Ok, so this is my first DA fanfic, so be nice. I'm an absolute fan of this series. This is after the first season, some things from Season 2 will happen, but differently. There's gonna be Max and Alec, but Logan's gonna come into the picture soon enough too. My language might not always be the best, I'm german and so I apologize for my future mistakes already ;)... Please REVIEW and be kind... If you review there'll be another update soon...
SUMMARY: After Season 1,Max escaped again but didn't risk going back to Seattle-and 's on the run with the only one left with year later it all comes down to one thing:Making a choice you can live with for the rest of your life!
Max and Alec escaped together from Manticore and are on the run for one year already. They have created some kind of bond, but their both pasts are still standing between them. Alec has a secret and Max didn't tell anything about the life she lead in Seattle or about Logan. But when their way leads them to Vancouver and forces them to Seattle the problems begin and Max is forced to face what she had tried to forget.
Making A Choice You Can Live With - Chapter 1 - Haunting Memories
So it was one of these nights again. Max was looking over the never-ending forest in front of her, the mountains and the lakes in between. She loved heights. How anybody could be afraid of them she didn't understand. It was like she felt more normal looking down at all the people, with all their worries and mistakes, her own seemed not that big if she stood somewhere up very high long enough. It was like an addiction, just like a good one.
It hadn't been that bad in the last year through, it had been different from what she was used to, but she was somehow nearly happy. Something she hadn't expected to happen – ever.
She remembered the day she had escaped from Manticore, or better the new Manticore facility, for the second time and how everything she had wanted was to get back to Seattle and Logan as quickly as somehow possible. She didn't though, and by now she was kind of glad about it.
Max sighed when she reminded one time more of why she hadn't gone back to Logan, to Seattle, to her friends. They had told her she had this thing, virus or whatsoever, and as soon as she would get near Logan he'd die. They tried to break her with such things. These things had been way more effective than anything she had to endure while they tried to break her will down.
So when she had managed to escape once again she didn't go back to Seattle, knowing Eyes Only would somehow find her coincidently. She didn't know if they had been honest, if she was really a threat to Logan's life from now on. But she couldn't risk it, could she?
And going back and trying to build a new life without contacting any of my friends doesn't work for me. Besides, how could I lead a normal life with knowing Logan's around the next street block and if we ran in each other I just have to avoid coming anywhere near him, because he could die. No, it's easier this way, he thinks I'm dead and I try to… just not think about it.
From the pictures they showed me he's moved on with this short cut blonde. To be true I kind of moved on too, just that I never really will. I'll admit, I kind of enjoy this new kind of life. Normal just never really worked for me, now I know it's because I'm just not normal. How can you lead a normal life if there is some government chasing you at all costs?
Right, you can't. I've been naïve, just like they said. Means they were right about at least one thing, guess they never fail to surprise.
Max looked backwards over her shoulder to the far away camp-fire. There he was; the guy her life now revolved around. He helped her escape, he was like her. He reminded her of her lost brother Zack – and of Ben, although she just realized that some months ago.
She smiled softly when he looked up at her and searched her glance. He knew there was something up with her, but he didn't ask. She highly appreciated that. She knew there was something up with him too, something dark buried in his past, but she didn't asked questions and he didn't. That was the unspoken deal. Everything was easier this way and they understood each other perfectly well.
He looked down in the fire again and Max couldn't help but think that she was lucky to have him and this new life. They were still on the run from the government, but it felt more like real life, less hiding and more freedom. Although it was just an illusion and they weren't free at all, she felt more free than ever.
She turned her back on the beautiful landscape in front of her and went back to her mate/friend/brother/former breeding partner. She went back to Alec like she always did the last year.
Still, while putting on her smile, she couldn't help but wish for what she thought she once had; a normal life with Logan and Original Cindy and all the other idiots she loved.