Chapter 15...... The Last Supper
Disclaimer: the song used is this chapter is 'What's on my mind' by the cranberries
"I know" Ben said, his voice desperate.
"Ben, I can't" Max said. She wouldn't do it, he couldn't be asking her what she thought he was asking her.
"Please, you know what they'll do to me" he said. His eyes glistened with tears, "They'll put me down there, with them.... The nomalies. Please" he was begging her now. Pleading with her, he couldn't bear the thought of going back to Manticore.
Max looked down at her big brother. He had always been so kind to her at Manticore. He had been the person who made the whole dreadful experience bearable. But could she do this for him? Could she kill her brother whom she loved more then life? "Tell me about the good place" she whispered down to him.
"He smiled a little bit looking at her, "Where no one ever gets punished?" he said. His voice sounded so young right now. So clear of the insanity that had plagued him only moments before. He sounded young again.
"And no one ever gets yelled at" she said frowning. She couldn't look at him any more. If she did she would see her 9 year old brother who used to tell her about the good place when she couldn't sleep. When she was curled up at his side. No, she couldn't look at him. If she did, then she wouldn't be able to do what she was about to do.
"And no one ever disappears" his voice took the tone it had always held during a story telling, off and slightly distance, as if he himself were already in the good place, looking back to tell her about it. "And when you wake up in the morning, you can stay in bed as long as--"
Max snapped his neck. The sound of cracking bone echoed in her ear as she gently laid his head down. He looked at peace in death, as if he were only sleeping, waiting for her to pinch his nose to wake him up. She sobbed uncontrollably. She brought her hands up to her chest and shook them as if to shake the death away from him. How could she of. It couldn't be real. She didn't just kill her brother. Not Ben. But the heavy weight of his body on her lap told her otherwise. She moved so she was no longer under him. She tried to stand up to run, but couldn't. She could hardly breathe through her sobs. She saw his necklace glistening at his throat, and moved back to him. She unfastened the necklace from around his neck and held it close to her. She wrapped his arms around his dead body and held him to her, wishing she could simply will him to be alive again. "I'm sorry Ben, I'm so sorry" she cried into his neck. The sound of men approaching brought her back to reality, and she went into solider mode. She stood this time, and ran. She ran as fast as she had run the night of the escape, her tears continued flowing, and burned paths down her cheek. She stumbled out of the woods and onto road. She fell at the side of the road, and stayed there for a few minutes, crying, softly repeating apologies to her now dead brother.
Max felt strong arms wrapped around her, pulling her away from her dream, "Max, shhh, Max, it's just a dream Max, shhhhhh" Ben, no Alec was saying. "It's okay Max, it was just a dream" his smooth voice comforted her. He had gotten home late that night, she had already been asleep.
"No Alec" she said through the tears that had come to her in her sleep, "It's not just a dream. It will never be just a dream because it actually happened. I killed Ben. My big brother. I killed him and he's dead. And now I'll never have him again". She said. But as the words escaped her lips, she saw Ben in the corner, looking down at her. She closed her eyes, repeating in her brain that he was gone. But when she opened her eyes, he was still there. "Alec, "she said trying to compose her self a little, "Can you please get ma a glass of water?" she asked of him.
Alec nodded and got out of bed, and left the room to go get her water. "Ben leave" she said softly. "Your not real, you can't be real. Please just leave" she said.
Ben walked over and put his hands on her face, "How could you say that Maxie, it's me. I'm here" he whispered.
She shook her head. "No, your not here, you can't be here because I killed you" she said softly. She brought her hands of onto his and pulled them down away from her face. "Please Ben, leave me alone. I know your not real. It's impossible" she told him firmly.
Ben stood up and stepped away from her bed, his hands slipped out of hers. She watched him as he disappeared. The moment he was gone, she felt awful. She didn't want him to be gone, she wanted him here with her. She didn't care if he wasn't real. "Ben" she said into the dark empty room, "Ben I'm sorry, come back" but he didn't.
After another minute Alec came back into the room with a glass of water. Max took it from him and drank it slowly. She set the glass down on the table, and rested her head on her pillow. Alec climbed back into bed next to her, and she curled up against his body. She didn't say anything else to him. She could tell him about all that had happened while he was gone in the morning. She closed her eyes and drifted off into dreamless sleep at his side.
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Alec woke up with the sun shinning onto his face. He was alone, the space next to him, though warm, was empty. He rolled out of bed and on to the ground, and started his morning pushups. When he finished he saw Max standing in the doorway. She was carrying a tray of food, "You made me breakfast?" he asked her smiling.
She shook her head. "It's not for you, and I didn't make it, Zack did" she told him. He frowned. She smiled at him, "But I might be persuaded to share it with you" she said walking over to the bed and siting down, stretching her legs out in front of her. She pulled the blanket up over the lower parte of her body and placed the tray on her lap.
"Why don't we take that into the living room, we can eat with Zack, and I can watch my cartoons" Alec suggested.
Uh oh. She had sold the tv. And his stereo system, and the microwave. And, sadly, her bike. "Alec, about the tv" she started slowly, "Well, remember how you were telling me that we needed the money, and we can't bring it with us so I sold it. But guess what, we have a house" she smiled, hoping to distract him from the tv with good news.
No such luck, "You sold my tv?" he said horrified, "how could you do this to me?" he asked her.
"Hey, I also sold my Bike, do you think that made me happy?" she asked him with a glare. He didn't answer her, he just looked out the window. Like a small boy who had just found out his dog died. Max put her tray down on the floor by the bed and walked over to Alec. She felt bad about everything. Alec was going out of his way to help her, and it really wasn't his fault that she had gotten pregnant. Most guys would of just taken off and said 'see ya', but Alec was moving to another country with her. She wrapped her arms around his waist from behind him, and rested her cheek against his bare back, "The first thing we can buy in Ireland is a nice big new tv for you" she said to him. "Now come on, we can have breakfast in bed and talk about our separate adventures while you were gone." she stepped back from him, and grabbed his hand pulling him over to the bed.
Alec climbed into the bed next to Max, and they picked at the food in front of them. Max told Alec about things that had happened, the money she had made selling their things, and their new house. He was a little upset at Logan giving them a house, but at the same time he was relived. It would make everything easier. Plus, he was happy to find that they would now have more money for a tv. "And I went and saw Dr. Carr" she told him.
"Oh, I missed the first baby appointment" he said a little sadly.
