Disclaimer: I don't own a damn thing...still trying to figure out how to get the rights to Jensen Ackles, but unfortunately, I think it's an effort in futility. :( Oh well...I use some quotes from the book, After The Dark by Max Collins, but I'm changing the story...so no law suits, please. I'm broke anyway...
A Light in the Dark
Chapter One: Doublespeak
Max was trying to form the words in her mind, attempting to find the ones she needed. But how do you tell someone that you don't feel the same way they do? She sat under the covers, contemplating the latest predicament with the men in her life. She had tried to tell him what had happened, but couldn't figure out how. She replayed the conversation in her head.
"So, I'm forgiven?" Logan asked.
"I guess." She started the car and followed the route the truck had taken, but lagging.
"Because of what you said? My uncle and all?"
Max had been about to reply when Alec had come across her com-link, which she'd forgotten to turn off.
"Max, just forgive him already. You can tell him about us later. When he's not so damned emotional. " He paused. "I know what you're thinking, 'Why do I put up with that pain in the ass?' Right?" Alec joked.
"Yeah. That, and I love you," she said, forgetting about the man sitting in the passenger seat who'd been waiting for a response. The fact that he couldn't hear the other part of the conversation influenced how he interpreted it greatly.
If she'd have been paying attention she would've realized her mistake. As it were, she forgot that Logan was even in the car.
"I don't think you ever said that to me before," Logan and Alec said at the same time. Max hand't expected a response from the man next to her, so it didn't register that anyone but Alec had spoken.
"It was always too hard. I wanted to. Maybe I didn't figure I need to, until now. But..."
Alec decided to interject at that moment. Max, I love you too, and that's great, but aren't you forgetting something?" All he received in response what a puzzled silence. He sighed. "And you called me the screw up. You do realize he can't hear me, right?" She glanced at Logan and realized he was definitely listening to her intently. He thought she'd said she loved him. 'Shit!' she thought. 'Quick, cover your tracks.'
"But..looking for you, finding you...now I know how important it is. To say it."
Alec growled ferally on the other end of the link. "Max...I meant tell him about US now...not let him think that you love him. Dammit!"
Logan reached out to touch her cheek. "You know that I love you, don't you? God, Max it's nice to be able to just feel my fingers on your skin...Are we alright?"
"You'd better tell me later what parts he touched you with and where," Alec spat, the threat clear in his voice.
"I won't lie to you," she replied, hoping it worked for both the conversations she was having simultaneously.
"I won't lie to you either!" Logan said.
"Good!" Alec bit off. "I'm coming to the motel tonight, Max. I'll drop of Mole and the others and then I'm coming. We're telling him tonight." He cut off his com-link and Max was left shell-shocked.
Max shuddered underneath the covers at the memory. Despite Logan's insistence they'd gotten separate rooms. She could hear the water of his shower running on the other side of the paper thin wall at her back. she heard him talking and couldn't help but listen, pressing her ear against the wall, knowing that really it wasn't necessary.
"You hungry? Or should we just go to bed?" Then in a higher pitched voice she heard him say, "I thought you'd never ask."
'What the hell is he doing?' she thought just as her com-link crackled back to life. 'Alec must be here,'
"Hey. Please, please, please tell me you got separate rooms," Alec said, slightly uncertain.
"I see you've calmed down. Of course we got separate rooms...despite some...resistance." 'Some...ha! That's the understatement of the year.'
"Good. What room are you in?" Alec was obviously relieved, Max could hear it in his voice. Had he honestly thought she'd share a room with Logan?
"You're so cute when you're jealous," she teased. 'Yeah...the way a killer jungle cat is cute when it's hungry.' Alec grunted in response, not wanting to admit his jealousy, but hard pressed to deny it. Max sighed. "Room 13."
Alec opened the door and walked in, right after she'd finished talking. She smiled at him. "What did you do? Blur over here?"
The lowering of his head and the pink tinge to his cheek spoke volumes and Max chuckled.
Logan leisurely got out of the shower, still thinking of the fantasy he'd concocted. The one where he and Max were not in separate rooms and she invited him to bed for not sleep. He turned his head quickly when he heard voices coming from Max's room. He paled quickly. If he could hear the voice, then Max with her enhanced hearing could've heard him...he pushed away the thought and tried to hear the conversation.
Max and Alec had begun whispering when the shower had cut off. The walls in the cheap motel were so thin, leaning on one could result in its quick demise.
"You have to tell him."
"I know, Alec. But what do I say? 'Sorry Logan, but when I said I love you I was talkng to my genetically engineered love machine who I hooked up with while you were out being kidnapped.' Yeah..that'll go over real well," she scoffed. Alec couldn't help but laugh when hearing her.
"Genetically engineered love machine, huh?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her.
"Don't get cocky!" she joked.
"Moi? Cocky? Pfft! Never!" Max elapsed into hysteric giggles which she did her best to muffle with her hand.
"Well, Logan must be decent by now," she sighed once she'd regained her composure. "I guess we should go over there."
"It'll be alright, Max. He'll get over it...eventually." As much as he tried, he coudln't keep the triumphant grin from taking over his mouth. He'd won. "So much for all that training in how to keep a straight face,' he thought smugly.
Alec leaned over to kiss Max's forehead, putting a knee of the bed where she sat, but Max moved her head so this his lips met her own. Alec deepened the kiss, bringing a hand up to cup Max's face, the other going around her waist, holding her tight to him, both tenderly and possessively. Everything else in the world disappeared and all that was left was the two of them as they melted into each other's embrace.
And that was exactly the way Logan found them, mouths and hands entangled, lost in each other.
"What the hell?"
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