A/N: Hey everyone! I hope you guys are still enjoying this. Please review and give me feedback please! It's much appreciated. And baby Jack would also love it if you put some ideas to get his parents together in your reviews.

Special thanks to ontheDL for giving baby Jack some new ideas.

After apologizing profusely to Mole and all the other TC residents who were probably trying to figure out the quickest way to get rid of Jack, Max and Alec said goodbye to Joshua and got the hell out of there.

"Phew," Alec said. "I'm glad we left. If we didn't… I'm not even going to think about that."

"I think we made some transgenics rethink reproduction," Max said. "I don't blame them."

"Hey," Alec said as something occurred to him. "If White ever met Jack, do you think he would get off our cases? I mean, if he could scare a bunch of transgenics, he may be scary enough to creep out White."

"Don't even joke about that, Alec," Max said. "Knowing White, he would probably kill Jack the moment that he started to annoy him."

"Just a thought," he mumbled.

"We should go see Logan," Max said.

"Why the hell should we do that?" Alec asked.

"To see how he's doing," she insisted. "It was a pretty big bomb we dropped on him yesterday."

"Fine, fine!" he said, throwing his hands up. "Hey Jack. We're going to see the funny man again."

Jack grinned.

"Boo!" Alec shouted as they walked into the penthouse. Logan yelled and fell back into the couch, groaning. Alec jumped out of the way as Max aimed a kick to his shins.

"Hey Logan," she said. "How are you?"

Alec took notice of Logan's bodysuit and the rap music that was coming from a radio.

"What are you doing?" Alec asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Exercising," Logan replied, shutting off the music. "Asha told me that aerobics and hip hop was a great way to get in shape."

"So she was the one who turned you into an even freakier freak," he said under his breath.

"We just dropped in to see if you were okay," Max said slowly, noticing Logan's strange outfit as well. "Seems like you are."

"Yeah, if you count an old guy hip hopping to rap music normal," Alec said. Jack giggled.

"Sorry, but I kind of want to get back to my workout," Logan said apologetically.

Has he gone insane? both Max and Alec wondered.

"Right then," Alec said. They left Logan as he jumped up and down, flailing his arms.

Max and Alec were finally back at the apartment and they were exhausted. This was a feeling that Max especially was not used to, and didn't like a whole hell of a lot.

"You feed him and I'll put his crib together," Max said as she trudged off towards Alec's room, both of them finally deciding to put it there since his room was bigger. She stopped for a second and turned around wagging a warning finger. "And remember not to give him a whole jar. The thing we so do not need right now is a puking baby." Considering the look on Jack's face, he wholeheartedly agreed. No way was he going to let his own puke get in the way of his plans. He was becoming rather frustrated; his parents were tougher than he had expected, but he relaxed his face into a grin. He was persistent if anything else. And he would complete his little mission.

Max watched as Jack grinned at nothing in particular.

"Alec," she said, a little bit of an edge to her voice. "Jack's being, well, creepy."

Alec looked at him. "You know Maxie, I just noticed something," he said, his tone innocently light. "He looks a lot like me."

Max rolled her eyes. "Well, there goes my idea of telling you that you are not this baby's daddy."

He gave her an amused look. "If I'm not, the only person who might be able to pass for it is Ben." He got a funny look on his face. "Ew, that's wrong."

She studied Jack who was still grinning like mad, feeling it was a little eerie. "All creepiness aside, he's actually a pretty cute baby."

Alec smiled. "Aw Maxie, I'm touched. Really. It's so nice to know that you love me oh so much."

"I'm talking about Jack, not you, dumbass," she said.

"Where do you think he gets his cuteness from?" Alec asked. "Certainly not from grouchy, violent, mean ol' Maxie."

She rolled her eyes once more and went towards her bedroom.

"Don't worry Maxie, I'm just kidding!" he called after her. "I think you're plenty cute when you're mean and grouchy." He mock shuddered. "Except you're scary when you're violent."

"You're lucky you're a minor," he said to Jack. "You can hit people back when they're being stupid or mean and not get into trouble."

He was rewarded with a smack in the face.

After half an hour of grueling work, Max had finally figured out how to put the crib together.

"These schematics were completely useless," she muttered. "Putting a gun together is easier than this was."

She turned when she heard movement behind her and saw Alec standing in the doorway with Jack in his arms, looking quite sleepy with his head lolling to the side and with his thumb in his mouth. Her face softened as she forgot the chaos he had created in Terminal City and saw the adorable baby boy in front of her.

And the adorable daddy too, a voice said somewhere in the back of her mind.

