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:
Group Date 2
Alex stumbles on to the screen, left arm in a sling, a knee brace on his right leg and heavily bruised elsewhere. He forces a smile, revealing the loss of teeth. Has he suddenly taken up Hockey? No. It was merely a day or two that the 'Incident' occurred, and he will take extreme measures to prevent a repetition.
~*~*~*~
"Bring her down!" the man calls, leaning over the edge of the hovering helicopter. Carefully Alex stretches out further and aims a box towards the front door of the girl's mansion. He releases it and signals for the helicopter to take off. The sudden movement tears his grip away and he flails for an eternity before tumbling out after the Date Box.
~*~*~*~
"Okay, Okay! We have... Amy, Holly, Kelly, Tanya, Tori, Angela and Max!" Kristy announces perkily to the awaiting women. Most are impatient, already aware of the fact that this group date is theirs, but crave the knowledge of where they're going.
Kristy snorted after she finished reading. "Have fun camping!"
"Hell no! Camping??" Holly protested, loud enough to wake the dead.
And so it did...
"Uhg.. my head..." Alex moaned.
~*~*~*~
As seven women trekked after one handsome, debatably single man, millions of people watched. One in particular was scurrying through the underbrush with binoculars.
"Time to set up camp!" he called, and most of the girls miled around, unsure of what to do exactly. Amy and Max sighed their incompetence and helped Alec erect the tent. Tori read the instructions for it, easily understanding the Spanish, French and Japanese translations but not the technical language.
Holly pushed her way into the group of Alec, Amy and Max, shoving Max away and trying to help, actually causing the tent to topple. "My Bad!" she called and pushed Amy away to 'accidentally' bump into Alec while he tried to pick up the abused tent.
~*~*~*~
Original Cindy wondered where the hell Sketchy was now.. he was only in the bathroom, right? She'd go find out.. hey! That bitch had just knocked her Boo outta the way! If looks could kill.. the TV would be dead by far.
~*~*~*~
"Hey, Holly, why don't you help some one with the firewood?" Alec suggested.
"How about.. you?"
"No.. I gotta fix the tent. You go with Max." he explained, vainly trying to get the plastic and fabric to bend to his will.
~*~*~*~
"Bip, bip, BIP! C'mon, where the hell are my lazy, underpaid workers? These packages won't deliver themselves!" Normal shouted to the empty Jam Pony.
"Hey.. is that Max on the TV?"
~*~*~*~
"You wanna look for dry pieces so they'll burn, of different sizes, okay?"
"This is so boring.. look, you get firewood.. I like not. Kay?" she said, not asking at all.
"You can't just-"
"Look, if I want advice, I'll ask for it. Right now I'm trying to get a rose and getting dirty will NOT help."
Max growled inside, but quickly covered it with a humoring smile, already scheming.
~*~*~*~
"This is a streaming freedom video. The cable hack will last exactly 60 seconds, not a millisecond more or less, and cannot be traced, cannot be stopped and is the only free voice left in this city. Currently on today's lasts evil - The Bachelor. His evil scheme for dating multiple women at once and publishing these poor victims of his charm on TV has gone on long enough! It must be stopped!!!"
~*~*~*~
"So.. what's it like being a carpenter?"
"Sawdusty."
~*~*~*~
"Wow, these girls are all SO stupid and SO annoying and GAWD I hate them all and WHEN is Alec coming home and ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?"
"Nope!" he said jollily.
~*~*~*~
Max disappeared around a large tree, easily leaving Holly behind.
"Hey, wait up! HEY!!" She called, jogging after the direction Max had gone, not noticing the large mud patch directly in her path.
~*~*~*~
Sketchy determined that he was rather... misplaced. He wasn't sure what had gone wrong... Alcohol + Motorcycle = Cool. Hey.. it worked in the movies!
~*~*~*~
"OH MY GAWD!!! EWWW EEW! GET IT OFF! GET ME OUT! HELP!!!" Shrieked Holly as she waved her arms frantically and the mud sucked on her clothes. Max stood, smirking as she watched, just out of Holly's sight..
~*~*~*~
"This is just so traumatic.. he'd never go off a cliff like that.." cried the skiers wife. "I don't know what happened.. we have FIVE CHILDREN!! Who will.." she sobbed, "who will be their father.. now?"
~*~*~*~
"It's alright Holly... just sit by the fire and you'll get dry.." urged Alec as he tried to calm the hysterical girl.
"Yeah.. Just think of it of it as your own mud bath!" Max said cheerfully. Alec grinned and slipped a muscular arm around her, earning a smile from the X5 and a subtle glare from Holly. Not directed at him and not when he was looking of course.
~*~*~*~
Logan scowled at the screen. That.. guy... all cuddly with HIS girl! Something MUST be done. Max deserved better! Could Alec hack into government facilities in weeks? Could he do a 180 in a wheelchair? NO!
~*~*~*~
"According to this Camping Guide, paper is highly flammable..." Tori said, peering at a book and then at the small fire.
"Great." Said Holly boredly, snatching the book and tossing it into the fire, leaving the poor scientist agape.
~*~*~*~
Why was he surrounded by trees? Or was it one tree and simply Sketchy's vision acting up. Or.. an air freshener like in that joke about the blonde.. wait.. he was on a motorcycle! He'd better avoid that then... he thought as he swerved to avoid yet another trunk.
~*~*~*~
"We are the champions.." sang Angela, ignoring the odd looks.
"You'd sing that after a victory.. which we haven't had.." explained Tanya patiently, as she would with any child. The singing did not cease and the teacher felt the urge to send her to the corner for a timeout.
Max and Alec's ears perked up as they detected a noise.. a faint rumbling, northwest and moving towards them.
~*~*~*~
"See how stupid they are? Who sings 'We are the Champions?!?"
"Hey! Queen's a damn good musician!" defended Biggs as he began to hum "Bicycle"...
~*~*~*~
"That sounds like..." began Alec and Sketchy veered crazily into their clearing, stopping just short of the campers.
"What the HELL?! That's my BIKE!" shouted Max as she stomped over to the swaying driver and yanked his (hers) helmet off. "SKETCHY!?!"
~*~*~*~
"I KNEW that boy was up to something!" Original Cindy declared.
~*~*~*~
"..You know him?" Alec asked incredulously, staring rather enviously at Max's bike..
"Unfortunately." Max pulled out the kickstand and yanked Sketchy off, hoping to shake him out of his drunken state. Being drunk made him stupid...er.
~*~*~*~
Normal stared, enraptured by the beauty on screen. Man... that Alec...
~*~*~*~
"Hey Max..." he mumbled, seeing two of her. "That's some bike ya got there.." he jerked in terror as the situation it him full force and he turned to run, screaming, "DON'T HANG ME OUT A WINDOW!!! PLEASE MAX!"
Alec raised his eyebrows in appreciation at Sketchy's allusion and Max's easy capture of the man. He was shaking and begging for forgiveness. With a glare, she tossed him to the side and began to inspect her Ninja, cooing to her baby.
Author's Follow-up: Well.. I'm not at my best but I'm forcing myself to update.. I know I'm still about 5 chapters behind with at least 3 to be added to that after tonight. Anyways.. yah.
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