A/N: This is my first shot at writing General Hospital I hope you guys like it. This is a JaSam fic. Alexis raised Sam from birth and Stefan and Kristina are still alive. Michael never went to prison. Jason and Sam aren't together at first but they will work their way back to each other. There will be a few big surprises in store.
Chapter 1
Sam looked at the weary man sitting across from her. Outwardly she couldn't tell what was going on with him. The stone cold façade that he had on a normal day was working double time now. "Jason," she said the man's name in hopes of getting just a tiny bit of a reaction out of him.
"I'm fine." Jason answered abruptly his steel blue eyes not betraying the wide range of emotions that he was feeling at the moment.
Had it been anyone else Sam would have just let it go but this wasn't just anyone else. This was Jason her best friend and the one time love of her life. "You're not fine Jason, no one in their right mind would be." She argued with him. Sam knew that pushing Jason to talk about his feelings was about like telling the earth not to be round.
"You're right I'm not fine this is a lot to process at the moment but I can't think about what I'm feeling right now." Jason replied. He knew Sam as well as she knew him. So he knew that it was better to just open up to her than have her pry it out of him.
Any response that Sam might have had to that statement died on her lips when Lucky Spencer walked over to them. "Any news Lucky?" she asked him knowing that Jason wouldn't.
Lucky rubbed his forehead and sighed. "The boys are both fine Elizabeth wasn't so lucky. She's in a coma and they're not sure if she's ever going to come out of it."
The reason Sam and Jason were sitting around the waiting room of General Hospital was because Elizabeth Webber and her two young sons were involved in a car accident. Jake the younger of the two boys just so happened to be Jason's son as well.
"I'm really sorry to hear that Lucky." Sam said looking at her old flame with sympathetic eyes.
Lucky slowly sank down in a chair. He was having a hard time comprehending all of this he shuddered to think about how he was going to take care of two young children by himself. "Jason, here's the thing I can't take care of both of those boys by myself. I need you to take Jake at least until Elizabeth wakes up."
Jason was shocked to hear that. He had walked away from his son so that he wouldn't be in danger from the life he chose to live. "Lucky, you know that Elizabeth doesn't want Jake anywhere near me." he reminded him.
"I know that but if Elizabeth doesn't make it I'm sure that she would want Jake to be with at least one of his parents. And honestly I just can't take care of him right now. I've got Cam and Liz to think about I can't be worried about Jake right now too. I won't fight you on it. And when Liz wakes up I'll make sure that she let's you keep seeing him." Lucky said he didn't want Jake to fall by the wayside with everything else that he had going on at the moment.
Jason knitted his eyebrows together. "Alright, I'll do it." He relented. He hadn't noticed that he did it but he looked to Sam for approval before he said yes.
"Good, he's in room 235. I'll let them know that you'll be in charge of him from now on." Lucky nodded in his direction before walking away.
"Jason you did the right thing." Sam assured him.
"Sam, I'm not set up for a kid right now. I don't want to mess up." Jason sighed.
"You won't mess up because I won't let you. I'll be right there to help you I promise." Sam swore to him. She knew that he would have done the same thing for her. "Come on let's go see Jake." She pulled him up from his chair by the hand and led him to his son's room.
"Wow, he looks so little and helpless." Jason commented when he saw his son laying in that bed.
"Do you need me to go in with you?" Sam asked him.
Jason shook his head. "No, give me a minute and then come in. I don't want to confuse the poor kid."
Sam laid a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Jason, it's going to be ok. He's only two hopefully this won't mess him up that badly."
Jason just nodded his head before walking into the room. He sat down in the chair beside his son's bed. He couldn't help but smile when Jake looked up at him with blue eyes identical to his. "Hi big guy, I'm your dad and I promise you that everything is going to be alright. You and I we'll make it through this." He promised him.
One Week Later
Sam was woke up from a dead sleep by a loud pounding on her front door. She checked the clock and saw that it was two in the morning. Whoever was out there better be dead or dying. If not she was going to kill them. She marched to the door and flung it open. She was shocked to see Jason standing there looking frazzled. He had Jake in his arms and from the looks of the little boy's face he was having no part of sleeping.
