***AUTHOR'S NOTE***- Hey FANZ!!!! Couple things,
1 I want to apologize for taking FOREVER to update. Numerous reasons why, school work piled up on me this past week and also I got the DARK ANGEL SEASON 2 DVDS. And all the free time I have had I have been watching it's episodes.
Because I never seen them except for 4 episodes and I have never seen any episode from season 1, until I got the DVDs when they came out the first time. So my story "HE'S EVERYWHERE" and "TAKE IT TO THE MAXIMUM LEVEL" were written off of only seeing 3 or 4 episodes of Dark Angel and any info I could get my hands on the internet about it!!! Yea pretty crazy, I got obsessed with it too late and it went off air. I think I have done a great job with them though just the same.
But anyway I watched all episodes I love them all except "EXPOSURE" was kinda weird. Good but just weirdJ
2, I updated the group with pictures of Pryce if anyone likes Jeremy Renner, I also got some pics of him from the "Trouble" video from Pink. I just think Jeremy Renner is PERFECT for the part of Pryce. WHO ELSE THINKS SO!!!??J let me know ;P!!! please excuse any spelling errors, it's late and I am VERY ,VERY TIRED! J
Ok enough of this, onto the story. EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!! Enjoy this chapter and don't forget to R/R!!!!!
Thanks everyone!
Love all,
Natasha
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Alec laid on Logan's black leather couch, passed out, thanks to being up for nearly 42 hours. Logan worked on his computer franticly, rolling his eyes in annoyance as Alec's snoring began to break the silence in the room. Logan was able to keep his cool for about 3 minutes before he gave into the frustration and threw a pillow at Alec, nailing him in the face. Alec groaned but stopped, Logan smiled to himself, happily.
"It's morning, Logan I told you to have it ready when I got here. But NO, I get here to find it's not done downloading so what do I do? I sit down on the couch to wait and the next thing I know it's morning." Alec complained as he jumped up.
"It's called sleep Alec, and you needed it, your body was exhausted." Logan said not turning his head from the computer.
"Sleep, I've got no time for sleep when I found a dead body in Crash's parking lot. And I am scared that it might be linked to Max somehow. She left to get a pitcher of beer and never came back." Alec replied.
"This is a wide range of times Alec. Surveillance is a hard thing to download, not to mention time consuming." Logan replied finally glancing.
Alec sighed as he paced back and forth running his fingers through his stiff gelled hair.
"Got it." Logan said triumphantly.
Alec bolted over behind Logan, peering over his shoulder. Logan played it, fast forwarding it.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, go back." Alec said thinking he saw a glimpse of Max.
Logan stopped it, rewinded slightly, and pressed play. They both watched Pryce bust out of the front doors, dragging Max.
"That's Max." Logan acknowledged.
Alec's eyes widened.
"And that's Pryce." Alec said softly.
The man then also walked out.
"And I owe him money." Alec said biting his lip.
They watched the man try and stop them and saw him shot. Alec nodded.
"Well that's one thing Pryce has done that was right for me, that's 3 grand I get to keep." Alec said looking on the bright side. Logan looked at him annoyed and froze the picture, Pryce running out of the building, dragging Max by the arm.
"Wonder what he did with her." Logan said quietly, looking at her. Alec looked at him.
"I'll give ya 3 guesses." Alec shared then turned to a table, yanking his leather jacket off.
"What you think he took her to some Manticore, there's ANOTHER Manticore out there?" Logan asked not believing his ears.
"Logan, Max and I have realized that Manticore NEVER leaves. There's always somebody somewhere." Alec replied shaking his head in shame as he fixed the cuffs of his jacket.
"Well, then we need to find out where it is." Logan said turning back to his computer and beginning to type fast.
"And I need to get to work, or Normal is going to have a fit." Alec said then fixing his collar.
"You're going to work when Max is in trouble?" Logan asked not taking his eyes off the screen.
"Look find out where it is, and I'll send a rescue party in ok, but I AM NOT going one on one with Pryce!" Alec said raising his tone slightly.
