Disclaimer: I don't own nothing or nobody except Alex, so suing me would be incredibly pointless, all you'd get is some pocket lint and a few cents!
Spoilers: Minor ones for all up to 'Hit A Sista Back'. And let's pretend that Max's transfusion cured Logan with no side effects, ok? Also, nothing after HASB happened :-)
Author's Note: I honestly cannot STAND Zach, so the light I cast upon him may not be the most flattering and it's probably quite exaggerated… but how can you blame me? I hate the guy! I seriously think he's in love with Max! And that's just wrong… but anyone who likes Zach and M/Z pairings, I'm sorry, please don't kill me! It's just my opinion! Anyways, enough of my ranting, on with the story!!
Thanks to AJQuest, Silverstar_1013, Sonar, Slink, JoeyJoeJoeJR, a reader, Maggie, Lanna, goldapple57, Connster_97, Gurgosh, happy M+L shipper, heather, Lyla, Ashley, ~*Faith*~, Lorraine, kricket, dark angel fan, Amy, aromagik and Michelle Paquette for reviewing! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!
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Alex stood there, with her mouth hanging open and Zach asked, " Are you gonna ask me to come in or what?"
Alex opened the door and said, " Come in. But be quiet, Original Cindy's sleeping. Not all of us are up and raring to go at 4 in the morning," Alex yawned.
" Where's Max?" Zach asked.
" Not here," Alex said, " Didn't you know? She moved out about 2 months ago."
" Ah, so she finally left Seattle. Smart move," Zach gave a smirk.
Alex shook her head, " Nope. She moved in with Logan."
" She WHAT?" Zach exploded.
Alex grinned and nodded, " Yup! Don't tell me you didn't know that! Geez, what kind of a brother are you? You don't even know what your own sister is up to."
" She moved in with Cale? Dammit, why does that f**king asshole always get what he wants?"
" Hey!" Alex said sharply, " Don't speak badly of him."
" You too? How many little playmates does he have?"
Alex seized him by the neck and threw up him against the wall, " Listen Zach, I don't care about the feelings you have for Max nor do I care about your stupid commander ways, but NEVER speak badly of my brother."
" You're his sister?" Zach asked, " Damn, Cale's just got his hands everywhere doesn't he?"
Alex narrowed her eyes and let him down, " Yes, Logan's my brother. Don't tell me you didn't know that either!" she groaned, " You're horrible."
" Hey, it's hard keeping up with all of you!"
" Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever," Alex said, " Look, can all this talk wait for the morning? I'm REALLY tired. Or is it that important?"
" I think Lydecker's finally tracking you down. He's got it narrowed down to northwestern United States. And that you've had contact with Max."
" How could he have tracked me down?" Alex asked, " After we left Manticore, I immediately changed my name to Nancy Davids. After the pulse hit, I was adopted by Logan's family and changed my name to Alexia Cale."
" What have you been doing that's out of the ordinary lately?"
Alex shrugged, " I did a little Eyes Only leg work with Max but that's it. Geez, it took him this long? It's almost been 8 months since I've been here!"
" You've stayed in one place for 8 months?" Zach hissed.
" You are WAY too uptight!" Alex said, flopping down on her bed, " Couch is over there, wake me up IF YOU MUST at 6. Lydecker can go screw a goat for all I care; he is NOT going to interfere with my beauty sleep. I haven't had any shuteye for nearly a week."
" But we have to get you and Max out of the city NOW!" Zach objected.
" Loosen up will you? Geez, I'd hate to look out for the others like you do, you never take it easy! A couple more hours won't make that much of a difference. He's had 8 months to track me down already, he won't be able to track me down in only a few hours. And Zach, you are not permitted to go and see Max right now, it's her and Logan's 6 month anniversary, they deserve some time together."
Zach muttered something incoherent under his breath and Alex rolled her eyes, " Don't act like such a baby just because you lost a girl you never had! Now GO TO SLEEP!"
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Max gazed lovingly at Logan and gently traced his lips with her fingertips. She couldn't believe that she and Logan had finally made love. Logan had been such a caring and attentive lover; she was sure she was the luckiest woman alive. It had felt so much like a dream. A dream she never wanted to wake up from. She had never felt such a huge desire for him before, not even when she had been in heat.
Logan felt Max trace his lips and he opened his gorgeous blue eyes and gave her a light squeeze, " Morning." He was startled and pleasantly surprised by the amount of love overflowing from her breathtakingly beautiful brown eyes.
" Morning," she smiled, " how'd you sleep?"
" Like a baby," he yawned, " You?"
