Title: All This Time
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Pairing: Maxie/Nathan
Summary: Nathan and Maxie gets some help from their friends to make sure they spend their one-year anniversary together.
** After finishing my first Nathan and Maxie story and working on two more; I figured one more wouldn't be impossible. I am hoping this one will be short and sweet. **
Chapter One
"I can't believe I can't get to Nathan tonight," Maxie stated plopping down on Spinelli's couch.
"I know you wanted to be with him tonight, but just think you can spend New Year's with Georgie and I," Spinelli explained.
"It's not the same. Staying another day with Georgie would be great. I mean I missed her first year and spending another day with her would be wonderful. It's just Nathan and I have been through so much this past year. He stood by me when I was losing myself with Levi. When you took Georgie and moved her across the country I lost part of myself and Nathan was there; he helped me through it all. He helped me find my way back."
"So you owe him. I get it, Maximista," Spinelli replied.
"No, you don't. You have Georgie, you even have Ellie. I had no one until Nathan knocked on my door that day a year ago. After Levi and Judge Walters kept us apart; he still stood by me."
"Maxie, you're in love with him. You can admit it; it won't hurt my feelings," Spinelli proclaimed.
"I have always been able to talk to you, Spinelli, even when we weren't speaking to each other. We have been through so much together; we almost got married. Now you are with Ellie, and I don't have the right to intrude on that."
"But you are my Maximista. You always will be, we will always have the connection looking at Georgie every day makes me remember those days – our good day. Yet we both made mistakes in our relationship, and all I have ever wanted was for you to be happy. If Nathan makes you happy, then I'm happy."
"You would like him, Spinelli. He reminds me of Jason, the tough exterior, but he has a sense of humor, he also opens up more, and more talkative. You don't have to guess what Nathan is feeling or thinking. And of course he is on the right side of the law."
"Sounds like a good guy. And like I said if he makes you happy that is what matters."
"He does make me very happy. Being with him tonight was our plan; the two of us had all these plans. He even told me that I walked out of the door last year not knowing whether he would see me again or not; and this time when I left he knew I was coming back. Now I don't even know when that is."
"We will figure it out."
"How?"
"Let me check how the weather is at the nearest airport, then we rent you a car and you drive there."
"Will that be enough time," Maxie asked.
"Unless you want to wait it out here," Spinelli asked.
"Well, I don't want to cause any more problems between you and Ellie. I know me staying here was not Ellie's idea."
"I will talk to Ellie."
"Spinelli, you have a good thing here. Don't mess it up on my account. And I don't believe I just said that," Maxie explained. "I mean I wish you lived closer so I could spend more time with Georgie and I am sure everyone misses you back in Port Charles."
"I know but Ellie's job is here."
"And you love Ellie," Maxie questioned.
"You know I do," Spinelli proclaimed. "She is not home much with her job, but it just means I get to be the Mr. Mom with Georgie and we have so much fun together."
"As long as you are happy," Maxie said standing up and looking out the window to the sunshine.
"I am."
"Then let's get me to Port Charles tonight before Ellie throws both of us out," Maxie demanded.
"Let's get to it," Spinelli said pulling is laptop to him and starting to work on plans.
In Port Charles, Nathan was pacing back and forth frustrated at his predictament.
"You need to sit down," Lulu demanded. "If you end up back in the hospital, Maxie would never forgive me."
"I can't believe this happened. After everything we have been through; this happens. Is someone trying to give us a sign," Nathan asked stomping his foot down.
"Dante and I have been through worse. I mean he pursued me for months and I kept turning him down. Then when I began to fall for him, he was shot by Sonny. Dante was undercover in Sonny's organization and when Sonny figured it out; he shot him. That is when Olivia came in and told him that Dante was his son. I've been kidnapped so many times and he has been shot just as many times. Here we are stronger than ever. You and Maxie will get there. It might take some obstacles and a few people stepping in the middle; but it will happen."
"Do you think so," Nathan asked turning around to look at Lulu who was sitting in the chair.
"I know so. I have never seen two people made for each other like you and Maxie. Well, other than Dante and I, that is."
"Right," Nathan replied.
"So let's see what we can do to get you and Maxie together by midnight tonight. I am going to make a few calls to see what I can do."
"Thank you, Lulu. You're the best," Nathan said sitting down on the couch.
Lulu stood up and moved to the back of the living room and dialed a number on her cell phone hoping she could use her family connections to make a miracle happen.
Would Maxie and Nathan's friends make a miracle happen? Would Maxie and Nathan be together by midnight like they had planned?