A/N: Hello everyone! Weren't you all just squeamishly awaiting this chapter? Yes yes well this chapter is a little...out there, if you get mad easily...probably not the best to read the first part of this chapter. Just skip to the second narrator's POV. :D. So yeah, I don't know what else to say.

Review responses: Ngrey: Thank you and yes it is very chilling to hear someone talk about no more hope. There will always be hope, even if people don't want to believe it.

IR: Thank you! Tab's just getting better and better with Liao and yes Zim is in a bit of a situation at the moment XD. I have to make this short but I hope you have anice day or night as well.

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Narrator's POV. 1

A week had passed. Another fucking week! And still no sign of Tabitha, it was starting to infuriate Jax and worry his crew members whom had to face the full front of Jax's rage.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HER TRACE HAS JUST DISAPPEARED?!" Shouted a very, very angry Jax. His anger was directed towards a very scared and very small Vortarian whom was hiding behind his clip board.

"I-It just…poof'd away this morning upon inspection. W-We have no idea why other than…the thought that she may have…passed on." He murmured cringing and hiding behind his clip board again watching as Jax's very aggressive antenna started quivering with anger.

Before the little Vortarian knew it, he was being lifted up and thrown into a large computer screen, shattering it and causing him to fall into the pile of sharp glass with a cry of pain, "SHE IS NOT DEAD!" Jax seethed, gouging the metal of the control panel with his claws, "FIND HER! I WANT HER NOW!"

"Sir we have no way of tracking her now," A brave, young looking Vortarian said firmly.

"Then why don't I just send you out there and find her! WOULD YOU LIKE THAT BETTER!" Jax snarled, grabbing the nearest thing he could find, which happened to be a coffee cup and chucking it into a receiving monitor.

All the Vortarians shouted in fear and dove out of the way of the opposing object, waiting for Jax to suddenly go into his animalistic mode or at least calm down, "You find her!" He snapped, venom dripping off every word uttered, "And you do it within the next two weeks! I want her alive! And unharmed!"

"What of her new 'partner?'" Jax glared at the same Vortarian, making him gulp heavily, "Sir."

"Hmm, I want him too. I have plenty that I can do to him. With the proper tools of course. Now see to it I have them by the end of next two weeks! Or ALL your lives will pay the price!" The Vortarian gulped and saluted before gathering with his colleagues to devise a plan to find her.

In the meantime Jax had sat back in the chair and spun it around, rubbing his temples and growling every time he thought of that other man near his property. He bared his teeth again while clamping his eyes shut and taking in a deep breath. 'No worries, he won't be a bother any more once you get her back,' he queried, smiling as he digested the thought. Yes, Tabitha WOULD be his again and he wouldn't let her out of his sight for as long as he had her…which should be until he gets bored and decides to rid of her or sell her to someone else; for the right price of course.

After a few minutes, Jax silently stood and exited the command center walking down the halls of the massive cargo ship and landing right outside of his door. Teri had the freedom to move around in his room; seeing as it was locked at all times, but that never stopped her from pulling little stunts to try and get away.

'If she pulls ANYTHING this time,' Jax thought while reaching into the side of his belt and pulling out a pistol, 'Well she won't live to regret it.'

And with that, he pressed his palm against the DNA register and unlocked the door, pushing it open boredly and strolling in with an aura of confidence, as he usually did. So far, there had been no tricks, traps or anything else that could cause him bodily harm. In fact, Teri was just peacefully resting on his bed.

"Move it, slave," he growled, shoving her off mercilessly and seating himself on his own bed, debating if he wanted to mess with Teri a little bit tonight or let her have the night off. She was already weak from everything else he'd done to her, and she couldn't hear very well which in some cases could be nice, others…not so much.

"Jack ass," She muttered. Jax rolled his eyes and pointed his pistol at her.

"Call me that again," He looked over at her now, glaring at her through narrowed pupils and an insane smile, "I dare you to." She'd gone quiet after that and sauntered into the closet where she slept most of the time whenever Jax came into the room.

With a smile or triumph, he stood up and slowly pulled his shirt off, hissing a little in pain when his still wounded shoulder blade gave him trouble. True he had pulled all the shrapnel out himself when he had his…moments…but he'd also wounded himself more in the process and torn plenty of shoulder muscles that were still very slowly healing, "Teri," He called out gruffly, twitching his antenna impatiently.

