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Maxie had been out of the hospital for two full weeks now and they had still failed to confront Mac with the truth of their relationship. Although Spinelli's presence was notably missed at the pent house, it provided them ample opportunity to be alone together without fear of interruptions. Although for some reason they still preferred the box car. Their own little private space away from the rest of the world.

"We still have to tell him you know?" Jason said as Maxie lay between his legs on the makeshift bed.

"I know, but why rush into something when you already know what the outcome is going to be." Maxie thought.

"You already know Mac's reaction?" Jason smirked amused at how well she could read the only man she could truly call her father.

"Of course I do. It'll be the same reaction he's had towards every boyfriend I've ever had. Except I think with you, it might be a little more lethal." She supplied. Jason didn't know much about Maxie's ex-boyfriend's other than that most of them weren't among the living, something Maxie felt was her curse. "The only real boyfriend that's still alive is a complete scumbag and I should have listened to Mac about that one."

"Which one is that?" Jason asked, he figured it was only fair that he learned of Maxie's past relationships considering in a town like Port Charles where everyone knew his business.

"I'm not counting Lucky, because he was—well; that's a different story. I'm talking about sophomore year of high school. I was 15. And this junior named Kyle Radcliffe had a huge thing for me, or at least he pretended to."

"He's one of those kids that you were with when you had heart trouble at Carly's club?" Jason asked. "One of those kids that brought in ecstasy?"

"Yeah, a real winner. Well after all that happened we were at a party and Kyle and I went up stairs and we—only Kyle videotaped it, and then put it on the internet as some viral video for all to see." Maxie reminisced. "That's how I lost my virginity on the World Wide Web."

Jason's grip around her tightened as she told a story which, he could only assume held so much pain from her past. "I actually knew that." Jason confessed. "I mean I didn't know you were losing your—and I didn't know it was you at first, but somehow it got emailed to me, probably some guy who worked on the docks."

"Well that's just unfair." Maxie said sitting up quickly and turning around so she was half straddling his lap with her bottom still on the mattress. "You've had the chance to see me naked and I've yet to get the pleasure?"

"Maxie I don't think that's remotely the same thing." Jason told her trying to pull her closer to his body. "You were 15 years old; I was not supposed to be looking at you. Especially like that.

"So you never watched the whole thing?" Maxie asked slightly curious and mostly mortified.

"No Maxie, once I realized what it was, I stopped the video. The only reason I knew that it was you was because Courtney told me." Jason explained. He didn't want Maxie thinking that he was some pervert who watched forwarded porn.

"Great." She said leaning forward and resting her head on his shoulder. "I never needed to know that you saw that tape."

"I'm just being honest here." Jason said running his hands up and down her back. He waited a moment before leaving a kiss on the top of her head. "So back to telling your dad."

"If you're so insistent on doing this, I think we should just go for it." Maxie said sitting up. "Mac will yell and scream and maybe even arrest you, did I tell you that he arrested Patrick when he tried to propose to Robin?"

"I think Robin mentioned something about it to me." Jason joked.

"So if you really think we need to do this, then I say we just do it. Just do it quickly, do it in a somewhat public place so that he can't kill you. Just rip off the band aid and get it over with." Maxie smirked knowing that it was highly unlikely that Mac could overcome Stonecold Jason Morgan.

"I think I should do it alone." Jason finally said after a sufficient amount of silence. "Hear me out. You know regardless of what happens, Mac is going to ask to talk to me alone. I'm thinking that maybe I would even talk to Robin first. She used to date me, and if we can get more people on our side before we go against the big one, maybe it will help."

"The big one?" Maxie couldn't help but laugh. "Is that what we'll be calling Mac from now on?"

"Okay so maybe it won't be exactly like that. But do you at least understand what I'm saying."

"I do. 100%, I just don't think Mac is going to be okay with any of this." Maxie smiled, bringing her palm up to cup his face. "But I want you to know, whatever Mac says or tries to do to make me change my mind. I'm not going anywhere." She finished before kissing him, starting slowly before leaning backwards pulling Jason down on top of her.

