A/N: This is my very first fanfic, so I hope you like it! This is written from Max's point of view, shortly after she returns from Manticore for the second time. My version of what should have happened when she returned to Logan and the consequences. I do not own Dark Angel or any of the characters! Geez I wish I did!

It had been a month since I escaped from Manticore for the second time in my life. A month since I ran directly to Logan and we professed our love for each other. A month since we made love. A month since I nearly killed him.

"Hey Little Missy, I've got a hot run in sector 4 with your name all over it, that is if you can stop daydreaming long enough to keep your job." Normal yelled at me from across Jam Pony.

I groaned, "I think I'm coming down with a bug, Normal. I think I'm gonna take a sick day."

"Sure you are. Probably just hung over." He rolled his eyes, thrusting a package into my arms.

I wasn't lying when I said I wasn't feeling well, but trust Normal to not believe me. I guess I have bailed too many times for him to really believe me. Sketchy rode up next to me with his ridiculous grin, waving a sandwich in my face.

"Yo, Max! You have to try this!"

One sniff and my stomach twisted. I barely had time to make it to a trash can before I was horking. I groaned, and my stomach heaved again.

"Damn, Boo, we gotta get you home." Original Cindy sympathized. "Normal, Max is taking a personal day."

Normal mumbled some sort of acknowledgement as he searched for something under his desk and coming up with disinfectant spray, which he proceeded to spray all around me. The smell made my stomach turn but thankfully I was able to hold back from any more vomiting.

I spent the rest of the day on the couch, throwing up. Original Cindy, ever my best girl, didn't leave my side. I insisted I was fine, but she made excuse after excuse not to leave. It had been awhile since she had said anything and I knew that the wheels in her head were turning.

"Tell me straight, Boo. How serious is this?" She didn't look at me as she asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "I'm not even that bad. It's just a flu bug, I'll be over this bitch come morning. People get the flu all the time."

"Yeah they do, but are Transgenics on that list of people who get common viruses." She grimaced when she said the word virus. It wasn't a word that I wanted to hear. What I didn't want to admit was the fact that this worried me. She was right; the flu was something that Manticore had eliminated years before the X5's. This was something different. I desperately wanted to go to Logan. He would know what to do, he could make me better. But I couldn't. One touch of my skin would mean his death.

"Boo?" Cindy asked again making me realize that I hadn't answered the question.

"I'm not sure." I said vaguely, laughing at myself. A long time ago I had asked her if I was a female fog bank, well today I felt like one.

"Maybe you're preggers." Cindy laughed at herself, but I shot straight up in my seat. She looked at me seriously, "No. You and Logan?"

I didn't know what to say, I was too busy going over every detail of that night. I nodded slowly.

"Boo why didn't you tell me that you guys got busy? When did this happen? What about the virus?" She was talking a million miles an hour and I was feeling nauseous, again.

"The night I came back. It's what activated the virus and I didn't exactly want to talk about it. It wasn't exactly the proudest moment of my life okay?" I knew I was snipping at her but I couldn't help it.

"Okay, okay, ease off Boo." Cindy threw her hands up in defense. "So you guys didn't use anything?"

I stood up, I was feeling suddenly very claustrophobic. "Transgentics don't exactly have the same cycles as regular humans do."

"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Well, I always thought..." I groaned as something clicked in my mind, "I'm so damn stupid."

"What is it? Talk to me." Cindy seemed nervous.

"X5's go into heat, like cats right? Well I always just figured that I could only get pregnant if I had unprotected sex during a heat cycle." I tried to explain the best I could while pacing our small living room.

"And that theory is wrong how?"

"Back at Manticore, they were pairing off couples as breeding partners since we blew up their DNA lab. They paired me up with Alec and-"

"They what?" Cindy gasped.

"Relax, we didn't do anything. But it just dawned on me, I wasn't in heat while I was there and they still paired us off. I must have been wrong." I was suddenly feeling nauseous again and sat back down on the couch, burying my head in my hands.

"So what you are trying to tell me is that you think you got pregnant but that it might be Alec's?"

"Hell no! Logan is the only one I've been with since everything with Manticore." I involuntarily rubbed my stomach.

"What are you gonna do?" Cindy asked gently.

"I need to steal a pregnancy test." I said resolutely.

A/N: What did you think? More to come!