You Always Hurt The Ones You Love

Chapter 3

Alec, maintaining his usual fast speed, was almost out of sight to even Max’s enhanced vision. She kept her distance so not to be noticed and continued to follow him until he stopped at a bar. He vacated the cycle and entered. She followed suit and upon entering the bar, found him sitting on a stool at the bar with a glass of whiskey already in hand. She looked around the bar whilst making her way over to him.

It was the typical ‘classy’ place she would have expected him to choose and had refrained herself twice already from beating on two guys who had pinched her ass. She concentrated on her goal as she toned out a greasy looking guy who was trying some line on another.

"Look I honestly could not be less interested. Okay?" She turned and said, when he made a particularly disgusted comment about her breasts.

"Lesbian," he mumbled walking away and Max turned back to face Alec.

What she saw made her stop. Some blonde piece had one hand on his thigh and the other on his neck, where his barcode would be, and was whispering into his ear. Alec looked interested as he leant closer as if he was having trouble hearing her. Max knew that it was a bullshit play as she could hear the bitch from across the bar.

"Take me home with you and I’ll give you the ride of your life Pretty Boy." The blonde said seductively.

Alec tried to stop from laughing when, Naomi? Nikki? Natalie?, used the name Pretty Boy, as an image of Mole flashed in his mind. Suddenly he felt his stool jerk back slightly and was faced with a pretty pissed of Max.

"So not only do you get me pregnant, force me to have an abortion and give me three STD’s, your already scamming on some new chick five days later?!?" Max yelled as the music skipped to the next song and silence fell among the bar.

"Eeww," the blonde said before walking away and locating a new playmate for the night as the music returned.

"What the fuck Max?" Alec whispered grabbing her by the arm as she attempting to walk away.

"Get the fuck of me Alec!" Max replied.

Alec let go of her before getting up to follow her out of the bar.
He caught up with his just outside the exit and re-grabbed her and dragged her down an alley as she swung and shouted for him to let go. He pinned her to the wall and just starred at her.

"Let me go Alec." Max threatened.

"'Hey Alec, nice to see you. How’ve you been? Me? I’m fine even though I’ve made no attempt to speak to you over the last year. That just then? Just me messing around.’" Alec said in a mimicking tone. "What the fuck Max?" Alec asked all seriousness returning to his voice.

"What?" Max said innocently.

"Don’t play innocent with me Max. You just followed me to a bar and made this big scene just because some woman was hitting on me." Alec said accusingly.

"Followed you? Don’t flatter yourself. I happened to be in the same bar, was coming over to say hey and thought I mess with you both a bit." Max replied unconvincingly.

"No, I’ve smelt you since I left TC. Plus I have ten years training on you Max. I know when I’m being followed. And that little ‘joke’ you were playing? Reeked of jealousy especially how you stormed out afterwards. If you were playing attention, you would have seen there were two drinks on the bar." Alec stated.

Max’s temper rose and she felt her whole body heat up.

"JEALOUS!!!! Of that blonde little slut! Your shitting me right? Yea I saw the two drinks what of it? One for you and one for her, I can count Alec. Even if you have 10 years training on me!" Max defended.

Alec looked confused. He bent down and sniffed her neck, then sighed before pulling away.

"Do you just save them up for when I’m around?" He asked rhetorically.

"What?" Max answered.

Alec pulled away slowly.

"Two drinks Max. One for me and one for you. I knew you would come over. Come on, we gotta get you somewhere. Does OC still live at your old apartment?" Alec asked walking towards his Duke holding Max’s hand.

Max stared at their clasped hands and almost forgot she was mad at him. She felt a twitching and began to smile. She shook off what she thought was sentimentality and her anger resumed.

"Get off me Alec. Why do you want to go to OC’s?" She asked reeling in some of the anger and she felt other emotions bubbling to the surface…confusion, frustration, desire.

"Because Max. You’ve already started dumping." Alec replied slowly as if talking to a slow person."

