Chapter 3
"Cindy we're not like that"
Damn, why cant I get any sleep was the only thought racing through Max's mind.
She got out of her bed and walked over to the window, all she saw was dark, cold streets of Seattle, it was raining as always, although Max hated rainy weather, she decided to go for a walk early in the morning, just to clear her head.
She was walking in the pouring rain, but some how she got used to it, she could her the song playing in the back of her head, but after she couldn't help but sing the lyrics out loud. She sang she closed her eyes But still kept walking. "Let the rain fall down. And wake my dreams. Let it wash away. My sanity. 'Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream Let the rain fall down I'm coming clean, I'm coming cl..." she didn't get to finish because she bumped into something or someone...
"Oh my God, Alec what the hell? You scared the crap outta me, what are you doing walking on the streets in this time of the morning?"
"Funny... I was gonna ask you the same question." As he finished he reveled his cocky smile to Max, who couldn't help but smirk.
"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to go for a walk. What's your excurse?"
"Well I couldn't sleep either, I was thinking about the job or mission, whatever you wanna call it. I mean we've never been to a high school before, and Manticore wasn't exactly giving us education and entertainment."
"What do you mean by that?" Max replied
"What do you think??? We'll have cocktail parties and hopefully if we'll get into a 'cool' group we'll be able to go to wild teen parties!" Alec responded and both transgenics started walking towards the Space Needle.
"Maybe you're right, we'll have some fun" Max said in a neutral voice.
(Later in the afternoon) (Jam-Pony)
"Hey Boo, you aiite?"
"Yeah, why?" Max said giving OC a sheepish look.
"Well you just don't look to happy, for some reason"
Max let out a small sigh and managed to say "Logan found the location where we can get a possible cure. So Alec and me are gonna there and check it out. It's a school and the fact that both of us never went to a high school makes me a bit nervous, that's all" Max said. 'Boo, you know that I can see that you are lying, so what's going on?"
"OC I dono even if I want a cure..."
she was interrupted by her bipping pager.
"Logan" Max whispered sadly.
"I'll see you later Cindy."
"Bye Boo"
"Alec get your ass here" Max yelled across the small room.
"What is it?" Alec replied, as Max turned around and saw that he was right behind her.
"Umm... Logan paged me and I remembered that we had to see him today bout the job."
(Logan's penthouse)
"Logan, are you here?"
"Yeah I'm here" the voice was coming from his office, so both Max and Alec headed over there.
"So did you guys pack your bags?" Logan said but his eyes were still glued to the computer screen.
"Wait a second, packed our bags? What do you mean?" Alec asked cocking an eyebrow.
"It means did you put all the necessary things in the bag that you are going to take with you?" Logan replied with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Alec's eyes narrowed.
"I know what packing bag means, Logan. You didn't even tell us when we were leaving" he spat out
"Ohh. Sorry I must've forgotten to tell you. Your leaving at 11 in the morning, the plane takes off at 12"
"Ok Logan, how about you tell us about the school, and we'll also need new id's."
"Yeah the id's will be done soon, and I already ordered the uniform..."
"What? Uniform?" Alec said not believing what Logan just said.
"Uh-huh. Oh and i almost forgot, here's your subject sheet and booklet, all the info is there for you. Both of you will go to year 12." Logan said as he handed both of the transgenics their booklets and the subject sheet.
"Ok it says here that all the compulsory subjects have been chosen for us, but we still have to pick the 3 choice subjects. So which ones are you picking" Alec asked Max and headed over to the sofa she's been sitting on.
"I dono, let's just pick the same ones, so we'll be in the same classes.
"Well let's see, there's pornography I mean photography, film, cooking, languages, basketball, tennis, martial arts, relaxation meditation, soccer and cheerleading and that's about it..."
"It wont be too hard to pick three. I guess the first one will be martial arts, Alec you ok with that?" Max said with a proud grin.
"Yeah I'm fine with it unless you wanna get your but kicked" Alec replied with a devilish grin.
"We'll see about that" Max said with a cheeky grin on her face.
Oh my good she is gorgeous Alec thought to himself.
"I think that my second choice would be languages." Alec said
Max looked a bit surprised "I didn't know you wanted to learn foreign languages"
"Dont have to on the list they have: Italian, Japanese and Russian. I'm fluent in all of those languages."
"Since when?" Max asked cocking an eyebrow.
"We had to learn languages at Manticore and I learned 10."
"Really" Max still couldn't belive it.
"Yeah, but back to the subjects. So you're ok with the languages?"
"Yeah"
"How bout basketball, unless you want to do cheerleading" Alec sounded very serious.
"Nah we'll do basketball together then I'll get to kick your ass there too!" Max's face softened. And it wasn't long until her face split into a grin.
