Dark Angel fic: Secrets Chapters 1 - 5 {M/A}
Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 1
Home sweet home
‘Home sweet home’ Max thought bitterly as she entered her small grey walled cell. Looking around at the miniature cell which contained nothing but a cot with chains so it could be anchored if needed to sleep in, Max felt like crying. Ten years she had tried to keep away from this place, ten years she had spent hiding and looking over her shoulder, but here she was back where it all started. Ten years completely wasted.
“Wow this sucks” Max spoke to the empty cell. As she lay on the cot she examined her new room at Manticore and all the memories came flooding back, the training, the sparing, the propaganda and brainwashing classes, the tank, Ben, Tinga, and Zack.
“Oh god…Zack” she whimpered. Shutting her eyes tightly she lay in a foetal position as sobs racked her small body; thoughts of Zack bombarding her thoughts.
She remembered waking up in the infirmary with Renfro standing over her with a sick smile on her face obviously pleased with herself for capturing two 09 escapees, something Lydecker had been trying to do for the last ten years and had failed immensely.
“You’ve both come home to us” Renfro had said
Guilt cursed through her. It was her fault that Zack was dead. If she had been more careful and hadn’t got on shot Zack would not feel the need to sacrifice himself to save her.
“I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry Zack” she whispered softly to the empty cold cell.
“Lights out 452” the guard told her as he looked through the bars on her cell door. The guards go around checking the cells to see if the occupants were still there. Ignoring him she turned to face the wall so her back was to him and forced herself to stop the tears. She had been back at Manticore for two months, the first few weeks was the recovery period, this was the time when they left her to rest and to let her body restore itself after the heart transplant. Recently it had been the torture ‘why the hell doesn’t she just brainwash me, what’s with all the torture techniques, I’m sure she has no problems with me becoming the perfect soldier’ Max thought sourly.
‘My life sucks everyone thinks I’m dead that’s probably why Syl and Krit won’t pull any rescue missions. OC, Sketchy, Herbal and Logan, I just hope they’re all ok.’
“Logan” Max murmured the name of the man she loved to the dark cell. She had wondered how he was and how he had taken the news of her demise. Knowing that he was safe back at his penthouse thanks to Syl and Krit she felt a bit better.
‘I gotta get out of here’ she thought determinedly ‘I want my strange little life back, I miss everyone OC, Sketchy, Herbal heck even Normal with his bip bip bip and missy miss all the time, I miss Logan, I need to get back to Logan.’
Jumping off the bed she folded her bunk to the wall and anchored it up. She removed a tool from the springs of the bunk and crouched on the floor. Max uses the tool to poke and saw at the cement between the large bricks in the wall.
Working away for a few hours she finally decided to get some rest knowing she would have to wake up early tomorrow to officially start her training.
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“452 and 595 on the mat now” A trainer screamed. Max got out of the circle and made her way to the mat. Turning to face her opponent she noticed that he was taller and probably had fifty pounds on her, his jet black hair and blue eyes made him quite good looking. Max made the first move; she blurred towards him and threw a punch at his head which he side-stepped, before she could recover his leg connected with her stomach hard causing her to bend over the wind momentarily knocked out of her.
Standing upright she moved towards him again and managed to get in a kick and two punches, furious at letting the 09er get some hits in, the X5 went into a fury of powerful punches and kicks successfully knocking her down to the ground.
“What’s the matter 452? Still recuperating?” he taunted
“Bite me” Max retorted, disgusted at herself for being on the ground and at his mercy.
“Must’ve given you a lousy heart” he sneered as if she hadn’t spoken.
Enraged she tried to manoeuvre from under him but failed, he was good he left no way of escape. Frustrated she resulted in fighting dirty by drawing her head back as far as possible from her position on the floor and slamming it into his nose. As the blinding pain overtook him he jumped up and released his hold on her and clutched his now broken nose.
“Jesus you stupid bitch” he hissed as blood gushed down his front. Not taking any chances Max flipped herself to her feet and faced him hatred shining on her face.
“452” the trainer screamed coming to stand before her forcing her to stand at attention “what the hell was that?” he questioned.
“I’m sorry sir, I got carried away, it won’t happen again” she informed him.
“See that it doesn’t, dismissed” he spoke roughly to the circle of transgenic’s.
Walking through the training ground X5’s 494 and 510 walked side by side laughing and talking quietly, both enjoying each others company. Since Manticore discouraged socialization within its grounds unless for training purposes they had to be careful to not be heard or to be seen getting carried away. They attracted a lot of attention from the female population as they walked past each flashing charming flirtatious grins. 494 was tall, lean and muscular with captivating hazel green eyes and dirty blonde hair. 510 was a few inches shorter with jet black hair, brown eyes and a mischievous grin. Leaning against the wall they watched the groups of transgenic’s spar.
“Hey that’s the 09er right?” 510 asked his best friend pointing to a small dark haired female who had just got into a fighting stance on the mat
“Must be I’ve never seen her before” 494 replied as he watched the girl and 595 circle each other. They watched as she threw a punch which did not connect and receive a strong kick to her stomach and double over.
“Ouch that’s gotta hurt, knowing how painful his kicks are I really feel sorry for her” 510 winced sympathetically. 494 did not answer but carried on watching the scene, there was something about this girl that he could not place his finger on. He watched as she slammed her head into 595’s nose and laughed slightly, yep she was different alright; none of the other females at Manticore would have ever done that.
“Looks like she has quite a temper” 510 said
“I’m sure I can tame her down” 494 replied confidently
“Should’ve known” 510 replied walking away shaking his head and laughing.
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Max lay on her bed reminiscing about her life outside Manticore. OC and Logan were the one’s she missed the most probably because they were the only ones who knew about her being transgenic. She waited for the guard to pass by her door for their nightly inspection before jumping off, folding the bed and crouching on the floor to saw the bricks to create the hole that would aid in her escape.
Hearing footsteps near her door she quickly restored her bed and planted herself on it waiting for whoever was to enter her cell. The metal door opened loudly and a male X5 entered looking at her. Shocked speechless Max stared at the familiar stranger, uncertainly she asked
“Ben?”
TBC
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Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 2
“What?” the male X5 asked genuinely confused. Shaking her head in a way to hide her disappointment from the realisation that he was not her brother Max finally spoke
“You look like someone I used to know”
“Well my designation’s 494” he replied confidently
“His was 493. You must be twinned” she told him with a small voice.
Nodding his head 494 spoke “Your fellow traitor. Went psycho”
“What the hell do you know about it” Max snapped her eyes flashing
“I know that because of him I had to spend six months in psy-ops. They wanted to make sure it wasn’t genetic. Looks like ten years in the world finally got to him.”
“It was this place that got to him”
Shrugging his shoulder and rolling his eyes he walked slowly towards her removing his standard issue grey t-shirt and undoing the button on his pants. “Whatever, well let’s get this over with, huh?”
“What are you doing?” Max asked cautiously taking a step back glaring daggers at his exposed muscled chest, squashing down her appreciation.
“We’ve been paired off. I’m your breeding partner” he told her shortly
Max stared thunderstruck, too shocked to speak.
“We’re supposed to copulate every night until you get pregnant” 494 carried on through her moments of silence.
Finally finding her ability of speech Max screeched “That’s sick” fuming she glared daggers at him “Get out of my cell”
“We’ve got our orders 452. Take off your clothes” he ordered
“I’m not doing this” she adamantly replied ‘This is unbelievable, Manticore have seriously lost it’
“It’s your own fault. If you and your friends hadn’t blown up the DNA database, they’d still be whipping up embryos and putting them into surrogates.” He snapped irritated ‘Who the fuck did this girl think she was?’ “Now take off your clothes we have our orders”
Swinging out her leg she kicks him in the stomach causing him to crash into her cell door ‘What the fuck? Bitch’ he thought
“What the hell was that?” he asked incredulously
“The only kind of physical contact you and I are gonna have” Max retorted
“You know, this isn’t exactly a plum assignment for me either. You spent half your life out there in filth and degradation. I could catch something.” He snapped temper beginning to rise.
“Whatever you need to tell yourself. Just as long as we understand each other.” She told him sweetly.
“Fine whatever I’m not stressing over this” he said beginning to get a headache from her screeching, picking up his grey t-shirt he put it on and made his way to her bed. “Listen I have an hour to kill before I head back to the barracks. Why don’t you wake me up at 0100?” he lies down on the bed and closes his eyes while Max stood rooted at the spot staring at him. Finally tired of standing she sat down in the corner sulking and praying of a quicker escape.
An hour later she got up from the floor and walked over to her bed where 494 lay. Leaning in close so she was near his ear she screamed “GET UP” and jumped back so if he retaliated she wasn’t nearby for his attack.
Snapping his eyes open 494 stared at the girl as if she were crazy. “Don’t ever do that again or I swear you will pay” he threatened as he swung his legs to the floor getting ready to stand.
