Title: The X6's surprise

Author: Gamegirl 452

Pairings: Max/Alec I would tell you the rest of them but that would spoil my fun!

Rating: PG-13 (for violence, swearing and sexual content that comes later).

Summary: What if not all of the X6's were not originals? Then what would they be? Where do they come from? And what will it do to the X5's who find out?

Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel or any of its characters. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this I would be writing the scripts for the fourth series because by now that's what we would be on because I would have never taken off air. I would have put Max and Alec together a looooooong time ago. Alec would have had a much bigger role in the second series. Alec would now be in my house instead of off somewhere.

But I don't own them James Cameron, Fox and the rest of those lot do. Shame.

A/N: This is only my second fan fiction ever so please read and review and please be gentle.

"Wait, where's Zero, Biggs and Jondy's child?" Max asked.

"Oh Zero, is waiting for me back at our apartment." Rachel told them and as soon as she had she started to blush.

Max and Alec looked at each other. They knew what was going on with that. Alec made a mental note to talk to Zero about something's like living with his daughter. Alec did a double take in his head, had he just thought of Rachel as his daughter? Yeah he had, and the thing was, he liked it.

"Right," Max said, "How soon can they all get here?" she asked.

"Well, most of them a day or two depending. A few like Tinga and Adam will take about four days. Plus not all of them have been able to gain paperwork so they are having to take time to get through sector checkpoints and cops." Rachel explained.

"Well, can you call them all and tell them to come here?" Max asked.

"Yeah, where's the nearest phone?" she asked.

"You can use mine" Logan told her. Max and Alec were taken aback; they had forgotten Logan was in the room. Shit.

Logan got up and walked in the computer room. To get the phone, Max and Alec were just looking at each other as if they were having a conversation with their minds like the X7's. Max was the first to break eye contact. She quickly turned her back to Alec and looked out the window at the view.

"Alec can I use your cell?" Max asked. Wanting to get away from the moment they had just shared.

"Yeah sure, are you phoning Zack?" he asked as he chucked her the cell across the room. Max caught it without effort.

"Yeah, he knows where all of us that are still left are. He wouldn't like the fact that we are all going to be together in one place, but Manticore is dead now and White can only do so much. We will just have to be careful. The first problem is getting Zack to agree, but I'm the best person to do that so I better get on with it." And with that Max walked out off the room and into the kitchen, Alec could hear her flip the phone open and dial Zack's number that he had made all of them memorise over ten years ago the night they had broke out.

Alec turned to see Rachel halfway through the second sandwich that was sat on the table. Shit with everything that had been going on he had forgotten that she might not have eaten in a few hours and with transgenics high metabolisms she would have been starving.

"Would you like something to drink with that?" he asked wanting to do something.

Rachel nodded her head and she finished off the rest of the second sandwich and moved onto the third.

Alec left Rachel in the lounge area and walked into the kitchen where he could hear Max arguing with Zack on his cell.

Alec walked into the kitchen and over to the fridge. 'Rachel wanted a drink' Alec mouthed to Max when she shot him one of her looks, the one that says 'how-dare-you-burst-into-a-private-conversation'.

Alec walked over to the fridge and got out three sodas and stayed there. Alec knew that he shouldn't be listening in but he couldn't help it.

"No Zack, I need you to contact the rest of us." Pause. "Yeah, all of them, Jondy, Krit, Sly, Tinga, Zane, Jack, Jace, Brin, Casey, Zero, Lee, Shaun and Mia. All of them and we need them here." Pause. "Yeah, here in Seattle in no more than four days." Pause. "Yeah I know that a couple of them are in New York but their transgenics, they could run it from there and get here in three and you know it." Pause. "Yeah I know that it's a big risk but you really need to get them here Zack." Pause. "No, I do care about them, very much that's why I need them here." Pause. "Zack, I know the dangers, I've know all about them but they need to be here Zack." Pause.

Alec could hear that Max was getting very angry with Zack know, which didn't happen very often because Zack was usually right and Max saw that in the end, but this time she knew that this was for their own good. They needed to know about their children, they had a right to know about them and it wasn't up to Zack to say that they couldn't.

Alec had had enough of listening to Max try unsuccessfully to persuade Zack. Now it was his turn.

Alec closed the fridge door and put the three sodas he had got out on the island in the middle. Alec walked over to Max and put his hand out and signalled for the cell.

Max was now looking very angry and knowing what she would do if Zack pushed her any more she handed the cell over to Alec.

A/N2: Hope you all like this chapter, sorry it's taken me a few days to update but I've just got my results and I've been celebrating.

Big shout to all my reviewers and please keep reviewing I love to hear what you think about the story so far.

A special thanks to Riley who has been wonderful throughout writing this story, thanks for all your support and you're a great beta. THANK YOU.