A/N: The purple button thanks you for showing it some love! In fact it was
so happy, it convinced to write this chapter really fast. Thank you all for
the awesome reviews! And, see, to me it looks purple. For those of you who
are telling me it's light blue- you can do that. But I'm gonna keep saying
it's purple because it looks like light purple to me, purple is shorter to
type, and I just like the word purple. I figured out that if you say it
over and over really fast, it'll start to sound so funny.
Julie- yes, Lex is going to be sent to a private school and Max did say
that to Original Cindy in chapter two. But the familiars don't know about
that. And they don't know that Max isn't in sector five anymore, so that's
why they're looking there first.
Now that I have my own PC up and running again, well have to wait and see
if that helps at all with the speed of chapters.
Also, this chapter does stray a bit from the last one. There's no real
jumping from plot to plot, but I think you'll enjoy it. Of course, if you
don't, let me know that as well. But hopefully you'll like this chapter as
much as I do.
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Chapter: In The Heat Of The Night
"Hey, Lex?" Tera waved her hand in front of Lex's face. "You there?"
"Huh? Um, yeah, I'm fine," Lex shook her head and returned from her dazed state.
"Are you sure? You look all spacey and it's really starting to freak me out," Tera didn't buy into Lex's façade.
"I, I just have a bit of a headache is all. Maybe I should go home," Lex reasoned as she headed back to where she'd parked her motorcycle. Her next step ahead, Lex stumbled and began to trip over her own feet.
"Whoa!" Tera reached out and caught her, "Lex, I really don't think you should be driving like this. Maybe you should call you Mom or Dad to come get us. I'll walk your bike over here, you sit down," she helped Lex over the wall beside them.
"Yeah, maybe you're right," Lex suddenly started to feel nauseated and had lost all her will to argue.
As soon as Tera was around the corner and out of sight, a man emerged from the shadow of the doorway she and Lex had just passed.
Sneaking up behind Lex, he lunged at her and clapped his hand over her mouth, "What took so long baby? Our little party should have started already," the creep said into her ear as he reached up with his other hand to cup her breast.
Scared and startled, Lex pulled at his arm with all the strength she had left, but in her state, she the power of any normal fourteen year old.
"Don't even think about it, you little whore," the man tightened his grip over Lex's mouth as he brought his hand lower, to the button of her jeans.
Bucking her hips away, Lex started kicking, the pattern of her flailing legs matching the pattern of tears streaming down her cheeks. Struggling to open her mouth as hard as possible, she bit down, but couldn't get a fair amount of the man's skin between her teeth. As he began to drag her back into the doorway he'd come out of, Lex opened her eyes long enough to spot a trash can next to the entrance. In passing it by, she flung her legs at it as hard as she could. A clash rang out through the alleyway, but she didn't succeed in knocking the can over as she'd hoped.
Down the next alley, Tera's heightened hearing perked up at the sound of the crash. Her stomach intuitively tying itself in knots, she turned around and walked back towards the alley. As she got closer, she concentrated on what sounded like muffled cries.
"What the fuck you think you're trying to do?" Tera heard a man's voice angrily grumble, followed by a cracking sound. Bolting around the corner as fast her legs could carry her, Tera saw the man groping Lex as he dragged her kicking figure into the doorway.
"Lex!" Tera screamed as she charged at the man. Putting her transgenic training to use, she jumped up and connected the heel of her sneaker with the man's face, knocking him into the concrete doorframe and rendering him unconscious. "Lex!" Tera shouted to her friend when she looked down and saw Lex wasn't moving. "Lex, wake up!" she shook her. "Somebody? Anybody, help!"
A sector cop who'd been checking for drug dealers heard Tera's desperate calls and followed them, expecting to see yet another drug deal gone bad. Shining the light of his gun in the direction of the voice, he saw the two girls on the ground next to a man who wasn't moving. Running over to them, he began to suspect something else had happened, "Miss, what's going here?"
"I, I don't really know," Tera stammered. "She started getting spacey and then I said she shouldn't drive so she sat down and I went to get her bike and she was gonna call her mom to come get us, but then before I got to the bike, I heard a crash, so I came back and I heard screaming and him cursing at her and she was kicking, so I kicked him, but then she wasn't moving anymore and she's not waking up," Tera let out all in one breath.
"All right, just calm down," the cop set his gun down facing the man. He called the paramedics and told Tera to watch and make sure Lex didn't stop breathing. "Now does she have a cell phone?"
"Yeah, it's right here," Tera fished it out of Lex's pocket.
"Ok, good. You call her parents and let them know what happened. Or would you rather I talk to them?"
