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Mole watched Andy ride in on her bike. He swaggered over to her, his cigar as usual dangling from his lips. "Well if it isn't our little princess coming over to greet her loyal subjects," he grinned at his friend. She just gave him a little smile and said that she had to see Derek about something and then walked away.
"Woah, I've never seen her so down before," Dix said, walking up to Mole.
Mole just grunted but his concerned eyes followed his friend as she walked away from them. He had never seen her without a smile or without that bounce in her walk, he turned to look at Dix and he looked just as apprehensive as Mole felt. What could have happened? Mole thought to himself.
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"Derek!" Andy yelled, "Derek, where are you?!"
She walked around the building, looking for her second. She saw her soldiers straightening up, watching her but they weren't the ones that she wanted answers from. "Derek!" she yelled again.
"I'm right here, god woman calm down," her second appeared, jogging down the staircase. "What's the matter?" he asked, seeing her unusually pale face.
"I don't know," she whispered, looking at him. He took her in his arms and led her into their office. It would be bad for their soldiers to see her fall apart like that. A leader had to be strong, for herself and for her comrades, they drew their strength from her too.
She let herself be led into the room and when he closed the door behind them, let him fold his arms around her. She leant her head on his shoulder just letting the strong beat of his heart calm her down. She took a deep breath and asked a question that Derek thought he would never hear her ask.
"Why was I transferred?"
He looked down at her in shock, her eyes caught his and held them. Hers a blue-gray, his a strange blend of green and blue. They were all blue near his irises but then merged with a dark green. She had always loved his eyes. He was also staring at hers, he remembered the first day he had seen them, a girl marching into the barracks with Colonel Lydecker. Colonel had said that she was to be a part of their unit and that they were to work together. He knew that none of the others soldiers were happy about that, they knew about her past and they didn't want her. They all despised her, he had just been intrigued. He didn't know what it was about her but he was stuck on her. He remembered those eyes flashing around the room as soon as the Colonel had left, all the others had just ignored her and went on with whatever it was they were doing. She had been assigned the bunk next to his and she strode over there, stood next to the bed and just observed him cleaning his boots. She had looked around the room, searching for something that he was sure that not even she knew what she was looking for but obviously not finding it. She lay down in her bunk and stared at the ceiling. He hadn't said anything to her, he was sort of afraid of her, what she had done, was something that he had never even dreamed of doing and he didn't know how the handle the little girl in front of him. He managed to continue watching her over the next few days, if she noticed she didn't say anything but one day as they were sparring, she had given him a little grin and then beat his ass into the ground. He had been surprised, not only at the fact that she had beaten him but also at the smile. When he woke up the next morning he looked over at her, she was already awake, she leant over and whispered quietly so that no one could hear, "You better watch yourself, or I might just have to kick your ass again." Her eyes twinkled at him and that had been the start of their friendship.
He remembered those happy eyes and compared them to the eyes that he was looking at now. They weren't happy, they were covered in a veil of sadness and despair, she usually hid it well but he had known her for too long for her to be able to lie to him anymore, he knew that that sad little girl was in there somewhere, still looking for something that she could never find.
"Why do you ask me that now? After all this time," he said.
"My dreams..they're getting worse..and I keep seeing these images of people that I don't know. Except.there was this one girl, she's at my work and she looks just like a grown up version of one of the girls in my dreams. I don't know what it means Derek, and you know. Another thing that I figured out? I can't remember anything that happened to me before I was transferred into your unit." She sat down on the couch, she didn't know what was happening to her, these visions were swarming inside her head and she didn't know what to do to get rid of them.
Derek sat down next to her, contemplating what to say. She looked so little again and when he sat down she had turned and buried her head into his chest. He held her there, not saying anything, just giving her the comfort that she so desperately needed. He didn't know what to say to her, he knew why she was transferred, he knew why she couldn't remember anything but he didn't want to tell her. He didn't want her more upset than she already was. She was like a little sister to him and he hated seeing her unhappy. She just sat there, feeling herself calm down. Derek always had that effect on her, he was just so calm and steady himself. She could trust him and she knew that she could always count on him. She knew that he knew something but was unwilling to say anything, she could tell by the way his eyes would drop from hers quickly every time she looked at him. She knew that she couldn't push him to tell her anything or he might get mad. He had only ever gotten angry at her once. And once was enough, she was a genetic super soldier but she was still afraid of her big brother, especially one as terrifying as Derek was when he was mad. She smiled softly.
