A Final Farewell
Chapter 4
A/N: Here's the 4th chapter. I know that I said I wouldn't have computer access until Friday or Saturday but my brother unknowingly left his laptop home with me and I started to use it and ended up writing a whole other chapter before he realized that he had left it home. Oh well his mistake but good for all of you who read my stories. Thanks for reading!!!
Max and Alec spent the hour that she had left before her evaluation practicing hand-to-hand combat, Alec tired out easily while Max could have lasted for more hours at a time. She didn't want to wear herself down too much just in case what Alec had said about Reden was true that this would be a hard fight. "Have you had enough?" Max asked as she pinned Alec to the ground.
"Okay I give." Glancing up at the clock he said "You should probably head to the rec. room it's almost 12."
Sighing Max let him up, "Okay, if you don't see me you can pretty much suspect that I failed and am now miserably working out in the gym." Wiping of her hands she headed towards the door. Alec had gotten two guards to make sure that they weren't disturbed during the session they moved aside and let her pass through the double doors.
She glanced at Alec who was sitting up on the mat staring back at her. She gave him a small smile and saw him mouth "good luck" she was going to need it desperately. The guards from the training center had followed her to the rec. room to make sure that she got there okay. She took a deep breath and pushed through the door. Renfro and Reden were already waiting for her when she got there.
Pushing her hair out of her face she could see that they were both staring at her. Rubbing her hands together Max said, "Okay let's get this bitch over with." She walked to the mat that was position in the center of the room and watched as Reden took his position opposite from her. Blowing a whistle Renfro signaled the start of the match.
Circling each other it took well over a minute for anyone to make the first move. Max lunged at Reden and promptly took him down to the ground she started to punch him in the face when he pulled out from underneath her. She wasn't surprised at this move and was ready with a leg swipe. She moved her leg to pull his legs out from underneath him and was satisfied when he fell to the ground with a thud. Jumping on top of him he was winded enough from the fall to stay on the ground long enough for Max to pin him on the ground. Blowing the whistle again Renfro signaled that Max had won the match.
Both of them got up and another round started. Reden wasted no time in charging Max, he grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her down to the ground looking at her triumphantly. Max stared back venomously and threw a kick upward into his private area, backing off immediately she body slammed him and was getting ready to pin him when from behind he used his free fist to hit her in the temples. Her head was spinning and only when she heard the whistle blow did she know that she had lost. "Come on 452 you can do better then that. They must have given you a lousy heart/" Letting her up he took his position on the other side of the mat. The whistle blew and Max waited a minute to plan out her attack strategy. She was going to start with a swift kick to the stomach and then start with a few punches to his jawbone. It wasn't much of a plan but it would work.
She waited for him to come after her first and when he charged he left his stomach open to a frontal attack. She jumped and landed a brutal kick to the ribs, satisfied when she heard the crunch of bones under her foot. Smiling to herself when she landed on her feet and watched him drop to the ground in pain. She walked over warily just in case his tolerance for pain was higher then she had thought and he had dropped to the ground just to fool her.
Standing over him she watched as he rolled around on the ground, pleased when she saw the pain radiating from his eyes. Waiting for a minute to make sure that he wasn't going to get up she flopped down on top of him and pinned him to the mat. She felt a deep sense of self-pride for herself when she heard the whistle blow in her favor.
"Congratulations 452." She said emotionlessly.
"Thank you ma'am." Max said just as emotionlessly. Inside she was excited that she hadn't given Renfro a reason to put her through training.
"You may go. I want to see you in my office tomorrow at 7am sharp for the next evaluation." She shifted her attention to Reden who was still lying on the mat stunned that he had lost to Max. "And as for you, find your way to the infirmary, the doctor will patch you up."
Walking out you would have thought that Max had just won the Super Bowl. She had a gigantic smile on her face that she couldn't contain. Alec found her in the hallway smiling like a fool. "You look happy," he stated.
"I am happy. I just kicked Reden's ass, broke a few ribs it was fun."
"I never thought someone would describe fighting to keep alive was fun."
"What can I say? I have a warped sense of humor."
"I can't believe you have a sense of humor at all."
"Thank you for being so honest with what you think of me."
"What can I say, I'm just as true and as honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming that dirt."
"Whatever you have to tell yourself." Max said softly to herself.
"So what do you want to do with your freedom now?" Alec asked.
"I want to be normal, I want to see Logan and I want to get out of here. All three of those I know that can't happen right now until I figure a way to get out of here but with Renfro breathing down my neck all the time the escaping part just isn't going to be happening anytime soon." Shrugging she looked at Alec expectantly.
"I have to go for training right now, but if you talk sweet to one of the guards you may be able to get him to let you go outside, unrestricted. You'll have to stay in the grounds but at least you might be able to get some fresh air." He moved in close and whispered in her ear. "And you might be able to find a way out of here for both of us." He smiled at her and she watched him as he walked away. Shaking her head she proceeded to one of the main entrances.
