Disclaimer: basically everything is not mine; the characters, the setting, the main plot, the history, and some of the lines are not mine; and I have just the actual story line. Sob.
Sebastion was talking to Logan. Logan shook his head. "No, Max didn't say what--"
Logan was cut off by Max and Joshua walking in, with Max carrying a full-grown man in her arms. She turned to Logan, and dropped the man on the floor in front of him. She grinned. "Cut 'im up, doctor," she began, but as he began to stir, she turned to Sebastion. "Hey, Sebastion, how ya doin? Gonna help us out here?"
Sebastion replied, "That is what Logan has asked me to do."
Logan frowned at Max. "So, what are we doing here, exactly?"
Alec's eyes opened slowly. "Hello--Damn, it's bright in here. Max, you don't have to knock a guy out to get him to pay attention to you," he said teasingly.
Max grimaced. "Don't temp me, you jerk. Tell Logan what happened to you, before I decide to let you die."
Alec smiled. "Fine, fine. Are you always this mean to guys on their deathbed?" Alec turned to Logan. "There's a microexplosive making friend with my brain stem. Set to pop in-" he glanced at the number on his clock- "10 minutes."
Logan made a face. "Sebastion, this is your area of expertise. Give us a clue, huh?"
Sebastion replied slowly, "Think back to what you did for Max. You are going to need to do it again here, because we need to take out the microexplosive. We don't the ability to short it out, because I'm not sure that will work."
Logan nodded and set to work, with Sebastion leading him through it.
Nine minutes later, Logan shouted out triumphantly.
"Got it!" they watched as Logan put it on the floor and stepped on it. "Now, mind my asking how you ended up with one of these pop guns attached to your brain stem?" Logan inquired. Alec started to reply, but was cut off by Max.
"It's because he's a cold-blooded, opportunistic showoff who thought he could run his game on a major bad guy who, it turns out, is an even bigger scumbag than he is! That about cover it?"
Alec turned to Max. "Max, Max, Max. Why do you insist on hurting me so much?" He placed a hand over his heart, then turned back to Logan. "Yeah, that's pretty much how it happened," he said brightly.
Logan shook his head. "Max, did you get to talk to the tech?"
Max shook her head. "No, I had a bit of a distraction. Tell you what, you let Alec crash here, and I'll take Joshua home. I'll stop by the tech on my way back, and come by later, aiight?" Without waiting for an answer, Max turned and picked up her jacket. Logan saw a small problem in her plan.
"Max, maybe I should go with you, or Alec--" he began.
Max cut him off. "Logan, I'm a big girl. Trust me. I can handle it." As she turned to leave, she grabbed Alec by the back of his shirt. "Alec, accompany me to the door, will you?" Max pulled Alec out into the hall, waving to a very confused Logan over her shoulder. When Max and Alec reached the hall, she slammed him against the wood of the door. "Alec, if you do anything to Logan-- steal anything, break anything, SAY anything-- you are a dead man. You will have wished I let your head blow up. Got it?" Max slammed him against the door once again.
Alec grinned even wider. "Yes, ma'am." Max pushed Alec away and stormed out of the apartment. As she disappeared, Alec leaned against the door and bent over. "Damn, Logan," he called out. "Your girl has one hell of a good arm."
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