Author's note: When I first started this fanfic, it was right after the RED episode, so keep in mind that all that happened with the Reds happened
in my fic too, but not the rising thing Logan did at the end. It's just to clear a few things that comes with this part.
Oh yeah, and I'm not a doctor, so don't tell me the Tx doesn't work, I KNOW it probably doesn't or else there would be plenty of paralysed people
walking among our streets. Thank you.
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When Max got back to Montreal after being there for not even a day, Vitoney stared at Max, who just opened the door and came in, with her
mouth open.
"Maya! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you?..." Vitoney stoped talking, seeing that her roommate wasn't in a really good mood.
"It went THAT well, huh?"
"There was a freakin' b1tch there! And I don't wanna talk about it." Max took her bag and went to her bedroom, banging the door when
she closed it.
"Great." Said Vitoney to herself, sarcastically. "She feels worst than before and it's because I pushed her to go. Good job Vee!"
The months went by and the summer soon made his 'HELLO'. Max tried to focus her mind on other things than Logan, even if sometimes she said that
she should have been waiting for him that day to kick his butt all through the other side of the state. But Max knew she wouldn't have done it. 'It
would have felt so good though.' She turned away from the dishes she was washing, and looked at Vitoney, who had just came in.
"Congratulations Vee!"
"Finito! I'm done with school for the next 4 months...isn't it great?!" She smiled at Max.
"We should go out tonight!" Max suggested to her.
"Yes we should! It's been a long time since I went outside these 4 walls. It's always work/school, work/school, that's enough to make a girl
crazy!"
"I hear ya!" She came near Max to help her with the dishes.
"Do you know what Vee? Maybe I overreacted with the b1tch thing...maybe there wasn't one."
Vitoney looked at Max, surprised she's talking about it now, after months of silence. 'She still thinks about this?'
"Did you ask him who she was?" She risked saying.
"No, didn't have the time. I took off before." Max changed her focus on the dishes. "Who cares anyway...I shouldn't anymore. He's
there, I'm here...he should have the right to do whatever he wants." She said to Vitoney, like she couldn't care less.
"You don't believe a word you just said." She lightly smiled at Max.
" I know." She said back, returning the smile. "It just makes it less painfull to think I don't care, and that he's a
jacka$$!"
"I know, when Alex, my ex, left me for a chick, I don't remember how many times I said to my friends I hated him and that I wanted him dead.
But those who knew me well could see I was still madly in love with him, and that's what was hurting me so much." She suddenly had caught the
attention of Max. "I couldn't let him go, despite all the pain and suffering he cost me, I still loved him. I had him under my skin, you
know? And after 2 years or so, I started to let him go...I wonder sometimes if I'm still in love with him..." She went into her
thoughts, only her could see, and smiled to the memories that came to her.
" We're pathetic females!" Max said, bursting into laughs. It's been so long since she laughed that way.
"I guess we are Maya." They both stood there, each of them thinking about the past. "And it hurts badly to think of him in the
arms of another woman." Vitoney finaly said.
"Tremendously." Replied Max.
"He was my High School sweetheart. We did go out for, what, 5 years and 3 months. It was the best years of my life! And suddenly at 21, he
came to me and told me he didn't love me anymore, and that he was in love with Melanie, a girl he was working with. I never saw it coming, not for
once did I think he was going to leave me!" She faced Max. "I saw him again last year, with her...and their son." She made an
untrue smile.
"Outch!" Max said.
"I'm okay now, but I cried for days afterwards...I still don't know if it was because I saw him again, or because he was still with her, and
happy, that I reacted that bad. You know?"
"Yeah, I think I do. Logan and I fell into each other's life without noticing it. He knew about my past, and I knew about his, and we just
started a great friendship. We helped each others the best we could, and I still can't tell you the exact moment I fell in love with him. I don't
remember a precise moment when I felt it for the first time. It's like it's always been there, week after week, without behing able to confess it
to each other until it was too late to enjoy it. I had to leave." It was the first time Max talked about it, and Vitoney was deeply touched.
