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Deus Ex Human Revolution: Trust is Hard	By : furbert Category: +A through F > Deus Ex Views: 3736 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They'd spent the rest of that night and day in awkward silence interspersed with painful attempts at upbeat conversation on Li's part. Adam was more or less silent, retreating into the kitchenette to spend what seemed to Li to be an excessive amount of time stripping down and cleaning the gun that he normally wore strapped to his thigh. She left him to it eventually, flicking through the unfamiliar Canadian TV channels with only feigned interest.
She'd flinched at him when he'd stepped towards her in the bathroom. He'd given her quite a shock, appearing out of nowhere, and she would have flinched at anyone else in the same circumstances. Adam wouldn't see it that way though, she realised. He wasn't comfortable with his body, and she had reinforced his unease more than once in the brief time that they'd known each other.
She felt shit for doing it; he'd gone out of his way to help her out when he could have just walked away, but she didn't know what she could do or say that wouldn't just make it worse. The daft thing was, it wasn't as if she hadn't thought about the way he'd kissed her, back in the alley. The memory brought a flush to her cheeks, and scorching heat to her thighs. If she hadn't been so alarmed by his sudden appearance, Li would not have objected if he had decided to touch her. But instead she flinched, like an idiot, and now things were horrifically awkward. So she had continued to watch TV while Adam kept cleaning his already sparkly gun, until the rumbling of their stomachs forced them to have to interact.
The motel clearly didn't offer any kind of room service, so the two of them headed out in search of somewhere quiet nearby where they could get a hot meal. They settled on pizza, and as they tucked in to battle their mass of stringy cheese, Li finally managed to get Adam to talk about what he was looking for in Hengsha.
He was going to find a hacker who had been trying to steal from Sarif Industries during a recent attack by Purity First. He'd been given the address by an enemy, who had then tried to blow himself up and take Adam along with him. Li thought the whole thing stank of some kind of set up, but didn't say anything. He knew what he was doing and she figured that he'd considered the possibility of a trap. And anyway, it was nice to finally not have to sit in silence, and she didn't want to mess that up again so soon.
It was late by the time that they returned to their room, and Adam had gone quiet once more. Li resigned herself to more silence, and figured that she may as well try to sleep, to avoid the awkwardness. She retreated into the bathroom to brush her teeth and comb her hair, then went back to the bedroom, assuming that Adam would have returned to his kitchen.
As Li got to her side of the bed, she wriggled out of her skirt and kicked off her shoes. The shirt that Adam had grabbed for her was a little big, and it hung to her thighs. She left it on, and flung back the covers on the bed, about to climb in.
Adam appeared at the doorway to the kitchen, a bottle of what looked like whisky and two tumblers in his hands. He gestured towards her with the bottle, and Li frowned slightly. Her shirt felt too short suddenly as she stood beside the bed, frozen to the spot.
"I was thinking of getting some sleep," she said, and immediately regretted it. The truth was, she wasn't much of a drinker. It wasn't exactly encouraged in a country that was more than 50% teetotal for religious reasons, but Adam wasn't to know that. He set the glasses on his bedside table, unscrewed the cap and poured the golden liquid into both of them, almost to the brim. Just as Li figured that he wasn't looking to take no for an answer, Adam downed both of the drinks in quick succession. Then he poured two more.
He sat down on the bed, his feet still planted on the floor and his back to Li as he picked up one of his freshly filled glasses and swirled the liquid around. Li shuddered; the room was colder than she'd realised and she climbed onto the bed to try to warm herself up. She was kneeling behind him, about to slide her legs under the covers, but Adam was still sitting there, back ramrod straight regardless of the significant amount of alcohol that he had just downed within the space of a minute.
Li desperately wanted to make things right; to somehow break down the wedge that she had forced between them within the bathroom. She had been trying to do just that all night, but words just weren't going to cut it with Adam right now. Maybe with a little bit of liquid courage, she would be able to finally get his attention.
"It's freezing in here," Li observed, but Adam did little more than tilt his head a fraction in acknowledgement of her words. The heating was centrally controlled, so they had no way of warming the room up unless they fancied having an argument with the manager. Somehow, Li didn't think the guy would take much notice. She shuffled forward on her knees and reached out for the glass, just as Adam had started to reach with his own hand. He sensed her closeness and froze, his back tensing even further beneath her hand as she laid a palm on it to steady herself enough to pick up the glass and take a gulp.
It burned, but it warmed her stomach and Li was grateful. She sat still for a moment, waiting for the whisky to somehow guide her, but she could feel the size of the knots in Adam's back. He was not going to relax any time soon. Suddenly, her courage left her completely. She finished the drink and placed the glass back on the table, then shuffled back to her side of the bed. In a few minutes her head would start to spin, she knew, and she wanted to be safely horizontal before that started to happen. She snuggled under the covers, but they did little to stave off the chill of the room. She was shivering as she tried to find a comfortable position in which to sleep, and as she turned onto her side so that her back was to her companion, she felt him stand up and turn off the light.
The bed didn't dip again, so she knew that Adam hadn't sat back down, but his footsteps were silent so Li had no idea where he was. She heard a rustle, and then after another moment she felt him settle the heavy, comforting weight of his coat over her body. It cut the chill from her bones far more effectively than the bedcovers had managed, and she moaned in appreciation.
She felt the bed dip again then, and Adam kicked off his boots before settling his weight on top of the bed beside her. Li turned over, trying to find Adam's eyes in the gloom, but he had his back to her as he laid on top of the covers.
"Adam?" she whispered, reaching out a tentative hand to touch the black gleam of his arm. "Aren't you cold?"
"I'm fine," he grunted, his voice as tense as his body, and Li sighed, withdrawing her hand and trying to get comfortable once more. It was going to feel like a long night.

