Chapter 3: The Wedding…

Disclaimer: Please read chapter 1.

A/N: Thanx 4 all the reviews and I'm sorry it's been awhile since my last update but I've been so swamped with school stuff. I have the next chapter written I just need to type it up and post it.

Bold = thoughts, point of views, or dreams

Italics = emphasis

Bold italics = Dates

~~~~~ = scene change

October 9, 2025

            "Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to celebrate the union of this man and this woman in holy matrimony. If anyone present feels that these two should not join than speak now or forever hold your peace."

            No one spoke so the priest continued.

            "Do you Logan take thee Max to be your lawful wedded wife? To have and to hold, for richer or poor, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?"

            Logan while putting the ring on her finger, "I do."

            "Do you Max take thee Logan to be your lawful wedded husband? To have and to hold for richer or poor, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?"

            Max while putting the ring on his finger, "I do."

            "By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride."

            As Logan did this everyone stood up and clapped, then when they parted and turned to face the crowd the priest said, "I give you Mr. and Mrs. Logan Cale." Then everyone cheered and clapped again.

            Then as the first song played Logan and Max had the first dance. Soon after they were followed by the maid of honor and best man; then the two bridesmaids and ushers.

The best man was Bling and the maid of honor was Original Cindy; one of the bridesmaids was Brin and her usher was Alec; the other bridesmaid was Alexis and her usher was Gunn. Max and Logan had set things up that way in order to prevent problems and awkwardness so Brin and Gunn had obliged in helping. After a couple of dances they all sat down to a magnificent feast. The wedding was so beautiful, the roof had been decorated with elegance and class; everyone looked so beautiful especially the blushing bride.

            As mostly everyone was dancing Alexis was sitting at a table that was facing the roof of the building across the ally. She was watching Jordan play with Evie and J.T.; she couldn't help but remember the day of her own wedding. It dredged up painful memories that when Alexis was approached by Original Cindy she didn't know because she was long gone on painful memory lane.

~~~~~November 24, 2022~~~~~

            Exactly a month before Alec and Lex's wedding was when Aims had set his plan in motion. The first step he had taken care of a long time ago and that was making everyone, including 494 think Rachel Berrisford was dead. Then he and his people took a year of washing out her memory and implanting a fake one of their own. Making her believe she was an operative of the Familiars. Then he would plant Rachel in the transgenic organization and infiltrate information; then use it against them. She was supposed to learn everything about them especially their weaknesses; once she had those they would bring the whole transgenic world down to their knees but first 452 would beg for Aims' mercy and once the leader was down the others would soon follow.

~~~~~December 23, 2022~~~~~

            Someone had called Alec in the middle of the night and told him to go to the Strafford Hotel to room 215. Alec went but he took precaution—his gun—after all, tomorrow was his wedding day and nothing would stop him from marrying Alexis. When he entered the room he was awestruck to see who was sitting on the bed waiting for him.

Alec (in a whisper): Rachel?

Rachel (going up and hugging him): Simon.

            Alec couldn't help but cringe; they sat there together and told each other everything that had happened. Alec told her the truth and how he thought she was dead; Rachel "told" him how after her coma she had awoken in some facility where they were holding her against her will. Somehow, someway she had escaped and gone to her father for help. Of course all this was just lies she was feeding Alec except for her going to see her father. Before he knew what was going on Rachel started to kiss him and he pushed her away.  Then on impulse he grabbed her and kissed her; before he knew what was happening he had slept with Rachel and on the night before his wedding too.

~~~~~Present~~~~~

Original Cindy (waving a hand in Lex's face): Hey girl you ok? You looked like you were a million miles away.

Alexis: I was just remembering my own wedding.

Original Cindy (sympathetic): I'm sorry girl, that's gotta be hard.

Alexis: Yea it is. Can I tell you something?

Original Cindy: Sure.

Alexis: About a week ago I ran into Alec.

Original Cindy (interested): Really? What happened?

Alexis: We talked a bit and as I was leaving he grabbed me and forcefully kissed me.

Original Cindy: Oh no he didn't!?

Alexis (a small laugh escaped her): Oh yes he did.

Original Cindy: So what'd you do?

Alexis: All I could do…spate in his face and gave him one mean right hook.

Original Cindy (laughs): Max said you're a girl who could take care of herself.

Alexis: You don't know the half of it.

            Original Cindy started to laugh a bit more as Alexis was approached by Jordan.

Jordan (climbing up in Alexis' lap): Hey mommy.

Alexis: Hi babe, are you having fun?

