It was a typical fall day in the town of Port Charles, New York. The leaves were turning to beautiful shades of red, orange and yellow. The air was crisp and cool, and Elizabeth was having a great day shopping with her friends. Their days were spent going to college and hanging out. Her best friend, Emily was one of the Quartermaine's that lived in an estate not far from town. The two of them had been best friends for a couple of years and there were days when Elizabeth felt as though she knew Emily way before they actually met. The two of them were inseparable.
She had heard of Emily's brother, Jason but had never met him because he was in the Navy. He was a captain that was helping fight against the enemies of the U.S. He came home every couple of years and he was about to come home for the first time in three years. The last time he was in town, Elizabeth had gone with her grandmother to check out different colleges and he was there for the weekend to see his family. Emily showed her pictures of both of her older brothers to Elizabeth but seeing pictures was definitely not the same as seeing Jason in person.
Jason was not looking forward to going home for the week but knew that he needed to because the family planned on having a party to celebrate his return state side. Jason loved the ocean and was happy being a part of the military. This is the family that he loved the most. His own family fought all the time and drove him crazy. His grandmother, Lila and his younger adopted sister, Emily were the main reasons that he agreed to come home. There was one bright spot going home and that was one of his shipmates, Samantha was not going to be hanging around him. They had a one night stand and even though he told her that he wasn't into her, she didn't quite get it.
"Emily, are you sure that this outfit is nice enough for your family's party. I know it's a party in honor of your older brother, Jason but I want to make sure that I look okay. My family and I are not close except for Grams and she isn't someone who I could go for fashion advice." Emily looked at her best friend and smiled.
"You look great. I told you that it is just family and a few close friends. You are my best friend and the closest thing that I have to a sister, so calm down. I promise Jason won't bite. He probably will only stay for a little while anyway because parties are not his thing. He just wants to make our grandmother and me happy. He didn't want to come home but I asked him too. Just have fun and be yourself. You look beautiful no matter what you wear." Just then, Jason came walking over to Emily and Elizabeth.
"This must be your best friend, Elizabeth. I am her brother, Jason Quartermaine. I have been hearing about you for the last four years and now I finally get to meet you. Em, has told me all about your adventures in school and your trips to NYC. I also heard that you are a very talented artist." He captures Elizabeth's delicate hand and gives it a soft kiss. The electricity between the two of them hits them like a bolt of lightning. She looks into his beautiful deep blue eyes and feels like she has known him forever. He looks at her like she is the part of him that had been missing. The both feel awkward and Elizabeth pulls Emily away to find a new pair of shoes. Jason heads down to the docks. He always feels better near the water and for some reason he feels that he just met his future and also feels like she was a part of his past. Which is strange because this was the first time they both had met.
"You are going to think that I am crazy. I feel like I have met your brother before and I know that I haven't but it is just so strange. The moment we touched it felt like we have been together. Oh, don't mind me. Help me find some shoes to go with my new outfit." Emily looks at her best friend and tags along with Elizabeth to at least three shoe stores before finding the right shoes for her new outfit. She wanted to look just right and felt that Jason was the part of her that was missing. She thought that it was her ex, Lucky but she now knew it wasn't him after all.
"Just remember the party starts at seven tonight. If you want you can come over after asking your Grams and get an overnight bag and spend the weekend with me. It will be epic and we can study for our exams next week. I also want to show you the orchard where we can get some nice fresh apples. I was hoping that we could talk Cook into making her special apple pie for my brother. He goes back to the city on Friday. He is deploying to the Middle East for the next six months. I just hope he comes safely back. He commands one of the best air craft carriers in the fleet." Emily and Elizabeth went to her place and gathered her things for the next couple of days at the Quartermaine Estate. Her grams was one of the invited guests that night. She was friends with Emily's grandmother and that is how the two best friends met.
"Grams, I am going earlier so Emily and I can get ready for the party together. I will see you there and I will be back Sunday evening. I love you." Elizabeth took her overnight bag and headed to Emily's sports car and headed towards home. They got there just as a commotion started in front of the estate. There was a young woman yelling at the butler demanding to come in and see her boyfriend. Emily looked at her butler, Reginald and felt sorry for him.
"Miss Emily, Miss Elizabeth please forgive the intrusion. This young lady demands to see Jason but he is not at home. I can't let her in. She is not on the guest list." Emily whispered into Reginald's ear telling him to let her take care of the intruder.
"My brother is not at home and we are having company tonight and you are not on the guest list. You will have to see him another time. Sorry that you have wasted your time following him home." Emily went to close the door when her brother saw the commotion. Luckily, Sam did not see him. He overheard the arguing and didn't want her ruining his peace and quiet at least until he was back on the ship. He knew that she was mad because he had her transferred to another ship. She was not the kind of distraction he wanted while fighting for our country.
