Previously on the New Addition
"Yeah, we know. You want to tell us about them, White."
"Not really. Be warned, 452, I will be back for her." White then turned and left.
"What? That's it?" Alec asked, as he watched them leave. "Just idle threats. That's not like him. Even those threats weren't like him."
"There's something else going on here, Alec," Max said, as she turned to face Pip. "And we're going to get to the bottom of it."
"So what do you remember?" Max asked, as she looked over at Dakota.
"A lot," Dakota responded, as she looked over at Max. "What do you want to know?"
"Well for starters, how did you end up with White," Alec said, as he came up to sit next to her. They were sitting in Max's office. They had gone there after their meeting with White in need of privacy. They needed to talk to Dakota to get the facts and didn't want to the others to over hear them. "Cause he's not one to be buds with our kind."
"Our kind?" Dakota asked as she looked up at him.
"Transgenics, Xs, like Max and me."
"Oh, right." She quickly looked down at her feet. "I forgot."
"Pip, it's easy for you to forget, your still young," Max said, as she sat down in a chair in front of her and put a hand on her knees to keep them from swinging. "We just need to know what he did to you."
"I'll try." She ran a hand through her hair. "It was really dark."
"Dark?" Alec asked, as he looked down at her. "What do you mean? He kept you in a dark room?"
"No," she replied, as she bit down on her bottom lip. "They kept me tied up and blindfolded. So that I couldn't run away. So that I would be there. There were this snakes. They were always around me." She then shivered, at the thought of them, and Alec put an arm around her. "I still have nightmares about them. I think they used them for something. For a cult...something...I don't know." She shivered again, and Alec looked over her head at Max.
"Yeah, something like that," Max said, as she looked up at Dakota. "Did White do anything to you?"
"No, just kept me tied up. Kept saying that I was a waste of genetic DNA. That 494 wasn't the right match for 452, and so forth."
"What does White know," Alec said, as he looked down at Dakota. "I don't see anything wrong with you."
"Thanks." She then looked over at him. "But it wasn't White who sent me. I know it seems that it was White who sent me. But it was another who got me out."
"What?" both X5s said, as they looked at her. "It wasn't White who sent you to us?" She shook her head no. "Then who was it."
"I don't know who. Just some guy. It was late at night and I was asleep. He came and woke me up. He told me that I had to go. That I had to find my genetic parents. They would protect me, from those who would harm me."
"Harm you?" Max asked, as she looked up at Alec. "Who would harm you? Why would they harm you?"
"Manticore put something in my blood. I don't know what it is, but they put something in my blood. White knows that it's in there. So does that doctor."
"Son of a..." Alec started.
"Alec, don't you start," Max began, as she quickly got to her feet. "Now we know why White was acting not his normal self."
"Because he was trying to figure out how to swipe Dakota away by getting past everyone here at TC."
"I'm going to call Logan and see if we can't get a hold of that doctor again to set up a chat," Max said, as she headed for the door. "Alec, um, you stay here with Pip. I'll be right back." Then she was gone.
"I think I'm gonna go to," Pip said, as she started to hop off the desk, only to be grabbed by Alec and hauled back on the desk. "Or not."
"Not a chance in heck, you're staying, because of one reason," Alec said, as he moved to the chair in front of her and propped his feet up on the desk next to her.
"Because Max told me to," she replied, as she looked at him.
"Yep, you guessed it."
"You're scared of her," Pip said, as she pulled her knees up under her chin. "Why?"
"I'm not scared of Max. I respect Max. I'm not scared of her."
"Yeah, sure."
"I'm not taking this from a child, especially not from my kid." Just then the door slammed from behind them and both jumped. Pip landed in Alec's lap and they both turned to see Max storm into the room. "Take it didn't go well with Logan."
"Why would you ask that?" Max asked, as she sat down on the edge of the desk. "He's not wanting to talk right now. He says he's busy. You and I need to drop in on him. Get him to talk to us."
"Okay, but what do we do about the little one?" Alec asked, as he looked down at Pip, who was still in his lap. She quickly looked up at the two X5s. "Cause I don't think you really want to bring her along. There's going to be adult language and probably a fight."
"You're right about that." Max then shot a glance out through the window at the control center to where Joshua was talking to Zero and the others. "We could leave her here."
"And who would watch here? Mole, Dix?"
"I was more thinking more on the lines of Gem and maybe Joshua. They both like kids, and being that Gem has one of her own, I thought that it would be okay."
"That sounds good enough," Alec said, as he looked down at Pip. "What do you think, Miss 946? Do you want to stay here or go hear us yell at Logan?"
"I think I'll stay here," Pip replied, as she looked up at them. "It'll be fun. I'll get to hang out with Joshua and Bugler."
"Okay, then I'll go ask Gem if she won't mind keeping an eye on you for us," Max said, as she headed out the door.
A few minutes later, Max and Alec were headed for Logan's apartment. Pip was in the safety of Gem's care. She was glad to take care of her. Pip had promised not to get into any trouble and they had promised to come back as soon as they had talked to Logan.
TBC
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