Asuka could feel her eyes water up slightly. She didn't like being yelled at and even less to be treated like a little kid. Something of which Cyrus did more often than she would have liked.

He told her she shouldn't touch anything, but knowing Cyrus, he was going to punish her anyway so she may as well do whatever the fuck she wanted. Asuka noticed the microphone, pushed the 'on' button and spoke into it.

"*sniff* Um... Hello?"

78 watched her closely.

"It would appear being different doesn't only get you in trouble if you're a different species. Humans fuck with each other almost as badly as their experiments."

"Umm... Hiya 78. *sniff* My name's Asuka. I promise I won't be an asshole to you like the scientists you always see."

"Actions speak louder than words, human."

78 was skeptical of her intentions, but slightly curious. As anyone would be after tests and tests non stop by others of the same species. But he COULD tell that she was upset from the others, so maybe she was being genuine. It was hard for him to trust anyone anymore, even though all he had spent in his enclosure was about 2 and a half weeks. He heard Asuka continue.

"can... can I come in and meet you properly?"

78 was just stunned by this line she spoke. She was wanting to come in to not experiment on him, but to SAY HELLO? and to top it all off, she was asking for PERMISSION. He was still cautious of her, but she genuinely didn't look or feel as if she wanted to harm him as much as his usual experimenters, if at all. 78 let out a low toned hiss, hoping she would interpret that as 'yeh, sure, whatever'.

"alright. I'm coming in now, ok?"

Asuka looked around the workbench. Luckily enough for her, Majo had left his I.D. card behind. She picked it up and swiped it against the card scanner beside the door, figuring it out on memory from when she saw Cyrus do it when they entered the computer section. Luckily for her, her memory was photograhpic. Again, luck was on her side as it worked and the door opened. She placed the card back on the bench where she found it and cautiously walked up to 78, stopping inches away from as far as he could reach.

"She's scared. Terrified. I can smell it on her. Typical humans fearing what they know nothing about."

78 thought with slight confidence, knowing that even if she did intend to try something, it wouldn't work or she wouldn't do it in the end. Thats how humans are when afraid. Just like the first two days being held captive, one small movement and the three scientists would practically shit themselves.

"um... Can I touch you?"

"huh?"

78 just looked at Asuka, trying to figure out how to respond to such a weird request, not that he could reply in a way she could understand anyways, but then concluded it should be alright. She WAS terrified afterall. So as a response he tilted his head so it was facing downward. Asuka slowly reached out to him, carefully placing her fingertips on his smooth head before jolting back again.

"was that seriously it?"

The xenomorph thought, feeling a little anti-climactic, until a second later he felt a whole hand press against him, slowly and gently tracing along up his head. After just a few seconds, her fingers were exploring every indent and detail, pulling Asuka closer and closer to him, until she was within a range that nobody else would have lived to speak about if they were in her place. 78 himself had never been this close to a human without peircing a hole through their gut first, but something about being touched and petted in this way made him want to start purring, of which he had already started doing before he consciously realised it. Asuka didn't notice she was within murder range with 78 until she started hearing him purr, but instead of jolting back into a safe distance range like she did to start, she placed her hands either sides of his head, tilted it upwards to face her and rested her forehead against his.

"Thank you. I'll always remember this moment. That's the most amount of affection i've given and recieved in a long time."

"Odd. Don't humans always snuggle up to their life mates or something? Maybe you're just weird."

78 theorised from things he's heard the scientists talk about concerning life mates outside the labs.

"It may sound completely bonkers, but you know the one with black short hair, Cyrus? I'm stuck being engaged to him and we're meant to get married in a few months time."

She paused for a moment.

"Oh, right. You probably have no idea how people work in that aspect."

"No shit."

"Engaged is a status two people become when one of them announces to the other that they want to get married after dating for a long time. Dating is a sort of close relationship bond, I'm going to guess you would call them mates. Marriage is when you go from being 'mates' to 'lifelong mates that never want to be with anyone else because they love each other so much' status. Most of the time this is the couples choice, but me, my parents forced me into marrying Cyrus so i had no choice. I don't feel anything for him and he can't even stand me."

"For fucks sake! What is WRONG with this species?!"

Asuka bent her head closer to his and whispered to him before pulling back again.

"But just between you and me, I'd much rather stay here with you than even look at Cyrus right now. I knew you were no monster."

78 felt slightly embarrased. But he DID understand how she feels, even though his species didn't really fuck and make offspring like mammals did or like how humans had emotions attached with it sometimes. However males COULD mate with females as long as it was only once, if it was the Queen and if a male was chosen among all the other males. In his mind, having his head stroked and uzzled while in a harness wouldn't usually be considered a memorable moment, however deep inside he knew he most likely wouldn't forget it for a long long time, if he forgot at all. It was just so abstract to him, almost like remembering a weird yet wonderful dream that you keep remembering and never truly forget.

Asuka took a few steps back to look at the Xenomorph body up close one last time before leaving the room. She then heard 78 make a loud hissing noise. Asuka wondered what was wrong. The sudden noise made her jump inside. Had she done something to enrage him? She found out a moment later as she turned around to see Cyrus, Carter and Majo all staring at her through the glass, horribly evil looks on their faces, especially Cyrus'. Asuka froze as she could see Cyrus push a few buttons on the computer and a moment later, hear the door close and lock, trapping her in the room with 78. Cyrus spoke through the already turned on microphone.

"Didn't I tell you that if you touched anything you'll deeply regret it?"

Asuka placed her hands on the glass seperating them.

"Let me out Cyrus!"

"Sure. But it's not you i'll be letting out."

A smug grin appeared on his face as he said this and it worried Asuka. Cyrus pressed a few more buttons on the computer and a clanging metal sound could be heard behind her. She turned around to see that 78's harness was being loosened and the Xenomorph was crawling backwards out of it until completely released.

