Pairing: Max/Alec Logan/Asha

Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/Angst

Summury: The two X5s end up at a Mental Institution with no memory of their lives before a horrible accident. Will they get their memories back before trouble find them.

Dr. Jacobs Brooks looked up when the four night guards dragged in the two young adults who had made an attempt to escape the Brooks Mental Institution. He shot them a frown, as the guards threw them down roughly to the floor. The male quickly went protective of the female as Brooks came up to their sides. Never in all the years since the Pulse had he seen two individuals so different from each other, be so compatible towards each other. They did get into heated arguments a lot, but they tended to be calmer when they were around each other than they did when they were apart.

"Trying to run again?" he asked them, as he came up closer to them. "You know that it's not possible. We are here to help you, but can't do that if you run away. Now Alec, Max, we are only here to help you." The two looked up at him and both shook their heads. "Take them to isolation. Keep an extra watch over the both of them. I don't want them to make another run for a while."

"Yes, Sir," the guards said, as they began to drag the two towards isolation. "Behave." They then threw the two into the small padded isolation room and locked the door behind them. "Nighty, night." They left leaving them alone inside the pitch dark room.

"You okay, Maxie?" Alec asked her, as he leaned back on the padded wall, and watched as Max began to pace the very small room. "There's no way out beside that door and you know that." Even though there was no light, he could see her every movement.

"Yeah, I know," Max said, as she went over to sit next to Alec. "At least it's not as bad as the other place. That isolation was horrible. They did rotten things to everybody there."

"I know." Alec slipped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer. "Wonder when we're going to get back our memories? Dr. Brooks isn't all that keen on letting us go out and try to find out who we were before we came here. He might know something that he's not telling us."

"We could sneak out of here and look at our files." Alec shook his head and smiled. "What it seems like a fun idea?" She rested her head against Alec's shoulder. "You have got to wonder what we did when we were on the outside. What kind of jobs we had?"

"I bet I was a bike messenger," Alec said, only to get an elbow to the ribs from Max. "It's a job. Plus I could get through all the sectors with the pass that they have."

"Sounds like a good enough job." Alec then looked up as the guard walked by. "Shall we?"

"Yes." Alec followed Max to the door where she popped the lock and they soon were in the dim lighted hall way. "I think it's this way." It didn't take them long to locate the filing room and to find their files. "Hey, it says that I'm an X5. What's that?"

"I have no idea," Max said, as she looked at his file. "But I'm one too. Must have something to do with the bar codes on our necks." She then froze at a note. 'Contact Ames White. These are people he needs to take care of.' "We got to get out of here, White's coming."

"White's coming?" Alec froze for a second, then chuckled. "I don't mean to be an idiot here, but who's White."

"Somebody very bad." Max slammed her file shut. "This doesn't make sense. How can we not remember who we are, but I know that White is a bad guy."

"Maybe we've come across him before."

"What are you doing in here?" The two transgenics looked up at the guard and Max smiled. "What are you smirking at?"

"You," Max said, as she looked at him. "You're in my way."

"You're not leaving here." He pulled out his night stick and the two smiled at him. "Put your hands on the top of your head."

"Okay." Max did as she was told only to have Alec blur at the man. He knocked him down and dropped him to the floor gently. "Let's go." They headed off down the hallway only to pause, when they spotted more guards coming. "More guards. Come on." They took off to find a place to hide.

The two transgenetics slipped into an office as the guards rushed past them and they both chuckled. "Having fun?" a voice called out to them, and they spun around to face Alicia Hanson, their Shrink. "Playing with the guards?"

"What are you doing here so late?" Max asked her, as she looked around for a way out and found none. "Don't you have a family or something to go home to?"

"No, I don't. My Kyle was taken from me," Alicia said, as she looked over at them. "Why don't you both have a seat before you get into trouble for breaking out of Isolation."

"Okay," Alec said, as he sat down on the couch and pulled Max with him, as the guards stopped in front of the door. "So, how ya been Doc?"

"I've been good. Have you guys tried to keep out of trouble?" They slowly shook their heads no." "I thought so. You need to work on that. You can't go back to the outside world if you're going to attack everybody who offends you."

"The guards are idiots and so is Dr. Brooks."

"So I've been told. But you can't go around trying to run away, breaking out of isolation, and into the record room. Those are really big no-no's. Now go back to your rooms. I'll talk to you later. Hopefully, I can talk to Dr. Brooks so that he doesn't go all drug crazy on you guys and put you under completely."

"Thank you," Alec said, as they slipped out of the door and headed for their rooms. They slid inside of Alec's room and slid into the two bunks there. The moment their heads hit the pillows, they were asleep.

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TBC

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