Just Wondering
Chapter Four: The Competitive Streak
A/N: I know, I know, took me long enough! Sorry and I hope people will read this even if it did take me forever to update. Hope you like!
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Max ran out of Crash and looked about for Logan, but she couldn't see him anywhere. 'Damn Alec! Why does he always have to be so inconsiderate?' she thought to herself. She hopped on her bike, mentally cursing Alec all the way to Foggle Towers.
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Alec sat in Crash, drinking his beer alone. 'So what if she wants to ruin her relationship with Logan, that's not my problem,' he thought to himself. 'Uh, only it is kind of your fault,' his annoyingly rational conscience was telling him.
Original Cindy came and sat down beside him. "Hey, where'd my girl go?"
"It appears that 'stuck in a depressed rut' Max is back," he said.
OC raised an eyebrow questioningly. "She's away running after lover boy," elaborated Alec.
"Oh," she said. "Look, I think we both know that I just want my boo to be happy but I'm beginning to get the impression that with Logan, it doesn't appear to be an option."
"Preaching to the choir Cindy, really you are, but honestly you don't want to try telling Max that," said Alec. "Trust me . . . not good."
OC laughed, "She kicked your ass didn't she?"
"She tried, but seeing that I was on my bike at the time, it proved to be easier said than done. I think that now she tries to lure me into saying things that she can find offensive just for an excuse to touch me and my fabulous ass."
"You are right there suga, if Original Cindy were to grab a man's ass it would most certainly be yours," said OC, humouring the male transgenic in front of her.
"Thanks Cindy."
"So what'd you do?" asked OC.
"Nothing!" said Alec, raising his hands defensively.
"This is me here Alec, the all knowing one remember?"
"I may, now I can't say for certain, but I may have told Logan that Max didn't want to do his Eyes Only missions anymore, which was true before you start ragging on my ass," said Alec.
"Why on earth would you tell him?" asked OC, trying to gain some insight to the way Alec's mind worked.
"I was bored," he said, shrugging. "Plus, the look on his face was priceless," he said with a smile, remembering Logan's expression when Alec had broken the 'devastating' news.
"You should have seen it, it was like this," said Alec, doing an impression of Logan. He slumped down in his seat and scrunched up his face, chin jutting out with his eyes as wide as he could make them.
Cindy let out a huge snort upon seeing Alec's contorted face and Alec and Sketchy, who was walking over, watched in amazement as beer came spurting out of Original Cindy's nose.
"Damn boy," she said, when her breathing returned to normal, "That was funny, not to mention it had this eerie resemblance."
"Why thank you Cindy," said Alec. "But I can't lie to you I was practicing for a while. That guy over there gave me the finger cause he thought I was making fun of him."
"Dude," said Sketchy. "Was that an impression of Logan?"
"How'd you know?" asked Alec.
"It looked a bit like him."
"Fair enough," said Alec. "Look guys I gotta blaze. I have to go stop Max from doing something stupid, cause if she does it, it'll probably be my fault," he said, draining the end of his beer before grabbing his jacket and heading for the door.
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"Max, I don't want to talk to you, that's why I left Crash."
"But Logan, if you would just hear me out," pleaded Max.
"I don't want to hear you out Max! You betrayed me! And you didn't even have the decency to tell me yourself! Of all people I had to hear about it from Alec! Alec for god's sake!" yelled Logan.
"Look Logan, it didn't mean anything, me and Alec in that . . ."
"Hey party people!" came Alec's voice as he came in though the window.
"Alec what the hell are you doing here?" demanded Max.
"I just thought I'd drop by to see my two favourite star-crossed lovers. Max can I talk to you outside for a sec?" he asked.
"No you cannot!" said Max. "If you think for one second that after what you've done I am going anywhere with you, you are sadly mistaken," she said, glaring at him with her arms folded. "Now if you don't mind I would like some privacy with Logan right now."
"Actually I do mind," said Alec as he walked round to face Max. He bent down and grabbed her by the legs, throwing her over his shoulders.
"Alec!" screamed Max, frantically kicking her legs and hitting Alec's back. "Put me down this instant or I swear to god I am sooooo going to . . ."
"Kick my ass, yeah, yeah, I know, heard it all before Maxie," said Alec, heading to the door. "I'll bring her back in a moment Loge boy," said Alec. He closed the door behind him and began to put Max down. "Honestly Max why do you have to be so uncooperative?"
"What do you want Alec? Haven't you ruined my life enough for one night?" she asked.
