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, everyone! REMEMBER TO REVIEW! PLEASE! I hope all of you heard the news! Jensen´s going to be in STILL LIFE (Fox´s new drama)!!!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!!! Well, I hope you´re all fine, kisses... I hope you enjoy this chapter! Bye!
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Chapter 16

"Who are you?" asked Max surprise to find this person infront of her instead of Alec.

"Who are you?"

"Where´s Alec?" now she asked alarmed.

"Oh! I´m Biggs, Alec´s roomate." said Biggs giving Max his hand. She didn´t take it. She was too shock to actually realize the guy was offering his hand as greeting.

"Alec´s roomate?"

"Yeah, who are you?"

Max didn´t answer right away. Alec has a roomate? Since when? He never said a thing ´bout a roomate. Why?

"I´m... Max... Is Alec home?" she asked feeling a little stupid. It was like 'Hi, Alec´s mom, can Alec come out to play?'

"No, he´s not, but he´ll be back any minute. Wanna wait for him?" said Biggs very politely, like a true gentleman.

"Ok." answered Max entering the apartment, and scanning the room with her eyes.

"Wanna something to drink?" he asked her as he closed the door.

"Uhm.. yeah, sure. What you got?"

"Beer and some milk." answered Biggs.

"I´ll go for the beer." said Max.

Biggs went over the fridge and leaned over to get the beers. That´s when Max saw it. His barcode. And she smiled. Duh! Of course Alec isn´t THAT stupid like to take anyone as a roomate.

Biggs turned around and saw Max smiling. "What?"

"Uhm... nothing, just... you should cover your barcode better." she said. Max couldn´t help but laught out loud of Biggs face. Bust it! "It´s ok!" she said again, as she could. She turned around and show him her barcode.

Biggs relaxed. "You scare the shit out of me."

"I know. I saw your face." she said as Biggs handed her the beer.

"So," he said, "how long have you known Alec?"

As they sat on the couch, Max said, "About seven or eight months." She took a sip of her drink. "You?"

"Eight, maybe nine years."

"Same unit?"

"No, we actually met at psy-ops, and then we did some jobs together."

Max suck the intention of saying something like: You mean assessinations.

"Eight months you said?" asked Biggs.

"Yeah."

"Ooh! Yeah! 452! The rogue. I remember you. 494´s breeding partner." with a wicked smile on his face.

"Yes." Max simply said. She wasn´t that proud ´bout that like the men did.

"I also remember 494, Alec, swearing for a week when he was told you were his mate." Biggs said laughing.

Hey! That´s not funny! "What do you mean?" asked Max.

"Well, he had just got out of Psy-ops becouse of 493, and then they assigned you as his breeding partner, another rogue. He knew you meant problems."

Max didn´t know why, but she felt as if someone had throw her a bucket of cold water. "So... why 'Biggs'?" she asked trying to change the subject.

"Well, I would like to say becouse of my physical atribute..." and he was interrupted by a 'men' from Max. Then he continued. "but a girl named me that."

"How come?"

"Well, you see, this girl was from Kezmekistan or something, and she didn´t speak english that well and instead of 'big asshole' she said something like 'biggshole'."

Max, wiping a fake tear from her eye, said, "Touchy story."

"I know. So, how ´bout 'Max'?"

"My unit called me like that, and I just stuck with it."

After a moment of unconfortable silence, Max said, "You wanna know why 'Alec'?"

Biggs looked at her confused, "I figured it was becouse of something like 'Alexander the Great'."

Max laughted out loud. "No! Your friend, just like you did, got his name from a girl."

"Really? So, you named him Alec?"

"Yeah... Wanna know why?"

"Why?" asked Biggs, now interested and intrigued.

"Well, becouse he´s such a Smart-Aleck." she simply answered.

Biggs laughted. "You´re totaly right!"

"I told him my second choice was Dick, but what can I tell you? He liked Alec."

"Max?" It was Alec, who was standing next to the open door, with some paper bags which contained the chinesse food.

Max stood up.

"Hey, my man," said Biggs, "Max´s here."

"Yeah, I can see her." said Alec not moving from his spot next to the door and Max just steared at him, trying to read his face looking for some emotion, something that would tell her how to apology with him, never moving from her spot next to the couch.

Biggs, who was still seating on the couch, could feel the tense between the two X-5s. He looked from one to the other waiting to see who would be the first one to talked, and then he realized neither of them was going to, and he was starving.

"You bring food, good." he said aproaching Alec, shutting the door, and taking the bags from Alec´s grip. He put them over the kitchen table, which wasn´t that big at all. The other two were still standing on each ones spot, looking like idiots. Biggs stood there between the other two and looked at them. "Ok, people!" he said raising his voice and clapping, trying to get their attention. "Wake up!" then the sombies looked at him like if they´ve just woken up from a dream. "Dinner is served. Max, would you join us?"

Max tought it for a second, "Ok." she answered.

