a/n takes place just before and during Mission achievable.
Chapter 7 Dutifully advantageous
Aside Mission achievable-
Biggs smiled comfortingly at a bemused 677 who shifted uneasily in her chair. Cece rolled her eyes and stifled a giggle as he began to flirt.
"So why are you being transferred?"
677 bit her lip "I'm not sure. I think they felt my skills could be better used here."
Biggs nodded "Well we have Ma-uh 452 who excels in just about everything. But she's in Special Ops and um I guess that goes for 766 and 133." He frowned "In fact I think if we go on a mission without Special Ops we are pretty much screwed."
"Screwed?" 677 wrinkled her forehead and Biggs grinned.
"Oh yeah common verbal."
"Ah I think I missed the last few classes. I was in the Congo."
"Yeah?" Biggs looked impressed "Great."
"Hey Biggs I think you missed a little drool!" Steve laughed and Biggs shot him an evil glare.
677 looked between them both "Why did he call you that?"
The whole of Unit 8 froze "What?"
677 looked around at the faces and sighed. Great somewhere else where she didn't quite fit in.
"Biggs?"
"It's a nickname." Chance spoke up with a shy smile at the suddenly downcast girl. "Saves us having to say 510 all the time."
"I see." But she really didn't. Biggs or 510 did it really matter. A designation was just that, a way to tell you apart from the other soldiers. Not that it really mattered, you were all the same to them anyway, usable and disposable.
Except…sometimes 677 got the feeling that she was more than that. That they all were. After all they represented millions if not billions in R and D and surely that counted for something. She had been field med on many missions for both transgenic and humans and had been covered in the blood of both and on the surface she couldn't tell the difference. Of course on a molecular level it was far far superior but when you are up to your elbows in the red stuff then it didn't matter whose it was. Surely that counted for something.
But those thoughts were not only treasonous but dangerous and no one should think that they were more than they were told.
So she just nodded to 510 pretending that she understood.
The door creaked and a tousled blonde head popped in.
"Hey." Alec was fresh from the shower and his still damp hair was curling around his ears as he surveyed the new girl.
"Sir!" Biggs welcomed Alec in "This is 677."
677 recognised 494 one of Manticore's finest C.O's and stood to attention wondering why the others didn't.
"Hey there." He held out his hand.
She looked up at him and was confused at his hand suspended in mid air. Common soldiers didn't shake hands with the top dogs.
"At ease 677."
She tucked her hands behind her back and placed her feet the required distance apart.
She was the perfect soldier to attention and Alec felt his own feet twitch in the inbred will to stand along with her. Manticore had trained them well.
"Well 677 I'm your C.O 494 and it's a pleasure to have someone with your capabilities on board."
"Sir thank you sir, I will try to be an asset sir."
"Great." He patted her back and moved away sitting with the rest of the squad.
677 hesitated for a second and sat back down again.
"Where are the others?" Chance asked curiously, they normally came in with Alec.
"Should be along any minute. They were just getting cleaned up."
He gestured to his damp hair "Trainer made us do the obstacle course twice. It's muddy outside."
"Why twice?" Skye perked up looking up from her magazine.
"Ask Pix." Max said as she stormed into the room and threw herself on the nearest sofa scowling "When the dumbass gets out of Solitary."
"Solitary?" Chance's voice was worried.
"He deserved it this time. Jerk." Max mumbled as she pushed her own damp hair behind her ears.
"What did he do now?" Steve grinned.
The door opened and the rest of the Special Ops squad walked in and threw themselves in vacant chairs and surfaces.
"Well?" Steve asked again when they were all settled.
"He got a second generation X6 to tell Trainer Hedges that there was an unlawful X5 in heat attack going on over in Section 6."
Skye shrugged "So the guy was late?" her delicate eyebrows arched in questioning.
"Section 6 where there was a seek and destroy session going on with Third Gen X7's."
"Ah." Feen winced.
"Yeah." Max nodded "He was chased over half of Manticore before he managed to find the Trainer and convince him to call them off. By the time he found the X6 he had realised that the only person it could be was Pix."
"Was he mad?" Chance bit her lip and leaned forward
"It was paintball day."
