Caught in the Crossfire

A/N: This story is mostly for the benefit of my friend, Carli. You see, she was complaining that there was a lacking in GSpin fanfiction and although I like GSpin and see complete compatibility between the two, I find the couple slightly uneventful and still somehow cute; so I knew I had to incorporate some fire that I love and that's how this one came about. A GSPIN/JOMAX CROSS!

A Quick History Lesson!!

With the town of Port Charles forced to choose sides of a brimming mob war, the towns' super powers are broken up an playing on different sides. Because of the chaos of Kristina's real attacker still being unknown as Johnny begins to plot against Sonny, he finds an unlikely ally in Luke. And they're both seeking out vengeance for their respective families, as Ethan is forced to go into hiding as the war heats up.

As Maxie begins to realize that Spinelli isn't really the love of her life, she also begins to realize the vision of Georgie coming to her as an angel WASN'T a dream. Georgie Jones is back, with the help of Frisco and Felicia Jones—who also, to Maxie's dismay, are back in town. This will be a great help to the PCPD, and trust me, they're going to need it.

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CHAPER 1:

As the night began to pull to a close, Maxie found herself lying, once again, in her own bed with Spinelli's arms wrapped neatly around her. It was the first night she had gotten to spend at home, since she got out of the hospital and to her relief Spinelli had insisted that there was no sex until she got her strength back. It was probably 2:30 in the morning when Maxie heard an insistent knock on the door. She assumed that Lulu had forgotten her key and had just gotten back from having hot sex with Dante! That was the thought that made her hurry out of bed; she wanted the details! Walking over to the door, she felt a chill run down her spine, which was unusual because spring had just began in Port Charles and the nights were no longer cold.

She walked to the door and peered through the key hole. "You have got to be kidding me," she muttered seeing her dead-beat mother at the door and her no-show father standing next to you. "You're back in town without a death or emergency? Where's the fire?" Maxie asked, opening the door and crossing her arms. Her mother quickly put her arms down. Felicia Jones should've expected anything but a hug from her eldest daughter. A smack in the face would've been more appropriate. "Maxie, that's no way to talk to your mother." Frisco muttered, softly. "We've been in town since you went into the hospital but Mac begged us to stay away for the sake of your heart. We didn't come to upset you." Frisco told her, levelly. Those were her parents—emotionally stable and caring about her from a distance.

"You should've stayed away." Maxie told her biological parents, rather harshly. This was the personality she'd lost to Spinelli; the self-destructive, snarky girl that didn't avoid being direct to spare everyone else's' feelings. Frisco shook his head patiently, looking at his daughter. "We have something you need to see…" he told her his eyes meeting her for the first time in years. It had been years since Maxie had seen her father. She hardly knew the man that stood in front of her, and she didn't want to know. She shook her head, arms still crossed over her upper body. "What makes you think I want to go anywhere with you?" Maxie asked her father, levelly.

"Please?" Felicia piped up, "I promise, we only want 5 minutes of your time. Anything beyond that is your decisions." She managed; the usually collected woman seemed to be feeling over-emotional tonight. Her voice hinted distress. "Mac and Robin have instructed me to rest. So, going out at 2:30 in the morning would be a direct violation of their orders." Maxie told her mother and father. "I need to rest." She said, coolly.

Her parents just looked at each other, their eyes mirrored Maxie's stubbornness but they didn't speak. Instead, it was a voice from behind her that spoke. "And since when do you listen to direct orders, Maxie?" The voice belonged to her roommate and best friend, Lulu Spencer. Lulu had been so overjoyed by Maxie's rebound, but she hadn't understood it. No one did; Maxie didn't even understand it at times.

Maxie turned to look at her friend and saw that she wasn't the only one listening to the conversation. Dante and Spinelli had come out from their respective beds to see who was at the door. Maxie hadn't even noticed their footsteps behind her. "I must agree with the original blonde one, Maximista. I know that the disappearing parents have disappointed you in the past, but maybe they're looking to make amends for their preceding mistakes." Spinelli stuttered. He didn't like under minding Maxie, but having no knowledge of his own parents enticed him to support Maxie's. Dante stood silent; he was familiar with parental issues, especially with his paternity recently coming into light.

Felicia and Frisco had moved into the room and closed the door behind him, trying to keep the altercation held within the doors of Maxie and Lulu's apartment. There was another knock at the door that Maxie rushed to answer hoping to delay this conversation with Felicia and Frisco; while her parents exchanged severe looks. Only one thought was on their minds: Georgie. Georgie was at the door.

