Chapter 4
It was hard to believe that in four weeks time it will be Christmas - Roxy made sure that everyone knew this from what Leah heard when she entered the kicthen this morning.
Roxy was flipping pancakes, chatting enthusiastically about Christmas.
"Four weeks, guys! Four weeks! Can you actually believe it? Cuz I know I can't! Just like I can't believe a whole year has gone by so fast - two years this coming New Year's!" said Roxy, sliding one of the pancakes into a plate nearby and passing it down to Rex. "It's just all so exciting!"
"Just as long as you don't yell 'Merry Fuckmas' in public again it's all cool by me," laughed Ozzy.
"Oh you know me - I like to annoy you."
"Why Merry Fuckmas?" asked Rex, laughing.
Roxy shrugged. "I dunno - random bad-language moment? It annoyed him anyway." She spotted Leah coming in and smiled, blowing a kiss at her. "Pancake, Leah?"
"No thanks, Roxy," said Leah tiredly, she plumped herself down on the chair beside Ozzy.
"Nice bed hair, Leah!" grinned Ozzy. Leah stuck out her tongue at him.
"You know you like it anyway, baby," said Leah jokingly.
Ozzy winked at her. "Oh yeah, babeh, definitely! It reminds me of the way your hair looks after sex!" said Ozzy flirtingly, giving Leah his most charming smile; making her giggle.
"Please don't tell me you're horny now, Jones," Leah laughed, placing down a cup of coffee on the table.
"Per-lease - you know me, I'm always horny baby," joked Ozzy, leaning back on his seat.
"Durr hurr hurr," came the sarcastic jokey laugh from Leah.
Ozzy responded by sticking his tongue out in a childish manner. Leah laughed.
Roxy slided the last cooked pancake onto a plate and sat down with her cup of coffee. "Soo - anyone up for a stroll down by the Kidneys?" she asked, picking up the jar of maple syrup and pouring some onto her pancakes.
"Can't - we have stuff to do today, don't we fellas?" said Ozzy, glancing at Rex and Drix.
They both looked confusingly at Ozzy. "Do we?" they asked in unison.
Ozzy glared at them.
"Oh - right - that stuff we have to do!" said Rex pathetically, suddenly remembering what it was. The three men simultaneously got up from their seats.
"Sorry to leave you ladies so soon, but we best be on our way!" said Drix cheerily.
"See ya later, you two!" Ozzy called, getting ready to open the front door.
"We'll be back soon enough!" said Rex, following Ozzy and Drix out the door.
Leah and Roxy both exchanged confused looks and had a quiet little giggle.
"Wonder what they're up to.." said Roxy between chews.
"I haven't the slightest idea," said Leah, sipping her coffee and chewing on a slice of toast. She wasn't really hungry, but thought it safe to have some food just in case Roxy and the others get all suspicious and start asking her numerous questions.
It wasn't a bad day outside for a stroll - as Roxy suggested - down at the Kidneys. Leah decided she might take up that offer after all.
"How about you, me and Toxin go for that walk down at the Kidneys instead? Just us girls since the boys are too 'busy' with whatever the hell it is they need to do," said Leah.
Roxy beamed. "Yeah, sure! That'll be great! Who needs 'em anyways - we women can have fun without them!" she joked, giggling.
"Absolutely!" said Toxin, grinning.
"Well then, let's go!" said Roxy, pulling the two by the hand and rushing out the door, heading straight for their long walk down the Kidneys. It was a beautiful day for a walk for sure, for once Leah felt happy as the wind rushed through her hair and felt the coolness of the air on her face. They finally arrived at the Kidneys, Roxy breathed in the freshness of the air and smiled.
"Mmm - yeah, that's good," said Roxy, grinning.
Leah also breathed in the air's freshness and felt a sense of relaxation rush throughout her body, it was a wonderful sensation. Something she hadn't felt in a long while since she had a lot of worries on her mind. Toxin looked around at the scenery, a little smile played upon her lips.
