Family Reunions
Title: Cure for all the questions.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, so don't sue me!!!
Summary: Alec, Max and OC are sent on a mission to a high school in order to find a cure for the virus, but what will Max find on this all new experience for her???
Pairing: M/A, L/D.
Previously:
"So who're you?" Lane asked Max.
"It's a long story" Alec answered for Max, because Max didn't even blink, she was stunned just like Alec was seconds ago.
"Well... how bout you start from the beginning, cuz we got all night."
Chapter12.
"Hey let's go somewhere we can talk and figure everything out." Dana suggested, that was the first time she had said something in the last ten minutes.
"Yeah, how 'bout the old tower? It's a short walk from here." Lane said.
"The high place huh?" Max said quietly, it seemed like she didn't want anyone to hear, but she was surrounded by two male X5s.
She remembered how her and Ben used to go to the high place back in Manticore, and the last time she saw him was on the Space needle, it was her high place, and here in Atlanta she missed that.
After walking in silence for more than five minutes Alec was getting frustrated.
"People we're not going to a funeral, so how 'bout you start talking."
"Uhh, here's the 494 in you. You know after that escape in '17 we missed your jokes and the way you could always lighten the intense atmosphere." Lane said with a smile, he stared at the sidewalk ahead, meeting his little brother brought back many memories of Manticore and their old unit.
Finally they have reached the old tower, but it didn't look too old, the Pulse didn't even reach Atlanta, so everything looked new compared to Seattle.
Max and Alec stood on the edge of the tower, the whole city looked so beautiful from there, and the lights were fascinating.
"The city of lights..." Max whispered softly as the wind blew in her face.
"Huh?" Alec asked hot understanding what she meant by that.
"I said the city of lights...it just looks so...breathtaking" Max said and stared at the land beyond the city, then she tuned to face Alec, he raised his hand and ran a finger down her cheek, He leaned closer to kiss her, they were an inch away when Lane interrupted.
"Hey, hey, hey. You're not alone here! You two can be all lovey-dovey later," Lane said as he sat down on the cold concrete watching the couple.
Max and Alec sat opposite of Lane and Dana.
"Hey, 494, tell me what happened after that 'mission going sideways' in the '17?"
Max wasn't used to Alec being called 494, this whole thing seemed so weird- Alec's long lost oldest brother. She was also surprised that Lane called Alec 'little brother', and it just happened to be Zack's twin.
"Well... a lot has happened since then..." Alec said and spaced out for couple of minutes, they sat like that, in silence.
Max knew really well what Alec was thinking about. He was thinking of Rachel and the whole Berrisford mission.
"How bout you break it down for me?" Lane asked staring at Alec and waiting for him to say something.
"About seven months after you guys were 'blown up' I was deployed on a long term solo assassination mission. It went sideways, and the next New Year I spent in a company of the Psy-ops boys." Alec said, he was thankful that he could keep his emotions bottled up at least for now. No one could tell that he was lying, his voice was calm and his soldier mask with that 'always alright' grin was back in place, no one could have guessed that deep inside it was killing him, well apart from Max.
She knew what happened, but the only thing that she didn't know was how bad he was hurting. Alec didn't let any one in, he didn't want to show anyone his sensitive side, he feared if he did he'd get hurt. He loved Max very much, but the memories of Rachel were still haunting him, he knew he'll talk with Max about it some day...
He was deep in his thoughts that he didn't even notice Max clicking her fingers in front of his eyes.
"Are you ok??" Max asked and stared at him.
"I'm fine, you know me..." Alec said and smirked.
"Don't trust him when he smirks like that, which is usually followed by the always alright phrase." Lane said.
"Why not?" Max asked, she clearly didn't know why Lane would say that.
"He usually does that when he's hurting the most or hiding something."
"Umm Hello... I'm still here!!!"
"Sorry, so anything else? Did you get that CO position?" Lane asked, he knew 494 too well, to fall for his soldier mask, but Lane also knew that 494 just needed sometime, and when he's ready he'd tell his big brother.
"Yeah, I actually did, and they put me in charge of whoever was left of our old unit and the unit that 511 was in charge of. 511 wasn't really happy at first to be my second in command, but then we became friends." Alec replied.
"Wait a second... You were a CO??? How come I didn't know?" Max almost yelled, she couldn't believe that Alec didn't tell her that.
"Oh, he didn't tell you huh? Well this is strange for the 494 I thought I knew better than I've known myself. He probably also forgot to mention that he was Manticore's finest, in fact all four of us were. 494, me, and472... 511 was a good soldier too, but he wasn't the best.
Max's jaw dropped, she had no idea, that Alec could be an Alpha male, she thought he was probably Manticore's biggest screw up. But him being a commanding officer just never crossed her mind.
"Who's 472 and 511?" Max asked because she never heard of those designations.
"472 is Devlon, his twin was in your unit, and 511 is Biggs." Alec answered.
"So who are you?" Lane asked bluntly looking at Max.
"I'm Max, X5-452." She replied
"Oh...and what's your name 494?"
"It's Alec."
"Alec? What happened to Dodger?" Lane repeated and chuckled a little receiving evils from Alec.
"Ok, ok, chill. How did you come up with it anyway?"
Max and Alec exchanged a look and laughed.
"Well when I was recaptured by Manticore about two years ago after me and mine blew up the DNA lab. The director came up with a more natural way, so they created a breeding program, and I was immediately transferred there, and my partner just happened to be 494. I gave him his name-Alec because he always had some smart aleck comebacks, but my second choice was Dick." Max said and Alec smiled at the memory.
