Chapter 10 "Who We Are"
A/N: Sorry for the long wait..writers block, computer got hit by lightening, yadayada
*****
JAM PONY
NEXT MORNING
"Does this look like a rest stop to you?" Normal walked out from behind his desk to yell at his staff. "Everyone of you has functioning legs according to my research, so either use them to pedal or use them to find another job!"
"A pep talk Normal" Max grabbed some packages off his desk "You shouldn't have" she gave a fake sniff, putting her hand to her face "I just can't deal with all the emotions dammit"
"You're gonna deal with a new job missy if you don't get outta here" Normal pointed to the door "Move it! Bip bip!"
Max walked away with a smile on her face
"Gotta admit boo that was slammin'" Cindy held out her hand, waiting to share the props.
Max slapped it, pulling her backpack on her shoulders.
"You got someone named Max workin' for ya?"
Normal scrutinized the young woman standing in front of his desk "'Working' is the loose word in describing what these kids do"
"Is that a yes or a no?" there was an impatient color in her tone. She had better things to do then to be put down by a guy in three feet thick glasses.
"There's a Max right behind ya boo" Cindy interrupted Normal's speech.
Jondy turned around to see the woman she had met last night, standing beside another woman, with dark long brown hair, and deep brown eyes. Eyes that looked very familiar to her, so brown.
/FLASH: Max and Jondy as kids at Manticore lay in the snow, looking at the stars, pointing things out to each other. The night sky is quiet and the air is still./
"Maxie?"
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*Hello my friend we meet again
It's been a while where should
we begin... feels like forever
Within my heart are memories
Of perfect love that you gave to me
I remember*
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Max couldn't move at first. She just stood where she was, starring at her.
/FLASH: Max caught only a glimpse of Jondy's face before she was gone, leaving her to scramble out from the surface of the ice alone./
Jondy stepped closer "It's really you isn't it?" she locked her arms around Max "I can't believe I found you"
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*We've seen our share of ups and downs
Oh how quickly life can turn around in
an instant
It feels so good to reunite
Within yourself and within your mind
Let's find peace there*
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Max didn't do anything for a long second, but then she returned the hug Jondy was giving her strongly. "How'd you know where to look?"
Jondy pulled back "I beat it out of Zack"
"He told you?"
"No" Jondy shook her head "I scammed it outta him." She took time to absorb how Max looked. She was so pretty. Her eyes, her face, everything. One hand touched Max's hair "You always said you wanted to have long hair"
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*When you are with me
I'm free... I'm careless... I believe
Above all the others we'll fly
This brings tears to my eyes
My sacrifice*
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"I hate to interrupt this tender scene-" Normal cut in
"Then don't" Cindy cut in on HIM "Can't you give people five minutes?"
"It's been longer then that"
Cindy pounced on him "Boy you need to get a life"
Normal left in his natural huffy state, walking out like he was the reigning god of the universe.
Max was left in the moment of actually having Jondy here after all this time. She was so different then the girl she remembered, but there were things about her that had never changed, like her smile. It was a rarity in a Manticore environment. When Jondy smiled it made Max forget, just for that instant that she had been bred and was being conditioned for something she had no say in.
"Wow Maxie," Jondy finally found her voice again "Look at you lookin' all good" she smiled her famous smile "You must have a man"
"Girl does," Cindy "Not into mens myself, but they'll do that to a woman." She looked at Jondy "Sistahs will too"
This got Max to smile "Jondy, Original Cindy. You two met last night"
"But I didn't know your girls name was Cindy then" Jondy informed "Glad to have the meeting though"
"Me too sugah," Cindy agreed "Glad my boo finally found you. She's been looking for a while."
"Makes two of us," Jondy stated, turning her gaze back to Max. She looked almost like she was ready to cry "Look I can't break down here, it'll spoil my bad girl image in front of your male co workers, so lets say we hit a place tonight and play catch up?"
"Sounds like a plan" Max concurred, "There's a place we hang out after work. Bar called Crash on 32nd and Industry Way."
"Seven o' clock I'll be there" Jondy said "Mean time is there a place a girl can take a shower in this city? I feel like something Col. Ly-dicker dragged through the mud-" she realized that she was talking in front of Cindy and stopped abruptly, gauging the other woman's reaction.
"It's aiight," Max picked up on Jondy's bad vibe "She's coo'"
"Ain't in the habit of ratting out any sistah to the bad ass peeps on her ass" Cindy said in her defense
"You've got a great friend here Maxie" Jondy wasn't afraid of being compromised anymore.
"I know" Max said with a smile at Cindy "I'd let you shower at my place but our super sees hot water as a luxury item and we're not paying luxury taxes."
"Whose you're super?" Jondy wanted to know
"City of Seattle watering commission." Cindy informed "Not a common practice of theirs to keep runnin' hot juices in a condemned crib. Have to bribe cops to even keep the cold stuff flowin'"
"You guys are squatters?" Jondy asked, "Damn, Pulse happens and everyone thinks then can shake down the masses. Ain't our fault a bunch of covert freaks decided to turn off America's juice and create another Third World so why are they depriving us from the basics? How'd they like to take a bath in ice?"
"Amen girl" Cindy agreed whole heartedly "Might not be able to change their minds, but you can still catch a hot shower at Max's squeeze. He's in the upper rent district of Seattle so they don't turn of the juices."
"Wow an upper class guy Maxie I'm impressed. Hope he's treatin' you right"
"Boy is, otherwise Original Cindy be all over his ass with a smack down" Cindy said in all honesty.
"Can I speak for myself?" Max asked
"Sure boo go ahead" Cindy continued, "Not like you'd say anything different. Your boy makes you happy, end of story."
"So I can now ask free bathroom privileges out of him?" Max asked "Just cause we're dating?"
"Girl you're already gettin' free bedroom privileges out of him, and the bathroom is right across the hall-"
Jondy raised an eyebrow at this "Glad at least one of us is bein' satisfied" She couldn't help it, she was grinning like an idiot.
"C'mon" Max cut in, very happy to change the subject to something else besides this whole de-briefing of her sex life "I'll show you where it is"
"Just give me the directions Maxie, I'll find it on my own." Jondy looked over to where Normal was spraying an entire can of fly spray on three flies. "Wouldn't want to get that boss on your ass"
"Wouldn't be the first time" Max argued "It's in Sector 5, Foggle Towers. Penthouse"
"Penthouse? Whoo girl you've scored" Jondy said
"Strangely enough I'm dating him for this OUTSIDE material possessions"
"Kay, thanks for the info. I'll let you know how it turns out" Jondy started to leave.
