Awakening ( chapter 9)

Awakening ( chapter 9)

Throughout the summer, any free time I had, I spent at Logan's, he spent almost every waking moment trying to find out more information on Manticore. I had only seen Zach two times after the day he walked out. I always wondered where the hell he went, or how spent his time. Then a few weeks later I was with Logan, he had being able to hack in to some army files or something, and he found Lydeckers's file.

" Here it is, or shall I say here HE is, Donald Lydecker, born ……" as Logan continued to ramble on about Lydecker, I continued to look at the photo that had come up with the file. There he was, the guy who did this to me, to us. His eyes were dark and empty, he had face that would scare a grown man, not to mention little kids, just like Zach, I could image how Zach felt ,as a little boy, looking up at him. He had this look of authority. Like he was a God. Or that's what he tried to be, defying mother nature, and making us. This is the man, who is after me.

"Max, Max are you listening to me?" I was suddenly pulled back from my thoughts by Logan's bellowing. In my hear.

" I'm sorry, just got all reminiscent and all , with my creator. You know even though I never met him, thank Go…fully. So that's him, that's the guy Logan, He made me, and now he wants me back." Logan got up from his chair where he sat in front of his lap top, and faced me.

" No, Max, he is not the guy who created you, you can thank your parents for that. This guy tried to make you something that your are not, YOU ARE HUMAN, just like me and the rest of the world, no matter what you think, you feel emotion, you feel your heart beat, you feel pain. THAT'S what make you human. Not what's inside your blood." I looked at him, he was so sweet, he knew how I felt when I found out who I really was but he always tried to reassure me that I was on of them, HUMAN. But I knew I wasn't, or at least apart of me wasn't. Inside of me there were things going on that I did not know of. So how could I be so sure what I was. The only one that knew what might be going on inside of me was Zach, but he was never around, and whenever I tried to ask him about what will happen to me he kept on changing the subject or just walking out. That made me feel worse, it's like he knew what was going on inside of me but did not want to tell me, WHY? What was so wrong, with me that he was scared of telling me.

" Max, do you understand what I am telling you?"

"Logan, it is not that simple. I'm….There are…..There are things in me that I don't even know of, things that scare me, and without me knowing what they are I cannot come to terms of WHO I am." All of a sudden I felt hot, very hot and flustered, I walked over his couch and sat down

" Max, are you all right? What's wrong?"

" I just feel sick, it's hot, don't you feel hot?" I lied down on his couch. He came up to me and put his hand to my forehead.

" Max, you are burning up, what happened?"

" I don't know, I was just speaking to you and then I just felt hot" My neck started to itch, my body felt weird.

" OK, Max I am going to try to find Zach, are you going to be OK?, I will be back in a second"

After that, I am not sure what happened. I must have fallen asleep, or something, but when woke up, both Zach and Logan were standing above me, both with worried looks on their faces.

" Max, are you OK, do you still feel hot?, your temperature has gone down."

"Logan, I am feeling much better, what happened?"

" I went to call Zach and when I came back you wouldn't wake up, that was an hour ago"

" That was weird, my whole body just felt so hot, and my neck was just itching and then I must have passed out or something. Is this one of the effects Zach? Is that what's happening to me,?"

" Maybe, turn around"

"What?"

" Just do it" so I turned around, Zach lifted my hair from my neck, and touched my neck.

" Well,? What? Will someone PLEASE tell me what is going on."

" Max, you have a bar code on your neck"

" What?"

" Don't worry, I have one too, it is one of the first signs that the effects are starting to take over, see" He showed me the back of his neck, where he had a barcode.

" But how?, it looks just like a tattoo. And why?"

" It is like our names, that's how they identify us, by our bar code numbers, and unfortunately it may look like a tattoo, but it isn't that easily removable. I tried once, when I first escaped, so that is would be harder to track me down , but it just felt like acid burning the back of my neck, and then after a few days it reappeared, it is in the DNA."

" So I will have this for the rest of my life. Great! Please don't tell me there is more to come."

" Don't worry, the barcode is probably the only visible feature of you being genetically engineered."

" Why didn't you tell me? When I asked you what sort of effects my body will go through, why the hell did you not tell me I will have a permanent tattoo for the rest of my life" Zach turned to me and smiled, I was not in the mood for jokes, and I think he realized it

" Sorry, Max but I wasn't too sure if the same things that happened to me would happen to you, and besides I thought you should find out when the time came, it would have stopped you from worrying when you didn't have to. And you were worrying that the effects were not going to happen to you, and you kept on wondering why nothing has happened to you yet, so I thought I'd give you sometime to think about it, and let it happen when your body was ready for it." What the fuck was he going on about?. The whole 'let your body come to terms with it' bullshit. I did not understand him, I would have felt much better if he just came out with the truth instead of waiting for me to find out about it. I think Logan felt the same way as I did.

" For God sake, Zach you could have at least warned me about it, when she got a tempreture like that and then fainted, I thought something happened to her." Oh pissed of, would have not even started to describe the tone in Logan's voice.

" I got to go, Max, don't worry about the barcode, you might feel your body tingle abit in the next couple of days, but the feeling will go away soon." With that he was out the door.

" I hate when he does that"

" Me too. So you sure your feeling all right?. Do you want me to get you anything, water?, something to eat?, drink? Anything?." I smiled at him and laughed to myself. He was so worried. But now that he had mentioned food, I was starving.

" Something to eat, maybe" .

A/N: THANK U MARGRET FOR THE REVIEW AND DON'T WORRY, I KNOW ZACK DID A DECENT THING AT THE END OF THE SEASON FOR MAX, AND I WON'T FORGET IT WHEN WRITING MY STORY.