Facing Death
By: lfbrox
Story: Set in early second season. Logan can walk (just because I like him to). And lots of transgenics are on the run and the other X-series are all out too. Lydecker, Renfro and White are the enemies – as a team this time.
Rating: M+
AN: This is the end my friends. The last Chapter. I hope you all enjoyed reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing it. You might not hear from me for a while, but I'm working on something. I always start writing with a general idea of what I want it to be – but most of the time it turns out differently. So I'll take my time writing the next one (keep a lookout – it's called "Vacation Time"). But I will definitely continue as I need more M/L lovin'. Anyway. If you enjoyed the story send your feedback. Please send some love.
I thank everybody who read and/or reviewed or showed a general interest by e-mailing me. I'd love to name each and everyone of you but you know who you are. Thanks also to UncleGordo and MLFan for promoting the story on the 'Reflections Board'.
A special thanks goes to my wonderful beta Sammi. Even in your busiest time during exams etc. you still found time to correct my wrongs. So thanks gurl. Too bad the Dark Angel Community is loosing you to 'The OC'. A show I have to admit I have never watched. But I might do just that to understand your fics. So it was great working with you – I hope you continue reading my fics even if you haven't betaed them.
So enjoy the last Chapter:
Chapter 18: The Here and Now
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"Good night Max." Logan whispered, also close to sleep.
"Night Logan." Max mumbled into his shoulder before slipping into a peaceful sleep. Not afraid of what tomorrow would bring.
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Safehouse (the next morning):
"I know that the virus is cured Joshua. And I know that they need some time alone. But right now I need to talk to them Joshua." Alec said, pacing in the living room of the safehouse while talking on the phone.
"Joshua don't want to wake them. Busy night." Joshua replied, trying to speak quietly so he wouldn't wake Max and Logan in the other room.
"Fine. When they are up tell them that we need to get the kids out of here immediately. This place isn't as quiet as it was when Logan set it up as a safehouse. Other warehouses and factories were built. They'll get suspicious and call the cops when more than 30 kids in fatigues are frequenting this place all of a sudden. This is important Joshua. Tell Max to call me." Alec said, still pacing the room.
"Joshua tells Max. Don't worry Alec." Joshua said and hung up.
"You'll tell me what?" Max said, exiting the bedroom wearing the same jeans and tank top she had worn the night before.
"Alec called from safehouse. Safehouse not so safe. Lots of new buildings built around it. Alec said that the kids need to get out of there now. Not safe." Joshua explained.
"Okay. I'll go wake up Logan. Call Bling and tell him to bring a laptop and the informant-net disk over immediately." Max ordered and rushed towards the bedroom.
"Logan. Logan wake up." Max said, shaking his shoulder. As much as she wanted a lazy day, waking up next to him and making love to him again, now she needed to stay focused. Now she needed Eyes Only.
"Max. Hey." Logan said, rolling onto his back looking up at her with sleepy eyes.
"Hey yourself." Max said, allowing herself a moment of tenderness. "I would love to crawl back into bed with you and make more fantasies come true. But we have a situation here. I need Eyes Only now. Alec called. We need to get the kids out of Seattle tonight. Bling is on his way over here with a computer and your disk. Think you can do your thing in that timeframe?" Max explained.
"Give me a kiss and a coffee and I'm good to go." Logan replied, drawing Max closer for a good morning kiss. After a few seconds Max broke the kiss, knowing that if she continued kissing him she wouldn't be able to stop.
"That was the kiss. Get dressed and you get your coffee. I'll meet you in the kitchen." Max said and, with one last quick kiss, left the room to get the coffee started.
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"Okay. Thank you Bruce. Expect them in the next 24 hours." Logan finished his phone call.
"So?" Max asked, standing next to Logan's makeshift desk.
