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WARNING: Sex in the italics section!

2 – Restraint

"D'you think Manticore woulda made us sex buddies too?" Heresy asked and ran her finger down Alec's chest. She was lying on top of him, waiting for him to regain his strength so they could have another round.

"Well, they wanted to pair me with Max, so it's possible her little sister coulda been on the line too," he said with a shrug. He examined her as he did every time they had sex together and wondered what, apart from her constant pheromones, was attractive about her. Her face for one.

"Mm, sometimes I wish I could been caught by Manticore and then we could made lotsa super-soldier babies together," she said with a grin. That made her look mean. She had a lot of cruelty hidden behind her beauty, but that's how it was, wasn't it? All the pretty girls were bitches.

"You sure, they'd want your sex drive in a soldier?"

"My devil's spawn would be distractive," she suggested. She lay her head onto his chest and gave it a quick lick. Alec shivered.

Her body was one of the best he'd seen on a woman. She was tall and thin, but not to thin – Manticore didn't give their soldiers eating disorders. Everything about her was in proportion and where there was more than average, Alec didn't mind.

She dressed well too – as good as any prostitute might – with underwear of course. She tried to be provocative but unattainable at the same time. Biggs had suffered greatly under that. Heresy would say no but all one had to do was jump her and she was all over you. Most of the time she ended up dragging him to bed.

"Ready to go, solider?" she asked and Alec tensed as he felt her hand go where it shouldn't.

Alec woke with a start. It was seldom that he woke from a dream like that, covered in sweat and confused. Usually he tried to prolong these dreams as much as possible and he was never confused – he generally just went along with it.

Somehow it felt strange that night. The talk with Max had stirred some feelings in him and he wasn't sure how he'd handle Heresy once she got back. It Max was right and Heresy was really – in love with him, how would he tell her that… that…

"Shit," Alec muttered and sat up. He scratched his stomach and looked around. He slept in a room with one other X5, two X6s and two X7s. They hadn't seemed to have heard or noticed the fact that he had moved but he was quite certain that that one X7 with the brilliant hearing had heard him.

Alec got up, pulled on a pair of pants and a shirt and left the room. Outside he ran his hands through his hair and wondered what to do next. Heresy, Blaze and Luxie were out and he suspected that this time the two of them weren't trying to find that bastard Two, but an adventure. Heresy would catch up with them and then bring them back.

Max and Logan were probably having another all-nighter, now that they could it was hard to rip them apart. Alec decided to go check on Tech, who was going through Logan's Manticore files.

Styl had fallen asleep on Zack's lap and he slowly stroked her hair as he stared out at the open field. Styl was short for her age and her appearance was rather strange. Her hair was golden blonde but sometimes people had the impression it was silver. And her eyes were so dark, it was impossible to say if they were brown or black.

Truth was, Styl was a Manticore experiment. Apart from her cat genes, Styl had traces of different metals in her blood and even her DNA stream. The metal was the reason she had given herself the name Styl.

Zack looked down and examined her barcode. Unlike his and the ones he saw in his mind's eye of people he remembered faintly or clearly, Styl's was silver and he suspected it was because of her blood.

Styl was one of the most amazing Manticore products he had ever met and dare he say she was more interesting than this girl Max who popped into his mind on more than one occasion. Max was always there when he tried to remembered anything about Manticore and according to Styl's information she might be part of his unit or even his breeding partner. Styl was sure it was the first because X5-452 had been part of X5-599's escape.

Blaze was staring at Luxie with wide eyes and shock written across her face.

"No," she said plainly. "Na-uh."

"Come on, Blaze," Luxie insisted and jumped into the front seat. Despite her lack of license, she loved driving and would do it either way. Blaze shook her head. "I've told you a kabazillion times, Blaze, Manticore didn't make a perfect little girl."

"But stealing cars?" Blaze asked. "That's an all-time low, even for you."

"Hey!" Luxie hissed. 'Hey' wasn't really a word of power but it seemed the best to use. "Look, I'm not the one whose in love with someone I've never seen before. I'm the one who could get arrested for stealing some poor sap's car. Get in!"

