Take a deep breath and count to 10 Chapter 4: Pick the Vic, a final fantasy vii fanfic

Thank you to those wonderful, special people that reviewed chapter 3, I really appreciate the time and effort you take to let me know how you feel about the story so far.

AVID FANTASY: Thank you so much for your fantastic review, I'm glad you liked the extra bit of kissing, I added that just for you dear. Yes Tegan is a bitch, but those that know this story from before, know she gets her *just deserts.* And the alien machinery, yes that is interesting isn't it, Mwa hahahahahahha.

IRENE SHARDA: So wonderful to hear from you again, I know, exciting isn't it, are they aliens or not? And the thought of a planet full of Bishi SHM, if there is such a place, I want to live there. I'm glad you liked the added part of Tseng and Elena in the hospital, I thought it was fitting to see what they went through. Oh and thanks for the heads up on a doctors note, Tseng's prognosis was downgraded to a hairline fracture. (giggle)

Once again I don't own anything… if I could it would be Yazoo….but maybe not my Yazoo, cause he's NOT NICE.

Again I give you the WARNINGS, this is an ADULTS ONLY STORY. Swearing involved in this chapter as well as abuse.

An impatient girl stood alone outside her apartment block. An assorted range of huffing accompanied with a varying display of irritated looks crossed her pretty face as she edgily paced.

"Just once Tegan, could you be on time?"

"I should have stayed upstairs until she got here!"

"For crapping-hell-sakes, we may as well not go!"

Juliette had been mumbling under her breath for the past half an hour.

"It's 10.30 Tegan… Where the fuck are you?"

Just then, Jules heard the familiar screeching of tyres followed by the revving of an engine hurtling down the street. The car rapidly swerved up into the circular driveway of the complex, unhindered by the security guard at the entrance. He looked up scowling at the offending vehicle before quickly turning away greatly interested in his news paper.

They all knew who's car it belonged to and nobody wanted to be on the receiving end of a Tegan Hamilton tirade. The sleek. silver bullet screeched to a stop in front of Jules and she stepped forward to open the passenger door.

"Your late Tegan!"

The brunette laughed at her friend, "Yeah, sorry Jules, it will never happen again," she said laughing at the obvious lie.

"My feet are killing me already thank you very much," blurted out Juliette, showing Tegan the extremely high heels she was decked out with tonight as she flopped down into the lavish, leather seat.

Tegan giggled, "well hopefully you won't be on them too long before their wrapped around some guys ears baby," both girls chuckled in agreement.

The driver suddenly lent over and gave the grumpy girl a hug.

"Thanks for coming out with me Jules, I know you could have just gone out with the others tonight."

Tegan pouted at her friend and gave her the lost puppy dog eyes trick to support her appreciation.

Jules laughed, "Yeah well it was really tempting you know, especially in the last half an hour!" she mockingly yelled at her friend before cracking a big grin.

"Like I would dump your ass and go out with them anyway."

"So, did you get hold of Andrew?" queried Juliette.

"Yeah, I said we'd meet him there at around 10.15."

"Yeah well, your late as usual, lets go." said Jules making a *move out* motion with her hands and buckled up her seatbelt.

After a few moments Jules noticed they weren't moving and glanced over at Tegan, she was just sitting there staring at Jules.

"Now what?" she sighed.

"Jules….. do you think Andrew is gay?" queried the brunette.

"I hope so, for his sake," she joked knowing what Tegan had in store for the boy.

"No serious Jules," Tegan asked again.

Juliette did a double take, then really thought about the statement.

"Don't think so, didn't he screw Tasher in the back of the car that night up at the Bluff?"

Tegan thought for a moment. "Yeah…. he did didn't he, well, do you think he's Bi?" she went on to ask.

"Tegan….. where are you going with this?" snorted Jules.

The inquisitive girl turned in her seat, fully facing her friend. "OK, just indulge me a bit here, the big Ho Carmel, has never been able to get her claws into him right!"

Jules nodded, "Yeah".

"And he's never come onto you right?" Tegan dubiously looked to Jules for conformation of this fact.

Again, Jules nodded, "Yeah right."

"And he's never made a move on me which is totally unheard of." Tegan laughed at her own joke, Jules joining in.

"Totally unheard of Tegan." smirked the girl rolling her eyes.

"And I've never even heard of him mentioning a girlfriend right, so what do you think?"

Jules pursed her lips and blew out hard which made a sound like a horse snorting and shook her head.

"Ya got me."

"Also, when I rang, another guy answered. I got the impression that he didn't want Drew coming out with us."

Jules crinkled her eyebrows together, "Who the hell is Drew?"

"That's what this other guy called Andrew!" Tegan watched as a look of surprised understanding came over Jules face.

"OOOOHHHHH…OK, I'm with ya now," her mouth worked open and closed a few times but nothing came out until finally. "Oh well, your not getting laid tonight are you?" she sent Tegan a sarcastic grin and battered her eyelids at the blank look on her friends face.

