Authors Note; This chapter originally started as a guide line for whats to come, but quickly turned into a complete chapter, again I surprised myself with writing something I sooo hadn't planned on, this story is really starting to take a different path than I had planned.. Let me know whenever I get too sidetracked, please?

Oh and I'll be going up north on Monday, so I'll be without Internet a couple of days, so.. Leave lots of reviews for me to enjoy once I get home? You know, to inspire me? ;) LoL! I'm taking my notebook (paper and pen that is) and will whenever something hit me, write it down :) so we're safe!

Also, the previous chapter was one that I honestly thought you'd say was too soon with their actions, but it seems I was wrong, so.. Yay for that! Because your opinion matters to me! :) So yeah, this chapter that wasn't even supposed to exist is also one of those chapters that I'm a little bit unsure of, have I crossed a line with this one? I'll let you be the judge of that!

..Miiiight contain a bit of nudity, you have been warned :)

Everything Keeps On Changing

Max woke up with a sneeze, literally.

"What the..?"

"Your freaking hair tickled me."

Alec shrugged his shoulders, as he yawned lazily and climbed off Max to lay down beside her, placing his face in the pillow and letting his arm rest over her stomach. She shifted a little bit and felt his arm tense.

"Urf nof eving, arf uff?"

"Huh?"

He turned his face towards her, still holding her close.

"You're not leaving, are you?"

"No, I just need to take a shower."

"Sure?"

"Alec.. I'm not like that, we were suppose to talk anyway.. So, that's what we'll do. I just need a shower first."

Alec removed his arm and twisted his body, making the sheets reveal a little bit to much skin for Max. She wasn't ready to drool openly over him, nor admit what his muscles flexing did to her, especially out loud for him to hear. She looked towards the bathroom door and bit her lip, he only had one sheet and it just had to be the one that barely covered him, the same one she was clinging desperately to her chest.

She also didn't feel like parading naked in front of him, it was all to early for her, especially considering that they hadn't talked about where they were headed with all of this.

"Aren't you going?"

"Do you have a towel I can use?"

Alec smirked, as if he had read her mind and knew she didn't want to show anymore nudity.

"I think my only towel is on the floor, maybe by our feet or somewhere? I don't know."

Max felt annoyed and tried her best to maneuver herself to the edge of the bed with the sheet still covering herself.

"Nice.."

She quickly looked over her shoulder to see Alec watching her back, as in the lower part of her back and couldn't help but glare at him, not that he noticed. But he definitely noticed when she gripped the sheets and covered her behind, but to her horror, this left Alec completely naked. Her head snapped back again, as she searched with her eyes to find the damned towel.

"A little cold here, Maxie, want me to help you? You know movements keeps a body warmer anyway, so I might do something good while trying to warm up!"

"No! Stay! Found it anyway.."

She threw the sheet back on Alec, making sure it landed on his head and wrapped the oh-so-tiny blue towel around herself and looked back at him and smiled, because his hairstyle he was sporting now was probably the cutest thing she had ever seen. It was a mess, sticking up at all places in different direction.

"I think you should keep it like that."

"What? Sheet as clothing? This isn't Rome, you know?"

"No, your hair, its cute."

Alec frowned as his hand instantly went to his hair, as if he were expecting to find something silly, like feathers or worse, a hat.

"What's wrong with my hair?"

"It's messy, you know.. Like you just had sex?"

Alec smirked and got out of bed, moving like the predator she knew he was.

"Well.. There's a reason for that.."

Max couldn't help herself when she dropped her towel to the floor, grinning, showing her body for him to see and he reacted just as she had thought. His eyes trailed down slowly, following every curve, the further down his eyes swept, the more his eyes changed. When the green had almost completely disappeared, Max simply turned around and blurred for the shower, knowing he'd follow, but to her surprise, he actually bet her to it.

How fast was Alec and how much of his strength had he hidden from her? She decided to ask him more later, but the idea of showering together with him clouded her mind just a little bit too much.

"Want me to wash your back?"

"You owe me, giving the fact I probably will have a big nasty bruise there soon, if not already?"

She turned her back to him and started the shower and felt his hand caressing her shoulder blades.

"I didn't mean to hurt you, Maxie."

She looked over her shoulder and smirked.

"Please, you enjoyed every moment of it."

He pretended to be offended, but couldn't really pull it off, so he smiled instead and rolled his eyes.

"Just trying to apologize."

"Okay, no talking in the shower, please? Just wash my back or leave."

"Tsk, tsk, always so bossy. But we have one problem, you know?"

"What?"

"My soap."

"What about it?"

"I left it, remember?"

"That's your only soap?"

"Why do you think I always bring it? Of course it's my only soap!"

"Ugh, great. Alright fine, just water will have to do then."

"Good."

Alec wrapped his arms around Max, leaning his head on her shoulder and relaxed, he was a bit unsure where they stood, but he wanted to enjoy the moment as much as possible, in case Max flipped out and acted, well, like Max usually did, immature, or scared.

