Title: The Bachelor
Rating: PG-13 (For Now)
Summary: Alec is the Bachelor and Max is one of the 25 women. The Challenge Specs are posted here. Enjoy!
Genre: Romance, Humor and Drama
Pairings: Max/Alec, Original Characters/Alec
Time Frame: On my own timeline, the Pulse never happened, Max was never captured, there was no virus, Max and Logan broke up, and the Xs (including Alec, Biggs and Cece) were sent out into the real world (Alec and Company landed in L.A.)
Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: Okay, ask yourself this: IF I owned Dark Angel, would I be writing crappy fanfiction? Would Logan and Max be together? Would the show be canceled?
Author's Note: Someone posted a challenge and I happened to refuse due to lack of time. Then I saw the first episode of this Season of the Bachelor and reread the challenge and accepted. Enjoy!
The Bachelor Episode 2:
Individual Date
~*~*~*~
"Oh my god! It's here!" the girls scrambled to reach the newest date box before another girl got it or a flaming fly did. Alex, meanwhile, was unfortunately in the middle of this stampede. He was run over by desperate women, and now all that remains is a bloody suit on the floor. No one cared.
"And the lucky girl is..." Angela began, before Holly had violently ripped it out of her hands. "Riley!? What about me?" she demanded before chucking the crumpled paper at the blushing redhead.
"Wow! Our own special dinner and dinner show!!" Riley exclaimed.
"What are you going to see?" Kristy asked.
"I dunno.. doesn't say!"
~*~*~*~
Alec paced nervously back and forth, this taking quite a while since his room was rather large and he had to go around the big screen TV and other niceties. For once, he wasn't glued to it, instead wondering if he'd made the right decision. Riley hadn't been the only girl he'd had a connection with, but she was his only date tonight. He couldn't help but wonder what the other women were doing and praying that he hadn't made a huge mistake by not choosing someone like Max...
~*~*~*~
"Max didn't get it... Who does that boy think he is?" Original Cindy demanded of the screen. Sketchy shrugged, glad she had yet to mention his last weeks question about Max's motorcycle. He wasn't so great at lying so he was hoping he wouldn't have to, before or after his plan.
~*~*~*~
"So, what are we gonna see?" Riley asked again.
"You'll see.." Alec just smiled mischievously.
~*~*~*~
"I cannot believe Riley got it! He was totally into me! I bet the producers planned this." Holly ranted to the other girls.
"Probably." Angela agreed, strumming her guitar and trying to write a song for Alec without the constant interruptions.
~*~*~*~
"Wow.. this is so.."
"I know.."
"It's..."
"Great..."
Alec stared, transfixed on the Monster Truck Rally before them, enjoying the whole experience and dumbfounded as to why the Producers said this was a bad idea. This was great!
"Yeah.." Riley said, uncomfortable, but not wanting to particularly insult what seemed to be his favorite sport.. ow, that one looked painful...
~*~*~*~
"And it was so terrible, everyone was in a bikini and I was in a one piece and.." Sarah sobbed while Max tried to comfort her, forcing away the disturbing thought of Alec in a bikini.
~*~*~*~
"So.. why'd you sign up?" Tanya asked, trying to initiate a conversation.
"I was giving out the ad on the radio and then I thought, I could do this! Unlike one of those 'If you're an employee of the company you can't compete for a million dollars' things..." Terri said.
"My mom.." another began.
~*~*~*~
"That was great, huh?" Alec asked for the fiftieth time.
"Yeah.. so why'd you decide to become the Bachelor?" Riley said, trying to steer the conversation away from anything to do with large vehicles.
"Well, I.. did you hear something?" with his superior hearing, Alec detected a movement in a nearby bush and froze, not wanting to be mobbed or to reveal his transgenicness. Which, in his quickly moving mind, was now declared an official word.
~*~*~*~
"I hate commercials! I have to know what happens! Besides, none of these girls are right for him. I love Monster Truck Rallies!"
"Sure ya' do Cece..."
~*~*~*~
Alec focused on the bushes, using his binocular vision to discover.. a pair of binoculars? He strode towards the bush in question, noting the quick disappearance of the binoculars. He reached down and grabbed...