Rolling her eyes and dismissing his threat Max smiled innocently at him “yeah yeah whatever, get out of my cell”
“You know tonight was disappointing 452 lets hope tomorrow night you behave and follow orders” he chided.
“My name’s Max” she blurted out, not knowing why, but behind the Manticore façade he seemed trustworthy and a part of her trusted him like she had never trusted anyone else before.
“Whatever you say” 494 replied nonchalantly
“You should have a name too”
“I told you, my designations 494”
“Doesn’t suit you, I’m gonna call you Alec”
“Alec?” 494 questioned
“As in smart Aleck?” she replied casually
Smirking he replied “I can live with that”
“Good because my second choice was Dick”
Laughing softly he walked to her door and called for a guard to open the cell door, before leaving he turned around and said “See you around Max”
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Max and Alec stood side by side in line with the rest of the transgenic’s involved with the breeding program pending for Director Renfro’s queries.
“Report” Renfro asks an X5 couple sharply
“Successful copulation with X5-392, ma’am” the male replied
“Excellent” Renfro nodded. Moving on the next couple “Report”
“Copulation was unsuccessful, ma’am” the female X5 answered
“Explain” Renfro inquired with a frown
“X5-698 failed to achieve minimum mission requirements, ma’am”
Sighing Renfro signalled for two guards to take X5-698 away and turned back to face the next couple which happened to be Max and Alec.
“Report”
Max not knowing what to say and not sure what to expect from Alec stayed quiet, after a few seconds in which neither had spoken Renfro narrowed her eyes beginning to look suspicious.
“Successful copulation between myself and X5-452, ma’am. Twice.” Alec replied clearly.
Surprised Renfro turned to Max with a sadistic smile “Excellent 452. What would your boyfriend say?”
Not sure whether she was expected to reply or not Max chose to remain quiet and stared at a spot just above Renfro’s shoulder.
Obviously satisfied with the reports she had received Renfro looked at them all, smiled and said “Make sure to go to the med bay and see the doctors for your physical checkups tomorrow.” She informed them “Dismissed” she said over her shoulder as she made her way back to her office.
Alec walked away from Max thoughts going through his head. ‘So she has a boyfriend, no wonder she didn’t want to co-operate last night. Great now she has to go for a check up, not only will she be getting herself into punishment or psy-ops she’ll be dragging me in with her’. Alec thought resentfully.
Max walked back slowly her own thoughts going through her head. ‘What the hell am I going to do now? How the hell do I pass a physical examination? Once they find out we haven’t been copulating they’ll throw both of us into psy-ops’ she shuddered involuntarily just thinking of being put there. Guilt cursed through her ‘He hasn’t done anything, it’s not fair for him to get punished when it’s not his fault. There’s no other way’ she thought sadly.
Running up to catch up with Alec, she touched his arm. “Can we talk?” she asked him softly
“Now? I’m hungry Max I wanna grab some breakfast, I’ll be in your cell later we can talk then” he whispered
“Alec please it’s really important” Max begged
“Ok fine” he sighed “lead the way”
“Thanks” she smiled softly at him which he returned. Walking quickly they made their way to the library knowing that it would be completely empty not just because it was time for breakfast but because nobody spent their limited amount of free time in the library when they could be doing something more entertaining.
Turning to face her, Alec stared waiting to hear what was so important. After a few minutes when she still hadn’t spoken he sighed “Max, what’s going on, what’s so important?” he asked curiously
“I was thinking about the physical examination” Max mumbled, staring at her hands.
“Oh” Alec said unsure what was expected of him.
“I was wondering… umm…I know you’re friendly with the guards,… umm… if you could get some…. condoms from them.” Max asked looking everywhere but at him.
“Max…” Alec started
“I can’t get pregnant Alec, I won’t allow it, I refuse to have a baby for Manticore to raise as their slave and for them to abuse the way they abused us. I’ve thought about it and this is for the best. We have sex, they do the physical on me and we all get off scot free.” She rambled wringing her fingers continuously.
Alec stared at her, agreeably it was a good plan, and if they were to do a physical on her they would see she’s had sex so they wouldn’t be too suspicious. The only problem with that was he didn’t want to sleep with her now knowing she had a boyfriend. He wasn’t the type to sleep with another guy’s girl, whether that guy was transgenic or ordinary and that’s how it was going to stay.
“Do you have a boyfriend outside?” he asked casually
Her head snapped up “What the hell does that have anything to do with you” she snapped furious ‘how dare he ask such a question’
“It’s not a hard question Max, yes or no, which one is it?”
“No” she replied avoiding his eyes ‘I’m not lying me and Logan aren’t like that’
“Right” Alec replied sarcastically, moving to leave the library
“I’m not lying Alec, me and Logan were never like that, we’re just friends” she cried moving in front of him to block his path.
“So what was that Renfro said”? he asked
“Renfro’s after a friend of mine and she seems to think that we have a relationship because I refuse to tell her where he is” she told him staring into his eyes. Nodding his acceptance he smiled and said “Well let’s go and grab something to eat”.
But before he could move Max had stopped him with a hand on his forearm “So you’ll get the condoms then?” she asked timidly.
“Yeah I’ll get them”
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Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 3
Meaningless sex
Max was pacing the small area her cell provided. She was nervous, very nervous. She has never had casual sex before all her sex experiences were all heat induced. But here she was in Manticore no less, awaiting for Alec to arrive with the contraception to prevent her from conceiving his child.
“Oh my god, what am I doing? Why am I doing this?” Max asked herself incessantly.
“Because you have to you idiot” she scolded herself “Now breathe” she told herself.
Taking deep breaths she sat down on the bed only to jump back up again when she heard footsteps near her door.
Alec entered her cell pretty much the same as last night, he had on a cocky grin because he knew how uncomfortable Max would be with their current situation.
“Did you get it?” she anxiously asked
“Of course I did” he replied arrogantly
“Well let’s get this over with” she snapped crossing her arms in front of her chest to pull her standard issued grey t-shirt over her head, only to stop hesitantly, as the reality of what she was about to do hit her full force.
“Where’s the rush, we have the whole night” he informed her oblivious to her inner turmoil, his smirk widening as she flushed a deeper red.
“Just shut up and take off your clothes” she mumbled irritated.
Unable to resist his teasing Alec grinned mischievously “No need to be rude Max, if you wanted to see me naked all you had to do was ask, I would have been happy to oblige”
Fuming Max glared at him, she knew he was just trying to lighten the palpable tension in the air but it wasn’t working. “Do you wanna do this or not?”
Afraid that she would change her mind about sleeping with him, Alec shut his mouth and nodded his head. Sitting on the bed he leaned over to undo his shoes and remove his socks, standing upright he stripped of his grey t-shirt and turned to face Max.
“You alright?” he asked genuinely concerned as he watched her standing in the middle of the cell staring at the floor, not making any attempts to remove her clothing.
Looking up at him she was shocked at the sincerity she saw in his face, deciding it would be best if she told him the truth, she opened her mouth to speak but shut it after the words failed her.
“I’ve never done this before” she mumbled quietly that even he had trouble hearing with his sensitive transgenic hearing. Shocked beyond range Alec stared at her incredulously “You’re a virgin?” he asked as if it was the stupidest thing in the world. ‘She can’t be, what about heat’ “How the hell did you manage through your heats?” he asked his voice mingled with suspicion and something else that sounded like respect.
He had seen how the X5 females changed when in heat and of course how the X5 males reacted to females in heat that he was thoroughly shocked that she hadn’t given in to it.
Shaking her head “No, that’s not what I meant, I’m not a virgin it’s just I’ve never had sex casually before” she muttered obviously embarrassed at having such a talk with a guy she had just recently met who happened to be her late brother’s twin.
Bringing her eyes back to his face she saw the puzzlement and knew she had to explain more. “The only times I’ve had sex was when I gave in to my heat, so I’ve never had casual sex before” she repeated.
Finally understanding at where she was going Alec smiled softly at her “It’s alright Max, there’s a first time for everything, and you just got the privilege of it being with me than someone who didn’t know what he was doing”. He told her his eyes shining with delight.
Against her better judgement Max’s face cracked into a smile “ass” she told him squatting him on the shoulder. As fast as the smile had appeared it disappeared. Alec noticing the change enquired “Max?”
“I’ve never been with an X5 before”
“And you’re afraid that I’ll hurt you” Alec finished watching her closely. He saw the flicker in her eyes and knew he was right.
“I’m sorry I know you wouldn’t hurt me deliberately it’s just I know how I am when I’m in heat, I’m pretty much uncontrollable but you guys are stronger.” She started “And there’s the whole friendship thing we have going on I wouldn’t want to ruin it, are you sure we should do this?” she finished lamely.
Alec stared at her “wow you worry a lot” he told her “Max if I get too rough for you tell me to stop and I’ll stop ok” he waited until she nodded before carrying on “ and for the friends thing ever heard of, ‘friends with benefits’ he asked flashing her a charming grin. “Don’t worry so much” he soothed cupping her face with his hands “just relax” he encouraged.
