I've Got You'R' Back
Disclaimer: James Cameron, Charles 'Chic' Eglee and Fox own this I only swim in the world they created
A/N: Thanks always to Kasman for the betas. We are at the end now. There has been a lot of music I have listened too and music videos I have watched but the ones by Flyin11, Intodust, Kasman and Denise, have added a new dimension to the writing when I have been stuck, Thanks for the hard work. To those who have read and to those who have reviewed really big thanks, you have kept me going.
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Epilogue
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Terminal City, a locked and guarded room:
A bare light bulb illuminates the room and the young man lying on a threadbare bedroll.
I nearly killed my sister - not the woman I love...she was right, we were never like that. I just refused to see it and now they've used it again to make me try and kill the man she does love. He cradled her in his arms and cried for her to live, even when he knew he could die doing that...I wish I could forget again. Then he came to tell me she would live, not knowing if I would try and kill him. Logan, you better stick with Max because now she's yours to protect. I have another mission...to find that little lying bastard and make him pay. And he closes his eyes as he remembers a beautiful girl with brown hair and blue eyes he may never see again.
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Terminal City, outside an abandoned building:
Max is standing next to Logan in his old-fashioned wheelchair one hand on his shoulder the other holding a sports bag.
"So this is your surprise location for dinner?" Logan asks with a raised eyebrow and sideways glance at Max who is staring at the nameplate on the wall beside the door.
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Flashback a few weeks before:
Max and Alec walk through an abandoned building somewhere in Terminal City. It looks like it must have been a lab at one point, but is now littered with debris.
"Each place worse than the last. We're never going to find anything Logan can use in this dump," Alec says, as he walks over and looks at an old computer screen on a shelf.
"Here we go." Max says as she finds a piece of computer equipment, "This looks salvageable," she adds dusting it off.
"Good. Can we go now?"
As Max walks past a pillar she reads a sign: "'Advanced Recombinant Genetics.' Wonder who they were?"
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Well I know who they were or at least who was the head honcho - Sandeman my creator, father, personal savior and ghost. "This used to be Sandeman's lab. Found CJ hiding out here after the whole rune dealio started...he told me this was where his father came after he left Manticore."
"You've been back here looking for some clue, haven't you," Logan says, as he puts his hand up to cover hers. A small electrical spark jumps between them. "Ouch!" they both say, as they pull their hands apart. Laughing Logan, takes her hand in his again, "We certainly have an electrical attraction."
"Magnetic more like, we're so drawn to each other," Max says, caressing Logan's hand, as she remembers the pleasure she'd felt when she found the computer parts – she was doing something again to help Logan.
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Flashback Advanced Recombinant Genetics Lab:
As Max, puts the computer equipment in her bag. I'm doing something for Logan, even if I'm stuck wandering around here with Alec and can't be with him.
"So how are you and Logan?" Alec asks then, as Max gives him a look, "Just making conversation, Max. You oughta try it sometime," he adds.
"It's over. I already told you that," Max answers with a raise of her eyebrows and a slight catch in her voice.
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Over it seemed, but even then we were being drawn back together. Looking down at Logan, Max smiles, "Yeah, I came back looking for answers, found nothing except something CJ must have been looking for...that's the surprise so lets go I'm hungry."
Pulling open the door, Max lets Logan enter first. She then walks past him as he pauses to look around the derelict lab, and heads across to a door set off to the side in the back wall, a door that had been locked when she and Alec had checked the place over.
Pulling out a key, Max opens the door and stands there looking at Logan, who eventually comes over and looks through the doorway into what looks like a small office, in only slightly better condition than the previous room. Squeezing through the small door in the wheelchair as Max moves to give him room, he turns around and looks back at her a quizzical expression on his face. "Thought you were hungry? I don't see anywhere I can cook unless I use one of the burners outside...if there's any gas."
Sighing Max, walks across the office space past an old bedroll lying in a corner and reaches up and runs her fingers along a slight ledge. There is an audible click and the seemingly solid concrete wall opens.
Waving her hand to the room beyond, she grins at Logan. He wheels over and looks into a moderate size room, which is illuminated by several candles and a lantern. Looking around he sees a small desk, a couch and coffee table, with a chess set sitting on it and in the far corner barely seen in the faint light a large covered table like object. The room's walls are covered in rare wood and the floor also. As he wheels himself in Max follows and goes over to the side where she slides a door panel back revealing a small but easily accessible kitchenette area.
"So what do you think, will this do?" she asks casually as she switches on the light in the kitchenette. "It's got a gas supply, the whole place has it's own electrical supply and air conditioning...Sandeman knew what he was doing when he set this place up" Max says with a shrug.