"Why?" She risked asking. 'One can only hope she'll tell me the truth.'
"Can you keep a secret Vee, really keep it?"
"You know I can Maya." She was almost offended by it.
"My real name is Max Guevara. I was raised in a military base as a secret project. But I escaped in 2019, and they've been looking for me
ever since. Logan knew all about it, and saved my a$$ many times, but a year and a half ago, I got caught, and they tortured me mentally, and
physically made me very weak. I couldn't escape by myself, but I have great friends, who put their butt in the line of fire for me, and I could
get away. But this time, I was lucky. After I could get on my feet, I decided to leave, we decided it, Logan and me. It was a hard mutual
choice, but we did it anyway. It's been 17 months now and maybe it's safer, I don't know."
"Thank you for telling me a part of your life Maya...huh...Max." She said to her, not being at all horrified by her story. "So why
don't you go back?"
"The chick at Logan's."
"Forget the damn chick!" Vee said to her almost angry. "That's the one you should kick her a$$ all throughout the
United States!"
"Maybe he doesn't think of me as much as I think of him. He deserves a normal girl with no death wish following her everywhere she goes."
"But what if it's the death wish that he wants Max?" Vee was a perseverant girl.
"You ask too many questions Vee!" Max said and got up.
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It's been 2 months now that Logan was in London, having the treatments and doing physical therapy. Doctor Cobain, Sera's collegue had explained to
him what the treatment was about. First, Logan had to do a well balanced diet to help regenerate the mucles, tissues and nerves of his body. And
after that, he was going into passive/active physiotherapy to give strength to his legs. Logan got very interrested into the surgery, because
it was a sort of implant rewirering his neural pathways in his spinal cord, to create a new way for the stimuli to reach his brain and feel.
There was also a medication to help nerves growth. 'It's sounds a lot like the creepy metal insect stuck in Max's head to me!' Logan thought to
himself. So, afterwards, hemade some research on Dr.Cobain, and found out he worked for the Reds before. But he had changed his name, so he was
probably trying to get away from them. Logan made a deal with the guy.
"I'm going to give you the 75,000$ you asked for, but to you, not the Medical Center. And for it, you erase me from here. I was never here, and I never was
on the surgery table. It's very important that there must be NO papers whatsoever about me being in and out of the wheelchair, and I'll keep
my mouth shut. Is that clear?" It was, the guy had a wife and kids, and he wanted to keep them.
So Logan got under the knife again, and it took him about 3 weeks before being able to walk. It was hurting like hell in all his spinal cord, and he had to take
medications to ease the unbarable pain. He even lost consciousness twice over it. He felt dumb about it, but Sera told him not to worry.
"Remember how it hurts just to kick your elbow on a table? Well, now the pain is 10 times worst. Back pain are the worst of all pain. It's normal." So he began
to walk without pain after 5 weeks, but he had to use crutches.
"You probably will need them for a long period of time, if not forever." Doctor Cobain told him, giving him his medical chart.
"It's fine, crutches are still better than a wheelchair for me. I was starting to have bruises on my butt because I was sitting on it 24 hours a day! Being able
to stand is, believe me, a charm."
Logan got back in Seattle in May. Eveybody seemed very surprised to see it has actually worked. Bling scheduled exercises 4 times a week for him, couldn't
let him go that easily.
Logan was glad to be on his feet again, he could now do leg work for Eyes Only, and it made him focus on something else than Max.
The days went by, and it's been 17 months Max was gone.
"I can't believe it's been 17 months!" He said to Original Cindy, who was eating her breakfast at Logan's, since Kendra was with Walter at their place, and
she just couldn't stand the guy, so she crashed here.
"I know, it's awfull. I wonder if she's ever gonna come back after what you did." She said to him, with her special Original Cindy face.
