A/N- Ok it might be a few days before Moving Alongside is up, I have a few issues with it to deal with but soon…and it's a two parter too!
Oh, hey Nora-- tissue warning!!!! Just thought you'd want to know J
No time for Goodbye. (News footage is taken from Before the Dawn by Max Allan Collins, as is the demise of you know who... no not Voldemort- wrong universe!)
They sat in the huge lecture hall with Max and Alec standing in front waiting to deliver their report to Renfro. Out of fifteen members of special ops and fifteen of Unit 8, only a few were missing, mostly those who had been injured like Zan and Mets, Carrot and Tara…who was currently kicking Carrots ass no doubt. The others were there. Alec had to go and have his shoulder checked out later but for now he was fine.
Everything had gone according to the plan and they were looking forward to some down time after this.
Renfro walked in, a totally pissed off look on her face and she strode over to them, her heels clicking on the tiles.
"Report," She ordered Alec saluted.
"Mission successful Ma'am. Retrieval of data and all members of Unit 6, no casualties although several were wounded in an attack."
He did well to keep the smirk out of his face.
"Very good," Renfro tapped her fingers on the desk and Max shot Alec a quick perplexed look.
They had got the data, no casualties and were all back- what was Renfro so pissed about?
The door swung open again and strong strides crossed the room.
Max let her gaze drift to see the newcomer and then, as if in response, her back snapped straighter and her eyes pointed forward, her stance took the appearance of ramrod soldier-to-attention faster than anyone could believe.
Alec gaped as Max transformed in front of him. Then as the intruder came into view, Sunny and Pix followed suit, jerking to their feet and standing to attention. The rest of the unit watched bemused but it was as if Sunny and Pix couldn't even see them.
Lydecker walked behind Renfro and nodded to the three familiar soldiers.
"Kids. At ease."
Sunny, Pix and Max relaxed their stance –slightly- and Renfro scowled more at their abject obedience.
"Soldiers, this is Colonel Lydecker from the Wyoming facility and of the Manticore project." She ground her teeth together "He was interested in hearing your report."
So this was Lydecker, Alec thought. The man was so non-descript with his dark blonde hair and it was only his hard blue eyes that hinted at the harshness behind the weary face and fading physique. He couldn't see why Max was so afraid or even respectful of him.
"452?" Lydecker nodded to her and gave a small smile.
"We achieved our mission aim Sir! Retrieval was a success with only five casualties due to unfriendly fire. No fatalities and Unit 6, the hostages were released back to base at 1200 hours Sir!" she snapped out to everyone's astonishment. Max wasn't exactly known for her love of the brass and her reports always seemed to border on insolence, however this man had her standing smarter to attention and delivering reports like the top soldier she was.
If it wasn't so damn scary Alec would be amused. Lydecker's voice exuded authority that wasn't immediately apparent and Alec could suddenly see what it was that made them fear him. A coldness in his eyes and set to his jaw that promised obedience or punishment.
Max had no doubt heard enough of that voice to grow afraid of it and Alec never thought he would see the day when Max was afraid of anything. His eyes narrowed as he wondered if Lydecker had sanctioned what had happened to Max back in Wyoming.
"Well done units, now I'm sure that you have things that you would rather be getting on with. Dismissed."
His tone of voice pushed home that he expected to be obeyed and Alec found his body responding to that s he saluted and turned to go.
The rest of the unit also saluted and turned abruptly to leave
"Not you 452."
Alec's head shot around to stare at Max who had frozen. Her panicked eyes met his and all Alec wanted was to take her in his arms and make everything better for her. He could tell that this Lydecker still unnerved her and that the last thing she wanted was to be alone with him. But he couldn't say anything; instead he gave her a reassuring smile before walking slowly away to wait outside for her.
