Title: Beautiful Stranger
Rating: PG, may contain a few swear words

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Dark Angel, Cameron & Eglee, etc. I own nothing and I'm gaining only valuable writing experience.
Summary: A short, sappy M/A fic revolving around the Madonna song Beautiful Stranger

Author's Note: This is my first attempt at fan fiction, although I do have several other stories in the pipeline atm. Reviews would be welcomed but please be gentle.

Beautiful Stranger – Part 2:

Alec's POV:

Another night of Crash just wasn't on the cards for Alec. He knew he couldn't handle that tonight. Being hit on by girls that he couldn't care less about. Sure he partook in the offer once in awhile after all he was only human. Alec let out a laugh as he wandered aimlessly through the streets. Only human, what a joke, he was far from being considered only human. Seemingly out of nowhere a song came drifting into Alec's world, breaking him out of his reverie but instantly throwing him deep into another.

Haven't we met?

You're some kind of beautiful stranger

You could be good for me

I had a taste for danger

Haven't we met? Impossible that right angels don't live on earth. You sure are beautiful and yet you sure are strange. I'm willing to work with that though, you could be good for me now that I'm in the outside world for good. You can be my guide through this city, you look like you know how to have fun and I certainly do have a taste for danger.  We could be good together, really complement each other perfectly. Now all I have to do is get close to you and make you feel the same way, yeah right!

If I'm smart then I'll run away

But I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Heaven forbid

I'll take my chance on a beautiful stranger

I may have a taste for danger but even I know my limits and you certainly seem to be the magnet for all the danger in Seattle. That should be a sure sign to run, I really don't need to be attracting unwanted attention to myself. I should leave, get far away from here and from you and yet something is holding me back. For some reason, I need to stay here with you. I'm drawn to you by a power that I can't control. Guess I'll just have to take my chances with you.

I looked into your eyes

And my world came tumbling down

You're the devil in disguise

That's why I'm singing this song

I can't believe I'm being this stupid. You yell at me constantly, blame me for everything and treat me like complete shit but I still can't leave. I psyche myself up so that I'm ready to leave then I go to tell you and take one look in your eyes and my will completely dissolves. You change my entire world in less then a second. I see the fire and passion in your eyes and I have to stay, even though it's silently killing me. This is torture, perhaps you're the devil and this is hell and I'm paying for all the bad stuff I've done. But damm, the devil has never looked so good.

To know you is to love you

You're everywhere I go and everybody knows

I have you sussed, Maxie, I know you, even though you try to shut me and everyone else out. I know your secrets but you don't know mine. I'm in love with you, simple as that. You've become a huge influence in my life, a huge part of me. Everywhere I go, no matter where that is, you always seem to be there. At first it was a coincidence but now, I think its just intuition on my part. I can feel you, sense you and I need to be close to you and then boom, there you are. I have a feeling that other people are starting to notice that we're always together. It doesn't bother me but I'm sure it bothers you.

To love you is to be part of you

I've paid for you with tears

And swallowed all my pride

I'm in love with Max. She mended my broken heart and then stole it, which I thought could never be possible. She may not know it but I'm forever in her debt and I'll always be a part of her whether she realises it or not. I've cried for Rachel, understandably because I was the cause of her death, but now I find myself crying for Max and I'm not entirely sure why. Is it because I know that I'll never have her the way I want her? Is it because I know she'll never love me like I love her? Maybe I should swallow all my pride and cocky attitude and let her see the real me and tell her that I'm in love with her? That would never work out well.

Da-da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum

Beautiful stranger

Da-da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum

Beautiful stranger

If I'm smart then I'll run away

But I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Haven't you heard?

I fell in love with a beautiful stranger

I want to leave, before I hurt Max and before I hurt myself even more. She's got enough hassles in her life without me adding to them. Trying to be friends with someone after they've told you there deeply in love with you is never easy. I should leave, but I can't, Max is my air, without her I can't breathe, I can't live, I can't survive. I need her so bad and it scares the shit outta me. Trust me to fall in love with a breathtakingly beautiful, completely strange woman who I can never have.

I looked into your face

My heart was dancing all over the place

I'd like to change my point of view

If I could just forget about you

My world instantly brightens when you're around and oh that smile. I look at your beautiful face and your beautiful smile and I lose it all over again. My heart goes into double time and it feels as if it's going to burst right through my chest and start dancing all over the table. I know this can't be good for me, I'm slowing killing myself, If I could just forget about you and the feeling I have then I might be ok. But I know that's a lie, without you I would die, I know that for sure. Trying to forget you, or cut you out of my life would be a deadly move on my behalf.

To know you is to love you

You're everywhere I go and everybody knows

I looked into your eyes

And my world came tumbling down

You're the devil in disguise

That's why I'm singing this song to you

I feel as if I really know you Max, I've been around you so much just watching that I know your faces, I know your noises, I know the meanings to the different looks in your eyes. Hell I probably know you better than you know yourself. I have fallen hard for you and there's no going back, ever. I'm pretty sure that everyone has figured out that I'm in love with you, everyone except you that is. I look in your eyes and I'm floored, there's so much passion and life and spark behind them that I know is just dying to come. I want to be the one to unleash all the power, love and passion that reside inside of you.

To know you is to love you

You're everywhere I go and everybody knows

I've paid for you with tears

And swallowed all my pride

I love Max and I will never be able to leave her. I know it, hell everyone knows it, and even slow-on-the-up-take Logan has a clue. But now I feel it's time that you know. I've done enough crying, it's time to tell the woman I love exactly how I feel about her and after this there's no going back. Come on man, you're a solider you can do this.

Alec lets out a shaky sigh as he again breaks out of his reverie and realises what he must do. Tell Max I love her? Hell I must be mad. Maybe I could use that and plead insanity when she punches me, as she no doubt will. For the first time in a long time Alec looks around to figure out where he is. He quickly gets his bearings and breaks off into a sprint into the direction he feels Max will be.