Title: Chapter One : Tempers and Bubbles
Author: SmartAlexia
Rating: PG-13
Genre: nothing in particular
Pairing: A/J...and M/her annoying self
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, apart Jaimie. DA is Fox, Cameron, and Eglee.
Comments: thanks to wonderful Panda to help me plan this fic, to alecsangel who edited this, to my Muse (luv' you), and to everyone that's going to review ^^
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A faint light pierced through her curtains, and it was enough to make her stir. Stretching, she opened her eyes slowly. Big brown orbs coming to focus on the ceiling of her decrepit apartment. Moving over the green stain, mould she would say. She yawned, and rubbed her eyes.
"Another shitty day in shitty Terminal City."
A new hope here ? Freedom ? They were as free as in Manticore. Cops and National Guards were 24/7 watching the fence, and it was more and more difficult to go outside TC without being spotted. So what ? They didn't have orders anymore. Yeah great. So many of the residents in the city needed orders, needed missions, needed structure. Sure, there were things to do, but not enough for everyone one. Max did not want the child to work as hard as the adults, although the X6 and X7 classes were more than willing to work harder. But no. "They need a childhood". Yeah sure. Like they can have one between the trashbins and the guarded fence.
The blonde sighed at her thoughts. "It can't be as bad as Manticore." She tried to convince herself of that, while getting up to her bathroom.
"Another day without hot water...well, water is water, and I'm a soldier right ?" She closed the door behind her as she entered the bathroom.
**
"Everybody's here ?"
Mole nodded. Max, Alec, Joshua, Dix, Luke, Gem and him were in HQ, for their morning meeting.
"Where's Eerie ?" Alec smiled at the name. Gem had decided to name her daughter like this since she was born in very strange conditions.
"Sleeping. My roommate is watching her."
Max nodded. "Okay. We can begin. Joshua ?"
"We need gas for the vehicles. We're getting low."
"Okay, ask four X6 to go out and get some gas. Tell them to be very careful."
The trans-humans looked at her. "Like always." She smiled.
"Mole ?"
"We're good in weapons and ammo. We need to stay with at least this amount, in case of an attack."
"Let's hope that we could try to negociate before this."
Alec shook his head. She was so naive. Negociate ? With who ? White ? He almost laughed at the thought.
"Gem ?"
"Food supplies are low. We are going to need vegetables very soon. We can't continue to eat junk food like that. Deficiencies are not needed now."
"You're right. Alec ?"
"I worked on trying to find warehouses containing food with a few X6's yesterday and we found out a few sites. I'm going to send recon teams of X7's today."
"Why do you always send the youngs X series ? Why not X5 ?"
Alec sighed. "Max, these kids need to move. They are turning in circles here, and that doesn't do them good. Since you don't want to train them at combat, they are bored. They like doing these types of missions."
Max straightened her shoulders. She hated when he was right. "Okay then. When the teams come back in, give me the reports, and if it's good, we will plan a raid."
He nodded at her. "So, can anybody tell me something about medical supplies ?"
She could hear flies. Litterally. "God ! Joshua ! Go to the medical ward and find me someone who can enlight me." As Joshua left, she turned to Alec.
"I don't want the kids work to too much right ? They are only children."
Alec closed his eyes. She wasn't going to let that pass. "And they are soldiers Max. I know what I'm doing. Otherwise you wouldn't let me do all the things I do without you behind my back. Trust me, these kids needed this reckon mission, and badly."
**
Joshua entered the makeshift infirmary, and looked everywhere to find someone to help. Finally his eyes settled on a beautiful blonde girl. "Huh hi !"
The girl turned around, eyes wide. "Hi ! Can I help you with something ? You're not feeling well maybe ?"
Joshua held his hands. "No no ! Don't worry. I'm here because I'm searching for someone who could tell Little Fella, Max, about the medical supplies and stuff."
The blonde nodded. "Oh okay. I'll go with you. I'm the one responsible for this place, but it's empty right now. I just couldn't stay too long."
"Okay. I'm Joshua." He held his hand out to her.
"Jaimie." She took his big hand with a smile.
**
As Jaimie entered HQ, Alec and Max turned around. "Jaimie," whispered the green eyed man.
