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1. Maybe far away (or real nearby) by 1f_this_be_madness

   Fandoms: Dark Angel (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen, F/F
   • Complete Work

   20 Jun 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Max Guevara | X5-452/Alec McDowell | X5-494
   • Logan Cale | Eyes Only/Max Guevara | X5-452
   • Max Guevara | X5-452 & Alec McDowell | X5-494
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Rachel Berrisford/Alec McDowell | X5-494
   • Max Guevara | X5-452
   • Alec McDowell | X5-494
   • Logan Cale | Eyes Only
   • Cynthia "Original Cindy" McEachin
   • Reagan "Normal" Ronald
   • Mating Cycles/In Heat
   • physical touch
   • POV Max Guevara | X5-452
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Swearing
   • Frenemies
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Sort Of
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • also sort of
   • Alec and Max have a complex relationship okay
   • They should've been endgame though
   • Banter
   • Insults
   • Kissing
   • Alec is surprisingly gentle when he wants to be
   • Alec cares about Max ssh
   • Max Guevara has anger issues
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • of a sort
   • There's lots of 'sorts' of stuff going on in this fic lol
   • Madness rambles
   • Set after Berrisford and Borrowed Time but before Hello Goodbye
   • Tender Alec
   • Cunnilingus
   • Gentle Kissing
   • Mid- to late Dark Angel season 2
   • POV Alec McDowell | X5-494
   • These two are dealing and have dealt with so much shit
   • Max and Alec deserved better
   • Coming Untouched

   Summary

   Hot blooded, check it an' see, I gotta fever of a hundred an' three... ~ Foreigner

    

   Maybe she can make it through this cycle, maybe she can make it on her own. Maybe she can pretend for the rest of her life not to be a transgenic, maybe pigs will fly and hell will freeze over.

   Maybe she has a friend, or a few, or someone in her life that surprises her. Maybe. Maybe she's even got something else...if she can accept it. But you guessed it - that's a big, fat maybe.

   Max Guevara deals with a shit-ton of 'maybes' in her life. She is one herself. Maybe she'd be able to survive out in the world without completing her training. Maybe she can make meaningful connections and choices for herself outside Manticore influence or control. Maybe she can feel completely comfortable in her skin. Maybe.

   Then again, maybe not.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,994

   Chapters:

   3/3

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