Eternity
Disclaimer: I do not own the Jak and Daxter series it is owned by Naughty Dog. the only characters I do own are Max, Kya, Alex, and Amber.
Eternity
Renegade
Chapter one
Months Before
Where are they? They should have been here an hour ago! Max thought to her self. She looked down from her spot in the old oak tree and scanned the surroundings for any signs of her friends. When max saw them she climbed down a few branches so that they wouldn't miss her.
"Hey guys, up here!" Max yelled to them. They looked up at the tree and found Max sit on one of the branches. They all smiled at each other and then Max jumped down to meet them, landing on her feet then falling to her butt.
"Max what were you doing up there?" Alex asked as she helped Max off the ground. Max grabbed her hand and pulled her self up.
"Well what do you think?" Max said, "I was waiting for you guys to show up." Max looked up the tree then back to Kya and Alex. There was an unsettling silence between them for a moment…
"So why'd you call us here anyway, Max? You sounded as if you wanted to show us something." Kya asked.
"Oh right, follow me!" Max led them in to the woods, as they went along there was nothing but trees to look at it was all just a big blur of greenery and before long an hour had past by and it was starting to get late. Alex look up at the sky or what she could see of it; it was sort of a blue, purple, pinkish color and she could already see some stars appearing.
"Max it's starting to get late don't you think we should start heading back before someone starts to worry about us?" Alex asked, as she looked back down form the sky. Max kind of gave a little shrug, it really didn't bother her being out late, she actually really liked it.
"Hold on, it's just a little further." Max said, "And plus if you two hadn't taken so long getting out of your house we wouldn't have to be out here right now." Max kept going, but Alex and Kya paused for a moment and looked at each other. Then noticed that Max was getting to far ahead and ran after her. A short while after they had paused, they came a crossed and empty clearing in the wood and Max finally stopped. She waited for Alex and Kya to catch up and as soon as they did they hit the floor tired from all the walking. Kya looked around, but there was really nothing to look at and it was to dark to see any more. Just a faint light of the moon showed through the canopy of trees above.
"Hey, Max where are we?" She asked and got up off her feet to stand closer to Max. Max looked at her friend then over to a dark spot near the edge of the clearing. Alex finally got to her feet and followed them as they disappeared into the shadows. They were all silent till they heard metal beneath their feet. Max backed them up a few feet, and then dropped her backpack to the ground, she knelt down and rummaged trough her bag of a few moments and brought out her flashlight.
"Max what are we doing?" Alex snapped; she turned back the way they had come from. "I mean we're in the middle of no where's vill. Max can we please go, I was supposed to be in over twenty minutes ago! Are you even listening to me? Max!" Alex looked over her shoulder Kya and Max had disappeared. She walked back over to where they had been standing and found a gapping hole in the ground. On the opposite side of the hole was a huge metal door, which they had walked on not only a minute ago. "Guy's where'd you go? Hello… Max… Kya! Hey guys?" Alex looked down into the hole but there wasn't enough light to see in. just then there was a noise from inside Alex froze and listened in silences. All of a sudden Max popped out of the hole and scared the shit out of Alex
"Max what the heck! Why'd you do that, never mind I'm out of here? Alex said she started walking back the way they had come. What'd I do? Max thought to her self, she hosted her self out of the hole and ran after Alex. Kya popped her head out of the hole and watched Max cash after Alex. She watched them argue and Alex walked off, Max went grab her arm and they started yelling at each other.
"This is ridiculous! Max you brought us all the way out here to see a hole in the ground. If you wanted to see a hole in the ground why didn't you just dig one your self?" Alex yelled out, her hands were failing all over the place, it was hard for Kya to see but she could image what both Alex and Max looked like right now. This wasn't the first time they had gotten into a fight and every time they did Max would stand there for the first half with dumbfounded look on the face, it was like she like to fight it gave her an adrenalin rush or something, and then Alex would get so pissed that she'd try and walk away. But just as she tried Max would always do something to bring her right back into the fight. Kya wait for Max to yell out something really stupid to bring Alex back but she didn't this time it looked as if Alex was going to stay and defend her self.
"You know you always do this can't you just be normal? Kya and I are always following you on these crazy expeditions that always have the end result of us fighting." Alex yelled at Max again. Max stood there for a moment.
"Well if you two weren't so late getting out here we would have been in at least an hour ago"Max yelled.
"You still think this is about time? I can believe this, Max for the past three years you have done nothing but drag me into all you stupid expedition and I'm getting tired of it, we never get anything out of them and we always seem to get into a lot of trouble. Can't we just spend a normal weekend home, hang at the mall, go see a movie, or even date. Sorry Max but if this is how it's going to be well then we can't be friends any more, I've got better things to do then trumping around in the woods all night!" Alex had nothing else to say it was over and she had won. She waved bye to Kya then turned and left.
"Alex wait this is different, you haven't even seen what's inside. Alex… Oh come on Al." Max yelled after her, but Alex didn't even turn around. Max stood there and waited but Alex wasn't coming back, max turned back toward Kya and walked back over to her. She went down the stairs and silently by Kya. She followed Max down the stairs and to the other door they had found earlier. They both stopped, Kya looked at Max's grim face and deiced to say something even if it wasn't much help.
"Max you gonna be okay?" Kya asked softly, she looked at Max again but this time she was smiling. Kya smiled too. She hated it when Alex and Max fought but it always turned out good in the end. And plus if Max and Alex didn't fight with each other things just wouldn't be right.
"Yeah she'll get over she always does. Now come on let see where this door takes us." Max said, she gave the flashlight to Kya and then grabbed hold of the doorknob. She tried twisting it with all her might but it wouldn't budge, she kicked the door with her foot and looked back at Kya. Then she remembered that she had her pick with her, she dropped her bag on the ground and started going through it again.
"Max do you really think we should be doing this. I mean if it's locked don't you think that's for a good reason. What if there's a deranged manic living down there, or it one of those strange lab where they created a virus that killed every body, or even worse what if it's haunted." Kya started shacking at just the thought of all those things. Max shook her head and laughed a little.
"Kya you watch way to many horror movies. The only reason a place like this would be out here in the middle of the woods is that the government is truing to cover something up." Max told her, she pulled a small leather pouch and unrolled it. Inside there were a few metal tools, she pulled out a pick and a torsion bar, then rolled the pouch back up and stuck it in her back pocket.
"You mean there could be aliens in this place. That's no better then the rest of it. Please Max can we just leave this alone?" Kya was still trembling; she looked for side-to-side then at Max, who was already starting to work the door.
