Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms)

Mariah Maximilliana "Maxie" Jones is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital currently portrayed by Kirsten Storms. She is the oldest daughter of supercouple Frisco and Felicia Jones. In 2009, Storms was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her role of Maxie Jones.

Casting
The character was initially portrayed by child actors Chelsey and Kahley Cuff from 1990 to 1991, Ashley and Jessica Clark in 1992, and Elaine and Melanie Silver from December 1992 to 1993. Robyn Richards assumed the role in 1993, but the character was later aged and recast with Danica Stewart in March 2002. Fan disapproval resulted in the rehiring of Richards from August 2002 to July 16, 2004. Maxie was later recast again with Storms on May 23, 2005.

Early life
Maxie was born on Halloween night in 1990 and was named after her grandmother and her uncle. In 1994, she suffered from Kawasaki disease and required a heart transplant. At this same moment, her cousin B.J. had gotten into a car accident, leaving her brain dead. Test results proved B.J. to be a perfect match for Maxie, and after the surgery, Maxie received her cousin's heart. Maxie and her younger sister Georgie have been raised by their stepfather Mac Scorpio for most of their lives. As their parents got divorced and took off for secret missions, the two sisters were left behind and Mac took care of them as if hey were his own. Although both sisters kept their last name, they have always considered Mac as their real father.

Early Romances
Maxie's first crush was on the much older Lucky Spencer, but it was nothing more than a silly crush. When she hit her teenage years, she developed a crush on the high school pretty boy Kyle Ratcliffe, who was also a real jerk. Knowing Maxie would do anything to get his attention, he had her steal pills from the hospital where she worked and made her promise not to tell anyone. Although Kyle treated her like dirt, Maxie couldn't stay away from him, and she eventually lost her virginity to him. Her world fell apart when Georgie and Dillon Quartermaine told her Kyle had taped their night and posted it on the internet. Mac was disappointed, but gave Maxie another chance. She started to hang out more with her adoptive cousin Lucas Jones, on whom Georgie had a crush. To prevent her sister from sleeping with Lucas, Maxie made sure Georgie would see the two of them making out, but Maxie later revealed that that was in Georgie's best interests. After this, she flirted with Zander Smith who she ended up befriending, and developed a crush on Nikolas Cassadine. Maxie's first true love was cop Jesse Beaudry, who she met while she was at the hospital after collapsing. Jesse went on the run after he was blamed for a murder he didn't commit and Maxie decided to help him out. While on the run for several weeks, they posed as a couple in order to prevent people from getting suspicious about who they were. Back in Port Charles, they had fallen in love with each other, much to Mac's dismay, who didn't like the sight of his daughter growing up. Maxie never got to tell Jesse she loved him. Jesse was killed at a carnival, in the line of duty. While he was in surgery, Maxie admitted to Monica that she was in love with Jesse. Maxie was devastated when he died and she had to let his organs be donated. She fell into a dark place, partying all the time and she turned to Jesse's partner and her childhood crush Lucky for comfort.

Lucky
This resulted in an affair between the two. On Memorial Day, almost 2 months after Jesse's death, Maxie and Lucky kissed over his grave. Even though Lucky was married to Elizabeth Webber, it didn't stop him from sleeping with Maxie. Lucky was also addicted to painkillers at the time, and in order to keep Lucky with her, Maxie kept providing him with drugs, which she could easily steal from the hospital. Lucky promised Maxie he would leave Elizabeth for her. The two were caught by Elizabeth, Lucky realized they wouldn't continue their affair, and he decided to kick his habit and win Elizabeth's heart back. Maxie didn't want to lose Lucky, and there had recently been a faulty condom ordeal, resulting in many pregnancies. So she told him she was pregnant with his baby. We see Maxie holding a test box and are believed she is pregnant. On Halloween she almost sleeps with Diego Alcazar and he calls her out and tells her she's not pregnant, she just needs to be. She tells him she just didn't wanna be alone on her birthday. After coming in Kelly's with a belly, we see Maxie walk out and pull up her shirt, revealing a fake belly. One night at Kelly's Maxie is chasing Lucky up the stairs and sees a perfect out. She grabs onto him and he pulls away, she throws herself down the stairs. Lucky rushes her to the hospital. She hides her "belly" and the doctor believes she has a miscarriage. Maxie fakes cramps and Elizabeth eventually realizes the truth. Maxie tells Lucky herself that she was never pregnant and hid a pillow under her belly, switched blood samples and was on her period at time of the miscarriage. Lucky tells Maxie she was the worst mistake he ever made.

