Bikes, Cars, and Submarines
Chapter 1
~Elm Street~
Elizabeth fishtailed around the corner as she dug for her phone, "Same to you buddy," she yelled to the driver of the car beside her, jeez what was his problem that was what brakes were for.
"Come on, pick up," she muttered hitting the re-dial on her phone, "pick up."
"Hello."
"Emily thank god."
"Elizabeth what is it? What's wrong?" Emily pulled out of Nikolas' arms when she heard the panic in her friend's voice.
"I blew it, I opened my mouth and totally freaking blew it," Elizabeth moaned cutting in front of another car.
"What happened?" Emily asked moving away from Nikolas with a smile to give herself some privacy.
"I told Jason that I didn't think of him as a man."
"What?" Emily shrieked with a laugh, "How did you do that?"
"I don't know," she wailed, "God it was awful, sometimes I hear this stuff come flying out of my mouth and I can't believe I said it. Oh my God not think of him as a man? Only every friggin second of the day."
"Elizabeth take a breath."
"It gets worse, Sonny and Johnny were there when I said it. God you should have seen the look on his face, and heard the laughter, oh he's got to hate me."
She could imagine Emily thought with a shake of her head, "Why did you even say it?"
"I don't know, I wanted to get under his skin, and the next thing I knew out it came. You know I don't think correctly when I'm around him anyway." She closed her eyes briefly in remembrance only to open them quickly when the blare of a car horn sounded.
"It was going so good to, he was touching my face, and looking at me like he never wanted to stop. God knows I wasn't going to stop him. Then later when he saw me in that dress you made me buy."
"He what? Spill it." Emily demanded
"The way he was looking at me, I couldn't catch my breath and I guess that lack of oxygen did something to my brain and I said what I said, God I'm an idiot."
"Calm down Elizabeth, I think our plan is working great."
"How can you say that?" Elizabeth cried yanking hard on the wheel when she realized she had almost missed her turn, and cutting off another car as she did so, "I insulted him."
"No from the sounds of if I would say he was definitely noticing you." Emily said encouragingly.
"Yeah noticing what an idiot I am. God I have to calm down before I meet Danny, speaking of other idiotic moves I have made no thanks to you."
Emily ignored that, "How did he react to the news of your date?"
"He wanted to know who Danny was, in fact he was pretty adamant about knowing," pausing she tried to remember Jason's expression, "He didn't seem to happy about it, he also didn't seem to want me to go out in this dress."
"Good, it's working out perfectly."
"I don't know if I can do this Emily, I mean we've just started and I've already blown it."
"Elizabeth what do you want?" Emily demanded determined to focus her friend.
"Jason," the answer was immediate and from her heart. She had wanted him since the first moment she saw him. At first it was only a physical attraction, but over the months she realized it had grown into love, hence this brilliant plan of Emily's.
"Then we have to keep up the plan," smiling at Nikolas she walked back to him slowly, "Trust me we'll submarine him, Jason will never know what hit him."
"Peachy," Elizabeth murmured weakly ending the call.
Taking the initiative with Jason had sounded so good to her after several beers at Jake's but in the sober light of day, she was beginning to doubt the wisdom of their plan. She was hardly a femme fatale and Jason was…Elizabeth groaned and banged her head on the steering wheel, as she stopped at a green light, Jason was gorgeous. "What the hell are you trying to do Webber?" she asked herself as car horns began to blare behind her.
~Garage~
"So how was your date last night?" Jason's voice rang out in the quiet garage.
Forgetting where she was Elizabeth jerked her head and connected brutally with the hood of the car, "Owww, Damn'it" she cried easing out from under the hood and reaching up to massage her head.
Jason reached out and stopped her hand, "Grease," he reminded her before he reached up and touched the back of her head looking for the lump.
Elizabeth jerked in response to his touch, and Jason took it to mean that he had found the bump, "Well it's not bleeding." He looked down at her. Why had he never noticed how petite she really was? Her attitude seemed to make her taller than she was.
Bringing his other hand up to her hair, his fingers and as if working of their own accord pulled off the hair band holding back her long hair. His hands worked their way through her hair, working it free of the restraint. Her hair felt so soft, like silk, he thought as it ran through his fingers, he was so close that he could smell the scent of her shampoo, it was familiar but he couldn't quite place it.
