Chapter 38: Left behind

Author's Note: Okay, so this is going to be the last chapter and then the next one will be an epilogue. Sorry if some of it seems condensed. I was writing for a really long time. I wanted to get it done tonight so that way I could put it up for you all. My week is going to be really busy.

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Lexa awoke in an unfamiliar place. She groaned as her vision came hazily into focus. She tried to sit up but found herself strapped to a metal table. The room was white and obviously a medical room. A sinking feeling settled into Lexa's stomach when she realized where she was.

"Great, the top of the list of places I DON"T want to be." She thought. "Hey last time I woke up in a bed, not a table. Seems like they aren't very happy with me." She smiled wryly.

The doors whooshed open and in walked the doctor of her nightmares. The same overweight doctor who ran the tests on her the last time. She felt a small surge of terror.

"I don't know what you think you have to smile about X5-427." The doctor said as he pulled on a pair of gloves. "Unless you are happy to see me?" He asked. Seeing the expression on her face he said "I thought not."

He reached her side and took her wrist between his fingers, taking her pulse. He frowned slightly. "I should have put a smaller dose of tranquilizer in those darts. I didn't think you and your mate would have accomplished your true objective yet." He said.

Lexa's mind struggled to understand his words. "What do you mean?" She asked. As she said it however, the words made sense.

"Why 427, you did not know you were pregnant?" He asked.

"So I was right." Lexa thought.

The doctor moved to a table behind her head and picked up a needle. "We are going to have to run a few tests." He told her as be began to draw blood.

Lexa laid on the table staring at the ceiling, tears pooling in her eyes. When she had first suspected she was pregnant she had been upset. She worried about Alec not wanting anything to do with her or the baby, and the very nightmare that was happening right now.

"One of the reasons we wanted your team back was because you and your mate had a perfect DNA match. According to our charts you would have produced a most superior soldier." He said conversationally. Lexa turned her head from him and tried not to hear what he was saying.

He did an ultrasound next, telling the assistant that had come in various measurements. "Subject is approximately three weeks pregnant." He said.

Lexa calculated back and realized that it had to have been the first time she and Alec had slept together. She remembered the candles and Alec holding her in his arms afterward and it gave her some measure of comfort.

The doctor soon left, his tests done. An hour later two X5s were sent to take Lexa to her new cell. She was surprised to see that it had a small window that let in light, the bed was much larger and softer than last time. Another X5 brought in a small fridge. She turned to her and asked.

"Why are they being so accommodating?" The X5 looked around cautiously then answered.

"There have been problems with the X5 females who have been breeding here." She explained.

"But I've seen many pregnant females outside who have done just fine." Lexa argued.

"I didn't say all of them have had problems. Just the ones that were in teams like you. The baby seems to absorb all of the mother's nutrients. One had seizures in her first trimester, it killed them both." She told her.

Lexa was shaken. She hadn't know that things could go wrong.

"You are supposed to drink one of the glasses in there twice a day. There are also snacks in case you get hungry. I am X5-675, if you need anything you are supposed to ask me. I will check on you during the day. Now try and get some rest." 675 turned to leave.

"One thing." Lexa said.

"Yes?"

"Why are you being so, nice?" She asked.

A sad expression crossed the young girl's face. "Because, I know what it's like to be pregnant here."

Lexa was speechless and the girl left the room. She was one of the younger X5s. Only about eighteen Lexa suspected. How awful.

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The Next afternoon...

Alec burst into the living room at Lexa and Vin's apartment. It had taken a lot longer for his contact Roger to get everything he wanted. He knew that Max and Vin should be back by now from recon. He saw Max and Vin standing at the table arguing over a small drawing.
"Okay, I have everything we could possibly need." ALec said dropping two large duffel bags at their feet.

"That's good but we have a problem." Max began.

"What problem?" Alec asked.

"Well, the entrance we used last time is blocked. Not only have they bricked it up but there is a roving guard of X6s every twenty minutes." She told him.

"And every other entrance we have seen is guarded too well also." Vin added.

"What are we going to do?" He asked. "We have to get her out of there!" He said heatedly.