She pushed her head out of the closet and looked over at him curiously, "What?" He glared at her and waved his gun around a little bit making her bite her tongue and glare at him, "Yes…master?"

"Come here," The instruction was short but it could mean a plethora of things as Teri knew very well now. She paced in and out of the closet for a long frightened moment before very slowly inching closer to him, not looking him in the eye. Last time she did that, she was slapped across the face and had earned a sliced antenna.

Jax grabbed her chin as soon as she got close enough to him, making her gasp in worry and clamp her eyes shut. He moved her face side to side a little bit, inspecting her with great interest before releasing her jaw and smiling, "You're scared, aren't you?"

Her silence answered him, making another smile form on his face, "You know you wouldn't have to do this. You wouldn't have to be my slave and get manhandled all the time, you could go free."

Her antenna shot up as she stared at him, there had to be a catch, there was always a catch with him, "What?"

"Freedom," He purred back, circling her slowly and coming up behind her, "You could be free."

She scoffed, "Yeah for the right price right?"

"Oh no, no, no," He purred again, grabbing her face from behind and turning her head until she was looking at him, "Not price. I would just ask a…tiny favor of you. And that'd be it. You could be free."

"A tiny favor usually ends up with a catch and a hook on the end," She growled back, letting her antenna flatten out on her head.

"Not this time. I'd only ask for your help in finding a certain…friend of mine."

"Tabitha?"

"Hmm yes actually. Think about it, freedom Teri. Fresh air and nothing to worry about but the walkers. You could evacuate the planet," He rested his face on her shoulder and turned towards her low hanging antenna, murmuring into them, "No more slavery. No more beatings, forced pleasure. You'd be as free as a bird."

Pulling away, he could see that she was having an emotional battle within herself; her eyes gave that much away. He smirked teasingly and pulled away from her to shuffle through a drawer and pull another shirt on, "Well?" He purred, circling her again like she was a piece of prey.

"I-I don't know…"

"Think about it," He whispered, grabbing the front of her shirt and tugging her closer to himself. A sliver of fear zipped through her eyes as he just smiled at her before going in to bite into her neck and roll his tongue along the abused flesh. She tried to pull away but he kept her stuck between him and the bed frame. He licked up her jugular and ended at the crook of her jaw, smiling and licking her hurt, scarred antenna.

She cringed in physical disgust as he continued to nibble her antenna and make her uncomfortable in any way possible, "S-Stop," She said shakily, using a weak attempt to push him away.

"Hmm, I think you like it, don't you Teri?"

"N-NO!"

He smiled once more, pushing her back into the bed frame and pulling his shirt off…AGAIN. Teri physically tensed as he pressed himself against her, letting her feel what he was made of, what he could do. He set his hands on the skeleton of the bed, pinning her against it while making her face him. Their faces were just centimeters apart.

Teri was well, terrified. He'd never gone this far before. And it was never this…intimate. It was as if he was trying to sway her decision on Tabitha by showing her what she was to live with and what she could live without. And to be honest it was working pretty dang well, "Are you sure, you don't like it?" He muttered, searching her fearful eyes with his own, cold, heartless ones.

"N-No, I-I hate it, get away from me," She said a little too quietly for her liking. She was scared and she knew that he knew it. 'H-He's playing with my mind. Dammit and I'm letting him! If only I could get away, maybe I could actually breathe!'

While she was lost in thought, Jax had taken another step forwards, and roughly pushed her over the little bed frame and onto the bed. She was now vulnerable to him, her neck, stomach and all vital parts were at his mercy as he slowly slipped on top of her, putting his hands on either side of her face and staring down at her, "Your body language says different," He purred, flashing her an evil smile while moving to twirl one of her antenna around his claw, "It's practically begging me to take you."

"Or its begging you to leave me alone," She said back, pushing on his chest to try and get him off of her, "So get off of me!"

"Oh no," He said, letting her do whatever. She wasn't strong enough to shove him off and she was pretty badly throttled around so she wouldn't be able to do much if anything to him, "I'm your master and I wanna hear you say it."

"Never," She spat making his antenna twitch impatiently once more.

"Fine." He reached down and grabbed the bottom of her shirt, yanking it up and off of her as she gasped and snapped her arms to shield her chest away from his prying eyes, "Tell me I'm your master, Teri," He said again, merely batting her arms away and hooking a claw under the front part of her black bra. It was a pathetic material and easily cut if he so pleased, "Or else."