"You'll be there for the next ones" she said. "any ways, he said everything looked all right. Me being an X5 should make pregnancy a little easier apparently. The one good thing about being made in a test tube" she said jokingly. "He was very interested in every thing. I guess that to him this is like some big science experiment or something. Us to being like, super humans, and having a baby. He wants me to send him information on the baby and all." Max put a nice red strawberry in her mouth and savored the sweat taste. She also brushed over the subject of her encounter with Joshua. It had been painful though and she hadn't really wanted to talk about it. She didn't tell him about dinner with Logan though.
"Well, it sounds like you had a much more interesting time then me" he said. Max raised her eyebrows at him. "Logans loosing his touch Max" he said smiling, "there was some type of old abandoned warehouse, but it wasn't a big hid out for Manticore or anything. We got there hours latter then planed because some one got lost after he insisted on driving" Alec raised his voice as he said this, so that Zack would hear. "And the ware house was just what it looked like, and old abandoned warehouse. Or so we thought until we looked around. We think that Manticore might of been there, but cleared out for some reason, we don't know why, but it appears they left in a hurry, 'cause they didn't do a good job of covering their tracks. They left a few files. We haven't looked at them yet, we wanted to wait for you, they appeared to be mainly about you, me and Ben, and some other X5s that I don't recognize" Alec said.
"Really? us? why?" Max asked surprised. "I like this story. It sounds to unlikely. First Logan stumbles upon a chance to destroy Manticore forever. Then we find out that Manticore has cleared out, leaving loose ends, that just happen to be about us? something's up" she said.
"Well, I guess we'll never no what, 'cause we're leaving in two days" Alec said. Logan gave us pass ports and plane tickets when we checked in with him last night. Don't worry, I paid him for them" Alec said. He grabbed a slice of orange from the plate of fruit and leaned over opening the drawer to his night stand. He handed her a passport along with some ids, drivers license etc. "you are now Cammy pierce, and I am your beloved husband Mark. Zack is your half brother Francis Edgar" Alec told her.
"Cammy and Mark Pierce? Francis Edgar? God that's the last time I let Logan pick names" Max said disgusted.
"Hey, I chose those names" Alec said, pretending to look hurt. "Like you and your siblings were so great at it. "Krit? Zane?" He said.
"Oh, well while we're playing the name game, let's bring Ralph into it. Thanks to you there's a seventeen year old girl named Ralph, Alec" Max said to him.
"If we're bringing the X6s into it, I think I'll have to throw bullet and Fixit into this conversation" Alec said.
"Oh God, your right. How are we going to name are baby?" she said to him, "We're likely to have a girl named Bill" she said.
"Have you thought about names yet?" he asked her.
She shrugged. This was a weird conversation. She new it was unavoidable though. They were going to be parents. She was going to have a child at the age of twenty. She felt very young for a moment. "I read about the meaning of some names in the book you bought me" she said. "but I haven't put to much thought into it. Though if it's a boy, I'd like to name him Ben" Max said softly.
Alec nodded, excepting the name. He could give her that, "I guess that name was pretty good for you all" Alec said.
"We chose our own names" Max said. "Except for me, Zack chose my name, the one I had chosen was so bad it wasn't even excepted by them. I'm not even going to tell you what it was" she said.
"Well, I have a nice long plane ride to talk it out of you" Alec said sweetly. Max glared at him. "I always liked the name Sarah" he said.
"It means princess" Max said wrinkling her nose at the idea, "I guess it's kind of pretty though. I like Diana, it means goddess of the moon" Max said.
"Can you picture having a little baby Diana?" Alec asked.
She looked at him with a raised eye brow, "What's wrong with the name Diana?" she asked him.
"Nothing, nothing at all. What about Ariel? what does Ariel mean?" he asked her.
"I think it means lioness of god. How about Morgaine?" she said.
"Morgaine's kind of pretty, I could see that, what does Morgaine mean?" Alec asked.
"I don't know, but it's the name of the woman in the book Zack gave me. 'The mists of Avalon', it's interesting. I haven't really gotten that far yet, I just read the first few pages to see what it was like. I think I'm gonna take your advice and save it. Oh yeah, remind me to kill you for hiding it from me. It took forever for me to find it." she said glaring at him. "Any ways", she said taking the last grape from the plate, "We should get up and get moving, We need to start packing and stuff, and don't forget the dinner I have planned for tonight" Max said.
"Can't we just lie down and do a cross word puzzle together, you know, Play footsie under the sheets. Couple stuff" Alec said smiling.
"No" Max said smiling, "Not now, not ever, now get up and shower, you smell funky" she said.
"That could have to do with the fact I haven't showered in three days" Alec said smelling himself.
"Eeww, I can't believe I slept in the same bed as you" Max said disgusted.
"Hey, leave me alone, I just didn't get a chance" Alec said. He looked at the clock on the night stand, "Oh I better hurry I have an uh.. Appointment" he said.
"Your getting your nails done aren't you" Max said smiling at him.
"Maybe" Alec said, and he hopped out of bed leaving the room.
Max got out of bed and brought the tray to the kitchen. She smiled to herself softly humming a song. She smiled at Zack who was drinking milk form the carton. "you, my dear brother, are a pig" she said with smile.
"Yes" he said smiling back, "I am a pig named Francis, remind me to kill that man of yours" he said jokingly.
"We only need to call you Francis in public, at all other times you'll be Zack" Max said. "Besides, at least you don't have to be called Cammy" she said. She started washing the dishes they had used for breakfast. "thanks for breakfast" Max said, "It's always pleasant when someone makes me food" she turned of the water as she finished the dishes.
"Well, your making everyone diner tonight, and I have no intention of helping with that, so I figured I might as well make you breakfast" Zack said flashing a grin.
Max hit him in the stomach playfully, "Just like you to turn a nice gesture into getting out of something" she said.
"Oww" Zack said putting and arm over his stomach where she had hit him, as if in extreme pain.
"Oh please I barely touched you, Francis" Max said.
"Well Cammy, you have to remember that you being an X5, a tap on the shoulder could hurt" Zack said.
"You make a point Francis but you also must remember that you also being an X5, shouldn't be hurt by me hitting you in the stomach" Max said back to him. Zack hit her shoulder in a manor that was very brotherly. It hurt though, "Ow" Max said.
"My point exactly" Zack said with a satisfied smile playing on his lips. The smile left his face when Max hit him again harder this time. "Hey, why did you have to do that, now I have to do this" he said. He grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back. He brought his other arm up and pulled her against him preventing her from moving.