Sam put her hand over her mouth to stifle a laugh. "Samantha, this isn't funny. He woke up screaming two hours ago and nothing I've done since has been good enough for him. I really need your help right now." Jason said looking at her with a pleading look in his eyes.
"First of all don't call me Samantha again, only my mom and Uncle Stefan can and only because they won't not. Get in here I can't leave that poor little boy on your mercy there is no telling what you have done to him." Sam said ushering him into her apartment.
Jason put up his free hand in a sign of surrender. "I'll call you whatever you want me to call you if you can get him to stop crying." He agreed. "Jake, you remember daddy's friend Sam don't you?" he asked the little boy in his arms. Jake just nodded his head.
"Hi buddy, I know that your daddy isn't much of a conversationalist but he's doing the best he can right now. How about you come to Sam and give him a little break?" Sam asked him in a gentle voice. Jake put out his arms to her and he buried his face in the crook of her neck once he was in her arms. "Jason, just sit down on the couch and watch TV or something I have this under control." She said before retreating to her bedroom with the child.
Fifteen minutes later Jason was staring blankly at the TV when Sam came back into the room. "He's out like a light." She reported proudly.
"You're moving in with me and that's all that there is to it. That is the second time this week I've had to bring him over here. I honestly don't know how you're so good with him Sam." Jason sighed running his hands over his face.
"I have two younger sisters I'm ten years older than one of them and fifteen years older than the other I pretty much had to help mom out a lot." Sam reminded him.
"I think I got in way over my head this time Sam. I don't know what the hell I'm doing." Jason groaned.
"You're not in over your head, you just feel like you are at the moment. It'll get easier, if you haven't noticed that little boy adores you Jason." Sam pointed out to him.
Jason shook his head. "No, he adores you. He won't even let me hold him all the time but he always goes right to you."
"He shouldn't I mean I did just stand by and watch him get kidnapped." Sam threw out she still felt so guilty about that.
Jason cupped her face in his hands and looked into her brown eyes. "Hey, you're not that person anymore and I drove you to that anyway. We both did a lot of things to each other back then that we shouldn't have. It doesn't matter now anyway you saved him from the Russians and I don't want you to feel guilty about that anymore." He didn't know what came over him but he leaned in and kissed her.
Sam didn't fight him and she kissed him back. She didn't pull away until she could feel the need for oxygen screaming through her brain. "Jason, I don't know if we should do this again."
Jason moved away from her. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that." He apologized.
Sam shook her head at him. "I only said that I didn't know if we should do this again not that we can't do this again. But I'm telling you right now that things can't be the way that they were before."
"I understand and we can take this as fast or as slow as you want to. It is entirely up to you." Jason swore to her a slight smile coming to his face.
Sam closed the distance between them and pecked him on the lips. "Well, in that case I'll say goodnight. Enjoy the couch you know where all the blankets and pillows are if you need them. I have a hot date waiting for me in my bed and I don't want him to wake up alone." She smirked as she walked down the hall. That was the hardest thing that she had ever done.
"Good night Sam." Jason called after her softly so he didn't wake Jake.
The next morning Sam used her key to let herself into her mom's lake house. She went straight to the kitchen to the coffee maker. She pulled a coffee mug down from the cabinet and poured herself some coffee. She stared down into the brown liquid it looked normal enough so there was some hope that her mom hadn't made it. "At this point I don't care if mom made this because I really need it." She said to herself. She had a hard time getting back to sleep she could still feel Jason's lips on hers and she couldn't get the image of what he looked like without clothes on out of her mind.
"You're in luck then because Alexis didn't make it I did." Kristina told her niece.
"God, Aunt Tina, way to scare the shit out of me." Sam said jumping she hadn't expected her aunt to be there.
"Don't be that way Soapy, I didn't mean to scare you." Kristina said smiling at her. She had been calling her that since she was a kid because she had the ability to con anyone out of anything.
Sam rolled her eyes. "Really Tina, you need to stop with that nickname. And don't you have someplace to be like your own apartment?" she asked her sarcastically. There was only ten years difference between the two of them so they were very close.
