A reader at sent me some quotes and asked me to write another one of my funny little stories. This snippet grew and grew thanks to the help I received here and there. The premise, a group stuck together with scary bedroom slippers that may or may not be tormenting the men. Pairings will be Jason/Liz and Georgie and Johnny. Here is the start that I was told the story would need. Its a bit sad but this is the only chapter that is, after that you get the funny.
Fuzzy Pink Bunny Slippers
Summer 2002
Jason was stricken with pain as he left the building, his heart ached and his very soul felt as if it was being ripped from his body. His eyes went misty as his brain showed him what he had just walked away from. The woman he had believed was his future was right now, in the arms of another man.
He had left her, alone but calm in her studio while he had quickly gone to help Carly, his long time friend who was blowing her life up for no other reason than jealousy. Arriving at his bike, just as he was about to ride off, he heard the sound of the siren and quickly fled, not wanting to be questioned by Taggert for whatever crime had gone down if the man were to see him.
Heading home, he pulled off then drove down the cliff roads, deciding to check on Carly, worried that she might have not listened to his advice and had created an even bigger mess.
Seeing the cabin where she was hiding out, he turned off the lights to keep the neighbors from hearing him since no one was supposed to be there. Coasting his bike down the hill, he leaned it against the cabin and hurried toward the door, passing the open window and stopping as he heard Carly's voice.
"Did it work?" she was asking anxiously.
"Yes, like a charm. I cut the lights, Zander played the hero and right now, I am sure that Jason is walking into the room." said the young guard who should have known better. Jason was positive that he had the wrong end of this; there was no way that they were speaking about what he thought they were.
Max, the young guard heard his phone ringing and lifting it said "Milo, what is it?"
"Jason Morgan left in a hurry. Max, are you sure this is right. I mean, I have been watching Elizabeth Webber all day like you asked. She doesn't seem like some Lolita out to entrap your boss. She seems nice." said the kid as he entered the courtyard from Kelly's."
Max ignored Milo's thoughts, after all what would his younger brother know about manipulative women, he wasn't as worldly as Max was. He had no idea how a pretty smile could make a man do things he wouldn't ordinarily do. Looking up at Mrs. C, Max sighed and thought to himself how this poor woman had no idea her husband was even now lusting after that attorney, Alexis Davis.
Hearing a slurping sound, Max asked Milo what he was doing. "I uh, after Mr. Morgan left, I went to get a milkshake. It's hot out, Max."
"Wait, Jason didn't leave just now, when did he go and where did he head off to." he asked not liking the sound of that.
"No idea." said Milo with a shrug, "Maybe about an hour ago. I couldn't reach you; the lightning storm is affecting reception."
Milo arrived back at his sedan and was about to get in when he was stopped. "Excuse me. Were you here earlier this evening. A tenant said she saw you when she returned home."
Max heard the voice of Marcus Taggert and wanted to tell his brother to just get out of there and not to tell the man anything but he groaned as he heard Milo say he had parked there earlier before heading to Kelly's. Lifting his shake, he showed the bald cop the half empty plastic cup. "Is there something wrong officer?"
"Yes, did you see this man heading up those stairs earlier this evening?" Milo's eyes widened then honestly told the cop. "Yeah, when I first parked."
"Did you see anyone else?" asked the cop tucking the photo back into his jacket pocket. When Milo said no, knowing not to admit to seeing Jason Morgan, he asked what was going on.
"The man in the picture tried to rape a young woman he is acquainted with who lives in the building. If you know anything, please stop down to the station and let me know." said Marcus, his mind on the scene he had just left.
When he had entered the room he had seen Elizabeth Webber, with a baseball bat standing over Zander Smith, the beautiful brunette looking like an avenging angel. The man on the floor was holding his balls and shouting that if she hadn't led him on, nothing would have happened.
Taggert who had known the kid for the last few years, had scowled at the little shit, then had handcuffed him and ignored his request for medical help. Mac was still upstairs, talking quietly to Elizabeth Webber as she gathered her things so she could go to her grandmothers.
Milo watched, unable to pull out as he saw Zander Smith being led out of the building, still shouting that he hadn't tried to rape anyone; that she had been begging him for it, until she had frozen up and that he was only taking what she had offered up to begin with.
Max had turned his cell phone on to speaker so Carly could hear, unaware that Jason was also listening in, horrified at what he was hearing the younger man telling the two inside.
"Max, my god... what have you gotten me into. The Webber girl, she has a black eye. The damn police commissioner himself is leading her to a car with an old lady. What the hell did we do tonight? Did you know that kid was going..?"
Max heard the sound of something outside and rushed to find out what it was, but was pissed to see that his car now had flat tires. Hearing something in the distance but not sure what, he returned to where Mrs. C was trying to make a call. "I need your help." she told the man on the other end of the line.
