Max and Alec
"Season 2"
Disclaimer: I don't own it!
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Chapter 4: Radar Love
Max's apartment
Max was just getting out of bed when she heard OC in the kitchen making coffee. She didn't know what is was about Alec but he always seemed to make her wake up on time for work…she wasn't liking it. If she showed up to work on time than that meant that she had to work longer.
But as much as she thought she would mind she really doesn't…it must have something to so with Alec, he is changing the way she lives her life…and it isn't necessarily for the worst. Max walked out into the kitchen and OC was standing there with her orange robe on and a cup of semi-hot coffee.
Max walked over and sat at the little table that they had somehow acquired…actually she was pretty sure that she stole it, but OC didn't need to know that. What OC didn't know was usually good for her, plus Max wanted to keep her friend safe.
"You okay there Boo?" OC asked as she walked over to the table where Max just went to sit. Max didn't say anything but she continued to look out into nothingness. "Max?" OC asked.
Max took a look at her friend and forced a smile. "I don't know OC…it's just that my life has changed so much." She paused. "Everything seems so…normal." Max said.
"How so?" OC asked confused.
"I finally have a boyfriend that I am not afraid to be with, I have a job…even if it sucks, and as far as I can tell so far no one has come looking for me," Max said with a satisfied smile. "To me that's normal."
"Whatever Boo…all I know is that Alec has been a good influence on you," she paused as she went back to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee. "Your actually showing up to work on time." She finished.
Max smiled as she got up from the table and took her cup over to OC. "I've gotta shower, I'll be out in a minute and then we can go, okay?" Max said as she headed toward the bathroom. OC nodded. Max walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind her and then she leaned against the door with a smile on her face. Yeah life was good so far. She thought.
OC was just making something to eat before her and Max had to leave when she heard something at the door. She didn't know what it was but it sounded like a dog sniffing. At first she just thought it would go away and could forget that she ever heard it but then the sniffing continued no stop and OC figured that whatever it was looking must somehow be in the apartment.
OC walked over to the door and hesitated a minute before she flung the door open. What she saw before she caused her to become speechless. It was a half dog. Half man type person…it was Joshua.
"I just have to get dressed OC then we can leave," Max called and OC saw her run to her bedroom in a bathrobe out of the corner of her eye. When Max walked into the bedroom Alec was just starting to wake up. "Hey sleepy-head," she said as she sat on her side of the bed.
"Hey yourself…off to work I see," he said.
"Yeah, speaking of work…when do you have to go in?" she asked.
"Actually I'm not…I retired early." He said with a smirk. "The fighting thing wasn't for me." He said. He had told her all about the job he landed and at first she was mad but than she go over it when he told her how much he made a night.
"And as much as that pains me…" she said as she turned to look at him. "You'll find another job," she said as she leaned over and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. "Meanwhile I better go to make sure I still have one," she said as she got up and left the room only to stop in her doorway…frozen at the site before her. Joshua was sitting on one of the stool eating something that OC had made.
But as far as Max could tell they were getting along great and this brought another smile to Max's face. Max walked over to Joshua. "Josh, I thought I told you to stay put…it isn't safe out there," she said, as she looked him in the eye. "Come OC…we're going to be late," Max said as she grabbed her bag. "Alec…you have company!" Max shouted out as she walked out the door.
Alec came walked out of the bedroom in nothing but a pair of sweatpants. "Who…Josh?" Alec said as he looked at Joshua who was sitting on the stool. Today was going to be a long day.
Logan's apartment
Max knew she was taking a chance in coming here, that Alec would somehow find out, but she didn't have any other choice. Logan was the only one she knew that could get information about stuff in a hurry and that was what she needed.
The other night while her and Joshua where looking through the house she came across something that they figured was Sandmen's and Max was kind of hoping that she could get some fingerprints off of it…it was a log shot but she still had to try…right?
She had to know whether or not this Sandmen person was a good guy…even though he appeared to be involved with Manticore. Just than Max heard the door open and close and she turned to see Asha rounding the corner with her head down looking through her purse.
