Broken Promises

Chapter 5

Disclaimer: Don't own anything, so don't sue me.

A/N: Cured of all my writers block, so I hope, so now on with the story, please review.

When Max opened her eyes she was staring up at a group of trees, turning her head to the side, she saw the car upside down, lying on the roof. The windows had been shattered on impact and the doors and body of the car were crumpled beyond recognition. Sitting up slowly, she held her head, trying to eradicate the cloudiness that fogged it.

The car had landed twenty feet from the side of the road, and through the trees, she could see the deserted road. She heard movement behind her, and she whipped around, she saw White stumbling through the trees. "What the hell happened?" she asked. When he didn't reply she asked, "What happened to you?"

"Where in the seventh circle of hell are we?" he asked

"Hell if I know, remember, I was in the backseat handcuffed, you shot me with a tranquilizer dart. I was out for I don't know how long, woke up and poof, we weren't in Seattle anymore, you know, me and the genetic scum I hang out with, the plague of your life." Whipping out the gun he had in his shoulder holster, he held it trained at her. "Put the gun down, unless you plan on using it, and I don't think your superiors will be too happy if, you kill me. Then again go on and kill me maybe they'll-" Before Max had a chance to finish, White crumpled to the ground. Looking down to the body, and the back up, she saw Alec holding a tranquilizer gun.

"And my impeccable timing strikes again." he said.

Eyes wide Max asked, "How did you find me?"

"Followed you from Seattle."

Max took a few seconds to take that in, "But why? After what I said to you, I didn't think that you'd ever want to speak to me again. Did you run us off the road?"

"I realized what you were doing, trying to make me hate you, so that I wouldn't come after you. But due to my intuitiveness I saw right through it. As for the tin can, that used to be a car, he ran it off the road himself, looks like one of the tires blew."

"Thank you." Max could tell that there was something bothering him, but before she had a chance to ask, he broke in.

"Here let me get those," he said grabbing her hands and removing the handcuffs using the key that he grabbed from White's jacket pocket. He didn't meet her eyes, as he did so, but finally the silence was broken when he said, "Max, there's something else."

"What?" he was unusually quiet, he glanced at her, then looked immediately away. "Alec, what is it, what happened, what aren't you telling me?" she asked him angrily.

"What he said, about leaving us alone, it was all a lie. I saw you go down, collapse and then after that they stormed the place, they started burning the buildings to the ground. I sounded the high-pitched alarm, the one that only the transgenics with canine DNA could hear. But…"

Knowing what he meant, she slumped down to the ground, Max buried her head in her hands. "What happened to them?"

"Most of them are safe, but we couldn't get them all out, White's friends knew where our entrances and exits were, they were prepared when we ran out the sewers. But there was the exit we used only in emergencies, we used that, and were able to get most of them out, but Max some weren't so lucky. They were trapped and couldn't get out. The ones that were able to get out are hiding out in a building down by the river, it's big enough to house everyone." when she didn't reply, he kneeled next to her and said, "Max it wasn't your fault, you were doing what you thought was right. You trusted him to keep his word, and however misdirected that was you thought he intended to keep it."

"Yeah, but I still trusted him, I should have know that he never would have kept it, and now people are dead because of me. You have to blame me for that, our friends are dead because of me, because of him." Standing up quickly she walked over to his body and kicked him as hard as she could. She hadn't intended to keep kicking him, but once she started, she couldn't stop, it was only when Alec pulled her away did she come to her senses.

"Max stop, stop, stop, stop."

"Why, he deserves it."

"Max, this might finally be the chance that we've been waiting for, we can use him as leverage against the Conclave. Or maybe a nice round of torture to find out what he knows about their operations, and why they're so anxious to find you."

"I don't want anything to do with him, we should just kill him now and be done with it." Max said picking up the gun that lie by his side.

"Max put the gun down."

"No, I'm sick of him torturing my friends, and taunting me, I'm ending this once and for all." Wrapping her hand tighter around the gun and pulling the trigger taunt felt wrong. A sickening feeling started to rise within her soul, the image of Eva dead on the floor flashed before her eyes. But she didn't care, she wanted him dead and shooting him in the head, seemed the best way to put him down like the dog that he was.

"Max!" She looked to Alec and then slowly lowered the gun down to her side. Breathing deeply she allowed her eyes to close as she regained her composure.

Pulling the clip out of the gun, she un-cocked it and released the extra bullet in the chamber. She disassembled the gun and threw the parts in opposite sides of the forest, hearing a dull thump and leaves crunching where they landed.

"Did you come here alone?" Max finally asked.

"No, Rainer's in the car, told him to keep a look out and if anyone stops and asks, he's waiting for his friend who had to use the little boys room."

Not wishing to speak anymore, Max started to drag White by the feet out of the forest, wishing hopefully to beat his head on every rock that she could find. Seeing her purpose, Alec picked White up by the shoulders hoping to spare him further injury, however reluctantly.

After placing him in the trunk Alec said playfully, "Do you think we should give him air holes, like you do when you give animals as presents?"

"He is an animal, but he doesn't deserve air holes."

"I can see giving him as a present, 'oh look my own psychopathic killer just what I've always wanted.'"

Shaking her head, Max got into the backseat of the car, nodding her head to acknowledge Rainer. The ride back to Seattle was strangely quiet after the initial banter. That was until Rainer changed the station on the radio, and then Alec not liking Rainer's selection changed it back. So the next twenty minutes was spent arguing until Max finally reached forward and switched it off. "God maybe my comparison of you guys, to children wasn't so far off." She felt her heart lightening but the feeling didn't last long , as the gravity of the situation in which she found herself hit her full in the face.

A/N: This was my attempt at light-hearted comedy, I don't know if it's funny or not, but I had a lot of fun writing it. Please read and review constructive criticism welcome. Thanks for reading.