Tegan came out of her daze and gave a wicked smile to her friend, "You just watch me."

"Bout time Loz!"

Yazoo bounded off the lounge, content at last to finally be able to leave and start the hunt, his murderous desires ached to be fulfilled tonight.

The biggest silver looked at the middle remnant in slight irritation, "Don't cry Yazoo," he mocked his brother, "I had to shave my chest." he said gliding his huge hands over his muscle bound, hairless torso to make sure he was super smooth.

Loz was feeling varying emotions right now, while he loved to go out and hook up with the girls and he always loved bringing them home for some, *quality time,* he hated what was expected of him when the said play time was over. It just didn't make sense to him.

Yazoo looked at his older brother and scowled in frustration, "You're a dick, you know that! No ones going to notice your hairy chest with a head like that."

Loz's eyes started to water. "Shove it Yazoo, the girls like it better this way."

Yazoo tilted his head to the side, giving Loz a scrutinising glare then swung round to face the young leader.

"Kadaj!" he growled, "He's started already! you told him again right?"

The silver boy sighed, walking up to level a gaze on his oldest brother and pointed his finger accusingly at him.

"Your not gunna start this again Loz! Do you hear me?"

The eldest's bottom lip started to tremble. "But, I really liked the last one Daj." He whimpered, the pretty little thing had left him quite devastated for days.

Kadaj firmly grabbed Loz's chin between fingers and thumb, forcing that chiselled face to look at him.

"Where not Keeping them, not this time, it's just catch and release Loz, do I make myself clear! and no crying," he ordered.

Yazoo standing close behind the youngest decided to put his two cents worth in, jabbing his finger firmly into his older siblings chest.

"Only there's no live releases big brother," he really didn't mean to be so unkind to Loz but he was irritated at the delay and this was good payback for making him wait.

The onslaught of both his brothers caused Loz to cave in, He nodded his head and mumbled a teary "ok."

Kadaj, continuing to point at him, raised his eyebrows to give extra emphasis.

"And your doing it yourself this time Loz, cause I'm not doing it for you."

Loz looked crestfallen, his strong shoulders slouched down and his face fell in preparation for a tantrum. "Daj….. I can't do it after I've just been with them."

Yazoo sighed, bringing his hand up in the mock imitation of a gun and aimed his finger at Loz's temple.

"Brother, you just shut your eyes, aim in their general direction and then pull the dam trigger, it's not too hard."

Loz kept his eyes to the ground trying to shut out the grisly images Yazoo was trying to impart onto him, it was just a waste of a perfectly good pet to him.

Kadaj could see the inner turmoil going on inside his big brothers head. "Loz, look at me."…nothing,

"LOZ…LOOK …AT ….ME!"

Loz lifted his face to look down at Kadaj as the young leader grabbed the big silver by the collar, giving him a sharp jerk.

"Your drowning your own kitten this time Loz!…do I make myself clear?"

Loz nodded his head unconvincingly. "Yes Daj".

Kadaj didn't look won over by the tentative gesture. "Say it Loz!"

"Alright Daj…. I'm drowning my own kitten," he mumbled.

Kadaj let his brother go and turned towards Yazoo with a big smile.

"See…. he's fine Yaz." and he happily strutted towards the door.

Yazoo looked from Kadaj to the reprimanded eldest in disbelief and lifted his hand up towards Loz.

"What… Kadaj! He hasn't even got it home and he's whinging about doing it already! He can shoot a stranger in the head at fifty paces with a big smirk on his face, but as soon as he screws it, he wants to keep it for a goddess damned pet."

Kadaj turned around, laughing at Yazoo's protest. "Fuck me Yaz! If it bothers you so much, just do it for him?"

"I don't want him to do it for me," piped up Loz but quickly found that no one was paying any attention to him.

"I shouldn't have to do it!" said the middle child, squinting in sudden confusion at his argument. Why the hell was he arguing about killing Loz's human. Of course he would kill it, he had taken the big silver's pets on a one-way stroll into the forest many a time, unbeknown to the eldest of course.

Kadaj gave the middle child a sly wink from behind the big silver, "Loz wants a new pet Yazoo, don't be so mean," he mocked, followed by an unseen finger pointing to Yazoo and then sliding across his own throat, and a happy smile from the young leader.

"I don't need any help with em," voiced Loz again, he never saw the hidden signal that transpired between the middle and youngest remnant. *let Loz play then you can kill it.*

Yazoo, finally happy, gave his brothers an ever so slight smile.

"Fine!" he said. "lets go". And headed for the door.

Kadaj turned Loz towards him and gave him a big smile.

"See, don't worry yourself over it Loz, I'll fix it for you ok."

Loz gave his little brother a sad smile and whispered so Yazoo couldn't hear, "Ok Daj." He could always count on his little bro to make things right in the end.

The muscle-bound bouncers of Reactor 1 glanced at one another deviously as they checked out the three attractive, young guys standing in front of them and wanting access to the club.

