Disclaimer: Max, Logan, Lydecker and all the original character's aren't mine. Hannah, Kerry, Aren, Laila, Dane, Kirstin, Tricia, Sarah, Maia and any other made up characters are mine as is the story plot.
A/N: If you want to use my stories or characters or even my plot for anything I'll let you, just ask first please.
BACK IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH HANNAH
Hannah sat in the living room puzzling over Kerry. At first Kerry hadn't even seemed to want to escape but she had escaped Broodus on her own. Could there be another side to Kerry or was she just trying to stay out of experiments like the rest of them?
Hannah wanted to believe that Kerry wanted what they did, to be free to have a normal life, but there was just something missing from the picture. She couldn't put her finger on it but she knew that something was wrong, it had to be. Not that she wanted trouble it was just that if she was wrong about Kerry then she knew she was biased against her for no reason.
Lydecker had always shown favor to Kerry. He'd taken her away from the dorm some nights and Hannah could only imagine what they had done, though now with the tv shows that she had seen she was getting a better picture. She didn't really envy Kerry, she had never thought that Kerry had it so much better than them. Well maybe she had. She remembered how they had all talked about her behind her back when Lydecker would come to take her out of the room, they used to try and imagine what kinds of great things he would give her. He had definitely never come down on her as hard as he had the others. Kerry could get away with standing at ease in the middle of a training drill whereas the others couldn't even let one shoulder drop below the other without severe punishment. Hannah had never thought it fair though in retrospect he had never gone as hard on her as he had on Aren and Laila and Dane either. She had still hated it, but sitting there wasn't helping her at all, she picked herself up from the couch and headed up to her room to get changed and get Maia, she felt like going to a movie.
THAT NIGHT AROUND THREE AM
Hannah's head snapped up from the pillow, car doors were slamming outside and Hannah jumped off her top bunk landing with barely a noise and dashed to the window looking out over the front lawn. Broodus stood on the sidewalk looking at the house as though he owned the place.
"Everyone wake up!" Hannah screamed at the top of her lungs, a few moments later Aren, Dane, and Laila were all standing around her wondering what was up. "They're out there! Aren take over!" And Aren did. He signed and Hannah, following his instructions darted up the stairs to get to Tricia, Sarah, Kirstin and Maia first. Laila followed behind her and they met the four people as they were coming towards the stairs.
"We heard you scream. What the hell is up? It's three am, and I need my beauty sleep!" Kirstin demanded but she was mostly joking.
"He's here, get up to the attic NOW!!!!!" Hannah ordered pushing the four of them toward the attic door. They got them up into the attic only to find that Kerry was gone. "Damn it!" Hannah screamed in a fit of rage punching the wall. She was mad at herself for not trusting her gut instinct.
Kerry was bad, she should have known, but she hadn't wanted to admit it to herself, after all Kerry was her half sister. But there was no time for regrets she had to go find out what Aren needed her to do now, after all now she was the second oldest and hence the second in command. Aren and Dane met them in the upstairs hall.
He signed to them quickly and Hannah agreed, they would be better off working from the upstairs it would give them height advantage. Then they heard the footsteps on the roof; thank God the fireplace was in Sarah's room which just happened to be the farthest back, there were two doors between them and the hall.
Hannah positioned herself at the top of the stairs and watched as Aren took the door that led to Tricia and Sarah's rooms, Dane took the door to Kirstin's room and Laila kept lookout from the window. It wasn't long before the action began. It seemed that Broodus had planned things perfectly, his men seemed to all burst in upon them at once. Soon Hannah was kicking men down the stairs while Aren hurled them over her head and down the stairs, Dane was trying to keep the men from charging him too heavily and Laila was trying to help him.
Soon the stairs were covered with blood and Laila reported that there were more men with guns this time out front. Apparently Broodus did learn something, tire out your enemy and then send in the real challenge. The fresh men swarmed in, but not before Aren had regrouped them. They fought well and soon the men were coming fewer and far, that's when Aren noticed that Hannah wasn't there anymore.
