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Anubis hurled a chair against
the wall. His anger radiated all around him
and was almost
tangible.
"Oh, your girlfriend cheating
on you already?" asked somebody from behind.
Anubis
quickly turned around and saw Cale standing there.
"I don't have the time
or the patience to listen to you." Anubis all but
growled the words
out. "It's because of you that I'm in this predicament."
"So, I take it you umm...,"
he thought for a second, "you...consummated the
situation last
night."
"You don't want to know how that started."
"Then it was mutual."
"And did you think that was enough!?"
"I didn't say anything
like that." Cale held up his hands. "All I said was
that you should
go to her. I said 'should.' I didn't say you had to. And I
especially
didn't say anything
about consummating anything."
Cale instinctively stepped back
as Anubis came to him at lightning speed. A
hand held
Cale's neck and pinned him against the door. Anubis pulled back
his other
arm and was
getting ready to punch.
"What are you so mad about?" Cale choked out.
Anubis' blue-green eyes narrowed
as they looked up at him. His face grimaced
a little as
he put more pressure on his hand. Suddenly, he let go of him
and Cale
dropped down,
coughing.
"Leave, before I do something I might regret." He turned away from him.
"You've come this far with
you telling me your secrets. You should know by
now that
you can trust me to be more than an ally to you."
"What do you gain from this?" Anubis turned back and looked down at him.
"Nothing. Is it that hard
to accept?" Cale could see a little softening of
his leader's
features. "What can it hurt you to tell me, anyway? Nobody
listens to me
and I know
Dais or Sekhmet never will."
His leader turned away again
as he got up slowly. He shook his head slightly
and turned
to leave.
"You were kidding about
what you said, weren't you?" Cale stopped and was
about to
answer when he spoke up again. "Somehow, I already knew
that you were just
joking but
I wasn't really listening."
"No worries. I guess I
deserved to be yelled at." Cale slowly walked back
to where
Anubis stood and looked at him. The anger that was almost tangible
before
was almost
gone. "What happened?"
"My 'girlfriend,' as you called her, woke up in the arms of that blond moron."
"Oh! Want me to take him
then? I've been itching to get my hands on the
Warrior of
Light."
"This is my problem. He's
my problem." Anger started to creep back to his
face.
"Okay, I'll hold him down,
you punch." Anubis looked at Cale. "Maybe not.
Just trying
to help."
"The only one that needs
help would be that brat. But I won't rush into
this. I will give
her the benefit of the doubt."
"Kind of dangerous, isn't it? You trusting her like that?"
"When I went to her last
night, she wasn't afraid of me. I can feel that she
was nervous
but not afraid. She has an idea of how I might feel towards her
and I think
that has some
bearing on what she's thinking."
"You're using guilt on
her after just one night?" Cale suppressed a laugh.
"Aren't you
getting a little ahead of yourself?"
"I don't think so."
Anubis smirked. "Like you said before, we are
connected, there's no
doubt about that. I know how she'll feel."
Cale looked at Anubis and regarded
his leader for a second. The smirk on his
face was
unnerving compared to the hostile nature Anubis was displaying
before. That
smirk
definitely showed a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Another visit then?"
"Oh, definitely. She won't be too happy about this one though."
"No consummating this time?"
"Who knows? I'll have
to deal with her and maybe that brat. We'll see how
she reacts to
me this time around."
Anubis turned to face Cale and
smiled. He clapped Cale's shoulder and left
his room.