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****CARPE DIEM****
Max looked blankly into the fire, watching the flames dance. Logan was asleep on the couch, figures, he's only human he needs the rest. Max heard Alec walk around in the kitchen over the popping sounds of the fire but she paid no attention to it. Alec walked up beside her, Max sitting in front of the fire. Alec sighed softly and sat down next to her and set things down beside him. Alec then held up a marshmallow in front of her, offering it to her. Max, disturbed from her thoughts, looked over at Alec who grinned.
Max giggled a little and took it. Alec then handed her a metal stick with a piece of leather on the end for the handle. Both stuck the marshmallow on the end and held it over the fire.
"Some scary stuff huh?" Alec asked breaking the silence between them.
Max shook her head yes in agreement. Alec looked away from her and into the fire.
"When you first let all of us out of Manticore, I never thought I would spend my life doing this." Alec admitted.
Max looked over at him tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.
"I never thought I would be running and hiding. I didn't think they would come looking for us, since the whole bag was out you know?" Alec asked making himself smile a little as looked over at her.
Max looked down at the floorboards and shook her head yes.
"But then you came and told those soldiers that they had to lay low, that kinda made me realize that since you were telling them that, that someone from Manticore will be trying to track us down." Alec added.
"The thing about being out here Alec, is that someone never stops looking. You constantly have to look over your shoulder and constantly question everything." Max said softly.
Alec shook his head in agreement.
"It's hard Max." he admitted and looked back over at her again.
"How did you and your brothers and sisters survive out here, all alone. Lydecker said nothing else but things about you 12. It had to be 1000 times harder to hide then." he added.
"It was defiantly hard at first. Especially when I had no idea what was out here. Truthfully Alec I dunno how I survived this far away from them, but I am thankful that I have." she said.
Alec pulled his marshmallow out, it caught on fire. Alec quickly blew it out as Max laughed at him. She pulled her out as well, knowing it was done. With one hand she managed to break the graham cracker in 2, placed 3 squares of chocolate on it, and pushed the gooey marshmallow onto it. Placing the stick on the floor she then squeezed it together the marshmallow seeping out the sides. Alec popped his marshmallow into his mouth.
"I don't get it, why doesn't Lydecker and Ames just screw off, it's not like their going to get all the transgenics back, there's no possible way." Alec said with his mouth full.
"Nope, probably not, but they're going to try and get the ones that they want the most." Max said glancing at him and standing up eating the last of her smore.
Alec stood up also following her into the kitchen.
"See I told you I knew pissing them off would turn out badly." Alec said pointing at her.
Max rolled her eyes as she grabbed a can of pop out of the refrigerator.
"Wouldn't matter, I was already in deep with Lydecker, I had to keep running from him all the time when just the 12 of us were out. For some reason he really wanted me back in a cage, me and Zack and Ben. Of course he wants the 12 back because he said……….." Max stopped herself and took a drink.
"What?" Alec asked.
"He said that the best escaped that night." she added softly.
Alec grinned.
"You did." he assured her.
"And he wants us back so he can probably make stronger 'better' soldiers to bring everyone else back." she guessed.
Alec raised an eyebrow.
"Then you better pray he doesn't catch you. Besides the fact that you'll be back in Manticore, if he wants to do what you think he wants to do……………. Do I have to remind you that you and Zack destroyed the labs……………And do I have to remind you how they were creating soldiers when they brought you back to Manticore?" Alec hinted.
Max looked up at him as he looked back at her.
"EWWWWE!" the both said.
"Alec, that's sick! I don't even wanna think about that!" she scolded him.
"Hey and you think I want to think about that, yeah right! I am just warning you!" Alec said standing up for himself.
Max smiled and smacked him in the shoulder.
"Ohh girly, don't touch me." he warned.
Grabbing her, wrapping his arm around her throat and holding her there. Max laughed at him.
"Max!" a voice yelled.
Alec and Max looked over at the door and saw Krit fall in the doorway.
"Krit!" Max screamed running up to him, Alec immediately let her go and ran up to him as well.
"Krit, what happened to you!?" she demanded scared as she saw the side of his face bloody.
"He got Jondy Max, I tried to stop him but he…he did this, so I ran as he took her away." he said sadly, in tears.
