Disclaimer: Not mine except new characters
Thanks to elle6778 I did mean it to stay as one chapter, to give different things in different places at the same time. This has a similar change tell me what you think. I could always split remaining chapters if you don't like it.
A/N : My first attempt, sorry if it seems twisted.
Who loves the teacher?
Chapter Three: Issy
Isadore Sandle recruited 1999 lab tech
Promoted 2005 supervisor all psy-ops teams
Date of Birth: 15th November 1979
Birth Place: Unknown
Martial Status: Single
Address: 22 Block C
No background info on file.
Logan was confused, he looked at four other employees they all had bigger files and more information. There was nothing to follow here, but all companies kept more information on their employees than this. Even her address seemed strange.
Better get this to Max, but he couldn't risk anyone else seeing it and if he took it someone might notice.
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"Bip, bip, bip people these packages don't deliver themselves."
"Things don't change much around here, Normal," said Logan.
"Only my Golden Boy and Missy Miss aren't here now. So what can I do for you?"
"I've got some information that I want to get to Max, but I can't take it and I need to be sure she gets it herself. Could you get OC to take, don't worry I'll pay."
"Daughter of Sappho your presence required," Normal yelled to OC.
"Who da ya think ya talking to Normal, this sista is on her break," replied Cindy looking up. Seeing Logan she sauntered over to them. "What ya doing Logan?"
"Logan has an important package for Max, but it has to be delivered to her in person. I thought you might like that run," said Normal, ignoring OC's question to Logan.
"Sure thing suga, I'll get it to my Boo," she replied, the thought of seeing Max again made her smile, a smile that lit up her eyes.
"Thanks Cindy, but don't give it to anyone else," Logan smiled to OC.
"No time for chat bipbipbip," Normal added, just so the other messengers wouldn't realise quite how much the siege had changed him.
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Cindy rode straight to the blockade at Terminal City.
"Jam Pony messenger coming through," she shouted.
"No-one in, no-one out. What do you want with the freaks anyway?" shouted the guard.
"Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I gotta get this over to them, if I don't go back with the right signature I don't get paid. You want me to go hungry," OC implored.
"Ok but be quick, it's dangerous in there," replied the guard.
"Dangerous my ass," laughed OC as she continued to the gate.
"Jam Pony messenger for a Max Guevera," she shouted at the Terminal City gate.
A voice calls out from behind the gate, "Just leave the package, we'll collect."
"No can do, first I need a signature and second I have to deliver direct to Max," called OC. "Ain't that camera on me, just tell Max that OC needs to see her sista."
Slowly the gate opens and Cindy goes inside.
"Sorry about that," says Mole, "but we don't want the ordinaries thinking we let anyone in on asking."
"That's alright, but I really have to get this to Max pronto, someone's waiting at Jam Pony for a reply."
"Sure I can't take it," says Mole holding out his hand.
"Norm'll skin my ass and the sender will have a fit," she replied as Mole led her to the command centre.
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"Hey OC what you doing coming here, I thought we arranged for messages to be left at Joshua's," cried Max giving Cindy a big hug.
"Yeah but Logan wanted you to have this personally, I don't know why, but it's important," Cindy said as Max opened the package.
There were just 2 pieces of paper.
The first read:
Isadore Sandle recruited 1999 lab tech
Promoted 2005 supervisor all psy-ops teams
Date of Birth: 15th November 1979
Birth Place: Unknown
Martial Status: Single
Address: 22 Block C
No background info on file.
The second was a note:
Max
I don't know what this means, your mystery lady is just that!
Her employee records are scant and I can not find a reference to her anywhere. No birth certificate in the US, no previous address, no family. It's as if she didn't exist until she started work for Manticore in her 20's.
Even spies cover their tracks better than that and familiars all have a background.
Sorry I couldn't help more.
See you tonight.
Logan
Max was confused what did it mean, where had this woman come from and was she a danger to them.
"Hey Boo why the long face, I guess it's not good news," asked Cindy.
Max was startled by Cindy's words, looking at the papers she had forgotten that Cindy was there. "Sorry OC, I just don't understand. Hadn't better sign for that and send you on your way before someone gets suspicious?" she grinned. After signing the paper Max hugged Cindy again before Mole took her back to the gate.
