Title: When One Love it lost a New can be Discovered
Author: EyEzOnLy
Rating: Pg-13
Author's Note: Ok...after crying for what seemed like forever after last night's season finale.....I tried to go to sleep to only to be haunted by these thoughts...so in the midst a struggling battle with the sandman I wrote this down...So please be gentle it was 3 in the morning....(did anyone else cry when Zack said, " x-5, 599 I have your heart...?..Ok I'm a huge Logan and Max supporter, but I was finally starting to like that floppy blonde haired cutie...ok well, enjoy)

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After a week of Logan going up to the Space Needle to think of Max. (For that's all he could do since that night.) A distraught Logan settles himself in his computer room preparing for an Eyes Only's cable hack.

" This cable hack will last exactly 60 seconds. It can not be traced. It can not be stopped and it is the only free voice left in this country." "Last week an underground government operation called Project Manticore was destroyed. Manticore was genetically enhancing young children to try to cultivate them into a " Super Soldier". In the process of doing this two friends of mine were killed. One of them was very dear to me (Logan begins to tear up) and she will be greatly missed. The people whom were involved in this operation...I know who you are...and I will get you!"

" You know, crying like that is really going to ruin the whole Eyes Only thing!"

"Max! How?...I mean are you really here? How could you be." " Lydecker said that you were dead. You had no pulse."

(Max starts sobbing uncontrollably)

"Zack, he gave me his heart so that I could live." "Logan he gave up his life for me! After I escaped from the lab, I paid a visit to the security room and stole the surveillance tape to the operating room....Look!"

(Tape plays)

Zack-" you fix her, now!"
Dr- " I can't her heart is too badly damaged."
Zack- " then transplant her."
Dr- "There is no hearts to donate"
Zack grabs the bitch- " then I guess you'll need a heart"
Bitch- " that would never work. She's and X-5 she needs an X-5 heart."
Zack- " Max promise me you'll fight them!" " X-5, 599, I have your heart."
Gun goes off, Zack lands on top of Max

(Tape stops)

(Max is still sobbing) (Logan has no idea what to do)

(Logan goes over to where Max is and pulls her into a deep embrace never wanting to let go of her again.)

" Max, Zack loved and always will. He will always be apart of your life. He gave you the greatest gift in the world. A chance to live and be apart of it. He would want you to mourn for him, but also to try to continue living. That's what he was telling you before. Max, Zack did a brave thing.... Now it's your turn to try to be brave."

" How can I even think of trying to move on when my family, my brother, my Zack killed himself for me... I can never fill his place. How am I supposed to keep everyone out of trouble, make sure that they are ok, and protect them like Zack did. It would have been better off if he just let me die instead!"

" Max don't you ever say that! I know it might come across as sounding somewhat selfish, but if Zack hadn't done what he did, two people would have died instead of one. Max I was lost without you! You are everything to me and just thinking about having to go on another day without you is torture. I am truly sorry that you, we, everyone, Krit, and Sill, lost Zack, but I'm so, so glad to have you back in my life."

" Do you mean that? I mean you really care that much about me?"

" Max, I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it."

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(Author's Note- I'm about to take you into my fantasy world where I am going to change the outcome of our little Zack predicament......Let's go back to Manticore for a second shall we...)


A gun goes off hitting Zack, however it wasn't his bullet that shot him. You see that bitch had other plans for Max and Zack. She shot him in his upper left shoulder causing him to land on top of Max. You see she had plans for two X-5's not one so instead of Zack giving her his heart. Bitch was going to give Max little Max's heart. The reason those clones were made was to be an aid to the originals once they we're recaptured and brought back.
When Max woke up Bitch told her that Zack gave up his life for her so that would negate any chance of Max trying to break back into Manticore to rescue Zack and screw up his reprogramming. There was one problem to her little plan though...When Max broke out of Manticore that had to stop the testing on Zack...( A/n- don't ask why I just had to make them stop so that the next part makes sense...lol..=) )


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" What are you doing to me!" , Screamed Zack.

Well, you were about to ruin my whole plan for the two of you when you decided to play the role of the hero and try to save your dear sister's life. So instead I shot you to stop you from making a horrible mistake."

" You bitch, what did you do to her? Where is she? MAX.....MAX.......ARE YOU OK?"

" You can stop your screaming it won't help.... Your sister is strong and was some how able to escape before under going her re-programming. But not to worry. I tightened security so that there is no chance for you to do the same."

" I won't stay here. You can't keep me here; I'll never go back. Max will come for me you'll see."

" No. She won't. You see she thinks that you're dead... I told her that the heart inside of her was yours, not the one from her young clone." "Have a nice day now!" , spat the bitch with total and up most sarcasm.


And she left leaving Zack in that cold, dank room isolated with his thoughts.