"Logan I am going out to lunch with Alec…" She said as she looked up and that is when she saw Max standing there. "Max?"
"Hey," Max said with a little lopsided smile. "So you're going out to lunch with Alec?" Max asked.
"Um…yeah. He asked me since he really doesn't know his way around Seattle and your were busy." She said as she looked at Logan. "You have any money I can borrow…I promise I will pay you back." She said as she looked at him. He reached into his pocket grabbed his wallet and pulled some money out and gave it to her. "Thanks," she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a kiss. "It was nice to see you again Max and Logan I'll see you later," she said as she walked out the door.
"Interesting," Max said as she looked in the direction that Asha had gone. Asha was going out with Alec…there as no reason for her to be jealous…was there?
"Max?" Max turned to look at him. "I can give Matt Sung a call and see if he could have a look at this…I am not promising anything." He said.
"I know…thanks," she said. "I better get back to work," Max said as she walked out the door leaving Logan all by himself in his apartment.
Max walked out of Logan's apartment building and over to where she had tied up her bike. How could Alec go out with Asha, he could have just asked me to take him around Seattle and I would have taken the day off work or something. But no he had to go and ask Asha…he knows how jealous X5's can get…I mean just look at him with Logan, he is ready to kill him every time he even looks in my direction. Max was riding along on the street not really paying attention to where she was going…she had other things on her mind.
I thought I told Alec to take care of Joshua today…doesn't that man ever listen? Suddenly Max was propelled though the air and landed flat on her back. What the hell? She asked herself as she looked around at the growing crowd. This is defiantly not a way to stay low, under the radar. Max looked up at they sky as she tried to get up from the ground when suddenly a young man, about twenty two, came over to her and started to feel around her body.
"Hey!" Max protested to the guy.
"It's okay…I'm a doctor," the guy said as he looked up at Max. "You don't remember me do you?" he asked and Max looked at him even more confused. "Refer…we met over a year ago…we had an encounter," he said not sure how to put their night together into words.
"Sorry you are not ringing any bells for me," Max said as she once again tried to get up of the ground.
"But we spent a whole night together," he said. "And you should stay put…something could be broken." He finished as he tried to put a hand up her shirt to see if she had any broken ribs.
"Okay, you now I do remember you," she lied as he finally let her stand up. "But I have to go work…I'm fine don't worry about."
Max said as she started to walk away. "Max?" he called to her and when she turned around he was holding one of her shoes in the air. She walked over and took it before she went back to her stomping of away from the scene of the accident. She couldn't believe that she ran into another one of her heat encounters…life just sucked that way, but hopefully Refer will take the hint and leave her alone before Alec finds out about him.
Max walked along the street dragging her broken bike behind her. This is juts my luck. I know for a fact that Normal is not going to give me another bike, something about us not being covered on company bike…I needed one awhile back and he gave me the bog 'ol speech. He is going to go into another when I get back by saying how irresponsible I am and how I need to learn how to live a good life…whatever the hell that supposed to mean. I really don't want to hear him talk about life today because my life is a little mixed up today as it is.
What the hell is Alec going to do with Asha all day? There barley even know each other. They going to talk about his depressing childhood and she is going to get all sympatric…okay, okay I know I am jealous but still…what are they going to talk about?
Crash
He couldn't believe he was out having lunch with Asha, Logan's girl. He really wanted to ask Max if she would take of work to show his around but they needed the money, since he no longer has a job. So he called Logan, got Asha phone number, and then called her to see if she wanted to hang out for a while. He just hoped to God that Max didn't find out because X5's get extremely jealous.
At this moment were done with their drinks and food and now he was teaching her how to play pool. He remembered learning from Rachel when he was on that mission, she insisted that he know how to play…it didn't take him long to learn.
Asha was sitting at the table they had gotten themselves as showed her how to play, she already knew how to play, and she just liked to watch him. She knew she shouldn't be thinking about him like this because he is Max/s boyfriend and she is Logan's girlfriend but she can't seem to help it. "Hey Asha…you ready to give it a try?" he asked her.
