Title: Found
Author: Lori 6/01
Email: Gussywussy55@yahoo.com
Category: Max/Isabel NC17
Disclaimer: Owned by UPN.
Feedback:Yes please. It helps me out, good or bad.
Summary: After season 3...Max and Isabel comfort each
other as only they can...

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"Michael, do you know where Isabel is?" asked Max as
he walked in the back door of the Crashdown.
Michael stood at the grill flipping burgers and
serving up orders. 
"Order up!" he yelled as he rang the bell on the
counter.
After he completed the last one, he turned to Max and
wiping his hands on his apron asked, "Have you tried
the cemetery?" 
Taken aback, Max looked at Michael like he had lost
his mind and asked,"The cemetery? Why would she be
there? It's dark out anyway."
Michael just stared at Max and shook his head.
"You really have no idea do you?
At Max's negative shake of the head Michael
replied,"She goes there all the time."
"But it's been two months!" said Max confused.
Looking up at the ceiling like he was seeking answers
to explain more clearly to Max, Michael finally turned
again to his friend and said,"Max, he was her friend.
The closest one she had. She feels he died because of
her. She goes there everyday to sit. Just sitting and
talking to him. I've tried to get her to stop, but she
won't listen to me. I'm sure she is there now."
"I had no idea she was still doing that," said Max
shaking his head. " I knew she did it the first week
but not now. How could I have missed that?" he asked
Michael.
"You've had a lot on your own mind what with Tess and
your son...I've tried to keep an eye on her, but
somethings she just won't listen to me on."
"Michael! I've got an order for an 'Alien
Resurrection'" bellowed Maria threw the order window.
Michael threw a towel over his shoulder as he started
back to the grill.
"Check the cemetery. I'm telling you I bet that is
where she is," he said as he readied the food.
"Yeah, I will," said Max quietly.
Getting up and going to the door, he turned back and
said,"Michael?"
Michael looked his way.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks. Thanks for watching out for her," said Max
greatfully.
Michael smiled and nodded his head,"No problem."
Max headed out the door and toward his new jeep in
search of Isabel

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Max pulled into the darkened cemetery and drove
towards the site of Alex's grave.
Threw the trees he could see candles flickering in the
darkness like fireflies. Pulling the jeep to a stop ,
he sat and watched as Isabel arranged flowers around
the headstone and appeared to be talking.
Talking to Alex.
Getting out of the jeep, Max walked up towards the
site and stood back quietly observing Isabel.
She had tears streaming down her face as she talked to
Alex, trying to make some sense out of her life and
all that had happened.

"I know I keep saying this to you Alex, but I'm sorry.
So sorry for involving you in all of this. If I had
just left you alone instead of seeking you out to find
out if you were cool to help us...if I hadn't called
you up to ask you to come to the Crashdown and meet me
that night you would never have gone to Tess...I
should never have let you go on loving me while I
loved someone who could never love me in return...it
wasn't fair to you, and I'm sorry."
She laughed a sad laugh as she continued ,wiping at
her face where the tears fell down.
"I know you told me it didn't matter that I loved
someone else, that you were content to be my friend,
but it did matter didn't it? I hurt you by loving him.
And it hurt you even more because you knew I could
never tell him...have him, but I couldn't be with you
either. I'm sorry Alex. I didn't want to give you half
a heart. I loved you as my friend, but we both knew I
could never love you in the way you wanted or needed.
The way you deserved."

Max felt his throat tighten and burn as his own tears
began to fall watching Isabel. Her agony was
devestating to him. 
His heart broke not only for her pain, but also as he
heard the words she spoke of loving another. 
She loved someone else. 
But then she didn't know he had come to realize that
his love for her could no longer be hidden. That he
had been searching her out to reveal his feelings for
her, and hope that she was not too horrified by his
revelation.

She lay on Alex's grave now, pressing her cheek to the
ground covering where he lay.
"I need you Alex. I need you to tell me what to do.
You always were straight with me, never pulling any
punches. But now I'm lost. I have no one to talk to
about these feelings I have."
Rising up to her knees she said,"Maybe I should leave
here. I know that Max needs me to help him find a way
to get his son back, but...his son. I still can't
believe that he has a son with Tess."

Max started to make his presense known to her, but her
next words stopped him.
"I'm so envious of her Alex. And the thing is, she
doesn't love him ... not like I do. I love him and she
bares his son. How fair is that?"
If he had not been leaning against a tree he would
have fallen.
She loved him? Surely he had missunderstood her. She
was speaking of someone else.
Listening harder, he waited for her to say again that
she loved him in the way he loved her.

