Chapter 7
"Alright, Josh, I got it!" Alec jumped at his sudden realization, nearly knocking over the moldy sofa. "I gotta find Logan, though. Do you think he would know where he sent 453 and her family?
"453?"
"Yeah, yeah. Her name's Sam, Dam, Fam- god damn it, I dunno, but she can be Max! Everyone can believe she's Max and everything will be back to normal. I can be my usual sex God, 453 will run TC and no one will call me shortage again!"
"Alec need sleep," Joshua said, gazing at Alec from above his canvas.
"No, no, Josh. This is it! I knew I wasn't a screw up."
Joshua, coming out from behind his canvas, gripped Alec by the shoulders and steered him to the sofa. "Sit."
Looking at a very disheveled Alec, Joshua debated what to do with him. Wearing clothes that could never be considered clean again, topped up with a wade of greasy hair and a smelled so bad it could almost be mistaken for cheap cologne.
"Listen, Dog boy, I don't have time for games. I need to send a team to Canada to find Dam- or whatever the fuck her name is! And then suppliers will come back."
Pushing Alec back down onto the sofa, Joshua glared at him. "Max gone. Nothing Alec can do about it."
"I know, buddy. But-"
"Joshua get Alec coffee," he said, before jogging off, an idea in his head.
Grabbing coffee from the mess hall, Joshua plopped three pills into it before going back inside and handing it to Alec.
"Thanks, Josh. It'll keep me up long enough to find Fam," Alec said happily and gulped the coffee down in one go. "Much b . . . better."
Joshua watched as Alec's eyelids grew heavy and he slumped back into the sofa.
"Alec sleep. Joshua take care of everything."
Throwing a blanket over Alec, Joshua made his way through TC to Logan's secret apartment.
"What can I do for you, Joshua?"
To Joshua's eye, Logan looked nearly as run down as Alec. "Need to talk to 453."
"Sam?"
"Yeah."
Logan rolled over to the computer, thinking. "I'm sure I can do that." Within minutes Logan had a phone number and address. "Can't promise she's still there, though."
"Thanks."
"Mind passing me my coffee?" Logan asked tiredly.
"Sure," Joshua said, slipping a pill in it before handing it over. "Joshua gotta blaze."
****
Mole looked dubiously at Joshua, who was bouncing on his toes anxiously. "You want me to assemble a team to go to Canada?"
"Yeah."
"You belong in a loony bin," Mole dismissed him.
"Loony bin?"
Growling, Mole snatched the address and telephone number off Joshua, thinking. "I suppose we can phone up Max's clone and have her place the supply orders for us. We can't bring her down here. God knows what kind of upset it'll cause."
"Mole help Alec?"
"Yeah, I'll help our fragile little pretty boy."
****
"Oh, Josh, I've got a major headache," Alec complained as he came to.
"Joshua fixed everything."
"You what, man?"
"Joshua fixed everything!"
"What, exactly, have you fixed then?"
"Shortages."
Alec looked up at a blurry Joshua, seeing him stand a little taller and puff his chest out. "How did you manage that, buddy?"
"Joshua contact Sam and Sam place supply orders."
"You what?" Alec snapped up. "You got the orders placed?"
"Alec name no longer shortages."
Smiling, Alec could only slump back onto the sofa and fall back asleep.
****
Feeling a huge burden off him at no longer having to worry about shortages, Alec sat at his desk doing paperwork.
"Alec?"
Almost sighing in relief at hearing his own name again, Alec looked up to see Dix standing nervously at the office door.
"What can I do for you?" Alec asked in an almost cheerful voice.
"The intel you were-"
"You got it all?"
"Yes. Max's"-Dix had to swallow before continuing- "body can be found in a compound where a suspected Familiar base is."
Alec ran a hand over the two-day stubble on his chin, contemplating what to do with the file sitting before him. Opening his mouth to ask whether-
"The men can't be spared."
Startled, Alec looked up into the serious black orbs of his friend and confidant. "Not just-"
"No."
"Can't I-"
"Isn't losing one leader bad enough?" Dix interrupted sadly, his heart being wretched out with a blunt knife at denying his friend the one thing he wanted.
