A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed for their input. I know what I'll do
now. But yous won't know what I'm gonna do until I get to that particular
chapter! ::insert evil laugh here::
I will be bringing Kayla in shortly; many of you said you wanted her in
this story. There's not much else for me to ramble on in this author's
note, so jumping right in..
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Chapter 3: Deceit and Discoveries
Terminal City
Alec and the other transgenics watched Lex from the shadows of the buildings around them. They were trying to remain undetected, unsure of the threat she posed to them.
"Alright, sweetheart, where's your barcode?" Alec wondered to himself.
Mulling over Lex since the moment he was on her tail, he had examined her every move. Everything about her indicated that she was a transgenic; the way she waked, her grace, her silent footsteps, and above all the skills she had exhibited back at the fence. The only thing that left him baffled was her age. Alec had gathered that she couldn't be any older then sixteen, making her an X10, but to his knowledge, none of them were still alive. They were only infants when Manticore burned down and wouldn't have been able to make it out. His thoughts came to a halt as Lex suddenly stopped in her tracks and turned around, scanning the area as if she was looking for some to be there.
As a leering smile came across her lips, Lex scoffed. "Nice try," she smirked in Alec's general direction, "I know you're there and that you've been following me, so just get your ass out here and let's end this."
Alec was shocked, but signaled to the rest of the militia that they should stay put. Taking in a deep breath, he walked out into the street to face Lex.
"Who are you?" he pointed his gun at the back of Lex's head from about ten feet away.
"Someone who's warning you to loose the gun," Lex snapped sarcastically, having heard the safety being clicked off.
Before Alec had a chance to reply, Lex flipped and blurred behind him, knocking the gun out of his hand and out of sight. Alec stared at his now empty hand unable to think clearly. Whirling around, the remainder of color drained from his face at what he saw. Lex stood under the bean of one of the few streetlights in Terminal City with her hip cocked to the right and her hand resting there.
"What?" she snapped at Alec's gaze. "Never saw someone better looking than you before?" Alec continued to stare, as Max kept flashing through is his mind.
"Alec?" Joshua stepped out behind him. "Need help?" Looking at Lex for the first time, Joshua voiced the one coherent though that Alec had been trying to get out, "She looks like Little Fella."
"Little Fella? And what the hell are you?" Lex took on a defensive stance when Joshua appeared.
"I'm first, special. Joshua," Joshua answered, stepping closer to Lex, but then pulling back.
"Why are you here?" Alec cut in, asking Lex before she said anything else.
"Can't a girl get lost in a strange city?" Lex's voiced dripped with Max's familiar brand of sarcastic wit.
"How did you clear that fence?" Alec pressed on.
"What are you talking about?" Lex inhaled sharply, getting ready to lunge at him at any second.
Alec motioned his head up towards the security cameras, implying the answer to Lex's question, "Not too many strangers come sniffing around here."
"What the hell is this place?" Lex wondered aloud as some of the other brave transgenics made their way out of hiding at the sight of Lex's familiar face.
"Terminal City," Mole came up and pointed his machine gun at Lex.
"Easy, Mole," Alec ordered, putting up his hand but not taking his eyes off Lex. "What are you? X10?"
"I'm not like you," Lex tried to avoid a straight answer.
"Hey Alec, there are some lights going on in those buildings over there," Dix spoke up, pointing at the apartments on the street over the fence.
"Everybody inside," Alec ordered in compliance. Bringing his gun back up to Lex, we directed her towards the entrance to the main warehouse, "You, too."
Lex hesitated, but began obeying Alec's orders; she didn't want to risk running when it looked like the entire militia had loaded guns.
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"Jondy, what time did Lex leave?" Max glanced at the clock on the wall.
"Around 9:00, why?"
"I don't like this, it's almost 11:30. She's never gone this long," Max worried.
"Well, sometimes she will be," Jondy tired to pass it off. "She brought her cell with her."
"But she hasn't called yet. She knows the rule, and she always calls if she'll be gone any more than two hours."
"She hasn't called?" Max's worry was evident in Jondy's voice.
"Original Cindy told you she didn't like this," Cindy shook her head as she walked into the kitchen to join Max and Jondy.
