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As One Door Closes	By : trudyw000 Category: +G through L > Generator Rex Views: 4178 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Authors Note - Hi, No reviews last chapter, that's disappointing, hopefully you'll be more inspired by this one.
Chapter Five - Revelation
Six stood outside Rex's door, the sounds of anguish from within tearing him apart. As he moved to go in a hand stopped him. "Let me" came the gruff voice of Bobo. Nodding once Six turned sharply on his heel and strode away. Afterwards Six had no knowledge of how long he spent roaming to corridors of the Providence HQ until he found himself back in the medical ward.
Doctor Holiday looked up from her work to find him standing in the middle of the floor looking lost. It was a look she would never have expected to see on the strong warrior before her and she felt the strong need to take care of him, to get him out of the public eye. Standing and catching his eye she directed him to her personal office telling him she would be there shortly. It wasn't the perfect solution but would have to do for now, at least he was somewhere private where he could breakdown and then build himself back up again in peace if that was what needed to happen.
Finishing up what she was working on Holiday crossed the lab to her office and stepped inside closing the door firmly behind her. She didn't use the office often preferring to be more accessible but her staff knew that if the office door was shut then she was not to be disturbed.
In the room she found Six sat with his elbows propped up on her desk, his head sunk into his hands. Pulling up the visitor chair she took a seat across from him and waited for him to acknowledge her presence.
Eventually he raised his head and looked at her through the ever-present dark glasses. "I'm going to hand in my resignation, it'll be in White Knight's hand by the end of the day."
They were the last words she had ever expected to hear from this man. "Why?" she asked in shock.
"I failed him, I had one job, to keep him safe and I failed." Anger overtook him now and he slammed his hands down on the desktop daring her to contradict him.
"Who? White Knight? I don't understand." Holiday was confused, failing to see how Six had possibly failed their enigmatic leader.
"No, Rex! I failed him, you should have seen his eyes when he realised she was dead. He was practically begging me to save her and there was nothing I could do."
"She was dead, he understands that, and as for failing him, you have protected and guided him for ten years, for the last five years of that time he has been working out in the field fighting EVO's and saving lives. In that time there have been some close calls but I doubt you would get anyone, especially not Rex to agree that you have ever failed him." Holiday leaned forward earnestly, trying to reach Six, to help him believe he was not a failure. She didn't know what would happen to Rex without Six there to pick up the pieces, and given her preference she would never have to find out.
"I'm a monster, a pervert, once Rex finds out he won't want me on the same continent as him let alone working together on a daily basis."
Holiday almost laughed at the idea of Six as a monster but she could tell by the distraught tone of his voice and the look of absolute anguish on his face that he believed every word and the urge to laugh was gone as quickly as it had come. "What makes you say that, you're not a monster and I doubt you have a perverted bone in your body, what could you possibly think that you have done to make Rex hate you that badly?"
Six stared at his hands "I love him."
If Six expected Holiday to recoil from him at his admission he was to be sadly disappointed, in fact the Doctor smiled. "Is that all?" she asked.
"Isn't it enough?" Six hung his head in misery, "he's nothing but a child."
"Six, you may not have noticed this but Rex is not a child, not anymore, he was what? 10 when you first brought him here, he's twenty now. He's grown up into a fine young man and has more than earned the right to be seen as an adult." Her tone now was scolding as she tried to pull Six out of his depression.
"But don't you see, I first met him as a ten year old, I've watched him grow up, I've been practically the only father figure he's ever known. What kind of father has those feelings for his son?"
"And if you were his father I would agree with you whole heartedly, hell I'd even lead the pitchfork brigade and have you run out of town, but you're NOT." Holiday placed a heavy emphasis on the last word anxious to get her point across. "You've been there for him ever since he arrived at Providence, you've been his teacher, his mentor and now you're his partner and his friend. If you want to see how he feels about taking the relationship further then I say go for it, what's the worst that can happen?"
"Exactly, I'm his teacher, I've abused my position, I have to leave now before I do something to really hurt Rex."
"Six!" Holiday was beginning to sound exasperated with the stubborn man, "you're not listening to what I'm saying, you WERE his teacher, you aren't now. Do you want to know the worst way you could hurt him?"
"By staying, by approaching him so he feels pressured into accepting my advances." Six stated determinedly.
"No, by leaving him, especially now! You're his best friend, you have been for years, he's just been through a horrendous ordeal and he needs his friends, if you run out on him now it will crush him, he'll blame himself, you know he will." Holiday brought forth her strongest argument yet and it was clear from the way Six's eyes flashed to her face that she had finally gotten through to him. Swiftly she pressed her advantage, "is that what you want, to punish him for some reason, that's what he's going to think you know. That you're punishing him for getting himself captured and for getting Circe killed."
"No!" Six shouted, slamming his hands down on the table and Holiday was pleased to see the fighter she knew replacing the defeated man she had been facing only moments ago. "How could you even suggest something like that, Rex has done nothing wrong, Van Kleiss had a well orchestrated plan which he implemented flawlessly, he blindsided us, no-one is to blame. And Circe's death was unfortunate but she chose to put herself between Skalamander and Rex, he tried to get them both out alive" he paused "and he damn near succeeded."
