Murder or Suicide
Disclaimer: Dark Angel cast and crew belong to James Cameron. I own nothing from them. I just write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.
A/N: The character Claire, Natalia, Shane, Clay, Kyle, and Joe belongs to me. Later on, I might put more new characters into this fanfic
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Max and Clay walks out of the building and begins to walk down the long road, "So, why are you friendly to me? Is it because you want to find out, what is my problem?"
"No, because I'm a friend, I never really had that before," that because she spent nine years of her life at Manticore then after the escape, she had to survive in the new world, being different, she did a lot of hiding and being afraid, Max isn't afraid at the moment, because she doubt, that Manticore will come to Montana, but she could be wrong, sooner or later, she has to leave and find somewhere else safe, if she sticks around here too long, Manticore will have an easy time finding her.
He looks at her, "Really? Sounds like you're a major outcast or something, you're like me"
"In what way?"
"Never mind that part" he sees the coffee shop ahead, "Ah, let's get a coffee now? Shall we?"
"Sure" She follows him, as he runs a bit faster, she runs after him, she is wondering, what is the rush? He walks into the coffee shop and hurries up to the coffee and orders two medium regular coffee, he hands the person the cash and runs out and he hands her the coffee, "Clay, what is the rush?"
"I can't tell you"
"Clay, your scaring me, tell me what it is, you can tell me anything," she feels really scared, especially toward to Clay, something is bothering him, but he doesn't want to talk about it, but she needs to know, because the more he is acting weird, the more its scaring her. At the moment, she could tell whatever this is bothering him, he might be suicidal.
"Fine, promise you won't tell anyone"
"I promise, tell me, what it is?"
"My parents...were murdered..."
"And?"
"I was the only child survived..and this crazed guy..it begins with the letter S.did this weird stuff, like you will see on sci-fi movies.....and..it gave me the power to heal other people and that is why people are making fun of me"
"To the power to heal?" said Max sarcastically
"Yeah, some kid, back at preschool, saw my healing powers and start to make stories and everyone starts to believe him, that is how this rumor spread, and many people twisted the rumors and this is happening into reality, now people won't accept what is different, like me"
She sorta believes him, but not sure, "Show me" so she can really believe this kid, just incase he not a nut case.
"I need to see a wound" Max cuts her hand, with her sharp figure nails and he hovers his hands over it and Max sees a bright glow and she could actual see its actually healing her wound, "amazing huh?"
"Yea"
"I kind of felt better" he looks at her, "Thanks"
"Your welcome, I sorta agree, how people treat other people because they are different"
"Oh?"
"Yeah" she feels comfortable enough to tell him, that she is a genetically engineered super soldier and he is almost like her, but except he only has the power to heal the wound and probably the sick as well, he is almost a angel and Max is probably a guardian angel, because she can help guard the victim and battle the evil, "I'm different too"
"Really? And magick powers you can do?"
"Not magick powers or healing powers, I'm quite different"
"How different?"
"Very different from you and the rest of the human world" she pauses for a slight moment, "This is the first time, I ever to tell someone about this, sometimes I wish I can tell someone about myself, but afraid what will might happen and you know the rumors will spread and it won't be good especially to me and my 11 brothers and sisters"
"There are more like you?" "Yes and more back where I was raised for the nine years of my life" she takes a deep breath for a moment, "Let talk somewhere, with no one around, because I can't risk the exposure"
"Ok" he looks around, "the dump" he starts to walk away and Max follows him, few minutes they reach the dump.
"Ok, don't freak out, I can image you are probably say something like cool or whatever" she takes a deep breath again.
"This is hard for you to talk about?"
"Sort of" she takes a big breath and then she looks at Clay, "Don't get nervous Max" she said to herself, "Ok, I'm ready, I think, Clay, I'm genetically engineered super soldier with the recombination of Feline DNA, giving me special ablities, that felines usually have"
"Cool" he is interested, about Max, "So what ablities or stuff you get from the feline DNA?"
"Flash-like speed, camera like eyesight, photographic memory, super human strength, tolerance for cold, can hold breathe for 4+ minutes, enhanced hearing"
"Cool"
"Also I need to talk about my past"
For many hours Max has been talking Clay about her past and how she tries to survive in the world, to be ordinary girl trying to make a living, even though she is half human and half kind of a mutant and she is running from these people that were using her and her brothers and sisters. She kind of feels good, telling someone, without hiding in what she is. Clay is also a type of person that won't tell anyone about anything, that is a good thing about Clay, he is a secretive person and a good person to trust.
