Chapter 13
Zer0 awoke next to his siren, he felt the wind blow over his face, his bareface, he looked on onto the ceiling, pondering a little in his thoughts, he had taken the biggest step in his life with the woman he lay next to, he showed her what he had shown no-one else, she knows what he sounds like, looks like, she knows too much about him.
Normally if it were a contracter or a nobody that found out, he'd simply cut them down, but her, the woman next to him in her slumber, she was certainly something different, he knows alot about her past, well her vault hunting past, not her actual past as a person and before she grew into the natural beauty she is today, he begins to wonder how she would have been treated with the markings of a siren as they were not exactly a common thing on any planet, but on the most violent planet there is currently discovered, what would draw her here? Was she born here? Was she moved here? Taken here forcefully?
"Mmmmm Zer0"
He heard her mutter lazily in her sleep, now she was dreaming of him, now she was thinking of him, but why?
He was a very dangerous person to be around, even for a siren, she should not have taken the risk of being with him, yet she has, why?
'Perhaps she is playing me' He thought.
He reached down for his helmet and fitted it back on, the familiar 'CLICK' echoing throughout the cave.
The noise awoke the sleepy siren, she woke up and knuckled her eyes like a child would do, she also let out a cute little yawn before she rose up off of the bed and stretched, feeling her back pop and make cracking noises, the wound on her stomach had completely healed and left a faint scar Zer0 noticed, he stood also and put his arms around her waist, protectively but softly.
"What's got you in a lovey-dovey mood, huh mister 'Dangerous assassin'?" Lilith added the last part with a small laugh.
Zer0 smirked as he answered with,
"Perhaps hearing you moan my name in your slumber had something to do with it, may i ask what it was you were dreaming of?"
He saw the blush explode onto her face, her face.
"NO YOU CAN'T!"
He loved to see her so flustered, such a well oiled and efficient killer like her, also on top of that she was a siren, and he has just made her all flustered with a few words...he loved doing this, mostly for the challenge, but partly because it was with her also.
"But you seemed very happy with me in your sleep, why can i not know?"
He saw her blush intensify with every word he mentioned, she tried to distract herself with cleaning the bed up or checking her munitions, but he kept her in his grip, not to hurt her, but to hold her...plain and simple.
He then made a small, but for him, bold move and slinked his hand around her stomach, he began to move lower to see if his guess was right, if her dream was of a sexual nature, he reached the waistband of her jeans and began to slide his fingers agonisingly slowly towards her most sensitive area, his guess was proven correct as he heard her moan out,
"Mmmm, Zer0, more"
She tried to move is hand from where he had frozen it in place, when it didn't budge she turned her head around to give him pleading eyes.
"Lilith, do not think that your subtle attempt will work, i won't continue, i think i will leave it there"
Throughout his sentence, he was emitting a ':)' emoji on his helmet, he saw her face drop, not with sadness but with a slight hint of anger, he instead pulled her around, her full front facing him and placed his helmet on her forehead to simulate a kiss.
She forgave him almost immediately, as predicted.
He broke their little encounter, albeit it was a forced break, to see a little blue light on Liliths echo, she had left it on the floor next to her bed, he walked over and lifted it to listen to the message he saw that was from Axton.
"Hey, Lilith, we need you and Z'; back at Sanctuary, we have some pretty important intel on what's going on with Hyperion now that Jack's dead, when you get this don't reply, get to Sanctuary fast."
Zer0 looked over to see her contemplating this decision, he wondered what she was thinking of.
After about five minutes of himstaring at her and her staring into the frozen wastelands, he saw her 'huff' and make for the direction of the fast travel, he caught up to her and decided he would ask her what the thinking was about.
"Lilith, you had some difficulty choosing a rather easy course of action, may i ask what you were contemplating?"
He saw her stop and turn to him.
"I just...i finally got some alone time with you that wasn't in a tyrants torture room or with a tyrant trying to destroy the planet and it seems i just can't get a break with you, it's irritating is all."
"I agree, it can be aggravating, but we will return when informed and have our time, assumin there is no job involved."
