A/N-I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, and I hope you'll enjoy this
one also. Thanks for all the great reviews, keep them up please. I've been
writing more lately, plus summers coming, so I'll have more spare time.
Happy days;)
A different life
A different home
The one on one rooms were not very large. Max would prefer more space, but she was used to it by now. It was about the size of a small bedroom, with mats stuck to the floor. They were supposed to attack each other, but apparently, they were supposed to be gentle about it. When Max got to the room, Alec was already there, sitting with his legs crossed in a corner. Max guessed he was board, for he was slowly banging his head against the wall. "Take it easy with the head banging Alec, you can't afford any brain damage" she said in a friendly mocking tone.
Alec stopped, and looked up at her. He blinked a few times, as if coming out of a dream. He brought his hands to his face, and dug the heals of his hands into his eyes for a moments. He shook his head and jumped up. "Let's get this over with" he said in a dull tone.
Max was a little bit surprised. Alec was usually more enthusiastic about morning warm ups. He'd come in with a grin on his face, say something about how she ate breakfast with Zack, then comment on how he was going to kick her ass. But Max didn't really know what to expect from Alec after this morning though. At morning meal he had, well, scared her. Max took an immediate attack position, and waited for him to make the first move.
He did after a moment, sending his foot out in the air to connect with Max's hip. Or it would had Max not dogged. This was also unexpected of him. He would usually try something more tricky in the morning, or wait for her to attack. She felt uncomfortable in the room alone with him. Usually they would dance around each other for a long time, until the three fights were completed. They would record who won each fight, then walk to the main training hall together, throwing random insults at each other. She wanted today's three fights to end as soon as possible, so she could skip out of the room and walk to the training hall alone.
Alec noticed Max distracted by thought, and swept out his leg under her feet. Max, still thinking, wasn't ready for this attack and she fell to the ground. Alec dropped down next to her, and pinned her down, before she could jump back to her feet. She struggled trying to push him off of her, but he grabbed her wrists, and held her hands over her head. Her legs were disabled by one of his. She felt like she should be able to do something. She felt like she had lost this fight way to easily. "Okay, you win" Max said defeated.
But he didn't get off of her. He remained as he was, his body pressed against hers, his breath falling in soft warm wisps across her face. His eyes held the strangest look. Much like the one of the morning. She wanted to push him off of her, to run away. He was scaring her. But the glint in his eyes made him look distant, not threatening. He looked afraid, though of what she did not know. The glint softened into sadness, a deep deep sadness that Max could not understand. And now, as much as she had wanted to push him away a moment ago, she wanted to pull her to him now. She wanted to comfort the sadness in his eyes.
He looked like Ben at the moment. He always looked like Ben of course, but usually he held a different aura around him, which made it easy to tell them apart. But now, she saw him as her brother, and wanted to make that sadness disappear. She once again found herself longing to know what had happened just under a year ago.
But she didn't do any of this. she just stared blankly at him, before saying, "Alec, you win, you can get off of me now".
He shook his head and rolled off of her. "One for me" he said, attempting to recover his attitude.
Max wouldn't let him shake this off so easily though. "Alec, call me crazy, but I think something's wrong" she said to him.
"Your crazy" he said and jumped up to his feet. Max followed his lead and got to her feet. They began to circle around each other, and Max felt herself relaxing a little more, this was more like their normal routine. she would talk to Zack about Alec latter, right now all she wanted was to get through the next fight. Alec lunged forward and through a punch at her. She blocked it easily, but didn't see his leg come up, and jam his knee into her side. Max stumbled back. "You a little off your game today 452?" Alec said cockily.
Max glared and jumped forward, her foot connecting with the back of his leg. he stumbled, bringing a hand to on his leg, but recovered quickly. "Not at all" she said smiling. She shot out her foot, attempting to knock him down as she had done to her earlier. He fell, but brought his feet up, wrapping them around her knees, bringing her down with him.
Max hit the floor hard, and Alec was on her again before she had a chance to recover. She used all her strength and rolled them so that she was on top of him now. She only had the upper hand for a moment though, because Alec brought his knee up and used his leg to send her flying off of him, across the room. She hit the wall and fell hard, the wind knocked out of her. Alec was on her again, and he won this fight, again. "Come on Max, usually your not this easy to beat" he was on her, his face close to hers, whispering these words.
