Author's Note: Ha Ha I didn't do a disclaimer. Ha ha ha ha ::maniacal laughter:: Sorry, it's the little things. Well, I gotta say I've started on the next chapter and it's kind of therapeutic 'cause I was acting out the fight scenes. Just so that I can think of how to describe all the things that go into a fight scene and it's nice to do something so physical especially when I got the punching bag out. And now all of you are looking at me funny…or you would be if you could look at me. I wasn't too very happy with this chapter for some reason it didn't flow like I wanted it to but bear with me and the next chapter promises to behave better, and so far it has. Woohoo. I'm still playing the Alec and Max scenes from Friday and Logan's "woo hoo." They make me happy. As I said earlier it's the little things. And I never really realized how much a typo can screw things up as when I was reading my last chapter and it said blot of electricity rather than bolt…whole new meaning there.

Review because otherwise I might feel unloved and you wouldn't wanna see what happens when I feel unloved.

Comin' to Get You

Chapter 14: Intuitively obvious to the simplest of minds

"So he has a date?" Alec asked blinking his eyes slowly.

"Uh huh."

"Didn't you try to explain it to him?" Original Cindy asked from her seat next to Alec.

"Well, I tried but he wasn't exactly up for that whole communication thing." She rolled her eyes and threw back a glass of amber colored liquid.

"So he went out and got a date because he's being jealous?"

"Apparently that's the way his mind works."

"What you planin' on doin' about it?"

"I'm thinking drinks, dancing, hot boy…in that order," Jondy said with a laugh and grinned at Original Cindy happily. "I think I got a good plan goin.'"

"Oh yeah, you'll be really happy when you wake up tomorrow," Alec said under his breath taking a drink from his own glass of beer.

They were waiting to meet up with Max. Jondy didn't miss the way his eyes shifted every few seconds to see if she had yet to arrive. She threw him a smirk, "there's something you aren't telling us," she said simply.

"What are you talking about?" Alec asked quickly putting on his best impression of an innocent bystander.

"I'll get it out of Max if you don't tell me…hurry up and make it so that the lights in your favor while you still can."

"I…might have done something to make her mad at me."

"Original Cindy is trying to see where this is a new thing."

"I might have kissed her…and then left."

Original Cindy smacked his arm gently, "you didn't."

Jondy blinked at him before she sighed loudly and indicated to the bar tender that she wanted another drink. She waited for her glass to be full again before she turned to him and smirked. "We are some very sad transgenics…we can't just say we like someone we have to go and make it complicated. I get laughed at by crickets and you're…well, you're stupid."

"I'm stupid? If I remember correctly you did the same thing."

"No, no, no, ya see, I didn't kiss him first. He kissed me and I walked away. I wasn't ready for kissing action! If I had been I would have been all over that."

"All over what?" came a soft velvety voice from behind them. They turned to see a smiling Max whose eyes remained firmly on anything that wasn't Alec. "Hmm?"

"Zane, of course," Cindy answered rolling her eyes.

"Max!" Jondy grinned and threw an arm around her sister and hugged her tightly before letting her go and sitting back down on her stool.

Max's nose wrinkled slowly, "you smell like alcohol."

Jondy just rolled her eyes before glancing at the bottles that the bartender had left infront of her. One of two was empty. "Gee, I can't imagine how that happened. Me sitting here infront of a bar with the company of two drinking buddies and I smell like alcohol. The reason escapes me why," she laughed before letting her head drop to the counter.

"She's not a happy Jondy at the moment," Alec supplied with a smile putting a comforting hand on her head for a long moment.

"I can see that," Max said slowly.

Jondy lifted her head up and blinked several times, "I'm not much of a drinker. Maybe you haven't noticed but anytime I'm given alcohol I never drink it, but I figure this is one of those occasions where I'll make an exception."

At Max's raised eyebrow Cindy pursed her lips and took a drink from her beer before answering, "Zane has a date tonight that is not this fine sister sitting here now."

"What? Why?" Max asked her mouth hanging open slightly.

Alec raised his hand slowly as though he was looking for permission to talk, "that's sort of my fault."

