Without even realizing how much time had passed, Logan spun around in his computer chair when he heard his front door open. Must be Bling. Sure enough, Bling appeared in the doorway to the computer room.
"You ready for your reps?"
"You know Bling, now that I can walk, you don't have to be coming by every day." Logan leaned back in his chair, hoping that Bling would feel the same way, and let the exercise schedule slide a bit.
"You know I can't do that. If I didn't come here every day, you would end up spending the entire day typing away at that keyboard, letting your muscles go to waste. You do want to continue to be able to walk, don't you?"
Sensing that there was no way in hell he could win this battle, Logan gave in. "You're right. Let's get to it." The two men walked out of the room, and while Logan was getting changed into his workout clothes, Bling set up the physio table. Logan jumped up on the table and started his reps when he remembered the note Bling had left. "You know, nothing happened between me and Max last night. She just stopped by this morning to see if I had anything for her to do." Logan looked Bling in the eye as he said this, but Bling was concentrating his gaze on Logan's lower leg.
"Right." Logan could see Bling grin, even though it was obvious that he was trying to hide the smile.
"It's true!" Logan stated defensively.
Bling stopped working on Logan's leg, and looked his employer and friend in the eye. "Look, whatever your relationship is with Max, as long as you're happy, that's all that matters." Then he refocused his gaze on Logan's legs. "But whatever the relationship, I hope for your sake you have something special planned for her tomorrow."
"Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. You talked about tomorrow in the note you left me as well. I'm obviously missing something here."
Bling once again focused his gaze so that he locked eyes with Logan. "Don't even try to pretend you forgot about Valentine's Day. I would've figured that you would have had the whole day planned out."
"No, I completely forgot!" Logan looked away from Bling's surprised stare. "Should I be getting something for Max?"
"I think that that would be a really good plan."
"What should I get her?"
"I can't help you there Logan, you're going to have to come up with something yourself." Bling stood up and threw a towel over his shoulder. "I think we're done here. Besides, it sounds like you need some time to get something together for Max."
Logan jumped down from the table, and started to head back to his room to change. "Thanks Bling, I'm going to need it."
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Max sat cross-legged on her bed and turned her purchase over and over in her hands, studying every detail of it. It was a solid silver frame that reflected any light that it caught, and it had an antique design carved into it. The back was a soft black velvet material. This will fit in nicely in his decor. The frame itself could hold a picture about double the size of a playing card.
"Max?"
"In here!"
Kendra came around the partition that separated Max's room from the apartment. "What are you doing?"
Max looked up from the frame. "Just trying to figure out where I can get a picture to put in this."
Kendra walked over to Max's bed, and sat down beside her. "What's this for? Oh wait! I know, this is for your boy-toy isn't it?" Kendra was getting very excited over the idea.
"He's not my boy-toy, but yeah, it's for Logan. Do you think he'll like it?"
"Are you putting a picture of you in there?"
Max looked at Kendra, and then quickly turned away, feeling herself blush. With a slight smirk on her face, she replied. "Yeah."
Kendra grinned even more, especially when she saw Max blush - something she never did. "It's perfect."
Looking back at Kendra, Max's face dropped. "I don't have any pictures of myself though. Where am I supposed to get one before tomorrow?"
Kendra rolled onto her hands and knees and crawled off the bed. "I think I can help you with that." She swiftly walked out of Max's room, and Max could hear her open the curtains that Kendra had around her room. She could hear her rummaging through some things, and then looked up at her doorway as Kendra was walking in. "Here. It's from Original Cindy's birthday a few months ago. Remember when I caught you blushing on the couch?"
Max took the picture from Kendra's outstretched hand. She looked at it and remembered it instantly. In the picture, she was sitting on Original Cindy's couch, both feet on the floor, her legs about shoulder length apart. She was leaning over slightly, resting her elbows on her knees with a beer in her hand. She was looking slightly downward with her head cocked a bit to the side, and she had a stupid grin on her face. Cindy's birthday had been a few days after the first time she and Logan had kissed, and Kendra took that picture just after she and Cindy had asked Max if she and Logan had taken any steps to further their relationship. Max smiled at the memory that the picture brought. She was still hearing about that grin. "Thanks Kendra. I think it'll look really good in here."
"And the best part is, is that you were thinking about him when this picture was taken. You should tell him that."
"Yeah, maybe I will." That would be a good thing to put in this letter that I still have to write. Good thing I don't need to sleep all that often. I have a feeling that it's going to take awhile to write it. "So what are you up to tonight?"
"Actually, Walter and I are going out. He has to go to Portland tomorrow, so he's going to give me my Valentine's gift tonight."
"Ugh, Kendra, I know you're happy, but I'm still having problems thinking about you with Walter."
Obviously not wanting to talk more about Walter, Kendra changed the subject back to Max. "So what is Logan going to do for you?"
Max stopped. She had never even considered him doing anything for her. He'd probably just cook a nice, romantic dinner, and the two of them would spend the night talking and playing chess, or doing some recon. "I don't know, probably just cook me dinner or something."
"Oh I don't know about that Max. He probably has the most romantic evening all laid out for you."
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What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I can't believe I forgot Valentine's Day! Logan, I swear, sometimes you are the most inconsiderate.... Logan furiously paced around his apartment, desperately grabbing at any idea that decided to lunge into his brain. Got it.
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