A/N : Ok, this is the final chapter of Feral. Wow, did I just type those words? It seems so surreal... Anyway, as I said before, this is the final chapter of Feral, but there'll be an epilogue...So I'll put my thanks in that ultime addition to Feral. Though, it'll take me some time to post it, I'm on holliday, and I'm leaving home in a few minutes. That means you'll have to wait a tiny bit...I'll post it after the 14th of July, the thrusday or friday after...Anyway I hope you've enjoyed this story as much as I have enjoyed writting it...

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During the months he had spent at the Seekers' facility, he knew that he was bound to accept grief. But he was shocked to see the dead bodies of a hundred seekers scattered around the cave he just came out of. All shot in the head. The sniper was nowhere to be seen. Then he heard the 'click' of the gun, and a female voice yelling 'no'. He easily dodged it.

A woman with dark hair appeared in front of him. She was awfully familiar to him but he really didn't know where he had met her.

"Adam," the woman whispered.

"Are you the one who killed my kind?" he asked in a cold voice though he was taken aback by the fact that she knew his name.

"We did. Because we want to live." The woman remained silent a few second and looked at Adam with sorrowful eyes. "Don't you remember me?" She remembered once saying that hope was for losers and that it was just a con job people trip into. But still, she was hoping against all odds that he didn't change that much.

"I know your face. You're one of those transgenic!" he spat, "You're their leader!"

He saw the hope in her eyes die and a cold glint replace it.

"Fine. So be it."

He laughed at the implication of her words.

"Do you really think that you could defeat me?" he snickered.

"I don't think I can. I know I must. For our survival I have to kill you."

"How could you kill me, if you're reluctant to do so?"

"I've made my decision a long time no. There's no place for hesitation anymore."

"Then why did you prevent your sniper from shooting me?" he inquired.

"You would have dodged the bullet. You already knew where the sniper was even though you didn't see him," she explained. "And that's not the way you're supposed to die."

"You're awfully sure of yourself woman."

She sighed and took a step forward.

"Fight!" she said.

"If you want to die."

Adam blurred and found himself behind her.

"Boo!" he whispered but in less than a second she was behind him.

"Don't tease, fight. Or I'll start to think that I can save you."

"Save me?" he chuckled.

This time he moved faster than her and kicked her so hard she went flying and hit a palm tree on her back.

Max coughed and spat blood.

Again, they both heard a riffle going off.

"Mole no!"

But it was too late, Adam had dodged again the bullet and had disarmed the lizard man. He was about to snap the man's neck, but Max pushed Mole off.

"I'll handle him!" she spat angrily. "If you want to live past this day, go," she ordered. Mole nodded and fled.

Adam put his arm around her neck in a choke hold.

"So you really want to kill me yourself, huh?" he murmured.

The first ten minutes were easy, as an X5 she could go on without breathe during a pretty long time. But passed that time, she needed desperately to breathe.

"Please…" she choked.

"What? I thought you were supposed to kill me."

"Please Adam…"

"Don't say my name!"

Before he could do anything, she had break his choke hold and had him on his knees.

"Nice," he said. "But not enough."

Adam broke her hold on him and threw his fist at her. Again, she spat blood. He knew he had crushed her lungs. It wouldn't take long before she'll die.

"You shouldn't have intervened. Because, if I could have killed that monster that you named Mole, then maybe, I wouldn't even have to kill you!"

"You won't kill me."

"Oh, is that so? Why wouldn't I do such a thing?"

Adam pulled out a knife. Something that resembled a dagger.

"You know, these last days, I've discovered that I really like knifes. All sorts of knifes, machete, daggers…" He stopped and played with the dagger. "This one has a story. The person I took it from said that it belonged to Brutus, Caesar's son. I've started a collection you know. But enough about me. Do you want your death to be painful, long, or short and painless?"

She remained silent.

"No. It'll be long. Long and painful."

She let him approach her.

"You're right to not pull up a fight."

As he plunged the dagger toward her, she put her hand on his and used his own force to turn the dagger around.

"I'm sorry baby," Max whispered. She twisted and turned the knife in him. "It's ok. Mum is here."

She pulled out the dagger and stabbed his heart.

"Shh, shh…" she murmured in his ear. "I love you baby."

She didn't see the second dagger in his other hand.

"You're not my mom," were the last words that he pronounced as he plunged the dagger in her.

"Why did you leave her alone?" yelled Alec at Mole.

"Well she told me to! And if I'd stayed there, I would have been dead."

The cave Adam and Tilia had emerged from wasn't the only one used by the Seekers, so they had different teams with snipers and several transgenics and familiars who surveyed the caves.

Max's team had been killed by two seekers two hours before Adam arrived. Only Mole and her had survived.

"Great! Syl! Sam! Come with me."

The two X5s nodded immediately.

"Lead the way Mole."

They arrived when Adam stabbed Max in the back.

"No!"

"I'll get Jack," said Syl and she turned on her heels to get the medic.

Alec kneeled next to his mate and took her head in his lap.

"Alec…" she breathed.

"Shh…don't talk."

"My baby's dead Alec."

"I know." He indeed didn't hear the heartbeat of Adam anymore. "But you'll be fine…"

"I know." She smiled. "You're with me. Nothing bad can happen. I'm happy Alec."

One hour later, she was laying on a bed while Jack was checking out her vitals.

"You'll be fine. And so are the babies," he said.

She let out a sigh of relief.

"But you need to rest!" the medic ordered.

"All right, I won't anything too strenuous," she said with a wicked glint in her eyes directed to Alec.

Jack reddened and exited hurriedly the room.

"You're such a tease!" Alec murmured in her ear.

"But you love it, don't you!" she replied with a smile. "I love you Alec."

"I love you too…"

That's what should have happened that day. But it didn't happen that way…

"So there's nothing you can do?"

"All I can do is maintain her alive, until we can get the babies. Then you'll have to let go Alec," announced Sam Carr.

"No. She can't die. Not now. Not when we can finally live in peace."

"This time we can't do anything. The only thing that would save her would be a heart transplant, and though there are many peoples who would be willing to give their heart to her…I won't back that decision. It's not morale."

"I'm not talking about morale here! I'm talking about Max! The mother of my child!"

"I'm…I'm sorry," repeated the doctor.

It was so unreal to be in this cemetery, to all be dressed in black, to be gathered to bury their leader. They wanted their freedom. They wanted to be treated as equals. Somehow, they never thought that their beloved leader will be buried like all these anonymous humans that died in those battles that made Man's history. Somehow they never thought that Death would treat all human beings equally. Death comes like a thief for everyone. Death is unfair to every living thing on earth.

And as if the Earth was grieving too, the rain poured on them. Since the day, the twin girls were born it hadn't stopped raining.

And at the moment, they were all gathered around their leader's grave, all wet from the rain.

"She once told me that the only good thing that Manticore had taught her was to never let her unit down. Since I met her, again…" Syl sniffed loudly. "She never left someone behind and she died…oh God…She died doing so." She paused, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." No one really cried loudly that day. At least no transgenic or familiar. But the Jam Pony crew did, Original Cindy did, Sketchy did, Kendra did, and even Normal did.

The last one to leave the cemetery was Alec. He didn't leave her grave for four days before coming back to TC and then he took his daughters in his arms and went away.

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