Disclaimer: Not mine except new characters.
A/N: My first attempt.
Who Loves The Teacher?
Chapter Sixty-seven: Lydecker, Hostages & White
After seeing the NorBAC team off Alec and Max went back to her office.
"Who are you calling first?" Alec asked.
"Clemente," she replied as she sat at her desk. "He's been fair with us, time to be fair with him. Are you going to call the supplier, check he's ok with the switch?"
"Thought I'd wait to find out what Clemente says," he replied sitting on the desk.
Max picked up her phone and rang the number. When he answered she replied, "Clemente, it's Max, we need some help?"
'What sort of help?'
"We want to get the hostages out of here, but we don't want them meeting White yet," she replied.
'How you gonna do that?'
"Hopefully with your help," she answered. We've got a supply run tomorrow, thought we'd take them out then."
'So what do you expect from me?'
"If we get the suppliers to drop them at a given point, is there any chance of you arresting them on some charge?" Max tried.
'Like what?'
"I dunno."
"Suspicion of being a transgenic," Alec offered.
"Did you hear that?"
'Yeah, so I guess Alec's ok now," Clemente replied. "Tell me where the drop is and I'll see what I can do. How many we expecting?'
"Six, four Phallux, High Priest and High Priestess."
'Phallux, aren't they the ones from the Jam Pony siege.'
"Yeah same lot."
'I think I might enjoy this,' Clemente smiled to himself.
"Be in touch later. Bye."
'Bye Max.'
As Max closed her cell she turned to Alec, "Ok I think he's cool, so you'd better ok it with the supplier."
Alec got his cell and dialled the number, "Hi Jake got an additional job for you and your boys… Yeah I know you think I've messed you around, I'll explain when we meet… I need you to take some dangerous prisoners to a drop-off point for the police to pick-up… I know but we can't be seen with them… I'll have them sedated, ok… I'll give you the drop point tomorrow… If everything goes fine I'll get you enough of a new vaccine for you and your family… See you tomorrow," Alec closed his cell.
Max glared at him. "What?" he asked.
"What are you doing promising the vaccine to him?"
"Hey he's a good supplier. We don't want to lose him to the virus, do we?"
"Ok, but no-one else."
"So who are you thinking of as guinea pigs, just your friends," he accused.
"Just Jam Pony, Clemente and Dr Carr," she replied.
"Your friends because they've been useful," Max shot him a withering glance, he grinned back. "Maxie I'm not saying that's wrong, just that there are others who deserve it for the same reason."
"We only need twenty for the first trial," she countered.
"Ok so that's Jam Pony, Sam Carr, Clemente and Jake. I reckon we've got about thirty. Surely a trial of thirty is better than twenty."
"So how do you reckon thirty?"
"Fifteen at Jam Pony, five for Sam Carr, five for Clemente and five for Jake."
"Oh!"
"Let's stop arguing, I've got a desk to sort before your next meeting and I thought you were going to talk to Lydecker," Alec responded getting off Max's desk and heading for the door.
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Sandeman and Lydecker had left Seattle for Washington not long after Max had returned from Gillette. It had been thought that their influence was required to keep a negative profile on the familiars and increase the positive profile of the transgenics. Since then Lydecker had used his influence to ensure that the transgenics got any equipment that they needed in TC and acquire the boat.
Working in the corridors of power they had managed to keep the government from invading TC and arresting the transgenics.
Max's latest call was giving them a headache.
"How are we supposed to stop White getting the orders to storm TC for those hostages?" Sandeman asked Lydecker.
Lydecker looked at the old man, "we're not, we've just got to stall them long enough for Max and Alec to come up with a plan to get them out of the way. Is Greg still there?"
"He's staying at the apartment. He wants to be close to Dara."
"He might come in useful when White tries to get in."
"So what are we going to do?"
"They said the NorBAC team had left, so you need to work on the medical committees ready for when they get this vaccine. I'm going to work on my contacts amongst the FBI, CIA, NSA and the committee to slow things down. Hopefully Max will ring back tomorrow and say it's sorted."
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When White had left Clemente he went straight to Washington. He was angry that this stupid Detective had once again thwarted his plans to take down the transgenics once and for all. He was comforted that his efforts to get rid of 452 and 494 seemed to have worked this time. He knew that this Detective had been in touch with them since they'd set up base in TC, but if he hadn't heard from them then his plan must've worked.
Now to finish the job and get back the High Priest and Priestess back in time for the ceremony.
He went to his superiors and asked for the warrant that he needed for the Detectives co-operation in storming TC. None of the people who usually saw were available and the person who was stalled.
White was furious but knew better than to vent his frustration where his superiors might notice.
He left the corridors of power and headed to a familiar training complex where he could vent his anger.
What he didn't notice was Lydecker watching him leave.
Lydecker rang Max, "White is royally pissed, hope you don't want him held up for too long."
'They'll be out tomorrow, so by the time he gets the ok they should be gone,' she replied.
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Alec had finished straightening his office when Max walked in. "Not bad, thought it would take you longer," she commented.
"Yeah well I had an incentive to get finished early," he replied.
She looked at him confused, "and what's that."
"The look on your face when you walked through the door to see I'd finished," he grinned.
The grin didn't last long as she punched him in the shoulder for his cheek, "Oww, now I know why I enjoyed the day off," he complained.
She looked at him with a quizzical expression.
"No physical violence," he responded.
"Yeah well you deserve it smart-ass."
"Back with the appreciative remarks about my body," he grinned.
"Get over yourself," she chided. "I've got someone else for that."
"Yeah same body, different personality," he jested. "At least I'm not with Sam because you wouldn't."
Max felt hurt and Alec realised, "sorry I shouldn't have said that."
"What smart-Alec admits he's done something wrong?"
He looked at her with a mixture of surprise and concern, "no, not wrong, just putting my foot in it again."
She looked, "yeah well don't let it happen again."
"When you stop with the hitting I'll stop with the snide remarks, deal."
"That's so not going to happen."
"So my mouth can let me down again," he breathed a sigh of relief. "Anyway what did you come in here for?"
"Just to say Lydecker's bought us the time we need but White's really pissed."
"Well they need the High Priestess for some sort of ceremony and time must be getting short. Assuming he thinks we're dead, he must be getting worried that they won't be able to perform whatever it is that they do."
"So smart-ass with two of you and two of me around, how we gonna convince him we're dead."
"Several of us are going to have to go hiding when he arrives, not just us and our twins."
Max was confused, "like who?"
"Well for a start he thinks Biggs and CeCe are dead," he replied. "Then there's your siblings, they wouldn't be here if you're dead." He looked to see if she could see where he was leading but her face was blank. "He flattened the place a few weeks ago and thinks there's not many left here, instead we've nearly doubled in size."
"So it's going to look very suspicious," she replied. "How we going to hide everyone?"
"The situation will need handling, but not by us."
"By who?"
"Mole, Issy, Mitch and Dix," he replied with smirk.
She looked at him, how did he think they were going to handle White. She gave him an incredulous look, "and how might they do that?"
He shrugged, "like it or not White either thinks the rest of us are dead or not here, this way we continue the pretence."
"So the rest of us just hide in the basement while White looks for his people."
"I know it sucks, but better that than White being prepared for the next battle. It'd be nice to have the upper hand for once."
"But the basement."
"Beats the sewers every time for me," he grinned.
"We'll need to discuss this at the meeting, so everyone's prepared."
"They will be its part of the training."
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A/N Sorry this is a bit short writer's block hitting this at the moment, I know what I need to do to finish, but having trouble getting the order right. I'll try to get the next finished by next weekend, now my Supernatural story is completed and posted.
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