Authors Note; I guess there are some who thought the last chapter ended too soon and I agree that I sort of did force it to end quickly, mostly because I didn't know how to end it, but also that I had to end it... Confused? I hope not! And now I had the tricky part of writing Max awake! How hard could that be? Actually... Pretty darn hard, because the first chapter was supposed to be a one-shot if I'm gonna be honest, but I thought that if anyone wanted me to continue it, I would. So this is has turned out into a challenge for me and I like it, its so fun! …. I just hope you'll like were I'm going with this..

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On with the show.. Oh and I don't own anything but the idea to the story!

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Tired and Confused

Alec took his first shower ever since Max had woken up, it felt weird knowing that he wouldn't be returning to that room and that awful chair, but to his apartment, which by the way, felt wrong. There was no Max there and he hated it, he also hated that he currently didn't have a working shower in his own apartment, meaning he had to borrow Gem's and guess who stayed with her? Max did. Guess who also wasn't talking to him? Max did. Ungrateful bitch!

Flashback to last week, aka Max's awakening.

Together had Joshua and Alec successfully made Max drink water and even eat some crackers, but it didn't take long before she had fallen asleep again, thankfully just sleep and not going back to coma. Everyone who cared about Max had arrived just as she dozed off. In a way, Alec felt happy that Logan didn't get a chance to talk to her first.

Unfortunately, that meant HE had to talk to everyone instead, but being as smart as he was, he simply left them without a word. Well he did say one thing; "Gotta get catch some z's, later!"

End of flashback.

As Alec later found out, that was the last thing Max had wanted, because imagine his surprise when Gem told him that she had known all along that he'd been by her side and had wanted to thank him personally, but instead was forced to met with everyone else? Just because he wanted to sleep?

Sometimes he wondered if she hit her head harder than.. Actually, he never knew how she ended up in that weird coma, once he heard about her condition, all rational thoughts had left his mind and all he could think about was seeing her opening her beautiful eyes. But now she was avoiding him and that also meant he still hadn't seen her brown eyes. I'm so stupid.. and whipped!

He finally started to scrub his entire body with the soap he had taken with him, there was just no way he was gonna go around smelling like pine apple! He preferred smelling like soap, the boring kind and then maybe some cologne, he didn't really care. He was a guy and pretty happy with his own natural scent.

He stood under the water spray and let it wash away all the soap, not caring it took longer when he did it like that, he knew he was alone in Gem's apartment and didn't feel like stressing, why should he when there was nothing to stress about? She's up and breathing now. Shaking his head, Alec grabbed the soap again and started to wash his hair, it was shorter now, almost reminded him of the military cut he had before The Escape, but it made things as washing it easier. When did life become so complicated?

Closing his eyes and tilting his head back, he let the water again do its work to cleanse the soap out of his hair, he figured he'd been in the shower for 32 minutes now, but what difference does one more minute do? Or another ten? It's not like Gem could complain about lack of warm water, he hadn't even bothered with it. Well, a little bit of course, he never liked feeling like a Popsicle.

Deciding the real world had to start becoming real again, Alec shut the shower off and got out, not caring about the towel just yet, he walked up the mirror and started the processes of shaving, there was no way he was gonna let his beard grow as much as it had when Max had been in a coma. That had actually been the reason he wanted to leave her so fast, he simply didn't want her to see him like that. It would be too much..Logan with the beard. So very, very wrong.

First when he was satisfied with his work, did he grab the towel and started to dry himself off, but unlike the shower and the shaving, he didn't take it slow and soon quickly got dressed to leave the bathroom and get home. But when he opened the bathroom door, it turned out he wasn't so alone in the apartment as he had thought.

"Took you long enough."

"I didn't know..."

She didn't let him finish, nor did she look him in the eye when she spoke or when she walked by him to get inside the bathroom. Alec cursed and turned around, only to be met by a door in his face. He leaned his forehead against the door and sighed. I'm getting too old for this, gotta ask Logan how he can still do this.

"Will you talk to me, Max?"

"Go away, I'm taking a shower."

"Liar, you haven't even started yet."

"I'm getting undressed first, you idiot."

"Need any help, Maxie?"

"GO. AWAY!"

He couldn't help it, annoying her was sometimes too easy and if that meant she would talk to him? He'd do it all that more, except this time he probably stepped over the line, the thing is, hearing her yell at him was almost like old times and he let himself smile. He sort of missed her yelling, she barely spoke now that she was awake and he wasn't the only one who had noticed. Everyone had.

"You sure you don't want me to come in and help you undress, Maxie?"

The only answer he got was the noise of the shower starting, the shower curtains pulled aside, the water touching skin and again, the water curtains pulled back into place. This was usually the time he would start thinking about exactly how the water was caressing her skin, but he didn't have it in him anymore, he was to tired. So he left Gem's not so empty apartment to go home, were he'd be alone, which he of course didn't wanna be, but had no other choice.

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Authors Note #2; Boy was this chapter hard to write! *phew* I have at least now taken time to write down guide lines for myself to easier write this story.. Meaning I have ideas, go me! I hope you liked this chapter, it felt like I took a risk when I wrote it. Please, don't flame! *begging*