"Hey, let me go" Max said. But he didn't. "Come on Zack, you don't want me to get out of this on my own, it will end in pain for you" she said.
"Oh come on, I think I can take my baby sister" Zack said.
"Oh need I bring up fights of the past?" Max asked with a devious grin.
Zack let her go after a moment more. "I still say I could take you" Zack said, "I just don't fancy fighting my pregnant sister" he defended himself.
"No excuses, we both know that I would kick your ass" Max said. Zack just rolled his eyes. "I see you have new clothes now" Max said with a gesture towards his shirt. It was a deep blue that matched the color of his eyes.
"Oh, last night on the way back, we stopped at the ranch. I packed some clothes, said good bye, you know that kind of thing" Zack said.
"What's this? Zack needs material items? And even more surprising, he said good bye to some one? Not possible. Who are you and what have you done with my brother?" Max said jokingly.
"I just didn't want to be wearing the same clothes for the rest of my life. And well, they did let me live with them for months, I didn't just want to disappear" Zack explained.
"Whatever, I still say it's strange, and unlike normal Zack behavior" Max said. "Now, If you'll excuse me, I need to go through the things I'm going to keep, and the things I'm going to leave behind" Max said
"Oh no, I'm coming with you to pack. I'm going to monitor your packing. You must bring only what is needed, we can get new stuff when we're there" Zack said.
"Max rolled her eyes and mumbled "You can take the boy out of Manticore, but you can't take the Manticore out of the boy".
"How about Jane" Alec said as he came out of the shower wrapped in a towel.
"Jane? are you serious? have you not heard the expression 'Plain Jane'? I don't want my daughter to grow up feeling plain" Max said.
"Well, what does it mean?" Alec asked.
"Wait, your what, like one and a half months pregnant, and your picking out names already?" Zack said.
"Well, we're just trying to find a good name, it takes time Zack. Especially with me, you know I'm not good at picking out names" Max defended them.
"You can say that again. What was it you had picked-" Zack was interrupted by Max.
"God is gracious" she said quickly, "It means god is gracious. I think it's Hebrew or something" she told them. She turned to Zack, "And if you tell him the name I picked, I will kill you. I will sneak up on you while your asleep, and drive a steak through your heart" Max threatened.
Zack put his hands up in defeat, "Okay I wont tell. How about Julia. I had a foster sibling named Julia one time. She was nice" Zack said.
"What? You had foster siblings? I thought you were always on the run and stuff. Looking out for us. I don't know what I think of you anymore" Max said, "Your no different then me. And all those lectures about how it wasn't safe to stay in one place. Shame on you Zack. Shame. On. You."
"It was for like, two weeks, and it wasn't by choice" Zack defended, "Now what does Julia mean?" he asked again.
"Um, I think it means downy hared and youthful. I don't think I like it. Now, I don't know what every name means so hold on. If we're going to have this conversation, we're going to have it right" she disappeared into her room, and came out a moment latter with her baby book. "Now, Morgaine" she flipped through the book, and looked up a moment latter, "They don't have Morgaine, but they have Morgan, Morgana, and Morgance. I'm assuming that Morgaine is derived from Morgan. Any ways, it means from the sea, or sea creature, or something like that" Max explained.
"Morgaine?" Zack asked scrunching up his nose, "that's a little unusual" he said. "I'm not exactly surprised that you chose it though" he raised his eyebrows.
"It's a beautiful name" Max said. "Now, no more distractions. We can talk about this on the plane. I am going to go choose what will come with me, and what will stay" she walked to her room grabbing Alec and dragging him with her. "come on towel boy. If your gonna get your nails done, you have to get dressed first" she said.
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Max sat at the table and looked around at the people that were seated around her. On her right was Alec, and on her left was Zack. Across from her was OC, and next to OC was Joshua and Logan. No one at the table looked happy. Alec Logan and Max would be leaving the next day, and though they said differently, everyone knew that there was a chance that they were never coming back.
People hardly even spoke. They just looked at their plates, and picked at their food. "Oc, did you know that your name means moon?" Max said for no reason but to brake the silence.
"Of course I knew that" She said simply.
"How about my name, what does my name mean?" Zack said after a moment more.
"Well, Zachary means something like remembered by god" she said. She decided that if it kept away the silence she would tell everyone what their names meant. "Joshua, your name means Lord is salvation. It's Hebrew I think".
Joshua nodded, but didn't really look up. He was still upset about Max leaving. Logan however did say something, "What does Logan mean?" He asked quietly.
Max cleared her throat, "From the little hollow" she said.
Logan got a very strange look upon his face, as though he didn't know how to take it. Alec laughed. "What does Max mean?" Alec asked.
Max smiled, "Well, the feminine form would mean-"
"Great woman" Zack interrupted her with a smile. Max noticed he had been smiling a lot more since she was reunited with him. She returned his smile in full..
"What does Alec mean?" Alec asked looking at her with curiosity in his eyes. Max looked away, trying not to think about how Ben always had curiosity flashing in his face. After a moment she looked back though and smiled, "No way am I telling you, your arrogant enough as it is" she said.
"Max,, come on, tell me what my name means" Alec asked again.
Oc stepped in, "well, Alec comes from the name Alexander, which means 'helper and defender of man kind" she said.
Alec flashed a huge grin. Max rolled her eyes and glared at OC. "And you named me" he said.
"For different reasons" She said. "trust me, if I had known what it meant, I would of gone with Dick" she said with a grin.
"You wound me" Alec said putting a hand to his heart. Max just continued smiling. "What does Ben mean?" he asked. Max looked away. "I mean, you know, if we're gonna name the baby Ben, I'd kind of like to know what it means" he put his hand over hers on the table.
"Son" she said softly. Ben means son. If its used as Benjamin, then it means Son of the right hand. What ever that means".
"I kind of like the name Leah" Alec said bringing the conversation completely back to baby names. Max made a mental note to watch it, if they weren't careful the could be come one of those couples.
"I don't, it's Hebrew for weary" Max told him.
""I always kind of liked the name Mary" Logan said.
"I agree with the man from the little hollow" Alec said mockingly, "I like the name Mary, what does it mean?" he asked.
"I believe it means the perfect one" Max said. "How about Amy, it's Latin for beloved" she told them.
"Maybe Kelly" OC suggested.
"It means Farm by the spring" Max said. "Maureen maybe? It means great" she said.
"Maureen? your joking right? I will not have a daughter named Maureen. How about Selene?"
"Selene means Lunar glow" Max said. "But you know what keeps on coming back to my mind?"