"Ouch!" was the collective wince. One training session a month the X's were given paint balls to mark their targets. They stung like hell when they struck.
"He got off lucky, only a day in discipline. Two circuits of the damn obstacle course in the rain." Anna moaned "My hair looks like…"
"You did two circuits of the course." B.J finished and ducked quickly as she aimed a fist his way.
"Brush!" Feen called and threw her hair brush over to Anna who caught it happily "Thanks Feen you're an angel."
"Me next." Coco asked dragging her fingers through her own wet hair.
Emma grinned as she spiked her hair with her hands. "I'm set."
"I don't care." Max shrugged, never one to be overly worried about her appearance.
"So who won the course?" Chance asked cheekily knowing full well that Max and Alec competed for first place on the obstacle course.
Max smirked "Me again."
"One day I will beat you Max." Alec vowed grumpily.
"Dream on Alec. I got a hell of a lot of practice in Wyoming on the course. Fastest time ever." She gloated and stuck her tongue out at him.
677 watched amazed at the camaraderie between Unit 8 and Special Ops. Unit 5 had never been so friendly to each other…at least not around her and certainly not to other units.
The way that they were leaning on each other and smiling was at once unusual and comforting.
She was confused by all of the words being bandied about though.
Pix? Feen? What were they?
She watched as the dark skinned transgenic threw the hairbrush that she had been using through the air to the exotic girl who caught it with thanks.
If she didn't know better she'd say they were friends. She'd seen that sort of friendship and bond in some of the military troops that she had served with. But that wasn't allowed in Manticore- was it?
The red haired male suddenly turned to see her.
"Oh hey there 677."
The rest of them turned to look at her.
"Sorry." 452 said "Didn't see you there." She smiled "Welcome."
"Thanks." 677 shifted unsure whether to stand up and salute. 452 was C.O too wasn't she?
"Any ideas why you were transferred?" the exotic one asked bluntly.
"Hey Coco chill out."
She frowned "Cocochill?"
"Nah Coco. That would be my name."
677 blinked "You have a name?"
"Sure." The girl beamed, her white teeth showing against her skin clearly. "We all do and if I'm not mistaken so do you."
"677." She said unsurely.
"Nah I think Max called you…what was it?" she turned to 452 who was looking at her speculatively.
"Back in Wyoming during one punishment I was reading this book about this nurse back before the pulse. She was doing great things with antigens and all and discovered the cure to A.I.D's. some virus that was rife before the pulse. Anyhow everyone said it couldn't be done or shouldn't be done and she got a lot of heckling for it but she did it. Her name was Tara. You always looked to me like you could handle anything so I named you Tara."
677- Tara coloured "Really?"
"Uh huh." Max smiled widely at her.
"So you all have names then?" she wondered and the red haired male winced as a dark blonde called out.
"Roll call!"
She grinned as every one stood up one by one going around the room and said their name with a salute almost cheekily before collapsing back to their chairs.
452 waved her hand "I' m too tired to stand I'm Max."
Tara looked around again. She felt like she had been dropped onto a foreign planet. Names and friendships- weird.
Coco dropped the brush onto her knees as she pulled her long hair into a pony tail.
"You'll meet Pix when he gets out of Solitary. Never eat anything he offers you, never accept directions he gives you… in fact avoid him, he likes practical jokes."
Alec walked over to her and grabbed the brush from her lap and walked back across the room.
"Yeah he's the one that put fireworks in the exhaust of Trainer Banns' car." He said with a smirk "Payback for a punishment detail."
He walked up behind the sofa that Max was sitting on and tapped her shoulder. She edged forward and he slung his legs over it sitting on the back above her shoulders. He began to run the brush through her hair.
"Wasn't he the one who added itching powder to the staff laundry shoot?" Tara asked.
"Yup." Drew chuckled "Can you believe he only got an hour in Discipline for that stunt."
"Exactly how many times has he been there?"
"Not that many." Max shrugged
"Hold still." Alec ordered "Besides what do you mean not that many?"
"Please!" Zan scoffed "Three times in six weeks? Max was in more than that in two."
"Really?" Chance turned to her in surprise.
Max nodded "I think my record was nine times in one week."
"Nine?" the brush halted in her hair as Alec stared down incredulously at her.
