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With Ben In Between

It seemed like decades before Alec received a response, if her actions could be considered a response. She didn't say anything, just slightly dipped her head, looking him straight in the eyes. Taking her small hands into his own, he began to waltz around the balcony.

It was a dream, a fairytale, a scene from a cheesy movie; she was dancing with her prince. At that thought, reality set in, he wasn't her prince; he was her prince's twin brother. Two separate people, and very different people. Once she came back to reality she started to analyze the man in front of her. He looked just like Ben, exactly, but there was a difference. Eyes. Same color and specks, and held locked secrets, but Alec's held something more. Something she never saw in Ben's eyes.

Alec watched her, she didn't say anything, and he wanted her too. He had been wanting to meet her ever since he saw those pictures all those months ago, and still to this night he didn't know why. She was just some girl that was photographed by his brother, but something haunted him. He watched her take him in; did she know who he was?

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Neither of them talked that night, after that one dance, separate people interrupted them. Logan, collecting his date, and his father collecting his son to socialize, still nothing was said.

"Man you need to get over it, you're gonna make yourself go insane." Biggs told his best friend. Alec just sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. He knew Biggs was right, but for some reason he couldn't. "You aren't going to find her, you don't know her name. You have a picture that you found at your brother's place. She was prolly just some girl that did a model spread for him and went on her merry way."

"Cale."

"What?"

"Cale, Logan Cale, that reported fuck, he came and told her it was time to leave that night. He was her date, fuck! She's his girlfriend that he's always bragging about!" Covering his face with both hands, Alec felt like the world's biggest chump. Of course she had a boyfriend, anyone who looked at her would be shocked if she didn't. "I'm so stupid."

"Sometimes I do wonder," Biggs muttered under his breath. Alec just glared at his best friend and threw a piece of wadded paper at him. Biggs just ducked and didn't get hit. "And you're Manticore's finest? You can't even hit me with a lousy piece of paper wad? Tisk, tisk, your slipping." Alec just shook his head and smiled, "Tell ya what. We're in town, lets check out Crash."

"Crash? Is that another Sci-fi based bar where the waitresses are aliens and the drinks look like someone took a green shit?" Biggs just laughed thinking about when they were in Roswell.

"No it's a bar, and quite popular. I'm sure we could find a few hotties to get with while we're here. Maybe they'll show us the town or something else." Biggs just wagged his tongue while smiling.

"Why am I friend's with you again?" Alec asked jokingly.

"I'm the only poor fuck who will deal with your constant mid-mid-mid life crisis'." Biggs responded like it was the most obvious thing the world.

"Really? I thought it was because I took pity on your poor ass." Alec threw back as he got up to leave the table.

"Nope, other way around." Biggs tossed at his retreating back. "Meet ya at 10!" His only response was Alec's middle finger over his shoulder.

"Boo you need a whole night of some heavy ass drinking." Original Cindy looked at her sulking boo lying in her bed. "What happened that night?" Max had come home after the little party with Logan and hadn't been the same since.

"I saw him."

"Him? Him who?"

"Alec."

"Who's Alec? Oh. Ben's Alec?" It clicked.

"Yeah, it was like looking at ghost dressed in military. We danced together, to 'his' song." Max mumbled while playing with her pillow. Cindy walked over to the bed and hugged Max.

"You need to let him go before he takes you with him." Cindy made Max look at her, "What happened was a terrible, terrible accident. Accident! Meaning no one's fault. No one knew that the ice would turn black, and no one knew that he would get out to try and help those people. No one knew! Boo, you have to realize that no matter what you would've done that night, Ben was still going to pull off to the side to help those people, because that was who Ben was." Max didn't say anything. "Now that you've seen Alec, what do you feel?"

"I don't know. At first I felt like a princess dancing with her prince, but then I realized it wasn't Ben."

"What did you feel with Alec?"

"Safe."