Summary
GDP 'secret' identity is going to be revealed.
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Chapter
They found another SUV a few meters ahead, behind a little mound that protected it from the fire: they quickly controlled it for hidden trackers, finding and destroying all three of them, hardwired it and got away at full speed, lights low.
They remained quiet for a while.
She dared occasionally to peep at him, still shocked by her discovery, while the only lights that lit him up were those of the dashboard.
Certainly the sight was rewarding: beautiful hands with long fingers gripping the steering wheel, a strong neck, two muscular arms flexing now and then, a toned torso with generous pectorals, long slender legs, and all of that in a fantastic frame of defined abs!
He was the living definition of 'hot like hell'!
Then she looked at the mask and she had to restrain herself not to laugh at how much the situation was funny!
"Ok.
I think you might feel a little bit more comfortable if you take away that ridiculous mask.
It seems really annoying!"
"What?" he asked, and the tension was perceivable even in the metallic sound of his voice.
"You know, the whole idea in wearing a mask is to hide one's identity.
But it is absolutely useless if said identity has already been discovered!" she said raising an eyebrow with a knowing look.
"What are you talking about?
Are you kidding me?" he looked at her, his voice almost squeaky…
"Come on!
Do you really think I wouldn't recognize you?
I started suspecting from yesterday night…
Those kisses… that mouth… those lips… that tongue… reminded me strongly of someone else… and there are things in life that are… unforgettable!
Nobody ever gave me such intense sensations…
Now you are almost naked, and I could recognize your body among thousands, my unfathomable GDP…
… alias 'Grant Douglas Ward'!"
He remained flabbergasted for a while.
She could only imagine his face and his rolling eyes under the mask and the image was so funny that she started giggling!
After those eliciting words and that disrespectful outburst, it could be heard a huff behind the mask.
But at the end he resigned, raised his right hand and took that piece of iron away.
Then he finally turned his face towards her with an almost miserable expression, looking at her with puppy dog's eyes…
She felt her heart become tender at that sight…
So, with a soothing low voice she said:
"Don't worry, Ward.
I will not stab you, or shoot you, or break your bones anymore.
I will not try to kill you again…"
"Finally!" he suspired with relief, with his own no more metallic voice.
"After all, I still owe you a dinner" she added.
And with this sentence she obviously implied a lot much more than the dinner he offered her some months ago: she didn't forget that she owed her own life to him…
Some other minute passed in total quiet, while miles and miles ran fast under the wheels of the car in the darkness of the night.
But then Skye couldn't restrain herself and exclaimed:
"So that's how you managed to kill Hive!
You are Inhuman, too, and you can master heat and fire!
It's incredible!" Skye's voice transmitted her awe.
"Yeah.
I guess my codename could be 'Hellfire', due to the fact that the fire I provoke isn't an earthly one… my unfathomable Quake, alias Skye, alias Daisy, alias Mary Sue Poots!"
At that Skye smiled:
"Hellfire and Quake… what a phantasmagoric couple!
You know?
I think this kind of power really suits you.
You have always been so controlled, like you feared to let go whatever you had inside…
And, now, your true nature is revealing itself: you have fire, inside!
You always had!"
"Yeah…
After all, you yourself said that I'm a hot guy…"
And he cursed himself an instant later those words slipped out of his mouth!
Skye rolled her eyes:
"Oh, yeah… I almost forgot that I compromised myself, on that damn island!"
But then she was suddenly thunderstruck by a suspect.
"Wait…"
He felt a chill go through his back…
She asked him, slowly, with her eyes in slits, her voice dangerously suspicious:
"Waaard?
Are you hiding something?"
"Hiding?
What do you mean?" he answered with his voice slightly shaking.
"Some time ago I had a very realistic dream, about a deserted island and the two of us…
And that was the only occasion in my whole life in which I said aloud that I actually find you hot.
How the hell could you know that I spilled out to your dreamy alter ego that private piece of information?"
"Better and better!
So now you think I'm dreamy, too?
I'm flattered!" he was smiling.
"Don't try to change the subject!
Hive could pervade our dreams when we were at the Shield base, and you passed several months in Its affectionate company… I wouldn't be surprised if you learned that capacity from It!
Now you have to talk! I will not ask you this again.
Do you have something to do with that damn dream?"
Ward looked almost scared of her… but gained all the courage he could muster and answered:
"Well… Yes …"
"Ooohhh! You are so dead!" and she slapped him on the shoulder.
He would be dead if a stare could kill!
An awkward silence unfolded between the two.
Ward broke it:
"I'm sorry…
I didn't mean to invade your dreams, but, when I heard you saying that you where sorry for 'stepping on my fingers while I was trying to hold myself', for 'pushing me down the precipice, instead of giving me a hand to grab and bring me back'…"
"How could you know that?!
I never said it loud!
I only thought it!"
And then the reality struck her:
"… have you become a… telepath?" her tone was unbelieving.
He couldn't do anything else than confess everything:
"Yes, I did.
And it is an extremely embarrassing thing…"
Skye was at loss of words, feeling like naked in front of him.
"After I heard your words, I couldn't hold myself and that night, after having seen you in the pub, I fell asleep strongly desiring to establish some sort of connection with you.
That dream simply came out of my imagination… and then you became part of it, accidentally… and, mind it, you too contributed to it like you wanted… I didn't force you in any way.
And from there, one thing led to another… and…"
"… and we almost had sex!" finished her for him.