"Are you kidding me? I don't think I'm anywhere near that level of annoyance yet, but I'm sure that given time. . . "
"Shall we be arriving at a point anytime soon?" asked Max, impatiently.
"Yes, I didn't tell Logan what you think I told Logan," he said.
"Oh, really then what did you tell him?" demanded Max.
"That you didn't want to do his Eyes Only missions anymore."
"Why would you tell him that?"
"Cause it's true you told me!" said Alec. "Plus, I didn't want to do his stupid Eyes Only missions anymore."
"When on earth did I tell you that?" Max wanted to know, cause for the life of her she couldn't remember.
"That time when we were on a mission for Logan, and do you remember we were stuck in that storage closet for like an hour waiting for the guards to go?"
"Alec, you are going to have to narrow it down for me," said Max.
"You see this is what I'm talking about those missions are borr-ing!"
"Alec," warned Max.
"Uh, we were going to get . . . ooh what was it?" asked Alec, searching his mind, lowering his eyebrows in concentration.
"I don't know that's why I asked you!" said Max, getting angry and stamping her foot in frustration.
"Oh yes I remember! It was the security chip that gave him access to that big corporation that produced weapons!"
Max motioned with her hand for him to continue.
"So anyway we were in the cupboard and you were all, 'I swear to God I hate these missions, I don't know why I even agree to them anymore,'" he said, jumping about, acting it out, saying Max's lines in bad falsetto. "And then I was all, 'Cause your all hot for roller boy,' then you were all slapping me round the back of the head like."
"Just for a change then?" asked Max.
Alec continued, ignoring her, "And then you said, 'If it kills me I am never doing one of these pointless Eyes Only missions again,'" finished Alec, folding his arms and looking rather smugly at Max.
"Well?" he asked expectantly.
"If you think you are getting an apology you have another thing coming," she said stropily.
"Oh, come on Max, I saved you from telling the supposed love of your life that you have been making out with your own personal pain in the ass . . . and enjoying it might I add!"
Max looked at him incredulously. "Plus, thanks to me you no longer have to tell him yourself, you just have to roll with it!" finished Alec.
"That is a good point," muttered Max to herself. "But I'm still not apologising. And there's one thing I can't understand."
"Just the one?" asked Alec. "Wow Max have you been going to night classes or something?"
He then began rubbing his shoulder where Max had just punched him for his sarcastic comment.
"Why would you tell Logan that even if it was true?" she asked. "It didn't exactly fit in with the theme of the little war we got going here."
"What can I say?" said Alec, shrugging and looking rather sheepish. "I had a lack of imagination."
"Fine, I mean I always knew your brain was about the size of an abnormally small pea anyway," she said ignoring Alec's mock hurt look. "Now if you don't mind, I am going to go back inside to explain myself to Logan."
"Fair enough, see you back at Crash?" asked Alec, beginning to walk down the hall.
"Sure thing," said Max. "Oh and Alec?"
"Yeah Maxie?"
"You ever lift me again I can guarantee you that you will never be able to have children," she threatened.
"Kids are a little too messy for my liking anyway," reasoned Alec, getting into the elevator, flashing Max a trademark smirk.
Max rolled her eyes as she went back into Logan's apartment, to gently break the news that, yes, she was in fact sick of risking her life on a weekly basis just to get something that may or (the more likely outcome) may not save the world.
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By the time Max got away from Logan and back to Crash, both OC and Sketchy had left. Alec however, was busy chatting up a pretty redhead in the corner.
'Typical,' thought Max, rolling her eyes and heading over to the bar to order a bottle of beer. She made a half-hearted wave in Alec's direction but he was too busy laughing at something the girl he was speaking to had said to notice her. While taking a sip from her beer, she realised that it was now her turn.
She began watching the pair out of the corner of her eyes. When Alec got up to go to the toilet, she seized her chance and headed over to the girl who was smiling to herself.
"Hey," said Max, going up to the girl.
"Uh, hey," she said unsurely. "Um, I'm sorry I don't mean to sound rude but do I know you?"
"No actually," said Max, offering her hand to the girl. "I'm Max, I know Alec, the guy you were talking to."
"Oh," said the girl, a slight smile playing at her lips and hints of a blush appearing on her cheeks. "I'm Sarah," she said politely, shaking Max's hand. "He's really great isn't he?"
"Yeah, that he is," said Max, looking away from the girl who wouldn't stop smiling.
"So what are you? Like an ex or something?" she asked giving a little giggle.
'Oh brother,' thought Max to herself but didn't let her dislike for Sarah show and instead she smiled sweetly at the girl with the long curly red hair in front of her.
