AN: Well here it is! The next chappy =) I was slightly disappointed at the review count for the last chapter lol but then I'm just greedy XD
This fic is actually almost finished (my writing it anyway) you still have a long way to catch up lol but I hope you like it!
Liika was still scowling later on. Even though she had fed the four boys, Biovolt apparently had neglected to teach them to wash dishes! So she got stuck doing it. And she cooked! How sick. And how degrading when Bryan had smirked and said it was a woman's job anyhow.
"Stupid boys. They're not good for anything most of the time anymore. You'd think that we still lived in the medieval times where all women did was cook and clean and have sex when the man wanted to." She grumbled under her breath.
"Good god she talks to herself." Ian grimaced.
"Shut up!" Liika snapped.
"She's bitchy too. We have to live with her for months?" Ian whined. "Can we kill her?"
Liika gaped at him. Anger flared up and her face turned a purplish red. "Why I oughta-"
"I mean, we can hide her body in the snow somewhere, no one would ever find her. Please?" Ian continued as if never hearing her.
"As much fun as that would be, we need to eat." Tala retorted with a smirk.
"Oh very funny! Let's just all gang up on the only girl all the time! That's really fair! I mean, it wasn't like I ASKED to be thrown off a plane in the middle of FREAKIN NO WHERE WITH YOU!"
Bryan snorted while Tala and Ian stared at her with raised eyebrows. "Woman, if you don't shut up, I'm going to throw you outside."
Liika threw a nasty glare at Bryan before crossing her arms over her chest and glowering.
"We should hunt for dinner." Tala stated a few minutes later, breaking the silence that had enfolded.
"Yeah! There is NO way that I'm gonna be able to live off gunk for every meal." Ian retorted with a snort.
Bryan nodded and looked over at Spencer. "We'll go-"
"No, you take Liika with you." Tala cut in.
"Why?!" Bryan all but snarled.
"Because we want a break from her mouth and you got a break from our last meal. So deal bud." Ian smirked.
Bryan sent a death glare in Ian's way and the short kid backed up a step.
"I'm not taking her. She probably can't hunt let alone walk!" Bryan snapped.
"Yes, you are." Tala replied, standing to his full authority.
Bryan said nothing more and walked over to Liika who was still sitting against the cave, glowering.
"Get up." He growled.
"No. I don't want to go." She replied stubbornly.
Liika yelped in surprise as a hand curled around her arm and hauled her roughly to her feet. This added up to her putting her weight onto her bad foot and she yelped in pain, crumpling to the floor again.
"She can't even stand." Bryan snarled, looking over his shoulder at his leader.
Tala just shrugged and went back to whatever it was that he was doing.
Liika heard Bryan growl low in his throat and looked up at him worriedly. Was he going to take his anger out on her when they were alone? He could easily dispose of her and there would be nothing that she could do!
Bryan leaned down and pulled her roughly up again, lifting her up over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes like last time.
"Not this again! I don't want to be carried around like this!" She snapped.
"Shut up wench! Your voice is too annoying for me to stand." Bryan grunted.
He walked over to the chest full of hunting weapons and grabbed one of the guns. He then left the cave, trudging along the snow like she was the lightest thing he ever picked up.
By the time the two had reached the destination that Bryan thought worthy of hunting grounds Liika was ready to die of boredom. She was tangling over Bryan's back with her arm propped up holding her chin with the most bored expression anyone had ever seen.
"As much as you seem to enjoy dragging me around like some barbaric caveman I really would like to let some of the blood run OUT of my head so I don't look like an over size tomato." Liika quipped with serious sarcasm.
Apparently that wasn't the right thing to say because Liika was immediately tossed a good five feet from the muscular boy, landing in the soft snow, knocking the wind right out of her.
Bryan said nothing and loaded the gun like nothing had even happened and began looking around for pray.
"What? Am I to just sit here in the damn snow and get wet while you ignore me and kill things?"
Bryan glanced at her and scowled. "Do you know how to hunt?"
