JG: Thanks so much for your review! I do agree about what you said, a character that is too good and has no failures or conflicts in him/her is majorly annoying. I guess than to feel connected with a character we all need to see him as human, and as humans we all have our bad points, without them a character is no credible. For me Alec is great just because he has his problems and tries to solve them as good as he knows, even not always succesfully.
Chapter VI. Logan
Logan had always believed that people are how they are, not just because of their genetics and their environment, but most of all as the result of their own decisions. Fate had never been more than a word. Everyone is responsible of his own future…
…And an ugly past is not a free pass for everything…
He remembers how Max was when they first met, hidden, fearless, minding her own business… and how much she had changed since then. He likes to think he has something to do with it but most of all, it was already there, just needing something to hold on and be allowed to grow. She has become such a wonderful woman, someone any man would feel proud to have at his side.
Now Alec is more or less in the same position she once was. New to this crazy world, who has a pretty heavy past upon his shoulders. But that past doesn't give him the right to behave however he wanted and not face the consequences. He has to learn on by his own. But until then, he's like an armed weapon in kid's hands: Unpredictable and very dangerous.
He doesn't like the guy so much; nobody can deny he has his reasons for it. It has nothing to do with what Alec had been taught to be. He had learned with Max that as dangerous as all the Transgenics could be, in the end they are just people. Genetically enhanced people, but people nonetheless.
No, he just can't understand his ways, his lack of commitment, his self-centeredness. With all the guy has seen, with all he has been through… and most of all, with all his potential to do good… how could he remain uninvolved? How could he not care? Logan just couldn't understand that.
Sometimes Logan envies him a little. He wishes he could be as free as Alec is. No responsibilities, no problems to face, no duties to carry out…. Just a young guy in a world full of choices, full of possibilities. It must be wonderful to feel free to do whatever you want whenever you wanted.
Problem is Logan has never been like that. He had always been too conscious of his responsibilities. Somehow he has always been older than his age. Never gave himself the chance of behave carelessly, always taking the weight of the world upon his shoulders. Life would be so different for him without his sense of duty. Max sometimes, even now, doesn't understand his commitment. But he has no choice. There's nobody else who would do what he's been doing, and someone has to do it if all them want to have a future.