw her?"
"Hmm. Let's think, the last time I saw suga was when you had that skank hangin all over you in front of my girl. Then she left." She said with heat in her voice.
"Look I can explain-"he started before she cut him off.
"Don't wanna hear it. We have to find my girl. Check your apartment. Maybe she went there when she saw you at hers."
"How did you know I was here?" he asked.
"There aren't many things Original Cindy don't know." Then she hung up without saying good-bye.
~!~!~!
Lexa swam to consciousness. She opened her eyes and groaned. Her hands were cuffed to what seemed to be a hospital bed but she knew better. Attempting to move her legs, she found they were in the same situation as her arms. "Damn. Thing about being knocked out is that you almost always wake up worse off than when you when go out."
She surveyed the room. Medical instruments and machines graced the sterile metal counters and white tiled floors. Double doors were on the other side of the room. The swung open and a balding man who appeared to be around forty with a stomach that would have made Santa proud walked in. He was wearing the proverbial white "doctor's coat".
"Ahh. X5-427. You are awake yes? I was afraid our soldiers had become a little overzealous in their capturing of you." He said with a soft French accent.
Lexa hated him immediately. She stared at him and said nothing.
"Well, then let's get down to business shall we? I don't suppose if I ask you nicely you will tell us where your alpha and mate are will you?"
"Nope. Sorry, uh-uh" she said with as much sarcasm as she could muster. "But I have one question for you. Where the hell am I?"
"Why 427, you are at Manticore."
Lexa's eyes widened and her breath quickened. "That's impossible. My sister Max burned that bitch to the ground."
"Do you really think we would be stupid enough to only have one facility. Come on now 427."
"So what do you want with me?" she asked her voice wavering
"We don't want just you. The director has an interest in your particular team."
"I will never tell you where they are." She said defiantly
"I am sorry it has to be this way. I will have to be careful though. I am sure that Captain Ryke would be very angry if I kill you on purpose. But before I interrogate you, there are some tests to be run."
He set about drawing blood from her arm. He took hair samples as well. While he had been drawing blood two guards had entered and took positions at the door. Lexa could tell that were human. The one on the right with blond hair looked extremely squeamish and kept glancing away as the needles entered her flesh. Her mind worked furiously. She was desperately trying to come up with a plan to escape.
When he was done taking samples he gestured to the guards and they uncuffed her and pulled her struggling to a chair and recuffed her. The drugs still hadn't worked their way completely out of her system so her efforts were weak.
Two dark skinned, male, X5s came in a few minutes later and as the doctor stood behind them they proceeded to interrogate her.
"Where is the rest of your team?"
"Don't know."
*Smack*
"Where do they work?"
Absolute silence
A backhand this time. Blood flew from her mouth.
This continued for hours. She had bruises covering her body by the time they gave up. Next they tried electroshock therapy. Nothing worked. For hours they received a blank stare or a slight whimper but she never gave in.
They threw her in a cell. She crawled to the cot and lay down. She succumbed to the darkness willingly this time.
~!~!~!~!
Alec paced back and forth in his apartment. He was waiting for the others to arrive. He had called work and Normal said he hadn't seen her. He had made some excuse about not feeling well and she having his medicine. Normal had told him to take a day off. Didn't want his prize fighter to get sick right?
Max had promised to go back to Crash and look around to see if she could find anything while Original Cindy had gone to Joshua's. Vin had said he wanted to wait at home as long as he could before having to head to work. He couldn't afford to miss a day so soon after getting hired. Someone had to make sure they had home at the beginning of the next month.
There was a knock at the door and Alec practically flung it open hoping to see Lexa but instead found Max. She walked in with a grim expression on her face. The door closed behind her and she held a hand up to Alec's eye level and he saw a bracelet.
"Okay? What does this have to do with Lexa?" he asked irritably.
"She was wearing it last night." Max stated quietly. She continued "Alec, there was signs of a fight."
