Title: Created to Kill: PART ONE
Name: X-318
Rating: PG-13 but may turn into an R later on in story.
Summary: Ok here we go, hope you like it I spent ages on it trying to get this just right. Please review to let me know what you thought. Hope this answers some questions in what my story is about. It will not be like this forever with Max and Logan, I promise. I don't know what to write today, so on with the story.
Chapter 5: The Coming
Then Max heard her name being mentioned so she leaned in to try and hear more. At that moment Max's phone rang, "Shit," she whispered. She looked at her phone to see it was Logan so she switched her phone off but it was too late the people in the house had already heard and the woman was on her way out. Great timing Logan Max thought to herself as she headed back to her bike. When she got back to her bike she climbed on it and started the engine when she looked up the woman was standing in front of her blocking her from going anywhere.
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"Why did you follow me?" the woman said leaning forward and placing her hands on the front of the bike, so that Max wouldn't be able to leave.
Refusing to answer any questions to a woman she had only just meet, Max's response was, "What were you doing at Terminal City?" she climbed off her bike and folded her arms to show that she wasn't going anywhere until she know what this stranger had in mind.
"I asked first so answer me and I'll answer you", she smiled copying Max's stance.
"You know what, we could be doing this forever so I'll go first. I followed you because I saw you at Terminal City nosing around, and in my book that's never a good thing so I decided to investigate. Has anyone ever told you, you have one of those faces, I'm sure I've seen you somewhere", Max said looking the woman over, "Now what were you doing at Terminal City, if you don't already know its not a place you wanna be hangin' round specially now-a-days".
"Is that a threat?" She was looking Max right in the eyes at this point. It was kind of like they were both trying to defend their property. Standing their own ground till the death, even. They couldn't help it, it was in their nature.
"It is if you don't tell me what I want to know".
"I was told to go check the place out".
"By who? The man I saw in there?" Max said pointed over her shoulder to the run down building behind them.
"It's none of your business".
"Well it is if I heard my name bein' mentioned", Max barked back before realising she had slipped up. All these years of making sure no one knew anything about her until she knew everything about them first. But she couldn't help herself, it just came out on impulse.
"So…your 452. You don't look so special to me", Beth said thinking about the things Sandeman had just been telling her. "Why does he want you?"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Max ordered, following the woman's eyes go up and down her body. "Hey!" Max shouted when she had had enough of being under the microscope.
"You're the one I was sent to look for". Beth had noticed the frustration in Max's voice and at this particular moment she wasn't really in the mood for a fight.
"Really! By who?" Max's patience was wearing thin on the small talk.
Beth rolled her eyes, "God you sure are dumb aren't you. Who do you think that was?"
"How am I supposed to know? I have a lot of people on my back at the moment".
"It was Sandeman…he's the guy I was talking to".
Max paused she didn't believe what she was hearing, "You…you mean that is Sandeman?" she stuttered.
"Well duh! Who did you think I was talking too".
"You're not another one of his wack children are you? Cause I think I've had enough of them to last a life time", Max said slipping in a hint of sarcasm. Max and Logan had been looking for Sandeman for nearly two years and now out of nowhere she was standing a few feet away from where Sandeman had been hiding. "You mean that's Sandeman…in that building," pointing over to where she had just been spying through the window.
"Yep that's Sandeman, how many times you gotta ask?" said the woman. "He has been looking for you after he saw the whole hostage thing at Jam Pony, he contacted me and sent me to look for you".
"So you're a transgenic?" Max asked.
"Well not completely, but that's a whole other story".
Max ignored the woman's comment and turned round to head back to the house. She had no plans on getting this close and letting it slip through her fingers. But she had only got a few steps when she heard a voice shouting after her.
"Where are you going?" the woman said following her at a steady speed.
"Where do you think? I'm going to see him of cause".
"You can't! When we heard the phone ring he left the house out the back way, he is on the run from some really dangerous people", Beth said stopping Max in her tracks.
"You mean White", Max asked, but still hadn't turned round. The mention of his name made her cringe in itself.
"How do you know about White?" Beth asked stepping in front of Max to look her in the eye.
"We've meet", Max said bitterly.
