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Paring: What if I said it was a surprise? (M/A)

Summary: Max returns to Seattle with some bad news for Alec… How will he take it? And what else is Max forgetting to tell him?

A/N: I'm warning you right now this isn't my best so if it sucks I already know that. Hope you enjoy it anyways.

Revised Borrowed Time,

Chapter 13,

Reunion:

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Maybe there was no such thing as happily ever after, after all she thought as Ray drifted off to sleep. In the morning or later that night she'd have to face Alec, deep with in her heart she knew it. All that she could hope though was that he to wouldn't be able to see through her. The sky grew dark and the sounds of Seattle flowed over Max and her little liability and as it did Max had a sudden urge to go somewhere that she hadn't been in over six months. As the impulse grew stronger she weighted leaving the sleeping boy in her friend's care and in the end decided that it would be ok. It was only a short trip to the space needle after all.

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The frigid wind whipped over the rusting metallic surface of the Space Needle pulling Max's hair along for the ride. The wind, though, didn't bother her as her mind raced and swirled around and around her thoughts and memories. Like the chilly wind it brought long held tears to her eyes. She had left this place six months ago hoping to free herself and her family from the pain that she caused. Coming back made it only to clear how bad the times were… while she was gone more had died then when she had been living there the only difference was that now she hadn't had the chance to say goodbye.

So now she did… in a small voice, barely heard over the wind she said goodbye to all of her departed friends.

Alec… The name came to her lips as fresh tears came to her eyes. Clasping her hands over her heart she willed it to stop beating so hard. Within it's walled cage she knew that he hadn't died… not in the normal since… not in any way that a normal would ever understand but to her it all made since. It was like being back at Manticore… the perfect solider. Noting mattered expect for the objective. Max's slim body shuttered in the cool Seattle night. From what she had heard of him he had become what she had tried to free them all from. He had become the perfect solider. And with that thought Max sank lower to the floor her hands muffling her cries as she turned from the opening, her only way of escape.

Alec heard sobs as he enter the observation deck of the Space Needle. With a weary conscious he thought about turning back… going to OC's and picking up the transgenics he had left T.C. for. But something stopped him and made him climb up the last few steps and what he saw froze the blood in his veins.

Curled up in a little ball, alone in the deep dark night, sat Max with her back to him. How long had he been waiting for her? How long had he hoped by coming back her that he'd find her returned? Shaking his head he laughed at the irony of it all. It had taken her six months to find her way back and yet he found her as he left her crying all alone. Pitting herself.

Could she still have remorse for Logan? The X5 wondered as he silently stepped closer and closer to the woman's prone form.

"Maxie…" He whispered, crouching down behind her, startling her as his hand clamped down on her shoulder and spun her around to face him. "Maxie, where have you been?" He asked, his eyes colder then the night.

"Alec?" She asked in sudden surprise, her tears leaving her eyes. "What happened to you?" She asked knowing full well.

"I could say the same to you Maxie."

"Stop calling me that Alec." The X5 hissed, pushing away from him.

"Fine, but will you at least tell me where you've been? And why you came back." Suddenly shy Max nodded.

"Alec I have something to tell you that you're not going to like." Max began her eyes unnervingly calm. "You might want to sit down." And so he did, scooting close to her to both hear and to reassure himself that she was actually real. Not some trick of his imagination or a dream like she was normally to him. Max started her story of her months of absence slowly and with deliberately, explaining every little action. Justifying herself until he just couldn't help but to agree with her choices. That was until she got to the part about Ray.

He could hardly believe that she had kidnapped the child of their enemy and was not raising him as her own. His mind boggled at her reasoning. In the end he realized that she took Ray for the same reason that she freed the transgenetics… she didn't want to see anyone denied a normal life. What she didn't understand though was that none of them we ever going to have a normal life. Not now not ever.

After a moment he realized that she still had more to tell and had been telling it as he had been zoning out. He came back though at the mention of his best friend's name. Biggs, she said, was murdered in cold blood. And with that his heart stopped cold. He barely heard what she did to avenge a man that she had only meet once and also how she had then made a promise to the dead man to find Alec and tell him what had happened to him.

"I did what I promised him I'd do." Max said making as if she'd go. "I'm sorry Alec…" She turned her head away from him for a moment. "I really am. For everything I've ever done to you. I just wanted to let you know that I…I…" She trailed off as the first rays of dawn emerged at the edge of the city. "I have to go now Alec and I think that you do to." And with that she ran away like a spirit fleeing from the light.

The dirty blond haired X5 sat there for a couple of moments more stunned. Still unbelieving to all that he had seen and heard that night. Closing his eyes he could still imagine that she had seated besides him… within arms reach. God how could it be that despite it all he still loved her…

A/N: Well reviews as always are welcome.