"Well, no. I don't particularly like the thought of killing innocent animals." She replied with a shrug.
"Then yes, you are going to sit in the snow and freeze to death for all I care."
Liika stared at him with comically wide eyes. "That wasn't very nice you know! What have I ever done to you?"
Bryan just shrugged and went back to ignoring her. He began to walk ahead and Liika felt fear seep through her. Was he just going to walk off and leave her stranded?
Suddenly she heard a slight movement off to her right and whimpered tearfully. She looked towards Bryan, noting that he was still trudging onward and she quickly scrambled onto her hands and knees and began crawling through the cold wet snow over to him.
Bryan heard her movement and whipped around, pointing the gun at her.
"AHHH!" She shrieked, stumbling back onto her butt, throwing her arms up in front of her face.
"What the hell are you DOING?!" He snarled.
"I-I heard something and was ….well, scared and you were walking on and-"
"Oh forget it! I don't want to listen to your pathetic story." Bryan sighed in irritation.
Liika growled under breath before snapping. "Well if you wouldn't have just left me there all defenseless with a twisted ankle then none of this would be going on right now! Tala said to take me with you. That doesn't mean throw me into the snow and leave me there for some polar bear to come and mow down!"
Bryan just stood there and glowered at her. Mumbling something under his breath he walked over to her and wrenched her to her feet.
"Have you ever heard of gentleness?!" She cried, after she winced in pain.
Bryan smirked and stared down at her with annoyed ice blue eyes before leaning down again and lifting her off the ground easily.
Liika yelped and grasped his neck with her arms. "Put me down! Are you mad?!"
"Shut up! Now let go of my neck."
"No! I won't be hauled around like a sack of freakin potatoes! How many times must I repeat myself before you get the general hint here?!"
Liika once again found herself on her butt on the ground.
"Make up your mind on what it is that you want because I'm not going to stand around here all day and try to figure you out!" Bryan growled. "If you don't want to be left by yourself then your only option is to be 'hauled around like a sack of potatoes'."
Liika grumbled under her breath and folded her arms over her chest. This was ridiculous! Why had Tala demanded that Bryan take her with him to hunt? She had no clue on how to do it in the first place and she had a twisted ankle! What good was she to him? And not only that but the guy was a bastard and he didn't care how bad he treated her! This was a nightmare! She didn't care how good-looking this guy was! He was an ass and was treating he slightly unfair here.
"What is it going to be?" He demanded, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Fine. Pick me up. I don't want to catch my death." She sighed.
Bryan smirked and hauled her to her feet again.
"Gentle! Cripes!" Liika scowled as she winced once more.
"Shut up. I don't want to hear another sound from you."
Liika zipped her lips thinking that it was probably best to not further annoy him. He seemed to be a little on the psycho side as far as se was concerned and she really did want to live to see another day.
They moved on for awhile until Bryan set her down in the snow again. "Don't move. There's pray here."
Liika nodded and sat still while she watched the bigger boy move slowly and nearly silently through the snow, pointing his gun at whatever it was that he was seeing.
Liika raised an eyebrow as she heard movement off to her right this time. But she zipped it and stayed still, hoping that whatever it was would just go away.
She turned her attention back to Bryan and watched him with interest. The boy was lethal it seemed and deadly quiet. He wouldn't be a good person to screw around with. And he was tall and muscular, a drool worthy combination but in another way, a very bad case.
The back of Liika's neck began to suddenly tickle and she stiffened when she felt something lick her.
"Uh…" She whimpered softly.
The sniffing continued and Liika stayed completely still, eyes wide, heart pounding. She stared hard into Bryan's back hoping that he could feel her gaze drilling into himmand turn around to at least scowl at her. But he was doing no such thing.
If she wasn't being sniffed and licked by something she would have surely rolled her eyes at the boy.
The thing sniffed through her hair and down her neck and back, walked slowly around to the side of her.
Liika took that opportunity to turn her head slightly to take a peek at whatever it was that was tasting her.
