Some wounds never heal.

Title: Cure for all the questions.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, so don't sue me!

Summary: Alec, Max and OC are sent on a mission to a high school in order to find a cure for the virus, but what will Max find on this all new experience for her?

Pairing: M/A

Chapter 18... (finally)

Four days had passed since Alec's death, almost three days have gone by since Max tried to take her own life.

She still didn't go to the morgue, she hasn't even seen his body… She couldn't… it would only prove that he was really gone, forever and that he wasn't coming back to give her that 'I'm always alright' smirk.

Max was in denial….. She didn't want to face the truth…..

There was only one thing in the apartment that would take her away from the reality…at least for a couple of minutes….

Max headed to her bedroom…to Alec's bedroom looking for his whiskey bottles.

"Alec's whiskey…" Max whispered softly with a small sad smile, remembering the days when she caught Alec drinking that…especially the day that Rachel died…

Now Max knew how much it hurt to lose the one she loved. It didn't just hurt her, it was killing her from the inside, terrorizing her soul.

She slowly took the lid off and emptied the bottle in a few seconds. OC cautiously entered the room and watched Max empty the bottle but couldn't and wouldn't do anything about it, her 'mother hen' behavior was the last thing that Max wanted. Cindy also knew that her boo needed to stay strong.

"Wanna share that with you boo, honey?" OC said softly as she took a sit on the floor next to Max and gave her a comforting hug.

"Of course" came Max's reply as she opened and handed Cindy another bottle.

"Boo what are you gon do now?" OC asked, as she looked as Max with sad lowered to the floor eyes.

"I don't know…..But I don't want to go back to Seattle……not yet."

"It's aiite, we can stay here for as long as you want, but since no ones sponsoring us anymore, we should consider getting new jobs, and getting your life on track"

"I don't want to let go…… I still think that he'd walk through that door like nothing ever happened….."Max whispered and the hot tears rolled down red cheeks…….

"Boo it'll take time…." OC whispered wiping the tears from Max's cheeks

"This pain won't go away…." Max replied as fresh tears formed in her now liquid eyes.

EVANESCENCE-My Immortal

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

The next week was a blur for the loved ones that Alec left behind. Max, Cindy, Dana and Lane drank alcohol during the night and slept during the day. None of them accepting what happened, yet not ready to face the reality and ignoring the calls from the hospital.

They were soldiers consumed by the pain and grief…. Too paralysed to move on with their lives with out Alec.

"We gotta stop living our lives like this, we have to get our shit together, pretty boy wouldn't want us to mop around like this…." Cindy whispered softly.

"You're right……me and Lane should go home and give ya'll some space, sides you and Max should get some proper sleep"

"Ok" was all that Max said as she climbed on the bed and was fast asleep.

Cindy walked the couple to the door and they arranged to check up on Max the following day.

Cindy walked into Max's room and pulled a blanket over Max's sleeping form and picked up the five empty bottles the liquor of which was mostly consumed by Max and Lane off the floor and walked to the kitchen.

(Max dreaming)

It was dark and she couldn't even see her hands that were stretched in front of her looking out for any obstacles…even though Max had no idea where she was she started walking forward until she almost walked over something…or maybe someone?

Wait what is this? Max questioned herself….. as the dream was a bit weird….it seemed a little bit tooo real.

She dropped to her knees, suddenly there was a dull light hardly allowing her to see……..

"ALEC" Max screamed as she slid closer to him, his shirt soaked in blood. Max looked around only nownow noticing that there was water….dirty water, suddenly she realised they were in a sewer.

"Alec you're going to be fine…." Max whispered with fear corrupting her as her consciences was playing cruel games with her, letting her relive her lover's death.

"Maxie I'm alright" Alec replied with a reassuring smirk.

"Are you nuts? Your bleeding, you were shot, we need to get you to the hospital before it's too late"

"Maxie I'm fine…."

"No, you're not fine!…..you need medical attention or….you will die ……again" Max whispered and looked at Alec giving him a pleading look almost begging him to listen to her.

"Max seriously…look…" Alec replied and lifted his shirt revealing a tiny scar from a bullet, which by the looks of it was shot point blank aimed at his heart. Then he parted a small area of hair above his left eye, which looked like it was recently shaved off. Max took a step towards him to see it better, and yet she saw another fresh scar, which just started healing.

"But, but…..you were just bleeding……. I don't understand…." Max whispered searching for the answer in his beautiful hazel eyes.

