Disclaimer:- I do not own Dark Angel or any of the characters. I just sometimes wish I own Alec!
AN:- Ok, I know it has been absoluetly ages since I uploaded, but you all should now by now I'm not to good with time periods! Any here's chapter 4. Enjoy!
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Not So Ordinaries
Chapter Four
"Hey, Josh. You here boy?" Alec called out as he and Donna walked into Joshua's house.
"Alec?" he heard the big guy yell in return. Before he walked further into the house, Alec stopped and turned to Donna, stopping her in front of him.
"You say you've been keeping updated on the news reports about us, right?" Alec asked. Donna nodded in reply. "Which means you saw the report on that the mutant that was on the run the other week? The one they're still lookin' for." Donna went to nod again, but understood what he was trying to say.
"Oh," she began. "You're trying tell me the wolf man is who's behind that door?"
"Precisely," Alec said.
"Which makes you one of the one's they said helped him escape all the cops and military round the street?"
"Right again. The fact I'm trying to get to is that you don't believe in anything the news said, do you? More specifically about that Annie girl."
"That. At the time I wasn't sure, but now…. Well, if you trust him, I guess I can't really believe the news. We've already established I trust you." When Donna smiled, Alec smiled back, motioning her to follow him.
Alec walking ahead, he found Joshua in the living room sat surround by all his paintings of Annie. Her death had really hit him hard. He just wasn't the same Joshua he had been when he had first got out of Manticore. His happy-go-lucky attitude had totally vanished. Now a days, you hardly got a word out of him. Alec couldn't help but think that maybe Donna could help with that. Maybe if Joshua had someone other than him or Max he could have around, he might cheer up a little.
Joshua turned to Alec the minute he stepped into view, his eyes going wide as he saw the new guest behind him, jumping to his feet. Alec caught a glimpse of the same expression on Donna's face, but she hid it well. It only flashed for a second.
"Josh, buddy, this is Donna. Donna, Josh," Alec introduced, watching the reactions of his two friends. Donna smiled brightly at him, but remained by Alec's side, still a little unsure about being here. Joshua kept his wide eyes on Donna, turning away after a minute to stare at Alec.
"But… Max. Max said upstairs people… running, screaming… they…."
"Don't understand," Alec interrupted. "Yeah, I remember. But Donna's different. She's knows about us. It's ok." Joshua turned back to Donna as if for confirmation.
"The boys right," Donna said, the smile still on her face. "No running or screaming. I'm still here right." Donna finally moved from Alec's side, making her way further into the room.
"So… nice to meet you, Joshua," Donna said, stepping right in front of him. Joshua again turned wide eyes to Alec. Alec simply smiled at him, and that was enough for the dog man.
"Welcome to my home," he said, smiling widely, although somewhat falsely, at her as he turned and headed back to his chair. With his attention away from her, Donna turned to look at Alec over her shoulder, a slightly worried look on her face although she tried to hide it. Laughing slightly, Alec walked up to Donna placing a hand gently on her hip and guiding her into the living room.
"You'll be fine," he whispered in her ear. Still guiding her, Alec sat Donna on a chair between himself and Joshua, sitting down himself.
"So, what you been up to, big man?" Alec said, trying to keep the conversation as normal as he could.
"Just reading," Joshua said, glancing down at the book by his side. "Nothing else to do."
"I know the feeling," Alec said, his eyes flicking to Donna who own eyes were wondering round the apartment. "Something caught your eyes?" he asked.
"Yeah. The paintings. You do them?" she asked Joshua. He simply nodded. "They're good," she finished.
"You like my paintings?" Joshua asked.
"Yeah. You got talent, boy," Donna said with a smile, feeling suddenly at ease. Joshua smiled back then, a genuine smile. The first time Alec had seen him do that in days. In seemed Donna really did have that kind of effect on the whole transgenic community.
With Donna's attention still exploring round the house, Alec caught Joshua's eyes, grabbing the dog-man's attention.
'Well,' he mouthed to him, motioning towards Donna. Understanding what he meant, Joshua nodded, smiling brightly. A smile of his own flew across Alec's lips.
Her attention back on the others in the room, Donna couldn't help but notice the wide smiles on both their faces.
"What?" she asked, her voice slightly nervous.
"Nothing," Alec said.
"Yeah right," Donna said. "You know, trust only goes so far, boys."
"That's actually something I wanted to talk to you about properly," Alec said. "We never really got a chance last night."
"Let me guess," Donna said. "You wanna know if there's anything really behind the trust I have for you guys." At Alec's small nod, Donna answered his question.
"The answers exactly the same as what I said last night. I don't judge before I know. When I was growing up, people did that a lot with me and my family. There were a lot of people who didn't like me just on the basis of what my dad did for a living. I always swore to myself I would never do that."
"Yeah, but that still doesn't give a good enough explanation on why you would trust us after everything you know about us," Alec said.
"You know," Donna said, turning to him with a small smile. "It sounds to me like you don't want me to trust you, Alec."
"No, it's not that, it's just…." Alec stuttered out. At the sound of Donna's laughter, he smiled himself, slowing his voice down. "I just meant, after everything the papers said, why trust us?"