He looked into her upturned face and inched closer into the embrace. She hadn't bothered with make-up this morning, but her eyes were as powerful as they were last night. Her mouth was unpainted, but it was so full, his eyes darkened as he watched her pull her bottom lip in her mouth to worry it with her teeth. He stifled a groan, God that made him crazy.
Jason brought one hand around to the front of her face, and trailed his thumb down the velvety softness of her cheek, before moving over and pressing down on her chin, so she released her bottom lip. He ran his thumb over her bottom lip, soothing the skin from what her teeth had done.
"Jason, telephone." Lucky's voice shattered the quiet intensity between them.
"Right," Jason stepped back from her, letting go of her quickly, "So, uhm, I better, uhm go get that," he stammered before heading to the office.
Elizabeth managed to hold on until he reached the office before collapsing against the car. She hadn't even dared to breathe while he was touching her. She was afraid that any movement, any sound would break the spell he was weaving between them.
Sucking in air, she had to remind herself to expel it, in and out that was how you breathed. The touch of his hands in her hair, on her face, coupled with that look he was giving her, Elizabeth shook her head, another minute of that and she would have pulled him to the ground and took him whether he wanted it or not.
Elizabeth sighed it was a good thing Lurky had interrupted them, she was not in this for a quickie on the garage floor. She wanted a relationship with Jason, but still she thought darkly, Lurky had the worst timing.
~P.C. Grille~
Sonny entered the Grille and immediately spotted Alexis, his smile died when he saw whom she was talking to. He quickly walked up to the couple, "Sorry I'm late Alexis," he said with a smile.
"Sonny you do realize I will bill you for every minute I had to wait," Alexis glanced at her watch.
"Bill me, you're worth it," Sonny said with a wink, "Jax," he said with a sneer, "you're in my seat Jasper."
"Corinthos, you're as rude as ever," Jax got to his feet.
"Rude, oh you wound me Jasper," Sonny put his hands to his chest, while taunting the other man.
"Jax, please, this is business." Alexis tried to interrupt the staring contest between the two men. God sometimes she wished they would just get a ruler, whip it out, and measure, anything to stop this one-upmanship thing. Alexis laughed at that thought. Both men turned to look at her and she quickly turned the laugh into a cough.
"Yeah Jasper, this is business," Sonny hissed, "so get lost candy boy."
Jax moved past Sonny and kissed Alexis's cheek, "I'll see you at dinner."
Not if I can help it, Sonny thought as Jax walked away, "So Alexis, how's tricks?" he asked settling into a seat.
~Garage~
"You never answered me," Jason moved up quietly beside Elizabeth who was scrubbing at some parts in a sink, while the murky degreaser cascaded over them.
"About what?" Elizabeth asked jerking her head trying to get her hair out of her face; she had never found her hair band after Jason had removed it earlier.
Jason brushed her hair out of her face, catching it and pulling it over her shoulder, his fingers grazing her cheek as he tucked some behind her ear, he heard her suck in a breath at the touch, but she didn't pull away. "How was your date?" He asked turning to lean against the sink, picking up a brush to scrub at one of the other parts.
She sucked in another breath when he made contact with her, his hip and thigh pressing up against her, what did he just say? She wondered, realizing he was waiting for her response. Date right, what was his name again, "It was good."
He nodded, "So you been seeing this Danny long?"
Danny that was it, "No, last night was our first date, Emily set us up."
Emily again, damn but she was a brat, "Are you going to see him again?" He asked casually, at least he hoped it was casually. He didn't understand why but the thought of her dating someone made him uncomfortable, no actually it was more than that. It gave him a feeling that he had never had before, he couldn't define it, but he knew he didn't like it.
"What's with all the questions Jason?" Elizabeth asked.
Jason shifted, bringing his hip into contact with her body again, "I'm just curious, I've never seen you date before."
"Well I got news for you Morgan, last night wasn't my first date and it won't be my last one either." Elizabeth retorted, he had sounded so surprised that someone actually wanted to date her.
"Oh." Why did that not sit well with him, the fact that she had dated other men. Men that brought up another thing he wanted to talk to her about. "So about what you said last night."
Her pulse skittered, breathe, she told herself, everything will be fine if you just breathe. She had spent a lot of last night preparing herself for this conversation, and if she remembered to breathe she might actually get through it. "What did I say?"
"About not seeing me as a man, what did you mean by that?" Jason asked turning slightly to face her, stopping his scrubbing as he did so.
