CHAPTER: Borrowed Energy.





" Who are you?" Logan asked looking at Lana.

"I'm Max," she said nervously.

" No that's Max," he said pointing to Max.

Lana was about to run out the door but Max had already caught her. Lana tried to move from Max's tight grip, but she was too strong. She noticed she felt the same rush of energy as when she touched Alec. She stopped struggling, so she could absorb the energy.

Max moved the hair out the way so she could expose the barcode but there was none. " What are you?" Max asked confused.

Lana decided to talk to her for a while so she could absorb more energy. Lana retransformed to show her true identity. "I'm anything you want me to be."

" Hey you're the girl from Crash."

" No kidding," she said sarcastically.

"Are you stalking Alec?" Max asked eying her down from head to toe. " I'm sorry to burst your bubble but he's not feeling to well. But we can tie you up until he's better."

"Something tells me she has a something to do with that?" Logan said coming to observe the freak of nature.

" He's a smart one." Lana said, " You should keep him around."

" What the hell did you do to him?" Max asked angrily. " He can hardly move."

" I just borrowed some of his energy," Lana said coolly.

" Wait a minuit," Logan said.

" What?" Max asked.

" I've heard of her, she escaped from a government agency about two years back," he said excitedly. " I stumbled upon her story when I was doing some investigating on Manticore."

Lana seeing that Max's attention was on Logan kicked her back and ran out the door. She ran down the stairs quickly, Max was running after her.

Max ran out the door and scanned the streets for her, she wasn't anywhere in site. " Damn!" she said and then ran back up the stairs. " She got away." She said walking back into the apartment.

" She's very dangerous." Logan said warningly. "I think we should stay out her way."

" She's coming in our way." Max said angrily. " Look what she did to Alec."

" Max you didn't touch her skin, right?"

" Yeah, Why?"

" That's how she does it."

" Does what?'

" Take energy." Logan said still sounding worried. " You have to touch her skin."

" I feel fine."

" Now, but later it will kick in."

" So she transformed into me and touched Alec?"

" Yep, or Alec touched her."

" Well I'm going to tell him why he's like that." Max walked into his room and saw that Logan had put a white T- shirt and blue jeans on Alec. " So I know what's up with you." She said. She looked closely he had gone back to sleep. She shook him lightly. " Alec wake up."

" Hmm" he said opening his eyes widely. " What is it?"

" I know why you're so weak?"

" Why?"

" Did I come by your apartment Sunday after we were at the needle."

" Yeah," he said. Like she was asking the obvious.

" Well that wasn't me."

" What?"

" It wasn't me, it was that girl at the Club."

" What girl?' he asked frustrated.

" The red head."

" You mean Lana?"

" Yeah, her"

" Max she looks nothing like you."

" I know but she can change into other people and drain energy by just touching them."

To anyone this would have sound outrageous but this was Alec, a genetically engineered solider, with super seed, sight, hearing and strength.

Alec suddenly felt like throwing up, flashes of what happened that night and what Max was saying went trough his head. He should have known that wasn't Max; they would never have a relationship like that. The fact that he had let it happened made him feel worse. He knew why thought, he knew that his secret love for Max would lead to no good.

He turned his head away from the gaze of Max; he knew if she found out what happened she would possibly kill him. He was just thankful that she wasn't asking questions.

" So tell me Alec," Max said sitting next to him, " exactly how much you touched her to get this weak."





NOTE: So tell me what you think. This chapter was fun to write I hope you enjoyed reading it. I think Logan knows that Alec slept with Lana thinking it was Max.

Sorry but I like to act like I'm not writing the story sometimes.