The Surprise

Chapter 12: The Day with Two Faces- Part One.

Thanks to Down-Ass-Bitch, Sho, Kim, Jumoke and Panda007 who reviewed. Also big thanks to all those people who agreed with my rant and Down-Ass Bitch and Kim who supplied one of there one which I have added at the end of the story. So if anyone else wants to rant about Logan in a review feel free and I will post it as well!

ATTENTION

This chapter took so long because it has two parts and I didn't want to post the first part until I had all of it done (plus both of them are longer than most chapters I write even separately!) So if you give me 5 reviews I will post the second part straight away.

If you are looking for a committed man, try a mental institute. . .

THE DAY FROM MAX'S POINT OF VIEW

When Max woke up the next morning she rolled over to snuggle into Alec only to find an empty space. She blinked her eyes open to find a fully dressed Alec pacing the bedroom, nursing Jen in the crook of his arm feeding her a bottle. Max smiled watching this sweet scene and noticing how the slithers of sunlight from the gap in where the curtains met danced on Alec's handsome face.

"Good morning," she said. "What time is it? "She asked getting up and kissing him on the way to the bathroom.

"Half eight, meeting is in half an hour you've got plenty of time. Though I do have something to do before the meeting so can you take Jen down to the nursery this morning?" he asked.

"Sure just put her in the cot and go, I will be ready in five minutes and will bring her down then, ok?" she asked while brushing her teeth.

"Thanks, bye sweetie, see you later."

He gently placed Jen in the cot after winding her and kissed Max quickly on the cheek before rushing out the door

Wondering what had caused him to need to get out so early; Max shrugged to herself and finished brushing her teeth before playing with Jen and getting dressed.

She left Jen in the nursery and went to HQ where everyone was already seated with the exception of Alec and Jondy. Letting it go, knowing they would be there soon Max began without them.

Fifteen minutes into the meeting, Jondy and Alec stumbled in looking rather dishevelled. Their clothes were crumpled, their hair was messy and they both looked exhausted but had a twinkle in their eyes.

"Sorry Max," said Jondy as her and Alec slipped into their seats. "We uh . . . got caught up in something." For some reason unbeknown to the others, Alec found this funny and had to try to stifle a laugh causing a wide grin to appear on Jondy's face.

"Ok," said Max unsurely, "Just make sure it doesn't happen again. We were talking about planning the attack. Dix's broadcast seems to have worked, already we have had three X-5's show up. Apparently the code will now show up in all of the eyes only broadcast from now on is that correct Dix?"

He nodded, "Until we tell him otherwise anyway."

"Great, now we need to get Intel on the familiars. Where their main base is any plans they have and any surprise they might be intending to send our way."

Max preceded to tell them what she already knew about them and about the formation and styles of any attacks or ambushes she had found herself in thanks to White.

Everyone listened intently apart from Alec, who she noticed looked as if his mind was on something else. He kept looking over at Jondy and smiling and she did the same to him. They seemed completely preoccupied, caught up in their own little world.

After the meeting, Alec disappeared pretty quickly, Max's only consolation being that Jondy didn't. Max went after him to see where he went. She spotted him about to leave TC., she ran over to him and alerted his attention by putting her hand on his shoulder just before he left the gates.

"Hey, where are you of to?" she asked.

"I'm going to order supplies, remember?" he said.

Max suddenly felt better, she had assigned him to do this and it was something that needed to be done urgently. "Well I'll go with you then, keep you company and all that," she suggested.

"No," he said quickly, "You probably have better things to do and it really is a one man job.

"Oh," said Max, clearly disappointed. "Well you better get going then. I will probably spent most of the day cleaning or sort out the medical supplies."

"Ok, well I'll see you later." He gave her a quick kiss before hurrying off.

When Max was turning the corner to head to the medical bay she saw him wait just outside the gate, he leaned against the wall as if he was waiting for something. 'Or someone,' thought Max as she saw him stand up straight and a huge grin appear on his face as he was joined by Jondy.

