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//She heard me.// The words raced through Max's mind as she turned to see Bree standing so close. //She must have heard me. Shit, she's gonna freak and skip.// Max watched as Bree basically ran for the door, she grabbed a package off of Normal and took off after her.

"Bree." Max yelled as she started to catch up. Bree pretended not to hear her. "You're an X6, I know you can hear me." Max muttered. There was no point in yelling.

Bree suddenly pulled over and just looked at her. Max caught up and waited for the younger girl to talk.

"When were you going to tell me?" Bree asked harshly.

"Tonight." Max answered simply. "When Eyes Only had worked out how to help."

Bree took a deep breath. "Eyes Only?" she asked tentatively.

"Yeah." Max replied. "Like I said, my friend's a computer nerd. Well he's a computer nerd with connections. I'm not gonna just bail on one of my own Bree. Logan just wants what's safest.

"You told Cindy..."

"I told Cindy that you were like me. You can only deal with so many black helicopters and foreign governments kidnapping your friends to use them as bait before you have to either move on or spill the truth." Max continued. Bree continued to watch her, untrusting so Max decided to just follow Logan's advice and tell her the truth.

"I've got two governments after me, you've got three. Not to long ago a south African group tried to use Cindy to capture me. They wanted me to play Mommy to their own version of project Manticore. Instead she was able to warn me and I turned their own technology against them. Led to Logan having to do amateur neuro-surgery on the spot though. I couldn 't lie to her anymore after that."

"Amateur neuro-surgery?" Bree asked wide-eyed.

"Yeah, it's a long story. One that I'm sure Logan would love to tell you over dinner. So you in?"

Bree nodded slowly. "Guess so."

Max grinned. "Great! Trust me, you'll like Logan. I think he's even starting to rub off on Zack." Max sighed. "I guess we better get working. You're on trial after all. But don't push it too hard or Normal'll expect you to keep it up."

Bree nodded. "Right."

"See you later little sis." Max called out as she took off.

"See you later big sis." Bree whispered back. She began to start her first day of work at Jam Pony for the second time. //Maybe.// She told herself. //Just maybe.//

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The rest of the day it was almost as if she were in a fog. Wild thoughts tumbling around her head, Three different governments. She had three powerful enemies, and she didn't even know who they were.

Then there was this whole going to meet Eyes Only thing. As far as she could tell, most people, like his contacts, never saw him, just his eyes in the meeting rooms.

But if Max trusted him... Her chest ached then, and she got lost in that thought. Max was like her, well, almost like her. She was an escaped X5. Bree was an escaped X6. They were like sisters.

A sister she'd never really had, since the rest of the X6's weren't really like her. They were cruel, unemotional and uncaring. Not for her.

She could still remember the look on Lydecker's face when he'd found out his prized girl wouldn't kill anymore after he'd killed Haley.

Haley. The two girls had been beyond close. They'd shared everything. Until him.

Right in front of her. As if Lydecker thought it shouldn't have mattered. And although it never seemed to phase the rest of the group, she couldn't kill any innocents after that.

Lydecker had freaked, literally. Throwing her in to more classes, attempting to convince her to kill, to drive her to kill.

"It's what you were made to do!"

A voice snapped her from her thoughts. She looked at Normal, who stood there looking a little more than pissed.

"What?" she asked quickly.

"It's what you were hired to do, to deliver packages, not just stand around with them!"

Bree looked at he hands, which were holding a brown package, she turned and walked towards her bike as someone pulled up to it.

"Hey, how's my girl doin'?" Original Cindy's voice asked.

Bree attempted a smile, and, still lost in her thoughts, faltered it.

"Wuz wrong, is Normal gettin' on your back?"

"No," Bree said quickly, looking up, "Jus' thinking." She smiled, for real, this time.

"Hey Boo, Sis." a voice came, it was Max. "This girl's starvin', it's twelve thirty and I gotta go stuff my gut or I gonna keel over an' die." Max grinned.

"Yeah, Right." Cindy replied, looking at her.

"What's this?" Max took a package from Bree's hands, "Is Normal trynna send you on a run?"

Without waiting for a reply, Max turned around, "Normal, we goin' on lunch with your new girl here, you gonna work her to the bone!"

"You've got half an hour!" Normal replied stubbornly, Original Cindy rolled her eyes.

"Uh huh, half an' hour times two." she muttered. Leaving their bikes inside by their lockers they headed out to find some grub.

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"So tell me about this Eyes Only guy," Bree said calmly as they sat down at a table. Max had brought a pile of food and was sharing it out between the three of them. Cindy spluttered on her coffee.

"Hey." Max replied as she rubbed Cindy on the back. "I never said you were going to meet Eyes Only, I said you were going to meet a computer nerd with contacts, one of which happens to be Eyes Only."

"Oh." Bree replied slightly disappointed.

"What the heck you talkin'about Boo?" Cindy asked.

"Logan." Max replied simply.

"What'd heck's roller boy gotta do with Eyes Only?"

"Just as much as I do." Max replied. "What's the big dealio? So Logan does a bit of hacking for 'mister freedom fighter' and I do a bit of recon, act as a body guard now and again and do the rare assassination. It's all in a day's work for a genetically engineered killin' machine y'know."

Cindy just looked at her wide-eyed. "You know Boo," She said slowly shaking her head. "You talk so much shit it's hard to tell when you not talkin' shit. So why we talking about your rich boyfriend."

"He is not my boyfriend."

"Aha. Then why is dear Zacky jealous?"

"Zack's been recaptured one to many times. He's sick in the head. At least he is if he thinks he's ever goin' t' get more than a sistah's affection out of me."

"Whoa," Bree said cutting into the conversation. "Zack as in..?"

"X5 599? Yeah." Max replied as she shoved some more food into her mouth.

"So you..?" Bree asked sending a questioning look at Cindy.

"Original Cindy knows him enough to know she don't exactly like him. I mean he's cool, he just weirds out aroun'my homegirl. His heads in the right place, he just keeps tryin' t' think with the wrong one."

Max hit Cindy lightly for that. "Hey."

"Oh c'mon Boo. Even Logan sees it. And 'Money-bags Cale' don't like it. He's afraid Zack's goin' t' take you away from him. Speakin' of Logan, why are we speakin' of Logan?"

"'Cause he's invited us over for a culinary miracle."

"Boo's not so sure..."

"Boo wasn't invited. We'll be talkin' shop."

"Riight. Nab the leftovers?"

"Always." Max replied grinning.

"So what are you beautiful ladies talkin' 'bout?" Sketchy asked as he and Herbal approached.

Bree laughed, unused to the flattery, Cindy groaned and Max just shrugged. "Logan and food." Max replied easily. "Y'know, the things that make the world go round."

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