Alec slumped down into a chair. "I don't think I can live without her." He confessed.

Max put a hand on his shoulder. "We'll get her back Alec. I just found my sister and I am not going to let her go."

Vin cleared his throat. "I hate to say this, but we are going to have to ask Logan for some help."

Max's eyes flashed with anger. Then defeat. "You're right."

The three of them hurried down to their bikes. Alec thought of the red motorcycle sitting in his apartment's parking garage waiting for it's mistress to come home.

The rode fast and in silence to Foggle Towers.

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They stood in the elevator going up to the penthouse in silence. The elevator stopped and they walked out into the hall. Alec and Vin looked at one another as Max just stared at the door.

"Let's do this." Max said and walked in once again without knocking.

Logan and Asha were sitting in the dining area eating lunch. "Max." Logan said surprised.

"I'm going to get to the point." She said. "Manticore has taken Lexa again. We did some recon and they have bricked up the way in from last time. I want you to get on your computer and help us." She folded her arms across her chest.

"Max, I am kind of busy. Asha and I were eating and then the S1W needed me to help with-" That's as far as his sentence made it out of his mouth. Max had blurred to the table and slammed her hand down on it, startling them both.

"NO what you have to do is help me get my sister back. All the fucking times I risked getting caught by Lydecker, doing your "Eyes Only" missions for our quid pro quo agreement and you gave me nothing back that can equal what I've done for you. Even finding Zack was mostly my effort! And then because of you I had to send him away!" She said.

Logan started to protest and Alec was there instantly. He lifted Logan from his chair and slammed him against the wall. "Look buddy, we are kind of a hurry right now. No more being nice." He carried him to his computer and set him down. "Get to work." Alec said in a low deadly voice.

Logan signed on and brought up the detailed map of the base. He got to work.

Asha stood up and stepped up to Max. "You know what? I am tired of this. You come here and make demands on Logan when he has more important things to do that save something that is just going to be hunted down anyway. I thought you were "super soldiers" can't you do this shit yourself?" She said with venom.

Max looked at her for a moment then stepped closer to her. "Did you just call her a thing?" Then before Asha could reply Max knocked her sideways with a right hook to the jaw. Asha landed on the floor in a heap glaring up a Max.

"You have no idea how long I have wanted to do that." She said. "Now it would be best for you to leave before I lose it on your ass."

Asha took the suggestion and left.
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Lexa groaned as the door to her cell opened and revealed 675 standing there with a tray of food. "I am glad to see you!" She exclaimed. "I am really hungry. Not to mention bored." She told her.

675 put the table on the small rolling tray and wheeled it to the bed. "It's the meds." She explained. "The pills they give you are to help the baby grow faster and it makes you want to eat more."

Lexa grumbled at that. The first time that she had brought the pills yesterday evening Lexa had tried to avoid taking them. 675 had then told her that if she didn't take them that they would strap her to the bed and give her an IV. She took the pills.

"Do you think you could get me a book? Or maybe a Cd player and some music? Anything?" She asked 675.

675 shook her head doubtfully. "I don't know, I'll ask." Then her face brightened. "I was told if you continue to behave they may let you take a short walk in a few days."

"Whoopee. A walk around the prison." Lexa muttered and her companion decided to ignore her.

675 stood. "I'll be back later for your tray." She left the small cell.

Lexa ate ravenously until she could hold no more. One thing she had learned her was to take food while you could, things never were too steady here except for training.

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675 returned an hour later for the tray and Lexa inquired about the book. "Sorry, they said no." But as she was leaving a small paperback novel "fell" onto the bed out of the back of her shirt. Lexa snatched it up eagerly and thank her for it.

"For what?" 675 asked innocently. She then left Lexa to her new adventure.

Lexa turned it over to discover that the girl had left her THE RED VELVET DIARIES. Hmm.. Cheap romance novel, who would have thought? Lexa settled down into the covers and started to read.

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After three hours of searching Logan said quietly "I think I have it."

They gathered around the computer and watched as he ran through layouts of the building.

"Okay, here is where you are going to enter, it's on the other side on the building from the drainage system. You are going to have to get up the side of the building to the roof. There is an air-conditioning duct there but you have to be quick. The satellite feed shows two X7s roving on thirty minute intervals." He looked at Max.