"No I am still learning...but thanks." She said back to him.
"Okay," he said and he went back to his game. Asha knew she would never have him…because he was and would always be in love with Max. Even if he didn't see it yet.
Jam Pony
Logan walked into Jam Pony later that day to tell Max what he had found out about that walking stick they found at Joshua's and to tell her about some new development that he had found out from Matt Sung. When he walked in he saw her sitting there talking to Original Cindy.
He walked toward the yet he said nothing of his presence as he listened to the last of Max's statement. "…Why would he be out there with her…he knows how jealous we get." She said to her best friend.
"Don't worry Boo, he was probably just looking for someone to hang with, you know?" OC said as she stood by. "Oh yeah…Logan is standing right behind you." She finished.
"I know," Max, said without turning around. "What do you want Logan?" she asked.
"I came to talk to you about that walking stick you dropped by my apartment today." He paused as he moved closer to her. "I had Matt Sung take a look at it and he came up empty…I'm sorry." He said.
"It was a long shot," she said.
"And there was one more thing that he was telling me about," he added before she decided to take off. "He was telling me about so sort of freak living in China town, I assumed transgenic, he said that the man was bleeding from his skin, or so he hears from witnesses." He said. "Max maybe you should…"
"I am on top of it," she lied. "I know it is my responsibility to look after them since I am the one that let them out…so why don't you just back off Logan!" Max said. She realized that she said that a little louder than she should have so she looked around and noticed that no one heard her so she sighed in relief. "Is there anything else?" she asked as she looked at the man with annoyance.
"We used to be friends, Max. Why don't you start talking to me like one." He paused. "Just because you found someone new doesn't mean that we have ask like bitter enemies." He said as he looked at her.
"You know what your right," she lied. "Maybe we should be more civil toward each other," she said. She walked over to him and gave him the most innocent simle that she could muster. Than she brought her arms back and hit him…not hard and not in the face…softly on the arm. Yet he was still hard enough to make him wince. "That is how I act around Alec…and that is me civil." She said as she turned and walked away.
"Women," he muttered under his breath.
"I heard that." She said over her shoulder as she sat back down with OC and continued the conversation they were having before Logan had interrupted them. She sat down next to her friend with a sigh…who knew life could be this complicated.
Korea Town
Sketchy had a delivery to Korea Town, which he really didn't want to go to because they was always something weird happening there. As he walked up to the place where he was supposed to deliver his package he heard some kind of firework go off. He looked around but saw no one that might have set it off and then he turned back to the people at the desk.
"Jam Pony messenger…I need a signature," he said as he handed them his clipboard and their package. He could hear them talking about some mutant freak that they saw walking around the other day and he couldn't help but listen. After all he wanted to know if mutants walked the earth too. "Thanks," he said when the man handed his clipboard back to him. Then he turned on his heel and started walking away. Just then some Korean person came over to him with blood coming from his noise and it looked like he was having trouble breathing. "Call the police!" Sketchy yelled.
Sketchy tried desperately to help the guy in front of him but he and all the people around him knew that he wasn't going to be able to do anything. The next thing he knew he heard coughing all around him and when he turned around people were dropping like flies. "I think it is about time that I get the hell out of here," he said to himself as he got to his feet and ran toward him bike and left.
Joshua's house
After she was done with all her deliveries Max decided to head by Joshua's to see Zane and…well Joshua. As she approached the house she noticed that there was a candle lit inside and that brought a smile to her face. When she walked in she saw Joshua sitting on the chair reading a book that she guessed he got from the book shelve.
"Hey big fella," Max said as she approached him.
"Hey little fella," Joshua said as he looked up from the book he was reading.
"Have you seen Alec and Zane today?" she asked as she looked around the house and noticed that both men were missing in action.
"Alec came over about and hour ago and picked up Zane and they went out…left Joshua here, said it wasn't safe." Joshua said. "Alec dropped Joshua off back here after you left for work this morning," he finished.
