Title: Just an Assignment?
Summary: AU. Max has to work with Alec on a school project will it lead to a new relationship or the total opposite? MA
A/N: Okay sorry for the long update wait, but I just started school again…and they are already giving out homework! Thank you to Honeyx5452 for beta-ing this story!
Chapter 4 – My meeting place
It had been four years since Max had left Seattle and now she had to go back, for a meeting with an old friend. The day Alec had actually left he'd dropped by and made her promise him something. She had to do it; she knew he was asking her for the best, so Manticore wouldn't get her. She sat on the Space needle she had to meet this person soon and all she could think about was him, being back in Seattle brought back lots of painful memories.
Flash back
There was a knock at the door, and it was Thursday. 'What If it's them, oh, I've put my family in danger. Damn' fear took over her as she ran down the stairs shouting,
"I'll get it!" she ran through the kitchen, the living room and into the hallway. She took deep breaths trying her best to clam herself down. 'They may not know me, Alec could have covered for me…doubt it…here goes.' She thought. She opened the door swiftly ready to attack them if it was them, but to her surprise it wasn't. 'Alec?'
"Alec? What the hell are you doing here?" she shouted, loudly.
"Max let me talk okay…?"He saw her shift on her feet and waved her hand for him to go on. "Okay…I really, really need you to go, I can tell them that you got away or maybe even that I killed you. But you need to leave, please max." she looked at him unconvinced and tried to shut the door but he stepped inside before she could.
"Do you want to go back there? You wanna live there again; I thought you got out to avoid them, yet your practically throwing yourself into their trap! You need to go, please Max, please promise me…" he begged with his eyes. She moved him out of the way, so he was facing the door she opened it and pushed him out.
"Alec, I'm NOT going anywhere. I didn't leave for Zack and I sure as hell won't leave for you!" she shouted at him and shoved him out the way some more. Truth is she knew she had to leave but she didn't want him to know she was going. He was Manticore how could she trust him? But she could and that was what was getting to her.
"What's stopping you from leaving now max?" he asked gently. She looked up at him, in his green eyes, and just stared.
End of Flashback
She started into the darkness that was before her, just thinking about her past.
XxX
Alec walked around the piano, where Rachel was sat playing, not really paying any attention to her sat on the stool. His mind was on Max.
The lesson was over and Alec and Rachel walked slowly into the huge hall they she had. Cream laminate flooring, and walls badge to match it. A nice big family portrait hung on the wall, the edging was leaf gold or so it looked like it, almost facing the stairs; in there was Rachel, her father and her mother, Rachel now wore the necklace that was around her mother neck at the time of the photograph.
"Hey…um…I was wondering If you wanted to…come to dinner tonight?" she stuttered.
"Really I would love to," he stopped mid sentence remembering what day it was.
Flashback
He and Max were sat outside Crash on the steps, seeing as they weren't allowed in at fifteen.
"Max, I'm sorry…I didn't know…I…" he said. Max looked up from her hands,
"It's okay…I…So when are we going to meet again?" she interrupted him. They got up and started walking no real destination.
"Well I have a deep cover mission coming up in a couple of years…in Seattle…but I want you to move just in case they come to see you for themselves. Then you could start a nice life somewhere else, get a good job then come here in a couple years time when we meet." He looked at her, hopefully.
"How do I know when to come?"
"I'll call you…I'll look in a phone book or something…"
"I won't be able to afford a house Alec" she said, the plan was turning into nothing.
"You will when you fence something worth lots…like that…" he said pointing to the Egyptian bass in the highest apartment. They stood looking at it in awe.
End of Flashback
"But tonight's not the best time…I'm sorry." He finally finished he was smiling now the memory of him and Max as kids always did that to him. Rachel looked at him disappointed but if he had plans already…
"Oh, okay well maybe some other time then?" she said.
"Yeah sure" he said starting to walk away, she watched him leave.
XxX
Max stood up from her place on the space needle it was almost time to get to this meeting place. She took one last look at the city she missed this place so much! So much had changed in so little time, she couldn't believe it. It was okay things were getting better a few years after the pulse but looking at it now seeing all the abandoned buildings the dirt it looked worse than before. Maybe that's just because she'd lived in a place where it looked posh and clean all the time for the past three years.
She wondered what Alec was doing now.
Okay I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I possibly can!