"Oh that," she laugh dismissively. "It just means that other than you being my boss, I haven't given you much thought." She closed her eyes waiting for the lightning bolt to strike her dead for lying, but God must have been busy, because no bolt came, she couldn't understand why she was more mad than relieved at that.
He didn't like the sound of that, he knew he wasn't unattractive, in fact he'd been told he looked pretty damn good. He didn't know why, maybe it was the stubborn tilt of her chin or the I dare you look she always had in her eyes, but he decided to prove a point to her. Shifting closer he reached for the brush again, deliberately brushing her hand as he did so.
It took nerve but she remained in place, he was up to something, think of something else she ordered her brain, that whole right brain, left brain thing, maybe it would work, he brushed her hand again, Doe a deer, a something, something deer.
"I have to admit I don't know if I like that," Jason said slowly his voice a little huskier than usual, his jean clad thigh pressed against her.
Ray a shaft of golden light
, Ha remembered that one, "I didn't mean it as an insult." She was absolutely thrilled that her voice sounded normal.Testing her he bent down and smelled her hair, now he recognized the scent. It was vanilla, he moved his mouth over to her ear, his breath warm on her exposed skin, "Well you did."
Me the name of an idiot
. She scrubbed harder at the part, but she couldn't help the slight shiver at the feel of his breath, "I didn't mean to."There he thought in triumph, her breathing was becoming more uneven, she wasn't as immune as she thought. He reached over and stopped her hand, "Don't use your nails, you'll hurt yourself," he said softly.
Sew….sew….needle…hell
, "That's okay I don't have much in the way of nails anyway."Jason moved then raising one arm over her head moving to stand behind her encasing her in his embrace, his hands covered hers on the part, "Let me help," he whispered in her ear.
Far….floor…a nice, nice place to fuu
, okay bad song, "J-jason," her voice broke when she felt his breath on her cheek.He smiled, oh she was definitely thinking of him as a man now. Letting go of the brush he put his hands on her shoulders and turn her around, so he could look in her face.
She stared up at him, her hands behind her gripping the sink she was leaning against. He braced one hand on either side of her on the sink, and bent down. Slowly and softly he moved his lips in the lightest of a caress over one cheek then the other, "So it really doesn't effect you when I do this."
The parts of a flower are so constructed that very, very often the wind will cause pollination,
God worse song. Her eyes widened and she tried desperately to switch her left brain off, she looked up at him and lied, "No."Pulling back slightly to study her before moving closer still, he parted her legs with one of his, and brought a thigh between hers, she was lying he could tell. He wondered how long it would take before she admitted it to him, for some reason he needed that admission, "How about this?"
Put your pollen tube to work
. She swallowed a groan, damn brain, "What are you trying to prove Morgan?" she was thrilled that her voice was still steady, of course what nails she did have were now permanently embedded in the sink wall, but she was still coherent.He smiled at her slightly, his face so close to hers they were almost sharing breaths. She was stubborn, but he could see her body, and she couldn't hide her reactions from him. Her eyes darkened more each time he touched her, her breathing had sped up, causing her chest to rise and fall more often, and drawing his attention to her t-shirt as it did so, her face was flushed, and she was worrying her bottom lip again. Oh yes she was definitely thinking of him as a man now, he lowered his head and began to nuzzle her neck, "So this doesn't do a thing for you."
Make my stamen go berserk
. She jerked away from him as that line ran through her head. "Knock it off Morgan," she ordered in a voice that barely made it over a whisper.He pulled away slightly to study her eyes, "If I were to kiss you, you wouldn't even respond?"
Where does the pollen go?
"No."Jason lowered his head, his lips hovered over her lips for a second, before they lowered even closer, and she felt the slightest whisper on her lips, then suddenly he stepped back away from her, "Good, just checking."
Bastard the thought ran through her head and almost flew out of her mouth, as she blinked up at him.
Jason studied her, oh yes she was aware of him he turned away from her, instead of the triumph he expected to feel, he was painfully aware of how aware of her he was too. Just what exactly had he been trying to prove, he wondered with a slight smile, whatever it was he thought he hadn't done it.
Her mercurial temper spiked when she saw his smile, as usual that caused her to speak before she thought, "So what was this, some sort of half-assed seduction because I hurt your feelings last night?"
