It Happened One Night
Ok this fic was given to me as a personal challenge ou I hope you approve. I as always don't own GH.
He couldn't believe he thought a girl like Maxie Jones could actually see him as more then a friend. He was so stupid and so foolish. As he entered Jake's he thought back to the scene that transpired just hours before that was playing on a loop in his mind.
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They had been hanging out quite a bit as of late and the launch party for Crimson was getting closer and closer and Kate had Maxie working longer and longer. He had thought he would surprise her, see if she needed help. Perhaps even invite her out to dinner or ask if she wanted him to leave and come back with take out. He adjusted the strap of his messenger bag on his shoulder and pushed his bangs away from his face because he knew Maxie always would complain about not being able to see his eyes. Exiting from the elevator into the crimson office he saw it was abandoned and he had wondered if she was out running errands when suddenly he heard a noise coming from Kate's office. Pushing the door open a bit he noticed Lulu on one side of the room her moth open in shock. Following Lulu's gaze across the room he spotted the beautiful Maximista locking lips with Johnny Zacchara causing his hear to break into a million pieces. Hoping no one say him he fled the office in a blur keeping his tears back to a minimum.
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That was what lead him to the bar on this cool May evening. Placing his bag by his feet he looked up at Coleman who rolled his eyes wondering if this kid was even old enough to drink.
"What will it be, your usual Orange Soda."
"Not this time. I could use something with a bit more of a kick to it."
Colman could see the kid was down and nodded not even asking him for an ID.
Coming back a few moments later Colman placed a shot glass on the bar in front of Spinelli who took the drink and threw it down in one gulp.
"Man something must really be bothering you."
"You don't even want to know."
"I'm a bartender, prying into the business of my customers is my job...let me guess girl trouble."
"Well then, do you want to hear the whole story?"
He shrugged.
"Might as well."
So that's what Spinelli did. He told Coleman about everything. From his crush on Lulu to the fact that Georgie loved him and he was blind and every gory detail of his love hate relationship with Maxie Jones.
"So I went to her office today thinking that maybe today would be the day I said those three sacred words to her when bam...the Jackal sees her beautiful pink lips pressed against those of another man."
Coleman handed him another drink and watched him wallow thinking of something encouraging to say other then the ever popular adage about other fish in the sea. He supposed the young man had heard that a million times before and it wouldn't help him.
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Meanwhile on the other side of town Maxie Jones pulled a small flask out of her purse. It was her stash there in case she needed an emergency pick-me up tossed into her mid day coffee to cut the edge off her stressful days.
Throwing back the remainder of the liquid she felt a warming sensation oozing down her thought but sadly it couldn't help to heal the pain inside her borrowed heart. Sighing she thought back to earlier.
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She and Lulu were as usual going at it as Johnny had entered the office. Maxie was getting so pissed at Lulu she grabbed Johnny and pulled him into a kiss. Pulling back Maxie looked at the expression on Lulu's face.
"Were you trying to make me jealous," Lulu asked.
"Did it work?"
"Well no it just proved that you're as big a skank as I thought and it proved to Spinelli that you really couldn't be trusted."
"What does Spinelli have to do with this?"
"He saw you."
"Liar."
"No he came in I swear to god."
Maxie didn't want to believe a word that Lulu was saying and so when Lulu and Johnny left the building bickering she had picked up her cell phone.
'Hi you have reached the Jackal...'
She debated leaving him a message but then she wondered what if Lulu was right, how she could explain this to him on his voicemail.
She was about to leave and go to the penthouse when Kate came in rolling her eyes saying something about funds being missing. Maxie in a fit of anger said Lulu took them causing Kate to roll her eyes.
"Excuse me."
"I said Lulu took the money."
"Took what money."
"The money you said was missing."
"Actually I borrowed some money from the magazine and I was telling you not asking you."
"Oh."
Kate then went on and on to her about job performance in a tone that screamed her and Sonny was in the midst of another argument. The conversation ended with her being demoted to being second assistant under Lulu to which she outright quit.
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Now on the docks and putting it all into prospective she couldn't believe she just said that.
Looking into the water she wondered how deep and diseased it was. Wondering if she should just jump and be with Georgie, Cooper, Jesse, BJ, and all the others that had died before her in the afterlife, which was if she'd even manage to get into heaven at all.
Picking up her cell she wanted to call the one person who got her before realizing he was the one person who probably hated her most of all.
She contemplated the idea of going home, curling up with some Ben and Jerry's and a good chick flick or showing up on Sam McCall's doorstep in hopes that she could chill out in her hot tub and find a moment of peace. However her designer heels carried her to Jake's.