Batting her eyelashes at the guard flirtatiously and smiled shyly. He turned beat red and she smiled inwardly. They were all the samel men; they couldn't refuse a pretty face smiling at them. "Hi, handsome." She said in a soft low voice.
"Hi." Looking around to make sure that no one was witnessing the exchange.
"What's your name?" Max asked him.
"Henry."
"Henry." Max said dreamily. "You look like a Henry, the name fits you well." She put her hand on his arm, the only way to get what you want was to have physical contact with the man that you want to woo or so was Max's opinion. "I have a favor to ask you Henry, do you think that you could let me go outside? I've been cooped up here for ever and I need some fresh air." Stretching upward she watched as his eyes slid down to her flat stomach.
"I guess that I could swing that, for a beautiful creature as you, but what will you gibe me in return?" He asked seriously.
Thinking for a minute Max replied, " How about a kiss?" Thinking for a second Henry nodded. Standing on her tippy toes she gave him a quick peck on the mouth trying hard to contain her revulsion, she had only ever wanted to kiss one person in her whole life and that was Logan. Henry smiled stupidly and used his key card to open the door. He held it open for her and a cool rush of air greeted Max as she stepped outside.
She was alone except for the guards who wandered aimlessly around looking for any signs of trouble. She smiled to them and they looked at her warily, holding up the pass that Henry had given her that gave her permission to be outside without supervision. Thinking to herself she was surprised when she found no one else walking around outside. Looking up to the sky all she could think about was Logan what he was doing at that very moment, if he was continuing his crusade to save the world. She sat down in the alleyway that was between the main building of the compound and the guards living quarters and just thought about Logan.
She thought about the day that they had met, when Max jumped through the plate glass window in his apartment. He had called her Rocky the Flying Squirrel. She thought about the last day she had seen him, as she lay dying on the ground outside of Manticore he had held her and the last thing that she had seen were his blue eyes. Then she had slipped away and the last thing that she remembered was the feel of his arms around her. The next thing she knew she had been strapped to a table in the infirmary of Manticore.
The sound of gunfire snapped her back to the present. Looking up she could see that the guards were all congregating in front of the alleyway, but they weren't; looking at her they were looking above her. She looked up and saw that a spidery looking transgenic was spinning a web above her. It was covered with dense black fur, had eight legs all very thin and was sticking to the side of the barrack buildings. The guards were shooting the transgenic with tranq darts. It was moving quickly trying to avoid the ones that were being shot at it. Max covered her ears against the high pitch squealing sound that it was making.
Finally after a few more seconds the thing dropped to the ground and lay unmoving. The guards moved towards it and she saw that they had their guns trained on it. Tying it up they dragged it along the ground and brought it back into the building. One of the guards stayed behind and told her to go back in the building. Sighing she got up and started towards the front door of the facility.
Entering it she saw that Henry was still standing guard. She smiled slightly and walked over to him. "Hey Henry, can you tell me what time it was?"
"Yeah almost 5 o'clock dinner it around 5:15."
"Thanks Henry." Max headed to her room to put on the extra change of clothes she knew were waiting for her in her room. They got two changes of clothes a day, one to do their morning workouts in and when they got dirty usually before dinner they got another pair so that they could have clean clothes to sleep in.
She changed quickly not wanting to be late to dinner because if she was late she wouldn't get any. Heading down to the mess hall she met up with Alec who was heading to dinner also. "Hey how was training?" Max asked.
"Boring, the same old stuff block, jab, punch, woo-hoo." He said sarcastically.
"So what's for dinner?"
"The same thing we have every Thursday chicken, vegetables and a drink."
"I hope the drink is a stiff one."
"You could hope, but alcohol really isn't allowed here, then again we can't get drunk."
"Pity," Max, stated in all seriousness.
Dinner passed without any event and that night Alec came to Max's room they talked about random things. He left and once again she was alone in the darkness with her thoughts. She dreamed of Logan and that they were dancing under the stars on a beautiful winter night. Max was in a long white dress with a long flowing white cape and Logan was in a midnight black suit that was the absolute opposite color from what Max was wearing. She was woken up by a bright light and when she opened her eyes she could see that it was the sunlight coming in the small window in the cell. It had all been a dream.
A/N: Okay, I know that this was a pretty boring chapter except for the fight at the beginning. I understand if you give me bad reviews, I hadn't intended for this to be dragged out for so long, I hope that even if you hated it you could at least leave me a review and tell me what you hated about it, or if by some miracle you liked it you could tell me what you like. Either way please drop me a review I would really like it if you did. I will probably be able to update maybe every other day because I have exam week this week and hopefully I will have enough time after exams to use my brother's laptop before he comes home from work. So once again. Thanks for Reading!!!