All thoughts of Mac went out the window as Maxie brought her outside leg around Jason's body to grip him keeping him from moving. It had been years for both of them since either had been in a relationship that hadn't started or been focused around sex. As much as Jason loved Elizabeth and their relationship hadn't been all about sex, it had been full of drama and secrets and maybe that's why Jason wasn't in a rush for sex, when it came to Maxie. His head knew that, he just wished the rest of his body would figure that out as well.

"Okay, I have to get home, I need sleep. Some people have to punch a card and have to go to sleep at a decent hour. Kate has been riding us like a crazy person lately." Maxie said. "This job isn't quite like yours where I can just throw on clothes. I actually have to primp. And if we keep going like this neither one of us will be leaving for a very long time."

"You make a valid point, but it's okay. Do you want to stay at the penthouse or do you want me to drop you off at your apartment?"

"I actually need to sleep Jason. Plus all my clothes are at my apartment, so…"

"So in other words you need to go back home." Jason said kissing her once more on her neck before standing from the bed.

"You're so smart." Maxie smiled at him before sitting up herself. "I knew there was a reason I was still dating you."

"Well clearly it's not because of the sex?" Jason said sarcastically.

"Just name a time and place babe." She said standing in front of him placing her hands on his hips and pulling him against her. It didn't take too much effort for Maxie to turn him around and straddle his waist making the point clear to him, by grinding her center over the bulge in his jeans straining to get free. "I want you; there should be no doubt in your mind about that."

"Okay, now let's get you home." Jason said standing with Maxie still attached to his waist. When Jason stood Maxie moved her legs around his body holding on to him. Jason just laughed and shifted her to his side like she was a child. He quickly locked the box car before moving them up towards the overlook where his bike was waiting. Finally setting her down Jason sat down on the bike waiting for Maxie to join him. She smiled and kissed him quickly before getting on the bike and placing the helmet over her head, waiting for Jason to do the same before wrapping her arms around him.

"What was that for?" Jason asked as the bike roared to life.

"I can't do that in front of my apartment, just wanted to get it out of the way."

~*~

Early the next morning Jason woke up and showered before moving to his closest to look for clothes. Any other day of the week Jason would just pull on a well-worn pair of jeans and a t-shirt and he would be on his way out the door. But today wasn't like any other day. Today Jason Morgan had planned to do something that in most cases would be ridiculously stupid. He was about to go to the Port Charles Police Department and was about to risk his freedom, all to tell the father of the girl he was dating of their relationship. Something he hadn't had to worry about since he had dated Robin, and ironically it was the same man. He had a similar situation when Sam had discovered Alexis Davis was her mother, but this was an entirely different situation. Choosing a newer bullet hole-less pair of dark wash jeans and a blue button down shirt, Jason prepared to go to the station, and get it over with already.

"Mac." Jason said standing in front of the police commissioner's open door.

"Jason, to what do I owe this pleasure? I don't think there are any outstanding warrants for you, are you here to confess to something?" Mac asked sarcastically, closing the file that lay open on his desk.

Jason was already off to a bad start. Keeping his tongue in check he pressed on letting go of rational thoughts, "I'm here to talk to you about Maxie." He said moving into the office and taking a seat across from Mac.

"What about Maxie?" Mac asked sitting up stiffly in his seat, he knew Maxie had a knack for getting herself in trouble, especially since her friendship with Spinelli had started.

"Mac, I just need to tell you, because Maxie and I have had many conversations about this and you need to know."

"Jason would you just spit it out already." Mac said becoming increasingly annoyed, and concerned. Although he was aware of Spinelli's living situation, he wasn't aware of Maxie's apparent content with the mob enforcer.

"Maxie and I have started to date; we have been for two months now." Jason said keeping his gaze on Mac's expression waiting to gage his response."Do you have anything to say?"

"I'm trying to get over the shock first." Mac said calmly, the even flow his speech making Jason uneasy. Never before, while in lock-up had Jason been so anxious for anything in his life.

"We've been talking about how we should go about this, and we decided that after the first month if we were still together we would tell everyone. Most importantly to Maxie, we would tell you."

