One week later.
It had been a long plane ride home and Elizabeth just reached the penthouse at nine o'clock.
"Welcome home Mrs. Morgan" Max said as he opened the door for Elizabeth. Jason had to go away on business three days into their marriage. She knew better than to ask what it was, and plus she didn't want to know. Cameron was at Gram's and Elizabeth just wanted to see if her and Cameron's room was ready at the penthouse. Elizabeth remembered that Jason had four rooms in his penthouse.
"Max, don't be silly. You know that I want you to call me Elizabeth." she said as she walked into Jason's penthouse. Well, now it was their penthouse. Her and Cameron's new home. Max turned around and pointed up the stairs.
"I know, I was just kidding. Here, let me show you arou-"
"Max" she said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah?" he said while turning around.
"I've been here before. I know my way around, but thank you for the generous offer. I appreciate it."
Max blushed. And Elizabeth's smile grew wider. Max just nodded his head and muttered something about getting back to his position. Then he quickly walked out the door. Leaving Elizabeth all alone. She walked towards Jason's desk and noticed the pictures of him and Sam were gone.
Good. She thought. She couldn't really stand the real Sam and she didn't want to put of with a picture of her either. Elizabeth walked up the stairs and looked at a familiar door.
Brenda's old room.
It was now hers. Elizabeth opened the door and instead of pink, like she expected. It was a light cream and a lilac purple. It looked it came out of an IKEA magazine. There was a couch and a king sized bed. Elizabeth walked in and looked towards the window. She let out a small sigh.
By the window, was a painting on a easel. She recognized it immediately.
It was her painting of the wind.
Elizabeth glided to the painting and stopped right in front of it. She raised her left hand and gently rubbed the canvas. She stopped and looked at her left hand. On her ring finger, was the most beautiful ring she'd ever seen.
And also on her left ring finger was a gold band. To some people, it just may mean that you're married. But to Elizabeth, it always meant so much more. It meant that whoever had the other ring was someone who you could trust. In her other marriages, she couldn't do that. But she had a feeling she could in this one.
"You like it?" a familiar voice said. Elizabeth turned around to see Jason leaning in the doorway. With a grin on his handsome face.
"I love it" was all she could muster out. Jason's grin grew even bigger. Elizabeth's heart fluttered inside her chest.
He was just about to walk inside the room when Elizabeth heard a faint knock. Jason closed his eyes and groaned. He went to turn away but Elizabeth called out his name. She quickly regretted it, because she only said it so he could stay in her room a little longer. Elizabeth's mind went into shock when he turned around. She didn't know what to say. Until she quickly though of something.
"I don't have any pajamas" she said. And it was true, she didn't. Jason just smiled.
"Go into my room, and grab a shirt and a pair of boxers. You can use them for pajamas" he said. Elizabeth's body relaxed and she took a deep breath. This was going to be hard for her. Not emotionally, but sexually.
Crap. Jason thought as he looked out the little peep hole. He knew he was going to regret it, but he opened the door. The person walked in with their hands together in nervousness.
"What do you want Sam?" Jason groaned out. Sam just stood there with the saddest look on her face "You have no business being here anymore.."
"Jason, I'm sorry. I know what I did was wrong and it was even more wrong to do it with Rick. But you have to know, I love you and I want-" Jason raised up a hand to silence her. When her eyes widened, Jason knew why. He had raised up his left hand and she saw his wedding ring.
"Jason, I knew that you were mad but-"
"Jason?" a voice called out. Jason looked up and felt his jaw drop. Elizabeth stood at the top of the stairs. Only in his shirt and boxers. Jason looked at Sam, who was glaring at Elizabeth with hatred. Sam's gaze dropped to Elizabeth's hand.
Oh, no. Jason thought. Sam spun around to look at Jason. Hurt and anger were glinting in her tear filled eyes.
"Jason, tell me it's not true… tell me it's not true…not with her…" When Jason didn't answer her Sam's eyes changed. Sam walked over to Elizabeth. And instead of slapping her like he expected she did something much worse. She pushed Elizabeth down the stairs. Jason watched in horror as Elizabeth fell to the floor.
"Sam, she's pregnant!" Jason ran to her side and helped her up. He heard Elizabeth says she was okay, but he knew he needed to get her to a hospital. Sam just stood there in total shock.
"I'm taking Elizabeth to the hospital and if you're smart you won't be here"
Elizabeth's back and arms ached from the fall and besides that she felt okay. But still Jason insisted that they go get the baby checked out. So, there she lay on the hospital bed waiting for her friend and fellow colleague, Dr. Kelly to examine the baby and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth looked at Jason. His eyes were like a dark thunderstorm. He was sitting straight up and not talking. She had never seen him like this. She has seen him mad, but not this mad. Elizabeth heard the curtain pulled back and she looked up at her friend. Dr. Kelly's eyebrow raised at the sight of Jason. She knew instantly that the baby wasn't Lucky's.
"So, what happened?" the doctor asked. Elizabeth looked quickly to Jason but he still continued to scowl.
"Um, I fell down the stairs" Elizabeth said. Jason grunted.
"Did you feel any pain?"
"No" Elizabeth said shaking her head. Another grunt.
Elizabeth pinched the man in the chair next to her, but he didn't even flinch.
"Okay. I'm going to do a sonogram to hear the baby's heartbeat" she said looking up from Elizabeth's chart. In a few minutes all Elizabeth heard was silence. She started to panic. She quickly looked to Jason who was still scowling. But something in his eyes changed when they both heard a sound. Then they heard it again. And again and again. Until the whole room was filled with tiny little heartbeats. Elizabeth looked at the doctor and smiled.
