A/N: I found my medication in the sock drawer. Don't know how it got there. The shrinks say that I need to increase the dosage *shrugs* they tell me it'll make the voices go away. Do YOU think I'm insane?
*clears throat and tries to put on the serious voice again* The character Tawney does not belong to me, it belongs to Kara.
I made Lee up…..I think.
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Chapter eleven: Explanations
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Normal: I can't believe they actually came through for me
Duvalier: What you thought, they just was gonna let you die?
Normal: Yes, actually. They don't like me too much.
-Normal and Duvalier (Art Attack)
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'The hardest thing in this world is to live in it'
-Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Max led her family into the office leaving Alec and the others in the main part of HQ.
"You look scared Logan" Alec smirked at him as Logan watched the door of Max's office. He hadn't said a word since Zack had entered the room.
"Why should I be scared?" Logan tried to hide his fear by getting back to examining the computer parts on the table before him.
"Because Zack tried to kill you last time, didn't he?" Alec grinned "in fact, from what Max's told me, he took an instant dislike to you the very moment he set eyes on you."
Logan ignored him and Alec's grin grew.
"So that's the rest of the '09 escapees?" Mole walked up to Alec with another anomalie known as Cam. "Thought there was 12 of 'em."
"There were" Alec shrugged "three of them died. Ben- my twin and two others. Tinga and Seth I think Max called 'em. The blonde guy you saw was 599 aka Zack."
Mole gave a low whistle "That was 599? Man, he's legendary."
Alec nodded and glanced at the door to his office "Yep, best of the best until the escape."
"Yeah" said Cam "then it was you. Wonder who'd win in a fight?"
Alec glared "That is NOT gonna happen. Besides, Manticore did some whacked out shit to him last time he was captured…."
That was when he spotted the girl on the floor by the wall.
In Max's office there were hugs all around until she got to Zack.
"Zack" she greeted him quietly, unsure of what to say. She was still ashamed of what she had to do to him. 'But it was to save Logan' she thought quickly, 'if I hadn't, he'd of killed Logan.' And she loved Logan…. Right?
He was more tanned since she'd last saw him and his hair was lighter from spending days working in the sun.
"Max" he greeted in an emotionless voice. Then, surprising her, he smiled and hugged her.
"Okay" Max spoke slowly when he let her go, "who are you and where's the real Zack?"
"The farm loosened him up a little" grinned Jondy as she blew a strand of fair hair from her face, "we're still workin' on Brin here." She gesture to the Chinese looking woman who simply stared back blankly as if waiting for orders.
"Okay….what's the delio? Tell me what's been goin' on? What's happened?" Max sat down, still looking at her brothers and sisters like they'd disappear again for another ten years.
Syl and Krit were sat on the couch, Zane sat on the edge of her desk, Zack and Brin had taken up positions by the door, Tawney and Jondy were leaning against the wall and Lee with her funky streaked hair sat in Alec's chair making herself comfortable. "Kay, so after Krit and I left Seattle after what happened to you guys, we set up a new contact number. We told the others you were dead and Zack was MIA. Jondy became the new CO." Syl nodded at her sister.
"I made everyone move in case they managed to reindoctrinate Zack and got our locations." Jondy took up the story "but we all still kept in touch in case we got into trouble. Little while ago, we saw the stuff about Manticore on the TV and decided to come help. We couldn't believe you were alive after they showed the Jam Pony thing. You got shot through the friggin heart for God's sake! But then they showed your face, said your name and barcode and we knew the press were telling the truth for once. Tawney was coming up from Florida when in the middle of nowhere, he spotted Zack working in a field."
"I was already havin' flashbacks so I agreed to go with him" Zack put in calmly.
"When we got together, he remembered everything" Zane tried spiking up his blonde tipped hair even more, "we worked on him for days to beat the brainwashin' that told him to kill your buddy Logan."
"That doesn't mean I won't if he pisses me off" Zack said darkly with a smile, the old Zack showing through.
"We found Brin in Chicago" Lee shrugged "Still a soldier through and through but no longer loyal to Manticore or Renfro. Between them, we found out the story about you. You got some guts little sista- taking down Manticore like that."
Max sighed and looked around her at the office. "Yeah, but it's opened up a whole new can 'o worms." And she began to explain about Sandeman, the ruins, familiars, the virus, Joshua and Jam Pony. Zack had already explained about Alec.
15 minutes later, Max's family stared at her stunned and Max squirmed in her seat. "Why do I feel like I'm in a zoo? Quit starin' at me!" Max looked up at Zack "and how did you get away from the cops anyway?"
A/N: That was REALLY bad *bangs head on table* Erm, ow?
