Love to Hate You, Hate to Love You

By: Anndee

Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel, if I did it would still be on the air and Max and Alec would be going at it like rabbits

AN: thanks for the great reviews, I won't stop writing just because the execs at FOX are MORONS!

AN2: I'm so glad you guys all seem to like this story, it makes we want to write more, but I can't always, schools over for the semester (I'm transferring though so don't know what it will be like once it begins again) but I still have to work. I'm so glad my sense of humor and the characters of Alec and Max seem to mesh so well that you all find this story humorous. I think "That and I'm good in bed" may be beating the "horizontal bip bip bip." Line is the most talked about oneliner.

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Chapter 7

Logan stared up at the ceiling as Asha lay asleep beside him.

"Logan?"

Okay as Asha lay besides him NOT sleeping.

"Asha?"

Asha sat up and looked down at him, it was early, very early. Max and Alec were still in a session with Dr. DeVil, but she and Logan had decided it would be best to get some sleep and get up early in the morning. Her and Logan, I like the sound of that. Asha thought. "You've been staring at the ceiling for a half an hour now, what's wrong?"

Had it really only been a half an hour? He thought. With all I've been thinking about it seemed longer than that. It's felt like a lifetime. "I've been thinking."

"About the mission?" Asha asked, "Or about Max?"

Logan turned to look at her, "Am I that transparent?"

Asha shook her head, "No I'm clairvoyant…Just kidding, just a guess really. You love her, why wouldn't you think about her?"

Logan stared back up at the ceiling a troubled look shadowing his scruffy face.

"Logan?" Asha asked touching his shoulder and feeling him tense. "Have I said something wrong, done something wrong?"

Unless you think causing a tent in my pajama's wrong. He thought wryly as her simple touch sending volts of electricity through his body, causing the reaction of a certain part of him that didn't need the exoskeleton to work. "It's not you, it's me…I…god." He sighed.

"Logan you can tell me anything what is it?" Asha whispered, trying to avoid looking below his face and waist to the little predicament he seemed to be in.

"It's only been like a day but this trip has seemed to be like baking soda and water on a car battery." Logan confessed.

Asha's face screwed up in a mask of confusion, "Say again?"

Logan looked up at her and chuckled as he saw the utter lack of comprehension, "Okay when you have a car battery with grease and acid and stuff all over it, what do you do to clean it up and see the battery underneath?"

"Pour some water with baking soda on it?" Asha answered hopefully.

Logan nodded, "Exactly."

Asha smiled and a look of understanding came across her face. Then she frowned as look of contemplation flashed over the white, fair planes of her face, "So this trip has cleared your view, so to speak, and you see things that you couldn't see before…like you and Max and your relationship with her?"

"Yeah and it both scares me and excites me at the same time." Logan sighed.

"Okay I'm not the best person to talk to this about because frankly Logan I have a biased opinion here and my own agenda, whether it's intentional or not, but do you still love Max?" Asha asked.

Once again Logan's head bobbed up and down, "Yes, but…"

Asha took a breath and asked him the question she had asked someone else the day before, "I asked Max this yesterday when she said she loved you…Are you still IN love with Max?"

Logan looked up at Asha surprised, "You asked Max a question like that and you're still alive?"

Asha smiled at him, "Yeah I kind of took her off guard with that one I think, she never did get around to answering me but…I think she thinks that loving someone and being in love with them has to be the same thing, that you can't just love someone with out being in love with them."

"You think Max isn't in love with me anymore either?" Logan asked, feeling a strange sense of comfort in the knowledge that she might not.

"Either?" A light colored brow rose, "So you aren't in love with Max anymore?"

Logan sighed, and shook his head, "I love her, I know I really do but I don't think I'm in love with her anymore…Never thought I would hear myself say that."

Asha couldn't help but smile, then she finally took a glance down below his waist to the tent in the sheet, "So that isn't because you're thinking about Max?"

Logan glanced down and groaned, "I was hoping you wouldn't notice that."

Asha leaned over and kissed his cheek, then the side of his mouth, finally she softly pressed her lips to his, "I think I might be able to help you with that."

Logan groaned, "Asha, you have no idea how much I would love to take you up on that but I don't wear my exoskeleton to bed, nor would it be helpful in anyway with what you're suggesting."

Asha smiled down at him as she straddled his body, pulling her nightgown over her head, "Then let me do all the work."

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Dr. DeVil turned to Max, "Mrs. Sm…sorry Max, is your husband's prowess in bed one of the reasons you married him?"

I'll kill him, I'll kill him. Max fumed internally. I'm going to wrap my hands around his cocky little neck and…slowly make my way down that muscular chest to those delicious abs. Max licked her lips.

The doctor's eye brows rose, surprised and amused, "I'll take that as a yes." He started scribbling furiously at his legal pad.

Max opened her mouth to protest but then shut it remembering that she had to play along. She turned to Alec and glared at him.

Alec bit his lip, trying to suppress the chuckle that wanted to erupt from his lips.

There was a knock on the door, and the young red haired secretary popped her head in, "Doctor we have a problem that needs your attention, if you could come with me please." She made sure to smile seductively at Alec as she waited for the doctor to come to her.

Alec smiled back.

Max glared at the girl, the threats of bodily harms flashing in her brown eyes.

The secretary noticed the implied doom in Max's eyes and quickly ducked behind the door.

"If you, two will excuse me for a few moments." The doctor excused himself, exiting behind the flashy red head.

As soon as the door had closed, Max and Alec were up and at his computer.

"All the damn camera's in the hotel and in the hallway, the idiot doesn't put one in his office." Alec muttered as he slipped a disc out of his cargo pants and handed them to Max as she did as Logan had instructed her and copied all the files on the hard drive, which was taking a couple of minutes.

Max shook her head as they waited for the files to upload, "Building a fantasy world Alec?"

Alec looked down at her, amusement shining in his eyes, "Hey you have no idea what I'm like in bed so you can't say otherwise."

"With the way you talk about it all the time you must be compensating for something." Max grinned at him and then looked down at his crotch, then back up at him, "Or a lack there of."

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