I wasn't watching GH when the whole Lucky/Jason/Sam/Lizbitch hearing for Jake was going on, so some of this might be inaccurate. Sorry. A lot of stuff that happened when they started falling apart, I really didn't watch. I really love and miss JaSam so I may be coming out with a lot of JaSam fics for the time being. This one is something that I wish would have happened during the trial, then maybe I would've started watching again. I don't think Sam was staying at the penthouse still so I just put her in a motel.

And yes, I know they seem all friendly right now, but things are going to come out in the open and they are going to work some things out...but in the mean time...

I don't really hate the LuSam hook up all that much, so there might be only a little itzy bitzy bit of Lucky bashing, but a major lot of Lizbitch bashing because I freaking hate that girl! I hated her before JaSam, so don't think it's because of that. I don't know, I just never liked her. She's always being portrayed as this innocent little angel when she's just as bad of a bitch as Sam is! But Sam has so much reason to be a bitch! Anyway, you've probably guessed it: I wrote this story so the author notes can be a long drawn out bash fest on Lizbitch. LoL, just kidding.

Hope you enjoy!

Nothing's Changed

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Sam shot up from her recurring nightmare and her eyes flew to the clock on the small nightstand in her motel room. She kept dreaming that she was in court, about to tell everyone about the real Jason Morgan when he stood up, pulled out his gun and told her that he was going to shoot her. And of course, Elizabeth was in the dream, standing behind Jason and urging him to shoot her already. Right before he pulled the trigger, she woke up every time.

It was two-o-four in the morning. In less than six hours, she had to go to court and testify against Jason. Alexis wanted her to tell all of the bad things Jason had done to shoot down his chances with having Jake in his home, but she just didn't know if she could do it.

She laid back down and decided with a sigh to try and get some more rest. It almost seemed like forever since they'd been broken up, really it had just been a matter of months. Lucky was depending on her to tell the truth and Jason was probably depending on her to help him. Even though he had threatened to kill her, yelled at her and obviously started falling for that bitch Elizabeth Webber-Lansing-Spencer and only god knew who else she married. But for some reason, she just couldn't shake the fact that Jason wasn't really into Elizabeth like that. It seemed like he was attempting to do the right thing, but in the process he was destroying a good thing. Or maybe she was just desperate and in wishful thinking.

She didn't really like Lucky and what she was doing was wrong. Stringing him along just like Elizabeth had done to him, but when you were in love with Jason, how could you move on? It was impossible because he was so sweet without trying to be and so understanding that it was scary. He understood her lifestyle and the way she had lived before him without judging her like everyone else in Port Charles did. For god sakes, he ran from the law with her--more than once. How could that just be over because he had a kid with someone else?

Realizing that it was almost five o'clock, she turned over with a groan and sat up, raking her hands through her dark brown hair. She let out a sigh and got up to march towards the shower. She had no idea what she was going to do. Should she make Jason's life as miserable as he made hers?

XxXxX

Almost an hour later, she was dressed and ready to go. She threw her coat on and glanced at herself in the mirror before pulling her hair out of her jacket and opening the door. It was still a little dark outside and the chill went through her body quickly. She closed her jacket around her more and then pulled out her key to lock the door behind her when she felt a hand cover her mouth and wrap around her waist, dragging her to the nearby alley. She kicked and attempted to scream until the cold metal pressed against her neck. Then, she was frozen still.

"You're going to reveal everything you've witnessed Morgan do. Got it?" The voice growled dangerously in her ear.

She narrowed her eyes even though she couldn't see the man who was holding her from behind.

"In full detail. I want dates, names and proof." The voice continued. "Morgan loses this, or you lose your life."

Sam struggled with him and then bit his hand, flying up against the wall and holding her hands up. She meant to get a good look at him, but he wore a ski mask. "Why me? We're not even together anymore." She was almost about to give him Elizabeth's full name and address and beg him to go threaten her, but thought better of it.

"My boss knows what you and Morgan have been through." The man growled, pointing the knife towards her.

Sam laughed nervously. "That's great and all, but Jason doesn't care about me anymore." She said the words sadly, knowing that they were true.

"Do as I said." He commanded before running off down the alley where an all black car was waiting for him.

Sam watched him dive into the car and sighed heavily, putting a hand to her heart.

XxXxX

Sam paced back and fourth in front of the court room, wringing her fingers nervously. She still wasn't sure what to do. She knew about her order from the mysterious guy this morning, but when had she ever listened to threats like that? All she had to do was tell the court what Jason needed her to say and then get out of town. Her life wasn't heading anywhere anyway in Port Charles. She'd lost the only reason she had ever stayed around.

"Hey."

The voice made her body go rigid but she turned to face him quickly and with a fake smile. "Hey." She breathed out.

"Look," he started slowly, "I don't expect you to go up there and start lying for me."

