Max and OC's apartment

Evening

There was a knock on the front door of the apartment. OC opened the door to find a young Asian woman holding a baby in her arms on the other side.

"I'm looking for Max. Is she here?" The woman asked.

"Yeah, come in." OC told her "Max, you got a visitor." She shouted, then moved to the sofa and said. "You wanna take a seat."

"No thank you." The woman replied. Max came out of her room and did a double take.

"Brin?" Max asked shocked.

"Hey baby sister." Brin said with a smile. "I have something of yours." Then she held out the baby. "Take him, he's yours." Max gingerly took the baby in her arms.

"Brin, I don't understand, what..." Max started but Brin interrupted her

"Renfro, she got tired of you and 494's failure to produce a baby so she had the lab techs make one with both your DNA, and this is him. His designations 946. He's about 6 months old now. I got him out of Manticore when it blow and now I'm giving him to you. See you around baby sister." Brin told her before blaring out the apartment.

"Who's 494?" OC asked curiously.

"He's Alec." Max told her still staring at the door in a daze. "I need to call him, um could you please look after him while I call Alec?" Max asked as she looked from the baby to OC.

"Sure thing Boo, you call your boy over I'll take care of the little Boo here." OC told her taking the baby from her and going over to the sofa where she started to talk to the baby in a cute voice. Max picked up the phone and dialled Alec's cell phone.

"Hello." Said Alec's voice at the other end of the line.

"Hey Alec, its Max. I really need to see you; it's important can you come over please?" Max asked hesitantly.

"Yeah sure, I'll be right over." Alec replied worriedly.

An hour later

Max opened the door for Alec and stood aside to let him in to the apartment.

"So what's the emergency? Whoa is that a baby?" Alec asked spotting OC and 946 on the sofa. Max walked over to OC and took 946 in her arms and asked OC.

"Can you give us a minute?"

"Sure thing Boo, I'll go see what kind of baby supplies I can round up." OC told her before heading out the door.

"Max what's going on. Whose baby is that?" Alec asked curiously.

"Ok I'm going to tell you something that's going to be hard to hear, but I need you to listen and not interrupt. Can you do that?" Max asked nervously, then continued after Alec nodded. "Ok, this is 946. He's our son. My sister Brin came by about an hour ago and dropped him off. She said that apparently Renfro got tired of waiting for us to produce a baby, so she had the lab techs at Manticore make one, and here he is. Brin saved him when Manticore went down and she brought him here. He's about 6 months old. And that's all I know. So you should probably say something now."

"I...I need to sit down." Alec stammered making his way to the sofa. Then after a minute started to talk "Why didn't she bring him to you sooner?"

"I'd love to ask her but she just told me what I told you, passed me the baby and blurred out of here so fast I didn't have a chance to." Max told him sitting down next to Alec.

"Can... Can I hold him?" Alec asked gingerly.

"Of course, here." Max said passing over there son.

"He's so beautiful." Alec said staring at the baby. "Max, I'd...I'd like to be part of his life if you don't mind." Alec told her anxiously.

"Alec your his father, I'd never stop you from being part of his life. Besides in truth I could really use the help. There's so much to figure out." Max told him gently. "First of which being what are we going to name him. I mean we can't call him 946."

"What about Zack after your brother? I mean do matter what Manticore did to him you said your brother was a good leader and he took care of you all, plus he's the reason your alive right now. I'd like our son to be named after someone that strong." Alec told Max kindly.

"I'd like that. Zack it is." Max said looking at Alec with a new level of respect.