Name: The Realization That You´re Inlove.
Author: merykey X-5 495
E-Mail: merykey_x5495@yahoo.com
Summary: Alec realizes that he loves someone, but she has a boyfriend. M/A. After HG & DDA and before SAH & LATR.
Disclamer: The characters of Dark Angel do not belong to me. They belong to a guy named James and I think the other´s one name is something like Eglee or something like that.
Author´s Note I: This goes to Roxy21: I´m sorry my grammar mistakes offended you, the thing is I´m not ashamed of them becouse I´m from Argentina, do you know where Argentina is? In SOUTH america. That means I speak SPANISH. So I don´t think Jensen would be offended by the way I write the summaries becouse I honestly doubt he´s ever gonna read from Fanfiction.net. Now, I know I asked to those who review to tell me which were my mistakes, but next time you wanna tell me that piece is not writen appropriately, you can do it in a nicer way. I´m not stupid, I´m just not from USA. I would like to see you trying to write PEDAZO without a dictionary.
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Chapter 09

"Josh! Where are you, boy?" yelled Alec as he entered Joshua´s place. "I´m here, Alec." said Joshua from his room. Alec stood on the door frame. "How are you hanging Josh?" "Hanging?" asked the part man part dog as he still couldn´t undestand the X-5´s slange. "How you feeling?" "I´m 'hanging' down." "What are you doing to the windows?" "I´m painting them." "You run out of paper?" "No." "So...?" "So... I don´t know." said Joshua. Alec looked at his poor friend, he was sad, very sad. "Wanna talk?"

They sat in the leaving-room, which looked like a dump. "I miss Annie." "I know you do pall." "I wanna get out of this walls, Alec. I wanna go outside, and talk to the upstairs people." "You know, if you want, you can always go to TC." "TC?" "Yeah, Max didn´t tell you?" "No, no TC." "Well, Terminal City is a city that´s close becouse of the toxic on the air. But we transgenics are inmuned to it, so a lot of nomalies, X-3s, X-4s, X-5s, X-6s, even some X-7s are staying there." "Really? No screaming, no running?" Alec laughed, "No, Josh, no running, no screaming." "Joshua outside... that was the plan." "Well, I´ll bring you a map, and that my friend, will be the plan." "Thank you, Alec." "Sure, boy." "Alec, good friend." "Thanks Josh."

Now was Joshua the one to see his friend´s sadness. "How is Alec hanging?" asked the dog-man. "What you talking ´bout, Josh? I´m ok." Alec said trying to hide that sad look on his face with his Smart Aleck one. The one he always showed him happy all the time. "Alec lying." Ok, so OC AND Josh were the only ones who could read him like an open book. Joshua looked a little naive but he wasn´t naive at all. "Max." said Josh. Alec thought about it. It was really Max who was making him feel so bad? Or her situation with Logan? The non existent 'relation-ship' which came alive last night? The fact that he may be inlove with Max? Ok, we had already cover that part. 'You ARE inlove with her! Otherwise how do you explain all this stupid feelings you feel when you see her, or think her, or touch her arm when you walk by her side or touch her hand when you hand her a package?'

"Yeah." Alec finally said to Joshua´s statement. "Logan found the cure. Didn´t she tell you?" "Little Fella hasn´t come yet." "Well, they´re together now." Josh slapped his back in a conforting way, "I´m sorry." "No, that´s ok. I mean, she´s happy now, right? So I should be happy for her. Right?" Alec was rambling shit. That´s what Joshua thought. "Alec don´t need to be happy if little fella is getting bussy with Logan."

Ok, Alec didn´t want to think about that. 'I mean, they probably spent all night having sex.' An image of Max and Logan naked, 'getting bussy' flashed in his head. Wow! Alec wished Logan looked like that in the reality. Thin, no muscles, like a sick worm. Disgusting... ja!

"I´m gonna go Josh." He said standing up. And before leaving through the door, "Oh! And Josh? I´ll bring you the map to TC at lounch time, ok?" "Ok, Alec, bye."

