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Prevailing Over All
By Clover
Chapter 8
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b** February 14 **
** Eight pm **
** Nikolas's cottage ** /b
Nikolas had the cottage set up just like last time. But this time they would have their dinner and special night. They'd been pushing it back for weeks.
Nikolas was nervous and started to fluff the cushions on the couch when the doorbell rang. He jumped, then composed himself to fit the Cassadine demeanor. He calmly opened the door and let Ana in.
"Happy Valentines Day!" She gave him a kiss.
"I'm so glad we could finally do this." He told her, then kissed her passionately.
Ana kissed back, eventually pushing him away, "Slow down Nikolas. First we have dinner…then we'll have dessert."
They sit down to a picnic on the floor in front of a roaring fire.
Ana wasn't into those fancy foods that he used to treat girls to, and he was fine with that. They both had grown up with that, and liked American foods. Fancy stuff got boring after awhile. Instead he treated her to the food they ate on their first date.
They'd ordered pizza, it was for a study date, and he'd let her choose dinner. Pizza was still a novelty to her so they'd gotten a deep dish with, ham and cheese.
It could actually be a surprisingly romantic meal when eaten the right way.
Even though they didn't have dessert on that date, tonight Nikolas had gotten an incredible chocolate moose cake.
They both stared into each other's eyes, getting lost in them. They leaned closer and closer until their lips met in a very passionate kiss.
Nikolas pulled away and stood up, he offered his hand to Ana to help her up. She took it, her eyes never leaving his soulful brown ones. He led her upstairs where they finally consummated their relationship for the first time.
~*~
Lucky reaches Carly's room quickly, taking two steps at a time.
He could hear his cousin's quiet crying through the door.
He knocked, then walked in. She was sitting on the bed hugging a soft fuzzy brown teddy bear that Matt had won for her on their second date. She would hold it whenever she was upset.
"Carly, are you okay?" Lucky asked quietly, sitting next to her on the bed.
"I don't know what's wrong with me Lucky. I'm not sad, I just can't stop crying." She responds defensively.
"Oh, because I wanted to let you know that Johnny, Pete, Billy and I all agree that it's not you're fault." Lucky assured her, "And that we're all mad at Jason for yelling at you."
Carly looked up and laughed, "Really? That's so sweet of you guys."
"Yeah, I know." He told her flashing her his smile
Carly grabbed a pillow and hit him over the head.
He grabbed another one and hit her back. Soon a full-fledged pillow fight is underway.
The 'war' waged on until Lucky and Carly collapse on the bed, laughing.
They talk about the club, and what's going on in their lives until Lucky looks at his watch and notices that if he didn't leave, Emily would get mad at him for being late for celebrating Valentines Day with her. She'd gotten emancipation from her parents and was living with him now.
After he left Carly sat on her bed and stared out the window for awhile. She started getting a splitting headache so she went to the bathroom for something to relieve it. She opened the cabinet and was surprised not to find it there. She thought back to the time of the "The Tub Incident", and she knew immediately where it was.
Mad, she stalked downstairs over to Sonny's penthouse.
Sonny was sitting on the couch when she got there.
"Sonny, where is my aspirin?" Carly demanded.
Sonny jumped, he'd just been thinking about her. Why, he didn't know, but the fact was he had been.
"What makes you think I have it?" Sonny questioned.
"Sonny, please, give them to me." She whined.
Sonny wasn't in a teasing mood so he went and got the bottle from the kitchen.
She hurriedly opened them and took two of them dry.
"Thank you." She uttered. "Now I just need them to kick in. Oh, and next time you need them, please, just take two of them and leave the bottle."
Sonny smirked, "Well, incase you don't remember, you insisted that I left the bathroom."
Carly blushed, "I remember, but in case you didn't notice I was completely naked."
"Oh I noticed alright." Sonny confirmed under his breath.
Carly heard him and was just about to respond when her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" She answered.
Sonny watched as she listened, her face getting pale.
"What do you mean, he's gone?" She asked quietly, not really wanting to hear what she thought she was about to hear.