"Please...Not the lecture again?!" He said back, waiting for the assault. "I feel bad enough over this as it is, okay?"
"I still think that if you had taken 5 fuckin' minutes of your priceless time to make the dishes, she would have stayed!" She shouted to Logan.
"Tell me about it..." He replied, grumbling.
Logan walked to his computer and clicked on the e-mail he had just recieved from his source.
"Shit!" He yelled out loud. "What the hell?" Original Cindy came near him.
"What's goin' on Boo?"
"Sera was in a fire explosion last night in London, and it was criminal...Oh! It's bad...it's really bad." He scratched his hair.
"Why does it say Amanda Vartan then?"
"Because she changed her name after escaping from Manticore. Damn!"He stood up and went to his bedroom packing his bags.
"What are ya doing?" She asked, as if to say 'again'.
"I have to go there, and find out what happened and who did this. If Manticore is involved in this, Max could be in danger too." He put his clothes without any
cautions in the suitcase. "You can stay here as long as you want. I know you're not Walter's most fervent fan."
"Thanks." She said, watching him storming out of the place without even looking behind. 'This guy has lost his mind! Yeah...he lost it the day he met my Boo!'
She walked to the couch and sat down. 'If only I had someone as passionate for me as he is for her...'
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When Logan got to the hospital where Sera was, he looked for what room she was in.
"Excuse me, where's Amanda Vantan's room?" He asked the nurse at the desk.
"Are you family Sir?"
"Yes, I'm her cousin." Hehehe...
"Okay then, follow me." Before entering the room, she gave him a blouse, a pair of gloves and a mask to breathe in. "You're from America? The accent..."
"Yes. Why all of this?"
"Well, she's been severely burned, and in those cases, they are at high risks for infections. I have to warn you it's not pretty to see, and she's still unconscious."
"Will she live?" Good God...
"The statistics are in her favor, but with third degree burns, we never know how the body may react from one person to another. I'm sorry, just don't get your
hopes too high."
When Logan got into the room, he got nauseous. Sera's skin was severely burned, and you could see there was almost no skin. There was some bandages, but it wasn't covering
it all. She had a tube in her throat, and there was a Morphine pump giving her regular dosage to ease the pain. 'If that was Max there instead of Sera, I think
I'd loose my mind!' He thought.
Not being able to stay longer, he got out of the room and sat on the bench near the entrance.
"Are you alright Sir?" The nurse asked him, in her perfect British accent. "I know it can be a shock, take your time and breathe...push your head down." Logan listened to her
and tried to calm himself. She sat next to him.
"Do you know what happened?"
"They were three in the house, but only Mrs. Vartan got seriously injured. The police officer said that she and her collegue, a Cobain guy or something, were having dinner
with his wife, and she was in the bathroom when it exploded. She got most of it, but she wasn't the target. The officer talked about some African Goverment or something.
I don't know all the story, but I can give you his number though."
"Yes, thank you. I'll be fine now."
All through the week, he looked for clues and went to see the Detective who was in charge of the case. It looked like the Reds weren't very happy about the new experiment of Cobain,
and they decided to act. They seem to be very powerful, because even if the police knows about them, they can't stop them. Anyway, nobody knew Sera's true identity, so she was safe. They were both safe, she and Max.
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Max was coming back from work when she heard Vitoney going out of her bed and opened the door of her bedroom.
"Good morning Vee!" Max said, looking happy. That was a weird thing for Vitoney to find Max in that happy state.
"What's with you this morning...Where's coffee, I need coffee...didn't sleep very well last night." She said 'sleepily'.
"Well, I almost never sleep myself, but we wont go there...Hey?! Do you know what?"
"What..." Vee answered, almost annoyed by her roommate, and still in her sleepy state before taking her first sip of coffee.
"You were right!" Max said, still smiling. 'Did she lost her mind?' Vitoney thought.
"I was? When?" I don't remember ever being right...