"I don't think think Vin is going to fit since he is so large so he is going to have to go another way." Vin nodded.

"He will come through here." He continued pointing to a door on the north side of the building. "There are two x6 guards stationed there. I don't think they will be a problem for you." Vin nodded once again.

"Once you are both in, Max and Alec, you are going to drop down here." He pointed once again. "Then you will be able to meet up with Vin and continue down to these cells in the west side of the building. There is a whole row for the pregnant women but I can't determine which one is Lexa's." He told them.

"It's okay, we'll know." Alec said. Logan frowned but went back to his plan.

"All right, well, you can go back the way Vin came or you can follow this corridor and go out through this door. It has six guards though three inside and three out." With that he finished his speech and turned to face them. "That's it. I take it that this is the end of our deal?" He asked icily.

"You got it." Max said her voice tight.

"Good."

"You have no idea how stupid you are man." Vin said suddenly. Logan jumped at the sound of his voice as it was the first time he had spoken since he had been there.

Vin was fed up with seeing Max so hurt and he wanted the man to know. "She waited for you even though she couldn't touch you. Do you have any idea how many men would kill to be with her? And you wasted it all on a girl who isn't a tenth of what she is."

"You mean someone who is human?" Logan said arching his eyebrows.

Vin hit him. Hard. "Let's leave the "ordinary" to his little crusade." He told the other two. He had said ordinary like it was a bad word. Once they were in the elevator Vin drew Max into his arms. "We are human. And he is stupid."

He kissed her gently, reverently.

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Lexa sighed and put the book down. She was half way through. She heard the door to her cell being unlocked and she hid the book quickly. This time 675 was accompanied by another transgenic.

The stranger sat by her bed and took Lexa's pulse without saying a word. Then she stuck a thermometer in her mouth and took her temp. She wrote the results in a folder and left the room.

"Real chatty." Lexa commented.

"Not one of my favorites." 675 replied.

"So what's the deal?" Lexa asked.

675 hesitated then answered. "Some of your blood work came back abnormal. They just wanted to keep an eye on you." The woman hurried to reassure her.

Lexa felt a small wave of panic once again. "Is the baby okay?"

"I don't know." 675 answered. "Try to sleep okay?" She asked.

Lexa nodded and laid back. She tried to sleep but it wouldn't come.

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Vin was driving the car they had stolen to the woods where they would enter the new Manticore site. Alec was preparing three backpacks for the mission.

He was busily packing his and Max's when he stopped and handed her a gun. "Take this."

"No way, I don't do guns you know that." She said pushing it away.

"Even for your sister?" He asked her. Max remembered the last time she had declined to take a gun for a sister. Tinga had died later on. Max new it wasn't her fault and her not taking the gun had nothing to do with it but she couldn't help but feel guilty in a small way. She reluctantly took the gun and set it next to her.

Alec went back to packing the bags. It was nightfall when Vin stopped the car and said "We're here."

He shut off the engine and they got out. Alec handed small walkie-talkies to each of them and told them to turn it to channel four.

He handed Vin a large gun and his bag. "You have ammo, some C-4 and some detonators, a crow bar and some zip ties in there."

"Zip ties?" He asked.

"For the guard's hands and legs." Alec explained. Vin nodded.

He handed Max her bag. Vin gathered her into a hug and gave her one last kiss. They stared into each other's eyes for a moment before the group split up and headed towards their destinations.

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Max and Alec were crouched by the wall watching the time go by on their watches. Alec held up one finger representing the minutes they had until they could go. The minute changed and Max threw the grappling hook connected to the rope over the edge of the roof. They quickly climbed to the roof. Alec worked on the entrance to the duct while Max gathered the rope and put it along with the hook back into her pack.

Moments later Alec had the entrance open and he slid in, Max close behind.

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Vin walked casually towards the door. The two transgenics snapped up their guns at the sight of him. Before they could move again, Vin blurred with a speed that belied his size and knocked them unconscious. He used the ties to make them immobile and took the clips from their guns and slipped them into his pockets.

