Chapter 3 Forgotten Past
Max woke up in the morning lying curled up in the arc of Zack's stomach. She quietly got up to make breakfast. When she walked into the kitchen she began to feel natious for no apparent reason she ran to the bathroom vomiting.
Zack woke up to the sound of Max running. He thought that she was in some kind of danger he shot out of bed only to come to an abrupt stop grabbing his wound "Ah god!" When he composed himself he walked into the bathroom only to see a sight that made him gasp. Max was cradling herself pausing only to vomit. Zack went to her side taking her in his strong arms, "What happened?" "I..I..don't know." "Zack, I keep remembering something it seems like a dream though. Do you remember back at Manticore what happened you know with..well with us?"
Flashback
The X5's were in the field stopping whenever they saw something outside of the Manticore perimeter. "Move out!" Zack ordered with authority. Everyone fell back into line except for Max. "Soldier I said MOVE OUT!" Max hesitated but fell back into line. Zack wondered what all the commotion was about so he walked to the perimeter only to see two humans. He sighed and was about to move on whenever he saw one of the people who happened to worked at Manticore crying, the man that was with her did something he never had seen before. The man wiped the tears off of her face and pressed his lips against hers. Zack wasn't sure what it was all about but he realized it made the woman stop crying and seemed to comfort her. Zack noted what the man had done and finished his field exercises. That night Lydecker had somehow found out about Max disobeying Zack's orders which was not to be tolerated. Lydecker took Max away from her barrack yelling at her for her disobedience he then ordered his soldiers to give her a good beating. Max came back with blood trickling from every possible area on her. Zack came to Max and realized that she was sobbing and shaking, Zack remembered about the man earlier that day and what he had done to comfort the woman. Zack lifted Max's head wiped off the tears and slowly and hesitantly put his lips to hers. Max had no idea what was going on but she liked being this close to Zack it made all of her pain disappear and for a split second she forgot that she was even at Manticore. When Zack ended the kiss he looked at Max she was just sitting there she seemed fine so Zack nodded to her and went back to his bunk.
End Flashback
"Max I didn't know what I was doing I'm so sorry. But why would that make you sick?" "Zack, after you had kissed me I didn't feel as though I was at Manticore, I was somewhere safe and for once I wasn't alone. But when you went back to your bunk I was alone." I'm not alone right now I'm with you , I'm safe but I keep thinking you will leave again like you did at Manticore."
With Max saying that Zack now felt terrible about the thing he had done , to the girl he loved. Max paused in her movements then lunged toward the toilet vomiting once again. "Maxie, I love you now even more than I ever did, if that's even possible I swear to you I will never leave you." With that said Max didn't feel natious anymore. Max had never seen Zack be so open with his emotions especially around her, which made Max believe him.
Zack took Max back into his arms looked her over murmuring "god your perfect." He then planted a kiss on her lips hugging her so tight it would have popped any normal persons ribs. He realized how hard he was holding her and began to release "Don't let go Zack." "I won't….ever."
Zack slid his hands to Max's back rubbing her . Max smiled just at the feel of him. There actions began to get more frantic as they began go groan and roll on the tile. Zack's tongue begged to be let in, Max darted out her tongue teasing him and making him chuckle. Max opened her mouth as Zack's tongue wrestled with her own.
Original Cindy unlocked the door and came into the apartment looking for Max to make sure she was ok.. Zack and Max were so taken with eachother that they didn't even realize that Original Cindy came back. Original Cindy walked to the bathroom door hearing a person in there she turned the knob and gasped at the sight of Zack/Sam tangled with Max. Zack was the first to realize that she was standing there he removed his tongue from Max's mouth and began to untangle himself from Max. Max looked in the corner of her eye to see Original Cindy starting to blush. "Oh I didn't know that you had company Max." Original Cindy began to shut the door "Oh and it's about time."
Zack and Max went into hysterics lying on the tile. Zack put his arm around her waist kissed her softly then started where they had left off.