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Renfro waited by the desk, her annoyed eyes on Lydecker. Despite the fact that he had lost a bunch of kids in 09 he was still the top dog overall at Manticore, a position that she had wanted and even though he hadn't managed to catch any of them he had been close on a number of occasions and had highlighted to the brass that it actually showed the success of the Manticore project, that if a bunch of kids with only minimal training could still outwit them what could they do with those who had full training? Funding was given back to Manticore and Lydecker was made the new pet, able to carry out his own agenda of finding the damn 09ers while Renfro got to run Seattle, under his supervision of course. She hated him for that, she had been so damn close to that promotion. Then she would have been the scariest thing on the block.
"Sit down, 452," She said tiredly but the transgenic had been taught well by Lydecker and didn't move until he gestured that it was all right. Despite herself Renfro was impressed, her own soldiers didn't have this fear and respect for her that 452, and the other two soldiers who had stood and saluted, seemed to have for Lydecker.
"I'm afraid I have some sad news for you, 452."
"Sir?" Max was scared that they had found about her lies of going into heat and were going to ship her back to Wyoming.
"Before you left on your mission there was a transmission from ordinary sources that gave us some hope. However the situation was such that we regretfully didn't have all of the information."
Max frowned. What was he talking about?
"We had been chasing a fugitive and we would have cornered him on the Space Needle in Seattle. However, he was there at the behest of a cyber terrorist called Eyes Only, against insurmountable odds, Koreans, Black marketers, drug barons and we were unable to save him."
Max's throat went dry. She didn't understand.
"We have police surveillance of the fugitive, perhaps you should see it."
He turned and pressed play on the video recorder and a grainy image sprang up of a news reports.
Police in Seattle are stepping up their efforts in the search for the dissident cyber journalist known as "Eyes Only". Well known for breaking into broadcasts with his pirate news bulletins, Eyes Only is wanted by police on local, state and national levels. This amateur video shot in Seattle shows a suspected Eyes Only accomplice, doing battle with officers. The police are searching for this young man as well.
Max watched as a brown-haired young man in jeans and a denim jacket sprang to life and proceeded to kick the life out of several police officers. There was something about him and the way that he moved that made her pause, her heart stopping.
She leaned closer trying to make out his image in the grainy video feed.
Her breath caught "Seth."
Lydecker nodded "I thought so too, I needed to verify that it was him."
"Was?" she replied faintly, her eyes stuck on the image of her brother fighting fluidly
"There was a fire fight on the rooftop of the Space Needle. I'm afraid he didn't make it."
Max dimly recalled sitting with Alec, the night before she went on the mission staring at flickering lights on the Space Needle. That had been Seth fighting for his life.
"I'm sorry for your loss," Lydecker said, his gravely voice knocking her out of her musing.
"Yes, sir," She whispered her heart pounding. She managed to walk to the door.
"Max?" Lydecker said and she half turned "I'm sorry." She could see his eyes shine and knew that he was sorry. He may have been a harsh sadistic son of a bitch but he had cared for them, in his own way.
She opened the door and staggered through.
~~
Alec was leaning against the wall talking with Steve and Biggs when Max walked ashen faced through the door.
"Max?" he cut Steve off halfway through a sentence and was at her side in an instant. "What is it?"
She blinked up at him, not really seeing him at all.
"Max?" he touched her face trying to get her attention on him. "Hey you in there?"
"He's dead," She whispered "I didn't even get to say goodbye."
"Who?" he asked before it dawned on him that the only ones it could be were the 09ers.
Biggs came up behind her and touched her back "Let's go to the Rec room, not in the hallway."
Max let Biggs and Alec lead her to the Rec room where Units 8 and Special ops were waiting for her to get back.
They stood up immediately as she entered and their expressions turned from jubilation at the completed mission to worry as they registered her face.
"Max, honey what is it?" Skye- Steve's twin asked.
"Seth, my brother. He was," tears sprang to her face and immediately she was surrounded by the females who hugged her to themselves. The Transgenic men who were just like any man in the face of a woman's tears stepped back to allow it.
