AUTHOR'S NOTE- HEY GUYS!!!!!!!!! NEXT CHAPTER UP AND RUNNING. HOPE YOU LIKE!LIKE I SAID I WOULD I AM POSTING WHAT I POSTED IN THE REVIEW PLACE HERE JUST IN CASE NONE OF YOU READ IT OR HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT, SO HERE IT IS-

Ok, hi everybody, i am posting this in my reviews as well as in my author's note for the next chapter coming up. Seems that something needs to be sorted out

Lira, i love Dark Angel. I am FULLY aware of every single event that happens in the first and second season. I know Zack looses his memory, i know Tinga dies, i know Ben dies. Now normally i follow these guidlines and write my stories in the right 'time sense' But considering i always do that, i wanted to do something different. I remember very clearly posting in one of my author's notes to ingore the fact that Tinga died, b/c i made it never happen, and ignore the whole Zack loosing memeory thing.

Look, like i said before (in my author's notes) i LOVE the relationship Max and Zack has, big brother/little sister relationship. And i like Tinga and hey EVERYONE loves alec! So i just put them all together. It's not really a big deal;) Plus, I explained why Ben came back in the 6th chapter. I love Ben, so thats why i brought him back.

I don't think my story is that confusing to grasp. If it is i could just delet it and start a different one;) I mean it's not confusing to me,is it to anyone else?

So yes my times might be a little, 'whacked' but hey it's my story, not a dark angel episode, it doesn't have to flow with the season;)

I hope i cleared things up for you. Thanks ever much for reveiwing! And please contiune. I answer all questions in my author's notes most times, so:) Important to read. lol, believe me i am the BIGGEST Dark Angel fan, i know how things go;)thanks!

Love all,

the author,

Nat

OK SO EVERYTHING CLEARED UP? EVERYONE GOT IT!?:) I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING AND I HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGEL DARK ANGEL EPISODE SO I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO BEN AND ZACK AND TINGA AND THE OTHERS, I JUST WANTED ZACK AND TINGA AND KRIT TO BE WITH MAX AND ALEC. SO AGAIN SO THERE IS NO CONFUSION---------------TINGA DIDN'T DIE!!! ZACK DIDN'T LOOSE HIS MEMORY!!! BEN DID DIE BUT WAS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN THE 6TH CHAPTER!!!!!!

BUT THANK YOU LIRA FOR SAYING THAT. IF YOU WERE CONFUSED THAT MEANS THERE IS PROBABLY SOMONE ELSE WHO IS AS WELL.

ENJOY THE CHAPTER

************CARPE DIEM************

NAT



Max sat in front of Joshua's window, starring up into starry sky. She sighed softly as everyone else was asleep. Man, she itched to go to her needle. She really needed to get things off her mind. But she knew if she went and someone woke up they would panic, and give everyone a heart attack. She then felt a hand on her shoulder, in response she looked up and saw Joshua smiling down at her. Max forced herself to smile back as he sat down next to her.

"You should be in bed big fella." Max said softly.

"Joshua not tired, slept all day stay up all night." Joshua answered as he sat indian style next to her and also looked up at the stars.

"Pretty sky huh?" Max asked.

Joshua shook his head in agreement.

"Joshua like to paint a picture of it one day." he said.

"I bet it will be beautiful Joshua, you're an awesome painter." Max said grinning.

"Thanks lil' fella." he said blushing.

Max smiled but didn't take her eyes off of the stars.

"Max." he said.

Max then turned her head towards him.

"What are you running from?" Joshua asked.

Max only looked at him.

"What makes you think I'm running from anything?" Max asked him.

"Bring bunch of your brothers and sisters and stay the night. You never stay the night Max. What's happening?" Joshua asked.

"Lydecker is after us, and Ames, and Ben and this transgeic that we can't beat. And I have no clue what to do about it." Max shared.

Joshua looked at her sadly.

"That sucks." he said quietly.

