I'm Always Ready.
Disclaimer: James Cameron, Charles 'Chic' Eglee and Fox own this I only swim in the world they created
A/N: Thanks always to Kasman for the betas.
Spoilers: Well I guess I can't spoil anything now, but for anybody who has not watched Dark Angel I hope after reading this you buy the DVDs and do two seasons were not long enough.
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Chapter 1 Reflections
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A street in Terminal City - three in the morning:
An X5 is standing staring down at the road. The blood that had been there earlier has been washed away by the nights rain. The memory of the scene was still fresh in his mind despite the amount of alcohol he'd drunk. The sight of a beautiful X5 bleeding from two gun shoot wounds, lying in the arms of the man she loves and could kill with the slightest touch, as Logan leans forward and kisses Max...
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Flashback Seattle Police HQ late evening:
Alec is lying on a bunk in an empty cell.
This is a rare thing nowadays...it must have been a slow night or they're afraid I might kill whoever is in here with me and pull out their teeth...how whack can you get? Damn, if I hadn't got Asha pissed at me and then Max, maybe Logan would be okay – they wouldn't let me have my one phone call, I need to let Max know where I am.
"Max, let me go with you."
"No, you've done enough already," Max replies in anger and fear.
"Fine, whatever, I'm sure you've got it covered." Alec replies sarcastically heading back to the bar.
After they took Logan away in the ambulance, I just sat drinking...It's getting harder and harder to forget about Rachel and Manticore and what they did to us and made us do. The alcohol's just not working as it used to. I wanted to go with Max and Logan.
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Shaking his head, Alec starts to walk down the street towards his quarters. Yeah, I know they think I'm a screw up, and I thought Max was wrong about wanting to be with Logan...I may not understand Max's or even other women's...including Original Cindy's fascination for the guy. Even I admire him a bit - although he could loosen up...I don't want him dead and I don't want Max...at least, not the way she tried to make Logan think.
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Flashback to Max's apartment:
"Just kidding, Max. Come on, you know I love Logan. I mean, not the way you love him, it's just...well, he's okay. Right?" Alec says then notices Max nodding. uncomfortably and a shifting of her eyes. "So what's the problem?" he adds curiously.
"I'm not going to see him anymore," Max replies, sadness in her voice.
"Any more this week?"
Max shakes her head slightly, "Ever. I can't risk it. And I don't want to hear an 'I told you so.'"
"No, I wasn't going to."
"Coffee?" Max asks with forced cheerfulness.
"Yeah, sure," Alec replies, then pauses, "Listen, since we're already knee-deep in painful subjects...tell me about him. About Ben."
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Max, that's why I need you, you're the one that will know if I start to go like Ben. You were telling me about Ben but you were really talking about you and Logan.
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Terminal City Sandeman's Sanctuary:
The room is dark except for the soft yellow glow of a lantern, the only sound that of two people breathing softly, then a low whisper.
"Logan?"
"Hmm?"
Shifting in Logan's arms and lifting her head from his shoulder, Max looks up to see his green eyes shining in the dim light regarding her.
"That night...with the mirror...
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Flashback Logan's Apartment two years before:
"Come here. I want to show you something," Logan says as he leads Max to a fancy mirror
"American, neoclassic, gold leaf detail, late 1800s. I could probably fence it for two or three grand," she states as she walks up to stand slightly in front of him looking at both their reflections in the mirror."
"No, I meant this," Logan says, Touching her chin. "Probably the most singularly beautiful face I've ever seen'," he adds as he looks at their reflections in the mirror.
Max laughs softly, "Expensive gifts, surprise late-night visits, over-the-top flattery.". Turning her face up to Logan, "Do you always come on this strong?" Max replies, her shoulder brushing his chest as she looks into his green eyes.
Caressing Max's cheek, "Only when I meet someone I have to know everything about." As he leans towards her waiting lips, Logan's nose touches her eyebrow taking in her unique smell of cherries and leather. He pauses, then gently brushes aside Max's hair and sees the barcode on the back of her neck, "And now I think I know pretty much everything." Then abruptly dropping her hair he walks away.
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"Were you going to kiss me?"
"I thought about it Max...I've thought about it a lot since, and I still don't know, but what I said that night, I meant every word, and I haven't regretted knowing everything about you."
"Even about Ben and the heat?"
"Max, they're part of you, like whatever else is there; I'll never stop loving the person you are."
