Chapter 17

Interruptions, People, Interruptions

(Lex POV)

So, after running into a few more security guys, I finally managed to get bumped off.

Almost, anyways. I got shot in my arm. It's useless, hanging at my side limply.

I allowed Scar to stop the bleeding (which hurt like FUCK by the way) but I'm glad I didn't let him take me back to the ship.

Not yet.

It just so happens that I nearly get killed by my own sister. Rosy's on guard duty, apparently, while Spiky interrogates a human dressed in a white lab coat.

Well then.

"Rosy, would you relax?" I snap as she almost takes off my head with her blade.

She shrieks like a banshee at the sight of my arm.

"!"

"Please lower the volume of your voice…" I groaned," I'm fine, Rosalie."

The scientists sees us and pleads in pitiful tones," I'm only doing my job! Please get this brute to unhand me-"

"You will not speak to them. Now answer my question before I rip your arm off and allow you to bleed to death SLOWLY." Spiky speaks calmly in a loud, authoritative tone.

"We let loose five hybrids and, and one xenomorph drone. Th- the other bases have been… been experimenting with.. with manticore and xeno DNA… as well as draconic DNA."

"You have a dragon in one of the bases?" Rosy demanded, unable to keep herself from asking.

"No, all our living samples have died out." He smirks, adding with an arched brow, "I know about your precious little hybrid daughter. How you couldn't settle for someone of your own species. He abandoned you didn't he?"

I pity the fool who disses Rosy.

Spiky doesn't even have time to react as Rosy's suddenly there, her knife in hand, she stabs it into the dude's gut. He screams in pain as she pulls it out, getting ready to plunge it back in, but R'ka's faster this time, grabbing her by her wrist, he wrenches the knife away from her. But he doesn't growl at her. Instead, he uses the knife to pin the guy's jacket to the wall before stepping back.

He growls. "You are the most pathetic Ooman I have ever encountered. Are the other bases expecting us? And just what other abominations have you birthed?"

The scientist laughed, as though he had told the funniest joke ever. I raise an eyebrow. This dude has flipped his lid and gone off the deep end...

He replied to Spiky's question, smirking as he cackled, "I won't tell! Never! You can kill me now! Cause I'll die laughing!"

Spiky stabbed him in the knee, which made me jump.

But the man didn't seem to feel it as he screeched with laughter.

Rosy winced. "Oh man, he's snapped. Gone ballistic."

Spiky growls before slashing the man's throat. The scientist does indeed die laughing. At what though, we'll never know. I see nothing funny about any of this.

"We're done here." Spiky announced quietly as he moves towards the table that's somehow still intact in the center of the room.

A chorus of tiny beeping catches me off-guard as Spiky-Pants takes three little spheres from a pouch in his pants… which really are spiky, in case you couldn't tell from our nickname for him. Actually, Rosy came up with it. I ran with it. Suits him better then Yeti… I still have no idea where that came from.

Moving on, he holds all three of these things in his one huge palm as he presses a series of buttons in them.

I look at Scar, who sucks in breath," R'ka, those may blow up more then what needs to be blown up."

"They won't. I've modified them." He places the three on the table. I feel a shiver run down my spine. How much time do we have to get out?

He's already stalking forward, growling," Come… unless any of you wish to die."

See? Sour as… something I can't think of at the moment.

CRAP, my arm hurts...

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(Kha'bj-te POV)

I feel as though I may lose my mind. I can barely concentrate, and my mood is sour. As is the mood of the female who keeps sucking in breath as though she is having trouble breathing…

Her scent is so heavy, I AM choking.

But more then this… she claimed me. I do not know if she did it intentionally, knowing what it meant, but she did it.

I thought I was the one who would court her…

Instead, the situation has flipped. And much faster then I would have thought possible.

Pauk, in the elevator… she stared at me as though she would eat me. At first, I thought that's what was wrong with her. Llonngs are, after all, carnivores. But it turns out, she wanted something else entirely…

Too bad the elevator ride ended so soon.

So close to relief.

Hormones swirl in my senses.

Her growling voice breaks through my heated and confused thoughts," Do you know where you're going, Psycho?"

There's something different in her voice. A heat, a passion I have not heard her use.

It's… affecting my self control greatly.

"I'm following the dead bodies." I respond to her question, barely making myself coherent.

Sweet Paya, how I want her…

"Yeah, well it seems like we're going in fuckin' circles. That security bitch with the intestines and shit spilled out of his gut is starting to look familiar as hell."

Her language has become littered with ooman curses… more so then earlier in our acquaintance.

I believe I am affecting her the same way she is affecting me…

My chest swells slightly with pride at this thought. With a hidden smirk, I look back at her.

Everything about her is tensed and angry… passionate and raw.

Both ooman and dragon features blend so perfectly together in her form.

With these thoughts burning in my mind, I cannot help the low purr that starts deep within my chest.

Her face snaps over to me and I hear her growl.