Logan turned around in his chair, placing his accusing eyes on him. Alec felt the eyes on him and looked back.
"What?" Alec asked annoyed.
"Your scared, aren't you?" Logan asked.
"No I'm not." Alec shot back.
Logan grinned a little.
"I never seen you like this before, nervous that this." Logan said studying him.
"That's because I don't show you my fears dipstick, at Manticore it was unacceptable to show your fears, sign of weakness. Don't let your enemy to know your afraid." Alec told him, standing in front of him, quoting a Manticore rule.
"Then why are you now?" Logan asked out of curiosity.
Alec swallowed hardly.
"We're not in Manticore anymore, therefore none of it's rules apply to me. I have been out here for quite some time now, and I have learned to feel emotions that we were never suppose to feel. I do things differently that I would have done them a couple years ago. And I admit things to people now that I would never think about admitting a couple years ago. Being out here changed me Logan, it changed Max, it changed all of us, it made us more………….human. At first we acted like robots, now out here, it's new to us and we feel things. Now are you asking me if I am scared of Pryce. I won't lie, yes. Can he kick my ass? Yes. Does that freak me out? A little. Why am I admitting all this too you? Because I am trying to prove to you that Max and I, Joshua, Zack, Biggs, ALL OF US, yeah we might be killing machines, but even we have our fears." Alec replied then walked over to the door, opened it and made a notion to walk out but something stopped him and he looked back at Logan.
"If you ever tell Max this, I'll kill you because she would never let it go, but when her and her brothers and sisters escaped, at first I thought it was an act of pure treachery. But once getting out here, I really admire how she handled herself over the years. I mean, being alone out here, not knowing anyone, not knowing how to live, not knowing who to trust, always watching for Lydecker. And now the whole Ames situation, I kinda admire how strong she's been over the years. She's a hell of a person." Alec admitted then left out the door.
Max stood in attention in Renfro's office, the way that Pryce showed her.
"State your designation." Renfro ordered.
Max hesitated.
"X5 452!" Max replied looking ahead.
"Finally learn how to act 452? Or are you just playing along?" Renfro asked her.
Max thought about it.
"Either way, it forces me to act the way you want me to." Max pointed out.
"Good point, either way, I win." Renfro said smiling widely.
Max blocked the frustration out of her mind.
"You should drop to you knees and worship me 452. Zack is your CO and your unit consists of Krit, Tinga, and Biggs. The scientists felt it necessary to replace the transgenics back with their previous unit, or what's left of their previous unit. But we have cut them in half, Ames believes it shall be easier to observe you if you are in smaller units. Now I am going to dismiss you and you will go to your unit's barracks and take it from there. Follow this solider, and I will speak with you very soon." Renfro said and with that Max felt herself being pulled out of room.
Max followed the solider down the mazes of halls, Max was getting very bored of walking. They rounded a corner and Max looked to her right, through a large glass window into another room. She stopped immediately and ran up to the window, looking into it horrified. She saw Ames White, yelling and hitting her sister, Tinga.
"Stop it." Max mumbled under her breath as she saw Ames shout loudly at her.
"Stop it." Max said a little louder once she saw that Ames wasn't stopping.
Suddenly she watched Ames back hand her and Tinga fell off the chair.
"STOP IT!" Max screamed banging on the window and then looked around panically.
She then grabbed a fold out chair and slammed it into the window, chattering it instantly. Tinga and Ames looked over in her direction as Max jumped over the wall, through the broken window and ran up to Tinga, embracing her, protecting her. Tinga's face was covered with cuts and blood oozing from them, and out of the corner of her mouth and nose.
"What are you doing!" Max demanded holding her sister close to her.
Tinga too weak to oppose.
"I think the question is what the hell are you doing!?" Ames shouted at her.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Max screamed at him.
Max felt Tinga shuffle in her arms.
"Max? Is that you?" Tinga asked smiling slightly, realizing it was her.
Max shoved her closer to her, resting her chin on top of Tinga's head.