"Hey-"
Max's voice made her turn back around "Give your lock picks a break and just knock on the door-"
"Like a civilian?" Jondy blew it off "What kinda entrance is that?" Max shot her a stern look "Okay sis, I promise, I'll enter just like a 'normal girl' or as close as I can get to one"
"Seven right?"
Jondy smiled "You got it girl" she stepped back over to her and gave her one more hug
"Behave yourself at my boyfriends" Max said
"If the guy's a hottie I can't make any promises-" she ducked when Max tried to smack her upside the head "Just kiddin' Maxie" she leaned over and kissed her on the cheek "I see ya tonight" she walked out of Jam Pony.
Max watched her go "So what happens now?"
Cindy stepped over to her one step "You go partay tonight with your sistah" she draped an arm over her friend's shoulders.
*****
BANGKOK, CHINA
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*End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you*
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She was back in the brothel, with the pimp there, raping her. He stood over top of her like the plague, dark and unanswering of her pleas to make him stop.
"You're killing me! Please!" she begged and begged, but it was on deaf ears. He bounced up and down up and down, like a jack-in-the-box on a rampage.
She felt her blood coming out of her like a sea and all the pain triple folded everywhere he touched her
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*Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream*
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She kept screaming, begging for her life, but he never acknowledged her. Finally something did. Something called her name. She then realized where she was, but not before she woke up so violently that she heard something fall beneath her, something or someone.
Her eyes came open into darkness and raspy desperate breathing. On the floor beside the small bed was Jon, picking himself up off the floor from where he fell after she flung him there.
It had been a dream, a shit scary, piss-in-your-pants nightmare. Her clothes stuck damply to her from sweat. Things finally began to come into focus, the small hut, the bed, not the brothel or the pimp.
"You were screaming" Jon now stood over her in the bed, a red mark on his forehead from where it had hit the hard linoleum. "I thought you were being attacked"
Mei-Mei sat up, throwing the covers off the bed "I was" she ran a hand through the dampness of her sweat soaked hair "He was there again. Even in my dreams he doesn't leave me alone"
Jon didn't say anything, just handed her a glass of water.
She took it and drank like a greedy child, spilling some down her chin and panting again after she was done.
There were several moments of silence before someone spoke.
"Why are you really helping me?" Mei-Mei's eyes were barely visible in the soft light from the tiny dime store quality table light beside the bed "Do you want money for turning me in?"
For a second it looked like Jon was going to slap her. Mei-Mei actually expected it. All men recently had been treating her like trash, why should he be different?
Jon didn't slap her though, his hand found a lock of her hair and he simply smoothed it out. He still hadn't answered her question "It's dangerous to be so beautiful"
"It's dangerous not to be" she blinked "When they come for you if you're not pretty they'll just kill you. If they like what they see they'll use you and sell you off, and you'll still be alive"
"You call that being alive?"
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*O no, I see,
I spun a web, it's tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
O no what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done*
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Her gaze turned upwards "I'm still here aren't I?"
He leaned closer, like he wanted to kiss her, but she pulled away. "I'm a married woman Jon"
"I know"
"You can't take a run at me just because we are here together. It's not right. My husband is being tortured in jail because of me. The very least I owe him is to be faithful"
"But you're already unfaithful" Jon argued, "Look what you've been doing"
This time she looked like she wanted to slap him. "I was never unfaithful because I never had a choice." She turned away "Please go"
"Mei-Mei"
"I SAID go" she laid back down on the bed, hearing him sigh and then leave, and through the thin walls the sound of a cigarette being lit up.
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* O no I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
Here I am in love in a bubble,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me*
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*****
FOGGLE TOWERS
"I take it you're a fan of long showers?" Logan watched Jondy exit the bathroom from his vantage point on his sofa. She was wearing nothing but one of his blue bath towels. He watched her, not because he took pleasure in sneaking peaks at his girlfriend's sister while she wasn't there, but because this scene reminded him of the time Max had taken a shower in his bathroom after getting flung in mud during an Eyes Only mission gone bad. She had been so pissed off at him then, and he would never admit that the view of her in her towel wasn't exactly a bad one.
"I'm a fan of anything that gets me clean and isn't freezing cold" Jondy stated, removing the towel from her head and letting her long brown hair fall down around her bare shoulders.
"You're clothes are in the bedroom-" Logan wasn't going to complain at the relation of Max's parading around naked under a towel in his living room, but he still didn't understand why she didn't dress before coming out.
"Maxie's not here" Jondy draped the towel that had been in her hair over her shoulder "And you're not committing unfaithful acts. It's a towel, not a peek-a-boo teddy. I just want my hair to dry out a little bit before I get dressed, walking helps"
"Oh"
"Hey I'm a soldier not a seductress. I'd kick your ass before I'd lust after you sexually"
"That's very comforting"
"What'd be even more comforting is if you had java in the kitchen for me to suck up"
"There's a pot leftover from this afternoon that's still warm"
"I'll take it"
"I prefer clothes on in my kitchen Jondy" Logan stated
"Fine" Jondy agreed "But if there's not coffee left in that pot they'll be hell to pay" she retreated to Logan's bedroom to change.
While she was in there Logan poured himself a cup of the coffee, and sat at a stool on his counter. Jondy had just suddenly showed up at his door about an hour ago. He at first wondered who the hell this woman was, but after she said her name he stopped wondering. And after she said what she was there for he knew she was DEFIANTLY Max's sister. No X5 he'd met so far was very shy about what they wanted. If they ever wanted to ask him if he had any disposable enemas they'd use a bullhorn. She and Max looked to be about the same age. They had the same facial structure, except for Jondy's slightly longer chin. What really set her apart from Max were her piercing blue eyes. He couldn't tell if the color was natural or from contacts, but even his own eyes weren't that blue. She probably stopped a lot of guys dead in their tracks with that gaze.
Jondy came so quietly behind Logan that he didn't even know she was there until he was startled when one of his stools seemed to pull itself back on its own.