"Breeding program, huh? So...where's the baby??? Is it a boy or girl? " Lane asked his cold blue eyes suddenly became softer and shiner.
"Uh..." Max started but didn't know what to say.
"Miscarriage?" Lane asked softly.
"No! Well.. uh.. nothing happened, so no baby..." Alec said casually.
"Hold on, hold on! Are you telling me that there was a beautiful girl in your cell, you also had an order to you know... and you two didn't? God 494 you're unbelievable! Didn't I teach you anything???" Max blushed a bit when Lane called her a beautiful girl, she knew that herself, but it was nice to hear it from other people like Alec and now Lane.
"You see, bro. Max was.. is ..uh I don't know, well anyways she was in a relationship... so uh she didn't want to cheat on the guy ." Alec said and felt kind of uncomfortable, because that's exactly what they were doing now, Max was cheating on Logan, just like she could have been two years ago with the same person.
Both Max and Alec were silent, they were thinking the same thing.
"Uhh what is the minute of silence for? Did he die or something?" Lane asked he was confessed by their behaviour, that didn't look like the 494, but five years has passed, so maybe now 494 was a totally different person.
"No!" the two said in unison.
"Ok, so are you gonna tell me?" Lane asked hoping that they would.
"Umm, this guy that I'm with, I mean was with. He doesn't know that Alec and me hooked up. As we said it's a long story. Logan and me couldn't touch because Manticore infected me with a retrovirus targeted to Logan's DNA, and someone had to make sure that I escaped safely to kill Logan, since then we've been looking for a cure, but it seemed to be impossible to find. So then he found out about this school with all these scientists and he was hoping that I could get the cure by going undercover here, but he convinced me to take Alec with me, just for safety, well it turned out differently." She said and leaned her back against Alec's arm and shoulder.
"Why was he so important?" Lane asked, he was a bit confused, why would Manticore go through such a big procedure to kill an ordinary.
Max looked at Alec wanted to know if she could trust Lane, so he was Alec's big brother, but she just wanted to be sure. Alec nodded in return, so Max carried on.
"Because Logan is the Eyes Only."
"Oh, interesting...so are you planning on telling him?" Lane asked as he started chewing on his fingernail.
"Yeah, he deserves to know, besides he's coming here on Monday." Max answered as she stared into the darkness. She knew that she'd have to tell Logan eventually, but what if he wouldn't take the truth too well, what if he'd do something crazy, who knows what he's capable to do...Plus Asha will be with him, only to make it harder on Max...
"Maxie... you ok?" Alec whispered softly in Max's ear.
"Yeah, just a bit tired, you know my feet still hurt like hell, and I wouldn't mind a hot shower..." Max said, her eyes were half closed, which was unusual for a girl with shark DNA.
"I have an idea, let's all go to our place and order pizza, what do you say?" Alec said in a cheerful voice.
"Yeah, sounds great." Max and Dana said, and Lane nodded.
"So Dana... what's your story?" Max asked she really wanted to know why she kicked her butt in that fight.
"I'm a Manticore creation too, but I was the last X5 to be created, therefore I am three years younger. And you know how the scientists optimised every X5 unit and their twin for specialties like: hand-to-hand combat for X5-599/X5-600; night warfare in
X5-656/X5-657; survival techniques for X5-471/X5-472; social skills like persuasion, coercion, and manipulation in X5-493/X5-494; and muscular flexibility in X5-734/X5-735." Dana said looking at Max and Alec.
"Yeah... and?" Alec asked.
"Well they put all that in me, they wanted to see if that was possible. Me and my clone were taken away when we were little kids from the rest of X5s into a special facility, we were trained more than the rest of you, but they still sent us on the missions. In May 2017 the director wanted me and 491 to follow the three X5s that were deployed to make sure everything went as planned. We met in LA and that was when Lane convinced us to fake the explosion. Since then a lot has happened, we heard the rumours of an X5 female taking Manticore down, so we went back to Wyoming only to find the ashes, and the guards trying to shot everyone who ran, it was hard to find anyone. Then a year later familiars were on our ass, so we had to run across the whole country to get away that's when we met another X5, he calls himself Sean but he's designition is 354, maybe you know him?"
"354, huh... yeah I knew his brother, he was in my unit." Max said.
After a long pause Max spoke again.
"So that's why you almost kicked my butt."
"Yeah." Dana replied and smirked at Max, which looked a lot like Alec's.
"Dana, what's your designition?" Max suddenly asked.
"492, why?"
"I just thought that you might be related to someone here." Max said as her gaze stopped on Alec.
"Actually, we are kinda related, we share the same DNA." She replied.
"So are we gonna go anytime soon, coz I'm starving..." Alec whined.
"Ok, let's go... we could probably order a family meal, well we are a family... right???" Lane asked but didn't get a reply because the three X5s started walking down stairs and Lane was the only one left standing alone in the darkness.
"Hey guys wait up, I'm hungry too." Lane called out, and ran to catch up with the group.
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Hey everyone!! thanx 4 the reviews!!
This chapter is a bit long, what can i say i'v tried my best.
I no some things aren't really accurate like the dates, but the designitions r right! i spent so much time lookin 4 'em on the internet.
I'll try 2 make the nxt two chapters 2 b mo interestin, some angst comin up.
Pliz review, cuz that's the only way i'll know if you guys actually like the story, and pliz if u no the right dates let me no so i can correct 'em.
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P.S. I'll try 2 update soon.