Hello! Its time for another Liason story. This one is a full length AH/AU story. You guys are kind enough to leave reviews, and send me messages with what you like to see in my stories. I read each one, and I take into account what you've said. I do my best to try to make sure everyone gets represented in the tales I write. So I try to incorporate the characters you like and the places you want to see while staying true to my vision for our favorite couple. The top three things folks say they like are romance between our couple, when they travel together, and when they spend time alone. So in this story I combined all three.

So if you must have angst or drama in your story, you will probably want to skip this one. I understand completely. I love me some drama in a story. We can hopefully catch up with one another at a later date.

For those that have been wanting this type of story. Here you are.

There are outfits and houses for this one, so if you want to see them give a holler.

Thanks go out to Silvermaj for helping me when I was plotting this tale out. Our chats were very enjoyable and they shaped this story.

Thanks go to Sloppyjo89. I cannot tell you how invaluable the information you gave me proved to be. It added incredible depth to the story. When we get to that part of the tale I'll give you another shout out.

Liason102 my most awesome and wonderful beta - thank you so much! It always fun to work with you.

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Chapter 1

"Hey, what's up?" Jason was standing in front of his partner's desk. Sonny had left a message saying to stop by when the opportunity arose.

"Hey. I finished going over the books with Bernie." Sonny pointed to the vacant chair silently inviting the younger man to sit.

"Was there a problem?" Jason asked stretching out his legs. He was tired, which for him was rare. Things in the territory had been busy. Thankfully over the last few weeks all the problems had been handled and the calm that Jason liked had returned.

"Yeah, there was." Sonny leaned back in his chair. He and their accountant had been reviewing the employee records, not the financial books. Last month Sonny and Jason had decided to rework the pay scale. Things were good, and that was due to the men who worked for them, so they wanted to say thank you. Pay raises were handed out, and so was additional vacation time. It was changing the latter in the system that brought up what Sonny wanted to talk about.

"We can't hand out the raises?" Jason asked surprised.

"Everything was good there. Bernie mentioned something about your employee record." Sonny said looking at his friend.

"Mine?" Jason was also surprised. These changes didn't affect him or Sonny. "What's wrong with my employee record?"

"You haven't taken a vacation since you started working for me." Sonny said grinning. "Not one single day."

"I don't need to take vacation." Jason said shrugging. He was pretty low maintenance. "I get days off each week." He made the most of that time. Making sure his bike was tuned up, visiting his grandmother, and of course spending time with his girl.

"You never take a full day off. Most weeks you work seven days." Was how Sonny chose to respond. He expected this to be a bit of a battle. Jason was great at taking care of everyone else, but rarely gave himself the same level of care. Sonny always took an extended break each year, just to recharge. Jason needed to do the same. In fact with things now quiet, Sonny was thinking his friend could take all his overdue vacation time at once if he wanted. "You need to go on vacation."

"I'm fine." Jason replied. "Now that all the problems are handled I can go back to working fewer hours each day."

"You're fine." Sonny repeated, not willing to back down. "That's why you snapped at Liz the other day?" When a guilty look crossed his friend's face Sonny had to hold back the laughter.

"I apologized." Jason hadn't meant to take out his irritation on his girlfriend. Elizabeth had been nothing but patient with him during the last few months. He had been canceling on her left and right, but she never said a word. Not even when he had to back out of their planned trip to New York.

Sonny shook his head. If he had to use guilt then that wouldn't be an issue. Jason needed to take some time off. "You've been ignoring her. I know because I've been ignoring Lily. We both need to do better." Balance wasn't always something that was easily achieved.

"You taking your wife away?" Jason would keep an eye on things in his partner's absence. Normally Sonny handled the meetings, while Jason ran things.

"I took Lily away before the Russians lost their minds." Sonny reminded Jason. "We were gone for three months. Me at home for dinner for the next month will be enough." Lily understood that when things got rough the business needed his focus. Elizabeth understood the same thing, but the big difference was the status of the two relationships.

