Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Dark Angel characters. Iris is mine. To everyone who reviewed the last chapter, THANKS! To Lindsey and Boo, thanks for that tip, and for the record, I don't really really like Vincent but I think he's a pretty cute and a good actor, just wanted to see how his acting skills are in other movies.

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"Well, well, well, hello there.. Lovebirds, I've come to take one of you with me, as for the other one.well, I'll just kill her, so guess that means I'm taking you with me, Ben! You don't mind me calling you Ben, do you?" said Iris with an evil grin on her face.

"He does mind, actually! His name's Alec! And there's no way you're taking him with you!" Max yelled

"Just back off Iris! We don't wanna hurt you, listen we can help. Zack said Vic and Jess were getting ."

"I know!" she yelled "I don't want that, I like me this way! Now just come with me, and I'll let your little friend. ah, who am I kidding, I'll kill her either way."

"Over my dead body! You're not gonna hurt her!" said Alec

"Oh, sweety, I would never go over your dead body, I will go over hers!" said Iris as she launched herself at Max. Max dove out of her path, causing her to miss Max completely and land on a small table nearby. Alec pulled Max up behind him.

"Oh how sweet, trying to protect his girl. Well it's not gonna help." She launched herself at Alec this time. Alec stepped to the side and punched her in the ribs. Iris fell sideways into a cabinet, the cabinet cracked under her weight. She got up with one hand on the spot where Alec had hit her.

"Why did you do that? Why did you hit me? I wasn't gonna hit you, I was aiming at the one behind you." She asked as her pouted her lips, trying to look all cute and innocent.

"Oh please! That lip pouting thing and the big puppy dog eyes, only work for me! It doesn't suite you!" said Max, almost laughing at her.

Iris's eyes were on fire, she was ready to kill Max any second now, but she couldn't. Alec was still blocking her path to Max, which made no sense to her, if he's protecting anyone, it should be her, not Max.

"Don't do it Iris, I mean it. I don't wanna hurt you but I will if I have to!"

OUTSIDE IRIS'S APARTMENT

Zack and Jess just came out of the building, Zack called a contact and told him to check up on Vic and gave him the address.

"Jeez, she got you pretty bad, huh?" said Zack while he was trying to put Jess on the bike.

Jess moaned.

"Okay, this isn't gonna work. You're to weak, you'll never be able to hold on, wait here" Zack sat Jess down on the floor against a wall "I'll see if I can get a car." He walked away. 'Shit, I don't have time for this! Max and Alec could be in major trouble. I'd better check in' He flipped his cell phone open and dialed the number.

MAX'S PLACE

Iris, Alec and Max were circling around each other, waiting, anticipating what the other would do when suddenly.the phone rang. Iris looked left to where the phone was.

Max took the opportunity and flew to Iris's throat. Her hands were clutched around Iris's neck. Iris tried to scream but she couldn't, Max cut of her air supply. They were wrestling and turning, pushing and choking.

Alec was pretty surprised by Max's unexpected attack, he didn't really know what to do so he picked up the phone.

"ehm, hello?"

"Alec?" Zack could hear the noise of struggling on the background "what's going on? Are you two okay?"

"ehm, yeah" Alec answered as he was still witnessing the fight between Max and Iris. Max had a pretty good grip on Iris and wasn't planning to let go any time soon.

"Listen, Iris's gone, she's"

"Yeah, I know, she's here." Said Alec

"What?"

"She's fighting Max."

"And you're what? Just standing around enjoying the fight? Why aren't you helping her?" Zack asked

"She can handle herself just fine, you know that."

"Listen, I've got Jess with me, we're on our way, just keep Max save!" Zack hung up, that's when he noticed the convertible right in front of him. "Yes! Nice, very nice!"

BACK AT MAX'S

Iris had finally managed to free herself from Max's grip "What the hell is wrong with you? You tried to choke me!"

Max frowned "what the hell's wrong with me? What the hell is wrong with you? Killing people doesn't seem odd, but when someone's choking you, you freak out?"

Iris looked at Max as if was an alien or something, like what she said made no sense. "You're a dead chick!" she blurred over to her and kicked her in the stomach. Max flew through the room, Alec was just in time and caught her before she bashed into the fridge. She pushed Alec away and headed back to Iris, punches were thrown left and right, Iris tried to dodge them. She succeeded in dodging a few but not all. Max landed one right in her face, Iris spat out a tooth.

"Well, look at that! Now you can honor Ben by dropping that of at the church. Maybe he and the blue lady will come to pick you up and you can live happily ever after."

Iris looked at the tooth on the floor than back up to Max. She gave her a little smile "I'll try to remember that." She jumped forward into the air and kicked into Max's direction but Alec pushed Max out of the way and blocked the kick.

"Stop doing that! I'm in the middle of a fight!" Max yelled at Alec

"This is my fight Max, not yours!" He looked at Iris "come on, sweety, fight me, leave her out of this."

"I can't Ben, she's standing in our way. We have to dispose of her." Iris replied

"Yeah, well, you fight her, you fight me! Besides, she won't be able to bring herself to kill you. Me on the other hand." he swept her feet from under her. She was lying on the floor, Alec put one of his feet on her throat, not pressing to hard. "Told ya I would bring her down." He said to Max

"What? You never said that!" Max was standing next to Alec now, with one arm around his waist.

"Whatever, I'm saying it now." He smiled at Iris, then turned to Max and gave her a kiss.

A tear rolled down Iris her face, she couldn't move, if she did he would crush her neck.

Than they heard a big bang behind them, Zack and Jess barged in. Late, as usual.

"Hey! What's up?" Max said with a smirk on her face.

Zack and Jess looked around, a lot of furniture was broken than they saw Iris on the ground and Alec's foot on her throat.

Zack let go of Jess, he stumbled over to Iris and shoved Alec's foot out of the way. She was still crying. "Iris.."

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