Okay, this is a little different for me, I usually stick to alternate history, but this is completely AU. Actually I wrote it the same time I wrote the original version of Dear---. It's a short story, well for me a short story in that there are only 3 chapters.
Jason walked down the staircase to where Emily Quartermaine was standing with her fiance, Nicolas Cassadine. The Prince was combining his engagement party with a charity ball for the new community center to be built down by the run down docks to help the less fortunate.
The Morgan group had their own plans for the land and they didn't include a community center, more like shops and expensive townhouses and condominiums. He was here to let the owner of the land know that there were other options than giving that particular white elephant away.
His second in command didn't want to tell his boss how unlikely it was that Elizabeth Corinthos would sell to him, he would need to see it for himself. Stepping over he said "She hasn't been seen yet."
"I thought she was close to the Quartermaine girl?" he asked his brows furrowing at the delay; he didn't want to be here any longer than he had to. He had already seen Carly Spencer Quartermaine and Samantha Jacks were circling. He didn't want to have to give them the set down they both deserved, mainly because their husbands were business acquaintances of his.
"She is, she is also the person in charge of the fundraiser but I overheard Prince Cassadine's brother whining about how she isn't here yet. Lucky is already marking his territory hoping to be husband number two." Added Francis. "I think you are making a mistake, she is stubborn, at least according to Cassadine."
Jason walked to the parapet smirking as he looked across the harbor to the docks that would soon be his. Corinthos had been dead for almost a year, his widow had disappeared during that time, to where, no one knew but all were certain of one thing, the gold digger would be looking for her next meal ticket. Rumor was that Corinthos had left her only a modest income with very secret rules attached to it.
He walked to the corner after he heard the two women entering the hallway. "So has she had the nerve to show up yet?"
Carly snorted and said "Not yet, but can you imagine… according to Leo Julian, Sonny Corinthos heart gave away during sex. And you and I both know that that man had had way better than the ice princess, hell he had the two of us."
"More than once and at the same time. The things that man could do with his fingers…" said Sam salivating in remembrance. "Oh well, maybe she killed him with drugs or something... Either way, doesn't matter she didn't win in the end. All she got was a trust fund doled out by his attorney and we both know how my mother feels about the situation."
With giggles, they walked down the hallway to return to the party knowing their husbands were both away and they could have some fun. Jason heard the sound of sobbing and walked back inside.
He stopped, shocked at the beautiful young woman who stood there wiping her tears. "Oh, I am sorry; I didn't know anyone was up here."
Handing her his handkerchief, he said "Are you okay?"
With a sad wistful smile, she said "Do you know what nothing feels like?"
Thinking on how he had felt when he had learned the truth about his parentage, how he had felt when he had lost his mother and said "Yes."
Walking back to the parapet she leaned over and said "I live there, have for a very long time. But the one thing I always thought I had my dignity. Now, now I don't even have that. My entire life is fodder for the gossip magazines, for vapid tramps to whisper and laugh over."
Hearing the antique clock in the hall ringing ten o'clock, she gave him a quick smile then went to the nearest bathroom unaware he was following her in until she heard his gasp. "I know; I look a mess."
Jason swallowed his shock as the incredibly beautiful woman tried to repair her makeup. Lifting a washcloth, he turned the tap on and damped one corner. Then he gently wiped away the mascara that was trailing down her check and stepped back to say "perfect."
"No one is perfect." She said dryly then with a fast thanks she quickly returned to the ballroom where she stood off to the side, unnoticed while Jason followed his pending business deal long forgotten.
They all clapped as Nicolas and Emily danced then at the end, the Cassadine heir gave the announcement they had all been waiting for. "I am proud to announce that we have raised almost four million dollars tonight in honor of the new Harborview Community Center. Elizabeth, I will turn the spotlight over to you, you have earned it."
Jason looked around, trying to find the woman who had married a man old enough to be her father when she was barely seventeen years old. He was astounded to see the woman he had met earlier, the woman he had been planning on asking to go to his cabin with him for a week of fun, sun and sex thanking the annoying Greek.
"Thank you, Nicolas, I would like to thank Emily and you for your generosity in hosting this event." She said with a soft smile at her friend. She might not think Emily was making the right move marrying the man with the wandering hands but her friend truly believed she could change him. And after her marriage, she had no right to judge anyone.
Elizabeth didn't get a chance to say anything more as Lucky Spencer moved in and eased her out of the spotlight. She wanted to protest but his father and half brother were two of the biggest donors to the project. With a weak smile, she listened as he went on and on about how he was sorry for her loss and would be more than willing to take over her worries.
With a well hidden groan, she realized that once again the rumor mill was running amok with stories about her so called poverty. Stiffening when she started to pay attention and got what he was saying she pulled her hand back and donation or no donation, let the sleazy cretin have it with both barrels. "…I mean my father was partners with your late husband and everyone knows you have Gucci tastes and Walmart money."
"There is no chance in this lifetime I would ever, get that EVER take you up on that offer." She said coldly glaring at him.
Backing away his hands held up in supposition, he said "Hey, I get it, I am only a millionaire, and your taste tends to run to more expensive things. But you might want to let the idea go, Jasper Jacks is married and as my cousin has found out, AJ Quartermaine comes with lots and lots of strings, so you might want to settle before you end up waiting tables down at the diner my family owns if you keep looking for your new husband here."
"You are an ass, Spencer." Said the husky voice behind the annoying prick. Elizabeth looked up and smiled at the man who had told Lucky Spencer what she only dreamed of saying. When Jason saw her grateful smile, he wanted to offer her the world but instead just asked her to dance.