Max pouted and leaned back into the brush.
"It's not that big a deal." She muttered as everyone's eyes were on her. She shifted uneasily at the attention. And the unwelcome memories
"Whatever. I'm tired." Feen said and stretched.
"Not me." Biggs smiled "Come on Alec I'll play pool with ya."
"I'll win." Alec grinned and they walked over to the pool table that was set up in one corner.
Max shook her head "You are gonna lose Biggs."
"No see I have a system." He nodded to himself and Max shrugged exchanging glances with Chance as Biggs went on to lose six games to his C.O.
"What am I doing wrong?" he asked frustrated and Alec rolled his eyes.
"Ah Biggs you just need to let go Come on Max. Lets show 'em how it's done."
"You want me to show Biggs how to kick your ass?" she swung herself to her feet and heard Coco laugh at her words.
"Aw now you know I only reserve that privilege for you Maxie." He grinned at her and Max rolled her eyes as she heard Cece sigh behind her.
"Oh see now I really do have to kick your ass to keep you in line boy."
Biggs handed her the cue with a grin and went to sit with Sunny watching them carefully.
"Max is gonna beat Alec isn't she?" he asked quietly
"I hope so." Sunny beamed "Otherwise she'll be a bitch to live with for the next few weeks." She bit her lip "Maybe we should distract him?"
Biggs watched as Alec watched Max's ass as she bent over the table "I'd say she's doing pretty well herself."
They grinned as Flex started to tease Max and Alec glared at him.
"Flex likes playing with fire doesn't he?" Biggs chuckled and Sunny gave him a look.
Before she could answer the door swung open and tech ran in
"Director wants Units 5, 8 and Special Ops to the lecture hall STAT."
As they entered the lecture hall they could see Unit 5 already waiting and Tara saw one of her friends wave her over. She glanced at her new C.O to see if it was okay if she sit with them and he nodded.
Zan sat in his chair and waited for the rest of them to sit. He heard Max behind him talk to Alec and he turned around.
"Do you think we'll be called out on a mission?"
"Oh I hope so." Alec said "I could do with getting out for a while."
Zan saw him stare at Max and felt a wave of anger towards the C.O. He squashed it down looking up as Pix made his way in.
"Just got out of Discipline." He slid in next to Zan with a grin.
"You just like the off hours." Sunny continued talking to Alec and kicked the back of his chair with a giggle.
"Don't we all?" Steve asked with a raised eyebrow at her. During their away missions the best part of Special Ops was the after hours where they were free to do what they wanted to.
"He's not the only one!" Pix said with a grin at Chance.
Biggs saw his sister blush and he gave Pix a warning glare
"Hey watch it!"
He knew that the two of them had spent some time together recently and he was grateful that Pix seemed to be taking care of her but he could keep his little glances to himself. Asshole.
Pix looked at the irate Biggs and rolled his eyes. How did they ever expect her to be a soldier if they kept on babying her?
"Just because you shared a test tube doesn't make you her brother." He raised an eyebrow to Biggs who flustered.
"Does too. Right Max?"
"Right."
Pix knew that Max would back him up and grinned at her not a bit annoyed.
He had been in discipline for less than an hour when some tech had let him out and told him to report directly to the lecture room.
He realised that they must be going to be sent on some mission otherwise they would have left him in there.
Missions were fun and the after hours were a highlight. Especially since Units 8 and Special Ops always were put together.
His attention wavered as Renfro came in and began to outline the mission parameters to them. He found his glance caught, not totally unsurprisingly on Chance.
Over the past few weeks he had managed to get her alone on more than one occasion and jus talked to her. She was bright and sweet and so smart. Her shyness drew him in and her light captivated him and he could see himself falling… what was that ordinary term? Heels over ass? Head over backwards…something like that anyway.
She looked up and caught his eye, ducking her head shyly.
He tuned back in to what Renfro was saying.
Carrot shook his head as Max and Alec gave out instructions. He had to admit that he was impressed by their quick thinking. They were all sat together in the transporter almost at their destination.
Max and Alec had been outlining what they could achieve and what their relative jobs were.
He was to take point with the med team on standby which meant that Dek, Drew, Mets and the new girl Tara were part of his team.
