Hey guys, here is the new update! I should be posting the second part either tonight or tomorrow depending on what time I get home from work!

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Jason began to stir a little after midnight. Lying on his side with Maxie's back pressed fully into his chest, his left arm draped over her waist holding her securely in place. Jason had slept more soundly in the past few weeks than he had in the past few years. Whenever Maxie was in his arms it felt so different than past relationships, yes the fear of her getting hurt by his lifestyle was always there, but with Maxie it just felt different. Letting his mind drift back to the sleeping world, his grip on Maxie unconsciously tightened pulling her flush against his sculpted chest, putting her in line with the rest of his body.

"Jason-" Maxie whined in from her half-asleep state.

"Hmm?" He asked kissing the top of her head.

"What time is it?" She mumbled.

"12:22." Jason said lifting his head slightly to look at the clock. "We've gotten our doctor prescribed eight hours."

"Except it's still night," Maxie said trying to turn herself in his arms. Jason's grip made it difficult for her to turn, causing Maxie's body to seductively rub against his lower half, only making Jason tighten his grip to keep her firmly placed against his growing erection. "I see we aren't the only ones fully awake now."

"It's your fault." Jason said not sure how to deal with the new territory they were entering into. Spinelli wasn't down the hall, Jason wasn't drunk. Maxie wasn't injured. There was no logical explanation for them to stall.

"You mean you're not going to stop me?" Maxie asked finally turning in his arms, Maxie pressing her hand into Jason's chest pushing him onto his back.

"I wasn't planning on it." Jason smirked watching the desire and excitement flash through Maxie's eyes.

Maxie didn't waste any time before lowering her head to Jason's lips for what would be the first of many kisses that night. Maxie moved her way on top of Jason pulling him to sit up so her legs could wrap around his torso bringing her flush to his bare chest. They were still clothed which made the contact a little more manageable but that soon went out the window as Jason lifted the shirt over Maxie's head, leaving her in the bra and panties she had worn to sleep that night. Jason quickly made work with his fingers ridding her of the garment leaving her bare chest to finally come in contact with his.

Jason finally done with letting Maxie take the lead flipped Maxie onto her back working his kisses down the side of her face toward her neck and worked his way towards her exposed chest. Maxie arched into his touch and before long they had rid themselves of the remaining clothing, leaving nothing to stop them now.

Jason always the gentlemen pulled back slightly from his position above Maxie. All his weight was being held up on his arms, Maxie's arms gripping his biceps. "Are you sure?"

"Jason there is no doubt in my mind." Maxie said pulling him down to kiss his perfect lips. Moving his head to the side, taking the outer shell of his ear between her teeth giving it a small nip. "Make love to me Jason."

Never before had Maxie used the term making love, to describe the act she was taking part in. Sex had always been about getting something, or the means to an end. Never before had she equated this act with all the emotions she had been told about from Robin as a teenager. Or the way it was described in the epic novels she had read in her literate class. But this was now her reality. Jason had found his way into her heart and it was no longer just sex, there was so much more too it. In the short time that they had been having their "undefined relationship" Jason had found his way into her heart in a way few of her other lovers had. She wouldn't say she was in love with Jason yet, by any means of the word, but she was seriously past liking, and on her way to whatever came next.

Now it was just up to Maxie to try and not screw things up.

~*~

"Wow." Maxie said lying on her back, a good deal of space between her and Jason's bodies.

"I certainly hope that's a good wow." Jason half asked, half hoped; turning his head in her direction.

"Were you not just there?" Maxie asked sarcastically.

"Just checking, because if there was a problem I'd be up for trying again?" Jason smirked rolling onto his side towards her.

"I'm always up for more, but just give me a few minutes to recover." Maxie said moving her hair away from her face.

Jason just continued to watch the rise and fall of her chest, mostly so he could continue to look at her nude body. Maxie finally realizing that his lustful gaze was on her breasts in particular sending a chill down her spine causing her to physically shudder. Jason's obvious solution to the problem became moving his calloused hand towards the globe in hopes of "warming" her up.

