By the next night Asha got the info on the place they were keeping Logan
in. She was going in with Max and Alec to get him out. She got them past
the front guards and they were supposed to go get him out. Asha suggested
Alec just go retrieve Logan but Max insisted he might need back up.
Asha managed to kill 5 guards without being noticed and she kept look out. Alec and Max slipped into the shadows around the part of the building he was being held. Before reaching their entrance Alec whispered to her.
"I think you should go back." He knew she didn't see the pictures and he didn't know if she could take it. She hissed back at him.
"Just open the damn window." He shrugged but a concerned look was still on his face.
He didn't enter because there were men in there. Max didn't have the view thank god he thought.
Logan was tied to a chair and 3 guards were in the room. Another man was overseeing the process as the last man slowly took his knife and slowly sliced his skin were his upper arm was.
Alec had seen this before so he didn't flinch but it was a nasty process but he looked at Logan's face and he couldn't believe it. Logan looked straight ahead and didn't wince cry out flinch or give away expression. His body was limp and his eyes looked even hollower than in the pictures. He turned back to Max who still couldn't see it.
"I'll go in first. There are 5 guys. You take out the three guys I'll take out the other two and take care of Logan." She nodded.
"And Max? Remember don't get sidetracked no matter what. Just take out the guards don't focus on anything else." She sighed in a exasperated way.
"I don't get distracted."
"Just remember the objective."
"Whatever, just go in." Alec turned back around and before the blade met Logan's face he jumped in the room and knocked down the man with the tool of torture. He heard Max's kicks and punches as she tried to take out the men. He quickly knocked the over looker unconscious as he tried to pull his gun on Alec.
Once the two men were incapacitated he turned towards Logan again. He hadn't moved and blood was flowing down his arm faster then the blood was leaving his other wounds. He knelt so he was in front of him.
"Logan?" no answer
"Logan man come on come back to earth! " he thought of slapping him but he knew it wouldn't do anything. Max got her last man down and came over next to Alec. The expression on her face was so shocked and tears started down her cheeks. Her hand moved towards an open wound on his face but she stopped her hand inches in front on it. Her heart started to clench. 'Oh god I was protecting him. I was keeping him safe. Why can't he see that? Why did this happen to him? Oh god why are his eyes so hollow?' Alec watched Max as emotions were racing over her features. She managed to whisper.
"Logan?" Logan breathed in deeply but his eyes still saw nothing. A little louder this time in an almost sob.
"Logan?" His eyes closed.
Logan's POV
I was gone. I was in a world of blackness. I didn't feel anything but the dull knife of pain slip through my body over and over again. It still slices at my heart even after they are gone with their little knives and guns. It is so funny I could almost laugh. I didn't feel a thing. I could see the knife cut through my skin and I saw their fists flying at my face but it was an out of body experience. They weren't hurting me. Because the one thing that could kill me was. She loves Alec. She doesn't feel the electricity like I do. She can't feel that intense feel of a flame when we are together. She doesn't know what she does for me. How I started to work for her. How I walked for her wake up for her and even breathed for her. Everything she is was worth living for. When I considered committing suicide after my chance of walking was gone, it was Max who kept me alive. She was worth it. She was the only thing I was living for. But I was wrong. She doesn't love me. I can't be there for her. No matter how much I love her till it hurts inside she won't return the feelings. I would die for her. But she left me and she doesn't need me. Alec is there for her and he will take care of her better than I ever can I guess. She had a choice and she left of her own free will for someone better. There isn't any thing left. I can't work I can't eat I can't sleep I can barely breathe. Purpose is quickly leaving me. This is worse than when I thought she was dead. She is leaving me of choice and it hurts so bad I want to die but I can't do that. Why don't I just slip away? I can let go right now and let it all end and it wouldn't make a fucking difference to Max because I made Asha promise me if anything happened Max would never know. I can hear a voice. It is familiar. Is it death? I can't tell but I am coming back to my body. I can barely feel the pain that surrounds my body but it is there.
Out of the POV
His eyes barely opened. He couldn't focus on anything. He had been out of his body for a week and a half and it felt so strange to be back in it. He managed to make out the forms of what looked like Alec and Max. He clenched his eyes shut. God he was in hell. He had died and gone to hell. Alec barked at him when he saw Logan was coming back.
"Logan!! Wake up buddy!!" Alec managed to shake Logan a little. Max had tears flowing down her cheeks and she couldn't stop them. He was hurt. The effects could be worse than his paralyses. Logan opened his eyes again and saw more clearly. He managed to say.
"Just go away." His head was spinning. Suddenly his heart gave a jolt and it was squeezing. The devil sure had a way to get to him. He jerked suddenly in response to the pain his heart was inflicting on him. Max saw it and she couldn't do anything about it. Alec grabbed his shoulders to keep him from shaking and convulsing.
"Come on man where did they put your exosuit?" Max looked down at Logan's legs and saw it.
