The Sound of Max
The X7's and X8's kept screaming them selves awake from nightmares from back at Manticore, so they kept throwing hissy fits because they were so tired. No one knew what to do for them and Gem, an X6, had her own child to care for but she tried everything that she thought might work, but it was hard because she had know idea of what might help the little ones.
Alec and Gem rounded up all the X5 and 6's to come up with some idea's because all the screaming kept everyone up. They had a meeting for over two hours trying to come up with a good way to help them through their nightmare.
A fight was about to break out because no one could come up with another idea that they hadn't already tried, and that is when they heard it. The most amazing voice they had ever heard before and ran to see who voice it belonged to.
God - our heavenly Father.
Oh, God - and my father
Who is also in heaven.
May the light
Of this flickering candle
Illuminate the night the way
Your spirit illuminates my soul.
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you see me?
Papa, can you hear me in the night?
Papa, are you near me?
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you help me not be frightened?
Looking at the skies
I seem to see a million eyes
Which ones are yours?
Where are you now that yesterday
Has come and gone?
And closed its doors?
The night is so much darker.
The wind is so much colder
The world I see is so much bigger now that I'm alone.
Papa, please forgive me.
Try to understand me.
Papa, don't you know I had no choice?
Can you hear me praying,
Anything I'm saying,
Even though the night is filled with voices?
I remember everything you taught me
Every book I've ever read.
Can all the words in all the books
Help me to face what lies ahead?
The trees are so much taller
And I feel so much smaller.
The moon is twice as lonely
And the stars are half as bright.
Papa, how I love you.
Papa, how I need you.
Papa, how I miss you
Kissing me goodnight.
To say everyone was shocked to find Max, our tough and bitchy leader of TC and a 09'er, singing so softly and caring in the middle of the playing room for the X7 and 8's with said X7 and 8's on sleeping mats, all fast asleep and cuddling Max like a lifeline was an understatement.
Everyone was shocked and were frozen it place in the hall. Alec was the first to come out of his frozen state and told everyone to leave to either work or sleep while they could. Everyone had a good nights rest that night all because of Max.
For about a month Max sang to the children every night, she was still a bitch to everyone else but they didn't care because Max was doing the one thing that no one else could do. As they found out one night in TC when Max when on a raid for the night to get supplies and got ambushed by Whites men.
They kidnapped and beat her for five days before she could find a way out and when she got back to TC it was a mess. Transgenics and Transhumans were arguing about something that Max couldn't hear or understand.
When Mole saw Max he screamed her name whilst running to her and hugged her as tight as he could, which with the beatings she had given from White and he men was very painful. Mole was quickly removed only to have Max pulled into another set of arms, Alec's arms.
Alec kept saying things like 'Never leave us again' and 'Please save us, we don't know what to do". Max started worrying and asked what happen, and started laughing when they told her.
Apparently no one could help them when their nightmare started and were scared when all the X7 and 8's started screaming, crying, shouting, throwing things and trashing the place because they wanted someone to sing to them, everyone tired singing them to sleep but they all couldn't sing to save their life.
Apparently it sounded like cats be strangling to death, so when all the X7 and 8's wanted Max and she wasn't there they threw tantrums and fits that rendered all Transgenic and Transhumans terrified and useless. In the end they had pretty much locked the small X's in a room.
Max made her way to the children where she could still hear them screaming to be let out and demanding her, whilst dragging Alec along with her. When she made it to the music room where they had been locked in, there were some X5's holding the door shut, they quickly move as they saw Max and looked relived to see her.
Max open the door and everyone got quite quickly. Everyone was just looking at her as she dragged Alec to the small piano that was in there, Max made Alec sit in front of the piano and picked up a pile of music sheets that Max had found awhile ago and looked through them, before finding one she liked and handed it Alec.
He looked at it like it was going to kill him before taking it from her and placing it on the holder on the piano. Alec seemed to get the idea and started playing, not long after Max started singing.
You fascinated me
cloaked in shadows and secrecy
the beauty of a broken angel
I ventured carefully
afraid of what you thought I'd be
but pretty soon I was entangled
You take me by the hand
I question who I am
Teach me how to fight
I'll show you how to win
you're my mortal flawn
and I'm your fatal sin
let me feel the sting
the pain
the burn
under my skin
Put me to the test
I'll prove that I'm strong
won't let myself believe
that what we feel is wrong
finally see what
you knew was inside me
all along
That behind this soft exterior
Lies a warrior
My memory refused
to separate the lies from truth
and search the past
my mind created
I kept on pushing through
standing resolute which you
in equal measure
loved and hated
You take me by the hand
I'm seeing who I am
Teach me how to fight
i'll show you how to win
you're my mortal flawn
and I'm your fatal sin
let me feel the sting
the pain
the burn
under my skin
Put me to the test
I'll prove that I'm strong
won't let myself believe
that what we feel is wrong
finally see what
you knew was inside me
all along
That behind this soft exterior
Lies a warrior
Lies a warrior
You take me by the hand
I'm sure of who I am
Teach me how to fight
I'll show you how to win
you're my mortal flawn
and I'm your fatal sin
let me feel the sting
the pain
the burn
under my skin
Put me to the test
I'll prove that I'm strong
won't let myself believe
that what we feel is wrong
finally see what
you knew was inside me
all along
That behind this soft exterior
Lies a warrior
The pictures come to life
make me in the dead of night
open my eyes
I must be dreaming
Clutch my pillow tight
brace myself for the fight
I've heard that seeing
is believing
Once Max had finished everyone was asking for one more before they went to bed, so Max found another music sheet and pasted it to Alec, who again started playing.