"Finally. I contacted an old informant of mine who used to live in Seattle. Worked for the IRS. He helped Eyes Only with a case and had to leave the country. He set up his own salmon cultivation farm just outside of Vancouver. He has lots of work to do and not enough help. But he has a lot of space, so he can house all of them temporarily, provided they help him with the farm. We can figure out what to do with them after that, but it will give us a little more time. Now we just need to get them over the border." Logan explained.
"39 kids. Won't be easy to get them over the border." Max replied.
"39 kids. Well if you could score us a school bus and some civilian clothes for all of them I'm sure I can make it look like a school excursion. I just need to fake temporary visa for them. Think you could manage?" Logan asked, already typing away on his keyboard.
"Consider it done. You do your thing, I'll take care of the rest. I'll meet you back here in a few hours, then we can go to the safehouse." Max said, grabbing her jacket.
"Max?" Logan asked, looking at her expectantly.
"What?" Max replied, wondering whether she had forgotten something.
"Kiss?" Logan said, turning in his chair to face her.
"Oh. Sorry. I guess I still need to get used to it." Max said and approached him, grabbing his head in her hand and planting a promising kiss on his lips.
"Later." Was all Logan was able to say after that kiss.
"Bet'cha." Max replied and quickly left before she did something that would delay their mission.
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"You ready?" Max asked, entering the living room.
"Yep. I have all the papers to get them over the border. Let's hope they all show up. You got the bus?" Logan asked, grabbing his papers and his jacket.
"The bus is waiting outside. We're ready to go. It's almost midnight. Let's call Alec." Max said, picking up the phone and dialing the number of the safehouse.
"Alec. It's me Max. We're ready to leave. How's the lookout?" Max asked.
"All is quiet. At least where Manticore is concerned. 30 kids are already here raiding the fridge. We're still waiting for 9 but it's not midnight yet. What's the plan?" Alec wanted to know.
"We come with a bus and leave tonight to take them over the border disguised as a school excursion. Look, Alec I know this isn't your thing, but could you go with them over the border? Make sure they settle in alright? Just for a couple of days, I promise. Logan and I are busy here in Seattle." Max said, hoping Alec would agree. If she had to she would go with the kids to Canada. But there was a lot of stuff that needed to be taken care of before that and she hoped Alec would – for once – do the right thing.
"Oh I heard how busy you guys are. No problem Max, I have nothing better to do anyway. Just get over here. The sooner we get outta here the better." Alec agreed, looking out of the window of the safehouse waiting for the last 9 child-soldiers.
"Thanks. We owe you Alec. We'll leave right now. See you in a little bit." Max said and hung up. "Okay. Everything is set. Let's hope the evading goes as smooth as the escaping."
"Don't worry. Cats always land on their feet right? And as far as I'm concerned, I'm pretty much pussy-whipped. So we should be alright." Logan joked, ushering Max out of the door.
"You sure have a way of choosing when to be funny." Max replied with a grin getting in the school bus, closing the doors and driving off.
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Safehouse:
"I can't believe all of them showed up." Max said, pouring herself some coffee in the kitchen while the kids changed into their new outfits.
"Well you can be really convincing. If I hadn't already been away from Manticore I would have signed up to go away with you." Alec said, nudging Max in the shoulder.
"We're ready ma'am, uhm, I mean Max." X8-149 told her.
"Good." Max said stepping into the living room to address them all. "You look good, like regular kids. Here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna get on that bus out there and Alec is gonna take you over the border to Canada. You'll stay at a salmon farm run by one of Logan's friends. You will live there and help Bruce out. In a week or two Logan and I will come up to see you and plan our next move. For now I want you to behave like kids your age do. This is a school excursion. Alec is driving the bus. He's coming with you and is staying there until me and Logan arrive. Now go and get on the bus. You'll be in Canada by sunrise." Max said, opening the front door and motioning for the kids to leave.
"Will we be alright?" X8-149 asked, now appearing for the first time like the little boy that he was.
"You'll be better than alright. Go on now." Max replied, ushering the kids out of the safehouse and into the bus.
"Call us if something unexpected happens. Take care." Max said to Alec before he close the door of the school bus and drove on. Off to Canada. Into a new future for 39 kids.
