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Author's note: Hi! How are you doin'? I'm just dandy. Let me tell ya, my and my boy are watching this little kitten that's like four weeks old and he is just he cutest little bad ass that ever there was. He's this sandy gray on his body and his paws, ears, nose, and tail are all true gray, and he has these wide milky blue eyes. He is adorable and he's got me in like the best mood I've been in in like forever. What can I say? The key to my happiness is found in kittens. Review!

Comin' to Get You

Chapter 2: Evil Shenanigans

"I wanna be a supermodel, and my hair will shine like the see-ea see-ea, I wanna be a supermodel, and everyone'll wanna be just like mee-ea mee-ea." Jondy sang while she bounced impatiently on the couch, of the apartment that they were presently squatting in, watching Zane move through the kitchen. One light was on, casting dim shadows across his face.

"What are you singing?" It was two in the morning and he was tired, Jondy's seeming inability to stop moving for two minutes was finally getting to him. He shot a glance at her and resisted the urge to let his mouth drop open, something about the sight of her always caught him off guard.

Her mouth dropped open and she stared at him in horror, "just no appreciation for the classics, it's appalling."

"That's a classic?" he raised an eyebrow at her.

"Pre-pulse. Anything pre-pulse is a classic."

"I don't think so," he shook his head in disbelief.

"I don't care what you think."

"Anyway, can you please stop it?" He called tuning to glare at her.

She blew a strand of blue hair out of her eyes and tried her hardest to sit still. It wasn't exactly working very well, so she jumped off the couch and skipped into the kitchen grabbing Zane's arm and turning him to face her. "We're in Seattle, now when do we find Eyes?"

"We will, I have to hear from some people before we can start tearing the town apart. It's not like he's an easy guy to find." He smiled at her wide eyes and pried her hand off his arm. "How much caffeine have you had today?"

"I haven't had any. I'm naturally this antsy, dammit! Maybe if I did drink caffeine it would calm me down, you know kind of like speed." She started bouncing on the balls of her feet and then stopped. "Where's your dog?"

"Sasha's in my room, probably sleeping on the bed."

"I can't believe you brought your dog."

"I didn't know how long we would be here. I couldn't leave her."

"You could have let someone else take care of her while you were gone." She rolled her eyes and waved her hands in the air for emphasis.

"Never, she's my baby." He called to her back as she disappeared into his bedroom. There was a crash, and then he could hear her low voice as she talked to Sasha and then the squeak of the bed as she came to play with Jondy.

"Ball!" A green tennis ball flew past Zane's face, as he craned his head around the kitchen counter, followed by an exuberant Sasha and Jondy. "Woohoo!" Jondy took a dive for the ball but missed it. Zane had trouble standing as he watched the two wrestle on the floor. "Give it up, dog, I'm gonna win!" a bark was her only reply followed by an 'oof' when Jondy's rear connected solidly with the ground. "Ah, slobber!"

Zane shook his head as he turned back to the kitchen to finish stocking the refrigerator. He listened to the loud struggle going on behind him, only mildly worried that the furniture that they had found in the apartment would be seriously damaged after a visit from someone like Jondy. Then the apartment suddenly got quiet and he froze, in the middle of putting a box of frozen coffee in the freezer. In all his experience with Jondy he had learned to be the most afraid when she wasn't making any noise. He turned slowly, fearing the worst, and found Jondy lying flat on her back with Sasha's paws on her shoulders and licking her face. He laughed, "Sasha! Come here, girl!" He patted his leg and Sasha's large head shot up, hearing her owner's voice and then she was bounding towards him with her tongue lolling and leaving Jondy lying in a heap on the floor.

"I'm a pathetic soldier," she moaned turning herself onto her stomach.

"No, you're not."

"I got beat by a dog!" she cried.

"She's a very special dog."

"She's not a genetically enhanced dog, and she didn't take Eskrema either!" She rolled back over onto her back and sat up with a frown until she looked at him. A smile broke out on her face and she was on her feet and dashing towards Zane before he knew what was happening. She was nuzzling his cheeks with her own, and for a minute he was so surprised he didn't realize just what she was doing. Then she pulled away with a cheeky grin, "now you're a slobber hound too!"

He pushed her away playfully and wiped at his cheeks with his t-shirt trying his best to ignore her maniacal laughter. "You took Eskrema?"

