Author's note: Hi you all! This chapter is shorter than the 4th and 5th ones but it's necessary. Like always, i hope you'll like it.
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After dealing with Logan, and Sam, Alec had a new person to 'take' care of. He wasn't really surprised when he recognized Thula, the girl who fought against Max during the JamPony siege.
«Looked what the cat dragged in...» said Alec with a satisfied grin.
«I won't tell you antyhing.» the girl spat.
«Who said i needed informations?» shrugged Alec. «Just came to see you, and you know have a little chat. See exactly what is your pain threshold.»
He took hold of a steel bar and played with it during a few moment.
«You know lately some X7s came here. A whole unit. They're pretty hungry.» He stopped playing with the bar and looked at her before hitting her with the bar. «How about we make a deal?» he said hitting her again. «I'm sure you value your life, right? And you would like to report to the Conclave, right?» Again he hit her and she spit blood. «So, let's say we release you. If you make it to the fence, you'll live. If you don't, we don't care what the X7s will make of you. And you'll be as good as dead though i heard that those kids love to keep their prey alive for several days...they are like little vampires. Those freaks really like blood.» Hit again. He heard a crack. Good. He was knew a broken rib wouldn't slow the familiar down but he needed to take his anger out. «But you'll meet them.»
«Like any of you would be a match to one of us.» said the familiar.
He kicked her in the guts.
«Don't talk unless you're adressed! Be a lady!» said Alec smirking. He knew she didn't stand a chance against those creepy kids. Hell, all the transgenics were afraid of the X7s. «Plus we handled you fine, when we first met.» He kicked her one more time and exited her cell.
They had found a way to communicate with the 'freaking bats' as Mole called them. And like every soldier, all they needed was a duty and a CO to report to. They needed Manticore, the structure. As everyone else here. After all, that was the only life they knew.
They had set a whole unit of X5 and the strongest anomalies to monitor and keep an eye on X7s.
«When will we unleash the monsters?» asked Mole chewing on his cigar.
«The cameras are on?» inquired Alec. Dix nodded. «Then in a few minutes, all the people in command will have the pleasure to see the movie of the month. The X7s in 'Predator.'» The transgenics were grinning. They didn't get the chance to make the familiars pay for what they did to Max but this one will definitely pay for all of them.
«Alec!» panted Jondy. She was clearly panicking.
«I'm here.» he said.
«She's seizing. But the tryptophan doesn't do any good. She doesn't let anyone get close to her. We all tried to...»
Alec didn't give her the time to finish her sentence. The familiar's execution will have to wait.
Max was seizing. At that moment, she really was like a broken toy about to fall into pieces. Joshua sighed his relief when Alec entered the bedroom.
«It was really sudden.» explained Syl. «She was sleeping and then she started seizing.» she paused to regain some composure. «Jack too was shacking this violently.»
«Shut up Syl. She's not going to die!» shouted Zane.
«Stop it! You shouting won't really help her!» interrupted Alec. «Everybody out.» he ordered.
They both seemed to hesitate.
«That was an order.» he shouted.
Unwillingly, Zane and Krit exited the room followed by Joshua, Syl and Sid.
Alec didn't know exactly what he was doing. He shrugged his shoes off and climbed on the bed. He held her until she stopped shacking, until she fell asleep. But the problem was that she wasn't sleeping. She was in a coma.
Slowly he got up and opened the door.
«Get a medic.» he ordered. «She's in a coma.»
«But she's not dead?» asked Jondy.
«She still breathe.» he informed.
«She should have died.» said Jondy. And she was right. She hugged Alec with all her force. «I don't know what you did but thank you.» Max and her were always the more sensitive ones of their unit.
The red head girl ran into the bedroom to lay next to her sister.
«I'm less in huggings like my sister.» said Syl. «But thanks. I know she could have died. Jack died of a grand mal seizure.»
Jondy was back in the living room.
«There are tatoos on her wirsts.» said Jondy.
«I know.They popped up during the seizure.» said Alec. «Get me Dix too. Maybe he'll know how to translate them.»
«She's in a coma.» confirmed the medic. «But the pulse is strong. She'll live.»
«As for the tatoos. They look a little bit like the ones on Joshua's medaillon. There must be a link. But i think there is one person that have all the answers to your questions.» said Dix.
