Happy Birthday, Lorrell. Since you didn't know what you wanted for your
birthday, I decided to write you a story and I hope you like it. Okay, here
goes nothing. Disclaimer: I don't own any of the DA characters. Spoilers:
Takes place after Proof of Purchase. Rating: Pg-13 (I think) Summary: After
Max paid the doctor to save Alec's life, Max and Logan get into a fight
over the money and officially break up. Max, not knowing where to turn,
goes to Alec after much coaxing form Original Cindy.
Max stared at the door a long time after Alec left the doctor's hotel room. She had told him to go, but hadn't really meant it. He wasn't really a killer, he's done what he'd needed to do to survive in the harsh world they lived in. // What am I going to do now? I can't exactly tell Logan that I let my breeding partner have his five grand. He'll shoot me.// Max thought, finally forcing herself to move toward the door. She silently opened it and walked out into the dark night.
Alec walked to his car and angrily slammed the door closed after he got in. Starting the engine he mentally berated himself for getting himself into the mess Max had just gotten him out of. She had given him her one chance at finding happiness with Logan and he hadn't even appeared grateful. She was angry and had every right to be. He should have let White kill him when he'd been captured. But no, he had to make a deal with the devil himself, nearly kill his only friend and then fuck up her life as well as his. It was his fault she and Logan could never be together and it was his fault that she was mad at him. She probably wouldn't ever talk to him again and it was all his fault! //What am I going to do? She's the only person I trust in this world and I nearly killed her to save my own skin and I did kill any chance she ever had of being happy with Logan. I'll be lucky if she ever talks to me again. I deserve to have my ass kicked for everything I've done since she blew up Manticore.//
"Logan?" Max called softly, silently making her way into his penthouse. "Are you here?"
'Kitchen. How'd it go?"
"Not so good. Um, well this is a long story so it's gonna take awhile. Well, Alec, the guy who saved my butt a couple weeks ago is back in town and he kinda made a deal with White, the new bad guy in my life. So, the deal was, Alec had to kill three transgenics and cut off their bar- codes and White would take the explosive out of Alec's head that he put there when Alec got captured. Anyway, the detonator was set for 24 hours and when he found me and Joshua, he had an hour left and still needed one more bar code. He was going to take Joshua's, but Joshua doesn't have a bar code, so he came after me, but couldn't so it, so I took him to the doctor who was supposed to cure me. He said he could take it out, but he needed ten grand to do it. Alec had five and since I didn't want his head to explode right in front of me, I pitched in the rest. He did give us all the research he'd done though, so maybe we can come up with our own cure." Max finished in a rush, dreading what he would say next.
" So you're telling me that you gave the five grand to a guy you barely know, who tried to kill you! How stupid can you get Max! You just threw away our only chance you know. No one other than that doctor could find the cure! That was the stupidest thing you've ever done! I could kill you right now. But wait, I can't because if I touch you, I'll die and you gave the money that would mean I could touch you to a cold-blooded thing trained to kill. How can I expect humanity out of any of you? That was our only chance and you threw it away like a piece of garbage. As far as I'm concerned, all you transgenics are the same. Accelerated pieces of easy trash who like kickin' people's asses and are incapable of feeling human emotions!"
Suddenly Max spun in her heel and stormed out of Logan's apartment, afraid that if she stayed a second longer she would murder him and she didn't want to prove him right. She got on her motorcycle angrily and sped all the way home. Cindy was waiting for her, an expression of concern, anger and worry on her face. Max guessed that Logan, sick son of a bitch that he was had called and told Cindy his side of the story hoping to turn Cindy against her.
"Logan called. Said you two got into a fight over Alec. Want to tell me what's going on?"
"Didn't Logan fill you in?"
"Yeah, but I don't believe what he told me. He told me that you said some awful things and nearly hit him, but stopped just in time. What happened, boo?"
"Alec nearly got his head blown off and would've if I hadn't given him the five large that would've gotten me the cure and Logan's ticked because Alec nearly had to kill me to keep himself alive and he called me a thing incapable of human emotion and I nearly hit him, but I couldn't bring myself to touch him. Not because of the disease, but because he disgusted me and I wanted to shoot him, but that would've just proven him right, so I didn't and I'm just feeling so many things right now that I'm gonna have to think for a while before I can tell you exactly what happened without killing something, screaming or crying, okay boo?"
