A/N: Okay I'm back with this story, it was dragging and got a bit boring to
write but I've tried my hand at it again. Please be shocked, I'd like it
much if you were.
Day 4:
Alec may as well have moved in with Max and Cindy cause he was staying there so much that Cindy wanted to move out.
"I can't take anymore of this!" Cindy yelled walking into Max's room where she and Alec were talking about stuff. In her hand Cindy had a pair of boxer shorts with little naked cupids on them shooting arrows. "You're a pig Alec and if you don't start cleaning up after yourself I'm gonna throw everything that's outta place, out the window, got it?"
"Hey Cindy, calm down, there just a pair of shorts." He replied, they would have been picked up later.
To make her point, Cindy walked over to Max's window, pulled it open and threw the boxers out into the melting snow.
"What are you doing?" Alec yelled jumping up, running to the window and peering down at the soggy, wet silk mess that were his boxers.
"Told ya." She spun and walked out of the room leaving Alec with a very amused Max.
"Serves yourself right you know, nobody messes with Cindy." She pointed a finger at him and started laughing.
"This isn't funny," Alec said still looking at the boxers, "They were my favorite pair." That statement had Max laughing so hard she had to grip her sides they hurt much. "You think it's funny? I'll teach you!" He ran and jumped on the bed wrestling her.
~*
"Are you ready?" A dark figure paced around a deserted warehouse giving instructions and asking questions to the young blond woman who stood across the room.
"I was born ready," She stated standing in an army position.
"Good," The figure spoke again, "I don't want a kill, I want a capture. That's the way it's always been, if you kill 452, I'll kill you. Do you understand?"
"Yeas sir," The blond girl replied still standing straight in her army position.
"Then go, wound her if you must but if you kill, so help you." Without another word the dark figure turned and left.
Asha finally relaxed when she knew that he was gone, he scared her more than anything she had ever done in her life and that was a lot. She had to capture Max, but how? She was so slippery and difficult to catch. But she had her weaknesses, just like everyone else and Asha knew what they were.
~*
"Nothing stops the messenger service!" Normal told a fellow employee as Max, Cindy and Alec entered the building.
"Try telling that to Frosty the Snow Man!" Cindy muttered as she pulled her gloves off.
"What do you think about what Logan said?" Max asked Alec as she sat down on his lap at a table set in the lunch part of the building.
"I'm not worried," Alec said wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his head on her shoulder, "why would Asha hang around? If that were me, I'd be as far away as possible."
"But it's not you Alec. She's a psycho and she works for White in case you forgot." She reminded him.
"No Max I didn't forget but did you think that it could be Logan makin stuff up?" Alec suggested without considering the impact of the statement.
"What are you talking about?" Max stood up furious, "He wouldn't do something like that, he's not like that!"
"Okay, okay," Alec just wanted her to calm down. "I'm sorry but I was just trying to look at the big picture which just so happens to start with him telling us that she's still out there and still after us. Start at the source and then work through the information."
"I hate that," She said sitting back on his knee again and laying into his chest. "I just wish I knew for sure what is going on."
"We all do." He stroked her back.
"What do you think you're doing?" Normal's annoying voice traveled up the stair with his body and his eyes stared at them, "Your lunch break doesn't start of another four hours. Bip, bip, bip!"
~*
Max knocked carefully on the door to Logan's apartment and entered, "Logan, are you here?" She called, looking carefully around his apartment.
Logan stopped and looked at her for a beat between walking from his kitchen to his office, "you shouldn't be here." He reminded her as her walked with her close behind him.
"She knows where I live so I really don't think that it matters where I am." She said taking a seat on his desk and watching him search through folders.
"That's not what I meant." He mumbled under his breath and moved away to file his work.
"Then why don't you explain to me exactly what you meant cause I'm a little fuzzy!" Max said letting her temper slip.
"Look, I'm not feeling to well, can you please leave?" He stopped to face her and watched her reaction.
"If this is about Alec."
Logan slammed his filing cabinet shut, "This may surprise you Max but not everything is about Alec! I want to be left alone and that requires you leaving!"
"I don't know what the hell is wrong with you but you've changed and I don't like it!" Max said trying not to yell and failing.
"Well I don't care what you think because it doesn't matter anymore. You have what you want. Please leave." He said sitting at his desk.
"Fine," Max said through gritted teeth and left, slamming doors as she went.
She stormed into the alleyway where she left her bike in a great temper. She kicked at the ground and slammed her bike against the wall.
"Temper, temper," a voice said calmly behind her.
Max spun to see who it was, but she was struck with a tazer and fell unconsciously to the ground, shaking violently.
~*
"Hey Cindy, do you know where Max is?" Alec asked joining Cindy at Normal's desk.
"No, she said that she was going to visit Logan but that was like three hours ago." Cindy replied and headed for her bike.
