Title: For my people Chapter: Cure fo' da itch
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Dark Angel. Cuz if I did I wouldn't let down all the DA Fans and cancel the damn show…I'm not that Evil but Fox is!
*I know it's old news but Firefly has been cancelled (Doing the happy dance..he.he:J )so don't give up my fellow freaks….and lets show Fox that we still have hope for the return of Dark Angel…*
cuz we wanna see what happens to the Freak Nation.
Pairing: Max and Alec…of course…what you think that Logan and Max would get together….Ha! yeah right! Alright all y'all Logan and Max shippers out there please stand up and listen hard….There's going to be a lot of Logan *bashing* (grins sinisterly) Aaight…you can rant on and on about how much they're in love but I don't give a damn, cuz from my perspective there's not even a tiny sparkle… so if you love Logan and Max together I advice not to read on… my story will just piss you off lol.
Rating: Dunno maybe it's PG 13 but it would probably get higher…yeah I have some nasty things in store for this story…
Summary: Okay I already wrote in the first chapter that the summary would change, well in this chapter
We're gonna get more into the story, the first chapter was just an intro. All the events in this story are taking place after Freaknation. Logan announces that he might have the cure for the Virus but Alec is just falling in love with Max, White and his loony buddies are exposed and is of course planning something evil duh!
A/N: Special thanks to my first reviewers Zol, Christl , panda007 and Queen LiRA…you guys rock. I came home from a shitty day but you guys made me happy…wasn't sure if anyone would like this crappy story but you guys thought it was good so kudos to y'all. Also a thousand apologies for Grammar and Spelling mistake (Hey no one's perfect) I don't care if you rant on about how sucky my writing skills are or if this story seems retarded to you but after you read this chapter please..REVIEW okay.. even though you're too lazy to press that little button.
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HQ, Terminal City
Max V.O
I used to think that I could handle myself, just me and no one else to care about. Because that's what I have been train for.
I didn't need anyone to survive or depend on and I sure didn't need a guy to take care of me.
But Logan changed that, he made me cared and he made me feel.
Made my heart beat into the rhythm of love.
Gosh now he's making me sound like a freaking poet, yeah love is the only disease that Manticore tried so hard to immune us all from.
But something had changed between us over the past few months, something that I can't explain…it was almost like…something died and either one us couldn't ever rekindle it.
I think about the situation that I'm in, the Transgenics, Joshua and Alec…Alec…yeah I find myself thinking about him a lot lately…that's one things that scares me the most…while I tried hard not to think about Logan…Alec keeps popping up…and I hate that…I just hope…it's not this mushy love crap…that I'm feeling because…man…I don't wanna be falling for Alec…were not even like that… plus he's to…he's to…well…uh what's that word?….cocky and..well funny.
Oh god did I just thought of Alec as amusing….I think I'm coming down with something.
I can't afford to let emotion play me, Back in Manticore they kept telling us that soldiers didn't have emotion or feelings, they only have a cold hearts that was train to kill.
In some level it was true, we're just a bunch of genetically empowered kids that their soul purpose is destruction and in the end that's all we are.
V.O End
Max stared at the old rusty building that she called the 'High Place'.
It seemed so close, yet so far in the distant, in the other side of those barbwired fences.
She let go a sigh she didn't know she was holding in. She would give anything to sit up there again, alone, reflect on thoughts and problems and the only company was the cold night and the blue moon.
In some ways it was like a little temple where she could simply clear her mind.
Now she's trap inside this old dusty walls that reminded her that she's still a prisoner of Manticore, a slave, an assassin, a cold blooded killer.
It had already been two weeks since they raise the flag that Joshua had painted, two weeks since Max had voiced her historical speech, two weeks since she declared to be the leader of this Nation, two weeks since she declared War.
Her thoughts pondered deeper, she thought of how she ended up like this, how a simple soldier like her would be leading the Transgenics into Freedom and stopping a biblical apocalypse.
*Flashbacks*
Gillette, Wyoming '09' escape
Max running through the cold night trailing after Jondy, both trying to reach their destination and that is over those barbwired fence.