Jason looked over at her as he picked up a rag to dry his hands, "You didn't hurt my feelings, but what if it was, I'm not a monk, I'm a man."
She smiled, "Really, well now I see why you haven't been with a woman in a while, if that was the best you could do, it sure explains a lot."
"Excuse me." He demanded insulted.
She heard the anger in his tone but didn't care, "It's okay I'm sure you'll do better with practice. If you want to know the truth I haven't been with a man in a long time either, so if you had pulled this little experiment yesterday before my date you might have had a different reaction from me."
Jason threw the rag on the bench and stalked over to her, Elizabeth gulped at the realization she might have gone a little to far, and she pressed herself back into the sink, "Do you mean you slept with him on your first date?"
Insulted, her eyes blazed at him, unmindful of the grease, she shoved at his chest trying to get him away from him, but he didn't budge, "What if I did? Are you jealous?"
Jealous, he had never been jealous in his life, he didn't even know what jealousy felt like it, and now he was afraid that that was what he was feeling and his temper spiked, "Answer me." He demanded his hands went to her hips to draw her flush against him.
"No." She admitted finally trapped by the power of those intense eyes, "But he is a damn fine kisser, no doubt better than you." She smiled up at him in a dare.
Oops, she thought as his expression darkened, she might have gone a little to far with that one too. She watched his expression change and the light of a challenge that had been accepted gleam in his eyes, a rakish grin crossed his features, causing her breath to back up in her lungs and her pulse began to throb in anticipation.
He lowered his head, pausing slightly when he saw her brace, before continuing the motion and lightly pressing his lips on hers in a soft caress.
Elizabeth had been preparing herself for power; but she had no defense for the persuasive softness of his lips as they firmly but softly caressed her mouth, his tongue tracing her bottom lip asking for admittance.
With a sigh she opened to him, his tongue slipped inside her mouth bringing with it the taste of him that was all male, and for this amazing second all hers. Her hands clenched at his hips molding him to her as he continued the deadly assault on her mouth.
He had thought he had only wanted a taste of her generous mouth, just a taste to prove to her that he was very much a flesh blood man, but when she sighed and opened to him, he realized he wanted so much more he wanted everything from her.
Her mouth began to move greedily on his as the passion grew between them, her hands raced over his long powerful body.
Jason hadn't felt anything close to this intensity, before, not even with Robin. Robin, the name was enough to wake him to what he was doing. He stepped away from her, breaking the kiss aware for the first time that his hand had slipped under her shirt seeking her skin. Her mouth was bruised from the onslaught of his kisses, her eyes still half closed in desire. He sucked in a breath and tore his gaze from her while he tried to even his breathing, "I'm sorry," he said finally.
Sorry, one word, five letters, and it had the power to end her world, she thought quickly turning around putting her back to him so he couldn't see the hurt on her face.
"Elizabeth," He studied the tense lines of her body and her bowed head.
God help me get through this, she thought bleakly before taking a breath, "You won Jason, you proved your point, I will definitely think of you as a man." She said bitterly, desperately fighting back her tears, "I guess I wasn't that much of a challenge to you."
"Elizabeth don't say that, I didn't mean it like that" He touched her shoulder.
She jerked away from his hand and picked up the scrub brush again, "No problem Jason."
"Damn'it I was a minute away from pulling you to the floor and taking you right there," Jason cried in frustration running a hand through his hair. "It's just, you're right," he felt desperate to explain away these feelings she had awoken in him, but knew he was failing miserably, "I haven't been with a woman in a very long time, and then there you were practically daring me."
With every word he was digging himself in deeper and deeper and with every word her anger was building. "So what? You had an itch that needed scratched and I was handy? Is that what your saying?" She asked angrily, whirling around to face him a livid expression on her face.
"No," He yelled appalled, "look it wasn't like that."
"It wasn't so clue me in, why did you kiss me?" She demanded, "If it wasn't to prove a point, or because I was handy why did you?"
Sonny walked into the entryway just in time to hear Elizabeth's question, he saw the fury and pain on her face and the confusion and pain on Jason's.
"I don't know," Jason admitted finally, "you made me mad."
"Asshole." She threw the brush at him catching a surprised Jason in the chest. She walked up to him and shoved him hard. Caught off guard he took a couple of steps back. "Next time you want to mess with someone's head stay the hell away from me." She yelled and shoved him again before turning and sprinting away from him and up the stairs.
