Title: Timing: Behind every great man (5/?)
Name: Joy
Email: SleepingBeauty2@ziplip.com
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Recovery can be an interesting prospect with Max around.
Setting: Logan's Apartment
Bling looked at his employer as they came into the apartment. Max had taken off for a late night bike ride. "How was your evening, Cale? I hope I didn't interrupt anything," he said with one eyebrow raised.
"Yes & No…I had a wonderful evening and we were expecting you," Logan said nonchalantly.
"I wouldn't have come at all, but she specifically asked," Bling said defensively.
"I know," Logan said with a smile. He knew Max had set it up that way, so they would not get into the habit of staying up all night. She knew he could not take the schedule or the strain on his will power.
"Cale, tell me about the tingling you felt in your legs," Bling asked. Max had mentioned it to him early in the day.
"How much did Max tell you?"
"Just that it happened and if I wanted specifics I needed to ask you," Bling said in a matter-of-fact tone. Logan made a face that alerted his employee he was uncomfortable. Logan Cale trusted Bling with the knowledge of his alert ego, with his body and recovery, and even with Max's secrets. //What could be bothering him that he would not open up. MAX! It must have something to do with Max// "I would not be asking, except you seem to be more serious about your therapy."
"I did think I felt me legs for a short amount of time," Logan managed.
"How'd it happen? What was going on?" Bling saw the face again. "Look, I don't want to invade your love life, but it is obvious you are afraid of betraying a confidence."
"It's not that," Logan mumbled.
"Then what?"
"I am not the sort that…I don't talk about…"
Bling gave Logan a look of annoyance, "Hey, I don't want to think about you interactions, shall we say, with Max anymore then you want me thinking about it. But I still need to understand what happened."
"The other night, Max and I kissed for the first time; that is when one of us wasn't in danger," Logan said. Bling gave him a surprised look. "Nevermind. The other night, I swear when we kissed, I felt it in my legs and my toes. I thought it was maybe my imagination or a memory," said Logan, whom then began to hem & haw once more. "Then another time when we were kissing the same thing happened, like a bolt of lightening through me. Tonight we were playing – just playing – and she was on top of me – that didn't sound right… She was tickling me and we sort of wrestled a bit…"
Bling rolled his eyes, "I get the idea."
"I swear I felt her against me. I felt not only the pressure of her body on me, but tingling in my legs too." Bling just looked at Logan intently. "Why aren't you saying anything? I have just suggested something crazy," Logan demanded.
"Why is it crazy? You have been doing your therapy and you know your healing. Why is it so hard to believe that you are responding more around Max, someone who has a unique physiology of her own?" responded Bling. Logan just stared at Bling as if he were speaking Greek. "We don't really know how Max's body works. She can stay underwater long after most humans would have drowned, she can see at night, & her sight and hearing are extraordinary. What is to say, Max's touch isn't causing the reaction?"
"Why wouldn't have happened before now? It's not like this is the first time we have touched," Logan said frustrated.
"Who knows? Maybe Max has to be interested in you to produce the reaction," offered Bling. They both puzzled over the idea a while. Bling knew that it made sense some where in his brain, he just needed a reason. 'What do you need to may a muscle work?' Bling asked himself. This basic physiological question had a basic answer. "Electricity!" he announced to Logan.
"We certainly had that," Logan said under his breath.
With a shake of the head, Bling began, "Don't' you see? Electrical impulses are what cause the muscles to move and somewhat feel in your body. It also makes your heart pump and so on. What you have been experiencing as responses to Max in an…affectionate way, might actually be a physiological response to Max's body chemistry. She may actually have more electrical current then most people."
Logan paused, "So, what? Max releases electrical current into me when we kiss and touch?" He paused again, "It's the same principle as the electrical therapy on paralyzed appendages," Logan began to give the matter some thought. "Does this mean I can kiss Max as part of my therapy?" Logan asked with a sly grin.
"No, but you might consider having Max help with your therapy. It would be good for the two of you to do something other than Eyes Only together."
"I am trying too… " Logan said with a wicked grin.
Bling looked at Logan like a father to a son, "I think it would be better if you consider the physical repercussions of getting too … intimate. IF we're right, we may need to figure things out, before the relationship progresses that far."
Logan responded annoyed, "Thanks. We have no plans to rush into anything, especially a sexual relationship…Plus… I don't even know if I could, if I wanted to."
"Continued contact with Max may prove otherwise," Bling said with a smirk. "That young lady could cure anyone of impotence." Logan shot a glare to Bling, who just laughed.