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Thick N Thin

Jondy felt a shudder as the car stopped abruptly in front of a large metal compound. From a map Jondy knew that they were parked on the East side and the East side gate was about 300 metres to their right.

"Everybody out." Scott said cheerfully, taking a long look around with disbelief on his face.

"What?" Jondy asked him, exasperated.

"Nothing!" He screeched innocently. Lexy raised her eyebrows from the back seat but said nothing.

"Oh, come on. It's written all over your face." Jondy said pointedly.

"How are we supposed to get in there?" Scott blurted out. Jondy looked at him with a look of confusion on her face. Wasn't it obvious?

"We jump." She said sarcastically. "Hello? Seattle is famous for it's massive sewer system." She added with a smile.

Scott nodded thoughtfully. "Yeah, I guess that's one way." Jondy gave him a playful slap on the back of the head.

"Y'know, bro, sometimes I wish I had your genius. I mean, you find a solution to everything don't you? And the way you use your mind, it's just. . . it's very inspiring." Lexy told him, her tone drooling with sarcasm.

"Shuddup." Scott grumbled, knowing his sister was taking the piss out of him. He handed the girls their bags from the trunk. "Okay. You guys have all your things?"

"Yep." They both nodded. Jondy suddenly felt a weird feeling in her stomach. Nervousness. What if Max didn't remember her? Or worse, what if she had been expecting Jondy sooner and was mad at her for not coming? 'Suck it up.' Jondy told herself. 'I'm sure Max will be happy to see you.' 'Yeah, right.' Replied the other side of her brain sarcastically. She snapped back to attention as Lexy and Scott looked to her for directions.

"You gonna lead the way, Zoggs?" Lexy asked gently.

"What? Oh, yeah sure. Follow me. I think I know where we go. Yep." She said, mostly talking to herself as she relayed perfectly the map she had looked at earlier. "Okay, Stuart Street, turn left, Freya Crescent, so the man hole should be." She looked up and spotted it. "Excellent." She lead the way down the drain after picking the padlock on the sewer that was there to stop people from getting in and transgenics from getting out. The sector police and Seattle government seemed to believe a tiny padlock would prevent the superhuman transgenics from getting out. But, the transgenics didn't really want to leave, so the padlocks had stayed in place.

They found themselves in a dank, sweaty smelling sewer with mushy, sloozy walls and water dripping from a million cracks and tiny crevices in the walls. Jondy took a cautious step forward, then immediately stopped and did a hand signal to Lex and Scott telling them to stop to. After a minute, she continued walking on, but more cautiously this time.

"What was that, Zoggs?" Lexy whispered, walking faster to catch up with Jondy as Scott looked around in fascination.

"I though I heard something. I'm sure it was just a loose tap or something though." Jondy lied. But if it was something, it would more than likely be a transgenic and that didn't matter. She was one of them too. She looked around and wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"They should clean these." Lexy joked, noticing the look on Jondy's face. Jondy smiled, trying to comfort Lexy but she was much too worried about Max's reaction to really pay any attention right now.

"Hey, um, Dee, how are we gonna be able to handle the poisonous toxins in there?" Scott asked, bringing to attention what they had failed to see. Jondy gave him her full attention. She almost kicked herself, but then had the answer one second after thinking about it.

"Blood transfusions. You guys can go home, if you wanna leave or something or I'll transfuse you with my blood." Jondy said, trying not to show how sad she would be if they took the easy way out and bailed.

"I'd rather stay." Lexy said, smiling at Jondy, who smiled back, touched by her friend's kindness.

"Yeah. Ditto." Scott nodded and Jondy gave him a gentle smile to let him know how much she appreciated it.

"But any sign of you guys being sick and you're outta there. Got it?" Jondy asked, suddenly becoming a 'tough girl' again.

"Cross my heart." Lexy imitated.

*****

They finally reached the Terminal City perimeter and were now unofficially inside Terminal City. Almost at once, with Jondy's enhanced hearing, she picked up voices coming from the opposite end of the tunnel.

