Author's note : Ok so in this one a bit more of Sam...i really liked the way Jessica Alba played Sam in 'She ain't heavy'...so i think that she'll play a good part in the plot. (haven't really decided yet)

Lozz422--thank you for your review...and thank you for the compliment...yeah i know i would like to be there too but for now she needs to stay 'feral'..enjoy her calm self for now...

a reader--thanks for reviewing and congrats for finding out that there was something about mating in this(not that it's a secret! lol!)...what gave you the hints?

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guest type person--well thanks for reviewing and if you want to know where i'm going with this...well keep reading...-author grinning-

Aur--The end of a tv show huh? Nice compliment...i didn't want to add immediately what Alec thought about all the mating thing...i wanted to show his POV in this one...and you know confront him with Sam...

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Sky Angel--yeah that one i think was predictable as mating Max/Alec is my favorite theme in my fanfics(yeah i know, i have some serious issues)...thanks for reviewing

honey--oh please don't hate it...i wanted to cut it there so that Alec would have time on his own...it's not like he was going to tell them 'hey Zane, Krit, it's been two years that i'm in love with your sister', or something like that you know...

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Alec didn't know what was the answer for that one and he wasn't sure he wanted to discuss that matter with Krit and Zane in the same room as him. They may lack ten years of training but he knew full well that angry and overprotective brothers aren't persons you want to tackle with. And right now both Zane and Krit were glaring at him openly. Forgotten the nice bounds they created during the last turn of events.

«I'm not answering that one!» he said a bit defensively.

Apparently that was the wrong answer as he heard Zane growling.

«Calm dom.» ordered Joshua. It was the first time in months that Joshua had used a hard tone. Never Alec had heard him speak up more than necessary. He was gentleness personnified. Of course, he caught a glimpse of Joshua in his angry state during the JamPony siege but Max had eased his mind easily. But Max was in no state to calm him. Especially right now, when she was seizing. Well the seizing had stop and her breathing was even. She was sleeping.

«I don't want you to fight.» he continued. «Max is bad. She needs help...Needs us.» he stated.

That did the trick, the X5 males were calmed.

«I'm going to take a walk.» said Alec getting out of the Zane and Krit's line of fire.

He headed to the HQ deep in thought. He didn't even bother returning the nods he received on his way to his office.

He was slightly taken aback when he saw Max sitting in his chair.

«Max.» he breathed.

«Not you too.» said a very exasperated brunette.

«Oh, it's just you Sam.»

«Wow, it's good to be home.» she said sarcastically. «You practically begged me to come and when i arrive you shrugg me off?»

«Sorry, we're a little tense right now. With all the situation with Max, the treaty. Thank you for coming. I know you weren't pleased to come here.» he apologized.

«Actually, i will stay here.» she informed.

«What happened...»

«With the husband and son...I really don't want to talk about it right now.» she spat.

He didn't push. He had other things on his mind too.

«Did you find her?» she asked not at all concerned by his blank gaze.

«Who? Max? Yeah.»

Silence.

During those seconds of silence, he seemed to have recovered his smart alec attitude.

«You're sitting on my chair.» he said smirking.

«So?» she replied.

«Go find Luke, he'll find you somewhere to crash. We'll brief you later okay?» he said.

She just shrugged and got on her feet.

As Alec slumped in his chair, he was rethinking that latest turn of events.

Did he want Max as his mate? Hell yeah! For a long time now.

But did he wanted her as his mate right now, in her condition? Well that one was a tricky question. Of course the feral Max was really appealing. He saw her do things, and stretch in ways he thought that was impossible. Even for X5s. It would be interesting too...No he wasn't going there...too much details. On the other hand, he was missing bitchy Max. She never turn him on as much as when she was pissed off. Well maybe not when she was royally pissed and in that case, he would avoid her for days...just to let her take her anger out on someone else but him. Which didn't really happen often as he was her personal punching bag.

He snapped out of his 'rêverie' as the phone rang.

«You're speaking to Alec.» he greeted. He knew who it was. The senator Marshall.

«Hello 494.»

He was used to the guy calling him with his designation. He didn't bother to correct the guy anymore. The only one he called by a name in TC was Max.

«I would like to talk to your Second in Command.» the senator said.

«Of course, give me some minutes, she's not in command right now. I'll send someone to get her.» informed Alec.

He asked Luke to get Sam. He waited for her outside of his office.