Both were shocked when she quickly said yes. As the band played some unknown ballad from the thirties, neither saw the eyes narrow and the conversations being held behind cupped hands. As Port Charles society watched, Jason Morgan quickly felt himself falling under the spell of a pair of magnificent blue eyes and plump lips perfect for passion.
Francis moved closer to the couple listening to the vicious gossip mixed in with a few who felt the dancing couple looked incredible together.
Sam: "He is dancing; the bastard claimed he didn't dance when I went out with him after that charity auction, I paid good money for that night, too. Now he is dancing with the bitch?"
Carly: "You don't have anything he wants, she does. Rumor is he wants to build down by the waterfront."
Sam: "True, I mean if she didn't hold Sonny's attention, we both know she doesn't stand a chance with Morgan."
With a nasty laugh, Carly said "True, should we tell her or let her find out on her own?"
Lucky: "Who let that bastard in?"
Nik: "Emily invited him; you know how softhearted she is."
Lucky: You should get your wife under control I mean, Jason Morgan? I mean you know the story about how he burnt down his mother's house to get her insurance money. He should be in jail but we all know that Alan Quartermaine bribed Mac Scorpio to keep it quiet so as to keep being that thug's parentage quiet."
Nik, shuddering: "Thank god, Emily is adopted."
Monica and Alan watched silently as Alan's son danced and seemed enchanted with Elizabeth Webber. Monica grabbed his hand and squeezed it tight; both had many regrets but had agreed years ago to let Susan raise Jason. Now the little boy who had meant so much to both of them didn't acknowledge his family, in fact he had gone out of his way to erase all the connections them away.
They both couldn't help wondering why he was so interested in Elizabeth, if it had been the day before they would have understood then Monica looked on and asked "Do you think he doesn't know she already transferred ownership of the docks to the city."
Elizabeth turned down Emily's offer of a room and wearily walked down to the dock her way lit by Nik's ancient butler. When a hand rose to help her into the boat, Elizabeth gratefully took it, knowing that if she stayed she would endure a sleepless night. Nik might not have been Luke Spencer's biological son, but he had the aging playboy's nasty tendency to think that all women wanted him.
Settling into the cabin below, she was just about to close her eyes when she felt someone sit down next to her. Opening her eyes, she saw the man who was going to be invading her dreams for many nights to come. "Do you ever intend to tell me your name?"
With a slow smile, he said "How about at breakfast tomorrow morning, I will bring the tray in, you will lay naked in my rumpled sheets, our passions slaked from a nighttime spent loving each other until we ache from it."
Elizabeth felt her insides clutch and almost wished she was free to take him up on his offer but she had secrets, ones that she swore to protect. Whatever else he had been, Sonny Corinthos had been a good man, at least to her and she owed it to him to finish his last dream before she moved on.
With a regretful smile, she looked at him and then leaning in kissed his check. "While that sounds wonderful, no thank you."
A shiver went through her at the heated look in his eyes as he softly said "Let me try and change your mind, I promise you won't regret it."
The captain of the shuttle let them know he had docked and Jason helped Elizabeth wrap her arms in the small piece of silk she was calling a cover as he held her hand while they walked up the steps to the boardwalk. "Thank you and good night."
Jason saw she was determined and he had no intention of walking away without at least a kiss. Pulling her closer, he said "I have you in my arms, convince me to let you go."
Elizabeth felt a weakness, the desire she had read about for years was slowly seeping into her body, making her body feel like she was swimming in molasses as she saw his head dip lower before he pressed his lips to her while wrapping his hands in her hair.
The kiss deepened as Jason eased his tongue between her lips exploring the warm moist heat and unknowingly shocking Elizabeth as need, stark need drove her to wrap her arms around him and for her to forget her promise.
"Come home with me." Was the demand as Jason pulled back; Elizabeth saw the wild and heated tinge of his eyes and knew she should say no but found herself instead say "No, my studio, it is right up the docks."
Docilely following her, Jason was now able to understand why Corinthos a renown playboy; had married Elizabeth as young as he had and for years had been faithful to her. It was only in the last year before his death the man had cheated on his wife. Rumors were that she had miscarried and had refused to allow him back into her bed.
Arriving at the studio, Jason tossed his suit jacket on the easel and turned to her. Looking at her with the light reflecting in through the large window that made it the perfect art studio, he stepped closer and kissed her.
Elizabeth felt her head spin; her heart race and her insides melt at just his kiss and knew that she shouldn't be doing this. However her heart was telling her to trust it while her body just demanded she spend the night loving this man.
Attentively she returned his kiss, not sure what to do as he ravished her lips with his own then as he added his teeth and his tongue to the kissing games, Elizabeth started to return each hungry kiss with a startling need all her own.
She was shocked to suddenly feel air on her breasts as her lovely party dress fell to the ground at her feet leaving her standing there in her panties and thin high silk stockings. Jason's hand cupped her breasts and gently massaged them, shocked at how responsive she was when Elizabeth cried out from the pressure.
Sitting on the convenient stool, Jason bend his head and pulled her closer before licking her skin, then gently giving her a light love bit, needing to mark her as his. Seeing the want and need swirling in her eyes, he gave her a faint boyish grin before saying. "These are made for this."
Before she could gather her scattered brain cells and asked what he was talking about, Jason had pulled her nipple into his mouth and was suckling it. As he alternated between the two lovely pointed tips, his hands were sliding lower and easing her panties down.
