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Just a phone call awayI didn't know what to do with myself as I stood in the waiting area of Port Charles General Hospital praying to God that Carly was going to be okay, needing her to be.
"Jason, sit down." Courtney had been making me mad recently and at that moment I didn't want to hear her ordering me around. She reached out for my arm but I pulled back and didn't flinch at the hurt look in her eyes. I still couldn't believe what she had said about Carly not two days ago; she'd said that Carly was selfish and wanted both Sonny and me for herself. Then she finished with telling me that whatever was going on with me and Carly had to stop or she was gone. And I yelled because everything she had said was absurd and she had insulted Carly; Carly was my best friend. Sonny rushing into the hospital then and I ran to him, grabbing his arm before he could dash off to find his wife and mess something up.
"No, she's with Monica, they're checking her out." I told him and for the first time ordered him to do something.
"Sit," and he did, placing his head in his hands and thanking God over and over again. I looked towards the door that I'd seen them take Carly into and again Courtney reached out to take my arm and tell me to sit down.
"I have to get out of here, I need some air." I told Sonny more then her and I could see the tears settle at the bottom of her eyes; I ignored it and left before Sonny could question it. I ended up in the cafeteria, surprising myself for not having rushed to my bike and the open road to clear my head. It was empty save for a few people scattered here and there. Something pushed against my side and I reached into my jacket pocket to pull out my cell phone.
"And, Jason, if you ever need anything, to talk, or yell, I'm just a phone call away," Brenda's voice popped into my head and I remembered her offer. It had been almost a week since I'd gotten the feeling that she was hurt and had called her so I decided to take her up on her offer. I flipped open the phone and went to speed-dial her when it rang.
"Hello?" again I hadn't taken the time to read the name.
"Are you okay?" the worry in her voice made it seem so much like our first conversation.
"No." I told her plainly as I traced the tabletop with my finger.
"What happened?" her voice rose with the worry and I smiled; she always cared.
"Everything, Brenda, starting with Courtney and ending with Carly." I signed into the phone, telling her everything. She didn't care about Courtney but at the mention of Carly she couldn't help herself.
"What happened to Carly, is she okay?" I could hear the true fear in her voice and it made me love her that much more because she cared about Carly for me.
"I found her," I smiled because it had been me, not Sonny or a deal but me that had saved her.
"I knew you would, Jason you always keep your promises." Brenda's voice was proud and I could only remember so many people being proud of me.
"So what's wrong then, hit man?" she asked me and I remembered the baby then.
"The baby, they don't know if the baby will be alright." I said and I hear her sharp in take of breath.
"God, no." she covered her mouth so it came out more like 'Godno' but I understood.
"I need you Brenda, come home." I admitted accidentally.
"Hey, Jason, can I ask you something?" she talked as if I hadn't said what I said.
"Sure." I answered shakily.
"Do you like Chocolate or Peanut butter cookies?" a small plate of about twenty cookies appeared in front of me and I looked up at the hand that was holding them to find Brenda standing in front of me. I dropped my phone and grabbed her in a strong hug. I tangled my fingers on her long dark hair and inhaled her scent. She had here, with me.
"Surprise." She said weakly in my ear as I had yet to let her go.
"How did you,… why?" I couldn't decide on what question to ask her first but she just laughed it off.
"I just knew that something was wrong so I came back." she told me and I knew that she had known because she was different. I looked at her standing there, clad in blue jeans and a black t-shirt, her hair falling simply around her face and I pair of black runners on her feet. I didn't know how much I really missed her till that moment.
"…I missed you so much." That where I fell back into the conversation and nodded at her.
"I missed you too."
"So, was it Ric?" she looked at me with a look that said 'I never doubted you'.
"Yes, that bastard had her locked up in a panic room. She's stopped eating because she thought he'd let her out." There was anger in my eyes I could tell, but she didn't back away instead she last her fingers with mine and sat down beside me.
"Tell me what happened." I told her everything about everything, at times yelling at time whispering; she listened to everything because she was different.
"That son of a bitch." Was the first thing she uttered when I was done and it made me smile.
"What about Elizabeth?" she had never really known the Kelly's waitress but she knew of her and Elizabeth had never asked for any of this.
"I got her out before Ric could do anything, she's safe with her gran. I'm going to help her in anyway that I can." I told her, Elizabeth still held this place in my heart.
"With the divorce, you mean?" she asked me as she looked at the tabletop that I had been recently tracing.
"Yeah, well we know I'm good with those." I joked but something pulled at my heart.
"Elizabeth is lucky to have you as a friend." She looked up at me again and smiled.
"Speaking of lucky, how is Courtney?" she asked me and it felt good to be able to tell someone.
"She did not say that about Carly?!?!" Brenda was shocked at what I'd told her. "Not even I get to say things like that about Carly and I'm your favorite ex-wife." She told me with a smile. We sat there for a while saying nothing, out fingers still intertwined before I spook.
"You called this you know. You told me she'd be fine." She waved me off.
"No, I called a judge of character, Carly did the rest." I looked at her and wondered where the spoiled model had gone but then realized that thinking you were going to die changed people.
