HIGH SCHOOL MISSIONS
Chapter 8
Trouble
*To Crash for boosting my confidence, my ego and my libido ;) Thanks honey!*
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Logan was sitting in front of his computer, typing furiously.
He was getting nowhere with the school surveillance equipment, it was too well guarded.
Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He remembered Max saying something about the elite having access to everything so he tried to hack into their computers instead.
"Bingo!" He sat back to admire his work and his eyes widened.
He had hacked into the strip club's camera.
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Alec walked back to the elite's headquarters. He hated himself for doing what he did to that girl but he hated himself even more for what he would have to do tomorrow.
He entered the cottage next to the mansion and found everyone staring at the computer screen.
Alec cleared his throat and the bunch of kids turned around to look at him.
"Alec! What happened?" Dak asked him.
Alec tossed her a disk and smirked "Nothing, I hope that's everything you wanted to know."
The twelve teenagers stared at the disk "How did you manage to get the information so fast?" Iker asked him.
"A perfect quickie and no pillow talk." Alec shrugged.
"Hey guys, there she is!" Dave pointed at the screen.
Alec frowned, he squeezed himself between Iker and Luke to see what the big fuss was all about.
He looked at the screen just in time to see Max walking out of a back room and making her way to the catwalk.
'Oh God' Alec thought to himself.
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*-Sugababes - Supernatural-*
Max closed her eyes when she heard the music start. She looked down at herself, she looked pretty great.
"Hey girl! Come on, you're up!" A guy called to her and Max sighed.
She walked out of the back room and climbed the steps that led to the stage, she made her way on to the catwalk and froze.
The place was packed, hundreds of guys stared at her and whistled, urging her on.
Max closed her eyes and took a deep breath before moving to the music. The funky beat was easy to dance to so she just swayed her hips and ran her hands over her body.
One of the other dancers approached her. "Let loose girl! You might actually have a good time! Come on, grab a tube!"
Max frowned at the girl, she looked really young. Max looked around for a tube and found one at the end of the catwalk. She moved to it and gripped it with both hands.
She could hear the men around her, screaming and shouting. She closed her eyes and blocked them out, concentrating on the music and what she could do with the tube.
She spreader her legs open, straddling the tube, and crouched down. She stood back up pressing her body against the cool metal.
Max looked at the other girls, they where doing some pretty funky stuff. She jumped up and wrapped her ankles on the tube, sliding to the ground once again and provoking even more whistles from her audience.
She continued to move around the tube, shaking her body sexily in time with the music and running her hands over her body.
She looked around once again and saw that the other girls had already taken their tops off and where currently working on their panties.
"Take it off sugar!" One of the men close to her yelled.
"Yeah, let us see you!" Another one followed.
Max took a deep breath and unhooked her bra.
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Alec's eyes widened when he saw Max taking her top off. He looked away from the screen, feeling as if he was intruding in some way.
Trying to keep his eyes away from the image he looked around the room and was rather disturbed by what he found.
The six other guys where staring at the screen but their eyes didn't hold the desire that Alec had been expecting. Instead they seemed to be analyzing the situation.
"She has a good technique" Iker whispered to Sean.
"It's hard to believe she hadn't done this before" Luke said.
"No, she's a natural. Her movements look fresh, not rehearsed." Leo noticed. Dave and Dade nodded.
"Well if she's improvising then she's good enough for us." Nikki said.
The rest of the elite nodded.
Dak turned away from the screen "Congratulations Alec, the first part of your initiation is over. Tell MJ to be ready for Saturday."
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Max felt sick to her stomach as she walked through the door. She could still hear the men laughing and yelling in the back of her mind.
It had been a horrible experience and she was glad it was over. Now all she wanted was a scalding hot shower and her bed.
She walked into the bathroom, tossing her shirt behind her, and her breath got caught on her throat.
The bathroom was illuminated by a bunch of aromatic candles, the bathtub was full of hot water and bubbles and a bathrobe had been laid out for her.
"Oh Logan" She said softly.
Max saw a note by the tub and reached for it. There was only one word written on it.
"Relax" Max read out loud and smiled but her smile quickly turned into a frown as she realized it was not Logan's writing, it was Alec's.
She shrugged and took off the rest of her clothes, sinking into the hot bath and closing her eyes.
She must have fallen asleep at some point because by the time she opened her eyes again the water was lukewarm, she looked like a prune and the clothes that she had worn that night were gone.
Max dried herself off and slipped on the bathrobe before leaving the bathroom.
Her room was dark except for a few candles on her nightstand, next to the candles she found a tall glass of milk and some home made chocolate cookies that Logan had obviously left there for her. She wondered where the guys were but didn't dwell on it. Instead she ate her snack, changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed.
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Alec leaned over Logan to read the data on the computer screen.
"What is it?" Alec asked Logan with interest.
"I have no idea" Logan frowned and leaned closer to the monitor.
"Might be passwords."
"God I hope not, it's going to take a looooong time to decode this." Logan pointed at the screen. Millions of random numbers covered every available space.
"There is no apparent pattern." Alec mumbled and leaned even closer "I wonder what the elite wanted with this."
Logan took a deep breath and rubbed his forehead "I'll work on this, why don't you get some rest?"
