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Chapter 11

"You want to talk about it?" Hannah asked bringing Sonny a scotch. He had shown up about an hour ago. The thunderclouds were plan to see on his face, and most of the staff gave him space. He sat on the same stool he had the first night, and the guards made sure that portion of the bar stayed empty.

"Didn't we do this the other night?" Sonny said feeling better just being out of the penthouse. Away from Carly, Jason, and the other problems he was dealing with.

"It seemed to help the other night." She pointed out.

"It's just work stuff." Sonny told the woman.

"Alright." Hannah said in a way that indicated she had more to say on the topic but wasn't sure she should. Talking had to be something he did voluntarily. She wasn't going to lead him in anyway. Not that it looked like it was necessary. Sonny seemed to be looking for someone to be on his side, and she was happy to let that be her. It would make her task easier.

"What?" Sonny heard the change in pitch.

"It just seems with your partner back things should be easier work wise." Hannah pointed out. "Less for you to do. I know that you've been running everything by yourself. That has to be stressful. Overseeing such a successful company on your own. You can split the duties now. Maybe even take a vacation." It wasn't hard to learn that Sonny wasn't happy that Jason Morgan was back. While the mob guys didn't gossip, the legitimate employees did. Their boss's penchant for destroying his office after meetings with the blonde was quickly noted. Anger swiftly came into Sonny's eyes.

"Leaving right now is the last thing I want to do." Sonny spit out. "He would like that too much. He wants my power, and that bitch he is dating is urging him on. Things were different before Jason started dating Elizabeth." He said the words slipping under his guard. In fact Sonny could feel himself sliding closer to the darkness just thinking about his partner.

Hannah was surprised he said all that. She also noted that he sounded a bit off, almost like he wasn't even aware of what he was saying. She decided this was not the time to press against that nerve. They should be somewhere private if they had that talk. "You can always come here and talk to me when you want to get away. I'll make sure to keep your stool empty." She said smiling.

Sonny nodded and gave a small laugh. "I think hiring you will be the best decision I ever made."

"I like to think that it will definitely be a game changer." Hannah said before moving off to take care of another customer. Sonny was on the hook, all she needed to do now was reel him in. After he gave her the opening she needed it would be on to the next part of the plan.

"Welcome home!" Emily said as her best friend walked into the gatehouse. "I can't believe that we are going to be living together." It would be like an extended sleepover. "Is Jason coming in?"

"No." Elizabeth said putting her overnight bag down. The rest of her things were coming tomorrow. After she unpacked here she would head over to her studio to meet with Lois. "He got a call from Cody."

"Okay." Emily could sense that her friend was off. "Want to pick your room?" The gatehouse had three bedrooms, all roughly the same size, and all with attached bathrooms. So Em didn't feel like she had taken the best room by picking first.

"I guess I should." Elizabeth was still thinking about what happened with Jason. She knew that their relationship was going to become more physical. She wanted that, wanted to explore that side of herself with him. The man who excited her like no one else had, and who made her feel safer than anyone else. Yet despite the desire she felt to be closer, she still froze up. It was almost like all the therapy she had didn't do a damn thing.

"Elizabeth?" Emily had said her friend's name twice already. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah." Elizabeth said shaking off her mood. "So where are these rooms?"

"One is upstairs and the other is downstairs." Emily pointed over her shoulder.

"Let me look at the one down here." Elizabeth figured that if Jason stayed over it would be better if there was space between the bedrooms the siblings shared.

"Jason sent some guys over to put in security measures." Emily reported. "All the windows were swapped out, and we have an actual security system which Sal said we have to use. We are supposed to come up with a code that isn't obvious and we both can remember."

"Shouldn't be too hard." Elizabeth figured they would pick a date that meant a lot to both of them. "I like this room." She said stepping into the large and cool space. The walls were covered in a pale wallpaper, and a big bed dominated the room. Off to one side there was a reading nook with an oversized chair. "I like that I can't see the mansion from here." Out the window was a grassy area complete with trees.

"I can't see it from my room either." Emily said smiling. She would feel like she was being watched. "I'm in the room that faces the front of the property." Which meant she was over the kitchen. Thinking of that reminded her of something else. "My mother wants you to know that you have a standing invitation to eat at the mansion."

"Am I expected to bring your brother?" Elizabeth didn't think that would be the case. Monica was respectful of Jason's boundaries.

"No, I don't even have to be there." Emily explained. "I figure I'll go for breakfast most days and dinner once a week. That way my parents still see me. I also told AJ I wouldn't mind babysitting, if Leticia is off."

"It would be fun to spend some time with Michael." Elizabeth let her friend know. "I think we should make some brownies. To celebrate that we are here." She needed to do something fun.

"That's the best suggestion I've heard all day." Em would never turn down chocolate. "I happen to have all the ingredients in the kitchen."

"Is that right?" Elizabeth said laughing. "Well let's get to it then." She said following her friend out of her new room.

"What's up?" Jason asked his enforcers. Johnny was waiting with Cody.

"We have a walking dead man in our town." Cody made the report because he was the one who discovered this.

"What?" Jason had no clue what his friend was talking about. Cody handed over a photograph. Looking at it the blonde mob boss saw someone who looked exactly like Luis Alcazar, but the background showed that the photo had been taken in Port Charles. "Luis is dead, I killed him myself so who the hell is this?"

"I called Reggie." Johnny said speaking up. "You are looking at Lorenzo Alcazar, the younger brother of Luis. I can only assume that he is here to pick up where his sibling left off." There was no other reason for the man to be in their city. "He is not hiding his presence."

"Is he staying in Port Charles?" Jason wanted to know. He was not aware that Luis had a brother.