Max felt as if her whole world was crashing down around her as she watched them leave together, it was as though all her suspicions were confirmed, needing more opinions before she confronted them about it she went of to find someone to talk to.

A few hours later and neither of them were back yet and Max didn't feel any better. She was trying to fix up a large building to try to make it fit for human inhabitance with Syl, Kat and Zane when she finally worked up the nerve to confide in them.

She moved closer to Syl to enable her to talk to her quietly. "Syl, can I ask you something?" she asked.

"Sure, what's up?"

"It's about Alec," she began. "I think he might be having an affair."

"What?!" exclaimed Syl clearly shocked and alerting Kat and Zane's attention to them.

"Max thinks that Alec is having an affair," she told them without them even asking.

Kat and Zane's reactions were very different. While Zane's was quite similar to Syl's, shock and disbelief, Kat let out a giant snort before laughing.

"I'm glad you find this so amusing," said Max wondering what on earth made this so funny.

"It's just that . . . you would think that. . . . you had just met Alec . . . or something," she said between laughs. "I mean I know I haven't known the guy that long but please, you are blind if you can't see that he is head over heels completely and utterly waves crashing on the sand, birds singing in the trees in love with you!"

Although this didn't appear to be helping Max it would seem that Zane and Syl agreed with her as they were both nodding their heads. "She's right Max, he is always showing it as well. He's always touching you or kissing you or staring at you with those big puppy dog eyes and finding some way to spend time with you," said Syl.

"Plus the fact he just doesn't seem the type to cheat," said Zane. Seeing that Max had begun to open her mouth to argue he continued. "I know before you and him got together he drifted from girl to girl but he wasn't serious about them and he is about you. Besides we all went a little bit mad over the opposite sex when we got out."

Max was getting frustrated, these were all very valid point but it didn't stop her from feeling insecure about it or all the little things that she had picked up on that had originally led her to this conclusion.

"So if you think he is having an affair, any ideas who with?" asked Syl who had for the sakes of argument decided to humour her sister.

"Jondy," she said quietly.

This set Kat off again and this time even Syl and Zane were smiling.

"Ok so maybe Alec isn't our specialist subject but Jondy is. We have known her for longer than you Max and trust me she really isn't that type. And if you even think that she would do something like that you obviously don't know what sort of person she is at all. I mean she can be a bit flirty at times but she knows when to stop and would never try anything with someone who was in a relationship," said Zane sticking up for Jondy.

"Even if she would, you are he sister for god's sake and people just don't do that sorta thing to their sister," added Syl.

Many other arguments came up against this theory but Max still wasn't sure, it was strange. She knew they where right and it would be completely out of either of their characters but something weird was definitely going on between them. OC had said that they were just friends 'but friends don't sneak out to go and . . . well be friends,' thought Max.

"It is just that, they are always laughing and joking together and he always looks like he is enjoying himself with her more than he does with me. Plus they keep disappearing together and this morning they came in late all 'crumply' and I can assure Alec did not leave like that this morning. Then after I saw Alec leaving Terminal City to 'order supplies' and said he didn't need anyone to go with him then snuck out with Jondy!"

This silenced Zane and Syl and even Kat sobered up to weigh this new information. Now that all of them thought about it, Alec and Jondy did seem to get on extremely well and those little suspicious looking moments like this morning did occur frequently. They seemed innocent enough to them but then again it had never crossed any of their minds for a second that what Max was suggesting was even a possibility.

Despite al of this Kat, Zane and Syl refused to believe it. "Look Max, do you love Alec?" asked Syl.

"Yes."

"Then you will just have to trust him, and why are you so willing to believe that he is cheating on you anyway?"

Max hadn't thought about that before. She always seemed to be trying to convince people that he was. Maybe it was just this whole 'Alec is a screw up' thing that she seemed to have permanently engraved in her brain rearing it's ugly head again? But surly that wouldn't be enough to make her feel this certain that him and Jondy were having an affair.

