A/N: I know Tinga is supposed to be dead. But this is my story and in this story she isn't.

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CHAPTER 3

An X5 name Dawn was sleeping peacefully in her room at TC. She slowly opened her eyes, and turned to the side. She jumped up and gasped.

"Max!" she yelled in surprise.

"Oh good your up!" Max said sitting in a chair by her bed.

"Wha.. What are you doing here?" she asked wiping her eyes still quite alarmed.

"I have to ask you something very important." Max said standing up. "Now I want you to think long and hard about this. Am I ugly?"

"No! What? No!" Dawn said. "Why do you think your ugly?"

"I was just thinking of why Alec would cheat on me." Said Max looking down to the ground.

"Oh Max, you still think Alec was cheating on you?" A weary Dawn asked her. "Alec would not cheat on you!"

"Why is every one taking his side?! He cheats on me! And I'm the bad guy?" Max requested.

Dawn got up and pulled her long dirty blonde hair into a ponytail. "Look Max, I'm not taking anybody's side. But you have to stop obsessing over him! I don't think he cheated on you, because I know Alec. He was my CO and I trust him with my life, and he would not do something like this!"

"I'm not obsessing over him!" she defended her self.

"Oh your not?" Dawn asked putting one hand on her hip. "I wake up and you're sitting in my room at six o'clock in the morning wanting to talk about Alec."

"Alright." Max finally gave in.

"Now look, Alec is not cheating on you!" she whispered.

Max sighed. "I hope your right."

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Alec walked into a small grocery store. He walked up to the counter where a big, fat, bald guy stood behind the counter with a toothpick in his mouth.

"Yeah?" the guy asked him.

"I'm looking for a girl named Brin." Alec said.

"Who you?" the big man asked Alec.

"It really doesn't matter can I just, please can I just speak with her?" Alec asked before loosing his temper.

"She's busy!" the guy yelled and turned around.

Alec jumped behind the counter and grabbed the guy in a chokehold pressing him against the wall. "Now you're going to listen. I need to speak with Brin and if you don't take her to me right now, I will have to kill you. Understand?"

The man muttered something and nodded slowly. "Let him go!" a voice behind him came.

Alec turned around and saw Brin standing at the end of the room wearing an apron. "Hey Brin." He smiled.

She stared at him. "494?" she mouthed, and Alec nodded.

"I need to talk to you in private." He said and she pointed to the employee room. They walked in and she hugged him.

"How did you find me?" she asked letting go of him.

"Well, let's just say I have some connections." He said and she laughed. "You and your connections."

"I see you got a good job." He said looking around the butcher shop.

"Shut up, I know it sucks but at least it pays." She said sitting down. "So where do you live now?" she asked. "I haven't seen you since Manticore burnt down."

"Yeah." Alec looked down. "Thank god you we're away on a mission while that happened."

"I know. I came back and there was nothing there so I headed down south, I wanted to contact the rest of my family, but I think they were still mad at me from when I was a good little soldier." She finished and they laughed.

"Oh, that's why I'm here." Alec said. "You see after the fire Max and I headed to Seattle, well actually she headed for Seattle and I followed."

"Maxie?" Brin asked surprisingly.

"Yeah, and a couple of months ago we hooked up and we've been together ever since." Alec smiled.

"You and Max? Oh my god! How could Max ever fall for you?" she asked laughing.

"Hey! I'm not that bad."

"Yeah right!" she commented. "Mr. If-I-don't-get-laid-in-an-hour-I'm-going- to-kill!"

"I was drunk!" he defended him self. "No, actually I came here to ask for a big favor."

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Max knocked on the door again, and waited for a response. The door finally opened. "Max?" Logan asked.

"Yeah." She said.

"What are you doing here in the middle of the night?" he asked squinting from the light in the hallway.

"I just wanted to talk." She said and sighed.

"Is something wrong?" he asked. "Oh, no. Well yeah. But it's nothing to do with TC, it's about me." She said insecurely.

He stepped aside for her to walk in. "What is it?" he asked.

"It's Alec." She began. "I think he's cheating on me and everyone say's he's not."

"Oh." Logan said.

"That's all you have to say? Oh!" she almost yelled.

"No, come here sit down." He said and she took a seat at the island in his kitchen. He opened a jar and pointed it towards her. "Pretzel?" he asked.

Without a comment she took one and bit into it. "So, how did this happen?" he asked.

"Well," she began. "Last week I over heard him talking to a woman on the phone. The next day two X5's saw him sitting in a restaurant with some woman. And then he leaves a note that says he's leaving town for a while. What do you think?"

"Well, he could be. But don't jump to any conclusions." He says.

"That's what everyone has been telling me! I have all the evidence I need and when he gets back I'm gonna let him have it!" she completed.

"Alright, but I'm telling you maybe he just has a platonic relationship with this woman." He defended Alec. This could have been Logan's last chance to get Max back, but he knew that she loved Alec and that would never change.

"I don't think Alec can put the words platonic and woman together in the same sentence." She said. "I just wish I could change it. I mean, here I thought we we're going to have a wonderful new relationship and he goes off and does this." She nodded her head.

"How could he do this?" she asked him again. "I turned down hundreds, thousands of offers!" she exaggerated. "Including you!" she referred to Logan.

"I think you should let him explain him self. Maybe it wasn't what you think." He stopped trying to think of something else to say. "You know, I read somewhere that in bad situations people tend to think the worst so when they actually find out it's never as bad as they thought."

"Now," he continued. "I have watched Alec grow a lot since you first brought him from Manticore, and I have to say he has turned into one hell of a cookie." He smiled at the end.

"I never thought I'd say this, but he really loves you and he would never do anything to hurt you." Logan finished his analysis.

'You really think so?" she asked.

"Yes, I do." Max got up from the table. "Thank you so much Logan!"

"It was nothing." He said.

"Bye, and sorry for waking you." She said exiting. "It's okay." He said and went back to bed.

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