Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You | By : girltype Category: 1 through F > Dark Angel Views: 5197 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Has anyone ever written anything for You?
Chapter 5: Promise?
~*~
A decade ago,
I never thought I would be,
at twenty-three,
on the verge of spontaneous combustion.
Woe-is-me.
But I guess that it comes
with the territory;
an ominous landscape of never ending calamity.
I need you to hear,
I need you to see
that I have had all I can take and
exploding seems like a definite possibility…to me.
So pardon me while I burst into flames.
I've had enough of the world
and it's people's mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame.
Pardon me, pardon me...
I'll never be the same.
~ Incubus, "Pardon Me"
~*~
Max smiled at Jen when she let herself into Logan’s penthouse apartment, enjoying the feel of heat finally after a day of riding in the cold. "Tell me you have food somewhere around here?" She called into the apartment as she perched on the armrest of the couch.
"What do you want?" Was the answering shout from the kitchen.
"Hi, Max." Jen said at the same time.
"I want something hot!" Turning to Jen she sighed a ‘hello.’
Logan walked into the living room quietly balancing a plate with a sandwich, and a cup of tea in his hands. Putting them on the end table carefully he backed away, knowing Max wouldn’t reach for the food until he was a safe distance away. "Did Alec agree to come?"
"Of course I did." An amused voice floated over Logan’s shoulder. Turning around, forcing a welcome smile on his face, he motioned for the X5 to come over to the couch. Perching on the other armrest Alec unconsciously mirrored Max, one leg resting on the floor the other swinging back and forth in the air. "So where are we going exactly?"
"Minnesota…" Logan began.
Alec cut him off. "Minnesota? Damn, remind me to pack warm." He said to Jen.
"Pack warm." She said with a smile.
"I would never have remembered without you." He said with a pained smile.
"I do what I can."
"Can we possible pay attention to the subject, for once?" Logan sighed gaining three wide-eyed stares. "It’s not going to be an easy trip, it’ll probably take you a week."
"So should you call Normal and tell him we’ve eloped and are going on a honeymoon, or should I?" Alec asked smirking at Max who looked like she was going to throw her sandwich at him. "Right, I’ll do it."
"I’ve arranged for passes that will get you all the way there, that won’t be a problem, once you’re there though you’re on your own. The lay out of the building seems pretty simple I got the blue prints for you so that you could have it there with you."
"We’re stressing on copying the whole main frame." Jen spoke up quietly looking at the two transgenics seriously. "We need that information. I assume you both know how that all works, especially you Alec."
"Shouldn’t be too hard." He stretched feeling completely at ease with his abilities. Some looking at him would think he was cocky, he was but he had good reason to be.
"All right. Let’s get this over with." Max said as she stood gracefully. Alec and Jen stood up together following her.
Logan hadn’t turned around when Jen caught Alec’s shoulder and made stopping motions with her hands. ‘Hold on,’ she mouthed, ‘Be careful.’ At the same time that Logan turned and said, "Be careful." She glowed at the laughing Alec.
Max turned around her large brown eyes boring into Logan’s blue ones the long look the only good-bye she would allow herself before she started again for the door. She followed Jen and Alec out the door not paying attention to their conversation until Jen yelped, "I’m not a meddler!"
"Oh, really?" A raised eyebrow spoke volumes of his disbelief.
"Ok, so I meddle a little…" she held her fingers half an inch apart, "a tinny tiny bit. It’s for everybody’s well being. If everyone wasn’t so dense, I wouldn’t have to stick my nose in where it doesn’t belong."
"What did you do now?" Max asked coming up to walk beside them.
"Nothing!"
"Nothing? Ri-ight, she’s trying to start a fight between Logan and Asha."
"Am not!" She turned wide eyes on Max pleading her innocence.
"It’s not like I’m going to complain if they fight." Max tried not to laugh.
