Chapter 8: Not a dream.

Max groaned as she slowly woke. Her senses completely throw off from her stressed body as she tried to get her bearings before opening her eyes. Her body tingled with left over shocks of being shot. She shivered as her mind finally snapped back into her body. The floor was unbelievably cold against her nearly naked form. She frowned. I was dressed when I left. She shivered again not wanting to know what they did to her while she was sleeping. She took a deep breath in and could taste and smell everything around her. She smelt blood it soaked into the air like fog rolling in to shore. She gasped as she recognized her own scent mixed into the deadly scent.

"Alec?" She asked timidly. "Are you there?"

"ummm…" Was his answer.

"Are you hurt?" She asked smelling his blood also in the air. She growled at the thought of someone touching her mate.

"Max?" He shook out.

"Yeah, it's me….Are you okay?" She asked frightened.

Alec heard her tone and was instantly worried. "I'm fine Maxie, what about you?"

"Sore but okay." She lied as she shifted and found her arms were chained together behind her back then chained and bolted to the floor. She bit back a scream which ended with a pain filled moan instead.

"They known what their doing. Can ya move?"

He struggled against his own. "No, I'm chained to the ceiling." She huffed. "Great. Just great."

"Are you sure your okay…I mean I can smell."

"Don't worry nothing we haven't dealt with before." Max licked her lips and moved again. "Alec I can't see anything."

She felt him looking at her. Then the growl was shuttering as it passed over her body and mind.

"Alec?" She asked.

"They blindfolded you Max,"She was worried when he didn't call her Maxie.

"What else." She asked.

"They've taken are clothes and Max…."

"Yeah."

"Don't move…we have a little snake friend." Max shivered.

"I hate snakes."

"I know….I'm trying….Just concentrate on my voice."

"Okay…"

"Dix have either of them answered and of the pages or calls." Mole questioned.

"No, neither Max or Alec are answering their phones."

"Maybe their busy." Biggs suggested. Cece slapped him.

"Doing what it's Saturday…Saturday is fella's day.?" Joshua asked. The two X5 shrugged.

"Who knows." Cece shrugged glaring at Biggs the whole time.

"We need to let them know about the military movement in the area." Mole stated. "Any volunteers to go get them?" Cece nodded then slapped Biggs upside the head again.

He sighed. "We do." Cece got up gathering her jacket as she went. Biggs rubbed the back of his head. "Now I know what Alec feels like." Mole just laughed.

"You have no idea yet." Cece yelled back. "Now hurry your ass up."

"Max?"

"Alec…"

"How do you do it?" He asked as he tugged on his chain, while also trying to distract her. His eyes unlike Max's, who's was blindfolded; was taking in the room. Carefully watching the door and the snake was taking more of his strength then he wanted it to…but then again he was dangling two feet off the air naked after a large fight so he thought he was doing pretty good. He took a deep breath looking down at the tied and bound Max. He felt like he was so hopeless. There was his Mate and he couldn't do anything. The snake inched around the room going closer and closer to Max.

"Do what?" She asked truly confused. Alec noticed that she was still tense and hissed in frustration, as his seventh attempt to free himself failed. The snake paused and its tongue forked out over its fangs.

"Make your self so disconnected." He watched her bit her lip. Then the snake turned towards her. Tired as he was he reached up again trying to climb up his chain to unlatch himself.

"Why do you ask?" She asked. She looks nervous. Alec thought. I would be too if I was naked on the floor with a snake crawling around me. He reached another hand over the one he just climbed.

He sighed in frustration at how slow this was. "I've never been able to do it. My one and only solo mission was horrible…I developed I guess what you would call them feelings for my target. Then you come into my life. And….." He trails off as she stopped moving and relaxed against the cold floor. The snake was now at her foot.

"It takes time." She quickly replied hoping he would change the direction of the conversation.

"How, I mean…" He looked up at his hands then back at the snake. It crawled onto her left ankle and he watched her struggle against screaming.

Max took a deep breath calming herself. Good girl. Alec thought as he moved another arm length up the chain. "I wasn't always like this." She said moving around to try and shake the snake loose. Alec couldn't help but be surprised at her statement and froze his arms straining.

"But by the way others act around you-" He stated as he rolled his neck and moved again, the snake now crawling over her upper leg. She hissed as it stopped moving.

"Alec?" She's so scared. He thought.

"I'm right here Maxie, just deep breath and continue with what your were saying. Act like everything is normal." She nodded and took a few calming breaths.

"You would be amazed what a few days of totally bitchness and hate to people can do for your reputation." Alec nodded then realized that she couldn't see him.

"I guess….but why when you can have people that want to be with you choice to be in the dark."

"It's safer. Last time I let people in I lost them." She bit back a sob. "Ben, Zack, Tinga, everyone that I really cared about are hurt." She turned her head up towards him. "Now I'm afraid that I'll lose you." She failed to bit back the sobs that now racked her body. Alec growled at himself and letting the conversation get this far, he hadn't meant to upset her. He pulled on his restraints again fighting against time.

"MAX, DON"T MOVE!" He screamed as the snake moved to strike the moving body under it. She froze, her mouth dropping open in surprise and fright.

"Oh GOD." She sobbed. Her face turned to him. "I'm so sorry Alec."

"Max, please don't cry. You're going to be fine, safe and far, far away from here soon…I promise….I'm almost there."

"No." She gasped for breath. "You're bleeding and it's all my fault. It can only go down hill from here." He fought to break free as her body shook again. She was lost in her own little world forgetting about the snake just thinking about the pain he had brought up with getting her to talk. The snake dove forward sinking it's fangs into her upper thigh. They both froze, then she let out the worst scream that Alec had ever heard.

Alec was the first to recover and began to fight his bonds. Having fallen again he was only trying to break free, but too lost in fear for Max's safety he wasn't being reasonable. He began to swing back and forth. He gasped as he lost sight of her then calmed down as she came back into sight. He sobbed as he watched her fight to regain her breath. "Alec….oh god….I can't breathe."

"Max breath…OH GOD…MAX!NOOOOOO!" All he heard was her desperate attempt to breath.

Biggs looked over at the door. "Were they going out today?"

"No why?" Cece asked looking up from her cell phone. She gasped taking in the broken door. "Oh no…" They ran forward smashing into the already broken door, gasping as they took in the smashed apartment.

"This is not good." Biggs hissed.

"Understatement of the year." Cece said as she dialing T.C.

"Mole?"

"…"

"Yeah, we have a problem. Get Dix to call up all hover drones that covered Alec's apartment in the last 48 hours. We'll be back in T.C in 10." With that she hung up and the two began to search the broken room for any clues to help their leaders.

TBC…

A/N:I am SO sorry that it's been so long for an update I got sidetracked with my other story and life… I hope that this chapter made up for it…Plus I should have another one within a few days….Only a few more chapters to go and I haven't even had White come in yet….GOD….Again I am sorry and thank you all for the reviews so far they're what keep me writing…. :-) Please let me know what you think and where I should take this….