Chapter 3:

Penthouse, Foggle Towers, 10:42PM

Gale sat back in Logan's computer chair, put her feet on his desk, her arms behind her head and sighed.

"Gale, there's a lot about me that you dont know"

"Obviously." She said with a nervous chuckle and gave him a sideways glance. Logan pulled a chair around and sat in it backwards facing her and running his fingers through his hair.

"Im gonna explain everything to you, because i trust you, but i need you to promise me you wont tell anyone. Not even Landen"

"You've got my word. So i guess there is more to the mysterious uptight Logan Cale"

"Gale I'm Eyes Only." he stated flatly. Gale let out a muffled laugh, but when she looked up at him with a serious expression on his face her smile faded into a confused and slightly stunned expression.

"Oh my god..." she looked into his eyes "you're...you're not kidding." she said becoming a little excited and not breaking the eye contact.

"Oh my god you are." she said as she looked back in front of her and off into space.

"Yo..you,...woh"

"You ok?" he asked.

"Yeah...Actually this explains a lot...uh, except for the unconscious girl in your living room"

Logan's eyes shot back to his couch where Max still hadn't woken up yet.

"I better check on her." he said, getting up and walking into his living room.

"Logan..." Gale said hurrying in after him still seeking an explanation. He touched Max's face again and then felt her forehead.

"What happened to her." she asked looking down at Max then back up at Logan.

"You know the government breeding broadcasts I've been sending out, the ones you asked me to look into at work"

"Well..yeah"

"They've been genetically engineering humans and using them as advanced soldiers by brainwashing them and keeping them from the outside world"

"So I've heard." Logan looked up at her.

"What? I pay attention, I'm a reporter." she said in a joking voice. A smile tugged at Logan's lips as he stood up and looked at Gale.

"Well this is Max. She escaped in '09. I'm in love with Max. She's died last year." he said as if he were educating an audience, and looked down at her.

"She..wha..y-you..." she stuttered confused, "oh." her eyebrows went up like it suddenly dawned on her what was going on and she looked down at Max.

"..ooohhhh" then she looked back up at Logan with her mouth slightly open. "Um..I'm gonna go now." Logan hid a smile at her comment and sudden realization, his smile remained as she went over to Landen and slapped him on the unwounded side of his head waking him up and whistling in his ear,

"Common we're leaving." he moaned and rubbed his eyes.

"Wha..what"

"Get up Mr. Hangover time ta go." he moaned again and started to get up, still kind of unaware of his surroundings. Gale helped him up and threw his coat at him almost knocking him over since he was already pretty unstable. He grabbed it and began to follow her reluctantly looking around still trying to figure out exactly what was going on and where he was.

Logan was kneeling by Max's side as she began to stir.

"Hey Logan," Gale called back to him from the door, "talk to you tomorrow k?" she said smiling.

"Yeah," he looked back up at her, "who knows maybe i'll make it to Crash." he said with a smile as she headed out the door pushing Landen ahead of her.

Max shifted and let out a small sigh then slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a couple times to clear her vision.

"Logan.." she whispered.

"I'm here Max." he said holding back the happy tears that were building up inside of him from seeing her wake up.

"Logan." she said relieved as she hugged him tightly and tears started to come down her face.

"Shh, it's ok. You're here now, you're safe." She pulled out of the hug and looked it to his deep blue eyes. They looked at each other for a second and suddenly both of them pulled the other into a deep, passionate kiss.

Foggle Towers, Elevator

Gale was half way down the Tower in the elevator when she realized she forgot her jacket at Logan's.

"Damnit." She said stopping the elevator -Normally I'd leave it, but it's freakin cold out and Logan's probably gonna be pretty occupied for the next couple of days-

"Stay here," she told Landen, "Ill be back in a second I left my jacket. And if you puke while im gone you're walkin home." her response was a muffled groan from the corner of the elevator where Landen was leaning with his back against the wall.

Gale stepped into the penthouse not bothering to shut the door since her jacket was on the chair right in front of her.

"Hey I forgot my-" she stopped mid sentence when she saw what she had walked in on and smiled trying not to chuckle. -Well Ill just be taking this and getting out of here- she thought to herself, it was a good thing they were so involved in what they were doing because they hadn't heard her. -Ha, Logan's definitely not coming to work tomorrow.- she thought as she slipped out trying not to make any noise.

Logan pulled away from the kiss after about two minutes.

"Air." he gasped. Both of them were panting.

"Logan,...what about, that girl,..that was here before." she said between breaths.

"Max she's just a friend"

"Good cause she just saw us." Max said letting out a laugh. Logan smiled but it faded with his question.

"Max, how"

"Zack." she said in a wavy voice.

"Manticore?" Max nodded.

"Are you ok"

"I am now." she said as they kissed again.