Also Max and Clay are talking about other stuff like what they were into and Max left out being a cat burglar, that is a not a good thing to talk about, because that is a crime Max committed almost every night.
Around 9pm, they ended their large conversation, "Wow that was long"
"Yeah" said Max, "Let's walk home now, my foster parents probably called the cops onto me"
"Yeah, let's get going"
They leave the dump and they start to walk down the road, Shane walks out of a McDonald's and he sees the two, he glares at Clay, evilly. He takes out his cell phone out, "Guys come here" he hangs up and he watches them carefully, especially towards Clay.
"I like you," said Clay, Max stops walking and looks at him, "A lot, have you have this feeling as well?"
"I'm not so sure," Max doesn't have the feeling for love, not a the moment, when she hanging is hanging around with her foster family to family trips or whatever, or visit grandmother's house, she sees a lot of 'stuff' going around, she never this kind of feeling before, due to being at Manticore, "What is love?"
"Love is, is someone you like and cared for"
"Yeah," said Shane behind him, with a couple of guys around him, "Not really though, Clay get away from my woman"
"Leave Clay alone," said Max, as she turns around sharply, "If you want to get to Clay, you gotta go through me first," as she puts into her fighting stance.
"We gotta go through you first? Haha, cute, real cute," said Shane, he walks closer toward Max, "Sorry, I'm not suppose to hit girls, cause that is a major abuse towards woman, oh what the heck" He went for a punch at Max and she grabs his hand and she uses her other hand, and she turns it into a fist and she upper cut him in the jaw, he falls to the ground, with now a bloody mouth, he touches is mouth and looks at the blood on his figures, "You quite have a nice punch"
His friends helps him up and one of them, looks at Clay in the eyes, as Clay is cheering for Max, "Let's get him" Clay nods and he starts to run down the road. Max turns around sharply and starts to run with him. They gang member's starts to chase Max and Clay down the street, "We will get Clay and you get the girl"
"I will give Max a piece of my mind," as Shane is running down the street
Max wishes she can use her flash-like speed, but she can't, she can't risk the exposure and that she is somewhat different from you and me. Clay takes a sharp corner, so does Max and they are unaware this is a dead in, till now. Max looks around, so does Clay, "Were trap, what do we do Max?"
"Hold on, stay by me" Clay walks over to Max and he stays at her, "We need to give these punks a lesson, especially Shane"
Shane and the gang members turn the corner and they see Clay and Max, "You can run, but you can't hide" Couple of the gang members takes out guns out of their pockets, Max stares at the object and she starts to have a flash- back, during the night of the escape, she sees Eva, holding and aiming the gun and then gets killed by Lydecker. The flash-back ends very quickly. Shane is now closer to Max, "Looks like someone is spacing out, or trippin" Max backs up and she doesn't see Clay.
"What did you do to Clay?"
"Nothing," as he walks a bit closer towards Max, "He is not your concern anymore"
"Where is he?" in now a demanded tone of voice, "If you don't tell me what you did to him, I will do something really bad to you"
"Where's Clay?" He turns around and looks at his fellow gang member's surrounding a body onto the ground, "There he is, sleeping like a baby" Max rushes over to him, Clay is ok.
"Max?" as he sits up, "We need to get outta here"
"Good plan" She helps him up, but they still have a problem, they need to get Shane out of the way and his little punky friends.
"Wrong plan" Shane walks behind her and he grabs her, "Get Clay" The other gang members grabs Clay by the arms and start to twist it. Max has enough strength to get him off her back, but she is afraid, then again, Clay life is somewhat on the line. Max bends down and Shane falls off of her and he lands onto the ground really hard. Max puts her foot onto his chest, "Feisty"
"Get outta here, especially your buddies, and leave Clay alone"
"Yea! You say it Max!" cheered Clay, as he is struggling, trying to break free, from the grip of Shane's friends.
"If you don't, I will hurt you seriously"
"I wouldn't mind that" Max presses her foot down a little harder, making it difficult for him to breathe, "I can take you out like a light, but I can't kill, but I can kick your sorry butt and knock you out"
Shane is having a somewhat hard time breathing, "Mercy!"
Max releases him and she kicks him in the side, but not hard enough, "Enough or you want more?"
"No more," Shane looks at his gang members, "Release Clay" They nod and they release Clay.
Clay runs over to Max, "Let's go" Max nods and the two takes off and runs down the road, Max and Clay walks into an alley and stops walking, "You saved my life"
"No problem, its not over, yet, Shane is giving us a 10 second head start, which is not good, get onto my back and don't let go" He goes behind Max, and she giving him some kind of a piggy back ride and she backs up and begins to use her flash-like like speed down the alley, zigging and zagging down the tight corners and small spaces. She jumps and leaps over trash cans and finally they disappeared from the night.
