Chapter 2
Max, Alec, and Lisa closely behind them all arrived at Log ans apartment building in about ten minutes. As Lisa parked her newly acquired motorcycle, she got off and looked at the building in front of her. "Holy shit, the people who live here must be loaded!" Lisa exclaimed as she gazed at the building. "ya, most of them are" Max said in a quiet voice. "So we gonna go up now, or are we gonna lounge around the parking lot forever?" Alec said in a bored tone. "Fine lets go, besides were gonna be late for work if we don't hurry up." Max said as they headed for the door. "Hey, didn't Normal say that he was hiring?" Alec asked with a hint of anticipation and excitement in his voice. "ya I think so, why?" "Because I could get him to hire Lisa." "Ummm.. you guys don't have to do that for me, you've already done more then enough." Lisa said this while noticing that Alec was still looking excitedly at her.
Maybe he likes me, she thought to herself. God I hope he does, hes so hot, with those gorgeous blue eyes, and his unruly blond hair that goes just down to his ears. Hes also got a sweet ass. Lisas thoughts were basically the same the entire walk up the stairs to Log ans apartment. "Ok, were here." Max said as she opened the door, and beaconed Lisa to come in with her and Alec. "Logan, were back, and we got her with no trouble." Max shouts as she heads for the computer/living room. " O hey, that's good, Iv got the program running to make her an ID, so any time your ready for it. Itll only take a couple of minutes." He states without ever looking away from his computer screen. "ya sure, were ready, what do you need?" Max asks as she joins Logan at the computer. "well, her name, a new name if she so wishes, and a picture." "That's it?" Max asks looking at him in shock. "ya, that's it." As Logan finishes speaking Lisa joins in the room, well more like is dragged in the room by Alec "Ok, ummm... Hi?" Lisa said shyly, as she blushed and stared at her feet. "My name is Lisa." "Hi nice to meet you." Logan said with a smile, and an outstretched hand. Lisa reluctantly took the hand, but then went back to looking at the floor. "If you could look here please, I will take your picture, and you will have your ID" Logan said while fixing the angle in which the web-cam was facing. "O, ya no problem.. I don't have to smile do I" She said jokingly. "Nah, just look straight at it." The picture was taken, and turned into an ID. Once Logan brought Lisa the ID a few moments later, she looked at it and was surprised at how authentic looking it was. "Hey Lisa would you like something to drink?" Logan offered. "ya that would be great" she said in return. "There are some sodas on the table in the kitchen, help yourself." Logan pointed her to the kitchen, and began to type on the computer again. As Lisa was in the kitchen Max, and Alec took seats on ether side of Logan at the computer. "Was she that shy when you went up to talk to her in sector 4 Max?" Logan asked looking concerned. "No she wasn't, I could tell that she was shy when I went up to her, but she wasn't like that" Max said "ya i noticed, I wonder why she was like that with Logan?" Alec said looking at Logan and Max. "Its because I remember both Max and Alec from Manticore, but Iv never met you before" Logan, Max, and Alec all jumped as they noticed that Lisa had returned from the kitchen with her soda. "O, well that makes sense. That's right you where on my unit, that is until we left." Max said while remembering her days back at Manicure. It took a moment for her to place Lisa in her memory, but she found her. She remembered the little girl with the designation 495, and the nic-name Lisa. The girl back then looked nothing like what she looks like now, she used to have short but wavy light brownish red hair, and the nicest green eyes she had ever seen. Her eyes were the only thing that looked the same, her hair was now long, it was down to her elbows, black, and straight. Her eyes looked the same, at first glance, but as Max took a second glance, she saw the sadness and uncertainty that laid behind them. "Why are you so self conscious and unsure of yourself?, I remembered you to be outspoken and proud, what happened?" Max asked in concern to her newly found sibling from her dark past at manticore.
