Chawmpy-bot has requested a shout out. And last night I want to her profile and read a story of hers, a one-shot to be exact, and if you like Naruto's Kiba I suggest reading it. Also I haven't had a chance to give her much personality, a bit of it showed in ch6 (The ch after you reviewed) and she will be a bit more defined as soon as this chapter is done,...i think ;) I am glad you like it. LMAO Listen to the song 'Goodbye Earl' by the Dixi Chicks. It's got nothing to do with the story but lol yeah. Oh and FYI the poll is up. You can either vote now or later.
It was hours again before Snake Eyes saw Avery and he could help but to wonder why she hadn't told Hawk the truth. He wanted to know why she hadn't told their higher up about his stupidity. And because she hadn't told Hawk what had truthfully happened she looked like a clumsy idiot. For now Snake Eyes watched her, she wasn't moving or anything. Avery was just squatting there. He heard her sigh and he wondered what was the matter. There was no way that he was going to go out there and ask her because he wanted to figure out why she had done what she had, and he- "Are you just going to stay there all day or come out Snake Eyes?"
Avery had know that Snake Eyes was over there watching her ever since he got there. When he neither came out nor made any sound she sighed and looked back down. It was these ants that had originally alerted her to Snake Eyes presence. They had been all over where he was and soon they had came scurrying this way it had taken her several minutes to figure out that it was Snake Eyes, actually she still wasn't sure. Just as she was about to speak out to him someone else entered and her eyes grew cold and hard. "Why hello Webster. Can I help you with something?" Her tone was hollow, like she had nothing in her. She sounded just like she had someone close die and was trying to cover her hurt and pain.
"Yes, there is." Webster said in his horribly smooth tone. It was obvious how he got in. He was a pure blood italian and a mobsters son. He had to have lied and said that he was disgusted by his father, yet Avery knew how alike the two were. They even looked alike, well when his father hadn't been a fat old slob. His black hair was slicked back and looked thin. He was tall, some where nearing seven feet, and thin. Webster's thinness was what had him staying where he was, he used it to make himself look weak and stay out of the fight. And then as soon as people turned their back and tried to protect him they had a dagger shoved in their back, or more like the started to look like swiss cheese all filled with holes. "I want you to decline being accepted on Alpha Team. Then I will go and try for it. All that you need to do is feed me all the medical information when it is needed."
"How about no? I'm tired of bending to your will. No longer am I under you and you have no power over me. Just go away and continue to abuse your other lackeys." Avery finally told her used to be higher up off. She had wanted to do that for the past year but it hadn't mattered then. Back then she had hated the abuse but had no other place to turn to. Now she did. She was officially part of Alpha team as of the meeting with Hawk. He hadn't wanted much, just to let her know about the fact she was indeed in and then he wanted to know about Sara. Avery was in thought about the meeting and hadn't seen Webster grab and electrified staff. But somewhere in her mind alarms were going off and she jump.
Just jumped. She was still in thought as she ducked and dodged. It was as if instinct had taken over. And when she came to he senses Webster had his gun cocked and pointed at her. "Now, let me try this again. Quit Alpha Team and give me all the information I need." Avery sighed and Squatted down again. To Webster it looked like she was giving up but in truth she was thinking. Trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation quickly. She saw a shadow moving out of the corner of her eyes and knew that Snake Eyes was moving.
"Webster, you never think things through do you?" Avery distracted the man for just long enough and grabbed a stone. "Guns can't be relied on in every situation you know, nor can bullying. Lets say I need to see the ailment to give you the cure then what are you to do? Or lets say I do this?" The stone was thrown so fast that Webster never saw it but when it ebbed itself in between his wrist joint he hollered and dropped the gun. "I think I shall say that that is a sprained wrist nothing to worry about. Al though if that stone isn't removed you could get gangrene. But hey I'm not going to tell that to the person threatening me now am I?" Avery was now taunting Webster. He turned the shock in the staff on and swung wildly with it in his left hand.
