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Timeline: Post ""Female Trouble""

One reason

She is trying to kill me, look at her, she��s absolutely gorgeous, and the way she dresses, what am I going to do? Logan thought as he saw Max return from her latest job for Logan, clad in the same skin-tight cat suit and leather vest as always.

She��s the reason you never took that gun out again after she left, you saw her eyes when she saw you were alright, you couldn��t stand to do that to her, you care too much. Logan thought as Max spoke.

""Here��s the information you needed, you probably want to get this off right away, so I��m going to take a shower and meet the girls at Crash."" Max said as she plopped a file folder onto Logan��s lap then turned off towards his bathroom.

""Thanks Max, I��ll pay you back in full on this one, I think I may be close to nailing down one of your siblings."" Logan called back as the bathroom door closed.

She��s going to kill me the way she dresses, every curve of her body defined, her full high breasts in perfect view, her shapely legs, so what have I got besides a metal chair? She cares about you, that much is obvious by the way she acted when she saw you, she must have read my psych evaluation in my med file. She��s the one reason I haven��t blown my damn brains out, the only reason, but she��s enough. I swear to fucking god, I will get out of this chair for no other reason than to sweep Max into my arms and take her off to some romantic restaurant, go dancing, and tell her how I feel about her.

Logan thought as he read through the file, routine stuff, the District Attorney��s office being paid off to do a sloppy job on an upcoming inquest into police actions last month during a demonstration.

If she��s the one reason that I haven��t killed myself, what the hell am I going to do about it? I can��t come onto her in the state I��m in, I��m a half-man to the most beautiful and talented woman I��ve ever met, how the hell do I measure up? Until I am walking again, nothing doing, it just couldn��t work, but for now, she��s my one reason for going on, for being Eyes Only, for staying alive.

Max thought as she washed herself off in the shower.

I want him, those eyes of his, I swear I would lose myself in him and fall right into his lap if I ever held a gaze with him for a minute. The scruff, it��s cute, the whole I��m the most powerful man in Seattle yet I can��t shave look, its just very cute. The fact that he cares so much about people he never meets, the fact that he cares about you, that��s what draws you too him, you not giving a damn about anyone till he came along. He��s so weak now, he��s back in that damn chair, it��s your fault and you know it, had you been protecting that kid, had you not been so damn selfish when Logan first approached you, Logan might still be walking. He was so full of hope, you were to when the blood donation started to work, then he lost it again, damn Manticore genetics! Max thought as she punched the wall, not coring through, although she was more than capable of thanks to Manticore power.

The one reason you��re still in Seattle, you��re still not sure what you feel for this guy, you had better decide soon though, he won��t wait forever to find meaning. The question is, how do I do it? I can��t just come up on him, tell him what I feel, and we start screwing, it��s different between the two of us, our lives are so separate. What the hell am I talking about, I��ve risked Logan��s life enough with letting him broadcast that warning to my family, just being near him puts him at risk. I know it hurts him to send me out on those jobs of his, the risk that I might get hurt, even though I��m the one who always deals the hurt out. The one reason you��re still in Seattle, two rooms away, what the hell do you do about it, will you ever confess to him that you want him?

Max thought as she stepped out of the shower and changed into some clothes

she kept at Logan��s place for when she needed to change after a job.

He��s the one reason I��m in Seattle, I may be the one reason he put away that gun, maybe one day we can make something of it, maybe if he ever starts walking again.

*******

She��s out of the shower, the most gorgeous and intelligent woman I ever met, in my apartment, but completely out of reach, what the hell did I do to deserve this?

Logan thought as he prepared his broadcast.

The second I am out of this damn chair again, I am going to tell her, I will tell her how I feel about her, and that will be it, I will have said it. The one reason I live, is the one reason that drives me to get out of the chair, and do what I do, I love her, but I can��t tell her now.

Logan said as he prepared to launch the hack, and took off his glasses whilst he aimed his camera and tested the distorting effects on his voice and face.

*******

He deserves a break, but he would never think he deserves me in the state that he��s in, poor guy, he��d think I was taking pity on him, and push me away. That��s it, I can��t stand to see him shove that chair around alone, spending his nights alone anymore, we can��t be in a loving relationship, I can at least try and be a better friend. Max thought as she listened to Logan finish his broadcast, and shut off his equipment.

""Thought you were heading off to Crash."" Logan said as he saw Max in the doorframe.

""Plans changed, Kendra��s out with Walter again, Original Cindy got her own little entertainment, thought I��d kick it with you."" Max replied.

I know she��s lying her ass off, but I don��t give a shit, she��s willing to be with me rather than hang out with the girls, that��s a good omen Cale, take it.

""How charitable of you, is it possible I��m rubbing off on you?"" Logan asked with a slight smile.

""The way Normal rubs off on the Jam Pony peeps, I just thought that since I have no one else to kick it with I��d stay here, but if you want me to leave��"" Max said turning away yea right, I can tell he knows I��m lying, but I know he wants me to stay.

""That��s not what I meant, stay, I��ll dig up a pre-pulse DVD for us."" Logan said as he wheeled towards a cabinet.

""Sounds good, I��ll get some popcorn going."" Max said turning towards the kitchen.

""Ok, I��ll set it up, does Gladiator sound good?"" Logan called out from his search through the DVDs.

""Sounds good, just give me a few minutes to get it popping."" Max replied from the kitchen as she shook the pot of popcorn around on the stove.

After Max had finished making the popcorn, and Logan had set up the DVD in his DVD player and Digital television, for the perfect effects of a DVD, the two friends sat down on the couch and the movie began.

As they watched the movie, the two unwittingly and slowly joined each other on one side of the couch, not noticing until it was too late, and too embarrassed to move, Max had her head on Logan��s shoulder, her body lying across the rest of the couch, Logan��s right arm rested on her.

The one reason I��m here, maybe things aren��t so hopeless, we��ll see. The two thought as the movie played out.

Okay, that��s something I tossed out to you shippers again, I think I��m getting a good insight into their mind frames, which is why a lot of this is them thinking, I hope you liked this, because my main work will be on top priority soon, which means no more short shipper stuff, sorry!