[b]Title: Might As Well

Author: Mistress Fangs
Rating: PG
Summary: Cade finally gets to see what they've been working on

Pairings: N/A
Author notes: a fic for lordtwinblade to welcome him to the board third and hopefully final part… we'll see how it goes [/b]

"I can't believe we finally made it here." Cade said with a smile, as the three of them stood in the middle of the empty coliseum.

The empty seats awaiting the thousands on patrons that would arrive in a day's time to watch the prelims tomorrow narrowing the field from 100 to a mere 25. The safety crews were the only ones present in the coliseum with them setting up the fields to ensure that nothing would happen to the audience. The three had arrived in Politica the night before to bring in the mech and get set up before the chaos they had witnessed earlier today in the loading and mechanics bays. They had also gotten to the hotel early, Soren and Cade perfectly fine with the accommodations that were provided by the contest, Titus on the other hand not the most, had proceeded to upgrade them to the lavish hotel across the street from the coliseum, courtesy of her father.

"Tomorrow's the big day," Soren said, with a triumphant smile. He placed his arms around the shoulders of 'his' girls.

T rolled her eye at him but smiled anyways, "We are gonna kick major ass tomorrow!" She said with an excitedly, she and Cade both wrapping an arm around his waist.

"We better hope so, we need to win all four matches tomorrow or we won't make it to the semis." Cade said seriously.

"Come on Cade, it's amazing that we made it here in the first place." Titus said, not at all surprised at how serious her friend had become.

"I know T, and I'm ecstatic, but I'll be even happier if we win tomorrow and make it on to the next set." She said.

Soren rolled his eyes at the girl and pulled her close to his side for a moment, "We'll do great, with our team no one can stop us." He said with a smile.

"I know Soren, I know, I'll catch up with the two of you later, I still need to finish the adjustments to the headsets." She said giving them both one final smile and headed towards the mech to finish her last project.

T smirked at Soren, as she saw him watch Cade leave the bay and let out a sigh.

"So Neanderthal, you gonna ask her or what?" she asked.

"What are you talking about pest?" he asked dropping his arm from her shoulders.

"You like Cade, you know, I know it…. Hell I don't know of anyone who doesn't." she said as they made their way back to the hotel.

"She doesn't," he muttered under his breath shoving his hands into his pockets following her.

Titus only smiled to herself; she would get the two of them together before the tournament was over no matter what it would take.

~*~

Cade smiled getting the final vocal command into the system. She had wanted something, anything for that matter to get her mind off of him. This week wasn't helping at all, considering when she woke up this morning and rolled over she ended up looking right at him. Titus had exclaimed loudly when they got into the room that Cade and Soren were to share the master bedroom in the suite and let her take the pull out sofa so she could watch TV till all hours of the night, as well as sneak off to at least one of the thousands of parties that were happening.

The two had agreed both thinking that there would be two beds in the room, both equally shocked but not really surprised when they saw only the king size bed. Both trying to convince T to stay in there with Cade that they didn't care if she came it at strange hours, but she kept her foot down, once again making it the two of them and one bed. Soren had been a gentleman and volunteered to stay on the floor, but Cade, her voice not exactly strong, had said it was fine, that they should have no problems sharing the bed…

She took the headset off and placed it on the console alongside the other 2, a spare hiding if they needed it. When she heard the cockpit door she turned to see Soren smiling at her.

"What's up?" she asked turning and leaning back against the console.

"Titus forgot her cell phone and asked if I would come and grab it for-" But he never finished her sentence when they heard the all too familiar sounds of the airlock to the door.

The two looked at each other and Soren went to the door trying to open it to, as they both already knew, no avail. Cade's phone then going off in her pocket alerting her of a text message, Soren giving up on the door and going next to her.

"It's from T." Cade said confused, next to her ion the back of his mind Soren knew what was going on.

"Hello my freaky little darlings," Cade said reading it out load, "I have officially grown tired of waiting for the two of you to do something so, I have decided to take matters into my own hands. Have a goodnight; your dinner is in the corner cabinet. Love and Kisses T."

Cade only laughed at the text, placing her phone back in her pocket, and shoving a hand threw her hair. Behind her Soren bit his lip for a moment in frustration, why did she have to do that… In the back of his mind he was trying to think of a way to repay T for this.

"So, humiliation or murder?" he asked trying to lighten the mood.

"Humiliation, more entertaining for us." She said with a smile, Cade bit her lip trying hard not to laugh, Soren turning away from her, not wanting her to see the frustrating look on his face.

"Let's see what we've got for food?" he suggested going to the cabinet.

A good hour later the two were sitting side by side on the floor their legs out in front of them, the empty food containers on either side of them, the half empty champagne bottle at their feet.

"You know normally I'm not the biggest fan of the bubbly shit but it's not half bad." Soren said draining the rest of his glass.

"Agreed." She said, she bit her lip holding back a laugh when he looked at her, remnants of champagne still on his upper lip.

"What?" he asked her looking confused.

Cade resisted the urge to lean forward and lick it off his lip for him, instead opting for using her thumb. Soren wasn't exactly sure what to think when her thumb lightly brushed his upper lip, when she pulled her finger back he saw the champagne on her finger; he resisted the urge to groan when she sucked it off her thumb.

"You okay?" she asked him raising her eyebrow at him.

"Uh yeah fine." He said, "just a bit warm."

Cade bit her lip again when he pulled of his button down shirt revealing the wife beater underneath.

"Hey Soren,"

"Yeah?"

"I wanted to thank you for the past couple of weeks. Definitely the most fun I've had a quite a while." She said with a smile, leaning over and wrapping an arm around him hugging him.

"No problem." He said with a smile wrapping his arms around her and hugging her as well.

She smiled up at him and kissed his cheek, him kissing hers back, they pulled a little bit away, their lips meeting in a gentle kiss. When the pulled away they both smiled at each other resting their head against one another.

"How long have we been dancing around that?" he said his hand going to her cheek.

"Too long" she said.

"Definatlely," he said and pressed his lips to hers once more.

~*~

Titus smiled happily and removed the spare headset from her ear. Her plan had FINALLY worked. She pressed the button to remove the air lock on the door.

"Alright my work is done here, now to go find that party."