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Chapter 6: You dirty rat
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This is my Vietnam I'm at war Life keeps on dropping bombs And I keep score ~ Pink, "My Vietnam"
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"Sorry?" he was backing up quickly his hands in the air with a sign of surrender.
"Not as sorry as you're gonna be when I'm through killin' ya, Rich!" She was pointing at him and he was looking at the one long pale finger like it was a gun ready to go off.
"But…I didn't…don't kill me!" He watched her eyes narrow and froze for a long second before he turned and took off running. Two heartbeats later Jondy was running after him.
"I'm not wearing shoes and you're making me chase you down!" she growled as she pushed past Alec who was watching with an open mouth.
"You don't have to chase me!" Rich yelled over his shoulder narrowly missing running right into Max.
"Yes, I do, you…you booger troll!" Before anyone could breath, Jondy had put one foot on the wall and catapulted herself through the air arms extended. She smashed into the backside of the retreating transgenic and rode him to the ground.
They rolled on the cold concrete a snarl escaping from someone's mouth, Alec couldn't tell from his vantage point at the edge of the circle that had gathered around the fight. In a blink Jondy was straddling Rich's waist, and pinning him to the floor by his arms.
"Grr," she snarled down at him, her lips compressed into a tight line. "I can't believe you! I was worried sick! You could have given me wrinkles!"
"I told you I was sorry!" he snarled back up at her, black eyes snapping.
"I should skin you alive and nail you to a post, you little jerk wad!" Her blue eyes were on fire, putting Rich's own anger to shame. "Your house was torched when I went to see you! What did you think would go through my mind when I came across the still smoking embers?" Something slithered behind those eyes that looked almost like fear, and Alec knew she was remembering pain. Then her anger burned higher as she looked down at his intact, perfectly healthy face. "If you had been sorry you would have called! I thought you were dead," she leaned down close her hair creating a curtain around their angry faces, "or worse captured." Her voice had gone soft and dangerous.
She raised a fist and Alec grabbed her around the waist and pulled with everything he had without another thought. The feeling of her finger being pulled forcefully off of lean muscles went through his own arms, and when he looked down he saw the trails of delicate pink lines that her nails had left behind. Jondy struggled in his arms reaching for Rich with clawed hands but didn't turn on Alec…something he was grateful of as he saw the flash of long nails. The world was in uproar, people were yelling and waving arms around, but he couldn't hear any of it too intent on the body squirming in his arms.
He grit his teeth against the strength he hadn't expected from such a small frame…he almost snorted at his own stupidity. Even then, with Rich scrambling for his feet in the most ungraceful crab walk he'd ever seen a transgenic use and Jondy struggling like a wild cat in his arms, he couldn't think past the feeling of her small lithe body pressed tight against him.
"You wouldn't have let me come," the soft whine floated up to Alec's straining ears. Jondy tried to jerk away from him, her eyes cold as she looked down at Rich. She was suddenly standing very still, in the circle of Alec's arms, her eyes never leaving the man just then coming to his feet.
Alec let go of her, reluctantly letting his hands fall away from the slim waist. Rich watched her as though he was waiting for her next move. Gold and blue hair fell around her in a tangled halo, her chest heaved with her every breath and her nostrils flared. When her fist swung through the air connecting solidly with his left cheek it was too fast for anyone to react to. Rich was once again lying on his backside and looking at the high vaulted ceiling of the HQ warehouse.
Jondy stood over him, reaching down slowly to grab his collar and hoist him up until he was once again inches away from her. She snarled showing teeth; "I am your alpha." She let go of him and stood back up, her back straight as she watched him stand. "I am alpha, you are omega. I eat first, I play first, I mate first; when I tell you to do something, you do it."
"Jon…"
"I gave you an order, and you ignored me." Her lips formed the words carefully as though she was trying to bit back other words that were threatening to come out. Alec swallowed as she took a long step towards Rich, barely contained violence floating around her in an aura of red. Rich was backtracking fast. "That isn't healthy."
"I had to…"
"All you had to do was keep in touch, not that hard when I have a cell phone on me everywhere I go!"
"J, this isn't Manticore, you can't try to pull rank," Max said through gritted teeth. The only person with enough guts to speak up at that moment.
Jondy's head swiveled around slowly, as though she was fighting the urge to look at her. "He's my brother I can do whatever I damn well please," the words were more a growl than anything. Her head moved back towards Rich, "Weren't you the one that volunteered me for CO, bro?" A delicate eyebrow rose, and a smile lifted the corner of full lips almost sweetly. "You were the one who made me my banner, weren'cha?"
"Can you at least let me try to explain?" Rich suddenly yelled, the muscle in his jaw jumping as it tightened in time with his fists opening and closing.
She smiled, a blinding flash of perfect teeth and fangs just that much sharper than a normal human's. "Of course," she purred, "let's go for a walk." She turned on the heel of her barefeet and started walking, with a bounce in her step, outside as though she expected him to follow without any fuss. He did.
They left behind them a room full of very confused transgenics.
Max opened her mouth as she looked over at Alec with large brown eyes and just shook her head softly. "What was that?"