I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done
And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear
Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear
Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear
Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
When Max and Alec finished everyone was clapping their hands. The children hugged Max and Alec and then ran to there rooms to bed.
After that day Max got all the children together and gave them singing lessons, so they could sing to one another instead of asking the grown up and getting locked in a room by the older X's again. Every afternoon before there bedtime Max gave them all singing lesson, until one day Max turned up with a two male X5's and a female X5 that no one had seen around before, one of the males had a guitar on his back. Max couldn't stop smiling and touching the three new X5's.
Max told everyone that the three X5's were her sibling. Seth X5-751 who has short blond hair and blue eyes, Vada X5-524 who has brown hair that goes down to his shoulders and brown eyes and Jondy X5-210, who has long brown hair that goes to her hips with light green eyes.
Max told everyone that they were going to help her with a few songs, because the X7 and 8's were struggling on group singing and they wanted to get it right, and known of the other older X's could help because they couldn't sing to save there life.
They younger X's were worried because they had never heard an older male sing without sounding like a banshee, but they saw that Max trusted them so they did to.
Seth start playing the piano and straight away Jondy starts singing.
[Jondy:]
I'm sitting in a railway station
Got a ticket for my destination, oh oh
[Vada:]
On a tour of one-night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
[Vada and Jondy:]
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band
[Seth:]
This wave
[Seth and Max:]
Wave
[Seth & Max:]
Is stringing us along
[Max:]
Along
[Vada and Jondy:]
Just know you're not alone
[Vada:]
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home
[Max:]
Everyday's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines, oh oh
[Jondy & Max:]
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
Reminds me that I long to be
[Vada with Everyone:]
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
[Seth & Max:]
Just know you're not alone
[Max:]
Know you're not alone
[Vada & Jondy:]
Cause I'm going to make this place your home
[Everyone]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Max:]
Where my thought's escape me
[Everyone]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Max:]
Where my music's playing
[Everyone]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Max:]
Oh, oh
[Jondy:]
Where my love life's waiting
Silently for me
[Seth and Jondy with Everyone:]
Settle down, it'll all be clear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
[Vada and Max:]
Just know you're not alone
[Max:]
Know you're not alone
[Vada and Jondy with Everyone:]
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home
[Max:]
Oh oh oh oh!
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Max:]
Where my music's playing
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Jondy:]
I'm gonna make, I'm gonna make, make this place your home
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Jondy:]
Know you're not alone
[Max:]
Where my music's playing
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Max:]
Whoa oh
[Jondy:]
I'm gonna make, I'm gonna make, make this place our home
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Jondy:]
Know you're not alone
[Everyone:]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Jondy:]
Oh...
All the younger X's were clapping and shouting more. Max waited until they had calmed down before saying that they would do one more before they had to do their song as a group in front of Jondy, Seth and Vada, they said okay but only if Max helped them with the song.
After Max agreed the four X5's started talking about what song they should do next and came up with the perfect song, Seth started playing the piano again,
[Seth:]
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
[Vada:]
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
[Max:]
Nobody said it was easy
[Seth & Vada:]
It's such a shame for us to part
[Max:]
Nobody said it was easy
[Seth & Vada:]
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start.
[Jondy:]
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
[Vada & Jondy:]
But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
[Seth & Max:]
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
[Max with Everyone]
Nobody said it was easy
Oh it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
Nobody said it was easy [x5]
After they finished all the younger X's clapped again, whilst some ran off to find Alec and drag him back to the music room to play the piano for their song. The younger X's got everything ready then waited until Alec got there which was long. Alec was pushed into the chair in front of the piano whilst everyone was bouncing in excitement.
Alec found the piano music that they wanted him to play, then he started playing,
[An X8 female named Sara]
Some words they can't be spoken only sung,
So hear a thousand voices shouting love.
[Max & Everyone]
There's a place, there's a time in this life when you sing what you are feeling,
Find your feet, stand your ground, don't you see right now the world is listening to what we say?
Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you,
Make some noise, find your voice tonight.
Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever,
Old and young shouting love tonight.
[Max]
To sing we've had a lifetime to wait (wait, wait, wait)
And see a thousand faces celebrate (together celebrate)
[Max & Everyone]
You brought hope, you brought life, conquer fear, no it wasn't always easy,
Stood your ground, kept your faith, don't you see right now the world is listening to what we say?
[Everyone]
Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you,
Make some noise, find your voice tonight.
Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever,
Old and young shouting love tonight.
[X8 Sara]
Some words they can't be spoken only sung,
To hear a thousand voices shouting love and life and hope.
[Everyone]
Just sing; just sing; just sing; just sing.
[Max & Everyone]
Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you,
Make some noise, find your voice tonight.
Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever,
Old and young shouting love tonight.
[X8 Sara]
Hear a thousand voices shouting love.
The whole of TC was clapping and applauding and since that day once a month all the children in TC preform in front of everyone, with the help of Max with singing and Alec in playing the song. All because Max sang a song to help all the children in TC from nightmares.
Songs in order:
1. Papa Can You Hear Me? - Rachael Berry
2. Warrior - Beth Crowley
3. Run - Leona Lewis
4. Homeward Bound / Home - Glee
5. The Scientist