Sitting up, Max looks down at Logan, "I nearly took you up on your offer, you know, the one about staying the night. It would've been wrong then...tonight - this was right," she says as she looks across the room at the glowing lantern, a thoughtful look on her face, laced with a faint smile as her brown eyes sparkle.
Reaching up Logan gently brushes the hair from the back of Max's neck and runs his hand along her bar code, which sends a shiver down her spine.
"Sandeman put in every convenience except heating," Max says, wrapping the blanket around herself, covering the bandage on her shoulder and the one on her side.
Looking puzzled, "Thought you didn't feel the cold?" Logan asks, worry creeping into his voice as he looks at those visible symbols of Max's injuries.
"Oh, shut up, Logan, and just make me feel warm." Turning around and leaning forward, Max throws the blanket over the both of them as she kisses Logan passionately.
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Alec's Quarters:
Asha, I really did want something to happen that night, but like Max and Logan, we have our own demons to conquer. I loved Rachel and still do, and it hurts. Your S1W deal and your intensity for doing the right thing - it scares me. If Manticore couldn't make you forget, they made you not care...
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Flashback Crash:
Alec walks over and sits down next to Asha.
"Hey."
"Hi," she replies.
"Long time, no see," Alec says, looking at her.
"I guess so."
"Yeah, you avoiding me?"
Shaking her head Asha looks at Alec, "No. But I gotta say that I'm really glad that nothing happened that night."
"Yeah, me too."
"Probably works for days, huh? Your whole 'Time is short, gotta put your heart on the line, baby I want you' speech?" Asha says, with a short laugh. Then clenching her left fist and punching it with a mock look of toughness on her face, ending in a grin.
Smiling briefly, "Look, you don't want to get involved with me. I was made in a lab. You know? I spent my formative years learning the fine art of assassination. There are guys out there right now looking to kill me, and I'm sure someday they'll probably succeed."
"Spare me the drama. You're just to scared to let go and actually care about somebody."
"Right, because the last time I let go, somebody got caught in the crossfire and died," Alec replies, sarcasm and sadness mixed in his voice.
"I'm sorry. I didn't—"
"Just do yourself a favor, Asha. Leave me alone."
"Alec—"
"Beat it."
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I screwed up today...I screwed up with Asha. With a cynical smile Alec lies down on his bed roll. At least Max and Logan have something real now, and I have my dreams, good or bad.
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Buddy's Ranch:
"Mary, you awake?"
"Yes...you worried about Zack too?"
"Yeah, he should have been back by now and after Logan's call..."
"He'll be okay, they all will. He still doesn't remember anything, and now he's got Jody to make him really forget."
"Right, Jody...you ever notice how she looks at him, like she knows who he really is?"
"No, I haven't. How could she? We've known her since she was nine, when the Pattersons arrived in town, and she was only away for a short while later on. How could she have met Zack before?"
"You're right, dear, how could she...still I'll call Logan later and tell him Zack's not shown up. He and Max should know," and reaching over Buddy, takes Mary's hand and kisses it then closes his eyes in sleep.
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Terminal City a small locked room:
Jody, you knew who...what I was didn't you? But your name's not Jody, is it. I remember now. So that's where you ended up after I compromised everyone and Logan sent that warning. Then smiling to himself, he gets up slowly and walks to the door of the room and puts his ear to it. Time to get out of here. They may have more years of training, but they've only just started to live life on the run. I've had a lifetime. Grinning savagely to himself, he peels back the flesh on his right arm revealing two small lock picks, Or been modified like I've been by Manticore. Smoothing the torn flesh back, he goes to work with the picks and quickly has the door unlocked, then listening once more he cautiously opens the door.
An X6 is sitting at a small table his head nodding fighting sleep. Jerking his head up, he sees the prisoner standing in front of him.
"Sorry, kid, got to go. things to do and people to see." Zack punches the X6 out before he can react. Quickly dragging the X6 into his cell, Zack locks it, then straightens the chair and table, and after one last glance heads, out the main door of the building, heading for the heart of Terminal City.
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Terminal City Command Center:
Dix is sitting at the TV monitors watching the National Guard troops and the few Police guards do their shift change. "Same old, same old" he mutters and picks up the book on microbiology he had found in an abandoned lab, and starts to read, missing the blur as something crosses the monitor focused on the manhole used by the transgenics to enter and leave their refuge.