"Frank's one city, huh?" she said, impressed.
"And you can see why we try so hard to protect it," said Roxy, stretching her arms. "No goddamn virus's gonna take this body down! No fuckin way!" she looked over at Toxin. "But I trust you anyway, so don't worry."
"haha I know, I have no intention on taking this body down anyway. My virus days are over."
"For real?" said Leah.
"For real."
Leah smiled at her, actually releaved that there was one virus that proved not all viruses were bad and that they could change if they wanted to.
If only Thrax would change. If only he could see that death isn't always gotta be his job.
"Leah? You coming?" said Roxy heading down the path in front of them.
Leah snapped out of her thoughts quickly. "Oh - sure," she said running after them.
"What's up? You seem so distracted." said Roxy.
"She's probably thinking about Ozzy." Toxin teased.
"Oh really!" giggled Roxy. "Sex good then?"
"Shut up," laughed Leah.
You guys are so so wrong...why can't I get him out of my head?
"We're baaaa-aaack!" called Ozzy as he entered the house alongside Drix and Rex.
"Took your time didn't you?" laughed Roxy, putting on the kettle for coffee. She looked down at a present Ozzy was holding. "Ohh? A present hmm?"
Ozzy turned bright red. "It's a christmas gift," he lowered his voice. "For Leah."
"Aww, how sweet. What is it?"
"It's... a surprise ok!" said Ozzy turning bright red, Rex and Drix started snickering.
"Haha ok then, I'll wait until Christmas."
Rex sat at the table with Ozzy while Drix went searching around the room for something, he scratched his head.
"Have you seen Dander?" he asked.
"He's asleep upstairs in my room, unfortunately he's grown rather fond of my bed sheets..try and make him stay in your room will you Drix?" said Roxy, pulling out a few cups from the cabinet.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I'll try and keep away from your room." said Drix, heading off upstairs to get Dander.
Ozzy looked around, a confused expression plastered on his face.
"Where's Leah and Toxin?" Ozzy asked.
"Leah's in her room and Toxin went out for a while." said Roxy, pouring coffee into the cups.
"Ah ok...Leah's always in her room nowadays.."
"Yeah, it's weird. She's changed a lot since what happened."
Ozzy frowned, gritting his teeth. "I could just kill him for that, after what he put her through! Why the fuck don't they kill him?"
"Because Leah never wanted him dead, and Kayley won't go against her wishes."
"Fuck's sake, Thrax didn't do Leah a favour by torturing her!"
"I know.. but let's forget about it for now ok?" said Roxy, trying to keep the peace and to make sure they never mention the past again.
"Fine.." Ozzy agreed angrily.
The two remained silent, Rex just drank his coffee without a word spoken. He didn't want to be part of this convo.
"He hasn't changed I'm telling you.. he's just become more aggravated. He wants to see you, that's basically all he asks for."
Leah had called Carl, she needed to know what was going on with Thrax, the need to know had been eating at her.
"But- but why? Why does he want to see me?" she asked desperately.
"I have no idea why, he won't say. No matter how many times we ask him. He just won't tell us anything."
"Oh god..." Leah groaned, burying her face in her free hand. "Maybe...maybe I should go pay him a visit...before you guys come down here."
"I don't know Leah.. maybe. It might calm him down or either give us an answer to why he wants to see you.."
"So..I should then shouldn't I? I'd better go then... it's gonna drive me insane if I don't know why he wants to see or even talk to me."
"I don't know either, but let's just wait awhile before having a straight out answer. You don't wanna end up regretting visiting him.."
"I guess, God I just wish I knew what's up with him, and what the hell he wants!"
"Calm down, Leah. We don't know what he wants or what's wrong with him. We just have to wait and see."
"I guess you're right...listen, I'll talk to you later ok? Ozzy's probably wondering where I am."
"Ok then, take care Leah. Bye!"
"Bye." Leah smiled, hanging up, she put the phone down and went downstairs into the kitchen. Ozzy stared at her.
