The hospital
Original Cindy and Max sat against the door; Max breathing heavily, looked up towards the window. She saw a shadow coming through and watched it disappear. Cindy motioned to Max that maybe they should get up and keep moving, but Max refused, she wanted to make sure that it was safe before she risked venturing out, considering her condition.
A couple minutes later, Max finally decided that it was all right to keep moving, she inched her way up against the wall into a standing position and forced herself to move forward. They opened the door and looked down both hallways, no sign of White. They grabbed Max's stuff and walked to the end of the hall where the main stairs were.
They reached the waiting room, Max went into the bathroom just off to the side to get changed and clean up her wound. When Max was done they started to walk towards the front door and left the hospital.
"Phew, we made it!" Cindy exclaimed as she stopped.
"Don't say that yet. We still have to get somewhere safe." Max explained. Max was in a lot of pain, she was almost ready to collapse. It had continued bleeding, although she had cleaned it, she wasn't able to fix it.
"This way, Cindy!" Max grabbed her hand and walked down the street.
"Max, you need to get someone to fix that wound." Cindy complained.
"I'm fine, we should be able to make it to Joshua's from here." Max refused to give into the pain. She needed it fixed, but only when they were safe.
When they got to Joshua and Alec's house they didn't even knock, they just walked in and Max collapsed on the couch. Original Cindy went looking for Joshua and Alec. Joshua was sleeping, so Cindy didn't wake him. She grabbed what passed, to them, as a first aid kit and brought it back out to Max.
"Here you go, you'd better clean that up before its gets worse." She expressed with concern.
"Oh fine." Max said dramatically as she grabbed the small box from Cindy's hand. She got out some gauze and some band-aids. She laughed as she held up the band-aids in front of Cindy's face, "You think this little thing is going to cover it?" She threw it back into the box and worked with the gauze as best she could. The wound has been re-opened and was still bleeding. She sopped up the blood with a paper towel and water, and put the gauze and tape back on.
"Now that that is taken care of, I think I should rest now." Max said as she put the kit on the table and stretched out on the couch.
"Joshua is here but he's sleeping, would you mind if I left to go run somewhere?" Cindy asked.
"Well…all right, just don't let anyone see you on the way out." She answered closing her eyes. Max immediately fell asleep; the walk from the hospital alone had tired her out to the point of collapse.
"All
right, I should be back soon." Cindy shut the door as she
finished and looked around outside but saw no one.
Logan's
apartment building
Cindy arrived at Logan's house and knocked on the door. Taking a while he finally answered the door. He was only wearing a shirt and some boxers but hadn't noticed because he was still half asleep, "Cindy, what are you doing here at this time of night?" Logan asked as he finally realized that he wasn't really dressed, so half closed the door.
"White came after Max again. She's at Joshua's right now though, but she can't stay there." O.C said in a panic.
Logan's eyes went really wide in the realization of what O.C had just stated, "White came after her again?" He repeated in shock.
"Yes, last...well actually this morning, it was early and we came out of the hospital and ran to Joshua's house." She explained.
"All right, just give me a minute and I'll get the car." Logan said as he ran back to his room to fetch a pair of pants, grabbing his coat, he locked the door behind him.
They both went in to get Max, but she wasn't on the couch. Original Cindy went to see if Joshua was in his room still, but he wasn't there either. In a state of panic she ran for the bathroom, to start the search of the entire house, she ran in and stopped dead in her tracks, she found Joshua holding Max and leaning over her.
"Joshua there you are? What are you doing?" She asked curiously, as Logan came up behind her.
"What's wrong with her, she won't stop bleeding!" Joshua panicked.
"She was shot last night, the wound just re-opened." Cindy explained as she walked towards him.
"Can you make her better?" Joshua looked up with sad eyes.
"Yes,
but you have to let us take her away from here..." Cindy looked
at Logan, "And if it's all right with Logan, you can come with
her to his apartment." She posed the question, looking back at
Logan. Logan nodded in response. Joshua carried her out to the car;
he went back in to get a few of his things and hopped in the car.
Logan's
apartment building
Back at Logan's apartment, Joshua placed Max on the couch, while Original Cindy and Logan went to the bathroom to retrieve the first aid kit. Max woke up and immediately she grabbed her side in pain. She noticed where she was and looked around to see Logan and Cindy coming out of the bathroom with a first aid kit in hand.
"Max! You're awake!" Original Cindy almost screamed.
"Ya, what am I doing here?" She asked as she used one hand to rub her eyes.
"You
need a place to stay where White won't find you and O.C here picked
my house." Logan said matter-of-factly. Cindy pulled out the
gauze and anti- septic solution, needle and the thread, and then sat
down on the table in front of the couch. Max started to relax as
Cindy sewed her back up and applied the clean dressings. Joshua came
out with some soup after getting his stuff un-packed in his room. Max
looked up, "So I've got an audience now have I?" Joshua and
Logan both just smiled. Joshua looked at Max with hopeful eyes, "Yes,
I want Max better." Max smiled as she shifted her weight, "I'm
going to be fine, Joshua."
White's
headquarters
"I want to now where Max is." White announced in frustration at the man.
"Well it will take me awhile to find her, she is injured now." The man replied.
"All
right, then half now, half when you tell me where she is." White
said handing him more money. The man nodded and walked away.
Logan's
apartment building
Max ate the soup and sighed with relief.
"What was that for?" Logan asked from his computer desk.
"I'm
just glad to be safe and sound... and here with you…and Joshua,
safe from White for now." She glanced up sheepishly. Logan was
silent, unable to think of a reply to that statement.
Logan
cleared his throat, "Well...uh... I've been trying to find
out where White is now."
"Any luck so far?" Max closed her eyes and clutched her fists as she waited for Logan's reply.
"Well I've had no luck so far, but I'm going to keep trying."
"Logan, do you have an extra blanket? I'm a little cold." Max shivered.
"Ya I'll be right there." Logan said as he left the room, he grabbed the blanket from the closet and headed back into the living room.
"Here you go." Slowly placed the blanket over her shoulders and feet. Max went to grab for the blanket and brushed Logan's hand. Logan jumped back as he processed what had just happened.