Title: Discovering Her Destiny : Final Destination

Disclaimer: If I owned Alec, do you think that I'd give him to Max?

Summary: Part 3 of the "Discovering Her Destiny" Trilogy. It's four years after "Tempting the Fates", and Max and Alec are still crazy about eachother. But somebody is determined to shatter their happiness...

Pairings: Max and Alec. If any two people were destined/designed to be together, it would be them.

Setting: 2027

Spoilers: Anything and Everything from both the show's seasons can pop up somewhere. I have only just begun to watch Season 2 myself - Designate This aired on the 22 March, so if I'm not totally accurate; just know it's because I must've read the transcript wrong or something, and TELL me that it's wrong!

A/N: It's not necessary to read Parts 1 and 2, but for the sake of continuity - I'd recommend it.

Chapter 1: Coming Home



"We're back!" shouted Max as she threw open the apartment door.

"Hey, Boo! You look good! You really needed that vacation, didn't you?" said Original Cindy with a huge smile as she gave her friend a big 'welcome home' hug.

She turned around and called out to the other end of the apartment.

"Gabi, Danny! Look who's home!"

"Mommy!" screamed the three-year old twins as they ran up to them.

Max ruffled her daughters' hair and picked them both up to hug them.

"Hey, Cupcakes! Miss us?"

They nodded their heads in unison. Gabi piped up.

"Where's Daddy?"

"Right here." said Alec as he came through the door, laden with the luggage. He dropped it all down and scooped up the girls. They threw their arms around him, laughing in hysterical delight.

"You've been good soldiers, I hope! Did you give Aunty Cindy any trouble?"

They giggled, so he looked up at Original Cindy.

"Thanks for looking after them, OC. Be honest, how many grey hairs did they give you?"

"Original Cindy ain't got no grey hairs! She's still as young and beautiful as she ever was. Or so I'm told!"

She said the last remark with a wicked smile.

"I didn't mind babysitting the 'lil monsters. They were pretty good - considering that you two are their parents!"

"Hey!" Max was indignant.

"Anyways, Boo. How was the second honeymoon? I hear the African sky's pretty romantic." she said with a wink and a not-so-covert nudge.

Max blushed and murmered something about Africa being great. Alec, with a twinkle in his eye, added:

"You would've loved it, OC. The women there look like they were made of melted chocolate!"

"Were you paying attention to them or to my Boo? She didn't go for a romantic holiday so that you could get it on with chocolate goddesses!"

"Oh, I think that Max wasn't neglected at all." he said, putting an arm around Max's shoulders - only to be greeted ith a jab of the elbow to his abdomen. He grinned cockily at her. Some things just hadn't changed. He tried a little flattery.

"The women of Africa may be like melted chocolate, OC, but my candy is right here with me. It's a beautifully wrapped Maxie-bar."

Alec was awarded with a smile, and he wrapped his arms around his wife. He looked down at the girls, who were quietly watching them.

"And what did you two rascals do for the whole three weeks we were gone?"

Gabrielle and Danielle grinned at him in response, and he laughed. He knew that they were a bundle of mischief and he absolutely adored them. Their faces and body build were absolutely identical. They had inherited Max's face structure, but their green and hazel eyes were from him. Their skin tone was fairer than Max's and they lacked her full lips. Instead they had his cheeky smile and the same twinkle in their eyes. Only their different hair colors told them apart. Gabi's hair was dark brown like Max's, while Danny's hair was a dark blonde like his. They were pretty little things, and he knew that when they were older; he'd have to fight off the local teenage male poulation. With that in mind, he was thankful that the girls didn't have Max's seductive pout.

Alec shook his head at himself. Gabi and Danny were only three-years old, but he was already planning on beating down any lout who even thought about touching them. They were his angels...well, more like devils incarnated - but they were still the apples of his eye. His greatest moment was when the nurse had placed their tiny newborn forms into his arms and he'd be damned if anyone took them away!





A/N

Finally posted! This was wierd to write. Can you picture Alec as an overprotective father? If I work with Alec being 22 in Designate This, then he'd be 27 in this chapter. Why do we have to age? Can't we stay forever young? Anyways. Next chapter, we see Max as a *GASP* mother!

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OK, take a vote:

Should I extend Part 2 or not? There's a lot of potential that can be added on to it,( I could go right up to Max finding out that she's pregnant) but I'll only extend it if there's a demand.