"Uh let me think. You bring up Morgaine in every conversation, so I'm guessing, Morgaine. I kind of like Morgana, or just plain Morgan" Alec said.
"But I don't want my daughter to have such plainness in her name. I want her do have something that she wont run into, Like Morgaine" she said, "Or Morgana" she added after Alec gave her a look. "Now, let's change the subject from Baby names. I don't want to be the type of person who's always talking about her baby. So, Alec, how was your nail appointment? Your hands look lovely" she said.
Everyone at the table laughed. Everyone except Alec. "You know, there is nothing un masculine about having nice clean healthy nails" he said, trying to remain dignified. "And I don't appreciate being made fun of all the time. Just because I do some things that could be considered slightly feminine" he said.
"Like using moisturizing lotion?" Logan asked.
"Or the way you put on chapsitck. Really, it's like watching a girl put on lip stick" Max added.
Alec glared at them both. Zack was looking at him with disgust. "And this is the boy who is so popular with the ladies? Honestly, I'm against calling you a male" Zack said.
"Oh, you who makes up your bed neatly every morning, folding all the blankets and pileing them up neatly at the top of the couch. You who refuses to have any type of stain on your shirt? You are calling me Girlie? I don't think so. I'm not girlie. I'm all man" Alec said smiling.
"It's true Zack, you are weird about getting stains on your clothing" Max said. He gave her a brotherly stare of annoyance. She was happy that the mood had been lightened. "you'd think that Manticore would of made them a little more manly" she teased.
They all ate their dinner, laughing and talking with each other. The conversations moved from different topics. Zack entertained them with stories aboutJondy and Zane and the other X5s. OC and Max told a story about some moron guy that was hitting on them one night. the mood remained light, and Max was severely disappointed when she looked up at the clock and saw that it was quickly approaching 11:00.
Max felt that it had to be wrong. They were getting on a plane the next morning, and she wasn't ready to say good bye yet.
Alec noticed the direction of her glance and frowned when he saw the time. She nodded and he stood up, "Well, I really really hat to do this, but it's getting late" he said.
They took the hint and stood up and started to get ready to leave. Max gave Oc and Joshua a big hug good bye. Kissing them each on the cheek. "Good bye boo, you take care of yourself" she said. She then went to Alec and gave him a hug, "Okay boy, now you take care of my girl and the little Boo" she said. He nodded and smiled.
Joshua gave Alec a hug good bye. But Logan got no hug. Max couldn't touch him, and he wasn't to fond of Alec, so he just smiled and left. Zack also got an awkward hug from Oc. And then it was just the three f them. Max, Alec, and Zack.
Max walked over to Alec and wrapped her arms around him. He embraced her tightly, and she allowed herself to cry just a little bit. She looked up at him, he wasn't crying, but he did have a look of deep sadness on his face. She reached her hand up and stroked the back of his neck, playing with the soft downy curls that rested above his bar code. She stood up on her tip toes and kissed his mouth softly, then stood back down. He smiled at her, and leaned down kissing her more deeply. He slowly rubbed her back with one hand, and rested his other hand on her small waist.
They were interrupted by the sound of Zack clearing his throat, reminding them of his presence. "I hate to interrupt this lovely moment, but I just wanted to stop you before you begin to grope on the couch I use as my bed" he said.
"Some body's jealous" Alec mumbled under his breath. Not so lucky for him, he was in a room with X5s, and they both heard him.
Max looked up and glared at him with a cold stare. She hit him hard in the gut. Zack crossed his arms, trying to act nonchalant. it didn't work. "Come on Alec, we are going to bed" Max said coldly to him, dragging him into the room.
"Alec you are such a pig headed male" She said rather loudly once they were in the room. "I have told you time and time again to keep your opinions about Zack to your self. Okay? That's right, he in love with me. But he still loves me the other way also, and I love him. He and Ben were the closest thing to family I ever had. And he's going out of his way for us" she felt tears rushing down her face, though she didn't know why it was making her so upset. "Why can't you just leave this whole thing alone" she said.
"Alec looked up, making puppy eyes at her. She had to smile when she saw it. He just looked so cute when he did it. "I'm really really sorry Max" he said putting his hands n her waist and pulling her towards him. "you forgive me?" he asked sweetly.
She looked into those deep blue eyes, and found it really hard not to say yes. "This time, this time I forgive you. But next time you sleep on the couch. and you've only escaped that fate this time because my BROTHER is on the couch" she said. He leaned down smiling at her, and they kissed, taking up where they had left off. He moved his lips down her chin, and on to her neck. Max smiled and ran her hands through his hair. "Dance with me Alec" she said after a moment.
"We don't have any music" he said looking at her with surprise written on his face.
"Then you can sing to me also" she said.
He shook his head, "Max, I don't sing" he said.
"And what if our baby likes to be sung to, are you not going to sing to our little, Ben, or Morgaine, or Morgana?" she asked.
"I will sing to Morgana, or Ben, when ever he, she wants, but I'm not going to sing at eleven thirty at night, so we can dance" he said.
Max sniffed, "you love the baby more then me" she said. He laughed, and took one of her hands in his. He put his other hand on her waist. She leaned against him, and they slowly swayed. "Your not singing" she said.
"Oh why do I get the feeling that the rest of my life is going to go by very slowly" he said. "Now this is the only chic song I know so don't laugh" he said. And then he began to sing, "Baby I would do anything for you Nobody's ever treated me quite like you do I've wasted too much time I've wasted too much time And I'm gonna tell you what's on my mind Yea yea" His voice was slow and deep. It was beautiful, she didn't know why he made such a fuss about singing. The tune to the song was bordering on slow, and happy. "I was wrong all along There could be somebody like thee Here we are finally I've found my I've found my Maybe it'll be quite sometime I love you forever and we will be waiting in time I'm wasting no more time I'm wasting no more time I'm always gonna tell you what's on my mind Yea yea I was wrong all along There could be somebody like thee Here we are finally I've found my I've found my".
His song ended, but they continued dancing. His hand on her hip made Max feel warm and protected. she looked up at him and kissed him again. At his moment, she felt that they would be fine. That things would work out. For once in her life, she didn't dread the future, she looked forward to it.
A/N-I hope you all like this chapter. I worked some what hard on it. Any ways, it might take me a while to put up the next one, though I'll try my best. Don't worry, Ben is not out the story for ever, though it may be a while before he comes back. I don't really know. I know how it's going to end, and some of the things that are going to happen on the way, but besides that, I make it up as I go along. :)
Review, it makes me happy:):):):)
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Disclaimer: the song used is this chapter is 'What's on my mind' by the cranberries
"I know" Ben said, his voice desperate.
