Disclaimer: You know, me no own.

Dedication: To all you wonderful reviewers out there! Wow, made my week a lot brighter, thank you!!!!!!!! ( I loved InkaCajo's 4 words, had me laughing for decades, nice one! But the prize goes to . . . I'll tell ya'll later!!! (Go back to my reviews and make a guess, the answer is pretty much there, if you get it right, you'll receive a small prize and a certificate of recognition.) Anyone here got 10 bucks to lend me, I wanna give ya'll prizes. A creativity award goes to MissPiggy for a very original idea that I didn't think of, she thought that Max was pregnant.

I'm leaving a lot of hints in this chapter as to what Max is suffering from, go on and give guessing a shot, you now you wanna!

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Chapter 2

She'd been at Logan's for 2 hours yet she couldn't bring herself to tell him the truth, she knew that he had all rights to know that the virus was cured, but if she told him that, he'd be happy, if he was happy then she'd be happy and if she was happy then she'd want to be with him and if she wanted to be with him, then she could never tell him about her illness. In the end, she decided she needed to tell someone other than Logan and Alec, the one person that came to mind was Cindy.

Max and Logan had talked about every little petty detail on Seattle's weather, Logan decided that Max would tell him whatever was bothering her when she was ready, and so he let the 'discussion' be dropped. He thought she deserved a break from everything and had prepared her a small breakfast. She had gratefully accepted it and set it on the table. She was currently talking about life in general; how the siege had been, how a lot of transgenics had given up their lives for the freedom of others. While she talked, Logan notices a hint of hatred in her soft voice. He assumed it was towards Ames White. Boy was he wrong.

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Alec was currently engaged in a huge stack of paper work when the phone rang. After the second ring he picked it up while eyeing the loose papers on his desk,

"Alec" he said into the phone, not really paying attention

"Having a good day I presume, Mr. Alec?" a cold voice on the other end asked. This immediately caught Alec's attention, he dropped the pen he had been fiddling with and sat up straight.

"Who is this?" Alec asked, scanning his head for a match to the voice on the other end.

"I asked you a question first, Mr. Alec" the voice seemed to retort. Alec frowned, having not found any link ups to the voice.

"The answer to your question is irrelevant compared to mine, answer it!" Alec spat out with venom in his voice.

"Call me . . . Jake" the voice said.

"What do you want, JAKE?" Alec asked, narrow eyed, extremely worried.

"Won't you answer my question Mr. Alec, I answered yours" the voice seemed to taunt.

"Yes, yes" Alec said, "I'm having an absolutely wonderful day. Now, what do you want?" he asked, a decibel higher than before.

"I simply want to inform you of something," the so called 'Jake' said, "I thought you'd like to know about our little discovery on . . . what's her name, ah yes. . . Max."

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(Flashback)

We see Max coughing up blood . . .

Later, we see her downing pills . . .

Max is asleep, a small figure creeps in and swap her medication and walk away with her's . . .

We see Max scream, clutching her chest . . .

We see Alec, Logan, Cindy and others stay by her side . . .

Later, Max is talking with a presumable doctor, he shows her a file, which she reads, closes and cries.

(End flashback)

"Logan I have to go" Max said getting up.

"So soon?" Logan asks looking up at her.

"Yeah . . . I forgot to take my pills this morning, I'll come by and see you later okay?" she asks, nearing the door.

"O . . .K" Logan says slowly getting up and trying to understand her sudden change in moods.

"Bye" Max says, and exits the house.

"Yeah . . . bye" Logan says to an empty room and walks back to the computer room.

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Max knew she didn't have much time left, she had to talk to Cindy, she could feel the rise in her blood pressure and the pounding of her heart as she passed her doctor's place, only one picture came into Max's mind . . . an open file, some writing and from there it was blur.

"Cindy!" Max called out, she knew Cindy would be near here . . . call it a blood instinct.

"Hey Boo, you aiight?" Cindy asked popping up from behind her.

"I gotta talk to you." Max said hurriedly, "I don't think I'll live long enough to tell you tomorrow." She muttered looking for a suitable place to have a bit of girl talk.

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A/N: Short I know, and am therefore extremely sorry; I'll give longer chapters as soon as exams finish (on the 21st of Nov. F.Y.I). Hey, it's not my fault that us children have to be put through the torture of them.

Anyways, review and tell me how you like it so far, I need to know people, I'll give you all until Chapter 4 to review and tell me if I should make it M/L or M/A.

Until then I have to study the chemistry of Moles and Atoms, and not that of the DA characters. Please review. Oh, any ideas on who 'Jake' is gonna turn out to be? What's he gonna tell Alec? What is Max suffering from? Who swapped her pills? (I think I'm getting pretty good at cliffhangers, wouldn't you say?)