"Well we could always pick photography if you're afraid of the challenge, cuz I'm good at taking shots" she noticed that Alec was almost laughing.
"No, seriously, OC taught me, Oh my God maybe OC could come with us!" A huge smile spread across Max's face.
"Alec can I use your phone for a second?"
"Yeah, sure" and he passed the phone to Max who quickly dialed a number.
"Hey OC, what are you doing in the next couple of weeks or even a month?"
[Not a damn thing boo, except work, why you ask?]
"Oh it's just, me and Alec are going on a mission to a high school, nothing dangerous. So I was just wondering if you wanted to come with us. Look OC I know I didn't tell you anything about this before, but I found out that we are leaving tomorrow afternoon."
[Well, what can I say? I'm shocked kinda. But yeah I'd love to go somewhere coz I haven't left Seattle in the last 7 years, so yeah I'll come as long as I don't have to pay for the tickets.]
"Don't worry it'll be taken care of. OC I'll tell you all the details when I get home k. see ya" Max hanged up the phone and handed it back to Alec. As soon as she did she jumped to her feet and started walking towards Logan's office.
'Hey Logan, can you order one more ticket for OC, I want her to come as well, because she's actually been to a high school before, and she could help us a little bit with fitting in. Oh and don't forget to order another set of uniform, she's a size bigger than me. Ok thanks Logan" She flashed him a smile and walked back to the lounge room where Alec was, before Logan could protest.
Her and Alec have been sitting there for the next forty minutes, in silence bored as hell.
"Oh, you two are still here, I thought you left." Logan said.
"Yeah, well we are still waiting for you to explain to us the mission and all the details" Alec said he was clearly bored and annoyed.
"Yeah, ok the school is in Atlanta. It's a private school, most of the kid's parents are rich but there are exceptions. So I got your Ids here. Max your name's Ashley-Jade Lovell, and Alec's Michael Davidson. Max your date of birth is 5th of July 2004, and Alec's 8th of August 2004. Both of you are 17 years old. Both of you have known each other for a long time. You got your education overseas. Your parents died long time ago and left a large trust found. Blah blah blah. Should I go on?"
"One question if we have a large trust found, we'd have to live large and I don't think we can afford that on a Jam Pony paycheck" Max said.
"Yeah we can." Alec replied and smiled at Max.
"What do you mean we can?" Max's had no idea what Alec was talking about.
"Well, do u remember my lil business at Manticore? You know selling cigars to the guards and X2s and X3s. It was actually a really good business over four or five years I made quite a lot of money" Alec said with a proud grin.
"Oh ok, Oh and Logan what about Cindy's id? You did make one right?"
"Oh yeh, Her name is Podesta Silvia Santos, was born on 24th of September in Brazil. Her parents own a lot of land over there. Her brother is a soccer player. She moved to US when she turned sixteen." Logan finally finished his speech.
"I got you and Alec an apartment, but one of will have to share a room with OC, because I think that there's only two rooms, but I'm not sure."
"What does the uniform look like?" Max wasn't paying attention to what Logan has just said.
"To be honest Max I have no idea! And I think that you two better get going and pack the bags, oh and drop by my place in the morning to pick up the ids, uniform and the tickets. I'll drive you to the airport. Ok then see you tomorrow'
Max nodded her head and smiled. "See ya" she said before leaving with Alec.
"Alec can you please tell to Normal, that the three of us are leaving tomorrow, oh and just make sure if, I mean when we come back we'll have the jobs back" Max finished and a small smile lit up her face.
"Don't stress I'll do that, so then I can go home and pack, hey how much clothes should we take?"
"I have no idea, just make sure you got enough clothes for a week, hopefully there's a washing machine in the apartment."
"I'll see you soon then."
(Max's and OC's apartment)
"Yeah boo, don't forget to take your new boots."
"Do you think that I'll need them there? I mean we're going to a school not a party" Max was happy that OC was going too, because she'd need her help to understand what the 'normal' school is all about.
"Of cause you will honey, just coz you're going to school in uniform, doesn't mean that you cant look good." Cindy turned to face Max and both of them smiled.
"Let's just finish packing the rest of our clothes shall we?"
(Meanwhile at Alec's)
The clothes were all over the floor. There was a bag in the middle of the lounge room. Alec was running back and forth from his bedroom to the lounge room with more clothes.
Man where am I gonna put all these clothes? He froze for a split second, but then started shoving all the clothes in the bag. Suddenly Alec's phone rang and all the clothes fell out of the bag. Shit Alec cursed to himself.
"Yeah, oh hey Max" Alec was surprised that Max called him, she never did unless she was in danger or there was some kind of emergency.
[Are you done packing?]
"Nah, I can't fit the clothes in the bag!"
[Well how much are you taking?]
"Not much, anyways why did you call?"
