Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel or anything related to it. Dark Angel is owned by other people and they're stupid because they didn't give us more than two seasons. Of course they at least gave us those, which is good.
Disclaimer Part Two: I do however own Blaze, Heresy, Leo, Two and other things that might seem unfamiliar. Luxie is owned by Monica
Pairings: Logan/Max, Alec/Heresy, Alec/Blaze, Alec/Luxie…
Pack Instinct5 – Heat
"Can you ride a bike?" Heresy asked and pointed to the black bike with bright green tiger stripes to match her hair.
"Uh, well, when I was a kid my mommy and daddy taught me to ride a tricycle," Luxie said with a grin. She was kinda annoying Heresy had to admit and the way she acted made her think of Alec, and she tried hard to refrain from punching the girl in the face.
"Fine. Go with Alec," she said. She wouldn't stand being on a bike with someone that similar to Alec.
"But she's spraying her pheromones all over the place," Alec whined. He didn't want to be distracted when he was doing 150 away from the cops. Luxie was genuinely confused by his choice of words and the way he didn't want to go with her.
"Aww, but I wanna," she said with a faint hint of a purr in her voice.
"You see!" Alec exclaimed trying hard to hold himself back. "I don't want to be jumping her while I'm on a bike."
"Fine, come with me then," Heresy said and started the bike.
"Okay, when we get wherever we're going, I've got to be clued in," Luxie said and jumped onto the bike behind Heresy. Then Heresy took off. Alec shook his head and breathed in deeply. There they were, sure as White was a big fat jerk and cuffed to those unbreakable bars of his. The scent of Luxie's pheromones were driving him crazy but then thinking of it made Blaze jump to his mind. Where Luxie had the attraction of nature, Blaze had the attraction of danger. Alec felt quite like he was headed for trouble and he wasn't sure he enjoyed it quite as much as he might have.
He started his bike and drove off following the scent of Luxie's pheromones.
"Hey, Blaze, watcha up to?" Max asked. Joshua and I turned out heads to look at our alpha. Joshua had told me Max wasn't the alpha but a friend. I had long since banned the concept of friendship and reverted back to the stage where a pack was everything to me. Joshua was doing his best to help me from going completely feral on their asses.
"Just looking at Joshua's flag," I said. "And thinking some things over."
"My virus?" she asked slightly hopeful. To be honest, the virus hadn't crossed my mine once since earlier that day. I had thought about going to work some more but then I had just forgotten.
"Oh, uh, not really," I said sounding a bit caught in the act. "Just the whole pack situation."
"You'll get over it," Max said. I had a feeling she thought my pack was dead and I would have to, had I not been in this situation. But Terminal City gave me hope that somewhere out there, my pack roamed free and just like Max had forgotten their Manticore training and would accept me as their leader again. "So, you feel like working on the virus again?"
I opened my mouth to speak but I stopped when I heard voices and the roar of motorbikes. Alec was back.
"Alec," I said and got up. I walked over to the entrance and saw Heresy and another girl get off the bike. She was an X6, young, short but tough and rough and she smelt strange.
"Welcome to Terminal City," Heresy said and walked off leaving the girl standing there. I knew how she might have felt so I walked up to her. Leo introduced himself first and as I reached her, Alec arrived. I was slightly distracted but her gaze managed to bring me back.
"I'm Blaze," I said.
"Got dog?" she asked me and I tilted my head in confusion. She began laughing. "Ha, have you got dog DNA?" I shook my head.
"Alpha wolf," I explained. "What are you, you… smell strange?" She looked at me and then raised her nose to her armpit.
"Okay, this is really getting weird now," she said and turned around. "Will somebody tell me what's going on?" she yelled.
"You're going in heat," Alec said as he walked over to the two of us. "Means you're going to have to want to…"
"Hi," Max interrupted. "I'm Max and you are?"
"Luxie," she said. "X6-847. And I'm kinda pissed off now, what with her and him telling me I smell weird and then him taking about heat, which I'm not supposed to have," she ended off yelling at the top her lungs. She was angry and she wanted everyone to know. A few others looked over but they knew the antics of new members.