"You're staying for a while, right?" I couldn't conceal the worry and need in my voice. "Because I really need you right now." Again that was out of character but she was different.
"I'll stay for as long as you need me." She told me before touching the subject of Emily.
"How is she?" Emily was the reason she had called me about two weeks ago; or at least Emily's cancer was.
"Better, I owe Nikolas Cassadine a lot, he made her go to that support group and it helped her believe that she can fight this thing." I couldn't look up at her because all these thing were happening and I was on the verge of crying.
"She can, she's like her brother." Brenda whispered as she stroked my hair. I unconsciously lent into her touch and neither of us noticed Courtney watching us.
"Don't make promises." I reminded her because I couldn't take if it this one was broken.
"I'm not, I told you it's a judge of character." She reminded me as she continued stroking my hair.
"I can't lose her." She nodded at me.
"I know, you told me." She grabbed a cookie and bit it scattering crumbles all over the table; I followed her and did the same.
"These are really good." I told her threw a mouth full of chocolate chip cookie.
"So I've been told." She winked at me, not being able to count how many times I'd told her I loved her cookies or that I missed them.
"Yeah, he doesn't stop talking about them." Courtney walked up to us, her face screwed up with anger.
"Well at least he has good taste." Brenda bit at my soon to be wife and I shuddered at the thought.
"Well he is engaged to me." Courtney smirks at the brunette sitting beside me.
"Everyone's entitled to mistakes." Brenda shot back causing me to laugh. Courtney lunged at her but I pulled Brenda out of the way and grabbed Courtney.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked her.
"Did you hear what she said to me Jason?" Courtney yelled and I found myself wondering why I had ever wanted to be with her.
"Yeah I did, maybe she was right." I told Courtney as I watched her face register what I had said.
"No, I knew it, you two were together this whole time. You and your phone call that I can listen to. Or that you knew stop taking about her." Courtney pointed a finger at both of us in turn and I could see Brenda blush because Courtney thought we were 'together'.
"It's not like that Courtney.." Brenda started but Courtney cut her off.
"No, you're a little slut that wants every guy in Port Charles. First Sonny then Jax and now Jason you little whore." Brenda looked a little hurt but I knew her too well to know that she wouldn't let Courtney win.
"That's enough, Courtney, say sorry." Courtney looked at me with her mouth hanging open.
"Dear, close your mouth you'll catch flies like that." Brenda hissed from beside me.
"Now, Courtney." I repeated but she only closed her mouth.
"No," I hated her then, for some unknown reason I hated her, hated that she was rude to Carly and Brenda, hated that she couldn't trust me and hated that she hated Brenda. It was then that I remember what I had told Brenda when I'd called her, "Even if she doesn't, I don't mind. If Courtney can't see how much you and Carly mean to me I don't need her." And I didn't need her, not like I needed my best friends, not like I needed Brenda.
"Courtney, I don't need you." I must have sounded like a robot as I told the blonde when I was at the moment realizing and her eyes went wide.
"You don't mean that Jason." She pleaded but I locked her with a hard gaze.
"Yes I do. If you can't see how much Carly and Brenda mean to me I don't need you. It's over." She was about to speak when Johnny appeared at the door and panic welled up inside me.
"Boss, it's Carly. She's asking for you." I let go the breath I didn't know I'd been holding; she was all right, she was save but what about the baby. Before I could ask Johnny was gone and I automatically reached for Brenda; she was my rock.
"She's strong." She rested her head on my shoulder and whispered in my ear.
"Go, she needs you." She released my hand and pushed me towards the door but I grabbed her hand again.
"I need you, come with me." I begged like a little boy who was going to kindergarten for the first time and didn't want to go alone. The strong, cold, hit man, Jason Morgan image washed away and my walls fell but she was different. She smiled and nodded her head,
"Sure, come one." Her voice was soft and I could only imaged Courtney's face but I didn't look at her. Brenda led me towards Carly room because I knew and she knew that I wouldn't have been able to do it alone. We stood at the door for a moment before she turned the knob and pushed me forward. Carly lay in the bed, staring at the ceiling but looked when I called her name tenderly. A fresh batch of salty tears pour down her face and I dropped Brenda's hand to rush to Carly. I pulled her gently against my chest as I stroked her hair; she was real.
"Jason, I was so scared, I missed you so much." She didn't try to hold back tears and I let her cry.
"Carly, you did good. You stayed strong." I comforted her but really wanted to ask about the baby. She hiccupped and her tears stopped.
"How's…" I didn't have to finish the question because I looked at her stomach and she understood.
"He's fine, just like his daddy and his uncle Jason." She talked to her stomach in a motherly tone as if she was talking only to the little life inside her.
"Thank you, Jason." She placed my hand on her stomach and the baby kicked. I smiled.
"What for, I promised that I'd always take care of you." I kissed her forehead affectionately and she smiled up at me.
"Yeah, but you never gave up, you never stopped believing that it was Ric. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you." She told me and I couldn't argue with her because everything she'd said was true.
"Well, Brenda told me that you'd be fine, she said it was a judge of character and she was right. You stayed strong and fought Carly, not me." She looked at me with a questioning stare.
