Despite my non-existent reviews I will be updating the rest of the story now on constant plea by Monica. I shall never know how loved my story is as I swim in the nothingness of my reviews (yes, I am desperate)

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…

Pack Instinct

8 – You Smell Like Sugar And Sex

Alec turned his head aside as he smelt the pheromones Luxie was still omitting. He felt guilty thinking about sex when he was supposed to be saving their asses from White and his cronies. He hoped that White wouldn't catch Luxie again because if he was able to do something once, Alec was sure he'd do it again. He was glad that Blaze had yet to run into the clutches of the snake maniac and was really not happy about her doing so purposefully, in the middle of the night and without a 20-man army behind her. Alec just hoped that he'd be enough this time.

He walked slowly along the way the two girls had escaped and wondered why they'd run away. He was sure Blaze had noticed him, but why had she run. Hadn't he been a good boy for once? Was that the wrong approach?

White watched the Sector Police Surveillance Videos and saw two girls jumping onto the top of a bus. He noticed one of them as X6-847, the transgenic with kitheriamin in her blood. He didn't know the other but something seemed familiar. Her red-black hair? No, those stripes on her cheek. 982 had the same ones, only in blue. They must be related, he thought with a sneer at what his father had created. His army to combat the council. It would fail and it would fail under the hands of his own son.

"Open," White yelled so that he could be let out and return to where 982 was being held. They were probably coming to save him, so rather than having a worthless marked transgenic, he would have three, one of which held the precious kitheriamin.

White stalked down the hallway and barked at the guards to let him in. They didn't even demand to see his pass and opened the door fearfully. 982 was still there, walking in circles, but when White entered he received a glare that would have been his last, hadn't that mutant been behind bars.

"So, 982, why do you think you're here?" White asked slowly. Two pulled a big gob of spit into his mouth and spat on White's shoes. White looked down calmly and then up again at the transgenic. "That seems to be a hobby here. A friend of a friend did that recently."

"What do I care about your friends?" Two barked almost wolf-like. Had White had any emotions apart from hatred he might have jumped back in fear. "Don't try and act all tough guy on me, I can smell your fear. I scare you, you bastard," Two growled. It was the first time he spoke to White and White hoped that he wasn't as violent as he acted to be. He was just acting macho.

"So, if I am afraid, what are you going to do from behind those bars?" Two glared at him without a response. Never give away the mission. An assassin in the dark. A victim. Murder. Silent – quick – lethal.

"I've just made an interesting discovery," White said slowly and took a step towards the bars. Unlike the X6, this X5 did not lash out and try to claw White's eyes from their sockets. "I'm sure you know that the rest of your freakish family is out there causing havoc in my city."

"I don't care. We're trained to kill, so that's what we'll do," Two said. He still sounded angry but he was calmer now. He had stopped walking and was now standing in the 'at ease' position, glaring in White's direction.

"A lot of them are disregarding the mission now. They're trying to act like humans, the X-Series that is. I'm sure you must have know a few of them. Do you know where they are?" Two spat at White and hit him square in the chest. "I just had this cleaned."

Two walked over to the bed he had been given and lay down. "Those stripes on your cheek, what are they?"

"I'm not going to hold a conversation with you," Two growled his hands behind his head.

"Because as far as I know X-Series are completely unidentifiable apart from the barcode, that's what made it so easy to spot you and that other one," he said. As White had expected this made the mutant sit up.

"Who?" Two growled.

"I thought you weren't going to hold a conversation with me," White asked smugly. Two walked over to the bars forcefully.

"Who?" he repeated, angrier, vicious.

"Female," White gave one piece of information.

Hawk, was the first thing to cross Two's mind. She was almost blind from the psy-ops lasers and Manticore trying to improve her vision. She saw blurs, colours and wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the sector police in their uniforms or Hunter's navy blue and black spy gear.

"Where is she?" Two asked.

"I don't think I really have to tell you," White said. "I don't really want to hold a conversation with you either."

"Tell me!" Two yelled and pulled at the bars. They shook. Although White didn't show it, he was surprised. X6-847 hadn't been able to do anything to the bars and when she had been freed her two saviours had taken the keys from him. He must be quite strong.

"She's on her way here," White said. "Just wait a while and I'll let her join you."

"We're getting close," I muttered and felt my stomach plunge. Two's scent had caught my nose and although it had changed a lot, it felt stronger and more ambitious.

"So, your whole smelling thing…" Luxie said slowly as I watched the buildings go by.

