Oops forgot about the disclaimer in the other story. Well here it is, I know nothing I own nothing. Let me know if the story is getting too boring or something like that. White will be making an appearance soon too, not in this chapter though, the next one. Its all planned hehehehehe. I really appreciate the reviews too thanks a million!!!!!

CHAPTER 2

"Come on, don't make this hard for you," Angel looked up at the steel head who had spoken to her. He was tall, a little on the skinny side, with spiky brown hair, evil looking eyes and an enhanced looking body. He was almost more metallic than human, apart from his organs. Both arms and one of his legs were bionic as well as parts of his head.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Angel asked innocently looking from the obvious leader of the group to his two lackeys then back at him, raising her eyebrows questioningly. Three steel head's against one frail girl, the steel heads were sure they would come out on top there was no one to stop them, the girl was their's.

"It means if you come with us willingly we won't hurt you," another steelhead sneered and Angel narrowed her eyes at him. He was a dark man, very tall, widely built, his head completely covered in steel. He smiled showing his steel teeth and Angel couldn't help but shudder in disgust.

"Too badly," one of the others sniggered. He was the baby of the group, looking around suspiciously as though making sure that they didn't get caught. His arm was bionic and his black hair stood on end, his sneaky black eyes ran over Angel lustily and his pink tongue slithered across his lips.

"Come on," the leader demanded again grabbing her arm roughly and Angel looked down at his hand then smiled up at him.

"Not right now," she said politely then she grasped onto his hand with her own small hand and swung him effortlessly over her shoulder just as Max, Logan and Alec ran around the corner getting ready to protect her. The leader hit the floor with a loud thud and Angel lifted her foot and stamped hard on his chest as he lay there writhing in pain and the sound of breaking bones could be heard. The dark steel-head seeing his leader in trouble lurched forward to grab Angel but she ducked under his arms and punched him in the stomach the force of her blow so great that the steel-head gasped as his air ran from him mouth. She then elbowed him in the back of the neck forcing him onto the ground where he lay curled in pain gasping for breath. The baby steel-head looked around at his fallen leader and the 2nd in command then to Angel who smirked and gestured for him to take his best shot. The baby steel-head picked up a length of lead pipe and wasted no time in swinging it at Angel's head. Angel ducked the swing then ran faster than imaginable around his surprised body then kicked him in the back pushing him to the ground and he groaned in pain unable to get away as her foot was still on his back, forcing him on the ground. 

"Angel, what on Earth?" Logan couldn't help but exclaim as he looked around in shock at the three steel-heads curled up in agony on the ground while Angel stood above them smugly. Angel looked up guiltily at Logan, then her gaze fell on Max and Alec who were staring open mouthed. Angel open and closed her mouth but no sound would come out and Max narrowed her eyes in Angel's direction. Max only knew of a certain type of person who could run that fast and be that strong, and as far as she knew Angel wasn't one of them. But then again, Max hadn't seen Angel's neck. What if Angel was one of those…things…that White was, what if Angel was working for White? Max didn't like those ideas.

"Gotta go," Angel said quickly turning on her heel and running off her hair flicking out behind her and both Max and Alec caught a glimpse of her neck. They saw the tattoo on her neck and it was something that they hadn't ever seen before. Instead of the barcode they expected to see they saw 'X-X1' imprinted on her neck. Max frowned not knowing what this meant. White's kind didn't have any tattoos and the transgenics had the barcodes. So what was Angel?

"Follow her," Logan said in a voice Max didn't quite recognise and Alec and Max shared a glance then ran off after Angel while Logan hurried to his car and got in turning on his built in homing device. It was tracking Max through her watch and Logan started the car and began following Max's signal at a deadly speed. 

Angel stopped outside the door of a normal everyday house and opened up the door hearing the television blaring in the living room. As she shut the door behind her a man emerged from the living room wearing a smile of affection. He was old, at least fifty years of age, his greying sandy blonde hair shook out in waves and his pale green eyes surveyed his daughter proudly.

"Dad," Angel said with a guarded smile and her dad hurried over to her and engulfed her in a hug.

