Out of the Future

Chapter 15: Denial, Eavesdropping, and Seizures



Three rooms were left vacant and the six people took them. Their names were taken by the receptionist and she put them into rooms, in the order their names were given. Much to Logan's horror and gradual acceptance Max and Alec were stuck in a room together, Rachel and Jesse in one, and he and Asha the other.

"Carry me," aid Rachel slumping into Jesse's arms.

"Rachel you can walk."

"Why am I so tired? I don't get tired….Daddy carry me," she pretty much fell onto Alec.



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"Okay what's wrong with her?" asked Alec lying her down on one of the beds in Rachel and Jesse's room.

"Just a side-effect from Koiohla's toxins, she took a few scratches here and there but she won't die from it."

"How do you know?" demanded Max.

"Because she's been hit by an X38 before, Kiora, she was the first X38 prototype, showed up about 2 years ago Rachel was seventeen, I was fifteen she's immune to the toxin it just makes her tired."

"So she's poisoned?" asked Alec.

"She'll be as good as new in a few hours," said Jesse, "trust me alright?"

"I don't know," said Alec, "maybe I should stay just in case…"

"Me too," said Max, "just in case."

"I'm not dead," moaned Rachel, "I can hear you." She rolled over onto her stomach, "somebody get my jacket off it's trying to strangle me."

Max went over to help Rachel pry off her tight leather jacket.

"Much better," she said, "shoes now."

"I think your just dong this," said Jesse smiling.

"Shut up Cale."



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A couple hours later, Rachel was almost back to her normal self again, still a bit drowsy but strong enough to reassure Max and Alec that she was okay and that Jesse wasn't going to molest her. Logan went off to look things over with Asha before going to make a few calls while she took the opportunity to shower. Max and Alec wandered outside leaving Rachel in Jesse's care.

"Is it just me or is all this starting to make your head hurt?" asked Alec, "and I still never got my answer."

"What answer?" asked Max.

"Whether you were in Heat or not," he said wincing as her fist connected with his shoulder, "what I can't ask?"

"You're an idiot you know that?"

"Think we got married?"

"Alec!"

"Okay, okay whatever," he said, "not like it's really going to happen anyway, just as long as neither of us gets killed, she'll still exist."

"Exactly," said Max quickly, "Um…that...uh…kiss back at the hospital…. it didn't mean anything."

"I know it didn't."

"It meant nothing."

"Absolutely nothing."

Silence.

"Nothing?" asked Alec raising an eyebrow.

Max sighed and shook her head, trying to surpress a smile. He was hopeless.



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"The Great Debate," said Jesse.

He and Rachel had opened their window and had been eavesdropping on Max and Alec's whole conversation.

"Are we even sure that's even how it works?" asked Rachel almost frantically

"Um…no….," admitted Jesse, "this could all end in a number of ways, Number One: Max and Alec get together and have you like in our world, Number Two: they don't get together but you still exist because we created an Alternate Universe, Number Three: there is no A/U they don't get together and you fade out of existence along with me.

Number Four…they…"

"Shhh, stop I don't want to hear anymore," hissed Rachel, "We're going to get them together if it's the last thing we do! I can't take the chance of not existing!"

"We?"

"Well unless you want to die with me when Mom and Logan get together excuse my involuntary shudder at the thought."

"What's wrong with my Dad?" asked Jesse slightly hurt.

"Picture him with my Mom."

"Oh God I get the picture," he said shuddering, "but what happens when my Dad finds out about my Mom?"



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Logan had finished making his calls to find out what happened to White and his men. They had apparently scattered afterward and tried to locate their missing van when they looked in the Parkade only to find their men lying unconsious on the ground. White's last known movement was into Sector 8. No reports had come up with anything locating Ray White or Koiohla who just seemed to…dissappear.

Logan was a few feet to his and Asha's door when he head a muffled crash and breaking glass. He rushed into the room.



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Asha was sitting on the bed, fully dressed, combing out her damp hair. Her shoulder was feeling better and she could now move it pretty much anyway she liked. She toweled off the ends of her hair and got up to get her jacket over on the table.

When she reached the table she began feeling quite dizzy and completely lost her balance.

Not now! Her mind screamed as she went crashing into the table. Glass shattered as she hit the floor convulsing into a painful seizure.

Asha was too disoriented to notice the door swing open as Logan came running in.

"Asha!" he called running and kneeling down next to her, "Ash--" he stopped wondering what was wrong when he saw it and he nearly fainted when he recognized what it was. A barcode. Stamped right across the back of her neck.

'What the hell?! How the hell?! No way! It wha? How the? Dammit Logan think! Barcode. Manticore. X-Series. X5. Max. Seizures. Tryptophan. That's it!'

No knowing where the idea hit him, Logan went straight to Asha's bag and rummaged around until he found the tell-all bottle of Tryptophan.

'Oh. My. God.' Was his only coherent thought.

Ignoring his scrambled thoughts he hurried back to Asha and tried rolling her over gently. It didn't work at first but he managed it when her first wave of seizures ended leaving her weak and out of breath waiting for the next onslaught. Logan pulled her up into his lap, her back gainst his chest, and pried open the bottle. He waited for her to swallow the pills he gave her and then just held her until her heartbeat slowed back down to normal.



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A/N: Poor Logan, first Max, and now Asha.

And I'm sorry it's short.

And yes I'm making Asha an X-series, if you would like reasons go to my site here:



http://vee017.homestead.com/ashajondy.html



Disclaimer: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.