Finding Out the Truth
Well at least it's a Walk-in closet and not the tiny one we got stuck in way back when, props for Asha on that kind thought.. Or not! Max continued to stare at the locked door, Alec had tried his best to talk to her but she wouldn't have any of that. Maybe the coma gave me claustrophobia?
"Seriously, you'd kick ass if you were Superwoman, that door would be on flames!"
"Who the hell is Superwoman?"
"Wow, she talks and what, you never watch cartoons?"
"Figures and no, I don't and I don't understand how you can either."
"To escape reality.."
She wasn't sure if she was supposed to have heard that, so she pretended that she hadn't, it made things easier and focusing on the door was much more important. Asha couldn't be serious about leaving us here, right? As soon as she thought it, she knew that the blond bomb shell had actually thought just that.
In her annoyance, she turned around and found Alec sitting on the floor, his legs sprawled out in front of him, there was nothing about him that screamed Solider and she couldn't help but snort.
"Comfortable, Alec?"
"Aaw, Maxie, didn't know you cared!"
"I don't."
Just to prove her point, she made sure to walk on his foot before sliding down the wall opposite to his.
"Damn, girl. You ever take dance lessons?"
"Huh?"
"You got two left feet!"
"I do not!"
"Say that to my ankle."
"What ev."
A heavy silence filled the walk-in closet, the only light they had was what little that came from underneath the door, it gave away a weird reddish glow and she couldn't help but think how... pornographic it felt.
"This is so cliché.."
"What do you mean?"
"Us? Locked in a closet? With a red sort of light? Cliché!"
"Yeah well, red looks good on your skin, makes it look more.. Dangerous."
"Ha ha, Alec, real cute."
He lifted up his hands as if to say I surrender, and then folded them behind his head, closing his eyes and started to hum on some song. At first, seeing him relax completely had pissed Max off, she wanted to talk to him but she also couldn't. But once he started to hum, a little too silent, but enough loud enough for her to hear, she felt herself relax.
"Sounds like a beautiful song."
"Huh?"
"You do realize.. That you were humming?"
"Oh, yeah I heard this song at Gem's this one time and I can't get it out of my head."
"What's it called?"
"Breathe Me, but Gem didn't know who the chick was who was singing, I liked it though."
"Seriously, it's called Breathe Me? It's probably very lame."
"You'd be surprised how touching that song really is."
"Right! Well, if Asha decides to let us out soon, you'll have to let me hear this song."
"How about I find a piano and sing it for you?"
"You.. sing? And what, you'd actually do that for me?"
Not bothering to answer, he simply shrugged and smiled at her, it was hard not to smile back and she felt herself relax a little bit more. The humming of the mysterious song started again and Max couldn't help but grin. I wonder how he sounds like when singing, not that I care.. Okay, I do, no point lying anymore.. Whoa! Relax and breathe. She closed her eyes and started to inhale and exhale deeply, to cleanse her mind. The humming stopped.
"Are you okay, Maxie?"
"I'm fine, okay!"
"Geez, take a chill-pill, I was just asking."
"Sorry, it's just.. I'm.. you.. ugh!"
"Cat got your tongue?"
For the millionth time, or what it felt like anyway since being locked in the closet, she rolled her eyes.
"Remember the mission I had to go to?"
"Before you fell into a... uhm, yeah sure. What about it?"
"It never happened."
"What?!"
To her surprise, Alec actually jumped up from his spot and sat down exactly in front of her, instantly checking for injuries. It was like a switch, seeing him react this way to something that hadn't even caused her pain, aside from the coma that is. The weird part was she couldn't make him stop, the cat really had stolen her tongue this time. So she let him press and touch and lift and point, anything he wanted, the look on his face was panic, it was that look that kept her silent and just.. Watched him, he didn't even seem to notice what he was doing.
"Alec, I said I didn't go on the mission, there's nothing to check for, besides I was in a coma for a month, so any injuries or bruises are long gone anyways, okay?"
"Then what the hell put you in that god damned coma!?!"
His face were just inches from her, his warm breathe had hit her eyes, the volume had stung her ears and she was pretty sure that there were some spit on her nose.
"Gross, Alec! You spit on me!"
"Answer. The. Question!"
Max considered herself as a bad ass chick, nothing could or would scare her, but seeing the hatred, the fire in Alec's eyes was to much and she couldn't keep eye contact. There were too many emotions and she also thought she saw something else hiding in his eyes, something deeper and darker and that terrified her. She had seen the same look in Logan's eyes before and it used to make her feel loved.
A deep sigh and a slide to the side, to make some space between herself and Alec, before she could talk.
"Like I was saying, the mission never happened.."
"That doesn't answer my question."
".. Well if you shut up, I'll tell you how it all started, okay?"
Again, he lifted his hands up into the air to show that he would indeed be quiet.
"Anyways.."
Flashback to the Mission, that apparently did not happen.
Asha had told Max to met Logan at his old apartment in the penthouse and said she wouldn't be joining them, having other things to do.
Thinking it was odd that she was gonna met him there, considering the fact that the familiars had pretty much destroyed that place, she decided to let at least Gem know where she was going. Just in case. Normally she would've told Alec, but seeing this was about the Cure and how he was playing the part of her Boyfriend right now.. She couldn't bring herself to do it.
