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Title: Midnight Under the Mistletoe
Author: jake17
Rating: Adult
Pairing: M/L
Disclaimer: I own nothing Roswell
Summary: It's Christmas Eve at the Law Office of Evans, Montello, and Spero. It’s the morning before the annual Christmas party and Maria and Michael are determined to finally end the long suffering unrequited love of Liz Parker and Max Evans, their best friends. For three years now they’ve been hopelessly madly in love with each other but have done nothing about it.
Refusing to believe that these feelings would be not be reciprocated they both walk around in a dizzy heated haze petrified at getting hurt and embarrassed. All this is about to change for on this day a plan with be set in motion for the two of them to finally discover their true feelings for each other.
One thing is for certain it will either be the best night of their lives or a horrible fiery disaster. Either way this will be a night Liz and Max will never forget.
This story is dedicated to all of the many incredibly sweet caring supportive people who have constantly been here for me. I’m not sure what I would do if I didn’t have all of your thoughtful, often hysterical, always shockingly beautiful replies. Whenever I start to lose faith in myself and my writing you are all always here encouraging me to continue. There just are no words to describe how much I appreciate every kind word you have all given to me. From the bottom of my heart thank you. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and a happy new year!
Love, Carrie
Chapter 1.
December 24, 2008
Christmas Eve
8:00 am
“Maria why are you looking at me like that.”
“Like what Liz?”
“Like you’ve got some crazy harebrained scheme running around in that head of yours, and I should really turn around and run back to my car and drive as fast as I can far away from here.”
“Weeell-
Liz holds up her hand silencing her as she pours her coffee and lifts it up to her half opened eyes signaling to her that she needs caffeine in order for her to handle one more word.
Just then Michael came through the door yawning and rubbing the top of his spiky hair. He had recently graduated from community college and had been working for a year with the firm as a paralegal, which is about how long he has been with Maria, Philips secretary.
“There’s my sexy hot woman.”
Liz breaths a sigh of relief knowing that because of Michael’s appearance she is temporarily off the hook from whatever Maria’s got cooked up in that crazy mind of hers.
She shakes her head and turns her computer on, as Michael nonchalantly pulls Maria into the storage room for some early morning nookie.
Liz is in her second year of Law school, which she attends part time at night while working full time also as a paralegal. Between working and school she has very little time for a social life, which is perfectly fine with her. Her extremely high ability to speed right through her assignments leaves her ample time to do what she really desires to focus her time on, staring endlessly at Max Evans.
Max Evans is a young devastatingly handsome attorney who recently graduated from Law School. Although he is quite capable at handling whatever crosses his fathers desk, his father unfortunately doesn’t share his confidence.
He is often left behind buried in research with the only other responsible employee at the firm, the very beautiful, very sexy Liz Parker. Needless to say this is far from a problem for Max.
While Liz is busy typing up a memo she is unconsciously doing what she does every day, counting the seconds till Max walks through the door.
Although he is off the charts intelligent, his is extremely unorganized and often in his own world leaving him very clumsy and nervous. Which leaves him often needing the assistance of Liz Parker to help him, or at least that's what he tells himself.
Hearing him struggle with the door that opens in and has opened in since he was a child, Max insists on using all of his strength to pull the door out. This simple sound sends Liz’s heart thumping knowing that in a few seconds she will be looking into those deadly sultry amber eyes once again.
Suddenly her heart stops at the sound of a brief case popping open and papers falling all over the floor in front of her desk.
As she struggles to get up to help him she silently curses Maria for talking her into wearing this black skintight pencil skirt with a very high slit up her thigh and a sheer white camisole top underneath her suit jacket.
The only reason she was able to convince her to wear this outfit was because all the Attorney’s were not coming in today. They allowed a party but only after seven and only if some very important cases where prepared for court after the holidays.
Liz rushes as fast as she can to his side and flips her long wavy hair over to the side of her face revealing her sheer top and the lacy bra that barely covers her tiny breasts.
With both hands full of papers Max reached out and grabbed her desk to steady himself as he quickly became lightheaded. Completely taken off guard by her loose hair that is usually securely pinned tightly on top of her head and her always-conservative attire he was helpless to control himself as he followed the one wavy stray chocolate strain of hair that cascaded against her rosy high cheek bone over the corner of her luscious glossy barely there pink lips touching lightly against her long graceful neck. His breath became shaky as he watched the tip of her raven thick hair sway between the golden soft perfumed skin between her breasts.