"Bite me" Max said, her voice laced with venom.
Alec moved is face closer to her, and made a biting motion with his mouth "One of these days 452, I'm going to bite you" he said.
She glared at him, "Get off of me" she said. He quickly complied, rolling off of her.
"So that's another point for me" Alec said grinning. Max didn't say anything. Alec jumped up to his feet, but Max remained on the floor. He bent over her and reached out a hand, offering to help her up. She accepted the hand with a resentful smile, and allowed him to help her up. "You feeling okay Max?" Alec asked her. Max thought she sensed the tiniest bit of concern in his voice.
This angered her. "Am I okay? I should be asking you that crazy boy" she said glaring at him. Was she okay? of course not. She couldn't stop thinking about Zack. About that moment the day before. She felt herself getting lost in the memory of the day before, of his warm hand on her cheek, his breath hitting her skin, his lips a mere inch away from hers. His body against her.
"Uh... hello, earth to Max" Alec said interrupting her moment. She shot her up, looking at him. "We got one more fight left, I'd like to finish it soon. I hate being late every time." he complained. Max shook her head, flipping her hair out of her face. She went back into the fight position, and waited for him to make his move. She wasn't going to lose this time. "That's more like it" he said taking his attack position.
He shot forward, but Max easily dogged him. He flew forward with his foot out, aiming at her hip again, but she dogged it again. He aimed a punch, she grabbed his fist, and twisted his arm behind his back. She put him in a head lock. "You're not going to win this one Alec" she said into his ear.
Alec bent forward, and flipped her over his back, she landed o her back with a thump. "We'll see" he said. He tried to kick her hip, but she rolled out of the way, and back too her feet. He didn't waste a moment before attacking again, landing a punch in her gut. She stumbled, but kicked his knee cap, causing him to stager. "Why do you always go for my knees?" he asked.
"Because it gives me a chance to do this" she said, kneeing him in the gut. He bent over clutching his stomach, and she hit his back, hard. He fell to the ground, and she quickly had him pinned down. "That's one for me Alec" she said, and jumped off of him.
Alec got to his feet, "you fight dirty, that's the only reason you win" he said. She stretched his arms above his head, "Thanks to you, I'm going to have a back ache all day now" he said with a pout.
"Stop pouting" Max said, "And log our fights into the computer" she ordered Alec. Alec walked over to computer that was lodged into the wall in the corner of the room. He logged in their fights then turned around to face Max again.
She was stretching her arms above her head, arching her back. Her shirt was lifted, exposing a small stretch of smooth tan skin. Her eyes were closed, and her brown curls fell delicately around her face. When she did things like this the feline DNA was all the more obvious in her. Alec watched her stretch, waiting for her to come back to the world, open her eyes, and say some rude thing to him, ruining the picture of beauty that she was. It was the moments like these that he liked, when she wasn't talking, just being. but they never lasted long. She brought her arms back to her side and opened her eyes. "Come on crazy boy" she said as she walked out the door.
He followed her. He really hoped that crazy boy wouldn't become a permanent nick name with her. It was hard enough not thinking about her every moment of every day. He didn't need Max thinking he was crazy now. Especially not because of what had happened with the Berrisford assignment. For a moment he say her. Her light brown hair whisking over her light fair skin. Her lips dancing across her face in a bright friendly smile.
He shook his head. He couldn't think of that. It didn't happen. It didn't matter. Not anymore. It was just a bad incident. He had gone against orders, and deserved to be punished. It wouldn't happen again. Max was looking at him now, she must of said something to him. "What?" Alec asked her, turning to give her his grin.
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"Alec, you better not ever plan on sleeping again, because as soon as you let your guard down, I'm going to kill you" Max yelled at him. Alec had done stupid things as long as she'd known him, but it had never effected her before. And now, Max was being punished for something Alec had done.
