CHAPTER 4. A/N: yep its Monday I had another day off so i could finish this. doesnt matter that much, we werent doing anything special today.......hope not I always seem to miss the fun days :( I got 1 chapter done and i got a feeling im gonna end up re-doing it, not good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALEC'S PLACE

A week had gone by since OC's birthday, Max had moved in with Alec, Logan had come back and Cindy well Cindy just kinda stayed where she was. It was Christmas morning; OC had stayed over for the night. Max and Alec sat beside the small but beautiful Christmas tree as Cindy handed out her presents. OC had given Max a gorgeous photo frame, inside a picture of OC and Max with her curly hair. It began to pour down with rain, a normal site in Seattle these days.

"Oh my god, OC thank you, I had forgotten about my curls" Max said hugging her. "Let me see, awww I think you look cute with curly hair" Alec said Max just leaned in and kissed Alec on the lips "Aww thank you my pink bunny" Max said with an evil smirk "Man I ain't never gon' get use to this" OC said and got up to make some coffee. "Ya'll want coffee?" "No thanks " Max answered " Oh I'll have some thanks"

LATER ON

'Knock knock' "I got it" Alec said, and got up to get the door. Alec opened the door only to find no one there, he looked down and there stood a dripping wet little girl, she had light brown hair, that came just below her shoulders, her eyes were similar to Max's. Alec just stood there starring at her. "Ah can I help you, are you lost?" The little girl began to cry

"Alec what are you doing, who is it?" Max was getting impatient and got up to see what Alec was doing. As Max approached the door she could see the little girl standing in the hallway crying. "Alec who's that?" "I don't know, it was just there" Alec's petrified face was making the little 'it' cry even more. "SHE Alec its a she not a 'it'" "I don't care what it is how do you turn it off"

The little girl began to cough. "We cant just leave her out her Alec, she's wet and she might get sick" Max was beginning to worry not just about a little girl being left outside their door, but the fact that Max feeling something she couldn't explain, it was like maternal instinct or something.

Max bent down so she could look the little girl in the eye. "What's your name?" The girl stopped crying and started to sob "Lana" "Well hello Lana, im Max and that there is Alec" Max said gesturing towards Alec. "Hi" Alec said, bending down also. "Sweetie can you tell me how you got here, are you waiting for your mummy?" Max asked, hoping to get some answers. Lana just shook her head "I know how about you come in and we get you all nice and dry and then we get to know each other, huh that sound good?" Lana nodded her head and walked in with Max holding her hand.

Alec filled OC in on the little info they had while Max got Lana some dry clothes. As Max was putting on Lana's T-shirt she noticed markings on her wrist, she decided she better not say anything just yet.

"Lana honey would you like something to eat" OC yelled from the kitchen. Lana looked at Max as if she was asking for permission to speak. Max's curiosity was getting the better of her; Max pushed it to the back of her mind, and just smiled back at Lana "Yyes ma'am" Lana stuttered out "You don't have to be shy you know" Max said still smiling at Lana, Lana smiled back "And you don't need to call her ma'am her names OC" "OC? And your Max? And he's Alec?" "That's us" Max noticed something very familiar about her. Lana began to shake violently; she fell to the floor in an intense fit of shakes. "Alec in here, OC get the 'trptophene'" Max screamed and picked Lana up and put her on her bed. "What happened?" Alec asked obviously concerned at seeing a little girl shaking like an earthquake. "She's having a seizure" "I can see that, but how?" Alec was getting agitated "How the hell should I know" Max was getting agitated now too "Max here" OC handed Max the bottle. Max tipped a handful into her hand; she tilted Lana's head and put them in her mouth. "Max what are you trying to do, she'll OD" Alec said trying to get some out of her mouth "Alec get away, if there anything like my seizures 1 wont do shit, now leave it alone or get out" Neither Alec or OC had seen Max so overprotective, Max just stood over the bed wiping Lana's forehead with a warm cloth.

LATER THAT DAY

"How's she doing?" OC asked Max "Better" Max had a look of despair "Don't worry Max, she'll be fine, look at you your still here" "Yea but im not 7" "You were once" "I had Zack to look after me" "And Lana has you Max" Max smiled "I hate it when you're right" "I know, but it cant be helped" OC said and pulled Max into a hug. "Now go talk to your boo he looks a little down" Max left OC and went back into her room where Alec was. "Hey" Alec said without turning around "Hey" an awkward silence followed "So..." Alec said trying to make conversation. "Look Alec im sorry i yelled at you before, I didn't mean it, I just know how frightening it is having these things, I didn't want her to have to go through all that" Alec just smiled "Forgive me" Max asked "Of course I do, now come here" Alec grabbed Max and pulled her into a full on kiss.

"Do you mind" a little voice said, Both Max and Alec went red "You're awake?" "Well du'h, im hungry" "I'll make you something to eat" Alec got up and left the room "So feeling better?" "A little" "Lana do you have any memory of your parents? Where you came from? You seem to know your name" Lana just looked down "You wouldn't believe me if i told you" "Oh really just try me" Max said trying not to sound too pushy. "Ok, I was made not born; i was created at a place called Manticore" Manticore, the word rang through Max's head, making her feel lightheaded. She would let Lana finish her story before she told her. "Go on" "Well I'm not sure really i wasn't told much, i remember one of the doctors talking about me they said i was created using DNA from 2 other soldiers at the facility, there were only 4 others like me, they put us in a different unit, separated from everyone else, even though everyone there were special we were made with powers, were mutants we were all given our own power, mine was water and ice, I had a CO his name was Jay, his power was the greatest he had the ability to see into the future and he could bend metal. The last two were twins there names were Stella she could control fire and her brother Larell, he could control all forms of life, remember i said could but he couldn't he had problems controlling his powers" Lana stopped, a tear rolled down her cheek, but she carried on

"The guards there were mean to Stella, one day we were out doing usually exercises with our powers, one of the guards kept hitting Stella, i wanted to help her I did but Jay held me back, Larell lost it he knocked the guards nearly 90 meters with his mind, they took him away, we never saw him again" Lana sucked it in and continued. "When the escaped X5's returned we learned about 595 death and 452 capture" The mention of Zack's death made Max just want to cry, but she didn't.

"Jay looked into the future he saw manticore burning down and hundreds of soldiers and anomalies dying, he didn't want us to die so he started to make plans for our escape, one night Jay was looking into the future and something happened, instead of looking into the future he saw the past, he saw which Soldiers DNA were running through our veins, stella and Larell they had X5 702 and X5 711 DNA Jay had X5 210 and X5 599 and I had X5 494 and X5 452. Max almost swallowed her tongue. "Max what's wrong? Are you all right?" Lana reached up to touch Max's face Max jumped up before she touched her "Yeah im fine honey, err...umm I'll be back ok?" "O.....K" Max sprinted to the door leaving Lana with a confused expression. "What just happened?" Lana asked herself.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ N/C: Max reveals her own secrets to Lana, while Lana finishes her story. And Alec comes to terms with being a 'father'. F/F: Guess whose back? And guess who wants all 4 auroras

A/N: It's been awhile since I've watched Dark Angel and i cant remember their designations so if any of them are wrong, could ya let me know :D Thank you guys for letting me know about Alecs barcode no. I knew something was wrong but Alecs?? i thought it would have been Syl or Jondy. I just saw todays update and can i just say that i would feel privileged if people were wanting to write about my book....oh well their decision, and can someone please tell me why i got an email from abuse@fanfiction.com{or something like that} with nothing in it.