"452, you have just made a HUGE mistake." Ames growled as he walked up to her and then grabbed a handful of her hair.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE!!!" Ames shouted at her.
Max let go of Tinga and clutched Ames's wrist, groaning in pain as he yanked her to her feet, her scalp feeling as if it were on fire. Max groaned in pain and in frustration as she tried to pry the man's fingers away from her. Ames then threw her out of the room, through the broken window.
Pryce walked around the corner a sub in his left hand and a can of Pepsi in his right hand. Max tumbled backward, smacking into him, causing them to fall to the ground. His soda poured out everywhere and all over Max and Pryce.
"My pants." Pryce groaned on the floor.
He looked over and saw Max, then as fast as lightening he grabbed her throat and picked her up. Max clutched his wrist, the top of her head almost touching the ceiling. Pryce was almost completely blocking the air to Max. Max in response fidgeted by kicking/ moving her feet and legs slightly.
"Max." he growled at her.
Max struggled for air.
"It wasn't my fault." Max choked out.
"No it wasn't it was mine." Ames said stepping through the broken window, glaring at her, his raspy voice scratching her ears, giving her chills.
Ames nodded to Pryce who returned the nod and dropped her. Max landed on her butt, gasping for breath and grabbing her throat which had red marks from Pryce's fingers. Pryec continued to glare at Max as he wiped the soda off of the side of his face with the sleeve of his t-shirt.
"Don't move." Ames warned then returned into the room with Tinga.
"I have to get out of here." Max blurted out as she made a notion to get up but Pryce kicked her in the chest back down, and then walked over her, stepping on her chest, right where the bone is connecting her rib cage.
Max closed her eyes in pain and grabbed his ankle trying to lift if off her chest.
"I can break it Max. It'll be painful, stop it. Stop it." Pryce warned, as a result Max stopped struggling and bent her left knee.
Max breathed in deeply trying to get the oxygen in her.
"How……how did you do that, why can't I get you off of me. You're a human…… aren't you?" Max asked breathlessly.
Pryce smirked.
"Thank the scientists of good old Manticore. They juiced me up with his serum that gives me the speed, the sight and the strength of an X7." Pryce explained.
"X7? But they're……"
"Stronger, faster than X5's? Yeah I know, that's why the decided to make it X7 than X5. Ames though it was necessary considering I teach and train X5's, he thought I should be capable of handing them, in case they go crazy on the field or in the facility. I could always beat you and your little trannie friends Max, simply because I knew what you would do and I did it better and more complex. Now add having the strength of an X7 on that, why any transgenic will be lucky to win a fight against me. So now little Maxie, I can hold you and you can no longer break through." Pryce said smiling evilly yet happily.
Max looked at him sadly, blankly and pathetically.
"So Manticore turned you into an X7?" Max asked softly.
"Turn? No. I have to inject this every morning, kicks in instantly and wears of in 10 hours. Kinda like being on steroids or something." Pryce said grinning.
Max bit her lip.
"Now, I'm gonna pretend those words never came out of that pretty mouth of yours. I believe it was said in a moment of panic. But remember I am not always gonna be this nice, I am just taking an easy on ya since it's your first day back. Tomorrow I'm goin' back to my real self with you." Pryce warned.
"You mean your worse than this?" Max asked still clutching his ankle and trying to breath through the pressure he was placing on her chest.
Pryce jabbed his foot down harder on her chest, the pain getting severally worse, enough pain to knock a human out but not a transgenic.
"Today, I'm a saint." he hissed at her.
Max sat in Ames's office, a large dark wood glossy desk sat in front of her, a computer and papers covering it. Max observed the large black leather chair sitting behind it and the framed degrees he received hanging on the wall. Max looked to the side and saw a black leather couch along the wall along with filing cabinets and bookcases. Max saw a frame sitting on his desk, curious as she was, she took it turned it around and looked at it. Only to see a picture of Ray in it.
"Put it down." a voice warned.
Max looked over at the doorway only to see Pryce leaning in it. Max didn't say anything.
