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A/N: Okay so after 22 stories, i decided it would be a great idea to branch out from Supernatural and into Dark Angel. I was Wrong. I realized that I didn't know the show as well as I thought I did, and even after trying to catch up, I failed miserably. So why am i posting i hear you ask. Simple. This story, if it isnt typed up, will be the death of me. Its preventing my Supernatural stories from being written - I haven't forgotten guys and an update IS on its way! - so the long and short of it is,
I posted and I need a beta, so If you know someone who would do it for me, or you yourself would like to offer your talented betaing services, then please review me or PM me or contact me in some way!
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So erm, this is the prologue, review please and please be nice its my first Dark Angel fic and the characters may be off i know :(
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Prologue
In a year a lot of things can change, laws can be made and broken, friendships can be made, lies can be made bigger but the one thing that never changes is the loyalty.
The law against the transgenic nation was relaxed. On one condition; They stayed in the biohazard area they had come to know as home. Terminal City. It had been agreed. It was the only way that they could live in harmony, or - in truth - live at all. The police and guards had backed off a whole 500 feet, only to start to put the fences up around the "city". There was a rationing system agreed, well, it was dictated to them what they would receive and Max had consulted with the Transgenic Council that had been elected and had made the agreement. It wasn't fair; they had less rights than animals did, but then again, they weren't even considered animals. They were a cross between animals and humans, something that had been created in a laboratory by Americans but now the Americans didn't want anything to do with them.
It was easier than Max had thought to arrange some semblance of community in Terminal City, when she had gotten everyone on side that is. Electing the council was even easier, well, for Alec. Everyone in TC liked Alec, they liked his way of doing things; so when he suggested a council, they jumped at the chance. Max was in charge of TC, Alec her second in command and everyone else followed and of course, had their own part to play. The government has been practically forced to give the Transgenics building materials. Not enough to build houses, but enough to section off some of the warehouses considering the apartment buildings around them wouldn't be enough to house them all. Everything else was up to them.
A tunnelling system was in place too, just enough to get out of TC to bring in more food if necessary without the guards knowing. It was a necessary bend to the rules of the contract that was signed, "no transgenic shall leave through the fences." No transgenic ever did leave through the fences, just under them.
In a year a lot of things can change.
The inhabitants of TC had come together to make it as liveable as possible; most of the apartments were tidy enough to live in, there was water and food, blankets and clothing and if there wasn't enough, they shared. All the while still having to keep an eye open for the random attacks made by the world outside. Just because they weren't allowed to leave TC didn't mean to say the world out side couldn't come in and attack them. Of course if they fought back, the threat of war loomed. More Transgenics flocked to TC in that year. Life had began.
Of course, some things stay the same. Some love never dies, and some lies are still told. Max and Alec had moved in together in order to carry on with the pretence that they were together. Logan, OC, Asha and Sketchy and the rest of the ordinaries had been moved out of the Toxic waste dump and into apartments near by, close enough that they could be watched over by both sides. Of course, these humans were shunned by society too, for supporting the cause. Logan still loved Max, still wanted Max and still thought there was something wrong with the Alec and Max set up. So he spent time and called in favours to find the cure to the virus that Max had which prevented them from being together.
In a year, they had managed to get TC up and running with electricity and water, allowing the medical wing to be set up, and supplies to start coming in a whole lot more quickly. White had vanished off of the face of the earth, but with so much peace and happiness, something had to go wrong...right?
"You have got to be kidding me!" Max exclaimed as she took a massive bite into her pizza, the apartment that she and Alec shared couldn't even be classed as an apartment. It had a small bedroom, a small bathroom, a small kitchen area and a small living area. It was more or less a room that had been split into four. The smell of damp was something they had become accustomed to, but hated none the less, it was home however.
"Nope." Alec shook his head as he took a sip of the whiskey he had managed to score, his glass a lot smaller than what he was used to. "Logan told Sketchy he was getting some scientist in to work on the cure." Alec rolled his eyes as he said the last two words of the sentence, making his way over to the scattering of cushions on the floor around the table where Max was sitting, the pizza on the table.
"Why wont he give up?" Max groaned as Alec flopped down onto the floor, reaching for the pizza.
"Because he loves you, come on Maxie," Alec stopped to take a bite out of his slice of pizza, "You know as well as I do you don't want him to give up either. I don't exactly want him to give up I mean I have needs Maxie,"
"You said it yourself Alec, we should stick with our own kind and go and get laid for Christ's sake. I'm sure as hell not going to take care of those needs." Max kept her eyes looking down, knowing there was a smirk on Alec's face.