He saw her smile and asked, "What are you laughing about now?"
She grinned up at him and said, "Do you remember that time you yelled at me?"
He smiled wryly at her, "Yeah, cos you kept getting into trouble."
"I wasn't in trouble THAT much," she pouted.
He laughed at her, "You were ALWAYS in trouble, I don't know how you managed to get away with it sometimes but you gotta admit. You were sent to Psy-ops and Re-indoc more than any soldier in our compound."
"Well then doesn't that make me special?" she asked impishly.
"Special my ass. It just means that you're trouble," he snorted.
She narrowed her eyes, then jumped onto his lap and started tickling him. She had him for about a minute before he pulled her off him and then started tickling her. She screamed with laughter, begging him to let her go but he wouldn't let up. The door opened and a head popped inside.
She looked up at the soldier and wiped the tears from her eyes. "What it is Jay?" she asked.
"Nothing ma'am, just wondering what the noise was, you know, since you told us that we had lay low and be quiet you know?" he grinned at her, happy to see her her usual cheery self again.
"Oh don't you start with me soldier," she mock glared at him but her lips were turning up at the corners. "And how many times have I told you, don't call me ma'am."
"Yes ma'am," he saluted at then closed the door rapidly as a pillow hit it. She could hear him laughing all the way down the hall.
"So what d'ya want to do tonight?" Derek asked.
"Let's introduce our little soldier friends to a place called Crash," she grinned.
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Alec looked up from his glass of scotch to the table at the back where Max and Cindy were sitting. He sighed, he could guess what they were talking about. Half of him was happy, he had a chance with Max. The other half was just too caught up in the memories that Max and Logan had shared together. Logan, he sighed. It always boils down to Logan. He really didn't know whether she would choose him over Logan, a part of him doubted it but another part hoped for it. He hoped and wished harder than he ever had in his life. He really wanted to be with her, he would do anything for her. He just didn't want to a substitute, he never was the kind of guy that could play second fiddle to anybody else, he grinned to himself. He never had been second to anyone else, well except to Max. He looked around the room and saw that Andy had just entered with a group of people. Oh wow, she made some friends, he thought to himself humorlessly. He had always felt a connection to Andy, like she knew what it was like to be him. He had a feeling that they were alike, they both hid behind their happy masks, he had seen hers this morning but she looked alright now as she talked to her friends. They got a table and she made her way to the bar, as she caught sight of him staring she smirked and made her way over.
"Well what's a pretty boy like you doing all alone here?" she drawled, her eyes dancing with laughter.
Alec grinned at her and replied, "Waiting for a pretty girl like you to buy me a drink."
She laughed at him and said, "No way man, I got enough people to buy drinks for." Nodding her head at the table behind them, she grabbed the beer the bar tender put on the counter and said, "Come over and meet them."
He followed her to the table and looked at the people sitting there. They were a lot better looking than the people you usually saw at Crash. She started to introduce them to him. "This is Derek, he's my bestest buddy," Alec shook hands with the guy she pointed to, Man this guy's got nice eyes, Alec thought to himself and then he almost slapped himself. What they hell are you doing admiring another guys eyes. He almost groaned out loud, you're spending way too much time with Normal, he reprimanded himself. He tried to focus as she introduced the others, "This is Star," a girl with almost white blond hair and the darkest blue eyes that Alec had ever seen. Stop looking at people's eyes, he said to himself, and gave the girl a smile. "This is Nat," who had to be one of the most muscular guys he had ever seen. Man, that guy must weigh like almost 300 pounds, he thought to himself. He shook the guy's hand and then turned to the last person at the table. A guy, probably about Alec's height but he was African-American and when he smiled, he had the sharpest teeth that Alec had ever seen. He smiled back at the guy, Cary, Andy had said his name was but he couldn't get over the guys teeth.