[Umm me and OC are going to Crash, so you wanna come, coz we still didn't say goodbye to Sketchy]
"Yeah sure I'll be there as soon as I can. Hey Max?"
[What?]
"Can you please help me pack?"
[Fine, but you'll owe me. K then see ya at Crash]
"Yeah see ya" Alec was glad that Max would help him with packing, coz he wouldn't be able to do that alone.
(Crash)
"Hey Maxie" Max jumped up.
"Alec don't ever do that again." Her voice was serious.
"Hey OC" Alec said was he looked at her, OC nodded and smiled in return.
"So looks like we're gonna stay in the same apartment, and as far as I remember one of us will have to share a room." The thought made Alec smirk.
"Dream on pretty boy" Max replied with a hint of sarcasm.
"Max I new that deep inside you found me attractive" Alec said taking a seat beside Max, who was giving Alec a naughty smile.
OC was looking at Max and Alec and had no idea what was going on. She knew that deep inside Max did find Alec attractive, who wouldn't, but there was something odd, they didn't fight and argue any more, OC was even surprised that two of them were getting along so well.
"I'm gonna go and talk to that shorty by the bar, since this is my last night in Seattle" OC smiled at both transgenics and winked at Max I'll see you in the morning."
"Umm OC I'll propably stay over at Alec's"
"What? I thought you guys weren't like that..." OC said not believing her as she raised her left eyebrow.
"We're not I'll just help Alec pack, that's all." Max trailed off helplessly.
"Ok boo, we'll meet at Alec's place then, oh and don't worry I'll bring the bags with me."
"Thanks Cindy"
"No worries baby boo" As Cindy made her way to the bar, she turned around and waived to Max and Alec.
"Hey Alec I'm a bit tired better call it a night, so can you give me the keys to your apartment, so I can start packing your clothes?" Max flashed Alec a smile as she took the keys, "Oh and can you say goodbye to Sketchy from me when he shows up here" Max got up and made her way to the exit.
(Alec's apartment)
Max shut the door, as she sighed tiredly. She took her jacket off and left it on the living room couch. It's been a long day, and all she needed was a hot shower. She made her way to the bathroom. She opened the bathroom closet and took out a large blue towel. She stripped her clothes off and got in the shower the tiles were cold. Max closed the curtain. As soon as she opened the hot water tap, steam filled the bathroom. She was standing in the shower for at least twenty minutes. Suddenly her super hearing picked up on the scrapping noise coming from the living room, it was a well-known sound to her, which was some one picking the lock.
Max closed the water tap, and quickly wrapped the towel around her body and opened the bathroom door quickly and quietly and crept swiftly through the darkness to the side of the door. With a click the door opened and closed. Max took a closer look at the intruder it was a male, tall and he looked handsome in the moonlight. He made his way to the bathroom, which was a good opportunity for Max to nail him to the floor, so she jumped on him, knocking him down, both of them got up quickly. Max tried to punch the intruder in the head but he grabbed both of Max's arms when she charged him and flipped her over his shoulder. When she landed she kicked his lower leg in and sent him to his knees. She went to kick him in the face and was slightly taken back when he grabbed her leg and held onto her ankle with his right arm he took her left arm and placed it around her leg so now his hand was resting right under her thigh.
Before Max knew what was happening, the tall male threw her to his left pinned her right arm behind her back grabbed onto her hair and put his other arm around her neck. When she became reoriented she was on her stomach pinned to the ground and the male was holding her firmly in place.
At that moment Max was scared, What if it's one of White's guys, We never used those tactics of immobilizing an enemy at Manticore, He must be a familiar
Max was lying there helpless, because if she moved her right arm would snap under the position and pressure that the enemy was using."
She couldn't even breathe properly because his arm was around her neck.
The towel that was around Max's body unwrapped during the fight and it was now lying beside her.
"What the hell are you doing here? Who do you work for?" the stranger said who was on top of Max . His voice was icy but also familiar.
"Alec, it's me, Max" Max practically choked the words out, and as soon as she did Alec freed her from his grasp.
"Oh my God, Max I'm sorry. I thought you were one of White's guys."
"Alec I can't breathe" Max was still choking, her face was red, she hardly got to finish because she was gasping for air.
"It's ok Max. Take it easy, small breaths" He rolled Max on her back and put his arm around her neck to support her head. He pulled her body close to his with his other arm holding her waist. Just now he realized that Max was totally naked, and her skin was so smooth and silky, he could even hear her heart beat.
After about thirty minutes sitting in the same pose, Max finally caught her breath. She gave Alec slightly embarrassed smile. She tried to get up, but for some reason her knees were to weak to hold her, so she fell back into Alec's arms.