"Yeah. Just wake me up or find me when you're ready to talk okay?"
"Yeah. Night."
Alec sped along the streets of Seattle, trying to decide what to do. He could try and find Max and apologize to her like he knew he should, or he could just leave Seattle and never return like she'd told him to. He had to make a decision and make it quick. If he stayed he was liable to get his butt kicked to Pluto, but if he left, he was just as likely to blow his own brains out from guilt. Neither was a good choice, but after a lot of deliberation, he decided he'd like to see the stars from up close and maybe Pluto was warmer than scientists thought it was. He nearly laughed at his logic and headed to a nearby hotel.
// I will not go to find him. I absolutely will not. He screwed me over by getting himself and me in that mess with the implant White put in his neck and I will not turn to him. He won't know what to do and I hate him.// Max thought trying to convince herself not to find Alec, apologize to him and talk to him about everything that was going wrong in her life. She wanted and needed someone to talk to and now that she couldn't talk to Logan and Cindy was busy with her new girlfriend Kristin, she had absolutely no one to go to. Zack was dead, Tinga was dead, Krit and Syl were Lord knows where and she was all alone with no one to talk to except herself and Rafer, who she wouldn't talk to about anything of importance.
Of course, there was Asha. Who would jump at the chance to listen to all of her problems and then post them in the daily newspaper. That woman would never rest until she was the one Logan loved and Max was nothing but a bad memory. Max didn't want that, but for the time being, it looked like Asha would get her way.
Then there was Alec. Who had nearly killed her, nearly gotten her captured by White, seriously ticked her off and screwed up any chance she ever had with Logan. He was the one possibility left and she had herself convinced that she didn't want to be within ten miles of him. He had royally screwed up and she'd made sure that he's known that. He had left and she doubted she'd ever see him again. And if she ever did see him again, then, she'd tell him all about her sucky life and then kick his butt for making it suck.
//Where are you Max? You're not at work, not at home, Cindy hasn't seen you in days, Logan hasn't seen you in a week and Normal said that if you don't get your ass into work, then you're fired for good this time. Where are you? I've looked all over this damn city and found nothing. Did you leave? No, you wouldn't do that. Not to everybody who missed you while you were at Manticore. I don't know where you are. I've even checked every bar in Seattle and no one's seen you. Where are you? //
Alec drove around the streets of Seattle looking for Max when he saw the Space Needle and on it was a female he immediately recognized as Max. He sighed in apparent relief and zoomed off toward the Space needle. If Max was still mad at him, then at least he'd have a long time to scream on the way back down to the ground. Maybe she'd feel sorry for him and shoot him before he hit the ground.
Max didn't hear him sneak up on her. She didn't even hear him sit down behind her. She didn't know ho was there until a slight breeze carried his natural scent and cologne to her. She sniffed once, then turned to face him, looking, not angry, but tired and worried. He'd never seen anything but fire in her eyes. Now, he saw only pain and apprehension towards him. He knew that he had been the one to cause that look in her eyes.
"What are you doing here, Alec?" She asked him softly, barely loud enough for him to hear her.
"I came to tell you that I'm sorry for everything that I've caused to happen."
"You should be. Do you have any idea what I have been through trying to straighten out the mess you and White created in this city? Every transgenic within fifty miles is scared to death of you."
"Even you?"
His question caught her off guard and she was at a temporary loss of words. Yes. She was scared. But not of him. Scared of what she felt toward him, yes. Scared of what she feared would happen if he was around the next time she was in heat, desperately. But scared of him, as a person? No. She didn't fear him one damn bit.
"Kind of."
Her answer caught him off guard. He's expected her to start yelling and for that fire to come back into her eyes, but she'd given him a quiet answer and whispered the answer she had given him. She wasn't acting like the Max he knew and that bothered him. A lot. More than anything else had ever bothered him in his short life outside the walls of Manticore.
"Why?"
