Sorry it's been so long between updates but here is chapter 4.
Max did wake up, that in itself was encouraging, her head hurt and her mouth was dry, she was dehydrated. What was not encouraging was that she was in a cage.
The first time she had met White she had been a cage very much like this one, it could even have been this one for all she knew, all cages the looked the same to her, especially from the inside.
She was alone for now, not even a guard to watch her, that was careless of White. Then she noticed the camera mounted just outside the cage where she couldn't reach it, not so careless after all, just cautious. If she had been chasing White for as long as he had been chasing her she would probably be very careful too.
She stood carefully and looked around, she was still in the warehouse, that was good, she had a general idea of the layout of this place now, that was better than trying to get out of some location where she had no idea what city she was in.
She held on to the mesh of the cage to steady her until she felt she could stand on her own, she moved around as much as she was able in the close confines to try and shake off the cobwebs. She felt stiff, no doubt from the way they had probably manhandled her into the cage in the first place.
She wondered if Logan and Alec were ok. Odds were that if White had Alec he would be in a cage next to hers. The fact that he wasn't she took to mean that he was still out there, either that or dead but she didn't want to think about that possibility. She had to believe that Logan and Alec were both ok, and she had to find a way out of here.
Ames White watched 452 on the monitor. Cale had got away but that didn't matter, it was 452 he wanted. Now he had her.
The Conclave were sending a team to pick her up even now, they would be here in thirty minutes. Thirty-one minutes from now 452 would no longer be his problem.
She paced her cage like a big cat in a zoo, looking for a way out, just hoping to do as much damage as possible.
Well not this time, this time she was going to stay put. Ames knew she had help getting Cale out, and he could guess exactly which transgenic it was that was helping her. He'd deal with him when the time came. Once 452 was safely out of the way he could get back to rounding up the others.
Alec and Logan crouched down back at the rendezvous point, Max hadn't shown up, the gunfire had stopped a while ago now, but still no Max. Could be that she was just pinned down and had to wait for them to clear out before she could move.
Alec didn't really believe that.
It was more likely that they had her, in which case she was in trouble. He hadn't seen any vehicles coming or going so if they did have she was still inside for now, but that could change any time. If they moved her they may never find her again.