Alec had gotten in a fight with Zane on the way to evening drills. Max still didn't know what it was about. She had been waiting for Alec in the drill room, since they were supposed to run over drills together. All she knew was that some one had said something to piss the other one off, and then they started throwing punches. Max was willing to bet that Alec had started this. And since she was supposed to be going over drills with his, she had to do his punishment with him. It was not fair at all.
They didn't get dinner, they had to spend the evening walking the perimeter of Manticore. No recreational time either, which really made her mad because she had really wanted to talk with Zack. She didn't know what Zane's punishment was. "Why did you have to get in a fight Alec? You know the rules. You know them." She pushed him, and he stumbled back.
It was cold and dark out, and she was grumpy. "Did you ever think that Zane started it?" Alec asked, regaining his balance.
"No I did not" Max said pushing him again. He stumbled back again. "Really Alec, why do you always have to do these things?" she asked pushing him yet another time. "I'm sick and tired of this. Maybe in your unit you did things like this all the time" she pushed him back again. Each time they moved back farther, neither of them seeing the pond behind Alec. "But that's not how we do things in mine. Not get your act together already" she pushed him one last time, but it was one time to many, and he fell back, into the pool of water, grabbing Max, and dragging her down with him.
The water was dirty, and freezing cold. It was also surprisingly deep. It went to Alec's Chest. Alec was able to gain control enough so that he didn't go completely under, but Max, who was pulled down not pushed, went down. She resurfaced after a moment though, and was fuming. Her normally curly hair fell strait , and stuck to her face in strands. Her eye's narrowed, turning a fierce glare his way. "Now look what you've done" She said gasping in air.
"What?" Alec asked, angry now, "YOU pushed ME!" he yelled at her, moving towards her. "It's your fault we're wet" he said.
"We wouldn't of even been out here if it wasn't for you" she said. She lunged forward, and dunked him under the water. He wrapped his arms around her waist, bringing her down with him again. This time they stayed under longer, Alec held them down there. Max tried to wriggle free, but Alec wouldn't let her go. He brought them up after a minute though. Max breathed in the air deeply, though she wasn't in that much need of it. She could of stayed under for much longer before she would of felt need for it.
After a few deep breaths, she turned her attention back to Alec, who still had her held against him. She hit his shoulders with her fists, And tried to push her self away from him, but he still wouldn't let go. "Let me go right now" she said thickly.
He shook his head, "not gone happen" he said grinning.
"Oh it is going to happen, or I'll kick your ass" she threatened.
He laughed, which made her even more mad, and she attempted once again to fight her way free. But Alec was strong. "You see, if I let you go, you're just gonna push me, or hit me, or something else unpleasant. The way I see it, I'm already in trouble with you and I'm already gonna get it, so why give up now?" he said cockily.
If it had been anyone but an X5 holding her, they would of been dead by now. She also was in an okward position though. Her arms were pressed between their bodies, making it hard for her to do much with them. He had her lifted, so that her feet weren't touching the ground, and the water made it hard for her to get the leverage she needed to kick him hard. "You are so gonna di-" her angry words were cut off by Alec pressing his lips against hers.
She didn't know what to do. She could kick him, push him away, but she found that she didn't want to. So she just kissed him back. His grip around her waist loosened, and she freed her arms. But instead of hitting him, or punching him, or doing any of the things she had wanted to, she put one hand on his face, and wrapped her other arm behind his neck. she brought her feet up, and wrapped her legs around his waist. He moved his hands up her back, and down to her thigh.
His mouth over hers was the strangest feeling to Max. She had never kissed anyone before, and the experience was new to her. She would of expected it to be the same for Alec, but it didn't seem to be. He kissed as if it was what he was made to. She didn't want the moment to end. But it did. Alec pulled back to look at her, his eyes glazed over with a look of daze. The world came crashing back down on Max, and she realized who she was with. She pushed her self away from him, and climbed out of the water, squeezing the water of her hair.
She turned to look at him, he was still in the water. "Why did you do that?" she asked angry. She had felt away from herself when he kissed her. She had felt out of control. A feeling which she hated. "You had no right to do that" she shouted at him.
"You didn't seem to mind a minute ago" Alec said climbing out of the water, "In fact, I think you enjoyed it" he commented, giving his cocky smile.
