Time to Sleep

When Max got back to the Medtronics, she said, "we got some food for everyone, someone was already thinking of you Mole" as she tosses him a box of cigars.

"Awesome that guy is untradeable, he's the best!" Mole said as he lit one of his new cigars.

"Why does he get special treatment?" another one of the transgenics asked.

"Whoever said that he doesn't get any special treatment, he is the only one who asked for something specific." Max standing up for Mole and anyone who decides to ask for something specific, that they miss from before this stupid war.

Just as Max finished saying that Alec said, "it's been four days since you slept and now you're not telling me to get some sleep, I did two days ago I'm telling you, you'll be no good to anyone if you don't get some sleep!" Alec is looking at Max with what Max can remember as the most serious face he ever made, "It's time you go to sleep now Maxie, nothing is going on but a bit of bickering, but that will always be going on!"

"Alright, alright 'Smart Alec' I'll go and get some sleep seeing you did when I made you!" Max said making a stab at Alec on how he got his name 'Alec' as he was giving her a 'Smart Alec' smile. "Only because I know you will not let me live it down till you get to get me back."

"Same place as last time?" Alec looking back at Dix, as he asked him.

"Yeah I had a nap earlier and I can share a friend's room if I do get tired." Dix replied to Alec's question while making them wonder.

"Oh, if you want your room we could use someone else's room." Alec stated.

"Well actually I was . . ." Dix was about to tell them that was a joke but was interrupted by Max.

"Who said 'WE' would share a room?" Max asked Alec with wonder in her voice.

"I did," Alec said with assertiveness that Max had never seen. "How else can I be sure you don't just lay there wide awake; like you told me you did with Kendra!"

"Oh, that's who, you!" Max said with a sarcastic voice, "So you think you are big enough to make me?"

"Want 'a bet?" Alec said as he lightly pushed her toward Dix's room, and Max didn't fight it. She was actually quit tired but had a lot to do and that's why she was withholding herself from sleep.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow about what we were after Logan left, don't worry." Joshua said, "Alec right you need sleep."

When they got to the room Alec said, "You're taking the bed this time." Before she could argue with him, he jumped into the recliner and put up the foot rest.

Max didn't even try to argue with him even though she thought that he would do that. She yawned as she sat down to take off her boots to get ready for sleeping, "You know you don't really have to stay here all night to make sure I sleep." Max explained wishing he would leave but knowing he wouldn't. "You could always only stay till I'm a sleep and then leave."

"Yeah you would like that because than you would wake up from the noise I make leaving." Alec snapping a little as he was starting to get annoyed with her for her keeps trying to not go to sleep even though everyone knows she needs it, but her.

As Max laid down to sleep on the bed she said, "You were waiting for the time I needed sleep to rub it in that I made you weren't you?"

"Yes I was and like I thought it feels good to tell a know-it-all what she needs to do that she wasn't." Alec said trying to make it strait that he'll never let her live it down that she tried to tell him what to do. He still thinks as he did in Manticore that he does what he wants not being told what to do by other transgenics that he normally tells what to do. Max was always the exception of that she never done what he said until now!

He stopped thing about that when he started to hear Max snoring not so softly. Alec couldn't stop but thinking it would be funny if this happened more often and he actually kind of likes it, but doesn't understand why because he never felt like this other than with one woman that he pretended to teach piano, in her home to get close to her father. Than two years later he finds out she didn't die when he thought she did, at the same time of her father. She saved her father and ended up in a coma, than died just after he found out and sat beside her bed. Max seen that he really loved her by the way he looked at her on her death bed.

As thoughts rushed into his head as he watch Max sleeping he tried to stop them but realized he was not going to win this fight till he was asleep or away from Max. He couldn't fighter out why but it felt like when he sat beside that girl in a coma, but also different at the same time. So he tried to leave her sleeping but as he thought Max woke up and asked, "Thought you weren't going anywhere so you can make sure I stay asleep."

"I was just going to the bathroom." He lied to her to hide what he was thinking about.

After a few minutes went by Joshua came into the room and seen Max sitting on the bed not sleeping. "Alec thought little fellow wouldn't be sleeping; asked me to come tell you to sleep, he's just doing something. He be back here, doesn't want to find you little fellow awake." Joshua tried to explain without much luck, she got the just of what he was trying to say. Joshua left after saying what he needed to say.

Max laid back down but now she was wondering what was going on with Alec, he normally doesn't act like this. She was still awake when Alec got back but she pretended to be asleep so he wouldn't know that she was worried about him.