Feel free to consider this a filler chapter, since it takes place back in Seattle. It's still an important chapter though!

Chapter Six

"Mmm, mmm, mmm!"

"Hey, whatcha got OC?"

"Look it," Cindy said, coming around a glass wall to stand in front of Sketchy as he sat on the couch in Logan's living room. "Boy got good wine! Red wine!"

"Hey, who is this guy anyways?" Sketchy asked, looking up and around the big room.

Cindy shrugged, treating it as something small, answering with a quiet "Friend of Max." while pouring some wine for the both of them.

"Where is Max?"

Cindy looked at him oddly. "You just keep asking questions today don't you?"

"What? And where's Alec too?" he asked, taking a sip of the pre-pulse wine.

"Max's aunt died so Alec and her friend went up to Canada with her. Good 'nuff answer for ya?"

"Ohh.." Sketchy said, putting down the cup of wine on the coffee table before him. "I didn't know Max and Alec were so close."

"They aint." Cindy said, scowling a little at her friend.

"Then why did he go?" Sketchy asked, and Cindy questioned silently how he could ask so many questions and sound completely innocent the whole while.

"Max and Alec spent a lot of time growing up together as kids, and he always liked her aunt, so he's gonna go pay his last respects too."

"Ohhhh..." he said, nodding his head. "So where are they going in Canada?"

Cidny shook her head and drank some more wine. "It don't matter. Besides, Original Cidny wasn't told. And you know why? Because Original Cidny didn't ask." she finished, nodding her head. Sketchy smiled, knowing that she didn't know because she wasn't told, and she probably did ask, but never found out.

"Okay..." he smiled, taking some more wine when his companion offered it. "But what are we gonna tell Normal?"

"Now that I can answer."

..Flash Back..

Dear Cidny,

I'm in a rush, so I'm going to keep this short. Ray's in trouble. Have to help him. Don't care what Alec and Logan think. Tell them not to even try to follow, or risk an ass kicking.

Thanks,

Max.

"Ummmm... Alec?"

"Yea?"

"Here." Cidny handed him the note, and he read it over quickly.

"Shit!"

"Calm down fool," Cidny said, taking the note away from him. "She left her bike here, which means she must be planning to get back soon."

"Yeah, unless White kills her!" Alec yelled, beginning to pace around the living room. "Did she learn nothing! With all that she's known for, surviving, escaping Manticore, Renfro and Lydecker, twice," here, he pointed at OC to further his point before continuing with the pacing, "you'd think she'd be smart enough not to go with White!"

"Calm down already would ya?" Cidny said, sitting down on the couch to watch the X5 in a more comfortable position.

"We need to tell Logan." he said quickly, his pacing stopping. "Logan will know what to do."

"Yeah, let's go tell Logan. That way the both of you can start buggin' for no reason together." Cidny said sarcastically, but still followed Alec out the door and down the stairs with her bike anyways.

..Logan's Penthouse..

"Uh-hey guys..." Logan said, looking at Alec ad Cidny oddly when they walked into his kitchen.

"Read this." Cidny said, handing him the note. "Before the smart ass back there starts talkin' again."

Logan took the note and unfolded it, quickly looking it over. By the time he was done, his jaw looked slightly dislocated and his eyes were wide.

"I know!" was all Alec said, waving his arms for emphasis.

"We have to get her." Logan said, saying it again before walking into his computer room. He quickly grabbed his laptop and the gun he kept in the top drawer before re-entering the kitchen. By then, Cidny had positioned herself in front of the door and Alec had Logan's car keys and his jacket in hand.

"Oh no ya don't." OC said, hands on her hips. "You read the note. My boo always sticks to her word."

"But you don't understand," Logan began, getting a glare from the women in front of him. "Max is in trouble. White will kill her without warning."

"You're acting like she's gonna let him!" OC said, shaking her head. "You two should calm down and relax, aiight? You," she pointed at Logan, "Go back to your computer hacking or whatever you do, and you," she pointed at Alec this time, "Have work. Max will be home soon, so quit freaking!"

Alec and Logan shared a look before Alec stepped towards her. He expected her to move back a step, and when she didn't, he scolded himself for thinking she would. After all, Original Cidny could be scary in her own respect.