"Because papers lie," Donna said simply. "Everybody knows that."
Alec didn't push it any further. Donna trusted him and his kind, and that was enough for him. And Alec had been right about her being good for Joshua. The three spent a good thirty minutes sat together happily, talking about whatever came up. And so far, Alec had seen Joshua smile so many times, the loveable version of his old self back again. Their conversations were only interrupted by the click of the door opening.
"Hey, Big Fella," Max's voice called from the hallway. "You seen Alec?"
"In here," Alec called back. Max stepped into the room, the words she wanted to say caught on her lips as she saw Donna. A reaction she seemed to get a lot today.
"Hi," Donna said with a nervous smile. "It's Max, right?"
"Alec," Max said without answering her. Alec rolled his eyes, wondering why people seemed to turn to him for answers today.
"Max, think," Alec said, knowing exactly what Max was thinking. "Donna is sat, quite happily I might add, next to Joshua. Now it's not very hard to hide what that boy is. Put two and two together, Max."
"She knows," Max said simply.
"Bingo," Alec said.
"You told her," Max said, looking somewhat annoyed at that fact.
"Why would you immediately run to the fact that I spilled our secret?" Alec said, standing in front of her.
"Because this is you, Alec. Anything to impress a girl."
"Yeah, telling a girl I was made in a test tube is really gonna impress much. You try telling a guy some time. See how he takes it."
"Err… excuse me," Donna said, trying to make herself heard. But these two weren't finished.
"Alec, how the hell else is the girl gonna find out. You know, why don't you just put a banner out there telling White just where you are."
"You think she's a spy, gonna go off and tell White where I am?"
"She might be. Do you know she's not?"
"She's not! And hey, it wasn't such a problem when you told OC!"
"Manticore put her life in danger! I had to tell her!"
"HEY!" Donna screamed, jumping to her feet and knocking them quiet as they turned to her.
"Good," she said, her voice calm now. "So I'm gonna start from the beginning. Alec did not tell me, I found out. The moves that boy pulls in a fight are far from normal. And I am not about to go tell White where Alec is. Not after the guy tried to grab me. So my life was in danger, and Alec saved me."
Donna stood in the middle of the room, all to aware of the three different pairs of eyes that were now on her. It was a second before the shock of her outburst had wore of and anyone spoke.
"You were attacked by White?" Max said calmly, letting Donna know she could breath finally.
"His Familiars, actually," Alec said. "Logan was right. They tried to grab Donna from Crash. I gotta say, she did hold up her own pretty well."
"You mean you got in a fight with a group of Familiars and are came out unscathed," Max said.
"Pretty much," Donna said, rubbing her hand across her bandages shoulder.
"You gotta teach me how to do that some time," Max said with a guilty smile. Donna smiled back, her smile a little brighter. "Look, I'm sorry about back then, but I'm not used to people just accepting us without having something in it for them."
"No problem," Donna said, her eyes quickly flicking to Alec and thinking just what was in this whole deal for her.
"Anyway, Alec, this whole deal with White is actually what I wanted to talk to you about," Max said, turning her attention to Alec. "He thinks he might have an idea where White is set up. Thought you might wanna know."
"You bet," Alec said, with a smile. "I'll be right out." Nodding at Alec and flashing a grin at Donna, Max left.
"Alec," Donna said, stepping up to him as he was about to follow her. "Is it ok… I mean will I be ok…." She pointed to the floor, asking if she was ok staying where she was.
Laughing slightly, Alec held her round the waist, hugging her slightly. It wasn't very often Alec hugged Donna for no reason, so she gratefully returned the hug, wrapping her arms round his neck.
"You'll be fine here," Alec whispered into her ear. "I'll see you later tonight," he finished, pulling back from her and leaving the house. Donna stood there, listening to the door click closed and knowing he had left.
"You like Alec," Joshua said suddenly, reminding her that he was still here.
"Yeah, he's a good guy. Who wouldn't," Donna said, turning back into the room and taking her seat again.
"Little Fella not used to having people understand her," Joshua said.
"Little Fel…." Donna began before she understood. "Max. No, I guess she isn't. Alec either. Hence the countless questions."
"People like you, upstairs people, they don't like us. Don't trust us."
"They just don't understand."
"Scared of what they don't know," Joshua said, repeating what Max had told him over and over. "You not scared?"
"No, I'm not."
"Why?"
"So now you're starting with the questions," Donna said with a smile. When Joshua just continued to stare at her, Donna decided to just answer his question.
"I have been sat here for a good 30 minutes with the person the papers are calling a monster. And the so called monster hasn't laid a finger on me. Not even a growl. I know I have no reason to be scared around you."
"You not like other people," Joshua said with a smile.
"I get told that a lot."
"Not like us either," Joshua said, his smile turning a little sad.
"No. But I am in your side. I'm sitting right in the middle of my people and yours. You ok with that?" Joshua answered her question with a smile and a nod. Donna smiled back, a small laugh leaving her lips. She sat back in the chair, getting comfortable. She's was ok here. She's was safe here. And more importantly, she was happy here.
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