Authors Note; I'm so sorry about the delay, it's been one of those days lately, you know? You get out of bed, do laundry/dishes, then crawl back to bed and stay there for unholy long periods of time, half sleeping, half awake. Then walk the shame of walk to the shower, because you feel disgusted by how you've been pitying yourself.. Or maybe it's just the rainy weather?

Either way, I really hope this chapter will make it all better for you who waited. :)

And.. The piano scene will come later, much much much.. MUUUCH later.. ;) (not that much later, but not too soon either.. I think bwahahahaa)

Making Peace

Asha almost felt a bit stupid, it had been three days ago since she locked Max and Alec into the closet and of course she had to explain this to some of the others transgenics. As soon as they had understood her meaning behind her actions, a betting game had started which was appropriately called "Slaying or Laying". The options were if either they had killed each other and who'd won, or if they had had sex and who gave in first.

But in all the excitement, she sort of had forgotten that she was supposed to check up on them the same night she had locked them in. Standing in front of the building they were housed in, Asha took a deep breath and was about to enter, when a hand landed on her shoulder.

"Thinking of moving in?"

Great! It just had to be! She risked a glance over her shoulder and sure enough, there he stood. Logan. Who else? Always at the worst time too! Remembering he had asked a question, she smiled faintly.

"Not really, but there's a rumor going around that it's got a haunted closet. I was thinking of checking it out."

"Haunted closet? You serious?"

"Yeah, wanna come with?"

Please say yes, please say yes.

"I think I'll pass, I don't believe in supernatural things."

"Oh well, your loss."

Shaking his hand of her shoulder, she went inside and this time, she took the elevator, hoping it would carry her all the way up to the fourth floor and not get stuck. It made awful sounds as it started its journey. A part of her wanted it to crash so that she wouldn't have to suffer the wrath of Max. She couldn't suppress the shudder. That girl sure can kick some ass!

But imagine her surprise when the elevator door opened and revealed silence, starting to get worried that Max had actually done something stupid, she sprinted to the notorious closet and started to pull the offending desk away from the door as quickly as she could and then opened the door.

"Took you long enough."

"Uhm, Max, hey.."

"Aaw, Asha, no hello to me?"

"Alec! You're.. Alive, thank god!"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Never mind, but Mole won't be so happy to see you."

"Huh?"

"Long story, one I'd rather not tell. At all. Ever."

"Asha, what are you talking about?"

"Okay, fine. There might be a bet going on.. To see if you, Alec, would survive.. Or to see.. uhm.. if you'd.. you know..?"

"Spill it, Blondie."

"The bet is called Slaying or laying, I think you can figure out what it means."

"What the hell?"

"I have to agree with Alec, what the hell?"

"Hey! Sketch figured out the name, okay? Don't look at me! I had to explain why the leaders of T.C were missing, no one would've believed me if I said that you'd eloped!"

"Cute.."

"Hey, Maxie, we could always elope you know?"

Asha had to bite the inside of her check to not burst out into laughter, the look on Max face was pure horror and surprise, in a perfect comical balance.

"What!?"

"Asha just proved that no one would believe it, so why not? A little vacation? Come on!"

The smack to the back of his head was no surprise, but what did surprise Asha, was the way Max was smiling while she did it. Wonder if they did get it on?

"Okay, lovebirds, wanna get out of here or not? I'm sure your starving?"

"Try dying for a shower, I could go another day without food."

"Aaw sweetie, are you gonna use my soap again?"

"Shut. Up."

"Why do you have Alec's soap?"

"I don't!"

"She does, but only because I forgot to bring it with me."

"Oh-kay."

The trio started to walk out of the closet and towards the elevator.

"Hey, how come we had to take the stairs the last time?"

"The elevator didn't work then."

"But it does now?"

"That kid, Fixit? She got bored and you know.. fixed it."

"Poor kid."

She wasn't sure what Alec had meant by that, if it was the choice of name or what Fixit might've heard that made him feel sorry for her. Trying to remember if the girl had acted weird after playing around with the elevator, she figured it was the name he meant.

"Oh, just so you know. Logan's been looking after you both."

"Why me? He can't stand me."

"Sorry, but yeah, the both of you."

"What did you tell him?"

"That you needed alone time, but I didn't bother to tell him that I was the one who had deiced you needed it."

Max smirked at the other woman and the elevator dinged, letting them know that they were on the main floor, Alec started to leave when he notice that Asha wasn't, nor Max.

"Ladies? Come on, I promise I won't stare at your backs."

The girls looked at him and at the same time rolled their eyes. Okay, that's just freaky.

"I need to have a word with Asha, see you later?"

"Uhm, you gonna be okay, Asha?"

"Thanks Alec, but yeah, I think so."

"Okay, and Maxie? Play nice!"

