Disclaimer: yada yada I do not own these characters and all of that crap of course I can dream right?

Chapter 1

"Alec I swear, get your sarcastic, egotistical, lazy-ass over here!" Max roared, and then more dangerously, "Before I have to come and find it!"

"Jesus Maxie, you do have quite a fascination with my ass," Alec said innocently, leaning up against the wall smirking.

Max upset with Alec was not exactly a rare occurrence so everyone around H.Q. rolled their eyes at their leaders when they heard Alec's response. Max was going to smack him or worse and all of the transgenics were pretty sure he liked it.

After being trapped in Terminal City for two years trying to fight the humans for their rights, the group of genetically enhanced super soldiers finally achieved their goal. The transgenics were reluctantly given full citizenship and money to get them started. They were told they could move out of T.C. But not many of them wanted to move out of their home of two years. So they set up residence in T.C, the official "Freak Nation" and some of the X5's and x6's left. They used the money given to them by the government to fix T.C. up and supply the transgenics that were unable to work with supplies.

Max reluctantly allowed Alec to be her Second-In-Command, after he demonstrated his leadership skills during a city-wide argument between the X5, 6, and 7's and the lower X series. Max had grudgingly accepted that he was the best and that he was perfect for the job. Not to mention, he was the only one who could handle Max. The two were constantly at each other's throats and not to mention fighting physically, but in action you would never know it the way that they watched each other's backs.

The Terminal City transgenics were not completely out of danger. They still had White to worry about. They had not seen neither hide nor hair of him since their run-in at Jam Pony. This fact alone was enough to make Max nervous and edgy. So she had been snapping at Alec for a week. It was a surprise he didn't have permanent bruises from all of the times Max had hit, punched, or kicked him.

Max chose to ignore his last comment and moved on to why she was upset with him.

"Alec you did not write up a report for your last mission!" she yelled at him, "And don't call me Maxie!"

"Oh sorry, I forgot," he said shrugging in turn ignoring her protest at his nickname for her.

This response earned him a smack on the back of his head.

"Get the report done now," she sighed in frustration giving up on yelling at him.

"Why are you overreacting so much?" Alec asked rubbing the sore spot on the back of his head where she had hit him, "It's just a stupid report, I never do reports, and you haven't gotten this upset before."

Then he smirked at her flushed face.

"Oh," he said those damn beautiful green eyes shining with flecks of hazel, "Logan issues hmm?"

She averted her gaze and became very interested with the floor as she shifted uncomfortably under Alec's piercing gaze.

"Justleavemealone," she growled under her breath.

"Maxie come on you can tell me I'm your best friend," Alec said softly.

"Don't call me Maxie," she mumbled half-heartedly.

The command center in H.Q quickly began to empty. Everyone knew Max would tell Alec what was wrong with her. There was no doubt. The two X5's told each other everything, and even though Alec was her favorite punching bag, Max and Alec had become a lot closer in the two years that had gone by. Mole rolled his eyes at the two leaders, grabbed a cigar, and left mumbling, "Stupid foreplay, just get on with it already."

Max sighed and collapsed into a nearby chair. Alec saw how tense she was and began to work his hands around her shoulders. His strong hands rubbed with a gentle flow, working out all of the kinks in her neck. He wanted to keep going but his animal instinct had almost taken over and probably would have made him jump her and have hot sex with her right there in the command center. Woah where did that come from he thought. He had always been successful in keeping his fantasies about Max to a bare minimum, until then. Just as she began to purr with content he stopped the massage.

He cleared his throat and she seemed to remember that she had a lot of work to do.

"Ahem so um what were those issues you were about to tell me about?" Alec asked.

She sighed and stopped trying to frantically go through papers on her desk.

"Well Logan thinks that I should move out of T.C. and into his apartment now that we can leave," she began, "But I just couldn't leave this place and I don't want to."

"Besides," she continued after he didn't say anything, "I would miss some people here."

His gaze met hers.

"Oh?" he questioned a ghost of a smirk playing on his lips, "Like who?"

She shifted uncomfortably again and looked away.

"Well, Joshua, Gem, Dalton, Dix, Luke, I guess Mole," she ticked off with her fingers, "Ehyoueh."

"Who was that last one?" Alec asked not even trying to hide his smirk any longer.

Max sighed and looked into his eyes. When he would not admit that he knew who she was implying about she groaned.

"You! Ok?" she said in frustration, "I'd miss you."

"Oh, well I'd miss you too Maxie," he said still smirking and then his face turned serious again, "So what did you tell him?"

"I told him that I was not leaving T.C," she said still holding his gaze, "We got into a big fight and he accused me of wanting to stay here because supposedly I'm in love with you."

She had not meant to let that last part slip out but it had.

Alec's eyes opened wide with surprise, but his Manticore training kicked in and his emotions were hidden again.

"Wow, he's way off base huh?" Alec said gruffly turning toward his computer.

"Yeah," Max replied watching him gather his report papers, "Yeah he was."

"So lover boy's out of the picture I guess?"

"I guess."

"Oh."

He slowly finished with his papers and then made his way to the door, when he suddenly stopped. Max had already turned back to her mess of papers.

"Hey uh, Max?" Alec called to her.

"Yeah?" she replied without turning to look at him.

"I'm sorry about Logan."

"Oh, thanks."

With that Alec resumed his departure of the command center and did the report that Max had wanted him to finish. And Max busily searched through her papers for something even she was not quite sure about. They both paused and sat there for a second. Then Alec smirked and shook his head while Max silently smiled.

Then they were back to work.

A/N: So this is my first and hopefully not my last. Please review!!!! This is my first time letting anyone else see my writing so be brutal I promise I'll only cry for a day or so:)