"At Logan's?" Alec said with apparent suspicion in his tone.
"If you're worried about them having an affair, you really don't have to be." Cindy said screwing up her face at the thought.
"I'm not worried." Alec said stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Come on silly, let's go home, she's probably already there resting." Cindy led the way out of Jam Pony and home to her place.
~*
Max wasn't at home and she wasn't at Logan's place either. Alec's mind was racing, he was trying to think of where she could be. He couldn't focus, he kept thinking of all the horrible thinks that could have happened to her.
Finally he grabbed his jacket and started to search Seattle bit by bit.
~*
"Wake up you're boring me!" Asha yelled grabbing Max's hair and giving it a good tug.
Max groggily opened her eyes, she knew that she had been drugged, she just hoped that it wasn't anything too bad. She was tied to a hard chair in a dirty warehouse in god only knew where.
"Well, hello there." Asha said leaning on the arms of the chair that Max was tied to and looked into her face.
"Skip the greetings and get straight to the point." Max said smiling devilish at her.
Asha smiled and leaned closer, "Don't get smart with me, I'm in control of this situation."
But Max's smile didn't waver, she simply arched her head back and head butted Asha in the face. "Piss off."
Asha sat up patting a finger to a split and bleeding lip, "Bitch," she muttered. "You are gonna regret doing that, promise."
Max watched as Asha moved over to her table of torture weapons and picked up a hand held tazer. She gritted her teeth as Asha zapped her shoulder.
"I can see that this is no problem for you. Tell me, what is it that I can take from you? You've taken everything away from me." She circled Max, playing with the tazer in her hands. "First you took Logan away from me when you came back from Manticore but that wasn't enough for you, no, you had to take Alec away as well."
"What do you mean?" Max said, the look of deep hate at Asha mentioning Alec's name.
"He cared, he's a very passionate person, gentle." Asha smiled and still circled.
"You slept with him." Max answered her own question and the bowed her head to look at her knees.
"Here!" Asha announced lifting her arms into the air and walked into the center of the dust-covered floor. "It was beautiful, filthy, but beautiful."
"You're crazy." Max noted more to herself than to Asha.
"You stole it, I may be a crazy bitch but you're a selfish bitch. It's your turn to pay so I'm going to take something from you!" She said calmly, calmly enough to be rendered insane. She walked to Max and put the tazer to her stomach. "Say good bye Max."
~*
Max's bike was still in the alleyway outside Logan's place, this made Alec's heart jump, something terrible had happened to her. She had been kidnaped.
He paced around hoping to think of something, anything. "Who wants Max? Who wants Max dead?" He asked himself.
"Asha," a voice answered.
Alec jumped, "Logan, don't sneak up on people like that, you'll get punched in the face."
"Sorry, what's wrong?" Logan asked, dumping his trash in the dumpster.
"Max is gone and I don't know where. I've tried calling her and paging her but she's gone. Her bike is here meaning that she must have been caught here." Alec began to pace again.
"Asha's probably got her. But where?" Logan said switching direcetly into dective mode.
Alec just kept pacing he thought and thought before it struck him. "Warehouse three by the warf."
"What? Why?"
"Just because, get in the car." He demanded running to Logan's car, jumping in the drivers seat and waiting for Logan to join him.
~*
Max's scream peirced the air as Logan and Alec jumped out of the car at warehouse three.
Alec ran inside, leaving Logan to chase after him.
The pain was blinding and Max wavered on the border of unconsciousness. Asha really did keep her promises.
Asha wasn't thinking anymore, her body was on autopilot and her mind and sanity had gone for a walk. She wouldn't stop the pain, she couldn't stop herself.
Alec tackeled her to the ground and started to deliver blows to her face. "You stupid bitch!" He screamed as she slapped at him to stop.
Logan grab him and dragged him off her. "Don't it's not worth it! Don't sink to that level."
Alec was raging with anger, he paced around the room, condemplating his next move.
Asha lay on the floor and began to laugh at him. "I just took what was rightfully mine, she owed me. She gave me nothing but pain so I lifted her burden by stealing your child."
Tears flowed from Alec's eyes. Asha had just killed his child and thretened the life of the woman that he loved and Logan was telling him not to be angry.
Asha sat up and looked at him with a wide grin, "Believe me, one day you'll be thanking me."
Alec stopped pacing and grabbed a gun from the table of torure tools and aimed it at Asha.
"Alec don't do it!" Logan jumped, he didn't move from where he was standing but was in shock.
Alec shrugged, "Tit for tat, right Asha?"
Asha smiled, "You learn quick Alec, I'm proud of you."
Alec pulled the trigger, Asha fell back on the ground, Logan sat on the floor in shock and Max made a small hiccupp noise and looked up at Alec.