"So the fact that you're being up front with me about this, is supposed to make the fact that you're sleeping with my 22 year-old daughter?" Mac finally came out and said it, being blunt and polite conversation to a new interesting level.

"For the purpose of full disclosure; Maxie and I haven't slept together yet. I know you won't believe a word I say but I just—"

"Just wanted to ruin someone else's life, by pulling them into your lifestyle?" Mac said finally letting the anger and venom in his voice come through. "Jason how did you think I was going to react to this?"

"Pretty much like this." Jason said sitting up straighter in his seat. "Maxie told me it would be—"

"Speaking of Maxie, why isn't she here to speak for herself?"

"I wanted to do this on my own. Maxie knew I was going to talk to you, but I didn't want her to have to fight with you. I'm not trying to take your daughter away from you."

"So you're saying without my permission you won't date her?" Mac asked turning his words around.

"That's not what I'm saying at all. I didn't want Maxie to have to fight with you; I didn't want her to have to choose between the two of us. I never want her to have to do that. But I'm not going to give up on my relationship with your daughter just because you say to."

"But that's what she'll have to do." Mac pointed out. "There is never a time when we're going to agree on anything, especially you dating my only living and breathing daughter."

"I'm not denying that we will never agree on this. And I'm not asking you for permission to date your daughter." Jason said trying to keep his anger in check. The last thing he needed was to get arrested.

"Then what are you doing here?" Mac asked standing from his desk.

"I'm making a point of being up front with you about this. That's all." Jason said moving to stand from his seat. After Mac didn't continue with his tirade Jason moved toward the door. "I know you're going to talk to Maxie about this. And I know you're going to make your opinion about our relationship perfectly clear to her, but I'm asking you, don't bring her down more than you have to. She's lost so much when it comes to relationships, and I don't want to do that to her." Jason finished before walking out of the office.

"So back out yourself." Mac said following him as he moved in towards the main station, drawing the attention of the other police officers, especially Lucky Spencer, and D.A. Alexis Davis poking her head out of her office. "Dump her before she gets in too deep. You know that's how it's going to end up anyway Jason."

"You don't know that Mac." Jason said turning back to face the man.

"No I know where this is going to end," Mac said pausing for dramatic effect. "It's going to end with Maxie in the morgue!" Mac yelled giving people a glimpse into what they were talking about. "I've already lost one daughter to your mob wars; I refuse to lose the other!"

Jason just shook his head and made this way past the stunned cops to the exit, Lucky on his heels. "So you're sleeping with Maxie now? What does she have on you?"

Jason turned around quickly bringing himself shoulder to shoulder with the detective. "Lucky this has nothing to do with you."

"I wonder what Elizabeth will have to say about this?"

"She already knows Lucky. I'm not having this fight with you. You have no place in Maxie's life so please just mind your own business." Jason said moving to walk out, but Lucky stopped him by grabbing his arm.

"Until I get called to a scene to clean up the mess you make."

"Just stop." Jason said before pulling himself out of Lucky's grasp.

"Maxie is a reckless little girl. It's only a matter of time before she does something crazy and gets herself or you killed." Lucky said before moving back into the station.

The autumn air was a welcome refresher to the breath he had been holding since sitting down in Mac's office. He told Maxie that he would call her after he had talked to Mac, but at the moment he was too riled up to talk to her about his conversations. Mac's reaction he had expected, but Lucky had just angered him to a new extent. He had never seen eye to eye on Lucky about anything, his cheating on Elizabeth, followed by his ill-fated relationship with Sam, let alone the fact that Lucky was acting as father to his son.

In no way ready to go home, and if no mood to go to work, Jason went to the only other place he felt he could.

Jakes

~*~

"Maxie could you come in here please." Kate beckoned from her office.

Maxie pushed her chair back quickly the clicking of her heals hitting the tiled floor as she walked quickly towards her bosses office. "Yes Kate what can I get you." She said ready with notepad and paper.

"I just received an interesting call from Alexis Davis." She spoke cryptically.

"Oh." Maxie said waiting for a point to this story.

"Apparently there was much drama down at the PCPD this morning. Is there something you would like to tell me?"

