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A/N: Review people review! It would mean so much to me. There is a lot more older content in this chapter. Just a heads up. If you think I should change the rating, let me know. I'm not really sure how the rating system goes but I don't want anyone to be upset by what they read if they're a little sensitive. So tell me if I should change the rating or if it's okay for now.
Max and Zack sat at the breakfast table with the Evans the next morning.
"Pass the butter, will you dear?" Marie Evans asked.
"Sure," Max said and passed it.
"So what are you're plans today?" Caldwell asked them.
Max and Zack looked at each other.
"Oh, this and that," Zack replied evasively. "Maybe some sightseeing."
"That sounds nice," Marie said.
They continued to eat breakfast like this, just chatting quietly until Max saw Hunarid pass through the dining room to leave the hotel. She reached over and squeezed Zack's hand. "You know honey, with all the sightseeing we wanted to do, we better get a move on," she said, looking at him pointedly.
Zack immediately got was she was saying. "Right." He turned to the Evans. "Sorry, we have to go, but we hope to see you later."
Caldwell waved his hand at them. "Don't worry about it. You two have a nice time now."
They stood up and left the hotel, following Hunarid in their car. It was a little hard because their car was bright red and flashy which attracted a lot of attention, but luckily Hunarid or 'Zay' was on the phone so he wasn't paying attention. He turned off on a dirt road and stopped at a warehouse.
Zack parked the car at the turnoff for the dirtroad and he and Max ran in the bushes, keeping up easily with Hunarid's car because of their transgenic speed.
Hunarid flipped off his cell phone and walked towards the warehouse where a man greeted him. Max and Zack both turned their heads toward the men to hear better.
"Zay," the man said. "You got the explosives?"
"Yeah, I got them. Where's my money?" Zay said.
"Inside. Come. Let's talk about future business deals." The man motioned to Zay and they walked inside. Max and Zack followed discreetly. The men sat at a table and started to talk like they were old friends.
"How's Gina and the baby?" Zay asked.
"Oh, they're fine, thank you. Little Nicholas is about 3 months now. He's adorable."
"That's great. Look, I love talking to you Dave, but I really have things to do. We'll set up a date for the next drop-off but can I have my money? I'm kind of in a hurry," Zay said.
"Of course, of course. Just a moment. Let me get it." Dave got up and walked into another room.
"Now's our chance to grab him," Max said. "We know who he's been dealing with and where the warehouse is."
"Okay," Zack said. "Now!"
They both burst out of their hiding places and Zack ran to grab Zay.
"What the hell?" Zay said.
Just then a door opened. Dave walked in with a cruel smile on his face. "Well, lookie what we got here."
Before Max or Zack could react one of Dave's guards shot Max in the shoulder, causing her to fall back. She screamed in pain, not that she hadn't endured worse but because it had shocked her.
"Max!" Zack screamed. He ran towards her and held her protectively in his arms. "Are you okay?"
"Why is it always in the damn shoulder?" Max muttered.
Zack breathed a sigh of relief. If she was sarcastic it wasn't too bad. On the other hand, she would probably be sarcastic on her deathbed. He checked her shoulder and sucked in a breath. The bullet was still in there.
The guards used this distraction as a chance to surround them.
Dave walked up to them. "Who are you and why are you here?" he asked.
"Because some moron wanted you morons to be with the other morons in jail," Max said.
Zay blinked in confusion for a moment, then his smile reappeared. "Well, I guess we'll just have to make sure you don't go back to that moron with the information on our whereabouts."
Max rolled her eyes. "You are such a moron. How do you know we haven't already given up this location?" It was just a bluff but it was worth a shot. She held a hand to her head. "Ugh, that word is now giving me a headache."
"Oh well," Dave said. "Guess we'll just have to kill you then."
Zack snorted. "Good luck at that." The he and Max jumped up and started taking out everyone.
Max blurred to the right, ignoring the pain in her shoulder and aimed a high kick to one guard. She jumped up and the two guards running at her bumped into each other, knocking the other out. "Idiots," she said. She punched at another guard and did a triple flip in the air to doge the bullets he was firing, then landed and did a sweep under his legs finally rendering him unconscious after putting pressure on his neck.
