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Chapter Five
OC rushed over as Max came in the door, "Boo are you okay you're been gone for three days? Logan told me about you going into heat, and Alec, dragging you off against your will. I went looking for you, but I didn't know where his new place was."
"Sketchy was AWOL, so I couldn't ask him, I wuz going mad with worry. I went down to Terminal City and found Joshua, he told me Alec helped you. He said you were alright." OC knew she was babbling, but she was just so relieved to see her.
"You are all right, aren't you Boo?" she asked hesitantly, taking in Max's ashen unhappy face. "Come and sit down and tell OC all about it," she said, her arm around Max's now shaking shoulders.
"Alec just told me to have an abortion, " she said, tears welling up in her eyes as they sat down on the couch.
"What…what are you pregnant?" OC asked confused.
"No," sobbed Max. "I don't know…I could be."
"What's it got to do with Alec?" OC asked frowning.
Max sobbed all the harder.
"What…that low down bastard! I'm gonna kick his Trangencic arse." OC seethed, her eyes narrowing. "He's been screwing you and now your pregnant. He's told you to get a fucking abortion. I'm gonna lay the smack down on him until he's dead," she raged.
"No, no…we haven't…it was my heat…its not his fault OC…but he told me to get an abortion," she hiccuped into OC's shoulder. "I don't even know if I'm pregnant yet," she wailed.
"What…let's back up here a bit Boo. OC's, all confused. Alec knows about heat if he screwed you when you were in heat then he took advantage of you," she said indignantly. "This is, Alec, who you don't have a good word for how is it not his fault," she demanded angrily.
Max cried all the harder.
"He didn't take advantage I came onto him," she stammered.
"Heat affects him, like it affects me…our hormones…once we started he couldn't help himself any more than I could. He didn't screw me, OC, it wasn't like that," she wept. "I don't want to get an abortion," she sobbed unhappily.
"Its alright," OC said, patting Max's shoulder soothingly.
"I'm ssorry, OC, I know I'm being stupid but I can't seem to sstop crying. I think it's my hormones, tthey reacted really strongly to his. My heat was more powerful and longer than I'm used too. I feel really weird and emotional. I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry, its okay." OC sympathised still rubbing her shoulder. "You repress a lot of your feelings, Boo, so maybe you really needed to just let this all out. What I don't understand is why he told you to get an abortion when you don't even know if you're pregnant?"
"I don't know why either," she sobbed. "He said something about Logan, then told me to go and see a doctor to stop it, I can't remember what exactly he said. I was still thinking about being pregnant and then he said that…and I just had a shower and walked home."
"Why d'ya walk, Boo, where's your bike?" OC asked, thinking a change of topic might diffuse things a bit.
"It's at Alec's. I forgot it."
Forgot her Baby bloody hell.
"It doesn't matter what, Alec, said. If you're pregnant and you want the baby then you gonna have it. I'll help, you know you'll never be on your own."
"I know, OC, you're the best friend. I'd never get an abortion, ever," she said emphatically. "I just wish he hadn't said it," she whispered dejectedly into OC's shoulder.
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OC was really getting worried.
Max was still huddled into the corner of the couch clutching the same cushion she'd been holding for the last hour, still sobbing miserably.
This can't be good for her. she thought in panic.
"Boo, Boo your got to stop this." Sitting down beside her she put her arm around Max's shoulders. "I've called Logan," she soothed. "He'll make you feel bett…"
"No, no OC I can't see him, I don't want to see him…not now…how could you do that?" she wailed.
"It's all right, its all right." OC tried to pacify, feeling more and more out of her depth. "I'll call him and tell him not to come."
"But I am calling, Cece," she said determinedly. "This isn't you, Boo, this X5 hormonal shit, OC don't know nothing about that. We need some help."
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"Who're you?" OC demanded to the dark haired women with Cece.
"I'm Kat, I'm a friend of Max's, I've come with Cece cause I've been through heats with my mate and I know what's happening to Max, Cece's hasn't been through heat with another transgenic yet."
Max had started to calm down, OC noticed with relief, the tears were still flowing but she'd stopped sobbing.
Kat and Cece were both sitting on the couch, Kat with her arm around Max and Cece holding her hand. They were just sitting close talking quietly and…well…stroking Max, touching her, and she was letting them OC marveled.
If I hadn't have seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have believe it, OC thought incredulously.
It seemed to be working, Max was calming down, getting control of herself.
"She's never been like this after heat before" OC confided.
