Forget-Me-Not
Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel, as much as I would love to...
A/N: I am sorry I kinda lost focus on the story but I am back. I hope you like.
Chapter Four
Max groggily lifted her head 'what the hell happened?' She let her head fall back down to the pillow and closed her eyes. That was when she felt the strong arms around her waist and the warm breath on her neck. Slowly Max slid her fingers to the sleeping form and felt the human flesh. Her eyes widened at her recent discovery, and frantically she pried the arms off her. Max sat on the edge of the bed only to see the familiar sandy blonde hair.
"Alec?" Max gasped. 'Ok now I am freaked! What the hell happened?'
"Mmm..." Alec covered his head with his pillow. Max ripped it from his grasp and hit him over the head.
"Alec, what the hell do you think you're doing?" he finally opened his eyes with an equally surprised look, and jumped up. Clad in boxer shorts.
"Max? Uh...? I... What...? I don't know." Alec scratched the back of his neck in his still half-dazed state of consciousness.
"You don't know?" she blurted.
"Am I supposed to?" he asked clearly confused.
"Well... yeah... so you don't remember anything?"
"No... last I remember we were drinking beer... and danced a couple times-I think... why do you?"
"No... but I'm really sore" Max rubbed her raw wrists and looked down to see the bloody mess. Alec noticed her gaze drift as she quickly hid them.
"What happened?" he slid across the bed and grabbed her wrist in his hand.
"Nothing" Max pulled away.
"Max" Alec growled.
"I don't remember!" he waited for her to say something more. "Well I've been getting strange marks like this, and bruises for weeks... I just wake up without the memories of the day before... I kinda thought it was my imagination or something..."
Alec sat on the side of her bed in thought. "Maybe we should leave Max..."
"Maybe... or maybe we should just beat the mother-fucker who's doing this..." Alec couldn't suppress a grin. "What?" she snapped in horror.
"Nothing"
"Alec what's the shit-ass grin for?" she let a smile slip herself.
"Nothing Max" his eyes slid down her curves. She wore a pair of old boxer shorts and a tank top.
"Alec!" she slapped his arm, obviously embarrassed.
"What?" he played stupid.
"You were checking me out...! Don't do that!" she blushed.
"So what are your friends gonna say when I walk outta your room Maxie?"
Max rolled her eyes enthusiastically. "Nothing, if they know what's best for them." Alec once again failed to suppress his smug grin. "What? It's not like anything happened. Sides' you shouldn't be gettin' all cocky about it. You don't even remember coming home" she accused.
"But I do remember dancing with you last night Maxie... and if I recall those moves were pretty-pro." Alec began to stand up when he felt it. The sharp burning pain coming from his side.
Max saw him wince in pain and for the first time noticed the wound on his side. "Alec? You ok? What's this?"
"I don't know, don't worry just a scrape?"
"More like a stab wound. Just sit down, I'll get the first-aid kit." Max hastily pushed the man back on the bed.
"No I'm ok Maxie" he insisted while attempting to stand up.
"No you aren't! Now sit down and shut the hell up" reluctantly he sat down and listened to the demanding woman.
Max returned in the room with the plastic kit. Alec watched as she pulled out anti-septic, gauze, scissors and medical tape.
"I don't think it need stitches" Max gently cleaned up the bloody mess. He breathed in sharply at the pain of the alcohol making contact with the cut. "Sorry" she whispered apologetically and glanced toward his face.
"It's ok Max... Ouch! Has anyone told you how ungentle you are?"
"Shut-up you big baby. You deserve it anyways, you probably got my bed all bloodied up." Alec knew she was playing with him, but still felt a bit gu.
She quickly finished taping the gauze in place. Her fingers lingered over the spot for a few moments longer than necessary, before she realized what she was thinking, and doing and jerked her fingers away.
Alec looked at her puzzlingly. Max looked away and flew to her feet grabbing a towel that hung over her closet door.
"I'm gonna take a shower, make yourself at home" she said and swiftly slid out the door.
She hadn't actually planned on taking a shower, but the dirty thoughts and yearnings were causing a one-end tension with that man. Really this whole thing was getting on her nerves. A thought ran through her head as she as she finished shaving. 'What if he's talking to Codi?' her big green-eyed monster appeared as she stumbled out of the shower and got dressed.
Max came down stairs to find Codi, Brandy and Alec sitting at the old round table. She joined them after pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Soo you are taken already?" Codi giggled. Max knew it. Alec would be sitting down here talking to the one ordinary who could flirt past a security guard with the bat of her goddamn stupid eyelashes.