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Joshua's house:
"Can Joshua come with you to Canada and visit them?" Joshua asked while they were sitting in the living room in front of the fire place.
"Sure. If you want to." Max replied, relaxing in Logan's embrace.
"More wine?" Logan asked her but made no move to get up and give her a refill.
"Would you have to move for that?" Max asked, snuggling closer to Logan.
"I'm afraid so." Logan answered, tightening his hold on her.
"Joshua can do that." Joshua said and jumped up to get the bottle of wine.
"We really should take him with us to Canada." Logan joked, pressing a kiss to Max temple.
"To serve us food and drinks so we don't have to get out of bed? I like the way you're thinking." Max joked back, lifting her glass for Joshua to refill it.
"Little fella need anything else?" Joshua asked, standing in front of them.
"No. I'm quite satisfied now. Thank you." Max answered him, sipping her wine.
"Joshua is going to bed now. Upstairs. Waaay up. I don't hear a thing from what's going on down here. Good night little fella. Night Logan buddy." Joshua declared and with a huge faked yawn he made his way up the stairs.
"You know what he meant by not hearing anything?" Max asked, placing her wine glass on the table next to her and turning in Logan's arms to face him.
"I didn't really pay attention to what Joshua said Max. I stopped paying attention to anything else after you declared that you are just 'quite satisfied' with the situation." Logan replied drawing her closer. "Is there anything I can do to turn that 'quite' into a 'thoroughly?" Logan asked, capturing her lips in a heated kiss.
After several minutes of kissing and hands-roaming Max broke the kiss. "I want exactly what my dream-double had." Max said, looking him straight in the eyes.
"And what is that?" Logan asked, not knowing where she was going with that.
"I want you to make love to me. And while we are making love I want you to look at me. And I want to look at you. I want to feel and see you love for me. And I want you to feel and see the same. Make love to me Logan. Love me." Max said and started kissing him again in earnest, leaving no doubt about wanting to follow through on what she just said.
Logan had no objections. He returned her heated kiss pulling her onto his lap while working on removing her shirt. They had to interrupt their kissing so Logan could pull the shirt over her head and Max made the best out of the kiss-less seconds and stripped off Logan's shirt as well. As soon as both shirts lay on the floor Max straddled his lap, grabbed his head and initiated the next passionate kiss. The first time they made love was slow. They were exploring each other. It was good. It was great. It was fantastic. Perfect. But now both needed more.
Yes. They were still going to make love. But they couldn't play the seduction game again. They needed one another. Badly.
"God I want you Max." Logan rasped against her lips, his hands urgently unbuttoning her pants.
"Yes. Need you so bad." Max moaned against his lips and helped him remove her pants and panties. That done she attacked his pants, eager to have him as naked as she was. Eager to feel his skin against hers. Feel him inside of her. Ride him till he begged for mercy.
Finally naked, their mouths attacked one another again. Max sat secure, cradled in by Logan's legs and arms. She felt his erection on her belly. His hot tongue exploring her mouth while his hands massaged her ass and one of her breasts. As good as that felt she needed to feel him inside of her. Without breaking the kiss she lifted up on her knees so that her wet core hovered over his erection. Logan's hands found her hips, urging her to impale herself on him while still kissing her senseless. But Max had the intention of following through on her plan.
She broke the kiss and looked at Logan. At feeling the loss of her lips he opened his eyes and looked at her.
"I want to see you. I want you to see me." Max said, cradling his head in her hands.
"No one but you Max. I love you. Love you so much." Logan babbled, looking into the face of the only woman he ever truly loved. The woman who was about to make love to him. To love him.
Slowly Max sank down onto Logan, all the while holding his gaze. When she was fully impaled she leaned forward to touch her forehead against his. Not moving. Just enjoying the feeling of him inside of her. Enjoying the feeling that it was Logan. Logan. Logan. Logan.
