Disclaimer- I don't own Dark Angel.
Rating- PG-PG13
Pairing- M/A
A/N So I suck and I know that. I said I'd update on Monday but I'm a liar. I must say I'm very sad that no one could place the quote. Not even my own sister sheesh that's just sad, Em you should be ashamed. It's one of the best that the nineties have to offer. Okay enough yapping and on with the story.
Chapter Six What's to Come
Max's head lay softly on Alec's pillow and his cheek was pressed to hers. She kept drifting in and out of sleep. She'd wake of think about how happy she was then before she had time to think of everything going wrong her eyes would get heavy and Alec's warmth and the sound of his heartbeat lulled her to sleep.
After a while when the sunlight just peeked through the thin blankets Alec started to wake up. He opened one of his eyes and saw that she was still sleeping. Her breathing was normal and every few seconds he would feel a puff of warm air hit his exposed neck. He sighed contentedly and relaxed once again ready to go back to the land of dreams. Max had other plans. "Alec" She whispered softly against his ear. He felt a shiver crawl up his back, which her fingers lazily danced on in a pattern like way.
He leaned forward and kissed her naked shoulder before resting his forehead against hers. He was almost afraid she would say it was a mistake but tried to push those feelings down and away. "What Maxie?" He said in an equally quiet way. He kissed one of her closed eyelids before doing the same to the other.
"Nothing really I just didn't know if you were awake. That's all." She started to pull away from his embrace reluctantly.
He pulled her back down and against him. "Where are you going? Don't you just want to sleep?" He said tiredly starting to rest his eyes again.
She smiled thoughtfully at him and sat up again. "Yes actually I do but I need a shower—"
"Yeah you kind of do stink. It was a real turn off last night but I tried to ignore it. After all you are my mate I mind as well get used to it." His cocky grin fell into place as she hit his arm in a playful way.
She cleared her throat and stuck her nose into the air. "Since you are MY mate, you mind as well understand that now I own you, you should treat me with respect, love, dignity, honor, sincerity—"Max continued to count them off on her fingers. And probably would have kept going if Alec hadn't been tickling her and choking her with laughter. "Shower, shower Alec if I do stink I gotta shower." She said trying to control her breathing and his hands. After a few moments of calm she carried on. "That and we need to get going. We have to find our kid today." She said while running her palm gently over his features.
"Our kid?" Alec asked and when he noticed Max was about to defend herself he carried on. "All this time I thought you had commitment issues Max. But in a matter of days you got a child to take care of and an unofficial husband. I'm impressed."
"Is that a fact?" She asked and he nodded. "Yeah?" Max said while a smile split her face. He nodded while grinning jovially at her. Her hands went to his abdomen as she gave him the same treatment he rewarded her with. Before he could react though and turn the tables Max pressed her lips against his own. It was sweet and slow. When she was sure she had him enraptured by her kiss Max pulled away and sat on the edge of the bed with a sheet around her waist.
Max started to pull it up and over her shoulder when a large and strong yet caring and soft hand laid itself upon her shoulder. He pulled the sheet down to where it started. "Alec we don't have time. Like I said --shower." Max started to pull it up again but he wouldn't let her. "Alec! Did you hear me? Let go. Now."
"Uh Max I don't remember you having a tattoo on your back last night." Alec said slowly like testing the waters before plunging in.
Confusion knitted her brow together. "That's cuz I don't have one Alec."
His fingers grazed a spot of her back. "Yes you do Max."
She stood abruptly and tried without success to look at her own back. After letting out a groan of frustration she marched into the bathroom and positioned herself so that if she really strained she could see her back. And sure enough just below her barcode were three lines of some sort of symbols. Alec stood in the doorway watching her carefully. She started to search the rest of her body for anymore and found one more at the small of her back.
Her panicky eyes met his concerned ones. "Alec what are they?" Even though she knew he didn't know she wanted that comfort. He said nothing just hugged her.