She stifled a gasp when she came face to face with a small bear!
She was going to die!!! O.O
Liika's face drained of color as the animal then decided to sniff and lick her face. She made a disgusted squeak when it's tongue rolled over her mouth and clenched her eyes shut tightly.
The animal made some sort of noise that she was sure Bryan would have heard and waited for him to come to her rescue. Her heart stopped suddenly as she thought about him being annoyed and angry with her and thought that maybe this was his chance to be rid of her! Panic flared to life inside her and she snapped her eyes opened and looked all around for the lavender haired boy. Only to discover that he was no where to be found!
"Uh…" She whimpered again as he eyes widened in fear. No! No! He wouldn't just leave her like that would he?! Was he that cold hearted?! Did they all really hate her that much!?
"BRYAN!" She yelled, her mind too fuzzy with panic to realize that that wasn't the smartest move to make.
The bear made an angry noise and she was sure that it was going to bite her or eat her or something. She squeezed her eyes shut waiting for the searing pain to animate through her but it never came.
She jumped suddenly when a shot rang out and then jumped again when there was a loud thump next to her.
She peeked an eye open and peered ever to her side and looked at the fallen animal.
She breathed out a sigh of relief and wobbled to her feet. She spotted Bryan and hopped over to him. She immediately jumped into his arms and hugged the life out of him!
"You saved me! Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!!" She cried.
Surprisingly, he didn't try to remove her from around his neck. But he didn't return her hug or offer words of comfort.
Suddenly there was another noise in the thick bush in front of them and they stopped and slowly looked towards it.
Liika shrieked and nearly knocked her and Bryan over when she jumped clear onto him in fear as a huge bear appeared next.
"OH MY GOD!! SOMEONE HELP US!!"
"Shut up! You're only going to make it angrier with you outbursts!" Bryan snapped.
"It's gonna eat us because you killed it's cub!!" Liika cried, tears filling her eyes.
She never felt so scared in her life. She had a twisted ankle and no weapon and her only reliability was a psycho guy that didn't overly enjoy her company!
Climb onto my back now." Bryan commanded, watching the bear as it slowly made it's way over to the cub.
Liika did as commanded and was soon wrapped around his muscular back.
"It's a good thing you're not a big guy or this would be really difficult." She stated sarcastically.
Bryan shook his head slowly in annoyance and suddenly turned and raced through the trees!
"AHHHH!!! WARNING NEXT TIME!!" Liika yelled.
"Shut up!" Brayn snarled.
Liika zipped it as soon as she heard an angry growl far behind them Then stomping feet on the ground.
The bear was chasing them! Oh dear lord! They really were going to die!!
Bryan raced quickly through the trees darting branches and roots and any sort of plant that stuck in the way. How he was able to run that fast in snow with her on top of his back was beyond her but they seemed to be loosing the bear somewhat.
Liika squeaked in surprise as he suddenly halted when they cleared through the trees. There standing in front of them was a mountain. A mountain with many ledges.
"We need to get up there and hide from it." Bryan muttered. "Hold on tight."
Liika did just that and watched with wide eyes as they climbed the rocks until they were fairly high from the ground. They came to a stretchy ledge that had a small cave off to the left.
"What about that cave? Can we hide in there?" Liika asked as she pointed to it.
Bryan nodded and headed over to it.
As soon as they were inside he practically dropped her onto her butt and went back outside.
"Wait! Don't leave me here all alone! What if something happens to you!?" Liika whimpered with wide teary eyes.
Bryan turned back to scowl at her and stared at her for a few moments before looking back outside as if debating with himself. Then suddenly coming up with an answer came back into the cave and took a seat on the opposite wall.
The cave was small enough that even though each on opposite walls they were only a foot away from one another.
Liika didn't particularly care how big the cave was. What were they going to do if they were stuck there?
The two sat in silence for the majority of the day. Bryan would get up periodically to check the entrance for their pursuer, but would always come back grumbling, or glowering. When Liika asked why they didn't just shoot the thing, he snapped that he dropped the bullets when she jumped on him. She really felt guilty then.