"Really", the woman sounded interested.
"Well when can I see him then?" Max asked.
"Come hear tomorrow I promise he will be here".
"Why should I trust you?" Max questioned.
"You don't really have a choice, do you?" The woman ran off in the dark until Max could no longer see her. Max pulled her phone out her pocket again and rang Logan and Alec one after the other and told them to meet her in half an hour at Sandeman's old place. As Max climbed on her bike she thought things were a little to easy just finding Sandeman like this, something must have been up with the whole scenario.
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When Max arrived the gang were already there waiting for her so they could find out what was going on. She opened the door and the first person that came into view was Logan. He was standing in front of her with one of his bright smiles, which made the whole room light up. She missed seeing him smile, it was a rare occasion when she got to see one of those lately. Max was soon snapped out of her thought when she heard Alec speaking.
"Hey Maxie", Alec said clapping his hands in front of her face, "Why did you call use here?" Alec sounded exhausted but Max wasn't in the mood to be hearing any more bad news so she decided to ignore that fact.
She walked over to Logan and smiled at him ignoring the others, "I think I've found Sandeman". She was looking up into Logan's eyes and even though there were other people in the room, all that had slipped her attention. Her concentration was completely on Logan. Then there it was, he smiled down at her again, but this time even wider. She knew they must have both been thinking the same thing, the time Logan had sent on trying to track down Sandeman. The amount of times she had gone round to his place and found him asleep at his computer because he had been working all night on his contacts. Max thought nothing could have pulled them away from this moment until she heard Joshua howling with excitement.
"Father!", Joshua shouted the loudest he possibly could.
"What do you mean you think? You either have or you haven't", Alec said.
Logan's grin on his face was expanding cheek to cheek by the minute but he never said anything.
"I mean I saw him, well I think it's him", Max repeated, looking back at Logan to see every reaction he showed. She loved this man so much, and this virus was really starting to be a pain in the ass. How close and yet so far at the same time.
"You mean you called us up and made us hurry round here and you don't even know if it's really him. Didn't you talk to him?" Alec said just getting more annoyed by the minute.
Max knew she had very little patience and now she was starting to think that all the transgenics had this flaw, "No I didn't get a chance to". Max looked Logan in the eyes ignoring everyone else in the room. "I saw that girl I told you about, the one in my dream, she was hanging around outside Terminal City. It took me a while but I'm sure I had seen her before".
"What girl?" Alec said sounding more intrigued at the mention of a female. He instantly straightened up and ran his hand through his scruffy hair.
Max filled Alec and Joshua in on the woman in her dream. "…I followed her and saw her talking with this man. She followed me back to my bike when she heard my phone go off outside…Sorry about that by the way", she said looking at Logan. Max went silent just by looking into Logan's eyes, almost hypnotizing her.
"Hey Maxie, I didn't come here so I could she you and lover boy make goo goo eyes with each other", Alec said bringing her out of her trance.
"Oh…she confronted me. After we talked for a while she told me that it was Sandeman back there. But when I went to go talk to him it was to late he had already gone". Max finished not even stopping to give any backchat to Alec about the comment he had made about her and Logan.
"How do you know you can trust this woman?" Alec asked.
"I don't". Max and Logan were still staring at each other, even though Max know she shouldn't get to excited because it may not even be him but she couldn't help think maybe everything will be ok between her and Logan after all.
"So why did you need us to come here?" Alec said sounding desperate to leave.
"I'm sorry for interrupting your night, but I thought you might want to know," Max said. "I'm going to see him tomorrow".
"Joshua come too".
"Yeah sure you can come big fella", Max said.
Joshua's face light up, "Joshua see father again". He said grabbing Alec by the shoulder's and shaking him.
Max liked to see Joshua happy after all the things he had been through. It was about time he had some happiness in his life.
"It's great you've found him an' all but I'm outer here, I have plans to stick to. You coming dog boy?"
"Joshua coming Alec".
As they walked to the door Max could hear Joshua say "Father come back, Joshua happy". That brought a smile to her face, all she hoped was that this was actually Sandeman she had seen.