"If you're trying to turn me on it's working." Maxie said closing her eyes to enjoy the feeling.

"That wasn't the goal, but I don't mind the results." Jason smiled pulling her closer cradling her body to his, his hand cupping her breast as he held her.

"So we should talk." Maxie finally said after a substantial amount of silence. "I mean last night you were kind of drunk and then all the Sonny and Carly drama. I just think we should talk some of this stuff through."

"Okay, where do you want to start?" Jason asked keeping his hold on her. Jason didn't enjoy talking through things like this and hadn't in past relationships, maybe that was why they were past relationships.

"Would it be too weird right now to talk about Mac?" Maxie asked looking Jason in the eye hoping to get an honest answer. "I can put on some clothes if that would help?"

"Maxie your naked body is now inscribed on the back of my eyelids, you putting on some clothes isn't going to take that image away so just say what you want." Jason pulled the sheet up from the bottom of the bed to cover them.

Maxie turned in his arms so she could gage his actual feelings by his eyes. Jason might have been able to fool the rest of the world, but after working in the fashion industry where everyone lies, and the eyes tell everything. She had learned a thing or two from Kate Howard. "How did it really go with Mac?"

"He was eerily calm at first, like he wasn't hearing me. He knows we haven't slept together—or hadn't slept together." Jason said correcting himself. "He brought up Georgie, and the risks that come with my job."

"Something that I am aware of, but that isn't going to stop me from being here." Maxie pointed out before he could say something himself.

"I was on my way out of the station when Mac followed me giving everyone an idea what we were talking about. Lucky followed me."

"What did he say?" Maxie continued to ask sitting up in the bed not caring that she was completely exposed. "Wait let me guess. He gave you some misguided insight on being in a relationship with me? About how I'm crazy and obsessive and a real lunatic?"

"Maxie it doesn't matter." Jason said trying to calm the rant he knew could come.

"He's right though. When I was involved with Lucky I was all of those things. But that was also 3 years ago and a lot has changed since then."

"I know, but Mac does have a point. Just being associated with me is dangerous. I want to put a guard on you." Jason said more as a statement than as a question.

"Sam never had a guard?"

"Don't take this personally, but Sam could take care of herself. She carried a gun, and I don't want you carrying one."

"I don't want me carrying one either. Just imagine trying to hide that with my designer clothes, and I hardly thing the metal of a gun will match anything I wear." She said trying to make it a joke.

"I'm serious Maxie. I want to put a guard on you. Whenever you're not with me, I want them tailing you. I promise they won't report back to me on what you're doing but I'm not going to budge on this one. You've already been a victim due to me; I refuse to let that happen again."

"Let's make a deal." Maxie proposed. "I promise to retain, and not slip away from my guard if you promise to not make me wait 3 more months for sex? Deal?" She said sticking her hand out.

Jason sat up in the bed, moving forward slightly so he was hip to hip with Maxie; the thin sheet covering his waist. "Deal." He said taking hold of her hand and pulling her forward until they could kiss. "So are you tired now?"

"Why?" She said flirtatiously, "What do you have in mind?"

~*~

It was close to 8 am when Maxie and Jason finally woke up from their previous nights activities. Maxie was already out of bed, a towel wrapped around her body, freshly showered.

"Come back to bed." Jason said extending his hand towards her.

"Jason not all of us work your crazy hours. I have to be at work, in 45 minutes and I still have to go home and change and do my makeup. I can't believe we forgot to set an alarm clock."

"Maxie just calm down." Jason said finally standing from the bed and handing her the clothes she had taken off the night before. "You don't live far. And how often is Kate on time?"

"Hardly ever, but that's not the point. I promised her that my newly publicized relationship with you wouldn't affect my job performance."

