Title: What Lies Beneath
Author: Crazy4x5494
Rated Chapter: PG
Pairing: Unknown so far
Summary: Too many secrets being kept, it's tearing everyone apart.
Note: Thought there were too many questions unanswered in skin game
~ There will be a time when you believe that everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour
~ What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.
~@~@~
"Max!" Alec called through the pouring rain. He ran as fast as he could only to find her a block ahead crying in a little ball on the ground. "Maxie, hey?" he sat down beside her so he could look at her face. Lifting her chin up he noticed the sadness in her eyes.
"Maxie common we should go someplace warm. My old place is just a few blocks from here," Alec said never taking his eyes off hers. Max nodded in agreement and slowly got up. As Alec got up he put his arm around her to comfort her in the loss of his sibling.
When they reach the apartment Max slowly walked in, as Alec looked the door to keep any unwanted intruders out. She fell onto a couch in front of the TV staring into space. Alec walked around the couch and knelt down on his knees to try and talk to her. "I knew he was dead along time ago Alec," Max said, her eyes never leaving her fidgeting hands. "I was there when he jumped. All to try and get away from Manticore, I just never knew why he was there!" She finally looked up in Alec's eyes they looked sincere, like they did when she told him about Ben and her past families.
"I know it was hard for you at Manticore, but I think sometimes it would have been a hell of a lot better there then loosing just about everyone that you care about!"
"No Max! It's never better being tortured like what everyone that was still there went through would have been worse. We lost people too! Our best friends, people we got too attached to on missions. It was any easier. You were luck to escape in '09. Other Transgenics have tried before but it never worked! They'd be killed, there was too much of a chance that they would never come back if they were sent on missions!" Alec replied taking a seat beside Max.
"Life sucks! I find out that Logan is the reason that Seth went to the Space Needle that night! I loose everyone I ever care about! Renfro was write," Max mumble the last part that really got Alec's attention.
"Max, what did Renfro say?"
"I'm a virus. I get everyone I ever care about killed. She's right, I've lost everyone I've ever cared about!"
"No Maxie! That's not true! If that were how it was then Logan, OC, Sketchy, Joshua, and so many more at Terminal City would be dead right now if it wasn't for you!" Alec argued trying to prevent her from doing anything stupid.
"You forgot about you," Max said out of nowhere.
"What?"
"In the list of people you named you didn't add yourself. You don't think I care do you?" Max asked looking Alec straight in the eye. "Yeah I do. I just forgot that's all," Alec replied hoping he believed her. He wasn't ready to let her know how he really felt about her.
"Alright," Max said, she didn't want him to say anything he didn't really want to.
"Max what are you going to do?" Alec asked referring back to the information they found out about tonight. "I don't know. I can't believe he never told me about Seth. He knows I want nothing more then to find my siblings and this whole time he had never told me. I just. I don't want to think about it right now!"
Alec nodded. He understood, he knew what it was like to loose someone he had really cared about. In the last two weeks Alec had lost 2 people that he has know for his whole life.
"Hey I should probably go. I don't want to keep you up, it's rather late and I have a feeling you don't have any shark DNA," Max suggested trying to remember if she had brought anything with her. "No you should stay here. I don't care if you have any special DNA your not going back out in that weather! Besides you could use a break from Terminal City!" Alec insisted getting an extra blanket from the bedroom. "I'll take the couch you could have my bed,"
"Alec-"
"No! I insist. Anyway it doesn't matter where I sleep. Before Brian died I didn't really have much of a place to sleep!" Alec said jogging back in the bedroom to get a pillow for him.
"Brain," Max added smiling.
"Huh?" Alec asked confused.
"His name was Brain not Brian!" Max stated still smiling. Giving in to the soft bed in the other room she got up and headed for it. "Goodnight Alec!" She called before closing the door.
"Goodnight Max," Alec whispered to no one in particular in the empty living room.
Author: Crazy4x5494
Rated Chapter: PG
Pairing: Unknown so far
Summary: Too many secrets being kept, it's tearing everyone apart.
Note: Thought there were too many questions unanswered in skin game
~ There will be a time when you believe that everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour
~ What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.
~@~@~
"Max!" Alec called through the pouring rain. He ran as fast as he could only to find her a block ahead crying in a little ball on the ground. "Maxie, hey?" he sat down beside her so he could look at her face. Lifting her chin up he noticed the sadness in her eyes.
"Maxie common we should go someplace warm. My old place is just a few blocks from here," Alec said never taking his eyes off hers. Max nodded in agreement and slowly got up. As Alec got up he put his arm around her to comfort her in the loss of his sibling.
When they reach the apartment Max slowly walked in, as Alec looked the door to keep any unwanted intruders out. She fell onto a couch in front of the TV staring into space. Alec walked around the couch and knelt down on his knees to try and talk to her. "I knew he was dead along time ago Alec," Max said, her eyes never leaving her fidgeting hands. "I was there when he jumped. All to try and get away from Manticore, I just never knew why he was there!" She finally looked up in Alec's eyes they looked sincere, like they did when she told him about Ben and her past families.
"I know it was hard for you at Manticore, but I think sometimes it would have been a hell of a lot better there then loosing just about everyone that you care about!"
"No Max! It's never better being tortured like what everyone that was still there went through would have been worse. We lost people too! Our best friends, people we got too attached to on missions. It was any easier. You were luck to escape in '09. Other Transgenics have tried before but it never worked! They'd be killed, there was too much of a chance that they would never come back if they were sent on missions!" Alec replied taking a seat beside Max.
"Life sucks! I find out that Logan is the reason that Seth went to the Space Needle that night! I loose everyone I ever care about! Renfro was write," Max mumble the last part that really got Alec's attention.
"Max, what did Renfro say?"
"I'm a virus. I get everyone I ever care about killed. She's right, I've lost everyone I've ever cared about!"
"No Maxie! That's not true! If that were how it was then Logan, OC, Sketchy, Joshua, and so many more at Terminal City would be dead right now if it wasn't for you!" Alec argued trying to prevent her from doing anything stupid.
"You forgot about you," Max said out of nowhere.
"What?"
"In the list of people you named you didn't add yourself. You don't think I care do you?" Max asked looking Alec straight in the eye. "Yeah I do. I just forgot that's all," Alec replied hoping he believed her. He wasn't ready to let her know how he really felt about her.
"Alright," Max said, she didn't want him to say anything he didn't really want to.
"Max what are you going to do?" Alec asked referring back to the information they found out about tonight. "I don't know. I can't believe he never told me about Seth. He knows I want nothing more then to find my siblings and this whole time he had never told me. I just. I don't want to think about it right now!"
Alec nodded. He understood, he knew what it was like to loose someone he had really cared about. In the last two weeks Alec had lost 2 people that he has know for his whole life.
"Hey I should probably go. I don't want to keep you up, it's rather late and I have a feeling you don't have any shark DNA," Max suggested trying to remember if she had brought anything with her. "No you should stay here. I don't care if you have any special DNA your not going back out in that weather! Besides you could use a break from Terminal City!" Alec insisted getting an extra blanket from the bedroom. "I'll take the couch you could have my bed,"
"Alec-"
"No! I insist. Anyway it doesn't matter where I sleep. Before Brian died I didn't really have much of a place to sleep!" Alec said jogging back in the bedroom to get a pillow for him.
"Brain," Max added smiling.
"Huh?" Alec asked confused.
"His name was Brain not Brian!" Max stated still smiling. Giving in to the soft bed in the other room she got up and headed for it. "Goodnight Alec!" She called before closing the door.
"Goodnight Max," Alec whispered to no one in particular in the empty living room.
