Glad to see some people are enjoying it. (:

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After she shooed Maxie out of her house, Sam made sure she was actually there alone. Checking all the rooms and closed doors, gun in hand. Once it was clear she wasn't being threatened..as of yet, she went to her refrigerator and pulled out the tub of chocolate ice cream, and got a spoon. While she was eating, and watching TV. the phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Do my ears deceive me or is this Miss McCall?"

"This is Sam. How may help you Sasha?"

"Well, I was actually calling exactly for this purpose, to see if you would pick up the phone."

"Why is that?"

"Well, the warehouse you were in a few hours ago, has just been discovered as being blown to shreds, with all employees, besides you of course, dead."

"Yeah, I figured you would ask about that eventually." Sam replied, trying to come up with a good cover.

"Care to explain how you're the only surviving person of the warehouse Jason Morgan ambushed?"

"Well I don't really know how to explain it. People came in and started shooting, I didn't have a gun so really I just took cover, and then a gun was slid near me. As I went to grab it, Jason came around the corner, asked what I was doing there, and then proceeded to drag me to his penthouse."

"You didn't try and stop him?"

"I may not like Jason, but I wont stop him from saving my life Sasha." Sam sneered. Wondering to herself if that sentence was entirely true.

"I assume he again asked what you were doing at the warehouse. What did you tell him?"

"Nothing. I said it was my business."

"Nice Samantha. Now Jason will be on our back. How do you expect me to explain this one to Mr. Karpov? I may as well just give you up to him now and let you suffer his death sentence."

"Wait."

"What is it?"

"I have an idea." Sam said uneasily. Hoping this would work….

"Keep talking."

"I know Jason will ask me again eventually. What if I tell him something crazy, like I'm working undercover. If I know Jason, he'll accept the answer, as long as I make it sound good, offer his help, I'll decline of course, and then we can both go on our merry little ways."

The other end of the phone was silent for a few moments as Sasha pondered the idea.

"Fine. We'll give it a go, and I'll keep silent to Karpov…for now."

Sam heard a click, indicating that the other line had ended. She hung up her own phone and sunk deeper into the couch. She stared down at the melting ice cream in her bowl and rolled her eyes. She got up and stuck it back into the freezer, letting it harden once again.

Walking into the bathroom, she turned the shower knob and adjusted the temperature to her liking. After getting out a towel and cloth, she stepped in and bathed. When she had finished, and got dressed in lounge clothes, she sat back down on her couch. Her mind kept wandering back to earlier when she was at Jason's penthouse. She couldn't shake the feeling she got there. It just felt so…so right.

The phone rang again. She picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Sam its Maxie!"

"What's up Maxie?"

"Not much. I get off work in about two hours and I was wondering if you wanted to go to Jakes with me? We haven't had a girls night in forever!"

Sam laughed. "Sure Maxie. I'll meet you at Jakes at 9:30. Sound good?"

"Sounds perfect! See ya later!"

"Bye Maxie."

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Elizabeth tapped her foot impatiently. This was the fourth time she had tried to call Jason today, and the fourth time her call had gone to voicemail. Her Grams would only keep the boys for a few more hours, and she needed some safe house sex badly.

"Come on Jason answer the phone!" Again she got the voicemail.

"Hey Jase! Its Liz, ummm, I was hoping you could meet me soon. I haven't seen you in a while, and I figured maybe you'd like to have some fun tonight. Call me back, or meet me in two hours. Hopefully I'll see you then. I love you."

She left the break room and went back to the nurses station to finish her ever growing pile of patient folders, wondering where the hell Jason could be.

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Jason woke up dazed. He had no clue where he was. His chest her like hell, as did his head. After a few moments he realized that he couldn't move. Opening his eyes a little wider he saw that his feet were hand cuffed to a bed post, and his hands were hand cuffed behind him. He tried to snake his hands through the holes from behind his back but it was no use. They were to tight. In the back of his mind he already knew they would be, but he figured he may as well try anyway.

After struggling for a few more minutes, a person with a small frame, Jason figured it was a woman, but they had a mask on so he wasn't sure, came in and lifted his shirt. He looked down as they took off some bloody bandaging that was wrapped around his chest, and applied new ones. They also held pills up to his mouth. He looked at them for a moment, before nodding and opening his mouth. Grateful that they were at least giving him something for the pain. The he heard it.

That voice….he knew it sounded familiar by the docks.

"Who the hell is that?" Jason yelled.

The man just laughed. Not like a "haha funny" laugh. A sinister, smug, sickening laugh. One that made Jason want to get up and beat the shit out of him and then put a bullet in his head.

"Who the hell are you? Show your face you coward! Show your face or I swear to god….." He trailed off, knowing he was in no position to be making threats.

"Or you'll what Jason? Shoot me? I don't think your in a position to make threats here. You might want to shut your trap and be a good little hostage. Don't worry though. You won't be here alone for long. I plan to have Elizabeth, and the woman you love here with you soon."

"Touch Elizabeth and I'll kill you." Jason said, his baby blue eyes turning "Stone Cold".

"What? No words of love for the other woman? Just as I thought. I'm sure she feels the same way though. After all, what you did to her, you don't deserve her anyways. But I would have never hurt her. Sure I did a little bit when I had to turn her down but, I never, never, would have hurt her like you did. And to think, you were supposed to love her and that little girl of hers. What happened Jase? Did you suddenly just stop being a man of your word? Guess so." The man let out another blood curdling laugh.

Jason just sat there in shock at the realization of who the man was. He shook his head.

"No….It can't be…."

"Oh, but it is Jason. I have some business to attend to. See you in a little bit."

"Wait a minute! Why are you doing this? Leave the women alone! They haven't done anything to you!"

"Yes they have!" The man yelled.

"Maybe not your love. But Elizabeth! Yes she has Jason! She hurt the woman you love even more so then you did, and she has to pay for that. Which she will. Don't worry about it though. I won't make it THAT slow and painful." Another laugh followed as he strode out of the basement that Jason was being kept in, and back up to his business.

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After leaving Jason in the cell, the man walked back to his office and sat down in his desk chair. He took a sip of his scotch and then opened up his lower desk drawer. He pulled out a folder and opened it on his desk. He held up a picture of her. Ran his thumb over her face, her mouth, how he longed to kiss it again.

"Soon…" He said.

"Soon, you'll be mine again. I'm sorry I chose her over you. God that was the worst mistake of my life. No, second worst. The worst was giving you to Jason, and letting him hurt you like that. I'm so sorry, so sorry." He repeated.

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Any idea who Jason's kidnapper is? It shouldn't be TOO hard to guess…I thought my clues were pretty obvious, but if not, then that's good too.

Next Chapter: Liz and Sam get some special invitations, Liz goes to Sam for help, I might have Jason reveal the kidnapper……