Title: Created to Kill: PART ONE
Name: X-318
Rating: PG-13 but may turn into an R later on in story.
Summary: Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, I'm a very happy person now! Hope I live up to what u expected. To answer your query yep this is going to be a long story, I had the ideas for it a while back but I promise it will only get better as I go, got many more plans for this baby. I'm at the moment also working on other stories lots of M/L action involved – J hehe. I hope to post them up soon! And yes there will be lots of angst later on in the story – so stick with me. Sorry to PeachyKeen if I caused any confusion I didn't mean to. I didn't think anyone was reading that story, cause I was getting no reviews, so this is the replacement with a few changes, I hope it's even better.
Chapter 3: A glimpse into the future.
As Max walked down the corridor leading back to Terminal City she was kicked herself, for just leaving, she wanted to explain everything to Logan and tell him that really she was madly in love with him every time she was around him, she had to remind herself to sit on her hands to control herself from pouncing on him.
As she thought about it even more a battle was starting in his head, whether she should turn round and tell everything to Logan or to just leave it and pretend nothing even happened. In the end she decided on the latter option. As she approached the control room she thought she would have to get this out of her head before anyone saw her. Alec would most defiantly realise there was something on her mind.
On entering the room she was almost straightaway bombarded by questions about "What was going on with all the rations", and "What they were going to do now that there were no national guard standing outside Terminal City watching there every move". At this point she realised that she couldn't fulfil all the needs of everyone in this place. Her whole life had been solely about herself, no one else there to worry about. Now everyone was looking at her for guidance and she had no idea where to start.
With all these thoughts swimming around in her head, she hadn't even noticed Alec approaching until he was standing right in front of her defending her by tell everyone not so politely to, "get lost". As Max came back to the land of the living she tried to quietly slip away back through the door she had just entered.
But as she was half way through the door she felt a hand fall on her shoulder, "Maxie!" Max breathed in slowly preparing herself for the worst news Alec could give her.
"What have you done now Alec?", she asked spinning round to face him.
"Why is it you always assume I've done something wrong", Alec said looking back at her with the most angelic face he could make.
"Well you know what until you prove me wrong Alec, that's what I'm always going to think".
"Well I'm glad to see you're having a nice day, sunshine", he quipped.
Max turned on her heels, "I'm not in the mood Alec", she shot back over her shoulder.
"What's got you all rotated…"he paused to think, "…I know Logan ain't it?" Max paused mid-step before continuing.
Alec being the quizzical one that he is noticed her reaction and decided to delve a little deeper, "What did Roller Boy do now", he asked using the nick name he had heard Original Cindy call him a few times, it was starting to catch on.
Max spun round backing Alec up against the wall, "Only O.C uses that name and I don't even like it when she does. If it failed to catch you attention, but Logan isn't in a wheel chair any longer…So shut it ok", she looked him right in the eye this time, to warn him she wasn't messing around.
Alec know at this point there was something seriously up with Max so opted on not being an ass for a change and continued down the corridor in tow after Max, who was walking at a fast speed almost as if she was trying to escape. But trapped in this place there wasn't many places to go. Alec soon court up with her, "So what happened?" he asked more sincere this time.
"What makes you think I want to discuss my relationships with you Alec. The one person in this whole building who can't even stay in a steady relationship for more than a day".
"I'm hurt. I really am Max", Alec had his hand clutching over his heart.
Max just looked at him with a look in her eye that said pur-lease. "Ok…I'll soon get over it", he added, "But really what's up with you and Logan? Did you have a fight?" He was all the time looking at her face in order to read her response. At the mention of a fight he saw something in her eye, "Ok what did you fight about?"
"Alec go away", Max said avoiding the issue.
"I'm sure you two will get through it, I mean Logan's mad about you", Max stopped walking and looked down at the floor.
"He knows about us", she mumbled into her chest.
Alec could only just pick out what she had said even with his enhanced hearing, "What do you mean he knows? I thought we cleared this up before".
"I saw the hurt in his face. I can't believe I hurt him like that".
"Yeah but now he knows it was a lye so everything's fine…Hang on a minute", Alec said realising something, "Why was it so hard for him to believe we were going out", he almost shouted, "What am I not good enough for yah?"