They arrived at the fast travel station and they were wjizzed into the digistruct system.
They spawned in Pierce station, they immediately headed for the Crimson Raider HQ.
They approached the door, guarded by the now Leuitenant Jessup, as he was promoted for his services through heavy bandit raids while the vault hunters were at Hero's Pass.
They gave a quick nod to him and entered, met with the not-at-all sane scientist Tannis, she saw them both and ran to the washing machines to hide, they looked at each other and progressed up the stairs.
They entered the planning room to see Axton and Roland hunched over the table in the center of the room, Maya and Mordecai sharing a chair, Gaige on the Balcony with Brick, she was tinkering with Deathtrap and Brick was doing his one armed push-ups, Sal was drinking in the corner, but more attatched to his echo than normal, he looked to be texting something, but Zer0 quickly lost interest after Roland cleared his throat to get everyones attention.
Roland began to speak.
"We have beaten Hyperion, that much we can be proud of, we have the vault key and the Warrior here in Sanctuary, but thanks to some intel from Mordecai-"
Mordecai gave a nod to Roland
"We suspect that Hyperion has another CEO, not like Jack but more paranoid and alot smarter about his deployments, he seems to be ex Atlas, not someone underestimated, he has been holding up in Opportunity, this in itself isn't that concerning, but what IS concerning is that he has began to fund 'Project C' or simply, cloning, perfect biological clones of certain individuals, he can double the organic workforce of Hyperion in under a month, the loaders pose a big threat and with even more architects on their side it'll be bad for us, he has tripled the security around the city and has begun to liberate the highlands in small areas with his cloned workforce. We need this guy off the map and we can't use the warrior whilst his anti-air system is functioning, so we need a game plan here or it's likely we won't be around for more than a month from now"
By the time Roland finished, Zer0 noticed he was out of breath and hunched back over the command table along with Axton and now Maya, Mordecai and his new baby bird Talon, Gaige and Brick.
After a few minutes of quiet talking amongst the group at the table, Roland spoke up.
"Zero, we need you to go into this city and perform recon, we need to know what we are up against with the anti air system, we take that out we can rain hell on them with th Warrior."
Zer0 perked his head up slightly, he responded with.
"This is intruiging, another challenge appears?, i accept this task"
Roland nodded and went back to looking at the table, Zer0 looked to see Lilith, her reaction was rather odd, she stormed out of the room with her wings in a blaze and threw open the shower doors and slammed them shut.
Zer0 followed her, he tried the door but it was locked, he ran his blade through the lock and opened the door, he entered to see her in the far right corner, her fiery wings wrapped around her shoulders and she was...crying?
He hurried to where she was and kneeled down next to her, he was met with a pissed off siren fist to chest.
"Have i wronged you Lilith? I apologise if i have in some way" Zer0 strained out, the effect of the punch still winded him.
"Wronged me!? After i tell you i want to spend time with you what do you do? You accept a suicide mission!" She cried out at him, mostly in rage.
"This mission presents a challenge, something i lack right now, i will return for you Lilith, this much i promise."He reached his hand out to calm the angered siren, she began to calm down ever so slightly until she just sighed out completely.
"I just don't want to lose you, not after we just got together."
He was quick to respond with.
"I have done more dangerous tasks, this will not take more than a day, two at the most, i will return and we will ahve our time together."
She noticed he sounded so sure, he seems like the type to go through hell and back for someone so close to him, so she gave in, the expenditure of her wings for so long and no eridium to hype up on had taken its toll, so she simpley planted a firm kiss on his visor and left for the bedding area downstairs for a rest.
Zer0 entered the room and pulled Roland from the group around the table, he stated with determination present in his tone.
"Keep the siren safe, she is like a glass cannon, especially when angered...i may not return from this task but you will have your intel even if not an assassin there with it."
He tightened his grip on the soldiers arm.
"Keep Lilith safe and keep her here, she may not like the outcome of this job."
And with him finishing his sentence, he left, he walked and vaulted over the balcony and headed for the fast travel station.
Authors Note-Apologies for the break but hey, i'm back. Feedback please, i fear i may have gotten rusty soooo...yeahh