They sat in silence for a while as Six contemplated Holiday's words.
"You think I might have a chance?" he finally asked.
"I think you will never know unless you ask him" was the straight forward reply.
Just then the door crashed open and Bobo charged in "Six you have to come now, it's Rex, he's smashing up the place" the chimpanzee panted out the words, as much from agitation as from the effort of running to find the agent.
Six sprang to his feet, "what happened?"
"I don't know, Rex wanted to be alone so I was just hanging out in my hammock, then he sat up and read that letter he was clutching and he just went ape-shit, if' you'll pardon my language" he nodded towards Doctor Holiday "he screwed up the letter and just started throwing anything he could lay his hands on. I got out of there fast and came to find you"
"OK, stay with the Doctor" Six hurried out of the room and back to the quarters Rex shared with Bobo. Listening outside the door for a moment when he arrived Six could not hear any commotion from within and he gingerly opened the door, sidling inside and easing the door closed behind him.
Standing just inside the door he scanned the room noting that Rex had at least refrained from conjuring his nanite machines so that the damage was thankfully limited to a few broken appliances and some smashed crockery. Spotting Rex huddled against the edge of his bed it appeared he had tried to sit on the edge and missed, moving carefully across the wreckage strewn floor Six dropped down to sit beside his friend nudging shoulders with Rex "if you wanted a change of decor you only had to ask" he joked hoping to lessen the intense mood.
Rex gave a watery laugh in response before suddenly giving in to a brief burst of tears. Angrily dashing the tears away from his eyes Rex snarled "I hate this, why can't I stop crying?"
Six thought quietly for a moment, "Rex, you have to understand, you have been starved and abused both mentally and physically for the last nine days. Your body is recovering well thanks to your nanites but your mind is still struggling to come to terms with what happened to you. Add to that the fact that you were able to spend time getting to know the girl you've loved but haven't been able to be with, only to find when you thought you had both gotten away you were suddenly embracing her dead body. It's no wonder your mind is messed up but it will get better, over time you will get your head on straight again. I promise." gesturing at the destruction around them he asked "do you want to tell me what set this off?"
Rex just shoved the letter at him and Six began to read.
Rex,
If you are reading this letter then something went wrong with the escape and I am dead. Please believe me when I tell you that I'm really sorry to have left you and I hope that some day you will be able to forgive me.
I know it's probably a strange thing to say but I've really enjoyed getting to know you properly over the last nine days, I'm only sorry that it was in such bad circumstances.
I know that you truly believe that you love me, and I believe that had I lived and we'd been able to get away from Van Kleiss then I could have grown to love you too. Unfortunately things didn't turn out that way and I need you to make me a promise, consider it my dying wish if you will.
Don't make what we had into something it wasn't, we had a good time in Cabo Luna and I really enjoyed spending time with you during the brief meetings we were able to steal over the years. Talking to you over these last few days, listening to the stories you had to tell about life within Providence has shown me what could have been if I had had the courage to choose a different path in life when we first met. BUT ours was not a great romance, I am not Buttercup and you are not Wesley, I am not your one true love, don't build it up into this fantastic tale of star-crossed lovers, don't let it overshadow the rest of your life.
I've listened to all the stories that you've told me recently and there is one thing that I've noticed, all your stories seem to revolve around one person. There's this amazing look in your eyes every time you talk about him, it's almost like you glow from within whenever you think of him. Please don't dismiss what I'm saying, really think about it, because I think that if you can break free of the ultra conservative mindset that you've fallen into. And who wouldn't after being raised within the walls of an ultra conservative para-military organisation like Providence. Then I think you may find that your attraction to me was only masking much deeper feelings for someone you may truly love and who may truly love you.
That's all I have time to write now, thank you for trying to save me, I'm sorry I failed you.
Circe.
As Six finished reading he had to fight hard against the anger that boiled up inside him, the urge to crumple the letter up into a small ball and throw it into the debris that already littered the room was almost overpowering. But he restrained himself, Rex would surely want to keep it as his last communication from Circe and it was not Six's place to destroy it. However if he ever found out who Circe had been talking about, a sudden thought struck him and his head snapped up to stare at the wall opposite, almost as if he could see through it to the corridors beyond. Callan, if that worm had so much as touched Rex he'd... he'd have him transferred to Paradise base. So what if it had been destroyed five years ago, he'd think of a reason.
A hand roughly shaking his arm pulled him from his plans to dispose of any possible rivals for Rex's affections and he realised that the boy had been trying to get his attention for some time. Sorry, not boy, he recalled his earlier conversation with Doctor Holiday and looked closely at the face in front of him. It was the face of a young adult, fully grown and ready to make his own decisions and to face the consequences of those decisions.
Rex breathed a sigh of relief as Six finally focussed on him before carefully folding and returning the letter.