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A house in a small town in Oregon:
In a darkened room, a lithe shape moves across to a window and, slowly lifting it, is about to step out onto the roof when a quiet voice calls from the doorway "Jody, you're going after him, aren't you?"
"I've got to dad...you know why."
Sighing, the old man walks into the room. "I know...and you love him don't you? Not like your sister?"
Stepping back into the room the young woman shrugs "I guess she does in her own way...she had this Logan try and give him a normal life, but something's happened. He should be back, and from what the others said, we have a new set of people hunting us."
"Just be careful and be ready for anything...Zack and Max may not be the same."
"I'm always ready," and stepping forward, Jody hugs her father. "You and mom be careful," and in an instant, she is gone. The fading sound of a motorcycle is the only thing heard on the early morning street.
Walking over and closing the window, the man walks back into his bedroom and sits on the bed, "She's gone after him?" A woman's voice asks from the bed.
"Yes...we knew it would happen, ever since Zack showed up at Buddy's and Mary's place."
"Maybe it's time. You know Max is going to need the help when the time comes, and with the cult hunting them now, the kids should be together...I just hope she can reach Zack in time."
"I do too...I just don't like the fact that Sandeman has the colonel with him. I don't trust that man."
"Frank, he cared for the kids in his own twisted way."
"Yeah, and he also killed them when it suited him."
"You can't forget Jack and Eva can you?"
"Dammit, Stacie, I had to perform the autopsies, all in the name of science...I wish I could forget every damn day, I wish I could forget what we did to those kids just to make the perfect soldier, and there was Sandeman with his own agenda before that."
"Don't worry, Frank, they've survived this long. We can only hope and be there when they need us...It's funny. I thought it would have been Max who would've been attracted to Zack, but she seems to have chosen this Logan. I hope he makes her happy."
Lying down, Frank stares at the ceiling. "Tinga, Brin, Jack and Eva - the ones lost to us. Max, Zack, Krit, Zane, Syl...and I suppose Jace wherever she is, and Jondy, my dear Jondy, just be careful." And he shuts his eyes as his wife puts her arm around him.
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Seattle - Alec's Apartment:
A slim, blonde woman is standing in the open front door, then slowly walks in and over to the couch where she sits down and fingers the blanket lying there.
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Flashback Crash:
Asha raises her glass in a toast, "Logan and Max."
"Max and Logan," Alec replies repeating her gesture
"Every happiness," Asha adds.
"Ha!"
They clink glasses and drink.
"Wonder what they're doing right now?"
Alec gives her a look.
"You know what I mean. Logan's so romantic - I bet he made her dinner. Wine...candles...I bet it's perfect."
"Yeah, that sounds like them. I mean, why consummate two years of unbridled passion when we can have pasta?" he says sarcastically.
"You're a pig. You don't know anything about love."
"Well, I know more than you think. Besides, you're a liar."
"How so?"
"Because you don't wish them all the happiness in the world; you want Logan for yourself. I mean, come on. You had it all dialed in when Max was back at Manticore, presumed dead. You and Logan, doing your hero thing, spending hours together in his fancy little apartment, all tuned up about the ways of the world. It was a good time for you, right?"
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You were so wrong, Alec. Even when I made it obvious I wanted him, all he was thinking about was Max, every second of every day. He never believed she was dead. And when she came back, he was the happiest I'd ever seen him. Even with the virus, they never gave up on each other until Max used you. I guess she eventually told Logan or he guessed, but knowing them, it was both. That is true love. Shrugging her shoulders, Asha picks up the TV remote and switches on the TV, absently flicking through the channels until she reaches a news channel covering Terminal City. And no matter how I feel about it, I have to respect that.
"In an interview yesterday after the incident, Lieutenant Clemente, Seattle PD, stated he was still in contact with the leaders of the transgenics. They have assured him that the shots heard were in celebration of the raising of their flag.
"Lieutenant Clemente do you know the symbolism of the flag?"
"No, I don't, but it does have a symbol of peace on it, so we can only hope that they will abide by that."
"Lieutenant, there have been reports that those shots were an assassination attempt, on the leader of the rebel freaks, Max, or one of her close associates."
On the screen Clemente turns to the reporter. "I have no confirmation of any assassination attempt on any of the transgenics. If you know otherwise, you better inform us." And he turns and walks away.
Alec, are you all right? Was that why you ended the call so abruptly? Or was Max or Logan injured? You haven't called back. Getting up, Asha heads for the door of the apartment, pulling her cellphone from her pocket.
