Title: shadows

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: references to canon character death

Pairings: none

Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115

Point of view: third

Prompt: Dark Angel, Max +/ Alec (+Ben), she thought she was seeing a ghost

She stares at him sometimes, seeing her brother. She barely knew the man her brother became, only that he was... sick. Wrong. She killed him to save him, and it will always haunt her.

They wanted to see if it was genetic, Alec told her irreverently, before he was Alec.

How much of Ben is in Alec? How much of a person is their experiences? She and Sam are nothing alike, are they? Had her siblings all stuck together that night, would they still be the same people they are now? Better?

How well does she know Alec? Better than she knew Ben, and isn't that a chilling thought.

"What's wrong?" Alec asks.

She shrugs. "Nothing."