Dropping his face into his hands, Alec fell apart. "Dix- I miss her. I want her anger burning my ass to ashes. I want to annoy the hell out of her till I'm shitting my pants in fear. And . . . I just want her here."
At that moment, Alec half expected Max to turn up to slap him silly for being a baby. Inhaling deeply, he could even smell her.
Dix, relieved his friend had finally let his feelings show, pulled a whisky bottle from the cabinet.
Relaxing back into hard chair and accepting a drink, Alec prepared himself for his night of mourning.
"You deserve this night," Dix said, banishing the guilt rising up in Alec at a night off.
Nodding, Alec raised the drink to his lips when someone burst into his office.
"Alec- Greg's delivering an Alpha Challenge!"
Alec stilled, mid-gulp.
A/N: Yes, yes. I'm sorry. I couldn't take you off the cliff from the last the chappie. I wanted to, but the plot wouldn't flow right if I didn't give you this short update. Forgive me? No? Alright, forgive me for Alec's sake then- cos I hold the power to make Alec happy or very very upset.
DAMax- glad you like the ma moments!
Kim- yep MA all the way! You think this involved Max bashing? Didn't realize that because I thought it was Max with the baseball bat aiming for the piƱata of Logan's head. Oh well, I'll be more careful in the future (that's not to say Max survived the explosion. Hehe)
JamiesSpawn- Oh, I'm not that mean to leave you hanging for that long. Mmm- you want to borrow my hat? And would you like me to book up into a hairdressers? Cos you're in for a bumpy ride from here on out.
Angel- Visualizing cutting me up into little pieces yet for not telling you whether Max survived? Well, the axe's under the bed. Go ahead, chop me up. You just won't ever find out if Max's alive or not then :p
Secretlybeautiful- Oh, I'm casting roles for Alec's love-interest if you're interested then? I mean, with Max out of the way there's gonna be plenty of bitch fights for alec's ass (that'll keep him happy won't it? So I hope you're happy;)
"Alright, Josh, I got it!" Alec jumped at his sudden realization, nearly knocking over the moldy sofa. "I gotta find Logan, though. Do you think he would know where he sent 453 and her family?
"453?"
"Yeah, yeah. Her name's Sam, Dam, Fam- god damn it, I dunno, but she can be Max! Everyone can believe she's Max and everything will be back to normal. I can be my usual sex God, 453 will run TC and no one will call me shortage again!"
"Alec need sleep," Joshua said, gazing at Alec from above his canvas.
"No, no, Josh. This is it! I knew I wasn't a screw up."
Joshua, coming out from behind his canvas, gripped Alec by the shoulders and steered him to the sofa. "Sit."
Looking at a very disheveled Alec, Joshua debated what to do with him. Wearing clothes that could never be considered clean again, topped up with a wade of greasy hair and a smelled so bad it could almost be mistaken for cheap cologne.
"Listen, Dog boy, I don't have time for games. I need to send a team to Canada to find Dam- or whatever the fuck her name is! And then suppliers will come back."
Pushing Alec back down onto the sofa, Joshua glared at him. "Max gone. Nothing Alec can do about it."
"I know, buddy. But-"
"Joshua get Alec coffee," he said, before jogging off, an idea in his head.
Grabbing coffee from the mess hall, Joshua plopped three pills into it before going back inside and handing it to Alec.
"Thanks, Josh. It'll keep me up long enough to find Fam," Alec said happily and gulped the coffee down in one go. "Much b . . . better."
Joshua watched as Alec's eyelids grew heavy and he slumped back into the sofa.
"Alec sleep. Joshua take care of everything."
Throwing a blanket over Alec, Joshua made his way through TC to Logan's secret apartment.
"What can I do for you, Joshua?"
To Joshua's eye, Logan looked nearly as run down as Alec. "Need to talk to 453."
"Sam?"
"Yeah."
Logan rolled over to the computer, thinking. "I'm sure I can do that." Within minutes Logan had a phone number and address. "Can't promise she's still there, though."