He felt a certain relief when Max put her arms over his and leaned her head back on him, mentally thanking himself for being a bit longer than her and also thanking her for giving him such a nice view. That's one hell of a body!

"We're not acting normal, are we?"

"For us? Not really.. But if we were Ordinaries, I think this would be called cuddling."

"I'm serious, Alec."

"I thought you said 'no talking in the shower'?"

"I made the rule, I can break it."

He smiled into her shoulder. Of course she'd break her own rule, she always did and always would.

.

"I think its the cat in us, Max. I don't know about you, but this feels kind of.. Normal to me."

"Standing in the shower, hugging me, naked and talking? That's normal?"

"Well, I don't know how you take a shower, but you're usually naked, so yeah."

"That's not what I meant."

"I know, sorry.. But yeah, us, here in the shower, naked together and talking feels normal, I can't even think of a reason to fight or annoy you."

"Uhm, thanks."

"You're welcome."

A silence fell over them, the only sound came from the shower as the water hit the floor and their skin. It was a hypnotic sound and Alec felt a part of him waking up, something that had been deeply hidden, but not by his own will. It was as if this part of him had been sleeping all his life, but now he couldn't control it anymore, it had waited for so long for a perfect moment to wake up and here it was.

Feeling a bit lost and maybe even scared, Alec hugged Max closer, breathing heavier. When he licked his lip and in the process touched her skin by the side of her neck, something inside of him clicked into place. Mine. He slowly opened his mouth and scratched the skin with his teeth. He couldn't really explain it, but this new side of him was taking over him and he wished Max would stop him somehow, but of course she only moaned softly and moved her hand up to his bar code.

When her fingers touched his skin, it was like she had pushed a button and he bit down, hard, even drawing blood. He heard her gasp and instantly released her, feeling confused. What the hell just happened? Max turned around, her eyes shining with a lighter brown color than he was used to and he was struck by how different she looked.

"..Maxie..?"

Her breathing was just as heavy as his, as if they both had blurred all the way to the Space Needle and back again, like a race.

"You okay?"

"You.. bit.. me...?"

She sounded just as confused as he felt and he could barely look her in the eye.

"I don't know what happened, one minute I was relaxing, the next all I could think about was... uhmm."

"Was what?"

"Just leave it, okay?"

Alec ran a hand over his face and left the shower. He felt disgusted, like he had used her all over again like he had done in the closet. Why couldn't he just for once behave around her? He knew she was right on his tail, just as naked as he was and for the first time did he regret everything they had ever done.

"Alec, please talk to me"

"Just forget, get Doc to look at that, it might be.. I don't know, infected.."

Small hands touched his shoulders and he felt like running away, but instead he turned around, taking her hands in his and pulling her in for a hug. He buried his face in her cold, wet hair.

"We really aren't normal, are we?"

"No, Alec, we're screwed up, but at least we're not alone."

"Come on, let's go to bed, you're getting cold."

He guided them to the bed and got under the sheet, trying to warm her up. When he saw the bite mark he'd left, he carefully kissed the skin around it. He felt her shiver when he did it.

"Does it hurt?"

"Not anymore.. Could you tell me what made you do it.. Please?"

"I don't know, not for sure anyway."

He thought back of their time in the closet, hoping it would somehow help him.

"Maybe it has something to do when we were locked up? Remember how we almost couldn't stop whatever we started?"

"Yeah, well, it was hot."

"True.. But what if it was something else? Something animal about it?"

"God, don't say that word."

"What, animal?"

"Yeah, that word, because we're not it."

"Not entirely, but a lot of our DNA is."

"What ever.."

"I'm serious here! Max, when I bit you, what was the first thing that entered your mind?"

"I don't rememb.... Wait, there was something.."

"Whatever it was, tell me, because when you turned around? You're eye color had a brighter shade of brown.. Not that I know what that means.. What?"

"You're eyes have changed too!"

"Since when?"

"First time in the closet, its like when ever we get.. you know, physical, you're eyes almost turn golden, or maybe bronze?"

"Oh-kay.. Uhm.. Yeah, weird.. Anyway, first thought?"

"Yours."

"Huh?"

"That's what I thought; 'yours'. Just when you bit me."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, why? What was on your mind when you did it?"

"Mine"

"'Mine'.. Seriously?"

"Mhm.."

Max was speechless, what the hell had they done? She laid down on her back and touched the bite mark, was she supposed to bite him back?

"Seriously, Alec, what are we doing?"

She had her eyes closed and couldn't see the way Alec looked at her. Confusion was clearly written on his usually carefree face. He rested his head on her shoulder, pulling her closer and watched the side of her neck, the side he hadn't bitten down on and wondered if it would leave a nasty scar.

"I know you've got shark in your cocktail, but can we rest? For a little while?"

"Yeah, for a little while sounds good."

She removed her hand from the bite mark and covered them both up with the sheet and tried her best to relax. This isn't happening, is it? Hoping that when she'd wake up later, she would find herself in her old bed in Gem's apartment and the visit to Alec's place would only be a dream, Max fell asleep.

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