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Rosebud

Day One Continued…

He jumped nearly three feet in the air and turned to look at me, and for the first time, up close and personal I saw just how much confusion was placed behind his eyes his head tilting to the side as he looked at me for answers….

"What was I… Why was I… I was coming in here for something?"

All the cocky tone was stripped from his words, as I left my hand on his shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze with a nod, "Yes… You did, but I already took care of it alright…" I didn't know what else to say… Hell I had no clue as to what was even going on… Why the hell he was acting like this….

"Oh…. Okay…" He ran a hand through his hair as though he himself was trying to figure things out, his eyes never leaving mine, his head tilting slowly to the side. "Did you um, need something? I mean was there a reason you're here?"

I drew my lip into my mouth and focused on keeping a frown from coming to my lips, I was seriously beginning to feel bad for the guy. "I need you to come with me to Logan's…" My tone sounded even enough as I finally dropped my hand from his shoulder.

"I'm kinda tired." His reply left me wondering if maybe I wasn't as cool and calm acting as I thought I was… If maybe he sensed something, and if he really was tired, then that was just to damn bad, I needed to figure out what was going on… And there was only one person who could help me do that…

"It won't take to long…" I lied, so sue me, at the rate he was going he wasn't even going to remember this conversation in a few minutes anyway…. For a brief moment I thought about how much fun it would be to screw with him… To mess with his head and then watch like a magic eraser as it all went blank again, and started over…

But when he headed for the door still dressed in only his sweat pants, the fun was gone from my thoughts… He really was lost… Did the boy not even realize he was more than half naked?

"Alec…" I groaned thinking about how long of a night this was going to be.

"Hmmm?" He turned to face me and I grabbed a shift off the back of his sofa tossing it at him, thankfully for me he was and always had been quite the slob despite the cleanliness traits they tried to instill in us back at Manticore.

"You might need to put that on."

He looked down momentarily and I couldn't help but smirk as he blushed his cheeks a light pink color that crept nearly to his eyes. If he weren't so damn annoying I might even consider the moment cute… but after all this is Alec we are talking about, and nothing he ever does is to be considered cute in any of my books.

He slipped the shirt on over his head as I stepped around and in front of him opening the door for the two of us, I slid out into the hallway and when I noticed that he had not fallowed me I turned to face him… "Are you waiting for an invite or what?" I had to keep up the banter portion of our relationship didn't I?…

But there it was again, that clueless gaze, as though he had no idea what I was talking about, no recollection of our conversation only two minutes ago… This was definitely beginning to get both scary and tediously annoying…

"I-I'm coming with you?"

"Yes." I nodded pulling him by the wrist. "We're going to Logan's… He needs us there A Sap."

I was extra happy to have ditched my jam pony ride and picked up my real bike by this time, as I handed him a helmet and climbed on to my motorcycle… I can only imagine what it would have been like trying to get him all the way to Logan's pad on my damn handle bars…

-It took only a matter of minutes to arrive at Logan's… thankfully, this being a Friday night, I knew that he would be home working on some eyes only mission and not out gallivanting like most hot and sexy guys his age….

"This is Logan's." Alec half whispered after removing his helmet as we headed up the walk way, the tone in his voice was relatively unsure as he looked at me for confirmation…

I nodded, suddenly I was beginning to really get the picture of what it was like to have an infant child… And from what I could tell, I was never going to have children…. NEVER EVER. "Yes. Yes it is."

"What are we doing here?"

I pretended not to hear his question as I opened the door for the two of us, and we made our way inside….

Sure enough there he sat, just as he always did… Logan Cale , the most predictable man god had ever created… Also one of the best looking… but that of course is beside the point…

He was hunched over slightly in his plush leather chair a pen protruding from his lips as he chewed diligently on it reading something off of the computer screen in front of him, his glasses having slid slightly down toward the end of his nose…

I crossed my arms over my chest and smirked to myself taking a mental snapshot of the man that only in my dreams was I ever truly going to be with… Before of course doing the me thing to do, and disturbing him by clearing my throat and tapping my foot on the ground hard…"Working late tonight junior?"

The pen fell from his lips and I chuckled inwardly as he whipped the corner of his mouth before turning around, he was obviously so into whatever it was he was reading that he had forgotten how to swallow….

"Uh, hey-hey Max…" I watched as his eyes shifted behind his glasses in Alec's direction. "And Alec."

"We need your help." No need to waste time with small talk, it's not really my style you know that whole Hi honey how was your day honey? Bull that most people start with? It's all pointless to me, a waste of precious air and time….

"We do?" Alec frowned a little and looked from Logan to me and back again.

"Yeah… We do…." I repeated myself again, something I really hate doing, yet I found myself doing a lot in this particular day.

"Okay.." Logan's head bobbed up and down in a nod before he leaned down to pick up the pen he had dropped before , therefore making it particularly easy for me to peek down the collar of the white tee shirt he was wearing and steal a look at his beautifully defined chest. "What can I do for you?"

I glanced to the side taking note that Alec was now looking as lost as ever studying the walls surrounding him, the walls of Logan's home, a place he had been to, a place he had seen over a hundred times. My insides began to churn and I reached out putting a hand on his forearm getting his attention…

"This is a nice place…" He shifted toward me a little and I watched out of the corner of my eye as Logan's face became masked with surprise. Ok maybe more so with confusion, as now it was his turn to clear his throat.

"Yeah…. You seem to like it every time you come here…"

I look at him swiftly and shake my head, trying to remain subtle about it, Alec having already gone back to studying the walls with the same Awed enthusiasm he has before., looking staring at everything as thought they were things he had never laid eyes on before… foreign to him.

