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Summary: What Max find on Logan's Comp
Timing: Same as last chapters'
A/N: Sorry this one's short. Oh and sorry if it doesn't make sense either. I'm trying but my teachers think that everyday is free game when it comes to hw.
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Chapter 6,
The Journal
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"Goodbye Logan." She whispered as the tears slid easily down her cheeks. "Goodbye." And with that final word she started her bike and road away into the filthy streets of Seattle her eyes filled with tears that she would no longer let fall. After all he was gone, and there was no more reason to cry over him now was there?
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Max painstakingly set up Logan's EO equipment in Joshua's house as the tall transhuman watched from one of father's old couches. The lovable dog boy had watched her carry the equipment in piece by piece, setting each one down on a rickety old table Joshua had cleared off for just this purpose. He didn't say anything as she connected cables to one another or ran lines along the floor and up the walls of his house. He even sat silently as Max took a seat behind the multiple computer screens, flexed her fingers and then began to type away. No, the K-9 didn't open his mouth through all this. It was only after the dark haired woman had been there for over two hours that he finally decided to talk to her.
"Where little fella been?" He asked a slight whimper in his voice. "OC and Alec came to visit but not Max. I missed you." He confessed.
Max looked up over the monitor top to gain a better view of her large friend. "I'm sorry Josh. It's just that something big happened and I was sad."
"Little fella's not sad now!" Joshua stated, lifting his nose into the air and sniffing.
"No, I'm not." She confirmed. "I realized something a little while ago that made the big thing not seem so big any more." Joshua nodded as if in understanding his shaggy main going every which way as he did so causing Max to smile, her first real smile, in over a week. "Thanx." Max whispered her eyes sliding back to the computer screen.
"Welcome." Joshua answered in a somewhat confused voice.
But Max didn't hear it she was already somewhere else by then. The thing that had caught her eye was a journal she had dug up. And not just any journal, but the late Logan Cale's journal. As if in a trance she began to read. Page after digital page she skimmed over until she found something that startled her. Her eyes slowed down and her lips formed the words she read from the monitor as click by click she went down the page. With each word it became clearer to her. Logan had lied to her. And not just about anything but about the one thing that meant the most to her in the world, her family.
In a rage she printed the section of the journal out that pertained to her brother Seith, the one she had come to Seattle in the first place for. As she slumped back in her chair a fresh wave of grief washed over her. Automatically her eyes slid closed and the memories from that night played out yet again in her inner mind's eye. She saw him let go knowing that there was nothing that she could do to help him. She remembered the sickening sound as he hit the pavement miles below. But most of all she remembered how she had run to save herself. Just like she had done with Ben.
With that nasty thought racing through her head she tore away from the seat tears streaming from her eyes half blinding her. "I have ta go." She chocked out before fleeing her father's house. In bewilderment Joshua rose from his seat by the fireplace and watched her go. As the last fain echoes of her ninja died away into the normal volume of Seattle the transhuman coved the small distance between where he had sat and the computer where Max had sat. He picked up the papers that had spilled out of the printer and began to read them. Their horrible story unfolding before the dog-man's brown eyes. When he reached the last page he allowed them to spill from his hand. In a cascade they hit the floor but Joshua didn't care. He was looking towards the door Max had disappeared out of his eyes filled with a new understanding as he did so.
So many had been lost. Tanga, Ben, Brin, Seith. One by one she counted her brothers and sisters off on her fingers. Tears falling for each as she did so. She couldn't stay here any more. She had to leave. She had to get away before any more of the people she loved were killed because of her. She wouldn't be able to deal with it if OC, Joshua, Alec, or even Sketchy joined the ever-growing list of her lost.
In a daze she filled a sleek black duffle bag with all her worldly possessions and then she was gone.