Shane gets up, "Let's get them" They nod and they leave the dead end and sees the area quiet, "What the heck?" They look around, they don't see anyone in sight, its pure quiet, and "You gotta away Max and Clay! Next time when we meet you won't be so lucky!" as he yelled.
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Max stops running and Clay gets off her back, Clay walks up to his house, "Thanks Max" He walks up to the front steps of his house. He opens the front door and went inside.
Max walks away from the house and she heads back to her place, 10 minutes later she reached her house and she walks into her house, her foster mother and father is sitting on the couch, waiting for Max to come home. Joe and Kyle are standing on the opposite side of the room.
"Max where were you? You were gone for almost 10 hours!" cried her foster mother, "What were you doing? Drinking? Smoking? Doing drugs?"
"None," she pauses for a moment, "I was walking Clay home, we stopped to get a coffee and begin to talk, for a couple of hours and we had a run in with Shane is his rat pack"
"What did Shane did to you?" said Kyle
"Yeah," said Joe
"He tried to hit me"
"He what!?" said her foster father, "Are you hurt?"
"I block the punch and I used self defense onto him, I had no choice"
"You could of run," said Kyle
They stop talking and the phone rings, who would call here at this place, at this time of day; her foster mother picks it up, "Hello?" She covers her mouth and she looks at everyone.
"Mom, what is it?" said Joe
"It's Clay," as she had difficult saying it. Max froze for a moment; she senses something must of happen at Clay's house. Many question begins fill inside of her head, "He's been found dead, the cops made the enactment, he committed suicide"
"Max, oh man," said Joe, he walks closer towards her, she backs up.
"Don't" tears is coming out of her eyes, she lost someone, someone she cared and liked. She lost a friend, something that she never really had before. She knows he didn't committed suicide, he didn't look suicidal, when Max was hanging around with him. Also he didn't kill himself, it was murder, someone murdered him, now she gonna go and find the killer, first person she is going to hunt is Shane, Max could care less about exposure at the moment, because someone took away a special person away from Max and Max is not in a good mood at the moment.
(Chapter 4 coming up soon)
Disclaimer: Dark Angel cast and crew belong to James Cameron. I own nothing from them. I just write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.
A/N: The character Claire, Natalia, Shane, Clay, Kyle, and Joe belongs to me. Later on, I might put more new characters into this fanfic
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Max and Clay walks out of the building and begins to walk down the long road, "So, why are you friendly to me? Is it because you want to find out, what is my problem?"
"No, because I'm a friend, I never really had that before," that because she spent nine years of her life at Manticore then after the escape, she had to survive in the new world, being different, she did a lot of hiding and being afraid, Max isn't afraid at the moment, because she doubt, that Manticore will come to Montana, but she could be wrong, sooner or later, she has to leave and find somewhere else safe, if she sticks around here too long, Manticore will have an easy time finding her.
He looks at her, "Really? Sounds like you're a major outcast or something, you're like me"
"In what way?"
"Never mind that part" he sees the coffee shop ahead, "Ah, let's get a coffee now? Shall we?"
"Sure" She follows him, as he runs a bit faster, she runs after him, she is wondering, what is the rush? He walks into the coffee shop and hurries up to the coffee and orders two medium regular coffee, he hands the person the cash and runs out and he hands her the coffee, "Clay, what is the rush?"
"I can't tell you"
"Clay, your scaring me, tell me what it is, you can tell me anything," she feels really scared, especially toward to Clay, something is bothering him, but he doesn't want to talk about it, but she needs to know, because the more he is acting weird, the more its scaring her. At the moment, she could tell whatever this is bothering him, he might be suicidal.
"Fine, promise you won't tell anyone"
"I promise, tell me, what it is?"
"My parents...were murdered..."
"And?"
"I was the only child survived..and this crazed guy..it begins with the letter S.did this weird stuff, like you will see on sci-fi movies.....and..it gave me the power to heal other people and that is why people are making fun of me"
"To the power to heal?" said Max sarcastically
"Yeah, some kid, back at preschool, saw my healing powers and start to make stories and everyone starts to believe him, that is how this rumor spread, and many people twisted the rumors and this is happening into reality, now people won't accept what is different, like me"
She sorta believes him, but not sure, "Show me" so she can really believe this kid, just incase he not a nut case.