"I'm really, really sorry Cin." Alec said, taking another step towards her. "We both hope you wont hold this against us, and I'm hoping more then Logan that you wont tell Max when we bring her back..." he sighed. "'Cause she'll most likely throw me out the window."

Using his enhanced speed against his friend, he moved up beside her and hit a pressure point in her neck, grabbing her and lowering her to the floor slowly.

"She'll be out for about an hour or two." Alec said, but found Logan to be gone. When he came back, he seemed to have some kind of bracelet in his hand. He put it on her wrist, and before Alec knew it, they were down in his car on the way to the border.

..A Few Hours Later..

Cidny slowly came to, feeling a cold floor against her back and a breeze coming from behind her head. Slowly opening her eyes, she noticed that there was a piece of paper blocking her view from a light. Sitting up, she opened the neatly folded paper and started to read.

Dear Cidny,

We are deeply sorry about knocking you out, but it was necessary. Max needs help. She's clearly not thinking straight, and needs to come home. We can't let her stay there within arms reach of Ames White.

I've called your boss, and told him that you've come down with a highly contagious sickness that if anyone who hasn't got it yet gets it, it could be fatal. I wasn't surprised when he said your friend Sketchy could take care of you and immediately yelled at him to go to my address to look after you (and hopefully get killed when you sneeze on him) once his shift was up, and no sooner. You should be covered for quite awhile.

You'll notice that you're now wearing a bracelet on your left wrist. This has a specially planted computer chip in it that will tell me if you leave the house at anytime through my laptop and cell phone. Don't leave the house, don't go into the computer room, and don't answer the phone, the answering machine can get it.

Feel free to eat and watch what you please. I just went shopping yesterday and there's some money on the kitchen counter for you to use. Enjoy your time.

Once again, Alec and I are deeply sorry for this.

Logan Cale

Original Cidny read it twice, three times, then four times before looking at her wrist. There was in fact a bracelet wrapped around her dark wrist, a gold one at that. She turned her head and looked at the locked door, then back to the wrist.

"Nahh." she said to herself. "Knowin' how smart that boy is, he probably is tellin' the straight up truth."

Shaking her head from side to side to make sure she wasn't dizzy or light headed, she stood up and walked over to the bills on the kitchen counter, which consisted of some twenties and a few fifties. She smiled and walked into the living room, sitting back and relaxed, more then planning to enjoy her free stay with food, cash, one hell of a view, and whatever else Mr. Logan Cale had hidden around.

..End Flash Back..

"So that's why he sent me down?" Sketchy asked after Cidny told him what the letter Logan had left her said. "He just said that you were sick and you wanted me to hold your hair while you threw up."

"How sweet of him." Cidny said sourly, taking a big gulp of wine before someone knocked at the door.

"Who was that?" Sketchy asked, and OC just raised an eyebrow at him before the person on the other side of the door knocked again.

Getting up from her spot of the couch, she walked over to the door. She quickly went over what the letter had said in her head, finding that he indeed, had not told her to not answer his door. She just couldn't answer the phone.

"Logan, you there?" said a feminine voice from the other side of the door. "Hello? Open the-" she stopped though; when the door actually opened and she wasn't greeted with Logan's face, not even Max's.

"Who're you?" OC asked, tilting her head to the side and staring at the blond.

"Asha, I'm a friend of Logan's." she said slowly, peering over OC's head and between her afro like pigtails. "He's not home is he?"

"Nope. But you were here earlier, weren't you?" Cidny asked, then suddenly sung the door open and let her inside. "Yeah, I remember you. You were here yesterday."

"Yeah." Asha said nodding, and then smiled politely when Sketchy came into the room. He opened his mouth to ask a question, but was stopped short when OC quickly went "Boo's friend." to answer his unspoken question.

"So," Asha said after a quick moment. "They left?"

"Mhmm." Cidny said, moving to stand in front of her, making her first sentence very clear with an upward twitch of her eyebrows. "They already left to go and pay their last respects to Max's aunt. You just missed them."

Asha gave them both a small smile, nodding. "Then, you wont mind if I call them from Logan's computer room, would you?"

Once again, OC mentally referred to the letter, finding yet another flaw. That poor, poor man was going to really screw up big time one day.

Putting on a big smile, Original Cidny nodded her own head. "Go 'head."

End Chapter Six

And so it is the end of the chapter. Doesn't that just make you wonder what will happen when Logan and Alec find Max? That is, if they do... ;)

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