"Just let me talk to Jason. He knows why I am here. He is trying to transfer me off his ship. I love him and I am having his baby. He can't do that to us. He needs to make things right. I will not let him get away with this. I deserve to see him." Sam thought saying that would get Emily to let her in but she was surprised by what Emily said back.
"I know all about the fake pregnancy and the bull that you have been pulling with my brother. I have a good friend on the ship and he told me all about you. You have been sleeping all around that ship and you have had your eyes on my brother since you found out about his money. So if you don't want my butler to throw you off this property, then I think you should leave. My brother doesn't love you and he will never marry you. Good day, Ms. McCall." Sam could not believe that Emily could know the truth about her and wondered who told Emily the truth. Whoever it is he will pay dearly for crossing her. The only problem was there was no friend that told her that story. She made it up herself and Sam fell for it.
"I didn't realize that any of my crewmen were your friends. I must say that was a great story. Is it true?" Jason was impressed with Emily for telling such a tale. Elizabeth hugged her best friend when she realized that the story she told Sam was actually from a play that the two of them were writing for a project in school.
"Sorry, Jase. I was using the story that Elizabeth and I are doing for our English class. I didn't realize that it was true but when I saw the look on her face, I realized that it was true. I am sorry if I crossed any lines but I knew she was a gold digger by the way she dressed. She wanted you to drop everything and take care of her." Jason thanked his sister for looking out for him.
"Are you going to protect my heart from Miss Elizabeth right here? I think that she is more of a heartbreaker than that tramp out there. She looks right through you and you are gone. I feel as though I know her but I realize that today was the first time we met. I just have this sense of "déjà vu" when I saw her earlier. Must have been when I held her hand and kissed it. I just felt like a lightning bolt had hit me. Sorry I guess I am crazy." Elizabeth just looked at him and then he knew that she felt it too. Emily saw the sparks that were flying and knew that someone was going on between the two of them and that Jason might have been right after all about him getting a broken heart from her best friend. Emily grabbed Elizabeth's hand and dragged her upstairs to get ready for the party that night.
The next few hours were fun for Elizabeth and Emily getting ready for Jason's party. Elizabeth looked at her best friend and knew that somehow this all seemed too familiar to her. Emily noticed the change too. She just didn't know what to say. Emily's mother came into her room to check up the two young ladies.
"The two of you look like the cat that just swallowed the canary. I am not sure if I even want to ask what is going on here. If you need me for anything, just ask." Monica was about to leave the room when Emily stopped her mother.
"Mom, have you ever felt a sense of "déjà vu" before. I have this feeling that Jason and Elizabeth are feeling that when they first met today. I am not sure if I believe in fate but I think that the two of them do." Monica gave both of them a hug and then headed to her room to get ready herself for her son's party. Emily and Elizabeth went down the stairs and saw Lucky and Nicholas waiting for them. Emily was dating Nicholas and Lucky still believed that Elizabeth would come to her senses and go back with him.
"I wondered when the two of you lovely ladies would make an appearance. I bet my brother that you two would be fashionably late even though you both didn't have to go anywhere. Lucky, here is the twenty I owe you. Elizabeth, I do believe that I owe you an apology. I realize that I might have pressed too hard the last time we talked but I truly feel that you and Lucky should get together. I know that I have overstepped and I am sorry." Nicholas looked sorry for what he had done so Elizabeth gave him a hug so he knew that he was safe from Emily's wrath.
"Elizabeth, I think that you and I should get together later and talk about getting back together. I know that you really don't want to break up with me and I forgive you over your mistrust of me and your sister, Sarah." Elizabeth looked at Lucky like he had two heads and went straight for the bar. She wasn't looking where she was going because she had tears in her eyes and ran straight into the arms of Jason.
"I am so sorry. I should have watched where I was going. Sorry to have collided with you, Jason. I need a drink. Do you want one? I think I need some tequila." She headed off the bar and ordered two shots of tequila for Jason and herself. Emily went in and saw that Jason was taking care of Elizabeth so she slowed her pace down so hopefully there would be no scenes between her brother and Lucky. Unfortunately, Emily didn't slow down fast enough. Lucky saw the whole scene. The only thing that he didn't know was that she was crying because of him.
"Elizabeth, what are you doing with Emily's brother? I thought that you would forgive me already. I only cheated once on you. It didn't mean anything. I told you I was sorry and that I love you." Elizabeth pushed Lucky away from her.
"You cheated on me with my sister. It was something to me and that fact that you think that it wouldn't matter to me shows exactly how much we have grown apart. I don't want you in my life. I don't trust you and I just want to forget you even exist. Jason, do you want to get out of here? I need some fresh air." Jason grabbed Elizabeth hand and took her out to his grandmother's rose garden. It was a crisp fall evening and Jason put his jacket on Elizabeth to keep her warm.
