Title: The Trials of Time and Love
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IMax's POV/I
When she had told him that she never wanted to see him again she had meant it. He had ruined every chance that her and Logan would ever have had. But now, as she returned to her apartment alone as usual, she had regretted her choice. There was something about him that made her stomach turn upside down when he entered a room. Something about her senses alerted her whenever he was near her, and now she would never get to experience that feeling again.
She had reacted in the heat of the moment. Her gut had told her to lash out, because as hard as she tried, she knew she had made the right decision. He had come into her life and turned all her beliefs upside down, and she hated it. She hated him for it. What would she do now though? He was gone and he would never be coming back.
As she sat on her couch, holding herself tightly, she began to sob as she started out the window into the cold and rainy night. She had come home to find shelter from the storm, and as hard as she tried, she knew it would be a long time before she found any. For the hundredth time in her life she had pushed away something good because she was scared. Scared of some unknown and unseen force that threatened to change her life. Maybe all change wasn't for the worse though, not that it mattered now. He was gone, probably for good. He wasn't the type to stick around if there wasn't something beneficial in it for him.
Maybe her gut reaction to him had been wrong. At first, when he had come into her cell and attempted to IcopulateI/ with her she had kicked him into the door. The eyes she had seen tonight though were a far cry from the ones she had seen the day they had met. They were so unlike anything she had ever seen. They had almost reminded her of Ben's. Those stormy hazel eyes, turned almost puppy-dog like, pleading with her to save his life. It had been different with Ben, he had been asking her to end his in order to save it, and now Alec, as she called him, was asking for a second chance.
Maybe he deserved one. Maybe she had been too quick to judge. Something was telling her that this chapter in her life was far from being concluded, and that she needed to go after him. She could leave Seattle for awhile and track him. After all he had a habit of being careless so tracking him probably wouldn't be that hard. Especially not when she felt so connected to him. Then it was settled. She was off to find the man she might love.
IAlec's POV/I
He never thought that there could be anything worse than Manticore. He had been wrong. One minute he was five seconds away from having his head blown off and the next she was telling him to stay out of her life for good, that he had ruined all of her chances to be with Ihim./I
I wonder what chances exactly she was talking about. The chance to pretend to be human? Max might not realize it now, but she wasn't meant to be with an ordinary. None of them were. They were transgenic, un-human. As time passed, it would only grow more and more dangerous for her to pursue any relationship with the ordinary. Not that he cared in the long run. These were just passing thoughts, something to keep his mind occupied as he drove far away from Seattle, and far away from her.
He didn't really care where he ended up as long as it was far from the West Coast. There was something about Max that made him uneasy. Something about how looking into her eyes made him want to stay with her and protect her no matter how badly she treated him. He was a soldier though, and he couldn't let his defenses drop like that. When he had held that knife over her, knowing that it was either her or him, he couldn't help but take the time to look at her. Even though he knew he only had minutes left to complete his mission, all he could see was her chest heaving in and out as she remained immobilized and her dark chocolate eyes staring up at him in sheer terror. She had seemed so different than the girl who had refused to copulate with him. He had seen through her defenses, whether she had wanted him to or not, and all of a sudden he had been bombarded with emotions he couldn't control, emotions that he knew he should never have. The last time ha had thought things like this, he had been punished, made to forget, and he had played along. He had forced them out of his mind, but now, seeing her, he felt a million things he couldn't control once again resurfacing.
It would be better this way. It would be better for him if he just left and found somewhere else, somewhere far away. Somewhere he could control himself better.
TBC…
A/N: Please review!!!