"Knock, knock!" Max called from the doorway to Logan's computer room.
Logan turned and looked at Max. Giving her a quick smile he turned back to the computer screen he had been looking at, "Took you long enough."
Max shrugged and walked over to stand next to him reading over his shoulder. "Well, what can you say, I do actually have a life ya know?"
He laughed softly and turned back to face her. "Well, anyway, I need you to look into a certain person for me."
"Okay, I can dig that, but why do you need me to look them up?" she asked as she pulled a chair over and sat next to him.
"Let's just say that she is an old friend I need some information from. She seems to know a lot about Manticore and the chimera projects."
Max looked taken aback by this information and frowned, "How you know her and why didn't you tell me about her earlier?"
Logan turned and looked at Max, "Jealous?"
"Whatever! Hey, did I hear right? Was that a plural on the word project?"
He turned back to the computer and opened up a file, "Yep, there were about seven different projects. Ever wonder why you were called the X5's? That was because you were the fifth group of chimera's they tried. My guess is that she either worked for them or she is a very, very good hacker."
Max nodded at that as she looked at the file telling about the different chimera projects, "Aiight, but why do you need me to find her?"
With a sigh Logan took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose. Replacing the glasses he looked at his companion. "Well, the thing is that I can't find her. I tried e-mailing her and calling her but her PT says she left for a trip and didn't say where. But that isn't like Julie so I am a bit worried about her."
"Okay, I will look into it for you. Can I get some stats and an idea of where she just might have gone?"
"That I can do," Logan turned to his desk and opened a dour. He pulled out a picture of him standing and of this other girl in a wheelchair. She had long, blonde hair and blue eyes that were a dark, dark blue almost purplish. "She goes by the name Julie Rosen. Most of the time when she goes away she comes here to Seattle to visit but I'm not sure where she is now."
Max peered down at the picture, "How did you meet her?"
"Um, we dated for a little bit but then she got transferred to Chicago."
"What ended the relationship?" Max asked a little put off learning this snippet of information.
Logan smiled at the memory; "We both figured out that we just liked each other as good friends and the whole age issue. Plus Julie always said she was holding me back on my mission with her in a wheelchair."
Max raised an eyebrow, "Like you often say about your self concerning me?"
He laughed softly, "Yeah, only she was the one who got me into my mission. Julie loved the fact that she had helped me set up Eyes Only but she felt sorry that she couldn't leave the computer and go out to find the information like I often did."
Thinking Max looked at Logan, "She did a lot for both of us then didn't she?"
Logan nodded and was about to say something when Max suddenly frowned, "Some one is at your door and picking the lock." Max turned to Logan suddenly, "And here I thought I was your only visitor that liked to surprise you!"
Max then ran out of the room and was about to tackle the person entering Logan's apartment when she came up short seeing Zach. She starred open-mouthed then when the girl from the picture Logan had rolled into the apartment behind Zach.
The girl frowned slightly and rolled past both of them into Logan's computer room. Carefully she knocked on the doorframe, "Knock, knock Logan Cale, this is your conscience speaking, you are working me too hard!" She laughed when Logan turned around and starred at her also open-mouthed.
"Jules?"
She smiled and opened her arms wide, "In the flesh!" Julie looked down at Logan in the wheelchair, "Hey, what did I tell you? You are not Superman and therefore you can not dodge bullets!"
Logan laughed and wheeled over to her and gave her a hug that she returned fully. "Where have you been? Kris and I have been worried, I was just about to send out a search party!"
Julie rolled her eyes; "I have been traveling with a friend. His name is…"
"Zach?! Okay, now what are you doing here?" Logan interrupted.
Julie looked over her shoulder and saw Zach standing there with Max, "Oh? You know him already?" She looked at the face they were both giving each other, "And I can really sense how much you two enjoy each other's company too. How about we go to the sitting room and we all have a cup of tea? Sound good? Okay!" With that Julie turned around and went into the kitchen to get four mugs and start the pot of hot water. She turned back and looked at all of them just looked at her, "You coming or not?"
