Sam knocked on the door of Carly and Jax's new house. It was really big but is was also beautiful from the outside. She could only imagine what the inside looked like. The door opened and Jax stood on the other side. "Sam, hi." He said with a smile. She returned it and said "Hey, sorry to show up out of the blue but I was hoping I could talk to you and Carly about something." Jax nodded his head and invited her inside. She walked in and was right. The inside was breath taking. Jax led her to the right which is where the living room was. As she walked in she saw Carly sitting on the couch. Carly wasn't that pregnant yet so she wasn't really showing. On the other couch was Jason. She smiled at the two of them and said "Hi." Jason stood up, for what she didn't know but Carly looked at him a little weird before turning to Sam. "Hey, what are you doing here?" Sam took a deep breath and said "Well I was wondering if I could ask you guys something." She looked from Jax to Carly "I am taking the girls to the beach tomorrow. Alexis has court all day and Viola has the day off so I thought it would be great to spend the day with them. It's the summer and neither one of them has been to the beach yet. So I started thinking that maybe the boys would like to go as well. If it's ok with you." Sam finished.
Carly looked over at Jax and said "That works out kind of perfect huh?" Sam looked over and Jason confused but saw that he had the same look. "Yeah it did." Jax laughed. "Uhhh, what worked out perfect?" Jason asked her. "Well Jax and I both have meetings all day long tomorrow and we were actually going to ask you if you could hang out with the boys for the day." Carly addressed her best friend. She then looked at Sam and said "But I think the boys would love to go to the beach especially with their sister and cousin." Before anything else could be said, Michael and Morgan came walking down the stairs. "Hey boys, come here. Sam has something she wants to ask you." Jax said to them. "Hey Sam" "Hi Sam." they both said at the same time. Sam smiled and walked over to them. "Hey guys. I'm taking Molly and Krissy to the beach tomorrow and was wondering if maybe you two wanted to go with us?" she asked. She saw Morgan's eyes light up and Michael smile. "I can't remember the last time I went to the beach." Michael said. Sam's heart broke for the boy standing in front of her. He had only been out of his coma for about two months and they had been pretty stressful for all involved but none more than himself. He was angry for a while but with the help of Laine, he got that under control and was back to being a normal kid.
"Well in that case then you don't get a choice" Sam said "you're going. And so are you." she finished poking Morgan in the stomach making him giggle. She was looking at the boys so she didn't see the way that Jason was looking at her. But Carly did. Jason had this soft smile on his face as he watched Sam goof around with his nephews. He missed seeing this. He missed her. The past few months of being back in each other's lives had been a blessing and a curse for Jason. He liked talking to her and loved being around her but it was just a reminder of the time they had lost. And he wasn't sure if they would find their way back to each other. Michael and Morgan both had a great relationship with Sam. In fact, Sam was actually Morgan's first crush. He seriously thought that she hung the moon. It drove Carly completely crazy. The fact that not only had her best friend been in love with her but both her boys were as well. Carly didn't know if it was the pregnancy or maybe she had just matured a lot but seeing Jason look at Sam like this, it didn't bother her. She came to the realization a long time ago that Jason was only with Elizabeth because of Jake. It was his connection to his son. But she knew as well as anyone else that Sam was it for Jason Morgan.
"You want to come too, Uncle Jason?" he heard Morgan ask him, pulling him out of his funk. Before he could answer he heard Sam chuckle. All eyes turned to her and she tried to stop. "What was that?" Jason asked her. "Nothing really, I was just trying to picture you in swim trunks and…you know to be honest, it's a pretty funny sight." She said with a full on laugh this time. Jason tried his hardest not to smile as he looked at her. He laugh was amazing. "Excuse me but I am pretty sure that I have swim trunks." Jason retorted. Sam raised her eyes brows and said "Yeah, I know you do because I bought them for you. While we were in Hawaii. And you still never used them. You were the only person in the world who actually likes swimming in jeans and a t shirt." That caused the whole room to laugh. "Please, Uncle Jason? It would be really fun if we all went." Morgan pleaded to him. Jason looked at a smiling Sam and saw the challenge in her eyes. She didn't think that he was going to go. "Alright, I'll go." Jason said. Sam looked shocked as did Carly. "You are going to go to the beach?" Carly asked. Jason shrugged and said "Why not." Sam was still at a loss for words. She felt Michael bump her arm and say "Is he serious?" Sam looked at the young man and said "I guess so."