"Take a shower and we'll go to TC and see if they know what this is all about okay?" She nodded and stepped into the waiting shower/tub. He turned and strode out of the room in search of his phone. Success was his when he looked in Max's pants pocket from yesterday. He called and told them they would be there soon and what was up. After he hung up and pulled on a clean pair of pants Max came in with a towel wrapped around her lithe frame and he hair wet still. He held the phone up as a signal that he called. She nodded and tried to put a small smile on her face before heading to her bag on the floor.
She stood and turned just to walk into a wall of flesh. His loving eyes stared down at her and she swallowed the lump in her throat. "When did things go so wrong Alec? We don't have Amelia, I've got some sort of weird tattoo thing of my back, and to top it off I don't hate you anymore." He smiled at her.
"We still have Amelia, were gonna see what's up with your back, and it's my charm and good looks that ruined you." He said with a wink.
She rolled her eyes half-heartedly at best. "You have ruined me. Now that I think about it those...signs appeared right after me and you...ya know." She left the sentence unfinished.
"Had sex? Made love?" Before he told her anymore she put her hands up.
"Became mates in a more intimate way. Do you think its coincidence?" She bit her lip as she thought about that.
His eyes narrowed as his forehead wrinkled as he mulled over it. "So what Max your allergic to me?" Even though it sounded crazy anything with Manticore was a possibility. She shrugged and hugged herself.
"I guess it's possible." Max stated more to herself.
"Well then let's get this show on the road and find out." He said cheerfully trying to hide the fact that he was nervous.
She nodded before speaking. "Alec everything will be fine. Um I think that maybe we could have Logan look into it as well as our people." At his shrug she went on. "Maybe you shouldn't be shocked that when I tell him we're together and had sex last night he won't be surprised." Max finished playing with her shirt and not really looking at him.
He looked at her his gaze full of suspicion. "Why Max?"
She glanced up at Alec and replying quietly. "I kind of told him about two or so weeks ago that we were together. So that he would just get the idea that we're done."
She saw some hurt on Alec's face along with some anger. "Was that convenient enough Max? I don't want to be the bad guy anymore with you and correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that that had changed."
"It has changed. A lot has changed in that time. And I am sorry I should have told you... better yet I shouldn't have told him. But I did and I can't change that. But I will tell him the truth that we were not together then but we are really together now." She nibbled nervously on her lip while waiting for his reply.
He sighed slightly. "Fine Max but tell him the truth. Let's get outta here."
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They walked into the loud center of Terminal City. Once their presence was known things got strangely quiet, as they all looked at the pair of transgenics that walked in. Dix and Luke shuffled over to them.
"Hey Max do ya wanna go into your office so that we can look at the uh things on your back?" Luke asked seeming kind of uncomfortable.
She nodded sagely before going into the room with a fake confidence in her walk. She quickly removed her shirt and sat straddling a chair as the two anomalies came into the room. Alec stood faithfully by her side as the other men looked out of place and afraid to even look at Max. "Let's go." She said running out of patience. The two glanced at each other then to Alec and at his nod they took pictures and talked under their breaths about what the runes could mean.
Alec watched them for awhile before watching Max. She seemed older. And more tired then she should be. Her back was tight from either feeling out of place or from the stress he didn't really know which. He laid a reassuring hand on her shoulder and she looked up at Alec and smiled slightly.
"Okay we're done here. We should know something tomorrow hopefully tonight. But until we know what language it is I can't promise anything." Dix said as they started to the door. Alec and Max nodded and they slipped out. Silence lay heavily in the room as they stared at one another.
She stood and pulled him into a hug. The both of them of them letting their pent up anxiety to be seen by each other. His two strong hands covered the two patches of symbols. Making it seem that if he just covered them and shielded them from the world then maybe they weren't there. They both knew it wasn't true but it was the thought that counted. He planted a brief kiss on her lips before taking her hand in his and strolling out of the room and into the next.
Max got a hold of a phone and had called Logan to tell him what was going on, then to ask if he had seen or heard anything about White. She hung up disappointed. And Alec had had no luck with the transgenics. So they sat on the couch leaning upon one another until Max heard a familiar voice. She turned to Alec and he was smiling at her. She jumped up and rushed over to her best friend holding on tightly to her.
