Part 3

The bright sun dancing on Kristina's face woke her the next morning and she was surprised to find her self lying on the couch, covered and alone. Sitting up she looked around her apartment, searching for Jason but when she saw that the glass had been cleared she knew he had left. Smiling she swung her feet over the edge on the couch and sat up, keeping the blanket wrapped around her.

"What a beautiful day it is." She said to herself before setting back. She hadn't even closed her eyes for a second when a knock came at her door. Moaning, because she had been bothered, she slipped off the couch and headed for the door.

"We need to talk." Carly informed her as the blond pushed passed her and into her home before Kristina could utter a hello.

"About?" Kristina had come to knew Carly and how she thought and acted so she didn't let her rudeness bother her.

"About Jason." Carly said and Kristina's head shot up, what did Jason have to do with them?

"What about him." Kristina said using neither his last name nor his first.

"I saw the two of you last night, all cozy on the couch and I just wanted you to know that he's off limits so keep your hands off him." Carly warned, but Kristina wasn't one to take orders.

"What business is it of yours what Jason does or with whom?" Kristina asked her.

"Jason is my business, Hun." Carly told her and Kristina had to take a step back.

Could they be together, she knew, from Alexis, all about Carly and Jason, but she thought Carly was with Sonny now.

"Well now that we've talked, I have to go. See you later." With that the blond walked out of Kristina's apartment with a huge smile on her face.



"Beautiful morning, my ass." The brunet said as she opened her dark eyes and sat up. She had vowed to start her old life, to face it again but since she felt she needed more time she had to stay at a cheap run-down motel instead of a good one.

"I really need to step back into life." She told the mirror as she washed her face.

"And I will, right after my shower." With that she slipped off her clothes and after making sure the water was warm, stepped in.

Sarah Webber walked into Kelly's later that afternoon hoping to clear up something's with her sister. Setting down at the table closes to the door she waited, Liz had to take her order sometime. Elizabeth Webber looked up from her spot behind the counter at Kelly's only to see her sister walk in and sit down.

"Fuck." She said quietly thinking no one would hear.

"What's wrong, Liz?" Courtney asked her having heard her.

"It's nothing." Liz told her, her dark eyes never leaving her sister.

"I'll take that table for you." Courtney told her.

"Thanks." Liz said, even if Courtney was married to AJ, Liz liked her.

"No problem." Courtney said before heading over to Sarah. It was at that moment that

Lucky came down the stairs.

"This day just keeps getting worse." Liz commented before Lucky slipped into the stool in front of her.

"Hey." He said, looking strait at her.

"What can I get you?" she asked him, her eyes looking everywhere but at him.

"Can we talk?" Lucky asked her.

"No. We're over and I'm done talking so unless you want to order something I suggest you go." Liz told him her eyes shooting daggers at him.

"Liz-" She cut him off.

"I said leave" She said told him before moving over to another customer. Lucky sat there waiting for her to finish.

Jason Morgan smiled as he walked up to Kelly's, she was back. Not thinking to clearly he collided with someone else and landed on the ground, a small body and a mass of strait red hair crashing down on him.

"I'm so sorry." She told him before placing her hand on either side of his head and pushed herself slightly up. They locked eyes for a second before she started getting up, so quickly it was as if she couldn't stand to be anywhere near him. He pushed himself up as fast as he could before grabbing her arm.

"Kristina, what wrong?" He asked her, confusion lased in his voice.

"Nothing." She didn't look him in the eyes as she spoke but she spoke clearly.

"Then why the sudden fear?" He asked her.

"Fear, you think I'm afraid of you?" She asked him.

"Well are you?" He wanted to know.

"No, why would I be?" She asked him.

"Well you don't want to talk to me, that much I know." He said.

"It's just that I saw Carly this morning and she told me to stay away." Kristina told him, not really knowing why but telling him anyway.

"Carly told you to stay away from me?" Jason asked her, knowing that that was something Carly would do.

"Yeah, and usually I wouldn't care what Carly says but I thought if you two were together that I should-'

"Wow, back up, me and Carly together I don't think so. I swore I would never be with Carly like that again." Jason told her almost laughing.

"Oh." Was all she said because she felt like a loser.

"How about I buy you lunch for everything Carly put you through?" Jason offered hoping the youngest Cassadine would accept.

"I don't know, Carly asked me-"Again he cut her off.

"Carly doesn't run my life Kristina, I like you, I wanna spend time with you and I get to say if you can see me or not. So will you have lunch with me?" Jason asked her not really knowing why it had come out in a rush like it had.

"What the hell, sure." She told him, before they walked into Kelly's.

No one noticed the young girl standing outside of Kelly's just looking in. Literally. There she stood outside of the dinner she had known forever, peering in the window. Everyone was there, at least everyone she cared about was.

"I have to do this." She told the slight reflection oh herself on the window. Glancing back inside her nerves gave out. She couldn't do this, but she was never one to give up.

"It's now or never." She whispered before pushing opened the door that would lead her back to her old life.