" Wonderfully," she said, lying on top of Logan so she could see his face better, " You wore me out."
Logan grinned, " I'm glad I finally figured out a way to knock you out for a few hours."
She laughed too and said, " I can't believe we proved Kendra's Mr. Multiples theory."
Logan blushed slightly, " Apparently so."
Max smiled mischievously, " And I loved every second of it."
" As did I," Logan smiled back, giving her a kiss on the forehead. He suddenly rolled over, bringing Max with him so he was on top. Max wrapped her arms around his waist and he lifted himself up slightly by his hands on either side of her so he won't crush her.
" God, you're beautiful," Logan breathed. Her disheveled hair, lips that were more swollen than usual and warmth were all his doing.
Max couldn't believe how incredibly expressive his eyes were. She knew that if she looked into his eyes for even a minute, she'd get lost in them forever. Max pressed a kiss to her lover's lips, " I love you."
" I love you back. You're my everything, my beloved and my one true love."
" Oh really?" Max grinned.
" Really," he smiled back. He started to get up, but Max wrapped her legs around him and said, " Where do you think you're going?" she asked with a devilish smile.
" You wanna try another round?" Logan raised an eyebrow and attacked her mouth.
" Oh, God yes," Max moaned.
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Zach paced quickly in Alex's apartment. " Can we go NOW?" he asked, sounding like an impatient 5 year old.
Alex rolled her eyes and checked the clock, " No we can't, Mr. Worries-about-everything. It's only 10:30. If things went the way Original Cindy and I had hoped, we're not going for at least another 45 minutes."
" Forget it," he said, grabbing his jacket, " I'm going over."
" Wait Zach!" Alex called out down the hallway, " Dammit!" she said, grabbing her jacket and chasing Zach.
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Zach strolled into Logan's penthouse apartment and was about to call out Max's name when moaning from the bedroom could be heard. " Oh God," he said under his breath.
" Zach!" Alex burst into Logan's apartment. Then she heard the noises too. " Oh my God…" she whispered, " Are they…?" In a second, she got her answer, " YES! Oh Logan, NOW!"
Alex's eyes widened and Zach mumbled, " I need some air." He went out onto the balcony and Alex followed.
" Zach, what's wrong?"
" Nothing," he said, refusing to look at her.
" Look at me Zach."
Zach slowly turned and Alex could see that his eyes were red. Alex groaned, " Don't tell me that Max and Logan having sex was bugging you! GROW UP!! Look, Max loves Logan, not you, so get over it!"
Zach refused to say anything and Alex sighed and said in a softer voice, " Zach, you're not going to ruin Max's happiness with Logan are you? I mean, don't you want her to be happy?"
" I want her to be happy, just not with him," he said softly, " I love her."
" She loves you too. Just not in the way you want her to. She thinks of you as her big brother. She thinks of Logan as her lover. Ew, Logan and 'lover' should never be spoken in the same sentence," she made a face.
" Now you know how I feel," he scoffed.
" Ah, but that's where you're wrong," Alex smiled, " As disgusting as it is to think of my own brother having sex with my sister, I don't mind the idea, because I want them both to be happy. Can you just find it in your heart to be at least civil with Logan?"
" I guess," he mumbled.
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" So you gonna make me breakfast or what?" Max asked, putting on her bathrobe and tying it on loosely.
" Oh, so now I automatically have to make you food for every single meal?"
She shrugged, " You have been for the past couple of months."
" Have I?" Logan asked.
" Yup," she smiled, wrapping her arms around his waist and kissing him.
Logan ran his hands down to her butt and she broke the kiss, " Nuh-uh, not there, or else you're going to be sore for a couple more months, and that's not good."
" And why isn't that good?" he nuzzled her neck.
" Because my heat cycle is coming up in about 3 weeks and you need to be all you can be," she ran a finger down his bare chest.
" Oh really?"
" Really," Max grinned, " Come on," she turned and walked to the door.
Logan put his arms around her waist from behind and sighed, " Oh fine, if you insist."
They walked out into the living room, only to find Alex sitting there, watching them with an amused smile on their faces. Zach just had a frown on his face.
" Oh my God!" Both Max and Logan said with surprise.
" Alex, Zach, what are you doing here?" Max asked, quickly doing her robe up more tightly.
Logan instinctively put his arm around Max's shoulder and Zach said coolly, " Hey Cale."
" Hey Zach," Logan said, managing a smile, even for Zach, probably due to the amount of pleasure he had received in the last few hours.
Alex grinned, " Zach's back in town and he wanted to see you guys."
