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It wasn't really her birthday. Max was well aware that she'd only picked the day for herself a few years ago. For all she knew, it was really in April or May or August or something. Manticore hadn't been too big on that kind of thing, so she wondered if they'd even kept a record of it

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It's not the first time Alec's seen someone on the roof of the Compound, but it's the first time he can remember someone standing right one the edge. Someone... Max shaped.

There's a quick flash of genuine worry in the pit of his stomach -- which is something he's absolutely not going to think about -- before it slips away again. If there's anything he knows about Max, it's that she's not suicidal.

Slowing to a stop just below her, he cocks his head, squinting upward with a cocky grin. "Aw, c'mon, Max. Life can't be that bad. Got me here now, don't you? What more could you ask for?"

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Max rolled her eyes. It figured. Just when a girl thought she could get a few minutes of peace and quiet.

That had been the good thing about the Space Needle. People didn't just pop up out of nowhere and ask you what the hell you were doing up there in the first place.

"Aren't people on your end of this supposed to be trying to talk me out of jumping?" She said.

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"I failed Crisis Negotiation Procedures 101," he lies with a shrug.

Glancing over, he notices the ladder by the wall and then turns his attention back to Max. "So, what's the deal? Missing your quiet time on the Space Needle? You know, you could probably climb a tree and get a lot higher."

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"Probably," Max agreed with a shrug of her own, without telling him why she hadn't tried climbing a tree instead. "I think I'm cool here though."

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Josh had been heading into the compound for something warm to drink, but the figure on the roof had caught his eye. Hard not to, when it was standing near the edge. And when it was that... well. He paused for a moment, staring up at her, before blinking back to reality. "Hey--" He called up to her, half a smile on his lips, hoping she wasn't too serious about the whole edge-of-the-roof thing. "How's the view?" Small talk. Sarcasm. These are things Josh could handle.

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She should have known that someone was going to see her on the roof and maybe think that she was going to jump or something. She looked down, at the guy who'd spoken to her.

"Decent," Max said with a shrug, "Seattle's better, though."

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Josh shrugged, shaking his head skeptically. "Seattle? Really?" He raised his eyebrows. "I'm sure there are better views out there." He paused. "New York? London? DC?" Not that he was biased.

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Max shrugged again. "Girl's entitled to her own opinion." She said.

She'd never really gotten too much farther than the west coast since leaving Manticore, so she wouldn't really have known.