"I need to see a wound" Max cuts her hand, with her sharp figure nails and he hovers his hands over it and Max sees a bright glow and she could actual see its actually healing her wound, "amazing huh?"
"Yea"
"I kind of felt better" he looks at her, "Thanks"
"Your welcome, I sorta agree, how people treat other people because they are different"
"Oh?"
"Yeah" she feels comfortable enough to tell him, that she is a genetically engineered super soldier and he is almost like her, but except he only has the power to heal the wound and probably the sick as well, he is almost a angel and Max is probably a guardian angel, because she can help guard the victim and battle the evil, "I'm different too"
"Really? And magick powers you can do?"
"Not magick powers or healing powers, I'm quite different"
"How different?"
"Very different from you and the rest of the human world" she pauses for a slight moment, "This is the first time, I ever to tell someone about this, sometimes I wish I can tell someone about myself, but afraid what will might happen and you know the rumors will spread and it won't be good especially to me and my 11 brothers and sisters"
"There are more like you?" "Yes and more back where I was raised for the nine years of my life" she takes a deep breath for a moment, "Let talk somewhere, with no one around, because I can't risk the exposure"
"Ok" he looks around, "the dump" he starts to walk away and Max follows him, few minutes they reach the dump.
"Ok, don't freak out, I can image you are probably say something like cool or whatever" she takes a deep breath again.
"This is hard for you to talk about?"
"Sort of" she takes a big breath and then she looks at Clay, "Don't get nervous Max" she said to herself, "Ok, I'm ready, I think, Clay, I'm genetically engineered super soldier with the recombination of Feline DNA, giving me special ablities, that felines usually have"
"Cool" he is interested, about Max, "So what ablities or stuff you get from the feline DNA?"
"Flash-like speed, camera like eyesight, photographic memory, super human strength, tolerance for cold, can hold breathe for 4+ minutes, enhanced hearing"
"Cool"
"Also I need to talk about my past"
For many hours Max has been talking Clay about her past and how she tries to survive in the world, to be ordinary girl trying to make a living, even though she is half human and half kind of a mutant and she is running from these people that were using her and her brothers and sisters. She kind of feels good, telling someone, without hiding in what she is. Clay is also a type of person that won't tell anyone about anything, that is a good thing about Clay, he is a secretive person and a good person to trust.
Also Max and Clay are talking about other stuff like what they were into and Max left out being a cat burglar, that is a not a good thing to talk about, because that is a crime Max committed almost every night.
Around 9pm, they ended their large conversation, "Wow that was long"
"Yeah" said Max, "Let's walk home now, my foster parents probably called the cops onto me"
"Yeah, let's get going"
They leave the dump and they start to walk down the road, Shane walks out of a McDonald's and he sees the two, he glares at Clay, evilly. He takes out his cell phone out, "Guys come here" he hangs up and he watches them carefully, especially towards Clay.
"I like you," said Clay, Max stops walking and looks at him, "A lot, have you have this feeling as well?"
"I'm not so sure," Max doesn't have the feeling for love, not a the moment, when she hanging is hanging around with her foster family to family trips or whatever, or visit grandmother's house, she sees a lot of 'stuff' going around, she never this kind of feeling before, due to being at Manticore, "What is love?"
"Love is, is someone you like and cared for"
"Yeah," said Shane behind him, with a couple of guys around him, "Not really though, Clay get away from my woman"
"Leave Clay alone," said Max, as she turns around sharply, "If you want to get to Clay, you gotta go through me first," as she puts into her fighting stance.
"We gotta go through you first? Haha, cute, real cute," said Shane, he walks closer toward Max, "Sorry, I'm not suppose to hit girls, cause that is a major abuse towards woman, oh what the heck" He went for a punch at Max and she grabs his hand and she uses her other hand, and she turns it into a fist and she upper cut him in the jaw, he falls to the ground, with now a bloody mouth, he touches is mouth and looks at the blood on his figures, "You quite have a nice punch"
His friends helps him up and one of them, looks at Clay in the eyes, as Clay is cheering for Max, "Let's get him" Clay nods and he starts to run down the road. Max turns around sharply and starts to run with him. They gang member's starts to chase Max and Clay down the street, "We will get Clay and you get the girl"
"I will give Max a piece of my mind," as Shane is running down the street
Max wishes she can use her flash-like speed, but she can't, she can't risk the exposure and that she is somewhat different from you and me. Clay takes a sharp corner, so does Max and they are unaware this is a dead in, till now. Max looks around, so does Clay, "Were trap, what do we do Max?"
