Logan sat in the chair, took Max on his lap in a way that he was able to
wheeled themselves in the direction of the bathroom. He turned on the cold
water and the hot water to make it just cold enough...no need to freeze to
death!

" There you go." He repositionned himself to be at ease and felt
her trembling a little. ' Probably the onset of the seizure,' he thought.
She was still flushed, her eyes were closed and her respiration rate was
very low.

"Come on Max, stay with me! Open your eyes!" No answer. He
shaked her gently and touched her face. " Max, open those gorgeous
big brown eyes of yours!" It worked.

" Good!" She started convulsing again and her eyes fixed
Logan's.

" I know." He softly stroke her face. She had told him how sick
she was of her 'Manticore body' defects.

The next seizure was so bad that Logan had to hold so tight to Max that he
thought he'd broken her a rib. It calmed down and he gave her another pill.
' I think it's been an hour that we're under the water...at least the
fever's droping.' He told himself. Max's cheeks were less scarlet than earlier. She'd put
her head on Logan's chest. He shivered from the cold. Max left her left
hand and touched Logan's face without looking at him.

"Logan, I'm fine now..." He decided to check over her forehead
with his cheeks to make sure she had told him the truth, and she did. He then
kissed her, on the forehead, and turned the water off.
They got out of the shower, and grabed a dry towel in the way out to the
bedroom because they looked like wet ducks.
With Max's help, he sat her on the edge of the bed. She took a deep breath
to help ease the trembling and looked at him. She smiled.

" Look at you! You're all wet."

" So are you." Yeah, now it's time to make fun of me...she's
back! He opened his wardrobe and took a T-shirt and a pair of shorts.
" There, put on whatever you want. I mean, put them both on..."

" OK." Did she just agree with me? I should write it down.

" He got out of the room after being sure she was fine, and went into
Sophie's. She was sleepng peacefully in her bed. ' Bless that child for
being so calm.' He closed the door behind him and went to the laundry room
to put a shirt and boxers on, clean ones.
He headed for the kitchen and decided tea would be nice since there is
almost no blood flow in his body right now.

" Max?" He knocked on the door before going in. She was
wearing the shirt and shorts on.

" I'm so tired." Her eyes went from opened to closed without
stopping.

" Don't worry about it Max, just sleep in my bed. I'll go sleep on
the sofa." She snuggled under the sheets and closed her eyes.

" I wont bite you...unless you want me to!" And she fell asleep.

Logan smiled at her in disbelief and closed the door in silence. 'Oh! Max,
you really are something.' He drank his tea and saw midnight on the clock.
'Better get some sleep.' He lied down on the couch and tried to get some
sleep...didn't work very well. Two o'clock.

"Well, she said she wouldn't mind...", so he sat up, and wheeled
himself toward the bedroom.