"Crimson Pointe." Cody jumped back into the conversation. "Officially he is here to negotiate use of the ports." Sonny and Jason owned a good portion of the piers but not all of it. "He has been meeting with Manning. From what we can gleam this is a strictly legitimate business deal."

"He's using it as a cover to get close to us." Jason knew that to anyone outside the situation that would seem a bit paranoid. To assume that the man was here because of what happened in South America. But Jason had no doubt that was what was happening. "Is there any indication that Sonny called him?" There was no way his partner could get Port Charles back without help. Jason would be willing to consider a full partnership if Sonny could show he was in control of himself. And could be respectful of Elizabeth.

"None." Johnny said not surprised that Jason would ask that. Sonny was the one who gathered all the information on Luis, so he could have easily left out that there was another Alcazar. "We are watching. Marco said that Sonny is spending all his free time in the past few days, that isn't being used to plot your downfall, at the No Name. He is chatting with Hannah Scott."

"Who is that?" Jason wanted to know.

"New bartender that Sonny told Joe to hire. She is also Courtney's roommate." Cody filled in the missing pieces for his boss. "Sonny and Carly had a loud argument before he showed up at the bar."

Jason shook his head. He knew that Sonny had been stepping out on Carly regularly since they officially became a couple. He was usually more discreet then this. Sleeping with an employee could be all kinds of messy. "Keep watch of that situation. Inform Max in case Carly figures this out. She is impulsive and I don't need her causing more issues. I want a deep run done on Hannah Scott."

"Already started." Johnny told his boss. "A preliminary run was done when she moved in with Courtney. Hannah is new to the area, so the guys wanted to make sure she wasn't a plant. No hits in that sector."

Jason nodded. Things being tense between him and Sonny made Port Charles a powder keg. Jason had no doubt that his partner was planning on launching an assault to get "his" territory back, if he could find guys to stand with him. So another Alcazar was the last thing they needed. "I want you to find a safe place for the ladies to go if they need to leave Port Charles." He instructed. "The island is not an option." If he needed to send Elizabeth and Em out of the city it wouldn't be to the one place Sonny still had power.

"I'll start working on that." Cody would have an answer by tomorrow morning.

"Go see Chris, I want him watching Lorenzo." Jason needed to figure out what the other man's plans were. The more information they had the easier it would be to counter his actions.

"I'll go do that now." Cody said before walking out of the office.

"I need you to do something for me." Jason looked at Johnny. "No one else is to know about this."

"Alright." Johnny said before waiting for instructions.

"I need a police file. For a sexual assault that took place here in Port Charles four years ago." Jason told his enforcer. "In Griffin Park. It's an unsolved case."

"Okay." Johnny shouldn't have any problem getting the file. "Do you want me to read it?"

"No." Jason didn't know what the file contained, and he didn't want Elizabeth's business being spread around. He would probably need help once he had all the information, but he could decide what Johnny would need to know. "Just bring it to me."

"Give me a few days." Johnny was curious as to why Jason was all of a sudden playing detective, but wasn't going to ask.

"Thanks. I'm going for a ride. Call me if anything else of interest happens." Jason needed a bit of space. He was still upset over what happened at the studio. That Elizabeth had been upset. He never wanted her to feel shame or fear when they were together. He would go for a ride and let it go. Maybe after he'd swing by the gatehouse and see how they were settling in.

She had decided against Jake's, and came to the No Name instead. She was glad she did. The choice afforded her a front row seat to the Sonny Corinthos show. He had been angry when he walked into the establishment, and instead of sitting at his reserved table he sat at the bar. Close to where she herself was sitting.

She was guessing that normally the guards would clear the section, but with her being a lone woman she wasn't seen as a threat. Or it could be the fact that the guys already knew her. She was just another face they regularly saw around town. Which was a mistake on their part, one that paid off. Jason and Sonny were not getting along. Elizabeth's name had also been uttered, and not in a good way. The petite brunette was also on the older mob boss's shit list. Which was surprising considering they had almost no contact with one another.

Sonny seemed to be unstable. Something that was becoming harder to hide. She knew about the anger, but just lately he seemed to be paranoid as well. Employees gossiped, and she had heard he was seen walking around muttering that Jason was out to get him. If she had to guess she would say that he had some sort of undiagnosed mental issue. But Sonny was too proud to admit any type of sickness and to suggest that would surely cause an explosion of massive proportions. Might be fun to make that happen.

She finished her beer, and paid her tab. With a wave to Hannah she walked out of the bar. She waited until she was in her apartment before calling in. "Sonny seems to not like Elizabeth Webber very much."

"I want you carefully monitoring that situation." He told her. "Sonny cannot be allowed to harm Elizabeth. I'm not sure where the information I need is. So I need her fully functional until I get my hands on it. If you have no other choice simply remove Corinthos." It was funny that he was ordering the protection of the younger woman since he planned on killing her once she was no longer useful.

"I don't see Morgan letting that happen. Nor do I see Elizabeth's guard letting Sonny get that close." She reported. "I think I have a way to get a DNA sample. I'm going to try in a few days when she returns to work." It would require a bit of stealth, but it might work. Elizabeth had a quirk that would be most useful in this situation. She liked to chew on the top of her pens. Just the other day she dropped one into her purse, and while she was working her purse was in the employee area of Kelly's.

"Let me know if it works." He was anxious to get this information. DNA samples took some time to run, even expedited ones. If Elizabeth was who he needed, then getting her would take some planning and time. He was running low on patience, but simply reminded himself of the payday this promised. It might take longer than he wanted, but he was going to win in the end.

A/N Just wanted to let you guys know that I finished another full length story. Light drama/light humor/romance.

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