Elizabeth held onto his head more to keep his wonderfully attentive mouth where it was then for stability as she stepped out of the panties. His hands spanned the width of her small waist before his head tipped back and gave each pelvis bone a quick kiss saying "I can't wait to lie in a bed and feast on you."
He saw the slight shock in her eyes and put it down to his bluntness, maybe Corinthos really had been all pretty words with her. Looking at her, he couldn't imagine the man cheating on this, even if he had to wait years, if she was his he would never have walked away from this woman. She was the sort men searched the earth, she was the lost city of Atlantis, the Holy Grail and the Lost city all wrapped up in one incredibly soft package.
Elizabeth saw his eyes on her and blushed then felt uncertain, maybe he didn't want her like she…
Jason lifted her and carried her to the double bed with the white cotton sheets and placed her in the center with her legs on either side of him as he knelt there looking at the sight she was. As he mentally listed all the ways he intended to have her this night and for many, many nights into their hopefully long future, Jason removed his pants and kicked them behind him.
His lips were mere inches from her when he stuck his tongue out and gave her very wet slit a quick lick. He gave a grin as her hips rose in response to his little tease. "No, I want to feast, but later after this… hunger has been abated a bit."
Elizabeth was a bit confused; she knew that there was more to loving than what she had experienced, but this, this hunger, this need to be possessed, surely this wasn't what all the poets had written about for ages.
Jason eased back up so that they were hip to hip, breast to chest, stopping to kiss the wonderful handful in front of his mouth, Jason listened as she moaned then easing his hand between them, he sighed as he once again felt how wet with want she was.
Rising up, he couldn't wait any longer and from the way she was eagerly raising her hips and moaning, neither could she. Kissing the wonderful lips, he looked her in the eyes to see if she was as involved as he was before placing his tip in position. He saw her eyes widen with something, something he couldn't decipher just before he thrust inside and froze.
Looking up, he saw the pleading in her eyes to continue, to not question her and Jason found it hard not to give in, then she squirmed and he felt a sense of possessiveness. A need to conquer and to claim even as he found himself asked "How?"
Elizabeth cloaked her eyes afraid what he might see in them as she said "Please don't stop, I need you, and I need this."
His control was slowly slipping away and Jason was shaking as he pulled back only for her to wrap her arms and legs around him and beg "Please? Please make me feel that way again?"
What little control he had snapped as he eased back inside of her, a place no man had ever been before. Pressing her deep into the bed, he whispered "Are you sure? Once we do this, everything, and I mean everything changes."
"Yes." She barely was heard before he pulled back and thrust in, marking her as his. Dipping his head back down, he pulled her back into a kiss, ruthlessly and shamelessly taking control of her body and her responses until he lost track of where she ended and he began.
When he heard her breath start to gasp and felt her insides start to turn him into molten liquid instead of the steel he had been as he took her virginity, Jason vowed then and there no one; no man would ever possess her except him as he sent her over the edge and quickly followed.
As he came, he swore then gave a quick smile as he realized he could use this to his advantage, if she was pregnant a girl like this, would never do as his mother did and go it alone. But to be sure "Are you on the pill?"
Looking up at him in shock, she said "No, why would I…" She could feel the sticky mess that confirmed her worst fears that he hadn't used a condom. Her mind raced as she realized her house of cards could come tumbling down if she was pregnant or if Jason breathed a word of this to anyone before the center opened. "The center…"
"How is this possible?"
"I am not going to reveal my secrets to you." She cried out when he had grabbed her arm. Needing to get away, she stood and quickly went to her bathroom and seeing the blood and other liquids quickly cleaned herself before pulling her clothes back on.
When she saw the run in her stockings, she blushed as she realized they had never removed the soft silky leggings. "I will find out the answers to my questions."
Turning she looked at him, and then walked over. Reaching for his hands she plead with him, "Please, for my sake, please don't."
"Then tell me why?" he asked. "Why did you marry a man that old if you weren't his lover? He left you with nothing after being married for ten years. I know the gossip, I know there was no pre-nup, which you could have successfully sued the estate for your rightful share, yet you didn't."
When she ignored him, going to stand by the window, Jason saw the tears, the look in her eyes looked like fear but what was she afraid of. "Why did Sonny Corinthos marry you?"
Standing at the window, Elizabeth decided to give him that, "He was protecting me, being kind."
Jason snorted; Sonny Corinthos didn't have a kind bone in his body. The man was a former gangster made good, who had gone legit on the backs of others. Why would he have been kind to a young woman without expecting anything in return? For god's sake, the man had in the beginning prostituted out his strippers from his nightclub, though that had been covered up rather well years ago.
The only reason he knew about it was his friend Karen had found the truth years ago. Looking at Elizabeth, he had to know, he had to know why Sonny would have done that. Elizabeth saw the questions in his eyes and said "My father… my father and he were old friends. My mother had died years ago giving birth to me. Sonny was a distant friend my dad would see while I was at boarding school and summer camp. When my father's company was stolen, I was adrift, my aunt was going to take me in, but she was not someone you wanted as a mother."
In fact she had been a patient for years in a mental institution; her father had made it clear Elizabeth was not to stay with her but the courts had over ridden the papers emancipating Elizabeth. The marriage to Sonny had been their only way to protect her.
The fact that her father had committed suicide after being accused of stealing from his business partners causing the company to fail had more than likely influenced their decisions. It was why Elizabeth swore that some day, someday she would prove that Jason Morgan had gone out of his way to set up and destroy her father's name and company.
If it wasn't for Sonny, she would have ended up dead, more than likely.