"We are busy here. What are you here for ?"
Alec's eyes widened at Max's rudeness. He cleared his throat. "Excuse her...that's..." he whispered in an evil tone, "PMS."
Jaimie chuckled, and then looked at Max. "Don't give me your Ice Queen shit, okay ? I'm here because your dogboy there," she pointed to Joshua, who was behind her, "asked me to tell you about the medical supplies. So, don't need to be Miss Congeniality with me, I'm not going to stole your boyfriend." She finished, with a look at Alec.
"What ? Huh, he's not..."
Mole chuckled. "I like her already."
Jaimie waved her objections away with her hands. "Whatever. I don't care about your sex life. Our medical supplies are low, we are in desperate need of needles, morphine, gaze, etc...all the little things that we need everyday."
Max nodded, still fuming about what the blonde said. Alec held that mischievous sparkle in his eyes while looking at her. She had changed since Manticore. Her long blonde curly hair was cascading freely along her back, her eyes were a light brown, and they were contrasting with her creamy skin. Her lips were red, full, inviting. She was dressed casually, in used jeans and a white t-shirt hugging all her curves. Old sneakers covered her feet, that were tapping against the cement floor as she waited, and she crossed her arms. Alec realized then that Max had dozed off like him.
"Do I need to stay here ? Or can I continue my work at the infirmary ?" she snapped.
Max shook her head. "Oh sure you can leave. We'll prepare a medical supply raid or smething like that." And as Jaimie was leaving, she whispered. "Bitch."
Jaimie turned around, a smile on her lips. "I heard that. And I don't give a fucking shit of what you're thinking of me, dear fearless leader."
Her hair floating around her as she turned again, the door slamming behind her.
**
Alec strolled into "The Bubble", name of the first and only bar that Max had allowed. It had been established in one of the most secure labs of the unused building, and when you closed the door, you were like in a bubble. No escape, no window, nothing. Just transgenics and alcohol.
Alec sat on a stool, looking around at the people in the bar. X's series and trans-humans were mixing here, and it was for the better. Something was missing, though. Billiards table. He made a mental note to try to get one in the near future.
"What do you want Alec ?" asked him the bartender, a trans-human with surely lion in its cocktail, due to the big blond mane on his head and his frightening jaw.
"Scotch on the rocks, thanks."
"Give me a gin Softy please." Alec turned around to see Jaimie wink to the barman.
"His name's Softy ?"
Jaimie turned around, and tilted her head. "What ? You, second in command, don't know the name of every transgenic ? I'm shocked here."
He shook his head, smiling. "Sorry. I don't consider myself like the second in command, and knowing the name of every transgenic is my goal. And thanks to you I now know a new name."
"Well...you know, this guy is as gentle as a lamb, and since he has some dangerous animal in his DNA, people think that he's dangerous like the big cat that he has in him. So he wanted to be called Softy. I think that some of our names reveal our real personalities." Softy sat their glasses in front of them. They nodded their thanks.
"Like me." Alec said, a smile on her lips.
"Like you." She answered, nodding. "But I find it sad that it's not even you who made that choice. I mean, she choose your name, and you just agreed to it, like it's nothing ?"
He sighed. "Her second choice was Dick."
She laughed. She pushed some hair of her face as she took another sip. "I know you 494. I know you're not the guy she wants you to be. I know you try to please her. Why, I can't tell, it's only you who can answer that. But I know that you shouldn't do that to yourself. Quit trying to be someone else. You're not perfect, right. She's not either. Nobody can be."
Her eyes were cold when she turned to him.
"You don't have to take her shit all the time."
"How do you know that ? How do you know that I'm trying to be great in her eyes, and that she gives me shit ?" he was very curious. This girl was different from everything he ever knew. He knew her pretty good, but had lost touch with her since Manticore was burned down. She amazed him today even more than she had back there.
"Everybody here knows that she treats you like a fuck up. But everybody here also knows that you were a CO, that you were one of the best soldiers Manticore ever had. She's the only who doesn't. Show her. Show her you're worth it."
And with that, she was out of the bar, leaving Alec there, in a daze.
**
A/N: I you want to read more of my work, or wonderful M/A fics, go to NWP ! Jensen-centric fanfictions message boards, with dozen of good stories !