"Let me help you" said Alec as he got up from the floor, holding Max in his arms. He walked into his bedroom and gently put Max on the bed, under the blanket. He kissed her for head and said "I'm sorry Maxie" He started walking out his room. But he heard Max's weak voice "Alec please don't go, don't leave me alone" He turned around and saw Max who was gesturing him to lie down next to her. He walked back and looked deep into her eyes the 'tough chick' attitude was gone. He could only see weakness.
In couple of minutes both of them were fast asleep.
(Alec's apartment. 8am)
Original Cindy was walking towards the door of Alec's apartment with two huge, but obviously not heavy bags, she stopped at the door, and saw that it was open. She quietly walked inside the apartment and saw the wet blue towel on the floor. And the bag in the middle of the lounge room with Alec's clothes thrown around the place. "I'm just gonna help Alec pack that's all" OC said out aloud mocking Max. There was silence, and then she heard giggling.
She went over to the bedroom to see what was going on.
OC leaned against the door frame as her jaw dropped when she saw Max and Alec in bed. She could see that Max was completely naked, because the silk sheet hugged every curve of her body. And Alec was only wearing boxers. Max's face was on Alec's chest, and his left arm was on Max's waist. They were extremely close to each other.
Max's eyes were wide open, so were Alec's they looked at each other. Then Max closed her eyes, leaned over and placed a soft kiss on Alec's lips. By the look on his face he was very surprised. But then he came to his senses and kissed her back.
OC thought that she should let them know that she was there, but she didn't want to interrupt their kiss. As soon as they finished, Cindy cleared her throat.
"Oh hey, morning OC" Max mumbled.
OC opened her mouth again, like she was gonna say something but no sound came out. After couple of seconds she managed to say "I thought you said that you two weren't like that"
"Cindy we're not like that" Max confirmed her friend.
"Cindy this isn't what it looks like, well... it's a long story" Alec tried to explain the situation to OC.
"Well Boo we got time" OC said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Ok well, yesterday as you know I came her to help Alec pack, but I left earlier than him, and as soon as I got here I went to a shower, and I heard someone pick the lock so I tried to attack the burglar, but instead he attacked me" max looked at Alec and gave him a smile.
"He would propably have killed me" she could only gaze at Alec.
"No I wouldn't, and you know that, it was dark and you attacked first. I thought that you were one of White's guys so I used one of the holds that Manticore taught us. And if you moved you would've ended up with a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder. And it was good that you said that it was you, coz you would've suffocated.
"Hey back to the story!" OC said "Oh yeah, I was gasping for air, I couldn't even get up, so Alec took me to his bedroom, but I didn't want to be alone, so I asked him to stay with me. Max opened her mouth again to say something, but OC cut her off.
"So that's why both of you are naked?" she said with a smirk.
"When I got out of the shower I was only wrapped in a towel, when we fought it just unwrapped. And yeah"
"Ok coz for a second I thought that you were in heat" OC said, she was a bit relieved.
"Gee I wander what will happen when we're on a mission and you go into heat," Alec said with a naughty smile.
"Don't get your hopes up, cuz it aint gonna happen, how would you know any way?" Max said smiling.
"Well, tell you the truth, it will, coz I can smell it" Alec said.
"Oh-Oh"
"Umm you two are aware of the fact that we're supposed to be at Logan's in 2 hours, and Alec's bags aint packed, coz you two were trying to get busy, and then making up some lousy excurse, so come on get out of the bed and start packing." Said OC
"Yes, sir!" Alec said in a soldier like voice.
(Logan's place 10:55)
"Hey Logan" Max said with a smile. Logan noticed the circles under her eyes.
"Max did you get enough sleep last night, you got dark circles under your eyes" Logan gave her a concerned look.
"Logan I don't sleep, shark DNA, remember..." was all Max could say, she did hear OC chuckling in the background.
"Ok then, um...I just received your uniform. It's any black or denim bottom, and everyday blue polo shirt with the school logo or there's also white shirt for girls. For sport you'll have dark blue t-shirt with school logo and black shorts or pants. For martial arts you'll have kimono, and you'll have to earn the belt there." Max and Alec exchanged a look and Alec smiled at Max like he never did before. Max just kept looking at him, he's soo hot Max thought. oh no.... im not going into heat! This cannot be happening
"Max are you even listening to me?"
"Yeah, of course I am" Max reassured Logan.
"Then that's about all" he said as he handed them uniforms and identical school bags.
"Here are your ids. Ashley, Michael and Podesta"
"Who's Podesta?" OC asked with a very confused look.
"Podesta will be your name, I thought that Max was supposed to tell you all that last night."
"Well, propably, but i met this fine shory at crash, so yeh" OC said with a smile.
"Ok, I can live with that name" OC smiled.
A/N please help me with the title, and dont forget to review!!!!