"We're all like this in heat with our own kind," Kat replied, more for Max, than OC. "Heat with another transgenic is much more powerful than with a human. Transgenic males drop a huge amount of testosterone and adrenaline during heat. Our bodies respond to that by producing much higher levels of hormones."
"You haven't had a true heat if you have only ever been with human males, Max." Kat said stroking her hair. "It isn't over yet only the first stage, the hazy frenzied part when you were both dumping hormones. You're in the second stage now, that's the time when you're supposed to work the huge hormonal build up through your body. You do it with your mate, that's why it's called mating," Kat finished smiling, as she stroked Max's hair.
"Where's Alec, what's happened Max?" Kat asked her soothingly.
"He sent me away," Max whispered exhaustedly, her head on Kat's shoulder. "He sent me away," she repeated pitifully.
"What?" Kat frowned in disbelief. "It would be against all his instincts to send you away while you were still in heat."
"He told me to get an abortion too," Max, said wanly, tears in her eyes once again.
Kat patted her shoulder comfortingly, frowning over her head at an equally puzzled Cece.
"Sometimes things can get a little confusing in heat, we'll get Alec to come here and we'll sort out what's happened." Kat said.
"He tried to kill me too," Max hiccuped pitifully. "Me and Joshua he tried to kill us," she sobbed tragically.
"What?" Kat asked in shock, her eyes quickly drawn to OC, who was shaking her head and rolling her eyes.
"Let's get Alec here, and sort this out for you," Kat offered soothingly, still stroking Max's hair.
"No, He sent me away. I've been through heat on my own before I can do it again," Max hiccupped miserably.
"This'll be much harder than just trying to ride heat out, without mating. You've got more hormones in your system than you've ever had before. They'll take a while to work through," Kat said doubtfully. "Your not only gonna be frustrated but depressed, sad, anxious, confused. If you let me get Alec it will…"
"No," Max interrupted "How long do you think it'll take?"
"At least a week, hard to say," Kat said.
"I'll get my things," Max said numbly without moving. How could I have gone from feeling so good to so bad in just a few hours? She wondered dejectedly.
"I can look after you, like I've done before you don't have to go Boo," OC offered doubtfully, bravely.
"Not this time, OC, but thanks anyway." Max answered dispiritedly.
Worried, OC frowned at Cece.
"She'll be fine OC. Heat really puts us in touch with our instincts. Max is being guided by hers. Instincts tells her that if she can't be with her mate, she's best with her own kind," Cece explained.
"Transgenics mating in heat, naturally hole up somewhere safe until heat is finished. Just like back in the jungle." Kat said. The best place for Max to have done that was at Alec's, to finish what she started." The next best, safest place is with us in Terminal City," Kat offered, agreeing with Cece.
"Her mate…Alec but…" OC repeated incredulously. "What about Logan?" she blurted unthinkingly.
Max started to cry again. "Her instincts chose Alec not Logan." Kat said, glaring at OC as she resumed soothing Max.
"Yeah and didn't he fuck up big time," OC thought, looking over at a desolate Max. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it. Max emotional, crying, anxious and…needing Alec, OC thought, shaking her head in disbelief.
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Banging, what the hell was that banging?
"Oh shit that must be Logan at the door," OC said as Max's panicked eyes swung to her.
"I rang him and told him not to come," she blurted apologetically worried eyes on Max's apprehensive face.
"I'll go and get my things," Max said, jumping up. "Tell him I don't want to see him today."
"I'll just get rid of him, it won't take a minute," she offered confidently making her way to the door.
Cece looked at Kat, her eyebrow raised, as they heard OC try and send Logan away. First nicely, then more stridently, as Logan herded her backwards towards the living room.
Stepping up to OC's back they halted her retreat. OC her backward retreat halted by Cece and Kat quickly recouped.
"Now as I was saying Logan. Max is here, and she is safe so there is nothing for you to worry about but as I already told you she don't want to see you today."
"Look, OC, I need to see her, it's very important," Logan explained, as he tried to dodge around OC, only to be met by a stony faced Kat.
"Max," he yelled, grabbing Kats arm to move her aside.
Kat pulled her arm quickly up, and then down to break his hold. Grabbed his arm, she twisted it around, and ran it up Logan's back until he was doubled over unable to move.
"I don't like to be grabbed," she confided conversationally into his ear.
"Now Max has told you that she doesn't want to see you today. So I suggest you go home."
Propelling him, still bent over, towards the door and closing it after him.
Logan furious, finding himself once more on the wrong side of a closed door, fuming about the arrogance and inconsideration of Transgenics, wisely decided to go home.
TBC
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