Yea this story falls into the more reviews more likely to get new chapters and Moving On and Remnants totally kicked its ass since this only had one, wait I'm lying there were 2. This story has a lot less fluff and filler than the others, which I'm guessing is what you guys like (okay I admit it, I'm a massive fan of fluff too). This story is more effort to write…Anyway here's the new chapter. Thanks for reading.


Chapter 19

Truths


"Hey" he said walking into the apartment and seeing her in the kitchen drinking a glass of milk, he looked at the glass, "You feeling okay?"

She nodded, "The best defense is a good offense."

He laughed at her sports answer, "You ready to go?"

"I already went."

He looked at her, studied her, she didn't look like he'd expected, "Lydecker read the file?"

"I assume so, I just left it with him….Oooh" she smiled, "July 24th, my birthday" she said pleased with herself for finally having something everyone else took for granted.

Logan had no reaction to the date, "You just left the file with Lydecker?"

"Yea" she shook her head, "What's the big deal, we knew what he was going to do when he found out…You know it's not safe if you make this into an Eyes Only thing now." They'd discussed it several times, Logan had agreed with her, albeit rather reluctantly.

He shook his head, "This isn't an Eyes Only thing Max." he groaned and sat down.

She walked over to him, "What's wrong?"

He looked up at her and wondered how she was so blind to the whole situation. He didn't want to just tell her, he wanted her to figure it out. "I can't believe you just let him go…" He hadn't meant for this to happen, he didn't want it to happen this way.

"Logan what's the big deal?"

"Dorothy knew who you were Max." he said as if that would explain all.

She looked down confused.

He took her hand and pulled her into the seat across from him. "The moment she looked at you Max, she thought Lydecker and his wife were your parents."

"Because I have her eyes."

Logan shook his head, "You have her eyes, you have her build, you have similar lips, lighter coloring."

"I was inspired by her Logan."

"Max, she was a scientist who was manipulating genes. She was a woman who had lost her son to genetic disease. If you had that power, what would you do with it?"

Max shook her head, she wouldn't allow that thought to enter her mind.

"Max this isn't one those things you can ignore because it makes you uncomfortable. Max if you had lost a child like that what would you do?"

"Make a child that would never get sick." she whispered.

"You're why they killed her. I don't know why exactly, if she was refusing to part with the research or if it was that she refused to part with you. I finally got my hands on the employee list for Kleinfold, found one name that was on the same list as the one we found Hannah on."

"No" she said shaking her head, "Logan, you've got this all wrong. I asked him…" She'd asked him as they waited for McGinnis.

"Max" he squeezed her hands, "Part of me knew the moment Dorothy looked at you…She didn't only see Julia, she saw Lydecker too... There was a baby tooth in one of the drawers." he took a deep breath, "Sebastian finally got the results in today...Taking into account the genetic splicing…" he shook his head, "You're not related to Churchill or Einstein."

"You got your intel wrong once more." She said standing.

He stood and followed her, "I wish I hadn't been the one to tell you this Max. It's not my place."

She turned and there was fury in her eyes, "So what did you expect to have happen if I stayed with him to read that file?"

"He would have known Max. He would have seen the research as a large basis for what Manticore did, how they were replacing sections of genes with non-defective ones, the leap from creating a child who would never get sick, to adding outside genes to make them stronger and faster…It wasn't a big one."

"You're aware of what you're telling me right? You're perfectly clear what it is you're saying? The man who spent the first nine years of my life hell, the man who tracked me like an animal for the past eleven. You're telling me that he is my father. That he should have been carting me to soccer practice and not keeping me chained underwater."

"You were meant to be their daughter Max, not a soldier." He tried to pull her in close to him, but she pushed him away.

She shook her head and tears finally welled up so much she had no say in keeping them in her eyes.

"She loved you Max….You always knew that, that's why you wanted to find your surrogate, you knew your mother loved you deep down."

She shook her head again, "No that young woman who had me ripped away from her, she's my mother, not some person who thought she was god."

The pain was evident in his eyes as he looked at her, he had no idea how to help her. She was hurting and he couldn't do anything about it.

She shook her head and took off. He had no chance of catching up to her.


She jumped off her bike and ran into the building, she knew he would have some other explanation for this. He would tell her it was a lie, that she had only ever been meant to be a soldier, not a daughter.

She banged on his door and realized she heard no noise coming from inside. She didn't have the patience to pick his lock again, she just pushed it open, breaking the lock. "Lydecker" she called out. There was no response.

She started walking over to the table she had left the folder on, the folder was still there with a stack of jewel cases next to it that hadn't been there before. She looked down at the folder and across it said "I'm sorry," she fell into a chair before it. Just collapsed down.

She finally looked over at the cd cases and noticed their was a key on top of them. It had a tag 'First National' it read, it was a key to a safety deposit box.

She stood, tucked the key into her pocket and gathered up the cd cases…She couldn't face Logan, she couldn't face all of this, not yet.