CHAPTER: Chit, Chat.



Alec looked at his watch for the millionth time. Max hadn't returned yet and his clone was there was sleeping like a log. He was bored stiff. He began tap his fingers on kitchen counter. He started to hum a song himself.

Ben got up from his sleep and looked around. He remembered where he was. He got up and went to out side. He saw someone in the kitchen. " Who are you?"

Alec turned around at the voice that was similar to his own. He had finally woken up. It was like looking in a mirror. " Ben right?"

He nodded. " Alec right?"

Alec nodded. He didn't seem dangerous form where he was standing. Then again looks could be deceiving. " So you're the reason I was sent to psy ops on various occasions." Fist he was sent there in 09 when they escaped and then again when he went on his killing spree.

" Sorry." He could imagine how bad it was. They had always been afraid of what they did in those rooms. " Where's Max?" he walked to the couch and sat down.

" She went to the store to buy something but that was like an hour ago." Alec looked at him for any strange movements. There was none so far. " When I first met Max she thought I was you."

" She just thought I was you."

" So she yelled at you and said you were a jerk." He could imagine her yelling in poor guys face. She would have sent him over the edge.

" No, she took me to see Joshua."

" Oh so you met our canine friend."

" He sniffed me."

" He tends to do that." So far Ben wasn't so bad. He would have never guessed he was a serial killer.

" Are you and Max together?"

Alec noticed the flaw. He was like the last dead brother that turned out to be alive; he had a thing for Max. " No, we have a complicated friendship. However if you meet someone called Logan as far as you know Max and I are together."

Max kind of gave Ben the impression that she and Alec were together. She talked about him like she liked him a lot. " Do you live here?"

" No, I have an apartment, a much nicer one than this actually. Max and OC live here."

" OC?"

" Her homosexual best friend. She's cool."

All thins information was making his head hurt. He was talking to a guy with his face who knew more about Max than he did. " How long have you known Max?"

" I've known her for about a year or so."

" You must be really close."

" No, not really." Why was this guy so quick to believe that he and Max were together? Maybe he wanted a reason to kill him.

Max walked trough the door with a brown paper bag. She saw that Ben had gotten up. She hoped Alec wasn't bothering him too much. " Hey."

Ben smiled lightly.

" I see you met Alec."

" Yeah."

Alec noticed a light in his eyes when he talked to Max. He saw that Max had the same thing when she talked to him. It was cute. He didn't know if it was a brother and sister cute of something else.

Max began to unpack what she had bought for him. " You want anything to eat?"

Alec put his hand on his stomach." Yeah, I'm hungry."

" I was talking to Ben. If you want food go home."

Alec put his lips into a pout. " You had me waiting here for you with an empty fridge. Now you come back and you tell me I can't have any food."

Ben laughed at Alec. For someone who just got out of Manticore he was a little wild. His clone was nothing like him. He could now tell why he and Max weren't together; he probably drove her nuts. " I'm not hungry anymore Max. But Alec is."

" It's nice to see someone cares about my health."

Max rolled her eyes. They were ganging up against her already. " Okay you can take something but you'll make it your self."

" That's okay. I must have these hands some reason right."

Ben could tell that he'd enjoy having him as a brother. He was funny.

OC walked in her apartment and saw three people in there. There was Max, there was Alec then there was Alec. She played that back in her mind. There were two people who looked like Alec. If she knew being friends with a transgenic would be this confusing she would have stock up on aspirin. " Okay someone tell me which one is Alec and who's the other guy."

" I'm Alec," Alec said with his mouth filled with bread. " And that's my clone."

" You're my clone. I came first."

" Okay, so do you have a name?" OC asked him.

" Ben."

"Okay, nice to meet you Ben." Cindy put her hand on her head and walked in her room and put her hand on her head. It was too much to handle.

" That was OC," Alec pointed out. Ben nodded like he was taking a mental note of everything.

Max laughed. She was glad that she never told OC about Ben. It would just cause unwanted explanations. However she knew she would have a hard time explaining it to Logan. He would want a million and one explanations; he'd maybe want to send Ben for psychiatric evaluation. She couldn't let Logan know about Ben.



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