Rixka woke but did not want to get up. She was so comfortable…. Why couldn't she lay there all day? She sighed as she rolled onto her side and smiling curling into a little ball.

"You stupid girl! Get up!" A very annoyed person yelled.

She made a face. Of course…that was why she had to get up…. She opened her eyes and looked up to see a blonde man scowling down at her.

"Hurry up and get up! You are wasting my time!" He yelled again.

He didn't have to yell…. She sighed as she got up and rubbed her eyes ignoring the man as he mumbled about her being an incompetent fool and being a lazy good for noting something or another. She kinda zoned out after that and just stared at him.

"About time you finally got up. Come on. We don't have a mission but I still have to babysit you." The man grumbled as he stormed out of her room.

Babysit…? He had to call it babysitting? She sighed and just followed him…. Who the hell was he anyway? She hadn't seen him before. She bit her thumbnail as she watched him. She wanted to ask….but he seemed pretty pissed off at her right now…. Better to keep quiet for the time being.

He was leading her pretty far down… Just where was he taking her? She followed him through a door into….some kind of lab. She looked around as she walked further into the place. Squeaking as he suddenly grabbed her wrist, she was forced into a chair.

He got just a little too close to her face and said, "Do not touch anything. Sit here. Be quiet. Do. Not. Move." With that he turned and walked over to the lab station.

Sit here and don't move? Well this just turned into the most boring day ever…. She might not be able to fight but right now she definitely would've chosen her first mission with….uh…. Xigbar! Yea Xigbar. She preferred that over this right now that was for sure.

Looking down at the ground, she swung her legs back and forth and sighed. That man just kept on working as if she didn't exist. She still had no idea who he was too…. Didn't matter. She didn't like him. Didn't wanna know him.

Maybe if she was lucky Axel would come and take her away from her…Whoa! Wait what? Axel? Why was she thinking about him? He was the guy that freaked her out. Well….he could be helpful….when he wasn't touching her all the time and holding her way too close.

She hadn't realized how deep in thought she was until she was suddenly smacked. She blinked and looked up, seeing that man glaring down at her.

"Bout time I got your attention. I've only been saying your name about 50 times. Come here." He said and grabbed her wrist, pulling her over to another chair next to where he had been working. She watched him as he fiddled with a couple bottles.

"Saix told me how badly you failed on your first mission. I've been working on something that will give us more strength. I'm going to test it on you. Don't worry; there shouldn't be any side effects." He said as he proceeded to pick up a vial of some strange colored liquid and stick a syringe in it.

Rixka sat perfectly still as he grabbing her arm and pushed her sleeve up. Just as he was about to inject the liquid into her arm, Axel came in.

"Hey, Vexen, Saix asked me-…." He froze and stopped as he saw Vexen about to inject Rixka with something. "What the hell are you doing?" He yelled, shoving Vexen away from Rixka and breaking the syringe. Along with the vial the liquid had come from.

Rixka was startled by the outburst. What was wrong…? Why was Axel so mad…? She looked up at him as he stood protectively in front of her and yelled at Vexen as he slowly stood.

"Axel… Do you realize what you've just done?" Vexen asked, looking down at the shattered vial and wasted serum.

"Yea! I just saved Rixka from one of your crazy experiments!" Axel yelled.

"No…. You've ruined my research…. Remember that serum I was making to give us all strength? The one with no side effects that is harmless…?" Vexen asked, clearly trying to control any anger he possibly felt.

"Uh…yea. That's why I came down here in the first place. Saix wanted me to check on it." Axel said, a little confused. "What does that have to do with what you were doing to Rixka?"

Vexen looked up, glaring. "I was about to test it on her, you idiot. And now look what you did! You destroyed it!" Vexen yelled, losing his temper.

"Oh….. Uh…..heh sorry…" Axel said, rubbing the back of his head.

"Sorry….? Sorry…? You think saying sorry will fix this? Now I have to start all over again! Get out! And take that stupid girl with you!" Vexen yelled, pointing to the door.

Axel grabbed Rixka's hand and quickly pulled her out of the room. Rixka blinked, stumbling after Axel. "Axel….you did a bad thing, didn't you?" She asked, pulling her hand out of his grip and walking beside him.

He rubbed the back of his head. "Heh….yea… I was supposed to check on the research and I destroyed it… Saix is gonna kill me for sure this time." He glanced down at her. "Are you ok, Rixka?"

She looked up at him, a confused expression on her face. "Of course. Why wouldn't I be?"

"Well Vexen can do some pretty weird experiments sometimes. He didn't do anything before I got there, did he?" When Rixka shook her head, he sighed. "Good. I would've gone and back and done a lot worse to his precious lab if he had."

Rixka looked up at him as they walked. Axel glanced down at her a couple times before looking fully away from her. "What are ya staring at…?" He asked.

She smiled and looked forward. "Nothing." She said, and dropped the subject completely. "Um, Axel, I'm feeling a little tired..."

"Alright. I'll take ya to your room. You really should learn your way around here though. You won't always have an escort." She nodded as he spoke, following him down the hall. He put his hands on his hips as he stopped in front of a door. "Alright. Here ya are. Have a nice nap." He yawned then and tilted his head back. "Think I'll take one too."

As she opened the door she heard him say, "Ya know, we could-" She shut the door before he could finish, shaking her head. Unable to fight the smile that formed, she sighed and crawled into bed.