"No, it's not your fault." Jondy said adamantly bringing her drink down with a bang. "It's not your fault he's jealous and paranoid and doesn't know me well enough to realize that I wouldn't do something like that…it's in no way your fault." She gave him a grin before turning to Max. "Now, you, my beautiful sister, have to go off somewhere with this stupid, though well intentioned, man and talk." She made shooing motions with her hands before she turned to Cindy with a smile. "Wanna dance?"

Cindy lifted one eyebrow, "I thought you didn't play that way."

"No, but that doesn't mean that I don't wanna dance. Plus think about the benefits…I grab the attention of almost every guy in the bar and you grab the attention of the women." She grinned mischievously, "who could resist?"

Cindy's answering grin was no better, "Original Cindy can't argue with that logic." She looked at Max and Alec pointedly, "you two work it out already, will ya? The sexual tension between you is starting to get annoyin.'" With that she turned to follow Jondy out onto the dance floor.

Max and Alec looked at each other quietly for a couple minutes not knowing exactly what to say. "Look…" they both started

"You go first," Alec said with a smile.

"No, you."

"I think…"

"You go first," Max said her face getting hard as she lifted her chin

"Ok, I go first." He took a deep breath and looked down at his hands biting his lip. After a minute he lifted his head to look at her. "I'm sorry."

"For kissing me?" she asked drawing back without even realizing it.

Alec saw and rushed forward, "no, for leaving afterward." He relaxed as he saw her body move closer. "I just didn't think you were going to want me around after that."

"Oh…" she said simply and captured her full bottom lip between her teeth. "I wouldn't have minded if you had wanted to stay," she couldn't look at him just then. A hand came into her view, big and strong, and cupped her chin forcing her to look up.

"If I had known I would have stayed." He smiled at her then, a smile that wasn't a smirk or a grin but a simple smile and Max wondered if she had actually ever seen anything like it before in her life.

"Well," she shrugged indifferently; "if you ever wanna try it again I don't see why we couldn't."

"Well, I wouldn't be against the suggestion, by any means," he pursed his lips and smirked at her. "If you wanted to do that tonight I would be all for it."

She smiled at him and slowly sipped from his glass, "not tonight."

He raised an eyebrow, blue eyes sparkling with amusement, "not tonight?"

"I want you to take me out on a date first."

He laughed under his breath and shook his head, "two bowls of pasta coming right up."

"With wine and candles," full lips bent in a smile as she watched him.

"Of course," he smirked at her, slapping her shoulder playfully. He watched as her eyes shifted to stare across the room her smile dropping slowly. "What's wrong?"

"I don't understand…how she can look so happy right now?"

Alec's eyebrows drew together in a second of confusion before he followed her eyes to where Jondy was dancing. Original Cindy had found another woman to dance with as Jondy was surrounded by men who would love nothing more than to have her open her eyes and see them.

She seemed to loose herself in the rhythm of her own body that undulated in time with the beat. Jondy became, in one long breath, a part of the music that throbbed through the club, her heavy lids dropped to cover eyes as blue as lightening, her hands fisted in her hair keeping it off her face while a smile played on full red lips. "She doesn't," he answered softly, ignoring the look of confusion on Max's face. It occurred to him that maybe he was really the only one who could see exactly what was going through Jondy's head. Maybe Zack could have once but not now, not today.

"She looks perfectly happy with the following she's managed to gather."

"She looks miserable from where I'm sitting."

Max rolled her eyes at him before grabbing his hand and leading him out onto the dance floor. "It's been a while since I've had fun…" she smiled at him as he followed her one hand resting possessively on her hip. "I figure it's 'bout time to start."

"Finally," he breathed and narrowly missed the playful punch directed at his stomach. With one last worried glance directed in Jondy's direction he turned to Max and let her take every last bit of his attention. A smile curved the corners of his mouth as he snaked a hand around her waist and pulled her in tightly against his body. "If it's fun you want, I'm your man."

"I knew I could count on you," she said in breathy whisper into his ear as her hands slid up to wrap around his neck.

He brought his mouth down until it was resting against her ear, "you sure you don't want to try again tonight?"

