SpinMax-As Time Goes By Part Two

[sissy]

#01. Motion
They sneer and glare and trade insults, but really they’re just going through the motions.

#02. Cool
He slicks back his hair and wears a leather jacket—that’s definitely Jason’s—and he’s just trying so hard to be cool that she can’t keep herself from laughing.

#03. Young
They’re young and more naïve then they’d like to admit, but what right does anyone have to say they can’t be in love?

#04. Last
Maxie’s got this hope, this undeniable want, that Spinelli will be the last man she ever gives her heart to.

#05. Wrong
She’s done a lot of wrong things her life, too many to count, but this, with him, is not one of them.

#06. Gentle
She doesn’t mean to fall in love but, well, he’s just so gentle with her, in spite of knowing what awful thing’s she’s done.

#07. One
Maxie locks herself in her room and doesn’t plan on ever coming out, not when the one person she wants won’t look at her twice.

#08. Thousand
There’s a thousand reasons why this shouldn’t work out, and Maxie intends to ignore every last one.

#09. King
“King me.” She chirps, and she can tell by the look on his face that he had no idea she was an expert at checkers.

#10. Learn
Maxie’s made plenty of mistakes to learn from, and this time she’s going to try extra hard to not screw up.

#11. Blur
It all happened so fast-one minute she’s kissing him to save their stakeout and the next she’s doing it because she just really wants to.

#12. Wait
Maxie just can’t wait to see the look on Lulu’s face when she finds out The Jackal has an affection for The Bad Blonde One.

#13. Change
He’s nervous and goofy and so damn weird, but she wouldn’t change him for the world.

#14. Command
Mac demands that she stay away from Morgan’s little helper, but Maxie hates doing what she’s told.

#15. Hold
Sometimes it’s too much, just too much, and she just wants him to hold her.

#16. Need
She needs to believe that when Spinelli hold her close, he has no doubts in his mind.

#17. Vision
Maxie imagines how ridiculous the two of them would look in a chapel, Spinelli in a pressed tux with brushed hair and her in something fancy and not white, and thinks that she’d like it very much, as odd as it might seem.

#18. Attention
These days Maxie’s not acting out for anyone’s attention but his.

#19. Soul
Maxie dreams that in the next life she’ll have all of them-Jesse, Georgie, Cooper, and Spinelli, because she’s just selfish like that.

#20. Picture
On his bedside table, in his pink room, he’s got a framed photo of the two of them, and that means more to her than anyone will ever know.

#21. Fool
Maxie wonders who he thinks he’s fooling by pretending he doesn’t like her.

#22. Mad
The one thing that really, really ticks her off is the fact that she had to put up with so much crap in her life before she finally got something good.

#23. Child
If they ever have a child, a hope that Maxie locks deep and far inside of herself, she wants it to be just like him.

#24. Now
The Maxie that she is now is different than any Maxie before, if only because she fell in love with a total nerd.

#25. Shadow
She cuddles close to him on the way back to the penthouse, and she’s still too proud to tell him she’s afraid of the shadows.

#26. Goodbye
It’s not fair, it’s just not fair, that everybody always ends up leaving her.

#27. Hide
Maxie doesn’t know how much longer she can hide the fact that t she, quite honestly, it starting to like that freak.

#28. Fortune
She’s never been the most fortunate person in the world, but things have definitely been looking up since they got together.

#29. Safe
Sometimes she wakes up and the sheets are too tight, suffocating and strangling her, and she doesn’t feel safe until he puts his arm around her.

#30. Ghost
On the days when all she can see is B.J.s face, Jesse’s blood, Georgie’s hair against the snow, Coop’s limp arms, she’s only comforted by the fact that he’s still with her.

#31. Book
Maxie doesn’t think she’ll ever know half the stuff he’s saying, even if someone wrote a book on the subject of The Jackal.

#32. Eye
“I love you.” Spinelli says, and even though he’s looking her straight in the eye, she can’t seem to believe it.

#33. Never
“I never thought I’d end up with someone like you.” She admits one night, and maybe that sounds harsh, but he just chuckles against her neck.

#34. Sing
Maxie closes her eyes and just listens in awe because, wow, Spinelli can sing.

#35. Sudden
Out of the blue, Spinelli looks at her in that way that she never imagined he would, and she has to admit she likes it.

#36. Stop
Maxie wants Spinelli to be the one who finally stops her from self-destructing.

#37. Time
“All this free time…” she says coyly, dancing her fingers over his shoulders, “whatever should we do to occupy ourselves?”

#38. Wash
Maxie prays that the day Spinelli decides to just wash his hands of her and her baggage will never come.

#39. Torn
She knows he can see the torn wrapping paper from Coop’s last gift to her, but he makes no comment, and for that she’s thankful.

#40. History
Who cares about their shaky history when they’ve got a whole future to look forward to?

#41. Power
“All systems go!” Spinelli crows as the machines flash their lights, and Maxie rewards his achievement with a kiss.

#42. Bother
He stutters out an apology, and she wonders if he honestly thinks it bothers her that he makes a sweet gesture like s visiting her at work.

#43.God
If there is a God, and Maxie really doesn’t know what she thinks on the subject, he must be a pretty patient guy to keep giving her so many chances.

#44. Wall
Spinelli might be clumsy and awkward, but he’s scaled the walls she put around herself with astonishing ease.

#45. Naked
No matter how many times he sees her naked, he always blushes like a virgin.

#46. Drive
Spinelli’s problem, she decides, is that he doesn’t have enough ambition in life, so she plans to give him all the incentive he needs.

#47. Harm
Maxie’s usually more of a schemer than a fighter, but if anyone messes with Spinelli she’s going to make them pay.

#48. Precious
Maxie thinks about the things, people, that she’s had and lost and knows that all the time she has with him is precious.

#49. Hunger
Maxie doesn’t even like barbecue chips, but after their first kiss she finds herself with a strange craving for them.

#50. Believe
Maxie doesn’t believe they’ll be together forever, she doesn’t think things ever work that way anymore, but she is a firm believer in enjoying what you have while you have it.