How he endlessly dreamed of pressing his lips in just that spot, of tracing his tongue around the curve of her supple sweet –
“Max? Max are you ok?”
Liz looked down at her blouse thinking he was staring at a stain or worse he was appalled at the sexy attire Maria made her wear to work.
“What? Oh no I wasn’t … I-I was just thinking of that Myers case, we have a ton of work to do this afternoon to get ready for that hearing on Monday.”
Nervously they both stand up at the same time and bang their heads together.
“Sorry!”
“No Liz I-I’m sorry, this is all my fault, I don’t know what is wrong with me today.”
Peaking out from the storage room adjusting their clothes Michael whispers to Maria,
“It’s called blue balls Maxwell.”
Just like that the moment is gone as Max is snapped out of his obsessive stare and back into his bashful old self.
After getting all of his papers together he glances quickly up at Liz and walks with lightening speed to his desk across the room.
“I bet you twenty bucks this is never going to work Maria.”
“What’s never going to work?”
“Oh hi Alex, believe me you don’t want to know.”
Alex grimaced as he poured his coffee and sat at his desk that was directly opposite of Liz. He is basically Liz’s right hand man working part time still in college as a file clerk. He’s always cheery and eager to help. Everyone basically loves Alex.
Leaning closer to Liz he lowers his voice so only Liz can hear him and gives her a sympathetic smile.
“That bad huh?”
“Not sure yet but let’s look at the facts here. It’s Christmas Eve, there’s an office party tonight with lots of liquor and music and no bosses and Maria and Michael are the brains behind it all.”
Alex started rubbing his forehead and suggested that Liz go home now.
She gazed over at Max as he thumbed through his stack of files on his desk and drifted into one of her daily fantasies about him.
Leaning her hand on her chin her eyes immediately glazed over as she pictured him standing up and staring at her from across the room. With his lips parted she could see his shaky breath and his chest rise and fall from the anticipation of what he was going to do to her.
Slowly she walked over to him unbuttoning her jacket and sliding it off her shoulders along the way. Her eyes were locked on his full sexy lips as he ordered her to sit on his desk. Her breath quickened as she felt his large strong hands ease her skirt up over her trembling thighs. Very slowly he knelt to the floor never for a second leaving eye contact with her.
As she felt his fingertips circle her shaky knees she knew once again her body had become shamelessly wet for him as she pictured his tongue inside her.
“I’ve dreamed of tasting you.”
His low husky voice went straight to her throbbing soaked hot core as he shockingly forced her knees apart and slid his fingers along the inside of her thighs spreading her legs even father apart.
“So that’s the plan Alex, we hang the mistletoe over her desk and everyone will come over and kiss her, when Max needs her for something I'll point it out like it's no big deal and he'll have no choice. Once they finally kiss it will release all these pent up emotions and he will have to admit how he feels. What do you think?”
“I think you’re mentally ill, I’m not holding much hope for the mistletoe idea but your failsafe plan might actually work.”
Alex waved his hand in front of Liz’s eyes back and forth several times before getting her attention.
“You still with us Parker?”
Michael followed Liz’s line of vision until it connected with Max completely consumed with his work.
Michael rubbed her back and sarcastically whispered in her ear.
“Hmm what was this one about, was he taking you on his desk?”
Liz turned a bright shade a red and slapped him hard upside his head.
“Pig.”
“Oh please like you could possibly hide this thing you have for him Liz, only someone as clueless and Max could miss the sexual vibes you’ve been throwing his way."
Ignoring Michael Liz looked up at Maria with pleading desperate eyes.
“Maria just please tell me that this has nothing to do with me and Max?”
Maria instantly looked over at Michael for support and started to nervously bite her nails.
He threw his arm around her and kissed her cheek as he wagged his eyebrows up and down.
“Wait till you hear the plan Liz it’s perfect! Absolutely full proof, show them babe!”
Liz let her forehead fall to her desk in anticipation of what Maria had in store for her and started to moan out loud when she heard Alex’s laughter.
“You don’t honestly think this is going to work do you?”
Maria smiled as she stroked the leafy green mistletoe that was sitting inside her pocketbook.
“Alex one way or another Max will kiss Liz by the end of this night, what happens after that is entirely up to them.”
Liz leaned back in her chair and sighed as Michael hung the mistletoe above her head.
“I can’t believe I’m doing this.”
you can blame my lack of sleep and Jason for that 