Alec was bone tired and didn't need to be told twice.
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Max felt someone sitting at the foot of her bed. She opened her eyes slowly and found two yellow orbs staring at her.
She gasped and jumped up "Alec! You scared the shit out of me!" Max blew out the small candle that was making Alec's eyes glow that way. Her night vision kicked in.
"Why?" Alec frowned
"Night vision and a small amount of light produce an eerie effect" Max shuddered and laid back down on the bed.
Alec shifted uncomfortably "I just wanted to check on you, make sure you're ok."
Max bit her lip "Alec, I'm fine. Sure I'm a little shaken but you should be feeling much worse than I am!"
Alec shook his head "I was trained for this Max, I've used my sexuality as a weapon so many times I can't even remember them all."
He was lying and Max knew it. With their photographic memory Alec should be able to recall every second of every horrible mission.
"And besides, I didn't sleep with her."
That took Max by surprise "What do you mean?"
"I drugged her and took off her clothes. The hard part of the mission will come tomorrow when I'll have to tell her that I can't see her anymore."
Max leaned forward and took Alec's hand in hers "It had to be done"
"I know but... do you have any idea of how many people I've hurt by telling them that I don't care about them? That I never did?"
Max gripped his hand tighter "You did that for their own good!"
Alec snorted "Yeah right, I did that to save my own ass, to keep myself out of Psy Ops! Not one good thing came out of my lies Max."
Max knew he was talking about Rachel but she had a feeling there was something else there.
"Alec I..."
"I don't want to talk about it Max. Just go back to sleep."
Max nodded and laid back down on her bed. She watched him as he stripped down to his boxers and got into his own bed before closing her eyes.
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The moment Max opened her eyes she knew it was going to be a bad day. Why? She was lying on the floor, tangled on her bed sheets.
"Max? Shit! Are you ok?!" Alec jumped out of his bed and ran to help her up. She shrugged his hand away and stood up.
"I'm fine! I just had a weird dream that's all!" Max stood up with a groan.
"You're hurt"
"I'm not hurt! I told you I'm fine!" She walked to her closet and pulled out her uniform.
"No you're not! You're limping!" Alec followed.
"I'm not limping!"
"What's going on? I heard a thump." Logan walked down the stairs.
"You heard a thump? Where were you? Camping by our door?" Max snapped.
"You fell out of bed didn't you?" Logan tried hard not to smile.
Alec wasn't even trying. He was laughing hard.
"Oh shut up!" Max punched Alec on the arm on her way to the bathroom.
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Max and Alec ran out of the house, locking the back door behind them. They where very surprised when they discovered it was pouring.
"How come we didn't notice it was raining before?" Max wondered out loud.
Alec shrugged, then he slapped his forehead with his hand and groaned.
"What?" Max asked.
"You do remember I just bought a convertible?" Alec glared at her.
"Shit!" Max tried to run to the car and slipped on a puddle. She tried to regain her balance but the ground was slippery. Alec reached for her and tried to yank her up but instead ended up with his ass on the floor and Max on his lap, her arms elbow deep in mud.
"Shit!" Max screamed.
"Let's go inside and change quickly." Alec helped Max up and then accepted her hand.
"I have no clean shirts" Max groaned.
"Then wear a dirty one, It's got to be a hell of a lot cleaner than the one you're wearing." Alec pointed out.
Max looked down at her formerly white shirt, it was not covered with mud.
"I can't wear a dirty one! I washed them last night and they're still wet!"
"Then wear a wet one!" Alec slammed his drawers open and looked for a clean pair of boxers.
"I can't!" Max unbuttoned her shirt and tossed it aside.
"Why the hell not?" Alec grabbed a clean pair of pants and scrambled out of his dirty ones.
"Because it's white! It'll cling to my skin and wet white shirts become a little transparent..."
Alec turned around to face her and smiled. He tossed her one of his shirts. "Then you better reconsider your choice of bra."
Max looked down, she was wearing a lacy black bra. "What's wrong with my bra?"
"Well it's still raining dogs and cats out there and you're still gonna get wet and Max, every straight male in that building already drools when you walk by. You don't need to give them something else to fantasize about!"
Max threw her dirty shirt at him. He caught it before it hit him, then he rummaged around her underwear drawer and handed her a plain white bra.
"Wear that, it's thick so you won't have a problem."
Max scowled but grabbed his shirt and her bra and marched to the bathroom.
When she came out wearing Alec's shirt, which looked quite big on her, he was clean and waiting for her.
"Is Logan gone?"
"Yeah, I just checked." Alec told her.
"Damn, I was hoping for a ride."
"Let's just go, we're very late as it is. Just wear a raincoat or something."
"You have a raincoat?" Max asked him incredulously.
"No, I was hoping you did." Alec shrugged. He grabbed a plastic bag from one of the kitchen drawers and split it in half.
"Wrap this around your waist." He told Max.
"Why?"
"Because the car seat is going to be wet! Now let's go!"
They ran out of the house again, this time a little bit more carefully.
Alec jumped into the car, not bothering with the door and Max did the same. Her skirt got caught on the door and she stumbled inside.