Logan's brows furrow deeper now, and I sigh, I didn't really mean to it just came out… irritated, of course, confused, definitely…

"I've been here before?" Alec draws his lip into his mouth and blinks at me, and I find myself beginning to wonder why in the hell I am the one having to play care giver, why I'm the one whose going to have to find the answers to this complicated puzzle that only seems to be growing more and more difficult by the second….

Oh that's right… Because I'm responsible for him, for all of them, I unleashed them on to this world… I burned down Mnticore, and all of that aside, he was on some level in some sick way a part of me….

I nod in response and Logan has since stood from his seat and is making his way closer to us… I look over at him and let my eyes tell him that something is definitely not right… Even though from the look across his face, my guess is he was already well aware of that fact…

"Alec, You know um, you said you were tired before, so why don't you go and lay down in the other room?" I try to sound at ease once more, the last thing I need is to panic the guy, he's already having a bad enough day.

Logan fallows us as I take him in the other room, and he heads to the couch, I watch him for a minute and twenty-six seconds until he is stretched out and his eyes are closed, before I turn back to Logan and signal for him to fallow me back into the front room.

It was going to be a lot easier to figure this whole thing out if I didn't have to keep repeating every other word out of my mouth.

"What's going on?" He picks now to remove his glasses and wipe them with the corner of his t-shirt something he often did when he was a bit nervous… He had many nervous habits, but this, this was by far one of my favorites, because it meant for a few seconds I would get to look into his bright blue eyes and truly see them.

"I-I'm not sure." I leaned back against one of the posts in his front entry way studying him. "That's why were here… I mean when Normal told me that he delivered the wrong packages to the wrong houses this morning… I thought that you know being Alec and all he was playing a card or two to get some free screw off time…."

I rolled my neck from side to side feeling more then a little tight in the shoulder area as I continued, "But then when I went to his place to chew him out… Something is definitely wrong with him, he's losing his mind or something… He nearly set the stove on fire… And well… You saw him, this is not Alec behavior."

"No… No it's definitely not….Do you uh, do you think this is something White cooked up?"

A chill ran down my spine at the mention of that unearthly scum bag and I was once more with the shrugging, "Could be, but he didn't mention any run ins with him, I mean granted Alec is not one with the whole caring and sharing thing, but something like that I'm sure he would bring to my attention…. "

"I guess your right… But with you two being at the top of his hit list we can't be to careful."

Here goes captain obvious again warning me about the things I already warn myself about three thousand and one times everyday, I simply nod and smile, at least its good to know he worries about me… "I know." I pick up one of the small do-dads from the shelf by his entry way and begin fiddling with it, as I mentioned before I'm not one with much patience and it was definitely being tried currently.

"Whatever this is…" I feel it's important to add, looking up from the small black object in my hands. "It's getting worse… I mean at least I think it-"

Before I can finish the last word of my thought my eyes are shifted to a figure emerging from the back room and I watch as Alec's still dazed and confused form makes it's way toward the closet door looking around puzzled as he reaches for it….

Logan and I both begin to move in his direction.

"Alec." It is actually Logan who takes the reigns this time, I dunno maybe he sensed that I was becoming overly agitated or something…

"Alec… What are you doing?" His voice is surprisingly gentler than it is most of the time when words are exchanged between the two of them… I'm not to sure why but I don't think that they like each other much….

If I had to take a guess I'm sure it would be some sort of jealousy factor.

I stop moving, standing back a little As I watch Logan reach forward and place a hand on Alec's shoulder, which to my eyes appeared to be housing a small tremble… Much like the rest of his body.

"Alec, what are you doing buddy?" He repeated his entire phrase again this time adding a buddy in there as some sort of attempt to uh comfort I guess…

"I don't live here…" Alec's reply was once more unsure as he looked up, and for the first time Logan was able to see what I had already seen quite a few times that day….

Completely disoriented, his eyes burned into Logan and then into me as he chewed on his lip..

"No…" Logan cleared his throat, "No, you don't, but you were resting here remember… resting while Max and I talked about a few things?"

It was only a few seconds, but it was far to long of a gap before Alec finally answered nodding his head slowly. "Oh…"

His head then shifted back to me and I swallowed already sensing the words he was going to say, the question he was going to ask… to which I had no answer… And I felt bad, Yes I actually felt bad… Me queen of all that is emotionless… well to the outside world anyway….

"What's happening to me?"

Ding. Ding. Ding. I knew that was coming, and there was no reply I could give, so I looked to Logan, maybe he had something, some words of wisdom….

Nope his face was just as blank as mine must have been…

Maybe, if we stood there long enough, with this whole new mental eraser thing he seemed to have going on, he would forget he even asked??????

"Why don't you just go back and lay down alright? I'm sure you're just tired…." Okay. Yeah so I knew the words were lame before they even left my mouth, but what should I have said? I'm a 20 year old genetically engineered female who was created in a lab…. Not Albert Einstein…

It was better then Logan's reply which was oh wait… Nothing… So I should at least get partial credit right?

I couldn't really tell if he bought it or not though as he stood here and looked at me for another minute, just long enough for me to think that he may have already forgotten what I just said… And then turned heading back to the sofa…

Logan and I exchanging worried glances.

"I'm calling Sam in the morning… In the mean time, maybe he… Maybe both of you should just stay here?"

Sam ah yes, good old Sam, the only doctor on the planet who was willing to help those of us blessed with barcodes on our necks…. Well the only non-evil doctor willing to help us… Maybe he would have the answers…

Then again maybe not….