Zack blurred to the left, knocking out Zay and Dave in one blow, then snapping the neck of a guard. Another one aimed a feeble punch at him but he caught it and threw one back. "This is pathetic," he muttered. He kicked a guard in the chest then karate chopped him in the neck. He turned around to see Max standing over an unconscious guard but she was unaware that another one was aiming a gun at her. Directly at her heart. Immediately Zack's dream came back to haunt him. The one where she was shot straight through the heart. He wouldn't let that happen again.
"No!" he screamed. He blurred over to Max and knocked her down just as the gun fired. Instead of finding its mark on Max it hit Zack in the stomach. He grit his teeth together and when they hit the floor he blacked out for a few moments. There was just Zack, Max and the guard. Everything was silent until Max saw that Zack wasn't moving. She screamed and touched his cheek. "No," she whispered. "No. Don't leave me. I need you." She looked up at the guard and he backed away when he saw the look of death in her eyes. She slowly stood up, Zack's blood mingling with her own from her shoulder, and slowly walked towards the guard. It was as if she was a jungle cat, stalking her prey. Her eyes were completely black. "You shouldn't have done that," she said, her voice low and dangerous. Then without warning she blurred forward and snapped his neck so quickly he didn't see it coming. A cruel smile formed on her lips, but as soon as it was there it was gone, and her eyes lost their darkness and became chocolaty brown again. She returned to Zack's side and started crying when she saw he wasn't moving.
"You can't leave me Zack," she wept. "I need you."
Somewhere in his brain, Zack heard this and he struggled to wake up.
"Please, don't leave me. I'll die if you do. Please, Zack…" She laid his head on her lap. "I never even got a chance. I never got a chance to tell you I loved you," she whispered.
At this Zack's eyes shot open. "Say what now?" he said croakily.
She started when he spoke and then looked trapped. 'What do I do now?' she thought. 'Oh, what the hell. I'll have to tell him eventually.'
"I love you," she said again. She stroked his hair tenderly. "I've always loved you."
The next four words were what made her heart whole and completed her world.
"I love you too," Zack said.
Then he pulled her down on top of him and crushed his lips to hers.
(angelofdarkness78: Should I leave this as a cliffhanger? Hmm, decisions, decisions. LOL I won't since I figure you'd kill me if I did. K, back to the story.)
The moment his lips touched hers Zack felt like he was in heaven. He barely felt the pain from his stomach. Her fingers caressed his barcode and he intertwined his fingers in her hair. He wrapped one of his arms around her and tasted her. Their tongues met and all he could think about was wanting more. He didn't want it to end. Especially since he had waited for this for years. His lips moved off hers for a moment and sucked on her neck until she brought his head up and kissed him again. He moaned into her mouth and they kept kissing until they were breathless and needed to come up for air. Both were breathing hard and Zack looked her in the eyes. "You meant it, didn't you?" he asked worriedly.
"Would I have said it if I didn't mean it?" she said.
He smiled at her. "For so long, Maxie. I've wanted this for so long."
She kissed him. "Me too." She pulled up the hem of his sweater a little. "Let me see your shot."
He helped her roll it up. It wasn't as bad as she originally thought. "Let's get back to the hotel, fix our wounds up, and hopefully not run into the Evans."
"Sounds good," he replied and they painfully stood up, Max going tie everyone up and Zack to phone the police to come get Hunarid and the others. Then they left.
Logan was sitting at (wanna guess?) his computer, thinking about what Max and Zack were doing. Just then the phone rang so he walked over and picked it up. "Yup."
"Mr. Cale?" a voice said. "It's Chief Hernandez."
"Oh, hey Chief."
"I just wanted you to thank Eyes Only. We apprehended Hunarid and the people he's been dealing with at an abandoned warehouse half an hour ago. We've been looking for him for a long time and we finally got him. So tell Eyes Only thanks."
"Sure thing, Chief," Logan said. "Bye."
He put the phone back and thought to himself proudly. 'Eyes Only has yet again put an evil villain behind bars.' (coughMaxandZackdidtheworkcoughcough)
Logan thought for a moment. 'I haven't been to Miami recently. Maybe I'll go up and surprise Max.' So he booked a flight straight there.