"Shit! I think I ripped something, there's a thread hanging out of my skirt! Oh we're late, we are soooo late!"
"Yeah, well at least I parked the car under a tree! It's not as wet as I thought it would be." Alec started the car and drove quickly towards school.
Max tried to use her teeth to cut the annoying thread but couldn't do it. She groaned in frustration.
"Here, use the lighter."
Alec fumbled around with the lighter. He didn't see the car going towards them but Max did.
"Hey! Watch out!" Max reached for the steering wheel. Alec looked up and dropped the lighter on his lap. He yelped and jumped up.
"Shit!" They avoided the other car by inches but their own car spun out of control. "Max let go of the steering wheel! And get the lighter away from me!" Alec screamed
Max reached for the lighter while Alec tried to regain the control of the vehicle with little success.
"Here!" Max held up the lighter.
Alec saw the tree, he knew they were heading in that direction.
He reached out and pushed Max against her seat holding her there with his arm and he slammed on the breaks.
The tires screeched as the car inched towards the huge tree.
Max closed her eyes and Alec gritted his teeth.
The car stopped just millimeters from the tree.
Max and Alec held their breaths, they staid still for a few moments.
Alec closed his eyes and released the breath he had been holding
And the airbags popped up out of nowhere.
"Great, just fucking great!" Max's voice was muffled by the airbag.
"At least the family jewels are still intact!" Alec struggled to get the bag away from his face.
Max found a way to free her arm and slap his leg.
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They had arrived at the school ten minutes late.
Max's first period had been hell, she had been really close to falling asleep and the teacher had noticed.
As she walked down the hall she saw Alec walking towards her. She smiled, she needed a friendly face.
"Alec? Hey!"
His face lost some color and his eyes registered shock when he ran into Kat.
"Shit" Max cursed under her breath.
"Kat! Hi..."
"I waved to you at the parking lot this morning. I guess you didn't see me." Kat patted her black hair and tugged at her shirt.
Alec sighed "Look Kat..."
Max saw Dakareth walking towards them. She stopped before reaching Alec and frowned but a moment later she smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist "Hey baby!" She said cheerfully.
Alec was a little startled but hid it well. He glanced at Max who nodded, indicating him to play along with Dak.
Kat backed away slowly "Oh..."
"Kat I..."
"No, don't say anything! You're elite, I'm just a hacker. I should have known better."
"No Kat wait! I wasn't..."
Dak placed a hand on his arm "Let her go."
Alec nodded. He stood there and watched Kat run away.
"Don't you dare tell the others about this. If they find out I helped you with your dare..."
Dak didn't finish the sentence, she just left.
Max approached Alec slowly "Are you alright?"
Alec gave her a small smile "I'm always alright."
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"And what did he say?" Logan leaned closer to Max.
"He said that he was alright, just like he always does." Max whispered.
They where having a quick conversation during history class which was a little difficult since the classroom was so quiet.
"And you let him walk away?"
"What was I supposed to do? Follow him like a puppy?" Max raised her voice a little. A few heads turned in their direction.
"Well MJ, you seem to be doing fine! Just remember what I told you." Logan said loudly.
"Thanks Mr. Cale!" Max smiled at him and walked back to her seat.
"He needs you" Logan mouthed
Max sighed, she needed to have a little talk with Alec.
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Alec was walking down the hall, lost in his own thoughts when he felt a tug and was pulled into a small closet.
"What the hell?!"
"Alec shut up!" Max locked the door behind him and turned around to face him.
"We need to talk."
Alec rolled his eyes "You pulled me into the recycling room for this?"
"Alec, I know it's bothering you and I don't want you to do something stupid!"
He looked around "Hey Max, how come we hadn't searched this room? There might be something useful here."
Max sighed "Like what?"
Alec opened one of the drawers and reached inside "Like records" He pulled out a folder and showed it to Max.
"Oh my god! Are they really this careless?" Max reached inside the drawer and searched for specific names.
"They are not careless... this is well thought, hide in plain sight. We wouldn't have run into this thing if I hadn't been avoiding a conversation. It was pure luck."
Max smiled "Oh don't worry, we can talk and read this stuff at the same time."
"We can't talk about this right now." Alec moved towards the door.
"We have to!"
"No Max, we really can't talk about this right now. Someone's coming." He pressed his ear to the door.
They both stared at the handle for a moment. It turned slowly.
"Who locks this damn door?" They heard someone ask.
Max turned to Alec with panicked eyes. They both tossed the files into the drawer and Max slammed it shut.
The person at the other side of the door was searching for the key.
Max locked her gaze with Alec and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Alec pushed her away "No, we can't do that! If they think we're sleeping together they'll take you away!"
"Then what can we do?" Max was starting to panic.
"Hit me."
"What?" Max raised her eyebrows.
"Hit me, slap me!" Alec told her.
"I'm not going to hit you!"
The doorknob turned
"Do it now!"
Max took a deep breath and slapped Alec just as the door opened and Stuart Young, the guy who had picked them up at the airport, walked in.
"Ouch!" Alec's hand flew to his face. "I think you broke my jaw!"
"Don't be ridiculous! I don't want to see you again today! I'm sleeping over at Dak's. Don't you dare cross my path!" Max turned away from him, flipped her hair as she walked past Stuart.