"God no!" she said, giggling along with Sarah. "Nothing like that. It's just that . . . well I did kind of have a crush on him for a while," she said, putting on her best impersonation of a thirteen year old girl, smiling and giggling and even working up an embarrassed blush. "And it really broke my heart when I found out he was gay and I would just hate to see some other girl that he was trying to befriend go through the same thing I did."
"Ohhhhhhh," said Sarah, a look of disappointment and understanding coming over her face. "Thanks, I mean really I wouldn't have seen that in a million years!"
"I know," said Max sympathetically. "That's the trap, unfortunately."
"He's just so cute!" Sarah gushed.
"That's the way it goes. The best ones always seem to bat for the other team."
"Well thank you really, Max. God, you've saved me a lot of effort. Man it would have been embarrassing when I invited him back to my place then jumped him before I had managed to open the door!" said Sarah, laughing at herself.
"Wouldn't have just!" said Max, laughing along. "Well gotta go, nice meeting you Sarah," said Max, when she spied Alec coming out of the toilets and heading back in their direction.
Max smiled to herself smugly as she sat back down at the bar and lifted her bottle of beer. Alec was not going to be happy . . . and she was loving it.
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"Hey Max."
Max turned round to see Alec standing next to her, a forced smile on his face.
"Oh hey Alec," said Max, trying her hardest not to laugh.
"Funny thing. I was talking to Sarah over there . . . I believe you two have met."
Max just smiled as he continued.
"So we were chatting, laughing, you know, generally having a good time when I suggested that we took things back to my place."
Max couldn't help but snort into her beer.
"When she told me that it was ok, I didn't have to pretend, she knew and was fine with it. My good friend Max had came over and told her all about my homosexuality!" he ranted as Max continued to laugh.
"Of all the things Max, why on earth would you tell her I was gay?" he asked, clearly furious.
"Well, unlike you, I don't have a lack of imagination," said Max, the tears now tripping down her face she was laughing so hard. "Oh come on!" she said when she saw Alec's serious expression. "You have to admit it is funny!"
"Do you see me laughing?" asked Alec.
"No, but that's because you are still in the closet and think that happy emotions aren't very masculine," said Max, making herself laugh even more.
Alec decided to take advantage of the brief silence in the bar as the DJ changed the records. "Jesus Christ Max, just because I turned you down doesn't mean you have the right to go around telling girls that I am interested in, that I'm gay!" he said loudly.
The majority of the people in the bar turned round to look at them interested, most with amused expressions on their faces. Max's smile dropped as she put down her beer and ran out of Crash.
'Oh my God!' she thought as she entered the alley behind the bar. 'People think I fancied Alec and that he turned me down,' she though, running her hands through her hair in a panic.
Alec soon appeared out after her. "You jerk!" she yelled, hitting him in the chest. "People are actually going to think that I like you."
"And that's not ok but telling attractive women that I like that I'm gay is fine?" demanded Alec.
"Yes!" exclaimed Max. "That had a negative affect on you! This is about me!"
"Oh and God forbid that anyone think anything bad about Max?" asked Alec.
"Damn straight!" yelled Max.
"I've got news for you Maxie. That was nothing, that was a small jibe, not my revenge cause what you did to me was far worse than that! You put my reputation at stake!" said Alec, clearly offended, adjusting his jacket collar.
"Oh please!" said Max. "And don't . . . call . . . me . . . Maxie," she said, furiously as she glared at the smart ass in front of her. "What?" she demanded. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You are hot when you are angry, you know that?" he said before grabbing her and kissing her fervently. Max was taken back at first, many emotions and thoughts running through her, but then found herself kissing him back, her arms going around his neck. When he moved down to cover her neck with feather light kisses she got the opportunity to speak again and decided to take it before it was gone again.
"What the hell are you doing?" she asked, trying her best to put on her tough girl attitude an push him away but failing miserably.
"It's called revenge," muttered Alec between kisses.
"Sure it is," said Max. "Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you are actually interested in me . . . romantically?" she asked, curiously.
"Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I am just a very competitive person?" asked Alec, making his way back up to her mouth again.
Max couldn't help put respond to the kiss passionately but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel disappointed at his answer and even worse . . . she didn't know why.
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A/N: To anyone who cares I will be updating my other Dark Angel fic, 'The Surprise' pretty soon. Sorry it has been so long since I updated anything on this page, I got caught up in my Charmed fic which I wrote to help me mourn Chris' death. It's all very sad! Lol.
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Thanks for reading!