Emily
Spring 2007
They lay in bed together. She rested on her stomach next to him. His hand was on the small of her back. He leaned over and placed a kiss there.
Their favorite place on earth was now her bedroom. Emily was pretty sure she never wanted to leave it again.
But the outside world beckoned. She had a shift to work later that day. He had people to protect, lives to keep safe, a dangerous town to hold back from the ones they loved.
For right now though, Milo was hers. Her body felt sublime- all her limbs were so relaxed she didn't think she could move if she tried.
Emily whispered, "You do that well, Milo."
He smiled. "It's different with you...I've never felt like this before. Emily, what we have is..." his voice was low and intimate when he finished with, "something I could not bear to lose."
She felt a shiver run down her spine, as a premonition hit her. She only ever got these when it came to him. Suddenly, Emily knew she would one day be screaming his name in fear, sure he was dead and gone forever. She closed her eyes and pushed the thought away.
When she opened them again, his eyes were on her, she smiled and said "I can't bear to lose you either."
He kissed her then, slow and tender, and she got lost in the moment.
But, in the back of her mind, she still feared that one day she would have to face her life without Milo by her side. And that was not something she thought she could ever stand doing.
(If I had to live without you
what kind of life would that be?
Oh I,
I need you in my arms
need you to hold.
You're my world, my heart, my soul.
If you ever leave, baby, you would take away everything
good in my life.) ( Trisha Yearwood)
Fall 2007
She had never expected to feel this way. To shake free of the soul crushing pain that attacked her after Conner came into her life, after Nikolas left her for someone else, after Sonny pushed her away like she hadn't meant anything at all.
It was around that time she started to have nightmares about Zander and the way he died. Emily had almost convinced herself she was as doomed as him. And then...out of the clear blue sky, she got drunk, made a bet, and needed a guy.
There was only one in all of Port Charles she knew she would feel comfortable with, and that is when what she had never expected to happen got started. Milo brought her back to life, slowly, inch by inch, with his sweet eyes and tender touch.
Emily smiled now as she walked toward the Corinthos Morgan coffeehouse. She imagined every moment they spent together, ending on the image of them in bed together last night. Just thinking about it was enough to make her still feel his hands on her skin.
Milo, she had moaned into his ear.
As she approached the doors of the building, Spinelli walked out "Stone Cold's sister, hey," he started in his young hyper infused voice.
"Hi. How are you doing today?"
"Righteous as always. I was just talking to Mr. Corinthos sir about..." he said more but his words were drowned out.
Behind him, the building exploded, sending glass flying out toward them as they both fell to the ground.
"MILO!"
( And tell me now,
how do I live without you?
I want to know.
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go.
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I
How do I
Oh, how do I live?)
Emily stumbled to her feet and ran over the wreckage that lay on the sidewalk. Spinelli, who had a gash in his head from hitting the pavement, jumped up and grabbed her. "No, no, no, please, don't go in there."
"I can save him. It's not too late," she whimpered and pushed the computer hacker away.
Emily pulled her eyes from the destroyed building and asked "Was he in there? Did you see him?"
Spinelli nodded. Then, in a dazed voice, he mumbled "We should call someone."
Just then sirens wailed in the distance.
Emily pushed at the door, cutting her hand on the broken window pane.
Several of Sonny's men came running around the building. Max took notice of Emily, who was clawing her way into the building and getting more and more injured by the second. He picked her up off her feet and carried her a few feet away.
The sirens got closer and closer.
"Leave me go! I have to get to him. Mi-lo!"
Max said, in a firm tone meant to calm down her hysteria, "He's fine."
Emily froze. She slid from his arms to the ground and then clutched his shirt. "Are you sure?"
Max leaned close to her and said "Milo spotted the bomb and warned everyone right before it went off. We only had about a minute to get out of there, out the back door. Milo is taking Sonny to a safe house."
Relief flooded her body. Emily's eyes fluttered for a second and then she passed out. Max caught her.
XXXXXXXX
She ended up being the only person injured enough in the explosion to need hospitalization . Spinelli has been the last customer to leave the coffee house and all the workers ran out the back door, away from the bomb that was planted on the underside of a table near the entrance to the building.
Milo rushed to Emily's side as soon as Max called. In her hospital cubicle, where they were treating her cuts, he immediately gave her a hug, careful to not brush her against the torn skin on her hands.
She cried, her words close to his ear, "I thought you died..."
He pulled back and met her eyes. "I just got you, my dream girl, I wouldn't leave you."
"You can't leave me, Milo, ever. I can't do this alone. Live this life..." she lowered her voice and whispered, with tears in her eyes, "raise this baby... of ours..."
His eyes moved to her stomach and then back to her face. "You're...?"
"Kelly just told me," Emily said. "I didn't plan this but you should know I wanted it. I've wanted your baby for months now. What do you think, Milo?"
He let out a long breath and then smiled. "I think its amazing you ever fell for me or wanted to share anything with me, even a cup of coffee, let alone a life and a baby but, Em, ...I thank God you did, that you do..."
"And I always will."
Then he leaned over and gently brought his lips to hers. His hand moved to rest on her stomach.
They started as friends, and without a map to forever, they found the road to being lovers and now they were sliding into their fate, the rest of their lives, and their start as being more than just two people in love, now they were a family.
Emily couldn't have loved him more if she tried, in that minute, and yet in the next she did. Because he said "I want to spend my life making you happy, Emily. Will you let me try? Will you marry me?"
Her smile was luminous, the pain in her body forgotten, as she answered him "I would marry you tomorrow. And I will love you every minute of the rest of my life, Milo."
When she kissed him, he felt his heart expand in a way he never expected, making room for all the love she planned to grace him with for all the says they would share together.
He had never expected her to give him a second look, but when she did, he knew now, it had changed the course of his life. It had made him a better man, and given him a love he would fight to the death to keep, and a woman and a child he would cling to until his last breath.
(If you ever leave, baby, you would take away everything.
Need you with me.
Baby, cuz you know your everything
good in my life.) ( Trisha Yearwood)
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