Pheromones

by : Dru

Chapter. 13

Disclaimer in chapter 1

Words : 1263

A/N : This chapter has been mostly done for like two weeks or more, but I was just unhappy about it. So, I kinda re-wrote it and then some stuff didn't fit because it was just filler but I didn't want to loose it but didn't know how to flesh it out and be happy about it. But finally tonight I got the inspiration (Evanescene) to finish it. Actually it served like a break from My NaNo '05 fic which is seriously behind and just lame 7 pages (when this was first written). Couldn't even harm a small dog as someone said it was supposed to be able to do in the start of week 2. (Not that I would want to harm a small dog with my story. lol) But on with the fic. I hope you enjoy it and leave a reply. Please?

Mckenas Cole was waiting in an hotel room for his new team. He was seriously bored. He fell asleep in one of the comfy beds. When he came into the dining room he saw someone sitting in the living room with freaky hair. Maybe one of the team?

He walks to the living room and stands in front of the woman who had her nose in a book. He clears his throat and she looks up. That face brings back some painful memories.

"Pigtails? What are you doing here?" He asks her, as she puts a bookmark in the book and puts the book in her lap and looks up again at him.

"Well, I'm on your team. More you're on MY team." She tells him, smirking at him and he thought he had seen that smirk somewhere before.

"Really? So, I guess Arvin has done something to drive you away. Too bad I wasn't there." He tells her, smiling as he sat down on a chair opposite the couch.

"Oh, shut up." She tells him, as she rolled her eyes. He was about to say something back to that, but Lauren walks into the room and slumps down but does it with grace next to Sydney on the couch. Sydney gives Lauren the book, asks her what took so long and then looks through Lauren's bags as she told her why she was so late. Obviously from some fancy stores. Cole looks at them interacting with each other.

"You two know each other?" Cole asked them, as Lauren read the book and Syd inspected the new clothes. Lauren looked up from the book, at Sydney and then Cole. He was an odd duck to Lauren, always had been. Also Sydney had told her that he seemed to have an obsession with hair.

"I'd think that'd be pretty obvious by now. So, Syd, what do you think?" Lauren told Cole, before turning to Sydney for her input on the clothes. They had both been shopping that day, but Lauren had wanted to hit one more store before coming and Syd had to go meet up with Sark.

"I like them. Good choices." Sydney told Lauren, and Cole was about to say something but they hear the front door open and Sydney stood up to go greet Sark, who brought her bags that she had forgotten when she got a call from her mom telling her where to meet their new partner and where to get a key to the room.

She sees her bags and gets a goofy smile on her face. She grabbed the bags and planted a kiss on his cheek before going to the bedroom, Cole had earlier fallen asleep in, to change into her new clothes. Why they needed a fourth person she didn't know. She didn't think Cole was necessary, but what her mom said was done and not to be argued about.

After years of missions that required her changing clothes quickly it only took her a few minutes to change, the hard part was to decide what to wear first. Then she walked out, bare foot, to where Sark was waiting for her and did a little circle for him to see the whole picture. Then he put a hand on her waist and they walked into where Lauren was still reading Sydney's book, but looked slightly miffed at Cole. He probably said something she thought was offensive.

"Blondie." He only tells Sark when he sees the couple walk in, which makes Sark really want to roll his eyes but he doesn't since he's not one known to do so and he wouldn't want his reputation tarnished.

"So, I think we're all here." Sydney tells them, as she sits down beside Lauren again and Sark sits beside her. It looked kinda divided. The three in the couch and then Cole alone in a chair. He wasn't the third wheel, because the couple didn't seem to mind Lauren but all three seemed kinda indifferent to Cole, which he did not like one bit.

"Pigtails, tell me something. Were you aware of who I worked for when we met those years ago at SD-6?" He asked her, as she read over Lauren's shoulder. She looked up from the book, her eyes had this deadly calm thing going on. So like her mother. He really should keep his mouth shut, but it wasn't in his person to do so so he kept on blurting stupid questions out.

"Yep, I knew. You acted like an damn idiot. Sark did a better job in Asia." She told him, without taking her eyes away from the book again. Off course she would say her boyfriend, not that he knew for sure that that was what Sark was, sitting right next to her did a better job and the fact that it was true, but like Cole would ever admit that he did a crappy job.

"Off course you'd say that, he's your damn boyfriend. At least looks like it." Cole mumbled under his breath, and Sydney looked up from the book and smiled. Creepy smile, is what he thought, like it was all sweet and kinda taunting but underneath was like something he couldn't explain just eerie.

Later that night :

Cole had gone out because the air was way hostile to him, and when he came back a few hours later the room was all dark except for the Tv in the living-room. He expected to find the happy couple all snuggled up in the couch watching something that would make him want to throw up.

No. On Tv was some vampire flick, and he didn't see anyone at first but when he went to turn the Tv off he heard someone say 'Hey, you're in our way of the Tv'. He turns around and sees Sydney & Lauren all nice and cozy under a blanket. Not the happy couple he expected. But this revelation was interesting. He wondered where pigtails's boyfriend was now, as she got all comfy with the blonde woman.

"Sorry, I didn't see you there. Where's Mr. Sark?" he asked them, but neither female moved or made an indication that they even heard him. He had looked around for Julian and didn't see him anywhere.

"Who knows. Maybe he went to sleep or something. He's not big on the vamps. I don't get, he's in this line of job and still he doesn't like bloody movies." Lauren tells Cole, and he could see the outline of a smile on her face. Cole got the feeling that Lauren was not one to mess with, he bet she really liked the bloody aspect of the job.

"Hey, be nice. Not everybody likes them. He happens to be one of them. Plus, we all know he's kinda weird sometimes." Sydney told Lauren, laughter stuck in her throat. Damn, looked like innocent looking pigtails was as twisted as the blonde woman with her. And people called him crazy.

"O...kay." Cole says, before walking away from them as they start to kinda chuckle. Those were two weird women, and he wondered how Sark put up with them. Cole wasn't sure he could withstand them. Sark had most likely gone to sleep, still recovering from that nasty but non-fatal flu that Cole heard that had been afflicting Sark a week or so earlier.

To Be Continued...

A/N # 2 : Seriously, for some reason I really do think that Sark wouldn't like vampire movies.