Chapter 1
Max leaned against the wall of Logan's apartment building waiting for Alec. She couldn't believe he was late yet again. She had told him to meet her half of hour ago and he still wasn't there. But then again when did she expect Alec to start being reliable. She sighed and pushed off the wall deciding to go up to Logan's apartment without him.
She entered the apartment and was surprise to see both Alec and Logan there. They were leaning over the computer looking at something and haven't notice that she had enter the room. "Hey guys, what's going on?"
Both guys turned to look at her with a surprised look on their faces. Alec was the first to get over the surprise and grinned his cocky grin at Max while Logan tried to cover the screen. "Maxie, where you been? We were supposed to meet 30 minutes ago."
Max ignored Alec and focus on the screen behind Logan. "What's on the screen?" She tried to get a peek at the screen but Alec kept stepping in her way.
"Don't worry about that Max, it's just something me and Logan are working on." Alec said with a smile, hoping it would keep Max looking at the screen.
"Alec move before I move you." Alec put his hands up and moved out the way of the potentially pissed off transgenic female. Max crossed her arms and glare at Logan, daring him not to move. Logan, not wanting to get on the bad side of Max's temper, moved out of the way to reveal the computer screen. On the screen there was a picture of the girl that was in Jam Pony early from the surveillance video at Jam Pony.
She shook her head at both of the guys and rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you two." She held up her hand when they open their mouths to say something. She didn't want to hear their excuses for as to why they were being pigs, she didn't really care. "What did you need to talk to us about Logan?" She questioned getting straight to the point.
Logan shifted uncomfortably but still answered the question. "Well I was doing some digging, I figured now that its out about the transgenics and the X series to be exact, the government might be planning something."
Max nodded her head, understanding where this was going. "So what did you dig up?"
Logan looked defeated as he answered her. "Nothing. Now that could be because of two reasons. Either they aren't planning anything, which I doubt or they are putting one of their elite teams on it." He turned towards the computer about to do some more research when he noticed something on the picture of the girl. "Wait a second, what is that?"
Alec and Max move closer to the computer for a closer look. Max made sure not to get too close to Logan. She didn't want to infect him again and risk having him died. She and Logan had been through enough already and this virus was just an added bonus. Now she also had to deal with the uncomfortable tension in the room because of Logan thinking her and Alec was together. It was for his own protection and Alec agree to play along with it. Max wasn't sure why he did but she wasn't complaining either.
Alec got a closer look at the computer, then pulled back when he realize what it was that caught Logan's attention. "Those are dog tags. I'm surprised you couldn't tell Logan."
Logan took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes a little. "Must have been staring at this computer screen for too long." He placed his glasses back over his eyes and started typing some keys on his computer keyboard. "I'm going to try and pulled up her ID number. Maybe I can get some information on her military background and see if any of it is useful."
Logan started typing more keys at a faster pace as Max and Alec got comfortable on the couch. Alec pulled Max closer to him with a grin and Max swatted him away. He motioned to Logan with his head, silently reminding her that they are supposed to be a couple and therefore act like one. Max rolled her eyes as Alec grinned placing his arm around her shoulder. He was really enjoying picking with her.
"I found something." Logan turned to the two X5s and pause, not being used to seeing them like that. He cleared his throat as Max looked down uncomfortable. "Turns out she was a NAVY SEAL turned Delta Force."
"Delta Force? Wait I thought they were all secret soldiers and what not." Alec question, removing his arm from around Max and walking towards Logan to get a closer look at the computer screen.
Logan turned back to the computer screen and continued typing. "They are but I have connections. This is good news actually. These guys are the first offense against terrorism, not to mention their other missions include rescuing hostages, raids, and killing covert enemy forces. And that's just the beginning, there are a lot more to what they do."
Max came out of her daze and turned towards the guys. "So tell us more about these Delta Forces, I mean Manticore didn't exactly school us on other military operations."
Logan stopped typing and turned towards them once more as Alec leaned against the computer desk. "Well to start they are always in civilian clothes and wear civilian hairstyles. You'll never see them in uniform on or off duty, even when they are on base. It's to conceal their secret identity and able them to blend in and not be immediately recognized as military personnel. They are granted an enormous amount of flexibility and autonomy. Most of these guys are men so she has to be really good to be one." He pause, not sure how Max and Alec would take his next suggestion. "I was thinking maybe Alec could get close to her, you know pretend to like her to gain information. You okay with that Max?"
Max looked at both guys who was studying her with uncertain looks. "Yeah that's fine, I mean we need to be prepared incase something happen. If the government is planning something we need to know."
Alec nodded and turned to walk out the door. "Well I'm going to go figure out a way to find this girl. Max you coming?"
Max stood up and walked over to Alec. She nodded a thanks as her and Alec walked out the door.
Logan watched them leave and smile to himself. His plan was starting to work, now all he needed was Alec to do the same thing he did with the Berrisford Mission. After that Max would break up with Alec and come back to him, where she belonged. Hopefully she won't ever find out how he set this whole thing up. How he already knew the government wasn't planning anything yet, how he noticed the dog tags on the picture as soon as Alec showed him it, how when Alec was in the bathroom he did a quick background check on her and most importantly how the dog tags she wore didn't belong to her.
