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, I´m back with a brand new chapter! I hope you guys like it. Thanks to Heard Mentality, you really helped me with the other story! And well, thanks to all of those who review and read the story. By the way, if any of you are readin 'No Regrets... right?' I´m gonna change the begginig so it´ll take me a while to post a new chapter. I´m in college now... I´VE JUST BEGAN COLLAGE!!!!! I´m so happy! If you´re all wondering what carrer am I going to study, well, it´s call: Interpreter. Yeah, I´m going to be an English-Spanish Interpreter, becouse I LOVE ENGLISH!!!!! Ok, now I must go becouse I´m getting to high!! (Say NO To Drugs =0P) See ya!!! And remember to review or sendme an e-mail if you can´t review, if you want to of course... Bye=0))
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Chapter 14

It was 12.15 pm. Cindy hadn´t come yet. And Max had finally stopped throwing up and fallen asleep.

Alec watched her sleep, her rhythmic breathing hypnotizing him, from the door-frame of her bedroom. He was worried. Worried ´bout Max and this mysterious sickness she had, and worried ´bout Logan. He had gone God knows where, or maybe that´s what the people who destroied Logan´s place, wanted him to think.

Cindy opened the door from her apartment and Alec moved himself to the living-room.

"Alec?" she said a little sorprise of seeing him in there.

"Hey, OC."

"Whatya doing here, boy?"

"I just stopped by to check on Max."

"Aha." she said raicing her eyebrow, like she always do when she was suspicious about something. Cindy saw the wet dishes in the sink while she left the groceries in the kitchen counter, and the smell of chicken in the entire place gave him away. "So, how´s my girl?"

"She´s.. ok. She made to sleep."

"Did she eat something?" Cindy asked him already knowing what happen. Obvioulsy, Alec hadn´t found anything in their apartment, so as such a gentelman he was, went over the store and bought a nice chicken for the sick girl... He´s such a sucker for Max!

"Yeah... I managed to make her something. But she throw it up ten minutes later." Cindy walked over Max´s room as Alec talked. Then, to the kitchen again and started putting the groceries in the fridge.

Alec sat on the bench and as he had decided seconds ago, he was going to tell Cindy what had he found in Logan´s place, when his phone rang.

"Alec here." said the X-5.

"Hey, Alec. It´s Logan."

"Logan?! Where are you?! You ok?!" said Alec happy to hear the old man was ok.

"Yeah, I´m fine. I´m outside Seattle, with some friends." Alec stood up and went over the living room to talk so OC wouldn´t heard anything.

"What the hell happen to your pent-house?"

"White happen. I was doing an Eyes Only broad cast and somehow he picked my trail. Anyway, I managed to get out before he got there."

"So, you´re ok?"

"Yeap, I´m fine."

"Ok, good. Now... I´ve got to talk to you ´bout Max."

"Look Alec, she already told me, so I don´t need your explenation."

"Max talked to you? When?!" Alec asked Logan. When did Max talked to Logan? Maybe when he left to Logan´s apartment? "What did she say to you?"

"Well, she pretty much said it all. You and her are together now and I´m cool with that. It just took me by sorprise. I mean, I never gave up on us. But I guess that with everything that´s been happening in the world she might need someone like her, someone who understands her, who feels like she feels." By this time, Alec wasn´t sure what he was listening to. Was he dating Max and hadn´t notice?! Cindy saw the boy´s face. He looked like he was about to have a hart attack.

"Alec, you ok?" she asked worried. Alec waved his hand to her, saying he was fine.

When Logan stopped talking Alec couldn´t help to react, "What?!"

"What? Isn´t it truth?" said Logan with a glimpse of hope in his voice.

"Look Logan, this is not ´bout... that. Max´s sick. Really sick. And I don´t know what to do. I don´t want to go to your scientist guy again, becouse after all, that´s where Withe got us; and I´m not sure whether I should take her to Dr. Carr or not."

"She´s sick? What are the symptoms?"

"Well, she doesn´t have any fever, but she´s been throwing up since last night."

"Uhm, maybe is a side effect of the cure. Maybe her organism is getting rid of the virus. I´ll check it."

"Ok."

"Is that all?" asked Logan. Alec wasn´t sure what to do. Should he tell the older guy that what Max had said it was a lie, or should he wait to talk to Max ´bout this, a conversation from which, he knew, nothing good was going to come out.

"Yeah, that´s all. Just call if you find anything." and the men hung up the phones.

Alec looked at OC who was stearing at him. "I´m gonna check on Josh over Terminal City and I´ll came afterwards."

"Ok, but don´t ya have to get back to Jam Pony?"

"No, it´s alright. Normal gave me the day off."

"You lucky withe boy!" Cindy said under her breath. "So, what did Logan say?"

"He´ll check on it."

"That´s all?" OC with one of her faces.

"Yeap."

"Ok." she said understanding that the boy wasn´t going to tell her jack. "Then I´ll see ya after work, k?"

"Yeah, I´ll be here."

"K, see ya." told Cindy, watching the guy putting on his leather jacket and heading to the door with his bike. He´s such a sucker for the girl! she thought again.

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In TERMINAL CITY

"Hey Josh!" said Alec as he entered the Head Quaters of this transgenic comunity.

"Alec, how are you?" said Joshua putting an arm around Alec.

"I´m fine. Is Max the one who´s not feeling too good."

"Why, what happen to Little Fella?"

