A Final Farewell

Chapter 12

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A/N: Thank you so much for all the reviews, I feel warm and fuzzy inside, please keep them coming. There are a few more chapters, three or four, maybe even five, depending on how long I want to make my chapters. I'm pretty battered down with exams and a in two weeks I leave for two and a half week in Germany so the chapters may be shorter than before and depending when I have free time the updates might be farther apart, farther then they already are as you know.

It was a long shot, he had no reason to help her, not after the way she had treated him, but he had expressed his wish once to get out of there, she just hoped that he forgave her. Her apartment was quiet almost deathly so, not even the ticking of a clock broke the silence, she hated it, quietness to her meant that something was wrong.

She collapsed on the couch and not ten seconds after she did so was there a knock at the door. Grumbling to herself, she got up and walked down the hall to the door, checking through the peephole she saw Alec standing in the hallway looking around impatiently. She saw him stop squirming when he heard the unlatching of the door, pulling it open slowly she

Stepping back into her apartment she allowed him to enter her apartment, motioning for them to follow her she led him though the living room and into the bathroom, the safest place in the apartment. When she had first been given the apartment she had known that they had cameras placed around the apartment. The bathroom was the only place she knew that didn't have them. She had learned how to avoid them expertly over the weeks and she could move deftly without them seeing her.

Alec gave her a fleeting look when he realized where they were headed and she could see a small smirk flit across his face. Shaking her head and rolling her eyes all she could think was 'men' one track minds all of them. Shutting the door as he entered behind her she turned on the shower just in case hoping that the sound of rushing water would drown out the sound of their voices if anyone happened to be listening in.

"So, what am I doing here?" Alec asked.

"I have a proposition for you, I need your help." As much as it pained her to ask for his help again she knew that she wasn't going to be able to succeed if she didn't have it.

"With what?"

"Manticore must be destroyed." she said just loud enough to be heard over the water.

"Wait say that again, because I don't think I heard you right, I thought you just said Manticore must be destroyed."

"Wow you do listen because that's exactly what I said, I need your help to take Manticore down." When Alec sighed Max knew he had conflicting emotions about the whole thing. "Listen, a friend of mine was hurt because of me, because of what they did to me, and I'm not about to let them get away with that. He may die and the need to pay for what they did to him, to me."

"Wait, how-"

"It's a long story one that I will be very willing to tell when I have the time but right now, I can only give you the short version. Manticore brainwashed me into thinking that I was somebody else, trained me to be an assassin and sent me to kill someone I know. I hesitated and because I hesitated he was shot and he may die because of it. I have lost too much, and suffered too long to let them do this any longer," trailing off she took a deep breath before continuing, "now will you help me or not."

"Max this is-this is huge but I don't see how we could do it."

"I have a plan, not a very good one granted, but it's a plan and it may work."

"May work, may work," Alec said in ever increasing loudness, before Max clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Just hear me out okay, and keep your voice down, they don't have cameras in hear but they may have microphones and if they hear… Anyway, when I was a kid there were times when we were able to escape the barracks and explore possible escape routes and the like. One time hiding from the guards I broke into a room that was like a command center, completely unguarded, it had all manners of buttons."

"I know the room."

"Well I used to always hear from the guys in charge that if anyone ever found out about what went on here they would cauterize the place, burn it to the ground, leaving no trace of evidence, that could be used against them. I have a feeling that, that was where it could happen, one button to let the transgenics out, and one to kill them all. They can't risk the exposure one button for it all would make sense."

"Max there are so many ways that this could go wrong, so many ways that, I don't know things could turn out and not all of them good."

"Listen, I'm going to do this whether you help me or not, but I'm going to do this, I won't just sit by and watch them destroy more lives when I can do something about it. Now are you in?"

Alec sat down on the toilet seat cover and looked down at the floor, Max could almost see the wheels turning in his head. After a few moments he broke the silence, "Okay, I'm in."

"Thank you, we'll have to do it tonight, it's the only way this can be done and over with. I need you to distract the guards anyway that you can, I need to get into that hallway, and I can hack the security panel, and I just need to make sure that I'm not interrupted."

"Sure whatever you need I'll do."

"I need you to start spreading the news, tell them to head for the south fence, I know about the X-7's patrolling the woods if I can find someway to distract them to the front gate, then maybe everyone else can sneak out the back. I'm going to release everyone then burn it, that way I'm sure that everyone gets out."

"Sounds like a plan."

"There is one more thing I have to take care of before we start, I have to visit a friend in the basement."

"In the basement, but that's where all the 'nomalies are."

"I know, but I have to see one that might help me. Uhh…"

"What is it?"

"You need to jump into the shower."

"Why?"

"Because if anyone is looking in and if by any chance the cameras did see us, we need to make it look like we were in the shower together."

"Could we…?"

"Don't you even think it. I'll turn towards the wall jump in jump out, I'll do the same, we have to make it look authentic."

Twenty minutes later they emerged from the bathroom soaking wet, scenarios kept running through Max's mind things that could go wrong, everything that she could think of. At the door they parted ways, hugging and promising to meet in an hour to start the plan, everything was in place and all they had to do was hope that they didn't fail.

A/N: Short I know and I'm sorry life has finally taken it's toll and I'm starting to feel the pressure of exams that are looming, I hope to have the next chapter up in a week or so and hopefully the story will be done before I leave for Germany, key word hopefully. But I'll have plenty of time to write while I'm on the plane so if not then definitely after I come back. Please review I want to know what you think, I'm actually in love with criticism it tells me what people think of my writing so please be blunt flames are welcome and I know most people don't say this, but appreciated, I hate, absolutely hate when people sugar-coat things it drives me insane. But that's not a very long trip and I'll be arriving there very shortly.

A/N: Oh and a big shout out to everyone who reviewed again, I don't have enough time to list names but you know who you are, and I am eternally grateful for all your suggestions, flames, whatever, thanks again and happy reading.

Rose.