She felt herself starting to cry when she saw his claw hook under the front of her bra. Turning her face away from his she muttered something inaudible to him, "Hmm?" He said again, using his other hand to forcefully grab her chin and make her look straight up at him, "Come again?"

"I-I said that…you're my…master…"

"Good girl," he hummed, removing his claw from her bra, but not getting off of her, "Now tell me you want me."

"What, no! I already told you what you wanted to hear!" She hissed back. She'd go to a certain level of humility before enough was enough.

"I think I'll be judge of that, don't you?" He said malevolently while trailing his claw down the natural stomach line etching down her abdomen. Only stopping when he reached her pants line and teasingly slipped one claw under the waist band, moving it back and forth across her stomach very slowly, "Well?"

"I…I," She tried to say, though her words were choked and forced upon.

"I'm getting impatient Teri," Jax growled at her, unbuttoning her pants and working the zipper open.

Now she was really uncomfortable. He'd never, EVER gone this far before and she was petrified. Her breathing was already labored from being so violated as it was. But now she felt like her heart was going to implode from all the fear, adrenaline and shock pumping through it, "I wanna hear you say those three words," He growled again, moving so his hand was pressed right above her underwear line and was slowly moving down.

She bit her tongue before finally giving in to his wishes; she didn't want to be raped or violated any more, "OKAY, OKAY! I WANT YOU! PLEASE JUST STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING!"

"Why?" He asked, chuckling to himself, "I thought you just said you wanted me?" Now her eyes snapped wide open. He fucking tricked her into giving in to save herself from the inevitable.

"NO NO NO! PLEASE NO!" She shouted as he went for his own pants line, unbuttoning and unzipping them achingly slow just to torture her more.

"Isn't this what you wanted? You said it yourself," He smiled, licking her stomach line all the way up to right under her bra. Another scream erupted from her throat at the feeling of the slimy, disgusting, revolting appendage.

However everything stopped when an annoying voice was heard over the intercom, "Jax report to the main command center. We may have just located Tabitha, I repeat, Jax report to the main command center immediately."

"Think about it," Jax murmured, smirking down at her horrified expression. He was off of her in an instant, re-zipping and re-buttoning his pants while frantically grabbing the shirt he tossed away earlier, "I'll be back soon," He grinned at Teri before rushing out of the room, locking the door on his way out. This left Teri alone to sit there, half naked and curled up in a ball.

And left alone to cry.

Her decision had been made and it was final. She would help in any way possible to get this girl he was obsessed with back. If it meant her freedom, she'd do it.

Narrators POV. 2

Things had calmed down a little bit with Tabitha, but Liao was still trying to calm her down to the point of where she'd stop shaking. Or at least stop crying, that always made him feel uncomfortable and a little mad that someone would make his friend cry like this.

So for right now, her eyes were closed—albeit still leaking tears—and she was taking in deep calm breaths. Sure she was still shaking, and her antenna were quivering in horror but she wanted to keep a calm demeanor. Especially if Jax was the cause of such a panic attack. It was unacceptable.

It took a while, but eventually Tabitha had stopped shaking but was still crying just a little bit. Liao on the other hand had started to doze off from being so comfortable. His eye lids were drooping every few seconds and his antenna would not stay up for the life of him, he was really freaking comfortable!

So of course he was surprised and even grunted a little while Tabitha moved her face so it was gently brushing up against his. Her head was leaning onto his shoulder and resting on his neck, but the upper part of her face was now pressed into the side of his jaw line.

His big yellow eyes snapped wide open a little bit, and looked down at her before he felt something churn in his stomach. It wasn't a bad churn, in fact he wasn't exactly sure what it was but it made his heart jump a little bit.

Tabitha on the other hand was soaking up any ounce of comfort she could get; and he was the perfect person to give it to her. He didn't talk, so she didn't have to respond and he was just there for her, within an arm's reach. It was the best kind of comfort she could think of. Some girls wanted to complain and talk about all their disgusting feelings whereas Tabitha just wanted someone to be there for her. They didn't have to say a word they just had to make it clear that they were there for her when she needed them. And Liao was grade A stuff to work with on that. He was also a little shy which made it all the better, that way he wouldn't direct the conversation towards him and his problems. Not that he had any of course…

Though to be honest, Tabitha wasn't expecting Liao to physically show affection back towards her. He did so by letting his antenna fall, closing his eyes and leaning his face against hers all while wrapping his arms around her and pulling her closer. It was surprising how nice it felt to have affection shown towards her again. She actually…liked it.