"Yea, but don't worry we're leaving tommorrow. He doesn't want you, so I'm going to stop coming around you so you'll be safe. Do you understand?" Max asked softly.

Joshua looked at her sadly then placed his hand on her hand.

"I would rather go back to Manticore than have you stop coming around me lil' fella." he told her.

"Joshua, you don't want these people after you, you'll be a lot better off if I stay away from you. I don't want you going back there." she said.

"I don't want you to go back there. I want to help you Max." he said.

"Joshua, the LAST thing I need is another person i care about to use against me." she responded.

"You can't loose me." he said smiling widly at her.

This made her laugh a little.

"Please let me help Max." Joshua said quietly.

Blade walked down the alleys of Seattle. Blue jeans, black boots, blakc t-shirt and black leather jacket. His face was serious and with a hint of evil on it. He glared everyway using his cat vision in the dark trying to find something or more important someone. He rounded a corner and then bumped into Ben.

"Find anything?" Blade asked.

"Nothing." Ben hissed back in an angry manner.

"No sweat, there are only so many places they can be, relax, we'll find 'em." Blade said smiling.

Ben looked at him. Getting the hint that Ben wouldn't stop looking at him. Finally Blade looked back at him.

"What?" he asked annoyed wanting to know why he kept looking at him.

"Ok, I gotta ask, why the black highlights on the tip of you spikes?" he asked.

"Not my choice." Blade answered as he started walking.

"I mean it looks cool but I'm just wondering why?" Ben said also walking.

"Like I said not my choice, when all of your brother's and sister's genes where mixed to form me, Zack's genes where the one who dominated because Lydecker used the most of Zack's DNA. That's why I look like him, but see also in your other siblings make up was their hair color and most of your brother's and sister's hair is black or dark brown. Of course they couldn't over ride Zack's blonde hair, but it went somewhere." Blade explained.

"Thats cool." Ben admitted.

"I guess." he added.

He then stopped walking and looked over at Ben.

"Do you have any idea where they could be hiding?" he asked.

"No, it's not like we spent every day together once we got out." Ben said.

"You didn't?" Blade asked sounding suprised.

"No, Zack said that if we stayed together that it would be easier for them to catch us so we all went to different parts of the world. The only one I kept in contact with was Zack, and well I met Max a while when I was here in Seattle." Ben explained.

"You 12 are stronger than I thought then, I never would have guessed that you all went different ways, alone. That event must have made you guys tougher than rocks, unfortantly." Blade replied.

Ben said nothing.

"Let's go, we got a lot of work to do if we're going to find them." Blade said walking off with Ben following.

Max groaned as she threw the empty container to the ground. She sighed and walked out of the bathroom to a room full of family eating.

"I need to go to South Market." Max announced.

Everyone looked at her.

"Why?" Logan asked.

"I'm not of my pills and I need them soon, unless you guys have any." Max said.

"I just took my last one." Krit told her.

"I don't have siezures very often." Tinga said.

She looked at Zack and Alec.

"Lost mine." Alec said.

"Ok, but someone is going with you." Zack said.

"I'll go with her." Krit said.

"Dude, everytime you and someone else goes somewhere, they get taken." Tinga replied.

"So, don't worry I won't let anything happen to the runt. I promise, they'll have to kill me before they take her away." Krit replied.

"Ok, but if you show up here without Max Krit, there's gonna be some fightening." Zack warned.

"Dido." Tinga and Alec said together.

"Great." Krit said under his breath.

"Let's go." she repelied.

The 2 walked through the crowd in the South Market.

"Max, don't go so fast, I can't loose you." Krit said practically jogging after her.

"Well hurry up, I'm starting to shake, ok." Max shouted back at him.

The 2 walked as fast as they could suddenly Max fell backwards, luckly Krit caught her.

"You ok Max?" he asked.

"Yea I just need to get to this shop." she said walking again.

