Title: The Trials of Time and Love-Chapter Three

Disclaimer: You don't want what I got.

IAlec's POV/I

He sensed her before she opened the door. It woke him out of a somewhat satisfying slumber, and it took only a few seconds until he realized what was happening. She's nervous about whatever is about to happen, hell she should be. She's the one who told me to get lost. Now she thinks she can come waltzing back into my life?

Who am I kidding. God she's hot, and right now she's staring at me as I prop myself up on my elbows watching her. I'm not at all surprised she followed me, in fact part of me was hoping she would. Now what do we do though…for the second time since I have known her, she looks terrified. She wants me to make the first move. That would be all fine and well if I had been wearing any pants. But as it was, she had woken me up in the middle of a particularly steamy dream, a dream in which she had been very participatory.

IMax POV/I

This was a mistake. He's just staring at me, looking at me like I've sprouted two heads. Now all I want to do is turn around and forget this whole stupid idea. I was horrible to him, and I'm expecting him to just forget it happened. How the hell am I going to be able to tell him what I feel. I can barely understand it myself.

"Max?"

"Yeah" Maybe if I just look at my hands he won't see that my face has turned a new shade a of red.

"What are you doing here?"

"I thought that…well…it's just that I…I don't know…"

"You don't know why you just drove some thousand odd miles to the middle of nowhere?"

"Listen…Alec I just don't feel right about what happened when you left."

Grabbing his pants up from where they lay next to the bed, Alec slipped them on under the covers. Consciously trying to seem less intimidating, he started to cross the room towards her, only to find her backing out the door, as if she was expecting him to attack her.

"I'm not going to hurt you Max." Not unless you go for that kind of stuff.

Warily she let herself back into the room and he stepped towards her, reaching across and shutting the door when she was beyond the threshold. Making sure it was locked he crossed the room and sat himself down in an armchair next to the television. Noticing that she hadn't moved, he motioned towards a chair adjacent to his and she took it.

"So, why exactly are you here again?"

"I needed to talk to you about something." Oh god the way he's sitting, with his arms outstretched along the chair, really lets you see the rippled muscles in his shoulder and arms. The fact that he wasn't wearing a shirt was not going to help her right now. And he's just staring at me with those eyes. Those are the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in my life. So green and stormy with expression, I can feel myself getting lost in them. Snap out of it Max.

"Well, I don't know about you Max, but I do have other things to do today." Mainly get the hell out of here while I'm still thinking with the right head. "So if that was all…"

Oh god he's actually going to leave! "No wait!" Good he's sitting back down. Okay, now or never.

"I don't like the fact that I have t tell you this…but it's just that I don't want you to leave me again." He's just staring at me. He's slipped into that blank expressionless mask that I remember seeing Zach use all the time. Hell I do it too.

"Well that's kind of funny considering the last time we talked you told me to get out of your life forever. That you never wanted to see me again. I mean, I know women are prone to mood swings, but wow Max."

"I was wrong okay. Trust me, it's not easy for me to say this, and it's probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever subjected myself too, but I was wrong. I shouldn't have told you to go. I need you. I don't know what it is, or why I feel this way but there's something about you that I can't let go off." He's staring. "Anyways…that's all I wanted to say. Bye."

IAlec's POV/I

Crap crap crap crap. What the hell am I supposed to say to that. She just said she needs me. I don't want to go through this again, but she's leaving. She's getting up and walking away and if I just ignore her like this, she'll never give me a second chance.

"Max, wait."

"Listen, I'm sorry. I know this probably isn't something you wanted to have to deal with, so I'm just going to leave. Have a nice life."

She's turning away from me now. She really is going to leave. Why the hell can't I think of something to say. What the hell is this girl doing to me. "I feel the same way!" There I said it. Now she's going to turn around and tell me she was just joking. That this was just some sick form of payback.

"You what?"

Now it's my turn to feel like an idiot. "I don't know…I can't explain it either. Emotions aren't exactly something I was encouraged to understand. I just want to be with you." She's smiling. She should smile more, it's beautiful. "What do we do now?"

TBC…

A/N-I hope you guys are liking it! I appreciate all the reviews and everything!