"Well then you thought wrong" She said. "why would you do that. It's cold, and I'm wet. I still have to run the perimeter three times before I can go in, and you decide it's a good time to kiss me?" she was furious.
He moved closer to her, and put a hand on her shoulder, and brushed the hair out of her face. "So I have bad timing" he said. He moved closer still, and brought his face closer still. He moved his lips down towards hers, and attempted to kiss her again, but he moved away from him.
"Alec, it will never be the right time" she said, and she took of at a run. Alec didn't bother trying to catch her. He kicked a near by tree, cursing to himself. He had really scrued things up.
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Jondy looked up from her magazine when Max came in. She always had a magazine, she had a little deal working with one of the guards. But the magazine was quickly forgotten when she saw Max. She was soaking wet, and frowning. Without saying anything, she plopped down on her bed, which was across the small room from Jondy's. When Max was around eleven, they were all separated. Max now roomed with Jondy, Ben with Zack, Krit with Zane, Tinga with Syl, Eva with Brin, and Alec roomed alone:( "Something wrong?" Jondy asked after Max said nothing for a few moments.
"No, nothing's wrong, why would anything be wrong?" Max answered too quickly. Jondy just shook her head. If Max wasn't going to tell her what was wrong, there was no getting it out of her. She went back to reading her magazine.
A minute latter Max stood up, and went to the trunk at the foot of her bed, and grabbed out a pair of dry sleeping clothes, and changed into them. She paced the room a few times then went over to their window. "I need to do some thinking" she told Jondy. Jondy nodded, and watched as Max squeezed through the small window, and climbed up the side of the building to the roof top.
They weren't supposed to leave their rooms after lights out, and it was forbidden to go to the roof, ever since their alter was discovered ten years ago. But they did it any ways. Max and Ben more then anyone else. Max, because she didn't sleep, and Ben because he still believed that the blue lady would hear him. Max didn't know if she believed in the blue lady anymore, but it was still nice listening to Ben's stories. when she reached the top, she was not at all surprised to see Ben up their, starring at the stars in the sky, "Looking for her?" Max said in a light tone walking up behind him.
"She IS real Max" he said quietly. He turned and looked at her with a smile though. He put a hand in her hair, "Your wet. Mind if I ask why?" he said still smiling, bringing his hand back to his side.
"I'll give you one guess" Max said grumpily. But she didn't let him guess, she went right on to say, "It's all Alec fault" with an angry tone.
"Of course. Please, enlighten me with new tales of my twin brother" Ben said sarcastically. His tone surprised her. He was usually always willing to listen with out a critical ear. He noticed her wounded look, then smiled again, "Sorry, now really tell me all about it" he said in the tone she was looking for.
"First he has to pick a fight with Krit" she said angrily "Then I get in trouble for it wit him" she walked over to the edge of the roof and looked off, not wanting to face Ben for the next part of the little story. "Then he falls into that pond thing out by the perimeter, and pulls me down with him, which by the way is why I'm wet. And then, as if that wasn't bad enough, he kissed me" she said the last part quickly, thinking that maybe Ben would hear it, and wouldn't ask about it.
No such luck. "What? He kissed you?" Ben said coming up behind her. "Why, did you want him to?" Ben asked hesitantly.
"What?" Max asked amazed at the idea, "Of course not. I can't stand him" she sat down and brought her knees up to her chest, and wrapped her arms around her legs. "I hate him" she mumbled quietly into her knees.
Ben sat down next to her, and put himself in the same position, but more relaxed. "Well, I can kill him if I have to" his tone was serious, but Ma knew he was joking. "Every one will just think that he went AWOL and killed himself. No one would ever suspect me. I'm a good soldier" he said.
Max let herself smile, and leaned against her brother. "Sounds like a plan to me" she said.
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A/N- once again, what happened in this chapter doesn't mean it's going to be a Max/Alec fic. As I said before. There are many things that are going to happen in this fic that will make it seem like a Max/Alec, or a Max/Zack. Though one couple will dominate over the other after a few more chapters. And I'll also warn you that this fic will have some angst in it. It's not going to be fluff like some of my other pieces of work. I'm trying to make this one completely different from the others. Thanks for reading, and please review!!!!!!!!!!!!
