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Here is the next story. It like all of my stories is AH/AU. While it does have a Hurt/Comfort story line that is at moments heartbreaking its not a dark story. This particular story was requested by Zainy18, so Z I hope you like it.

This story is 71 chapters long, and is complete.

Some things to know: Emily and Elizabeth are the same age in this story. So are Johnny and Jason. Maxie and Georgie are not Scorpios.

Thanks to Liason102 for the edit. As always my stories are made better by having your attention.

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This story will follow the same posting schedule as the last one did.

Chapter 1

"I can't believe it's taken us this long to have a play date for the boys." Emily said ushering her guests into the penthouse. "We've been friends for almost two months now."

"Well we've met up a couple of times in the park." Elizabeth said putting Cameron down. She didn't expect him to venture too far away. He was painfully shy. New places and people scared him and he often clung to her for support before deciding to explore. It helped that his best friend Ben was right there.

"Those were happy accidents." Emily said grinning. "This was planned. Ben needs friends." Her almost four year old son didn't have a lot of playmates who could come visit him at home. Most parents were fine with them playing at the daycare but a friendship outside the hospital was rare.

"Cameron needs friends too." The little boy needed all the normal she could give him. "Your husband won't mind having us over?"

"Nope. I've been talking about this for the last week. He'll be glad it's finally done." Emily sat on the arm of the couch and relaxed some. It had been a long shift. "I'm just glad that we were able to leave on time." She looked at the clock. "Sort of on time."

Both women laughed at that. They knew that a shift that ended at three rarely did. It ended when the patient you were seeing was done being treated, and hopefully you would look up and see your relief on time. As a nurse practitioner Elizabeth saw patients as well, so yeah staying past the end of shift was nothing new. Thank goodness the child care center was open twenty-four hours a day.

"Would you like some coffee?" Emily offered remembering her manners.

"That would be wonderful. I think the caffeine is all that has kept me going for the last few days." Things at work had been busy with Elizabeth working three double shifts this week. That meant more money in the bank, as a single parent that was always good, but it translated to less time with Cameron. Which meant him being fussy.

"Coming right up." Emily moved into the kitchen to give her guests time to settle. Having them over was a big step for her new friend and her little boy. Elizabeth said that Cameron was shy, but it was more than that. Emily might not be a psychiatrist but she knew shy from traumatized.

Cameron was healing from something bad and Elizabeth was doing everything she could to help him. Socializing was good, so they were having the play date. Emily was hoping she could get her friend to open up and share what happened. She was worried that Elizabeth was trying to get away from an abusive ex. If someone was going to come after the two of them Emily was in a position to help.

"Milk and sugar right?" She came back with two mugs.

"Perfect thanks." Elizabeth was sitting in an armchair and Cameron had moved away some. Not far. The only time he was far from his mother was when she was working.

Emily remembered when Elizabeth started working at General Hospital, she spent her breaks and lunch in the daycare center. If Cameron went too long without seeing her he would have a panic attack. No three year old child should have panic attacks. Once it was so bad he had to be brought into the ER. Emily also knew the little boy saw Diane once a week to help with whatever was haunting him. It was hard to keep your private life private at the hospital. Someone always saw or heard something.

"I may have some cookies." Emily said trying to remember if she ate them all.

"This is fine thanks." Elizabeth was keeping a close eye on Cameron. With Ben he seemed almost normal. They were playing trucks and laughing. It was nice to see. "If I start snacking now I won't eat dinner."

"You can stay for dinner." Emily offered. "I'm not cooking so you don't have to worry about needing your stomach pumped." The young doctor said laughing. She had servants growing up and never learned how to cook or do laundry.

"I'm sure you aren't that bad." Elizabeth said laughing as well. "I was not the greatest cook before becoming a mom, now I'm almost ready for the food network. Thank you for the offer, I'm sure the last thing your husband wants is unexpected company." Elizabeth hadn't yet met Emily's spouse, but her friend talked about him a lot and he sounded like a great guy.

"We always have company for dinner. Jason normally eats with us." Emily tried not to sound too excited by the prospect of Elizabeth meeting Jason. She thought they might like each other. Emily wasn't trying to play matchmaker, she just wanted them in the same room to see if there were any sparks. If there were, then she would try matchmaking.

Jason was Emily's brother. Him Elizabeth had seen. He came to the hospital for board meetings and to have lunch with one or both of his parents, and occasionally Emily. The female staff members tended to stop and watch him as he walked past. Elizabeth was guilty too, although she tried to be subtle. The man was gorgeous and from what she'd heard a really nice guy as well. If Elizabeth was looking to date he'd be at the top of her wish list. "He doesn't cook?"

"He can cook, but if we don't feed him he will order take out. He always says cooking for one is depressing. Sometimes he comes over here and cooks for us. Ben loves his Uncle Jason's stir-fry." Emily loved to brag on her brother and up selling never hurt, she just tried not to overdo it.

"Your husband and Jason are partners right?" Elizabeth had also heard other things about Jason Morgan. Namely that he was in the mob. That he used to be an enforcer before taking over in partnership with Emily's husband. That he was a very powerful figure in the underworld and not a man you wanted to make an enemy of.

"Yeah. They import coffee." According to their tax returns that was how they made most of their money. That and other legal businesses. Neither man had ever been convicted of a crime so any criminal activity was alleged.

"So they've known one another a long time?" Elizabeth had only been in Port Charles for a short amount of time. It wasn't hard to figure out the important people, but how they all intersected was something she was still learning.

