The Momma bear said...

CHAPTER 49

THE BROWNSTONE

The party was coming together, Elizabeth was helping Bobbie when the caterers from the Metrocourt arrived with a flustered Carly who looked like she had been in a battle with the wind and lost. "Momma, I need to borrow one of your bathrooms. I couldn't get the window to roll up and if Jax knew that I accidentally slammed the car door into the dumpster causing the damage, he would take my car keys again."

"Where is the car now?" she asked her daughter.

"Max arranged for the shop to pick it up, I asked him to not tell Jax until after Christmas. Are those snicker doodles?" Carly grabbed a warm cookie as she rushed past the two women and up the stairs to find a mirror.

"Elizabeth, why don't you go help Georgie? I can handle the rest. You look absolutely beautiful by the way." Bobbie was delighted at the picture her young friend made in her green velvet dress with her hair down but tied loosely back with a matching ribbon. "Maxie brought her over a dress."

The nurse was happy to escape the kitchen, between feeding Jake and helping decorate she had spent the entire afternoon with Carly's Mom. She loved Bobbie dearly but still felt like a teenager when she was around the energetic red head.

"Hi, Elizabeth, is Serena coming today." Stopping to visit with Micheal she explained that Serena was upset, that she had found out her brother had done something bad. The red headed boy was disappointed enough that Elizabeth and Georgie vowed to call and talk the morose blond into coming. Kevin and Lucy had tried to talk to her. But she was still locking herself into her room. She didn't believe that no one blamed her. Kevin was in the perfect position to help his stepdaughter, after all his brother Ryan had terrorized and killed innocents as well.

Georgie was trying to get dressed, but the dress her sister had chosen had buttons up the back, so she called out to Elizabeth for help. As the nurse helped the young woman do up her dress she knew why Maxie had chosen this particular dress. She was certain that Johnny would have a lot of fun removing it later.

Georgie was slipping on her shoes when she saw her reflection in the mirror, the dress was gorgeous, deep burgundy with a scooped front and buttoned up sleeves it was tight through to the waist, with a slit up her thigh. As she slipped on the one inch heels she grimaced at them. They were horrible. While they matched the outfit she wished they had more of a heel to them.

"Has Johnny or Jason called?" the women asked Bobbie. Neither of them had received calls on their cell phones and were hoping that one of the men had called the Brownstone's phone.

"No, though Mac called and asked if the two of you were here. He was coming over with Alexis, of all people."

"You two ladies look lovely. Have you by chance seen my beautiful wife this afternoon?" Jax was standing in the entry with Morgan who rushed off to visit with the grandmothers.

"Carly is changing upstairs, A hair problem I think." Elizabeth hurried into the common room where Lady Jane was returning Jake to his playpen. She was the only person whose hair he hadn't tried to pull or who he hadn't tried to use for a chew toy. Her son was slowly getting in his teeth and didn't care who knew it.

"He is very beautiful my dear. Bobbie tells me that Jason and you are getting married in a little over a week. Congratulations, I am sure that the two of you will be very happy." Lady Jane went to grab the door as Bobbie was carrying in the last tray of food while being followed by the boys.

SUV ON THE WAY TO THE PARTY

Jason wasn't talking to his business partners, Max had left to pick up Diane for dinner, so Francis and Johnny were dealing with his temper on their own. Cam had fallen asleep as they drove over to the party and Jason was afraid he was going to wake up with a hangover.

Francis had done nothing but aggravate the situation, he knew that Elizabeth was going to extract a pound of flesh from the younger man and Jason was going to be hearing it as well. The two men had wanted to arrive before Alexis but she had gotten out of the towers first because Francis had decided at the last minute to change his suit.

Like it was going to make a difference, Jason thought. No one would notice, they were all going to be too busy watching as he was raked over the coals. His first official day with Cam calling him daddy and he had allowed his son to get drunk. He glared at Johnny across the seat, he wanted to blame the younger man but he knew that this was his fault as well.