"Once you all escaped and left us behind, I was moved to a new unit, they though that the ones in your unit may have been corrupted, so they separated us. I got put into the second unit, but was soon moved up to the elite, when they did there strength testing. That's were I met Alec, well her was known as 494 back then." She finished her sentence and took a look at Alec, who was also staring back at her in concern. Once she looked away from Alec she continued with her dark tale of the past. "Once I got into the elite, I thought that I would be safe from what might happen to the rest of my unit, but I was wrong. The elite was harder physical and mentally. That didn't bother me though, because I was so busy with training that I didn't have time to really absorb what they told us about the outside world, and your 12 escapees being traders, I knew it wasn't true, I knew you guys just wanted to be truly alive, so you did it. You left and became alive." She stopped for a dramatic pause, and a chance to get a breath or two before continuing. "So I was in the elite working hard, and trying to live what most of the kids in manticore would call a normal life. I was getting pretty good at following orders, and living the way I was told to, but i could never get used to the darkness in the barracks, after lights out. I couldn't just lay there like I was supposed to, so I would go for walks." Lisa looked up at everyone who seemed to be listening intently. She looked around then to the ground instead of the wall opposite her, which she had been looking at while telling her story. She looked at the floor then edged herself to continue. "One night when I was walking down the hall, I was thinking deeply, and wasn't being careful. I had figured that everyone would be in bed or asleep at least. So when I heard them coming I froze, I didn't know what to do. So i did noting I just stood there, hoping that I wouldn't be noticed. But I was, and I wish I could have stopped them, but there were just too many. I stood there as five or six of Lydeckers men were doing there rounds. This was when I was around the age of 15 or 16 Im guessing, and I didn't know what to do. They saw me, so there was no use in trying to hide, so I ran. I ran as fast as I could, but I got lost, and ran into a corridor with a dead end, I tried to open the doors that were surrounding this corridor, but they were locked. Every last one of them was locked. They finally caught up to me, and they knocked me to the ground. Then once I got up, two of them grabbed my arms, so I kicked them and they backed off. Then another three attacked me and held me to the wall. The two I had kicked came back and helped them hold me there. I couldn't move, I was trapped, the last one, the captain of the squad, he came at me and I couldn't stop him. He tore my shirt off by the neck, and then started to grad me, and feel me. I didn't know what was happening, I didn't know what he was going to do, so I just fought back, I tried, I tried so hard, but there was nothing I could do. He stopped touching my chest, and went down, he unzipped my pants, and, he, he umm pulled them off me." As Lisa was telling this part of her story a tear ran down her check. Then another, then more uncontrollable tears started to stream down her cheeks. No matter how hard it was to do, she was determined to finish what she had started. When she spoke agian the tears were still falling, but her voice was stoic, and strong. "He pulled my pants off, then unzipped his, and pulled it out. As he did this the other guards just stood there holding me to the wall as I struggled, then they started to laugh. They actually laughed, as he had his way with me. He violated me.. he raped me, and they laughed. When he was finished they stood there staring at me, while I cried and screamed, I screamed the entire time he was doing it to me, but no one came. When he was done they let me go, I fell onto the ground and just lay there, I couldn't get up, I was bleeding, and they looked at me and laughed. They turned to the captain who told them to "finish the job",they then started to kick me. I screamed and screamed. I couldn't stop them. I wanted to die. Then finally a light at the end of the hall came on, and I heard someone yell at them. Then a gun shot, then another, and another. I curled up into a ball and cried, I was so scared, I could hear them falling onto the ground, the one that had ordered the others to kick me, was shot, and he fell right onto me, I could taste his blood in my mouth, in my tears. I cried and cried, I just couldn't stop. Once the shots stopped flying I just stayed as I was, curled in my ball crying, then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up and saw the man that I had always though would be the one person who was evil enough to not care if this had happened or not. It was Lydecker. He took off his jacket and put it around me, He picked me up, and carried me to the infirmary. He got them to check me, make sure I wasn't pregnant and then gave me some new clothes. He then told me I could stay there as long as I wanted, and could start my training agian, only when I though I could handle it. And if that wasn't enough from a man I didn't think would give a damn, he took me aside, and asked me if I had any questions about what had just happened. He told me that it wasn't my fault, and that he knew I had been walking around at night. He never wanted this to happen, and he was sorry I had to go through it. He promised that from now on, he wouldn't put enough guards on duty at the same time that would be able to detain one of us soldiers. So i stayed in the inferior for a week or so, then requested to be put back into my own barracks, and he told me that no one would have to know about this if I didn't want them to. And shortly after that he noticed that I was afraid of anyone I didn't know, or even didn't recognize, and that I was also afraid of boys, so he moved me to a bunk with girls only." By the end of her story Lisa was crying, and shaking with rage. "Oh my god, I had no idea. I remember you now. I remember you had lived in my bunk for about 4 years, and then left, came back for about a week. We didn't know were you had went, then you left and I never saw you agian." Alec said looking at Lisa with a mix of sympathy and worry. Alec then came close to Lisa expecting her to pull away, but when she didn't he gave her a hug, and she just remained in his grip crying. While Alec was hugging Lisa Max looked at Logan in shock and came in to also hug Lisa. "Id give you a hug, but I cant." Logan said looking extremely uncomfortable. "What do you mean by that?" Lisa asked as she lifted her head "Logan has this retro virus thing that wont let Max and Logan touch or else he dies." Alec said as fast as he could get the words out of his mouth. He then went on to wipe the tears off of Lisas gorgeous face, and gave her another hug. "When you left I missed you." Alec said as he put his head on the top of Lisas, who was still shaking, but had quieted her sobs. "I missed you too" Lisa said in a few broken gasps of air. Alec and Max just stay there hugging Lisa until she was calmed down, and stopped crying.
