Georgie felt completely drained as she walked into Kelly's for her shift. She had just spent the morning going through Maxie's things with Mack and Felicia. They had planned to do it last night, but it was too late by the time Mack had gotten home; Georgie and Felicia had already been asleep. The task had taken even more out of her than she'd thought it would.

Logan and Coop were sitting near the counter, discussing the Text Message Killer case. Logan was obviously pumping Coop for information. Georgie suddenly hated both of them with a passion that shocked her. Logan was a pig and Coop was most likely the man who had murdered her sister. No wonder they were best friends.

She smiled when Spinelli walked in, having just come from the hospital. But her smile died when Logan spoke to him.

"Have you seen Lulu today?"

Spinelli shook his head.

"The Jackal has not spoken to The Blonde One since she helped him move yesterday. She said she was meeting you for dinner."

"Yeah, well, she was supposed to meet me for dinner," Logan said belligerently, "but she never showed up. The last time I talked to her she said she was with you, which means you were the last person to see her."

Spinelli shrugged.

"Where is she?" Logan demanded, grabbing him by the arm and squeezing hard. "You think you're gonna be with her and she's always telling me you're her best friend, so you know where she is. Best friends confide in each other, right? Is she with Zacchara?"

"Let him go!" Georgie said furiously, coming up to them.

"Not until he tells me what he knows!"

"You are a coward and a bully!" Georgie said. "Who do you think you are?" Her voice was rising; she was more furious than she could ever remember being. "You think you can just go around grabbing people and demanding information? Get your hands off him!"

She was yelling at the top of her lungs now. On the word hands, she slapped him across the face as hard as she could. He released Spinelli, too surprised to remember to hold him. Georgie continued, too lost in her fury to realize Spinelli was free.

"What makes you think it's any of your business what Lulu does, or what Spinelli knows? You don't care about Lulu; you just wanna get her into bed again! You wanna get her to trust you again, but then you're gonna move on to another woman like you did my sister! Or did you bet someone else that you could get Lulu back? You filthy pig!"

She began pounding on his shoulders. She knew she was being irrational, but she couldn't stop herself. Coop had left as Spinelli had come in and all Georgie was thinking was that she couldn't hurt Maxie's killer. But Logan had hurt Lulu and grabbed Nadine and Carly, slept with Maxie and then slammed her against a wall after Lulu had disappeared, and now he was grabbing Spinelli and trying to intimidate information out of him that he probably didn't even have. The killer was a coward; so was Logan. If she couldn't get one, she could at least try to do something about the other. She knew it didn't make any sense, but there it was.

"Whoa, Georgie!" Mike said, shocked.

He had come out of his office when Georgie had begun to yell, vaguely reminded of the day Spinelli had blown up at Maxie and Logan. Now, here Logan was again, causing more trouble.

Spinelli got behind her and tried to pull her away.

"Georgie, stop!" he and Mike said together.

"This is most unwise and will not bring back your sister," Spinelli said urgently.

Hearing him behind her, becoming aware of his hands on her shoulders and that he was trying to pull her away from Logan, some semblance of reason came back to her. So did the images of going through Maxie's things, finding her on the floor, then seeing Logan talking with her suspected killer and then trying to bully Spinelli. She let him pull her off Logan, starting to cry.

Spinelli took her out to the alley behind Kelly's, feeling shocked and worried. He had never seen Georgie do anything like that before. Logan deserved it, yes, but it still floored him to see Georgie beating him up.

"I'm sorry," she sobbed into his shoulder. "I'm sorry; We went through Maxie's things before I got here. Then I saw him talking to Coop and then he grabbed you and he was yelling at you and I- I just lost it!"

"It's OK," he whispered. "You have every right to lose it after what you've been through. It's OK."

He stood against the wall with her in his arms as she cried, alternating between stroking her hair and rubbing her back.

"I can't believe I did that," she cried.

"Neither can I; you were forceful and magnificent. You and Fair Lulu together could take him; she slapped him, too, after he betrayed her."

He knew he was rambling and that what he'd just said probably didn't make a lot of sense, but he wanted to say something, anything, that would make her stop crying. Those lost sounds made him want to cry himself.

He was vaguely pleased that he'd managed not to finished that last sentence with the first thing he had thought to say, which was "when he slept with your sister." He never meant to be tactless, but there were times when his mouth worked faster than his brain. In this, as in many other things, though, he was improving. He had improved a lot since coming to Port Charles.

Mike came out as she lifted her head. The tears had stopped, but she was still sniffling.

"You OK, Honey?" he asked gently. "You wanna go home?"

She took a deep breath and shook her head.

"Are you sure?" Spinelli asked. "I can go with you if you don't wanna be alone."

She nodded.

"Did you eat anything today?"

"I don't remember," she said with a tired sigh.

"Well," Mike said, "then we're gonna have to make sure you do. Come in and eat before you start your shift."

Sharing waffles had become a tradition for Spinelli and Georgie; it always seemed to make them both feel better. As they ate, they talked about anything they wanted to, but they had an unspoken agreement that whatever was bothering them was off limits for that period. So they didn't discuss Maxie, or Stan, or the Text Message Killer, and especially not Logan.

Mike had made him leave before going into the alley to check on Georgie and told him that if he ever saw Logan grabbing, or even raising his voice to, anyone in this place again he would be banned. Mike would take out a restraining order if necessary. He was fed up with the punk.

Spinelli kissed her before leaving, their first public kiss. She smiled at him, then went to clock in. As he left, he knew what he had to do. He knew the Zacchara situation was important, but he also knew that Mr. Corinthos, Sir, had lost his objectivity. Stone Cold was handling it, but finding the killer was important to all three of them. They knew it wasn't Johnny and what little they had on Coop, though completely circumstantial, was compelling enough to make Stone Cold himself believe it was possible that Cooper was the killer. Spinelli needed to either prove or disprove it or Georgie would never have any peace and he needed his master's guidance.