Forcing herself to clear her mind and take deep breaths she nodded her head to indicate she was ready. Leaning down to capture her lips, he was surprised when she turned her head slightly so that his lips landed on the corner of her mouth instead, confused he pulled back to look at her quizzically “Max?”
“No kissing on the lips” she told him shortly once again avoiding his eyes ‘At least then it won’t seem so real and Logan would be the last person I kissed.’ She thought ‘Yeah right Max you just want to imagine Logan and you know that if you kiss him you’ll know the difference and you might end up liking it, better yet you might end up liking him.’ Her conscience informed her. ‘Whatever, so not gonna happen’ she replied mentally shaking her head at her own thoughts.
Alec stared at her, his hands still cupping her face as he searched her face for an answerbut once again she avoided his eyes. Not wanting to pressure her to do something she did not want to do no matter how disappointed he was at not being able to kiss or taste her, he forced himself to sound neutral “Alright” he nodded.
At his words she visibly relaxed and let slip a small smile still avoiding his eyes. Alec leaned towards her again only this time he avoided her lips but planted small butterfly kisses on the side of her face all the way down to her neck. Sliding his tongue down her neck he was satisfied when he heard her sigh softly. Sliding one hand down her arm to wrap around her waist leaving behind goosebumps wherever he touched, Alec started sucking, nipping and kissing her neck earnestly eliciting moans of pleasure from Max. Sliding a hand into her grey t-shirt he stroked her side and moved further up so that his thumb could stroke the side of her breast. Finding her pulse point he kissed and flicked his tongue on the spot and was rewarded with her moaning and leaning into him for more.
Max’s body heat rose, her skin felt like it was burning and it was all because of the way he was touching her, but somehow this excited her more. Wanting to feel skin on skin she pushed him away slightly ignoring the perplexed look he gave her, stripped of her t-shirt and pants, and kicked off her boots and socks and stood before him in her simple black bra and panties manticore provided, as if silently telling him to come and get her.
Alec felt himself harden, taking the few steps towards her, he grabbed her arm and led her to the bed. Laying her on the bed Alec stepped back to divest off his pants, watching her lie there her caramel skin tone standing out against the dull grey of the cell and bed sheets making her glisten, Alec groaned. It took all of his efforts of self control to stop himself from jumping on her and taking her there, but he didn’t want that, he wanted to please her and take things slow for her sake.
Crawling up her body Alec planted small kisses on her stomach, her breasts, her neck and her face. Divesting off their underwear, Alec trailed his mouth to the juncture between her thighs wanting to please her but before he placed his mouth on her Alec felt Max pulling at his hair encouraging him to look up at her.
“Can we please not do this” she begged him quietly “Let’s just do the deed” she told him not wanting to get too comfortable with him. Having sex with him she knew was compulsory if they were to fool Manticore and pass the physical examination but the teasing would only complicate and confuse things for her. She wanted to keep things strictly business ‘I mean the only reason we are doing this is to keep ourselves from being thrown into psy-ops, I have Logan and once I escape I can do all the teasing I want with him’ she encouraged herself.
Perplexed Alec just stared at the young woman under him uncertain on what to think. He had come to her cell yesterday on orders to have meaningless sex with her and she had refused but here she was lying beneath him and asking him to copulate with her without no feeling. He had thought things would be different with her, the fact that she was not like any of the other females at Manticore Alec had felt hope. Feeling the urge to laugh hysterically at his own thoughts he slammed down his Manticore face making sure that his hurt and disappointment were nowhere near visible. Slipping on the condom Alec buried himself in his breeding partner.
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Please review ;)
Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 4
They got it bad
Max sat upright on her bed, naked under the lame excuse of a sheet that Manticore provided. Her cell was dark, cold and lonely. She had asked him to leave even though he was entitled to stay the night, but she couldn’t face him. Tears rolled down her cheeks as the guilt surged through her veins. She felt like she had just given in to her heat but at the same time she didn’t. She had kept her eyes closed throughout most of the sex and had tried to imagine Logan but it didn’t work. She had felt his eyes burning holes into her through his intense gaze urging her to look into them and had kept hers tightly shut, not wanting to see the look in them.
She had asked him to have sex with her and he had delivered that perfectly but she had failed, she had felt static the moment he entered her, she loved every thrust and stroke as he moved in her, she loved the feel of him in her but what she loved most was the feeling of completeness.
‘This shouldn’t have happened, it wasn’t supposed to be like this, I shouldn’t be feeling anything, all it should’ve been was sex, meaningless sex with an X5 Manticore soldier, nothing more’ she tried to encourage herself. Failing she lay on the bed still sobbing and the guilt, burning through her. ‘Logan, how could I have done such a thing to Logan? Was the last thing she thought as finally exhausted from the sex and the tears, she fell into a deep slumber.
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Alec lay on his back with his hands behind his head wanting to sleep but unable to as thoughts of Max and their sexual encounter invaded his mind. He had never experienced such a powerful attachment to someone he had just had sex with but with Max, he couldn’t get her out of his mind. The sex was supposed to be meaningless but the moment he entered her, the word meaningless did not exist. The electricity that sparked between them was palpable and he loved it because he had finally connected with someone on a deeper level, sub-consciously.
He knew that she had felt the same way and that she had enjoyed herself due to the way she unconsciously clung to him silently egging him on, but when she realised what she was doing she would fight it. She wasn’t very good at hiding her emotions because the more she fought the clearer her emotions became. A smile lit up on his face as he remembered watching her as she writhed and moaned under him, craving for her release. But then the smile disappeared as he recalled her facial expression, guilt.
Frowning he thought of reasons of why she would feel guilty but did not come up with anything plausible ‘except for having a boyfriend outside’ a voice in his head told him, but he pushed the thought away with a shake of his head because they had already cleared that up. Deciding to dwell more on that tomorrow he fell asleep dreaming of a smiling brown-eyed petite brunette.
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That morning things were done differently for those involved with the breeding program. All the females except for those who were already pregnant were to report to the Doctor’s office for their physical examination. Max stood outside the door in line with the other X5 females waiting for her turn, very aware but unsure why she was receiving such hateful and hostile looks from the other females.
“Stupid bitch” she heard someone murmur from behind
“I know what you mean” her companion agreed “She gets recaptured after ten years but instead of reindoctrination and punishment she gets partnered with 494, where the fuck’s the fairness in that?” she snapped
“Tell me about it. You know I wouldn’t really care if she was partnered with someone else but why 494” her friend practically whined.
“Oh my god, who’re you telling, god he is hot!”
“Someone should really put her in her place, stupid 09er”
Max furious that they were talking about her, in front of her, and mostly because they were jealous that she had Alec snapped. Turning around to face her haters she challenged “Is that person gonna be you?” she snapped at the two blondes before her.
“Maybe” the shorter blonde sneered as she walked towards Max.
“Well if you feel so threatened by me then maybe you should do something about it instead of talking about it.” Max retorted
“Maybe I will” the girl replied sending a kick and a punch towards Max who wasn’t fast enough to block the kick but managed to block the punch. Retaliating Max threw a punch to the girl’s nose drawing blood which infuriated the small blonde. Enraged the blonde abrasively attacked Max with a fury of kicks and punches knocking her to the ground. Max refusing to be the only one on the ground, kicked at the blonde’s feet knocking her over, straddled her waist and resumed attacking her.
The Doctor chose that moment to come out and call for the next female when he saw the two girls fighting on the floor. Reaching for the alarm button on the inside of his door to call for the guards he rushed back out again and tried to get the girls attention without physically touching them, due to not wanting them to retaliate on him.
“What is this, stop this instant; you are both being imprudent this can easily cause miscarriages. Stand down soldiers” he yelled but was obviously ignored. The sound of running boots could be heard but the two females still carried on, the guards turned the corner and came to stand before the two fighting females.
“Stand down now” they yelled taking out their tasers. But was stopped by the Doctor, who stood in their way.
“I can’t let you taser them, that will highly increase the risk of miscarriage” He informed them.
Both not wanting to be tasered with high voltage electricity stopped their fight and stood at attention. Both sporting bruises on their faces the only difference was that Max had a split lip and the blonde X5 had a broken nose.
“Go and get your examination and I don’t want to hear anything like this happening again, do I make myself clear” the guard roared.
“Sir Yes Sir” they both replied robotically, walking into the Doctor’s office.
After being released from her embarrassing physical examination she was sent off by the Doctor with everything being fine and to keep up the good work with 494. Making her way to breakfast she walked into the doors and spotted Alec at a table with 510. She didn’t really want to talk with Alec, let alone sit with him, but since he and 510 were the only one’s who didn’t hate her so much she made her way over to them.
Alec watched her as she came over to sit next to him. Taking in the bruises on her face and her split lip he frowned “what happened?” he asked softly touching a bruise on her cheek. Leaning into his touch Max softly sighed temporarily forgetting that she was in the cafeteria at Manticore and that she wasn’t supposed to be talking to her breeding partner.