Lydecker's men were on their heels, then suddenly the icy cold ground beneath Max gave way and she plunge through the ice.
"Max" yelled Jondy
*
Outside Manticore facility,
The car stopping before Max,
The door opening
" Get in!"
Max glaring at the blonde woman
*
Max having seizures, shaking on the bathroom floor
*
Foggle towers, Logan's penthouse
" You got good taste"
Max holding the stolen goods.
" Like to stay and discuss art but I got to jet"
Max falling through the thick glass to land eight stories below,
Logan looking down puzzled
*
"A random series of numbers is significant how?" asked Logan
" Those numbers are me"
" This is your bar code?"
"Black and white for the whole world to see. It's like opening the paper and finding my panties."
Max is racing another motorcycle through the dark streets of Seattle
"Oh, please tell me you're not one of those people: Because a raindrop fell in the ocean 10,000 years ago and a butterfly farted in India you and I are sitting right here right now enjoying a cup of coffee that tastes like goat piss"
"Anything's possible."
*
"You? You're Zack? Why didn't you tell me?"
*
Genetics conference
"It is amazing, isn't it? To think that we can fix nature's mistakes."
"Yeah."
" Donald... Lydecker."
*
"You..." Red guy
"But why? Why me?"
"Help us live"
(The Red guy dies.)
Sebastian
"They've been told by their handlers that your genetic code can prolong their life spans. Rumor is they're looking to create a new generation of soldiers that can tolerate the implant longer. My guess is they want you so they can harvest your ova."
"Like being girl isn't hard enough... They want me to be mommy to a whole army of these guys"
Logan's penthouse
" What am I supposed to say? My homegirl just tells me she's not even human." Says Original Cindy
"I'm mostly human. I thought about telling you a million times, but... I was afraid to."
"What, you didn't think you could trust me?"
"When you and me hooked up... It was like, all of a sudden, there was this part of my life where I didn't have to be hiding or fighting or anything else except... Trying to make a living and kicking it with my homegurl. I never had that before--a friend. I was scared that if I told you what was up it would all change. And that you would look at me like you are right now--like I was some kind of freak you didn't even recognize."
"Damn. All this time I never knew…let me see that barcode of yours….Shugga that's kinda hot..aiight"
*
Max and Zack have Brin
"She's getting weaker."
"We're together. Right now, that's all that matters." Zack said
"We can't just let her die."
" Anything's better than going back. You said so yourself."
" I don't want to die. Please...Don't let me die." Says Brin
" ( on walkie-talkie ): Lydecker, you still there?"
Brin is lying down on a bench on the side of a road with Max and Zack looking over her.
" Brin, you're going to be all right. And someday, no matter what happens I'm going to come for you."
*
OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART CHURCH
Max notices Ben walking up the aisle. He approaches the statue of the Virgin Mary and stands looking at it. Max approaches him from behind, and he turns around
"Ben?".
"Max?"
"Ben, why are you doing this?"
He steps closer to her and looks at her intensely.
"You know why."
SPACE NEEDLE
"The High Place."
Ben standing on top of the Space Needle, under a full moon.
"You wouldn't do that, would you? Your own brother?"
*
"Bet he'd love to figure out what the hell went wrong with you."
"Nothing went wrong with me! I'm doing what I was made to do, what we were taught to do!"
"Hunt people down to perform amateur dental surgery? I must've missed that class."
IN THE WOODS
Ben falls to the ground, gasping, and tries unsuccessfully to sit up. Max kneels and starts to help him up, but they both hear Manticore helicopters approaching.
"Don't leave me here. Don't let them take me." Ben says gasping
"Ben, I can't carry you. We'll both get caught."
"I know".
He looks at her pointedly and her face falls
"Ben, I can't".
"Please. You know what they'll do to me. They'll put me down there with them...the Nomlies. Please.
Max looks at him tearfully while he silently begs her.
"Tell me about the Good Place."