"If ya don't stop makin' that sound, I'mma pin ya to the wall and fuck you."

Funny… I was just thinking the same thing. I decide to push my luck and my purring intensifies.

She shudders with a moan, her stance becoming predatory. I tense as she springs unexpectedly towards me…

But as Fate would have it, I am not clumsy this time. Timing myself, I move to the side as she comes crashing down and grab her by the base of her wing, which is some sort of weak point. She howls… but not with pain.

Paya…

She has me pinned to the floor.

Her body is hot, burning into my own.

Using her tail, she rips off her helmet and then knocks my mask off as she shoves her body into mine, her tail pinning my legs, her wings incapacitating my own arms as her nails dig into my shoulders. She hisses again, the pupils of her eyes dilated, her scent increasing as I struggle against her. Pauk, she can't be pinning me…

But she is.

My growling turns to a loud groan of pleasured pain as she savagely bites into my neck. Pauk, I had not expected that… nor did I expect it to feel so pauk-de good. Her teeth, sharp and strong, release my neck as she pulls back to look down on me, growling low in her throat. It sounds almost like a purr, but much more savage.

Her throat thrums with a pleased growl as I struggle to be released from her iron grip, to gain some foothold. She's smaller then I am, for Paya's sake, I should be the one dominating, not her!

At this moment, however, I notice something very disturbing… in fact, it's infuriating to me. I growl as I find the strength I need to roll her over. On the ceiling, silent as Cetanu, a Hard meat is stalking us. It's tail darts out in an attempt to stab through Kanani, just as I roll the both of us over, avoiding it's attack. I manage to fling her off me, growling as she looks at me confused.

"We have company."

I explain bluntly as I look for my spear.

Her nostrils flare as she notices the Hard Meat and I smile as she releases a shrill, frustrated roar at our spy.

It hisses loudly in reply, screeching a challenge. I grab my spear, which Kanani had knocked away upon throwing me to the ground, and throw it at the Hard Meat. It ducks, moving like lightning as it attacks Kanani. At this moment, however, something heavy knocks me down to the ground. I barely hear Kanani half-scream, half roar as I try to regain my footing. Something is on me…

Pauk, it's a Hard Meat.

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(Kanani POV)

CRAP!

SO EFFIN' CLOSE!

I scream as I dodge the tail-swipe the bug thing gives me and dive forward, using my wings to push off the ground as I roll and land in a crouch, grabbing the thing by it's leg, I swing hard. It lifts off the ground and smashes into the fucker that's currently wrestling with Psycho.

My Psycho. He's mine.

MINE.

I roar as both fuckers go crashing into the wall, but they both land so that they're just sitting on the wall like fucking spiders, hissing angrily. I growl as I open my mouth, feeling fire.

Except nothing comes out. Oh crap.

SERIOUSLY? CRAP! I'm trying to spew fire, but nothing's appearing. I feel the normal heat, hear the rush of smoke, but no stream of flame comes out.

Shit. Those things are laughing at me, I swear.

"IT'S NOT FUNNY, DAMNIT!" I scream as I exhale ice instead. Yeah, ice ain't gonna do SHIT to these bastards.

As they both leap at me though, they're taken out by twin blasts of blue energy. I jump out of the way of the acid and look over my shoulder.

Psycho's cannon is smoking. So is he. Smoking hot.

Damn, I do believe HE'S laughing at me now.

"I'll give you something to laugh about!" I scream as I leap at him.

Hell that sounded so wrong…

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(Psycho POV)

She came at me so fast, I didn't have time to react. Pinning me to the ground again, she snarls into my face. But this time, I grab her around the waist and switch our positions. Pinning her beneath me this time, I speak to her in what I hope is an authoritative declaration.

"You are mine."

But before I can claim her, a shrill wail pierces the silence that surrounds us. I look up, exasperated as I expect another horde of Hard meat.

It's her mother… and R'ka… and Setg'in and Lex.

Kanani grumbles a string of ooman curses from beneath me. I feel her body heat cool off just a little as her mother approaches.

I look back down at her before hurriedly backing off as her mother's angry voice breaks the dark silence again.

"KANANI WOODS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"

R'ka doesn't say anything. But I can tell he's not pleased. Not angry, exactly, but not pleased. And I don't blame him

Kanani stands and chatters at her mother, but Rosy is having none of it.

I feel more frustrated then ever. Will I ever get a moment's respite from fate's cruelty? I slowly walk away to pick up my mask and her helmet. I replace the mask over my face and wince, as the ooman words are made clear through the translator.

No, Rosy is not happy at all…

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(Kanani POV)

"MOM! PLEASE chillax! It's not what you think!" My mind is racing furiously. As a matter of fact, what she saw is EXACTLY what she thinks, but hell, I'm not going to tell HER that.

"Kanani, we're in the middle of trying to infiltrate a base littered with freaky monsters AND YOU'RE BUSY TRYING TO GET LAID?"