«What's the problem pretty boy? Already miss me? Or is it my face that you miss?» she teased.
Alec wasn't smilling at all.
'Okay, so he didn't like my jokes. So what? There wasn't anything to be angry about...he hadn't discovered the real reason why she was here right? It wasn't possible right.'

«The senator is on the phone.» he said his tone serious.
Her face turned serious too.

«Now don't screw this up.»

«I had ten years of training over her remember?» she pointed out.

«Yet last time you two met, she handled you fine. This is what she does best. I don't know how she does it but she makes people care. You do half of what she did here and i'll be impressed. If you don't you may as well hit the road again. If that is what you want that is.» his tone was harsh. He reminded her of one of the TAC leaders back at Manticore. She shudderred at the thought.

«I won't screw up. You gave me enough hints on phone, i won't have any problems.»

He opened the door.

«After you,» he concluded.

She picked up the phone. Closed her eyes during a few seconds and she opened again, she wasn't herself anymore. She was Max.

«Senator Marshall.» she greeted with warmth.

«Hello Max.» greeted the older man on the other end of the phone.

«How are the kids? It's been a while.» she continued on the same tone.

«Oh, they're doing good. And you not to bored in there?» he asked conversationally.

«Not time to get bored here. We're preaparing of the big Day.» she said.

«There are a few points that i would like to discuss with you about te treaty.»

«Of course.» Sam agreed.

Alec handed her Max's notes on the treaty, there was red notes indicating that it was out of question to modify that point, or totally discussed already obviously there was no point to come back on that. Then there were green notes. Those ones could be discussed as long as it didn't turned against the transgenics. The blue ones were the one who needed changes. She had to hand it to her twin, she was good. Reading carefully but at transgenic speed the notes, she was ready.

Alec stayed in case she needed...he didn't know what exactly, but he just had to make sure that Max's second baby was fine.

In Max's apartment, another drama was playing.

«She can't help it! Why did you had to growl at him?» yelled Jondy at her brother.

«Can't help it either. Feline DNA remember.» Zane shrugged his shoulders and went in the kitchen acting as if this place was his.

«Dumbass DNA you mean.» she corrected.

«Jondy is right. She can't help it. And it's not his fault. Maybe if on of you guys were there when they got her back, one of you would be her mate.» Syl said.

«It's in her instinct.» added James. «You know, try to find the alpha male who will protect her. And Alec had done that, he had stayed with her. Be patient with her. He was there for her. To her survival instincts he's the perfect mate.»

«It's not his fault.»

Silence.

«And you would like us to stay put while she'll mate with him? I mean, she'll hate herself when she'll get back to her old bitchy self.» pointed Krit. He knew her sister pretty well.

«Don't you think we don't know that by now!» shouted Jondy. «But what if she never recover from this!» she pointed to a Max curled up like a cat.

«Maybe that'll help.» said Sid speaking for the first time since Alec had exited his own apartment.

«How that will help?» said Krit angrily.

«The only person who she responded so much is Alec. Do the math. If they spend more time together...even if it's not as mates.» she needed to add probably thinking the same thing as Alec a few minutes before. «I'll stay with them. Maybe she'll be more maleable if associated constantly with him, she would let her guard down.»

«I'm okay with that.» said Joshua determined. «Max and Alec together that's the plan.» he ordered standing up. He outstanded all the transgenics in the apartment.

In Alec's office, Sam did a good work on faking. Alec was slightly impressed. But she was no Max. He was feeling the same way that Syl had felt when she bumped into Sam at the Mess Hall. He saw Sam as a threat to Max's place. Yet he knew that she wasn't Max.
Something was out of place with Sam. He noticed it only now. Normally, she wasn't supposed to show up before tomorrow. What was she doing here? Not that he was complaining. If she hadn't arrived today, they'd probably have problem with the senator. But one month ago, after Mole and him had a major arguing on calling her as replacement for the time being, he had called her. It was pretty easy to track her down. She wasn't at all pleased by his call. For what he understood, she was struggling hard to stand to her husband's standard. Don't he remind you of someone? Maybe not a guy with a super hero complex but definitely a repressed WASP. She had made it clear from the beginning of their conversation that she would like to be kept out of the transgenic problems and said she would think about it. Then three days later she called in, saying she was coming down from snowy Canada and she'll be there by tuesday.
Yet she had arrived a day earlier. He eyed her suspiciously as she hung up the phone.

«If you don't need me anymore, i'll dismiss myself and go take a bath. It was a long journey.» she said.

«Make yourself at home.» he replied with a small smile. «You should tell me Sam.» She stopped as she was about to open the door.

