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This is short, which will cause Mari to kill me and you guys to help.
As promised here is the second chapter in two days that I am posting. Please read note below, thanks!
I want to say I am sorry to any of my readers who I have lost the last few months. I am trying to grow as a writer which means trying new things. I tried my hand at writing for other shows as well as Mutant X, tried having more than one story going at once. Do to a dare I tried my hand at writing a one-shot, that went well,lol. Though I came up with more ideas for long stories.(See what you created Mari!)
I tried writing songfics, which thanks to new rules I have changed to one-shots. Tried co-writing with my mom, and she somehow survived me(IrenecanwV).
It is always my intention to finish a story when I start it, so you never have to worry about that with me, and good news the end is in sight with this story, though I have at least 10 more chapters to go before I am there, but it's worth it,lol.
Thank to everyone for the reviews, they really do keep me going when I want to quit.
Josh: this should be long enough to keep you happy for a bit. Hope I am keeping you interested. Oh yeah, and good luck on expanding my Jesse story, was glad to let you have it to play with...the story, not Jesse, he's mine,lol.
Mari: hope you get your laptop back soon, give your sister Ariana a hug for me.
Melodie: that thing we talked about, I can't wait, and good luck on your new story, and re-posting your old one, I'll try to be the first to review, buddy.
Rosalie: Hope you are reading this from your own computer, and you never have to without the Internet again.
Dasi: I can't seem to catch you IM so e-mail me and tell me how you are k? I'll e-mail you later as well.
Gelf: Input on what? the review or the story? Review was find, but if you meant the story, could always use more input from my readers(friends).
Sorry for the long note, but I care what you guys think about me, and want you to know I care.
Chapter 22: Max, Dax, and Drama.
Dakota Laken was sitting in the airport waiting for his plane to board, he was tired of watching his friends Paul and Chris play Go Fish. He almost jumped when his cell phone rang. "Hello!"
"Dax!"
Dax almost froze, he hadn't expected a phone call from his brother Max. They hadn't talked much in the last few months, and Dax honestly thought Max was dead.
"Max? Is that you?"
"Yeah bro, it's me."
"Where the hell have you been?" he asked loud enough for his friends to hear him and look at him strangely.
"Look I know it's been awhile since I've called, but..."
"But nothing, I thought you were dead!"
"What? Why?"
"Cause, you didn't call me on my last birthday, something I thought my brother would never forget!"
"Oh man, I'm sorry, really I am, I got bu..."
"Busy? To busy to call you brother!"
"Will you shut up and listen!" yelled Max, earning him a few stares from Rosalie and Lexa.
"Fine, what!"
"I wanted to ask you if you are busy."
"I was about to board a plane to Australia in an hour, going surfing mate, what do you call busy?"
"Well if your going somewhere I won't keep you, I just wanted to know if you wanted to join me fighting the Dominion."
"Are you serious? I mean you know I want them dead, but you seriously want me to join you?"
"Yes, me and Mutant X."
"The Mutant X? Oh hell yeah!"
"Dax, you have any friends that might want to come, you know mutants."
"Yeah, we're going to go turn in our tickets now, we're coming to...wait where are you?"
"Seattle."
"Ok we're coming."
"Ok, one more thing, Lexa is here."
"That bi.."
"Watch it! She apart of Mutant X man."
"They are nuts to trust her again, wait do you trust her?"
"Yeah I do."
"You idiot! How could you trust her after what happened to our parents!"
"She had nothing to do with them being killed and you know it!" he said as he looked up to see Lexa staring at him with questions in her eyes.
"Yeah whatever, I'm coming, if it's just to keep you from falling in love with that bi.."
"Watch it!"
"Whatever, I'll call you back when I know my flight plan."
"OK, bye."
"Bye."
Lexa looked up as Max ended his call, "I guess Dax doesn't want to see me." she said sadly, as she remember herself being close to Dax, he would visit Sanctuary on holidays with his parents.
"He's just mad about stuff, he'll understand after I tell him what the circumstances were for you."
"What was that I heard, something about it not being her fault they were killed?"
"Lexa, drop it!"
"What?"
"You don't need to know that."
"The her was me." she said knowing the answer. "Who was killed Max?"
"Drop it!" he snapped.
"So it hurts too much to talk about, and your testy so..."
"Testy!"
"Max..."
"All right you want to know the truth? I'll tell you! Two years ago I ran away from the Dominion, I never thought they would go after my parents to get me back!"
Lexa eyes flashed as the realization hit her, "Oh no, Max, not that." she said brushing her eyes of the tears that threatened to fall. "Not your parents."
"By the time I got to the house, they were dying, my last words were a promise to protect Dax, and I love you was their last words. Later that day I took Dax with me and ran, he was a 14 year old kid who had just watch his parents be killed, and I was an angry feral wanting revenge."
"I am so sorry, I never meant for anyone to get hurt, Max, you have to believe me."
"I do, for the most part, but another part of me wonders if you just didn't care who you hurt as long as you got Leo back, and fixed."
"I admit, I would have done anything, but your parents, I remember them every holiday, your mom made cookies for us, brought the real to us. I loved her as if she was my own, and your dad, Max they were family to me, I would have never hurt them." she said no longer forbidding the tears to fall.
"Come here." he said embracing her, "I'm sorry I know you would never do anything like that to them, I trust you now."
"How can you?"
"As if you had to ask."
Mari was awakened by screaming, she jumped as she realized the screaming was close to her."Shh!" she heard Brennan say.
"What's going on?"
"I'm not sure, I think that are interrogating our neighbors." he said trying to point, but the chains wouldn't allow it. "They both jumped at the sound of gunfire, followed by deafening silence.
They both saw Agent Burnett come out of the cell, his guards carrying two black body bags from the cell, and Agent Burnett turned to them. "Guards go in and get there com-rings."
"Yes sir!"
"Oh my gosh Brennan, what do we do?"
"Stay calm."
The guards entered the cell and while holding a gun on both as they removed their com-rings, "What next sir?" asked the guard.
"Removed his chain, and handcuff them to each other."
"Yes sir."
"Why the hell are you doing that?" asked Mari. "And why are you taking our rings? And why are you calling them com-rings? There not whatever you called them."
"Yea they are Mari, they are com-rings, which Mutant X can use to track you, my agent informs me of all things, and you have to wonder, if Mutant X has the ability to find you so easily, why aren't they here yet?"
"They will find us."
"Of course they will, tonight in fact, too bad you will be dead."
Short, but enough...to give Mari a heart attack anyway,lol
Next chapter is kinda short, but not that bad, and the one after that is long! According to my word program, it's already 6 pages and I am not close to being done with it.