"Boo you need to tell your girl exactly what is goin' on." She said with a smile on her own face. Max nodded happily before pulling her into her makeshift office. "Okay I'll go from the beginning. In the last two weeks I've gotten a baby girl and her name is Amelia."
"I know ya lyin' cuz Original Cindy has seen before no nine months boo. And you ain't been pregnant." She said with attitude to spare.
Max chuckled. "Yeah I know that thanks. Alec found her one night and needed help. So after a few days of watching her I got closer to her...and Alec." She explained. "Yesterday morning White came in and stormed his apartment. He took Amelia as collateral so he could get his son Ray back." OC looked devastated.
"Before I could meet the little boo?"
Max smiled slightly. "We're not going to let him have her that easily. Anyway now I have these weird little runes showing up on my skin and we don't know how."
OC looked confused. "What'd ya mean ya don't know how? What did you do boo?"
"I don't know what I did. They showed up this morning after Alec and me..." She let the sentence trail off letting her friend piece things together by herself.
Max knew she got it after her whole face was a mask of surprise and shock. "No way did my boo kick it with Alec."
Max smiled almost shyly. "Yeah we did. And we're kinda really mates." She said looking into her best friend's eyes.
"So? That's one way of putting that you have sex with the person."
Max shook her head. "No it's different. Being a mate to a transgenic is more like being married." Once again her friends eyes widened.
"All in a few weeks boo? I can see why you been so stressed lately. So what you and your boy gonna do now?"
"We're lookin' for leads. Anything that might lead us in the right direction. And Dix and Luke are looking into the runes. So hopefully we'll know more tonight." Alec smiled as he walked away from the room. Sure he heard the whole conversation but that did not mean he was eavesdropping. It was pure accident. He walked over to the computers to try and help out as they talked well into the night.
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Original Cindy walked out in front of Max and walked to where Alec and the rest of the gang were standing talking. Max smiled when Alec turned to her. But it turned into a frown when she saw the concern and worry written plainly on his face. "What's up?" She asked as she neared them.
Alec looked around the group and nodded to Dix. "Well we've got part of the runes figured out. We can't be positive but it says something about one special chosen one and two counterparts. One is suppose to protect and the other we're not sure of. We have every reason to believe that the Chosen One is you Max—"
"Yeah I know Renfro and White said some crap about no junk DNA and wanting to know what it meant."
Dix nodded in understanding before carrying on. "We believe that the part we haven't figured out will either give us what the second counterpart does or the identity of 'the protector'. So we'll keep working on that and we still can't find anything on White. Sorry Max."
Max smiled an empty smile but it was meant to say 'it's all good'. She looked up at Alec and he didn't attempt to smile. But the look of love in his eyes helped Max more than she would have liked to admit. "Good then we'll come back sometime tomorrow and see if there's anymore progress. Great job guys." OC and Alec followed in suite as she made her way out of the building.
After dropping Cindy off they made there way to his apartment. They found some sort of Plexiglas and tried to fit it into the windows and started to clean up. There was a comfortable silence that neither seemed to mind. Max sat on the bed with wet hair from another shower and some comfy clothes on of Alec's. He came out with a towel around his waist and made his way over to the bed. He leaned down and picked her up.
"Alec put me down. I'm not in the mood to play."
He kept hold of her and grinned. "Oh I wish I was playing. But see it's like this Max. That's my favorite outfit for sleeping. So I'm gonna need it back."
She looked at him incredulously. "You've got to be kidding." At his shake of his head she started talking again. "Well then we'll just have to fight over it because I'm not giving it up." She smiled slyly at Alec.
"Then I'm just going to have to take it." He flipped her onto her back on the bed.
She smiled brightly as she laughed. His hands went to the hem of her shirt. "Dream on pretty boy." She swatted his hands half-heartedly away. They both stilled and just stared at each other.