Alec was still rubbing his face. Any normal human being would be crying in pain right then.
"Trouble at paradise?" Stuart asked.
"Just hormones I think, it must be that time of the month." Alec smiled at Stuart and followed Max.
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Max frowned at the cafeteria food "This looks really disgusting." She told the girls.
"No matter how much you pay for your education, hot lunches will always taste worse than they look and that's saying a lot" Nikki sniffed her food and made a face before pushing it away.
Dakareth pushed it back towards her "You have to eat Nik, we have gym class today."
Alec looked around and frowned "Where is Iker?"
"Sick, stomach virus" Luke said between bites.
"Oh" Alec looked down at his own food and took a deep breath before stuffing a spoonful into his mouth.
Max didn't look at him when he spoke. Dak leaned towards her and whispered in her ear "So, do you want to crash at my place tonight?"
Max raised an eyebrow "Why would I do that?"
"I heard you had a little argument with Alec."
Max's face snapped up "How did you find out about that?"
Dak smiled "Remember what I told you MJ, we're elite. We know EVERYTHING."
Max shivered a little. She turned back to her food and said "I think I need to work things out with him. I'll talk to him tonight."
Dak shrugged "Fine."
Max pretended to be really interested in her food when in fact she was trying to figure out who might have tipped Dakareth off.
One thing was for sure, there was a lot going on in that school and they had to find out about it before things got out of hand.
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Logan knocked on the lab's door and walked inside. Sasha was making some notes.
"Hey Mr. Cale!"
"Hey Sasha, how is it going?"
The young girl smiled "I know how to fix it! Just give me some time and I'll have that thing nailed!"
Logan smiled "Sasha, I could kiss you!"
She giggled "Go away so I can get to work! And don't talk like that. Someone could hear you and you'd loose your job."
Logan frowned "Sasha, it's just an expression"
Sasha nodded "I know but still... just go ok?"
Logan shrugged and left.
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Later that night Max Alec and Logan were having a quick dinner and talking.
"So the guys where staring at me while I stripped and they where just commenting on my technique? That's sick!" Max exclaimed.
Alec and Logan raised their eyebrows but said nothing.
"I still can't figure out those numbers. I'll work on it after dinner." Logan said.
"You know, Dakareth knew about our little encounter in the recycling room Alec."
Alec dropped his chop sticks "Who told her?"
"I don't know" Max shrugged.
Alec sighed "Something about that school just creeps me out."
"You know, it's not that bad. I think it's a good school. The teachers are great and the students are really devoted. I can't see what the big fuss is about." Logan said between bites.
Max and Alec stared at him, their mouths open.
Logan blinked a few times "Did I just say that?"
Max and Alec exchanged glances
"Guys, we need a copy of whatever they play on those loudspeakers."
"Why?" Max asked Logan
"I think they are brainwashing us."
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"I can't believe he couldn't hack the stupid computer." Max shook her head.
"Max, if the stupid computer is not connected to anything but a plug how can he hack into it?" Alec walked carefully around the corner.
"Where do you think that thing is?" Max followed him, not making any noise as they walked.
"I'm not sure but I have a pretty good idea." Alec pointed at a locked office.
"It has an alarm system, that's unusual" Alec took a couple of minutes to disable the alarm and then walked inside, careful not to set off any kind of silent alarm.
Max looked around "Is that it?" She pointed at a laptop on a desk."
"Maybe." Alec got to work on it. He found the file they where looking for and downloaded it quickly.
"Alec?"
"Yeah?"
"Someone's coming." Max whispered.
Alec listened hard, he heard the footsteps.
"Shit!" he cursed under his breath.
"Can we go?"
"No, I'm not done yet." Alec cursed again.
The footsteps got closer and Max looked around nervously.
"Alec hurry!"
"There's nothing I can do!"
Max herd the beeping of someone disabling the alarm
"Done!" Alec snatched the disk and closed the laptop.
The door opened slowly.
The principal walked in. He went over to a file cabinet and took some records. He was walking to the door but stopped suddenly. He looked around and shrugged before leaving.
Once he was gone Max and Alec dropped from the ceiling silently
"That was close." Alec whispered.
"This has not been a good day. Can we just go home?" Max grabbed the disk from Alec and headed out.
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"I don't hear anything." Max informed them.
"Me neither, Logan are you sure it's the music?" Alec leaned back on the couch.
"I can't think of anything else." Logan rubbed his temple. "Hold on, maybe if we..."
He worked on the computer quickly, the music was played again, slowly.
Max frowned "It sounds like shit but I still can't hear anything..."
"Shh..." Alec sat up quickly and closed his eyes.
Max and Logan stared at him.
"Logan, can you play that backwards and a little bit slower."
"Sure" Logan typed away and then hit play.
A strong manly voice could be heard clearly.
MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE...
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So HA! Did you like the cliffhanger?? This story is going to get very interesting later on, I promise.
Ok people, last chapter to vote!!! Would you like me to tell you who won on the next chapter or would you rather wait to find out for yourself?
And I know the stripping scene sucked but I did my best ;)
I hope you liked this chapter, I didn't really proofread it, I just wanted to get it up here!