"Where no one ever gets punished" says Ben smiling
" And no one gets yelled at." Max added
"And nobody disappears. And when you wake up in the morning, you can stay in bed as long as—"
Max snaps his neck. She softly drops his head to the ground and, as the helicopters get nearer, she begins to sob.
"…..What's the matter Maxie…Afraid to remember…"
**End Flashbacks**
Then Suddenly a hand gripped her shoulder pulled her out of her little reverie
"Max… Maxie?.." said a voice behind her
Max spun around to see Alec with a concern look
She knitted her eyebrows and tried so hard not to say his name
"Bh….Alec?" she said trying to separate the thought of her dead brother from Alec
" You okay?" he asked
" Yeah..yeah…Peachy keen" she said Glaring at him…she had the urged to hug him…say sorry…
" Sure?..you look teary" he said
" Uh I'm just tired…I was yawing and you know when you yawn, your eyes tears" she said
Alec glared at her and notice that she was a little shaken.
" You should get some sleep you know…lemme handle things around here"
" Yeah right? Let you in command….I might be tired Alec but I'm not that desperate" she smiled.
Alec shoved Max playfully..
" Uh Before I forget….Logan wants to talk to you up in the headquarters" said Alec.
" Logan?" asked Max.
" Yeah member him… Yay tall..old guy ,with glasses, Has a bad case of arthritis" smirked Alec.
Max shot him a dirty glare and shoves him back playfully.
" He's not that old"
Max walked up the stairs where the nerve of Terminal City was and Alec trailed after her.
She found Joshua talking to Logan,
Both noticed her.
" Hey lil Fella, Logan's on T.V" Joshua said with a smile as he pointed at Logan in the screen
Max smiled and sat on the chair,
" What's up Logan," she smiled
" Hey Max been a long time since we've talked"
" Yeah been kinda busy here" said Max nodding her head
" Just calling to check up on things, uh…how are the runes anything changed?" asked Logan.
" No nothing…some are fading but that's all" said Max lifting her sleeve to show her wrist.
The runes look like they were just pen marks.
Logan nodded and Max noticed a little smiled tugged the corner of his lips
" Uh Max…I got to tell you something" said Logan
" Uh..Okay" said Max
" I'm on the verge of something" said Logan…
" Knock it with the cryptic…verge of what?" said Max slightly annoyed.
" you ready for this" said Logan.
" Spit it out old Man" chipped Alec.
" I might have the cure for the virus" he said with a grin.
Max blinked at the screen surprise
" Uh That's great Logan" shrugged Max trying to force a smile
Logan knitted his eyebrow
" Aren't you even happy…ecstatic" said Logan.
" Not the point…" Max sighed she lowered her tone "it doesn't really matter Logan, even if we did have the cure…I can't be with you.. right no-"
" Not the point either Max…at least there won't be a barrier that's blocking us" said Logan a little angry
" He's right…no more latex gloves" said Alec sarcastically and Max gave him a dirty glare.
" you just don't get it Logan…"
" Get What?"
Max sighed she gestured everyone to leave her alone… So Joshua and Alec left her.
" Gee..that guy just doesn't give up doesn't he, that old geezer" muttered Alec as he walked down the stairs
" Logan loves Max very much" said Joshua walking behind him
Alec could hear Max and Logan arguing in the background.
" You mean obsess over her.. he just doesn't get the drift…Max doesn't love him anymore" sneered Alec
Joshua smirked and stared at Alec.
Alec noticed .
" What?" he said
" why are you so angry about it Alec?…"asked the anomaly.
" I'm not angry" said Alec
" Alec…I'm not stupid… You like her don't you?" asked Joshua..
" What? Who?" asked Alec..
Joshua grin..
" Max's a pretty girl….I know Alec likes her" he said.
Alec glared up at Joshua and turned away
" Josh…you think I like Max?" said Alec trying to put on a laugh. " I swear Josh…you really getting good at this jokes. Mole been teaching ya?…"
Joshua shook his head
" Joshua has been watching you…how you look at her…how you care for her" he said firmly
Alec shook his head and patted Joshua in the shoulders and sighed
" Max's a bitch who'd kick my ass if I come near her and plus." Alec looked down, his voice dropping
" She's family and even if I did Like Max…I mean I wouldn't have a chance with her anyway…she's too wrapped up in Captain four eyes" said Alec
Joshua glared at Alec.