"I'm impressed, how come you found this, and CJ didn't?" Logan asks, smiling at Max.
With pride at being able to surprise Logan, "Hey, I'm a cat burglar after all. It's my job to find hidden stuff...isn't that why you hired me in the first place?" she asks looking slyly at Logan.
Shaking his head as he raises his eyebrows behind his glasses, "If I remember, you volunteered on a quid pro quo basis."
"Yeah, right, and that means I steal the stuff and you feed me, so get to work while I arrange things," she says as she saunters off into the main room, hips swaying.
Looking after her for a moment Logan's face becomes sober. There's no turning back now Max. No more quid pro quo between us. Then smiling. I've got you back.
As Max walks away, her features are thoughtful. We're gonna have to figure out what's really between us now Logan, because I'm not running again. Then she smiles. I've got your back.
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The Very Last Drop Pub, Terminal City:
The place is crowded as usual with the typical assortment of transgenics, talking, arguing and drinking...plenty of drinking. In a quieter corner, five people are sitting, one of whom stands out from the others by his dog like features, and every now and then he lets out a bark like laugh.
"I've been here too long...I'm starting to like this stuff," the handsome young transgenic states, staring bleary eyed at his beer glass before taking another swig.
"Alec, you got anywhere better to go?" the pretty, X5 asks cradling a young baby.
Looking morosely at his glass, "Only one place, but I'm not sure I'd be welcome," he says softly, then looking up and around the room. "Nowhere Gem, this is where the action is," he says loudly with a cocky grin.
"Hey man, I got somewhere else I wanna be, but I guess till I can get outta here, I'll stick with the beer and maybe just maybe one of these transgenic chicks will take pity on a poor starving reporter."
"Fool, you're a bike messenger and any fine ass chick in here even looks at you she must be blind," Original Cindy comments, as she looks around the room at the female X5s and X6s some of whom smile at her.
"Hey, OC, I won't always be a bike messenger. I have my dreams you know," Sketchy replies in a hurt tone.
Looking back at her friend even if she denies it to others, "Yep, Sketch, I know, we all have our dreams, I'm sorry, boo,"
"Well, Max and Logan getting' busy that was the dream," Joshua says, as he brushes some hair out of his face.
"Here's to Max and Logan getting busy and about time too," Alec says as he lifts his glass in a toast.
Hesitating the others look at each other, "Here's to my boo now that she can finally be with her man and be a regular girl."
"To Max and Logan," the others say, and they all drink.
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Outside Terminal City, a black sedan:
Inside a short intense man is sitting with a scowl on his face. Where are you 599, everybody heard the shooting it's been on the news. There is a shrill ringing and the man reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a cellphone and glancing at the number answers.
"Fe'nos tol."
"Agent White, I have a message from your father...'you have failed and things will come to pass as I have planned.'"
"Who's this? Answer me, damnit."
There is a short silence, "If you ever try to use or hurt my kids again you'll be sorry you were ever born. You'll learn the meaning of pain, believe me." The voice on the other end hisses. And then the phone goes dead as Ames White; in his car feels for the first time in his life the chill of fear.
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Terminal City Sandeman's Sanctuary:
Max brushes her hand along Logan's stubbled cheek then reaches down and picks up the bottle of wine Logan is holding upright between his legs. "I'll open this," she says, laughing lightly at his sudden blush.
Max and Logan are sitting at the coffee table sipping wine, their dinner finished.
"We still don't know what the runes mean. With everything that's happened I haven't had time to check," Logan says shaking his head.
"Well, whatever it is, it got me here," Max replies nodding
Looking at each other they smile shyly.
"Feels like before...like old times," Logan says hesitantly.
Max shakes her head "No, better...much better."
Leaning forward they clink glasses.
"Here it is. The right time we've been waiting for." Logan says getting up from his wheelchair and holding out his hand to Max. Slowly she takes it and stands up. They both smile. Logan strokes her face and as he leans down to kiss her, she stops him.
"Logan are you sure...are you sure about this?"
"Perfectly sure. How about you?" Logan asks.
Max laughs, "I'm still here aren't I...I love you Logan."
Laughing, Logan pulls her into an embrace and looks down into her sparkling brown eyes inhaling the light perfume she is wearing that smells of cherries. "I love you Max."
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A/N: This story is dedicated to Nick Stanisci I hope you make it back home safe.
The End...Yeah, right, not for Max and Logan.
