Misconceptions
By Sinful Starlet
Disclaimer: Again, nothing connected to Dark Angel the tv show is mine. I'm just borrowing the characters for a while - I take no responsibility for their actions! J
Rating: I still don't really get how to do this but never mind! Most of it's nothing too serious but I'd probably say it was an R (at least in places!) - feel free to disagree with me!
Summary: What a difference a day makes! What happens when you figure out that you had everything backwards to begin with?!
Author's note: Okay this is it folks! THE END definitively! Hope you all enjoyed it and I'll just shut up now and let you finish! *SS*
part #11
He couldn't help but reciprocate when he felt her lips touch his. He had wanted this for so long, but there was still that nagging doubt in the back of his mind, so he gently pushed her back for a second so he could talk to her. "Max wait", he said, a little surprised at his voice sounding so breathy, "are you really sure about this?" She stepped back enough to let him stand up and face her properly. "I mean you and Logan can finally be together, and instead you're here with me?" Max just smiled, "Exactly". That was all she needed to say. She practically laughed then, forgetting before how tall Alec was, so she just reached her arm round his neck and pulled his face back down to her level, "Just shut up and kiss me!" Alec smiled back down at her and she could feel his breath on her face, "Yes ma'am!"
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About four hours, and a lot of...talking, later, she eventually pulled up outside Logan's apartment. Alec had wanted to go with her while she did this, but she did at last convince him that it probably wasn't the best idea. She also found kissing him to be a very persuasive bargaining tool! She was more than a little apprehensive as she knocked on his door, but she was also sure she was making the right decision. Logan answered almost immediately, beaming in happiness to see her up and about.
"I wasn't sure you'd be out of the hospital yet", he said, pulling her into a hug, "I was gonna come by and see you there". "Well you know me", Max joked uneasily, "never could stand those places!" He smiled and pulled her into a gentle kiss, not wanting to rush her but enjoying the face that they could now touch without him dying. "Logan wait", Max said, pulling back quickly, not wanting to hurt his feelings but needing him to know. "We can't", she said, "...I can't do this". He was totally confused of course, and more than a little upset, so she spoke quickly, trying to explain.
"It's not you", she said, "I am so glad that you found the cure for the virus - if anything had happened to you because of me I don't know what I would've--". "Max please", he said interrupting her, "if you have something to say - just say it". "I've been thinking about this a lot, and I am so, so sorry, but just because two people 'can' be together, doesn't necessarily mean that they 'should'". Logan was still confused at first, not understanding what had just happened, but eventually the realisation dawned. He didn't even want to think it, but he guessed what had happened. "Alec?", he asked. Max didn't reply at first, but finally she nodded, still not quite able to say the words to his face.
"I really never meant for it to happen", she said, hoping he would understand, "but something did. I woke up this morning and I just...I knew that things between us were different". "The last thing I would ever want to do is hurt you", she said, realising she was doing a pretty good job of that right now, "but I do love him, and I need to be with him". Logan didn't speak at first, but when he did it was with a sad laugh, and an acceptance of the truth. "I know", he said, "I guess I even saw it coming, at least from Alec's perspective - I was just hoping you wouldn't notice!" He walked back over to her, pulling her into a looser, but more tender hug. He had accepted it, Max realised, this was him giving her up.
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OC smiled as she took another sip of her daiquiri. Love really was a messed up emotion, she thought, you never knew when it would happen - and definitely not with who, but when it did, you had better hang onto it 'cause you could never know if it would ever happen again. She laughingly managed to get Sketchy's attention back to the table he was sharing with her, casting one last glance back at the couple in that darkened corner.
Max sighed as Alec's lips finally left hers long enough to trail down her neck, leaving butterfly kisses over every new inch of exposed skin. "You know..", she said, trying to formulate a sentence which was not the easiest thing in the world to do when he was kissing her like that, "...we should really go over to Sketchy and OC...", she couldn't help but let out a moan as his lips brushed the base of her throat and she reluctantly lifted his chin up so he had to stop and look at her.
"We're already late", she managed at last, dodging several attempts of his to kiss her again, before surrendering back into the heaven that he was inflicting with every touch. They were late though. Max had eventually managed to get them out of his apartment in an at least moderately respectable state of dress, and now here they were. They'd managed to get as far as inside Crash when he'd spotted a darkened corner and dragged her over to it. And she was gonna be the last person in the world to object. She couldn't believe that it had taken her this long to figure it out. In a world as screwed up as theirs, they made perfect sense. And to think, it'd only taken being shot in the stomach and almost dying to realise that. Love's a funny thing...
THE END
AN. Ta da!! Finally finished! So what d'ya think? And I've just started work on another story. Think this one's going to be a bit longer than the others so it might take me a while! If anybody's interested you can e-mail me at nirvana_nerd@hotmail.com and I'll let you know when I've posted it! Love to all! *SS*