Chapter 4
A/N: Here's the 4th chapter. I know that I said I wouldn't have computer access until Friday or Saturday but my brother unknowingly left his laptop home with me and I started to use it and ended up writing a whole other chapter before he realized that he had left it home. Oh well his mistake but good for all of you who read my stories. Thanks for reading!!!
Max and Alec spent the hour that she had left before her evaluation practicing hand-to-hand combat, Alec tired out easily while Max could have lasted for more hours at a time. She didn't want to wear herself down too much just in case what Alec had said about Reden was true that this would be a hard fight. "Have you had enough?" Max asked as she pinned Alec to the ground.
"Okay I give." Glancing up at the clock he said "You should probably head to the rec. room it's almost 12."
Sighing Max let him up, "Okay, if you don't see me you can pretty much suspect that I failed and am now miserably working out in the gym." Wiping of her hands she headed towards the door. Alec had gotten two guards to make sure that they weren't disturbed during the session they moved aside and let her pass through the double doors.
She glanced at Alec who was sitting up on the mat staring back at her. She gave him a small smile and saw him mouth "good luck" she was going to need it desperately. The guards from the training center had followed her to the rec. room to make sure that she got there okay. She took a deep breath and pushed through the door. Renfro and Reden were already waiting for her when she got there.
Pushing her hair out of her face she could see that they were both staring at her. Rubbing her hands together Max said, "Okay let's get this bitch over with." She walked to the mat that was position in the center of the room and watched as Reden took his position opposite from her. Blowing a whistle Renfro signaled the start of the match.
Circling each other it took well over a minute for anyone to make the first move. Max lunged at Reden and promptly took him down to the ground she started to punch him in the face when he pulled out from underneath her. She wasn't surprised at this move and was ready with a leg swipe. She moved her leg to pull his legs out from underneath him and was satisfied when he fell to the ground with a thud. Jumping on top of him he was winded enough from the fall to stay on the ground long enough for Max to pin him on the ground. Blowing the whistle again Renfro signaled that Max had won the match.
Both of them got up and another round started. Reden wasted no time in charging Max, he grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her down to the ground looking at her triumphantly. Max stared back venomously and threw a kick upward into his private area, backing off immediately she body slammed him and was getting ready to pin him when from behind he used his free fist to hit her in the temples. Her head was spinning and only when she heard the whistle blow did she know that she had lost. "Come on 452 you can do better then that. They must have given you a lousy heart/" Letting her up he took his position on the other side of the mat. The whistle blew and Max waited a minute to plan out her attack strategy. She was going to start with a swift kick to the stomach and then start with a few punches to his jawbone. It wasn't much of a plan but it would work.
She waited for him to come after her first and when he charged he left his stomach open to a frontal attack. She jumped and landed a brutal kick to the ribs, satisfied when she heard the crunch of bones under her foot. Smiling to herself when she landed on her feet and watched him drop to the ground in pain. She walked over warily just in case his tolerance for pain was higher then she had thought and he had dropped to the ground just to fool her.
Standing over him she watched as he rolled around on the ground, pleased when she saw the pain radiating from his eyes. Waiting for a minute to make sure that he wasn't going to get up she flopped down on top of him and pinned him to the mat. She felt a deep sense of self-pride for herself when she heard the whistle blow in her favor.
"Congratulations 452." She said emotionlessly.
"Thank you ma'am." Max said just as emotionlessly. Inside she was excited that she hadn't given Renfro a reason to put her through training.
"You may go. I want to see you in my office tomorrow at 7am sharp for the next evaluation." She shifted her attention to Reden who was still lying on the mat stunned that he had lost to Max. "And as for you, find your way to the infirmary, the doctor will patch you up."
Walking out you would have thought that Max had just won the Super Bowl. She had a gigantic smile on her face that she couldn't contain. Alec found her in the hallway smiling like a fool. "You look happy," he stated.
"I am happy. I just kicked Reden's ass, broke a few ribs it was fun."
"I never thought someone would describe fighting to keep alive was fun."
"What can I say? I have a warped sense of humor."
"I can't believe you have a sense of humor at all."
"Thank you for being so honest with what you think of me."
"What can I say, I'm just as true and as honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming that dirt."
"Whatever you have to tell yourself." Max said softly to herself.
"So what do you want to do with your freedom now?" Alec asked.
"I want to be normal, I want to see Logan and I want to get out of here. All three of those I know that can't happen right now until I figure a way to get out of here but with Renfro breathing down my neck all the time the escaping part just isn't going to be happening anytime soon." Shrugging she looked at Alec expectantly.
"I have to go for training right now, but if you talk sweet to one of the guards you may be able to get him to let you go outside, unrestricted. You'll have to stay in the grounds but at least you might be able to get some fresh air." He moved in close and whispered in her ear. "And you might be able to find a way out of here for both of us." He smiled at her and she watched him as he walked away. Shaking her head she proceeded to one of the main entrances.