Sunny soothed her back and Coco let her head fall into her shoulder. They pulled Max into the huge couch and crawled all over her, offering their warmth and scents to comfort her. The males followed curling at her feet or draping over the females touching Max to let her know that they were there for her.
Alec moved Emma away and curled up at Max's back wrapping his physically powerful arms around her and nuzzling into her hair and she fell asleep with her family surrounding her.
Alec gripped her tightly. Her expression when she had walked out of that room had almost broken his heart. She was hurting so very badly and there was nothing that he could do to stop it. Whilst he had been beating Bulli and berating his own unit for their callous behaviour he didn't have to think of his own feelings and how their intensity had begun to frighten him. He would truly have killed Bulli for Max. he'd gone into a fight with another transgenic without wondering if he would win or not, he'd just wanted to hurt Bulli as much as he had hurt Max and Alec had given no thought to punishment or pain. It was a shock to realise that at that point he would have been willing to die- for Max.
His heart jumped at that and he curled his arms tighter around Max's small body and she rolled onto her side enabling him to look down into her face. Tears streaked her delicate cheeks and her face, even in sleep, was troubled. He leaned forward and planted a soft kiss on her forehead and then rubbed his cheeks over her cheeks and her hair, finally placing baby kisses on her eyelids and nose. He wouldn't kiss her mouth, not until she was awake and willing, but this was enough for now. He had meant what he said in the jungle; Max was his. Her pain was his, her tears were his. She might not know it now but Alec knew, he'd known for the longest time and it was just this that had brought it to his attention. He loved her so much that he would kill, he would die for her. To keep her happy, to keep her safe he'd move heaven and earth. And no one had better get in the way.
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When she awoke she was surprised to see that in her misery she hadn't even registered that she was under a pile of bodies, wrapped firmly in strong arms.
She half wanted to disentangle herself and get the space that she needed but the other part of her, the one that needed human contact, urged her to stay put.
Instinct warred with habit and she was about to give in when another urge struck her and she finally tried to wrest herself free, which was easier said than done, she was effectively pinned. As she tried to wriggle free the arms around her waist tightened.
"Sleep, Max," Alec's gruff voice murmured sleepily. "You're safe here."
"I have to get up," She whispered. "I need to pee."
Alec's eye shot open and he chuckled, moving away and letting her loose.
She scrambled to her feet and quietly left and the bodies snuggled into the empty space but the rest weren't as comfortable as it had been when they were all there. Alec stood and looked back. He was thoughtful.
That was the third time in the last few weeks that his unit had shown unusual traits that could be traced to their animal DNA, there was the instinctual way they all responded to the threat of Unit 6 and all rallied to protect their own, his own territoriality when it came to anyone touching Max and then the fighting with Bulli and the feline way they cornered and prowled them and then the way they circled their prey like hawks. Then last night there was the pack-like behaviour of crawling over Max to comfort her. He wasn't sure whether it was normal of transgenics or not but it was confusing as well as comforting. He shook his head and went to find Max.
As he had guessed, she had gone to the roof to think.
"You have to be cold up here?" he asked pulling his thin jacket closer to him.
"No," she said quietly "It's bracing."
"Bracing?" he repeated incredulously. "Freezing." He muttered and came closer to her.
"I want my own headspace, Alec," She said.
"Tough," He responded "I want to be here for you."
"I'll be okay," She insisted wanting to be alone right now.
"Yeah, whatever."
"I will."
"Like you were okay with Unit 6? I'm always all right," He mimicked "I'm not falling for that Max, you may not want me here but you need me and I'm staying," He said forcefully and sat next to her letting her know that he was serious.
"And I'm not falling asleep this time," He added defiantly and she grinned.
"I miss them," she said after a while of sitting in silence and he breathed a sigh of relief because it was killing him to keep quiet and he didn't think he could manage to for much longer.
