Mike felt the warmth of El's blood through the thin red stained cloth, which he was pressing tightly to her leg. She was sitting up and staring into space, until Mike put the disinfectant on her leg and she hissed.

Mike winced pulling his hand away from her leg.

"Sorry, did that hurt?", he asked.

"Hm, not bad", she said, trying to stay strong for him.

"You're gonna have an awesome scar, you'll look even more badass"

"bitchin"

"yh bitchin"

El chuckled, a smile brimming on her face.

After fixing up her leg a bit more, Mike turned to her, an expression on his face that she couldn't quite read.

"El", he said after a while, which caught her attention again.

"Yh?"

"I've been meaning to tell you something"

El looked straight into his dark brown eyes, ready to listen to anything he had to say.

Mike took a deep breath then started.

"It's just being broken up, it's been hard", he managed to say, just before a crackling sound erupted from the walkie talkie beside them. Mike decided to ignore it, turning back to El.

Whoever was on the other side would have to wait.

He needed to tell her first.

"And El, I like that you and Max are friends now, it's just, he sighed before carrying on, I was jealous at first and... and angry, and that's why I said all that stupid stuff"

El smiled, trying to imagine how Mike could be jealous of her and Max. She wanted him to know that her and his relationship was nothing compared to her and Max's, because she loved him and he had been the first one she had ever trusted, not Max.

"And it's like I wanted you all to myself", he said, wincing at how, now he realized how much of an asshole he had been to El. He never meant to lie to El and cause all of this, it just happened to end up this way and it was mostly his fault if he was being totally honest.

Suddenly feeling El's eyes locked on him made him blush but still continue with his apology.

"And now I realise how unfair that is, and selfish, and im sorry"

He looked up to see in El gazing at him with a sympathetic but forgiving look in her eyes.

"It's just, like, I've never felt this, you know, with anyone before", he blurted out, realising that a deep blush was now forming on his face.

"And, you know they do say it makes you crazy"

"What makes you crazy?", she asked, a confused look on her face.

Mike looked up at her, a confused look on his face now too.

"You never- you never heard that term, you know like the phrase, like blank makes you crazy, like, like the word", he said a pleading look on his face. El had to know what he was talking about, Right?

"Girlfriends?", El suggested.

"No, no, no, no, not- not girlfriends..."

"Boyfriends", she said, totally cartain she was right this time.

"No, no, no, not boyfriends either... It's like a feeling or..."

"A feeling", El muttered under her breath, trying to wrack her brain into thinking about what this word could possibly be.

"Yeah, like something... like old people say it to eachother sometimes"

"Old people?"

"Ur yeah", he said, cringing slightly. What he was talking about didn't even make sense to him any more. He had to just get to the point.

"What I wanna say is... is that I just, sighs, I know that I, that I er… Jesus Mike just spit it out already, I, I er".

At this point El was just staring at him, wandering why he was taking so long to just tell her what this word meant and why he had now gone fifty shades of red.

Mike held his breath and shut his eyes, not wanting El to see his face once he said it.

"I, I love y... you", he said finally, well it was more of a whisper than anything but El had defiantly heard it as clear was day.

She was speechless, but then did something that Mike wouldn't ever expect in a million years. She leaned forward, raised her hand to his flushed cheek and planted a passionate kiss on his lips. Mike was shocked at first, but then immediately eased into the kiss, a happy warmth spiralling through his body. As they broke, both a little out of breath, El grinned and gave his hand a affectionate squeeze before saying,

"I love you too, Mike"

Just then something clicked inside Mike, like someone had just turned the waterworks on full blast. A tear ran down his cheek as both he and El stared into eachother's eyes, too mesmerised by eachother to do anything in that moment. However, El had just noticed his tear that had run freely down his face and onto her bandaged leg, Dammit Mike couldn't you have just held it together for god's sake. But to Mike's utter surprise, El had a tear running down her face as well.

He quickly wiped it away with his thumb, taking longer than he had to, just be able to feel her smooth skin against his touch. El smiled up at him lovingly, and then shuffled across the shop floor until she was sitting next to him. He gazed down at her face, swooning once more as he took in her delicate features. God, she was so beautiful.

She must have been thinking a similar thing, as she intertwined her fingers with his, and laid her head on Mike's shoulder. He smiled and ran his fingers through her soft brown curls, appreciating everything in that moment.

They just sat there, their hands clasped together tightly and their hearts hammering for so much love and affection for one another it was almost unimaginable.

Phew, well I suppose that brings the story to the end. I really hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it and let me know what else you want to see in any upcoming stories or oneshots, (cos I SUCK at coming up with ideas). lol