All the Right Reasons

Title: All the Right Reasons

Author: MissyMiss452 (inxluvxwithxalec)

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Romance, Angst

Status: WIP

Summary: Sequel to "Not Ready to Make Nice" (written by me), A new girl comes into the picture after Max's death, will Alec learn to love again?

Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel (sigh), any of the characters, and all that good stuff, the plot is the only thing I own. No profit is being made from this fiction.

Chapters 3 - We always want what we can't have

Alec began to loose confidence as he walked up the steps to her apartment, maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all, maybe she would see this as too friendly too soon… too late, he was already at the door, and had already knocked. Alec rubbed his palms together that were beginning to sweat, he swallowed hard, and then she opened the door.

"Alec? What are you doing here Alec?" Mel seemed surprised that Alec would show up at her door.

"I'm taking your offer, ready to get out of this place?" Alec said with a confident smirk, one that would make the girls melt."

"Oh, Alec…" She looked concerned.

"Hey what's going on?" Tom, another male transgenic asked. He had come out with nothing but his boxers on.

Alec stood in front of her door not knowing what to say. He could feel his fist tightening, and his smile had faded fairly quickly. He wanted to be angry with her, but something else told him, that he shouldn't blame her, he had made her wait too long.

There was so much she wanted to explain to him. Everything wasn't suppose to turn out like this, he shoudn't have caught her in her underwear, along with another male transgenic, the pieces fit too well. Mel's face was full of surprise, and yet at the same time anger, she was angry at her self for what she had done. Mel desperetly searched her mind for words, maybe if she said the right ones he would understand, maybe sheilding him from the truth might be a better idea. Sometimes the truth can hurt more than lies. But he had been through so much, the least she could do is tell him the truth.

"Alec, it's not what you think," Mel pleaded, "It's complicated." Mel disapointed her self, she saw the look on his face and knew those were not the right words. She probably looked pathetic saying that, she was standing there half naked, that was enough to persuade him.

"Right." Alec replied sarcastically, then turned around and walked down the steps.

It wasn't the answer she was hoping for, she was so angry with her self, and at the same time she was mad at Alec. It wasn't her fault, she had no control when she was in heat. Mel went back inside and cried, all of her anger made some of her heat wear off. She sat on her apartment floor and cried. Mel was tough and she never let her self cry like this before, but her heart had just been ripped out and shredded into a million pieces, what made that worse was she had ripped it out her self.

"What's wrong baby?" Tom asked, he apparently hadn't gotten the picture. "we were just getting started." He said attempting a smirk, it was nothing compared to Alec.

"Just go away!" Mel snapped at him, it wasn't like her to yell, "I want to be alone." she added more calmly.

Tom understood and pick up the rest of his clothes and took off.

Alec couldn't believe him self, just when he was getting back to normal this had to have happened, it's always darkest before dawn, Alec could hear Mel saying that too him. He knew he shouldn't be mad at her, he could smell it, the pheromones, it was a faint smell but Alec could reconize it anywhere. She couldn't have controlled her self, but going and fucking the first guy she say was a little too low for her. Alec was just disapointed in her, she was better than this. A tiny piece of him was jelous in a way, he sort of wanted to be that guy, but then it would have just been meaningless sex, and what Alec didn't want was more complications. He wasn't sure if he should just let this go, Alec didn't want to loose another girl.

Over the next couple of weeks Alec tried to go back to the old 'Alec', and had succeeded in a way, he had gone to a bar once with a few new transgenic guy friends, but he wasn't all the way back to were he got drunk and laid, Alec didn't want to go back to that life, Max's death told him something, all he needed was one girl. Alec got back to his apartment, and watched TV, he built up his courage to make a call, it wasn't like him to run from a girl.

RING!

Alec looked at his cell phone, she had beat him to the punch.

"Hello?" Alec pretended to not know who it was.

"Hey, it's me Mel," Mel said.

"Oh it's you."

"How are you, i haven't seen you in a couple of weeks, are you okay?" by the sound of her voice she really did seem worried, Alec had purposly avoided her for two weeks straight.

"I'm good." Alec kept to his policy, the less he said the better, less complications.

"Look I think we need to talk, I'm going to come over okay?"

Before Alec had a chance to reply to that she had hung up the phone.

The minutes had elapsed in the blink of the eye before Mel showed up at his door knocking. Alec opened the door and let her in.

"Do you want a drink?" Alec motioned toward his bar. This was going to be a rough talk.

"No thanks i'm good." She replied, "I'm sorry Alec, it really isn't what you think it --"

"You were in heat," Alec had cut her off, "I know, i could smell." Alec stood in front of her, he saw her apoligizing eyes, they were longing for forgiveness. Just then Mel reached her hands to hold his face and brought him down for a kiss.

"Mel- what are you-"

"Shhh..." Mel held one finger to his lip, to stop him from finishing his sentence. Her fingers were warm on his face. Mel closed the gap between their lips, Alec began to kiss her back, just then he could smell the pheromones again, oh god, not now!

"I want you Alec" Mel exclaimed when she came up for air, her face and body was heating up fast, "I want you right now." she smiled sweetly.

Alec couldn't resist her smile, it was so inviting. The pheromones were comming strong now. He smiled back at her, completely overcome with her scent, he replied "so do I"

A/N: Hope you enjoyed that chapter i think it might be the longest one i've written! Well please read and REVIEW!!! Feeds my ego.