CHAPTER TEN
"Nighttime"
A/N: Sorry to leave you hanging like that...
*****
The Ninja blazed through the tiny little slit in-between the walls, and just as Max said, there was an access road directly after it, the two paths all but melded into each other. Moonlight shone off Max's riding glasses once the bike reached the street again.
Max pulled the bike to the shoulder after a minute "See him anywhere?" her eyes were already scanning the night with her transgenic night vision.
Cree looked into the blackness as well "Think you lost him" her heart was pounding so hard she felt it would burst out onto the road.
"You doin' aiight?" Max asked of Cree, noticing how hard she was breathing.
"That man-" Cree pointed into the blackness "If he died from a bear tearing off his genitals and eating out his heart, I'd laugh" she idly rubbed a bruise that she had gotten the day before.
"It's getting late" Max could see Sector Cops lining the road, preparing for the nightly curfew. She scanned where she was. There was no way she could get back home before "Lights Out" Plus her place wasn't accessible on this road, and Mr. Makes You Feel Good was probably still driving around. "C'mon" she pulled down her glasses "Let's blaze"
*****
"Come on in" Max opened the door, after picking the lock "Take a seat"
"You sure your man won't mind a visitor this late?" Cree was hesitant to just make herself at home in the penthouse of someone she just met yesterday.
"He's not my man" Max corrected "and he won't care. Logan's into the whole defend the down trodden thing, so just sit" she kicked a chair beside her.
Cree sat down in the brown leather /very masculine, but comfy/
"Max?" Logan's bedroom door opened. He was still dressed because he had been reading because he
couldn't fall asleep. "What's up? You okay?" he stepped out of the shadows. "This is a late visit even for you"
"I'm fine dad" Max reassured, poking around in his kitchen cabinets "We came by for a lil DL time"
/We?/ Logan looked confused, but then spotted Cree sitting in the chair in his living room. "You guys okay?" he repeated his earlier question. Cree looked really edgy, fidgeting in her chair.
Max came out of the kitchen with a glass of water in her hand "Here," she handed it to Cree "You're dehydrated from all that sweating you've done"
"Thanks" Cree stated simply, taking the glass from her. She gulped down half of it at once. After she was done she looked over at Logan "Max brought me here Mr. Cale-"
"Logan," Logan corrected Cree "My dad was Mr. Cale"
"*Logan*" Cree went on "This man, a customer from my "job" he was tailing us, he wants my head
money, tried to run Max and me off the road" she was still ringing her hands.
"You're safe here Cree," Logan reassured "Did he see where you were heading?"
"Slid through a back way" Max informed "Saw no bad ass losers on my tail" she sat on the edge of the chair "Okay if she stays the night?"
Logan nodded, looking at Cree "You can take the guestroom" he looked over at Max "Take my room Max, I'll take the sofa. Curfew started already, and you know what those guys are like"
"I'll stay" Max let him know "But I ain't kickin' you out of your bedroom. I'LL take the couch" before he could object she added "Probably won't even sleep"
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Cree pulled off her blue t-shirt. Besides this one, she had about four or five others she managed
to buy with her meager salary at Jam Pony. She stood in front of the large mirror erected on top of the mahogany dresser in her cream colored bra. Her arms and shoulders bore healing bruises from the beating her pimp had given her two days before she ran.
/"Worthless bitch!" the pimp hit her with a folding chair "You don't sleep when I have customers
lined up!"/
Her straight black hair was dotted with dust, and so were the long lashes that rested above
almond shaped brown eyes. /"You're eyes are so nice Cree" Jade looked at her older sister,
laying on her bed in the room they shared. Fourteen-year-old Cree looked back to her baby sister
"Really think so?" Jade's eyes were the same shape and color as her twelve year old sister "They
look like yours" "Uh uh" Jade argued "Mine are like slits cut in paper, yours are dangerous"
Cree laughed "To who?" "Men" Jade responded, "You could do so much damage sis," Cree
smiled "thanks"/
/"Jack?" almond eyes scanned the darkness looking for her boyfriend "Ja-" she was cut off
when she felt someone cover her mouth
"Baby gurl, come with us" a gun was pointed at her chest
"JACK!" Cree saw her boyfriend, a tall youth of sixteen, brown hair, blue eyes. He approached
her
"HELP ME!" she screamed, kicking at her capturers
Jack didn't acknowledge her, instead he looked to the men "You got the cash?"
One of the men threw him a wad of bills "Little fresh kid, but" the man rubbed Cree's arm
"she can be broken"
"Jack?" Cree didn't understand "What the hell are you doing?" she used words she never
did before
"Sorry Cree" Jack's words were sarcastic "You were great and all, but I've outgrown kids,
and it's a good way to get money" he actually waved a twenty at her.
