Alright, here's a Question of the Day: what's your favorite Liason quote?

XOXO

Only six chapters in and this story is already up to 59 reviews! Thank you so much!

Thank you, Guest; the simple enthusiasm in your "More please!" made me smile. You might like this chapter, then, and I'm glad you're enjoying the family bonding.

Very true, sashahailee. I also am enjoying the show, even when Jason and Elizabeth aren't on, and considering that there was a point when I only watched Elizabeth and Scrubs scenes, that's a big difference. Agreed; I hope a little bit of old-school Elizabeth comes out when she learns what Ewen did to her friend. Sam should just leave town with McBain and never come back. ;] I heard that too and I'm leaning more and more toward believing it, but we'll see!

I agree, Twisted Musilah, but unfortunately, Jason is very clueless.

Me too, vlalita, and may I again say that I love your nickname for them?

You're welcome, sj, and thank you for the review. I'm glad you liked the section with Robin and Johnny and the kiss. I love Jerry's character and am glad to see him back in town; I never trusted Ewen (maybe I'm suspicious of guys who are too charming) so I'm not surprised that he turned out to be a bad guy "with a heart."

Hmm, what could Sam possibly be planning, Virgy15? Elizabeth saw Jake's body, unlike in the show, so how do you think Jake could be alive? (I'm curious.) I'm so glad that I could get you to enjoy Robin! She's one of my absolute favorites, but I do know a lot of Elizabeth fans/Liason fans don't like her. Thank you!

Thank you, Kimmy123. Unfortunately, Jason and Elizabeth are both too stubborn, which is ironic since Elizabeth told Jason that about Sonny and Brenda. Does she have an angle? Hmm…

I agree, lrobinson01.

Thank you and I'm glad you liked it, babeboo1968!

I'm glad it didn't drag, Carla, and thank you for letting me know. Hmm, that gives me something to think about.

Exactly, chawkchic, and since GH is a story about many different people, I wanted to write this like I was writing an episode.

Thank you to everyone who has favorited or followed this story.

XOXO

Anyone else find it suspicious what Carly said about Josslyn being able to sleep on the back of a motorcycle? Hmm…

Tomorrow, Jason and Sam say goodbye! Let's hope it's for good!

Enjoy!

XOXO

"Mrs. Valentini, how are you this morning?"

Francine Valentini looked up from her knitting and smiled, spotting Elizabeth in the doorway. "I'm just fine, Elizabeth. I was wondering if I'd see you today."

Elizabeth smiled back at the elderly woman and went over to check her vitals. "I'm sorry I haven't come in sooner."

Francine was one of Elizabeth's favorite patients. The woman reminded Elizabeth of how her mom might be had Maria lived and she enjoyed hearing all about Francine's experiences – many occurring in Florence, Italy, where Francine had lived for half of her life.

"Don't worry about it, sweetheart. You have far more important things to do than listen to an old crone like me."

Elizabeth shook her head. "You really should give yourself more credit."

"I could say the same for you, dear," Francine smiled.

"Knock knock."

Francine turned her head in the direction of the door and smiled brighter; the way a schoolgirl does when she has a crush on her much older teacher. "Dr. Drake."

"Mrs. Valentini, how are you feeling?"

"Like I just told Elizabeth, I'm fine."

Patrick gave her a dimply grin and moved to check on her. "Just doing my job, Mrs. Valentini."

"You know you can call me Francine," she flirted.

"Alright, Francine," he smiled.

Elizabeth shook her head and laughed. "I should get back to my rounds; I'll try to come see you later, Mrs. Valentini," she said, touching the woman's shoulder in a friendly caress.

"That'll be fine, dear," Francine smiled once more before turning her gaze back to Patrick.

Elizabeth continued her rounds and after checking on the kids in the children's wing, headed back to the nurse's desk.

"Elizabeth, do you have that file on Mr. Carlivati?"

"Mhm," she nodded, handing him the binder.

"Thanks," Patrick grinned. "Mrs. Valentini has really taken a liking to you, not that I'm surprised."

"She's a wonderful woman," Elizabeth smiled.

"She's always raving about you."

"Just doing my job," Elizabeth brushed off, repeating Patrick's own words.

He shook his head. "You know, she's right; you do need to give yourself more credit."

"And you need to give yourself less."

He laughed. "Actually, I wanted to ask you something."

Elizabeth raised her brow and nodded, using a receipt as a bookmark in the binder she had been looking through. "Shoot."

"I know you're Robin's maid-of-honor, but aside from Coleman, you're pretty much my best friend and I, uh…" Patrick hesitated.

Elizabeth tried to hide the shock she felt at Patrick's hesitation on anything. "You want me to be a grooms…woman?"

"No…um…do you think you could be my best…woman? I was thinking Coleman could still be the traditional best man, and uh…"

She laughed. "Sure, I'd love to. I don't think most people have two roles in a wedding."