"Sorry" Jondy apologized, sitting in the stool "It's just a force of habit being that quiet" she picked up a coffee mug sitting in front of her, inhaling the smell "Wow, this is the good stuff huh? You must have more money then what you already spent on this posh set-up"
"You're welcome" Logan said what she didn't
"Thank you" Jondy went for a joke. She sipped the steaming liquid "Oh yeah, I don't get this kinda good stuff at my place" she took another sip and then turned to Logan "How long have you been seeing Maxie?"
"Just a few months" Logan answered picking up a coffee cup under his arm, and drinking from it. It was an honest answer. They knew each other for longer, but those were the times they never acted on their feelings.
"She seems happy" Jondy went on "I haven't seen her in eleven years but I can tell. Only time she was that happy back then was when Jack or Ben were telling their stories, or when she was with me" her eyes adapted a far off look in them.
"Max is glad she found you" Logan said "She's been looking for you, for all of you ever since I've known her."
"Not that easy when her idiot brother throws her out of her own loop" Jondy spoke of Zack "He said she was too reckless to be found." Jondy blew it off with a passion "Lying piece of shit. What kind of big brother is he?"
"I'm sure he was trying to look out for her"
Jondy turned to him with a 'yeah right' gaze "You don't honestly believe that BS? I'm sure Zack's said some not to pleasant things about you dating Maxie, but you didn't just turn tail and run."
Logan didn't say anything, but she was right.
Jondy sipped the coffee again "Anyways, thanks for the java, I gotta get going"
"Where?" Logan wasn't trying to sound rude. He just wanted to know "You're not staying anywhere, at least I don't think so"
"Perceptive man," Jondy smiled "I'm just gonna drive my bike around the city, see what there needs to be seen"
"Does every X5 have a gene in them that makes them want to own motorcycles?"
"Deck put everything else in us," Jondy analyzed "I wouldn't be surprised if he went to town on that too" she stood up from the stool. "You're coming to that place, Crash tonight right?"
"I thought it was a sister reunion thing" Logan said
"There's room for more. Max's friend Cindy is coming and she's not my sistah."
"Yeah but she's a woman, and it sounds like girls night out"
"Logan cut the crap" Jondy cut in "You're going, end of story. So stop trying to excuse you're way out of it or I'll think you're purposely trying to ditch me, and I'll have to kick your ass if you do"
She sounded so much like Max at that moment that Logan had to remember who he was talking too. "All right, I'll be there since you put it like that"
"Kay" Jondy agreed "But remember I'm a woman of my word." She left out the front door to where her motorcycle was.
*****
Ty had finally managed to coax Cree into coming up to his apartment. She had only been here once. That night when she told him her terrible past. It still mortified him how some men could treat women. Especially when one of those women was his.
He and Cree were on his gray couch watching a Steelers game. His roommate was out for the night on a date. It was nothing really romantic, just a football game and a couple of Coors Light. No fire, no wine, no roses; Ty wasn't Logan.
"Aww c'mon man, that was in bounds" Ty watched the referees go off to look at the feed for the challenge. "Stupid pansy Huston, they whine too much"
"Steelers are still winning 15, 12" Cree spoke up beside him. She was leaning against his shoulder, her head resting more on his chest covered in a blue sweater.
"Yeah but Huston's slowing down the game" He felt her shift her position and it was distracting him from the game on the TV. "Not easy to watch if you keep moving"
"Want me to move?" Cree asked, although she knew the answer. She was just gauging his reaction on it.
Ty kissed the top of her head in response. This REALLY distracted him and he turned his attention away from the game to kiss Cree more fully.
She responded by wrapping her arms around his neck and allowed herself to be lowered down on the couch under his weight. The couch cushion pressed up against her back and scratched her skin just barely from the woven surface.
Ty's hands went under her shirt, roaming over her back and bra strap. Cree's sigh of pleasure was audible. She felt his hands moving towards her front towards her tummy and breasts.
/FLASH: "This is the right way to do things bitch," hands grabbed her breasts and a mouth sucked and bit, while the rest of him was preoccupied with fucking her She gasped, then she screamed /
Cree pulled up, forcing Ty to take himself off her body. "I'm sorry-"
Ty turned to her "What's wrong? Was it too fast?" he tried to touch her face by she brushed him away
"I just cant-" she stood up from the couch and grabbed her jacket
"Whoa whoa whoa" Ty stood up "Can't do what? I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable-"
"It's not you okay!" Cree snapped at him, stopping in her stride to turn back around "It's me," her tone was softer this time Don't you get it? It's always gonna to be me. I was enjoying it, every minute of it until my shitty memories kicked up. It's never gonna go away Ty. I can't be with another man without remembering where I was for the past three years, how many DIRTY fuckin' hands were all over me."
"But I'm not them Cree," Ty walked over to her "I want to be the one guy in your life who didn't screw you over."
"I don't want your pity Ty!" Cree retorted, then her tone dropped again, becoming sad "I'm tired of being so broken. I lost three years of my life. THREE years Ty when I could've been with my family, going to school, hell just being a girl. But I gave all that up because I wanted to grow up and have a boyfriend."
"You were just a kid then," Ty said "You didn't know what you know now"
"I don't WANT to know what I know now" Cree said "I have a million and one memories that I would just as rather not being in my brain. And I have you," she blinked, almost on the verge of tears "I want to be with you, but it's not fair to you to just be with the pieces of what I use to be."
"Cree-" this time she allowed him to touch her face, wiping away a tear
"I'm sorry, I can't do this now," she ducked under his hand and went out the door slamming it.
He watched her go, and heard his door shut, resting his head against it
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*I am ready for love
Why are you hiding from me?
I'd quickly give my freedom
To be held in your captivity
I am ready for love
All of the joy and the pain
And all the time that it takes
Just to stay in your good grace*
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Cree still remained in the hallway. She slid to her knees, and cried in her outstretched hands, tears hitting the carpeted hallway of the apartment building.
****
Ty had moved from the door and picked up a plate sitting on the counter in the kitchen and threw it hard against the wall. It shattered into a million pieces on the kitchen floor, and he made no move to pick it up. He grabbed the left over beer from the can and sat on a stool on the counter top, not really drinking it, just looking at it.
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*I am ready for love
Would you please lend me your ear?
