Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel or any characters featured in either of the seasons.

With Ben In Between

"Hey," Max greeted as she saw Alec walk into his bedroom.

"Hey you're awake," he greeted sitting on the edge of his bed. Max laid on her side and absentmindedly rubbed her stomach.

"Yeah," Alec watched her.

"I called O.C., she's going to fly in a few days to be with you. She said to call her." Max smiled at this, but then began to frown thinking about not knowing what she was going to do now.

"Hey what's wrong?"

"I'm pregnant stuck in a foreign country with no money." A single tear leaked out, damn hormones. "I'm scared."

"Everything is going to workout, I promise. Just wait and see, ok?"

"Boo!" O.C. exclaimed as she barged through the front door. Max laughed and hugged her best friend, feeling immediately happy and at home with Cindy being there. Alec walked out of his bedroom when hearing the commotion, "pretty boy!" Cindy pulled Alec into a fierce hug, "thanks." She whispered before letting him go. "So first thing first, what are you wearing boo?"

Max looked at her attire, overly baggy jeans and a baggy 'Manticore' shirt of Alec's. "Didn't bring extra clothes when I left Logan."

"Well then we need to remedy that. Let's go get your things and then do some shopping! You gotta show me the city!" O.C. instructed as she headed back out the door. Max and Alec laughed at this, and Max followed her best friend. "We'll be back later pretty boy!" Shaking his head, Alec went to start on a project.

"So you guys seem cozy together, "O.C. commented as she and Max walked to different shops, after they collected Max's things from the hotel.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh I don't know. You spend a lot of time catching up over Chinese and now you're playing house with each other after the scumbag became one of the many dogs."

"He's the only person I knew here."

"Don't even play like that, Boo. You still love him and he's the father of you baby. He's in love with you too and doesn't know he's the daddy! So get off that 'only person you knew' excuse. That don't fly with O.C." O.C. looked at Max with pursed lips. Max looked at her best friends and smiled, the ever intuitive and all knowing Original Cindy, always there to lay it out for you.

While the girls were gone, boxes of things arrived at Alec's apartment, Max's baby things. "Well Loggie boo worked quick," Alec said to himself as he moved the boxes to the extra bedroom of his apartment. Once everything was moved he went back to his room and started to clean up, since Cindy was here he figured she could stay here at his apartment so that Max had company. "Looks like the couch will be my new friend," he said to himself as he changed the sheets on his bed.

Cindy and Max walked and chatted for several hours. Max showed her the different places Alec had showed over the time they had spent together, including the café where they ran into each other, literally. "Well boo, I gotta say Seattle don't got much compared to this place!" Cindy complimented as they sat at the café. Max laughed and took a drink of water, "so what are you going to do now?"

"I don't know, haven't thought much about it. Alec keeps telling me everything is going to be alright, and for some reason I believe him and don't think about anything." Max played with her straw, "I'm in deep aren't I?"

"Oh yeah boo, all the way and more." Cindy agreed smiling, "are you going to tell him? You guys have gotten past Ben, I'd think the next step would be baby daddy time."

"Yeah, we have…I don't know. I…"

"Scared aren't you?"

"Yeah, it's scary how easily we fell back in the way we use to be, back in Seattle when we were together. Then I've been living with him? It's…I don't know everything I could want, but then I can't help but feel like everything is going to drop out from under me." Cindy leaned over the table and took Max's hand.

"Tell him boo," it was that simple.