Chapter 5
Max raced straight to Joshua's house, hoping that Joshua would be there. But, like what Logan had said, he wasn't and there was no note. Usually Joshua wouldn't leave for no good reason and if it was for a reason, he knew that he wasn't allowed outside because as it was said, 'People are not used to anything that is different'
Max was about to get a mental breakdown. If anything bad happened to Joshua, she would be to blame because she was the one that sent Joshua out into this world in the first place. She was the one that burned Manticore down.
"Relax Max, think clearly, don't rush into any conclusions. Now, firstly, search around the place. There might be some clues lying around," said Max to herself as she slowly crept around the room looking for some clues.
For an hour, she searched around Joshua's house but unfortunately, there were no clues left behind. The only definite clue was that Joshua was missing. And there was no clear reason why. The only clear reason so far on why Joshua was missing is that he was kidnapped. And the most likely person to kidnap Joshua was.Ames White.
As soon as Max realised this, she decided to ring Logan to tell him what she thought. She still had Alec's mobile with her and she felt guilty that she still hadn't returned it to him. She could hear Logan's phone ringing on the other side, but there was no answer. The answering machine went on after three rings and she could hear Logan's voice talking on the machine. She left a quick message, wondering where Logan was because usually Logan was in at this time and since he knew that Max was going to search Joshua's place, he would have stayed at his apartment, waiting for her call.
All of a sudden, Max had a thought that maybe Logan was kidnapped too! "What if Ames White was taking all the people that she loved the most. What if Logan was already dead? What if he was being tortured right at this minute. What if." Max thought. But she quickly dismissed her thoughts realising that she was racing to conclusion again. She decided to race to Logan's house, reassuring herself on the way that Logan would be OK and that he wasn't able to pick up the phone in time because he was lifting waits or something.
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Max stepped into Logan's apartment. The whole place was a wreck and Max had a sickening feeling in her stomach. She walked around the place and went into the study where the exo-skeleton was lying flat down, broken. That was when she saw a note lying on the desk, scribbled carelessly, but obviously Logan's handwriting. She picked it up and it read, 'If you want to see me again, come to the warehouse at sector 6. Bring $1,000,000 with you.' Then, beneath the note, hidden carefully so Max would be the only one to see was a tiny note, again in Logan's handwriting, 'In a few minutes time, White would come over and take me somewhere. I searched up where Joshua was last seen and they've taken him to a warehouse. Don't follow.' The letter stopped, this was obviously when White had bombarded into Logan's penthouse and taken him hostage.
All of sudden, Max felt strangely alone. She was genetically engineered soldier with all these abilities, yet she was unable to save Logan, or keep him safe. She started to blame herself for not taking care of Logan more carefully and for not telling him what she felt about him. He could be dead right now, and it would be her fault.
"Why is everything my fault!" said Max to herself.
She collapsed into Logan's chair and took Logan's jumper that was lying draped over the back of the chair. She held it close to her, and smelt it, which brought tears to her eyes as she remembered Logan's smell. She slowly cried herself to sleep in the study.
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Max woke up with a cramp in her back. She was in an awkward position on the chair and had somehow half fallen off so that her legs were on the chair but the rest of her body was lying on the floor. She checked the clock and saw that she had slept for 4 hours.
"That's unusual," said Max, "I must be coming down with something to have fallen asleep for 4 hours."
She stood up, Logan's jumper still on her, took the jumper and realised what had happened. Logan was still missing and she hadn't gone to him for 4 hours. She hoped against hope that she wasn't too late and raced off on her ninja to sector 6 to the warehouse.
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She had arrived at the warehouse and had decided to put Logan's jumper on. At that moment, she wanted to be close to Logan, and the jumper was the only source of him available.
She climbed to the roof of the warehouse and peeped down where she saw Joshua and Logan, back to back, tied to chairs, bound and gagged. Some of White's men were patrolling around the outside of the warehouse and others were guarding Logan and Joshua. White was no where to be seen.
Max jumped down from the railing and landed on the ground very quietly. Anyone else who would have tried that jump would have been dead. She was leaning behind two huge wooden crates and just beyond was 3 guards and Logan and Joshua. She reckoned she could take 3 guards out, no big deal to it. The moment of surprise would also aid in her attack, plus the fact that the guards were lazy and smoking cocaine and looking at Magazines of naked women.
Max leapt out from behind the crates and grabbed one guard from behind, and before he could yell out, she had snapped his neck in half. The other guards looked up and saw Max standing there with their fellow guard lying at her feet. They yelped in surprise and was trying to grab their guns and raise them to shoot but Max had disappeared. She had run behind them and before they knew it she had bashed them in the head, kicked them in the stomach and shot them with a silent rifle in just one go.