DOWN IN THE BACKYARD
Hannah slunk behind the blackcap bush winding her way up to behind Broodus, he wasn't very bright, leaving himself unguarded. And then Kerry appeared in front of her.
"I knew you'd come after him." Kerry stated simply. "I couldn't let that happen."
"Kerry why?" Hannah asked seriously wanting to know.
"Because we should live the way we were made to live. We weren't made to be free!"
"Oh but we were made to be Lydecker's personal sex slaves?" Hannah retorted.
"You never had to do anything like that so don't give me any crap!" Kerry threw back at her and then seemingly loosing her patience she also threw a punch at her, Hannah dodged it and punched Kerry in the stomach.
Kerry tried to get in another punch and Hannah threw out her leg, knocking Kerry off balance she jumped on top of her pinning her down. Kerry struggled as Hannah punched her repeatedly trying to knock some sense into her. Blood gushed from Kerry's nose and both her eyes were swollen shut, and that's when Hannah felt the cold muzzle of a gun at her temple.
"Stand up nice and slow 20." The barcode number was shortened but it was uttered in a serious tone and she knew she'd have to give in.
"Aren't I worth more alive than dead?"
"Not if you kill my best soldier."
"She's a traitor." Hannah accused.
"No you are the traitor, she was loyal to the end." And with that he turned the gun on Kerry and shot her through the head.
"You just said she was your best soldier! Why'd you kill her? Wasn't she putting out?" Hannah sneered coldly.
"Oh she was doing much more than that, but it's you I want." The gun was at her head again, she had been too stunned to move away before and now she chided herself as Broodus' free hand moved to her shoulders sliding under her blond curls and caressing the base of her neck, where her barcode was imprinted. Hannah shied away at his touch but was wary to turn on him; the gun was after all still an immediate threat. She decided to play his games; maybe if he thought she was warming to him he'd relax.
"And what if I told you that you could have me?" She asked trying to keep her tone level while also trying not to cringe at his touch, in fact she forced herself to move a little closer to him.
"I'd know you were lying." He answered her. She wasn't about to give up and if there was one thing she was good at it was acting.
"But what if I wasn't." Here she pushed herself up against him trying to hold back the brine that was rising in her throat at his touch.
"I'd like that." He admitted. "But of course you already knew that. Right now however my prerogative is to get you back to Manticore and under strict surveillance." He was definitely not going to be fooled so she gave it up pulling away from his surprisingly muscular body.
"Aren't you worried about getting the others? Without me they'll all scatter and you'll never be able to find them."
"They didn't 'scatter' when Kerry got taken and they won't now." He reasoned and she hoped he wasn't right. "Now let's go." One hand gripped her arm firmly, but roughly and guided her towards the front yard, and the car that would take her back to Manticore. But something happened on the way there, a figure stepped out of the shadows and Broodus gasped as he apparently recognized them.
"332960073452 stand down." He ordered, but the figure didn't respond. "I'll kill her!" He threatened.
"No you won't." The figure responded moving a little closer. "I could snap your neck before you could pull the trigger and you know it, so did your uncle."
"I'll do it now." He pressed the muzzle into her head a little harder.
"How did I become a pawn in this??" Hannah moaned.
"It'll be okay Hannah." The figure said, she still couldn't make out who it was and now she wondered how they knew her name, but she didn't dare ask.
"Stand down!" Broodus bellowed.
"No." The figure responded moving forward a little more. "You know you want both of us, a perfect match. And besides the more of us you can get the better."
"Of course I want both of you!" His chest was swelling like a mad, male bird's.
"Well then take us." Hannah screamed growing completely impatient.
"You shut up!" Broodus hollered at her and Hannah finally snapped. She flung her arm back and wrapped it around his neck quickly bringing his head down towards the ground and trying to wrestle the gun out of his hand, but not very successfully.
Then the figure was there taking it from him and throwing it over her shoulder, Hannah gasped as she caught sight of the figure's face almost letting go of Broodus as she did. Instead of letting him go she was even more determined to choke the life out of him and that she did. It wasn't long before she had completely cut off his breathing and then she snapped his neck quickly and cleanly making sure that he wouldn't bother her friends, her or her mother ever again.