" Whatever you say medium Fella…Joshua's not convince" he smirked and walked away..
Alec stood there and pondered at what the giant dogman said and bit his lower lips.
He had read Alec like a book..
Alec frowned as he stared up at where Max was…and sighed.
"Yeah me too" he murmured
He was right what chance does he have against Logan. They have gotten close just a little while back before this T.C issue but when Logan came back in the picture, it felt like he was invisible infront of her again.
But he didn't ask to fall for her, heck he didn't want to.
But it was something about Max that Alec wanted…something that no one can have and even Logan can't touch…He pondered at it….it's like she had a cure for the itch that Alec had been longing to scratch, since he was with Rachel
" get a grip on yourself soldier" Alec ordered to himself and decided to look for Mole
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" It's Alec isn't it" he asked
Max blinked surprised at his word
"What? Are you high" said Max.
" No I think there's something more between you, two" said Logan with a matter of fact tone
" What?…Listen to what you're saying Logan" said Max.
" Crystal Clear Max…You're denying that you've got something for Alec"
" Have you been drinking" asked Max.
" No..." he said firmly.
" what has got into you Logan?" asked Max.
" I tell you I have the cure for this Virus, and I didn't see you even flinch with happiness" said Logan
" Why should I get my hopes up?" Max shot at Logan angrily " this maybe just another dead end Logan….I'm happy if this virus if gone, I'm happy that I won't fear of killing you….but I can't be to involve in my little world…I have people to take care of"
" You mean Alec"
" Would you stop it Logan! I'm saying goodbye if I hear his name again"
" Because it's true isn't it?"
Max fell silent
" I know it…I could see it in your eyes" Logan continued
Max sighed
" Logan there is no competition between you and him…there never was… his my friend….he's the closest to family I have and I can't turn him away… if you see something else than a sisterly- love then that's your problem and if you don't drop this pointless issue …I'm telling you now this would be the last time I would be screaming at you" yelled Max.
She noticed Dix and Luke from downstairs, pausing for a moment and catching a glimpse up at her,
Logan became silent….
" Fine…" he said
Max sighed deeply and run her hand through her hair.
" Alec shouldn't be an issue…you damn well know that… we'll get through this Logan you just gotta hang tight …I Love you …isn't that enough?" said Max sincerely
Max saw the bedraggled face that Logan had
" I don't know.." he said and with that the screen flicked off.
Max stood up and kicked the chair and that caught everyone's attention.
" What ta fuck are you all looking at!" she bellowed and with that she stormed off from the headquarters and headed towards her makeshift room…
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Max's room, HQ, Terminal City
V.O
" At times like these…I just wish I could sit up there….just to think, let the anger out before someone would get massacred by my hands…preferably Alec….I don't get why Logan thought that something was going on…I told him nothing happened between me and Alec…but he just won't listen..
It's not fair….I'm carrying this whole apocalypse things on my shoulder, while Ames White's biting on my ass, Logan breathing down my back and Alec that annoying little itch that you just wanna scratch with a claw … there's only so much a girl could handle…
A knock on the door interrupted Max's little train of thoughts.
" whoever you are I'm gonna kick your ass" she muttered.
When she opened the door…A smirking figure waited at the door.
Max rolled her eyes and slammed the door shut and retreated back to her sanctuary.
" Maaaxxxxiiieeee" said the sing song voice.
" Shut up!" she yelled.
" Hey hon…what's the matter…screwed up your sex date with Mr. Look at me…look at me"
Inspite of the sex date part…Max smiled.
" Oh come on…wanna talk…"
Max thought about that for a while.
"A little birdie told me Mr..Eyes Only pissed you off. Actually more of a whole flock of birds told me"
Max rolled her eyes.
" You know you could blow off some steam…on me" he said and Max heard a small chuckle behind the door.
