TITLE: New Perspective

AUTHOR: Sarge

E-MAIL: sarge2525@hotmail.com

RATING: pg-13

SUMMARY: Logan once more asks Max to help him, but this time she has a common interest in the problem.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters. James Cameron, and the other guy who's name I sadly can't remember do. As well as Fox.


When Max and Logan got to the hospital Logan was looking at her with a slight smile on his face.

"What are you smiling at?" Max asked Logan, "I thought you didn't like these scumbbags."

"I don't," Logan answered thinking that she wasn't going to like the news that he was going to bring up now, "You do remember that you actually have to act like my girlfriend right?"

"Look just because I've never had a boyfriend doesn't mean that I don't know how to be someone's girlfriend." Max answered as they started going into the building. "What about you? I mean you have to act like you like me."

"I don't think that'll be to hard," Logan told her as he watched her walk in front of him. He wasn't minding the view.

Max walked up to the desk and glared at the nurse waiting there.

"We're here to see Dr. Poodle," Max told her, "Our appointment is for 9:30."

"Yes, your listed. I'll take you back to the room he'll be seeing you in." the nurse got up and they followed her. Max hung back around Logan who was sulking in truth with his character.

"It'll be alright baby," Max said glad that she was trained for this sort of thing. Logan let the look on his face slip into shock for a few seconds before regaining his composer, "I'm sure Dr. Poodle can help us."

"Help me." Logan corrected still sulking, "Your not the one in pain. Not the one who can't even walk anymore because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just because you wanted me to come visit, and then didn't show up!"

Logan was doing quite the good job of creating a scene. He was sure that the doctor was going to fall for it.

"Wasn't I the one that stuck by you, and helped you?" Max demanded playing the slightly upset girlfriend as she moved in closer, "I love you, and I'm never going to leave you. Not even if the doctor can't help you."

"I'm sure I can help him," Dr. Poodle said as he walked into the room, "How depressed has he been lately?"

"We have to go and see a councilor about his suicide attempts next," Max told the doctor calmly.

"Well, it's nice to see that you still care about him," Dr. Poodle told her, "So many girls would leave their guy if something like this happened."

"I know. You wouldn't believe how many guys hit on me," Max told the doctor sadly, "But I am so loyal to him. I just don't see how I could leave him."

"Right, sure you are now, but how long are you going to stay around if he can't help me?" Logan demanded, " Another week. Then what? Leave me to fend for myself in this world?"

"I would never leave you," Max objected as she kneeled down next to him, "I wouldn't betray you like that."

"That's why your already cheating on me," Logan snarled, "I swear I should have just killed myself and put myself out of the pain instead of letting you do this to me."

Logan could tell that the doctor was taking this bait hook line and sinker. They'd have two less scumbags come morning, and Max would have helped him again. Only this time he didn't have anything to give her. Logan wondered how much longer he could bribe Max into helping him. Especially after this one. He should have come up with a different plan, only he really liked this plan. Being so close to Max wasn't a bad thing.

This was the time that Dr. Poodle chose to intervene. He didn't like the direction that this conversation between the two of them was going.

"I can help you," Dr. Poodle promised them, "I just need to get authorization. I'm sure that you'll both be very pleased with the results."

Dr. Poodle walked into an office connected to the room that they were in and closed the door behind him. Max moved closer to the door and listened to his short conversation with the hospital administrator. She turned toward Logan.

"He got approval," Max announced as she to the other side of the door, "They don't know what to do with me though. Might have me join you."

"Where's the logic in that?" Logan asked, "you don't fit the victim profile."

"I think that they believed you when I'm cheating. Plus if you die right in front of me due to a shot they give you what would most people logically do?"

"Head to the cops," Logan admitted, "So do you have a plan?"

"Yes," Max answered, "It's really to bad that Dr. Poodle is such a depressed man, and that our loyalty to each other pushed him over the edge."

When Dr. Poodle walked out of the office holding a syringe, Max didn't give him time to notice her, she just pulled him grabbed his hand and jammed the needle right into his throat. He dropped dead almost instantly. Max didn't react she just moved into the office and picked up the phone and dialed the administrator whom was also a doctor.

"Hello am I speaking to Dr. Buttons?" Max asked calmly.

"Yes, this is Dr. Buttons speaking," the voice from the other end of the line said calmly, "Can I help you with something?"

"I'm the person that was just in to see Dr. Poodle. Now your going to come down to his office without telling anyone or Dr. Poodle won't be alive much longer."

"I'll be right down," Dr. Buttons promised and hung up the phone.

Max began to search and didn't take her much longer to find another syringe which she threw at the door when it opened. Two dead Scumbags. Her work for the day was done.

"Well that about raps this party up," Max told Logan, "I'm sure that if you root through the desk you'll find lots more incriminating evidence."

"Thank you Max," Logan told her as he watched her wander around the room, "You did a good thing today and you saved a lot of peoples lives."

"Logan did it occur to you that maybe some of those people really wanted to die?" Max asked him, "Because I'm sure some did. Didn't you ever want to? Even for just a second?"

"Nah I tried death," Logan told her, "Got my spine blown up instead. Guess that's the price you pay. Like I said I'll get you information as soon as I can on whatever I can."

Suddenly Max was moving across the room toward the wall with a speed Logan didn't expect mumbling to herself as she stopped, and looked at the wall in shock.

"I can't believe it," Max announced, "Logan."

Logan was surprised by the look of shock on her face. It was something he had never really scene on her before and he instantly started to move toward her. Logan had the idea that whatever was on the wall was important which made this more then a case of overly exuberant doctors.