"Alec he is wearing it. His legs aren't even tied." Alec looked down and she was right. Max didn't know about Logan giving up and stop fighting.
"I can see why. They keep it on to give pain in every part." As if to confirm his thoughts they looked over the cuts and bruises along his legs around the exo in order not to short circuit it.
Max couldn't understand. With the power to his legs Logan could've have escaped or at least attempted. This can't be Logan. There was no way he would just capitulate like this.
Logan stopped convulsing finally and his slightly unclear gaze rested on Max. It was her all right. He looked down and without closing his eyes even a tear fell off of his face and Max and Alec watch as it fell into one of his many wounds.
"Fuck, we gotta get him out before somebody finds out we are here. Alec rushed behind him and untied his hands, which were burnt. He managed to pull Logan up to stand and put his arm around him to hold him up. Logan suddenly flew again. His body screamed pain for half a second and then he was out of his body again. Alec urged him to see if he could walk. Not hearing anything Logan managed to move his feet and Max could not believe how many wounds were on his legs as they started to bleed through his pants. His face did not change. Alec managed to get him out of the window and Max helplessly watched.
Asha was on the edge of her patience. She was so tense. 'What was taking so long for god's sake?' suddenly she saw Alec round the corner hurriedly trying to make it to their vehicle while holding Logan steady. She couldn't believe he was still walking as she saw the blood spots left behind by his steps. Quickly they laid Logan in the back seat where Alec stayed with him. Max sat in the front. She could see Asha's eyes were also threatening to break tears after seeing Logan in such pain. She looked back at Alec who was trying to stop the gunshot in his shoulder from bleeding which it would not stop after Logan started to moved around.
"Asha get to the hospital." Alec urged as Asha tore out of the parking lot in front of the building.
"Where the hell did you think I was going?" she snapped back. Max saw everything in a blur. Asha managed to get them to the hospital where Logan was taken in. Logan could barely understand what was happening. But he didn't give a damn. Asha Alec and Max waited as they heard the orders of the doctors around them. They couldn't believe what had just happened. Max was dying. She couldn't believe how Logan looked. How hopeless he sounded and looked. Her insides clenched.
Asha was afraid for Logan knowing his mental state. He was a good contact a good friend and he was her crush for a while. Somewhere along the way though her feelings were being redirected.
Alec was upset for Max and Logan. He always thought he knew Logan, and thought he would pull through but his assumptions failed him again.
They stayed at the hospital waiting.
A/N Remember this has already been written so I will keep posting a chapter a day. Tell me whatcha think.
Asha managed to kill 5 guards without being noticed and she kept look out. Alec and Max slipped into the shadows around the part of the building he was being held. Before reaching their entrance Alec whispered to her.
"I think you should go back." He knew she didn't see the pictures and he didn't know if she could take it. She hissed back at him.
"Just open the damn window." He shrugged but a concerned look was still on his face.
He didn't enter because there were men in there. Max didn't have the view thank god he thought.
Logan was tied to a chair and 3 guards were in the room. Another man was overseeing the process as the last man slowly took his knife and slowly sliced his skin were his upper arm was.
Alec had seen this before so he didn't flinch but it was a nasty process but he looked at Logan's face and he couldn't believe it. Logan looked straight ahead and didn't wince cry out flinch or give away expression. His body was limp and his eyes looked even hollower than in the pictures. He turned back to Max who still couldn't see it.
"I'll go in first. There are 5 guys. You take out the three guys I'll take out the other two and take care of Logan." She nodded.
"And Max? Remember don't get sidetracked no matter what. Just take out the guards don't focus on anything else." She sighed in a exasperated way.
"I don't get distracted."
"Just remember the objective."
"Whatever, just go in." Alec turned back around and before the blade met Logan's face he jumped in the room and knocked down the man with the tool of torture. He heard Max's kicks and punches as she tried to take out the men. He quickly knocked the over looker unconscious as he tried to pull his gun on Alec.
Once the two men were incapacitated he turned towards Logan again. He hadn't moved and blood was flowing down his arm faster then the blood was leaving his other wounds. He knelt so he was in front of him.
"Logan?" no answer
"Logan man come on come back to earth! " he thought of slapping him but he knew it wouldn't do anything. Max got her last man down and came over next to Alec. The expression on her face was so shocked and tears started down her cheeks. Her hand moved towards an open wound on his face but she stopped her hand inches in front on it. Her heart started to clench. 'Oh god I was protecting him. I was keeping him safe. Why can't he see that? Why did this happen to him? Oh god why are his eyes so hollow?' Alec watched Max as emotions were racing over her features. She managed to whisper.
"Logan?" Logan breathed in deeply but his eyes still saw nothing. A little louder this time in an almost sob.
"Logan?" His eyes closed.