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LATER THAT DAY

Max had left Jam Pony afer the incident between Normal and Sky, and went straight to the Space Needle.

Things were getting out of control. Normal had threaten Sky with a gun becouse a couple of morons had drew a barcode on his neck. Was in moments like this that Max wished she could just leave Seattle, somewhere nobody knew her, but there were too many things she couldn´t leave.

Max arrived Joshua´s house with some groceries. "Hey, Joshua." she said looking for a clean place were she could leave the food. Max realized Joshua hadn´t say anything. "Brought you some stuff." Joshua was still not talking. Max saw what he was doing to the windows. 'He´s just dealing with Annie´s dead.' "Easel´s over there." 'Ok, that wasn´t funny.'

"What´s up with the maps?" "Terminal City." "Been there. There´s no much to see. People usually go there when don´t have anything to lose." "Like downstair people. Transhumans." "Who told you that?" "Alec. Why didn´t you, Max?" "Becouse it´s dangerous there." "We´re inmune." "And this is your home." Now Joshua turn around and Max could see he was angry and also hurt. "This is not my home anymore Max." he said with a hard, cold tone. "Everything reminds me of Annie. Books, chairs, sitting, eating... painting." "You have to hang on. I´ll get better. I promise." said Max putting a hand over the big dog-man´s shoulder. "No Max, I decided to go to TC."

And Max knew there was nothing she could do or say to convince him to stay in Father´s house. Well, maybe there was something she could do AND say to the person responsible for this... Alec.

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THE NEXT MORNING

Max arrived the doors of Jam Pony and found Alec there. "Max, hold up, hold up." he said and checked Max´s neck. Her barcode was starting to come back. "What´re you doing?" she asked sorprised. "Yeah, you need a little laser touch up." "Thanks for the tip. Now I gotta talk to you." "´Bout?" "´Bout Joshua moving to TC." she said in a whisper so nobody exept Alec would heard her. "Yeah, so?" "So?! So, it´s too dangerous for him, he could get got by White´s men!" she said again in a whisper. "Max, Joshua can take care of himself, ok? He´s not a kid." "Alec, he doesn´t know how things are here in the real world, he could get into trouble. Now, go to his place and convince him to stay there." she said in a bossy kind of way, which Alec didn´t appresiate much, actually he was pissed now.

"You know Max? Is not that Josh doesn´t understand the outside, it´s just that you don´t understand Josh. You think he´s a five year old boy who needs you to protect him. But you know what? Under that naive puppy-dog look he has, there´s a grown man, Max, who´s tire of being inside of that house. You say you took him out of that jail Manticore was, but then you throw him into another one. Except this time he can actually see what he´s missing, and he´s suffering. The woman he love, died. Give him time to figure what he wants. That´s what you told me, remember? When Rachel died? When you wanted to do your good thing for the day? Well, he already figure what he wants and that´s being with people like him. And if that means moving to TC, then he has my support." Max was speachless, "But you can´t..." she tried to say but Alec interuped her. "You know what you´re problem is? You have to control everything. Control everybody´s lifes, that´s why you feel so guilty when something happens to one of us. And I bet that´s why you hate me so much, becouse I don´t let you to control me. And just a guess, I bet that´s why you love Logan so much, ah? Becouse he lets you boss him around." Alec knew right away that he had crossed a line there, but he was really pissed with her so he didn´t care.

Max just steared at Alec, saying nothing. Just stearing with this deep sadness in her eyes, which didn´t affect him. "Oh, and by the way, I wouldn´t go in there if I were you." he said in a harsh tone. "Normal and Sketchy are all trippin´about your little stunt you pulled yesterday." And saying this he left Max in Jam Pony´s entrance.

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Author´s Note II: I´m realy sorry about A/NI. Well, not really, but truth is I felt like if this girl was telling me I´m some kind of stupid becouse I don´t know how to write PIECE, you know? And I repeat again, I didn´t feel offended becouse she told me I had a mistake, is just the way she told me, 'I´m only 14 and I know the difference between PIECE and PEACE.' Please! Anyway, I´m probably over-reacting, right?