Maybe, maybe not

Hi, this is my first Fanfic in English so be kind! It takes place in season 2, probably before Annie gets killed.

"Next time, I could bring a game Maxie. Don't take it the wrong way, but I'm bored of being trapped in a closet with you. It's not like we have anything to enjoy ourselves in this dark, cold..."

"Shut up, Alec!"

Alec gave her a sarcastic look. Max couldn't believe it; she was stuck in a closet with Alec again, waiting for the guards to leave. *I hate him. *

"But Maxie, I had better plans for tonight then be here with you, risking my life for Logan."

She didn't like this nickname, but she knew he would never understand why, so she had stopped trying to convince him that he shouldn't use it. Max hit him hard on the shoulder. Hurting him was the only way to shut him up and it wasn't 100% effective.

"Hey, that hurts!"

"Please, stop being precious!"

* Precious? I'm not precious, if only she could stop hitting me...*

"Maybe if you were kind to me...I mean, I deserve it, I'm stuck here because I agreed to help you and your boyfriend."

Max wanted to hit him again but he stopped her move (with his own). Max gave him a death glare and sighed.

"You see Maxie, you're rough with me."

*Okay, now I'm really angry. *

"Could you stopped being such a baby and begin to concentrate on the mission?"

"Please, all I think about is the mission, Miss I-hit-Alec-without-looking- where-the-guards-are!"

"Shut up, they'll hear you!"

Then, a guard opened the closet: 3 others were beside her. "Too late!" He said with a large grin. *Damn, Max will kill me. *

*He screwed up; I'm going to kick his ass! *

The two X5 got out of the little closet and started to fight.

"It's all your fault Alec!"

Max knocked out the first guard.

"You started the fight by telling me I was precious! Remember that?"

Alec prevented a punch from the head guard and began to fight back-to-back with Max, strategy learned in Manticore. Max was fighting with the woman who had found them.

"But Alec, you are precious!"

"I'm not!"

He punched the third guard in the face and watched him fall roughly on the floor. He prepared himself to fight again.

"Believe me, you are!"

Max got rid of the woman with a clean fast move of the foot, and she wondered how good it would be to hit Alec like that and then she smiled. She always loved picturing herself hurting Alec. The leader of the now unconscious group surrendered, he know that his position was desperate.

"Alec, attach his arms and feet tight with the rope and put him in the closet."

"Why me? After all, I'm the one who's precious!"

Max knew he was sarcastic and, exasperated like she was every time she was with Alec, started to tie up the guard who didn't understand what was going on. He had watched the young woman and the young man knock out three of his best recruits without stopping their word fighting. They were amazing in a wrong way; he had never seen such brutal forces in other "grown-up teenagers". He would have to learn more about them. Max put him in the closet and closed the door.

"Come, we don't have much time before they notice something's wrong and send another team."

That, he knew it, was closing the discussion, Manticore side's of both of them taking control of their bodies. Finally, finding what Logan was looking for was easy and they soon were on their way back.

"So, you really think I'm precious?"

He didn't know why this word was bothering him so much but he just couldn't stand the idea of Max thinking about him that way. *Not like she thinks a lot of me, except that I'm a screw up...* Alec sighed.

Damn, she had hurt him in his male pride. Normally, she would have let it go but she still needed him. Also, she knew that he wasn't precious. He could have killed her and he hadn't, the only thing that she doesn't blame him for.

"Okay, you're not precious."

"I know, I'm the best!"

Alec gave her a large chuckle. Same old Alec. Max hated herself for offering him a reason for boasting. She wanted to hit him but contained herself. *He's so egocentric*

"Could you bring the data to Logan?"

"Problems with your boyfriend?"

* It's like it's impossible for him to shut the hell up. * Max sighed.

"Will you go or not? And by the way, he's not my boyfriend, things aren't like that between us."

"Yeah, right!"

"Will you go Alec?"

She knew she was about to lose her self-control.

"Okay, I hope Loggie won't be too disappointed."

"Shut up!"

He rolled his eyes as he made his way to his bicycle. *Guess I'll see Logan tonight, and I guess he won't be happy about that. * Max quickly disappeared at the corner of the road. He had won tonight's fight, and she needed him. *Who else would do the "Logan" job if I wasn't around? * Yes, she needed him and, after all, he was her kind and Max would never hurt her "family". Well, except for him. *Oh God, does Max consider me as her screw up brother ?* He didn't want to admit it, even to himself, but this thought was killing him. *Her brother ? No ! She would never think that. Does she ?*