A/N: Yes, I know it's taken me quite a while; I haven't fallen ill with
some mysterious disease, I haven't gone on vacation, I've just been busy.
Please bear with me, the next update may not be for a while.
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Jondy paced around. " Alex, how could we have BOTH fallen asleep? Especially me! I was designed to not even NEED sleep!"
" Jondy, chill. Max probably went out for a run. Stop worrying." Zach said in the calmest voice possible.
" And stop pacing around. You're making me dizzy," Alex added, "Calm down."
Jondy stopped and turned to face Alex, fire burning in her eyes. "Our SISTER is out there, in heat and all by herself. How do you expect me to CALM DOWN?
" Jondy, keep your emotions in check," Zach snapped. " How can you concentrate with your head that clouded over?"
" Yeah Jond," Alex agreed. " Take a few deep breaths and sit down. Worrying and losing your cool isn't going to bring Max back any sooner."
" Jondy, I have faith in Max; I don't think she went out to look for some stranger to screw, but since she is in heat, anything's possible. If it'll make you feel any better, I'll go out and look for her, ok?" Zach offered.
Jondy nodded, " Yeah. Thanks," she answered, finally sitting down.
" No problem," Zach replied as he walked out the door. As soon as Zach left, Jondy bounced up again and resumed her pacing.
" Oh God, what if Max DID go and have sex with a total stranger?" Jondy bit her lip nervously. " Logan would kill us!"
A quick flash of worry passed Alex's eyes, but a calm exterior soon replaced that. " Don't worry," she said in as soothing a voice as she could manage. " Cindy told me Max had been a virgin until her and Logan's first time. If she went for almost 8 years without sex while she was in heat, she can certainly handle this time," Alex said logically.
Jondy began wringing her hands. " Ok. Maybe she did remain a virgin. But what if once she got a sense of what sex was really like, she'll want it even more during her heat cycles?"
Alex opened her mouth but shut it when nothing came out. She did that several times and finally just shrugged. A concerned look fell on her delicate features and for once, Alex had rendered speechless.
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Logan growled at his computer out of frustration. The security in the Manticore database had been upped recently and there were a million and one firewalls to get through before reaching the mainframe.
" Ok, one last time," Logan promised himself, " then I'm taking a break." He took off his glasses and rubbed his tired eyes; if he wasn't so eager to get Max home safe and sound, he wouldn't have spent almost 20 hours straight at breaking in. He replaced his glasses on the crook of his nose and tried again.
" Denied." The word flashed across the screen. //Ok, ok, one LAST time, then I really will stop//
Logan tried once more and to his surprise, he finally got through. " Yes!" he grinned at his small victory. Once inside, he discovered security was next to nothing, only passwords, and by now Logan was a pro at cracking them. All he had to do was pop a disk in and let it do all the work for him. While the generator was working, he got up, stretched the kinks out of his back and waited.
The second the password was revealed, Logan went straight for the section "X-5 recapture". He went through the X-5's latest known locations and changed a detail here and there; but not before saving himself a copy. When Max got back, she could have the X-5 reunion she so desperately wanted.
When he got to Max's name, he clicked on it for the full report, instead of the short summary listed there. He went to the most recent date and what he found made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
* * * * A/N: I know I've been evil for waiting this long to update, but indulge me and leave me some reviews (
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Jondy paced around. " Alex, how could we have BOTH fallen asleep? Especially me! I was designed to not even NEED sleep!"
" Jondy, chill. Max probably went out for a run. Stop worrying." Zach said in the calmest voice possible.
" And stop pacing around. You're making me dizzy," Alex added, "Calm down."
Jondy stopped and turned to face Alex, fire burning in her eyes. "Our SISTER is out there, in heat and all by herself. How do you expect me to CALM DOWN?
" Jondy, keep your emotions in check," Zach snapped. " How can you concentrate with your head that clouded over?"
" Yeah Jond," Alex agreed. " Take a few deep breaths and sit down. Worrying and losing your cool isn't going to bring Max back any sooner."
" Jondy, I have faith in Max; I don't think she went out to look for some stranger to screw, but since she is in heat, anything's possible. If it'll make you feel any better, I'll go out and look for her, ok?" Zach offered.
Jondy nodded, " Yeah. Thanks," she answered, finally sitting down.
" No problem," Zach replied as he walked out the door. As soon as Zach left, Jondy bounced up again and resumed her pacing.
" Oh God, what if Max DID go and have sex with a total stranger?" Jondy bit her lip nervously. " Logan would kill us!"
A quick flash of worry passed Alex's eyes, but a calm exterior soon replaced that. " Don't worry," she said in as soothing a voice as she could manage. " Cindy told me Max had been a virgin until her and Logan's first time. If she went for almost 8 years without sex while she was in heat, she can certainly handle this time," Alex said logically.
Jondy began wringing her hands. " Ok. Maybe she did remain a virgin. But what if once she got a sense of what sex was really like, she'll want it even more during her heat cycles?"
Alex opened her mouth but shut it when nothing came out. She did that several times and finally just shrugged. A concerned look fell on her delicate features and for once, Alex had rendered speechless.
* * * *
Logan growled at his computer out of frustration. The security in the Manticore database had been upped recently and there were a million and one firewalls to get through before reaching the mainframe.
" Ok, one last time," Logan promised himself, " then I'm taking a break." He took off his glasses and rubbed his tired eyes; if he wasn't so eager to get Max home safe and sound, he wouldn't have spent almost 20 hours straight at breaking in. He replaced his glasses on the crook of his nose and tried again.
" Denied." The word flashed across the screen. //Ok, ok, one LAST time, then I really will stop//
Logan tried once more and to his surprise, he finally got through. " Yes!" he grinned at his small victory. Once inside, he discovered security was next to nothing, only passwords, and by now Logan was a pro at cracking them. All he had to do was pop a disk in and let it do all the work for him. While the generator was working, he got up, stretched the kinks out of his back and waited.
The second the password was revealed, Logan went straight for the section "X-5 recapture". He went through the X-5's latest known locations and changed a detail here and there; but not before saving himself a copy. When Max got back, she could have the X-5 reunion she so desperately wanted.
When he got to Max's name, he clicked on it for the full report, instead of the short summary listed there. He went to the most recent date and what he found made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
* * * * A/N: I know I've been evil for waiting this long to update, but indulge me and leave me some reviews (