Max sat down, his mind reeling as his brother's words rang through his head. "Mrs. C, did you know what..."
"Of course not, besides, I believe Zander. She probably changed her mind when she saw Jason." Carly sneered. "She wouldn't want her golden goose to escape her clutches.
Jason arrived at GH, slinking around, he arrived in the emergency room just as Mac Scorpio and Audrey Hardy led Elizabeth to a cubicle. Seeing her glistening but distant eyes, the way her left eye was swelling and her arms and legs trembling and Jason found himself landing on his own knees as he found himself whispering for Elizabeth to forgive him. "Please, please forgive me."
Waiting, staying out of sight, Jason saw Audrey Hardy speaking to the new head shrink and felt his eyes close and his heart stop as the woman told Mrs. Hardy that Elizabeth would more than likely have nightmares about her rape in the park, as well as the current attempt. "Add that to the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from all she has been through over the last few years ending in being held in the crypt, she is going to have a rough road ahead."
"Thank you." said Audrey, her own hands shaking. "I am taking her home in the morning, but would you please contact Gail Baldwin, I plan on getting Elizabeth out of here, for a little while. She is going to
need the time to deal with all that has happened."
When Audrey came back to Elizabeth's room, she saw the tall brawny man inside and wanted to protest his being there but something about his stillness, his pain made her stop. Then his words echoed through the room and she hissed at how broken he sounded as he begged Elizabeth's apology as he told her that he would make the woman who had caused this pay and pay dearly.
Audrey ducked back into the next room, watching as Jason stopped at the door, his hand on the glass as he whispered "I love you and I am so sorry I didn't realize what she had... good bye, Elizabeth Webber, I will carry you with me, wherever I go."
After a visit to Sonny's penthouse, Jason went to Jake's, gathered what he had there and in spite of the late hour, made two more visits. The first visit he made was to his grandmother; the other to Elizabeth's studio. Standing in the doorway, he found it hard to enter but forced him in.
Touching the painting she had done for him, he fell to his knees and then reached for his cell phone. "That deal you offered, I am taking it."
The man on the other end, sighed, understanding what had lead to this. "I promise I will do whatever it takes to protect her."
"Thank you." he said then with regret at what his mistake had cost him, Jason got onto his bike and rode off, not sure where he was going but knowing that there was one place he would never go back to, not now. Not that he had lost the woman he had hoped to show it to someday.
Late Spring 2004
Sonny Corinthos looked across the table in the closed Italian restaurant at the man the entire world thought was insane and asked for him to repeat his statement.
"Simply put, I think that you owe me. I dealt with my lying cheating scumbag of an attorney and his equally lousy son when you couldn't out of respect for your dead mother. Now an enemy of your pal Luke Spencer is coming after my son for revenge. If Spencer hadn't been toying around and had killed her all those years ago, we wouldn't be dealing with this, none of the families would." Repeated Anthony as the others around the table grimaced and frowned at the Cuban.
"How does my owing you mean that Jason Morgan has to return to town to protect your son? He is an adult." Pointed out Sonny, he had plans for his former partner and they involved sending a very beautiful brunette to Italy away from this mess, not bring Jason back to where he would have to deal with Carly and her new best friend Courtney.
"Either kill Helena Cassadine or have Jason Morgan return. Simply put, you made your bed when it comes to Luke Spencer, now you either deal with this, or face the same consequences." Another of the dark swarthy men around the table responded. "And while he is at it, the commissioner, that Mac Scorpio..."
"I won't kill Scorpio." Sonny snarled; thinking of Robin.
"I don't want you to, you interrupted before I was finished." The annoyed man snapped. "His daughters, their biological father, this Frisco Jones, a contact informed me that after his eldest was harmed as a result of Mr. Alcazar's brother, he has started nosing around, and now the youngest girl, she is been put under the eyes of this Cassadine woman by Mr. Morgan's cousin, this reckless young man known as Dillon. We don't need that kind of pressure."
Lorenzo Alcazar felt the need to speak up and did. "Simply put, Georgie Jones stopped Helena from attacking that Webber woman. Now, this Helena is after them. I know you are aware of this, I know you have taken steps to protect the Webber girl, but now, this mess is growing."
Growling, Sonny wanted to glare at Lorenzo Alcazar but the man HAD been instrumental in helping get Brenda home, even if she had run off with some artist. He had also done him a huge favor of finding proof that Carly and Courtney had conspired with Ric to hurt Elizabeth, thereby freeing him from his worst mistake, too bad he wasn't freed from the blood he shared with Courtney, but beggars can't be choosy.
Grimacing how Carly had told him she was pregnant after Jason had left, how he had believed her only for her to suffer another miscarriage. To this day he wasn't positive if she had actually been pregnant or not but her fall down the stairs down by the pier and Courtney telling him that Elizabeth had caused it made him doubt a few more things than just the existence of the child she claimed to be carrying.