Brandy and Max nodded feverishly to Alec making him respond in a similar way. Really Max was just being protective, but it also had much to do with the fact that Codi had screwy break-ups that often resulted in men leaving town completely.
"Yeah actually I am" Alec coughed.
"I knew it!" Codi giggled again. "So where'd you and Max meet then?"
"Actually funny story..." Alec started.
"We went to boarding school together" Max interrupted Alec.
"Well I knew you two were together... I mean so obvious!" she squealed. Alec glanced at Max's expression.
"What!" Max nearly shouted. "Me? Alec? What are you on sweetheart?" he watched amused at her sudden outburst, but didn't say anything. He wasn't gonna come to her rescue just yet... this was funny.
"Yeah I can totally tell! Also the sleeping together was like a dead-give-away! It's about time! I mean you should've seen Max before. She turned down like every guy here, it was so obvious that it was because she loved someone else, right Brandy?" Max glowered toward the red-headed woman, who had barely said a word all morning.
"Uh un you got it all wrong Codi. We came home piss-ass-drunk and he passed out on my bed! End of story!"
"Whatever you say suga" Brandy chirped. "We believe you" She added monotonously.
"Uhg!" Max sent a glare Alec's way and headed out the back door. Alec excused himself and followed with a blink of the eye. Leaving Brandy and Codi to share a knowing look.
"What's wrong Maxie?" he smiled idly.
"What's wrong? Alec I'll tell you what's wrong! They think we're some kind of item, no thanks to you! and..."
"And what?" Alec egged on.
"And you all flirty and smiles with my friends" Max threw her hands up in exasperation.
"Since when do you care who I flirt with?"
"Since I moved here. Alec if you want to stay here you really can't get involved with them."
"You mean Codi?" he said clearly amused at Max's accusations.
"Well no... yeah... yeah Codi!" Max really didn't know why the whole situation was bothering her, but it was.
"Fine I won't" he smirked.
"You won't?" Max's eyes lit up.
"That's what I said. Why?"
"I don't know... I guess I thought it would be harder to get your stubborn-ass to cooperate."
"Nah, sides' I'd do anything for my Maxie." Her heart lurched as she heard those words. In that instant she had that flicker of realization... that he wasn't lying or kidding around. Max found herself lost in his hazel green eyes. Nervously she scooted around Alec and headed back in and up to her room. Again Alec followed her.
Brandy and Codi were still seated at the table. They had heard Max yell a couple times and laughed to themselves. Codi was just playing around before, she wasn't as stupid as she acted. It was just her way of helping. "I wonder if they are going to get their thing on." Codi wondered aloud.
Max paused in her tracks and glared at Codi "So not like that!"
She glanced at the alarm clock on her nightstand table 10:20 a.m. 'I am so late... Jack is gonna have my ass.' She began looking around the room for her keys.
Alec watched as she frantically checked pockets, drawers, even her laundry basket.
"Looking for these?" he drawled, while waving the keys off his finger.
"As a matter of fact..." Max grabbed for the keys only to have Alec playfully hold them out of reach, above her head. "Alec!" she whined.
"I'll give them to you after you answer one question" he smirked. Max scowled.
"What?"
"Where are you goin?" Max slammed him into her bed, following as he swiftly grabbed her hips pulling her down with him. Max instantly forgot about the keys that had managed to fall on the ground. Her attention was fully focused on the intimacy of their position. From the look Alec was giving she was sure he felt the same way. Her lips gravitated toward his, but the knocking on the door caused Max to jump and land on the floor. Hastily she got to her feet and opened the door.
"What?" she demanded clearly frazzled about the previous situation. Brandy handed her the phone.
"Uh... sorry...? It's for you."
"Oh yeah..." Max grabbed the phone and closed the door.
"Hello...? Yeah... Yeah... I know... I'm coming... Just chill..." Max hit the end button and stormed over to her bed where Alec was now sitting, retrieving the keys from the floor. Instantaneously she flew out of the room and down the stairs.
She heard him follow. She should've known she wouldn't have gotten away so easily. He trailed jumping into the passenger seat.
"Alec?"
"Huh?" he glanced her way.
"Where do you think you are going?"
"With you" when Max still hadn't put the key in the ignition, he quizzically glanced at her again. "What?" he shrugged. "It's not like I have anything better to do. Sides' I gotta get a job sooner or later... unless you want me to go back to my old ways of hustling pool and fighting... efficiently drawing attention..." he smirked.
"Fine" Max snapped him off mid-sentence. "I don't think Jack likes you though" she stated matter of factly.
"You think?" he sarcastically retorted.
A/N: Ok I know kinda pointless stuff, but I promise next chapter I will give you more about Mia, and White.