Title: Created to Kill: PART ONE
Name: X-318
Rating: PG-13 but may turn into an R later on in story.
Summary: Thanks for the review Lolly81 you made my day, sorry I may have confused you a bit. In answer to your questions, yes this is totally an M/L fic all my stories will mainly be M/L based, amongst other things as well. It leads of from the story Skin Game, but mainly only in the plot itself, with what is happening with the police and Logan's hack. I wanted to delve deeper into Logan and Max's relationship though cause it bugged me in the programme that they keep us hanging like that at the end, so that is why I had Logan bring up the M/A issue, you could look at it like a quick summary perhaps. I hope to answer some questions from the last series about Sandeman (where is he? Etc). Also what the symbols on Max's back mean. Please bare with me, it will all become much clearer I promise. Hope you enjoy this chapter sorry if it's a bit slow.
Chapter 2: Beth.
"Beth, are you in there?" it was Beth's landlord at the door, and his patients was growing a little thin.
She was trying to avoid him, seen as, she hadn't paid her rent in two months, and he had been on her back for about three weeks now. A few months ago she had arrived in Seattle and found out that nearly all the trangenics had been found out and were now living in terminal city.
She had been living in Canada where most trangenics had gone after the escape of 09 since then it had been their hiding place. She had come back after Sandeman had contacted her and said he had needed her help. Beth was one of the X5 series and had escaped Manticore after the fire had happened. She had been pretending she was an ordinary person trying to blend in since then. She had gone on a mission to find Sandeman when she had escaped because he had told her back at Manticore that if anything would happen to find him straight away, it took quite a while but in the end she found him living in Seattle. He had told her to lay low and he would be in contact with her if need be, so that's when she left to go to Canada where she had hooked up with many other transgenics.
Beth sat there wishing she had never come back at all, things were better in Canada, and at least she had Jack there. Her boyfriend, everything was normal for a while at least. He never had questions about her past he just took her for who she was.
Ever since she was born or created in a test tube she had taken orders from people because of growing up in Manticore that seemed like the norm to her, it wasn't that bad. But for the first time in her life she was the one in control of it, she could do what she wanted when she wanted. No more Lydecker or Renfro to take orders from anymore.
When Sandeman had contacted her she wanted so much to say "No" to him, that she had finally settled down in a "normal" life. But Beth saw him as being like her father figure, he always looked out for her. So no matter how much it hurt she had to leave Canada and help Sandeman.
Now as she looked around at the apartment she was currently living in she wished she had said "No". The place was a dump literally, the wallpaper was falling off the walls, there was what looked like bloodstains on the carpet which Beth didn't really want to know anything about. To make things even worse if that was possible it smelt like something had died in the bathroom. After she had helped Sandeman with his problem the first thing she was going to do was move back to Canada into her cosy home sweet home. She thought she could go live in the sewers and it would be better than this place. No wonder she didn't want to pay the rent, which was a rip off to say the least.
It was easy for Beth to blend in with the humans because she had no barcode like all the others did. Sandeman never explained the whole story but she knew it had something to do with her mother. Apparently Sandeman was close to her but he never said how he knew her.
According to Beth her mother was a selfish bitch who only thought of herself. Beth never could understand how a mother could give up their child to people who wanted to experiment on it. Beth never knew the whole story about her mother, but it didn't bother her in the slightest.
Now she was in her dump of an apartment wondering how on earth she had got like this, at least back at Manticore she didn't have to pay rent.
"Beth get your ass out here now, you owe me a months rent missy," slamming his fist on the door.
"You either come out on your own accord or I'm going to bust this door down".
Beth was fed up of hearing her landlord's moaning so she headed for her window. She opened it and slid down the drainpipe to the alleyway below.
It was late at night and the cold air on her face was kind of refreshing, She was so happy to get out of that place and away from her dick of a landlord. As she walked down the street she had the feeling someone was following her. She turned round and found three big, burly men standing in front of her.
"What the fuck do you want?" she demanded not scared in the slightest she knew she could take on everyone of them.
The biggest guy stepped forward backing Beth into a corner. "I wouldn't mind a piece of you", he spat, his eyes flickering over Beth's well-toned form.
"Oh really," Beth stepped forward so there was a slight gap between them. "Do you really think I would be interested in someone as ugly looking as you, I mean please what do you take me for?"
The man looked pretty angry at this point and reached into his pocket, bringing out a knife and holding it in Beth's direction.
"I don't think you wanna be doing that", Beth said.
He turned round and started laughing with his mates, "And why's that missy?" he asked as he turned his head back to look at her again. But just before he got a glimpse of her face he felt her foot connect with his face.
"That's why!" she jumped up extending her leg and kicked him in the balls. There was already blood spraying from his noise, as he bent over in pain, clutching his groin to sooth the pain from the second blow. "You fucking bitch!!"