"Kya there are no aliens out side of area 51. This place could be were they stash all the evidence that isn't needed anymore or the government has it's own little stash of money that no one knows about. I'll tell you what we'll take a quick look and if there's nothing interesting about it we'll leave just like Al, okay." Max asked; Kya shook her head and Max went back too unlocking the door. She put the bar and the pick into the hole, as Kya held the light, and started looking for the tumblers. With in a few minutes she had gotten the door open. "That wasn't so hard. Come lets go in." Max said, she stood up and opened the door and walked in closely followed by Kya. "It's to dark to see, hey Kya you want to give me the flashlight so I can find a light switch or something." Max asked. She felt Kya hand her the flash light and Max grabbed it. She pointed it toward the wall on their right and looked but there was no switch. That's odd; Max thought she pointed the light to the other side of the door but there was still nothing. Max looked up at the ceiling there were over head lights but no switch, Max back up a little and bumped into Kya. Kya fell against the wall and as she hit it the lights flickered on.
"Whow touch activated, that's incredible," Max said, she looked down to the right of her and there was a long hallway that turned to the left at the end. There were a few doors along the hall but nothing else.
"Yeah cool can we go now. I don't like this." Kya said, but it was to late Ma x was already heading for one of the doors with her tools in hand. Kya ran after her afraid to be alone. Max bent to one knee in front of the first door. She stuck her tools in to the lock and the door opened with in minutes. She pushed the door inward and touched the wall. The lights in the room came on. They looked around but there wasn't much to see it just looked like a normal office. There were certificates on the walls, there was and office desk and a computer, nothing out of the ordinary.
"Looks kind of like were my grandpa works." Max whispered under her breath. She walked over to the desk and sat in the chair behind it. Kya walked over to the bookshelf and started reading the titles, they're all on engineering, technology, biomechanics, dimensional travel, wait a minute dimensional travel?
"Hey Max get a load of this. Who ever was here was studying dimensional travel. How crazy is that?" Kya laughed. She looked at Max who was in deep thought about some thing and then she noticed that Max was looking at the wall. "Max what is it?" Kya asked, she left the bookcase and went to stand next to Max.
"Look at the name on that certification." She was pointing at the wall, Kya follow her point and looked at the certificate. She didn't see what the matter was it was just like any other certificates she had seen in her life, and then she noticed the name on it and couldn't believe what she was seeing. Mat Maldonado.
"But I thought your dad was a lawyer. What would he be doing in a place like this?" Kya was just as confused as Max, "Wait maybe this guy isn't your father; maybe he just has the same name. You know Mat is a very common name now a days." Kya said, trying to think of way to explain it.
"Kya that would be so unlikely that it not even funny. I mean the closes two guy's with the same first and last name would be country. Now it's just the fact that why he was working here." Max said.
"Would it be because of your mom?" Kya asked, Max turned around and Kya was point to another certificate but this time it had her mothers name on it. Max just stared at it, she couldn't believe what she was seeing, it couldn't be. Max got up and took both of the certificates down and placed them on the desk next to each other. The names on those certificates brought back so many fond memories and some sad ones as well. Kya put her hand on Max's shoulder and then went back to looking at the books back on the shelf leaving Max to think thing through. After a short while Max got up again and move toward the door of the office, Kya looked up from what she was doing.
"Come on, let's check the other rooms before it gets to late." Max said. She walked out of the room and Kya got up and follow. Before long they had gone through all the rooms, all that was left was the left turn in the hallway. Kya got behind Max as they looked around the corner, but all they saw was more darkness. It looked the same as when they had entered the hall at first. Max walked around the corner and into the darkness, Kya watch as she disappeared and then the darkness turned into light. Max was standing on a metal plate form in a giant room but there was nothing else Kya could see, no floor, no shelve. She walked over next to Max and looked down below there was and large room filled with all kinds of computers, machines, and near the back wall was a half covered ring. She and Max just stared for the longest time just in awe; they had never seen anything like this place.
Max and Kya both ran down the stairs as fast as they could. It's like a dream for computer geeks. And we're just the computer geeks it needed, Kya thought.
"This place is amazing, I wonder what they were doing down here?" Kya said as she looked around again, there was nothing that wasn't fascinating. Throughout the hole compound there was nothing but computers, specialized systems, mluti layer micro systems, system checks. There had to be at least thirty miles of cores and wiring and just to think it had all been left down here to wither away into history or until some snoopy kids found it.
"I don't know but I defiantly intend to find out, you in?" Max asks her. At the back of the room there was a large structure it had been partly covered by a tarp and now it was barely hanging on. Max walk the length of the room to the ominous structure and pulled the tarp all the way off. Kya turned and saw the trap fall away and underneath was a giant ring.
"Whoa." Max looked up to the top of the old dusted ring, "This thing must be ancient or something." Kya had walked over and they stood there staring at the ring together. The ring was mad out of some kind of metal but they couldn't tell what kind, around it's front surface there was writing of some sort it was like something from a dream. Max walked over to what looked like the main power switch and flipped it on but nothing happened. She looked around for some kind of instruction and found them hanging near the fuse box. She quickly skimmed through them and then went back to the power switch, she push it up three times the turned it and quarter turn left and pushed in. All of a sudden the dull lighting grow brighter and all the computers flash on. Kya ran over to the nearest one and started trying to open files but there was nothing, it was like all the hard drives had been whipped clean of anything.
"Well I guess that leaves us at a dead end. Got any other ideas?" She turned toward Max who was back at the ring, she had placed her hand on the ring she hadn't even notice that Kya was talking to her. "Max, Max, are you okay? Hello?" Max pulled her hand away from the ring, she had a very disturbed looked a crossed her face as if she saw something that wasn't really there or what had been there but was long gone now. She felt something creep up on her shoulder, she turned and saw Kya she looked worried. Max put a smile on. "Max are you okay?" Kay asked again not really sure about what had just happened but thankful her friend seemed okay.
"Well we know you can't wipe a hard drive completely clean so well have to do some hot wiring and flipping of some systems to get what we want. And we'll have to do some digging but I'm betting this place is still loaded with plenty of info just waiting to be found. If we work hard every day I bet we can get this thing running again." Max said reassuringly.
"Max, do you really think we should be doing this? What if this place belongs to the government and we get caught?" Kya asked, as she walked over from the computer she was at. Max looked at the ground then smiled.
"Well if they want us to stay away from here they they're going to have one hell a fight on their hands because I don't take things lightly." Kya saw the determination in Max's eyes that had always captured her respect and she nodded her head.
"Okay I'm totally in." Kya said if she sounded half as determined as she felt she knew Max would be happy.
"Good because we're coming back tomorrow morning!" Max said, she turned from the ring back to the power switch and powered down the complex.
Kya and Max gave one last look at the ring at the back of the room. It was amazing in one night their lives will have changed forever, whether they knew it or not. Nothing escaped the hands of fate, not even the chosen one its self.
