Alright guys this is my first Dark Angel fic so please feel free to tell me what you think although if you can aviod flaming me that would be great :-)

i dont own Dark Angel or any of the characters... i wish i did but unfortunatly its not happened so...

Anyway enjoy!

Broken

Chapter One: Break Through

Max looked round the partition wall that had been erected to give Logan a work area. He was sat with his eyes firmly fixed on the computer his fingers dancing over the keyboard. At that moment he was hacking the radio frequency between the police chiefs outside to find out what was going on with the barricade outside the fence.

Terminal City had been barricaded in for four months now and the barricade showed no signs of moving but none of the transgenics had any intention of going anywhere.

Max had tired to keep her distance from Logan but as much as she liked to think it had made a difference she knew it hadn't. She might want to keep her distance but if Logan was anything, he was persistent.

Alec had told her that he had let go and she suspected he had for her own sake but she knew she didn't want to let go either.

But she had no other choice.

She had too.

It was the only way she could keep him safe.

At that moment Alec appeared. "Max!" He whispered in her ear. "What?" She hissed. "Come on." He dragged her away from Logan's workstation and down the stairs into the make shift lab.

"What?" Max said again trying her hardest to keep her temper. "I need a blood sample." "You need what?" Max demanded "Why?" Alec looked at her and just said, "Look Max, just do it please?" Max rolled her eyes and said, "Fine knock yourself out."

She held out her arm and Alec took a blood sample. "Now would you mind telling me what the hell you're doing?" She said, "You'll see." He took her blood sample and mixed it with another and then put it under the microscope and looked. There was a moment and then

"YES!"

"What?" Max demanded.

"Take a look." Alec said smiling. Max looked at him. He was acting strangely. There was a look on his face she had never seen before.

Pure determination.

Max looked at him again and then looked into the microscope. What she saw astounded her.

She spun round and said, "That's the virus." "Yeah." Alec said smiling. "But it's stopped. It's stopped mutating."

"How is that possible?" She demanded.

Then she shook her head. "It can't be. I've tired that once already. It didn't work before it certainly won't work now."

She made to leave and a hand on her arm stopped her.

She spun and faced Original Cindy. "It did work Boo." She said gently. "What?" She demanded looking into the microscope again. "Alec and I found your papers. We worked on it."

"You missed some calculation." Alec said coming round the bench. "Besides I remembered that Joshua and I have the anti-bodies so I mixed a combination of our blood with yours and created a protein coat that they can't mutate through."

"Check it out."

Max went back to the microscope and the protein coat was still in tact. She could see that the strand was mutating but the protein held firm.

"Why would you do that?" Max demanded of Alec. He never had been one to do something as complicated as this without alternative motive although his attitude seemed to be getting better.

"Because if I remember correctly you told me we didn't belong with them, we were dangerous to them."

"Yeah and to some extent I still believe that, but you're miserable. I can't even fight with you anymore. You don't take the bait I was bored and I stumbled on your papers. I spilt my coffee on them."

He flinched as though waiting for Max to hit him but she just stood there and listened.

"I saw a calculation on your papers I hadn't seen before and set about my project. There was nothing to do. I couldn't go outside the perimeter so I helped here." He shrugged.

Max hugged him. "Thank-you." She went to the microscope again and the protein still held firm.

"Max it'll hold." Alec laughed looking like his cocky self again. "I've been working on this a while. It'll hold."

"How can you be so sure?" Max demanded. After all this time she was reluctant to get her hopes again only to have to admit that it had been wrong again and she didn't think she'd survive that.

"Because I'm a genius." Alec shrugged. Max glared at him. "Seriously though. The virus was one of many transgenics were vaccinated against using our blood for a basis of the protein coat will guarantee that no matter how it mutates it would become active again.

"Manticore never wanted its genetically enhanced killing machines to succumb to any chemical or biological warfare we might have to face."

Max turned to Alec and knew he was right. One thing could be said of Manticore when they did something they did it thoroughly. As an X5 they were immune to almost every virus that as known to exist.

For the first time in a long time she smiled.

Then she laughed.

"Oh my god. I'm cured. I'm cured I can't believe it!" She hugged Alec and he hugged her back.

"I owed you."

Then she hugged Original Cindy and Cindy laughed. "Now go tell him." Max stopped.

"How?"

Original Cindy laughed as she and Alec walked away. "Girl you need to figure it out."

Max watched the walk towards the centre of the base. Alec may have owed her but any debt she had been keeping tab of disappeared.

He had more than repaid her back.

She took a deep breath and then went to tell the one person this mattered about most.

Logan.