AN:I must acknowledge Genetically Enhance1 thought of multiple endings before I did and graciously allowed me to borrow her clever idea. Thanks G.E.

Surprise!

December 14th 2021

Max was aware of three pairs of eyes staring at her with the hopeful intensity of a cocker spaniel under a toddler's high chair. She turned round her hands on hips and drew in her breath ready to deliver the bad news for two of them.

"Oh alright, god" Max snapped ungraciously. She faced the three men that wanted her to choose them permanently.

"Look I've done a lot of thinking the past few hours and I've decided I really didn't want to be a parent in the first place. It wasn't like I planned this pregnancy or got this way having fun." Mat explained to the three males in front of her and the assembled soldiers.

"The transgenic situations need my full time attention." Max went on explaining. "Now my clone Sam would love to have a little girl of her own but her husband had a vasectomy after his first child with his first wife. So Sam and Steve are adopting this clone I'm having and bringing it up in their new home in Vancouver." Max looked triumphant. "So I don't need to hook up permanently with anyone. I'm only twenty after all."

The assembled crowd nodded seeing the sense in this.

"But Max what about our shared history, Max?" Logan said in concern.

She looked at Logan and smiled sadly. "I've realised we've spent three years making each other unhappy and the only thing sadder than that is if we spend one more day doing so."

Mole looked at her. "And me?"

"An itch I scratched once" Max said bluntly. "We need to work together so no more sex for us."

Alec looked at Max. "And me?"

"l I'd never give anyone a dear John break up when they were fighting Alec. You'll come down to Seattle on your leaves and I'll come up here occasionally to see how the T.C. troops are going. Let's just see each other then and work out what we want to do when you leave the army." Max added smiling to him. "No point making any promises or decisions till then, I mean you're only twenty one and facing life and death decisions every day."

Alec smirked. "Works for me."

"I thought it would." Said Max smirking back.

"So that's it?" said Sketchy. "You're not going to marry Logan or mate permanently with Mole or Alec?"

"No." said Max smiling. "Great isn't it?"

And so life went on for the parties involved. Max and Alec dated for two years but realised once Alec came back permanently to Seattle that they made better friends than lovers and parted amicably so Alec could take on a full time job in the Royal Canadian Army in Toronto. Eventually when he was thirty he married the X6 Ralph who was now twenty five Alec really did like blondes best after all. Alec and Ralph had three boys together and were very happy apart from one stressful period in their marriage when their eldest teenage son almost became a serial killer but a bit of quick retroactive gene therapy fixed that. Ralph and Alec lived happily ever after.

Logan left Washington State to continue his fight against evil and spent several years in Mexico helping Mexico take over Texas for it's own good. When Logan was forty five he married a beautiful twenty-three year old Hispanic journalism student called Maria who was into bondage and fine cuisine and never wanted annoying noisy messy little kids they lived happily ever after in Houston. Age is no barrier when you're really in love.

Max happily gave her baby clone to her clone sister Sam and her husband Steve. Sam and Steve named the baby Alison (after Steve's Mom) and with little Johnny Steve's son the family of four lived happily ever after in Vancouver.

Mole became quite the stud among ordinaries in Seattle and became a playboy bachelor for a while eventually he and Joshua married two ordinary beautiful blind co-joined twins and lived happily ever after with them in a shared apartment.

Max after she had finished dating Alec was single for a year concentrating on getting a masters in Biochemistry (she had realised she had a talent for it while looking for a cure for Logan's virus).

While attending Seattle U. she became very friendly with Biggs clone Bigger also attending Seattle U. on a veterans allowance studying Engineering.

After they graduated Bigger finally got up the nerve to ask her out and Max accepted the dinner invitation going to bed with him that night. (She had really missed steamy X-5 sex).

They got married when Max was twenty-seven and both had fulfilling professional jobs in Seattle. Two years later they had their first planned child together a little girl Max named Hannah. Max lived even more happily ever after than anyone else because she is the heroine of this story.

The End

AN: I sincerely hope no one was expecting the sensible ending.