Okay I wrote this many, many moons ago back when Robin was a preachy know-it-all who thought nothing of going to AJ and telling him he was Michael's father and thought that Jason would forgive her and when I liked Liz. This was before she slept with Jason and Nikolas while either engaged/married to another man.

Ch 1

Caroline Spencer sat in the bedroom she had occupied since she was seven years old and stared out of the window. She could see people coming and going all over the grounds of her uncle's house. She closed her eyes at the sound of her bedroom door creaking open.

"Didn't Aunt Laura teach you to knock before she went insane?" knowing it was her cousin Lucas Lorenzo Spencer, Jr. or Lucky as he was referred to. His mother was locked up in a mental hospital called Beecher's Corner about twenty miles away from Port Charles.

"No it must have slipped her mind." Lucky said without humor.

"What do you want Lucky?" Caroline turned to her cousin.

"Emma is calling for you."

"Is Aunt Anna here yet?"

"No she and Uncle Robert haven't arrived yet. Neither has the groom or the bride."

"Probably doing some last minute forbidden touching." Caroline said sarcastically.

"Caroline are you sure about this?"

"Aunt Lucy and Uncle Kevin are set to arrive in ten minutes. Emma and I will leave with them and Jason will be none the wiser. He'll marry Robin as planned and they'll live happily ever after." Caroline said hiding her bitterness as best she could.

"That's not what I asked and why do you care so much? You and Robin haven't gotten along from the time you were children. She and Brenda were always more interested in playing with dolls and acting like miniature versions of Anna and Veronica and you used to run wild through the fields with me and Sly."

"Aunt Anna was Mother's best friend and I won't hurt her for the world nor will I hurt Uncle Robert. If that means letting Robin have Jason then so be it. Aunt Lucy is Uncle Luke's closest friend after Robert and she and Kevin are more than willing to take me and Em in and to give us a home."

"But it's so far away."

"A day and a half by train, three by horseback. I want to see you and Elizabeth especially after I find a place of my own to live. I will miss you Lucky."

"And I you cousin." Caroline gave Lucky a hug. "Promise to come home for the wedding?"

"When is it?"

"We're thinking about Christmas."

"I'll be here. You may bet upon it."

"Me bet?" Lucky grinned. His gambling habits had landed him in hot water more than once. "Never. It'll be good to see you there cousin."

"I'll be here Lucky."

"You better be."

There was a knock at the door and one of the parlor maids poked her head in. "Miss Caroline, Master Lucky, Master Luke would like you to come down to the study. He wishes to speak with you."

"We'll be there in a moment Bessie." Lucky said.

"Very good sir." Before she left the room.

"C'mon let's go get called out on the carpet one more time before I leave the Springs forever."

"Not forever. I won't accept that."

"You might have to." Caroline said as she left her bedroom with Lucky close behind.

Jason Morgan stared out the window of his carriage as it drove through the countryside on its way to Spencer Springs where he was to be married. Married to Robin Scorpio. This day had been in wait since he was a child. He knew it would come so why did the realization that at this time tomorrow he would be a married man fill him with so much dread?

"Jason?" a voice interrupted his thoughts. He turned to face his friend, Michael "Sonny" Corinthos.

"Yes?"

"We're almost there."

"Good." Jason said, not meaning it.

"There's still time to call this off, you know."

"What? Why would I do that?"

"Because you don't want to do this. I know you Jason. I have your whole life. You don't want to marry Robin. You haven't for almost two and a half years now."

"That's not true."

"Yes it is. Ever since you set eyes on Caroline Spencer you've never wanted anyone else. The whole world could go to hell in a hand basket and you'd never notice if she were with you."

"Caroline was nothing but a passing fancy."

"Jason stop it. You want Caroline but you're not willing to go back on a stupid childhood promise made at a time when the world was turned upside down." Sonny's voice softens. "He'd understand Jason."

"Would he? I promised him I'd take care of her."

"I don't think he thought it meant you'd marry her. I know I didn't. Neither did Robin."

"Then why'd she agree to marry me?"

"She felt obligated. Same as you." Sonny looked at the younger man, who suddenly looked so much older than his years. "It's not too late Jason. Go to Robert and Anna. Go to Robin. Hell, take Caroline and elope. Just do not walk down that aisle tomorrow."

"Uncle Luke?" Caroline said as she and Lucky entered the study.

"Come in both of you." Luke said as he turned from the window.

"Hello Felicia." Caroline said, acknowledging her uncle's mistress, who was sitting on the couch.

"Hello Caroline. Lucky." Felicia said, her Texan accent coloring her words.

"Felicia."

"What is it Uncle?"

"Lucy and Kevin have arrived. Their carriage is being serviced and packed with your and Emma's belongings. It's almost time. I just want to make sure you're still willing to do this."

"It is the only way."

"That's not true." Felicia interjected.

"What would you have me do? Break Aunt Anna's heart by telling her that I have born the child of her daughter's fiancée?"

"But your life will be ruined. You'll be seen as a fallen woman. A woman of no morals." Luke reminded.

"Don't you think I know that? But what else is there to do?"

"Tell him." Lucky said.

"No." Caroline spoke softly. "I'll wait for Aunt Lucy and Uncle Kevin in the rose garden with Emma and Polly." She left and her family looked around at each other.

"What are we going to do?"

"Tell Jason ourselves?"

"Lock her in a room till she tells him?

"No we can't. Caroline's too much like her mother, may she rest in peace, to be sensible. It took Barbara two years before she admitted to Ruby that she'd born a child."

"Well Caroline's set to leave before Jason gets here. Maybe if we stall her Jason can see her and Emma."

"You might have something there Felicia." Luke said.

"Stalling her might just work." Lucky pondered.

"The only question is how do we stall her?"

"I don't know but we better figure out something soon. Lucy and Kevin's carriage will be here soon."