They sat on the kitchen-table, and started eating the pathetic excuse of chinesse food. Non of them was talking and it was driving Biggs crazy. He knew he had to get the hell out of there before the storm beggan. He finished his dinner in no more than three minutes.

"Ok, guys, I´m gonna stretch my legs. See ya later Max!" he said quickly putting on his jacket.

"See ya Biggs." said Max softly.

Now it was just the two of them.

"Listen, Alec..." she started but he interrupted her.

"Just don´t say anything, ok?" said Alec as he stood up and started walking to the living-room. Maybe Max would understand that he didn´t want to talk to her. No such luck. She stood up just after he did and followed him.

"But..." tried Max again, but didn´t succed becouse he interrupted her again.

"No! I don´t wanna hear it! Just go, leave!" he said waving his arms to the door.

"Alec, I don´t want you to hate! You have to understand! I´m sorry!"

Alec was still mad at her. No matter what Joshua had said, no matter how many times she would apology, he was still mad. All he needed was some time alone, but Max didn´t understand that.

"You know, there´s something I still don´t understand," he said looking Max at the eyes, almost yelling. The storm had beggan. "Why did you have to drag me into it?!"

"I... I had to say something, and..." again, and this was starting to annoy her, Alec interrupted her.

"Yeah, so blame Alec. ´Couse his the kind of jerk that´s steal another guy´s girl, right?"

Max didn´t know what to say. Alec just looked at her, how she sank on his words, the shame on her eyes, which made her incapable to look at him right then. She didn´t know how to apology. She didn´t know that all Alec needed was some time alone, to think, to cool out.

"So you kow, I´m gonna tell Logan."

"Alec, please..."

"Just go." he said in a tire, soft voice and shut the door of his room, leaving Max in his leaving room, not knowing what to do.

Alec, please don´t hate me, please forgive me. I´m sorry! That was what she was about to say when he interrupted her for the last time. (Max´s thought, or sort of.)

Alec, please don´t tell Logan I lied. That was surely what she was about to say before he interrupted her for the last time. (Alec´s thought, or sort of.)

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NEXT MORNING

Alec entered Jam Pony with Biggs by his side.

"Hey, boss." greeted Alec to Normal, who was, as usual, behind the counter.

"Hey, Golden Boy."

"Boss, I was wondering, my friend here is new in town, and he needs a job. He´s a really hard worker."

Normal looked at Biggs from toe to head, "Where did you meet him?" he asked to Alec.

"Well..." said Alec trying to invent something interesting to Normal... Oh! I got it! "We used to worked together in cage fights, you know? Like those that are two vs two?" Normal eyes wided open.

Biggs steared at Alec with confusion. What the hell is he talking about?

"So," said now Normal adressing to the other guy, "you are like the Robin of Monty?"

Biggs didn´t know what to unser to that. The what of the who? What the hell is a robin and who the hell is Monty?!

"Yes, something like that." answered Alec.

"Well, Alec´s friends are always wellcome to work here. Fill this form and take a bike." he said pointing to the bikes that were hanging from the roof, infront of the counter.

"Hey, boss," said now Alec,getting confortable in the counter. "have you thought about what I told you? ´Bout the motor bikes?" Normal nodded. "What do you think?"

"Well, I like it. Exept no one in here has a bike exept for you."

"And me." said Biggs.

"And me." said Max from behind the men, with an ovbiously fake smile. She looked at Alec, "Hey."

"Hey." he simply said, not even looking at her, and left the counter to his locker.

As Max followed Alec with her eyes, her ears picked the sound of that annoying little voice, that should belong to the devil´s helper (Not the Devil it self, becouse that one would be White). "Well, but if isn´t no one than miss-I´m-too-lazy-to-came-to-work. You´re half hour later!"

"Chill out, Normal." she said. She wasn´t in the mood to put up with Normal´s crap today.

"Hey Max." said Biggs, whose existence had not been notice by Max yet.

"Oh! Hey! What are you doing her?" asked Max with a smile. A true smile, only for Biggs. Alec saw that.

"Alec scored me a job here."

"Great! Then we´ll be seeing each other all the time."

"Yeah. Hey, by the way... Who´s Monty?"

Normal interrupted their little conversation. "Missy Miss, take..." he said giving Biggs a look of 'What is your name?'

"Biggs." the X-5 said.

"... Biggs over here and show him how this is done. That is if you know how to do it."

Max gave Normal a nasty look, "I´ll do it."

"I can do it." said Alec from behind them, ready for a deliver.

"No, I need you on a hot run to sector 7." said Normal and gave him a package. Alec left inmediatelly on his bike.

Max and Biggs approached the counter after assigning Biggs a locker, and Normal gave tham at least four packages to deliver.

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By the end of the day Alec hadn´t seen Biggs yet, same Max.

"Hey boo, coming to Crash?" asked Cindy, who was just leaving Jam Pony, to Alec, who had just arrived from another hot run.

"Ok, yeah. Have you seen Biggs?"

"Yeah, he and Max went to crash like 20 minutes ago."

"Thanks." said Alec hiding the sadness and the jelousy in his voice.

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