Alec quickly turned his eyes back to the silent, dark haired beauty standing at the window. "Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" she responded, never turning to face him. "That music! What do you mean 'hear what'? You can't honestly stand here and tell me that you don't hear anything," Alec said, his annoyance getting the best of him. "Well then why did you ask if I can hear it?" was her biting reply. She has a sharp tongue. I like that, Alec thought to himself, his fear momentarily forgotten as he focused on the small patches of pale flesh that was visible through her long, dark hair.
But when the piano suddenly stopped, Alec's mind was quickly brought back to the situation and he felt the insistent, nagging little voice of panic. He was also tempted to ask the girl where they were again, but he could already hear her mysterious response in his head. Fucking great, he thought. I am trapped in God knows where and the only person that could possibly tell me where I am -the only person period, he corrected- is a fucking weirdo. A fucking sexy weirdo, but a weirdo nonetheless and sexy wasn't going to get him out of here so what the hell use for it did he have.
"Alright, can you at least tell me your name?" Alec was really too concerned with getting home at the moment to honestly care, but he figured he would at least feel better if you had something to call her other than 'the girl' or 'popsicle'. Not that she looked like one or anything, she just kinda reminded him of one. She glared at him icily as she observed his sardonic smirk. This of course, only made it worse, and for a moment Alec got the impression that she was preparing to smack him. But after a long, hard, menacing look that almost made him beg for mercy, she finally answered him. "Max", was her cool reply. Definately not what Alec was expecting.
"Max? You're name is Max?" he questioned with slightly more skepticism in his voice than he had intended. "What, you don't believe me?" Alec regarded her question carefully. "I didn't say that. It's just not the kind of name I was expecting is all." Alec stared over her carefully and took in everything about her that he could. The way her skin wasn't nearly as pale as he had first thought. Another illusion maybe? And the way the long dirty-white gown she was wearing hung ever so slightly off her shoulders. The way that even though the gown was pristine, it was quite lacerated in a few choice places. Mainly around the long, Victorian style train that had no doubt been dragged across the floor one too many times. And from the looks of it, maybe even through the mud once or twice.
But like the castle, it held a wondrous touch of old world grandeur and the pearl buttoned, drop down bodice only added to it's tattered yet exquisite beauty. The last thing that he noticed was oddly the first thing that he had noticed when he first laid eyes on her in the glass prison. As Alec reached out to touch the small icicles forming on her eyelashes, she backed away from him in fear. "Hey, I'm not gonna hurt 'ya," he reassured with a gentleness that he had never felt before.
But Max only scoffed at him. "As if you could," she said, slightly rolling her eyes. Okay, that was it. "What the fuck is your problem? For the last fifteen minutes all that you have been doing is ignoring my questions. Sure it pissed me off but I guess I just figured that you don't like to talk much. But you have obviously proven me wrong because now you won't shut the hell up. Honestly, does every word you say have to sound so damn condescending?"
"Does every word you say have to sound so damn arrogant? And did it ever occur to you that the reason I don't want to answer you is because you ask too many damn questions?"
"Arrogant? What the hell have I done to come off as arrogant? No you know what, don't answer that. I don't need your bullshit. All that I want to do is get the hell out of here. And if you would stop your crap and actually say something useful for once, I might be able to do that!"
"Look, I already told you. There is no way out!"
"What the hell do you mean by that? There has to be a way out!
"So not only are you arrogant, you are also incredibly stupid. And would you stop with all the damn questions already?" Just as Alec opened his mouth with a retort, he heard a low growling coming from the doorway just beyond where Max now stood. In that moment, Alec's instincts took over and he reached out to push Max behind him. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" Alec ignored her this time as he moved his eyes towards the direction the growling was coming from.
There stood a an ivory white wolf, his mouth curled into a low growl as he stared back at Alec and prepared to attack.