He should have gotten rid of the stupid chocolate. Max should have taken it home. He thought about that coward, He knew that Bobbie had invited the guard to the party, but he had changed plans at the last minute, leaving him to face Elizabeth alone. What was up with him and Diane anyhow, they had been spending a lot of time together. Had there been a threat he was unaware of.

Francis sat in the passenger seat, watching the silent drama play out in the back, Johnny was feeling guilty, Jason was going between guilt and anger and Cameron was snoring, loudly. Alexis had stopped over while the two men had gone upstairs to change and had given him something to help Cam.

Mac Scorpio had sent it over, telling him that the youngster would sleep the rest of the night and be fine when he woke in the morning. When he had tried to tell Jason that Alexis was going to let him tell his fiancée what was going on, Jason had glared at the name of the DA and told him to stop grinning that it wasn't funny.

He knew he was in for it. When Georgie found out what he did, he was going to be lucky to ever be allowed to babysit their own child. That is if Jason allowed him to live long enough to see his child be born. He winced as he saw Morgan glaring at him, he had only wanted make the kids happy. How had this gotten so turned around, it had seemed like a good idea at the time, who knew? He tried to find a positive in this, couldn't find one. So much for a lovely late night dinner with his wife.

Jason glared at Johnny as he heard him audibly chuckle. What could he possible find funny about this? The SUV smoothly pulled up in front of Bobbie's home. Feeling like they were facing a firing squad, Jason,Johnny and Francis reluctantly got out of the vehicle with Jason carrying a sleeping Cam and walked up the steps to the open entryway.

BROWNSTONE

Mac looked around hoping to see Serena, Lucy and Scott were worried about the blond. When Baldwin had came out of the sedative his first call had been about his daughter. He looked around and saw Lulu talking to Carly and Jax, as his young daughters discussed something with Elizabeth as she held Jake. He saw Bobbie and the older crowd discussing the party at GH tomorrow with Jane Jacks. Alexis was telling Monica about the TMK case.

He was glad to Leslie Webber talking to Nik, the Prince was holding his young son while glaring at Mike Corbin who was returning his dirty looks. Thanks to the FDA, Mac was aware that Courtney Matthews had drugged both Jason Morgan and him, he only wished that she was still alive.

He had never believed that story about her car getting stolen and the thief hitting the one woman who Morgan loved unconditionally. After reading about the drugs and it's affects he was starting to put a very dark picture together, and all roads were leading back to the woman's brother.

He had talked to Taggert about it and the former detective reminded him about the rumblings that Corinthos had been angry with Jason for going to the police and Edward Quartermaine for help when the Webber girl had been kidnapped. He could not understand why Morgan was still working for Sonny. He was a smart man no matter what damage there had been from the brain injury, Morgan was one of the most analytical minds he had ever come across.

While he could not stand Scott Baldwin, he was right about one thing. The way to take down the mob in Port Charles wasn't to take out Morgan, it was to go for the easier target of Sonny Corinthos. He was the weakest link.

Georgie answered the door, she had been looking out the window waiting for her husband and Jason to arrive with Cameron. "Merry Christmas." she smiled at Jason and told him that Elizabeth was in the common room as she placed her hand on her husband to stop him from entering.

He could nor remove his eyes from the dress she was wearing, it was clinging in all the right places. Johnny looked up from his wife's body to her face knowing she would see right through his fake happiness. Deciding he should distract her for now he leaned in wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her into the relative privacy of the enclosed entryway and lowered his lips to hers.

Wrapping her arms around Johnny's neck, Georgie opened her mouth to deepen the kiss, as he slipped his tongue inside her mouth to tease hers into returning when his retreated . Georgie moaned as she felt the pressure of his arousal against her stomach wishing they were home instead of at a party for the next two hours.

Francis stood on the stoop knowing that the young mobster was afraid of the wrath of Elizabeth and his wife. He knew that Johnny was only digging himself a deeper hole by not telling Georgie what he had did. Seeing that the two of them were not stopping and that it was frigid out there Francis broke them apart with a well place cough and kick in the shins.

