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Chapter 11

Logan tried paging her during the whole night until finally his phone rang. "Hello." He answered.

"Who am I speaking with?" the voice asked.

"Who am I speaking with?" Logan repeated the caller was calling him after all.

"I'm a nurse at Harbour Lights and we've got a patient here, your number was the last one she received." The nurse explained.

"What happened to her?" Logan began to worry this wasn't something normal, Max never got hurt. "I'm on my way." He hung up right away and called Sam Carr to meet him at the hospital.

Logan arrived a little after Sam Carr did. Sam had Max moved to the third floor and in a private room. He'd gotten all the test result and her files and waiting for Logan in an office he had when on duty at the hospital.

"Sam, please tell me she's alright." Logan rushed into the office.

"Take a seat Logan." Sam replied causing Logan to fear the worst. "I have good news and bad news."

"What is it?" Logan's mind was reeling.

"First of all she's come out of surgery…"

"Surgery! What for exactly?" Logan interrupted.

"She'd been brought it with a gunshot wound. Now the good news is that they were able to remove the bullet and there was no internal bleeding." Sam explained.

"What is the bad news then?" Logan didn't understand if the operation went well what was the problem.

"She's fallen into a coma. They did tests on her and when she was shot the bullet must have contained the drug." Sam flipped through some papers. "We don't know what this drug is; it's something we've never seen therefore I can only believe that this has something to do with Manticore in some sort of way."

Logan sat there quiet for a few minutes. Manticore was again ruining her life, maybe they hoped that the hospital would call in the CDC concerning the drug and they'd sweep in and reclaim her. Then his theory went out the window, she'd gone to try and rescue Alec. That bullet was meant for him.

"Was she brought in alone?" Logan questioned searching his coat pocket for his cell phone. Sam nodded after verifying the reports. "Come on pick up… pick up."

"You've reached Alec leave a message." The answering machine picked up.

"Alec, listen you need to come back to Seattle. Max is in the hospital and I think that she may be in danger." Logan was about to hang up when he made a decision. "She's been asking for you."

He knew he'd lied in a way because she hadn't asked for him. However she did have feelings, whatever those feelings were, she had them nonetheless. She'd be glad to see him when she woke up if she woke up. There might be consequences to his little lie but he'd deal with that when the time came.

Alec walked into Jam Pony that morning wondering what excuse he'd give Normal. "Well look who the cat dragged back in." Normal said coming out of his office.

"Hey Normal." Alec replied stopping in front of the older man.

"Glad to see you back. Hope everything is okay." Normal smiled, he'd always like Alec.

"Uh… yeah." Alec didn't know what else to say.

Opening his locker he saw that his cell phone was on the top shelf. He'd been looking for it all week; grabbing it he saw he had messages.

"First message – 'Alec it's me. Call me.' Second message – 'We need to talk and you're acting like a child.' Third message – 'Alec you can't… just… please call someone and let us know you're okay.'" Alec had to smile with the number of messages Max had left him. He was surprised she'd actually noticed he was gone, positive that she'd gone back to Logan. "Fourth message – 'Alec listen you need to come back to Seattle. Max is in the hospital and I think that she may be in danger.'" Alec hung up.

Closing his locker door he quickly scanned around to find OC and see what exactly was going on but she wasn't there. Heading out the building he yelled to Normal. "Not feeling good suddenly, going home."

Arriving at the hospital Alec felt sick to his stomach as he passed by the different rooms. Everything here was reminding him of Manticore and all the things he endured over there. He couldn't find Logan anywhere and stopped at the nurses' station. "I'm looking for my fiancée could you tell me where she is."

"What's her name son." The older woman question.

What was her god damned name Alec tried to remember? Quickly picturing her sector pass he smiled, "Max Guevera." Getting the room number he headed straight there.

Walking into the darken room Alec had no trouble to see at all. Max lay in bed and seemed so peaceful. He scanned the room for her medical chart but didn't see one. Sitting down beside her he took her hand in his.

"Hey Max it's me Alec." He smiled to himself. "What did you get yourself into this time? Listen you got to wake up, we've got unfinished business to take care of." This time he laughed a little. "I know I said I'd leave you be with Logan but I lied I can't just stop having these feelings for you. If I have to fight for you then so be it and may the best men win." Kissing her palm softly. "Wake up Maxie, please even if it's just to yell at me."

Logan stood there wondering if the young transgenic knew he was in the room. He didn't want to interrupt anything so he'd stayed but he also felt like he was intruding.

"What happened to her Logan?" Alec said his voice laced with anger. He knew he'd been there the minute he walked in.