I promise I won't complain
I just need you to acknowledge I am here*
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****
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*If you give me half the chance I'll prove this to you
I will be patient kind, faithful and true
To a man who loves music
A man who loves art
Respects the spirit world and thinks with his heart*
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Cree heard the smash, and waited for a long moment before picking herself up and putting her jacket on. She turned to look at the closed doorway, taking a deep mournful sigh and turned to walk in the other direction, wiping more tears coming from her eyes.
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*I am ready for love
If you'll take me in your hand
I will learn what you teach
And do the best that I can
I am ready for love
Here with an offering of
My voice, my eyes
My soul my mind
Tell me what is enough
To prove I am ready....
For love......
I am ready...*
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*****
CRASH
Jondy pulled up to the establishment, checking it out through her biker helmet. Place looked decent. She entered the building, past the bouncer who was checking her out. /Greedy bastard/
Inside people were laughing, drinking, playing pool. It took her a moment to find where Max was. It was a back room accessed by stairs.
"Hey girl over here!" Cindy waved Jondy over.
Jondy gave a wave back approaching the table. She saw Logan there beside Max no less.
"Glad you heeded my threat boy" Jondy said
Logan turned to her "I just came to be with Max"
"And I'm queen of Manticore" Jondy returned, she looked to Max
"Oh" Cindy cut in again "Jondy this is Cree, girl from out of town-"
Jondy looked over to the other woman at that name. Her eyebrows furrowed
/FLASH: "This is Cree, my sister Ms. Sam"
"Nice name"/
"Cree?"
Cree looked up, surprised to find her little sister's teacher sitting there in a bar in Seattle "Jondy? I thought your name was Sam"
"You two met?" Cindy asked, confused
"She teaches an art class my sister is in San Francisco" Cree looked harder at Jondy "Or is that a lie along with your name?"
"Whoa girl calm down, and let the sistah explain herself" Cindy put a hand on Cree's arm.
Jondy sat down, taking a sip of beer "I didn't lie to you Cree." She took another sip "Sam is my name. ONE of my names"
"So you're a con artist?"
"Girl let me talk" Jondy cut in "No, I'm not a con artist. My real name is Jondy kay? I never knew I would come up to visit my sister Maxie here and find out you know her too."
This got Cree's attention "You and Max are sisters?"
"What are DNA says" Jondy agreed "I'm sorry I gave you the run around. In my line of work I have to be cautious"
"You mean a teacher?"
Jondy took a long sip of beer "It's too complicated to get into right now. Let's just say from here out, we're on even ground."
Cree analyzed it for a moment "Kay. And sorry, but it's just the way I am"
"Not a prob girl." Jondy admonished "We're from the same mold" she raised her glass again, but then stopped short "What the hell let him out?"
Max turned around to see what Jondy was looking at, and saw Zack entering Crash's back room. "How did he find you?"
"How the hell does he find anyone Maxie?" Jondy said "What he did to me in Frisco wasn't enough he has to keep hounding my ass" Max gave her a look so she added "Explain later"
Zack finally spotted the table, observing it like a mission zone. "Jondy what are you doing here?"
"It's a bar Zack" Jondy snapped "And I'm over twenty-one"
"You shouldn't be here"
"I told you I came to find Maxie"
Zack turned then to Max, then Logan, who he didn't have a very nice look for
"Cut the BS Zack, Maxie's not the plague. She had a right to know I was alive." She took another sip of her beer.
Zack turned again to see Cree there, "Who's she?"
"She's a friend" Max said defensively "And this is a private party"
"Cut the crap Maxie" Zack stated, "Do you realize how much you could compromise by being here?"
"Oh yeah Crash is where all the covert action happens" Max made fun of him "How about you? You follow Jondy all the way here and you're worried about HER exposing things?"
"I needed to look out for her"
"Well HER can take care of herself Zack" Jondy said in her defense "So unless you've got an apology for the shit you tried on me back in Frisco I suggest you take your covert ass outta here" she glowered at him.
Zack didn't say anything, but he left, none too happy.
"Is that a boyfriend?" Cree asked once he left
"Hell no" Jondy spat "Brother, pain-in-the-ass"
"Oh" Cree said, "I thought we had something else in common" she was reeling from all that had happened. First with Ty and then with al this new information about Max.
"Sugah," Cindy spoke to Cree "You aiight? Thought you were suppose to be with Ty?"
Cree didn't say anything.
"Did he hurt you girl?" Cindy was getting mad "Cause I'm good for the smack downs"
"No" Cree said, "He didn't do anything. I just-needed to get out"
"Guess I'm not the only one with secrets" Jondy admonished sympathetically.
Cindy stood and moved over to Cree to hug her. The other girl accepted the gesture, which did get her crying again, very quietly.
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*Tell me your secrets
And ask me you questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles
Coming in tales
Heads are a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start*
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SEATTLE
UNKNOWN LOCATION
10:50 PM
Ming walked around the dark night, her switchblade at ready should she need it. She wanted to see what the night life in Seattle posed. Jing-Mei came from off the streets, and there were most likely more all over the city, and with Cree on a date with Ty she could scout out the area alone, in her element. The only sound was of her feet hitting the ground.
She passed by one warehouse, trying to open the door, but it was dead bolted. It was too dark to see anything inside and she didn't have a flashlight. She backed away from the door, deciding to come there in the morning.
***
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*Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard*
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The figure walking by the warehouse got no notice from the occupants inside.
On a bed a man straddled a woman, an enormous man with flabby white rolls. He fucked her very hard and very long. She was a new girl, so she had to be "broken in" She couldn't even see him, but she felt his tremendous weight. She had been chained to the bed because she had tried to escape two days ago. The marks from lashes on her stomach showed of another part of her punishment.
She felt him in and out of her for a long time, and she didn't even have the energy to scream this time
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*Oh take me back to the start*
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Songs used are:
Max/Jondy Reunion-"My Sacrifice" (Creed)
Mei-Mei 's dream -"Master of Puppets" (Metalica)
Mei-Mei and John talking and John leaving-"Trouble" (Coldplay)
Cree and Ty-"Ready for Love" (India Arie)
Cree and Cindy at Crash and ending scene- "The Scientist" (Coldplay)
R/R please
A/N: Sorry for the long wait..writers block, computer got hit by lightening, yadayada
*****
JAM PONY
NEXT MORNING
"Does this look like a rest stop to you?" Normal walked out from behind his desk to yell at his staff. "Everyone of you has functioning legs according to my research, so either use them to pedal or use them to find another job!"