When Maxie answered the door, she saw a familiar face. "Hey there! Come in." She said, ushering Johnny Zacharra into the already crowded room. "I was hoping to talk to you, Maxie." Johnny said in a quiet voice. He hadn't, yet, taken in the details of the scene in front of him; and what a sight it was. Maxie looked at him. "That much is obvious; it's a common trend tonight." Maxie told him, closing the door behind him. Johnny entered the room and felt the tension that seemed to be coming from every human body in the room. He nodded to Dante, Lulu and Spinelli in the corner and then turned his attention to the man and woman still standing in the doorway; he immediately noticed their resemblance to Maxie and comprehension hit. "You must be Felicia and Frisco." He acknowledged.

Felicia and Frisco looked surprised. Of course, Johnny knew everything about their daughter; he'd come to admire her in the time he'd known her. Maxie cut off Felicia and Frisco's responding comments with a snarky one of her own: "Don't be nice to them." She snapped, "You don't have to be nice to them. They've done nothing to deserve it." Maxie corrected, leveling her tone and making eye contact with Johnny.

Maxie and Johnny exchanged a look; it was like they could read each others' minds for just a split moment. Maxie was rapidly falling back into her lifestyle before Spinelli and she could see the lust in his eyes that mirrored in her own. She looked away before anyone else could notice it. "I don't mean to interrupt but do you have a minute? I just wanted to talk to you alone…" Johnny told her. Spinelli must've seen the glance in his eyes because he immediately stepped up and his demeanor had changed. "Maximista needs her rest; none of you should be here." He reprimanded Felicia, Frisco, and Johnny all in one shot. Lulu wasn't oblivious to what she'd just seen either. She immediately moved to Spinelli's side and put a hand on his shoulder. "Let them talk." She mumbled, slowly. "It's ok." Lulu told him, trying to be sensitive to everyone in the room.

Maxie listened to everyone talking in the room; Lulu trying to comfort Spinelli, Frisco and Felicia exchanging significant looks back and forth, and Dante looking to see what was going to happen next from the corner, where he'd started. Maxie nodded. "We'll talk outside, and then I will go with you and Frisco for five minutes." Maxie complied, looking at Felicia. The pair looked somewhat relieved by this change in their daughters' mood and felt instant gratitude to the mysterious man that had showed up at her doorstep, asking to talk with her in the middle of the night.

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Maxie and Johnny walked out onto the front porch, ignoring the stares of everyone in the room. Johnny took Maxie's hand and led her around the corner to so that they wouldn't be overheard by Spinelli or anyone else present in the living room of Maxie's apartment. "Sorry, it's a little over-crowded in there at the moment." Maxie apologized, with a small and almost silent laugh. Maxie started out what could be a very awkward conversation. Johnny just nodded, not making eye-contact with Maxie for the first time since Maxie had tried to seduce him for Claudia's money.

"I just came by to ask how you're feeling…" Johnny started, looking up into her beautiful blue eyes. He had caught himself off-guard with how much Maxie could still pull off snarky and sexy after all her changes. "Johnny, we both know that you didn't come here at 2:30am to see how I was feeling. What's really going on?" Maxie asked him, meeting his eyes. She could see the conflict in them, and that frustrated her above all else; especially after everything they had been through. Maxie heard a rustle in the bushes, before Johnny could answer her question. She jumped slightly, her head snapping that direction. Johnny's instincts caused his hand to fly to his gun and pull it out, bracing it and pointing it in the direction of the rustle.

"You're in risk just being here with me. I came to tell you that we're brimming on a mob war. It's Sonny Corinthos against my alliance with Luke." He spoke slowly and softly. He didn't lower his gun as he held it. He barely looked at Maxie, as he approached the clearing in the brush. "Come out, with your hands where I can see them." He ordered. He heard several more rustles, as none other than Georgie Jones stepped out from the bushes. Maxie immediately stared in the direction that her younger sister had appeared from. "Johnny, are you seeing this?" Maxie asked him. She assumed she was hallucinating, but seeing this hallucination caused all of her irritation with Johnny to melt away. She got to see her sister, and now she had no idea why she was seeing. Johnny lowered his gun. "Yes, Maxie, I'm seeing this." He said, slowly. He didn't believe his eyes, just as Maxie was struggling with the picture in front of her. Maxie ran over and hugged her sister. "Why are you back?" Maxie asked her sister. "You told me I wouldn't remember you visiting, but I do." Maxie began to cry. Every bit of pain, Maxie had felt after her sister died was coming back. She didn't want to lose her again, but that seemed to be inevitable at this point. She was dead; she couldn't be back. It didn't mean that she was staying; she couldn't be staying here.