"I'm being serious the man gets cranky when people mess with his sh**" Pryce said walking in.
"This yours?" Pryce asked cracking his gum and walking up to her and squatting in front of her, holding up a necklace with his index finger and thumb.
Max's heart stopped once she saw the Blue Lady on it, Ben's necklace. Max's eyes widened as she looked into his cold eyes.
"Yeah thought so." Pryce said catching the whole necklace in his hand, taking the hint.
"Musta fell off when I hand you up in the air by your throat huh?" Pryce asked pretending to be sad.
"Can I have it back?" Max asked very softly holding out her hand praying that he would give it back to her.
"Why?" Pryce asked.
"Because it's the only thing I have left of my brother." she answered not dropping her hand.
"Which brother?" Pryce asked smartly moving his gum over to the side of his mouth.
Max looked at him hesitantly.
"Ben." she answered.
"I might give it back to you Max, if you please me on the field." Pryce said continuing to chew on his gum, chomping it loudly, winking at her as he stood up and walked out.
Max blinked repeatedly and dropped her hand and returned the picture frame.
Soon Ames walked in, Max could feel his eyes on her and it made her uncomfortable.
"Please explain, 452, what was going on in your brain when you smashed that window." Ames ordered walking around her and behind his desk, sitting down in his chair.
Max didn't say anything.
"I'm sorry." Max said so softly it might have been considered a whisper.
"I just don't like it when people hurt my family." Max added, a little louder but not much.
"Well you better get used to it 452. Because I am not going to allow any kind of these behaviors from you. YOU DON'T WANT TO TEST ME! What kinda solider are you!?" Ames said raising his voice loudly.
"I'M NOT A SOLIDER! I AM A GIRL!" Max shouted back.
Ames looked at her surprised but displeased.
Max looked down at her lap.
"I'm sorry." she mumbled, it making her furious that she just apologized to Ames White.
Ames shook his head in anger as he got up.
"Follow me 452." he hissed grabbing her arm forcefully and yanking her out of the room.
1 I want to apologize for taking FOREVER to update. Numerous reasons why, school work piled up on me this past week and also I got the DARK ANGEL SEASON 2 DVDS. And all the free time I have had I have been watching it's episodes.
Because I never seen them except for 4 episodes and I have never seen any episode from season 1, until I got the DVDs when they came out the first time. So my story "HE'S EVERYWHERE" and "TAKE IT TO THE MAXIMUM LEVEL" were written off of only seeing 3 or 4 episodes of Dark Angel and any info I could get my hands on the internet about it!!! Yea pretty crazy, I got obsessed with it too late and it went off air. I think I have done a great job with them though just the same.
But anyway I watched all episodes I love them all except "EXPOSURE" was kinda weird. Good but just weirdJ
2, I updated the group with pictures of Pryce if anyone likes Jeremy Renner, I also got some pics of him from the "Trouble" video from Pink. I just think Jeremy Renner is PERFECT for the part of Pryce. WHO ELSE THINKS SO!!!??J let me know ;P!!! please excuse any spelling errors, it's late and I am VERY ,VERY TIRED! J
Ok enough of this, onto the story. EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!! Enjoy this chapter and don't forget to R/R!!!!!
Thanks everyone!
Love all,
Natasha
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Alec laid on Logan's black leather couch, passed out, thanks to being up for nearly 42 hours. Logan worked on his computer franticly, rolling his eyes in annoyance as Alec's snoring began to break the silence in the room. Logan was able to keep his cool for about 3 minutes before he gave into the frustration and threw a pillow at Alec, nailing him in the face. Alec groaned but stopped, Logan smiled to himself, happily.
"It's morning, Logan I told you to have it ready when I got here. But NO, I get here to find it's not done downloading so what do I do? I sit down on the couch to wait and the next thing I know it's morning." Alec complained as he jumped up.
"It's called sleep Alec, and you needed it, your body was exhausted." Logan said not turning his head from the computer.
