I don't own anything especially Dark Angel or The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight.

Note: This is my first fan fiction, I'm more of a Max Alec lover and this is no exception. This just came to me while I was driving home one night. Be gentle. This is a little bit AU because Biggs didn't die in my story and because Max and Alec are a couple.

Some Time Around Midnight


And it starts, sometime around midnight.
Or at least that's when you lose yourself
for a minute or two.

Alec sat at Crash Drinking him self into a stupor, he and Max had been fighting again, this seemed to be the last straw. He flashed back to a week ago.

He had run off to do a supply run and had gotten shot and had gotten hit in the arm. He made it back to Terminal city still alive and with must of the supplies. Max had shouted that he had once again messed every thing up and that he couldn't do anything right. He screamed right back that she was a bitch and that nothing he ever did was good enough. The screaming match continued until the both said some things that were just too cruel.

Max was boiling with rage, "Alec you couldn't even keep the one person you loved from dying. Why do you think that you can protect this city?"

Alec was taken back and he yelled, "Don't bring her into this; you're the one who can't protect us, Max. You killed your own brother to save your self." That had been the breaking point. Max ripped open the door to their apartment and started to walkout; she turned and said with tears in her eyes, "Your right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we couldn't make this work." Then she shut the door behind her and ran. They haven't seen each other since.

As you stand, under the bar lights.
And the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while.

So here he was alone at the bar trying to forget everything, everything that they had said, and done. That's when he saw her enter the bar with Original Cindy and Sketchy.

And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.
And that white dress she's wearing
you haven't seen her for a while.

Alec realized that Max must have gone shopping since all of her things were still in the apartment. Which was a huge reason that he trying to get drunk here instead of there. He watched as Cindy and Sketchy left her near the bar and to come see him.

They walked up to him, "Alec man how are you?" Sketchy asked.

"Great man, living the dream." Alec replied watching as Biggs walked up behind them, he had been out of the city for the past few months. "Sketch I'll catch you later I have to catch up with some one." Sketchy saluted him with his drink and walked to the pool tables. Alec proceed to Biggs, "Hey man." Alec greeted watching Max the whole time. "How was Canada, every thing that you hoped for?"

"Yeah, cold and free, how was terminal city?" Biggs asked as he watch Alec.

"You know same as before you left. Out of everything." Alec and Biggs continued talking, Alec pretending that there was nothing wrong with him. Max starts talking to one of the guys standing next to her. She is being completely out of character flirting and rubbing her hand up his arm. Then she whispers something in his ear. He smiles at her and says something that Alec couldn't make out.

But you know, that she's watching.
She's laughing, she's turning.
She's holding her tonic like a cross.
The room's suddenly spinning.

Alec sees her say something else that from what he could tell meant that she would be back in a few minutes. She heads for the bath room that is just in the direction of where Alec and Biggs are sitting.

She walks up and asks how you are.
So you can smell her perfume.
You can see her lying naked in your arms.

Alec plasters a smile on his face, and replies, "I'm good." Alec said calmly not willing to show how she was affecting him. That she was impossible to forget, that he was sorry and that he wished he could take everything back, because she looked so happy and he didn't want to take that away like he had so many other times.

And so there's a change, in your emotions.

She smell different, the smell of her citrus soap is still there but there is something else, motor oil she has been working on her Ninja again, she hasn't done that since she started seeing Alec, when she started to sleep more at night.

And all these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind.
Of the curl of your bodies,
like two perfect circles entwined.

Alec sees all the sleepless nights that they spent together in the last five months, Max asleep in his arms after a long hard day. He hears he saying, "I don't know why I'm sleeping so much more, I guess that I feel safe when I'm with you." That's when every thing else hits him.

And you feel hopeless and homeless
and lost in the haze of the wine.

Suddenly there is Alec taking shot after shot hoping to get lost, to forget everything about her about how miserable he is with out her.

Then she leaves, with someone you don't know.
But she makes sure you saw her.
She looks right at you and bolts.

Max decides that she is done pretending and wants to forget if just for a moment. So she decides to leave with the guy she meet at the bar earlier, hoping that the night with him will ease the pain that is building from seeing Alec and having him tell her that he was fine with out her that he was good.

As she walks out the door,
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes.
Oh and when your friends say,
"What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost."

Alec ignored Biggs and started to leave, grabbing his jacket and leaving some money on the bar for his drinks and walked up the stairs and out the door.

Then you walk, under the streetlights.
And you're too drunk to notice,
that everyone is staring at you.

Alec had just proved that x5's could get drunk if the could drink fast enough, as he stumbled after them. He just had to talk to her to tell her that he wanted her to be happy and safe.

You just don't care what you look like,
the world is falling around you.

Alec was close enough that when he whimpered, "Max" she turned around and looked at him. She didn't have a chance to day any thing before Alec started to whisper, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Alec didn't know where that had come from, this was all wrong he was going to tell her to be happy, but he was just to selfish for that. "I didn't mean it, any of it, I was just up set is all. I love you Max and I want to work things out, I don't know why I do stupid things, and trouble just seems to find me it's just…. I'm just sorry, I take every thing back."

Alec couldn't hold back the one tear that fell. As he wiped it away Max wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in his neck and whispered "Me too. I said some things that I didn't mean and I love you, forgive me?" she said as she leaned back and wiped away the rest of the tears that were on his face, as he wiped away hers. "Does that mean that I can come home?" she asked. "Oh, baby you can always come home, I never wanted for you to leave."