1 Chapter 16
Max looked down at her kids and didn't uter a word for a long minute,
``Your dad…well, your dad's name was Alec.``
``Is that why my name is Alec Skylar?`` Sky asked.
``Yes.`` Max answered,
``Where is he?`` Sam then asked.
``Dead.`` Max answered slowly.
Both her kids looked at her, not saying a word, but they finally accepted it when Max could nolonger take their stares.
``Can you tell us how ya met?``Sky asked.
Max smiled and slowly started to tell the story of when she and Alec met for the first time. ``When I was a kid, I used to live in this place called manticore because I was a special child. Me and my squad escaped and I was caught again 10 years later. I was in a prison cell and your father came to the door, he looked at me with his mischivious grin…`` and on it went for three hours. Her kids were intranced.
For the years that passed, her kids often asked her to tell the story over and over again. Max liked that, her kids also asked her to described their father, and all she would have to tell them was to picture an older Sky, because he was in fact, the spitting image of his father.
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Alec's unit travelled around the US constantly. Alec rarely saw his brother and his wife…or his year old nephew that had been named Ben for obvious reasons. Alec liked it that way…not seeing the people he loved to often, because he didn`t like it when they looked at him with pitty in their eyes and he hated to show them the pain that was in his eyes. He had never gotten over Max's death, even if it had been 6 years since it had happened. He always wondered what it would have been like if he had lived a full life with her. There would have been kids, no doubt about it, hell, he loved kids and everytime he was in New York he went to see his nephew as often as he could.
Anyway, the day came when his unit was to be stationed in Seattle. Alec had dreaded the moment because he knew that eventually he would be stationed in Seattle. Ryan knew that he wasn't keen on the idea. (Ryan was now part of Alec`s unit)
They arived in Seattle late one night. Alec looked around and found that nothing had changed. It had been over 6 years and yet this place still felt like home.
They did nothing for the first week, there wasn't a lot going on. But midway threw the second week they got a call saying that a bunch of people were protesting at a school in sector 4. The word was that they had put fire to the school and that a lot of the kids were stuck inside and the fire men couldn't get in cause the protesters were blocking the way.
Alec and his unit hurried to sector 4 in their hummers and made a path so that the firemen could get through. Alec saw some kids in the windows and he told his unit to help out.
Alec saw a boy, who was looking around for someone and when he couldn't see whatever he was looking for he started running back towards the school that was in flames. Alec ran to the boy and grabed him from behind. The boy yelled and yelled to be put down. The kid was real strong Alec observed as the kid tried to hit him and kick him…and managed to hit him once or twice. Alec grabed the the kids head and turned it towards his. The kid had an effect on him unlike he had ever felt before. The kid looked almost like himself, almost, almost identical to what he had looked like when he was a kid. He put the feeling aside and told the kid to calm the hell down.
``Let me go!!!!!``Sky yelled to the soldier that was holding him tight. He was real strong Sky obeserved and was furious with himself.
``Don't run back in that fire, kid, you'll kill yourself.``
`` But my sister's in there.`` the boy pleaded.
Alec understood all to well for not to put the boy`s feelings aside. ``I'll go get her, what does she look like?``
Sky told him quikly a brief description of his sister and told him that her name was Sam.
``You stay right here OK ?`` Alec said
Sky looked up at him and for once in his life, strusted an other person. ``I'll stay.``
Alec ran into the building and had brief flash backs of when he had last been in a fire and shrugged them away. He ran thru the school yelling the little girls name. He heard nothing, but he didn't give up. He went into the bathrooms and the class rooms. He was on the last floor when he spotted a small figure on the floor…he got closer hoping that he wasn't to late…he wasn't as he quickly saw that the little girl was crying, he picked her up and ran down the stairs and out of the school. He looked back and saw that the school was crumbling down to the grown. He looked back at where he had left the boy, only to find him on the grown…crying.
Max looked down at her kids and didn't uter a word for a long minute,
``Your dad…well, your dad's name was Alec.``
``Is that why my name is Alec Skylar?`` Sky asked.
``Yes.`` Max answered,
``Where is he?`` Sam then asked.
``Dead.`` Max answered slowly.
Both her kids looked at her, not saying a word, but they finally accepted it when Max could nolonger take their stares.
``Can you tell us how ya met?``Sky asked.
Max smiled and slowly started to tell the story of when she and Alec met for the first time. ``When I was a kid, I used to live in this place called manticore because I was a special child. Me and my squad escaped and I was caught again 10 years later. I was in a prison cell and your father came to the door, he looked at me with his mischivious grin…`` and on it went for three hours. Her kids were intranced.
For the years that passed, her kids often asked her to tell the story over and over again. Max liked that, her kids also asked her to described their father, and all she would have to tell them was to picture an older Sky, because he was in fact, the spitting image of his father.
***
Alec's unit travelled around the US constantly. Alec rarely saw his brother and his wife…or his year old nephew that had been named Ben for obvious reasons. Alec liked it that way…not seeing the people he loved to often, because he didn`t like it when they looked at him with pitty in their eyes and he hated to show them the pain that was in his eyes. He had never gotten over Max's death, even if it had been 6 years since it had happened. He always wondered what it would have been like if he had lived a full life with her. There would have been kids, no doubt about it, hell, he loved kids and everytime he was in New York he went to see his nephew as often as he could.
Anyway, the day came when his unit was to be stationed in Seattle. Alec had dreaded the moment because he knew that eventually he would be stationed in Seattle. Ryan knew that he wasn't keen on the idea. (Ryan was now part of Alec`s unit)
They arived in Seattle late one night. Alec looked around and found that nothing had changed. It had been over 6 years and yet this place still felt like home.
They did nothing for the first week, there wasn't a lot going on. But midway threw the second week they got a call saying that a bunch of people were protesting at a school in sector 4. The word was that they had put fire to the school and that a lot of the kids were stuck inside and the fire men couldn't get in cause the protesters were blocking the way.
Alec and his unit hurried to sector 4 in their hummers and made a path so that the firemen could get through. Alec saw some kids in the windows and he told his unit to help out.
Alec saw a boy, who was looking around for someone and when he couldn't see whatever he was looking for he started running back towards the school that was in flames. Alec ran to the boy and grabed him from behind. The boy yelled and yelled to be put down. The kid was real strong Alec observed as the kid tried to hit him and kick him…and managed to hit him once or twice. Alec grabed the the kids head and turned it towards his. The kid had an effect on him unlike he had ever felt before. The kid looked almost like himself, almost, almost identical to what he had looked like when he was a kid. He put the feeling aside and told the kid to calm the hell down.
``Let me go!!!!!``Sky yelled to the soldier that was holding him tight. He was real strong Sky obeserved and was furious with himself.
``Don't run back in that fire, kid, you'll kill yourself.``
`` But my sister's in there.`` the boy pleaded.
Alec understood all to well for not to put the boy`s feelings aside. ``I'll go get her, what does she look like?``
Sky told him quikly a brief description of his sister and told him that her name was Sam.
``You stay right here OK ?`` Alec said
Sky looked up at him and for once in his life, strusted an other person. ``I'll stay.``
Alec ran into the building and had brief flash backs of when he had last been in a fire and shrugged them away. He ran thru the school yelling the little girls name. He heard nothing, but he didn't give up. He went into the bathrooms and the class rooms. He was on the last floor when he spotted a small figure on the floor…he got closer hoping that he wasn't to late…he wasn't as he quickly saw that the little girl was crying, he picked her up and ran down the stairs and out of the school. He looked back and saw that the school was crumbling down to the grown. He looked back at where he had left the boy, only to find him on the grown…crying.