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Chapter 10

"Okay, let's see the outfit!" Chloe was sitting on Liz's bed with her legs stretched out. It had been a fun time hanging out while her friend got ready for her date with Jason.

"I don't know if the two of you are ready for this." Liz called back laughing. Once Chloe suggested dinner out, then Elizabeth picked the outfit knowing just the look to go for.

"Get out here." Skye demanded also laughing.

"Okay, what do you think?" Liz asked coming out and doing a turn her for her friends.

"Well, damn." Chloe said grinning. "You may kill him."

"Who knew you had this side to you?" Skye asked giving her friend a thumbs up.

"This isn't the first time I've worn leather." Liz said with a smirk. In the full length mirror on the closet door she looked herself over. A tight cropped red top was paired with a short black pleated leather skirt with a buckle opening. But not too short because she wasn't giving anything away. On her feet were knee high black suede boots. An odd choice for a tropical island, but the perfect choice for the man she was going out with.

"Do tell." Skye just bet that was a great story.

Chloe sat on the bed and gave her friend's outfit a critical look. Liz was killing it, and Jason might drool, which would be fun to see. Chloe was taking in the fit of the top when she stopped and leaned forward a bit. Having dressed her friend in formal attire she knew the nurse's body well. And Liz looked different. Not a lot different, but enough to be noticed.

In the mirror Liz watched Chloe's eyes narrow. Her friend was just too observant. "Almost two months." She said smirking.

"Oh my god!" Chloe said moving to the edge of the bed. "Seriously?!"

"Two months." Skye said confused before she got. "You're pregnant?!"

"Now this all makes more sense." Chloe said waddling over to give her friend a hug. "I was thinking this whole kidnapping came out of the blue, but clearly you and Jason have been spending private time together."

"Congrats!" Skye said getting up so she could be included in the hugging. "So he brought you here to convince you to marry him?" She was guessing.

"Which means he did something stupid, because there is no way you would normally turn him down. Especially since you told us that was what you wanted." Chloe filled in more of the blanks. "Wait does Johnny know about the baby?"

"No one but my family, and Jason knows. Kelly too." Liz amended her statement to include her doctor. "I tried to tell Jason when I found out but he didn't return my calls. When he came back to Port Charles he seemed to have time for everyone but me."

"Ouch." Skye said surprised to hear that. "Is he at least happy about the baby?" She wanted to know.

"I told him the night of the hostage crisis, we haven't talked about it since. He did propose though." Liz said placing her hands on her hips.

"Typical." Skye said rolling her eyes.

"Ass." Was Chloe's contribution because she wasn't as polite as Skye. "Doesn't call you back and then thinks a marriage offer makes it all better. It wasn't even about you, it was about him thinking that's what you wanted for the baby. Johnny's gonna be pissed I found out first."

"I know. He wouldn't have kidnapped me if he knew." Liz said laughing. "So Jason will be in good standing with me, in time to be in the doghouse with Johnny."

"So do you plan on accepting his proposal soon?" Skye would love that. Then they would be family legally.

"I will accept when the proposal is about me." Liz said smiling wide. "We just need to get a few things cleared up still. If the night goes well by the time the date is over that will happen." He had a choice to make, Liz was finally putting her foot down. "I suspect that I'll be his wife before I leave the island. Which would make me happy, because I do deserve the best." She told her friends.

"Yes, you do." Skye would need to get a nice dress if there was going to be a wedding.

"We all deserve the best, and despite the occasional moment of stupidity from our men we have it." Chloe said hugging her friend again. "Congrats, all the way around."

"Thanks." Liz said to her friends. "Come on, it's time for me to go break Jason." She was really feeling her power tonight.

"So big date night." Johnny said grinning at his friend. "Do you need me to give you the birds and bees talk?"

"You are lucky the kids are in the room." Jason shot a glare at his friend, who was deliberately being an ass.

Johnny just gave Jason his trademark grin.

"Leave him be Johnny." Francis said handing his daughter another block. The kids were building a tower. "Can't you see he's nervous?" Which was true, Jason was fidgeting.

"I don't see why." Johnny said pushing more buttons. "This one date is probably going to set the course of Jason's entire life. I mean that's not anything to get a case of nerves over."

"Just don't propose." Francis said giving his friend some advice. "That is not what the situation calls for. A wedding ring is not a fix for a problem."

Jason winced.

"Oh tell me you didn't. Is that why we are here? Because you screwed up and then proposed. What the heck did you do anyway?" Johnny finally got around to asking why the kidnapping was necessary.