"Come on Alec".
"What this is a serious question. Does he think that you wouldn't fancy me? What's wrong with me?" Now he was starting to sound pathetic.
Max decided she didn't want this conversation to go on forever, so decided to answer him with what he wanted to hear, "No Alec nothings wrong with you, couldn't look for a better guy", he could detect a hint of sarcasm but choose to ignore it.
Now they had arrived at Max sleeping quarters and were standing outside the door, "Alec will you do me a huge favour?" she said batting her eyelashes in his direction.
"Sure thing Max anything".
"Will you take that gorgeous body of yours…", he stepped closer to her awaiting the rest of the sentence.
"Yeah!" he said smiling down at her.
"…back to the control room and keep an eye on things. Cause I'm taking a nap", with that she opened the door as she leaned against it, stepping inside and slamming the door in Alec's shocked face on the other side.
Alec soon recovered praying no one had seen anything and walked of, doing as he was told for a change.
Max collapsed on her bed stretching her arms out as far as they would go. Poor guy thought he was in with a chance there. Like I would ever fool around with someone that was like a brother to meMax thought to herself as she closed her eyes for a second in thought. God she was exhausted being a leader of a group was hard work. She could feel her eyelids getting heavy. Well she hadn't actually had a proper night sleep in ages. That dream she had had earlier woke her up, so really she was only asleep for an hour or so.
As she started to feel reality slipping away, her last thought was that she hoped she wouldn't dream of Manticore again. That place took up enough of her life as it was, she didn't need to dream about the thing as well.
Max woke up and could feel the presents of someone else in the room with her. Before even opening her eyes she could feel arms wrapped around her, hugging her close to whom ever it was. Unsure whether to open her eyes at first but then realising that she would have to sooner or later.
She blinked allowing the light to adjust, before looking up at the face of this person. There before her she saw Logan looking down at her with a smile spread from cheek to cheek.
"Morning Baby", Logan said planting a light kiss on her forehead. Max jumped up pulling back from Logan, so there was a huge gap between them now. "Max! What's wrong?"
Max looked down to see that she was naked, "What the hell?" she gasped pulling the covers up to conceal her naked form. Max got out of bed with the sheet firmly wrapped around her. When she realised Logan was lying on the bed also naked, but now that she had took the sheets he had nothing covering him. She looked away almost embarrassed at to look.
Logan soon got up and started to approach her, but as he got closer she started moving away. "Max, what are you doing?" he asked confused at the whole situation.
"What am I doing? What are you doing!?" she shrieked not noticing that she was being backed into a corner.
"Max. I'm not the one acting like they've lost it".
"Why do you keep calling me by pet names? You've never done that before", Max asked trying to understand and think back on what had happening. She had failed to notice where she was actually standing. Until Logan reached out and she had no-where else to go. She closed her eyes awaiting the inevitable to happen, Logan would collapse to the floor and start shaking. "Don't Logan!", she pleaded. Is all she got out before she felt his strong hands on her shoulders. He was now pulling her towards him, as she pulled her head back with her eyes still firmly closed.
They had been in this position for a while now and nothing had happened to Logan. Well he wasn't shaking on the floor from the seizures is all Max could tell because of her eyes being closed and all.
Logan now had his hands on the sides of her face, stoking his fingers though her hair. He could see she was troubled but had no idea over what. Feeling that her body had now relaxed a bit, he decided to question her actions, "Max, what is wrong with you? You haven't made a word of sense since you opened your eyes".
Max looked up at Logan relived that he was ok, even though he was touching her and to her knowledge he hadn't all of a sudden become immune to the virus. "Why…why aren't you…you know seizing at this point Logan", that's the simplest way she could put it, even if it sounded a little harsh to say.
"Max, I'm not the one who has seizures Honey…It's you", he said stoking the side of her face to comfort her obvious uneasiness.
"But the virus!"
"What virus?" Logan asked taken aback at what Max's was saying.
"The virus Manticore gave me, which makes us unable to touch", Max said leaning towards Logan, wiry but enjoying every minute of it at the same time.
"Max that thing disappeared ages ago. Remember it just wore out, apparently the dosage wasn't strong enough. But it's been like that for almost two years now".
