Author's Note: Okay so I was listening ot the song "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars and it just hit me. Sorry for not updating in so long. Life kept me busy.

Disclaimer: If I owned either MR or "Just the Way You Are" I would be rich. I am not rich. Draw your own conclusions…

Title: The Way You Are

Rating: K

Words: 312

"Oh you know, you know, you know
Id never ask you to change
If perfect is what you're searching for
Then just stay the same" – "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars

She was so beautiful, inside and out. (Well, as much as he could remember anyway.)There was never a time in her life where she actually put herself first. Never. She never took a break. To her protecting them was a 'round-the-clock job and she treated it as such.

Sure, dating the flock-leader got a little stressful sometimes but Iggy wouldn't trade it for the world. There were times that Max would get so caught up in where they were going to hide next she'd completely forget about their date and as soon as she remembered (no matter the time) she'd run to him and apologize. And when she apologized he couldn't even think of being mad.

There was one time when they were hiding in the trees in Central Park and she wanted to stay up and take watch. Iggy wouldn't let her, saying she needed to sleep. Max sent his own argument back at him. Finally they agreed to take shifts, arm wrestling for the first, because they both knew the other wouldn't wake them up. Max won, but Iggy still thinks pushing him out of the tree was cheating. Needless to say, Max didn't get a minute of sleep that night. He couldn't stay mad at her then either.

One day Max came to him, almost in tears, saying she was terrible and didn't deserve him. That she always put everyone else before him. And that their relationship was suffering from it. Iggy held her and told her she was wrong. He told her she was wrong. That the flock always came before him and that their relationship wasn't going anywhere.

But most of all he told her that she wasn't terrible; she was perfect. She was amazing. She was so self-less and considerate. He didn't want her to change.

Because she was amazing just the way she was.

Author's Note: Okay, so I don't really like how it ended, but I can't think of anything else. Oh well. Nothing's perfect. (Wow, that was really contradicting the whole point of this drabble.)

Peace, Love, Iggy, and Mark.

Kierstin