No one needs to read these unless you see your name in bold. They're ramblings and comments back. Not storyline related until the end.
So this was an old AN: Ah Spinelli used courtly love today and I included it in his description of Brenda and Jason's love last week. God I love this show when Liz isn't on, I am so bummed she's returning. I think I can either handle Liz or Sonny. Or actually maybe it's just I can't handle Liz on the screen and while Sonny mildly annoys me, I can't handle any extra annoyance when Liz is on. :-P Honestly, I feel a psychic connection every once in awhile with TBTB, granted they normally screw up what I'm thinking about, but this one I'll take happily. :-P
Comments back to ppl:
LS815: Awww thank you for coming out and showing your support for my fics. They truly do boost my moods and always send me to open the Word file (granted half the time I'll just stare at it blankly, but well…) . Why won't the writers give it to us? I mean we've been waiting for years! This is just cruel. Honestly was it asking soooo much for them to just give us a year and then give us an amazing send off for them that could take us through the next decade of being Brazen fans?
Salena: Wow, I have no idea how many times I read that review, it was AMAZING! Like OMG top ten. You seriously make it all sound sooo good. Can your reviews turn me into an insane fangirl? (seriously I read that review one too many times for it to be considered sane).
Gotta love how frequently Brenda pushes Jason out of his "zone." Ah he loves her "madly" just as she loves him, one day they'll realize that's what those emotions were…Haha wait they are figuring it out even if it is just in fic.
(Just noticed most of Jason's time with Brenda is all about him restraining her) – Haha. He likes touching her and she likes having him touch her that's why she does all that stuff.
LuSam had super hot vids on YouTube, we should always remember them.
"Original Enlightened One" Haha I actually cracked up when I realized that sounded Georgie, I was actually going for the Original, Buddha and trying to make the distinction between those two with original. I can totally see Georgie saying that to Spinelli though, as she tried to nudge him into noticing her. :-P
Haha awesome you read my AN. Seriously I always find it impressive when that happens (I never read them :-P) and of course I had a spelling error in it. :-P
Random AN: So is anyone else staring at the show going there should be a fan vote for storylines. Like really let us pick, I really think we could do it better than them.
So someone explain to me how I managed to delete WWFO. I spent half a day looking for it on my computer. AAAAAAAH! (Btw that file totally had the outline…anyone think I have any recollection of what I was supposed to be writing?)
Surprises
(Midnight EST/9PM PST)
Waking Up in Vegas:
They had no concept of time, no concept of anything aside from each other and the bed. Leaving it meant the real world, so they didn't. They ignored the growling in their stomachs, any urge to speak whatsoever except for short words. They stayed in bed drifting in and out of sleep in between bouts of each other.
He had still been mostly asleep when a hand pressing her entire weight onto his chest woke him along with, "Fuckin hell."
"Hmm?" he asked still dazed as she was already flying out of the bed.
"We're supposed to be at PURE in twenty minutes."
He flinched, he'd forgotten they'd come here for Crimson and whatever schmooze fest Brenda had lined up.
"I swear to god Jason," she began to threaten.
He swung his legs over the side of the bed keeping his chuckle to himself. She tended to be a little neurotic about work, he hadn't expected that, though why he hadn't expected her to passionately and completely throw herself into something…
'You don't understand Jason,' she said staring down at the layouts in front of her on the coffee table.
'They're pictures Brenda, what does it matter what order they're in.'
'Because it's a business Jason, people have to like the flow of the magazine; the companies that have bought ad space need to like their placement, people are actually depending on me to keep their jobs. And everyone is just waiting for me to fail.'
'No one is-'
She stared at him in disbelief, 'Oh come on.'
'What?'
'You, Carly, Julia, hell even Robin. I get it. I get that I didn't graduate college, hell I get that I barely even made it out of high school and that no one thinks I can do anything more than be another pretty face. My entire life-'
'What about ASEC?'
'Are you finally admitting I did actual work-'
'I admitted that awhile ago.'
'Only after Suzanne-'
'The point is-'
'The point is,' she stopped him, 'I get one shot to not fail at this. To show that I'm not just a dumb model.'
He headed towards his bathroom.
-o-o-o-
He walked into the living room five minutes later still damp with a towel wrapped around his waist, looking for the mini bar. He glared at his choices above the fridge and then inside of it, giving in and just grabbing cookies and chocolate before they passed out after the first drink.
"I swear to god Jason," she threatened as she was applying lotion to her face as he walked into her bathroom.
He held up the bite sized chocolate candy bars.
"If there isn't food there, heads are going to roll," she said snatching them away from him and tearing into the container.
"Trust me they'll get us food," he remarked, knowing they would do anything in Vegas.
"Get dressed," she mumbled through a full mouth.
"You're welcome," he said turning.
"Thank you," she said launching crumbs with the words.
He sat on the bed and stared in the direction of the hanging garment bag without joy as he shoved a cookie in his mouth.