Cary caught him staring and laughed, Alec looked up, embarrassed but Cary just said, "Hey don't worry bout it man, I get it all the time."
Alec grinned at the good-natured guy and took a seat next to Andy.
"So, how's my little sister doing at her new job?" Derek asked him, smiling at Andy.
"I'm not little," she said indignantly.
Derek just nodded mockingly and laughed out loud when she poked her tongue out at him. Alec laughed with him but stopped when Andy glared at him. The other people laughed when they saw the look Andy gave him.
"So you afraid of the little thing too huh?" Derek smirked.
Alec was about to reply when Star cut in, "Well just join the club buddy, we all been scared of her, ever since we met her huh guys?"
Andy just smirked and said, "Well could I help it if I was better than you?"
"No way, you did NOT just say you were better than me!" Cary exclaimed.
"Well SOMEONE'S a bit egotistic aren't they?" Nat asked at the same time.
Andy just grinned as the table of people laughed, Alec included. He had never really felt at ease with ordinaries but these guys were cool.
"This is a really cook place," Star said, looking around Crash.
"Yeah, I like it cos everyone's so laid back here. No rules, no nothing. It's great!" Andy said.
"Like you followed the rules anyway," Derek said.
"Hey I followed them," Andy replied.
"Oh really and was that when you felt like it or when it suited you?" he asked, his eyes dancing with laughter.
"Both," she replied airily and the table dissolved into laughter again.
Alec grinned at his new friend's conversation but he felt his eyes wandering back to that table in the back. Max was just sitting there staring at him and he gave her a small smile. He saw OC leave and Max beckon him over so he excused himself from the table, took a deep breath and walked over there. He wondered if she had decided yet, he thought that she had and he was scared. She held his heart and dreams in her hands and she could either accept them or throw them away. He didn't know which it was but he hoped that it was the former. He reached her table and sat down, "Hey Max," he smirked at her.
She looked at him, "We need to talk."
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Mole watched Andy ride in on her bike. He swaggered over to her, his cigar as usual dangling from his lips. "Well if it isn't our little princess coming over to greet her loyal subjects," he grinned at his friend. She just gave him a little smile and said that she had to see Derek about something and then walked away.
"Woah, I've never seen her so down before," Dix said, walking up to Mole.
Mole just grunted but his concerned eyes followed his friend as she walked away from them. He had never seen her without a smile or without that bounce in her walk, he turned to look at Dix and he looked just as apprehensive as Mole felt. What could have happened? Mole thought to himself.
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"Derek!" Andy yelled, "Derek, where are you?!"
She walked around the building, looking for her second. She saw her soldiers straightening up, watching her but they weren't the ones that she wanted answers from. "Derek!" she yelled again.
"I'm right here, god woman calm down," her second appeared, jogging down the staircase. "What's the matter?" he asked, seeing her unusually pale face.
"I don't know," she whispered, looking at him. He took her in his arms and led her into their office. It would be bad for their soldiers to see her fall apart like that. A leader had to be strong, for herself and for her comrades, they drew their strength from her too.
She let herself be led into the room and when he closed the door behind them, let him fold his arms around her. She leant her head on his shoulder just letting the strong beat of his heart calm her down. She took a deep breath and asked a question that Derek thought he would never hear her ask.
"Why was I transferred?"