«And who is that?» inquired Krit.
«Sandeman.»
That's when OC arrived.
«Where's my boo?» she yelled.
Zane was going to block her path, but Alec motionned him to stay still. They let OC enter the bedroom and stroking soothingly her boo.
«It's good for Max she's here.» he simply said.
«I...i called her.» admitted Syl. «I mean nobody knew what to do. She wouldn't let us near her. So you two were our last chance.»
«It's okay Syl. And i think that it's a good thing that she's here. I gives us time for a little chat with the familiar, don't you think?» he suggested with an evil grin.
When they arrived in front of the familiar's cell, Alec only said one thing.
«Just don't kill her.» said Alec. «Otherwise, the X7s won't have dinner.»
Everyone nodded.
They spent one hour beating the crap out of Thula. They knew they shouldn't be enjoying it that much, but they all have Max in mind and all the horrible things they did to her during a month and was all they needed to keep beating.
That was surely un-familiar like but Thula uttered a 'stop'.
They left her alone and exited the cell and walked in silence to command.
Everything was ready.
«So, we unleash the monsters or what?» asked Mole with impatience.
«Yeah. Unleash the monsters.» said Syl.
Mole looked at Alec before doing so.
It was finished in fifteen minutes.
As they were observing the X7s tearing up the familiar and drinking her blood (Jondy almost ralphed. Not that the familiar didn't deserved it but the X7 were really animals!) Logan was hacking in the TC system. He downloaded some files.
«Time for payback Alec!» he muttered to himself.
Sam was present during the 'show', but her reaction was quite unexpected. She was surprised to see the familiar. As if she had already met the familiar, and that she wasn't supposed to be here in TC. Alec followed her when she headed out of command.
She didn't heard him approach her.
«Max would have known there was someone following her.» he said.
He knew she didn't heard him coming but she hid it pretty well.
«Maybe, i knew you were there...» she said smiling seductively.
«Don't do that Sam.»
«Do what?» she replied innocently.
«I'm not interested.» he informed.
«Yeah, you're more interested in my twin but, you know that she's not 'herself' these days...and it's not like she'll know it?» she tried.
«She'll know it. And as i said, i'm not interested. What i'm interested in is you telling me what exactly are you doing here? Why are you here Sam?»he asked seriously.
«Giving you a hand.» she replied automatically.
So she had learned her lessons.
«You know, i really hate to play Manticore here, but our future will be determined in a few days with the treaty. And we have enough problems right now. If you have a problem, just tell me so! We'll deal with it. If you don't tell me, i'll use a less pleasant way to get what i want.»
«That is?» she inquired.
«There are a few psy ops units here.» he informed.
«That's low 494.»
Yeah that was hitting below the belt, but he really didn't have the time for her drama.
«Yeah, so? I'm really not in the mood for being patient with everyone of my crew here! We have a f deadline! I need to know you're on our side, my side, Max's side.»
Silence.
«You really like her, huh?»
He didn't answer and she sighed heavily.
«I know the familiar.» she paused. «It's not what you think. He betrayed me.»
«Who?» he stopped understanding that she was talking about her husband. «That's why you took off the ring?» he stated more than asked.
«You only noticed that now.» she teased.
«No. When you arrived. But as i said, things are little tense. I'm good at knowing what's wrong but when i'm tired, like everyone else, my mind works slower.» he joked back.
«I don't know how he contacted them. But a few days after your call, they cornered me in an alley in Toronto. I was heading home. Nobody, except him and his son knew who i was. I really thought that things were better between us. I guess i was wrong.» she smiled a little.
«You said they?» Alec inquired.
«Yeah. She had a team.» 453 informed.
«Probably phalanxs. But that means that they're here in Seattle.»
«I really thought that i lost her before getting here.» she said apologetically.
«What did they want?» he asked though he already know the answer.
«Revenge. Max killed some of them.» Sam answered. «They want her dead in a bad way. For a change, they thought i was her. I don't think that they know she's feral now.»
«We know she killed the familiars. But they tortured her. They deserved it. All of them.» he said coldly.
Logan had finally found the number he was looking for. He picked up his phone and dialed the numbers.
«Hello...Can i speak to the Senator Marshall please...Can i leave a message?...Tell him that Logan Cale wants to talk to him...Yeah, an appointment would be great...Friday is great...»
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