When Max looked back in the room she realised it was only her and Logan left but there was no awkwardness, Logan hadn't said a word since Max had arrived she was wondering what he was thinking. "So", Max said trying to break the silence, even though it wasn't really bothering her.
"So," Logan repeated not knowing quite what to say. "You believe this is really Sandeman?"
"I hope so".
"Me too", Logan said smiling, which created those dimples in his cheeks Max loved so much, she couldn't help but smile back, it was infectious. "Maybe then he will be able to fix this thing", Logan said referring to the virus, it didn't need to be said.
"That's the plan", Max said smiling and staring into Logan's eyes.
"Let's hope this time nothing gets in our way". He reached out and took her gloved hand in this own. Max looked down to see the barrier of material between their skins.
"Hey, when have we ever had it easy", Max said squeezing Logan's hand in her own.
They were only standing a few feet away from each other and all Logan wanted to do was run his fingers through Max's long brown hair, and kiss those lips he had longed after for so long.
"So I'll see you tomorrow then". Max asked quickly. "I mean you are coming aren't you?"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world", Logan said setting off towards the door to leave.
"Great", Max was still smiling when she had left the house and was heading back to her bike.
When she got back to Terminal City she went to where she sleep and lay down on her bed thinking about how things may work out in the end after all. She fell asleep in minutes and started to have the same dream as before. And again Max was following that same woman like before. It was like she was looking in on what was happened in her dream and she saw the girl get shot by someone who looked a lot like White. Max woke up in a cold sweat not sure why she was having all these dreams about this mysterious woman.
It felt so real to Max, but in the dream she just stood there and watched as White shot this girl who's name she still had to find out. Why was this girl linked with finding Sandeman and White, this wasn't good news. But if it would get her and Logan back together she would do anything. Max decided she wasn't going to get any sleep so she headed for the media centre, maybe talking to some other transgenics would help her get her mind of the dreams she'd had two nights running now.
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Max meet at Logan's apartment the next morning, she stood waiting outside the door wondering whether to go in or to wait till he came out to meet her. She looked down at the door handle and reached out then retracted her hand away again. Everything was awkward between them whenever they meet up because of the virus, Max hated the long silences they had whenever they bumped into each other. Before the virus it was hard for her to stay away from Logan, but now everything just felt wrong. She sometimes wished that she never went to blow up Manticore, everything was great before then, getting better even. If everything had stayed the same you never know her and Logan might have even been together now. All she had was hope that her and Logan would find a cure and get the chance to be together but even that was starting to wear a little thin.
Just at that moment Logan opened the door, "Oh, didn't hear you there! Did you knock?" Logan asked unsure, but positive he hadn't heard anything.
Max stood there for a while before speaking, "Nah, just about to", she said shaking her head.
Logan looked at Max thinking how beautiful she looked and all he wanted to do was to wrap his arms around her and kiss her. But instead he had to stick to just talking to her, he was happy she hadn't ran away, which is what the old Max would have done at the first sight of the virus. "So where's Joshua?"
"He's waiting by the car, he's excited to see Sandeman…" she said, "He woke me up this morning at 4 o'clock he's like a kid on Christmas morning waiting to open the presents".
"This Sandeman must be some guy for Joshua to get that excited!"
"I hope so, but I'm kinda scared to meet him, he did create me after all".
"You're scared I didn't think you got scared", Logan replied with a shy grin on his face.
"Okay not so much scared as nervous then", she said shifting on her feet. Standing here alone with Logan was starting to make her uncomfortable. She never thought she'd feel that way about Logan, ever since she meet him, they just seemed to mesh.
"Don't be. I'm right here for you if need be", Logan said smiling before realizing that he probably just made this situation worse when he saw the caged look on Max's face. She looked like she was about to bolt in the other direction down the hall. "We better go then before Joshua gets impatient and starts his first driving lessons".
Max smiled feeling better about the change of conversation. As they both walked down the corridor, there was silence the whole way. Max could see that Logan felt awkward but had no idea what to say at this point. Once she could see the light coming from the car park, she felt relief that there wasn't much further for them to go. When she heard Joshua shout "Hurry up, Joshua can't wait no longer". Max looked at Logan and they both smiled, "What did I tell you", was all she could say.