Already off balance Jason collapsed against the car, his elbow catching the windshield when he did. His curse echoed through the garage, sending a wide-eyed Lucky back into the office.
Sonny wiped the smile off his face and walked over to Jason and leaned against the car next to him, "So are you having a good day?" he asked after a minute of silence.
Jason turned and glared at Sonny but said nothing.
"Did I miss anything interesting?"
"Drop it Sonny," Jason moved away from him absently rubbing his elbow, his eyes were on the stairs Elizabeth had disappeared up.
Sonny's laughter drew his attention back to him, "What's so funny?"
"You might want to change Jason." Sonny said finally.
He glanced down at himself, he didn't see anything wrong except for the grease stains on his shirt from where Elizabeth had shoved him, "Why?"
"Turn around," Sonny said with another laugh.
Jason crossed to a cracked mirror that was leaning against the far wall, and turned slightly, he could see Elizabeth's handprints on his butt and back, where she had grabbed him.
"Don't say a word," he ordered Sonny moving past him only to stop at the bottom of the stairs. He couldn't go upstairs, that was where she was.
Swallowing a groan, he walked back through the shop past an openly amused Sonny and slammed into the office, "Go Home!" Jason ordered Lucky with a glare.
Lucky jerked to his feet "I was just going to…"
Jason's eyes locked on him, "Leave."
Lucky backed up and tripped over a chair, sending himself flying into the file cabinet. He steadied himself, and propped the plant upright before backing towards the door. "Goodbye Jason, AHHHH." Lucky screamed and jumped, ramming his head in the door when he backed into Sonny.
"Are you okay Lucky?"
Lucky's head was throbbing, his ears were ringing and he was pretty sure he needed to change his pants, "Bye Sonny," he backed away from him, waiting until he was outside before turning to run to his bicycle, yes he needed to change.
"That boy is off." Sonny said with a shake of his head before he moved into the office.
~Upstairs~
Elizabeth prowled around Jason's room, trying to work off her temper. The nerve of that man, kissing her like that, until she was willing to do anything he wanted, and then telling her the only reason he did so was because he hadn't been with anyone in a long time. She paced into the storeroom and shoved at a box sending it crashing to the floor with a thud.
~Downstairs~
Jason and Sonny glanced up at the ceiling when they heard a thud followed in a rapid succession by two more. Sonny looked at Jason, "Do you think we should check on her?"
"I'm not going up there she's mad at me," Jason said immediately, "You go."
Sonny shook his head when another crash reverberated through the room. "Johnny." He yelled.
Johnny walked in from outside just as another crash sounded from above, "Yeah?"
"Go upstairs and check on Elizabeth."
Concerned Johnny took off for the stairs at a run.
Sonny stared after Johnny, "Do you think we should have warned him?"
Jason shrugged, "She likes Johnny." She always took his arm, always smiled at him, how many times had he seen them together at Jake's playing pool or cards? Jason's temper sizzled at that thought, "No she'll be glad to see Johnny," he said bitterly.
Sonny turned at Jason's comment and crossed over to take a seat, this was even better than he hoped, "You're jealous of Johnny."
~Upstairs~
Elizabeth glanced around the storeroom looking for something else to throw; she still had a good deal of temper to work through. Moving over to a box she tried to rip it open, it wouldn't give, so she tried to shove it off the rack but couldn't move it.
"Problem?" Johnny asked from the doorway while he surveyed the destroyed room.
"Yes my boss is a complete idiot and I can't get in this freaking box." She cried in disgust.
Johnny moved over to her carefully, he had grown up in a house full of women, four sisters and his mother so he knew better than anyone that when a temper was on a woman, it was best to stay out of their way and let it run it's course. His tongue automatically went to the cap on his tooth, a cap that was a present from his 14 year-old sister, when he had tried to stop her from trashing her room. He had been 10 at the time, but that particular lesson only took once. He pulled the box off the shelf and set it on the floor, and put it on the ground, before opening a pocketknife to slit open the lid.
Bending down she retrieved a box that held six lug nuts, and hocked it across the room in the vague direction of the window. "Why are men such dipsticks?"
"Genetics," Johnny offered sitting down and leaning against the wall to watch her.
Groaning she picked up another box, heaving it harder she was rewarded with a smack when it hit the wall. "So what that one extra chromosome is your excuse for everything?"