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"But Max, don't we have school in the morning?" Kya said through a yawn on they're way out of the hall and up that stairs to the world outside. Max looked over her shoulder, and Kya saw a glint of humor in them.
"Oh but my dearest Kya why would you want to sit through another one of Mr. Timothy's long, boring, say nothing that really matters, lectures?" Max asked, Kya just shook her head and followed Max out of the cellar looking hole. They closed the doors and max put a pad lock on it that she had from her old locker. They covered the doors with moss and dirt, and a few dire leaves to make it looked like no one had been in or even noticed it was there.
"No it's not that I want to but don't you think it will be a little conspicuous since we haven't missed a day since kindergarten? And what about Alex, what if she tells" Kya said, as they walked back toward the old oak tree they had come from. Woods around them was light by the moon and every thing seemed so eerie quiet. Max turned and looked at Kya a look of promise showed in her eyes. As the moon light flash off her eyes Kya saw a flash of a different color.
"Hey don't worry no one will ever find out and if they do we know who to go to first." Max said, Kya looked back at her and the color was gone. What the heck was that, she thought and Max turned back around and led them out of the woods.
Over the next couple of days both Max and Kya keep going back to the old bunker. They tried to fix up the computer systems but it was no uses with out Alex they were at a loss. Kya was at one of the monitors trying to go through the files they had found, there were so many she didn't know where to start. Max was sitting on the floor rewiring a few CPU's; she looked up at Kya and knows some thing was wrong.
"Hey, why don't we take a brake this is getting really boring?" Max said. Kya turned around and stretched her arms up and over her head, she yawned and got up from the desk.
"Max, do you think this would go easier with say some one else helping us?" Kya asked she looked away really quickly and cringed as she waited for Max's answer. But she didn't get an answer, she looked back at Max but she was gone. She looked around really quickly but Max was nowhere to be found; now where'd she go.
"Yeah maybe your right but I'm not willing to let this argument burn out so quickly. Plus I want her to come back us not the other way around and it's her own fault for taking things so literally all the time." Max said as she climbed the last few stairs to the upper plate form. She looked down at Kya who was heading for the bottom of the stairs.
"But Max, you and Alex are the most stubbornness people I know this could take weeks maybe even years. Can't we just this one time?" Kya persisted to go on. She climbed up the stairs and stood next to Max, "Plus this is a lot of work for just two people, I bet the…people who worked here had more help," she carefully choose her words so not to mention Max's parents. Even though Max said she was over their deaths, you could tell that she might think she was but it wasn't true. There was always something about their death that bugged her and it was why the police had never caught the murder.
"No, she did this to her self and I don't care if we ever she her again!" Max exclaimed, she turned away and was heading for the door when she felt something grab her arm. She turned and it was Kya, but not a Kya she had ever seen before, there was a stern look a crossed her face and her body was trembling in anger. Max just stared at her in disbelief she had never seen Kya get this anger, Kya was always gitty and happy all the time.
"Max Maldonado, I cannot believe what I am hearing. You and Alex have been friends forever. Stop your stubbornness because we are going to get Alex!" Kya said and brushed past Max, she was not happy at all. Max paused for a moment still in disbelief but turned and followed her. They went into the office where the old books were and grabbed their stuff then climbed up the stairs and out the double doors. They raced down to the school where they had left their bikes, when they reached their bikes they paused for a moment to catch their breath. Max was still staring at Kya.
"What?" Kay said and she undid her bike lock. She didn't looked up at Max at all probably still mad at the way Max had acted. But now Max couldn't tell anything about Kya and she even found a new respect for her friend who had always held Max and Alex together.
"It must be really hard on you to see us fight. But it's not easy on away of us and I guess my stubbornness comes from my dad's side of the family. My grandma always did have a hard time getting him to sit still long enough to do anything." Max told her, Kya finally looked up at her friend, it wasn't normal for Max to talk about her mother or father, but there was always some that Kya could say or do to get her to speak of them and it looked like now was one of those times. She got up and nodded, they both pulled their bike out form the rack and started toward Alex's neighbor hood.
When they got to Alex's house; they dropped their bikes and ran to the back of the house. Then climbed the valence up to Alex's window. Max knocked on the window, and then peered in. And as she did her eyes widened, Kya peered in too and a look of worry came a cross her face, this is not going to end well, she thought as Alex got up and came to the window. She opened it and to her surprise she found Max and Kya.
"What are you guys doing here?!" She asked in surprise. She waited for a moment, is she going to answer me or not?
Max didn't know what to say. So she did the only thing she could think of at times like this, she jumped down from the window and went around to the front of the house, not even caring to look back. Kya raised her eyebrow to Alex and followed after Max. Kya reached the front of the house just as Alex came out the front door.
"Okay what was that all about?" Alex yelled. Max looked at her and then dropped her bike back to the ground, Kya looked at her and saw the anger and discussed that flared in Max's eyes. She know something bad was going to happen and that was why Max had gone away. Kya wished Alex had just stay inside but know something was going to happen.
"I can't believe you. Can't believe we ever called you a friend." Max turned form Alex and grabbed her bike again. Kya was relieved to see that Max was still willing to just drop it and walk away but Alex didn't and she edge Max on.
"What are you saying? What did I do to piss you off?" Alex yelled. Max dropped every thing and walked over to Alex. Oh Alex, why couldn't you just let it be, Kya thought she watched helplessly and Alex backed down a little, but then knew that it was going to take a lot more for Alex to back down all the way.
"You lied to us. Went behind our backs for popularity. I hope they eat you alive." Max said to her. Both of them had anger and rage flaring in their eyes know their was nothing anyone could do to get them to stop.
"So what if I choose to go with a new group to hang with, not like you ever paid any attention to me anyway. It's like they said you're only mad at the world because of what it took away from you, a family." Alex said. By that time a few of the girls Alex had been hanging with came out to back her up, Kya stood there in utter shock at the words that had come from Alex, and the girls that stood behind her just snickered. They all thought it was pretty funny that Alex had the balls to stand up to Max, because no one had ever done it before. Kya watched as Max lost all since of reality, her hand clench into fist and she was about ready to hit Alex when…
"Max! Please Max don't hurt Alex. She doesn't know what she's saying." Kya cried out, she had grabbed Max's hand that had risen into the air. Max came back and looked at Kya, tears were streaming down her redden check, and her grip on Max's arm we faltering. Max looked around and saw that all the girls that had been be hide Alex were back up on the porch and Alex's mom had come out and was staring at her, she dropped her fist and Alex put her arms down. Alex too saw the way Kya looked. Max let go of Alex, turned and walked away in silence. Alex dropped to her knees and watch as Max picked up her bike and started walking away. Kya looked at Alex one last time and then followed after Max. Alex stood there for a moment longer then turned toward the house, she looked at her mom standing in the doorway, her mom just shook her head and Alex understood that she knew what had gone on and that she was siding with Max on this. Alex slowly walked up on to the porch and the girls crowded around her, they were saying something to her but she didn't hear it. She brushed past them into the house they followed after her.