He looked down at her in shock, her eyes caught his and held them. Hers a blue-gray, his a strange blend of green and blue. They were all blue near his irises but then merged with a dark green. She had always loved his eyes. He was also staring at hers, he remembered the first day he had seen them, a girl marching into the barracks with Colonel Lydecker. Colonel had said that she was to be a part of their unit and that they were to work together. He knew that none of the others soldiers were happy about that, they knew about her past and they didn't want her. They all despised her, he had just been intrigued. He didn't know what it was about her but he was stuck on her. He remembered those eyes flashing around the room as soon as the Colonel had left, all the others had just ignored her and went on with whatever it was they were doing. She had been assigned the bunk next to his and she strode over there, stood next to the bed and just observed him cleaning his boots. She had looked around the room, searching for something that he was sure that not even she knew what she was looking for but obviously not finding it. She lay down in her bunk and stared at the ceiling. He hadn't said anything to her, he was sort of afraid of her, what she had done, was something that he had never even dreamed of doing and he didn't know how the handle the little girl in front of him. He managed to continue watching her over the next few days, if she noticed she didn't say anything but one day as they were sparring, she had given him a little grin and then beat his ass into the ground. He had been surprised, not only at the fact that she had beaten him but also at the smile. When he woke up the next morning he looked over at her, she was already awake, she leant over and whispered quietly so that no one could hear, "You better watch yourself, or I might just have to kick your ass again." Her eyes twinkled at him and that had been the start of their friendship.
He remembered those happy eyes and compared them to the eyes that he was looking at now. They weren't happy, they were covered in a veil of sadness and despair, she usually hid it well but he had known her for too long for her to be able to lie to him anymore, he knew that that sad little girl was in there somewhere, still looking for something that she could never find.
"Why do you ask me that now? After all this time," he said.
"My dreams..they're getting worse..and I keep seeing these images of people that I don't know. Except.there was this one girl, she's at my work and she looks just like a grown up version of one of the girls in my dreams. I don't know what it means Derek, and you know. Another thing that I figured out? I can't remember anything that happened to me before I was transferred into your unit." She sat down on the couch, she didn't know what was happening to her, these visions were swarming inside her head and she didn't know what to do to get rid of them.
Derek sat down next to her, contemplating what to say. She looked so little again and when he sat down she had turned and buried her head into his chest. He held her there, not saying anything, just giving her the comfort that she so desperately needed. He didn't know what to say to her, he knew why she was transferred, he knew why she couldn't remember anything but he didn't want to tell her. He didn't want her more upset than she already was. She was like a little sister to him and he hated seeing her unhappy. She just sat there, feeling herself calm down. Derek always had that effect on her, he was just so calm and steady himself. She could trust him and she knew that she could always count on him. She knew that he knew something but was unwilling to say anything, she could tell by the way his eyes would drop from hers quickly every time she looked at him. She knew that she couldn't push him to tell her anything or he might get mad. He had only ever gotten angry at her once. And once was enough, she was a genetic super soldier but she was still afraid of her big brother, especially one as terrifying as Derek was when he was mad. She smiled softly.
He saw her smile and asked, "What are you laughing about now?"
She grinned up at him and said, "Do you remember that time you yelled at me?"
He smiled wryly at her, "Yeah, cos you kept getting into trouble."
"I wasn't in trouble THAT much," she pouted.
He laughed at her, "You were ALWAYS in trouble, I don't know how you managed to get away with it sometimes but you gotta admit. You were sent to Psy-ops and Re-indoc more than any soldier in our compound."
"Well then doesn't that make me special?" she asked impishly.
"Special my ass. It just means that you're trouble," he snorted.
She narrowed her eyes, then jumped onto his lap and started tickling him. She had him for about a minute before he pulled her off him and then started tickling her. She screamed with laughter, begging him to let her go but he wouldn't let up. The door opened and a head popped inside.
She looked up at the soldier and wiped the tears from her eyes. "What it is Jay?" she asked.
"Nothing ma'am, just wondering what the noise was, you know, since you told us that we had lay low and be quiet you know?" he grinned at her, happy to see her her usual cheery self again.
"Oh don't you start with me soldier," she mock glared at him but her lips were turning up at the corners. "And how many times have I told you, don't call me ma'am."
"Yes ma'am," he saluted at then closed the door rapidly as a pillow hit it. She could hear him laughing all the way down the hall.
"So what d'ya want to do tonight?" Derek asked.
"Let's introduce our little soldier friends to a place called Crash," she grinned.