" Go away!"
" You're being a baby…you're gonna let grandpa ruin your day…..I should be the one who could only do that"
Max smirked slightly and sighed.
The door creaked open.
That evil grin greeted her again.
" What do you want?" she said firmly.
His hand dug in the pockets of his cargo pants as he entered her little room.
Max stood there with her arms cross.
" Smile Max….it scares people" he said
" Not in the mood right now….you've got something important to say or piss off" she firmly said.
" well I was gonna tell you that I just run some bio with Mole, everything is in good shape…Supplies, medical, shelter, we even found a new tunnel that hasn't been used since 2003, it's the only way Transgenic could safely leave and come we could even bring supplies through it…Sector cops don't know about it, Infact it's not even in the old sewer map."
Max nodded.
" Good Get mole to take a couple of transgenic to check it out I want full report on it….at least everything is running peachy keen in this side of things" said Max.
Alec sat on the bed of her little dingy room.
" Sit" he said patting the space beside him in the bed.
Max raised her left eyebrow, she considered the offer and plopped on the seat next to Alec.
" I know you and Logan are none of my business but…I just don't like to see you all sad and pouty" he said with a sincere face.
Max stared at him she wanted so much to cry right now. Let out all the frustration she had. Sob like when Alec and her were talking about Ben.
" We had a fight" Max started.
"Figured that out" he said.
Max clasped her hands together in her lap.
" About you" she said softly.
Alec quickly cocked his head to look at her then sighed and look away.
" What am I got to do with anything that concerns you and him…" he asked.
" He told me that I started to look at you differently" she murmured. " He suspects that I might have a thing for you"
Alec's heart began to beat fast and he tried to hide his shaky hands by running it through his light brown hair.
He scoffed.
" well duh of course you've got a thing for me Maxie…I mean who could resist a magnificent creature like me" he said his tone shaky while he tried to smirk.
Max slightly smile.
" He just doesn't see that I care about you in a sisterly way.." she said.
" But Logan has every right to be jealous" he said with a smile and he then wrapped his arms around her shoulder. " We pack a pretty good couple. I mean come on…Breeding Partners, two top Manticore soldiers…It won't matter if everybody dies in this coming war…Us two could just start a new nation. You and me all the way baby" he said
Max laughed.
" Oh did I just see your teeth?…did you just smile?" he asked shocked.
Max laughed then she smiled warmly.
" Look boo… If I was in your position I would drop that boy like a bag of dirt…" his tone sounding like O.C "he ain't appreciatin' my boo then he doesn't deserve you… Honey he better wake up, he doesn't know how good he's got you…" he said swinging his head to side to side trying to imitate O.C's action. " Get my drift girlfriend"
Max chuckled.
" Thanks for the advice O.C" said Max.
Alec frowned
" I mean it Max" he said sincerely.
Max's mouth slowly turned to frown.
" Funny thing is…I considered that choice" said Max " But then I think back…how far and I Logan got through…that it just wouldn't be fair for him...If I just drop everything"
Alec sighed and stood up. He crossed to the window and glared outside.
" Logan's a lucky guy…I wish I could find someone who could love me like you love Logan" he said
Max also got up and stood next to Alec.
" Out there…Is a girl Alec…just gotta find her"
" I did…but she's too far for me to reach" Alec said biting his lower lip
" Like that ever been a problem to you, I bet you could sweep her off her feet with one flash of you killer smile and 'hey baby' speech" scoffed Max.
Alec smiled.
" If it was just easy as like that Max?" he said. He then turned around and headed for the doors.
" I'll tell mole to check the sewers out" he said and just as he was about to leave.
" Alec" said Max.
He turned around.
" Just want you to know that I share something with you that I've wanted to share with Ben and the rest of them. In someways I got a second chance and that I'm lucky to have you…Even though that sometimes It hurts to remember…it feels good to have you around Big Bro" said Max timidly and Alec noticed the little tears in the corner of her eyes.
Alec walked towards her and hugged her gingerly,
" Likewise baby girl" he said kissed the top of her head.