Alec looked stunned for a moment. "Did you get any idea of where they could have gone?"
"No. I think it's time we head to Logan's." Alec gave a curt nod. Usually he hated asking anything from the man but for Lexa he would do almost anything.
They arrived at Foggle Towers and both entered the elevator. Max was worried about the expression Alec had on his face. "We'll find her Alec. I didn't just get my sister back to lose her again."
Alec turned to her. " I will kill them if the hurt her."
"You really care for her." She stated more than asked.
"I do." His face took on a thoughtful expression "I'm not sure how to explain it. It's like she and Vin are part of me."
The elevator stopped and they walked into Logan's place. Max looked at Logan who was sitting in front of his computer. "I understand." she said
Logan turned and smiled when he saw her. "To what do I owe this pleasure?" He said.
"Lexa's missing. Outside of Crash, it looked like there was a fight." She replied.
"Last night?"
"Yes."
Logan turned to his computer and started searching while Alec paced back and forth. Logan turned to him. "Could you stop that?"
Alec opened his mouth but Max touched his arm and said "Let's go in the other room."
They went into the workout room. "I know you are worried about Lexa but we need to be ready to get her when we do find her so you need to calm down. " Logan called to them and they went back to where he was in front of his computer.
"I found a small military convoy. They left Crash last night and headed to Sector Seven. Stopped there and was met by a helicopter."
"Where did they go from there?" Alec asked.
"Don't know. I am going to need some time guys."
Max and Alec fought for a few minutes and then decided on going back to Alec's apartment so they could rest up and wait. Once there Alec called Vin and let him know what was going on. Then he went to his room to lay down. He curled up with the jacket Lexa had left there the night that she had stayed with him.
~!~!~!
Two days later...
Lexa sat up as she heard footsteps approaching her cell. The door opened and she saw the blond guard who had been squeamish the day she had arrived behind him was a male who walked by the guard and into her cell. The guard gave her a sympathetic look and closed the door.
The male advanced towards her and Lexa said. "What the hell do you want?"
"Stop talking and just take your clothes off. "
"I don't think so."
"I am your breeding partner. This is what we are commanded to do. Now take your clothes off."
"Like I said. Don't think so. I've heard this story and frankly, not looking to repeat it."
The male said nothing but leaned over to take off his boots. She saw his barcode he was X5-924.
He straightened and grabbed for her. She backed up until her back hit the wall. He grabbed her arms. "Feisty. I like that." He said with what Lexa recognized as a psychotic look in his ice blue eyes.
He untucked her shirt as she struggled. She was too weak after this weeks events to make any real progress. She ended up on the floor with him on top of her. "Go ahead struggle." He looked up and down her body. "I think I am going to like this."
~!~!~!
The last two days had been excruciating for Alec. He and Vin were both afraid to leave the their apartments in case there was some sign of Lexa.
Then around three in the afternoon Logan called. "I have some news. Can you get everyone and come here?"
Alec didn't even answer. He simply hung up and grabbed his keys and jacket and went out the door. He called Vin on the way to Max's to let him know there was progress. He had picked everyone up and was at Logan's in record time. They were currently standing in front of him waiting for him to speak.
He turned from the computer and said "Okay. I have tracked them to a base three hours east of here. From the activity I could get pictures of it is pretty busy." He paused "I think it's another Manticore base."
"Makes sense. Why put all of that money into the genetics program and not have a back up plan?" Max said.
"Anyways. I have sector passes for you all. ID too. You can use my cabin to sleep in when you get her out. Call and I will pick you up and have passes and id for you all. There is a doctor who owes Eyes Only a favor close enough by that if something happens you can get some help and not worry about it. If you can give me an hour or so I can have a map of the base and area."
"Thanks." Max said and turned to the guys. "Okay boys. Let's go pack. And don't forget something breaking and entery."
The trio left leaving Logan to his work.
