Chapter 13: Brothers
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A/N: At long last Broken Soldier isn't only updated but it's finished. I felt so bad about not updating this story. So thanks for everyone who has stuck around with this story. Hopefully Ghosts Not Forgotten will be finished soon.
He gripped tightly his hands firmly around Logan's throat. He had waited so long to have this maggot of a man in hands.
Logan gurgled as the hand around his throat began to tighten. "You're supposed to be dead," he croaked.
The brown eyed soldier merely grinned, his hands still pinning his victim to the tree. Max could feel shock running through her. She had seen him fall.
"Catching flies, Maxie?" he asked.
She was still in shock when a fist collided with the back of her head. Ben too had been staring at Logan and Seth and almost didn't hear the footsteps behind him and Max. He pivoted his eyes burning as he glanced at his oldest brother who loomed over Max.
Without a second thought he blurred pulling his brother away from his sister grabbing him in a headlock.
Guilt and pain ripped through Max as she glanced from Logan and Seth to Ben and Zack. She was responsible for all this. Ben's hands tightened around Zack's throat. He could snap his big brother's neck and a matter of minutes thereby ending this scene.
If Seth decided to kill Logan it would save Ben the trouble at a later. Logan cared only for Eyes Only and one day his crusader mission would get Max killed.
"Well isn't it Maxie and her little friends," Zack said struggling to breath as Ben's grip tightened.
Max's mind rushed in dizzying patterns as she glanced at her two big brothers. She had seen Seth fall from the Space Needle. His footing had slipped and he had plummeted down.
She had been so sure that Seth hadn't survived the fall from the Space Needle she never made sure that that was actually the case. And Zack….
"This is the only way to help him Max."
"But it hurts Logan. He's my brother."
"At least he will be safe in Canada."
She had believed him. She had chosen not for the first time Logan over a member of her family. It was always Logan's safety that mattered. Logan—since when had he become her world?
She had betrayed Ben in order to keep him safe but Zack she had betrayed for Logan. For Logan she had sacrificed so much. Max was so caught in thought she didn't notice the other X-5s surrounding them.
Seth immediately let go of Logan and charged towards Ben sending the smaller man to the ground. Zack grabbed Max and pulled the shocked girl.
At that moment something snapped inside of Max as she pushed and kicked at her brother but Zack countered every move.
Logan moved to help the two X-5s but found himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
"Do like your brothers now?"
Lydecker. Ben's blood rose deep within him. Why the hell was that bastard here?
The world went black as the taser met his body.
To be continued…