A different life
A different home
The one on one rooms were not very large. Max would prefer more space, but she was used to it by now. It was about the size of a small bedroom, with mats stuck to the floor. They were supposed to attack each other, but apparently, they were supposed to be gentle about it. When Max got to the room, Alec was already there, sitting with his legs crossed in a corner. Max guessed he was board, for he was slowly banging his head against the wall. "Take it easy with the head banging Alec, you can't afford any brain damage" she said in a friendly mocking tone.
Alec stopped, and looked up at her. He blinked a few times, as if coming out of a dream. He brought his hands to his face, and dug the heals of his hands into his eyes for a moments. He shook his head and jumped up. "Let's get this over with" he said in a dull tone.
Max was a little bit surprised. Alec was usually more enthusiastic about morning warm ups. He'd come in with a grin on his face, say something about how she ate breakfast with Zack, then comment on how he was going to kick her ass. But Max didn't really know what to expect from Alec after this morning though. At morning meal he had, well, scared her. Max took an immediate attack position, and waited for him to make the first move.
He did after a moment, sending his foot out in the air to connect with Max's hip. Or it would had Max not dogged. This was also unexpected of him. He would usually try something more tricky in the morning, or wait for her to attack. She felt uncomfortable in the room alone with him. Usually they would dance around each other for a long time, until the three fights were completed. They would record who won each fight, then walk to the main training hall together, throwing random insults at each other. She wanted today's three fights to end as soon as possible, so she could skip out of the room and walk to the training hall alone.
Alec noticed Max distracted by thought, and swept out his leg under her feet. Max, still thinking, wasn't ready for this attack and she fell to the ground. Alec dropped down next to her, and pinned her down, before she could jump back to her feet. She struggled trying to push him off of her, but he grabbed her wrists, and held her hands over her head. Her legs were disabled by one of his. She felt like she should be able to do something. She felt like she had lost this fight way to easily. "Okay, you win" Max said defeated.
But he didn't get off of her. He remained as he was, his body pressed against hers, his breath falling in soft warm wisps across her face. His eyes held the strangest look. Much like the one of the morning. She wanted to push him off of her, to run away. He was scaring her. But the glint in his eyes made him look distant, not threatening. He looked afraid, though of what she did not know. The glint softened into sadness, a deep deep sadness that Max could not understand. And now, as much as she had wanted to push him away a moment ago, she wanted to pull her to him now. She wanted to comfort the sadness in his eyes.
He looked like Ben at the moment. He always looked like Ben of course, but usually he held a different aura around him, which made it easy to tell them apart. But now, she saw him as her brother, and wanted to make that sadness disappear. She once again found herself longing to know what had happened just under a year ago.
But she didn't do any of this. she just stared blankly at him, before saying, "Alec, you win, you can get off of me now".
He shook his head and rolled off of her. "One for me" he said, attempting to recover his attitude.
Max wouldn't let him shake this off so easily though. "Alec, call me crazy, but I think something's wrong" she said to him.
"Your crazy" he said and jumped up to his feet. Max followed his lead and got to her feet. They began to circle around each other, and Max felt herself relaxing a little more, this was more like their normal routine. she would talk to Zack about Alec latter, right now all she wanted was to get through the next fight. Alec lunged forward and through a punch at her. She blocked it easily, but didn't see his leg come up, and jam his knee into her side. Max stumbled back. "You a little off your game today 452?" Alec said cockily.
Max glared and jumped forward, her foot connecting with the back of his leg. he stumbled, bringing a hand to on his leg, but recovered quickly. "Not at all" she said smiling. She shot out her foot, attempting to knock him down as she had done to her earlier. He fell, but brought his feet up, wrapping them around her knees, bringing her down with him.
Max hit the floor hard, and Alec was on her again before she had a chance to recover. She used all her strength and rolled them so that she was on top of him now. She only had the upper hand for a moment though, because Alec brought his knee up and used his leg to send her flying off of him, across the room. She hit the wall and fell hard, the wind knocked out of her. Alec was on her again, and he won this fight, again. "Come on Max, usually your not this easy to beat" he was on her, his face close to hers, whispering these words.