"Sleep, I've got no time for sleep when I found a dead body in Crash's parking lot. And I am scared that it might be linked to Max somehow. She left to get a pitcher of beer and never came back." Alec replied.
"This is a wide range of times Alec. Surveillance is a hard thing to download, not to mention time consuming." Logan replied finally glancing.
Alec sighed as he paced back and forth running his fingers through his stiff gelled hair.
"Got it." Logan said triumphantly.
Alec bolted over behind Logan, peering over his shoulder. Logan played it, fast forwarding it.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, go back." Alec said thinking he saw a glimpse of Max.
Logan stopped it, rewinded slightly, and pressed play. They both watched Pryce bust out of the front doors, dragging Max.
"That's Max." Logan acknowledged.
Alec's eyes widened.
"And that's Pryce." Alec said softly.
The man then also walked out.
"And I owe him money." Alec said biting his lip.
They watched the man try and stop them and saw him shot. Alec nodded.
"Well that's one thing Pryce has done that was right for me, that's 3 grand I get to keep." Alec said looking on the bright side. Logan looked at him annoyed and froze the picture, Pryce running out of the building, dragging Max by the arm.
"Wonder what he did with her." Logan said quietly, looking at her. Alec looked at him.
"I'll give ya 3 guesses." Alec shared then turned to a table, yanking his leather jacket off.
"What you think he took her to some Manticore, there's ANOTHER Manticore out there?" Logan asked not believing his ears.
"Logan, Max and I have realized that Manticore NEVER leaves. There's always somebody somewhere." Alec replied shaking his head in shame as he fixed the cuffs of his jacket.
"Well, then we need to find out where it is." Logan said turning back to his computer and beginning to type fast.
"And I need to get to work, or Normal is going to have a fit." Alec said then fixing his collar.
"You're going to work when Max is in trouble?" Logan asked not taking his eyes off the screen.
"Look find out where it is, and I'll send a rescue party in ok, but I AM NOT going one on one with Pryce!" Alec said raising his tone slightly.
Logan turned around in his chair, placing his accusing eyes on him. Alec felt the eyes on him and looked back.
"What?" Alec asked annoyed.
"Your scared, aren't you?" Logan asked.
"No I'm not." Alec shot back.
Logan grinned a little.
"I never seen you like this before, nervous that this." Logan said studying him.
"That's because I don't show you my fears dipstick, at Manticore it was unacceptable to show your fears, sign of weakness. Don't let your enemy to know your afraid." Alec told him, standing in front of him, quoting a Manticore rule.
"Then why are you now?" Logan asked out of curiosity.
Alec swallowed hardly.
"We're not in Manticore anymore, therefore none of it's rules apply to me. I have been out here for quite some time now, and I have learned to feel emotions that we were never suppose to feel. I do things differently that I would have done them a couple years ago. And I admit things to people now that I would never think about admitting a couple years ago. Being out here changed me Logan, it changed Max, it changed all of us, it made us more………….human. At first we acted like robots, now out here, it's new to us and we feel things. Now are you asking me if I am scared of Pryce. I won't lie, yes. Can he kick my ass? Yes. Does that freak me out? A little. Why am I admitting all this too you? Because I am trying to prove to you that Max and I, Joshua, Zack, Biggs, ALL OF US, yeah we might be killing machines, but even we have our fears." Alec replied then walked over to the door, opened it and made a notion to walk out but something stopped him and he looked back at Logan.
"If you ever tell Max this, I'll kill you because she would never let it go, but when her and her brothers and sisters escaped, at first I thought it was an act of pure treachery. But once getting out here, I really admire how she handled herself over the years. I mean, being alone out here, not knowing anyone, not knowing how to live, not knowing who to trust, always watching for Lydecker. And now the whole Ames situation, I kinda admire how strong she's been over the years. She's a hell of a person." Alec admitted then left out the door.
Max stood in attention in Renfro's office, the way that Pryce showed her.
"State your designation." Renfro ordered.
Max hesitated.
"X5 452!" Max replied looking ahead.
