When he entered the classroom, Max immediately spotted her; she was sitting at their usual biology table.

She was so beautiful. She seemed deep in her biology book. He couldn't help but smile at the view she made. His scientist.

"Hey."

"Oh. Hi Max."

"I couldn't get a hold of you today. Are you ok? I mean after last night."

She shut him off too quickly

"I'm ok."

"Oh."

He didn't want her to continue to avoid him and to read her biology; he wanted her to talk to him, about anything, just to hear the sound of her voice.

"You seem pretty excited, what's it all about?"

She couldn't help but smile

"To day we are finally going to go from theory to practice."

Maw raised his eyebrows questionably.

"We are going to look at human cells ourselves, with microscopes. I took this class almost because of that!"

He looked at her shinning face as she spoke, he could have kissed her right there, in the middle of the biology classroom.

Ms. Hardy didn't seem to will to help him.

"Hello everybody, open your books page 45 please."

***

Max was watching Liz intently when she looked at him and held his gaze; he blushed but couldn't look away. Then he recognized in her eyes the sparkle she had when she had a question she was afraid to ask but couldn't not ask.

"Yeeees?????"

She smiled at him for knowing her so well.

"I." She looked down, then right through him again, after a deep breath she blew out, "have you ever wondered about your cells?"

Max swallowed hard. He wasn't a great fan of things that reminded him that he was different. Different from her.

From the minute she took his hand and accepted it, he was waiting for the day when she'd realize who he was and that she wouldn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.

But one look at her face and he couldn't say no.

"I'm all yours, do whatever you want with my body". She blushed at what his words implied, and smiled shyly to the microscope.

"I just have to take some of your saliva."

As his chest was tightening, Max did as he was asked. A few moments later he heard a gasp from Liz.

"Oh my god Max, you have to look!"

As his heart rate was multiplied by three, he took a look at the microscope, his cells were glowing and you could clearly see by eye view that they were reproducing.

Max sat down with a blank expression. How freaky was that. How will she be able to look at him without wanting to puke after this? He loved her so much. How could he live without her love? Even if it was only a sisterly love.

Liz watched as different expressions crossed Max's face. What has she done? Would he hate her?

As the bell rang Liz had Max clear everything so there wouldn't be any evidence of the experiment they had just done. Then she helped him put all his stuff in his bag before taking his hand and leading him out.

They made their way to the jeep. Liz's grip on Max 's hand was tightening. She directed Max to the passenger's side and positioning herself in the driver's one she began to drive.

***

As they approached their destination Max recognized where she was heading to. It was their place. No one knew about it. Not even Michael or Isabel.

They discovered it when Max was teaching Liz how to drive. It was an amazingly beautiful, strange and calming place. Out in the desert, there was this gigantic tree, surrounded with flowers. The kind of flowers that needed to be regularly watered. This place was for them, the incarnation of a miracle.

They practically lived there after the destiny thing.

And she was heading to their "secret garden" as she liked to call it.

She stopped and they both got out of the jeep. And simultaneously they ran into each other's arms

Their voiced were fused as they stated:

"I am sorry."

"What?"

They looked at each other questionably and Liz began.

"I shouldn't have done that. I should have known it would upset you. But of course, as usual I was selfish and you let me do that to you because you are so sweet and never tell me no and I."

He took her in his arms, grabbing her gently by the shoulders.

"Liz, stop please. You are the most selfless person I know. It's me who should apology, I shouldn't react like that. You shouldn't have to take care of me."

At this point he looked deep into her eyes. To her it seemed as if he was looking right through to her soul. But then he looked away.

"If you decided that you didn't want to have contact with me anymore I would understand. I just want you to know that I will never hurt you willingly."

Her heart broke at the sadness and vulnerability in his voice.

"Max look at me, please.Max."

When he didn't she took his face in her soft hands and made him look at her

"Max, I know all that, and I definitely don't want to walk away from you. You don't understand that I need you more than anything. More than you could ever imagine." Then she whispered the words that went right through to his heart. "I love you, do not ever doubt that, and do not ever forget that".

With that neither of them could talk, so they just stayed in each other arms until Liz's cell phone rang.

"I guess we have to go."

"Come on, let's go."

He took her hand as she answered her phone.