Another package! And all she really wanted to do was go and see Logan and then probably eat one of his culinary miracles for dinner then maybe watch an old film and snuggle up to her boyfriend an then of course make love to him all night but it looked as if that fantasy was going to have o wait for another half an hour or so. She sighed.

" You aiight boo?" OC asked as Max grudgingly took another package of the counter and sighed.

" Yer, just wondering why I'm still working here!" she said loudly so that Normal could hear her.

Cindy smiled, " thinking about your hot boy?" since max and Logan had beaten the virus and Logan legs had been healed with the nerves being repaired by the chemical used to kill the virus max had been around his apartment most nights and had eaten with him almost all the time. Not that OC minded, it meant that she could entertain company and not have to worry about max " Really? You sure?" Cindy nodded and pushed max towards the door, " Go!"

Barging back in on a delicate situation and she was happy that max was finally with her boy and could start to enjoy life, the one that she was deprived of when she was younger.

" Here boo, tell ya what, I'll take this package and then you can just owe me Kay?" she asked

" Thanks boo I owe ya! Late!"

Great, now off to Logan's.

"Hey!" she called as she walked into the apartment, no Logan to be found in the study, she wondered round a bit until she heard the sound of voices coming from down the hall, where Logan's bedroom was. She crept into the hall to see Asha and Logan walk out of his bedroom laughing,*** They looked up and Asha's face noticeably fell as she saw Max but Logan's lit up.

" Hey Max!" he said walking up to her. She shot him a questioning glance.

They were just friends she told herself, then the other the other voice in her head screamed at her 'yeah right she's almost in love with him as much as you are! You can see the way she looks at him and how she hangs on his every word, does all she can to help him- never asking questions.' She could she why she was in love with him. It was the same as her- in that way they were the same, it was because as well as being the most kind, generous, caring, intelligent, funny, down to earth person she had ever met he was also the best looking and sexiest with his trim muscles, blue eyes like the ocean and scruffy hair. She couldn't loose him, she kept telling herself that he wasn't going anywhere but there always was the doubt because he was to good to be true.

Asha moved around awkwardly from one foot to the other as Max studied her. Logan broke in to explain.

" I just got something for Asha, I left it in the bedroom."

Yeah like your brain come on Logan, wake up! Surely you can she can't wait to jump you! But instead of saying that which she knew would not be very appropriate she just stayed deadpan and raised a perfect eyebrow.

He looked from Max to Asha and practically saw sparks flying through the air between them but, not the sparks that came when Max looked at him or him at her, the sort of sparks that start fire. Once again he broke the silence.

" Well as you got those papers now Asha maybe you better get to that meeting you were talking about." She got the hint and nodded grudgingly

" Yep, I'll call you and tell you how it goes." She said as she brushes past Max who didn't even make an effort to move.

AS she closed the door on the way out Logan moved the short distance to Max who was ridged in his arms as he drew her to him.

" What's up?" he asked her as he pulled back and looked into her dark brown pools.

She sighed, she really didn't want to bring this up now when things were so good but she didn't want Asha hanging around all the time and poor Logan was so nice he just thought she thought of him as a friend. She hated the feeling of jealously, it was constant doubt and it wasn't that she didn't trust Logan, she did but she wasn't exactly in the same as asha and sometimes it occurred to her that Logan would be better with someone like Asha.

He brushed his nose against hers to get her attention, " come on, what is it angel?"

" One word Logan- Asha," she took his hand and lead him into the lounge and to the sofa where she sat down and then pulled him down to sit with her. She took deep breath- here goes,

" Look before I start I want you to promise to be quiet until I have finished, k?" she could feel him stare at her but she purposefully avoided his eyes.

"Max, I think that I have an idea of what you are going to say but, I want you to know that I love you more than anything in the whole world ok, and I'll try and shut up!"

He said, well that was about the basis of what he wanted to say he thought now the ball was in her court. He met his eyes to hers and saw the hesitance there. " It's ok Max, if you want to say something say it or else it'll bother you forever1 and I know how that feels!" he added smiling at her. She smiled back and took his hand trying to think of a way to begin.

" Ok, well since you and I got together and the whole virus and wheelchair wasn't an issue anymore I was so pleased- not about the wheelchair thing, that didn't matter to me but the virus was a big issue." She built up the courage to look up and meet his eyes and smiled, he was looking at her with nothing but love and she relaxed a bit.

