Kaleidoscope
By Misha

Disclaimer- I do not own any of the characters of General Hospital. They belong to the creators of General Hospital, Wendy Riche, Bob Guza, ABC Daytime, and probably a lot of other people with more money than me. I'm not making any money off this story so please don't sue me.

Author's Notes- I know I have too many unfinished stories, but I couldn't resist starting a new one. It's a Brenda-centric fic. It's set before Brenda's return from the dead in the summer of 2002, also Jason hasn't returned to Port Charles yet, either, okay? This is going to be a Brenda/Alcazar (blame Stratusfied247 and her wonderful fics), with some Sonny/Brenda and Jax/Brenda, as well as Sonny/Carly and Jax/Skye. That's all for now, enjoy!

Summery- She had made a new life for herself, but a chance run in with a man from her past, forced her to come home and face all that she had left behind...

Rating- PG-13

Prologue- A Face From the Past

Rome, August 2002

The petite dark-haired woman raised herself off the couch she had been relaxing on and got to her feet. She crossed the elegant hotel sitting room and came up behind the handsome man sitting at the desk, looking over some papers.

She wrapped her arms around him from behind. "I'm going out." She murmured in his ear. "I need some air."

He looked up from his papers for a moment and nodded, he caught her hand and brought it to lips and then released it.

She moved away from him and headed towards the door. The man motion discreetly to another man, standing just inside the door and that man followed the woman out of the hotel suite and down the corridor of the hotel into the elevator, then from there to the lobby and finally to the streets of Rome.

The woman walked, seemingly unaware of the man's prescience, but of course she knew he was there. She never went anywhere alone, there were always guards. But after four years, she was used to it.

And, to tell the truth, it had been much longer than four years. There had been guards in that other life too, the one she tried not to think about, though she had never been supposed to know about them. A frown flittered across her undeniably beautiful features as she thought of that other life, the one she had walked away from, then she banished the thoughts. There was no place for them.

She walked with ease and walked aimlessly, having no particular destination. She looked in shop windows and stepped into a few shops, but she saw nothing she wanted to buy, at least not today.

She placed her hand on her stomach and smiled ruefully, soon she would be needing lots of new clothes, but she still had a few weeks yet.

Her smile turned dreamy as she thought of her coming baby and she couldn't resist ducking into a shop filled with baby things. It was with soft eyes and a contented smile that she browsed and even gave into temptation and bought a few pieces of tiny clothing. It was probably too soon, but she couldn't resist, she was so exited about the baby, so eager for it's arrival.

After, she exited the shop, package in hand, she headed towards a cafe to stop for a bite to eat. She claimed a table by herself, her guard seated a few tables away, and ordered a light lunch.

Then, she pulled out a magazine to read while she waited. She put the magazine down when her food came and glanced around the cafe. Then she froze, shock etching over her beautiful features, as her eyes met a pair of pale blue ones.

She saw identical shock written over an all-too-familar face. Jason Morgan's face.