Johnny pulled Georgie back into the recess of the doorway to allow him through, his arms still around his wife's waist, but breaking off the kiss.

"Sorry Francis." Georgie was feeling guilty at leaving the older man stuck out in the cold. From the incredible tan he had she knew he was used to much warmer weather.

"No problems, Mrs. Zaccarra, sorry Georgie." Francis knew she hated being called Miss or Mrs anything. Turning to Johnny he couldn't resist needling the younger man "Enjoy the warmth while you can because your goose is going to be cooked, my poor deluded fool."

"Johnny, is something going on? What is Francis talking about out?" asked Georgie.

"He is just trying to be funny." he tried to push off the feelings of doom. Seeing her eye him with disbelief, he knew he needed to admit his part "Alexis and Elizabeth are going to kill me, I got Cam and the girls drunk."

"Okay, right. Tell me what is really going on?"

He was feeling miserable but knew he had to tell her. "I was at the penthouse and the three kids came over looking for Popsicles, there weren't any so I gave them this box of chocolates, rum soaked chocolates, they got drunk, destroyed Morgans penthouse, and threw up over the balcony."

Georgie stood there not sure if she wanted to help them kill her husband or protect him. Not that it would make much of a difference, there was no way she could stand up to those particular two women, one of them maybe but both. She just stared at her husband in shock.

"Say someone, anything." he pleaded.

"You are so dead when Elizabeth tells Jason." she finally managed to say.

"He knows, he is afraid of her too. Francis blames me, your father threatened to arrest me." he was beyond miserable.

"Mac wouldn't do that, after all when Maxie and I got a hold of a decanter of vodka we did something similar, so he would have to arrest himself as well." she told him absentmindedly.

"I'm sure you were older than two, four and six." Johnny was relieved that his wife didn't seem upset with him.

"No we were ten and six. Maxie got punished though. We were also never allowed into the Outback ever again." Georgie heard Jason and Elizabeth in the hallway as he told his fiancée why their son was asleep, he didn't sound much better off than Johnny. What had happened?

"John Zaccarra, you go grab Francis and follow Jason to the sitting room off the kitchen. NOW!" Elizabeth was furious with all three men, and Max had better hope he didn't-- never mind she thought as Diane came through the door with the fourth stooge. Approaching the two she saw the sheepish look on the guards face. "Excuse my Diane. Max. I believe you will find your other co defendants in the sitting room." she sweetly told the large man." Max slipped to the sitting room without even taking his coat off.

"He told me at dinner, for a man who would dive in front of a hail of bullets, he is rather afraid of you." Diane offered as she followed her lover through the house, she soon realized she was talking to thin air as Elizabeth had stopped to talk to her father and Monica, who with smiles on their face followed the young nurse up the stairs to the nursery.

Diane entered the room to see the three men sitting on the edge of furniture with Georgie standing glaring at them from the corner.

NURSERY

Jeff and Monica quickly checked the three children's breathing and asked Alexis about how they had reacted at the penthouse while Elizabeth stood behind them muttering about shooting them with their own guns and about baseball bats. Boxing lessons and some other nonsense but all were afraid to interrupt the steaming brunette.

"Elizabeth, they are fine. Maxie and Georgie did something similar. Admittedly they were a little older but I don't think the guys meant for this to happen." Mac could not believe he was defending the men downstairs. Apparently neither could Alexis, Elizabeth or the doctors.

"I just don't want Georgie to be a widow at this young of an age." he tried to make a joke of it but the joke fell flat in the middle of the discussion.

"Relax, Elizabeth, the children are fine, other than a possible hangover in the morning they will be just fine." Jeff felt for the men downstairs. It sounded like a simple mistake was about to blow up in their faces.

"I will be fine when I hear minute by minute how our son ended up at the penthouse with Alexis' daughters and an inexperienced babysitter. That man was a sitting duck." Elizabeth started laughing as she tried to imagine Johnny trying to wrangle in the threesome. He hadn't even been able to deal with a one on one conversations with Cameron.