"No comment." Jason just muttered.

"You didn't ask him why he set all this in motion before you agreed to help?" Francis asked shaking his head. "Classic. The two of you need a watcher."

"You want the job?" Jason said getting them off his screw up.

"No." Francis said leaning back in his chair. "I'm not coming back." He meant into the business.

"You don't have to work with us to keep us from doing stupid stuff." Johnny pointed out. He would love to have his friend close. "You will have more time to babysit us if you aren't working."

"I think we are supposed to be focused on Jason." Francis said getting them back on topic. "Do you have a plan for tonight?"

"No." Jason looked at his friends. "Elizabeth does." He could tell that from the fact that she had this date set up. "So I'm going to wait and find out what it is. Once I know what it is I'll give her whatever she wants. After that we can go from there."

Francis and Johnny just looked at one another. There was hope for Jason yet. When it was clear your lady wanted to hold the reins a smart man sat back and enjoyed the ride.

"Here they come." Johnny said as he and Francis stood up.

The ladies walked in the room and Jason's eyes got wide when he saw what Elizabeth was wearing. In their long, and complicated, relationship there was one other time she had worn leather. It was the night at Jake's, the night they really began. Hopefully her wearing leather tonight meant that this could be the first night of his second chance.

"Ready?" Elizabeth asked like she hadn't just rendered Jason mute.

"I'm not sure." Jason said honestly.

Elizabeth gave him a bright smile. "Come here baby." Cameron got up and ran to his mom. "Be good for your aunts and uncles okay."

Cameron nodded, before going back to playing.

"See everyone tomorrow. Come on Jason." Liz said before walking out of the room.

"Night Jason." Johnny said being a smartass. Chloe elbowed him, but that didn't diminish the moment any.

Jason followed Elizabeth out of the house. Not actually trying to catch up with her. He was enjoying watching her hips in that skirt too much to want to walk beside her. When they got to the location she had picked would be soon enough. At the car he opened her door, on the driver's side, before walking around the car and getting into the passenger's seat.

With a smirk Liz started the car and headed to their destination.

"There's a dive bar on my grandmother's island." Jason said laughing. The night was just filled with surprises.

"Literally. This is where most of the charter boat captains, and scuba diving instructors hang out." Liz said parking the car. "Most importantly they have pool tables, and I reserved one for us."

"Sounds like a promising night." Jason said turning on the charm. He was rusty with his flirting, but he planned on giving it his best shot. "Shall we?"

Elizabeth nodded, she waited for Jason to open her door before getting out of the car. "Dinner first." She told him as they walked inside. While on the outside the paint job was distressed from the salt water, inside the bar was brightly lit and clean. Jake's it wasn't, but they would make do. "Morgan, party of 2."

"Right this way." The hostess led them to a table with a view.

The waitress took their order and quickly returned with their drinks. A beer for Jason and a ginger ale for Liz. "To us." She said making a toast.

"To us." Jason tapped his glass to hers.

"So Jason, what is that going to look like? Us." Elizabeth wanted to know her blue eyes on his. "Tell me why I should marry you?"

"I love you." Jason responded covering her hand with his.

Liz turned her hand over and linked their fingers. "I know that. I love you, which is something you know. I'm also in love you, I think I've been in love with you in some form or another since you walked out of my studio after getting shot. Even when I didn't like you, I still loved you. If love was enough we would already be married and Cameron would be your son." She explained.

"Cameron is my son. I dare anyone to say otherwise." Jason told her. He wasn't saying that to impress her something she would already know.

That made her smile because she knew Jason loved Cameron.

"I'm sorry, that I didn't make the time to sit down and talk with you. I should have at the very least let you know that I did want to talk, but I wanted to do it face to face. I've gotten used to us communicating without words. You always seem to know what's on my mind or how I'm feeling. I was wrong not to call you. We had sex, and I just dropped off the face of the earth. I had some last minute issues to clear up, I wanted certain people gone before I came home. After the night we shared I realized I wanted more from you. That I wanted us together. This summer was amazing." Jason said quietly. With her divorced from Lucky, and him not with Sam they had really reconnected. "The picnic in the park with Cameron had me smiling for days."

"I enjoyed that too." Liz had invited him out to spend the day with them, and fixed a picnic lunch. Jason had ended up pushing Cameron on the swings until the little boy fell asleep, and the two adults used that quiet time to have a really good conversation.