"A pep talk Normal" Max grabbed some packages off his desk "You shouldn't have" she gave a fake sniff, putting her hand to her face "I just can't deal with all the emotions dammit"
"You're gonna deal with a new job missy if you don't get outta here" Normal pointed to the door "Move it! Bip bip!"
Max walked away with a smile on her face
"Gotta admit boo that was slammin'" Cindy held out her hand, waiting to share the props.
Max slapped it, pulling her backpack on her shoulders.
"You got someone named Max workin' for ya?"
Normal scrutinized the young woman standing in front of his desk "'Working' is the loose word in describing what these kids do"
"Is that a yes or a no?" there was an impatient color in her tone. She had better things to do then to be put down by a guy in three feet thick glasses.
"There's a Max right behind ya boo" Cindy interrupted Normal's speech.
Jondy turned around to see the woman she had met last night, standing beside another woman, with dark long brown hair, and deep brown eyes. Eyes that looked very familiar to her, so brown.
/FLASH: Max and Jondy as kids at Manticore lay in the snow, looking at the stars, pointing things out to each other. The night sky is quiet and the air is still./
"Maxie?"
= = = =
*Hello my friend we meet again
It's been a while where should
we begin... feels like forever
Within my heart are memories
Of perfect love that you gave to me
I remember*
= = = =
Max couldn't move at first. She just stood where she was, starring at her.
/FLASH: Max caught only a glimpse of Jondy's face before she was gone, leaving her to scramble out from the surface of the ice alone./
Jondy stepped closer "It's really you isn't it?" she locked her arms around Max "I can't believe I found you"
= = = =
*We've seen our share of ups and downs
Oh how quickly life can turn around in
an instant
It feels so good to reunite
Within yourself and within your mind
Let's find peace there*
= = = =
Max didn't do anything for a long second, but then she returned the hug Jondy was giving her strongly. "How'd you know where to look?"
Jondy pulled back "I beat it out of Zack"
"He told you?"
"No" Jondy shook her head "I scammed it outta him." She took time to absorb how Max looked. She was so pretty. Her eyes, her face, everything. One hand touched Max's hair "You always said you wanted to have long hair"
= = = =
*When you are with me
I'm free... I'm careless... I believe
Above all the others we'll fly
This brings tears to my eyes
My sacrifice*
= = = =
"I hate to interrupt this tender scene-" Normal cut in
"Then don't" Cindy cut in on HIM "Can't you give people five minutes?"
"It's been longer then that"
Cindy pounced on him "Boy you need to get a life"
Normal left in his natural huffy state, walking out like he was the reigning god of the universe.
Max was left in the moment of actually having Jondy here after all this time. She was so different then the girl she remembered, but there were things about her that had never changed, like her smile. It was a rarity in a Manticore environment. When Jondy smiled it made Max forget, just for that instant that she had been bred and was being conditioned for something she had no say in.
"Wow Maxie," Jondy finally found her voice again "Look at you lookin' all good" she smiled her famous smile "You must have a man"
"Girl does," Cindy "Not into mens myself, but they'll do that to a woman." She looked at Jondy "Sistahs will too"
This got Max to smile "Jondy, Original Cindy. You two met last night"
"But I didn't know your girls name was Cindy then" Jondy informed "Glad to have the meeting though"
"Me too sugah," Cindy agreed "Glad my boo finally found you. She's been looking for a while."
"Makes two of us," Jondy stated, turning her gaze back to Max. She looked almost like she was ready to cry "Look I can't break down here, it'll spoil my bad girl image in front of your male co workers, so lets say we hit a place tonight and play catch up?"
"Sounds like a plan" Max concurred, "There's a place we hang out after work. Bar called Crash on 32nd and Industry Way."
"Seven o' clock I'll be there" Jondy said "Mean time is there a place a girl can take a shower in this city? I feel like something Col. Ly-dicker dragged through the mud-" she realized that she was talking in front of Cindy and stopped abruptly, gauging the other woman's reaction.
"It's aiight," Max picked up on Jondy's bad vibe "She's coo'"
"Ain't in the habit of ratting out any sistah to the bad ass peeps on her ass" Cindy said in her defense
"You've got a great friend here Maxie" Jondy wasn't afraid of being compromised anymore.
"I know" Max said with a smile at Cindy "I'd let you shower at my place but our super sees hot water as a luxury item and we're not paying luxury taxes."
"Whose you're super?" Jondy wanted to know
"City of Seattle watering commission." Cindy informed "Not a common practice of theirs to keep runnin' hot juices in a condemned crib. Have to bribe cops to even keep the cold stuff flowin'"
"You guys are squatters?" Jondy asked, "Damn, Pulse happens and everyone thinks then can shake down the masses. Ain't our fault a bunch of covert freaks decided to turn off America's juice and create another Third World so why are they depriving us from the basics? How'd they like to take a bath in ice?"
"Amen girl" Cindy agreed whole heartedly "Might not be able to change their minds, but you can still catch a hot shower at Max's squeeze. He's in the upper rent district of Seattle so they don't turn of the juices."
"Wow an upper class guy Maxie I'm impressed. Hope he's treatin' you right"
"Boy is, otherwise Original Cindy be all over his ass with a smack down" Cindy said in all honesty.
"Can I speak for myself?" Max asked
"Sure boo go ahead" Cindy continued, "Not like you'd say anything different. Your boy makes you happy, end of story."
"So I can now ask free bathroom privileges out of him?" Max asked "Just cause we're dating?"
"Girl you're already gettin' free bedroom privileges out of him, and the bathroom is right across the hall-"
Jondy raised an eyebrow at this "Glad at least one of us is bein' satisfied" She couldn't help it, she was grinning like an idiot.
"C'mon" Max cut in, very happy to change the subject to something else besides this whole de-briefing of her sex life "I'll show you where it is"
"Just give me the directions Maxie, I'll find it on my own." Jondy looked over to where Normal was spraying an entire can of fly spray on three flies. "Wouldn't want to get that boss on your ass"
"Wouldn't be the first time" Max argued "It's in Sector 5, Foggle Towers. Penthouse"
"Penthouse? Whoo girl you've scored" Jondy said
"Strangely enough I'm dating him for this OUTSIDE material possessions"
"Kay, thanks for the info. I'll let you know how it turns out" Jondy started to leave.