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Chapter 8
Trouble
*To Crash for boosting my confidence, my ego and my libido ;) Thanks honey!*
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Logan was sitting in front of his computer, typing furiously.
He was getting nowhere with the school surveillance equipment, it was too well guarded.
Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He remembered Max saying something about the elite having access to everything so he tried to hack into their computers instead.
"Bingo!" He sat back to admire his work and his eyes widened.
He had hacked into the strip club's camera.
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Alec walked back to the elite's headquarters. He hated himself for doing what he did to that girl but he hated himself even more for what he would have to do tomorrow.
He entered the cottage next to the mansion and found everyone staring at the computer screen.
Alec cleared his throat and the bunch of kids turned around to look at him.
"Alec! What happened?" Dak asked him.
Alec tossed her a disk and smirked "Nothing, I hope that's everything you wanted to know."
The twelve teenagers stared at the disk "How did you manage to get the information so fast?" Iker asked him.
"A perfect quickie and no pillow talk." Alec shrugged.
"Hey guys, there she is!" Dave pointed at the screen.
Alec frowned, he squeezed himself between Iker and Luke to see what the big fuss was all about.
He looked at the screen just in time to see Max walking out of a back room and making her way to the catwalk.
'Oh God' Alec thought to himself.
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*-Sugababes - Supernatural-*
Max closed her eyes when she heard the music start. She looked down at herself, she looked pretty great.
"Hey girl! Come on, you're up!" A guy called to her and Max sighed.
She walked out of the back room and climbed the steps that led to the stage, she made her way on to the catwalk and froze.
The place was packed, hundreds of guys stared at her and whistled, urging her on.
Max closed her eyes and took a deep breath before moving to the music. The funky beat was easy to dance to so she just swayed her hips and ran her hands over her body.
One of the other dancers approached her. "Let loose girl! You might actually have a good time! Come on, grab a tube!"
Max frowned at the girl, she looked really young. Max looked around for a tube and found one at the end of the catwalk. She moved to it and gripped it with both hands.
She could hear the men around her, screaming and shouting. She closed her eyes and blocked them out, concentrating on the music and what she could do with the tube.
She spreader her legs open, straddling the tube, and crouched down. She stood back up pressing her body against the cool metal.
Max looked at the other girls, they where doing some pretty funky stuff. She jumped up and wrapped her ankles on the tube, sliding to the ground once again and provoking even more whistles from her audience.
She continued to move around the tube, shaking her body sexily in time with the music and running her hands over her body.
She looked around once again and saw that the other girls had already taken their tops off and where currently working on their panties.
"Take it off sugar!" One of the men close to her yelled.
"Yeah, let us see you!" Another one followed.
Max took a deep breath and unhooked her bra.
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Alec's eyes widened when he saw Max taking her top off. He looked away from the screen, feeling as if he was intruding in some way.
Trying to keep his eyes away from the image he looked around the room and was rather disturbed by what he found.
The six other guys where staring at the screen but their eyes didn't hold the desire that Alec had been expecting. Instead they seemed to be analyzing the situation.
"She has a good technique" Iker whispered to Sean.
"It's hard to believe she hadn't done this before" Luke said.
"No, she's a natural. Her movements look fresh, not rehearsed." Leo noticed. Dave and Dade nodded.
"Well if she's improvising then she's good enough for us." Nikki said.
The rest of the elite nodded.
Dak turned away from the screen "Congratulations Alec, the first part of your initiation is over. Tell MJ to be ready for Saturday."
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Max felt sick to her stomach as she walked through the door. She could still hear the men laughing and yelling in the back of her mind.
It had been a horrible experience and she was glad it was over. Now all she wanted was a scalding hot shower and her bed.
She walked into the bathroom, tossing her shirt behind her, and her breath got caught on her throat.
The bathroom was illuminated by a bunch of aromatic candles, the bathtub was full of hot water and bubbles and a bathrobe had been laid out for her.
"Oh Logan" She said softly.
Max saw a note by the tub and reached for it. There was only one word written on it.
"Relax" Max read out loud and smiled but her smile quickly turned into a frown as she realized it was not Logan's writing, it was Alec's.
She shrugged and took off the rest of her clothes, sinking into the hot bath and closing her eyes.
She must have fallen asleep at some point because by the time she opened her eyes again the water was lukewarm, she looked like a prune and the clothes that she had worn that night were gone.
Max dried herself off and slipped on the bathrobe before leaving the bathroom.
Her room was dark except for a few candles on her nightstand, next to the candles she found a tall glass of milk and some home made chocolate cookies that Logan had obviously left there for her. She wondered where the guys were but didn't dwell on it. Instead she ate her snack, changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed.
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Alec leaned over Logan to read the data on the computer screen.
"What is it?" Alec asked Logan with interest.
"I have no idea" Logan frowned and leaned closer to the monitor.
"Might be passwords."
"God I hope not, it's going to take a looooong time to decode this." Logan pointed at the screen. Millions of random numbers covered every available space.
"There is no apparent pattern." Alec mumbled and leaned even closer "I wonder what the elite wanted with this."
Logan took a deep breath and rubbed his forehead "I'll work on this, why don't you get some rest?"
