"Max...Logan...I have the answers. Want a complexe answer or one that you'll both ve sure to understand?" Max answered at once: "the later...right now, im not up for any mind quizzes, alright?" Laster nodded and looked down at his papers, taking a final look at the results. "Well...your cells have been posined to the very core. And my cure had shown itself to really have an affect, since it cured your virus..." As both Max and Logan were about to burst ouut in tears of joy, Laster stopped them. "...but not entirely. Im sorry....you're not cured."

Lasters word echoed in her disappointed and crushed mind. She wasn't cured? She had put herself through this pain for nothing?! But the thing that really angered her wasn't even that...it was that she had let herself believe and actually hope. She had hoped that it would cure her and that she and Logan would be able to walk out of this place hand in hand, skin to skin. But that god damned fate had chosen otherwise.

Why couldn't they let her have the one thing she desired so for in her life? The only thing that she reallt wanted...but, no- someone had to go and screw that up for her to. And it hurt so much...she reallt just wanted to live a simple life, having Logan by her side. That was the ony thing that she wished fot in her life. She would give anything to see, and not mention feel, it happen!

Logan was incredibly hurt too. He felt as if someone had just dropped a 20 feet stone on him and that it was impossible to get it away from him. That was the only thing he wished for; a life with Max. The events of a few days ago had showed that it was what she wanted, too. But then the hope had been taken away from them and yesterday it had been given back to them...and it was amazing what people put themselfs through for a little....hope and love.

"Hey...don't look so disappointed..." Laster tried to comfort them but the two looked as if though there was no good thing left in the word and for a moment it actually felt that way for them too.

But suddenly Logan remembered something. Something crusial. And as he did Max noticed the sparkle in his eyes at once. But she coudln't possiblt understand how he could make anything good out of the situation....that was propably impossible. But then again, not many things were impossible for Logan. He had winded up in a weel chair but gotten out of it, being able to use his legs again. Just that was an amazing acomplishment and worth credit for. But Logan had never been the one to want any either...

"You said before when we first met something about a second time and that that would surely work. Is that so?" Max suddenly remebered and her intrest level reached new hights and she changed her eyesight from meeting Logans eyes to fixating them on Laster....if that was true....

Laster shifted himself as if he was uncomfortable with soemthing but he managed to answer. "Well a second time would definetly do the trick...but I don't really recomend it. This'll almost kill her cells and even the least wrong could kill Max. And im not really sure about the sideffects of a second time..." Max didn't care about any side effects. laster had just told her that a secobd time would work and that was basicly all she had heard then. If it would work, she was all ears about it. But she also knew that being injected once more would mean going trough the same thing again and it filled her with fear....and she hated being afraid.

"I'll do it. I don't care about anything else. If this'll cure me i'll do it..." Logan looked at Max with shock in his eyes and she knew that he would try to talk her out of it just as he knew she wouldn't be talked out of it once she had decided. But he had to atleast try... "Please Max, don't do it. You heard him- you could wind up dead! I'll rather have you in my life at distance than not at all..."

She was once again touched by the sweetness in his voice but she wouldn't let herself get talked out of it. 'Cause if she couldn't have Logan in her life as something near her, someone to love with closeness....she didn't want to live. The events of the past days had made her realise that and she actually whispered it to Logan. And Logan looked at her with sincerity in his eyes and Max didn't know if it was the quaziness, but she thought she saw a tear behind his glasses...

He squeezed her hand tight and he looked deeply into her eyes and as he saw fear in them, he saw just as much determent within them. She wanted to do this, and he doubted that even if he wanted to he would be able to talk her out of it....

Logan lifted his glove covered hand to his own mouth, placing a kiss on two of his fingers. Then he lifted them over to her fore-head placing his artificial kiss on it. She smiled towards him as he nodded to her, then turned around and nodded at Laster. "Inject the god damn thing....this better work..."

AN: Propably another stupid place to end, but then again I think Im an expert at that by now.....*smile*

Chapter 8 : "Once Again" - The torment for Max continues as Logan watched everything with horror. And just when she's about to wake up things get complicated as her condition suddenly gets worse....a lot more worse.