"There is no fun in that then I wouldn't be able to see my most favorite niece in the entire world when she comes over in the morning to steal breakfast from her mommy. And as for the name you have conned me enough times for me to be able to call you whatever I want." Kristina said pinching her cheek.
"You are so lucky that I'm having my coffee right now otherwise I wouldn't be able to tolerate you this early." Sam groaned.
"The reason you're so tired wouldn't have anything to do with a certain mob enforcer and his little boy would it?" Alexis asked her daughter as she came into the room.
"I know not what you speak of mother." Sam said playing the innocent card. She groaned when she heard how she sounded. She spent way too much time with Spinelli she was starting to sound like him.
"Really Samantha, you mean to tell me that Jason hasn't once brought Jake over to your apartment in the middle of the night?" Alexis asked staring her oldest daughter in the eyes daring her to lie to her.
Sam shook her head. She had no clue how her mother found out some of the things that she found out and then it dawned on her how she knew. "Is he here?" she asked. When she got her hands on him he wouldn't run off at the mouth again.
"Who sweetie?" Alexis asked feigning innocence.
"You know damn well who." Sam said putting her hands on her hips.
"He's upstairs in Krissy's room they are studying together." Alexis answered with an amused look on her face.
"Michael Corinthos, if you know what's good for you, you will get your ass down here now." Sam called out. She was not at all happy with him.
"Language Samantha," Alexis scolded her.
"Really Sammy, I thought that you would know better than to use words like that. I can't imagine what your Uncle Stefan would think." Kristina bantered playfully with her niece.
"Mom, if you enjoy having a sister I suggest you get her away from me today." Sam told her mother ignoring her aunt.
Michael came into the kitchen at that moment with a sheepish look on his face. "You wanted to see me Aunt Sammy?" he asked her sweetly. He sounded like a little boy instead of a twenty-three year old man. Since Sam and Jason had dated for most of his childhood he called her Aunt Sam.
"Yeah, so I can kill you. I can't believe you ratted me and Jason out." Sam said glaring at the young man.
"Well, Aunt Alexis asked me how Uncle Jason was doing with Jake and it might have slipped. I'm sorry I couldn't help it." Michael said innocently. He was very close to his younger sister Kristina and therefore he was close to Alexis so he called her aunt as well.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Carly is your mother. I'm sure that's how you found out about this. That is neither here nor there at the moment though because you need to learn to keep your mouth shut." Sam lectured him. She could never really be mad at him though. Carly was one of her best friends if anyone else had said something like that she would have kicked their ass.
"I'm sorry Aunt Sammy." Michael apologized. He knew that she couldn't stay mad at him long when he looked at her with his big brown eyes.
"Don't worry about it kid it was bound to come out sooner or later." Sam said putting her arm around him. He reminded her so much of Jason sometimes that it wasn't funny.
"You didn't answer our question though." Kristina reminded her niece.
"What question?" Sam asked hoping that they had forgot about it.
"Was Jason over at your apartment last night?" Alexis asked her daughter.
"Yes, Jake was screaming his head off and he couldn't get him back to sleep so he brought him over." Sam answered knowing how her mom felt about Jason after the way he had treated her when they broke up.
"Aunt Sam, I think that Uncle Jason still loves you." Michael told her.
"Michael, enjoy breathing while you still can because I'm going to kill you when you least expect it. Now get out of here and go back to that brat little sister of ours." Sam ordered shoving him playfully.
"Samantha, you don't still have feelings for Jason do you?" Alexis asked her daughter. She really hoped that she wasn't going to go down that path again. But she would love and support her no matter what she did.
"Would it be so wrong if I did?" Sam asked taking a seat at the kitchen table.
"I just want you to be sure you know what you're getting yourself into. I remember how bad it was when he broke your heart the last time." Alexis told her gently.
"Mom, I promise you that I will never let myself fall that hard for him again. When I think about the things that I did to keep him and the things that we did to each other it makes me sick. I won't go down that path again and Jason knows it." Sam swore to her mother.