She bit her lip as she looked up at him, tempted to take him up on the offer before shaking her head with a grin. After a few minutes of letting their bodies move together with the music she spoke up. "I've been wondering…" His blue eyes connected solidly to her brown ones. "Why you kissed me."

He grinned, "I've been wondering why you let me." She slapped his arm gently before fixing him with a resolute stare. "I've wanted to kiss you since I watched you sleep…" he smiled down at her confused expression. "I went over to see Joshua once and you were there curled up on his couch asleep and he was painting you. I must have been standing there for two hours, just watching you." He wiggled his eyebrows at her, "so why'd you let me?"

"I don't know," she shook her head and stared over his shoulder.

"Oh come on, I gave you this great answer and you just give me an 'I don't know?' That isn't fair, I call a do-over."

She grinned, "you just have these really nice lips and you leaned in and I just couldn't think past kissing them." She covered her face as he smirked at her.

"I knew it, I'm irresistible."

"Be quiet, before I go find someone else to dance with!"

His arms tightened around her waist when she made to push him away playfully. "Oh no. No way are you dancing with anyone else." He looked past her for a second and his eyes narrowed as he watched a man grab for Jondy's hair and push it away from her neck. Baring to the world for a split second her barcode before she whipped around growling at him.

"Hey, no touchie!" Max turned when she heard her sisters out cry her own eyes narrowing at the man who was now backing away. Jondy snarled, her lips pulling back from her teeth as she watched him, there was a playful smile on his lips as he held hands up in mock surrender.

Her eyes followed him before they saw something off in the distance that made her suddenly forget all about him. Her body froze and her mouth hung open for a moment before she cracked her neck and made her way over to Max and Alec. Alec turned slowly to look over his shoulder and saw Zane talking to a red head sitting across from him. She threw her head back in a laugh as his fingers traced circles over her hand. Jondy tapped Alec on the shoulder lightly. "Some guy keeps trying to grope me, I'm suddenly not in the mood to deal with it. I'm goin' home, I'll catch ya later."

"All right," Max said with an understanding smile.

"Find a punching bag somewhere," Alec added with a smirk.

"I think I might do that," she answered, grinning at him before turning to leave. Five men turned to watch her leave as she grabbed her coat from her barstool and took off.

"Am I the only one who has the sudden overwhelming urge to punch Zane?" Alec asked, raising an eyebrow at Max who just shook her head unhappily.

The walk back to her apartment was long, which Jondy was thankful for. She needed sometime in the cool night air with the sound of traffic buzzing in her ears. She sighed running a hand through her long hair and flipped it over her shoulder to braid it slowly. She needed something to do with her hands and that seemed as good as anything else she could do.

She hummed softly as she moved her head in rhythm to the song. Her footsteps became hollow battle drums on the pavement the clicking of her work boots loud in her own ears. The traffic was dying down so couldn't drown it out. She wondered sometimes if she felt too much, or heard too much for one person to handle without going insane.

The very thought produced a snort that she couldn't stop. She was the last person to worry about going insane. She wondered though how far she could be pushed until she decided to take the final plunge. Something that she did know without a doubt was that when she did take that jump, and she would eventually, that it would be her own choice. It would be a conscious decision to look down into the abyss and fly.

She was too lost in her own thoughts to hear the footsteps that echoed her own, that stopped when she stopped, that followed her when she turned into the abandoned building where she lived. She looked behind her twice when she felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end, but each time she didn't see anything. So shrugging her shoulders and shaking her head at her own paranoia she unlocked her door and went inside, careful to lock it behind her.

Sasha was standing there waiting for her with her tail waging happily. Jondy scratched her behind her ears and started for the kitchen, rubbing a crick in her neck that had been bothering her for most of the night. She stretched and just as she made to walk around the couch Sasha caught her attention once again.

She stood with her haunches up, her ears flat to her head, and her lips pulled back in a snarl as she growled at the door. Jondy froze hands still in the air as she watched the dog with wide eyes; she lowered her arms slowly as her eyes shifted to the door. Sasha's growl got louder and Jondy was running just as the door was kicked open.