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A/N: I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in forever. I know I'm horrible. I won't go into any excuses but let's just say life is crazy sometimes. But I am happy to say that the inspiration for this chapter came to me because of a certain special someone that I will not name because, well, you wouldn't know him. Anyways, this is kind of repeating the events in the last chapter I just wanted to put it into a little bit different perspective and establish Biggs and Roxie's characters and relationship and also go into the Alec, Max, Biggs, and Roxie relationship. I don't know if I got Biggs' personality right but I like how I have him so deal with it. I also might have rambled a bit but there was a lot I wanted to say. Well, I hope you enjoy it at least a little bit and I will make the next chapter a little more interesting.
Chapter 4Roxie McDowell, as she called herself, was not one to give up when it came to what she wanted. She was just like Alec in the way that if there were something she wanted to say she would say it, if there were something she wanted to do she would do it. There was no beating around the bush for her. Thee one exception was when she decided to make her last name the same as Alec's the whole thing was actually Alec's fault. Max, Alec, Biggs, and her had gone to Sector 8 to pick up some supplies right after they had raised Josh's flag after the Jam Pony incident. In order to do this they had to sneak past the Sector Police. They hadn't succeeded in sneaking and had, had to make up identities. Alec had called Roxie his sister and given her the same last name. Max and Biggs had laughed silently as Roxie squirmed to get out of Alec's crushing side hug he was giving her. They looked like brother and sister as Roxie fought off her, "big brother's" playful jabs. After that she gave up on insisting she wasn't calling herself Alec's sister and decided that McDowell was her last name.
Growing up in Alec's unit was not the only thing the two X5's had in common. They even looked alike, not exactly with Roxie's long dark hair and green-gray eyes and Alec's light-brown hair and green eyes, but their mannerisms and their faces looked alike.
None of the four were exactly certain when Roxie, Max, Biggs, and Alec had become good friends but it had been sometime after that incident. Sure Alec and Biggs were basically like brothers even before that and Max and Alec had their own complicated mess, but the only family Roxie had ever had was her unit, which had included Alec. So when she and Max had become friends it was a little surprising for her. Normally women didn't like to be her friend because of her intimidating good looks, and her tendency to shift into Bitch Mode, but Max did the same thing and they had hit it off instantly.
When Roxie and Biggs had walked into H.Q. and found Dix and Mole frantically trying to figure out why the headset connection to Max and Alec had been suddenly disconnected, her stomach had lurched and she could only hope that they were all being paranoid and nothing had happened to two of her best friends. Biggs put his arm around her waist and silently waited for any news from Mole that they could get. Bigg's arm was surprisingly comforting normally she would have drop kicked him, or had him on his back crying for mercy for even thinking about touching her. The moment must have softened her.
Then suddenly Roxie brightened and walked over to the security televisions.
"Their here," she said brightly, skipping gracefully out of H.Q.
After she left Biggs, Mole, and Dix studied the television quizzically. There nothing on the screen. Then suddenly Max and Alec appeared, Max barely keeping Alec on his feet while she pounded on the Terminal City gate door.
"I hate it when she does that," Biggs grumbled after Roxie and hurried out to intercept his two friends.
Roxie had a way of knowing things before everyone else. It had been her specialty at Manticore, most of the Transgenics at Manticore had a specialty or a special ability built into them or trained into them. As far as Biggs knew she didn't know how she knew the things she did, she just knew.
Biggs approached the scene of Max following the bloody, barely breathing Alec with glazed eyes. He noticed Roxie retreating into her emotionless mask that all of the Manticore soldiers had been trained to uphold. Again, he felt the urge to comfort her and so her put his arm around her hoping not to get beaten up and led her into the makeshift emergency room. Her tears were not going to stay in much longer and he knew that. Alec was her "big brother" and he was lying there barely alive. They watched silently as Max robotically followed Alec's stretcher into the operating room only to be road blocked. Then winced as she was pushed out of the room. Roxie silently put her tear-stained face into his chest and wrapped her arms around him. Biggs rubbed her back soothingly as he made sure Joshua had taken care of settling Max down a bit. Roxie turned her beautiful face to look at Biggs. Tears were still running down her face and she looked slightly embarrassed as she tried to wipe them away in vain. They just kept sliding down her face even more. He caught her hands in mid-wipe and brought them to his lips, he then slowly began to wipe away her tears with his free hand.
"What if they can't fix him," Roxie whispered even though the entire room could hear her with their enhanced hearing they pretended to not pay any attention.
Biggs sighed and pulled her into another comforting hug, resting his chin on her head.
"He'll be alright," Biggs said quietly, "He's always alright."
The others looked at each other with doubt at Biggs' words but kept silent. They anxiously awaited any news from the operating room, listening to Max's patterned footsteps as she paced in front of the door.
It was going to be a long night.
A/N: Well it's disappointing for me because it didn't really turn out how I had originally intended. In all honesty I rewrote this chapter about four times. I have all of the old drafts and I'll be adding a lot of the stuff to the next chapters. I just felt like I needed to go into more detail on the hospital scene and Biggs and Roxie's characters. With a little encouragement from Midnight Parallax, (thanks by the way) I was able to figure out what I wanted to put in this chapter. The next chapter will probably skip ahead a week after this, just because I think I did enough on this scene. Reviews are appreciated, I really will try to get the next chapter up by Saturday but I'm not promising anything because the Twilight movie comes out tomorrow and I'm going to see that.
Ruth Anne