He turned to look at the girl. She seemed very structured and looked bemused at the Special Ops team and Unit 8 as they bandied terms around and laughed at each other. It was like she was visiting a different planet, her perplexed expression made him laugh.
"Hey!" he nudged her as she watched Dek and Drew have a thumb war with a confused expression on her pretty features.
"Yes?" she said politely looking at the red head. He seemed quite nice, a little less strange than the rest of them anyway.
"I know they can seem overwhelming but it's all fun. Just go with it."
She nodded slightly and edged closer to the more sane one of the group as Anna smacked B.J over the back of the head with her M16.
Coco rolled her eyes at B.J who pouted and rubbed his head.
"Thankfully I don't have to keep you in line." She said to Flex. "Are we clear soldier?"
"Yes ma'am." The blonde grinned good naturedly and turned to Alec.
"Hey C.O wouldn't it be more tactically advantageous if Max was to go with me and uh Coco with you? After all having 2IC and C.O in the same place isn't conducive to good tactics."
Coco grinned and hid her smirk behind her hand as Max and Alec paused in their bickering.
"He has a point." Max said even as Alec scowled heavily
"No he doesn't." he bit out annoyed not even noticing the hidden smirk on several of the transgenics faces. "The mission requires the best at telecommunications to be with the field commander. Max and Me. Aiden has the aide position to take up slack. Techie and Biggs take the team in the van to monitor positions and keep tabs on Volkovich. Coco takes team diversion and you do as your damn well told."
Flex couldn't hold back the laugh as Alec's temper spiked and he nodded.
"Yes Sir!"
Alec narrowed his eyes suspiciously and the van came to a halt as they arrived at the hotel.
"Let's get this show on the road."
Techie edged closer to the equipment waiting for Biggs to finish talking to Alec. He was in the van with Steve, Emma, Anna and Feen and Steve had just stepped outside to clear off his microphone which left Techie alone with the girls. Horror wasn't the word.
"Are we getting a visual yet?" Feen asked redialling her codes.
"Negative." Emma answered "I can't quite hack into the damn lobby mainframe."
Techie glanced over his shoulder to where Feen was typing away and scanned the code noticing that she was missing a vital line.
"Uh."
He really didn't want to talk to her. Feen was the boldest most outspoken woman that he had ever encountered and that was including Renfro. Ever since he could recall he had tried to avoid the girl and now she was in the same airspace and it was making him nervous.
Emma smiled gently at him "Yeah Techie?"
He coloured and shook his head gesturing to Feen.
"Yo Feen. Tech wants to say something."
The fiery girl turned her chair to him and gestured impatiently seemingly exasperated that she had to deal with him
"Yeah?"
He nervously pointed to her code "Uh y-you haven't collaborated the last line in section 4. y-you need to base the pairs or the line wont hold."
She looked back over her code "Damn." Her fingers flew over the keys and the television flickered booting up the picture from the lobby.
"Sweet!" Emma said and clapped Techie on the back "Thanks."
Feen pinned him with her green eyes and he swallowed.
"Yeah thanks." Her tone was sharp but more friendly than usual and he sighed glad that her attention wasn't on him anymore.
Damn that girl scared him.
Chance stared apprehensively at her hands and Coco grabbed them.
"As fascinating as your digits are honey we have to go or we'll be unfashionably late."
"Easy for you to say." Chance didn't want to know what devil had possessed Max to pair her with Pix on this mission but when she found out she'd either kiss it or kill it with her bare hands.
She looked up to see Coco adjust her straps on her midnight blue slip dress.
"You look amazing." She said wistfully as she looked at the exotic woman.
"It's in the genes." Coco smirked as she added the finishing touches to her make up. She turned to see Chance leaning on her knees.
"Well stand up girl let me see you."
Chance stood and folded her arms in front of her.
Coco shook her head as she surveyed the nervous girl. Chance took that as a bad sign and hunched her shoulders.
"I should be doing comms in the van I'm so not cut out for this." She looked more and more uncomfortable.
"Girl you look wonderful. I could try for months and not pull off the sweet and sassy thing that you've got going on."
Chance gave a hesitant smile.
"Really?"