"Quick, guys, here." She hissed quietly, hiding them in the shadows. The voices were getting louder now, but still not loud enough for Lexy or Scott to be able to hear.

"I heard them back this way." The voice was saying. It was joined by another.

"Let's hope it's not damn ordinaries again. One more of em' and I'll snap their neck." She heard a gruff voice say and felt Lexy shiver next to her. Jondy breathed a soft sigh of relief as she heard them turn down an adjacent tunnel and then waited to be out of their hearing range before continuing on.

"I'm sure they weren't serious, Lexy." She said apologetically.

"It's okay. It was just a little creepy, that's all. But I know some of them haven't been out in the world that long. Not like my Zoggs!" Jondy screeched as Lexy picked her up from behind in a tight hug. Lexy giggled and Jondy wanted to giggle to, but she didn't know how.

"Hate to interrupt the girly moment, but I have a feeling Dee is anxious to see her sis so let's get movin'." Scott urged.

"Whatever, Scooter." Lexy mocked.

"He's right. Best to keep going before they come back." Jondy said quietly. When she wasn't in a public place, she could get VERY quiet and withdrawn. Except when she was with Lexy and Scott, but she had always been quiet and serious as a child, and only loud and outgoing around Max, who had also always been very quiet, except when she was mad or around Jondy. Jondy laughed silently at the memories. 'Now if only all the good memories weren't overshadowed by the bad ones.' She thought.

*****

The trio from San Francisco walked slowly toward the command centre in Terminal City. So far they had passed 3 other transgenics but only one had asked who they were and Jondy had just said 'New arrivals' and showed the girl her barcode. Nobody else even bothered to look their way, there was far too much going on. Jondy breathed a deep sigh. She was getting anxious and not knowing where Max was along with the constant worrying that her sister wouldn't accept her was taking it's toll. She had waited so long to be able to see her sister again and she only had one chance. Jondy had seen nothing of Max except news broadcasts since they had left each other. She had thought Max was dead. What if Max was mad at Jondy for leaving her? What would happen then? Jondy would go back, sad and defeated. Probably. Jondy had been so scared when she had heard the Delta team that she had freaked out and ran. She thought Max was dead under the ice, or at least going to drown with no way to get out. There had been a couple of times she felt scared or lonely for no reason, and thought maybe it was Maxie tuning into her wavelength but she'd immediately dismissed the thought when she thought of how she had left Max. Alone, scared, dying. Well she had thought Max had been dying, anyway. The freezing cold ice was enough to kill any X5. Then again, Max had always been different. Not strange different, special different. She never said much out of turn but she was always watching people, as though she knew she was different from them. Jondy knew, it was the same look she had on her own face at least once a day, when she thought of Manticore. They had escaped the compound, but Manticore was always behind them, only a few steps and reminding them that they were different with every genetically enhanced step they took. Every genetically enhanced breath. Every genetically enhanced memory.

"Which way, Dee?" Scott asked fondly, breaking Jondy out of her train of thought.

She looked up to the sign that Scott was pointing to. It had arrows pointing to the barracks, apartments, control centre, infirmary, monument, recreation hall, offices and kitchen.

"Uhh," Jondy wondered. Where would Max be? It hit her in an instant. Exactly where Jondy would be, in a situation like this. "Control centre."

*****

"Is this sister of yours hot, Dee?" Scott asked cheekily.

"We drove across two states and all you're concerned about is picking up chicks?" His sister asked disgustedly.

"I was only joking." He said in a small voice.

"Yeah, she is." Jondy answered distractedly. "Pretty, I mean." She added when they both looked at her in confusion.

"Are you okay, sweetie? He asked that question a while ago."

"Well I was thinking about it cos I couldn't remember what her picture looked like." Jondy lied convincingly.

"Oh." Lexy believed, nodding her head.

Scott gave her a funny look, but didn't press it.

"So, control centre. That's that building way over there, isn't it?" Lexy asked, already knowing that the answer would be affirmative. Just her luck. She knew she shouldn't have bother packing four pairs of jeans. It was killing her shoulders,

"Here." Jondy said, lifting a bag off Lexy's shoulders and adding it to her own.

