Logan woke with a start at the sound of his phone ringing; he glanced to his right, "2:00AM, who could that be?" Getting in his chair he raced to the phone.

"Hello?"

"Logan! It's Cindy, Max' been shot, she's lost a lot of blood."

Panic laced through Logan, 'Shot? Lost a lot of blood? Oh God Max!' "Where is she?"

"They're rushing her to Harbor Lights right now, Logan hurry!"

"I'm on my way." He hung up the phone and raced back to his bedroom, contemplating on putting on the exoskeleton. Deciding that it would save more time in the long run he put it on. 'It would be easier to get in and out of the car.'

Fully dressed he ran, keys in hand, to his Aztec parked downstairs. Speeding to the hospital he barely kept it together enough to stay in control of his car. 'What if she doesn't make it? What am I going to do without her?' Not for the first time he mentally kicked himself for wasting that year, it was bad enough that they couldn't touch because of the damn virus but he couldn't imagine how he would go on not having her in his life at all.

Twenty minutes later he pulled in the emergency parking lot and ran inside. It didn't take him long to find the hysterical Cindy.

"Oh God Logan thank God you're here!" She ran to him, embracing him for comfort. They had grown close over the three months that Max had been gone. Both thinking that she was dead the comfort that they provided to each other was astounding, feeling closer to Max while together.

"What happened? How did she get shot?" Logan was at breaking point, and he was very quickly losing control over his emotions. 'I just got her back I can't lose her again!'

"We were leaving Crash, guess there was a gun fight goin' down, Max got caught in the crossfire."

Logan was about to respond when Dr. Sam Carr walked out of Max' room.

"Sam how is she?" Logan asked grateful that Sam was there.

"Not good, she's lost a lot of blood, too much. Most people wouldn't be alive still, she's lucky."

"Is she gonna make it Doc?" OC questioned

"I don't know, she's lost a lot of blood, where are going to need to transfuse her but we don't have any of her blood in stock." Sam of course knew why they didn't, they couldn't risk her being found. As it is she was signed into the hospital under a different name.

"She couldn't have her blood in stock Sam." They wouldn't make that mistake again though, if – no when Max pulled through this he was going to stock up, and keep it safe at his place.

"I know Logan it's just that normal blood probably won't do it, she was made to recuperate quickly but she needs her "revved-up" blood to do it. Now unless you know any other people like her it doesn't look good."

Logan collapsed in a chair, 'It doesn't look good, God no Max please don't die on me.' He was about to tell Sam to try with "normal" blood when he heard his name being called from down the hall.

"Logan! Logan!" Alec was running down the hall towards Logan and Cindy as fast as he could without going "super speed". "Where's Max? I just saw Sketchy and he told me she got shot. She okay?"

"Alec, thank God!" Both Logan and Cindy said in unison.

He was taken back, 'Logan's happy to see ME?'

"I need you're help Alec, no Max needs your help Alec. She's lost a lot of blood, too much for a normal transfusion to work."

"So she needs my blood?" Logan, Cindy and Sam both nodded, "Of course where do I need to go?" Max had saved his butt many times, even screwing up her chance of getting the virus cured to save him; he at least could give her a little blood.

"This way, Alec was it?" Dr. Carr asked, Alec nodded, "She's in here, if you want to sit on that chair a roll your sleeve up I'll just be a second.

Sam Carr walked back out of Max' room to talk to Logan before getting started, "Logan sit here we will know soon if this is going to work, you just need to relax."

Logan nodded dumbly and did what he was told barely noticing Sam walk back into the room and shut the door. He was so preoccupied with his worries about Max he didn't hear Cindy trying to comfort him or the nurse ask if they needed anything. He just couldn't believe that he might lose her again.

An hour later Sam walked back out the room, both Logan and Cindy shot out of their seats with questioning looks on their faces. "We will know in a few minutes, we just need to give the blood time to get into her system. Now I have to go get Alec some food, he's pretty weak. Don't go in there until I get back."

With that Sam turned and headed down the hall. Logan let out a deep breath, trying to relax when he heard a bang from Max' room and saw Alec stumble out. He looked at Logan with un-Alec-like tears in his eyes, and managed to gasp "Max!" before he collapsed on the floor.

Disobeying Sam, giving into the fear that laced through him, he ran into Max' room, deathly afraid of what he was going to find.