Jason wracked his brain; he didn't recall the name Webber as any of Sonny's former friends. "So why did you stay married to him?"
"He was good to me and he needed my help." Was all she said, Jason who had studied Corinthos for years; knew he had to dig even deeper if he wanted the answers to his questions. And he had to find out the truth before he went any further with Elizabeth. "What, what is your name?"
Seeing her embarrassed expression, Jason felt a frisson of something but put it down to feeling guilty about not telling her before and knowing she had to know he was after the waterfront property. "Jason."
She gave a wry grin then said "Jason what?" while wishing things had happened differently as she tried to figure out how quickly she could wrap up her promises to Sonny. That all changed when she heard his answer. "Could you please repeat that?"
"Jason Morgan. Look, I didn't plan this, I am--" Elizabeth slapped him across the face and screamed at him to "GET OUT!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!"
"Look, you are overreacting." He said as he touched his face where she had slapped him. "I am going to buy the land that the Quart—"
"I DON'T CARE!" she shouted as she opened the door while he was still getting dressed. "YOU BASTARD, YOU GET OUT OF HERE, HAVEN'T YOU DON'T ENOUGH, HAVEN'T YOU HURT ME ENOUGH? WHAT WAS THIS? PITY SEX FOR DESTROYING MY FAMILY, FOR FORCING ME…"
Jason watched as she slid down the wall, and then crumpled into a ball on the floor while screaming for him to leave. "Fine, I will go for now, but I am not walking away. I will be back."
Walking into the hallway, Jason quickly called his computer geek and said "I want everything you can find on Elizabeth Webber, I mean everything from her birth to her attending preschool then on to her marriage to Sonny Corinthos and I want it yesterday."
Before the geek could answer, Jason hung up and walked to the parking lot where his patient chauffeur was waiting. "Home."
Elizabeth sobbed until she had no more tears, no more anything as she realized there were worse things than feeling nothing. There was self hatred and revulsion. She had given her virginity to the man who had destroyed her family, the man who had cost her everything. The man who had been responsible for the nightmare her life had become.
Her body ached from the tears as well as what had happened earlier as she went to her small closet here and changed into sweats and sneakers. Packing a bag, she made a quick call and was promised everything would be taken care of went to the home that she had shared with Sonny. Grabbing a couple of items from the safe with a quick trip to the middle of nowhere, she took one last look at the city that had sheltered her for the past ten years and left for New York.
There she made a quick trip across the river and after a visit to Bensonhurst went straight to JFK airport and was on a jet to her hidey hole knowing she could never return.
Eight months later, the geek walked into Jason's office and said "I found her."
The hard man sitting at the desk looked up and said "Where?"
"In Italy, she is staying at a Villa that her mother's family owns." He said with a grin.
"Don't be so happy with yourself, it took you eight months." He snapped as he left to go to the private bathroom. When the geek followed, Jason just glared.
"There is more." He said rather excitedly. "She is coming here, to Port Charles."
Jason looked up sharply and said "What?"
"She sold the villa, she is returning. She bought a house out the cliff roads. There is an interior designer there even as we speak." Jason felt a sense of relief that maybe just maybe she had chosen to fight for herself in regards to Sonny's will.
It was part of the reason he had paid as much as he had for the rest of the waterfront property minus the piece that was to become her community center. He now knew the truth behind her marriage to Sonny and Jason felt sick on her behalf.
He even understood the need for secrecy but at the same time, every time he heard someone making a comment about her or the community center, Jason wanted to tell them, when he heard Carly, Sam and their newest playmate Courtney Cassadine going on and on about how she couldn't hold her husband he wanted to tell them the truth. Just to see their faces and then when they protested he was a liar; give them the proof.
Courtney was a particularly sore spot for him. Emily and he might not be close but she was still someone he was protective of. When the blond had interrupted Emily's wedding to announce she was pregnant with that bastard Cassadine's kid, he had wanted to kick the bastards' ass but the smug grin on the blonde's face had made him want to prove her for the liar she was.
Emily had been humiliated; she had forgone attendants since Elizabeth hadn't been available so she had been standing there in the middle of the church aisle, begging Nik to tell her it wasn't possible, that the blond couldn't be two months pregnant six months after they had become engaged.
Instead he had shrugged and told her it was a possibility. That he had used a condom but it had broken during sex. The heartbroken expression on her face would stay with Jason for a long time, especially when he had realized that Carly and Sam were high fiving each other when they left the church.
AJ refused to see the truth about his wife; instead he had insisted that Jason was just jealous that he had all that the illegitimate bastard son of father wanted. Jason had walked away, knowing that AJ would never believe him if he told him he loathed the tramp AJ was married to, that he thought Michael, his son was a spoiled brat and he had no idea, no one did that he was richer than all of the Quartermaines together.
He had seen the gruesome threesome at the country club with the new doctor and was well aware they had spent the night in the penthouse suite at the hotel together with the playboy.
Leaving his office, Jason walked down to the construction site, where his teams were preparing to break ground on his latest project just as they were crowning his high rise condo building. Hearing his name being called, he greeted Emily who looked a bit better than she had recently. "Jason, can you help me with something?"
"Sure." He said while taking out his phone. "What do you need?"
"Put that away." She said laughing. "I am working with some of the older kids at the community center; I was hoping you would come down and do that lame how I got where I am thing."
Seeing his expression, she said "Please, for me?"
Arriving that afternoon, Jason looked at the paintings and knew. "Is this your friend Elizabeth's work?"
Surprised she asked "How did you know Elizabeth painted, no one knows that. I don't even think Sonny knew that."
