Alphabetically In Love

Alphabetically In Love

Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel, or the song I Would do Anything for Love; they are owned by James Cameron and Meat Loaf respectively. The prompts are also not mine.

This is in response to Nickeldime17's Alphabet Challenge, mine will be nowhere near as good as hers, but I'm going to inflict them on the masses anyway, because that's how I roll.

AN: I'm very sorry for this first one; it was spawned by a twisted sense of humor, and an unhealthy obsession with classic rock. Go to /lyrics/meatloaflyrics3381/batoutofhelliibackintohelllyrics10586/iddoanythingforlovebutiwontdothatlyrics122587.html for the lyrics.

AN2: Anything K+; Brick K+

Anything:

Alec looked down at Max's sleeping form,

"I love you Maxie, and I'd do anything for you."

"Anything?" Alec grinned at Max's not so sleeping form,

"Anything," he affirmed. Alec's grin slipped away and his handsome face became serious as he continued. "Some nights you're breathing fire, some nights you're carved in ice, and some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before, or will see again Max.

"Alec, I think maybe you're crazy," Max said, attempting to lighten their conversation. Max wasn't comfortable with the all the lovey-dovey talks. She'd never been good at this part of relationships, and until recently she would have been willing to bet her Ninja that Alec wasn't either. Who knew hot-boy had an inner poet? She huffed to herself.

Alec however, was not going to be so easily deterred; he and Max had been going at it in one form or another since that first day when he walked into her cell at Mantacore. It was only in the last few weeks that their arguments had ended with her screaming his name in

bed rather than him crying "uncle" in the workout room; and now that he had her undivided attention he wasn't about to let her turn this into a joke. Something briefly flashed through his mind about pots and kettles but he dismissed the thought as swiftly as it had come.

"Maybe it is crazy Maxie, but it's true, I would do anything for you." Max started to get up but a vice-like grip on her arm stopped her. "Why won't you believe me Max?"

There it was, the million dollar question, what was it that was stopping her from committing to Alec as strongly as he had committed to her?

"After a while you'll forget everything you just said," she looked up into hazel depths. "You'll wake-up one morning and find that this was just a brief interlude, a siege induced fling. One day I'll roll over and you won't be there, you'll have moved on."

"I won't do that Maxie"

She couldn't hear him. Max had opened the flood gates, and there was no way she was going to close them now; she'd finally found the courage to speak and all her fears regarding their new relationship were pouring out.

"I know you Alec, I've seen it before; this territory has been mapped by every broken hearted female on the west coast!"

"What the hell are you talking about Max!?"

"I'm talking about this Alec," she cried gesturing between the two on them. "All your promises will turn to dust, and TC, Joshua, me, we'll all come tumbling down when you leave," she was close to tears now, but even Max'd be hard pressed to tell you if they were from sorrow, fear, or anger. "Even if you do stay for Josh and TC, even if you mean everything you've said; sooner or later you'll just end up screwing around, and I can't take that."

"I won't do that Max!" Alec was officially pissed; try to tell a girl how much she means to you and all of a sudden you're an irresponsible hump who'll leave the first time something shiny and new crosses your path. Women! No, not women, Max! Only Max could take a declaration of love and turn it into an accusation of inconsistency, and infidelity.

Max was tired, her less then tactful confession had left her drained, she wanted nothing more then to end the argument, go back to her old apartment, curl up with O.C. and get her head straitened out. Unfortunately she couldn't do any of those things because Alec was still holding her arm in a death grip sure to leave unpleasant bruising tomorrow, and the damn fool wouldn't shut up.

"Max! Are you listening to me?"

"No," she replied, tugging absently at her arm.

"Well start," Alec sat up, pulling her with him. "I will hold you when you're scared, I will bring joy and color into this black and white world you've created around yourself. I would run right into hell and back for you, I will be right here by your side until the end. Not for TC, not for Josh, for you. I would do anything for you Maxie.