Just as Max was about to say something her pager started beeping. She looked at the number and groaned. "God doesn't this guy ever give up?" she asked herself and then she turned to Joshua. "I'll be right back I have to make a call," she said as she turned and walked out of the house were she saw a payphone. She noticed it before she walked into the house when she arrived.
She walked down the stairs and over to the payphone. She so did not want to talk to Logan right now; she wants to find Alec so she can have a talk with him about why he was out with Asha today. When she got to the phone she dialed the number that she had long ago memorized. "What do you want Logan?" she asked when the man answered the phone. She heard mumbling in the background that she recognized. "Is…is Alec there with you?" she asked.
"Um…yeah." He paused. "He and Zane handle some business that I needed taken care of," he said. "Alec called it a truce and told me that it's okay that you and me are friends."
"Okay…so why did you page me?" she asked.
"Because we need your help…you think you could stop by my apartment…Zane and Alec will be here waiting for you." He said.
"I'll see what I can do." She said and then she hung up. She walked back up toward Joshua's house and when she walked inside he was still reading his book. "Hey big fella…I have t go, Logan needs my help with something," she said.
"Okay little fella…see you later?" he asked.
"Of course," she said. She figured she could stop back here before she went home. "See ya," she said and then she walked out of the house and headed of in the direction of Logan's apartment.
Logan's apartment
Alec and Zane were sitting on the couch while Logan was on the phone with Max. Sure he told Logan that it was okay that they were friends, but it didn't meant that he had to like the idea. The only reason that he was going along with it was because he and Max were old buddies from before Manticore recaptured her. It was almost like taking OC away from her.
Alec looked up when Logan said goodbye to Max and he saw that man smile and smile that was no for friends, a smile that meant a whole lot more than friendship. He wanted to get up and snap the other man's neck but he couldn't because Max would never speak to him again and that was something that he wouldn't be able to live with.
"She's on her way," Logan said when he turned to face the other two men. He had a smug smile on his face. He was going to get Max back, even if that meant killing Alec just to get him out of the way. Sure he was, is, an X5 but there is always something out there that could get him killed…he just has to find it.
Just as he was about to get back onto his computer and start looking up this strange death rate of Korean people and how it is raising…his cell phone rang. "Hello?" he asked into it not sure at who it could be.
"Logan?" It was Matt Sung.
"What is it Matt? You find something?" he asked.
"Yeah…I got the guy, or the thing," he said. "I was kind of wondering if you could come by the morgue and maybe you get Eyes Only to run something on it," he asked.
"Sure thing I'll be right there," Logan said. Logan hung up his phone and looked at the two X5's in front of him. "I have to go to the morgue. When Max gets here…you guys should stop by too." He said and then he was out the door in a rush.
Alec and Zane stared at the door dumfounded. What were they supposed to do, just sit here and wait for Max to show up like a bunch of little kids? Or they could always go get themselves into trouble. Alec knew that Max would appreciate that so he decided to sit a wait. Sure it wasn't his thing but he soon came to realize that he was doing a lot of things that he normally didn't do when it came to Max…she had changed him.
"Come on man, what are you going to do sit her like some whipped boyfriend?" Zane asked as he got up off the couch looking to go have some fun. "Max would only be mad at you for a least a day." He said. "She is my baby sister after all and who knows her better than me?" he asked.
"I do," a voice said from behind them and when Zane turned around he saw Max standing in the doorway. "Trying to get my man into trouble already Zane…" Max let the sentence trail off.
"Aw…come on Maxie," he said as he moved toward her. "You know I wouldn't do something like that," he lied.
"Whatever," she said. And for the first time since she entered the apartment she noticed that Logan wasn't there. "Where is Logan?" she asked. "He said he had something important to tell me."
Alec stood up and walked over to her so the three of them where standing in a circle…kind of. "Some guy called and told him that he needed to come meet him at the morgue." He paused. "Gotta love the enhanced hearing." He smiled. "Said he killed some kind of freak." He added. "I know I am going to sound like an idiot and I bet your thinking it right now Max…but we should have followed him, huh?" She just nodded. "Okay than let's go." He said as he grabbed her hand and the three of them walked out of the apartment.
