Authors Note- Like I said before, moving everything back to the core story,
provided that it will let me, and closing the continuation. Sorry for the
mix ups.
Stacey- Thank you for your kind words, they humble me. However, I sincerely doubt that this is the best fanfic... perhaps the longest, and even then that's probably a lie as well. Nonetheless, I am honored that you think so highly of my work, and my creation. I've never read another story like this, although I've written such stories for various other fandoms. Yeah, I like the kid that no one knew about story, it's fun. I am sorry that you caught me during a time when I couldn't update every day like I have been doing, more or less, since the start. Hopefully, the next time you check up with a 2 hour periodic scan, you'll have 3 whole chapters to enjoy! Yes, you're right... there will be more of Damian and Carly as well as Damian and Jason. I want to give everyone their time together as best I can. Trust me, I'm not even close to doing everything that I've intended on doing. Just giving you some stuff to look ahead for.
Joy- Don't worry about falling behind, barring the people at Fanfiction themselves taking down the story, it will always be there. I've no intentions of dropping it, even when I'm done. Yes, I do enjoy putting Damian through such situations. They make me happy. How will Sonny and Damian work this one out? Even I'm not entirely sure of that answer as of yet. I liked the situation with Jason as well, there's another one coming up that should be of equal interest. Those Dillon/Jason scenes, while rare, are pure gold. You know, I never thought of the Damian/Maxie relationship like Sonny and Carly's, ever. I guess I see the similarities, but if you hadn't pointed it out, I would have remained blind.
Story-
Lucky looked uneasily at Maxie. The information that she was looking for wasn't exactly the stuff that he could be giving out to anyone, not even the daughter of the Commissioner. In fact, Lucky was more than a little upset that Maxie would even attempt to compromise their friendship in the way that she was. Lucky didn't blame her, however. He knew what it was like to be young and to be in love. He knew how much a person could mean to someone that age. He wouldn't have acted any differently than she was acting towards him if he were still her age.
But he wasn't, and he knew better than that now. "Maxie," He said calmly and holding the anger that he was feeling, "You know that I can't tell you that information."
"Please, Lucky!" Maxie pleaded. "I have to know."
Lucky shook his head, "How do you know that your boyfriend is even involved?"
"I just know," Maxie said. "I have that feeling that he was."
"You don't have anything to worry about," Lucky told her. It was mostly true, since the only piece of evidence that they had against Damian was entirely circumstantial.
"I don't believe you."
"I wouldn't lie to you, Maxie."
"You wouldn't?" Maxie asked.
"Why would you think that I would lie to you?" Lucky wondered, actually wanting an answer because he needed to know for his own sake.
"To get back at Sonny and Jason."
"I've got no reason to hate them," Lucky said. "Sonny's married to my cousin!"
"You don't like him very much, though," Maxie pointed out. It likely wasn't a lie. Not many people actually did like Sonny. They feared him, yes. They might have even respected him. But they more than likely didn't actually care for him.
"You know, the best way to get information from someone is to actually be nice to them, not bring their character into question."
Outside of Kelly's, Damian walked up and looked inside. He saw that Maxie was talking to Lucky. He wondered why she was talking to a police officer. Carly's cousin or not, it didn't change the fact that Lucky was a cop. Besides, being related to Carly actually put more stress on any possibly relationship than less. Damian knew that Lucky would always favor his family over someone else. He would act the same way for the most part. Maybe they were right. Maybe Sonny and Courtney weren't just telling him things that he wouldn't believe. Maybe Maxie was working with the cops against him. Damian sighed. He wouldn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. Maxie was one of the few solid pillars that he had to lean on in Port Charles. He couldn't lose her.
"You've got no reason to even defend Damian," Maxie almost shouted. "You tried to get him in trouble for what happened with Kyle because of the fact that they got into a fight the day before Kyle died. You just assumed that because he was Sonny's child that he was just like his father."
"I was wrong," Lucky admitted. "I shouldn't have jumped to those conclusions. But that was a month ago, and that doesn't have anything to do with what's going on right now."
"So you admit that something is going on?" Maxie asked.
"I didn't mean it like that."
Maxie shook her head, "I think you did mean it like that, Lucky. Now you're just trying to cover it up. I came to you for information because I thought I could trust you, but I guess I can't."
"Maxie, this isn't my place to be giving you any information. I'm a police officer, we can't talk to civilians about these things because it doesn't concern them."
"I love him!" Maxie pointed out. "Anything that could hurt him concerns me!"