Disclaimer: James Cameron, Charles 'Chic' Eglee and Fox own this I only swim in the world they created
A/N: Thanks always to Kasman for the betas. We are at the end now. There has been a lot of music I have listened too and music videos I have watched but the ones by Flyin11, Intodust, Kasman and Denise, have added a new dimension to the writing when I have been stuck, Thanks for the hard work. To those who have read and to those who have reviewed really big thanks, you have kept me going.
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Epilogue
----------------------
Terminal City, a locked and guarded room:
A bare light bulb illuminates the room and the young man lying on a threadbare bedroll.
I nearly killed my sister - not the woman I love...she was right, we were never like that. I just refused to see it and now they've used it again to make me try and kill the man she does love. He cradled her in his arms and cried for her to live, even when he knew he could die doing that...I wish I could forget again. Then he came to tell me she would live, not knowing if I would try and kill him. Logan, you better stick with Max because now she's yours to protect. I have another mission...to find that little lying bastard and make him pay. And he closes his eyes as he remembers a beautiful girl with brown hair and blue eyes he may never see again.
--- --- --- --- --- ---
Terminal City, outside an abandoned building:
Max is standing next to Logan in his old-fashioned wheelchair one hand on his shoulder the other holding a sports bag.
"So this is your surprise location for dinner?" Logan asks with a raised eyebrow and sideways glance at Max who is staring at the nameplate on the wall beside the door.
»»»»»»
Flashback a few weeks before:
Max and Alec walk through an abandoned building somewhere in Terminal City. It looks like it must have been a lab at one point, but is now littered with debris.
"Each place worse than the last. We're never going to find anything Logan can use in this dump," Alec says, as he walks over and looks at an old computer screen on a shelf.
"Here we go." Max says as she finds a piece of computer equipment, "This looks salvageable," she adds dusting it off.
"Good. Can we go now?"
As Max walks past a pillar she reads a sign: "'Advanced Recombinant Genetics.' Wonder who they were?"
»»»»»»
Well I know who they were or at least who was the head honcho - Sandeman my creator, father, personal savior and ghost. "This used to be Sandeman's lab. Found CJ hiding out here after the whole rune dealio started...he told me this was where his father came after he left Manticore."
"You've been back here looking for some clue, haven't you," Logan says, as he puts his hand up to cover hers. A small electrical spark jumps between them. "Ouch!" they both say, as they pull their hands apart. Laughing Logan, takes her hand in his again, "We certainly have an electrical attraction."
"Magnetic more like, we're so drawn to each other," Max says, caressing Logan's hand, as she remembers the pleasure she'd felt when she found the computer parts – she was doing something again to help Logan.
»»»»»»
Flashback Advanced Recombinant Genetics Lab:
As Max, puts the computer equipment in her bag. I'm doing something for Logan, even if I'm stuck wandering around here with Alec and can't be with him.
"So how are you and Logan?" Alec asks then, as Max gives him a look, "Just making conversation, Max. You oughta try it sometime," he adds.
"It's over. I already told you that," Max answers with a raise of her eyebrows and a slight catch in her voice.
»»»»»»
Over it seemed, but even then we were being drawn back together. Looking down at Logan, Max smiles, "Yeah, I came back looking for answers, found nothing except something CJ must have been looking for...that's the surprise so lets go I'm hungry."
Pulling open the door, Max lets Logan enter first. She then walks past him as he pauses to look around the derelict lab, and heads across to a door set off to the side in the back wall, a door that had been locked when she and Alec had checked the place over.
Pulling out a key, Max opens the door and stands there looking at Logan, who eventually comes over and looks through the doorway into what looks like a small office, in only slightly better condition than the previous room. Squeezing through the small door in the wheelchair as Max moves to give him room, he turns around and looks back at her a quizzical expression on his face. "Thought you were hungry? I don't see anywhere I can cook unless I use one of the burners outside...if there's any gas."
Sighing Max, walks across the office space past an old bedroll lying in a corner and reaches up and runs her fingers along a slight ledge. There is an audible click and the seemingly solid concrete wall opens.
Waving her hand to the room beyond, she grins at Logan. He wheels over and looks into a moderate size room, which is illuminated by several candles and a lantern. Looking around he sees a small desk, a couch and coffee table, with a chess set sitting on it and in the far corner barely seen in the faint light a large covered table like object. The room's walls are covered in rare wood and the floor also. As he wheels himself in Max follows and goes over to the side where she slides a door panel back revealing a small but easily accessible kitchenette area.