She decided to try and work through this new thought by herself so she said good bye to Kat, Syl and Zane and began to walk through the streets of TC. After about half an hour Max finally managed to believe that it was all in her head, that she was still expecting Alec to mess up and that when he didn't her warped little mind decided to make her think that he had. Just as she had come to this realisation and smiled for the first time in days, she saw Alec and Jondy coming into TC looking awfully cosy . . .

As soon as Max had left, the three of them all looked at each other uncertainly. "That girl has serious issues," said Kat. "Looks, guys I really don't want to believe that what she said is true but she spoke with such conviction and assurance until the end that she almost had me convinced," said Syl who was clearly upset by her sisters suspicions.

"Could you imagine if she was right and her and Alec broke up? I sure as hell couldn't. Those two are inseparable, I can't imagine if they weren't together," said Zane.

Syl and Kat were disturbed by this thought. They had both became so used to Max and Alec's little teasing sessions and how sweet they were together.

"I must admit, I have never seen Max so happy as when the two of them are together. When I last saw her, over a year ago before she met Alec, she was serious and almost sad and distant. He has really helped her not to take things so seriously, well she is less serious anyway," said Syl after seeing them raise their eyebrows at her mention of Max not being serious.

"Look, Alec and Jondy are just not like that I mean it may look bad from Max's perspective but if Alec cheated on Max I would make out with Krit!" said Zane.

"Oh, no you bloody well won't," said Syl as Kat started laughing again.

Max was rather unsettled at the sight of Alec walking along with his arm around Jondy after just managing to convince herself that it was all in her head. He obviously hadn't spotted her yet from the deliriously happy grin on his face but when he finally did he panicked and blurred, pushing himself and Jondy into an alley in the hope Max hadn't seen him.

Max wrecked her brain for another reason to why this happened and when she failed to, she braced herself for the worse and walked past the alley and from her peripheral she could see Alec bending down and giving Jondy kiss on the cheek before walking out onto the main street again.

When he didn't run to catch up with her Max realised that he must be heading back to their apartment. Blinking the tears away that she could feel forming in her eyes she put her head up and went round to her office in HQ where she could cry in private.

An hour later, their was a knock on the door, using the sleeves on her top Max wiped away the remaining drops on her now tear stained face and croaked a "Who is it?" It turned out to be Jace who immediately noticed that something was wrong and when she noticed her red puffy eyes, she knew that Max had been crying.

She put her arms around Max's shoulders and led her to the couch asking her "What's the matter, what's happened that was got you so upset?" The feeling of her sisters' comforting embrace Max felt like braking down and crying all over again, telling her what she had saw but Max being Max used all her will power to pull herself out of Jace's reach and insist that every thing was fine.

Although Jace was less than convinced, she decided to let it go knowing that Max was stubborn and could work through on her own so she decided to change the subject. "Well I was sent to get you and bring you down to the hall. We are going to have a bit of a celebration you know since we are actually managing to survive in this dump and we thought that we all needed a break."

"Ok," said Max, knowing that she would have too face Alec and Jondy sometime. "Well come on then and let's get you cleaned up a bit."

They went up to Max's apartment and Max looked around for traces of Alec's presence as it didn't appear that he had been there she asked Jace if he was going. "Yeah, he's already down there, he left earlier to go check on Jen," she informed her.

Max washed her face so that she could hide the fact that she had been crying and put on a clean, fresh top. Pulling her hair back into a ponytail, she and Jace headed down to the bar.

It was only when she was about to enter the bar that Jace stopped her. "No, we are not in the bar tonight." Jace led a confused Max round to a dimly lit hall with gentle music coming from it. There were several little tables and chairs set out around it and at one of them, Max noticed, Alec and Jondy were sitting round one.