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TBC
Disclaimer: James Cameron, Charles 'Chic' Eglee and Fox own this I only swim in the world they created
A/N: Thanks always to Kasman for the betas.
Spoilers: Well I guess I can't spoil anything now, but for anybody who has not watched Dark Angel I hope after reading this you buy the DVDs and do two seasons were not long enough.
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Chapter 1 Reflections
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A street in Terminal City - three in the morning:
An X5 is standing staring down at the road. The blood that had been there earlier has been washed away by the nights rain. The memory of the scene was still fresh in his mind despite the amount of alcohol he'd drunk. The sight of a beautiful X5 bleeding from two gun shoot wounds, lying in the arms of the man she loves and could kill with the slightest touch, as Logan leans forward and kisses Max...
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Flashback Seattle Police HQ late evening:
Alec is lying on a bunk in an empty cell.
This is a rare thing nowadays...it must have been a slow night or they're afraid I might kill whoever is in here with me and pull out their teeth...how whack can you get? Damn, if I hadn't got Asha pissed at me and then Max, maybe Logan would be okay – they wouldn't let me have my one phone call, I need to let Max know where I am.
"Max, let me go with you."
"No, you've done enough already," Max replies in anger and fear.
"Fine, whatever, I'm sure you've got it covered." Alec replies sarcastically heading back to the bar.
After they took Logan away in the ambulance, I just sat drinking...It's getting harder and harder to forget about Rachel and Manticore and what they did to us and made us do. The alcohol's just not working as it used to. I wanted to go with Max and Logan.
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Shaking his head, Alec starts to walk down the street towards his quarters. Yeah, I know they think I'm a screw up, and I thought Max was wrong about wanting to be with Logan...I may not understand Max's or even other women's...including Original Cindy's fascination for the guy. Even I admire him a bit - although he could loosen up...I don't want him dead and I don't want Max...at least, not the way she tried to make Logan think.
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Flashback to Max's apartment:
"Just kidding, Max. Come on, you know I love Logan. I mean, not the way you love him, it's just...well, he's okay. Right?" Alec says then notices Max nodding. uncomfortably and a shifting of her eyes. "So what's the problem?" he adds curiously.
"I'm not going to see him anymore," Max replies, sadness in her voice.
"Any more this week?"
Max shakes her head slightly, "Ever. I can't risk it. And I don't want to hear an 'I told you so.'"
"No, I wasn't going to."
"Coffee?" Max asks with forced cheerfulness.
"Yeah, sure," Alec replies, then pauses, "Listen, since we're already knee-deep in painful subjects...tell me about him. About Ben."
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Max, that's why I need you, you're the one that will know if I start to go like Ben. You were telling me about Ben but you were really talking about you and Logan.
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Terminal City Sandeman's Sanctuary:
The room is dark except for the soft yellow glow of a lantern, the only sound that of two people breathing softly, then a low whisper.
"Logan?"
"Hmm?"
Shifting in Logan's arms and lifting her head from his shoulder, Max looks up to see his green eyes shining in the dim light regarding her.
"That night...with the mirror...
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Flashback Logan's Apartment two years before:
"Come here. I want to show you something," Logan says as he leads Max to a fancy mirror
"American, neoclassic, gold leaf detail, late 1800s. I could probably fence it for two or three grand," she states as she walks up to stand slightly in front of him looking at both their reflections in the mirror."
"No, I meant this," Logan says, Touching her chin. "Probably the most singularly beautiful face I've ever seen'," he adds as he looks at their reflections in the mirror.
Max laughs softly, "Expensive gifts, surprise late-night visits, over-the-top flattery.". Turning her face up to Logan, "Do you always come on this strong?" Max replies, her shoulder brushing his chest as she looks into his green eyes.
Caressing Max's cheek, "Only when I meet someone I have to know everything about." As he leans towards her waiting lips, Logan's nose touches her eyebrow taking in her unique smell of cherries and leather. He pauses, then gently brushes aside Max's hair and sees the barcode on the back of her neck, "And now I think I know pretty much everything." Then abruptly dropping her hair he walks away.
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"Were you going to kiss me?"
"I thought about it Max...I've thought about it a lot since, and I still don't know, but what I said that night, I meant every word, and I haven't regretted knowing everything about you."
"Even about Ben and the heat?"
"Max, they're part of you, like whatever else is there; I'll never stop loving the person you are."
