Chapter 2

Maxie pulled the door closed behind her and stared at Lulu as a slow burn of fury began to build in her chest. "What are you doing here?" she spat.

"I could ask you the same question," Lulu quipped as she tried to step around Maxie while pulling out the spare key to Logan's apartment from her handbag.

"Oh, I don't think so! " Maxie exclaimed and in a blink of an eye swiped the keys from Lulu's hand. "Logan's sleeping and I think you are the last person he needs to see right now."

Lulu attempted to grab her keys back, but Maxie buried them in Logan's laundry. Giving up Lulu crossed her arms in front of her chest and leaned her weight back on one hip.

"Who died and put you in charge?" Lulu asked as she surveyed the laundry basket and prescription scripts clutched in Maxie's hand. "Oh, let me guess you're trying to put yourself in Logan's good graces so he won't press charges against you for attempted murder?"

"Isn't that rich coming from the girl that actually hit him over the head with a wrench, which caused him to need a brain surgery that put him in a coma?" Maxie snapped right back.

Lulu chuckled and shook her head. "I don't have to explain myself to you. You weren't even there so you have no idea what happened. It was a mistake. "

Taking an aggressive step towards Lulu, Maxie lowered her voice, "A mistake? A mistake is a wrong answer on a test not losing faith in the man you supposedly love. If anyone should have had some faith in him it should have been you. Instead you've been playing him, sneaking around with Johnny, and then trying to off him like this is some sick game of Clue."

"I'm not the one who plays games Maxie, that's always been your M.O. And I'm wondering what game you're playing now, I thought you hated Logan and here I find you playing what? Nursemaid? If I was Logan I'd be a little worried that you'd slip into the role of Angel of Mercy and spike his chicken soup. How come everyone seems to be pointing the finger at me, when you weren't any better? If someone hadn't walked in his room when they did you probably would have pulled the plug."

"Oh please Lulu, everyone knows there is no love lost between Logan and I, plus it's partially your fault that I thought he was the TMK since it was your friend Spinelli that convinced me. Meaning Logan had to be the one that killed my sister and my boyfriend and attacked me in my own home. I think I might have been a little bit justified in thinking about pulling the plug on him, but I couldn't actually do it. So if I were you I'd be the one worrying about posing for a mug shot at PCPD. Let's just thank God his head is harder than his heart is, since mooning all over you is what landed him in the hospital in the first place."

"You bitch." Lulu yelled rearing back to slap her but Maxie caught her hand before she had the chance.

"Just get the hell out of here. If Logan wants to talk to you when he wakes up, I'm sure he has your number, but I wouldn't hold your breath."

After Lulu spun around on her heel and marched off to her car, Maxie leaned against Logan's door and focused on her calming her rapidly beating heart until she finally heard the car peel out of the parking lot.

She closed her eyes and the scene from the hospital flashed before them; she remembered watching them standing way too close in the hallway outside of Logan's room and Johnny kept trying to touch her and Lulu kept nervously looking over her shoulder down the hallway. Maxie couldn't help herself and slipped behind the open door of the supply closet to listen in.

Lulu looked over her shoulder again."I'm sorry I just feel so guilty. Maybe we should have waited."

Johnny ran his fingers down Lulu's arm and lowered his voice. "You don't have anything to feel guilty about. We both had thought that Logan was the TMK at the time, that shouldn't have anything to do with how we feel about each other or what happened that night."

She raised her hands to her face and pushed away the tears that were threatening to fall. "It was the wrong Johnny. I never should have slept with you the same night I hurt Logan. And on top of it all the TMK wasn't even Logan, it was Diego."

"What are you saying that you don't want to be with me?" he glowered at her.

"No, that's not it but I need to try and make this up to Logan. It's a loose end that I need to tie up or it's always going to hang over my head that instead of being here with Logan I was making love to you."

Maxie tucked the memory away for a later date and adjusted the laundry basket on her hip. She never liked Lulu and wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of 'tying up loose ends' . With friends like that Logan didn't need enemies, she just wasn't sure why she cared so much about what happened to him. Maybe it was because of losing Coop, or because she understood what it was like to be left behind. With one last look at his apartment door she headed to her car. Her plan was to be back before Logan woke up, she just hoped that she had a few hours to get all her ducks in a row first. Since she had some errands to do and a phone call to make to Scott before Lulu went crying to him about big bad Maxie Jones.