"So, maybe I was wrong on this." Alec shrugged, "You're usually so quick to tell me I'm wrong Max. And for the record, I may have a few girls at the one time, but considering this pretence has been for over a year now, I can't exactly go out and get laid can I?" Alec pointed out and Max raised her eyes to meet his.
"There's a reason he's on the other side of the fence." Max stated simply before looking away from him, "and I appreciate that." Max whispered, a small smile spreading over her face.
"Yeah, he's not immune to the bio-toxins that are in this place." Alec raised his eyebrows at her pointedly and Max shook her head.
"He's not one of us, Alec, he doesn't belong here. We're different from him." Max pointed out and Alec chuckled slightly.
"Isn't that the point? You want different Max." With that Alec got up and walked over to the bathroom. "I'm gonna shower up, don't eat all the pizza."
Max rolled her eyes, her smile widening, even if it was only slightly, as she heard the soft snick of the door closing. Conversations like that with Alec had become so frequent in the past year that she hadn't even noticed it. He was more than the Smart-Alec that had came into her life, he was her best friend now that OC was more or less off limits for chats. Max had been surprised by how close they had become, how she could tell him anything, how understanding he actually was. That's what made "them" believable. She didn't have to pretend she enjoyed it when he would hug her, or lean in close to whisper about dinner that night while the rest of TC thought that they were sharing intimate secrets. With that said, Max knew she didn't love Alec like that, she loved him as a friend, as a brother, but not as anything more. That love was reserved for someone else.
Damn it. Max thought as she snapped out of her thoughts, realizing just how right Alec was. Not that I would ever tell him that. Either of them.
Logan Cale sat at the window of his apartment as he watched the rain fall softly down over Seattle. He had been lucky and managed to get a relatively large apartment, whereas OC and Asha had to share something akin to a box. The sound of ringing filled up the empty space as his thoughts trailed into nothing and he manoeuvred through the space to get to his cell that was nestling at the other side of the room.
"Hello?" he said, raking a hand through his hair and smiling at the voice on the other side. "Cameron, I thought you had forgotten, I have your pass that should allow you to get in there to work with them, just in case the tunnel fails." Logan said, the smile still etched on his face.
"It's not the getting in I'm worried about Logan, I thought you and I had talked about this?" Cameron's thick southern accent drawled down the line and Logan rolled his eyes.
"Cameron, I promise you it'll be alright." He reassured and nodded a few times before hanging up the cell and moving back over to the window and resuming his watch over the "apartment block" on the other side of the fence.
Alec stepped out of the bathroom, towel hung low on his hips as he made his way towards the bedroom to get a fresh change of clothes.
"Alec?" Max called and Alec spun around towards the window where she was standing.
"Yeah?" he asked as he stepped into the bedroom doorway, leaning against the frame, waiting for Max to talk.
"What did sketchy tell you about this scientist?"
"Not much, just that Logan referred to him as "Cameron."" Alec shrugged and Max turned away from her watch of the opposite apartment building to face the other transgenic.
"That's it? Just a name? Is it a first name or a last name?" Max enquired, Alec sensed the jealousy inside Max and fought the smile from his face.
"Yeah, just a name." he stated and began to walk backwards into the room.
"I'm not done Alec, was it is first name? A last name? What?" Max asked impatiently and Alec shrugged.
"How am I supposed to know, it could be either." Alec stated simply and Max spun back around to face the window. "Max, the sooner you find the cure the happier you'll be." Alec whispered as he went completely into the bedroom to get some clean clothes and Max sighed audibly.
"That isn't what I'm worried about." Max confessed quietly and Alec stopped in his pursuit of a shirt, opting to pull on the sweat pants and make his way to the window where she was. He had only ever heard her use this defeated and broken tone once before; when she was telling him about Ben, and he hated it as much in this moment as he did in that.
"Then what is it?" he asked softly, gently easing her into telling him what was on her mind.
"I know we've been news for the past year, but honestly Alec do you think that someone out there could have possibly worked out our exact science and DNA structure in that short space of time?" Max turned her worried gaze to meet Alec's blazing green eyes.
"Max, what are you saying?" Alex asked, not sure he was liking where this was going.
"Alec, Manticore would have gotten rid of most of the files to pretend we never existed." Max bit on her lower lip and Alec closed his eyes.
"You think that its someone from Manticore." Alec said in a voice so quiet had Max not have had genetically enhanced hearing, she never would have heard it.
"It has to be Alec, there's no-one else in the world who would know our body, DNA and how to fix it like someone in Manticore." there was a hint of fear in Max's voice that shook Alec to the core.
"He's endangering all of us if he brings him to us."