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In another part of TC Alec, Alex and Issy were still sat in the canteen, in silence wrapped in their own thoughts. Issy knew she now needed to explain things to Max, the quicker this was done the sooner she could get away from those hazel eyes, tousled hair, perfect features and that body any woman would kill to be near. This was going to be hard, he had changed from the insolent Manticore soldier he was bred to be, now the charm that could be useful on missions was so much more. He oozed sex appeal and had an inner humanity that Manticore would never have allowed, but the age gap was not going to change ever.
Alec looked at her, she was still beautiful, in a way that had always haunted him (not the outward beauty like Max but an inner beauty that shone through), and now she had brought him a daughter that he knew nothing about. She had always been his saviour at Manticore. He remembered when they had experimented on him as a child and it seemed that they would leave him to die, there she had been talking to one of the doctors and then everything changed and he was taken to the infirmary. After all the pain that Manticore ever threw at him, she would always come and offer him water and tell him it would be alright. Then there had been the sex lessons for missions and the breeding program, he had talked to some of the others (although it was forbidden) and found that for them it was just sex. She had started with how to woo and conquer your victim with your personality, before moving to the finer points of bedroom etiquette, yes she was the reason he could charm most women into bed on the first night and they still wanted more. Do all boys fall for their teachers?
"Sorry to butt in, but Max wants to see you both, uhm all, in the command centre pronto," said Mole. "Who's the little one, anyway?"
"Alex, my daughter," they replied in unison.
Mole tried not to look surprised, "Whatever, but don't forget Max," he finished as he went for a coffee, cigar dropping ash from the corner of his mouth.
"We'd better go and get this over with," said Issy.
"You're that keen to get away from me then," replied Alec, still not sure what he wanted, still in shock.
She wanted to comfort him, but if she did who knew what that would lead to.
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In the command centre Max was pacing, she didn't like mysteries, especially when it involved her closest friends.
"'Bout time," she said as Alec walked in closely followed by Issy and, "whose kid's following you."
"Mine," replied Alec and Issy in unison, again.
"Whatever, we're in your office," replied Max, "but lose the kid."
Alec looked round and saw Joshua. It would be no good annoying Max, she already seemed pretty pissed and he didn't remember doing anything. "Hey Big Fella can you look after little Alex while Max grills Issy and me."
"Sure Alec, she really yours and Issy's?" asked the big fella.
"Seems so, but I really didn't have a say in the matter," Alec replied defensively with a grin leaving him and Alex to join Max and Issy in his office.
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"What's this all about Max?" Alec was feeling pissed at being called to see her when his feelings seemed all turned around anyway.
Max threw the note that had come from Logan on the table. "I could ask you the same question," she said looking directly at Issy.
"It's a long story, but I see someone's been checking up on me," Issy replied calmly, looking directly at Max.
As Alec scanned the papers Issy continue, "I've been telling Alec about our earlier encounters, but you don't need to know about them. Sandeman created me to be his own personal computer back-up; when he left I was to continue collecting the data that he had asked for and protect his assets. He made sure that I could answer any questions about your DNA, genetic enhancements, your purpose,"
"What about these runes in a dead language?" snapped Max.
"Those too in time, first you may like to know there is a cure for the virus, the serotonin deficiency and even the barcode."
"We know how to deal with the barcode and deficiency, how do you know about the virus?" Max snapped again.
With the argument starting no-one had noticed that Alec was not only quieter than usual, but pale and beginning to shake. Alec still feeling out of it, too confused to join in the debate. "Do you mind if I skip this?" he said as he got up to leave only to collapse on the floor.
Both women turned and cried, "Alec." Issy was down at his side in an instant, checking his vitals. "We need to get him to the infirmary now and start an infusion," she said to Max.
"What have you done to him?" Max sneered, sitting on the other side of Alec.
"Nothing, I wouldn't I fell in love with him before you knew he existed," replied a shocked Issy.
Max got to her feet shouting orders to the TC command. Joshua came to carry Alec to the infirmary and Alex took Issy's hand as they followed over.
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When they got to the infirmary Dage asked what he was supposed to be doing. He hadn't seen any X5 like this before.
Issy replied that she had and he needed an immediate blood transfusion and antibiotics. Max was confused, X5's didn't usually need antibiotics. Issy asked Max to trust her, after all Issy has worked in both psy-ops and the infirmary at Manticore.
After several minutes of arguments Max relented when Issy said if they didn't do something soon it would be too late.
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