"Kate," Maxie started assuming that this was about Jason and her father. "If there is something going on please just out with it already, there are many more important things that I'm sure you could have me doing."

"Apparently Jason Morgan made his way to the station this morning to confess to your father that he was in a relationship with you."

"Kate when have you ever been concerned with my personal life. In fact you prefer that we keep personal business away from the workplace." Maxie said upset that her personal life was on display for all of Port Charles.

"That is the way I prefer it, but how is this new information going to affect this magazine, and the press we get. I don't think I need to remind you of the trials I had to go through with Sonny."

"No you don't. Jason is different."

"And that's what I said about Sonny. Maxie, you have the start of a very promising career in fashion are you willing to jeopardize all of that for some man?" Kate presented.

"I promise you, my job performance is not going to suffer because of this. You won't even notice a difference." Maxie promised.

"And when you have to go on a PR appearance, how will Jason deal with your dating another man."

"It won't be a problem Kate. And if that's all I'm going to get back to work." Maxie said before turning back towards the outer office and her desk. As she moved to sit in her seat the elevator doors opened and Lulu late as always entered carrying a tray of coffee's.

"Sorry, sorry! I had to stop by Jakes and wait for Coleman to open the door so I could get my purse, I left it there last night when—"

"I don't care." Maxie said loudly and shortly. "Get Kate her coffee and there's a list of things that need to be done before lunch." Maxie said busying herself with her tasks for the day.

"But you didn't hear the weirdest part. Jason Morgan was there downing a bottle of tequila. Who would have guessed him as a 10 am drinker?" Lulu said as if her words meant nothing, mostly because to Lulu they didn't.

The moment the words left Lulu's mouth Maxie began packing up her things. Before Lulu even made it out of the office Maxie was already in the elevator on her way down towards her car. Clearly if news of her relationship with Jason had gone from Alexis to Kate in such a short amount of time, clearly it had gone exactly as she had predicted. Which could partially explain Jason's reasoning for being in a bar this early in the day.

~*~

Waving to Coleman as she moved into the dimly lit bar, she found Jason at the back in a booth in the corner. She watched as he took another shot and she moved into to stop him before too much damage was done.

"Jason what happened?" Maxie said as she sat down next to him, moving the bottle of tequila away from him.

"Mac, you were right." Jason said downing the shot he had already filled in the glass. "I'm surprised I'm not in handcuffs."

"Jason what did Mac say to you?" Maxie asked again trying to get more information. It seemed that Maxie was far too late to get a good response out of Jason. The bottle of tequila was already halfway gone. "Give me your wallet so I can pay for your drinks." She said annoyed.

Jason reached into his pocket and pulled out a stack of bills. Maxie quickly took the bottle of tequila away and brought it with her to the bar. "Since when do you open this early?" Maxie asked setting the bottle on top of the bar.

"And since when are you Morgan's right hand girl?" Coleman asked smirking as he made the double meaning clear in his comment.

"Just tell me what the tab is?" Coleman held up his hand and Maxie placed down a few bills before heading back to Jason, doing her best to get him out of the booth and out the door of the bar. Once outside Maxie moved towards her car, helping Jason into the passenger seat before sliding her hand into his jean pocket to retrieve his cell phone.

"This is no time for you to make that kind of move Maxie." Jason said stopping her hand inside his pocket.

"Don't worry Jason; I have no intention of seducing you at this moment. You are just in no shape to drive that danger excuse called a bicycle."

"Motorcycle." Jason corrected pulling Maxie down into his lap; she bumped her head on the roof of the car. "Sorry."

Maxie just rubbed the spot on her head and put Jason's phone to her ear waiting for the person on the other end to pick up. "Cody, no it's not Jason, it's Maxie. I'm with Jason at Jakes and he is in no condition to drive his bike home. Anyway you can drop it off at the pent house?" Quickly finishing the call, Maxie handed Jason back his phone before handing it back to him, and standing from the passenger side to move to the driver's side.

"Where are we going?" Jason asked his head back against the headrest.

"I'm taking you home so you can sleep this off."

"I'm not that drunk." Jason claimed reclining his seat back.