" How long have you been here?" Logan asked, praying they hadn't heard his and Max's activities.
" Oh, about 45 minutes, an hour," Alex grinned wickedly, " I see you used your time alone productively."
Both Logan and Max turned bright red and Max said, " Um, I'm going to get changed."
" Yeah, me too," Logan said, hurrying into their bedroom.
Once they were inside, Logan asked, " Oh my God, what's Zach doing here?"
" I don't know!" Max exclaimed, pacing around the room.
" Oh my God, I can't believe my little sister heard me having sex," he said, putting his head in his hands.
" Yeah, we were kinda loud weren't we?" Max asked with a small smile on her face, thinking about their activities.
" Oh yes we were," Logan agreed, pulling her into his lap. Max willingly sat down and kissed the tip of his nose, " I love you." Max smiled, " I like saying those words to you."
" I love saying them to you too," he said softly, " We better get dressed," he sighed.
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" Ok, so why are you here Zach?" Max asked the second she and Logan walked back into the living room.
" Lydecker's tracked Alex down to the Northwestern United States. It's only a matter of days or even hours before he tracks her down to Seattle. I want to get you two out of here," Zach answered, addressing Max.
" Well, if it's just Alex, why do I have to go?" Max questioned.
" Because Lydecker knows you two have had contact. He'd kill everyone you know just to get one step closer to you guys.
Max's face paled. She had just achieved things that she had only dreamed of. She couldn't leave Logan, not now!
" We have to leave now?" Max asked, even though she knew that Zach would want her to leave as soon as humanly possible.
" Now," Zach said firmly, " Max, I have put up with your phony sentimentality foolishness so far, but I won't allow you to endanger your life."
" But I can't…" Max said desperately, clutching Logan's hand. During the time she'd lived with Logan, she had very slowly become dependant on his touch to get her through some tough situations and had began to display emotions more freely. Logan's arm unconsciously went around her shoulder and pulled her closer to him.
Zach flinched noticeably at the obvious level of intimacy Max and Logan shared.
" Zach, can I talk to you for a second?" Alex spoke up, sensing Zach's jealousy of Logan.
" Yeah, Max, I need to talk to you too," Logan said quietly. He already knew what he'd have to tell her, he just didn't want to.
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A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out!! I had a very busy week and my computer broke down! I nearly had a heart attack; I thought I lost this entire story!!! Please read and review!!
Spoilers: Minor ones for all up to 'Hit A Sista Back'. And let's pretend that Max's transfusion cured Logan with no side effects, ok? Also, nothing after HASB happened :-)
Author's Note: I honestly cannot STAND Zach, so the light I cast upon him may not be the most flattering and it's probably quite exaggerated… but how can you blame me? I hate the guy! I seriously think he's in love with Max! And that's just wrong… but anyone who likes Zach and M/Z pairings, I'm sorry, please don't kill me! It's just my opinion! Anyways, enough of my ranting, on with the story!!
Thanks to AJQuest, Silverstar_1013, Sonar, Slink, JoeyJoeJoeJR, a reader, Maggie, Lanna, goldapple57, Connster_97, Gurgosh, happy M+L shipper, heather, Lyla, Ashley, ~*Faith*~, Lorraine, kricket, dark angel fan, Amy, aromagik and Michelle Paquette for reviewing! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!
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Alex stood there, with her mouth hanging open and Zach asked, " Are you gonna ask me to come in or what?"
Alex opened the door and said, " Come in. But be quiet, Original Cindy's sleeping. Not all of us are up and raring to go at 4 in the morning," Alex yawned.
" Where's Max?" Zach asked.
" Not here," Alex said, " Didn't you know? She moved out about 2 months ago."
" Ah, so she finally left Seattle. Smart move," Zach gave a smirk.
Alex shook her head, " Nope. She moved in with Logan."
" She WHAT?" Zach exploded.
Alex grinned and nodded, " Yup! Don't tell me you didn't know that! Geez, what kind of a brother are you? You don't even know what your own sister is up to."
" She moved in with Cale? Dammit, why does that f**king asshole always get what he wants?"
" Hey!" Alex said sharply, " Don't speak badly of him."
" You too? How many little playmates does he have?"
Alex seized him by the neck and threw up him against the wall, " Listen Zach, I don't care about the feelings you have for Max nor do I care about your stupid commander ways, but NEVER speak badly of my brother."
" You're his sister?" Zach asked, " Damn, Cale's just got his hands everywhere doesn't he?"
Alex narrowed her eyes and let him down, " Yes, Logan's my brother. Don't tell me you didn't know that either!" she groaned, " You're horrible."
