Author's note : The story is not finished! Not yet! I don't plan to end it there coz as i wrote the 10th chapter the half of the 11th was already written, and i was thinking about it for a long time so, this is it. The new chapter of 'Feral'.
I said, that i'll put new vilains, and this one introduces them.
Sky Angel -- Well i'm glad that you accept Max and Alec to be together in this fic...and thank you for you review...it's always appreciated.
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Guest type person -- Well, Max and Alec are not together...not yet...but they will soon, very soon...they already act like they were anyway...thank you for the review...i appreciate it...
Aur -- Well this is the new chapter... i hope you like it and thank you....
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Angel of Darkness231 -- Well i'm happy you enjoy it...i'll try to make the next fighting scene more graphic, promise. Loved your review...i won't forget this story...
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When Max woke up the day after, it wasn't thanks to a nice wake up call, but rather a very angry and yelling Logan Cale.
She didn't felt the pang of guilt or shame (or both) that she was expecting due to the situation : She was laying in bed with Alec in a very compromising position. He had his arm on her waist and their legs were tangled up together.
« Why are you yelling Logan? Don't you know that silence is required here? » she said angrily.
« Why are you here? » asked Logan. « Why are you laying in bed with...with him? » he continued on the same tone as her. It seemed to him that his worst nightmare was happening, since the moment when Syl told him that she had chosen a mate and that was Alec.
« It's obvious Logan. I was sleeping. » she answered coldly. « And may i ask you in how is it your business that i lay in bed with Alec? »
« Because...we're soul mates! » said Logan unsure.
« Oh spare me that crap! » Where did that come from?, she wondered. « We're not even together as far as i know! » she added.
« But...but we could be. » continued Logan. « Now that you're, you know, yourself again. »
Alec was starting to stirr because of the raising voices.
Max whispered a 'I'll be back in a few minutes' that he was the only one to hear and got out of bed.
Her gesture and her behaviour were clearly annoying Logan.
She motioned him to follow her out of the room.
« What do you want Logan? »
« Why did you sent those X5s in my house? » he asked.
« As far as i know you still live in Joshua's house. And about those X5s, on our way to TC, i heard an interesting story about someone hacking... » she trailed off purposedly.
The older man had the decency to look down, ashamed.
« I...I did it for us. » he stammered.
« How me as your slave will us good? Coz if this treaty gets trashed that's what will happen Logan! Not that i'll let them have any of us! What were you thinking? No that's the problem! You weren't thinking! » she yelled.
Max started to pace trying to calm herself down.
« And why werethose familiars in the house? » she inquired.
« They knew about Ray. That i helped you hide him. I don't know how they found me, but they did. They asked about you. I didn't say anything Max. I couldn't, i would never betray you. » he added.
« The fact is Logan you did. You did when you hacked in our system, when you dialed Marshall's number when you talked to him. » she pointed out.
« So where does that leave us? » he inquired a bit afraid. Because, now, wether he wanted to admit it or not, he was afraid of Max. He had never really saw her fight before. And the display of her abilities that he saw at Joshua's house was impressive. Scary. He was a bit afraid of her. Like when Lydecker had sent him pictures of the first man she had ever killed. He shivered at the thought. No. Max wasn't like Alec and all those animals.
« I don't know Logan. But i certainly don't want to be in anyway associated with you. » she concluded and left Logan on his own outside the room.
She took back her place next to Alec and ket her fingers wander on his handsome face. She had never saw him sleep and right now he seemed so peaceful, so boyish, so innocent as if things were the way they were supposed to be.
Yeah things weren't perfect but they were...okay.
She was...home.
Alec woke up seeing a pair of brown eyes staring at him in concern.
« Hey. »
« Hey yourself. » replied Max.
« Where were you? » he inquired.
« Nowhere. It's nothing important. » she said. « Just taking the garbage out. »
« Logan is a garbage? » he asked one eyebrow raised.
« So you know where i was. »
« I'm not deaf Max. And i'm an X5, despite all the wounds! »
« Yeah i know. I told you not to worry. » she said.
« No that's not what you said. ... »
« I know what i said! » she cut in.
He expected her to hit him for annoying her once again; but the punch never came. Instead she smiled at him. A warm smile.
« Are you okay now? » she asked very concerned.
« Nothing better than my beauty sleep to help me get on my feet again. »
She rolled her eyes.
« And you? » he asked back.
« I'm good. But i already have an appointment with Carr and Miles. » she informed. « You know, you're cute when you're asleep. » she added.
« Did i heard right? Miss Bitchy Max just said i was cute! »
This time she puched him but it was more playful than anything.
« Do you remember anything? »
« I mostly remember things that occured whe you were with me or near me. And what's with the tatoos? You do know that in three days, i'll have to sign that treaty? Along with you! » she said.
« I do know that. »
« Nobody told me anything about those things! Dix knows something but he wouldn't talk to me. »
She felt him tense.
« You know something. » she stated.