" Well since then I have been so happy, with you. I'm scared to death though cos this virus bitch in still in your system, I know that you now have antibodies but I'm still scared, and the thought of you leaving me- me killing you is the worst pain that I can possibly imagine." She leant back to rest herself on the sofa and looked at him, his face wore and almost unreadable expression but she carried on in vain, this sharing feelings thing had never been her but she was at least willing to try now.

" And I am really happy apart from one thing in this relationship I think we need to talk about, Asha. Logan I know that you think of her as a friend and I do trust you but, it's just that it's so obvious that she's in love with and you don't seem to ever push her away. I mean I know why she loves you the same reasons that I do but can't you see that she's expecting something more and, in doing so is always hanging around you making it really hard for us to have time alone?!" She was getting exasperated, not at him but at herself for having such feelings and feeling so stupidly. He reached up and put his hand on her knee and a warm surge spread through her.

She continued, softer this time, " Logan, I love you and I just want her to know that you're not available…" he opened her mouth to respond to her but she cut him off " Shut up remember? I'm not just some girl and I can't believe that you chose me but there's also the doubt that's always there…the doubt about whether one day you are just going to wake up and realise that you have made a big mistake- with me." She hung her head low, now that she had said it out loud she felt stupid. God how could this one man make her feel so many things all at once? She shivered a little as she waited for him to respond.

He thought about what she had said for a minute, how could this beautiful creature think that she was no good for him? She was so much better than anything, anyone he had every experienced. She made him feel alive and gave him the will to carry on through life. He suddenly thought of Asha and how she sometimes was a little over-friendly but being Logan he had just thought it was a good friendship. She shivered against him and he pulled him into his lap, settling her comfortably against his well-sculpted chest.

She went happily into his lap and relaxed but still did not meet his eyes, then he pulled up her angelic face with his finger and their eyes locked.

" I love you max, I don't know what else to say I will have a word with Asha if that'll make you happy but I swear on my life I would never let anything happen between us. And I didn't exactly ask her to come with me into my bedroom!"

She smirked at him and shook her head, " O really, so she just followed you into your bedroom?"

" Yes," he answered "you are the only person I would ever invite into my bedroom Max." that touched her and she almost cried she was so relived. HE loved her. He LOVED her. He loved HER. The words swam around her head making her feeling dizzy. God don't let me screw this up, he's too good to loose…..

He broke her chain of thought suddenly as he brought his head down to hers in a feather light kiss. They both sighed at the intimate contact and deepened the kiss opening their mouths and each tongue fighting for control.

He was is heaven, he ran his hands up her back and into her silky hair and then down again, something he knew drove her wild. Eventually he had to draw away for breath and he pulled her close to him so that their foreheads were touching.

" So after all the heavy stuff do you think we can get on with what we planned to do tonight?" He asked her almost playfully but he knew he was really giving her another chance to start talking if she needed to. She saw this in his eyes and thanked him for it. But now she was fine, more than fine.

" What do we have planned for tonight?" she enquired as she snuggled closer into his chest.

" Well, I was thinking that we could order some take out and then watch a pre-plus movie with popcorn of course and then make hot a passionate love all night. What do ya think?"

She smiled at him, before meeting him she had never even heard of some of the things he cooked with or ever watched movies and ate popcorn and certainly had never 'made love."

" I think that that sounds like a really, really good idea!" ***

After the film was finished the two lovers were to content to move. Max had found a spot between Logan's legs where her back was against his chest and their legs were intertwined. Logan stroked her hair and sighed, never before had he felt so right with any other woman, not even Valerie.

" Logan, tell me something about before the pulse, what your life was like." Max often asked these questions when they were relaxed and happy after dinner, she was curious and Logan was her source to the ' normal' world that existed while she was at Manticore. He smiled into her hair at her childlike voice as if she willed him to tell her something about how good it was just so that she could hold onto some hope that one day, she might get to see that kind of world.

" What do you want to know?" he questioned her letting her make the first move.

" Where did you live? Did you have any other girlfriends before Valerie? How was collage? Who were your friends? That kind of thing." She stated.

" Well, I'll try but it's probably going to be really boring so if I start to babble just tell me ok?" she nodded and he wondered how to go on,

" I went to collage at Yale which I have told you before, there I shared an apartment with a guy called Will who was my best friend at the time. I worked hard and got good grades but I also was a bit of a tear-away, drinking all night, parties sorta normal student and lots of girls." He stopped there wondering how to tackle that hump he had just created for himself but Max then took him by surprised him by asking " How many?" he took a deep breath but continued

" Um….. There was Chasidy, Ella, Joey, Sarah and Rachael, so 5." He suddenly felt really bad, like even though he had never know Max then he was letting her down somehow. He raised his eyes to hers, afraid of what he'd see in them but to his surprise again all he saw there was love and the will for him to continue so he did,

" I had a good life then although, like a spoilt little rich boy. I took it for granted, having great friends and girls hanging off every arm, getting everything that I wanted but then things changed." He smiled wistfully and then looked down at her, she saw the hurt in his eyes, the look that always came when he was remembering something about before the pulse.

