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Chapter 10

"I'm sorry I don't have a ring for you. I wasn't exactly planning on asking you just yet but it just felt right." Jason said.

"A ring doesn't matter to me Jason. You want to marry me and I know you love me. Besides, as swollen as my fingers are, it wouldn't fit anyway or it would be too big after the baby is born. I can wait for one." He smiled at her and kissed her again.

"Is this really happening?" Sam said when they finally broke from their kiss.

"Is what really happening?" Jason asked, still holding her.

"Are all my dreams really coming true? I mean, I've lived on the move for so long, Jason. All I ever really wanted was to find someplace that I could just be at ease, not looking over my shoulder. I had no real hopes for a family and now that it's happening, I realize that it's what I want more that anything. I just can't believe that this time last year, I was alone and miserable and now I have a baby on the way and someone who loves me. It's everything I never knew I wanted and I just can't believe its happening."

"Sam, I want to make all your dreams come true. I want to take away all the pain you have ever felt and protect you and Jasmine from anything bad happening. I wanted to protect you from the moment I saw what those guys on the docks were doing to you. When we carried you home and you looked like a broken doll, I just felt this overwhelming need to be the one to take care of you. My heart broke to see you in so much pain. I'm sorry for the pain that I caused you too and I promise to spend the rest of my life making it up to you. I never want to see that look in your eyes again when you heard Liz tell me that she was pregnant. I will do any and everything I can possibly do and more to prevent from seeing you hurt like that. I love you."

"I love you too. Now, can we go eat? I'm starving." She said letting go of him heading to the door.

"Sure. I brought some food from Kelly's. You go ahead, I'm going to jump in the shower. I'll be down in a few."

"Okay." She said heading down the stairs as Jason headed into the bedroom to take a shower.

15 minutes later Jason walked downstairs and found Sam on the couch eating the cheeseburger and fries.

"That burger was actually for me." He said.

"I know you couldn't possibly have thought I was going to eat a salad, Jason. Even if it had grilled chicken on it. I told you before I like to eat and being pregnant has only made my healthy appetite bigger. I don't do diet food. Never have. Never will. So you can eat the rabbit food while Jasmine and I enjoy the rest of this delicious burger and fries. But you can have a bite if you want." She said holding the burger out to him and laughing.

"A salad is much healthier for the baby Sam. You should be much more aware of your diet, especially while you're pregnant."

"Yes, well she doesn't like salad. She likes the finer things in life like pizza, hot fudge sundaes, apple pie, fried chicken, cheeseburgers, and fries." She said taking a bite of one of the fries.

"Yeah okay, I see I'm going to have to get you to see it my way. I'll eat the salad this time but next time I just won't pick up a burger at all. I'll come in with 2 salads and next time there won't even be chicken."

"Oh really. So I guess you really don't want a bite of this juicy, mouth watering cheeseburger." She said waving it in front of his face. Jason grabbed it out her hand and took a big bite. "See I knew you didn't want that rabbit food, so why try to subject me and your child to it?"

"I like the sound of that. 'My child'" he said. Just then there was a knock on the door. Jason got up to answer it. "It's probably Carly. I ran into her at Kelly's and she said that she would stop by to see you."

"I doubt it. Carly doesn't knock." Sam said.

As soon as she said the words and before Jason reached the door, Carly entered.

"Hey guys. Now before you say anything Jason, I knocked and I heard you say it was me which is why I came in. Now if you'll excuse me, I would like to say hello to Sam and my niece." She said pushing passed Jason and sat next to Sam on the couch and put her hand on her belly. "Hi Sam. Oh you are so cute pregnant. Not like me. I was hideous. How are you feeling? By the way it's good to have you back. Jason was miserable. I'll get on your case about that later but anyway for now, how are you?"

"Hi to you too Carly. I'm fine. Just very pregnant."

"So I hear it's a girl."

"Yes. Her name is going to be Jasmine."

"That's a pretty name. I wanted a girl so badly. I still do but not yet. Michael is still too young for me to have another one. So I guess that means that you and Jason will have to put up with me going on insane shopping sprees for her."

"I guess Jason will have to put up with both of us going on insane shopping sprees for her because I want her to have everything." Sam said smiling.

Jason stood silently by the desk and watched the two of them go back and forth about favorite colors and baby names and where to find the best clothes. He smiled at their interaction and wondered how long it would be before they were at each others throats. He knew it was only a matter of time before Carly said or did something to push Sam too far. As he continued to listen to them converse about the baby and Sam's due date his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Liz.