"Did 'they' take him? . . . . So they still don't know . . . . Are you sure . . . . Yes you're right, it's all your fault . . . . I don't know . . . bye."
She hung up, her face white as a sheet.
Sonny had been watching the whole conversation and didn't like what he just heard, and what he was seeing. He noticed her starting to faint just in time. He caught her and carried her to the couch.
She woke up a few minutes later. Carly remembered the conversation and started sobbing hysterically.
"Oh my God. No, not my baby! They lost my baby! My poor little sweet, innocent baby."
"What baby?" Sonny asked her gently.
"My poor little boy. They don't know where he is. How could they loose him. I trusted a them."
"Michael, who did you trust with Michael?" Sonny's confused, he thought Michael was with Jason.
"N-n-not Michael. Jarred." She corrected him.
Carly broke down sobbing again.
Sonny sat there stunned, not knowing what to think.
"Who is Jarred? And who did you trust him to?" He finally uttered
"Jarred's my son. I trusted my Aunt and Uncle to protect him, and to keep him safe for me. To keep him away from his father who'd try to take him away."
"Carly, first of all. Why the hell doesn't anyone know about Jarred?"
"Because his father lives in Port Charles, but doesn't know that Jarred exists."
"How old is Jarred?" Sonny asked, still confused.
"He's six. Oh god, he's six and not home where he should be." She wailed.
"Shhh, it'll be ok." Then he realized something, for Carly to be so scared, the father had to be someone with lots of power. "Carly, who Iis/I Jarred's father?"
"He's father is Jasper Jacks." She looks over to see his features darken.
"Jasper Jax, as in Jax, Jerry's brother. Jax as in living with V, Jax. Brenda's ex-husband, Jax?"
"That would be him."
"Oh my God. How the hell did that happen?"
"Sonny, I'll tell you everything later. I need your help. You have to find him." She begged, "He's been missing for two day's and Uncle Ray only just called me. I have to have my, my…" Carly can't go on, she broke down crying again.
That does something inside Sonny. He immediately got on the phone, making arrangements.
Carly quieted down, rocking back and forth on the couch.
~*~
Emily and Lucky were taking a walk on the docks, holding hand, when they saw a little boy standing there, with blond hair, in a red backpack holding a teddy bear, looking lost.
They give each other a look and walk over to him.
Lucky spoke up. "Hey kid, isn't it past your bed time?"
"I'm not supposed to talk to strangers." The kid replied automatically.
Emily, who loved kids, knew just what to do, "Well, I'm Emily, and he's Lucky. Are you lost?"
The kid started sniffing, "Uh huh, can you help me?"
"Sure, where are you trying to go?" Lucky asked.
"I need to find Caroline Benson. Do you know who she is?"
"Yeah, she's my cousin. We'll take you to her place ok?"
The kid's a little wary at first, but looked into Lucky's eyes and knew he could trust him so, he nodded his head yes.
"What's your name?" Emily asked, taking his hand.
"Jarred."
b**20 minutes later **
** Jason and Carly's penthouse ** /b
Lucky, Emily, and Jarred are sitting on the couch waiting for someone to come home. As if an instinct, Jarred looked up to the door suddenly.
The door opened and Carly walked in, looking really depressed, then she saw the little boy sitting on the couch.
"Jay?" Carly questioned, not believing her eyes.
His eyes light up, "Mommy!"
He jumped up and ran into her arms.
Lucky and Emily stand up, stunned at what they just heard Jarred call Carly.
"Jarred Asher Benson, you scared mommy to death. Where did you go?" Carly doesn't let go as she asked him. "How did you get here?"
"I'm sorry Mommy. I missed you. I had Aunt Charity helped me."
"She's in giant trouble." She hugged him again. "And so are you in the morning. We're going to have a long talk about this."
Emily and Lucky see that they aren't going to get any answers tonight so they went home, in a daze.
Carly watched Jarred yawn.
"Are you tired baby?" She asked in a motherly tone.
He nodded his head.
"Then I'm going to put you to bed. But first Mommy needs to have someone come over."