" I'm sick of hiding and waiting, and I miss my people. I think I'll go back to Seattle." Vitoney turned her head and stared at Max. 'So THAT was why she was deeply into her thoughts all week!'
"Really?" Did I miss something here?
"Yes. I thought it through...I'm ready." Max said, happy about her decision.
"I don't want to spoil your happyness, but what about the bitch?"
"I'll deal with her when she'll step in my face." Max said, looking determined to do so.
"Maybe you should call before?" Surely don't want her to come back in 10 hours looking like the last time...
"I'll do that." Max walked by the phone and dialed her old number. No answer. She then dialed Logan's number. Original Cindy answered after 8 times.
"Hey." She said in an awakening voice, and not too happy about it.
"Hey Boo!" Max yelled in her ear.
"Max?! What the fuck did you have to wake me up at 7:00 in the morning on a sunday?!" She shouted to Max.
"Well, hello to you too, I'm so happy to hear your voice..." Max said in a teasing voice. "Why are you at Logan's?"
"Walter's in my bathtub...if you know what I mean."
"Arrkkk!" Said Max. "Don't tell me no more, I don't want to have nightmares...Where's Logan?"
"He's out of town. London."
"What? Why?"
"Because the Sera chick got her ass bombed, and he went there to see if Manticore was involved or not. She ran away from there a few months ago."
"When did it happen?" Max asked anxiously.
"A few days ago, a week I think. I'm freakin' sleeping here!"
"Well, yelling at me like that, I think you're pretty much awake!" She was about to hang up when she heard Original Cindy yelling at her to not hang up.
"What is it?"
"Now Boo, listen to me carefully, because Original Cindy wont say it twice."
"I'm all ears."
"Max, there wasn't any bitch. It was Bella's lipstick on the wine glass. There wasn't any chick here since the day you left. Capish? What a
fucking jackass you were to run out like Speedy Gonzales! You broke his heart!"
"And what about my heart? You're taking his side now?" Asked Max, happy to see it has been only Bella, but sad to hear her friend take Logan's side over her's.
"I'm on both side Max. That guy is still crazy about you, you should have seen him when he thought Manticore was involved in that explosion. He was walking around
the damn place like a freafin' nut!"
"Walking?..."Asked Max after a few seconds of silence.
"Huh, yeah..." Original Cindy explained to Max the surgery he had, and that he was now walking. 'He's using crutches though."
Max wasn't speaking, still absorbing the news. 'Logan...on his two feet? I'm so happy for him!'
"Look. don't come here if it's to leave again. I love you Boo, but you can't keep doing this to him." Original Cindy softly said to her. "Do you know what
he told me once? He told me that the only reason he didn't die in that shooting 2 years ago was because fate has wanted him to meet you. He said that you
were the reason he survived Max." Original Cindy stoped talking. Max felt the tear rolling down her cheek.
"I've been a jackass." She said to her friend.
"Well Max, we both were."
"Give me his phone number there." She gave it to Max, telling her also at which hotel he was staying.
"Thanks Boo, you're the best." Max hung up, and began to walk from one end to the other of the living room. Vitoney watched her in silence.
"What is it? You're making me nervous!"
"My friend's been bombed, there wasn't any bitch at Logan's, EVER, he's walking again, and both he and her are in London...and I don't have a freakin' penny!"
She talked like a robot, continuing her cat walk.
"Do you want to go?" Vitoney asked her.
"I just told you I don't have any money, and I can't steal..."
" I'm not asking you if you have money, I'm asking you if you WANT to go?"
"Yes."
"Then pack your bags, I'll give it to you. My father send me a few bucks last week for my birthday, and I didn't spend it yet."
"I'm not letting you give me your father's gift!"
"Will you just shut up and go pack your bags?!" Max came near Vitoney and hugged her.
"Thank you, I wont forget this." And she ran in her bedroom to pack a few clothes.
To be continued...
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