Thank you so much for being so patient. I've experienced a time of brain freeze. My muse had left me. But appearently it's back from the vacation.

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Zack has always been the one with the ideas. With his harshness he always makes his plans work. Even if it means getting a little roughed up.

"599!" One of the men that hunted them apparently had decided to negotiate with them. "Just surrender peacefully and you will be treated properly."

Dr Cox was watching with amazement how the young man the thought he know chuckled coldly and answered in the other man's place.

"Yeah right. There's no way that the Colonel is gonna embrace us and welcome us back!"

The man beside him gave him a cold glare.

"What? Are you the only one that's allowed to crack witty comments?" J.D whispered to him.

Zack just shook his head and then his face was shining like a big lamp. He made a few quick hand signals to J.D who grimly shook his head. They were in this together. There was no way he was letting Zack doing all the fun himself.

Zack rolled his eyes in frustration and then he showed up three fingers while slowly counting down with them.

J.D barely waited for the last finger to vanish completely before he rushed up and used his X5-speed running through the hall to the place where his hunters were.

The men before them looked at him in shock and he made a quick move with his foot that got the other man on his back. The second guy didn't register the other X5 behind him, so all he could remember after wards were seeing his partner fight X5-992 and then everything went black.

Zack held his gun visible for the personal that were crouching on the floor. J.D quickly finished the last guy with a punch in the face and then turned around.

"Alright people listen up. We're not here to hurt you. We just want to get out of here"

Dr Cox came up.

"Hurt? Yeah right. It doesn't seem that way to me by looking at them."

"They started it." Zack said glaring. He didn't like the older man.

"Oh yeah, be a 5 year old." Cox said and then start mimicking him. "He stole my Barbie, so I have to hit his head and make him bleed because it was my Barbie!"

Zack were faster then J.D this time. He quickly pinched Doctor Cox to the wall and aimed the gun on his head.

"I don't what your problem is, but you better be really careful with who you're making fun of!" Zack had very dangerous gleam in his eyes. And J.D saw it.

"Zack!" J.D said with a commanding voice trying to get his brother's attention.

"I'm surprised you lived this long, because my brother is not a patient man. You think he will stop me from pulling this trigger? Do you think he will miss those weird cracking comments you make him listen to everyday?" Zack continued, he was smiling evilly now.

J.D looked shortly at the nurses in the room and saw the look he never wanted them to see. Fear.

They feared him and Zack because of who they were. J.D tried to ignore the lump in his throat that had turned up. He would have to leave this life, his life as J.D.

Damn it! He liked this life. He had friends and a family for the first time in his life since Manticore.

His unit had been his family. He loved his brothers and sisters. He truly did.

But for the first time…this had been a normal life. He liked being J.D and ignoring the other part of him. The killer within him.

"Zack knock it out! Leave him alone, this is who he is. Haven't you always told me to accept yourself for who you are? Accept Doctor Cox for being a jerk with a heart." J.D found himself saying out loud.

"Hey! You're ruining my reputation newbie!" Cox scowled through the fear he had for the man in front of him.

"Soldier…" Zack said warningly.

"No Zack! Leave him alone. Can't we walk out of a place normal for once? Without killing anyone?" J.D pleaded with him and Zack turned his head and caught the eyes of his little brother.

They were filled with grief. Grief of knowing that these humans feared him for who he was.

"Alright. You take the lead little bro. But if we must, we will defend ourselves." Zack said mildly and let go of the older Doctor.

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tbc...I'll start working on the new chapter as soon as I can. Thanks for the support once again.