"How should I know? I'm still getting over the fact that my life just flashed before my eyes." He shook his head unhappily, "I need to go to more wild parties," he said almost to himself. He looked over at Max and watched as her brow furrowed slowly. "What?"
"Something seems…off."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm trying to remember why having those two fighting seems so familiar." She ran a hand through her hair. "It's like I've seen it before."
"Deja vu maybe?" He smirked at her and shrugged his shoulders trying to look innocent when she glared at him. When the glare didn't lessen he held his hands up in surrender, "I don't know why, I can't help ya so I'm gonna go somewhere that's away." He shook his head when he saw Luke open his mouth to say something. "Not right now, my man."
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"I'm waiting," Jondy said in a soft sing song voice as she batted long dark lashes at Rich.
"I'm thinking," he snapped narrowing dark brown eyes at her.
She dragged in a loud breath and let it out slowly as she looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "You scared the ever livin' shit out of me." She pursed her lips and glared at the ground.
Nodding his dark head of hair a couple of times he matched his stride with hers. "I didn't mean to."
"What were you thinking?" She huffed crossing her arms over her ample chest. "I realize I'm lenient and I don't lord over you guys like Zack but what you did was just wrong."
"I was thinking you wouldn't let me…"
"You know better than that…" She threw up her hands in the air, letting out an exasperated sigh. "You could have left a message on my voice mail just to say 'yo, Jondy, old buddy old pal, I'm alive, toddles!'"
"I was stupid."
She grinned and nodded her head slowly, "uh huh."
"Ya planin' on forgivin' me?" Smiled sweetly and did his best to bat his eyelashes innocently, "sometime?"
She rolled her eyes to look towards the dark sky and shrugged, "maybe," with her head cocked to the side her eyes slid over to him as he echoed her movements. "What are you willin' to do to make up for it?"
"What do you want me to do?" He asked slowly and almost cursed when she saw her smile widen flashing perfectly white teeth.
"We-ell…I've been thinkin' I haven't heard you sing for ages!" She laughed softly and rubbed her hands together evilly.
"Oh no," his eye grew wide in fear.
"Oh yes, you're gonna sing for me…loudly." She was bouncing on her heels now. "You're also gonna dance."
"I don't wanna dance."
"Too bad…you're gonna sing and dance. I reserve the right to choose time, place, and song." She smiled sweetly and patted his cheek gently. "You should have thought of all this before you decided to ride off on a white stead and join the uprisin' to make a better world for the transgenic."
"You will at least choose a time when I'm not fighting for my life right?"
"Probably. Now more important issues."
"I know who she is," he said tightly running a hand through his dark hair and suddenly finding his shoes utterly fascinating. She watched him for a short time, her electric blue eyes almost glowing in the dark.
"I figured you did…I wanted to know why you hadn't told her yet." She let her head fall back for a minute as she looked up into the sky with that peculiar color that only come at four in the morning, somewhere between purple and blue and black. A giant bruise she thought sadly to herself before she pulled her head back up slowly.
"Think about it…" he bit his bottom lip gently and squinted one eye at her. "You are Max, most of your life has been devoted to finding your siblings, twelve brothers and sisters that had shared more with you than anyone else in the world."
"Uh huh?" Jondy was careful to keep her voice neutral, more than used to the casual way that Rich fell into the rhythm of telling a story.
"You have just begun the first stages of starting a war that you have almost no chance of winning. For the first time you aren't focusing on your brothers and sisters, you're trying to keep yourself and everyone around you alive…." He raised one eyebrow and waited for her to follow the thought through.
"And suddenly one of them shows up, what happens to me?"
"You get very distracted."
"Which could lead to me being very dead."
"Exactly what we don't want for our little sister."
"So we don't tell Max, for now," she shot a glare in his direction. "We aren't keeping this from her indefinitely."
He held up his hands, "of course not…I would like to have a sister around who doesn't automatically try to break my nose."
"Syl being hard on you again?" she asked with a smile.
"No, but the last time I saw Lis she almost bit it off." He jutted his bottom lip out and touched his nose gently.
She put on a pout; "tried to stick it where it didn't belong didn't ya?"
He held a hand to his chest and opened his mouth to deny everything before sighing and letting his shoulders slump. "How was I supposed to know she didn't want me to look through the book with a little lock on it…if she didn't want me to look at it she should have hidden the key better."
"You read her diary?" Jondy rolled her eyes heavenward and tried desperately not to sigh in exasperation. "Either you're insane or stupid…and since I know you aren't even half as insane as I am you must be stupid."
"I was curious."
"You're part cat, remember what happens to the curious cat."
"His curiosity is satisfied?"
"No, he dies a horribly painful death!" She gave his arm a gentle shove back towards the HQ. "Now that we have almost everything worked out we can go have people stare at us." They walked for a little while before Jondy spoke up again. "You know Alec, right?"
"Yeah?" He raised one eyebrow as he looked over at her.
"He doesn't have a girlfriend or anything, does he?" She was staring very hard down at her black work boots.
"No…you interested in filling the position?"
"No," she cocked her head to the side and smiled, "I'm just curious."
"And I'm a three eyed toad."
"You do look kind of green."