"Hold on, stay by me" Clay walks over to Max and he stays at her, "We need to give these punks a lesson, especially Shane"
Shane and the gang members turn the corner and they see Clay and Max, "You can run, but you can't hide" Couple of the gang members takes out guns out of their pockets, Max stares at the object and she starts to have a flash- back, during the night of the escape, she sees Eva, holding and aiming the gun and then gets killed by Lydecker. The flash-back ends very quickly. Shane is now closer to Max, "Looks like someone is spacing out, or trippin" Max backs up and she doesn't see Clay.
"What did you do to Clay?"
"Nothing," as he walks a bit closer towards Max, "He is not your concern anymore"
"Where is he?" in now a demanded tone of voice, "If you don't tell me what you did to him, I will do something really bad to you"
"Where's Clay?" He turns around and looks at his fellow gang member's surrounding a body onto the ground, "There he is, sleeping like a baby" Max rushes over to him, Clay is ok.
"Max?" as he sits up, "We need to get outta here"
"Good plan" She helps him up, but they still have a problem, they need to get Shane out of the way and his little punky friends.
"Wrong plan" Shane walks behind her and he grabs her, "Get Clay" The other gang members grabs Clay by the arms and start to twist it. Max has enough strength to get him off her back, but she is afraid, then again, Clay life is somewhat on the line. Max bends down and Shane falls off of her and he lands onto the ground really hard. Max puts her foot onto his chest, "Feisty"
"Get outta here, especially your buddies, and leave Clay alone"
"Yea! You say it Max!" cheered Clay, as he is struggling, trying to break free, from the grip of Shane's friends.
"If you don't, I will hurt you seriously"
"I wouldn't mind that" Max presses her foot down a little harder, making it difficult for him to breathe, "I can take you out like a light, but I can't kill, but I can kick your sorry butt and knock you out"
Shane is having a somewhat hard time breathing, "Mercy!"
Max releases him and she kicks him in the side, but not hard enough, "Enough or you want more?"
"No more," Shane looks at his gang members, "Release Clay" They nod and they release Clay.
Clay runs over to Max, "Let's go" Max nods and the two takes off and runs down the road, Max and Clay walks into an alley and stops walking, "You saved my life"
"No problem, its not over, yet, Shane is giving us a 10 second head start, which is not good, get onto my back and don't let go" He goes behind Max, and she giving him some kind of a piggy back ride and she backs up and begins to use her flash-like like speed down the alley, zigging and zagging down the tight corners and small spaces. She jumps and leaps over trash cans and finally they disappeared from the night.
Shane gets up, "Let's get them" They nod and they leave the dead end and sees the area quiet, "What the heck?" They look around, they don't see anyone in sight, its pure quiet, and "You gotta away Max and Clay! Next time when we meet you won't be so lucky!" as he yelled.
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Max stops running and Clay gets off her back, Clay walks up to his house, "Thanks Max" He walks up to the front steps of his house. He opens the front door and went inside.
Max walks away from the house and she heads back to her place, 10 minutes later she reached her house and she walks into her house, her foster mother and father is sitting on the couch, waiting for Max to come home. Joe and Kyle are standing on the opposite side of the room.
"Max where were you? You were gone for almost 10 hours!" cried her foster mother, "What were you doing? Drinking? Smoking? Doing drugs?"
"None," she pauses for a moment, "I was walking Clay home, we stopped to get a coffee and begin to talk, for a couple of hours and we had a run in with Shane is his rat pack"
"What did Shane did to you?" said Kyle
"Yeah," said Joe
"He tried to hit me"
"He what!?" said her foster father, "Are you hurt?"
"I block the punch and I used self defense onto him, I had no choice"
"You could of run," said Kyle
They stop talking and the phone rings, who would call here at this place, at this time of day; her foster mother picks it up, "Hello?" She covers her mouth and she looks at everyone.
"Mom, what is it?" said Joe
"It's Clay," as she had difficult saying it. Max froze for a moment; she senses something must of happen at Clay's house. Many question begins fill inside of her head, "He's been found dead, the cops made the enactment, he committed suicide"
"Max, oh man," said Joe, he walks closer towards her, she backs up.
"Don't" tears is coming out of her eyes, she lost someone, someone she cared and liked. She lost a friend, something that she never really had before. She knows he didn't committed suicide, he didn't look suicidal, when Max was hanging around with him. Also he didn't kill himself, it was murder, someone murdered him, now she gonna go and find the killer, first person she is going to hunt is Shane, Max could care less about exposure at the moment, because someone took away a special person away from Max and Max is not in a good mood at the moment.
(Chapter 4 coming up soon)