"Shelly?" he said incredulously, dropping her like a hot ember.
~*~*~*~
"Bathroom!" Sketchy called as he left OC immersed in the drama playing out onscreen. Hopefully she wouldn't notice his absence for a while, he thought as he slipped out of Crash - their weekly meeting place to watch the Bachelor.
~*~*~*~
"Hi Alec! I saw you at the monster truck rally, wasn't it really cool? And I just happened to be out here Bird Watching! Look, a spotted owl!" Shelly babbled, flinging her arms around to make her point. Wary, Alec took a few steps back.
"You were stalking us!" Riley accused.
"Well, not you!" Shelly protested, repulsed, which changed in a split second to love when she looked at Alec. Somewhere a recorded "Ooooh" as in "OOooh DIS!" was played, and the camera zooms in on Riley's face, the Shelly's, the Alec's.
~*~*~*~
"This is an outrage! That girl is insane! Have security go get her! NOW!" ranted the director from some place behind the scenes that nobody who is unworthy shall ever lay eyes upon. "Then.. bring her to me. I want her to keep this up.. I love drama."
As several men marched out of the mystical place, he sighed, reveling in the chaos. The last man left with a salute and a "Yes sir, Mr. Rayne, sir!"
~*~*~*~
Sketchy chuckled to himself as he rolled the Ninja out of Max and OC's apartment, basking in his 'genius'. All he needed was to ride it to Crash, get a Honey, and then get lucky. Somewhere in there fitted the return of the bike, but as he revved it up, it just didn't seem that important anymore...
~*~*~*~
"What's happening?!" shrieked Shelly as she was dragged away.
"Ma'am, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law-"
"NOOOO!!! HE'S MY SOULMATE! STOP! STOP!!!
~*~*~*~
"Ma'am I assure you, you have no grounds to sue in this case." Came a dignified British voice through the phone.
"Look, I know my rights! I demand you to be my lawyer!" the blonde demanded.
"But this will not apply." He tried to explain.
"Make it apply!"
"Look, you cannot sue Chloride for inventing such a powerful teeth cleaning concoction simply because a user of this product caused an insect to ignite and proceed to give you a third degree burn!"
"I demand-" Kristy yelled into the phone, to be cut off by the click of the disconnection on the other end.
Author's Follow-up: To address some reader's Concerns, whom I thank so much for their feedback and give them a hot chocolate and a response:
Ting, Lorraine, Gamegirl452 - I know it's Max/Alec and believe me, I wouldn't have it any other way. As for the lack of concentration on Max, I find it impossible to just have Alec not choose a girl without any reason at all, and therefore wish that the Party Chapter could have been longer, with more than just snippets of conversations. Plus, I do like my original characters and it is so much fun to torture you guys. There will be more devoted to Max and Max/Alec soon, but I still have 15 girls to develop enough to be kept or kicked. Don't worry, soon there will only be 6. Also, please vote, should I keep Sarah, Angela, or Trisha? The other 5 are already decided.
Sockbrain - Thanks for your viewpoint! (Translated: thanks for it but I don't agree) I do understand where you're coming from and let me explain. I had never planned to write it that way, I swear, but the first Meeting of the girls was gonna be far too dull so I came up with this. Now, little plots are developing and it's fun to include things like the skier - that cracked me up. Also, I can include and explain changes in the world - like what happened with Logan, Manticore, why Cece loves Alec, etc. I do want to elaborate on Cece and get her to be less one dimensional, possibly even fall in love with Biggs! Should I? You decide! Or my muse may force me to...
Lorraine - Yeah, a lot of this is spontaneous, and I'm starting to like how it's turning out. I have several specific ideas, especially including Max, as well as the overarching plot (not just of the show) but for things like the fly and the skier, I have free reign! Unless it's crap and in that case you should all shove it down my throat until it gets better. Thanks for all your comments; I'll try to regard their feelings more too!
So.. vote on this:
Should Biggs and Cece get together?
Which girl should I keep, Sarah, Angela or Trisha?
Also, anyone notice a lil' Buffy thang I slipped in? Hehehe...