Thanks to shark DNA and the exorbitant amounts of sleep that Max had gotten in the last couple of days, she had plenty of time to sit and think. At first she'd been confused, but watching Alec sleep had calmed her.
This wasn't some heat related thing, and that made everything easier. Yeah, it put them in a new place, but when Max thought of all the Manticore battles she'd fought, all the turns her life had taken, she decided that she was perfectly capable of dealing with it. This time, she wasn't alone.
And, as Alec finally began to wake up, hesitantly glancing Max's way, she asked the one thing that she hadn't been able to figure out. No matter how many hours she was awake. "How – when did we end up in bed?"
Alec looked startled and still a little sleepy, so Max raised her eyebrow at him. Convinced that, no, he was not still dreaming, Alec looked around, then down, a small frown creasing his forehead. He shrugged, "We're in bed? Hmm, I have no idea."
Laughing slightly, Max nodded, they were definitely in Alec's room, on his bed. And transgenic memory be damned, the details were fuzzy, at least, the 'which room we're in' ones. "Must've been one fun night then," she paused, forcing a straight face, "shame I don't remember it."
For a few seconds, Alec simply stared at Max, jaw slightly slack. Then he sputtered, jumping to a sitting position and nearly falling off the side of the bed in the process, "What – you-"
When she realized that Alec was reasonably close to cursing and hopping out of bed to save his virtue, Max rolled her eyes, "Relax," she admitted, still holding back laughter, "I was joking."
Hand over his heart; Alec glared at Max, "Not funny," he informed her. "You almost gave me a heart attack."
"Maybe," Max drawled lazily, "I'm paying you back for all the grief you give me." Raising an eyebrow to prove that she had a valid point.
Recovering quickly from the early morning shock, and noting that Max teasing him wasn't nearly his worst fear for this conversation, Alec elaborated, "Ahh, but Maxie, if I had a heart attack, I wouldn't be able to function up to speed anymore."
His hands dived under the covers and Max squirmed away, grabbing the pillow from behind her head and batting him with it. "Oh, I think you're functioning just fine," she paused to sink back down so that she was laying on the bed again, "And how bullet wounds manage not to bother you, and yet a little of my teasing is going to leave you a permanently damaged from a heart attack amazes me."
Rolling his eyes and stealing the pillow from Max, Alec shrugged, "It could have been a worst case scenario."
"Pessimist," Max accused, all wide eyes and finger pointing.
At this, Alec couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Yeah, Maxie, I'm the pessimist." After a second, she had to give it to him, and they both shared a small laugh.
Glancing over at the clock, Alec couldn't help but wonder, "You think we've been fired yet for the whole, not showing up to work thing?"
Stretching languidly in the bed, Max offered Alec a cheeky grin, offering sarcastically, "Don't worry, honey, I'm sure you'll come up with some brilliant cover for us," then, seriously, she added, "besides we told Normal we were taking family leave."
Sneering at her teasing, Alec wondered if maybe unleashing the more carefree Max hadn't been the wisest move. Ah well, he figured it would keep him on his toes at least. "I was thinking of getting up, but then I remembered, we have milk and… milk in the fridge. Oh well."
Considering this, Max couldn't help but realize that Alec was right, since they'd never made a shopping trip the night before, there definitely wasn't food in his apartment, and actually getting up and going out seemed a little much. "We could actually get food?"
As if to further reject the idea, Alec snuggled down back in bed, looping one strong arm around Max's shoulders and pulling her down with him, against him. Once they were both cocooned in the blankets, Alec whispered against her ear, "But I don't wanna get up. It's all comfy and warm."
Wrapped tightly in Alec's arms and the blankets, Max couldn't help but agree.