Okay here's the next chapter. Thanks to all those who reviewed and Black
Angel you said you'd like to see more m/a so I used this chapter as a set
up for the next which I also posted in which m/a stuff starts. Sorry for
the wait but I didn't want to rush it.
I wanted to focus on the characters in this story rather than have a major big battle at TC so I might break it off into two but I'm still unsure, it really depends on my muse.
Part 10
Max sat in the private room near headquarters banging her head against the desk. Repeatedly and perfectly in time her forehead collided with the solid wooden surface.
She didn't do anything else and she had to wonder what the transgenics outside were thinking; the monotonous thump of her head against the desk had to sound peculiar from ears on the other side of the door. But right now she didn't care; not of what anyone was thinking, not of any assumptions anyone could be making or whether anyone was actually there to think those things. Right now she was too busy berating herself for what she'd done.
She'd kissed him. Yep, and there wasn't anything she could do to take it back not that her subconscious wanted to but she'd managed to jump on that little voice with all her worth and right now it was being quiet. One down, another several dozen to go.
Her head snapped up quickly as her door creaked open and two heads popped around it. She looked at her sister for half a second before closing her eyes and thumping her head down on the desk once again. She didn't move now just held her right cheek pressed to the desk in some vain attempt of remaining in reality.
Her hair spread out around her head and her arms flopped uselessly on each side. She groaned in frustration when the door clicked shut and Jondy padded over to sit in a chair beside her. Spartacus hung back, near the door she leant against the wall watching from afar.
"What do you want Jon?" Max grudgingly mumbled.
Jondy smiled and nudged her hip with her own, "To remind you of your so wanted responsibilities and read out the to do list. Unless that is you'd prefer talking about your boy."
Max snorted, "I'd hate to see you and Original Cindy become friends. I'd never be left alone," she grumbled mostly to herself.
"The to do list it is," Jondy chuckled propping her feet up on the desk.
"Shall we go in alphabetical order or just start knocking 'em down?" she grinned feigning excitement. Max didn't even move or acknowledge her so Jondy shrugged and continued, "Okay Maxie. I've been given the task to fill you in and as soon as that's done and you find the will power to stand there's a meeting and then work but I'll promise, you won't be able to weasel your way out of some good old girly talk."
Max opened her eyes and drawled, "Woo. Hoo."
Jondy rolled her eyes ignoring her depressed state, "Zane has started several things while you were away. The infirmary has been set up in the old science labs and Stitch is in charge down there with helpers as you already know. There is a unit of experts in weaponry in the second floor of the parking garage developing new technology and organizing what we already have, everything we brought in by chopper has already been sent down there, Mole is in charge. Shifts have been given for sentry duty; mostly Psy-ops because of their ability to alter mind waves and mind abilities. Apartment buildings are being restored and re-furnished and the Picassos; that's pretty much anyone under 17-16, are giving TC a new look. X8's are messengers and scouts and our telecommunications team is helping Luke enter transgenics into our files. Lastly we have mechanics continuously building and repairing equipment, anything you might need. Transgenics still run in crowds, or their old units but we're not so divided as before. For example, the Picassos are a mixed bunch but they seemed to have solidified into one big group despite their differences I mean there's X6's, a few X7's, Trans- humans, Psy ops, and the few special ops like Rook and anomalies."
Max looked at her and sighed and sat up smoothing her hair back down, "I hate my life sometimes."
Jondy grinned as she watched her sister compose herself. Spartacus smiled but still kept her distance, "You still have to talk to Pop too and figure out the Coming. Not to mention try to get the humans on your side and talk to Alec."
Max groaned and shut her eyes and Spartacus chuckled. Her smile died on her lips though when Max furrowed her brow and asked her what she really didn't know how or wanted to answer, "Why are you staying so far away."
It was a simple question if she thought about it, but she didn't really have a straight answer. No that would be a lie; she didn't have a straight answer she wanted to share. The two transgenic women watched her moisten her parched lips and stumble over her answer.
Max watched confused, she stood and took a step towards the younger girl and watched her in kind take a step to further distance herself, "Max," she warned, "Don't come any closer."
"Cus? What's wrong?" Max took another step and Spartacus retreated to the corner of the room curling into a ball, "Max please."
She backed off at the pleading in her voice and in shock the two watched her jump up and sprint out the door in unbelievable speed.
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Alec sat in complete silence on the hood of an old car. He raised the scotch bottle to his lips to take the first sip but halted a breath from his mouth.
