Hi All! I'm back from vacation, and happy to be posting once again. I hope everyone had an enjoyable few weeks. I got some to time to kick back, relax, and hang out with my family.
This is my newest story. A Romance with some humor and some light drama. Babeboo1968 sent me a request for a story (thanks for being patient), and this is the result. I'm not going to tell you what the request was because it contains spoilers. This is the sequel to A Son's Return, which I know a lot of you wanted. So I hope everyone enjoys the story.
I had fun in Polyvore, so there are outfits to be viewed for those who are interested. There is also two houses to look at it.
Once again I had the privilege of working with Liason102, the most awesomest beta ever. Thanks for all your help. Mistakes are always on me, never on my beta.
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The posting schedule is two updates on Tuesday and Friday, one update the other days of the week. If this needs to change I will let you know.
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Chapter 1
"Do we really have to go?" Jason asked looking across the table pleadingly at his wife.
"It would make her happy." Elizabeth responded smiling. She already knew that he was going to agree. Jason had a hard time telling his mother no these day. "It's one week."
"It's Christmas week." Jason was looking forward to decorating the house, picking out the tree, and of course the baking his wife did. If they weren't going to be home then what was the point? "We live down the road it's not like she won't see us. We are going over for breakfast Christmas morning." Or at least that had been the plan.
"Jason, your mother is lonely. All her children live here in Port Charles, but none of you live at home. She misses you." Elizabeth tried to explain.
"I know I should go over more often. It's just that I really like all our Christmas traditions." Jason told her.
"I don't think one year qualifies as tradition." Elizabeth said laughing. Last year had been their first Christmas together. It had been Jason's first Christmas as Cameron's dad, and Jake's first Christmas ever. They had still been living in the gatehouse while their new home was under construction.
"I want to have Christmas in our house." Jason wasn't going to be budged. He loved his mother, and was grateful that he could now remember that. However he wanted this, and he was going to have it. There were very few things he dug in on. Since becoming more in touch with Jason Q, Jason Morgan was a lot less stubborn. He often was able to see what his actions would result in before he did them. He was still a master strategist which helped in not only his job as a mob boss, but in his dealing with the Quartermaines. But it didn't help him here, because he realized his misstep as soon as the words came out of his mouth.
"We could do that." Elizabeth said perking up.
"That isn't what I meant." Jason said trying to back pedal. He knew exactly what his beautiful wife was thinking.
"This place is huge Jason. We haven't had any guests since moving in." Elizabeth got up and walked over to sit on her hubby's lap. "It would be fun. The family can all stay here, and our friends could come over for brunch on Christmas day."
After merging the parts of his life together, a few things still remained the same. One of them being that Jason hated parties. In fact he went out of his way to avoid them. It was not a coincidence that they went out of town on their anniversary, his birthday, her birthday, and the night of the dreaded Nurses Ball. The only parties he consented to without complaint were the ones for the kids. He liked the parties for Cameron, Jake, Michael, Morgan, Josslyn, and AJ and Keesha's daughter Megan. He didn't have to dress up to attend those, he still hated ties too.
"If we stayed here and had everyone over, then we could still get a tree." Elizabeth looked up and gave him the eyes.
Jason could feel himself weakening. Those blue eyes did it too him every single time. "Who are you thinking of inviting?"
Elizabeth just managed to hold back her smile. There was no need to gloat. "Monica, and Tracy. Edward, of course. Ned, Lois, and Brooklyn. Dillon and Sage, we haven't celebrated their engagement yet. Emily and Matt. Carly and Jax and the kids. AJ, Keesha and Meg." She started rattling off names.
He didn't want all those people in his house. She was also going to invite their friends, but none of them would stay over. "You can take the Ashtons, Dillon and Sage plus Tracy off the list." Jason had been over to the mansion just yesterday and he knew something his wife didn't. "They will be in Madrid."
"Spain?" Elizabeth asked surprised. "Why?"
"Dillon's movie is shooting there, and since he and Sage are staying everyone else is flying over." Jason explained.
"Oh." Elizabeth would need to get in touch with Tracy about dropping off the gifts she had for everyone. "She didn't say anything earlier in the week when we had lunch."