A/N: If you want to use my stories or characters or even my plot for anything I'll let you, just ask first please.
BACK IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH HANNAH
Hannah sat in the living room puzzling over Kerry. At first Kerry hadn't even seemed to want to escape but she had escaped Broodus on her own. Could there be another side to Kerry or was she just trying to stay out of experiments like the rest of them?
Hannah wanted to believe that Kerry wanted what they did, to be free to have a normal life, but there was just something missing from the picture. She couldn't put her finger on it but she knew that something was wrong, it had to be. Not that she wanted trouble it was just that if she was wrong about Kerry then she knew she was biased against her for no reason.
Lydecker had always shown favor to Kerry. He'd taken her away from the dorm some nights and Hannah could only imagine what they had done, though now with the tv shows that she had seen she was getting a better picture. She didn't really envy Kerry, she had never thought that Kerry had it so much better than them. Well maybe she had. She remembered how they had all talked about her behind her back when Lydecker would come to take her out of the room, they used to try and imagine what kinds of great things he would give her. He had definitely never come down on her as hard as he had the others. Kerry could get away with standing at ease in the middle of a training drill whereas the others couldn't even let one shoulder drop below the other without severe punishment. Hannah had never thought it fair though in retrospect he had never gone as hard on her as he had on Aren and Laila and Dane either. She had still hated it, but sitting there wasn't helping her at all, she picked herself up from the couch and headed up to her room to get changed and get Maia, she felt like going to a movie.
THAT NIGHT AROUND THREE AM
Hannah's head snapped up from the pillow, car doors were slamming outside and Hannah jumped off her top bunk landing with barely a noise and dashed to the window looking out over the front lawn. Broodus stood on the sidewalk looking at the house as though he owned the place.
"Everyone wake up!" Hannah screamed at the top of her lungs, a few moments later Aren, Dane, and Laila were all standing around her wondering what was up. "They're out there! Aren take over!" And Aren did. He signed and Hannah, following his instructions darted up the stairs to get to Tricia, Sarah, Kirstin and Maia first. Laila followed behind her and they met the four people as they were coming towards the stairs.
"We heard you scream. What the hell is up? It's three am, and I need my beauty sleep!" Kirstin demanded but she was mostly joking.
"He's here, get up to the attic NOW!!!!!" Hannah ordered pushing the four of them toward the attic door. They got them up into the attic only to find that Kerry was gone. "Damn it!" Hannah screamed in a fit of rage punching the wall. She was mad at herself for not trusting her gut instinct.
Kerry was bad, she should have known, but she hadn't wanted to admit it to herself, after all Kerry was her half sister. But there was no time for regrets she had to go find out what Aren needed her to do now, after all now she was the second oldest and hence the second in command. Aren and Dane met them in the upstairs hall.
He signed to them quickly and Hannah agreed, they would be better off working from the upstairs it would give them height advantage. Then they heard the footsteps on the roof; thank God the fireplace was in Sarah's room which just happened to be the farthest back, there were two doors between them and the hall.
Hannah positioned herself at the top of the stairs and watched as Aren took the door that led to Tricia and Sarah's rooms, Dane took the door to Kirstin's room and Laila kept lookout from the window. It wasn't long before the action began. It seemed that Broodus had planned things perfectly, his men seemed to all burst in upon them at once. Soon Hannah was kicking men down the stairs while Aren hurled them over her head and down the stairs, Dane was trying to keep the men from charging him too heavily and Laila was trying to help him.
Soon the stairs were covered with blood and Laila reported that there were more men with guns this time out front. Apparently Broodus did learn something, tire out your enemy and then send in the real challenge. The fresh men swarmed in, but not before Aren had regrouped them. They fought well and soon the men were coming fewer and far, that's when Aren noticed that Hannah wasn't there anymore.
DOWN IN THE BACKYARD
Hannah slunk behind the blackcap bush winding her way up to behind Broodus, he wasn't very bright, leaving himself unguarded. And then Kerry appeared in front of her.
