Lydecker was still dizzy from bella's punch, but he was gaining back his consiousness, so they decided to drive the hell away from there.
Zack got with Bling and Brin in Bling's car. The others were in Logan's. Original Cindy helped them put Max in the back seat, Logan got himself
next to Max, and then she sat behind the wheel and they drove out as fast as they could. They heard helicopter noises and SUVs starting to follow
them behind. 'F*ck!' thought Original Cindy. 'It's a freakin Carnival!' She pushed the accelerator until the thought that her foot was going to
pass through the floor.
"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!" She said out loud, seeing the damn SUV's getting nearer to both cars.
"Just look ahead of you." Said Logan to her. 'Damn!'
Then he saw the helicopter back off, and the SUVs stop, and turned around, letting them go. 'It's not normal, Logan thought, something's up...I don't
like this.'
Original Cindy seemed relieved to see them disappear because she was about to yell until her vocal cords got mute.
"Why the hell did they do that?" She asked Logan, staring at him and Max in the rear-view mirror. 'Sh1t!, she thought, she looks like
hell!'
"I have no idea, but we'll soon find out, I'm sure. Just get us out of here Cindy." He hold Max in his arms and took a good look at her.
When he saw how much Max was in a bad shape, his heart started to ache. Bella got her Epinephrine vial and started to fill 5cc of it in the
seringe. She managed to get her seat down and grabed Max's arm. She saw how Logan was fixing her.
"I need to get some adrenaline in her blood system, because she received too much drugs that depressed her central nervous system, her
brain so to speak. That heart of hers has to pump!" Bella shooted as fast as she could the juice in Max's vein and she got back on her seat,
not wanting to disturbed them. She's been feeling like an intruder there. "Tell me when you'll feel her pulse being stronger and regular."
Logan answered her by a head sign since he didn't know if he could talk right now. He had been so scared to loose her, and now that he had her in
his arms, he felt like he was about to cry. 'Cale! Get a grip of yourself!'
"What did they do to you Max?" He said out loud, gently caressing her hair with his hand while hiding his face in it. He could
just feel the pain growing in his throat, ready to explode.
Max moved and mumbled something no one could understand. He took her pulse and it seemed to be at a normal rate. He smiled at Bella, who had
instinctively turned her head when she'd heard Max. Logan stared at Max, who began slowly to open her eyes. She stared back at Logan as if he was a
ghost.
"Hey Gorgeous!" He said to her, smiling.
"Logan?..." He stared at her with so much emotion. 'God I love those eyes!' Max thought to herself.
"Shhhh!" He said to her. "Try to get some rest."
"You came for me." She sounded surprised, and tears began to form themselves in her eyes.
" What do you think Max?" He replid, softly caressing her hair away from her face. "That I would have let you rot in there? Yeah,
right..." Max's head was resting on his shoulder. She took her hand and pushed his head until their lips met. She kissed him lightly, and
Logan answered with tenderness, not even caring about Original Cindy and Bella who were feeling like they should get out of the car, but under the
circumstances couldn't.
" I thought you were dead..." Max told him.
"I'm very much alive." 'But I was so afraid you were too until that Sera called.'
They all got into Logan's appartment at 1 o'clock in the morning.
"Do whatever you want with the cars." Logan said to Zack. "Just make them disappear." Zack said OK and got out with the
car keys.
"Don't worry Bling, I'll get you another one."
"No problem man, we'll talk about it later."
Original Cindy and Bella put Max on Logan's bed. She was still weak, but she was gaining some strength in her legs. Max looked at Bella weirdly.
"Who are you?" Bella was preparing a seringe of Narcan.
"I'm Isabella." She gently said to her, knowing Max was going to feel like hell in a second, and it did.
"What a mess!" Said Max to both of them.
"Don't worry Boo, that boy of yours didn't tell us all the truth, just the minimum." Original Cindy said to Max, trying to make her
feel better.
"I'm giving you a medication that will help stop the effects of the drugs they gave you." She saw Max's face and started to laugh.
"Don't worry, I know how to do this, I did 3 years of med school!" Max acted like it didn't mattered to her, but honestly she
doesn't like needles very much. Bella injected it to her.
" Thank you." Max said to Bella. 'What a nice way to meet you.' She thought sarcastically.
"Don't mention it." Bella said to Max before closing the door behing Original Cindy and herself.
She and Original Cindy went to the living room where everybody was. Logan was talking to Brin, telling her she could sleep on the couch if she
wanted to. Bella was already sleeping in the guest room with her daughter. He took the chart Brin was giving him, and put it on his desk without
looking at it. He wheeled near his cousin.
"How is she?" Asked Logan.
" She'll be just fine, I think she feels bad we all put our life on the line for her."
"Yeah, that's Max."
"But she'll be okay Logan. Don't worry."
"Thanks Bella, really."
"What's with all of you people!" She said smiling at him. "Don't mention it, it was my pleasure!" She was walking to the
front door to go upstairs to take her girl back, when Zack opened the door as he was coming in, and smacked it in Bella's face, letting her with a
big cut on her lips. Zack turned white and stared at her, who was feeling dizzy, and who was pretty aware of the pain grwing inside of her.
"I'm so sorry!" Zack said to her. "Are you okay?" He felt terribly bad.
" If you wanted me dead, why didn't you just let that moron kill me earlier?!" She said to him, wipping out the blood that was dripping
down her chin.
" I'm so sorry..." Repeated Zack, not knowing what to do.
"Here Boo, put that on your lip, and I'll go look for that daughter of yours. If that Grandma sees you like this, she'll end up having Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder!" She gave Bella a wet towel, and stared at Zack. "Men...they're always there to remind me how dumb they can
be!" And she went to Mrs.Moreno to bring Sophie back.
Everybody was staring at Zack, and Bling decided that the guy had had enough for the night, so he broke the ice first.
"Logan, I'm gonna go now, since all seems fine. You got enough people crashing here."
"I don't mind." Well, not too often, but tonight's an exeption.
"I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye Bling, and thanks." For everything.
"Sure, for you or Max, anytime." And he got out. Logan went to talk to Brin, wanting to know what her plans were.
Bella sat on the couch, pressing the towel on her lips to stop the bleeding, and to stop herself from wanting to laugh. She glanced at Zack, who wasn't
sure if he could approach her, standing up there, feeling awkward. She wanted to laugh just be the look of his face, she could see he wanted to kill himself
for having done it, and teasing him was just too funny for her. 'Stop playing with him Bella, she told herself, the poor guy's really feeling bad for what he did!'
She looked at him and made a place on the couch for him to sit next to her.
"Come here." She said to Zack, who sat reluctantly. She stared at him and started to laugh. He looked at her as if she had lost her mind. "Do you see your face right
now?, she asked him between laughs, It's worth a million!" She calmed herself after a few seconds. "Look Zack, I know you didn't do it on purpose! Don't sweat it, okay?"
"Okay." He replied to her. She stared at him and saw he was nervous. 'Am I making him uncomfortable?' Bella fixed him the same way she used to look at Logan when
they were kids, and Zack got worst.
"What?" He saked Bella. 'Wouah...he likes me!', she suddenly realized. Zack stared at her intensively, without blinking, trying to figure out what she was thinking, but his
mind wasn't making any connections at the moment. The poor guy was always attracted to the wrong women. Stubborness and determination in a woman was what he liked in
Max, and now in Bella.
"Maybe in another life time Zack." Said Bella to the guy, before standing up to take her daughter in her arms, thinking that she kinds of like him too.