Chapter 8 - It's All Over
"Asha! Asha no!" Alec cried out when he spotted her lying in her living room in a pool of her own blood. She looked so pale. Alec hurried over to her feeling for any signs of life but he couldn't find any. Asha, he thought to himself sorrowfully as he gathered her up into his arms tenderly and hugged her to him. Logan watched Alec, his heart heavy as he looked to the man lying on the floor staring at the wound in his chest as though it were an apparition.
"What happened here?" Logan demanded in a choked voice and the man looked up at Logan and smiled through his pain.
"Ames came, he is a very angry child, always has been always will be, you must watch out for him, I fear that my son has finally lost his mind," Sandeman stated shaking his head and both Logan and Max realised it was Sandeman who lay in front of them dying.
"What about Asha?" Max asked guiltily looking over at her and Sandeman looked over at his daughter still smiling.
"Ames shot her when she said that she would rather die than give her friends to him, don't worry she'll be fine," Sandeman tried to assure the gathered group and Alec turned fiery eyes on him.
"She'll be fine? She's dead old man, and its all your fault!" Alec yelled at Sandeman who continued smiling unperturbed by the way Alec was glaring at him.
"Trust me, she will be fine," Sandeman said and Alec looked back to Asha thinking Sandeman was crazy. He bundled her to his chest squeezing her tightly as he rocked back and forth with her in his arms.
"Asha please don't die, not without giving me a chance to tell you how sorry I am.to tell you that I.I love you, Asha please," Alec begged kissing Asha's forehead and even as Max and Logan watched a tear came rolling down Alec's cheek. Max turned away from him the situation too painful for her, she couldn't bare to see Alec cry and she looked at Sandeman.
"The antidote to the virus, do you have it?" Max asked hope seeping into her voice and Sandeman looked at her as though seeing her for the first time.
"Why yes 452, I do, I meant to give it to you sooner but it seems that my time keeps running out, just as it is now, do not be afraid Max, your new skills will be showing themselves soon, use them well, that was why.I.chose.you," Sandeman's words started fading as his eyes rolled back in his head and Max's eyes widened in fear and disbelief. No, he couldn't be dead, she had been so close!
"What about the cure? Don't die, please! The cure.I need it!" Max screamed loosing control as she fell upon the dead man pounding his chest and Logan turned away knowing that this was it, there lying dead had been his only chance at a life with Max. Max finally stopped and she curled herself up into a ball and continued to cry softly, those heart wrenching sobs that hurt her body so much but she couldn't stop. Logan walked over to her and knelt beside her not touching her. He didn't know what to say, he didn't know how to comfort her, he was still trying to come to terms with it himself. This whole time, the thought that Sandeman had the cure kept him going but now.there was no hope.no reason for him to live without Max in his life. Logan didn't even notice that he had started crying till he felt the warm water on his lips.
"Asha," Alec breathed as he felt Asha moved in his arms and as he looked down at her, Asha's eyelids fluttered open and she looked up at Alec smiling.
"What's going on?" she asked cheekily and Alec hugged her to him. Max and Logan ignored the couple, their grief and shock stopping them from feeling any emotion.
"How could you be alive? He shot you five times," Alec asked in disbelief and Asha shrugged and pulled up her shirt. There were no bullet holes. Just blood.
"They're gone, the bullet holes are gone," Asha breathed in amazement and Alec looked over her body to check what she said was true. It was and as he reached out to touch her body she slapped his hands away grinning at him.
"How is that possible?" he asked in wonder and Asha knew then and there what had happened.
"My father, must have injected me with something, I can't explain it, but I know he had something to do with it," Asha answered for him and Alec turned back to her his eyes shining with relief.
"I'm so relieved you didn't die," he whispered to her kissing her on the lips lightly.
"Were my ears deceiving me or did I hear you confess your love for me?" Asha asked him smiling cutely and Alec held her close to him.
"Your ears weren't lying to you," he assured her softly and Asha pulled away from him to look up into his eyes lovingly never having felt so much love inside her.
