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Sorry it has taken me so long to update, but I just wasn't sure what I was going to write. Thanks for all the review about the last chapter. I hope that everybody likes this part to. Please review. Sorry for any grammar problems that you might find.

Chapter 4

Alec wanted to ram his head into a locker; at least then the pain would distract him from the emotional war raging within himself. It had started ten minutes ago when Max came into work talking to OC. But that's not what caused the problem. It was how Max was acting that made him want to pull out his own hair.

Max was smiling and laughing. At first Alec smiled to and he wanted to laugh as well, even though he didn't know the joke. That was just the effect happy Max had on him. Then Alec started thinking of all the reasons that Max was in such a good mood. And way too many of them involved Seth.

Every time Alec looked at Max or heard her laugh he felt a surge of happiness that overwhelmed all his other emotions. Then he would think of another thing that she and Seth might have done the night before and anger and something else would flash up. He wanted Max to be happy, but knowing that it was another man that was making her happy just didn't sit right with him.

Why do I even care? I mean Max isn't hitting me or yelling at me. Instead of freaking out about who is making her happy I should just be thankful. Alec said to himself.

Max had been glancing at Alec for the last couple of minutes. If she hadn't been in Manticore she probably just went on like everything was normal, never noticing that anything was wrong. But Max did see the confusion and confecting emotions flash across his face. And she was kind of worried. Alec was always messing around and joking. He was hardly ever serious.

"Alec is something wrong?" Max asked as she came over to him.

"Nothing at all Maxie." Alec tried to smile, but it came out weak. Then he looked at her and saw the happiness in Max's eyes and the concern she felt for him. That's when he gave her a real smile.

"Ok." She said, but she clearly wasn't completely convinced.

"Hot run people. Here Missy Miss Sector 4. Bip Bip." Normal said coming over and tossing a package at Max.

"Hey Boos why don't we all meet up and get lunch?" OC asked.

"I'm in." Sketchy said walking over and then leaving when he saw Normal looking at him.

"Me to." Alec said. The past two times they had all met for lunch Sketchy had to hide from people he owed money to and OC had went to flirt with the waitress, leaving him alone with Max; they had actually talked without fighting.

"I can't I promised Seth I'd have lunch with him. He was some job that he wants to tell me about." Max explained.

Alec didn't say a word. He really didn't know what would have came out if he opened his mouth.

Why is it pissing me off that Max is having lunch with Seth instead of me? Did I just think me I meant us. Alec thought.

"What kind of a job?" OC asked.

"One that requires my special talents." Max answered.

"Let's move people!!" Normal yelled.

"See you guys." Max said heading out.

Alec stood for a moment. So Seth was going to get Max to go on a heist with him. Alec had known from the moment that Seth came in that he wanted something. He wanted to use Max to help him rob somebody. Alec was always complaining when he had to go on a heist with Max. But he wouldn't have had her go with anyone else or by herself. When he was there he knew that she was alright. He could watch her back.

"Hey Pretty Boy you plan on moving today or are you just going to stand there and stare into space?" OC brought Alec out of his thoughts.

"Yeah," Alec said then he remembered that Cindy lived with Max, "So OC what did you guys do last night after Crash?"

"You mean what did Seth and Max do?" OC asked.

Not waiting for Alec to reply she said, "When I got back to the apartment they were in Max's room talking and I didn't see either one of them till this morning."

"Alright then." Alec said trying to sound like he didn't care. Then grabbing a random package he left.

If Alec had looked back he would have seen OC laughing to herself. When she had gotten home last night Seth and Max had really been sitting on the couch, which Seth had slept on, watching some movie. When Max had gone to the bathroom Seth had asked her to lie if Alec asked anything about what happened after everyone had left Crash. Honestly OC thought that Seth's plan was going to take longer to work, but now she wasn't so sure.

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Max sat on top of the Space Needle, she knew that all her friends were at Crash having fun. But she just needed some alone time to think. The past two days had been a blur. She was so excited that Seth was visiting, she had hardly thought about anything else.

Then she had seen Alec this morning. He looked so conflicted. So the whole day, till lunch at least, instead of thinking about how great it was to have Seth around she had been trying to figure out what was bothering Alec.

Then after lunch when Seth had told Max his plan she just couldn't shake the feeling of how weird it would be to go on a heist without Alec. She couldn't remember the last time that she had done something like that with anyone other than Alec. But Seth had asked for her help so she was just going to have to get over not having Alec there.

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"Sorry Sketchy." Alec said making his last shot to win the game. It was the forth game of pool Sketchy had lost to Alec.

"I'm going to get a drink." He said moving away from the pool table to the bar. Alec smirked at his friend, but when he looked toward the door his smirk fell.

"Hey man." Seth said standing next to Alec.

"Hey." Alec said dryly as he got the table ready for another game.

"So have you seen Max?"

"Not since she left Jam Pony this morning." Alec didn't look at him. He knew where Max was, she was on the Space Needle, but he'd be damned before he'd tell Seth that.

"I need to see if she's going to help me with my heist or not." Seth said.

"I'm sure she will." Alec tried to keep his voice in a normal tone.

Seth had been testing Alec's mood the whole time that he had been talking to him. Seeing if the other transgenic was in anyway jealous of him and in Seth's option he was.

"Yeah I could handle it myself. But then I wouldn't get to see Max in one of those hot outfits that she probably wears." Seth said with as much sleaze he could put in his voice.

Alec completely missed his shot. All of a sudden the entire room was covered in a red haze as he turn to look at Seth.

Hold it together Alec. He said to himself. The last part of Alec's brain that wasn't completely controlled by burning rage told him that Max would be pissed if she came in and saw him driving Seth's head into a wall.

"I can just see it now, Max crawling through a vent in front of me, her cute little ass up in the air." Seth grinned and got his best far away look in his eyes.

That was the last straw for Alec. All of his remaining brain functions shut off except for anger. Then he was taking a step toward Seth.