"Because, I don't like what you're making me feel, Alec. I told you to leave, when I wanted you to stay. I fought you when I wanted to hug you. Everything I'm feeling right now is telling me to hug you, kiss you and take you home with me, when my head is telling me to throw you off the damn Space Needle and do this world a favor by getting rid of you."
"Okay. We'll start from there. I'm sorry for ruining your relationship with Logan. I never meant to do that Max."
"I know and I forgive you. Besides, Asha's kind of moved in to take my place anyway. I was just mad at you at the time. You had killed an innocent transgenic after all."
"I had to kill her. She was going to eat me for dinner. She had already been chowing down on dog meat."
" Oh. You forgot to mention that part."
Alec was approaching her slowly and it was making her nervous. She couldn't keep backing up, or she was going to fall off the Space Needle, but she couldn't very well run from him or they'd both go falling to their death. Finally, after quite some deliberation, she decided to stand her ground and see what he was up to.
"So, are you going to listen to your head and kill me, or that other part that's telling you to kiss me?"
"I haven't decided yet."
"May I make a suggestion?"
"Go ahead."
"I suggest that you don't listen to your head and go ahead and kiss me."
"Really?"
"Yes. In fact, if you don't take your own suggestion, I'll take it and kiss you."
"Well then, I guess we're going to be kissing either way. So you choose."
Alec leaned in and kissed her. She kissed him back. At that moment in time, nothing except Alec and her keeping maximum contact between them mattered. For all she cared, as long as the Space Needle remained intact, then the entire world could blow up and she'd never know it.
The next morning, Max woke up sore, warm and cuddling a broad chest that belonged to Alec. She sighed deeply and nestled closer to him. She felt him stir enough to wrap one arm tighter around her, but he didn't wake up. She smiled and wormed her way even closer to him. They'd cleared everything up between them and they were once again, ready to try a relationship. This time as lovers, not friends. Neither could be happier about the arrangement.
Chuckling softly, Max remembered the look on Cindy's face when she'd come home with Alec seeming to be permanently attached to her mouth. She'd thought Max was in heat again, but she hadn't been. No pheromones involved that time, other than natural ones. Alec woke up and they smiled at each other. A new day had begun. They had another beginning, a fresh start and each other. What more could two transgenics ask for?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I know this is late, but I've done my best and I hope you're happy with it.
Max stared at the door a long time after Alec left the doctor's hotel room. She had told him to go, but hadn't really meant it. He wasn't really a killer, he's done what he'd needed to do to survive in the harsh world they lived in. // What am I going to do now? I can't exactly tell Logan that I let my breeding partner have his five grand. He'll shoot me.// Max thought, finally forcing herself to move toward the door. She silently opened it and walked out into the dark night.
Alec walked to his car and angrily slammed the door closed after he got in. Starting the engine he mentally berated himself for getting himself into the mess Max had just gotten him out of. She had given him her one chance at finding happiness with Logan and he hadn't even appeared grateful. She was angry and had every right to be. He should have let White kill him when he'd been captured. But no, he had to make a deal with the devil himself, nearly kill his only friend and then fuck up her life as well as his. It was his fault she and Logan could never be together and it was his fault that she was mad at him. She probably wouldn't ever talk to him again and it was all his fault! //What am I going to do? She's the only person I trust in this world and I nearly killed her to save my own skin and I did kill any chance she ever had of being happy with Logan. I'll be lucky if she ever talks to me again. I deserve to have my ass kicked for everything I've done since she blew up Manticore.//
"Logan?" Max called softly, silently making her way into his penthouse. "Are you here?"
'Kitchen. How'd it go?"
"Not so good. Um, well this is a long story so it's gonna take awhile. Well, Alec, the guy who saved my butt a couple weeks ago is back in town and he kinda made a deal with White, the new bad guy in my life. So, the deal was, Alec had to kill three transgenics and cut off their bar- codes and White would take the explosive out of Alec's head that he put there when Alec got captured. Anyway, the detonator was set for 24 hours and when he found me and Joshua, he had an hour left and still needed one more bar code. He was going to take Joshua's, but Joshua doesn't have a bar code, so he came after me, but couldn't so it, so I took him to the doctor who was supposed to cure me. He said he could take it out, but he needed ten grand to do it. Alec had five and since I didn't want his head to explode right in front of me, I pitched in the rest. He did give us all the research he'd done though, so maybe we can come up with our own cure." Max finished in a rush, dreading what he would say next.