She bit her cheek at that thought and turned away, mentally shuffling through her mind for Dr. Carr's number.

Need some kind of doctor to cure my brain damage, now. How the hell did I think that Alec was adorable? I was made by humans who always screw up somewhere along the way. Maybe there are more wires crossed in my brain than I had originally thought.

"Max?" Alec asked. "The little guy's pretty tired."

"Crib's done," she said without looking at him. She heard some more movement and turned to look at Jack who was lying down in his crib, looking quite peaceful. She saw that Alec also had a soft smile on his face, one that was almost identical to the one she had sported a little while ago. She felt warm watching him.

He probably needed this, she realized. Alec never really had a family back at Manticore like I did, didn't have anyone who cared about him. Even though I never would have believed it before, I'm starting to wonder if he had always wanted a family.

"What?" Alec asked, feeling her eyes on him. He was a little uncomfortable with the knowledge that she had been watching him and it took him a while for him to feel it. He liked being aware at all times, and he knew that she had caught him looking at Jack with care in his face. He hated it when people knew his true feelings so that was why he always hid behind a happy-go-lucky mask around everyone, even his closest friends like Sketchy and Cindy.

"Nothing," she said, voice just as soft as his look had been. The atmosphere was calm and peaceful, something they both relished. There hadn't been a time when they were able to have a quiet moment to themselves and relax but it was there then. And they would take what they could get.

"Well, night," Max said awkwardly.

"Do I get a good night kiss?" Alec asked, recovering from the previous moment. "And maybe a little cuddle?"

"In your dreams, pretty boy," Max answered.

"If you only knew what were in my dreams, you wouldn't be saying that," he said with a wicked smirk.

She decided to humour him. "And what do your dreams go like, exactly?"

"I could show you," he said, the smirk ever present. "But you'd have to get into the bed with me. Come on Maxie, warm me up a little. I get cold at night."

She decided the conversation was getting a little uncomfortable. "Get your ego to help warm you up. Considering the size of it you should be toasty in no time, if not boiling."

"What, Maxie. Are you too scared to share a bed with a guy? When was the last time you've done that anyway? Obviously not anytime recently because Logan wouldn't be walking around saving the world."

She almost considered doing it just to prove that it was no big deal until she caught her train of thought.

That's it. I'm booking an appointment with Dr. Carr tomorrow.

"It's just that my standards aren't as low as yours, Alec," she replied. "When I'm not around you can get a lady friend to warm you up. I don't care. I'm going to bed."

She left and the door closed.

"Yeah, I could. I only wish it was you," he said absently.

Not even 10 minutes into her sleep, Max heard an incessant wailing from the other room and she took her pillow and held it over her head to drown out the noise. After another minute or two, though, the wailing wouldn't stop and she forced herself to get up and take the 20 long steps into the other room.

She woke up instantly when she saw Alec holding the crying Jack – with his shirt off. She couldn't help but look him over admiringly before his voice brought her back to the real world. The world where there was a baby shrieking his head off.

"It's so heart warming that you want to take the time to check me out, Max, but could you do it when he stops crying," he said. "I'm getting a migraine."

She flushed. "I wasn't checking you out," she said fervently. He shot her a look that was pleading for her help so she dropped it for the moment and walked over to them. The moment she was beside Alec, Jack's tears came to an abrupt stop.

"Maybe he wants his mom at night," he said shrugging, just as they heard someone banging on the door.

"Shut that kid the hell up!" they heard, the voice slightly muffled through the door. Incensed, Alec opened the door to reveal a bedraggled middle-aged woman who held her head up high as if her word was written in stone.

"Look woman, it's not like we want to be woken up in the middle of the night either," he said.

"Just shut the stupid kid up," she said irritably. That hit a nerve in Alec. No one called his son stupid.

"Why don't you just go along, find some ear plugs, and get your beauty sleep," he said, his voice hard. "Heaven knows you need it." He looked her over with a wrinkled nose and slammed the door in her face, leaving her mouth open with shock. During the time he had left Jack had started crying again, but as soon as Alec entered the room he quieted down.

"I guess he wants both of us in the room," Max remarked.

"I've got no problem with that," Alec said, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Well I do," Max responded. "I'm not sleeping with you."

"Like it would be such a bad thing," he said.

She had no answer to that.

"Just quiet him down somehow," she said, handing Jack to him and walking out. Alec cringed at the high pitched noise Jack was making and put him down in the crib, trying to use his training to drown out the sound. He then turned around and lay down with his hands over his ears.