510 watched the scene before him and couldn’t help but unblinkingly stare. He had never seen 494 act the way he was acting before. Watching 452 lean into his touch and sigh softly his jaw dropped open and understanding drew on him ‘ ooh they have it bad’ he thought with glee, a smile forming on his handsome face.
“Some stupid blonde bimbo wanted a fight because she was jealous that you were my breeding partner, she seems to think I’m too unworthy for you because I’m an 09er” Max mumbled not really paying attention to what she was saying.
As if Max speaking had broken the spell Alec dropped his hand and they both abruptly turned to finish their breakfast avoiding each other’s gazes all to the amusement of 510 who had said nothing but had just stared ‘They have it bad and don’t even know it’ he thought shaking his head sadly, and returning to his food.
Playing around with her food and eating the small amounts that her stomach could hold Max decided it was time to go.
“I’ll see you guys later” she said to them, but before she could get up Alec had grabbed her arm and was whispering softly so that the other transgenic’s around couldn’t hear “We need to talk” he told her in the tone which indicated that it was serious and there was no escape.
Nodding her head Max pulled her arm free and simply said “Tonight” then got up and made her way out.
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Max was in her cell sawing away at the bricks. She had been doing this for a few days now and had successfully managed to remove two bricks from the wall. She pokes her head through the hole where the bricks previously were and looks down to see if there was anything to aid her down. Noticing the pipe, she stands up puts the bricks on the bed as a decoy and covers them with her blanket. Lying back down on the floor she crawls out of the hole feet first and slides down the pipe. Reaching the bottom she jumps off and looks around, noticing that she was in the basement, she walks around looking for a window when she hears growling and stops frozen in her tracks. She notices a tall man with long hair and a doglike face rushing towards her.
Backing up in fear Max puts her hands in front of her “Easy, easy. Easy, Relax, big fella” she coaxed the doglike man.
“You relax, little fella” the man replied, shocking Max that her jaw dropped
“Wow you can talk” she nearly whispered
“Wow” the man replied offended.
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean anything by it. I’ve just - I’ve never seen anyone that looks like you before. So what happened? They put too much canine DNA in your cocktail?”
Sniffing the air “Cat. Cat in your cocktail” he informed her
“Don’t hold it against me” Max shrugged trying to make a joke.
“Your X5” the man stated
“Yeah you can call me Max” she extended her hand but the man just stared at her, taking his hand in hers she shakes it. “What’s your name?” she asked not really expecting him to have one.
“Joshua” he replied. Nodding her head she starts to walk around looking for a window.
“It’s too bad you don’t have a room with a view. You know a window. I’m tryna find a way out of here” she informed him
Looking around Joshua glances through a hole in the wall then opens a panel underneath. Walking through the dimly lit basement they pass several cells with different nomalie’s. They arrive in a room with large storage crates piled by the wall barring the window from view; Joshua removes some crates to reveal the stop of the barred window.
“Room with a view” Joshua annonces proudly
Smiling warmly at him Max climbs on the remaining crates and tugs as the bars “This is gonna take a while. Okay with you if I slap an exit sign on this?” she asked him.
“Uh- uh. No exit. X7’s in the forest”
“How many?”
“One” He informs her
She looks into the forest and notices an armed X7 “Yup there he is, I think I can take him on”
“Uh uh” Joshua said shaking his long hair. “Lots of one”
“ohh I get it”
Max looks at the sky and notices the sun about to come up
“I gotta blaze the sun’ll be up soon. Be back tomorrow, thanks for everything, Joshua” and with that she runs back to the pipe and back to her cell. Climbing back through the hole into her cell she notices Alec sitting cross-legged on her bunk with an angry look on his face
“Forget we had a date?”
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Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 5
Betrayal
“Max what are you doing?” Alec confronted anger and hurt seeping through his system. Anger because she wanted to escape and abandon them again and hurt because she was leaving him.
“What does it look like I’m doing Alec; I’m trying to find a way out of here.”
“Why?” He asked throwing his arms up “why would you want to go out there, you have a roof over your head, plenty to eat which is more than what most people out there have.” He said trying to reason with her.
Shaking her head “It’s not the same” she told him “You think Manticore takes care of you out of the goodness of its heart, its using you”
“No-one’s using me” he replied
“Of course it’s using you. What’s the use of this breeding program?” she questioned. “It sure as hell isn’t for you to have mind blowing sex just for the sake of it; it’s for you to create soldiers for them”
“I can’t stay here Alec” she whispered “This place isn’t for me” she said staring at anywhere but at him. After five minutes of silence where each were in their own thoughts, Max looked up at him staring into his eyes and softly said “Come with me”.
The words had come out of her mouth before she could register them shocking both Alec and herself. ‘I don’t really mean it’ she told herself ‘I just need him off my back’. She told herself, but she knew it was a lie. A big part of her meant it wholeheartedly while the remaining part screamed out Logan’s name.
She held her breath and constantly moved her eyes from the floor to his eyes nervously awaiting his reply.
“Why do you wanna leave so badly?” he asked her quietly dodging her offer.
“Why the hell not?” she cried frustrated “I want my life back, I wanna go back to my friends, I wanna go back to Logan, heck I even wanna go back to work with my infuriating boss- anything is better than here” she wailed not noticing her slip.
Alec’s head snapped up, at the same moment he felt his stomach drop. Logan. That’s the second time she’s said his name, recalling their conversation earlier that week Alec mentally scolded himself for ever believing her “I’m not lying Alec, me and Logan were never like that, we’re just friends” …’Yeah right’ he snorted.
Mentally shaking his head and feeling like a fool for getting played Alec squared his shoulders, sucked up what was left of his pride and walked towards her cell door. Without looking at her “I’m sorry I can’t, this is my life” with that said he stepped out of her cell and dejectedly walked away.
Making his way back to his cell lost in his own self pity Alec bumped into someone, looking up from where he was staring at he noticed it was one of the guards that he usually did business with, nodding his head to show his acknowledgement Alec went to side-step him but the guard stopped him.
“494, Director wants to see you” the guard informed him.
“Do you know what about?” he curiously asked.
“Not sure. But I heard it had something to do with the 09er”
“Alright, thanks” he replied. Turning back around he walked swiftly towards Renfro’s office wondering why on earth she wanted to see him at such an ungodly hour. Reaching her door he repositioned his composure and stiffly knocked on her door waiting for permission to enter.
He heard Renfro’s crisp “Enter” and opened the door and stepped in closing the door behind him.
“X5-494 reporting as requested Ma’am” he snapped at attention
“At ease 494” she said and watched as he relaxed his stance. “You’re probably wondering why I requested to see you?” she asked watching his face for emotions but received none.
“It had crossed my mind Ma’am” Alec answered when he realised an answer was required of him.
“What we are about to discuss 494, is extremely confidential and you are ordered to not repeat this to anyone, is that understood?” Renfro questioned with an eyebrow raised.
“Absolutely Ma’am” Alec replied, not liking where this was going.
Nodding her head as if accepting his words she carried on. “There is an underground cyber journalist known as eyes only, who has been giving us grief. We believe he was associated with X5-452 while she was on the outside, but now that he thinks that she’s dead, he has been exposing Manticore’s secrets to the public. I am sure that you can understand why it is crucial for him to be stopped.” Renfro informed him crisply.
Tuning out of what Renfro was saying Alec remembered what Max had told him
“Renfro’s after a friend of mine and she seems to think that we have a relationship because I refuse to tell her where he is”
‘I’m guessing this eyes only guy is Logan’ Alec thought bitterly
Tuning back in to Renfro he heard her say “We managed to get a blood sample and have created a genetically targeted retrovirus targeted specifically for his DNA. X5-452 is the carrier. Any intimate contact between himself and X5-452 activates the agent and he dies, rather painfully.” She said with a sadistic smile shining on her face.
“In case you’re wondering we injected X5-452 with the retrovirus during her physical examination, we told her it was to help with the conception.”
Not knowing what to say or do Alec stared at a spot over Renfro’s shoulder and remained quiet. ‘Why is she telling me all this?’ he thought ‘What does she want me to do?’
“We are very aware of X5-452 attempt of escape and your orders are to aid her without arising any suspicion on her behalf, then you follow her to this eyes only, let her infect him and bring them both back here. Any questions?”
“Why would X5-452 want to return here with eyes only Ma’am?” Alec asked
“Because we have the cure” Renfro replied smugly. “If she was to take him to a hospital, he would die most certainly because they would not know what was wrong with him, so if she wants her precious eyes only to live she has no other choice.”
"Now do you understand your assignment?" Renfro asked impatiently
"Yes Ma'am" Alec replied tasting bile in his throat. 'Can my life suck any harder? not only am i beginning to have feelings for her I'm gonna have to betray her too!' he thought mentally shaking his head and squashing down the image of Max moaning and screaming under him.
"Good. Dismissed" Renfro snapped.