Some building
White was standing with a bunch of other guys from his offices; he really didn't understand why he had to bring more than one other person with him…nut his boss insisted on it so he brought a bunch of guys. They where talking to some nerdy guy who said he figured out a way to take care of their little problem. So naturally he had come by to see if he was really on about something…and he was.
He had explained to them that by mixing a few chemicals with the blood of one of his specimen he could generate a compound that would kill anything with that kind of DNA in at least a hundred miles, which took care of sector nine and the rest of them in time. White had a huge evil grin on his face that he couldn't seem to wipe away.
"So when do we find out if this works so you can get the rest of your money?" he asked the nerdy man whose name he couldn't remember.
"Tomorrow…noon," the guys said.
"Done," White said and then he and the rest of his men walked out of him office.
Max's apartment
They had arrived back at her apartment later that night after dropping Zane off at Joshua's. OC had left them a note saying that she was going to be staying with a female friend that she met at Crash and for them not to worry. Max was standing by the window and Alec was sprawled out on the bed watching her.
"Max…what's wrong?" he asked. She hadn't said a word to him since they saw the dead transgenic in the morgue. Matt Sung said that he thought he was hurting the kid but for some reason neither one of them took that excuse. After all if you saw something that looked far from human what would you do? "Come on Max…talk to me." He said witting up on the bed now.
"I bet he didn't even think about the kid," her words shocked Alec. "I bet he just saw something that didn't look like you or me…or him for that matter and open fired." She said as she turned to look at Alec. "He just assumed that he was the bad guy because he looked different," she said as she turned back toward the window. Just then she felt Alec's strong arms come around her waist. "I'm scared…what if they find out about us X5's…the ones that look human?" she asked.
"Than we'll deal," he said into her ear. "We will make sure that they see us as something other than a threat so we can live some sort of normal life," he said as he turned her around so she was looking at him. "I wont let anything happen to you Max…I promise." He added. "Especially since your going to have my son," he said with a smirk.
"Your thinking a little far ahead dontcha think," she said with a smile.
"Nope," he said as he brought his hand down to rest on her stomach. "Unlike you I can hear his heart beat." He said. "You can hear it too but you just figure that it's yours, but I heard it last night as I rested my head on your stomach…dreaming about one day having kids." He said as he looked down at her belly. "It was just a dream…but now it's a reality." He added looking up at her. "We're going to be parents," he said with a smile.
"Are you serious?" she asked as she looked him in the eye.
"Never been anything else," he said as he brought his lips to her. "Your going to be a mommy." He said.
"And your going to be a daddy." She said.
And than it just occurred them to what they would be raising there kid and it scared them.
Sector 9
White was sitting with the nerdy kid now in his van. They were waiting to get into position so that he could show White what his compound could do. They had the specimen in the back still out cold. They were going to release him and while he was running the were going to set the compound of and he would have exactly fifteen minutes to get out before it was all over.
"Okay I am going to go now so you can do what you have to do," White said as he started getting out of the van.
"What about my money?" he asked.
"You'll get it when I see that he is dead," he said pointing to the out cold X5. "Meanwhile I will be waiting on the other side just incase your compound doesn't do what it is supposed and ends up killing everyone." White said right before he walked away from the van and over to his car.
The nerd went over to where the X5 was and put something under his nose so that he would wake up…and he did. He unhooked his clips and told him that he was free to go. When he was far enough in the distance he shot the firework that held the compound. And as he was turning the corner to follow the X5 he could faintly hear the cop sirens coming.
Logan had called Max and told her where it was that she needed to meet him. He gave her all the information over the cell phone that she had borrowed off of Alec. Alec was still asleep when she left and that was what she wanted because if she had to save someone she couldn't do it while she was worrying about him, and she might end up getting them both killed.
