Title: Missing

Author: Crazy4x5494

Rated Chapter: PG

Pairing: M/A

Summary: After Alec's hard blow to the chest Max has a hard decision to
make.

Lyrics: Missing - Evanesance

Authors Note: just so everyone knows so they don't need to ask for another
chapter. This is it to this story. A simple short fic like 2 others I right
now and them when I hear a good song and think of Dark Angel for some odd
reason. But you know having reviews would still be really, really nice!

- tHeRe WeRe MoMeNTs We LauGHeD-n-CRiED We aLWaYz STooD By eaCH oTHaZ SiDe
THoSe MaNY DaYs We sPeNT ToGeTHa THeY WiLL STaY iN mY3 4eVa

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'Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll have woke up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"'

Max sat looking at him in his hospital bed. Tears ran down her face for she
knew what she had to do. She had to say goodbye to the man she loved and
move on, leave Terminal City. Leave the ones she loved and lay low, keep
her head down and go somewhere where no one knew her name or what she was.

But it hurt because he may never remember her. When Alec got shot he hit
his head badly. When he wakes he won't remember anything. The residence of
Terminal City will help him remember what and who he is, but shall leave
out everything about her. Not because they don't want him to know her but
because she doesn't want to bring anymore harm in his life.

'You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?'

Max packed up her things in what was once their apartment. She found her
self-looking at a picture of her and Alec. One that was taken in the woods
with a beautiful background again more tears fell from her eyes. Her
thoughts drifted back to when Alec had been shot.
'Flash Back'
"452 I will ask you one more time where is my son?!" White asked getting
extremely annoyed.
"Kiss my Transgenic Ass!" Max shouted just after spitting in his face.
Alec had been hidden in the corner waiting for just the right moment but
White was ahead of them. In an instant the gun was pointed to the corner
and a single shot rang out.
"Alec!"
"Oops," White grinned evilly.
Max broke the chains that were keeping her to the poll. She quickly blurred
to White and grabbed his gun. He was star struck and forgot that he should
be moving. It was followed by another shot. Only a second later the back up
unit came in. "Your late," Max had said before passing out. The last thing
she saw that day was Alec's body laid out on the ground with a puddle of
blood beneath him.
'End of Flashback'
When she had found out what happened the next day in struck her that she
needed to leave. She couldn't bring anymore harm to the people in her life.
Especially Alec. Just because she changed her mind about guns for a single
second, she still could go near them again.
'Even though I'd be sacrificed,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?'

Max packed up her belongings and briefly said her goodbyes to the people in
the place that she had called home in the last two years. Max couldn't help
but tear up right though the middle of it all or she was going to miss
everyone. Including Mole and Normal. But as she packed her stuff on her
baby Max had to keep reminding herself that it was for the best and nothing
could change that. When Max reached the Now leaving Seattle sign she
stopped and looked back, thinking of the other family she was leaving
behind.

'Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
Shudder deep and cry out:
"Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?"'

As soon as Max rode past the leaving Seattle sign back at Terminal City
something unexpected happened. Back in the hospital room on the 5th floor
labeled 494 a young mans eyes suddenly snapped open. Even though everything
in the room somehow seem familiar he could help but think that. Something
important was missing.

Two years after he was finally released from Terminal City's Hospital. Alec
had decided to clean and redo his trash Terminal City apartment. As he
opened the nightstand drawer a paper had fallen from underneath. It
appeared to have been taped to the bottom. Looking at it he found it was a
picture of him and a beautiful young women. She had long straight dark hair
and gorgeous brown eyes. He flipped it over to look at the back. There was
a heart with the words Max and Alec forever. And just then it was like a
million bricks had fallen on his head.

'Even though I'd be sacrificed,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?'

"Alec?" Max looked up at the man standing in front of her. She was in a
museum in Toronto Canada no doubt there only to fence some of the small
high priced objects. Five years. It had been five years since she had left
the man she loved. This very man she loved thinking that he would never
remember her. But still he was standing here, and she knew it was no dream,
and that her eyes were not failing her.

'And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
And wake without you there,
Isn't something missing?
Isn't something...'

Max had tried so hard to forget everything. To keep everyone she knew safe,
but that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. For her past love was back
and there was no running, not anymore.

"What are you doing here?" she asked awkwardly. Standing before her past
boyfriend didn't feel to great. "When you left you forgot this!" he held up
a picture. Actually it was the picture. But Max was shocked for she
remembered packing it in with her stuff. Not only that but she still
carried the picture around today. Taking the same picture out of her pocket
she showed it to him. "No I didn't. You never told me you got doubles!"

"That's because I wouldn't have been here if I didn't!" Alec replied. "You
know you're a hard girl to track down. Two weeks ago I was about ready to
give up!"

"I've had practice! Running from Manticore and all," Max responded doing
her best not to show any emotions. "Why did you go Max?"

"Because I couldn't risk it!" Max said giving up. Alec watched as emotions
started to run through her face. "I didn't want anyone else getting hurt
because of me! Much less die. It happened too many times. If I don't
connect with anyone then no one will know who I am anymore and no one will
get hurt!"

"But you already killed me Max! The moment you left something was missing.
My heart was missing because you took it with you past the border!" Alec
said he wasn't going to give up easily, sure he was pissed as hell that she
left but that never changed the fact that he loved her. "So was do I do?
Just go back to Seattle after 5 years like nothing ever happened?"

"Of course not. If you were to come back it would be awhile until things
would be normal again and we can work through the changes Max! Please! Stop
running!" Max couldn't make up her mind. Be happy with someone she loved or
to run.

"Please Max you have a chance to bring me back to life here," Alec
outstretched his hand hoping that she'll take it. But when nothing happened
Alec shut his eyes thinking the he had failed until he felt a smooth yet
delicate hand grab onto his. When he opened his eyes he found the women
that he met in small cell in a government facility smiling back at him. She
had neared closer to him and whispered in his ear. Only seconds later their
lips met or a deep heat filled kissed. When they finally both pulled away
they smiled.

"Lets go home"