"NO! I…uh he pissed me off so I was trying to kick his ass!"

"OH SURE!"

Oh man, she's not buying it. But hell, I'm not changing my story. Uh-uh.

No fucking way.

My mind's still clouded with lust. I had never felt such a desperation before. I wanted him so bad. And that fucking purring noise he makes… nothing like it in the world. Turned me on like the keys in the ignition of a car.

Psycho, you pervert… Next time, there's no stopping me. I'm going to have you.

Oh great, now I'M the one who's being a pervert. I really have to stop hanging around him so much.

Spiky comes to my rescue, though, growling sharply.

My helmet is slipped onto my head from behind.

Psycho put it on me. How sweet…

Sweet? Did I just call him sweet? Hell, I'm losing my mind…

I scowl at him from behind my mask as Spiky keeps talking.

"We have only 20 minutes before the place explodes. I suggest we keep moving."

He whirls around and stalks off.

Mom gives me another suspicious glare through her mask before turning around. I stalk forward, angry, hot with lust and confused.

Hope and giddiness are also bubbling at the back of my mind.

Cause honestly? I never thought anybody would be attracted to me in that way. For sure, I know I'm not lovable. And I'm not your average dame. Besides having a temper, I'm huge. 6 feet tall in my human form, with broad shoulders, bulky thighs and hell, I've got an ASS. Most guys I run into on the street are pretty puny compared to me.

And in case you're wondering, yes. I have been teased before about my size. It's one of the reasons I don't have friends, although one of the other reasons obviously has to do with my sarcastic temper.

At this moment, right now, I'm a complete mess.

Cause suddenly, I'm wondering something.

If I do take it all the way with Psycho back there…

What would that mean for him?

I mean… he's not a virgin. Is he?

I sneak a glance, even though I've already been looking at him for the past who knows how many hours.

Nah, he's too hot to be a virgin. Whatever. Would I want to spend the rest of my life with him?

This thought sobers me enough to the point that I'm not so hyped on hormones… not too much. I mean, the desire's still there. But I'm thinking a little more clearly now.

For once in my lifetime.

I scowl slightly as I wonder.

I mean… Yeah, he's got a crabby face (excuse the pun), a bad attitude, and he's got the worst tendency to disaster.

I still want him.

NOW I'm scared. Cause my heart, my brain and my body are at complete odds with each other.

Not a pretty sight for the mind's eye, I tell ya.

All this is going through my head as we empty out of this base. "Blowing the joint" takes on a whole 'nother meaning, as we all crowd into the elevator. And when I say crowd…I do mean CROWD.

Sheesh, talk about awkward… something's poking my ass, and I'm pretty sure it's either a weapon or Psycho's pervy hands. I can't exactly complain cause my mom is squished between Psycho and Spiky. Lex and Scar are all cool though. In fact, I think they're both happy with their seating. Er, standing. Whatever.

Holy shit, Aunt Lex's arm is knocked up. No wonder Scar's all protective and has his arms wrapped around her like that...

The ride ends, thank God, and we all pile out, running BACK to the ship before this place becomes one more gaping mystery for the government to cover up.

As I run alongside my mom, I sneak a glance behind at Scar and Aunt Lex.

Those two have not parted ways from each other since we left the ship.

Whatever becomes of me, I think it's a sure thing that Aunt Lex has found HER prince charming… he just happens to be an interstellar, ass-kicking E.T.

Kinda like Psycho-I'm-Too-Hot-For-Pants there…

Gawd. Sicko mental images now…

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(R'ka's POV)

Ridiculous hormonal pauk-heads.

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(Rosy POV)

I think I must have had a typical motherly overreaction to seeing my baby pinned underneath that fuck-head, Spiky junior.

All I know is that her excuse, that they were just fighting was weak. Very, very weak.

Ha! JUST fighting? What kind of idiot does she take me for?

Wait, are there kinds?

Skip it. I can't believe they didn't even WAIT until we were back onto the ship at least!

As it is, I guess it could be worse.

Oh gawd.

Was that all that happened between them? Or have they already-

OHMAIGAWD.

Someone's going to get their ass kicked if my suspicions are anywhere NEAR accurate.

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(Lex POV)

Wow.

I know Kanani's pushy… but what the heck did she tell Psycho? We found them… in a most compromising position. Heh, worse then Rosy and Spiky's little "incident" when Rosy tripped.

I mean… it was actually a bit scarring, seeing my niece like that. Scar made this odd huffing noise and called his brother a dirty name. I think he meant to say it under his breath but I heard it.

Probably cause I'm only centimeters away from him. I'm still on my feet, but he's not letting me out of his sights. This pleases me. :)

Anywho… yeah, we finally make it back to the surface.

As we get out of the perimeter of the explosion, I see it.

Trouble.

Spiky's ship has been surrounded by government agents.

Well then.

This poses some serious questions.

And it definitely puts Rosy's interrogation of Kanani on hold.

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