Disclaimer: I don't own A.T.O.M. and never will. Unfortunately. But I do own the idea of this fic and the new characters I introduced.
A/N: Finally! Sorry, guys, I didn't update because my parents took me to one dumb trip, and I had no laptop with me. But now I'm back!
Hostage.
Chapter Six.
It was way past noon when Sophie and Tilian returned to the base. Sophie had visited the beauty salon, where she did her nails and hair, then they had dropped in a book store, where she got herself some books, CDs and DVDs. After that they had a snack ("Nice break from your bio diet, huh?" Sophie asked, watching Tillian consume his third burger.).
Tilian could see that the girl was up to something, but he couldn't figure out what it would be. Everything started when he had accidentally slipped out Mr.Lee's plans in regard to Sophie, Tilian knew this, but it didn't help him a tiny bit. At one point, he even tried to bluntly ask Sophie, but she dismissed his questions with a chuckle and a "You'll see...". By the time the two arrived back to the lab, Tilian had already given up trying to find out Sophie's plans. The only thought that still bothered him, however, was the fear that Mr.Lee would find out about his 'little' slip-up and... Well... Kill him or something.
Meanwhile Sophie was heading back to her room with all of her bags, when she almost bumped into Mr.Lee himself.
"Well, back from the town, I see?" he said in a sly voice, smirking.
'Oh, how I want to punch that smirk off his handsome face right now!' Sophie's insides were starting to boil. But she had already been used to concealing her emotions. And she was getting a lot of practice since she became a hostage. So, the girl just smiled brightly.
"Yes! Thank you SO much!" Sophie answered happily, "I had a great time and I got all I needed!"
'To make you sorry you ever brought me here,' she added mentally.
"Good, good!" Lee commented, "Dinner at six. Oh, and you can leave the credit card to yourself for a while..."
Lee left, and Sophie headed to her room.
'Yeah, don't worry, it'll be safe with me,' Sophie smirked inwardly, 'But it may cause YOU a few... Inconveniences.'
Entering her room, Sophie dropped the bags near her bead and looked at her watch.
'5:25. Well, I have just enough time,' Sophie headed for the bathroom.
She took a shower, checked her hair and picked one of her 'new' outfits: semi-transparent black silk stalkings, black jeans mini-skirt and a red short-sleeved t-shirt, which exposed her chest and shoulders pretty much. This was all accompanied by black high-heel pumps, a belt and a few jeweleries she had primary: bracelets, rings, watches, and a heart-shaped pendent.
Her hair was fixed in a pony tail high above her neck, and her make matched the outfit perfectly: black eyeliner and mascara and some lip gloss.
'5:55.'
Sophie was standing in front of a large mirror looking over herself.
'Perfect.'
She then made a deep breath to calm her nerves and headed for the door.
'This is SO better work,' she thought as the iron door slid closed behind her.
Marching towards the dinner room, Sophie felt her heart pounding in her ears. She thought she would die from being so nervous.
'Ok, calm yourself down, girl; there's no going back now,' she thought as she reached the door of the 'dining room'. The door slid open. To Sophie's utter relief, only the Mu-Team was present. Sophie breathed out inwardly, and forced herself to smirk a little as she entered…
The looks on the Mu-Team members' faces were priceless. At that moment, Sophie regretted not having a camera somewhere nearby. As she walked further into the room, she noticed Tilian stood there with a dumbfounded expression on his face too, although Sophie was pretty much sure nothing in the world could surprise him. The girl's smirk grew wider, as she came up to him, almost face to face.
"Tilian, pick your jaw off the floor, and stop. Drooling," Sophie said in a quiet voice, carefully making pauses and still smirking. Without waiting for Tilian's reaction, she turned around and headed towards the table.
"Hey, nice new outfit," Firekat was the first to get her speech back in control.
"Yeah, you look hot, girl," Stingfly said.
Although Sophie nearly shuddered at that comment, she still managed to answer a "Thank you".
After a minute pause, the door slid open.
"Stingfly, did you…" Lee was definitely mad, but he stopped mid-sentence, as Sophie turned around, a full smile now gracing her lips, her arms crossed on her chest, just below her breasts (which she really didn't have to be ashamed of, by the way).
Janus Lee, the ingenious scientist, a successful business man with a whole city of lonely women dreaming to become his Chosen one's, the most dangerous man in this city right now… Froze. He froze. He was just standing there staring at Sophie, as a pregnant pause hang in the air.
'That's the way to go!' Sophie's inner guts were flipping with joy at her captor's reaction. The girl cleared her throat delicately.
"You wanted to tell something to Stingfly, Mr.Lee?" she asked, still smiling.
Lee shifted his eyes to meet hers, and simply stared at her again, as if processing what he had just been told. Sophie laughed a little, casting her gaze down, and then looking back up at Mr.Lee.
"Stingfly, Mr.Lee," she said, gesturing towards Stingfly with her head, "You wanted to tell him something, I believe."
Lee slowly looked away from Sophie to Stingfly.
"Oh, uhm… N-never mind…" he cleared his throat and, trying his best to keep himself from staring at Sophie, proceeded towards the table. Everyone followed.
Sophie, in the meantime, was doing her best not to burst out laughing. She glanced at Tilian, who had never ever seen his precious boss like that before, and saw that he too was having a hard time trying not to laugh his guts out.
Everyone sat down, with Sophie on Lee's left, and Tilian on his right.
The dinner went on without much talking as usual, except for a few questions the Mu-Team asked Sophie about herself and her life. She answered gladly, and joked on some occasions.
