Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel or anything related to it. Dark Angel is owned by other people and they're stupid because they didn't give us more than two seasons. Of course they at least gave us those, which is good.

Disclaimer Part Two: I do however own Blaze, Heresy, Leo, Two and other things that might seem unfamiliar. Luxie is owned by Monica

Pairings: Logan/Max, Alec/Heresy, Alec/Blaze, Alec/Luxie…

There might be hints of Blaze/Two, Skate/Tia, Hunter/Hawk (which is Blaze's pack). Skate/Tia would be a pretty official pairing (despite the fact that they consider each other brothers and sisters, as well as mates), Blaze/Two is complicated and Hunter/Hawk… well, you'll see

Pack Instinct

6 – Cure The Past

I was wearing my new pants and as I walked through Terminal City trying to get to know the place I felt Alec's smell all over my body. When I walk the smell wafted up to my nose and at one point I almost lost my sense of balance due to the smell.

When I had talked to Alec before I had felt very unsure of myself and very embarrassed about what had happened when I had been in rage. I remembered when I had still been at Manticore and Two had tried to overthrow me. I was stronger than him and in a few couple of punches I had whipped the air out of him and thrown him against a wall.

Skate and Tia, the youngest in the pack had looked at me with such fear in their eyes, I was sure the two of them were going to attack me together.

"What?" I barked at my two soldiers. The two of them shrunk back into a corner.

"That was pretty harsh, 628," Hawk said. "You shouldn't have thrown him against the wall."

"My name is Blaze," I growled. "I'm the leader and what I do is right." For a ten-year-old I was pretty strong and I had heard the guards suspect me even stronger than some of the kids in Zack's unit.

"I'll never remember these stupid names," Hunter said. He was a great hunter, which is where his name came from and I was sure he had been proud when I had given it to him. However, he agreed with anything Hawk had to say. I knew he was hoping she would be Alpha soon.

"I don't care. I'm the leader. Don't you dare disobey me. We're soldiers and soldiers do what their superiors tell them," I yelled. I hated them disobeying me but I loved them so dearly I would never hurt them. I looked over to Two. I knew I had gone slightly overboard. The five of us looked up as we heard the guards running towards our room. Every time there was a fight, they'd come and take me away.

"Just cool it down a bit," Skate said quietly. Skate never talked much but when he did it made sense. I breathed in deeply and gave each of them a glare before I knelt next to Two. I shook him.

I was crying. I felt the tears running down my face from when I remembered how I had almost killed my brother. I loved Two almost as much as I loved Zack and I was only disciplining him. He was taken to the medical room for almost two weeks before he came back with a scar crossing the marks on his cheek. We all had them. The two stripes down our left cheek and he was the only one with blue stripes. He didn't speak to me for another week.

"Are you okay?" I heard Max's voice beside me and I looked up wiping the tears away. I hadn't noticed her join me and I felt embarrassed for having let my guard down.

"I was just remembering something."

"Your pack?" I nodded. This was my pack now. I had to forget the past. "Hey, if you want I can ask Logan to check up and see if he can find them."

"It's alright. It's better they don't know where I am," I said. "I think maybe I should get working on the virus…"

"Yeah, sure…"

Luxie grinned widely as she walked through Terminal City careful that no one who knew of her condition would see her. She had pulled the bars from the windows and carefully taken the whole window apart so as not to alarm Heresy. For all she knew, that stupid girl was still guarding the empty cell.

"What now?" Luxie asked herself quietly and lowered herself against a wall in an alley.

"You could go back and wait till your done smelling like a cat in heat," she heard Alec whisper beside her.

"I am a… Alec!" she gasped when she noticed him. He grinned.

"You're a me? That's strange. I thought there was only two of me."

"What?" Luxie asked with a confused expression on her face.

"You see I have this…" Alec began to say but stopped when Luxie pounced him and pressed her lips against his. Alec felt her tongue slide into his mouth and responded. He began tugging at her shirt and sat up to let her do the same. Their mouths still pressed together the two of them managed to rip each other's shirts off.

"You!" they heard Heresy's snarl of malice and turned around in horror. Luxie grabbed her shirt and pulled it up in front of her breasts. She tried to stutter an apology but came no where. Heresy cracked her knuckles and pounced the younger girl.

Luckily for Luxie Alec responded quick enough and kicked Heresy out of the way. The three of them scrambled to their feet.

"It's just the heat, Heire," Alec defended their actions. "And you have no right to… whatever. Let her be."

"You're going to regret that, Alec. I swear to God, you two should seriously reconsider all this," Heresy said and slowly straightened up. Her malevolent facial expression faded and changed to her usual smirk of knowing better than everyone else.