Two of them, one bouncer thought, could end up in a fair bit of pain and in uncompromising positions before the end of the night. One looked too young but what the heck, he had a few friends in there that would love to get their hands on him. Hell, he would love to have a go at the little guy himself, the thought of that lovely, innocent little face laying underneath him and crying out for mercy gave him as instant hard-on.

The bigger boy looked able enough to fend off any advances though, he would just have to keep his eye on that one if and when the other two were taken.

"Sure gentlemen," smiled the head bouncer, "go right on in and enjoy yourselves."

The three brothers entered the club ignoring the pathetic, blatant, lustful looks from the cave dwellers at the front door and settled down to game plan.

*Pick the Vic,* it was a game Yazoo had made up long ago, short for, *pick out the next victim.* They had engaged in this game many a time before, but it still always excited them to play, the sort of sport one never tired of.

They stood at the top of the stairs taking in the sight of all the unsuspecting people having fun and clueless at the danger that had just entered into their midst. The three brothers smiled at one another before Kadaj spread his arms wide and yelled out above the music.

"So many people, so little time." he laughed as he and Yazoo exchanged devious looks to one another, then the ominous trio moved out into the crowd like silver- black sharks circling in and amongst their prey, testing and probing for the one that would feed their desires for the night.

The two girls stood just inside the clubs huge double doors, the smell of smoke and alcohol assaulted their noses and Tegan remembered why she hated this place although Jules seemed unfazed by the smell. A huge grin broke across the brown haired girls face as she noticed the man-flesh just to the left and checking her out.

"Crap this place is packed tonight, fuck I hope Andrew has a table for us Teags!" yelled Jules above the blaring techno beat.

She had only ever been to this club a handful of times even though it was a little on the rough side, it was always busy. On a plus side, the bouncers did have a bad reputation around the city for handling any misconduct with brute force, ending in hospitalization for the unfortunate disrupter. Unless you were one of the more shady individuals with money, then you had a free pass to do whatever in this place, money certainly had it's advantages.

"Well I'd prefer to sit up at he bar Jules, I'm closer to the alcohol then," yelled Tegan, the thump of the music seemed to vibrate right through her.

"Yeah well, I need to sit down before I fall down," replied Juliette, "can you see Andrew yet?" The two girls raised themselves up onto their toes and searched around the whirling lights of the room trying to pick out the familiar figure of Andrew.

"No not yet, Oh wait there he is." Tegan had to laugh. "He's over at the member's bar."

Tegan noticed that Andrew was closely guarding two spare seats either side of him as he sipped on a drink. The member's bar wasn't really for members only, it was just the most furthest part of the bar from the loud music, somewhere that you could sit and talk without having to yell.

'Good boy.' she thought and the girls headed over and slid into the available seats startling Andrew in the process.

"Shit!" he visibly jumped at their appearance beside him.

"This place got you a little jumpy hey? Did you think your luck had finely changed?" smiled Tegan.

"Yeah well of course this place makes me nervous, I started to think you weren't coming."

Juliette leaned in close to him, "yeah it's all her fault Andrew," she said, scowling and pointing her finger at Tegan.

The brunette gave him an apologetic look then mouthed a 'sorry' before ordering herself and Jules a drink. While she was waiting Teag's did a quick scan of the place to see if she knew anybody there, no, nobody she knew thank heavens.

Her eyes fell on a man just down from her leaning with his back up against the bar, he seemed lost in his thoughts as he stared out into the crowd. The guy was the most fascinating male she had ever seen. He had a definite air about him, an otherworldly feeling generated out that Tegan found fascinating. Long silver hair, pale skin and dressed from the top of his neck to the tips of his toes in black leather, the contrast was amazing.

Trying not to look obvious, she turned back to her companions.

"So Andrew, what have you been up to?" She noticed the sullen unhappy face he was wearing and wondered at it's cause.

"Not much Teag's." he moaned out.

Tegan watched perplexed as Andrew swirled the ice around in his glass, seemingly fascinated in its circular journey and the clinking sound it made.

"So how long are you allowed out to play tonight?" she continued.

"Another couple of hours or so Teags." He absently commented.

'Well this was like trying to get blood out of a stone' thought Tegan.

She stared at Andrew hoping he would look up and engage himself in the conversation, but no, his drink seemed more interesting at the moment.

Finally she said. "Ok, what's wrong Andrew?"

"Sam." was all he said.

"Who…. Is Sam?" Tegan enquired.

"He's my flatmate, well no, he's more then that Tegan."

Andrew thought it was now or never.

"He's my boyfriend!"

Tegan had known the boy for a while now, he had been a friend with Jules for even longer and neither girls saw this coming. The brunette's jaw dropped before quickly snapping shut. Her eyes quickly flicked over to Juliette's and saw the girl mouth a "Holy Fuck" back in return but to their credit, they maintained a sense of total coolness.

Tegan's well laid plans were heading south really quickly.

Andrew finally looked up and watched the reactions that still flittered across Tegan's face before what he thought was disappointment settled there.