Max, Alec, and Lisa closely behind them all arrived at Log ans apartment building in about ten minutes. As Lisa parked her newly acquired motorcycle, she got off and looked at the building in front of her. "Holy shit, the people who live here must be loaded!" Lisa exclaimed as she gazed at the building. "ya, most of them are" Max said in a quiet voice. "So we gonna go up now, or are we gonna lounge around the parking lot forever?" Alec said in a bored tone. "Fine lets go, besides were gonna be late for work if we don't hurry up." Max said as they headed for the door. "Hey, didn't Normal say that he was hiring?" Alec asked with a hint of anticipation and excitement in his voice. "ya I think so, why?" "Because I could get him to hire Lisa." "Ummm.. you guys don't have to do that for me, you've already done more then enough." Lisa said this while noticing that Alec was still looking excitedly at her.
Maybe he likes me, she thought to herself. God I hope he does, hes so hot, with those gorgeous blue eyes, and his unruly blond hair that goes just down to his ears. Hes also got a sweet ass. Lisas thoughts were basically the same the entire walk up the stairs to Log ans apartment. "Ok, were here." Max said as she opened the door, and beaconed Lisa to come in with her and Alec. "Logan, were back, and we got her with no trouble." Max shouts as she heads for the computer/living room. " O hey, that's good, Iv got the program running to make her an ID, so any time your ready for it. Itll only take a couple of minutes." He states without ever looking away from his computer screen. "ya sure, were ready, what do you need?" Max asks as she joins Logan at the computer. "well, her name, a new name if she so wishes, and a picture." "That's it?" Max asks looking at him in shock. "ya, that's it." As Logan finishes speaking Lisa joins in the room, well more like is dragged in the room by Alec "Ok, ummm... Hi?" Lisa said shyly, as she blushed and stared at her feet. "My name is Lisa." "Hi nice to meet you." Logan said with a smile, and an outstretched hand. Lisa reluctantly took the hand, but then went back to looking at the floor. "If you could look here please, I will take your picture, and you will have your ID" Logan said while fixing the angle in which the web-cam was facing. "O, ya no problem.. I don't have to smile do I" She said jokingly. "Nah, just look straight at it." The picture was taken, and turned into an ID. Once Logan brought Lisa the ID a few moments later, she looked at it and was surprised at how authentic looking it was. "Hey Lisa would you like something to drink?" Logan offered. "ya that would be great" she said in return. "There are some sodas on the table in the kitchen, help yourself." Logan pointed her to the kitchen, and began to type on the computer again. As Lisa was in the kitchen Max, and Alec took seats on ether side of Logan at the computer. "Was she that shy when you went up to talk to her in sector 4 Max?" Logan asked looking concerned. "No she wasn't, I could tell that she was shy when I went up to her, but she wasn't like that" Max said "ya i noticed, I wonder why she was like that with Logan?" Alec said looking at Logan and Max. "Its because I remember both Max and Alec from Manticore, but Iv never met you before" Logan, Max, and Alec all jumped as they noticed that Lisa had returned from the kitchen with her soda. "O, well that makes sense. That's right you where on my unit, that is until we left." Max said while remembering her days back at Manicure. It took a moment for her to place Lisa in her memory, but she found her. She remembered the little girl with the designation 495, and the nic-name Lisa. The girl back then looked nothing like what she looks like now, she used to have short but wavy light brownish red hair, and the nicest green eyes she had ever seen. Her eyes were the only thing that looked the same, her hair was now long, it was down to her elbows, black, and straight. Her eyes looked the same, at first glance, but as Max took a second glance, she saw the sadness and uncertainty that laid behind them. "Why are you so self conscious and unsure of yourself?, I remembered you to be outspoken and proud, what happened?" Max asked in concern to her newly found sibling from her dark past at manticore.