Handing the phone over to the cop, Tera swallowed hard, "You could try redial, but I don't know their number."
"Ok, you stay here with your friend. What's her name?"
"Lex. Lex Guevara," Tera answered.
Walking a few yards away to make the call, the cop hit redial and listened as he got a ring on the other end.
"Hello?" a woman's voice answered.
"Ma'am, this is Sergeant Kelmer of the Seattle Sector Police. Am I speaking to the mother of Lex Guevara?"
"No, you're speaking to her aunt," Jondy got defensive. "What's going on? Is Lex ok?"
"I'm afraid not, ma'am. I'm not entirely sure what went down, but a man attempted to capture and rape her. She's blacked out, so I believe she was drugged at some point tonight and he had been following the two girls, waiting for the right moment to make his move." Kelmer told her.
Jondy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Falling back against the wall of Lex's room, she slid down to the floor and tried to comprehend what she'd just been told, "Where is she now? And what about Tera, is she alright?"
"Tera's the friend?" Kelmer gathered. "She's shaken up over what happened, but she's fine. She says she had left Lex alone at the time of the attack. Now, could you please give me the number where I could reach Lex's parents?"
"I'm with her parents, hold on. You talk to them," Jondy raced out to the living room. Putting her hand over the receiver of her cell phone, Jondy held it out to Max, "It's important," was all she could manage to say as Max took the phone from her. Jondy watched Max's face fall and pale as Sergeant Kelmer relayed the same story to Max.
"Where are you?" Max demanded. "We're coming down there." As she ran into the office to get Logan, Jondy grabbed her keys and headed down to the garage. She knew Logan would take his car, so she took it upon herself to be the first one there.
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Metro Medical
Max, Jondy, and Logan all waited in the lobby while Lex was in the ER. Tera had been allowed to go with them to the hospital and was now over the far corner being questioned by detectives.
"She'll be ok, Max," Jondy tried to comfort her sister. From the moment Logan had arrived, Max had curled up in his lap and not said a word. "Lex is a strong girl, you know that."
Shaking her head slowly, Max finally spoke in a low voice, "It's not something you get over. Ever."
"You don't know that Max," Jondy reached out to hold Max's hand.
Max only pulled her hand away and curled up into an even tighter ball, "Yes I do."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Logan didn't like the tone of Max's voice.
After a minute or so of silence, Max began to whisper, "Lucy's father. He'd do that to both of us."
"Lucy? Lucy, Lucy," Logan silently searched his mind. He knew he's heard the name before. Then it hit him- Max's foster sister. She'd mentioned her when they'd first met; the night Logan found out about Max's seizures.
"What?!" Jondy fought to keep her voice down but her eyes went wide. "Sweetie, why didn't you say that before?"
"Max, how could you have let him do that to you? Why didn't you stop him?" Logan pulled her back to face him.
Wiping her watery eyes, Max whispered, "It's not something I like to talk about. And was just trying to be a normal kid. How was I supposed to know what normalacy was?"
Now wanting to push it any further, he just let Max resume her previous position. Hugging her tightly to his body, he gently kissed the top of her head and ran his finger through her hair.
"Excuse me? You're Lex Guevara's parents?" a young nurse asked as she came into the lobby.
"Yes, is she ok? Where is she?" Max could hardly keep up with her own tongue.
"She'll be just fine. Luckily her friend over there turned back before she was raped," the nurse said. "She's not awake yet, and I don't know exactly how much longer she'll be out. The one thing that jumped out at me was the results of her blood test."
"Was there a problem?" Logan tightened his grip on Max's hand, fearing the nurse would say something about transgenics next.
"Surprisingly enough, it doesn't seem to be. She was drugged; the creep used LSD, the classic pre-pulse date rape wonder. But what had the doctors worried was that the amount of LSD in her system was more than three times the amount it should take to kill someone of her height and weight."
"But she's gonna be alright?" Jondy stood up, also relieved that they seemed to think Lex was just a normal girl.
"Yeah, you can go back and see her now. But like I said, she's pretty much out cold," the nurse began to lead them back through the set of double doors.
"Hold on!" someone called behind them. "I think there's someone else who's like to join you," the man pointed his thumb towards Tera as she headed towards the group. "I'm Detective Reimers from the Seattle PD. I just wanted to let you know that we have the perv who did this to your daughter. After he was treated, some of the boys took him down to the station. We were able to figure out that your daughter was drugged between 9:30 and 10:00 tonight when she and her friend stopped for sodas in China town. The guy must have slipped some in when she wasn't looking. Then he followed them until he saw her start to get spacey and when she was left alone, he saw his perfect moment. But rest assured, this guy will go away for a long time; he's got a record long enough to last the rest of his natural life."