"NO!" Cree shouted as she was shoved in a van, "Jack! " a gun butt met her forehead/
Cree came back to the here and now. She pulled on the tank top and pj bottoms that Max had told her was in her boyfriend's bottom dresser drawer. The black tank matched her hair. Jack always complimented her on that, said that Chinese girls were so beautiful and exotic. That was her breaking point, she fell hard for the 5'7 145 lb Junior. He was a bad ass, something untamed, and she was drawn to that.
/Look where that got me/ Cree sat on the bed, folding her legs up under her body. The light
from the lamp cast shadows on the down comforter. /Wherever you are Jack Warren, if I find you
I'll kill you/
The bedroom door opened
Cree jerked out of her thoughts
"Sorry" Logan apologized "I didn't mean to scare you"
"I'm good" Cree responded
/She's so much like Max/ Logan stepped more into the guestroom "Just wanted to see if you were
set in here"
"Yeah" Cree answered "Thanks for letting me stay here Logan, been a while since I could let my
guard down for a while ya know?" her brown eyes looked at his for a brief moment /Damn, their
so blue, no wonder Max likes to look at them, you could get so lost-/
"You're welcome" Logan stepped right up to the bed. She was so young, but her eyes were hard,
tired, confused. She had been to hell and back. "Max and I will be outside if you need anything"
"Give her a shout for me" Cree broke in "Tell her thanks for everythin' she's done" this time
she looked Logan completely in the eye
"I will" Logan informed. He paused for a brief moment "Goodnight"
"Same" Cree responded as the door shut /He's not like the others, like HIM, or Ryan/
Men still scared her, she had been abused too many times, but Logan was different.
Cree allowed her head to fall back on the pillow, but she didn't go to sleep, she was
afraid to sleep, sleep meant dreams, and she knew what they would be about
*****
Hope that was good after the cliff hanger I left you with. I'll get the other chapters done
soon too, between this and Choices I've been busy, but with spring break coming up, I'll
have more time to write, yay for me!
Cree's sister Jade will show up later, I wanted to introduce their relationship first.
Also YES Jack (Cree's exboyfriend) is a twisted SOB, who will get his just due.
Heehee, did you like my lil implied M/L shipper moments, and the little things Cree
said and thought about the pair? That will go more in later chapters
R/R please, and look for the next installment soon
"Nighttime"
A/N: Sorry to leave you hanging like that...
*****
The Ninja blazed through the tiny little slit in-between the walls, and just as Max said, there was an access road directly after it, the two paths all but melded into each other. Moonlight shone off Max's riding glasses once the bike reached the street again.
Max pulled the bike to the shoulder after a minute "See him anywhere?" her eyes were already scanning the night with her transgenic night vision.
Cree looked into the blackness as well "Think you lost him" her heart was pounding so hard she felt it would burst out onto the road.
"You doin' aiight?" Max asked of Cree, noticing how hard she was breathing.
"That man-" Cree pointed into the blackness "If he died from a bear tearing off his genitals and eating out his heart, I'd laugh" she idly rubbed a bruise that she had gotten the day before.
"It's getting late" Max could see Sector Cops lining the road, preparing for the nightly curfew. She scanned where she was. There was no way she could get back home before "Lights Out" Plus her place wasn't accessible on this road, and Mr. Makes You Feel Good was probably still driving around. "C'mon" she pulled down her glasses "Let's blaze"
*****
"Come on in" Max opened the door, after picking the lock "Take a seat"
"You sure your man won't mind a visitor this late?" Cree was hesitant to just make herself at home in the penthouse of someone she just met yesterday.
"He's not my man" Max corrected "and he won't care. Logan's into the whole defend the down trodden thing, so just sit" she kicked a chair beside her.
Cree sat down in the brown leather /very masculine, but comfy/
"Max?" Logan's bedroom door opened. He was still dressed because he had been reading because he
couldn't fall asleep. "What's up? You okay?" he stepped out of the shadows. "This is a late visit even for you"
"I'm fine dad" Max reassured, poking around in his kitchen cabinets "We came by for a lil DL time"
/We?/ Logan looked confused, but then spotted Cree sitting in the chair in his living room. "You guys okay?" he repeated his earlier question. Cree looked really edgy, fidgeting in her chair.
Max came out of the kitchen with a glass of water in her hand "Here," she handed it to Cree "You're dehydrated from all that sweating you've done"
"Thanks" Cree stated simply, taking the glass from her. She gulped down half of it at once. After she was done she looked over at Logan "Max brought me here Mr. Cale-"
"Logan," Logan corrected Cree "My dad was Mr. Cale"
"*Logan*" Cree went on "This man, a customer from my "job" he was tailing us, he wants my head
money, tried to run Max and me off the road" she was still ringing her hands.