"Jason," she said tiredly, holding her hand up, "don't. Just," she sighed and looked down at her feet, "Just be careful. Someone's got it out for you." She whispered, glancing up at him nervously.

"What do you mean?" He frowned and stepped closer to her. "Did...did you get a message?" He asked softly, knowingly, concerned.

"Yeah. This morning."

"Did they hurt you?" He asked quickly, the anger already boiling to the surface.

"No, I'm fine." She told him, glancing around their surroundings to make sure no one heard. "I'm supposed to reveal what you really do or else." She noted, her eyes meeting his in a silent promise to him, telling him that she'd never let him down. Finally, she knew what she was going to do.

"Or else what?" He pressed, knowing the answer by looking in her eyes. His eyes slightly grew in panic. "Sam, listen to what they said. You have to until I figure out who did this." He raked his hands through his hair frustratedly.

"Jason, it's fine." She assured, dropping a hand on his chest like she used to. "It's okay. I'm fine."

He glanced down at her hand on his chest and briefly closed his eyes at the electrifying contact, about to say something else when Elizabeth flew around the corner. "Jason--" She stopped when she saw what looked like an interaction between the two.

Sam's hand flew away from him just as Lucky rounded the corner. He rushed to Sam's side and grabbed her hand. "Hey, you ready?" He said, glancing at Jason.

Her eyes drifted from him and to Jason's who was staring at her already. "Yeah." She answered softly, her eyes never leaving his blue ones.

"Sam." Jason called her name, their eyes met in silent speaking. He was telling her to listen to the goons, and she was saying that she wasn't going to. "Just..."

"I got it." She reassured before letting Lucky lead her into the courtroom.

Elizabeth glared at him. "Jason, you know that she's on Lucky's side, right?"

"I know." He said what sounded like sadly. "But, she has to do what she has to do. I can't get mad at her."

"If she tries to take our son away, you have every right to get mad." Liz justified, walking up to him and putting a hand to his chest. "She's going to try and destroy you."

He looked down at the hand on his chest, it felt nothing like Sam's. This made him feel...nothing. "If she has to..." He started with a shrug, worried that Sam would do the exact opposite. She would redeem him and risk her life as usual. For him. Shaking the thought from his head, he rushed past Elizabeth. "Let's go."

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Alexis stood to her feet. "I would like to call Samantha McCall to the stand."

Sam stood up slowly and briefly met Jason's eyes before she slowly walked to take the stand. She swore in quietly and sat down, pulling her coat more around her.

"Sam," Alexis started, standing to her feet, "is it true that you know Mr. Morgan?"

Sam nodded slowly. "Yes."

"And how do you know him?" She continued as if she honestly didn't know the answers.

"Well, we started off as friends. He let me stay with him when I had no where else to go and then it uh, evolved into something romantic." She explained, struggling to keep a straight face.

"And are you still romantically involved with Mr. Morgan?" Alexis moved her glasses to the bridge of her nose to peek at her daughter.

"No." Sam shook her head once and glanced at Jason.

"So there would be no reason for you to hold up for him, am I correct?"

"Objection, your honor!" Justus stood to his feet. "She's throwing assumptions to the witness that my client has something to hide."

The judge moved his eyes to Alexis. "Sustained. Council, state the purpose."

Alexis cleared her throat and stood straight in front of Sam. "So Ms. McCall, tell me. What does Mr. Morgan do for a living?"

Sam bit onto her bottom lip and glanced at Jason who was eying her with a piercing gaze. He slightly shook his head no and Sam knew that he knew what she would do. She looked back at Alexis and forced a small sigh out of her mouth. "He runs a coffee importing business." She could see Jason drop his head from the corner of her eye and the mumbles in the courtroom became instantly audible.

The judge banged his gavel. "Order! Order in the court!" He demanded.

Jason stood up. "Your honor, she's lying." He said remorsefully. He never meant to drag her into anything, but it always worked out this way.

"Jason!" Elizabeth quickly jumped to stop him. "What are you doing?"

"Jason..." Sam shook her head. "No."

"Contain your client, Council." The judge warned Justus.

Justus pulled at Jason's arm. "Come on, sit down."

"Are you sure?" Alexis added, looking pointedly at Sam.

"One hundred percent." Sam forced a smile.

"So would you say that it's safe for Jake to be around Jason?" Alexis asked, obviously angry but containing it.

Sam looked to Jason as a small smile escaped her. "I've seen Jason around babies and children and he's amazing." Feeling that tears were about to brim her eyes, she looked back to Alexis. "If I had a child, I could...I could put my child's life...in Jason's hands." She sniffled and quickly wiped away her tears. "And I wouldn't think twice about it." She looked to Jason who was eying her sadly.

She pursed her lips and watched her for a moment. "No further questions." Alexis sighed disappointedly and returned to her seat.

"No questions, your honor." Justus called out.

Jason bent down to talk to Justus. "Why no questions?"