She knew that she had to find out the truth of what happened. Jason had offered bare facts. Johnny was watching the kids, the kids got drunk off of chocolates but there was a lot being left out of the story.

SITTING ROOM

Lulu had asked Carly to join her in private for a minute, she wanted to tell her cousin about her decision to go to LA until the semester started in mid January. When the two walked in they saw an interesting tableau. Max, Francis, Johnny and Jason sitting or leaning on furniture with Georgie and Diane standing over them like angry parents.

"Hey, Jase. The boys were looking for you earlier, they wanted to give you your Christmas present." she told the man sitting on the chair with his head in his hands.

"Go away Carly. I will see the boys later. You and Lulu need to find someplace else to go." Jason wasn't in the mood to deal with his former friend.

"Carly, he is right. There is going to be a meeting in here in a few minutes and you need to head out." Diane wasn't going to tell the blond that the meeting was going to consist of Elizabeth removing the head of each of the respective gentleman and handing it to them.

"Fine, but this is a party. They should know better than to have meetings at Momma's house." Bobbie had heard the story from Elizabeth and Monica and wanted to check on the men, she heard her daughters voice and knew that she had to get her out of the room.

"Lulu your father is looking for you. Hey Carly can you help me remove the plastic wrap, we need to change out a tray." Bobbie gave her no chance to refuse and distracted her daughter as Elizabeth entered the room quietly and closed the door.

"Let me get this straight. Johnny was watching the kids, the kids got drunk off chocolates. That is the story I am hearing." Elizabeth glared at the four men, observing their reactions to her comments. Francis and Max looked relieved that all the blame seemed to be on Johnny.

Jason just stared at the ground avoiding looking at her. Johnny just looked guilty as sin. She decided to start with him since he was the least culpable."Johnny tell me how the children ended up drunk?" She heard the door opening and saw Alexis slip inside and off to the corner with Diane.

"They came over wanting Popsicles and I couldn't find any. I saw a box of chocolates and gave them that instead." he admitted to the brunette standing over him.

"So they forced to you give them food?" she asked.

"No." he admitted slowly. "But they asked nicely."

"You had better hope that they don't realize they have you wrapped around their finger. Now this was before dinner, right?" seeing him shake his head yes she asked "Did you stop to ask Alexis before giving them sugar that late in the day?"

"No, I was trying to be a big brother. I wanted them to like me." he was surprised to hear the truth coming out of his mouth.

Elizabeth sat down on the coffee table and looked at him. "Children need boundaries, they need to be told no. I guarantee that Alexis had been asked before they found a way to con you into giving them what they wanted. Now I can understand you feeling overwhelmed you were stuck with three little ones with no experience. You are the lease culpable in this mess."

"I was the one who didn't read the box. I panicked wanting to please them." he was unsure why she wasn't angry with him anymore.

"Yes, well you will learn, trust me there is a learning curve to being a parent. Now lets talk about Max."

METROCOURT

Robin sat down at the table watching as Sonny joined Kate Howard over at her table. She had seen the fashion mogul she had been having a meeting with some older man who had just left. Discreetly looking around she saw the gentlemen she was meeting come off the elevators.

"Miss Scorpio, thank you for your time."

"You welcome, shall we get down to business." Robins slid over the folder with the proof that Jason had switched the blood samples to make himself the father of Micheal Quartermaine. She was taking back her life.

"May I ask why you are helping my client?" asked the attorney.

"Elizabeth has no idea what Jason's world is like. This supposed truth came out after Lucky was arrested. Now I know that he had done some foolish things, but I have looked at his brain scans. The damage that Helena Cassidine caused was not physical but mental, and Elizabeth is throwing her life away for the wrong reasons. My partner and I think that she is doing this so that her children have a father, but Lucky is those children's father. Not Jason. Here is the next payment." She slid the envelope over and watched as he counted the money.