"Thanks."
"Mind passing me my coffee?" Logan asked tiredly.
"Sure," Joshua said, slipping a pill in it before handing it over. "Joshua gotta blaze."
****
Mole looked dubiously at Joshua, who was bouncing on his toes anxiously. "You want me to assemble a team to go to Canada?"
"Yeah."
"You belong in a loony bin," Mole dismissed him.
"Loony bin?"
Growling, Mole snatched the address and telephone number off Joshua, thinking. "I suppose we can phone up Max's clone and have her place the supply orders for us. We can't bring her down here. God knows what kind of upset it'll cause."
"Mole help Alec?"
"Yeah, I'll help our fragile little pretty boy."
****
"Oh, Josh, I've got a major headache," Alec complained as he came to.
"Joshua fixed everything."
"You what, man?"
"Joshua fixed everything!"
"What, exactly, have you fixed then?"
"Shortages."
Alec looked up at a blurry Joshua, seeing him stand a little taller and puff his chest out. "How did you manage that, buddy?"
"Joshua contact Sam and Sam place supply orders."
"You what?" Alec snapped up. "You got the orders placed?"
"Alec name no longer shortages."
Smiling, Alec could only slump back onto the sofa and fall back asleep.
****
Feeling a huge burden off him at no longer having to worry about shortages, Alec sat at his desk doing paperwork.
"Alec?"
Almost sighing in relief at hearing his own name again, Alec looked up to see Dix standing nervously at the office door.
"What can I do for you?" Alec asked in an almost cheerful voice.
"The intel you were-"
"You got it all?"
"Yes. Max's"-Dix had to swallow before continuing- "body can be found in a compound where a suspected Familiar base is."
Alec ran a hand over the two-day stubble on his chin, contemplating what to do with the file sitting before him. Opening his mouth to ask whether-
"The men can't be spared."
Startled, Alec looked up into the serious black orbs of his friend and confidant. "Not just-"
"No."
"Can't I-"
"Isn't losing one leader bad enough?" Dix interrupted sadly, his heart being wretched out with a blunt knife at denying his friend the one thing he wanted.
Dropping his face into his hands, Alec fell apart. "Dix- I miss her. I want her anger burning my ass to ashes. I want to annoy the hell out of her till I'm shitting my pants in fear. And . . . I just want her here."
At that moment, Alec half expected Max to turn up to slap him silly for being a baby. Inhaling deeply, he could even smell her.
Dix, relieved his friend had finally let his feelings show, pulled a whisky bottle from the cabinet.
Relaxing back into hard chair and accepting a drink, Alec prepared himself for his night of mourning.
"You deserve this night," Dix said, banishing the guilt rising up in Alec at a night off.
Nodding, Alec raised the drink to his lips when someone burst into his office.
"Alec- Greg's delivering an Alpha Challenge!"
Alec stilled, mid-gulp.
A/N: Yes, yes. I'm sorry. I couldn't take you off the cliff from the last the chappie. I wanted to, but the plot wouldn't flow right if I didn't give you this short update. Forgive me? No? Alright, forgive me for Alec's sake then- cos I hold the power to make Alec happy or very very upset.
DAMax- glad you like the ma moments!
Kim- yep MA all the way! You think this involved Max bashing? Didn't realize that because I thought it was Max with the baseball bat aiming for the piƱata of Logan's head. Oh well, I'll be more careful in the future (that's not to say Max survived the explosion. Hehe)
JamiesSpawn- Oh, I'm not that mean to leave you hanging for that long. Mmm- you want to borrow my hat? And would you like me to book up into a hairdressers? Cos you're in for a bumpy ride from here on out.
Angel- Visualizing cutting me up into little pieces yet for not telling you whether Max survived? Well, the axe's under the bed. Go ahead, chop me up. You just won't ever find out if Max's alive or not then :p
Secretlybeautiful- Oh, I'm casting roles for Alec's love-interest if you're interested then? I mean, with Max out of the way there's gonna be plenty of bitch fights for alec's ass (that'll keep him happy won't it? So I hope you're happy;)
