-1Highway to Hell
He watched her from his table in the corner as she moved busily throughout the small diner taking orders, chatting happily with customers, busing tables, refilling coffee. Watching her was driving him crazy. He wanted to touch her, it had been too long since he'd touched her. "I can't work with you looking at me like that." Her hissed whisper broke into his thoughts.
"And how am I looking at you?" He crossed his arms and looked up at her.
He was trying to fluster her, and she knew it, but that didn't make his efforts any less successful. "Like you're…." She cut off, she could feel her face flushing.
"Like I'm picturing you naked and in my bed." He said bluntly, with no hint of shame or embarrassment.
She crossed her arms over her chest and rolled her eyes at him. "You're such a gentleman, really." He didn't say anything, just kept staring at her. "What do you want Logan?" She tried to make her tone sound mad, annoyed, anything but unnerved. Four months together, and he could still unnerve her with just a heated look.
"You naked and in my bed." He drawled quietly giving her a lazy smile.
"Ok." She said shaking her head, and then gave a quick look to make sure no one was paying attention to them. "I'll bring you coffee, black, even though I know you like the fancy stuff at Sonnybucks better." She said as she turned and made her way back to the counter.
"What was that about?" Maxie asked her sister, when she came behind the counter to pour Logan's counter. "You were over there a long time."
"It was nothing." She said wiping her hands on her apron. "You know Logan, he likes to flirt with every girl who walks by him."
"Your face is flushed." Maxie observed causally taking a sip of her own coffee.
"Its warm in here." Georgie replied picking up the cup of recently poured coffee.
Maxie studied her sister carefully, Georgie was a terrible liar, always had been. "Stay away from him Georgie. You're a smart girl, you know that he is bad news. Give me the coffee." She took the cup from Georgie and marched over to Logan's table. "Stay away from my sister." She threatened him.
"Georgie's a big girl." Logan replied, unfazed by her threat.
"Don't look at her, don't talk to her, just leave her alone." She reiterated, setting the coffee down with a jolt causing some of it to spill over the side. "She is the best person I know. She's sweet, and genuinely nice. She deserves a hell of a lot better than a wannabe mobster loser like you who would sleep with anything in a skirt."
"Oh, why don't you just lead Cooper back upstairs to your little love shack." He shot back, and then took a sip of his coffee.
"I mean it Logan, stay away from her." She told him hotly and returned to her seat next to Coop.
"That wasn't necessary Maxie." Georgie told her when she returned.
"I'm your older sister, its my job to look out for you."
"Look Georgie." Cooper said interrupting the sisters. "Logan is my friend, but Maxie's right, he's bad news. You're a sweet girl, and he'd take advantage of that."
"Thanks for the advice. I need to get back to work." She grabbed the grey rubber tub from under the counter, and went outside to bus the tables out there.
A few seconds later, Logan threw some money on the table, and left. "If she wasn't your sister…" He said as he approached Georgie.
"But she is." She gave him a small smile. "Your good buddy Cooper told me your bad news. Said I'm a sweet girl, and that you're going to take advantage of me."
"I am bad news. And you are a sweet girl." He made sure no one was around and they couldn't be seen from the window and then brushed the strands of hair that had fallen from her ponytail behind her ear, letting his fingers trail over her cheek.
"You going to take advantage of me?" She asked her eyes dancing with mischief.
He just let out a bark of laughter. Cooper, Maxie, and everyone else, seriously underestimated this girl. Hell, he'd made the mistake of underestimating her too, but that had quickly been remedied. "When can I see you?" He asked his voice suddenly urgent.
"You're looking at me." She put some glasses in the tub.
"You know what I mean."
"Tonight soon enough?" It had been too long since they were truly alone together. It had been a busy week. She'd been busy with work, volunteering, and family. He'd been busy doing whatever it was he did for Sonny.
"No, but it'll have to do." He took her face in his hands and gave her a quick hard kiss before he left.
She turned to go back into Kelly's and found herself face to face with a shocked Dillon and Lulu.
She barely had the door closed to his rented room above Jake's before he had her backed against it. He kissed her until rational thought fled her head and she almost needed help remembering her own name. "Hi." She finally whispered after he'd broken away so they could both recover at least long to catch their breaths.
"Hi." He murmured before he kissed her again, pressing his body more firmly against hers. His mouth left hers and he trailed kisses down her neck.
