Love You, Hate You
Disclaimer - Dark Angel is not mine, nor do i claim to own it
Summary - Read it, then review :)
Max walked back inside but before she could close the door she felt someone grab it holding it open. Then a familiar face appeared at the door.
"Back" he grinned Max eyed him suspiciously unsure of what he wanted or what he was going to do.
"What do you want?" she asked cautiously
"Been thinking" he stated pushing open the door and walking inside
"About?" she asked raising her eyebrow
"Jamie" he smiled "What about him?"
"And Logan" he finished with a smirk
"Ok" Max said suddenly very unsure of what was going on in his head.
"Can I have his address?" Alec asked with an innocent smile on his face "you know where Jamie lives"
He shook his head "No, no Logan's"
Max's mouth fell open and she stared at him "Why?"
"So I can warn him never to talk to my kid like that again and trust me he won't do it a second time" he promised.
"No!" Max shook her head "Come on Maxie, I promise not to hurt him" he smirked "too much" he added.
"He doesn't know your Jamie's dad" she reminded him
He nodded, he was fully aware of this fact but still he wanted to warn him "he will when I'm finished with him"
Max stared at him. "This isn't about Jamie" she said finally getting it "you want to use him as an excuse"
"For?" Alec asked rolling his eyes and leaning back against the wall, watching her.
"Me" she said simply
"You?" Alec played dumb "You're jealous"
Alec laughed "What would I be jealous of baby?" he said stepping towards her so he was close, so close his body almost touching hers.
Max licked her lips before meeting his eyes "I've got Rachel and trust me she's better than you ever were" he smirked at the furious look that crossed over her face
"Liar" she whispered in his ear.
Pulling back he composed himself "anyway I want to warn Logan off my son" he said seriously "so when you tell him, make sure you tell him not to look at him in the wrong way ever again or I promise he'll regret it"
"Thought that wasn't you anymore?" she asked her hands on her hips.
He shrugged "I can still be bad, especially when it comes to someone I love being hurt"
Max nodded accepting his answer "Was that all?" she asked in a bored tone.
He thought about it for a moment then said "I'm still pissed about you lying to me and running away 6 years ago"
"I didn't leave because I wanted to, I told you that" she spat back "I'm aware but still it hurts, in here" he said pointing to his heart "to think that you gave birth to him and I wasn't there, I don't know what his first words were or anything"
"Dada" Max said softly "What?" he asked
"Those were his first words 'Dada" Alec looked shocked "that made me feel even worse but according to my mum that's what all babies say first" she rolled her eyes.
"Maybe" Alec said "I just missed so much and it's all your fault"
Max groaned "You can't make me feel any worse than I already do!"
"I can try" she noticed him smile and slapped him on the shoulder "you don't get to touch anymore" Alec said side stepping away from her. "If I want to touch you I will after all I am the mother of your son" she smiled wickedly.
"What time do I pick him up at?" he checked
"Three" she said looking at the clock it wasn't 12 yet so he still had some time.
"Ok" Alec turned to go but then called out for his brother "Ben"
Just then Ben appeared from behind Sam's bedroom door "been there long?" Alec asked with a knowing smile.
"A while" Ben laughed at being caught "what do you want?"
"You to come with me" he said "Now" he added as an after thought.
Ben shrugged "Sam I'm going" he called out as he made his way towards his brother "see ya later Maxie" he said with a grin "Don't call her that" Alec said slapping him on the back of the head.
"OW!" Ben protested rubbing his head "why not?"
Alec's mouth curled up into a small smirk "she only likes me to call her Maxie, right Maxie?" he said the last part in a soft sexy tone and Max glared at him, Ben noticed the look she was giving his brother.
"Am I missing something?" Ben asked looking between them.
Max shook her head "I'll tell you later" Alec said smirking at her as she yelled "NO! You won't"
"Bye Max" With that Alec grabbed hold of his brother and pushed him out the door, closing it behind him.
15 minutes later Ben and Alec were in his apartment.
"I'm furious!" Alec paced up and down his sitting room; he was beginning to make Ben dizzy from all his walking backwards and forth.
"Will you sit down?" Ben asked after he was unable to take it any longer.
Alec stopped looking at his brother "You knew" he accused him; marching over towards him he grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him onto his feet "how long?" he demanded to know.
Ben didn't say anything so he asked again "How long?" his voice a little higher.
"Not long" Ben said nervously, Alec was pissed and pissed Alec was never good.