"I love you too Alec," she swore then she heard Max's sobbing and sat up looking over at Max and Logan. It pained Asha to see them so despondent.
"Poor Max and Logan, with your father died their only hope of ever being together," Alec murmured to Asha who clenched her fists and then felt something metal in her fist. Her father had given her something after she had been shot. Asha looked down in her hands and saw that she held a small brass key and Asha grinned.
"Not true," she said holding up the key and Alec looked on in wonder as Asha pushed aside the couch to reveal a metal door with a small keyhole in the middle of it. Asha knelt down and put the key in the hole twisting it until she heard a click. By now she had gotten Max and Logan's attention and they watched her closely Max wiped the tears from her eyes as did Logan. Opening the metal door Asha pulled out a vial of green liquid and Max stood up and stumbled towards her, half wondering, half hoping that the liquid was the cure.
"What's that?" she asked and Asha held it out to her smiling.
"It's the cure to the virus," Asha said and Max tried not to let the hope seep through her. She didn't want to let herself hope if it weren't true.
"You're sure?" she asked suspiciously and Asha turned the vial so that Max could see the label attached to it. X5-452 CURE.
"Yes, father labelled it, he was always so organised and precise," Asha said still holding out the vial and Max raised a shaky hand to take the vial and Asha placed it firmly in Max's hands.
"This is really it?" Max asked in disbelief. She had dreamed of this moment for months, she couldn't believe that the moment was actually here and now that it was, she didn't know what to do or what to think, her mind was numb.
"Yeah this is it," Asha said moving back over to Alec who placed a possessive arm around her shoulders and everyone stared at Max willing her to drink.
"I'm scared," Max said in a soft voice and Logan stepped towards her smiling warmly pulling off his glove in anticipation for the moment when he could finally touch her beautiful face and caress her soft cheek, and kiss her full lips.
"Asha I'm sorry," Max apologised and Asha smiled holding onto Alec not wanting to let him go.
"Its over Max, drink the cure and lets get out of here," Asha encouraged her and Max pursed her lips then raised the vial to her lips and drunk. She gagged as she dropped the vial and began breathing raggedly. Inside her she felt a burning throughout her entire body, like something inside her was being taken away. She keeled over and Logan looked at Asha and Alec worriedly but Asha didn't know what to do. The cure hadn't been tested, but she knew it would work. Her father had never been wrong before.
"I.can't.breathe," Max said her body heaving up and down and Logan reached over and took her hand to calm her.
"I'm right here beside you Max," he said gently and he reached over and gently ran his finger down her cheek and a tear followed his finger. Max stopped convulsing and stood up straight staring into the eyes of the only man that she ever really loved.
"It's over," Max whispered crawling desperately into Logan's waiting arms and they hugged as though they would never hug ever again while Asha turned to Alec.
"Well what about us?" Asha asked innocently and Alec grinned down at her with something of his old self shining through.
"What about us?" he joked and Asha punched him in the gut for even joking about their love.
"Would you give up your wicked ways for little old me?" Asha asked mockingly and Alec pulled her to him seriously.
"I would give up everything for you," he told her his voice turning harsh with emotion and he bent his head so that his lips could capture hers in a kiss to seal a promise.
Max and Logan turned to look at Asha and Alec them smiled at each other shyly.
"If you can't beat 'em," Logan said smiling wickedly and Max returned him grin.
"We better join them," Max agreed and Max tilted her head to receive the long awaited kiss she had been pining for these past months.
Some weeks later Asha and Alec returned to the room that they shared out of breath and laughing. They had just attended Max and Logan's engagement party and both were just a little bit tipsy. Asha collapsed onto a chair while Alec hitched himself up on the kitchen bench and flicked the switch to boil some water for coffee. He looked over at Asha and was surprised to see her so solemn. Something had been on her mind this passed week or so and it bothered Alec to see her so distant.