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Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 1
Home sweet home
‘Home sweet home’ Max thought bitterly as she entered her small grey walled cell. Looking around at the miniature cell which contained nothing but a cot with chains so it could be anchored if needed to sleep in, Max felt like crying. Ten years she had tried to keep away from this place, ten years she had spent hiding and looking over her shoulder, but here she was back where it all started. Ten years completely wasted.
“Wow this sucks” Max spoke to the empty cell. As she lay on the cot she examined her new room at Manticore and all the memories came flooding back, the training, the sparing, the propaganda and brainwashing classes, the tank, Ben, Tinga, and Zack.
“Oh god…Zack” she whimpered. Shutting her eyes tightly she lay in a foetal position as sobs racked her small body; thoughts of Zack bombarding her thoughts.
She remembered waking up in the infirmary with Renfro standing over her with a sick smile on her face obviously pleased with herself for capturing two 09 escapees, something Lydecker had been trying to do for the last ten years and had failed immensely.
“You’ve both come home to us” Renfro had said
Guilt cursed through her. It was her fault that Zack was dead. If she had been more careful and hadn’t got on shot Zack would not feel the need to sacrifice himself to save her.
“I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry Zack” she whispered softly to the empty cold cell.
“Lights out 452” the guard told her as he looked through the bars on her cell door. The guards go around checking the cells to see if the occupants were still there. Ignoring him she turned to face the wall so her back was to him and forced herself to stop the tears. She had been back at Manticore for two months, the first few weeks was the recovery period, this was the time when they left her to rest and to let her body restore itself after the heart transplant. Recently it had been the torture ‘why the hell doesn’t she just brainwash me, what’s with all the torture techniques, I’m sure she has no problems with me becoming the perfect soldier’ Max thought sourly.
‘My life sucks everyone thinks I’m dead that’s probably why Syl and Krit won’t pull any rescue missions. OC, Sketchy, Herbal and Logan, I just hope they’re all ok.’
“Logan” Max murmured the name of the man she loved to the dark cell. She had wondered how he was and how he had taken the news of her demise. Knowing that he was safe back at his penthouse thanks to Syl and Krit she felt a bit better.
‘I gotta get out of here’ she thought determinedly ‘I want my strange little life back, I miss everyone OC, Sketchy, Herbal heck even Normal with his bip bip bip and missy miss all the time, I miss Logan, I need to get back to Logan.’
Jumping off the bed she folded her bunk to the wall and anchored it up. She removed a tool from the springs of the bunk and crouched on the floor. Max uses the tool to poke and saw at the cement between the large bricks in the wall.
Working away for a few hours she finally decided to get some rest knowing she would have to wake up early tomorrow to officially start her training.
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“452 and 595 on the mat now” A trainer screamed. Max got out of the circle and made her way to the mat. Turning to face her opponent she noticed that he was taller and probably had fifty pounds on her, his jet black hair and blue eyes made him quite good looking. Max made the first move; she blurred towards him and threw a punch at his head which he side-stepped, before she could recover his leg connected with her stomach hard causing her to bend over the wind momentarily knocked out of her.
Standing upright she moved towards him again and managed to get in a kick and two punches, furious at letting the 09er get some hits in, the X5 went into a fury of powerful punches and kicks successfully knocking her down to the ground.
“What’s the matter 452? Still recuperating?” he taunted
“Bite me” Max retorted, disgusted at herself for being on the ground and at his mercy.
“Must’ve given you a lousy heart” he sneered as if she hadn’t spoken.
Enraged she tried to manoeuvre from under him but failed, he was good he left no way of escape. Frustrated she resulted in fighting dirty by drawing her head back as far as possible from her position on the floor and slamming it into his nose. As the blinding pain overtook him he jumped up and released his hold on her and clutched his now broken nose.
“Jesus you stupid bitch” he hissed as blood gushed down his front. Not taking any chances Max flipped herself to her feet and faced him hatred shining on her face.
“452” the trainer screamed coming to stand before her forcing her to stand at attention “what the hell was that?” he questioned.
“I’m sorry sir, I got carried away, it won’t happen again” she informed him.
“See that it doesn’t, dismissed” he spoke roughly to the circle of transgenic’s.
Walking through the training ground X5’s 494 and 510 walked side by side laughing and talking quietly, both enjoying each others company. Since Manticore discouraged socialization within its grounds unless for training purposes they had to be careful to not be heard or to be seen getting carried away. They attracted a lot of attention from the female population as they walked past each flashing charming flirtatious grins. 494 was tall, lean and muscular with captivating hazel green eyes and dirty blonde hair. 510 was a few inches shorter with jet black hair, brown eyes and a mischievous grin. Leaning against the wall they watched the groups of transgenic’s spar.
“Hey that’s the 09er right?” 510 asked his best friend pointing to a small dark haired female who had just got into a fighting stance on the mat
“Must be I’ve never seen her before” 494 replied as he watched the girl and 595 circle each other. They watched as she threw a punch which did not connect and receive a strong kick to her stomach and double over.
“Ouch that’s gotta hurt, knowing how painful his kicks are I really feel sorry for her” 510 winced sympathetically. 494 did not answer but carried on watching the scene, there was something about this girl that he could not place his finger on. He watched as she slammed her head into 595’s nose and laughed slightly, yep she was different alright; none of the other females at Manticore would have ever done that.
“Looks like she has quite a temper” 510 said
“I’m sure I can tame her down” 494 replied confidently
“Should’ve known” 510 replied walking away shaking his head and laughing.
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Max lay on her bed reminiscing about her life outside Manticore. OC and Logan were the one’s she missed the most probably because they were the only ones who knew about her being transgenic. She waited for the guard to pass by her door for their nightly inspection before jumping off, folding the bed and crouching on the floor to saw the bricks to create the hole that would aid in her escape.
Hearing footsteps near her door she quickly restored her bed and planted herself on it waiting for whoever was to enter her cell. The metal door opened loudly and a male X5 entered looking at her. Shocked speechless Max stared at the familiar stranger, uncertainly she asked
“Ben?”
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Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 2
“What?” the male X5 asked genuinely confused. Shaking her head in a way to hide her disappointment from the realisation that he was not her brother Max finally spoke
“You look like someone I used to know”
“Well my designation’s 494” he replied confidently
“His was 493. You must be twinned” she told him with a small voice.
Nodding his head 494 spoke “Your fellow traitor. Went psycho”
“What the hell do you know about it” Max snapped her eyes flashing
“I know that because of him I had to spend six months in psy-ops. They wanted to make sure it wasn’t genetic. Looks like ten years in the world finally got to him.”
“It was this place that got to him”
Shrugging his shoulder and rolling his eyes he walked slowly towards her removing his standard issue grey t-shirt and undoing the button on his pants. “Whatever, well let’s get this over with, huh?”
“What are you doing?” Max asked cautiously taking a step back glaring daggers at his exposed muscled chest, squashing down her appreciation.
“We’ve been paired off. I’m your breeding partner” he told her shortly
Max stared thunderstruck, too shocked to speak.
“We’re supposed to copulate every night until you get pregnant” 494 carried on through her moments of silence.
Finally finding her ability of speech Max screeched “That’s sick” fuming she glared daggers at him “Get out of my cell”
“We’ve got our orders 452. Take off your clothes” he ordered
“I’m not doing this” she adamantly replied ‘This is unbelievable, Manticore have seriously lost it’
“It’s your own fault. If you and your friends hadn’t blown up the DNA database, they’d still be whipping up embryos and putting them into surrogates.” He snapped irritated ‘Who the fuck did this girl think she was?’ “Now take off your clothes we have our orders”
Swinging out her leg she kicks him in the stomach causing him to crash into her cell door ‘What the fuck? Bitch’ he thought
“What the hell was that?” he asked incredulously
“The only kind of physical contact you and I are gonna have” Max retorted
“You know, this isn’t exactly a plum assignment for me either. You spent half your life out there in filth and degradation. I could catch something.” He snapped temper beginning to rise.
“Whatever you need to tell yourself. Just as long as we understand each other.” She told him sweetly.
“Fine whatever I’m not stressing over this” he said beginning to get a headache from her screeching, picking up his grey t-shirt he put it on and made his way to her bed. “Listen I have an hour to kill before I head back to the barracks. Why don’t you wake me up at 0100?” he lies down on the bed and closes his eyes while Max stood rooted at the spot staring at him. Finally tired of standing she sat down in the corner sulking and praying of a quicker escape.
An hour later she got up from the floor and walked over to her bed where 494 lay. Leaning in close so she was near his ear she screamed “GET UP” and jumped back so if he retaliated she wasn’t nearby for his attack.
Snapping his eyes open 494 stared at the girl as if she were crazy. “Don’t ever do that again or I swear you will pay” he threatened as he swung his legs to the floor getting ready to stand.
Rolling her eyes and dismissing his threat Max smiled innocently at him “yeah yeah whatever, get out of my cell”
“You know tonight was disappointing 452 lets hope tomorrow night you behave and follow orders” he chided.
“My name’s Max” she blurted out, not knowing why, but behind the Manticore façade he seemed trustworthy and a part of her trusted him like she had never trusted anyone else before.