"Yeah?"

"How does it work? Everyone smells different? Like what?" It was interesting to her a suppose, since she had cat DNA and her genes were more concentrated on agility and sight. I was stronger and smelt better than she did and although we bother heard better than the average human, I did it better than she would.

"I can smell the way someone feels and to a certain extent I guess their personalities. And of course if they've bathed in the last few days, where they've been, who they've been with…" I muttered the last part because I could smell Alec all over Luxie. Just like seeing him with Heresy and thinking about what they did made me feel sick and hurt.

"What do I smell like?" she asked me with a grin. I tried to grin back and swore I would not tell her I smelt Alec.

"Um," I said pretending to think. I sniffed. "Apples, you had apples for supper?" Luxie nodded and smiled at my ingenious talent. "You smell like Max because of her jacket, and a bit like Logan," I said and the two of us grinned. "Determined, head-strong, soldier," I said with a shiver. The smell of a soldier always made me shiver but luckily for Luxie… "But not that much," I said and tilted my head. I leaned in a bit closer and took another whiff, caught the scent of Alec and moved back again. "You're not like a normal soldier," I said slowly.

"I ain't? Daddy's gonna give me a beating," she said with a grin. It wasn't a subject to joke about but Luxie loved making jokes about 'childhood' and how hers compared so much a 'normal' one.

"No," I said. "But I don't know why. You just smell like all the other soldiers. Something's missing."

"First time you meet me I smell too much, now I don't smell enough," Luxie said rolling her eyes and throwing her arms up in the air. I laughed. She felt so much like a little sister, I wish I could adopt her into my pack.

Wait, she was my pack. Luxie was part of my new pack – so she was really kinda like my little sister. I smiled and she smiled back although I was sure she didn't know why we were smiling.

"Hey, what about my pheromones?" she asked.

"Oh, yeah. They're still there," I said. "I just thought it wasn't worth mentioning."

"What do pheromones smell like?" I blushed.

"Sex," I muttered. Luxie grinned and laughed. "Sex and strawberries, I guess."

"You know what strawberries smell like?" she asked amazed. Strawberries were a thing of the past and if you wanted to get some you had to go all the way to Germany. I nodded.

"I know smells even if I've never smelt them."

"What do they smell like?"

"Sweet."

"I'm sexy sugar!" Luxie said and stood up. She peered forward and then sat down again. "Well," she said still grinning from her sugar remark. "Sector police is up ahead, and we have no way of getting through. They'll notice us here." I nodded and when we could see the Sector police from our sitting positions we jumped off the bus and walked over to the fence.

"Hey, sugar," Luxie said with a seductive grin towards the on guard cop. He looked at his friend and then walked over to the two of us. "I have this really big problem and I was wondering if you could maybe help me?"

"I guess," the cop said uncertainly. "What do you need help with?" Luxie wiggled her eyebrows.

"Me and my sister don't have our sector passes here because our brother kinda… burnt them," she said. She sounded so convincing, I almost believed her myself. "Could you let us through? Just this once?" she said and smiled sweetly. She forced one of her elbows into my side and I realized I had been glaring at the cop all the time. I tried to smile the way Luxie did.

"I'm sorry, girls. I can't let anyone through without a sector pass," he said not sounding sorry at all. Luxie waved him closer and then stood up on her tippy-toes to whisper in her ears.

"I'm one of those animal-cross mutants with superpowers, you know," she said quietly. The cop straightened up again with a look saying he didn't believe her. "Need proof?" Luxie said and punched him in the stomach. Then she ran off and I followed.

Stupid little girl! I thought she'd have a better plan and now we'd be on sector cop wanted posters as well as having that White guy everyone was talking about on our tail.

"Sector 9, huh?" Alec muttered to himself. He watched a police car pull up and sighed. Who else but a transgenic on the loose?

He had followed the two girls as by means of Luxie's pheromones and found that they'd taken a bus to sector 9. He had to use his inhumanly wonderful speed to catch up and had arrived moments after Luxie's attack on the guard. He was huskily telling the other cops who his attackers had been and while everyone was concentrating on the cops, Alec slipped through the gate.

He could have used his pass but someone ignoring a transgenic attack would have been kinda suspicious. He had to find these two fast before they got into any more trouble.

Sexy Luxie Of course, I have no idea what pheromones smell like but I expect they smell kinda nice, since Alec wants her and she wants him and of course it's all about sex, so…

I love Luxie, ain't she amusing?

Next chapter, the two girls get to the facility and… wait