" So you're telling me that you gave the five grand to a guy you barely know, who tried to kill you! How stupid can you get Max! You just threw away our only chance you know. No one other than that doctor could find the cure! That was the stupidest thing you've ever done! I could kill you right now. But wait, I can't because if I touch you, I'll die and you gave the money that would mean I could touch you to a cold-blooded thing trained to kill. How can I expect humanity out of any of you? That was our only chance and you threw it away like a piece of garbage. As far as I'm concerned, all you transgenics are the same. Accelerated pieces of easy trash who like kickin' people's asses and are incapable of feeling human emotions!"
Suddenly Max spun in her heel and stormed out of Logan's apartment, afraid that if she stayed a second longer she would murder him and she didn't want to prove him right. She got on her motorcycle angrily and sped all the way home. Cindy was waiting for her, an expression of concern, anger and worry on her face. Max guessed that Logan, sick son of a bitch that he was had called and told Cindy his side of the story hoping to turn Cindy against her.
"Logan called. Said you two got into a fight over Alec. Want to tell me what's going on?"
"Didn't Logan fill you in?"
"Yeah, but I don't believe what he told me. He told me that you said some awful things and nearly hit him, but stopped just in time. What happened, boo?"
"Alec nearly got his head blown off and would've if I hadn't given him the five large that would've gotten me the cure and Logan's ticked because Alec nearly had to kill me to keep himself alive and he called me a thing incapable of human emotion and I nearly hit him, but I couldn't bring myself to touch him. Not because of the disease, but because he disgusted me and I wanted to shoot him, but that would've just proven him right, so I didn't and I'm just feeling so many things right now that I'm gonna have to think for a while before I can tell you exactly what happened without killing something, screaming or crying, okay boo?"
"Yeah. Just wake me up or find me when you're ready to talk okay?"
"Yeah. Night."
Alec sped along the streets of Seattle, trying to decide what to do. He could try and find Max and apologize to her like he knew he should, or he could just leave Seattle and never return like she'd told him to. He had to make a decision and make it quick. If he stayed he was liable to get his butt kicked to Pluto, but if he left, he was just as likely to blow his own brains out from guilt. Neither was a good choice, but after a lot of deliberation, he decided he'd like to see the stars from up close and maybe Pluto was warmer than scientists thought it was. He nearly laughed at his logic and headed to a nearby hotel.
// I will not go to find him. I absolutely will not. He screwed me over by getting himself and me in that mess with the implant White put in his neck and I will not turn to him. He won't know what to do and I hate him.// Max thought trying to convince herself not to find Alec, apologize to him and talk to him about everything that was going wrong in her life. She wanted and needed someone to talk to and now that she couldn't talk to Logan and Cindy was busy with her new girlfriend Kristin, she had absolutely no one to go to. Zack was dead, Tinga was dead, Krit and Syl were Lord knows where and she was all alone with no one to talk to except herself and Rafer, who she wouldn't talk to about anything of importance.
Of course, there was Asha. Who would jump at the chance to listen to all of her problems and then post them in the daily newspaper. That woman would never rest until she was the one Logan loved and Max was nothing but a bad memory. Max didn't want that, but for the time being, it looked like Asha would get her way.
Then there was Alec. Who had nearly killed her, nearly gotten her captured by White, seriously ticked her off and screwed up any chance she ever had with Logan. He was the one possibility left and she had herself convinced that she didn't want to be within ten miles of him. He had royally screwed up and she'd made sure that he's known that. He had left and she doubted she'd ever see him again. And if she ever did see him again, then, she'd tell him all about her sucky life and then kick his butt for making it suck.