"Wounds heal Maxie…. But in our case they just heal much faster." He replied as he got up and started walking.

"Wait….where are you going?" Max yelled as she ran u to him and grabbed his arm too afraid to let him go.

"Back to where I belong" he said with a small smile.

"Does this mean you're dead?" Max asked looking up into his eyes.

"No Maxie, I'm very much alive"

"Don't walk away… let me stay with you here… forever."

"For that to happen Maxie, you'll have to find me first…." He replied as he disappeared into the darkness, his last words echoing.

"ALEC…. DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME AGAIN! " Max screamed on top of her lungs, but it was pointless, he didn't come back.

(End of Dream)

"Boo wake up…" OC repeated over and over again gently shaking Max, trying to stop her nightmares.

Max's eyes suddenly were wide open, as if she wasn't sleeping a minute ago.

"He's alive" Max said and she repeated that over ten times as she started getting dressed.

"Boo….who's alive?" Cindy asked, confused by what Max was whispering and what she was doing.

"Alec" was the only thing that Max said.

"Max we've been through this…. He's dead, you gotta accept that horrible truth."

"How do you know that…. none of us have actually seen the body…."

"No but we've all heard what the doctors have told us…"

"Alec's very much alive, he survived…the wounds healed…Look Cindy I'm not asking you to believe me, I'm asking you not to stop me…not now…" Max said as she walked out of the door leaving Cindy lost in her thoughts, it wasn't long until she as well followed Max thought the door.

"Boo wait up!"

"Hun where are you going in the middle of the night? The morgue is closed" Cindy asked as she ran to the lift where Max was waiting.

"I'm not going to the morgue just yet, I want to see lane and Dana first." Max replies as the elevator's doors opened and the two of them stepped in.

(Earlier that day)

"It's almost unbelievable now fast you recovered. The bandages were taken of within five days" the doctor said still not believing his patients fast recovery as he walked into his office where a young man was sitting

"Sir could you please tell me how I got shot?" came the young mans question after all the silence.

"Apparently you were a witness to some crime, you and your wife drove all the way to Atlanta from New York to get away from the danger…But you were probably followed….Unfortunately your wife wasn't as lucky as you…. she didn't make it through the operations." The Doctor said with sympathy as he took a sit at his desk.

"I…don't remember having a wife…. I doubt that I've ever been to New York… I don't remember anything…." The man said and looked down with deep sadness in his hazel eyes.

"The amnesia was expected, but the memories will come back…in time"

"What if they never do?"

"I'm sorry son, but in that case nothing can be done, you'll just have to make new ones…."

"What do I do now? Do I have a family?"

"No one came forward but the receptionists called up a few organisations and your wife's family. As we found out your parents died in a car accident when you were 18 that was the only family that you had, your wife's relatives are in Australia, and they won't pick up her body as there was a dispute over her marrying you."

"Ohh…." Was all that man could say.

"There's a package for you that came today with the new Ids that the photos were taken for last week." the doctor said as he handed him a big yellow envelope.

The young man opened the envelope, which contained a new passport of Alexander Nelson with a photo of a young male in his early twenties with sparkling hazel eyes with a hint of gold. In the same envelope also was a driver's licence and a new bank cark with a letter from the bank telling him to come into their nearest bank branch to set up new password for his trust fund.

"So this is it?"

"No there are also a few things that were on you when you were brought into the hospital" the doctor said as he handed him a metal box, which contained a heart-shaped white gold pendant with a purple stone and a chain from the same white gold. The young man reached into the box and took out the necklace and just gazed at it somewhat lost in thoughts.

"Must've been your wife's"

"Probably… I don't know"

There were also a couple of hundred dollar notes. Which the man put in his pocket. And looked at the Doctor.

"Thanks Doc, for everything." The man said.

"Just make sure you don't end up here again…take care" Came a reply and the young man turned on his heel with a small smile and walked out of the office.

He stood out side of the hospital wondering where he should go now… After a few minutes he took a deep breath and started walking forward not looking back…….

A/N

I know it's been a long time, and I know ya'll think I've given up……Truth is I almost have….its been ages since I last updated, but every time I wrote the damn 18th chapter and was bout to post it, I just suddenly disliked it, so I had to write another one...so aften four attemptsI finally wrote this one...i hope ya'll like it...

Pliz review and let me know what you think

p.s. i know it doesnt take that long to pick up a body n all...i just needed some time for Alec...I mean Alexander to recover... hope ya'll understand.