A Final Farewell

Chapter 6

A/N: I know that I said this story would only be, actually to tell you the truth I don't remember what I said but I know that it was less then 10 chapters but that was before I even started to write it. So those of you who like my story are getting an extra bonus because it will be longer than I had originally planned. So as usual THANKS FOR READING!!!

As the last wave of shock left Max's body and she stopped convulsing she was asked the question that she had been asked repeatedly over the last what she thought had been hours.

"Who is Eyes Only?" Renfro who had walked in about an hour into the torture asked her.

Max who had, had enough still didn't answer. She kept silent clenching her mouth shut against the pain. Her heart was beating fast and she could feel the blood rushing quickly through her body. Her fingers and toes had become numb long ago and she could feel the pins and needles effect running through the bottoms of her legs as they too started to become numb.

Waiting for the next shock was like waiting for the next tooth to be pulled. When it came and the shocks ripped through her body she screamed and she could feel the tears that were streaming down her face. "Okay please stop, please I'll tell you, just please stop. He lives in New York City in a place called Trump Tower and to tell you the truth he's Donald Trump." Max retorted. Suddenly very pleased with the idea of being able to come up with a witty retort while being tortured.

"I give you another shock and you are going to be fried from the inside out. Tell us now and all of this can be a distant memory." Renfro said. Putting her hand on the dial that was used to increase the force of the shock she suddenly stopped and looked intently at Max. "Well?" Renfro asked. "Am I going to have to turn this on or am I going to get the answers that I am looking for."

Max who was tired and just wanted to sleep nodded her head unconsciously and before she knew what she was doing she said. "His name is Logan Cale, he lives in the Fogle Towers in the penthouse." She immediately felt guilty for giving up Logan, but she was desperate for the pain to stop and for all of that to be over. Renfro nodded to Scar and he released her from the chair and had one of the many guards in the room carry her to her cell, Max heard Scar dimly as the guard carried her to her cell.

"I want her left alone, I have never seen anyone be put through so much and not say anything. She needs at least 2 days of rest before I want her put back in for training."

"She will not be going back to training…" Was the last thing that she heard before she was too far away to hear.

Her eyes slowly closed and when she woke up she was back in her cell. Groaning from the pain she turned over on her back and warily stretched, her muscles were stiff and she felt very warm. She tried breathing deeply but her lungs burned fiercely. Her insides felt like they were on fire. Starting to get up the door to her cell opened a furious looking Alec rushed in, doing so, so fast that her head felt like it was spinning.

"Max I just heard what happened, I'm so sorry, you know that I would have prevented it if I could."

Max who was still suffering from the after affects of almost being fried to death didn't reply.

"What is it what's wrong? Did they hurt you?" He asked frantically.

"If you call almost being fried from the inside out like a pastry hurt then yes." Max said oblivious to who was talking to her.

"WOW for you to talk like that they must have done something serious. What did they do to you?" He said examining her arms where they had been bruised by the restraints.

"I think I'm going to raise penguins in Guam." Max said playing with Alec's hair. Tilting her head to one side she asked, "Is Guam still a country?"

Alec who had never seen Max act like this before didn't know what to do. When he had found out that she had been tortured for information about Eyes Only he had rushed right to her cell after training to make sure that she was all right. Besides being a little loopy and a little bruised she seemed all right.

Max who had attempted to stand while he was thinking plopped back down on the bed roughly enough that he felt the force of it on the floor, where he was kneeling. Giggling slightly she sat twisting her hair around her index finger.

"Talk to me Max come on." he said softly.

Snapping out of her five-year-old mind set, she suddenly turned into her old self. Her eyes widened and she seemed a little frightened to be there. "Alec, what are you doing here, how did I get here? Please don't let them take me back there, please." Grasping his forearms.

"I won't don't worry, I talked to Renfro she seemed quite please with herself, that she had gotten the information that she needed. What information did you give her?"

"Oh, god Logan, I told her where Logan lived." Standing up quickly and heading towards the door when Alec stopped her. "I have to do something, I can't let her hurt him."

"Max you have to sit down." As he lead her back to the bed. "You are weak right now, you can't do anything you'll kill yourself. And as it is I'm not even supposed to be seeing you I had to bribe one of the guards into letting me in here."

"If they hurt him then it's my fault, I'm the one who told her where he lives, if anything happens to him I don't know what I will do." Flopping back against the wall Alec sat down next to her.

Alec scooted next to her and encircled her with his arms his chin resting on the crown of her head. "It's not your fault, people say and do strange things when they are being tortured, you can't be held accountable for that."