Alec was bone tired and didn't need to be told twice.
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Max felt someone sitting at the foot of her bed. She opened her eyes slowly and found two yellow orbs staring at her.
She gasped and jumped up "Alec! You scared the shit out of me!" Max blew out the small candle that was making Alec's eyes glow that way. Her night vision kicked in.
"Why?" Alec frowned
"Night vision and a small amount of light produce an eerie effect" Max shuddered and laid back down on the bed.
Alec shifted uncomfortably "I just wanted to check on you, make sure you're ok."
Max bit her lip "Alec, I'm fine. Sure I'm a little shaken but you should be feeling much worse than I am!"
Alec shook his head "I was trained for this Max, I've used my sexuality as a weapon so many times I can't even remember them all."
He was lying and Max knew it. With their photographic memory Alec should be able to recall every second of every horrible mission.
"And besides, I didn't sleep with her."
That took Max by surprise "What do you mean?"
"I drugged her and took off her clothes. The hard part of the mission will come tomorrow when I'll have to tell her that I can't see her anymore."
Max leaned forward and took Alec's hand in hers "It had to be done"
"I know but... do you have any idea of how many people I've hurt by telling them that I don't care about them? That I never did?"
Max gripped his hand tighter "You did that for their own good!"
Alec snorted "Yeah right, I did that to save my own ass, to keep myself out of Psy Ops! Not one good thing came out of my lies Max."
Max knew he was talking about Rachel but she had a feeling there was something else there.
"Alec I..."
"I don't want to talk about it Max. Just go back to sleep."
Max nodded and laid back down on her bed. She watched him as he stripped down to his boxers and got into his own bed before closing her eyes.
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The moment Max opened her eyes she knew it was going to be a bad day. Why? She was lying on the floor, tangled on her bed sheets.
"Max? Shit! Are you ok?!" Alec jumped out of his bed and ran to help her up. She shrugged his hand away and stood up.
"I'm fine! I just had a weird dream that's all!" Max stood up with a groan.
"You're hurt"
"I'm not hurt! I told you I'm fine!" She walked to her closet and pulled out her uniform.
"No you're not! You're limping!" Alec followed.
"I'm not limping!"
"What's going on? I heard a thump." Logan walked down the stairs.
"You heard a thump? Where were you? Camping by our door?" Max snapped.
"You fell out of bed didn't you?" Logan tried hard not to smile.
Alec wasn't even trying. He was laughing hard.
"Oh shut up!" Max punched Alec on the arm on her way to the bathroom.
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Max and Alec ran out of the house, locking the back door behind them. They where very surprised when they discovered it was pouring.
"How come we didn't notice it was raining before?" Max wondered out loud.
Alec shrugged, then he slapped his forehead with his hand and groaned.
"What?" Max asked.
"You do remember I just bought a convertible?" Alec glared at her.
"Shit!" Max tried to run to the car and slipped on a puddle. She tried to regain her balance but the ground was slippery. Alec reached for her and tried to yank her up but instead ended up with his ass on the floor and Max on his lap, her arms elbow deep in mud.
"Shit!" Max screamed.
"Let's go inside and change quickly." Alec helped Max up and then accepted her hand.
"I have no clean shirts" Max groaned.
"Then wear a dirty one, It's got to be a hell of a lot cleaner than the one you're wearing." Alec pointed out.
Max looked down at her formerly white shirt, it was not covered with mud.
"I can't wear a dirty one! I washed them last night and they're still wet!"
"Then wear a wet one!" Alec slammed his drawers open and looked for a clean pair of boxers.
"I can't!" Max unbuttoned her shirt and tossed it aside.
"Why the hell not?" Alec grabbed a clean pair of pants and scrambled out of his dirty ones.
"Because it's white! It'll cling to my skin and wet white shirts become a little transparent..."
Alec turned around to face her and smiled. He tossed her one of his shirts. "Then you better reconsider your choice of bra."
Max looked down, she was wearing a lacy black bra. "What's wrong with my bra?"
"Well it's still raining dogs and cats out there and you're still gonna get wet and Max, every straight male in that building already drools when you walk by. You don't need to give them something else to fantasize about!"
Max threw her dirty shirt at him. He caught it before it hit him, then he rummaged around her underwear drawer and handed her a plain white bra.
"Wear that, it's thick so you won't have a problem."
Max scowled but grabbed his shirt and her bra and marched to the bathroom.
When she came out wearing Alec's shirt, which looked quite big on her, he was clean and waiting for her.
"Is Logan gone?"
"Yeah, I just checked." Alec told her.
"Damn, I was hoping for a ride."
"Let's just go, we're very late as it is. Just wear a raincoat or something."
"You have a raincoat?" Max asked him incredulously.
"No, I was hoping you did." Alec shrugged. He grabbed a plastic bag from one of the kitchen drawers and split it in half.
"Wrap this around your waist." He told Max.
"Why?"
"Because the car seat is going to be wet! Now let's go!"
They ran out of the house again, this time a little bit more carefully.
Alec jumped into the car, not bothering with the door and Max did the same. Her skirt got caught on the door and she stumbled inside.
"Shit! I think I ripped something, there's a thread hanging out of my skirt! Oh we're late, we are soooo late!"