"Let's try not to jump to any conclusions before we find Lex," Max said just as much to herself as to Jondy and Cindy as she picked up the phone and dialed Lex's number.
"What do you mean, find Lex?" Logan took on Max's worried tone of voice as he passed by the kitchen.
"Lex has been since nine and hasn't called," Jondy answered. "Any luck?" she turned to Max.
"Not answering," Max cut off the call. After thinking for a minute, she reverted into solider mode. Jondy caught the sudden change in Max's demeanor and copied her. "Alright, Logan and Cindy, you two stay here, she might just come back, maybe her battery ran low. Jondy, you and I will go out and look for her. I've got a weird feeling."
"I'll come with you," Logan tried.
"No, Jondy and I bikes, that'll go faster," Max stopped him. "We'll be back," she promised as they headed out the door.
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"I'm not gonna ask you again, what are you?" Alec's patience had run out over an hour ago.
"Since I'm obviously not gonna tell you, can I just go home?" Lex gave a disinterested sigh as she filed her nails with her keys.
Joshua started laughing softly from beside Lex, "Acts like Max."
At the mention of her mother's name, Lex tensed and snapped her head towards Joshua, "Max?"
"You know her?" Alec got hopeful that they were getting somewhere.
Realizing she'd said more than she's wanted to, Lex tried to brush it off, "Well, how many people are there in the world named Max?"
"There's only one X5-452," Alec challenged back.
Lex inhaled sharply, but didn't reply. Knowing that they knew her mother didn't make her feel any more comfortable, unlike she had expected. Only Alec and Joshua were left with her, all the other transgenics and wandered off to some other part of Terminal City.
"Um, anybody there?" Joshua nervously waved his hand in front of Lex's face.
"We can do this all night, but I'm not telling you anything," Lex put her best solider expression on.
"Just show me your damn barcode," Alec stormed towards her.
Grasping the opportunity to end this for one night, Lex reached out and grabbed the collar of Alec's jacket. She brought her knee up into his crotch, evoking a high-pitched screech from him, and throwing him into a pile of pipes behind them. Looking over at a shocked Joshua, she gave a brief nod and took off running with all her speed back to her bike.
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"Over there!" Max shouted to Jondy as she pointed in the direction of Terminal City.
Pulling up outside the fence, Jondy saw a Lex's bike sitting outside.
"Engine's cold," she reported. "She's been off it for a while. You think she went in there?" Jondy asked, seeing Max staring through the fence. "What is this place, anyway?"
"Terminal City," Max answered. "This is where all the transgenics went after people started a war against them."
"Well maybe Lex was curious. Now I wanna see it," Jondy started to climb the fence.
Max shook her head, "She didn't know what this was."
"Well, you got any better ideas?" Jondy stopped at the top.
Casting a glance back to the deserted motorcycle, Max jumped over the fence with ease. Almost instantly, she backed up against a wall. Even if Lex wasn't here, Joshua surely would be. What would she say to him after all this time? She had been so excited about seeing him again, but she couldn't help feeling nervous now.
"What's wrong?" Jondy joined Max at the wall, wondering if she had sensed a threat around them.
"Nothing," Max shrugged. "Just someone who's in here."
"An old boyfriend?" Jondy joked, trying to lighten Max's mood.
"An old friend," Max stressed the last word Jondy with a glare.
"Then let's see who we find," Jondy used her night vision to scan the dark alleyways. "I can hear some people up there," she pointed to a dimly lit building at the end of an adjacent block.
"Then let's head the other way," Max took off with Jondy close behind.
After going forth a few steps, Jondy and Max tensed simultaneously as they head footsteps coming towards them. Whoever it was looking to get to the fence, fast.
"Lex!" they both shouted out, seeing a familiar blur pass them by.
"Mom? Aunt Jondy? What are you doing here?" Lex skidded to a stop. Hearing Alec's voice coming to in the background, she took off running again. As Max and Jondy tried to focus in on what she was running from, Lex grabbed them towards her, "I'll tell you later, let's just get outta here."
Alec made it to the fence, stumbling to keep his balance after sprinting at his top speed, as the last roars of the engines faded away.
"She gone?" Joshua panted as he finally caught up with him.
