Part 8

"Thanks for the wonderful evening." She told him as they exited to small restaurant.

"Thanks for coming with me." He told her, and smiled at the fact that once again in his life he couldn't just say 'your welcome'.

"Something wrong?" She asked him, his blue eyes cloudy.

"No nothing." He reassured her as Max held opened the limo door for them. Jason, personally, hated the whole limo thing, ever since Lily, but it was really bad now and Sonny asked him to be careful.

"So, where to now?" He asked her.

"Wherever." She answered him.

"Could you please tell Max where 'wherever' is, I don't think he's familiar with it." Jason joked and a small smile pulled at her lips.

"Funny, Mob Boy." She joked with him as she poked his chest. He grabbed for her hands, catching them in one swift move and holding them close to his chest as he pulled her closer to him.

"I was just trying to make you happy, Red." He told her, his voice, soft and low, right by her ear.  She let her eye lids flutter closed as his warm breath caressed her neck.

"Boss, were to?" Max's voice cut in and for the first and only time in his life Jason hated him.

"Well, were to?" He asked her, his voice never rising about the whisper.

"The penthouse, the park, the docks, surprise me." She answered him, finally opening her eyes. He liked her, her carefree personality, and nodded his head.

"Ok, then, the docks, please, Max." Jason informed his guard and present driver.

"Right away, boss." Max said before the limo pulled out of the parking lot.

Funny thing life is. Nicholas Cassadine thought as he watched his aunt eat dinner with none other then Jason Morgan. Not that long ago Liz had been all over Jason, Kristina must be the only person that Jason's gone out with that Nicholas didn't liked himself. Well he was happy for Kristina, she deserved to be happy.  

"Old love?" She asked him as she watched the same red headed girl that he was watching.

"No, no, no, no, she's my aunt." He told her, shifting his dark eyes towards her. Suddenly he remembered everything from the past year and who he was talking to.

"I forgot that you never met her. Well she's Alexis' little sister. We found her; actually she found us a year ago." He told her, giving her a short version. She only nodded her head.

"I heard a bit about a sister from Jason while I was getting help." She informed him.

"Anyway, what have you been up to?" He asked her as his aunt and Jason left and she had to let her head clear before she remembered what she HAD to say.

"Well….." she started and every lie slid off her tongue with ease. He didn't notice.

The long black limo pulled off to the side of the road and Max walked around to opened the door for his boss and Miss Cassadine.

"Thanks Max." Jason said out of habit as he helped Kristina out.

"Thank you." Kristina said to Max, not really looking him in the eye. The two of them started towards the docks, Max five feet behind them. The docks were completely empty and Jason liked that.

"Who was she?" Kristina's voice cut into his thoughts.

"What? Who?" He asked as if he were being accused of something.

"Before when I thanked you for taking me for dinner, your eyes got cloudy when you thanked me for coming out with you. Who were you thinking of?" She asked him quickly, almost nervous to do so.  It hit him then, she was talking about when he couldn't exactly say 'you're welcome', she was talking when he was thinking about Robin.

"She was my first real love. She thought me how to live. She gave me life, even when she was losing her's." He told her, sliding down onto the docks and letting his feet dangle over the side.

"What happened?" she asked him, intrigued by his story, and dropping down beside him.

"She had, has aids." He corrected himself as he watched the water.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She told him softly.

"You must have loved her a lot." She commented as she watched him.

"Yeah, I do." He told her, speaking in the present. She noticed right away and pushed herself up; he followed as the rain started again.

"I didn't mean it like that, Kristina. Robin will always have a big part of me, of my heart but not like that. I will always love her and sure I'd die for her in a heartbeat but I'm not in love with her." Jason told her, grabbing her arm and pulling her to him, as the rain fell around them.

"She's like a little sister to Sonny." He added, water dripping down his face.

"She's important to you too." She told him, understanding why and how he loved her.  

"Yeah and so are you." He told her, before wrapping her arms around her as they stood there letting the water wash everything away. From somewhere music started and he didn't even ask her to dance and she didn't need him to, they just did. They danced outside, on the docks, in the beautiful rain as she let her problems and tears mix with the rain, and slid off her face.