DAY 1:

Max knew that trying to hide things from people wasn't only cruel but when they found out they asked all sorts of complicated questions. She could have pinned it coming.

It started when she and Alec were at work about two days after they decided to start seeing each other on purpose. Cindy was on a run. They were left alone together amongst the lockers.

"Hey." Alec greeted dropping his bag on the floor. "It's starting to warm up." He stated opening his locker and fishing around for one of his other shirts to change into.

"I don't know about you but it's pretty hot where I'm standing." Max said with a cheeky look on her face, leaning against the lockers and fanning herself with her hand.

Alec smiled and shook his head slightly. "You know, you can be very naughty some times." He pulled his shirt off and began to pull the next one on.

Max grabbed his arm with the shirt half way over his head and pulled it off again. She wrapped her arms around his neck and started kissing him. Getting Alec started was good cause he held on all-day and preformed better later. Max giggled to herself about the thought.

'She wearing a button up shirt.' He admired. He pushed her back against the lockers and in one swift movement pulled the buttons open to reveal Max's black bra.

She blushed slightly, giggled and kept kissing him.

Who knows where their passionate kissing would have lead if Normal hadn't walked around the corner at the moment? "Oh my God." He yelled protecting his eyes and turning to walk back to his desk.

Cindy walked in the room in just enough time to see Normal race back to his desk disgusted, Alec run after him trying to pull on a shirt and Max after Alec doing up buttons. "What the hell?" She asked herself quietly.

"I said no office fraternizing." Normal announced when they both arrived at his desk. "Plus didn't you two hate each other?" He asked pointing a finger at the both of them.

Max and Alec looked from Normal to each other and back to Normal and at the same time said, MAX: "It's not what you think." ALEC: "She was helping me."

Normal looked at the two of them as they looked at each other with panicked expressions. "What? Helping with what?" Normal was confused.

MAX: "Itchy back." ALEC: "My belt buckle." They both said in unison again and then gave each other and evil look.

"She was helping with your belt buckle alright, she would have help you right out of your pants." Normal responded to the jumble mess of word he received as an answer.

"What the hell is going on here?" Cindy arrived at the desk to join the strange conversation. She handed Normal her clipboard and looked to Max for answers.

Normal got in before Max even got the chance to respond to the look. "These two seem to find it fun to waste valuable business time by."

"Talking about fly fishing." Alec interrupted him, giving Max a smart look in return for her 'god, you're an idiot' look.

"And that has what to do with pants?" Cindy asked getting more confused every second.

"Alec nearly ripped his pants showing me." Max made up quickly. She smiled sweetly when Alec gave her a 'humiliate me why don't you' look.

"They were about to christen the lockers." Normal said plainly gaining annoyed and betrayed looks from Max and Alec.

Cindy opened her eyes wide and her mouth dropped down. She looked at Max and Alec who looked like they were about to beat each other and then beat Normal. Then Cindy shook her head and remembered something. "Normal, Sketchy and Maddie christened the lockers five years ago."

That broke the atmosphere. Max and Alec started laughing and were soon joined by Cindy who for the moment had forgot about her recent discovery, but Normal just rolled his eyes and turned away from them.

~*

It seemed to be smokers' night at Crash. Max nearly fell over at the sight of the clouded room. She quickly saw her crew and worked her way over to them. "Wass up?" She asked on arrival and winked at Alec.

"Is all good, Boo. Wass up wit you?" Cindy was slurred and happy, it just meant that Sketchy had brought the weed.

"Yeah you know." Max made eyes at Alec as he sat across the table. "Alec can I ask you something?" She turned and walked away waiting for him to follow her.

Alec did get up and follow her across the room where they proceeded to have what appeared to Cindy as a fight.

Cindy observed through squinted eyes as they made hand gestures and yelled and weird facial expressions. "What do you call that?" She asked a very stoned Sketchy.

Sketchy looked at Max and Alec, tilted his head, said, "Lovers tiff, "and fell on the floor.

"True my brother, true." Cindy took a sip of beer and watched intently. She knew that Sketchy was unconscious on the floor but didn't have the co- ordination to pick him up so just left him there.

She watched as Alec got the last word in and headed for the Crash exit and as Max ran after him.

"Alec I'm sorry. I'm just kind of upset about this." Max grabbed his arm and held his hands. Tears had started to stream down her face as she pleaded through her expression. "I need you."

"I'm sorry but I don't know what I'm meant to do. I can't help. I'd be very bad at it." He tried to pull away from her but her grip stayed tight around his hands.

"Don't leave me with this!" She begged him. "This is your responsibility too!"

"And I'll handle it just give me some time." Alec finally managed to pull free from her. "Please just give me some time to think." He turned and left Crash and Max without looking back.

~*

Logan's apartment was dark and Max didn't think he would be home. She walked into the main living room where she saw a figure sitting on the couch, she turned and flicked on the light.

Logan looked at her with a sad face. He hadn't been crying but looked as though he was about to start at any second.

"Are you okay?" Max asked sitting on the coffee table in front of him.

He didn't say anything he just nodded his head and pulled himself to his feet.

"My god what happened?" Max followed him as he walked to his office.