"Is that the baby?" Jason asked. Elizabeth looked at him and nodded. Jason then looked at her stomach in awe. She had barely begun to show, she didn't see what was so amazing. She felt like a fat cow. But Jason did something, that touched her heart. He leaned down and placed a small kiss on her bump. Electricity and desire shot through her entire body. It took her a second to catch her breath. She looked down and placed a hand on her baby bump.
She just sat there and wondered what it would be like when the baby was born. She looked up to see Jason gazing into her eyes. Her breath hitched as she gazed into his gentle blue eyes. Her body felt flushed with desire as he gazed into her soul.
She wondered how on earth did she ever deserve a friend like Jason. She frowned at the thought. That's all they ever would be…friends. But she always wondered what happened if they were more?
Elizabeth woke up in her room to find Cameron just staring at her. His eyes wide open. She sat up in the king sized bed and smiled.
"Honey, what are you doing?" she asked her young son.
"Daddy said to wake you up" he said. And for a millisecond she thought he had meant Lucky, but then realized Jason was now Cameron's father. She knew it would take some getting used to.
"Oh, did he really?" she said in a tone that made that made Cameron's face become suspicious. And before Cameron could jump off the bed, Elizabeth grabbed him and brought him to her. She then started tickling him senseless. Cameron shrieked with laughter.
"That's what you get for waking Mommy up!" she said as she continued to tickle Cam. Finally, she grew tired and stopped. She hopped out of bed and looked at Cam.
"I'll race you down stairs" she said knowing very well she wasn't going to run. She was still sore from the fall from two days ago. But that didn't stop Cameron from running out of the room. She laughed and put on her robe and walked out the door.
Jason was downstairs playing pool when he heard tiny footsteps. He looked up to find Cameron running down the stairs with his mother walking right behind him. She looked beautiful, even if her hair was kind of messy. He smiled at the little boy as he chanted in victory that he had won the race. Elizabeth smiled at the boy but looked up and frowned at Jason.
"You couldn't just let me sleep, could you?" she asked as she walked into the kitchen. Cameron following right behind her. She helped him up into a chair and poured him a bowl of cereal. Jason watched the Elizabeth performing her motherly duties.
"I would've let you sleep in if we didn't have a busy day" Jason said sitting next to Cameron. Elizabeth looked up at him.
"It's Saturday" she said "Today is my day off. To relax" she stressed the word relax. Jason just smiled.
"Yeah, I thought I could show you the baby's room"
"Jason, I've seen the baby's room. It's empty" she said taking a bite of Cameron's cereal ignoring his protest.
"Yeah well, I was thinking we could but the crib and paint the room today" Jason said. Elizabeth looked at him with an eyebrow raised, then she smiled.
"Okay, I'm in."
Elizabeth and Jason stood in the middle of the room, debating what color to paint the walls. They were both in messy clothes. She was in his old shirt with jeans on and he was in a black tee with carpenter jeans. They had bought six cans of three colors. Green, blue, and pink.
"So, you're the artist. What color?" Jason said looking at her. Elizabeth continued to look at the wall in fascination.
"I say we do all three" she said. She opened all three cans and dipped a brush into the baby green color. She walked right up to the wall and instead of painting it, she splattered paint on it.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Jason asked. She looked at him.
"What do you think I'm doing? I am painting"
"No, you're making a mess of the wall" he said informingly. Elizabeth just threw her head back and laughed.
"No, I'm not" she said. She turned back to the wall and splattered more paint on the wall. Jason just shrugged and dipped a brush into the blue paint. And from behind her he splattered the wall with paint, and accidentally getting some on her hair. She must've felt it because she turned around very slowly.
"Oops, sorry" was all he said. She just smiled dipped a brush into the pink paint and walked over to him. She walked to him, never breaking eye contact until she was millimeters from his face. She brought the paint brush to his face and gave him a soft slap with it. He felt the cold paint on his face.
"Oops, sorry" she said in a husky voice. Then, she turned around and walked back to the window. Jason smiled and picked up the blue paint can. He made sure she couldn't hear him creep on her. And then he simply dumped the paint on to her light brown hair.
Elizabeth turned around and faced him. Blue paint running down her cheeks, he couldn't help it. He laughed. Really laughed. Instead of laughing with him, Elizabeth picked up the pink paint can. Jason stopped laughing.
"Don't" he said warningly. But she continued to smile with excitement in her eyes. Jason tried to move out of the way but she was too quick for him. Soon his whole front side of his body was covered in pink.
Now, it was Elizabeth's turn to laugh. But she stopped when Jason looked at her, excitement in his eyes. She went to run out of the room but Jason caught her around the middle. But she still had the brush in her hand and she decided to use it. Then, she was banging him on the head with it.
He let go and then it was war. Paint was flying on to the walls and the floor. Elizabeth tried to run out of the room but Jason stopped her. He pulled her into his arms and lifted her into the air. But Jason fell backwards onto the floor with Elizabeth landing on his chest. They stopped laughing and just gazed into each other's eyes.
And then it was like the whole world stood still. And it was just the two of them.
Jason brought up his hand to wipe paint off of her cheek. He hesitated but then wiped away the blue paint. She felt flushed under his touch. She could feel his breath on her skin. Her whole body felt like it was on fire. Their faces were centimeters apart, they both leaned closer, ready to kiss.
Suddenly, they both heard a faint knock from the front door. Jason groaned and Elizabeth gave a fake smile.
"You should get that" she said and she rolled off of him "I'm going to take a shower"
Jason walked down the stairs and opened the door. Carly stood there looking like she was about to blow up.
"Did you marry Elizabeth?"