"Yeah, well at least I parked the car under a tree! It's not as wet as I thought it would be." Alec started the car and drove quickly towards school.
Max tried to use her teeth to cut the annoying thread but couldn't do it. She groaned in frustration.
"Here, use the lighter."
Alec fumbled around with the lighter. He didn't see the car going towards them but Max did.
"Hey! Watch out!" Max reached for the steering wheel. Alec looked up and dropped the lighter on his lap. He yelped and jumped up.
"Shit!" They avoided the other car by inches but their own car spun out of control. "Max let go of the steering wheel! And get the lighter away from me!" Alec screamed
Max reached for the lighter while Alec tried to regain the control of the vehicle with little success.
"Here!" Max held up the lighter.
Alec saw the tree, he knew they were heading in that direction.
He reached out and pushed Max against her seat holding her there with his arm and he slammed on the breaks.
The tires screeched as the car inched towards the huge tree.
Max closed her eyes and Alec gritted his teeth.
The car stopped just millimeters from the tree.
Max and Alec held their breaths, they staid still for a few moments.
Alec closed his eyes and released the breath he had been holding
And the airbags popped up out of nowhere.
"Great, just fucking great!" Max's voice was muffled by the airbag.
"At least the family jewels are still intact!" Alec struggled to get the bag away from his face.
Max found a way to free her arm and slap his leg.
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They had arrived at the school ten minutes late.
Max's first period had been hell, she had been really close to falling asleep and the teacher had noticed.
As she walked down the hall she saw Alec walking towards her. She smiled, she needed a friendly face.
"Alec? Hey!"
His face lost some color and his eyes registered shock when he ran into Kat.
"Shit" Max cursed under her breath.
"Kat! Hi..."
"I waved to you at the parking lot this morning. I guess you didn't see me." Kat patted her black hair and tugged at her shirt.
Alec sighed "Look Kat..."
Max saw Dakareth walking towards them. She stopped before reaching Alec and frowned but a moment later she smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist "Hey baby!" She said cheerfully.
Alec was a little startled but hid it well. He glanced at Max who nodded, indicating him to play along with Dak.
Kat backed away slowly "Oh..."
"Kat I..."
"No, don't say anything! You're elite, I'm just a hacker. I should have known better."
"No Kat wait! I wasn't..."
Dak placed a hand on his arm "Let her go."
Alec nodded. He stood there and watched Kat run away.
"Don't you dare tell the others about this. If they find out I helped you with your dare..."
Dak didn't finish the sentence, she just left.
Max approached Alec slowly "Are you alright?"
Alec gave her a small smile "I'm always alright."
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"And what did he say?" Logan leaned closer to Max.
"He said that he was alright, just like he always does." Max whispered.
They where having a quick conversation during history class which was a little difficult since the classroom was so quiet.
"And you let him walk away?"
"What was I supposed to do? Follow him like a puppy?" Max raised her voice a little. A few heads turned in their direction.
"Well MJ, you seem to be doing fine! Just remember what I told you." Logan said loudly.
"Thanks Mr. Cale!" Max smiled at him and walked back to her seat.
"He needs you" Logan mouthed
Max sighed, she needed to have a little talk with Alec.
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Alec was walking down the hall, lost in his own thoughts when he felt a tug and was pulled into a small closet.
"What the hell?!"
"Alec shut up!" Max locked the door behind him and turned around to face him.
"We need to talk."
Alec rolled his eyes "You pulled me into the recycling room for this?"
"Alec, I know it's bothering you and I don't want you to do something stupid!"
He looked around "Hey Max, how come we hadn't searched this room? There might be something useful here."
Max sighed "Like what?"
Alec opened one of the drawers and reached inside "Like records" He pulled out a folder and showed it to Max.
"Oh my god! Are they really this careless?" Max reached inside the drawer and searched for specific names.
"They are not careless... this is well thought, hide in plain sight. We wouldn't have run into this thing if I hadn't been avoiding a conversation. It was pure luck."
Max smiled "Oh don't worry, we can talk and read this stuff at the same time."
"We can't talk about this right now." Alec moved towards the door.
"We have to!"
"No Max, we really can't talk about this right now. Someone's coming." He pressed his ear to the door.
They both stared at the handle for a moment. It turned slowly.
"Who locks this damn door?" They heard someone ask.
Max turned to Alec with panicked eyes. They both tossed the files into the drawer and Max slammed it shut.
The person at the other side of the door was searching for the key.
Max locked her gaze with Alec and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Alec pushed her away "No, we can't do that! If they think we're sleeping together they'll take you away!"
"Then what can we do?" Max was starting to panic.
"Hit me."
"What?" Max raised her eyebrows.
"Hit me, slap me!" Alec told her.
"I'm not going to hit you!"
The doorknob turned
"Do it now!"
Max took a deep breath and slapped Alec just as the door opened and Stuart Young, the guy who had picked them up at the airport, walked in.
"Ouch!" Alec's hand flew to his face. "I think you broke my jaw!"
"Don't be ridiculous! I don't want to see you again today! I'm sleeping over at Dak's. Don't you dare cross my path!" Max turned away from him, flipped her hair as she walked past Stuart.