All of her 'siblings' were there as well as several other TC residents. Alec and Jondy stood up as soon as soon as they noticed Max. All of a sudden, everyone with the exception of Alec started to head out of the room.

Max realised that now was not the time to be sad or mopy (finally free of Logan's influence!!!!) but it was in fact the time for her to be very mad. "Wait!" she yelled and everyone stopped to turn round and see what she had to say.

"I know what is going on," she told Alec quietly.

"Excuse me?" he asked looking slightly panicked.

"Oh, come on you have been at it all day!" she said finding the strength in her voice so that she was almost shouting.

When Alec didn't say anything it just made Max madder. "What, surely you didn't think that I wouldn't find out?"

"Well I must admit I did think that someone would slip up and tell you," he said.

"What . . . other people know? How?"

"I told them," he stated simply, "It wasn't exactly something I could hide from everyone."

"Who else knows?"

He looked around the room. "Just about everyone here and a few others."

Max felt betrayed, these were the people she trusted the most, "why didn't you tell me?" she asked feeling weak and useless.

"Alec asked us not to, he didn't want you to know, for obvious reasons," Jace told her.

Getting angry again as she felt her blood begin to boil she started shouting again, "Well isn't that nice, at least he tried to cover it up, but what you take his side now and does what he says? I'm your sister you should have told me!"

"We're sorry Max but we agreed with Alec and thought that it would be best if you didn't know," said Krit, "but you don't have to make us feel guiltier than we already do for not telling you, I mean we wanted to but we promised that we wouldn't."

Max looked round at Syl, Kat and Zane to whom he had confided in earlier, "Why didn't you three tell me?"

"We only found out about half an hour ago," said Kat.

"Look Max, I really think that . . ." began Jondy but she was cut of by an extremely pissed of Max.

"Don't you talk to me!" she yelled, her voice filled with hatred and venom. "You ruined my life, everyone said you were not capable of it but when it comes down to it they obviously don't know you very well because it seems that you are having an affair with my boyfriend!"

The hall came to a standstill now that Max had finally said it and that everything out in the open.

Just 5 reviews and you get the day from Alec's point of view! I told you this would be a long chapter, that was only the first half!

So here are the rants that I promised! Enjoy!

Down-Ass-Bitch's 'little' rant. And btw I think they were about the same length!

(You think your rant was long, wait 'till you see mine. Lol!)

Hey girl, I couldn't agree more with you about how you feel about Logan. He gets on my nerves so much! And M/L relationship I could not hate more! Instead of them being comfortable and relaxed around each other, their always so uptight! (even without the virus!) And it never dawned on them that maybe they weren't ment to be if something is always keeping them apart. They must be the lamest, most pathetic couple in history! They have the same relationship I have with my dad! (except for the whole french kissing thing in sesason 1!) All they do is eat pasta and he sends her on all these dangerous missions like he wants her to die! I'm not sayin' he should put her on a leash, but it's like he's setting up a trap for her. And I totally agree with Jt in her story 'Jamie' she says Max is the leader of the transgenic community. The transgenics would never accept her if her partner is an ordinary! That be like if I was against blacks and my boyfriend was Pharacon! You know what i'm sayin'? Anyway, (I could go on and on) I love this story and keep it up!

Kim's Rant-I especially love 'slimy and mopy' it just about sums Logan up!

lol this chapter was great but what's better was your view on logan! lol i totally agree he's slimy and mopy! and ur so right about him dragging max into the world of the moping too! in the first series she was this kick ass chick who just all out rocked and whenever she stole something i found it amusing. she was like the alec (but a lil bit more sensible) of the first series. lol if her character still acted like that id so love her to then bicker with alec! that'd be so funny!rnrnanyway back to logan... ack! i think he's a user too! he hasnt helped max one bit in finding her brothers in sisters and she goes on so many crappy EO missions for him! logan is way too serious for his own good! And no one like max would date an old freak like logan!rnrnok sorry about that... i just happen to hate logan too!rnPost another chapter quick!