"You're safe here Cree," Logan reassured "Did he see where you were heading?"
"Slid through a back way" Max informed "Saw no bad ass losers on my tail" she sat on the edge of the chair "Okay if she stays the night?"
Logan nodded, looking at Cree "You can take the guestroom" he looked over at Max "Take my room Max, I'll take the sofa. Curfew started already, and you know what those guys are like"
"I'll stay" Max let him know "But I ain't kickin' you out of your bedroom. I'LL take the couch" before he could object she added "Probably won't even sleep"
====
Cree pulled off her blue t-shirt. Besides this one, she had about four or five others she managed
to buy with her meager salary at Jam Pony. She stood in front of the large mirror erected on top of the mahogany dresser in her cream colored bra. Her arms and shoulders bore healing bruises from the beating her pimp had given her two days before she ran.
/"Worthless bitch!" the pimp hit her with a folding chair "You don't sleep when I have customers
lined up!"/
Her straight black hair was dotted with dust, and so were the long lashes that rested above
almond shaped brown eyes. /"You're eyes are so nice Cree" Jade looked at her older sister,
laying on her bed in the room they shared. Fourteen-year-old Cree looked back to her baby sister
"Really think so?" Jade's eyes were the same shape and color as her twelve year old sister "They
look like yours" "Uh uh" Jade argued "Mine are like slits cut in paper, yours are dangerous"
Cree laughed "To who?" "Men" Jade responded, "You could do so much damage sis," Cree
smiled "thanks"/
/"Jack?" almond eyes scanned the darkness looking for her boyfriend "Ja-" she was cut off
when she felt someone cover her mouth
"Baby gurl, come with us" a gun was pointed at her chest
"JACK!" Cree saw her boyfriend, a tall youth of sixteen, brown hair, blue eyes. He approached
her
"HELP ME!" she screamed, kicking at her capturers
Jack didn't acknowledge her, instead he looked to the men "You got the cash?"
One of the men threw him a wad of bills "Little fresh kid, but" the man rubbed Cree's arm
"she can be broken"
"Jack?" Cree didn't understand "What the hell are you doing?" she used words she never
did before
"Sorry Cree" Jack's words were sarcastic "You were great and all, but I've outgrown kids,
and it's a good way to get money" he actually waved a twenty at her.
"NO!" Cree shouted as she was shoved in a van, "Jack! " a gun butt met her forehead/
Cree came back to the here and now. She pulled on the tank top and pj bottoms that Max had told her was in her boyfriend's bottom dresser drawer. The black tank matched her hair. Jack always complimented her on that, said that Chinese girls were so beautiful and exotic. That was her breaking point, she fell hard for the 5'7 145 lb Junior. He was a bad ass, something untamed, and she was drawn to that.
/Look where that got me/ Cree sat on the bed, folding her legs up under her body. The light
from the lamp cast shadows on the down comforter. /Wherever you are Jack Warren, if I find you
I'll kill you/
The bedroom door opened
Cree jerked out of her thoughts
"Sorry" Logan apologized "I didn't mean to scare you"
"I'm good" Cree responded
/She's so much like Max/ Logan stepped more into the guestroom "Just wanted to see if you were
set in here"
"Yeah" Cree answered "Thanks for letting me stay here Logan, been a while since I could let my
guard down for a while ya know?" her brown eyes looked at his for a brief moment /Damn, their
so blue, no wonder Max likes to look at them, you could get so lost-/
"You're welcome" Logan stepped right up to the bed. She was so young, but her eyes were hard,
tired, confused. She had been to hell and back. "Max and I will be outside if you need anything"
"Give her a shout for me" Cree broke in "Tell her thanks for everythin' she's done" this time
she looked Logan completely in the eye
"I will" Logan informed. He paused for a brief moment "Goodnight"
"Same" Cree responded as the door shut /He's not like the others, like HIM, or Ryan/
Men still scared her, she had been abused too many times, but Logan was different.
Cree allowed her head to fall back on the pillow, but she didn't go to sleep, she was
afraid to sleep, sleep meant dreams, and she knew what they would be about
*****
Hope that was good after the cliff hanger I left you with. I'll get the other chapters done
soon too, between this and Choices I've been busy, but with spring break coming up, I'll
have more time to write, yay for me!
Cree's sister Jade will show up later, I wanted to introduce their relationship first.
Also YES Jack (Cree's exboyfriend) is a twisted SOB, who will get his just due.
Heehee, did you like my lil implied M/L shipper moments, and the little things Cree
said and thought about the pair? That will go more in later chapters
R/R please, and look for the next installment soon