Sam pulled herself out of her daze as she said "Well alright. Do you all want to go together or do you want to drive up separate?" "Together." Michael and Morgan said at the same time. Jason and Sam laughed and then Jason said "Together. We can just take my SUV and it will fit all of us just fine." Sam nodded her head. "I will pick the boys up in the morning then swing by for you and then we can go to Alexis's place and pick up the girls? What time to you want to go?" Jason asked Sam. "I was thinking we could leave around 7:30 and get there by 9 so that we have the whole day there but you don't need to pick up the girls. I am on my way there now. They are going to spend the night with me." Sam explained. Jason nodded his head. Sam saw both Morgan and Michael whip their heard around to their mom. She couldn't see the look on their face but suddenly Carly said "I think that the 4 of you would be a bit much." "Come on, Sam could handle it. It's not like we are all babies." Morgan argued. "Please mom?" Michael said. Sam could tell by the tone of his voice he had those puppy dog eyes he was famous for.
Carly sighed and said "Fine, it's ok with me but you have to ask Sam and if she says no I don't want to hear any whining." The boys turned back to her and Morgan asked "Can we spend the night too?" Sam laughed at the pleading looks on the boys faces. "Of course." She said after she stopped laughing. "Are you sure, Sam?" Carly asked. "Yeah, it will be fun. The four of them haven't gotten a chance to spend all that much time together so it will be great. And this way Jason only has to make one stop in the morning." She finished. "Do you have the room?" Jax asked. Sam smiled and said "Yep, I have two guest room and they both have king sized beds. The boys can stay in one and the girls can stay in the other." Sam turned to the boys and said "Why don't you go and get you things and make sure that you pack for tomorrow too. Trunks, towels, sandals all of it." Sam clapped her hands together and the boys took off upstairs to grab their things. Sam then turned to Jason and said "Do I need to go over the dress code with you also, Mr. Morgan?" Jason smiled mockingly at Sam and said "I think I got it." Sam laughed. Carly looked between the two of them and then over at Jax. He had a little smile on his face that told her he was thinking the same way she was. Tomorrow was going to be a very interesting day for these two, Carly could just feel it.
After Sam and the boys went and picked up Molly and Krissy, she asked them what they wanted to eat for dinner. They had all agreed that they wanted to stop and get food and then take it back to Sam's place to eat. And surprisingly the 4 of them had decided on Chinese food. Sam had not had Chinese food in years. For whatever reason since she and Jason split up, she never had it again. They had ordered enough food to feed an army and took it back to Sam's place. She got out plates as the kids put everything in the in their rooms. The kids came out and filled their plates up. Sam was about to make her plate when there was a knock at the door. The kids were sitting at the table eating and talking. She smiled as she heard them laughing. It felt nice to have this in her life again. She walked over to the door and opened it to reveal Jason on the other side. "Hey" she smiled at him "Carly send you over to check on the kids already?" she said. Jason smiled and said "No, I just wanted to stop by and make sure they were behaving." Sam laughed and said "Come in. We just got here about 15 minutes ago." Jason walked in and saw the kids sitting at the table eating.