Logan's POV
I was gone. I was in a world of blackness. I didn't feel anything but the dull knife of pain slip through my body over and over again. It still slices at my heart even after they are gone with their little knives and guns. It is so funny I could almost laugh. I didn't feel a thing. I could see the knife cut through my skin and I saw their fists flying at my face but it was an out of body experience. They weren't hurting me. Because the one thing that could kill me was. She loves Alec. She doesn't feel the electricity like I do. She can't feel that intense feel of a flame when we are together. She doesn't know what she does for me. How I started to work for her. How I walked for her wake up for her and even breathed for her. Everything she is was worth living for. When I considered committing suicide after my chance of walking was gone, it was Max who kept me alive. She was worth it. She was the only thing I was living for. But I was wrong. She doesn't love me. I can't be there for her. No matter how much I love her till it hurts inside she won't return the feelings. I would die for her. But she left me and she doesn't need me. Alec is there for her and he will take care of her better than I ever can I guess. She had a choice and she left of her own free will for someone better. There isn't any thing left. I can't work I can't eat I can't sleep I can barely breathe. Purpose is quickly leaving me. This is worse than when I thought she was dead. She is leaving me of choice and it hurts so bad I want to die but I can't do that. Why don't I just slip away? I can let go right now and let it all end and it wouldn't make a fucking difference to Max because I made Asha promise me if anything happened Max would never know. I can hear a voice. It is familiar. Is it death? I can't tell but I am coming back to my body. I can barely feel the pain that surrounds my body but it is there.
Out of the POV
His eyes barely opened. He couldn't focus on anything. He had been out of his body for a week and a half and it felt so strange to be back in it. He managed to make out the forms of what looked like Alec and Max. He clenched his eyes shut. God he was in hell. He had died and gone to hell. Alec barked at him when he saw Logan was coming back.
"Logan!! Wake up buddy!!" Alec managed to shake Logan a little. Max had tears flowing down her cheeks and she couldn't stop them. He was hurt. The effects could be worse than his paralyses. Logan opened his eyes again and saw more clearly. He managed to say.
"Just go away." His head was spinning. Suddenly his heart gave a jolt and it was squeezing. The devil sure had a way to get to him. He jerked suddenly in response to the pain his heart was inflicting on him. Max saw it and she couldn't do anything about it. Alec grabbed his shoulders to keep him from shaking and convulsing.
"Come on man where did they put your exosuit?" Max looked down at Logan's legs and saw it.
"Alec he is wearing it. His legs aren't even tied." Alec looked down and she was right. Max didn't know about Logan giving up and stop fighting.
"I can see why. They keep it on to give pain in every part." As if to confirm his thoughts they looked over the cuts and bruises along his legs around the exo in order not to short circuit it.
Max couldn't understand. With the power to his legs Logan could've have escaped or at least attempted. This can't be Logan. There was no way he would just capitulate like this.
Logan stopped convulsing finally and his slightly unclear gaze rested on Max. It was her all right. He looked down and without closing his eyes even a tear fell off of his face and Max and Alec watch as it fell into one of his many wounds.
"Fuck, we gotta get him out before somebody finds out we are here. Alec rushed behind him and untied his hands, which were burnt. He managed to pull Logan up to stand and put his arm around him to hold him up. Logan suddenly flew again. His body screamed pain for half a second and then he was out of his body again. Alec urged him to see if he could walk. Not hearing anything Logan managed to move his feet and Max could not believe how many wounds were on his legs as they started to bleed through his pants. His face did not change. Alec managed to get him out of the window and Max helplessly watched.
Asha was on the edge of her patience. She was so tense. 'What was taking so long for god's sake?' suddenly she saw Alec round the corner hurriedly trying to make it to their vehicle while holding Logan steady. She couldn't believe he was still walking as she saw the blood spots left behind by his steps. Quickly they laid Logan in the back seat where Alec stayed with him. Max sat in the front. She could see Asha's eyes were also threatening to break tears after seeing Logan in such pain. She looked back at Alec who was trying to stop the gunshot in his shoulder from bleeding which it would not stop after Logan started to moved around.
"Asha get to the hospital." Alec urged as Asha tore out of the parking lot in front of the building.
"Where the hell did you think I was going?" she snapped back. Max saw everything in a blur. Asha managed to get them to the hospital where Logan was taken in. Logan could barely understand what was happening. But he didn't give a damn. Asha Alec and Max waited as they heard the orders of the doctors around them. They couldn't believe what had just happened. Max was dying. She couldn't believe how Logan looked. How hopeless he sounded and looked. Her insides clenched.
Asha was afraid for Logan knowing his mental state. He was a good contact a good friend and he was her crush for a while. Somewhere along the way though her feelings were being redirected.
Alec was upset for Max and Logan. He always thought he knew Logan, and thought he would pull through but his assumptions failed him again.
They stayed at the hospital waiting.
A/N Remember this has already been written so I will keep posting a chapter a day. Tell me whatcha think.