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Maxie and Johnny

Get Down on the Floor

Part Five

May 2009

Johnny follows Maxie into the casino again and watches as she heads over to Matt. She 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.

He dives toward her, pulling her to the ground. She shivers against him as the automatic gunfire is suddenly cut off right after the sound of a smaller gun being fired sounds. Pop. Pop. Pop.

Johnny pushes her hair out of her face, looking into her eyes. "Maxie, girl...tell me you're all right. Maxie!"

Though they are looking right in each others eyes and he can see she's not shot, something in him doesn't believe it. He's sure she will die, like his mother did, as he watches her fade away. Only now does he see how much she's comes to mean to him. He always wanted her in his bed, but he never knew she got in his heart.

Maxie's arms snake around him, hugging him close, even as other people stumble to their feet, and others scream for help, and Claudia cries "JOHNNY! Where are you?"

"I'm fine, sis!" He doesn't move away from Maxie though. He asks "You're not hurt, right? Tell me you're not hurt."

Maxie holds onto him so tightly that their rapidly beating hearts are pressed together, and he doesn't know who's is beating faster or who is shaking more. She whispers in his ear "I'm alive and so are you...which is weird cause I always lose the guy I want most."

He pulls back from her, ignoring the chaos around him. "You over Matt that quick? Damn, you don't waste time." He helps her to her feet.

They look at the bloody scene around them. Matt is helping to treat people who were shot. Claudia is crouched next to Luke, holding his hand, as blood pools beneath his thigh. Johnny spots a makeshift tourniquet tied around his leg, made from the silky red scarf she had been wearing.

Johnny wraps his arm around Maxie's waist. She leans into him. "I'm over Matt...that whole thing was bullshit...a big waste of six months...he was never good enough to be compared to Coop but after what happened with Logan...and watching Lulu lose her mind...I thought I needed the safe choice. Look at this scene though...Port Charles will never be safe...so what does it matter what I do? Huh? We're all gonna die young no matter what anyway."

He lets out a long breath. He knows he should stick around and answer questions for the cops but Johnny just wants to be alone somewhere with Maxie. She needs him and for months now...he has been needing her just as badly. He takes her hand. "Lets get out of here."

They make it over to Claudia, walking past plenty of people who are traumatized and a few who are bleeding. After an ambulance comes for Luke and some of the others, Johnny is finally able to take Maxie to his car. Cops show up but not Mac, so they are able to sneak away.

He is parked behind the building, in the owner's spots. All the cops and police are in front of the building.

Sitting behind the steering wheel he says "We're going to my place. I need a drink and I...need to hold you again...finally..." he looks in her eyes. "Just hold you this time. We skipped that part last time. That okay with you?"

She nods, as her eyes get teary. Her hand comes up and cups his cheek. "I don't know how to live in this town anymore...I feel like I have permanent post traumatic stress disorder and should buy bullet proof vests in every color."

"I know, Max, I know. This town is always gonna be dangerous and I'm always gonna be one of the most dangerous parts of it...I don't know how to live with that either...do I embrace it? Or do I slit my wrists and just get it all fucking over with already?"

"Don't say that!"

Johnny leaned close to her, until he was nearly kissing her. "Do I just kiss the girl and say fuck it to everything I can't change? Do I...hate myself for wanting you...knowing it could kill you...knowing you might lose me and your mind...or do I just fall all the way in love with you...stop fighting the inevitable...and let the chips fall where they may? What do you think?"

Their lips were only a breath apart. "I say...kiss the girl."

His mouth collides with hers.

For Johnny Zacchara it's this woman who remains his sweetest sin. For Maxie, he has been downright cruel to Lulu and Matt. He has been kind to Spinelli and Sam- just because it makes Maxie smile. He has been just her friend, even when he wanted more, and he has been just her fuck, when that was all she was offering.

With Maxie he can be what he is not with anyone else. But he does not have to be a better man. She knows he's a wreck. So is she...but sometimes the bad boy belongs with the bad girl, not the good one.

Sometimes dark and messy and wrong...turns out to feel just right.

Johnny pushes Maxie against the car door, breaking his word to just hold her, but hell with it, he's a liar at heart. She smiles when he starts to unbutton his shirt and then tosses it in the back seat. He knows they should wait, give her time to process losing Matt and finding herself again, and all the trauma of being shot at, but he wants her right now and finally...he can have her again.

Her eyes dance with desire for him, her breathing gets more and more shallow. His mouth moves to cover hers again, reveling in being able to taste her once more, and her arm wraps around his neck, pulling him indecently close. She breaks the kiss and asks "Condom?'

He nods.

Maxie smiles. "I love a man who comes prepared for random sex."

He pushes up her skirt, finding a thong. "I love a woman who dresses for random sex."

His finger slides over her, causing her to grow wet. He lets out a low moan. Damn, he thinks, I missed this. Being close with her, caressing her, playing this crazy game with her...wondering if its a game at all. He keeps running his finger up and down her, as he leans close and kisses her neck.

"Johnny..." she breathes out his name. "Ohhh...what's that they say...oh...about...saving someone's life? Oh God.." Maxie moans as his finger slides into her. "I think I...oh my God...Johnny! I think I..."

"Stop thinking."

"You'll like...this...fuck...that's good, Johnny."

He smiles against her hair. Then slowly licks across her collarbone. His finger keeps a steady pace in her.

Maxie says "You saved my ...oh...yes...there...you saved my life...oh! oh! So, Johnny boy...I belong to you...forever." She digs her nails into his shoulder and bucks against his hand.

He whispers into her ear "Works for me, Maxie."

THE END