A/N: I must say that the response I have received requesting that this be turned into a chapter story was a surprise but a delightful one, thank you. I would also like to take a moment to send out a big THANK YOU to all of you whom left a review; this chapter is for all of you. I hope that you enjoy it as much as the first.

RED – Jason and Samantha

Inspirational Song: Not Alone - RED

"Remember what I keep telling you, how you should trust your instincts. I need you to take a breath, count to 10 and listen to them now."

Jason closed his eyes took a deep breath and began to count as instructed when it hit him. She was so tiny and beautiful with same light olive complexion of her mother; she had her mom's heart shaped face and the darkest thick head of curly hair he'd ever seen on a newborn. She was quiet, peaceful it was almost as if she was only sleeping but he knew she wasn't. He knew that her small eyes would never open to look up at him. They would never see her how much love her Dad will always hold in his heart for her. His heart breaking he whispers his love for her out loud before placing a kiss on her forehead his hands start shake as the pain fully hits him when he places his little girls' body back in the hospital carrier, that this would be the one and only time he gets to hold his daughter. Jason's eyes shot open an unnoticed tear falling down his cheek.

"I have to get to Sam." He averred taking a step in the direction of the now open doors he'd watched Sam disappear behind earlier that night, only to be stopped by someone clinching the back right arm of his suit.

"Jason, please don't fall for all their lies again." Elizabeth began to plead scurrying forward so that she can take hold of his arm. If she could just get a few minutes with him she was sure she could make him see how much they still loved and needed each other. Then she could explain this was how Sam, Carly, Sonny, and all the others always worked. It was how they would get him to cast her aside, how they always did everything in their power to be MORE important to him; which was why he'd always chose them over her and her boys because THEY would never allow them to just be happy together like they were meant to be.

"If you don't remove your hand from me I am not responsible for what I do." Jason vowed his voice deadly calm each word spoken laced with malice he felt for her now; he was almost surprised by how much he truly meant them.

"But Jason I…" Elizabeth gasped in hurt instantly pulling her hand from him, stumbling back a few steps in shocked disbelief that the love of her life was talking to her in such a manner.

Jason rotated around slowly so that he could look Elizabeth in her eyes when he conveyed to her exactly how selfish she'd become in his eyes. "Lies… you want to talk about lies. Okay let's recap shall we. First I learn that you decided I never needed to know my wife. You made the choice that my son was better off believing I was dead, that it was okay for him to be raised by another man. Now you want to stand there and try to desecrate what my daughter meant to me!"

"But Jason she was never your…" Liz sought once more to keep Jason from being pulled back into Carly and Sam's lie.

"YOU FINISH THAT SENTENCE AND I SWEAR…." He had to focus now on keeping his fisted hands at his sides, he would have never dreamed that the Elizabeth could make him feel the fury that was currently consuming him. Taking a step back didn't seem to help so he took another. "I love that little girl. She was… she is my daughter. If you ever say..."he began to vow taking a small step back towards her this time.

"Jason you remembered something, didn't you?" Carly asked softly stepping into her best friends' line of sight cutting him off. Carly had seen that look in his eyes, heard that tone of his voice only a hand full of other time in her life it always ended in a promise he meant and would keep. He needed to be side tracked and to be honest she was being selfishly hopeful when he'd said she was his daughter as if he knew her.

"It was just another flicker but" Jason paused once again as his little girls angelic face flashed in his mind.

"Of what?" Carly did what she was best at and pushed him for more, thanking the god above that Elizabeth finally enough sense to walk away as she caught a glimpse of her in leaving in her peripheral vision.

"Her, I was holding her. I whispered to her that I loved her. It was just a few seconds but I can still feel how much I loved her, how much I wanted for her to open her eyes." Jason raised his hands to look at them, they seemed so empty to him even now years later with only those few seconds of her secure in them present in his memory. It was all he had of her, but this time unlike all the other flickers he'd had before, this one moment in time was all he needed to know how much he loved her; in this life, that life or any other life he's had she was and would always be his daughter. "I need to find Sam."

"Jason no, I can't let you do that." Carly said stepping to the side so that she stayed directly in his path.

"You're not funny." He said in an angry chuckle as he shook his finger at Carly for making a bad joke.

"Jason I'm serious. Sam already has a lot on her shoulders; she can't deal with this too." She knew this Jason; he may not understand why he so desperately needed to be with Sam at that moment but she did it was classic Jason Morgan.

"Seriously Carly, I need to be with Sam right now." He practically demanded as he tried to move towards the elevators once again unsuccessful as Carly moved with him.

"No, no you don't. Come on Jason you know I hate it when you make me be the logical one. If you go there tonight you and I both know it's not for Sam. You will be going because you feel guilty for not remembering your daughter, guilty for not remember Sam or this amazing life and family you shared together."

Frustrated Jason ran his hands through his and blew out a breath, damn it she had a point and it was NOT what he wanted to hear. Still something inside him knew she wasn't going to stop until Carly has finished saying her piece.

"I know you would never admit it but that flicker you just had scared the hell out you. It made you realize that you've been pushing aside, or in my opinion running away from, a much deeper connect to Sam that has always been there. " Carly knew she was pushing it, she knew with each word she said was pissing him off. Still this had always been the nature of their friendship, why they would always be best friends, total sometimes brutal honesty with each other.

"I really don't have time for this." Taking Carly's shoulders in his hands he moved her aside walked quickly only to have the elevator doors close just as he reached his destination, hitting the door in aggravation before spotting the down button.

"Look I know that what you and Sam shared was deep and real and knowing that someone can love you like that can be out right terrifying but Jase if you show up there tonight you're only going to hurt her more." Carly started in again right where she'd left off, grateful that he missed the elevator.

Her words that he could cause Sam more pain that he already has stopped Jason from incessantly pressing the button in front of him and face his friend.

"That little girl was the reason you and Sam found each other. For you to tell her that you had just a flicker of her but that you don't have any memories of the moments of how or why you fell so in love with your daughter…"

"It would crush her." Jason uttered softly finishing Carly argument for her as the devastation in Sam's face came to mind after he'd told her he remember only a moment of them together in her room; how much pain was he saw in her eyes as he explained that remembering a single moment of them together did not change anything for him.

"Oh my little girl, I hate not seeing your name on here. As much as I hate it though, I'll never have the heart to change it." Sam said as she knelt down to brush her daughter's headstone clean of debris which was mostly leafs. It was strange the last Christmas when she came to visit it had been covered in snow. She place a kiss on the tips of her fingers then pressed them over the Baby that she had always wish showed her daughter name. Sonny had been the one to order the headstone, while Jason had been in charge of her birth and death certificate both of which bared the name Lyla Rose Morgan.

"Not a single day goes by that I don't think of you. Your Dad was right when he said the pain of losing you would never go away… some days are better than other but it's always there." She confessed brushing away another fallen tear. It wasn't until Sam received the copies of Lyla's Birth and Death certificates in the mail that she realized how much naming Lyla after his late grandmother had meant to him. Sam had asked him that night why he'd chosen the middle name Rose and Jason said it had been Lila's favorite flower; she'd had a big garden full of them. Their daughter's name had somehow become their secret; it had been Jason way of physically showing Sam that she was his little girl, their daughter. Apart of Lyla that had made her their baby girl… but now, now those memories that knowledge was Sam's alone.