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Chapter three: Who Needs Sleep?

Original Cindy arrived at Logan's apartment around midnight with the gang. Max had almost passed out in the car because of the cookie, and Logan hadn't woken up. Sketchy was dead drunk, and Herbal seemed to be alright. 'Herbal is eating those cookies almost every day and he doesn't look high!? I guess you get use to that bitch!' Original Cindy thought while driving. 'And Sketchy drinks way too much!'
Herbal helped her getting Logan out of the car when they arrived at Foggle Towers. Making her way to the front entrance, she pushed the intercom button to Logan's Penthouse.

"Hello." Said a male voice that was supposedly Bling.

"Hiya! Bling. Look, it's Original Cindy here with a bunch of wackos. My home girl knocked Logan unconscious after eating Herbal's cookie, and now she's almost unconscious herself. I can't get upstairs with all the 4 clowns that are around me. Please help me, Original Cindy is starting to dream of assassination!" She said in a desperate-hysterical voice.

"What? Max...Logan…Unconscious?! …Wait a second, I'm coming down." And she heard the click that meant he had shut down the connection between them. She looked at Logan, he was breathing normally and he had a regular pulse, but that's all she knew that was telling her that he was still alive and alright, because he was still unconscious and Original Cindy knew that when you were unconscious for too long, it wasn't a good sign.
Turning her gaze to Max, Original Cindy thought 'The girl has problems standing up!' Herbal had to put an arm behind Max's shoulder to help her stand on her two feet.

It took Bling about one minute to arrive. When he acknowledged the spectacle before him, he froze.

"What the hell happened?" Logan was bleeding from the left side of his forehead, and Max looked like she was about to puke, having a smile on her face. "We gotta go upstairs." Bling looked at the 2 guys; he didn't know them and it was probably safe if Max knew them, but he couldn't let them go into Logan's place. Eyes Only had to be protected. "Is there someone who can drive without being drunk or something?" He asked as if he was talking to both of them, but he was staring at Herbal since the other one seemed pretty drunk.

"Sure my brother. I'm fine." Herbal said, taking the car keys that Bling was giving him. Bling was going to go get Logan's car later. Maybe tomorrow.

Herbal took Sketchy with him and they left.

"Can you make sure she doesn't fall while we go up?" Bling asked Original Cindy, while he took a quick look at Logan to see if he was all right. Logan started to moan. "Well, at least we know he's alive." He said, smiling at Cindy.

"Those two are impossible…and Original Cindy is watching her boo, don't worry. Now, lets go upstairs."

They got into the elevator and headed up to the penthouse. Once there, they entered the apartment with Bling pushing Logan's wheelchair, while Original Cindy held on to Max to make sure she didn't gracefully stumble down to the floor.

"Where do I put her?" Original Cindy asked Bling.

"We both should take them to Logan's bedroom. It's not right for me to go from one room to the other all night long." He said, discouraged.

"Well, those two should have gotten there by themselves long ago." She said, and Bling turned his face towards Original Cindy and smiled.

"I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinking that."

Bling put Logan on the right side of the bed, while Cindy tried making Max to sit down on the other side.

"Come on Sugar…take a nap, it will do you some good." She talked to Max as if she was 5 years old. 'And me too.'

"I'm not feeling well…" Max replied, wanting to stand up.

"No, no, no…you stay on the bed boo. No arguing." Max listened to her home girl and sat on the bed. "Not just sitting boo, Original Cindy here wants to see all Max's body parts on that bed into a sleep position. Aiight?!"

"I'm thirsty." Max said, more to herself than to her friend while lying down on the bed next to Logan. "Oh! I'm really thirsty."

"Okay boo, I'll bring you a glass of water if you promise me to stay put?" 'I never thought I'd play Mom to Max!' She thought.

"I promise." Max said, slightly laughing.

"It's okay Original Cindy, I'll clean up Logan's wound and I'll check up on Max." Original Cindy sighed in despair and went to the kitchen to pick the glass of water.

Bling took a look at Logan. He took some alcohol to clean the wound on his forehead, and put a bandage on it. He was almost done when Logan began to moan, without opening his eyes, as if he was dreaming.