"Yeah, Zack thought I was nuts. 'Why do you want to take more classes on fighting, you can disable a line backer with your thumb and index finger?'" She shrugged, "I liked being able to play with a sword, and big wooden sticks."

He was laughing along with her now, shaking his head at the wide grin that split her face. What sounded like a chime went off dimly freezing both of them. "My cell," he said quietly taking off to find it.

"Where is it?" She followed him into his room as he went tearing through his clothes.

"I don't know."

"Here, phone, come here, phone," she started calling picking up shirts and boxers indiscriminately. When a pair of his camouflage boxers landed on his head he almost called the whole search off but then he heard Jondy's loud triumphant call. "Ha ha, I found you, you scoundrel." He heard the ringing stop and turned to watch as she smiled into the phone, "Zane's pant's, how may I help you?"

His eyes widened when he saw a pair of his jeans hanging from her hand. He pounced on her resting the phone away from her hands, "Hello?" He licked his lips and pushed Jondy away from his shoulder where she was trying to listen in on the conversation. "No, I won't hook you up with her…look, do you have the information I asked about?" He narrowed his eyes at the girl bouncing infront of him and pointed at the door trying to look athoritive. She laughed but left anyway. "What can you tell me?"

"If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?" He heard coming from the living room, thinking idly that it was a good thing he could multi-task. "If I'm alive and well, will you be there holding my hand? I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might, Kryptonite." He stifled a laugh when he saw Jondy's head crane around his doorframe and pull back when she saw him watching she didn't pause in her song however. "You called me strong, you called me weak, but still your secrets I will keep. You took for granted all the times I never let you down. You stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me then you'd be dead."

"Thanks for your help, man." Zane sighed into the phone as he hung it up. He glared at the doorway knowing that Jondy was waiting just out of sight. "You can come be more of a nuisance now."

"I'm a nuisance?" she pouted walking over to him dejectedly. "You don't wuv me no more." When he looked up he was faced with large sad blue eyes that seemed to brim with tears for a second.

"Jondy…" he started before she laughed and the illusion was dispelled.

"What did he have to say?"

"He's managed to narrow our search down to the money district."

"Makes sense, you gotta have some money to keep going all these years with those cable hacks." She plopped down on his bed, and patted her leg. There was a jingle and Sasha walked into the room with a lolling tongue and climbed up onto the bed next to her. " Could possibly get onto a computer tomorrow and see whose been accessing what information, it could narrow it down even more." Zane nodded and watched as she scratched at the dog's ears absently," I keep expecting it to be a joke." Her sad voice almost made him jump.

He looked at her for a long time before sighing softly and sinking down on the bed next to her, "I know what you mean."

"We gotta find him. What if something happened, and he's hurt and that's why he didn't get in touch with any of us?" Blue eyes met green and he swallowed hard.

"We'll find him."

"We have to…" she choked out biting her lip when she felt his strong hand resting against her neck. "He's saved my ass too many times for me to just leave him if he's hurt."

"Jondy…" Zane waited for her to look at him, "he's saved all our asses, we'll get him back."

She nodded, "I remember four years after the escape he showed up at my door. Appeared out of thin air, or at least that's what it seemed like. He'd found me before that but never stayed around, but this time was different…I was in a bad situation…and he got me out." She was blindly staring at Sasha's ears, "he stayed with me for two months, it was probably my best two months ever." She smiled and looked at Zane.

"What was the situation?"

"Abusive fosters…funny when you think about it, but not really." She said the last part to her hands.

"He was closer to you than anyone…" he started and she laughed. "Really, J, I never saw him smile as much as when he was around you."

"We understood each other…he told me what to do and I ignored him."

"And here I thought I was special…"

"You are, I haven't pelted raw eggs at you…yet."

"Raw eggs?"

"Zack pissed me off, I had been cooking eggs and they were there." She laughed and stuck her tongue out triumphantly. "He was so ready to blow a fuse when the first one hit him square in the chest…I'll always remember how the egg just exploded, it was beautiful." Her eyes were dreamy as she sighed.

"He kicked your ass didn't he?"

"No…" she laughed at his shocked expression. "We had an egg fight. Then he left, leaving me to clean it all up, the rat bastard."