"Thanks," Lexy replied, touched. "Hey guys, or Zoggsie Woggsie and Scooter- Boy, can we sing a song?"

"A song?" Scott looked disbelievingly at his sister.

"Why sing a song?" Jondy asked, stopping to look back at Lexy.

"I thought maybe it would lift the mood." Lexy answered looking at their faces. "Maybe not."

"You scared, Dee?" Scott asked, reading her face as she continued forward boldly, trying not to show it.

Jondy turned around, smiling bravely. The smile was too wide and Scott knew in an instant that she was just putting it on. "Scared? Me? Course not!" She answered as though the question were crazy.

"Okay." He said disbelievingly.

"Scooter! I'm fine, really. . . . Okay I'm scared to death!" Jondy exclaimed, dumping her bags on the cement paving and wringing her hands as she collapsed on the pavement. "I'm really freaking out, I mean, what if she hates me? Or wants to kill me?"

"That's insane, Dee. You know it is! You're just saying that so you can be afraid and you'll go and you won't have to face her."

"Why would I do that?"

"I dunno. Some deep psychcological thing I guess."

"You know he's right. But we're right here with ya, Zoggs. We won't go anywhere, no matter how scared or weird or troubled you get." Lexy promised.

"Really?" Jondy looked up at her best friends sitting on the floor next to her, her face tear stained. She laughed softly. "Geez I'm hopeless. I just miss my baby sister, that's all. Manticore made us to be strong physically, but emotionally I am not."

"I don't believe that." Scott told her gently. "Everything you've been through and done! The time when Catch pulled out that gun, when we'd only just met him, y'know, and we were all freakin' out, and you just looked him calmly in the eye and told him to put it down. And then he didn't, so you grabbed it off him and he just started crying. It was the first time I'd ever seen him cry. He's such a tough guy! Black belt in karate for crying out loud! But you just sat with him. We were all to scared to go near him, and he just cried on your shoulder. The three of us were scared of him for weeks, you were the only one that would go near him, it was like we were emotionally scarred or something. And then you convinced us all to give him a chance, he'd change. And we did. And he did. And he's turned out to be our best friend, and Onie's husband! We never would have known what a great person he was had you not been there. And Dione would definitely thank you, had she had the chance. She'd know Catch for years and the gun thing freaked out her too! But you stood by him, stood strong for him. You're amazing Jondy, all the things you get past. Everything you take in your stride. You can do this too."

Lexy nodded seriously. "That entire thing is true, Jondy! You don't realise how strong you are, but you're the bricks in our friendship. The rest of us are crazy and we freak out daily and you're there to hold us together. You've always been there for me. So I'm gonna be there for you. You're strong as hell, even stronger, and if this scares you, there's no doubt what it would do to me! Max would be proud for you to be her big sister, I bet. No get on up and see that sister of yours I've heard so much about!"

Jondy pulled both of her friends to her gratefully. "Thanks you guys. I'd be so lost without you both. Hell I'd probably just run home." The threesome stood up after pulling away, gathering up their bags and things.

"So let's go." Lexy directed. Jondy bravely held her head high and mentally prepared herself to face her worst fear. One of her only fears. 'Please don't hate me Maxie.' She begged silently.

