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Disclaimer: The only characters I own are the ones you don't recognize.
Title: Never Look Back
Author: CrimsonSwan
Rating: PG-13
Summary: She left town three years ago, vowing never to return. The people she'd loved most had turned their backs on her. But now, old voices are calling her back; there are old wounds to be mended, and old debts to be repaid...(Courtneyfic, Court/?)
Longer Summary: Courtney left town in 2004 because both Jason and Sonny gave her the cold shoulder for saving Alky. She's made contact with no one from Port Charles since then, and has started over in another small New York town. But when Lorenzo Alcazar gives her a call one morning, Courtney's forced to deal with all sorts of wounds she thought she could forget, and all kinds of relationships she thought she could get over...
Part II
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"Something's the matter, I can tell," Jeff says, gazing at her over the steaming mug of coffee he's sipping. He's known Courtney Matthews for three years and he can read her like a book. She's a complex woman with a mysterious past and sadness lurking in those pretty blue eyes. Her present demeanor reveals to him that something from that past has been dredged up, and is hovering over her conscience.
She denies it, with an unconvincing laugh and a wave of her hand. Jeff can't help but prod.
"Look, I'm not stupid. I minored in psychology." He says the last bit proudly, sitting up straighter. He never misses a chance to boast about his Yale education, and with a glance across at Courtney he can see she isn't impressed.
"Well then you'll know not to bug me about this," she says simply, reaching for her purse to signal this is the end of the conversation.
Jeff watches her leave the coffee shop, unsatisfied. Courtney may not realize it, but he cares very much for her and her well-being. He knows she's off to the office for another boring day as some big tycoon's secretary, and he wonders if she's really happy there.
*Whatever skeletons she's got in her closet*, he thinks, stirring more sugar into his coffee, *They're getting to her. They're **really** getting to her.*
Jeff rises from his seat, slips on his coat, and prepares to leave. However, out of the corner of his eye, he spots an object on the table-- it's Courtney's cell phone. She must have left it in the rush to escape his interrogation.
Smiling slightly, Jeff pockets it.
He'll return it to her.
Later.
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Hmmm, I don't quite know what to make of him myself... Well, R&R! ;)
Disclaimer: The only characters I own are the ones you don't recognize.
Title: Never Look Back
Author: CrimsonSwan
Rating: PG-13
Summary: She left town three years ago, vowing never to return. The people she'd loved most had turned their backs on her. But now, old voices are calling her back; there are old wounds to be mended, and old debts to be repaid...(Courtneyfic, Court/?)
Longer Summary: Courtney left town in 2004 because both Jason and Sonny gave her the cold shoulder for saving Alky. She's made contact with no one from Port Charles since then, and has started over in another small New York town. But when Lorenzo Alcazar gives her a call one morning, Courtney's forced to deal with all sorts of wounds she thought she could forget, and all kinds of relationships she thought she could get over...
Part II
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"Something's the matter, I can tell," Jeff says, gazing at her over the steaming mug of coffee he's sipping. He's known Courtney Matthews for three years and he can read her like a book. She's a complex woman with a mysterious past and sadness lurking in those pretty blue eyes. Her present demeanor reveals to him that something from that past has been dredged up, and is hovering over her conscience.
She denies it, with an unconvincing laugh and a wave of her hand. Jeff can't help but prod.
"Look, I'm not stupid. I minored in psychology." He says the last bit proudly, sitting up straighter. He never misses a chance to boast about his Yale education, and with a glance across at Courtney he can see she isn't impressed.
"Well then you'll know not to bug me about this," she says simply, reaching for her purse to signal this is the end of the conversation.
Jeff watches her leave the coffee shop, unsatisfied. Courtney may not realize it, but he cares very much for her and her well-being. He knows she's off to the office for another boring day as some big tycoon's secretary, and he wonders if she's really happy there.
*Whatever skeletons she's got in her closet*, he thinks, stirring more sugar into his coffee, *They're getting to her. They're **really** getting to her.*
Jeff rises from his seat, slips on his coat, and prepares to leave. However, out of the corner of his eye, he spots an object on the table-- it's Courtney's cell phone. She must have left it in the rush to escape his interrogation.
Smiling slightly, Jeff pockets it.
He'll return it to her.
Later.
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Hmmm, I don't quite know what to make of him myself... Well, R&R! ;)