"So what do you think, will this do?" she asks casually as she switches on the light in the kitchenette. "It's got a gas supply, the whole place has it's own electrical supply and air conditioning...Sandeman knew what he was doing when he set this place up" Max says with a shrug.
"I'm impressed, how come you found this, and CJ didn't?" Logan asks, smiling at Max.
With pride at being able to surprise Logan, "Hey, I'm a cat burglar after all. It's my job to find hidden stuff...isn't that why you hired me in the first place?" she asks looking slyly at Logan.
Shaking his head as he raises his eyebrows behind his glasses, "If I remember, you volunteered on a quid pro quo basis."
"Yeah, right, and that means I steal the stuff and you feed me, so get to work while I arrange things," she says as she saunters off into the main room, hips swaying.
Looking after her for a moment Logan's face becomes sober. There's no turning back now Max. No more quid pro quo between us. Then smiling. I've got you back.
As Max walks away, her features are thoughtful. We're gonna have to figure out what's really between us now Logan, because I'm not running again. Then she smiles. I've got your back.
--- --- --- --- --- ---
The Very Last Drop Pub, Terminal City:
The place is crowded as usual with the typical assortment of transgenics, talking, arguing and drinking...plenty of drinking. In a quieter corner, five people are sitting, one of whom stands out from the others by his dog like features, and every now and then he lets out a bark like laugh.
"I've been here too long...I'm starting to like this stuff," the handsome young transgenic states, staring bleary eyed at his beer glass before taking another swig.
"Alec, you got anywhere better to go?" the pretty, X5 asks cradling a young baby.
Looking morosely at his glass, "Only one place, but I'm not sure I'd be welcome," he says softly, then looking up and around the room. "Nowhere Gem, this is where the action is," he says loudly with a cocky grin.
"Hey man, I got somewhere else I wanna be, but I guess till I can get outta here, I'll stick with the beer and maybe just maybe one of these transgenic chicks will take pity on a poor starving reporter."
"Fool, you're a bike messenger and any fine ass chick in here even looks at you she must be blind," Original Cindy comments, as she looks around the room at the female X5s and X6s some of whom smile at her.
"Hey, OC, I won't always be a bike messenger. I have my dreams you know," Sketchy replies in a hurt tone.
Looking back at her friend even if she denies it to others, "Yep, Sketch, I know, we all have our dreams, I'm sorry, boo,"
"Well, Max and Logan getting' busy that was the dream," Joshua says, as he brushes some hair out of his face.
"Here's to Max and Logan getting busy and about time too," Alec says as he lifts his glass in a toast.
Hesitating the others look at each other, "Here's to my boo now that she can finally be with her man and be a regular girl."
"To Max and Logan," the others say, and they all drink.
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Outside Terminal City, a black sedan:
Inside a short intense man is sitting with a scowl on his face. Where are you 599, everybody heard the shooting it's been on the news. There is a shrill ringing and the man reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a cellphone and glancing at the number answers.
"Fe'nos tol."
"Agent White, I have a message from your father...'you have failed and things will come to pass as I have planned.'"
"Who's this? Answer me, damnit."
There is a short silence, "If you ever try to use or hurt my kids again you'll be sorry you were ever born. You'll learn the meaning of pain, believe me." The voice on the other end hisses. And then the phone goes dead as Ames White; in his car feels for the first time in his life the chill of fear.
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Terminal City Sandeman's Sanctuary:
Max brushes her hand along Logan's stubbled cheek then reaches down and picks up the bottle of wine Logan is holding upright between his legs. "I'll open this," she says, laughing lightly at his sudden blush.
Max and Logan are sitting at the coffee table sipping wine, their dinner finished.
"We still don't know what the runes mean. With everything that's happened I haven't had time to check," Logan says shaking his head.
"Well, whatever it is, it got me here," Max replies nodding
Looking at each other they smile shyly.
"Feels like before...like old times," Logan says hesitantly.
Max shakes her head "No, better...much better."
Leaning forward they clink glasses.
"Here it is. The right time we've been waiting for." Logan says getting up from his wheelchair and holding out his hand to Max. Slowly she takes it and stands up. They both smile. Logan strokes her face and as he leans down to kiss her, she stops him.
"Logan are you sure...are you sure about this?"
"Perfectly sure. How about you?" Logan asks.
Max laughs, "I'm still here aren't I...I love you Logan."
Laughing, Logan pulls her into an embrace and looks down into her sparkling brown eyes inhaling the light perfume she is wearing that smells of cherries. "I love you Max."
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A/N: This story is dedicated to Nick Stanisci I hope you make it back home safe.
The End...Yeah, right, not for Max and Logan.