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Logan, Max and Joshua were all piled into Logan's car as they headed to see Sandeman, Joshua was really excited because he was getting the chance to see his father again. He was sitting in the back seat with a huge grin on his face.
Whilst Max sat in the front next to Logan, neither of them had said a word, Max guessed Logan was trying not to get his hopes up in being able to find a cure for their virus. She tried not to think about the fact that this wasn't really Sandeman they were going to see but instead it was a trap of White's and this woman Max had followed was in on it. Max looked over at Logan and couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be to hold hands with Logan again without having to wear gloves, she never thought in a million years that she would take that slight contact for granted. It was unbearable having to see Logan nearly every single day and know that they had once gotten so close to actually being together.
Logan could see Max looking at him so he turned for a brief moment to look back at her, he smiled at her, "Nearly there now", Logan said following the directions Max had told him.
"Joshua see father again. Joshua happy".
Max turned round to look at her K9 friend in the back of the car, Max had never seen Joshua this happy before ever since she had meet him he was always talking about Sandeman. That made Max feel better because it made her think Sandeman was a nice man that would help her and Logan with their problem.
"Yeah Joshua, father close now", Logan said starting to feel more confident about the situation as he got closer.
"Let's just hope it's really him", Max said not so sure.
"Don't worry little fella, father will be there and he will help Max and Logan get busy", Joshua said.
Max and Logan just laughed, Joshua sometimes didn't really know what he was saying or he didn't really care about saying what he really thought. Even though the same thoughts were going through both Max and Logan's heads as well.
Logan turned the corner and there in front of them was supposedly Sandeman's house, "Well there it is", Logan said pointing through the window.
Joshua started jumping up and down in the back seat, which was making the whole car shack excessively.
"Joshua calm down you'll make the car tip over", Max said not even joking at this point.
"Sorry Max. Joshua just really happy".
"Yeah we get that Josh", Max replied.
They all climbed out of the car and headed off to the porch, Joshua ran off ahead as Max and Logan slowly followed. It was like going somewhere with a kid and Max and Logan were the parents.
"So are you excited?" Logan asked.
"I'm just wondering what to say".
"You'll be fine Max", Logan said trying to comfort her.
"What if he's completely different to how I expected him? After what Joshua told me about him".
"Max just calm down everything will be ok".
When Max and Logan got to the front door Max was about to reach out and knock when the door opened and the young woman who Max had followed the other night stepped out.
"Oh it's you, Sandeman's in there waiting," the woman said, "I'm out of here I've got more important things to do than have a crappy family reunion". With that she walked off.
"Nice to meet you too", Logan said being sarcastic. But the woman never heard she was already gone. "You know what her and Alec would get on like a house on fire".
Max laughed then opened the door as Joshua pushed past her searching for Sandeman "Father… father!" Joshua shouted, he turned back to look at Max and Logan "Father's here I can smell him".
It made Max feel a bit better because at least now she knew it wasn't a trap. She followed Joshua down the hallway into the far room. She could no longer hear him, "Hey Joshua! Where you gone?" Max asked. She turned the corner and saw Joshua sitting on the floor next to a man sitting in a chair who was stroking Joshua on the head like you would do with a pet dog.
"Max, this is father", Joshua said.
The man got up out of his seat and made his way over to Max and Logan standing in the doorway. He was about six foot tall just a bit smaller than Logan, a full head of silvery grey hair and he was dressed smartly in a suit. Max imagined him with a cane seeing as he must have been using one before but had left it at his old address.
He placed his hands on Max's shoulders, "Finally I have found you", he said not letting go.
Max felt a little uncomfortable so moved away from him but he was still looking at her, "Actually I found you, but there's no need to pick flies".
"Max. Interesting name, you come up with that?"
"No my mom did", Max said being sarcastic.
"You've grown since I last saw you".
"What did you except! That's what normally happens in the years between seven and twenty one".
"You didn't tell me you had meet him before", Logan interrupted, feeling left out of the loop slightly.
"I wasn't sure, I sort of had the feeling we had meet before when I saw his cane at Joshua's", Max said.
