A Final Farewell

Chapter 18

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A/N: Okay here is another chapter, thank you so much for you reviews. Sorry about the wait, I've been pretty busy with school starting and all forgive me.

Grabbing the hand she whipped around quickly, bending the elbow and the wrist in different directions. "You can break my wrist, but I'm not leaving." a familiar voice said.

Looking down, Max took a step backward and dropped his arm, "No you're dead," Max said to him, "why are you doing this to me, why?" she said to no one in particular. "It's not possible, I'm dreaming, I have to be dreaming, any moment I'm going to wake up from this and it will all be a very nice dream." Max said pinching herself. When it hurt she knew she wasn't dreaming, "Well if I'm not dreaming than you must be a ghost, that is the only possible explanation for this, I'm hallucinating or you're a ghost." Max said walking away.

"You're not dreaming, you are not hallucinating and I am definitely not a ghost, I don't think," Logan said, he stepped forward and kissed Max, pulling away he finished his sentence, "See."

"How? I don't understand, your file said you were dead, I saw it, I went to your room and you weren't there." Max babbled.

"It's a long story, one that I am fully willing to tell when we have more time, but right now, we better get out of the street because there's a hover drone coming."

"Good idea. How? I just want to know, how come you're not trying to kill me after what I did to you?" she said as she followed him into an alley.

"You weren't yourself when you tried to kill me, plus I heard what you said in the hospital."

"You heard what I said, why didn't you-you acknowledge what I said."

"I didn't want to destroy the moment."

"Well you almost destroyed my life by just sitting there." She said hitting him in the shoulder.

"Hey careful, I haven't fully recovered from surgery yet."

"How are you up and around already?"

"Injection of nanobots that Sam gave me, cost a fortune but they already started repairing the damage."

"I'm glad you're okay."

"Yeah me too, hey my hand is numb, is it supposed to feel like that?"

"You almost died and you're joking, you must be feeling better."

"Yeah I am."

She threw her arms around him, careful to mind his injury. "How did you find me here."

"There's a tracer on the money, handy device I cooked up so if it was ever stolen I could find it, it also helped to find you."

"Good idea. But why weren't you at the hospital, why did your file say you were dead."

"Because I was clinically for about five minutes, apparently after you left, my heart stopped, I had signed a DNR but apparently Sam Carr revived me against my wishes. The nurse put on my chart deceased, which technically was a godsend because the only one who knows at the hospital that I'm alive is Sam. Which makes it very easy for me to disappear, Sam wrote a death certificate so if anyone came looking I would be dead, it makes it easy to disappear."

"So you're dead."

"In one sense of the word, Logan Cale the name is dead."

"What about your family? What is Sam going to tell them?"

"They don't bury anyone anymore, so he gives them an urn of ashes and says that it's me. They don't know any different and they don't come looking."

"That's horrible."

"Not for them, the black sheep in the family is gone, the family name is clean."

"Manticore is gone." Max said suddenly.

"What?" He stopped and looked at her.

"I brought down Manticore, with the help of a few friends."

"It's gone, really gone."

"The building is at least, and now there are a lot more transgenics out in the world, I freed them all, now they do the rest. As for Renfro and the rest of them, they'll never stop hunting us, until they get each one of us back in cages. But it will take a while for them to regroup giving I hope the rest of us the chance to blend in maybe with any luck the chance at normal lives."

"I said once you'll never be normal, I stick to that. Now there is one thing that I don't understand, how did you survive, I watched you die."

"Zack took his own life for me, they gave me his heart, donated the rest of his organs to other X5s, basically parted him out like a car. He survived, with nanobots in his bloodstream, and gave him artificial organs. I got him out, he left as usual to go find the others to tell them what happened. But he's changed, there were no long speeches about staying in Seattle and how it was going to get me captured or killed."

"What was with the whole brainwashing thing?"

"They made me believe that you were the enemy and then sent me to kill you. But as obvious that didn't happen. I found Syl and Krit too, told Zack where they were, he'll tell them what happened."

"So what are you going to do now? Now that Manticore is gone where will you go?"

"Figured, I'd travel, there is nothing holding me here anymore, I don't have a job, my friends understand my need to get away, the only thing holding me here is you." Max said glancing up at him.

"I'm holding you here?"

"Uh-huh."

"How?"

"I need to know how you feel, in your letter you said that you loved me, but did you really mean it, or were you saying it as in a friends only way?"

"I meant it with all my heart. Now I need to know how you feel, in your letter you wrote that you loved me, did you mean it or was it only in a friends way?"

"I meant it with all my heart."

Max glanced up at him, smiling slightly and watching him smile also. They kissed again passionately, only pulling away to catch their breath. "I missed you." Logan said.

"I missed you too." Max replied.

"So where do we go from here?" Logan asked.

"I don't know, Mexico or maybe Canada. As long as I'm with you it doesn't matter."

"How about Europe, there's a boat sailing tomorrow from LA to Asia. We can go through Asia and maybe go to Paris or Vienna. Maybe get married." Logan said the last sentence softly but just loud enough for Max to here.

"What did you say?"

"I said maybe get married."

"Did you just ask me to marry you?"

"Are you saying yes?"

"If I'm saying yes?"

"Then we'll get married."

"Then I'm saying yes." They hugged and kissed.

Logan pulled a ring box out of his pocket and held it out to Max. "I've been holding on to this for awhile, just in the off chance that things would take a romantic turn, and they have."

Opening the box Max smiled, "Good clarity, colorless, I could fence it for seven thou easy."

"Come on, let's take an extended vacation."

"That sounds like a good idea, I love you Logan."

"I love you Max." With that they walked down the street together.

"I was thinking, how about we get married at the Eiffel Tower."

"Whatever you want is fine with me."

"Good, cause I also want kids."

"Kids!?!"

A/N: It's done, finally done, and you have no idea how happy I am that I finally got it finished. Thank you to everyone that reviewed, it means a lot to me that you took the time. My next story is already out As Yet Untitled, please check it out if you haven't already. Thanks.