"Yeah," Alec stated in disbelief. "She's gone."
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"You sure you're ok?" Original Cindy handed Lex the bowl of ramen she had requested.
"Yes, I'm fine. It's the other guy who you should worry about," Lex laugh in am attempt to make Original Cindy stop fussing over her.
"So you gonna tell us what happened or do we have to threaten it out of you?" Max grabbed chopsticks and took another bowl out of the microwave for herself.
"I don't really know myself. I was just riding my bike and I saw that Terminal City place. I thought it looked cool, so I hopped the fence to do a little exploring. Then all of a sudden there's this little transgenic army behind me. So this one cocky guy, who turned out to be an X5, comes out and starts asking me all these questions like, what I am, and why I was there. And then this dog guy came out behind him and started calling me "Little Fella", I have no clue what that was about. Anyway, the dog guy and the jerky guy take me into this warehouse, and soon all the other creatures left, I guess they got bored listening to me not give them any answers. Finally I had to throw the X5 over my head into a pile of pipes; I wouldn't show him the back of my neck, he thought I had a barcode. So when he went to look for himself, I kicked his ass. Took that opportunity to leave, ran into you guys on the way out. You know the story from there," Lex gave a brief relay of the night's events to her waiting audience.
Max, Logan, and Original Cindy all sat there in shock. Though Lex had no idea why Joshua had called her Little Fella, they did. Not to mention that she had, no doubt, run into Alec as well. Max let out a laugh-like sigh at the thoughts of Joshua seeing her in Lex and Alec's ass getting kicked by her daughter.
Oblivious what the other three adults knew, Jondy laughed as she rumpled Lex's hair, "That's my girl." Looking over at the other three, she and Lex exchanged confused glances, "What's with you guys?"
"Nothing, nothing, we're fine," Max quickly tried to shake off what was going through her mind. "Just, you know, of all the places in Seattle, you find transgenic central."
"Well so long as baby boo's back in one piece, Original Cindy needs to get loftin'. There are those of us who have to answer to Normal in the morning," Original Cindy got up and grabbed her jacket. "And Max," she caught her boo in a tight hug, "You're coming with me. Normal seein' you after fifteen years will be the highlight if the week; 'sides, Sketchy will wanna see you."
"I guess that could be fun," Max knew she had no hope of getting out of Cindy's demand. "Night boo."
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Later that night, Max wandered out to the roof. With Logan and Jondy asleep, she'd figured Lex would have the same idea as her.
"Enjoying the view?" Max assumed the same position as Lex, with her legs hanging off the building.
"It's something new to look at," Lex shrugged. "And this isn't exactly as high as the Skylon."
"Well we can fix that," Max pointed to Space Needle in the Seattle skyline. "That was my favorite place in the city, the Skylon was a replacement for it."
"Can we go there?" Lex jumped up and got ready to scale down the back of the building.
"Tomorrow Lex," Max had to laugh at Lex's energy. "You're not tired even after your little adventure tonight?"
"Like you'd be. And I wanna go where Cindy's taking you tomorrow, whatever it is," Lex sat back down.
"Jam Pony, it's where I used to work. My boss there, Normal, he hated all of us. The last time I came back after disappearing was defiantly deemed entertaining by Sketchy, and then I was only gone about three months. Me just walking in there after fifteen years oughta be priceless."
"And just who is Sketchy again? I kept hearing the name, but never put anything together," Lex was eager to finally find out about her mother's life in Seattle.
"He's a friend. A complete idiot and a near-pervert, but he's still great. He was always on some stupid new scheme that would bring him fame or money. That or trying out new bike trick which ended in him falling and hitting his head," Max smiled remembering some of the crap Sketchy used to get himself into.
Smiling, Lex leaned over and rested her head in Max's lap like she used to do when she was a little girl, "Tell me more about Seattle."
Max reached down ran her fingers through Lex's long, silky hair, remembering when she would lay like that every night, "What do you wanna know?" ________________________________________________________________________
A/N: As most of you probably figured out, Alec will finally find out exactly who Lex is in the next chapter when she tags along to Jam Pony. We will be seeing Kayla soon, or more hearing from her, but it's the same difference. As always- please leave me a review! I love hearing your opinions even if it's criticism or you just type in "still reading" or something like that, just let me know that you are in fact reading this story.