"Ben, I can't" Max said. She wouldn't do it, he couldn't be asking her what she thought he was asking her.
"Please, you know what they'll do to me" he said. His eyes glistened with tears, "They'll put me down there, with them.... The nomalies. Please" he was begging her now. Pleading with her, he couldn't bear the thought of going back to Manticore.
Max looked down at her big brother. He had always been so kind to her at Manticore. He had been the person who made the whole dreadful experience bearable. But could she do this for him? Could she kill her brother whom she loved more then life? "Tell me about the good place" she whispered down to him.
"He smiled a little bit looking at her, "Where no one ever gets punished?" he said. His voice sounded so young right now. So clear of the insanity that had plagued him only moments before. He sounded young again.
"And no one ever gets yelled at" she said frowning. She couldn't look at him any more. If she did she would see her 9 year old brother who used to tell her about the good place when she couldn't sleep. When she was curled up at his side. No, she couldn't look at him. If she did, then she wouldn't be able to do what she was about to do.
"And no one ever disappears" his voice took the tone it had always held during a story telling, off and slightly distance, as if he himself were already in the good place, looking back to tell her about it. "And when you wake up in the morning, you can stay in bed as long as--"
Max snapped his neck. The sound of cracking bone echoed in her ear as she gently laid his head down. He looked at peace in death, as if he were only sleeping, waiting for her to pinch his nose to wake him up. She sobbed uncontrollably. She brought her hands up to her chest and shook them as if to shake the death away from him. How could she of. It couldn't be real. She didn't just kill her brother. Not Ben. But the heavy weight of his body on her lap told her otherwise. She moved so she was no longer under him. She tried to stand up to run, but couldn't. She could hardly breathe through her sobs. She saw his necklace glistening at his throat, and moved back to him. She unfastened the necklace from around his neck and held it close to her. She wrapped his arms around his dead body and held him to her, wishing she could simply will him to be alive again. "I'm sorry Ben, I'm so sorry" she cried into his neck. The sound of men approaching brought her back to reality, and she went into solider mode. She stood this time, and ran. She ran as fast as she had run the night of the escape, her tears continued flowing, and burned paths down her cheek. She stumbled out of the woods and onto road. She fell at the side of the road, and stayed there for a few minutes, crying, softly repeating apologies to her now dead brother.
Max felt strong arms wrapped around her, pulling her away from her dream, "Max, shhh, Max, it's just a dream Max, shhhhhh" Ben, no Alec was saying. "It's okay Max, it was just a dream" his smooth voice comforted her. He had gotten home late that night, she had already been asleep.
"No Alec" she said through the tears that had come to her in her sleep, "It's not just a dream. It will never be just a dream because it actually happened. I killed Ben. My big brother. I killed him and he's dead. And now I'll never have him again". She said. But as the words escaped her lips, she saw Ben in the corner, looking down at her. She closed her eyes, repeating in her brain that he was gone. But when she opened her eyes, he was still there. "Alec, "she said trying to compose her self a little, "Can you please get ma a glass of water?" she asked of him.
Alec nodded and got out of bed, and left the room to go get her water. "Ben leave" she said softly. "Your not real, you can't be real. Please just leave" she said.
Ben walked over and put his hands on her face, "How could you say that Maxie, it's me. I'm here" he whispered.
She shook her head. "No, your not here, you can't be here because I killed you" she said softly. She brought her hands of onto his and pulled them down away from her face. "Please Ben, leave me alone. I know your not real. It's impossible" she told him firmly.
Ben stood up and stepped away from her bed, his hands slipped out of hers. She watched him as he disappeared. The moment he was gone, she felt awful. She didn't want him to be gone, she wanted him here with her. She didn't care if he wasn't real. "Ben" she said into the dark empty room, "Ben I'm sorry, come back" but he didn't.
After another minute Alec came back into the room with a glass of water. Max took it from him and drank it slowly. She set the glass down on the table, and rested her head on her pillow. Alec climbed back into bed next to her, and she curled up against his body. She didn't say anything else to him. She could tell him about all that had happened while he was gone in the morning. She closed her eyes and drifted off into dreamless sleep at his side.
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Alec woke up with the sun shinning onto his face. He was alone, the space next to him, though warm, was empty. He rolled out of bed and on to the ground, and started his morning pushups. When he finished he saw Max standing in the doorway. She was carrying a tray of food, "You made me breakfast?" he asked her smiling.
She shook her head. "It's not for you, and I didn't make it, Zack did" she told him. He frowned. She smiled at him, "But I might be persuaded to share it with you" she said walking over to the bed and siting down, stretching her legs out in front of her. She pulled the blanket up over the lower parte of her body and placed the tray on her lap.
"Why don't we take that into the living room, we can eat with Zack, and I can watch my cartoons" Alec suggested.
Uh oh. She had sold the tv. And his stereo system, and the microwave. And, sadly, her bike. "Alec, about the tv" she started slowly, "Well, remember how you were telling me that we needed the money, and we can't bring it with us so I sold it. But guess what, we have a house" she smiled, hoping to distract him from the tv with good news.
No such luck, "You sold my tv?" he said horrified, "how could you do this to me?" he asked her.
"Hey, I also sold my Bike, do you think that made me happy?" she asked him with a glare. He didn't answer her, he just looked out the window. Like a small boy who had just found out his dog died. Max put her tray down on the floor by the bed and walked over to Alec. She felt bad about everything. Alec was going out of his way to help her, and it really wasn't his fault that she had gotten pregnant. Most guys would of just taken off and said 'see ya', but Alec was moving to another country with her. She wrapped her arms around his waist from behind him, and rested her cheek against his bare back, "The first thing we can buy in Ireland is a nice big new tv for you" she said to him. "Now come on, we can have breakfast in bed and talk about our separate adventures while you were gone." she stepped back from him, and grabbed his hand pulling him over to the bed.
Alec climbed into the bed next to Max, and they picked at the food in front of them. Max told Alec about things that had happened, the money she had made selling their things, and their new house. He was a little upset at Logan giving them a house, but at the same time he was relived. It would make everything easier. Plus, he was happy to find that they would now have more money for a tv. "And I went and saw Dr. Carr" she told him.
"Oh, I missed the first baby appointment" he said a little sadly.