"I'm having a lot of trouble picturing Zack in an egg fight." He rubbed at the back of his neck and shook his head.

"I was there and I have problems picturing it!" She smiled turning to look at him and realized just how close he was to her. His shoulder was pressed hard against hers, hips brushing gently, and faces mere inches apart. He realized the same second she did, when he felt her breath warm and sweet against his cheek. The smile slipped off of her face when their eyes met. Her tongue darted out to wet her full lips and he couldn't drag his eyes away from the sight.

His own breathing sounded harsh in his ears when he saw her eyes lower to his lips. He swallowed hard and started to lean in closer when he had to suddenly turn his in a yawn. She laughed uneasily and jumped off his bed, she smiled down at him and bit her lip. "How about I let you get some sleep, soldier?"

"Sounds good," he answered trying his best to keep disappointment out of his voice.

She walked quietly to the door and turned back just before she disappeared from his sight. "Sweet dreams, Z."

"You too," he whispered to the closed door. Sasha whined softly and he glared at her, "what?" She looked at him and tilted her head her eyebrows lifting. He shook his head, it had to be the wolf DNA that made him think of her with such human expressions.

With a heavy sigh he stood, the bed creaking unhappily at the shift of weight. With heavy hands he dragged his shirt over his head and shucked off his pants, and stood there for a long time in just his royal blue boxers staring off into space. He heard a huff from behind him; he shot another look at his dog, "shut up."

He padded over to his light and switched it off with a click and waited for a second for his night vision to kick in. When it did he picked his way over to his bed and lay down with a groan. He felt as Sasha crawled over his feet and placed her chin down on his calf. She was a reassuring weight, the only constant in the last five years of running. It seemed like hours before he managed to drift off to sleep, blue eyes weighing heavy on his mind, then everything faded to black.

Hours later Jondy was shifting on the balls of her feet in his doorway and watched him. He woke with a start when he felt her eyes on him and sat up with a frown, "what's wrong?" he grumbled.

"I can't sleep," she said in a small voice.

"You can never sleep." He yawned and wiggled his toes underneath Sasha's warm body.

"Doesn't mean that I don't want to sometimes."

"So what do you want me to do about it?" He rubbed at his eyes and let his eyes adjust again to the dark. Suddenly he could see her perfectly, a long t-shirt with the picture of a cat swung a hands breath above her knees, her arms crossed over her chest, and her hair a halo of gold and blue tangles.

"I don't know." He had the sudden feeling that they were children again and Eva was going to sit up any second and motion for them to go to bed. Max and Jondy should be sitting in Jondy's bed whispering quietly and they were going to pad over to Zack's bed and curl up around him with soft smiles. None of them her here now, though, and she had no one to curl up around

"Come on, there's enough room," he held up the covers and laughed when she jumped with clapping hands into the bed next to him.

"Thanks," she whispered as she settled down next to him.

Holding his breath he slipped an arm around her waist and let it out with a silent gasp when she snuggled into him, her face buried in the crook of his neck. "No problem," he managed to get out calmly.

"Ever feel like you should wake up and be in the barracks?" she asked after a long time of silence.

"All the time," he rested his cheek against her head. "The only good times were in the barracks."

"I miss Ben making shadow puppets," her breath was hot on his neck and her hand seemed a heavy weight against his bare chest.

"For you and Max, because you couldn't sleep," he felt her smile, a puff of air caressing his collarbone.

"Remember the time we all climbed into Zack's bed? You and me were on his legs, Brin and Max's were hanging on his arms, Syl and Krit across his stomach, Rich and Ben above his head, or something like that, and Lis and Dee hanging on to Syl and Krit."

"I remember, he kept complaining that we were suffocating him…"

"But he never once told us to go back to our beds," she finished for him.

She nuzzled at him softly and they lay there quietly for a long time, Jondy listening to the steady beat of Zane's heart and he paid close attention to the feel of her pressed against him. "Do you think we'll be able to find this Eyes Only character?" She asked in a shaky voice.

"We won't let anything stop us." He answered his voice more sure tan he felt. He listened as her breath slowed, the rhythm of his heart lulling her to sleep. He felt her soft sigh and kissed her forehead, a brush of warm lips against her cool skin. "Sweet dreams," he whispered and stared at the ceiling.