“Whatever you say” 494 replied nonchalantly
“You should have a name too”
“I told you, my designations 494”
“Doesn’t suit you, I’m gonna call you Alec”
“Alec?” 494 questioned
“As in smart Aleck?” she replied casually
Smirking he replied “I can live with that”
“Good because my second choice was Dick”
Laughing softly he walked to her door and called for a guard to open the cell door, before leaving he turned around and said “See you around Max”
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Max and Alec stood side by side in line with the rest of the transgenic’s involved with the breeding program pending for Director Renfro’s queries.
“Report” Renfro asks an X5 couple sharply
“Successful copulation with X5-392, ma’am” the male replied
“Excellent” Renfro nodded. Moving on the next couple “Report”
“Copulation was unsuccessful, ma’am” the female X5 answered
“Explain” Renfro inquired with a frown
“X5-698 failed to achieve minimum mission requirements, ma’am”
Sighing Renfro signalled for two guards to take X5-698 away and turned back to face the next couple which happened to be Max and Alec.
“Report”
Max not knowing what to say and not sure what to expect from Alec stayed quiet, after a few seconds in which neither had spoken Renfro narrowed her eyes beginning to look suspicious.
“Successful copulation between myself and X5-452, ma’am. Twice.” Alec replied clearly.
Surprised Renfro turned to Max with a sadistic smile “Excellent 452. What would your boyfriend say?”
Not sure whether she was expected to reply or not Max chose to remain quiet and stared at a spot just above Renfro’s shoulder.
Obviously satisfied with the reports she had received Renfro looked at them all, smiled and said “Make sure to go to the med bay and see the doctors for your physical checkups tomorrow.” She informed them “Dismissed” she said over her shoulder as she made her way back to her office.
Alec walked away from Max thoughts going through his head. ‘So she has a boyfriend, no wonder she didn’t want to co-operate last night. Great now she has to go for a check up, not only will she be getting herself into punishment or psy-ops she’ll be dragging me in with her’. Alec thought resentfully.
Max walked back slowly her own thoughts going through her head. ‘What the hell am I going to do now? How the hell do I pass a physical examination? Once they find out we haven’t been copulating they’ll throw both of us into psy-ops’ she shuddered involuntarily just thinking of being put there. Guilt cursed through her ‘He hasn’t done anything, it’s not fair for him to get punished when it’s not his fault. There’s no other way’ she thought sadly.
Running up to catch up with Alec, she touched his arm. “Can we talk?” she asked him softly
“Now? I’m hungry Max I wanna grab some breakfast, I’ll be in your cell later we can talk then” he whispered
“Alec please it’s really important” Max begged
“Ok fine” he sighed “lead the way”
“Thanks” she smiled softly at him which he returned. Walking quickly they made their way to the library knowing that it would be completely empty not just because it was time for breakfast but because nobody spent their limited amount of free time in the library when they could be doing something more entertaining.
Turning to face her, Alec stared waiting to hear what was so important. After a few minutes when she still hadn’t spoken he sighed “Max, what’s going on, what’s so important?” he asked curiously
“I was thinking about the physical examination” Max mumbled, staring at her hands.
“Oh” Alec said unsure what was expected of him.
“I was wondering… umm…I know you’re friendly with the guards,… umm… if you could get some…. condoms from them.” Max asked looking everywhere but at him.
“Max…” Alec started
“I can’t get pregnant Alec, I won’t allow it, I refuse to have a baby for Manticore to raise as their slave and for them to abuse the way they abused us. I’ve thought about it and this is for the best. We have sex, they do the physical on me and we all get off scot free.” She rambled wringing her fingers continuously.
Alec stared at her, agreeably it was a good plan, and if they were to do a physical on her they would see she’s had sex so they wouldn’t be too suspicious. The only problem with that was he didn’t want to sleep with her now knowing she had a boyfriend. He wasn’t the type to sleep with another guy’s girl, whether that guy was transgenic or ordinary and that’s how it was going to stay.
“Do you have a boyfriend outside?” he asked casually
Her head snapped up “What the hell does that have anything to do with you” she snapped furious ‘how dare he ask such a question’
“It’s not a hard question Max, yes or no, which one is it?”
“No” she replied avoiding his eyes ‘I’m not lying me and Logan aren’t like that’
“Right” Alec replied sarcastically, moving to leave the library
“I’m not lying Alec, me and Logan were never like that, we’re just friends” she cried moving in front of him to block his path.
“So what was that Renfro said”? he asked
“Renfro’s after a friend of mine and she seems to think that we have a relationship because I refuse to tell her where he is” she told him staring into his eyes. Nodding his acceptance he smiled and said “Well let’s go and grab something to eat”.
But before he could move Max had stopped him with a hand on his forearm “So you’ll get the condoms then?” she asked timidly.
“Yeah I’ll get them”
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Please review ;)
Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 3
Meaningless sex
Max was pacing the small area her cell provided. She was nervous, very nervous. She has never had casual sex before all her sex experiences were all heat induced. But here she was in Manticore no less, awaiting for Alec to arrive with the contraception to prevent her from conceiving his child.
“Oh my god, what am I doing? Why am I doing this?” Max asked herself incessantly.
“Because you have to you idiot” she scolded herself “Now breathe” she told herself.
Taking deep breaths she sat down on the bed only to jump back up again when she heard footsteps near her door.
Alec entered her cell pretty much the same as last night, he had on a cocky grin because he knew how uncomfortable Max would be with their current situation.
“Did you get it?” she anxiously asked
“Of course I did” he replied arrogantly
“Well let’s get this over with” she snapped crossing her arms in front of her chest to pull her standard issued grey t-shirt over her head, only to stop hesitantly, as the reality of what she was about to do hit her full force.
“Where’s the rush, we have the whole night” he informed her oblivious to her inner turmoil, his smirk widening as she flushed a deeper red.
“Just shut up and take off your clothes” she mumbled irritated.
Unable to resist his teasing Alec grinned mischievously “No need to be rude Max, if you wanted to see me naked all you had to do was ask, I would have been happy to oblige”
Fuming Max glared at him, she knew he was just trying to lighten the palpable tension in the air but it wasn’t working. “Do you wanna do this or not?”
Afraid that she would change her mind about sleeping with him, Alec shut his mouth and nodded his head. Sitting on the bed he leaned over to undo his shoes and remove his socks, standing upright he stripped of his grey t-shirt and turned to face Max.
“You alright?” he asked genuinely concerned as he watched her standing in the middle of the cell staring at the floor, not making any attempts to remove her clothing.
Looking up at him she was shocked at the sincerity she saw in his face, deciding it would be best if she told him the truth, she opened her mouth to speak but shut it after the words failed her.
“I’ve never done this before” she mumbled quietly that even he had trouble hearing with his sensitive transgenic hearing. Shocked beyond range Alec stared at her incredulously “You’re a virgin?” he asked as if it was the stupidest thing in the world. ‘She can’t be, what about heat’ “How the hell did you manage through your heats?” he asked his voice mingled with suspicion and something else that sounded like respect.
He had seen how the X5 females changed when in heat and of course how the X5 males reacted to females in heat that he was thoroughly shocked that she hadn’t given in to it.
Shaking her head “No, that’s not what I meant, I’m not a virgin it’s just I’ve never had sex casually before” she muttered obviously embarrassed at having such a talk with a guy she had just recently met who happened to be her late brother’s twin.
Bringing her eyes back to his face she saw the puzzlement and knew she had to explain more. “The only times I’ve had sex was when I gave in to my heat, so I’ve never had casual sex before” she repeated.
Finally understanding at where she was going Alec smiled softly at her “It’s alright Max, there’s a first time for everything, and you just got the privilege of it being with me than someone who didn’t know what he was doing”. He told her his eyes shining with delight.
Against her better judgement Max’s face cracked into a smile “ass” she told him squatting him on the shoulder. As fast as the smile had appeared it disappeared. Alec noticing the change enquired “Max?”
“I’ve never been with an X5 before”
“And you’re afraid that I’ll hurt you” Alec finished watching her closely. He saw the flicker in her eyes and knew he was right.
“I’m sorry I know you wouldn’t hurt me deliberately it’s just I know how I am when I’m in heat, I’m pretty much uncontrollable but you guys are stronger.” She started “And there’s the whole friendship thing we have going on I wouldn’t want to ruin it, are you sure we should do this?” she finished lamely.
Alec stared at her “wow you worry a lot” he told her “Max if I get too rough for you tell me to stop and I’ll stop ok” he waited until she nodded before carrying on “ and for the friends thing ever heard of, ‘friends with benefits’ he asked flashing her a charming grin. “Don’t worry so much” he soothed cupping her face with his hands “just relax” he encouraged.
Forcing herself to clear her mind and take deep breaths she nodded her head to indicate she was ready. Leaning down to capture her lips, he was surprised when she turned her head slightly so that his lips landed on the corner of her mouth instead, confused he pulled back to look at her quizzically “Max?”