"Logan? Logan wake up!" He said firmly. "Logan! WAKE UP!" 'Damn!…He's not waking up as much as I would want him to…'

"What's the matter Bling? He's still sleeping?" Max asked, rolling herself on her left side, nearer Logan, trying to look focused but not doing a great job at it.

"Drop it Max, you're whacked up." Bling said, trying not to laugh at Max, who was very onto chemical substances.

"Do you want him to wake up or not?" She said to Bling, annoyed.

"Of course." Bling said.

"Then I'll wake him up." She said, approaching her lips from Logan's ear. "Logan…wake up." She whispered into his ear. "Hey Sugar…wake up!" It wasn't really working.

"You're talking to slow honey." Bling said to Max. 'Does she really think he'll wake up this way? God help me not to laugh at what I'm seeing right now!'

"And shouting into his ear to make him deaf will? It didn't earlier…Now let me handle this." She talked like she was a wake-up expert.

"Be my guest." He replied.

Max put her mouth nearer to Logan's ear and whispered : "Logan it's Max, wake up…oh god you smell good…Logan, open those blue eyes of yours. Open your eyes dammit!" She said a little louder, but not much. Bling thought it was very funny to see a drugged Max trying to wake up Logan in such a matter that usually, wouldn't have taken a lot of time for him to do so, since Max was whispering into his ear, telling him he smelled good.

"It's not working Max." Bling said, forcing himself to look serious. "Now let me do it."

"Shut up Bling, I'll wake him up!" She looked at him as if she was going to kick his butt. "It's the least I can do after breaking his skull!" She returned to Logan. "Logan…if you wake up right at this minute, I promise you it will be a night you will never forget…" She said to him, in a very implying sensual voice.
It didn't take long, and the guy opened his eyes, but Logan did not remember what had been said to him, he just knew he had to open his eyes, and he did.

Bling smiled and Max fell asleep almost the exact same time. 'I'd tell them what I just saw, but they wouldn't believe me!'

"Bling?" Logan said after opening his eyes. He did not see Max at his right side, because he was looking at Bling. "What am I doing here?" He then saw Original Cindy enter the room with a glass of water.

"Hey boo, glad to see you're finally awake…not like missy at your side." She said looking disapprovingly at Max.
Logan turned his head, and saw Max at his side, sleeping.

"What's going on? Is she alright?" He asked them.

"The girl snapped you unconscious and you're still wondering about her?" Original Cindy said. "Don't you remember Sugar? We were at the bar and Max had eaten one of Herbal's cookies? She was, and still is, so dizzy that she didn't see you with that pitcher of beer, and broke it on your forehead." Logan looked at them, and then remembered.

"Oh yeah…" He turned towards Max, who was out of this world.

"You'll be fine man." Said Bling. "Now try to get some sleep and I'll come checking on both of you later." Original Cindy followed him, letting the glass of water on the night table.

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Original Cindy and Bling went into the kitchen trying not to burst into laughs in front of Logan and Max.

"Oh god…I thought I wouldn't be able to hold it much longer!" Bling said, gasping for air. "I can't believe this has happened!"

"No doubt!" Replied Cindy, smiling. "I just hope she'll be fine."

"Yeah, she will be. Do you want a beer or something?" Asked Bling. "It's not like we're going to get much sleep anyway."

"Aiight, now you're talking!" Original Cindy said to Bling, smiling.

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Logan stared at a sleeping Max and touched his forehead, which was killing him with pain. 'Boy, she didn't miss me.' He thought, touching his swelling bump. Max suddenly opened her eyes and sat up straight in the bed.

"Max?" Logan asked concerned by her behavior.

"I'm not feeling good…I'm thirsty." She said in a weak voice. Logan gave her the glass of water and she took it, drinking it all. She gave him back the glass, staring at his forehead, making a face that meant 'Oh no…I really did this? I thought it was a dream…' and then she returned to her previous position on the bed, lying on her back, and closing her eyes. "Oh Logan…I'm so sorry." Max just had the time to finish her sentence when she started to shake. Vividly.