Lily was Sonny's wife, while no one was really sure what the hell Liz was to Jason. They went on bike rides, Jason took the petite artist out to sketch, they had dinner together as often as possible, and she occasionally stayed over at the penthouse. In the guest suite.

Johnny said Jason usually referred to her as his more than friend. Sonny didn't know what that meant, but he respected Jason enough not to question it. If he had to guess the dark haired mob boss would say that Jason and Elizabeth were still friends, but transitioning to something more. Which would be good, because Jason needed someone who would put him first.

"If you want to go away again, its fine." Jason wanted Sonny to know.

"We are not going anywhere. You however are. You are going on vacation." Sonny decreed.

"You can't force me to take a vacation." Jason said being stubborn. "We are equal partners."

"You're right I can't force you to take a vacation." Sonny said backing up and trying a new tactic. "Elizabeth was over at the house the other day, helping Lily figure out how she wants to redecorate the living room." He guessed they also discussed nursery themes, but his wife didn't mention that. She knew he was superstitious and would say it was too early for that. "They were talking about the trip I took Lily on. They started talking about places they still want to go." He told his partner. "Liz mentioned that Hawaii was on her bucket list."

"Her what?" Jason asked his friend.

"Bucket list." Sonny wasn't surprised that Jason had no idea what that was. "It's a list of all the things you want to do before you die."

"As is in kick the bucket?" Jason said making the connection.

"Yup. Liz has an entire list of places she wants to see. Some overseas, some here in the states." Sonny explained to his friend. "She told Lily that she was saving up for a trip to Italy. That in another couple of years she would have enough to go." There was no need for her to have to pinch pennies when Jason could easily take her there, or anywhere else she wanted to go.

Jason knew that Elizabeth wanted to visit Naples. He also knew she wanted to go to Spain. Hawaii he hadn't known about. Savannah was on her wish list, as well. There were probably even more places that they hadn't talked about. He had more than enough money to take her to all of those locations, as well as anywhere else she wanted to visit. "I guess I could take some time off. A few weeks to visit Italy might be nice."

"Actually Bernie passed along that we could get into some legal trouble if you didn't take a good chunk of your vacation time soon. The department of labor could use that to order an audit of our work practices. And once one Federal agency shows up, it opens the doors for others." Sonny was stretching the truth a bit. The department of labor could do an audit, but only if someone filed a complaint. Which wasn't likely.

"How much time would I have to take?" Jason had been working with Sonny for five years. For the last three they had been partners.

"Bernie suggested you take as much of it as you can in one shot, and then spread out the rest. If you take at least half before the end of the year we should be fine." Sonny said grinning. "I think you should take it all."

"I guess that half wouldn't be an issue." Jason would love to have some uninterrupted time with Elizabeth. Just before things went bonkers he had taken her out to nowhere and admitted that he didn't want to be just friends anymore. That he wanted more from her, and his heart had almost leapt out of his chest when she quietly confessed the same thing.

Then he had kissed her for the second time. The moment his lips touched hers Jason knew he was done. It was the same way he felt after their first kiss. Elizabeth was it. For the last year he had been slowly falling in love with her, and it was time to stop fighting it. New York was when he planned on telling her how deeply he felt about her, even if she didn't feel the same he wanted to give her the words. He also wanted to give her the ring he had in the fireproof box under his bed. The one he picked up in Palermo during the business trip he took to give Maximus an update on what was happening with the Russians.

The head of the Costa Nostra had been monitoring the situation in Port Charles carefully. The Russians had been causing more and more headaches for the business as they tried to gain a foothold in already established territories. There had been minor skirmishes in other areas, but what was happening in upstate New York threatened to kick off a full-fledged war. Karpov had come gunning for Sonny, and the man had been relentless. The Russian started by placing a bomb in Sonny's car that had been discovered when Lily used the automatic engine ignition button on her remote. If she had started the car manually then she, and her unborn child, would be dead now. After that bodies started turning up at rate that had the local authorities paying attention, and if it continued would have had the Feds arriving.

