Do not own General Hospital or any of the characters.

All the flashbacks are from the show, except for the one about Sam in the book store, that one is all me.

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Nightlight

Chapter 10

"Hello…Davis residence," spoke Alexis into the phone breathlessly as she took a seat on the arm rest of the couch and kicked off her shoes. She had just arrived at the Lake House and ran to the phone before the machine could kick in.

"Hi Mom," spoke Sam on the other line.

"Sam?" asked Alexis, her brow fussing in confusion. "What are you doing phoning the house? Usually you phone my cell. What's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong…well not really that is. I was just phoning to let you I am safe and not to worry," she explained.

"Why would I worry, Sam?" asked Alexis a tone of panic coming over her. "Sam, tell me! Where are you?"

"It's okay," began Sam. "I just needed….I just needed…" Sam sighed deeply into the phone. She didn't know how to explain to Alexis why she had left.

"Needed what Sam?" cried Alexis into the phone, her voice rising into a shriek at the end. Where was her eldest daughter?

"I needed to get away from everything. From Port Charles…from Jase, from him," explained Sam calmly into the phone. "I talked to him early today, at the court house…it hurt so much seeing him after what he had done and such…I dunno. We talked, more like screamed at each other….and basically all you need to know that its over between me andddd him." It pained Sam to speak his name. Every time she spoke his name or heard it, it made her heart bleed with pain.

"I see," replied Alexis softly into the phone, looking over as Viola entered the house, carrying a sleeping Molly in her arms followed by Kristina, who too look like she was going to fall asleep any minute. They had made a day trip to New York City, where they had a picnic lunch in Centurial Park and visited the Zoo there too.

Alexis nodded her head at Viola as she motioned to her that she was going to put the girls to bed. It had been a long day.

"So I just wanted to phone and tell you I was alright in case you noticed that my room was empty except for a few shirts and such," finished Sam explaining to her mother.

Alexis was quiet for a moment before replying, "So where are you now?"

"I am at the airport. I am going to Hawaii for a few weeks," spoke Sam. "I need to get away from it all. I need to breathe and think. To recover." She paused for a moment before continuing on, "You understand, don't you?"

"Oh Sam, I do understand. And I think what you are doing is very smart." Sam sounded so hurt and sad to Alexis. It pained her to hear her daughter so gloom. "Go to Hawaii and enjoy the beach. But just a quick question Honey, What about Everyday Heroes?"

"Oh….I…..they…," Sam blushed into the phone with embarrassment. "They laid me off, well replaced me really."

A gasped from Alexis's lips. She was shocked. Sam was "Everyday Heroes". Why would she be replaced?

"The new producer Dean wants to go in a different direction with the show, basically having a six foot tall, big boob blonde bombshell wearing a bikini and jumping off of buildings. I have been replaced! Plan and simple, but they did give me a very nice going away present, $650,000. I guess they figured that would keep me quiet and stop me from making a scene."

"So you are going to Hawaii then," spoke Alexis noticing the tone in Sam's voice. She was pissed. So she quickly changed the subject back onto Sam's going away.

"Yep, I am!" laughed Sam sadly into the phone. Shortly after leaving Jason in the park and arriving back at the Lake House, she had gotten a phone call from Dean her producer telling her to come down to the studios. Founding this a little weird and out of the blue, Sam had finished packing her bags and drove over there. Where she was told that they didn't need her anymore. That the show needed a fresh new look, a blonde new look.

After leaving the studio and receiving her big fat going away check, she headed towards the air port and decided she was heading for the sunny skies and beaches of Hawaii, a place she had been happy, very happy before.

"Oh shit!" spoke Sam into the phone, they had just called her flight number, they were boarding already. "Mom, my flight is boarding. I will call you when I land, okay!"

"Sounds Good Honey," spoke Alexis. "Have a safe flight!"

"Thanks mom, I love you!"

"I love you too, Sam. Bye!"

"Talk to you later," with that Sam hung up.

Alexis stared down at the phone and sighed. Just when she thought she had all three of girls under her roof, Sam decided to leave and run away to Hawaii. She knew that Sam had a lot on her plate and it would be good for her to get away and be by her self. But it still pained her to see her go.

She just didn't know how she was going to tell Kristina that Sam was gone, again.

It well past nine o'clock at night as Sam boarded the plane and took her seat by the window. The sun was just setting over the Port Charles landscape; bright yellow and pink hues hung in the sky.

Sam looked away from the window and smiled as a middle aged woman appeard and took the seat beside her, she had graying red hair and wore a black channel suit. The woman looked down at Sam coldly before putting on the ear phones that the plane gave away and ignored Sam.

She just shrugged this off and turned her attention back to the window. She was glade of this. She hated having to make small talk on plane rides with strangers. She was glade that the woman sitting beside her seemed to be thinking the same thing.

After the plane had become air borne and left Port Charles, Sam tried to close her eyes and get some sleep but found that she couldn't. No matter how much she moved around, she couldn't get comfortable.

