Chapter Fourteen

Friendship

Setting the Scene:

Okay it's two days later, this is the secure entry point I talked about in the last chapter, it's an enclosed property full of warehouses. The guards are SW1, which is how they have access to it…Max and Alec along with other transgenics have come to bring the supplies back to Terminal City.

Okay there's a slightly in the story character of Zen, which I talked about in the last chapter, just think suffer dude like I said in the last chapter. He's around Alec's height, blue eyes, blonde wavey hair, longer than Alec and Logan's. He's the X-5 Logan spends the most time with, he's in charge of keeping Logan safe. So he's wherever Logan is, he lives at Sandeman's house with Logan and accompanies him to and from TC.

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"Jesus" Alec said in disbelief as they walked into the warehouse, "I don't believe this guy."

Logan was sitting on an abandoned desk as Cassia, a brunette X-5 with deep green eyes admired Logan's shirtless torso; Asha was placing a gauze pad on Logan's upper arm.

Max didn't even laugh at Alec's jealousy over Logan's ability to have females fawn over him, she was more worried about why Asha was applying a gauze pad to Logan's arm, "What happened?"

Logan laughed and turned, "Don't worry I'm fine."

"The boys were being boys." Asha said rolling her eyes, taping the pad on.

Zen came walking into the warehouse from the opposite door, "Logan had to go and land on the only piece of glass."

"I didn't land I was tackled onto that piece of glass thank you very much." Logan said defending his ego.

Cassia shook her head, "The entire place is littered with debris and these two decide they want to throw around the football."

"How'd you get tackled just throwing around the football?" Max questioned

"They got two of the guards involved, so it turned into a real game" Asha sighed stepping back from Logan, "You're all done."

He smiled, "Thanks." He slid back on the tan ribbed turtleneck, just barely wincing at the pain of moving his arm.

Max and Alec both shook their heads, though for very different reasons, Max followed hers with a sigh and said "Okay let's get these supplies moved."

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Logan and Asha stayed back talking as the supplies were taken from the vans and lowered down to the waiting transhumans as Max had ordered them to do so.

"We're all done" Max said approaching Logan and Asha who were going over a file together.

"That was quick" Asha looked up in shock

"Designed for speed as well as beauty" Alec said approaching

Max shook her head, she was going to tape his mouth shut one of these days.

"I'm gonna go start the group off. I'll see you guys back at TC. You take care Asha." he said with a nod of his head and turned.

"I should…" Max began, wanting to make her own escape.

"Wait" Logan said standing. He turned to "Asha, you're good to take the van back on your own?"

She nodded "And Luis is going to take the other one when he gets off work" she said speaking of Logan's teammate from earlier that afternoon.

"Thanks for all your help" Max finally remembered her manners where the blonde was concerned.

"Not a problem like I told Logan earlier. I'm glad to help." She glanced from Logan to Max quickly, "I should be going. You guys have a good walk back."

"The sewers are lovely this time of year aren't they Max" Logan said with a smile.

She returned one in kind.

"I'll talk to you later and I'll get that information for you." Logan said

"Thanks," she said with a smile, "Bye"

"Bye" they both replied

They watched as Asha pulled the van out of the warehouse. Max turned to Logan once she knew they were alone again. "Why'd you want me to wait?"

"When was the last time we spent any time together?"

"You mean not work related?"

He nodded

She knew exactly when, it had been over a month ago, "It's been a while."

"Walk back with me, catch me up with what's going on?" He said with a smile as he slung his bag across his back.

"You just wanted to get out of helping to pull a sleigh didn't you?" she teased

He laughed, "Luckily the menial labor I get to avoid because I'm an ordinary, I was trying to save you from it though. They should already be a decent ways down. So what do you say? Walk with me?" he extended a gloved hand.

She nodded and took his hand with her own gloved hand.

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They walked in silence for awhile, both of them just enjoying the other's company, the noise of those ahead of them just barely audible.

"So how are they doing?" she broke the silence and glanced down at his legs.

He smiled, "I'm still vertical. Just trying to enjoy them while I have them."

She smiled "Try to freeze off your toes again in the water?"

He smiled and looked like he was going to stop for a moment, but then shook his head, "You know I told Bling the easiest way to ruin a friendship was to try to make it something more."

She turned and looked at him confused.

He laughed, "That day, before you had to go save Zack?"

She nodded and dropped her head, "I told Original Cindy the same thing." she gave a small laugh, "As I was shaving my legs." The memory was almost comical now, when she didn't think too hard about it that is.

He shook his head, he knew what that meant, "You mean those twenty minutes I spent trying to fix the front of my hair perfect actually had a point."

She turned and laughed, "You actually adjust that mop and not just run gel through it."

He joined in her laughter, they had both been so silly, "Hey it's not always gel, sometimes it's a pomade or a wax, we don't really have gel weather, but no normally I don't."

"I thought you were going to kiss me when we were on the beach." her voice grew soft as she remembered

He let out a slow, slightly pained laugh, "I was trying to remember how to breathe as I looked at you. Tried to remember we were just friends."

"We should have skipped listening to everyone. We probably could have avoided all that drama this year."

"Either that or listened to them earlier. At least it's only taken us 8 months this time to figure things out."

She stopped, came to a dead halt in the darkened sewer, he turned to look at her, "What have we figured out Logan?" she asked.

"We're friends, above and beyond anything else we're friends and that matters more than jealousy or anger." He paused for a moment and just looked her, "I want you to be happy."

"I want the same for you."

He smiled, "I know"

-

"Okay this kid's fussy and I don't know why" Alec said walking over to them the moment they walked through the doors to the main room. He dropped the baby down into Logan's arms and walked away, his patience had already been tried by seeing every female in a 3 mile radius gushing over Logan, then walking back with people who made Joshua seem like he had good hygiene and manners.

"Lo" the baby said crying into his shirt.

"Oh" he said rubbing the baby's back, "Hey we're sorry…Did we all leave you alone?" He bounced the baby in his arms trying to soothe him, it wasn't working. He shifted the baby outward so he could see Max, "Look, look we're all here, we didn't leave you."

"Mac" the baby cried, but remained attached to Logan's shirt.

Max tried to hide her shock, "Hey little guy," she said rubbing his back, "it's okay, we're here."

Logan laughed slightly at her, had she really thought he hadn't known she spent as much time with Cale as he did? "Your scent lingers and he says your name" he said the two most obvious things with a nod.

Max couldn't help but laugh, how was she running a city?

Author's Note:

Okay since this story seems to be the least liked (as in it appears to being only read by one person for more than a few chapters), I'm just gonna put it at a lower posting frequency than the other stories. It will still be finished, this story actually has an outline, so I can't ever forget where I was going with it, as I have done with other stories.

If you're reading this and you're not okay with it being posted on a much less regular and frequent basis then please reply and I'm sorry Babyangel, my one reader, but I promise you I will finish this story.