"Max?" Zoe asked as she knocked lightly at the young porter's 'office' door. Immediately he opened the door at the sound of his partners voice, the voice that he loved to hear most in the world. "You better not have let that dressed get creased!" She laughed as she closed the door behind her and looked at their clothes laying over Max's chair.

"Of course I haven't but I can think of something that we love to do in which they might get a little creased." Max pointed out, half serious half joking.

"No, we have to get ready."

"Well how am I supposed to keep my hands off you while you're getting changed and especially when you're wearing that dress."

"If you want to go together and let everyone know that we're together then you're going to have to find a way." Zoe told him sternly, as she picked up her dress taking one final look at it before she began to remove her work clothes to get changed. "Come on Max or we'll be late."

"I thought late was fashionable!"

"It is, I've already factored in 15 minutes to be fashionably late. Now hurry up!"

"Ready?" Max asked as they arrived outside the venue for the annual medic ball, where all of their colleagues would be. He knew how nervous that Zoe would be, but looking at her she seemed happier than she had done in a while.

"Yep." Zoe replied, intertwining her hand with Max's and pecking his lips before they walked in. No one even looked up as they walked in but she put that down to the sheer amount of people who seemed to be in the room. They walked over and took their seats.

"I'll go and get us drinks." Max stated as he dropped Zoe's hand and walked towards the bar, leaving Zoe beaming to herself.

"Was that Max you just walked in with?" Tess asked as she walked towards her friend.

"Yep." Zoe replied, pleased that someone had noticed.

"You're together?"

"Yeah, here he is." She replied as Max set their drinks down in front of her and then sat next to her, wrapping his arms around her shoulder as he did. "Thanks babe."

"It's okay, hi Tess."

"Treat her right."

"I will, I would rather die than hurt this one." Max replied to Tess.

"Max come into bed, I can't sleep without you here." Zoe asked sleepily as she settled into bed, missing the warmth from Max's cuddle.

"I'll be there in a second." Max replied, setting his phone onto charge. Since leaving early from the event they'd been at, both of their phones had been buzzing incessantly with questions as to the nature of their relationship. They'd made it quite obvious that they were together by sharing kisses and dancing together all night. Max crawled into bed and lay beside Zoe, letting her adjust to him being there. She moved to lay her head on his chest as he wrapped his arm around her.

"I love you." Zoe whispered sleepily.

"This is it now Zo, this is our life." Max replied equally as sleepy but happiness still abundantly evident in his voice.

"Good."

This was a short little one shot based on the picture of them that Sunetra (Zoe) posted on twitter