With a frustrated sigh, Sam glanced out into the dark sea of blackness that was before her. She had no clue where they were flying over now; it was only about an hour or so into the flight. They still had a long way to go before they landed in Hawaii.

As Sam continued to look out into the dark night sky, her mind began to drift back to the last time she was in Hawaii. It had been with Jason, almost two years ago. It was during the time that Jason had lost his memory. They had gone to Hawaii to get away from it all, Port Charles, the people; similar to what she was doing now.

Tears sprang to her eyes as she thought about how hard that trip had been at the end. How Jason had fought her tooth and nail not to come back to Port Charles. He had wanted to spend his remainder of his days there with her. He had been dieing and didn't want to have brain surgery. She remembers how she could not sleep at night, thinking about how soon he would die and leave her. She couldn't have imaged her life with out him at that point.

Well she now could see it, it wasn't pretty but it was manageable. Sam was strong.

She shook her head, from left to right, trying to shake off the painful memories that where leaking into her mind.

Flash: Jason on the beach, barefoot and jeans rolled up. Laughing and trying to pull a water gun out of her hands, as she continued to soak him with it.

Flash: A sad looking Jason looking back at her as they said goodbye. He was leaving to go help Sonny. Tears had rolled down her cheeks, in sadness.

Flash: Manny's face appearing through the window of the door, into the villa. His ugly face smirking through the rain. Fear pumping through her veins as she hid behind the couch.

Silent sobs shook her body as one last memory poured into her mind, it was a small one but emotional one at that.

Flash: Sam was eight months pregnant; sitting on a comfy leather couch in the Port Charles Book Store. Jason and she were looking for children's books to read to her daughter when she was born. She had stumbled away however from the children's section and ended up in the travel section. Here there were book shelves filled with books on Egypt, Britain, Africa, Cuba, and Canada. Any place you named, there was a book on it. Sam ran a finger along the spins of the books, before stopping and pulling out one on Hawaii. She then made her way over to the couch and began to flip through the heavy book; it was filled with the history of the island, and contained beautiful pictures of sunsets and beaches. It was there she thought to herself, "One day Baby Girl, I will bring you there. To see the sunset. I promise."

Flash: Tears rolled down Sam's cheeks as she stood outside the nursery at the hospital, Jason was standing a few feet away from her, his eyes pouring into her back. It had been a year since she had lost her daughter. Jason had had remembered something, he remember holding her daughter. Sam had taken him to the hospital, to tell him the story of losing her daughter. She tells him how she read so many books, on pregnancy and parenting. How she wanted to give her daughter everything that she didn't have in life. How she had promised to bring her to Hawaii when she was old enough. Sam looks back at Jason and says, "but she would never be old enough." She then turned back to the window staring into the nursery and breathes out deeply. "She was gone," she spoke, tears falling.

Hawaii held a lot of good memories for her but also its fair share of horror. She didn't know why she was going back there to a place where her and Jason had lived together for a brief period, where Manny had ran his hands all over her body and terrorized her. Just something in her heart ache to be there; along the white sandy beaches.

"Well Good Morning, Stone Cold!" greeted Spinelli happily towards his room mate as he appeared in the living room.

Jason grunted at Spinelli who was seated at the couch, laptop in front of him.

"How is one feeling today?" asked Spinelli with concern. He knew that Jason was tearing up inside over Sam.

"Fine," grunted Jason. And with that he was out the front door, slamming it behind him. He was not in the mood right now to deal with Spinelli and his ways.

And plus Jason had people to see that morning, important people.

Jason climbed the steps leading up to the Lake House by two, he was nervous. He didn't know really why he was here, Sam had made it clear that she didn't want to see after reading her letter last night, he just had to talk to her and explain. He needed to tell her what she had written in her letter about him not loving her enough was false. That he did love her. That he had always loved her.

He ran his hand through his hair as he approached the glass door, and knocked twice.

A moment passed before Alexis appeared and opened the door.

"Jason," she sounded surprise to see him. "Hi."

"Hi Alexis," spoke Jason, looking into her eyes. He never noticed it before but Alexis had the same dark brown orbs as Sam. "I know it's early and such but can you please let me speak to Sam?" he asked looked over her shoulder and into the living room as if hoping to see Sam.

"Can't do Jason," began Alexis shaking her head.

"I know I screwed up!" cried Jason cutting Alexis off, his voice was rising a little. "But if you just let me speak to Sam…"

"No Jason you don't understand, She is not here!"

"What do you mean, she is not here?" asked Jason, a confused look spreading across his face. "Spinelli told me, she was staying here…"

"She was but she is gone now," spoke Alexis calmly to the mobster. "She left last night."

"Where did she go?"

"I don't know," lied Alexis. It was best for Sam if Jason didn't know where she was. She needed the space. "She just left last night before I got home. She packed up all her belongings and left."

Jason remained silent at this. He was too late.

"She needed space Jason," spoke Alexis softly.

Jason just mumbled thanks and walked away. His heart breaking. He was late. She was out of his life for good now.

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