- Name: The Realization That You're In love.
- 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.
- Disclaimer: 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, not much to say today so let's skip to the 'Thank you' part, ok? THANK U ALL OF YOU WHO REVIEW AND ALL OF YOU WHO READ THE STORY BUT DON´T LIKE, DON´T WANT OR DON´T KNOW HOW TO REVIEW!!!!!! Enjoy!
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Chapter 21
"Take a seat. You want anything to drink? Actually, I don´t have much... I don´t even have a fridge, so." said Biggs.
"It´s ok, don´t worry."
"Ok..." he said sitting next to her on a very broken couch, "So what do you want to talk about?"
"Ok... You would say we´re friends right?"
"Yeah..."
"And if I asked you for favor you would do it, right? You wouldn´t tell anyone?"
"Right... Max are you offering me sex? Becouse I gotta tell you..."
She hit him in the arm, "Is that all you men think of?! Man! You know what?! Forget about it!" and Max started getting up when Biggs hold her arm.
"Sorry, sorry... I didn´t really mean to say that... honestly. You wanted a favor..." he said so Max would keep going with what ever she wanted to say. She sat down again.
"I need to ask you something... and you have to promise you won´t tell anyone... not even Alec."
"Alec? Uhm... sure, yeah, I promise." he shrugged.
Max hesitated a couple of times. This was a bad idea and she knew it. But if she wanted to know what Alec´s true feelings towards her were, she´d have to ask Alec´s best friend... luckily, Biggs was her friend too. They had managed to develop a nice friend-ship.
"Ok... Has... Alec... ever said anything... to you that... would make you think that he... sort of... has... feelings... towards me??"
Biggs looked at her in shock. "You like Alec??!!"
"What?" Max answered just as shock as Biggs. "No! I... no!"
"Then why do you ask me something like that??"
"I just... I mean...... YES!! I LIKE ALEC, OK?????!!!!!!"
Biggs hesitated but at the end he said, "No, Alec has never said anything to me about you."
A small part of Max actually thought that Alec may feel something for her... anything. But Biggs totally destroyed that bit of hope.
"Oh... Nothing?" she asked hoping Biggs would remember something.
"Well, no."
Biggs remembered a talk he had with his friend at his old apartment, the one that now belonged only to Alec...
.:FlashBack:.
"Are you in love with Max?"
"What?! What the hell are you talking about?!" Alec asked staring at his friend with a mix of shock and annoyance in his eyes.
"Come on, dude. How long have we known each other? Too long, and even though Manticore thought their soldiers were loners, we knew the real truth. You could have at least one friend in there. And that´s what we were and, hopefully, still are. So don´t play fool with me, k? Because I saw you leaving Crash tonight, the way you left. Like if someone had sucked the life from your body. And you know why you were so upset? Because I was talking to Max. I´m not stupid."
"I have no idea what you´re talking about." Alec said standing up, leaving Biggs on the couch, to get two beers from the fridge.
"Oh! Come on Alec! You can´t tell me you don´t fell at least a bit attracted to her!"
"Attracted, yes. In love, no. Max´s hot, yeah, and it would be a dream come true to take her to bed, big deal. But that´s all it is. Hormones. Not love, just hormones."
"Fine. If you say so." said Biggs giving up.
"I say so."
:.End FlashBack.:
"Sorry..."
Biggs knew deep inside of him that Alec loved Max, but he couldn´t tell that to her, not if he wasn´t absolutely 100% sure about it. Like Alec had said, it could only be hormones. But still, he felt like shit. Max wasn´t even looking at him, she was just staring at the floor, with sad eyes, with this lost-little-girl´s eyes... about to cry.
"Yeah..." she answered as she was trying to get a grip and not cry.
"You should talk to Alec."
She laughed at the thought of it, though never loosing her sad eyes. She had already dismissed that option, "No way."
"Well, if you don´t talk to him then you´ll never know. You... are both too stubborn... at this step you´ll never know..."
"What ever... Just... promise..."
"Yeah, don´t worry. I won´t say anything to Alec ´bout what we talked about."
She stood up very slowly and went to the door. Just then she turned around and looked at Biggs for the first time. "Thanks anyway." and left.
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"A scotch" said Alec to the bartender, as he sat on a bench at Crash.
"Hey, Alec." said Asha as she ordered a pitch of beer.
"Asha." he just said.
There was an awkward silence between them, silence that only Asha broke.
"So... how´ve you been?"
"Good." he answered not even looking at her.
"Running for your life as I heard."
"Always."
She just smiled. She wasn´t gonna say something like the last time. She realized that all she had said that night, in this exact same place, in this exact same spot, had hurt him. He was after all running for his life and he was indeed made in a lab. And he had been trained all his life to be a killer.
"Listen... I never meant to hurt you. I didn´t know..."
"It´s ok. It wasn´t your fault."
"I guess you were right and I was wrong, ah?"
"Wrong ´bout what?" he looked at her now.
"Wrong ´bout you being too scared to let go and care about somebody."
Alec smiled. "You weren´t wrong. You were right."
Asha looked at him very shocked. Was Alec really opening his heart to her? He looks like he needs to talk.
"How come?" she asked sitting by his side, totally forgetting ´bout the pitch and the bunch of people who were waiting for it.
He hesitated for a moment, but what the hell... OC could read him like an open book, but she wasn´t here; Josh could read him like an open book, but he was in TC and Biggs could read him like an open book, but he was banging the girl Alec was in love with.