"There's my Angel, how was your first day of work?" he asked pulling her into the living room and Angel collapsed onto the couch letting out a sigh.

"Eventful to say the least. I brought home some friends too," Angel said smirking and her father looked around in confusion.

"Where are they?" he asked and Angel looked around then back in her lap.

"Max is behind that window and Alec is behind that one, Logan is just outside the door or will be in a few minutes," Angel predicted and her father stood up and opened his arms welcomingly.

"Well you should come in, we are old friends after all," her dad said and Max opened up the window and crawled in glaring at Angel's father. Alec opened up his window and also crawled into the room, his eyes scanning the area as the sound of a car pulling into the drive way could be heard signalling Logan's arrival.

"We were never friends Lydecker," Max hissed at Angel's father and Lydecker looked over at Max, a pained expression on his face, wistful even.

"We could have been, if only you had let us," Lydecker reminded Max who grimaced. Before anyone else could speak Logan burst into the house, guns showing as he raced into the living room, his eyes searching for Max and when he saw she was okay he turned his attention to the other occupants in the room. His eyes came to focus on Lydecker who didn't seem perturbed by the angry looks he was receiving, especially from Max.

"Lydecker?" Logan asked in disbelief before narrowing his eyes at Lydecker.

"Logan, good to see you again," Lydecker said politely sitting into an armchair and, uncomfortable about the way Max and Logan were glaring at her father, Angel moved to the armchair and sat primly on one of the arms.

"What's going on? How could Angel do all that? She's from Manticore isn't she?" Logan demanded and Angel and Lydecker shared an amused glance before Lydecker answered Logan rubbing his forehead tiredly.

"Yes and no," Lydecker said with a smirk and Max grabbed a gun off Logan and pointed it at Lydecker.

"Explain, quickly," she said while Alec sat down comfortably on the couch his gaze alternating between Max and Lydecker.

"Remember Tinga's daughter? Well like her mother, she began aging rapidly, fortunately her aging slowed down when she reached sixteen, everyone I want you to meet Angel," Lydecker said gesturing to Angel who smiled and Max turned to her mouth wide in disbelief and Logan reached over to take Max's hand.

"You're Tinga's daughter?" Max asked and Angel flicked her hair off her shoulder.

"The new and improved," she assured Max and Logan frowned at her words.

"Improved?" Logan asked his question directed at Lydecker who gave a deep sigh.

"After being kicked out from Manticore I continued researching on my own, I discovered a way to inject the DNA of X-5's X-6's, anything that Manticore created I could turn into an injection, and I happened to come across Angel on the street," Lydecker began when he was interrupted by Max who had been searching for flaws in his explanations.

"What were you doing on the street? I thought your father took you with him," Max asked Angel, still unsure of whether to believe a word Lydecker said.

"He did, but he got married again and then he died in a car accident and my new stepmother didn't want me around so she kicked me out when I was twelve," Angel told Max who threw her gun down on the floor and folded her arms across her chest, one eyebrow raised.

"Okay, lets pretend I'm buying this, then what happened?" Max questioned and Lydecker looked over at Angel affectionately.

"I took Angel under my wing and adopted her, two years ago she convinced me to inject her with the DNA of whatever Manticore came up with, you are looking at all of Manticore's products rolled into one," Lydecker told the group who stared at him in silence while Angel stood up and left the room discreetly.

"That's impossible," Logan finally spoke and Lydecker chuckled.

"No it's possible, and I even added a few injections of my own, refined brain skills, including telepathy and a hint of fortune telling," Lydecker said and Max turned in the direction of the door Angel just left through.

"Why didn't you tell us straight from the beginning?" Max yelled out and Angel walked back into the room completely transformed so that even Alec leaned forward to get a better view of her. Now she was dressed a little more like Max. She wore tight, blue jeans and a midriff white top with no sleeves. Her glasses were gone and her short hair looked windblown and as she entered Angel ran a through her hair and ruffled it up. Alec suddenly became very interested in Angel, liking what he saw. Why couldn't I see this in her before? Alec wondered to himself then he felt completely cheap, because your such an a$$hole, you look and judge by what you see.  Alec suddenly felt ashamed of himself, something that he had never felt before and he saw angel staring at him and their eyes locked before she broke the gaze to look back at her father.

