PROMPT: Person A and B are cuddling, right in the middle of an intimate moment. Then the third wheel sits on the couch next to them, disturbing the moment.

"Max?" Zoe called out as she returned home from a long day at work. Once upon a time, her job at the Emergency Department was the only thing in her life she could rely on and then one day, Max walked through it's doors with his messy hair and slightly creased Porters t-shirt. At that moment, her whole life had changed. And his had too. Now shifts without him were long and tiring. There was no one to appear at her office door with coffee or slip a chocolate bar into her pocket in passing. Unused to relying on others for happiness, it pained Zoe to admit that she had missed him and looked forward to the next day when he too would share her shift.

"Here" Max replied softly, suddenly appearing in the living room doorway. Zoe gave a smile as he dropped to kiss her lips. Dropping her things to the floor and kicking off her heels, Zoe wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "I missed you" he murmured, his lips dangerously close to her neck. Zoe felt a shiver run down her spine as she buried her face in his hair breathing in his comforting scent.

"Where is everyone?" Zoe asked curiously, leading Max back into the living room. She fell onto the sofa with a sigh, stretching out her tired feet. Max shrugged. They lived with his sister Robyn and best friend Lofty and Zoe was almost sure she'd never seen the house so quiet or so tidy. "Why is it so clean?" She giggled, curling into Max's side as he sat next to her. She hadn't had to move Robyn's usual pile of trashy magazines to sit down and hadn't come across any of Lofty's clothes as they walked through the hallway.

"I missed you" Max repeated, his lips once again finding hers.

"Hmm, so it would appear." Zoe giggled, lifting her legs into his lap when he automatically began massaging them, aware she would have barely sat down all day.

"So?" Max began, raising an eyebrow as he looked at her. Zoe couldn't help the giggle that fell from her lips.

"So?" She repeated, unsure what he was getting at.

"We've established that I missed you." he murmured, his lips once again finding their way to her neck. Her giggle was silenced as she gave a soft moan. Max pulled away with a grin, aware of the effect he was having on her. "So the question is, did you miss me?" He asked, returning to where he massaged her feet. Zoe gave a long pause, unable to express how she'd longed for him to appear all day.

Finally, smiling, she offered, "Remember that time I went for a weeks training in London?"

Max nodded, smiling at what he knew was coming.

"And you remember how I showed you I missed you when I got home?" Zoe asked, pulling her feet away to tuck them under herself as she slipped closer to Max.

"I do." Max's smile widened, his hands reaching out to begin unbuttoning Zoe's shirt a little.

"Well, that's how much I missed you today." Zoe breathed into his ear, smiling as his kisses dropped from her jaw to her neck and then to her chest.

When Max heard Zoe's breath beginning to hitch, he pulled back just a little. "You missed me a week's worth in one shift?"

Zoe bit her lip as she nodded, eyes focused on Max's lips as he unconsciously licked them.

He pushed her shirt aside, fumbling as he tried to find a way inside her bra. Zoe gave a soft giggle, seamlessly un-clipping it through her shirt. Max gave a grin, his eyes wide in awe before his warm hand collided with her breast. Zoe gave a low moan, her head buried into his shoulder, her warm breath ticked his neck.

"Max." She murmured as he placed trailing kisses along her breastbone. She was just about to tug on his t-shirt indicating that she wanted to move upstairs when she felt the sofa dip.

"Hey Zo." Robyn greeted, sitting down next to them with a magazine in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. Zoe and Max jumped apart, her hand going straight to her chest in order to hold her shirt together.

"Hi." Zoe managed to stutter, fidgeting on the sofa as she tried to button her shirt without Robyn noticing. Max swung round so that he was looking away from a flustered Zoe, a hand delicately covering his lap. Zoe noticed this and desperately tried to suppress a giggle.

"Why did I find all my magazines in the kitchen?" Robyn asked, pointing her question directly at Max.

"I, uh-" He began, wishing he could force his brain back into action. At this, Zoe couldn't hold her laughter in any more and buried her head into his husband's shoulder. At her sudden touch Max jumped, giving a small squeal.

"Did you just squeal?!" Robyn asked with a laugh, but when she looked at her step-brother and took in his red cheeks and hand placement, her face paled. "Oh god. Were you two...on the couch? The communal couch?!"

Zoe just kept her face hidden, her amusement only evident by the shaking of her shoulders.

"No! As if!" Max replied. "I was just taking a break from cleaning up your mess in the laundry, actually."

"Well you'd better get back to it, then." Robyn replied hotly, sure they'd been up to something.

"Fine, I will!" Max responded as Zoe continued her smothered giggles.

"Go on, then." Robyn said when he didn't move a muscle.

Max hesitated for a moment and then stood up, the bulge in his pants still perfectly evident which made Zoe's laughter burst forth again.

"Sorry." An amused and giggling Zoe finally managed to offer a cross Robyn before she rushed after her husband, determined to finish what she'd started.