When Max reached her house she dropped her bike and went strait up to her room. Kya follow her into the house but then was stopped by her grandmother.
"Kya dear, you don't mind getting Max and telling her to come down here do you?" Max's grandma appeared from the kitchen, the look on her face gave it away, Max and Kya were in trouble, "and then I think you should go home your father will be expecting you." Kya looked at her and nodded then decided to ask what was going on.
"What's up Mrs. Maldonado?" She asked even though she know what was coming.
"The school call today and for some reason you guys haven't been in school for the past few week. Now I hope you don't get into too much trouble with your dad because I'm sure this is all Max's doings." She told Kya and went back into the kitchen. Kya went up the stairs and to Max's room. Max was lying face down on her bed.
"Um Max we have sort of a problem. The school kind of called our houses and well told our families that we haven't been in school lately." Kya told Max, she lifted her head and then dropped it back down again then pushed herself out of bed.
"Okay," she grunted and walked over to the door, "By the way thanks for stopping me earlier, I could have really hurt her." Kya turned toward the stairs and was about to walk down them when Max called to her again, "Hey good luck."
"Thank, nut I think you'll need it more, Cathie looked pretty upset. See ya later if we're not both grounded." Kya said good-bye and went down the stairs; she waved to Max's grandma, Cathie, and went out the door.
Max pause and leaned against her doorway then got up and went down the stairs and into the kitchen, where her grandma was waiting for her. They looked at each other for and moment and her grandma continued talking on the phone. She pointed for Max to go into the living room and she did. By what she had heard it sounded like her grandma was on the phone with Kya's dad, probably telling him to go easy on her and that it wasn't her fault. She sat down on the couch and stared out the window. It had started to rain she wondered if Kya was getting wet, it was a distinct possibility. She heard her grandma walk in and she turned to look at her.
"What were you thinking? Do you know how much your grade is going to slip because of this? I can't believe you would do something like this." She started to say she sat down on one of the chairs and put her hand to her head. Max looked over at her she didn't look so well, but it was probably just a cold or the flue.
"What am I going do with you Max? You're worse than you father at this age. Well what do you have to say for your self, and where have you been during school all this time?" He grandmother looked up at her and Max quickly looked back out the window.
"It's not like it matters my grades are still the same as always A's." Max muttered she didn't look away from the window. Her grandmother shook her head got up to her feet and walked back into the kitchen. They didn't talk the rest of the night, and the next morning she was driven to school along with Kya they were both walked to they're classes by one of the school guards and then afterward they were picked up at the end of the day, this was done until the end of the school year.
A few months went by, Kya and Max made their way through the woods and back to the old bunker, as they did every day now during the summer. They chatted about how much they had learned form the bunker and what they were going to do next if they couldn't get the computers running right. As they reached the clearing they noticed that the doors leading down to the bunker were wide open.
"Kya, we didn't leave the door open last night?" Max asked she ran up to the door she knelt down and picked up the combo lock they had put on the doors had been cut off. Kya was standing over Max and her eyes widened as she looked at the lock.
"No, I closed it and locked it, then put all the leaves back over it." Kya whispered. Max dropped the lock and they ran down in to the hall and around the corner. The lab on the lower floors power had been turned on and all the computers were up and running. They slowly crept down the stairs and looked around but there was no one they could see. Max cautionly crept down the center ilea and still the was no one, just then Max felt her foot hit something. She looked down and there was a whole leg lying on the ground, Kya looked over her shoulder and screamed when she saw it. The leg moved and another one popped out from under the table to their surprise Alex popped out from under the desk, she was rubbing her head where she had hit the table.
"Don't scare me like that!" She said, Alex crawled out from under the table and whipped her hands off on a grease rag. Max and Kya just stood there staring at her they didn't know what to say at first but then Alex finally spoke up after standing there for five minutes.
"Listen before you say anything, I just want to say I'm sorry!" Alex said. But before she could say anything else Max interrupted her, she was not at all happy by what Alex could tell and she had the right not to be. By the way she had acted a few months ago Alex would be surprised if Max would ever be friends with her again, but she had to at least try.
"What are you doing here?" Max muttered. "Your not wanted here." She turned and looked away giving Alex the cold shoulder. Kya watched knew she had to do something to get them back together but the question is what.
"Fine I'll just get my stuff and go. I understand perfectly." Alex said she looked down at the floor and walked to the stairs. She picked up her bag and started up the stairs when Kya raised her voice.
"Wait, this has gone on long enough. Why can't you two ever get along, you've been friends forever. Get over your petty differences and just get along or both of you are going to be very lonely people in the future." They just stood there and stared at her, Kya had never yelled before and never at her friends it was hard to believe. But Max still wasn't giving in, Alex had no right to say what she had and it wasn't right. She was still turned away when Alex started to talk again.
"You were right, they used me, they ate me a live like you said. I never meant for it to go that far that day. But I had no choice you pushed me to far, you were never around anymore and when you were, all you talked about was that bunker. It was driving me crazy so I turned to Ashley and her friends. I knew all they wanted out of it was there homework done; but anything was better than listening to you yap on about that bunker. Then when you guys saw me with them… well I never meant for that to happen; you weren't supposed to find out. And then when I finally realized you were only trying to protect me from being hurt, I had hurt you even more then anyone could hurt me. I'm sorry for what I said. I never meant it, it just came out and there was no way I could take it back. I really am sorry about all that I have done." Alex told them. Kya smiled and looked at Max to see what she would say but Max said nothing and shook her head. Kya eye filled with doubt but her heart was still filled with hope. She walked over to Max and grabbed her by the arm pulled her up the stairs and around the corner of the hallway.
"Max listen, if you make up with Al we can get the computers up and running and maybe even the portal so just…" Kya started to say when Max put her hand over her mouth.
"Kya will you not worry I'll deal with this okay." Max said then walked back down the stairs, Kya followed, she watched Max walk over to Alex and hug her. Kya was happy that they were friends again now she could hang with the both of them again rather then going back and forth, that just got annoying and really tiring after away.
"Alex I'm sorry to." Max said to Alex, she let go of Alex and backed away. But that doesn't mean I'm going to trust you ever again, Max thought to her self, she walked over to the computer that she had been working on the day before and started running through system checks to make sure that every thing was running right. Max and Alex seem to be friends again, Kya thought, but then there was something hidden there like a void that was still between them and some how it didn't feel right.
