Title: Unknowingly Drawn Home

By: messymissy

(For other information, go to part 1.)

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TERMINAL CITY

Everyone that had seen the news was in hysterics. Many emotions ran as the realization hit those who had watched the television broadcast of the burning of Max. The people of Terminal City were incredibly angry and were in agony because of the harsh loss of their friend and leader. They were either feeling to the likes of those two emotions or they were too stunned and numb to feel a thing. Everyone in Terminal City was pained by what had happened, but none of them were more hurt by it than those who considered her as family.

"I...I can't believe that she's gone," said a dark skinned and dark hair woman. She was hugging her crying six-year-old against her while she tried to hold back her own tears.

"None of us can, Jace," Joshua said mournfully. "Poor Little Fella. It's not right for this to have happened to her. It's not fair for anyone, especially her."

Joshua then walked to the table in which Jace sat and gave her and Little Max a comforting hug.

Brin, who was in a trance ever since she had laid her eyes on the television, finally broke out of it. She was now wearing a mask upon her face that was very well known among the transgenics. The mask that was on Brin's face held the expression that was deprived of emotion.

She looked slowly around the room and took in everyone's reaction to what was just shown on the television.

Brin then spoke in an even, nearly emotionless voice. "I guess there's no need for any of the confirmation that we have now is there?" she asked quietly.

Those that were around Brin and had heard what she had said turned and look at her in confusion as they fell silent. The only people that were not confused by the wording of her words were the people who were on the rescue team.

Zane, who had now moved back to his table, slowly asked, "What do you mean Brin? What confirmation are you talking about?"

The others who had not heard what Brin had said clued in on it as soon as they realized that some of the people around them had grown silent.

"What were the results, Brin?" Gem asked solemnly with a knowing look.

Brin looked at Alec as if to ask whether or not to tell everyone what she meant.

He nodded to indicate that she could tell them.

She sighed and as her mask slowly started to melt away. She said, "You all know what happened out there when we were on the mission right?"

Everyone nodded.

"Well, when we were looking for Max, we heard her a distance off after a shot was fired and went in that direction to find her, but we weren't able to. What we were able to find though was an extremely large puddle of blood. Dread filled us as we saw it, but we knew that there was a possibility that the blood wasn't hers and was someone else's, so we took a sample of the blood and continued our search for her. Even though we had searched a great deal of area around the location of the blood, we didn't find a trace of her. The thought never occurred to us that she had been taken out of the area and into that city where she ended up getting burnt to death..."

Brin paused for a moment and tension filled the room. By the look on everyone's faces, it looked as though they already knew what Brin was going to say next.

When she spoke again, she spoke quickly and her voice broke near the end of what she said. "I tested the blood that we brought back right when we came back that to Terminal City. I got the results of the test and... and the blood is Maxie's!"

She then plopped herself down on a chair and turned away from everyone.

Before anyone else could speak, a little two-year-old boy from the table jumped up and ran to Krit exclaiming in a curious and confused voice, "Daddy! Whath's wong wit everybothy? Why's Mommy cwying?"

Everyone jumped at the unexpected outburst.

As his son got closer to him, Krit bent over to pick him up into his arms.

Krit looked over at Syl and saw that her head was bowed as she tried to hide her face. He then turned his head to look at his son's innocent face. Krit tried to figure out a simple way of explaining to his young son about what had happened so he'd know of what's going on, but was sheltered from the cold, hard truth at the same time.

"Um... You see kiddo, the reason why everyone's acting the way they are is because something bad happened today. Something so bad happened that it hurt everyone and that's why Mommy and a few other people are crying," Krit explained to his son.

"Whath happened today?" the little boy asked.

"Something really bad," was the reply.

"Whath's weely bad?"

"Something really bad."

"Whath is it?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you, Greg. Please don't question me anymore."

"Why?"

"Because I say so."

"Why?"

"Greg..." Krit started to say, but was interrupted by Alec.

"What you father's trying to say, Greg, is that something happened today to your Aunt Maxie that has hurt everyone. Don't you worry though because the bad thing is that she is no longer here anymore and has moved on to the Good Place. What everyone's sad about is that we are not able to see her anymore because she's now in the Good Place," Alec said.

"I won'th be able to see Aunthy Maxthie anymore? She's in the Good Place, buth can'th she come visit me?" Greg asked sadly. Tears were starting to form in his eyes.

"I don't think so."

Greg buried his head into his father's chest and began to cry. Krit carried him back to the table and sat down next to Syl. Syl took her son into her arms and began to rock him back and forth.

Greg soon fell asleep.

"Thanks for helping me out, Alec," Krit said at last. "Little Greg could have gone on forever with his questions."

"No problem," Alec replied.

Syl, who had not spoken a word since she had sat down in her chair after the television broadcast, now looked up at them with tear-filled eyes and tears running down her cheek. She said softly, "You might have been able to explain what happened to Max like this to Little Greggy here, but how are you going to explain to everyone else what happened. How are we going to break the news to everyone that are at the infirmary right now? How are we going to tell Jondy and Little Nikki about this without sending Jondy into an early labor? What are we going to tell Little Emi and Zack? The loss of Maxie is extremely painful for us, but when Zack finds out that his wife is now dead and Emi learns that her mother's gone, it's just going to break their hearts."

Silence filled the room as everyone looked at one another.

"I should probably tell them what happened," Alec said. "I was in charge of finding everyone so they'll most likely want a report from me and will ask about the mission."

"No," Zane said. "You can tell Zack and Emi, but I have to tell Jondy and Nicole."

"Okay then."

Everyone sat in a dread-filled silence overcome with their own grief about the situation and no one wanted to think about the pain that those who weren't in the building now would soon have to face.

After a few minutes, Alec broke the silence.

"Oh, man, how am I going to tell Zack and Little Emi?" Alec asked sadly.

Just then a little voice spoke out from behind him and asked, "Tell Daddy and me what?"

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Thanks for reading! I hope this was okay!

The mistakes in this when Greg was talking were done on purpose because I tried to make him sound like an advanced two-year-old. Other mistakes I would have made on accident and haven't caught!

S-P aka SmartiPants: I'm glad that you like my story! I'm sorry, but I don't think I should join the group because I'm not an M/L fan and am only a semi M/A fan. I also haven't written any of those pairings yet either so I don't think my joining would do any good.

4J5A2: Hi! Your answers will be answered soon. Don't worry. I think they will be answered in about two or three chapters after this. Here's the next chapter!

serotonin: Thanks for reading! I appreciate what you wrote! I most likely will write a prequel after I finish this.

Brynnmissy: Thanks for reviewing and giving me your suggestion! I should probably try to structure my writing more huh? I'll try more, but the thing is that I actually do a spell check and a little grammar check, but I usually don't do that until a few days after I have posted! (lol)