Title: Protecting Me
Summary: She looked into his deep blue eyes and knew that she had made the right choice. She could finally say for the first time in her life she felt safe.
Flashback
"Jason ... oh my god you have been shot!" Elizabeth exclaimed rushing to Jason's side.
Jason gasped for air and did his best to keep his balance. Elizabeth helped him into her home and onto her couch. She carefully removed his shirt and examined his wound.
"As you probably already know you were shot in the abdomen but from what I can tell what I can tell it doesn't seem that the bullet touched any of your major organs" she said applying a gauze bandage over his wound.
"Elizabeth ... listen to me you need to take Cam and Jake and leave, the people who are after me know about you and I can't loose you or our son the way I lost Emily" Jason blacked out soon after.
When he woke up the next morning her house was empty and although it broke his heart he knew that he had done what was right. Elizabeth, the woman he loved, and her children were safe from the life he lead. But sometimes he wondered if his lifestyle was really worth loosing everything he loved.
7 months later ...
"Come on Stone Cold playing a car game will help the time pass by quicker" Spinelli urged his mentor.
"For the last time no" Jason replied annoyed. Sometimes he wondered why he put up having Spinelli around. But in the back of his mind he knew that deep down he did really care for the young man and thought of him as an extremely annoying little brother.
"Stone Cold I really must insist"
"In about 2 minutes I am going to throw you out of this car" Jason focused on the slick road. It was snowing out and all he wanted to do was get home and relax. Snow was falling outside the car, it made it a little difficult to see.
"Stone Cold ..." Spinelli started.
"Not now Spinelli"
"But Stone Cold is that a car up ahead it looks like it crashed into a tree"
Jason looked straight ahead and sure enough there was a Mercedes Benz embedded into the trunk of a tall oak tree. Jason pulled over to the side of the road to investigate.
"Should The Jackal call the authorities?" Spinelli asked sticking his head out the window of the car.
No one was in the car and Jason was about to return to his own car when he heard the sound of a child whimpering. He followed the found and sure enough a few feet away from the car was an unconscious woman and a toddler. The little boy was shivering so Jason took off his leather jacket and wrapped the boy in it. The toddler looked up at Jason with his big brown eyes and threw his arms around his neck.
"It's ok little guy" Jason rubbed the toddler's back, still a little taken aback by the sudden need for affection. Jason thought of his own son Jake and what he was doing at this very moment.
"Spinelli come over here" Jason ordered.
"What is it Stone Cold?" Spinelli asked coming to stand next to Jason.
"Take the baby back to the car and keep him warm" Jason said handing the baby to Spinelli.
Spinelli gave Jason a strange look before quickly doing as he was told. Jason placed two fingers on the woman's neck to see if she had a pulse. She did but it was very weak. He swore under his breath and picked up the woman with great ease. She groaned a little but remained unconscious. Jason carefully laid her down in the back seat and the young boy immediately curled up next to his mother and fell asleep.
"Should we take them to the hospital?" Spinelli asked.
"Yeah" Jason said "call Robin and have her get everything ready"
Jason drove as quickly and carefully as he could to General Hospital. Dr. Robin Scorpio was waiting for them outside the building with a gurney and some blankets. Jason took the young woman out of the car and helped place her on the gurney. Spinelli handed the toddler over to an EMT and they were both rushed inside.
"What happened Jase?" Robin asked.
"I'm not sure her car was in a tree but her and her son were outside the car which leads me to think that the tree wasn't the worst of their problems, Spinelli and I found her and the baby on the side of the road"
'Well she's in good hands now" Robin patted him on the arm before walking away.
"Go tell Sonny that we are home and I'll stay here" Jason told Spinelli.
"Your wish is The Jackal's command I'll be back in a little while"
Jason had a seat in the waiting room. He knew Robin would fill him in eventually on the young girl and her son. He was tired and without even realizing it dozed off. Robin walked over to Jason and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Hey" he said rubbing his eyes "how long have I been out?"
"I'd say no more than 45 minutes" Robin answered.
"How are they?" Jason asked.
"Well, Johnny is fine other than his body temperature being a little low when he was brought in nothing else is wrong with him ... his mom on the other hand has a broken arm and cuts and bruises all over her body and they definitely weren't from the car crash, she's also about 3 months pregnant"
"So you are saying that someone caused those bruises?" Jason asked.
"More than likely" Robin replied.
"How did you know the boy's name is Johnny?"
"He told me, he's quite the little talker" Robin smiled.
"So what happens to the boy until his mom wakes up?"
"I'm not sure why?" Robin asked.
"How about I take him home with me and Spinelli" Jason suggested.
"You want to take Johnny home with you and Spinelli?" Robin asked intrigued.
"It'll keep me from thinking about Jake" Jason admitted.
"He's all I think about every moment of every day" he added.
"You owe me big time for this" Robin said walking away to go get the baby.
She returned a few minutes later with Johnny in her arms. Johnny looked a little confused, he was looking for his mother and getting more and more scared when he couldn't find her.
"Hi little guy my name is Jason, what's yours?" Jason asked.
"Johnny" the little boy said "where's mama?"
"Your mommy is sleeping right now honey so you are going to go home with Jason and he is going to take care of you" Robin explained to him.
Johnny reached out his arms and Jason took him from Robin.
"You ready to go home with me little guy?" Jason asked him.
Johnny stayed quiet. Jason began walking towards the elevators with the toddler.
"Bye bye" Johnny waved at Robin on the way out.
Johnny was asleep by the time Jason got to his pent house.
"Where are we going to put him?" Spinelli asked.
"Don't worry about it" Jason replied.
Jason put Johnny on the couch. As he prepared to take a shower.
"Keep an eye on him" Jason ordered Spinelli. Johnny woke up the minute Jason left. He looked around and didn't know where he was.
"Hey there Young One" Spinelli said.
Johnny took one look at Spinelli and began to cry. When Jason got out of the shower all he could hear was Johnny crying. Spinelli was stressing out completely, he had no idea what to do to make the toddler stop crying.
"Please Young One if you stop crying I'll give you some candy and my personal favorite orange soda" Spinelli tried to bribe the kid.
"What the hell happened?" Jason asked.
"I don't know all The Jackal did was say hi and he started crying"
Jason picked the boy up and rocked him a little in his arms. Spinelli left Jason to care for the toddler. Jason had a seat on the couch and Johnny rested his head on Jason's shoulder but he continued to cry.
"I know you miss your mom buddy I really do" Jason rubbed Johnny's back.
It was 2 am and Johnny had just fell asleep. Jason wanted to move Johnny so that he could retire to his own bed but he knew if he moved Johnny would wake up and begin to cry again. So he got as comfortable as he could and closed his eyes. Spinelli ventured from his room to get some juice from the kitchen. He smiled when he saw Jason and Johnny, he grabbed a blanket from the hall closet and covered his mentor and his new charge for the time being.