"I’m not trying to get them to fight, I’m trying to get them to see the error of their ways." Jen rolled her eyes when Alec let out a bark of laughter. "Shut up, you have packing to go do! Remember; pack for warm weather." She called as she disappeared into her car.
"Do you ever wonder if she has plans for us all?" Alec asked idly.
"Most of the time." Max nodded her head toward her motorcycle. "Come on, I’ll give you a ride to your place so you can pack for warm weather."
"It’s a conspiracy."
"Yeah, we all want you to freeze your ass off." Max sat easily on her cycle and waited for him to slide behind her before she roared through the darkening streets.
~*~
After throwing a couple changes of clothes in his backpack Alec was once again sitting behind Max as they made their way to her apartment. Finally Max threw some clothes into his bag so they didn’t have too much to carry, gave Original Cindy the heads up that they wouldn’t be back for at least a week and then they were on their way. Cindy’s parting words of, "you better take care of my girl," ringing in their ears.
After an hour of keeping his head up Alec gave up and dropped his forehead to rest on Max’s shoulder. Breathing in deeply she assaulted his senses with the smell of leather, skin, and lilac of all things. With a silent smile he realized she even smelled like she could kick someone’s ass and look sexy while doing it. He unconsciously nuzzled the crook of her neck, his lips brushing the tender skin softly. She sighed and relaxed into his arms without thinking, paying more attention to the road than her reaction to him.
By two in the morning they had switched positions, Alec driving and Max resting her cheek against his back while her arms circled his waist. He was trying to breathe the cold crisp air deeply, clearing his head of the fact that the feeling of having Max’s arms around him was leaving him light headed. With a weary eye he got more alert as he saw the signs of snow on the ground. It was with a sigh of relief when he pulled over next to a motel, they stayed for a couple hours and started off again.
It was with relief the next day that they stopped at another hotel ten miles away from their destination, that Max had pointed at silently. They had agreed that it would be best to sleep during the day before they went to case the facility that night.
They especially needed sleep since they would be walking the rest of the way through woods and snow. The problem that rose almost immediately was that the only room in the motel up for rent had only one bed. Staring at the woman smacking her gum loudly behind the counter, Max started to shake her head ‘no’ when Alec spoke up. "That will be perfect." He smiled disarmingly as he slipped the money for the room across the counter. Max wanted to gag as she watched the woman practically melt under his heavy gaze.
Letting her body sink onto the bed she glared up at Alec who was dropping their shared backpack on the ground. "Do you have no shame?"
"That wouldn’t be any fun, now would it?" He smiled insolently down at her before sinking into the bed next to her.
"You’re sleeping on the floor,’ she said suddenly.
"I most certainly am not!" He kicked his shoes off and lay down to prove his point.
"We aren’t sleeping in the same bed!"
"Why not? Are you afraid you’re going to loose control and ravish me?" He laughed lifting his head up just enough to look at her. "I have no energy to assault you today, Max, maybe you’ll have reason to be worried tomorrow but not right now.
"Fine." She gave up getting off the bed and going through the backpack to find the oversized T-shirt she had thrown in for something to sleep in. Shooting him a glare she went into the bathroom to change, when she came out he was just in his boxers and was getting comfortable beneath the bed covers. She found it hard to swallow suddenly as the sight of Alec’s smooth dark chest once again assaulted her. From somewhere the line "rippling pectorals" had surfaced and was floating through her head as she watched him shift slowly while he seemed to be looking at anything but her. With faltering steps she made her way to the bed and slid under the covers trying as hard as she could not to sneak a peek at the well-defined muscles of Alec’s legs.
Once her head had hit the pillow she didn’t care anymore because sleep seemed suddenly more important. Within minutes both she and Alec had drifted off into the land of dreams. Some time during the day they both cried out in their nightmares; one of a dying brother talking in low tones of ‘the good place’, the other of the horrors of trying to fight his superiors. Their hands seemed the find each other, seeking any comfort that could be had, a lifeline to the land of the living. And they held fast so that when they woke they were still clutching at the others hand.
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