TITLE: Coming Decisions – Chapter 27

WRITTEN BY: Heather Ferguson (fergus80)

EMAIL: hmfergie@charter.net

WEBSITE:  webpages. charter. net/ fergus80 (Jensen)

RATING: PG-13 (NC-17 where applicable will be separate)

SUMMARY: Set after Freak Nation. A miss understanding turns into some truth telling and decision making for our transgenic pair.

SPOILERS: Everything!

DISCLAIMER: All Dark Angel characters belong to James Cameron, FOX, etc. etc. etc.

FEEDBACK: Always makes me smile! :)

DEDICATION: To all the Nuns at the Church of Jensen, the Blue Lady, and of course Jensen!

RANT: Okay… I did the stupid thing and watched Freak Nation with the commentary. Can I actually say I'm HAPPY that DA was canceled? Seriously what Cameron and/or what the writers wanted to do…. UGH! So, with that annoyance in my head, I just had to correct a few things, or I couldn't live with myself, whatever this will be (obviously, writing this, before I write my fic) is the result of this huge annoyance. SO… let's see how it goes. ;)

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"We can't let that happen!"

He reached out, took her hands from his knees, and held onto them. "If we don't… the rest of the world will die."

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"Well?"

Dix looked like he didn't want to say anything.

"Come on, give us the bad news." Alec said as his arms went out indicating the others sitting around his office.

"Well it's a cure to the virus we put out."

"So it's not something worse to kill everyone?" Max asked leaning on the edge of his desk.

"No."

Alec nodded, "I doubt we could hope that it would actually cure the other virus as well."

"No, it won't." Dix sighed, "It will basically stop people from getting sick from our virus. Thus not producing the antibodies, and thus…"

She closed her eyes and finished it for him, "Thus leaving everyone susceptible to the virus that will kill them."

The little transgenic nodded.

Alec rubbed his forehead trying to think for a second. "Is there any way that we can make the cure not work?" If they could, then they might be able to make it look like the government had just messed up.

Max's head shot up at the idea, a slight shred of hope.

"Well… technically…. Yes."

"Technically?" she questioned.

Dix swallowed, "It wouldn't work because it would be lethal."

Her head dropped. That certainly wouldn't work.

Alec closed his eyes and then asked the question he dreaded, "But fire or any type of explosion would destroy it, right?"

The little man nodded, "It's actually very easy to destroy, just not change."

Alec then looked over to Luke, "Do you have the locations of all the shipments, warehouses, and facilities?"

"Yeah."

Mole piped in, "We have troops ready at all locations, just waiting orders."

"How long do we have before they start giving it out?"

Luke looked around nervously, "They already are in some locations."

"How many?" Max asked not wanting to hear the number of the people who had already sealed their own fates.

Luke swallowed, "Estimates so far are a few thousand have already received the 'cure'."

Her shaking hand went to her mouth, she felt ill at the thought.

He knew what he had to do. He knew what he had to order. He just wished he had more time to arrange everything else that needed to be done too. He looked at Mole. "Tell our boys to take it out. Take it all out. I don't care how."

Max's eyes widened and she turned to look at him, "Alec…"

He shook his head and his eyes looked back into hers, "We don't have the time to make this look any different. It needs to be done and done now." He looked back over to Mole, "Now."

The transgenic nodded and hurried out of the office. Alec waved to the other two as well, and then left to go help Mole get the word out. Once the door was shut, she was on her feet, her hands leaning on the desk in front of her. "Less than an hour after we attack those buildings the Military is going to be coming in here or worse."

"I know," he responded not looking at her.

"Every person in the world is going to think that we are trying to get them sick."

He stood up, "WE ARE!"

"Yes, but to save them!"

He shook his head moving to the main part of the room, "They don't know that."

"Well maybe they should!"

Alec laughed, "Oh and exactly how should we do that in an hour?"

She shook her head, trying to think of something. Anything. "A television broadcast. We'll tell them what's going to happen."

He shook his head, laughing again, "You really think they will believe us?"

"It can't hurt to try!"

"Yes it can."

"How?"

"We do a broadcast… It will just prove that we are responsible, no room for questioning. And then they will be expecting us."

"But if we do it at the same time…"

He shook his head, "It will give us less time."

"How could it give us less time to destroy…"

He cut her off, "Not to destroy the 'cure'."

"Then less time for what?"

"Less time to leave."

Her eyes widened. "What?"

"Max as I see it, we have less than two hours to get everyone out of Terminal City."

Her eyes widened even more as she watched him walk out of the office calling for Dix to find Joshua.

She couldn't believe what her ears had heard, "Leave?" He couldn't be serious. She shook her head and marched out of his office and came up beside him, "You can't be serious."

He turned around to her, "I'm very serious." He then looked at Luke, "Get each of the section leaders to gather their groups. Tell them plan Beta Charlie is going down in a half hour."

Luke nodded and started dialing, just as Joshua walked into the room.

Max shook her head, and grabbed his arm, "This is our home."

Alec sighed, "And this home of ours is either going to get invaded or bombed in less than a few hours."

"Medium Fella…" He looked around at the commotion that was happening in Headquarters slightly confused. "What's going on? What did you need me for?"