"OH…well…that's," she was stammering. "That's um…interesting," she blundered out and picked up her glass, downing her drink in a quick succession of gulps till it was empty.

Andrew's brow wrinkled in confusion at her actions. Tegan shouldn't be one to be shocked over taking a same sex lover after all, especially after her affair with Elena.

He considered Tegan a closer friend then any of the others for that simple reason, if anyone understood him being gay, he thought it would be her.

He and Teag's had had many laughs and maybe an illegal pill now and then together, but he could tell she was surprised by his admission.

He smiled at the distasteful look on her face from downing the potent liquor and waited for her to regain some composure.

"He's pissed off at me for coming out tonight" he continued, "with my so called *bunch of friends,* he snidely added.

"Fuck, I need another one of those!" Tegan grimaced again at the kick the drink had on her tastebuds.

"I think you need one as well then." she choked out looking down at his drink.

Teagan looked for the bartender and grabbing his attention, pointed down to her drink then did a times two sign at him.

"Your not going to freak out on me are you Teags?" he queried.

A wavered moan escaped the brunettes lips. "Just give me a moment Andrew." she smiled and upon receiving her next drink drained it's contents in the same manner as her first. She coughed and spluttered a bit then returned to her normal poise.

"I've known you for while now Andrew, I didn't have a clue, how long have you been gay for anyway?"

"All my life Teags. Come on, is it really such a surprise, I mean look at me," he smiled. Tegan took in his long blond hair and general appearence, he had a feminine look about him but some guys were just like that.

"And your coming out now cause?" she queried him.

"Cause that's one of the reasons he's pissed at me." said Andrew sadly. "he thinks I should just come out and tell the world, just like that," he said with a shake of his blond locks. "I thought you would understand Tegan, you've never been opposed to being gay," and feeling suddenly uncomfortable at his admission, he downed his own drink in one smooth swallow.

Tegan instantly noticed the awkwardness of the boy and smiled, taking a hold of his hand that rested on the bar, she reassured him. "I'm not gay Andrew, I'm Bi, and I'm not fazed that you are, but, just finding out about it now, after so long, I'm a little stunned yes." And feeling a sense of Dutch courage after sculling the strong alcohol in such a short amount of time she added, "Besides, I had plans for us tonight."

Andrew burst out laughing, glad the awkwardness had been broken, and turned a beaming smile towards his joking friend only to see a serious look, looking back at him. The smile left his lips instantly, "Are you serious?" he nervously asked and that awkward atmosphere was back again.

Tegan held the unsmiling appearance for as long as possible, but with the boys shit-scarred look plastered across his face, it didn't last long, and she broke out into laughter. How could she tell him she was deadly serious after that look on his innocent face. Andrew's smile returned at her laugh, "Shit, don't scare me like that Teag's" he said as he patted his chest trying to pacify his racing heart.

"Gotcha," she teased.

Jules who had been silently listening to the conversation piped in. "So Andrew, no dipping the old wick with either of us tonight then?" She gave him a nudge and a big smile.

"NO Jules, bugger off and find someone else's wick to dip," and he gave her a cheeky smile in return.

Jules looked behind Andrew to Tegan and stuck her tongue out at her.

Tegan being a good sport, returned the tongue with a shake of her head and flipped her the bird just to add insult.

Suddenly she was distracted by loud laughter that rang not far from her and seeing she was now in a blue mood again, swung round to glare at the offenders.

Yazoo was standing at the bar looking out into sea of people that danced and what he likened to, just grinding themselves against one another around the dance floor. He had spotted a few candidates for his fun tonight. One was guy who seemed absorbed in his appearance, constantly checking out his own reflection in the mirror behind the bar and flitting from one girl to the next.

Another, who Yazoo was having trouble working out if it was a guy or a girl. It looked male but it had tit's, every time he made a decision on what it was, it did something to make him change his mind. Maybe it was both, hermaphrodite he had heard they were called.

His lips tugged upwards at the though of getting his hands on one of those, what a find that would. But for now, he just stood back and watched them, doing a process of elimination so to speak.

Kadaj approached him after doing one of his patrols around the room and stood beside him.

"Hey Kadaj, tell me, what the hell is that over there, male or female?" queried the middle sibling.

The young leader swung around to look at what Yazoo was referring to, "Girl….no wait, it's a guy….no, um… it's either a dike or a really bad fag, who cares where the hell is Loz?" he asked, irritated at the disappearance of his oldest sibling.

Yazoo frowned and waved a hand over to the corner, "over there somewhere," he huffed uninterested in the antics of the eldest and still trying to determine the bad fag humans sex.

Kadaj looked in the direction Yazoo vaguely waved at and spotted Loz sitting at a table with two girls, they all looked real cosy together.

"Huh, he looks like he's having fun!" grumbled the youngest.

Yazoo grunted. "Yeah he does now doesn't he."

A broad smile spread out over Kadaj's lips.