"The best is yet to come Max. Everything will be fine. I wouldn't be surprised if they were better than fine."
"Liar." She said smiling he just shrugged down at her. She drew him into a kiss. And broke it again to ask him a question. "Do I have to give you the clothes and change?"
He kissed her again. "Maybe not..."
Max's lip stuck out in a pout and Alec scowled. "Fine but I get it the rest of the week.
She grinned happily before tilting her head in. "I think...I can manage that." She kissed him before relaxing and falling asleep.
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Max stared at Alec's face as he slept. They both lay there holding onto one another. Drawing comfort from the contact. Because even if neither wanted to admit it they were both frightened of not knowing what's to come.
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A/N I'm not going to say when I'll update because clearly I'm an incompetent twit. So sometime next week. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood and have it all happy and cheerful. Or maybe I'll be depressed and have everybody die. Unlikely but hey it could happen. It's not my fault it took so long blame it on my life. Or I guess you could blame it on me. Whatever floats your boat.
Merteuil- Thank you very much. I was hoping it didn't sound too hokey.
agentamelia86- Thanks for your help on that. And hurry and update. You know better than almost anyone that I'm a sad and sorry little person Emily. So a week later here we are lol. Quick enough? Don't worry about it sarcasm. Good to know you still have a little faith in me =)
Elizabeth Annette- I can only wish someone would think that so thanks. And I'm not quite sure what will happen about that.
Jade-k –My faithful reviewer! Don't you just love White though? I know I do but not as much as Lydecker. He is unsurpassed. Every word? I'm sure there was one word you simply hated lol. The whole point in fiction is to make you feel alive and living a different life. If we really wanted to just take things as they would be in real life we would only read autobiographies and plain biographies. So always let fiction get under your skin it's the only way to escape from life. I'll try and update sooner.
Renata Cardelli- Hello I'm Danielle Scribner. I'm American and from Minnesota. I also love Dark Angel and M/A. I'd like to thank you for liking it and reviewing it. And it's okay because I don't speak it very well and I've been speaking English my whole life = p
Rating- PG-PG13
Pairing- M/A
A/N So I suck and I know that. I said I'd update on Monday but I'm a liar. I must say I'm very sad that no one could place the quote. Not even my own sister sheesh that's just sad, Em you should be ashamed. It's one of the best that the nineties have to offer. Okay enough yapping and on with the story.
Chapter Six What's to Come
Max's head lay softly on Alec's pillow and his cheek was pressed to hers. She kept drifting in and out of sleep. She'd wake of think about how happy she was then before she had time to think of everything going wrong her eyes would get heavy and Alec's warmth and the sound of his heartbeat lulled her to sleep.
After a while when the sunlight just peeked through the thin blankets Alec started to wake up. He opened one of his eyes and saw that she was still sleeping. Her breathing was normal and every few seconds he would feel a puff of warm air hit his exposed neck. He sighed contentedly and relaxed once again ready to go back to the land of dreams. Max had other plans. "Alec" She whispered softly against his ear. He felt a shiver crawl up his back, which her fingers lazily danced on in a pattern like way.
He leaned forward and kissed her naked shoulder before resting his forehead against hers. He was almost afraid she would say it was a mistake but tried to push those feelings down and away. "What Maxie?" He said in an equally quiet way. He kissed one of her closed eyelids before doing the same to the other.
"Nothing really I just didn't know if you were awake. That's all." She started to pull away from his embrace reluctantly.
He pulled her back down and against him. "Where are you going? Don't you just want to sleep?" He said tiredly starting to rest his eyes again.
She smiled thoughtfully at him and sat up again. "Yes actually I do but I need a shower—"
"Yeah you kind of do stink. It was a real turn off last night but I tried to ignore it. After all you are my mate I mind as well get used to it." His cocky grin fell into place as she hit his arm in a playful way.