"Bite me" Max said, her voice laced with venom.
Alec moved is face closer to her, and made a biting motion with his mouth "One of these days 452, I'm going to bite you" he said.
She glared at him, "Get off of me" she said. He quickly complied, rolling off of her.
"So that's another point for me" Alec said grinning. Max didn't say anything. Alec jumped up to his feet, but Max remained on the floor. He bent over her and reached out a hand, offering to help her up. She accepted the hand with a resentful smile, and allowed him to help her up. "You feeling okay Max?" Alec asked her. Max thought she sensed the tiniest bit of concern in his voice.
This angered her. "Am I okay? I should be asking you that crazy boy" she said glaring at him. Was she okay? of course not. She couldn't stop thinking about Zack. About that moment the day before. She felt herself getting lost in the memory of the day before, of his warm hand on her cheek, his breath hitting her skin, his lips a mere inch away from hers. His body against her.
"Uh... hello, earth to Max" Alec said interrupting her moment. She shot her up, looking at him. "We got one more fight left, I'd like to finish it soon. I hate being late every time." he complained. Max shook her head, flipping her hair out of her face. She went back into the fight position, and waited for him to make his move. She wasn't going to lose this time. "That's more like it" he said taking his attack position.
He shot forward, but Max easily dogged him. He flew forward with his foot out, aiming at her hip again, but she dogged it again. He aimed a punch, she grabbed his fist, and twisted his arm behind his back. She put him in a head lock. "You're not going to win this one Alec" she said into his ear.
Alec bent forward, and flipped her over his back, she landed o her back with a thump. "We'll see" he said. He tried to kick her hip, but she rolled out of the way, and back too her feet. He didn't waste a moment before attacking again, landing a punch in her gut. She stumbled, but kicked his knee cap, causing him to stager. "Why do you always go for my knees?" he asked.
"Because it gives me a chance to do this" she said, kneeing him in the gut. He bent over clutching his stomach, and she hit his back, hard. He fell to the ground, and she quickly had him pinned down. "That's one for me Alec" she said, and jumped off of him.
Alec got to his feet, "you fight dirty, that's the only reason you win" he said. She stretched his arms above his head, "Thanks to you, I'm going to have a back ache all day now" he said with a pout.
"Stop pouting" Max said, "And log our fights into the computer" she ordered Alec. Alec walked over to computer that was lodged into the wall in the corner of the room. He logged in their fights then turned around to face Max again.
She was stretching her arms above her head, arching her back. Her shirt was lifted, exposing a small stretch of smooth tan skin. Her eyes were closed, and her brown curls fell delicately around her face. When she did things like this the feline DNA was all the more obvious in her. Alec watched her stretch, waiting for her to come back to the world, open her eyes, and say some rude thing to him, ruining the picture of beauty that she was. It was the moments like these that he liked, when she wasn't talking, just being. but they never lasted long. She brought her arms back to her side and opened her eyes. "Come on crazy boy" she said as she walked out the door.
He followed her. He really hoped that crazy boy wouldn't become a permanent nick name with her. It was hard enough not thinking about her every moment of every day. He didn't need Max thinking he was crazy now. Especially not because of what had happened with the Berrisford assignment. For a moment he say her. Her light brown hair whisking over her light fair skin. Her lips dancing across her face in a bright friendly smile.
He shook his head. He couldn't think of that. It didn't happen. It didn't matter. Not anymore. It was just a bad incident. He had gone against orders, and deserved to be punished. It wouldn't happen again. Max was looking at him now, she must of said something to him. "What?" Alec asked her, turning to give her his grin.
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"Alec, you better not ever plan on sleeping again, because as soon as you let your guard down, I'm going to kill you" Max yelled at him. Alec had done stupid things as long as she'd known him, but it had never effected her before. And now, Max was being punished for something Alec had done.
Alec had gotten in a fight with Zane on the way to evening drills. Max still didn't know what it was about. She had been waiting for Alec in the drill room, since they were supposed to run over drills together. All she knew was that some one had said something to piss the other one off, and then they started throwing punches. Max was willing to bet that Alec had started this. And since she was supposed to be going over drills with his, she had to do his punishment with him. It was not fair at all.