"My client has agreed to your terms, the donation was collected and deposited yesterday. I know that this is none of my business, but all this to have a child. This doesn't make sense."

"It's not your job to make sense of it, just to represent Lucky Spencer. I have given you amble evidence that Elizabeth is lying and now all you need to do is order a new test. I would make sure that you arrange for a government lab to test the samples. Jason has lots of available funds and a very big protective streak. He has always be blinded by women with children needing him."

Robin watched as he walked out the door as her partner slid into the chair across the table from her after looking to see if anyone she knew was around. "Did he do as you asked?"

"Yes. Thank you, I can't believe how far Jason is going to help her though. Are you sure that you are right about this?"

"I have him on tape admitting that he was doing this to protect Jake. You remember how he was with Micheal." her partner asked. "He would do anything to help a kid. This time he is wrong, Lucky isn't a threat to those children at least after he gets the help he needs. I need to get back before I am missed. How is he?" she asked.

"Still married, I am sorry I helped to deceive you. Let's go I will drive you back." she helped the person avoid anyone who knew them. She had been worried about Corinthos he had been close to her once, now she had been in the same room as him and he hadn't even noticed her. Good things would work out perfectly.

SITTING ROOM

Max stiffened as Elizabeth stood in front of him and asked why had he brought the candies to the penthouse and not to his home. "I was keeping them from Milo, he loves the things."

"Max?" the guard wanted to know why some tiny little brunette could tell when he was lying and the PCPD didn't.

"I didn't want Diane to find out about them. I didn't want her to know that Carly had given them to me. I was trying to cover for seeing her. It was strictly business she had banged up her car this morning and needed it fixed before Jax found out. I dropped the candy off at the penthouse before going to lunch."

Jason asked the question he was sure was on everyone's mind "Why would your lawyer care who gave you chocolates?"

The enforcer looked up at the silence in the room as Diane glared at her now second least favorite client. Even Carly had moved up a notch.

"They have been seeing each other for a while." Elizabeth told her clueless fiancée.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked Diane.

"I am supposed to tell you who I am having sex with now? Have you morphed into Sonny." she asked her client.

"No, and that is way too much information, can you keep that part to yourself. I don't care who you are sleeping with, unless Elizabeth knows and I don't." he admitted.

"This from a man who was standing on his stairs with his fiancées legs wrapped around him in front of his mother, aunt, future brother-in-law and the man who spent years trying to send you to jail." she snarked back at the enforcer.

"That wasn't for public viewing." he snapped back.

"Can we get back to why we are here? asked Alexis. She mentally stored the information to use at a later date though. Looking around Alexis saw Elizabeth's embarrassment and Johnny and Georgie's interest. They were trying to look disinterested in the fact that the older couple had been caught, again.

Max took a deep breath and told Elizabeth that just because he stored them there didn't mean that they were for anyone to eat.

"What if Damien had eaten them?" she asked. "Suppose he had eaten them. This could have been an even bigger disaster. You should have left them in the car or taken them to your place."

"First of all Spinelli is an adult, he can read can't he. And that boy has done a lot worse things like smoking pot with Alexis than eating rum filled candies." Max saw the others in the room stare at him. shit! he thought no one was supposed to know about that.

"I will deal with my brother later. Alexis, please tell me that you didn't share with him, that it was the other way around" she asked wearily.

"Yes, I was while I was on chemo." she admitted.

PENTHOUSE II

Brenda was going through the old magazines she had found in her old room, not really reading but thinking about what Francis and Jason had told her earlier. She had apologized to Jason for screwing up his life. He had told her to help deal with Robin, leave him alone after that and they were even. She had started to put more pieces together and knew that there was more to this story then what she had heard.

As the thoughts wandered through her head, she tossed down the old magazine and went to make some microwave popcorn. She knew that Alexis had some here someplace. Returning with her bowl she found a few loose papers and an sealed envelope addressed to Jason. She winced as she recalled Johnny O'Brien giving that to her and making her promise to give it right away to Jason as soon as he was alone. No one else just Jason. She had stuck it in her Couture magazine and forgotten it.