He took a deep breath.
« They appreared during your seizure. » he explained.
« I had a seizure? » she asked in disbelief.
« You did. You almost die. You went into a coma. »
He was about to continue but she put her fingers on his mouth.
« We'll talk later. » she simply said. And he wasn't the one who would complain as she rested again her head on his chest.
Biggs was undoubtedly the luckiest of the three of them.
He was badly bruised, all his muscles were sore, he had a black eye and a broken arm but apart from that, he was definitely okay. Bastard, had said Alec, as at midday he saw him and Cece leaving the dreaded infirmary.
Alec was never alone. When Max left him, his unit was there and of course there was Joshua and even Mole had come to visit. Not that Mole didn't like Alec (or Syl, he spend a few second talking to Krit) but he hated hospitals. All of them did. But everybody knew that Mole never set a foot in the infirmary.
Syl was still sleepong and wouldn't wake up which was starting to worry Tara but the X4 hid it well. She was well trained like most of them.
« She wouldn't wake up Max. » said Krit. « We've all experiencedbullet wounds. It doesn't take that long for us to recover. »
Max was at loss of words. What could she say to him? She was as desperate as he was.
She finally settled for a 'She'll get better'.
« I'm gonna ask if we can all stay here tonight. » she said and went to see Tara. Maybe feeling her pack around her would do some good to Syl.
Alec was supposed to be out by nightfall. Not that he was supposed to, but Tara found him so annoying that she finally agreed to let him out. Miles was taking care of the pregnant women for the day, so he wasn't in the area. He would have agreed immediately, thought Alec.
Max and Joshua helped him to get home.
« I'm going to leave you two alone. » said Max.
« We didn't have time to have some fun. » Alec teased. He really wanted her to stay.
Max smiled reassuringly.
« Not today. I'm staying with Syl tonight. » she continued.
Alec's face saddened.
« She really saved his life. » he pointed out.
« I'm sure she did that. So Syl-like. » she sighed deeply. « You're in good hands and i heard the guys were going to drop by later. »
She kissed him on the cheek and exited his apartment.
Okay so that was unexpected, thought Alec while touching the cheek she had just kissed.
Joshua grinned.
« Alec and Max. Get busy. That's the plan. » he said.
Alec just smiled not really hearing his friand talk.
She kissed me! Okay so not on the lips, but she kissed me! 494! Me! Alec! Myself who she usualy uses as punching bag when things go bad. This is good day!
Before going to Syl's room, she had the appointment with Carr and Miles.
« Any explanation theory about your recovery? » inquired good old Sam Carr.
« The familiar punched me several times on the head. » she said. « When she hit me, it was as if i had felt an electric jolt course through my body. It was like the trigger i needed to heal you know. »
« Ok. I think then that you're right whe you said that the hit on the head did you good. » commentedSam Carr.
« I still don't understand. » said Miles behind her.
« It would be good to run some more tests. » informed Carr.
« You do that. » said Max. « But do you think i can go back to... » she paused searching her words. « the state i was before. »
« I... don't know. » admitted Sam. « You being all yourself again with a simple hit on the head is definitely unexpected. But i've nerver been confronted to something like that before. Maybe you'll stay yourself, may you'll switch back to the feral mode. »
« Great! Imagine i go 'Catwoman' mode during the signature! » she shouted in frustration.
« It's just probabilities Max. » sais Miles feeling the surge to calm her as he really didn't need her to be upset. That and the fact that now that Alec was still recovering, she had to find a temporary punching bag, and he didn't wanted to be that one.
« Yeah, probabilities. My life is full of that. What were the odds that the apartment that i broke him a few years ago was Eyes Only's apartment. What were the odds that he would help me find the other? What were to odds for me to get caught? What were the odds for those tatoos to appear? »
« We've made all the physical tests. » said the other X5. « And so far, everything in you is back to normal. Except that you're faster, stronger, and you see farther than anyone. Even for an X5.»
« So i'm not normal! Not that i ever was. » she joked.
This was really freaking her out. But she just couldn't collapse and say that she was damn scared. No. Right now she supposed to lead.
« If we did all the physical tests, what other test do you want to run on me? » she inquired.
« Psychological. » saind Sam Carr.
« Huh-huh! » she shook her head. That sounded a lot lik psy ops. « Nope. No way. » She was pacing angrily around the room.
« I know what it reminds you. » reassured Miles. « But it's nothing like it. And Sid have already worked on you when you were...you know...not... »
She raised her hands in defeat.
« Fine! »
Somewhere under Seattle, in an high tech facility.
In a dark room, two men in the shadows were looking at a video footage of Max fighting against the familiars.
« She's responded well to the treatment, sir. » said one of them. From his voice you could tell that he was still young. Probably i his early 30's.
« But she recovered too fast. » stated the other man.
« We're... we're working on that. » stammered the young one. He knew what happened to all the people who disappointed Brother Harris.