"You'll be there for the next ones" she said. "any ways, he said everything looked all right. Me being an X5 should make pregnancy a little easier apparently. The one good thing about being made in a test tube" she said jokingly. "He was very interested in every thing. I guess that to him this is like some big science experiment or something. Us to being like, super humans, and having a baby. He wants me to send him information on the baby and all." Max put a nice red strawberry in her mouth and savored the sweat taste. She also brushed over the subject of her encounter with Joshua. It had been painful though and she hadn't really wanted to talk about it. She didn't tell him about dinner with Logan though.
"Well, it sounds like you had a much more interesting time then me" he said. Max raised her eyebrows at him. "Logans loosing his touch Max" he said smiling, "there was some type of old abandoned warehouse, but it wasn't a big hid out for Manticore or anything. We got there hours latter then planed because some one got lost after he insisted on driving" Alec raised his voice as he said this, so that Zack would hear. "And the ware house was just what it looked like, and old abandoned warehouse. Or so we thought until we looked around. We think that Manticore might of been there, but cleared out for some reason, we don't know why, but it appears they left in a hurry, 'cause they didn't do a good job of covering their tracks. They left a few files. We haven't looked at them yet, we wanted to wait for you, they appeared to be mainly about you, me and Ben, and some other X5s that I don't recognize" Alec said.
"Really? us? why?" Max asked surprised. "I like this story. It sounds to unlikely. First Logan stumbles upon a chance to destroy Manticore forever. Then we find out that Manticore has cleared out, leaving loose ends, that just happen to be about us? something's up" she said.
"Well, I guess we'll never no what, 'cause we're leaving in two days" Alec said. Logan gave us pass ports and plane tickets when we checked in with him last night. Don't worry, I paid him for them" Alec said. He grabbed a slice of orange from the plate of fruit and leaned over opening the drawer to his night stand. He handed her a passport along with some ids, drivers license etc. "you are now Cammy pierce, and I am your beloved husband Mark. Zack is your half brother Francis Edgar" Alec told her.
"Cammy and Mark Pierce? Francis Edgar? God that's the last time I let Logan pick names" Max said disgusted.
"Hey, I chose those names" Alec said, pretending to look hurt. "Like you and your siblings were so great at it. "Krit? Zane?" He said.
"Oh, well while we're playing the name game, let's bring Ralph into it. Thanks to you there's a seventeen year old girl named Ralph, Alec" Max said to him.
"If we're bringing the X6s into it, I think I'll have to throw bullet and Fixit into this conversation" Alec said.
"Oh God, your right. How are we going to name are baby?" she said to him, "We're likely to have a girl named Bill" she said.
"Have you thought about names yet?" he asked her.
She shrugged. This was a weird conversation. She new it was unavoidable though. They were going to be parents. She was going to have a child at the age of twenty. She felt very young for a moment. "I read about the meaning of some names in the book you bought me" she said. "but I haven't put to much thought into it. Though if it's a boy, I'd like to name him Ben" Max said softly.
Alec nodded, excepting the name. He could give her that, "I guess that name was pretty good for you all" Alec said.
"We chose our own names" Max said. "Except for me, Zack chose my name, the one I had chosen was so bad it wasn't even excepted by them. I'm not even going to tell you what it was" she said.
"Well, I have a nice long plane ride to talk it out of you" Alec said sweetly. Max glared at him. "I always liked the name Sarah" he said.
"It means princess" Max said wrinkling her nose at the idea, "I guess it's kind of pretty though. I like Diana, it means goddess of the moon" Max said.
"Can you picture having a little baby Diana?" Alec asked.
She looked at him with a raised eye brow, "What's wrong with the name Diana?" she asked him.
"Nothing, nothing at all. What about Ariel? what does Ariel mean?" he asked her.
"I think it means lioness of god. How about Morgaine?" she said.
"Morgaine's kind of pretty, I could see that, what does Morgaine mean?" Alec asked.
"I don't know, but it's the name of the woman in the book Zack gave me. 'The mists of Avalon', it's interesting. I haven't really gotten that far yet, I just read the first few pages to see what it was like. I think I'm gonna take your advice and save it. Oh yeah, remind me to kill you for hiding it from me. It took forever for me to find it." she said glaring at him. "Any ways", she said taking the last grape from the plate, "We should get up and get moving, We need to start packing and stuff, and don't forget the dinner I have planned for tonight" Max said.
"Can't we just lie down and do a cross word puzzle together, you know, Play footsie under the sheets. Couple stuff" Alec said smiling.
"No" Max said smiling, "Not now, not ever, now get up and shower, you smell funky" she said.
"That could have to do with the fact I haven't showered in three days" Alec said smelling himself.
"Eeww, I can't believe I slept in the same bed as you" Max said disgusted.
"Hey, leave me alone, I just didn't get a chance" Alec said. He looked at the clock on the night stand, "Oh I better hurry I have an uh.. Appointment" he said.
"Your getting your nails done aren't you" Max said smiling at him.
"Maybe" Alec said, and he hopped out of bed leaving the room.
Max got out of bed and brought the tray to the kitchen. She smiled to herself softly humming a song. She smiled at Zack who was drinking milk form the carton. "you, my dear brother, are a pig" she said with smile.
"Yes" he said smiling back, "I am a pig named Francis, remind me to kill that man of yours" he said jokingly.
"We only need to call you Francis in public, at all other times you'll be Zack" Max said. "Besides, at least you don't have to be called Cammy" she said. She started washing the dishes they had used for breakfast. "thanks for breakfast" Max said, "It's always pleasant when someone makes me food" she turned of the water as she finished the dishes.
"Well, your making everyone diner tonight, and I have no intention of helping with that, so I figured I might as well make you breakfast" Zack said flashing a grin.
Max hit him in the stomach playfully, "Just like you to turn a nice gesture into getting out of something" she said.
"Oww" Zack said putting and arm over his stomach where she had hit him, as if in extreme pain.
"Oh please I barely touched you, Francis" Max said.
"Well Cammy, you have to remember that you being an X5, a tap on the shoulder could hurt" Zack said.
"You make a point Francis but you also must remember that you also being an X5, shouldn't be hurt by me hitting you in the stomach" Max said back to him. Zack hit her shoulder in a manor that was very brotherly. It hurt though, "Ow" Max said.
"My point exactly" Zack said with a satisfied smile playing on his lips. The smile left his face when Max hit him again harder this time. "Hey, why did you have to do that, now I have to do this" he said. He grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back. He brought his other arm up and pulled her against him preventing her from moving.
"Hey, let me go" Max said. But he didn't. "Come on Zack, you don't want me to get out of this on my own, it will end in pain for you" she said.