"What took you so long to get back?" he asked. "The girls. They must have went back inside the house about 50 times because they forgot something. We stopped and got food and then came home. Come on, there is plenty and I don't think you have eaten yet." She said looking at him. "I don't want to intrude…" Sam laughed and grabbed his hand. She pulled him over to the table and Morgan was the first to notice him. "Uncle Jason!" he said. The kids turned and smiled at him. Jason put his hand on Michael's shoulder and said "You being have?" they all laughed and Krissy spoke up and said "We haven't been here long enough yet to do any serious damage." Sam shook her head and said "See. You'd be saving me by sticking around for a while." "Alright." Jason gave in. "Yes!" they all said. "I'll go get you a plate." Sam walked back into her kitchen and a moment later Jason flowed. "They're thirsty." He said. Sam smiled and said "Sodas are in the fridge. I'll get the glasses down. You want soda or a beer?" Sam asked him. "Soda sounds good." He answered. Sam got 6 cups down from the cabinet and Jason's plate. She got a tray out because both she and Jason weren't going to be able to carry it all. They walked back into the dining room. They sat down and eat with the kids and talked and laughed for about an hour. It felt really nice to see Jason and Michael smile after all they had been through the past few months.
They cleaned up and put their plates in the dish washer. Sam had told them that Spinelli had given her an advanced copy of the new game he was working on so they all disappeared into her office to go and play it on her computer. Sam and Jason sat on the couch and Jason turned to her and said "What made you decide to do this? Take the kids to the beach?" Sam sighed and said "Well the past few months have been hard on everyone in this situation but it was hardest on those four. Michael has been put in this adult situation and I know he is doing a lot better but I thought it would be good for him to forget it all for a day and remember that he is in fact just a kid. Soon he will be starting school and I know he is going to struggle with that so he should enjoy all of summer has to offer while he has the chance." Jason smiled at her and said "Thank you. He already acts lighter than he has since he woke up." Sam didn't know what to say so she just smiled at him and said "It will be a fun day. And we will all deserve it."
"Hey Sam?" Jason and Sam looked to where the voice came from and saw the kids all standing in the door way of the living room. "Hey, you guys get bored already?" Sam asked. They laughed and Krissy said "No. I was just tell the boys about the scrapbook and they have never seen it. Would it be ok if we showed it to them?" she asked. Sam was a little stunned. She knew what scrapbook Krissy was talking about. "Um, Krissy I don't know if Carly or Sonny had told Morgan…" Sam started to say but Morgan jumped in "I know." He said. "Know what? What scrapbook?" Jason asked. "That Sam and dad had a baby together." Morgan says. Jason sucked in a breath at the mention of the little girl he had loved so much. Sam looked at Morgan and said "You know." Morgan nodded "Dad told me last year. He took me to her grave and let me see her too. But he hasn't really talked about her. Krissy said that you made a scrapbook of her." Sam smiled at him. She had learned to control her emotions whenever her daughter was talked about. It still hurt like hell but Michael and Morgan wanted to know what they could about their little sister, who was she to stop them.
Sam got up off the couch and walked over to the wardrobe that she had placed in the living room. She pulled out the scrapbook that she had made of her pregnancy and walked back over to the couch. She sat back down a little closer to Jason this time. "Why don't you guys come sit by Jason? He hasn't gotten to see this either. You can look at it together." Sam handed the book out to Jason and Jason just looked at it for a moment. He tentatively reached out and took the book before looking up at Sam. "When did you do this?" he found himself asking. Sam smiled softly and said "After me and mom told Kristina the truth. She was really inquisitive about it so I made this of all the pictures that I took while I was pregnant and other things. Jason took a deep breath and opened the book. On the very first page was the first sonogram of Lila with her name and birthday. Jason smiled and touched the picture. The name that Sam had on the page was Lila Morgan McCall. "That's my name." Morgan said Sam smiled and explained "Yes it is. I had decided to give her the middle name of Morgan in honor of both you and you Uncle Jason. You were just a baby when I was pregnant so I thought it would be a good way for you to feel important to her and her you." she finished smiling at him.