Sitting up, Max looks down at Logan, "I nearly took you up on your offer, you know, the one about staying the night. It would've been wrong then...tonight - this was right," she says as she looks across the room at the glowing lantern, a thoughtful look on her face, laced with a faint smile as her brown eyes sparkle.
Reaching up Logan gently brushes the hair from the back of Max's neck and runs his hand along her bar code, which sends a shiver down her spine.
"Sandeman put in every convenience except heating," Max says, wrapping the blanket around herself, covering the bandage on her shoulder and the one on her side.
Looking puzzled, "Thought you didn't feel the cold?" Logan asks, worry creeping into his voice as he looks at those visible symbols of Max's injuries.
"Oh, shut up, Logan, and just make me feel warm." Turning around and leaning forward, Max throws the blanket over the both of them as she kisses Logan passionately.
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Alec's Quarters:
Asha, I really did want something to happen that night, but like Max and Logan, we have our own demons to conquer. I loved Rachel and still do, and it hurts. Your S1W deal and your intensity for doing the right thing - it scares me. If Manticore couldn't make you forget, they made you not care...
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Flashback Crash:
Alec walks over and sits down next to Asha.
"Hey."
"Hi," she replies.
"Long time, no see," Alec says, looking at her.
"I guess so."
"Yeah, you avoiding me?"
Shaking her head Asha looks at Alec, "No. But I gotta say that I'm really glad that nothing happened that night."
"Yeah, me too."
"Probably works for days, huh? Your whole 'Time is short, gotta put your heart on the line, baby I want you' speech?" Asha says, with a short laugh. Then clenching her left fist and punching it with a mock look of toughness on her face, ending in a grin.
Smiling briefly, "Look, you don't want to get involved with me. I was made in a lab. You know? I spent my formative years learning the fine art of assassination. There are guys out there right now looking to kill me, and I'm sure someday they'll probably succeed."
"Spare me the drama. You're just to scared to let go and actually care about somebody."
"Right, because the last time I let go, somebody got caught in the crossfire and died," Alec replies, sarcasm and sadness mixed in his voice.
"I'm sorry. I didn't—"
"Just do yourself a favor, Asha. Leave me alone."
"Alec—"
"Beat it."
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I screwed up today...I screwed up with Asha. With a cynical smile Alec lies down on his bed roll. At least Max and Logan have something real now, and I have my dreams, good or bad.
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Buddy's Ranch:
"Mary, you awake?"
"Yes...you worried about Zack too?"
"Yeah, he should have been back by now and after Logan's call..."
"He'll be okay, they all will. He still doesn't remember anything, and now he's got Jody to make him really forget."
"Right, Jody...you ever notice how she looks at him, like she knows who he really is?"
"No, I haven't. How could she? We've known her since she was nine, when the Pattersons arrived in town, and she was only away for a short while later on. How could she have met Zack before?"
"You're right, dear, how could she...still I'll call Logan later and tell him Zack's not shown up. He and Max should know," and reaching over Buddy, takes Mary's hand and kisses it then closes his eyes in sleep.
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Terminal City a small locked room:
Jody, you knew who...what I was didn't you? But your name's not Jody, is it. I remember now. So that's where you ended up after I compromised everyone and Logan sent that warning. Then smiling to himself, he gets up slowly and walks to the door of the room and puts his ear to it. Time to get out of here. They may have more years of training, but they've only just started to live life on the run. I've had a lifetime. Grinning savagely to himself, he peels back the flesh on his right arm revealing two small lock picks, Or been modified like I've been by Manticore. Smoothing the torn flesh back, he goes to work with the picks and quickly has the door unlocked, then listening once more he cautiously opens the door.
An X6 is sitting at a small table his head nodding fighting sleep. Jerking his head up, he sees the prisoner standing in front of him.
"Sorry, kid, got to go. things to do and people to see." Zack punches the X6 out before he can react. Quickly dragging the X6 into his cell, Zack locks it, then straightens the chair and table, and after one last glance heads, out the main door of the building, heading for the heart of Terminal City.
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Terminal City Command Center:
Dix is sitting at the TV monitors watching the National Guard troops and the few Police guards do their shift change. "Same old, same old" he mutters and picks up the book on microbiology he had found in an abandoned lab, and starts to read, missing the blur as something crosses the monitor focused on the manhole used by the transgenics to enter and leave their refuge.
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A house in a small town in Oregon:
In a darkened room, a lithe shape moves across to a window and, slowly lifting it, is about to step out onto the roof when a quiet voice calls from the doorway "Jody, you're going after him, aren't you?"