When he had coolly and calmly told her that Francis who had been her guard that day had said that it was Carly attacking Elizabeth, Carly who had tried to push Elizabeth that he was even now beginning to wonder about her first pregnancy and her claim about AJ, Carly had gone quiet, agreeing to the divorce.
Bringing his mind back to the situation, Sonny couldn't help wishing the Jones girl had realized that the guard would protect Elizabeth, Sonny said "So let me get this straight, you expect me to call Jason Morgan back and have him do what? Set up a baby sitting service to protect the Zachara kid and of course the police commissioner's children."
"Yes." Was the simple answer he received. Sonny looked at them like they were insane, but saw cool eyes in the expression of three of the men looking back and amusement and something calculating in the look of Anthony Zachara while Lorenzo Alcazar just looked as calm as usual.
Sonny didn't like to be ordered about; he also needed Jason to face the truth and then suddenly looked at all of the men as an idea came to his head. Wanting to laugh, knowing that if this went wrong and that there was a good chance it would, he was dead at the hands of the man he considered his best friend, he still said "I have an idea."
"No idea, just Morgan, is protecting my son." Anthony glared; he liked the idea of the smart and successful former enforcer being around his admittedly angry and reckless son. He hoped that Morgan might just teach John something before he ended up cannon fodder to either his sister's ambition or another family's anger.
Sonny looked at the short man, the only person shorter than himself at the table and said "We do this my way."
Turning to Lorenzo he said. "That niece of yours, she is back in town, along with your son right?"
Nodding, a bit confused as to where Corinthos was going, he said "Why?"
"You are going to need to protect them as well. I had intended to send the Webber girl to Jason. Add her and the Jones girls along side the Zachara kid and that is a whole lot of people who need protection, right?" he said with a smirk.
"I own a house, or rather Corinthos Morgan does. I intended it to be a training center for our guards. I will have Jason protect all of them, there."
"Won't that make them an easy target?" asked a frowning Lorenzo.
"No, security has already been set up. It is one of the tighter places for our people. It's a bit warmer there, than here but not by much. We send them, there, I will speak to Spencer, find out where this Helena is, I will also speak to Scorpio, get his agreement on this." Sonny pointed out as he saw the interest in Zachara's eyes and in the eyes of Lorenzo.
"Frankly, I would rather have Jason take out Helena, but we can handle the woman while Jason is off with the kids."
"And Ms. Webber?" asked a smirking Tagliotti. He had had a visit from Mr. Zander Smith, after the man had been looking for revenge on the woman. Instead the youngster had learned why any mob family with honor would never attack a young woman the hard way which had involved a prolonged hospital stay. Tagliotti was one person who truly believed in a woman's right to say no after his own sister was raped years before.
Smith had seemed to feel like the Webber woman had owed him. Everyone in town knew he had thrown in his lot with Corinthos ex wife and sister; they also were just waiting for the day that Jason Morgan returned. All knew that Smith was going to die a very painful death for the lies he had told and how he had tried to force himself on the Webber girl during a PTSD attack.
Sonny called Jason, leaving a voice mail message, and then looked at Johnny O'Brien who was sitting across from him holding his stomach as the laughter began. "You know he is going to shoot you, don't you?"
"I am hoping if things finally get worked out between Elizabeth and him, she will save me." The mobster reported then lifted his phone and made a call that was sure to give him a frozen ear.
Audrey Hardy loathed him, but after several years of watching Corinthos and Co keeping her granddaughter safe from Helena Cassadine after Luke Spencer's unfulfilled promises, she had come to if not accept him to at least tolerate him and his men's friendship with her beloved granddaughter.
Audrey looked up and sighed after agreeing to Mr. Corinthos request, getting that things were rather dangerous right then for Elizabeth and that she had nothing to worry about from the Ice Queen if they did as he had asked. "Fine, I will talk to Mac tomorrow."
Sonny hung up the phone just as Francis entered scowling. "What did the three stooges do now?"
"Ms Quartermaine has returned from Arizona unaware of the changes here in town. She was unhappy when Elizabeth refused to join her while she was seated with Zander. Spencer and his idiot brother created a scene that exposed Lewis' lies and then Carly and Courtney who were entering made things worse."
"Did Emily believe the lies?" asked Sonny frowning a bit.
"No. But she did try to convince Elizabeth that there was no way Zander would try to rape her that she must have imagined it because of how she had been feeling then. Elizabeth said for her to believe what she wanted but that both Zander and she knew the truth. Emily left her purse behind, she was upset. The stooges started to attack Miss Webber who left only for Zander to follow."