"Max?! Max are you seizing?" Asked Logan, not sure she was since the shaking was different than usual.

"I don't think it's because of the Tryptophan this time…" She said in a jerky voice.

Having heard Logan say seizing, Bling opened the door and entered the room to make sure everything was okay. He looked at Max, whose legs and arms were jumping up and down.

"You think it's because of the lack of serotonine?" He asked Logan, who was now almost over Max's body, standing on one elbow and trying to make it stop, without any success of course. This gesture was one he used to make whenever Max had a seizure. It was only some kind of reflex he had. Like he could stop it if he stabilized the muscles enough.

"She said no to me when I asked her." Logan answered Bling.

"It must be the Herbal's cookie then." Bling said back. "The substance in there makes your nerves and muscles relax…and my guess is that Max isn't used to relaxing. Her muscles must always be contracted, waiting for something to jump in her face…I can't blame her, I probably would be the same way if I used to live at Manticore. Just try to make her relax, would you?" He asked Logan, who nodded in agreement.

"Hey?!…Don't talk as if I wasn't even here!" Max said, almost angry. "I can take care of myself!" She said. 'I'm not a freakin' child!'

"No you can't boo." Said Original Cindy, who had just entered the room. "And now you'll try to get some sleep before you snap someone else unconscious!" Original Cindy couldn't help herself from reminding her girl that it was she, who had knocked him out of it.

"Thanks for refreshing my memory boo…Are you two plotting against me today?" She asked, looking at Logan while she tried to control the trembling of her body. She was asking that because she remembered that he also refreshed her memory this morning at the police station. "What is today? The day when we tell Max all her flaws and mistakes?" She said, sarcastically. "What is it? Barbie and Ken against the rejected one? What was her name…Skippy?"

"No offence Logan…but Max, I'm not into the male gender if you'd forgotten. Plus, I don't think I'm his type…" She said staring at Max with an eyebrow up, before walking out of the room.
Max sent her electrifying shots with her eyes, but only Logan saw it, which made him smile. She tried to get the control her body, but it only made matters worst. The trembling was getting frantic.

"Max…calm yourself. There's no one here who'll hurt you. Bling is outside the door with Original Cindy, and I'm right here." Logan said softly to Max, trying to make her relax.

"I'm not used to relaxing Logan." Max closed her eyes and took a deep breath, but the seizing wasn't fading. "I don't want to relax…I'll go to sleep and then I'll have nightmares."

"I know. But the drugs that are in the cookie you ate will be in your system for a few more hours. So if you don't calm yourself and sleep, your muscles will get over stretched and tomorrow morning, they will hurt. Plus, if you don't relax, you'll be exhausted for having spend so much energy on the trembling because believe me, those muscles needs energy to jump like that! And I'm not talking about the headache you'll also have." Logan was trying to reason her, but it didn't seem to work. Max turned herself on her right side.

"You won't make me stop just by turning your back on me!" Logan said, in disbelief.

"Drop it Logan." Max said, but I guess he was telling the truth; he wasn't going to back off. She felt his body pressing on her back like a spoon on another spoon, and his arm was making its way under her left one, his hand reaching her right shoulder and resting there. He pushed himself closer to her, putting his head on hers, letting it rest on her left side. "What are you doing?" She said, feeling the shaking going stronger.

"Now you listen to me Max." Said Logan, in a tone that let no place for comments even if he had softly spoken. "You'll close your eyes and try to sleep. Forget the nightmares, and if you do have them, I'm right here. Now, you try to relax yourself, go ahead…close your eyes and don't think about your muscles. Just release the tension from your mind and body." He had felt her body tense up when he got closer to her, but it was the only way he could think of that was going to make her feel safe, secure, and then relaxed. Or maybe it was more for him? Both ways, it was pure good intentions.
He was himself surprised of his behavior, but tomorrow was going to be just fine for soul-searching, today wasn't the time.