"Once you all escaped and left us behind, I was moved to a new unit, they though that the ones in your unit may have been corrupted, so they separated us. I got put into the second unit, but was soon moved up to the elite, when they did there strength testing. That's were I met Alec, well her was known as 494 back then." She finished her sentence and took a look at Alec, who was also staring back at her in concern. Once she looked away from Alec she continued with her dark tale of the past. "Once I got into the elite, I thought that I would be safe from what might happen to the rest of my unit, but I was wrong. The elite was harder physical and mentally. That didn't bother me though, because I was so busy with training that I didn't have time to really absorb what they told us about the outside world, and your 12 escapees being traders, I knew it wasn't true, I knew you guys just wanted to be truly alive, so you did it. You left and became alive." She stopped for a dramatic pause, and a chance to get a breath or two before continuing. "So I was in the elite working hard, and trying to live what most of the kids in manticore would call a normal life. I was getting pretty good at following orders, and living the way I was told to, but i could never get used to the darkness in the barracks, after lights out. I couldn't just lay there like I was supposed to, so I would go for walks." Lisa looked up at everyone who seemed to be listening intently. She looked around then to the ground instead of the wall opposite her, which she had been looking at while telling her story. She looked at the floor then edged herself to continue. "One night when I was walking down the hall, I was thinking deeply, and wasn't being careful. I had figured that everyone would be in bed or asleep at least. So when I heard them coming I froze, I didn't know what to do. So i did noting I just stood there, hoping that I wouldn't be noticed. But I was, and I wish I could have stopped them, but there were just too many. I stood there as five or six of Lydeckers men were doing there rounds. This was when I was around the age of 15 or 16 Im guessing, and I didn't know what to do. They saw me, so there was no use in trying to hide, so I ran. I ran as fast as I could, but I got lost, and ran into a corridor with a dead end, I tried to open the doors that were surrounding this corridor, but they were locked. Every last one of them was locked. They finally caught up to me, and they knocked me to the ground. Then once I got up, two of them grabbed my arms, so I kicked them and they backed off. Then another three attacked me and held me to the wall. The two I had kicked came back and helped them hold me there. I couldn't move, I was trapped, the last one, the captain of the squad, he came at me and I couldn't stop him. He tore my shirt off by the neck, and then started to grad me, and feel me. I didn't know what was happening, I didn't know what he was going to do, so I just fought back, I tried, I tried so hard, but there was nothing I could do. He stopped touching my chest, and went down, he unzipped my pants, and, he, he umm pulled them off me." As Lisa was telling this part of her story a tear ran down her check. Then another, then more uncontrollable tears started to stream down her cheeks. No matter how hard it was to do, she was determined to finish what she had started. When she spoke agian the tears were still falling, but her voice was stoic, and strong. "He pulled my pants off, then unzipped his, and pulled it out. As he did this the other guards just stood there holding me to the wall as I struggled, then they started to laugh. They actually laughed, as he had his way with me. He violated me.. he raped me, and they laughed. When he was finished they stood there staring at me, while I cried and screamed, I screamed the entire time he was doing it to me, but no one came. When he was done they let me go, I fell onto the ground and just lay there, I couldn't get up, I was bleeding, and they looked at me and laughed. They turned to the captain who told them to "finish the job",they then started to kick me. I screamed and screamed. I couldn't stop them. I wanted to die. Then finally a light at the end of the hall came on, and I heard someone yell at them. Then a gun shot, then another, and another. I curled up into a ball and cried, I was so scared, I could hear them falling onto the ground, the one that had ordered the others to kick me, was shot, and he fell right onto me, I could taste his blood in my mouth, in my tears. I cried and cried, I just couldn't stop. Once the shots stopped flying I just stayed as I was, curled in my ball crying, then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up and saw the man that I had always though would be the one person who was evil enough to not care if this had happened or not. It was Lydecker. He took off his jacket and put it around me, He picked me up, and carried me to the infirmary. He got them to check me, make sure I wasn't pregnant and then gave me some new clothes. He then told me I could stay there as long as I wanted, and could start my training agian, only when I though I could handle it. And if that wasn't enough from a man I didn't think would give a damn, he took me aside, and asked me if I had any questions about what had just happened. He told me that it wasn't my fault, and that he knew I had been walking around at night. He never wanted this to happen, and he was sorry I had to go through it. He promised that from now on, he wouldn't put enough guards on duty at the same time that would be able to detain one of us soldiers. So i stayed in the inferior for a week or so, then requested to be put back into my own barracks, and he told me that no one would have to know about this if I didn't want them to. And shortly after that he noticed that I was afraid of anyone I didn't know, or even didn't recognize, and that I was also afraid of boys, so he moved me to a bunk with girls only." By the end of her story Lisa was crying, and shaking with rage. "Oh my god, I had no idea. I remember you now. I remember you had lived in my bunk for about 4 years, and then left, came back for about a week. We didn't know were you had went, then you left and I never saw you agian." Alec said looking at Lisa with a mix of sympathy and worry. Alec then came close to Lisa expecting her to pull away, but when she didn't he gave her a hug, and she just remained in his grip crying. While Alec was hugging Lisa Max looked at Logan in shock and came in to also hug Lisa. "Id give you a hug, but I cant." Logan said looking extremely uncomfortable. "What do you mean by that?" Lisa asked as she lifted her head "Logan has this retro virus thing that wont let Max and Logan touch or else he dies." Alec said as fast as he could get the words out of his mouth. He then went on to wipe the tears off of Lisas gorgeous face, and gave her another hug. "When you left I missed you." Alec said as he put his head on the top of Lisas, who was still shaking, but had quieted her sobs. "I missed you too" Lisa said in a few broken gasps of air. Alec and Max just stay there hugging Lisa until she was calmed down, and stopped crying.