If Not Now When Chapter 8: Godzilla Strikes!, a dark angel fanfic

Jade - DA- If Not Now When?

Title: If Not Now When?
Author: Jade
Rating: PG-13 I think a little bit of language
Show: DA
Genre: Angst/Romance
Pairing: M/A ALL the way:D
Type: WIP
Summary: Alec leaves Seattle. How will everyone react, especially Max?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone apart from Storm.

A/N: This is AU as Biggs is alive and well kicking!

A/N 2: Please Read and Review

Mood Music: Staind "So Far Away"

This is my life
Its not what it was before
All these feelings I've shared
And these are my dreams
That I'd never lived before

Somebody shake me
Cause I
I must be sleeping

Now that we're here
So Far Away
All the struggle
We thought was in vain
All in the mistakes
One life contained
They all finally start to go away
Now that we're here, So Far Away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive
I'm not ashamed
To be the person that I am today

These are my words
That I've never said before
I think I'm doing okay
And this is the smile
That I've never shown before

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Chapter 8 - Godzilla Strikes!

1 WEEK LATER

Location : Outside Tavern Motel 0600

Max had been riding around the country for a while now. She was taking advantage of the lack of a fuel shortage, some might say even to the extreme. She was prone to riding for at least 8 hours a day. Riding was like therapy to her, while she rode she could think things through. It calmed and relaxed her. It was just her and her baby against the big bad highway.

After her talk with Storm the feelings she had been pushing down for many months had risen again. If anything they were stronger than before. She had been so tempted to call Alec and tell him to come back home. She knew that TC was his home as much as it was hers but she had made him go away and hadn't seen him for months. She hadn't even heard his voice. She wasn't sure how she'd react if she had heard his voice so she had left the room whenever he called in. Just knowing that he was at the end of the phone line was enough to make her stomach do somersaults. She knew that she had it bad, she just hadn't wanted anyone else to know it. Now that Storm knew all about it she didn't know what was going to happen. Storm wouldn't say anything but boy would she try to make sure that Max did.

The more she had thought about him the more she realised just how much she missed him. She had actually gone as far as dialling his number but she had pressed the little red button before the connection had gone through. That's when she had decided that the best thing to do would be to go away for a little while and think things through. For the sake of her sanity she had decided to leave her cell phone so she would be less likely to give into temptation and phone Alec. With that she had left and now was making the final checks on her Ninja before she began her trip home. Everything looked ok. The tyres could do with some air but she could do that at the next petrol station. As she wiped her hands to get rid of the grease with a scrap of dust sheet she smiled. She had finally decided on doing something she had wanted to do for so long. She had weighed it all up, thought of the pros and cons and in the end came to the decision that she was willing to face the cons when they came her way. Her only wish was that she wasn't too late.

She was making the final adjustments to her Ninja when she heard the voice of someone she hadn't heard for a while. As he talked she realised that his voice still gave her goosebumps.

Meanwhile...
Location : TC Command Centre

"Max called in. She said that she'd be back soon." told Mat to a passing by Storm.

"Thank God!" said Storm with relief smiling at Biggs who was watching her for her reaction.

The note Max had left was still on the Bulletin Board. Storm had kept it as a reminder that Max would indeed return.

Hi guys,
I need to go away for a little while.
I'm taking my baby with me. Will be
back soon. I'll call in tomorrow morning.

Max

Location : Outside Tavern Motel 0605

"452 you look like crap. Not getting enough beauty sleep?" White asked as he walked out of the shadows.

"Awww i didn't know you cared Ames." replied Max sarcastically in an effort to cover up her surprise as she turned around to face him.

"I don't."

"Come now, you don't have to act coy we're between friends." She said as she looked around her at the three other familiars surrounding her.

"Friends?"

"Ooops, my mistake. Don't you just hate it when the wrong word rolls of your tongue? I was meant to say 'you don't need to act coy we're between fiends'." said Max distastefully.

"Oh 452, how your words wound me. Here I thought we were going to do this the easy way. You know, you screaming and begging me to stop hurting you. Hold on a second that is the hard way too. Well I guess to be perfectly correct there is only one way." said White saccharinely, which was damn right scary all by itself.

"Why don't we just cut to the chase and get this bitch started!" Max retorted with a defiant look at White.

"Eloquent as usual I see 452. But who am I to argue. Sure, lets." said White with a glint in his eye.

As Max went into fighting mode ready for combat, she felt a small prick at the side of her neck and then there was darkness.

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She came to at the same place White and his goons had surprised her.

Max made a move to check her body for any damage. When she moved her hands she felt something in her right one. She held it up and found a crumpled piece of paper within it. All it said was,

I'LL BE BACK FOR IT

"For what? What are you gonna come back for White?" said Max into the empty courtyard.

She felt extremely nervous all of a sudden. Why would White leave her once he had her? This was bad. This was very bad.

THE NEXT DAY

Location : Terminal City HQ 1000

"Any news on Max?" Storm asked as she entered the Command Centre where Dix and Luke were on the computers while Mole and Biggs were poring over some old maps in hope of finding better routes they could take with motor vehicles.

"No Storm. She didn't call in today either." replied Dix.

"It's been three days guys. Why wont you let me get a team ready and go look for her?"

"She's just gone to blow off some steam and think things through. You know how she is. The stuff you told her wasn't the kind that the Needle would have fixed. Just give her a few more days."

"Yeah but she's been gone for 10 days Biggs. She called in every day the first week and we've heard nothing for the past three days."

"You don't think Princess can take care of herself!" Mole asked in an attempt to ruffle Storm's feathers.

"Of course she can! But what if something's happened."

"Is Little Stormy feeling responsible?" Mole asked.

"Shut it Godzilla! I have nothing to feel responsible about!"

"Ok hon' calm down. If she doesn't check in tomorrow morning either we'll get a team out looking for her ok?" asked Biggs as he gathered her up into his arms. He knew that Mole had hit the nail on the head, she was feeling responsible for Max's absence. Storm hadn't told him exactly just what the two of them talked about before Max had left but she had said that she may have pushed Max too much too soon.

"Uh-huh" came a muffled reply from underneath Biggs' arms.

"Do you think we should tell Alec?" asked Storm as she lifted up her head from Biggs' chest.

However before Biggs could reply to her question somebody else did.

"Tell Alec what?"

A/N: Dum dum dum! insert evil laughter : P