~!~!~!~!~
After 924 left Lexa laid on the ground unable to move. She trembled with rage and indignity at what had been done. Hot tears pricked behind her eyelids and she fought them back. She would not cry. Not here. She heard the door open and immediately regained control of herself. 'I will be damned if I allow these bastards to see me like this' she thought to herself. She looked up and saw it was the guard. She caught the name on his tag. It read 'Cintron'.
Wordlessly she stared at him. Jumping in surprise as he knelt beside her and picked her up. "Easy, I am not going to hurt you." He said in a soft voice. He laid her on the cot and stood up. "I'm sorry about all of this. I can see you are different. They sent him because he is ruthless. There is something seriously wrong with him. He's not right in the head."
Lexa rolled onto her side away from him. "I know. "
"If there is anything I can help you with. You know, without getting caught.. I'll try."
She rolled to face him again. "Why?"
"Because the kind of loyalty you showed deserves some help, because I can't stand the way they treat you kids. Just because." He answered.
She nodded once and turned back over and fell asleep promptly. Unaware of the tears that soaked her pillow as she slept.
TBC
***Sorry this is so short. I will post again soon! Promise! Please Please review!
Story: The Pair
Chapter 14: Alone in Empty Beds
Rating: R
Author's Note: Sorry it has taken so long for me to update. Things are kinda crazy here. I promise to be better! (hint: Reviews are very good motivation :)
**Warning! Off camera rape!!**
And on with the show!
!~!!~!~
Alec woke to the sound of water running somewhere in the apartment. He opened his eyes and found that he was laying on his stomach with his right arm wrapped around Lexa's second pillow. He took a deep breath inhaling her scent before frowning. The fact that the spot next to him on the bed indicated something was wrong. He didn't think she wouldn't wake him when coming home.
He rose from the bed and pulled on his pants from the night before, and padded barefoot to the living room to see if she had perhaps slept on the couch. Finding the room empty he walked to the door of the bathroom and knocked.
"Lexa there is no way I am giving up my hot water for you this morning!" came Vin's cheerful reply.
"Hey man, it's me. Did she sleep in your room last night?" Alec responded.
"No, I thought you guys, you know, made up." he said slowly
"I don't think she came home last night."
"Give me a second." Alec heard the water shut off and the curtain pull back. Seconds later the door opened and Vin stepped out clad in only his boxers with a towel draped over his shoulder.
"So she didn't sleep here.. Did you call Max?" he inquired.
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" He pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed Max's number. He waited impatiently for her to answer.
Instead he got Original Cindy. Avery pissed off OC at that. "Yeah?" she answered.
"Hey it's Alec. I'm looking for Lexa. She didn't come home last night. Is she there?"
"No." Came the frosty reply
"When was the last time you saw her?"
"Hmm. Let's think, the last time I saw suga was when you had that skank hangin all over you in front of my girl. Then she left." She said with heat in her voice.
"Look I can explain-"he started before she cut him off.
"Don't wanna hear it. We have to find my girl. Check your apartment. Maybe she went there when she saw you at hers."
"How did you know I was here?" he asked.
"There aren't many things Original Cindy don't know." Then she hung up without saying good-bye.
~!~!~!
Lexa swam to consciousness. She opened her eyes and groaned. Her hands were cuffed to what seemed to be a hospital bed but she knew better. Attempting to move her legs, she found they were in the same situation as her arms. "Damn. Thing about being knocked out is that you almost always wake up worse off than when you when go out."
She surveyed the room. Medical instruments and machines graced the sterile metal counters and white tiled floors. Double doors were on the other side of the room. The swung open and a balding man who appeared to be around forty with a stomach that would have made Santa proud walked in. He was wearing the proverbial white "doctor's coat".
"Ahh. X5-427. You are awake yes? I was afraid our soldiers had become a little overzealous in their capturing of you." He said with a soft French accent.
Lexa hated him immediately. She stared at him and said nothing.
