Love Stuck Delusion

Chapter 245 - A house of animals.

Raptor's POV.

I had to knock to enter my own home. In seconds Peek of all people answered the door to see us all standing there. Giving us a smile he said with a happy tone.

"Well it's about time."

I huffed my way by him and at the same time the bird noticed Molly who came running in to start barking. It took her a matter of seconds to sniff out Pepper who was in my kitchen looking over something she had on the table in there. I didn't bother looking anywhere else and just proceeded to go over to her. Zeta and Cody got themselves inside. Peek then closed and locked the door behind them and with Zeta heading on over to catch up with me she asked.

"What did I miss Pep?"

As I got a good look over what the hell she had going on, I picked up on the fact that what sat on my kitchen table was a large set of combat armor. It resembled an EOD vest and my memory recalled Cody once wearing it. In fact it had his PMC's logo which made that even more true to my memory. Pepper had her body placed in a chair and she was head deep into what looked like a small generator. She had all her bags down here with her and I could only guess she was taking it apart. Keeping her head stuffed in her work, she replied as I went to the fridge to get a bottle of water.

"Nothing much yet. I'm working on getting out the power source from this shitty little backstreet container they decided to use as a shielding unit."

The other wolf got right into the mix and as I shut the fridge I turned around just in time to see Peek and Cody coming on over to see what was going on. Peek must have been dealing with this for a few minutes already, because it was clear they were concerned what the girls had in mind for what I could only assume was their company's property. With the same sense of concern Cody asked.

"What are you ladies planning to do?"

Zeta got her hands on a small screwdriver from one of her sister's bags and listened as Pepper replied.

"Not make this thing weigh two hundred pounds for starters. We can easily get this under thirty pounds with the right materials. But we need to get this generator your company put together cracked open. I wana see just how they got this to work."

"I call dibs on that after you're done getting it disassembled."

"Ahhhh kiss my ass?" Pepper replied as Zeta quickly followed up by stating.

"I'm the one who's experienced in shield tech. You're better at wiring and installation. So let's split the work here. Finish getting that open and hand it over. I already know two ways to make the housing smaller and more durable. While I'm doing that you should look at the tesla coils and see if you can work that magic you got."

Pepper gave her sister a nod despite her last remark and replied as she got the casing open.

"I'll show you magic. I'm already seeing where they fucked up. Look at this shit."

Zeta leaned right in and I began to shake my head in amusement to all this. It was clear these two were going to be here all night. I wanted to only ask one question before leaving the room. So I looked to Cody and Peek to ask.

"Shield tech?"

The boys nodded and together split the answer. With Peek starting off by stating.

"It's a prototype from Shader Industries. Mark seven combat armor. Half our budget goes towards science projects like this believe it or not."

My gaze went to Cody as he finished giving me my answer.

"It's a working model. Only reason I didn't have a hole in me when you came out to save Peek. It generates an electric current that goes around the area where the padding is present. But if given enough force, a large enough round, or multiple rounds, the current itself can break and the shields will go down. I think that's what happened after I got hit. Some of the coils blew."

"They didn't blow. Your little ass sat down and they shattered." Pepper told him as he started to laugh.

In time Molly was in between the girls trying to figure out what was going on. During which time, I got over to them to tap her on the back of her head ordering.

"Come with me Molly. Leave them alone so they can work."

The girl understood but still wanted to give Pepper a kiss or two. She licked her arm and Pepper couldn't help but start to pet her as I was already on my way out of the kitchen. Molly was soon behind me as Cody turned around to begin following me too as I went for the stairs. As I started the climb up, he asked me as Peek slowly came out to the living room.

"What's the plan for tonight?"

Stopping on the step I was on, I looked back at the smiling fox to question.

"I'm going to head up and meditate. You looking for an order?"

Giving me a shrug he replied.

"No. Just something to do."

"Well you can either sit and relax or come up with me. You come up though and I'd expect you to keep quiet. I need to focus."

