Thanks again for the review lol. Her aunt is her step mom's sister. And I think that manticore fixed Max's seizure problem when they recaptured her because she never has that problem again after season one.
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Liz got up and ran over to the door. As soon as she grabbed the knob her whole body began to shake. She slid down the wall next to the door, leaning her back up against it. Liz pulled her knees to her chest, bracing herself for a full blown seizure.
Snoopy barked and pawed at the door. The panicked girl reached up and opened the door before the seizure shook her violently. Then she slipped to the ground unconscious.
Snoopy stayed by his master's side until her body stopped shaking, then he took off down the stairs.
Max, Logan, Alec, and Mel sat there in an uncomfortable silence, as they awaited Liz's return.
"So Melanie, does Liz have a boyfriend?" Alec asked with a smirk.
"Alec!" Max cried hitting him in the chest.
"Geez take it easy Maxie. Never mind."
Max turned to Mel "She sure has been up there a long time. Do you think we should..."
Her voice was cut off by Snoopy's frantic barking outside the door.
"Oh no!" Melanie said getting up and running over to Liz's purse.
"What's wrong?" Max questioned as Melanie dumped the contents of the purse on the floor.
"Snoopy is a seizure alert dog. She must've had a seizure and passed out. He's trained to go get someone when she does." Mel explained as she rummaged through the things on the floor.
Her hand closed on a syringe and a key.
"Logan, go down to the apartment and bring back the yellow duffle bag by the door. Max and Alec you come with me."
Mel opened the door and Snoopy immediately jumped on her.
"Show me!" She said pointing out the door.
Snoopy barked and ran down the hall with them at his heals. They followed him up to the roof and found Liz by the door. Mel turned her over onto her back and put her ear by Liz's mouth.
"She's not breathing!"
"I got it!" Alec said as he kneeled down next to Liz.
Mel got up and went to the other side of her friend taking the cap off the syringe. Alec tipped Liz's head back and blew two puffs of air into her lungs. Melanie found the vein in Liz's arm and injected the clear liquid as Alec continued CPR.
"What is the stuff?" Max asked hovering behind Alec.
"It's Tryptophan it helps with ..."
"With the seizures" Max said cutting her off.
"I used to take it." Max explained after Mel gave her a confused look.
Just then Liz started coughing and then breathing normally.
"Let's get her downstairs" Max said opening the door.
"Right." Mel agreed.
Alec gently picked Liz up and they all went back down to the apartment where Logan waited for them. Logan was just opening the dog with the yellow bag at his feet. Alec laid Liz down on the couch and Melanie tore open the duffle.
She pulled out an IV and a bag filled with the same clear liquid as the syringe on the roof. She tossed it to Max.
"Put this in."
Max nodded.
Before she could even begin to do anything Liz began seizing again. The violent quaking shook her frame. She looked so small and vulnerable as the peak of the tremor gripped her.
Max sat on the couch and cradled Liz's head as it subsided.
"Are they always this bad?" Alec asked as the seizure finally stopped.
Max started putting in the IV as Mel answered him.
"Sometimes they get a lot worse. If she has an asthma attack during the seizure it is really bad."
"She has asthma? I thought Manticore got rid of all that trivial stuff. Has anything else ever complicated the seizures?" Max asked.
A couple of times she has actually broken bones from falling or hitting something during the seizure. One time her brain swelled and she was in a coma for three weeks."
Everyone just looked at Liz's friend, amazed at this new information.
"Let's hope this isn't one of those times. Logan said finally.
--2 days later—
Max sat on the floor, with her head down next to Liz, sleeping. Liz had not yet awoken. Logan just finished replacing the Tryptophan and walked back into the kitchen.
Liz began to stir, waking Max. The young X-5 moaned and raised her hand to her head. Max leaned over her as her eyes began to open.
"Max?" Liz said groggily as she looked at the blurry figure in front of her.
She blinked a few times to clear her vision and Max came into view.
"Hey you." Max said with a smile.
"What happened?" Liz asked trying to sit up.
Her head pounded and dizziness overcame her so she decided it would be better just to lay back down.
"You were up on the roof with Snoopy and you had a seizure." Max answered pushing a strand of stray hair out of Liz's face.
"Right. Now I remember." She said rubbing her temple "Where is Snoopy?"
"Mel and Cindy took him and Evee for a walk." Logan said walking in with a tray of tea.
"Hey Logan" Liz said with a small smile.
"Tea?" Logan offered, holding out a cup.
"Sure." Liz accepted, slowly pushing herself into a sitting position.
She took a sip of the hot liquid and felt it slide down her throat.
"So, how long have I been out?" She asked setting down the tea.
"Two days." Logan said as he sat down.
Just then the phone rang.
"I got it." Max left the room to answer the phone.
A second later, she came running back into the room.
"We have a problem! That was Cindy. They were on their way back to the apartment building and saw a bunch of GI's swarming the building. She asked one of them what was going on and he said they were looking for you." Max's voice was full of panic.
"What?" Liz gasped her eyes wide as saucers.
"Wait here. I'll go check it out." Logan said.
He left and Max quickly packed up Liz's stuff. Liz made an attempt to stand but her legs refused to hold her and she fell back onto the couch.
"We've got a problem here."
Max looked up at her.
"I can't even stand, how are we going to play a round of escape and evade with a bunch of GI's?"
"Well we're going to have to think of something because we're not going to just let them have you."
Logan came back with a grim look on his face.
"They're on the 5th floor, and they're checking each apartment systematically. They have all the exits the stairwell and the elevators stopped. We could take the hidden staircase but we still wouldn't be able to get out of the building."
"You said they were on the fifth floor?" Liz asked.
Logan nodded.
"My cousin's apartment is on the 2nd floor if we go down the stairs we can hide out there and wait it out."
"Liz you're a genius." Logan said.
Max shouldered Liz's bag and grabbed her purse.
"Logan you're gunna have to carry her down."
Liz climbed onto Logan's back and the three of them headed down the stairs to her cousin's apartment.
When they reached the 2nd floor, Max carefully opened the door and surveyed the hall.
"Looks clear. Let's go."
Everyone stepped into the hall. It was completely deserted. The door was at the far end of the long hall and they had to get to the other end to reach the safety of the apartment. The trio was halfway there when the sickening sound of the ding of the elevator stopped them dead.
Max ducked behind a door frame and Logan just started walking again. Liz buried her head into Logan's jacket hiding her face.
Three soldiers and a woman filed out of the elevator in front of them. Logan stopped walking and smiled at the group in front of him.
"Officers." He said with a nod.
"Sir where are you coming from?" The soldier in front asked.
"We were at Doc Williams' apartment down the hall. My daughter wasn't feeling well. We were just heading back to our apartment, #201, right up the hall."
The soldier looked at Liz intently. "What's wrong with her?"
"She has asthma and she had a really bad attack."
The soldier looked at Logan with scrutinizing eyes.
"Can you prove that?"
"Sure." Logan said calmly.
He shifted Liz's weight and pulled her inhaler out of the front pocket of the yellow bag, which Max had given him before ducking out of sight.
The GI looked at the canister and handed it to the woman behind him. She looked at it and handed it back to Logan.
"Sorry we bothered you." The woman curtly apologized.
Both Max and Liz jumped at the sound of her voice. Both of them would recognize that voice anywhere.
It was Renfro!