“No kissing on the lips” she told him shortly once again avoiding his eyes ‘At least then it won’t seem so real and Logan would be the last person I kissed.’ She thought ‘Yeah right Max you just want to imagine Logan and you know that if you kiss him you’ll know the difference and you might end up liking it, better yet you might end up liking him.’ Her conscience informed her. ‘Whatever, so not gonna happen’ she replied mentally shaking her head at her own thoughts.
Alec stared at her, his hands still cupping her face as he searched her face for an answerbut once again she avoided his eyes. Not wanting to pressure her to do something she did not want to do no matter how disappointed he was at not being able to kiss or taste her, he forced himself to sound neutral “Alright” he nodded.
At his words she visibly relaxed and let slip a small smile still avoiding his eyes. Alec leaned towards her again only this time he avoided her lips but planted small butterfly kisses on the side of her face all the way down to her neck. Sliding his tongue down her neck he was satisfied when he heard her sigh softly. Sliding one hand down her arm to wrap around her waist leaving behind goosebumps wherever he touched, Alec started sucking, nipping and kissing her neck earnestly eliciting moans of pleasure from Max. Sliding a hand into her grey t-shirt he stroked her side and moved further up so that his thumb could stroke the side of her breast. Finding her pulse point he kissed and flicked his tongue on the spot and was rewarded with her moaning and leaning into him for more.
Max’s body heat rose, her skin felt like it was burning and it was all because of the way he was touching her, but somehow this excited her more. Wanting to feel skin on skin she pushed him away slightly ignoring the perplexed look he gave her, stripped of her t-shirt and pants, and kicked off her boots and socks and stood before him in her simple black bra and panties manticore provided, as if silently telling him to come and get her.
Alec felt himself harden, taking the few steps towards her, he grabbed her arm and led her to the bed. Laying her on the bed Alec stepped back to divest off his pants, watching her lie there her caramel skin tone standing out against the dull grey of the cell and bed sheets making her glisten, Alec groaned. It took all of his efforts of self control to stop himself from jumping on her and taking her there, but he didn’t want that, he wanted to please her and take things slow for her sake.
Crawling up her body Alec planted small kisses on her stomach, her breasts, her neck and her face. Divesting off their underwear, Alec trailed his mouth to the juncture between her thighs wanting to please her but before he placed his mouth on her Alec felt Max pulling at his hair encouraging him to look up at her.
“Can we please not do this” she begged him quietly “Let’s just do the deed” she told him not wanting to get too comfortable with him. Having sex with him she knew was compulsory if they were to fool Manticore and pass the physical examination but the teasing would only complicate and confuse things for her. She wanted to keep things strictly business ‘I mean the only reason we are doing this is to keep ourselves from being thrown into psy-ops, I have Logan and once I escape I can do all the teasing I want with him’ she encouraged herself.
Perplexed Alec just stared at the young woman under him uncertain on what to think. He had come to her cell yesterday on orders to have meaningless sex with her and she had refused but here she was lying beneath him and asking him to copulate with her without no feeling. He had thought things would be different with her, the fact that she was not like any of the other females at Manticore Alec had felt hope. Feeling the urge to laugh hysterically at his own thoughts he slammed down his Manticore face making sure that his hurt and disappointment were nowhere near visible. Slipping on the condom Alec buried himself in his breeding partner.
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Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 4
They got it bad
Max sat upright on her bed, naked under the lame excuse of a sheet that Manticore provided. Her cell was dark, cold and lonely. She had asked him to leave even though he was entitled to stay the night, but she couldn’t face him. Tears rolled down her cheeks as the guilt surged through her veins. She felt like she had just given in to her heat but at the same time she didn’t. She had kept her eyes closed throughout most of the sex and had tried to imagine Logan but it didn’t work. She had felt his eyes burning holes into her through his intense gaze urging her to look into them and had kept hers tightly shut, not wanting to see the look in them.
She had asked him to have sex with her and he had delivered that perfectly but she had failed, she had felt static the moment he entered her, she loved every thrust and stroke as he moved in her, she loved the feel of him in her but what she loved most was the feeling of completeness.
‘This shouldn’t have happened, it wasn’t supposed to be like this, I shouldn’t be feeling anything, all it should’ve been was sex, meaningless sex with an X5 Manticore soldier, nothing more’ she tried to encourage herself. Failing she lay on the bed still sobbing and the guilt, burning through her. ‘Logan, how could I have done such a thing to Logan? Was the last thing she thought as finally exhausted from the sex and the tears, she fell into a deep slumber.
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Alec lay on his back with his hands behind his head wanting to sleep but unable to as thoughts of Max and their sexual encounter invaded his mind. He had never experienced such a powerful attachment to someone he had just had sex with but with Max, he couldn’t get her out of his mind. The sex was supposed to be meaningless but the moment he entered her, the word meaningless did not exist. The electricity that sparked between them was palpable and he loved it because he had finally connected with someone on a deeper level, sub-consciously.
He knew that she had felt the same way and that she had enjoyed herself due to the way she unconsciously clung to him silently egging him on, but when she realised what she was doing she would fight it. She wasn’t very good at hiding her emotions because the more she fought the clearer her emotions became. A smile lit up on his face as he remembered watching her as she writhed and moaned under him, craving for her release. But then the smile disappeared as he recalled her facial expression, guilt.
Frowning he thought of reasons of why she would feel guilty but did not come up with anything plausible ‘except for having a boyfriend outside’ a voice in his head told him, but he pushed the thought away with a shake of his head because they had already cleared that up. Deciding to dwell more on that tomorrow he fell asleep dreaming of a smiling brown-eyed petite brunette.
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That morning things were done differently for those involved with the breeding program. All the females except for those who were already pregnant were to report to the Doctor’s office for their physical examination. Max stood outside the door in line with the other X5 females waiting for her turn, very aware but unsure why she was receiving such hateful and hostile looks from the other females.
“Stupid bitch” she heard someone murmur from behind
“I know what you mean” her companion agreed “She gets recaptured after ten years but instead of reindoctrination and punishment she gets partnered with 494, where the fuck’s the fairness in that?” she snapped
“Tell me about it. You know I wouldn’t really care if she was partnered with someone else but why 494” her friend practically whined.
“Oh my god, who’re you telling, god he is hot!”
“Someone should really put her in her place, stupid 09er”
Max furious that they were talking about her, in front of her, and mostly because they were jealous that she had Alec snapped. Turning around to face her haters she challenged “Is that person gonna be you?” she snapped at the two blondes before her.
“Maybe” the shorter blonde sneered as she walked towards Max.
“Well if you feel so threatened by me then maybe you should do something about it instead of talking about it.” Max retorted
“Maybe I will” the girl replied sending a kick and a punch towards Max who wasn’t fast enough to block the kick but managed to block the punch. Retaliating Max threw a punch to the girl’s nose drawing blood which infuriated the small blonde. Enraged the blonde abrasively attacked Max with a fury of kicks and punches knocking her to the ground. Max refusing to be the only one on the ground, kicked at the blonde’s feet knocking her over, straddled her waist and resumed attacking her.
The Doctor chose that moment to come out and call for the next female when he saw the two girls fighting on the floor. Reaching for the alarm button on the inside of his door to call for the guards he rushed back out again and tried to get the girls attention without physically touching them, due to not wanting them to retaliate on him.
“What is this, stop this instant; you are both being imprudent this can easily cause miscarriages. Stand down soldiers” he yelled but was obviously ignored. The sound of running boots could be heard but the two females still carried on, the guards turned the corner and came to stand before the two fighting females.
“Stand down now” they yelled taking out their tasers. But was stopped by the Doctor, who stood in their way.
“I can’t let you taser them, that will highly increase the risk of miscarriage” He informed them.
Both not wanting to be tasered with high voltage electricity stopped their fight and stood at attention. Both sporting bruises on their faces the only difference was that Max had a split lip and the blonde X5 had a broken nose.
“Go and get your examination and I don’t want to hear anything like this happening again, do I make myself clear” the guard roared.
“Sir Yes Sir” they both replied robotically, walking into the Doctor’s office.
After being released from her embarrassing physical examination she was sent off by the Doctor with everything being fine and to keep up the good work with 494. Making her way to breakfast she walked into the doors and spotted Alec at a table with 510. She didn’t really want to talk with Alec, let alone sit with him, but since he and 510 were the only one’s who didn’t hate her so much she made her way over to them.
Alec watched her as she came over to sit next to him. Taking in the bruises on her face and her split lip he frowned “what happened?” he asked softly touching a bruise on her cheek. Leaning into his touch Max softly sighed temporarily forgetting that she was in the cafeteria at Manticore and that she wasn’t supposed to be talking to her breeding partner.
510 watched the scene before him and couldn’t help but unblinkingly stare. He had never seen 494 act the way he was acting before. Watching 452 lean into his touch and sigh softly his jaw dropped open and understanding drew on him ‘ ooh they have it bad’ he thought with glee, a smile forming on his handsome face.