Batting her eyelashes at the guard flirtatiously and smiled shyly. He turned beat red and she smiled inwardly. They were all the samel men; they couldn't refuse a pretty face smiling at them. "Hi, handsome." She said in a soft low voice.
"Hi." Looking around to make sure that no one was witnessing the exchange.
"What's your name?" Max asked him.
"Henry."
"Henry." Max said dreamily. "You look like a Henry, the name fits you well." She put her hand on his arm, the only way to get what you want was to have physical contact with the man that you want to woo or so was Max's opinion. "I have a favor to ask you Henry, do you think that you could let me go outside? I've been cooped up here for ever and I need some fresh air." Stretching upward she watched as his eyes slid down to her flat stomach.
"I guess that I could swing that, for a beautiful creature as you, but what will you gibe me in return?" He asked seriously.
Thinking for a minute Max replied, " How about a kiss?" Thinking for a second Henry nodded. Standing on her tippy toes she gave him a quick peck on the mouth trying hard to contain her revulsion, she had only ever wanted to kiss one person in her whole life and that was Logan. Henry smiled stupidly and used his key card to open the door. He held it open for her and a cool rush of air greeted Max as she stepped outside.
She was alone except for the guards who wandered aimlessly around looking for any signs of trouble. She smiled to them and they looked at her warily, holding up the pass that Henry had given her that gave her permission to be outside without supervision. Thinking to herself she was surprised when she found no one else walking around outside. Looking up to the sky all she could think about was Logan what he was doing at that very moment, if he was continuing his crusade to save the world. She sat down in the alleyway that was between the main building of the compound and the guards living quarters and just thought about Logan.
She thought about the day that they had met, when Max jumped through the plate glass window in his apartment. He had called her Rocky the Flying Squirrel. She thought about the last day she had seen him, as she lay dying on the ground outside of Manticore he had held her and the last thing that she had seen were his blue eyes. Then she had slipped away and the last thing that she remembered was the feel of his arms around her. The next thing she knew she had been strapped to a table in the infirmary of Manticore.
The sound of gunfire snapped her back to the present. Looking up she could see that the guards were all congregating in front of the alleyway, but they weren't; looking at her they were looking above her. She looked up and saw that a spidery looking transgenic was spinning a web above her. It was covered with dense black fur, had eight legs all very thin and was sticking to the side of the barrack buildings. The guards were shooting the transgenic with tranq darts. It was moving quickly trying to avoid the ones that were being shot at it. Max covered her ears against the high pitch squealing sound that it was making.
Finally after a few more seconds the thing dropped to the ground and lay unmoving. The guards moved towards it and she saw that they had their guns trained on it. Tying it up they dragged it along the ground and brought it back into the building. One of the guards stayed behind and told her to go back in the building. Sighing she got up and started towards the front door of the facility.
Entering it she saw that Henry was still standing guard. She smiled slightly and walked over to him. "Hey Henry, can you tell me what time it was?"
"Yeah almost 5 o'clock dinner it around 5:15."
"Thanks Henry." Max headed to her room to put on the extra change of clothes she knew were waiting for her in her room. They got two changes of clothes a day, one to do their morning workouts in and when they got dirty usually before dinner they got another pair so that they could have clean clothes to sleep in.
She changed quickly not wanting to be late to dinner because if she was late she wouldn't get any. Heading down to the mess hall she met up with Alec who was heading to dinner also. "Hey how was training?" Max asked.
"Boring, the same old stuff block, jab, punch, woo-hoo." He said sarcastically.
"So what's for dinner?"
"The same thing we have every Thursday chicken, vegetables and a drink."
"I hope the drink is a stiff one."
"You could hope, but alcohol really isn't allowed here, then again we can't get drunk."
"Pity," Max, stated in all seriousness.
Dinner passed without any event and that night Alec came to Max's room they talked about random things. He left and once again she was alone in the darkness with her thoughts. She dreamed of Logan and that they were dancing under the stars on a beautiful winter night. Max was in a long white dress with a long flowing white cape and Logan was in a midnight black suit that was the absolute opposite color from what Max was wearing. She was woken up by a bright light and when she opened her eyes she could see that it was the sunlight coming in the small window in the cell. It had all been a dream.
A/N: Okay, I know that this was a pretty boring chapter except for the fight at the beginning. I understand if you give me bad reviews, I hadn't intended for this to be dragged out for so long, I hope that even if you hated it you could at least leave me a review and tell me what you hated about it, or if by some miracle you liked it you could tell me what you like. Either way please drop me a review I would really like it if you did. I will probably be able to update maybe every other day because I have exam week this week and hopefully I will have enough time after exams to use my brother's laptop before he comes home from work. So once again. Thanks for Reading!!!