EPISODE 2: Crossing the Line!

Disclaimer: Refer to Chapter 1

A/N: Note to Shipper's. I have only read the transcripts (I've said it before) of S2, so I've tried to analyse Alec's thoughts based on what I've read. If you have any comments, throw them my way by reviewing or by e-mailing me at

dream_orb7@hotmail.com

Thanks a bunch!

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Asha walked into Crash, in hope that she wouldn't find Alec. She had got to thinking about her feelings for him, and she had to admit to herself that she did like him.

And she did want him!

But there was no way that she was going to tell him that, and there was no way that she was going to persist with those feelings. All Asha could see happening in a relationship with Alec was more heartbreak that she had already endured with her feelings for Logan.

And Logan Cale was another one of her relationship issues!

Logan loved Max and was never going to stop loving her. Asha knew it and had spent the entire year trying to get over him. And she had gotten some real progress, and Alec had helped her with that!

But Alec also was wrong for her. Even if Asha did find herself in a relationship with Alec, she knew that deep down all they had was attraction. Alec didn't have what she needed to build a strong relationship.

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Asha was sitting at a table by herself, she had bumped into Original Cindy briefly and then she had left the two lovebirds alone, letting them play pool until they finally left.

Sketchy walked into Crash with a guy Asha didn't know and walked over to the table that Asha was sitting at.

"Asha, I need you're help with something?" Sketchy asked in a frantic tone.

"What's wrong and who's you're friend!" Asha stood up and held a hand out to the guy standing net to Sketchy!

"Oh, that's Brian and he's not important. What is off dire importance is Alec. He totally lost it at the strip club and bailed on us and we need to find him. Do you have any idea where he is? We swung by his place but he wasn't there, any suggestions?" Asha's eyes opened up wide when Alec's name was mentioned!

"He lost it how?"

"He got a little too frisky with one of the fabulous Nipple Skin's and then he got in a fight with three guards when they tried to get him to leave. He's a bud, and I want to make sure he's okay?" Sketchy and Brian started of for the door and Asha followed!

"I'm not sure exactly, but I'll help you look. How about we split up. You go to Max's place and ask Cindy? I must warn you, she had her new girlfriend with her, and I'll check out Josh...a mutual friend of Logan and mine's, who Alec knows." Asha worked her way around the truth and Sketchy and Asha went there separate ways.

When Asha was about to turn the corner, Asha heard Sketchy confide to Brian. "I don't know what's up with Alec. Did you see how easily he fought those guards? And he just wouldn't let go of that girl?"

Asha cringed then was on her way to Joshua's
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Alec walked the streets and found himself atop the Space Needle. Max had a habit of using the Needle as a place to clear her head. He didn't know what was wrong with him. He was through his Heat and he found himself in so much rage.

He just wouldn't let go of that stripper; all he wanted to do was get closer to the girl so he could use her. Or at least, that was what he thought he was doing.

Asha came into his mind. It had been two nights since he and her went past the line of friendship and he wasn't about to go and become somebodies boyfriend. Asha was supposed to be a bud who he wasn't supposed to think about 'that way'.

No, he could think about her sexually, just not do it. Any girl who happened to have a nice pair of breasts and a nice looking behind who had a pulse Alec could get hot with. But there were girls in his life he couldn't cross the line with. Max and Original Cindy were one (and I don't think anyone want's to think about Max and Cindy with Alec). 'I mean they are like sister's, Yuk!' Asha was the other one.

Asha could make him laugh and he loved stirring her up over her feelings for Logan. She was so transparent when it came to Logan, she would say that she didn't care what Max and Logan were doing, but it was obvious she cared deeply and Alec knew the right button's to press in order to fess up. In a way, he was trying to help he get over Logan, the more he got on her nerve's, the more he got her mind of Logan.

Alec had slept with a lot of women in his time and he loved the feel of being inside a woman, and he knew that every time he was with a woman, he wasn't going to see them again. It was all part of the beautiful set-up that was called the one nightstand. He and a girl would meet at a bar, he would talk to her and make her feel gorgeous, then he would take her home, or go to there place and they would let out all of there frustration's, desire's and then move on.

He didn't get involved with people he cared about, because he knew that he couldn't get close. No one could see any of the nightmares deep inside his soul that were burned there by Manticore. The lives he had taken, the training, the...everything.

The truth was he cared about Asha, and he wasn't about to go and show his soul.

He didn't love her, he was just attracted to her. He was attracted to Max when he met her, but then she opened her mouth and Alec knew that Max would only ever be trouble. So he got to know her and found he cared for her like a sister. Original Cindy was the same, except there was also the fact that she was gay that bruised any chance of a relationship. Enter another Buddy. Asha was the other buddy in his life.

And he wasn't going to cross the line again.

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