'Try to relax my ass!' Thought Max. 'You're against my body holding on to me like I'd fall of the bed if not, and you want me to relax?!' Her heart was racing like hell, and her mind was going wild, but she tried to calm herself anyway. 'Now isn't the time to explore emotions…tomorrow will be just fine.' Max could feel Logan's warmth overcome her body, and it made her feel good; he was softly talking to her, telling her to breathe deeply, slowly, and to clear her mind from anything unpleasant. He started to paint some island place, where nobody would know her, where no choppers or goons were looking for her, and where she would be able to relax on the beach, looking at the blue sky, at the fishes swimming into the sea, and all she would have to do all day was relax.
Max wouldn't be able to tell you if it was the relaxation therapy or the fact that Logan was holding her so tight that made her calm down, but it worked.

Logan started to feel her body loose the muscle' contractions, and she began to breathe deeply, slowly, almost reaching the moment where you fall into sleep. He smiled to himself, still holding on to Max, gently resting his head on the pillow behind Max's head, and closed his eyes, smelling her hair as he was breathing in them. 'God it feels good to hold her like this.' He thought. He let the sweet sensation come within himself, and heard Max breathe at a normal rate. 'She must be sleeping now.'
After a few moments, he heard her say something. He got out of his half-sleep state, and put his head near her face from behind, wanting to see if she was awake. But no, her eyes were closed.

"Eva?…" Logan heard her say in a little voice. 'Damn!…she must be dreaming about Eva.' Logan knew that Max loved Eva, but he also knew that she got killed and he didn't want Max to reach that sequence in her dream where it will change into a nightmare. 'She said she would have nightmares. Damn! She was right!'

"Max?…" He whispered into her ear, not to wake her up, but just to stir her out of the dream enough to jump her mind on something else.

"What?…" She answered, still sleeping. The answer was more of a reflex you'd do when someone talks to you in your sleep, but you wont remember it when you'll wake up.

"It's okay, he replied softly, just go back to sleep." She cuddled herself closer to Logan after saying something that sounded like "Hmmm" , and sighed. 'Help me Whatever or Whoever you are out there, or I'll go nuts! It feels so good to be in each other's arms…I wonder if I'll ever be able to let her go. Oh my god…did you ever smell her hair? Her skin?' When he had looked at her face earlier to see if she was sleeping, they were cheek to cheek, his chin in her neck's hollow, which gave him ideas.
But now, and without noticing it, he was smelling her neck, and then he gave her a sweet kiss just under her earlobe where the sensitive skin is. 'Damn!' Logan thought. He saw Max smile, and hoped to die if she had been awake. 'Dammit! Logan! You idiot!' He put his head on the pillow, wishing to death that she was smiling because of a dream.

Max had been dreaming of Manticore when Logan sort of awakened her. She didn't know she had said Eva's name out loud, but she was very glad she got out of this dream, which was about to get ugly. She felt his face coming nearer to hers, and she could smell him, this sweet Logan's personal sent that she liked so much. 'God, I can feel him all around me. I must be dreaming.' She thought. She was on the verge of falling into deep sleep again when she felt the sweetest touch she had ever felt in her life. She smiled.

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It was about 5:00am when Bling woke up from the couch in front of the one where Original Cindy was sleeping. They had talked until 3:00 and then fallen asleep. 'I better go check the love birds.' He stood up and slowly opened the door. Both Logan and Max were still sleeping, all cuddled into each other's. He smiled and closed the door. 'They're just fine, and I have some hours left to sleep. Good.' He returned to his couch and slept.

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About 3 hours after Bling had walked into the room, Max woke up. She was at first disoriented, but then her mind started to focus and she remembered what happened the night before. 'My head is killing me…' She turned her head and saw that Logan was still sleeping. He was on his back, his face towards hers, looking peaceful. 'I can't believe I snapped you unconscious.' Max thought. 'Those cookies are strong! How can Herbal look as if he wasn't even high? I'm not ever touching that stuff again! Oh…Logan…What a mess! Why do you care so much? I don't even care about myself, but for whatever reason, you seem to care about me.' Max stared at Logan, for a brief moment, watching him sleep. Finally, getting up, she walked into the living room where she saw Original Cindy wakening up. Grabbing her friend by the wrist, she started to walk - not to say run- dragging Original Cindy along and saying: "Lets get the hell out of here!"

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