Title: The Shifter.

Summary: Max is kidnapped by a Manticore shapeshifter who begins to take over her life.

Disclaimer: Dark Angel and its charactersdo not belong to me they beong to FOX and James Cameron. This story is purely for entertainment purposes and not for profit of the author.

Author: Seza.

Chapter One.

Alec had already left her upon the building looking out to the city in ruins. He had tried some smart-alec comments to make her feel better but it hadn't worked. Getting over Logan wouldn't be easy but it was something that she had to do otherwise he would wind up dead. It was hard to believe that after all this time that she had finally said what needed to be said she had made him jealous and that was all it had really taken. Still she knew that Logan would not take it as easily he would continue to push it not just moving on. But she had to be the strong one she had to move on for both of them. She had decided not to tell Alec what had happened at Logan's he didn't need to know he was completely oblivious most of the time so he wouldn't notice anything different. She was broken out of her daydream by the ring of her cell phone (a present from Alec, God only knew where he had got it from.)

"Hello?"

"Hey Max it's me Alec. Look I've got something really important to show you it's you know Manticore related."

"It better be good news Alec I don't think I could really handle anymore bad news after tonight."

"Well no it's not exactly good news but it could be useful against White"

"If it helps against White then it's got to be good news."

"Anyway I think you should come right now. I'm at my apartment right now."

"Okay I'll be there in about half an hour." She hung up the phone. She had discovered a bit of info about White but more would defiantly help. It was strange that when she was in trouble Alec was always there to help her out, or annoy her at least he was trying. She climbed down the building, hopped on her motorbike and sped off towards Alec's.

She arrived and walked towards the door it was strangely quiet, normally you could hear the T.V blaring away. Alec had managed to be able to blend into the city he tried to be as normal as possible and he was better at it then Max. Maybe it was all that Manticore training she had missed out on. But it was dead quiet inside. She knocked on the door.

"It's open" Alec shouted. Max turned the doorknob and walked inside. It was pitch black inside a normal person could not have seen anything, but she could make out faint outlines of the kitchen.

"Alec have you gone and done something stupid again?" There was no answer. She began to make her way towards the front room, she was unaware of Alec standing behind her, and he was holding a metal pipe. He struck her hard in the back of the head; she fell to the floor quickly.

"Got you 452"

A/N: very short i know but i have changed the format to shorter chapters and have edited the speech so it is clearer than the previous edition.