Jordan: Yea but I'm hungry now.

Alexis: What do you want?

Jordan: Some potatoes please.

Alexis (putting some in a plate and handing him a fork): Here you go. Hey babe aren't you gonna say hi to Aunt Max's friend Cindy?

Jordan (mouth full): Hi.

O. Cindy (smiles): Hey kid.

            As Jordan was finishing up his potatoes Max came by and greeted them all, then she scrunched down to meet Jordan's gaze.

Max: Hey there little man, you promised your old Aunt Max a dance, remember?

Jordan: Sure I do.

Max: Aiight, let's go then.

            Max picked Jordan off of Alexis' lap and they headed off to the dance floor.

O. Cindy: That is one adorable kid you got there…reminds me a lot of his daddy.

Alexis (with a faraway look): He sure does…he sure does.

            Original Cindy put a sympathetic hand on Lex's shoulder as she was leaving. Lex looked across to the other roof and she saw something there, first it was a flicker, then it became somewhat solid. It was Scott, he looked so scared, but how in the hell did he get across the ally, on the roof no doubt? Then he muttered three little words only Alexis could hear which were: 'help me Alexis'. With that Scott disappeared into thin air like he was never there. Suddenly Alexis got a very sinking feeling in her stomach and she knew it was bad. Anton came over and brought her back to reality.

Anton: Hey, you okay?

Alexis (getting up): I'm not sure, do me a favor?

Anton: Sure.

Alexis: Watch Jordan don't let him out of your sight and I want that Rachel woman no where near him, you got me?

Anton: Ok, but what's this all about? What's happened?

Alexis: I don't know yet, but I'm going to go find out.

Anton: Be careful. If you need me just call.

Alexis (taking his hand): I need you here.

Anton (worried): Okay.

Alexis: If Jordan asks where I went tell him I went to go help Scott.

Anton (confused): Wait…Liz's nephew, Scott?

Alexis: Yes. I gotta go, see you.

            While Alexis headed off the roof Anton was so confused Alexis went down to Max and Logan's penthouse, letting herself in with a key they gave her. She went to the guest room where she had left an extra set of fighting clothes and her weapons.  She had taken these precautions if an emergency like this were to have presented itself today. She changed into a pair of denim jeans, a black tank top, and her black boots; she grabbed her denim jacket. Alexis laid her dress nicely on the bed and then checked her weapons. She had brought a crossbow with extra bows, a special dagger made just for her, a couple of stakes, a small tranquilizer Gun with tranquilizer darts, and lastly a sword. All Lex did was grab the whole duffel bag and started to head out, but was stopped by Alec.

Alec (seeing her bag of weapons): Are you okay? Is everything alright?

Alexis (sarcastically): Just dandy. Now move.

Alec (Alexis shoving past him and he pushed her back): Not until you tell me what's wrong.

Alexis (pretending to give in): Alright I'll tell you…when hell freezes over. Now that was the second time you got physical with me, try it again and you'll lose something. An arm, a leg, maybe your head. I'm not sure yet it all depends on my mood.

Alec (trying to spite her a bit): You use to like it when I got physical with you.

            Alexis just totally lost it and punched Alec in the nose then kicked him in the groin. As he doubled over in pain Alexis bent down to whisper something in his ear. "I use to like a lot of things…including you but this little incident shows that you can't get anymore physical than that. Next time just do what I say and move." As Alexis walked out she started to feel much better, that is until she reached Liz's place.

            The door was ajar and Lex saw that the lock had been broken from the outside she took out her sword and got ready just in case someone was inside. Once inside she saw the whole place was ransacked it couldn't have been vampires because they couldn't get in even with the lock broken. She searched the place but she couldn't find Scott or any clue as to where he was; she had thought they had taken Liz too, until she heard moaning from underneath the fallen bookshelf. Alexis ran to the spot, picked the shelf back up with ease, and dragged Liz away from being underneath all those books. She checked for a pulse, there was one and it looked like Liz was coming to, but Alexis called nine-one-one anyway.

Alexis: Liz? Liz, can you hear me?

Liz: Hmm…?

Alexis: Damn! Pull yourself together; do you know who took Scott?

Liz (tossing her head from one side to the other): Men…hooded robes…

Alexis (to herself): Men in hooded robes? (To Liz.) What color robes were they?

Liz: Yellowish…brown…signs on them…

Alexis: Signs on the robes? What kind?

Liz: Can't remember…find Scott…danger…needs help.

Alexis (getting up): I know I'm on it.