Alec forced her eyes to meet his, "I would do anything for your love Max, but I won't do what you're saying, I won't do that." Max looked, really looked into the piercing green before her; in Alec's eyes she saw all her dreams waiting to be fulfilled and the man who could help her build a world for their people, and give her a real home maybe for the first time.

"You won't leave? You won't cheat? You won't hurt me?" Max asked about as close to pleading as she'd ever come.

"No, no, no, I won't do that," Alec declared a smile beginning to form. Max allowed him to wrap her in his arms again as a feeling of peace washed over her.

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Brick:

"Gah!" Max screamed as she slammed into the apartment she shared with O.C. "It's like talking to a brick!" Max continued to rant throwing her black cat burglar bag onto the sofa. "Except that you can actually do something useful with a brick, you can throw it at someone as a weapon, you can put it with other bricks and build a wall, or hell, why stop with a wall, get enough together and you can build a home!"

O.C. watched her girl rant and rave as she paced the floor gesturing wildly with her hands, arms, hell the poor girl's torso was even starting to get involved. As Max was about to start her 17th circuit of the room O.C. decided to intervene before her Boo wore a hole in the floor and fell through.

"Sugar, there is only one man who can get you this crazy. You want to stop with the screamin' and tell a sister what your boy did this time?"

"He's not my boy, and the idiot formerly known as Alec went off and got himself shot… again."

"How'd baby boy do that?"

"Pft," Max scoffed. "Hell if I know, it was a simple Eyes Only mission. If I'd know things were gonna go sideways like that I'da brought along more help then Alec."

"Aiight, so what happened?"

"Turns out Logan's contact was actually working for the drug lord we were supposed to be taking down, so when Alec and I busted into his place he was ready for us. They'd handcuffed us to a couple of chairs, but Alec managed to pick the lock. Then instead of helping me get free, he slips me the lockpick, says "Don't take too long princess" and tries to take them out single handed!"

"Oh he did not call you princess"

"And that's not all; he'd just finished with the guards that were in our room, when a new group comes in. I had picked the lock by then so I was good to go, but one of them points his gun at me and shoots, and the fool jumped in the way."

Cindy's eyes widened, "He did what?"

"Yeah, I know, can you believe him?!" Cindy did a double take to make sure her girl was seriously angry at Alec for taking a bullet for her.

"Boo, so far I haven't heard what Alec did that was so terrible."

Max's eyes narrowed at the implication she was persecuting the annoying one. After all, was O.C. there? Did she know that all he'd done when finding out he'd been shot was laugh and go back in to the fray? Did she have to patch up the hole in his shoulder, with him looking all pale?

O.C. saw the indignation rising in Max's eyes, she was in full on scold mode and no amount of common sense or defending of Alec was gonna make the girl see reason. Nope, she better nip this little Max-tude in the bud before it got going too strong.

"Ya know Boo, he is a brick," O.C. opened. Stopping Max as she was about to explode.

"What?" She questioned deflating.

"Didn't you say that one of a bricks good qualities was that it could be hurled at a body as a weapon?" O.C. looked at the befuddled expression on her best friend's face. She may be a genetically enhanced genus, but sometimes her girl was dumb as a brick.

XXXXXXXXXX

"If he isn't dead already I'm gonna kill him!" Max screamed as she slammed into T.C.'s medical center, limping heavily.

Seven hours, and two major surgeries later Max wasn't screaming anymore, she was praying to God, the Blue Lady, and whoever else might be listening that her smart Alec would pull through. When O.C. found her she was huddled in a waiting room chair with her knees pulled up to her chest and a vacant look in her eyes.

Joshua had been trying to get through to 'Little Fella' since she'd heard that one of the bullets had gotten lodged near Alec's heart. She'd slumped into the chair at that news and had only moved to question passing medical personnel on Alec's condition. Josh knowing that all he could do for Max was sit with her and hold her hand had decided that she needed someone to kick her ass. Only two people could do that and 'Medium Fella' was the reason she was so wack. So he'd sent Trix and Doodle, both X5s to fetch O.C. and bring her back to Terminal City.

The moment Max clapped her eyes on O.C. they began to fill.

