Nothing Comes For Free

Georgie and Logan, GH

Chapter Eleven

June 2016

Texas looked good on Georgie, Logan couldn't help but think. She seemed lighter here. Her eyes sparkled under the golden rays of the sun as he spent day after day showing her and the kids the little town he had grown up in. Taking them to the diner, the drive-in, the park, the farmer's market and to watch some of his buddies play in a baseball league.

He had grown up on the wrong side of town, dirt poor and resentful of all he didn't have, but when he moved back here (leaving Port Charles in a rage after being accused of being the TMK) he had set about making something of himself. He put his nose to the grindstone, stopped all the drinking and chasing women, and within a few years he had enough to buy his little farm.

He started with one horse and gave riding lessons to kids. The business grew and so did his happiness. He had never really known a moment of peace growing up or when he was in the Army but he finally found a little bit in those years when he became a successful business owner and proud homeowner.

He dated some. He thought he was doing all right for himself. But his true joy in life only came after he was living on Spook Island with Georgie, Logan James (LJ) and Frankie. His heart seemed to grow three more chambers as they settled into his cells- making themselves a home inside of him, becoming part of him in every way.

The life he thought he got stuck with became the life of his dreams. Without Georgie by his side, fighting with him and challenging him, making him be a better man, making him laugh, making him earn her trust, he wouldn't be feeling this way today: content.

She was even letting him hold her hand on this vacation.

The brash 23 year old hothead who rolled into Port Charles nine years ago would have laughed at the idea of moving so slow with a woman but the man he was today knew that a woman like Georgie was well worth waiting for.

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One afternoon, while the kids were napping, Georgie and Logan were out on his back porch drinking lemonade. Charlie, his dog, lay at the feet.

Georgie asked Logan "Do you think we should move out here?"

"You wanna leave Spook Island?"

"Would you want to?"

"I never thought about it. This place stopped being home once I moved in with you."

"My parents would have a fit. They still don't trust you."

"Most parents don't," he said, in a teasing tone as a soft smile curved his lips. He reached for her hand. "I thought the way you were living- on an island, with all that security- is what you needed to feel safe?"

"The first year after everything went down, I moved back home with my parents. I was a mess. I was having panic attacks all the time. Always on edge. That's when I took shooting lessons and got licensed to carry. I took a self defense class. I even thought about joining the police force. And I wrote. I put all my feelings in a novel. It sold and, with the advance, I moved into a penthouse that had a door man. My book was optioned for a movie and I was signed for a deal to make it into a series of books. With that money, I bought Spoon Island. I did feel safer off the mainland but I don't know if I need that anymore. I feel safe here."

"I'm glad you do. Whatever you want, I'm in. All I need to be happy is you and the kids. Here, back in Port Charles, or on the moon, it don't matter much to me."

She leaned in and gave him a quick peck of a kiss on the lips. "Something to think about then."

"Yeah, no rush to decide anything."

Their eyes held for a long moment before he closed the gap and kissed her, soft and slow. He gently cupped her face as poured all the feelings that were growing everyday inside of him for her into the kiss. She responded by wrapping her arms around him and softly whimpering as they kiss broke apart. He rested his forehead against hers.

Logan said "I've never been able to look into someone's eyes and see the rest of my life, but I do now when I look in yours. I don't wanna scare you off, doll, but I think I'm really falling for you hard."

"Me too. I don't know if I would have ever let anyone in again. I wasn't even thinking about dating. And then you move into my house, act like you own the place, drive me crazy, and I realized that you are the kind of man I not only want by my side raising our kids, but the kind of man I need in my life and my bed. I needed someone to turn my world upside down, Logan, and you have...you are...more and more every day I realize that I wouldn't want to wake up to a day where you and I are just co-guardians again." She pressed her lips to his again in a tender kiss.

His cell phone ringing interrupted them.

She took a step back. "You should get that. It could be important."

He pulled her close again. "Nothing is more important than this," he softly kissed her "right here."

The phone stopped ringing but then, a moment later, it started ringing again. Georgie broke their kiss and said "You really better get that."

Logan scowled as he pulled out his phone. "It's my sperm donor. He can wait."

He declined the call but a moment later his phone started to ring again. Then Georgie's started to ring.

Their eyes met for a moment before she hurried to answer her phone. "Hello...Dad, hey...slow down, what?"

Logan watched a myriad of emotions cross Georgie's face. Then she sunk down onto a wooden rocking chair. She was pale and shaking.

Logan crouched down next to her. He placed his hand on her arm.

Georgie started to cry. "I don't understand...is this really happening?...I will call you back in a few minutes...okay, I love you too." She disconnected the call.

"Sweetheart, what happened?"

She wiped away her tears. "Maxie and Cooper...they're alive."