After several minutes of that she needed to move. Needed to feel him. Needed to see his pleasure on his face. She set a steady rhythm. Hard and fast. Never loosing eye contact. Taking everything in. Letting everything out. Her orgasm was building faster than she would have ever thought possible. They had just started and she was already so close. Apparently 'making love' and 'sex' were really two different things. While she had sex before she had never really made love. But now she was making love to the man she loved. And it felt like hear heart and soul were equally involved as her body was. She wasn't going to last very much longer.
"I love you Logan." Max moaned, picking up speed. Nearing the edge. She could see that Logan was on the verge himself. "Let go Logan. Let go. Logan. Ohhhhhhhhhgod." Max chanted in his ear, begging him to come with her. Willing him to come with her.
Her screaming his name in the throes of ecstasy and her inner muscles spasming around him was enough to throw Logan over the edge as well. With a scream of her name and God's he emptied himself inside of her.
Clutching Max' body against his chest he tried to regain the ability to breathe and talk. He stroke Max's sweaty back, inhaling her sent, enjoying her warmth while Max buried her face in his neck and hugged him to her like a vice.
"You still 'quite satisfied'?" Logan asked, still a little out of breath.
"Noooo. I'm thoroughly and utterly satisfied and content. I'd go as far as offering you this job for the rest of your life." Max said, sitting up on his lap looking at him.
"That brings me to my suggestion." Logan said, moving Max off of his lap so she could lie down next to him.
"And what would that suggestion be?" Max asked, moving closer to him so they were lying face to face.
"Well. We are pretty famous in this town." Logan started while covering them up with a blanket and moving closer to Max. Now face to face. "I can't go back to my penthouse. You can't go back to your place or your workplace. If Manticore is looking for us they will look here in Seattle first. They won't look for us in Canada." Logan finished, drawing Max's body close to his.
"You want to stay in Canada? Leave everything behind? Your family, your life, Eyes Only?" Max asked, not believing what she was hearing.
"Canada isn't so bad. My family won't even notice that I'm gone. Eyes Only has gotten me into enough trouble to last for a lifetime. And as far as my life is concerned. What life could I possibly have without you in it? The past is history. The future is a mystery. And this moment is a gift. That's why they call it a present. I cannot change my past. I can't imagine my future. But I know that this moment right now is perfect. You and me. Together." Logan finished, holding her gaze to convince her that he meant every word he just said.
"Start over again, huh?" Max asked, resting her head on his shoulder.
"No. You can't start over. There's no such thing as starting over. There's only history. And right now you're making tomorrow's history, so let's go out and do something that will be fun to remember. We don't have tomorrow promised to us. So let's take a wild shot at being happy. What's the worst that can happen?" Logan answered, moving Max so he could look into her eyes.
"So Canada it is." Max whispered against his lips.
"Are you sure?" Logan replied, not sure if Max really wanted that.
"I know life will never be perfect. But when I'm offered the chance to get pretty damn close to perfect – I bite. I don't know what love is. I wasn't really brought up that way. I don't know if I can be everything you need me to be as your regular girlfriend. But I'll take another leap and try the best I can. Canada it is." Max said with conviction in her eyes.
"You don't have to be anything else than what you already are. Let's live in the present. The here and now. And let's discover the mystery of the future together. Shall we?" Logan proposed, kissing her lips lightly before withdrawing to receive her answer.
"Might as well." Max replied and with a quick kiss she settled down on his chest. Arm and leg thrown over the man she loved, cuddled up next to his body she fell asleep. Knowing that whatever tomorrow would bring – she was never stronger than now. She was loved. And for the first time in her life she was able to return it.
THE END
AN: Sooooo? What do you think? A happy ending. I know you probably wanted to see more raunchy stuff, but honestly I don't know how far I can go. I don't see a lot of raunchy ML fics anymore on so – better be safe than abandoned. I might start an NC-17 e-mail service for the naughty chapters for my next story – so I can be as bad as I want to. Lemme know.
Thanks for reading.
Peace out.
Lfbrox