Authors note: It's late...im tired...I'm blowing my ears off with music to stay awake...I literally can think of nothing to say about this chapter...the bass just dropped...yea...

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Caleb tried to call her name, but all that came out was an odd hiss. "Hmph, well at least you where intelligent enough to stop banging on the vents, I would have had to sedate most other xenomorphs."

'Xenomorph? Is that the name of your kind Hades?'

'...apparently.' They returned their attention to Sarah.

"Well your not the first xeno to understand human speech...that's a good start" ,Caleb cocked his head to the side at her comment, "confused are we? We'll let me clear some things up. I am the head xenologist of this ship and you are a xenomorph, I am here to unlock the secrets of your kind and you are going to provide them...one way or another." The xenomorph stood deathly still, taking in every iota of information he could.

"Attentive I see. Good, your the most cooperative xeno so far...maybe that has to do with the blue coloration...hmmm," Sarah scribbled down a few notes on her tablet, "now on to a more...personal matter. I don't care if you intended to or not and I don't care if the board says that your 'too valuable', you killed Caleb...and there is no way I can forgive that. So if you so much as take one step in the wrong direction...I will personally blow you to oblivion. Do you understand?"

Caleb nodded slowly. "Excellent, now I must be going, I have things to attend to", She began walking out of view, "also, since you are one of the smart ones, if you try to melt the walls or glass with your blood you will meet the same end as if you broke the vent, so play nice. Goodbye." She faded fully from view as the glass turned back to the nondescript white as before. 'So that's your girlfriend, she's very...formal.'

'...'

'Caleb?'

'...'

'CALEB!'

'Sarah thinks I'm dead...the only person on this godforsaken place who truly cares for me thinks I died a horrible death.'

'Caleb it's not-'

'Not what? Not the end of my relationship with her!? Look at us Hades! We're a walking weapon of destruction! I can imagine what one of us could accomplish, but just think of what a whole hive could do! For the rest of my life I will be a monster in her eyes as well as a constant danger to her...and I don't know if I can live like that.'

'...we are not in as much of a pickle as you may imagine.'

'Now why would you think that?'

'Heres my idea...'

...

Sarah enters the lab, her lab coat freshly pressed and tablet in her hand same as usual. She saw the xenomorph specimen crouching by the far wall with its back to her. It was fiddling with something. She walked up to the microphone and pressed the activation symbol. "What are you doing over there?" No response. "Hey! Don't make me-"

The xenomorph turned suddenly, put its finger to its mouth an shushed her. It shocked her so much that she indeed shut up. The xeno went back to whatever it was doing. 'How can it know how to do that?' Sarah thought 'I've never shushed it and I'm 100% certain that it never met another soul aside from me, what are you hiding?' The blue xenomorph stood up slowly, and Sarah saw a drop of green splatter to the floor. 'It can't be that stupid can it?'

The xeno raised its hand and began tracing its finger across the wall in different places, causing very visible acid burns wherever it's finger touched. 'What is it...oh my...' As Sarah watched intently, the seemingly random scribilings of lines and curves began to form...words. Already a slightly sloppy "I" was forming soon after an "am" was completed. Sarah's mind was racing. 'It can write! In English! There's so many tests that can be avoided and overlooked, and if it gives full cooperation months worth of of testing can be accomplished in days. And the implications of a xenomorph ambassador or a xeno who can teach others how to read and write...I can't even imagine.' Sarah was so caught up in her revelations that she hardly noticed that the xeno had finished and was staring at her. Sarah looked at the xeno with a blank expression, not understanding. The Xeno let out a low his, which Sarah swore was a sigh, and pointed with his still bloody finger at the wall behind him. "What, do you want a treat? I know you can wri-*gasp*" Sarah's eyes landed on the words once more...the xenomorph had written, clear as day, the words "I AM CALEB :)"

"Y-you...your Caleb?"

He nodded vigerously, putting on only what could be a xenomorph smile.

"I-I don't know what to say, you want me to believe that you're Caleb. The one who I was in love with, the one who is now no more than a pile of bones...that caleb!"

Again he nodded.

"Well that's...I can't just believe that, and I'm not sure if I want to. How can you prove it?"

He stopped smiling and seemed to think for a moment before looking back at Sarah and making a "come here" motion. "You want me to...hmm."

'She's not gonna do it Hades, she would literally have to be insane to come in here with us.'

'Look.'

Sarah stood staring for a moment before turning and resolutely walking out of view. 'See, she left. I told you that there was no-' A door that wasn't there a moment before turned transparent revieling Sarah sporting a new watch.

"Just so you know, if this watch stops recording my pulse it will cause the room to explode. If I die you die as well...I'm choosing to trust you, don't make me regret it."