"Deal." Cody replied as he began to climb. Looking to Peek I asked.

"You coming too?"

Shaking his head he replied as he sat down on the couch.

"I'm good sir. Just gonna rest my eyes."

Nodding my head I continued my way up to my room. At which point Cody was alongside me scratching his head. Looking at the kid as he had his hat off I asked.

"You should get a shower. How long has it been? Alaska?"

Cody chuckled and hung outside my room as he thought it over. In a few seconds as I got my bedroom light on he replied.

"Yeah. It's been a good few days. You sure it's okay?"

Nodding my head as I walked over to my bed I replied.

"It's more than okay. I'd assume all of you need one, so you might as well go first. Peek wants to rest his eyes and the girls won't be jumping in for god knows how long thanks to your pet project down there. So get in before it smells like a wet dog and bird."

"Alright hahaha. Just so you know though, Peek doesn't smell. Haha." Cody laughed back as Molly came running into the room and started looking around.

I got myself seated and began to undo my belt. Cody watched and once it was off told me.

"Well don't get into any trouble while I'm under the water. Molly?"

"Braf!" Her whole body turned to face him as he ordered her with a smile.

"Make sure nothing happens while I'm gone. Okay?You're in charge."

"Braf! Braf!"

Cody instantly began to laugh more and at that moment I decided to fuck with him. Getting back up, I approached the fox to say to him directly and with a very calm voice.

"I love her Cody but listen here. No one around this house is in charge of me. Even her." My finger pointed back to Molly who instantly began to growl at me. My eyes however remained focused on the fox. Cody himself was unsure why I got so up close to tell that to him. I had a feeling he somewhere knew my intent, but I began to sigh as he tried to back up an inch. Then I just went for it and reached out to grab him by the wrist. Instantly he questioned.

"What's going on?"

Letting out a breath and dragging him back, I replied while extending my other hand out from his view. Which was solely locked on me.

"You clearly don't understand Cody. So…?"

Gently grabbing him by the neck much like I did Zeta or her sister, Cody was surprisingly resistant. He tried to shake me off for a second, but that stopped when I used what energy I had left to take him off his feet and backwards into my door. At which point his personality shut off. He went limp and was just staring at me as I finished my last sentence at long last.

"How about I just say it again? No one in this house is in charge of me. Not even….?"

"Molly?" He asked with a voice that betrayed his PMC soldier look. He was being well behaved and I could barely make out the accent. His tone was so low and careful not to upset me further. Yet I couldn't lie to you, but this moment felt good for me. Seeing the little fox stay perfectly still under my control made me smile again. Sadly I wasn't planning much else then this. Zeta would have my head if she saw this going on.

Keeping the fox pressed into the wooden door, I replied with a bit of laughter behind my voice.

"Exactly."

Things when quiet for a few seconds. Cody just remained staring at me and in time he whispered.

"What are you trying to do to me?"

This was too perfect. Looking him right in the eyes, I replied while leaning in towards his ear.

"Nothing."

My voice bounced off his ears like butter. That's when I started to squeeze him just a little more. During which I told him.

"I just like fucking with ya….you little snowcone."

Cody was all red in the face. Even more than before and now he was stunned by the comment I just made. So I decided to let him go. The boy went down a few inches to land on his feet and with his breath lost and unable to muster complete fluid sentences, he replied back with that same obedient tone.

"You need to stop calling me that please. I already want to kill Peek for saying it in front of you to begin with. Please….please don't make me."

"Make you do what? You gonna try something?" I asked him back as he instantly fell silent. Cody was completely lost once again for how to react to what was happening around him. Licking his lips and doing his best not to make any more eye contact, Cody whispered back.

"Just…..Just stop. I get the point. You fucking asshole."

"Oh I really hope you do. Now go on. Go get nice and clean." I urged him as his face again went red. Slowly I watched as he backed up into the hallway. Where the whole time our eyes remained locked on one another. Once he was a few feet away he felt his neck and coughed. Then he turned around and went to the bathroom which was directly across from me. Before he shut the door I again pushed him by saying.