"Why are you so sad?" he asked and Asha shrugged her slim shoulders.
"It's my fault father's dead," she said guiltily and Alec strode over to her and knelt before her shaking his head.
"It's not your fault, it's White's, you can choose your friends but not your relatives," Alec told her and Asha pursed her lips, preoccupied with her thoughts and she absently reached over to caress Alec's face.
"But he used to be so nice, he was my brother, my friend, the cult changed him into a monster, one day he will pay for killing our father, someday we will have to fight, Ames and I," Asha said seriously and Alec took her hand in his and kissed it.
"I will fight that fight for you," he swore to her and Asha pulled away her hand frowning at him.
"I couldn't let you do that," she told him and Alec reclaimed her hand firmly.
"I wouldn't have it any other way, we are team, what you go through I go through, we face everything together," Alec assured her and Asha leant down to kiss him feeling so lucky to have such a great guy for her boyfriend. Alec pulled her off the chair then sat down on it pulling her back to him so that she could sit on his lap and Asha snuggled in on top of him.
"Alec remember when we first met?" Asha asked as he wrapped his arms tightly around her and Alec grinned. They loved to tease each other and this was just another chance.
"Yeah I thought you were a stuck up snob," Alec said and Asha grinned at him as well.
"I thought you were a sleazy conceited jerk," Asha returned the jibe and Alec laughed.
"My my, haven't we changed?" he asked her jokingly and Asha looked thoughtful.
"Oh I don't know I kinda liked that conceited jerk," she said winking at him.
"Well I didn't mind that stuck up snob either," Alec replied returning her wink and Asha placed a kiss on his lips.
"I love you Alec," she said getting up to take care of making the coffee but Alec wouldn't hear of it. Instead he pulled her back to him and she wriggled on his lap getting comfy.
"Come here you, I love you too," he told her and Asha sighed with pleasure.
"Alec," she mumbled into his chest and Alec looked down at her questioningly.
"Yeah?" he asked and Asha looked up at him mischievously.
"I'm pregnant."
"Asha! Asha no!" Alec cried out when he spotted her lying in her living room in a pool of her own blood. She looked so pale. Alec hurried over to her feeling for any signs of life but he couldn't find any. Asha, he thought to himself sorrowfully as he gathered her up into his arms tenderly and hugged her to him. Logan watched Alec, his heart heavy as he looked to the man lying on the floor staring at the wound in his chest as though it were an apparition.
"What happened here?" Logan demanded in a choked voice and the man looked up at Logan and smiled through his pain.
"Ames came, he is a very angry child, always has been always will be, you must watch out for him, I fear that my son has finally lost his mind," Sandeman stated shaking his head and both Logan and Max realised it was Sandeman who lay in front of them dying.
"What about Asha?" Max asked guiltily looking over at her and Sandeman looked over at his daughter still smiling.
"Ames shot her when she said that she would rather die than give her friends to him, don't worry she'll be fine," Sandeman tried to assure the gathered group and Alec turned fiery eyes on him.
"She'll be fine? She's dead old man, and its all your fault!" Alec yelled at Sandeman who continued smiling unperturbed by the way Alec was glaring at him.
"Trust me, she will be fine," Sandeman said and Alec looked back to Asha thinking Sandeman was crazy. He bundled her to his chest squeezing her tightly as he rocked back and forth with her in his arms.
"Asha please don't die, not without giving me a chance to tell you how sorry I am.to tell you that I.I love you, Asha please," Alec begged kissing Asha's forehead and even as Max and Logan watched a tear came rolling down Alec's cheek. Max turned away from him the situation too painful for her, she couldn't bare to see Alec cry and she looked at Sandeman.
"The antidote to the virus, do you have it?" Max asked hope seeping into her voice and Sandeman looked at her as though seeing her for the first time.
"Why yes 452, I do, I meant to give it to you sooner but it seems that my time keeps running out, just as it is now, do not be afraid Max, your new skills will be showing themselves soon, use them well, that was why.I.chose.you," Sandeman's words started fading as his eyes rolled back in his head and Max's eyes widened in fear and disbelief. No, he couldn't be dead, she had been so close!
