Limit number of pages in pagination

I’ve got a pagination function here, modified slightly from the original, but I was wondering how I would go about only showing two pages of pagination?

function pop_pagination($pages = '', $range = 2) {
	$showitems = ($range * 2)+1;  

	global $paged;
	if(empty($paged)) $paged = 1;

	if($pages == '')
	{
		global $wp_query;
		$pages = $wp_query->max_num_pages;
		if(!$pages)
		{
			$pages = 1;
		}
	}   

	if(1 != $pages)
	{
		echo "<ul id='pagination'>";
		if($paged > 2 && $paged > $range+1 && $showitems < $pages) echo "<li><a href='".get_pagenum_link(1)."'>&laquo;</a></li>";
		if($paged > 1 && $showitems < $pages) echo "<li><a href='".get_pagenum_link($paged - 1)."'>&lsaquo;</a></li>";

		for ($i=1; $i <= $pages; $i++)
		{
			if (1 != $pages &&( !($i >= $paged+$range+1 || $i <= $paged-$range-1) || $pages <= $showitems ))
			{
				echo ($paged == $i)? "<li class='active'>".$i."</li>":"<li><a href='".get_pagenum_link($i)."' class='inactive' >".$i."</a></li>";
			}
		}

		if ($paged < $pages && $showitems < $pages) echo "<li><a href='".get_pagenum_link($paged + 1)."'>&rsaquo;</a></li>";
		if ($paged < $pages-1 &&  $paged+$range-1 < $pages && $showitems < $pages) echo "<li><a href='".get_pagenum_link($pages)."'>&raquo;</a></li>";
		echo "</ul>\n";
	}
}

My query args are as follows:

$args = array(
      'cat' => 2,
      'posts_per_page' => 6,
      'paged' => $paged,
      'orderby' => 'date',
      'order' => 'DESC'
      );
    query_posts( $args );

Is there a way to query 6 posts per page with a total of 12 posts?

Thank you.