Slowly they all migrated over to the living room and sat down on the couch or a chair, with the exception of Julie and Logan who just stopped at the table. Max was the first one to speak up.
"Okay, anyone care to fill us in on this little snippet of information?" she asked, mainly looking at Zach.
For once Zach looked slightly sheepish. "Well, I was looking for information on the location of the rest of us Max when I found Jul-"
Julie interrupted, "He found me. Nice to meet you Max after so long. I wondered how you were."
Logan frowned slightly and looked from Max to Julie to Zach and then back to Max. "You know Julie?"
She shook her head; "I don't think so. I remember most everyone I meet."
At that comment Julie snorted, "Sure, Max. I know for a fact that you were able to tell the identity of your brothers and sisters from looking at a picture that Logan gave you. And here you don't even remember me in the flesh. You all really didn't like me at all did you? I was just another person to be forgotten after you all left and ran. You didn't even think about looking for those who didn't leave with you all that night. Just the ones who did escape. I really do feel loved, and if you excuse me I think I hear the water boiling." With that she turned and rolled into the kitchen to pour the cups of tea.
Max turned to Zach, "What did she mean?"
"Max, do you remember one of our sisters, Juliet? One of her nicknames was Poet because she loved Shakespeare and would read it to us. Do you remember her?"
She nodded, "Of course! She made us all feel like normal humans when a lot of us felt so upset about the soldiers and how we were treated. Why do you ask?"
For once Zach looked tired and defeated, "Because Julie as Logan called her is Juliet. Our Juliet. She escaped while the soldiers were trying to capture us. We forgot to wake her when we were going to leave. When she awoke to find us gone she ran and escaped."
"I guess that is why she is just a little bit bitter about me not remembering her," Max replied looking a little defeated.
"She has every right, we did leave her in that hell of Manticore," Zach said, his head down slightly looking at his feet.
Through the entire conversation Logan looked shell-shocked. "Yes, her real name is Juliet but everyone called her Julie or Jules. She always wore turtlenecks even in the summer and I remember her always saying how much she hated them but she always wore them. And for as long as I knew her she held a huge passion for Shakespeare." He sighed, "Know I know why at least."
Zach turned to Logan; "Do you know about how she became paraplegic?"
"Of course! We were dating then when she slipped at the Space Needle. Another long reason why I hate heights and will never go there anymore."
The last comment got Logan a death glare from Zach. "You and Juliet dated? She said she was with a friend when she fell."
Logan blushed, "Oh, um, we, um, really close friends?"
By then Julie had come back into the room and handed everyone a cup of tea. Max looked at her sister again and just couldn't see how the person she knew at Manticore could be the person she was sitting with. She just seemed so totally different. She seemed harder and more passionate now then she did before and she looked like she belonged in a school with little children and not out saving the world with Logan.
Slowly Max began to speak, "Juliet, I have a single question for you."
Julie looked up at Max, "Go ahead."
Max smirked, "What was Logan like when he was younger?"
The two girls broke out into laughter as the two guys looked to each other as if saying 'Women!'
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Julie woke up suddenly and panted from the dream she had just had. She was dancing with Logan when suddenly she tripped and fell and was falling down the stairs at the Space Needle. Pushing the dream back she sighed and looked at the clock: two thirty AM. "Wonderful!"
She pulled out her laptop from beside Logan's guest bed. Opening it up a message popped up onto the screen. It was a calendar and a day in the middle of the month was blinking. Groaning Julie checked the date for the day that had just started and hit the nightstand table that was next to the bed with her fist, it breaking and falling to the ground in a heap. The day that was blinking was that day. The reason it was blinking was that Julie had figured out when she would be in heat and she would be going into heat that day. With another groan she laid back down closing the laptop, "Wonderful."
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AN: thus ends this edition of Lucky Thirteen! Be kind, Review
~Callisto's Dream