Alec untied Max and pulled her into his arms where she cried.
To be continued..
Day 4:
Alec may as well have moved in with Max and Cindy cause he was staying there so much that Cindy wanted to move out.
"I can't take anymore of this!" Cindy yelled walking into Max's room where she and Alec were talking about stuff. In her hand Cindy had a pair of boxer shorts with little naked cupids on them shooting arrows. "You're a pig Alec and if you don't start cleaning up after yourself I'm gonna throw everything that's outta place, out the window, got it?"
"Hey Cindy, calm down, there just a pair of shorts." He replied, they would have been picked up later.
To make her point, Cindy walked over to Max's window, pulled it open and threw the boxers out into the melting snow.
"What are you doing?" Alec yelled jumping up, running to the window and peering down at the soggy, wet silk mess that were his boxers.
"Told ya." She spun and walked out of the room leaving Alec with a very amused Max.
"Serves yourself right you know, nobody messes with Cindy." She pointed a finger at him and started laughing.
"This isn't funny," Alec said still looking at the boxers, "They were my favorite pair." That statement had Max laughing so hard she had to grip her sides they hurt much. "You think it's funny? I'll teach you!" He ran and jumped on the bed wrestling her.
~*
"Are you ready?" A dark figure paced around a deserted warehouse giving instructions and asking questions to the young blond woman who stood across the room.
"I was born ready," She stated standing in an army position.
"Good," The figure spoke again, "I don't want a kill, I want a capture. That's the way it's always been, if you kill 452, I'll kill you. Do you understand?"
"Yeas sir," The blond girl replied still standing straight in her army position.
"Then go, wound her if you must but if you kill, so help you." Without another word the dark figure turned and left.
Asha finally relaxed when she knew that he was gone, he scared her more than anything she had ever done in her life and that was a lot. She had to capture Max, but how? She was so slippery and difficult to catch. But she had her weaknesses, just like everyone else and Asha knew what they were.
~*
"Nothing stops the messenger service!" Normal told a fellow employee as Max, Cindy and Alec entered the building.
"Try telling that to Frosty the Snow Man!" Cindy muttered as she pulled her gloves off.
"What do you think about what Logan said?" Max asked Alec as she sat down on his lap at a table set in the lunch part of the building.
"I'm not worried," Alec said wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his head on her shoulder, "why would Asha hang around? If that were me, I'd be as far away as possible."
"But it's not you Alec. She's a psycho and she works for White in case you forgot." She reminded him.
"No Max I didn't forget but did you think that it could be Logan makin stuff up?" Alec suggested without considering the impact of the statement.
"What are you talking about?" Max stood up furious, "He wouldn't do something like that, he's not like that!"
"Okay, okay," Alec just wanted her to calm down. "I'm sorry but I was just trying to look at the big picture which just so happens to start with him telling us that she's still out there and still after us. Start at the source and then work through the information."
"I hate that," She said sitting back on his knee again and laying into his chest. "I just wish I knew for sure what is going on."
"We all do." He stroked her back.
"What do you think you're doing?" Normal's annoying voice traveled up the stair with his body and his eyes stared at them, "Your lunch break doesn't start of another four hours. Bip, bip, bip!"
~*
Max knocked carefully on the door to Logan's apartment and entered, "Logan, are you here?" She called, looking carefully around his apartment.
Logan stopped and looked at her for a beat between walking from his kitchen to his office, "you shouldn't be here." He reminded her as her walked with her close behind him.
"She knows where I live so I really don't think that it matters where I am." She said taking a seat on his desk and watching him search through folders.
"That's not what I meant." He mumbled under his breath and moved away to file his work.
"Then why don't you explain to me exactly what you meant cause I'm a little fuzzy!" Max said letting her temper slip.
"Look, I'm not feeling to well, can you please leave?" He stopped to face her and watched her reaction.
"If this is about Alec."
Logan slammed his filing cabinet shut, "This may surprise you Max but not everything is about Alec! I want to be left alone and that requires you leaving!"
"I don't know what the hell is wrong with you but you've changed and I don't like it!" Max said trying not to yell and failing.
"Well I don't care what you think because it doesn't matter anymore. You have what you want. Please leave." He said sitting at his desk.
"Fine," Max said through gritted teeth and left, slamming doors as she went.
She stormed into the alleyway where she left her bike in a great temper. She kicked at the ground and slammed her bike against the wall.
"Temper, temper," a voice said calmly behind her.
Max spun to see who it was, but she was struck with a tazer and fell unconsciously to the ground, shaking violently.
~*
"Hey Cindy, do you know where Max is?" Alec asked joining Cindy at Normal's desk.
"No, she said that she was going to visit Logan but that was like three hours ago." Cindy replied and headed for her bike.