His mates stepped forward but before they could do anything Beth was behind them, she kicked the one in the ass and the other she slid her legs under him making him topple over and smack his head off the cement floor. By this time the first guy who approached her had steadied himself and was ready to fight, so he thought anyway. Beth punched him in the nose and heard a crack as the man screamed out in pain, blood was pouring from the wound even more than before, she thought she had most definitely broken his noise for sure. As each guy kept coming back for more Beth just keep punching, kicking and knocking them out one by one.
She walked over to the man who had spoken to her he was cowering on the floor but hadn't passed out yet she looked down at him and said "I told you, you didn't want to do that", then she kicked him in the head knocking him out cold.
Beth couldn't stand all these stupid men, all the time these idiots approached her and all the time it ended the same way. Just then her phone started to ring.
"Hey, what's up?" she said retrieving the phone.
"I need to speak to you urgently", a man's voice said from the other end.
"What is it?"
"Just come round and I can explain then", the person on the other end hung up leaving Beth standing there in silence.
Why the hell does he always have to be so cryptic she thought to herself. She headed for her car that was parked just round the corner, she climbed in and speed off down the street.
As she drove down the street she remembered the times back at Manticore when Sandeman used to visit her before he disappeared all of a sudden. He had told her he was in lots of trouble and he had to leave but he would find her again someday.
Manticore Headquarters, Wyoming, 2017
"How's my special little soldier feeling today?" Sandeman said as he walked into Beth's cell.
Sandeman created Beth to look exactly like his wife who was captured by the familiars. She was the first transgenic who looked like a normal human being, instead of having some gills or whiskers which if anyone saw would go running and screaming in the other direction. Beth meant a great deal to Sandeman and he always looked out for her like she was his own.
Beth stood up and saluted her master. "Good Sir," she pauses "What do you need me for?"
"Nothing important I just wanted to see how my star was today".
Beth was more relaxed now, "I'm great. Not much to report really".
"I didn't come for an up date on Manticore, that's what Renfro's for".
Beth sat down on her bed and brought her knees up to her crest wrapping her arms round her, Sandeman sat down opposite looking at her.
"What?" Beth asked, feeling slightly uncomfortable, fidgeting on the spot.
"I was just thinking how much you look like your mother, she was a great woman".
"She was a bitch more like", Beth said harshly.
"Beth! Don't talk like that, I thought I raised you better"
"Why not? What do you know about her anyway?" Beth asked sounding like she didn't even care.
"Lets just say we were really close".
"Well she never bothered to get close to me, her own daughter, so she can go to hell for all I care", Beth never really cared about her mother and you couldn't really blame the girl, she wasn't exactly the best roll model.
"It wasn't as simple as that Beth"
"Well explain it to me then", Beth said.
"I will some day but not right now", Sandeman said.
"Whatever", Beth shrugged and turned to face the other way, so she wasn't looking at him anymore. She always felt awkward in situations like this, Manticore wasn't really big on dealing with its soldier's emotions.
Sandeman placed his hand on Beth's shoulder "She did love you".
Beth started to feel uncomfortable so got up and walked over to the other side of the room and leaned against the wall instead.
"We don't need to talk about that though if you don't want to," he said feeling the atmosphere in the room change. "I'm going", Sandeman said changing conversation.
"Ok so I'll see you next week the usual time".
"You don't understand me. I mean I have to leave and go underground some dangerous people are looking for me and I'm in lots of trouble".
"I can protect you. I'll kick their ass".
"No! That's an order. They are extremely powerful people and will kill you without a second thought".
"Fine when will I see you again?" Beth felt slightly hurt because he thought she couldn't protect him enough.
"Don't worry if anything happens you will know where to find me".
"I don't understand, how will I?"
"There's something in you're your DNA that will be able to locate me".
"You mean like a dog, I have dog DNA in me. That's disgusting, great now I'm a really bitch".
"Promise me that if anything happens to Manticore you will come and find me".
"I promise, I'll be there in a heartbeat. But what the hell could happen to this place I ask you", Beth thought it was a ridiculous idea of anything happening to Manticore, it was like Fort Knox there couldn't have been any more security if it tried. Un-be known to her what was ahead for her and all the other transgenics at Manticore.
Sandeman stepped up to the door and shouted, "Guard, open the door". He turned back round, "I'll see you soon take care of yourself Beth". He stepped forward giving her a huge bear hug before exiting the cell.
A/N: Hope you like this chapter. I'm sorry if there wasn't enough M/L but I promise there will be in the next chapter, I just needed to set up my new character in the mix. Please review and tell me what u thought, it will help with my creative thinking. If you have any suggestions on how u would like the story to go, or any questions, the sooner the better so I can post next chapter. Thanks!