Max was doing the same thing in her room, but obviously Manticore had not thought of this particular scenario. It was one thing to drown out the sound of bullets and explosions, a completely different thing to drown out the sound of an unhappy baby.

"There is no way I'm going to get any sleep like this," she mumbled, stumbling out of bed. She'd sacrifice just about anything to get even an hour's sleep.

"Alright smart aleck, move over," she said. The room was quiet now and he grinned, and then slid over to allow her room to lie down. She turned to face him.

"Let's get one thing straight," she said. "You stay on your half of the bed and I'll stay on mine. Don't touch me, breathe on me, or bother me in any way. Capish?"

Alec gave her a one-fingered salute.

A.k.a. touch me and die, he thought. "Yes ma'am."

"Good," she said, and turned over, facing away from him. There was silence for about a minute.

"Max, I'm cold," she heard him whine. She didn't respond with anything other than a kick to whatever body she could reach without looking.

"Ouch, Max," he said. "Be careful where you're kicking me. That got too close for comfort to a certain place I need not mention."

She groaned but otherwise said nothing. Finally, she fell asleep.

In the midst of their slumber, both moved toward each other, seeking comfort and warmth. Moonlight shined in through the window and the stars twinkled in the dark night, seeming like gems in a stormy ocean. As Max moved her head to rest on Alec's chest and he encircled her with his arms, the cool night breeze filtered in through a crack in the window, enveloping them in its embrace.

"Get the hell off of me!" Max shrieked, shoving Alec onto the floor. Unfortunately for him, that was his wake up call. He rubbed his bleary eyes as Jack looked on, giggling lightly, and he focused on a pissed off Max that loomed over him.

"Oh, hey Max," he said. "What bad thing did I do now?"

"You were holding me when I woke up this morning!" she yelled, not bothering to notice how ridiculous it sounded.

"Jeez, you'd think most women would want that," he muttered. He rubbed his thigh. "That's so going to bruise."

She pushed down the little bit of remorse she felt at pushing him off. When she woke up that morning, wrapped up in his arms, she felt a bunch of emotions she wouldn't dare to try to understand and didn't want to. Although she was comfortable and warm, she shoved him off anyway. Because if she didn't he'd certainly notice and make a smart comment about it. One that she was afraid would for once actually make sense.

She huffed and got off the bed, pointedly not looking at his golden torso.

"Let's go make some breakfast, Jack," she said, pulling him up out of the crib, leaving Alec to tend to his injuries.

Figures I'd fall for a woman who loves to abuse me, Alec thought vaguely. His eyes widened and scanned the room for anyone who might have caught the stray thought before realizing that he was being idiotic.

I wonder if I should ask Max for Dr. Carr's number.

"Where's your mommy?" Alec asked as he spotted Jack sitting alone on the ground. Jack pointed to the bathroom then crawled over to a pillow on the couch.

"What are you getting, sport?" he asked.

Jack gurgled in satisfaction when he found what he was looking for. He took it and turned to his dad in order to put another one of his ruses in action.

Alec's eyes widened when Jack pushed a bra into his hand. Max's, he realized.

Just as soon as Alec took hold of it, the door to the bathroom opened. Busted.

Jack giggled again. Everything was going according to plan.

He watched as Max's eyes fell onto the lacy, black undergarment that was in his hand and narrowed suspiciously.

"It's his fault," he said automatically, pointing to his son, who was looking as innocent as Alec always tried to look. Max closed her eyes to collect herself before she let loose.

"What the hell are you doing with that?" she yelled, snatching it out of his hand.

Jack gulped. His mom was scary.

"It wasn't me, I swear Max," he protested. "It was Jack. He shoved it into his hand. Weird kid has a thing for bras."

"Gee, I wonder why," she said sardonically. "And besides, that's low of you to blame it on an innocent kid."

Alec's mouth dropped open. "I'm not lying!"

Time to put the second part of the plan into action. As Max turned around to return to her room, Jack threw a teddy bear at her feet, causing her to trip. Alec reached out to pull her back but only managed to grab on to the top of her shirt, which promptly ripped as she fell.

"Why do I get the feeling that someone's been plotting against me," she moaned, covering herself. Jack hid his face.

"Oh come on Max, don't be shy. It's not exactly like I haven't seen everything before," he said thinking back to the time when he saw her in the shower, not registering his words before it was too late.

If looks could kill, then Jack would be without a father.

"What did you just say?" she asked in a murderous tone.

A/N: LOL Dun dun dun… Did you like this? I hope so. Feedback please! Please check out my other stories. And if you have any ideas for Jack to do, please tell me.

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