"Have a good time."

He proceeded to give me his finger and then I finally decided to break character and start laughing. Molly was behind me now just watching as I shut the door to get the room sectioned off from the madness outside.

"Braf! Braf!" Looking down to Molly, I picked her up and walked us over to the bed where I put her down and said.

"I'm gonna be trying to focus baby. You understand?"

"Braf!" She replied as I smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed. Laying back in a matter of seconds, I felt this urge to stretch. Molly bit at my hands as I spread them out wide behind my head. After which I let out a long sigh and shut my eyes. It would only take a minute or two for me to zone out. Problem was still the question that lingered in the back of my head from earlier.

What the hell was my body doing? Normal venom I was okay with, but whatever dose Peek has is beyond my imagination. I could feel my head still bumping, and the goal with this rest was to sleep it off and hope to have the energy later to better combat it. It wasn't internal so I couldn't do much to cheat my way out of this pain. It had to be DNA and that confused me to no end since Zeta claims it couldn't be bonding with me on that kind of level without feeling it. I just knew for a fact I wasn't much of a person anymore. My body was frozen and no amount of age would change that. But was this something my body couldn't handle despite being a demi? As I started to drift off I heard the water across the hall turn on.

Pepper's POV.

"Fifty million on this. I can't believe that. I hope whoever Shader has running his books knows that they're being fucked. Cause this is easily a million or two dollars worth of effort." I told my sister as she was already on the case for how to get the capacitors to kick up twice as much juice.

When we used to do this kind of stuff for G.U.N we'd always go all out on what we were working on, but this armor had so much wrong with it that it made me physically sick. I wanted to kick the shit out of whoever ran these wires. They had to be half brain dead doing this. It's no wonder Cody broke the fucking thing. The wire itself was so fucking cheap I found it hard to understand how Shader is in top of it's class for miliatary grade techinogol devolpment. With Zeta looking over to me she questioned.

"Is that even threaded right?"

Raising my voice I replied.

"No! None of it is!"

Zeta began to chuckle under her breath as I was clearly getting my work in. With her going silent, we were both focused on our jobs. Then out from the living room we heard something loud topple over. Both our heads shot back to find that bird friend of Cody's dumping out what looked like nails onto Raptor's coffee table. In confusion Zeta asked him.

"What you doing over there Peek?"

Looking back at us as he had his hands on a few select nails, he replied.

"Fixing me another toy. I used one up not that long ago when I was out in Pakistan with Cody."

He had my interest the second I heard him say toy. Carefully putting down my screwdriver, I got up and proceeded to head out to see what he meant. My eyes saw he had a small pipe in his left hand. It looked like plastic and my eyes got wide as I leaned over his shoulder to question.

"Are you making a pipebomb?"

Nodding his head, he replied as he carefully set in the nails.

"It's crude but it works as a great room clearing device. I had the pleasure of seeing it in action when we were escorting Ying out of the city. Tore through armor like butter."

"I love that!" Zeta shouted from the kitchen as I chuckled and leaned in close to the bird to ask him quietly.

"Let me ask you something because you seem pretty chill for an American. Is Cody gay?"

Peek started to laugh almost instantly, but that was to be expected. However he looked over to me for just enough time to state.

"He's bi as far as I know."

"You ever screw around with him? You seem like the fruity type."

Now his face went red as I asked that. Zeta thankfully wasn't listening as we were stuck staring at one another for a good minute. After some time, I added on more questions for him seeing that he was stuck on giving me any live answer just yet.

"You don't have to lie to me. I was just curious. You two are best friends right?"

Gripping his pipe hard, he replied with his voice shuttering slightly.

"I mean…..I mean maybe? Does it matter? We haven't done anything crazy for a long time. Wait? What the fuck am I telling you this for? I don't even know you. Do you and your sister fuck around?"

Cocking him my eyes I replied.