"And you didn't tell me why?" he demanded shaking him forcefully. "Sam asked me not to" Ben looked away
"So you turned on your own brother for that bitch?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
Ben had enough he shoved Alec away from him "It's not her that's the bitch" he said deadly serious.
Alec laughed "you settled for Sam because you knew you were never gonna get Max"
Ben's looked down and his shoulders tensed "notice how your not denying it" Alec said with a tight smile on his face.
"Maybe, but I love Sam"
Alec's face softened "You love her?" he asked Ben nodded "good for you" he said and Alec was really happy because Ben deserved to be happy.
"You've got a kid" Ben informed his brother with a smile. Alec matched his smile "I know he's quite a bit like me huh?"
Ben nodded "yep, his addiction to the TV definitely comes from you"
Unknown to Alec, Rachel was standing outside his apartment door listening to him and Ben talking.
"I'm happy, when I first met him I had a feeling he was mine but I didn't want to get my hopes up" Alec admitted.
"Well I'm an uncle think I'll be a good one?" Ben asked pulling out water from Alec's fridge and taking a sip "Nah" Alec laughed.
Rachel, who was standing behind the front door out of view, was shocked. 'Alec has a kid? To who? Max?'
Deciding it was time she let him know she was there she knocked on the door.
Ben and Alec looked at each other when they heard the door knock, "expecting someone?"
"Crap" Alec swore "Rachel"
Ben rolled his eyes "can I be here when you tell her?"
Alec ignored him and opened the front door "Honey" Rachel said throwing herself into his arms.
Alec's body tensed when she jumped into his arms, he closed his eyes. "I have to tell you something" Alec said pulling away from her
"What?" Rachel asked
Alec took hold of her hand and walked her over to the sofas, he made eyes at Ben who excused himself and walked into the bedroom he was using on the odd night he slept at Alec's.
"I have something to tell you too" Rachel said smiling.
Alec took a deep breath "Oh, well you first" he said buying himself more time to figure out what he was going to say.
Rachel smiled "I'm pregnant!" she announced happily and Alec's face fell "What?" he cried out in shock and Ben opened the door to the room he was in he was shocked too.
"I know isn't it great?"
Alec couldn't find the words to speak; he looked at Ben who shook his head telling him he was on his own.
"How long?" he managed to get out.
"Only a few weeks" She said with a small tight smile on her face "you don't seem very happy"
"I am" he said quickly, he was lying he was far from happy about this news 'Jamie' was all he could think 'how am I going to explain this all to him?'
"We should go out to celebrate" she said grabbing his hand to pull him up "Yeah" Alec said without thinking it through, Ben cleared his throat and made eyes at him.
"Crap I can't" he said remembering he had to pick Jamie up.
"Why?" she asked innocently.
"I have to pick Jamie up" he explained 'My son'
Rachel walked towards him her hands sliding around his neck "I'm sure Max could pick up her own son once you explain to her our happy news"
Alec decided now was as good a time as any, he had to tell her he wasn't about to deny Jamie was his so soon after finding out about him.
Taking a deep breath he said "he's mine"
Rachel was a good actress and played the part of shocked fiancée well "what?"
"Jamie is my son"
She pulled away from him, "How, when I don't understand" she started pacing the room "I thought you and her were only friends"
"We are" Alec said quickly "Now"
"Now?" she asked with a bitter laugh
"Look we were together years ago, I just found out about Jamie today and I knew I had to tell you" he explained.
"I need time to think" she said
Alec nodded and looked at Ben who was trying hard not to laugh.
"I'm just going to go to my apartment, I'll call you later" Rachel said grabbing her purse and storming out the house.
"YOU KNOCKED HER UP!?" Ben screamed as soon as the door closed.
"I'm screwed" Alec said falling down into his sofa, holding his head in his hands "Max isn't going to like this"
Ben agreed but didn't say anything; he just sat watching his brother.
"Think she'll try and stop me seeing Jamie"
"Probably" Ben said but honestly he had no idea
"I'm not going to let her do that" Alec said determined "I need to tell her" he grabbed his car keys off the table and flew out his door.
"Don't forget to pick Jamie up" Ben called down to his brother from the balcony
"I won't" Alec promised as he jumped into his car. Neither he nor Ben noticed that Rachel's car was still parked in the car park.
"He's got a kid with that girl I told you about" she said into her cell phone
"What you going to do? Do you think he'll leave you?" the girl's voice on the other end of the phone asked
"I told him I was pregnant" she confessed
There was a squeal from the other end of the phone "Are you?" the girl asked excitedly. "No but I will be soon I mean how hard can it be to get pregnant?"