" Hey, it's hard keeping up with all of you!"
" Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever," Alex said, " Look, can all this talk wait for the morning? I'm REALLY tired. Or is it that important?"
" I think Lydecker's finally tracking you down. He's got it narrowed down to northwestern United States. And that you've had contact with Max."
" How could he have tracked me down?" Alex asked, " After we left Manticore, I immediately changed my name to Nancy Davids. After the pulse hit, I was adopted by Logan's family and changed my name to Alexia Cale."
" What have you been doing that's out of the ordinary lately?"
Alex shrugged, " I did a little Eyes Only leg work with Max but that's it. Geez, it took him this long? It's almost been 8 months since I've been here!"
" You've stayed in one place for 8 months?" Zach hissed.
" You are WAY too uptight!" Alex said, flopping down on her bed, " Couch is over there, wake me up IF YOU MUST at 6. Lydecker can go screw a goat for all I care; he is NOT going to interfere with my beauty sleep. I haven't had any shuteye for nearly a week."
" But we have to get you and Max out of the city NOW!" Zach objected.
" Loosen up will you? Geez, I'd hate to look out for the others like you do, you never take it easy! A couple more hours won't make that much of a difference. He's had 8 months to track me down already, he won't be able to track me down in only a few hours. And Zach, you are not permitted to go and see Max right now, it's her and Logan's 6 month anniversary, they deserve some time together."
Zach muttered something incoherent under his breath and Alex rolled her eyes, " Don't act like such a baby just because you lost a girl you never had! Now GO TO SLEEP!"
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Max gazed lovingly at Logan and gently traced his lips with her fingertips. She couldn't believe that she and Logan had finally made love. Logan had been such a caring and attentive lover; she was sure she was the luckiest woman alive. It had felt so much like a dream. A dream she never wanted to wake up from. She had never felt such a huge desire for him before, not even when she had been in heat.
Logan felt Max trace his lips and he opened his gorgeous blue eyes and gave her a light squeeze, " Morning." He was startled and pleasantly surprised by the amount of love overflowing from her breathtakingly beautiful brown eyes.
" Morning," she smiled, " how'd you sleep?"
" Like a baby," he yawned, " You?"
" Wonderfully," she said, lying on top of Logan so she could see his face better, " You wore me out."
Logan grinned, " I'm glad I finally figured out a way to knock you out for a few hours."
She laughed too and said, " I can't believe we proved Kendra's Mr. Multiples theory."
Logan blushed slightly, " Apparently so."
Max smiled mischievously, " And I loved every second of it."
" As did I," Logan smiled back, giving her a kiss on the forehead. He suddenly rolled over, bringing Max with him so he was on top. Max wrapped her arms around his waist and he lifted himself up slightly by his hands on either side of her so he won't crush her.
" God, you're beautiful," Logan breathed. Her disheveled hair, lips that were more swollen than usual and warmth were all his doing.
Max couldn't believe how incredibly expressive his eyes were. She knew that if she looked into his eyes for even a minute, she'd get lost in them forever. Max pressed a kiss to her lover's lips, " I love you."
" I love you back. You're my everything, my beloved and my one true love."
" Oh really?" Max grinned.
" Really," he smiled back. He started to get up, but Max wrapped her legs around him and said, " Where do you think you're going?" she asked with a devilish smile.
" You wanna try another round?" Logan raised an eyebrow and attacked her mouth.
" Oh, God yes," Max moaned.
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Zach paced quickly in Alex's apartment. " Can we go NOW?" he asked, sounding like an impatient 5 year old.
Alex rolled her eyes and checked the clock, " No we can't, Mr. Worries-about-everything. It's only 10:30. If things went the way Original Cindy and I had hoped, we're not going for at least another 45 minutes."
" Forget it," he said, grabbing his jacket, " I'm going over."
" Wait Zach!" Alex called out down the hallway, " Dammit!" she said, grabbing her jacket and chasing Zach.
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Zach strolled into Logan's penthouse apartment and was about to call out Max's name when moaning from the bedroom could be heard. " Oh God," he said under his breath.
" Zach!" Alex burst into Logan's apartment. Then she heard the noises too. " Oh my God…" she whispered, " Are they…?" In a second, she got her answer, " YES! Oh Logan, NOW!"
Alex's eyes widened and Zach mumbled, " I need some air." He went out onto the balcony and Alex followed.
" Zach, what's wrong?"
" Nothing," he said, refusing to look at her.
" Look at me Zach."