*****

Jondy, Lexy and Scott walked steadily down a corridor leading to the command centre. They could hear the hustle and bustle of dozens of transgenics moving around inside. Jondy, who had been trailing behind, lead the way through the doorway after Scott and Lexy stopped and pointedly looked at the doorway. It was a large, almost circular building with a small stage like platform at one end, with 2 steps leading up to it. Another staircase lead up to a long catwalk and a hallway of what Jondy guessed to be offices. There were about 6 doors off each room, and it had tall, grey ceilings. There were numerous t.v monitors placed at a position in the room and about a dozen transgenics stood around it cheering. There was a pool table and a long bar with some patrons sitting at it. One the platform was about 16 computer monitors and small t.v screens with camera footage and a few transgenics either sitting or standing in front of them. They were all walking very fast, and Jondy wouldn't have been surprised if there were at least one hundred in this room alone, all walking someplace or talking loudly. She inhaled deeply as she spotted one of the transgenics leaning over a man in front of a computer monitor. It was Max, talking seriously with the guy in front of the computer, while numerous transgenics tried to get her attention about unimportant matters that she was too busy to deal with. The guy at the computer, he was the one who had helped with the Jam Pony hostage crisis, and Jondy guessed him to be Max's boyfriend by the way he was staring intently at her as she talked, running her fingers over the keyboard. Max suddenly stood up straight, and although she had her back to Jondy, Jondy could tell Max was watching the guy the way he had watched her as he typed animatedly while she watched. As though she could sense someone was watching her in the midst, Max ignored all the people still yelling for her help and turned with a confused look on her face. She scanned the crowd, eyes landing on Jondy almost immediately and she screwed up her face in concentration for a second before splitting into a large grin.

"Jondy!" She yelled, causing the guy at the computer to turn around, as well the few transgenics that had been trying to get her attention, but all the other 'freaks' seemed to be too caught up in what they were doing to notice Max run down the stairs to the pillar Jondy was standing in front of. Jondy stood watching awkwardly as Max ran to her, smiling widely and making her way around the roving transgenics. Jondy gasped as Max engulfed her in a huge hug and Jondy numbly hugged her fiercely back.

"Hey." Max greeted her, as they pulled apart.

"Hi." Jondy said, smiling shyly.

"What are you doing here? It's great to see you, god, I can't stop smiling!" Max laughed embarrassingly. "I actually haven't smiled this much since, never."

Jondy smiled back, gripping Max's hand tightly and turned to Scott and Lexy. "Max, this is Scott and Lexy. Scott, Lexy, this is Maxie."

Max feigned irritation. "It's Max." She told Scott and Lexy shortly, and greeted them with a "hey."

"Okay, Jondy this is my good friend Logan." Max told Jondy as Jondy turned to see the computer guy, now named Logan, walk toward them.

"It's nice to meet you." Jondy smiled lightly.

"Yes it is." Logan agreed smiling back, focusing his eyes on Max as she smiled angelically.

"So, Dee, this is your baby sister, huh?" Scott asked, coming up behind Jondy and throwing his arm over her shoulder casually, like he already had around his sister's.

"Yep. This is Maxie." Jondy said proudly. "So who's this Logan? Roommate? Random guy? Boyfriend?" She completed coyly.

"Not exactly." Logan answered, glancing awkwardly at Max who had lost the smile and was standing there nervously.

"So, Jondy, what have you been up to? Still live in San Francisco?" Max asked, abruptly changing the subject and moving on from the awkward silence that had engulfed the small group. Before Jondy could answer, a large man and a toned guy walked over.

"Ohmygod! Ben!" Jondy yelled happily, throwing herself at the toned guy. "I had no idea you were here! How are you?"

'Ben' rubbed his hands up and down Jondy's back smiling flirtatiously until she pulled away, a little confused.

"Get away from her!" Max said to Jondy's confusion, pushing away Ben. "This is NOT Ben. This, filthy creature here, is Alec. Alec, meet my SISTER Jondy." Max said in disgust, impatiently looking away from Alec. Jondy looked to see Logan had also looked away awkwardly, as though he were pissed off.

"Clone of Ben." The tall man explained in a gruff voice, and Jondy saw he was an anomalie. She nodded, a little scared of him and turned back to Max.

"This is Joshua." Max said, gesturing to the man with an obvious canine looking face who smiled sweetly but shyly.

"Joshua." He said proudly, sticking out his hand.

"Jondy." She smiled, making the same gesture and he shook her hand excitedly.

"Uh, Max, we have a situation." Alec said, realising he'd worn out his welcome.

"What?" Max spat, causing Logan to look up in interest. Jondy turned to see Lexy and Scott had backed away from the dog man, but not obviously as to offend him.