Coco looked at the shy girl with her beautiful sable locks tumbling over her shoulders. She was wearing a pure white flowing dress that made her somehow look like an angel. She seemed pure and innocent but there was still an element of woman around her. She sighed.
"Really."
Chance unfolded her arms and took a deep breath "Let's do this then."
Part one of their plan went off well. They walked the room together before grabbing a drink. Chance smiled down from the balcony at Max and Alec- they looked the perfect couple. She pointed it out to Coco who agreed and they giggled together at what Max would say if she could hear them then.
Coco smoothed down her dress and accepted another glass of champagne from a passing waiter. Chance declined and searched the area for the telltale signs of her friends.
Her breath caught in her throat as she turned to see someone staring at her enraptured, his eyes dark and stormy and the usual jocular grin missing.
She wrung her hands and gave him a shy smile.
It coaxed him into moving and he edged forwards and swallowed hard before he could speak.
"Wow." He managed and they both laughed nervously.
"You look amazing."
"You too." She touched his arm and the tuxedo that covered him well.
Coco rolled her eyes from behind them "As fascinating as your conversation is, does anyone have any idea where that fool Flex is?"
"By the punch." Pix motioned to where Flex was chatting with a tall blonde.
Coco sighed and whined "Why did I have to get stuck with Romeo? Steve, Techie, even damn B.J just not Flex." She shuffled her feet and walked away leaving a giggling Chance and smirking Pix in her wake.
She walked across the room and eyed the woman that Flex was talking to.
She was your typical socialite bimbo with expensive jewellery and huge breasts.
Coco smiled behind her hand and stalked around to Flex.
"Honey you promised me you wouldn't drink so much you know what it does to you." She pouted and removed the punch from his hand.
Flex gaped at her and the bubbling blonde stared.
"Who are you?"
"I'm his therapist." Coco said sadly "He is not allowed out without supervision."
"Coco I swear." He gritted his teeth as the girl looked horrified and back away.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of." Coco was desperately trying to hold on to her composure "We can have a group hug if that's what you need."
"Uh I need to go." The girl said ditsily and practically ran. Flex turned to a shaking Coco who was holding her laughter in.
"Thanks Coco."
She beamed "Don't mention it bro. we have a mission or did miss Big and bountiful make you forget that? Alec has been signalling to us for the past few minutes."
"Ah." He downed his drink and turned to her with his arm out. She placed her hand at his elbow and he smiled charmingly.
"You look ravishing."
"Save it for someone who doesn't know you." She advised with a friendly grin and they headed for the stairs.
"Ready?" he looked down at Alec who nodded.
"As ever." She took a step forward and let her ankle twist.
With a fake shriek she rolled into her fall and let her momentum take her down the stairs angling herself so she rolled over her shoulder and down her back, slapping the ground as she hit so as to absorb the shock.
The fall winded her more than it hurt but she lay at the bottom of the stairs with her eyes closed.
"Oh god, someone get help!" she heard Chance call loudly.
She could hear people all around her and fought not to open her eyes and assess the danger around her. That was what the others were for.
"I'm a doctor!" Flex shouted and pushed through the throngs who had gathered "C-assie? Can you hear me?"
Cassie? That was the best he could come up with? She rolled her eyes under her lids and knew he noticed when he chuckled under his breath.
"I know." He whispered "Sorry."
She felt his hand touch her arms and then he checked her ankles.
"I don't think anything's broken." He announced and she stiffened as his hands drifted up her dress.
"Except your fingers if you don't stop there." She hissed under the guise of a moan. She fluttered her eyes in time to see his answering smirk and shifted as if coming to, making sure that her leg kicked him.
"Now now don't move, I have to rule out severed spine." He said cheekily and she slumped.
She just hoped that her dress hadn't ridden up.
The mission had been a success and as they all stood in the command centre they congratulated themselves on a job well done.
Max and Alec had managed to get the disks and the bad guy was dead. No one had been injured…except for Flex and he wasn't saying how his fingers had been sprained.
The Major handed them each some money to spend and walked away.
Zan was the first to speak as he looked at the cash in his hands.
"What do we do?"
"Zan my man." Biggs threw an arm over his shoulder in a friendly gesture "The world is full of wonderful things."
