Title:Blast from the Past
Part 6: All in a Day's Work
Author: Scully854@aol.com/alecsgrl/LMC
Category: Mystery/Romance
Rating: PG
Summary: Part 6 (wow! I cant believe its 6 already:J) It is basically about a mystery girl Hannah who comes from nowhere and Max and Alec come to her rescue. I suggest you read the other chpts if you haven't first or you may be confused.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel, yada yada yada.
Dedicated: To Marianne Curley, an amazing writer and role model
To the readers: Sorry it took so long, I've been really busy. Hope you enjoy and thanx for all the feedback! If anyone would like notice of the next chapter, email me and I'll email you with updates. Thanks!
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Later that night
Hannah and Alec walked together to the entrance of Crash,
The Jam Pony crew hangout.
"You sure I didn't need to wear something dressier for Crash?" Hannah asked, having not changed clothes after work.
Alec put his hand on her shoulder in a reassuring gesture. "Hannah," he said, looking deeply into her eyes.
"Yeah," she replied in a soft voice in response to his intense look.
"Relax."
She giggled. "Okay. Let's go."
The two entered the bar to see Max, O.C., and Sketch sitting at their usual table, laughing and smiling.
"There they are," Alec said as the pair approached the gang. There were three empty seats.
"Hey guys," Alec greeted.
"Good you guys are here," Max smiled as Alec and Hannah took the empty seats.
O.C. and Sketch waved and said hi.
"Hey," Hannah replied.
"Logan's just getting us some drinks," Max explained. "Oh, there he is."
Logan approached the table with two fountain mugs of beer. He was wearing a green and white shirt and blue jeans.
"I'm back…and you must be Hannah," he said turning to her as he put down the drinks.
"Umm hmm," she answered.
"Nice to meet you," he smiled, walking over to shake her hand and then taking the other empty seat.
"You too," she smiled. "Max says you'll be able to help me?" she said, hope clear in her voice and eyes, which seemed to light up.
"I may be, I'm doing my best. I'm somewhat of a cyberjournalist. Tell me, do you remember anything?"
"Just..waking up confused," she sighed. "I didn't know where I was," sorrow soaked each of her words. "And I realized I was…" she trailed off for a moment, inhaling deeply. "bleeding-bigtime. So, I yelled for help, and Max and Alec came to my rescue." She smiled and turned to Max and Alec.
"I never did thank you. If you both hadn't been there, I might have…I could have died. You saved my life."
"No problem,"Max grinned. "Same here," Alec beamed.
Hannah smiled. "I'm so lucky to have met you two. Not only did you save me; you're helping me, and you're letting to stay with you," she looked to Alec. "And all of you, its nice to have friends here even though I don't know my past."
"No problem," the gang said beaming.
"Thanks for helping too Logan."
"Don't thank me yet. I don't have much. So all you remember is after you got here?"
"Yes."
"How about details? Do you remember where you're from? Do you live here, in Seattle? Does is look familiar?"
Hannah paused. "I don't think I lived here; at least it doesn't look at all familiar, I could be wrong."
"Of course you may remember it from before the pulse."
"Huh?"
"I'll explain later. Ok, I believe whatever happened to you, based on 1983, you supposed birthdate, it happened in 2002."
"1983!" Sketchy cut in. "But she's not that old!"
Logan suddenly realized Hannah didn't know all the details yet.
"What," she said in response to Sketchy, beginning to look scared, and realization that she wasn't in the loop dawning. "Why does that matter-what are you not telling me?"
"Hannah," Alec interrupted . "We'll explain, as much as we know. Let's all go to my place where we'll have more privacy." He put a comforting arm around her shoulder.
"Good idea," Max agreed. "You guys stay here, we'll see you later. Bye boo," she said to O.C. Turning to Hannah, she said confidently, "Don't worry, it'll be okay Hannah, I promise."
Hannah didn't know how to respond, she was so panicked. She just looked at O.C. and nodded.
"But we don't get to come?" Sketch whined.
"I don't know how many times I need to tell you this, shut up fool," O.C. said smoothly.
"See ya at home boo," O.C. said to Max nodding that she was cool with Max without her.
"Kay."
Max, Alec, and Logan all got up and left for Alec's.
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20 minutes later
At Alec's apt.
"Hannah it's the year 2021," Logan began. " If 1983 is your correct birthdate, then you should be much older, in your forties, yet you don't seem to be. Either you somehow don't age, or in 2002, at 18, as you seem to be; you somehow crossed time. I know it's a lot, but-"
"Oh my God," Hannah interrupted. She gasped for a second, looking at her shoes. She slowly looked up to the group. "Is this a joke?" she said in a horse whisper.