Zach slowly turned and Alex could see that his eyes were red. Alex groaned, " Don't tell me that Max and Logan having sex was bugging you! GROW UP!! Look, Max loves Logan, not you, so get over it!"
Zach refused to say anything and Alex sighed and said in a softer voice, " Zach, you're not going to ruin Max's happiness with Logan are you? I mean, don't you want her to be happy?"
" I want her to be happy, just not with him," he said softly, " I love her."
" She loves you too. Just not in the way you want her to. She thinks of you as her big brother. She thinks of Logan as her lover. Ew, Logan and 'lover' should never be spoken in the same sentence," she made a face.
" Now you know how I feel," he scoffed.
" Ah, but that's where you're wrong," Alex smiled, " As disgusting as it is to think of my own brother having sex with my sister, I don't mind the idea, because I want them both to be happy. Can you just find it in your heart to be at least civil with Logan?"
" I guess," he mumbled.
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" So you gonna make me breakfast or what?" Max asked, putting on her bathrobe and tying it on loosely.
" Oh, so now I automatically have to make you food for every single meal?"
She shrugged, " You have been for the past couple of months."
" Have I?" Logan asked.
" Yup," she smiled, wrapping her arms around his waist and kissing him.
Logan ran his hands down to her butt and she broke the kiss, " Nuh-uh, not there, or else you're going to be sore for a couple more months, and that's not good."
" And why isn't that good?" he nuzzled her neck.
" Because my heat cycle is coming up in about 3 weeks and you need to be all you can be," she ran a finger down his bare chest.
" Oh really?"
" Really," Max grinned, " Come on," she turned and walked to the door.
Logan put his arms around her waist from behind and sighed, " Oh fine, if you insist."
They walked out into the living room, only to find Alex sitting there, watching them with an amused smile on their faces. Zach just had a frown on his face.
" Oh my God!" Both Max and Logan said with surprise.
" Alex, Zach, what are you doing here?" Max asked, quickly doing her robe up more tightly.
Logan instinctively put his arm around Max's shoulder and Zach said coolly, " Hey Cale."
" Hey Zach," Logan said, managing a smile, even for Zach, probably due to the amount of pleasure he had received in the last few hours.
Alex grinned, " Zach's back in town and he wanted to see you guys."
" How long have you been here?" Logan asked, praying they hadn't heard his and Max's activities.
" Oh, about 45 minutes, an hour," Alex grinned wickedly, " I see you used your time alone productively."
Both Logan and Max turned bright red and Max said, " Um, I'm going to get changed."
" Yeah, me too," Logan said, hurrying into their bedroom.
Once they were inside, Logan asked, " Oh my God, what's Zach doing here?"
" I don't know!" Max exclaimed, pacing around the room.
" Oh my God, I can't believe my little sister heard me having sex," he said, putting his head in his hands.
" Yeah, we were kinda loud weren't we?" Max asked with a small smile on her face, thinking about their activities.
" Oh yes we were," Logan agreed, pulling her into his lap. Max willingly sat down and kissed the tip of his nose, " I love you." Max smiled, " I like saying those words to you."
" I love saying them to you too," he said softly, " We better get dressed," he sighed.
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" Ok, so why are you here Zach?" Max asked the second she and Logan walked back into the living room.
" Lydecker's tracked Alex down to the Northwestern United States. It's only a matter of days or even hours before he tracks her down to Seattle. I want to get you two out of here," Zach answered, addressing Max.
" Well, if it's just Alex, why do I have to go?" Max questioned.
" Because Lydecker knows you two have had contact. He'd kill everyone you know just to get one step closer to you guys.
Max's face paled. She had just achieved things that she had only dreamed of. She couldn't leave Logan, not now!
" We have to leave now?" Max asked, even though she knew that Zach would want her to leave as soon as humanly possible.
" Now," Zach said firmly, " Max, I have put up with your phony sentimentality foolishness so far, but I won't allow you to endanger your life."
" But I can't…" Max said desperately, clutching Logan's hand. During the time she'd lived with Logan, she had very slowly become dependant on his touch to get her through some tough situations and had began to display emotions more freely. Logan's arm unconsciously went around her shoulder and pulled her closer to him.
Zach flinched noticeably at the obvious level of intimacy Max and Logan shared.
" Zach, can I talk to you for a second?" Alex spoke up, sensing Zach's jealousy of Logan.
" Yeah, Max, I need to talk to you too," Logan said quietly. He already knew what he'd have to tell her, he just didn't want to.
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A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out!! I had a very busy week and my computer broke down! I nearly had a heart attack; I thought I lost this entire story!!! Please read and review!!