"Okay." Jason smiled. He was still nude and standing in front of Maxie still just wearing her towel. With one simple pull of the towel it fell from her body leaving her bared to him again. "I'm guessing that means you don't have time for one more—"

"No!" Maxie said pushing Jason away from her. Her clothes were now sitting in a small pile on the bed, and she began to pull them back on her body. "Don't you have something you should be doing?"

"Fine. I'll leave you to your morning freak out." Jason said moving back toward the bed to relax, enjoying watching her frazzled. "You know if it would help you out you could move some of your clothes into the guest bedroom. Or you could move in if you wanted?"

Maxie stopped mid-step in her dress. "Did you just—"

Jason just nodded before waiting for Maxie to continue.

"I have to get to work." Maxie said finally pulling the dress up, turning around so Jason could zip her up. She turned back around and quickly gave him a kiss on the lips before rushing down the stairs shoes in hand, leaving Jason confused.

~*~

Lulu was surprised as Maxie rushed in the door to their apartment. Lulu had her purse in hand and was about to walk out the door when Maxie burst in and immediately stopped at the sight of Lulu.

"What happened to you yesterday? I turned around and you were gone?" Lulu asked, looking at her frazzled roommate dressed in yesterday's clothes.

"I had to go take care of something." Maxie said trying to calm herself as she moved towards her bedroom.

"Would that something be your super secret, now not so secret relationship with Jason Morgan?" Lulu said raising the pitch of her voice as she followed.

"Okay Lulu, let's be a big girl now. I have to finish getting ready."

"Let me guess you just came from Jason's? Gosh how is the sex?"

"Lulu!" Maxie said shocked at Lulu's bluntness.

"Hey, he is a good looking man I girl can't help but wonder?"

Maxie just tried to ignore Lulu and she moved into her closet and pulled out an outfit, beginning to change not caring about Lulu's presence. "Jason asked me to move in this morning. I mean out of nowhere he just said it."

"Wow." Lulu said not sure what to say in response. "What about Spinelli? Was he in on your little secret?"

"No, in fact Spinelli is moving out of the penthouse, and not speaking to Jason or me." Maxie said sullenly as she finished dressing. Moving to the vanity she started in on her makeup, waiting for her hair to naturally dry in ringlets.

"So now you're freaking out."

"Yes, no, I don't know. It's just that everything is moving so fast, and changing so much I don't know if I'm ready for that."

"Personally I say go for it." Lulu said surprising Maxie. "I know you're a big commitment-phobe but if you move out, Spinelli could take over your part of the lease. I mean it would be the easiest solution?"

"Really?" Maxie asked.

"Yeah, and think of it this way? If Spinelli is living here, there's a chance that you could still fix your friendship with him."

Maxie thought about what she had said as she finished her makeup, deciding to pull her hair into a tight bun rather than waste more time trying to fix it. The duo quickly left for work, and were immediately met with a whirlwind of tasks to accomplish before there esteemed boss arrived.

All thoughts of Jason and the prospect of moving in would have to wait until later.

~*~

Jason had instantly noticed Maxie's change in behavior the minute the words left his mouth. In reality he hadn't meant for them to come out the way they sounded but in reality he didn't mind. In all of his past relationships, Jason had jumped first and dealt with the consequences of them later. He had married Brenda without much of a fight, moved Sam into the penthouse, and after 2 months of actually dating proposed.

He had a natural instinct to protect people, and Maxie was definitely in need of protection, not only from his lifestyle and line of work, but often from herself. Lucky had spoken a bit of truth; Maxie also jumped first and then dealt with the aftermath later, but her's usually led to damning affects that left her life and the life of those around her in shambles. He was hoping that by being upfront with Mac and by taking the lead, he was hoping to avoid the Maxie Jones' path of destruction.

In reality, Jason had no plans to propose anything of the sort to Maxie. It was still early in their relationship, and Maxie was still so young. He had just assumed that when they were together it would only make more sense for Maxie to have clothes there. He would have cleared that up with her but she took off before he could explain.

