It had been 10 months since Max had burned Manticore to the ground and apart from Alec being here with her, she felt as if she had never left.

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Max got home from a long day's work to find Logan sitting on her doorstep.

"Logan what on the earth are you doing here?" she quizzed him. She kicked him lightly on the leg when he didn't reply.

He grumbled for a minute and then opened his eyes to find a rather pissed off Max gazing down at him.

"Oh hey Max, what you doing here?" he mumbled, forgetting where he was.

"Uh...hello Logan, you're the one sitting on my doorstep." she said sarcastically.

"Oh yeah sorry I must have fallen asleep."

"Well...?" Max snapped at him, getting a bit annoyed, as he hadn't yet explained why he was asleep on her doorstep.

"Oh can I talk to you for a minute...alone?" He asked, eyeing the person behind her.

"Logan we are alone, and if you don't mind I would like to have a shower alone, so can you hurry up and just talk...please" she added please on trying not sound too much like a bitch. She was just in a bad mood and she shouldn't take it out on Logan, no matter how annoying he was being.

"Hey Maxie, I know you haven't been in such a nice mood to me lately put pretending I'm invisible is a new low, even for you," Alec whispered into her ear making her jump. She snapped round hitting him hard on the shoulder, making him stumble backwards. She must have been really pissed off not to her Alec creeping up on her.

Logan cleared his throat trying to get Max's attention.

"Oh yeah Logan what's this about, I'm really not in the mood at the moment for tiptoeing around anything." she turned back around to face him.

"Well I need you to do something for Eyes Only."

"What is it this time, cause I'm too tired to do anything tonight." she replied back while opening the door.

"Well I think that you might enjoy half of the mission anyway, but it's about M.A.N.T.I.C.O.R.E." he spelt Manticore out letter-by-letter, which really got on Alec nerves. It was almost a game with Logan and Alec now, of who could annoy each other the most.

"Come in then," she pushed the door open for Logan to walk inside. She followed Logan in a slammed the door shut behind her smacking into Alec face.

"OW! God Max what the hell are you doing" Alec clutched hold of his now bloody nose feeling for any breaks. The door slowly began to open with Max standing with the biggest grin on her face.

"Pay back for creeping up on me pretty boy, now come here before you get blood on my carpet." She grabbed ahold of his hand and led him into the kitchen. She didn't know what it was, but she felt like some one had given her a tiny electric shock when she felt Alec's fingers intertwine with her own. She pushed the feeling to the back of her mind as she wiped Alec's bloody nose with a damp towel. Gazing into his beautiful hazel green eyes she felt the strange feeling again, she started to like this new feeling she had discovered so she just stayed there staring into those big emotional eyes of his.

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Some time had past and she had finished cleaning Alec's nose up and with all her might dragged her eyes away from the killer stare they had going with each other so she could figure out what Logan had been rambling about for the past 20 minutes. Alec noticed she didn't have a clue so he decided to debrief her in secret so she didn't get in Log Boy's bad books for not listening.

"So you want us to break into a warehouse where you think Manticore has been keeping its plans to its new creation, which let me get this straight is a soldier that can tell the future. Not only that, I may add, but it's all the way in Ohio, so I would have to spend a week in a hotel with Max." Alec said looking at Max as if he was talking to her.

"Yes that about sums it up, do you think you can get time of work?" Logan asked looking towards a blank faced Max.

"I don't now about you but it sure as hell sounds like a great week away." Alec was now looking at Max for her approval too.

"Yeah sure. I just gotta tell OC to think of something up that will clear both of us for a week." Max replied putting a smile on her face. She didn't know what was wrong with her if you would have asked her a week ago to spend a week in a hotel room with Alec, of all people, she would have laughed. But for some reason now she felt as if she couldn't wait.

"That's just the thing Max it's going to take you about 3 days to get there in a car, so that's already 6 days for there and back, then you need at least 4 days of observation, then the actual night to pull it off." Logan was not at all happy about Max spending 11 nights and 12 days alone with Alec.

Alec braced himself for one of Max's big hissy fits about having to spend a grand totally of 12 days alone with him, which is probably why he got the biggest shock of all when she simply replied by...

"Okay sure, but I'm going to have to think up a real good excuse for both of us to be gone for almost 2 weeks." She shrugged and walked into the bathroom.

"Hey Logan just can let yourself out I'm gonna have a shower, Alec will you stay here with me so after we can talk about how we're going to pull it off." She shouted from the bathroom, turning the shower on and started to strip off her clothes. Alec couldn't help but look at Logan face it was full of confusion, disgust and hatred. The last two were probably aimed at him though. He didn't even bother to say goodbye or anything he just waltzed out the door full speed. Alec couldn't help but laugh at the situation, Max had just practically thrown Log Boy out of her apartment while telling him to stay, that would certainly add marks to his side of the 'who can annoy who the most' game.

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