//Where are you Max? You're not at work, not at home, Cindy hasn't seen you in days, Logan hasn't seen you in a week and Normal said that if you don't get your ass into work, then you're fired for good this time. Where are you? I've looked all over this damn city and found nothing. Did you leave? No, you wouldn't do that. Not to everybody who missed you while you were at Manticore. I don't know where you are. I've even checked every bar in Seattle and no one's seen you. Where are you? //
Alec drove around the streets of Seattle looking for Max when he saw the Space Needle and on it was a female he immediately recognized as Max. He sighed in apparent relief and zoomed off toward the Space needle. If Max was still mad at him, then at least he'd have a long time to scream on the way back down to the ground. Maybe she'd feel sorry for him and shoot him before he hit the ground.
Max didn't hear him sneak up on her. She didn't even hear him sit down behind her. She didn't know ho was there until a slight breeze carried his natural scent and cologne to her. She sniffed once, then turned to face him, looking, not angry, but tired and worried. He'd never seen anything but fire in her eyes. Now, he saw only pain and apprehension towards him. He knew that he had been the one to cause that look in her eyes.
"What are you doing here, Alec?" She asked him softly, barely loud enough for him to hear her.
"I came to tell you that I'm sorry for everything that I've caused to happen."
"You should be. Do you have any idea what I have been through trying to straighten out the mess you and White created in this city? Every transgenic within fifty miles is scared to death of you."
"Even you?"
His question caught her off guard and she was at a temporary loss of words. Yes. She was scared. But not of him. Scared of what she felt toward him, yes. Scared of what she feared would happen if he was around the next time she was in heat, desperately. But scared of him, as a person? No. She didn't fear him one damn bit.
"Kind of."
Her answer caught him off guard. He's expected her to start yelling and for that fire to come back into her eyes, but she'd given him a quiet answer and whispered the answer she had given him. She wasn't acting like the Max he knew and that bothered him. A lot. More than anything else had ever bothered him in his short life outside the walls of Manticore.
"Why?"
"Because, I don't like what you're making me feel, Alec. I told you to leave, when I wanted you to stay. I fought you when I wanted to hug you. Everything I'm feeling right now is telling me to hug you, kiss you and take you home with me, when my head is telling me to throw you off the damn Space Needle and do this world a favor by getting rid of you."
"Okay. We'll start from there. I'm sorry for ruining your relationship with Logan. I never meant to do that Max."
"I know and I forgive you. Besides, Asha's kind of moved in to take my place anyway. I was just mad at you at the time. You had killed an innocent transgenic after all."
"I had to kill her. She was going to eat me for dinner. She had already been chowing down on dog meat."
" Oh. You forgot to mention that part."
Alec was approaching her slowly and it was making her nervous. She couldn't keep backing up, or she was going to fall off the Space Needle, but she couldn't very well run from him or they'd both go falling to their death. Finally, after quite some deliberation, she decided to stand her ground and see what he was up to.
"So, are you going to listen to your head and kill me, or that other part that's telling you to kiss me?"
"I haven't decided yet."
"May I make a suggestion?"
"Go ahead."
"I suggest that you don't listen to your head and go ahead and kiss me."
"Really?"
"Yes. In fact, if you don't take your own suggestion, I'll take it and kiss you."
"Well then, I guess we're going to be kissing either way. So you choose."
Alec leaned in and kissed her. She kissed him back. At that moment in time, nothing except Alec and her keeping maximum contact between them mattered. For all she cared, as long as the Space Needle remained intact, then the entire world could blow up and she'd never know it.
The next morning, Max woke up sore, warm and cuddling a broad chest that belonged to Alec. She sighed deeply and nestled closer to him. She felt him stir enough to wrap one arm tighter around her, but he didn't wake up. She smiled and wormed her way even closer to him. They'd cleared everything up between them and they were once again, ready to try a relationship. This time as lovers, not friends. Neither could be happier about the arrangement.
Chuckling softly, Max remembered the look on Cindy's face when she'd come home with Alec seeming to be permanently attached to her mouth. She'd thought Max was in heat again, but she hadn't been. No pheromones involved that time, other than natural ones. Alec woke up and they smiled at each other. A new day had begun. They had another beginning, a fresh start and each other. What more could two transgenics ask for?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I know this is late, but I've done my best and I hope you're happy with it.