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"Pr-pregnant?" Max stuttered. She looked at Zack, who face mirrored the shock she had on hers.
All the colour drained from Logan's face. 'No,' he thought. 'This can't be happening. My Max, carrying another man's baby. Zack's baby. No. This isn't supposed to be how everything turns out.'
Alec's face on the other hand was grinning profusely. "All right! Maxie and Zackie are gonna be parents."
Max didn't even have enough energy left to get up and punch him. "Are you sure?" she asked carefully.
Carr nodded. "One hundred percent positive. You're only a few weeks along, so it surprised me that you're showing symptoms this early, but it's probably the feline DNA in you that's causing this. Cats usually deliver after 6 months or so."
"A baby," Max repeated. "A little, teeny weeny baby." She looked down and put a hand on her stomach. "Growing inside of me."
Alec sensed that she and Zack needed some time alone, so he pulled a frozen Logan out the door with Carr following them.
Zack walked up to Max and rested his forehead against hers. "What are we going to do, Zack?" she said. "There are people trying to kill us left and right, it would be wrong to bring a baby into this world. But then again, I'm not going to abandon it. I know how it is to grow up without a mother and I'm not going to let that happen to our child."
Zack nodded. "We'll keep it, of course we will Maxie, but it's going to be hard." He sighed. "It always is in our lives, huh?"
"Yeah." She brightened up a bit. "A baby," she said, as if she just realized they were having one. She took his hand and intertwined her fingers with his own. "Our baby."
He grinned at her. "Yeah. Look on the bright side. We're going to have a baby and Alec's already looking forward to it."
She rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to let him corrupt our child and turn it into a mini smart aleck."
He laughed. "No, he'll probably spoil it rotten." A thought occurred to him. "I better tell the others."
A wicked grin formed on Max's lips. "How 'bout we don't tell them and we let them find out on their own."
"Bring them here?" Zack said incredulously. "You know how dangerous it is, Maxie. As much as I want it too, there are still people hunting us."
"There will always be people hunting us," she argued. "Zack, I know how dangerous it is, but Manticore's gone. Sure, we have other people we have to worry about, but we can't let that control our lives. No matter what, there will always be someone else to take the place of the last person hunting us."
Zack was still uncertain. "You're right but…"
"I know you don't want to compromise everyone. How 'bout we give 'em a choice. They can come if they want to. But I don't really think we even have to give them a choice, they'll come anyway. Besides…" She leaned up and whispered all sorts of things into his ear. He kissed her and said, "Fine, fine." He took her hand and Logan dropped them off at Max's place then left.
'He impregnated my Max,' Logan thought. 'He planted his seed in her, when it should have been mine. He'll pay.' So he sat at his desk, thinking up ways to get back at Zack.
Zack hung up the phone. "They're all coming," he said. "They all actually live pretty close to here so they'll be here soon. And I didn't tell them you were here. I just told them to come to this place."
"Good." She kissed him.
"Now about those promises…" Zack said.
She kissed him again. "Later, I swear. I think Alec'll puke if he finds us making out on the couch again."
Zack grinned at that memory. They sat down on the couch and waited for the first of their family to arrive.
"Rena!" Jondy shouted, as she saw her sister heading towards the building where they were supposed to meet Zack.
Rena ran over to Jondy and they hugged. "I can't believe Zack's doing this family reunion," Rena said excitedly. "Think he finally lost it?"
"Who cares?" Syl said, as she and Krit walked up to them. "As long as he's letting us see each other." The four embraced.
"Whose apartment is this anyway?" Wayne said, coming up to them.
"Wayne!" Rena shouted, and she blurred into his arms.
He laughed. "Someone's happy to see me." He kissed her.
"Rena and Wayne?" Jondy said. "Finally."
Zane put an arm around her waist. "Let's go up." After all the hugging was done, they entered the building, not knowing the surprises that awaited them.
Syl knocked on the door, but no one answered. She found it unlocked however, so she pushed it open. They all walked into the living room, where they found their oldest brother making out with their youngest sister.
Jondy and Rena screamed in shock, Syl's hand went to her mouth, Zane and Krit covered their eyes and Wayne burst out laughing.
"Well, at least we know big brother has been getting some," Wayne said.
Zack and Max sat up, both blushing. "Hey guys," Max said.
"Maxie!" Jondy and Rena shouted and they rushed to hug their sister. The others followed suit.
"Whoa, guys, need oxygen here!" she said and they pulled back laughing.
"So, you and Zack huh?" Jondy said. "I was wondering why Zack stopped coming around and just called to see if we were okay. You been keeping him busy, Maxie?"
Max turned scarlet red. Then she remembered something. "How 'bout you, Jond?" she said slyly. "I remember Zack saying a little something about Zane's clothes all over your place."
Rena laughed at that, then Jondy turned to her. "Your turn sis. Zane said that Zack said that Wayne went into your room and didn't come out for 3 days."
Rena stuck her tongue out.