"So you do still love him don't you Soapy?" Kristina asked.
"He was my first love and I will always love him. And somewhere deep down maybe I am hoping that we can give us another chance." Sam admitted.
Alexis laid her hand on top of her daughter's "I just don't want to see you get hurt again Sam."
"I know that mom and I already told Jason that things can't go back to the way they were before." Sam assured her.
"It sounds to me like you might be giving this some serious thought." Kristina observed. At that moment Sam wanted nothing more than to strangle the redhead. But she figured it wouldn't be a good idea to do something like that with her mother in the room.
Sam just rolled her eyes. There was really no use in trying to hide it her family would find out anyway. "Mom, you have to promise me that you won't get mad when I tell you this." She started and Alexis nodded. "Jason and I kissed last night and I'm thinking seriously about starting things up with him again."
"Whatever you do just be careful." Alexis said. She knew that she couldn't choose her daughter's boyfriends. If that were the case then she would have already been married to Lucky.
"I promise you that I will proceed with extreme caution." Sam said crossing her heart.
"Soapy, really you shouldn't listen to her this is coming from the woman who had a baby with the town mob boss." Kristina pointed out.
"Tina, if you don't watch yourself this morning I will hire Jason to make you disappear. I don't care that I will have to explain to Stefan what happened to you." Alexis warned her.
"Jason wouldn't kill her because Uncle Stefan scares the shit out of him. I however do not have the same reservations." Sam smirked.
"You my dear are a smart ass and I don't know why I bother trying to get you to clean up your mouth." Alexis said shaking her head.
"Thank you mother, I try very hard." Sam was never going to let Alexis make anything on her. As a matter of fact they were so close that she was the only one of her mother's daughters who could get away with talking to her like that.
"You have rubbed off on the little one, Molly used to be sweet and innocent but then she started spending time with you. No I'm not being fair, actually you and Carly have rubbed off on Morgan, Molly, and Spencer." Alexis said pointedly.
"There are worse people in the world that those three could be like. The hippie sitting next to us comes to mind first." Sam teased her aunt.
"Watch yourself Soapy, I have dirt on you that you wouldn't believe." Kristina warned her playfully.
Sam felt her phone buzz in her pocket and she pulled it out to check her message. A small grin spread across her face. "As enlightening as this has been I have to go."
"Jason?" Alexis asked after seeing the look on her daughter's face.
"Jake is refusing to eat for him. I would be a horrible friend if I didn't go help him out." Sam said her brown eyes sparkling with mirth.
"Fine, go if you must. Just remember that family dinner is tonight and you will be here if I have to drag you kicking and screaming the whole way." Alexis reminded her before she allowed her to leave the house.
Jason was sitting in the middle of Kelly's with Jake. He was trying to with all his might to get the little boy to eat something but Jake was having no part of that. Jason was seriously at the end of his rope he didn't know what else to do to try and please his son.
"Come on Jake, just take one bite for daddy. I'm not asking you to eat the whole thing I'm just asking you to take one bite." Jason practically begged his son to eat for him.
Jake shook his head stubbornly. "I not hungry." he pouted.
"You've barely eaten anything all week buddy you need to eat something." Jason tried again.
"Jason, what do you do to this poor boy to make him behave this way?" Sam asked with a smirk on her face as she sat down at the table with them.
"I haven't done anything to him Sam, trust me if I had I would understand why he is acting this way." Jason huffed.
"Jake, why won't you eat anything pal?" Sam asked him sweetly.
"I not hungry." Jake repeated.
"But you have to eat something." Sam reasoned with him.
Jake shook his head. "I don't want to."
"See what I mean? The kid is being impossible." Jason said pointing to his son.
Sam got up and went over to talk to Mike. "Hey Grandpa Mike." She said by way of greeting. He was only Kristina's grandpa but he treated all of the Davis girls like they were his granddaughters.
"Hi sweetheart." Mike replied reaching over the counter to hug her.
"So, I was thinking that I could really use some of your famous cookies in a little while." Sam stated bluntly.
Mike threw back his head and chuckled. "You always go right for what you want."
