Now Or Never-Chapter 08

Logan blinked. Max looked at her hands. "This is going to sound weird, but this doesn't surprise me at all."

Max looked at him wide-eyed. "What do you mean?"

"Your brothers and sisters. I am working with a few of them to try and take down Manticore."

"No way! You mean to tell me that I have been in the same town as my long lost brothers and sisters for a couple years now? How many of them?" Max almost fell off the bench in amazement.

"Jondy, Krit, Syl, Ben, Tinga, Jace, Zane. Seven. Now hopefully eight."

"Damn straight, you've got eight. How did you get tangled up in Manticore in the first place?"

Logan looked around to see if anyone was around. "I ran into Tinga in the market one day while she was looking for tryptophan. She pulled up her hair in frustration at the vendor while she was trying to bargain with him. I saw the barcode. A few days later, I was around the strip at one or two in the morning on a …walk and saw her kick some major ass. She saw me and threatened to kill me. I told her I knew who she was and that I could help her. She knew where Jondy and Krit were, and with a little computer work, we found the others. That was... about two years ago."

Max was a little dumbfounded at the story Logan had just told her. Two years? Her siblings had been walking amongst her for TWO YEARS? "Wait, Jace didn't come with us. How did she get out?"

"She escaped in 2013, similar to the way you guys originally did in '09." Logan looked at Max who seemed to be almost dying on the inside. "What's wrong?"

"All this has happened and I didn't even know. I didn't even try to find out." A tear fell down Max's cheek. Logan wiped it off resulting in Max looking into his blue eyes. Her stomach did somersaults as she stared into those blue oceans.

"It's ok. Listen, those guys are back at my place. You want to go see them?"

Max's eyes lit up. Little did Logan know that it wasn't only because she was going to see her brothers and sisters again, it was because she was going back to the building with mirror windows. She felt like a two year old, and she was a little embarrassed. "Yeah."

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"Oh, that's great!" Jondy choked out inbetween laughing fits as she watched Krit and Zane wrestle over the last fortune cookie.

"Men, oh my god! They're so funny!" Tinga managed to say.

"Both of you are so dumb! But it's really amusing!" Jace laughed.

"No, both of you are full of too much testosterone." Said a calm voice. All seven heads turned towards the door into the living room as the laughter immediately stopped.

"Max?" Ben whispered. All the others exchanged glances before rushing to Max to hug her and drill her with questions.

"Where ya been little sister?" Syl asked.

"Yeah, how's it been going?" Krit asked as Max sat down on the big comfy couch.

"Where did you get your hair cut?!? It's so cute!" Jace squeaked. Max looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "What? I like you hair."

"So ya gonna talk or are you just going to sit there all night while we waste our breath?" Jondy asked her from behind her.

"I'll talk." Max said as she began her story.

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