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Alec looked up from his glass of scotch to the table at the back where Max and Cindy were sitting. He sighed, he could guess what they were talking about. Half of him was happy, he had a chance with Max. The other half was just too caught up in the memories that Max and Logan had shared together. Logan, he sighed. It always boils down to Logan. He really didn't know whether she would choose him over Logan, a part of him doubted it but another part hoped for it. He hoped and wished harder than he ever had in his life. He really wanted to be with her, he would do anything for her. He just didn't want to a substitute, he never was the kind of guy that could play second fiddle to anybody else, he grinned to himself. He never had been second to anyone else, well except to Max. He looked around the room and saw that Andy had just entered with a group of people. Oh wow, she made some friends, he thought to himself humorlessly. He had always felt a connection to Andy, like she knew what it was like to be him. He had a feeling that they were alike, they both hid behind their happy masks, he had seen hers this morning but she looked alright now as she talked to her friends. They got a table and she made her way to the bar, as she caught sight of him staring she smirked and made her way over.
"Well what's a pretty boy like you doing all alone here?" she drawled, her eyes dancing with laughter.
Alec grinned at her and replied, "Waiting for a pretty girl like you to buy me a drink."
She laughed at him and said, "No way man, I got enough people to buy drinks for." Nodding her head at the table behind them, she grabbed the beer the bar tender put on the counter and said, "Come over and meet them."
He followed her to the table and looked at the people sitting there. They were a lot better looking than the people you usually saw at Crash. She started to introduce them to him. "This is Derek, he's my bestest buddy," Alec shook hands with the guy she pointed to, Man this guy's got nice eyes, Alec thought to himself and then he almost slapped himself. What they hell are you doing admiring another guys eyes. He almost groaned out loud, you're spending way too much time with Normal, he reprimanded himself. He tried to focus as she introduced the others, "This is Star," a girl with almost white blond hair and the darkest blue eyes that Alec had ever seen. Stop looking at people's eyes, he said to himself, and gave the girl a smile. "This is Nat," who had to be one of the most muscular guys he had ever seen. Man, that guy must weigh like almost 300 pounds, he thought to himself. He shook the guy's hand and then turned to the last person at the table. A guy, probably about Alec's height but he was African-American and when he smiled, he had the sharpest teeth that Alec had ever seen. He smiled back at the guy, Cary, Andy had said his name was but he couldn't get over the guys teeth.
Cary caught him staring and laughed, Alec looked up, embarrassed but Cary just said, "Hey don't worry bout it man, I get it all the time."
Alec grinned at the good-natured guy and took a seat next to Andy.
"So, how's my little sister doing at her new job?" Derek asked him, smiling at Andy.
"I'm not little," she said indignantly.
Derek just nodded mockingly and laughed out loud when she poked her tongue out at him. Alec laughed with him but stopped when Andy glared at him. The other people laughed when they saw the look Andy gave him.
"So you afraid of the little thing too huh?" Derek smirked.
Alec was about to reply when Star cut in, "Well just join the club buddy, we all been scared of her, ever since we met her huh guys?"
Andy just smirked and said, "Well could I help it if I was better than you?"
"No way, you did NOT just say you were better than me!" Cary exclaimed.
"Well SOMEONE'S a bit egotistic aren't they?" Nat asked at the same time.
Andy just grinned as the table of people laughed, Alec included. He had never really felt at ease with ordinaries but these guys were cool.
"This is a really cook place," Star said, looking around Crash.
"Yeah, I like it cos everyone's so laid back here. No rules, no nothing. It's great!" Andy said.
"Like you followed the rules anyway," Derek said.
"Hey I followed them," Andy replied.
"Oh really and was that when you felt like it or when it suited you?" he asked, his eyes dancing with laughter.
"Both," she replied airily and the table dissolved into laughter again.
Alec grinned at his new friend's conversation but he felt his eyes wandering back to that table in the back. Max was just sitting there staring at him and he gave her a small smile. He saw OC leave and Max beckon him over so he excused himself from the table, took a deep breath and walked over there. He wondered if she had decided yet, he thought that she had and he was scared. She held his heart and dreams in her hands and she could either accept them or throw them away. He didn't know which it was but he hoped that it was the former. He reached her table and sat down, "Hey Max," he smirked at her.
She looked at him, "We need to talk."
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