"Then the blackout happened, and for one glorious night I had you in my life as my lover." Jason looked up at her. "The next morning when you left I was already making plans. Trying to figure out how to make that work."

"I have to admit that leaving your penthouse was hard. I was hoping that you stopped me. Now sitting here I realize I should have simply told you that I didn't want to leave." She had picked up Cameron and gone home. Then began the waiting game to see if he was going to call her or come see her. Once again she had taken a passive role in her own life, something that needed to stop. "You don't have to plan our future alone Jason. In fact it's best if you don't."

He nodded his understanding as he chewed. He was so used to taking care of everyone that he didn't stop to include her in the decision making. "You're right, we need to be making decisions together. Especially ones that concern our family. I want to be there for both kids."

"I want that too. I want you to be the man they call dad." Elizabeth said putting down her fork. "Again we don't have to be married for that."

He took a deep breath before speaking again. "I want to be there for you too. Not just as your friend, or your more than friend. But as the man in your life, as your husband. We are closer than ever to getting what we've both dreamed of. What needs to happen for you to see that I'm not blowing smoke? That we won't be back here in this same position in three years. That you won't have to doubt you are first in my life." He was laying it all out there, something he should have done before now.

"There have been five major obstacles to us being together over the course of our history. Two of them are sitting at this table. We keep screwing it up, so we need to do better." She started there. Taking as much blame as she was placing on him. "The other three are Sonny, Lucky, and Carly. Lucky is gone. Even if he was still alive I would not be letting him back in my life. Sonny is now gone too." She squeezed Jason's hand because she knew losing his friend like that had to hurt.

"Carly is still around, and because she is I need you to choose. It's petty and small minded, and honestly not something I ever thought I would say. I tried to be the bigger person and I always lost. We cannot both be in your life, I will not be the other woman in my own marriage. Her or me." Elizabeth laid out the only thing she truly needed him to do for her to know she was first. To know that this time would be different. "That doesn't include Michael and Morgan." She wanted that clear.

"I'm not spending much time with the boys these days. It's just better for them. Jax is a better role model for them than I am." Jason admitted. "I think if Carly had been more grown up as she was raising the boys then who I am and what I do wouldn't be a factor."

"Jason." Liz waited for him to look at her. "What you do isn't who you are. You're a good man, and you'll be a good role model. Michael and Morgan had the odds stacked against them from the start with Sonny and Carly as parents. I'm not mother of the year, but I can point to them and say I'm doing better." It sounded egotistical, but it was completely true. They were both too selfish to put their kids first.

"I choose you." Jason gave her the words because she needed to hear them. "I haven't taken any of Carly's calls since the night at the Metro Court. I don't intend to take anymore." Jason got that by making this choice he was cutting Carly out of his life. If she respected boundaries Elizabeth wouldn't have needed to make this request, but Carly didn't. It was all or nothing with her. So she had to go.

"Thank you. What do you need from me?" Elizabeth asked sipping her soda. She believed that he meant what he had just said.

"Nothing." Jason said smiling.

"I'm not perfect. There must be something you need?" Elizabeth told him.

"What I need is a second chance, and unless I'm mistaken I'm about to get it." Jason let her see the hope in his eyes.

"I think we are both getting a second chance. It's up to us to see that we don't waste it." Elizabeth let him know. They would need to talk more, and there would times that their relationship was tested, but they had made a good start tonight. "Jason?"

"Yeah?" He saw his whole future when he looked at her.

"Ask me again." Elizabeth said smiling. He would know what she meant.

"Want me to get down on one knee?" He teased.

"No, ask me while my fingers are entwined with yours." Elizabeth replied softly.

"I love you Elizabeth Imogene Webber. Will you marry me?" He requested softly.

"Yes." She said lifting their joined hands and kissing his knuckle.

"Before we return home, and then again one year from now." Jason told her what he wanted.

"I like the sound of that." They would have a bigger ceremony with friends and family after the baby was born.

Jason leaned over and kissed her. "We can start planning our island wedding tomorrow. I will call Diane and ask her to fax me the appropriate paperwork."

"I already have a dress." Elizabeth told him. It wasn't your traditional wedding gown, but it would be perfect for them and the location.

"I'll get a suit." He said before kissing her again. Hopefully before the week was out they would be married. "Will you stay in my room tonight?"

"I thought you'd never ask." Liz said with a wicked grin. "Let's go shoot some pool."

"Perfect way to start the celebration." Jason said standing up and pulling back her chair.

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