Jason had not taken his eyes off of the sonogram. He was ashamed to say that he had not let himself think about this little girl a lot over the past few years. It was too hard knowing how Sam and he had ended to let himself. He had made this little girl a promise and he had failed in the worst possible way. He turned the page and saw that there was a really small onesie on it that said "Mommy & Daddy's Little Miracle." It was the very first thing that he had bought for the baby. Jason had bought this before the truth had come out the he wasn't the baby's biological dad. "I can't get over how tiny this thing is." Krissy says. Sam laughed. They flip through the book page by page as Sam and Jason ask any questions the kids have about the Lila. They stop on a page as Michael asks Sam "Are those your toes?" Sam laughs and says "Yes it is." "Why did you take a picture of your toes?" Morgan asks. Sam looked at Jason and he gave her a warning look. "Because your Uncle Jason is the one that painted them." She said looking right at Jason. Jason closed his eyes and sighed as the kids erupted with laugher. "How?" Michael asked.
Sam looked at Jason and he smiled at her "Well I was about 6 months pregnant at the time and I wanted to paint my toes. But when I tried to I found out that I could not even see my toes let alone reach them. So I got a little upset and emotional and hormonal and started to cry. And right in the middle of my cry fest Jason decided to come home. I tried to hide it but he was too sharp." Jason shook his head. "He made me tell him what was wrong because he thought there was something wrong with the baby. So I told him that I couldn't reach my feet and just waited for him to start making fun of me." Sam took a dee breath and then looked back to Jason and smiled "But he didn't. He just picked up the polish and then placed my feet in his lap and painted my toe nails." Sam looked at the boys and then to the girls and said "Jason Morgan painted my toe nails." The kids laughed and Jason just smiled. He looked at Sam and saw the smile on her face as he was transported back to that day. How happy she was after it was done. It was one of the first times that Jason had realized he felt something for her. "That is the sweetest thing I have ever heard." Molly said with a smile.
Jason groaned and flipped the page while saying "Moving on." Sam laughed but then awed when she saw the next picture. "I forgot this was in here. Look Michael, see that red head?" she said pointing at the picture of her and Michael when he was younger. Sam was standing up and Michael was facing her but had his back to the camera. "That is you." she told him. Michael took a closer look at the picture and smiled "I remember that. It was Morgan's birthday. I came over to the penthouse and stayed with you because I didn't want to go and see mom's dad. That was when you guys told me that the baby was my little sister." Sam nodded her head. "That's right. Jason took this picture right before he took you home. You wanted to give your sister a good night kiss." Sam smiled. Michael smiled back at her. Jason turned the page and saw a picture of her and him. He didn't know what picture was even taken. "Emily took this one. She gave it to me after I came home from the hospital. She said that is was one of the only moments that she had caught you being you. You let your guard down." Jason looked back at the picture of Jason and Sam. They were at the hospital and it was right after the last sonogram that Sam had. Jason was bent at the waist and he was kissing Sam's stomach. He remembered that moment so well. He was so excited to meet that little girl. After that last doctors visit, he just couldn't contain himself anymore.
The last page of the scrap book was a collage of pictures that would have been in her life. And at the center was Jason and Sam. Jason closed the book and asked Sam "What made you make this?" "I made this early last year. My mom helped me go through pictures. She knew I wanted to make something to give to Krissy for her birthday and when we went through them we found a bunch of pictures from when I was pregnant so I decided to make this as well." Sam explained. Jason was shocked. At what was probably the worst time for them, she was making an album of their daughter. He was pushing her away and blaming her for everything and she was putting together this beautiful book of memories that she could have easily cut him out of but she didn't. "And since we have to get up pretty early I think that you four should get to bed." Sam said. Molly and Morgan groaned but Krissy and Michael shared a look. They got up and dragged their siblings up as well. "What time do you want us up in the morning?" Michael asked. "I'll get you guys up. I figure we can leave by 7:30 and stop from breakfast along the way. We should be at the beach by 9." The kids nodded and said goodnight.
