A/N: I'm so happy you guys like this so far! BTW, if you love MA plz check out "Love Can Be Found Anywhere, Even In Hell" and "What's In A Name" (The latter's an Alec standalone)
Guess what guys? It was my 13th birthday a few days ago! Hehehe. Bring on the teenage years.
Max and Alec woke for the second time in the past few hours.
Alec groaned. "You're the one with the shark DNA. You go get him."
"I haven't slept for the past few days. This is my catch-up day. You go get him," Max said.
Alec had slept over the night before after agreeing that they would sort things out in the morning. It was the first time that Max thought they had ever agreed on something. Unfortunately for them, it seemed that the baby took more after Max in the sleeping respect, and had woken both of them up at an inhuman time of the morning.
The baby's incessant wailing grew louder and Max groaned before she got up.
"All right, little baby, don't cry," Max said, picking him up from the makeshift bed they had made him out of blankets.
"You know we're going to have to name him," Alec said. "We can't keep calling him 'the baby'." He thought for a moment and brightened up. "Hey, how about – "
"Don't even think about it. We are not naming him Alec Jr. No way," Max said, rocking him slightly.
"Fine," Alec mumbled. "Do you want to name him after one of your brothers?"
Max felt a shock go through her as he said that. She looked at him and could see the sincerity in his face; he wasn't joking. It touched her that he might ask something like that, think about her feelings and what she might want too.
She kept rocking the baby, muttering nonsensical words as she thought.
"I don't know," she finally replied. "I was thinking on Ben, but then again, that might be a little creepy."
His cringe told her the truth. He'd rather not have his son named Ben, it would be eerie and even Max could understand that.
"Is Jack alright with you?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure," Alec replied. "He's the brother that had… you know, really bad seizures right?"
Max nodded. Understatement of the year.
Alec stood up, seeing as he wouldn't be able to fall asleep anytime soon. He walked up to her and gingerly took Jack from her arms.
"You can go to sleep, you look exhausted," Alec said and she grinned.
"Why Alec, are you actually concerned for me?" she asked and he looked flustered.
"I'm not, I just thought maybe if you got some sleep you'd be less bitchy in the morning," he said, trying to cover up and again Max felt a warm feeling go through her.
"Thanks," she said sincerely. She started walking towards her bedroom but stopped as something occurred to her.
"You know, I think this is the first civilized conversation we've had so far," she said to him.
"Yeah, I guess so." Alec smirked. "You know, I like it better when you're tired. You don't have enough energy to – "
He was cut off when he felt a smack on his head and he saw Max beside him, smiling sweetly.
"Don't want to break my good habit," she said, before returning to her bedroom.
Alec looked at Jack observantly. "No horns. Who knows? Maybe you won't turn out as mean as your mommy."
"Rise and shine sleepyhead, we've got work," Max said, putting a plate of something he couldn't identify under his nose. He crinkled his nose in disgust.
"What the hell is that supposed to be?" he asked her and Max looked at it.
"Maybe I cooked it too long," she muttered. She held Jack in one arm so she put the plate down on an end table. "Get your ass off the couch and get dressed. We're going to be late, and I still haven't figured out what to do about Jack. He's already had his breakfast, by the way."
Alec looked at her in horror. "You didn't give him whatever the hell is on that plate, did you? My God, he might be poisoned."
Max rolled her eyes. "He had milk, dumbass. Now get moving. After work, we need to go shopping for baby stuff."
"Are we going to make some kind of schedule for who has to watch him or something? Because, I can't have a baby when I'm supposed to be single and loving it. It'll cramp my style."
Max glared at him. "You'll have no lady friends over when Jack's there. Understood?"
Alec gave her a salute. "Yes ma'am."
"Good. Hurry up or we'll be late. I already had my shower, you can have a quick one," she said, moving around with Jack.
Alec went into the bathroom, discarded his clothes and got into the shower. As soon as he turned it on he groaned.
"I knew she would use up all the hot water."
Max and Alec walked into Jam Pony, bickering as usual. Alec held Jack in one arm as Max searched through the bag of baby stuff that Lydecker had left with him.
"Max, it stinks," Alec whined. "Hurry up."
"Hold on," she said as she searched for a diaper.
"Jesus, this smells even worse than that concoction from this morning," Alec said. "I think I'm gonna puke."
"Grow up," she said, and she fished out a diaper. "Here. Go change him."
Alec shoved the diaper away. "No. You change him." She put her hands on her hips and glared. Alec sighed.
"Alright, alright. I'll change him," he said, taking the diaper from her. He was about to walk towards the bathroom before they both noticed that everyone had stopped moving and was watching them intently.
"What are you guys looking at?" Max said in a harsh tone. "Get moving! Bip bip bip!"
People started moving again, muttering to each other and casting glances their way.
"Max and Alec with a baby?" they heard one messenger whisper.
"It's unreal," another said.
Some of the girls looked just about ready to cry.
"He has a kid. Oh my God, he has a kid," they were saying.
Normal wasn't moving a fraction, and for a second Max wondered whether he'd had a heart attack. They walked up to him and Max waved a hand in front of his face.
"Normal? You in there?" she asked. He didn't even blink.
"Normal," Alec said. "Hey. You, uh, you okay?"