"Was this your plan all along, Cyrus? The reason you brought her here?"

Majo asked in a vaguely concerned voice.

"I guess you could say that, yeah. Her family will fork out a TON of money to me for death compensation. Let's go 78, heres a toy for you to play with."

Asuka almost shut down. Her legs failing to work causing her to fall to her knees and try to calm down her tremling. She was just out of the scientists line of sight below the glass, not that they cared to see her get mashed into body parts though, anyway. She began to panic on the inside even more as she watched 78 crawl up and along the ceiling, using his spear-like tail to smash all the lights and make the room pitch black. What could he be doing? He crawled back to the floor, slowly making his way to Asuka. The Xenomorph placed a hand gently on her leg, startling the terrified girl for a moment, but then she relaxed slightly after feeling she wasn't being killed which was then followed by 78 resting his forehead against hers and she did the same back.

"You're supposed to be killing me, aren't you? what'll happen if they find out i'm not dead or screaming for my life as blood splatters the glass?"

Asuka thought to herself, worried about not what would happen to her, but what they would do to 78. Until an idea struck her. She would find a way for 78 to escape while in the darkness and somehow distract the three scientists.

"78, I have an idea."

She whispered as quiet as she could. Luckily she wasn't heard by anyone other than the xenomorph.

"We'll escape right now while we somehow distract the others. How, i'm not sure yet."

78 thought this was a good plan, but like Asuka, he had no idea how to distract the white coats.

"Wheres the backup power?"

Cyrus angrily spoke to both Carter and Majo, rushing around for a switch that would turn the backup power on, neither of them knowing where it was since they were never told and 78 hadn't puled this trick before..

As Asuka and 78 sat with their foreheads pressed against each other, Asuka sprung an idea. An almost awkward one that just might work.

"hey, do you know what mating sounds your kind makes? Start making those noises as loud as you can."

78 was more confused than ever. Why those noises of all noises? But there must have been a method to her madness as he soon picked up that Asuka had started letting out what he would have guessed as human mating sounds. He thought they were weird, but soon caught on with the idea.

"This should confuse those pathetic humans for sure! To hear us fucking instead of screams of murdering and being killed! This should allow me to look aound for a means of escaping while they're confused! Not bad human. Not bad."

Carter and Majo were standing in silence completely stunned by what they were hearing, a little red in the faces. Forgetting for a short moment that they were supposed to be looking for backup power. Cyrus was blowing his stack just beyond boiling point.

"What the FUCK are they doing?!"

"I umm... thought that would be obviou-"

"WHERES THE LIGHTS?!"

78 looked around, feeling his spine shiver whenever Asuka made a moan or sigh, though he didn't understand why, as he responded with his own affectionate purrs and hisses from across the room. He found a vent on the ceiling just above the door Asuka entered from and ripped the grate metal off to swiftly enter it. The vent was small, short and only led to one place, the control room Cyrus, Carter and Majo were panicing from. Asuka and 78 both made louder noises to try to help conceal the sounds of tearing the grate off and entering the vent. Their sounds died down until they were both quiet.

"Found the backup power!"

Carter loudly spoke as he flicked a switch under the computer desk. Asuka took her jumper, shoes and jeans off in a hurry to make the act more convincing. They couldn't see her right then and there but they would likely come in to retrieve her. IF they were still alive.

"Asuka must be near the glass below-"

"Where is 78?!"

Cyrus interrupted Majo, sounding both furious and in a huge panic at the same time. He instantly took his I.D card and left the room, closing and locking the door behind him to reach security, but mainly to save his own skin in case 78 really did escape somewhere. He was just lucky enough to get away as 78 smashed the grate to the vent above to attack what he wanted to be all three of them. Unfortunately he didn't strike earlier as it didn't seem like the right moment but he quickly regretted it as Cyrus managed to get away at the very last second. Carter and Majo yelled in horror and panic as they both rushed for the door to run away, but quickly noticed Cyrus had taken their I.D. cards with him to prevent the Xenomorph from exiting past the computer room.

"You bastard!"

"CYRUS! LET US OUT!"

Carter was yelling as loud as he could, banging on the door Cyrus had locked as Majo was grabbed by the skin of his head and being ripped to shreds behind him. He didn't want to see or believe what was happening, but it soon hit him as he saw Majo's arm smack against the door beside his head. Blood splattered everywhere and Carter turned to look in reflex to the danger. Majo was no longer his scientist co-worker, but a bloody mess of bones, blood and organs that 78 had ripped him into. The xenomorph turned and looked at Carter. Lashing out at him and creating the same bloody mess he created while tearing Majo to shreds.

While she sat in 78's chamber, Asuka could clearly hear the horrified screaming and yelling coming from the computer examination room. 78 was hissing loudly as he tore his prey apart and after a minute, it was silent. 78 turned back to the door seperating him and the one that made his freedom possible. He had to thank her somehow. He climbed through the vent to see Asuka without the layers that were on her before, making something in his gut churn but he tried to ignore it. He nuzzled his forehead against hers one last time. It was like their signature "hello, Goodbye" and they only met about half an hour previously.

"You gotta go 78. Security will be here any second. I'll be alright, I promise!"

78 gave a low toned hiss and shot off through the vent and used his strength to force open the door that Cyrus escaped through. It wasn't anywhere near as strong as the door that bound him to that room for so long.

"I'll leave this chamber door locked for you, human. You'll be safe from my siblings then."

The xenomorph then rushed off down the hallway to find his siblings and Queen and finally break free.

Didn't i say chapter 2 was arond the corner? XD

Hope you guys like it so far. Next up very soon is Chapter 3: The great escape. :3