"You don't make much of a convincing argument," Blaze said and looked around. People close enough to notice there was a spat between them, seemed to be getting suspicious. After all, Luxie was trying to steal a car in broad daylight.

"White could get me." Blaze growled and jumped in the car. Although she really didn't like the idea of becoming a thief, she didn't want her newly-acquired baby sister back in the clutches of that guy.

Heresy sat smugly on top of a building. Of course, it was suspicious but she enjoyed hearing rumours about herself and she knew how to handle a situation. She could overpower anyone.

So those girls had stolen a car. Making use of their special Manticore abilities it seemed. Heresy wondered why they'd done it and where they were going and realized she'd end up one wild goose chance.

"I really don't want to do this," she muttered to herself. "But," she remembered. "If I don't my sex buddy will off and save his little girlfriend on his own. Let's hope Ames keeps the grounds stable, while I'm away."

Alec had left Tech almost immediately because the other transgenic had begun talking about something that Alec wasn't sure he'd care about enough. He'd joined Leo on the main watch and realize that he'd come there next time he wanted to go to sleep.

He stayed with Leo and tried to keep awake by using his favourite pastime activity – talking.

"So, how's it on the White front?"

"Not too good," Leo answered. Like his brother, he wasn't very talkative and preferred watching and ordering (people around, that is).

"Why?" Alec asked, trying to get Leo to talk. Despite his enjoyment for talking, he really wanted to know what was going on with White – for Heresy's sake. As of late she'd gotten kind of etchy on the subject of Mister Breeding Cult. Alec knew that they had had past experiences, but it seemed although Heresy often bared her skin, she had no intention of doing the same with her soul.

"He's really pissed off we got Luxie (see Pack Instinct)," Leo said plainly. "And that Max is well, happy."

"Yeah, Max and happy? That's like the world going under," Alec said with a wide grin and got a look from Leo. Oh right, thought Alec. That whole brother-sister thing that went on in their unit.

"More like she's still alive and can stop the Coming."

"Oh, that. Anyone figured out what the Coming is yet?" Leo shook his head. "Anyone bothering?" Again Leo shook his head. Alec groaned. "Why?"

"We're trying to recruit as many transgenics as possible."

"Get them here." Leo nodded. "Oh, sure," Alec said and got up to leave. He'd gotten enough information for now. "Uh," he turned back. "Heard anything from Heresy, Blaze or Luxie?" Leo snorted. Like any of them would bother reporting back here.

"Otto," White called his assistant. Despite Otto's not being part of the breeding circle, White had decided to keep him. He'd been good enough when he didn't know what was going on, so now that he knew, he was a lot more efficient. "Have we gotten those databases up and running yet?" he asked.

"Yes, sir," Otto reported. "We're having them filtered for anything on 452 we can find."

"Good," White said. "Can you ask them to get me any information on X5-419 that they find. I feel like being a bit sidetracked."

"419, sir?"

"Yes, Otto," White said with a glare and the young man left, confused.

"You can't do this, you bastards!" Heresy yelled. "Don't fucking get any closer to me with that thing," she hissed at the closest guard. He was holding a tazer stick and Heresy was certainly not going to let him get her.

"Are you sure you want to do this, sir?" asked Doctor Jeremy turning his head from White. The two of them were watching Heresy bat down guard after guard from behind a two-way mirror.

"Of course, Jeremy," White hissed. Why wouldn't he? This was one of the most brilliant ideas he'd had so far. Also, it would get rid of a few pesky problems.

"I'm going to rip your throat out!" Heresy yelled. She was backed against the wall but the guard took a step back, scared she might make her threat a reality.

"Restrain the specimen," Jeremy's voice came through a speaker again. Heresy looked up and realized it had been a fatal mistake. The tazer hit her chest and she crumpled to the ground as two more tazers sent electricity down her nerves.

"Ames," she whimpered as they grabbed her so to secure her on the table. She moved her head feebly and saw the door open. Jeremy came in with a few other doctors and various medical weapons. She focused passed them and saw Ames. "Ames, help me," she muttered and the door slid closed, cutting him from her sight.

gasp There we have some Heresy and White-ness, Luxie being a little thief and yeah, well, mostly Heresy.

Next chapter Two gets to meet his favourite person in the whole world!