A Family Affair
Chapter 11: Telling Alec
"Yo, Logan buddy!"
Logan jumped in his chair and let out a slow calming breath. 'X-series' he thought, 'never can knock.'
"Alec don't you knock?"
"Nope, guess not huh?"
"What do you want?" asked Logan staring at his computer screen.
"Aw come on, no hello? No, 'how you doin' Alec?' Just a 'what do I want'?
"Yes Alec, what do you want?"
"Well now, someone's having their period today, lemme guess," said Alec sitting on a chair behind Logan, "Girl trouble, oh no wait...Asha trouble, what did you do?"
"Nothing!" said Logan. He swivelled around to face Alec, finally abandoning his 'work'
"Ha! I knew it, you did something to screw it up!"
"You don't have to look so happy about it."
"So you did?"
"Did what?"
"Logan you know what I think I know you did."
"I didn't do anything to Asha!"
"Yeah your right, maybe that's the problem..."
"What?"
"Maybe she wanted you to do something to her," said Alec with his famous 'Alec Grin'
"I hate you."
"I know, now tell me."
"She thinks I'm using her as a replacement for Max or just so Jesse can be born."
"Well you know he'll never be born if you two don't...you know..."
"Why am I talking to you?"
"Logan..."
"Can I count on your 'honest' advice or are you just going to laugh at me?"
"I'll give you my honest advice because I need your help with something."
"Fine," said Logan taking a deep breath. He would usually talk to Asha about anything that was bothering him, but now this concerned her too, "we almost kissed. But before it happened she just got up and started going on about how she didn't want to be a consolation prize because I couldn't have Max or if this was all about Jesse. Then she got paged by the S1W and left before I could say anything....she doesn't know..."
"Well is she?"
"Is she what?"
"A consolation prize because you couldn't have Max?"
"You haven't heard a word I said after 'Max' have you?"
"What?"
"She doesn't know Alec!"
"Who doesn't Max or Asha."
Logan threw his hands up in the air and walked out of the computer room. Alec got up and followed.
"Logan what are you going on about?"
"I -I well, dammit Alec, I love her!"
"Okay, I thought we already discussed how Max-"
"Asha you idiot! I'm talking about Asha! I love ASHA!"
"Oh, well okay then..."
"YOU are the one who can't stop thinking about Max for a millisecond! I don't want Max, I am OVER Max, what I am going on about is that Asha left before I could tell her that I loved her, and now I think that she thinks that I don't love her, and I don't know how to show her that I love her that will PROVE to her that I DON'T want Max!"
"Okay, Logan, calm down and try to breath, you're about to hyperventilate."
Logan collapsed onto the couch and sank down into the cushions.
"What the hell do I do?" asked Logan defeated.
"Well I'm thinking I should have brought a tape recorder and then we just play back what you were just yelling about," said Alec.
"I'm serious here Alec."
"Yeah I know," said Alec sitting down beside Logan, "Maybe you can wait till she goes into heat? That's how me and Max officially got together."
"I am not going to take advantage of Asha while she's in heat."
"So you're going to let someone else? Okay."
"What?! No! I...No! Oh God, No."
"Exactly."
"But that doesn't prove that I love her."
"Cook her dinner?"
"I did that for Max."
"Yeah, you might want to 'not' do that until after you and Asha get together."
"I need help."
"Yes, you really do."
The two sat in silence for a of couple minutes, just thinking or staring into space.
"How about flowers?" suggested Alec.
"Too...typical, not to mention boring, this has to be something that proves I love her. And somehow I don't think flowers are going to cut it."
"A big billboard with 'I Love You Asha' written across it?"
"Now that might work," said Logan, "So why are you here anyway?"
"What? Oh yeah that. I, um, wanted to show you something. No one else knows."
Alec shrugged off his jacket and then pulled up his right sleeve, on the top of his forearm were...
"Runes?" said Logan grabbing Alec's arm.
"Uh, yeah looks that way."
Logan turned Alec's arm the other way, and sure enough there were more on the back of his arm.
"When did they?"
"Just this morning, I was delivering my last package and saw 'em."
"The other half..."
"What?"
"A couple days ago, I finished translating Max's, they were only half there, Alec these could be the missing half!"
"Great, why me? Max is the one with the super power or whatever, why do I have these too?"
"Let me translate them and we'll find out."
^^^
"I'm what?" squeaked Max.
Original Cindy had just gotten her back to the apartment and had led Max over to the couch.
"You're pregnant, boo."
"Pregnant?"
"I told ya."
"Alec, that, that...that bastard!" screamed Max, "He knew! I knew he knew! He had to have known! Oh, when he gets back here..."
"Alright, now dis has got to be them pregnancy hormones," said OC.
"Hormones? What hormones?"
"Here, read these."
Original Cindy passed Max the pregnancy pamphlets that Carr had given her to get Max to read.
"Max why you think Alec knows?"
"Because he's Alec! And he's...he's....pregnant," said Max calming down, "I'm pregnant."
Max flopped down on the couch and put a hand on her still flat stomach.
"I'm pregnant," she said, "I'm going to be a mother."
"That scary huh?"
"I just keep thinking about how Rachel was a couple inches taller than me, and know she's hardly a...a centimeter long."
Max sniffed as some tears made their way down her face, "You read those pamphlets right?"
"Yeah I did," said OC.
"Is this natural?"
"Hormones baby, you're going to me crying, yelling, and giggling for the next nine months."
"I hate Alec," cried Max laying down on the couch.
^^^
"I love Max," said Alec as Logan photographed the newly appearing runes.
"And now you're engaged?"
"Yeah, and you know I don't know if she wanted to tell you, but if she does, act surprised okay?"
