Logan's 7 pm
Max entered the room without knocking. Logan was sitting behind his
computer.
" Hey." She looked right at him without blinking, without any
expression.
" Hey Max." He turned himself to face her." Look, I'm sorry
about earlier. I just don't want you to get in trouble, or hurt, and not
having anyone else that knows where to reach you, OK?" Why is that so
hard to understand?
" Understood." you could articulate the true reason why...
" So, are you ready?" Big mistake.
" I've been since noon!" Got'ya again!!
He looked at her very seriously.'I knew she was going to say something
like that!'
" OK.OK. Was tryin' to make a joke here..." Wouldn't hurt him to
light up once in a while!
They went down the building and she sat in the car. She didn't help Logan
to get in because he always insist to do it alone. And the first time she
asked him if he needed help, the look on his face was so hard to forget
that she never asked again. It was like she had just cut him open.
He finally sat and put the wheelchair in the back.
" So, what's my mission Captain?" I almost sound like Zach.
" Your 'mission' is to break into the lab and take a sample of the
insulin, since the one you've brought me is empty. And I also want the
contract, if you can find it, of the person that's in charge and to whom
he's selling his stuff at the big company. Because my guess is that the
owner of Nevelin, the 'big company', has no clue he's getting crap mixed
up with his good insulin."
" Piece of cake!" It is quite routine.
" And then, you come back here."
" That part I'm pretty sure I wont forget." As if." Nothing
else?"
" Well, since you're asking, there may be security guards or lab
technicians left at this hour." Better tell her before she gets my
head off!
" Thanks for the tip! " Max made him a 'Marilyn Monroe' look,
you know the one with the half-smile-half-eyes opened.
" You're welcome." I wonder sometimes if she knows how
attractive I find her.
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Max walked away from the car and ran to the building. It was a little
place that you never would have thought they were producing illegal
medications there. She took a look into the window that was just in front
of her. No one. She slid the right part of the window in silence and
jumped into the room. 'I can't understand why people are so careless they
forget to lock up.' There was no light in the room, but she could see
perfectly well, just needed a little adjustment of her iris and everything
was settle. She took a peek in the hallway and it seemed clear. ' Almost
too easy.' She spotted the door on the left side of the wall and opened
it. It seemed to be an office, but not very ordered. 'Somebody should clean
this place! More hard work for me!' She began searching for some kind of
paper/contract that could give a link to whom they are doing their
transactions with, but didn't find anything.
" How am I suppose to find something in this freakin' mess?"
It's at this moment that she noticed the red light flashing on the
answering machine. 'That could help.' Max pushed the button and listened:
" Harvey, it's O'Neil. Something came up and I can't take the
deliveries tomorrow evening. I have to represent my boss at some charity
event. I can't miss that, you know. Anyway, I'll call you the day after.
Bye." He hung up.
Max took the tape and put it in her pocket. 'Nothing else to do in here!'
She opened the door, made sure there was nobody and and got out. She heard
noises comming from another room, looked inside through the glass window,
and saw monkeys. She turned the locket and got in. There was 2 monkeys, a
cat, and what looked like a rat. 'Poor thing...I know how it feels to have
experiments done on you.' There was a table with a kind of gun, a
tranquilizer, the one with shoots in it to make the angry animal sleep.
And there was insulin vials too, the one with the handwriting. BINGO! She
took one and put it in the other pocket.
The monkey who's name was Sooky became agitated and that made the others
noisy. " Come on Sooky, don't you like me?" But he didn't stop
and the noise became very loud. 'Sh1t!' Max heard the door open and she
saw a guy in a white medical jacket.
" Hey! who are you?"
" Your Sweety Pie!" She stoped smiling and kicked him in the
chest. He gasped for air, and that gave her time to run away in the
hallway.
" Stop or I'll shoot!" She heard him say. Didn't kick him hard
enough!
She continued to ran and got to the front door. But just before she could
open it, she felt a sting on the left side of her neck. It didn't stop
her, in fact, it made her run like hell! She opened the door of Logan's
car and got in.
" GO! NOW!" She did not have to say more words that the car was
flying away. Logan looked at her and saw the needle-like in her neck.
" What's that?" Max touched it with her left hand and pulled it
out of her flesh. Sounded like it hurts.
" I guess he tried to put me to sleep with a tranquilizer." Said
Max to him with a big smile of victory. "And my second guess is that
he didn't succeed!" A single military second later she fell
unconscious on Logan's lap. Her face was up, 'facing' him. 'She looks like
Sleeping Beauty...' Logan thought.
" It didn't work you said?!" He smiled at her and softly set
aside the strand of hair that was lying on her cheek.