Adam had gotten them a place on a freight ship heading for China. Their cabin was compact, but a million times better than the container that had brought them to Canada. It didn't have the space of the motel room, but at least there were two separate bunks. The night they'd spent sharing a bed had been unpleasantly awkward, and so Li had done her best to give Adam space since they had boarded the freighter.
That wasn't true. She wasn't just trying to give him space; she was actively avoiding him, for her own sake as much as his. Their encounter in the bathroom had been replaying itself in her mind, often with rather creative alternate endings, and Li didn't trust herself to look Adam in the eye without her face starting to burn.
She didn't exactly have a lot of experience; if you earned yourself a reputation back home, you would be quietly – and ever so politely – shunned within your parish. So Li had initially been rather traumatised by the scene that had taken place in the alley, and the way that Adam had chosen to handle the situation. As soon as she'd realised he wasn't going to hurt her, though, her body had started to react very differently.
Li wasn't the kind of girl who needed someone to take care of her. Meeting Adam, though, had made her realise just how placid and simpering everyone at home had become, and it was good to have someone around who knew how to take care of himself. His mouth had been gentle on hers, and confident, regardless of his conflicted emotions about his own body, and Li wished she could find a way to restore that self-assurance.
Adam had spent most of his time out of the cabin, either up on deck or lurking around the bowels of the ship; Li had no idea which. Desperate to distract herself, she found a stash of books that a previous occupant must have left, and settled herself down to read one that turned out to be some kind of turn of the century science fiction novel. The idea that most of the inhabitants of the worlds within the book no longer ever experienced death was both fascinating and disturbing, and Li wondered if this was the sort of lifestyle that Adam's boss seemed so intent on bringing to the human race.
After several days of studiously avoiding each other's company during the day, Adam suddenly stuck his head around the cabin door and caught Li's eye.
"Thought you'd like to see this," he said, and gestured for her to follow him out of the cabin. Li got up and followed him up several stairs until the reached the deck of the ship. The midday sun was dazzling after days spent under artificial light, and Li squinted against the glare, initially unable to make out what Adam was pointing at.
An island sat nestled in the middle of the brilliant blue of the sea, and as Li stared she realised that it had two levels to it, both complete with their own vista of buildings and skyscrapers. She had never seen anything like it; it was almost like a scene she could have imagined out of her book and she gasped in amazement. Architecture hadn't really moved forward in the UK for as long as Li could remember, The Party always favouring the traditional over any kind of progress.
"Is that Hengsha?" Li asked, and Adam nodded. "It's beautiful!" she whispered, but he didn't reply. "Don't you think so?"
"I think it's gonna be a bitch trying to find anything in that," Adam finally admitted, but there was no way that he could dampen her mood right now. She turned towards him and slapped him on the shoulder playfully. "Come off it," she said. "You've got to be interested, at least!" After a moment, she saw his mouth twitch in the faintest hint of a smile. Her mouth widened into a smile of her own.
Hengsha looked exotic and interesting, and most excitingly, futuristic, and Li couldn't wait for the freighter to finally dock.

Adam followed along patiently as Li wandered the streets of Lower Hengsha while gaping like a tourist. She had never seen so much neon lighting in all her life. It was as if nobody had told China about the global energy crisis, even though The Party had used it as an excuse for everything back home, from the scarcity of petrol to the price of a Greggs pasty.
That wasn't even the half of it, though. There were augmented people walking around all over the place; some more subtle than Adam's modifications, while others had metal arms that wouldn't have looked amiss on one of the loading bots back at the ports. The whole place seemed so obviously free that Li felt a pang of envy at the way that these people lived their lives. She wasn't totally naïve; she knew there were probably downsides that she just hadn't seen yet, but Li was having fun exploring the culture clash that she had been exposed to, and she was disappointed when Adam finally decided it was time to find them a hotel.

