The slayer and the supersoldier

Disclaimer: I don't own any of it!

Pairing: Alec/Buffy

Summary: Alec goes to Sunnydale on a mission and comes out of it with a whole lot more.

AN: This chapter is in Alec POV.

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Chapter 7: Hello Max

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Sunnydale High

I'm sitting her watching as people walk past me; none of them acknowledge that I am even sitting here. I think it's amazing how people here can walk through life without even knowing the dangers that surround them, how they wake up everyday not caring about anyone but themselves. I look down at my book in my hands, books I don't need because I already know all of the information thanks to Manticore that is.

I look up again and here comes the one person in this school that I really don't like. Cordelia Chase. She treats Buffy as if she is nothing more than the dirt on her shoe, but Buffy doesn't care, which I think bothers me more. Buffy saves her life on daily basis and the girl can't so much as even smile in her direction. I don't understand these people. She walking over to me now and I want to run away, I know I look like a dear caught in headlight but there really is no where to go.

"Hi there Alec," she says as she sits down next to me. "I see Buffy isn't here what did you two have a fight or something?" she asks. I know she want me and Buffy to split but only because she wants me. And no I'm not being cocky she told me herself. I believe her exact words were 'when your ready for a real man let me know,' Buffy once told me that she used that same line on another guy that had chosen her over Cordelia. "What's wrong Alec cat got your tongue?" she asks.

You know I never understood that phrase either, I'm it's impossible for a cat to have your tongue so why do people say it. "No I just have a lot on my mind," I tell her hoping that she'll leave but of course I don't have that kind of luck.

"Aw," she says in a way to be sympatric. "You want to talk about it?" she asks me and I look at her sharply.

"No I don't want to talk about it, at least not with you!" I yell as I stand up and look down at her. She is shocked by my sudden outburst and to be honest so am I. "You're not my girlfriend! Buffy is, and every time you come around me when I'm with Buffy you treat me like crap! So what on earth made you think that I would want to talk to you?!" I am pissed and she knows it. Before she says anything to me though I turn and I leave passing Willow and Xander on the way.

"What's up man?" I hear Xander ask me as I walk past but I don't stop to answer. I really am not in the talking mood today. All that seems to be ringing in my head is what Buffy told me this morning. If you leave I'll come looking for you. I walk down the hall until I reach the gym. It is the only place where I can find some sort of peace. Mostly because it's always nice here therefore the gym classes are always outside. I walk across the basketball court and I sit on the bleachers.

She said she would come looking for me no matter where I went. But if she comes looking for me at Manticore they will shoot her on site, I'm sure they know exactly what she looks like by now. I can't put her in that kind of danger. But I'm not stupid I know it is only a matter of time before they come looking for me.

I don't want to go back there, in all honesty. I know what it is like on the outside now, I don't think I could survive in there knowing that someone on the outside loves me. Wait did I just say loves me? Does she love me, do I love her? I guess I do, I mean she is the first thing I think about when I wake up and she is the last thing I think about before I go tot sleep, especially the other night. Wow, that was fantastic. I have never felt so loved and safe in a single moment then I did when I was with her.

She had so much power that she is unaware but me being me I am very aware of it. I sensed it the first night I met her and maybe that's why I was so intrigued by her. I know she wasn't one of us, transgenics, but I knew that she was something more than human. I am sitting her quietly in my thought when I hear the gym doors open and look over and see Xander walk in. He sees me and comes walking over to me, I swear I am never able to just be alone and think.

"Hey man," he says as he takes a seat by me. "What's up with you? I mean the way you flipped out on Cordelia this morning, not that I'm complaining but I was just wondering." He explained.

"It's just a bunch of stuff," I tell him as I look away from him and out over the basketball court. "Stuff with Buffy, and with myself, intramural you know?" I ask him.

"I know," he tells me but I doubt he does. No one could possibly understand what is happening within me. But I let him continue because I know he thinks he's helping. "I fight with myself everyday, I fight the feelings that are running through my veins because I know that if I let them out than I will lose all my friends," he says and I look at him oddly. What could he possibly have to worry about?

But instead of asking I just nod. "Buffy told me that you used to have a thing for her," I tell him trying to bring up a brighter conversation topic.

"Not used to, I do man," he tells me. But before I could say anything he continues. "Don't worry she doesn't feel anything for me, she made that very clear when she chose you," he tells me. "I will never stop loving her, plus I don't think I can," he says. The bell interrupts him. "I gotta get to class I'll see you later?" he asks as he makes him way down the bleachers.

"Yeah later," I say as I watch him leave. Then I grab my things and head off to class. As I'm leaving the guy thought something stops me and feeling that I haven't gotten since I was back in Manticore. I ignore it though as I head off to class. As I'm walking down the halls I feel as though this feeling is following me and every time I turn around there is no one there.

I round the corner and stop waiting for whoever is following me to show themselves. I was standing there for a good ten minutes until the person round the corner. When the person rounded the corner I pushed her up against the locker. "Why are you following me?" I ask. I look at her, I mean really look at her and then I release her. "Sam?"

Confusion sets in and I know that this isn't Sam. "494?" she asks me. I don't know what to say but if she knows those numbers that she must be from Manticore. So I turn and run. "No wait!" I hear her yell but I don't stop I can't stop I've made my decision I am going to stay her with Buffy and take my chances.

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AN: I hope you liked it!