"Hey-"
Max's voice made her turn back around "Give your lock picks a break and just knock on the door-"
"Like a civilian?" Jondy blew it off "What kinda entrance is that?" Max shot her a stern look "Okay sis, I promise, I'll enter just like a 'normal girl' or as close as I can get to one"
"Seven right?"
Jondy smiled "You got it girl" she stepped back over to her and gave her one more hug
"Behave yourself at my boyfriends" Max said
"If the guy's a hottie I can't make any promises-" she ducked when Max tried to smack her upside the head "Just kiddin' Maxie" she leaned over and kissed her on the cheek "I see ya tonight" she walked out of Jam Pony.
Max watched her go "So what happens now?"
Cindy stepped over to her one step "You go partay tonight with your sistah" she draped an arm over her friend's shoulders.
*****
BANGKOK, CHINA
= = = = =
*End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you*
= = = = =
She was back in the brothel, with the pimp there, raping her. He stood over top of her like the plague, dark and unanswering of her pleas to make him stop.
"You're killing me! Please!" she begged and begged, but it was on deaf ears. He bounced up and down up and down, like a jack-in-the-box on a rampage.
She felt her blood coming out of her like a sea and all the pain triple folded everywhere he touched her
= = = =
*Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream*
= = = =
She kept screaming, begging for her life, but he never acknowledged her. Finally something did. Something called her name. She then realized where she was, but not before she woke up so violently that she heard something fall beneath her, something or someone.
Her eyes came open into darkness and raspy desperate breathing. On the floor beside the small bed was Jon, picking himself up off the floor from where he fell after she flung him there.
It had been a dream, a shit scary, piss-in-your-pants nightmare. Her clothes stuck damply to her from sweat. Things finally began to come into focus, the small hut, the bed, not the brothel or the pimp.
"You were screaming" Jon now stood over her in the bed, a red mark on his forehead from where it had hit the hard linoleum. "I thought you were being attacked"
Mei-Mei sat up, throwing the covers off the bed "I was" she ran a hand through the dampness of her sweat soaked hair "He was there again. Even in my dreams he doesn't leave me alone"
Jon didn't say anything, just handed her a glass of water.
She took it and drank like a greedy child, spilling some down her chin and panting again after she was done.
There were several moments of silence before someone spoke.
"Why are you really helping me?" Mei-Mei's eyes were barely visible in the soft light from the tiny dime store quality table light beside the bed "Do you want money for turning me in?"
For a second it looked like Jon was going to slap her. Mei-Mei actually expected it. All men recently had been treating her like trash, why should he be different?
Jon didn't slap her though, his hand found a lock of her hair and he simply smoothed it out. He still hadn't answered her question "It's dangerous to be so beautiful"
"It's dangerous not to be" she blinked "When they come for you if you're not pretty they'll just kill you. If they like what they see they'll use you and sell you off, and you'll still be alive"
"You call that being alive?"
= = = =
*O no, I see,
I spun a web, it's tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
O no what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done*
= = = =
Her gaze turned upwards "I'm still here aren't I?"
He leaned closer, like he wanted to kiss her, but she pulled away. "I'm a married woman Jon"
"I know"
"You can't take a run at me just because we are here together. It's not right. My husband is being tortured in jail because of me. The very least I owe him is to be faithful"
"But you're already unfaithful" Jon argued, "Look what you've been doing"
This time she looked like she wanted to slap him. "I was never unfaithful because I never had a choice." She turned away "Please go"
"Mei-Mei"
"I SAID go" she laid back down on the bed, hearing him sigh and then leave, and through the thin walls the sound of a cigarette being lit up.
= = = =
* O no I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
Here I am in love in a bubble,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me*
= = = =
*****
FOGGLE TOWERS
"I take it you're a fan of long showers?" Logan watched Jondy exit the bathroom from his vantage point on his sofa. She was wearing nothing but one of his blue bath towels. He watched her, not because he took pleasure in sneaking peaks at his girlfriend's sister while she wasn't there, but because this scene reminded him of the time Max had taken a shower in his bathroom after getting flung in mud during an Eyes Only mission gone bad. She had been so pissed off at him then, and he would never admit that the view of her in her towel wasn't exactly a bad one.
"I'm a fan of anything that gets me clean and isn't freezing cold" Jondy stated, removing the towel from her head and letting her long brown hair fall down around her bare shoulders.
"You're clothes are in the bedroom-" Logan wasn't going to complain at the relation of Max's parading around naked under a towel in his living room, but he still didn't understand why she didn't dress before coming out.
"Maxie's not here" Jondy draped the towel that had been in her hair over her shoulder "And you're not committing unfaithful acts. It's a towel, not a peek-a-boo teddy. I just want my hair to dry out a little bit before I get dressed, walking helps"
"Oh"
"Hey I'm a soldier not a seductress. I'd kick your ass before I'd lust after you sexually"
"That's very comforting"
"What'd be even more comforting is if you had java in the kitchen for me to suck up"
"There's a pot leftover from this afternoon that's still warm"
"I'll take it"
"I prefer clothes on in my kitchen Jondy" Logan stated
"Fine" Jondy agreed "But if there's not coffee left in that pot they'll be hell to pay" she retreated to Logan's bedroom to change.
While she was in there Logan poured himself a cup of the coffee, and sat at a stool on his counter. Jondy had just suddenly showed up at his door about an hour ago. He at first wondered who the hell this woman was, but after she said her name he stopped wondering. And after she said what she was there for he knew she was DEFIANTLY Max's sister. No X5 he'd met so far was very shy about what they wanted. If they ever wanted to ask him if he had any disposable enemas they'd use a bullhorn. She and Max looked to be about the same age. They had the same facial structure, except for Jondy's slightly longer chin. What really set her apart from Max were her piercing blue eyes. He couldn't tell if the color was natural or from contacts, but even his own eyes weren't that blue. She probably stopped a lot of guys dead in their tracks with that gaze.
Jondy came so quietly behind Logan that he didn't even know she was there until he was startled when one of his stools seemed to pull itself back on its own.