Metro Court Crisis
Maxie decided to get her life together again. She quit her job at the hospital and was hired at the Metro Court, where she befriended co-worker Sam McCall. The hotel was taken hostage after a few weeks by Mr. Craig and a team of 7 people, who wanted to retrieve something from the vault of the hotel. However, due to the silent alarm button being pressed, Maxie and one of the hostage taker, who was going by the name of "Three" were locked inside the vault. While stuck in the vault together for the next 12 hours, they developed a bond, exchanging stories about their life and confessing in each other about their horrible deeds. When the hostage ended, Maxie convinced the cops that "Three" was actually a guest who had been taken hostage as well, and the man was let go.

The Bet/The Text Message Killer
"Three" showed up at Maxie's house, begging her for help, and formally introduced himself as Cooper Barrett. Although Maxie first refused, claiming she had cost her father enough problems already, she eventually caved, and got Cooper job as security at the rebuild Metro Court. They had a flirtatious relationship. On the anniversary of Jesse's death, Maxie told Coop to stay away from her and she was bad for everyone. Coop was already falling for her and the two made love, entering a relationship. However, having been damaged by the events of the previous years, Maxie had become extremely jealous, as well as self-destructive. When she suspected Cooper had taken interest in Maxie's enemy Lulu Spencer, she made a deal with Cooper's former Army buddy Logan Hayes, who wanted to sleep Maxie. She promised him that if he could get Lulu to sleep with him, and therefore keep her away from Cooper, then she would sleep with Logan. Logan agreed, but as the plan progressed, he started to fall in love with Lulu. Maxie eventually tried to call off the bet. She told Logan the deal was off and he could leave Lulu alone. Logan told her he was falling for Lulu. Maxie said fine but told him even Lulu deserved better. That same moment, Cooper admitted how much he cared for Maxie. However, unable to help herself after realizing Logan was in love with Lulu, she blackmailed him and told him she would tell everyone bout their bet if he wouldn't sleep with her, Logan agreed but seemed to be happy with it, resulting in Maxie and Logan having very passionate sex a few times. While having a discussion about this later, along with making out again, Cooper walked in on the two of them. Although he didn't immediately break up with Maxie, but at dinner at the Metro Court a few nights later, he admitted he couldn't watch her self-destruct any longer, and ended their relationship. Devastated, Maxie turned to her sister for comfort and admitted she loved Cooper. Not much time later, there was a Black and White Ball at Nikolas' castle, to which everyone was invited. The guest were soon aware of the fact that a serial killer had followed them to the castle and was out to get them. After a night full of horror and fear, Maxie escaping near death twice and the death of Emily Quartermaine, they were released the next morning and Maxie returned home with Georgie and Cooper. On Thanksgiving, she and Cooper reconciled, after he admitted her missed her and wanted to give it another chance. Their happiness wouldn't last long, because the serial killer had come to Port Charles and strangled Georgie. Cooper was the prime suspect, and asked Maxie to go to Canada with him, to which she agreed. However, when going to his room to leave, she found him hanging in his room. The cops closed the case, as they were sure Coop was the serial killer and had comitted suicide afterwards. Maxie however, grief stricken by the death of her sister and boyfriend in less than a month, refused to believe this and intented to prove Coop's innocence, teaming up with Damian Spinelli. On Valentine's Day, she opened the gift from Coop, that she had found in his room which he had been planning to give to her on that day. It was a bracelet with a note that said "You'll always have a heart to fall back on, mine. I love you, Coop.

Friendship with Lulu and Johnny
The deaths of her sister and boyfriend had devastated Maxie, and she had to learn how to deal with this. She befriended Georgie's best friend Spinelli and was also moved more into Jason Morgan's orbit, who was Spinelli's boss. Maxie got a job as Kate Howard's assistant, although she was soon joined by enemy Lulu Spencer. In order to get back at Lulu, she hit on Johnny Zacchara, a guy Lulu was into. Although amused by her attempts to have sex with him, Johnny told Maxie he wasn't interested, he wanted Lulu. At the same time, Lulu had broken up with Logan, who couldn't handle this very well and started stalking Lulu. At one point, he blamed Maxie for what happened, and he attacked her at Crimson's late at night. Lulu witnessed the attack and Logan came after her. In order to defend herself, Lulu grabbed a knife, and Logan was eventually stabbed to death. Maxie and Johnny were the only ones who knew what Lulu had done, and Johnny soon decided to take the blame and protect Lulu. While Johnny was in jail, Lulu slowly started to break down and was admitted to a mental institution. Feeling sorry for her, Maxie visited her a few times, cheering her up with gifts and even snuck her out of the institution once. After Lulu was relased and Johnny was cleared from all charges, Maxie and Lulu continued their newfound friendship, although they often snapped at each other like old times.