"I have hidden how I feel about him everyday for the
past two years. When he started up with Liz, I just
knew I would die. I tried breaking them apart when I
would see them together, but he always went back to
her."
Sniffing, she rearranged the roses as if needing to
keep her hands busy.
"And when he took up with Tess...I really was shocked.
That was out of the blue. He had denied the destinies
so strongly and then he was seeking her out. That hurt
most of all. But then he didn't know how I felt about
him, so how can I be upset with him? "
She laughed a sad laugh cut with sobs,"But you know
all of this already don't you Alex? You alone know my
pain...and now you have taken it to your grave...I'm
so sorrrrrryyy," she broke down as she collapsed on
his grave, her fists clenching the earth.

Max could stand it no more.
Wiping his face, he hurried across the space between
them and kneeled down to touch her hair, speaking to
her softly, "Isabel...Isabel don't...don't cry," he
pleaded with her.
Startled, Isabel jerked up and around.
"Max?! Oh God, you frightened me," she said in a
shakey voice as she wiped at her tears.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"That's my question for you Isabel," he said gently as
he rubbed her shoulder in a light caress. "Why are
here in the dark talking to Alex?"
Looking around her, she tried to think of someting to
say to explain her actions, but words failed her.
Finally she asked,"How long have you been standing
there Max? How did you know where to find me? Did
Michael tell you?"
Max sat down beside her, his back leaning against the
tree that grew beside Alex's grave.
"Yeah Michael told me. He says you've been here
everyday like this since Alex died Iz. Why? Why
couldn't you come to me and talk to me...or to
Michael? You are not alone you know...far from it," he
asked wanting to know if she would now tell him she
loved him.
Isabel shook her head.
"You have had other things on your mind...bigger
things. And Michael ...well I knew he cared...I just
needed to be here is all."
Knowing she wasn't going to tell him the truth, he
realized he would have to make the first move.
"Isabel...ummm...I heard what you said to Alex."
Isabel's eyes flew to his.
"What do you think you heard Max?" she asked
cautiously.
"The last several minutes...I know how you feel
responsible for his death...how you wished you hadn't
called him that night...but you know that he was dead
already Isabel, Tess took care of that, not you," and
taking a deep breath he added at her paniced look,
"and I know who you loved me instead of him."
Closing her eyes against the look of disgust and pity
she knew she would see, her face flaming she said,
"Max, you don't know what you heard. I was rambling,
that's all."
"Isabel look at me....please?" he asked her
pleadingly.
Tears squeezed out the corners of her eyes as she
tried to hold them back and failed. Opening her eyes
she saw the tender look he gave her.
"I was looking for you to tell you that I...I have
feelings for you."
At her surprised look he said,"I never dreamed you
felt the same way about me. I was prepaired to have
you yell at me if I told you I how I felt, but I never
thought you would return my feelings," he finished
softly taking her face in his hands.
"Max..." she whimpered.
"Shhhh," he said as he pulled her into his arms.
"I don't understand...when...?" she asked against his
neck as she breathed in his scent.
"Always. I've always loved you and was afraid to let
you know because of who we are supposed to be. But
after losing my son to Tess and Kivhar...I realized
that I couldn't lose you too. I was willing to risk
your not returning my feelings. It's crazy I know, but
I almost lost Michael and I couldn't lose anyone else.
Especially you Isabel."
"Max," Isabel cried in relief as she clung to him.
Turning his head, her lips were so near his that he
couldn't hold back anymore, and he leaned down and
took her mouth with his, sucking her bottom lip
between his two, searching with his tongue when she
opened her mouth to him.
Breaking the kiss, he kissed her brow and cheek.
"Mmmax...I've waited so long for you to love me. To
say the words..." she began.
"I love you Isabel. I love you so much" he said as he
took her face in his hands and again kissed her, this
time more deeply than before as his tongue ravaged the
inside of her mouth.
Suddenly his hands were in her hair, his fingers
weaving themselves between the silken strands.
His mouth left hers to seek out her neck and throat,
her head thrown back allowing him better access.
He could her purr deep down inside.
"Isabel..." he breathed heavily.
"Max..." she whispered.
"We can't do this here..not now...I don't want you to
think that this is all I want from you," he said.
"I know it's not all Max. And I don't care if it is
now or later as long it is with you," she replied
"Isabel I need..."
"Me too," she replied knowingly.
"Are you sure?" he asked her not wanting her to have
regrets later.
"It's what I've wanted for so long Max," she said as
her hands began to roam his chest.
His hands went inside her jacket and caressed a
swelling globe threw her sweater.
"Ohhh Max..." she moaned as his hands began to mold
and kneed her breasts.
"Is..." he breathed against her neck resigned to what
they were going to do here now.