By the ended of the day the girls were all tired of lifting heavy computer monitors and boxes, there eyes were all blurred form staring at the screens for an extensive amount of time it was just horrible, they all felt like dog shit. They headed to the old oak tree and from there it was all down hill to the school then about another half a mile to Alex and Kya's house and only a forth of one to Max's house. Back at the bunk she had invited them both over to her house. Lucky they almost practically lived there already so they wouldn't have to run to their houses and get clothes.
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That night they all had dinner with Max's grandparents. "Thank you." They all said to Max's grandparents. After they had cleared the table and done the dishes they head up stairs. They all flopped down on separate beds in the guessed bedroom, Max sat up and so did Kya.
"Okay this is crazy. It's just hard to believe what we've found. A dimensional portal, are you kidding me? Sounds like something off of star track or something to that sort." Kya exclaimed.
"My question is why was it so easy to put things back together for a bunch of teenagers. Aren't things like this supposed to be like super mathematical and scientific? Oh and I want to know where it goes?" Alex said she wasn't really thinking about why it had all happened all she was interested in was where it went, she looked over at Max to get her opinion but she was staring out the window at the dark.
Max looked from the window at Alex then said, "That's all good and stuff but we can't tell anyone what we've found. What if it's the government's property and we could get into some very big trouble. We might even want to put a list of alibis together just incase. We don't need anyone finding out or we'll never get to see what's really out there. You guys got that?"
"Yeah sure." Alex muttered. She rolled her eyes and looked at the ceiling, here.
"Okay." Kya exclaimed, "Whatever, can we just get some sleep now. Before I die to lack of water to my eye balls" Kya lied down after changing her clothes and fell asleep fast. Alex also changed her clothes and went to bed. She lied there awake and her thoughts ran around in circles about the man she had meet only days before talking about Max being some kind of evil power and about the first time she had ever meet Max and what they did for each other. It was all so confusing, Alex loved Max to death as a friend but ever since that fight nothing had been the same and she was starting to loss some of that faith in her best friend. Were things really going to happen like that man had said, "dark times were sure to come and your friend will no longer be the same person but will be the source of the darkness." It kept running through she mind in till finally she fell a sleep.
Max was still staring out the window. I don't know if I can trust her any more. But why can't I, she's my friend and it's been that way almost since the day we met. But some things telling me that, things are going to go very wrong with in the next couple of days. Max thought to her self. She then got up and went to one of the beds. She paused and looked over at her friends, but nothing felt right, she shook her head and crawled into bed and fell a sleep.
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In the middle of the night Max woke up in a clod sweat. What the hell? Max thought as she sat up and rubbed her eyes, in her dream she had seen so much devastation and destruction. It was almost if it was some how all her fault and that it had something to do with her and a few other but she had woken up before she could see their faces. She let her thoughts wonder for a few until they land on her friends. She looked over at them and remembered the first time they meet. It was back in kindergarten, she had gotten into trouble for pouring paint all over some boy. "Max, why in the world did you do that?" the teacher had said. "Because he said my picture was stupid." I said. But the teacher didn't care, she sent me to the corner. When my time out was up, the teacher told me I had to go outside and play. That's where I met Kya; she was hanging from the very highest part of the jungle gym. I had gone under it because I wanted to be alone, that's when I heard a scream from the teacher. I heard that Kya was going to fall. The teacher couldn't go and get her because she was scared of heights. I heard a few more screams from the other kids; that's when I got up and started to climb the jungle gym myself. Every one froze when they saw me. " Max get down from there, you're going to get hurt!" I heard the teacher cry out; but I just kept on going. Lucky I didn't hesitant or else she would have fallen by the time I got there. I grabbed her arm and told her to hold on. I pulled her up and we climbed down together. She ran over to the teacher when we reached the ground. All the other kids crowded around me. The teacher thanked me. At the end of the day Kya and me were as tight as glue.
Now when I met Alex it was the other way around, well kind of. It was an average day in Jr. high Kya and I were in the classroom with some other students, when the bell rang. The teacher came in and behind him came in Alex she was a new student in the school. The teacher told her to introduce her self, so she did. "Hi, I'm Alex and I moved here from Alaska. My mom and dad are criminologists and they were reassigned." Alex said. The teacher told her to sit down, she started to walk to one of the empty desk when one of the jocks stuck out his foot and tripped her. Every one in the class started laughing at her. That's when I got up and walk over to her to help her up. I put down my hand to her, she reached up but I pulled my hand away and said. "Sorry to slow!" and every one laughed again. Then the teacher had to ruin our fun, "Alright Max sit down and the rest of you be quiet." I went and sat back down next to Kya. Alex got up off the floor and went to the desk in the back of the room. Kya and I looked back at her and then turned the other way. Later that day while in the lunchroom some one decided to pissed me off and they got me all up in their face. By the time the teachers pulled me off the kid, he had a broken nose and a black eye. Me, I had a few scratches and bruises. The principal had pulled me in to her office and was about to suspended me, when Alex came and told the principal that the kid started it, by punching at me, she told her it was just self-defense. So the principal let me off with a warning. When we got out of the principal's office, Alex disappeared. During sixth period that day Kya and I saw her walk in; a group of boys then walked over to her and started pushing her around. That's when I got up. "Either you back off or you'll get what the kid in the lunch room got. Got it?" I told the boys. They backed off and I went to my seat and Alex went to hers. "What was that all about?" Kya asked me. "Nothing, just helping out a friend." I told Kya. At the end of the day when we were all walking home, Kya and I saw Alex walking by her self. We ran over to her and asked if we could walk with her. Form then on we were always together. It's hard to believe that we can't even trust her.
Max looked over at the clock and it was only four, well I'm defiantly not going to go back to sleep so might as well get up.
She got out of bed and walked in to the hallway closing the door behind her. She went over to the linen closet and pulled out a towel then walked in to the bathroom. She turned on the water and pulled the nub for the shower to run. Max undressed and got in. This is all to weird, first finding the portal, then that freaky voice when I touched it, and now these dreams. There's defiantly something going on here. Max thought to her self as she washed her hair. She rinsed her hair and a quickly scrubbed her body before turning the water of. She took her towel off the rack and wrapped it round her self, then left the bathroom for her own room.