"Three," he smirked. "Wedding planner, remember?"

"Bren and Maxie will plan more of the wedding than I will."

"What was that I said about giving yourself more credit?"

"You know, you sound like Robin."

"Well that's good, seeing as I am marrying her."

"It's about time you got over that commitment phobia."

"I couldn't let her slip through my fingers just because I wasn't man enough to pop the question," Patrick smiled. "And the fact that I just admitted to not being man enough was the main reason I had to. Patrick Drake is not a wuss."

"Nah, he's a Macho Man."

"Exactly. Anyway, I should get to Mr. Carlivati; catch you later?"

"Of course."

Elizabeth watched Patrick walk off and laughed, thinking about the first time he walked into GH and both Robin and herself took an instant dislike to him. If someone would've told Elizabeth that in the future, Patrick Drake would not only be one of her best friends, but he would also marry Robin, she would've slapped them. Granted, the man did save Jason's life, but he was cocky as they came.

His brother was the same way, but Elizabeth thought that Matt Hunter might've improved slightly in his temperament since finally getting together with Maxie. The two had been at each other's throats worse and more often than Patrick and Robin ever were and frankly, it got a little tiresome to hear Maxie constantly complaining about what an ass that Matt Hunter was.

"If you don't stop getting lost in your thoughts, you're gonna hit the wrong button and some patient will get the wrong pills," Epiphany raised her brow.

"Sorry," Elizabeth blushed, paying better attention to the computer. "Spinelli's much better with these things than I am."

"You're still better with them than me," Epiphany shrugged. "I swear these things hate me."

"Computers aren't capable of human emotion, Epiphany." *

"Tell that to that brother of yours."

"I've tried," Elizabeth laughed. "You know how hard it is to tear him away from that laptop."

"Oh yeah, I know," Epiphany nodded. "The Baldwin girl was here the other day and kept trying."

"Serena?"

"Yeah, her. Girl clearly has a thing for your brother."

"No way," Elizabeth shook her head. "It's too weird to think of."

"Weirder things have happened," Epiphany noted.

"True, like Patrick proposing. I hear you helped him plan it."

Epiphany waved a hand. "It was nothing he couldn't do on his own."

Elizabeth smiled. "I know you care about them, Epiphany."

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Now get back to work," the head nurse scolded, although Elizabeth could detect a slight twinkle in her dark eyes.

"Yes, ma'am," Elizabeth resumed typing into the computer and looked up only when Lainey joined them to inquire about what Elizabeth thought if the therapist were to accept a date with Corinthos-Morgan guard, Cody Paul.

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He opened the door and was immediately slapped upside the head.

"Hey!" The slap had no affect on him, other than alarm, but it was certainly not what Jason expected. He had answered the knock despite internal protests that he wanted to stay in solitude and now was wishing that he had done just that.

"Jason Morgan, you are one of the most idiotic people on this planet, do you realize that?"

He grimaced. "Great to see you too, Emily."

Emily Bowen Quartermaine, still in her scrubs after a long day of taking care of patients, entered the penthouse without another word and spun around, glancing over the damage. Most of it had been cleaned up, but a few bits of glass still stuck in various parts of the carpet and the table was still overturned. Jason had thought about propping it upright, but hadn't made any move to. He made a mental note to do so later.

"What's this I hear about you kissing Elizabeth? Twice?"

Jason looked at her. "She told you?"

"No, I heard it from Amy, who overheard Bobbie talking with Laura, who was told by Elizabeth. Want to tell me why you're going around kissing my best friend when you're engaged to someone else?"

"Since when do you care about Sam?" Jason asked, skeptically. Emily had made her distaste for his fiancée more than clear and he secretly found it amusing that his sister and Carly agreed on something for once.

"See, you really are an idiot. This has nothing to do with how Sam might feel; it's that you kissed Elizabeth – twice! – and then told her that yes, you love and want her, but no, you're still marrying Sam. I'm not supposed to be upset that a. you did that and b. I had to hear it from Amy and not my best friend who usually tells me everything?"

"I do love her, Em, but I promised Sam…"

"Oh whatever, Jase. Do you really think Sam wants to get married to someone who's in love with someone else?"

"Well no, but…"

"Jase, she's been using you all along, can't you see that? Did you ever ask her why she refused to tell Lucky he had a kid?"

"No."

"You don't find it the tiniest bit suspicious that not only does she not tell Lucky he's going to be a father but she also runs to you and has you promise that you'll take care of her and the kid when she knows that you and Elizabeth just got divorced?"

"Uh –" Jason didn't know what to say. Emily had a point and he wondered why he hadn't thought of it before. "Well, you know, it was probably the bad breakup they had."

"You mean when Lucky walked in and found Sam sleeping with her stepfather on her mom's floor?"

"What?"

