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And DRA- Max and Alec are married in chpater two... But he doesn't remember.
This chapter will be formatted the same as the last two chapters, Bold for Alec and regular for Max.
He slipped out of the room easily enough, but he had to admit to himself he had no clue where he was going. He took a deep breath, he was a Manticore Soldier, ex CO. He could do this. It was simple navigational skills which he should have plenty of. Of course, they were prepped before each mission. Well, this time the mission was to escape Max before she could get out of giving him the answers. He took off down a long corridor, everything was homey here. Like maybe… Maybe this was Max's home and she brought him here to be with him. He started looking around what seemed to be a common room. There were pictures of them lining the shelves and the mantle above the fireplace, and they looked happy. And then a little girl appeared in the doorway.
She had to find him. There was no other option. First she searched the house, with no results. Then she a picture caught her eye. It was one of them on top of the Space Needle. He had taken it with his cell phone one night. She smiled at the memory, and at how happy they were. And then her mind snapped back to the mission. She blamed Manticore for creating her with a one track mind- the mission first, everything else later. And then it hit her, Alec had come through here. He would go to the Space Needle. He was waiting for her. And they were about to have the biggest confrontation of their lives with each other. She ran to the garage and fired up her Ninja, his bike sitting lonely and unused beside it. She looked longingly at it, remember times they would just ride around, racing each other, and sometimes ripping other people off. He had developed her sleeping schedule after a few months, so they would sometimes ride all night and then have to go to work, sleeping away their lunch break for Alec's sake. She smiled sadly at the bike, as if apologizing for some unknown crime that she hadn't really committed and rode off into the sunset to find her prince charming.
He sat there , looking down at all of the normal people bustling around going about their day to day lives. They looked so small from up here. Maybe that was why Max loved it, because up here, it was like nothing could touch you, nothing could hurt you, or anyone that you loved. All of your problems slipped away up here. Maybe that's why he secretly loved it too. He sighed and checked his watch. She would be here soon. Come on Maxie, you know me. You know where I am. And then he felt her behind him. "Alec?" Her voice was the same as it had been yesterday morning when she came to see him. "Max." He didn't bother looking at her this time. He didn't want to see the fear in her eyes, not when that fear was directed at him. "Hey." She sounded hopeful, like maybe he had forgotten her again. He was starting to think that it had happened before. Had he hurt her and just didn't know it. "Max…" He started to tell her he almost didn't want to know about anything other than them, but she cut him off. "Promise me that you won't be mad at me. Promise me you won't hate me." He looked at her for the first time since she'd arrived. "I could never hate you Maxie." She smiled at him, but he could tell that she didn't believe him. What had happened to them?
Max found him exactly where she thought that he would be- atop the Space Needle. "Alec?" She knew it was him, but the last time, he had forgotten her, too overcome with the memories of what had happened to them and between them. "Max." His voice was cold, like it got when he wanted to shut something out, but this time, the only thing he wanted to shut out was her. "Max…" She didn't want to hear that desperation in his tone. "Promise me that you won't be mad at me. Promise me that you won't hate me." He looked up at her with those big eyes, pleading with her. "I could never hate you Maxie." She smiled at him, but she didn't believe him. That's what he had said last time. They had been sitting that way, in that place, looking just like that. She sat next to him. "Where should I start?" He shrugged. "What's the last thing you remember?" He took a deep breath. "When we were first at TC and Josh raised the flag." She nodded. "I'll start from there then."