Entering his units barracks 494 walked over and sat next to 576, who was lying on his bunk. Sensing his CO's annoyance, 576 sat up and faced him. "So what did the director want?"

Rolling his eyes and sighing. "She wanted to tell me that we will be getting a new member in our unit."

"Who?" He couldn't help the surprised expression that crept on his face. It was quite unusual for X5's to be transferred into other units, it only ever happened a few times because of one circumstance or another.

"X5-452, the ex-escapee." From 576's expression, 494 could tell that he was as pleased about the news as he had been when he had first found out.

"You're serious?"

He nodded his head in reply. It hadn't actually occurred to him before what the others in the unit would think to this. He knew that he didn't like the situation, and from 576's face neither did he. He was sure none of the others would either.

"Shouldn't she be put in one of the lower ranking units? I mean she's missed out on over ten years of training."

"I know. However the director thinks she should be placed in this unit, because apparently she has potential. Whatever that means."

"So when is she being transferred?" 576 knew that the rest of the unit wouldn't like this at all, all of them had grown up for the last eleven years thinking of the escapees as betrayers and now one would be in their unit.

"Tomorrow." 494 already knew the question that he was about to ask and to be honest it wasn't a task he really wanted to do.

"When are you telling the others?" he said, gesturing to the other members of the unit.

Standing up 494 sighed, "I might as well do it now and get it over and done with."

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Sighing, Max rolled on to her side. She hadn't been able to sleep all night. Not that she needed to because of her shark DNA, but being stuck in Manticore there wasn't much else to do. It wasn't as though she could go out and ride her baby. No, instead she was stuck in the confinement of her cell where all she could do was think.

All night she had been thinking about what Renfro had said earlier, about being put in another unit. Trying to imagine what they would be like, she had started to think about her siblings again. A year ago she still didn't know where they were or if they were safe. In fact the only thing she had known was that twelve of them had escaped that night.

Then she had found Zack, or rather he had found her. She remembered back to that day, she had been so happy. Ten years she had spent searching for her siblings and then all of a sudden her big brother appeared. She started to see flashes of Zack when she had first met up with him again and when the police had caught her and was about to give her up to Lydecker. Max felt a rush of guilt build up inside her. Lydecker would have taken her back to Manticore that day, but Zack had saved her and gotten himself taken instead. He had sacrificed himself then, like he had when he killed himself to save her life. He was dead and it was her fault.

Trying to shake the images out of her head, Max felt tears fall from her eyes. She had failed Zack, just like she had failed Brin, Tinga and Ben. She had promised Brin that they would rescue her, but they didn't and know she had been brainwashed. She had also failed Tinga along with her little boy, she had promised him that he would get his mum back, but instead she had let her get killed. Then there was Ben, not only had she failed him, but she had also killed him.

Deciding that she had to stop thinking about it, Max got up off her bed and sat on the floor and began to do sit-ups. She began thinking about her new unit again. What if they don't like me? From most of the contact she had with the other X5's, Max had learned that she and her siblings were thought of as traitors. But maybe this lot would be different?

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Ever since informing his unit about 452 yesterday, none of them had been happy about it and they had all been voicing their opinions to him and it was starting to give him a headache. The only time of rest he got was during training, but as soon as it was over and they were sent back to their barracks they had all been discussing 452 again.

Now he had finally managed to get a minute by himself. Resting against the wall, he tried his best to relax. 452 wasn't even here yet and already she had stirred things up, he couldn't imagine what it would be like when she actually arrived.

He thought she would have arrived first thing this morning, but she hadn't. Then after training he assumed she would be there when they got back, but she wasn't. Part of him hoped that Renfro had changed her mind and that 452 wouldn't be transferred to his unit, but another part of him was intrigued by the ex-escapee and wanted to meet her. He had heard from some of the other X5's in other units, that when she had first arrived she was always disobeying orders and mouthing off to the director. But after her trip to Psy-Ops it seemed that she had been broken down and started taking orders.

Ever since 452 and her unit escaped, he had always been taught that she and the rest of them were traitors. For a second, part of him actually admired them that they were able to escape from this place as kids and because they had hid from Manticore for so long. But he mentally slapped himself. No, they were traitors. He knew that their life wasn't easy before, but after the 09'ers little escape it was them that were the ones that got punished, not them.

He tried to relax, but as soon as his eyes closed he sensed someone approach and his eyes snapped open.

"You got a minute?" Recognising the voice before he even looked at up, he knew that it was 528.

"Sure" He already knew what it was about or rather who it was about.

"It's about 452. I know you don't know any more then what you have already told us. But I was just wondering, what do you make of the situation? You never really mentioned your views."