"Oh, I guess your precious Sam neglected to let you know. Let me guess, she told you Lucky broke up with her because she wouldn't move with him to the city, right?"

"Yeah…"

"So she never mentioned that she agreed to go with him and then slept with Ric?"

"No."

"Well think on that, Jase, and I better not hear about you kissing Elizabeth again or sleeping with her or something until you get your act together and figure out what it is you really want and when you do, Jase, just go for it, none of this 'she deserves better' crap or whatever the hell you've been telling yourself."

Emily shook her head and smiled, as if the events of the last few minutes had never transpired. "I have to go; I told Zander I'd meet him at Kelly's. You know I love you, Jase, but you really need to fix things, okay?" She gave him a hug and shut the door behind her, leaving a baffled Jason in her wake.

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"Have you decided what you're going to do about Lizzie yet?"

"I told you, nothing. Jason would get suspicious and then everything would be ruined."

"So you're just going to let him kiss her?"

"What?" Sam screeched, dropping the bottle of nail polish and leaving a quickly growing stain in Sarah's carpet.

"Dammit!" Sarah yelled, hurrying to the kitchen and returning to clean the stain before it became permanent. Her apartment was pristine, as her room had been while growing up, and she wanted to keep it that way. Her brother Steven often teased her about being over-organized but since he had always been rather fond of their cousin, Sarah really didn't care what he thought.

"Sam, hon, you're so clumsy."

Sam ignored the thinly veiled insult and glared at Lisa. "What the hell did you just say?" she demanded.

"Jason kissed Elizabeth," Lisa informed her, patiently, as if she were explaining the difference between an apple and an orange to an inquisitive five-year old.

"And how do you know that?"

The two doctors exchanged a look and then Sarah answered. "Lisa overheard Amy Vining and that spoiled brat best friend of Lizzie's gossiping about Jason and Elizabeth kissing in the cemetery."

"The cemetery? Why the hell were they in the cemetery?"

Lisa rolled her eyes. "Don't act so surprised. It was their kid's birthday, remember?"

"Birthday? He's dead."

"Well apparently they felt the need to celebrate his birthday anyway."

"What a great way to show you care about your kid, kissing next to his gravestone," Sarah said, gifting the two other women with an eye roll similar to Lisa's.

"And what did Elizabeth do?" Sam asked, trying to control her anger.

"Kissed him back, of course. Well, she did push him away and told him how they had just cheated on you or Amy probably told Emily that to sugarcoat Lizzie's behavior and then they kissed again so even if it wasn't sugarcoating, it sure didn't mean anything and then she pushed him away again."

"Twice!" Sam screeched, louder this time. "How dare he!"

"You see, if you'd taken care of Lizzie, none of this would've happened," Sarah told her, calmly.

Sam glared. "If it were up to me, that bitch would be at the bottom of the harbor, but Jason kissing her means even more that we can't do anything because if somehow he finds out that it was us, we'll be dead on the spot."

"So you're going to let her steal your man the way she stole Lucky?"

"You didn't want Lucky; you wanted his brother," Lisa reminded her fellow blonde.

"It doesn't matter; he wanted me and Lizzie still stole him and if that wasn't bad enough, she had to go and ruin any hope I had of becoming roya – I mean, being with Nikolas," Sarah said.

Sam's phone rang at that moment and she excused herself, going into the other room while listening to Sarah and Lisa take turns complaining about Elizabeth and her sister.

"Yeah, what?" she barked into the phone, her mind still on Jason's betrayal. There was a fine line between telling Sonny he still loved Elizabeth and actually kissing the woman without caring whatsoever about Sam's feelings.

"It's me."

"I told you not to call," Sam's voice dropped to a low whisper so her friends wouldn't hear.

"We have a problem."

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"Elizabeth! It's good to see you," Mac said, giving his surrogate niece a kiss on the cheek.

"Good to see you too, Mac," she smiled. "Is Robin here? We were going to meet at the station."

"Not yet. I think she took Robby to look at suits."

"He couldn't have been happy about that."

"Not at all, but Felicia told him he wouldn't be able to visit with Michael unless he went."

Elizabeth laughed and Mac smiled.

"I have some fine new cadets you might like," he said, casually and innocently.

"Mac –" she warned.

"Just one date, Elizabeth; what could it hurt?"

She sighed, knowing Mac could be as stubborn as Robin, perhaps more so. "Okay. I'll meet them, but no promises."

"Good," the older man nodded, smiling. "They should be back from training soon. It's a shame Lucky didn't become a cadet like he considered."

"He's happy."

"Playing in clubs, I hear," Mac said.

"Is that disgust I note in the voice of the man who owned the Outback?" Elizabeth teased.

Mac looked sheepish. "Okay, you've got me." He started to say something else, probably to apologize, when he noticed the cadets coming into the station.

