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So did Alec. He knew exactly what he had to do in order for Max to realise her powers. The new information combined with the images the silver girl had given him the other day had given him a powerful instinct in his gut as he linked the two together. The question was, not why had it happened to him, but how did Max feel that it had happened to her?
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Max was terrified. How was she supposed to have sex with Alec? It was confusing for her enough trying to deal with these strange new feelings with Alec. Maybe it was just time to talk to O.C. about the whole thing. She grabbed her jacket and shrugged it on as she headed for the door. As she walked past Alec he moved to let her pass, a hint of bare skin touched his and she bit her lip, knowing that it was wrong to be so instinctively in touch with Alec. She pulled open the door and headed out into the rain.
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"The problem is O.C. that I am not scared about this, or disgusted about this, but confused! There should be nothing to be confused about. Alec is the scum of the earth and is not worthy of my time." Max paced around the small apartment her nerves tingling all on edge.
"Boo, you know that even as you just said that, you don't mean it?" O.C. sat on the sofa watching the agitated Max wear the pattern out of their only rug.
"Yeah I know that and you know that, but does Logan? I mean I am supposed to be in love with this guy."
"Yeah but if you were in love with him would you really be having saucy dreams about hot boy?"
Max shot O.C. a glance. " He's not hot boy." O.C. smirked. "I'm only repeating what you said boo"
Max bit her lip and sat down in the chair opposite O.C. "What do I do?"
"Boo, you know I would usually tell you it ain't non of my business. But this time I am gonna tell you to wait the few days you have until heat and then get it on with hot boy. If you have all these reactions to him, he's got to mean something to you. At least physically."
"I know but come one, how am I supposed to deal with something that. Huge!"
O.C.'s smirk got bigger. "I bet!"
"O.C. if that is designed to make me deal, then I am not! And also, I am not even sure that he is. you know" Max waved her hands around in the air to emphasise her words catching O.C.'s full out grin she looked down at her hands and blushed.
"Boo, you sit around stressing that your actions are going to have repercussions too big for you to handle, why not just spend some time with Alec, find out exactly why you and he are behaving like this. He may have an explanation."
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"It's the only explanation I can think of." Alec knocked back his pint glass and let the amber coloured liquid flow down the glass into his mouth. Some of the x5's had managed to smuggle in some beer and had set up an impromptu bar. At the moment he was sitting talking to the silver girl he'd seen in the mess hall. Now he watched as she shook her head.
"I hate to sound crude but you and Max are meant to be together. You were made to be together. literally. I don't see how it could have taken so long for the runes to show. They are designed to appear when you two first meet. Wasn't that back at Manticore."
" Yeah we were breeding. hey, hang on, how do you know all of this."
The silver girl smiled. "Sandeman made me the walking history of Manticore. I didn't even realise it until I met Max for the first time. We were of the same group but we were separated at 9."
"9? Wasn't that when they escaped?"
"Yeah, I didn't always used to be this colour. My skin started to change when I hit 14. I was Eva."
Alec's eyes widened. "No shit? Then shouldn't you have realised all this when you knew max back in 9?"
"Nah, never figured out why though. Now drink up." Alec looked down at his glass to see it full again, condensation running down the icy glass.
"So what is it exactly I have to do?"
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Max stood outside the hotel looking up at the room occupied by Alec. It was a long shot that he would be in but she had to see him. It was better to follow O.C.'s advice just in case she did something stupid later on. She pulled open the door and headed up the staircase taking them two at a time. As she neared Alec's apartment she slowed, looking at the door with apprehension before knocking. Breathing deeply she reached out her hand and knocked the door. She waited a while then knocked again, with no response. She tried the handle and was surprised to see it open in front of her. Looking around she called out and waited for a response. When nobody answered she walked inside and kicked the door too behind her. She didn't flick the lights, her eyes didn't need it. Looking around she saw a Spartan room, the bare essentials. She turned to the window and looked out. The hotel where Alec lived had wide glass windows, floor to ceiling, designed to look out on a once beautiful city. Alec's view was better than her own.
She wasn't sure how long she stood there looking at the rain spit down upon Seattle looking at the space needle so far away in the distance but hours could have passed and she wouldn't have noticed. She was so immersed in her thoughts that she didn't even sense the slight step behind her until she felt something nudge her hair. Standing completely still she let her hair be pulled back whilst someone ran their hand so close to her skin that she could feel the difference in air patterns.