-o-o-o-
He scowled at the vest that Maxie had included in the garment bag and debated shoving it into his carry on and claiming it had been lost somehow. He frowned again as he realized she had packed him jeans, faded black jeans, not that he was complaining, but this seemed like a trick.
"Uh Brenda?"
"What?" she asked with wide eyes as she popped her head out of the bathroom, annoyed with being delayed further.
"I'm wearing jeans?"
"Black books, black jeans, black shirt, then either the jacket or the vest, which is about as likely as a tie, but I told Maxie I would try and the Varatos boots, don't think I'm-"
"Got it," he said raising a hand up before he got lectured again before he did something.
He left the jacket on the bed as he wandered into the living room still snacking on the cookies, realizing he was getting down to the last one, on a hunt for his cell and more snacks. The last cookie was tossed into his mouth and as he was going to toss the container into the garbage did he see the 17 missed calls. He missed the garbage.
He quickly thumbed into his texts, 26 new.
His heart pounded.
He quickly scrolled through them, the words TMZ and marriage repeatedly rang out at him, along with several curses from Carly.
He hit Spinelli's number, barely even aware of his actions.
"Felicitations, the Jackal knew this was not just a bus-"
"How does everyone know Spinelli?" He cut the other man off as he cracked a beer from the mini bar, his appetite suddenly gone.
"Did Stone Cold suddenly forget about the missus celebrity?"
"What are you?"
"TMZ posted the most joyous news of your nuptials around five, shall the Jackal assume that means you have forgone the courtly love in-"
"Spinelli-" Jason snapped.
"Apologies, the Jackal did not mean to intrude."
"I need to go Spinelli," Jason said ending the call before hearing anything else. He physically flinched several times reading the messages as he walked back into the bedroom.
-o-o-o-
-o-o-o-
(Five PM EST)
Crimson:
"Uh, no comment," Lulu slammed the phone down.
"Um what was that?" Maxie said twirling to face her.
Lulu's eyes were wide, she had a single finger up in the air, too in shock to actually finish reacting to the news she had just heard.
"Lulu?" Maxie frowned at her roommate.
"Can you check TMZ?" she managed to creak out.
"Oh god, please we're not ready for anything to go wrong, there's no Kate I have no- OH MY GOD!"
"Oh god it's true." This was going to be bad, this was going to be very bad!
"Oh god did Spinelli know about this?"
Spinelli burst through the doors, eyes wide, hair more disheveled than normal, his arms remained extended for a moment.
"Gonna go with no," Lulu drawled.
"Did you-"
"Open right now," Maxie nodded to the side.
"Wow," Lulu said opening the page on her screen, "they're really into it."
"Did you see the elevator footage?" Maxie replied without humor.
"Oh my god, if I hadn't I would now. It's the post right-"
"Oh my god!" Maxie repeated as her eyes widened as she saw the previous post.
Their phones started to ring.
"Oh god what do we do? What do we say?" Lula questioned frantically.
"Don't pick up. I'll call Brenda, I can't believe she didn't warn us."
"Warn, oh my, I must inform Fair Samantha that-"
"Oh god Sam," Maxie cried as she listened to Brenda's voicemail. "Uh hi Brenda," she spoke into her phone, "it's Maxie and Lulu and we're here at the office and yea apparently you got married and decided not to tell us, but well TMZ knows, so pretty much everyone in the free world is going to know in an hour and we'd really like to know what the hell we're supposed to say, so you know call us back as soon as you're done doing whatever it is you're doing."
"Oh god did you really just say that?" Lulu scowled.
"Did you see that picture?" her hand flung out at her monitor as she stood. "I need to go tell Sam do you know where she is?" Maxie asked Spinelli.
"Fairest Samantha-"
"Spinelli," she stopped him, they didn't have time for anything but the basics.
"You're just going to leave?" Lulu exclaimed.
"Just pick up and tell them no comment
-o-o-o-
"Oh hey Maxie," Sam said as she was closing the door to her office, "I'm actually just running out. Kristina's having car trouble, I-"
Maxie debated with herself for a split second, but Kristina was just a teenager, she didn't deserve this, then again neither did she and she was going to make that clear to Jason upon his return. "No she isn't," she pushed the door open to the office.
"What do you mean no she isn't," Sam questioned.
"Just text her and tell her I'm with you, she'll know what I mean," Maxie gestured for her friend to walk back into her office.
"Okay now you're scaring me."
"It's not that scary, I mean it's a bummer, but no one's dead or anything."
"Oh god was Michael arrested again?"
"Oooh and no one's in jail," Maxie perked up considerably, this really wasn't as bad as she thought.
"Okay so what's going on?" Sam asked as soon as she shot off the quick text.
"Okay there's no easy way to say this, so I'm just going to rip the band aid right off," her hands flung out with the words.
"Oh god," Sam said in fear.
"Yea that was our reaction too," Maxie nodded. "So Brenda had to go out of town for business and didn't want to take any guards because she thinks they look bad."