"It's all my fault," she blurted without any preamble. "I'm the reason he's lying in there."

"Hush girl," O.C. soothed, sitting in the chair on Max's right side. Joshua holding her hand on Max's left began to whine. "I'm sure that's not true Boo."

"It is, I went off on my own, and Alec followed me. Logan had gotten a tip about the cure and I didn't want to put anyone else in danger over something that was for me." Max looked at O.C. pain written in every line on her transgenically beautiful face. "It was a trap, set by White. We fought and he broke my ankle, I couldn't move, I was dead… and then Alec was there. He placed himself between White and me," Max broke off with a quiet sob. "He…" she swallowed hard unable to meet her friend's gaze. "He said 'If you want Max, you'll have to go through me.' I've never seen Alec move like that, never seen him fight that hard. He disarmed White and took him down, we both thought he was unconscious, when Alec turned his back to come help me up White pulled a reserve gun out of an ankle holster. Alec heard the sound and turned right as White fired, Alec double tapped the bastard right between the eyes before he even realized he'd been hit."

"Oh, sweetie..."

"That's not even the worse part," Max finally met O.C.'s eyes. "I yelled at him, can you believe that? He saved my life, and I yelled at him. He was just standing there, not moving, I called him a moron and said I'd had things under control." Max started laughing but there was no humor in it. "He wouldn't turn around and I got pissed, I said I'd have better luck talking to a brick wall, then he collapsed."

O.C. and Josh wrapped their arms around Max and let her cry out all the guilt and grief. The three stayed that way for another two hours, until the doctor came out with news of Alec.

Max's eyes filled with tears for what felt like the hundredth time that day, only now they were of joy. O.C. watched as Josh picked Max up and spun her around the waiting room, thinking to herself, 'Looks like my girl's brick wall wont be crumbling down today.'

XXXXXXXXXX

O.C. looked around T.C., every building was sporting some sort of decoration, garlands, wreaths, ribbons, none of it matched and it was all pretty shabby looking. O.C. had never seen a more beautiful place.

It was four years since Alec killed White, three and a half since that freaky-deaky breading cult started a war with all mankind, two years four months since Alec told Max he loved her, one year eleven months since she'd come to her senses and said it back, coincidently that was also the day he'd almost died saving her life… again, and the day Max went all Chosen One on everybody's ass and saved the world. O.C. loved her Boo more then anything on this rock, but it always did take extreme situations to make her girl sit up and recognize what was right in front of her.

Max'd accused Alec of being a brick, but if that was true of him then it was doubly true for her. One year eleven months since the world didn't end, one year eight months since Alec managed to convince Max she hadn't just been spouting out random words in a pre-apocalyptic frenzy, eighteen months since Alec asked Max to marry him, O.C. had to hand it to the boy, he didn't mess around once he decided he wanted something. Sixteen months since Max had said yes, fourteen since she turned around and said no, one year since she'd put Alec in the hospital for dating another girl after she'd broken his heart, nine months since Alec left T.C. unable to be around Max anymore, eight months three weeks and four days since Max'd roared into T.C. with Alec on the back of her ninja, both of them broken, bruised, covered in dirt, her sporting a shiny new engagement ring and Alec grinning bright enough to power all Terminal City.

O.C. looked on as Joshua and Mole started up a can-can line with Dix and Luke soon joining in. She saw Gem's daughter Eve running around being chased by Dalton, somehow the girl had managed to ditch the fancy dress her mamma had insisted on her wearing and was blurring around in her underwear. She decided Max and Alec had been right to have and outdoor reception as a group of X7s started a game of tag with some X8s. A silvery laugh drew her eyes back to the dance floor and the couple that was holding court in the middle of it, Alec and Max would manage a few steps before one of the kids or a transhuman would come up to congratulate them or ask if they could have second helpings of cake. O.C. watched as Alec whispered something into Max's ear and she started to laugh again, all the inhabitants of T.C. grinning when they heard the sound.

As Josh grabbed her hand and pulled her into the can-can line O.C. couldn't help but wonder how two bricks had built a home.