"Oooh good idea" the girl said laughing "I'm not going to lose Alec not to that stupid little slut" Rachel promised "I'm on my way over, we need to work out how I'm going to get rid of her and the kid" With that she placed her phone back into her purse and drove off towards her friends house.
Max was currently in her sitting room with Logan
"He's Jamie's father?"
Max bit her lip and nodded "We were young and he figured it out when he first met him" she explained
"He looks a lot like him" Logan said looking at a picture of Jamie and recalling what Alec looked like.
"Are you mad I didn't tell you?" She asked not really caring whether or not he was, Alec was Jamie's father nothing was going to change it.
"No it's not going to change anything between us is it?"
"NO!" Max said quickly, a little too quick maybe.
"Then I'm fine with it, Alec seemed like a nice guy I wonder how his fiancée will take it" he said thinking about it.
Max nodded, it was all she could think about Rachel seemed like a nice girl but Max wasn't too sure if someone had told her 6 years ago that they had a kid to Alec while she was with him she would have killed the girl then Alec.
Logan walked towards Max and kissed her.
"Expecting anyone?" he asked
Max shook her head "Not till later" she smiled at her began to pull her towards the bedroom. Just as the front door opened.
"Max" Alec called out stopping dead in his tracks as he noticed Logan with his arms wrapped around her and the direction they were headed.
He made a gagging sound before turning on Logan "has she told you?" he asked the older man.
Logan smiled and Alec smirked "Good" he walked towards him but Max stepped between him and Logan with a warning look on her face "don't start" she said "just going to warn him Maxie" he said as he pushed her gently out the way.
"Listen up Loggie shout at my son again and you'll be in a world of hurt"
"I don't" Logan started but Alec cut him off "Don't even think about calling him a liar because I'm not in a good mood and I will put you out that window" he pointed at the window just to his left and smiled.
Logan nodded his head "now I need to talk to Max give us a minute" With that he put his hand on Max's arm and walked into the sitting room with her.
"What the hell was that?" Max demanded pulling away from him
"A warning" Alec shrugged not seeing the big deal.
She sighed "What do you want Alec?"
"You're not going to like what I have to say maybe you should sit down" he suggested before he started pacing.
Max noticed his behaviour and began to get worried "tell me" she demanded her hands grabbing his shoulders to stop him pacing.
"She's pregnant" he said before lowering his head unable to see the look in her eyes.
"Oh" Max said as she fell down onto the corner of the coffee table. He crouched down beside her "I didn't know until 20 minutes ago"
"Did you tell her?" He nodded understanding what she meant.
"You can just forget I told you if you want" Max offered as she felt her heart break.
"Huh?" he didn't know what she meant "we don't have to tell Jamie you can just forget about him being your son and go have your family with Rachel" its not what she wanted but more than anything she wanted him to be happy.
Alec knew she was trying to be helpful but it couldn't be further from what he wanted.
"I'm not giving him up" he took her hands into his.
"He's not going to understand that he'll have to share you" she explained
"I'm his" Alec said immediately "for the rest of my life, if he needs me, I'll be there" he promised.
"Not when you have this tiny baby who can't do anything for itself and it depends on you for everything" Max knew what taking care of a baby was like and she knew he wouldn't have as much time for Jamie once the baby was born.
Alec disagreed "If he calls me at 3.03 in the morning I'll be with him before 3.10, if he needs me Max I'll be there even if he happens to need me when she goes into labour that little boy will always come first with me"
Max could see he meant it, she was finding it hard to understand the level of love he had for Jamie, after not knowing about him and only just finding out the level of love matched her own. Guess that's what being a parent does to you.
"You can't say that" she told him, looking away from those beautiful green eyes.
"I promise I will never hurt him, just don't take him away from me before I've had a chance to get to know him"
"I won't" she agreed after thinking it through. He smiled, relieved.
"I'm going to tell him today" he said after the silence became too much for him.
She smiled "Can I be there?"
"Well I need you to be because I'm a nervous wreck" he laughed nervously.
Without thinking she lifted her hand and placed is against his cheek, her thumb ran across his lip. Neither one of them seemed to notice "you'll be fine"
The door opened and they pulled apart "Everything ok?" Logan asked noticing the tension in the air.
Max nodded "We're going to pick Jamie up and tell him about Alec" she explained
"Good idea" Logan said.
Alec stood up he walked out in to the hallway to wait for Max.
A couple minutes later she walked out "Ready?" she asked opening her door and letting him walk out first.
He took a deep breath "As I'll ever be" he smiled as they walked to his car.
A/N - Tell me what you think!