"Yeah well, I think I'll go over there and have a little myself." Kadaj headed out on his latest and greatest mission of disrupting Loz's fun, leaving Yazoo watching in his wake.

As the youngest approached he could see Loz smiling broadly and caressing the two girls legs from under the table, he was indeed having a good time. 'OK' he thought, 'here we go.' He stepped behind Loz and put his hands on his brothers shoulders, and giving the girls his best, endearing smile, he bent towards the eldest's ear and let out a big, "MEOWWWWWW."

The two girls gave confused looks from the handsome big guy to the other smaller one and wondered what the hell the cat noises were for.

The effect was instant, Loz's face dropped and he looked at the two girls sitting across from him. A startling realization of what he would have to do to the pretty things hit him like a tone of bricks. 'Curse you Daj' he thought.

He gave them a sad smile and got up and without saying another word, he left.

Kadaj tilted his head to the side and snidely smiled triumphantly at the girls before heading back to the bar leaving them there in bewilderment at what had just happened.

As the boy strutted up to Yazoo totally delighted in the effect he had on his oldest brother, he could see that his middle sibling was as equally impressed with his deed.

"What did you say to him?" asked Yazoo.

"Just one word Yaz… Meow."

Both brothers bust out laughing.

Kadaj stood there beaming for a moment longer, still revelling in his own conniving little cleverness, he was so gifted with heinous deeds that he amazed even himself sometimes. Looking out into the crowd and searching all the faces, he suddenly felt the eerie sensation of someone watching him closely. He turned to look at the girl not far away from him seated at the bar and sure enough, she was checking him out. Then she did something Kadaj had never experienced. She looked him up and down, gave him a scowling, dirty look before screwing her face up and turning away.

Kadaj was taken aback from her reaction to his presence, he'd never experienced contempt directed at him in has entire life. Turning toward her fully, thinking he would try sending a little intimidation her way and see if he got a better response. She was pretty enough, long black hair, nice figure with all the curves in the right places. Her clothes were casual yet looked expensive, her whole manner was confident, sexy, sultry but very unapproachable. She was in Kadaj's eyes, a stuck up, prick teasing bitch, one that was in need of a good, long, hard humping.

The girl glanced his way briefly again but the distasteful look she sent him never left her face.

Kadaj decided more intimidation was needed to put the surly wench in her place so he closed the gap on the little vixen and lent on the bar, he breifly tore his piercing gaze off her to look at her companions, both were watching him closely. Suddenly, his whole image of the appealing little thing vanished before his eyes as soon as she turned toward him and opened her mouth.

Tegan looked at the source of the annoying laughter, it was the sexy silver haired guy and 'oh there is a goddess,' a sexy younger version. His hair was shorter and so was his height, but they looked similarly impressive standing there together all silver and black. But when the younger one looked at her and realizing she'd been sprung gawking, she let her foul disposition shine through. Tegan looked him up and down, screwed her nose up at him and turned away. 'Yep,' she smugly thought, 'that ought to do it.'

But much to her dismay, she could feel him watching her closely now. Feel his eyes piercing deep into her, for all his cuteness, he was a menacing, intimidating little bastard, so she sent him another dirty look hoping he would take the hint, but then unexpectedly, he started to move towards her.

Tegan felt his arrogant, impudence coming off him in waves, it was like he was projecting pure malevolence and it unnerved her severely. So when the upstart got within a few feet of her, she turned to him and let him have it.

"What the fuck do you want Cockwash!" she snarled angrily at him.

The guys face just dropped, his eyes taking on a totally shocked expression before narrowing into one of anger. And what was it about his eyes? they weren't right, she couldn't put her finger on it but something about them wasn't normal.

Tegan noticed the long haired silver boy had moved up behind the shorter one. 'Great,' she thought, 'backup,' so she gave him a glare for good measure.

Yazoo noticed Kadaj move towards the girl and wondered what had occurred for his brother to start stalking her that way. He saw the look she sent him and immediately recognised the contempt behind the glare. He moved up behind his brother just in case he was needed, although, Kadaj had never needed backup in his life.

Then he heard her foul-mouthed comment, it shocked him to hear anyone talk like that to Kadaj, especially a girl. After his astonishment ebbed, his temper flared, then he noticed the foul look she sent in his direction and decided civility were at an all time low with this bitch. Well he was a real good teacher of manners and the word please, they were usually followed by the words… Stop…. No…. Don't and …..I Beg You, but please was the most used word his prey said. Then he noticed his brother start to react.

Tegan watched the two young men, the smaller one started to sway slightly like he didn't know if he should tell her off or ask the taller one to do it for him. His eyes took on a distant, blank look and she hoped he was about to leave but she somehow didn't think that would happen. Not with this one, he had a eerie, unrivalled feel about him and Tegan hoped those reputable bouncers were real close at hand.

To Yazoo, his brother was winding up to round house kick the bitches head off her shoulders. He quickly leaned into his brothers ear and whispered, "Kadaj, I want her."