Max thought about it but she couldn't ever remember anything like that happening. Logan took the blanket from Max and wrapped it around him before pulling Max into his embrace. Max could feel every inch of his body against her own. She wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned her head on his chest. She could hear his steady heart beat and wished this moment would never end.
Max looked up into Logan's eyes mesmerized by those baby blues, as he leaned down she did not pull back this time. She had wanted this for so long and she was not one to object at this point. Just then she felt the contact she had wanted, Logan's lips were now on her own. She opened her mouth allowing the kiss to deepen. It felt so nature, right, like it had always been this way.
Till she was interrupted by, "Daddy!" came a child's voice from the other room.
Max's head shot up and she looked at Logan questioning whether she had actually heard anything or not, "Don't worry Honey I'll see to her", Logan said stepping out from under the blankets and grapping the nearest boxers he could find of the cupboard. Before putting them on and leaving the room.
Max was trying her hardest to remember anything that would help explain this situation, when she could feel a seizure come on. Her head went light and it was becoming increasing hard to focus on anything in the room, then without much notice she collapsed on the floor, the last words she could hear was Logan's voice shouting her name.
When Max opened her eyes she was still shaking but not as bad this time. She looked around to see that she was now back in her sleeping quarters. Reaching over to her side cabinet she grabbed the bottle of Tryptophan, unscrewing the cap, she popped a few pills in her mouth. Once the seizure subsided she realised that everything must have been a dream. Closing her eyes she started crying, she didn't want to dream about Manticore but now this was worse.
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Jam Pony, Seattle, 2022
"Where've you been? How long does it take to deliver a package?" Normal said when Original Cindy walked into Jam Pony.
"Great to see you too Normal", Original Cindy looked over at the still boarded up windows Max had flown through mounted on a hoverdrome, a few months back now. Normal wasn't able to afford to fix it and it was surprising that his attitude wasn't worse than it actually was.
"Don't be funny with me missy," Normal said, "If you want to keep your job you have to actually work".
"Normal chill we'll get the packages delivered", she walked over to Sketchy who was sitting by the lockers. She hated having to come to work every day and see where she would hang with her mates knowing there was one main friend missing. Where ever she went she had reminders of Max, even just riding down the road would remind her of going on a run with her boo. Nothing was the same anymore and every day she was worried for her best friend.
"Hey boo, how's it hangin'?" Original Cindy asked.
"It's all good." Sketchy said, "Have you heard from Max lately?" he looked his usual scruffy self.
"Nah. But I was goin' to ring her later to see if she wants to meet at Crash tonight. You comin'?"
"Yeah. I can hang with the gang. It's been ages since we hooked up together".
"I know! But maybe that will all change now that the police have retreated from terminal city".
"Let's hope so", Sketchy said.
Original Cindy heard voices comes from the other side of the lockers, it was some guys that worked at Jam Pony. She could hear them talking about the "mutant freaks". So she decided to listen in on their conversation.
"Can you believe that Max was a mutant? She was so hot", one of the men said.
"I know it's kind of a shame to waste that fit body on one of those freaks".
"I'm glad they're all in Terminal City, they can stay there otherwise their just going to die as soon as they step one foot out of those barriers. People round here don't want them wondering the streets of Seattle".
"Yeah man I'd kick their ass".
Original Cindy stepped from behind the lockers followed closely by Sketchy, "I'd love to see you try, fool. Max would knock you out in two seconds flat".
"Oh look it's the freaks friends. We better watch what we say or they will set that dog man on us", the man said sarcastically and started laughing with his mates. Everyone in Jam Pony had seen Joshua when the hostage situation took place.
"He's more of a man than you will ever be, you dick head", Original Cindy said.
The man's face dropped and started to go red, he was getting really angry.
"And you know what even if Max wasn't a genetically engineered transgenic you would have no hope in the world getting anywhere with her, because she has way better taste than scum like you", sketchy said feeling all proud of himself for sticking up for his new found friends.
The guy looked like he was going to kill someone, he stepped forward to take a swing at Sketchy but just at that moment Normal walked past.