Max ran towards Logan and Joshua and unbound them, hugging them furiously then stepped back telling Joshua to carry Logan out of the place. Just as she said that, two guards ran in to change their positions. But all they saw was three guards on the floor with Max standing behind. They took their guns out and started shooting but Max had zoomed passed them, tripping one guard over and knocking the other unconscious. She ran out of the building just as White came in with other guards from the other side. One look in the warehouse explained everything and White was furious, but he knew when to stop.
Max had run around the side and reached her Ninja where Joshua and Logan were, hidden behind some crates. They had found her bike and were waiting for her. They managed to fit three people on the ninja and zoomed off to Joshua's place, the closest house they knew.
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"I think I'll need to get new security when I get back. Don't want to let the same thing happen again," said Logan, staring at Max the whole time since they came to Joshua's house. He was sitting in the couch and couldn't move because his exo-skeleton was back at his penthouse, broken.
"Yeah!" replied Max
"Thanks for saving Joshua and I. We really appreciate it."
"Was nothing,"
"By the way, do you want to tell me why you're wearing my jumper?"
Max looked down and saw she was wearing Logan's jumper. Besides the rip on the side, it was OK. She couldn't believe that she had actually forgotten she had put it on. And she didn't' want to tell Logan the real reason why she had put his jumper on.
"I was cold!" said Max, and she gave Logan back her jumper, sneaking a quick smell to remember Logan's smell by.
"Come on lets go, we better get back before anything disastrous happens. Oh and JOSHUA!!! You going to be OK here buddy?" said Max
"Yeah!" yelled Joshua from the kitchen.
"OK! Take care big fella!" yelled Max and she left, carrying Logan to her ninja.
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"You going to be OK here?" asked Max to Logan as soon as he got beck into the exo-skeleton in his penthouse, "I mean, do you need any help cleaning up the mess? I could do with something to do at least."
"No, its OK," said Logan walking Max to the lift door. He didn't want Max around for just the time being. Having her see him useless was unbearable. He wanted to be the strong one, the one that took care of her, not the other way around, "I'll be able to clean up by myself, anyway, I've got some stuff to do and I need to be alone for that."
The lift door shut behind her and she was going to press the ground level button. But she realised that she had to tell Logan right now otherwise it would be too late. So instead, she pressed the 'open' sign and the door opened, only to see Logan still standing in front of the lift. He hadn't left. There was an awkward silence between them for a moment, then Max stepped into the apartment.
"I couldn't leave, not just yet. Not before I have to tell you something," said Max
"I was just about to call you back, because I also need to tell you something,"
"Good, well, you go first!"
"No, you, you asked first,"
"No, I insist,"
"Do you want some coffee? Then we could sit down and talk?"
"Sure!"
"White or Black coffee?"
"White thanks! Oh, and I usually have it with one teaspoon of sugar,"
"OK! Make yourself comfortable in the messy living room; I'll be with you in a second!"
Both Logan and Max were treating each other as if they were guests and hadn't known each other for a long time. If there were some else who had known them for a long time and was looking on to their conversation would have found out that something unusually was happening.
"Here you go, White coffee with one teaspoon of sugar!" said Logan, handing over the steaming mug.
They both sat down on the couch, after putting it over the right way up and just stared into thin air, not saying a word. The tension between them was growing stronger by the minute and fortunately, Logan was the first to break it.
"So.what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Ummm." replied Max hesitantly, not sure how she was supposed to tell him, "You know how I was wearing your jumper in the warehouse."
"Yes, you said you were cold."
"Yeah, and you know when you were kidnapped."
"How couldn't I know."
"Well, the thing is, when you were gone, I felt terribly alone. And I missed you a lot, even though you were only gone for about a few hours. I missed you a lot. And when I saw your room all messed up, I was scared that you had been kidnapped and killed. I took your jumper and cuddled it and cried myself to sleep. I slept for 4 hours. Quite unusual really, I think I must be coming down with something. I haven't slept for that long for a long time. Maybe you could get one of the doctors to check me."
"Max." said Logan, butting in, trying to get Max to get back to what she was saying.
"Oh, yes.well, the whole thing was that when you were gone, I had time to think about stuff and that was when I realised something."
"Realised what?"
"That I wouldn't be able to live if you were gone. I'd be a nobody if you had just left me. And the really scary truth is that.I love you!"
Logan was speechless. He was so happy, because he loved her too and the whole time he was scared that she didn't love him back, but now he knew.
"I love you too Max! I've loved you ever since I laid eyes on you!"
Max couldn't help but cry and she cuddled up into Logan's arms and looked up, giving him a warm kiss and smiling. She had never been so happy before in her whole life and now she was snuggled up towards the man that she loved, Logan Cale.
THE END
Author's Note: Hope you like the story. I know its quite obvious that Logan and Max ended up together and all, but I like happy endings! What's wrong with that? I'm happy with my first story I've written, hoping to write another story soon! ( Please Review! Thanx!
