Disclaimer: This is tiresome, everybody already knows that I don't own DA or its characters.
Summary: After the events in "Hello/Goodbye", Max's wish is granted and she gets to taste life without Logan.
Rating: PG-13
A/N: I wanna thank everyone that is reviewing and about the writing thing I know that I have plenty of mistakes but it looks like my writing is ending up to be worst than I thought, english is not my language but I try to do the best using a dictionary while I write my stuff and all, about a beta, I don't have one and I know I could find one easy, but it's just that I don't really want to send my work to someone then wait this person to have some time to check it out, then do the corrections and then post, if I did that the chapters would be at least one day late, and at least the stuff I read I prefer to get it earlier, but it could be only me, what I do is, I read the chapter twice before posting it and every mistake I get I correct but like I said, english is not my language so I'm not the best indication to correct it :D. So anyway everything I can do is apologize to everyone and ask for you guys to bear with me.
To Whisper: Actually my point in this fic is to show Max's life without Logan, on "Hello/Goodbye" she said that she did everything to push him away, so now I'm granting this wish to her :D. If you pay close attention you will see that I will point lots of things Logan always did, like when Max said "I would give anything for a map", are some hints for what Logan could do or did that without his help she is screwed :D.
Chapter 6: Lost Haven*****
[4 ½ months since Logan's death]
On the top of the highest place on the city, stands a lone figurine, on the middle of a cold Seattle night, the wind blowing strong and icily but this person appears unaffect. Max stands on the top of the Space Needle, staring at the infinite nothing, //A lot of time has passed since my life crumbled down on my head, first I lost the love of my life and best friend, the first and only human that truly understood and accepted me for who I am, then I lost Joshua, he was my responsability, I was the one that made him come out on the real world and I failed him. Now I understand why Logan was always so focused on his work, not only because he loved it, but because it helps numbing the pain. Since Joshua died I have been doing that a lot, my life resumes to work, space needle and home, at least Normal is getting something from this, I go to work earlier than everybody else, gets a whole bunch of packets and spends the whole day delivering 'em. Original Cindy is always on my back telling me to go have fun, go to Crash and all, but the few times I went I was a pain in the ass for everybody, so I just don't go. Alec has been trying to get closer to me, talk to me and help, I appreciate it but I just don't feel like it, I prefer being alone, nothing and no one could help me...\\
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"So this is where the mouse is hidding...",
White is sitting with a group of six suited men around a round table, sprawled on it is a big map, a spot on the map marked with a red circle,
"Yes sir, we have been able to gather information that this is the location of
the transgenics headquarters." – one of the suited men said,
"Have you done recon yet?" – White asked,
"Yes sir, recon was done and revealed a large quantity of transgenics, specially the mutant ones, they don't have very soshisticated weaponry nor any kind of equipment, the facility is pretty chaotic, but we have to consider that they are highly trained military personnel." – another man responded,
White stops for a minute deep in thought and then says,
"Very well, let's avoid direct contact, it could bring unnecessary attention, utilize course of action number 1666.",
everyone around the table jumps in surprise, one of them gets out of the shock and asks with certain difficulty,
"Sir, are you sure...If we proceed with this plan anyone with the right skills and equipment will be able to know.",
White stands up and with a grin answers,
"Yes. I highly doubt that those filthy transgenics are smart and skillful enough with computers or even have the top quality and very expensive computer hardware necessary to blow our operation. Proceed with the order, action is to be activated by 1500 hours.",
everybody stand up, nod and then leave, White is left behind with a evil grin on his
face.
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Max is sitting on a bench in a isolated area of Jam Pony, half of her day has gone by, now it's around three o' clock and Max is taking a short and rare break before resuming the deliveries. Her rest is interrupted by Alec screaming,
"Max hurry here, you gotta see this!!",
Max considers ignoring him, but by the tone of his voice it must be important so she decides to go. The whole Jam Pony crew is gathered around the tv monitor where Alec is calling her, every pair of eyes is glued to the monitor and everybody is in utter silence, she approaches Alec and asks what he wants, he just points to the TV. Max focus her attention on the televion and what she sees and hears make her heart stops a beat,
...authorities revealed that the cause of the explosion was accidental, probably a gas leak. So I repeat, we are here broadcasting to you live from sector 12 where a whole sector was blown up, the place known as "Terminal City", exploded minutes ago, the numbers of persons on the location at the time of the accident as well as the number of victims is unknown, but it looks like the whole sector will be in ruins.
Max turns to look at Alec and they exchange one look before hurrying out on their bikes at top speed.
Max and Alec gets to the entrance of Terminal City where a big crowd is gathered behind the barricade. Up ahead the whole sector is just a big pile of debris and there's still flames alive.
"Okay we're going in, let's split up and cover as much ground as possible looking for any survivors, don't get spotted!",
Max says before taking off on her bike.
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Max is slowly walking through Terminal City, more likely through the ruins of Terminal City. The whole place is down, the few buildings that are half up are falling down slowly, there's still quite a few spots of fire burning. In her search of any survivor Max only found hundreds of corpses, people burned so badly that they're irrecognizable, and there must be other hundreds of dead, the ones that were carbonized and will never be found. Suddenly Max stops dead on her tracks and focus her listening, she manages to listen it again, a very low, faint...moan. Max searches every place with her eyes and finds nothing, on a second check she manages to pick up a form trapped beneath piles of debris, she approaches and kneels down, removing a block she manages to make out a person, severely burned.
"...M...Max...",
the person manages to choke out. Max recognizes the voice and says,
"Mole....is it really you Mole.",
"Yeah...I think...I must not be...very pretty huh...",
"But how...what happened...?"
"I don't know...I..I went out to smoke...and suddenly everything went to hell...it was no accident...",
Mole lets out a moan of pain and closes his eyes, Max gets closer and screams,
"Hang on Mole, I'm going to get you outta here, hang on!",
"Ugh...there's...no time....get out...while you....can. . .",
are his last whispers before life finally leaves his body.
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Max is sitting on the top of the space needle, hugging her knees close rocking back and forth,
//Another tragedy to add to my screwed up life. White has managed to whipe out a whole bunch of people I cared, a whole sector of them, maybe his personal mission is to screw up my life little by little, they say it was an accident, but I know better...
It feels like my life crumbled down just like Terminal City did, but a few months ago. I'm devoided of any feeling but the constant nudgning of this awful mix of bad feelings. Maybe I should just leave this city for good, after all there isn't very much left for me here, maybe if I leave I can forget all this shit happened, avoid all the bad memories or worst, the good memories that reminds me that once I had a good life that crumbled down..."
TBC...
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OBS: // \\ are Max's thoughts