As it began to get dark, it became clear that the two were going to have to spend the night in the small, damp cave. Liika of course did not like the idea at all. Not only was she paranoid about the psycho boy she was with, she was also starting to get colder and colder –even with the parka on. Liika glanced at the boy that sat only feet from her, arms crossed and head down. She wondered slightly at how he wasn't freezing to death, when all he was wearing was his normal crimson vest, blue t-shit and crimson pants. The shirt was short sleeved for crying out loud! However, as she looked closer, squinting in the diminishing light, she could see small bumps rising on his skin…so he was cold!
Liika smirked a bit at the discovery. Waha! He wasn't super human after all! She shivered, cuddling deeper into her coat. Not like that helped her any. So he was cold, so was she. In reality she knew there was really only one option for them both. Glancing at him dubiously, Liika frowned. He looked pissed –when didn't he?? Besides the small goose bumps he showed no outward signs of freezing. Damn, of all the crappy luck…
"You know…if you're cold-" Liika started, rubbing her arms in attempt to gain heat.
"I'm not cold." He snapped back, pulling his arms closer to his body.
Liika humphed, shivering. "Yeah well, I am! And I'm wearing more layers than you. If I'm going to freeze to death wearing a freaking parka, you're definitely going to bite it in that t-shirt!" She all but growled. Damn stubborn moron!
Bryan was silent after her growled reply. Liika gave up trying to reason with him. It was obvious he didn't care if they froze to death in some dark hole in the wilds of Siberia. No one would ever find their bodies! She paled at the thought. So much for team spirit! Stupid boy wouldn't even attempt to keep them alive.
"Come here."
Liika blinked rapidly, turning startled turquoise eyes to the grouchy teen beside her. "Huh?" she replied intelligently.
One of Bryan's eyes cracked open and glared at her. As soon as it closed he sighed loudly and repeated, "Come here."
"Um…" She hesitated, not sure of his motives. She, however, forgot her hesitation as soon as he snapped, "Now!" irritation clearly ringing in his voice.
Liika got onto her hands and knees and crawled the few feet to Bryan's side, making sure to raise her ankle. When she was too close to crawl on her hands and knees, she raised herself onto her haunches and shuffled the last foot and a half so that her knees just brushed his thigh.
Both his eyes snapped open then and turned to her, icy pools of blue glinting in the dim light. "Take off your coat." He ordered, uncrossing his arms.
Once again she hesitated, her eyebrows furrowing over her eyes. "But-"
He really did growl at that point, his irritation it seemed had grown into full blown anger. "Do it!"
"Eep!" Liika meeped, jumping. Scary! Quickly she unzipped the blue parka and divested herself of it. The cold air hit her like a slap in the face. God! And she thought it was cold with the jacket on! How was he not already dead?? "He-he-here." She stuttered, her teeth chattering so much it made it hard to speak. She shoved the coat at him, trying in van to still her shaking.
Bryan snorted and yanked the coat away from her and laid it on the ground beside him. Then with out a word he leaned over and scooped her up by the waist and dumped her in his lap. Liika froze, suddenly finding herself seated between Bryan's large legs, leaning on his broad chest, her head tucked neatly beneath his chin. He seriously wasn't doing what she thought he was doing was he? Her question was answered however, when Bryan draped the coat around them both, then slide one arm around her abdomen, resting it just under her breasts, the other arm slipping around her waist. Liika was stunned. That the larger teen was even capable of letting down his barrier just enough to share body heat with her was amazing. She seriously thought he didn't have it in him.
"Don't be getting too fresh now!" Liika said finally. She didn't want to admit it, but already she felt warmer.
"Shut up."
Elbowing him in the stomach she retorted, "Just remember whose coat you're using!"
"Would you rather I feed you to the bear? Then you wouldn't need to worry about being cold."
The simple statement shut her up instantly. She slunk down a bit in his arms and bit her tongue. She wanted to live to see the next day!