Author: SmartAlexia
Rating: PG-13
Genre: nothing in particular
Pairing: A/J...and M/her annoying self
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, apart Jaimie. DA is Fox, Cameron, and Eglee.
Comments: thanks to wonderful Panda to help me plan this fic, to alecsangel who edited this, to my Muse (luv' you), and to everyone that's going to review ^^
**
A faint light pierced through her curtains, and it was enough to make her stir. Stretching, she opened her eyes slowly. Big brown orbs coming to focus on the ceiling of her decrepit apartment. Moving over the green stain, mould she would say. She yawned, and rubbed her eyes.
"Another shitty day in shitty Terminal City."
A new hope here ? Freedom ? They were as free as in Manticore. Cops and National Guards were 24/7 watching the fence, and it was more and more difficult to go outside TC without being spotted. So what ? They didn't have orders anymore. Yeah great. So many of the residents in the city needed orders, needed missions, needed structure. Sure, there were things to do, but not enough for everyone one. Max did not want the child to work as hard as the adults, although the X6 and X7 classes were more than willing to work harder. But no. "They need a childhood". Yeah sure. Like they can have one between the trashbins and the guarded fence.
The blonde sighed at her thoughts. "It can't be as bad as Manticore." She tried to convince herself of that, while getting up to her bathroom.
"Another day without hot water...well, water is water, and I'm a soldier right ?" She closed the door behind her as she entered the bathroom.
**
"Everybody's here ?"
Mole nodded. Max, Alec, Joshua, Dix, Luke, Gem and him were in HQ, for their morning meeting.
"Where's Eerie ?" Alec smiled at the name. Gem had decided to name her daughter like this since she was born in very strange conditions.
"Sleeping. My roommate is watching her."
Max nodded. "Okay. We can begin. Joshua ?"
"We need gas for the vehicles. We're getting low."
"Okay, ask four X6 to go out and get some gas. Tell them to be very careful."
The trans-humans looked at her. "Like always." She smiled.
"Mole ?"
"We're good in weapons and ammo. We need to stay with at least this amount, in case of an attack."
"Let's hope that we could try to negociate before this."
Alec shook his head. She was so naive. Negociate ? With who ? White ? He almost laughed at the thought.
"Gem ?"
"Food supplies are low. We are going to need vegetables very soon. We can't continue to eat junk food like that. Deficiencies are not needed now."
"You're right. Alec ?"
"I worked on trying to find warehouses containing food with a few X6's yesterday and we found out a few sites. I'm going to send recon teams of X7's today."
"Why do you always send the youngs X series ? Why not X5 ?"
Alec sighed. "Max, these kids need to move. They are turning in circles here, and that doesn't do them good. Since you don't want to train them at combat, they are bored. They like doing these types of missions."
Max straightened her shoulders. She hated when he was right. "Okay then. When the teams come back in, give me the reports, and if it's good, we will plan a raid."
He nodded at her. "So, can anybody tell me something about medical supplies ?"
She could hear flies. Litterally. "God ! Joshua ! Go to the medical ward and find me someone who can enlight me." As Joshua left, she turned to Alec.
"I don't want the kids work to too much right ? They are only children."
Alec closed his eyes. She wasn't going to let that pass. "And they are soldiers Max. I know what I'm doing. Otherwise you wouldn't let me do all the things I do without you behind my back. Trust me, these kids needed this reckon mission, and badly."
**
Joshua entered the makeshift infirmary, and looked everywhere to find someone to help. Finally his eyes settled on a beautiful blonde girl. "Huh hi !"
The girl turned around, eyes wide. "Hi ! Can I help you with something ? You're not feeling well maybe ?"
Joshua held his hands. "No no ! Don't worry. I'm here because I'm searching for someone who could tell Little Fella, Max, about the medical supplies and stuff."
The blonde nodded. "Oh okay. I'll go with you. I'm the one responsible for this place, but it's empty right now. I just couldn't stay too long."
"Okay. I'm Joshua." He held his hand out to her.
"Jaimie." She took his big hand with a smile.
**
As Jaimie entered HQ, Alec and Max turned around. "Jaimie," whispered the green eyed man.
"We are busy here. What are you here for ?"
