When Jason got to Sam's the next morning she had already packed everything up. They sat and had a cup of coffee and waited until it was time to wake the kids up. "What was Spinelli going to do today?" Jason asked Sam. Sam smiled at him and said "Paperwork. I taught him how to do it last week and he actually thought it was fun. So I have him doing all of it today." Jason laughed a little and shook his head. "How have you been doing with everything?" Sam asked him. Jason gave her a shrug and said "It's gotten a lot better. Michael has his anger completely under control so I don't have to worry about him living with Carly. I just don't know how to handle Claudia. Sam, I know she is responsible but I can't do anything about it. Not just because she is pregnant but because Sonny is falling in love with her. And I don't know how to stop him." Jason got up and walked over to the window in Sam's living room. "It makes complete sense that it was Claudia, Jason. Why isn't Sonny seeing this?" Sam walked over to him.
"He's blinded. He thinks that Claudia would never endanger a child but it isn't about that. Sonny was the target and after Sonny had Johnny kidnapped, Claudia was furious. She hated Sonny after that and wanted him to pay. And without anything solid Sonny is not going to believe that. And even if I did, I am not sure that Sonny would take care of it anyway. I can't trust him to anyway." Jason shook his head and turned around. "That recording you help me get about Claudia hiring Frado? When is played it to him all he said was she was trying to do us a favor. I want her to pay, Sam. More than anything but I'm starting to wonder if I should just let it go. Michael is awake and he is going to be fine…" "Jason, she may not have indented for Michael to get shot but that boy lost a year of his life. If Claudia arranged that hit, she deserves to pay for it. But maybe not in the way you usually do." Jason looked at her confused. "When we get back we can still keep digging and when we find it we take it to the police. Just hear me out. I know that you don't trust the justice system but being a PI has its perks. A few of PC's finest judges have a lot of skeletons in their closets. And they would do anything to make sure that the information I have never gets out." Sam smiled at him.
Jason looked at her and smiled softly "Was this side of you always around or did you wait until after you found out you were a Cassadine?" he asked. Sam laughed and said "I'm serious. Look, I'll call Spinelli and tell him to forget about the paper work and start looking deeper into Claudia's financials around the time Michael was shot. There has to be something that ties her to this. I can have him try to hack into Devlin's email accounts to see if that could lead us anywhere." Jason nodded his head and said "That's actually a good idea. Hopefully we can find some file or lead to something else." Sam nodded her head. She pulled out her phone and left a message for Spinelli and asked him to do what they had talked about. Sam turned back around and told Jason "We could probably wake the kids now. The girls will want to take a shower before we go." She turned to walk down the hall but was stopped when Jason reached out and grabbed her hand. She turned to him and he pulled her and little bit closer. "Thank you for all the help that you have given me during this. And I'm not just talking about the PI help but also being there to talk to me. You have helped me out more than you could possible know." He squeezed her hand gently.
Sam felt that squeeze radiate through her body and wrap around her heart. She had tried to steel herself from the feelings that had been resurfacing but when he did and said things like this it made it so much harder than it already was. Sam stared back up at him unable to find the words to say anything. She felt Jason run his thumb across the top of her hand and she looked down at the caress. She feels Jason step closer to her and she looks back up to his face. He has that look back in his eyes. The look that said he was about to kiss her. And Sam could not come up with a single reason to pull away. Jason leaned down slowly so that Sam had plenty of time to pull away but when closed her eyes and tilted her head up he knew she wouldn't. But before his lips could meet hers they heard the bathroom door close. They jumped apart a second before Michael appeared in the living room. "Hey morning guys." He said a little groggily. Sam smiled and said "Good morning. Did you sleep ok?" Michael nodded his head and said "Yeah. That mattress is really comfortable. Morgan is awake and getting ready. Do you want me to wake the girls?"