"At Logan's?" Alec said with apparent suspicion in his tone.
"If you're worried about them having an affair, you really don't have to be." Cindy said screwing up her face at the thought.
"I'm not worried." Alec said stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Come on silly, let's go home, she's probably already there resting." Cindy led the way out of Jam Pony and home to her place.
~*
Max wasn't at home and she wasn't at Logan's place either. Alec's mind was racing, he was trying to think of where she could be. He couldn't focus, he kept thinking of all the horrible thinks that could have happened to her.
Finally he grabbed his jacket and started to search Seattle bit by bit.
~*
"Wake up you're boring me!" Asha yelled grabbing Max's hair and giving it a good tug.
Max groggily opened her eyes, she knew that she had been drugged, she just hoped that it wasn't anything too bad. She was tied to a hard chair in a dirty warehouse in god only knew where.
"Well, hello there." Asha said leaning on the arms of the chair that Max was tied to and looked into her face.
"Skip the greetings and get straight to the point." Max said smiling devilish at her.
Asha smiled and leaned closer, "Don't get smart with me, I'm in control of this situation."
But Max's smile didn't waver, she simply arched her head back and head butted Asha in the face. "Piss off."
Asha sat up patting a finger to a split and bleeding lip, "Bitch," she muttered. "You are gonna regret doing that, promise."
Max watched as Asha moved over to her table of torture weapons and picked up a hand held tazer. She gritted her teeth as Asha zapped her shoulder.
"I can see that this is no problem for you. Tell me, what is it that I can take from you? You've taken everything away from me." She circled Max, playing with the tazer in her hands. "First you took Logan away from me when you came back from Manticore but that wasn't enough for you, no, you had to take Alec away as well."
"What do you mean?" Max said, the look of deep hate at Asha mentioning Alec's name.
"He cared, he's a very passionate person, gentle." Asha smiled and still circled.
"You slept with him." Max answered her own question and the bowed her head to look at her knees.
"Here!" Asha announced lifting her arms into the air and walked into the center of the dust-covered floor. "It was beautiful, filthy, but beautiful."
"You're crazy." Max noted more to herself than to Asha.
"You stole it, I may be a crazy bitch but you're a selfish bitch. It's your turn to pay so I'm going to take something from you!" She said calmly, calmly enough to be rendered insane. She walked to Max and put the tazer to her stomach. "Say good bye Max."
~*
Max's bike was still in the alleyway outside Logan's place, this made Alec's heart jump, something terrible had happened to her. She had been kidnaped.
He paced around hoping to think of something, anything. "Who wants Max? Who wants Max dead?" He asked himself.
"Asha," a voice answered.
Alec jumped, "Logan, don't sneak up on people like that, you'll get punched in the face."
"Sorry, what's wrong?" Logan asked, dumping his trash in the dumpster.
"Max is gone and I don't know where. I've tried calling her and paging her but she's gone. Her bike is here meaning that she must have been caught here." Alec began to pace again.
"Asha's probably got her. But where?" Logan said switching direcetly into dective mode.
Alec just kept pacing he thought and thought before it struck him. "Warehouse three by the warf."
"What? Why?"
"Just because, get in the car." He demanded running to Logan's car, jumping in the drivers seat and waiting for Logan to join him.
~*
Max's scream peirced the air as Logan and Alec jumped out of the car at warehouse three.
Alec ran inside, leaving Logan to chase after him.
The pain was blinding and Max wavered on the border of unconsciousness. Asha really did keep her promises.
Asha wasn't thinking anymore, her body was on autopilot and her mind and sanity had gone for a walk. She wouldn't stop the pain, she couldn't stop herself.
Alec tackeled her to the ground and started to deliver blows to her face. "You stupid bitch!" He screamed as she slapped at him to stop.
Logan grab him and dragged him off her. "Don't it's not worth it! Don't sink to that level."
Alec was raging with anger, he paced around the room, condemplating his next move.
Asha lay on the floor and began to laugh at him. "I just took what was rightfully mine, she owed me. She gave me nothing but pain so I lifted her burden by stealing your child."
Tears flowed from Alec's eyes. Asha had just killed his child and thretened the life of the woman that he loved and Logan was telling him not to be angry.
Asha sat up and looked at him with a wide grin, "Believe me, one day you'll be thanking me."
Alec stopped pacing and grabbed a gun from the table of torure tools and aimed it at Asha.
"Alec don't do it!" Logan jumped, he didn't move from where he was standing but was in shock.
Alec shrugged, "Tit for tat, right Asha?"
Asha smiled, "You learn quick Alec, I'm proud of you."
Alec pulled the trigger, Asha fell back on the ground, Logan sat on the floor in shock and Max made a small hiccupp noise and looked up at Alec.
Alec untied Max and pulled her into his arms where she cried.
To be continued..