Closing her eyes Max tried to relax but her body was too tense. "Alec you should probably go before anyone finds out that you're here, I don't want you to get in trouble because of me, I've already that enough today."

Letting her go he replied, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"All right." Standing up he knocked on the cell door, when the door opened he looked at her one more time and walked out. Max who was still leaning closed her eyes again and sat listening to the sound of her own breathing. She kept trying to tell herself that everything was going to be all right, but no amount could convince her heart of what her head already knew. If anything happened to Logan, it would be all her fault and no matter what she did if he was hurt in anyway, she had to take full responsibility for it.

Laying back on the flat pillow that had been supplied to her she had just about fallen asleep when her cell door opened again. "Can't anyone get a decent nights sleep around here?" She said hostilely. She was jerked from bed and once again for almost the third time that day was brought to Renfro's office.

Renfro stood behind her desk staring through the picture window that graced the entire wall. "The review board has made a decision on your evaluation, based on your reluctance to answer the questions that were asked to you by Mr. Lydecker and the fact that we had to torture the information from you they have decided that the best thing would for you to be reindoctrinated." Renfro said in her steely voice. Max who had known that, that would be the decision that the board would make wasn't at all surprised. "You don't seem a bit surprised." She said to Max.

"I'm not, I know that reindoctrination was your plan for me from the beginning, whether I passed the evaluation or not that would be my fate."

"Very intuitive." Renfro said slightly impressed.

"I'm not intuitive I just know you too well." Max said simply.

"Reindoctrination begins right now, you probably know how it goes."

"How could I forget? You did it to Brin now you're going to do it to me, nothing fazes you does it? You're incapable of feeling anything."

"I may be but you are not, before we begin I want you to see something."

Minutes later Max and Renfro stood in front of a window that was covered by sheet metal. "What is this?" Max asked angrily.

"I thought you might want to say goodbye."

"Wha…" Max was cut off when the metal partition opened to reveal tubes and a person who looked like a robot sitting in the middle of a white room. "Who…who is that?"

"Your brother."

Max's eyes widened, "Zack," Max could feel the tears well up in her eyes at the sight of her brother.

"His organs were given to other X-5s who needed them, his heart as you know went to you, they were replaced with artificial ones. We injected nano-bots into his blood stream to repair the damage that was done by the bullet that he put in his skull to save you." She stopped and stared at him through the glass.

Putting her hand on the glass Max could see Zack shift his eyes to her, a lone tear trickled down his cheek, his eyes were filled with torment. Suddenly Max felt Renfro's eyes on her. Turning to look Max had the sudden urge to punch Renfro so hard that it broke her nose and wiped that smug look off her face. She stepped forward but stopped herself that would have been like committing suicide. It was one thing to be alive but not know who you are then to be dead and just be plain dead. Max had had enough near death experiences then had to be good for a person.

Max had only one question for Renfro, "Where's he going?"

"Tokyo, a facility there is willing to pay top dollar to study him, they would like to see the work that we've done."

"They're turning him into a lab rat is what you're trying to say something new and different for us. Don't you think that he's been through enough?"

"Most of that wasn't our fault he made the decision to kill himself for you, whatever is happening to him now isn't our fault. He is of no use to us as damaged goods, mine as well make what money off him we can."

"That's what we are to you…property." Max said incredulously.

"We made you, cooked you up in test tubes, put you in surrogate mothers and trained you to be what you are. That means we own you."

"You'll never change," Max, muttered to herself.

"What should we start with?" Renfro muttered half to herself. "What do you think 452, what should we start with for you reindoctrination brainwashing or should we skip right to the sensory deprivation."

"Whatever you want ma'am." Max said putting added force on ma'am. "You'll do it anyways." She added softly.

Unknowingly, Max followed Renfro into the hospital wing; Max who had thought that the building was big when she was a kid realized that it was even bigger now then she had ever thought. She felt a stinging in her neck and immediately knew what she had been hit with a tranq dart when the world went black.

A/N: Now we are getting into the exciting part of the story, I know this story has seemed kind of slow but I promise that it will get quicker now. There will be a few twists and turns along the way and I will be explaining a lot of what is going through Max's head in the next few chapters as her life is changing. So as usual make me happy with reviews. As usual thanks for reading!!!

A/N 2: Does anyone know how to get italics on Fanfiction my friend told me but I don't remember what she said so if anyone knows how can you please tell me how I would appreciate it, I'm going to need to use them in a later chapter.