When Max and Zack got back to the hotel they cleaned their wounds and ate so that they would heal faster. It was just then that Zack noticed a certain aroma. "What's that smell?" he asked.
Max, who had been fidgeting, said, "Oh shit."
He turned to her. "What?"
"I'm in heat."
Just then he noticed how much he wanted to jump her. Well, more than usual. "Maxie, not that I mind being with you, but if you get pregnant… We can't bring a kid into this shit, Manticore may be gone but there are others hunting us."
"I know." She bit her lip. "Don't worry. We'll just… sit this out."
That worked for all of one minute.
"Screw this," Zack said and he grabbed her and they tumbled onto the bed. In a matter of seconds all their clothes were off and they were kissing. He bit her deeply where her neck met her shoulder, drawing blood, making her draw in her breath but she relaxed when he sucked on it making the pain go away. He pulled back and looked at her. "Mine," he said.
"Yours," she responded and they made love.
Logan strolled happily into the lobby of the hotel where Max and Zack were staying. He went up to the front desk. "Hi, uh." He stole a look at the girl's nametag. "Marina. I'm visiting my friends, the Matthews. They're expecting me. Can you tell me what room they're in?" Logan asked.
"Sure," Marina said. "Room 207."
"Thanks," he said. 'Oh, I bet Max will be ecstatic to see me.' Little did he know how wrong he was.
Logan walked down the hall toward Max and Zack's room but froze when he heard a loud male groan that sounded like Zack. He quickened his pace when he heard a satisfied sigh and threw the door open when he found it was unlocked. He was so not prepared to see what he did.
Max and Zack lay in bed, kissing passionately, completely unaware of Logan in their room until he started yelling.
"What the fuck are you doing?" he yelled.
Max gasped and sat up, covering herself with the sheets. "Logan," she said.
"Max? How could you do this to me, to us?" he said.
"There is no us," she said tiredly. "We were over a long time ago."
"How can you say that?" he screamed. He stopped. "You're in heat, aren't you?" He looked at Zack. "You took advantage of her, you bastard!"
"Logan stop!" Max said. "He didn't take advantage of me, I wanted this. I. I love him, Logan." She finished in almost a whisper.
Logan shook his head. This couldn't be happening. Not to him, Logan Cale, Eyes Only, crusader to right the wrong. "You're lying. He took advantage of you, did something to you to make you forget that you love me."
Zack rolled his eyes but remained quiet. This was Max's battle to fight.
"He didn't do anything to me, Logan. I love him, I always have. We never would've worked out. I need to be with something who understands me, loves me."
"What are you talking about? I do love you!"
"No. Not really. At least not for who I am. You're always trying to change me Logan. Just little things. You hate it whenever I do something that a normal human wouldn't normally do. Plus, you're work always comes first. I never have and never will. We're from two different worlds. We have a different concept of what is important and what's not. To you, it's your work. To me, it's my family. To the people I love. Besides, I love Zack. I always have and nothing will ever change that. You changed my life, that I won't ever deny, but you changed it with your friendship. I do love you Logan, but not as a lover, as a friend. My best friend, like O.C. I hope that we can stay friends, I really do. But this is where my heart belongs and I hope you can respect that."
Logan shook his head. "I'm sorry, but I can't. I love you Max, nothing will change that. Tell Alec he's not welcome to stay at my place anymore. But when Zack finally gets tired of you and leaves you, you know that I'm always there.
At this, Zack exploded. "Leave her? You honestly believe that bullshit, Logan? You know how much I love Max. I would never leave her. I died for her and I would do it a million times over!"
Max put a hand on his arm to calm him. "If you can't accept it, then leave. I can't believe you but whatever. Forget about Alec, we'll find a place for him to stay. Unlike you, we take care of our own."
Logan picked up a vase and threw it at a wall, making Max wince as it smashed to pieces.
"Get out," Zack said dangerously.
Logan glared at him and stomped off, slamming the door behind him.
A/N: How do you like that? Please tell me if I should change it to rated R. I honestly don't think it was that bad though. It wasn't too nasty. I think it's still in the pg-13 category. But anyways, tell me your thoughts if I should change it. K, REVIEW PLEASE!
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I know White hasn't made an appearance yet but I was just focusing on Max and Zack.