Alec was still rubbing his face. Any normal human being would be crying in pain right then.
"Trouble at paradise?" Stuart asked.
"Just hormones I think, it must be that time of the month." Alec smiled at Stuart and followed Max.
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Max frowned at the cafeteria food "This looks really disgusting." She told the girls.
"No matter how much you pay for your education, hot lunches will always taste worse than they look and that's saying a lot" Nikki sniffed her food and made a face before pushing it away.
Dakareth pushed it back towards her "You have to eat Nik, we have gym class today."
Alec looked around and frowned "Where is Iker?"
"Sick, stomach virus" Luke said between bites.
"Oh" Alec looked down at his own food and took a deep breath before stuffing a spoonful into his mouth.
Max didn't look at him when he spoke. Dak leaned towards her and whispered in her ear "So, do you want to crash at my place tonight?"
Max raised an eyebrow "Why would I do that?"
"I heard you had a little argument with Alec."
Max's face snapped up "How did you find out about that?"
Dak smiled "Remember what I told you MJ, we're elite. We know EVERYTHING."
Max shivered a little. She turned back to her food and said "I think I need to work things out with him. I'll talk to him tonight."
Dak shrugged "Fine."
Max pretended to be really interested in her food when in fact she was trying to figure out who might have tipped Dakareth off.
One thing was for sure, there was a lot going on in that school and they had to find out about it before things got out of hand.
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Logan knocked on the lab's door and walked inside. Sasha was making some notes.
"Hey Mr. Cale!"
"Hey Sasha, how is it going?"
The young girl smiled "I know how to fix it! Just give me some time and I'll have that thing nailed!"
Logan smiled "Sasha, I could kiss you!"
She giggled "Go away so I can get to work! And don't talk like that. Someone could hear you and you'd loose your job."
Logan frowned "Sasha, it's just an expression"
Sasha nodded "I know but still... just go ok?"
Logan shrugged and left.
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Later that night Max Alec and Logan were having a quick dinner and talking.
"So the guys where staring at me while I stripped and they where just commenting on my technique? That's sick!" Max exclaimed.
Alec and Logan raised their eyebrows but said nothing.
"I still can't figure out those numbers. I'll work on it after dinner." Logan said.
"You know, Dakareth knew about our little encounter in the recycling room Alec."
Alec dropped his chop sticks "Who told her?"
"I don't know" Max shrugged.
Alec sighed "Something about that school just creeps me out."
"You know, it's not that bad. I think it's a good school. The teachers are great and the students are really devoted. I can't see what the big fuss is about." Logan said between bites.
Max and Alec stared at him, their mouths open.
Logan blinked a few times "Did I just say that?"
Max and Alec exchanged glances
"Guys, we need a copy of whatever they play on those loudspeakers."
"Why?" Max asked Logan
"I think they are brainwashing us."
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"I can't believe he couldn't hack the stupid computer." Max shook her head.
"Max, if the stupid computer is not connected to anything but a plug how can he hack into it?" Alec walked carefully around the corner.
"Where do you think that thing is?" Max followed him, not making any noise as they walked.
"I'm not sure but I have a pretty good idea." Alec pointed at a locked office.
"It has an alarm system, that's unusual" Alec took a couple of minutes to disable the alarm and then walked inside, careful not to set off any kind of silent alarm.
Max looked around "Is that it?" She pointed at a laptop on a desk."
"Maybe." Alec got to work on it. He found the file they where looking for and downloaded it quickly.
"Alec?"
"Yeah?"
"Someone's coming." Max whispered.
Alec listened hard, he heard the footsteps.
"Shit!" he cursed under his breath.
"Can we go?"
"No, I'm not done yet." Alec cursed again.
The footsteps got closer and Max looked around nervously.
"Alec hurry!"
"There's nothing I can do!"
Max herd the beeping of someone disabling the alarm
"Done!" Alec snatched the disk and closed the laptop.
The door opened slowly.
The principal walked in. He went over to a file cabinet and took some records. He was walking to the door but stopped suddenly. He looked around and shrugged before leaving.
Once he was gone Max and Alec dropped from the ceiling silently
"That was close." Alec whispered.
"This has not been a good day. Can we just go home?" Max grabbed the disk from Alec and headed out.
*************
"I don't hear anything." Max informed them.
"Me neither, Logan are you sure it's the music?" Alec leaned back on the couch.
"I can't think of anything else." Logan rubbed his temple. "Hold on, maybe if we..."
He worked on the computer quickly, the music was played again, slowly.
Max frowned "It sounds like shit but I still can't hear anything..."
"Shh..." Alec sat up quickly and closed his eyes.
Max and Logan stared at him.
"Logan, can you play that backwards and a little bit slower."
"Sure" Logan typed away and then hit play.
A strong manly voice could be heard clearly.
MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE MISSION DUTY DISCIPLINE...
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So HA! Did you like the cliffhanger?? This story is going to get very interesting later on, I promise.
Ok people, last chapter to vote!!! Would you like me to tell you who won on the next chapter or would you rather wait to find out for yourself?
And I know the stripping scene sucked but I did my best ;)
I hope you liked this chapter, I didn't really proofread it, I just wanted to get it up here!
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