Revelations

by Nautica7mk

23 months after AJBAC. A lot of interesting scenarios and a pretty good plot that you might like. The story and characters involved, as well as new ones stays as true to the Original Series as much as possible. Please read and review.

17. Out in the Open

Out in the Open

Chapter 17

Back at Sebastians

[Max is back asleep next to Logan. Dreaming of the good times she's spent with him and her friends, her dreams were then interrupted by the nightmares of her past, and sees vivid images of her friends and family dying all around her. She wakes up in a sudden sweat]

Max: Logan, I'm sorry. [She gets out of bed and leaves]

several hours later

Logan: [To Sebastian] Where is she?

Sebastian: I don't know.

Logan: [Upset] She wouldn't have just left without saying anything.

Daisy: She looked fine the last time we saw her.

Sebastian: She looked disoriented when she left this morning.

Father Destry: Maybe she had an apiphany. Three months at Manticore can bring back a lot of memories. The reality of it all is beginning to effect. She probably got scared.

Logan: What, of me?

Father Destry: Not exactly Logan. Zach died so Max could live. And just a couple of nights ago, you nearly died protecting Max.

Logan: [Worried] We gotta find her.

Daisy: [Trying to sound logical] And where do you expect us to look? There's just so many places a ginetically engineered girl could hide in.

[Logan suddenly remembers how Max enjoys spending time at the Space Needle]

Flash Back

3 Months Earlier on top of the Space Needle. Logan is sitting. Max is standing.

Max: I look down at the people and I think about how everybody's got problems. Maybe not a secret government agency on their ass, but, you know, problems and if I sit up here long enough I start to feel like I'm just one of those people, a regular girl.

Cut to Present

[Logan gets out of bed and grabs his coat]

Daisy: Whoa! Hold it there cowboy. Where do you think your going?

Logan: To find Max.

Daisy: Oh no your not.

Logan: Try and stop me.

Cut to Max

[Max is wondering the streets of Seattle. Since this morning, she hasn't been able to stop. Finally, as she looks up, she sees the Space Needle. Still standing]

Cut to Space Needle

[Max, absorbing the repercussions of the previous nights event's, heads to the Space Needle to clear her thoughts. Much to her surprise, she wasn't alone. She sees someone sitting....]

Max: Logan

Noticing Max's Presence

Logan: [Facing the city] After you... you know. Died. I came up here. I tried so hard not to think. To dream. [His voice softens] But I couldn't stop.

Max: [Trying to avoid the subject] I thought you were afraid of heights?

Logan: I had my reasons. None of it seems relevant anymore.

[Max sees that Logan is hurt, not just physically, but emotionally. Logan does well hiding it.]

Max: What are you doing here?

Logan: Same as you. [his face still staring out into the city] Trying to find a reason to it all. You're afraid. [Turns his head around to face Max] I know that, I'm afraid too. I'm afraid to hold you because I feel... I feel if I let go I'll loose you.

Max: Manticore has always taught us genetical.....

Logan: Stop it! [The sudden tone of Logan's voice caught Max offguard] Stop calling yourself that. [His voice loudens] I don't see yo that way? [Max's eyes start to tear, as well as Logan] Take me for an example.

Max: Logan, we don't have to...

Logan: No, we do. Cuz for all we know the world can end tomorrow.

[Max, understanding his statement, realizes she too must let it out.]

Logan: To everyone else I'm just another spoiled-rich boy. Barely described as anything else. I'm defined by my status as your bar code defines you, but it is not who we are.

Max: I thought after all these years of running, I found myself a place I call home. [Recollecting] Original Cindy as my homegurl and all. And Jam Pony. It was simple. Nothing was ever that complicated. But my past got the better of me, and I just had to know. Then you came along. All of the sudden, I just had to care. I didn't even see it coming. [Face falls] I am what I am Logan.

Logan: Maybe so. But it's not who you are. And if I have to [Extends his hand] I'll spend the rest of my life proving that to you.

Max: [Takes his hand] That's an awful lot of time to waste.

Logan: You're worth the time.

[Max notices Logan's tears. She moves in closer to him and sits by his side, she wipes the tears off his eyes]

Max: You're crying.

Logan: Yeah, I am. [Looks through Max's eyes] What? Is that a problem?

Max: I've never seen you cry.

Logan: I don't. Not usually, but a friend once told me it was okay to cry. [Recalling the conversation he had with Original Cindy]

[Logan lifts Max's chin and gently kissed her lips. As a moment passed by, the two held one another in a soft embrace.]

and then

Max: Logan.

Logan: Yeah?

Max: You think Normal would give me my job back?

Logan: [Laughs] That's you're dealio

Max: [Laughs] dealio?

Logan: I've been hanging out with Original Cindy too much.

Max: I bet.

The End

Author's Notes: Yeah, I know I'm forever late. I'm really sorry for that. I hope the ending was decent enough. I don't see Logan and Max as people who just 'get it on' after all the stuff they went through. Eventually, they will, but I ended it on a lighter note. So I'm sorry for those who didn't like it.

After recalling a lot of the "less aspects" of her life, Max got scared and ran off. Away from everyone, especially Logan. But we know Max all too well, and Logan did too, so he headed up to the Space Needle, where he just waited for her, and eventually, the rest of the story speaks for itself.