She cleared her throat and stuck her nose into the air. "Since you are MY mate, you mind as well understand that now I own you, you should treat me with respect, love, dignity, honor, sincerity—"Max continued to count them off on her fingers. And probably would have kept going if Alec hadn't been tickling her and choking her with laughter. "Shower, shower Alec if I do stink I gotta shower." She said trying to control her breathing and his hands. After a few moments of calm she carried on. "That and we need to get going. We have to find our kid today." She said while running her palm gently over his features.
"Our kid?" Alec asked and when he noticed Max was about to defend herself he carried on. "All this time I thought you had commitment issues Max. But in a matter of days you got a child to take care of and an unofficial husband. I'm impressed."
"Is that a fact?" She asked and he nodded. "Yeah?" Max said while a smile split her face. He nodded while grinning jovially at her. Her hands went to his abdomen as she gave him the same treatment he rewarded her with. Before he could react though and turn the tables Max pressed her lips against his own. It was sweet and slow. When she was sure she had him enraptured by her kiss Max pulled away and sat on the edge of the bed with a sheet around her waist.
Max started to pull it up and over her shoulder when a large and strong yet caring and soft hand laid itself upon her shoulder. He pulled the sheet down to where it started. "Alec we don't have time. Like I said --shower." Max started to pull it up again but he wouldn't let her. "Alec! Did you hear me? Let go. Now."
"Uh Max I don't remember you having a tattoo on your back last night." Alec said slowly like testing the waters before plunging in.
Confusion knitted her brow together. "That's cuz I don't have one Alec."
His fingers grazed a spot of her back. "Yes you do Max."
She stood abruptly and tried without success to look at her own back. After letting out a groan of frustration she marched into the bathroom and positioned herself so that if she really strained she could see her back. And sure enough just below her barcode were three lines of some sort of symbols. Alec stood in the doorway watching her carefully. She started to search the rest of her body for anymore and found one more at the small of her back.
Her panicky eyes met his concerned ones. "Alec what are they?" Even though she knew he didn't know she wanted that comfort. He said nothing just hugged her.
"Take a shower and we'll go to TC and see if they know what this is all about okay?" She nodded and stepped into the waiting shower/tub. He turned and strode out of the room in search of his phone. Success was his when he looked in Max's pants pocket from yesterday. He called and told them they would be there soon and what was up. After he hung up and pulled on a clean pair of pants Max came in with a towel wrapped around her lithe frame and he hair wet still. He held the phone up as a signal that he called. She nodded and tried to put a small smile on her face before heading to her bag on the floor.
She stood and turned just to walk into a wall of flesh. His loving eyes stared down at her and she swallowed the lump in her throat. "When did things go so wrong Alec? We don't have Amelia, I've got some sort of weird tattoo thing of my back, and to top it off I don't hate you anymore." He smiled at her.
"We still have Amelia, were gonna see what's up with your back, and it's my charm and good looks that ruined you." He said with a wink.
She rolled her eyes half-heartedly at best. "You have ruined me. Now that I think about it those...signs appeared right after me and you...ya know." She left the sentence unfinished.
"Had sex? Made love?" Before he told her anymore she put her hands up.
"Became mates in a more intimate way. Do you think its coincidence?" She bit her lip as she thought about that.
His eyes narrowed as his forehead wrinkled as he mulled over it. "So what Max your allergic to me?" Even though it sounded crazy anything with Manticore was a possibility. She shrugged and hugged herself.
"I guess it's possible." Max stated more to herself.
"Well then let's get this show on the road and find out." He said cheerfully trying to hide the fact that he was nervous.
She nodded before speaking. "Alec everything will be fine. Um I think that maybe we could have Logan look into it as well as our people." At his shrug she went on. "Maybe you shouldn't be shocked that when I tell him we're together and had sex last night he won't be surprised." Max finished playing with her shirt and not really looking at him.
He looked at her his gaze full of suspicion. "Why Max?"
She glanced up at Alec and replying quietly. "I kind of told him about two or so weeks ago that we were together. So that he would just get the idea that we're done."
She saw some hurt on Alec's face along with some anger. "Was that convenient enough Max? I don't want to be the bad guy anymore with you and correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that that had changed."