It was before Georgie could answer that Felicia and Frisco burst through the door, each with a gun raised at Johnny. "Lower your gun…" Frisco ordered, as Johnny put it back in its holster. Felicia and Frisco followed in suit. "This is what we want to show you, Maxie." They told her, as Maxie clung to her sister, praying and hoping that she wouldn't disappear again. Shortly after that Lulu and Spinelli followed Maxie and Georgie's parents out the front door. Both their jaws just dropped. Spinelli was the first to speak: "Wise Georgie, how… how… how could you… be, I mean… alive? I held you; you were dead… no pulse." He stumbled sheepishly.

Georgie didn't respond; she just smiled at him and held her sister. Johnny, Spinelli, and Lulu all looked to Felicia and Frisco for an answer. Frisco looked at Felicia and she began to tell the story. "It was Frisco's plan; actually, it was quite brilliant." She began. "You see, Frisco and I knew both our daughters and were busy trying to hunt down the Text Message Killer, so when Maxie made correspondence with him, we began to plan. We knew that the killer wasn't selecting people randomly and were intercepting text messages. We also began to see the patterns change in texts once Georgie took Maxie's cell phone and so we began to make a plan to save our daughters. There is a pill that we found on our travels that temporarily stops the heart and feigns everyone around to believe that the taker of the pill died. That's why she had no pulse." Felicia explained. "Mac wouldn't tell you that Georgie's body disappeared because he knew that I had something to do with it, Maxie. He didn't know that she was still alive; no one did." Felicia told her eldest daughter, whose face was changing from sad to angry right in front their eyes.

Maxie pulled out of her sister's arms and took a few strides toward Felicia. "You," she choked. "You kept my sister alive, and you didn't feel the need to tell ME!" Maxie snapped. Her head was spinning; she wasn't grasping the concept of the fact that Georgie was still alive, just that her parents had betrayed her, AGAIN. "She was the only family I had; the only person that genuinely cared and was ALWAYS there for ME AND YOU DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED TO TELL ME?!" Maxie snapped. Her tone lowered as several porch lights came on. "What about Mac and Robin? How could you be so selfish and keep it from THEM?!" Maxie asked her mother and father. Tears were streaming down her face. Nothing about this situation was right. Georgie appeared at Maxie's shoulder and shook her head. "Maxie, they couldn't tell anyone. They were protecting me from Diego." Maxie told her. "You wouldn't believe how dismayed he was when he came after me that it wasn't you. He wanted both of us, dead. That's why Felicia stayed in town, she was monitoring you. She didn't want him to actually kill you." Georgie tried to explain to her irrational older sister.

Maxie's heart was pounding as she pulled away from Georgie, Felicia, and Frisco and walked back over to Johnny. That's where she delivered her feeling of disgust with all of them. "You felt no need to contact us. No need to tell us, you were OK?" Maxie asked her sister. Georgie sighed and looked at her sister. "I tried to give you little hints and reminders: do you remember when you got my letter for the acceptance of the study abroad program?" Georgie asked her. "That's where I've been. I've missed you so much." Maxie just stared at her sister, trying not to break down into tears again. "That's why I visited you against the hospital." Georgie told her, slowly.

"You did what?!" Felicia asked Georgie, the attention of the conversation changing. Every face standing in the crowd was changing with the mood. Lulu and Dante looked uncomfortable. Spinelli just looked confused. Johnny was trying to remain neutral, standing too close to Maxie to be too expressive. He rubbed her back, gently as she watched the events. Shock was beginning to set in; this was all real. "I went to visit my sister at the hospital." Georgie told her mother, levelly. "I thought she was going to die and I wanted to give her a reason to live and I did." Maxie silently agreed with that statement. "Her vitals improved after my visit; she thought I was an angel." Georgie told her, seriously. "I told her she had to choose to live."

Felicia waved it off; there was too much going on for an argument. Then it happened, Maxie collapsed into Johnny's arms. Her heart was beating too fast and causing too much pressure on her vital organs.

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A/N: Alright, so this is my first fanfic in a loonnnng time! So, enjoy. Leave comments! =]