It had been one week since Jason had finally been able to take Alison home, Ali, as most had taken to calling her.

He woke up to the sound of crying, it wasn't something he was used too, and it still surprised him to wake up to that sound. This was one time when his light sleeping came in handy.

He made his way into the room he had set up for her, it wasn't much, but Carly had plans for it.

"Something's wrong." Jason said turning to Courtney who was coming through the door.

"Wrong?" Courtney questioned "Jason, babies cry, I'm sure she's fine"

"No, feel her forehead, she's burning up, we need to get her to the hospital"

~*~ General Hospital ~*~

"Jason." Monica said, surprised to see her son, especially at such a late hour.

"Monica"

"Oh my, this must be Alison, Emily told me you got custody, Jason I think it's great"

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about it myself - but something's wrong, she has a fever."

"Oh dear, let me see her" She requested, then turned her attention to Alison "Yes, come here sweetie, let's see what's wrong."

~*~ Later ~*~

"Hey" Courtney said coming down the hall "Carly said she's on her way, I told her she didn't have to come, but she insisted. How is she?"

"They said it wasn't serious, they want to keep her overnight though." Jason replied.

"But, tomorrow, what about…"

"I know. This bad timing, but there's nothing I can do to change it."

"Jason, it can still go as planned, I mean they said it wasn't serious."

"Yeah, they also said they were keeping her over night - Courtney, I'm not going to just leave her now, and be gone for two weeks."

"But it's not like you'd just be leaving her here at the hospital, Sonny and Carly they can handle it, they've been through this kind of thing before I'm sure."

"That's not the point."

"Jason, it's our wedding."

"It's my daughter."

Courtney shook her head, that was the first time she had heard Jason actually call Alison his daughter, she wasn't adjusting to this very well, it didn't sit well. Alison would always be Elizabeth's daughter, and she seemed to be having a difficult time getting around that.

"Fine. Jason, fine, we'll postpone it… again." Courtney sighed.

"Courtney - I'm doing this to hurt you."

"I know, I just, I'm going to go home, I'm tired, I'll see you there later."

~*~*~*~*~

"Jason, there you are" Carly said standing in front of the chair Jason had seated himself in.

"Carly, you know you didn't have to come down here."

"Of course I did." She replied, taking the seat next to him. "Courtney said that they were keeping Ali overnight, and if I know you, you're planning on staying, so I thought I'd stay with you, keep you company."

"That's nice. But you don't have to stay."

"The hell I don't. You're my best friend, unless of course you don't want my company"

"Stay."

"Good. Now that that's settled, where's Courtney?"

Jason left out a heavy sigh before answering "She left."

"What's going on, did you two have a fight or something? Do you want me to talk to her?" Carly started to butt in.

"No, Carly I want you to stay out of it, and I mean that."

"Well a lot is going on now, you know, not just for you, but for her too, you know I think it'd take a lot of getting used to if say Sonny was raising Brenda's baby or something, and now on top of that you have to postpone the wedding, which you already did once for the custody hearing…"

"Brenda?" Jason questioned

"Yeah. Elizabeth was your Brenda. You know, annoying past that just wont go away, always there, just lurking, waiting for a chance get in good again."

"Carly?" Jason interrupted.

"Yeah?"

"Stop talking."