Title: Lumberjack Lawyers - The AxSue Moments Never Shown On Screen

Sub Title: The Makeout (One Kid At A Time)

Episode Prompt: s4x12 "One Kid At A Time"

Author: PurpleOrchid85

Rating: PG-13 to T
Fandom: The Middle

Pairing: Axl/Sue (Heckcest, Axsue, Lumberjack Lawyers, Saxl, whichever shipping name you prefer)
Canon/Non Canon Moment: an 'Non-Canon moment' inside an Canon moment (with a squint if 'you see' Heckcest)

Summary: Axl overhears the Sue/Darrin breakup and comforts her.

AN: The Caxl romance never happened. At. All.

Word Count approx.: 658

"Mmm…" Sue moaned softly as Axl's tongue duelled with hers.

Earlier, they had heard Brick regale the history of the Planet Nowhere books to their parents as he trailed them, since they reluctantly had to take Brick to Indianapolis for a Planet Nowhere convention since it was his special day, while Sue had decided to drag out her homework and work on it, but when Axl was sure the sound of the car had disappeared, he had ambushed Sue with a kiss, which evolved to making out and pretty much rounding second base albeit clothed.

Sue gasped and pulled back and asked rhetorically "I wonder why we never thought of doing this last year?"

Axl rolled his eyes and said "For one, you were too obsessed with Matt and I was too busy trying to get with Emily Anderson..." he trailed off, a smile upon his face remembering. Sue narrowed her eyes and gave him a soft head-slap at the back of his head, snapping him back to the present.

"Of course, that was before us." Axl finished.

They exchanged smiles, both remembering.

It was during the summer, Sue was trying to bond with Mike over the favourite children debacle and Axl was pouting over the English summer school thing and while Frankie was outside trying to suck up to Brick and Mike was called back at the office for some work emergency, Sue and Axl were fighting over the remote, Sue wanting to watch a re-run of Gilmore Girls, while Axl wanted to watch a re-run of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (he thought Summer Glau was hot) and whenever they wrested the remote away from the other, their respective tv shows would appear, until Sue had enough and tackled Axl and they had had a tickling wrestle-war and somehow ended up making out to the sounds of Terminators and gunshots.

Since then, they had grabbed the chance to make out, whether if it was janitor closet makeouts, makeouts under the bleachers after his football practices and games, in Axl's car in the dark on the outskirts of Orson.

However, after Sue's accidental driving over Axl's foot, things had been slightly frosty, but after some time, Axl had forgiven Sue.

They smiled at the one and the other as they let the memories of past sneaky makeout sessions.

Axl smirked and said "We still got the afternoon. Let's not waste it…" he wriggled his eyebrows Groucho Marx style, making Sue roll her eyes but fighting a smile that was trying to creep upon her face, and pulled him to her and resumed their makeout session, lying back down on the couch, letting him press against her, his hands sliding down her waist and pushing her shirt up.

And so their afternoon was spent pretty much what they wanted: continuing to make out and almost nearing second base. But then they heard the noise of a car engine switching off and familiar voices approaching the house.

At first they froze, their eyes widened, but then they snapped into action, quickly breaking apart and rearranging their rumpled clothing and raced towards the dining table and sat down, Sue pretending to pay attention to her homework, as Axl sat next to her, drinking his pop and pretending to look annoyed.

Luckily for them, the parentals were too absorbed into slightly bickering with Brick, but then they heard Frankie say to Brick in a strident tone "You know, you are developing a real attitude problem and it's gonna stop."

Brick tried to interrupt "But I-" then Frankie instantly interjected "No 'buts' Brick. We are sick of this. Now you better start behaving yourself or there's gonna be a price to pay. In fact, get outta here. This conversation is over so go to your room and stay there until you've thought about what you've done!"

Axl and Sue exchanged widened eyes after they watched their little brother head to the bedroom.