A First Time For Everything

Author: Zille
Rating: PG-13 (/R?)
Pairing(s): Max/Alec
Spoilers: Up to "Borrowed Time".
Summary: Max and Alec have a movie night, and things happen.
Note: This is a CHALLENGE!

Er, hi. I'm not dead! God you guys, I AM SO SORRY! Really, first HP&OotP got out (read it in 2 days, yay me), then someone very close to me died, it turned my world and life upside down, that's why I had no time to write during the holidays, and plus I just started a new school, an International School, which is REALLY tough compared to Danish schools, omigod... not only do we speak English all the time, but the amount of homework is unbelievable... Anyway, I know it doesn't come close to an excuse. :( I would have told you sooner, but I hate when people post chapters where they apologize... here the readers were, thinking it was a realy chapter... Anyway, this is a real chapter! Nothing happens though. God I know how to drag things out... Well, at least she's in the apartment now!

((Ooh, new update... sorry to keep you waiting... you know, I just found out that some book had just been published, so I went down to the bookstore to check it out... dunno why, but there were all these people there, it seemed pretty popular. Oh well, I decided to buy some lone copy lying around by itself (suddenly I became very unpopular. Some people with strange hats even started crying, the weirdoes). Hmm, it was... alright. A little unrealistic, if I might add. What was it called? Oh, something Botter og Hotter, I think...
........AHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D)) - Bought the last copy the day it was published, HA! Thought I'd keep it in here... :)

Anyway...

Here's the next chapter. Short, I know, but the action is always upon us...

This fanfic is inspired by a challenge I saw on , and the only change I made is that this story DOES NOT have any sexual (on an NC-17 level) content. Sorry guys, and sorry challenge-maker. This story is parted into chapters, that I write along the way.

Reviews (ffnet seems to keep having review problems, so I can only view these... I'm sorry to the rest of the reviewers! Try reviewing again, see if that helps...):

La Vito: Yay, thanks! :D
Ellashy: Lol, I'm glad! I hope you'll keep reading!
ting: Thanks!
maruma: Alright, here's more!
JG: Here's another little chapter. Hopefully it'll be just as fun. :)
msredux: lol, Thanks!
ZombieGurl98: Okay. Bye. ;P
naz: :( :( :( Sorry, I'm still here... :(
Caderyn: Ooh, thanks! Yeah, HP rocks! :D
fichic: I'm glad you like it... lol, I like your name!
SecretlyBeautiful: I AM SORRY! Really, here's an update... Please believe me when I say I'll try my best to actually get some action going soon. Oh, and I LOVE your fics, they're really inspiring!
annette: Okay, I will. Right now.

You reviewer people have really touched my conscience... I felt bad every time I read one. :( Sorry guys, this chapter's to you.

Enjoy the story, and please R/R!

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Chapter 3

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"Oh, my god, Alec, I'm so sorry," Max hiccupped, trying to regain her composure.

Aled still looked sullen.

"You know Max, that really hurt!"

Max rolled her eyes at him. "Oh, you big baby!"

"Hey, you're the one that knocked on me, remember???"

Max had to restrain herself from starting a screaming contest with him, as she remembered she had to get into his apartment.

"Right. Sorry..." she said.

Alec smiled sarcastically. "I bet you are. So, anyway, what are you doing here?" Yeah, Alec thought, why was she here?

Max thought for a minute. She was going to say, 'To watch movies,' but it sounded a bit lame, really...

Alec waited patiently for a while, but in the end he really couldn't take the suspense. "Maxie?" he asked tentatively. #What did I do now?# he thought. #She's always nagging me about something, getting on my case...# He was caught off guard when Max came out of her reverie. She was... smiling?!

"Well, I was bored, and, well, I thought you might be bored, and er, we could be bored." she finished lamely. #Oh my GOD Max, what was that??# he thought, annoyed with herself.

"Er," Alec said. #Damn, yeah, be speechless.# "You, um, okay?"

Max looked at him, a funny expression on her face. "Of course. Why wouldn't I be?" she asked, looking at him. #Why would I not be okay? Why would he think I wasn't okay...? Oh my god, did he do something stupid AGAIN???#

Luckily Alec read her face and quickly realised where this was going. #Uh-oh... a nice Max is definitely one to treasure! Better not risk it.# "No reason Maxie, just that, well," Max arched an eyebrow, expectantly. "You were being all... nice and stuff," he finished lamely.

Alec and Max looked at each other for the longest time, abd Alec started to wonder if she was too upset to punch him. Just when he was contemplating reminding her, something happened which ten thousand genetic researchers and prophecies could never have foreseen. Max laughed! She goddamn laughed!

"God Alec," she managed to get out between gasps, "I've got to cut you some slack sometime! You know, sometimes even genetically engineered killing machine chicks like myself can be happy... on a good day," she added as an afterthought, still smiling.

Alec, deciding she might be sincere, immediately picked up on her last words. "Oh, yeah? How good -exactly- would you say your day was, Maxie?" he asked, winking.

Max frowned, though the sparkle hadn't left her eyes. "Continue like that, I might leave you you'll never find out," she teased.

"Ooh, is that a fact?" Alec smiled, he loved playing this game with her.

"You wish," Max smirked.

"So," Alec said, "Why are you here, really? Not that you ever need a reason to... stop by..."he said, continuing the teasing.

"Actually," Max said, "It was true what I said before; I was bored."

Alec looked at her like she had grown an extra head. "Right... and?"

"-And I brought movies!" Max cut in.

"Okay..."

Alec didn't get it. But then again, when had anyone ever got Max???

That sounded wrong. Anyway.

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Would you believe me if I said I'd have an update up ASAP? Really, I am trying! It's hard to fit it in... But now Dark Angel has started again on Danish TV (the series is still not done yet here, last Sunday it was "Borrowed Time"...)

Really, really, really, I can almost promise you you won't have to wait as long as last time for an update... ;)

Please visit the Phoenix Feather Forums if you're interested in HP! And there's a LotR section, too.

~ Zille