Endure No More

Epilogue

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Authors Notes: The song is 'She Left on a Monday' by Bic Runga - a great New Zealand singer/songwriter
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The tour had taken most of the day and how they ended up on the roof was a mystery. Well not really. The roof was his place, his Space Needle. He wanted to share it with Max. Somehow Max could tell that this place was very special to Alec. It showed in his whole manner. He seemed at peace and relaxed. She thought her heart would burst as she realised that Alec wanted to share his special place with her. Maybe this roof would be their Space Needle? Not his, and not hers, but theirs.

"So this is our Space Needle then?" Max said as she playfully nudged him with her shoulder.

Alec smiled at her use of 'our'. She had understood why he had brought her here.

"If it meets with your approval, yes," he answered, throwing his arm around her shoulders and wedging her closer against him.

"I love it Alec. It's perfect, because it's ours," she responded softly, looking up into his face with love radiating from her eyes and her voice.

His only answer was a gentle, almost chaste kiss on her lips. There would be time for more later. Not much later, but later.

After all their talking they were content to just sit together peacefully on the roof. For once it was a comfortable and warm silence. They knew exactly where they stood with each other. Sure there would be hard times ahead, and they would definitely have arguments and disagreements, but they knew that what they had together was real, lasting.

As they watched the sun go down over the mountains they realised that this was the start of a whole new life for not just them, but for transgenics in general. Together they would make a strong leadership team - not for fighting and defence, but for living, enjoying and appreciating life. But for now, tonight, it was about them. The setting sun closed one chapter in their lives. The rising sun would herald the beginning of another chapter. In the meantime they had the whole night ahead of them.

As they walked downstairs to Alec's apartment they could just faintly make out the words of a song coming from a nearby house. It reminded them of just how much they could have lost if they had let pride and fear rule their lives.

She left on a Monday
She's a siren down the road
In your herringbone overcoat
That you don't expect to get back

And it's an ordinary sky
Today's like any other day
When all of the aeroplanes
Write her name in the clouds

And nothing's wrong
But it's already Sunday
And you know just how Sunday
Was the day that she would come around?

Go to her foolish man
What's the use of having pride if you don't have her?
She'll endure all she can
But you could make this easier on her

It's all like sinking
You're trying to stay afloat
Like a wind blown paper boat
Over uncharted sea

There's no question why
You're driving to kill some time
Racing the power lines
Back into town

Go to her foolish man
What's the use of having pride if you don't have her?
She'll endure all she can
But you could make this easier on her

Go to her foolish man
What's the use of having pride if you don't have her?
She'll endure all she can
But you could make this easier on her
Make this easier on her
Make this easier on her
Make this easier on her

"I love you," they both said simultaneously. What made the moment so special was the combination of anticipation, but also hesitation, of the next step. The anticipation had been building all day, but so had the nerves and hesitation. They both wanted their first time together to be special. They could see the identical look of love and desire reflected in the others eyes. That broke their quiet contemplative mood.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Hell yeah!"

"Last one there is a rotten egg!"

With that they both took off down the remaining stairs as fast as they could in a run to see who would reach the apartment first.