"He won't hurt you." Jondy said, moving to join them as Alec explained the situation to Max and Logan.

"Um, okay." Lexy said, smiling only with her mouth as though she highly doubted Jondy's words.

"Jondy?" Max asked coming over to join the trio. "Sorry." Max apologised to Lexy and Scott. "I gotta bounce. Some idiot's found a way in under a loose fence, charging people money to come in. I gotta go take care of it." Max said apologetically.

Jondy nodded in understanding and Max quickly exited with Alec and Joshua, who had rounded up about 5 other transgenics. "You guys fine?" Jondy asked.

"Yeah. Everything's cool." Scott told her, looking around, a little afraid of all the anomalies.

"They won't hurt you! Now, uh dude," Jondy said, grabbing a young X6 by the shirt and pulling him to her. "Could you please show these two to a spare room? /Maybe you guys wanna freshen up or something? I'll be right here." Scott and Lexy nodded and took their gear and Jondy's with the X6, out of one of the side doors of the command centre. Jondy finally allowed herself a breather. It was fast paced here. And loud. But meeting Max had definitely gone better than she'd hoped, even imagined. Max wasn't resentful of Jondy at all. All she was, was happy to see her. Jondy grinned. Things were turning out okay. And the smile that had lit up Maxie's face when she saw Jondy was worth all the maltesers in the world. Jondy looked up thoughtfully as she spotted Logan watching her, then he turned back to the computer screen. She made her way up to the platform.

"Hey."

"Hey." He said, not moving his eyes off the screen as he continued to type as fast as a formula one racer.

"So, you like Max, huh?" She now had Logan's full attention. For a second anyway.

"What gives you that idea?" He asked casually, trying not to show the flicker of interest Jondy could see in his eyes as he typed furiously.

"Umm, how about you can't keep your eyes off her. You're not a transgenic and yet you're here, in the midst of a huge nuclear spill that is completely sacrificing your life, you're Eyes Only and when she died you were totally seeking your vengeance from Manticore, making furious hacks and so forth." Jondy said quietly.

"How did you know that?" Logan asked, looking up at Jondy.

"I'm Jondy. I see all, I hear all." Jondy smiled lightly. "And your eyes are very defined. When I saw your eyes I thought of Eyes Only. Then I noticed how at home you seemed on computers, and I came to the conclusion a long time a go that Eyes Only would be using computers for his hacks."

"But how did you know Max had died?"

"Syl told me. A few of us actually DID keep in contact after the escape but we were careful not to tell Zack because then he'd tear us apart again. He wouldn't let us se each other. But what he didn't know was that Zane was trailing him, very distantly so as not to alert him, but Zane also knew where very one of us was. Zane's clever like that. He's an excellent tracker." Jondy trailed off, a faraway look coming into her eyes.

Logan looked up at her sadly. She reminded him so much of Max. But without the tomboy exterior. It was all there, the seriousness, sarcasm, playfulness among the guarded front.

"So you're here to help her." Logan guessed. Helping out was what Max would do for her family in the same situation. Sometimes it scared him when he realised how well he knew Max. Knew what she would do in any situation, knew how she'd react and he knew how she thought. What escape route she would take, which guards she would take the time to fight and which ones she'd simply pass by.

Jondy stared carefully at Logan. He seemed pretty complex, but she decided she would like trying to figure him out. It would be fun, finding out what secrets about himself and her sister he contained deep inside.

"So what was it that Max had to go do?" Jondy asked.

"Just a minor situation. Few people trying to push the gate down. But if they succeed things can get pretty messy."

"Why aren't the National Guards or Sector Police stopping them?"

"Distracted. People've found a transgenic and cornered her. The Sector Cops and National Guards are trying to contain that situation, but they've left the fence unprotected. The team has to go out, save the X6 cornered, and then bring the attention back to the fence so that the authorities will notice, and then they have to sneak back inside."

"Can't they just use the sewers again?"

"the sewers are a good option, our strongest. But we can't draw attention to the sewers. Then we'll have to keep jumping the fence and they're be no way to get humans in and out."