She got up from the floor and opened the door. She told Alec to have Sonny come over immediately. Carly then picked up Jarred and rocked him in her lap as he fell asleep.
30 seconds later Sonny burst in, thinking that something was wrong. "What's going on?"
"Shhhhhhh! You'll wake him up." Carly scolded whispering. "I need your help. I've never done this alone before. Besides, he's to big for me to carry"
She sounded scared and defensive to Sonny. After a moment he figured out why; she'd always had help when she did this before, she was afraid that she'd do something wrong and hurt him.
Sonny takes Jarred from her and carried him up to her bedroom.
They took off his backpack, his coat, and his shoes, then put him underneath the covers with his teddy bear.
Sonny watched Carly stare at Jarred sleeping for about 15 minutes then went down stairs to wait for her.
Carly came down ten minutes later and sat next to him on the couch.
"So, how did he get here?" Was the first question out of Sonny's mouth.
"My now ex-best friend Charity. I'm going to have to kill her for not only sending my 6-year-old son to the North all alone, but not even calling me about it." She yawned. "She let my Uncle and Aunt worry about him for over 48 hours not knowing where he was." She yawned again. "That reminds me, I've got to call them . . ." Carly yawned yet again, and her eyes started to droop, ". . . and tell them that he's here."
"Shhh, I'll take care of it. Just go to sleep." Sonny stood up and let her lie down, then he covered her with a blanket. "Don't worry about a single thing."
Carly fell quickly asleep. Sonny watched her for a minute, finally seeing for the first time what an amazing woman she was. Beautiful, smart, protective, she was a survivor. He really admired her, and there was something about her, he just couldn't put his finger on.
As he left the penthouse he turned off the lights.
Jason came home around 11:30, since it was dark in the penthouse, and he was exhausted he didn't even notice Carly sleeping on the couch. He went right up to bed, and to sleep.
b** A little after 12:30 am ** /b
A scream emitted from Carly's room woke both Penthouses.
"Mommy! Mommy! Where are you! Mommy! Mommy!" A little boy's voice cried.
Sonny came running from the penthouse next door.
Carly jumped up from the couch and ran up the stairs.
Jason grabs his gun and runs out of his bedroom.
Carly somehow made it there first. She scooped up Jarred and rocked him back and forth cooing, "Shhh, Mommy's here. She's here. Don't worry baby. I'm here."
Jason watched Carly comfort the boy, not knowing what to think.
Sonny watched her and could help but notice what a great mother she is.
After about five minutes Carly was able to get Jarred to go back to sleep, as long as the bathroom light was on and the door leading to it was partially open.
After Jarred was asleep, Carly quietly left the room.
Jason was the first to speak. "Carly, who the hell is that."
"That is my son, Jarred." She whispered not wanting to wake him up again.
Sonny doesn't want them to get into it tonight so he spoke up before anything can happen.
"Jason, we'll explain in the morning. I'll be over at nine am. We'll all talk about it then and Carly and I will explain the entire thing. Right now lets all go to bed. We don't want to wake up the kids." Sonny informed him diplomatically.
Jason didn't want to, but he agreed to it, after seeing the tired expression on Carly's face. "Fine. Carly, take my bed. I'll sleep on the couch."
"Uh-uh, no way. I'm not going to put you out."
"Carly, I don't want to argue, you're taking the bed, that's final." With that, he walked downstairs, ending the conversation.
"Good night Carly, I'll see you in the morning." Out of an impulse somewhere deep inside of him Sonny kissed her lightly and gently on the lips then left.
Carly stood there stunned. She touched her lips, confused about what just happened, but she liked it. She walked into Jason's room in a daze, then went to sleep dreaming of the kiss.
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Please, send or post comments and replies! I live for feedback (yes I know it's pathetic, but I have to know what people think).
Chapter 9 & 10 Spoilers:
Sonny, Jason, and Carly talk about Jarred
Carly takes Jarred to meet, and introduce him to Jax
Jason talks to Jarred
Sonny and Carly go out to dinner
Jax and Carly talk about Jarred, and what had happened years ago, that Jarred was a product of
Jerry, Bobbie, and the Spencers meet Jarred
And more!