"Dillon called yesterday morning. I told Tracy I would let you know." It was a day late, but he finally told her. "I'm picking up the gifts for everyone next week. Tracy is leaving on the nineteenth." Jason informed his wife.
"Alright then. Christmas in Spain is not something I would expect her to miss out on." Elizabeth said mentally adjusting her list.
Jason began making plans for them to spend some time in Spain next year. It would be good for the boys to see another culture.
"I want to invite Howie as well." Elizabeth said getting back to her list.
"Okay." Jason had remained close with the older man. The kids of the family saw him as a surrogate uncle. Howie no longer worked as a pilot, but had instead decided to take the helm of Dawson Air when his business manager retired. He ran a tight fleet, and Jason didn't trust anyone else to transport his family.
"Good." Elizabeth had thought she'd seen some sparks fly between Howie and Monica and she wanted to fan them to see if they might flame. They had looked pretty chummy over the pepperoni pizza during Thanksgiving. This year's turkey had never defrosted, despite sitting in the refrigerator for a week. So they ended up having it for brunch the following Sunday. "I should start making some lists of all the things I'll need. Epiphany and Stanley. I almost left them off the list." Elizabeth pulled out her phone and typed up a memo.
"You can ask Epiphany at work today." Jason knew his wife would be leaving soon. "I'll ask Stan when I go into the office." That was how they referred to it since Morgan and Corelli did indeed now have an office building as their headquarters. They had upgraded their image in the last year, as well as increasing the number of legitimate holdings. "Did I mention that I was proud of you?"
"For what?" Elizabeth couldn't help but blush at his words.
"You are a wonderful wife, a fantastic mother, and a very sexy assistant head nurse." Jason said bobbing his eyebrows.
"Jason." Elizabeth blushed bright red. The last title was new. Two weeks ago Epiphany had promoted Elizabeth saying that she had earned it. Not only did the job come with more responsibilities, but it had also come with a nice raise as well. They didn't need the money, so Elizabeth donated it to several charities, but it was nice to know that she could earn that much on her own. It was also nice to know that she was respected in her place of work.
He loved it when she blushed, not that it was hard to make her pink up. "I'll go tell Cameron it's time to go, and put him and Jake in their jackets."
"Thanks." She leaned forward and gave her sexy hubby a kiss. "We should pick up some mistletoe when we get the tree."
"Lots of mistletoe." Jason said against her soft lips. "Not that I need a reason to kiss you." No he did not. They did a lot of kissing, and he didn't restrict that pleasure to the house. Nope he had no problem kissing his beautiful wife wherever they were. "I'm going to go get the boys." He said getting to his feet. "We will finish this tonight."
"Yes we will." Elizabeth said giving him a saucy grin. She couldn't wait.
At the hospital Elizabeth dropped the boys off at the daycare center before heading upstairs to the hub. "Hey Liz." Sabrina grinned at her friend. "Or should I say Mrs. Morgan."
"Ha ha, don't make me write you up." Elizabeth grinned back.
"Half a month and the power has gone to your head already." Sabrina giggled.
"That's right. Don't make me sacrifice you to my ego." Elizabeth said smiling wide. "It needs to be fed regularly." When Sabrina laughed again Elizabeth felt good. Her friend had been struggling to find level ground since ending her engagement to Patrick a few months ago. Jason returning from the dead had been shocking, but Robin's return was even more so since there had been a corpse wearing her wedding set in the exploded lab. Elizabeth had given some consideration to maybe trying to hook up Sabrina and Johnny but dismissed that. Sabrina needed a guy closer to her own age. Maybe Milo since he was back.
A patient called for assistance and Sabrina went to help. Elizabeth was working on the schedule when Emily walked up. "Hey sis."
"Hey. I didn't know you were scheduled today." Elizabeth would have carpooled with Em.
"I'm not. Patrick's got an interesting case, and I'm sitting in the gallery." Emily would much rather be scrubbing in, but not today. This wasn't her specialty. "I should be done around one want to grab some lunch?"
"That should work, you can help me plan this year's Christmas gathering." Elizabeth could think of no better partner in crime.