"But you can't afford her." Coco sassed and they all laughed at the affronted look on Biggs's face.
"Hey now. I'll have you know that before I met up with Sir here, there was a be-aut-iful woman looking for my company. I might go check her out."
He thought about the blonde woman that he had seen earlier. Wow there was a girl with expanded assets.
"She might check out herself." Carrot teased and Biggs pouted.
"Just for that you don't get to meet Lola." He stuck his tongue out at the lack of support from his fellow men. He saw Sunny roll her eyes and he shrugged. It was his cash.
His smile faded entirely as he heard Pix
"I saw a movie theatre."
Chance blushed and Biggs looked between the two of them
"Sounds great." She said shyly
Biggs glared at Pix "No it doesn't."
There was no way that that joker was going tot take Chance off by herself. Not as long as he was alive.
Feen noticed his stance and grabbed Steve.
"Chill Biggs, we're going as well."
Steve nodded enthusiastically knowing that it was the only way to stop Biggs going on the rampage.
"How about we go too?" Sunny caught Biggs eye and he smiled uncertainly but she touched Aiden's arm.
Coco didn't really want to be stuck in some theatre and cast her mind around for things to do.
"I saw a casino." She announced and grinned as Mets rubbed his hands
"Oh we are so there!" he chortled in glee.
"Count me in." Anna announced and elbowed B.J who rolled his eyes at her enthusiasm but was stopped by a sharp elbow to his side.
Emma looked at Max who was looking decidedly edgy. Sometimes when they were together Max would suddenly get really uncomfortable and have to go off by herself for a while. She said it was a result of spending lots of time in solitary as a child and they let it go. She often seemed like she just needed to get away.
"Max?" Carrot had noticed the same thing and Max shook her head.
"Too wired to sit, I'm gonna take a walk and chill." She stretched.
Techie thought that Max had the right idea and he turned to walk away only to find someone with a death grip on his jacket.
"I so don't think so." Feen said arching her eyebrows at him.
"Wha-?" he was too astonished to be shy as she glared at him.
"Where do you think you are going?" she put her hands on her hips and stared at him in a way that made him think of the trainers back at Manticore.
"Uh I was…I saw a computer shop I was going to see…" he faded as she shook her head.
"I think not. You my friend need interaction with fellow humans and I am going to make sure that you get it."
His glance was horrified "N-no really."
She held up a hand cutting him off "We are going to watch the movie got it?"
"I uh…b-but I was?" he sagged at her unflinching gaze and surrendered "Yes ma'am."
Her eyes narrowed and then she beamed "Great."
Techie swallowed. Yeah great.
Tara looked around at the various members of her new unit as they made plans. She was feeling less and less overwhelmed as they were really quite nice. Besides hadn't Carrot told her to just go with it?
She looked at him and smiled. "Okay." She said and followed the example of the other girls, grabbing his arm. "See you later Max."
Pix didn't wait for the others but as soon as Biggs had turned to talk to Alec he pulled Chance and motioned her to follow him and they snuck away unawares.
"He'll go crazy." Chance said with a smile as he tucked her arm in his.
Pix thought about that for a second and shrugged "Let him."
They walked down the street and heard footsteps behind them as some of the others followed.
They could hear Feen telling Techie that it was for his own good and Chance giggled.
"Poor Techie."
Pix glanced over his shoulder at the male who was shooting terrified glances at the babbling redhead at his side and hid his own laugh.
"Yeah." they arrived at the cinema and Pix paid for both him and Chance.
"I have money too." She protested
"I saw it in a film. Human behaviour 101. When a guy takes a girl on a date he pays."
"Date?" she blushed and he held out his hand linking their fingers and taking her through the darkened hall to the back seats.
Drew and Dek walked through the park enjoying the crisp evening.
"So why didn't you want to go to the casino Drew?" Dek asked his hands in his leather jacket.
Drew shrugged and kicked at a pebble "Didn't feel like it."
He sighed and looked at his best friend. Her hair was in a high pony tail that swished like a horses tail as she kicked out at the same pebble. He knew how hard she had worked to get into Special Ops and how she felt, he had known her for as long as he could remember and he couldn't recall her ever being this quiet.
"Drew?"
