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: Hey!!! Tomorrow´s my 18th. birthday! I´m so happy, I hope I get a lot of presents. Now, I would like to say something to those who are reading: If you don´t like M/As stories then try not to read mines, becouse there´s nothing I hate more than a person who pretends to be a book critic or something, when it can´t move their personal likes aside. And one more thing before the readers who DO like this story gave up on me and leave without reading this new chapter. 452: I don´t think I´m the one who should grow up, I mean after all I´m not the one who said FOUR times 'max and logan all the way', I think you´re the one who should grow up, and find some inspiration becouse if you didn´t notice MAX AND LOGAN'S relationship was what made the show to be canceled. Ok, That´s it, I feel I took a weight off my shoulders. Now... READ!!!!!!!! =0)
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Chapter 13

OC entered Jam Pony without Max as usually.

"Normal," said OC approaching her boss "my girl ain´t gonna come today."

"Oh! Really? What now?"

"She´s been throwing up all the God damn night. The girl couldn´t stop!"

"Look, I´m getting tire of this excuses your little friend always make up."

"Normal, I´m serious. I couldn´t get her out of the friggin toilet."

"Fine, fine, what ever. I´m just warning you two. Just tell her to bring a note from the doctor."

"Whatever."

Cindy went over her locker. Alec entered Jam Pony.

"Hey, lad... OC."

"Hey, Alec."

"Where´s Max?"

"She´s sick at home."

"Oh! What, she felt like not coming work today?"

"No, she´s sick."

"Come on, Cindy, is not like I´m Normal´s spy, or something. You can tell me the truth."

"Alec, I´m telling ya the truth here, boy." said OC in a very serious tone. "My girl´s been throwing up non stopping, all night."

"What? No, that´s imposible. We... you know... don´t get sick." said Alec trying to avoid the words 'we' and 'transgenics' in the same sentence.

"I know, that´s why I was so worried. Maybe is just a simple and normal bug that´s on the air, ya know? She´s been under a lot of presion lately. She doesn´t sleep at all, she hasn´t been eating that much either and maybe all that made her vulnerable."

"I don´t know, Cindy, I mean, is not easy for a... you know, to get sick."

"I know. Anyway, I gotta go and do some work, or Normal is gonna be on my ass until I quit. I´ll go to check on Maxie at lounch time."

"Ok, see ya." said Alec as OC left Jam Pony with a couple of packages and giving Normal a nasty look before leaving.

It was weird. An X-5 can´t get sick; he had never been sick in his life. Maybe it was an engineer virus just like the one Manticore put on Max to kill Logan; or maybe, OC was just right. X-5s are the best result of cloning resurch, and geneticaly empawered human hibrids, but they weren´t undestructable.

Alec took a package, to Sector 5 (duh!), and delivered it quickly. Then he decided to pay a visit to Max. It was only 9.10 am, and Cindy was going to be there at 1pm more or less, so Max could use some company.

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Alec entered Max´s building with his bike and when he arrived her door, he knocked it. There was no answer, so he opened it. Max was nowhere to be seen. He left his bike near the door, and stepped closer to her room. "Max?" he said in a whisper, affraid she might be sleeping. Suddenly a messy long brown hair stuck out of the bathroom door.

"Alec?" said Max, who was sitting on the bathroom floor, near the toilet.

"Hey, you´re really sick." said Alec in a nice way, almost tender.

"Yeah..." but she couldn´t finish that sentence. Alec rush up to her, to hold her while she throw up.

When she finished, "You look like shit." said Alec.

"I FEEL like shit." and started again to throw up.

"It´s ok. I´m here, don´t worry." whispered Alec on her ear, while he hold her hair.

When Max finally finished, "You got fever?" he asked.

"I don´t know, but I feel really hot." she said.

"Well, Max you ARE hot." Alec answered with his cocky smile. Always with his suck Smart-aleck remarks. Max hit him on the shoulder, and even though she felt weak, Alec really felt that.

"Ouch! I thought you were sick!"

"Well, I thought you were here to say stupid things while I´m feeling like shit and get your ass kicked, right? Or am I missundarstanding something?" Yeap, she was sick, but still a bitch.

"You know, you´re more bitchy when you don´t feel so good."

"Thank you."

"Ok, let´s see if you got fever." Alec said and placed his lips over her forehead. "No, you don´t have fever. Why don´t you have a cold shower, while I preaper you something to eat?"

"Really? Ya know how to cook?"

"Max, if you want me to live..."

"No! I´m sorry."

"Oh! I didn´t hear that, can you repeat it again?"

"No, I´m not. You might better go, becouse I ain´t gonna tell you 'I´m sorry' again."

