Title: Head Case 5

Name: Joy

Email: [email protected]

Rating: PG 13

//My hair is wet again. I'm in the robe… Why can't I talk? Where's Logan? //

Max opened her eyes to see the cracking of dawn in Logan's bedroom. Her eyes fluttered a bit trying to figure out what was going on now. //Logan looks so scared… What happened? // She was wrapped in a bath towel and a terry cloth robe. He was holding her to himself with his eyes shut.

She cleared her throat a little to let him know she was awake. His eyes snapped open, then down to focus on hers. She smiled at him and he leaned down to kiss her lips. In a weak and panicked voiced Logan said, "You mean to much to me…"

"…to let me drown in your bathtub," Max said finishing his sentence. // I'm back where I started. But it happened… Logan told me about this moment. //

"How did you know what I was going to say?"

"This robe, this is yours…"

"Yeah, I bought it for myself, but you can have it," he said as Max began to laugh. She put her hand behind Logan's head and pulled him to her mouth. He was totally surprised by the kiss, but was too elated she was all right to care. He wasn't about to question her kissing him for the world.

"Let me guess… I fell asleep in the bathtub and had some reaction to the bath salts. You had to break in, pull me from the tub and try to revive me, mouth to mouth and CPR. I started seizing and you started telling me how you couldn't lose me."

"Wow… That is amazing that you got all that while unconscious," he said very impressed.

She shook her head, "I have just have one question… Do you have your mother's engagement ring?"

"Yes… Why?" he asked with a strange look.

"Have you ever shown it to me or told me about it?"

"No."

"It's a white old band with a cathedral setting and inside it says Love, because your father called your mother that," recalling the details of her late night conversation.

"How did you…" he didn't even get the rest of the sentence out because Max launched herself at him, kissing him passionately.

// It happened… I knew it. I don't now how, but it happened… Thanks… who ever is responsible for this. // "I don't know if you would believe me, but I promise not to put you through hell for the next three months," she said leaning her head to his.

"I'm thoroughly lost."

"It's OK… Do you believe in fate or some sort of design in the universe?" she asked pensively.

"I suppose so…Why?"

"I think the powers that be decided I needed a road map, so they gave me one. I run from commitment, for the first time I'm running to it."

"Road map to commitment?" Logan asked quiet confused.

"To you."

The surprise flashed in his eyes, with fear and hope. "The powers that be gave you a road map for commitment to me… Why?" // I have no idea what is going on, but so far Max is more responsive to me then I have ever seen her. Maybe it's just the fear of death jarred her a bit? //

"You ready to hear an outrageous story," Max asked with a wide smile.

"You mean more outrageous then the girl of my dreams waking up from near death and seems to have feelings for me?"

Max laughed, "Logan Cale… I've seen the future. How I don't know but one thing is for certain, we were together… More than that we were married with kids. You were completely healed and I was, well, happy being a mama…"

"I know I sound like a head case, but it's true. You told me all about how we got together including stuff that I couldn't know any other way, like the ring…Like… Oh, you were going to kiss me that day at the shore- the fresh chicken night, but the hover-drone stopped you. Ah, ya cut yourself getting dinner together, because you were so nervous. Uh…You're legs went out the next night and you refused to tell me. And you're extremely jealous of Zach- very afraid I'll chose him over you… Do you believe me now?" she asked Logan who sat in silence. He was freaked out that she knew that much, it gave her the upper hand. He nodded.

// Wait. I promised myself tonight that if she was OK; I wouldn't run from us any more. She seems to be at the same point. //

"You also told me some things I did to run away at this point in our relationship."

// She just said 'our relationship.' I must be dying. //

"I promised not to make the same mistakes… I love you. You're stuck with me," Max said finishing her statement.

"I need to lay down," Logan said as he lay back on his bed.

"Why?" she asked lying down too.

"Why?!? I just figured out how I feel about you, like five minutes before you woke up. You just figured out how you feel about me too, by my best estimation… You basically told me my wildest dreams are going to come true, which you saw in the future while drowning here. I need some time to think…" he said trying to get his head together.

Max decided this would be a good time to tease him a bit. She snuggled up to him in his arms with her head on his chest, "Oh, did I mention, in the future I got to sample our sex life, and dear God am I impressed." She ran her fingers down his chest saying, "You're the best lover… so attentive, caring, and loving... Hey you know, getting to have a future with you is my wildest dream too…"

"You want to be with me… This isn't a sadistic joke…" he said searching her eyes for humor or sincerity.

She laughed, "That's funny… I thought the same thing when I woke up there. I thought it was some trick you were playing on me..."

"Stop telling me about in the future…Tell me about how you feel about me right now," Logan demanded, feeling his heart being pulled.

"I love you…" Max said looking directly into Logan's eyes. "I've been falling in love with you for a while now... You really have hurt my feelings a couple times recently; trying to stay protected in yourself. You wouldn't tell me that your legs were failing and you were so freaked that I might chose Zach over you… I guess we both have to work on the defense thing… I want to get to where we were in whatever that was… And Bling isn't allowed to take you to a strip club for a bachelor party, or I really will kick him across the room."

// She must be telling the truth; she is never this open… But I need to be sure. // "You love me?" Logan asked plainly.

"Yes," she said emphatically. "I'm not going anywhere… If I run, you run with me. That's the deal."

Logan found her lips and kissed them lightly. "I love you Max."

They snuggled up together in his bed, hoping for what the future might truly be.