Max had kissed him. Kissed. Him of all people. One second he was lying on top of her. shit, so should not have gone there. Alec groaned again shutting his eyes. He remembered perfectly the way her body had felt against his own. Her breath on his face, her breasts pressed up against him.
For the hundredth time Alec groaned, whether in frustration this time or at the memory he wasn't sure. He could remember to perfection the softness of her bee-stung lips against his, the brief, too brief taste he'd been granted of her.
Rook groaned. Rook? His name was Alec and then he heard it again, the sound that moments before had been coming from him. Alec turned and saw Rook sitting on the boot of the car shaking his head in what seemed to be disbelief.
The younger transgenic turned and met his eyes and the two wordlessly slumped down onto the ground next to each other, their backs against the side of the car.
Alec lifted the bottle to his lips and sculled letting the amber liquid burn down his throat. In silence he passed the bottle to Rook who followed suit and finished the remaining Scotch.
*******
Zane had just finished helping Zack settle into the small apartment in which he'd be staying. So now the two were roaming the perimeter having nothing else to do for now. Zane for precaution carried his mobile phone with him in case someone needed to find him.
They caught up on everything that had happened since they'd last seen each other, old girlfriends and guns.
Zane was about to retort with a snide remark when he halted his eyes falling on the hunched shapes of Alec and Rook, "Look at those two reprobates," he said shaking his head.
They jogged up to them and Zane cleared his throat. Rook and Alec looked up glum looks on their faces and the two couldn't help a chuckle. Zane sat down heavily putting his arm around Rook's neck and drawing him into a noogie. The younger boy didn't even put up a fight and Zane stopped releasing him, "What's got you two so down."
Alec sighed closing his eyes and thumped his head against the back of the car. Rook looked over to him and then back to Zane, "It's Cus. For me at least, dunno about Alec."
Zack sat down in front of them and picked up the empty liquor bottle, he smiled shaking his head, "Max. This has her name all over it. For some reason all guys turn to alcohol." Alec only nodded not opening his eyes.
"Girly troubles huh? Well what happened? We might be able to help. I've known Spartacus for aeons and Maxie is our sister," Zane suggested smacking them in the shoulder playfully.
Neither said anything as the seconds ticked by and the two brothers were left to wonder if they'd ever speak. It was no wonder they both started when Alec out of the blue spoke, "She kissed me. On the lips. We were playing around and I tackled her holding her down and she kissed me."
Rook turned to look at his depressed companion a disbelieving look on his face soon turning into amusement, "And that's. bad. Alec are you feeling okay? One would think you'd be thrilled," he chuckled showing for a second teeth that were too sharp for a human, catching the light of the rising sun.
"It's not that I'm not glad, .as such but, oh fuck it, it didn't mean anything to her!" he exclaimed jumping up and throwing the bottle and watching it shatter against a cement wall. The sound echoed along with his voice through the street drawing attention from curious transgenics loitering about. "It didn't mean anything to her and I don't wanna become the replacement alright!"
Zack scrutinized his dead brother's twin, his intense gaze burned into him and Alec shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, "How do you know it didn't mean anything to her?" the blonder man finally asked a sincere curiosity on his face.
The rage seemed to leave him and the other two now watched intrigued as well. Alec sighed and ran a hand through his hair mussing it up even more than what it was, "Because. I held her pinned on the ground and I told her that if she wanted me to let her go she had to give me something. So she kissed me. She only did it to get away."
"I never knew boys had such issues," a voice startled them from the right and the four turned to find Jondy standing with a hand on her hip and a soft smile. Spartacus stood by her, her hands cuffed behind her back and a stubborn scowl on her face, "Rook honey hold your girlfriend for a second."
Spartacus glared at her and made a soft growling noise as Jondy pushed her into Rook's lap. She didn't move, she sat straight and rigid even as Rook's arms encircled her holding her in place.
"Cus behave. I'll sort out whatever's wrong with you in a second," Jondy said grinning and plunked herself down into Zane's lap kissing him briefly but tenderly in greeting before giving her attention to Alec, "Alec honey, you over analyze things just like my baby sister."
Alec was about to protest but Jondy stopped him with a finger to his lips and Zack couldn't refrain the smile at Alec's scorned face. Jondy turned to him and raised an eyebrow, "Don't even think about saying anything. There's a few things we need to sort out big brother, no one is off the hook right now. Jesus so many problems and I get stuck solving them. Why couldn't you keep doing that Cus? You're great at it."