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By now Spinelli had had 2 or 3 shots of whatever it was Coleman threw down at him and was now resting his head on the bar when the door opened and he heard whistles coming form the bars male cliental. He wondered if he should go fishing, seize the night as it were and do something uncharacteristic of him and flirt with some unsuspecting young woman.
"Tequila," a familiar blonde spoke from the other end of the bar causing Spinelli's body to tense up a bit. Was the alcohol making him hear things or was the beautiful Maximista there now in his presence. He looked up and saw her petite blonde figure grabbing the bottle and heading to a table. He wondered what sorrows she was trying to drink away, her kiss with the Warped One perhaps. Sighing he threw back another shot of liquid courage and made his way over to her.
"Maximista," he said slurring, "we need to talk."
She looked at him rolling her eyes. She wasn't in the mood for him to chew her out, she screwed thins up by kissing Johnny and lost her dream job all in the matter of hours.
"I'm not in the mood Spinelli," she said licking the salt she had poured in her hand, slamming back a shot and sucking on her lime."
"Just answer me something, why did you kiss Johnny."
"so Lulu wasn't messing around when she told me you saw, I guess I thought she was lying and ...never mind why did you show up to the Crimson office anyhow I thought you had some big project to work on or something."
Spinelli blushed a bit. Truthfully there was no project; he was just using that as an excuse so he could hide his feelings for her.
By now she was standing up, her icy blue grey eyes locked in his gently murky ocean ones.
"You don't want me to tell you."
"Yes, yes I do. I mean seeing your lips caress his is what drove me to this place in the first place."
"I thought you just came for the chili fries."
He gave her a taunting gaze as he began to move closer to her causing her to back away. He wasn't trying to be forceful, that wasn't his nature. He had hoped the alcohol wouldn't make him do something stupid like the last time when he sucker punched Logan Hayes, though thinking back on that he did deserve it by betraying the once fair Lulu's trust by sleeping with the girl that was now driving him insane. Funny how the universe worked he silently thought getting back to the matter at hand.
"Why were you at Crimson," she repeated as her back was now pushed against a pool table.
"I wanted to...I wanted to."
His hard drive was scrambled this he was sure of as he gently placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned into her pining her body between his and the pool table and planting a kiss on her pale pink lips.
He had thought she would surely push him back and slap him however instead he could of swore he felt her tongue gently massage the insides of his mouth giving him a strange yet soothing sensation.
Finally pulling back Maxie looked at him stunned. He was ready to apologize when Maxie simply said.
"Damian Spinelli I didn't know you had THAT in you."
He winked. Truthfully he didn't know he had that in him either.
It was then Coleman came over and placed a key in Spinelli's hand winking.
"Don't worry I'll put it on Jason's tab."
The duo stumbled up the stairs and didn't know what to do. Maxie was slightly drunk but Spinelli was more so then her. She knew that under normal circumstances this man was a gentleman and she didn't want to take advantage of his weakness.
Sitting on the bed she watched him tremble.
"A-about the kiss."
Was he regretting it, she wondered.
"What about the kiss."
"I guess I just had to seize the day, rap the harvest, I know I talk too much but I can't seem to get these three stupid words out."
Leaning over to him running her hands across his chest she smirked.
"I know what you were trying to say."
She began to unbutton his shirt as he began to unbutton hers. He had known her petals fell long ago and the only intercourse he has seen was in the movies. He felt like less of a man letting her take the lead but he didn't say much.
Looking at the lacy bra covering her chest shivers went up his spine as he took in her natural beauty.
"Spinelli I lost my job," Maxie said as he was removing his belt looking eagerly in his wallet for a condom.
"What do you mean my Maximista?"
"I mean Kate demoted me and I quit, I could never work under Lulu."
"But that job was your dream."
"I can find another job."
"We make a great team why not get your PI license and we could be partners."
"Jones and Spinelli investigations I like the sound of that."
"Jackal and associates sounds better."
"I am no ones associate."
He shook his head.
"No your not..."
"Equal partners in love and life."
"Did you say love?"
"That I did now are you going to make love to me Mr. Jackal."
He looked at her form in her lacy lingerie that took his breath away as he slipped off his jeans.
"I've never done this before and well what if we regret it when we are sobered up in the morning."
"Well then no sex just lie down and cuddle."
He nodded slipping under the covers and allowing her head to rest on his bare chest.
"Will you still love the Jackal tomorrow," he asked in a yawn as he heard her moan.
"Yea," she sighed back closing her eyes and falling asleep.
The alcohol gave him a second wind and he gently stroked her hair as he watched her chest rise with each breath she took. Wondering what would happen come morning. Would she still love him, would they leave with a hangover and go on as friends, as enemies, would they think something happened that most certainly did not. As his eyes slowly closed themselves he couldn't help but dream of her and him living happily ever after.
THE END