"What did you say?" Max asked.
"He says I'm heat, but I ain't supposed to be. No heat for 847 they told me. Just be a good little soldier and practise killing people. Have a sweet, no heat… that rhymed," she said out of rhythm with her anger.
"Have a sweet?" Blaze said. It sounded quite suspicious. Manticore didn't give out sweets to good little soldiers.
"Hey, now that you mention it," Luxie said slowly. She counted back a few days. "They gave me a bunch of pills every few days, weeks," she said.
"I expect that would regulate the heat out of your body," Alec said.
Damnit, even the way he moves his mouth is really hot, Luxie thought and shook her head. Okay, well they way he's not doing anything also kinda turns me on a bit.
"And now I have it, and what? I'm I going to burn up from the inside?" she asked. "Like a toaster."
"Well, let's just say you better stay away from people for a while," Max explained.
"Stay away from people?" Blaze asked confused. That was what she'd done, and she'd ended up attacking Alec.
"Not like you, Blaze. She doesn't try to rip people to shreds," Max explained. She had gotten bored of the grinning at Alec long before anyone else had.
"You rip people to shreds?" Luxie asked a twinkle in her eye. "Walk with me. Tell me about this place," she said and dragged Blaze along with her. Blaze followed obediently although she was quite upset this young cat was currently being in control.
"First heat, huh?" Alec said. "Isn't that the worst?"
"Sure is," Max said. "Good thing we have your superior sex sense working day and night for us." Alec rolled his eyes. "Maybe we should have one that warns you from getting your throat ripped out." Alex glared at her as she walked away.
Later that day after I had explained most of my life story to Luxie and she had returned the favour, I was alone again. She had retreated to a room that Max had had fitted with locks for me and said that Luxie could use it for the time being.
I was sitting by the fire looking up at the stars and waiting for a sausages to finish being cooked. I had been told to wait for a certain amount of time but with my wonderful nose I'd smell the finished meat.
"Hey," I heard Alec's voice. I felt slightly uncomfortable towards him after our little showdown during my attack. He sat down next to me. We sat in silence for a while because I knew nothing to say and he… I don't know. "Why do you wear that?" he asked suddenly.
"What?"
"The jacket. That's Manticore merchandise," he said with the usual hint of disgust.
"My love for camouflage wear seems to overpass my hatred for anything Manticore," I said hugging myself closer into the jacket.
"Wow, I was kind of hoping you'd say something along those lines," he said. That confused me a great deal. "When we were on our way back yesterday I saw these," he said and placed something on my lap.
I could smell the meat. It was ready now but I was too surprised by this. I pulled the piece of cloth apart and it turned out to be pants that matched my jacket. "I suspect some soldier took them off and dumped them, but when I saw them, the only thing I associated them with was you and that stupid jacket." I was speechless. I had never gotten anything before and now I was getting something that I liked, liked a lot.
"I…" I began. The meat sizzled.
"Please don't throw them into the fire. I had to stop my bike and pick them up of the floor. All that effort," he said with a smirk. I shook my head.
"Thank you." He shrugged. "Look," I said suddenly and placed the pants aside. He looked at me, now it was his turn to be confused. "About what happened the other night."
"It's okay, hormones. And everyone always has to pick on Alec at least once. I mean, that Luxie already managed it with the first few sentences," he said.
"I didn't want to attack you. I swear, had it been anyone else I would have gone all out," I said. I felt strange telling him this and my guts felt like they were having a party where everyone was completely drunk and throwing up already.
"Yeah, that did seem kinda strange," he said. I remembered I had almost reached his throat and my teeth were only centimetres away, but I had stopped. Something inside of me had refused to rip out Alec's jugular. Tears had swelled up but luckily I moved away quick enough. Or…
"Did… I… did you feel something?" I asked and cursed myself for posing the question so incomprehensible.
"You mean…" It seemed he wasn't sure how to finish the question. "You cried?" he asked softly. This tone was so unfamiliar from him I led the conversation into an awkward silence.
