CHAPTER 8

Logan's apartment building

Max woke up to find Dr. Carr standing over her, "Good afternoon Max, how are you feeling?" Dr. Carr asked. "I'm doing all right." Max replied rubbing her eyes. Dr. Carr lifted her shirt to see the wound, pulled back the gauze and examined it closely. "It's almost healed. I'll just need to take a blood test to be sure." Dr. Carr explained getting a needle out of his bag. He placed the needle gently in her arm and drew the blood.

"I'll get this right to the lab." Dr. Carr packed his bag and put the needle in his brief case.

"Thanks Dr. Carr." Logan walked toward the door to walk the Doctor out and glanced back into the living room to see Max drifting off back to sleep.

"Logan," Dr. Carr asked turning, "Please don't tell Max anything yet, I just want to be sure, she's been waiting for this for so long, I just don't want to give her any false hope."

"All right." Logan closed the door behind the doctor and went back to the living room and onto his computer to do some research on one of his many cases.

Dr. Carr dealt with the blood sample personally. The lab wasn't busy and he had no appointments to deal with so immediately ran the sample.

"Well that's interesting..." Dr. Carr said examining the sample more closely.

Dr. Carr immediately called Logan.

"Hello?" Logan responded on the other end.

"Yes hi Logan, Dr. Carr here. This sample Max gave me, I think you should know something about it..."

Logan went over to wake up Max. She slowly opened her eyes to see him standing there.

"Hey Logan, what's up?" Max said rubbing her eyes and sitting up. She lifted her shirt and examined the wound to find that it wasn't bleeding anymore and had healed somewhat.

Logan smiled, "Dr. Carr called and said that he has some information about your blood sample…"

"Ya, what about it?" Max smiled and pushed the blanket back.

"He ran the tests when as soon as he got back, and found something very interesting. When you were still in the hospital, Alec gave you his blood… Alec's blood had some anti-bodies in it for your virus..."

Max's eyes grew wide and she looked at Logan, "You mean...I'm healed!"

"Yes Max, you are healed!" Max jumped up from the seat and hugged Logan, "Oh this is great!" Logan had shuddered a little when Max had hugged him, being so used to not being able to touch her and now she was full out hugging him.

"The only problem he said you should be aware of is, that he doesn't know how long these anti-bodies will keep you healed. The virus may very well come back and take over again, if that happens...well, you know." Logan tried to explain.

Max and Logan sat down slowly on the couch, staring at each other. Silence fell over the living room and leaked into the halls. Max brushed Logan's face.

"I'm been waiting so long for that." Logan smiled as he closed his eyes and enjoyed Max's warm hand.

"I know me too." Max responded as she continued to brush his face with her hand. Logan opened his eyes to find Max's lips next to his, caressing them softly, embraced, they both took in the moment.

Logan opened his eyes to find Max asleep beside him, and the window beside his bed open. He pulled the sheets back and grabbed some pants off the floor. He sat examining his hands, which had red dots covering them. He looked over at Max and walked out to the living room, grabbing the phone and dialing Dr. Carr's number.

"Hello?" Dr. Carr's voice groggily responded on the other end of the line.

"Hi Dr. Carr, it's Logan. I'm sorry to bother you at this time in the morning however there is something I think you should know about. I found these red dots on my hand this morning after me and Max...uh...well in any case I found them this morning and I think something's wrong…" Logan explained.

Max walked out into the living room in one of Logan's huge shirts.

"Morning." Max said as she walked over and hugged him. Logan pulled away slowly.

"What's wrong?" Max said standing up. Logan reached up to show Max the back of his hands,

"Dr. Carr thinks that the virus is back..." Max dropped her head, her eyes welling up, and looked back at Logan, "But I thought... why now?" Max said with a tear streaming down her face.

"I know, I thought so too. I hate to say this, but I'm really starting to believe that we are not meant to be together." Logan sighed dropping his head down. Max brushed away the tears, and turned up to Logan's gaze, "We are meant to be together, it was Manticore's fault for all this mess! I'm not giving up yet, I want a normal life and they are even trying to take that away." Max concluded walking back into Logan's room.

Logan sat at his desk, drowned in the pain of what felt like, losing Max forever. It was then that he silently agreed with Max, "I won't give up either," and started researching for a case he had almost finished, trying to forget this whole Manticore, genetically made stuff that affected their "almost relationship".