Plus she knew he'd offer his assistance to help her on the mission and the funny part was that Logan had insisted that she could do it on her own, so to not risk any unnecessary confrontation, she went to Logan's old apartment alone. It felt odd. Being alone.
"Get a hold of yourself, solider, you used to be alone before you were recaptured!"
The elevator worked as it should, there were still people living in the Tower of course, it had just been Logan who had been involved in the fight against Familiars and the transgenic's right.
"Logan, you in here or something?"
"I'm here!"
She followed the sound of his voice and found him standing in front of the very same window she had jumped out of some years ago.
"What's up? I'm ready to get this show on the road."
"Hmm...?"
"The doctor, the medicine.. Cure? Hello?"
"Oh, that!"
"Yeah.. That! ...So, where do I go and when? Come on, this place creeps me out."
"It does? I thought it would be symbolic?"
"Are you high or something? Logan, what's going on?"
Trained eyes searched what little she could see, she didn't want Logan to notice what she was up to so she kept her body facing his, which meant her back was completely unprotected. For the first time she wished she had brought Alec along.
As her thoughts were on one special transgenic, she failed to notice Logan approaching her, it was when he was two feet away that she stepped back.
"Logan, what are you doing?"
He stopped, as if caught with his hand down the cookie jar after bedtime. Bad, Logan, bad!
"Max, did Asha tell you what she was going to do?"
"She only said she had something more important to do or what ever, why?"
"She's gone on the mission for you."
"What?! Why would she do that?"
"Because, we have the Cure already, you don't have to waste your time on the mission when we can celebrate!"
"But we haven't even fixed the Cure yet, I haven't had time to do that, running T.C has sort of left me handicapped on time, you know that."
"I know, that's why I asked Dalton for a favor."
"What kind?"
"To make the Cure! He did it, he said it was child's play, easiest thing he'd ever done!"
"You took the Cure?"
"I took the Cure!"
She thanked herself for not taking Alec with her, as she ran into Logan's arms and kissed him. But what they both had failed to remember was that she was the one who had to take the Cure for it to work.
End flashback.
By the time Max had finished her story, Alec was furious and not all the anger was directed at how stupid they'd been, how careless they'd been, another part of him was pissed of at Max for letting Logan kiss her. Especially when he was supposed to pretend to be her boyfriend. Hell, he'd given up his nightly activities for her and she goes and gets the kiss of death? Well.. coma, but still!
"Aren't you gonna say something?"
Alec shook his head and stood up, during Max story the reddish glow had started to fade into a yellow tone, it felt surreal and he started to regret thanking Asha for what she had done. She had known all along what had caused Max's illness and never said anything?
"I'm gonna kill her!"
"Who?"
"Asha!"
"She had nothing to do with this, Alec, please don't do anything to her."
"Are you.. serious?"
"Yeah, I am. I may not be her biggest fan, but we've talked, okay?"
"Fine!"
"Oh come on, Alec, snap out of it!"
"You could've died!"
She couldn't take the way he was looking at her, ever since the soap incident had he developed the ability to make her feel like a cornered animal and being locked in a walk-in closet didn't make it better either.
"You could've died too!"
"What?! When??"
"Since the day you were born!!"
It all came crashing down on her, she finally admitted to herself that she had indeed been in a coma for a month, that life had moved on without her and that people had aged, maybe not much, but she could feel it. And now this? Alec being mad at her for her stupid mistake? It was too much and she hated how weak she felt, how weak she must've looked like in front of him.
Her knees gave away and she slid down to the floor against the wall, tears flowed freely from her eyes and she couldn't even see how Alec sat down in front of her, she only felt his hands on her knees, as she pulled them closer to her body and hugged them. She felt like an Ordinary Woman.
"Hey, hey.. sch, Maxie, it'll be alright, okay?"
This was his second time of seeing Max cry, well, that first time he hadn't actually seen it, more like heard her, but still. He knew this didn't happen often and the fact that he got to see it meant something to him, even though it felt wrong, it meant something.
He moved to sit beside her and pulled her closer, thinking of all the times he'd sat just like this while she was in a coma, the only difference was that this time she sought out after him directly and not like she used to do whenever he had fallen asleep.
Holding Max like this, in a small walk-in closet with a yellow light surrounding them, felt oddly enough peaceful. The tears had stopped almost as fast as the had came and he tried not to startle her as he pulled her up on his lap and cradled her closer, starting to hum the same song as earlier.
"It'll be alright, Maxie, don't worry."
"You promise?"
"I promise."
"How can you be sure?"
"You kidding me? I'm always right."
A small laughter was heard and Alec smiled to himself. Now thats a sound you don't get to hear that often, gotta change that. He thought as he once again, started to hum softly.
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Authors Note; this chapter was sort of hard for me to write, so I hope you enjoyed it. Oh and that song Alec was humming? It's Breathe Me by Sia, I had that song on repeat while writing this chapter as well as writing chapter 5, the-Alec-takes-a-shower-chapter, lol ;) Now, the only question is; should I remember to write a scene where Alec sings for Max? Or would it be to fluffy?
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