"Thanks detective. We appreciate it," Logan shook Reimers hand before they passed through the doors the nurse was holding open.
"Oh, it looks like there's still a doctor in there with her," the nurse said when she saw the door to Lex's room was closed. "You can't take a seat across from the door, it shouldn't be long," she pointed to bench against the wall as she walked away.
As they all sat down to wait, Tera squeaked, "I'm sorry."
"About what?" Max turned to her.
"This. What happened. It's my fault."
"What makes you think that?" Jondy put an arm around Tera's shoulders.
"Easy, I was the one who left her alone," Tera tensed up.
"Honey, this isn't your fault at all. The whole reason you had Lex sit down is because you didn't think she could walk or dive without passing out," Jondy reassured her.
"She's right," Max smiled slightly. "You should be proud you turned back when you did, Tera or." Max stopped herself right there.
Knowing why Max stopped, Logan reached out and began gently rubbing her shoulder.
At that moment, the doctor came out of Lex's room, "I assume you're Lex's family?"
"Yeah, can we see her now?" Jondy tried to look in the door while it was closing.
"Of course, but she won't be waking up for a while. It took a while to finish the de-tox and that really wore her out. But amazingly enough, she should be fine by tomorrow morning."
"Thanks, uh, Dr. Marlin," Max said, reading the nametag on his lab coat.
Giving a small smile and nodding, Dr. Marlin began walking down the hall, "You can have an hour in there, but that's it. We're not even supposed to allow visitors past 5:00. The nurse you met before will come check on her every hour and we'll give you a call as soon as she wakes up."
Walking into the room, they all silently took a place beside Lex's bed. Max and Jondy reached out and each held one of her hands and placed her hand on Lex's arm next to Jondy. Logan sat down next to Max, but was almost afraid to touch Lex. What scared him even more was when Lex woke up. How was he supposed to act? What was he supposed to say?
But looking at the pallor on his usually vibrant daughter's face filled him with only one dominant thought, "Eyes Only is gonna make that sick son of a bitch pay."
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A/N: So, did you like it? To be honest, I didn't intend for this chapter to even happen at all. I just started and wanted to make there be say, a fight or something when Lex and Tera were out. Then that turned into maybe having a boy hit on Lex, but once I started typing, that story just came out of my fingertips. And when I strated to go back and read it, I thought it was more interesting. Then all of a sudden, it was six pages long. But please tell me what you thought about this because it doesn't follow the structure of my other chapters at all. And if you want I could start focusing more on one core plot per chapter instead of jumping between them all. It's up to you- if you show the great purple button some love, that is.
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Chapter: In The Heat Of The Night
"Hey, Lex?" Tera waved her hand in front of Lex's face. "You there?"
"Huh? Um, yeah, I'm fine," Lex shook her head and returned from her dazed state.
"Are you sure? You look all spacey and it's really starting to freak me out," Tera didn't buy into Lex's façade.
"I, I just have a bit of a headache is all. Maybe I should go home," Lex reasoned as she headed back to where she'd parked her motorcycle. Her next step ahead, Lex stumbled and began to trip over her own feet.
"Whoa!" Tera reached out and caught her, "Lex, I really don't think you should be driving like this. Maybe you should call you Mom or Dad to come get us. I'll walk your bike over here, you sit down," she helped Lex over the wall beside them.
"Yeah, maybe you're right," Lex suddenly started to feel nauseated and had lost all her will to argue.
As soon as Tera was around the corner and out of sight, a man emerged from the shadow of the doorway she and Lex had just passed.
Sneaking up behind Lex, he lunged at her and clapped his hand over her mouth, "What took so long baby? Our little party should have started already," the creep said into her ear as he reached up with his other hand to cup her breast.
Scared and startled, Lex pulled at his arm with all the strength she had left, but in her state, she the power of any normal fourteen year old.
"Don't even think about it, you little whore," the man tightened his grip over Lex's mouth as he brought his hand lower, to the button of her jeans.
Bucking her hips away, Lex started kicking, the pattern of her flailing legs matching the pattern of tears streaming down her cheeks. Struggling to open her mouth as hard as possible, she bit down, but couldn't get a fair amount of the man's skin between her teeth. As he began to drag her back into the doorway he'd come out of, Lex opened her eyes long enough to spot a trash can next to the entrance. In passing it by, she flung her legs at it as hard as she could. A clash rang out through the alleyway, but she didn't succeed in knocking the can over as she'd hoped.