"Hello."

"Hi Jason. I know that you're busy with Sam but I completely forgot my laptop there and I need to take it with me to class tomorrow. I'm sorry to bother you. I wish that I had remembered it but I just took the desktop when I left. I left it in the room in between the bed and the night stand." She really didn't need the damn thing. In fact she had really left it there on purpose to give her an excuse to have to go back. She left that and a few other semi important things behind so that she could have reasons to stop by because she "just noticed" that it was missing.

"Okay do you want me to bring it to you or did you want me to meet you with it?" he asked.

"I can stop by to get it. I have some errands that I have to do. I need to stop by the library and it's near you. Should I call when I'm close by?"

"Yeah. Sure. I don't plan on going anywhere."

"Great. Thanks Jason. I'm sorry to bother you."

"It's really no problem Liz. I'll see you later."

At the sound of her name Carly grew enraged. "What the hell are you seeing her for? You have Sam and the baby here. They just got here. You should be spending time with her, not Liz."

"Liz is just dropping by to pick up her laptop which she left here when she moved out. I'm not planning on going anywhere. I'm spending the rest of my day with my beautiful fiancée." He said walking over to sit in the chair by the couch.

"Fiancée? When did that happen?" Carly asked.

"About an hour ago." He said smiling at Sam who beamed back at him.

"Well aren't you two full of surprises? This calls for a celebration. How about dinner at our place? Just the four of us."

"Maybe in a couple of days Carly. I just want to spend time alone with Sam for a little while. So after you leave and Liz comes to pick up her laptop, I'm shutting off my phone and locking the door. Can you try not to cause any major disasters until tomorrow at the very least. I don't want to have to rush out on Sam to put out any fires."

"You know what, if I didn't love you so much, I would be insulted but I know what you meant. I'll let Sonny know that he has to leave you alone but before I go there is just one thing I have to do." Carly said standing up and walking to the stairs.

"And what is that?" He asked.

"I'm going to check to make sure that there is nothing else that Liz, "forgot" when she left. I have a feeling that there are a few other things she made need suddenly that she happened to have left by mistake so that she can call and say 'Jason, I left my so and so at your house and I need it desperately because I have no idea how I could go another minute without it. I can't believe I've gone this long without realizing that it was gone.'" Carly said in a mockingly sweet voice while clasping her hands over her heart and batting her eyes at Jason. By this time Sam was laughing hysterically at her imitation of Liz. Jason just shook his head.

"Carly, I don't think it's all you're making it out to be. She left her laptop. Big deal. She only moved out a couple of weeks ago."

"Jason for a really perceptive person, you are amazingly naïve when it comes to that girl. Trust me when I say she is not over you. You are a hard man to get over."

"I have to agree with Carly, Jason, you are definitely a hard man to get over. I know from personal experience."

"See. Now Sam, wouldn't you look for excuses to see the person that you wanted more than anything?"

"Sure."

"And wouldn't leaving something innocently behind be the perfect excuse to just drop by or even arrange a meeting?"

"Yeah."

"So Jason, let me ask you this; did she say she remembered where it was or that she had no idea where she could have left it?" Carly asked.
"She said that she left it between the bed and the night stand."

"She got you Jason. I have to say Carly may be right. I mean, if she had no idea where she left it then I would understand forgetting it in the first place. But to know the exact place it was at means she knew all along. I could even understand if she said that she thought it was just somewhere in the room but it completely escaped her mind. She wants to see you." Sam said.

"Why would she want to see me? I just saw her this morning when I went to talk to her."

"You went to talk to the skank as soon as you got back? Are you freaking retarded Jason? What did you possibly have to say to her that needed to be said as soon as you got back into town?" Carly asked with her arms crossed. Sam looked at him with a quizzical expression as well.

"I went to tell her that Sam was back and that she was pregnant. I wanted her to hear it from me and not be caught off guard by running into Sam outside or hearing it from someone else like you who would just rub it in her face."

"Oh isn't that sweet. You care about her feelings. Well I don't. But since she saw you already and you told her not only that Sam was here but that she's carrying your child, that means that she's not coming here to see you, she wants to see Sam. Wake up Jason and see the situation for what it is. I'm going upstairs to check for any girly stuff. Things that you, my male friend, would never pay attention too. I'll be back." Carly said heading up the stairs.

