Chapter 8

Seatle 11:56

Brin made her way out of the run down apartment building and into her stolen car. -sigh- so much drama. really, compared to manticore, i swear if tonight gets any worse i might just have a seizure. wait a minute, that was Zane's bike..

This time she sighed out loud.

Brin shifted the car into reverse and backed up right next to where Zane had parked his bike.

"Oh no, I don't think so." She said walking up behind him and slapping her hand on his shoulder to wheal him around. But instead he screamed and ducked out of her reach.

"DAhh!"

"Ahh!" Brin screamed back at him surprised that he hadn't noticed her behind him until now.

"What the hell are you doing here Zane!"

"I don't know, what the hell am i doing here?!"

"I'm not letting you go in there after Max!"

"Good don't!"

"Okay!"

"Why are we yelling?!"

"I don't know!" Brin closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Okay, let's go." she grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and pulled him towards the car.

"But- my bike.."

"Leave it." She said chucking him in the car and slamming the door shut.

Foggle Towers, Penthouse 11:57 

-Urgh this sucks!- Logan had made his way home and was now trying to find something to do with himself. He really just wanted to see Max and was starting to not care that she was in heat. He was just about to cook something to waste time when his door swung open and a sullen faced man walked into his apartment.

"Oh my god." was all Logan could say.

"I need your help. I don't really have anywhere else to be anyway."

"How the hell.."

"I got out."

Apartment 12:01

"Ciinddeee" Max whined from the bathroom. She walked out and leaned on the wall next to the kitchen where Cindy was pouring a new cup of coffee.

"Why isnt the water working?"

"Cause we livin in a dumped n' broken apartment building n' ya cant count on 'nothin. Sorry boo." Max groaned. She collapsed on the couch and buried her head under some pillows.

"Iyy want some ass." she whined.

"Psh, don't we all," Max looked up at her as she walked back into the room in the process of changing, which was only halfway done. "damnit I need a shirt." she said shuffling through a pile of dirty laundry. Max's eyes drifted down her front.

"You been workin out?"

"Wah?" scowling at Max quizzically.

"AHH Cindy put you're shirt back on!" she demanded and stuffing her face back into the pillows. Throwing a shirt on Cindy stared at Max in disbelief.

"What?! Damn- Max you did not just- Jesus-"

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up shut up.." her face was still buried, muffling her words. Cindy reached for her coffee like it was a shot glass.

The door suddenly burst open and a blonde wearing a long poofy-necked jacket and carrying grocery bags and a huge purse, shrieked and slammed it closed with her foot.

"You are never going to guess what happened tonight!" Kendra beamed at Cindy who was leaning against the wall in the kitchen smirking.

"Remember Erik?!" she grinned leaning over a little like she was building up suspense.

"Did he die?" Cindy inquired cheerily.

"Umm..no." Kendra's smile turned into a puzzled scowl.

"I win." Cindy jerked her head towards Max who had sat bolt upright when Kendra came in and seemed to have forgotten her current issues. Kendra slowly looked over at the couch and dropped everything in her hands to the floor. Her eyes widened like she was looking at a ghost.

"Kendra!" Max dove off the couch and practically tackled her stunned friend.

"Wha..wha..wahdashit…MAXx!" her voice cracked and she jumped up and down.

"Whe- what the helll.. you're dead!.." Kendra pulled her back and poked her hard in the shoulder. "..no you're not!.." she shrieked again. "where the fuck have you been?! She said you got shot." throwing her hand out toward Cindy.

"I di-"

"I bet you kicked their ass didn't you. Ooo lemme see the barcode." Max stared at her.

"What? Cindyy.." She turned her head toward Cindy who looked the other way trying to seem innocent.

"heh.. what's shakin…. oh c'mon Max I couldn't lie to her, not after you..died"

"Don't worry Maxie your secrets safe with me. But seriously you were dead."

"Got a new heart. Got stuck in hell."

"But what happened? You're here now."

"Didn't like the company. Ditched out." Kendra smiled and hugged her again.

"Oh my god! Okay so OC you'll never guess who I bumped into at Crash after you left."

"Really." she said sarcastically.

"Erik! and- oh um Max, is it okay, I uh kinda hooked up with him."

"Why wouldn't it be? Wait what happened to Walter, and since when were you buying Cindy groceries?"

"Oh um he kindof had a psychotic ex-wife, and a uh toothbrush fetish. And I've been rooming with Cindy till I finish fixing up the place I found down the street."

"I warned you 'bout the geezer."

"Erik!," Kendra piped in to re-direct the lost subject. "So I recognized him and we started talking, and he didn't know you uh died. So I told him about it and then I got all sad, and I ended up going back to his place."

"Ew! Kendra he's a moron."

"Oh c'mon Max, he's a little slow but he's really sweet, and god he's great in bed, I mean you would know."

"Nothing happe-" She interrupted herself to turn towards the wall and started looking around at empty space.

"Uh oh." said Cindy

"What? What's she doing? Does she always do this? Its part of the superhuman thing right, does she have like a Spidey-Sense?"

"Not 'zactly. Da boo in heat." Cindy grabbed Max by the arm and started pulling her back toward the couch.

"But there's a-"

"You ain't goin' nowhere suga."

"Heat?" Kendra looked confused again.

"Remember Erik." Cindy said matter-of-factly as she pushed Max onto the couch.

"Wait so Max gets all humpy like dogs and cats?"

"Kay?" came a muffled voice from outside

"uh oh." Kendra ran toward the door but Max was already on her feet.

"Kendra!" cried Cindy trying to pull Max toward the kitchen.

"Wha' da fuh'! You brought him here?"

"I'm sorry I didn't know!" She cracked the door open as Max fought to get to the it, "You gotta go away." Kendra told him.

"What? What's goin' on you said you'd be right back." Erik tried to poke his head in but she was shooing him away. "Max? What? You said.."

"I know, I know I'll explain later but you gotta leave."

"Kendra get 'im outta here!" Cindy yelled still trying to cling to Max.

"C'mon let's go." Kendra grabbed him and slammed the door shut behind her, but poked her head in a second later to air-kiss Max goodbye.

"Hey would you cut it out!" Cindy scolded and stomped on Max's foot.

"Ow. Sorry."

"That was close."