"Engaged? You two are getting married?"
"Logan why do you keep on repeating the same thing over and over? Just forge us some documents and we're all set, well forge Max some documents, I already got mine from when I got mistaken for Ben and arrested."
"Engaged?"
"Logan. Focus."
"It's just...a little weird."
"Aw come on, Max's clone got married so why can't we?"
"I'm not saying you can't, I just didn't think you'd actually...propose...."
"And why not?" asked Alec
"I just didn't ever see you doing something like that," said Logan honestly
"Like what? Asking the woman I love to marry me? Oh hey! maybe that's what you can do! Ask Asha to marry you and we can have a double wedding."
"We're not even a couple yet."
"Oh yeah, well you'd better be getting a move on chop, chop!"
"You're getting married? To Max?"
"It is what one does for the woman he loves and would die without isn't it?"
"I always just saw you as an irresponsible man whore."
"Yeah so did Max."
"This will take some getting used to."
"Take all the time you need." said Alec, "except with these runes, could we hurry this up a bit? Max is going to yell at me for being late."
"Almost done."
^^^
Max had gone from pacing to sitting to pacing again.
'Where the hell is Alec?' Max thought, ' He should have been home by now. I'm going to yell at him for being late!'
Max had called Jam Pony to see if Alec was still working, which made Normal's day to hear that his Golden boy wasn't with his soon-to-be-bride. Max hung up in a huff and then went pacing again. She was just about to call Logan to see if he had seen Alec when the front door opened.
"Alec! Where the hell were you?!" screamed Max.
"Hello to you too honey," said Alec. 'I told Logan she'd yell at me'
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Where were you!"
"Okay Max, calm down, I just stopped by Logan's."
"Oh," said Max looking slightly embarrassed by her tirade. Those stupid pregnancy pamphlets told her she'd be moody right? Or well, more moody than usual?
"Max are you okay?"
"What?" Max snapped out of her thoughts, "yeah, peachy why?"
"Because Zee said Original Cindy dropped your packages on him because you were sick."
"Oh, that, yeah, I have to..." started Max.
"Right, Max, I went to Logan's and..." Alec began.
"I have something to tell you," Max and Alec said at the same time.
"You go first," said Max.
"You started before me."
"O-kay then, um...Alec...I..." Max started to play with her ring out of nervousness. How many times had she practiced this before he got home?
"Alec I'm..."
"You're..."
Max took a deep breath before blurting it out.
"Alec I'm pregnant!"
Silence.
'He's not moving,' thought Max, 'or breathing. Just staring. Is this a bad sign? Oh God, what if he doesn't want this? No, he has to want this. He loved Rachel. He couldn't just change his mind like this...could he?
"Alec?" asked Max quietly.
He blinked and shook his head.
"Okay wait," said Alec, "wait, wait, wait.....wait."
Max's eyebrows nit together as she twisted her ring more violently.
"You're serious? This isn't a joke? You're actually..." started Alec.
"Pregnant?"
"Yes, you are? No jokes, Max."
"No."
"No, what?"
"Dammit Alec, this is no joke! I'm pregnant!" she yelled, slapping him hard on the arm.
Slowly but surely a stupid smile formed on his face. With the yelling and the hitting, there was the fiery woman he loved.
"You're totally serious?" he asked again, which earned him another slap. Laughing he picked her up in his arms and spun around, "You're serious? We're having a baby?!"
If Alec smile got any bigger he was sure it would become permanent. His newly discovered good mood seemed to be contagious.
"You jerk!" laughed Max unable to keep a straight face, "don't scare me like that! You were just looking at me and not saying anything!"
"Payback for when I thought you were gonna turn down my proposal," She glared at him, "Max that was a joke! I just...I can't believe this...you're sure?"
"After three failed pregnancy tests, OC dragged me to Carr's office, who confirmed it."
"We're having a baby?"
"For the last time: YES, we are having a baby."
Alec walked over to the couch where he collapsed with Max still in his arms.
"But, but isn't this still too soon?"
"Count the months."
"Heh, yeah, In nine months we will be in 2024."
"Nine months..."
"A baby..."
Max took Alec's hand and placed it on top of her still flat stomach as she snuggled into him.
"Our baby..."
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A/N: You guys are lucky. I was planning on ending this chapter at 'Silence.'
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed my fic so far! It means a lot to me and inspires me to keep writing. And now that summer is here and I got my Evanescence CD, I am back in the DA writing mood! The Harry Potter air is cooling off, so I should be focusing on Dark Angel a lot more now.
Also below, are answers to some peoples questions or general comments:
cloudburst: In the OOTF timeline, Ft. Max did, as OC guessed, conceive Rachel in the middle of the war. Alec took over as Commander and did one helluva job:) Hope that helps.
Neo: French? Man, I share your pain! Well, back in January I did. But I know what french revision feels like, lots of evil...Bwaha! I hope you did well on your test!
Suki: Yes! There are actually people who like White. I love the guy (for some strange and odd reason) I started watching 'Poltergeist: The Legacy' just because Martin Cummins was in it! But it actually turned out to be a pretty awesome show! But yes, Ames is a bastard and many people hate him. But he makes evil look hot! Okay everyone can stop staring at me now...I mean it...^_^
White's actually getting a pretty big fan following on "The Broken World" forums.
merykey-X5 495: Yes, I have seen the T3 trailer and the TX does kind of remind me of the X38's...but the hair and body build is all different. When I was writing OOTF, I wasn't even thinking of Terminator until someone told me it reminded them of it and I was like "Woah, yeah it does..." It was sorta cool:)
Disclaimer: DA no mine belong to JC and CE and FOX(unfortunately)