Authors Note: I started this fic a while back and just recently posted Chapter 7 a few weeks ago. So, I decided to post it here as well. Why not, you know?

Prologue

"Carly, I-"

"No, Elizabeth I think you should come back. Jason is so miserable without you!" Carly yelled into the phone.

"I'm miserable without him too but I don't think I'm totally past this yet." Elizabeth said, regretfully.

"What is there to get past?"

"Carly, he lied to me! Jason lied to me. I don't know if I can ever get past it."

"Elizabeth if you want to be with him, you have to."

"Carly, stress isn't good for the baby, so please don't get me all worked up."

"You're right, I'm sorry."

"Yeah you should be!" Liz giggled into the phone. "This isn't even my baby! I'm carrying yours and Sonny's baby for you because you can't have anymore kids, so give me a break."

"I'm sorry hun. And yes, thank you so much for doing this for me and Sonny."

"Well I have errands to run soon, so I'm going to go."

"No, don't go! Whatever it is, you can put it off for another hour! I'm going crazy here! You're the only one that keeps me sane! Please, don't leave me yet." Carly pleaded with her.

"Carly, if you want me to come back, I need to come back now because I'll be having the baby soon and I shouldn't even be flying now, but at least I'm not totally at the due date yet."

"You're coming back?" Carly asked as she shrieked into the phone. "Oh thank god! You finally listened to me! Yay!"

"Carly I'm coming back for you and because of the baby. I'm getting over the thing with Jason but as I said before, I'm not ready to be with him again and I don't know if I ever will be."

"Elizabeth you guys will get past this, you have to. Besides, I have something big that I need to share with you."

"What?"

"Well in about 6 months, Sonny and I will have another baby!"

"Oh my god! Wait...how?"

"How do you think? I'm pregnant!"

"Jason, you're my best friend but, maybe its time to get over Elizabeth. Go out to Jake's and get drunk or something. Get laid; for God's sake live a little man."

"Sonny I love her! I'm not giving up hope. Besides, this is all you're fault. You're the one who told me not to tell her. You're the one who decided not to let me trust my wife. You're the one who made me guard your sister! That was all you not me."

"Jason-"

"No Sonny, I don't want to hear your excuses! If you trust me, then you trust her! Which means when I told you could trust her, you'd believe me. And then Elizabeth would have known because I would have told her and she wouldn't have left town, taking my heart with her."

"You really love her don't you?"

"Yes, I love her. She's my everything Sonny."

"Aw! Carly that's great!" Elizabeth was happy for her friend. Carly and Sonny had wanted another baby so badly that they asked her to be a surrogate and now they were having not one, but two!

"Yeah, I'm so happy! I've missed this whole pregnant feeling."

Liz laughed. "So what kind of clinic did you have to go to so you could get pregnant?"

"I didn't do anything. I just went to the doctor's this morning for a check-up and found out I'm pregnant. I'm so excited!"

"I'm so happy for you Carly. Wow, two babies! Think you and Sonny will be able to handle it?"

"Well, I know I can! Sonny on the other hand..."

Carly and Elizabeth both laughed. When the laughing subsided Elizabeth spoke, cutting Carly off, "Well Carly, I've got to go and take care of my errands before I leave."

"All right." Carly replied sadly. "I'll talk to you later, ok?"

"Yep. Bye Car."

"Wait, when will you get here?"

"I don't know. Probably tonight."

"You going to stay at the penthouse with Jase?"

"I don't really have a choice right now. Besides, I'm sure he won't be home much."

"Okay hun."

"Alright. Bye Car, see you later."

"Bye Liz."

"Jason, I'm glad you love her. But...maybe if this is the way she acted when she couldn't be let in, maybe she isn't cut out for your life."

"Sonny why are you being such an #$ about this? She isn't mad that we lied to her! Well, yeah she is mad about that but she's hurt because she figures that we don't trust her! We told Carly and we didn't tell her. That's why she's upset."

"Jason how much thought have you put into her reason for leaving?"

"She's been gone for months and the day after she left here, I started thinking about it from her prospective. And the more I think of it like that, the more I understand why she left. I should have told her what was going on whether you said I could or not."

"Jason I know you trust Elizabeth, but at the time-"

"Sonny how can you say that?" Carly yelled as she walked downstairs and into the room.

"Elizabeth is carrying our baby because we couldn't have anymore of the children we so desperately wanted. She is doing us this huge favor and you could have killed our baby because after she found out the truth she could have went into shock! Did you think of that? No, of course you didn't! How about the fact that Jase and I trust her? When did you start acting like this Sonny? Because if this is the new you, I want my husband back!"

"Carly calm down, it's not good for the baby." Sonny said calmly in response to her tirade.

"You're pregnant?" Jason asked, with a sly grin on his face. "Now I see how it is with you Sonny. Carly got pregnant so it doesn't matter that Elizabeth is going through nine months of pregnancy and birth so that you can have another child?"

"No, I'm very grateful to Elizabeth for what she is doing for us."

"You don't sound grateful Sonny!" Carly yelled at him. "Jason and Elizabeth are in love! They finally get together after trying to get to that point in their relationship for three years and what do you do? You make him lie to her! It didn't exactly help that you were always sending him to take care of Courtney either, but still! If it wasn't for you, there could have been a totally different outcome!"

"What does Courtney have to do with anything, Carly?" Jason asked.

"Jase, put yourself in her shoes ok?" When he nodded, she continued. "She never saw you, you never called to even say you were ok and then when she did see you, you were with Courtney!"

"Oh god! Please tell me she didn't think I was cheating on her with Courtney?"

"Well Jase, what was the girl supposed to think when you never came around?"

"Oh god." Jason closed his eyes and groaned.

"Now why would she think a stupid thing like that?" Sonny asked.

"Well let's see..." Carly said as she took in a deep breath. "Because you were constantly making Jason keep an eye on her and made Jason lie to her so he was never around because Jason doesn't like to lie so he never came home. And when Liz went out looking for Jason guess who she saw him with? Courtney!" Carly spit the girl's name out as if it was poison.

"What have you got against Courtney, Carly?" Sonny asked.

"Oh, I don't know? Maybe the fact that she broke a perfect couple up and she's a selfish slut?"

"Carly!" Sonny yelled.

"You know what Sonny?" Carly asked, disgusted. "I'm tired of you putting her up on this damn pedestal and choosing her over me. Hell, I may have to give you an ultimatum when it comes to her."

"Come on Carly, we both know you wouldn't do that." Sonny said, his voice smug.

"Oh yeah? Well guess what Sonny? I'm going to stay at Jason's tonight. Liz will be home soon and since she will be staying at Jason's, that's where I'll be as well until you can get your head out of Courtney's ass and prioritize your life." With that said, Carly grabbed Jason's hand and pulled him out of the penthouse, leaving Sonny to rethink his most recent actions.

A few hours later

Elizabeth got off the elevator and immediately headed towards Jason's penthouse with Johnny and Francis trailing behind her carrying her suitcases.

Just as she was about to put her hand on the doorknob to open the door, Sonny's penthouse door swung open. She turned around with her arms wide open, expecting to see Carly.

What she saw, was not Carly. It was Sonny, with his clothes all messed up - his shirt was hanging out, his pants were all ruffled. He looked like he had just spent a night at Jake's. However, he had a big smile on his face that was directed at her. He was even showing his dimples.

She smiled nervously at him. "Hey Sonny." She whispered as she put a protective hand over her ever growing belly.