"If you knew I was Lydecker's daughter would you have allowed me to come work for you?" Angel asked Max and before Max or Logan could reply Alec was on his feet circling Angel and giving a low whistle of appreciation.

"What was with the disguise if you look like that?" Alec asked in disbelief and Angel looked over at him smirking with a new personality and confidence that she didn't seem to have before. The change in her was so amazing Alec had to shake his head and stare at her again to reassure himself he was looking at the same girl he met an hour or so before.

"Disguise is the first part of avoiding trouble with Manticore, against someone like you for example Max, who would suspect the little frail, stuttering secretary?" Angel asked innocently and Max and Alec nodded in understanding.

"But someone did that's why you were being attacked," Logan commented quietly and Angel let out a gasp of laughter.

"Are you guys so out of it you don't know a normal mugging from a Manticore attack?" she asked still laughing while Lydecker was on his feet worriedly looking over at Angel checking her over.

"You were being mugged?" he asked quickly and Angel nodded placing her hand reassuringly on his.

"Steel heads didn't like my innocent act apparently and seeked to remove it permanently," she said disinterestedly and Lydecker took a sharp intake of breath. He had raised Angel as his own, he had raised her to value herself above everything else if anyone hurt her so help him he would kill them.

"Are you all right? Is everything still…?" Lydecker questioned and Angel laughed shaking her head obviously finding her dad's panic attack amusing while Max and Logan watched the exchange between father and daughter amazed.

"I'm fine dad, you worry too much," Angel told her father rolling her eyes and Alec gaped at her.

"You're a virgin?" he blurted out smirking and everyone in the room turned to stare at him all with different expressions on their face. Logan's expression was one of shock that Alec actually said that, Lydecker looked like a thundercloud upset by his impudence while Angel just looked amused.

"Alec!" Max scolded him, embarrassed that he was with her and Alec turned to her innocently holding his hands to the ceiling in bewilderment.

"What?" he asked and Max smacked him in the back of the head again and Alec rubbed his head resentfully.

"Shut your dirty mouth before I shut it for you," Max warned him and Alec moved away from her to collapse back on the couch.

"Sorry, jeez," he grumbled and Angel couldn't quite hide her giggle of laughter but under her father's gaze she became quiet and more demure.

"To answer your question yes I am still a virgin," Angel said calmly to Alec who stared at her open mouthed surprised by her openness, then Angel turned to Max and Logan, "would you guys like to have dinner with us?"

"I think I've had all I can take, I'm outta here," Max said turning on her heel and stalking from the house.

"Max, wait," Logan called after his girlfriend but all he heard was the car door slam and he turned apologetically to Angel, "Angel I'll see you tomorrow, I have to go right now before she gets angrier."

"You still want me to work for you?" Angel asked surprised and Logan gave her a lopsided grin.

"You're the best secretary I've ever had, I'm not about to get rid of you," Logan said reaching over to squeeze her hand and Angel smiled back as Logan left the house and they heard Logan get into the car and drive away leaving Alec, Lydecker and Angel in the house.

"Well it was nice meeting you," Alec said moving towards the door and Angel walked towards the door to see him out.

"It was nice meeting you too Alec…I think," Angel added as an afterthought and Alec gave her a perplexed look as she laughed and shut the door.

The next day when Angel sat busily typing at Logan's computer while Logan was making them some lunch there was a knock on the door. Logan popped his head out of the kitchen but Angel was already at the door anticipating his request for her to answer the door.

"I got it," she called to him and Logan went back into the kitchen while Angel swung the door open.

"You, what are you doing here?" she demanded and Alec gave her a charming smile that had charmed so many women into submission before. However it didn't seem to work on Angel who looked unimpressed even by his leaning against the wall behind her.

"Nothing, just stopping by," he said breezily and at the sound of his voice Logan wandered out and rolled his eyes when he saw who was at his door.

