TITLE: New Perspective

AUTHOR: Sarge

E-MAIL: sarge2525@hotmail.com 

RATING: pg-13

SUMMARY: Logan once more asks Max to help him, but this time she has a common interest
in the problem.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters. James Cameron, and the other guy who's name
I sadly can't remember do. As well as Fox.


Two weeks Later

Max was just heading home from work when her pager suddenly went off and she was
forced to find a safe place to stop for awhile where her bike wouldn't get ripped off while
she made a phone call. Once a phone was found and she could leave her bike two feet
away without any problems she dialed Logan and waited to hear whatever it was he had
paged her about.

"Hello?" Logan's voice came from the other end of the line. Max took awhile to respond
because she realized with some level of alarm that she had missed him, "Hello?"

"It's me," Max answered, "You paged me what's happening?"

"Come by my place I've got information for you." Logan told her.

"I'll be there in an hour." Max answered hanging up the phone before hanging up the phone.
There was no way that she was biking all the way over there. She was going home and
getting her motorcycle first.

When Max finally left home and headed to Logan's she noticed an abundance of hover
drones heading the other direction. That was one stupid moron to attract so much
attention. No wonder Logan wasn't interested in whoever it was, they would have been to
easy. Then again for her almost everything was to easy.

Max parked her motorcycle and waited at the bottom for a few minutes thinking. Was this a
good thing that she was going to Logan about this, I mean she really should have taken it
to the other guy. He at least seemed to know what he was doing in between not finding
anything. Well, actually he had no clue what he was doing with her case, but he knew
about lost dogs and stuff. No dice there. Max was being stupid. Max headed up the many
stairs and when she reached the top she walked in to find Logan sitting right there glaring
at the door.

"It's been an hour and half and it's all over the news that they have some dark haired
female in custody for the murder of Dr. Poodle."

"To bad for the girl." Max answered, "However Lydecker will know it's not her as soon as he
see's her neck so there is no reason to keep her. She'll be fine. Please tell me that isn't
what you paged me for."

"The picture, it's of Zach from when he was arrested way back when he was nine or ten."
Logan told her, "The doctor had to look him over because it was quite the fight to keep him
for the four hours. He noticed something about Zach and had the picture taken to remind
him."

"You mean before Zach got out the Dr. already knew something was up with and took the
picture to try and ID him." Max surmised, "I see. So what did Dr. Poodle know about
Manticore after that?"

"That's not really why he kept the picture." Logan told her, "He guessed that were there
was one there were many. It's a good thing you killed him Max because he is another
actively hunting your kind. He thinks you can help people. He falls into the science
experiment category." 

"So he doesn't know what happened to Zach?" Max demanded. "Did he know anything other
then there were these kids with barecodes on their necks running around that he wanted to
test?"

"Not that I can find Max." Logan told her. "Acording to his files which I ever so kindly
hacked the only one he ever had contact with was Zach, and he didn't even know his real
name."

"We are good at giving fake one's. No name that anyone can track us by." Max informed
him, "Zach left because of him."

"What are you talking about?" Logan asked her.

"Zach when he broke out he left the state, because he knew about Dr. Poodle. We are good
at picking up on things that can be dangerous. He's proabably never used Zach in anything
he's done unless he's found some of the others."

"So is Max your real name?" Logan asked her.

"Does it matter?" Max asked him. "It's the name I answer to, but yes it's what the others
would call me."

Max noticed that Logan while giving her the information hadn't done anything
charactirstically annoying in the last few mintues they had been talking. Other then the
slight repremand about making him worry about the police having caught her. That was very
unusal. Sure she didn't know Logan that well, but she liked to think she knew him well
enough to know that something was wrong.

"So you used your real name, but Zach hasn't?" Logan asked. "Would any of the others
have used their names?"

"I don't know," Max answered, "It depends. Some of them maybe. I did. I can only asume
what the others chose to do."

"I'll keep that in mind with my search. The doctor never told anyone why he had that
picture. He just said it was from someone he had helped once. So no one will link it really."

"What's wrong?" Max asked suddenly, "Don't lie Logan I can tell your not happy about
something."

"I hear you had a run in with Lydeckers crew." Logan answered. "It made me realize how
much I miss not being able to move around."

"Logan trust me I don't think you wanted to jump onto a two story fire escape to try and
get free. Not to mention jump down two buildings over and head for cover."

"See that's exactly one of the reasons I chose this job." Logan told her, "To help people,
and that meant getting them places and going to talk to people that can help me directly.
Now I call them on the phone and for anything big I have to send you, and in order to that
I have to con you into it."

"Logan I promise that someday you can come and help me do whatever it is you want me
to do." Max told him, "You just have to get over hights first, and on that track may I
mention that having a 20 story apartment building isn't all that conductive to a fear of
hights?"

"I just stay away from windows. What is your obbsession with hights?" Logan asked her
smirking, "First you leap from tall buildings and then you leap into. What's up with that?"

"Hey, I lept from a two story building to get away from Lydecker. Guess small thinkgs get
larger." Max told him. "Don't worry Logan you'll get through this, and go back to being your
annoying self all over again."

Max headed out the door if Logan needed her help he'd page her, and she might actually
help him, but right now she had to think again. Why in the world was she doing this. 

When Max got to the space needle she sat down and looked out at the city. It had
happened. She had to admite it now. She cared. If Logan died she would be upset. If Logan
stopped asking for help she would get upset. She had most likely just signed what would
turn out to be her death warrent. All Lydecker had to do is steak out Logan's apartment.
She'd find herself there eventually. Ok, so Max cared about Logan. Did that really mean
anything other then she didn't want him to die? Most likely not right now at least. Then
again it hadn't been that bad pretending to be his girlfriend. Sure he was annoying at times
with his we have to save humanity thing, but hey it worked out ok in the end because it
always brought her closer to the others and they had to be her real goal, because in the
end it didn't matter what she thought of Logan. In the end her and the others were just a
science project that had gone wrong.