"Stay here with him, shut the door!" Max ordered as she bolted out the door.
Max ran into the woods going the direction Krit, went smacking leaves and tree branches out of her way with her hand as she ran. Soon she stopped and looked every direction, completely on her guard. Something sparkling caught her eyes. She ran up to it and picked it up off the wet grass. It was a locked, Jondy's locket. Carefully she opened it and it revealed with the mug shots of Zack and herself. Tears filled her eyes. Everyone loved Zack, and she was close to him, no one was as close as she was with him, but still Jondy was close to him. And Max had to be her one sister that she was closest with.
Suddenly someone kicked her in the back, sending her face and chest first into a tree. Max didn't waste anytime and back flipped over her attacker's head, placing Jondy's locket safely into her pocket. The attacker knew he moves and knew she was going to do it he grabbed her arm and rammed her back into the tree, grabbing her chin and pinned her to the tree. Max groaned in anger as she struggled to get away but the result was just fingers gripping her chin more tightly. The attacker stepped into the moonlight, grinning.
Max gasped.
"Ben!" she said not believing her eyes.
Ben smiled more and then kissed her cheek.
"How's my baby sister?" he asked lowly and…..evilly.
"What are you doing alive? I killed you! Your dead!" she screamed.
Ben smirked and then didn't smile anymore.
"Lydecker and the best surgeons at Manticore brought me back to life. Replaced my spinal cord and my organs with machines in their place. And gave me a new brain, of course they gathered the same information from the other one and placed it in this one so I still remember my 'family' And here I am, helping them now." he admitted.
Max's eyes widened.
"Ben, let me go." she said, not in a ordering voice but in a pleading voice.
"What's wrong Maxie? Scared? What are you scared of?" Ben asked in a smart tone.
"Everything." she admitted chills going through her body and her bottom lip shaking from mostly fear.
"Max, you don't belong out here, none of you do, I saw you blow up Manticore and let everyone free, actually quite impressive. But you put yourself in a bad position Maxie, a very bad one." he warned.
"I don't care, they deserved to be free." she answered him.
Ben shook his head no.
"I'm taking you home, where you belong." he said grabbing her bicep and yanking her off the tree and close to him.
"I'm not going back there!" she warned.
"Please, what are you going to do about it? I am a lot stronger than you are Maxie, because I'm a male, and we all know males are just a hint stronger than females plus I'm older. Now, let's go." she said meanly yanking her to go.
Suddenly a person jumped from the top of a tree, as he fell his legs wrapped around Ben's neck and the person's back landed on the ground. With his leg power he threw Ben over his head, causing him to let go of Max. Ben flew back first into a tree. Zack stood up in front of Max, protecting her.
"Zack." she said happily.
"Ben, you might be older than Max but your still the little brother to me." he said meanly.
Ben stood up facing his older brother.
"Zack." he said grinning, happy to see him.
"Didn't they tell you not to pick on girls when they took you back to Manticore, especially if they are MY sister. Ben I am getting the vibe that you're no longer on our side and taking that information you BETTER not touch ANY of my sisters or brothers or your ass is mine little brother." he warned.
"I'm not afraid of you." Ben said.
"You should be." Zack told him.
Ben looked back at Max and smiled.
"Don't look at her look at the enemy that you are taking on solider." Zack ordered.
Ben laughed.
"Not now. You and Max have fun while you can Zack, what makes you think that you can run from him, from Ames? From me? From Blade?" Ben asked him.
"I will do what I have to, who the hell is blade?" Zack demanded.
"Oh you two met in Logan's place." Ben told him.
"That bastard that looks like me. That's his name, how corny." Zack said.
Ben laughed the insult off.
"Just wait Zack, you and the others can't run and hide forever, your running out of places to hide, and don't bother going to a different country or state, we have all the exits, airports, and roads leading out of Seattle blocked and under surveillance. So just because I love you and Maxie so much, I'm giving you a head start. Good luck." Ben said then disappeared into the night.
Zack turned around and looked back at Max.
"Are you ok?" he asked hugging her.
"No." she said.
"Did he hurt you?" he asked looking her face over.
"No Zack, he didn't hurt me just freaked me out. I killed him, and now he's alive it's so freaky." she said resting her head on his shoulder.
"I know it is. They turned him against us, that wasn't the real Ben. They changed him." Zack said.