"Who are you?" Sandeman looking at Logan.
"I'm Logan I'm a close friend of Max's", he said stretching his hand out to shake, but when he got no response he replaced it casually in his pocket.
"How nice for you", Sandeman said, with an unwelcoming tone to his voice. He turned back and was now staring at Max walk around his room.
"Why did you leave Manticore?" She asked now paying fall attention.
"Some people were after me".
"You mean the same people as White?" Logan said.
"How do you know about White?" Sandeman snapped back at Logan.
"Lets say we've had a few encounters", that sounded weird coming from Max seen as the guy never seemed to leave her alone. White seemed to have a real obsessive problem with her but Max didn't quite understand why, she put it down to the fact she had taken his son away from him.
"So he must already know of my plan".
"Plan, what plan?" Max said demanding an answer.
Sandeman started to walk off and stopped at the doorway because Logan was blocking his path, he didn't even bother saying a word, he just gave Logan a look. "Oh sorry", Logan said stepping aside. Sandeman brushed past him and was heading down into the basement.
"Hey I was talking to you," Max said following him down the stairs. "What plan?!"
"How could he of known?" Sandeman said talking to himself.
"Known what? What's your problem?" Max said. When she got to the bottom step of the basement Max looked up and saw test tubes, chemicals, bottles and many other items that reminded her of being back at Manticore the memories of being operated on flash through her mind.
"When you saw White what did he say?" Sandeman enquired bringing Max out of her thoughts of Manticore experiments.
"Not much really just that all transgenics are going to die. Kinda has a way at making everyone's life depressing doesn't he." Max started walking round looking at his own private lab he had in the basement. When something court her eye in the corner of the room. It was the same bird as the one she had seen in her dreams. "Is this yours?" she said pointing to the black raven perched on a stand.
"He tells me when people are approaching. My own private look out you might say".
Max looked at him strangely. "This is the bird I've been dreaming about Logan", she said turning round to Logan who was standing by the stairs. Too involved in scooping the place out, he didn't like what he saw. He could only imagine what this place was doing to Max, she had enough on her plate without old memories coming back to haunt her.
"When you were in Manticore I sent him to protect you", Sandeman said still rummaging through his belongings obviously looking for something.
"How come I didn't remember him till now?"
"Can't answer that", Sandeman said busy in what he was doing.
"I thought you would know everythin' seein' as you created us", Max said getting fed up of him already. She didn't understand why Joshua liked this guy so much, he seemed annoying to her.
"Tell him about the markings that appeared on your back", Logan said stepping up behind Max with Joshua right behind him. He didn't want to be here any longer than needed so thought he would cut to the chase.
Sandeman smiled, "Markings did you say? It worked then". He sounded pleased with the news and straightened up to hear more.
"What worked? So you did do that to me?" Max said sounding pissed off with the situation, but already knowing deep down the truth.
"Yes it is the plan. I added it into your DNA when I created you, then I was going to find you and translate the markings".
"You did a great job of that".
Joshua came up behind Max, "Little fella, just hear him out".
Max rolled her eyes, she didn't want to brake it to Joshua that this guy he looked up to all this time, was really a lousy good for nothing, so she played along, "Fine, what do they say then?" Max asked.
"It's Ancient Minoan".
"Yeah we know, your crazy son told us", Max said walking over to stand near Logan, she didn't like standing within such close proximity to this Sandeman guy, he freaked her out too much. But then again what was she expecting.
"Who White?"
"No this was your other crazy son…"
"…CJ?" Sandeman cut in before she could finish. "Is he ok? I thought they had him", he was referring to the familiars.
"They did and now they have him again, White shot him I couldn't do anything to help him".
Sandeman went silent.
"So what do they mean?" Max asked again, rolling up her sleeve to show the runes on her wrist.
"Once they are complete then it means you are ready".
"Ready for what?"
"Ready to fight. Its your DNA you're the one who will stop the familiars with their work".
Everything was starting to fall into place in Max's head and she was starting to understand. "Yeah, yeah the coming an' all". Max said remembering what Pay had told her, "But why me?"
"Because you're flawless, you are prefect", Sandeman explained, "I am so proud of you, I did a good job on you".