"What about the cure? Don't die, please! The cure.I need it!" Max screamed loosing control as she fell upon the dead man pounding his chest and Logan turned away knowing that this was it, there lying dead had been his only chance at a life with Max. Max finally stopped and she curled herself up into a ball and continued to cry softly, those heart wrenching sobs that hurt her body so much but she couldn't stop. Logan walked over to her and knelt beside her not touching her. He didn't know what to say, he didn't know how to comfort her, he was still trying to come to terms with it himself. This whole time, the thought that Sandeman had the cure kept him going but now.there was no hope.no reason for him to live without Max in his life. Logan didn't even notice that he had started crying till he felt the warm water on his lips.
"Asha," Alec breathed as he felt Asha moved in his arms and as he looked down at her, Asha's eyelids fluttered open and she looked up at Alec smiling.
"What's going on?" she asked cheekily and Alec hugged her to him. Max and Logan ignored the couple, their grief and shock stopping them from feeling any emotion.
"How could you be alive? He shot you five times," Alec asked in disbelief and Asha shrugged and pulled up her shirt. There were no bullet holes. Just blood.
"They're gone, the bullet holes are gone," Asha breathed in amazement and Alec looked over her body to check what she said was true. It was and as he reached out to touch her body she slapped his hands away grinning at him.
"How is that possible?" he asked in wonder and Asha knew then and there what had happened.
"My father, must have injected me with something, I can't explain it, but I know he had something to do with it," Asha answered for him and Alec turned back to her his eyes shining with relief.
"I'm so relieved you didn't die," he whispered to her kissing her on the lips lightly.
"Were my ears deceiving me or did I hear you confess your love for me?" Asha asked him smiling cutely and Alec held her close to him.
"Your ears weren't lying to you," he assured her softly and Asha pulled away from him to look up into his eyes lovingly never having felt so much love inside her.
"I love you too Alec," she swore then she heard Max's sobbing and sat up looking over at Max and Logan. It pained Asha to see them so despondent.
"Poor Max and Logan, with your father died their only hope of ever being together," Alec murmured to Asha who clenched her fists and then felt something metal in her fist. Her father had given her something after she had been shot. Asha looked down in her hands and saw that she held a small brass key and Asha grinned.
"Not true," she said holding up the key and Alec looked on in wonder as Asha pushed aside the couch to reveal a metal door with a small keyhole in the middle of it. Asha knelt down and put the key in the hole twisting it until she heard a click. By now she had gotten Max and Logan's attention and they watched her closely Max wiped the tears from her eyes as did Logan. Opening the metal door Asha pulled out a vial of green liquid and Max stood up and stumbled towards her, half wondering, half hoping that the liquid was the cure.
"What's that?" she asked and Asha held it out to her smiling.
"It's the cure to the virus," Asha said and Max tried not to let the hope seep through her. She didn't want to let herself hope if it weren't true.
"You're sure?" she asked suspiciously and Asha turned the vial so that Max could see the label attached to it. X5-452 CURE.
"Yes, father labelled it, he was always so organised and precise," Asha said still holding out the vial and Max raised a shaky hand to take the vial and Asha placed it firmly in Max's hands.
"This is really it?" Max asked in disbelief. She had dreamed of this moment for months, she couldn't believe that the moment was actually here and now that it was, she didn't know what to do or what to think, her mind was numb.
"Yeah this is it," Asha said moving back over to Alec who placed a possessive arm around her shoulders and everyone stared at Max willing her to drink.
"I'm scared," Max said in a soft voice and Logan stepped towards her smiling warmly pulling off his glove in anticipation for the moment when he could finally touch her beautiful face and caress her soft cheek, and kiss her full lips.
"Asha I'm sorry," Max apologised and Asha smiled holding onto Alec not wanting to let him go.
