Title: Save Me
Author: CRene
Rating: PG
Summary: Maxie's friends and family try to save her from a tragic mistake.
Pairing: Levi/Maxie, Nathan/Maxie, Mac/Felicia, Spinelli/Maxie
Chapter One:
Maxie sat in the passenger seat looking out the window into the dark abyss of her life. She couldn't believe she had left her family and friends behind once again. So much had happened the past twenty-four hours that she wondered if she had another mistake.
"Maxie, you do not want that negativity around your aura," Levi told her grabbing her hand while he drove down the winey road.
"I know; I just don't know why we couldn't stay in Port Charles?"
"Because we need to celebrate our marriage in a place with no negativity, just the two of us and nature," Levi explained as he turned left onto the dirt road that led to the secluded cabin miles away from Port Charles.
Maxie looked over to Levi squeezing his hand. He had helped her get over losing Georgie, her sweet daughter named after her dear sister who had passed away a few years ago. Losing her only daughter to the man she was once going to marry was bad enough the first time, but when Spinelli moved to Seattle was the nail in the coffin to her.
"How much farther, Levi," Maxie wondered looking back outside the window to her empty soul.
She knew why she married Levi, but it wasn't for love or was it? She didn't love him like she had loved Spinelli when they were going to marry. She thought about it over and over. Did she love Levi? Or was she just grateful to him for bringing her out of her depression? She kept reliving the conversations she had with Detective Nathan West, her roommate. He kept telling her that Levi had been setting him up from the beginning; calling the judge about Nathan lying and even going as far as calling immigration on himself.
"Levi, do you love me," Maxie asked not looking over at him.
"I would have gotten deported, Maxie."
"That isn't an answer, Levi."
"It was your idea to get married."
"I know," Maxie replied crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Where are we going again?"
"I found us a cabin to use for the next few days until we can figure out where to go next," Levi explained remembering the moment he found out about the empty cabin.
They continued to drive for another six miles with Maxie just staring outside trying to replay every moment of the past few weeks in her head. Was Nathan right? Did she really know Levi well enough to marry him? Was he being deported a big enough reason to marry him? She turned towards Levi when he made a left turn down another dirt road.
In Port Charles, Detective Nathan West walked into the bar hoping to drown his sorrows. He knew that it was over; he had lost the woman he adored. No matter what he did now, he couldn't save the woman who had stolen his heart.
"Nathan, it isn't over," his partner at the PCPD, Detective Dante Falconeri said walking behind him into the bar.
"She married him, even when I asked her to wait another forty-eight hours," Nathan sulked.
"What would another forty-eight hours do?"
"Mac went to someone called the Jackal for help, saying something that if anyone could find dirt on someone it would be him," Nathan explained sitting down at the bar waving his hand at the waitress.
"The Jackal is Spinelli, the father to Maxie's daughter."
Nathan could not believe what he was hearing. Nathan wasn't good enough to save Maxie, so Mac went to her ex to prove what scum Levi was. He would never measure up to the Jackal; he could never give Maxie what she wanted most – her child.