Max smirked, "You did a good job on me, how do you work that out? I don't remember ever seeing you in Manticore when we were getting shouted at, experimented on and even shot at for doing the tiniest of things wrong. I don't remember seeing you when I was having really bad seizures because you screwed up my DNA".
Logan could see Max's defence system setting in, everything she was saying was true though, he had no right in saying what he had.
Max went on, "So how dare you tell me you had anything to do with how I am now".
"I didn't mean it like that".
Max turned her back and started looking around the place again. Not wanting to look this guy in the face, cause she might end up regretting something. She was starting to think that all these familiars were seriously messed up.
Sandeman started talking but Max was zoning out at what he was saying, "When the shroud of death covers the face of the earth. The ones whose power is hidden will deliver the helpless", he said repeating what Logan had told her all that time back at Jam Pony.
Flashback
As Max looked around at the scene in front of her, all she could think was that it was her fault they were in this situation. "It's me White wants. I'm going out there", Max said walking back to Logan.
He turns to look at her, "No way!" he stated.
"He wants this thing to end as badly as possible. And I won't let that happen".
"Max, you're not goin' out there", Logan repeated raising his voice, so other people had caught on to their conversation.
"I have to", Max pleaded looking him in the eyes. She looked over at Gem in pain and realises that if they come in here with guns blazing they wouldn't allow that child to live. It would be dead before it was even born, Max could never live with that on her shoulders. She didn't care what they would do to her, but hurting the ones she loved would be much worse.
"Max listen to me…" He was fighting the urge to take her by the arms so that she would look at him. He reached in to his pocket puling out a scrunched up piece of paper and started unfolding it. "After you left, I translated the new runes on your skin".
Joshua who had been standing there patiently listening all this time, took the paper off Logan glancing at the marking on it, "Is that the message from Father?"
"That's right. I think it's complete now. The symbols have multiple meanings, but the gist is something like: When the shroud of death covers the face of the earth. The one whose power is hidden will deliver the helpless", Logan said calmly.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Max asks shaking her head.
"It means something really, really bad, like maybe biblically bad is going to happen…"
"…And you're the one who's going to stop it", Original Cindy finished Logan's sentence for him. She had been looking over Joshua's shoulder the whole time.
As Max was thinking on this huge piece of information she had just been given, she didn't notice Mole coming over, "Look…" he said with his booming voice over everyone else's. "…if all this is about White getting Max. I mean specifically Max, then she should go out there".
"Forget it!" Logan almost shouted back.
At this point Max could only hear parts of the argument going on in front of her. All this had been too much information to process. "…He'll leave us alone because she's gone", Max knew White, and she also knew that it wasn't only about her. Yeah he wanted her dead, but he wanted every transgenic dead. Even if she had gone out there she know he would come in here and kill anything that moved. She would do no one any good going out there, Logan had a point. Plus she needed to protect Logan, she would never allow anything to happen to him if she was within distance of it happening. She could never watch him die in front of her, God only knows how he must have felt when it was the other way round.
She could hear Logan's calming voice echoing before recognizing where she was again, in Sandeman's basement. "You mean, the marking aren't complete then?" She asked but knowing the answer anyway from what he was saying.
"No, you still have some time".
"Yeah but what does all that mean?" Logan repeated.
"Over time the familiars have perfected themselves so that they are immune to this virus they have created. That's what's in the snake blood. They have made themselves stronger by infecting themselves with its venom". He paused before continuing, "Millions of years ago these snakes were found in a cave out in the desert in what is known as New Mexico now. The legends say that this man was bitten and after becoming seriously ill for a while he recovered and became stronger. Then when his wife became pregnant with their first child, it was born deformed. They had two more children but when the third was born it was un-like the others. This child had incredible speed and never became ill".
"So what, that was the first familiar?" Logan asked intrigued at what he was finding out.
"Through time we have made ourselves stronger, faster, and impervious to pain".
"What for?" Max asked.
"Because they have created a virus which they plan on infecting every being with, they will do this on our next eclipse, January third".
"That's three months away", Logan added.
