Title: Discovering Her Destiny : Tempting the Fates
Disclaimer: If I owned Alec, do you think that I'd give him to Max?
Summary: The Fates weave the threads that lead people to their destiny. They've led Max astray before, but perhaps this time she's found her soulmate.
Pairings: Max and Alec. If any two people were destined/designed to be together, it would be them.
Setting: 2022
Spoilers: Anything and Everything from both the show's seasons can pop up somewhere.
Chapter 12: Typical
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OC sighed in tired exasperation. This wedding had become the most draining experience of her life. The guests were yet again shooting not-so-subtle glances at their watches. She didn't blame them. The ceremony...or the lack of one, was dragging on much longer than anticipated. She could only imagine what the hell was happening outside...
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"Hate to interrupt this charming family reunion, but I'd like to get married soon...preferably today if that's okay with everyone?"
It was a rhetorical question. Alec didn't expect anyone to answer him. However, that's exactly what Zack did.
"No, it's not okay," he barked.
Typical.
"Why? Planning on marrying her yourself?" retorted Alec before he could wisely keep his mouth shut. With Zack, a certain amount of restraint had to be shown unless you wanted the guy to be sore at you for the rest of your life. However, the last thing an eager bridegroom needed to be told on the day of his wedding was that the brother-in-law from hell had a problem with him. After all, Zack hardly knew him. They had run into eachother when Zack had held him in the air in a death grip on his throat which left him gasping for breath. And they'd had a drink at Crash, when Alec had made a few quips about Zack's feelings about Max and 'Living the dream'... just before Max had gone and gotten herself captured by Alec and Zack's mutual friends the Steelheads. OK. So, he and Zack didn't have the most solid relationship in the world, but there was counselling for stuff like this nowdays...
"Do you really think I'd let Max get stuck with someone who's going to get her killed? I remember you, 'Alec'. When Max was captured you were still at Crash, drinking or playing a game of Pool or maybe even getting laid. I don't know what you were doing where. Or with whom, and I don't care, but you weren't there for Max. What makes me think that you'd look after her now?"
So that was Zack's problem. Alec had to admit that he felt really guilty about that incident when he hadn't been around, but Max had never brought it up so he never pressed the issue. Afterall, he had tried to actually kill her so his failure to help her with the Steelheads and Logan-killing Zack hadn't really sunk her opinion of him any further. It had been too low to sink any further.
"There's always the little fact that we weren't in love then and we are now." Feeble excuse, but true. "Max, tell your brother that I'm not going put you in any more danger....Max? MAX! Snap out of it. You can imagine what our honeymoon's going to be like when we're actually on it."
"Oh yeah. That distracted look of growing horror just depicts pleasure, doesn't it?" snidely asked Syl.
He turned to her, Brin, Krit and Zane.
"There's refreshments inside. Knock yourself out. Jondy, you better get back there and see if everything's alright."
Realising that this disagreement needed to be sorted out without their prescence, the X5s hurriedly made their exit in search of free food. Alec turned back to Zack.
"See? You've upset Max. How could you do that to you own SISTER on her wedding day?"
Alec just had to stress on the word 'sister'. There was no way in Manticore that he going to have a macho X5 wrestling competition to see who wins the girl. Not that he wasn't up to it. just not today, and definitely not in this tux. It was hired, damn it!
"I haven't upset her. She's just come to her senses and realised that she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life with you and your steelhead friends."
"They're more your friends than mine, Robocop. I'm sure Lux just lapped you up...or not, coz that would've caused a malfunction...but Lucky Eddy was *REAL* fond of you. Are there any skeletons in your closet Zack? Do you need to come out of one? 'Cause Normal needs a friend."
The punch to her groom's nose is what finally brought Max out of her reverie and back into reality. She put a restraining arm between the two most important men in her life.
"Zack! Back off! Alec, are you okay?"
"He punched me!" Despite it all, Alec was still incredulous.
"And you probably deserved it. Now shut your trap. I was thinking and... I think that we shouldn't get married - yet."
Zack's face displayed victory. Alec's face displayed ... a bruised nose.
"Max?"
"Let me finish," she interrupted. "I want to get married - and today would be nice too, but I don't feel right about Joshua, Dix, Mole, Luke and all our other friends not being here on the most important day of our lives. Seeing Zack, Syl, Brin and Zane here made me realise that they're my friends too. We're all part of the Freak Nation, and it's not right to get married without them."
"The church won't allow them in, Max. You know that. They think that they're Satan's children or something."
"Then why are *we* here, Alec? Just because we look human doesn't make us human. We don't even have a religion. If I can't have my family at our wedding, then we're gonna take the wedding to the family! Let's get married in Terminal City!"
Alec didn't have to answer. She could see by the look on his face that he liked the idea. TC might not have the enchanting look of the old church, but it was home. As for Zack. Well, judging by the sagging of his shoulders, he seemed to resign to the fact that Max was going to marry Alec one way or another.
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When everybody heard about the location change, that was the last straw. Everybody who wasn't OC, Logan, Asha, Sketchy or an X promptly vanished.
