Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel or the characters.
Authors note: Hi everybody. Um. I know I said this was an A/M story but it never ended up with them together so I decided to make this in to a two-shot. I hope you like it and don't forget to tell me what you think. Enjoy.
Anything can happen
It had been 3 years since he last was in that city. 3 years since he last was in that country, He had promised himself he would never return there. So what was it that had gotten him to take the first plane from America? Why was he returning when he had said he never would? The plane landed and slowly he made his way out.
Max smiled at OC and said: "So this is it. In one hour I won't be Max Guevara anymore. In one hour I will be Max Cale instead. I can't believe I'm actually getting married with Logan." OC Looked at Max and said: "Me neither."
"What do you mean?" Max wasn't smiling anymore.
"You and Logan where together and broke up so much that I didn't think you two would actually last one year and now getting married."
"We got an ending on our problems."
"But I don't know."
"Don't know what?"
"You tell people that you are happy with Logan and you tell him you love him but I just… You don't look happy. Or you do. You smile a lot but the smiles never really reach your eyes. I can always see the sorrow in your eyes. I can always the tears you want to cry since Alec left. You where in love with him and you still are. Getting married to Logan is just something you want to do so you can forget Alec."
"You are crazy. I love Logan with my whole heart and whether you like it or not I'm getting married to Logan. Today. And you or no one else can stop it. I'm getting married to Logan and that's it." She was mad now. She looked down on the floor and blinked away her tears. Now for the first time in one year she was unsure. Did she really love Logan Cale?
Alec walked in to Jam Pony and saw that it was almost empty. Only Sketchy was there. Alec walked slowly up to him and said: "Hey." Sketchy that was reading a book for the moment looked up to his old friend and smiled and said: "Alec? I never thought you would come back."
"I wasn't going to come back."
"Then why are you here?"
"Honestly?" Alec sighed and said: "I don't know. Where is everyone?"
"At Max's wedding."
"Wedding? Max is getting married? With who?"
"With Logan."
"Logan? Logan who? Logan Cale?"
"Uh huh. They are getting married in one hour in the old church."
"You know I just remembered I had something to do. See you later. Before Sketchy got the chance to understand what he was going to do he was already out the door and halfway to the church.
Soon it was over. Soon she would be his husband. All she had to do was stand there and wait until she had to say I do. But that was the problem. She wasn't sure if she wanted to get married with him anymore. She should never have talked to OC. If she never would have talked to OC she would have been sure she wanted to get married to him. But she wasn't sure. She wasn't even sure if she loved him. She wasn't sure she had ever loved him. So she faked a smile and pretended she was sure she wanted to do this. There was nothing else she could do. Not now, not here, not ever.
He was standing outside the church now. He knew what he was about to do but he didn't know if he really wanted to do it. She was happy. She was getting married. He could not ruin it. Could he?
This was it. It was only seconds until she had to decide if she would be Max Cale or if she would break Logan's heart and continue to be Max Guevara. The priest asked the big question and Max opened her mouth and said: "I…" She didn't get the chance to say anymore before Alec came bursting through the big wooden doors and said: "Don't do it Max." Everyone stared at Alec and people started to whisper with each other. Logan looked angry at Alec and said: "Get the hell out from here." Alec walked closer and said. "No. I won't go until I get to talk with Max." He looked at Max and walked closer to her. Max met his eyes for a second before she had too look away. If she would have looked him in the eyes for just a second longer she would have started crying. Not because he ruined the wedding and not because she hated him so much for everything. She would have cried for how much she had missed him. For all the heartbreak he had caused her. For leaving. Logan looked at Alec with an expression on his face that could kill and said: "Get the hell out of here or I swear to God I will kill you." Alec just kept his eyes on Max as he said: "No. I need to speak to Max." The next thing that happened no one would have expected. Logan walked up to Alec and hit him hard. Then the next second they both were lying on the floor and fighting each other. No one did anything to stop them. Not even Max. Instead she just looked at them for a moment before she walked out from the church and jumped on her motorcycle and drove away in her beautiful white dress she had been sewing herself.
Okay. He was doing this. He had to do this. It was now or never. He burst through the big wooden doors and said: "Don't do it Max." Everyone stared at him and he heard how people started to whisper with each other. Logan looked angry at him and said: "Get the hell out from here." Alec walked closer to him and said. "No. I won't go until I get to talk with Max." He looked at Max and walked closer to her. Max met his eyes for a second before she had too look away. Alec knew she looked away so she wouldn't start to cry. He didn't know if it was because he ruined the wedding or if it was for the heartbreak and leaving. Or if there was some other reason but he knew she would have started to cry. Logan looked at Alec with an expression on his face that could kill and said: "Get the hell out of here or I swear to God I will kill you." Alec just kept his eyes on Max as he said: "No. I need to speak to Max." What Logan did next wasn't something Alec ever thought Logan would do. Logan walked up to Alec and hit him hard. Then the next second they both were lying on the floor and fighting each other. No one did anything to stop them. Not even Max. From the corner of his eyes Alec could see that Max walked away and out from the church.
There she was sitting all alone. She was sitting on the roof on the highest building in the town. She was sitting there all alone in her wedding dress crying. She hadn't been up here since Alec had left that time three years earlier. She had even forgotten about the place until now. It was the place she had always gone to when she felt like she needed to be alone. She looked down at her dress and saw that it had been dirty from the ride there. Grate. Now she had to throw it away. She had worked on this dress for six weeks and now it was ruined. But it didn't matter. She would probably not get married after what just had happened anyway. Maybe she should do as Alec had done. Just leave. Leave the country. But if she really would leave she would never ever come back in a million years. She had lived here her whole life and she hated it here. Why should she stay?