"I knew you'd come after him." Kerry stated simply. "I couldn't let that happen."
"Kerry why?" Hannah asked seriously wanting to know.
"Because we should live the way we were made to live. We weren't made to be free!"
"Oh but we were made to be Lydecker's personal sex slaves?" Hannah retorted.
"You never had to do anything like that so don't give me any crap!" Kerry threw back at her and then seemingly loosing her patience she also threw a punch at her, Hannah dodged it and punched Kerry in the stomach.
Kerry tried to get in another punch and Hannah threw out her leg, knocking Kerry off balance she jumped on top of her pinning her down. Kerry struggled as Hannah punched her repeatedly trying to knock some sense into her. Blood gushed from Kerry's nose and both her eyes were swollen shut, and that's when Hannah felt the cold muzzle of a gun at her temple.
"Stand up nice and slow 20." The barcode number was shortened but it was uttered in a serious tone and she knew she'd have to give in.
"Aren't I worth more alive than dead?"
"Not if you kill my best soldier."
"She's a traitor." Hannah accused.
"No you are the traitor, she was loyal to the end." And with that he turned the gun on Kerry and shot her through the head.
"You just said she was your best soldier! Why'd you kill her? Wasn't she putting out?" Hannah sneered coldly.
"Oh she was doing much more than that, but it's you I want." The gun was at her head again, she had been too stunned to move away before and now she chided herself as Broodus' free hand moved to her shoulders sliding under her blond curls and caressing the base of her neck, where her barcode was imprinted. Hannah shied away at his touch but was wary to turn on him; the gun was after all still an immediate threat. She decided to play his games; maybe if he thought she was warming to him he'd relax.
"And what if I told you that you could have me?" She asked trying to keep her tone level while also trying not to cringe at his touch, in fact she forced herself to move a little closer to him.
"I'd know you were lying." He answered her. She wasn't about to give up and if there was one thing she was good at it was acting.
"But what if I wasn't." Here she pushed herself up against him trying to hold back the brine that was rising in her throat at his touch.
"I'd like that." He admitted. "But of course you already knew that. Right now however my prerogative is to get you back to Manticore and under strict surveillance." He was definitely not going to be fooled so she gave it up pulling away from his surprisingly muscular body.
"Aren't you worried about getting the others? Without me they'll all scatter and you'll never be able to find them."
"They didn't 'scatter' when Kerry got taken and they won't now." He reasoned and she hoped he wasn't right. "Now let's go." One hand gripped her arm firmly, but roughly and guided her towards the front yard, and the car that would take her back to Manticore. But something happened on the way there, a figure stepped out of the shadows and Broodus gasped as he apparently recognized them.
"332960073452 stand down." He ordered, but the figure didn't respond. "I'll kill her!" He threatened.
"No you won't." The figure responded moving a little closer. "I could snap your neck before you could pull the trigger and you know it, so did your uncle."
"I'll do it now." He pressed the muzzle into her head a little harder.
"How did I become a pawn in this??" Hannah moaned.
"It'll be okay Hannah." The figure said, she still couldn't make out who it was and now she wondered how they knew her name, but she didn't dare ask.
"Stand down!" Broodus bellowed.
"No." The figure responded moving forward a little more. "You know you want both of us, a perfect match. And besides the more of us you can get the better."
"Of course I want both of you!" His chest was swelling like a mad, male bird's.
"Well then take us." Hannah screamed growing completely impatient.
"You shut up!" Broodus hollered at her and Hannah finally snapped. She flung her arm back and wrapped it around his neck quickly bringing his head down towards the ground and trying to wrestle the gun out of his hand, but not very successfully.
Then the figure was there taking it from him and throwing it over her shoulder, Hannah gasped as she caught sight of the figure's face almost letting go of Broodus as she did. Instead of letting him go she was even more determined to choke the life out of him and that she did. It wasn't long before she had completely cut off his breathing and then she snapped his neck quickly and cleanly making sure that he wouldn't bother her friends, her or her mother ever again.