Breaking Dawn
The Importance of Being Ernest...
"I can't believe it! You cheated!" Max huffed throwing down her cards as she lost yet another hand.
So far she owed Alec a back message with scent oils, a home cooked meal
'I hope he enjoys burnt water'
Doing his laundry for the rest of the week, and now most embarrassing of all she had in a moment of anger, a foolish moment of hurt pride she had gambled away her darling baby.
"Auh...come on Maxi no one likes a sore loser, plus I told you playing against a transgenic is different." Alec tutted giving her one of his trade mark grins.
"I'm not a sore loser. You cheated." She reiterated glaring at the grinning man in front of her.
"I didn't!" Alec protested glaring right back at her.
Max snorted crossing her arms across her chest, "then explain to me how I lost, when I've never lost at poker since the first time I learnt how to play."
"Simple you can't count the cards like you normally do. Super speed and agility applies to shuffling cards as well Maxi." The blond explained with a smirk and a casual smirk.
Max's mouth opened in astonishment, "You knew!"
Alec held up his hands still grinning, "Hey! How was I to know you were so helpless at poker, I mean seriously, it's like you never played the game."
He said frowning at the brunette in front of him, "You have played poker before Maxie?" He asked squinting at the now flushed transgenic.
Max flushed, "of course I have." She retorted hotly in her own defense.
"Max...did you ever really play, or just learnt how to count the cards?" He asked suspicious when her checks burnt a brighter shade of red he sighed.
"Fine...I'll teach you how to REALLY play, and I won't collect on your baby, but if you think I'm giving the rest up your sadly mistaken. In fact I can feel my neck and shoulders tensing just thinking about how much FUN it's going to be." He finished with a sarcastic roll of his eyes.
The next thing Alec knew he was trying to keep himself upright as the female transgenic lunched herself at him, wrapping her slim arms around his waist and quite effectively suffocating by her over enthusiastic hug.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." She said over and over
Alec awkwardly patted her back, "Yeah I'm great. But that doesn't mean I can live without my lungs."
Alec sighed in relief when she loosened her grip but didn't remove her arms from around his waist.
Hiding his shock Alec gently wrapped his arms around the small woman.
Alec found himself frowning while he knew Max was sometimes though mostly not directed at him loving person, he knew she wasn't very tactical, another reason her heat related encounters seemed to offend her moral code or something, people got horny too, just as horny as some animals do but Max seemed determined to draw a strong and decisive line between ordinary and Transgenic. But now no matter how much he would have liked Max to be willingly clinging to him he knew something was off.
Looking up saw they a disheveled Dean and Helen walking back to their rooms. Helen looked up at him and frowned with a tilt of her head and frowned.
Alec rolled his eyes at the thoughts running through her head.
'Is she going into heat I wonder?' Helen frowned.
'Pheleeze if she was going into heat do you think I would still have clothes on.'
Alec rolled his eyes at his sister than frowned what if Max was going into heat, he hadn't been around her those times maybe it was a reaction she was having to his scent.
When Helen raised an eyebrow Alec released how silly that concept was and flushed a little.
'Whatever bro, I'll look into it.' Helen gave Alec a small smile and with a shake of her head pulling a confused Dean back to their rooms.
"I hate it when you telecommunicate with Alec, it's freaky." He said petulantly.
"We don't telecommunicate." She answered with a small huff.
"Oh yes you do, it's all looks and teeny eine weine gestures that no one knows but you two and it's like you're having a long drawn out conversation without even saying a word. It's freaky." He finished with a pout.
Helen's shoulders dropped with a shake of her head she gave her mate a smile and pulled him down kissing away his pout,
"Listen carefully Dean and listen good I'm only gonna say this once you got me. Alec is my brother and I love him and I would stand beside him against the hordes of hell, if anything happened to Alec...I...I...my world would fall apart but slowly but surely I would be able to put it back together again. If anything happened to you Dean. I don't think I could serve it."
Dean let out a sigh, "I know the feelings mutual, but's still it's freaky." He added.