"Yes." He nodded, "You know if you apply a little torque as you release, you can probably increase your distance." He suggested "Or not," he said quickly when Elizabeth turned to glare at him.
"He kissed me." Throwing another box.
"Well it was about time, you two set off enough sparks when your together."
"But then he apologized and said he only did it because he hadn't been with a woman in a long time, and that I provoked him." She yelled throwing another one.
Johnny groaned, Jason you are such an idiot he thought watching her curve her release on her throwing motion and send the box of lug nuts sailing out the window.
~Downstairs~
Jason and Sonny glanced over at the window, when they heard the sound of breaking glass in time to see a box go falling by the window. Jason sighed and wrote himself a note to call the repairman.
"So you want to tell me what you did to get her so riled up?"
"I kissed her."
"That much I got, what else did you do?" Sonny asked.
"I apologized for it."
Sonny groaned and put his head in his hands, "Jesus, Jason have you learned nothing about women?"
He shifted in his seat apparently not, "What did I do? I told her that the reason I got so intense with her was because I hadn't been with a woman in months; I didn't want her to think I was always that out of control."
Sonny groaned again, "Tell me you were not that stupid."
"What did I do wrong?"
"Oh God you were." Sonny said with a shake of his head. Sometimes Jason really worried him.
~Upstairs~
Exhausted Elizabeth hocked the last box and it barely went a couple of feet, her arm felt like it would fall off if she lifted one more thing.
"Feel better," Johnny asked, figuring it was safe to talk now.
"No." She grumbled walking over to him and sitting down, "Why do I let him get to me like this?"
"Because you're in love with him." He answered slipping in arm around her shoulders.
"But I don't want to be in love with him, it hurts too much." She rested her head on Johnny's shoulder.
Johnny smiled ruefully, "No one said love was easy."
"Why couldn't I fall in love with a nice, normal guy like you? Why did I have to pick tall, brooding, and obviously clueless?"
"Hey who says I'm normal?" Johnny asked insulted.
"Sorry," she smiled, "But why couldn't I?"
"Because there was no zing when you looked at me. Your stomach didn't drop to your knees over the power of a glance. Your pulse doesn't race when I touch you, and your breath doesn't become uneven when I get near you. Jason makes all those things happen inside of you, you can't control who you fall in love with, even if it would be easier if you could," He finished wistfully.
She studied him, "Johnny who are you in love with?"
He jerked away from her, "What makes you think I am in love?" he asked defensively.
"You are," Elizabeth cried getting to her knees beside him, "tell me with who."
~Downstairs~
"Jason no woman ever wants to be told that kissing them was a mistake, or because you had an itch." He saw Jason flinch, "Tell me you didn't say that to her!"
Jason shook his head, "Of course not, she said it to me."
Sonny groaned then glanced at his watch, "We need to finish this conversation but right now I have to leave."
"There's nothing to finish, it was one kiss, it will never happen again," Jason said, wondering why it hurt to say those words.
~Upstairs~
"Leave it alone Elizabeth," Johnny got to his feet, "we were talking about you and Jason."
Elizabeth got to her feet as well, "There is no me and Jason and there never will be," she said with a sigh, she had to let go of these ridiculous fantasies about him.
Johnny reached out and ran his finger over her cheek, "He made you cry but I know he didn't mean to. You have to remember that men are pretty clueless when it comes to women."
"That ain't no lie."
He shook his head and went on, "Jason may be a little more clueless than other guys, remember he really has only been around for a few years, and he has only had one relationship. You might cut the guy some slack."
"Johnny," Sonny's voice reached them, "If your still alive, we need to leave."
She smiled and nodded her head, "Go, I'll be fine."
Johnny paused beside her, "Think about it," he said before kissing her cheek and walking out of the room.
Think about it, she didn't think she had a choice but to think about Jason. She could still feel the imprint of Jason's lips on hers. Her body still tingled at the memory of his embrace. Her skin was still heated where he had touched her. Jason Morgan had been foremost in her mind for months, after today there would be no getting rid of him.
~Downstairs~
Jason pulled open a drawer in the file cabinet and pulled out a shirt before slamming it shut again with a grimace. He took off his shirt and threw it in the trash his mind still thinking about that kiss. He had no idea that she would taste like that, that she would respond like that, if he had he would have. Jason frowned he would have what? Kissed her before, what about Robin? He wondered darkly.
