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Pairing: MA eventually, CA friendship
When Alec returned home, what he saw made him smile. Hazel was still on the couch asleep covered by the blanket he put there before he left, and Joshua was on the floor next her with a book next to him. It was obvious that he must have been reading to her. Alec went and got a blanket to put over Joshua and then watched Hazel for a while. He smiled as he thought back to when he was back in manticore.
Flashback
"Well done unit. I am very pleased with all of you. Tomorrow we will be facing unit 11. You know what they are like. I know it will be a triumph for us. However, the reason I asked to you all to gather here is to have a word with you about the little schemes you've got going on." Alec said as he watched his unit's faces drain in colour.
"Do you all know what I am talking about?" he asked knowing full well they weren't going to answer, because if they said yes they would be admitting there are such schemes, and if they deny it they would be lying. As expected none of them moved. They all kept their eyes straight forward not looking at him.
"594. Do you know what schemes I am talking about?" he asked Hazel, his face showing no emotion but his eyes glinting with a great deal of amusement. Hazel stepped forward, but didn't answer. She quickly looked at the rest of her comrades and then her CO. Alec was having a lot of fun putting 594 on the spot. His whole unit were beautifully dangerous when fighting, and were excellent at talking their way out of the worst situations but right now one of his unit was speechless, and he was having a wonderful time watching her squirm.
Finally Hazel spoke, "Yes, Sir." Alec made sure his face carried on showing no emotion but it was getting hard as he watched the faces of the rest of his unit drop.
"Really? Stand down 594." He said and then decided to stop the torture, "Okay people don't worry I know what the schemes are."
He carried on in a much more relaxed manner, "The reason I brought you altogether is to work out a way we can expand our little venture." At this, many of the unit's jaws dropped.
"Err, excuse me Sir, but what are you saying exactly?" asked a dark haired unit member.
"What I'm saying 657 is that I too run a few underground business ventures, and was wondering whether you all would like to join forces. So what do you say?" Alec asked and then quickly added, "you can all relax, no need to stand at attention." He watched them all sit down and waited.
They all seemed to be communicating silently. Heads moved subtly, eyes blinked at certain times, until Hazel said grinning, "You've got yourself a deal, Sir."
End Flashback
He looked at Hazel once more, kissed her on the forehead and then went to leave when he heard a small voice, "Where are you going?"
He turned around and saw Hazel looking at him tiredly. "I'm going to HQ. I still need to sort out some things for the heists." He said quietly making sure he didn't wake up Joshua, "Did you just get up?"
"No, been up for a few hours now." She replied yawning, "Can't seem to sleep, however tired I am."
"But I've only been gone two hours." He said looking at his watch.
"I know." The girl said sitting up, "I was awake when you left."
"Huh?" Alec asked stupidly.
"I'm good at pretending to sleep, what can I say?" she replied shrugging her shoulders.
"Why were you pretending?" he asked walking up to her again.
"I thought that you would probably want to go. You wouldn't have if I was awake. And I didn't tell you now, because I wanted to see what you were going to do." She said lazily, "Can I come with you?"
"No." he said forcefully.
"Oh, come on. Please." she argued whilst looking up at him innocently.
"Fine. But you're not allowed to look at me like that for a whole month." He replied giving in.
"Yes, Sir." The X5 replied in mock salute.
Alec rolled his eyes and went to help her up.
"Max, what's up?" asked Logan as he walked up to her still standing next to the door. "Nothing." She replied whilst turning around, "I just wanna go for a walk."
"Oh, okay, I'll come with you." Logan said as he went to get his coat.
"No, I just wanna be by myself for a while. Is that okay?" she asked quickly.
"Yeah sure." The ordinary replied with a small smile.
"Thanks." Max said as she walked out into the night. She was heading to HQ.
"So what's the deal with you and 452?" asked Hazel as they walked leisurely.
"There's no deal and her name's Max." Replied Alec after thinking about it for a while.
"Yeah whatever. Anywayz, it's me you're talking to now. You hated the '09 escapees 'cos it got you in Psy Ops for 6 months. And now you try your best to make sure everyone treats her good? I mean I know I don't know her well but she doesn't strike me as a nice person." Said Hazel looking at her fellow transgenic directly.
"Come on. Sit down. I'll tell you everything before you speak to someone else about it." He answered as he ushered her over to two upturned crates near a fire.
"I met Max when she got recaptured. We were designated breeding partners. It's why I went away for a while." Said Alec as he watched the flames.
Hazel started laughing, "No way."
"Yes way. And what's so funny?" Alec said smiling when he caught sight of Hazel.