So she moved her face more against his and curled up in a little ball with him, she didn't care if she looked pathetic or vulnerable, she felt wanted when she was next to him and she wasn't going to push that feeling away.

Liao felt happy truly happy for once in a long time. When he was around Lexy he was happy but this was a different kind of happiness. It was a kind that he'd prayed for, for a long time and now that he had it, he wasn't quite sure what to do with it. All he could think of right now is that he was freaking tired.

He couldn't remember when he fell asleep or how long it had been, but he was startled awake by the sound of the truck door closing right next to him. His eyes opened a little bit and looked over to see it was starting to become dusk already. Lexy was walking away from the truck and Difetto was waiting for her on the porch, smiling a little bit as Lexy made some hand motion towards him and pointed back towards the vehicle.

With a small groan, Liao shifted his body weight to find that there was a blanket covering both he and Tabitha. There was also a note on the steering wheel that was from Lexy but signed as Lil' Jealous. 'Hey dork, I'm gonna cook dinner with Difetto but whenever you wake up, feel free to come in and chow down with us! Love you! AND NOW WHO SHOULD BE GOSSIPING TO WHOM! HMMM! HMMMM!?' He smiled at that part and shoved the note into his pocket for later use and possibly black mail, "Tab," He murmured, nudging her face a little bit with his own, "Tabitha." Still nothing.

So with a sigh of defeat he merely pulled his recently recovered brown cowboy hat more over his eyes and pulled the blankets more up over his hip. He leaned his face against Tabitha's again before pulling away once more a just looking at her. Using his free hand to move his hat up slightly so he could actually see of course.

He thought to himself for a long time, just looking at her and debating with himself within his mind before he very, VERY slowly leaned forwards and kissed her temple, a blush instantly heating his face afterwards as he moved so he was just leaning against her again and sleeping.

Back in the house, Lexy was watching the truck from the kitchen window while washing a couple dishes and heating some tomato soup on the wood stove. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see Difetto giving her a questioning look, "Sorry Difetto, I'm just surprised at Liao that's all."

Difetto tilted his head a little bit while giving her another inquisitive look as if to ask why, "If you're wondering why, it's because he hasn't ever really liked anyone up until now. Sure he went out with a couple girls in his teen years but they were just dates you know?" Difetto nodded slowly, "He's acting a lot different when Tabitha's around though. Hell I catch him day dreaming about her all the time and that's just not Liao you know? He's more the type of guy who makes really close friendship bonds, but never initiates an action of affection." Difetto grabbed his note pad and scribbled a question down on it.

'You don't think he likes Tabitha do you?' It read.

"I know he does," Lexy sighed back, turning off the water and staring out at the truck sadly, "I am just surprised that he's actually taken a liking to someone, and so quickly too." Difetto drew a picture this time with words under it.

It was of Irk blowing up and under it saying, 'because the end of the world?'

Now Lexy laughed and waved her hands in front of her face, "No, no I don't think so anyways. I'm going to interrogate him later. But look at him Diffy;" Difetto frowned and shot a glare at her from the nickname, "He looks happy."

Difetto nodded as he saw Liao and Tab snuggled up together in the truck. Lexy was right, they really did look happy with each other, "I'm also surprised Tabitha's actually letting him in. She's pushed him out and kind of slammed the doors on all of us since Jax really screwed up her life. And three weeks seems too soon, but maybe this is to help her." Difetto smirked and made a heart shape with his hands 'laughing' and sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth as he trotted around the kitchen silently chanting the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song, "You are so immature!" Lexy teased, shoving him playfully while walking over and stirring the soup, "But it's so true."

A/N: Wow yeah ok I will say nothing. I'm going to get a hose from Earth and shoot water at Jax, make him hurt. XD. No I freaking love him though he is annoying me at the moment.

Last review responses: Psychochicken: I hope what ever blew up wasn't deadly. And good luck with the battle. I throw in a couple Oc's into the chaos if you want LOL. I have to make it short but have fun.

Treefroggies: I UNDERESTIMATE YOUR POWER! Thank you and I hope you continue to enjoy Lexy and Liao's and Difettos AND tabs growing relationships. Eh zim will live, sigh hes indestructible so YOU know. HE MUST LIVE. Ok I have to go for now. Let's get back to the RP! :D

~Me.