"Yeah, since they were younger. They are the same age and when Jason joined the company my husband was already an employee." Emily was happy to fill in some background. Even if she could get them both at the table at the same time neither one would do much talking. Elizabeth really was shy and Jason tended to be quiet around people he didn't know.

"Was Jason upset you were dating one of his friends?" Elizabeth didn't have any older brothers so she didn't know how that worked.

"Upset is the wrong word. Jason already thought of Johnny as a brother. So it wasn't so much the 'you're my friend stay away from my sister' thing. It was more the 'you're my best friend but I will kill you if you aren't serious' kind of thing." Emily said grinning. "We were both serious. I think I've been in love with Johnny since I was sixteen. We got married when I finished undergraduate school and before medical school. Ben came along right away, which was good. Being a resident and pregnant would suck."

"How did your parents react?" Elizabeth was enjoying being able to just kick back and gab. The hard part would be when it was her turn to share. She still wasn't sure she could. Elizabeth hadn't actually meant to become good friends with anyone, let alone the wife of a mobster. If her back story came out Emily might wonder if Elizabeth was trying to use her when nothing could be further from the truth. She was just lonely and Emily was a really nice person.

"Not so happy at first. Johnny is only five years older than me so that wasn't the issue." Emily told her friend. The young doctor had started college very early. Jason was also five years older than Elizabeth, being young mothers was something the women bonded over. "They were worried that I was making too many big decisions at too young an age. But when you watch your mother die of breast cancer before she turned forty you learn life is not to be wasted. Jason was the one who got them to back down. I've been chatting away. It's your turn to spill."

Before Elizabeth could answer the door opened and two men walked into the penthouse. "Daddy!" Ben ran over to his dad who scooped him up smiling at the ball of energy. "Hi Uncle Jase." The little boy waved to his favorite Uncle.

"We didn't mean to interrupt." Johnny hadn't remembered that his wife was having company.

"It's fine." Emily walked over and gave him a kiss. In a voice low enough that only her husband and brother could hear she whispered. ''Don't move." Turning she looked at her guest.

Cameron reaction to the two newcomers was to hide. He was under the coffee table and Elizabeth was talking softly to him trying to get him to come out. Having to drag him out would be traumatic and might trigger a panic attack. "Its okay, Cameron." Elizabeth said softly reaching for the trembling child. "I'm right here and no one is going to hurt you." It took about ten minutes but she finally got him out. He immediately latched onto her, his tiny arms holding her so tight he was almost choking her.

Carefully Elizabeth got to her feet. "We're going to go."

"Would you like to stay, maybe go upstairs and lie down for a while?" Emily was afraid if they left now Elizabeth was going to bolt all together. Or worse decide that a friendship between them wouldn't work.

"No, it's best that we go. I'm sorry." Elizabeth explained. "Would you mind moving away from the door?" It was an odd request but she couldn't go over there while Jason and Johnny were standing in front of the exit.

"No problem." Johnny didn't understand what was happening but he figured Em would tell them after her friend was gone.

"Do you want one of the guys to drive you home so you don't have to take a cab?" Emily wasn't one hundred percent sure what set Cameron off, but she had a guess.

"No, we'll be fine." Elizabeth assured the other woman. "I'll see you tomorrow at work."

"Okay, if you need anything call me." Emily hoped her friend would.

"Thanks." Elizabeth was cradling her little boy close as they walked out of the penthouse. She couldn't take a cab with him in this shape, the odds of them getting a female driver were slim; the bus was out too. They were going to have to walk home and she would probably end up carrying him the whole way. After a long shift it was the last thing she needed. But there wasn't anything she wouldn't do for Cameron. She would find the energy from somewhere to get them home.

"Why are you home?" Emily asked her husband arching an eyebrow as she took their son and put him on the floor.

"We finished early." Johnny said shrugging. "What was that?"

"I think you and Jason scared Cameron." Emily remembered when Cameron came into the ER they had to page Maggie to treat him. At the time Emily just figured it was because she was a pediatrician, now she was thinking it was because Matt scared the little boy.

"We didn't do anything." Jason said frowning.

"Cameron is sensitive." Emily said knowing that sounded lame. She pulled her husband into the kitchen knowing her brother would follow. "I think they were abused."

"You think some asshole was hitting them?" Johnny didn't tolerate men who abused women and children.

"She seems okay." Jason had noticed her on his trips through the hospital. They had yet to be formally introduced, but he was patiently waiting for it to happen. He tried not to approach the female staff members. Too many rumors got started that way.

"She's older and has the tools to deal with it better." Emily rationalized Elizabeth's behavior from a medical standpoint.

"He's so young." Jason said frowning. "Only a bastard hurts a child that especially one that young." He wondered how long Elizabeth stayed before leaving. "Are they safe?" That was the first thing they needed to find out.

"I have no clue. Today was the first time they came over. She was about to start telling me about herself when you two showed up, an hour early." Emily was frustrated. "She may pull away from me now. The next time you say you're coming home at six do so." Emily said walking out to get Ben.

Jason looked at his partner. "We need to find out what her situation is."

"We have to be careful if we scare her son that badly." Johnny wasn't going to let some woman and her son be terrorized on his watch. "We can set up covert surveillance."

"No, he'll know." Jason couldn't explain it, but he knew that Cameron was hyper aware of his surroundings and who was in them. The little boy would know. Hurting him further had to be avoided at all cost. "Let Emily try again." Jason suggested, but if the opportunity arose he was going to try talking to Elizabeth as well.

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