"Sorry" Jondy apologized, sitting in the stool "It's just a force of habit being that quiet" she picked up a coffee mug sitting in front of her, inhaling the smell "Wow, this is the good stuff huh? You must have more money then what you already spent on this posh set-up"
"You're welcome" Logan said what she didn't
"Thank you" Jondy went for a joke. She sipped the steaming liquid "Oh yeah, I don't get this kinda good stuff at my place" she took another sip and then turned to Logan "How long have you been seeing Maxie?"
"Just a few months" Logan answered picking up a coffee cup under his arm, and drinking from it. It was an honest answer. They knew each other for longer, but those were the times they never acted on their feelings.
"She seems happy" Jondy went on "I haven't seen her in eleven years but I can tell. Only time she was that happy back then was when Jack or Ben were telling their stories, or when she was with me" her eyes adapted a far off look in them.
"Max is glad she found you" Logan said "She's been looking for you, for all of you ever since I've known her."
"Not that easy when her idiot brother throws her out of her own loop" Jondy spoke of Zack "He said she was too reckless to be found." Jondy blew it off with a passion "Lying piece of shit. What kind of big brother is he?"
"I'm sure he was trying to look out for her"
Jondy turned to him with a 'yeah right' gaze "You don't honestly believe that BS? I'm sure Zack's said some not to pleasant things about you dating Maxie, but you didn't just turn tail and run."
Logan didn't say anything, but she was right.
Jondy sipped the coffee again "Anyways, thanks for the java, I gotta get going"
"Where?" Logan wasn't trying to sound rude. He just wanted to know "You're not staying anywhere, at least I don't think so"
"Perceptive man," Jondy smiled "I'm just gonna drive my bike around the city, see what there needs to be seen"
"Does every X5 have a gene in them that makes them want to own motorcycles?"
"Deck put everything else in us," Jondy analyzed "I wouldn't be surprised if he went to town on that too" she stood up from the stool. "You're coming to that place, Crash tonight right?"
"I thought it was a sister reunion thing" Logan said
"There's room for more. Max's friend Cindy is coming and she's not my sistah."
"Yeah but she's a woman, and it sounds like girls night out"
"Logan cut the crap" Jondy cut in "You're going, end of story. So stop trying to excuse you're way out of it or I'll think you're purposely trying to ditch me, and I'll have to kick your ass if you do"
She sounded so much like Max at that moment that Logan had to remember who he was talking too. "All right, I'll be there since you put it like that"
"Kay" Jondy agreed "But remember I'm a woman of my word." She left out the front door to where her motorcycle was.
*****
Ty had finally managed to coax Cree into coming up to his apartment. She had only been here once. That night when she told him her terrible past. It still mortified him how some men could treat women. Especially when one of those women was his.
He and Cree were on his gray couch watching a Steelers game. His roommate was out for the night on a date. It was nothing really romantic, just a football game and a couple of Coors Light. No fire, no wine, no roses; Ty wasn't Logan.
"Aww c'mon man, that was in bounds" Ty watched the referees go off to look at the feed for the challenge. "Stupid pansy Huston, they whine too much"
"Steelers are still winning 15, 12" Cree spoke up beside him. She was leaning against his shoulder, her head resting more on his chest covered in a blue sweater.
"Yeah but Huston's slowing down the game" He felt her shift her position and it was distracting him from the game on the TV. "Not easy to watch if you keep moving"
"Want me to move?" Cree asked, although she knew the answer. She was just gauging his reaction on it.
Ty kissed the top of her head in response. This REALLY distracted him and he turned his attention away from the game to kiss Cree more fully.
She responded by wrapping her arms around his neck and allowed herself to be lowered down on the couch under his weight. The couch cushion pressed up against her back and scratched her skin just barely from the woven surface.
Ty's hands went under her shirt, roaming over her back and bra strap. Cree's sigh of pleasure was audible. She felt his hands moving towards her front towards her tummy and breasts.
/FLASH: "This is the right way to do things bitch," hands grabbed her breasts and a mouth sucked and bit, while the rest of him was preoccupied with fucking her She gasped, then she screamed /
Cree pulled up, forcing Ty to take himself off her body. "I'm sorry-"
Ty turned to her "What's wrong? Was it too fast?" he tried to touch her face by she brushed him away
"I just cant-" she stood up from the couch and grabbed her jacket
"Whoa whoa whoa" Ty stood up "Can't do what? I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable-"
"It's not you okay!" Cree snapped at him, stopping in her stride to turn back around "It's me," her tone was softer this time Don't you get it? It's always gonna to be me. I was enjoying it, every minute of it until my shitty memories kicked up. It's never gonna go away Ty. I can't be with another man without remembering where I was for the past three years, how many DIRTY fuckin' hands were all over me."
"But I'm not them Cree," Ty walked over to her "I want to be the one guy in your life who didn't screw you over."
"I don't want your pity Ty!" Cree retorted, then her tone dropped again, becoming sad "I'm tired of being so broken. I lost three years of my life. THREE years Ty when I could've been with my family, going to school, hell just being a girl. But I gave all that up because I wanted to grow up and have a boyfriend."
"You were just a kid then," Ty said "You didn't know what you know now"
"I don't WANT to know what I know now" Cree said "I have a million and one memories that I would just as rather not being in my brain. And I have you," she blinked, almost on the verge of tears "I want to be with you, but it's not fair to you to just be with the pieces of what I use to be."
"Cree-" this time she allowed him to touch her face, wiping away a tear
"I'm sorry, I can't do this now," she ducked under his hand and went out the door slamming it.
He watched her go, and heard his door shut, resting his head against it
= = = =
*I am ready for love
Why are you hiding from me?
I'd quickly give my freedom
To be held in your captivity
I am ready for love
All of the joy and the pain
And all the time that it takes
Just to stay in your good grace*
= = = =
Cree still remained in the hallway. She slid to her knees, and cried in her outstretched hands, tears hitting the carpeted hallway of the apartment building.
****
Ty had moved from the door and picked up a plate sitting on the counter in the kitchen and threw it hard against the wall. It shattered into a million pieces on the kitchen floor, and he made no move to pick it up. He grabbed the left over beer from the can and sat on a stool on the counter top, not really drinking it, just looking at it.
= = = =
*I am ready for love
Would you please lend me your ear?