Max raced straight to Joshua's house, hoping that Joshua would be there. But, like what Logan had said, he wasn't and there was no note. Usually Joshua wouldn't leave for no good reason and if it was for a reason, he knew that he wasn't allowed outside because as it was said, 'People are not used to anything that is different'
Max was about to get a mental breakdown. If anything bad happened to Joshua, she would be to blame because she was the one that sent Joshua out into this world in the first place. She was the one that burned Manticore down.
"Relax Max, think clearly, don't rush into any conclusions. Now, firstly, search around the place. There might be some clues lying around," said Max to herself as she slowly crept around the room looking for some clues.
For an hour, she searched around Joshua's house but unfortunately, there were no clues left behind. The only definite clue was that Joshua was missing. And there was no clear reason why. The only clear reason so far on why Joshua was missing is that he was kidnapped. And the most likely person to kidnap Joshua was.Ames White.
As soon as Max realised this, she decided to ring Logan to tell him what she thought. She still had Alec's mobile with her and she felt guilty that she still hadn't returned it to him. She could hear Logan's phone ringing on the other side, but there was no answer. The answering machine went on after three rings and she could hear Logan's voice talking on the machine. She left a quick message, wondering where Logan was because usually Logan was in at this time and since he knew that Max was going to search Joshua's place, he would have stayed at his apartment, waiting for her call.
All of a sudden, Max had a thought that maybe Logan was kidnapped too! "What if Ames White was taking all the people that she loved the most. What if Logan was already dead? What if he was being tortured right at this minute. What if." Max thought. But she quickly dismissed her thoughts realising that she was racing to conclusion again. She decided to race to Logan's house, reassuring herself on the way that Logan would be OK and that he wasn't able to pick up the phone in time because he was lifting waits or something.
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Max stepped into Logan's apartment. The whole place was a wreck and Max had a sickening feeling in her stomach. She walked around the place and went into the study where the exo-skeleton was lying flat down, broken. That was when she saw a note lying on the desk, scribbled carelessly, but obviously Logan's handwriting. She picked it up and it read, 'If you want to see me again, come to the warehouse at sector 6. Bring $1,000,000 with you.' Then, beneath the note, hidden carefully so Max would be the only one to see was a tiny note, again in Logan's handwriting, 'In a few minutes time, White would come over and take me somewhere. I searched up where Joshua was last seen and they've taken him to a warehouse. Don't follow.' The letter stopped, this was obviously when White had bombarded into Logan's penthouse and taken him hostage.
All of sudden, Max felt strangely alone. She was genetically engineered soldier with all these abilities, yet she was unable to save Logan, or keep him safe. She started to blame herself for not taking care of Logan more carefully and for not telling him what she felt about him. He could be dead right now, and it would be her fault.
"Why is everything my fault!" said Max to herself.
She collapsed into Logan's chair and took Logan's jumper that was lying draped over the back of the chair. She held it close to her, and smelt it, which brought tears to her eyes as she remembered Logan's smell. She slowly cried herself to sleep in the study.
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Max woke up with a cramp in her back. She was in an awkward position on the chair and had somehow half fallen off so that her legs were on the chair but the rest of her body was lying on the floor. She checked the clock and saw that she had slept for 4 hours.
"That's unusual," said Max, "I must be coming down with something to have fallen asleep for 4 hours."
She stood up, Logan's jumper still on her, took the jumper and realised what had happened. Logan was still missing and she hadn't gone to him for 4 hours. She hoped against hope that she wasn't too late and raced off on her ninja to sector 6 to the warehouse.
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She had arrived at the warehouse and had decided to put Logan's jumper on. At that moment, she wanted to be close to Logan, and the jumper was the only source of him available.
She climbed to the roof of the warehouse and peeped down where she saw Joshua and Logan, back to back, tied to chairs, bound and gagged. Some of White's men were patrolling around the outside of the warehouse and others were guarding Logan and Joshua. White was no where to be seen.
Max jumped down from the railing and landed on the ground very quietly. Anyone else who would have tried that jump would have been dead. She was leaning behind two huge wooden crates and just beyond was 3 guards and Logan and Joshua. She reckoned she could take 3 guards out, no big deal to it. The moment of surprise would also aid in her attack, plus the fact that the guards were lazy and smoking cocaine and looking at Magazines of naked women.
Max leapt out from behind the crates and grabbed one guard from behind, and before he could yell out, she had snapped his neck in half. The other guards looked up and saw Max standing there with their fellow guard lying at her feet. They yelped in surprise and was trying to grab their guns and raise them to shoot but Max had disappeared. She had run behind them and before they knew it she had bashed them in the head, kicked them in the stomach and shot them with a silent rifle in just one go.
