DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters (damn it!), they belong to ABC, the producers of GH and Goddess knows whoever else.
I~ I know that this took a long time. And that it's a really short chapter, but my other fan fictions have been taking up most of my time, and I putting this out to appease all of you who need another chapter. I know what it's like to ache about not knowing what happens when someone creates a To Be Continued. So here it is. ~/I
Alterations
By Clover
Chapter 4
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(Picking up where I left off)
Carly took a step out of the doorway and faltered a little bit. Jason rushed up and helped her to a chair.
"Thanks Jase. Now, as I was saying." Carly took a deep breath, "I woke up in a guestroom at the Quartermaine mansion. The last thing I remembered was leaving Harborview Towers. Well, apparently it had been raining while I'd been wandering and after about an hour or so I passed out. I'd caught pneumonia and after two days Lila insisted I was taken the hospital because she was worried about me. I talked to the doctor and he agreed to keep my condition a secret, as well as take precautionary measures to ensure the baby's safety."
Jason began to glare at Sonny again as they listened to her account.
"I got out of the hospital three days later. I went out on four dates with AJ. Slept with him. I realized that I could care about AJ, so I told him I was pregnant, I just didn't tell him it was yours. We moved into the East wing of the Quartermaine mansion together. I went to all of my doctor appointments alone.
When I was about six months pregnant, I guess my hormones were really affecting me. I would yell at AJ over the littlest thing and then feel really bad about it then lock myself in our bedroom alone and cry for an hour. AJ started to drink again. Just a shot every now and then at first, and he was hiding it very well too. But then he started to drink more. He hit me for the first time when I threatened to go to the family and tell them about his drinking.
He laid off the booze for awhile though. Two weeks after that we got married in a lavish fairytale wedding. I thought that things would be better now that we were married.
Then about two weeks after we got back from our short honeymoon in Florida he started drinking again. He was passed out drunk in a bar when Maya was born, three weeks late, 8 lbs. 8 ounces.
Then after I came home, he started to hit me again. Reginald suspected something, even though I never confirmed it, and helped me keep Maya away from AJ. I didn't think he'd hit her, but I couldn't be certain . . . I used to think he'd never hit me. Then he suggested this vacation. I didn't want to be left alone with him, and I put it off as long as I could, but he insisted." Carly started to choke up, "It was the memory, he was trying to run away from it."
She stopped talking and just looked and her hands fiddling with the diamond ring on her left ring finger, biting her lip.
Both Jason and Sonny could guess what AJ was trying to forget. They held their heads down in shame knowing that taking off with Michael, and leaving Carly to fend for herself had caused worse problems then what would have happened if they had just stuck around. Much worse.
Just then Maya started crying. Carly got up and rushed to Jason's bedroom where Maya was on the bed, surrounded with pillows.
"Jase find the Winnie the Pooh diaper bag." Carly called out picking up Maya.
Jason found it by the door with the rest of the baby stuff.
He lugged the heavy bag into the bedroom where Carly was trying to calm the crying infant. Jason set the bag down and is immediately handed Maya as Carly rummaged through the bag.
Carly finds a pafie and sticks it into her mouth. [IHey, it's what I called it; it's what she's going to call it. It rhymes with pa (like la) fie (like me) It's really a pacifier, yes there's a difference between a binker and a pafie and no, I don't know their real names. I had pafies, CaiCai (sounds like KK) had binkers. They are the things with the little round things at the end, sometimes they have little pictures on them./I]
Maya immediately quieted down, but she was awake, so Carly and Jason took her out into the living room. They forgot that Sonny was there as they set up the playpen for Maya and got her settled in her little bouncy thing (you know those cloth things with wire on the back that bounces the baby up and down a little when they move, or you make it move).
Maya took in her surroundings. She saw her mommy, and two other guys she didn't know. She was not too sure about the guy with the dark hair, but she immediately liked the guy with blond hair like her mommy's. He was nice and took care of her when Mommy and that other guy who was mean to Mommy disappeared. Maya was glad that the nice guy had taken that mean man away. She'd watched him pull him away just when the mean one was going to hit Mommy again.
She stared at the other guy, the one with dark hair. There was something about him. She liked him a little, but he seemed kind of stupid. He just stood there, staring at her.
