Summary: Mega might finally have found love only to find out that he will loose it if he cannot prove his love by midnight. With other complications in the Mall, will he ever manage it?
Pairings: Mava, Rega, Slebony, Jady and Lex/Ram – some only references to though.
Rating: NC-17 for references to sex.
Disclaimer: I own nothing; the Tribe belongs to Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas. All I do is destroy their characters in fanfic.
Chapter Four
"I hate you, you bastard". Ebony's words thundered down the halls of the Mall sending the message to its inhabitants to take cover as Ebony was on the war path once more. No sooner had the rumbling died down than a loud crash could be heard followed by muffled curses.
The fragments of Tai-San's crystal lay on the floor at Lex's feet, "Why?" He asked, the glimmer of a tear in his eyes as the sight of the shattered remnants of his last reminder of his dead wife stared him in the face.
Lex and Ebony had had an on the off then on again relationship for a few months now and they had had their fair share of fights and steamy make up sessions yet she had never gone so far as to try to really hurt him like this before. She had accepted that his heart belonged to another and he knew that he was just a method of getting over Slade.
"Why?" Ebony's voice made a whinny impression of his own, "Because I felt like it. Do you not get it? I am sick of you. I am sick of waking up in the morning to see your ugly face drooling all over me. To see you pretending that you still love Tai-San and that you are morning when you have slept with half the mall since her death", she now growled.
"I should just leave you right now; I do not even know why I came here. Probably because I felt sorry for you. Poor little Lexy boy, no wife, no girlfriend, nothing. That is what you are Lex, nothing. That is all that you have ever been and ever will be. You think that people are afraid of you? Well here is the truth sweetie, no one ever feared you, they were repulsed by you", she ranted her frustrations.
"Stop it Ebony", Lex warned in an oddly calm manner.
"Stop What? Oh what's the matter does the truth hurt? No one ever respected you Lex; you were never a great warrior Lex. You were always a weak little boy who had to be looked after by the others. What do you tell yourself at night? How do you live with yourself without remembering how you tried to rape Zandra, how you were forced out of being leader? Oh that is right Lex; I know all about that, everyone does. I do not know why I even came here", she spat, her spite filling her.
Lex snapped, for months he had been taking this from her, letting her use him because of the way that he had felt about her for all of those years, yet it was gone now, there was nothing in her that he loved anymore. The once proud and ruthless Ebony had lost her force, she was no longer a warrior who commanded respect but some hurting little girl trying to cause as much as pain as possible in an attempt to relieve a little of her own suffering.
"You are here because you have no where else to go. Because no one in the world loves you anymore. You could live with that knowledge in the past when you thought that no one ever could, even when you thought that you had lost Slade's love because you pushed Ruby in front of the truck in the battle against the Technos, but I guess it was just too much for you to know that he still loved you. He came to take you back and you through pure pride pushed him away and sentenced yourself to misery", Lex announced, his tone honest yet guilt sodden as despite what Ebony had done and said to him, he still had no wish to hurt her as much as he knew that these words would. Yet, they had continued this charade for too long, it was finally time for some honesty and a few home truths.
His words pierced Ebony like a knife in the heart; she knew that he was right, she could remember the second that Slade had come to apologise to her and that she had blown everything. She should have never fought with him in the first place, it was a stupid thing to do, she should have known that Ruby was lying, she had said so often enough so why oh why could she not, just have believed it?
As she thought about it, the memory of the fight and its events swarmed back to her, making her relive the awful scene when all that she wanted to do was forget that it had ever happened.
"Ebony how could you do something like that, how could you try to kill my child?" Slade asked her resting his head in his hands, hardly able to believe what he had just heard. His girlfriend, the woman that he loved enough to spend the rest of his life with had just pushed the possible mother of his child in front of a truck.
She gulped slightly as the skin around her neck became all hot and uncomfortable as if she was a small child being told off; she could hardly believe how angry and distraught he was. Part of her wanted to hold him and make him feel better until she realised that he was angry at her.
Immediately all thoughts of reconciliation vanished, no one spoke to her like that if they wished to continue living, "Well she was not pregnant was she? No, she was just a sad little liar and if I had not pushed her then she probably would not have even told you, she would have let you believe that you were a father and destroyed your relationship with me over it until she managed to get her claws back into you. Do you not see that she is the one that you should be mad at, she lied to you, not me?"
Slade took in a deep breath, before exhaling slowly trying to clam himself down for a moment, "Ebony, you do not understand. The point is that you believed that she was pregnant with my child and tried to kill it. As far as you were concerned you did kill the child and you think that that is acceptable. I am not your property Ebony, you cannot change what I have done and we cannot have a relationship if you find it so impossible to trust me".
"So that is it, we are over?" Ebony spoke after what seemed like an eternity. She could not understand it; with a few sounds he had destroyed their relationship.