"Bip, bip, bip you lay a bouts, these packages don't deliver themselves you know," he stood there until the men left. "Bunch of losers, I think they'll find themselves looking for new jobs soon", he walked off with a smile on his face.
Original Cindy looked at Sketchy and smiled too. Normal was safe, ever since he delivered that transgenic baby. He used to be the number one for hating transgenics but now he had changed completely that made Original Cindy happy because if a guy like Normal can change his opinion about them maybe there was hope that others would too.
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Beth strode into Sandeman's house, "Hey, Sandeman are you here?" she looked around but couldn't find him so she headed down into the basement to take a look. The place looked like no one lived there, which was good because that meant that no one would come nosing around. The house itself was kind of small and cosy, very homely. The stairs creaked as she walked down them, some of them felt like they were going to snap in half.
Down in the basement there were chemistry sets everywhere it reminded Beth of being back at Manticore, which made her feel save and at home. The place was dark but that didn't bother Beth because of her feline DNA she could see fine. "Hey Sand Man where are you?" she turned round and started back up the stairs.
"Beth? Is that you?" Sandeman said quietly. "I'm over here".
She turned back round but she couldn't see anything "Where I can't see you". She looked some more then saw a shadow in the corner. "What you doing over there?" She walked over to him.
"I'm hiding I thought I heard someone outside so I decided to come down here and stay here until you arrived".
"There's no one out there I would have seen them when I arrived," she leaned down outstretching her hand to help him stand up. "You're really worked up about these people who are looking for you aren't you?"
"They are extremely dangerous".
"Yeah, yeah you've told me that before".
"Yeah and I really mean it. Promise me you'll be careful I don't want you getting tangled up with them. I care about you Beth".
"I'm a big girl you know I can look after myself. I have moves many people don't, plus no one would suspect it either".
"Don't be all big headed, these people have moves too".
She turned round and started nosing around "Cool crib you got here, needs a bit of a clean though", she said whilst wiping a cobweb out of her way. "What did you call me for? What's the big emergency?"
"I need you to do something for me", Sandeman said.
"You mean a mission," she rubbed her hands together, "Is it dangerous? Cause I need some fun in my life at the moment".
"This isn't a joke Beth. I need you to find someone for me".
"Who?" Beth said walking around still checking the place out.
"She's a transgenic and she's in Terminal city".
"You want me to go to that dump. I don't think so", Beth said shaking her head vigorously.
"Beth please it's really important that I find this girl she is the key to all my plans".
"I thought I was your special girl", Beth said, pouted her lips.
"You are but this girl I created to stop the people who are after me, she is a major part in my plan".
"So you want me to find her?"
"That's the plan. Her designation is X5-452 but her friends call her Max".
"How do you know that?" Beth asked.
"It was mentioned on the news when they were all trapped in that place called Jam Pony, apparently she worked there before".
"What were they doing there?"
"That's a long story. Will you help me find her?" Sandeman pleaded.
"I suppose…" she shrugged her shoulders "I don't have a choice though, do I?"
"It would be a great help to me. You know I can't leave this place".
"Yeah, yeah whatever. When do you need this done by?" Beth asked.
"ASAP!".
"I'll head out tonight then", she started shifting through a pile of paper on the table nearest to her.
Sandeman push her hands aside before moving the papers "Thanks Beth", he smiled at her, distracting her from being so inquisitive.
They both headed up the stairs and into what was suppose to be the living room but they was just one chair and no other furniture, it was left there from the people that were there before Sandeman moved in.
Sandeman sat down on the chair as Beth walked over to the window to check things outside. Sandeman's pet raven was sitting on the windowsill, Beth started to stroke it but soon stopped because it didn't look like it was enjoying the fuss. Sandeman used the bird as his look out for if any people were coming.
"So who are these people looking for your ass?" Beth asked talking a seat on the arm of the chair.
"His name is Ames White…" Sandeman hesitated for a moment before continuing, "…he's my son!"
Beth couldn't believe her ears, "You're hiding from your own son", just the look on her face explained how confused she was.
"He's a familiar".
"A what?" Beth asked.
"They are a cult of people who believe they're more powerful than anyone. I was one of them before they kid-napped my wife and children. That's when I started creating transgenics, to stop them".