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After getting dress, Max went over and sat down at her computer. She logged on and waited for the Internet to pop up. She started snooping around for any usual things in the tabloids or the newspapers but there was nothing a usual, it was all the same old shit as before. Nothing good ever happened in this god-forsaken town. She went on to the local crime records but nothing was there either it was if someone had stopped crime all together after her parents were killed. She diced it might be easier to get info if she did a little hacking in some privet files, she wasn't the best at hacking but she was good enough to get by local government locks. When she was clear she started going through different files one after another. Until she found what she wanted, top secret ah, maybe you should put it on such a lousy system then. She opened it up and started reading just as she came to the end of the file she noticed the date at the bottom, much of the info was just a bunch of gibberish but the date actually meant something, well to her at least. Because it was the date of her parents death, June 13th, 1993, but how can that be the old bunker was stopped the same day my parents were killed, you'd think they would have keep it up and running even if the top two scientist turned up missing. But even then if my parents were in charge maybe they were the only one who really knew anything…so some killed them because they treated to pull it all out into the open. Which would explain their untimely death and why the bunker was closed, she thought to her self. She went to the file that said pictures and started going through them one after another. Some were of the destruction of the bunker and other were of the bodies that were found. The pictures were too blurry to see who the people were but she had a good idea who they were. Max just stared at the pictures even made them magnified but it was all the same these two weren't just shoot or strangle, they were torn to pieces, like a rabid animal came in and attack unprovoked, but there was also burns over at least ninety percent of there bodies. What the hell went on that night, Max thought and touched the screen. Without warning she was tossed into what seemed like a flash back. She was hidden behind some old crates, just then she heard her mothers voice and then her fathers, she couldn't quite hear what they were saying but it sounded regent. She peered a round the crate and all of a sudden a cold chill filled the room and the door at the other end of the hall exploded inwards. Max shifted back behind the crate but peered around them again. Her mother was shouting to her father as another man entered the room, she saw him raise his hand and in one fail swoop her mother and father were thrown a crossed the room and hit the back wall. Max moved to the other side of the of the crate and watched her mother slowly each back up and check on her father. He sat up and the fear in his eyes turned to dread when he looked past Kayan, max looked over at the other man, his hand was up again and pointing strait at her mother and time froze all around and Max watched the events unfold. There was a flash of light and she heard her mother scream and Max sat there and closed her eyes until it was over. When she opened them again she saw her fathers' lifeless body lying on the ground. And for the first time she hear the other mans voice "Where is she Kayan?" Max looked at him them back to her mother who now was cradling her fathers' body. Max's eyes filled with tears as she watched her mothers hope die. Her mother laid the body back down and turned to face the man and she spoke with no fear what so ever, "you can have her Bishop and you'll never find her." She told him and with in an instant he was on top of her. He grabbed her frail body and wouldn't let go, "even if I have to tare this whole world a part I will find her and then this universe you've been protecting will become hell." Max looked away she couldn't stand any more. When Max looked back she was back in her room looking at the photo. She paused for a moment thinking about what she had seen. Was it real or was she just hallucinating due to lack of sleep, either way it felt realer than real, it kind of freaked her out. She remembered back to the night of her parents' death, which there wasn't that much to remember since she was only five at the time, all she did remember was her parents bodies being carried from their house. Which was only chard as she remembered seeing it. But which story was real the one that had just came to her or the one the cops where left to ponder about. Max closed the file whichever scenario was true she was going to hunt down the person that had done this and when she found that person they were going to regret what they had done. She turned from the computer and didn't want to think about any of it, it was all to confusing at the time and she'd need time to think it through. Out side she heard a door open and close silently. Her grandmother popped her head through the door.
"Max, what are you doing? And how long have you been up?" Her grandmother asked, she came in and started to pick up what dirty closes were on the floor. Max watched her still trying to think things through, "Max are you okay?" Her grandmother questioned again, she looked up at the young girl, she looked like she was deep in thought but then again there was a very disturbed look that had been on her face since she entered. "Max you shouldn't worry like you do, your face will get stuck like that." Was the last thing she said before living the room. Max looked at the clock it was eight she had already been up for four hours but that wasn't right she had only sat down… What the hell's going on.
Just then her friends appeared in the door, they were rubbing their eyes and stretching.
"Hey find any thing?" the blond haired girl asked, Max looked at them and shook her head. She wasn't quite sure what she should tell them or even if she should tell them at all. It wasn't like Max to keep things from her friends but what other choice did she have. Alex wasn't so trustworthy right at the moment and Kya had problems keeping things a secret for long.
"No nothing out of the ordinary maybe we should try library records," Max answered, she didn't like lying to them but it had to be done. "Away how about breakfast?" She asked trying not to be too conspicuous. They nodded and went back to the other room leaving max alone again. She looked out the window and thought but to the scene at the lab, how the hell do I deal with all this? She questioned her self and then got up and followed Alex and Kya back into the guest room. They both had gotten dressed and looked up when she came in. max looked at them and the looks on their faces said they wanted to talk. Max closed the door after making sure no one was there to listen.
"Max, what are we going to do about the missing passwords and inscription codes? We've searched the bunker top to bottom and still haven't turned up with anything." Alex asked she grabbed the brush off the dresser and started running it through her hair pulling out and knots. Max looked at her and started to think, it was a problem but where else could they be if they weren't at the lab.
"Well I think we should just let things be. I mean we've done the best we could maybe know we can just stop, it's not like Max's parents are going to pop out of the grave and tell us what we need to know." Kya said when Alex passed her the brush she hadn't liked the thought of the bunker ever since Max had found it. It had almost broken up their friend ship for good. Max was still thinking when it came to her, the graveyard that was the only place they hadn't check for information. And the last place her parents would leave stuff to be hidden.
"Kya you're a genius." She blurted out and both her friends stopped and stared at her.
"What do you mean I'm a genius?" Kya asked, her eyes were big and she looked startled at the very thought. Alex on the other hand had only paused for a moment and then went back to what she had been doing. Max sat down on the bed and explained to them what she was thinking. As soon as she had finished both girls were in awe. Alex hadn't seen why she hadn't thought of that in thee first place and Kya was just in terror of the thought of even going to the cemetery, there were all kinds of dead people there and with all the movies she watched it wasn't the best place they could be going.
"Hey I've got an idea why don't we just forget all about the bunker and … get on with our normal lives, we can go to the mall and hang out or go see a movie, maybe even sneak into the boy's locker room and fill their underwear with itching powder like you always wanted Max." Kya said her voice was a little shaky. And both Max and Alex got real close to her and circled her, they guessed she was a fared and wanted to play it.
"Wow, you'd really do all that stuff if we just kick the bucket on the whole thing?" Max asked and stood in front of her. Kya's expression was the deer in the headlights it was one of her most common looks. Don't get her wrong though she was really tough when she had to or wanted to be. Kya stared at Max and Max stared right back so that Kya would get so lost in thought that she wouldn't even realize what was going on as Ales slowly snuck up behind her. Max watched as Alex got really close up into Kya's ear and she whispered something. All of a sudden there was and ear piercing scream that filled the air. And Kya jumped at least three feet in the air and fell back on her butt. Max pulled her hands from her ears and looked at Alex who was on the floor rolling around from laughter, at least that was one thing she could always count on Alex for a good scaring of Kya. Max joined in with Alex's laughing; Kya got up off the floor and brushed her self off. She glared at them and shook her head, which just made them laugh even harder. But soon they came to a stop as Max's grandfather came into the doorway, his worried expression crossed over all the features in his old worn face. They all stared at him and Alex and Max burst out laughing again and with in a few moments Kya was joining in their laughter. Max's grandfather just shook his head and walked back down the stairs. Just then they heard Max's grandma called from at the base of the stairs.