With no other choice, Jason had finally gone after Karpov himself. It took almost a month, but he was finally tracked down and eliminated the man. Jason had lost five guys during the mission where they stormed the older Russian's compound. With Karpov's death, tensions had eased and the Bratva decided that the area wasn't worth the trouble.

"Good. I'll tell Johnny he is handling the enforcing duties while you are away. We can take the time you are gone to train someone to back him up." Sonny said smiling wide. If things worked out with Liz, then they could restructure at some point so that Jason could just be a boss.

"I need to check with Elizabeth first, there is no point in taking the time off if she can't go with me." Jason wasn't one for just sitting around and doing nothing and he wasn't leaving her here to travel abroad. "How much time did Bernie say I have accrued?"

"Three hundred and sixty-three days." Sonny told his friend grinning.

"That's a whole year." Jason said incredulous. "No one takes an entire year off from their job. There is no way Elizabeth can just drop everything and leave for a year."

"I said you only had to take half before the end of the year." Sonny corrected. "That's six months, but you can take it all if you want."

"That's still a lot of time." Jason grumbled thinking about six months away.

"True." Sonny nodded. "But Liz is her own boss, so she could take the time off with no problem. Think of all the places you could visit, and you wouldn't have to rush. Italy alone will take at least a month, maybe longer if you go to more than one province. If you take half you'd still be home in time for Halloween. Next year you could take a week a month off until the rest of the time is used up."

"I'll just end up with more vacation time to use." Jason said shaking his head.

"That's kind of how it works." Sonny said trying not to laugh. Only Jason would be miserable at the thought of taking time off. "When you and Liz finally get married, you can use a chunk for your honeymoon, and you'll need to extra time when the kids finally start coming." Sonny wanted that for his friend, wanted him settled and happy with a family of his own to care for. He was also trying to find out if Liz was Jason's girlfriend.

"Is there any other portion of my life you'd like to plan?" Jason asked with a healthy dose of sarcasm.

"Did you need help?" Sonny asked mainly to irritate his friend.

"Smartass." Jason said crossing his arms over his chest. "Let me check with Elizabeth first." She might not want to travel right now. "If she is agreeable then I'll take some time off." They could decide together how much.

"If she agrees, then vacation starts the next morning." Sonny told his partner. "I will let you use the few weeks it will probably take you to plan as vacation time." Honestly he didn't expect it to take that long. Planning was one of Jason's strong points.

"That's really generous of you." Jason deadpanned. "I need time to make sure everything is fine here. Vacation can start when we leave."

"I'm just trying to help." Sonny grinned and his dimples popped out. "I want you to have uninterrupted time to get all your plans together." He just wanted Jason to have some time off. He had earned it.

"Have you always been this bossy?" Jason wanted to know.

"Yeah, if you didn't work so much you would have noticed that by now." Sonny said giving up and laughing. "Are you taking security with you?"

"Probably not. I won't take Elizabeth anywhere dangerous." Jason told his friend. If he was going to take time off, then he didn't want a whole bunch of the guys hanging around. He was more than capable of keeping Elizabeth safe while they traveled. "I need to start planning the trip."

"Where are you going first?" sonny was curious.

"Italy." Jason figured that any trip they took should start there. "It's the place she wants to see the most. Will I be expected to meet with the heads of other families?"

"No, make sure I know where you are headed and I'll call before you arrive." Sonny would let the other bosses know that Jason was escorting his girl through the area, and that approaching them would be a mistake. It shouldn't be an issue. "Have fun."

Jason stood up and actually grinned. "I'll be with Elizabeth, so that is pretty much guaranteed." Time away with his girl would be nice. "I will let you know when we are leaving, and approximately when we will be returning."

"Sounds good." Sonny nodded. He was looking forward to hearing all about their travels when they came back home.

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