"I've got to dad...you know why."
Sighing, the old man walks into the room. "I know...and you love him don't you? Not like your sister?"
Stepping back into the room the young woman shrugs "I guess she does in her own way...she had this Logan try and give him a normal life, but something's happened. He should be back, and from what the others said, we have a new set of people hunting us."
"Just be careful and be ready for anything...Zack and Max may not be the same."
"I'm always ready," and stepping forward, Jody hugs her father. "You and mom be careful," and in an instant, she is gone. The fading sound of a motorcycle is the only thing heard on the early morning street.
Walking over and closing the window, the man walks back into his bedroom and sits on the bed, "She's gone after him?" A woman's voice asks from the bed.
"Yes...we knew it would happen, ever since Zack showed up at Buddy's and Mary's place."
"Maybe it's time. You know Max is going to need the help when the time comes, and with the cult hunting them now, the kids should be together...I just hope she can reach Zack in time."
"I do too...I just don't like the fact that Sandeman has the colonel with him. I don't trust that man."
"Frank, he cared for the kids in his own twisted way."
"Yeah, and he also killed them when it suited him."
"You can't forget Jack and Eva can you?"
"Dammit, Stacie, I had to perform the autopsies, all in the name of science...I wish I could forget every damn day, I wish I could forget what we did to those kids just to make the perfect soldier, and there was Sandeman with his own agenda before that."
"Don't worry, Frank, they've survived this long. We can only hope and be there when they need us...It's funny. I thought it would have been Max who would've been attracted to Zack, but she seems to have chosen this Logan. I hope he makes her happy."
Lying down, Frank stares at the ceiling. "Tinga, Brin, Jack and Eva - the ones lost to us. Max, Zack, Krit, Zane, Syl...and I suppose Jace wherever she is, and Jondy, my dear Jondy, just be careful." And he shuts his eyes as his wife puts her arm around him.
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Seattle - Alec's Apartment:
A slim, blonde woman is standing in the open front door, then slowly walks in and over to the couch where she sits down and fingers the blanket lying there.
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Flashback Crash:
Asha raises her glass in a toast, "Logan and Max."
"Max and Logan," Alec replies repeating her gesture
"Every happiness," Asha adds.
"Ha!"
They clink glasses and drink.
"Wonder what they're doing right now?"
Alec gives her a look.
"You know what I mean. Logan's so romantic - I bet he made her dinner. Wine...candles...I bet it's perfect."
"Yeah, that sounds like them. I mean, why consummate two years of unbridled passion when we can have pasta?" he says sarcastically.
"You're a pig. You don't know anything about love."
"Well, I know more than you think. Besides, you're a liar."
"How so?"
"Because you don't wish them all the happiness in the world; you want Logan for yourself. I mean, come on. You had it all dialed in when Max was back at Manticore, presumed dead. You and Logan, doing your hero thing, spending hours together in his fancy little apartment, all tuned up about the ways of the world. It was a good time for you, right?"
»»»»»»
You were so wrong, Alec. Even when I made it obvious I wanted him, all he was thinking about was Max, every second of every day. He never believed she was dead. And when she came back, he was the happiest I'd ever seen him. Even with the virus, they never gave up on each other until Max used you. I guess she eventually told Logan or he guessed, but knowing them, it was both. That is true love. Shrugging her shoulders, Asha picks up the TV remote and switches on the TV, absently flicking through the channels until she reaches a news channel covering Terminal City. And no matter how I feel about it, I have to respect that.
"In an interview yesterday after the incident, Lieutenant Clemente, Seattle PD, stated he was still in contact with the leaders of the transgenics. They have assured him that the shots heard were in celebration of the raising of their flag.
"Lieutenant Clemente do you know the symbolism of the flag?"
"No, I don't, but it does have a symbol of peace on it, so we can only hope that they will abide by that."
"Lieutenant, there have been reports that those shots were an assassination attempt, on the leader of the rebel freaks, Max, or one of her close associates."
On the screen Clemente turns to the reporter. "I have no confirmation of any assassination attempt on any of the transgenics. If you know otherwise, you better inform us." And he turns and walks away.
Alec, are you all right? Was that why you ended the call so abruptly? Or was Max or Logan injured? You haven't called back. Getting up, Asha heads for the door of the apartment, pulling her cellphone from her pocket.
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TBC