"All of them?" he had often wondered about her first family but never had the courage to ask her about them.
"All of them," she confirmed. "Zack and Ben mostly, but all of them. I wanted so badly to see them again but I guess that isn't going to happen, at least with Seth."
"Tell me about Seth."
She shrugged "Not much to say. My brother."
It was plain that she wanted to but still didn't quite trust him enough to let him in on that special time. He felt hurt and left out but could understand; after everything that his unit had done to her and, to be honest, he had kept things from her too.
"I don't know what to say, Max," he confessed.
"Don't need to say anything, Alec. You can't know how I feel and any platitudes would be hollow."
They stared out at the Space needle and Max tensed as she looked at the strong structure where her brother had died. She had watched his last minutes of life and hadn't even known that he was there struggling for his existence. The guilt and longing were killing her.
Alec saw the emotion on her face and sighed, if there was one thing he could identify with it was the guilt. He would tear out his own heart to stop that look from being on her face…which was what he was about to do.
"I didn't want to leave and go on the mission," Alec said quietly and Max frowned, wondering what he was talking about.
"Me and you had just learned to play the piano together and I enjoyed that, wanted to spend more time doing that than go to spy on some old guy."
Max let her gaze fall on his profile as he watched the night ahead of him, his voice low. So he was finally going to tell her about the mission that had him sent to Psy-Ops. Why now? She wondered unless it was to get her mind off Seth. It was a very Alec thing to do.
"But I went anyway, like a good soldier. The target was a man called Robert Berrisford and I was to tutor his daughter in piano. Her name was Rachel."
Max recognised the name from the times he had been taken to Psy-Ops screaming, even though he didn't know that she had been there outside trying to give him strength from her presence. Also he screamed her name sometimes in his sleep, almost everyone of his unit knew her name by now, even if they weren't aware of the significance of it.
"She was," he hesitated "So sweet and innocent. Different from anyone I have ever met. Her whole life was just so easy, even though her mother died at a young age. She thought that having no parents was actually hard on me. Rachel was light, soft and beautiful."
Max felt a pang of jealousy at the way he spoke about the girl. Then pushed it away and tried to concentrate on Alec.
"I was supposed to use the position to get close to Berrisford and find out if he had sold out Manticore. If he was I had to remove him."
Max nodded- it was standard procedure.
"Well Rachel got a crush on me and Sandoval wanted me to use that to get closer to Berrisford. At first I did what I was told but there was something about her. She tried to kiss me."
Max kept her eyes on him even though something hurt her inside at the thought of Alec and this girl.
"I told her I didn't feel that way about her and she backed off. I told her I was in lo… dating someone else and we became friends. Actual friends and her father he wasn't a bad man Max. He was going to do the right thing. Because of his love for his daughter, because he wanted to make her proud, he was going to put his life on the line and make things right,"
He chuckled dryly "He actually told me that he envied me because I had no responsibilities. I wish. But the way I felt for Rachel was how Biggs feels for Chance and Steve does for Skye, she was my little sister, a friend and confidant and I could trust her… loved her."
Max felt her tight chest ease some as he clarified his feelings for the sweet girl who held his attention. She pushed the feeling aside to deal with later, she didn't have room for it right now.
He took a deep breath, "Then Manticore ordered me to kill her."
Max couldn't tear her eyes away as one solitary tear drifted down his cheeks.
"I had to kill an innocent girl who had done nothing wrong in her life except love, just because her father was being noble. I was going to kill her because it was my job. My damn job Max!" he exploded.
"I set the bomb but couldn't do it, I kept remembering how she had looked at me, with such trust and love and I couldn't do it. I ran to tell her to leave but she slapped me and oh god the look on her face. Hate, disgust and then she was gone. Manticore blew the car. She died."
Max let her hand touch his arm offering him consolation.
"Because of me, she died. My own sister." His lower lip trembled and his head fell, tears dropping down his face in torrents "God, Max!"