Looking at his sister, he said "That's right; you knew them when they were together."
When Emily shut down, he said "Can we have dinner; there is something I need to tell you."
"As long as you aren't another one of those people who insist on asking me questions about Elizabeth. She is my friend and I refuse to be a gossip." She warned.
Elizabeth lumbered around the villa, telling the movers which painting to pack then went to see Isadora. "Are you ready?"
Nodding, she said "Are you sure about this?"
"It's time. I have finished everything and I am not going to spend the rest of my life protecting their secrets anymore." She said coldly. "I only kept them for the sake of their children, well now I have a child on the way, and my own child takes precedence."
"They are not going to be happy." Warned the nanny as she hugged her former charge as they looked around the estate and then Isadora said "I am glad you are finally living for you, it about time, my little one."
Looking down at her large belly, Elizabeth had a grin on her face as she said "Don't you think I am a little big for you to be calling me that?"
"You can be as big as a house and you would still be my little one." She said before they walked down to the car. Looking back, Elizabeth said "I needed this, I needed to heal."
Jason was waiting impatiently; he had been truthful with his-Emily a month before, telling her about his feelings for Elizabeth. How he had been involved in proving that Elizabeth's father had been swindling his business partners. How he had slept with her friend, he however hadn't told her about Elizabeth's being a virgin or how he hadn't used protection.
She had been shocked then excited before telling to him that Elizabeth had been distant since the ball and how the only time they had talked had been after aborted wedding. Emily had admitted that Elizabeth hadn't tried to talk her out of marrying Nik but hadn't been enthusiastic in regards to the marriage.
Hearing feminine footsteps, Jason turned then wished he hadn't. Sam McCall Jacks was standing there talking to her mother who seemed agitated. When the older woman had left, Jason wasn't surprised to see the two blonds showing up. "What is going on?"
"Who knows who cares?" asked Sam. "My mother is doing another one of her freak outs, usually those only happen when Elizabeth Corinthos is around."
"God, you don't suppose the gold digger is coming back?" asked an appalled Courtney. "Lucky has the hots for her, it bad enough having to deal with him being around, if she is in town, he is going to want Nik to invite her to dinner."
"Why would he, Elizabeth was one of Emily's charity projects." Scorned Sam. "Let's go to Jake's, see who is there."
"Can't, Nik is having me followed. Seems he doesn't believe my miscarriage story." She said rolling her eyes while Carly sighed and added. "Plus Edward is demanding we are there for a family dinner. He gets this way when Jason Morgan ends up on the news."
"Too bad you married AJ, Jason Morgan is the brother I would want." Drooled Courtney while Sam just kept walking.
"No, Morgan has money but absolutely no social contacts." Said Carly. "He is rich but the Quartermaines ignore him so the rest of society does as well. And cross him off the list for your next hubby, rumor is he is getting ready to go on a trip."
"What kind of trip?" she asked. "I would love to travel the world. Spain, especially."
"Nope, more like third world countries where he is building buildings." Sneered Carly. "Besides, in spite of being filthy rich he lives in the same house he did as a kid. You know the one Alan bought his mother while she was his mistress."
"I thought he burnt it down?" she asked only for them to explain that was the house his mother had bought with her blackmail money.
"Oh, well that is rather tacky." Said the woman wearing the mini skirt and tight shirt with six inch heel ankle boots.
Elizabeth was avoiding Emily, she had an appointment with Kelly Lee when she saw Nik dragging in a blond and demanding to see the doctor. "Nik."
Nik turned and said "Elizabeth, hello. I don't mean to be rude but I need to take care of this right now."
The blond was fighting him and Elizabeth was amused to see that Nik had his hands full while following the doctor into her office. Getting the all clear she said "Thank you for the recommendation last year."
"I am glad it worked out." She said then added. "I am always happy to help someone become a mother. I was a bit worried about you using the sperm bank but I gather it worked out for you."
Leaving GH, she felt guilty for what she had done, but while she was ready to deal with the poison pills that lived in this town, she was not ready to deal with Jason Morgan at least not for another week and she was sure that he wouldn't care anyhow. She would just have him sign away his parental rights in exchange for promising to never ask for child support.
"Elizabeth!" she turned and was enthusiastically hugged by her friend. "I have been looking all over for you."
Hugging her back, Elizabeth said "I wasn't sure… there are a few things I need to tell you."
"I have a lot to tell you." She said. "You should know my brother is rather interested in you."
A bit shaken, Elizabeth said "I thought AJ was married to that harpy Carly."
"No, my other brother." She said with a laugh.
"I didn't know you had another brother." She said looking at Emily who said "Alan had a kid with another woman."
"Wow." Said Elizabeth. "I had no idea."
"Well, have dinner with me tonight, I will tell you everything." Said Emily.
"How about at my place, I have something I need to tell and show you."
"So you said, Elizabeth you look like… well like you expect me to hate you."
Hugging her as she left, Elizabeth gave her a sad smile as she went to her next appointment at the Metrocourt. Seeing Jasper Jacks, she greeted the Aussie, she felt bad for the man married to Sam McCall. "I have a meeting with Alexis."
"At least that explains why she has been so tense." Said Jax escorting her up. Leaving her outside, he said "Good lucky. My mother-in-law is a pill."
With a chuckle, Elizabeth wanted to tell him she had no worries, not any more. Either Alexis did what she wanted or Elizabeth would release all she knew.
Entering she saw the two women waiting for her. "Ladies."
Sitting down she said "I am done protecting secrets. No more. You should know I am back in town for one reason only. My son."