Sam watched as they went and noticed that Kristina and Michael had their heads together. They looked back at Jason and Sam and smiled before they disappeared around the corner. Sam looked at Jason and he looked at her. They both shrugged it off as Jason looked back down at the scrapbook. "This is pretty amazing Sam. I had no idea that you had such talent." Sam laughed and said "It doesn't take much talent to create a scrapbook but thank you. The girls love to look at it while they are here. They each also have a little something that I had of hers." Sam got up and went back over to the wardrobe and pulled out a box. She walked back over to the couch and sat down. She pulled the top off the box and Jason was hit with a bunch of memories. "I know that Morgan was a bit young but I still think that maybe he and Michael might also like to have something. But I want you to pick out what you think they would like."
Inside the box was a bunch of more pictures along with a few little toys and clothes. But there was one thing that caught Jason's eye. He reached in and slowly pulled out the velvet soft pink blanket that Sam had made for her. He hadn't seen it in years. Towards the end of her pregnancy Sam liked to sleep with it. He could not remember the number of times that he had found it lying around the house. He smiled as he rubbed the blanket through his hands. "I remember the day this got delivered. You were so excited." Jason smiled looking up at her. Sam smiled back and said "I was. Mainly because it had her name on it. For some reason she felt more real that way." Jason set the blanket aside and looked back into the back. He pulled out the picture that was on tome and looked at it. It was another one of Michael and Sam. it was from the same day the other one was taken but this time Michael was touching Sam's stomach right after the baby had kicked. The look on his face was one Jason will never forget. He was shocked and happy all at once. He had the biggest smile on his face at feeling the baby kick. "I think Michael would really like this one." Sam smiled and said "I think so too." The two stared into each other's eyes. Sam looked into his eyes and saw a look there that she had not seen in forever. Sam use to catch Jason looking at he like this all the time when they were together. It was usually right before he kissed her.
Overcome with feeling Sam looked back down at the box and asked "What do you think Morgan would like?" Jason looked down too and after she broke eye contact. He was still pretty caught up in the moment that he just looked through the box and didn't say anything. He came across another sonogram picture and Jason picked it up. "Morgan actually has a sonogram picture of both Michael and Kristina. He just added the one of Carly and sonny's new baby to it. I think he would like one of Lila as well." Sam picked up the two pictures and said "I want to get frames before we give it to them." Sam got up and walked over to her desk. Jason reached for the blanket and looked at it for a few more seconds before he folded it back up and put it back in the box. He closed the lid and got up. He walked over to the wardrobe and set the box back inside. He touched the top of it one last time before he closed the door. Sam watched him do this and her heart broke a little. Jason turned back around to face her and said "I had better get going. If we want to get out of here early then I want to make sure that the SUV is gassed up and check the oil." Sam nodded her head and followed him to the door. "You can show up at whatever time you want tomorrow. I plan on getting up at 5:30 to pack up everything that we will need." Jason nodded and said "I'll come at 6 so that we can pack everything into the car. I know Michael and Morgan they are going to need a few minutes to wake up." He laughed. Sam joined him and said "So will the girls. I will have coffee ready by the time you get here. And remember, dress code because before the end of the day I will get you into the water." Jason rolled his eyes and said "Whatever. I'll see you in the morning." He smiled at her. Sam smiled back and said "See you." Sam watched in walk away. He turned back around and waved before he got on the elevator. Sam walked back inside the house and locked the door. She went and checked on the kids and saw that they were sound asleep. She walked back into her bedroom and got ready for bed excited about tomorrow.
Krissy waited for Sam to close the door before she got her phone back out and texted her older brother. "It's on. Before tomorrow is over, Jason and Sam will be back together!" a second later Michael texted her back with three thumbs up. Kristina smiled and set her phone back down. She could wait for tomorrow.