Chapter 3: Deceit and Discoveries
Terminal City
Alec and the other transgenics watched Lex from the shadows of the buildings around them. They were trying to remain undetected, unsure of the threat she posed to them.
"Alright, sweetheart, where's your barcode?" Alec wondered to himself.
Mulling over Lex since the moment he was on her tail, he had examined her every move. Everything about her indicated that she was a transgenic; the way she waked, her grace, her silent footsteps, and above all the skills she had exhibited back at the fence. The only thing that left him baffled was her age. Alec had gathered that she couldn't be any older then sixteen, making her an X10, but to his knowledge, none of them were still alive. They were only infants when Manticore burned down and wouldn't have been able to make it out. His thoughts came to a halt as Lex suddenly stopped in her tracks and turned around, scanning the area as if she was looking for some to be there.
As a leering smile came across her lips, Lex scoffed. "Nice try," she smirked in Alec's general direction, "I know you're there and that you've been following me, so just get your ass out here and let's end this."
Alec was shocked, but signaled to the rest of the militia that they should stay put. Taking in a deep breath, he walked out into the street to face Lex.
"Who are you?" he pointed his gun at the back of Lex's head from about ten feet away.
"Someone who's warning you to loose the gun," Lex snapped sarcastically, having heard the safety being clicked off.
Before Alec had a chance to reply, Lex flipped and blurred behind him, knocking the gun out of his hand and out of sight. Alec stared at his now empty hand unable to think clearly. Whirling around, the remainder of color drained from his face at what he saw. Lex stood under the bean of one of the few streetlights in Terminal City with her hip cocked to the right and her hand resting there.
"What?" she snapped at Alec's gaze. "Never saw someone better looking than you before?" Alec continued to stare, as Max kept flashing through is his mind.
"Alec?" Joshua stepped out behind him. "Need help?" Looking at Lex for the first time, Joshua voiced the one coherent though that Alec had been trying to get out, "She looks like Little Fella."
"Little Fella? And what the hell are you?" Lex took on a defensive stance when Joshua appeared.
"I'm first, special. Joshua," Joshua answered, stepping closer to Lex, but then pulling back.
"Why are you here?" Alec cut in, asking Lex before she said anything else.
"Can't a girl get lost in a strange city?" Lex's voiced dripped with Max's familiar brand of sarcastic wit.
"How did you clear that fence?" Alec pressed on.
"What are you talking about?" Lex inhaled sharply, getting ready to lunge at him at any second.
Alec motioned his head up towards the security cameras, implying the answer to Lex's question, "Not too many strangers come sniffing around here."
"What the hell is this place?" Lex wondered aloud as some of the other brave transgenics made their way out of hiding at the sight of Lex's familiar face.
"Terminal City," Mole came up and pointed his machine gun at Lex.
"Easy, Mole," Alec ordered, putting up his hand but not taking his eyes off Lex. "What are you? X10?"
"I'm not like you," Lex tried to avoid a straight answer.
"Hey Alec, there are some lights going on in those buildings over there," Dix spoke up, pointing at the apartments on the street over the fence.
"Everybody inside," Alec ordered in compliance. Bringing his gun back up to Lex, we directed her towards the entrance to the main warehouse, "You, too."
Lex hesitated, but began obeying Alec's orders; she didn't want to risk running when it looked like the entire militia had loaded guns.
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"Jondy, what time did Lex leave?" Max glanced at the clock on the wall.
"Around 9:00, why?"
"I don't like this, it's almost 11:30. She's never gone this long," Max worried.
"Well, sometimes she will be," Jondy tired to pass it off. "She brought her cell with her."
"But she hasn't called yet. She knows the rule, and she always calls if she'll be gone any more than two hours."
"She hasn't called?" Max's worry was evident in Jondy's voice.
"Original Cindy told you she didn't like this," Cindy shook her head as she walked into the kitchen to join Max and Jondy.
"Let's try not to jump to any conclusions before we find Lex," Max said just as much to herself as to Jondy and Cindy as she picked up the phone and dialed Lex's number.
