Now that Logan moving was out of the way and Alec was out of jail. Max spent her time trying to find out where these dead transgenics were coming from.

"They seem to be falling out of the sky!" Logan said looking at his computer rather frazzled.

"What?" Max asked officially confused.

"You heard the man, it's raining transgenics!" Alec unexpectedly joined the conversation, making Logan jump and Max try to hold back laughing.

"Not raining them." Logan said calmly trying to regain his composure. "Just. they're appearing out of nowhere!"

"So, do you know where to start?" Alec asked trying to sound interested.

"No." Logan replied try to pay as little attention to him as possible.

"Well, do you have any thoughts on where to start?" Alec continued.

"No, I do not," Logan lost his temper, "What are you even doing here?"

"Logan," Max said slightly disappointed that he couldn't keep his cool against Alec.

"Hey man I didn't know I was crashin a party!" Alec retorted.

"Why don't you crawl back into the hole you came out of?" Logan suggested.

"Can't, Max burnt it to the ground!" Alec got the last word in before Max interrupted.

"That's enough!" She yelled above them. "You to are worse than Asha!" Max added trying to make it clear that the punch up a few days ago was not her fault.

"Sorry Max." Logan said turning once again to punch at the keyboard.

"Sorry Mum." Alec mocked before Max picked up a lone coffee cup off Logan's desk and threw it at him. He ducked just in time to miss the flying projectile, it hit the wall and showered him in fragments of broken china.

Logan sat up straight and spun around to observe the scene going on behind him.

"What the hell was that for?" Alec screamed at Max.

"Opps!" Max laughed looking at her distraught friend.

"You will be paying for that!" Alec threatened.

"Not likely." Max shot back at him.

"If you're going to fight," Logan butt in, "Can you go outside?"

"We're not going to fight!" Max said without letting her guard down against Alec.

Alec crossed the room to where Max was standing.

He moved before Max was ready for him to so he was always one step ahead of her.

He grabbed her by the arm and threw her over his shoulder. He was careful to make sure he didn't get Max's boot in his face and started for the door of Logan's ground level apartment.

"Put me down!" Max screamed trying to kick him but he wrapped an arm around her legs to prevent her from moving them. "Bitch" She screamed at him.

Logan jumped out of his chair and followed Alec as he carried a wriggling Max towards the exit of the building.

Once out side Alec launched Max into a dumpster, "See I told you that I'd get you back." He looked over the edge into the dumpster where an angry Max tried to calm herself.

Max sat up and grabbed him by the collar and pulled him close so only he could hear. "This is war now, do you understand, sweetie?"

"Loud and clear, honey." Alec retorted standing helpless only inches from her face. He was thinking about kissing her but he knew that it would kill Logan.

She shoved him off, Jumped out of the dumpster and headed back into Logan's apartment. The whole way she was mumbling to herself that she was gonna get him bad.

~*

Logan gave her a theory and sent her home to clean herself up before heading over to Crash for the crew's little get together.

~*

Max arrived at Crash showered, and leathered. She spotted Alec as soon as she joined the crew and smiled at him sweetly to show that she had planned her revenge.

"Are these my eyes." Cindy asked Max when she saw her eyeing Alec.

"Show me." Max said jokingly grabbing Cindy's face and inspecting her eyes, "Yes I believe that they are."

"I mean what's the dealio with you and hot boy?" Cindy asked indicating to Alec with her beer bottle.

"There's not dealio!" Max exclaimed.

"Then why are you eyeing each other like you got so big secret?" Cindy asked suspiciously and put one hand on her hip.

"He's waiting for me to make my move." Max said with out taking her eyes off him.

"Your move?" Cindy was now officially interested.

"Yep." Max stopped at that.

"What on Earth is going on?" Cindy questioned rather confused.

"He threw me in a dumpster." Max said still with her eyes fixed on Alec.

"A dumpster?" Cindy said in disbelief. Then she saw Logan enter Crash. "Oh, here comes your boy."

Max stopped looking at Alec and swung around to see Logan approaching them. She turned to see that Alec was gone. "Damn, I let him get away!"

"Hey Max, Cindy." Logan greeted them.

"Hey Logan." Max said, "I'll be back in a minute." She rushed over to Sketchy was standing.