Down the next alley, Tera's heightened hearing perked up at the sound of the crash. Her stomach intuitively tying itself in knots, she turned around and walked back towards the alley. As she got closer, she concentrated on what sounded like muffled cries.
"What the fuck you think you're trying to do?" Tera heard a man's voice angrily grumble, followed by a cracking sound. Bolting around the corner as fast her legs could carry her, Tera saw the man groping Lex as he dragged her kicking figure into the doorway.
"Lex!" Tera screamed as she charged at the man. Putting her transgenic training to use, she jumped up and connected the heel of her sneaker with the man's face, knocking him into the concrete doorframe and rendering him unconscious. "Lex!" Tera shouted to her friend when she looked down and saw Lex wasn't moving. "Lex, wake up!" she shook her. "Somebody? Anybody, help!"
A sector cop who'd been checking for drug dealers heard Tera's desperate calls and followed them, expecting to see yet another drug deal gone bad. Shining the light of his gun in the direction of the voice, he saw the two girls on the ground next to a man who wasn't moving. Running over to them, he began to suspect something else had happened, "Miss, what's going here?"
"I, I don't really know," Tera stammered. "She started getting spacey and then I said she shouldn't drive so she sat down and I went to get her bike and she was gonna call her mom to come get us, but then before I got to the bike, I heard a crash, so I came back and I heard screaming and him cursing at her and she was kicking, so I kicked him, but then she wasn't moving anymore and she's not waking up," Tera let out all in one breath.
"All right, just calm down," the cop set his gun down facing the man. He called the paramedics and told Tera to watch and make sure Lex didn't stop breathing. "Now does she have a cell phone?"
"Yeah, it's right here," Tera fished it out of Lex's pocket.
"Ok, good. You call her parents and let them know what happened. Or would you rather I talk to them?"
Handing the phone over to the cop, Tera swallowed hard, "You could try redial, but I don't know their number."
"Ok, you stay here with your friend. What's her name?"
"Lex. Lex Guevara," Tera answered.
Walking a few yards away to make the call, the cop hit redial and listened as he got a ring on the other end.
"Hello?" a woman's voice answered.
"Ma'am, this is Sergeant Kelmer of the Seattle Sector Police. Am I speaking to the mother of Lex Guevara?"
"No, you're speaking to her aunt," Jondy got defensive. "What's going on? Is Lex ok?"
"I'm afraid not, ma'am. I'm not entirely sure what went down, but a man attempted to capture and rape her. She's blacked out, so I believe she was drugged at some point tonight and he had been following the two girls, waiting for the right moment to make his move." Kelmer told her.
Jondy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Falling back against the wall of Lex's room, she slid down to the floor and tried to comprehend what she'd just been told, "Where is she now? And what about Tera, is she alright?"
"Tera's the friend?" Kelmer gathered. "She's shaken up over what happened, but she's fine. She says she had left Lex alone at the time of the attack. Now, could you please give me the number where I could reach Lex's parents?"
"I'm with her parents, hold on. You talk to them," Jondy raced out to the living room. Putting her hand over the receiver of her cell phone, Jondy held it out to Max, "It's important," was all she could manage to say as Max took the phone from her. Jondy watched Max's face fall and pale as Sergeant Kelmer relayed the same story to Max.
"Where are you?" Max demanded. "We're coming down there." As she ran into the office to get Logan, Jondy grabbed her keys and headed down to the garage. She knew Logan would take his car, so she took it upon herself to be the first one there.
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Metro Medical
Max, Jondy, and Logan all waited in the lobby while Lex was in the ER. Tera had been allowed to go with them to the hospital and was now over the far corner being questioned by detectives.
"She'll be ok, Max," Jondy tried to comfort her sister. From the moment Logan had arrived, Max had curled up in his lap and not said a word. "Lex is a strong girl, you know that."
Shaking her head slowly, Max finally spoke in a low voice, "It's not something you get over. Ever."
"You don't know that Max," Jondy reached out to hold Max's hand.
Max only pulled her hand away and curled up into an even tighter ball, "Yes I do."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Logan didn't like the tone of Max's voice.
After a minute or so of silence, Max began to whisper, "Lucy's father. He'd do that to both of us."
"Lucy? Lucy, Lucy," Logan silently searched his mind. He knew he's heard the name before. Then it hit him- Max's foster sister. She'd mentioned her when they'd first met; the night Logan found out about Max's seizures.
"What?!" Jondy fought to keep her voice down but her eyes went wide. "Sweetie, why didn't you say that before?"