"So do you think she's right? Do you think Liz is coming here to see me?" Sam asked. Jason moved to the couch next to her and she laid her head on his shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her.

"I don't know. I mean it's possible that she could be using the laptop as an excuse. But she left it here weeks ago before I went to get you and well before she knew you were back and about the baby. She couldn't have been using it as an excuse to see you."

"Then maybe she left it here so that she had a reason to see you like Carly said. Maybe she's really not over you yet Jason. You need to take that into consideration when dealing with her. I'm not going to tell you to not be her friend; you two share a history and were going to share a child. But you need to make yourself aware of what her feelings really are. Don't assume to know that you and Liz are under the same understanding of what you were, are or could be."

"You may be right but all we were, were lovers, all we are is friends and all we could be is friends because you are everything to me and I don't want anyone else." He said kissing the top of her head.

She smiled and said, "You always know the right thing to say."

"Not always but I will try to from now on if it makes you smile like that." She cuddled closer to him and he put his hand on her stomach so he could feel the baby move. They talked about making Sam a doctor's appointment in the next couple of days and all the things they needed for the nursery. About 15 minutes later they heard Carly yelling

"I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. That sneaky little bitch. I'll kill her for this." Carly yelled from upstairs. She came down a few minutes later holding an armful of things belonging to Liz. "I told you Jason. I just knew that little miss innocent had 'forgotten" a load of stuff. Look at all this. And she was good. I mean she had this bracelet pushed into the far back corner of one of the dressers in the guest room. This sweater just happened to be in a pile of your sweats. Nothing else in the pile belonged to her. It wasn't even like there was anything but the stuff you exercise in. And the laptop was place neatly in between the bed and the nightstand like she said but if she cleared out the nightstand, which she did, she couldn't have missed in. Under the sink in the bathroom is what I'm going to assume is her favorite shampoo and conditioner but it was strategically placed behind the cleaning stuff although there was plenty of room in front of it. Then there's just a bunch of random stuff like a novel she must have read, a t-shirt, and a pair of boots that were under the bed. But you know what the kicker was….this. And I'm positive that she didn't mean to leave this behind. It was behind the dresser." Carly said holding up a notebook.

"What is that? And what were you doing checking behind the dresser?" Jason asked.

"I looked everywhere I would have left something behind or might have really dropped something without realizing it. But this is her journal. And you won't believe what it says."

"Carly, I'm not reading her private thoughts." Jason said.

"You don't have to. I only read some of it and I'll tell you all about it."

"It's none of my business. It doesn't belong to me."

"Ok two things you need to know Jason. One, possession is nine tenths of the law. She left it in your home so you own it. And two, trust me when I say this is your business. I only read a couple of pages but what I read will have you ready to kill the bitch."

"Carly, I said no. That's it. I'll give her the book when she gets here."

"Jason, you may want to rethink that. She wrote in the book that she had been trying to get pregnant by you for months."

"What!?" Jason and Sam both said at the same time.

"Yeah. She said…wait let me get this right…." Carly opened the book to the page she had been reading and started to read verbatim.

April 6

'I don't know why this is taking so long. I have been punching holes in the condoms for a month now. Jason won't even take a chance and fuck me without a condom. I even told him that I was on the pill so that he would just go for it and let loose with reckless abandon. I even seduced him on the couch. I stripped him down butt naked and gave him a blow job and he was more than ready. He started to undress me and I thought I was so close to feeling his dick inside me without the barrier of a condom but he stopped and said he had to go get one. He is so frustrating. I know we could be a happy family. Me, Jason and a beautiful baby. I would want a boy. One that looks just like him. Jason could take care of me forever. I would be happy giving him a family. My heart will always be with Lucky but he's gone and I have to move on. If I can't be in love with someone then I would want to be with someone I love. And I love Jason. He loves me too. Otherwise why would he always be there for me the way he is? He's so protective of me. I just need to secure my place in his life and what better way to do that than to get pregnant, have his baby, and have him marry me. Well I'm going over there again tomorrow. I want to feel him inside me again. He is so great in bed. I can't get enough of him. I can't wait to move in and share his bed. Then we could have sex every night. I love when we're together and he closes his eyes right before he comes. I'm getting excited just thinking about it. He opened up a new box of condoms today so when I go over tomorrow I'll have to make sure I slip into the room and poke holes in them before we do it. I want to get pregnant so bad. I just wish it wasn't taking so long.'

"But wait here is another one you're really going to love Jase." Carly began to read again.