"Finally learn how to act 452? Or are you just playing along?" Renfro asked her.
Max thought about it.
"Either way, it forces me to act the way you want me to." Max pointed out.
"Good point, either way, I win." Renfro said smiling widely.
Max blocked the frustration out of her mind.
"You should drop to you knees and worship me 452. Zack is your CO and your unit consists of Krit, Tinga, and Biggs. The scientists felt it necessary to replace the transgenics back with their previous unit, or what's left of their previous unit. But we have cut them in half, Ames believes it shall be easier to observe you if you are in smaller units. Now I am going to dismiss you and you will go to your unit's barracks and take it from there. Follow this solider, and I will speak with you very soon." Renfro said and with that Max felt herself being pulled out of room.
Max followed the solider down the mazes of halls, Max was getting very bored of walking. They rounded a corner and Max looked to her right, through a large glass window into another room. She stopped immediately and ran up to the window, looking into it horrified. She saw Ames White, yelling and hitting her sister, Tinga.
"Stop it." Max mumbled under her breath as she saw Ames shout loudly at her.
"Stop it." Max said a little louder once she saw that Ames wasn't stopping.
Suddenly she watched Ames back hand her and Tinga fell off the chair.
"STOP IT!" Max screamed banging on the window and then looked around panically.
She then grabbed a fold out chair and slammed it into the window, chattering it instantly. Tinga and Ames looked over in her direction as Max jumped over the wall, through the broken window and ran up to Tinga, embracing her, protecting her. Tinga's face was covered with cuts and blood oozing from them, and out of the corner of her mouth and nose.
"What are you doing!" Max demanded holding her sister close to her.
Tinga too weak to oppose.
"I think the question is what the hell are you doing!?" Ames shouted at her.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Max screamed at him.
Max felt Tinga shuffle in her arms.
"Max? Is that you?" Tinga asked smiling slightly, realizing it was her.
Max shoved her closer to her, resting her chin on top of Tinga's head.
"452, you have just made a HUGE mistake." Ames growled as he walked up to her and then grabbed a handful of her hair.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE!!!" Ames shouted at her.
Max let go of Tinga and clutched Ames's wrist, groaning in pain as he yanked her to her feet, her scalp feeling as if it were on fire. Max groaned in pain and in frustration as she tried to pry the man's fingers away from her. Ames then threw her out of the room, through the broken window.
Pryce walked around the corner a sub in his left hand and a can of Pepsi in his right hand. Max tumbled backward, smacking into him, causing them to fall to the ground. His soda poured out everywhere and all over Max and Pryce.
"My pants." Pryce groaned on the floor.
He looked over and saw Max, then as fast as lightening he grabbed her throat and picked her up. Max clutched his wrist, the top of her head almost touching the ceiling. Pryce was almost completely blocking the air to Max. Max in response fidgeted by kicking/ moving her feet and legs slightly.
"Max." he growled at her.
Max struggled for air.
"It wasn't my fault." Max choked out.
"No it wasn't it was mine." Ames said stepping through the broken window, glaring at her, his raspy voice scratching her ears, giving her chills.
Ames nodded to Pryce who returned the nod and dropped her. Max landed on her butt, gasping for breath and grabbing her throat which had red marks from Pryce's fingers. Pryec continued to glare at Max as he wiped the soda off of the side of his face with the sleeve of his t-shirt.
"Don't move." Ames warned then returned into the room with Tinga.
"I have to get out of here." Max blurted out as she made a notion to get up but Pryce kicked her in the chest back down, and then walked over her, stepping on her chest, right where the bone is connecting her rib cage.
Max closed her eyes in pain and grabbed his ankle trying to lift if off her chest.
"I can break it Max. It'll be painful, stop it. Stop it." Pryce warned, as a result Max stopped struggling and bent her left knee.
Max breathed in deeply trying to get the oxygen in her.
"How……how did you do that, why can't I get you off of me. You're a human…… aren't you?" Max asked breathlessly.
Pryce smirked.