"Zack, what are we going to do?" she asked.
"I dunno baby sister, but one thing we're not gonna do is give up. That is not an option." he told her.
Suddenly Max collapsed on the ground and started shaking.
"Max!" Zack said bending down to see what was wrong. Seeing the shaking he placed a hand on her forehead which was burning up.
"Oh God, a seizure." he told himself.
"Come on Maxie." he told her as he lifted her up in his arms. He looked every direction getting his bearings and then took off running.
Tinga sat in tears on the couch as Alec bandaged the side of Krit's head and Logan was fixing everyone something to eat.
"They shoulda been back by now. Something must have happened." Krit said.
"Don't even say that Krit." Tinga scolded tears running down her cheeks.
"He got Jondy, I am not letting him get Max and Zack too!" Krit warned them.
Alec glanced nervously at Logan who returned the look.
Suddenly Zack busted through the front door with Max in his arms. Tinga jumped to her feet, scared.
"Tinga, get me Max's pills now!" Zack yelled.
Tinga darted back into the hallway disappearing into one Krit jumped off the table he was sitting on and helped Zack put Max on it. Tinga flew back into the room with her pills. Zack unscrewed the cap as Krit propped her head up a little. Zack grabbed around 3 or 4 and put them in her mouth.
"Come on Max, swallow them." Zack whispered to her.
"COME ON MAX!!" Zack said louder.
"How long has it been since she started having it?" Logan asked.
"I don't know but more than 5 minutes into a seizure she'll be knocked into a coma! Come on Max stop shaking." he said.
Krit looked up at Zack who glued his eyes on Max. Tinga grabbed Max's hand. Suddenly she stopped. Zack breathed easily. Logan felt her pulse and looked at Zack.
"She's ok." he said.
Zack breathed easily and turned around and ran his fingers stressfully through his hair before turning back around. Max opened her eyes.
"Tinga." she said happily.
Tinga smiled and hugged her, Krit also hugged both of them. Zack looked at the remaining of the 12 that he knew was still out of Manticore's clutches.
What the hell is going to happen to us? Zack asked himself as he watched the 3 hug.
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Max looked blankly into the fire, watching the flames dance. Logan was asleep on the couch, figures, he's only human he needs the rest. Max heard Alec walk around in the kitchen over the popping sounds of the fire but she paid no attention to it. Alec walked up beside her, Max sitting in front of the fire. Alec sighed softly and sat down next to her and set things down beside him. Alec then held up a marshmallow in front of her, offering it to her. Max, disturbed from her thoughts, looked over at Alec who grinned.
Max giggled a little and took it. Alec then handed her a metal stick with a piece of leather on the end for the handle. Both stuck the marshmallow on the end and held it over the fire.
"Some scary stuff huh?" Alec asked breaking the silence between them.
Max shook her head yes in agreement. Alec looked away from her and into the fire.
"When you first let all of us out of Manticore, I never thought I would spend my life doing this." Alec admitted.
Max looked over at him tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.
"I never thought I would be running and hiding. I didn't think they would come looking for us, since the whole bag was out you know?" Alec asked making himself smile a little as looked over at her.
Max looked down at the floorboards and shook her head yes.
"But then you came and told those soldiers that they had to lay low, that kinda made me realize that since you were telling them that, that someone from Manticore will be trying to track us down." Alec added.
"The thing about being out here Alec, is that someone never stops looking. You constantly have to look over your shoulder and constantly question everything." Max said softly.
Alec shook his head in agreement.
"It's hard Max." he admitted and looked back over at her again.
"How did you and your brothers and sisters survive out here, all alone. Lydecker said nothing else but things about you 12. It had to be 1000 times harder to hide then." he added.
"It was defiantly hard at first. Especially when I had no idea what was out here. Truthfully Alec I dunno how I survived this far away from them, but I am thankful that I have." she said.
Alec pulled his marshmallow out, it caught on fire. Alec quickly blew it out as Max laughed at him. She pulled her out as well, knowing it was done. With one hand she managed to break the graham cracker in 2, placed 3 squares of chocolate on it, and pushed the gooey marshmallow onto it. Placing the stick on the floor she then squeezed it together the marshmallow seeping out the sides. Alec popped his marshmallow into his mouth.