He jumped when he felt a hand on his back, for a brief instant he allowed himself to believe it was her, but he knew it wasn't. His body hadn't tightened; the hairs on the back of his neck hadn't risen like they always did when she entered the room.
"Are you putting on a show?" she asked her fingers idly tracing the muscles of his back, before placing a kiss in the center of his shoulder blades.
Pulling away from her he put on his shirt, "What do you want Carly?" he asked turning to face her.
"I think you know what I want," Carly smiled and ran a hand over his chest, "I want what I always want Jase," she placed a kiss on his neck, "You."
He caught her arms and pulled her away from him, "Knock it off Carly we don't do this anymore."
She leaned against the desk, and pouted, "Why not? The perfect little saint and you haven't been together in months, and I know you miss us."
"Carly we are friends, that is all we will ever be." He moved past her to stare out of the office door towards the stairway beyond it.
"Come on Jase, I know you." Walking up behind him, she slipped her hands around his waist, "You have to much fire and need in you to be content with nothing.
"Carly."
"Jase you used to want me so bad, you could barely get me in the room, against the wall, against the door, at the docks, anywhere, we were desperate for each other. Don't try to tell me that that is all gone because I won't believe it." She kept her hands on him and moved around to face him.
"Go home to Dr. Jones Carly." He put his hands on her hips to push her away.
"No, " smiling in triumph she pulled his head down to hers.
For a second he gave into the kiss, he hadn't been lying earlier he was a flesh and blood man, and he was lonely. He had just now been kissed twice in the past hour and before that it had been months. But this kiss was different, it didn't make him feel like Elizabeth's had in fact it didn't make him feel anything at all, even the fire that he and Carly once had, seemed to be gone. This time when she kissed him he felt nothing, just like when Keshia had kissed him after the accident, he felt nothing for her.
Elizabeth walked down the stairs; she had given what Johnny said a lot of thought. He was right, Jason did mess up at times but she knew his heart was in the right place. Besides she couldn't help it, jerk or not she loved Jason Morgan.
Looking over at the office she felt her heart break. Jason was kissing some blonde, she stood there staring, unable to turn away from the sight. She sucked in a breath and with it came all the pain that she felt at that moment.
Jason broke the kiss, "Carly," he said with a sigh he knew this was going to hurt her.
"What Jason? Our connection is still there, just like that last time we slept together, heck every time we slept together even when we didn't even know each other's names. This connection will always be there, even the saint knew that," Carly said with a grin, her words carrying to Elizabeth.
His body tightened when he felt the weight of her gaze, his head whipped up and locked on Elizabeth's pale face. For a second he could read the hurt and pain in her face before she closed it off and began to move towards the door."
"Elizabeth," Jason brushed past a forgotten Carly, "wait let me explain."
Elizabeth sped up, hoping to make it to her car before she made a total ass out of herself by bursting into tears in front of him. Her hand was reaching out with her keys to unlock the door when his hand came down on her arm.
"Elizabeth let me explain."
"I think we've said it all Jason." She refused to look at him, "It looks like your own personal itch scratcher showed up just in time." She jerked her arm from his hold and dropped her keys in the process. She bent down to retrieve them, Jason's hand closed over them an instant before hers did.
"That's not what she is," He was desperate to explain, for once he wanted to explain something and she wouldn't listen to him.
"Whatever, I don't need to hear it, its none of my business. Can I have my keys?" She asked getting to her feet, and holding out her hand to him.
"Please," he said softly taking her outstretched hand.
Elizabeth looked down at their joined hands and felt herself weaken, "Jason."
"Hey Jase," Carly called from the garage.
She jerked her arm back, how could she have forgotten? Taking advantage of his surprised expression she snatched the keys from his hand. "I'm glad you won't be lonely tonight, maybe being with her will put you in a better mood." The words began tumbling faster out of her mouth. "I need to leave now, I have a date with Danny, so it looks like both of out love lives are improving, isn't that great?" she opened her door and all but jumped in the car.
Jason caught the door before she could close it, "This isn't over Elizabeth."
"Jase," Carly called again.
Elizabeth looked at him then, and let him see the hurt and anger in her eyes, "Your date's waiting," she said starting her car.
He jumped back as the door was ripped out of his hands and closed. This isn't over Elizabeth, he thought watching her car, not by a long shot.
Song Credits: Do-Re-Mi from the Sound of Music
Reproduction from the movie Grease 2
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