A/N: By the way I have no idea yet as to the timeline of this episode except that it is in S2. Maybe after another chapter or two I will come up with an appropriate time for this story to take place. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. : )
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Chapter 2
Walking into Crash didn't lift her spirits as it usually does. Something about the smell of alcohol and sweat lingered with the loud beat of the music in the hip bar usually reached out to the laidback party girl that she used to be. But not tonight.
As she made her way down the stairs, making out the faces of a few people she recognised and many that she didn't, she contemplated how much she had changed from that girl. She had a more solid view on the concept of responsibility now . Her guilt and anger at everything that had happened since the destruction of Manticore, The transgenics being out and the danger they where in, Logan and the virus and all the other crap that just kept coming, had really started to bear down on her.
Ordering a beer from the bar she scanned the room and found her guys, her closest friends sitting at their usual table in the back. After paying for her beer she made her way over to the table in the hopes that her friends would be able to take her mind off of ... Well everything really!
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Alec had sensed her the moment she had walked in, he always kept tabs of who was coming and going, a throw back to his Manticore training days. As he felt her approach the table from the bar he could practically smell the waves of sadness and depression coming off of her and took a wild guess that it had something to do with Logan.
'you know I like the guy but he can be a real ass sometimes making Max feel like this' he thought bitterly. Oh well he would just have to focus on making her laugh, and if that didn't work he was always good at pissing her off! He would settle for anything ( even an ass kicking by an angry X5 female) to see her loose the gloomy depressed look on her face right now, he hated seeing her this way.
As she sat down she gave half-hearted greetings to him, OC and sketchy, took a sip of beer and then proceeded to stare at the amber liquid as though it contained the secrets of the universe.
'oh no this just will not do!!' "Hey Maxie" he said, purposefully using the nickname that he knew annoyed her, and wasn't disappointed.
"Don't call me Maxie!" she said with a great deal of vehemence on the last word
OC took on best friend duty then "You ok boo?"
"Yeah, just ... Ya know, I'm fine" she casually said the fragmented sentence with a flippant wave of her hand.
"Mmm-Mmm" Was all OC had to say to that.
Max looked up with an expression that Alec could only attribute to desperate determination and said "you know what, I don't wanna talk about, I don't wanna think about it, I just wanna drink hang out with you guys and try to have fun! Tomorrows problems can wait till tomorrow." As she said it Alec could tell that she meant, if not completely believed, her words.
Scetchy looked up from the pool game he had been observing "hey man that's how I live my life!"
"Yeah but you a fool" OC stated with a wave of her hand, attempting to waft away the smell of the drunk 'fools' breath
Alec let out a small chuckle at the sight of his friends and then looked back to Max "This is a new turn for you, aren't you usually all about the 'doing things the hard way, oh woe-is-me attitude'?"
Expecting a glare or a scowl, insult or even a smack he was surprised to see her flash a small smile before saying "Not tonight my man" followed by her downing her glass of beer and heading back to the bar with the pitcher glass and a shout of "my round" over her shoulder.
All Alec could do was sit there amazed and largely happy at Max's new attitude. 'This could be interesting!'
Short I know, I'll try to make them longer.
Please R&R