Sam nodded her head and said "Yeah that you be great. I'm going to go and check to make sure I didn't forget anything and then call mom. She should be up by now and wanted me to call before we left." Sam avoided eyes contact with Jason and she went back to her bed room. Jason looked at him nephew and said "I'm going to make sure that everything is packed in the car. Try and have everyone ready in the next half hour ok?" Michael nodded his head and watched with a smile as his uncle went out the door. Michael turned around and went into the bedroom. What Sam and Jason didn't know was that all the kids had been up for a while now and were going through the plan. He closed the door behind him and looked at them "They almost kissed." Molly and Krissy could barely control their glee. "Ok. So here is what we are going to do. On the ride up there we are going to try to get them to talk about their past. Michael and I can ask them question about the time that we spent with them and you too can ask them about when they met and the first time they went to the beach together. By the time that we are done taking them back down memory lane, they will realize that they still love each other and will be back together." Krissy explained. They all nodded "But we have to be careful. We can't ask them certain questions like why they broke up or anything like that. We need them to remember how good they were together. Agreed?" Krissy put her hand in and looked at them. "Agreed" they all said and put their hands in also.
Jason pulled into the parking lot at the beach. He hadn't been to the beach in yeas but he still remembered a secluded part of the beach that not many knew about. And lucky enough, not one else looked to be around. They had stopped for breakfast at a dinner about 45 minutes after they left. They were back on the road in about 30 minutes. The kids sat in the back and were pretty talkative. Molly had asked them if they remember the first time that they went to the beach. Sam and Jason looked and each other and smiled as Sam told her about Hawaii and some of the things that they did there. Then Morgan asked how they met because he was just a baby at the time. Jason laughed and decided to tell him the truth; that they had met in the interrogation room and the PCPD. They all got a kick out of that. Then Michael had brought up the time him and his grandpa Mike set up those clues about Sonny sending them on a cruise after everything that had happened with AJ. That had been a complete surprise to the both of them and some of it not in a good way but they had decided to keep that to themselves. Then Kristina talked about the number of times that Jason and Sam had took her out on his boat and into the ocean. That had brought a smile to Sam's face because she remembered the first time that they did that. It was while they were separated and it had just been a really fun day. Krissy had a blast out on the water and her and Jason got along really well. "You guys had a lot of fun together, huh?" Molly asked. Jason and Sam looked at each other and thought back on all the good times. They both smiled and looked away but it didn't go unnoticed by the kids that they didn't answer the question.
Jason closed the car door and walked to the back of it. He popped the trunk and started to hand some stuff to the kids. Jason got the cooler out and Sam balanced the chairs. Jason laughed at her and took half of the stake and placed it on the cooler. "I had it, thank you very much." She said at his laugh. "Sure but you wouldn't be able to see where you were going." She mockingly glared at him before turning and walking away. Jason closed the trunk and followed behind Sam. She was far enough ahead of him that her whole body was in view. Sam had changed into white jean shorts and a yellow tank top. She had on a pair of white sandals as soon as she hit the san she stopped to take off. She bent over and picked them up giving Jason a perfect view of her round bottom. Jason almost stumbled as she came back up. He mentally slapped himself for looking at her like that. The kids were here. He continued to follow her to where the kids had decided they wanted to set up. Kristina and Michael put up the umbrellas and when Sam and Jason got to them they set up the chairs.
The kids wasted no time and got undressed down to their bathing suits and ran for the water. Sam took her phone out and snapped a picture of them all diving into the water at the same time. Sam and Jason laughed as they all came up out of the water looking like flapping fish. Sam sent he picture to Alexis and Carly real fast before putting her phone back in her pocket and looking at Jason. She put her hands and her hips and said "Alright. You knew the rules. So you had better have swim trunks in that bag." She said pointing to his black duffle. Jason crossed her arms over his chest and said "And if I don't?" Sam bent over and ruffled through her own bag before she stood back up and held up and pair of hot pink swim trunk and smiled "Then I guess you will just have to wear these." Jason looked horrified at the sight of the trunks and said "Then it's a good thing I brought my own." He picked up the duffel bag and walked toward the bathroom to the left. Sam laughed as she watched him walk away.