« Don't be afraid Stan. I won't kill you. And as one of us, you shoudn't feel afraid anymore. » said the other man.
« I'm sorry i was afraid sir. But i'm not afraid of you, but of the fact that i wouldn't see our hour come. »
« You learned your lessons well. » Harris cut in.
Stan opened to door of the room and left his superior alone.
« Damn you Sandeman for making those freaks. » Harris muttered.
In the passage, we notice that there is no light and that Stan sees prefectly in the dark.
Max finished with the tests and was headed toward Syl's room, several people greeting her and patting her as the news of her recovery was now known by everyone. She would havev liked to be as happy as they was, but there was the 'Probabilities'. Damn you Miles! Damn you Carr! No tonight she wasn't think of herself. Tonight, Syl was her priority.
That night, Zane, Jondy, Max and Krit all slept near Syl all tangled up together like a pack of wolves, providing their unconscious sister their warmth.
Krit was the first one to stirr. Immediately his hand was on Syl' s pulse. He was relieved to feel the beat of her heart. But then he realized that she was still sleeping.
Two days now that he hadn't left the building. He needed some fresh air so he got up.
When he got back, he heard laughters filling the rooms. Her laughter.
He pushed the door open and saw hisbeloved one similing at him. He barely noticed that Max was awake too.
« I'm going to see is Mole is okay. » said Max excusing her self and waking Jondy and Zane. « Making sure he doesn't mess up. » she added.
« Yeah.You better watch him! » said Syl. Yep, she too was back.
Jondy and Zane knew that they weren't welcomed anymore and hugged Syl before following Max outside.
« I woke up and you weren't there. » stated Syl.
« I...I... » stammered Krit.
« Don't ever do that again. » she said opening her arms and inviting him to hold her.
« Never. » he agreed as he flung himself in his lover's embrace.
Outside the three of them smiled before they parted as Max wanted to have her talk with Alec now, instead of going to check on Mole.
Joshua was still there.
« Hey Big fella. » Max whispered.
Joshua responded with a 'hmmm'.
« Wake up. There are wafles for the breakfast today you know. »
The dog boy's eyes snapped up open which made Max grin. Men and food. All the same.
« I'll take care of our injuried one. » she added as Joshua headed out.
She went to Alec's kitchen and prepared two cups of coffees. Real coffee.
She didn't know if it was her presence or the smell of the coffee that had awaken alec but ten minutes later, he was leaning on the kitchen counter waiting for her to hand him his coffee.
« Good morning. » she said.
« Max. » simply replied Alec.
« Coffee? » she asked conversationaly though she already knew the answer to that one. He nodded and sat on one of the seats;
« I snatched some wafles. Hope you like them. » she added.
« Yeah. » was the answer she got.
« We need to talk. » she announced.
« About? »
« Those tatoos. Alec, i need you to tell me what you know about them. »
« Not much. I asked Dix to work on their translation. Joshua thinks it's a message from Sandeman. We're looking for the guy. Not with great success. » he admitted.
« You said they appeared during a seizure? » she inquired.
« Yes. I was there with you. I had you in my arms. I was trying to calm the shakes but they wouldn't stop. Then before you went into a coma, they appeared from nowhereon you skin. »
« Ok. » she murmured.
« What did Doc Carr said? » he asked.
« That he didn't know anything. Which is not new for me. » She said a bit harshly. « I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude with you. It's just the whole situation is getting to me! » apologized Max.
He knew that a Max apologizing was rare, very rare. That only happened when she was really scared.
« They don't know if i'm back for good, or not. And now, i have to do some psy-test. »
Alec flinched understandingly. It was one thing to let the psy ops units to work on her during her feral state. But now that she had all her wits. It was different. The mind is a tricky thing. If they mess up, they'll mess her up too.
« I can be there you know. That is if you want me too of course. » he said.
« I'd like that. » she whispered and then sipped on her coffee.
Later that day, Sid knocked on Alec's door knowing that Max was there. In fact, she hadn't moved all day.
« So you finally found me? » said Max.
« Wasn't very hard. » Sid needed to say.
« Ok. Let's get this over with. What do you want me to do? »
« Just talk. Like going to a shrink you know? Let's start with what happened in the warehouse? » tried Sid.
Max's eyes darkened with anger and fear.
« Nothing to say. » Max said bluntly.
Sid didn't push. Instead, she moved on an another topic.
« Ok. Let's talk about the mission you did before then. How was it? »
On that point, Max was very talkative. She didn't forget any details of the mission and was going on and on on how the mission was supposed to be easy.
Slowly, Sid was bringing her back to what had happened in the warehouse without Max even noticing it. Alec watched bewildered the whole situation in front of him. But he didn't intervene. They all needed to know what had happened to prevent it from happening again.
« So what happened? » inquired Sid in a soft voice.
« I killed Ames. » Max said.
« And the other familiars too... »
« No. I didn't kill them. » Max cut in. « I didn't. I saw them die. »
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