"Well, she´s been a little sick. But she´ll be fine. Don´t worry." he lied to the Dog-man. Alec was pretty worried, and didn´t want Joshua to be worry ´bout Max, at least, no yet.

From behind Alec and Joshua, a handsome american-italian kind of guy approached the transgenics.

"494." said the man with a cocky voice.

Alec turned around to find an old friend. "472?!"

They gave each other a big hug. It seamed to Joshua that both men had an long history together; a long friend-ship which had stated in Manticore.

"How are you?" said 472, leaving their grip.

"Great! You know, working, helping around here... It´s Alec now, by the way."

"Biggs." the other said.

"So, you find a place to crash yet?"

Biggs sighed. "No, Terminal City it´s pretty much my home right now. I´m still looking for a job, you know?"

"Hey, I can score you a job over Jam Pony."

"Really?"

"Yeah, the boss loves me. And you can crash in my place. It´s big, has an extra room and a tv."

"Are you honestly sure ´bout this? Becouse you got me with the tv part."

Alec laughted "Yeah, man, of course. I could never leave an old friend in the cold streets."

"Cool man."

"Ok, I´m gonna check on something and then I´ll take you to your new home, k? Josh, I´ll see you later!"

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"Hey Dix, Luke." said Alec as he approached the pair of transhumans sitting in front of the computer screen.

"Hey, Alec." said Dix first, followed by a 'Hey' from Luke.

"You guys have the list of supplies?"

"No, Mole has it."

"K, I´ll catch you guys later."

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Now approaching to Mole who was talking to some transhuman. "Hey Mole, I need the supplies list."

"Hey Alec." said the lizard-guy with his cigar on his mouth, taking a piece of paper from his jacket´s pocket. "Here."

Alec took it and read it silently, but then he looked up from the piece of paper and gave Mole a look. "Cigars?" he said.

"What?" asked Mole with an innocent look on his face.

"You think cigars are more important than food, or clothes?!" Alec couldn´t believe it. Mole had wrote: 1. Cigars; 2. Food; 3. Water; 4. Sheets; 5. Fuel; 6. Clothes...

"Well, since Manticore went down, I can´t live without them."

"You know those things kill you, right?"

"Yeah. But, what the hell! Outside there are millions of people who want to see me dead. At least cigars give me some placer while they do it."

Alec shrugged "What ever, I´ll what can I find. Later."

After that, Alec left Terminal City with Biggs.

They arrived Alec´s place and he showed Biggs the extra room, and then the rest of the apartment, which wasn´t that big actually, and the TV.

"Ok, I gotta go now. You get confortable and... welcome to your new home."

"Thanks man. Want me to preaper dinner?"

"You know how to cook?" asked Alec trying not to sound like Max (Look Chapter 13)

"Not really."

Alec smiled. "That´s ok, I´ll bring something. Chinese´ ok?"

"Sure."

"Ok, see ya later."

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20 minutes later Alec was in Max´s place again. Cindy hadn´t left yet, though she was getting ready for it.

"Hey, boo."

"Hey." said the boy leaving his bike by the door. "How´s Max?"

"Actually, she´s much better now. She´s up and kicking."

"Where´s she?"

"She´s taking a shower."

"Ok." said Alec. He saw Cindy putting on her jacket. "You´re going now?"

"Yeah. Bye Boo!!" she yelled at Max.

"Bye OC!!" she yelled back, from the shower.

The minute Cindy left the apartment, the girls´ phone rang. Alec wasn´t sure if he should pick it up, but Max was in the bathroom and OC had just left, and it may be an important call, so... he picked it.

"Hello."

"Alec?" said a sorprised Logan from the other side of the line.

Since Max had broked up with him, claming she was with Alec, Logan had always wished or, better say, hoped that he wouldn´t have to cross paths with Alec since he was the reason why he and Max had ended their relation-ship. But that seamed just imposible. He had also hoped or, better say, wished that Max had only said she was with the X-5 to protect him, but Alec had swept all his doubts away. Alec had been with Max last night when she got sick (doing God knows what...) and every time he called either Max or Alec, the other one was there too (doing God knows what...).

"How´s Max?" said the older man quickly before Alec could realized how shock he was to hear Alec on Max´s phone. Of couse, no lucky with that, Alec had realized it.

"I think she´s better. She´s up now."

"Ok, good. I talked to Dr. Walt (See Chapter 2) and he told me exactly what I told you it may be. Her organism is just getting rid of the virus, but she´ll be completaly fine by tomorrow."

"Great." said Alec relief. Then an uncomfortable silence between both men, so tense... Alec was having shivers.

"Well, say Max I said hi." Logan cutted the awkward silence.

"Sure. Bye."

"Bye."

The minute Alec hung up the phone... "Hey, you´re back." said Max leaving the bathroom on her tight brown jeans and a black tank top.

"Yeah." he said. Ok, now! Ask her what the hell is going on right now!

"Hey, now that I finally, definetelly stop throwing up, I´m kinda hungry. Is there any more of your chicken soup?" Max asked opening the fridge.

"What? Uhm... I don´t know." Alec was definetelly somewhere else but here.

"You ok?" Max asked, noticing this.

Alec thought. Alec decided. "Max, we gotta talk."

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Author´s Note II: Hey, I have a cuestion: Were BIRDS OF PREY and FIREFLY really cancel?? Please if you know, make me a happy woman and tell me FIREFLY was cancel =0p