Own nothing. Don't want to. Few notes: Lila isn't dead, Edward/Heather never happened, Tracy/Luke did, Alcazar/Skye didn't, Lucky wasn't an addict, Craig doesn't exist, Alan died of heart failure, Emily and Sonny never happened because that was just disturbing.

Chapter 6

"Taggert?" Carly asked in shock. She was so white that Marcus was scared she would pass out.

"Maybe you should sit down?"

"What are you doing here? I thought you went back to Bensonhurst in Brooklyn."

"I need to reconnect with Gia and she said she would meet me here in Port Charles. You know for your wedding."

"Oh…" Silence stretched out for several minutes until Marcus broke it.

"I should go up to my room and drop off my bag. If you see your mother let her know that I'll stop by and the last few things from storage."

"Sure."

Marcus walked away. He thought, five bucks says she calls Jason after I leave the lobby to protect the punks.

Carly watched as he got on the elevator, while ignoring Sam's questioning of who the man was. The second the doors closed she speed-dialed Jase.

"Morgan."

"Jason, I just saw Marcus Taggert, he was at the hotel. He said something about meeting Gia before my wedding so they could reconnect. I figured you would want to know, since we both are aware he'll check in with the PCPD to be put on call for emergencies, especially the warehouse kind knowing him, Ric, and Mac."

"Thanks for the info, Carly. I'll give all the guys the heads up. I was wondering what your doing tonight. Sam has to work late on this new show thing she wants to do and I was thinking about a game of pool. Do you think you'll have time or do you have wedding details to finish?"

"The wedding is set to go off without any hitches and you know I'll make the time. Yours or the bars?"

"My penthouse, around probably 7:30. I'll bring the pizza, you pick up the beer."

"And the money to bet with of course. By the way you owe me twenty bucks for the bet we made."

"When you go longer than two years without being married to him, you'll get it. But let's face it. That's not going to happen so technically I will forever win."

Carly smiled as she responded, "Yeah right, Jase. I'll kick your but and you know it. Later."

"Be careful and no PLANs Carly."

"Jeez Jase people will think your nervous or something about my abilities."

"I am something about them" he agreed.

They hung up with their usual banter.

Carly had ignored Sam the entire time and she was now halfway through a sentence, but Carly just cut in long enough to tell her that if she had any messages to send them with Maxie at 11.

Jason had already had a hectic day and it was barely ten after Carly called. Between Sam being insistent that they should have a baby and Liz still lying to Lucky. Add the fact that his whole family whether he was close to them or not was grieving over Alan and stressed was not even close to what Jason was.

Sonny was making life difficult, because he was pissed that Carly had divorced him. All the guards and the workers at the warehouses were pissed at Sonny because he was being a jackass. As well as having tricked Carly into remarrying him, which didn't sit well with any of the guys.

Jason was always amazed at how integrated Carly was in the business without his or Sonny's approval. All the guys in every major location and most of the minor ones knew Carly to the point of knowing her birthday and favorite things in life almost better than her on again off again Spencer kinship.

He used to be upset with her about it; because it meant that the men were too close to her and could reach her at any time. But then Jason had realized that Sonny's organization began to slowly fall apart every time Carly was pissed at him or they divorced. The men wouldn't trust Sonny unless he was treating Carly with respect. And he knew that a lot of the men still looked to him for guidance, rather than Sonny due to the fact that it took a lot more for Jason to lose his head about a situation.

He had to beat the crap out of one of the lower soldiers who had hinted that perhaps Jason could better run the territory while in Jason's presence. He knew about the men's worries. They were his own as well, but Sonny was the boss and even angry at him Jason still considered him a brother.

The tension was rising and he knew if he didn't step in or force Sonny to step up that the business would fall apart without Carly there to hold the guys in check. He also knew that the guards were slowly pulling off of Sonny on their own and reassigning themselves without permission to Carly and the boys. Which told him that the lower ranks were going to make a move with or without him…