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Notes: This is important: Alright, to all those who reviewed and read this story. What type of ending do you want because right now I'm wavering between two. One is the sad cliché, needs a sequel, story, but that means the story will end in the next two chapters or so. The other is the slightly angsty, a little cliché, longer story, but probable happy ending story. I love reading happy ending stories but sometimes it's different when you write them yourself. Anyways thanks for reading and please let me know.
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Alec was worried, really worried. He hadn't seen Max all day. He had looked everywhere for the fiery tempered brunette, but she wasn't at Crash, the Space Needle, Terminal City. Their fearless leader also wasn't answering her house phone, pager, or cell phone. Alec figured he would make one quick stop back to her apartment with OC before he completely panicked and informed Terminal City.
Alec had almost reached her apartment door and was halfway through her building before he fully realized what a bad idea that had been. The pheromones hit him so hard; he almost doubled over from the smell. Vaguely he realized that someone must have opened the door. He took a whiff of the air, inhaling more pheromones, and realized something crucial, the person who had opened the door was male. Before his mind had fully caught up to what his nose was telling him, his body was racing up the doors just in time to deck his friend Biggs in the jaw. They tumbled into the apartment.
Original Cindy stared at them in shock as they got back up in combat positions and prepared to fight. She realized faintly from what Max had told her a long time ago about not being able to go to T.C. while in heat about males mate fighting for females. This apparently happened a lot more when females were in heat. And Max….Max was just standing there letting them fight it out, fascinated by them, and only willing to take the stronger male, the Alpha male, for her mate.
As Alec finished beating Biggs into unconsciousness, still retaining enough of his mind not to kill him, which occasionally happened during mate fights, he made his way over to Max.
Even this far gone into heat he would never force her. Alec loved her, and was finding it even harder to resist because he had already been attracted to her and found her nearly irresistible without the pheromones clouding his judgement, and heightening his desire.
Alec swallowed hard at the look he saw in her eyes; a combination of lust, desire, anticipation, need, primal force, something unfathomable he couldn't recognize at the moment, and a touch of fear. It was the fear (and the touch of ice cold water OC had just splashed on them both, that got through to him enough to speak. He didn't want to, he wanted to have at least one night with her, but not like this. Not when it could mean having he risked losing her in his life forever. He had never fully realised how much he needed her until a few weeks ago. But since then his love had grown stronger, until without her he was a thirsty man without water, a man without air, without life. If he could choose between having her or breathing, and what he felt he needed more, he would choose Max. It was always Max. "I won't hurt you Maxie, I would never hurt you." His voice came out husky with a hint of seduction in it that he couldn't control. All she would have to do was tell him to stop, and even in this state he would.
"I know" her soft voice came out breathy.
"If you don't want this Max you have to walk away first, I can't-" he couldn't continue, I can't turn you away, he silently finished.
"Alec," he looked at her, "do you want me?"
He helplessly looked at her, fear of rejection plain in his eyes, "Yes."
She smiled at him and moved closer, "Good answer" the feisty brunette purred.
It took all his self control, and the iron will Manticore put in him to force the words out, but force them he did, "Max, stop." She looked up at him in vulnerable confusion and a little bit of hurt. He looked straight into her big doe brown eyes "You can't hate me after this, you can't kick me out of your life after this. Things will be different, and I want this I really do, but not if you're going to hate me after this, not if you're going to run. Max, I can't lose you!"
She softly brought her hand up to caress his face, and looking into his eyes, left the truth in them evident to see as she said "I won't hate you, I'll never hate you, I can't." and then she brought her lips to his, and he was gone.
That first gentle kiss was the only gentle one before into a battle of dominance between equals. Their mouths warred with each other even as their hands caressed the other. Alec bit down hard on her lip, and then kissed it better. Max ran her nails down his back then softly caressed the marks. Her legs wrapped around his waist as he carried her into her bedroom, Max's little tank top was already halfway off, and Alec's was ripped right down the center where she had gotten too impatient to undo the buttons. Her hands were already fiddling with his fly when he kicked the door shut.
Original Cindy just stared hard at the door where they had been, he mocha brown eyes wide with shock. "Damn! Well it's about damn time they got their groove on!" Shaking her head she turned back to help the still unconscious Biggs.
Do you guys want the next chapter to be smut or not? I'll warn you, I'm not very good at it, but if you guys want I'll give it a try. Thanks once again!