Maxie and Johnny had an attraction that was deeper then physical and it grew when Lulu and Maxie became roommates. The night of the hotel crisis, Maxie and Johnny found Robin and took Emma to the hospital, pretending to be her parents. Later that night they found a old garage and ended up drinking a few beers. They kissed and almost had sex in order to destroy their respective relationships but stopped before going all the way. They went to the hospital for Lulu and Spinelli, who were trapped inside. At Crimson, Kate decided that Maxie and Johnny would be a good couple, she began paying Johnny $1,000 a night to go to parties with Maxie. They began to attend events very often together, much to the dismay of Lulu and Spinelli. A few times, in the limo, the two made out. Johnny even admitting that he liked looking at Maxie not because of her looks but because she was her.

The two continued to hook up whenever possible but it all came crashing down when Lulu found out. It ended up in a big fight between the three of them. Afterwards, Johnny and Maxie met on the pier and he told her to leave cuz if she didn't he was gonna kiss her. She didn't. Maxie and Johnny kissed and Spinelli caught the two. Maxie admitted to Spinelli that she would never be attracted to him the way she was with Johnny. Lulu and Maxie's friendship was seemed to be broken, Lulu even drawing a line over the apartment. Maxie and Johnny eventually decided to go against their feelings for the sake of everyone ele. Eventually, Lulu forgave them, and although she and Johnny broke up, she remains friends with Maxie.

Spinelli
After proving Cooper wasn't the serial killer, Maxie befriended geeky Spinelli and soon confided in him about her fears and pain. Spinelli developed a crush on Maxie that she never returned, stating she only wanted to be friends. The slept together in the summer of 2008, but Maxie felt ashamed of taking advantage of Spinelli and said she didn't want to ruin their friendship by sleeping together. When Spinelli was hit by a car during a stakeout, Maxie temporarily moved into Jason's penthouse, where Spinelli also lived. Here, she and Jason had a rare and genuine conversaton in which Jason pointed out Spinelli was in love with Maxie. Maxie said she didn't want to hurt Spinelli, as she couldn't return the feelings, but it didn't stop her from continuing their friendship. When Maxie was attacked one night by Russian mobsters, Mac became furious and forbade Maxie to ever Spinelli again, as Spinelli's dangerous lifestyle and connection to mobsters is what got Maxie attacked in the first place.

Maxie refused to give into her father's demands, and started questioning her feeling for Spinelli when he met a woman named Winnifred Leeds, who, much like himself, was computer geek. Due to Maxie's jealousy, she and Spinelli had a huge fight in which they temporarily ended their friendship. However, Maxie soon regretted her harsh words and sought out Spinelli to apologize, only to watch him getting arrested for hacking into FBI database. During this time, there was also a crisis at the hospital, and Maxie got into a lot of trouble while trying to save her niece, as well as trying to find Spinelli, who was released shortly before and was trapped inside the hospital

Maxie and Spinelli eventually entered an exclusive relationship after Spineli sang for her during a Karoake Night. Spinelli recently proposed to Maxie, but she left ithout giving an answer, later admitting to Lulu that she wasn't ready for marriage. Spinelli tried to propose again on the rooftop of a building, but Maxie explained she wasn't ready yet and she wanted to take things slowly, as they had only just gotten together. However, this didn't stop Spinelli from proposing for the third time on a family diner, in front of Maxie's father Mac, who had already disapproved of the possible engagement.

Maxie defends Spinelli when Mac disagrees with Spinelli's decision and she presses Spinelli to defy Mac and propose to her right then. Maxie, wishing to get Mac angry, accepts the proposal. Mac later tells Maxie that he will accept them dating if he must but not marriage. Maxie continues to ignore Mac and has Spinelli put the ring on her finger, despite Mac's threats to arrest Spinelli if he does. Spinelli pulls Maxie into a hug and promises to love her forever, and it is then Maxie becomes visibly upset at what she has promised to do.