Normal snapped out of his stupor. "You and Missy Miss. You and… oh God." He couldn't even form the words.
Alec was starting to get uncomfortable and Max smirked at him.
"Seems like Normal's more hung up on you than I thought," she said, grinning wickedly.
"You two have a… a…" Normal started.
"A baby," Max said. "Yes Normal, we do. Get over it."
"And you said he wasn't your boy," Cindy said, coming up to them with Sketchy.
"You did it with Max?" Sketchy asked, looking at Alec like he was a hero. "You da man!"
Alec grinned and put an arm across Max's shoulders. "Oh, I only had to tame her down first. She's a kitten. Isn't that right honey?"
Max made a biting motion towards his hand and he quickly backed off.
"I'll just go change his diaper," he said, rushing off to leave Max to explain things.
"I always knew you would get it with hot boy," Cindy said. "And that boo's adorable face. He's gonna be a charmer like his daddy."
"Not if I can help it," Max muttered.
"How are you and Golden Boy going to raise a baby?" Normal asked. "Oh, this is a tragic situation indeed. This is all your fault Missy Miss."
"It takes two to tango," Max shot at him and he shut up for a moment.
"You never told us you were pregnant," Sketchy said. "I never saw you start to show."
Max was at loss for words until Cindy saved her.
"She was probably pregnant before she left for her heart transplant and had it during her time away, fool," Cindy said. She sensed that Max had never been pregnant. For one thing, she was sure Max would have told her and for the second, she was fairly sure she never did anything with Alec.
"Oh," Sketchy said. "Cool."
Alec scrunched his face up as he undid Jack's messy diaper.
"What on earth have you been eating?" Alec asked as he threw it into a garbage can. He cleaned him up then put the new diaper under him.
"How does this work?" he asked himself, frustrated.
Lydecker would be laughing his head off. A genetically engineered killing machine, not knowing how to change a diaper.
Unfortunately for Alec, he wasn't paying attention to Jack's screwed up, concentrated face, until he heard a hissing sound.
He groaned as Jack giggled at his masterpiece on Alec's sweater. Alec pulled it off to reveal a shirt underneath.
He sighed and randomly started to pull the tabs this way and that. He smiled when he was finished.
"That was no big deal," he said to himself again. "See. I could do it," he said to Jack.
He stopped as something struck him. I'm losing it; I'm talking to a baby.
That was when Jack decided to start crying.
"Max!" Alec called frantically, ignoring the looks of the other messengers.
"What did you do now?" Max asked, walking up to him and a crying Jack.
"He won't stop crying. I don't know what I did wrong!" Alec said. He looked so lost that Max had to hold in her laughter as she knew that he would be offended by it.
She walked back into the bathroom with Jack, Alec at her heels.
"You do realize this is a men's bathroom," he said.
"Hey buddy, get out of here," Max said to a man who was doing his duty.
He looked up in surprise and left quickly. Max took off Jack's pants and this time she couldn't help it. She burst out laughing hysterically.
"What?" Alec asked crossly.
Max undid the diaper and turned it around.
"You did it backwards, Alec," she said, fixing it. Jack stopped crying immediately.
"How was I supposed to know?" he asked incredulously. "They didn't exactly teach us Babies 101 back at Manticore. We were trained to become assassins, not daddies."
"Keep your voice down," Max scolded. She picked Jack up. "Did your dumb daddy put your diaper on wrong?"
"Hey!" he said indignantly. "At least I tried."
"You did," she conceded. Jack reached out between Max and Alec and poked Alec in the eye.
"Ow!" Alec yelled. He looked at Jack with one eye. "I know I messed up your diaper, but that's not fair."
Max laughed and put Jack down on the floor, and then she got a paper towel and took Alec's hand away from his eye. It was bloodshot.
"Poor baby," she said, dabbing at it. He caught her arm and their eyes locked. Their heads moved forward ever so slowly.
Jack gurgled on the floor, as if he had intentionally poked his dad so that this would happen. He watched with his hands clasped together.
The door to the bathroom swung open and Sketchy walked in. Seeing Max and Alec so close, he turned around muttering, "Sorry guys."
The moment was broken and they pulled back, both looking flushed. Jack sighed, looking unhappy.
"Come on honey," Max said, going straight into the mother mode and picking him up from the ground. Jack's hand reached out toward Alec again but he grinned and moved away. The look on Jack's face made it seem like he was thinking, "Damn."
"Daddy needs his eyes to check out all the ladies out there," Alec said. At his comment Max frowned and deliberately walked towards him so that Jack could poke Alec's other eye. He cried out and Max smiled, looking at her son.
"Good boy," she said, walking out.
A/N: I hope you liked this. More evil baby action coming up resulting in MA moments. LOL Kids are evil beings. Please review and give me feedback!
For everyone waiting for an update of my other MA story, it'll come soon but please bear with me as I have major computer problems. :)
Millions of hugs and kisses to my wonderful reviewers –
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Loisen – Thanks! Yes, you're right. Normally the next generation doesn't have a barcode, but remember Gem's baby was conceived traditionally. Max and Alec's baby was created, thus Renfro encoded a barcode into its genes in order to keep track of him. I hope this answers your question:)
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