The guard at the door knocked and asked if she wanted him to let in the couple in the hall. Hearing Lois tell her to tell King Kong to let her in. As the two women rushed hugged each other Ned stood in the corner. He was wondering why she had reconnected with Sonny. "Brenda, why are you here?"

"It's a long story involving Robin. The short version is my best friend seems to be suffering from PTSD from the shooting at the Metrocourt. Jason has someone using my bedroom at his penthouse. Elizabeth Webber's little brother. So I am staying here with Alexis. She moved her for protection from Helena Cassidine who is dead. She decided to stay here until after Christmas and have the Lakehouse redecorated. Besides her son in working with Jason."

"Her son, you mean her daughter who was dating Jason." stated Ned.

"No, they broke up a long time ago, turns out his blond ex had been drugging him. He is back with Elizabeth who she had drugged him to keep him away from. Sam was a con-artist who was scamming people. She wasn't Alexis daughter. Alexis had a son. His name is John. He works for Jason and is married to Georgie Jones.

"What about Dylan, he rushed back to see her. I think he is still in love with her." Ned was confused.

"I don't know anything about that. I do know that they got married about a week ago, she is pregnant as well." Brenda shrugged, she didn't know anything about Dylan.

BROWNSTONE

Elizabeth let Max and Diane head back to their plans, she was trying to not over react, but was still upset that her little boy had gotten drunk. "Francis why did you leave Cam with Johnny anyhow?" she knew that the young mobster was safe, but if Sonny had walked in the plan would have been sunk.

"Alexis needed computer help, Spinelli wasn't there. So I went over to help her. Johnny seemed to have things under control." he offered hoping to divert attention away from him.

"Fine, I will take care of this for now. Please don't let this happen again." The men started to exit the room when Elizabeth slipped her arm through Jason and whispered not so fast. When the room was empty Elizabeth asked her fiancée "Why was Francis babysitting Cameron?"

Jason had known that he was in trouble but had hoped her anger had burnt out, he knew that his answer to this question was going to get him in serious trouble.

"We had stopped over after our haircuts." Elizabeth smiled, she loved his long hair but his new cut reminded her of when he had stayed with her at her studio. "Molly and Kristina wanted him to play with them and I said he could. Then Robin created a scene at the hospital so I went over to grab Cam to bring him here before going to confront her. Cam wanted to stay and Brenda wanted to help. So I said yes. I left Cam with Alexis not Francis."

"Why didn't you let me know?" she asked.

"I forgot. We we having a hard time locating Robin. Then Brenda told me something that helped answer another question about the past. I just forgot to call. " He knew he was in trouble.

"What did Brenda tell you?"

"I will tell you at our house. To many people could walk in here. Are you angry about Cam?"

"No, you left him with someone who is a good parent. I am not upset about his being there or that you weren't with him the entire time. I trust your judgment. I am upset that my son was drunk. At the same time I know that damage this did to Johnny. He is going to be overly cautious from now on. That's not good. He is already driving Georgie insane. This is going to send him over the edge into protective parent mode."

"I was sure you would be more angry than this."

"Jason you told me what happened there will be no lasting effects, though if he wakes up with a hangover tomorrow that is so on you. I love you and I trust you with our sons." she told him.

"I am sorry. I just had heard what Robin had said and was seeing red. She is going too far. Brenda thinks there is more to this than we know."

SNIPPETS

Sonny walked over from Kate's estate. She was leaving in the morning for New York. He had hoped to talk her out of it but she said she had to deal with the woman who had been running Couture in her absence. She had tried to ruin Kate with some gossip columnist. The reporter had called Kate giving her a heads up so she was off to deal with it. He wished he had more time with her but he was hoping she would come to visit him and the boys on the island.

Carly was exhausted, the party had gone well, Jane and Bobbie had done an incredible job. The boys had spent some time with Jason, giving him their Christmas present of the photo of Emily. She had hoped that his being there meant he was trying to reconnect. Jason had taken her aside and told her he was there for Bobbie and Elizabeth. Not her.

