Julie let herself into Maggie's and headed towards Maggie's bedroom. She found a suitcase and started to pull out clothes from drawers.
What is this? Julie wondered as her hand found a box. She opened the box and gasped. Why does Maggie have new wedding bands? Julie's mind whirled with questions. Did Uncle Mickey buy them for her? Or is she planning marrying Victor? On closer inspection, she saw an engraved V and M on the rings. Did Victor proposed and she refused? Why didn't Maggie say anything? Her phone rang, starling Julie out of her thoughts.
"Hello? Maggie, yes, I'm at your house. In your bedroom, actually," Going through your drawers and finding out things about your relationship that you probably don't want me to know, "sure, I can look for your owl pajamas. Do you just want pajamas and yoga clothes?"
"Yeah, that sounds fine. Julie, this might sounds weird but are you o.k.?" Maggie asked, sounding concerned.
"I'm just a little distracted, I guess. But I'll just finish here and come over there," Julie said.
"Oh, could you grab my Kindle and charger? It's on my nightstand."
"Sure. I'll see you soon," Julie said.
"Thanks for doing this. Bye."
"Bye." Julie hung up the phone. Clothes. You are here to get clothes for your sick friend, not to speculate about her relationship with Victor, she told herself sternly. Quickly packing the clothes, Julie headed to the bathroom to grab toiletries and finish packing.
"Julie sounded so weird on the phone," Maggie said, as Victor helped her settled into bed.
"Julie often sounds weird to me," Victor shrugged.
"No, not that weird. She sounded almost guilty," Maggie said, thinking.
"Honey, she's probably just stressed and distracted like we all are," Victor said, kissing Maggie lightly.
Maggie chuckled. "You don't think she went into the drawer under the bed, do you?"
Victor smiled roguishly as he thought of the drawer's contents.
"If Julie did, I'm sure we would never hear the end of it. Or at least you wouldn't."
"Mmm…you know we haven't talk about if I can't have sex at some point," Maggie said.
"I think we'll figure something out. We've never had problems before and I'm not concern about that right now," Victor said, kissing Maggie.
"I...thank you," Maggie whispered as relief washed over her. It was stupid to think of something like sex at a time like this. But Victor somehow could follow her scattered thoughts, for which Maggie was grateful for.
"I'm not going anywhere," Victor promised.
"I should call the girls," Maggie said.
"You should. I'll grab a cup coffee," Victor said.
"You just said you'd never leave me and now you are leaving me for coffee," Maggie laughed.
"I'll be back. Call them," Victor said sternly.
"I will."
Julie walked into the room as Maggie was talking to Melissa on the phone.
"Melissa, I know you want to come home immediately but right now they are just starting the tests. Your sister said the same thing. I'm saying let's wait a few days, o.k.? Victor just left to grab some coffee but he's taking off work. Yes, I did call Doug and Julie. In fact Julie just walked in. I'll talk to you later. Love you, too. Bye," Maggie hung up the phone.
"Hi, sweetie," Julie hugged Maggie.
"Hey," Maggie said tiredly.
"How are you?"
"I'm just tired. The pain hasn't been bad but they started me on the IV which includes some pain medicine. Did you find everything o.k.?" Maggie asked.
"Yeah, no problem. Maggie, this isn't the best time for me to ask this but-" Julie paused, trying to figure out how to ask her questions. "What is your relationship with Victor?"
"We live together and share a bedroom. Why?" Maggie asked.
"Have you…?" Julie started to say and then stop again. Maggie suddenly realized what happened and started to laugh.
"Julie, I love you but even when you try to be tactful, you tend to be a busybody. Victor proposed a couple months ago and I accepted. But I want to give my girls a couple more months to get use to Victor. We're planning getting married in two years," Maggie said.
"I found the rings and I just was surprised. The last time we spoke you were adamant you weren't going to marry Victor and now I found out this information," Julie said.
"Things change. I want to be married again and actually be more settled. But I thought, out of respect to Mickey and the rest of the Hortons, I would wait a year or two. I still want to be a member of the Horton family and I think we all need some time to figure out these new relationships," Maggie explained.
"What if you get bad news?" Julie blurted out.
"Right now, we're taking it day by day. But if it turns out that I've relapsed, well, both Victor and I know a couple judges," Maggie smiled.
"Maggie, how are you so clear minded about this?" Julie asked.
"I'm not. Victor had to drag me to the doctor today. He bugged me until I called the girls. Now he's keeping me calm. We're remaining positive until we get news otherwise," Maggie said.
"Absolutely," Victor agreed from the doorway.
"I hear congratulations are in order," Julie said, hugging him.
"She's keeping the Horton name. I think she would rather be associate with your ilk than mine," Victor teased.
"You don't have to spell out Horton, unlike Kiriakis. People know how to pronounce Horton," Maggie started to make the arguments.
"Her children and grandson are Hortons. All her businesses are in the Horton name. We aren't having kids. Everyone knows her as Maggie Horton," Victor finished the arguments.
"I could go back to Simmons," Maggie said.
"You could but that would be kind of pointless," Julie said.
"I really don't mind if you keep the Horton name, sweetheart," Victor said.
"You could take it, too, honey. Victor Horton doesn't sound bad," Maggie teased.
"It's not Greek enough. We need to add some K's, I's and V's," Victor joked back, "Sweetheart, you look tired. Why don't you take a nap?"
"O.k. Are you going to run to the office for a few hours?" Maggie asked.
"Do you mind?" Victor asked.
"No. I think you would be more relaxed if you did. I'll see you later," Maggie kissed Victor.
"I love you, Maggie Horton," Victor said.
"I love you, too."