"But what they don't know is that I have made the transgenics immune to this particular strain of virus. You will not get ill from the virus but anyone who isn't a transgenic or a familiar will…".
"…Die", Max almost whispered looking at Logan. "How do we stop this?" She added all of a sudden desperate to hear what he had to say.
"You fight them".
"Oh great and there's me thinking it was going to be simple", Max added. "What's with these rich scientists, can't they find something better to do in their spare time, instead of taking over the world".
"I didn't want any part in it. That's why I left, I wanted to help people, cure diseases".
"Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?" Max said pouting her lips.
"Let me see the markings", Sandeman said changing conversation.
"You must be joking, I'm not taking my clothes off for you I don't even know you", Max said crossing her arms over her chest and walking as far away from him as possible.
"It's the only way for you to stop the familiars going ahead with their plan I need to see if you are ready".
"I don't care I'm not going to take my clothes off for you". She suddenly stood upright.
"Is there no other way?" Logan asked, not wanting Max to naked in front of this wack job anymore than Max did.
"Well if you find Beth she knows how to translate some of it", Sandeman said. "Get her to copy them down".
"Who's Beth?" Max said.
"The woman you followed the other night, she's the only other person able to decode it. But I don't know where she went".
"I'll find her, don't worry", Max said really just wanting to get away from him as soon as possible.
"Not really as worried as I am scared about her. She gets into so much trouble, she has one hell of a mouth on her".
Logan thought that must be how all transgenics were made because Max was, and still is sometimes that way with him, but that was one thing he loved about her.
"We better blaze, need to start looking for that Beth as soon as possible, the more time we spend on it the better", Max said looking at Logan hoping that he would catch on at the fact she wanted to leave.
"Joshua doesn't want to go yet", he said sounding like a little child, who wanted his own way.
"Don't worry Joshua I'll see you again soon", Sandeman said.
Joshua sighed.
They all headed back up the stairs, but Max stayed back for a moment to talk to Sandeman in private.
"Seein' as I'm doing you a favour, you can do me one? When they took me back to Manticore that bitch Renfro injected me with this disease that will kill Logan if we touch. Can you help?"
"No problem," Sandeman said, "I need a blood sample though".
"Do whatever but keep this to yourself I don't want Logan finding out".
"It's our little secret", Sandeman winked, he got out a syringe from the box near him and took Max's blood.
"Are you coming Max?" Logan shouted down the stairs.
"Yeah I'll be there in a sec," Max said back, "Remember not a word to anyone or else". Max walked off leaving Sandeman on his own.
"What was that all about?" Logan asked when he saw her approaching the top if the stairs.
"Oh nothing important he was just saying how nice it is to see me again".
"Oh ok, so where to now?" Logan said.
"Let's go back to Terminal City, I can ask Alec to help us look for this Beth".
"Terminal city it is then," Logan said.
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Sandeman looked down at the table and moved a few papers out the way to reveal a silver folder. He opened it up flipping through the pages. Then he reached in to his pocket and pulled out his cell phone punching in a number. "Yeah it's me", he said to the woman who picked up.
"Do you have her?"
"Yeah everything's going as planned", Sandeman answered smiling at the thought.
"Well what do you think?"
"She's perfect", he stated, referring to Max.
"What about the virus?"
"Yes that is a problem. But I can soon get that fixed, she's no good to us with this virus in her system anyway. Plus you never know we might get lucky her and this boyfriend of hers are extremely desperate for the cure. If they copulate we will have a chance to do further tests", Sandeman looked down at the folder he had in his hands. It showed all the tests the CDC had performed on Max a while back at Harbour Lights.
He had been following anything on the news about people being admitted to hospitals and when a report came on about a girl infected with a dangerous disease the light came on in his head and he knew this must have been 452. 'His special little one', he knew he could relax knowing that his plans would work.
"You will contact me when the virus is out the way", the female voice said bringing him out his trance.
"That's the plan. Speak soon Renfro", with that Sandeman hung the phone up.
A/N: I really hope you review after reading, you could say I'm obsessed with reviews, but they really make me happy and in the mood to write more. Please review anything even if it's just a few words of wisdom. Thank you and peace out. Thank you to wag for looking over this before I posted it.