"I don't know what came over me but thank you for helping me out. I hope your sister is not too mad at me for taking you away from your party. I just wanted to get away from them and I don't know. I guess I hoped you wanted out of there as much as myself?" Elizabeth sat down on the bench underneath the twinkling lights in the garden. The light shining down on her head almost made her look like an angel to Jason. He felt as though they knew each other before and it was driving him crazy. Ever since he was a teenager, he had dreams of this beautiful petite brunette who ruled his dreams. She made him want to be a better man and also made the decision to join the Navy feel like the right thing to do.
"Have you ever felt "déjà vu"? When I see you that is how I feel. When we touched yesterday, it brought it all back. I have been dreaming of this moment since I was a teenager. I know it sounds crazy but I feel like we knew each other in a past life. You were my inspiration for joining the navy and I feel that now that I finally met you that I am ready to leave and start my life. How crazy does that sound? I am not much of a talker so talking to you like this is something new. You are such a surprise to me and to know that you have been here all this time. I feel so lucky and yet I don't know why." Elizabeth got off the bench and walked over to Jason. She pulled him down so she could look straight into his beautiful blue eyes. She then kissed him. They both felt it. It was like coming home for the two of them. Emily then ran into the garden to warn them about Lucky.
"Look at who's cheating on who now. I guess I was wrong about you. You couldn't wait to get your hands on a rich boy. I figured you would have gone for my brother, Nik. Here is also rich and a prince. You are just like your sister, a slut. I am glad I found out the truth about you. I thought that you were so sweet and pure. That was why you wouldn't be with me. I guess the joke is on me." Lucky then turned around to leave but not before punching Jason. That was the wrong thing to do. Jason was not having this with Elizabeth and Emily there. He started to walk away before giving into Lucky's stupidity. When Lucky would not let Elizabeth and Emily leave, Jason knew that he would have to finish it.
"Why do you have to be such a jerk? I don't want to fight you. This is not what should be going on here and you know it. Emily and Elizabeth need to get back to the party and so do I. If you want to leave go but this fighting right now is over." Jason took Emily's hand and Elizabeth's hand and led them back inside. Lucky was still yelling at the two of them but Nik was smart enough to know that they needed to leave.
"Let's go little brother. I think that you have had enough. I am surprised that he left you standing. I know about his reputation. You are lucky." Nik and Lucky left the party and headed back home. Elizabeth and Emily walked into the party with Jason just behind them making sure that Lucky was not around.
"Thank you for that, Jason. I am sorry that he was so rude but I am glad that I kissed you and that we felt that connection. I knew we would. I don't know why but I feel it too. I think that we have a connection that goes back a long time and I also feel that is why when I met Emily, I knew we were going to be best friends." Emily and Elizabeth walked back into the party when the party was in full swing.
"Your mother and I were about to send out a search party for the three of you. Jason, are you ready for your speech? I think everyone would love to hear some of your tales about being in the Navy. The floor is yours."
"Thank you everyone for coming to my party. I am not much of a speaker but I do know how to take care of my crew. I would like to think that you all are part of that crew. You all are important part of my life and my families' life. I have been doing a lot of thinking about whether I want to retire or to sign up for one more tour. I didn't realize how much I miss being home until I saw how beautiful my little sister has grown up. She is an amazing sister and will be a great doctor when she finishes school. Her friend, Elizabeth has made quite an impression on me too. I feel that now is the time to retire and start my new life. I am not sure exactly what it is but I know that it will be great and full of love and surprises. That's all." Jason smiled at everyone in the room and headed straight for the bar. He needed a drink because he realized how much he just said was how he felt. He knew he said too much but he didn't care what anyone else thought. He just cared about Elizabeth and he didn't know why.
Sam found Lucky at the bar and knew that he was her way in back into Jason's life. She felt a connection to him and found him easy on the eyes. Lucky didn't want to be around anyone and when he saw Sam heading towards him, he paid his tab and headed out the door. Sam then saw a couple of guys from the ship and headed over there to see what they knew about Jason and his plans.
"Jason is thinking on whether he wants one more tour or retire now. He has his years in and wants a new adventure. Sorry, Sam but you are not the adventure he wants. There is no one that I know wants that kind of adventure. The only thing that you can do is move on. There is no room for someone like you around here." Sam was so pissed by what he said that she slapped him just as two cops walked into the bar. They heard everything and saw Sam hit the sailor.
"Miss, I think you need to leave unless this young man wants to have you arrested. You need to move along. We don't need any trouble here." Sam saw this as a sign to leave. She knew that she would be back she just didn't know when.