"Dumping?!?" Max yelled. "Dumping what?"

"Pheromones Max." Alec hissed. "You’re going into heat."

Max gasped. She did the calculations in her head. She had been taking the suppressant every three months since Alec left. Before the symptoms even begun to kick in. The last one she had taken was…three months ago.

Shit! She thought. How did I forget?

She remembered before the drama of Alec she had been mad at Mole. As the heat began taking over, she found it harder to concentrate on remembering earlier things and instead was focusing on the closeness of Alec.

She was going in fast. Probably because she hadn’t let herself have a heat in over a year. The last real one, suppressant free one, she had was the one before Alec left, before TC.

Max shook herself.

Shit! Alec’s right!

"It’s fine." Max said. "We just gotta go to TC and get a suppressant."

Her voice depicted innocence but she was anything but as she began grinding herself against Alec’s back.
Alec pushed her away.

"You mean you don’t carry one with you?!" Alec shouted.

The raise in his voice shot Max down to reality and her anger resumed.

"Well don’t you!" She shouted back.

Alec inwardly laughed at Max’s reactions.

Of course she would jump from horny to angry. The whole time I’ve known her, she’s been either.

"No Max, why would I? I haven’t been around a Transgenic in almost a year." He said returning to his earlier, slightly patronising tone.

"Screw you Alec!" Max said defensively. "Let’s just go get one then."

Max walked towards her Ninja.

"No!" Alec replied grabbing her wrist.

Max instantly felt the heat and dropped a fresh load of pheromones.

Alec shuddered and pulled her close, once again smelling her neck and she began rubbing his chest.

"You’re too far into it to be around Transgenics." Alec hissed quietly and his fought the urge to take her right there.

"No, baby, I’m only just into it. And play your card right and you could be ‘into it’ too." Max said grinded her pelvis with his as she emphasised the ‘into it’.

Alec groaned at Max's attempt at innuendo, even as he felt the affect of her words on his body.

"I’m guessing…you’ve…been skipping heats. Since…you discovered…the suppressant?" Alec asked fighting the urge to grind back.

"Yeah, baby. I’ve been waiting for you to come home." Max said seductively.

Really? Alec thought. No its just the heat talking.

"Okay Max. I’ll take you home." Alec said.

Max giggled with glee before jumping onto Alec’s Duke.

Alec stared at this strange girl who looked like Max, had just been giving him attitude like Max, but this giggling little creature couldn’t be Max. Alec deciding not to look a gift horse in the mouth, hoped on the cycle, gunned the engine and headed straight for Max’s old apartment.


How Alec got them there in one piece he would never know. Max had spent the journey alternating between trying to take of his shirt and undoing his pants and rubbing herself seductively against him.

As he stopped he took deep breaths concentrating on keeping himself together. He dismounted from the cycle and turned as Max jumped into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist. She began kissing up and down Alec’s neck and nibbling his ear as Alec blurred her up the stairs and to the apartment door. Alec kicked open the door amazed at his self-control when suddenly Max caught his mouth and began kissing him with more passion than he had felt in his entire life. At the same time she dropped fresh pheromones and Alec felt himself give in. He kissed her back hungrily and reached down between them for his zipper.

With neither transgenic concentrating on their surroundings, they didn’t notice the Ordinary sneaking up behind them until Alec felt the pain on a frying pan making full and hard contact with the back of his head. Alec collapsed dropping Max instantly.

Max landed on her feet and looked at Original Cindy with more venom than OC had ever seen in her girl’s face. For a moment OC was scared until she remembered that her boo would never hurt her.

Unfortunately OC had never seen a Transgenic when its instincts were fully in control, especially one who had just had its mate…or perspective mate attacked.

Max attacked knocking OC straight to the floor. She then turned sensing Alec awaken. As Max crawled over to Alec licking her lips, OC took the opportunity to run as fast as she could nursing the wound on her head and arm in the process.