"Oh come on, I think I can take my baby sister" Zack said.
"Oh need I bring up fights of the past?" Max asked with a devious grin.
Zack let her go after a moment more. "I still say I could take you" Zack said, "I just don't fancy fighting my pregnant sister" he defended himself.
"No excuses, we both know that I would kick your ass" Max said. Zack just rolled his eyes. "I see you have new clothes now" Max said with a gesture towards his shirt. It was a deep blue that matched the color of his eyes.
"Oh, last night on the way back, we stopped at the ranch. I packed some clothes, said good bye, you know that kind of thing" Zack said.
"What's this? Zack needs material items? And even more surprising, he said good bye to some one? Not possible. Who are you and what have you done with my brother?" Max said jokingly.
"I just didn't want to be wearing the same clothes for the rest of my life. And well, they did let me live with them for months, I didn't just want to disappear" Zack explained.
"Whatever, I still say it's strange, and unlike normal Zack behavior" Max said. "Now, If you'll excuse me, I need to go through the things I'm going to keep, and the things I'm going to leave behind" Max said
"Oh no, I'm coming with you to pack. I'm going to monitor your packing. You must bring only what is needed, we can get new stuff when we're there" Zack said.
"Max rolled her eyes and mumbled "You can take the boy out of Manticore, but you can't take the Manticore out of the boy".
"How about Jane" Alec said as he came out of the shower wrapped in a towel.
"Jane? are you serious? have you not heard the expression 'Plain Jane'? I don't want my daughter to grow up feeling plain" Max said.
"Well, what does it mean?" Alec asked.
"Wait, your what, like one and a half months pregnant, and your picking out names already?" Zack said.
"Well, we're just trying to find a good name, it takes time Zack. Especially with me, you know I'm not good at picking out names" Max defended them.
"You can say that again. What was it you had picked-" Zack was interrupted by Max.
"God is gracious" she said quickly, "It means god is gracious. I think it's Hebrew or something" she told them. She turned to Zack, "And if you tell him the name I picked, I will kill you. I will sneak up on you while your asleep, and drive a steak through your heart" Max threatened.
Zack put his hands up in defeat, "Okay I wont tell. How about Julia. I had a foster sibling named Julia one time. She was nice" Zack said.
"What? You had foster siblings? I thought you were always on the run and stuff. Looking out for us. I don't know what I think of you anymore" Max said, "Your no different then me. And all those lectures about how it wasn't safe to stay in one place. Shame on you Zack. Shame. On. You."
"It was for like, two weeks, and it wasn't by choice" Zack defended, "Now what does Julia mean?" he asked again.
"Um, I think it means downy hared and youthful. I don't think I like it. Now, I don't know what every name means so hold on. If we're going to have this conversation, we're going to have it right" she disappeared into her room, and came out a moment latter with her baby book. "Now, Morgaine" she flipped through the book, and looked up a moment latter, "They don't have Morgaine, but they have Morgan, Morgana, and Morgance. I'm assuming that Morgaine is derived from Morgan. Any ways, it means from the sea, or sea creature, or something like that" Max explained.
"Morgaine?" Zack asked scrunching up his nose, "that's a little unusual" he said. "I'm not exactly surprised that you chose it though" he raised his eyebrows.
"It's a beautiful name" Max said. "Now, no more distractions. We can talk about this on the plane. I am going to go choose what will come with me, and what will stay" she walked to her room grabbing Alec and dragging him with her. "come on towel boy. If your gonna get your nails done, you have to get dressed first" she said.
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Max sat at the table and looked around at the people that were seated around her. On her right was Alec, and on her left was Zack. Across from her was OC, and next to OC was Joshua and Logan. No one at the table looked happy. Alec Logan and Max would be leaving the next day, and though they said differently, everyone knew that there was a chance that they were never coming back.
People hardly even spoke. They just looked at their plates, and picked at their food. "Oc, did you know that your name means moon?" Max said for no reason but to brake the silence.
"Of course I knew that" She said simply.
"How about my name, what does my name mean?" Zack said after a moment more.
"Well, Zachary means something like remembered by god" she said. She decided that if it kept away the silence she would tell everyone what their names meant. "Joshua, your name means Lord is salvation. It's Hebrew I think".
Joshua nodded, but didn't really look up. He was still upset about Max leaving. Logan however did say something, "What does Logan mean?" He asked quietly.
Max cleared her throat, "From the little hollow" she said.
Logan got a very strange look upon his face, as though he didn't know how to take it. Alec laughed. "What does Max mean?" Alec asked.
Max smiled, "Well, the feminine form would mean-"
"Great woman" Zack interrupted her with a smile. Max noticed he had been smiling a lot more since she was reunited with him. She returned his smile in full..
"What does Alec mean?" Alec asked looking at her with curiosity in his eyes. Max looked away, trying not to think about how Ben always had curiosity flashing in his face. After a moment she looked back though and smiled, "No way am I telling you, your arrogant enough as it is" she said.
"Max,, come on, tell me what my name means" Alec asked again.
Oc stepped in, "well, Alec comes from the name Alexander, which means 'helper and defender of man kind" she said.
Alec flashed a huge grin. Max rolled her eyes and glared at OC. "And you named me" he said.
"For different reasons" She said. "trust me, if I had known what it meant, I would of gone with Dick" she said with a grin.
"You wound me" Alec said putting a hand to his heart. Max just continued smiling. "What does Ben mean?" he asked. Max looked away. "I mean, you know, if we're gonna name the baby Ben, I'd kind of like to know what it means" he put his hand over hers on the table.
"Son" she said softly. Ben means son. If its used as Benjamin, then it means Son of the right hand. What ever that means".
"I kind of like the name Leah" Alec said bringing the conversation completely back to baby names. Max made a mental note to watch it, if they weren't careful the could be come one of those couples.
"I don't, it's Hebrew for weary" Max told him.
""I always kind of liked the name Mary" Logan said.
"I agree with the man from the little hollow" Alec said mockingly, "I like the name Mary, what does it mean?" he asked.
"I believe it means the perfect one" Max said. "How about Amy, it's Latin for beloved" she told them.
"Maybe Kelly" OC suggested.
"It means Farm by the spring" Max said. "Maureen maybe? It means great" she said.
"Maureen? your joking right? I will not have a daughter named Maureen. How about Selene?"
"Selene means Lunar glow" Max said. "But you know what keeps on coming back to my mind?"