"Max, how could you have let him do that to you? Why didn't you stop him?" Logan pulled her back to face him.
Wiping her watery eyes, Max whispered, "It's not something I like to talk about. And was just trying to be a normal kid. How was I supposed to know what normalacy was?"
Now wanting to push it any further, he just let Max resume her previous position. Hugging her tightly to his body, he gently kissed the top of her head and ran his finger through her hair.
"Excuse me? You're Lex Guevara's parents?" a young nurse asked as she came into the lobby.
"Yes, is she ok? Where is she?" Max could hardly keep up with her own tongue.
"She'll be just fine. Luckily her friend over there turned back before she was raped," the nurse said. "She's not awake yet, and I don't know exactly how much longer she'll be out. The one thing that jumped out at me was the results of her blood test."
"Was there a problem?" Logan tightened his grip on Max's hand, fearing the nurse would say something about transgenics next.
"Surprisingly enough, it doesn't seem to be. She was drugged; the creep used LSD, the classic pre-pulse date rape wonder. But what had the doctors worried was that the amount of LSD in her system was more than three times the amount it should take to kill someone of her height and weight."
"But she's gonna be alright?" Jondy stood up, also relieved that they seemed to think Lex was just a normal girl.
"Yeah, you can go back and see her now. But like I said, she's pretty much out cold," the nurse began to lead them back through the set of double doors.
"Hold on!" someone called behind them. "I think there's someone else who's like to join you," the man pointed his thumb towards Tera as she headed towards the group. "I'm Detective Reimers from the Seattle PD. I just wanted to let you know that we have the perv who did this to your daughter. After he was treated, some of the boys took him down to the station. We were able to figure out that your daughter was drugged between 9:30 and 10:00 tonight when she and her friend stopped for sodas in China town. The guy must have slipped some in when she wasn't looking. Then he followed them until he saw her start to get spacey and when she was left alone, he saw his perfect moment. But rest assured, this guy will go away for a long time; he's got a record long enough to last the rest of his natural life."
"Thanks detective. We appreciate it," Logan shook Reimers hand before they passed through the doors the nurse was holding open.
"Oh, it looks like there's still a doctor in there with her," the nurse said when she saw the door to Lex's room was closed. "You can't take a seat across from the door, it shouldn't be long," she pointed to bench against the wall as she walked away.
As they all sat down to wait, Tera squeaked, "I'm sorry."
"About what?" Max turned to her.
"This. What happened. It's my fault."
"What makes you think that?" Jondy put an arm around Tera's shoulders.
"Easy, I was the one who left her alone," Tera tensed up.
"Honey, this isn't your fault at all. The whole reason you had Lex sit down is because you didn't think she could walk or dive without passing out," Jondy reassured her.
"She's right," Max smiled slightly. "You should be proud you turned back when you did, Tera or." Max stopped herself right there.
Knowing why Max stopped, Logan reached out and began gently rubbing her shoulder.
At that moment, the doctor came out of Lex's room, "I assume you're Lex's family?"
"Yeah, can we see her now?" Jondy tried to look in the door while it was closing.
"Of course, but she won't be waking up for a while. It took a while to finish the de-tox and that really wore her out. But amazingly enough, she should be fine by tomorrow morning."
"Thanks, uh, Dr. Marlin," Max said, reading the nametag on his lab coat.
Giving a small smile and nodding, Dr. Marlin began walking down the hall, "You can have an hour in there, but that's it. We're not even supposed to allow visitors past 5:00. The nurse you met before will come check on her every hour and we'll give you a call as soon as she wakes up."
Walking into the room, they all silently took a place beside Lex's bed. Max and Jondy reached out and each held one of her hands and placed her hand on Lex's arm next to Jondy. Logan sat down next to Max, but was almost afraid to touch Lex. What scared him even more was when Lex woke up. How was he supposed to act? What was he supposed to say?
But looking at the pallor on his usually vibrant daughter's face filled him with only one dominant thought, "Eyes Only is gonna make that sick son of a bitch pay."
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A/N: So, did you like it? To be honest, I didn't intend for this chapter to even happen at all. I just started and wanted to make there be say, a fight or something when Lex and Tera were out. Then that turned into maybe having a boy hit on Lex, but once I started typing, that story just came out of my fingertips. And when I strated to go back and read it, I thought it was more interesting. Then all of a sudden, it was six pages long. But please tell me what you thought about this because it doesn't follow the structure of my other chapters at all. And if you want I could start focusing more on one core plot per chapter instead of jumping between them all. It's up to you- if you show the great purple button some love, that is.