And they all live happily ever after.
Well, not really.
Max dies three days later.
They had gotten her a heart transplant from an X-5 killed in a raid, but it doesn't take. Dr. Sam Carr, who they called in to perform the transplant, says privately to Alec that Max just gave up. She stopped fighting.
She didn't want to live.
Alec takes over Terminal City a changed man. He's more like the soldier he was raised to be than ever.
When a group of anti-transgenics throw Molotov cocktails over the fence, Alec orders the sentries to fire into the crowd until they disperse.
Fifteen people are killed. He doesn't care.
Original Cindy tells him what Max told her about White. About how she couldn't live with herself after lying to him like that and didn't know why.
Alec doesn't care why.
He figures the Familiar must have broken her will somehow, driven her to despair, and so he has Ray killed in revenge.
He spray paints the address on the wall of the NSA Seattle headquarters, and the next day the man born as Ames Sandeman puts his government-issue Glock nine-millimeter automatic to his head, and pulls the trigger.
His last words are, "Forgive me, Max." But nobody hears them.
A/N: The End…Oh, come on! Like these two could have a happy ending!...cringes from angry feedback okay, I'm sorry, please stop yelling at me…It came to me in a bad mood, which I usually don't write in, but this was so clear in my mind that I just had to…sorry. You know what? They were never gonna happen. They are fundamentally opposites and only came together under great stress both from the situation and their own lives. It's a fucking tragedy; anything else would be completely OoC unless taken several years and a few life changing events into the future so get over it. (fumes angrily)… Okay, now I'm done.