"It's just not believable. Why would they do that? So let me guess, the little situation you two got goin' on is 'cos you both didn't do it but now really want to; or you both did do it and it was bad." After saying that Hazel burst out laughing again and that's how Max saw them. Hazel was laughing so much that she fell on to Alec, and Alec was sitting there first of all with a face in mock shock but then joined the younger X5 laughing. Max hadn't seen Alec laugh like that in a long time.
"No. One, we have no situation. Two, I do not want to 'do it' with her as you so eloquently put it. And most importantly, three, I am NEVER bad in bed. Watch what you say." He said looking at her laughing still, "Anywayz, the reason she doesn't like me much is 'cos I annoy the hell out of her. Well, I used to go out of the way to annoy the hell out of her. Now it seems me breathing annoys the hell out of her."
"Right. So basically she's a bitch." Said Hazel following his gaze.
"No.well maybe yes.but only sometimes." Said Alec looking her.
"Yeah, well she'll be a bitch in my books for a long time to come." Said Hazel looking back at him, "I don't like her. She's arrogant. Walks around like no one can touch her, that she's above everyone."
"You've gotta give her a break." Said Alec sighing.
"She killed my child. My son....she killed him." Hazel said quietly, "I'll never give her a break. But I'm not gonna go after her either. I'm a soldier, I have my self control, I just lost it a bit earlier."
She said the last bit looking at Alec as if to give him her word. He nodded. "That's all I'm asking."
"But if she goes looking for trouble with me, I'm not gonna back down." She said forcefully.
"I'm sure Max isn't stupid enough to." Replied Alec smiling slightly.
"Could've fooled me." She said under her breath. But Alec heard.
"Come on, I'll introduce you to everyone properly." He said as got up holding his hand out for.
"It's a lot after midnight. Are they still up?" she asked taking his hand.
"You'll be surprised." He replied dragging her up.
"Hey guys. What's up? Anything happened since I've been gone?" Alec called as he came in to HQ.
"Not much. Hey who's the girl?" asked Luke as he turned to look at Alec and Hazel.
"Guys this is Hazel. X5. Look after her." Said Alec whilst Hazel rolled her eyes.
Dalton quickly got up to introduce himself. "Hi. I'm Dalton." He said shyly. Alec started laughing.
"Hey." Said Hazel and then after seeing Alec practically fall down with laughter said, "I'm too old for ya kid." And with that she ruffled his hair and walked up to where Mole and Alec were, leaving Dalton blushing.
"You could have at least given him a chance." Alec said smiling. Hazel didn't answer and instead punched him hard.
"Ow. Geez." Alec replied rubbing his arm.
"What are we looking at?" asked Hazel referring to the blue prints on the table.
"Alec's sorting out a few heists. We need more money for supplies." Said Mole.
"So what do you want me to do?" asked Hazel, "I mean I'm not just gonna sit around doing nothing."
"What have you got experience in?" asked Luke.
"I excelled in team missions and fighting. I can analyse, decode and encode data within minutes. And that's about it." Replied Hazel sitting down on the table.
"Well, she can do a few heists, recon, stuff like that." Said Mole to Alec.
"No. I think she should teach the younger kids to fight." Said Alec just as Max walked in.
"What? The kids don't need to learn to fight." She practically shouted from the doorway.
"Oh, hey Maxie." Said Alec sarcastically.
"The kids are not going to learn to fight." Max replied forcefully.
"Max, we can't communicate with the X7s and the X8s haven't done field med., or any other proper training. How are they supposed to defend themselves if this thing blows up into a war." Asked Alec calmly.
"This thing will not turn into a war." Max said standing right in front of Alec.
"Oh really? Yeah, of course you're right. I mean not only do ordinaries hate us, but the familiars are on our tail. You're the one who told me about this big 'Coming', Max. What do you think it's gonna be? A picnic? No it's most likely gonna be a war of some sort. And if we don't teach them the necessary things, they are not going to survive. Is that what you want Max? Tell me. Is that what you want?" replied Alec overpoweringly.
Max didn't answer but Hazel did, "Wait up a minute. What's this 'Coming' thing?"
"You don't need to know." Replied Max.
"Was I talking to you now? No, I was talking to anyone else in the room apart from you." Hazel said looking at Max then turning to Alec sharply.
"I like this girl." Said Mole smiling.
"It's this biblically big event that's going to take place that only Max can save us from." Said Alec as if it happened everyday.
"Apparently." Added Mole.
"Oh right. Is this where her perfect DNA thing comes in?" she asked to no one in particular.
"Something like that." Said a someone from the door. It was Logan.
"Explains the ego then." Said Hazel to herself but the whole room head.