"It has changed. A lot has changed in that time. And I am sorry I should have told you... better yet I shouldn't have told him. But I did and I can't change that. But I will tell him the truth that we were not together then but we are really together now." She nibbled nervously on her lip while waiting for his reply.
He sighed slightly. "Fine Max but tell him the truth. Let's get outta here."
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They walked into the loud center of Terminal City. Once their presence was known things got strangely quiet, as they all looked at the pair of transgenics that walked in. Dix and Luke shuffled over to them.
"Hey Max do ya wanna go into your office so that we can look at the uh things on your back?" Luke asked seeming kind of uncomfortable.
She nodded sagely before going into the room with a fake confidence in her walk. She quickly removed her shirt and sat straddling a chair as the two anomalies came into the room. Alec stood faithfully by her side as the other men looked out of place and afraid to even look at Max. "Let's go." She said running out of patience. The two glanced at each other then to Alec and at his nod they took pictures and talked under their breaths about what the runes could mean.
Alec watched them for awhile before watching Max. She seemed older. And more tired then she should be. Her back was tight from either feeling out of place or from the stress he didn't really know which. He laid a reassuring hand on her shoulder and she looked up at Alec and smiled slightly.
"Okay we're done here. We should know something tomorrow hopefully tonight. But until we know what language it is I can't promise anything." Dix said as they started to the door. Alec and Max nodded and they slipped out. Silence lay heavily in the room as they stared at one another.
She stood and pulled him into a hug. The both of them of them letting their pent up anxiety to be seen by each other. His two strong hands covered the two patches of symbols. Making it seem that if he just covered them and shielded them from the world then maybe they weren't there. They both knew it wasn't true but it was the thought that counted. He planted a brief kiss on her lips before taking her hand in his and strolling out of the room and into the next.
Max got a hold of a phone and had called Logan to tell him what was going on, then to ask if he had seen or heard anything about White. She hung up disappointed. And Alec had had no luck with the transgenics. So they sat on the couch leaning upon one another until Max heard a familiar voice. She turned to Alec and he was smiling at her. She jumped up and rushed over to her best friend holding on tightly to her.
"Boo you need to tell your girl exactly what is goin' on." She said with a smile on her own face. Max nodded happily before pulling her into her makeshift office. "Okay I'll go from the beginning. In the last two weeks I've gotten a baby girl and her name is Amelia."
"I know ya lyin' cuz Original Cindy has seen before no nine months boo. And you ain't been pregnant." She said with attitude to spare.
Max chuckled. "Yeah I know that thanks. Alec found her one night and needed help. So after a few days of watching her I got closer to her...and Alec." She explained. "Yesterday morning White came in and stormed his apartment. He took Amelia as collateral so he could get his son Ray back." OC looked devastated.
"Before I could meet the little boo?"
Max smiled slightly. "We're not going to let him have her that easily. Anyway now I have these weird little runes showing up on my skin and we don't know how."
OC looked confused. "What'd ya mean ya don't know how? What did you do boo?"
"I don't know what I did. They showed up this morning after Alec and me..." She let the sentence trail off letting her friend piece things together by herself.
Max knew she got it after her whole face was a mask of surprise and shock. "No way did my boo kick it with Alec."
Max smiled almost shyly. "Yeah we did. And we're kinda really mates." She said looking into her best friend's eyes.
"So? That's one way of putting that you have sex with the person."
Max shook her head. "No it's different. Being a mate to a transgenic is more like being married." Once again her friends eyes widened.
"All in a few weeks boo? I can see why you been so stressed lately. So what you and your boy gonna do now?"
"We're lookin' for leads. Anything that might lead us in the right direction. And Dix and Luke are looking into the runes. So hopefully we'll know more tonight." Alec smiled as he walked away from the room. Sure he heard the whole conversation but that did not mean he was eavesdropping. It was pure accident. He walked over to the computers to try and help out as they talked well into the night.
