Mama's Boy

a Logan Hayes General Hospital fan-fiction

Chapter Ten: Duets

Scott and Jacqueline walked out into a nearby courtyard. He paced the small area while she watched him quietly.

"Scott, do you regret telling me what you did?" she asked him.

He stopped pacing and looked at her. "Is that what you think?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. You've been so quiet since you told me. You hardly said much the whole ride from your place. What am I supposed to think?"

"I was waiting for you to respond." A moment passed between them. "Well, Jacq? What do you have to say?"

"What do you want me to say, Scott?" she said, finally. "I mean, that was a long time ago. I'm not even sure we're the same people we were back then. In fact, I know I'm not the same person. So how can I comment on what you wanted twenty-five years ago?"

"Then answer this," Scott began, "what would you have done or said if I had told you back then? If I had told you I didn't want to leave?"

"Scott, I can't answer that either."

"Why not?"

"Because...I don't know!" She turned away and started to walk away.

"Jacq, wait."

When she turned around again, he could see tears forming in her eyes. "For what, Scott? This is pointless. It was a long time ago. I don't live in the past, believe me. I don't deal with 'woulda, shoulda, coulda's...it's all so pointless so why bother asking what I may or may not have said?"

"You wrote those letters," Scott pointed out. "Doesn't that say something? Did you want me to stay back then, is that why you wrote to me?"

"The letters!?" Jacq scoffed, wiping away the tears. "Funny you should bring those up. You didn't read those letters, did you? You didn't even open them." She paused to catch her breath. "I wrote to you because I thought you had a right to know you were going to be a father. No other reason, just that. What's your excuse for not even opening them to find that out?"

Scott sighed. "I don't know, Jacq," he said, quietly. "By the time I got them, I was in a bad place." He turned away from her and hid his face. "I was mad...bitter because I had just found out that my ex was pregnant with Luke Spencer's kid. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be with anybody, especially not you. It's probably a good thing I didn't know about Logan because I would have screwed him up even worse."

Jacq shook her head at him. "That is the most self-involved, self-pitying piece of crap I have ever heard in my life!"

Brook stared at Diego for a long time trying to find something in him that she recognized. "What happened to you?" she asked him, finally.

"I got tired of the Alcazar's always losing in this stupid town," Diego told her, bitterly. "My father lived in this town for almost four years and did you know not one person mourned his death? No, they were all glad to be rid of him. Even Skye, my baby sister's mother." He leaned forward in his chair. "Did you know she lured my father to his death? Yeah, she let Jason Morgan in the house and he shot him point-blank!"

Diego pounded the table with his fist. "Jason Morgan and Sonny Corinthos took away everything from us! I just wanted to give a little payback."

"By killing Emily?"

"She was Jason's sister," Diego shrugged. "I wanted to kill Carly first because she was involved with both Jason and Sonny but her nanny got in the way."

"What about Georgie? Why her?" Brook asked. "She wasn't involved with Jason or Sonny. She never did anything to you. In fact, she defended you when you went to jail for what you did to me!"

"You're right, Georgie has done a lot for me," Diego agreed, "I wish I could do right by her."

The door opened and Mac stepped in. "I'm sorry, Brook, you're going to have to leave. Diego has to go back to his cell."

Brook stood up. "Just a little longer, Mac, please?" she begged.

Logan was surprised at how fast he and Serena were hitting it off. She wasn't the spoiled little rich girl he had imagined her to be.

After Spinelli had respectfully excused himself, the newfound siblings were already fifteen minutes into their meeting before he realized that she had arrived alone. "How did you get here, by the way?" he asked her.

"I came with dad and your mom," Serena told him.

"My mom was with your dad?"

"Our dad," Serena corrected him, as he rolled his eyes, "and yeah, she was at his house when I arrived from the airport."

"What was my mom doing at Baldwin's house?"

Serena shrugged. "I don't know, but from the looks of it, they were pretty close."

Logan shook his head, emphatically. "No way. My mom would never have anything to do with that slime. He must have wanted something from her." He pushed the covers off his legs and reached for his robe. "Where is she now? I need to find her."

Serena jumped up from her seat. "Are you sure you should be getting up? You could hurt yourself."

"I'm fine," Logan stated, shrugging on his robe and tying the sash. "It's my mom I'm worried about now."

Jacq shook her head at Scott. "How did you turn out this way?" she asked. "You have a great life, Scott. A successful law practice, a beautiful daughter and yet, you think your life sucks because your ex married some other guy."

"It's not that she married again, it's who she married," Scott insisted.

"Whatever, it doesn't matter," Jacq said. "Don't you even realize that if you hadn't been dwelling on her and her new family, you could have had a family of your own? If you had opened the letters, you would have found out you were going to be a father yourself." She paused. "I'm not saying that we would have gotten back together, even if we were together in the first place, but I would never have kept you away from Logan." She paused again. "Have you thought about that?"

"Of course I have!" Scott blasted. "It's my fault--is that what you want to hear? It's my fault you had to raise Logan by yourself! I know that! I know I wasted my whole life feeling sorry for myself because she chose Luke and I lost the chance to be really happy with a great girl! It's my fault..."

Jacqueline kissed him. Scott was surprised to find Jacq's mouth on his but gave in to the kiss quickly. He wrapped his arms around her, drawing her closer to his body as she held his face in her hands.

The kiss was intense. Scott felt a sense of urgency flood through him and he didn't want this moment to end. He wanted nothing more out of life than to keep kissing this beautiful woman in his arms.

Unfortunately for him...

"MOM!"

"Dad?"

Logan and Serena arrived at that moment and Scott and Jacq sprang apart abruptly.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm sorry it took so long to update. Keep reviewing. thanks!