"I don't get it, why doesn't Lydecker and Ames just screw off, it's not like their going to get all the transgenics back, there's no possible way." Alec said with his mouth full.
"Nope, probably not, but they're going to try and get the ones that they want the most." Max said glancing at him and standing up eating the last of her smore.
Alec stood up also following her into the kitchen.
"See I told you I knew pissing them off would turn out badly." Alec said pointing at her.
Max rolled her eyes as she grabbed a can of pop out of the refrigerator.
"Wouldn't matter, I was already in deep with Lydecker, I had to keep running from him all the time when just the 12 of us were out. For some reason he really wanted me back in a cage, me and Zack and Ben. Of course he wants the 12 back because he said……….." Max stopped herself and took a drink.
"What?" Alec asked.
"He said that the best escaped that night." she added softly.
Alec grinned.
"You did." he assured her.
"And he wants us back so he can probably make stronger 'better' soldiers to bring everyone else back." she guessed.
Alec raised an eyebrow.
"Then you better pray he doesn't catch you. Besides the fact that you'll be back in Manticore, if he wants to do what you think he wants to do……………. Do I have to remind you that you and Zack destroyed the labs……………And do I have to remind you how they were creating soldiers when they brought you back to Manticore?" Alec hinted.
Max looked up at him as he looked back at her.
"EWWWWE!" the both said.
"Alec, that's sick! I don't even wanna think about that!" she scolded him.
"Hey and you think I want to think about that, yeah right! I am just warning you!" Alec said standing up for himself.
Max smiled and smacked him in the shoulder.
"Ohh girly, don't touch me." he warned.
Grabbing her, wrapping his arm around her throat and holding her there. Max laughed at him.
"Max!" a voice yelled.
Alec and Max looked over at the door and saw Krit fall in the doorway.
"Krit!" Max screamed running up to him, Alec immediately let her go and ran up to him as well.
"Krit, what happened to you!?" she demanded scared as she saw the side of his face bloody.
"He got Jondy Max, I tried to stop him but he…he did this, so I ran as he took her away." he said sadly, in tears.
"Stay here with him, shut the door!" Max ordered as she bolted out the door.
Max ran into the woods going the direction Krit, went smacking leaves and tree branches out of her way with her hand as she ran. Soon she stopped and looked every direction, completely on her guard. Something sparkling caught her eyes. She ran up to it and picked it up off the wet grass. It was a locked, Jondy's locket. Carefully she opened it and it revealed with the mug shots of Zack and herself. Tears filled her eyes. Everyone loved Zack, and she was close to him, no one was as close as she was with him, but still Jondy was close to him. And Max had to be her one sister that she was closest with.
Suddenly someone kicked her in the back, sending her face and chest first into a tree. Max didn't waste anytime and back flipped over her attacker's head, placing Jondy's locket safely into her pocket. The attacker knew he moves and knew she was going to do it he grabbed her arm and rammed her back into the tree, grabbing her chin and pinned her to the tree. Max groaned in anger as she struggled to get away but the result was just fingers gripping her chin more tightly. The attacker stepped into the moonlight, grinning.
Max gasped.
"Ben!" she said not believing her eyes.
Ben smiled more and then kissed her cheek.
"How's my baby sister?" he asked lowly and…..evilly.
"What are you doing alive? I killed you! Your dead!" she screamed.
Ben smirked and then didn't smile anymore.
"Lydecker and the best surgeons at Manticore brought me back to life. Replaced my spinal cord and my organs with machines in their place. And gave me a new brain, of course they gathered the same information from the other one and placed it in this one so I still remember my 'family' And here I am, helping them now." he admitted.
Max's eyes widened.
"Ben, let me go." she said, not in a ordering voice but in a pleading voice.
"What's wrong Maxie? Scared? What are you scared of?" Ben asked in a smart tone.
"Everything." she admitted chills going through her body and her bottom lip shaking from mostly fear.
"Max, you don't belong out here, none of you do, I saw you blow up Manticore and let everyone free, actually quite impressive. But you put yourself in a bad position Maxie, a very bad one." he warned.
"I don't care, they deserved to be free." she answered him.
Ben shook his head no.
"I'm taking you home, where you belong." he said grabbing her bicep and yanking her off the tree and close to him.