Making his favorite way to leave a scene, or so Max believed was his favorite way, Alec walked backwards and winked before disappearing behind the corner.

"Did he just.. say the exact same words to me.. that you did when you left us in the closet?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure he did."

The doors to the elevator closed, almost giving them the impression of being trapped. A feeling Max was a little bit tired of.

"Can this thing take us to the top floor?"

"We can try and see?"

Max shrugged and pressed the number "8" and both felt and heard as the it started to struggle to climb up again.

"Not exactly fast."

"If we fall, I'm suing Fixit, just so you know."

"If we fall, I'm kicking Fixit's ass!"

"Deal."

A silence fell and neither Ordinary or Transgenic could say if it was uncomfortable or comfortable, but before anyone could make an attempt at small talk, the elevator dinged and they were on the eight floor.

"That sound's gotta be the most annoying sound ever, seriously, ding?"

"Yeah, I know."

They left the elevator and had to take the stairs to get up to the roof. For Seattle, it was a beautiful day, no rain and sunny, albeit windy.

For Max, it was refreshing to feel the wind caress her skin, making her hair blow in her face, but for Asha, the wind made her think of how it always changes direction, sort of like how Max does and she couldn't help but wonder if this was the moment she was waiting for, the moment she had dreaded. Come one, wrath of Max, I'm ready. I think..

"I wanted to say thanks."

Uhm, hello, Wrath of Max?! Where'd you go?? 'Cause I don't know this side of you!

"What do you mean by thanks?"

"For doing what you did, locking us in, what else?"

"Max, you weren't exactly happy when I did it, remember?"

"Do you really wanna remind me how pissed off I was back then? 'Cause if you do, I can smack your ass and then we're cool, okay?"

"Sorry, just.. I'm confused."

"Yeah, well you and me both!"

"Did something happen, Max?"

"I can't believe I'm talking with you about this, I usually talk with Cindy.."

".. I can get her for you if you want."

"What? No, that's cool, thanks. But I think I need to talk to you. You know?"

"Not really, but I'm willing to listen anyway. So... Spill?"

Max sighed and sat down by the edge of the building, her legs hanging over, kicking the wall, looking everything but a deadly weapon made by mad scientists. Asha couldn't help but think that Max looked like any other woman with love problems, or what ever kind of problem you get from guys.

She usually was afraid of heights, but thought if sitting next to Max would mean anything, it would mean safety, or at least she hoped it meant that. Taking chances, Asha sat down beside the troubled transgenic and waited. While doing so, she tried her best not to notice how the wind seemed to want to push her over the edge and instead enjoy the view. If she squinted, she could see her apartment, or she thought so. Maybe she was staring at some old perverts apartment?

"I had a mental breakdown, Alec made me feel better and we ended up falling asleep, woke up tangled up with his hand up my shirt and then he started to do things you know?"

Asha nearly jumped when Max started to talk and then had to focus of what had been said, do to Max speaking so fast and the wind blowing in her ear.

"Did he hurt you? "

"What? No.. God no, it felt good, you know?"

"So.. You had sex?"

"No. But we wanted too, I can say that much, it was obvious he wanted it, badly."

"So what did you do?"

"Mostly teasing, but when it was about to become something more, we stopped."

"But that's good, right? Alec being respectful?"

"It is good, because it felt weird acting like that with him, but it didn't feel wrong."

"Just weird?"

"Yeah, just weird, like we're... It's new, you know?"

"Do you want him to stop pretending to be your boyfriend?"

"Uhm.. Yeah..."

"You want him to be your boyfriend?"

"Oh god, when you say it like that? It sounds so.. ugh, girly!"

"Ha-ha, Max, you're a girl, so get over yourself, okay? Besides, Logan doesn't seem to take a hint and maybe seeing the two of you all over each other will get him to understand?"

"So that he can cry on your shoulder?"

"Eeew, Max! God, no!"

"Seriously?"

"Yes, seriously! Max? What did we see in him?"

"I think we saw a hero, but forgot to notice how he manipulated us with his puppy eyes."

"That.. Sounds.. Just about right, yeah."

They shared a smile and Asha felt she could trust Max with her life, as in, would the wind knock her over the edge, she wouldn't fall.

"Since you shared a little bit, wanna hear something?"

"Yes, please, anything that doesn't involve me!"

"Oh, well.. Never mind then."

"Oh, come on, don't do that, what was it?"

"I was only kidding and I think Biggs likes me."

"Biggs, huh? Hmm.. Yeah, that would explain some things."

"What things?"

"Just.. Things."

Max stood up and turned to leave.

"Hey, what things?!"

To Asha's frustration, she was only met with a laughter and climbed quickly up on her feet and started to jog up to Max, trying to figure out a way to make the other woman spill her secrets. So not cool, Max, you can't leave a girl hanging.

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