They didn't get dinner, they had to spend the evening walking the perimeter of Manticore. No recreational time either, which really made her mad because she had really wanted to talk with Zack. She didn't know what Zane's punishment was. "Why did you have to get in a fight Alec? You know the rules. You know them." She pushed him, and he stumbled back.
It was cold and dark out, and she was grumpy. "Did you ever think that Zane started it?" Alec asked, regaining his balance.
"No I did not" Max said pushing him again. He stumbled back again. "Really Alec, why do you always have to do these things?" she asked pushing him yet another time. "I'm sick and tired of this. Maybe in your unit you did things like this all the time" she pushed him back again. Each time they moved back farther, neither of them seeing the pond behind Alec. "But that's not how we do things in mine. Not get your act together already" she pushed him one last time, but it was one time to many, and he fell back, into the pool of water, grabbing Max, and dragging her down with him.
The water was dirty, and freezing cold. It was also surprisingly deep. It went to Alec's Chest. Alec was able to gain control enough so that he didn't go completely under, but Max, who was pulled down not pushed, went down. She resurfaced after a moment though, and was fuming. Her normally curly hair fell strait , and stuck to her face in strands. Her eye's narrowed, turning a fierce glare his way. "Now look what you've done" She said gasping in air.
"What?" Alec asked, angry now, "YOU pushed ME!" he yelled at her, moving towards her. "It's your fault we're wet" he said.
"We wouldn't of even been out here if it wasn't for you" she said. She lunged forward, and dunked him under the water. He wrapped his arms around her waist, bringing her down with him again. This time they stayed under longer, Alec held them down there. Max tried to wriggle free, but Alec wouldn't let her go. He brought them up after a minute though. Max breathed in the air deeply, though she wasn't in that much need of it. She could of stayed under for much longer before she would of felt need for it.
After a few deep breaths, she turned her attention back to Alec, who still had her held against him. She hit his shoulders with her fists, And tried to push her self away from him, but he still wouldn't let go. "Let me go right now" she said thickly.
He shook his head, "not gone happen" he said grinning.
"Oh it is going to happen, or I'll kick your ass" she threatened.
He laughed, which made her even more mad, and she attempted once again to fight her way free. But Alec was strong. "You see, if I let you go, you're just gonna push me, or hit me, or something else unpleasant. The way I see it, I'm already in trouble with you and I'm already gonna get it, so why give up now?" he said cockily.
If it had been anyone but an X5 holding her, they would of been dead by now. She also was in an okward position though. Her arms were pressed between their bodies, making it hard for her to do much with them. He had her lifted, so that her feet weren't touching the ground, and the water made it hard for her to get the leverage she needed to kick him hard. "You are so gonna di-" her angry words were cut off by Alec pressing his lips against hers.
She didn't know what to do. She could kick him, push him away, but she found that she didn't want to. So she just kissed him back. His grip around her waist loosened, and she freed her arms. But instead of hitting him, or punching him, or doing any of the things she had wanted to, she put one hand on his face, and wrapped her other arm behind his neck. she brought her feet up, and wrapped her legs around his waist. He moved his hands up her back, and down to her thigh.
His mouth over hers was the strangest feeling to Max. She had never kissed anyone before, and the experience was new to her. She would of expected it to be the same for Alec, but it didn't seem to be. He kissed as if it was what he was made to. She didn't want the moment to end. But it did. Alec pulled back to look at her, his eyes glazed over with a look of daze. The world came crashing back down on Max, and she realized who she was with. She pushed her self away from him, and climbed out of the water, squeezing the water of her hair.
She turned to look at him, he was still in the water. "Why did you do that?" she asked angry. She had felt away from herself when he kissed her. She had felt out of control. A feeling which she hated. "You had no right to do that" she shouted at him.
"You didn't seem to mind a minute ago" Alec said climbing out of the water, "In fact, I think you enjoyed it" he commented, giving his cocky smile.
