Love You, Hate You
Disclaimer - Dark Angel is not mine, nor do i claim to own it.
Summary - Just read it.
"What's going on?" Alec asked as Jamie jumped onto his sofa beside him.
Standing up he noticed Ben was the only one with him.
"I wanted to see you" Jamie said to him with a smile on his face. Alec smiled back just as Ben began to speak.
"Max had to work I said I would babysit"
Alec glared at him "Your going to babysit?"
Ben smiled "Well he wanted to see you so really you're babysitting"
"I can live with that" Alec grinned.
Jamie was sitting on the sofa looking at him expectantly "So what you wanna do?" Alec asked the little boy.
Jamie grinned "Video games!" he exclaimed excitedly
Alec eyed him "Does your mum let you play with video games?"
Jamie smiled shyly "yes" he said unconvincingly
Alec looked and Ben who laughed "well we've got him it's up to us what we do"
"That sounds like something I'd say" Alec said to his brother.
Ben nodded his head agreeing with him.
"Let's play some video games"
With that the three of them sat down in front of the TV and played video games.
After a few hours Ben had left Alec and Jamie alone saying he had things he needed to do.
Alec couldn't help but love the kid, he was smart funny and just basically perfect. He was a lot like Max and all Alec could think about was if he and Max had any chance of being together again she came with Jamie and he was fine with that.
He wouldn't mind being his dad.
'Whoa where did that come from Alec?' he asked himself 'Rachel remember her? And Logan Maxs' fiancé?'
Alec was so lost in his own thoughts that he wasn't paying attention to what Jamie was doing. It wasn't until he heard a crashing sound that he was pulled from his thoughts.
"JAMIE!" Alec called out jumping up from the floor and heading in the direction of the noise.
Walking into his bedroom he found his TV on the floor but he couldn't see the little boy anywhere.
"Jamie?" he said this time his voice was soft but he was beginning to panic.
But then he noticed the little blonde head sticking out from under his bed.
Taking a deep breath he needed to steady his nerves before doing anything. He crouched down by the bed peeking under it he found Jamie staring at him tears in his eyes.
"Hey little guy" Alec said in a cheery voice.
Alec tried to reach under and pull him out but he moved further away from him. Alec frowned "What's wrong?"
"I broke your TV"
Alec smiled at him "It's ok I didn't like that TV very much anyway" Alec lied trying to make him feel better "Come out" he asked holding out his hand for him to take.
Jamie put his hand into Alec's larger one and Alec couldn't help the feeling that came over him with that one simple gesture. It somehow felt so right, so normal.
Alec pulled him out from under the bed and lifted him up onto his hip. Wiping away the stray tears from his eyes Alec kissed him on the head to comfort him.
He noticed Jamie looking at the broken TV on the floor and decided it was best to get him out the room.
Walking out of the bedroom he walked them into the kitchen and sat Jamie on the counter.
Pulling out some snacks for him, ok so he was trying to make him feel better with sweets, he wasn't against that Max might be but he'd deal with her later.
"I'm sorry" Jamie said again before starting to cry.
"Jamie its fine" Alec promised not quite understanding why he was reacting the way he was.
"You're not mad?"
Alec shook his head, no "Why would I be mad?" he said pouring them both a soda.
"Logan was mad when I broke his computer"
"When did you do that?" Alec asked him trying to keep his voice calm and collected but he had a feeling he wasn't going to like what Jamie was going to tell him.
Jamie shrugged his shoulders "ages ago" he said the way little boys do
Keeping his voice light Alec asked "What did he do?"
Jamie closed up and looked away, he tried to jump down off the counter but Alec didn't let him.
"Jamie?" he prodded his voice light.
"Shouted at me"
Alec felt his blood boil, shouting at a kid for breaking his computer when it would have been an accident, he knew there was a reason he didn't like him and it wasn't just because he was getting married to Max.
"What did he shout?"
"Told me I was bad and that he didn't like me"
Just then Ben came walking back in "Honey I'm home" he said smirking.
And Jamie completely forgot about what he was saying and waved at him.
Alec groaned and gave Ben a deadly look
"What did I do?" Ben asked very confused "Great timing as always" Alec said slapping him on the back.
"SAM!" Alec heard Jamie's voice call out.
He looked at Ben who gave him a sheepish grin and he followed the sound of Jamie's voice.
Walking into his sitting room Alec found Sam holding Jamie. She looked at him he knew was she was expecting she was expecting him to tell her to get out.
"Sam" he said to get her attention, she looked at him still holding Jamie.
"I'm sorry about the other night" he apologised as he walked towards her
She glared at him; looking at her nephew she smiled at him then looked back at Alec.
She'd never really noticed but Jamie looked a lot like Alec, not as much like Ben which was weird seen as how they were identical twins but he didn't look like Ben just Alec.
"Already forgotten" she smiled pulling him into a hug with her free arm.
He hugged her back.
"I'm getting squashed" a little voice said from between their bodies. They let each other go and laughed at the little boy.