"Ebony …" Slade said extending a hand to touch her but she recoiled from him as if his arm was a serpent, "Do not Slade, just do not", she said with a defeated sigh. "You know something you were the first guy that I ever really loved. I mean, I have been infatuated with someone before, even managed to make myself believe that I was in love but I have never really been in love before and the truth is that I do not know why I am so crazy in love with you, but I do not care. Maybe you can switch your feelings off easily but I cannot. If you cannot see that I love you and that everything that I did was for love of you then you are the stupidest guy in the world because one day you will realise it and it will kill you knowing that you turned your back on love. I am going to be fine without you, but you … I hope the knowledge that you lost the one woman in the world who could make you happy and who truly loves you, sends you to a lonely grave"
With that Ebony left the room her head held high and the tears held inside as she had done so many times before, she would go on with life as she always had, without Slade, without anyone to love her and she would … she would … she did not know, but she would make sure that she survived and that she got her revenge on Ruby for everything that she had caused.
She walked into the Café where she saw Ruby and Lex together, Ruby doing her best to appeal to Lex's sexuality and as Ebony saw she was doing rather a good job of it yet Ebony would not allow Ruby to think herself desirable.
Without giving herself time to think, Ebony walked straight over to Lex and ran her hand down him arm getting his attention quickly. Lex leant back in his seat and appraised Ebony's body knowing what she wanted from the way that she had touched him.
"Excuse me we were talking", Ruby's voice cut in, as she tried to get Lex's attention back yet he was long gone, yet another helpless victim of Ebony's charms.
"Well thank-you for trying to keep him amused until I got here but now I do not think that there is any use for you, come on Lex", she said simply walking off to his room with him in tow. Lex walked into his room after Ebony and asked, "You and Slade have a fight?"
"How did you know?" Ebony asked, shocked at how well he knew her. Every time that she was in trouble Lex always seemed to be there, and the strange thing was that he was always trying to help her rather than hurt her. They had stopped fighting against each other the day that they had kissed in the cage yet they could never have been called friends.
"Because otherwise you would be with him rather than coming to cry on my shoulder", Lex announced as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "I do not cry", Ebony objected.
"Everyone does, and the sooner that you accept that 'sweetheart' the better because playing the tough bit has not been working for you now has it? If you are not here to cry what are you here for?" He wondered, normally when she was really upset she came to him and he was only too happy to try and make her feel better although if it was not that then he was out of ideas.
"Sex", Ebony said simply, pushing him gently to the bed so that she was stood between his open legs, "Come on Lex, we both know that you have had a crush on me since we first met, so why not take what you want so much?"
Lex swallowed, he was Sexy Lexy, he took what he wanted, he followed no rules, he wanted Ebony and loved sex … yet he could not do this, "I cannot", he said after a minute, holding her hips, "it is not that I do not want to, because believe me I do but it is not fair, you are hurting, you will regret it in the morning".
"No, I will not", Ebony denied, forcing her lips onto his and straddling his waist focusing him to lie down on the bed.
"Yes. You. Will." He managed to gasp in between heated kisses until Ebony ground against his manhood causing all other thoughts of fly from his mind., "Fine you asked for it", he growled primitively flipping her under him.
Ebony cursed herself for her stupidity, even after sleeping with Lex she could still have patched things up with Slade if she had not been so proud.
The next morning Ebony got out of Lex's bed feeling as bad as she had done the day before although a little calmer but a lot more dirty. She was glad that Lex had a converted ensuit that she used to shower.
After spending a good 30 minutes under the steamy hot water she felt a little better and wrapping herself in one of Lex's clean shirts she walked over to the door and heard voices. Placing her ear against the door she realised that it was Slade, he was probably wondering where she was thinking that she had left so that she would never have to see him again or something like that.
Her decision made Ebony pressed against the door she was going to show herself to Slade, she was going to show him that he was not the only man in her life and what he was missing, yet as Slade came into view, she heard more of his words.
"Please Lex, I have to find Ebony, I have to tell how sorry I am. I need her too much, I know that I can work things out with her", Slade's words hit Ebony as she revealed herself to him. Her eyes widened as she realised that she had just screwed up any chance of a future with him, for good.
As Slade's eyes filled with the sight of Ebony he thought that he was going to be sick. There was the woman that he loved, in another man's shirt, after spending the night in another mans bed.
"Do not say anything Ebony", he warned her as he left, "we are over".
Ever since that moment Ebony had hated herself and others even more, any chance to hurt another person, no matter how small she was exploit it trying to make them feel as terrible as her yet she was not going feel any better she finally realised.
Slowly tears dripped from Ebony eyes, "He's never going to love me again is he Lex? I'm never going to feel okay again, am I? Will I just die like this?"
Lex should have been mad or something after what she had said a few minutes ago yet he simply could not stand seeing Ebony so upset and quickly gathered her into his arms and rocked her back and forth, "It will be alright one day Ebz".
"Why can I not fall for you, Lex?" She asked as she calmed down a little, "for the same reason that I cannot fall for you, we are both meant to be with someone else", he replied in a solemn tone.
"Siva?" Ebony asked.
"No".
Ebony looked up at him in confusion wondering who it could be if it was neither her nor Siva. Neither of them guessed that there was someone else listening to their conversation.