A Family Affair

Chapter 2: May 3rd, 2023

Seattle 2023

"It was a year ago today," said Max as she picked up the little calendar beside the bed, "May the 3rd."

"A year already?" asked Alec wrapping an arm around her.

"Yeah an…are you still sleeping?"

"Hmmm?"

"Get up!" she bopped him with the calendar.

"Why? It's Sunday Max."

"No it's not that was yesterday."

"So today's Monday?" asked Alec

"Duh!"

"What time is it?"

"I dunno it's," she glanced at the clock, "10:40…"

"And we are now so late."

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Jam Pony

"Well, well, well, look who finally decided to show up," said Normal as Max and Alec ran into work, "It's obvious that you're at fault for my boy being late Missy."

"My fault?"

"And let's try not to have any more week long vacations either."

"We made up for that didn't we Norm?" asked Alec.

"You did but she still owes me time. Here, hot delivery now move!"

"I'm going to hurt him," said Max out of earshot.

"I know."

"You were gone just as long as I was, and it's been a year."

"And of course us being late today has nothing to do with his mood."

"Well, you thought it was Sunday."

"You were up before me."

"Well you…shut up."

"Max, Max, Max."

"What are you going on about?" she asked.

"It's May 3rd, you want to celebrate it."

"Maybe. You want to find White and mug him?"

"I knew you had a sense of humour hidden away somewhere deep down. But mugging White does sounds like a good plan."

"Are you two still doddeling? Get to it bip, bip!" screamed Normal from his counter.

"Oh yeah, nothing beats life as a bike messenger, why don't we just forge Logan's Will and throw him out of the Penthouse window?"

"Because," said Max, "Jesse has to be born and we're not that desperate."

"Yeah I guess."

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Logan's Penthouse

"You think he could have been off?"

"Rachel and Jesse were from the future, the War should have started by now. It's two weeks late," said Logan.

Asha sighed and sat on Logan's desk, "Jesse also said that his world was a possible future, and things could be changed."

"Yeah but not this much, the Familiars haven't tried anything for a while and that's starting to worry me."

"Maybe they got tipped off like we did.," said Asha.

"Yeah but who..." started Logan before it came to him, "Ray White."

"We don't know what he did Logan, Rachel, Jesse, and White were all trying to stop each other. The future Familiars could have just sent the X38's after Max, why was Ray sent back?"

"To warn the Familiars of the War's outcome," said Logan, "great."

He slumped back in his chair and took off his glasses to rub his eyes. The two of them had been up most of the night going over Jesse's disk only to realize that the fragile timeline had indeed been altered.

"So now we don't know what's coming," concluded Logan as Asha gave him a weak smile.

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The bus slowly came to a stop at the terminal. Luggage carriers rushed forward to unload the lower decks as people slowly made their way to pick up what was theirs. A woman stepped off the bus and looked around.

"Nothing ever changes around here," she said.

Behind her six other Manticore Loyalists stepped forwards. Three silent X7's, a brawny X6, and two X5's one male, the other female.

"Let's go," said Brin leading the way out of the Bus Deport, "we have a score to settle."

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A/N: Yeah it's kind of short right now, but it will definitely pick up. I have two other subplots for this story; one of which hit me in the head last night and got me all excited. I don't know if one of them will make it in here though, the one that hit me will though, but I'm not telling you what it is!

Please be patient with me, I don't know how fast I can type all this out seeing as how I have new classes and no spares. My writing has been cut to 1 hr/week if I'm lucky~_^ And I promised this would be up in January [it's the last day of January right now^^;] so here it is. Go review the prequel "Out of the Future" if you haven't already. I have 296 reviews and would like an even 300.