"Was that yo' momma on the phone? You did tell her I was taking care of you? I don' want her on my case again. She sure doesn't like me an' no offence but I don't really like her either." Ozzy said, grimacing at the thought of Leah's mom.
Leah laughed, cocking one eyebrow. "Keep your pants on Ozzy, it wasn't my mom, it was just Carl."
"Oh, right right, good-good. What'd he want?" Ozzy breathed out with relief, hesitantly repeting words with no reason whatsoever. Leah smirked, trying to hide yet another laugh that threatened to slip through her lips.
"Mm, he just was asking me how we all were and when he and Kayley were coming." said Leah, coughing a little to disguise the laugh.
"A'ight, cool. So when are they comin' down?"
"Sometime during Christmas."
Drix beamed. "That sounds splendid. All of our dearly beloved friends together to enjoy the festive holiday, exchanging gifts and singing carols shall be splendid indeed!" said Drix, his own eyes sparkly.
Ozzy gave him a look which only showed how weird he thought Drix was right now. "Yeah, whatever." he gave a long yawn, stretching his arms. Listen I'll be heading off to bed, need to get some shut-eye after our day out. Night guys, night baby," said Ozzy, giving Leah a kiss and heading upstairs.
Roxy and Rex mumbled something about heading off to bed as well and retreated upstairs. Leah heard the bedroom door close, she also swore she'd heard a tiny little click, indicating that they had locked the door. Sleeping sure as hell wasn't on their minds. (how kinky)
Drix eventually went upstairs to bed as well, God help him if he hears noises tonight, Leah was left alone in the kitchen. She decided to put the kettle on for coffee, not liking the idea of going upstairs and catching a few strange noises from Rex's room. Mind you, she wouldn't have minded getting it on herself with Ozzy, but she wasn't in the mood tonight. Something was on her mind, or more like someone. She sighed heavily, just wanting to forget about him. Why did this have to haunt her? Why couldn't she just be happy back with her normal life and the man she loved most?
Only it seemed like this wasn't enough to make her forget...
It was dark, cold, and frosty outside. Toxin was perched up on a brick wall, taking in the sweet fresh air as it blew in her face and through her hair, nothing could have been any calmer than this. There was so much on her mind, she didn't know where to start with the many thoughts that piled in in her head. Why she had this sudden feeling of...revenge? No, no it couldn't be that, could it? She didn't want to believe it. She was happy with things the way they were, she had people that loved and care about her. She wouldn't change that for anything.
Something sharp and hard struck her at the back of the head, she jerked her upper body forwards, her hair falling around her face. It wasn't that painful, but the shock from it was quite overwhelming. She heard the sound of another rock being scraped up from the ground.
"You- you stinking bitch! What the hell d'you think you're doing back here? Haven't you done enough to this body? You've caused enough problems as it is! Go drop dead!" a she-cell yelled from behind her, she let fire of the rock she had in her hand, hitting Toxin in the same spot on her head. "No one mights a reminder of the past! No one wants to remember you and what you did!"
"Then why don't you go DIE!" Toxin spat, turning around as quick as a wink and tackling the she-cell to the ground. "If you won't accept me then you might as well kiss the ground you lie on! No one wants to remember what I did, then they might as well forget it! I'm different now! I'M DIFFERENT!" she kicked the she-cell's face repeatedly, smashing her teeth and crushing her face, the force of her kick was overpowering, suddenly her kicks changed to stomps and she continueously screamed "I'M DIFFERENT", becoming hysterical, tears swimming in her eyes, her breath becoming rasp. She continued stomping on the she-cell's face until she noticed a pool of fresh blood forming and her shoe was a new shade of red. She blinked and looked down, her heart stopping. The she-cell lay motionless in her own pool of blood, unrecognisable as her face was completely mishapen and crushed, covered in blood and bits of her teeth scattered across. It was horror, looking at this horrible sight right before her eyes. She backed away slowly, looking around to see if there were any witnesses. No one was there. No one had seen what she'd done. She ran, off into the cold night.