What the !*$% is going on?

By Sinful Starlet

Disclaimer: once more for the record - not mine, never will be, yadda yadda yadda!

Rating: who knows?! R - probably!

Summary: My version of how Dawg Day Afternoon should really have gone for all you Max/Alec shippers out there! Oh yeah - and just for originality - Max goes into heat!

Author's note: Last chapter! There's another AN about half way through which you have to read before you get the proper ending. Just to warn in advance though - if you're not too fond of mild slushiness, you're probably not gonna like this! *SS*

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PART #13

Max dressed as quickly as she possibly could, getting on her ninja and speeding off into the darkening city. It was early evening by then, the streetlights just starting to come on. It was too late for him to be at work, so she checked everywhere else she could think of. She went to Crash, but the bartender said he hadn't been in all night; she called Sketchy, but he hadn't seen him; she went by Joshua's but he said Alec hadn't been back since that morning.

She had been searching for an hour, and was starting to feel progressively worse and worse - she had to find him and make him understand otherwise she risked losing him too and she knew at last, that she couldn't cope with that. She was about to hit Crash again when a sudden flash of inspiration hit her and she sped off in the opposite direction.

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Alec sat alone, gazing down at the city displayed beneath him, this was about his favourite time of day, and he had to admit, from here he had one hell of a view! He felt awful though. For the last hour and a half he had tried not to think about her. Not to think about her face as she woke up, seeing them all standing by her door, not to think about the way she had breathed his name as they---.

He shook off those thoughts, he had really done it this time. She looked like she'd never want to see him again. Maybe this was what was supposed to happen to him, he thought, he fell in love, screwed it up and lost the only person he ever cared about. He started to see a pattern there. But maybe that wasn't the plan this time. He heard the footsteps for about thirty seconds before the figure reached him, standing beside him as he sat there.

"Someone once told me this was a great place to come when you wanted to be alone", he said, having no idea what else to say. "True", she said as she sat down next to him, "but I also said it was a great place to come and think - work out your problems, that sort of thing - and right now I think we've got one or two to talk about". "Max don't--", he said, still not turning to look at her, "please, not now. Whatever it is you want to say - however angry you're feeling at me right now, I promise you, you can't possibly make me feel any worse than I already do".

Max felt a tear come to her eye, 'he really did blame himself' she thought, feeling a hundred times worse for knowing that she was the cause of that. "Alec stop", she said, moving carefully round so that she was crouching in front of him, "you have to forget what OC said, she didn't know---". "Does it matter?", he interrupted, and as he at last looked up at her, she could see the tear tracks drying on his cheeks. "This has nothing to do with her", he added, making her understand what he meant.

'It really is my fault' she thought, feeling worse if that was possible, 'it wasn't Cindy that upset him, it was me'. "Alec", she tried again, needing him to understand, "please, just look at me", he did at last, and she rushed through her next few words, needing to say them all before he interrupted her, "what happened between us--". 'Was a total mistake', Alec supplied in his head, trying to look away, but she wouldn't let him. "Was exactly what I wanted", Max went on, gaining a little more courage as she spoke, seeing the change in his expression.

"You have nothing to feel guilty or upset about - I wanted you so much today, I needed you - and that hasn't stopped just because I'm not in heat anymore. I still want you, I still need you..." Alec shook his head then, thinking that this was all some happy dream that he had mistakenly fallen into, but Max took that the wrong way and only spoke more insistently then, moving her hands to wipe away the tear tracks on his cheeks. "Alec whatever you may be thinking now", she went on, her voice softer, her eyes dropping as she couldn't hold his gaze anymore, "you have to know that you didn't do anything wrong. You have to know that I love you".

Alec was seriously lucky that she was sitting in front of him right then, 'cause otherwise he probably would have gone catapulting off the edge of the Space Needle to a rather messy death way below them. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. His mind flooded with questions, but only one really mattered. "Are you sure?", he said, a little shakily, praying for an affirmative answer. His heart leapt as he saw her smiling at him, "What do you think?", she replied, pulling his face up to meet hers as she kissed him deeply.

AN. Right *ducking things thrown by people who are mad at me for stopping here!* This was originally gonna be the ending, but then I thought of something else that kinda made me laugh so I had to add it in. So this is the real ending...

PART #14

He finally understood what had happened, kissing her back with all the stored up love and passion he had been concealing for far too long. It was several minutes before they parted again, not wanting to let the other go, but Alec pulled Max closer to him, wrapping her up in his arms. "There's just one thing I gotta know", he said, a slight smile crossing his lips. "What?", Max asked, before quickly kissing him again, just to make sure he was really there.

"Whuh dih youh---", Alec started, attempting to ask his question without breaking the kiss, but that just made Max laugh, so they broke apart then and he asked it properly. "When did you realise that you loved me?" Max smiled as she snuggled back into his embrace, "This morning really confirmed it, but I think I've known ever since that night I told you about Ben". They shared a look then, and they didn't have to say anything to understand what the other meant. "So", he said, after they were quiet for a few minutes, "you knew you were in love with me after you saw me dripping wet and wearing nothing but a towel?"

Max's eyes widened and she opened her mouth to protest, but decided it was better to just kiss him to shut him up. He was totally right though - that had been a bit of a wake-up call, even if she hadn't realised at the time. "So what about you?", she asked, when they finally broke apart again, "Same question". He laughed a little, prompting a frown from her before he explained, "I think it'd be the night you kicked my ass in that cage fight!" "You're twisted you know that?", she asked, jokingly, before coming to a little realisation herself. "So", she said, with her own sly smile, "you knew you were in love with me after I gave you a lap dance?" "Touché!", he replied, laughing into another kiss.

THE END!!

AN. Ta da! What d'ya think? Already writing a new story (my epic one with the big X5 reunion thing) so keep checking back at FF.net for more! *SS*