B is for Brick

[parallax23]

BRICK

 

“Where are those reports?” demanded Max.

“I don’t have them,” Luke told her, trying not to let her see that she was scaring him.

Max was never pleasant to deal with when it came to the supply reports for Terminal City. Usually they were short of everything needed to survive, let alone the luxuries that some of the denizens were demanding. Then they would have to plan and execute supply runs which always involved someone getting shot and half the time they ended up getting only one item on the list. Last time, Alec had gotten shot and instead of getting the truck of medical supplies they had to settle for only the truck full of VitaminWater that happened to be driving by.

“Alec was supposed to give them to you hours ago.”

“Well, his door is locked and I haven’t seen him in a while,” Luke replied, glad that he wasn’t the one who would have to face Max.

She stormed out of the Command Center. She stomped all of the way to the other side of Headquarters to where Alec’s office was. She couldn’t believe that he was shirking his duties again. Okay, maybe she could.

A giggle interrupted Max’s train of thought.

Two X6 girls were standing down the hall from his office.

“He’s pretty good,” the blonde one said with a dreamy, lop-sided smile.

The brunette grinned. “Yeah, I’m glad he let me watch.”

Well, that was enough to help Max get an idea about what he’d been up to. Same old Alec. It made her want those reports even more so she could smack him upside the head with them.

She didn’t even bother to knock on the door, she just opened it. She had every intention of tearing him a new one for slacking off.

“Max!” he exclaimed when he saw her, slamming his laptop shut like a little boy who had just been caught by his mother doing something naughty.

She eyed him suspiciously. “Like it wasn’t bad enough you ditched the reports to get some voyeuristic action with a couple of X6s, but you’re spending the rest of the time looking at internet porn? Unbelievable! Even for you.”

“What?” asked Alec, processing what she had just said. “Hmm… You’re just chock full of twisted sexy ideas today. Really good twisted sexy ideas. Are you sure you’re not in heat?”

Was he serious? She had a good mind to smack him upside the head and make sure that he never experienced a good twisted sexy idea ever again. But first she would punish him for forgetting those reports.

Snatching the laptop away from him, she said, “This is what you’ve been up to all day?”

Then she opened it and looked at the screen. Instead of an ‘Oh, you’re so busted and I’ll have you on night duty for a month for looking at naked ladies instead of working’ moment, it was an ‘Ok, what the hell I know you’re kinky but even this doesn’t make sense to me’ moment.

“What is this?”

“Tetris. It’s the game where you fit together these colored bricks to earn points. I’m up to Level 117.”

Max glared at him. “This is what you’ve been up to for the last seven hours? Tetris?”

“Seven hours?” Alec gaped at her.

She grabbed him by the shirt and pulled his face close to hers. “Listen up Pretty Boy, you better have those reports to me in an hour or the next brick you play with will be the one I’ll be using to hit you upside the head with, got it?”

“Wow Max, you really need to stop with the kinkiness. I mean, I know I inspire those kinds of thoughts in women, but we’re supposed to be at work,” he said with a wink.