'Ok, this is boring,' Sophie thought, glancing at Lee sideways. Then she noticed his napkin about to fall from the table, and an idea came to her.
She carefully moved her elbow, as if unintentionally. The napkin fell.
'Bingo!'
Sophie bent down to pick up it up, as Lee did exactly the same thing. At one moment their hands touched. Lee looked up at Sophie, who looked up at him and only smiled. He stared at her for a moment, their hands still touching and her deeply necked shirt exposing… well… everything Sophie had originally wanted to expose.
A few moments passed, and Sophie straightened back up holding the napkin.
"Here," she handed the napkin over to Mr.Lee, still smiling, and returned to her glass of wine. Lee was still sitting as if thunderstruck.
Unlike the rest of the Mu-Team, who had no idea that there was something going on, Tilian watched the whole scene carefully.
'And she is good,' he thought with a smirk.
The rest of the evening was nothing special as well, except for Lee failing in his efforts not to look at Sophie. Which, of course, Sophie was pretty much aware of.
'Good,' she thought with an inward smile of contentment, 'Very, very good.'
Soon, the Mu-Team left one by one, with Tilian being the last, leaving Sophie and Lee alone.
After a few minutes, Sophie gracefully rose from her seat, her waist on one level with Lee's face. Lee felt his throat go dry.
"Well… I'd better go too, I think I'm a little tired after today's trip to the city," Sophie turned around, completely ignoring how Lee was now devouring her with his eyes, his mind a little hazed after a glass of wine he had drunk over the dinner. Sophie headed for the door and went out of the room.
"Goodnight, Mr.Lee," she turned around to wave at him, as she was standing in the doorway.
"G-… Goodnight, Sophie," he barely managed to get out of himself, watching her slim hips swaying as she walked away, and the door slid closed.
After a few moments of complete silence, Lee finally broke from his trance. With a loud groan, he buried his face in his hands.
'What was I thinking?!' the rational part of him yelled.
'But she so s...' the other part started.
'NO!' his mind yelled again. 'Don't even think about it!'
'Yes, but...'
'You are not SUPPOSED to be thinking like that! You don't have time for this!'
Unable to argue with himself anymore, Lee rose up and marched away to his room, hoping that sleep would finally bring some clarity to his troubled mind.
Sophie meanwhile managed to get to her room without yelling and jumping around with joy. As soon as the door slid closed behind her...
"YES!!!"
Sophie threw herself on her bed, almost laughing.
'It worked! I did it! He's SO in for me!' Sophie buried her head in the pillow, giggling.
'The look he had when he saw me and when I was leaving... And at the table, when his napkin "accidentally" fell down, and I picked it up...' Sophie had another "giggle attack" as she recalled that evening's events.
Once she finally calmed down, Sophie got up, took a shower, changed and made her bed.
'Ok,' she thought, looking at herself in the bathroom mirror, 'Stage one is complete. He started falling for me, and he's having quite a troublesome night tonight. Now I'll have to think over my next move.'
Sophie had no idea what a chance fate would very soon present her...
Another few days passed without anything noteable happening... Well, except for the slight tention between Sophie and Lee, since Sophie continued putting on the 'items from her new wardrobe'.
Now, Sophie was lying on her bed once again, an open book she had just been reading lying beside her. The girl closed her eyes and recalled the events of the past few days: Lee had brought a boy to the base, his name was... Duke? Yes, Duke Kingston. As Sophie had learned from Tilian, the boy was the younger brother of one of the Alpha Teens Lee wanted to use to 'help' him fix the hardlight vehicle. Later that day, Lee had come back relatively pleased: the plan had worked, he now had a hardlight vehicle.
Today Lee sent his Mu-Team to Landmark again, but Sophie had no idea what for. Not that she really cared.
The girl looked at her bedside clock.
"11p.m."
She sighed.
'I'd better go check on Mr.Lee and others.'
With that decided, Sophie headed to Lee's lab.
Just as she was walking along the last corridor towards the lab, the door slid open and the Mu-Team left the lab.
'Why do they look like they've just eaten a truck of lemons?..' Sophie thought.
"Hey, guys! How did the mission go? Is everyth...," but Sophie never finished the sentence, as the Mu-Team marched past her, as if she wasn't even there, which got Sophie.
"Hey! What's the big idea?! In case, you haven't noticed, I'm talking to you!" she yelled at them, her fists balled. No one was ignoring HER, especially not after she had tried so hard to be noticed by people.
"The mission was a failure," was all Tilian said, without even looking at the girl.
"Huh?.."
But the Mu-Team were already gone.
Sophie stood there for some time, processing what had just happened.
'"The mission was a failure"... Uh-oh, this is bad,' Sophie thought, glancing at the door to the lab.
She carefully walked to it and, taking a deep breath, entered.
...The lab was empty.
'What the...?' Sophie looked around again, making sure she didn't miss anything, 'Has he already left to his room? No, I doubt it.'
Sophie headed towards the common rest room. Just as she expected, she found Lee sitting on a sofa, his face buried in his hands. Although Sophie couldn't see his face, she was pretty much sure he was exhausted, angry, disappointed and annoyed.
'Perfect,' she smirked to herself, 'Just what I need. Well, let stage two begin.'
And fixing her short, black turtle-neck dress with a wide belt, she stepped into the room.
A/N: Well, Sophie is up to no good. grins evilly What is it? Read in next chapter! Oh, and please leave me a review! big tear-filled puppy eyes