April 7

'I did something today that I know I should be ashamed of but I'm not because if what I did worked like I hope it will, then I will get everything that I want. I went over to Jason's house like I planned but I changed my course of action. I did my hair and I had on this really sexy dress. I know he likes the color blue so of course I picked a dress that color. I turned the lights down and poured us some wine. Jason was really enjoying it. After the first glass, he loosened up a little and I went to get him another. I dropped the glass I had on purpose and went to throw it in the garbage and get a clean one. I poured Jason's wine while I was in the kitchen and added some of that date rape drug and Viagra to it. I got it from this kid Zander that I used to go to school with. He's a known drug dealer. The Viagra I took from the hospital when I went to see Steven. When I went back out, he drank it and we started to make out on the couch. He was getting so excited. His dick was super hard. After about 20 minutes he passed out. That's what I had been hoping for. I pulled his pants down and went to work. I fucked him six times without a condom and he came inside me each time. He woke up right after time number five but he was still half out of it. He was hard and kept telling me he needed to fuck. Even half out of it he said we needed a condom and I told him he had one on. So he fucked me willingly and came so hard inside of me. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this does it. I hope I get pregnant. If not then I'm just going to have to do this again next month. So I enjoyed myself tonight because who knows when I'll be able to feel him like that again.'

"I can't believe she would chronicle that stuff in a notebook and then leave it behind for Jason to find." Sam said. "Jason, are you okay?"

His eyes were glazed over with pure rage. He had believed her story about the defective condoms. It had just so happened to coincide with her plan. He stared at the wall straight in front of him. His mind was going in circles trying to wrap around how far Liz had gone to trap him. Carly was now looking at Sam as if to ask "Now what?" Sam shrugged and mouthed "I don't know."

Sam put her hand on Jason's back to try to relax him. He jumped up and went upstairs. A few seconds later they heard a loud crash. Jason had obviously gone upstairs and let out his frustration on a large piece of furniture.

"Carly, what do you think he's going to do?" Sam asked.

"I have no idea Sam. But I know that I want to finish reading this journal and after those two pages, God help Liz when Jason gets a hold of her. She better hope that some divine intervention prevents her from making it over here tonight."

"Jason wouldn't hit her." Sam said, looking towards the stairs as she cringed at the sound of another loud crash. "I'm going to go up and try to talk him down." Sam said.

"You sure that's a good idea?"

"Jason wouldn't hurt me or the baby. I just want him to calm down before he does something irrational. Besides, I want to make sure there's still someplace for me to sleep tonight." And she gave a weak smile as she rose from the couch and headed up the stairs.

"I'll wait down here and catch up on some reading." Carly said putting her face back into the notebook.

Sam reached the top of the stairs and heard a loud thud on the other side of the wall right by her ear. It caught her off guard and she screamed and jumped back. She almost lost her footing and fell back down the stairs but she managed to grab hold of the wall and catch herself. She steadied her breathing before heading towards the bedroom. Jason had closed the door. She knocked but got no answer. Another loud crash. She turned the knob and opened the door slowly. When she got the door open she saw that Jason had all but destroyed what was now their bedroom. The dresser was pulled down; the nightstand where he had kept his condoms had been thrown into the mirror. The mattress was over turned and there were several holes in the walls. The scene before her scared Sam more than anything that she had ever seen before. She stepped into the room as Jason was throwing a lamp. It crashed against the wall right next to Sam. Jason was in such a rage that he hadn't even noticed that she had entered until he heard her scream. He looked at her and she backed away from him. His mind went back to their first night together when she backed out of the shower. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Sam, I'm sorry. I didn't see…" But before he could finish she had backed out the room completely and all but ran down the stairs. The tears were falling from her eyes. When she got to the bottom of the steps, Carly jumped up.

"Sam, what happened?" she said.

"I don't even recognize him right now. He's so blinded by his anger that he almost hit me with a lamp. If I had taken another step into that room, it would have hit me." She sat down and put her face in her hands as Carly tried to soothe her tears.

"Sam, he didn't mean it. He thought he was in there by himself. He would never intentionally do anything to hurt you, you know that." She said as she rubbed her back.

Jason had come downstairs by now and hated himself for scaring her and making her cry. He walked over to her and knelt down in front of her. He took her hands from her face and used in fingers to wipe her tears. "Sam, I'm sorry I scared you. I didn't hear you come in. I would never have let that lamp go if I had seen you. I'm so sorry."