Prevailing Over All
By Clover
Chapter 8
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b** February 14 **
** Eight pm **
** Nikolas's cottage ** /b
Nikolas had the cottage set up just like last time. But this time they would have their dinner and special night. They'd been pushing it back for weeks.
Nikolas was nervous and started to fluff the cushions on the couch when the doorbell rang. He jumped, then composed himself to fit the Cassadine demeanor. He calmly opened the door and let Ana in.
"Happy Valentines Day!" She gave him a kiss.
"I'm so glad we could finally do this." He told her, then kissed her passionately.
Ana kissed back, eventually pushing him away, "Slow down Nikolas. First we have dinner…then we'll have dessert."
They sit down to a picnic on the floor in front of a roaring fire.
Ana wasn't into those fancy foods that he used to treat girls to, and he was fine with that. They both had grown up with that, and liked American foods. Fancy stuff got boring after awhile. Instead he treated her to the food they ate on their first date.
They'd ordered pizza, it was for a study date, and he'd let her choose dinner. Pizza was still a novelty to her so they'd gotten a deep dish with, ham and cheese.
It could actually be a surprisingly romantic meal when eaten the right way.
Even though they didn't have dessert on that date, tonight Nikolas had gotten an incredible chocolate moose cake.
They both stared into each other's eyes, getting lost in them. They leaned closer and closer until their lips met in a very passionate kiss.
Nikolas pulled away and stood up, he offered his hand to Ana to help her up. She took it, her eyes never leaving his soulful brown ones. He led her upstairs where they finally consummated their relationship for the first time.
~*~
Lucky reaches Carly's room quickly, taking two steps at a time.
He could hear his cousin's quiet crying through the door.
He knocked, then walked in. She was sitting on the bed hugging a soft fuzzy brown teddy bear that Matt had won for her on their second date. She would hold it whenever she was upset.
"Carly, are you okay?" Lucky asked quietly, sitting next to her on the bed.
"I don't know what's wrong with me Lucky. I'm not sad, I just can't stop crying." She responds defensively.
"Oh, because I wanted to let you know that Johnny, Pete, Billy and I all agree that it's not you're fault." Lucky assured her, "And that we're all mad at Jason for yelling at you."
Carly looked up and laughed, "Really? That's so sweet of you guys."
"Yeah, I know." He told her flashing her his smile
Carly grabbed a pillow and hit him over the head.
He grabbed another one and hit her back. Soon a full-fledged pillow fight is underway.
The 'war' waged on until Lucky and Carly collapse on the bed, laughing.
They talk about the club, and what's going on in their lives until Lucky looks at his watch and notices that if he didn't leave, Emily would get mad at him for being late for celebrating Valentines Day with her. She'd gotten emancipation from her parents and was living with him now.
After he left Carly sat on her bed and stared out the window for awhile. She started getting a splitting headache so she went to the bathroom for something to relieve it. She opened the cabinet and was surprised not to find it there. She thought back to the time of the "The Tub Incident", and she knew immediately where it was.
Mad, she stalked downstairs over to Sonny's penthouse.
Sonny was sitting on the couch when she got there.
"Sonny, where is my aspirin?" Carly demanded.
Sonny jumped, he'd just been thinking about her. Why, he didn't know, but the fact was he had been.
"What makes you think I have it?" Sonny questioned.
"Sonny, please, give them to me." She whined.
Sonny wasn't in a teasing mood so he went and got the bottle from the kitchen.
She hurriedly opened them and took two of them dry.
"Thank you." She uttered. "Now I just need them to kick in. Oh, and next time you need them, please, just take two of them and leave the bottle."
Sonny smirked, "Well, incase you don't remember, you insisted that I left the bathroom."
Carly blushed, "I remember, but in case you didn't notice I was completely naked."
"Oh I noticed alright." Sonny confirmed under his breath.
Carly heard him and was just about to respond when her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" She answered.
Sonny watched as she listened, her face getting pale.
"What do you mean, he's gone?" She asked quietly, not really wanting to hear what she thought she was about to hear.
