Hello all! It's been a long time since I last updated but here it is and I hope you enjoy! Also my nephew got a hold of my keyboard and left you guys a little present in the middle of one section. I thought it was too funny so I just left it in. Please don't think that I had some kind of weird stroke or something.
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Phoebe, Bobby, and Trinity as well as Bryce and Ruby were all sitting in a circle on the ground in Phoebe's hotel room. They were discussing how their vacation was going when Bryce decided to bring up what he had witnessed at lunch on the previous day.
"So I needed to talk to you guys about something… Back in February we all agreed to share stuff when we think something bad is gonna happen right?" Bryce announced seeing Bobby look over with furrowed brows and the others looking a bit surprised.
"That's right" Bobby started to respond, "Are you ok?" He added to which Bryce slowly nodded.
"Raina, River and Markus told me that Max's new boyfriend isn't a very nice guy and that I need to keep an eye on him when he's with Max…" Bryce told them, "Well the other day I saw him try to grab Max by the arm and when he phased his arm back, Troy grabbed him even harder…" He continued seeing Phoebe and Trinity both go wide eyed.
"Why would he do that?" Phoebe asked the metal manipulator who sighed softly.
"Me and Rubes started talking about this triple that us, Max, Shy and you and Jay went on" He said pointing over to Trinity, "Well they walked away for a minute and when I followed them I heard Troy yelling at him." Bryce added to his story seeing Bobby and Ruby begin to look angry and the other girls gain worried expressions.
"We need to talk to Max about this… he doesn't have to take that off anybody!" Bobby responded earning several nods of agreement from the group.
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Blake and her large group of friends had been walking the streets of San Juan, PR for several hours buying souvenirs for the friends and family that were waiting back home. Blake decided to ask her former roommate Trinity what kind of drama she had missed out on after having noticed several shifty looks that were cast at Max's Boyfriend.
It seemed to her that many members of the group were against Troy participating in their activities.
"What's the deal with Troy?" The Feral girl asked her blonde friend who rolled her eyes at the mention of the elder mutant.
"He hurt Max…" Trinity whispered eyes narrowing slowly as she glanced back at Troy.
"How?" Blake questioned brow furrowing.
"Apparently Troy grabbed Max by the arm a couple of times like, full force and he gets super close and screams in his face and stuff…" She answered as she started looking at a necklace she was considering getting for her older sister Harmony.
"Max never struck me as the type to allow that sort of behavior… I'm really surprised…" Blake told her blonde friend who nodded her head and pulled her cellphone out of her pocket.
She had received a message from Bryce that said,
You should call him over and talk to him… you're his BFF and He might trust you more than the rest of us…
Blake spotted the message and nodded saying that she would stay close by incase, god forbid things would get ugly. The Shapeshifter called her friend over who slowly complied with boyfriend following close behind.
"What's up Trinity?" Troy quickly asked before Max could speak a word. The blonde panicked for a moment.
"The zipper is stuck on my bag and I need a tampon out of it!" She bullshitted seeing Troy become visibly uncomfortable, "I thought Max might be able to get one out!" She added to which Troy nodded and quietly said he was going to go look at a shirt close by, all the while keeping his eyes glued to Max.
"Why didn't you just go find Kitty?" Max asked her slowly.
Trinity had just noticed the lack of a shine in her friends' eyes that she had become accustom to. He looked visibly paler and very tired.
"You look like shit…" Trinity stated before going wide eyed. That wasn't what she had intended to start the conversation with but it kind of slipped out.
"Thanks…" Max told her giving her an awkward but slightly irritated look.
"Sorry that wasn't what I meant to say… are you doing ok?" She asked him seeing him look back at Troy and nod his head.
"I'm alright… why are you asking?" He questioned back defensively.
"I'm just worried Max… You're my best friend and you look like you need to talk" She began frowning, "Like you need help…" She added seeing him sighed and slouch for a minute.
"I can take care of myself Trinity!" Max responded volume raised higher than previously causing several of his friends to turn around and listen to them, "I'm not your little sidekick or your fucking dog or kid or whatever you expect me to be and I don't need you jumping to my rescue-This conversation is over!" He quickly added before she could interrupt. He rolled his eyes at her and stormed away causing many of his friends to look up with worried glances.
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Shylow was sitting in his hotel room with Bryce and Bobby. Jamie had skyped them shortly before and they managed to fill him in on everything Max and Troy in about thirty minutes. He hadn't been aware of what was going on with his ex-boyfriend until Max had snapped at Trinity. He couldn't imagine a person like Max would ever let someone be controlling over anything he did. After all their whole breakup happened because Max felt like he was being to clingy.
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"Trust me I don't wanna see anybody get hurt but I think we need to wait-" Bobby began before being hastily interrupted.
"And let Troy do something crazy… like take his eye?" Jamie spit back from Bryces phone causing Bobby to glare at the back of his head.
"We need to wait until we catch him in the act… We need to get buddy-buddy with Troy and then catch him when he thinks nobody is looking!" Bobby continued while ignoring the thing that Jamie had just said.
"Troy isn't going to listen to one of us after Trinity and Max fought this afternoon… we need to get someone on the inside who we don't really involve ourselves with…" Shylow stated making them all look at him with a strange look.
"Hey Nat can you come by my room for a minute?" Shylow called to his younger friend with his telepathy hearing the other chuckle to himself.
"I thought you don't dig in other people's brains" Nat replied with an inward giggle.
"I politely asked you a question, that isn't technically digging in anything!" Shylow began "anyway come on over and bring Nicky with you!" He continued seeing with the eye in his mind that the younger boy looked disappointed at the mention of his brother joining them.
When the twins arrived to their older class mates room they both looked less than pleased. Nat seemed uncomfortable and Nicky was mildly irritated.
"How have you been?" Bobby asked them before the elder brother rolled his eyes.
"Cut the bullshit and tell me what you want Shylow!" Nicky proclaimed with a calm but demanding tone. The telepath sighed audibly before one of his friends began to speak.
"Max's boyfriend is a violent fucker..." Bryce declared from the floor, "He hurt him and we want to make sure he doesn't do anything worse than he already has!" He added seeing both elfin twins look concerned.
"What can we do?" Nat asked the metal manipulator softly.
"We know that Nicky, you're friends with Max and you clearly don't like Shylow… we want you to keep close to Max and make sure he's safe… do whatever it takes!" Jamie explained noting how Nat began to look nervous.
"I think they might have seen me and Shylow together the other day… Won't they know something is up?" Nat questioned looking down at the floor. Nicky poked his brother and shook his head at him before nodding him out the door.
After several moments, they heard loud shouting outside the room. The three boys present peeped their heads out of the door and saw that several others including Max had done the same as Nicky was all but screaming his brother down in the hallway.
After a minute of shouting Nat was starting to lose a few tears. Nicky went storming off and headed toward Max for comfort. When the phaser's door closed, Nat darted back to the room he had previous occupied.
"Are you crying?" Shylow asked standing up in concern. Nat quickly wiped his face and went back to looking completely normal before holding up a finger.
Less than a minute later his phone chimed from his pocket as he received a text from Nicky that simply read 'We're in'.
"You two are fucking devious… remind me not to fuck with you… like ever!" Bryce told the younger who gave him a small smile.
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So that was that! Be sure to read and review! -LB