"Well, then let's get down to business shall we? I don't suppose if I ask you nicely you will tell us where your alpha and mate are will you?"
"Nope. Sorry, uh-uh" she said with as much sarcasm as she could muster. "But I have one question for you. Where the hell am I?"
"Why 427, you are at Manticore."
Lexa's eyes widened and her breath quickened. "That's impossible. My sister Max burned that bitch to the ground."
"Do you really think we would be stupid enough to only have one facility. Come on now 427."
"So what do you want with me?" she asked her voice wavering
"We don't want just you. The director has an interest in your particular team."
"I will never tell you where they are." She said defiantly
"I am sorry it has to be this way. I will have to be careful though. I am sure that Captain Ryke would be very angry if I kill you on purpose. But before I interrogate you, there are some tests to be run."
He set about drawing blood from her arm. He took hair samples as well. While he had been drawing blood two guards had entered and took positions at the door. Lexa could tell that were human. The one on the right with blond hair looked extremely squeamish and kept glancing away as the needles entered her flesh. Her mind worked furiously. She was desperately trying to come up with a plan to escape.
When he was done taking samples he gestured to the guards and they uncuffed her and pulled her struggling to a chair and recuffed her. The drugs still hadn't worked their way completely out of her system so her efforts were weak.
Two dark skinned, male, X5s came in a few minutes later and as the doctor stood behind them they proceeded to interrogate her.
"Where is the rest of your team?"
"Don't know."
*Smack*
"Where do they work?"
Absolute silence
A backhand this time. Blood flew from her mouth.
This continued for hours. She had bruises covering her body by the time they gave up. Next they tried electroshock therapy. Nothing worked. For hours they received a blank stare or a slight whimper but she never gave in.
They threw her in a cell. She crawled to the cot and lay down. She succumbed to the darkness willingly this time.
~!~!~!~!
Alec paced back and forth in his apartment. He was waiting for the others to arrive. He had called work and Normal said he hadn't seen her. He had made some excuse about not feeling well and she having his medicine. Normal had told him to take a day off. Didn't want his prize fighter to get sick right?
Max had promised to go back to Crash and look around to see if she could find anything while Original Cindy had gone to Joshua's. Vin had said he wanted to wait at home as long as he could before having to head to work. He couldn't afford to miss a day so soon after getting hired. Someone had to make sure they had home at the beginning of the next month.
There was a knock at the door and Alec practically flung it open hoping to see Lexa but instead found Max. She walked in with a grim expression on her face. The door closed behind her and she held a hand up to Alec's eye level and he saw a bracelet.
"Okay? What does this have to do with Lexa?" he asked irritably.
"She was wearing it last night." Max stated quietly. She continued "Alec, there was signs of a fight."
Alec looked stunned for a moment. "Did you get any idea of where they could have gone?"
"No. I think it's time we head to Logan's." Alec gave a curt nod. Usually he hated asking anything from the man but for Lexa he would do almost anything.
They arrived at Foggle Towers and both entered the elevator. Max was worried about the expression Alec had on his face. "We'll find her Alec. I didn't just get my sister back to lose her again."
Alec turned to her. " I will kill them if the hurt her."
"You really care for her." She stated more than asked.
"I do." His face took on a thoughtful expression "I'm not sure how to explain it. It's like she and Vin are part of me."
The elevator stopped and they walked into Logan's place. Max looked at Logan who was sitting in front of his computer. "I understand." she said
Logan turned and smiled when he saw her. "To what do I owe this pleasure?" He said.
"Lexa's missing. Outside of Crash, it looked like there was a fight." She replied.
"Last night?"
"Yes."
Logan turned to his computer and started searching while Alec paced back and forth. Logan turned to him. "Could you stop that?"
Alec opened his mouth but Max touched his arm and said "Let's go in the other room."
