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(OOM: After once again leaving Silent Milliways)

Again, Max starts upright as though just waking from a nightmare, looking about warily. After a moment, she seems to recognise her surroundings, and sinks back into the booth, turning her attention to the papers scattered in front of her.

Feel free to bother the X5. She could use the distraction.

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Alessa is there again. There's a sadness in her smile.

She vanishes.

A sheet of paper drops onto the table. The circle-triangle symbol is drawn on it in red crayon.

She picks the piece of paper, incongruous amongst all the blueprints, up from the pile, turning it over in her hands a few times.

"What does it mean?" A question to the empty air.

There's a slightly pale Logan now sitting across from her, a small smile aimed at her.

"Hey Max."

She looks up, giving him a slightly strained smile.

"Oh...hey."

There is shuffling of blueprints to submerge the ones that might be recognisable deeper in the pile.

He glances down eying the blueprints a little, but dismissed them for now. More important things to ask before asking about those.

"How are you feeling? Better I hope."

"Yeah. Figure being let go is a good sign." She smiles faintly. "That or Dr McCoy realised I'd bolt anyway..."

He nods and looks over her shoulder, though not at anything particular.

"Sorry I didn't stay until you woke up. I wanted to get some work done, and I thought going home would help a little."

"It's all right," she says quietly. "Didn't expect you to."

And besides, being within arm's reach of her when she wakes up in a hospital bed is probably a bad thing, these days.

He glances at her with a small smile.

"So, I'm happy to say your back in Seattle in my time."

"That's good." She smiles faintly, though the flash of guilt in her eyes marks the expression as false. At least in part.

He gives a nod. "I'm glad that I don't have to worry about you being in Manticore anymore. Granted now there isn't a building for Manticore, but you probably already knew that."

The part about the virus, isn't mentioned. Because it's over and he's hoping that it won't happen again.

It will. And she can't tell him that.

The dilemma might be apparent, as he knows her well enough to read her.

"Yeah. Now there's just the part where we're all hunted down like rabid animals."

He eyes her a little. "Am I allowed to know what you aren't telling me?"

There's a shake of his head in disbelief, though not much of it. He wouldn't have put it past Manticore to hunt them down, but he was hoping that they'd have just left it. "I haven't gotten that far in the time line. But you know me. I'll help stop the hunting if I can."

"You'll find out in a few days, probably. I...well, your Max, will disrupt a signal to regroup that's really just a trap." She grimaces. "It gets complicated after that."

He nodded, absorbing it and making a mental note of it. Just means he'll have to watch more and try to help extra hard.

"Well I'll try to makes sure that it stays as safe for you and everyone that escaped as I can. All I can do really."

She gives him a long look. "...Just make sure you keep yourself safe, too."

He gave her a weak smile, because he knew the answer to the question even before it left his mouth.

"Don't I always?"

The look turns into a look. "About as well as I do."

he flashes her an amused grin.

"Well, then we're in the same boat. Aren't we."

"Yeah." She smiles faintly. "Yeah, we are."

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