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"Director?" asked the small blonde doctor.
"Yes?"
"Has our Max taken care of the boy?"
"In a matter of time she will Miss. Collins."
"I fear she will be no match for him."
"She has his trust and love on her side, the boy will be easily taken care of."
"Are you sure of your plan Director?"
"Of course I am, he should be dead before sunrise."
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It was only about two hours after we stopped at the tree and Max had woken up. And I wasn't about to try and fail at a conversation, so it surprised me when she spoke up.
"Fang?"
"Yeah?"
"Why haven't you gone to sleep yet, is something wrong?"
"Everything's fine I'm just not tired. You can go back to sleep though, if you want."
"Oh okay."
"Uhm…Max before you go to sleep.. "
"What is it Fang?"
"I know."
"Know what?"
"Know why you're here."
"Are you going to try and stop me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because, you can help me and I can help you."
"What do you mean?" She made no move to hurt me, instead she looked at me, I mean really looked at me, and seemed to actually have emotions. Whatever upgrade they gave her seemed to have work. That was the most max-like thing she's done the whole time.
"I can free you from the Directors control and you can free my flock. Its going to take some planning and we can't tell the flock even when we get to them. If its going to work, I need your full cooperation."
"Even if you managed to free me.. I couldn't leave, this is what I was made for. And if I don't kill you now I wouldn't be fulfilling my duty. This is the purpose of my life."
"Life? Your not living! You may walk and talk but you know nothing about living. You don't dream at night about your future and you don't care about or love anyone. You know nothing about losing something or someone or anything about fighting for what you want. You go through each day by following orders from a man who is just as useless and irrelevant as you are. If this is the purpose for you, then you'll be expired before you know it. Once we are dead then what? Huh, tell me what you'll do then. Will you fall in love and have children or travel the world? No. They'll terminate you just like all of the other experiments. You mean nothing to them, they wont spare you. You'll end up the same way we will. And the worst part is no one will care your gone. When I die, Max will grieve, my flock will grieve, and so will the world who has followed us through my blog. What does that leave you with? Loneliness. You'll have no one. Unless you stop being the monster they created you to be. So help me and I'll help you."
Max stared at me and looked helpless, I new shed be conflicted with her order and what I'm asking of her, but if she truly thinks that her purpose in life revolves around us, I can at least give her a choice.
"Okay. I'll help you."