Alec paced around his apartment replaying Max's exit in his head and for the life of him he could not work out what had happened. As he distractedly moved about, his foot knocked against something, looking down, he found the offending object to be Max's pager.
I should go and give this to her, he thought after all someone might need to get in touch with her in an emergency. Yes, I should probably get this to her as soon as possible, it has absolutely nothing to do with wanting to find out what is up with her, or just generally wanting to be around her. And you are absolutely 100 positively in no way whipped.
Andwith that thought he left his apartment pausing only to grab his leather jacket on his way out.
Ahh shit Max thought, someone is definitely trying to tell me something.
Tattoo as he had now been christened by Max had had enough foresight to immobilise her legs, so pushing this guy off her would have been hard even without the gun pressed to her temple. And to top it all off the seizures were leaving her feeling as though she had been hit with a cement truck which had then backed up over her in order to hit her again.
Tattoo's lackeys were having far too much fun searching her for any valuables as they basically groped her. It had been a long time since she had felt helpless, and she found that she hated it more than anything in the world. so help me god when this is over I will hunt these guys down and break their fingers, ohh or maybe I'll just make it impossible for them to have children, I mean I'll be doing society a favour removing them from the breeding pool… providing I make it out of here alive and this thought brought Max straight back to her initial thought… ahh shit.
At last the men had her wallet and pager and stood up to leave, In Max's head she had taken this opportunity to pummel the living hell out of these guys, while coming up with some witty banter as she took back her stuff. But in a decidedly less rose tinted reality she lay curled into a foetal position as tremors wracked through her.
"What did you do to her boss?" one of the guys asked tattoo as they saw Max curled up seizing
"Nothing, I didn't do nothing, let's get out of here quick!"
"Boys, boys, boys, you're not going anywhere" Alec called as he dropped in front of them, blocking their exit.
Despite being more than a little surprised, Tattoo rallied again, "Oh yeah, and how are you going to stop us, when I have this" he said confidently, levelling his gun at Alec.
With transgenic speed Alec blurred forward snatching the gun from his hand and pointing it at him. "When you have what?" Alec asked innocently
"Now if you'll just hand over the wallet and pager then you can go on your way with only the smallest of ass kicking's, cause luckily for you I'm in a relatively good mood" Alec said, smiling disarmingly
As tattoo moved forward and handed over the stuff, clearly thinking he may as well cut his losses, Max suddenly became visible to Alec.
Blurring again he slammed tattoo up against the wall, hands at his throat
"What did you do to her" he shouted
"We didn't do nothing I swear man, she just fell over and started shaking, it weren't us, I swear" he managed to croak out, panic coursing through him.
Alec dropped the guy and rushed over to Max's side, checking her breathing.
"Hey Max, you Ok? You still with me?" Alec asked, concern dripping from his voice
"I'll be fine I just need to get to my apartment, there's some tryptofan there" Max
gritted out.
"All right let's go" he said as he bent down and effortlessly picked her up.
Before long they reached Max's apartment, to find that Original Cindy had left a note saying that she probably wouldn't be back that night and not to worry.
After forcing a few pills down Max's throat she passed out on the sofa.
When Max awoke hours later she felt groggy, and every muscle in her body felt stiff. Groaning she pulled herself up and padded into the kitchen to get a glass of milk. Opening the fridge, she quickly realised that there wasn't any. Cursing in four different languages, she painfully made her way back to the sofa.
At that moment, Alec walked in carrying a shopping bag "thought you might want some milk" he offered by way of explanation
Max's memories of the previous night came flooding back to her oh my god, he saw me like that weak, defenceless… he had to save me from muggers!... he frickin' carried me home as these thoughts were rushing through her head each one worse than the last, a blush of embarrassment swept over her cheeks.
"Thanks" Max mumbled as she studied her feet.
At Max's tone, Alec looked round, noticing her embarrassment he couldn't help but tease her, "so how is my little damsel in distress" he was so busy cracking up as he watched Max's tangible shock, anguish and finally fury, that he didn't notice a pillow winging its way to his head.
Like a pro (or just as someone regularly on the end of Max's physical outbursts), Alec shrugged it off, and carried on as normal.
"So why didn't you just tell me you were starting to have seizures, I could have got you some tryptofan you know" Alec asked, somewhat miffed
"You know me, not much with the damselling" Max retorted "I can look after myself" I've always looked after myself
"seriously Max, there is no one I know who can look after themselves better, but if you need help, you can always ask me" doesn't she trust me?
"I guess I'm just not used to that" Max replied softly but I certainly could
Alec turned around unhurriedly, and started to walk back to Max.
"Well get used to it" he said quietly as he got nearer, slowly pulling her willingly into a tight embrace.
"Because I'm not going anywhere" he breathed into her hair
And at these words Max felt a contented smile creep across her face.
I'm Home
THE END
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