He entered the hall and waited under the vent he was supposed to wait for Alec and Max. He heard them struggle with the vent so he reached up and simply pulled it off. He set in down and reached up to help Alec down then Max.

Without a word they replaced the vent and moved quickly down the hall towards the group of cells the hoped to find Lexa. It was about to be lights out so they had to hurry.

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Half an hour before lights out 675 came in to check on Lexa for the final time that night. She watched as Lexa drank the awful mixture from one of the cups in the fridge. Lexa made a face and 675 offered her water. She nodded gratefully and began to drink.

Lexa's hand tightened on the glass as she felt Vin and Alec's presence near by.

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They reached the cells with minor interruption. Alec had knocked out the two X6s returning from their shower and hid them in one of them many utility closets. Max gave a mental sigh of relief when they reached the cells. Then she noticed that Vin and Alec were alert, eyes darting from left to right.

"What's wrong?" She whispered. Alec shook his head at her. He breathed deeply and gestured forward and to the right at the third cell on that side, looking at Vin for confirmation. He nodded slowly. Max frowned, missing out on the bulk of the exchange.

Alec moved slowly and looked into the window of the door of the cell. He stared for a moment when he saw Lexa. Her eyes widened slightly at the sight of him. He put his finger to his lips when he saw the woman in the cell with her and turned back to Max and Vin signaling that there was one other person in there with her.

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Lexa could feel the moving closer and then Alec's face appeared at her door. She drank in the sight of him hungrily. He motioned for her to be quiet and disappeared again. She felt a slight disappointment.

A moment later 675 left and the door opened again and Alec moved in quickly. Vin and Max stood at the outside of the door making sure no one came.

Alec crushed Lexa to him and kissed her fiercely. "Lexa." He said softly.

"Alec. There is something I need-" She started to say.

"Not now, no time." Max said. "We need to get out of here."

"But-"

"Now." Max insisted.

Alec grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the hall. They hurried towards the way they had come in when all of a sudden the lights in the hall came up to full brightness and alarms sounded.

"Shit. Someone must have found the two I left at the door." Vin sweared.

They turned back to head to the second exit when footsteps pounded behind them. A shot rang out and caught Vin. It entered high on the right side of his back. Vin staggered .
Max steadied him holding his arm. She put it around her shoulders and put her arms around his waist.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Just great, love being shot." Vin coughed.

They hurried down the corridor until the came to the end with a choice of left or right.

"Which way?" Max asked.

"I don't know." Alec said. "I think we took a wrong turn."

"Well we need to hurry." Max said.

"Okay left." Lexa said making the decision for them.

They ran as fast as they could with Vin in tow. They came to an end of the corridor and faced double doors. They looked behind them, a unit of X7s were coming fast behind them. They had now choice but to go forward.

They burst through the doors into a conference room with blue carpet. Lexa looked up and gasped. Captain Ryke was sitting in a chair at the front of the room. There was another team standing in front of him. The same team who had taken Lexa the first time.

Captain Ryke smiled and said "427, I can thank you enough for saving me the time of having them hunt you down."

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Alec assessed the situation. There was one other exit across the room. If he remembered the map right if they went through those doors they would come out next to the door they were looking for before they got lost.

The moved forward and the other team moved with them.

"I don't think so 494. The baby that she is carrying is too important to let go." Captain Ryke said.

Alec looked at Lexa with shock in his eyes. "Baby?" he thought

Vin coughed and fell to his knees. When he doubled over in pain the blood covering his back scared Lexa.

The two male transgenics moved towards them and Lexa moved in front of Vin. The two men jumped at the group in unison. Alec blurred and caught the the one on the right, yanking him out of the air and down to the ground. Kicking him savagely in the ribs.

The one on the left hit Max who was leaning over Vin at the time checking on him. They rolled across the room and slammed into the wall. Max ended up on bottom while the male hit her face time after time, rocking it from left to right. Vin tried to stand and fell back against the wall only able to watch.

Lexa had stood frozen in fear when she saw Captain Ryke, the guy who had made sure she had nightmares night after night. She heard a cry of pain from Max when she tried knock the guy off. That set Lexa into action. She crept up on them quietly trying not alert the male to her presence. He was too preoccupied hitting Max to notice her. When she was in range she kicked out and connected with his temple.