Syl laughed and stepped in between her sisters. "Girls, girls, I don't think we really want to know about your sex lives with our brothers."
"How about you Syl?" Max asked sweetly. "If I recall correctly, there was a little sum sum going on between you and my bro before the raid."
Syl scowled at her. Zack sensed things getting out of hand fast so he did what you usually do when things get out of hand. Divert the attention to yourself.
"Hey, guess what guys? Max is pregnant."
Everyone froze. "Oh, great going you idiot!" Max said, and she punched him hard in the shoulder. She rolled her eyes. "Way to be subtle."
It was Lee who broke the silence. It seemed the others had arrived. "Max is… pregnant?"
"You knocked my sister up?" Krit said dangerously. Then his tone lightened. "Cool." Syl smacked him for that.
"Way to go Zack!" Ash said. All the girls rolled their eyes and said simultaneously, "Men."
Alec walked through the door after having gone out for 15 boxes of pizza. There were going to be a lot of people and X5s tend to eat a lot. All the X5s looked at him but couldn't see his face because of the pizza boxes piled up in front of it.
"Here, man, let me help you," Jordan said.
"Thanks buddy," Alec said.
They put the pizza boxes down but Jordan froze when he saw Alec's face.
"Ben," he breathed.
Flashback
"Ben," Jordan said. "Is that you? Hey brother!"
"Hello Jordan," Ben said, his voice low.
Jordan stepped back. Ben was acting strange and it was creeping him out. "Ben?" he asked tentatively.
"Do you believe in the Blue Lady, Jordan?" Ben asked.
Jordan laughed. "We just made her up, Ben. You know that." But he wasn't sure if Ben did know that.
"How could you say that!" Ben thundered. He lashed out and kicked Jordan in the leg, breaking it. Ben seemed stunned by what he did. "Jordan, I'm sor-"
"Get the hell away from me Ben!" Jordan yelled. "What the hell's the matter with you?"
Ben didn't know what to do so he ran.
End flashback
Jordan slowly picked up a knife on the counter and held it up to Alec's face.
Max jumped up and grabbed his arm. "Jordan, no! It's not Ben!"
Jordan looked at his sister. "What do you mean?"
Alec slowly raised his hands. "I'm Alec. X5-494. Ben's clone. See?" He turned around and showed Jordan his barcode. Jordan lowered the knife. "Sorry."
Some of his siblings knew why Jordan had done what he did, they had also run into Ben. But the other were shocked by his actions.
Flashback
"Ben!" Rena screamed. Ben had pushed her off a building for not believing in the lady but she held onto the edge. "Ben! Help me! Please!" Luckily Wayne had come to her rescue and pulled her up. He had fought with Ben until Ben ran away.
End flashback
Flashback
"Ben, are you feeling alright?" Evan asked carefully. Him and Bobby had bumped into him in a bar in New York.
"Do you believe in the Lady?" he asked them.
Bobby started laughing and Ben gave him the death glare then walked off.
End flashback
"We'll explain later," Bobby said to all the others who didn't understand.
Everyone was unnerved by all the events that took place in only 10 minutes.
"So, you people wanna eat or will I have to do it myself?" Alec said. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and started mingling with each other. Jordan walked up to Alec. "Sorry, man, I was just… Ben…"
Alec understood. "It's okay. I know what happened. And I'm not religious," he joked weakly.
Jordan smiled. "You're nothing like him."
"I'll take that as a good thing," Alec said.
"So, how long've you guys been together?" Zane asked Zack.
"Almost a month," he answered. "Max is also almost a month along."
Zane looked surprised. "Well you sure do move fast. You made her pregnant right at the beginning of your relationship?"
"Heat," he said.
Zane nodded. "Ah, the glories of heat."
"So, how good is Zack in bed?" Jace asked.
Max was shocked, Jace was the more reserved sister. She laughed. "I'm not telling."
"Oh, come on, sister," Rena said. "I'll tell you Wayne's great." Jondy, Max and Jace all made a disgusted face at knowing how their brother was like with Rena.
Michael, Bobby, and Evan all were chatting about the girls they used to date.
"There was a girl named Michelle," Michael said. "Pretty little thing. Too bad she was duller than Lydecker."
"Yeah, I know," Evan said. "Girl named Vanessa. Gorgeous but had the personality of a lemon."
"Girl named Francesca Stevenson," Bobby said. "Nerdy but beautiful."
"Francesca? From Boston? I dated her!" Evan said.
Syl and Krit overheard their brothers talking about random girls. "Men," Syl muttered. "Thank God you're perfect," she said, and kissed him.
Ash, Lee, Wayne, and Tawny were all pigging out on the pizza. Lee got a few pieces and walked over to her sister.
"Here Maxie, eat up. You're eating for two remember," Lee said.
"Thanks sis," Max said.
All of them continued to talk about what they had been doing happily, not knowing that there were more surprises yet to come.
A/N: Yikes, two chapters in one day! Review please! Tell me if you want the baby to be a boy, girl, or twins.