Sonny saw the uneasy expression in Francis' eyes and asked all the while regretting that they couldn't kill Zander without being the prime suspect. While Taggert had done his best, Alexis Davis had for some reason, represented the little shit and used his not getting medical treatment to get him off on a technicality. "What happened?"
"Little bastard came out into the courtyard, told Elizabeth that she should have just admitted she wanted him, just lain there and took it. That he wouldn't have had to ruin her reputation. That all he had wanted was one up on Morgan."
"Emily heard?" asked Johnny OB straightening as he decided that Smith needed a little tune up.
"Worse, she heard him say that he wished he had had the sense to tie Elizabeth up so she couldn't kick him in the nuts then grab that baseball bat. Emily came over, slapped him and asked who he was; that there was no way the man she had known would ever do anything like that to another woman let alone her best friend."
Taking a deep breath, Francis continued. "Zander responded that no wonder Elizabeth and she were best friends, they were both ice cold bitches that wouldn't know what to do with a real man in bed. That everyone knew Spencer and she hadn't done anything that he had dumped her to get it from her sister then told Emily that the only reason men got with her was her money. He also added that her bed was colder than a freezer. That he had fucked… that he had er… had sex with Carly while they were together."
Sonny filed that information away, true or false he didn't give a damn except when it came to Carly and Michael and how he could use this to keep the manipulative woman away from her very impressionable son.
Mac had just entered his house, worried about his daughters when he heard a knock at the door. Opening it to see Sonny Corinthos standing there with one of his guards, didn't make him too much happier. "Corinthos, what do you want?"
"May I come in?" he asked politely and when the man agreed, Sonny stepped in and nodded at the guard who remained outside. "We need to talk about Helena Cassadine."
Glowering Mac said "What do you know?"
"We have proof that Helena wants your daughter Georgie dead." He said bluntly and saw the other man's automatic response to look up at the ceiling through which they could hear the sound of teenage girls laughing. With a sigh, Sonny said "When Luke let her flee after Cassadine stripped her of her wealth, she uh, she had apparently already paid someone to finish up a hit list for her. I know who is on it."
"Who?" asked Mac getting a sinking feeling in his heart.
"Spencers son, John Zachara, yes, that Zachara's son." He said Mac's eyes widen then added. "Trevor and Ric Lansing went missing; she believes that he did it."
Snorting, Mac was sure that the man had but he did ask "Ric Lansing, isn't that the attorney in town a few years ago; the one that tried to drug Elizabeth."
"Yes." Sonny saw the assessing view that the other man was giving him and said "He only lived because he was my mother's son."
Mac didn't say a word, Corinthos and he would never be pals, they were on opposite sides of the law, but Mac had been at the club that night, had seen Elizabeth' reaction to almost being hurt again, this after seeing her deal with Zander Smith's attack then his lies and her post traumatic stress disorder.
Most in the club that night had seen her slug Lansing, who had fled town after she had gotten to the mike and made public what he had tried to do to her.
"Who else Corinthos?" he asked.
"Elizabeth, of course, she still blames her for '01 and now from the latest mess. You would think with Spencer's son out of her life, she would have been safe." Sonny said with a sigh. "Laura Spencer but we are sure that Cassadine has her under wraps. Mac, it looks like Georgie is on her list. I don't know what happened, has she told you yet?"
Mac rubbed the back of his neck. Georgie had accidentally fallen while trying to save Elizabeth and had shoved Helena into the corner of the wall, slicing open the woman's face. That was all she was admitting, but he knew there was more, much more because of the nightmares his daughter was having.
In the outback of Australia, Jason sat there watching his phone, wishing he knew what was going on. All Sonny had told him was that he needed to work with a group of at least eight people.
That they were green but that they needed to be trained. He had offered up Johnny O'Brien and Francis, so whatever it was, it was heavy. Sighing, not wanting to go back to the states, not able, even two years later to face Elizabeth.
He had ran, scared of her hating him when she learned what had gone down. Instead he had less than a month later gotten voice mail from her, full of understanding and it had ended with the message, that when he was ready to come home, she would be waiting for him.
Resting his head forward, he heard footsteps and looked up annoyed to see Brenda and Jasper Jacks heading his way along with her pal, some artist named Franco. "Why are you still here?"
"Sorry Morgan, but Brenda here agreed to let Sonny use my jet to send you home." The blissfully married blond smirked at the annoyed man. "To get rid of you, I am more than happy to send you home, anyway Corinthos wants."
Looking in annoyance at the blond Aussie, Jason wanted to remind him that they were on his property, hiding there because Jerry, Jax's brother had created a mess yet again.
Going inside to pack, Jason hesitated then decided that after this, after he did this assignment for Sonny, he was going home. He was going to face his demons and tell Elizabeth he wanted a chance to try and make things right.
TBC