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Please review and let me know what you think and if you press the other little purple button you can get to the next chapter!
I wanted to focus on the characters in this story rather than have a major big battle at TC so I might break it off into two but I'm still unsure, it really depends on my muse.
Part 10
Max sat in the private room near headquarters banging her head against the desk. Repeatedly and perfectly in time her forehead collided with the solid wooden surface.
She didn't do anything else and she had to wonder what the transgenics outside were thinking; the monotonous thump of her head against the desk had to sound peculiar from ears on the other side of the door. But right now she didn't care; not of what anyone was thinking, not of any assumptions anyone could be making or whether anyone was actually there to think those things. Right now she was too busy berating herself for what she'd done.
She'd kissed him. Yep, and there wasn't anything she could do to take it back not that her subconscious wanted to but she'd managed to jump on that little voice with all her worth and right now it was being quiet. One down, another several dozen to go.
Her head snapped up quickly as her door creaked open and two heads popped around it. She looked at her sister for half a second before closing her eyes and thumping her head down on the desk once again. She didn't move now just held her right cheek pressed to the desk in some vain attempt of remaining in reality.
Her hair spread out around her head and her arms flopped uselessly on each side. She groaned in frustration when the door clicked shut and Jondy padded over to sit in a chair beside her. Spartacus hung back, near the door she leant against the wall watching from afar.
"What do you want Jon?" Max grudgingly mumbled.
Jondy smiled and nudged her hip with her own, "To remind you of your so wanted responsibilities and read out the to do list. Unless that is you'd prefer talking about your boy."
Max snorted, "I'd hate to see you and Original Cindy become friends. I'd never be left alone," she grumbled mostly to herself.
"The to do list it is," Jondy chuckled propping her feet up on the desk.
"Shall we go in alphabetical order or just start knocking 'em down?" she grinned feigning excitement. Max didn't even move or acknowledge her so Jondy shrugged and continued, "Okay Maxie. I've been given the task to fill you in and as soon as that's done and you find the will power to stand there's a meeting and then work but I'll promise, you won't be able to weasel your way out of some good old girly talk."
Max opened her eyes and drawled, "Woo. Hoo."
Jondy rolled her eyes ignoring her depressed state, "Zane has started several things while you were away. The infirmary has been set up in the old science labs and Stitch is in charge down there with helpers as you already know. There is a unit of experts in weaponry in the second floor of the parking garage developing new technology and organizing what we already have, everything we brought in by chopper has already been sent down there, Mole is in charge. Shifts have been given for sentry duty; mostly Psy-ops because of their ability to alter mind waves and mind abilities. Apartment buildings are being restored and re-furnished and the Picassos; that's pretty much anyone under 17-16, are giving TC a new look. X8's are messengers and scouts and our telecommunications team is helping Luke enter transgenics into our files. Lastly we have mechanics continuously building and repairing equipment, anything you might need. Transgenics still run in crowds, or their old units but we're not so divided as before. For example, the Picassos are a mixed bunch but they seemed to have solidified into one big group despite their differences I mean there's X6's, a few X7's, Trans- humans, Psy ops, and the few special ops like Rook and anomalies."
Max looked at her and sighed and sat up smoothing her hair back down, "I hate my life sometimes."
Jondy grinned as she watched her sister compose herself. Spartacus smiled but still kept her distance, "You still have to talk to Pop too and figure out the Coming. Not to mention try to get the humans on your side and talk to Alec."
Max groaned and shut her eyes and Spartacus chuckled. Her smile died on her lips though when Max furrowed her brow and asked her what she really didn't know how or wanted to answer, "Why are you staying so far away."
It was a simple question if she thought about it, but she didn't really have a straight answer. No that would be a lie; she didn't have a straight answer she wanted to share. The two transgenic women watched her moisten her parched lips and stumble over her answer.
Max watched confused, she stood and took a step towards the younger girl and watched her in kind take a step to further distance herself, "Max," she warned, "Don't come any closer."
"Cus? What's wrong?" Max took another step and Spartacus retreated to the corner of the room curling into a ball, "Max please."
She backed off at the pleading in her voice and in shock the two watched her jump up and sprint out the door in unbelievable speed.
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Alec sat in complete silence on the hood of an old car. He raised the scotch bottle to his lips to take the first sip but halted a breath from his mouth.