Mole started laughing and everyone looked at Max. She was furious which made Mole laugh even more. "I really like this girl." He said before leaving the room.
"The X8s are not going to learn to fight. And that's that. I have no problem with her communicating with the X7s though. We need them on our side." Said Max trying to restrain herself from hurting the pretty X5.
"I didn't know the Promised Land was run under a dictatorship Alec." Said Hazel looking at Alec innocently. She was beginning to enjoy pissing off Max.
'This is all I need.' Thought Alec. But he liked annoying Max too, especially when he had help, so he said, "Yeah neither did I. Look Max, Hazel's right. It is not only your decision. It is all of our decision. We'll take a vote. Majority rules. Tomorrow, I'll round everyone up in the courtyard. Whaddya say?" He then gave her one of his most charming smiles.
If looks could kill, Max would have killed Alec ten times over but instead she said, "Fine."
"Well, anywayz. If they rule yes for the fighting it's going to be your job to train them." Alec said looking at Hazel. She only nodded.
"And if not?" asked Logan thinking Max needed a bit of support.
"If not, then Hazel can look after all the recon groups. It's what she specialised in at manticore." He said to Max and Logan.
He looked to Hazel to see if she minded, she nodded then said, "Whatever you say chief."
Max had other things to say about it. "No way. That's you're job."
Alec sighed in exasperation.
"Anyway she just came here. We don't even know we can trust her." Added Logan to back up Max.
"Oh for Christ sakes. Maxie." Alec said as he walked towards her, ".She can be trusted 100%. I know her. I trust her. And I have loads of jobs. It'd be nice if someone took a bit off my load."
"Oh well that's brilliant isn't it. You trust her so it's all okay. I don't trust you, you think I'm gonna trust her?" shouted Max to Alec.
"Not again." Said Dalton quietly. Hazel didn't miss it.
"This happen a lot?" she asked the X6.
"Practically everyday. She has to find something to shout at Alec about. She doesn't shout at anyone else, either 'cos there's no need or she hasn't got the guts. But she never misses a day when it comes to Alec." Replied Dalton.
Alec hadn't said anything during the other two transgenics' quiet encounter. "If you can't handle the workload, give it to someone who has experience and I can trust." She said coldly.
"Will you just shut your mouth, girly girl." Someone said.
Pairing: MA eventually, CA friendship
When Alec returned home, what he saw made him smile. Hazel was still on the couch asleep covered by the blanket he put there before he left, and Joshua was on the floor next her with a book next to him. It was obvious that he must have been reading to her. Alec went and got a blanket to put over Joshua and then watched Hazel for a while. He smiled as he thought back to when he was back in manticore.
Flashback
"Well done unit. I am very pleased with all of you. Tomorrow we will be facing unit 11. You know what they are like. I know it will be a triumph for us. However, the reason I asked to you all to gather here is to have a word with you about the little schemes you've got going on." Alec said as he watched his unit's faces drain in colour.
"Do you all know what I am talking about?" he asked knowing full well they weren't going to answer, because if they said yes they would be admitting there are such schemes, and if they deny it they would be lying. As expected none of them moved. They all kept their eyes straight forward not looking at him.
"594. Do you know what schemes I am talking about?" he asked Hazel, his face showing no emotion but his eyes glinting with a great deal of amusement. Hazel stepped forward, but didn't answer. She quickly looked at the rest of her comrades and then her CO. Alec was having a lot of fun putting 594 on the spot. His whole unit were beautifully dangerous when fighting, and were excellent at talking their way out of the worst situations but right now one of his unit was speechless, and he was having a wonderful time watching her squirm.
Finally Hazel spoke, "Yes, Sir." Alec made sure his face carried on showing no emotion but it was getting hard as he watched the faces of the rest of his unit drop.
"Really? Stand down 594." He said and then decided to stop the torture, "Okay people don't worry I know what the schemes are."
He carried on in a much more relaxed manner, "The reason I brought you altogether is to work out a way we can expand our little venture." At this, many of the unit's jaws dropped.
"Err, excuse me Sir, but what are you saying exactly?" asked a dark haired unit member.
"What I'm saying 657 is that I too run a few underground business ventures, and was wondering whether you all would like to join forces. So what do you say?" Alec asked and then quickly added, "you can all relax, no need to stand at attention." He watched them all sit down and waited.
They all seemed to be communicating silently. Heads moved subtly, eyes blinked at certain times, until Hazel said grinning, "You've got yourself a deal, Sir."
End Flashback
He looked at Hazel once more, kissed her on the forehead and then went to leave when he heard a small voice, "Where are you going?"