"I don't know." Knowing the truth of his own words, he shrugged not knowing what else to say.

Smiling in return, she sat beside him. "I'm surprised that she isn't here already."

"Me too." 494 repressed the urge to smirk. Sometimes he swore 528 knew his thoughts. She always seemed to bring up the things he was thinking about or had been wondering about.

"Hopefully it won't be too much longer. The unit is already wound up about the fact that she's been placed in our unit and the waiting is only winding them up more, at least when she's here the tension will hopefully settle quicker."

"Hopefully." He agreed, even though her arrival would probably stir things up a lot more, the waiting was worse and was making the others tense.

Glancing around the unit, 528 sighed. "You can't really blame them for being angry about the situation though, for the last eleven years we were told that they were traitors and can't be trusted and then Renfro goes and places one in our unit."

"Nah you can't, but at the same time if she is going to be put in our unit then we are going to have to trust her? Right? I mean we can't let her on missions if we don't? But how can we? She would probably try to escape the moment she was out on the field."

Hiding the smirk at the obvious aggravation that her CO was feeling, she shrugged. "Depends, I guess. We know that she can be loyal, well at least she was to her old unit. Maybe she will be the same to us? But then maybe she won't. In that case we will just have to make the best of the situation, I'm sure she will know that its in her best interest to work with us, because that is the only way she will be able to survive in the field."

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Max heard the guards coming down the corridor before they even entered her cell. She had been waiting all day for them to transfer her to her new unit, but no guards had come.

The waiting was the worst part about the whole situation, at least if she got sent to her new unit this morning then it would have been over and done with and she could deal with it, but having to wait around meant that she had time to think, which always lead to remembering. Brin. Ben. Tinga. Zack. Logan. OC. As the memories started to flood through, Max shook her head and tried to concentrate on anything but remembering. The only upside about Manticore is that it always kept her busy during the day, which meant that she could avoid the memories, but at night she couldn't avoid them at all. Damn shark DNA.

As soon as it came to lights out the memories would always come, but after being told she was getting transferred yesterday, last night had been the worst since being re-captured. All night she had been wondering what her new unit would be like.

Two guards entered her cell, she recognised one of them who she had seen about in morning drills, but the other she didn't recognise. He didn't look that different from any of the other guards really, he was tall and had an average build, but something about his eyes were different. They reminded her of the way Lydecker used to look at them, with no fear. Even though they were the ones in charge, all the other guards were cautious of them because they knew with a flick of a finger they could be dead, but this man didn't hold any fear in his eyes, instead he just look annoyed.

The guard just looked at her with a disgusted look on his face. "State your designation."

"X5-452 Sir"

"452 get your stuff you are bring transferred to your new unit"

"Sir, yes sir" Picking up her small bag of possessions she followed the two guards. She felt a tight knot forming in her stomach. She tried thinking back to a time when she had been more nervous, but if she ever had she couldn't remember it right now.

---

Things had started to settle down since earlier and 494 had actually gone about half an hour without hearing the designation 452. Now that he thought about it, it was actually quite amusing that a group of highly trained soldiers who under any other circumstance, no matter how hard, would be able to just suck it up and deal and none of them would even voice their complaints once. But when it came to a 09'er joining their unit it was a totally different matter.

But as every minute had passed, she still hadn't arrived so the whole unit had just presumed she wouldn't be transferred tonight, not this late anyway and some had even hoped that Renfro had come to her senses and decided not to transfer her to their unit at all. But he knew that would not be the case, they were probably just too busy to do it today and was going to do it first thing tomorrow morning.

Just as he was about to get up and join the rest of his unit he saw 246 spring out of his seat and before he could even question why he heard the footsteps of people approaching. Jumping up he saw that his entire unit had already started to form a line and he quickly followed suit standing in front of them waiting for the guards to enter their barracks.

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The guards both stopped and Max mentally kicked at her self for being so damn nervous. She could feel the knot getting tighter and tighter in her stomach and felt the urge to be sick, she was so nervous right now and it took all of her Manticore training to make sure that she was showing no emotion.

Taking one last deep breath she followed the guards into her new units barracks. She stood still behind the guards and looked straight ahead as she was trained to, as the guard moved out of the way her gaze fell on to a familiar pair of hazel eyes.

Max stopped dead in her tracks and stood frozen unable to move.

Oh my God.

Ben?

Ok I just want to let you know that in this story Alec (494) is not Ben's clone, him and Ben are real twin brothers. All the other ex's don't have clones either including Max, so Sam doesn't exist in this story. Its just because I don't think it makes sense how Lydecker was looking for them for ten years and didn't know what they look like considering they all had clones. So for this story there are no clones.

Thanks to all who have reviewed and also thanks to my beta Sian.