            Alexis ran to the kitchen where she knew Wyatt kept some special spell books in a hidden compartment in the wall by the stove. She found the book; it was a locator spell book. She turned to the one to find a warlock but before she could do the spell she needed some "household essentials". Alexis needed some burning incsence, two apples cut in half and each put in the north, south, east and west position. She needed eye of newt and four crow claws. The crow claws were put on the apples and beside those there needed to be four black burning candles. The eye of newt went in the bowl with the burning inscence; now all Lex had to do was sit in the middle of it all with the bowl in her lap and say the spell then put the piece of paper she transferred the spell onto into the bowl and let it burn.

            "Here now these words…I call upon the universe to guide me to the one that I must find…lead me to him now!"

            Alexis closed her eyes and let the paper burn when it finished burning she just knew where Scott's location was. Blowing out the candles, grabbing her sword and bag, Alexis ran out the door. She saw the EMTs come from the other direction so she was relieved to know Liz would be alright.

            She drove to the park across town knowing Scott and whoever took him would be there.

            From behind some bushes Alexis could see that the hooded men had chained Scott to some sort of alter type thing. There were lit candles encircling him, as the hooded men also encircled him and were chanting something in Latin. Alexis unnoticeably climbed some trees as a man in a hooded black robe with a very long and thick sacrificial knife came out.  As he got closer and closer to Scott, Alexis jumped down from the tree and landed gracefully and in a crouching position on Scott, with both her feet firmly positioned on either side of Scott.

            The hooded guys were surprised to see this, so she took this opportunity to kick a few guys in the head and to kill others with her sword. It wasn't until then that she found out they were human; they must have been some occult members. While fighting off the hooded men Alexis barely released Scott from his restraints. Scott grabbed Lex's crossbow and started killing off the hooded freaks.

            As Alexis and Scott found themselves back to back each squared off with a couple of the occult members.  While their backs were firmly against one another Scott gave Alexis a warning.

Scott: Whatever you do, don't let the guy with the scary looking knife touch you.

Alexis: Why?

Scott: He has the power to see all the innocents you've saved and then he'll go after them.

Alexis: Who is this guy? And what's his deal with you?

Scott: He's an ancient wizard. Word is he's been around since the seventeenth century.

Alexis: So how come he hasn't rolled over yet?

Scott: Legend has it that every century or so he recruits new acolytes and uses them to find a pure , innocent, yet powerful and on the side of good, being to drain the life out of.

Alexis: Where has he been all this time?

Scott: Last I heard he was terrorizing people in Italy.

Alexis: How do you get rid of him?

Scott: You can't. No spell ever written can get rid of him.

Alexis: Weapons?

Scott: Warriors who have come and gone tried but they were never strong enough.

Alexis: Luckily I excel in strength, by the by, how did you do your little trick of asking me to help you?

Scott: Simple astral projection spell I memorized.

Alexis: Cool, teach it to me when we get out of here?

Scott: Sure.

            With that Scott advanced on the remaining acolytes and Alexis went after the wizard. No matter how hard Alexis had tried eventually the wizard had made physical contact with her and she saw what he saw. He was seeing crowds and crowds of humans and others that weren't quite human but they weren't demons either. Alexis knew he was seeing transgenics. From the large amount of them she guessed their location was Terminal City. All the faces they were seeing finally stopped at two. Alec and Jordan. Alexis stood there mortified and the wizard took her moment of weakness and used it to his advantage. He magically made one of Alexis' own arrows from her crossbow stab her left shoulder; centimeters away from her heart, through her back.

            The wizard saw the mortified and surprised expression on Lex's face and he smiled then disappeared as did her acolytes.  Scott came to her aid, she asked him to make the wound go away but the only thing he could do was make the blood gushing out slow down and dull the pain. It was sort of like magical pressure. Then he said a spell to transport them to Alec and Jordan's location as Lex had told him what had occurred.

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~~~~~Terminal City~~~~~

            The wizard and his acolytes magically appeared in Terminal City surprising everyone there. The wizard chanted some words which made everyone fly across the room and made them stay there. It cleared his path to Alec and Jordan; when Alec tried to move so he could protect Jordan he found his feet stuck to the floor. When he told Jordan to run he couldn't either, all the other transgenics found themselves unable to move, also.

            Outside Lex and Scott had arrived, as Alexis began to head inside Scott followed.

Alexis (stopping): What the hell do you think you're doing?

Scott: Going in to help you.

Alexis: Thanks, but, no thanks. Whatever you do, do not move from this spot.