"We need to talk." She knocked his hand away before it could sneak up her shirt. "Dillon and Lulu saw us today."
"Uh-huh." He grunted, still concentrating on leaving heated kisses on her neck and jaw.
"No really."
"I don't care." He murmured and recaptured her lips with his. "Let them tell the whole damn world. Then I can kiss you like this anytime I want, anywhere I want."
She put her hands on either side of his face. "You kiss me like this in public and my father's going to arrest you for indecent exposure or lewd acts in public."
"It'll be worth it." He promised.
She laughed and wrapped her arms around his waist and started pushing him backwards towards the bed. "What am I going to do with you?" She asked laughing.
"Hopefully something indecent and lewd." He said as they fell back onto the bed.
"Dillon and Lulu aren't going to tell anyone." He tried to reassure her later that night. She was lying curled up against his side.
"How do you know?" She questioned.
"They don't get anything from it." He said simply. "If anyone's going to tell its going to be Maxie."
Georgie frowned. Her sister could do some mean spiteful things, but she didn't think this would be one of them. Both girls had dealt with Mac's over protective streak, and she didn't think her sister would deliberately set him in her direction. "Maxie doesn't know, she just suspects. And what does she gain from telling Mac?"
"Maxie knows." He corrected. "And she gets Mac off her and Cooper's case." He knew that no matter what or how many bad things Maxie did, Georgie would never believe the worst about her sister. No matter how many bad things he did, Georgie wouldn't give up on him.
She was quiet for a minute. She didn't believe that Maxie would go to Mac, but with people starting to know, sooner or later Mac was going to find out. "We need to tell Mac the truth." She said quietly, trying to block images of Mac's reaction from her head.
It wasn't something that he was looking forward to. "How bad do you think it'll be on a scale of 1-10?"
"There isn't a scale capable of measuring." She told him, as she sat up in the bed, and started reaching for her clothes. "Maybe we could tell him at dinner, this weekend, although that does bring back horrible memories of when I was a child and my cousin Robin brought Jason Morgan to dinner."
"Couldn't have been that bad, Mac and Jason are both still alive to tell the story." He commented as he tried to pull her back into the bed. "Georgie, its going to be fine." He said quietly.
She quickly finished getting dressed and sat on the edge of the bed. "Mac does not handle these situations well, despite all the practice that he has had. We've put him through hell in guy department. He yells, a lot, and he's impossible to reason with. He thinks that we're all determined to throw our lives away when it comes to the men we date, no offense."
"Come on Georgie, I'm the first to admit that I don't deserve you, and that you could do a hell of a lot better than me." It was going to always be a mystery to him what she saw in him that made her take a chance.
"Don't say that." She said softly. She stood up. "I need to get home. I'm volunteering at GH in the afternoon, and working at Kelly's in the evening. I'm not sure I'll have time to come over."
"I'll call you later." He promised, and leaned over to kiss her quickly. "Try not to worry."
"What are you doing here? You hate this place." She commented as he approached the nurses desk where she was writing on a clipboard.
"I wanted to see you today. Can you take a break?"
She looked at her watch. "Sure."
She came around the desk, and he grabbed her hand and let her to a dark corner away from view and kissed her. "Is there somewhere more private here?"
"No." She said adamantly. "I'm not having sex with you in the hospital." She whispered. "There are sick people here, this is a place of healing." But he was already pulling her down the hall in search of a supply closet. "Logan." She hissed.
"Relax." He told her as he opened the door to the supply closet and started to back her into it. He came up short, when he looked up. "Busy supply closet." He commented and started to pull Georgie back out.
"What?" She turned to see her cousin hastily re-buttoning her shirt, and adjusting her lab coat. Her eyes widened with shock when it registered who was standing next to her cousin. "Mac is going to go to an early grave."
"Georgie!" Robin kept looking between her cousin and Logan in disbelief. "What are you doing?" If it had been Maxie sneaking into a supply closet with a boy, it wouldn't have been so surprising.
"Me?" Georgie asked incredulously. "You're in the closet with Jason."
"I'm a grown woman." Robin said in her own defense.
"Hey, I've been married already." Georgie reminded her.
"Point taken, but Georgie…" Robin trailed off, again looking between Georgie and Logan.
"I love you, Robin, but you don't have any right to judge me, or my choice in men."
"I'm just worried about you."
"I'm fine." Georgie promised her, and pushed Logan out of the supply closet.