"Shut up! I just had a total girly girl moment and that's all you can say. Jerk! Forget what I said, I'd be happy I'd dance on your grave." She huffed rapidly making her way to their quarters.
Entering the room the people inside let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh thank God, I don't think I could stand listening to that anymore, I like porn as much as the next guy but that was too much." Sketchy said as he noticed the squabbling couple entering the room with radio and pajama's in hand.
"That bad huh!" Dean said with a smirk
"A man can only listen to so much before his ego will be trashed, and what's going on in there is some serious ego trashing noises."
Helen wrinkled her nose, "I so did not need to hear that, uch I don't want to think about my brother having sex." She said with a shudder.
Helen quickly tossed the newest roommates a set of sleepwear and with little thought turned on the stereo.
"Now that's what like to hear! Where did you find this?" Sketchy asked when the first few cords were heard.
"Don't know came with it." Dean said with a careless shrug.
"It came with it! Do you know how hard it is to find classic metal rock in this post pulse wreck we call our world. This is AC/DC man only one of the best bands."
"It's just music dude, chill and try to get some sleep." Dean said giving Sketchy and strange look before he threw a pillow and a blanket on the floor and laid down on the make shift bed.
Helen sat down next to Dean and lay down next to him using Dean's chest as her pillow.
"Night all."
The rest of the group did the same knowing that there wasn't anything else they could do.
"It's simple Maxie first things first you gotta know what kind of Poker you're playing Texas Hold'em, the deck, poker hands, Omaha, seven stud. We'll start with the deck which is the easiest and we'll work our way up from there." Alec went on to explain the rules to Max.
"Got that." Alec asked
Max slapped Alec's knee, "I never learnt to play poker doesn't mean I'm stupid or slow, genetically engineered super solider here, I have kicked your ass."
"Obsessed with my ass Maxie." He said giving her a grin and wink.
"Shut up and deal bitch." She replied with a roll of her eyes.
"Bitch! Been lookin' in the mirror super solider." He retorted dealing out the cards.
It didn't take fifteen minutes before the hand was over.
"I don't get it I blame the ruins. You're crap at poker. No transgenic is crap at poker you're a freak among freaks Maxie."
Arms crossed and pouting Maxie huffed, "You suck."
"I don't suck you're the one that sucks at baby poker." He said shaking his head and placing the deck in his pocket.
"I want a rematch." She said with a determined glint in her eyes.
"Later, I need to sleep and so do you, busy day tomorrow, come one sweetie time for beddie bye." He mocked grabbing hold of her crossed arm and pulling her out of her chair and towards their apartment.
When Max and Alec got there they found Sketchy, O.C. Joshua, Stats all asleep together on the pull out bed, whereas Helen and Dean were sleeping curled around each other on the floor.
"Not much space left to sleep." Alec muttered closing the door behind him.
"We could always sleep in the other room." Max said.
"And risk the chance of having to bunk with the dynamic duo, in a twin bed no thank you. I'll risk the overcrowded hard dirty floor." Alec said with a mock shudder as he kicked off his shoes and shrugged off his jacket.
As laid down on the floor next to Helen.
Max still standing and began looking around, not being able to find a comfortable place to sleep she frowned.
"Maxi were cats just curl up anywhere warm and you'll fall asleep trust me."
He said quietly as he rearranged himself to curl around his sister.
Max was stunned when the obviously possessive and jealous Dean pulled Alec and Helen closer to him.
Feeling a little awkward and out of place Max rigidly placed laid down next to Alec making sure she gave him her back.
TBC
A/N: I'm back I'm still crazy busy and for a while there I have a bad case of writers block. But I'm back now hopefully I will update sooner than three years later. It's going to take some time I really want to build up the Alec/Max romance I don't want it to be heat induced story. Not that I don't love them.
I would like to thank everyone for reviewing and still sticking with this story, and everyone that added it to their favourite list, thank you I could only see the automated notification before I hog tied and beat up my muse and told her to get back to work.
You've all been to kind and I hope that this chapter holds you guys over.