Disclaimer: Obviously, I don't own any of the characters, except for Anastasia(Cara) & Jaiden who are my creations, or any other new characters you may see, no matter how much I WISH I did. They belong ABC, General Hospital and AMC.

Prevailing Over All
By Jules

Chapter 3
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PREVIOUSLY:

Jason and Carly's Penthouse

Jason startled, and alarmed when he saw Carly come in, an absolute and complete mess.

"Carly, are you alright? Is that blood? Are you hurt? What happened?" He demanded.

Carly looked down and giggled, "Wow, I didn't even notice that I'd been covered in blood and stuff. It's really amazing how much blood and other fluids are involved when delivering a baby."

"What? You delivered a baby?" Jason inquired confused, but at the same time relieved to hear Carly was safe and unharmed.

"Yeah, Courtney went into labor during lunch, we weren't able make it to the hospital in time, so I had to deliver it on the side of the road."

"You delivered Courtney's baby on the side of the road." Jason repeated in disbelief.

"Yeah, in the limo. She had a baby girl and named it Samantha Keri. I don't know the baby's condition, but I can tell you this, that baby had a powerful set of lungs. Just like her mother." She informed him staring off into space, then blinked and shook her head, "Oh God, I am so tired, I'm going to go to take a nice bath, then go to bed."

"Do you want me to call the hospital and find out if they're alright?" He offered as she trudged up the stairs.

"Would you? That would be so great."

"Yeah, why don't you go up, I'll come up and tell you when I get the info on them."

Carly yawned, "Thanks Jase, you're a life savor."

She went up the rest of the way, to the main bathroom started to fill the tub. She had redesigned the bathroom and it looked great. It had an old-fashioned white sink and tub; the tub was a large, deep, old-fashioned tub, that if one was inclined, could fit two people in it. All the fixtures were a bright gold.

Carly poured in some of her bubble bath, lit some candles, turned on the CD player they had in the bathroom.

She hit random on the mode choice, then climbed into the tub. The music began to play and slowly Carly began to unwind.

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Nikolas was in his bedroom at the cottage, rushing to get things ready. Setting out candles, making his bed with the silk sheets he'd just bought specially for the occasion, making sure he looked perfect, in his black slacks and a navy-blue silk shirt, light spray of his expensive cologne.

His girlfriend of several month, Cara, was going to be arriving soon, and he wanted everything to be perfect. This would be their first time. In fact, this would be Cara's first time ever, she had told Nikolas that she had been waiting to fall in love first.

And tonight was the night they'd been anticipating, they had talked about it before, and come close a couple times, but finally decided to wait until the first night of the New Year, so it would be like a new beginning for them both. A very special night, on a special date, one they would never forget as their first time.

First they were going to have a romantic candle lit dinner, that Nikolas had waiting on the table . . . if she would just show up!

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Lucky and Emily were in the den watching a movie together, Lucky was sitting in a royal-blue chair-bed (it's like a chair x 1.5), with Emily curled up in his lap and her head on his shoulder. There was a coffee table next to him, with a lamp and a very important box of Kleenex. The end of the first movie they'd rented, 'My Best Friend's Wedding', was coming up, and Lucky knew just what to do. Just as the last scene was fading out, he grabbed a tissue and handed it to Emily.

Emily was in tears, "That is the sweetest ending . . . I'm so glad that I rented it."

"But it's so sappy . . . " He complained.

"Well that's why I also got this . . . " Emily pulled a tape out the bag she had sitting on the floor beside the chair, "To compensate for the 'sappy' movie."

She showily revealed to Lucky what she'd rented him.

"You got 'Star Wars'!" He yelped perking up.

"Now don't go thinking it's for you, I'm in it to see Harrison Ford . . . " She fibbed as she hopped out of the chair, popped it in the machine and pressed play.

"Sure you are . . . " Lucky kissed Emily when she climbed back into his lap.

They got distracted and the movie was forgotten, after all, they had it for five days . . . .

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Seven pm
The Penthouse

Sonny strode into Jason's penthouse, his temples throbbing, stabbing pain behind his eyes, and the other penthouse was 100 out of any type of pain reliever.

"Jase you got any aspirin?" He questioned immediately, omitting any sort of greeting.