Sam looked back at the kids and saw that they were playing a game of chicken. Molly was on Kristina's shoulders and Morgan was on Michael's. Sam smiled at the sight to them laughing and having a good time. Sam had really missed the ocean. Being a salvage worker, you took it for granted because it was always there but in the years that she had been in Port Charles, she just wanted to be back in the water. Sam started to get undressed down to her baling suit. She took off her top and then unbuttoned her shorts and shimmed out of them. She was wearing her favorite suit. She had many of them but this one was one of her favorites. It was a one piece that was black and white. The suit was black and it had what looked like sunrays coming from the left side out to the right. It was also one of her more comfortable ones.
She saw something move to the right of her and looked over. She saw Jason walking back toward her. She was taken aback by the sight of him. He was wearing the trunks that she had bought for him when they were in Hawaii. He also had on a white wife beater that showcased the top of his build body beautifully. As he came up to her he spread his arms out and said "Do I pass inspection?" his words made her laugh and she asked "You kept these?" pointing down at the trunks. He nodded and said "They were the only ones I have." Sam nodded her head. Jason looked out at the water and smiled at the kids. Sam let her eyes roam over Jason one last time to take in the muscles that he had accumulated in the past year. She turned back around to shield her face and mouthed to herself "wow." Sam pulled out her bottle of sun screen and started to apply it to her skin. She finished with her arms and her legs and was wondering how she was going to get it in her back. She had decided to forgo it when Jason said "Here" He held his hand out and for her to give him the lotion. "It's fine…" she started to say before Jason gave her a deadpan look. "That is where you always burn the easiest" was all he said before he took the lotion from her.
Sam turned her back to him and slid the straps of her suit to the side. Jason poured the lotion into his hands and rubbed them together. He looked at the curve of her back and tried to control his desire. He slowly lathered her back with the sunscreen. The open back of her suit went pretty far down. It covered to about an inch above her bottom. Sam closed her eyes at the feel of his hands on her bare skin. When they were in Hawaii and Jason used to do this most of the time it would lead them back to the bed room. Jason moved his hands back up and to her shoulders. He softly rubbed there and it was all Sam could do not to moan in pleasure. He then slid his hands down to the top of her arms. She felt Jason move closer to her body from behind and Sam's eyes popped open. A second later they heard Morgan yell "Come on and get in the water!" Jason stepped back and Sam pulled her straps back in place. "Well I don't know about you but I am going to get in the water. It's been a while since I have. Unless you could the time we jumped off that exploding boat." Sam turned and smiled at him. Jason smiled down at her at the memory of them barely escaping death. Sam turned back around and headed for the water leaving Jason to stare after her.
That was the second time today Jason was sure that she had been feeling what he was. The heat. The desire and the attraction. He could see the scared look her eyes this morning but it didn't stop her form wanting that kiss just as much as he did. He know that they would have a long talk ahead of them but at this moment, watching her with her sisters and his nephews, he knew deep down that they would get there. All he had to do was not give up on them. And he had decided long ago that if he was lucky enough to get a second chance with Sam that is something he would never do again.
Jason and Sam sat next to each other up on the beach as they watched the kids play a game of beach volleyball. It was boys vs. girls and Krissy and Molly were kicking their butts. "And here I thought that the males were supposed to be the superior species." Molly said laughing with her sister. "We are," Michael replied "Morgan is just a little short and I spent over a year in a coma. Give us a break." Sam looked at Jason as he hung and shook his head. Sam started to laugh and then Jason said "Michael that kind of excuse should not be for a game of volleyball." Sam laughed harder at the expression that came over Michael's face. Sam didn't want to think he was laughing at him so she touched her forehead to Jason bicep and shook her head. "I swear before this day is over these kids are going to kill me." she whispered. She felt Jason's body shake with laughter. Sam pulled her head back and looked at him "Where the hell did that kid get his sense of humor? It sure wasn't from you." Jason looked down at her with mock hurt "I'm funny." He said. Sam out right laughed. She laughed so hard that it brought tears to her eyes. Jason shook his head at her and said "That's not right. I remember many times that I have made you laugh." "But not from being funny. It was over stuff like watching you use chopsticks or the expressions on your face whenever you would have a conversation with Carly." "You still laughed." He said
Sam shook her head and looked back to the kids, who had huge smiles on their faces. "What?" she called out to them. They all said "Nothing" at the same time and then they all looked away. Sam looked at Jason and saw he had the same confused look on his face. "They have been acting kind of strange today, huh?" Sam asked him. Jason nodded his head and said "Yeah and usually that wouldn't worry me but Michael and Morgan have the same look on their face that Carly does when she is scheming." Before Sam could answer the kids came up the beach and Michael said "Is it ok if we walk up the beach a little ways? Kristina said a few of her friends are there and Morgan and Molly want to get one of coconut drinks with the umbrella." Jason and Sam nodded and got up "Sure." Sam said. "But umm… can we go by ourselves? No offence but it is going to look a little lame showing up with our big sister and uncle." Kristina said. "Hey we are not lame." Sam said outraged. "Sam, you're an adult. You're lame. And so are you." she said looking at both Jason and Sam. Sam's mouth hung open and she said "Fine. Get out of here. Go." She shooed them with her hands. They all laughed and came over and tackled Sam back on her towel. They all gave her a kiss on the cheek as she said with a laugh "Get off of me."