Then suddenly a yell had pulled them back into reality.
Raven, an X-6 burst through the door.
" Come quick guys…" she said
" What's the matter Raven?' asked Alec.
" Fifth transgenic this week ,got shot down in China town. It's all over the news" said the Blue headed girl
Max and Alec knitted their eyebrows and rushed down to the headquarters.
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HQ, T.C
She stood with her arms crossed to her chest, all weight on one side of her hips. Her eyes glaring at the screen, she didn't blink or shift her eyes to the side, instead she just stared watching the clips.
" How many more have to die till we decide to move" said a voice to her ear. That's when her eyes turned to the side to see him staring at the T.V, which was hanging up in the corner wall.
"Patience is a virtue Alec didn't Manticore teach you that?" she asked softly. She returned her gaze at the screen.
" Sorry slept through the class," he said sarcastically as he continued to watch
The T.V began to flicker violently as the clip showed a Transgenic being shot down in the middle of China Town. She knew that most of Transgenics eyes were not only peeled at the Screen but at her. She felt the anger that began to flow from everyone in the room,
Yeah this is more than war now
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"We can't let this things roam around…you have to understand people, they are *dangerous!" said the Asian man in the television.
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Just then the screen began to flicker again.
But this time the Eyes-Only logo run across the screen and the same all introduction began "Do not try adjust you T.V set this is an Eyes Only broadcast…."
Alec glanced at Max who was fixated at screen, Alec knew he had no hope up against Logan
" Dangerous?....If you have noticed. Mr Wong there are more Transgenic casualties than human casualties. The thing you all don't understand is Transgenics are not the *enemy*. Put yourself in their shoes imagine being out in the new world with no understanding of it. These so called dangerous people are just like you and me who breathes and bleed, they may have inhuman powers that we don't possess but they're not animals to be hunt down. The only reason that you all are scared of them is because you are listening to the lies that are being fed to you by the government. The same government who wants these Transgenic dead because they fear exposure for themselves. A man name Ames White is working for the Government, he's a part of a group called the "Familiars" a cult that has been around for eons. They too possess inhuman abilities and strength. They may not have the barcodes or look like animals but they are the real threat to society and the ones that you should fear from. The Transgenics are the only one who could stop them from their evil ways. Now who do you think are the Dangerous ones?
Peace…. I'm…. out"
And the screen flick back into normal news
" Good all Logan" whispered Max as a small smile tugged the corner of her lips
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Somewhere in Seattle,
" Son of a bitch!" he said trying to suppress his anger.
The younger man infront of him coiled in horror.
" Familiars sir?" he asked curiously " What's he talking about"
" He's talking Bullshit Otto," said White firmly. " This is just another way to turn the tables on us…This guy just doesn't give up"
White stormed out of the room and out of the building.
He fished his phone out of his jacket and dialed
He waited until a female voice answered in the other line,
" Feno'stol" he greeted
" Feno'stol" came a reply. " This is getting out of hand White…I told you to take care of this Eyes only matter"
" I did but this guy just doesn't give up…" he said
" Were exposed to them now you know that …I want you to do something about this Eyes Only, find out who he is and eliminate him before he brings you down…. Find a cure for this itch"
" Of course" said White.
" In the other hand…were all set for the plan…" said woman in the other side of line.
" Never been ready before….I think it's time we took the initiative and get rid of these nuisance once and for all"
" Feno'stol"
" Feno'stol" White said before hanging up.
" Yeah just a matter of time" he whispered before he got in his car and drove off.
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A/N2: Well I hope y'all like this chapter…I really didn't know what to write…. I promise some big shit in the end and a show down with the Familiars and Transgenics buts that's far down the track. So please gimme some ideas or anything you want to see happen in this story….. Anyways if I don't get more than 6 reviews for this chapter I might just leave the story to trail off somewhere….. By the way does anybody know the lyrics to the Dark Angel theme song by Public Enemy and MC Lyte can't find it no where.
Well that little button underneath is calling you to review….you know the drill soldier!
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