"Did 'they' take him? . . . . So they still don't know . . . . Are you sure . . . . Yes you're right, it's all your fault . . . . I don't know . . . bye."
She hung up, her face white as a sheet.
Sonny had been watching the whole conversation and didn't like what he just heard, and what he was seeing. He noticed her starting to faint just in time. He caught her and carried her to the couch.
She woke up a few minutes later. Carly remembered the conversation and started sobbing hysterically.
"Oh my God. No, not my baby! They lost my baby! My poor little sweet, innocent baby."
"What baby?" Sonny asked her gently.
"My poor little boy. They don't know where he is. How could they loose him. I trusted a them."
"Michael, who did you trust with Michael?" Sonny's confused, he thought Michael was with Jason.
"N-n-not Michael. Jarred." She corrected him.
Carly broke down sobbing again.
Sonny sat there stunned, not knowing what to think.
"Who is Jarred? And who did you trust him to?" He finally uttered
"Jarred's my son. I trusted my Aunt and Uncle to protect him, and to keep him safe for me. To keep him away from his father who'd try to take him away."
"Carly, first of all. Why the hell doesn't anyone know about Jarred?"
"Because his father lives in Port Charles, but doesn't know that Jarred exists."
"How old is Jarred?" Sonny asked, still confused.
"He's six. Oh god, he's six and not home where he should be." She wailed.
"Shhh, it'll be ok." Then he realized something, for Carly to be so scared, the father had to be someone with lots of power. "Carly, who Iis/I Jarred's father?"
"He's father is Jasper Jacks." She looks over to see his features darken.
"Jasper Jax, as in Jax, Jerry's brother. Jax as in living with V, Jax. Brenda's ex-husband, Jax?"
"That would be him."
"Oh my God. How the hell did that happen?"
"Sonny, I'll tell you everything later. I need your help. You have to find him." She begged, "He's been missing for two day's and Uncle Ray only just called me. I have to have my, my…" Carly can't go on, she broke down crying again.
That does something inside Sonny. He immediately got on the phone, making arrangements.
Carly quieted down, rocking back and forth on the couch.
~*~
Emily and Lucky were taking a walk on the docks, holding hand, when they saw a little boy standing there, with blond hair, in a red backpack holding a teddy bear, looking lost.
They give each other a look and walk over to him.
Lucky spoke up. "Hey kid, isn't it past your bed time?"
"I'm not supposed to talk to strangers." The kid replied automatically.
Emily, who loved kids, knew just what to do, "Well, I'm Emily, and he's Lucky. Are you lost?"
The kid started sniffing, "Uh huh, can you help me?"
"Sure, where are you trying to go?" Lucky asked.
"I need to find Caroline Benson. Do you know who she is?"
"Yeah, she's my cousin. We'll take you to her place ok?"
The kid's a little wary at first, but looked into Lucky's eyes and knew he could trust him so, he nodded his head yes.
"What's your name?" Emily asked, taking his hand.
"Jarred."
b**20 minutes later **
** Jason and Carly's penthouse ** /b
Lucky, Emily, and Jarred are sitting on the couch waiting for someone to come home. As if an instinct, Jarred looked up to the door suddenly.
The door opened and Carly walked in, looking really depressed, then she saw the little boy sitting on the couch.
"Jay?" Carly questioned, not believing her eyes.
His eyes light up, "Mommy!"
He jumped up and ran into her arms.
Lucky and Emily stand up, stunned at what they just heard Jarred call Carly.
"Jarred Asher Benson, you scared mommy to death. Where did you go?" Carly doesn't let go as she asked him. "How did you get here?"
"I'm sorry Mommy. I missed you. I had Aunt Charity helped me."
"She's in giant trouble." She hugged him again. "And so are you in the morning. We're going to have a long talk about this."
Emily and Lucky see that they aren't going to get any answers tonight so they went home, in a daze.
Carly watched Jarred yawn.
"Are you tired baby?" She asked in a motherly tone.
He nodded his head.
"Then I'm going to put you to bed. But first Mommy needs to have someone come over."
