[2010 Resolution] - Drabble 28
Date: 11 January 2011
Prompt: "Try to calm down."
Tetrax isn't the most socially adept person in the base. He knows this, admits to this, doesn't bother to hide this failing in any way. And while all this is true, he still has no one to blame but himself when Myaxx doesn't take kindly to him treating her more like a prisoner and less like a potential comrade.
He has her backed up against the laboratory's wall, and the only reason he doesn't have her caged in between his arms is that for all his social failings he can recognize a cornered animal about to strike.
"What's your problem?!" she snarls, teeth bared, throwing in a shove that he didn't expect to be surprisingly strong.
He regains his footing, closes the gap she so desperately tried to make between them, his face practically against hers when he growls, "You and Six-Six." The mere thought of the Lab Assistant beneath the Bounty Hunter has black rage tainting Tetrax's sights, his judgment clouded by something that has suspiciously green eyes.
"I would think not trying to kill you each time we run into each other puts me in a better position than that bastard," she glowers, makes another attempt to shove his broad frame away. Only this time, he grabs her wrists, and holds fast when she tries to pull her arms back. "Although you're making me rethink that decision."
"Just tell me what went on between you and Six-Six," the words were spoken so softly he isn't certain he even said them at all.
"The only time anything "went on between" us was that time you ditched me," she seethed.
"I never ditched you," he growled back, a little too defensively.
"Are you saying he thought he could get me to rat you out because I'm too weak-willed to resist?"
"Stop putting words in my mouth! I never said-wait, he tried to get you to turn on me?"
In this moment of confusion, Myaxx managed to wrench her arms free. "I'm begining to rethink that decision as well," she huffs, nursing her wrists, looking as if she intends to give him another shove if he doesn't back off that instant.
Which he doesn't. Instead he breathes, "So you never slept with him?"
She stares at him, jaw agape in disbelief. For all of two seconds. "Not that it's any of your business, where the fuck did you get that idea?!"
"From him."
For a moment, Tetrax thinks Myaxx is going to kill someone. It takes less than a heartbeat for him to be sure Myaxx is going to kill someone.
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Yes, it's 2011, but this still falls under my 2010 resolution. Pretty much gonna keep labeling them as such until I meet the original "quota" for my 2010 resolution.
Prompt: "Try to calm down."
Tetrax isn't the most socially adept person in the base. He knows this, admits to this, doesn't bother to hide this failing in any way. And while all this is true, he still has no one to blame but himself when Myaxx doesn't take kindly to him treating her more like a prisoner and less like a potential comrade.
He has her backed up against the laboratory's wall, and the only reason he doesn't have her caged in between his arms is that for all his social failings he can recognize a cornered animal about to strike.
"What's your problem?!" she snarls, teeth bared, throwing in a shove that he didn't expect to be surprisingly strong.
He regains his footing, closes the gap she so desperately tried to make between them, his face practically against hers when he growls, "You and Six-Six." The mere thought of the Lab Assistant beneath the Bounty Hunter has black rage tainting Tetrax's sights, his judgment clouded by something that has suspiciously green eyes.
"I would think not trying to kill you each time we run into each other puts me in a better position than that bastard," she glowers, makes another attempt to shove his broad frame away. Only this time, he grabs her wrists, and holds fast when she tries to pull her arms back. "Although you're making me rethink that decision."
"Just tell me what went on between you and Six-Six," the words were spoken so softly he isn't certain he even said them at all.
"The only time anything "went on between" us was that time you ditched me," she seethed.
"I never ditched you," he growled back, a little too defensively.
"Are you saying he thought he could get me to rat you out because I'm too weak-willed to resist?"
"Stop putting words in my mouth! I never said-wait, he tried to get you to turn on me?"
In this moment of confusion, Myaxx managed to wrench her arms free. "I'm begining to rethink that decision as well," she huffs, nursing her wrists, looking as if she intends to give him another shove if he doesn't back off that instant.
Which he doesn't. Instead he breathes, "So you never slept with him?"
She stares at him, jaw agape in disbelief. For all of two seconds. "Not that it's any of your business, where the fuck did you get that idea?!"
"From him."
For a moment, Tetrax thinks Myaxx is going to kill someone. It takes less than a heartbeat for him to be sure Myaxx is going to kill someone.
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Yes, it's 2011, but this still falls under my 2010 resolution. Pretty much gonna keep labeling them as such until I meet the original "quota" for my 2010 resolution.