"Loss in the family." Logan replied in a quiet and calm tone. He sat at his computer and began to open files and type away at stuff.

"I'm so sorry." Max really did feel sorry for him. "Anybody that you were close to?" She wished that she had never met Vogelsang so Zack would have never killed him. So Zack wouldn't get taken to Manticore and accidentally reveal where the others were. So Renfro wouldn't have caught Tinga and they wouldn't have to go in and destroy the place. So she wouldn't have been caught and given the stupid virus to kill Logan with.

"Yes and no." Logan replied still with a very sad tone. "We were close a long time ago and sort of drifted apart."

"That's sad." Max wanted so bad to stop his pain. "I sorry for yelling at you about Asha. It was wrong, all you did is what you thought was right and I can't hold that against you."

Logan didn't reply. He was glad that Max had decided to speak to him but couldn't help hating her for everything that had happened. He was still so in love with her that it hurt. The funeral was in five days and he had to save his strength to be able to deal with it.

"On the bright side," Max began, "at least you're not pregnant and the person who got you there didn't just walk out on you."

Logan forgot all about his dead relative at that point and focused on Max. "What?" He was shocked. "You're pregnant?"

"Yeah." She replied quietly. "I know that I'm not ready for this. You're the first person that I've told, well apart from Alec but he has to know, it's his kid."

"I cannot believe what I'm hearing." Logan stood and walked like a zombie into the kitchen and got out a bottle of previously opened wine, popped the cork out and began sculling the bottle.

Max who had followed him snatched the bottle out of his hand. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"You're pregnant!" He repeated as though to inform her for the first time.

Max rolled her eyes. "Thanks, I didn't know that!" She threw the bottle into a wall and broke down crying.

Logan didn't know what he should do. He couldn't show any sympathy for her, not just because of the virus but because he didn't feel any. He couldn't say a single thing either so he just walked into his bedroom and slammed the door, leaving the red wine to stain the floor and Max to sob in the middle of his kitchen.

~*

Alec knew the world was coming to an end. His girlfriend was now pregnant. "One transgenic plus one transgenic equals one disaster." He whispered into the darkness.

"Maybe," Was the response he got, "but disasters can be fixed."

Alec smiled to himself. "Piss off Lydecker." He moaned through his now drunken state.

"You really were just taking her for a joy ride, weren't you?" Lydecker asked sitting on the floor next to Alec.

"No." Alec replied quietly.

"You were!" Deck raised his voice slightly.

"I did not!" Alec screamed and pinned Lydecker against a wall. "I love her!" He backed down once he realized what he had said. It was the first time that he had ever admitted to anyone about how he felt.

"Right." Lydecker scoffed.

"I do." He repeated. "I do love her."

"Then fix your so called disaster and get over it." Deck advised, climbed to his feet and left Alec to once again whisper to himself in the dark.

~*

Cindy found herself once again all alone in a quiet apartment. Max was not home nor was she anywhere to be seen after she left Crash. Cindy had known that something was very wrong. She wasn't stupid, she knew that Max and Alec were sleeping together. She just didn't say anything incase it was serious and was appalled by them trying to hide it from her.

Cindy was walking from the bathroom to her bedroom to get into bed when Max walked in the door. Her face was red from the tears. "God boo!" Cindy said immediately rushing to comfort her friend. "What's wrong. Did Alec hurt you cause I'll beat him up."

Max shook her head and began to fight off a fresh batch of tears. She rested her head on Cindy's shoulder.

Cindy sighed. "That's good cause that boy would have whipped my ass." She tried a hand at light humor and got Max to smile. "What happened to make you so sad?"

"Everything's gone wrong Cindy." She cried putting her hands to her face and started to sob. "Logan and I were fighting and me and Alec got together and now me and Logan are fighting again and I'm pregnant and Alec's scared and won't talk to me."

"Oh god." Cindy processed the jumbled mess. "You're really pregnant?"

"Why does every body ask me that. Of course I am. I checked like six times, I'm definitely pregnant." Max pulled free from Cindy's grasp paced around a bit and finally collapsed on the sofa.

"Well on a brighter side I think you win a award for the most 'ands' used in one sentence." Cindy laughed gaining a small laugh from Max.

~*

Max planned on avoiding the rest of the world for the rest of her natural life. She refused to go to work the next day and ended up spending the day at Joshua's place helping him paint 'Joshua four hundred and twenty-eight'.

"Nice one big fella." Max commented as he signed it.

"Thanks little fella." Joshua replied with great enthusiasm. Joshua looked at Max as a tear slid down her face. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Max replied and quickly wiped the tears away.

Joshua caught her in an embrace and hugged her tightly. "What's wrong little fella?" He coached, cutting off Max's air supply.

Max tried to push him away but his tight grip wouldn't let up so Max just enjoyed getting almost crushed to death. "There's going to be a little, little fella." Max told him gaining a confused look from Joshua. "I'm going to have a little baby." She considered the thought herself for the first time she found out and liked the idea of having a baby.

"Little, little fella?" Joshua considered it. "Cool. Baby." Joshua laughed.

"Yeah," Max lightened up and smiled, "Baby."