[Getting pulled in always feels like falling. Over the last few weeks, Michael has felt like the ground underneath his feet was always shifting and he falls again and again and Max catches him every single time. Maybe one day it won't always feel like this, this dizzying and intense, maybe it's because it's still so new or maybe it would always feel this way.]

Mm, I would really prefer you didn't. I worked really hard to get him back after the last time he did something incredibly stupid. I don't want to test the limits of my genius like that again. And also, I'm pretty disgustingly in love with him so...

[It's impossible not to step into the warmth and familiarity of Max's body, closing what little space remains between them to brush their lips together with a soft sigh.]