They all put their clothes back on and Jason said "You two keep an eye on them. It's going to be easy to get lost around all those people." Michael looked at him and said "You worry too much. I guess that's how you know you're getting old." The kids laughed and took off running when they saw Jason move to stand up. Sam laughed and Jason looked over at her. He raised his eyebrows at her and she said "What? That was funny." "Like you being lame?" he retorted. "Hey, they said you were lame too. They just didn't call me old." Sam looked away from him to try and hide her smile. "Ok you know what" Jason stood up and then leaned over and threw her over his shoulder. Sam shrieked with a laugh. Jason secured her firmly on his shoulder and then started to walk toward the ocean. "Jason Morgan put me down." Sam tried to say in a stern voice. "No." was all he replied. "I'm not the one that called you old, Michael did. Go throw him in." Sam tried to reason with him. "No" he repeated. "Jason!" Sam yelled with a laugh.
Before she could say anything else she felt the water hit her feet and she plugged her nose a second before he dove into a wave. The cool water felt good against her hot skin. When Sam came up to the surface she saw Jason with his back to her walking out of the water. She smiled slyly to herself before she dove under the water and swam for his feet. She hit the back of his lets and made him fall backwards into the water. They came up at the same time and Sam splashed him with water "That was not nice." He slashed her back and said "Neither is calling someone old." "I didn't, Michael did!" she said mouth agape. "You laughed. And you really shouldn't have because you know it's not going to be long before you are old to them too." he said holding up his hands. Sam's jaw dropped and she tried not to laugh but failed. Sam jumped on him to dunk his head because he wasn't prepared for her he went down. Sam laughed at him and when he came up she started to splash water at him. Because he was much taller than her he was able to block most of it and made a grab for her hands.
Jason grabbed her wrists and pinned them behind her back. He smiled down at her as Sam laughed. He could not remember the last time he had hear her laugh so much and it made his heart skip a beat every time she did. He looked down at her and saw that because he had her hands trapped, their bodies were pressed flush together. Sam's laughter died when she noticed the closeness too. They stared into each other's eyes for they didn't know how long. Jason released her wrists and let his hand guide up to the middle of her back. If possible he pressed her even closer to his front and he heard Sam's breathe hitch. Sam's newly freed hands came up and rested against his bare chest. Jason leaned his head down and touched his forehead to hers. Sam closed her eyes against the emotions welling up inside her. Jason brought his other arm around her and felt his heart go wild at the feel of her in his arms again. Sam opened her eyes and stared back into his. The feelings became too much for the both of them and Jason leaned down at the same time Sam went up on her toes.
For the first time in over 3 years their lips met in a soft touch. Sam sighed at the familiar feeling of his mouth on hers. One of Jason's hands moved up her back and to her neck. He wrapped his hand around the back of it as if to keep her in place. Sam ran her hands down his chest and around to his back. The kiss went from sweet to sinful as Sam opened her mouth at the pressure of his tongue. She had pushed all thoughts of Jason out of her head for the past three years that she had forgotten how unbelievably great the man could kiss. Jason hand left her neck as Sam felt both of his hands glide down her back and cup her butt. He gave her a firm squeeze that had her gasp "Jason…" against his lips. He lifted her up and Sam automatically wrapped her legs around his waist. Her arms wrapped around his neck and she pressed her lips back to his. Jason felt Sam's nipples harden against his chest and he relished in the feel of it. He wanted nothing more than to walk her back up to the beach and lay her down on the blanket and strip her bare.