"Right, that's why I just paid your tab for half at bottle of tequila." Maxie retorted sarcastically. "Since when if your solution to life's problems a bottle of hooch?"

"It's just been a rough day." Jason said lamely, he couldn't come up with a better explanation than that at the moment. He'd had much worse days, but for some reason his only thought after arguing with Mac and Lucky had been to consume mass quantities of grain alcohol and wait for the numbness to take over. The last time he drowned his sorrows in the bottle had been after he caught Sam and Ric together, the night Jake was conceived.

Maxie stopped her questioning there, not wanting to argue or try and have a productive conversation with the inebriated passenger, because it was far from it.

~*~

Jason was half asleep by the time Maxie pulled into the underground parking garage of Harbor View Towers. With much difficulty Maxie managed to get Jason out of the car and into the elevator leaning him against the wall while they rode up to the penthouse. Once they reached the floor Maxie was surprised to find Johnny Zacchara waiting in the lobby outside Penthouse 2.

"Johnny what are you doing here?" Maxie asked as she tried to move Jason towards his front door. Johnny seeing her struggle moved over to help her draping Jason's arm over his shoulder and took over as his support.

"I needed to talk to Jason, but clearly that isn't going to be an option at the moment." Johnny said while Maxie quickly dug into her purse for the spare key, Spinelli had loaned her.

"If you could just help me get him to his room I would be grateful." Maxie said dropping her purse and shoes onto his desk. "It's the last door at the end of the hallway."

Johnny nodded before leading Jason up the stairs. Maxie, taking a deep breath of relief waited until Johnny and Jason were out of sight before she would let herself relax. Her relationship with Jason was now out in the open, she didn't have to come up with an excuse for why she was delivering Jason to his bed, or why she was there in the first place. Johnny reappeared on the stairs as the front door burst open to Carly and Sonny both with stern looks across their 40 something faces.

"Where's Jason." They both demanded looking back and forth between Johnny and Maxie. Johnny gave Maxie a sympathetic look before making his way out of the penthouse, choosing to deal with his business later.

"He's upstairs asleep, I just brought him back from Jakes." Maxie explained feeling uncomfortable with Carly and Sonny's attention solely on her.

"What was he doing at Jakes?" Sonny asked as soon as the last word left Maxie's mouth.

"Clearly he was drinking, Sonny." Carly said dismissing her ex husbands comment. "Maxie what is going on? How did any of this happen?"

"Carly I really think you should wait and hear everything from Jason." Maxie said not wanting to deal with the wrath of Carly. She had heard all about it before from Robin, and Sam and she didn't want to be the next on Carly's 'death by conversation' list.

"Don't worry Jason and I will talk, but right now I'm asking you." Carly said moving to sit down on the couch, waiting for Maxie to explain.

"Carly, Jason's private life is his business, he doesn't and I sure don't have to answer to you, or to you Sonny." Maxie said making her point clear. "I know that you both have an important part in Jason's life, but whatever is going on between Jason and me is between the two of us."

"I'm sure that's not how Mac is seeing this?" Sonny yelled. "Are you blackmailing Jason? Did you see something, or overhear something while you were here with Spinelli?"

"Sonny shut up!" Maxie yelled back, Carly stifled a laugh at Maxie's aggressiveness towards the mob boss, Maxie was starting to lose her temper and the mention of Spinelli pushed her over the edge. "Look both of you. I promise I'll tell Jason to call you both, the instant he sobers and wakes up. But until then, get the hell out."

"You think I'm just going to leave because some spoiled little brat tells me to?" Sonny said approaching Maxie. Maxie knew he was just trying to intimidate her, but he was doing a pretty stellar job.

"I don't think you do very much that people ask you to do Sonny." Maxie said trying to find her confident voice. "But I would appreciate it if you would leave."

Carly could see that Sonny was starting to lose his reasonable judgment and that furthering this conversation would probably leave Maxie in tears, resulting in Jason fighting with Sonny. Especially if Jason and Maxie were in fact in a relationship, Carly was still on the fence about that. Maxie's outright dismissal of them took guts which Carly had to admire about Maxie. In fact it reminded her a little of herself.