"Is she right?" Six could not prevent himself from asking the question.
"Yes, I think she was, I think that was what made me so angry."
Six closed his eyes, briefly indulging in visions of the retribution he would exact from the hide of the one who dared to steal Rex from under his nose. Shaking off those dreams Six realised that he would never carry any of them to completion, Rex was his partner, his friend, and if he had left it too late for them to be anything more then that was his cross to bear, he'd support his partner all the way.
"Then congratulations, I hope you'll be very happy." Every word felt like it was tearing great holes in his flesh as he tried to smile through the pain.
"Thank you, I think I might be, it'll depend of course." His words trailed off.
"Depend on what?" Six asked confused.
"On you."
"On me!" Six was mystified until the realisation hit him, Rex wanted him to stand aside as his partner, to allow his new love to take that role. The pain escalated, hands were reaching in to tear out his organs through the gaping rips in his body, there went the heart, the liver, something was tugging on his lungs. He needed to speak fast while he still had breath to do so. "Of course, if you need me to stand aside I'll..." Six was brought up short as Rex interrupted him.
"Stand aside? Six you don't understand. I told her everything whilst I was held captive, I had nothing to do but talk. I told her about every mission we'd ever been on together. I told her about every time you read my mind, saved my life, covered for me when I screwed up. I told her about your katanas, about every move I've seen you make with them, how they seem like an extension of your body, how you can turn the tide of an entire battle. I told her about the tanto you gave me on my sixteenth birthday and how you keep the brother knife. I told her everything. I told her about you!"
Breath slammed back into Six's body, his organs were suddenly back and he thought his heart might just burst, the great, jagged tears through his flesh healed up and he felt complete at last.
Rex watched his mentor with some concern, he'd just made a declaration of love and Six had frozen. He was hit with the overwhelming desire for the floor to open up and swallow him, it was obvious, Six did not feel the same way about him and was trying to find the right words to let him down gently. Rex stuttered into speech "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have said anything, of course you don't feel the same way, so stupid! You've probably got someone on the outside haven't you, or..." a sudden thought hit Rex and he was stunned by how obvious it was, "it's Doctor Holiday isn't it. Please don't tell her what I said, I promise I'll behave, you'll never be embarrassed by my advances again."
Rex stopped dead as he felt a gentle hand curl under his chin and tip his face up, forcing him to meet laughing eyes dimly seen through dark glasses. Slowly those eyes were getting closer, tipping slightly to the side and just as Rex was about to go cross-eyed soft lips met his in a chaste kiss and his eyes slipped closed in bliss.
All too soon Six pulled back searching Rex's face for any sign of unease but all he saw was a blissed out expression giving way to a slight frown as the young EVO realised that those lips were not coming back and finally his eyes fluttered open and a shy smile graced those delicious lips.
"Better?" Six asked the question softly, not wanting to ruin the mood.
"Sorry." Rex apologised again but a slight nod of his head was all the confirmation Six needed.
Rex leaned in to initiate another kiss but was stopped by a firm hand on his chest. "We can't do that again" Six stated in response to the questioning look in the beautiful brown eyes in front of him.
"Why not?" All of Rex's confusion was conveyed in his voice as he spoke those two words.
"Not for a little while anyway." Six qualified his words. "Just hear me out" he stifled Rex's objections before they could be voiced. "I won't take advantage of you, it may not have been true love, but there was something very real between you and Circe, she hasn't even been dead for two days yet, you need to take time to grieve for her, and to be sure that what you feel for me is real and not just some type of rebound affection." Rex tried to speak, to refute Six's words but was stopped by a calloused finger across his lips, "Please let me finish, I want to be with you, but I want to be more than just someone to comfort you for a brief time. You're quite a few years younger than me and so I'll understand if you can't commit to me now, I'm prepared to wait for you, to know that you are sure." Six finished speaking and removed his finger from Rex's mouth signifying Rex's turn to talk.
"Six, I'm sure now, I know you think of me as a child but I'm not, I don't think I ever was a child, not really. We've wasted so much time already, I don't want to waste any more."
"I promise you Rex, I do not think of you as a child, if I did we wouldn't be having this conversation and I would never have kissed you." Six saw the hopeful look spring up in Rex's eyes and hated to have to quench it but he knew that what they had could be great and it was worth waiting to make sure it was right. "Give me one week. Give yourself one week to mourn her. If you still feel the same way in that time then we will take it from there."
Rex wanted to scream at the thought of waiting a week for another one of Six's kisses but he could understand why the older man wanted to take things slowly so he agreed. "One week Six, but I will not change my mind not in a week, or a year, or a lifetime."
"Thank you Rex, do you need some help cleaning up in here?" Six stood brushing himself off and gestured to the destruction around them.
"Nah, I'm good." Rex stood too and looked around deciding on the best place to start clearing the debris.
"OK, I'll see you in a week."
"One week Six" came Rex's distracted reply and Six left the room quietly hoping that he hadn't just made the biggest mistake of his life.
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