Scott: Why? You need me.

Alexis: It's too dangerous, I'm going to send Jordan out here so you protect him, and trust me I've never needed anyone…been better at a solo act.

            Before Scott could tell her about the bow being in her shoulder still, she disappeared inside.

            Inside, the wizard told his acolytes to bring Jordan and Alec to him; all the transgenics were outraged because they couldn't do anything. They were literally stuck in their places by the wizard's magic, but of course they didn't know it had to do with magic.

            Before the acolytes could even come near Jordan, Alexis jumped in front of her son, out of no where and used her telekinesis to throw the acolytes across the building.  Still using her telekinetic powers she threw the acolytes across to the other side of the room causing most of them to be unconscious.

Wizard (surprised): You should have been dead by now.

Alexis: What can I say? Being dead doesn't really suit me.

Wizard (smirking): See you've still got the present I left for you.

Alexis (looking at the bow): Totally forgot it was there, but don't worry…cuz I'm returning it.

            With that Alexis reached behind her, yanked out the bow, and telekinetically shoved it into the wizard's belly. She then walked over to him, and as he was down she started to twist the bow while it was still in his belly. As he screamed in agonizing pain, Alexis—while kneeling beside him—whispered in his ear, "Your first mistake was going after my son and his father; your second was thinking you could get away with it." Then Alexis stood up and told Jordan to go outside and wait with Scott; when Jordan was sure he could move he did what his mom said. When he was gone Alexis grabbed her sword and was going to decapitate him. She figured everyone could move when he was dead since his spell would probably break. Centimeters away from having his head chopped off, the wizard said something to Alexis that made her stop.

Wizard: Why do you wish to save a man who has done nothing but broken your heart, who's been unfaithful to you, and has betrayed you?

Alexis: No matter what he has done to me, he is a good father and my son loves him. Jordan would be heart broken if anything were to happen to his father.

Wizard: Do you love him?

Alexis: Of course I do he's my son.

Wizards: I don't mean him you twit, I mean his father.

Alexis: You know if you are trying to by time you just lost it with that twit comment.

Wizard: Just answer the question.

Alexis: How about not.

            Without a second hesitation Alexis decapitated him and as he turned into dust his acolytes just disappeared. Alexis than turned around and took a good look at the place. All these years she had heard of the almighty Terminal City but she had never actually been in there. She looked at every single transgenics face and boy did she have some explaining to do.

Alexis (to everyone): You guys can move now; his whole thrall thing is over. It died when he did.

Alec (getting closer to her): What was this all about?

Alexis (breathes deeply): Power, magic, eternal life…or more like him keeping his. You know same old, same old.

Alec: How'd you make them fly across the room like that?

Alexis (lying): A couple of incantations did the trick.
Alec: You mean spells?

Alexis: Spells, witchcraft, magic call it whatever you will. In my line of work they aren't a foreign concept.

Alec (a bit uneasy): Right.

Alexis: Are you okay?

Alec: I'm always ok. (Lowering his voice a little.) Question is how are the rest of them going to take it.

Alexis (smiles a bit as she watches the rest go back to whatever it was they were doing): Give 'em time I think they'll be okay, as well.

Alec: How about you? That cut doesn't look so good.

Alexis: I'll deal. Speaking of which let me go tell Scott everything is ok and I'll get Jordan.

Alec: Speaking of Jordan, what are you going to tell him?
Alexis (walking away): The truth.

~~~~~Outside~~~~~

            Scott and Jordan were waiting outside patiently when they saw the front door open and out came Alexis. Jordan ran to her yelling, "Mommy! Mommy!" Alexis picked him up and hugged him tight. She went over to Scott and smiled as she spoke.

Alexis: Thanks for your help kid, you did great.

Scott (dejectedly): You sure it wasn't my fault to begin with?

Alexis: This was not your fault do you hear me? Do not blame yourself you got me?

Scott: Yea. So is everything copasetic?

Alexis: Yea. It's past midnight why don't you go to the hospital—

Scott (cutting her off): Hospital? Why?

Alexis: I forgot to tell you? Your aunt is there, she wasn't looking to good when I left her.

            Before Alexis could say anything else Scott had already teleported himself out of there.

Jordan (looking at his mom's face): Mom what's going on?

Alexis (smiles): Let's go inside and I'll tell you.

            Once they got inside Jordan jumped from his mother's arms to his father's and Alexis was a little thankful, seeing as how she felt unsteady on her feet. Before she could say or do anything she collapsed onto the ground and blacked out.