"What's going on?" Logan asked Cindy as they watched Max rush off.

"Well," Cindy began, "apparently Alec threw Max in a dumpster."

"Yeah, I know I was there." Logan cut her off.

"Well, now Max is going after revenge, I think it's just a game but it's gonna be good." Cindy said sitting at a table and offering Logan a beer that he scooped up.

"Where'd Alec go?" Max asked Sketchy when she reached him.

"He said something about going somewhere and then told me tell you that he went home." Sketchy mumbled clearly well on his way to being completely sloshed.

"Sketchy," Max started grabbing him by the collar, "Think, where did he say he was going"

"I can't say." Sketchy said smartly as if keeping a secret for Alec would be the best thing that he ever did for humanity.

"Oh, yes you can." Max tried to convince him.

"No." Sketchy said firmly.

"Do I have to take you outside and beat you to a bloody pulp?" Max asked knowing the answer already.

"He went to your place." Sketchy gave in.

"Good man Sketch." Max let him go and ran off, "Gotta go." She yelled as she ran past Logan and Cindy.

"Max!" Logan and Cindy managed to call in unison as she ran past, when she didn't stop they shrugged their shoulders and went back to their beers.

~*

Max pulled up on her motor cycle wide-eyed and furious. "I'm gonna kill him!" She yelled as she observed her underwear strung across the outside of her building by a rope pinned from the window of someone she didn't even know.

Alec stuck his head out the window and called to her, "How do you like my masterpiece?"

"You are so dead!" She yelled in a rage, "I'm gonna burn you house down while you're asleep in it!"

"You don't mean that!" He yelled back at her.

"Like hell I don't!" Max screamed kicking stones on the pavement and then running into the apartment hell bent on getting him back.

"No!" He yelled when Max started running.

~*

A dark figure stood in the alley between to abandoned buildings. The figure had just followed a young male transgenic into the alleyway where it was hell bent on killing the boy.

The transgenic sensed something, no, someone behind him and whirled around ready to fight.

Before he could do anything to save him self, there were several explosions that lit up the whole alleyway.

Three shots and the transgenic was dead. The figure walked over to check for a pulse. Satisfied when there wasn't one, it left the body where it lay and left the alley quickly.

A homeless man jumped out from where he was hiding in amongst some cardboard boxes and realized that he was just the only witness to a murder. He ran to a phone box and called the police.

~*

At Crash, the talking and music ceased when Max shoved a butt naked Alec in the front door.

People started making stupid comments and laughing uncontrollable.

"Oh my God, Max!" Cindy yelled, not knowing what to do so she covered her eyes first.

Logan didn't know what to say, so he joined Cindy in covering his eyes.

"Guess I win." Max whispered in his ear, slapped him hard on the ass and walked over to the bar. "Free beers for all."

Every body started cheering and forgot about Alec.

Max dropped a big roll money on the counter and went to join Cindy and Logan while Alec fled.

"Boo, where on Earth did you find that money?" Cindy asked in disbelief.

"Alec's pants." Max laughed clinking glasses with Cindy and started to drink.

"Why did you do that." Logan asked with a serious tone.

"Cause," Max started as Cindy and Logan listened intently, "He hung my underwear up out side the building for the whole world to see.

"Oh, well that explains it." Cindy said grabbing the pitcher in the middle of the table and heading for the bar.

"I don't like this game Max!" Logan said calmly when Cindy had left the table.

"It's not a game." She stated, "It's revenge."

"You shouldn't have thrown the coffee cup at him!" Logan said angrily.

"Oh, sorry bout that by the way!" Max said sincerely.

Logan's phone rang in his pocket, he pulled it out and answered it. "Yep, Matt hi." There was a pause as Logan listened to details. "Okay thanks." He hung up.

"What's going down?" Max asked.

"Matt, said that the homicide unit just arrived at an alley on Roderick street in sector two." Logan gave her details. "A homeless man just witnessed a murder..."

Max cut him off, "And it was a transgenic."

"Yep." Logan confirmed. "Do you want to head down there?"

"Yeah," Max said slightly distraught. "Who the hell is doing this?"

~*

"Matt!" Logan called when he saw Matt.