"You're involving yourself too much into this, Maxie." Lucky got out of his seat and placed both his hands on each of Maxie's shoulders. "Please listen to me right now and listen well, okay? If you keep doing this, you're going to get hurt. People that surround themselves around Sonny and Jason, especially girls, are not going to come out the same way that they came in. Maxie, I care about you too much to watch you destroy yourself worrying about someone like Damian, and I won't let that happen."
"You're going to work against him," Maxie looked up, her eyes filled with hate. "You're going to find a way to pin what happened on him when he didn't have anything to do with it."
Lucky sighed, he wasn't getting anywhere, "I'm going to do my job and make sure that the people that were involved got to jail for killing all those men. If that involves you boyfriend, and I'm not saying that it does or it doesn't, then he needs to pay for his crimes."
"It wasn't him."
"You're entitled to believe that, Maxie," Lucky pointed out. "But your belief alone doesn't automatically make him free of that guilt." Lucky looked up and saw Damian looking at them out of the window.
Maxie saw his eyes turn up and she looked behind her shoulder. She almost jumped out of her chair when she saw him.
Lucky shook his head. He wasn't going to watch her travel down the path that she was going down. He didn't even want to watch. When he turned around he saw Elizabeth standing right next to him. "Can you believe her?"
Elizabeth nodded, "Maxie's listening to her heart. I can't believe you, Lucky. How many times has Luke been accused of doing things that he didn't do? How many times have you been in the situation that she's in where someone that you care about is being blamed for something that they had nothing to do with? Do I have to make you remember what happened with Summer?"
"That was different."
"I'd love to hear your explanation for how what's going on between them is any different then all the things that you've been through."
"I'm not involved with Sonny Corinthos," Lucky mentioned.
"So you're going to base Damian's character entirely on his father?" Elizabeth asked. "I seem to recall that you hated it when people did that with you and your father, Lucky. I know how much you care about Luke, and how much you care about Maxie, but you need to look at Damian based on what you know about him, not about his family."
"I don't know much about him," Lucky said.
"No, you don't." Elizabeth frowned, "You don't know what he went through. You don't know what Carly puts him through. You don't know anything about him, but you're going to judge him because of something that he didn't do? I liked it when you were more objective about things and believed that a person was innocent until they were proven guilty. I could have sworn that you were supposed to believe that because you are a cop."
"How much do you know, Elizabeth?" Lucky wondered.
"Probably more than you do," Elizabeth said. "Because, unlike you, I've been thinking about Damian and his motives. He doesn't have any. What good would come out of him killing over half a dozen men?"
"He could be looking for Sonny's favor."
Elizabeth almost laughed, "See how little you know about him? He doesn't care what Sonny thinks about him."
"He's living with his father, Elizabeth!"
"They want to build something. Again I point to you and Luke, Lucky. You have a good relationship. It might have its bumps and you might not ever see eye to eye on a whole lot of things, but you still have that bond." Elizabeth peered past Lucky and saw Maxie and Damian. "That's what he's looking for with Sonny."
"I hope he finds it," Lucky muttered. "But that doesn't clear him."
"He didn't do it. I know he didn't do it."
"I hope you're right," Lucky told her. "For your sake, and a lot of other people. But I'm not going to be made a believer so blindly."
"Lucky..."
Lucky stopped her, "I've had a really long night, Elizabeth. I'd really just like to go up to my apartment and rest right now."
Elizabeth put a smile on her face although that wasn't what she was feeling at all, "Okay, Lucky. I hope you rest well."
Maxie smiled as she rushed into Damian's arms. But he kept her at arms length. "Why were you talking to that cop?"
Maxie looked up at him, shocked. "What?"
"Why were you talking to Officer Spencer?"
"Lucky?" Elizabeth looked back into Kelly's, although he was gone. "He's been my friend for a long time."
"You weren't talking about me?" Damian asked. When Maxie was silent, he knew the answer. "You were?"
"I wanted to find out what was going on, because you're not telling me."
"I can't tell you, Maxie," Damian said sadly. "I wish I could tell you, but I don't even know what's going on right now. Everything has been so complicated since last night. It's like I can barely walk out of the penthouse without feeling that I'm being watched."
"I would never do anything to hurt you."
"I'm sorry," Damian said. "I just don't know how to act right now. Everything seems so different."
"You don't have to be scared."
"But I am," Damian admitted. "I didn't hurt anyone, Maxie."
She nodded. "I know you didn't." She leaned in for a kiss, "I'll always know that you didn't do anything." The minute their lips touched, she forgot everything that she was feeling. All the anger went away.