"Of course I do, just give me a little while and then bring them to Jason's table." Sam requested giving him a smile.
"You're up to something and I know that I shouldn't be a part of it but I can't tell you no when you make that face so I'll do what you want." Mike agreed.
Sam kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks grandpa," she said before returning to Jason and Jake.
"What are you up to Sam?" Jason asked eyeing her up and down. He knew her well enough to know not to believe the innocent smile that she now wore on her face.
"I'm not up to anything Jason." Sam lied before turning to Jake. "Jake, do you like surprises?" she asked the little boy.
Jake had been determined that he wasn't going to crack a smile but when he heard the word surprise he couldn't keep the grin off his face. "Yeah," he answered shyly.
"Ok, if you eat for me I have a surprise for you." Sam told him tickling his stomach.
"I hungry now daddy." Jake said turning to Jason.
Jason just shook his head but he fed his son a fork full of pancake. "Sam is going to get you into trouble if you insist on listening to her." He advised him.
"No she not, I love Sam." Jake said.
Sam didn't feel worthy of the child's love but she couldn't help but smile. "Aw, I love you too buddy." She replied kissing him on the head.
Just at that moment Carly decided to come strolling into the diner. She grinned widely when she saw Jason and Sam with Jake. She sat down without an invitation. "Good morning kiddies." She greeted them cheerfully.
"No Carly, I don't know what you want but the answer is no." Jason said firmly he didn't know if his friend was up to anything but he wasn't taking any chances.
Carly fixed a pout on her face. "That is no way to talk to your best friend Jason. I will have you know that I don't want anything I just wanted to come over and say hi to my two best friends in the whole world."
"Then I think I should tell you that this friend isn't talking to you because of your loud mouthed offspring." Sam informed her.
"Morgan adores the ground you walk on that is no way to talk about him." Carly retorted knowing damn well that Sam wasn't talking about Morgan.
"I wasn't talking about Morgan and you know it Carly. I was talking about Michael, he just can't resist running his mouth to my mother." Sam corrected her.
"I'm sure that he wasn't telling anything too exciting. God knows that I can't get you to do anything worth talking about." Carly said rolling her eyes in a dramatic fashion.
"That's real nice Carly, Jason remind me to remind you that Jake isn't spending any time alone with her since we don't want her corrupting the poor boy." Sam chuckled. She didn't even know why she was friends with the blonde sometimes.
"Gladly," Jason said shaking his head.
"This isn't gang up on Carly day you two. I hate it when you put your heads together on something." Carly said but then a look of recognition crossed her face. "You two are together again aren't you?" she asked excitedly.
"No, we're not together Carly. Sam has just been helping me with Jake. I'm guessing that's what Michael told Alexis." Jason said sighing. The last thing he needed was Carly knowing his business.
"That is exactly what Michael told my mom, and now she is making a big deal out of nothing. And by the way the boy was getting in touch with his inner Carly because he told me that he thinks you're still in love with me." Sam made the comment in jest but she was hoping that Jason still had those feelings for her.
"That's my boy I taught him everything I know." Carly beamed with pride.
"By the way mom blames us for the way Molly, Morgan, and Spencer behave." Sam informed her.
"We have done nothing to those children I don't know how Alexis could accuse us of such a thing." Carly said in mock indignation.
"I wonder why someone would say anything about that like you Carly." Jason said sarcastically and he rolled his eyes. He wiped Jake's mouth since he had finished eating.
"I done eating now Sam, where's my surprise?" Jake asked the dark headed woman.
"Here it is now." Sam replied with a smile when Mike walked over to the table.
"I think someone over here ordered my famous cookies." Mike said sitting down a plate of cookies.
"That would be me grandpa." Sam said smiling sweetly at him. "Jake, since you ate all your breakfast like a good boy this is your surprise." She told the little boy.
Jake smiled wide so that his big blue eyes lit up. "Thank you Sam," he gushed.
Carly saw how Jason just sat back and let Sam take the lead with his son. The wheels started turning in her head and that was not going to be a good thing for Sam and Jason.
A/N: Here is the first chapter I hope you guys like it.