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Maxie and Johnny

Get Down on the Floor

Part Four

May 2009

Johnny walks across The Haunted Star to greet Maxie. His eyes devour every wild girl curve of her, the roundness of her breasts and firmness of her ass, and every delicate angel of her, her cheekbones and that sweet spot on her hips that made her moan when he kissed it, as his fingers moved inside of her.

Their eyes stay locked on each other as he walks closer.

She licks her lips, perhaps unconsciously, maybe cause she guesses it drives him wild and makes him hard. He works to keep his desire under control. This ain't nothing new. He's gotten good at not showing her how turned on she makes him over the last eight months.

He was her hit and run fuck. She got want she wanted and never bothered to visit the scene of the crime again.

Instead Johnny gets to be her buddy. Yeah, that's not working so well for him so he thinks its about time to say to hell with just friends and to hell with her boyfriend doctor. Life is very hard in Port Charles and if Matt doesn't know that yet, he's about to find out.

Johnny touches Maxie's arm, as he greets her, ignoring Matt completely. "You look..." his eyes finished the sentence: fuckable.

She laughs. "Don't I always?" Though her eyes tease him, her arm is wrapped around her boyfriend's. "Good to see you again, Johnny. Its been a while."

A day is a while now? Johnny thinks. But he knows what she is doing. Matt has no clue they hang out.

Matt says "Mr. Zacchara...a nice healthy crowd on your boat tonight."

"Yeah, business is good despite the economy. People just don't know how to control themselves sometimes." Johnny looks at Maxie as he answers Matt, then tells her. "We need to talk. My office for five?"

He watches as her eyes widen in surprise. They are friends on the down low.

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What is he up to? Maxie thinks.

Its not been easy to juggle the men in her life these last eight months. Not at all. Matt is the jealous type and Maxie is eager for him to think she's plenty different than she really is. So she sneaks to see Spinelli on her lunch hours, gossiping about who he's in love with from afar now and Stone Cold's latest baby mama drama (knocking up Claudia is not sitting well with Liz and Carly at all which really makes Maxie laugh.) Also, about once a week, Maxie spends a few hours with Johnny, while Matt works the night shift.

Matt doesn't mind her seeing Sam, thank God, so she can have one friend he knows about, at least.

Hearing Johnny say We need to talk. My office for five? Matt raises on eyebrow. Maxie smiles at him. "About Spinelli...we have to keep a close eye on him for Lulu, you know. Johnny and I wouldn't feel right if we let her best friend fall apart just because she's not around."

"Of course," Matt says "Spinelli does seem the type prone to...needing special attention or maybe a psych

consult."

He laughs. No one else does.

Maxie feels her blood boiling. She longs to tell Matt off but the bigger part of her thinks that if she can keep Matt happy, that's the key to her finally being a halfway normal woman. He's a real good guy and he loves her, she believes.

She has let him love her. She won't break him like she did Cooper. She just has to try harder to not be so bitchy, reckless and destructive.

Every day she thinks about giving up on Matt but then she remembers Cooper...she can't have him back and he really did make her better...but she can have Matt, and he makes her feel like trying to overcome her own bad girl ways. He brings that out of her. Its worth trying some more...right?

But in the back of her mind she is spewing a million curse words at him. How dare he fucking talk about Spinelli that way? Who the hell does he think he is? I'll bitch slap him into next week.

Matt gets away with the remark though. Cause Maxie's guilt about Cooper, and Logan, and Lulu...and so much more...makes her bite her tongue.

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Johnny watches as she fights to keep her anger down. He wonders why she is bothering. Does she really think Matt thinking she is a good person makes her a good person?

It don't work that way. Maxie taught him that lesson once and now its time Johnny teaches her it back.

He's held off on really trying to pull her away from Matt and back to him, though he knows he was only a one night pit stop for her anyway, but now he is done with pretending naked GH nurses get him as hot as Maxie Jones did.

Johnny wants her back. And he's taking her. By any means necessary. He hopes she can appreciate that she would do the same thing if she was the one wanting him and Lulu was still around to get in their way.

They slip away from Matt and head to Johnny's office. Once they are inside he offers her a seat and then he leans on the edge of the desk, a manila envelope sits on top of it. Johnny looks Maxie up and down. Though they are only friends, they always flirt relentlessly when they are alone together. She knows all too well that he wants her back in his bed.

"You really do look hot tonight, Maxie," his words are low and intimate.

"I always do so what else is new?"

He smiles. "You have quite the little smart mouth on you, Jones."

"My smart mouth is the best mouth that was every on you, Zacchara."

That line sends sensual images bouncing around his brain. He shifts uncomfortably. "You're gonna get yourself in trouble one of these days," he says in a teasing tone "if you keep throwing out those kind of comebacks."

"Its just my style. Deal with it. Just cause you can't have me anymore doesn't mean I'll ever stop making you remember the one and only night that you ever did." She leans forward, her face getting dangerously close to his lap, and says slowly, as her eyes look up at him. "Its called..."

He swallows hard. "Revenge?"

"Justice."

A devilish grin plays on his lips.

She adds "All those times you told me you wanted Lulu...the tables have turned now, Johnny boy." In an erotic, don't you want me so bad you could die, tone, she asks "How you like those apples?"

"I don't." He grabs the envelope off the desk. "You need to look at this...but when you do...remember...I'm your friend...not just the guy who ...would take you back to bed in a hot minute."

Her eyes fill with concern as they dart to look at the envelope. She tries to play it off. "What's that? Nude photos of you? That won't make me dump Matt for your sexy ass, Johnny. Besides don't you have a nurse to screw tonight?"

"Nope. I have a life to save tonight...and its yours."

"So dramatic, ohhhhh." She stands up. "I have to get back to Matt. This has been a real waste of time and he's gonna be suspicious now. Thanks a lot, Johnny. Good job." She heads for the door.

Johnny rips the pictures out of the envelope. "Look!"

Maxie grabs the door handle. He rushes across the room. She opens the door. His hand hits the door, slamming it shut, and trapping her between him and it, a repeat of how they were when she left his Penthouse eight months before. "You got to look at it, Maxie. Since when are you so chicken shit?"

Her voice is teary when she asks "Why are you trying to ruin my best chance at happiness since Coop? I've ruined all my others. Now you want to take a turn, too, huh. Fuck off, Johnny."

"You so scared to turn around and face the truth? That's not the girl I know."

She spins around, looking in his eyes instead of at what is in his hand, "The girl you know is nothing but a whore!"

He runs his hands through her hair and leans his forehead against hers, as she sucks in unsteady breaths, "No, Maxie, don't even go there. That's Matt talking, not you. You weren't ashamed of what we did that night...then you got caught up with him...and now you hate yourself. You think he's Cooper for you? Tell me...did Cooper really make you feel dirty like this?"

"Never."

"Matt's not your man." Johnny steps back and brings the photos up, to where she can't help but see the image of Matt and Liz screwing.

After a long moment of looking at it, Maxie's eyes glimmer with all of her old spark. "I'm going to fucking kill that cheating pig!" She grabs the photos and storms out of the office.

Johnny smiles. "Now, there's my girl."

He follows her into the casino again and watches as she heads over to Matt. Maxie waves the photos and then screams. Johnny's loving the show. Her eyes catch his and she smiles. Her heart isn't broken. She's free again, alive again.

He walks towards them but then hears Luke yell "Gun!"

Everything starts to move really slow. Maxie turns to look at Johnny, just as bullets spray around the room.