He turned around and saw Hazel looking at him tiredly. "I'm going to HQ. I still need to sort out some things for the heists." He said quietly making sure he didn't wake up Joshua, "Did you just get up?"
"No, been up for a few hours now." She replied yawning, "Can't seem to sleep, however tired I am."
"But I've only been gone two hours." He said looking at his watch.
"I know." The girl said sitting up, "I was awake when you left."
"Huh?" Alec asked stupidly.
"I'm good at pretending to sleep, what can I say?" she replied shrugging her shoulders.
"Why were you pretending?" he asked walking up to her again.
"I thought that you would probably want to go. You wouldn't have if I was awake. And I didn't tell you now, because I wanted to see what you were going to do." She said lazily, "Can I come with you?"
"No." he said forcefully.
"Oh, come on. Please." she argued whilst looking up at him innocently.
"Fine. But you're not allowed to look at me like that for a whole month." He replied giving in.
"Yes, Sir." The X5 replied in mock salute.
Alec rolled his eyes and went to help her up.
"Max, what's up?" asked Logan as he walked up to her still standing next to the door. "Nothing." She replied whilst turning around, "I just wanna go for a walk."
"Oh, okay, I'll come with you." Logan said as he went to get his coat.
"No, I just wanna be by myself for a while. Is that okay?" she asked quickly.
"Yeah sure." The ordinary replied with a small smile.
"Thanks." Max said as she walked out into the night. She was heading to HQ.
"So what's the deal with you and 452?" asked Hazel as they walked leisurely.
"There's no deal and her name's Max." Replied Alec after thinking about it for a while.
"Yeah whatever. Anywayz, it's me you're talking to now. You hated the '09 escapees 'cos it got you in Psy Ops for 6 months. And now you try your best to make sure everyone treats her good? I mean I know I don't know her well but she doesn't strike me as a nice person." Said Hazel looking at her fellow transgenic directly.
"Come on. Sit down. I'll tell you everything before you speak to someone else about it." He answered as he ushered her over to two upturned crates near a fire.
"I met Max when she got recaptured. We were designated breeding partners. It's why I went away for a while." Said Alec as he watched the flames.
Hazel started laughing, "No way."
"Yes way. And what's so funny?" Alec said smiling when he caught sight of Hazel.
"It's just not believable. Why would they do that? So let me guess, the little situation you two got goin' on is 'cos you both didn't do it but now really want to; or you both did do it and it was bad." After saying that Hazel burst out laughing again and that's how Max saw them. Hazel was laughing so much that she fell on to Alec, and Alec was sitting there first of all with a face in mock shock but then joined the younger X5 laughing. Max hadn't seen Alec laugh like that in a long time.
"No. One, we have no situation. Two, I do not want to 'do it' with her as you so eloquently put it. And most importantly, three, I am NEVER bad in bed. Watch what you say." He said looking at her laughing still, "Anywayz, the reason she doesn't like me much is 'cos I annoy the hell out of her. Well, I used to go out of the way to annoy the hell out of her. Now it seems me breathing annoys the hell out of her."
"Right. So basically she's a bitch." Said Hazel following his gaze.
"No.well maybe yes.but only sometimes." Said Alec looking her.
"Yeah, well she'll be a bitch in my books for a long time to come." Said Hazel looking back at him, "I don't like her. She's arrogant. Walks around like no one can touch her, that she's above everyone."
"You've gotta give her a break." Said Alec sighing.
"She killed my child. My son....she killed him." Hazel said quietly, "I'll never give her a break. But I'm not gonna go after her either. I'm a soldier, I have my self control, I just lost it a bit earlier."
She said the last bit looking at Alec as if to give him her word. He nodded. "That's all I'm asking."
"But if she goes looking for trouble with me, I'm not gonna back down." She said forcefully.
"I'm sure Max isn't stupid enough to." Replied Alec smiling slightly.
"Could've fooled me." She said under her breath. But Alec heard.
"Come on, I'll introduce you to everyone properly." He said as got up holding his hand out for.
"It's a lot after midnight. Are they still up?" she asked taking his hand.
"You'll be surprised." He replied dragging her up.
"Hey guys. What's up? Anything happened since I've been gone?" Alec called as he came in to HQ.
"Not much. Hey who's the girl?" asked Luke as he turned to look at Alec and Hazel.
"Guys this is Hazel. X5. Look after her." Said Alec whilst Hazel rolled her eyes.
Dalton quickly got up to introduce himself. "Hi. I'm Dalton." He said shyly. Alec started laughing.
