Haha, I remember what it was that I had left out of Original Cindy's speech to Max…Okay well not all of it, but part. Thank god I was feeling senile.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Shut Up Alec

He turned up at her room just after seven. She'd gone up with Original Cindy to grab something and had ended up getting distracted and the girls had been sitting there bs-ing while playing with Cale's toys, partially for his benefit, but mostly for their own amusement.

He knocked briefly before opening the door, "Hey" he said with a small 'please stop being mad' smile.

Max glared.

Original Cindy smiled, "Hey boo"

And Cale scampered up to his feet with the aide of Max's hand on his back to make sure he kept his balance while moving so quickly and ran towards Logan.

She hid her smile as Logan scooped the little boy into his arms. Logan would forever be Cale's favorite person, deep within the small child she knew he knew everything Logan saved him from. It was the same with her. Logan was their protector, Logan would always love them more than anyone else ever could, deeper and truer than she'd ever even believed possible and he'd always just accept them for who they were. He was still doing it even after two years. Taking the heat sensors off the hoverdrones was for them first and everyone else second, she didn't doubt that.

"I cooked"

She continued to glare, she couldn't turn it off.

"Fettuccine with chicken and pesto."

"Oooh" OC declared standing up.

A small smile broke past Max's lips.

Logan's grin returned, "Come on. Leaving Alec and Josh alone with food is worse than leaving you with it."

She shook her head as she stood.

-

"Shut up Alec" Max said walking towards them later that night in a pair of black pants and a pink long sleeve shirt and tan gloves, hoping the tan would make the gloves less glaringly obvious to anyone who might see her on the street. A black top and cap resided in the bag slung over her back.

"What?" He raised a hand to his chest. "I didn't say anything." He turned to the girls standing next to him, "Did you hear me say anything?"

Logan laughed as he pulled a pair of gloves out of his pockets. He slung the black bag containing his laptop over his black jacket and black long sleeve black fitted shirt. She wondered for a brief moment if he was going to do something stupid like try to do anything more than stay in the van while the team went in because the black windbreakers completed his cat burglar look. But quickly pushed that thought out of her mind as she started to wonder if Logan was darker than she was, but sadly her sleeves prevented her from seeing any of her flesh to make the comparison. Then again it wasn't surprising, he got outside for hours everyday, he jogged almost every morning with Zen before coming over here. Though why someone would willingly jog in the rain was beyond her, but he did, the frequently crappy weather didn't stop him.

-

He took her hand as they started the walk, it was just a few blocks in the sewers to the van. His latex met her leather. She thought of Original Cindy's words…

"Max, Logan is the package guy."

"I'm aware of that."

"Have you seen how the females look at him here?"

"What's your point?"

"Logan doesn't even notice them. You're still the only girl that boy's got eyes for."

Max shook her head, it was her turn to treat her friend as a simpleton, "Virus designed to kill Logan in me."

"Okay granted that makes things a little difficult." She paused for a moment thinking, "Hmm I wonder if we could get Logan a full body latex suit. Just poke little holes where his nostrils are."

Max laughed a little.

"What's so funny?" Logan asked looking down.

She looked up and envisioned Logan in a giant condom, she coughed trying to stifle her laughter.

Alec looked back and laughed at Max and Logan who had stopped walking as Logan prodded, asking Max what was so funny. She just shook her head and pulled him along. He saw Cassia who had been glancing back frown, poor girl, she had to learn the hard way just like Asha, he thought and once more wondered, what the hell they all saw in Logan.

Max thanked god as Logan let her laughter slide, she couldn't think of anything to say, just the vision of Logan in a giant body condom. She frowned as she realized how Cassia kept looking back at them, they didn't train her very well, Max thought to herself and looked up to Logan to see if OC's words were true. He just looked down at her and smiled her smile. A memory hit her from a few weeks ago…

She heard a slight chuckle as she dipped Cale, she hadn't heard anyone approach. Not uncommon because of all of the noises and the constant flow of people in this building made it difficult to pinpoint a single anything. She turned mid-dance to see Logan standing in the doorway. For a moment their gazes just locked as they both smiled, a nameless to her classical piece played in the background out of an old radio.

"How is he for a partner?" he asked with a nod to Cale.

"Not half bad" she lightly nodded as she smiled.

"Hmmm" his face almost became serious as he walked towards them, "I think he might need a demonstration to really get the hang of it. Kids learn by imitating you know." He lifted Cale from her arms and walked him over to the other side of the room before returning to Max.

She hadn't had a witty comeback for him, she just stepped into his arms. They danced for a while, songs changed as did their dance. It was different than the last time they'd danced, they weren't hugging and just barely moving to the music. They stayed further apart, in proper form, Logan dipped her with the music and spun her at every opportunity the music presented, the mood was also a lot lighter this time. He was just pulling her up from a dip, her eyes glowing with happiness, a smile you couldn't wipe off her face, the blonde waves bouncing. They froze as he brought her all the way back up and stared at each other.

It was a crash that brought them back to reality and saved them from doing something stupid and Cale's loud cry after being scared by the noise saved them from having to talk about it. Logan had rushed over and scooped the young boy away from the pile of books he'd caused to fall over and soothed his tears.

She gripped his hand tighter as she walked. She'd almost forgotten in that moment as she had so many other times. Forgotten what would happen. Her feelings overpowered her thoughts and knocked the virus out of her mind.

He felt her cheek suddenly come to rest upon his arm. He looked down to her, catching just the tiniest bit of her face, the rest hidden by her hair. One of these days he thought for the thousandth time, I'm just gonna kiss her. Kiss her until the virus takes over. At least three times Bev said, probably even up to five Josh's blood'll work. He'd almost done it the day she'd said it. Told Josh to go wait outside of Max's room with everything they'd need. He didn't though, he controlled himself. Three times seemed like a lot of chances, but not if this was how they were going to spend the rest of their lives. One day though, he thought again as she sighed and held his arm closer to her.