"You smell good Maxie. You always do."
"Alec, I needed to talk to you, I can't remember." Max stopped as she felt lips brush the skin at the base of her neck, a whisper of a touch that sent fire along her nerve endings.
"About?" Alec nudged more hair aside and breathed in deeply.
"Huh?"
Alec nibbled at her skin, delicately and Max fell back into his chest sighing. How could things be so intense with such a minimum of contact? She didn't even feel this bad when she was in heat.
"You needed to speak to me?" Alec ran his left hand down Max's left arm and let his fingers touch the skin of her wrist softly.
"Yeah, about, erm, what's happening between us?" Max pulled away and turned to look at him.
"Alec, we don't behave like that, and we don't pull rank on each other and I sure as hell know that we never had a conversation like the one we had in the mess hall the other day. What the hell is going on?"
Alec didn't move. "You're in my skin Max." He gestured to his shoulder " I dreamt that you did this to me, scratched my back like that. You noticed it earlier as well. I can't explain it, it's hard for me to comprehend, but we're made for each other."
"So what we're feeling is just pure Manticore genetics?" Max watched as Alec's eyes darkened.
"Max, I don't know about you but genetics wouldn't make me dream of you. Not even our genetics."
"So you feel it too?" Max eyes widened in confusion. Alec stepped towards her and slipped his leather jacket off, letting it fall to the floor.
"Of course I feel it, you are in my mind, my skin, I smell you everywhere and I see you in everyone. My fingertips tingle when you walk in a room, they have done since I met you, and I just denied it, throwing all that into antagonism for you. I dream of you." His hand reached out to touch her cheek and she rubbed it against his palm nuzzling in his skin, his smell, fresh air and rain, the smell of wet leather crisp against his skin. He used his hand to pull the two together and smoothed the hair off her face.
"Max?"
"Don't say anything else."
Max looked up into Alec's eyes, the eyes of the man she thought she used to hate. Closing her eyes she counted just seconds until his lips met hers.
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Ok I am not entirely sure if I have rushed this chapter but I needed to get this down on paper and since I haven't posted in like a week I thought I would treat you. Tell me if you think I should add a chapter in here k? xxx Lucy
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So did Alec. He knew exactly what he had to do in order for Max to realise her powers. The new information combined with the images the silver girl had given him the other day had given him a powerful instinct in his gut as he linked the two together. The question was, not why had it happened to him, but how did Max feel that it had happened to her?
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Max was terrified. How was she supposed to have sex with Alec? It was confusing for her enough trying to deal with these strange new feelings with Alec. Maybe it was just time to talk to O.C. about the whole thing. She grabbed her jacket and shrugged it on as she headed for the door. As she walked past Alec he moved to let her pass, a hint of bare skin touched his and she bit her lip, knowing that it was wrong to be so instinctively in touch with Alec. She pulled open the door and headed out into the rain.
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"The problem is O.C. that I am not scared about this, or disgusted about this, but confused! There should be nothing to be confused about. Alec is the scum of the earth and is not worthy of my time." Max paced around the small apartment her nerves tingling all on edge.
"Boo, you know that even as you just said that, you don't mean it?" O.C. sat on the sofa watching the agitated Max wear the pattern out of their only rug.
"Yeah I know that and you know that, but does Logan? I mean I am supposed to be in love with this guy."
"Yeah but if you were in love with him would you really be having saucy dreams about hot boy?"
Max shot O.C. a glance. " He's not hot boy." O.C. smirked. "I'm only repeating what you said boo"
Max bit her lip and sat down in the chair opposite O.C. "What do I do?"
"Boo, you know I would usually tell you it ain't non of my business. But this time I am gonna tell you to wait the few days you have until heat and then get it on with hot boy. If you have all these reactions to him, he's got to mean something to you. At least physically."
"I know but come one, how am I supposed to deal with something that. Huge!"
O.C.'s smirk got bigger. "I bet!"
"O.C. if that is designed to make me deal, then I am not! And also, I am not even sure that he is. you know" Max waved her hands around in the air to emphasise her words catching O.C.'s full out grin she looked down at her hands and blushed.
"Boo, you sit around stressing that your actions are going to have repercussions too big for you to handle, why not just spend some time with Alec, find out exactly why you and he are behaving like this. He may have an explanation."
