Send the Pain Below; Justin and Alex

Justin and Alex

Justin and Alex were sitting in the diner doing typical Justin and Alex things. One, and you know who this is; was carefully counting the register change in an alien language. The other was lounging at a table with her boots up, tossing sugar cubes in the air, and catching them in her mouth.

They had not spoken in a week. They lived in the same house, worked the same shop, and were both wizards, and yet…

And yet they could not find the courage to talk about what had happened. Max shook his head in frustration.

He called, "Employee meeting!" knowing full well Justin would run upstairs to get his notes from the last one and Alex, full of sugar now, would make a break for it. He dragged his sister to a booth and made her sit down. Justin leapt down the stairs with a chart. Oh, this was going to be a long one, Max could just tell.

"Alright, Justin, sit down. Alex, you and Justin are going to talk. I don't know what happened after the competition, and I don't want to know. Get to your conversation!" He then left the two of them alone, knowing full well that two full wizards could incur plenty of damage to his shop.

The sat in silence looking desperately past each other at nothing. Alex reached for more sugar cubes, and Justin flinched, which in turn made her flinch.

"Sorry!"
"No, my bad, I didn't mean too…"

"Yeah, that's me, uh….."

They both sighed. Knowing he had to take the lead, Justin spoke first, "I don't think this is what Max had in mind when he told us to talk."
"Yeah, you look like you're talking to some cute girl, Justin. 'Uh, my bad, your Hotness, I mean, you're beautiful and hot, and I mean I'm a dork, oops! I speak alien language!" She laughed, and then realized how close they were and blushed.

"Alex, you are pretty, but that's not the problem here," Justin lowered his voice, "Why did you kiss me after the competition, but not Max?"

She rolled her eyes, preparing some sort of lie, but she caught his eye, and started squirming, "It was just on the cheek, gosh!"

"That wasn't my cheek," He said lowly. Something about the combination of uncomfortable tension mixed with her brother seemingly making a reference to his butt made Alex laugh loudly. Justin, shocked at first, stared at her before joining her.

When they stopped she glared at him, "You're such a dork!"

"Alex," he paused, "We can't… be together any more. You know that, right?"

"Justin, you'll always be my brother, right?"

He nodded and smiled, "Of course, just… we won't have adventures together. I've read 'Charmed and Dangerous' Harper is the one who you take."
Telling Alex Russo she had to do something was about as stupid as tackling a mother grizzly bear while naked, and covered in honey. She hissed her disapproval.

"I will go where I want, when I want, the way I want, if I want to!" Her anger petered out as her habit of defending herself to Justin kicked in and she had to qualify her statements with, "Of course, I'm generally on the couch, or in a chair…" She shook her head, "But you don't tell me what to do!"
He looked sadder than ever, "Alex… we can't…"

Her anger twitched on her face, then slowly, slowly sagged, "No… we have so much fun! Think of all the things we've done together, all the things we've done for each other… you promised, you promised you'd never leave me…!"

Justin knew she was about to cry, so he grabbed her hand, "I'll always be there, Alex, and you'll always be with me… but I know what you're feeling right now."

Her face was pure shock, and she sputtered. If he knew what she was really feeling… he might actually leave her. What if he was freaked out by her, and thought she was some weirdo? What if he did not care about her anymore?

He was waiting for the right moment. Then she asked, "Do you feel it too?"

She looked so unsure of herself he had to tell the truth, "Yes."
She gasped. Alex was never shocked, not really. She had spent years pretending to be surprised by things she had herself intended, but never had she dreamed of this moment.

Justin hated the next part, "Which is why we can't do this, why we cannot be together anymore."

Alex looked down, "You're my brother…"
"Max is your brother," He corrected her, "Dad has a brother, we, well, we are unprecedented." Knowing she did not know the meaning of the word, explained it softly, "We are new, and unique. I don't know how our bond is stronger than that of the rest of our family, but it is."

He got up and hugged her. Alex did not know that, feeling guilty, Justin had broken up with Juliet, and was now going to have to flash himself to his lonely, bare room at Wiz-tech. Justin did not know that Alex had accidentally sent Mason into a void and was actually there to ask her brothers for help. She too, would go back to her room alone.

Alex sniffed away her tears, listening as Justin told her to 'push it down' that someday she could send her pain away. She told him that pain would be forever in her heart. She would never, 'send the pain below.' Justin claimed he was allergic to Max's new cleaners, and flashed away. Alex flashed to her room for some privacy.

Max let a tear fall from his vantage point on the stairwell, knowing he had witnessed the end of something beautiful.

Author's notes; I decided I wanted to keep writing on how unfair Jalex can be. I've decided to avoid all the unnecessary smut and focus on the emotions. I have some ideas for the next few chapters. Review and I write. Stand there silently reading while listening to 'Baby, Baby, Baby' and I'll make the next chapter about Max's belly button lint. Questions? Comments? I'm open.

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