I'm afraid there is not much gonna happen in this rather short chapter. But I'll try my best to change that!
If something in this chapter sounds familiar, check out Kyre's story Pursuit. I "stole" some lines from her!!!Sorry about that, I didn't do it on purpose, and thanks for not suing me, Kyre!: -)

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Chapter 8


An hour later they were on the road to Vancouver again. Max had insisted on driving and Logan dozed in the seat next to her. Suddenly Max hit him on the chest.

"Damn it, what's that?"

"What?"

In front of them a bunch of police cars barricaded the road. Max had had no chance to see it coming as it was right after a turn, and now it was too late to turn around. "Try to play it cool..."

"They caught us...F***." Original cindy cursed before she brought her hand in front of her mouth or else a lot of bad words would have escaped, probably loud enough for every police man in North America to hear it and figure something was not right.

Two policemen approached their car, guns ready to be fired.

"Get out of the car! Arms raised!"

Logan immediately felt dizzy, havinga gun pointed at ones head was disturbing enough, but not being able to do as bing told made it even more tricky. "Get out!"

Max, Bling and OC did so, and Logan opened his door and raised his arms. "You too!"

"He can't. He can't walk!"

"Then help him out. The girls, and no tricks."

Cindy and Max grabbed Logan under the armpits and levered him from his seat.

"Sit him down over here." One of the armed men pointed at a spot next to the road. Then the other officer preceded to check the inside of the car. When they were about to ask for Ids a gear set cracked.

"We found'em.Get back to the headquarters immediately. Over and out."

"Ok, you folks can get back in your car. We're done here!!"

Within seconds the police cars were gone and they all let out a breath of relief. "We really gotta get out of here," Max stated as she helped Logan back to the car.

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"Here we are. Vancouver." Bling was back at the steering wheel and finally left the highway at the airport exit.

Feeling sore and tired from a day in the car and the shock of nearly having been caught, they made their way to the departure hall.

Max had her left hand resting on Logan's shoulder and Cindy and Bling followed the couple.

"And now?" Max asked, looking around, on alert. This airport seemed so much cleaner and busier than the one in Seattle.

"We get tickets for a flight to Western Europe. As we wanna stay in Germany, we should probably fly off to another country first. Once we are over there I'll hack in and erase our datas from the computer." Logan tried to check the lists of flights, from his seated position he was having a hard time. "How about Paris?"

"Yeah, OC has never been to the city of love." She showed Max her trademark grin.

"Ok, here we go." Logan wheeled over to the counter and craned his neck to be able to look at the woman seated behind it. "Do you have three more seats on the flight to Paris?"

"If you are Ok with Business class?"

"That's alright."

"Then I need your passport, please, and the passports of the other two passengers."

Logan looked over his shoulder and nodded almost imperceptible. Relucantly, both girls stepped closer and put their passports on the counter with gentle smiles.

"Ok, Mr Brown...Check in is in 40 minutes, a stewardess will be there to help you."

"Thanks."

"Your luggage has to be checked in over there."

"OK. Bye."

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"We'll take care of the bags." Max grabbed hers and Logan's and followed Cindy.

Logan watched the two girls for a moment, then pivoted so he could look at Bling.

"You sure you don't wanna come?"

"Yes, sorry man."

"I understand, but you're gonna visit?"

"Yeah, we covered that before. And contact me when you know where you have settled so I can send the exo."

"Yeah. Maybe you could take it to Sebastian, he might know how to fix it."

"OK."

"And sell the apartment when things have calmed down. I still have some money we can live from for now, but eventually I'm gonna need that."

"Good."

"The Aztec is yours by the way. Keep it or give it to someone who can use it."

Bling nodded, knowing Logan was serious. He'd planned that well. "Thanks."

The girls returned and looked at the guys expectantly. "Wanna grab a bite to eat?"

The time flew by and without further trouble they found themselves on the plane. Bling had said his goodbyes, wishing them luck and asking Max to take care of Logan. This was when it finally hit Max what she was about to do, leaving everything she'd thought to be her home behind. This was the final step, and it felt right to take it.

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Fortunately they had an entire row to themselves, Max was seated by the window, Logan next to her and Cindy across the aisle, the seat next to her stayed vacant.
When the plane finally launched, Max grabbed Logan's hand. "I love you."

"No regrets?"

She shook her head firmly, looking right into his eyes. "No." She answered, leaning over to kiss him on the stubby cheek.

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Max cuddled close to Logan and enjoyed it more than anything else before. His heartbeat, the rising and falling of his chest as he dozed, the roughness of his beard- she couldn't imagine having to live without that ever again.

Eventually she heard him groan and watched as he opened his eyes. "What's up?"

"My back seems to cramp up, too much sitting, even for me. I'm not used to it anymore."

"Do you want a massage?" Before he could answer, she'd started to work on his back.

"Better?" she asked after a few minutes.

"A lot, thanks."

"I'll sit with Cindy for a while and you an lie down, relief some pressure from your back.

"Ok, maybe it actually helps." Max helped him settle and gave him a kiss before she moved to sit with her homegirl.

"Everything aiight?"

"Yeah, Logan's just exhausted."

"He'd been through quite a bit lately."

"Yeah."

The girls chatted lightly for the next two hours, both desperately graving for some semblance of normalcy. When Logan stirred Max returned to his side.

"Feeling better?"

"Not really. Groggy, I need a real bed and an uninterrupted 12 hours sleep, then I'll be as good as new."

"What are we gonna do when we arrive anyway?"

Logan looked at her with his intense blue eyes she'd lost herself in so often already. "Forget." He smiled. "We're gonna pretend to be tourists, forget about all we've been through for two days and enjoy ourselves. After that we can start worrying again, ok?"

"Sounds like a plan to me. OC, what do you think?"

"Paris, we're comin'!"

They all laughed out loud for the first time in a really long time, and it felt wonderful.

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Ok, now I have to get from here to a place where the idea I've been having of where to take the story can take place. No idea how I'm gonna do that, but I will!!! Hang in there and review!!