A/N: Well I guess I'll start this short chapter with an apology…SORRY! I made you guys…I wasn't holding the story hostage, I just kinda didn't have a computer to write the story on the last weeks, and then, there was the finals, and work, and all sort of things that made the delivery of this chapter, delayed.
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When Dix arrived, Max wrote down the key words.
"You ready?" Alec asked.
Max simply nodded.
"For my elders before me, for my brothers." 494 said.
His lover blinked during a few second and then answered.
"For the youngers after me, for my sisters."
As soon as she had said the sentence she fell on her chair.
"Aw! My head!" she shouted. "Alec, tell them to go away!"
"Who honey?"
"It's too much!" she cried out in pain, hands on her head.
They didn't knew what to do, nor what was happening to her, and even if they did , they weren't sure they could do anything to help her.
It seemed that the sentence had opened a door in her mind, a door behind which rushed people were trying to get out for a long time. And now that the door was open it was like a river that won't stop flowing. Those people were stepping on her head!
She was probably having the worst headache ever.
It took an hour or so to help the throbbing ache in her head ease. And even after an hour, she still felt like vomiting or something, and her head still ached. It was like she had a hang-over. For the first time in her life that is.
"Too much information. I'm starting to think that my room will be the new center of command. What do you think?" she said with irony as she opened her eyes to see her siblings, Alec (of course) and some other faces around her bed. Waiting for her to wake up.
"I'm not sick you know?" she continued as she tried to sit up. "Ouch! That hurts."
"Lie still," ordered Alec.
"Did I hear a order coming from your mouth?"
"You should lie still," Alec corrected.
Zane and Krit chuckled.
"Why are you two laughing at?" she asked her brothers.
"Wow…hum nothing Max." stammered Krit.
"You better. Now someone would please get me something to eat. I'm starving."
"You okay?" inquired Alec with concern.
"Yeah I am. As I said too much information."
"So? What's going on in your mind?" asked Mole.
"I knew there was a reason why I kept you around Mole!" she exclaimed. "All of them there're here like I had some illness that can't be cured or something like that. But, you! You go and ask the question everyone wants to know the answer!"
She smiled at them. Not a reassuring smile.
"I don't know what's going on in my mind. But, I know what I have to do now."
"And that is?" said Mole again.
"Call the Familiars for a truce. We can't find the Seekers on our own. And even if we did, well we can't fight them alone. So we need the help of the cult looners."
"And you just happen to know how to contact them, right?" groaned Zane.
"All in my mind!" she murmured a finger pointing at her head. "I really do need to eat something, someone went to get me something, right?"
After engulfing all the food her stomach could contain, Max decided that a nap was required. That only drove the others on the verge of sanity, and help them get angrier.
The day after she finally decided to tell them what they needed to do.
"Find them is not that hard, just look in Logan's files, he must have tons of things about familiars and their school. Find the school and you find them. Then, in one week, when the moon will be full, we'll go playing with them under the moonlight," she announced with a smile. "I think I need some exercise now," she said as she rose from her bed and blurred out of the apartment.
She had been putting on a bit of weight lately and though Alec didn't complain, she sure was. In all her life she never had put on a ounce of fat, and now, she couldn't help but eat, and fatten herself. She truly needed some exercise so she blurred to the training warehouse and asked a random X5 to help her train.
When the young X5 send her on her back, a small rivulet of blood dripped from her crotch.
"What…"
"I…I didn't mean to hurt you…I…" stammered the X5.
"Go get a medic." she ordered.
"You almost had a miscarriage," started Miles.
"What? I was pregnant? I mean, I am… But I thought there wasn't that much chance for me to get pregnant out of my heat. And since Alec and I…"
"No, it's 6 months old," stated Miles. He knew what that meant and was greatfull that for once, he was the only one with Max in the room. Alec had wanted to come in, but he managed to tell him to wait, so that he (Miles) could lecture Max before anyone. Moles had chuckled and said : "Like she would listen to anyone's lecture! Even Manticore couldn't ply her to their demands, and reprimands!"
"It can't be! I can't be!" she cried. "I don't want it inside of me! I want it out!"
"Max…You must carry it to term. It may be dangerous in you're status to …get it out… And anyway, I'll never do that…It's innocent…"
It was the wrong thing to say. "Innocent!" she shrieked in disbelief. "Innocent! What was I? A piece of meat? It's my freaking body! I'll do what I want, if you don't want to do it, I'll ask Carr, I'll even do it myself!"
The loud screams made the little group of transgenics waiting outside the office enter the room.
"What's happening?" asked Mole.
She turned her gaze on them, then looked at Alec straight in the eye. He felt a shiver down his spine, and it wasn't the shiver he felt during their foreplays, no. This one was an eerie one. Nothing good would get out of this office.
"I'm pregnant. The father is White. I'm going to keep it."
"That's the good thing…" tried the medic.
"Not a word Miles. I don't do it because you told me too. It has a parts to play…or so the voices say."
"What voi…"
He was cut short by the look she sent her.
"Don't address me again before I address you Miles."
And with that she exited the room. She didn't cry, she didn't speak. She just walked to her apartment and took a bath, and went back in her bed. She didn't cried. No. Soldiers don't cry. Soldiers don't cry.
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