Disclaimer: If I owned Alec, do you think that I'd give him to Max?
Summary: The Fates weave the threads that lead people to their destiny. They've led Max astray before, but perhaps this time she's found her soulmate.
Pairings: Max and Alec. If any two people were destined/designed to be together, it would be them.
Setting: 2022
Spoilers: Anything and Everything from both the show's seasons can pop up somewhere.
Chapter 12: Typical
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OC sighed in tired exasperation. This wedding had become the most draining experience of her life. The guests were yet again shooting not-so-subtle glances at their watches. She didn't blame them. The ceremony...or the lack of one, was dragging on much longer than anticipated. She could only imagine what the hell was happening outside...
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"Hate to interrupt this charming family reunion, but I'd like to get married soon...preferably today if that's okay with everyone?"
It was a rhetorical question. Alec didn't expect anyone to answer him. However, that's exactly what Zack did.
"No, it's not okay," he barked.
Typical.
"Why? Planning on marrying her yourself?" retorted Alec before he could wisely keep his mouth shut. With Zack, a certain amount of restraint had to be shown unless you wanted the guy to be sore at you for the rest of your life. However, the last thing an eager bridegroom needed to be told on the day of his wedding was that the brother-in-law from hell had a problem with him. After all, Zack hardly knew him. They had run into eachother when Zack had held him in the air in a death grip on his throat which left him gasping for breath. And they'd had a drink at Crash, when Alec had made a few quips about Zack's feelings about Max and 'Living the dream'... just before Max had gone and gotten herself captured by Alec and Zack's mutual friends the Steelheads. OK. So, he and Zack didn't have the most solid relationship in the world, but there was counselling for stuff like this nowdays...
"Do you really think I'd let Max get stuck with someone who's going to get her killed? I remember you, 'Alec'. When Max was captured you were still at Crash, drinking or playing a game of Pool or maybe even getting laid. I don't know what you were doing where. Or with whom, and I don't care, but you weren't there for Max. What makes me think that you'd look after her now?"
So that was Zack's problem. Alec had to admit that he felt really guilty about that incident when he hadn't been around, but Max had never brought it up so he never pressed the issue. Afterall, he had tried to actually kill her so his failure to help her with the Steelheads and Logan-killing Zack hadn't really sunk her opinion of him any further. It had been too low to sink any further.
"There's always the little fact that we weren't in love then and we are now." Feeble excuse, but true. "Max, tell your brother that I'm not going put you in any more danger....Max? MAX! Snap out of it. You can imagine what our honeymoon's going to be like when we're actually on it."
"Oh yeah. That distracted look of growing horror just depicts pleasure, doesn't it?" snidely asked Syl.
He turned to her, Brin, Krit and Zane.
"There's refreshments inside. Knock yourself out. Jondy, you better get back there and see if everything's alright."
Realising that this disagreement needed to be sorted out without their prescence, the X5s hurriedly made their exit in search of free food. Alec turned back to Zack.
"See? You've upset Max. How could you do that to you own SISTER on her wedding day?"
Alec just had to stress on the word 'sister'. There was no way in Manticore that he going to have a macho X5 wrestling competition to see who wins the girl. Not that he wasn't up to it. just not today, and definitely not in this tux. It was hired, damn it!
"I haven't upset her. She's just come to her senses and realised that she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life with you and your steelhead friends."
"They're more your friends than mine, Robocop. I'm sure Lux just lapped you up...or not, coz that would've caused a malfunction...but Lucky Eddy was *REAL* fond of you. Are there any skeletons in your closet Zack? Do you need to come out of one? 'Cause Normal needs a friend."
The punch to her groom's nose is what finally brought Max out of her reverie and back into reality. She put a restraining arm between the two most important men in her life.
"Zack! Back off! Alec, are you okay?"
"He punched me!" Despite it all, Alec was still incredulous.
"And you probably deserved it. Now shut your trap. I was thinking and... I think that we shouldn't get married - yet."
Zack's face displayed victory. Alec's face displayed ... a bruised nose.
"Max?"
"Let me finish," she interrupted. "I want to get married - and today would be nice too, but I don't feel right about Joshua, Dix, Mole, Luke and all our other friends not being here on the most important day of our lives. Seeing Zack, Syl, Brin and Zane here made me realise that they're my friends too. We're all part of the Freak Nation, and it's not right to get married without them."
"The church won't allow them in, Max. You know that. They think that they're Satan's children or something."
"Then why are *we* here, Alec? Just because we look human doesn't make us human. We don't even have a religion. If I can't have my family at our wedding, then we're gonna take the wedding to the family! Let's get married in Terminal City!"
Alec didn't have to answer. She could see by the look on his face that he liked the idea. TC might not have the enchanting look of the old church, but it was home. As for Zack. Well, judging by the sagging of his shoulders, he seemed to resign to the fact that Max was going to marry Alec one way or another.
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When everybody heard about the location change, that was the last straw. Everybody who wasn't OC, Logan, Asha, Sketchy or an X promptly vanished.