She dodged it every time then was in his face. Pulling back her right hand she punched him. The force she had put into the single hit knocked him backwards and he fell. "When the hell did you get like this?" He hissed at her. Hawk walked in just then and Webster smirked before crying out. "No! Avery please don't I beg you! Don't hurt me anymore! Please. Please, no." Webster started to beg and Avery looked at him shocked.
"Webster?" Hawk asked the man on the floor. As soon as Avery heard Hawk she understood Webster's plan. Here she was without a scratch on her and there Webster was, bleeding from his wrist that had a stone in it, on the floor holding his nose and begging her to not hurt him any more. Now she looked like the bad guy and him the poor innocent caught up in her beating.
"General! Oh general thank God you are here. This woman, and underling of mine, has decided that now that she has a chance of going up the ladder to take me out of the way. Please general you must stop her." When Webster saw Hawk looking at Avery in shock Webster shot her a smirk. He had indeed just won this battle and there was no way she could defend herself and it not be taken as a lie. Avery had forsaken doing what was right a long time ago and just took what she had to.
"I accept any punishment you give me General Hawk. But I must say, this is not what it looks like." Avery stood as tall as she could and her eyes never wavered. All emotion was hidden from the world. But if one looked closely they would see little swirls in their depths. Just as Hawk was about to yell at her in anger he stopped and put a hand to his ear. Snake Eyes stood behind hawk typing something into the mettle device on his arm.
"Really?" Hawk asked and turned around to see Snake Eyes nod. "Well, Avery. The only thing you are to do is go with Snake Eyes and move your belonging to the room across from him. That is your new room since you were already told that you are accepted into Alpha Team. And as for you, Webster, I don't appreciate lies being spit about my daughter. There are several flaws to your story. One being that the eye witness to all of this never lies." Avery walked with Snake Eyes out into the hall before she could hear the rest.
"You didn't need to do that Snake Eyes. I would have taken the punishment. There is no need to make it look like you too had something to do with this." She watched him form angry signs. "I was the one to hurt him. He had not laid a finger on me." He took his gun out and held it to her head and pointed at it then her. It wasn't sign language but she understood. "And if I was to attack you right here I would be the one to get in trouble. That is how it always has been. I would rather take the swift punishment than prolong it because of some stupid prideful thing. It is always harsher if you try to defend yourself." Snake Eyes put the gun away and gave her a curious look.
"I learned that lesson not long after arriving." She lifted her shit enough to show him her back. "That was because I defended myself. When I stopped the punishments were less harsh. There was a scar on her back from her first punishment. It stretched all the way from her right shoulder to her left hip. Luckily she had been able to take care of her self enough that it was just a pink line on her back. "Shall we start moving me or not?"
The two were standing outside of her old room door and she waited for him to nod before opening the door. There was no need to see the look on his face to know that he was shocked. One thing about G.I. Joe was that the Joes were allowed to do anything with their room. Make it their own. It was for physiological reasons. Because everyone was different and being in a place like the 'Pit' as it was called, although Avery always called it the Base, could do some harm to the mind if left like that for prolonged amounts of time. But it wasn't what one would have expected of Avery's room. They would have expected to see something about her in there. Only thing was Avery's room was empty. There was a single duffle bag with a blanket over it in the corner. No bed, no chairs, no table, no nothing. "Another punishment was that all the furniture was taken. And that was for defending myself against Webster. Literally defending myself." She walked over and grabbed her bag and blanket. Then tenderly she reached down and grabbed one last thing. "They almost took this too. I put three people in the intensive care and another two were sick for days with a poison. The poison was an accident but still I took out five people trying to get this back. When the man left had realized just what I would do to keep this he gave it back and settled for giving a beating. I took it gladly."
She handed it the picture to Snake Eyes and headed out. By doing that she had showed him that she trusts him with what she held higher than her own well being.