"So you did the IVF treatments, where did you get the money?" snapped Alexis as she tried to recall if Sonny had ever mentioned having his sperm taken. She was not going to let Elizabeth and her child ruin Kristina's life, no way in hell.
Olivia was having the same thoughts so both were surprised when Elizabeth said "No, my child isn't Sonny's. Relax, I am not after the money, you should know that I did file a request to remove you as executor Alexis and you will sign it unless you want your husband to find out his eldest daughter isn't his."
"How dare you?" she whispered. "You have no right, after all you married Sonny for his money."
"Actually, I didn't." she said coolly then looking at Olivia and then Alexis she said "You both were told the truth, and you should know I am no longer keeping Sonny's secrets. So if Trevor Lansing wants to out them, he can."
"You can't do that, do you have any idea what that would do to my son, to the community center." Said Olivia.
"Yes, I do and frankly, I could care less. The community center was to help the working poor, instead I just heard you have fees for everything, that you turn down requests for assistance. What do you think you are doing Alexis?"
"I want my children to have a safe place to go and if those other kids come, it won't be."
"That wasn't what Sonny set this place up for and you know it." She argued.
"Sonny is dead and good riddance." She snapped. "He used me, he used Olivia, he gets no sympathy from me."
"What a hypocrite you are, or did you forget Sonny was married to me when you were sleeping with him." Said Elizabeth then she added. "Alexis, I am back, my child deserves to know where his family is from and I am not going to leave to protect Sonny's dirty secrets."
"What about Dante and Kristina?" asked Olivia in fear. "Lansing knows about them too."
"Well the kids don't, you might want to prepare them for the truth, and while you are at it, Alexis, I would let your husband know he isn't Kristina's father, before your father in law does. I am done being blackmailed." She said leaving with a quiet dignity as the two women looked at one another.
"Can't you force her to leave, you have control of her trust fund."
"Not if she convinces a judge to change that." Said Alexis as she realized what should have been a simple will two years ago had gotten ugly when she had read the secret codicil. "Plus, she hadn't touched the money in the trust since Sonny's death."
Olivia got up and left, heading to her office. Seeing Jax there, she said "What can you tell me about Elizabeth Corinthos?"
"Nothing my mother in law doesn't know." He said then looking at her added. "Alexis is not someone you should befriend without knowing a few truths, years ago, she made a mistake one involving Luke Spencer and even now years later she is paying for it. Don't get caught up in her drama."
Jax went into his office where his daughter was sleeping. She was almost three and very rarely saw her mother who would rather cat around with anything that would screw her. He would divorce her but it might cost him is little girl, so they each lived separate lives as he tried to track down someone from her past, he wanted his freedom and needed her in jail for that to happen.
Elizabeth was walking through the park when she saw Jason. Stopping suddenly, she felt her heart race as she tried to find away around him without getting caught. She had to talk to him, tell him about their child but right now, she had to get settled, had to slowly deal with the rest of the truths that needed to come out.
"Elizabeth?"
Turning she blurted out "What are you doing here?"
"Here? You mean the park?" Looking at her, he said I often come it the park my mother and I would come here when I was a little boy."
Elizabeth felt her ability to breath stop. "Wait, you are from here?"
"Yes, why?" he asked as he gently led her to the hotel "Why are you so shocked, I thought everyone knew?"
A bit shaky, she sat down and said "Not me, I wonder why I never saw you before."
Because Corinthos would have kept her far away from him, thought Jason. He would have pieced the truth together years ago, how the older man had sent him after her father's company because Sonny was a selfish man who after the company was destroyed, felt guilty and married Elizabeth.
He couldn't help wondering the why Elizabeth would marry her father's lover, why she would keep his secrets for so long. "Come with me, please?"
Following him up the stairs, Elizabeth felt like a lamb to the slaughter but she couldn't resist his eyes, couldn't resist the father of her child. She had spent part of the time away in therapy, learning and coming to accept that her father's bad choices were what led to what had happened.
Once in his suite, she felt the pressure to tell him but couldn't bring herself to speak. She had told herself she had forgotten what he looked like, smelt like, tasted like... yet standing here, she forced herself to admit the truth, she would never forget him and if she tried, looking into the face of her newborn son would remind her. Jake was a miniature version of his father.
"Elizabeth?" Jason saw the way she was staring blindly out the window, and couldn't help wanting to know what was on her mind. What had brought her back, and why she was still imprinted on his brain in a way that no one, not even his lost mother ever was.
"Huh?" she asked turning then blushed when she saw how close he was. "I am sorry, my mind was elsewhere."
The words tumbled out of his mouth, and he found it impossible to stop them. "You are so beautiful."
"I still loath you." she said coldly. "What do you want Mr. Morgan?"
She heard his quiet laugh and trembled as she got the feeling that he saw right through her disdain to what she was trying so desperately to hide. The way he looked at her...
She saw the door and knew, she knew she had to get out of there... He was looking at her liked he wanted to possess her, mark her territory of Jason Morgan, do not trespass. Trembling, she said her voice catching. "I uh, I have to go."
Rushing to the elevator then worried he might chase after her, Elizabeth hurried down the stairs, needing to get away, needing to clear her head before her needy heart led her to believe things that were not true.
Arriving in the lobby, she reminded herself of all the reasons she had kept her son a secret, all the reasons she had resisted the urge to let Jason know he was going to be a father. She reminded herself that no father was better than having a cold-hearted SOB like Morgan as a father.