"Hannah," Max began moving to sit on the couch next to Hannah. "I know it sounds crazy, but we're not kidding."
"It can't be…" Hannah trailed off.
"But think about it," Max said. "I know you don't remember much, but don't things seem different here?"
"It does-seem off…I-I remember it being 2002, like Logan said. Wow, this is trippy."
"Hey! You remembered something!" Alec chimed in.
"Yeah," she smiled. "Maybe there's hope for me after all," she and Alec grinned their eyes locking for a few moments.
Max brought them out of their gaze. "Um..Hannah, I don't know how to say this, but, uh, that's not it."
"There's more?" Hannah looked at Max and than to Alec and Logan with shock.
"Are you sure you want to know just yet?" Logan cut in. "You've already been shocked once," he pointed out.
"Just-Just tell me please."
And so Max, Alec, and Logan began to fill in Hannah on the pulse-oh and of course, the biggie, Manticore.
"You see," Max said, "Alec and I and the transgenics are genetically engineered humans, with doses of other DNA strands. Manticore was trying to create the perfect soldier, sending us out on missions for the government"
"They experimented on us and brainwashed us, among other things…" Alec said, trailing off, quickly snapping back. "Lucky for me and the others, Max and her siblings escaped; and she later came back and burned Manticore, freeing the rest of the transgenics, like me and Joshua."
"Joshua?" Hannah asked.
"He's a friend. You see," Max explained, "me and Alec have some cat DNA, Joshua, on the other hand, has quite a bit of dog DNA.
"Oh man, and here I was thinking I had it so rough.."
"Don't worry about it, we survived."
"Thank God you did and Max freed you! What a hell that must've been!"
"Yeah, I guess we all kinda owe Max," Alec said in a surprisingly genuine tone, at least where Max was concerned.
"A hell it was, and yeah you owe me for a lot, I mean, I'm constantly saving your ass," she teased. Logan rolled his eyes, which Max missed but Alec caught out of the corner of his eye, but chose to ignore it.
"All right, all right," he chuckled.
Max turned to Hannah. "It is true, we're lucky to be out. But its not over."
"It's not?"
"Manticore's people are still out there trying to get us back, mainly to exterminate us and or do experiments on us after."
"And that's not counting White and his breeding cult," Logan added.
Hannah's eyes widened again, one of many times that had that evening. She was being exposed to things she never knew could exist.
"White and his cult of 'familiars' as they call themselves are Nazi wannabes who want to create perfect humans, eliminating all transgenics and impureness or whatever crap in humanity," Max explained with disgust.
Hannah was silent.
"Hannah?" Max said.
"Yeah?".
"It's okay, we can handle ourselves, we have a lot of enhanced strength."
"We'll keep you safe too," Alec said in a soothing tone.
She smiled deeply and looked straight at Alec.
"Thanks."
"So, are you going to be okay with all this?" Max inquired.
Hannah looked around at all three smiling.
"It's weird, all this, but I know I can trust you all, I just know you wouldn't lie-besides, I'd be dead without you Alec, and you Max."
They all grinned, relieved that Hannah wasn't too upset.
"And that rescuing thing," Alec said mock gloating, "all in a days work," he grinned.
"Please," Max said sarcastically.
Hannah smiled, glad to be with her new friends. She yawned.
"Geez, Han-you must be exhausted," Alec said with concern.
"Yup, I guess. I'm going to get ready for bed. Nite guys."
"Before you go to sleep Hannah," Logan cut in as Hannah was getting up to leave.
"Yeah?" she replied.
"I've been invited to a party next week. Nothing big, its being thrown by one of my old friends. Would you care to join me?"
"Uhh.." Hannah hesitated, looking around the room to Max and than her eyes rested on Alec for several seconds, both people looking just as surprised as he, even a bit peeved. Hannah quickly flicked her gaze back to Logan.
"What about Max and Alec?"
"I was going to invite Max, but I'm sure she'd rather go with Alec," he said in an overly sweet tone, seeming to be holding back bitterness.
"So," Logan turned to them, "I'd love it if you both would come too."
Now Max looked really pissed.
"I don't know," Max said attempting to keep calm.
"We'll come," Alec said very firmly, glaring at Max. "We wouldn't want to be rude now would we?" He said with a forced smile.
"Great," Logan said with fake enthusiasm. "Hannah?"
"Sure," she replied, but she didn't look so happy or sure about it at all.
There you go. Be sure to check back in for the next chapter, which might be a bit, but as I said I'll email anyone who wants when its done. Next chapter we'll have the party, and I have some interesting things planned for this next chpt, so please read it when I post it! Thank you!!