Max ran towards Logan and Joshua and unbound them, hugging them furiously then stepped back telling Joshua to carry Logan out of the place. Just as she said that, two guards ran in to change their positions. But all they saw was three guards on the floor with Max standing behind. They took their guns out and started shooting but Max had zoomed passed them, tripping one guard over and knocking the other unconscious. She ran out of the building just as White came in with other guards from the other side. One look in the warehouse explained everything and White was furious, but he knew when to stop.
Max had run around the side and reached her Ninja where Joshua and Logan were, hidden behind some crates. They had found her bike and were waiting for her. They managed to fit three people on the ninja and zoomed off to Joshua's place, the closest house they knew.
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"I think I'll need to get new security when I get back. Don't want to let the same thing happen again," said Logan, staring at Max the whole time since they came to Joshua's house. He was sitting in the couch and couldn't move because his exo-skeleton was back at his penthouse, broken.
"Yeah!" replied Max
"Thanks for saving Joshua and I. We really appreciate it."
"Was nothing,"
"By the way, do you want to tell me why you're wearing my jumper?"
Max looked down and saw she was wearing Logan's jumper. Besides the rip on the side, it was OK. She couldn't believe that she had actually forgotten she had put it on. And she didn't' want to tell Logan the real reason why she had put his jumper on.
"I was cold!" said Max, and she gave Logan back her jumper, sneaking a quick smell to remember Logan's smell by.
"Come on lets go, we better get back before anything disastrous happens. Oh and JOSHUA!!! You going to be OK here buddy?" said Max
"Yeah!" yelled Joshua from the kitchen.
"OK! Take care big fella!" yelled Max and she left, carrying Logan to her ninja.
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"You going to be OK here?" asked Max to Logan as soon as he got beck into the exo-skeleton in his penthouse, "I mean, do you need any help cleaning up the mess? I could do with something to do at least."
"No, its OK," said Logan walking Max to the lift door. He didn't want Max around for just the time being. Having her see him useless was unbearable. He wanted to be the strong one, the one that took care of her, not the other way around, "I'll be able to clean up by myself, anyway, I've got some stuff to do and I need to be alone for that."
The lift door shut behind her and she was going to press the ground level button. But she realised that she had to tell Logan right now otherwise it would be too late. So instead, she pressed the 'open' sign and the door opened, only to see Logan still standing in front of the lift. He hadn't left. There was an awkward silence between them for a moment, then Max stepped into the apartment.
"I couldn't leave, not just yet. Not before I have to tell you something," said Max
"I was just about to call you back, because I also need to tell you something,"
"Good, well, you go first!"
"No, you, you asked first,"
"No, I insist,"
"Do you want some coffee? Then we could sit down and talk?"
"Sure!"
"White or Black coffee?"
"White thanks! Oh, and I usually have it with one teaspoon of sugar,"
"OK! Make yourself comfortable in the messy living room; I'll be with you in a second!"
Both Logan and Max were treating each other as if they were guests and hadn't known each other for a long time. If there were some else who had known them for a long time and was looking on to their conversation would have found out that something unusually was happening.
"Here you go, White coffee with one teaspoon of sugar!" said Logan, handing over the steaming mug.
They both sat down on the couch, after putting it over the right way up and just stared into thin air, not saying a word. The tension between them was growing stronger by the minute and fortunately, Logan was the first to break it.
"So.what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Ummm." replied Max hesitantly, not sure how she was supposed to tell him, "You know how I was wearing your jumper in the warehouse."
"Yes, you said you were cold."
"Yeah, and you know when you were kidnapped."
"How couldn't I know."
"Well, the thing is, when you were gone, I felt terribly alone. And I missed you a lot, even though you were only gone for about a few hours. I missed you a lot. And when I saw your room all messed up, I was scared that you had been kidnapped and killed. I took your jumper and cuddled it and cried myself to sleep. I slept for 4 hours. Quite unusual really, I think I must be coming down with something. I haven't slept for that long for a long time. Maybe you could get one of the doctors to check me."
"Max." said Logan, butting in, trying to get Max to get back to what she was saying.
"Oh, yes.well, the whole thing was that when you were gone, I had time to think about stuff and that was when I realised something."
"Realised what?"
"That I wouldn't be able to live if you were gone. I'd be a nobody if you had just left me. And the really scary truth is that.I love you!"
Logan was speechless. He was so happy, because he loved her too and the whole time he was scared that she didn't love him back, but now he knew.
"I love you too Max! I've loved you ever since I laid eyes on you!"
Max couldn't help but cry and she cuddled up into Logan's arms and looked up, giving him a warm kiss and smiling. She had never been so happy before in her whole life and now she was snuggled up towards the man that she loved, Logan Cale.
THE END
Author's Note: Hope you like the story. I know its quite obvious that Logan and Max ended up together and all, but I like happy endings! What's wrong with that? I'm happy with my first story I've written, hoping to write another story soon! ( Please Review! Thanx!