Alec rifled though the CD's left to them. He could hear the sounds of Max splashing around in her bath. Eventually he selected one at random and put into the player.
"A buzzer took a monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square-" The swing began. Max laughed from the bathroom.
"What is that?" She exclaimed. Alec grinned at the CD player and went to make drinks.
" 'Straighten Up and Fly Right' apparently." He went to get his black jeans and dark polo neck. He wanted a shower before he changed though.
"That is such a cool song." Max called through. She walked into the room, a towel wrapped around her. She was towelling her hair vigorously.
"Drink?" Alec asked, handing her a cocktail.
"Mmm. Thank you." Max smiled and accepted the alchohol. Alec edged past her, very careful not to touch her, and headed for his shower.
"Max! What were you doing in here?" Alec cried as he entered. The floor was soaked and there were bubbles everywhere. He grumbled to himself and switched the shower on. He stripped and got in.
"Alec - where did you put my jacket?" Max called.
"Uh - In the wardrobe I think." Alec called, scrubbing his face. He grabbed his towel and stepped out of the shower.The next song started and Alec cheered. "I love this song!" He called as he walked into the main room. Max was dressed in black, she raised an eyebrow at him.
"You are strange, where did you learn swing anyway?" She asked. Alec grinned at her, grabbing his clothes and heading back into the bathroom. He started singing along, ignroing Max's chuckle.
"'Have you met Miss Jones?' Someone said as we shook hands."She was just Miss Jones to me." He came out of the bathroom and grabbed Max's hand, wrapping an arm around her waist and swinging her around the room, still singing ridiculously serious. Max was reduced to giggle.
"And then I said 'Miss Jones, you're a girl who understands, I'm a man who must be free.'
And all at once I lost my breath
And all at once was scared to death
And all at once I owned the earth and sky." He broke away from Max and fell to his knees, arm outstretched , finding it hard to keep a smile from his face. Max put a hand to her mouth, laughing hard.
"And now I've met Miss Jones and we'll keep on meeting till we die! Miss Jones and I!"
"Come on you. Or do you want to get anything tonight?" Max asked. Alec raised an eyebrow at her from his position on his knees. Max hit him over the head playfully.
"C'mon, let's scout this hotel out."
Max smiled at the receptionist as she and Alec walked briskly out onto the lawn. They meandered round to the back of the house.
"I see a secuirty camera over there, another at two o'clock." Alec said, using their casualness as an excuse to put an arm around Max's waist. Max tried not to glare.
"I think there's a blind spot about half way up thje second floor, then we could take the guttering up to the roof." Max said. Alec nodded. He turned to Max and grinned rogueishly.
"Bet I can jump higher than you can."
Max caught the windowledge with her hands, feeling herself slipping a little. Her foot caught the edge of a gargoyle and she oushed herself up onto the guttering, quickly she scaled it. Alec reached down from the roof to help her up, she ignored it pointedly.
"All right. Mobility is no problem." Max began. "What we need to do is figure out what we want to steal." She turned to Alec who nodded. He came to stand by her shoulder.
"Okay, ready to memerise it?" He asked. Max nodded.
"I'll take the left side okay?"
"Fine by." Alec said. The split to different sides of the roof, jumping off the slates and skidding down the shale. When they reached the opposite ends they started walking to the other, concentrating on the paces they took, the lines they saw in the roofwork and what they knew already of the hotel. Max reached the end, pretty sure she could find her way around the right hand side of the building.
"You done Max?" Alec called. Max nodded. "All right, let's get some sleep." He called, crouching to open a skylite. Max rolled her eyes. Sometimes Alec could be just too Manticorey.
Alec dropped silently to the floor, he looked around quickly but saw no one. Max dropped down beside him. She straightened and dusted herself off.
"Remember what you said- I get the bed." She smiled at his grimace and eld the way back down.
"Hey! A bar!" Alec noted as they walked past it. Max hesitated. It was going to be a long weekend. Maybe she deserved a little drink.
"C'mon." Alec grabbed her elbow and dragged her over. "Drinky time!"