Hi, this is an AU of Designate this, Just an idea that popped in my head. This is M/A but it is also M/L.

Basically: Max never sent out Logan's broadcast so the world doesn't know about transgenics. Max got the cure off Renfro who got shot but is still alive. Logan is cured so no virus. Alec never gets back to Manticore. I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: Dark Angel characters aren't mine but I wish I had Alec.

Summary: Max had saved Logan, watched Renfro get shot, so it's likely she would be mad, no way was she going to let Alec return to Manticore now that he was out and knew who eyes only was.

Questions and head injuries

The guy in front of him, the mysterious 'Eyes only' or the average Logan Cale was going to drop the gun. That virus that Manticore had cooked up was hitting him hard, oh well not my problem. As soon as the guy dropped the gun he would stand up and let the shitty restraints fall to the floor, he could probably leave now and Mr only wouldn't have fast enough reactions to stop him but he wanted to watch the utter defeat in the guy's eyes when he drops the gun. After all he was trying to expose transgenics and then they would be hunted. Humans don't like things they don't understand.

Clunk. He dropped it. What the hell did Max think was going to happen? The guy was dying how she thought he could stop a X5 from leaving was beyond him. Also leaving the guy you apparently love with a government engineered super-soldier not her best move. All the time on the outside must have messed with head, like his clones.

Walking up towards the gun he made sure to look directly into Logan's face as he picked it up and smiled as he pointed it. "Should I waste a bullet and let Madame Renfro know I killed the great 'Eyes Only' or should I let that virus kill you slowly." He said, getting a sarcastic twang to the end of his sentence.

He was still debating whether to shoot when a small blonde turned the corner and pointed her own gun at him. He raised an eyebrow at her. She scowled back. "Who the hell are you, and what have you done?"

"Sweetheart, I haven't done anything, yet. Why? You his girlfriend? Max won't like that" he said as he turned and smirked at the (slumping in his chair) Logan Cale.

"Max? She's alive? Was she here?" The blonde girl moved forward a step directing her question to Logan. Alec took this as a cue and moved towards her blurring and taking the gun out of her hand. "Nice gun" He said before walking towards the open door, smiling a lop sided grin at her surprise of his quick movements.

He was still smiling as he left the apartment and straight into something solid colliding with his temple, knocking him out cold.

Max looked down at Alec, the brick still held up in the air but now it had a small blood stain on the corner. She threw the two guns through the door into the apartment before grabbing his feet and dragging him back in. She locked the door behind her before manoeuvring him onto the couch. God he was heavy, must be all that muscle. His head didn't look too bad, she hadn't hit him too hard, just enough to get him down. She'd check for a concussion later.

She looked up to see a blonde hanging over a nearly unconscious Logan, the blondes eyes were wide as she looked between her and Alec and the slowly dying Logan. Wasting no time she charged over to him and got the syringe filled with the cure out of her Manticore soldier pants. She had to force the girl to move by a hefty shove to the shoulder before she knelt down and emptied the clear fluid into his wrist.

"Max" he whispered and she held his hand waiting for the cure to take effect. He slowly got colour to his skin; it travelled from his wrist up his neck and face then down his clothed body. Max placed her hands on his neck and felt as the pulse got stronger and louder. She moved one hand to hold his hand, and smiled as he squeezed back.

It took 10 minutes for Logan to be able to stand and feel better as he hugged her and whispered that he knew she would save him and he thought he had lost her and 11 minutes for blondie to pike up. "Sorry but what the hell is going on? Who are you? Who is that on the couch? You were dying Logan, but now you're fine, what is going on?"

"Wow, that's a lot of questions" Logan laughed. "This is Max, I have no idea who that is" he said as he indicated to Alec. "And I'd like to know what's going on as well" He said turning to smile at Max.

Asha felt her heart constrict when she heard that the beautiful woman in front of her was Max.

Max looked back at Alec checking he was still under before sitting on the computer desk and telling Logan and Blondie, sorry Asha, that she had now learnt the name of, everything that had happened in the past months. She left out the part that Alec was her breeding partner and had a shudder hit her at the thought of Manticore pimping their soldiers out. She also left our Psy-ops because frankly unless you had been through it, you couldn't understand it.

"What are you going to do with Alec?" Logan asked as he eyed the young male bleeding on his couch.

"I don't know yet, but he can't go back, he knows who you are and how to find us. So I'll probably keep him with me, until I know that he's safe to stay on his own." Max replied looking over her fellow transgenic.

Alec could hear voices, but couldn't make them out over the pounding in his head. It was throbbing in time with his heartbeat. He couldn't remember what had caused the injury; it hurt too much to think. He tried not to grimace as heard someone raising their voice demanding answers. Blondie, he remembered, that was the voice. He stayed completely still as he listened to Max's explanations about everything and who he was.

He was thinking about 'waking' up and leaving when he heard; "he can't go back, he knows who you are and how to find us. So I'll probably keep him with me, until I know that he's safe to stay on his own." That pissed him off.

Stuff acting he was leaving right the fuck now and no one especially Max was going to stop him. He stood up quickly which was a mistake when the room started to spin and he felt himself falling to the side, he was about to hit the deck when he felt strong feminine arms holding up. "Easy Alec, shh just sit back down" he was about to protest but could feel his stomach turning. Max was still pushing him back down but unless he wanted to puke all over he was going to have to move. So he did.

Max had literally just got him down when he blurred into the bathroom and started violently retching. She ran after him and started stroking his barcode but he shoved her back and missed the hurt expression that crossed her face.

After he'd thrown up all his stomach contents and dry heaved for a good 3 minutes he got up, ignored Max and headed straight for the door. Unfortunately Max had other ideas about him leaving. He had just put his hand on the lock when she blurred in front of him. "Get out of the way" he said in a voice that held no emotion. "No" she equally deadpanned.

"If you don't move, I'll move you"

"You can barely stand"

"No thanks to you, what kind of a psychotic bitch attacks people with a brick" he said eyeing the brick in the middle of the floor.

"You can't go back there Alec."

"Why not? You think I'm just gonna stay and be your bitch. I know I've been Manticore's bitch for the past 22 years so what you think I can just change and be yours now?"

"No. You won't be my bitch. But Alec you're free now, they can't find you. You don't need to go back" She said smiling, thinking she had gotten throught ot him but apparently that wasn't the right thing to say.

"That's funny; pretending that you care. You've forgotten that when YOU 12 left. We all got punished for it, especially the ones of us who were twinned. They were worried we might feel a genetic connection haha as if. But YOU left, and YOU didn't care. So why start now? But YOU don't do you? You just care about Mr Eyes over there. So don't pretend you do."

Max didn't know what to say. She'd never really thought about the others left in there especially their twins. Alec was right she did care about Logan but she cared about him too and if he went back without her in tow or Logan dead he'd be sent to psy-ops and she couldn't let that happen. She was still deciding what to say when Alec grabbed hold of her hips and threw her across the room and blurred out of the apartment before she had even hit the floor.

So what did you think? Please review and let me know. I hope to update soon but I've been given a lot of college work and I'm also currently writing my Supernatural fic. xx