Author's Note: I know this is shorter than usual and it also took awhile, sorry. The next chapter should be action packed and it will have more of the very less-than-sane Jondy that I so enjoy writing and so it should be much better. By the way, I have this story up on my website and there are some pictures of Zane and Jondy that I drew up. If you want to go see them the addy for the site is in my author information/profile thingy. I would appreciate it if you went to take a look. The scans don't do justice to the actual pictures, which I'm somewhat proud of, but they are still pretty good. Plus, why would I not want you people to go to my website? Anyways. Thanks for the reviews; a lot of my readers are funny funny people. Which I love. Alexandra I thought of you and mentioned Syl and Krit...never say I din't think of you ::wide grin:: And Baloo I'll try and take my own mental health into consideration on the whole "to kill or not to kill" matter, promise…though my mental health hasn't been one of my strong suits if you could tell.

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Comin' to Get You

Chapter 17: Twist that knife

Alec walked into Logan's apartment without knocking like usual and looked over his shoulder to make sure that Max was following him. She smirked as she watched him head immediately for the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator and stuck his head in. "What are you doing?" she hissed.

"I don't like the guy but I love his food." Alec answered pulling out some chicken and wiggling his eyebrows at her. "Want some?"

"We don't have time for this."

"Sure we do…" another male voice cut him off.

"Max?" They both turned, Alec while stuffing a piece of chicken in his mouth and Max with her mouth hanging open, to see Logan standing in the doorway looking lost.

"Hey, old man," Alec said flashing him a smile that could light the city for a month. "We were wondering when you would come around."

Logan's eyes flicked to Alec before he turned back to Max. "I didn't think you would be back. I…I missed you."

She couldn't help the smile when she looked at Alec but it slipped when she turned to the man in the doorway. "Logan," she started coldly, "we need Eyes Only."

"Max, I think we should talk." Logan said taking a step forward and stopping when he noticed Alec come up to put an arm around Max's waist.

"No time for that, roller boy, as she said we need Eyes." He smirked as Max leaned into him and nodded her head innocently.

They watched as Logan choked silently and grimaced. "What do you need?" he bit out.

"We need to find Jondy," she said as she brushed past him, careful not to touch.

"Why? She skip town without a forwarding address?" Logan asked raising an eyebrow dryly.

Alec pursed his lips and patted him on the back rough enough that his glasses slipped down his nose. "I know you're all bent out of shape, but no need to get mean…its your own fault that Max isn't in to ya anymore. Jondy just, you know, told her about it." Alec smirked at Logan and leaned in until his mouth was next to his ear, "thanks about that by the way."

"We think that White got her," Max said after narrowing her eyes in Alec's direction.

"If that's the case then she's probably already…"

"No, she's not!" Max glared at him dangerously. "I just found her, I'm not loosing her now. You're gonna help me not loose her."

"So do your thang," Alec smirked pulling Max so that her back was against his stomach. He wrapped his arms around her waist and let his chin rest on her shoulder. "We're waiting." He buried his face in the curve of her neck and breathed in slowly, "you smell so good," he mumbled softly but loud enough for Logan to hear.

"I'm not going to help you get yourself killed," Logan said trying his best to ignore Alec.

"You never hesitated in the past when it would help Eyes Only," Alec said dryly, kissing Max's cheek gently; and Logan's attempt to ignore him became almost impossible.

Max shook her head and snorted when Logan, of all people, looked like he wanted to bloody Alec's nose. "You owe me," she said simply. "Find my sister and do it now…Alec and I will take care of the rest." One corner of her mouth lifted slowly as she watched him shake his head. "Hurry up."

"Jondy doesn't have all day," Alec smiled as sweetly as possible and lifted an eyebrow as he nuzzled Max's neck.

~*~

Logan rubbed his eyes and did his best not to glance over his shoulder to where he knew Alec and Max were sitting watching him. It was hard to concentrate when he knew they were back there, holding hands. He could hear them mummer every now and then as his fingers made clicking noises on the keyboard.

In the past he had felt bile rise in his throat whenever he thought about his Max with that arrogant bastard, and now that he saw the reality of it he was just thankful he hadn't parted company with his lunch. They smiled sweetly each time they caught him looking at them but other than that they didn't acknowledge his presence in the room. In his own home they tuned him out to pay attention to each other. It was a relief when he did finally find something.

He glanced up and looked at Max biting his lip gently and raised an eyebrow. She knew him well enough to get up and peer over his shoulder, "What is it?" She watched as he called up a map of sector four and pointed.

"Oh, the old man found something," Alec smirked and leaned back effectively masking the fact that he was worried that it had taken so long. He was starting to get antsy; the longer Jondy was away the less of a chance they would have to get her living breathing body away from White. He didn't think he would be able to handle loosing one of his friends, not to mention what Max and Zane's reactions would be.

"Unmarked cars have been moving in and out of a warehouse on Broad and Eagle for the past three days. And hover drones have been conspicuously absent. It's not a military facility it's just an abandoned warehouse, but it's the closest thing to a lead that I have."

"Broad and Eagle?" Alec sat up from his catlike lounging and shared a look with Max. "That doesn't make much sense, that place is pretty heavily populated."