Adam had no trouble finding an entrance into the penthouse apartment; the Belltower guards had been on patrol long enough for boredom to set in, and they were far less vigilant than they should have been. Once he'd sneaked his way into the building, he found an air duct that took him straight into the apartment, out of sight of the guards who were busy examining the room.
The computer was encrypted, but it was a surprisingly easy system to unlock. Adam got the name of the hacker within minutes; it had taken more time to crawl through the air ducts that it did to access the hacker's files.
He should have anticipated the trap, but he had been far too eager to find answers.
At the very moment that Adam had turned away from the computer, he heard a faint computerised beeping. Finally realising his mistake, he threw himself over the remains of the apartment wall, but he couldn't escape the full force of the explosion. He was flung across the floor, sliding through the rubble until his face impacted the opposite wall, and he was suddenly in full view of the Belltower soldiers who had been sweeping the apartment.
One of the soldiers panicked, and blindly opened fire in an arc across the smouldering space. Adam grunted as a bullet pierced his body armour and ripped into his side. He rolled, got to his feet and grabbed the soldier's gun, twisting it out of the man's grip and smacking his head against the wall with a sickening crunch.
Adam didn't stick around long enough to check if the guy was still breathing, or whether his friend was coming to join the party. He dove back into the air duct and dragged himself through it, decided to take the roof to avoid the possibility of any more company until his Sentinel had time to properly patch him up. Once he'd found a set of ladders and made it back down to ground level, he allowed himself the luxury of catching his breath. He'd left Li to her own devices in a tea house back near their hotel, and she would probably have started worrying by now.

Li had been staring at the leaves in the bottom of her cup for long enough that the drink had gotten cold. It felt like an age since Adam had left, even though he'd promised he'd only be a few minutes. How would she know if something had gone wrong; if he wasn't coming back? Would she sit here all night until her brain finally had to accept the truth? It didn't bear thinking about.
A knock on the window to her left caught her attention, and Li was relieved to see the familiar outline of Adam's coat through the gloom. She shot outside to meet him, her anxiety growing even stronger when she noticed the smudges and scrapes of dried blood across his cheek.
"Adam, what happened?" Li squeaked, stepping closer so that she could rest her fingertips against his cheek. "Are you okay?"
"It's nothing," Adam replied, shifting uneasily beneath Li's scrutiny. "I was in a hurry, and I got stupid. Hacker left a little going away present in his computer; blew it to shit, and I took a nosedive into a wall. Not until after I got the intel, though."
Li was horrified. "You really think it was worth almost getting killed, just so you could find out a man's name?" He shrugged, winced a little as he did, and she looked down.
"Oh my god, did you get shot, too?" She slid her hand from Adam's cheek so that she could rest it on the edge of the damaged armour.
"It went straight through, clean exit wound." He said it as if he fully expected this to calm her panic.
"Jesus, Adam!" Li exclaimed, hot tears stinging her eyes as the tightness in her chest stole her breath away from her. "You've got to be bleeding, we'll need to get you to a hospital!"
"It's fine," he insisted. "it's almost healed. Give my Sentinel another few minutes, there'll hardly even be a scar."
Li couldn't believe how blasé Adam was being over the possibility of his own death. She could hardly breathe at the thought of what could have happened if he had jumped free of the blast a split second later, or if the trajectory of the bullet had been just a little higher. How could he not even care?
Li raised her hands and shoved at Adam, growling as she finally found the words to express her rage. "You don't even care that you could have died, do you?" He stepped back a little, grunting in discomfort as she jostled his still healing skin. She shoved him again, harder. "I ruined my entire sodding life to save you, and this is what you go and do?" Adam hissed in pain this time, but Li didn't care. "What do I care if I hurt you, Adam? Your fucking implant will fix it anyway, right? So it doesn't matter, does it?"
As she raised her hands to shove him one more time, Adam grabbed her, slid his arms around her body and held her still. "Hey," he murmured, rubbing her back as he gave her a reassuring squeeze. "I didn't mean that it doesn't matter. But I've gotta find out why it happened, Li, and who was responsible. And I guess… I'm just used to getting banged up, that's all. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate what you did."
Li took a deep breath and tried to steady her nerves. She reached her hands upwards again to cup Adam's jaw, tears finally spilling onto her cheeks as she whispered "You could have bloody died!"
Adam smiled grimly, retracted his glasses as their eyes met and held. "Yeah," he admitted softly. "But I'm fine. We're gonna be okay."
Li raised herself up on her toes and slid her face against his until their noses rubbed together. Adam didn't pull away, and the warmth of his breath sent a shudder down her spine. She didn't give herself time to chicken out; she slid her hands into his hair and pulled, capturing his mouth in a desperate kiss.
Adam didn't move, and Li almost expected him to push her away. Within another instant, though, his hands lowered to pull her hips against his, and his tongue slid inside her mouth, bathing her body in heat as he groaned in satisfaction. His mouth edged along her throat to the sensitive flesh beneath her ear, and Li whined in pleasure as he started to grind his rapidly hardening cock against her clit.
If they carried on like this, they were going to get arrested. Grudgingly, Li slid her palm back to Adam's jaw and eased his mouth from her neck. He looked at her questioningly. "Adam," she whispered, her voice hoarse with arousal. "Take me back to the hotel."

*Author's Note* Is it mean of me to end the chapter here? ;)
Next part is about 90% written, and is very definitely NSFW all the way through. I am putting in some finishing touches and will post it asap.
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