"Thank the scientists of good old Manticore. They juiced me up with his serum that gives me the speed, the sight and the strength of an X7." Pryce explained.
"X7? But they're……"
"Stronger, faster than X5's? Yeah I know, that's why the decided to make it X7 than X5. Ames though it was necessary considering I teach and train X5's, he thought I should be capable of handing them, in case they go crazy on the field or in the facility. I could always beat you and your little trannie friends Max, simply because I knew what you would do and I did it better and more complex. Now add having the strength of an X7 on that, why any transgenic will be lucky to win a fight against me. So now little Maxie, I can hold you and you can no longer break through." Pryce said smiling evilly yet happily.
Max looked at him sadly, blankly and pathetically.
"So Manticore turned you into an X7?" Max asked softly.
"Turn? No. I have to inject this every morning, kicks in instantly and wears of in 10 hours. Kinda like being on steroids or something." Pryce said grinning.
Max bit her lip.
"Now, I'm gonna pretend those words never came out of that pretty mouth of yours. I believe it was said in a moment of panic. But remember I am not always gonna be this nice, I am just taking an easy on ya since it's your first day back. Tomorrow I'm goin' back to my real self with you." Pryce warned.
"You mean your worse than this?" Max asked still clutching his ankle and trying to breath through the pressure he was placing on her chest.
Pryce jabbed his foot down harder on her chest, the pain getting severally worse, enough pain to knock a human out but not a transgenic.
"Today, I'm a saint." he hissed at her.
Max sat in Ames's office, a large dark wood glossy desk sat in front of her, a computer and papers covering it. Max observed the large black leather chair sitting behind it and the framed degrees he received hanging on the wall. Max looked to the side and saw a black leather couch along the wall along with filing cabinets and bookcases. Max saw a frame sitting on his desk, curious as she was, she took it turned it around and looked at it. Only to see a picture of Ray in it.
"Put it down." a voice warned.
Max looked over at the doorway only to see Pryce leaning in it. Max didn't say anything.
"I'm being serious the man gets cranky when people mess with his sh**" Pryce said walking in.
"This yours?" Pryce asked cracking his gum and walking up to her and squatting in front of her, holding up a necklace with his index finger and thumb.
Max's heart stopped once she saw the Blue Lady on it, Ben's necklace. Max's eyes widened as she looked into his cold eyes.
"Yeah thought so." Pryce said catching the whole necklace in his hand, taking the hint.
"Musta fell off when I hand you up in the air by your throat huh?" Pryce asked pretending to be sad.
"Can I have it back?" Max asked very softly holding out her hand praying that he would give it back to her.
"Why?" Pryce asked.
"Because it's the only thing I have left of my brother." she answered not dropping her hand.
"Which brother?" Pryce asked smartly moving his gum over to the side of his mouth.
Max looked at him hesitantly.
"Ben." she answered.
"I might give it back to you Max, if you please me on the field." Pryce said continuing to chew on his gum, chomping it loudly, winking at her as he stood up and walked out.
Max blinked repeatedly and dropped her hand and returned the picture frame.
Soon Ames walked in, Max could feel his eyes on her and it made her uncomfortable.
"Please explain, 452, what was going on in your brain when you smashed that window." Ames ordered walking around her and behind his desk, sitting down in his chair.
Max didn't say anything.
"I'm sorry." Max said so softly it might have been considered a whisper.
"I just don't like it when people hurt my family." Max added, a little louder but not much.
"Well you better get used to it 452. Because I am not going to allow any kind of these behaviors from you. YOU DON'T WANT TO TEST ME! What kinda solider are you!?" Ames said raising his voice loudly.
"I'M NOT A SOLIDER! I AM A GIRL!" Max shouted back.
Ames looked at her surprised but displeased.
Max looked down at her lap.
"I'm sorry." she mumbled, it making her furious that she just apologized to Ames White.
Ames shook his head in anger as he got up.
"Follow me 452." he hissed grabbing her arm forcefully and yanking her out of the room.