"Hey." Said Hazel and then after seeing Alec practically fall down with laughter said, "I'm too old for ya kid." And with that she ruffled his hair and walked up to where Mole and Alec were, leaving Dalton blushing.
"You could have at least given him a chance." Alec said smiling. Hazel didn't answer and instead punched him hard.
"Ow. Geez." Alec replied rubbing his arm.
"What are we looking at?" asked Hazel referring to the blue prints on the table.
"Alec's sorting out a few heists. We need more money for supplies." Said Mole.
"So what do you want me to do?" asked Hazel, "I mean I'm not just gonna sit around doing nothing."
"What have you got experience in?" asked Luke.
"I excelled in team missions and fighting. I can analyse, decode and encode data within minutes. And that's about it." Replied Hazel sitting down on the table.
"Well, she can do a few heists, recon, stuff like that." Said Mole to Alec.
"No. I think she should teach the younger kids to fight." Said Alec just as Max walked in.
"What? The kids don't need to learn to fight." She practically shouted from the doorway.
"Oh, hey Maxie." Said Alec sarcastically.
"The kids are not going to learn to fight." Max replied forcefully.
"Max, we can't communicate with the X7s and the X8s haven't done field med., or any other proper training. How are they supposed to defend themselves if this thing blows up into a war." Asked Alec calmly.
"This thing will not turn into a war." Max said standing right in front of Alec.
"Oh really? Yeah, of course you're right. I mean not only do ordinaries hate us, but the familiars are on our tail. You're the one who told me about this big 'Coming', Max. What do you think it's gonna be? A picnic? No it's most likely gonna be a war of some sort. And if we don't teach them the necessary things, they are not going to survive. Is that what you want Max? Tell me. Is that what you want?" replied Alec overpoweringly.
Max didn't answer but Hazel did, "Wait up a minute. What's this 'Coming' thing?"
"You don't need to know." Replied Max.
"Was I talking to you now? No, I was talking to anyone else in the room apart from you." Hazel said looking at Max then turning to Alec sharply.
"I like this girl." Said Mole smiling.
"It's this biblically big event that's going to take place that only Max can save us from." Said Alec as if it happened everyday.
"Apparently." Added Mole.
"Oh right. Is this where her perfect DNA thing comes in?" she asked to no one in particular.
"Something like that." Said a someone from the door. It was Logan.
"Explains the ego then." Said Hazel to herself but the whole room head.
Mole started laughing and everyone looked at Max. She was furious which made Mole laugh even more. "I really like this girl." He said before leaving the room.
"The X8s are not going to learn to fight. And that's that. I have no problem with her communicating with the X7s though. We need them on our side." Said Max trying to restrain herself from hurting the pretty X5.
"I didn't know the Promised Land was run under a dictatorship Alec." Said Hazel looking at Alec innocently. She was beginning to enjoy pissing off Max.
'This is all I need.' Thought Alec. But he liked annoying Max too, especially when he had help, so he said, "Yeah neither did I. Look Max, Hazel's right. It is not only your decision. It is all of our decision. We'll take a vote. Majority rules. Tomorrow, I'll round everyone up in the courtyard. Whaddya say?" He then gave her one of his most charming smiles.
If looks could kill, Max would have killed Alec ten times over but instead she said, "Fine."
"Well, anywayz. If they rule yes for the fighting it's going to be your job to train them." Alec said looking at Hazel. She only nodded.
"And if not?" asked Logan thinking Max needed a bit of support.
"If not, then Hazel can look after all the recon groups. It's what she specialised in at manticore." He said to Max and Logan.
He looked to Hazel to see if she minded, she nodded then said, "Whatever you say chief."
Max had other things to say about it. "No way. That's you're job."
Alec sighed in exasperation.
"Anyway she just came here. We don't even know we can trust her." Added Logan to back up Max.
"Oh for Christ sakes. Maxie." Alec said as he walked towards her, ".She can be trusted 100%. I know her. I trust her. And I have loads of jobs. It'd be nice if someone took a bit off my load."
"Oh well that's brilliant isn't it. You trust her so it's all okay. I don't trust you, you think I'm gonna trust her?" shouted Max to Alec.
"Not again." Said Dalton quietly. Hazel didn't miss it.
"This happen a lot?" she asked the X6.
"Practically everyday. She has to find something to shout at Alec about. She doesn't shout at anyone else, either 'cos there's no need or she hasn't got the guts. But she never misses a day when it comes to Alec." Replied Dalton.
Alec hadn't said anything during the other two transgenics' quiet encounter. "If you can't handle the workload, give it to someone who has experience and I can trust." She said coldly.
"Will you just shut your mouth, girly girl." Someone said.