"We're going." Carly said ushering Sonny toward the door. "Just have Jason give us both a call when he wakes up."

"Will do." Maxie smiled thankful that Carly had gotten Sonny out of there. Taking a deep breath Maxie dug into her purse to find a bottle of aspirin that she kept on hand, from her clubbing and promotional days. She grabbed a bottle of water from the barren refrigerator and moved upstairs to Jason's room, where he was still passed out, in his leather jacket and biker boots. "What am I going to do with you?"

Turning her back to the bed Maxie moved into his dresser drawer to pull out one of his shirts so she could slip out of her fashionable dress and into a much more comfortable oversized shirt. "Well you could come over here and kiss me." Jason said from behind her.

"You're awake?" Maxie said moving to sit next to him, and filling his request with a quick but enjoyable kiss. "You just missed the fireworks."

"I heard some yelling, my head can still feel it." Jason laughed, before grabbing his head again.

"Here" Maxie said handing him the bottle of water while she opened the aspirin and handed him the dosage.

"Thank you." He said trying with some difficultly to shrug out of his jacket.

"Let me help you with that." Maxie said peeling the jacket off his body. After removing his jacket she moved down to his boots, while Jason removed his shirt, it smelled of the smoky bar. "You want me to get you some sweats?"

Jason nodded, and worked on removing his jeans while Maxie moved to his drawer to get him a pair of sweats. When Maxie turned back around Jason was standing by his bed in only his boxer-brief's waiting for Maxie. "It's a good thing you're still drunk." Maxie smiled handing him the pants afraid to be in a closer proximity. While Jason changed Maxie slipped the large shirt over her head and then removed her dress underneath. Knowing that exposing more skin was only going to lead them into dangerous waters.

"I'm not that drunk Maxie." Jason said sitting back down on the bed.

"We'll you're still too drunk for us to do anything." Maxie said moving to sit next to him curling into his side. "I'm pretty sure Sonny's going to ask you to dump me."

"So that's who you were fighting with." Jason said running his hand up and down her arm. He waited for her to make herself comfortable in his arms before hauling her atop his body and moving down the bed so they were lying. His movements causing the shirt she wore to ride up exposing a great deal of skin.

"I told Sonny to shut up." Maxie laughed. "Carly laughed, but I'm pretty sure that if Carly hadn't been there Sonny would have shot me."

"I'll talk to him." Jason said, trying to end the discussion, his hand skimming the bottom of the shirt sneaking a little bit further underneath it each time.

"You always have to call Carly and Johnny. They both need to talk to you, I don't know what Johnny wants but Carly and Sonny were both here regarding me. Sorry, I never meant to cause so much drama in your life."

Before responding, Jason moved Maxie to look into her eyes, making sure she knew the sincerity of what she was about to say, "Maxie, you have not caused any drama in my life. At least not any that I haven't welcomed. You're here because I want you to be here, and all this other stuff; it comes with the package."

"Speaking of package…" Maxie smirked from his position on top of his body. Her arms bracing Jason's while he held her firmly by her hips, cradled between his legs.

"Maxie don't start that now." Jason groaned letting his head fall back to the pillow. "I'm still buzzed and Spinelli is still technically living here."

"Fine, we'll go to sleep. But one of these day's you're going to stop turning me down, and on that day—"

"I'll be a very lucky man." Jason said kissing her quickly before rolling onto his side to separate their bodies. Everything seemed to progress too quickly whenever they kissed and Jason didn't want this to be one of those times. It had been a stressful and eventful day for the both of them. In the morning Jason would have a lot of explaining to do; to Sonny, Carly and most importantly to Maxie. She needed to hear about how things had gone with her father. But now wasn't the time, mostly because the tequila was still flowing through his veins and he needed some time to sort through his head.

"Good night Jason." Maxie finally whispered resting her head against his shoulder.

In reality it was only about 2 in the afternoon, but with dating Maxie came late nights, especially while they were still hiding, so sleep was something that could easily come to both of them. When they woke up would be soon enough for answers.

More to come this weekend! Hope you enjoyed!