"So she took Jason," Sam said in disgust, ever since boathouse, she had seen every manipulation Brenda had pulled since Rome to involve Jason in her life. How she had believed the other woman innocent for so long…
"Yea and then they apparently got married."
"I'm sorry, WHAT?"
"Did I forget to mention business was in Las Vegas? TMZ actually called the office for a quote," Maxie's words remained quick, a mix of nerves and attempting to pull the bandaid off quickly.
"How the hell did she talk him into this?"
"We don't know it's Brenda," Maxie accidently defended her boss, "she's actually been avoiding Jason. I mean yea last time it was her-"
"Oh no, this is her idea, even if she didn't ask, she pushed him into this."
Right, scorned ex girlfriend, Maxie kept her mouth shut.
"I just need to talk to Jason, he needs to know that we'll get past this, he's felt so guilty-"
"Um Sam," Maxie was well aware of the delusions that took place when you were in love, "Jason didn't look that guilty in the picture."
"What picture?"
"TMZ remember?"
Her phone was back in two hands immediately, the browser was opened, the site pulled up quickly, she frowned at the small picture and quickly zoomed as Maxie remained silent. Their eyes were closed, their mouths were pressed, their bodies perfectly in tune with each other.
"This is because of Lisa or-"
"Sam," Maxie commiserated.
"No," Sam shook her head, "this is just Jason being too noble for his own good."
"He married her Sam," Maxie pointed out.
"You'll see in a few months Jason and I will be fine and it'll be like this never even happened."
-o-o-o-
Metro Court Lobby:
"Mom?"
Carly turned to see Michael's worried expression, "Oh god what happened? School? That little tramp you were, I knew you were too good for her."
He frowned at his mother, "You don't like-" then waved it off, they'd deal with that later. "This has nothing to do with me."
"What did your father do now?"
"Nothing to do with Dad either."
She frowned, "Morgan didn't do anything right?" Seemed unlikely, but she had to try.
"Maybe we should go somewhere private," Michael suggested.
"Maybe you should tell me right now," her hands went to her hips as she got defensive.
"Do you want to sit?" Michael's brow narrowed in worry. He couldn't believe Jason had left him to deal with this.
"Talk now," she said as her eyes bore into him.
"Apparently Jason and Brenda got married in Vegas."
She was silent for a beat then, "WHAT?"
The entire lobby turned.
"I told you we should have gone somewhere private," he looked sheepishly around the room.
"Ignore them," she waved a hand backward. "Did Jason call you?"
"Uh no Kristina, this," he held out a folded piece of paper, "was up on TMZ."
She silently fumed as she opened the page. "I'm going to kill her," she quietly threatened, "and then I am going to beat the hell out of Jason with one of those ridiculous boots she's always wearing."
"Mom, Jason's a grown man if he decided to marry Brenda then I'm sure-"
"There is no good reason for this," she waved the picture.
-o-o-o-
The Quartermaines:
"Thanks," Alice said over the phone, "I'll let him know."
"What are you letting me know?" Edward asked looking over papers from ELQ.
"Reporters are apparently calling the office asking for the family's comment on Jason and Brenda getting married in Las Vegas."
He paused for a moment, "About time Brenda's not getting any younger and with Jason's-"
Alice frowned, "I thought you were angry at Brenda for living at the penthouse."
"Well of course," Edward said putting down his pen, "it's not the life I'd wish for either of them, but if this family has a chance at surviving, it'll be their children mark my words. Did I ever tell you how smart Jason was?"
"But you're always telling her to leave him?"
"Reverse psychology Alice. Look at how long she was involved with Corinthos when we all told her not to."
"But-"
"You know Lila always said they'd have the most beautiful children. Not that I'd be biased of course," he raised a hand in defense of his statement.
"Biased? You? Of course not," Alice kept her smile hidden.
-o-o-o-
-o-o-o-
(Midnight EST/9PM PST)
Back to Reality (aka Vegas):
"You might want to sit down," Jason said as Brenda fumbled with a pair of silver heels, her ass hanging out of the short black dress as she bent. He wondered if he could talk her into leggings.
"I haven't killed myself yet getting dressed," she rolled her eyes. Maybe there had been a few bad stumbles…
"That's a whole different issue Brenda, sit down or at least stop doing that," he could see her perfectly, crashing into the closet and their bags as she as balanced on only one shoe.
"We really don't have time for a morning after talk," she said as soon as she straightened herself up.
He didn't bother beating around the bush, "TMZ posted our marriage."
She stared blankly at him, "That was quick."
"You expected this?"
"Isn't that why we got married?" She returned to dressing unfazed.
"Right," Jason responded, "I'll be in the living room."
"Be out in a second," she nodded as she rifled through her bag, letting out a quiet sigh and closing her eyes as he left the room.
Okay this chapter (with its common theme of surprises) is going to be split in two because most of it has been written for AGES and frequently I just need to post and clear out the cobwebs. I had issues with the order of this chapter especially (time line and flow were at odds). Hence the jump back in time.
Thanks for reading guys and the seriously KILLER reviews for the last chapter.