The male slumped over Max who pushed him off her. "Thanks." She said.

"No problem." They looked over to Alec. His face was covered with blood from small cuts around his eyes.

Lexa's eyes searched the room from the girl that was a part of their team. She was standing beside the Captain, her face blank. Her eyes were cold, like no body was home.
Lexa went to Vin's side, checking on him.

His skin was cold and it bothered Lexa because usually X5s were warmer than humans. His lips were pale and a pool of blood was gathering on the floor. Obviously the bullet had hit something vital.

Lexa stood and went to the Captain with all intentions of ending this fight. Max and Alec were engaged with the male and as she neared the Captain the female stepped forward.

Lexa tried to blur and get around her but a sharp pain exploded in her right side. Her hand went to it reflexively. She pulled it away and it was covered with bright red, warm, blood.

The female was holding a knife covered in her blood.

"I told you that the female was not to be harmed!" Captain Ryke yelled.
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Alec heard the Captain yell and turned to face them. He saw Lexa fall to her knees. Blood poured from her wound. Alec kicked the guy one last time and hurried to her side.

The female tried to stop him but in his fury Alec reached out and snapped her neck without another thought.

"Max!" He yelled to her. "Get Vin, we have to get out of here." He lifted her into his arms and started for the door. Max went to Vin's side.

"494, do you really think that they will make it out of here?" Captain Ryke said calmly.

"Alec, he's right." Lexa whispered hoarsely.

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Lexa could see the agony on his face and felt it as if it were hers. THe despair showed in his eyes.

"Alec, he's right." She told him. "There was something wrong with the blood work on the baby. Even if I do live with this," She lifted her hand from her wound showing him how badly she was hurt. "It may hurt the baby."

"We can help her, we can help them both." Ryke gestured to Vin. "A few moments more and 693 may not make it."

Alec shook his head. "No. I'm not leaving her here."

Lexa knew they only way for them to live would be for them to stay. She also knew that if Alec and Max didn't leave now, it would be too late.

She lifted a hand to his face, caressing gently, wincing at the stain of her blood on his face. "Alec, you have to leave, now. Take Max and go." He shook his head.

Lexa could feel herself weakening. "Alec, I love you." She tried to smile bravely. "You have to leave so you can come back and rescue us. We'll be waiting for you."

Tears flowed freely down his face dropping onto hers. He leaned down and kissed her softly. "I love you. Take care of our baby."

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Alec knew there was no other way and he could feel his inner self screaming with rage. He didn't even feel the tears falling from his eyes. He could tell Lexa was fighting to stay conscious. He wanted the last time she saw him to be a good memory.

He kissed her gently with all of the love he felt for her. "I love you. Take care of our baby." He told her. She nodded and her head fell against his chest, her breathing labored.

He look up with steel in his eyes at the Captain. "I won't ask you to take good care of her because I know a bastard like you would like. Just know this, if EITHER of them die, I will come after you."

He could feel the emotions slipping away and he became 494, the assassin once again. Lovingly he lay Lexa down and went to Max who was clutching Vin to her. She was whispering to him.

"Max we gotta go." He said. She nodded and kissed Vin softly.

"We will be back." She told him.

A unit of X7s pounded through the door. Max and Alec fled quickly. Alec glanced back and the last he saw was an X5 lifting Lexa. She pushed Lexa's hair back. She turned and Alec recognized her as the one who had been in Lexa's cell before. Another X5 was at Vin's side motioning for the X7s to lift him.

Alec forced his attention to their escape. He and Max made it to the door and found the guards had tripled there. Alec shot as many as he could providing cover fire for Max as she took out the rest. The left through the woods, dodging as many of the transgenics running through the trees looking for them as they could. Alec loaded another clip into his gun as the reached the clearing where the car was.

He motioned for Max to drive. "I'll watch for anyone coming." He told her.

Max started the car and drove as fast as she could.

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I am pretty sure that there is going to be a sequel. Depends on how many reviews I get... HINT HINT