Trying to let it go for a few hours, Jason moved about his normal schedule preparing to head over to Sonny's to talk things through with him, before dealing with the difficult party and going to talk with Carly.

"It's about time you showed up." Sonny said as Jason entered the spacious living room. "You have some serious explaining to do. Why on earth would you put yourself in such a vulnerable position?"

"Sonny, in my personal life I don't have to answer to you." Jason said trying to avoid this. "You are my friend but that doesn't give you permission to dictate who I choose to date."

"So the fact that you've chosen the police commissioners daughter, I should just what? Ignore of obvious?"

"No Sonny, just trust me." Jason yelled back.

"I do trust you; I just don't trust that girl." Sonny said in the way that only he could. "And that's what she is Jason. She's a little girl trying to play hardball by getting involved with the mob."

"That's not what Maxie is after. Sonny just please don't give her a hard time. She already has to deal with Mac's disapproval; I don't want—need any more people's opinions about our relationship. I couldn't convince you that dating Emily was a bad idea."

"But you were right about that." Sonny pointed out.

"But there was nothing I could do to make you see that. So let me make my own decisions, or at least let me make my own potential mistakes."

"Fine. Just make sure this doesn't become an issue with the warehouses, and the shipments." Sonny said trying to dismiss Jason.

Jason took that as his cue to leave. The conversation hadn't gone as he had hoped but ultimately Sonny wasn't going to publicly disagree with his relationship, which is more than he could hope for with Carly.

"Good you're here!" Carly said the instant Jason walked through the front door of the metro court hotel. "You should have been here hours ago."

"I'm here now Carly. Let's go to your office and talk." Jason said pointing towards the elevator. Carly and Jax's office was along the same floor as the Crimson office, where Maxie was diligently working. "Okay say what you want to say."

"How long?"

"A little over two months. And before you ask whose idea it was, it just happened. Neither of us wanted something like this to happen it just happened. We were both worried about Spinelli and her father."

"And now?"

"We didn't want to deny ourselves what could be because we were afraid of what might happen." Jason explained. "I know that you don't understand and that it doesn't make any senses to you—"

"You're right Jason it doesn't. For the first time that I can remember you are thinking about yourself. I don't think of it as a selfish move on your part, but that you are actually thinking about your own happiness first. Maxie she's—she's been through a lot in the past few years. But if she's what makes you happy, then I'm on your side. And the way she stood up to Sonny yesterday, you would have been impressed."

Jason let out of sigh of relief that not everyone in his life, hell everyone in Port Charles was against his relationship with the younger blonde. Jason would be 35 this upcoming birthday making him 12 years her senior. He didn't expect their relationship to be accepted by the masses but he did hope that the few people he held close would ultimately understand; and it seemed that so far; at least Carly did.

"Thank you. For not giving me a hard time about this." Jason said.

"Oh trust me; I'm not going to give you a hard time, that'll be Sonny. And Michael when he asks you why you're sleeping with someone only a few years older than he is."

"Michael is only 17, Maxie is 23. She's an adult."

"Hey no justifying to me, save it for Sonny." Carly smirked enjoying Jason's pseudo pain. "You'll have to have her come to dinner. It could just be me and Jax, or the kids can be there too."

"You know Carly—I don't want to rush her into anything."

"Too bad Jase, you don't get a choice in this one." Carly dismissed him standing from her couch Jason quickly moved to help his pregnant friend. "You can't say no to a pregnant woman."

"Fine, I'll ask Maxie. I'm sure her schedule will be busy, with work or promotions at Crimson but I'll ask her."

"Better yet, I'll ask her." Carly smiled, like it was the best idea in the world. "I'll stop by and see her later."

"Carly just be nice!" Jason asked. "Try not to scare her away like you tried with Sam."

"Sam is different, she and I got off to a bad start. The only issue I've ever had with Maxie was her fights with Lulu, and if Lulu can become friends with her again then why can't I?"

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