Soon they got to the stand. Krit watched max demand for her pills and saw her swap a load of cash once she got them. The pills in her hand she took out a couple and sawllowed them. The shaking softened and soon stopped. Max placed them in her pocket and tucked her straight hair behind her ear.

"Let's go home." she said.

They both turned around but then ran into someone.

"Holy crap!" Krit said frightened.

Max also looked at him in fear.

"Blade." Max said.

"Yea hi guys, Max is it? And Krit. Right." Blade said smiling.

Soon Ben walked up.

"Ben." Krit said.

Blade then placed a hand on her shoulder. She winced as she felt his fingers dig into her shoulder.

"I think you need to come with me." he said.

Max then took a hold of her collar.

"What are going to do? Use your genitic powers, you can't, exposure and Lydecker won't like that." she said, then ripped her collar a little.

"RAPE! RAPE! RAPE!!!!!!!!!!" she then screamed.

Immediatly 7 cops started running up at them.

"What's the problem here?" one sector cop asked.

"These sickos tried to rape my sister!" Krit said pointing at Blade and Ben who gave the look of 'busted' on their face.

The 7 then stepped in front of them, yelling, checking, and questioning them. Max noticed they blocked their vision and took Krit's hand and led him down the left alley.

"Max, where are you going, we had to go right to go to his place." Krit said confused.

Max stopped in front of a fire escape latter on the side of the building.

"Shh, I know, but we went this way just in case they saw us so they thought we high tailed it left." Max said walking up the latter.

Krit sighed and followed. Soon they were up ontop of the roof, over looking South Market.

"Come on." Max told Krit as she stepped onto a thin piece of rope and started walking over to the other building on th other side of South Market.

Krit jumped up on it and followed. Both moved quickly yet quietly so they wouldn't draw attention to themselves. Max then jumped onto the roof of the building that she needed to be on, same did Krit. Max then ran ofver to the side and went down the fire escape latter, as did Krit. Once on the ground Max smiled at her brother.

"Now we're on the right side, and they thought we went left. Come on." she said running back down the alley.

She then stopped in front of a sewer and opened the top. Max looked up at Krit.

"Na uh Max, I am not going in there." Krit said.

"Come on Krit, it's the safest way now stop being a baby and just go." Max said.

Krit sighed and then walked down the latter into the sewer. Max looked both ways then jumped on the latter herself, pulling the top over her. Once she put the lid back on she climbed down the latter.

"This is gross." he said.

"Come on, this is my escape route, I know where I'm going." she said.

Krit followed Max down a series of tunnels and mazes of latters, steps, tunnels, and more. After 20 minutes or so Max walked up one latter on the left and pushed the top out, jumping out herself. She held out her hand and helped Krit up then shoved the lid back on.

"Follow me." she ordered as she ran through a series of back yards.

She took a left and jumped over the fence, Krit following and they were in Joshua's backyard.

"Wow, amazing, you must use that way a lot." Krit said.

"More than you think." Max said smiling as she walked into Joshua's house.

Zack came up and hugged Max and then hugged Krit, Tinga also hugged both of them.

"Everything go ok?"Alec asked.

"Yea." she said.

"Zack man, she's got a good head on her shoulders! She has ways of getting around and escaping from people all over the city!" he said.

"Escaping, who were you escaping from?" Logan asked.

"We ran into Ben and Blade, Max screamed that they were harrasing her, sector police jumped in totally got them away from us. Then we went left instead of right and we went up a building, across a rope over to the right side, went down the latter and got on the ground and Max made it look like we went left just in case one of them could see though the cops. Then we went down inside of the sewers which was kinda gross, but she lik escapes from people all the time through there so that can be to our advantage she knows her way around the whole city down there." Krit said happily.

Max laughed at his 'excitedness' of their little adventure. Zack looked at Max and smiled.

"Not bad at all, I think I under estimated you Maxie." Zack said.

Max shrugged.

"Everyone does." she said smiling.

"That they do." Alec agreed.