Without any hesitation she opened the door and stepped in with the door shutting behind her. She glanced at the writing on the wall again, the blood had burned its way down the wall and was now completely illegible. Caleb was almost as shocked as Sarah, she was actually believing him! 'Hades, you where right, she believed us! ...Hades?' Caleb could tell something was wrong with him, the entire time he knew him Hades had been always felt very bright and full of energy. But now all caleb could feel was a darkness.

'Caleb...I don't want to alarm you, but your girlfriend looks very...tempting at the moment. I advise that you take control now, I don't want to chance anything with her.'

'What do I do?' Hades mind seemed to be receding into itself, as if trying to separate itself from him. 'Just do as I did with you, now I need to focus on something else.' His mind seemed to completely part from Caleb's, leaving him alone in his mind.

'Oddly enough, it feels weird to be alone in my mind. Well here goes nothing.' Caleb walked towards Sarah, much like a human would. She stiffened as he approached not knowing what events would unfold. "I really hope that's you in there Caleb."

Caleb reached his hand out and brushed the hair out of Sarah's eyes like he had done so many times before. She looked up to his face, her observant blue eyes stared into him. Before he could lose his nerve he grabed both sides of her face and, ignoring her look of shock, pressed his forehead to hers.

At first nothing happened causing Caleb to think he made a mistake. But then he felt something, a barrier, and a presence behind it. He prodded at the barrier, feeling it yield a bit, then pushed against it in earnest. The barrier held for a moment before shattering like crystal. With no instructions forthcoming Caleb tried something. 'Uuh, can you hear me now?'

Sarah broke contact and stared at Caleb, a look of wonder in her eyes. "I can't believe-"

"NOW! MOVE IN AND SEDATE THE CREATURE!" Nearly a dozen armed personnel rushed into the room. Caleb jumped back and hissed murderously, how dare they get in between him and Sarah!

The men where in what seemed to be full riot armor armed with riot shields, stun batons, and guns of some sort. Caleb dropped into a low crouch, his body going into auto pilot, and raised his tail with its lance like tip over his head much like a scorpion. 'What the hell, Hades is this you? If it is stop, we don't need to-' Caleb's blood ran cold as he heard a scream, Sarah's scream...

'No! Their hurting her, killing her! I MUST SAVE HER!' Regardless of his own safety he hurled himself at the phalanx of men faster than any of them could react. He grabbed the first man by the throat and threw him into his colleges, knocking them out of the way. This reviled another armored man struggling to pull Sarah out of the room. Caleb's vision turned red, 'HOW DARE YOU TOUCH HER!' He barreled towards the two pushing past more units who tried to stop him, one man was brave enough to stand directly in his path and raise his shield. A tail flashed, a gun droped, and a brave soul looked down to see a tail spike piercing his shield and buried in his chest. Caleb yanked his tail out and visciously punched the man in the head, earning a satisfying CRUNCH from his skull being crushed.

Sarah struggled violently with the armored man, "let me go! Their going to hurt him!"

"Professor, we need to get you out of here, it's not safe." The man said.

"You don't understand, he's not-*gasp*" Sarah was the first to notice the black form looming over them. The man turned around and froze, behind him was the scattered remains of his team, some dead, some injured, and none of them ready to help. Oh, and there was the extremely pissed off Xenomorph known as Caleb. Fast as lightning Caleb's hand was around the poor mans throat, cutting off all breath, and lifted him into the air. He smashed the man into the wall, not hard enough to kill him but enough to break a few bones and dent the metal. All the man could focus on was the cold, eyeless stare of the xenomorph. Much to the mans terror the xeno's mouth began to open, revealing it's deadly inner mouth, he saw the mouth lunge towards him...and then saw no more.

Caleb dropped the corpse, trying to ignore the the pleasant taste in his mouth, and stood in front of Sarah defensively. The six remaining armored personnel where back up and in formation but made no movements against him. He took no chances, hissing at them menacingly. 'Don't worry Sarah, they can't hurt you now.'

No response, Caleb turned to look back at her, 'Sarah?'

A sharp pain stabbed into Caleb's back causing him to yelp and jump away, he reached back and grabbed at the source of his pain. He found it and yanked it out, it was an empty syringe, 'Sarah, what the hell!'

She walked to him, as he fell to one knee, and whispered. "This is for your own good, you can rest now." His world seemed to tilt and refract on itself causing him to stumble and fall to the ground. Darkness creeped in from the edges of his vision, he couldn't think straight and soon he couldn't think at all. And the darkness overcame him.

AN: zzzzZZZzzzzzzzzZzzzZzzzz...damn editor...stealing ma sleep...ZzzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzz

...and skrew halo...stealin ma sleep too... Zzzzzzzzzzz...