"Elizabeth, I'd like you to meet Eric Brady, Brandon Summers , and Dante Falconeri. Eric's a transfer from Salem."

Elizabeth smiled at the three men. "Nice to meet you."

"How do you do, miss?" Brandon asked in a thick Southern brogue, shaking her hand.

"Fine, thank you," Elizabeth smiled, trying not to blush.

"Hey," Dante nodded, grinning.

"Hey, aren't you Sonny's kid?"

"Yup." Dante's face showed indifference and Elizabeth could tell he neither liked nor hated Sonny.

"I'm good friends with your dad," she noted.

"Cool."

"And your stepmom."

"Oh yeah, she's cool," Dante said with a grin.

"You remind me of my twin sister," Eric told her.

"I do?" Elizabeth raised her brow.

"Yeah, you just have this…energy that reminds me of Sami."

"I'm a twin too," Elizabeth told him.

"See, maybe you are like her," Eric smiled.

"I'll see you later, miss, I need to talk to the instructor about something," Brandon said, politely excusing himself from the conversation.

Dante and Eric took their leave as well and Elizabeth turned to Mac. "You really want me to date one of them, don't you?"

"Well not Dante," Mac said. "He's a good guy, but being Sonny's kid…"

"You forget I'm the daughter of Anthony Zacchara," Elizabeth reminded him.

"I forget because you're nothing like him," Mac smiled. "You're all Maria."

"Maybe not all," she smirked.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about what my poor niece went through last time she made you mad."

"You know I'd never hurt Robin."

"Yes, I know; you'd just prank her for a week, and you did. What'd you think of the other two guys?"

"Eric and Brandon? Eric seems okay…" Elizabeth hesitated.

"And Brandon?" Mac pressed.

"He's…cute," Elizabeth blushed.

"I thought you'd like him," Mac smirked. "It's that accent, isn't it?"

"Maybe. I told you I'd meet them; I never agreed to date any."

"Ask him out just once; what could it hurt?" Mac repeated his earlier words.

"With those manners, I doubt he'd agree to a date unless he was the one asking," Elizabeth told him.

"What date?" Robin asked, giving her uncle and sister both hugs.

"Nothing," Mac said, quickly.

Robin gave him a look and turned to Elizabeth.

"Mac wants me to date one of the cadets," her younger sister informed her.

Mac glared playfully. "Oh I see how it is, hanging me out to dry."

"Uncle Mac, I told you not to set Elizabeth up with anyone."

"They're great guys and just the kind of person she deserves."

Robin shook her head and looked at Elizabeth. "I'm sorry; he seems to think that you'd be happy if you date one of his cadets. Aunt Felicia thinks a date would do you good, too, but Uncle Mac is the only one who's really pressed the issue."

"It's fine," Elizabeth said. "I was just telling him that one of the guys was cute," she giggled.

"Oh really?" Robin asked. "Details, please."

"Brandon Summers," Mac informed her.

"Ooh, the Southern guy."

"You met him?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yeah, the other day when Bren and I visited Coop in cadet training. You're right; he is cute."

"Okay, so you date him."

Robin laughed. "I'm taken, remember?" she said, flashing her engagement ring.

Elizabeth smiled. "I know."

"Just promise me you'll consider it," Mac told her.

"Yes, Mac, I'll consider it," she said, giving him a hug. "Come on, Robin, we have to meet Bren and Maxie at the studio and I wanted to bake some brownies before they came."

"I'm surprised we're not all fat from those brownies," Robin grinned.

"Be sure to save some for us," Mac told her.

"Of course," Elizabeth smiled, taking Robin's arm in hers and dragging her out while Robin teased her about thinking one of the cadets cute. She knew she shouldn't have told Robin and wondered if the teasing would stop before John found out or what would happen if he did. Aside from Mac, her twin didn't care for the law even more than he didn't care for Jason and she was worried what he might do to Brandon if he knew she was even talking about him.

Not that it should matter, since talking about Brandon Summers didn't mean anything except that she found the man attractive. It wasn't like anything else would happen with the man she just met, whether she initiated it or not.

XOXO

Steve: "Frank [Valentini, GH Executive Producer] always speaks very highly of her [Becky.]" (Rebecca Herbst Soiree, Fan Club Weekend, 2012)

* Elizabeth: "Computers aren't capable of human emotion, Epiphany." (April 20, 2009)

XOXO

Mine:

Jason: "But I do know what I get from you, Elizabeth. You're so beautiful…smart. You make me see things I've never even noticed until you pointed them out. You have a lot of dreams and that's good because I, I hardly have any, so I can believe in yours. That's what you bring to me. I mean, what, what can I give you? Motorcycle rides and… pool lessons, that's about it."

Elizabeth: "You listened when no one else could hear me. You trusted me to live my own life when I didn't even trust myself. You make me happy. You make me feel free."

- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002