He tried to smile up at the guy, and then put his hand on his shoulder, "Hey buddy, remember that plan we talked about awhile ago? Beta Charlie?"

Joshua nodded remembering that meeting. His eyes grew, as he saw everyone running around doing tasks. "Is the plan happening?"

Alec nodded, "Yeah Josh… afraid so. I need you to round up your group and head to B base." The tall guy nodded enthusiastically, "I'm counting on you Big Guy."

Joshua patted him hard on the back, "Won't let you down." He then hugged Max, "I'll see ya latter Little Fella."

She shook her head as she watched her friend hurry out the door, "We can't do this."

He spun back to her, "Then what are we supposed to do? Huh Max? Do you have a better plan?" She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. "Because trying to talk to the world that is going to hate us more in a matter of minutes than they already do is not an option that I'm willing to bet on."

"We're running."

"We're falling back to a safer location to regroup." He heard the door open and saw Mole walk in. The man gave him a nod indicating the word had been sent. It was only a matter of minutes now. Alec's head tilted to his office, Mole nodded and walked inside.

She wanted to scream. He was barely even listening to her. They couldn't run away. They just couldn't. They had to make the world see that… that they were trying to help them. Or they would never be at peace. She had to get him to stop this craziness. "Alec… please… there has to be some other way…"

He turned back to her, his hands settling on her shoulders. "Max…" he let out a breath, "If you can come up with something better… something were we all don't end up dead… I'll be glad to change the plans. But I just can't take a bet that the world will listen to us." He leaned in, kissed her forehead. "I'll be back." And with that he walked into his office to talk to Mole and shut the door behind him.

She just stood their looking at the closed door while the rest of the room was a bustle of activity. To anyone else it would look like everyone was running around with their heads cut off. But in fact it was all planned out. Planned out and being executed with precision down to the smallest detail.

The worst thing was… she knew all the details. She knew what they were. She knew everyone's roll in what was to come. What had been planned. What she had never thought to question or change because she never dreamed it would actually happen. But now that it was happening… She swallowed and closed her eyes. She just had to change his mind, she just had to. *Because there is no way in hell I'm going to live without him now,* she thought as she walked back to his door and opened it.

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Mole looked at the man sitting on the edge of his own desk. He looked like the weight of the world was resting on his shoulders. And he actually felt sorry for him, because in truth, it was. He shook his head, "You serious about this?"

Alec nodded.

"I can't say that I won't get some pleasure from…"

He got an evil look.

Mole coughed, "Right. But why me?"

"Because I know you'll do it. You'll follow orders, get it done, no matter what."

He couldn't argue with the man, and was about to say as much when the door opened and the woman barged her way in. "The plan HAS to change."

Alec lowered his head, he knew this was going to be problem, he just looked at Mole and the man walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him.

"Max…" he started as he stood up.

She didn't let him finish. "I remember the plan. I remember all of it. There is no way in hell…"

He waved his hands, "You had no complaints when we all went over it before."

Her eyes widened as she walked over to him. "I never dreamed we would actually use it!"

"Max… you never make plans if you don't intend to use them."

"But… That was before!"

"Before what?" he asked confused.

Her lower lip quivered, her hands rested on his chest, "Before…"

He looked down into her dark, worried eyes. His hands held onto her wrists at his chest, and he leaned his forehead against hers. He took a deep breath, "It has to be done this way."

"I won't go."

He closed his eyes, "You have too."

She shook her head against his, "I won't leave you here."

He swallowed. "Max… you have to go to base A." His hands ran up and down her arms, "I need you there."

"Mole is going, he can…"

He shook his head, "I need someone there I can trust…"

Her eyes widen, "You trust Mole with your life…"

Alec nodded, "Yes I do. I trust Mole with my life. I trust him with the most important thing in my life."

"Then he can run base A…"

He shook his head again, "Max I need someone there that I can trust to do the right thing. I need someone there that care's about the rest of the world and not just the transgenics. Someone who's not just a soldier." Her eyes closed, "I need you there."

"Then come with us." Her dark eyes looked up into his, begging him.

"You know I can't."

"Why?" she demanded.

"Someone has to stay here. Make sure everything gets done."

"Have Mole…"

He shook his head, his arms wrapping around her, hugging her tightly. "The same reason I want you at the other base. The same reason I have Joshua at the backup base. Is the same reason I need to be here."

"But…"

He cut her off with a deep kiss, a hand to the side of her face, and then pulled away as he walked to the door, "I'm sorry that I have to do this Max…"

She followed him out into the other room, and saw him nod at Mole. "But why?" she asked believing he was talking about something completely different.

He turned around, a pained look on his face, "Because I love you."

Her eyes widened from his words and also the sharp pain in her neck. Her head spun around to find Mole behind her with a syringe in his hand. The man caught her before she fell to the floor and hoisted her up and over his shoulder. He walked over to Alec, and patted him on the back with his free hand. "I've got her. You just better keep your ass safe cause I don't want to deal with her for too long by myself."

Alec nodded and then watched the other man carry her out of headquarters, his eyes closing and head lowering. "I'll try."

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