Stacey- Thank you for your kind words, they humble me. However, I sincerely doubt that this is the best fanfic... perhaps the longest, and even then that's probably a lie as well. Nonetheless, I am honored that you think so highly of my work, and my creation. I've never read another story like this, although I've written such stories for various other fandoms. Yeah, I like the kid that no one knew about story, it's fun. I am sorry that you caught me during a time when I couldn't update every day like I have been doing, more or less, since the start. Hopefully, the next time you check up with a 2 hour periodic scan, you'll have 3 whole chapters to enjoy! Yes, you're right... there will be more of Damian and Carly as well as Damian and Jason. I want to give everyone their time together as best I can. Trust me, I'm not even close to doing everything that I've intended on doing. Just giving you some stuff to look ahead for.
Joy- Don't worry about falling behind, barring the people at Fanfiction themselves taking down the story, it will always be there. I've no intentions of dropping it, even when I'm done. Yes, I do enjoy putting Damian through such situations. They make me happy. How will Sonny and Damian work this one out? Even I'm not entirely sure of that answer as of yet. I liked the situation with Jason as well, there's another one coming up that should be of equal interest. Those Dillon/Jason scenes, while rare, are pure gold. You know, I never thought of the Damian/Maxie relationship like Sonny and Carly's, ever. I guess I see the similarities, but if you hadn't pointed it out, I would have remained blind.
Story-
Lucky looked uneasily at Maxie. The information that she was looking for wasn't exactly the stuff that he could be giving out to anyone, not even the daughter of the Commissioner. In fact, Lucky was more than a little upset that Maxie would even attempt to compromise their friendship in the way that she was. Lucky didn't blame her, however. He knew what it was like to be young and to be in love. He knew how much a person could mean to someone that age. He wouldn't have acted any differently than she was acting towards him if he were still her age.
But he wasn't, and he knew better than that now. "Maxie," He said calmly and holding the anger that he was feeling, "You know that I can't tell you that information."
"Please, Lucky!" Maxie pleaded. "I have to know."
Lucky shook his head, "How do you know that your boyfriend is even involved?"
"I just know," Maxie said. "I have that feeling that he was."
"You don't have anything to worry about," Lucky told her. It was mostly true, since the only piece of evidence that they had against Damian was entirely circumstantial.
"I don't believe you."
"I wouldn't lie to you, Maxie."
"You wouldn't?" Maxie asked.
"Why would you think that I would lie to you?" Lucky wondered, actually wanting an answer because he needed to know for his own sake.
"To get back at Sonny and Jason."
"I've got no reason to hate them," Lucky said. "Sonny's married to my cousin!"
"You don't like him very much, though," Maxie pointed out. It likely wasn't a lie. Not many people actually did like Sonny. They feared him, yes. They might have even respected him. But they more than likely didn't actually care for him.
"You know, the best way to get information from someone is to actually be nice to them, not bring their character into question."
Outside of Kelly's, Damian walked up and looked inside. He saw that Maxie was talking to Lucky. He wondered why she was talking to a police officer. Carly's cousin or not, it didn't change the fact that Lucky was a cop. Besides, being related to Carly actually put more stress on any possibly relationship than less. Damian knew that Lucky would always favor his family over someone else. He would act the same way for the most part. Maybe they were right. Maybe Sonny and Courtney weren't just telling him things that he wouldn't believe. Maybe Maxie was working with the cops against him. Damian sighed. He wouldn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. Maxie was one of the few solid pillars that he had to lean on in Port Charles. He couldn't lose her.
"You've got no reason to even defend Damian," Maxie almost shouted. "You tried to get him in trouble for what happened with Kyle because of the fact that they got into a fight the day before Kyle died. You just assumed that because he was Sonny's child that he was just like his father."
"I was wrong," Lucky admitted. "I shouldn't have jumped to those conclusions. But that was a month ago, and that doesn't have anything to do with what's going on right now."
"So you admit that something is going on?" Maxie asked.
"I didn't mean it like that."
Maxie shook her head, "I think you did mean it like that, Lucky. Now you're just trying to cover it up. I came to you for information because I thought I could trust you, but I guess I can't."
"Maxie, this isn't my place to be giving you any information. I'm a police officer, we can't talk to civilians about these things because it doesn't concern them."
"I love him!" Maxie pointed out. "Anything that could hurt him concerns me!"