"You felt it?"
"Why?"
"It hurt," I muttered more to myself than to him. I looked up and realized he had heard that. "I… I'm sorry," I said jumped and ran off, tears in my eyes and burnt meat smell in my nose.
Luxie paced up and down in the room that she'd been locked into. Max had told her that it was for Blaze and her raging hormones, but since that wasn't the current issue, Luxie could use it.
So far Luxie had found out that she had the terrible urge to grab any of the passing X-Series and do a whole lotta nasty stuff to them. Every time the others got close enough to telling her what was going to happen, they'd shut up like they were to embarrassed to talk about it.
Luxie looked over to the shelf filled with books. Some of them had been knocked out and she hoped that maybe reading something would bring her out of it. She grabbed a book that seemed to be on cats.
"Hm," she said quietly. "Maybe there be something on my heat thing. Since I'm a kitty and all." She flipped the book open and found the word heat in a matter of seconds.
"Only during this period, which is know as the 'heat' or oestrus and usually lasts a week – a week! – does mating take place… er… does mating take place." She read the end of the sentence a few more times. It was written there black on white – mating. That's what the others didn't feel important enough to let her know. She continued reading. "A cat in heat will display unusually affectionate behaviour and rub up against… I'm liking this less and less," Luxie muttered and threw the book into a corner.
She walked over to the bed and slumped down onto it. She would want to have sex with a whole lotta guys here and she'd been locked away because of it. She thought about what Alec had said about her pheromones and tried to remember a passage that had been in the corner of her eye but she hadn't exactly read it. The pheromones were to attract a male which the female cat would then choose. Attract a male… that's what Alec had been afraid of. He didn't want to jump her.
"Well, if he really wants to, I wouldn't mind," Luxie purred and jumped. She slapped her hands onto her mouth. "Is it hot in here or is it just me?" she asked herself and pulled her top off. She was wearing another one underneath. "Maybe some sleep will calm me down," she muttered and lay down.
It had been a tiring day, what with the being captured and being freed and the whole wanting to sleep with Alec thing, so after a few minutes Luxie was in deep sleep.
Luxie skipped along a hallway which looked too much like Manticore for her liking, but when she turned her head to look into one of the rooms she saw fields of flowers, forests and beaches through them.
She'd never been to a beach so she walked through the door (literally) and was already sinking her now shoe-less feet in the bright, white sand. She walked forward and let the sun shine on her skin which was now not covered by the Manticore wear she had had on moments ago but a skimpy bright red bikini.
She smiled and opened her eyes. Standing in front of her was White, glaring down at her a gun pointed at her face. Luxie screamed a scream that would have made a princess with a dragon jealous as he pulled the trigger.
She heard the shot and looked up to see Alec standing triumphantly over White's unconscious body.
"Hey, baby," he said with a smirk. Suddenly he was topless and Luxie pounced him. The two of them fell back onto the ground and she began kissing him. When she sat up and looked down at him she noticed something.
"This is kinda strange? Wasn't I at Manticore just now?"
"Well, you're in heat. The best way out is having sex with me now, ain't it?"
Luxie sat up in shock and breathed out deeply.
"Shit," she muttered and walked over to the door. There was a small window and she could see the guard standing in front of the door. "Hey, let me out!" When the guard turned around it turned out to be Heresy.
"Ain't letting you out till you're done, sister," Heresy said with a smirk. "Alec's body is mine and you should be the last person trying to get any from him anyway."
"What?"
"I don't care how in heat you are, Missy. Only person who gets to have sex with Alec is me!" Heresy growled. Luxie leaned her forehead against the cool window.
"Please can I come out," she whined. "I promise I won't do anything."
"I ain't so trusting," Heresy said. "Convince me."
"Er… well, how about… er… please let me out!" Luxie whined louder now. Heresy rolled her eyes and turned around. What she'd said was what she meant. No one was getting Alec's body but her.
Heresy's really not happy about Alec and all these girls… tch, women.
Next chapter, we find out how to finally cure Maxie's virus