"Well then you thought wrong" She said. "why would you do that. It's cold, and I'm wet. I still have to run the perimeter three times before I can go in, and you decide it's a good time to kiss me?" she was furious.
He moved closer to her, and put a hand on her shoulder, and brushed the hair out of her face. "So I have bad timing" he said. He moved closer still, and brought his face closer still. He moved his lips down towards hers, and attempted to kiss her again, but he moved away from him.
"Alec, it will never be the right time" she said, and she took of at a run. Alec didn't bother trying to catch her. He kicked a near by tree, cursing to himself. He had really scrued things up.
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Jondy looked up from her magazine when Max came in. She always had a magazine, she had a little deal working with one of the guards. But the magazine was quickly forgotten when she saw Max. She was soaking wet, and frowning. Without saying anything, she plopped down on her bed, which was across the small room from Jondy's. When Max was around eleven, they were all separated. Max now roomed with Jondy, Ben with Zack, Krit with Zane, Tinga with Syl, Eva with Brin, and Alec roomed alone:( "Something wrong?" Jondy asked after Max said nothing for a few moments.
"No, nothing's wrong, why would anything be wrong?" Max answered too quickly. Jondy just shook her head. If Max wasn't going to tell her what was wrong, there was no getting it out of her. She went back to reading her magazine.
A minute latter Max stood up, and went to the trunk at the foot of her bed, and grabbed out a pair of dry sleeping clothes, and changed into them. She paced the room a few times then went over to their window. "I need to do some thinking" she told Jondy. Jondy nodded, and watched as Max squeezed through the small window, and climbed up the side of the building to the roof top.
They weren't supposed to leave their rooms after lights out, and it was forbidden to go to the roof, ever since their alter was discovered ten years ago. But they did it any ways. Max and Ben more then anyone else. Max, because she didn't sleep, and Ben because he still believed that the blue lady would hear him. Max didn't know if she believed in the blue lady anymore, but it was still nice listening to Ben's stories. when she reached the top, she was not at all surprised to see Ben up their, starring at the stars in the sky, "Looking for her?" Max said in a light tone walking up behind him.
"She IS real Max" he said quietly. He turned and looked at her with a smile though. He put a hand in her hair, "Your wet. Mind if I ask why?" he said still smiling, bringing his hand back to his side.
"I'll give you one guess" Max said grumpily. But she didn't let him guess, she went right on to say, "It's all Alec fault" with an angry tone.
"Of course. Please, enlighten me with new tales of my twin brother" Ben said sarcastically. His tone surprised her. He was usually always willing to listen with out a critical ear. He noticed her wounded look, then smiled again, "Sorry, now really tell me all about it" he said in the tone she was looking for.
"First he has to pick a fight with Krit" she said angrily "Then I get in trouble for it wit him" she walked over to the edge of the roof and looked off, not wanting to face Ben for the next part of the little story. "Then he falls into that pond thing out by the perimeter, and pulls me down with him, which by the way is why I'm wet. And then, as if that wasn't bad enough, he kissed me" she said the last part quickly, thinking that maybe Ben would hear it, and wouldn't ask about it.
No such luck. "What? He kissed you?" Ben said coming up behind her. "Why, did you want him to?" Ben asked hesitantly.
"What?" Max asked amazed at the idea, "Of course not. I can't stand him" she sat down and brought her knees up to her chest, and wrapped her arms around her legs. "I hate him" she mumbled quietly into her knees.
Ben sat down next to her, and put himself in the same position, but more relaxed. "Well, I can kill him if I have to" his tone was serious, but Ma knew he was joking. "Every one will just think that he went AWOL and killed himself. No one would ever suspect me. I'm a good soldier" he said.
Max let herself smile, and leaned against her brother. "Sounds like a plan to me" she said.
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A/N- once again, what happened in this chapter doesn't mean it's going to be a Max/Alec fic. As I said before. There are many things that are going to happen in this fic that will make it seem like a Max/Alec, or a Max/Zack. Though one couple will dominate over the other after a few more chapters. And I'll also warn you that this fic will have some angst in it. It's not going to be fluff like some of my other pieces of work. I'm trying to make this one completely different from the others. Thanks for reading, and please review!!!!!!!!!!!!