"I'm not going back there!" she warned.
"Please, what are you going to do about it? I am a lot stronger than you are Maxie, because I'm a male, and we all know males are just a hint stronger than females plus I'm older. Now, let's go." she said meanly yanking her to go.
Suddenly a person jumped from the top of a tree, as he fell his legs wrapped around Ben's neck and the person's back landed on the ground. With his leg power he threw Ben over his head, causing him to let go of Max. Ben flew back first into a tree. Zack stood up in front of Max, protecting her.
"Zack." she said happily.
"Ben, you might be older than Max but your still the little brother to me." he said meanly.
Ben stood up facing his older brother.
"Zack." he said grinning, happy to see him.
"Didn't they tell you not to pick on girls when they took you back to Manticore, especially if they are MY sister. Ben I am getting the vibe that you're no longer on our side and taking that information you BETTER not touch ANY of my sisters or brothers or your ass is mine little brother." he warned.
"I'm not afraid of you." Ben said.
"You should be." Zack told him.
Ben looked back at Max and smiled.
"Don't look at her look at the enemy that you are taking on solider." Zack ordered.
Ben laughed.
"Not now. You and Max have fun while you can Zack, what makes you think that you can run from him, from Ames? From me? From Blade?" Ben asked him.
"I will do what I have to, who the hell is blade?" Zack demanded.
"Oh you two met in Logan's place." Ben told him.
"That bastard that looks like me. That's his name, how corny." Zack said.
Ben laughed the insult off.
"Just wait Zack, you and the others can't run and hide forever, your running out of places to hide, and don't bother going to a different country or state, we have all the exits, airports, and roads leading out of Seattle blocked and under surveillance. So just because I love you and Maxie so much, I'm giving you a head start. Good luck." Ben said then disappeared into the night.
Zack turned around and looked back at Max.
"Are you ok?" he asked hugging her.
"No." she said.
"Did he hurt you?" he asked looking her face over.
"No Zack, he didn't hurt me just freaked me out. I killed him, and now he's alive it's so freaky." she said resting her head on his shoulder.
"I know it is. They turned him against us, that wasn't the real Ben. They changed him." Zack said.
"Zack, what are we going to do?" she asked.
"I dunno baby sister, but one thing we're not gonna do is give up. That is not an option." he told her.
Suddenly Max collapsed on the ground and started shaking.
"Max!" Zack said bending down to see what was wrong. Seeing the shaking he placed a hand on her forehead which was burning up.
"Oh God, a seizure." he told himself.
"Come on Maxie." he told her as he lifted her up in his arms. He looked every direction getting his bearings and then took off running.
Tinga sat in tears on the couch as Alec bandaged the side of Krit's head and Logan was fixing everyone something to eat.
"They shoulda been back by now. Something must have happened." Krit said.
"Don't even say that Krit." Tinga scolded tears running down her cheeks.
"He got Jondy, I am not letting him get Max and Zack too!" Krit warned them.
Alec glanced nervously at Logan who returned the look.
Suddenly Zack busted through the front door with Max in his arms. Tinga jumped to her feet, scared.
"Tinga, get me Max's pills now!" Zack yelled.
Tinga darted back into the hallway disappearing into one Krit jumped off the table he was sitting on and helped Zack put Max on it. Tinga flew back into the room with her pills. Zack unscrewed the cap as Krit propped her head up a little. Zack grabbed around 3 or 4 and put them in her mouth.
"Come on Max, swallow them." Zack whispered to her.
"COME ON MAX!!" Zack said louder.
"How long has it been since she started having it?" Logan asked.
"I don't know but more than 5 minutes into a seizure she'll be knocked into a coma! Come on Max stop shaking." he said.
Krit looked up at Zack who glued his eyes on Max. Tinga grabbed Max's hand. Suddenly she stopped. Zack breathed easily. Logan felt her pulse and looked at Zack.
"She's ok." he said.
Zack breathed easily and turned around and ran his fingers stressfully through his hair before turning back around. Max opened her eyes.
"Tinga." she said happily.
Tinga smiled and hugged her, Krit also hugged both of them. Zack looked at the remaining of the 12 that he knew was still out of Manticore's clutches.
What the hell is going to happen to us? Zack asked himself as he watched the 3 hug.