"Of course we do dumb fuck. I'm not judging. I'm just curious. Don't get all worked up on me. Where did you learn how to make shit like this?"

The bird took a moment, but came back to his normal self and refocused on the nails on the table. As he reached out to grab a few more he replied to my question.

"I was an engineer for G.U.N when I first joined the military. I worked mainly on field communications and dabbled some of my down time into just putting shit together. It was a little harder back then, but ever since I joined up with Shader I've had more freedom to experiment. Of course a pipe bomb had been around for years before my verison, but it's not mass produced by any means. I enjoy crafting things up that can save my life. Taking them is just that much more thrilling after it works."

"Hmm." I mumbled as I watched him fill in some more space in the pipe. After a moment he asked me.

"So what about you and your sister? You said you were Spetsnaz and that you worked with G.U.N at some point right? Clearly you're smart so what did you guys do before this?"

"Oh jeez that's a list of things. You want to know that you can go ask her. All I can tell you is that I killed people."

"Attractive." Peek Replied back as I chuckled and made my way back to the kitchen. As I sat down Zeta whispered to me.

"Did you ask?"

"Yeah. You were right."

"Hahah. Told you he couldn't just be into guys. You still have a chance."

Slapping her in the arm as my way of punishing her for that joke, I listened as she shouted.

"Oww you mother….?! I'm handling fragile equipment!"

"I am too. My heart you bitch." Zeta again broke out into a laugh and with my focus returning in a matter of seconds, I let out a sigh and fell back into my work.

Marcus's POV.

I stood over by the window and just allowed Raptor to keep focused. He knew I was going to say something to him about earlier. He was just trying to avoid it as long as he could. However he would have to address me at some point. He knew I was here. Not like I just wanted the chance to tell him how much he owed me again; there was a small matter I wanted to talk to him about.

Slowly I looked away from the window and to the man himself. I could feel his body giving off this weird aura. It was from the venom and I was unsure just how bad it would get if he was left on his own. I wasn't questioning his ability to take a hit, but I was more concerned with just how many problems have been coming up these last few days. The man nearly died twice and it's been a week at most. For someone in his position I'd start firing guards. They suck at their jobs. Even now no one was checking on him and I knew what Zeta thought just after she managed to get him under control. She knew he could go off again. She knows it would be bad, but where is she now? Downstairs playing with some clothing.

"Ahhhhhhhh." I moaned out as I looked at the door. Everyone was doing their own things. I guess till someone decides to take my place, I'll hang out and make sure he stays safe. Safe and calm.

Looking down at my chest, I rested my eyes on Shadow's vest I had on. My face lost it's normal cheeky grin as I questioned for a moment why I was even wearing this. I could choose to wear anything, yet I choose this? Why does it matter that much to me? Why does it bother me?

My eyes glanced back over to Raptor. I stared at his face as he was more or less asleep. However I was slowly starting to feel bothered by my last question. After probably two minutes I decided enough was enough and began to undo the vest. In a matter of seconds I had it off and on my lap. This thing was worth plenty in just sentimental value I'd be willing to bet to Raptor. Hopefully he'd thank me at least for thinking about him.

"Braf!"

My eyes shifted back down to the floor just under where Raptor's feet were. Slowly I was staring at Molly who was just sitting there watching me as I put the vest down on the edge of the bed. After I was done, I looked back at the dog to ask.

"What?"

"Braf!" She replied as I began to chuckle and take a seat back down over by the window. In moments, I was caught off guard. Molly came running right on over to tug at my pants with her teeth. Giving her a confused look back I questioned.

"What do you want? Do you know who your biting girl?"

She shook her head back and forth as she tugged me and without much effort I shook her free and repositioned myself so that I was facing her. Letting out a sigh as I bent forward, I picked her up by the sides and brought her onto my lap. From there she licked at my face and quickly I ordered her.

"Stop that. Ahhh. Your breath stinks."

"Braf Braf!" She replied as our eyes locked once again.

"Ughhhh."

mT Shadow.