"Its over Max, drink the cure and lets get out of here," Asha encouraged her and Max pursed her lips then raised the vial to her lips and drunk. She gagged as she dropped the vial and began breathing raggedly. Inside her she felt a burning throughout her entire body, like something inside her was being taken away. She keeled over and Logan looked at Asha and Alec worriedly but Asha didn't know what to do. The cure hadn't been tested, but she knew it would work. Her father had never been wrong before.
"I.can't.breathe," Max said her body heaving up and down and Logan reached over and took her hand to calm her.
"I'm right here beside you Max," he said gently and he reached over and gently ran his finger down her cheek and a tear followed his finger. Max stopped convulsing and stood up straight staring into the eyes of the only man that she ever really loved.
"It's over," Max whispered crawling desperately into Logan's waiting arms and they hugged as though they would never hug ever again while Asha turned to Alec.
"Well what about us?" Asha asked innocently and Alec grinned down at her with something of his old self shining through.
"What about us?" he joked and Asha punched him in the gut for even joking about their love.
"Would you give up your wicked ways for little old me?" Asha asked mockingly and Alec pulled her to him seriously.
"I would give up everything for you," he told her his voice turning harsh with emotion and he bent his head so that his lips could capture hers in a kiss to seal a promise.
Max and Logan turned to look at Asha and Alec them smiled at each other shyly.
"If you can't beat 'em," Logan said smiling wickedly and Max returned him grin.
"We better join them," Max agreed and Max tilted her head to receive the long awaited kiss she had been pining for these past months.
Some weeks later Asha and Alec returned to the room that they shared out of breath and laughing. They had just attended Max and Logan's engagement party and both were just a little bit tipsy. Asha collapsed onto a chair while Alec hitched himself up on the kitchen bench and flicked the switch to boil some water for coffee. He looked over at Asha and was surprised to see her so solemn. Something had been on her mind this passed week or so and it bothered Alec to see her so distant.
"Why are you so sad?" he asked and Asha shrugged her slim shoulders.
"It's my fault father's dead," she said guiltily and Alec strode over to her and knelt before her shaking his head.
"It's not your fault, it's White's, you can choose your friends but not your relatives," Alec told her and Asha pursed her lips, preoccupied with her thoughts and she absently reached over to caress Alec's face.
"But he used to be so nice, he was my brother, my friend, the cult changed him into a monster, one day he will pay for killing our father, someday we will have to fight, Ames and I," Asha said seriously and Alec took her hand in his and kissed it.
"I will fight that fight for you," he swore to her and Asha pulled away her hand frowning at him.
"I couldn't let you do that," she told him and Alec reclaimed her hand firmly.
"I wouldn't have it any other way, we are team, what you go through I go through, we face everything together," Alec assured her and Asha leant down to kiss him feeling so lucky to have such a great guy for her boyfriend. Alec pulled her off the chair then sat down on it pulling her back to him so that she could sit on his lap and Asha snuggled in on top of him.
"Alec remember when we first met?" Asha asked as he wrapped his arms tightly around her and Alec grinned. They loved to tease each other and this was just another chance.
"Yeah I thought you were a stuck up snob," Alec said and Asha grinned at him as well.
"I thought you were a sleazy conceited jerk," Asha returned the jibe and Alec laughed.
"My my, haven't we changed?" he asked her jokingly and Asha looked thoughtful.
"Oh I don't know I kinda liked that conceited jerk," she said winking at him.
"Well I didn't mind that stuck up snob either," Alec replied returning her wink and Asha placed a kiss on his lips.
"I love you Alec," she said getting up to take care of making the coffee but Alec wouldn't hear of it. Instead he pulled her back to him and she wriggled on his lap getting comfy.
"Come here you, I love you too," he told her and Asha sighed with pleasure.
"Alec," she mumbled into his chest and Alec looked down at her questioningly.
"Yeah?" he asked and Asha looked up at him mischievously.
"I'm pregnant."
