Take care of her? Take care of Max? Had Logan been drinking or something? Well, he might have been… he *was* banging his foot against a piece of wood….Since when did Max ever needed taking care of? The guy really didn’t understand her at all, he never would. Alec sighed and leaned back into the chair. He was in Terminal City, trying to figure out a way to get back to his apartment without getting picked up by sector police. How had they found Biggs anyway? Biggs was so much smarter than them…
“Hey Alec?” Max asked coming up beside him. “How are you doing?” she looked at him closely. Losing Biggs had been tough on him, and asking him to lie to Logan hadn’t helped either.
“hey!” Alec said, looking up at Max, “I’m always good!”
Max looked back at him. Liar. “I-I was just checking…” she said turning to walk away. Alec caught hold of her arm and stopped her.
“Hey, since we’re together, don’t I even get a comforting hug or something?” he said, grinning.
“Have I told you what a huge jerk you are?”
Alec looked at his watch, “Not in the last… 15 minutes! Your getting good at this!”
“Max! Alec! We got trouble, sector 3, police in pursuit of an unidentified transgenic!” a voice called from in front of the computers.
“Not again…” Alec said.
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“Hurry!” Max yelled to Alec as he grabbed the young girl and put her on his bike. Max ploughed her way through two sector cops and Alec followed her… straight into a dead end.
“You think a messenger would know the streets a little better!” he said.
“Shut up Alec…. Are you ok?” she asked the girl that was sprawled on the back of Alec’s bike. She nodded quickly. “Good.” Max looked around, any moment sector cops would come pouring into the alley. She got off her bike and walked over to a manhole.
“No way! What is with you and sewers? Do you have some sort of a sewer fetish? What about my bike?”
“Ditch the bike!”
Alec had a look of horror on his face, “ditch the bike…?”
“Fine! Stay here, and let White haul your ass away!” Max yelled angrily, taking the girl off the bike and leading her down into the sewer.
“Fine!” Alec said, leaning back against his bike. A few moments later Max popped her head out of the sewer.
“Alec! You idiot, come down here now or else I’m going to… Alec?” she looked around, where was he? Her heart raced with fear.
“Just wanted to know if you’d come back for me... It’s nice to be loved.” Alec said, coming up behind Max.
“Your such a—”
“I know, I know, I’m a huge jerk.”
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“How was I supposed to know this part of the sewer system was blocked off?!” Max said to Alec who was glaring at her. “We’ll just wait a little while till the coast is clear and then make a move.” She turned to the young girl, “So what are you? You don’t look like X-Series…?” she was about seventeen and had long dark hair and light blue eyes.
“I’m not an X-series…my name is Viola,” she said uncomfortably.
“Stop harassing the poor girl, Max!” Alec said, turning to smile at Viola. “She’s just angry at the world… ignore her.”
“You know I’m this close to punching you,” Max warned.
“Go ahead! I bet Logan would love to know how you beat up your boyfriends.” He taunted.
“You have no idea what it’s like to be me! I had such crap handed to me, and I’ve had to make all these choices—”
“oh yeah, ‘hmm I wonder if Logan will like me in the black cat suit or the brown one?’ Please, Max! You have no idea what I have to go through every day—”
“Oh, sure, ‘hmm, maybe if I tell Normal I have a fight he’ll let me off work early so I can go look at myself in the mirror just one more time’ you’re the one who has it easy, Alec!”
“I bet you couldn’t last a week in my shoes!”
“Oh yeah? Well you couldn’t last a day in my shoes!”
Viola got up and held both Max and Alec’s hands.
“Done.”