The youngest reluctantly stopped, looking at Yazoo for the plausible explanation on why he should. The young leader leaned in close to his brother, "Yeah I want her too." he growled, "I want her on the fucking floor, unconscious and bleeding from the eyes, ears and every other orifice!"

Yazoo grabbed hold of Kadaj's shoulders and pulled him round gently to his chest, he continued to whisper in his little brothers ear.

"Please Daj! he pouted. Seeing he was having no impact on his brothers intentions he tried a different approach.

"Ok little brother, take a deep breath and count to ten." said Yazoo in as relaxing a voice as possible due to his rising excitement, he wanted this bitch one way or another, but not after Kadaj was through with her, there wouldn't be much left after that.

He then proceeded to take a big breath and hoped Kadaj would imitate the action. It worked only slightly, Kadaj, looking into his brothers eyes, took something resembling a deep breath and quickly started counting.

"One-two-three-four, it's not working, I still want to knock her fucking head off her fucking shoulders." He ground out through his teeth.

"Please Daj, I want her for tonight! you said I could have anyone I wanted and I want her!"

Then came another stinging comment and both brothers turned to her in total bewilderment.

Tegan watched the two silvers whispering to one another, she didn't like their scheming actions one little bit and they clearly weren't going to leave like she wanted them to.

She glanced round to Jules and noticed she was watching the byplay as well.

'OK, I have backup too.' She gave her friend a worried look and cocked her head

slightly towards the two silver haired boys then towards the bouncers standing over near the stairs.

Jules got the silent message and immediately slid out of her chair, making her way over to the muscle to secure their help if needed.

Tegan waited till she got the thumbs up from Jules, then swivelled round on the two still deep in conversation.

"Is the fucking circus in town or what shit-for-brains?" she spat.

"No wait. let me guess," she laughed, "your both the main attraction for the fucking freak show, right?"

Tegan felt some satisfaction as the two stood there like stunned deer caught in the headlights of and oncoming car. Then the smaller boy lent up and whispered something to the taller, turned back and gave her a final, cold smile and walked away.

Kadaj was floored, did she just call him, shit-for-brains?, and what the fuck…was a freak show? It couldn't be good coming from this offensive little troll. This bitch deserved everything she would get. He whispered into Yazoo's ear, "she's all your brother." He gave her a knowing smile and turned away, he hoped his Yaz would be his most ruthless, spiteful little self with the wench.

Yazoo stood there transfixed on the girl, Yes…. She would do nicely. That foul mouth would be so sorry; he was eagerly looking forward to teaching her respect and the part she played in the food chain, she was at the vary bottom link while he was at the top.

Tegan gave the pretty one her most filthy glare, the guy just stood there with a dreamy look on his face and a sweet smile on his lips. He finally focused back on her and moved in.

For a minute she thought he had the nerve to kiss her but he moved slightly to the right and brought his hand up to her ear, moving her hair seductively behind it and whispered.

"You are so fucked bitch," he growled softly then slowly moved back, that beautiful look he had on his face abruptly turned into the coldest, deadliest look Tegan had ever seen. A chill ran down to the very souls of her feet, she was petrified by that look and the menace that went with it.

He took two steps back but kept his cold stare on her, she was frozen in place, she couldn't talk, couldn't breath, couldn't think, and after what seemed like an eternity, he turned and headed out into the crowd.

Tegan watched him go and released the breath she didn't know she had been holding. Although she was relieved he left she couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom, she turned in her seat towards where Jules and the bouncers were watching and nodded to her friend.

"That was really…fucking…freaky." she whined to Jules as her friend took her seat again and decided she needed a lot more alcohol. This night was just getting worse by the minute, 'fuck anyone else want to have a go,' she thought.

"Making new friends again Tegan," grinned Andrew as he re-clipped his stun-stick, he had it out handy as soon as the two men moved in on Tegan. "I told you this place is rough," he made his point again.

"Yeah, just remind me it was my idea to come to this place please Andrew," she sarcastically said.

Jules looked to her friend to make sure she was alright and gave her a grin. "2 down 148 to go then hey Teags?"

Tegan smiled back and said. "Oh yeah, and I'm just getting started." But her cocky attitude was just a cover-up for the underlying fear she was feeling. Those guys were predators, there was no other word to describe the vibe they gave out.

She tossed the idea around in her head to call Rufus and see if he had any Turks in the area but quickly threw it out again. 'No, I would owe the bastard then.'

Tegan thought about Elena, fuck she didn't even bother to find out if she was back from that fucked up mission Rufus sent her out on. He shouldn't have sent her, Tegan was sure it was to piss her off. So she would go running back to him begging him not to send the blonde into such a ominous situation with the Jenova. Nothing good ever came from that creature, or any situation involving it in any minute detail. Yet it kept emerging here and there and causing all sorts of trouble. Trust Rufus to try and find the fucking thing.

Maybe she should call Elena just to make sure she was ok. Tegan dug into her bag searching for her phone, It always managed to find it's way into the furthest reaches and sometimes disappeared altogether. Finally finding it and pulling the thing out, Tegan looked at the number for a few seconds before deciding she should ring her.