"Uh let me think. You bring up Morgaine in every conversation, so I'm guessing, Morgaine. I kind of like Morgana, or just plain Morgan" Alec said.
"But I don't want my daughter to have such plainness in her name. I want her do have something that she wont run into, Like Morgaine" she said, "Or Morgana" she added after Alec gave her a look. "Now, let's change the subject from Baby names. I don't want to be the type of person who's always talking about her baby. So, Alec, how was your nail appointment? Your hands look lovely" she said.
Everyone at the table laughed. Everyone except Alec. "You know, there is nothing un masculine about having nice clean healthy nails" he said, trying to remain dignified. "And I don't appreciate being made fun of all the time. Just because I do some things that could be considered slightly feminine" he said.
"Like using moisturizing lotion?" Logan asked.
"Or the way you put on chapsitck. Really, it's like watching a girl put on lip stick" Max added.
Alec glared at them both. Zack was looking at him with disgust. "And this is the boy who is so popular with the ladies? Honestly, I'm against calling you a male" Zack said.
"Oh, you who makes up your bed neatly every morning, folding all the blankets and pileing them up neatly at the top of the couch. You who refuses to have any type of stain on your shirt? You are calling me Girlie? I don't think so. I'm not girlie. I'm all man" Alec said smiling.
"It's true Zack, you are weird about getting stains on your clothing" Max said. He gave her a brotherly stare of annoyance. She was happy that the mood had been lightened. "you'd think that Manticore would of made them a little more manly" she teased.
They all ate their dinner, laughing and talking with each other. The conversations moved from different topics. Zack entertained them with stories aboutJondy and Zane and the other X5s. OC and Max told a story about some moron guy that was hitting on them one night. the mood remained light, and Max was severely disappointed when she looked up at the clock and saw that it was quickly approaching 11:00.
Max felt that it had to be wrong. They were getting on a plane the next morning, and she wasn't ready to say good bye yet.
Alec noticed the direction of her glance and frowned when he saw the time. She nodded and he stood up, "Well, I really really hat to do this, but it's getting late" he said.
They took the hint and stood up and started to get ready to leave. Max gave Oc and Joshua a big hug good bye. Kissing them each on the cheek. "Good bye boo, you take care of yourself" she said. She then went to Alec and gave him a hug, "Okay boy, now you take care of my girl and the little Boo" she said. He nodded and smiled.
Joshua gave Alec a hug good bye. But Logan got no hug. Max couldn't touch him, and he wasn't to fond of Alec, so he just smiled and left. Zack also got an awkward hug from Oc. And then it was just the three f them. Max, Alec, and Zack.
Max walked over to Alec and wrapped her arms around him. He embraced her tightly, and she allowed herself to cry just a little bit. She looked up at him, he wasn't crying, but he did have a look of deep sadness on his face. She reached her hand up and stroked the back of his neck, playing with the soft downy curls that rested above his bar code. She stood up on her tip toes and kissed his mouth softly, then stood back down. He smiled at her, and leaned down kissing her more deeply. He slowly rubbed her back with one hand, and rested his other hand on her small waist.
They were interrupted by the sound of Zack clearing his throat, reminding them of his presence. "I hate to interrupt this lovely moment, but I just wanted to stop you before you begin to grope on the couch I use as my bed" he said.
"Some body's jealous" Alec mumbled under his breath. Not so lucky for him, he was in a room with X5s, and they both heard him.
Max looked up and glared at him with a cold stare. She hit him hard in the gut. Zack crossed his arms, trying to act nonchalant. it didn't work. "Come on Alec, we are going to bed" Max said coldly to him, dragging him into the room.
"Alec you are such a pig headed male" She said rather loudly once they were in the room. "I have told you time and time again to keep your opinions about Zack to your self. Okay? That's right, he in love with me. But he still loves me the other way also, and I love him. He and Ben were the closest thing to family I ever had. And he's going out of his way for us" she felt tears rushing down her face, though she didn't know why it was making her so upset. "Why can't you just leave this whole thing alone" she said.
"Alec looked up, making puppy eyes at her. She had to smile when she saw it. He just looked so cute when he did it. "I'm really really sorry Max" he said putting his hands n her waist and pulling her towards him. "you forgive me?" he asked sweetly.
She looked into those deep blue eyes, and found it really hard not to say yes. "This time, this time I forgive you. But next time you sleep on the couch. and you've only escaped that fate this time because my BROTHER is on the couch" she said. He leaned down smiling at her, and they kissed, taking up where they had left off. He moved his lips down her chin, and on to her neck. Max smiled and ran her hands through his hair. "Dance with me Alec" she said after a moment.
"We don't have any music" he said looking at her with surprise written on his face.
"Then you can sing to me also" she said.
He shook his head, "Max, I don't sing" he said.
"And what if our baby likes to be sung to, are you not going to sing to our little, Ben, or Morgaine, or Morgana?" she asked.
"I will sing to Morgana, or Ben, when ever he, she wants, but I'm not going to sing at eleven thirty at night, so we can dance" he said.
Max sniffed, "you love the baby more then me" she said. He laughed, and took one of her hands in his. He put his other hand on her waist. She leaned against him, and they slowly swayed. "Your not singing" she said.
"Oh why do I get the feeling that the rest of my life is going to go by very slowly" he said. "Now this is the only chic song I know so don't laugh" he said. And then he began to sing, "Baby I would do anything for you Nobody's ever treated me quite like you do I've wasted too much time I've wasted too much time And I'm gonna tell you what's on my mind Yea yea" His voice was slow and deep. It was beautiful, she didn't know why he made such a fuss about singing. The tune to the song was bordering on slow, and happy. "I was wrong all along There could be somebody like thee Here we are finally I've found my I've found my Maybe it'll be quite sometime I love you forever and we will be waiting in time I'm wasting no more time I'm wasting no more time I'm always gonna tell you what's on my mind Yea yea I was wrong all along There could be somebody like thee Here we are finally I've found my I've found my".
His song ended, but they continued dancing. His hand on her hip made Max feel warm and protected. she looked up at him and kissed him again. At his moment, she felt that they would be fine. That things would work out. For once in her life, she didn't dread the future, she looked forward to it.
A/N-I hope you all like this chapter. I worked some what hard on it. Any ways, it might take me a while to put up the next one, though I'll try my best. Don't worry, Ben is not out the story for ever, though it may be a while before he comes back. I don't really know. I know how it's going to end, and some of the things that are going to happen on the way, but besides that, I make it up as I go along. :)
Review, it makes me happy:):):):)
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