But before he could even move he and Sam both heard the sound of two female screams. They pulled apart and looked over to where the noise came from. They saw all four of the kids and the girls were jumping up and down. All of them have a huge smile on their faces and they started to high five each other. Sam groaned and dropped her head to Jason's neck. "Those boys really are Carly's kids." She said. She felt Jason laugh and then felt him press a kiss to her neck. "We actually did it." Kristina said. "I told you it would work." They both heard Michael say. Sam lifted her head and looked at Jason. He was looking over at the kids and he was narrowing his eyes at them. "Definitely Carly's." he said.
"Start talking." Jason said to the kids. Jason and Sam had got out of the water and walked over to them. They had all walked over to where their stuff was at made them sit down. "What did you mean when you said that it worked?" he asked. The kids all looked to each other and Sam said "Well?" "We wanted you guys to get back together." Molly finally blurted. "Molly!" the rest of them said to her. Sam looked over and Jason and could see he was trying not to smile just like she was doing the same. "What? It doesn't matter now. They are back together and it worked!" Molly said gleefully. "What exactly was the plan here?" Sam asked them. "We were going to try and get you guys to remember how good you were together. All the fun you guys had. I may have been kind of young when you guys were first together but I do remember that no one made you smile. Morgan and I could barely do it but whenever you were around Sam you would smile." Michael said. "And Sam, all the goofy things you do Jason thinks they are sweet." Kristina said with a smile. Sam fought her smile as she felt Jason looking at her and addressed them "So that was it? You just wanted us to remember our past?"
The kids looked down and Sam waited for a response. Jason narrowed his eyes as something dawned on him. "You didn't have any friends at the beach today did you, Kristina?" When she wouldn't raise her head to look at him Sam put her hands on her hips "Really? Then where did you guys go?" she asked. "We did go and get a drink. We didn't know for sure if you guys would kiss but we figured that if you were going to you would do it when you were alone." Morgan said. Sam shook her head and looked to Jason. He looked at her with the same look and then back to the kids "You all do know that this is none of your business?" They all shrugged and Kristina said "But both of your guys' happiness means something to us. We just want you guys happy and we know that you will not find it with anyone else but each other." "Ok, it's getting pretty late and we need to get back. So why don't you all start to pack stuff up to the car." Jason said. The kids smiled at them and got up. They got everything together and started for the car.
As they disappeared from view Jason looked at Sam and she burst out laughing. "Unbelievable." He said. "Well it is kind of sweet when you think about it. But if their mother's knew what they were up to they would have a cow." Sam said. Jason laughed and walked over to Sam. He moved a piece of hair off of her forehead and tucked in behind her ear. Jason cupped her face in his palm and Sam closed her eyes and leaned into it. "But it worked." Jason said softly. Sam opened her eyes and looked up at him. She smile and said "I guess it did, didn't it?" Jason leaned down and kissed her again. He pulled her close and wrapped his arms around her. He may have been annoyed with the kids for what they had done. But because it had worked and Sam was in his arms now, he guessed that he couldn't stay made at them. They pulled apart and Jason looked down at her. "I know that we will have to have a long talk but I want this, Sam. I want us. More than anything." He said. Sam felt the tears well up in her eyes at his words. She didn't ever thing that she would hear them. She took a deep breath and said "I do too." Jason let out the breath that he had been holding waiting for her to respond. He dropped his head to hers and then kissed her again, more firmly this time. "Come on. Let's go home." He laced his fingers with hers and the picked up their bags and walked to the car. The kids were all standing around it waiting for them. As they approached they saw that Jason and Sam were holding hands and the girls started to flip out again. Jason and am shook their heads but they just smiled. Jason placed their bags in the back and closed the trunk. "Today was such a great day!" they heard Molly say as the kids got into the car. As Jason got into the car and started it up he looked over and smiled at Sam. She smiled back and he couldn't help but agree with Molly, today was a great day.