"What do you mean, find Lex?" Logan took on Max's worried tone of voice as he passed by the kitchen.
"Lex has been since nine and hasn't called," Jondy answered. "Any luck?" she turned to Max.
"Not answering," Max cut off the call. After thinking for a minute, she reverted into solider mode. Jondy caught the sudden change in Max's demeanor and copied her. "Alright, Logan and Cindy, you two stay here, she might just come back, maybe her battery ran low. Jondy, you and I will go out and look for her. I've got a weird feeling."
"I'll come with you," Logan tried.
"No, Jondy and I bikes, that'll go faster," Max stopped him. "We'll be back," she promised as they headed out the door.
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"I'm not gonna ask you again, what are you?" Alec's patience had run out over an hour ago.
"Since I'm obviously not gonna tell you, can I just go home?" Lex gave a disinterested sigh as she filed her nails with her keys.
Joshua started laughing softly from beside Lex, "Acts like Max."
At the mention of her mother's name, Lex tensed and snapped her head towards Joshua, "Max?"
"You know her?" Alec got hopeful that they were getting somewhere.
Realizing she'd said more than she's wanted to, Lex tried to brush it off, "Well, how many people are there in the world named Max?"
"There's only one X5-452," Alec challenged back.
Lex inhaled sharply, but didn't reply. Knowing that they knew her mother didn't make her feel any more comfortable, unlike she had expected. Only Alec and Joshua were left with her, all the other transgenics and wandered off to some other part of Terminal City.
"Um, anybody there?" Joshua nervously waved his hand in front of Lex's face.
"We can do this all night, but I'm not telling you anything," Lex put her best solider expression on.
"Just show me your damn barcode," Alec stormed towards her.
Grasping the opportunity to end this for one night, Lex reached out and grabbed the collar of Alec's jacket. She brought her knee up into his crotch, evoking a high-pitched screech from him, and throwing him into a pile of pipes behind them. Looking over at a shocked Joshua, she gave a brief nod and took off running with all her speed back to her bike.
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"Over there!" Max shouted to Jondy as she pointed in the direction of Terminal City.
Pulling up outside the fence, Jondy saw a Lex's bike sitting outside.
"Engine's cold," she reported. "She's been off it for a while. You think she went in there?" Jondy asked, seeing Max staring through the fence. "What is this place, anyway?"
"Terminal City," Max answered. "This is where all the transgenics went after people started a war against them."
"Well maybe Lex was curious. Now I wanna see it," Jondy started to climb the fence.
Max shook her head, "She didn't know what this was."
"Well, you got any better ideas?" Jondy stopped at the top.
Casting a glance back to the deserted motorcycle, Max jumped over the fence with ease. Almost instantly, she backed up against a wall. Even if Lex wasn't here, Joshua surely would be. What would she say to him after all this time? She had been so excited about seeing him again, but she couldn't help feeling nervous now.
"What's wrong?" Jondy joined Max at the wall, wondering if she had sensed a threat around them.
"Nothing," Max shrugged. "Just someone who's in here."
"An old boyfriend?" Jondy joked, trying to lighten Max's mood.
"An old friend," Max stressed the last word Jondy with a glare.
"Then let's see who we find," Jondy used her night vision to scan the dark alleyways. "I can hear some people up there," she pointed to a dimly lit building at the end of an adjacent block.
"Then let's head the other way," Max took off with Jondy close behind.
After going forth a few steps, Jondy and Max tensed simultaneously as they head footsteps coming towards them. Whoever it was looking to get to the fence, fast.
"Lex!" they both shouted out, seeing a familiar blur pass them by.
"Mom? Aunt Jondy? What are you doing here?" Lex skidded to a stop. Hearing Alec's voice coming to in the background, she took off running again. As Max and Jondy tried to focus in on what she was running from, Lex grabbed them towards her, "I'll tell you later, let's just get outta here."
Alec made it to the fence, stumbling to keep his balance after sprinting at his top speed, as the last roars of the engines faded away.
"She gone?" Joshua panted as he finally caught up with him.
"Yeah," Alec stated in disbelief. "She's gone."
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"You sure you're ok?" Original Cindy handed Lex the bowl of ramen she had requested.
