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After Max and Alec left, Logan turned back to his computer. Alec's sandwich caught his eye, as it was sitting on his brand new scanner, mayonnaise dripping off the plate onto it. Frowning, Logan dumped the sandwich in the garbage can, and wiped up the mayo with a scowl.
"Never again will he enter my kitchen" Logan muttered as he looked over Ren's file again. He stopped in mid-scroll down the page when something, a certain piece of information, caught his eye.
"That looks familiar…" he said to himself, jotting down a few numbers on a notepad. Opening up another window on his computer, Logan read a different transgenics file. His eyebrows rose over the frame of his glasses, didn't expect that he thought, and immediately picked up his phone, dialling Max's pager.
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"So you have seen her?" Max asked a small man, outside an old apartment complex, not unlike hers and Original Cindy's. The small man nodded uncertainly.
"Max this is a waste of time" Alec stated, kicking up some dirt with the toe of his shoe. Ignoring his whining Max focused on the person in front of her.
"Was she here?"
"Yes…s-she was looking around…t-the sector change, then left"
"Thanks" Max said to the man and she and Alec walked back to his car, which he had insisted on getting if they were going to search the city for Ren.
"So we'll just wait here until she comes back" Max said.
"We don't know for sure that she'll actually come back here Max, we're probably just wasting our time." Alec crossed his arms over his chest in protest.
"We're staying." Max retorted, leaving little room for argument. Feeling her pager vibrating in her pocket, Max took it out and asked Alec for his cell phone. She dialled the number and returned her pager to where it was before.
"Logan, what's up?" She asked, curious as to why he was calling so soon after they left his penthouse.
"Where are you guys?"
"Just outside Sector four. We think Ren will try to leave the city here."
"We? Yeah right." Alec put in. Max waved her hand at him to be quiet.
"Why? Is something wrong?" She asked genuinely concerned.
"No, no nothing's wrong…uh just stay there I'm going to come down okay?"
"Why?"
"I'll be there in twenty minutes." And he hung up, leaving Max frowning at the phone.
"So what'd lover boy have to say?" Alec asked, showing little actual interest.
"He's coming here."
"Why?"
"That's what I'd like to know." Max replied crossing her arms, similarly to Alec's and leaning on the hood of the car. They waited in a companionable silence.
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Barely fifteen minutes later, Logan's car pulled up beside Alec's and he got out carrying two file folders with him.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Logan said coolly, offering a small smile.
"That's what I'd like to know. Logan what are you doing here?" Max questioned.
"Oh, I came across something that may be of interest to you," he looked pointedly at Alec saying this.
"Me?" Alec asked skeptically.
"Here." Was all Logan said as he handed Alec the two folders. Alec opened the two files on the hood of his car and after scanning them briefly, looked at Logan like he had grown another head.
"What's so special about my file and what's her name… Ren's?" Logan smiled,
"Take a closer look." He answered; inwardly loving every moment of the younger mans confusion. Alec looked at the files again, paying close attention to all details. He got to one particular piece of information and spun around to meet Logans gaze.
"Are you sure?"
"Yep"
"What?" Max demanded. Not getting an answer from her companions, she took a look at the files herself, eventually finding the same things that Alec had just seen:
X5-494: Mother ID – 0998651X6-541: Mother ID – 0998651
"Hey, looks like you've got yourself a sister Alec" Max said, patting him on the shoulder. I knew there was something familiar about her! Max thought to herself.
"Yeah, looks like it," he said without his usual sarcastic tone.
"Speaking of which," Logan interrupted, "Isn't that her?" he gestured over by some buildings down the street. They waited until she was close enough before calling her over.
Ren looked around suspiciously when she heard her name being called. Hearing it again she saw Max, Alec and another man standing beside two cars, looking at her. Max waved her over.
Walking cautiously to them, Ren subtly scanned the area, making sure it wasn't a trap, even though she was pretty sure they weren't going to hurt her.
"What?" She asked as soon as she was close enough.
"Where you going?" Max asked nicely.
"Um, I'm leaving the city…why?"
"Just wondering."
"Why are you guys here?" Ren asked, still shooting Logan apprehensive glances, not quite sure of what to make of him.
"Just had something to tell ya" Max replied. Noticing the looks the teenager was giving Logan she introduced him. "This is Logan, by the way, he's a friend."
"What exactly do you need to tell me?" Ren asked tiredly, not wanting to play Max's cryptic word games anymore.
"Oh yeah, about that, you see there's this guy, White, and he's looking for X6's at the moment, and we just figured that you'd like a heads up."
"That it?"
"Him and his guys are bad news, you don't want to run into them, they're not entirely…
Uh… normal. They're called Familiars-," Ren interrupted Max's explanation just wanting to leave.
"Yeah I know what Familiars are, okay, now if you'll excuse me…" She pushed pass them and began walking in the direction of the sector guards.
A car swerved in front of Ren and she jumped back in surprise. White along with two other men stepped out of the car and advanced toward her.
"X6-541 nice to meet you" White sneered, not noticing Max and Alec standing a few metres away. He reached out to grab her, but she turned and bolted in the direction she had come before. Blurring down the street and around the corner, Ren was out of sight in a matter of seconds. White motioned to his men to get back in the car and follow her, and as quickly as they had come, they were gone. The screeching of tires could be heard going around the corner.
"We'll see you around Logan" Alec said and he and Max, with out saying a word to each other, took off down the street hoping to find Ren before White did.
TBC…