"Jason, I know you didn't mean to but I have never seen you like this and I just realized that we have a baby on the way and although I love you there are so many things that I don't know about you. What happens next time you get this angry? What if I come to comfort you and take one step too many before you see me? Then what Jason, I don't know how to handle that. I might be a little over emotional right now because I'm pregnant and hormonal but Jason, I don't like what I just saw up there. Even looking into your eyes, I didn't see Jason. It was pure evil I saw and was like looking at the devil himself. The Jason I love is loving and kind, and thoughtful. The man I saw upstairs just now was cold and heartless. I never want to fear you like that. I don't want our daughter to fear you like that."

Her words cut at his heart like a knife. He did not want for their first night together to be like this. He made her fear him and that was something that he never wanted. He didn't want her to be afraid of him; he wanted her to think of him as her protector. "Sam, I don't want you or Jasmine to be afraid of me. What you saw upstairs was a rare occasion. I didn't know how to deal with the anger and I took it out on the room. I went upstairs because I didn't want you to see me like that. Maybe I should have left out but I didn't want to leave you by yourself either. I was wrong. I'm sorry I didn't see you and that I could have caused you physical pain, in addition to the emotional pain I've caused you today. Please forgive me." He said, his own tears beginning to well up in his eyes.

"I'm not angry with you. So there is no need for me to forgive you. You scared me Jason. I can't say it any other way. I know you didn't mean to but you did. You can't change that fact. I will always remember the rage inside of you from now on. I just know now that I won't be able to comfort you if you get like that again. As much as I may want to be your quiet during the storm, you will have to battle through those kinds of storms alone. I almost fell down the stairs because I was caught off guard by something hitting the wall by my ear and I still kept moving toward you, needing to console you and when I step in there's a lamp flying at my head."

"You almost fell down the stairs?"

"Yes, Jason. I was at the top of the stairs when you either punched the wall or threw something because it hit right by my ear and I jumped back. Had I not grabbed the wall I would have fallen and we'd be in the ER right now."

The thought of her falling down the stairs scared him to death. He didn't want anything to happen to her or the baby. He thought of Liz's fall down the stairs and how it caused her to lose their baby. Liz. That bitch. That conniving whore. She would get what was coming to her. He would make sure he read every little detail of that journal and commit it to memory so he would know how to handle her. He wouldn't lay a finger on her but she would pay all in due time. Jason's mind began to get so consumed by his hatred for Liz that he had completely forgotten about Sam.

"Earth to Jason. Are you there?" Sam said waving her hand in front of his face. He blinked out of it.

"I'm sorry, I was thinking about how Liz lost the baby by falling down the stairs. I'm sorry; I never want to cause you that kind of pain."

"That's not all you were thinking about just now Jason. I saw the sadness in your eyes at first but then they clouded over and they became angry again. They were cold like they were upstairs. I can read you Jason. I know your moods. I don't know how but I can read your emotions through your eyes even when no one else can. So what was it?"

He was amazed at how well she read him. "The thought of Liz. I can't believe what she did and how I believed her. I know I can't hit her but I want to so badly."

This is when Carly spoke up. "You can't but I can and after what I've read, I'm going to beat that sorry, skank ass, whore's ass. And I'll do it a second and a third time for you and Sam too."

"Carly, give me the book." Jason said.

"Only if you promise to let me finish reading it later. I need to add some fuel to this fire and that book has plenty."

"I'll see. Now give it to me." She handed him the notebook.

"Jason you may want to rethink reading that." Sam said.

"No I need to read this so that I know what my next move is. But you're right Sam I do need to do this alone. I have a feeling that this is going to make me just as mad as before. Especially if I read the whole thing. I need to ask you to go with Carly across the hall. If I lose my temper again I don't want you to see or even hear it. And I definitely don't want to chance hurting you so will you please go."

"I'll go but Jason, please be careful and come get me when she calls to say that she's on the way. I don't care what you think. You don't need to be alone with her because you're liable to kill her and I don't want to have to visit you in Pentonville. And I'd like you around for a few things like Jasmine's birth, our wedding, our honeymoon, you know stuff like that."

"Yes Sam. And thank you. I love you."

"I love you too. Don't forget to come get me before she gets here."

"Okay. I promise."

And Sam and Carly walked across the hall. Sam silently prayed that Carly was right and that some divine intervention would keep Liz from showing up because when she did, it would not be a pretty sight at all.