Jason, who was distracted tending to a fussing Michael, called back, "Yeah, bathroom, top of the stairs, third door on the right."

Sonny jogged up the stairs.

Jason, just went right back to his conversation with Michael, who was in his playpen. "Yeah Michael, Carly will be down to put you to bed right after she finishes her . . . OH NO!"

He jumped up, spun on his heal and ran for the stairs.

Carly was relaxing in the tub, head laid back against a bath pillow. The CD was had finished, but she was just too relaxed to get up and put in a different one, or even just start that one over again. She had just began to close her eyes when the door burst open, startling her.

Her breath was caught her throat for a moment, as she sat up in shock, then she managed to let out a scream, "AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Get out!"

Sonny, eyes wide open, staring at the scene before him, was so stunned he couldn't move.

"Sonny you pervert!!!!" That had just made Carly even madder as she attempted to cover her completely naked body, "GET OUT OF HERE! JASON!"

Jason had made it halfway up the stairs when Carly had started yelling. That had caused him to start running the stairs even faster. Then when he saw Sonny, just standing there, staring inside the bathroom where Carly's screamed . . . . It stirred something inside of him that he didn't even know existed . . . something primal

"Sonny!" He growled, clenching his fists, absolutely furious.

Sonny finally turned away to see a stone faced Jason, "She hadn't lock the door. I didn't know . . . "

Seeing Jason's expression unchanged, Sonny closed the door, being very careful not to take the slightest peak that time, then he slipped quietly back downstairs.

Jason went to the bathroom and knocked on the door.

Carly was carefully stepping out of the tub, practically shaking with fury as well, and wrapping an oversized towel around her body when there was a knock at the door.

"What?" She called out exasperated, frustrated that all her efforts to relax were completely wasted thanks to the jerk across the hall.

"Are you ok Carly?" Jason inquired considerately.

Carly breathed a sigh of relief that it was Jason, "I'm fine Jase, I'll be downstairs in ten minutes."

"Ok, Michael and I will be waiting."

"Oh and Jase, send that pervert home." She ordered in a hard tone.

"Pervert? . . . Oh Sonny. I will." Jason promised.

Jason left to go back downstairs, then Carly went to her bedroom. She looked through her selections for p.j.'s and nighties, finally deciding on a pair of light-blue and navy-blue plaid linen pants and a tight little white T-shirt. She threw on her short light blue robe and put her hair in a sloppy ponytail.

She hurried down the stairs in her socks. She was very pleased to see that Sonny had left, and that she wouldn't have to think about the incident any further.

As she bent down from her waist to pick Michael up, Jason couldn't help but admire her the curve of her butt as the fabric of her pj bottoms tightened against her skin.

"Hey Mr. Man. How are you sweetie. Come on, time for bed." She cooed.

Carly carried her son upstairs, noting how heavy he was. Jason stayed there, but turned on the baby monitor, which they still used for security purposes, and because Carly was really paranoid. Jason blissfully listened to Carly put Michael to bed. His family.

"Do you want Mama to sing to you?"

"Sing Momma, sing!" Michael responded.

Carly sang a lullaby softly as she rocked Michael back and forth until he'd fallen asleep.

Carly laid Michael down in his crib, then tiptoed downstairs.

"He's asleep . . . but Jase, he's starting to get too big for that bed. Plus I'm afraid he's going to figure out how to climb out of that crib any week now."

Jason nodded, he'd been fearing the same thing, "I know, he's smart. I've caught him trying to climb out three times in the last month."

Carly gasped, "No! Really? That little rascal."

"Yeah, well he takes after his mother." He told her softly.

Carly blinked, then grinned, "Well, that's besides the point. The point is, if he's learning how to escape his so called, 'prison, we're going to have to get him a bed with bars closer to the floor before he cracks open his head trying to climb out."

Jason sobered up completely at this thought and nodded his head in agreement, "I'll start doing some research on what's the safest bed on the market."

"And then I'll go through the choices you are going to give me and pick out the cutest ones, and we'll let Michael pick out his own new bed. If he's going to get a big boy bed, he should be part of the decision making process." Carly informed him.

Jason smiled at her tone, she was always so forceful when it came to matters dealing with Michael.