She reared to her knees and wrapped her arms around him letting him cry on her shoulder. His sobs, wrenched from his very core where the guilt and sorrow and pain had lain dormant for so long, unable and unwilling to be expressed, were so loud and echoed in the still night and Max felt something inside herself answer.
"I'm sorry Alec, I didn't know."
They stayed that way for a while just offering and taking comfort.
"Seth was my older brother, he loved to antagonize Zack, and his favourite way of doing that was to side with Ben or take me away somewhere and talk to me until Zack had to search for us. They loved each other but enjoyed to fight. He had dark sandy hair and smelled like those leaves in summer. Fresh and earthy. One time he had been chewed out by Zack for letting his guard drop in training so that Ash kicked him in the chest. He was so mad that in the middle of the day he grabbed me and we ran to the tallest tower in Wyoming and scaled the walls to end up in a deserted building. I think it had something to do with genetic research because the Manticore symbol was on everything and there was a white cane with the Manticore figure on the top in one corner and we stayed there until lights out, just talking and laughing until Zack finally found us and boy was he pissed. He grabbed Seth by the collar and they went at it there in the dust. I think they both broke the others nose and a few ribs before I could get them to stop," She laughed "Seth knew what he was doing because by the time they had finished they were both laughing and the best of friends again."
Alec stroked her hair as she recounted her memories of Seth.
"Rachel smelled like strawberries."
"Seth liked to run fast."
"She played funny tunes on the piano."
"He hated beetroot."
"She needed to watch her dynamics."
"He made me laugh."
"Yeah."
They shared a smile then Alec's faded.
"At least you didn't kill Seth."
"I didn't and neither did you. Rachel was killed by Manticore, not you. Ok so you planted the bomb but it was orders."
"Makes you wonder if we're on the right side doesn't it?" he offered and Max caught her breath--- that was considered treason.
But Alec didn't care.
"It felt wrong Max. Simon Lehane and Rachel were innocents, I thought Soldiers were supposed to protect the innocent and not kill them because they are in the way. It felt wrong here," He touched his heart and Max let her shaky hand follow stroking his hand. He turned it over until their fingers twined against his chest feeling his heart beat under their fingertips.
"Wrong?"
"Not mission wrong but," he tried to explain it "Instinct wrong."
"Like the pack thing," Max said showing that she understood what he was saying "Unit 8 pack, Unit 3 wrong."
He nodded and she unconsciously rubbed his heart.
There was nothing wrong with Unit 3 but they weren't one of them. They were of a different pack- the wrong pack. It was indescribable.
"Do we have it wrong Max?" he sought her reassurance. Reassurance that she wasn't sure she could give, wasn't sure that she had ever been able to give.
"Manticore is all we've ever known Alec, they say what we do is okay but sometimes I wonder too. I have since our first search and destroy mission in Wyoming. We killed the prisoner rather than capture and Lydecker looked horrified. Why would he be horrified if it was the right thing to do?"
Alec agreed.
"So what do we do?"
"What can we do? I don't know if it's wrong. Our instincts feel right so maybe they are what are important?"
Alec considered her words and slowly nodded at her. "Yeah." he swiped at the drying tears on his face.
"Still there's one thing that I know," Her eyes narrowed "All my instincts are telling me to kill Eyes Only."
"Who?" Alec wanted to know who this guy that had put such a fierce look on Max's face was.
"He sent Seth to his death and I want him dead."
Max rose to her feet and offered her hand. Alec took it and got to his feet
"Do we know who he is?"
She shook her head, "Lydecker just said that he was a cyber journalist."
"Well can't they trace his hacks?"
"No I don't think so."
"They may not be able to but I can," He grinned at her and she felt her heart lift at his easy acceptance.
"What makes you so sure?" she teased.
"Oh I am Manticore's finest," He bragged and dodged the hand that collided with his head.
