Defiance | Book 1 [EXTENDED]

CHAPTER 62

"How do you know these people?" Max asked me for the hundredth time, whilst I was more focused on the silent mumbling between the brothers,

"Hm?" I said finally noticing him,

"How do you know them?"

" Will and I met them on the way back to base that day when we were late. Sorry I didn't tell you, I thought I'd wait"

"This is huge! You should have told me!"
"That's what she said!" Simon said and Connor chimed in with his laugh,

We ignored them and continued, "I was going to but I wanted to meet with them one more time before I introduced them to you"

"Your friend came to us yesterday. He was already in," Simon says referring to Will,

"What?!" I say, Will looked at me guiltily, "That's where you went yesterday?"

"Alex, I asked you to come but instead you decided to go with him-"

"I don't want to hear it, I told you that once we needed help, we'd come to them," I turn away from him and face Connor, who was peacefully rummaging through a drawer, "So, what's the plan?"

Simon nudged Connor who hadn't heard me, "What?" I looked at him and sighed before asking Simon instead,

"Well, we've had insider intel on what goes on there. Craig is hosting a banquet and the place will be flooded with people, and by people, I mean the ones with green eyes. If we can sneak two of you in there to pose as guests, and install some devices for us, Connor and I can disable the security and let everyone else in"

"Sounds like a good plan but when you say everyone else... There's just....us" I say looking at everyone in the room, the seven of us,

"Don't worry, on the way to Washington, we'll pick some more up"

"Seriously? That's your plan?" Demi sighs,

"Have you got a better one?" Simon asks, waiting for her come-back, but she kept quite and he continued, "Now Demi, Logan and Will, and the rest of the 'team' that we'll eventually find, will go in after Max and Alex sneak into the security room and take down the syst-"

"Wait, did you say... Alex and I?" Max says, confused,

"Of course, we've planned this all out prior to our meet"

"Clearly you haven't! Alex and I are wanted by Craig"

"We know," Connor says calmly,

"And?"

"And you're still both going"

"If we wanted a suicide mission, we would have gone with Bek's plan," I say, pacing nervously now. This might not work but what other choice did we have?

"Listen, what kind of party would it be if the only guests were those stiff mutant guards? No, Craig programmed some to act normal with no knowledge of other humans outside their community or what goes on around them or beyond their plugged in information. They act like complete humans, socially and mentally, they don't know your faces. They're just people Craig likes to look at as his worshipers and not his warriors. Anyways it's all settled. Max being a mutant will get scanned at the gates and be allowed inside instantly. Alex will wear a device we have created under her clothing that will bypass the scan and we will give her contacts to blend in with the crowd"

"Why can't Demi do it?" I ask, thinking about the part where he said 'Max's partner',

Simon approaches the question with caution, "Well, Demi, don't take this the wrong way but, you and Max.... Don't really, look right for each other. We need to be completely natural and blend in, even a bit of suspicion will cause a riot and then everyone dies...the end"

"But... Max is my-"

"Yes we know, we know, Max is your 'lover', but you and him will look awkward and stick out. I can already tell your current relationship is quite awkward as it is. And I know Alex and Will are...'together'... but I think there are some things that have to be figured out, and that will get in the way of the act"

"Son of a... Demi whispers narrowing her eyes,

She looked at Max and he looked at her, and they knew Simon was right. I saw Will look at me at the corner of my eye, but I didn't look back,

"Now, transport....any ideas?" Connor says snapping back into planning,

""We have two Jeeps," Max puts in,

"We might need more than that, but we'll worry about that later. Attire?"

"Uh, we don't exactly have anything that will blend in with that sort of occasion," Max says looking down at his kakis,

"I have something," I say remembering the red dress that was still in my bag. Quite a coincidence but it turned out to be useful,

"I'm guessing I need a suit?" Max sighs,

"You guess correctly," Connor nods,

"Where from?"

"I know a place. We'll check it out tomorrow. But now, you five have to get back to base," Simon says walking us back to the stairs, "Remember, we're doing this for the good of this country"

I put my foot on the first step, "Or, what's left of it"