"What did you tell Mac?" Logan asked her as they stood on the porch to the Scorpio house.
"That I was bringing a boy home for dinner." She said simply, as she took his hand in hers.
"And?" He pressed.
"And to remember that he loves me, and wants me to be happy, before he starts ranting. And I told him that I was very happy." She said quietly and pressed a quick kiss to his lips before leading him into the house. "Mac!" She called as they entered the foyer.
"Coming!" He called back, and pulled up short when he saw who was standing in his house, holding his daughters hand. "I'm having flashbacks to 1998." He muttered.
"Mac, remember your promise." She pleaded with him.
"You didn't tell me you would be bringing Sonny and Jason's newest lackey to my house for dinner, when I made that promise." His voice was already starting to rise. "I don't understand the women in this family." He said shaking his head. "I really don't. Duke, Luke, Stone, Jason, Zander, Kyle, Dillon, and now him." He shook his head again. "Dillon Quartermaine is starting to look like a saint, I should have been nicer to him." Mac muttered.
"Dillon Quartermaine cheated on her." Logan spoke up for the first time. His jaw was set, and he was trying to keep his tone level.
"Being with Dillon was never going to get her killed."
"Just heartbroken." Logan shot back.
"Please." She was pleading with both of them now.
"Georgie, what are you thinking?" Mac asked her incredulously. "I expected more of you." Georgie wasn't the one he was supposed to have to worry about. She was the rational one, the practical one. The one who never really gave him any trouble.
"More of her?" Logan's tone was just as incredulous. "Look at her. She's smart and beautiful, the best person that I have ever known. She goes to college, and gets straight A's, she volunteers her free time, she holds down two jobs…"
"You don't need to remind me of my daughter's accomplishments."
"Maybe, I do."
"Logan." She said quietly, squeezing his hand.
"Georgie." Mac said quietly. "Think about your future. He is a criminal. Are you going to stand by him, and come down to visit him every time he's in lockup? I have watched Robin go down this road, and I don't want to do it with you too. I love you, and I want so much more than that for you." All that he ever wanted for any of his girls was for them to be safe and happy. He wanted the best for them.
"I'm happy, Mac. He makes me happy." Her voice was quiet but forceful. "I love him." She admitted quietly.
"Mac." Robin's voice broke up the tension. "Jason and I need to talk to you." She entered the room, Jason right behind. "Not a good time." She said looking at the faces around the room.
"You've got to be kidding me. I need a drink." He told them and started to walk away.
The foursome stood silent for a moment, before Robin sighed. "I'll go talk to him, I've got more practice, and I've tortured him the most." She let go of Jason's hand and went off in the direction her uncle had disappeared.
"Mac." She entered his study.
He was sitting behind his desk, looking worn out and shell-shocked. "I never thought I wanted to be a father. And then you entered my life, and I couldn't love you more if you were my own child."
"I love you too, Mac. You've been the one constant in my life, the one person that I've always known I could count on." She reached across the desk for his hand.
"And then Maxie and Georgie came into my life, and I love them the same way. You're my girls, and all that I have ever wanted is for the three of you to be safe and happy and loved. And sometimes…sometimes I think you needed more than me."
"Mac." She shook her head in disagreement. "You've taken all of us into your life and your heart, and you've loved us without any questions or reservations. We know without any doubt that you love us and would do anything for us. We couldn't ask for anything more than that."
"You have decided to build your life with a hit man, Robin, I know that's what you and Jason came here to tell me. Georgie thinks she's in love with a hit man in training. And Maxie. Maxie has taken drugs, lost her virginity on the internet, slept with a married man, and faked a pregnancy and a miscarriage. At least Coop seems to be a good influence on her."
"Mac, just because we've struggled, doesn't mean that you haven't been a great father to us. Life can be hard sometimes, and nobody is perfect. And we might have unconventional taste in men, but you can't help who you love. We're happy, and we're loved, and that's because we had you." She stood up and went around the desk to hug him.
"He's not good enough for her. And Jason has never been good enough for you."
"Maaaaaac." She said exasperated. "She's happy, he makes her happy. Accept it, because the more you push and voice your unhappiness, the further away she's going to end up. And I'm happy too." She took his hand and tugged him to his feet. "Now go out there, and try to be civil." She gave him a little push towards the door.
He re-entered the room, and looked warily at Logan and Jason. "Who wants lasagna?" He asked throwing up his hands in resignation.