"Its not sound judgement to keep a transgenic that close to people," Max nodded her head in agreement. "A little too noisy when they get angry."

"Unless they aren't keeping them." Logan said quietly not meeting either pair of eyes.

"Look…" Alec started to stand.

"White has this strange tendency to keep transgenics around for a while." She looked at Alec who was watching her with pressed lips. "For experimentation or torture," her voice cracked softly before she went on, "or, in Alec's case, to make a deal."

"She would have had to be the one to make the deal, and she's not quite as desperate to stay alive as I am."

"Even if that's true, she's not stupid, she could have made a deal she didn't have any intention on keeping."

"No, she's not stupid…but she's not afraid to die either," Alec put a hand on Max's arm. "From how the apartment looked we don't know if she's in the right mental health to try and save her life. It sucks but it's there."

Max shook her head, "that's not necessarily true. She wouldn't have had to be the one to try and deal." She leaned down to look at Alec, Logan completely forgotten behind her. "They have files and information from Manticore it's safe to assume that they would be able to do research on a transgenic based on their barcode…"

"And with her being an escapee from the Wyoming facility in '09 they could easily figure she would be a good piece of bait to get you."

"If she's bait then it's a trap," Logan said softly. "A trap that you won't have much luck to get out of."

"Let us worry about that, Logie," Alec smirked and wiggled his eyebrows. "I'm sure we can figure something out." A knock rang out through the apartment and all three froze for a second, "someone knocked…how quaint."

"What person would knock at Logan's?" Max blinked slowly. "Don't they know this is a free for all kind of apartment?" They watched as Logan sighed and walked over to the door, his exoskeleton making soft hissing noises. They stayed silent to listen to see who it was.

"Asha," they heard Logan say distantly, his voice strained and unhappy.

"Of course Asha would knock." Max rolled her eyes and smiled at Alec who was shaking his head sadly.

"I don't think he's too happy to see her," he whispered back at her with a smirk.

"Come on, he gave up every chance he had with me for her. Guys got to be a little unhappy." She flipped a cascade of silky black hair over her shoulder and batted long thick eyelashes at him.

"Bet he blames it all on her."

"He's only half right."

Alec laughed and plastered on an innocent expression, "what? Don't you think she tried to seduce him and he couldn't hold out any longer? He's only a mere mortal after all."

"Anyway it played out he let little Logan think for big Logan and that's never a very good idea."

"I can't say that I disagree." Just then Logan walked in with Asha trailing in behind him. Alec looked up and smirked, "it's the squeak toy!" He watched her grimace and laughed. "Well, it's been fun but we have important things to take care of."

"Yeah, nice seeing you again," Max smiled sweetly at Asha as Alec took her hand and lead her out.

"Max!" Logan called after her and sighed when he heard the front door click softly.

~*~

They watched Zane closely as he paced back and forth through Jondy's room, in his hand he held her gun so tightly that his fingers had gone white. They had walked in five minutes ago and didn't know if it was a good idea to try and disturb him. Sasha was sitting next to them as if to say, 'now's not the time to go in there.'

"Zane," Alec said softly and jumped when green eyes glared at him. He had never realized just how much Zane cared about Jondy until he saw the hollow space behind his eyes that said he was very much afraid that she was dead.

"What?"

"We have a lead."

The glare disappeared and Alec saw the Zane from two days ago very briefly, "where?"

"On Broad and Eagle.' When Zane started to walk past him he grabbed his arm gently. "We have to be careful about this."

"You be careful…I'm getting her back." Alec dropped his hands and grimaced.

"Yes, you are. If you be careful…you won't be much good to her if you get yourself killed trying to ride in on a white horse."

"We're going to get her back," Max said putting a hand on his shoulder gently and lifted her eyebrows. "Believe me there's no way I'm leaving her there."

"Then what's the plan?" he took a deep breath and ran a hand through his hair. "I'll behave."

"Good," she let the corners of her lips pull slightly upwards, "because we need you." She was silent for a short time before she started again talking down to her hands. "Do you think we should tell any of the others, maybe get some help? Like Syl and Krit or anyone?"

"There's not enough time for them to get down here. Right now they're living on the other side of the country." Zane said simply, shaking his head unhappily.

"Should we tell them, just incase something happens?" She went on her wide chocolate eyes peering up into dark green uncertain of how he would take the suggestion.

"I'll do it on the way over there." He smiled down at her sadly and then shook his head sharply. His game mask slipping into place, "what's the layout?" He asked his jaw clenching as his shoulders pulling back sharply. "How much do we know about the facility?"

Alec smirked, "factory old and abandoned. So far that's all we know."

"We aren't even sure that's where they're keeping her, but it's our best bet." She shrugged and nodded her head towards the door. "The best way to figure anything else out would be recon."

"Let's go then," Zane said throwing Jondy's small gun onto her bed and walking into his room to get his own. He stopped in his door way his shoulders slumped slightly, "what happens if she isn't there?"

"We keep looking," Max answered in a whisper that she knew sounded like booming thunder in his ears. "We just keep looking." He turned to look at her and she didn't think she could breath for a long moment. The weight of his gaze suffocating.

"Do you promise?"

"I promise."