If he found out the truth, what might he do? She kept trying to figure that out, would he walk away like the ruthless man he was or would he see his-NO her son as the heir he would need without all the hassle of marriage?
Would he be a distant father or would he demand time with his child, introducing him to the constant parade of bimbos that the press reported as being in and out of his life like the days of the week?
Rushing home, she saw the decorator making the last finishing touches and writing him a check said "Thank you, Elton. I appreciate your discretion."
The man kissed her on the cheek and said "Honey, some day you are going to have to arrange a lovely little or maybe not so little dinner party and lets these Payton Place hypocrites have it head on."
"Just not this week, Elton." she said humoring the man who had been well aware of her late husbands hidden secrets.
Hearing her cell phone, she answered only to hear Emily asked "I am on call this evening, would you mind terribly if we had dinner at the restaurant?"
Sighing, because for Emily there was only one restaurant, one that would be full of the very people Elizabeth didn't want to meet just yet. But she knew that it had be even harder on Emily, dealing with a town full of people who knew her fiancee had slept with another woman who might have faked being pregnant to trap him into marriage.
"Yes, when?" she asked then decided to make sure that if she was going into the belly of the beast she was dressed well for the tasty morsel of gossip they would be feeding on for days afterwords.
Sam saw her husband entering the restaurant and rolled her eyes when she saw his expression, turning to Carly she said "Looks like you aren't the only one in trouble with hubby. Mine is being all self-righteous again. God, I squeezed out the brat like he wanted, what more does he expect?"
Carly just giggled as she poured herself another glass of the bubbly. AJ had had the nerve to try and order that she get some sort of job today, like she was ever going to work again, why the hell did he think she married him?
"I wonder where Courtney is?" asked Sam idly then saw the blond coming off the elevator with a thunderous expression. "What is it?"
Tossing down her clutch and reaching to tug up the bodice on her slowly sliding dress she said "You are not going to believe this one. That bitch, Kelly Lee okay-ed me for sex again, chubby hubby had the balls to say that from now on, until I am pregnant again, I have to stay home and play house wife. Now what do I do?"
Grimacing, at least Jax was handsome, thought Sam not that they had had sex since their daughter was born. "Well, can you fake it again? Or you know, get preggers with someone else's kid?"
Shuddering, Courtney whined. "I am going to try, but geez, I mean he wants to have sex regularly. I can't stand the thought of those wet lips even close to me. He is all hands and I mean you should hear the grunting. Why did you two get to marry the cute ones?"
Sam was getting herself another glass when she saw her husband smile softly at someone. "Oh no, you don't bitch." Standing she walked over to where Jax was speaking to Emily Quartermaine and said "You lost yours, stay the hell away from my husband."
Emily flushed then was about to walk away when she heard. "Why don't you just raise your leg and pee on your territory like the bitch you are, Sam?"
Emily laughed as Jason got off elevator and approached. "Jason, are you free for dinner?"
"Sorry, Emily. I have a meeting with Luke Spencer." he said regretting telling her that when she seemed to shut down. "It should be quick, if you want to get together later?"
"It's just I am having some company that you would enjoy." she said kissing his cheek and then hearing Carly's dulcet tones as she commented on Jason being there.
Jason looked at the blond and said "Jax, if your wife's friends can't hold a civil tongue, I am going to have to rethink this partnership and maybe sell my shares of the hotel to the Zachara group."
Carly shut up, she was well aware that would have her out on her rear, Quartermaine heir or not since they were the old man's biggest rivals. Jax looked at his wife and said "Money stops if he does, so I would take your little coterie and sit down."
Jax went back to his office, again vainly trying to get something from his private investigator besides bills. "Look again, there has to be something."
Alvarez looked at his partner and then thought about the night they had spent with the three woman at Jake's and said "Sir, it will be a waste of your money, she is clean."
David Harper took out the file they had on each of the women and said "How much are we going to ask them for?"
"I say fifty grand each, to start." he replied. "Do we let them know what we found or just use the pictures from Jake's?"
Meanwhile Emily was feeling a bit like a fish out of water, when she heard the silence hit the room then everyone talk at once. Turning, she saw her friend standing there, looking more beautiful and sweet than ever in a soft green sheath of a cocktail dress with modest heels and her hair pulled back.
She saw the green eyes and faces of the gruesome trio and couldn't help hoping that Jason was watching as well. When they had hugged and greeted one another, Elizabeth sat down and said "I have missed you so much."
A half hour, as they were eating their salads, Elizabeth took a deep breath and said "I took your advice, on Kelly Lee."
Her eyes widening, she said "You... a baby?"
"Yes, I have a little boy." she said proudly. "Emily, he is just the sweetest, most patient little pumpkin you have ever seen."
Emily squealed and hugged her friend getting the attention of the men leaving the private dining room. Luke Spencer was unhappy that Jason wouldn't work with him, saying that as long as Lucky was part of the deal, there was no deal.
Lucky was just sulking and Nik was pissed off to see his wife there when he had ordered her to stay on the Island. Jason however, saw Spencer, Jr's eyes narrowing as he maliciously said "My, the trash has returned. I heard she had a kid while gone, too."
Luke quickly pushed his son onto the elevator before Morgan could find out what the ineffective moron was talking about. He turned when he heard Cassadine's voice carrying across the room as he dragged his wife by the arm out.
Elizabeth felt a sense of awareness, a feeling of foreboding. Emily reached over and asked. "Elizabeth, are you okay? What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just feel a little dizzy." she said weakly. "I just need some air, I will be right back, okay?"
"Wait, I will go with you." she said only for Elizabeth to say "No, I just need a moment, alone, okay?"
