Logan turned suddenly at the voice behind him. She stood there staring at him, outside the door to McKenzie's room.
"Original Cindy, what are you doing here?"
"Max sent me. To return this." She tossed the picture to Logan, who caught it and looked at it.
"You know where Max is?"
"Yeah. The same place she has been for the last three days. And she don't want you to know."
"Then why is she here. Do you know why she left?"
"Yeah. She told me not to tell you. But she did say she wants to talk to you, 'bout the little boo. Said she'll meet you hare in two days, and don't bring the boo." Cindy walked over to Logan and gave him a slip of paper with an address on it. He looked at it and recognized the address.
"Our old safe house. I haven't used it in years. Is she sure it's still safe?"
"You think she'd tell you to go there if she didn't think so?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Gotta go. The little boo, turned out aiight."
"Thanks. Tell Max I miss her. And McKenzie really wants to see her."
"Don't bring her to the meeting place. Leave her with someone. Goodbye."
"Bye." Logan looked at the picture and piece of paper. He felt ready to explode. Why did Max do this to him? He took the picture into McKenzie's room and set it on her nightstand, so she would see it as soon as she woke up. The only thing Logan could think of doing was work, so he went to his computer room, but he ended up just sitting there, thinking. How could he get through two days until seeing Max? How would he be able to keep it a secret from McKenzie? It would be very hard, especially now that she had seen Max in that ally.
"Daddy?" Logan turned and saw McKenzie standing at the door to his office, leaning on the doorframe. 'The same way Max did.' He thought.
"What's wrong, baby?"
"I had a bad dream."
"Come here. Tell me about it." He pulled McKenzie onto his lap, hugging her.
"I dreamed that you and my mommy were being taken away from me. I couldn't reach you; you were always to far away. I was all alone."
"I know baby. Dreams like that can be scary."
"I thought I heard you talking to someone. Was someone here?"
"An old friend. I haven't seen her in a long time, since you were a baby."
"Why not?"
"Well, just after your mommy went away, we fought about it. Your mommy was her best friend, and she thought it was my fault that your mommy had to go away. I've only seen her once since we fought, and that was to help me with you, because I couldn't figure out why you were crying."
"Why was I crying?"
"You were hungry! I didn't know anything about babies, but Original Cindy figured that you wanted some milk, and she showed me how to feed you."
"Original Cindy? That's a funny name."
"I think it's a nickname, like when Rory Sung calls you 'Mac'."
"Oh. Guess what." McKenzie said, giggling.
"What?"
"I'm hungry! We didn't have lunch!"
"No, we didn't! Let's go get some lunch!" Although Logan was happy outside, preparing lunch and laughing in the kitchen with McKenzie, he was falling apart inside. How was he going to get through the two days until he could see Max?"

To be continued...