"Hey girls why don't you come down and eat." She called up; Kya jumped up and ran over to the door. Max turned to the door and walked out it and Alex followed after the both of them. They went down stairs and in to the kitchen. The smell of waffles filled the air around them as they filed into the kitchen. They all went over to the bar and sat on the stools and watched as a plate of waffles was set on the counter by Max's grandmother. They each grab a plate for them selves, and eat their fair share of the waffles.
"Hey grandma did the police ever find the person who started the fire that killed mom and dad?" Max all of a sudden
asked. Max's grandmother gave her a stern stare then looked away and Max knew what was coming. It had never been the favorite subject around the house but Max needed some answers before she could any closer over the topic.
"Max you haven't talked about your parents in years, so why do you ask now." Her grandmother asked, and as she looked back at Max she could tell that there was more to what Max had asked then what had been said. It was if she knew what had been hidden for so many years and wanted to test her to get the right information, but she wasn't to sure of what to say and just hopped the topic would just go away.
"Oh no reason, I just wanted to know if they ever caught the man who killed mom and dad that's all." Was all Max said and then dropped the subject completely there was nothing more she could say or do to get her grandparents' to tell her what had really happened that night and they probably had good reason for not telling Max anything. Nothing really felt right as if she was missing something bigger then they could give her.
"Well no!" Her grandmother replied. Max turned from the counter and walked back up the stairs. Alex and Kya gave each other questioning looks then got up and followed after Max. As soon as the girls were out of sight Max's grandpa entered the kitchen and sat down. Max's grandma joined him at the table and they sat there for a few moments in silence, then Max's grandmother found her voice.
"I really think we can't keep hiding this from her forever. She's starting to realize that some things not right, and I've over heard them on a few occasions talking about that lab. It's only a matter of time before she finds the truth." She calmly laid out, her voice shacking at the thought of what was about to unfold. She looked at her husband, his hand was put up to his chin and he was deep in thought.
"Don't worry yourself, it will probably be better if she finds out what happened for her self." He told her, but she could see that even through his strong stair that he didn't want to lose Max either. Thing were going to change for better or worse and nothing could stop it no matter how bad they want to protect their granddaughter. It had never been their choice, since the day that Max was born she had been destine for great things.
"I just worry that she'll take it the wrong way and we'll lose her forever. She was only three when this all happened. John…" She paused and tears started down her wrinkled old face as she remembered back to the night they had found their son and daughter in-law in the lab. She had held her sons cold body for at least an hour before coming too. Kayan had been taken to the hospital in critical condition, and when she and John had arrived they got the news that there was nothing that could help Kayan recover. First they had lost their son now they were going to lose their daughter in-law too it had been heart breaking. When they had gone to see her Kayan had told them everything about what had gone on before the night she had mysteriously shown up, and with her last breath she had asked them to protect Max from all of it. It had been the hardest night of their lives, not only emotionally but physically as well and nothing had been worse then watching Max go hysterical when they berried her parents, it was all to much. "I just don't know if my old heart can take loosing another part of this family to… to that monster." She yelled tears streaming down her face. John got up and went over to his wife and comforted her.
"Listen Linda, Max is a very strong girl and I have never seen anything drag her down that she can't climb her way back out of. She'll be okay I promise," his words came out with a lot of meaning, but there was no helping the pain they both felt. "Tomorrow's the anniversary of Kayan's appearance, seventeen years ago. She showed up at Mat's door and they had instantly fell for each other. She brought happiness to him even when he could find none." John told Linda, and they remembered back to that day. Mat their son had called them in such happiness, the same happiness he had had as a child. Which in turn made them happy, he had told them all about the girl that showed up on his doorstep and that he wanted to be with her forever. At first they didn't quite know what was going on or anything that was going on and were worried that their son had finally flipped his lid. But the next day he had brought her by and it was like they had always know her, like she had grown up next door, there were still a few things missing but it didn't matter to Mat, they were happy together. With in a week there was a wedding planned and in two they were on their honeymoon. Things had gone by so fast, it was like Kayan had dropped from heaven and answered their prayers. The very next week they found out Kayan was pregnant, and Max had soon come there after, it was the best thing that could have ever have happened to Mat. Things started to slow down after that as they all watched and Max grow. Then that day came, Kayan had told Mat what was going to happen and what had happened before almost breaking his heart, but he stayed by her anyway nothing was going to break those two apart. Something had happened at the lab and they were found, everything was gone just like that. Max was left with her grandparents. Linda looked at her husband and then got up form the table and went to cleaning up breakfast.
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"What was that all about?" Kya asked as soon as they were all in the guest bedroom. She went over and sat down by Max and crossed her legs. Something wasn't right here and it was going to be hard to get it out of Max she was worse then any man about showing how she felt.
"I'm willing to bet that they're hiding some thing from me." Max finally said, Kya looked at Max and then to Alex who was just as confused as she was. Max's grandparents had always been open to anything they wanted to talk about, why would they keep secrets about her parents' death. "I did find something this morning, pictures from the report on the old lab. Before the bodies were taken out, before every thing was put back together, before they fed me that lie. My parent's were murdered but not by anyone form here." Max said, Alex and Kya were even more confused then before, what did Max mean by not form anyone around here. Alex meet Max's gaze and saw the deep blue green color of them waver; it had never been like Max to cry. She didn't even cry when she got hurt or they got into fights, the last time she had cried was at her parents' funeral, form that day on it was like she didn't even know how to cry. But she didn't want to say anything about it she wasn't even sure if it was a tear or if it was just the light.
"What do you mean, Max is there some…" Alex started to ask, but her judgment was clouded by the words of the man she had meet only a few days before. Your friend will no longer be the same but will be the source of the darkness.
"Yeah Max are you okay?" Kay asked, she gave Alex a stern glare then turned back to Max. She was smiling and back to her old self as if nothing had just happen
"Come on lets make that cemetery run before it gets to late." Max said she got up from her place on the bed and went to the closet and pulled out a pair of old sneakers. She slipped them on and got up staring at the other two. Kya didn't look to sure of her self and well Alex was kind of off in la-la land. "Well…" Max said louder so that they could hear. They looked at her, and she just shook her head and walked away. "If you guys are coming I suggest you hurry because whether or not I'm leaving now." Max told them and walked out the bedroom door. Kya looked at Alex who was getting her shoes on and she got up and did the same. Why the cemetery, why not the mall, or the movies, why can't we just quite all of this? Kya thought as she followed Alex out the door.