I promise I won't complain
I just need you to acknowledge I am here*
= = = =
****
= = = =
*If you give me half the chance I'll prove this to you
I will be patient kind, faithful and true
To a man who loves music
A man who loves art
Respects the spirit world and thinks with his heart*
= = = =
Cree heard the smash, and waited for a long moment before picking herself up and putting her jacket on. She turned to look at the closed doorway, taking a deep mournful sigh and turned to walk in the other direction, wiping more tears coming from her eyes.
= = = =
*I am ready for love
If you'll take me in your hand
I will learn what you teach
And do the best that I can
I am ready for love
Here with an offering of
My voice, my eyes
My soul my mind
Tell me what is enough
To prove I am ready....
For love......
I am ready...*
= = = = =
*****
CRASH
Jondy pulled up to the establishment, checking it out through her biker helmet. Place looked decent. She entered the building, past the bouncer who was checking her out. /Greedy bastard/
Inside people were laughing, drinking, playing pool. It took her a moment to find where Max was. It was a back room accessed by stairs.
"Hey girl over here!" Cindy waved Jondy over.
Jondy gave a wave back approaching the table. She saw Logan there beside Max no less.
"Glad you heeded my threat boy" Jondy said
Logan turned to her "I just came to be with Max"
"And I'm queen of Manticore" Jondy returned, she looked to Max
"Oh" Cindy cut in again "Jondy this is Cree, girl from out of town-"
Jondy looked over to the other woman at that name. Her eyebrows furrowed
/FLASH: "This is Cree, my sister Ms. Sam"
"Nice name"/
"Cree?"
Cree looked up, surprised to find her little sister's teacher sitting there in a bar in Seattle "Jondy? I thought your name was Sam"
"You two met?" Cindy asked, confused
"She teaches an art class my sister is in San Francisco" Cree looked harder at Jondy "Or is that a lie along with your name?"
"Whoa girl calm down, and let the sistah explain herself" Cindy put a hand on Cree's arm.
Jondy sat down, taking a sip of beer "I didn't lie to you Cree." She took another sip "Sam is my name. ONE of my names"
"So you're a con artist?"
"Girl let me talk" Jondy cut in "No, I'm not a con artist. My real name is Jondy kay? I never knew I would come up to visit my sister Maxie here and find out you know her too."
This got Cree's attention "You and Max are sisters?"
"What are DNA says" Jondy agreed "I'm sorry I gave you the run around. In my line of work I have to be cautious"
"You mean a teacher?"
Jondy took a long sip of beer "It's too complicated to get into right now. Let's just say from here out, we're on even ground."
Cree analyzed it for a moment "Kay. And sorry, but it's just the way I am"
"Not a prob girl." Jondy admonished "We're from the same mold" she raised her glass again, but then stopped short "What the hell let him out?"
Max turned around to see what Jondy was looking at, and saw Zack entering Crash's back room. "How did he find you?"
"How the hell does he find anyone Maxie?" Jondy said "What he did to me in Frisco wasn't enough he has to keep hounding my ass" Max gave her a look so she added "Explain later"
Zack finally spotted the table, observing it like a mission zone. "Jondy what are you doing here?"
"It's a bar Zack" Jondy snapped "And I'm over twenty-one"
"You shouldn't be here"
"I told you I came to find Maxie"
Zack turned then to Max, then Logan, who he didn't have a very nice look for
"Cut the BS Zack, Maxie's not the plague. She had a right to know I was alive." She took another sip of her beer.
Zack turned again to see Cree there, "Who's she?"
"She's a friend" Max said defensively "And this is a private party"
"Cut the crap Maxie" Zack stated, "Do you realize how much you could compromise by being here?"
"Oh yeah Crash is where all the covert action happens" Max made fun of him "How about you? You follow Jondy all the way here and you're worried about HER exposing things?"
"I needed to look out for her"
"Well HER can take care of herself Zack" Jondy said in her defense "So unless you've got an apology for the shit you tried on me back in Frisco I suggest you take your covert ass outta here" she glowered at him.
Zack didn't say anything, but he left, none too happy.
"Is that a boyfriend?" Cree asked once he left
"Hell no" Jondy spat "Brother, pain-in-the-ass"
"Oh" Cree said, "I thought we had something else in common" she was reeling from all that had happened. First with Ty and then with al this new information about Max.
"Sugah," Cindy spoke to Cree "You aiight? Thought you were suppose to be with Ty?"
Cree didn't say anything.
"Did he hurt you girl?" Cindy was getting mad "Cause I'm good for the smack downs"
"No" Cree said, "He didn't do anything. I just-needed to get out"
"Guess I'm not the only one with secrets" Jondy admonished sympathetically.
Cindy stood and moved over to Cree to hug her. The other girl accepted the gesture, which did get her crying again, very quietly.
= = = =
*Tell me your secrets
And ask me you questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles
Coming in tales
Heads are a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start*
= = = =
SEATTLE
UNKNOWN LOCATION
10:50 PM
Ming walked around the dark night, her switchblade at ready should she need it. She wanted to see what the night life in Seattle posed. Jing-Mei came from off the streets, and there were most likely more all over the city, and with Cree on a date with Ty she could scout out the area alone, in her element. The only sound was of her feet hitting the ground.
She passed by one warehouse, trying to open the door, but it was dead bolted. It was too dark to see anything inside and she didn't have a flashlight. She backed away from the door, deciding to come there in the morning.
***
= = = =
*Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard*
= = = =
The figure walking by the warehouse got no notice from the occupants inside.
On a bed a man straddled a woman, an enormous man with flabby white rolls. He fucked her very hard and very long. She was a new girl, so she had to be "broken in" She couldn't even see him, but she felt his tremendous weight. She had been chained to the bed because she had tried to escape two days ago. The marks from lashes on her stomach showed of another part of her punishment.
She felt him in and out of her for a long time, and she didn't even have the energy to scream this time
= = = =
*Oh take me back to the start*
= = = =
Songs used are:
Max/Jondy Reunion-"My Sacrifice" (Creed)
Mei-Mei 's dream -"Master of Puppets" (Metalica)
Mei-Mei and John talking and John leaving-"Trouble" (Coldplay)
Cree and Ty-"Ready for Love" (India Arie)
Cree and Cindy at Crash and ending scene- "The Scientist" (Coldplay)
R/R please