"I have none. She pretty much redeemed you." Justus said.

"I just want her close by. Someone's probably gonna be after her now." He said in slight panic. Jason watched Sam step down and watched her walk towards Lucky who pulled away from her. She tried whispering something to him but he put his hand up and she sighed before beginning to walk towards the door.

"Sam!" He called, uncaring about the court and what was going on. "Don't leave yet. Don't..."

"I'll be right outside." She mouthed as everyone tried to get him to calm down and resume.

XxXxX

A few moments later, the court was called for recess and everyone began filing out the door. Sam leaned against the wall with her arms crossed and she smiled gently as Jason came to stand in front of her. "How's it going?"

He sucked in a sharp breath and looked down. "Pretty good in my favor right now but," he glanced up at her, "Sam, you didn't have to do that."

"Hey, I don't want to ruin your life just because we broke up." She said, hitting his arms playfully. "But you be careful. I think the best thing for me to do is leave for a little while."

"I don't know about that, Sam." He started. "Maybe you should just leave the motel and stay with someone else." He was going to suggest his penthouse, even though that would probably be the weirdest place for her to go right now, but her answer had shocked him.

"Yeah, I checked out this morning. I'm staying with Lucky." She informed uneasily, rubbing at the tension building in the back of her neck.

It hit him like a blow to the gut. "Oh." He sighed.

"Yeah." She looked down. "I was just going to stay there until after today and then leave but--"

"No." He choked out with a solemn nod. "You stay there."

"I really did plan on leaving as soon as possible." She said gently, glancing up at his dreamy blues. What she wouldn't give to hold him right now.

"You don't know who this person could be? What did he say? Did he give you any clues?" He bombarded her with questions. He needed to ensure her safety and to get the thought of her and Lucky living together out of his mind.

"Nope, not really." She shook her head. It was crazy how she was used to getting threatened or held at knife point or gun point now, but what she wasn't used to was going through it without having Jason to run to. "He just put a knife to my neck and told me to tell the truth about you in court today."

"Why didn't you?" He asked regretfully, like somehow this was his fault.

Sam smiled softly up at him. "I couldn't." Their eyes held each other's for a while before he cleared his throat and she looked away.

"So that's it?" Jason asked to be sure. "That's all that was said?"

Sam grasped her head and tried to remember more. "Uh," she remembered something that would probably help, "I told him that we weren't together anymore and he said that his boss knew what we'd been through."

Jason frowned in thought. "So it's somebody we know?"

"Or somebody who's been watching us. Or wants revenge." She added, waving a hand towards him as if they were getting closer to finding the answer.

Jason let his eyes search her face and remembered why he loved her so much. Because she wasn't that scared or afraid of this--which was good and bad at the same time. She wasn't afraid to tell him what happened to her, despite their current circumstances and she wasn't afraid to try to help him figure it out, which was bad because if she didn't leave, she'd want to stay and help him track these people down and he didn't need her in harms way. All he needed was for her to lay low and let him do the work. He'd find out who was behind threatening her--kill them, and then she'd be okay. Even though she was okay.

"You alright?" He asked anyway, just because he needed to hear it from her.

"Yeah." She forced a small smile and nodded. "I'm fine."

"Look, Sam," he started, scratching the side of his face, "I don't think you should go right now. It's too dangerous for you to be alone."

"Yeah, you're probably right." She said easily, crossing her arms over her chest.

Way too easily, in his opinion. "What?" He asked confused.

"Yeah, I should stay here and help you figure out--"

He stopped her, waving one of his hands in her face. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. No. That's dangerous too, Sam. I'm trying to keep you out of danger." He said lowly, stepping in closer to talk intimately with her. "I'm trying to protect you, here."

Sam was slowly becoming mesmerized by his gaze. "Jason," she swallowed hard and fought the urge to throw her arms around his neck and kiss him, "that's not your job anymore." She informed in a whisper.

"Well, it has to be somebody's job." Jason said a little darkly, dreading the fact of someone else watching over her. They'd slip up and she'd get hurt and then he'd go mad and start killing whoever stood in his way to finding and killing the person who hurt her.

"Sam?!" Lucky nearly yelled, causing her to jump and Jason to glare his way.

Where'd he get off talking to her like that, Jason wondered. "She could've heard you just fine in a normal tone, Spencer." Jason warned evenly.

Sam shook her head and smiled up at her ex-fiance. "I guess it is someone else's job now." She whispered, meeting his eyes before looking down at her boots. "Um, I need to go explain that whole thing to Lucky." She sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "I'll...see ya."

He nodded once, not sure if he could say the same when he didn't want her out of his sight anymore. Now, he was going to be worried, agitated and on edge until these bastards were brought down and Lucky might get a little sick of him because he was going to be around Sam a lot more than Lucky would want. He watched her walk off with him before noticing that Elizabeth was watching him and probably had been the whole time. He took a deep breath and ran his hands over his hair.