She glanced up and gave him a small smile "Do I really belong here Dek? I mean I feel like I have to work twice as hard to be half as good sometimes. What's the point of being Special Ops if I don't feel special?"
He leaned closer and nudged her with his elbow "Special to me girl."
She smiled at that "I'm just being dumb."
"It's allowed on occasion." He ran a hand through his dirty blonde hair and gestured to a street vendor
"Buy you a hot dog."
Drew leaned over and hugged her best friend glad that he was in her life and knew when she needed him.
Dek hugged her back, pulling her in tight, knowing what she needed.
"You're not going to go all girlie on me are ya?" he teased and she punched him.
He grinned. That was more like it.
Feen sat behind Chance and Pix in the theatre and waited until the movie started. She was looking forward to watching this, some twentieth century thing called Pirates of the Caribbean.
Techie was sat next to her…well as far away as he could while still in the same seat. She fully expected him to vault over the chairs and make a break for it if she wasn't careful. Well that wasn't going to happen. After he had helped her out in the van she had decided that she was going to return the favour. The boy was entirely too shy. What he needed was human interaction and she was going to make sure that he interacts.
He edged away again and she fixed him with a glare. He froze and stopped moving and settled back in his chair.
Whether he liked it or not.
Pix was half watching the movie and half entirely aware of the warm female next to him. She had looked so good tonight and he was fed up of waiting for her to come to him. Like always if he wanted something he had to get it.
He had seen something in a pre-pulse movie that he thought might work and he waited until a suitably noisy part of the move before he made his move.
He yawned and stretched his arms letting them fall over the back of her chair.
He curled his arm and wrapped it around her.
He felt her stiffen as she realised and then relaxed. He was about to congratulate himself when he heard peals of laughter behind him that had nothing to do with the movie.
"Smooth, real smooth!" Sunny cackled.
"Bitch!" he sang at her with his easy grin fixed in place.
"Wait until Biggs finds out." Carrot smirked as he leaned over the seats "Ouch!"
"Oh are you going to tell him?" Steve shook his head
"Are you kidding?"
"Back off fool!" Feen slapped Steve around the back of the head and turned to Tara "Hey keep Carrot in line!"
Skye who was sitting in front turned around and fixed them all with a haughty glare "Excuse me, I am trying to watch the movie."
They all exchanged glances.
"Sorry Skye. We'll behave." Chance said softly and Skye turned back appeased.
Chance looked at Pix who nodded and the rest of the transgenics at the back grinned.
"3…2…1 now!"
Skye shrieked as she was pelted from all sides by popcorn.
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Gamegirl- Thanks pet. Max and Alec do work well together don't they? I always thought so.
Anna Kristina- How was this with Techie- I was thinking of you when I wrote it. someone is trying to make sure he comes out of that shell soon! I always thought Max had leadership, especially in the last few episodes of Season 2 and so many fics just portray her as some dumb 09er who is blasted by everyone as having less training and therefore not as capable of leading which bugs me. Being a commander seems to be something that you either are or aren't. if you don't have a commanding presence then people aren't going to listen to you, no matter how much training you have.
Hope this part answers your questions. Thanks for the advice btw.
Freedom Angel- I know but I make pics for the chaps and wanted more than just one of both Drew and Tara to manip. Oh well.
Messymissy- Pix said Oops because the Trainer had realised that it was him who had played the prank. The start of this chap explained it better. He's avoiding her because he wants her to come to him not him pushing. The pranks thing has huge connotations later on.
Angel21- Pix is rapidly becoming my fave character. Tara is more steady.
Feenian- see Feen has a purpose now! see above for explaination of the oops.
Sigma1- Hope you had a good weekend away. No more disturbing than me calling my friends by my fictional characters names. Now that is strange.
Kim- They are all going to be in the story but it is quite hard because there are so many of them. If you can think of a decent story line for any of them or something/ one you want me to tell a story about feel free to ask.
Ganko- I did and im pleased that you can imagine the scene. Sign of good writing! thanks.
Moonlight- I know! Damn them why cant they behave? LOL, because it wouldn't be as interesting. Ash is worth waiting for trust me! Pix and Biggs will probably come head to head soon enough. Renfro is evil and Tara has a few issues to deal with. Enjoy though!