Alec's eyes widened at Max's rudeness. He cleared his throat. "Excuse her...that's..." he whispered in an evil tone, "PMS."
Jaimie chuckled, and then looked at Max. "Don't give me your Ice Queen shit, okay ? I'm here because your dogboy there," she pointed to Joshua, who was behind her, "asked me to tell you about the medical supplies. So, don't need to be Miss Congeniality with me, I'm not going to stole your boyfriend." She finished, with a look at Alec.
"What ? Huh, he's not..."
Mole chuckled. "I like her already."
Jaimie waved her objections away with her hands. "Whatever. I don't care about your sex life. Our medical supplies are low, we are in desperate need of needles, morphine, gaze, etc...all the little things that we need everyday."
Max nodded, still fuming about what the blonde said. Alec held that mischievous sparkle in his eyes while looking at her. She had changed since Manticore. Her long blonde curly hair was cascading freely along her back, her eyes were a light brown, and they were contrasting with her creamy skin. Her lips were red, full, inviting. She was dressed casually, in used jeans and a white t-shirt hugging all her curves. Old sneakers covered her feet, that were tapping against the cement floor as she waited, and she crossed her arms. Alec realized then that Max had dozed off like him.
"Do I need to stay here ? Or can I continue my work at the infirmary ?" she snapped.
Max shook her head. "Oh sure you can leave. We'll prepare a medical supply raid or smething like that." And as Jaimie was leaving, she whispered. "Bitch."
Jaimie turned around, a smile on her lips. "I heard that. And I don't give a fucking shit of what you're thinking of me, dear fearless leader."
Her hair floating around her as she turned again, the door slamming behind her.
**
Alec strolled into "The Bubble", name of the first and only bar that Max had allowed. It had been established in one of the most secure labs of the unused building, and when you closed the door, you were like in a bubble. No escape, no window, nothing. Just transgenics and alcohol.
Alec sat on a stool, looking around at the people in the bar. X's series and trans-humans were mixing here, and it was for the better. Something was missing, though. Billiards table. He made a mental note to try to get one in the near future.
"What do you want Alec ?" asked him the bartender, a trans-human with surely lion in its cocktail, due to the big blond mane on his head and his frightening jaw.
"Scotch on the rocks, thanks."
"Give me a gin Softy please." Alec turned around to see Jaimie wink to the barman.
"His name's Softy ?"
Jaimie turned around, and tilted her head. "What ? You, second in command, don't know the name of every transgenic ? I'm shocked here."
He shook his head, smiling. "Sorry. I don't consider myself like the second in command, and knowing the name of every transgenic is my goal. And thanks to you I now know a new name."
"Well...you know, this guy is as gentle as a lamb, and since he has some dangerous animal in his DNA, people think that he's dangerous like the big cat that he has in him. So he wanted to be called Softy. I think that some of our names reveal our real personalities." Softy sat their glasses in front of them. They nodded their thanks.
"Like me." Alec said, a smile on her lips.
"Like you." She answered, nodding. "But I find it sad that it's not even you who made that choice. I mean, she choose your name, and you just agreed to it, like it's nothing ?"
He sighed. "Her second choice was Dick."
She laughed. She pushed some hair of her face as she took another sip. "I know you 494. I know you're not the guy she wants you to be. I know you try to please her. Why, I can't tell, it's only you who can answer that. But I know that you shouldn't do that to yourself. Quit trying to be someone else. You're not perfect, right. She's not either. Nobody can be."
Her eyes were cold when she turned to him.
"You don't have to take her shit all the time."
"How do you know that ? How do you know that I'm trying to be great in her eyes, and that she gives me shit ?" he was very curious. This girl was different from everything he ever knew. He knew her pretty good, but had lost touch with her since Manticore was burned down. She amazed him today even more than she had back there.
"Everybody here knows that she treats you like a fuck up. But everybody here also knows that you were a CO, that you were one of the best soldiers Manticore ever had. She's the only who doesn't. Show her. Show her you're worth it."
And with that, she was out of the bar, leaving Alec there, in a daze.
**
A/N: I you want to read more of my work, or wonderful M/A fics, go to NWP ! Jensen-centric fanfictions message boards, with dozen of good stories !