She hit the number and did her best to hear the dial tone above the music. No dial tone came, the number seemed dead. Tegan chewed on her bottom lip, this was just so Rufus to try and freak her out like this. "Not falling for it you prick." she mumbled. And stuffed the phone back into her bag.

During the next few hours, Jules engaged Andrew in small talk as Tegan seemed deep in thought and the time went by uneventfully enough. Tegan kept glancing around the room to see if she could see the silver haired freaks but there was no sign of them, she had the feeling of being watched though but wondered if it was just paranoia.

Finally Andrew announced that he had to leave and Tegan decided that she wanted out of the place anyway she volunteered to drive him home.

"Come on Jules, lets get the hell out of here."

Her nerves were working overtime and she wanted her familiar grounds of the Playpen and less psychotic boys around her. Carmel be dammed, she wanted all her friends close at hand after what happened here tonight. She did a final search for the creepy guys and not seeing them anywhere, decided she was safe enough, and the trio gladly left the club.

Yazoo watched the girl from the far corner of the club, the bitch had lost some of that arrogant attitude after he left her but not by much.

Kadaj sat beside Yazoo looking at the trio. Focussing on the two girls and the guy they were with.

The mouth and her friend were obviously well off money wise, he guessed they were in their early to mid twenties but who could ever tell these days.

She wouldn't see her next birthday and that thought made him quite happy, he wondered if Yazoo would just let him watch, no involvement of course after all, he had promised the middle child he'd let him have this one all to himself. But just watching the cruel one administer his unique brand of love would be so worth it.

'The boy seems young, about 19,' thought Kadaj, and he was very pretty. Ocean blue eyes, long blond hair and a trim looking body, he seemed quite feminine at first glance but the angular jaw and Adam's apple gave him away despite the androgynous way he dressed. The possibilities rolled around inside his head. What would those eyes look like after Kadaj had beaten him into submission? To have him look up at him with fear and tears in those eyes?

"You know, we should just grab all three of them!" said Kadaj, looking for an answer from either brother..

"I only want her, I don't care about the other two." Yazoo was in a dangerously sullen, quiet mood, which both the other brothers knew meant trouble.

Kadaj turned his attention to Loz, 'time for some manipulation,' he thought.

"Hey Loz, what do you think about the chick at the bar?"

Loz looked towards the bar, there were at least seven girls seated along it, all were pretty in his eyes.

"Which one Daj?" he said as he took them all in again.

Kadaj raised his hand inconspicuously and pointed, "that one, the pretty mousey brown haired one, "he replied.

Loz took another longer look at the girl in question, yes she was pretty, shoulder length wavy brown hair, slim build and she seemed pleasant enough as she talked to her companions.

Loz nodded and shrugged his shoulders, "yeah, she seems nice Daj." He was still upset with his earlier loss and reluctant to get on friendly terms again with the girls.

Kadaj watched as Loz's eyes roved over the girl for the seventh time, "you want her or what Loz?" he queried.

Loz brightened. "What, her Daj, I can have her?"

The youngest smiled at the quick change in his brothers demeanour.

"Of course Loz, I told you I would fix it for you!"

Loz sat up straight and smiled, his sulky mood all but forgotten.

"Yeah Daj, I'll have her."

Kadaj smiled at his own brilliance. That's Loz done, Yazoo was well and truly done and the fair boy would be his. He just loved it when it all came together nicely like that. It also meant Yazoo would leave him alone for the next few days anyway.

They watched through the crowd as the trio got up and left, the silver haired brothers all looked at one another, smiled, then got up and abruptly followed.

"Ok, are you sure you want to go home Andrew?" Tegan thought she would just test the waters a bit more before calling it a complete failure. She unlocked the car and gave him a playful, pitiful look, dropping her bottom lip and hitting him with sad eyes hoping to temp him into staying out with them.

Jules smiled at her friends persistence, opening her door and flipping the seat forward so Andrew could get in the back.

He just smiled at Tegan politely and said. "No chance Tegan, I'm deep in shit as it is."

The girls climbed in and Tegan thrummed the engine to life, driving home through the deserted streets, it was that time of the morning where everyone was either at home, in bed, or at their destination.

Jules turned in her seat to half face Tegan and winked at her, "so Andrew, did you really have sex with Tasher or what?"

She was sure the colour drained out of his face as he looked at her and his hands covered his white cheeks.

"For fucks sake Jules!" he looked mortified. "You know, I really don't want to tell you what happened there!" he said feeling more then a little embarrassed at Juliette's taunting.

Andrew could tell the were making him the butt of the joke, it was all harmless stirring so he smiled and the girls burst out laughing.

"You know I'm setting boundaries in this friendship you pair!" said Andrew pointing at the two she devils in the front.

"No mentioning the words, Andrew!…..girl!, shag!, root!, hump! or ride the wild bronco in the same sentence!…OK?….. We don't cross that boundary!" He said and tried giving them a *I'm serious look* but failed miserably and the trio burst out laughing again.