" Will died in the pulse explosion and that's when I met his fiancée Lauren, at his funeral and you know the rest from there." He finished and just stared at the window for a moment and then back at her.

She cocked her head thinking, she loved hearing about before the pulse and about his old life even if there were girls than she would have liked in his past, he had been happy then. She always liked to hear his responses to her questions but, at the same it was a way to get him to talk and vent some of his feeling out into the opening because, as Max could understand he was a very guarded person.

She decided it was time to change the subject, as she was sure Logan would talk if he wanted and they had had enough deep and meaning full conversations for today. She twisted round so that she was facing him and kissed him softly on his perfect lips whilst moving her hands up to his hair.

He groaned and returned her kiss, pulling her closer to bring her whole body in contact with his. As usual the kisses became both passionate and deep almost immediately and Logan decided it was probably was time to move to somewhere move comfortable. ***

They stumbled down the hall I and into his bedroom, their lips were still fused together as they both feel together with a thud onto his bed. She ran her hands up and down his back under his shirt as he delved his tongue into her mouth and tangled his hands into her hair. She groaned as he pulled away from her mouth but then was quite content when he moved back to her mouth after having removed her red tank top and threw in into a forgotten corner and proceeded to work on freeing her from the constraints of her bra.

She was in equal heaven removing his shirt and casting her eyes over his perfect chest. She shoved her hands into his hair as his mouth came up to lavish her left nipple. She groaned in pure pleasure as he repeated the same sweet assault to her other nipple and then slowly licked his way down her firm and tight belly until he reached the junction of her perfect stems and ever so slowly pushed her jeans and panties to the floor.

" Logan…" she managed to rasp out and he smiled at the effect he was having on her. He loved the way that he could make her feel even though he was not even nearly worthy of this beautiful transgenic goddess. He continued his journey down and laid a feather light kiss on the inside of her thigh. |She cried out and he turned and kissed the other thigh.

Max was having a hard time even keeping any coherent thought. Sure, she had had quick romps whilst she was in heat, a number of time actually but none even came close to the pleasure that Logan gave her when he made love to her. He was gentle and tender but as well as being passionate and made her feel special and whole. She had never felt the way she did at this moment in time about anyone, truly and utterly in love and completely besotted with someone else. As he kept playing with her she got more and more inpatient until she could think of nothing else to say but, " Just take me now!" as she sat up and tried in vain to get him out of his pants.

He was ready too and he was now eager to inside of her for the ultimate pleasure he knew would come soon. As she succeeded in getting all of his clothes off so that he was as naked as she was she crawled up to him so that their faces were level and shared a long tender and passionate kiss as he drove into her.

The two bodies moved in harmony as one as new sheans of sweat covered them. Raspy gasps and low moans contributed to the tidal wave of emotions that came as the two lovers fell onto each other each exhausted and content.

" I love you Max." he whispered as he kissed her forehead tenderly and she replied with the same words as she pulled him over so that he was spooning her from behind with his hand across her flat stomach and his nose buried in her hair.

" I love you too Logan."***

The couple slept deep into the night in each others arms until Max's body could sleep no more and she awoke a just laid thinking about life and Logan and how lucky she was to have someone to love her despite her faults and background. He was the best person she had ever met. She turned over in his arms so that she was staring at his beautiful face.

It was still dark as she ran her index finger over the contours of his nose and chin and sighed happily. He began to stir at her attentions and finally opened his eyes and came across his favourite sight, which was holding, and staring into the eyes of the woman he loved.

" Morning gorgeous, what time is it?" he croaked as he pulled her even closer to his warm body. She smiled at his groggy-Ness and looked over his shoulder to his alarm clock.

" Um…6 o clock." She stated as she read the numbers of the small screen. " We have about another hour until we have to get up!" she added answering his unsaid question. She was going to have to be at work on time today since she was late yesterday because Logan and her had got a little distracted.

" Good, then we have enough time then." He smiled down at her and ran his hands through her long dark hair.

" O Yeah? What for?" she asked amused at his tone and then he leaned in and kissed her and she knew immediately what he meant! ***