"Yes, I'm fine. It's the other guy who you should worry about," Lex laugh in am attempt to make Original Cindy stop fussing over her.
"So you gonna tell us what happened or do we have to threaten it out of you?" Max grabbed chopsticks and took another bowl out of the microwave for herself.
"I don't really know myself. I was just riding my bike and I saw that Terminal City place. I thought it looked cool, so I hopped the fence to do a little exploring. Then all of a sudden there's this little transgenic army behind me. So this one cocky guy, who turned out to be an X5, comes out and starts asking me all these questions like, what I am, and why I was there. And then this dog guy came out behind him and started calling me "Little Fella", I have no clue what that was about. Anyway, the dog guy and the jerky guy take me into this warehouse, and soon all the other creatures left, I guess they got bored listening to me not give them any answers. Finally I had to throw the X5 over my head into a pile of pipes; I wouldn't show him the back of my neck, he thought I had a barcode. So when he went to look for himself, I kicked his ass. Took that opportunity to leave, ran into you guys on the way out. You know the story from there," Lex gave a brief relay of the night's events to her waiting audience.
Max, Logan, and Original Cindy all sat there in shock. Though Lex had no idea why Joshua had called her Little Fella, they did. Not to mention that she had, no doubt, run into Alec as well. Max let out a laugh-like sigh at the thoughts of Joshua seeing her in Lex and Alec's ass getting kicked by her daughter.
Oblivious what the other three adults knew, Jondy laughed as she rumpled Lex's hair, "That's my girl." Looking over at the other three, she and Lex exchanged confused glances, "What's with you guys?"
"Nothing, nothing, we're fine," Max quickly tried to shake off what was going through her mind. "Just, you know, of all the places in Seattle, you find transgenic central."
"Well so long as baby boo's back in one piece, Original Cindy needs to get loftin'. There are those of us who have to answer to Normal in the morning," Original Cindy got up and grabbed her jacket. "And Max," she caught her boo in a tight hug, "You're coming with me. Normal seein' you after fifteen years will be the highlight if the week; 'sides, Sketchy will wanna see you."
"I guess that could be fun," Max knew she had no hope of getting out of Cindy's demand. "Night boo."
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Later that night, Max wandered out to the roof. With Logan and Jondy asleep, she'd figured Lex would have the same idea as her.
"Enjoying the view?" Max assumed the same position as Lex, with her legs hanging off the building.
"It's something new to look at," Lex shrugged. "And this isn't exactly as high as the Skylon."
"Well we can fix that," Max pointed to Space Needle in the Seattle skyline. "That was my favorite place in the city, the Skylon was a replacement for it."
"Can we go there?" Lex jumped up and got ready to scale down the back of the building.
"Tomorrow Lex," Max had to laugh at Lex's energy. "You're not tired even after your little adventure tonight?"
"Like you'd be. And I wanna go where Cindy's taking you tomorrow, whatever it is," Lex sat back down.
"Jam Pony, it's where I used to work. My boss there, Normal, he hated all of us. The last time I came back after disappearing was defiantly deemed entertaining by Sketchy, and then I was only gone about three months. Me just walking in there after fifteen years oughta be priceless."
"And just who is Sketchy again? I kept hearing the name, but never put anything together," Lex was eager to finally find out about her mother's life in Seattle.
"He's a friend. A complete idiot and a near-pervert, but he's still great. He was always on some stupid new scheme that would bring him fame or money. That or trying out new bike trick which ended in him falling and hitting his head," Max smiled remembering some of the crap Sketchy used to get himself into.
Smiling, Lex leaned over and rested her head in Max's lap like she used to do when she was a little girl, "Tell me more about Seattle."
Max reached down ran her fingers through Lex's long, silky hair, remembering when she would lay like that every night, "What do you wanna know?" ________________________________________________________________________
A/N: As most of you probably figured out, Alec will finally find out exactly who Lex is in the next chapter when she tags along to Jam Pony. We will be seeing Kayla soon, or more hearing from her, but it's the same difference. As always- please leave me a review! I love hearing your opinions even if it's criticism or you just type in "still reading" or something like that, just let me know that you are in fact reading this story.