She was tired at the thought she was going to have to stay connected to Elizabeth, if she wanted to know how Jason was doing. It wasn't a bad trade, she got secret brownies in exchange for being nice. Something she was trying to do anyhow. Though she thought if Brenda didn't leave town soon she was going to lose the brownies.

Robin called the sperm bank. Lucky had done his part, now she just needed to find out the perfect time for hers. She was finally going to have a child. The father might not be the one she wanted but she was okay with the one she had. Lucky would disappear with his family, leaving her with hers. She hoped that one day Jason would forgive her like he had before, but he was still trying to help someone the wrong way. Lying for Elizabeth was wrong. Didn't he get that?

Maxie exited the boutique, locking the doors behind her. She was meeting Leo Julian for a late night dinner. She had been surprised when the doctor had stopped in to the store, saying that Patrick had canceled their dinner plans. He was wondering if she wanted to go since he already had reservations. He had been kind to her earlier, and she had to admit he was cute. She was just concerned, he was too perfect. There had to be hidden flaws. Why else would he be asking her out?

Elizabeth and Jason laid the still snoring Cam on his bed. The little boy was so cute curled up around his stuffed Zebra, Elizabeth loved when her children were asleep they looked so sweet and innocent. Jason stopped at Jake's door and kissed him on the top on his head. Their baby was getting so big, he wished he had been there from the beginning. That he had claimed his family so much earlier. Elizabeth covered up Jake again, he was starting to kick his blanket off during the night. Turning off the overhead light, Elizabeth turned on the night light as they left to head to their own room.

It had been a busy day but she had plans for the rest of her evening. Closing the door and turning on the baby monitor Jason started to change out of his suit when he was startled by Elizabeth reaching up and kissing his neck. Jason sat down on the bench at the foot of their bed and and tried to pull Elizabeth into his arms only to stopped.

"No, I like this." she whispered as she leaned in to kiss his lips. Then sitting herself in his lap she found herself being seduced by her fiancée. As their bodies cooled Elizabeth buried her nose in his chest, and told him what he had wanted to hear since seeing her at the Brownstone. "I like your haircut.." as she ran her fingers through the shortened hairs Jason felt his eyes fluttering closed as he pulled Elizabeth closer and kissed her goodnight.

Johnny pulled into the driveway, he was eager to show her the changes he had made to their home. He eased her head off his shoulder as he tried to wake her up. Georgie slowly opened her eyes, she was exhausted emotionally. Between the people who were eager to talk to her about being a parent to finding out her husband had gotten his sisters and Cam drunk she had been put through the ringer.

She started laughing causing Johnny to look as her with a question on his face. "Just imagining you with three drunk children. I would have paid to see it."

He was glad to see her laughing, he had been trying to control his urges all evening. He had found himself reaching for her constantly. The entire evening he had been trying to keep from touching his wife, he hadn't noticed until the tonight that when they were together, he were always reaching for her. He wasn't sure how he was going to be able to sleep next to her without wanting to make love with his wife. He groaned at the thought.

Georgie found herself with her eyes covered as they walked into their home. Johnny flipped the light switch and she saw the living room decorated with a Christmas tree and lights in a light cream colored room with brown fabric furniture with throw pillows and matching tables. "Johnny when did you have time to do this? " she was amazed at the difference between the earlier subdued but overly feminine colors.

"I had help. Jason supplied the workers and your rather unique group of friends. Maxie supervised the workers. Spinelli and Serena worked with Max to make sure that we have a new security system. Brooklyn and Nadine moved all of our things over to the master bedroom and Milo for some reason was in charge of groceries and the kitchen."

Georgie walked around exploring the differences in their home. As they entered their new bedroom, Georgie was amazed to find that he had ordered the furniture she had liked and had arranged for the room to be painted a dark forest green. She definitely had plans for this room as she closed the door and set out to seduce her husband.