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Summary: Alternate ending to hello goodbye
Title: The Hardest Thing
Rating: PG
Spoiler: hello goodbye


Logan turns toward max. "What are you doing at my apartment Max?" Logan asked. "I'll answer your question if you answer mine." Max replied. Logan walked past Max into the living room and sat down on the couch.

"You go first." Logan said as Max come and sat next to him but not to close. "You paged me and I called and you did not pick up so I got worried and came over here to wait for you. So where were you?" Max asked.

"I was out." Logan was trying not to look at Max. "Where is out Logan?" Max asked getting worried again. "I went to talk to Sam Carr." Logan said looking down at his hands. "Why did you go see Sam Carr? Logan is ever thing ok?" Max said in a very worried voice.

Logan didn't speak for a minute he just stared at his hands. "Logan." Max said. "I'm fine Max." Logan said looking at her. "Then why were you talking to Sam Carr?" Max asked a little relived. "I got felling back in my legs after I got that transfusion from Joshua but Sam said it would go away but it hasn't.

Logan said as he stared into Max's eyes. They stared at each other for a moment then Max spoke. "So why did you not pick up when I called you after you paged me?" Max asked.

"I paged you hoping you would call before I got called to have tests done but you didn't. I had to leave my cell phone with some other stuff in the examination room. Sorry if I made you worry. Logan said still looking at Max.

"Oh well it's ok I was just worried something happened to you." Max said as she got off the couch and stood up. "Yea sorry I was going to page you after I got out but I guess I forgot." Logan said.

"Well does Sam know if you can walk again?" Max asked as Logan stood up and faced her. "They don't know if my body will eventually reject Joshua's cells or not." Logan said as he followed Max into the computer room.

"Well I hope you get your legs back." Max said in a sad tone of voice. "Max what's wrong?" Logan asked concerned. "Nothing is wrong." Max said trying not to sound sad. "Max something is wrong. Tell me what it is." Logan said in a concerned tone.

"Its just everytime I think of you if I could have been there you would never have been shot." Max said breaking down into tears. "Max how many times do I have to tell you it is not your fault." Logan said as Max sat down in a chair and started to cry harder.

Logan sat down in a chair and moved it next to Max's. "Max why don't you stay here for the day all cook you breakfast." Logan said trying to comfort Max the only way he could. "Ok but can I call OC and tell her to cover for me?"

Max asked as she finally looked at Logan and could see the concern in his eyes. "Yea shore you can call anybody you would like." Logan said as he got up and went into the kitchen to cook Max and him breakfast.

5 minutes later

Max walked into the kitchen and she could not wait to eat another Cale masterpiece. She had not eaten some of Logan's cooking in quit a long time. She sat down on one of the stools. "Logan is it ok if I stay the night?" Max asked.

"Yea shore Max but why I thought you were trying to stay as far away as possible from me?" Logan asked as he brought two plates full of cooked to perfection food. He set down Max's plate and then sat one stool away from her.

"Well Cindy is having a girlfriend over and I don't want to stay at Crash." Said Max as she stopped eating to talk. "Ok you can stay in the guestroom." Logan said as he finished his breakfast and took his plate to the sink.

"Do you still have some of my things that I left here?" Max asked. "Yea there all in the guest room closet." Logan said as he passed Max and went into the computer room to work on eyes only stuff and to see if he could track down a person named J.C. who had a cure for Max's virus.

He had not told her yet because he was not sure if this guy had the cure but if what one of his informants said is true then he does and will be flying into Seattle in two days. About 2 hours later Max walked into the computer room and found Logan still working on eyes only.

"Logan you want to play some chess?" Max asked as she got a chair and sat next to Logan. Logan knew she was standing in the doorway so it did not startle him when she spoke. "Maybe in a little while Max." Logan said still staring at the computer screen.

"Ok I'll set up the chess board." Max said as she went to set the board up. 5 minutes later. Logan walked into the living room and saw Max setting on the couch and the chessboard set up on the table. Logan sat down and Max turned toward him.

"Who goes first?" Logan asked. "You can." Max said as Logan moved. They played long into the night until Max was tiered to play which was about 2:30 in the morning. Max went to bed and Logan went to try and find a way to get in contact with J.C.

TBC
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