"So what exactly can they track?" questioned the cold mechanical voice.

"The implant in her head is made with some alloy when they send out a electromagnetic signal it returns it uniquely and they can pinpoint where it is." Zack explained what he had found out.

"Do you know which alloy it is?" Sebastion asked.

"Couldn't get that information." Zack was all business now as always.

"Ok well then our first step will be to test and see what it is made out of so we can figure out what we can do about it. Max I am going to need you to put on a gown and go into the next room so we can run a few tests real quick ok?" Logan saw the look in Max's eyes the memories of childhood torture that they called to as tests. His beautiful angel had gone pale fear stricken, a look of terror in her eyes. He went over and linked his arms around her waist hugging her from behind and placing a soft kiss on her cheek.

"It's ok love it wont hurt. I'm here I wont let anyone hurt you ever." He whispered in her ear.

"Promise?"

"Promise. Now why don't we get this bitch over with?" He said with a smirk.



Alone in an unfriendly room, metal instruments, all sterile, white, cold, no humanity present, Max was sitting waiting for the tests to begin, the pain to begin.

"Ok Max you're all set, you can come back in." Sebastions voice echoed through the speaker.

"You did the test already?" Max was surprised they hadn't done anything.

"Yeah we just had to hit it with a band of different frequencies to see what alloy was in there."

"Oh, wow, I hope it's all this easy." Max said as she walked back in the main room with the three men. Sebastion was at the computer, Logan was on the phone, and Zack was pacing the room.

"Ok just make sure you get the computer the sector passes fake id's and the cash up there by tonight." Max was listening to Logan's half of the conversation, while Sebastion told her that it would just take a few hours to process the information to know what alloy it was. "Yeah we should be there in like an hour and we will see you guys at like eight...Ok thanks....bye." Logan hung up the phone and turned to Max. "Sorry about that, you ok?"

"God Logan she is a soldier, she doesn't need you to fucking coddle her." Zack, who had been relatively quiet with them for a while, suddenly snapped.

"Actually, she is a human being with a heart, and it's not coddling it's caring." Logan returned quickly.

"I care more ab..."

"That is it! Both of you stop it right now, we can talk about this later. Now you two are going to not act like children and tell me what is going on!" Max practically screamed at the two man-boys who were now looking down shame faced. "I'm sorry Sebastion, now please go on you were telling me about the processing of the data."

"Yeah I was saying it is going to take a good twelve hours, we can figure out what to do then, but for now you should probably get out of the city." Sebastion said ignoring Logan and Zack's fighting like it never happened at all.

"I am having Bling set up the cabin with all the stuff we didn't bring but may need, we should leave as soon as possible." Logan said, at the same time silently telling her with his eyes that he was sorry, and that he loved her.

"Ok thanks Sebastion, talk to you tomorrow. Let's go boys." Max said as she walked out the room.


Zack drove and much to his disappointment Max and Logan sat together in the back. Actually sat wouldn't really be correct. Logan sat there with Max lying down next to him, her head in his lap. He lightly stroked her hair as she slept peacefully. "Since when does Maxie sleep?" Zack questioned Logan looking for ways in which his influence had weekend her.

"She always needs more sleep when her seizures are bad, and she has had a really bad week with them." Logan stated simply, not wanting to get into anything with Zack.

"I remember her first seizure, she was eight when they started. We were out on a training op and she just fell to the ground, she managed to complete the objective after the seizure ended though." Zack had some sort of twisted pride in his voice, that she handled pain as a child.

"Now she doesn't go through them alone anymore." Logan knew he shouldn't have said it but he couldn't help himself.

"She wasn't alone she had us." Came the curt reply

"Except for those ten years growing up that you didn't want anything to do with her." Logan pointed out in an angered whisper

"That was to keep us safe, it was strategic planing." Zack wasn't going to stand for this civilian speaking to him this way.

"Strategic planing was for in Manticore, outside manticore is life, a real life."

"We couldn't have a normal life if we tried." Zack said slightly raising her voice.

"It doesn't need to be normal, just real. And it might be hard maybe even impossible but Max still try's" Logan said a little too loud as Zack parked in the driveway.

"Ok that's it you too woke me up, now I am pissed. We have to have that little talk. Inside now!" Max said sitting up slowly. Before getting up and walking straight into the cabin. She was sitting in the living room when the guys joined her caring all the luggage. As soon as they sat down she started to talk. "I have had it with the two of you acting like children, what the hell is wrong with you!"

"Nothing." They both replied at the same time.

"I understand that you guy's don't like each other, probably because you both care so much about me. But stop being dumbasses and letting it get in the way of what we need to do." She sat down next to Zack. "Zack you are y brother, you know things about me that other people will never know, we went through shit people can't even imagine. We will forever share this bond like no other, and I will always love you. But I love Logan, he is good to me, we are good for each other. I want to be with him, I need to be with him, and I am going to be with him. We are meant for each other, we are going to stay together. And I'm not the soldier who broke out of that hell anymore, I've changed. And I like who I am, and I like my life, so I am going to live it for as long as I can. You have to accept all of that if you want to be in my life Zack." She then turned to Logan.

"Honey I love you, you know that I love you and I am staying with you, but don't be an ass! Zack is my brother, I love him too. He is not going to take me away, so don't get all insecure. And he is trying to be accepting of all of this, if he wasn't you would be dead. So you could make a little effort to be nice to him, to be understanding. I am going to take a nap before Bling gets here, and I don't want to see either of you until you two have worked some of this out." Max got up and went to bed not letting either of them say a word to her.

And so there they were the two men who loved her more than anything, and couldn't stand each other. Finally Zack broke the silence. "Take care of her, she is your first priority."

"She always has been, and always will be." Logan replied honestly, "Stop trying to take her away from me."

"Ok" Zack said finally giving up on taking her away. "Don't take her away from me."

"Your her brother I could never take her away from you, not even if I wanted to. She would never allow it."

"So we good now?" Zack asked standing up.

"I think so, Max is probably awake why don't you go talk to her." Logan offered

"Why don't we both go?"

"You sure?" Logan was slightly surprised by Zack's offer, Zack simply nodded. "Then let's go." And the two men walked into the bedroom, both surprised when they saw she was actually asleep. "We will talk to her later." Logan said when they left the room. "I am going to stay here and wait for Bling, you want to go to the store get some groceries so I can make dinner?"

"Sure, what should I get?"

"Whatever you can find." Logan replied handing him some cash from his wallet.

"I'll be back in an hour or so." Zack said as he walked out the door.

Zack had only been gone a few minutes when he heard a screem, Max's screem.

AN: thanks for the reviews they mean a lot to me. Sorry for the delay with posting i have been busy. The more reviews I get the faster I post though.