"Sounds a bit wack to me".
"It is. I created X5-452 to stop their plans, she is going to save many people".
Beth turned round to face Sandeman, he looked really upset and was trying to bury his face in his chest. "I didn't mean for it to get this bad", he said eventually.
"It will be ok, I'll find her for you", Beth said trying to sound sensitive but it came out wrong, she blamed it on her upbringing. She never really had a family to love her.
Sandeman turned to look at her, placing a hand on the side of Beth's face, "I know I can count on you. You're mom would be so proud of you".
"I better go, need to get ready for tonight", Beth stood up and left the house. As she walked over to her car parked round the corner, what Sandeman had just told her was going though her head. She couldn't believe he was hiding from his own son, she thought that family must be really messed up.
When she arrived at her apartment she snuck in though the window avoiding bumping into her landlord. She thought she really had to get a job soon, she won't be able to live her life like this forever. When she got in she sat down on her sofa stretching out thinking things would be so much easier if she was a 'normal' person.
She slowly drifted of to sleep as she remembered the times back in Canada with her boyfriend, things were so much better over there and she really missed him. She wished she'd never left.
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The Dive, Canada, 2020
Beth walked into the club and looked down at the bar and noticed Jack looking up at her, so she smiled back. Jack was Beth's boyfriend she'd been with him for three months now and he worked at the Dive behind the bar. When Beth escaped the fire at Manticore she had gone to Canada, the first place she went was this club where she had meet Jack, they hit it off almost straight away. Beth was truly happy for the first time in her life, she liked Manticore but she didn't have anyone like Jack when she was there. Manticore wasn't really big on relationships, the closest thing they had to that was breeding partners and that just grossed Beth out completely. She had come to the club to tell Jack that she had to leave even though she didn't want to. Sandeman had called her and told her to return to Seattle because he needed her help, she didn't know how she was going to tell Jack, it would break his heart. She walked down the stairs as Jack moved from behind the counter to meet her half way.
When they reached each other Jack cupped Beth's head in his hands and planted a warm kiss on her lips. "Hey Beth, I didn't know you were coming down here tonight"
"Nor did I", Beth whispered.
"What was that?" Jack asked confused.
"Nothing", she pulling away.
"What's wrong? You're acting weird".
"I have bad news," Beth turned round and started to head for the seats. "You better sit down".
They both sat down away from all the crowd, "Whatever it is Beth? I'm sure it will be ok".
"That's the thing it won't be ok".
Jack looked at her placing his hands over hers to comfort her, "Beth! You're not pregnant are you?"
"NO OF CAUSE NOT", she objected before looking down at her lap.
Jack lifted her head, "Beth we can get through this together".
"You know I told you I had a complicated family and that they live in Seattle".
"Yeah", Jack said not quite understanding where this was all going.
"Well they need me. I'm going to have to leave", she got up letting go of his hand.
"Can't you just explain your situation. Say you don't want to leave?"
"It's complicated Jack".
"Not to me you either want to stay or not", he started to raise his voice slightly. Heads were now pointing in their direction.
Beth took his hand pulling him into the corner away from the stares they were receiving. "Jack, don't be like this", she pleaded.
"How do you expect me to act? My girlfriends just told me she's leaving and you don't seem to care".
"I do care Jack", Beth continued starting to get angry herself. She didn't like to be spoken to the way Jack was now.
"If you cared you would stay".
"I can't", Beth said sounding upset and like there was nothing she could do.
"Well it's been great knowing you then", Jack said sarcastically, he turned round and walked off leaving her standing there on her own.
"Jack", Beth said but it was to late. She looked up to see nearly every face in the club staring at her, "What?!" she shouted before running back up the stairs out of the club.
She knew she would regret this for the rest of her life, Jack was the best thing that had ever happened now he was gone because of her screwed up transgenic life. He never asked any questions about her life before he came into it. Why couldn't things be simpler? She thought to herself.
Beth woke up, hurt because she probably won't be seeing Jack again. She pushed that thought aside in her head, she needed to concentrate on the task at hand otherwise coming back to Seattle would have been a waste of time. It will do no one any good moping around.
A/N: Next chapter up already, that's what you get when I'm in a good mood.