She sighed, "But, back to actual babies, since mine obviously isn't one anymore, how's Courtney and Samantha?" She questioned yawning.

"She and the baby are fine. They both will be released on the third." Jason reported to her, repeating the facts he'd been told.

"That's great." Carly yawned again. "God, I'm exhausted. I'm going to bed. 'Night Jason."

She hugged him, gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, then went back upstairs to her bedroom and fell right to sleep as soon as she was curled up under the covers.

Scott and Eve's Firehouse

Eve and Scott were in their bedroom, sitting back on a mountain of pillows on their bed. Eve was on the phone.

"That's great! Bye." She hung up, awash with disbelief. "Scott, will never guess what happened."

"You're right, I won't. What happened?" Scott replied smiling, knowing she would burst if she had to keep the news in any longer.

"Courtney had the baby today! On the side of the road, in a limo. Carly had to deliver it." She was talking so fast her words almost tripping over each other.

Scott was stunned. " Really? On the side of the road? What did she have?"

"A little girl, a perfect, healthy baby girl. Courtney named her Samantha, well her full name is Samantha Keri Scanlon."

"That's great! Frank's got to be absolutely thrilled about it."

"Oh he is. Joe said that he was still on cloud nine, a bit upset that he had to miss the actual event, but he'll get over it." Eve answered. She paused in thought for a minute. "Scott, what do you want to have?"

"Do you mean a boy or a girl?" He questioned, setting down the book he'd been attempting to read.

"Yeah, what do you want?" Eve demanded.

"I don't care, as long as it's ours." He told her, leaning over a kissing her bulging pregnant belly.

Eve was silent for several moments longer, while she tried to figure out the best way to tell Scott. She'd had a doctor's appointment today, and had some very big news for him. She was a bit worried about how he was going to react. If he was going to freak, be happy, angry, faint . . . .

"Scott," Well, she'd always liked the hypothetical approach, "what would you think about having more than one baby?"

"At once?"

"Yes."

"I think it could be cool." Scott answered without thought, not even catching any of the hints she was giving, having gone back to his book once again.

Eve mentally growled at the stupidity of men, and narrowed "Scott, I have some exciting news for you. As you know, I went to the doctors today. He gave me some interesting information."

"What did he tell you. Is the baby ok? Are you alright?" Scott demanded worriedly, terrified something was wrong with his new child, or possibly even his wife.

"The babies are fine. They are in perfect health." Eve told him carefully, then bit her lip, waiting for his reaction.

"I'm sorry, but did you just say babies?" He asked stunned, he had to have misheard her.

Eve let out a giant sigh of relief, finally, he knew "Yes, I did. Scott, we're having twins . . . ."

"Twins?" Scott croaked, "We're having, twins?"

Eve nodded.

"Oh God, Eve, baby, I can't believe it! This is great!" He hugged her enthusiastically, then moved down and began talking to her stomach, "Hey babies, this is your daddy. Sorry about talking to you two as if there was only one of you before, it had to be really annoying. I promise, your mommy and me are going to love you two and your sister Serena equally, and spoil you rotten from the moment you come out."

"I definitely believe that spoiling the kids rotten part. Though I don't believe a child of yours could ever be bratty. Serena is just too sweet for me to believe that." Eve laughed, truly relaxing for the first time all day since she'd found out that she was pregnant with twins.

A bit after seven pm, Cara knocked on Nicolas's door; she was agitated, and didn't even notice that she was quite late. She was wearing tight black pants and a light blue silk shirt under her big white down filled ski parka. She rubbed her arms to keep from freezing in the subatomic weather of winter. She didn't like winter, she'd always lived in cold weather, but she'd never liked it.

As the door was swung open, a blast of welcomed warm air hit Cara.

"Cara! Quick, come in. It's freezing out there." Nikolas welcomed her.

Cara gave him a look, and walked in.

"Did something go wrong today?" Nikolas asks her, confused by her sullen appearance.

"Yes, something went wrong today. Guess who came back today. Guess who came back today, after having been gone for six months? Six months which I had hoped would be forever."

"Who?" Nikolas asked, guessing whom it was but hoping for her sake it wasn't.

"My father." She informed him, taking off her coat.

"So, Sonny is back from Puerto Rico."

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