Okay. So just bursting in to the church maybe hadn't been the best thing to do but at least he had stopped the wedding. The only problem now was that Max was no where to be found. Everyone had searched for her everywhere but no one had found her. But that was just Max. If she didn't want to be found no one could find her. Then when she didn't want to be alone anymore she would come back. Alone. Alone? What was it with that word? Alec thought about it for a few minutes until he realised something. Then he started to run. He had to get to her before she would go somewhere else.
She didn't know how long she had been sitting there. It didn't matter. It didn't matter that she had been there long enough for the dark to come and for her to stop cry. It didn't matter that it had started to rain. Nothing mattered now. Not after what had happened. Maybe they never were meant to be. Maybe this was a sign. No. No it wasn't. It couldn't be. She didn't believe in that kind of things. There was no such thing as destiny and getting signs. Suddenly she heard his voice from behind her saying: "I knew I could find you." She stood up and looked at the man behind her and said: "Leave me alone Alec. I don't have time for this." She avoided to look him in the eyes. Alec Said: "I think you have time because whatever you are thinking about doing you are never going to do it."
"You don't know that."
"Maybe. Maybe not." He moved closer to her.
"Please Alec. Just go away." He moved even closer to her and said: "Um let me think about that. No." He moved closer to her again." She looked down on the ground and said: "I mean it Alec. Go." This time he didn't say anything. She thought he maybe had listened and actually left her alone but then suddenly she could feel his warm breath against her neck. She turned around and said: "Don't do this." She was still looking down on the ground as he said: "Do what?" He laid his arms around her and she looked up at him. She looked him in the eyes and almost smiled at his beautiful green eyes she had missed so much. He leaned closer to her and kissed her. At first she just stood there but then she kissed him back and started to draw his hand through his blonde but yet sand brown hair. Suddenly she realised what she was doing and pushed him away and said: "No I can't. This is wrong. I'm engaged Alec." She moved further away from him and continued: "You should never have come back." Alec looked down on the ground. Then he looked back up at her and said: "I know. I don't even know why I came back from the beginning. It was just a spontaneous thing. I'm sorry. I really am but I can't just leave now without telling you that I still love you and that I never should have left. I'm sorry. I promise that I will leave and this time for good." He walked past Max and was on his way to the stairs down when Max suddenly stopped him by taking a grip on his arm. He turned around and she let go and said: "Don't be sorry Alec. I love you too but you had your chance. It's too late. You can stay if you want to because when I'm married to Logan we are going to move to Kansas. But if you stay you have to promise that you never talk to me again and that you won't ruin my wedding if Logan still wants to marry me."
"Oh believe me. He wants to marry you." Alec didn't look at Max. He just couldn't.
"Alec look at me." He looked at her and she said: "I'm going to miss you." He looked down and then back up to her and said: "Do you even love Logan." A few seconds of silent past before Max said: "Yes. I love Logan."
"Then why did it take so long to answer?"
"Bye Alec." She walked past him and down the stars. Then she jumped on her motorcycle and drove away.
He shouldn't have come. He should never have got on that plane. He should have understood he could never get her. He had left. He had been an idiot. He looked at all the planes flying on the sky wondering where he would go next. But he couldn't stop think about that night she told him she still loved him. He had almost hesitated before saying she loved Logan too. She probably didn't love Logan. She just didn't want to feel lonely anymore. Tonight she would get married to Logan. She would say yes to a man she didn't even love. And why? Because Alec had left her. As he was going in to the airport he realised what he had to do. He couldn't let Max do the mistake and marry Logan. He just couldn't. He turned around and started to run the fastest he could. It was four hours until the wedding and he had to stop it once and for all.
Once again she was standing there in the white dress. The flowers in her hand and Logan to her left. The priest was talking but she didn't really pay much attention to it. Soon it would be her turn to say I do or I don't. She didn't really know what she was going to say. After meeting Alec on the roof she wasn't really sure if she really wanted to do this anymore.
Once again he was standing outside the church. He wanted to get in and tell her what horrible mistake she was on her way to do but if this was what she wanted to do he had to let her. He couldn't ruin her wedding again. He just couldn't.
It was her turn. She had to say yes or no in just a few seconds. Everyone looked at her and the priest asked the big question. She too a deep breath and said: "I don't." She turned to Logan and said: "I'm sorry. But I just can't. It wouldn't be right. I'm really sorry." She started to walk through the church and she gave the flowers to someone that was sitting there. Before she walked outside and saw Alec. She walked up to him with a big smile on her face and kissed him. He pulled away, smiled and said: "I guess you said no." She nodded and said: "I said no and it felt grate. Now it can be you and me."
"Marry me."
"What?"
"Marry me. Here and now."
"I want to marry you. I really do. But not here and not now."
"But you will marry me?"
"Yes."
"Good." They kissed and for the first time in their whole life they knew they where meant to be.
"Come on Alec. The kids are waiting." Max said to Alec with a smile. Alec walked up to her and said: "I think they can stay with OC and Sketchy a few more minutes." Then he kissed her. She pulled away and said: "No. They can't. They where only going to baby sit Carole and Matt until 8. It's half past seven now. Come on." She walked out to their car and sat down in the passenger side. Soon after that Alec came and sat down beside her. He started the car and said: "What did I do to deserve such a wonderful wife as you?" She looked at him and said: "I don't know. You tell me." They kissed and then they went to pick up their two beautiful 3 year old twins.
Authors note: What did you think?