"Alec what do you want?" he asked resignedly and Alec took on an offended look.

"Logan, can't a guy just stop by?" Alec asked and Logan folded his arms across his chest while Angel smiled finally.

"When you come by its always for a reason," Logan returned and Alec, still looking offended ran has hand through his hair.

"Please, your insulting me," he said and Logan shook his head and giving up returned to the kitchen leaving Angel to deal with Alec, not having the patience to do so himself.

"So why are you here?" Angel asked Alec moving away from him and Alec stepped into Logan's apartment.

"To ask if you wanted to have lunch with me," he said with another charming smile and Angel sent him a smiled of her own, this time it was sarcastic.

"I'm working, I'm a science experiment," she said mockingly her eyes unforgiving and Alec laughed nervously. I deserved that one, he thought to himself, cursing himself silently for being so…like himself. That wasn't who he wanted to be, but he didn't know how to be anything else.

"It was a joke I didn't mean it, seriously please come out with me, I'm begging you," Alec decided that he better start pleading if he wanted to get anywhere with Angel but Angel folded her arms under her chest that Alec couldn't help but admire.

"I told you, I'm working," Angel said dismissively and Alec paused to think.

"What about after work?" he asked determined to have at least a few minutes with this girl who was so different to the other girls he had ever known.

"You're not gonna give up unless I say yes are you?" Angel asked giving a deep sigh and Alec shook his head.

"No way, I always get what I want," he said with a flirtatious wink and Angel gave in.

"Fine, after work we can walk to my house before dinner, max and Logan are coming over," Angel said and Alec suddenly felt like he could fly. All of a sudden nothing else mattered but walking with Angel to her house. Alec had never felt this way before, how did Angel do this to him?

"Really?" he asked wanting to hear hr confirm it and Angel began pushing Alec towards the door.

"Yes," she said finally manoeuvring him out of the door but Alec didn't leave.

"Great, what time do you finish?" he asked and Angel couldn't help but smile. He sure was persistent.

"Four," she said and Alec nodded.

"I'll be back then," he informed Angel and she slowly began closing the door.

"All right, I'll be waiting," she whispered and Alec waited until she shut the door completely before smiling proud that he was going on a date with Angel, even if it was a walk.

Angel stared at the door before shaking her head, a sweet smile on her face. Alec. Were her visions to be trusted? Her head was telling her he was the one. But how could that be? He was not the type of guy she dreamed about when she was a child. She had dreamt of an honest, loyal and completely gorgeous prince charming. Alec certainly fitted the completely gorgeous but Angel also knew from reading his mind that he had been a liar and a cheat in the past, he was far from prince charming. But I sense that he could change, with the right person guiding him he could become something great, Angel thought to herself still staring at the door and Logan walked in an amused smirk on his face that Angel didn't appreciate.

"Your going out with Alec?" he asked nearly laughing.

"No, he's just walking me home," Angel replied indignantly and Logan couldn't help it anymore as he started laughing.

"You guy are going out, I just have to tell Max now, she is going to die of laughter when she hears about it," Logan said through his gasps of laughter and Angel narrowed her eyes at him dangerously.

"Logan don't you dare," Angel said threateningly advancing on him but Logan was too busy laughing.

"I'm sorry, but its just too funny," Logan said tears almost coming out of his eyes and Angel rolled her eyes at him.

"You're hopeless, underneath all that…ego, I'm sure there is a perfectly nice guy who just needs a little guidance," Angel said with a determined nod and Logan's laughter faded away as he heard the strength in her voice.

"Is that what you see? Or is it what you want to see?" Logan asked seriously and Angel was silent considering his questions.

"I can feel it," Angel finally said simply and Logan was astounded by the certainty he heard in her voice.

"Okay, well if you think you can handle it, good luck," he said smugly and Angel gave him a dirty look.

"Thanks for all your great support," she said with forced politeness and Logan smiled broadly t her not affected by her tone.

"Your welcome," he said before heading back to the kitchen leaving Angel wondering about Alec.