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Original Cindy walked out in front of Max and walked to where Alec and the rest of the gang were standing talking. Max smiled when Alec turned to her. But it turned into a frown when she saw the concern and worry written plainly on his face. "What's up?" She asked as she neared them.
Alec looked around the group and nodded to Dix. "Well we've got part of the runes figured out. We can't be positive but it says something about one special chosen one and two counterparts. One is suppose to protect and the other we're not sure of. We have every reason to believe that the Chosen One is you Max—"
"Yeah I know Renfro and White said some crap about no junk DNA and wanting to know what it meant."
Dix nodded in understanding before carrying on. "We believe that the part we haven't figured out will either give us what the second counterpart does or the identity of 'the protector'. So we'll keep working on that and we still can't find anything on White. Sorry Max."
Max smiled an empty smile but it was meant to say 'it's all good'. She looked up at Alec and he didn't attempt to smile. But the look of love in his eyes helped Max more than she would have liked to admit. "Good then we'll come back sometime tomorrow and see if there's anymore progress. Great job guys." OC and Alec followed in suite as she made her way out of the building.
After dropping Cindy off they made there way to his apartment. They found some sort of Plexiglas and tried to fit it into the windows and started to clean up. There was a comfortable silence that neither seemed to mind. Max sat on the bed with wet hair from another shower and some comfy clothes on of Alec's. He came out with a towel around his waist and made his way over to the bed. He leaned down and picked her up.
"Alec put me down. I'm not in the mood to play."
He kept hold of her and grinned. "Oh I wish I was playing. But see it's like this Max. That's my favorite outfit for sleeping. So I'm gonna need it back."
She looked at him incredulously. "You've got to be kidding." At his shake of his head she started talking again. "Well then we'll just have to fight over it because I'm not giving it up." She smiled slyly at Alec.
"Then I'm just going to have to take it." He flipped her onto her back on the bed.
She smiled brightly as she laughed. His hands went to the hem of her shirt. "Dream on pretty boy." She swatted his hands half-heartedly away. They both stilled and just stared at each other.
"The best is yet to come Max. Everything will be fine. I wouldn't be surprised if they were better than fine."
"Liar." She said smiling he just shrugged down at her. She drew him into a kiss. And broke it again to ask him a question. "Do I have to give you the clothes and change?"
He kissed her again. "Maybe not..."
Max's lip stuck out in a pout and Alec scowled. "Fine but I get it the rest of the week.
She grinned happily before tilting her head in. "I think...I can manage that." She kissed him before relaxing and falling asleep.
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Max stared at Alec's face as he slept. They both lay there holding onto one another. Drawing comfort from the contact. Because even if neither wanted to admit it they were both frightened of not knowing what's to come.
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A/N I'm not going to say when I'll update because clearly I'm an incompetent twit. So sometime next week. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood and have it all happy and cheerful. Or maybe I'll be depressed and have everybody die. Unlikely but hey it could happen. It's not my fault it took so long blame it on my life. Or I guess you could blame it on me. Whatever floats your boat.
Merteuil- Thank you very much. I was hoping it didn't sound too hokey.
agentamelia86- Thanks for your help on that. And hurry and update. You know better than almost anyone that I'm a sad and sorry little person Emily. So a week later here we are lol. Quick enough? Don't worry about it sarcasm. Good to know you still have a little faith in me =)
Elizabeth Annette- I can only wish someone would think that so thanks. And I'm not quite sure what will happen about that.
Jade-k –My faithful reviewer! Don't you just love White though? I know I do but not as much as Lydecker. He is unsurpassed. Every word? I'm sure there was one word you simply hated lol. The whole point in fiction is to make you feel alive and living a different life. If we really wanted to just take things as they would be in real life we would only read autobiographies and plain biographies. So always let fiction get under your skin it's the only way to escape from life. I'll try and update sooner.
Renata Cardelli- Hello I'm Danielle Scribner. I'm American and from Minnesota. I also love Dark Angel and M/A. I'd like to thank you for liking it and reviewing it. And it's okay because I don't speak it very well and I've been speaking English my whole life = p