Disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own any of the following Dark Angel characters. James Cameron does. However, the people you don't know are characters that I made up. This story and the events within are fiction and not in anyway true.

Max looked down at her bloody knuckles. Sweat dripped off her face. She punched the wall again trying to make it hurt more then her. A wave of pain shot threw her arms and it fused her anger. How could she be so weak!? After a couple more punches she dropped to the ground, letting the wall win. Alec came running threw the doors.

"WHAT THE HELL…." He said as he entered the room. He looked at the shattered walls, her desk was laying the wrong way and any other piece of furnisher Max had in her office was now fragments laying among rubbish. Max was sitting against a wall. She clinched her fists once more and punched the floor below her.

"MAX!! Wha- what are you doing?" Alec asked in shock. It took Max 4 days to make her office "perfect"; and he spent a day and a half painting the walls. Alec bent down to help Max to her feet but she just pushed his hand away.

"Stop it Alec…. I can take care of myself!" She spat between her teeth. "I don't need you! Goddamn it! W-…" Max decided it was better not to repeat what she says all the time. Why do you fuck up so much or why are you such an idiot? She didn't really think of him like that it's just easier to push people away by making them mad at you. But for some reason Alec never gave up on Max.

Alec quickly withdrew his hand and stood straight up letting the cold mask cover the obvious pain that no one seemed to ever notice. "You know, one of these days your going to have to face it Max! And getting mad and throwing your things around isn't going to make it go away."

"Who are you to say it didn't make me feel better?" Max coldly asked.

"Well, do you feel any better…." Alec's question went unanswered. "I didn't fucking think so, Max! Its time you fucking came to terms with it!"

Max bowed her head knowing Alec was right. It was just so hard. How do you get over something like that? "Alec….?"

"Yeah Max…"

"When will it stop hurting? When will I not feel the pain anymore….? Will I ever be okay?"

Alec sat down next to Max and rested his head or her shoulder… Hmm, Alec knew exactly how Max felt. He lost someone too! He looked up at Max with a half smile. She could see threw his mask of sarcasm and mockery. She hated it when he did that. But what could she do?! Alec stood up and reached his hand out to Max.

"What's that for?" she asked in a playful tone. He smiled that smile again, the one she hated.

"You've been cooped up here far to long, come on your coming to my house tonight." He replied. Max shook her head.

"Oh hell no!" Alec smiled. He sat there for a minuet until she finally took his extended hand.

"I'm not hitting on you Maxie! You just need to get out of here and ever since OC hooked up with that one girl she's never home… You just need a friend tonight… And to be honest… I do too." Alec said shyly. Max nodded her head in understanding. God ever since this hole crazy thing went down Alec's been so different. It just seems like there bond is getting stronger. Max and Alec walked off.

About a half an hour later Max and Alec walked into Alec's apt. "Hey Max go sit on my bed… I've got to grab a few things." Max smiled as she took off her coat and shoes and walked into Alec's bedroom. She dug threw his drawer and found some pajama bottoms. She changed and crawled into bed. A few minuets later Alec walked in with a movie, some chips, two spoons and a nice big tub of ice cream. Max laughed at the transgenic as he tried to balance all that.

Alec popped in the movie and sat back next to Max. Max smiled and leaned onto Alec's stomach. Alec played with Max's hair.

"Alec what's this movie called?" Alec started laughing.

"It's a pre-pulse movie called Zoolander… Its so stupid, You'll love it!"

Within 10 minuets Max was out cold. Alec stroked her hair. This was probably her first time sleeping since… Since Logan. Alec sat back and breathed in Max's scent. He scanned over her face, her body memorizing every curve, every aroma, everything. His heart began to race as he began thinking of things he really shouldn't. Thinking about a life with Max. A hug, a kiss. His breath began to become husky. A house, a child, a laugh. Alec laid back, closed his eyes and smiled because, for this brief moment she was his.

The next morning Max woke up in the comfort of Alec's arms. She looked up at the ceiling and thought about everything. God, sometimes it seems like a strange dream she had. First finding the man of her dream, a man full of hope and aspiration. It almost seems like a Shakespeare novel. Like Romeo and Juliet, He came from a rich family, royalty and she came from a sick twisted military facility; all this love in a broken city. Then it seemed like a horror film, one touch and all come crashing down. One bite of the forbidden fruit. And that's how it all ended. One little bite. One week ago Logan and Max was getting into it. They were bickering over, what else, Alec. Okay, so it wasn't Alec's fault, Max is the one who made up the lie, Alec only went along with it because…. Because… Max reach over and slapped the snoring Alec.

"Why did you go along with it?" Max asked Alec.

"Go along with what… Oh, the lie about me and you fucking…. Because I love you Maxie.. and its just something you needed. Plus, it made me look pretty good…" Alec said with his cocky grin.\

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