When she arrived she saw Logan standing next to the police car with Matt Sung, she remembered meeting him once last year but she doubted that he remembered her. "Where is he?" she asked as she approached Logan. Just than she heard the firework.
"He is somewhere in there and he has fifteen minutes before he is no more," Logan told her and before he could stop her she took off running. "Max!" he yelled after her but she didn't stop, she was able to get into the sector because of her Jam Pony sector pass.
Max ran through the streets of sector nine looking for the transgenic on the run. Just then she saw some guy holding a computer looking up toward the wall of an old factory and when she looked in that direction she saw the guy she was looking for and he was currently climbing the ladder.
She ran as fast as she could in his direction hopping to get to him before she had to find somewhere to hide so she didn't get hit with the compound. Logan had explained to her what it was all about. And that it would kill any transgenic in a hundred miles. So she ran up the ladder after her X5 brother. When she got to the roof she saw him climbing another ladder to get to and even higher roof.
"Hey! Wait!" she called out as she continued to followed him, as he didn't stop. She climbed that ladder just in time to see him jump to the other roof across the street and soon she was doing the same thing trying desperately to get to him before they both died. And as she saw him round the corner and horrifying thought crossed her mind. If she was to die would Alec turn to Asha? She shuck her head of those thoughts and told herself that he would never leave her because she was carrying his son.
When she turned the corner she saw the X5 sitting on the edge of the wall with nowhere to go. Just then she looked at her pager and saw that they only had about five minutes left so she ran up to him grabbed him and together they took the plunge into a pool that she had seen below them. He tried his hardest to get out of her grasp but he couldn't and then she took his face and held it still as she turned her head and showed him her barcode. He nodded in understanding.
Than she looked at her pager and they had four minutes left.
Would Alec forget about his unborn son and run to Asha because he was hurting from her death? Would he and Logan get into it? Would he kill Logan thinking that it was his fault that she wasn't around anymore?
Than she looked at her pager and they had three minutes left.
Would Asha even care if she died? Sure they didn't talk much but she was the reason her and Logan were together. If she hadn't of been recaptured by Manticore than Logan never would have meet Asha and Asha never would have meet Logan.
Than she looked at her pager and they had two minutes left.
The X5 was struggling more and more in her grasp but she held on tight and there was no way that he was going anywhere until her pager hit zero. Would Logan care if she died?
Than she looked at her pager and they had one minute left.
Okay one more minute before she found the answers to her questions. Just then her pager vibrated and her and the X5 went above surface, just to come face to face with the man Max had seen watching the young X5 earlier. He pulled out a gun to shot them "You just cost he a lot of money!" he yelled. But before he could shot her he fell to the ground. And Max saw Logan and Max Sung standing there.
Max's apartment
It was raining once again in Seattle, which wasn't much of a surprise to Max yet she still looked out the window at it. She was just thinking about life when Alec came walking and sat no their bed. He was just getting back from dropping Zane and the X5, whose name turned out to be Travis, off at Joshua's. Than he went by Logan's to help with any of the questions that Matt Sung might have had.
"Is this a typical day of your life Max?" he asked as he started to take of his wet shirt. "Cause all I can say is damn it is tiring as hell." He said as he walked over to her with nice dry sweet pants on.
"Yup this is my life," she said as she turned to look at her. And then she reached down and grabbed his hand and placed it on her stomach. "And it just keeps getting better." She added. "So what happen at Logan's with Sung?" she asked.
"He had a lot of questions and we answered them," he said. "Some we answered with the truth and some we had to lie," he said. "There are things that he isn't ready to know yet," he added as he walked back over to the couch. "Joshua is excited to have another roomie and I think Zane is happy too. Now that he has someone but me to hang with…because I am not always around, sometimes I am with you and I don't think he likes that." He said.
"So now he has a round the clock buddy?" Max asked and he nodded. "Good because I have seriously been lacking of my Alec time." She said as she walked over to the bed.
"Good because I am not going anywhere for while," he said.
"Is that right," she said.
His only answer was a kiss.
AN: I hope you liked it!