They went into the workout room. "I know you are worried about Lexa but we need to be ready to get her when we do find her so you need to calm down. " Logan called to them and they went back to where he was in front of his computer.
"I found a small military convoy. They left Crash last night and headed to Sector Seven. Stopped there and was met by a helicopter."
"Where did they go from there?" Alec asked.
"Don't know. I am going to need some time guys."
Max and Alec fought for a few minutes and then decided on going back to Alec's apartment so they could rest up and wait. Once there Alec called Vin and let him know what was going on. Then he went to his room to lay down. He curled up with the jacket Lexa had left there the night that she had stayed with him.
~!~!~!
Two days later...
Lexa sat up as she heard footsteps approaching her cell. The door opened and she saw the blond guard who had been squeamish the day she had arrived behind him was a male who walked by the guard and into her cell. The guard gave her a sympathetic look and closed the door.
The male advanced towards her and Lexa said. "What the hell do you want?"
"Stop talking and just take your clothes off. "
"I don't think so."
"I am your breeding partner. This is what we are commanded to do. Now take your clothes off."
"Like I said. Don't think so. I've heard this story and frankly, not looking to repeat it."
The male said nothing but leaned over to take off his boots. She saw his barcode he was X5-924.
He straightened and grabbed for her. She backed up until her back hit the wall. He grabbed her arms. "Feisty. I like that." He said with what Lexa recognized as a psychotic look in his ice blue eyes.
He untucked her shirt as she struggled. She was too weak after this weeks events to make any real progress. She ended up on the floor with him on top of her. "Go ahead struggle." He looked up and down her body. "I think I am going to like this."
~!~!~!
The last two days had been excruciating for Alec. He and Vin were both afraid to leave the their apartments in case there was some sign of Lexa.
Then around three in the afternoon Logan called. "I have some news. Can you get everyone and come here?"
Alec didn't even answer. He simply hung up and grabbed his keys and jacket and went out the door. He called Vin on the way to Max's to let him know there was progress. He had picked everyone up and was at Logan's in record time. They were currently standing in front of him waiting for him to speak.
He turned from the computer and said "Okay. I have tracked them to a base three hours east of here. From the activity I could get pictures of it is pretty busy." He paused "I think it's another Manticore base."
"Makes sense. Why put all of that money into the genetics program and not have a back up plan?" Max said.
"Anyways. I have sector passes for you all. ID too. You can use my cabin to sleep in when you get her out. Call and I will pick you up and have passes and id for you all. There is a doctor who owes Eyes Only a favor close enough by that if something happens you can get some help and not worry about it. If you can give me an hour or so I can have a map of the base and area."
"Thanks." Max said and turned to the guys. "Okay boys. Let's go pack. And don't forget something breaking and entery."
The trio left leaving Logan to his work.
~!~!~!~!~
After 924 left Lexa laid on the ground unable to move. She trembled with rage and indignity at what had been done. Hot tears pricked behind her eyelids and she fought them back. She would not cry. Not here. She heard the door open and immediately regained control of herself. 'I will be damned if I allow these bastards to see me like this' she thought to herself. She looked up and saw it was the guard. She caught the name on his tag. It read 'Cintron'.
Wordlessly she stared at him. Jumping in surprise as he knelt beside her and picked her up. "Easy, I am not going to hurt you." He said in a soft voice. He laid her on the cot and stood up. "I'm sorry about all of this. I can see you are different. They sent him because he is ruthless. There is something seriously wrong with him. He's not right in the head."
Lexa rolled onto her side away from him. "I know. "
"If there is anything I can help you with. You know, without getting caught.. I'll try."
She rolled to face him again. "Why?"
"Because the kind of loyalty you showed deserves some help, because I can't stand the way they treat you kids. Just because." He answered.
She nodded once and turned back over and fell asleep promptly. Unaware of the tears that soaked her pillow as she slept.
TBC
***Sorry this is so short. I will post again soon! Promise! Please Please review!