«What should i tell you?» she inquired not daring to turn around and face him. 494 was good at reading people. She knew it.

«If you brought troubles with you in your back pack.» he simply said. «We can deal with it. I really would not aprreciate to find out by myself what you've been hidden.»

«I'm not hidding anything.» she snapped.

«Okay. Now you can go.» said Alec dismissing her.

To complete the scene, Logan had come to TC to see Max. He was slitghly surprised that he was directed toward Alec's building.
Needless to say that he wasn't pleased by the explanation that Syl had given him. She took her time, describing everything, making sure that he understood every word. Not that he was dumb, but she knew that the look on his face would be priceless. And it was. It made her really happy to do that. She was laughing out loud. Everyone was. Even Sid twitched her lips into a smile!
«No!!!!» yelled Logan waking Max.

There was something Logan picked up with the transgenics, he knew when he was dismissed. He was determined to confront Alec about all this mating thing.
He couldn't believe that Max was betraying him. 'She wasn't obviously in her normal state of mind' he thought as if realizing for the first time that something was wrong with her! (A/N:in my opinion the only thing wrong in Max's life is him!)

He headed to HQ where he knew he would find Alec. He barged into Alec's office without so much knocking but then again, they never knocked when they entered his house, damn transgenics. 'He must have done something to Max to make her hate me, because she's in love in me.' There was no way that screw up Alec would be a match to him in Max's affection. He seemed to have forgotten already the lecturing Syl gave him about how her instincts and actions were the reflection of her feelings, being all feral and all.

«What can i do for you Logan?» Alec knew why the 'great' Eyes Only was here. But unlike Zane and Krit, he had no problem dealing with Logan. Not a slightest bit.

«You know why i'm here?» Logan spat.

«Actually i don't.» said Alec calmly.

«Exactly what is going on with you and Max?» the older man said angrily.

«Nothing. What would you like to happen between us?» he said with a smirk.

«What exactly did you do to her? Coz she wouldn't set eyes on you if she was herself. You always was a screw up to her Alec. Why would that change? Why suddenly she would look at you as a possible boyfriend?» Alec could put up with Max calling him a screw up...he could put up with anything with her. But Logan wasn't allowed to tresspass the lines Max had the right to cross.

«Maybe since you couldn't do the job correctly.» Alec said more harshly this time.

«And of course a tomcat, bitch magnet like you would do it more corretly!» Eyes only spat, his blue eyes locing with green predatory ones.

That was it, Alec had enough of their discussion. Logan nerver saw him moving. Alec now had his hand on the older man's throat. It could have been so easy to snap his neck now. He knew everybody would cover him up. But he wasn't a cold blooded killer. He just wanted to scare the guy off.

«Now Logan listen up coz i won't repeat this two times.» he made the man look him straight in the eye. «You don't have a say in Max's life! You're not her boyfriend. She doesn't even want to aknowledge you as a friend. You're not even a transgenic. So from now on, You won't visit her.»

«But she'll forget me.» choked Logan.

«Wake up Logan! It's been two weeks that she completely ignores you! Get over it! Act like the civilized person that you're supposed to be.» It was Alec's turn to spat. «What is happening between me and Max is our business not yours! Don't ever approach her again! Don't threaten or insult me again if you value your life. I wouldn't like to have to remind you of what i was back at Manticore and the job that i did.»

Logan gulped down. Knowing Alec he knew that he would probably do that.

Finally Alec released his grip on Eyes Only's neck.

«Now get out of my sight and don't ever come back.» concluded Alec.

«You're going to pay for this when Max will be back.»

«What did i tell you?» he paused and locked eyes with Logan in a staring contest. As if the poor ordinary would beat him on that. «Boo!» 494 said suddenly and Logan jumped backward. Alec didn't hide his grin.

'You'll pay for that.' thought Logan bitterly. He had been scared to death in the office and didn't hid it as well as the trasngenics who were born liars. How could Max fall for a liar? No. He definitely did something to her. She wouldn't turn her back on him for a liar, for someone who represented all the things she hated, all the things she ran from.

Before walking out of Terminal City, he saw the love of his life turning around a corner. But Max was suppposed to be at Alec's apartment with her siblings. Why would she be out without anyone sticking around with her?

Unless...unless...that girl wasn't Max. Which meant that Max's twin was back.
An evil grin ran across his features and move away from TC. Alec would pay for what he just did, and he knew how he exactly how he would do it.

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