Taking off his jacket and hers, Max spread them on the
ground beneath her, and then lay beside her.
"You can stop this now Isabel."
"No...I don't want to stop it Max...I only want it to
go on," she said as she pulled him down to her.
Raising her sweater above her head, Max divested her
of it quickly.
She shivered.
"You're cold," he said as he pulled her to him.
"I won't be for long. I have you to keep me warm," she
reassurred him.
She helped him off with his shirt and ran her hands
over his muscular chest and arms, kissing his chest
with little kisses.
He shivered.
You're cold now," she said softly.
"No...not cold...feeling pleasure," he responded with
a sigh.
Smiling she lightly ran her hands over his ribs and
down to his waist.
Max reached for the straps of her bra and pulled them
down, kissing the tops of her rounded breasts as he
went.
Reaching behind her he unhooked her bra and pulled it
from her.
Gazing down at her he said,"You are so beautiful."
"Make love to me Max," she begged.
Max bent and took a breast in his mouth and began to
suck at the nipple, widening his mouth as he tried to
get as much of her inside as he could.
Her moans were like music to him. 
Switching sides he laved the hard nipple and area
around it until she arched to him.
His kisses and kneedings soon turned to lower areas as
Max kissed her belly while his hands undid her pants
and pushed them down revealing her cotton panties
already wet with her need for him.
He could smell her desire and it made him harder than
he already had been, his ache growing at knowing how
much she wanted him.
He traced patterns on her panties around her mound,
the sensation driving her crazy as he came to but
didn't touch her opening.
"Maxxxx...don't tease," she begged.
Removing his hands, he stood up and took off his pants
and then looking down at her, he removed his boxers
waiting for her reaction to him.

Isabel watched Max take off his pants and held her
breath as he removed his boxers, his member springing
free and proud.
She released her breath and made and 'O' with her
mouth before licking her lips in anticipation.
Max came to lay back down beside her and she took him
hesitantly in her hands, smiling at his sharp intake
of breath at her touch on him.
"Oh yesssss," he sighed as he closed his eyes,
enjoying her hands on him as she discovered his body.
Isabel thought the long, thick shaft and bulbous head
with its precum beautiful. She ran her finger along
the shaft and felt its silky softness. She marveled at
how it grew as she began to slowly pump the organ in
her hands.
"Oh Isabellll...oohhhhh yessss," he moaned as her
touch sent him to shivering.
Suddenly he grabbed her hand and stopped her.
"What?" she asked.
"Stop...I'll come if you don't. I don't want to
yet...not yet," he told her threw clinched teeth.
"Now you," he said as he slid his hand inside her
panties and slipped a finger along and inside her
slit, sending her hips off the ground.
A gasp of pleasure escaped her as he caressed her
throbbing nub with her slick juices, delving his
fingers deep inside of her, pressing his hand against
her mound.
Removing his hand, Max took off her wet panties and
opened her legs.
Climbing between them, his member poked her opening
seeking entrance to her tight passage.
Kissing her deeply Max began to puch inside of her
stopping a second when he hit her barrier before
pushing threw and making her his.
Her nails dug into his back at the pain she had when
he took her viginity, but soon it eased as did her
nails on him.
Max looked down into her eyes.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry, I'm not" she said.
Max began to move in her, his strokes strong and sure
yet gentle. He helped her to move with a rhythum that
continued to grow with speed as he carried her to the
edge of her orgasm and then pushed her over before
following her with his own.
The pleasure was so great that neither thought they
could withstand its intensity as they clung to each
other while wave after continuous wave rolled over
them 
before finally sending them crashing back down to
Earth.
"Is... it... always... like that?" she gasped
struggling to breathe.
"N...no...never! I didn't experience that with..." he
stopped as he realized what he had almost said, and 
looked down at her with regret in his eyes at ruining
this moment for her.
She touched his face and said,"Max, she is always
going to be here. She is the mother of your son. I'm
not stupid enough to pretend like you've never had sex
before. But knowing that you didn't experience that
great of pleasure with her, well I can live with
that."
Max kissed her and pulled her closer to him.
"It was amazing Isabel! You are amazing...and I'm not
just saying that," he hastened to add. "I hope we
always feel like that."
"Me too Max," she smiled.
"Isabel, let's go home."
Nodding, they sat up and began to dress.
As they picked up there jackets and put them on ,
Isabel knelt by Alex's grave.
"Do you think he knows? I mean that I'm okay now," she
asked.
Joining her and taking her hand in his, Max nodded.
"He knows Isabel and he would be happy for you...for
us. He would not be happy to know that you are like
this all the time. Promise me you will talk to me when
you have these feelings of guilt. Feelings you
shouldn't have because his death was Tess's fault not
yours."
Isabel nodded as she brought his hand up to her lips
and kissed it before rubbing her cheek on it.
"I promise Max."
Helping her up they started to the jeep when he
stopped.
"I'll be right back."
He headed back to the grave and knelt down and said,
"I promise to take care of her Alex. Rest easy that
she is not alone and that she is loved like you loved
her."
Standing up he went back to where she waited and put
his arm around her as they walked to the jeep and got
in.
"What will everyone say about us Max?" she asked.
"I don't care Isabel. All I care about is that I have
found I love you and that you love me too."
"Max we have to care...they may not understand."
"All I care about is now..this minute with you. The
rest can wait for tomorrow," he answered.
"Until tomorrow," she agreed as he started the jeep
and headed for home.

End