bChapter 10/b
"Elizabeth?"
"Yes" she replied wrapping the sheet around her naked form.
"We really need to talk." His voice instantly switched to 'mob' mode. This was going to be the conversation she didn't want to hear.
"I figured this was coming…" Elizabeth sat up and rested her back against the headboard.
Jason let out a deep breath, "I haven't been fully honest with you. Sonny and I, well, we've been staging a falling out for weeks now. We think someone in our organization is giving someone inside information on us."
"Jacque or still Zacchara?"
"We think someone new. Zacchara has not actually broken our treaty since Claudia…"
"Except by being creepy." She muttered sarcastically.
Jason's booming laugh filled the room as he laid a soft kiss on Elizabeth's lips. "I don't think being creepy qualifies as breaking a treaty."
"Well it should, the man gives me the heeby geebies."
He raised one brow in confusion, "The what?"
Liz shook her head and replied, "Nevermind. The man is just creepy. He needs to stay on his drugs, he and Sonny both would just be so much better off if they were on their medications all the time."
"You're beautiful, do you know that?" He couldn't help the grin playing across his face.
Elizabeth bit down slightly on her lower lip, sucking it between her teeth, and locked eyes with him. "So…what are you doing about this new threat?"
He couldn't keep his eyes off her mouth and he knew if this weren't so important, he would lay her back down and take her again. "Well, we've given the appearance that the organization is split between Sonny and myself, that the employees are losing faith in us and are beginning to question where their loyalty should lie. We are hoping they attempt to flip the wrong people so we can find out who it is. If it gets too bad we might have to set it up that Sonny had me killed." He finished, looking away from her, knowing she would be unhappy with what was being considered, as a last resort.
Her eyes went wide and the calm, loving expression that was on her face was replaced with one of total disbelief. "WHAT?! You're going to fake your death? How do I tell the boys? I can see the conversation now, 'Oh by the way boys, Jason, your new daddy, has to run away for a few months, but don't worry he still loves you'. I won't do it Jason! I WON'T!"
Taking one of her hands in his, "Calm down, I want you and the boys to come with me."
"Wh- what?"
"Go on the run with me…until I know it's safe." He told her, keeping his gaze locked with her, willing her to understand.
"I can't just up and leave my job, Jason," she told him, rolling her eyes and sighing. "I mean, what about Grams? Or Monica? She just got her family back, she would be devastated! Would we even be able to tell them?"
This wasn't going to be easy. How could he make her understand that telling people increased the risk of something going wrong. That no one could know that they were still alive.
"Nevermind. You don't have to say anything Jason… I already know. Do I have time to think about this?"
"Of course, Elizabeth. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, I just…" his voice trailed off and his eyes fell, ashamed to keep contact with hers.
Liz turned his face back to hers so that she could look into the eyes of the man she loved and trusted. "Jason, its ok. We knew this life would be dangerous when we got into it. You need to stop worrying."
He took a deep breath and let it out, along with all the worry he had been holding onto. The corner of his mouth curved up as he asked, "How did I ever make it through this without you?"
"You know, I ask myself that all the time, too," she giggled.
--2 weeks later--
The Morgan's were returning from a fun afternoon in the park, laughing and smiling as Cameron skipped ahead of them to the elevator.
bBANG – BANG – BOOM/b
"ELIZABETH, GET DOWN!" Jason yelled to his wife as she was already ducking down with Jake in her arms. The guard lunged for Cameron, who was a quite a distance ahead of his family, pulling the young boy to the ground.
Jason and Elizabeth hurried behind one of the couches in the tower lobby. "Stay here." Jason whispered as he pulled his gun from it's holster and went for Cameron and the guard who were still out in the open.
The guard was doing his best to return fire and shield the boy, but before Jason could reach them, the guard was hit. He covered Cameron's body knowing his life was spent and that Jason would be there in seconds to rescue his son. Four more bullets hit him before Jason grabbed Cameron and went back to the safe cover of the couch.
Jason looked directly at Elizabeth, "Listen, I'm going to get up and cover you. You need to get to that elevator do you hear me? No matter what happens, you take the boys and get onto the elevator and into the penthouse." It was easy to see that the fearless mob enforcer, Jason Morgan, was terrified. Elizabeth nodded all the while praying that Jason made it out ok. iIf only she had agreed to run away with him sooner, this wouldn't be happening./i
"Alright, on the count of three, Elizabeth." Her heart racing, she grabbed Cameron's hand and made sure she had a secure hold on Jake. She knew this was always a possibility but never really thought it would happen. Someone bhad/b betrayed Jason and Sonny.
"One"
She thought of the first time she had ridden on Jason's bike, back when she thought Lucky had died, their dance in Kelly's, and her painting of the wind.
"Two"
The first time Jason had met her son, Cameron. And the night they had created Jake. The day Jake was born, how it was Jason that saved their lives and he'd been there to hold his son?
"Three"
Jason shot up from behind the couch and began to move toward the elevator and never stopped shooting. She started to run toward the elevators hearing things behind her breaking and the bullets slicing thru the air. Cameron began to cry at their hurried pace and she knew she was basically dragging her oldest son along. They made it. They were safely inside the elevator. She caught sight of Jason just before the doors closed. His eyes locked with hers, he was terrified, then they traveled down to his leg and she saw blood pouring down his thigh.
She slumped against the wall and held Cameron to her, trying to calm his tears and apologizing for hurting his arm. Before she knew it, the doors of the elevator were opening and another guard was escorting her and the boys into the penthouse and handing her the key to the 'saferoom'. She hoped it would not come to that, but she knew it was a possibility. She took the boys upstairs and they sat in the master closet, inches away from the entrance so they could enter quickly if they needed to.
Eventually Cameron had stopped crying, and both boys fell asleep on the floor and she was left alone with her thoughts. She kept replaying her last vision of Jason. Terrified and hurt. iWhere was he? Shouldn't he be back here now?/i
bKnock/b
"Mrs. M? Are you in here?" she immediately recognized it was Milo entering the bedroom and got up from her spot, careful to not wake the boys.
"Where is he, Milo?" she blurted out anxiously. The guard looked at her, hesitant and scared. "Milo. Where. Is. Jason?"
"He's gone."