Sonny watched Maya, the little girl was only three-months-old but he could tell that she was staring at him, analyzing him with her big blue eyes. He observed her scrutinizing him for a minute, and then she smiled at him from underneath her pacifier. He couldn't help but smile back at the infant. She seemed to cast a spell over anyone she smiled at.
Jason watched the scene before him with Sonny and Maya with envy. He was jealous until Maya turned her eyes over to him and immediately smiled at him and reached for him with her small fists. Jason grinned at her.
Just then Michael started to cry for him.
Jason hesitated for a second, and then rushed into the bedroom.
Carly was bending over Maya, watching her reactions to her surroundings when she heard it. She froze in her spot at the sound.
She'd know that cry anywhere.
It was the sound that haunted her dreams every night since Jason left. She used to wake up in a cold sweat nearly every night, thinking she'd heard Michael cry for her. AJ hadn't known why she'd woken up, every night. He'd always just assumed she'd made herself wakeup to feed Maya. Carly couldn't believe that for the first time in what seemed like an eternity, she was actually hearing that sound, not imagining it.
Sonny watched Carly's reaction to Michael's wails. It was the first time she'd heard them in a year. He thought back and painfully remembered her late night walks through the penthouse for that month she was there. He could hear her sobs, every single night through the walls, which weren't as thick as he'd always thought.
Sonny and Carly's eyes met. He saw for the first time how she'd changed. He could see her emotions just by looking at her eyes, emotions that she used to hide. There was a pain in them, he'd always seen the pain before Jason left, but ignored it. Now it was much deeper, which hadn't seemed possible at the time. You could practically feel it emitting from her very presence. She'd grown older too. That year with AJ taken a toll on her, not just physically, but emotionally. She seemed withdrawn from everything, even Jason. The only one she was unguarded around so far was Maya.
Jason came out of the bedroom with a sleepy eyed Michael.
Carly then did something none of them expected; she fainted.
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Please reply! Questions, comments, requests, or just tell me what ya think!
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Chapter 5 spoilers:
Carly touches Michael for the first time in a year.
Jason and Maya bond.
I~ I know that this took a long time. And that it's a really short chapter, but my other fan fictions have been taking up most of my time, and I putting this out to appease all of you who need another chapter. I know what it's like to ache about not knowing what happens when someone creates a To Be Continued. So here it is. ~/I
Alterations
By Clover
Chapter 4
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(Picking up where I left off)
Carly took a step out of the doorway and faltered a little bit. Jason rushed up and helped her to a chair.
"Thanks Jase. Now, as I was saying." Carly took a deep breath, "I woke up in a guestroom at the Quartermaine mansion. The last thing I remembered was leaving Harborview Towers. Well, apparently it had been raining while I'd been wandering and after about an hour or so I passed out. I'd caught pneumonia and after two days Lila insisted I was taken the hospital because she was worried about me. I talked to the doctor and he agreed to keep my condition a secret, as well as take precautionary measures to ensure the baby's safety."
Jason began to glare at Sonny again as they listened to her account.
"I got out of the hospital three days later. I went out on four dates with AJ. Slept with him. I realized that I could care about AJ, so I told him I was pregnant, I just didn't tell him it was yours. We moved into the East wing of the Quartermaine mansion together. I went to all of my doctor appointments alone.
When I was about six months pregnant, I guess my hormones were really affecting me. I would yell at AJ over the littlest thing and then feel really bad about it then lock myself in our bedroom alone and cry for an hour. AJ started to drink again. Just a shot every now and then at first, and he was hiding it very well too. But then he started to drink more. He hit me for the first time when I threatened to go to the family and tell them about his drinking.
He laid off the booze for awhile though. Two weeks after that we got married in a lavish fairytale wedding. I thought that things would be better now that we were married.
Then about two weeks after we got back from our short honeymoon in Florida he started drinking again. He was passed out drunk in a bar when Maya was born, three weeks late, 8 lbs. 8 ounces.