Out front they grabbed their bikes and started toward the cemetery. Just as they were riding past the park Alex looked up at the sky. Dark rain clouds were starting to cover the blue. She looked back down at Max and Kya in front of her and raced to Max's side. "Hey Max we better hurry there's a storm moving in." she yelled over a clap of thunder, Max slowed a little and stared back into Alex's gaze, she nodded and sped back up.
"What are you afraid of getting wet." Max yelled back to her, and smiled at the thought. Alex shook her head and sped after her leaving Kya behind. Kya watched as her two best friends left her behind, it was no big deal really she was quite used to it. Alex and Max were always competitive toward one another, which was what made their friendship all the stronger, what she thought. She picked up the pace so that not to fall behind to much.
Max jumped off her bike and ran into the front gate of the cemetery arms stretched out. She stopped and looked back as Alex jumped off her bike into a mud poodle, she slipped and fell. But just as she was about to hit the ground she felt someone catch her arm and pulled her up right again. She looked up and saw Max smiling at her, it was the same smile she had seen so many times before, but some how it was different and the words came to her again. Source of the darkness, Alex smiled slightly and looked away quickly. She didn't understand how Max, who was one of the honest people she know nonetheless liveliest, energetic, and kind be the source of darkness, it just didn't seem right. The noise of the closing gate broke into her thoughts for now and she put the thought at the back of her mind; she looked and saw that Kya had finally caught up. She and Max were all ready walking toward the chapel at the center of the expansive yard, Alex walked after them.
"Hey Kya, I heard form one of the kids in our class about a girl who had been dared to stay the whole night in this graved yard to see if it was really haunted by the ghost of the ex-convict Jincken Mc Lane. He said that she took the dare and was supposed to stay at his grave the whole night and if she made it she would have to jab the knife she was carrying into the ground next to the gravestone. Turns out they found her body the next day, she died that night. They say she scared her self to death but some think else wise." Max said, she looked back at Kya and got what she was looking for. There was a look of pure terror across her face. Alex shook her head at Max and Max smiled back at her.
"Don't worry about it Kya. There's nothing to be scared of. It's just a bunch of dead people." Alex tried to comfort her friend but it didn't seem to work and she glared at Max. Max shrugged it away and went on.
"That's what I was afraid of." Kya whispered, she cautiously looked around before walking next to Alex. They followed after Max who was already at the front doors of the chapel.
"Kya I promise there's nothing to be scared of and Max stop trying to scare us it's not funny." Alex still tried to comfort her and Kya nodded her thanks as they caught up to Max. They all stood outside the huge chapel, it was weird to all of them because none of them had ever been there before. Max tried to lighten the mood a little with a cocky come back.
"Oh come on have a little fun!" Max said as she walked into the chapel, Alex followed close behind, and Kya paused looking around one last time before opening the door and going in. When in side she looked at the expansive room that lie before her, it was the biggest room in the building, it was decorated with all kinds of religious symbols and some other fancy stuff. She looked over at Max how was pointing at the last bench on the right hand side. They walked over and sat down in a small circle so that no one would hear them.
"Okay, I remember my mom talking about and box or something that when I was old enough to come get, but since this possibly had something to do with the government they probably won't let anyone near it. So we need to come up with a plan to get to the back rooms, then get past whatever security that they have running." Max whispered, she looked and the women standing behind the desk then to the front of the chapel. Alex followed her eyes then it came to her.
"I've got it! Here Max you take my camera. There are probably only video cameras since this is only a public place. Now Kya and I will create a distraction so you can get the keys from the desk. When you get to the room take a picture and put it in front of the liens of the video camera. Then get what we need as fast as you can, okay. Don't forget to turn the flash off and don't turn on the light that will give things away." Alex .explained to them Max nodded. "Okay Kya we need to think of away to distract the people in the room, got any ideas?" Alex asked Kya and looked up at her. Kya had a setline a crossed her face then she snickered a bit.
"Well one of us could play like we just lost some one and act hysterical. That's bound to get someone's attention." Alex shook her head like she was thinking it trough then a nodded of acknowledgment came form her. Alex looked at Max then to one of the big pillars near the door, Max followed her gaze and then got up from the bench and wondered over to the one they had looked at. She looked over at Alex and Kya. They were just about ready, they played one game of rock, paper, and succors, Max laughed when she saw that Alex had lost, she looked over at the desk where the lady was working. Just then she heard Alex start to wail, and that was the signal. Kya acted like she was tiring to clam her, but she wouldn't stop. The women at the desk looked up for a moment then went back to reading. Alex quickly started running around and knocking things over as she went by them. Finally the women got up from the desk to see what was going on.
Max smiled then ran from her post over to the desk. She quickly searched for the keys and grabbed them, then ran down the back hallway. She read the signs on the doors very carefully, then she came up on one that said personal keeps. She put the key in the door and turned it. The door flew open. Max looked at the room it was as big as the library at the school. Max quickly looked for any video cameras but there where none. She cautiously walked in and turned on the light. Still there were no video cameras or any thing else that would give her away. Max shrugged and started going down the names on the boxes. They were in alphabetical order and would take a while that she didn't have. She started going as quick as she could and with in a few minutes she had found the locker type shelf with the M last names. She ran her hand down each row until she found her last name. She quickly opened it and pulled out a tin lock box, she pushed it into her backpack and closed the door. She got up and headed for the door, as she left she turned out the lights and slipped out the door, it had been so simple.
"Miss, miss, I'm sorry but you're going to have to leave if you can't settle your self down." The women said to Alex, as she caught a cross that was about to hit the floor.
"Settle my self down. How can I when I have lost all I have lived for, the true love of my life. There is no reason to live on. Whoa as me… whoa as me." Alex cried. She flung her self to the ground and people started to form a circle around her. Kya watched from out side of the circle, for Max to return, so Alex didn't have to loss all scenes of dignity. Just then she saw Max place the keys back on the desk and run out the front doors. Kya then walked over to Alex who was lying on the floor in tears.
"What is so dreadful that you have lost, dear friend of mine?" Kya asked, secretly smiling to Alex. Alex gave a slight nod.
"I'll tell you what! My dignity that's what." Alex shouted. All the people around gave the girls dirty looks and went back to what they were doing before the commotion.
"Will you please leave. This a church not a counseling office. If you have problems with your dignity go see a professional. Now please leave." The women who was at the desk said as she pointed at the door. Kya pulled Alex up off the ground and they walked out the doors.