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"It's the only explanation I can think of." Alec knocked back his pint glass and let the amber coloured liquid flow down the glass into his mouth. Some of the x5's had managed to smuggle in some beer and had set up an impromptu bar. At the moment he was sitting talking to the silver girl he'd seen in the mess hall. Now he watched as she shook her head.
"I hate to sound crude but you and Max are meant to be together. You were made to be together. literally. I don't see how it could have taken so long for the runes to show. They are designed to appear when you two first meet. Wasn't that back at Manticore."
" Yeah we were breeding. hey, hang on, how do you know all of this."
The silver girl smiled. "Sandeman made me the walking history of Manticore. I didn't even realise it until I met Max for the first time. We were of the same group but we were separated at 9."
"9? Wasn't that when they escaped?"
"Yeah, I didn't always used to be this colour. My skin started to change when I hit 14. I was Eva."
Alec's eyes widened. "No shit? Then shouldn't you have realised all this when you knew max back in 9?"
"Nah, never figured out why though. Now drink up." Alec looked down at his glass to see it full again, condensation running down the icy glass.
"So what is it exactly I have to do?"
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Max stood outside the hotel looking up at the room occupied by Alec. It was a long shot that he would be in but she had to see him. It was better to follow O.C.'s advice just in case she did something stupid later on. She pulled open the door and headed up the staircase taking them two at a time. As she neared Alec's apartment she slowed, looking at the door with apprehension before knocking. Breathing deeply she reached out her hand and knocked the door. She waited a while then knocked again, with no response. She tried the handle and was surprised to see it open in front of her. Looking around she called out and waited for a response. When nobody answered she walked inside and kicked the door too behind her. She didn't flick the lights, her eyes didn't need it. Looking around she saw a Spartan room, the bare essentials. She turned to the window and looked out. The hotel where Alec lived had wide glass windows, floor to ceiling, designed to look out on a once beautiful city. Alec's view was better than her own.
She wasn't sure how long she stood there looking at the rain spit down upon Seattle looking at the space needle so far away in the distance but hours could have passed and she wouldn't have noticed. She was so immersed in her thoughts that she didn't even sense the slight step behind her until she felt something nudge her hair. Standing completely still she let her hair be pulled back whilst someone ran their hand so close to her skin that she could feel the difference in air patterns.
"You smell good Maxie. You always do."
"Alec, I needed to talk to you, I can't remember." Max stopped as she felt lips brush the skin at the base of her neck, a whisper of a touch that sent fire along her nerve endings.
"About?" Alec nudged more hair aside and breathed in deeply.
"Huh?"
Alec nibbled at her skin, delicately and Max fell back into his chest sighing. How could things be so intense with such a minimum of contact? She didn't even feel this bad when she was in heat.
"You needed to speak to me?" Alec ran his left hand down Max's left arm and let his fingers touch the skin of her wrist softly.
"Yeah, about, erm, what's happening between us?" Max pulled away and turned to look at him.
"Alec, we don't behave like that, and we don't pull rank on each other and I sure as hell know that we never had a conversation like the one we had in the mess hall the other day. What the hell is going on?"
Alec didn't move. "You're in my skin Max." He gestured to his shoulder " I dreamt that you did this to me, scratched my back like that. You noticed it earlier as well. I can't explain it, it's hard for me to comprehend, but we're made for each other."
"So what we're feeling is just pure Manticore genetics?" Max watched as Alec's eyes darkened.
"Max, I don't know about you but genetics wouldn't make me dream of you. Not even our genetics."
"So you feel it too?" Max eyes widened in confusion. Alec stepped towards her and slipped his leather jacket off, letting it fall to the floor.
"Of course I feel it, you are in my mind, my skin, I smell you everywhere and I see you in everyone. My fingertips tingle when you walk in a room, they have done since I met you, and I just denied it, throwing all that into antagonism for you. I dream of you." His hand reached out to touch her cheek and she rubbed it against his palm nuzzling in his skin, his smell, fresh air and rain, the smell of wet leather crisp against his skin. He used his hand to pull the two together and smoothed the hair off her face.
"Max?"
"Don't say anything else."
Max looked up into Alec's eyes, the eyes of the man she thought she used to hate. Closing her eyes she counted just seconds until his lips met hers.
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Ok I am not entirely sure if I have rushed this chapter but I needed to get this down on paper and since I haven't posted in like a week I thought I would treat you. Tell me if you think I should add a chapter in here k? xxx Lucy