"Smart ass."
"It's always my ass isn't it Maxie?"
"Well you have to have one redeeming feature."
~~
The lab was deserted at this time of night and Max and Alec sat at the terminal as their fingers flew over the two keyboards.
"Here cable hack logged at 0700 yesterday," Max pulled up the file and set the video to upload.
A few seconds later and two bands of red and blue writing swirled above and below a set of piercing blue eyes.
This is an Eyes Only streaming freedom video bulletin, this cable hack will last exactly sixty seconds, it cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped and is the only free voice left in the city.
"Damn this guy likes the sound of his own voice!" Alec exclaimed as the pair of eyes flickered and went on to explain about some random crook called Edgar Sonrisa.
"Like I care," Max said as she tried to catch the trace.
~~
Lydecker hadn't moved in thirty seconds-- Alec had been counting. Not even a blink or a breath.
"Are you trying to tell me that even though we have been searching for this hack for years, you two managed to locate and trace an untraceable cable hack from a video feed in under a day?"
Max felt the urge to grin. Using sophisticated techniques, transgenic speed and the field tactics that had been drilled into them from birth they were able to track down the location of the signal and pinpoint it to within a few miles.
Almost as soon as the data had spewed from the computer, Max had raced down the hall, with Alec in tow, and cornered Lydecker in his office before he could leave again.
"Each hack leaves a trace feed signature and a certain marker," Alec explained "We had to sift through several false leads but it was just a matter of finding the right signal. He is here in Seattle and does his traces from somewhere high; it wasn't hard to narrow down the district."
"All we need to do is get in a van with the radio transmitter equipment and we should pinpoint the building." Max smirked with a glow of pride at what she and Alec had achieved.
Lydecker ran a hand through his hair.
"Damn."
Alec hid a smirk and Max rolled her eyes at him.
"I wish I had time to go through this and capture him but I have few pressing matters," Lydecker rubbed his head
"Sir!" Max protested in shock "He killed Seth."
"Indirectly," He corrected "We will get him and he will pay but right now we have other more urgent matters to deal with."
Alec could see Max grinding her teeth in protest and wanted to put a hand on her arm to calm her but didn't dare in case he was seen by Lydecker.
Lydecker stood up and walked away only looking back when he got to the door "Fine work, you should be proud, excuse me."
Max slumped into her chair as soon as the door slammed "He could have let us go and sort out Eyes Only, I would love to get my hands on him."
"Max if you touched him you'd kill him."
"True," She grinned "That's not a bad thing. What could be so urgent that it transcends this?" She cleared her throat "Anyway thanks for helping me out."
"Didn't have anything better to do. Besides you helped me after Psy-Ops."
"Psy-ops," she froze "Oh my god, I totally forgot. Jos-!" she broke off.
"Who?" Alec peered at her in confusion.
Max hesitated, if she introduced Alec to Joshua he would find out that she had watched his torment in Psy-ops and would probably see it as betrayal; betrayal that she had seen his weakest moments, and betrayal that she hadn't mentioned it before. So she covered it over with a smile.
"Something I have to do. Later!" She sprang to her feet and hurried down the corridor with Alec watching bewildered.
He would probably never understand Max. Thankfully.
~~
"Hey Big fella?"
"Little fella." The big dog man smiled at her.
"Brought you some food, didn't know how you got it down here." She emptied the back pack that she had filled from the kitchen.
"When guards leave steal theirs." Joshua said and picked up the tins and bread with a smile "Thanks little fella."
"Sure."
"Friend no longer in bad place?" he asked inquisitively
"No, he's out and back with me…us now." she amended with a slight smile.
"That's good." Joshua said with his boyish charm.
"Yeah he's better now too. No more sadness or screams. How are you Joshua?"
"Joshua has hopes up. Found fathers book."
"Oh yeah good old Sandman huh?" Max sat cross legged "So tell me about the great father of our nation."
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