"You´re wellcome." said Alec and left the bathroom with a satisfactory smile on his face and left Max on the cold floor rolling her eyes, realizing that she had said 'I´m sorry' again. Damn! But still, Max was sorprise by Alec. He had come all the way her apartment to take care of her. No one had ever spoild her this much, exept for Cindy, but she didn´t count, she´s a friend.

Max got up from the floor, turn the water on, took off her sweaty clothes and entered the shower. The water was really cold. When it first touch her bare hot skin, it shrinked but then she got used to it and cleaned her body from the sweat and the smell of her throwing up.

From the shower, Max could here Alec looking like crazy something to eat in her apartment. But she knew he wasn´t gonna find anything. She smiled at that thought.

So he gave up. There was nothing, the place was empty. What the hell do they eat?! Then he heard Max turning off the water.

Minutes later she was out the bathroom, looking at him in a comical way. "What?" he asked her.

"You didn´t find much, didn´t ya?"

"Ooh, so you knew there wasn´t anything to eat, ah?"

"Ovbiously, who do you think lives here?"

"Yeah, ok."

She started walking to her room, when suddenly she felt as if something had disconnected something in her brain and now she couldn´t move her legs and everything was going into circules. It felt like the world had stop and she with it. Finally, her body gave up, her legs couldn´t hold her anymore, and fell. The fall take forever when only took Alec a second to see her fall and run to catch her.

"You ok?" asked Alec really worried.

Max, looking at those sweet and worried hazel-green eyes, said "Yeah... I just felt a little dizzie." She loved the way Alec was holding her. His arms were all around her, protecting her. Then he hold her in a way he could carry her to her room, with one arm under her back and the other holding her legs. When Max realized this, she started moving to get off of his grip. She didn´t want him to think she was some kind of Damsel in Destres, becouse she wasn´t, "I can do it myself." she said getting up again and as she stand up, she fell again to be catch by Alec... again.

"Look, Max" he said holding her again like before. "I know you ain´t some preaty flower who needs to be take care of, ok? And I also know you could kick my ass any time, sick or not. So don´t worry. Me holding you like this, won´t do anything to your tough-chik reputation."

Alec placed Max over her bed. "Look, I´m gonna check on Logan to see what´s going on with you. Maybe his scientist guy knows something." he said and, don´t even thinking ´bout it, moved a wet curl from her face. Then, he realized what was he doing. "And I´ll stop by somewhere to some food." and he stood up.

Max just looked up at him, she looked like a little girl watching to a grown man. "Ok." she said in a whisper. Then, remembering something, "Don´t you have to go to Jam Pony?"

"Umh, it´s ok. I´ll call Normal and make something up."

"Ok." she said again.

"Ok." he repeated.

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Disaster. That´s what he found in Logan´s apartment. A disaster. And Logan wasn´t anywhere. Alec got his cell phone out of his jacket and dialed Logan´s cell phone number. But he didn´t pich it up, the answer machine did. 'Hello, you´ve reached Logan´s Cale cell phone, please leave a message after the bip.' Too long. Alec thought. His answered machine only said: 'Hey, Alec here, leave a message.' Such a snob. BIP. "Hey Logan, it´s me, Alec. Where the hell are you man? Call me, we´re really worry ´bout ya." and he hung up.

Then, Alec thought ´bout checking the house, to see if he could find any clues. Deffinetely there were signs of struggle. He reached Logan´s room, and find what it seamed like a ray of light, a little hope that Logan may be ok. His empty closet. That meant that Logan had left. Also, there was some equipment missing and finally, Bessie wasn´t in the building´s garage.

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Alec arrived Max´s place at 10.30, and he found her sleeping peacefuly on her bed with a clean black tank top and a pair of sleaping black shorts.

She hadn´t sleep that much when she woke up with the delicious smell of food. She went over the kitchen and found Alec cutting some vegetables.

"Whatya preapering?"

"Hey, Maxie. I hope you like it. I made a chicken soup, with some vegetables and stuff. You like chicken, right?"

"Of course I do, I´m part cat, aren´t I?"

Alec laughted. "Yes you are, we all are."

"So, what did you find with Logan?"

Alec wasn´t sure if he should tell Max what he found in the old man´s apartment, and, well, what he hadn´t found, which was Logan. "Uhm... no Logan wasn´t home." he simply said not lieing, but not telling the truth either.

"Oh, ok. We´ll call him later." We? Wow!

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They ate the soup, which Max thought was delicious, and as Alec was cleaning the dishes, Max went straight to bed, where she should´ve been warmer, but ten minutes later she was throwing up Alec´s chicken soup.

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Author´s Note II: Hey, hope you guys liked it. Tell me what you think! 5 REVIEWS!! (that´s for reviwer ME! and Herd Mentality!)