Max had kissed him. Kissed. Him of all people. One second he was lying on top of her. shit, so should not have gone there. Alec groaned again shutting his eyes. He remembered perfectly the way her body had felt against his own. Her breath on his face, her breasts pressed up against him.
For the hundredth time Alec groaned, whether in frustration this time or at the memory he wasn't sure. He could remember to perfection the softness of her bee-stung lips against his, the brief, too brief taste he'd been granted of her.
Rook groaned. Rook? His name was Alec and then he heard it again, the sound that moments before had been coming from him. Alec turned and saw Rook sitting on the boot of the car shaking his head in what seemed to be disbelief.
The younger transgenic turned and met his eyes and the two wordlessly slumped down onto the ground next to each other, their backs against the side of the car.
Alec lifted the bottle to his lips and sculled letting the amber liquid burn down his throat. In silence he passed the bottle to Rook who followed suit and finished the remaining Scotch.
*******
Zane had just finished helping Zack settle into the small apartment in which he'd be staying. So now the two were roaming the perimeter having nothing else to do for now. Zane for precaution carried his mobile phone with him in case someone needed to find him.
They caught up on everything that had happened since they'd last seen each other, old girlfriends and guns.
Zane was about to retort with a snide remark when he halted his eyes falling on the hunched shapes of Alec and Rook, "Look at those two reprobates," he said shaking his head.
They jogged up to them and Zane cleared his throat. Rook and Alec looked up glum looks on their faces and the two couldn't help a chuckle. Zane sat down heavily putting his arm around Rook's neck and drawing him into a noogie. The younger boy didn't even put up a fight and Zane stopped releasing him, "What's got you two so down."
Alec sighed closing his eyes and thumped his head against the back of the car. Rook looked over to him and then back to Zane, "It's Cus. For me at least, dunno about Alec."
Zack sat down in front of them and picked up the empty liquor bottle, he smiled shaking his head, "Max. This has her name all over it. For some reason all guys turn to alcohol." Alec only nodded not opening his eyes.
"Girly troubles huh? Well what happened? We might be able to help. I've known Spartacus for aeons and Maxie is our sister," Zane suggested smacking them in the shoulder playfully.
Neither said anything as the seconds ticked by and the two brothers were left to wonder if they'd ever speak. It was no wonder they both started when Alec out of the blue spoke, "She kissed me. On the lips. We were playing around and I tackled her holding her down and she kissed me."
Rook turned to look at his depressed companion a disbelieving look on his face soon turning into amusement, "And that's. bad. Alec are you feeling okay? One would think you'd be thrilled," he chuckled showing for a second teeth that were too sharp for a human, catching the light of the rising sun.
"It's not that I'm not glad, .as such but, oh fuck it, it didn't mean anything to her!" he exclaimed jumping up and throwing the bottle and watching it shatter against a cement wall. The sound echoed along with his voice through the street drawing attention from curious transgenics loitering about. "It didn't mean anything to her and I don't wanna become the replacement alright!"
Zack scrutinized his dead brother's twin, his intense gaze burned into him and Alec shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, "How do you know it didn't mean anything to her?" the blonder man finally asked a sincere curiosity on his face.
The rage seemed to leave him and the other two now watched intrigued as well. Alec sighed and ran a hand through his hair mussing it up even more than what it was, "Because. I held her pinned on the ground and I told her that if she wanted me to let her go she had to give me something. So she kissed me. She only did it to get away."
"I never knew boys had such issues," a voice startled them from the right and the four turned to find Jondy standing with a hand on her hip and a soft smile. Spartacus stood by her, her hands cuffed behind her back and a stubborn scowl on her face, "Rook honey hold your girlfriend for a second."
Spartacus glared at her and made a soft growling noise as Jondy pushed her into Rook's lap. She didn't move, she sat straight and rigid even as Rook's arms encircled her holding her in place.
"Cus behave. I'll sort out whatever's wrong with you in a second," Jondy said grinning and plunked herself down into Zane's lap kissing him briefly but tenderly in greeting before giving her attention to Alec, "Alec honey, you over analyze things just like my baby sister."
Alec was about to protest but Jondy stopped him with a finger to his lips and Zack couldn't refrain the smile at Alec's scorned face. Jondy turned to him and raised an eyebrow, "Don't even think about saying anything. There's a few things we need to sort out big brother, no one is off the hook right now. Jesus so many problems and I get stuck solving them. Why couldn't you keep doing that Cus? You're great at it."
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