"I'm sorry" Sam said ruffling up his hair.
"HEY!" he protested he hated it when people played with his hair.
"Sssh!" she said as she put him back down on the floor.
"What are you guys up to?" she asked looking around the apartment then noticed the games on the TV, she started laughing "Max is gonna kill you" she said in a sing song voice.
"Why?" Alec asked with panic in his voice
"He isn't allowed to play those things"
Alec waved it off "What Max doesn't know won't hurt her"
Sam shook her head. Looks like Alec never changed.
"Well I'm here to take him off your hands" Sam said indicating Jamie.
Alec's face fell which didn't go unnoticed by Sam "You've probably got better things to do than spend the day with a 5 year old"
"Not really" Alec said seriously
"Just gonna take him home" Jamie who was standing at the side of his Aunt listening didn't like that idea at all.
"I wanna stay with Alec!" he exclaimed moving away from her and walking over to stand beside Alec.
Sam rolled her eyes "Jamie don't start" she warned him.
His bottom lip began to tremble and Alec didn't know what to do. Jamie grabbed onto his jeans and wouldn't let go, not even when Sam walked over and tried to pick him up.
"I wanna stay with Alec" he said again determined he wasn't going to let go.
Ben who had been in the kitchen came out when he heard all the commotion and started to laugh at the site in front of him but the look he got from his brother and the look Sam gave him shut him up pretty quick.
"Jamie!" Sam said getting irritated
Alec had enough, he bent down and picked Jamie up and luckily Jamie let go of his jeans and allowed Alec to pick him up.
Sam put her hands out to take her nephew but he wrapped his arms around Alec's neck and wouldn't let go.
"I've had enough of this Jamie don't make me call your mum"
"Can I stay with you?" Jamie asked into Alec's shoulder. Alec closed his eyes he didn't want him to go but he didn't want to cause trouble between himself and Max or Sam.
He looked at Sam and decided to give it a shot "I don't mind keeping him"
Sam was taken aback she'd assumed Alec would be more than willing to get rid of him 'Does he know?' she wondered
"Why?" Sam asked suspiciously.
"Why not?" Alec countered.
Sam sighed giving in "Fine you can have him" Jamie turned around when he heard his Aunt speak with a huge smile on his face and Sam shook her head.
"Your stubborn just like you fa…mother" she quickly changed what she was going to say.
Alec might not have heard her almost slip, but Ben had
"Sure you want to put up with him until Max gets out of work?" she checked
"I'm sure I can handle it" he grinned.
"Ok" Sam said turning to Ben she spoke "Taking me home?" Ben nodded.
"See you later bro" with that him and Sam walked out the apartment leaving father and son alone to bond some more if that was possible seen as how subconsciously they seemed to already know.
Alec looked at Jamie "What we gonna do?" he asked him at a complete loss as to what he could do for the rest of the day.
Jamie shrugged his shoulders.
Meanwhile Sam and Ben were still sitting in the car at the bottom of Alec's.
Ben had yet to start the car and they had been sitting in it for nearly 5 minutes now.
"Gonna start the engine anytime soon?" Sam asked sarcastically.
"Am I an uncle?" he blurted out and Sam's face fell from the shock.
"Not that I know of" she said trying to keep her face as calm as possible but the way Ben was staring at her that was beginning to become a chore.
"Don't lie to me" he said seriously
"I'm not!" Sam fought back getting angry.
"It's not normal" he said in low voice more to himself than to Sam.
"What's not?" Sam asked confusion evident.
"How they've just took to each other" he said meaning Jamie and Alec.
"Not that strange, Alec is just a big kid" Sam tried to lighten the mood.
He looked at her and could see it in her eyes "God" he said his head falling on to the steering wheel
Sam shifted uncomfortably in her seat "Don't say anything" she begged.
Ben scoffed "how can you expect me not to say anything?" he asked anger rising from him.
"It's not our business" she clarified for him
"He's my nephew!" Ben exclaimed
"Mine too" she reminded him.
"Don't tell Alec please?"
He looked at her and she could see the hurt on his face and the indecision.
"Leave it to Max"
"Max has had 5 years" he said
"She'll tell him, now that he's back in her life she's already falling back in love with him" Sam told him Max might not have said those things to her herself but she knew her sister.
"Fine" he said after a long silence "but she better tell him soon or I will be" he promised. Switching on the car engine he drove her home.
Alec and Jamie were lying on his sofa watching TV. Jamie turned to Alec and asked "can we go pick mummy up from work?"
Alec looked at him surprised by the question "do you know where she works?"
Jamie nodded and Alec smiled at him "Then we will"
Looking at his watch it was 4.30 Ben said Max finished at 5.30 so to get to where Max worked Alec assumed leaving at 5.00 would be enough time.
"Ok we'll leave in half an hour" he said to Jamie.
Jamie nodded satisfied with the answer and went back to watching TV
Alec smiled to himself. He hadn't thought about picking Max up from work but the kid had, the kid was a genius.
'Thank you Jamie' he thought.
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