Then after I came home, he started to hit me again. Reginald suspected something, even though I never confirmed it, and helped me keep Maya away from AJ. I didn't think he'd hit her, but I couldn't be certain . . . I used to think he'd never hit me. Then he suggested this vacation. I didn't want to be left alone with him, and I put it off as long as I could, but he insisted." Carly started to choke up, "It was the memory, he was trying to run away from it."
She stopped talking and just looked and her hands fiddling with the diamond ring on her left ring finger, biting her lip.
Both Jason and Sonny could guess what AJ was trying to forget. They held their heads down in shame knowing that taking off with Michael, and leaving Carly to fend for herself had caused worse problems then what would have happened if they had just stuck around. Much worse.
Just then Maya started crying. Carly got up and rushed to Jason's bedroom where Maya was on the bed, surrounded with pillows.
"Jase find the Winnie the Pooh diaper bag." Carly called out picking up Maya.
Jason found it by the door with the rest of the baby stuff.
He lugged the heavy bag into the bedroom where Carly was trying to calm the crying infant. Jason set the bag down and is immediately handed Maya as Carly rummaged through the bag.
Carly finds a pafie and sticks it into her mouth. [IHey, it's what I called it; it's what she's going to call it. It rhymes with pa (like la) fie (like me) It's really a pacifier, yes there's a difference between a binker and a pafie and no, I don't know their real names. I had pafies, CaiCai (sounds like KK) had binkers. They are the things with the little round things at the end, sometimes they have little pictures on them./I]
Maya immediately quieted down, but she was awake, so Carly and Jason took her out into the living room. They forgot that Sonny was there as they set up the playpen for Maya and got her settled in her little bouncy thing (you know those cloth things with wire on the back that bounces the baby up and down a little when they move, or you make it move).
Maya took in her surroundings. She saw her mommy, and two other guys she didn't know. She was not too sure about the guy with the dark hair, but she immediately liked the guy with blond hair like her mommy's. He was nice and took care of her when Mommy and that other guy who was mean to Mommy disappeared. Maya was glad that the nice guy had taken that mean man away. She'd watched him pull him away just when the mean one was going to hit Mommy again.
She stared at the other guy, the one with dark hair. There was something about him. She liked him a little, but he seemed kind of stupid. He just stood there, staring at her.
Sonny watched Maya, the little girl was only three-months-old but he could tell that she was staring at him, analyzing him with her big blue eyes. He observed her scrutinizing him for a minute, and then she smiled at him from underneath her pacifier. He couldn't help but smile back at the infant. She seemed to cast a spell over anyone she smiled at.
Jason watched the scene before him with Sonny and Maya with envy. He was jealous until Maya turned her eyes over to him and immediately smiled at him and reached for him with her small fists. Jason grinned at her.
Just then Michael started to cry for him.
Jason hesitated for a second, and then rushed into the bedroom.
Carly was bending over Maya, watching her reactions to her surroundings when she heard it. She froze in her spot at the sound.
She'd know that cry anywhere.
It was the sound that haunted her dreams every night since Jason left. She used to wake up in a cold sweat nearly every night, thinking she'd heard Michael cry for her. AJ hadn't known why she'd woken up, every night. He'd always just assumed she'd made herself wakeup to feed Maya. Carly couldn't believe that for the first time in what seemed like an eternity, she was actually hearing that sound, not imagining it.
Sonny watched Carly's reaction to Michael's wails. It was the first time she'd heard them in a year. He thought back and painfully remembered her late night walks through the penthouse for that month she was there. He could hear her sobs, every single night through the walls, which weren't as thick as he'd always thought.
Sonny and Carly's eyes met. He saw for the first time how she'd changed. He could see her emotions just by looking at her eyes, emotions that she used to hide. There was a pain in them, he'd always seen the pain before Jason left, but ignored it. Now it was much deeper, which hadn't seemed possible at the time. You could practically feel it emitting from her very presence. She'd grown older too. That year with AJ taken a toll on her, not just physically, but emotionally. She seemed withdrawn from everything, even Jason. The only one she was unguarded around so far was Maya.
Jason came out of the bedroom with a sleepy eyed Michael.
Carly then did something none of them expected; she fainted.
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Please reply! Questions, comments, requests, or just tell me what ya think!
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Chapter 5 spoilers:
Carly touches Michael for the first time in a year.
Jason and Maya bond.