"Are you hosting?" Emily said grinning. He really had changed if Jason was having a party. Honestly most of the differences were minor. It was more of an attitude adjustment. Jason smiled and laughed more. He also didn't mind being touched anymore. Small things that actually meant a lot to those who knew him.
"I am." Elizabeth grinned. "As long as Monica is okay with it." Neither one saw the Chief of Staff approach.
"Okay with what?" Monica asked her.
"Me hosting Christmas." The hospital wasn't where she wanted to have this conversation. She wasn't trying to hurt Monica, but just wanted to have everyone together. "I was thinking that you and Edward could come stay with us."
"Oh." Monica said surprised.
"But if you'd rather have us all over to the mansion like you mentioned before we'd be happy to come." Elizabeth could compromise. Her idea was last minute.
"Well no, you hosting will work out perfectly. Having Edward over would be great as well." Monica hadn't figured she would be doing this at the hospital. "It turns out I won't be home for Christmas." With Tracy leaving Edward would be home alone. An unsupervised Edward was never a good thing.
"Why not?" Emily asked watching as her mother started to blush.
"Howie invited me to go away for the week, and it's been a while since I took a vacation so I said yes." Monica admitted to her daughters.
Emily's jaw dropped in shock. Her mother was having a vacation booty call.
Elizabeth let a slow smile come to her face. 'Go Monica!' She said mentally. She'd high five her mother later in private. "I'd be happy to host in your absence. Have fun, and I'd also be happy to run some blood work for you two." Elizabeth couldn't help but add on as Monica turned even redder.
"Elizabeth!" Emily said swatting her sister. "They will use condoms."
"It's not like I need to worry about getting pregnant." Monica told her daughter, then realized where she was. "We'll continue this conversation later. I have rounds. I'll bring the gifts for everyone by the house this weekend because we are leaving Sunday night."
"Mom?" Elizabeth stopped Monica's flight. "You might want to tell Jason before you leave." The assistant head nurse said smirking.
Monica just turned and walked up the hall leaving a laughing Emily and Elizabeth at the hub.
"You're coming right?" Elizabeth asked once she was back in control.
"Wouldn't miss it. But I will miss the start of the surgery if I don't hurry." Emily said heading towards the operating room gallery.
Elizabeth was coming back from assisting a patient when she saw Epiphany coming up the hall with a woman in scrubs that Elizabeth didn't recognize. "Elizabeth I'd like you to meet our newest medical intern Maya Ward."
"Welcome." Elizabeth said smiling wide. Keesha had mentioned that her cousin was moving to Port Charles. Liz had been looking forward to this introduction.
"Thanks." Maya said smiling. "Elizabeth Morgan, Jason's wife right?" Keesha said Liz, as she liked to be called, worked at the hospital.
"That's me." Elizabeth loved hearing her married name. "Piph do you need me to do a tour?"
"We just finished." Epiphany said smiling at her assistant. "Do you have a patient Maya can start with when she returns from her break?" Epiphany had spent the morning going over protocol with the newest staff member. As head nurse she often stepped in to give the tour when Monica could not.
"I do. Mrs. Carmichael in 512 needs her bandages changed." Elizabeth put the chart where Maya could get it when she came back. This was a typical intern chore.
"Fifteen minutes." Epiphany told the young woman. A little later she would get to go to lunch for an hour. "How have things been up here?"
"Quiet." Elizabeth told her boss. "I'm having a get together on Christmas day if you and Stan would like to join us?" So far Elizabeth's guest list was Emily and Matt.
"I can't speak for Stan, but I will be there with bells on." Epiphany and Liz were both working Christmas Eve, so they had the day after the holiday off.
"Fantastic. Jason is asking Stan and the other guys. And because my husband will forget you both may bring a guest." Elizabeth clapped. "Maya will probably come if Keesha does. So we can introduce her to Stan if you like."
"Stan has a girlfriend. I've never met her because they met on line." Epiphany humphed a bit at that. In her day you didn't date someone you hadn't introduced your parents to. "But I will tell Toussaint about the invite."
"Good." Elizabeth was humming a Christmas carol as she went to assistant another patient. She had three confirmed guests so it looked like there would be a party after all.
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