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With Max and 386

"Why do you talk to me then?" Max asked.

"Well, the past is in the past, right?" 951 replied coming over to them, with his smile firmly in place.

"I'd have to agree with him," 386 said, suddenly brightening up and greeting him with a smile.

"Sorry to interrupt, but I just thought I'd come and say congrats on beating down one of the biggest, most uptight, snobby bitches in Manticore!"

"Huh! Oh! Wait! I thought she was just like that 'cause I'm an '09er." Max said, confusion on her face.

"That might have just added to it, she's a bit of a show-off, just because she's one of the best, I might understand if she were the best, but she's not, so I don't see why she has that high and mighty complex." 951 said, sitting down with 386.

"oh. Well, who is the best?" Max asked.

"Well, I don't like to brag and all, but that would be me." 494 said with a smug smile on his face.

"I don't' believe we've been introduced, I'm 510," he said with a bow of his head, and seemingly raising a hat invisible to all.

"452," she said with a smile. "I never would have guessed that I'd be smiling in Manticore when I got recaptured, maybe Hell froze over."

"Lights out!" a guard said from outside the dorm, and everyone said 'good night' or some form of it and moved to their respectable locations.

494's bunk

494 turned over in his bunk to look at 452's back. He knew she wasn't sleeping, and also knew that she hadn't really slept yesterday, but she didn't look at all tired this morning, he just let it pass and chose not to think much of it. As he lay there, his thoughts went back to the events a couple days ago…

Flashback

During morning drills, he was notified that Deck had summoned him to his office. On his way, he thought that it might be a mission or something, he was hoping it would be a good one. He arrived at the door, knocked and entered on command, then stood at attention. "At ease soldier." Deck said as he shuffled some papers on his desk, quickly retrieving a file and handing it to him. "This is a file on 452, you might recognize that designation as on of the '09 escapees, well, we recaptured her a few months back, and tomorrow she will be taken to her new unit, we've assigned her to yours." If it weren't for his Manticore mask that was firmly in place, he would have stood there agape. "Your mission is to guide her, and train her, teach her everything she's missed, I assure you she'll catch on fast." 'We need her to catch on fast, I need her to be in top shape.' Deck thought. "I'll call you in tomorrow to come get her, all the information you need is in that file," he said motioning to the file that he was scanning over. "Any questions?"

"Sir…when will our training take place?"

"Well, if everything goes as planned, starting next week, I expect you to wake up at 0400 hours and train every day from there on out until I see fit to stop."

"Sir, may I ask why I'm going to be training her?"

"That soldier will be revealed in time, dismissed!" And with that, 494 saluted, turned, and left. Lydecker was left in his office with his thoughts, ' Now they'll be spending some quality time together…I have no doubt that 494 is qualified for the job, I just hope everything does go as planned.'

End flashback

Pretty soon, sleep consumed him. When Max was sure that he was finally asleep, she turned on her side to face him. 'He looks so peaceful…funny, no one would ever guess he were a cold-blooded killing machine…not any of us. I don't know what it is about him, maybe it's because he's Ben's twin, but I feel drawn to him…maybe it's because he's so damn hot! Wait! Ew! That's wrong on so many levels, its Ben's TWIN! That may be true, but it's NOT Ben,' another voice in her head said. "I wonder why he seems to like me, he's twinned, so I'm sure he got it pretty bad for a while. Maybe he has something up his sleeve…that's it Max, always the cynic. Ugh! Why couldn't whoever made me make me a lil' more normal! All I want is a LITTLE bit of sleep!"

A/N: PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! Oh and btw, I won't have much time to update anytime soon, school is starting! I might update on the weekend it I get the motivation to… hint, hint, wink, wink