Matt came over to the rope and let Logan and Max into the crime scene. "Male, right now we're guessing about twenty-four years of age, barcode on the back of his neck." He reported to them.

"Where's the witness?" Logan asked before Max could.

"They've taken him down to the station so he can give a full statement." Matt continued.

"Did he give you a description?" Max asked impatiently.

"Yeah," Matt flipped through the notes on the clipboard he had picked up only moments earlier. "He assumed that the murder was a female, he said that it didn't have the build to be a man. He said that she was dressed in dark clothing with a hooded jacket. Couldn't see hair color. And the murder weapon was a gun, which you can see when you look at the body. Who ever it was, managed to make and great mess of this kid but didn't leave any evidence. No weapon, no fingerprints, there isn't even a footprint."

"There was nothing else?" Max asked getting upset, "Nothing at all?"

"No sorry," Matt said flipping through the notes, "Logan, I'll call you if we get anything else."

"Thanks Matt." Logan said turning and leaving with Max. "We'll get to the bottom of this Max. I promise."

"Thank you." She looked into his eyes and could see the love in them. She wanted to return it but she couldn't find it in herself. She knew that he was going to get hurt. She wanted to spare him but knew she couldn't. "I'm gonna go." She turned and walked away.

Logan was just left to watch her back as she walked away from him. He knew that something was going on. He didn't want to admit it but he knew that she was slipping away from him. He sighed and got into his car and headed home.

~*

Logan sat down at his computer and readied himself for and Eyes Only broadcast. 3,2,1. "This is an Eyes Only broadcast, the cable hack will last for exactly sixty seconds it cannot be traced, it cannot stopped and it is the only free voice left in the city. Some one has been going around killing transgenics. These people are innocent and have done nothing wrong. They are human like everybody and should be treated with the same respect. Transgenics beware, your lives maybe under threat." He ended the broadcast and moved to his couch. Where he greeted pictures of 'The Late Show', with David Letterman.

~*

Max entered her apartment and flicked on the light. She jumped ten mile in the air when she saw Alec sitting on her counter.

"What?" Max started, "Have you left a body in my bed?"

"No." Alec said smartly swinging his legs.

Max eyed him suspiciously, and walked to the window. Her underwear weren't hanging out there again, what's he up to? She asked herself.

"Come here." Alec said holding out his hand.

Max looked his hand over and the reluctantly took it.

He led her out of her apartment and up onto the roof of the building. "Look," he said pointing up at the crystal clear sky.

Max stared at the sky, it was beautiful and black, there were a few white stars but other wise it was empty.

Alec wrapped his arms around her waist, he felt her quickly tense.

She moved around to face him and put her hands on the back of his neck. "What is this Alec?" She asked letting him pull her close to him.

"This is payback." He said locking his lips to hers.

Max couldn't fight Alec off any more. She kissed him back for a moment then let herself be held in his arms. She listened to his heart and closed her eyes.

"I care about you Max." He whispered in her ear. Although she didn't reply, he knew that she was listening, she was just processing it all.

~*

Logan was half-asleep when the phone rang. He was considering leaving it to ring and let the machine get it but instead he managed to sit up and peel himself off the couch.

"Hello," he said in the phone and wait for a reply.

"Logan? It's me." The voice said.

"Matt?" Logan asked. Rubbing his head with slight confusion as to why Matt was being so sly.

"Yeah, we've good some new information." He said keeping his voice low so that the rest of the department couldn't her that he was leaking information to an outside source, especially since the guy on the outside worked for Eyes Only.

Logan was alert now. "What have you got for me?" He asked Matt sounding very intrigued.

"Well," Matt began, "Firstly let me tell you that there won't be an investigation."

"Why the hell not?" Logan asked developing a deep anger.

"Because Logan, the deaths are all transgenic," Matt gave him the excuse. "A lot of people today don't give a crap about transgenics and try to avoid them and ignore the fact that they exist at all."

"Try and talk them into it." Logan said bluntly.

"Me?" Matt asked, "What do you expect me to do, I'm nobody here."

"Just try, please, just try." Logan begged.

"Okay, okay." Matt gave in.

"What was the other thing?" Logan asked.

"The guy remembered something else." Matt started.

"What is it?" Logan asked impatiently.

"The girl had a broken arm"