"You said you were gay Andrew," taunted Tegan accusingly, "Your not gay, your Bi, so there's still a chance for me to get you in the sack yet," she laughed.

Andrew hung his head and groaned, "I was, under the influence of chemicals and can't be held responsible," he defended himself, "and Tasher sort of looks like a guy."

The trio were in hysterics as Tegan slowed down approaching the intersection, pulling to a halt as the light turned orange then red and they sat there waiting. She wiped the tears from her eyes from the hilarity of Andrew's admission and checked the rear-view mirror, noting the headlights of a car that pulled up behind them.

"So in other words, all I've got to do is slip you a hit and your any bodies," more laughter at the embarrassed boys expense and Tegan continued on her roll.

"So, your sort of like Jules, one hit and your anybodies, two and your every bodies."

Juliette stopped laughing, "shutup," she whined as the tables were turned in her direction.

"Yeah, not so funny now is it Juliette?" chuckled Andrew, "I've heard those stories to you tart."

"Fuck off you two, this is pick on Andrew night, not pick on Juliette night ok," she giggled, "And don't start on me Tegan Hamilton or I'll tell a few of your nasty little sex secrets you bitch," and the laughter continued.

"Ok, ok, you win Jules, back to picking on Andrew," hastily turning her taunts back to the blond.

"So Andrew, are you saying that you wouldn't ever have sex with a girl now, unless, you were whacked out on drugs?"

"No, no sex with girls Tegan!" said Andrew slouching back into the seat and nervously giggling.

Tegan pointed to the glove box, "open that up Jules I've still got a few hits in there from last week. Here Andrew, close your eyes and stick out your tongue," the girls were in fits as Juliette rifled through the glove box.

"I'm not taking any more drugs you guys," and the three burst out laughing anew. Tegan had tears running down her cheeks and looked at Jules to see her in exactly the same condition.

Suddenly, Jules looked beyond Tegan, to the left and her face dropped into one of fear and she stiffened upright in her seat.

Tegan never even had time to ask as her car door opened. She swung round to see the long haired menace standing right beside her. She felt absolutely terrified for a split second before he brought his fist back then slammed it into her face. Tegan's world went dark.

Jules watched the guy approach the car and her heart leapt up into her throat. 'Oh fuck the Goddess blind.' she thought, it was the creepy silver haired guy Tegan had a run in with earlier. She sat there petrified with fear as he opened Tegan's door, bent down and slammed his fist into the side of her friends face.

Jules let out the biggest scream of her life as Tegan's head snapped to the side and she collapsed in her seat. The creep then reached into the car, undid Tegan's seatbelt and started dragging her out. 'Fuck you bastard.' thought Jules.

Juliette started screaming curses and laying into the guy with punches, slaps and scratches, hoping like hell he would back off.

He tried to pull his head back out of Jules reach but she had managed to hit home quite a few times. In one big pull, he virtually threw Tegan out of the drivers seat and onto the road.

Yazoo flung himself back into the car and grabbed hold of the screaming girls wrists and pulled her roughly up, crushing her against the restraints of the seat belt, effectively pinning her there.

She was screaming for all she was worth and Yazoo yelled at his brother, "get a hold of this bitch Kadaj."

The youngest smiled, he noticed Yazoo had his hands full at the moment, one unconscious on the road and one trying to tear his head off, he had to chuckle at the sight.

Walking to the passenger side door, Kadaj yanked it opened, the mouse was now in the middle child's clutches where not many ever survived. He briefly noticing the boy in the back, desperately fumbling with his pants and Kadaj had to wonder what the hell the kid was up to. His bafflement was resolved when suddenly the blond flew forward, hitting Yazoo in the throat with some sort of device that sent his brother reeling.

The scene just erupted.

The force of the Stun Stick sent Yazoo smashing back against the open car door to land heavily on his ass. The brown haired girl undid her seat belt and started scrambling over towards the drivers side.

"SHIT!" yelled Kadaj.

The young leader attempted to reach in and grab the little mouse that was heading for the drivers seat only to be confronted by the boy who was diving into the now vacant passenger seat to challenge Kadaj.

And to the surprise of the youngest, the boy came out fighting, Kadaj cursed, it wasn't them to underestimate an enemy, but these were just kids, human kids at that.

The blond flung himself forward and drove the device straight into Kadaj's stomach. The silver haired boy doubled over, convulsions from the shock that coursed through his gut rendered him almost immobile. Then he felt strong hands gripping his hair and in his pain filled state, watched as a knee came up quickly to drive into his face and the ground came up to meet him.

Loz was leaning on the bonnet as Yazoo and Kadaj made their way forward to the sleek little car. He saw Yazoo open the door, punch…..some screaming….. more screaming….and then everything went south. It all happened so fast, one minute his brothers were fine and looked like they had everything under control, the next, they were both on their asses.

"Holy shit!" said Loz, and he rushed forward.

TBC