“Some stupid blonde bimbo wanted a fight because she was jealous that you were my breeding partner, she seems to think I’m too unworthy for you because I’m an 09er” Max mumbled not really paying attention to what she was saying.
As if Max speaking had broken the spell Alec dropped his hand and they both abruptly turned to finish their breakfast avoiding each other’s gazes all to the amusement of 510 who had said nothing but had just stared ‘They have it bad and don’t even know it’ he thought shaking his head sadly, and returning to his food.
Playing around with her food and eating the small amounts that her stomach could hold Max decided it was time to go.
“I’ll see you guys later” she said to them, but before she could get up Alec had grabbed her arm and was whispering softly so that the other transgenic’s around couldn’t hear “We need to talk” he told her in the tone which indicated that it was serious and there was no escape.
Nodding her head Max pulled her arm free and simply said “Tonight” then got up and made her way out.
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Max was in her cell sawing away at the bricks. She had been doing this for a few days now and had successfully managed to remove two bricks from the wall. She pokes her head through the hole where the bricks previously were and looks down to see if there was anything to aid her down. Noticing the pipe, she stands up puts the bricks on the bed as a decoy and covers them with her blanket. Lying back down on the floor she crawls out of the hole feet first and slides down the pipe. Reaching the bottom she jumps off and looks around, noticing that she was in the basement, she walks around looking for a window when she hears growling and stops frozen in her tracks. She notices a tall man with long hair and a doglike face rushing towards her.
Backing up in fear Max puts her hands in front of her “Easy, easy. Easy, Relax, big fella” she coaxed the doglike man.
“You relax, little fella” the man replied, shocking Max that her jaw dropped
“Wow you can talk” she nearly whispered
“Wow” the man replied offended.
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean anything by it. I’ve just - I’ve never seen anyone that looks like you before. So what happened? They put too much canine DNA in your cocktail?”
Sniffing the air “Cat. Cat in your cocktail” he informed her
“Don’t hold it against me” Max shrugged trying to make a joke.
“Your X5” the man stated
“Yeah you can call me Max” she extended her hand but the man just stared at her, taking his hand in hers she shakes it. “What’s your name?” she asked not really expecting him to have one.
“Joshua” he replied. Nodding her head she starts to walk around looking for a window.
“It’s too bad you don’t have a room with a view. You know a window. I’m tryna find a way out of here” she informed him
Looking around Joshua glances through a hole in the wall then opens a panel underneath. Walking through the dimly lit basement they pass several cells with different nomalie’s. They arrive in a room with large storage crates piled by the wall barring the window from view; Joshua removes some crates to reveal the stop of the barred window.
“Room with a view” Joshua annonces proudly
Smiling warmly at him Max climbs on the remaining crates and tugs as the bars “This is gonna take a while. Okay with you if I slap an exit sign on this?” she asked him.
“Uh- uh. No exit. X7’s in the forest”
“How many?”
“One” He informs her
She looks into the forest and notices an armed X7 “Yup there he is, I think I can take him on”
“Uh uh” Joshua said shaking his long hair. “Lots of one”
“ohh I get it”
Max looks at the sky and notices the sun about to come up
“I gotta blaze the sun’ll be up soon. Be back tomorrow, thanks for everything, Joshua” and with that she runs back to the pipe and back to her cell. Climbing back through the hole into her cell she notices Alec sitting cross-legged on her bunk with an angry look on his face
“Forget we had a date?”
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Please review ;)
Title: Secrets
Author: sanaazzy
Genre: Drama/Angst/Humour
Rating: PG-13 to M
Status: WIP Multi-chaptered
Summary: During her stay at Manticore and the breeding program Max and Alec form a relationship. Now outside and back with Logan, Alec returns and wants her back. MA
Disclaimer - I don’t own anything
Chapter 5
Betrayal
“Max what are you doing?” Alec confronted anger and hurt seeping through his system. Anger because she wanted to escape and abandon them again and hurt because she was leaving him.
“What does it look like I’m doing Alec; I’m trying to find a way out of here.”
“Why?” He asked throwing his arms up “why would you want to go out there, you have a roof over your head, plenty to eat which is more than what most people out there have.” He said trying to reason with her.
Shaking her head “It’s not the same” she told him “You think Manticore takes care of you out of the goodness of its heart, its using you”
“No-one’s using me” he replied
“Of course it’s using you. What’s the use of this breeding program?” she questioned. “It sure as hell isn’t for you to have mind blowing sex just for the sake of it; it’s for you to create soldiers for them”
“I can’t stay here Alec” she whispered “This place isn’t for me” she said staring at anywhere but at him. After five minutes of silence where each were in their own thoughts, Max looked up at him staring into his eyes and softly said “Come with me”.
The words had come out of her mouth before she could register them shocking both Alec and herself. ‘I don’t really mean it’ she told herself ‘I just need him off my back’. She told herself, but she knew it was a lie. A big part of her meant it wholeheartedly while the remaining part screamed out Logan’s name.
She held her breath and constantly moved her eyes from the floor to his eyes nervously awaiting his reply.
“Why do you wanna leave so badly?” he asked her quietly dodging her offer.
“Why the hell not?” she cried frustrated “I want my life back, I wanna go back to my friends, I wanna go back to Logan, heck I even wanna go back to work with my infuriating boss- anything is better than here” she wailed not noticing her slip.
Alec’s head snapped up, at the same moment he felt his stomach drop. Logan. That’s the second time she’s said his name, recalling their conversation earlier that week Alec mentally scolded himself for ever believing her “I’m not lying Alec, me and Logan were never like that, we’re just friends” …’Yeah right’ he snorted.
Mentally shaking his head and feeling like a fool for getting played Alec squared his shoulders, sucked up what was left of his pride and walked towards her cell door. Without looking at her “I’m sorry I can’t, this is my life” with that said he stepped out of her cell and dejectedly walked away.
Making his way back to his cell lost in his own self pity Alec bumped into someone, looking up from where he was staring at he noticed it was one of the guards that he usually did business with, nodding his head to show his acknowledgement Alec went to side-step him but the guard stopped him.
“494, Director wants to see you” the guard informed him.
“Do you know what about?” he curiously asked.
“Not sure. But I heard it had something to do with the 09er”
“Alright, thanks” he replied. Turning back around he walked swiftly towards Renfro’s office wondering why on earth she wanted to see him at such an ungodly hour. Reaching her door he repositioned his composure and stiffly knocked on her door waiting for permission to enter.
He heard Renfro’s crisp “Enter” and opened the door and stepped in closing the door behind him.
“X5-494 reporting as requested Ma’am” he snapped at attention
“At ease 494” she said and watched as he relaxed his stance. “You’re probably wondering why I requested to see you?” she asked watching his face for emotions but received none.
“It had crossed my mind Ma’am” Alec answered when he realised an answer was required of him.
“What we are about to discuss 494, is extremely confidential and you are ordered to not repeat this to anyone, is that understood?” Renfro questioned with an eyebrow raised.
“Absolutely Ma’am” Alec replied, not liking where this was going.
Nodding her head as if accepting his words she carried on. “There is an underground cyber journalist known as eyes only, who has been giving us grief. We believe he was associated with X5-452 while she was on the outside, but now that he thinks that she’s dead, he has been exposing Manticore’s secrets to the public. I am sure that you can understand why it is crucial for him to be stopped.” Renfro informed him crisply.
Tuning out of what Renfro was saying Alec remembered what Max had told him
“Renfro’s after a friend of mine and she seems to think that we have a relationship because I refuse to tell her where he is”
‘I’m guessing this eyes only guy is Logan’ Alec thought bitterly
Tuning back in to Renfro he heard her say “We managed to get a blood sample and have created a genetically targeted retrovirus targeted specifically for his DNA. X5-452 is the carrier. Any intimate contact between himself and X5-452 activates the agent and he dies, rather painfully.” She said with a sadistic smile shining on her face.
“In case you’re wondering we injected X5-452 with the retrovirus during her physical examination, we told her it was to help with the conception.”
Not knowing what to say or do Alec stared at a spot over Renfro’s shoulder and remained quiet. ‘Why is she telling me all this?’ he thought ‘What does she want me to do?’
“We are very aware of X5-452 attempt of escape and your orders are to aid her without arising any suspicion on her behalf, then you follow her to this eyes only, let her infect him and bring them both back here. Any questions?”
“Why would X5-452 want to return here with eyes only Ma’am?” Alec asked
“Because we have the cure” Renfro replied smugly. “If she was to take him to a hospital, he would die most certainly because they would not know what was wrong with him, so if she wants her precious eyes only to live she has no other choice.”
"Now do you understand your assignment?" Renfro asked impatiently
"Yes Ma'am" Alec replied tasting bile in his throat. 'Can my life suck any harder? not only am i beginning to have feelings for her I'm gonna have to betray her too!' he thought mentally shaking his head and squashing down the image of Max moaning and screaming under him.
"Good. Dismissed" Renfro snapped.
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