But she was only halfway onto the stone terrace when she heard footsteps, Taking deep breaths, she tried to calm down, worried she was going to have a panic attack, she tried to figure out the reason when she heard. "Are you okay? Do you need some help?"
"It's none of your business, please, just go away?" she asked the man she now realized was the cause of her anxiety.
Jason felt his heart racing as the warm night enclosed them, all sense of caution, all sense of reason was slowly slipping away as he moved closer to the woman who possessed him, body, mind and soul.
Unable to help himself, he reached out and kissed her, plundering her lips with his desire, his need to mark her his and his alone. He could feel each bone in her body, as the need to flee seemed to be warring with the very obvious need for him that seemed to emit from her body.
"Tell me you didn't miss me, didn't miss this? That you don't want me as much as I want you?" he asked hoarsely as he pulled her into a desperately hungry kiss. The more she tried to resist, the more seductive and drugging the kisses got, until the passion and need over whelmed them.
Elizabeth wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him with all of her pent up longing and anger until she lost track of where he ended and she began, whispering to him during one of the moments they had stopped kissing to breath. "I hate you, I hate every single thing about you."
"I am tired of wanting what I can't have..." she said before pulling his lips back to hers, knowing that the rough stubble on his chin was going to mark her and not even caring at the moment.
"I have spent the last year, fighting this, until there is no fight left." he breathed as he kissed his way down her throat and growled frustrated by the silk covering her skin. Then with a wicked grin, he fell to his knees and eased his hands up her naked thighs, touching the soft skin that he had found.
"Jason... what are..." Her voice hitched when she felt his fingertips against her now wet panties before his hands retreated to ease up her skirt so that he could gently kiss her exposed thighs. His hands molded themselves to her, stroking her, cupping the silk where it was now growing wetter.
Elizabeth looked down just as she felt his evening stubble on her thigh, her legs almost giving way when she saw him kissing her right where she needed it most. Before she could protest, he pulled down the silk and placed them in his pocket, then ran his fingers on the newly bared skin, gently stroking her, watching her face in the moonlight as she closed her eyes to the sensations he was sure she was experiencing for the first time.
Just when she was getting her strength back, he moved his head up and took his first taste of her. "You... we can be..."
"No we can't." he said his head coming back only far enough so she could hear him as his warm breath aroused her already needy body. Lifting her leg over his shoulder, Jason took a long deep taste before easing back to see if the face matched the moaning then spreading her wide with his fingers, lapped at her again and again as her head tilted back.
He kept up the teasing for a few minutes before moving his attention north to the small nub above. Teasing her, leaving her begging for release, he pulled back and admired his handiwork before gently biting her sensitive spot and thrusting his finger inside, then adding another finger when he saw she was about to come.
"Tell me your mine," he growled "Tell me..."
She called out no even as her body shouted yes as her body took the pleasure he was offering. Sobbing as she came down from the high he had created in her, she tried to ignore the way she couldn't seem to control her own body around this man.
As she regained her senses, she couldn't help it, she couldn't help asking in a broken tone. "Why?"
"Because, we belong together." he said as he held her for a minute then stepped back to say. "And your body already knows it, someday soon, you will come to realize that I am not going away."
Hearing her name, she said "That's Emily, my friend, I have to go."
Seeing her holding out her hand, he said "No, these will remain with me."
"Jason, please, I can't..." she saw his face. "You ruthless bastard, you really expect me to walk out there in front of most of Port Charles without my underwear?"
Closing her eyes, loathing herself for the way she still wanted him, still found herself … no, she wasn't going to go there. Not in this lifetime, not after what he had done to her dad.
"Elizabeth, one more thing for you to think about... next time we do this, we are going to stay in my and hopefully by then our bed for days and days." The heat and promise in his voice made her insides clench as she went back inside.
Thankfully most of the guests had already left for the night as she rejoined Emily who hid her smile when she saw Elizabeth followed by Jason. Maybe her brother and friend would find their way to one another, obviously there was passion if they slept together before.
Just one more thing to do to help that move further along. Her brother was a sucker for babies, in spite of never having any of his own. He would be the perfect man, he wouldn't care who the father of Elizabeth's baby was, he would love him as his own, no matter what.
Jason waited until he saw Emily heading to the rest room from his perch at the bar, he had left Elizabeth and her alone while they finished dinner, his hand in the pocket of his suit jacket where her pale green silk panties now resided.
Walking over, she said "Why won't you leave me alone?"
"I have everything a man could want, yet there is something missing, something I didn't realize I was missing until you came into my life..." he said then added. "I have one dream left to fulfill... one empty spot left... you, you are my dream."
Her eyes begged him to leave her alone but he just looked at her and said "I am not going away and there is nothing you can do to convince me that you aren't the one for me."
Looking at her, he said "If I hadn't taken your father's company, your life would have been so different, so much better and I am sorry for that... but I can't regret meeting you, falling for you..."
Her heart breaking as she came to realize that it was now or never, she had to tell him about their son her world stopped when she heard Emily's question behind her.... "Oh my god, Elizabeth... I just realized I forgot to ask, your little boy... what is his name?"
Jason froze then remembered their night together, and asked "How old?"
"What?" Emily asked then heard Elizabeth's answer like she was talking with marbles in her mouth. "One month, Jake is one month old."
"Excuse us, Emily." he said grabbing her hand and pulling her to the elevator as his heart stopped then started beating as he put together dates. Once the door had closed in his sister's face, he turned to her and hissed. "Where you ever going to tell me about my son?"
TBC