"Brenda was here, I saw her." I look up and noticed that Brenda was gone, slipped out when I was talking to Carly.
"Yeah, she came back, she said she knew that I needed her." I told Carly and promised to tell her everything when she got out of the hospital.
"Did you need her Jas, do you need her?" Carly asked me and I could see the wheels turning in her head.
"Why, what are you thinking Carly?" I asked her, I knew she better then she knew herself.
"Do you need her?" she asked again and if she hadn't been in a hospital bed she would have scared me.
"Yeah, yes I need Brenda." I answered truthfully because like Brenda, Carly was different. My best friend smiled at me.
"What about Courtney?" she changed the subject quickly.
"It's over. She didn't understand you and me. Or me and Brenda." I told her as I placed my hand on her stomach again. "She though we were having a affair." I pointed to Carly and myself in turn and Carly's eyes widened.
"What? I mean yeah I love you Jason and I think you're a totally hottie but, been there done that." She told me with the same Carly spunk I'd always loved.
"I know but she called you selfish and said that you wanted Sonny and me to yourself. That's when I knew it was over." I told her as I gazed straight ahead.
"I'm not selfish." She pouted and it made me laugh.
"I know and Brenda even said that you weren't." I told her.
"So go find Brenda. Find her and tell her that you can't live with out her and let her see the real Jason that I see." I was shocked by what she had said but then found that it was true, when I needed someone I called Brenda not Courtney and I told Brenda things I would only tell Carly, not Courtney, I needed Brenda Barrett and even Carly could see it and she didn't really like Brenda.
"She already sees the real me; I tell her thing." I admitted and she whistled.
"How did I miss this, you're in love with Brenda." She sang to me and I clamped a hand lightly over her mouth.
"Not so loud, someone might hear you." I joked and she laughed.
"No, really Jason go find her before she leaves again." I stood and asked her if there was anything she needed which she replied 'Sonny' too and I promises to sent him in before I went looking for my ex-wife. I finally found Brenda standing on the balcony, in the pouring rain.
"I love the rain." She said before I made any noise; she'd known I was there because she was different.
"You'll catch a cold, Barrett, come in." I placed a hand on her arm but she didn't move.
"Here, then." I slipped off my leather jacket and handed to her. She took it and slid in on.
"Now, you'll catch a cold." She said tiredly with a yawn.
"I'll be fine, don't worry about me."
"But I took vows to worry about you." She told me and I slid my hand around her.
"And then you signed them away." I laughed because we'd already had this conversation.
"I didn't want to." That was new, she'd never told me that before.
"Neither did I Barrett." I whispered but she heard me. Tonight was all about the truth.
"Then why did we?" she asked as she rested her head against my chest and I rested my head again her head.
"Crazy people do crazy things when they're in love." I took the chance and told her. She turned to look at me.
"What?" she questioned me and I gulped before continuing; it was now or never.
"I love you Brenda. I loved you then, I just didn't know it, but I know now. I though that you wanted to be free so I let you go." I admitted and she smiled at me.
"I love you too." She wrapped her arms around my neck and I pulled her closer to me.
"I need you." I mumbled into her hair where my face was hidden.
"Well that's good, because I need you too." She laughed her Brenda Barrett laugh and it made me laugh.
"Can I asked you something?" I asked her as I pulled back and brushed pieces of wet brown hair out of her face.
"Sure." She said as she gazed in my steel blue eyes.
"I just got such a gross idea. You're going to hate this… Marry me." I smiled at her and she broke out laughing.
"No way in hell…" she joked but pressed her lips to mine anyway. The kiss was unexpected but accepted immediately and I wasted to time pulling her flush against me and deepened the kiss by tracing her lips with my tongue. She instantly allowed me entrance and soon my tongue was fighting with her. Unfortunately I had to pull away to breath and so did she.
"So is that a yes?" I asked her breathlessly as I touch my forehead to hers.
"Like you have to ask," her eyes twinkled and I kissed her nose before hugging her.
"All I have to say is if we can get married…again… Emily can sure as hell get her miracle." Brenda intertwined our fingers and I pulled her closer to me.
"So do you want a traditional wedding or Vegas here were come?" she elbowed me in the ribs lightly as she laughed at my joke.
"I was thinking more along the lines of something small, just you and me and Sonny and Carly and maybe Jax… oh and I was thinking the Quartermain's…" I groaned at the mention of my 'family'.
"Only the ones I like." I pleaded with her but she shook her head.
"No because you only like Lila and Emily, what about Monica and Alan and Edward and AJ…" I cut her off.
"Okay, Monica too then." She laughed.
"All or nothing, Morgan, and I won't settle for nothing." And that's how we were, all or nothing, because she was different.
End
-Girlygirl
And it's finished, this chapter isn't as good as the other two but it's still good and as you've read it's Brenda/Jason but Carly and Jason still have a strong close friendship because I love their friendship. As you all know I hate Courtney and her with Jason. I hope TPTB sees that Courtney and Jason make people want to set thing of fire (or just me) and break them up so that the real Jason can come back.
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