Chapter 4

At the scoreboard Modo and Rimfire were still sitting at the living room sipping root beers. Vinnie was in deep sleep, at least he was snoring that loud.

"Do you think that the stinkfish and his looney doctor is still alive?" Rimfire asked from his uncle.

"Well. As long as I don't see their corpses with my own eye, then I don't even think that their dead." Modo said firmly. "Besides. I went for looking them after we got Charlie back and she was better. I didn't find anything."

"Are you sure? Did you tell others?" Rimfire was worried.

"No. They had enough to worry about." Modo muttered to his root beer. "I just kept my eye open for surprises. Though I don't believe that we have any reason to fear their attack yet."

They were in silence for a while, buried in their thoughts.

"I say you one thing kid. Watch your back and the others. Even though I don't believe that they will attack yet, I can be wrong." Modo said. "I'm going to bed. Night."

"What's up general?"

"Go fetch Throttle. I need to talk to him." Carbine ordered.

"No can do. I'm not a dog. And He's busy." Stoker rolled his eyes to the wicked bitch of Mars.

"Call him then! Can't you old piece of shit even thing of your own?!"

"Well, well. That wasn't nice. Firsts I'm not under your command and second I think that he's not going to want to talk to you. He has better to do right now and a better company than you could never be. Tootles, General!" Stoker said mockingly and showed his respect to her by showing her his middle finger and closed the connection. "That daughter of a rat. She was a pain in the ass even when she was a kid! How in the hell did Throttle see anything good in her?"

Lex went back to the garage and heard Stoker talk to himself. She really wasn't in that mood to see anyone so she silently sneaked from behind him when he still stood in front of the computer and rushed to upstairs.

"Lex?" Came Stoker's voice from root of the stair's when Lex was nearly upstairs. "Are ya okay?"

"Peachy." She said shortly without turning. Before she could escape Stoker was behind her and grabbed from her arm.

"You're lying. Why?" He said when he made her to watch him to his eyes by lifting from her chin.

It was funny how small that woman was. She was two steps higher than he but still she had to look up to him.

She didn't know what to say. And when she looked to his eyes she even couldn't. She felt like she was drowning to Stoker's hazelnut brown eyes. There was a golden ring around his pupils and the sight in his eyes were so soft, warm and so... Hypnotizing.

They watched each others eyes and it was like the time had stopped.

She saw so many feelings in his eyes. Fear, lust, confusion and something else she didn't want to give a name. And that was the one to wake her from the spell.

"I... I need to go." She whispered and escaped to her room before he even noticed she was gone.

"What? Wait!" Stoker rushed to her door. "Lex, talk to me, hun."

She leaned her back to the door and listened quietly when he sighed and leaned his head to against it. Few minutes later she heard him go. And then she let her tears flow and she slided down to the floor and cried her eyes out.

When Throttle woke up his neck was stiffened and he was starving. First he was confused where he was until he heard someone's breathing near him.

He lifted his sight to Charlie's face, but saw that she was still unconscious. Or sleeping.

"Morning Charlene. Please wake up." He whispered to her. Nothing happened. He sighed and kissed her forehead and stood up before he forced himself to go eat something.

Stoker didn't sleep at all that night. He went out and drove until the storm calmed down and the sun rised.

It was nearly midday when he was back at the garage.

Modo was making breakfast in kitchen and Vinnie and Rimfire were arguing from something nonsense.

"It does." Rimfire said.

"No it doesn't." Vinnie sticked his tongue out.

"Well that was mature." Rimfire rolled his eyes.

"Do I even wanna know?" Stoker asked quietly from Modo.

"No. Don't even ask." Modo sighed boredly. "That has being going on and on for an hour now. Could you?"

"Sure." Stoker grinned and turned around and went next to the arguing couple and smashed their heads together.

"Ommphf!" Came from two mouths.

"Thanks coach."

"Anytime Modo. Anytime."

Carbine walked a circle in her office. She had a feeling that everything weren't as it should be. Well in her head it seemed so. The constant war and lack of sleep and stress for years had left their marks to her. She had lost her sanity.

"I need to go there. I'll make him pay. I'll show them who they are messing with." She muttered. "And after that he'll see what he lost and begs me back!"

She battened with that thought for a while before she left her office and rushed to the docks.

She went inside one of the ships and ran to the bridge, started the ship and pushed coordinates to the autopilot as she laughed madly when the ship took it's course to the earth.