"Like you. . .?"

"I can jump the fence. It's Max's friends that need some aid in that area. Mole keeps trying to get them out, saying he doesn't want any 'ordinaries' inside the boundaries, but having Original Cindy and Sketchy here help keep Max sane. She can hang out with them for a while after a long days work, and though it isn't really the same, it's comfort to her." Logan detailed.

Jondy nodded. She liked this guy. He was okay. "I'm gonna go find my friends." She told him, walking away to leave him thinking about what he'd just said.

*****

Will, the young X6 who had taken Lexy and Scott to the sleeping barracks, closed the door behind him as they looked around at the small room with 2 bunk beds, a small desk, and a bathroom through a door at the end. There was a large skylight, seeing as their room was on the fifth story of a five- story building, and another window next to the door of which they'd just entered.

"Pretty nice." Scott, looking around interestedly. "Not exactly home sweet home, but pretty damn good for temporary residence."

"I agree with you on that. Okay, so Jondy and I will take the bottom bunks and you can have a top bunk."

"How about we push the two bunks together and I get the two top bunks, y'know, make a double bed. Then you little girls can chit chat all night on the bottom bunks."

"We don't chitchat!" Lexy began indignantly. "And that's a good idea. Gives us more floor space too. Good thinking Scooter." She ruffled his hair playfully and moved to push one bunk against the other. "Hello? A little help here." She asked when Scott didn't move to help her. He sighed resignedly and they pushed the bunk against the other. Scott immediately pushed his bag onto the top bunk and climbed up after it, rummaging through for some food.

"So what were you and Zoggs talking about when I was asleep?" Lexy asked interestedly. She had noticed sparks between her brother and best friend a few months ago, though both seemed ignorant to them, and Lexy was wondering if either one of them had acted on them yet.

"Nuttin much. Crap all, really." Scott replied nonchalantly.

"You guys get it on?" She asked with a grin.

"What?"

"I know you like her. Which is why my mind is screwed as to why you still sleep with other people when it's obvious you like her!"

"Why do you think I like Jondy?"

"I'm your sister."

"Fair enough. Does she know I like her?"

"No."

"Thank god."

"Why, 'thank god?"

"Um, gee, sis, maybe cos' she doesn't like me. How humiliating for me! Scott likes Jondy, Jondy doesn't like Scott!" Scott scoffed sarcastically.

"Why wouldn't she like you?"

"Um, I'm one of her best friends! I sleep with a LOT of girls and don't call them, she knows the REAL me! If that ain't enough to scare her away, there's the fact I can't commit, she's FAR too good for me, she has class, elegance, she's drop dead gorgeous and totally oblivious to that fact! She can dance! She favours sweet, nice guys who have a factor of cuteness but don't go around strutting their stuff. But then again, they're always jerks who don't know what they've got and ditch her for their jobs. She's a great friend, good-hearted, can quote practically anything from the dictionary, she doesn't give u on people no matter what, she's been hurt so many times and I do NOT want to add to that. Maybe the fact that she can tie her shoes! I don't know, Lex, maybe I just don't want to ruin our friendship."

"That's bullshit! You're scared of being rejected for once! You're always the rejecter, and you're shit scared she'll reject you!" Lexy yelled.

"What?"

"That's it, isn't it! You know she's too good for you, but you're a damn good person too and exactly the guy she needs! You might not commit with other people, but if you were with Jondy you'd give her your whole heart! You'd be stable, and you ARE sweet with a factor of cuteness! You wouldn't dare hurt her; you know that she's the perfect girl for you. But you're feeling insecure about her and you NEVER feel insecure. That's what scares you! Why can't you just suck up your pride for once and ask her out on date?"

"I don't know, why don't you?" Scott yelled back, running his fingers through his hair complicatedly. His sister's lecture had given him a LOT to think about.

"I'm gonna go for a walk. Give you some time to think." She told him rationally.

He nodded. As she reached the door she turned back to him

"Scott?"

"Yeah?" Call if you need anything.

"Okay. . . . And thanks."
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