Maximum Ride: A New Life

chapter 26

   When Max got back more than 2 hours later with the sunset at her back, Anita is in the same spot Max left her in head tucked under a paw as she slept. as soon as the humen steped foot on the pourch Anitas eyes opened a crack before she streched to her paws. 

   "Its about time, I was starting to thing that you wasint gonna come back until tomarrow." The great dane walked up to her friend for a few years now. "You calmer now?"     

        Max couldent help but smile at the dogs concern. "Yeah. Much calmer than before."  She walked to the chair and sat, rocking herself slowly anfter a few minutes Anita spoke.     

      "this reminds me of Carmen." This got a chuckel out of the flyers "She sitting in her rocking chair in the back of the main house watch the children and teens fly and swim and run." Anita let out a sigh of contentment. "She is the best mom one can have." The smile that found its way on her face faded away. "I miss her, dad too."       

      "Well their both only a call away."    "your right, but its late and their most likly sleeping right now. Ill call another time." The two made their way into the silent house; well mostly silent if the silouet in the kitchen had anything to say about it. At first Max was ready to drop kick an intruder but stoped herself when she relised its Miss.Martinez. 

     Letting out a sigh of relife, the young adult flicked the lights on and looked at the face still turned away from her. "You cant be standing in the dark like that, someone might have attacked you."  With a sigh the older of the two finally turned revialing a tired face with maching eyes. "I know but headaches dont agree with bright lights. That and I dicided to make some coffee."       

  "In the dark?"     

     "With all that happens at my house through out the years ive gotten use to the dark."  She moved to get some cups from the cubert, missing the sad yet angry face Max has. The avien quickly schooled it into a soft smile.  "Would you like some?"   

  "Um sure."       

     "Then get the creamer out the frigde." Pouring the bitter liquid into two mugs, the silince made itself known as the two but there flavoring of choice. once done they sat across from each other, takeing sips from there mugs. after a moment or so of akwardness Max decided  to start convorsation. "so..."

  "Wht do you think that it is a good idea to kill the scientics?"

    Max stared at her biological mother, unsure of how to answer her. One one hand she wanted to explane that people like those docters dont desirve life after all that they have done. The needles and the sleepless night locked in cages, the constant test with cold eyes looking at their every move, the surguries and the forced reproduction for more test subjects. And for what exactly? Max dont know W.I.C.K.I.D was always closed lips about that. They dont get second chance, the children they experamented on lives on forever haunted my the nightmares she sooths at night, the panic attacks many of the adults in her heard have by staring at an open filed for too long. People like those docters cant live for they will do it again and again and again as soon as the oprotunie presents itself.

   One the other hand, it was imoral to take lives like this. Max is not an exicutioner, she should not have the power to take it just because they hurt her. Just because she wants them dead.

  "I don't want what happened to me or the others to happen again. And the seems to be the only solution that is permanent." She settled on.

   "Have you tried talking to them? People can change."

   "I tried. And I thought it worked, but is was a scam. Another test to her." Max thought of the Good Docter and how close they got before it was ripped away.