"You're involving yourself too much into this, Maxie." Lucky got out of his seat and placed both his hands on each of Maxie's shoulders. "Please listen to me right now and listen well, okay? If you keep doing this, you're going to get hurt. People that surround themselves around Sonny and Jason, especially girls, are not going to come out the same way that they came in. Maxie, I care about you too much to watch you destroy yourself worrying about someone like Damian, and I won't let that happen."
"You're going to work against him," Maxie looked up, her eyes filled with hate. "You're going to find a way to pin what happened on him when he didn't have anything to do with it."
Lucky sighed, he wasn't getting anywhere, "I'm going to do my job and make sure that the people that were involved got to jail for killing all those men. If that involves you boyfriend, and I'm not saying that it does or it doesn't, then he needs to pay for his crimes."
"It wasn't him."
"You're entitled to believe that, Maxie," Lucky pointed out. "But your belief alone doesn't automatically make him free of that guilt." Lucky looked up and saw Damian looking at them out of the window.
Maxie saw his eyes turn up and she looked behind her shoulder. She almost jumped out of her chair when she saw him.
Lucky shook his head. He wasn't going to watch her travel down the path that she was going down. He didn't even want to watch. When he turned around he saw Elizabeth standing right next to him. "Can you believe her?"
Elizabeth nodded, "Maxie's listening to her heart. I can't believe you, Lucky. How many times has Luke been accused of doing things that he didn't do? How many times have you been in the situation that she's in where someone that you care about is being blamed for something that they had nothing to do with? Do I have to make you remember what happened with Summer?"
"That was different."
"I'd love to hear your explanation for how what's going on between them is any different then all the things that you've been through."
"I'm not involved with Sonny Corinthos," Lucky mentioned.
"So you're going to base Damian's character entirely on his father?" Elizabeth asked. "I seem to recall that you hated it when people did that with you and your father, Lucky. I know how much you care about Luke, and how much you care about Maxie, but you need to look at Damian based on what you know about him, not about his family."
"I don't know much about him," Lucky said.
"No, you don't." Elizabeth frowned, "You don't know what he went through. You don't know what Carly puts him through. You don't know anything about him, but you're going to judge him because of something that he didn't do? I liked it when you were more objective about things and believed that a person was innocent until they were proven guilty. I could have sworn that you were supposed to believe that because you are a cop."
"How much do you know, Elizabeth?" Lucky wondered.
"Probably more than you do," Elizabeth said. "Because, unlike you, I've been thinking about Damian and his motives. He doesn't have any. What good would come out of him killing over half a dozen men?"
"He could be looking for Sonny's favor."
Elizabeth almost laughed, "See how little you know about him? He doesn't care what Sonny thinks about him."
"He's living with his father, Elizabeth!"
"They want to build something. Again I point to you and Luke, Lucky. You have a good relationship. It might have its bumps and you might not ever see eye to eye on a whole lot of things, but you still have that bond." Elizabeth peered past Lucky and saw Maxie and Damian. "That's what he's looking for with Sonny."
"I hope he finds it," Lucky muttered. "But that doesn't clear him."
"He didn't do it. I know he didn't do it."
"I hope you're right," Lucky told her. "For your sake, and a lot of other people. But I'm not going to be made a believer so blindly."
"Lucky..."
Lucky stopped her, "I've had a really long night, Elizabeth. I'd really just like to go up to my apartment and rest right now."
Elizabeth put a smile on her face although that wasn't what she was feeling at all, "Okay, Lucky. I hope you rest well."
Maxie smiled as she rushed into Damian's arms. But he kept her at arms length. "Why were you talking to that cop?"
Maxie looked up at him, shocked. "What?"
"Why were you talking to Officer Spencer?"
"Lucky?" Elizabeth looked back into Kelly's, although he was gone. "He's been my friend for a long time."
"You weren't talking about me?" Damian asked. When Maxie was silent, he knew the answer. "You were?"
"I wanted to find out what was going on, because you're not telling me."
"I can't tell you, Maxie," Damian said sadly. "I wish I could tell you, but I don't even know what's going on right now. Everything has been so complicated since last night. It's like I can barely walk out of the penthouse without feeling that I'm being watched."
"I would never do anything to hurt you."
"I'm sorry," Damian said. "I just don't know how to act right now. Everything seems so different."
"You don't have to be scared."
"But I am," Damian admitted. "I didn't hurt anyone, Maxie."
She nodded. "I know you didn't." She leaned in for a kiss, "I'll always know that you didn't do anything." The minute their lips touched, she forgot everything that she was feeling. All the anger went away.