"What are you talking about?" Luxie demanded while pulling her shirt over head. Alec looked around but wasn't able to find it in the dark.

"Nothing," Heresy said smirking and walked off with a bounce to her step. Luxie turned to look at Alec to see what he had to say but he kept his head turned from her.

"We really shouldn't be doing this," he said.

"Because of what she said?"

"No… and yes. What she said is confusing me a great deal but she has a knack for people relations and I just don't think we should."

"That's great," Luxie said angrily and concentrated hard. With her mind she sent a big wav of pheromones towards Alec and stalked off, angry, deprived of sex and very hungry. What she didn't know was that that wave did exist and Alec was holding back very hard so as not to do anything.

Somehow the arrival of Blaze and Luxie seemed interconnected in a way and he really needed to find out what Heresy had meant. That was his Luxie problem, Heresy. His Blaze problem was mainly how to understand why she had ran off crying at the mention of… whatever it was they had been talking about.

"Alright," I said with a deep sigh and got ready for my upcoming speech. I was standing in front of Alec, Heresy (who seemed to be angry with me for some reason unknown to myself), Luxie and most importantly Max and Logan. I had done all my calculations and realized there was something that needed to be done. I needed them all to know and help if possible. "I've done all my calculations and although I wasn't particularly trained for medical advance, I know a few things.

"In correspondence with Max's virus and my blood I found that if I transfused with her the virus would be cured," I explained and saw with wide grin appear on Max's face and a faint smile on Logan's. The others seemed slightly indifferent, except for Heresy who looked slightly relieved. "However," I said and noticed Max's face fall. I knew she might have been prepared for this and I really didn't want to let my alpha down. "However, it would only work for a few hours before the virus works through the antibodies in my blood."

"Been there, done that," Max said with a hint of a growl in her voice. She was upset.

"But…" I said quickly before she stormed off, or even worse rejected me out of the pack. She looked up and the others were amazed that there was a 'but'. "If I were to inject a certain amount of a particular chemical into my blood it would up my antibodies and cancel out the virus."

"So what you're saying is, your anti-virus isn't strong enough to hold it on it's own?" Luxie asked me. "We have to get you some drugs and pump, pump, pump you up?"

"Well, preferably, I'd just like to be pumped up once," I said and realizing I'd made a hint of a joke I grinned. Luxie grinned as well and I was glad she found it slightly amusing.

"So?" Max asked eagerly. "What is this drug? Where can we get it?"

"Er, so far as I know, it's very rare and only available overseas, in Europe."

"So, I'll go to Europe," Max said getting up. She was quite determined to get rid of this virus so she could 'work of her sexual tension'. I had heard many people referring to the way she acted like that.

"What's the drug?" Alec asked me. I shivered at the sound of his voice but tried to concentrate.

"Er, Kitheriamin," I muttered silently. It existed only in Norway and was very scare even there. You had to be a very high person to have it, let alone see it. It was a greenish-blue liquid that had a very acidic quality and tasted really, really bitter.

"So we inject that into you and then transfuse with me," Max said. I nodded, slowly because she didn't seem to know it's properties.

"Kitheriamin?" Logan asked. I hoped at least he might know the qualities and tell Max about them. "That would boil your blood or burn you from the inside." He knew and I nodded painfully.

"A large dose, yes," Luxie suddenly said.

"Even a small dose would kill me, Luxie," I pleaded and she looked at me like she knew better. I could see in her eyes she did and that it would change Max's whole situation.

"I have kitheriamin in my blood," she said confidently. I widened my eyes in terror. I knew Manticore was sick in the head but why would they have a soldier with kitheriamin in their blood. "It goes with my pack of rare chemicals," she said at mine and Logan's expressions.

"I say give it a try," Heresy said with a dismissive wave.

"Heire, it could kill her," Alec hissed and Heresy shrugged in response. I looked at Max who looked at me with hope in her eyes and I knew I couldn't disappoint my alpha. I nodded.

"We'll get her back, sir," said two of the familairs.

"Be careful, she'll be very protected with those freaks and if you shed one drop of her blood, yours will be in my drinking glasses tomorrow night," he hissed at them and dismissed them. White wanted her back. He needed that kitheriamin. His army would soon be strong enough to get rid of 452 and then The Coming would have no obstacles.

Isn't Maxie lucky to have found these two girls? Well, problem is they don't always do what they're told, despite Manticore training… Want to know what I mean, stick around and read the next chapter!

Next chapter, Blaze and Luxie do a Houdini and vamoose