"Well, I am afraid to care ´bout someone. I did it once and she ended up dead, I did it twice and she ended up fucking my best friend." he said bittersweetly.
Asha wasn´t going to say anything like 'Oh, I´m so sorry' or 'Oh, you poor thing' ´cause she figured Alec, being a soldier, didn´t like people to take pity on him.
"The same girl?"
"What?"
"The first and the second, are the same girl?"
"Oh... no."
"Well, it seems to me that this second girl doesn´t even deserve your moan. I mean, she has to be a super bitch to do something like that... and your friend!! He´s a dick."
"Thing is... She doesn´t know."
"She doesn´t know you love her?"
"No... neither does my friend."
"Uh... Well, that... sort of changes things a bit. Maybe you should tell her."
He laughed at the thought, "No way."
Asha realized, just like Alec, that someone was calling out her name. It was one of the guys of the S1W telling her to bring the beer already.
"Well, I gotta go. And... I really think you should tell Max..."
Alec answered quickly, "What? Why...?"
"See ya." she said with a smile and left with the pitch, leaving Alec totally vulnerable.
He left too, he needed to clear his thoughts. He rode his bike all night, and went to the Space Needle at last. She wasn´t there, but still he could smell her, which didn´t have much sense because even though Max spent a lot of time in that place, it was too high and too windy to have Max´s smell... the smell was in his nose, in his body, in his heart.
The sun rose and he was still there...
He probably stayed there all Sunday watching the city from the sky above, dreaming of a perfect world... dreaming of being loved.
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Maybe Biggs was right... Maybe all she had to do was talk to Alec, but she was a chicken, no matter what the scientist at Manticore said, she definetely had a little of chicken in her cocktail.
So, she went to Crash, to see if Cindy was still there, but she wasn´t, not even Sketchy. The only one she found was Alec at the bar, talking to some blonde... Wait! Isn´t that Asha? Oh, great! Just... GREAT!
She left and went home.
"Hey boo."
"Hey." she said throwing her jacket to the couch like if the jacket was the enemy.
"What happened? What did Biggs say?"
"Exactly what I thought he was going to say!"
"Well, I didn´t get much outta Sketchy."
"That´s because there´s nothing to get out of Sketchy or anybody, for that matter."
"Maybe if ya talk to the Dog-Boy..."
"No, Cindy," Max said standing up from the couch, "don´t take this in the wrong way, ok? But don´t. He doesn´t want me, ok? No matter how hard you try, or how many people you ask, he DOESN´T WANT ME! ok?" and went to her room.
Cindy didn´t know what to say. She waited a few minutes, until Max had calmed down and then she went to talk to her.
"Maxie?"
Max was lying on the bed, just staring at the roof, thinking I don´t understand why am I acting so... girly! I´m not like this. I don´t like being like this! Then why can´t I stop acting like this??!!!
"What?"
"Come her´."
Max sat on the bed, next to Cindy. She held her friend.
"Ya aiight. I shouldn´t have pushed ya to do something ya didn´t want to do in the first place." Max looked at her with her sad eyes, "But, OC couldn´t resist, boo. I know, deep inside, that boy loves ya. Don´t ask me how, I just do. Just like I knew you liked Logan last year, just like I knew that time when Normal got a girlfriend that there was something odd with her, or just like I knew Alec was sad ´bout something that time when his past came after him... I just know."
Max just smiled at her. It was the truth but... "You never knew I didn´t love Logan anymore until I told ya."
"Can OC tell ya a secret?" Max nodded. "Remember after the 12 hours you and Logan had been together?" Max nodded again, "Well... after that we were talking and ya told me 'this is when ya say Logan and I´ve been through worse'. But, I didn´t know why, I just felt things between you and Logan were never gonna be the same... that something was going to change. And something definitely changed."
Max, then, moved Cindy´s hair from her neck looking for something.
"Whatcha looking for girl?"
"A barcode. I don´t know but you might be like Mia, I mean you seem to know a lot ´bout what the heart... and the main holds." Max said smiling.
"Why don´t ya sleep a bit?"
"Nah... I think I´m gonna go to see Joshua."
"You´re gonna go back to TC?"
"Yeah, I´m not that tired... and anyway, I got all Sunday to sleep."
"K, boo. Just wake me up when ya get home."
"Sure thing."
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Sunday Afternoon, Terminal City
Max had been in the HQ till 5.30pm more or less. She had called Cindy to let her know she was fine, still in TC.
"Did ya see him?" Cindy asked.
"No, and I really don´t feel like seeing him right now. I came here so I could have some distraction, ok?"
"K' boo. Are ya gonna be late?"
"No, I´m heading home right now, do you want me to buy something to eat?"
"Well," Cindy said checking the fridge, "yeah."
"Chinesse, italian or just a pizza?"
"Your choice."
"Ok, see ya." Max said and they both hung up. "Josh, I´m leaving."
"Ok, little fella."
"Tell Mole I'll be here by midnight with the money, ok?"
"Sure. Bye."
"Bye."
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- Author´s Note II: So, what did you think... I know nothing much happens but hey! I gave the lovers another obstacule, which means more chapters full of beautiful torture!!! Now, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!! I BEG YOU ALL!!! REVIEW THIS DAMN STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =0P
- Author´s Note III: Lets make sort of like a poll, ok? Because... I don´t like when people die, except if they´re the bad guys or Starfucker =0P
- Do you think MeryKey should keep Cece alive?
- a. Yes
- b. No
- C. I don´t know
- REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOUR ANSWER IS!!!!!
