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"Mommy!!!"

Ripley's eyes snapped open and she sat up searching the room with her eyes in confusion, another high-pitched scream jolted her confused brain back to reality.

 "MOMMY!!"

Leaping to her feet, Ripley made a mad dash to her son's room where she found the door open and the room in shambles.

 'Bang!'

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Present

He turned off the truck pulling the key from the ignition and shoving them into his pocket. Picking up a folder filled with several papers and photos he opened the door and climbed out slamming the door shut. He sighed looking up at the building he was to enter, all the different people scrambling up the steps trying to be on time.

 He followed suit making his way up the stairs and into the large building where he found himself walking through a metal detector, which went off.

 "Sir, I'll need you to step aside and empty your pockets." A man in uniform grunted watching Logan with tired eyes.

 "It'll keep goin' off, my bones are laced in metal."

The guard gave him a bored, 'do you think I'm stupid' look as he folded his arms over his chest, "Just empty your pockets." He ordered with a wave of his hand.

 Rolling his eyes Logan did as he was told pulling out his wallet, keys and a few scraps of paper. He then turned and walked back through the metal detector making it go off again.

 "Look, I'm going ta be late. No matter what this thing's gonna go off!" He growled glaring at the guard who had been joined by a few of his buddies.

Taking a hand held metal detector one of the guards began running it over Logan's arms, setting it off. If it were any other time Logan would have gotten a kick out of the confused looks of the guards, but this wasn't any other time.

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Twenty Minutes Later

Logan skidded to a stop in front of the large wooden doors and pushed them open finding himself in the back of a courtroom with everyone's eyes on him.

 He walked in slowly up to the judge and sighed, "Sorry fer bein' late, problem back at the metal detector…" He grunted shaking his head.

The judge frowned, "Don't let it happen again."

Logan nodded taking his seat behind one of the tables next to his attorney who look slightly embarrassed.

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1 Year Earlier

 'Mommy!!" Max screamed staring into the glowing red eyes of the man standing next to his bed.

He shrank back against the wall screaming for his mother again as the man pulled something out of the pocket of his coat and pointed it at him. Max felt numb; he couldn't move he felt so scared. Then suddenly there was a loud noise and he felt a warm sticky substance drip onto his face and something heavy on top of him.  Somehow he managed to climb out from under the large heavy object only to find that it was his mother.

 "Mommy!!" He screamed shaking her shoulders as tears streamed down his face, "Mommy!"

He looked up at the man towering over him and screamed scrambling off his bed and out the door.

 He could hear Luke crying in his crib, screaming for someone to come and comfort him, but he was already half way down the stairs the man on his heals. Tripping over his own feet he fell the rest of the way down the stairs and into a heap at the bottom. Scrambling to his feet he made it to the middle of the living room noticing for the first time that it was a mess. Another loud noise much like the first echoed throughout the room. He screamed feeling the pain explode in his back and stomach then go numb. Tripping he fell to the ground and squeezed his eyes shut, when he opened them red and blue lights flashed on the walls and people were everywhere.

 Two people were kneeling next to him, both where white clothes with red crosses on their sleeves. They were both frowning and shaking their heads, they looked so sad.

 He couldn't hear Luke anymore. He wanted to get up and see him, see if he was okay.

But he was starting to feel tired…

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Present

Logan watched the family that had adopted his son intently and frowned, they looked upset about him returning and wanting his son back. But why? He was his son after all.

 He sighed looking away from the couple to the judge now walking into the room. The judge took a seat looking through some papers then looked up at the courtroom.

 "I've come to a decision," He announced, Logan felt his heart speed up, "I've decided that…"

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TBC….

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