She got up from the floor and opened the door. She told Alec to have Sonny come over immediately. Carly then picked up Jarred and rocked him in her lap as he fell asleep.
30 seconds later Sonny burst in, thinking that something was wrong. "What's going on?"
"Shhhhhhh! You'll wake him up." Carly scolded whispering. "I need your help. I've never done this alone before. Besides, he's to big for me to carry"
She sounded scared and defensive to Sonny. After a moment he figured out why; she'd always had help when she did this before, she was afraid that she'd do something wrong and hurt him.
Sonny takes Jarred from her and carried him up to her bedroom.
They took off his backpack, his coat, and his shoes, then put him underneath the covers with his teddy bear.
Sonny watched Carly stare at Jarred sleeping for about 15 minutes then went down stairs to wait for her.
Carly came down ten minutes later and sat next to him on the couch.
"So, how did he get here?" Was the first question out of Sonny's mouth.
"My now ex-best friend Charity. I'm going to have to kill her for not only sending my 6-year-old son to the North all alone, but not even calling me about it." She yawned. "She let my Uncle and Aunt worry about him for over 48 hours not knowing where he was." She yawned again. "That reminds me, I've got to call them . . ." Carly yawned yet again, and her eyes started to droop, ". . . and tell them that he's here."
"Shhh, I'll take care of it. Just go to sleep." Sonny stood up and let her lie down, then he covered her with a blanket. "Don't worry about a single thing."
Carly fell quickly asleep. Sonny watched her for a minute, finally seeing for the first time what an amazing woman she was. Beautiful, smart, protective, she was a survivor. He really admired her, and there was something about her, he just couldn't put his finger on.
As he left the penthouse he turned off the lights.
Jason came home around 11:30, since it was dark in the penthouse, and he was exhausted he didn't even notice Carly sleeping on the couch. He went right up to bed, and to sleep.
b** A little after 12:30 am ** /b
A scream emitted from Carly's room woke both Penthouses.
"Mommy! Mommy! Where are you! Mommy! Mommy!" A little boy's voice cried.
Sonny came running from the penthouse next door.
Carly jumped up from the couch and ran up the stairs.
Jason grabs his gun and runs out of his bedroom.
Carly somehow made it there first. She scooped up Jarred and rocked him back and forth cooing, "Shhh, Mommy's here. She's here. Don't worry baby. I'm here."
Jason watched Carly comfort the boy, not knowing what to think.
Sonny watched her and could help but notice what a great mother she is.
After about five minutes Carly was able to get Jarred to go back to sleep, as long as the bathroom light was on and the door leading to it was partially open.
After Jarred was asleep, Carly quietly left the room.
Jason was the first to speak. "Carly, who the hell is that."
"That is my son, Jarred." She whispered not wanting to wake him up again.
Sonny doesn't want them to get into it tonight so he spoke up before anything can happen.
"Jason, we'll explain in the morning. I'll be over at nine am. We'll all talk about it then and Carly and I will explain the entire thing. Right now lets all go to bed. We don't want to wake up the kids." Sonny informed him diplomatically.
Jason didn't want to, but he agreed to it, after seeing the tired expression on Carly's face. "Fine. Carly, take my bed. I'll sleep on the couch."
"Uh-uh, no way. I'm not going to put you out."
"Carly, I don't want to argue, you're taking the bed, that's final." With that, he walked downstairs, ending the conversation.
"Good night Carly, I'll see you in the morning." Out of an impulse somewhere deep inside of him Sonny kissed her lightly and gently on the lips then left.
Carly stood there stunned. She touched her lips, confused about what just happened, but she liked it. She walked into Jason's room in a daze, then went to sleep dreaming of the kiss.
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Please, send or post comments and replies! I live for feedback (yes I know it's pathetic, but I have to know what people think).
Chapter 9 & 10 Spoilers:
Sonny, Jason, and Carly talk about Jarred
Carly takes Jarred to meet, and introduce him to Jax
Jason talks to Jarred
Sonny and Carly go out to dinner
Jax and Carly talk about Jarred, and what had happened years ago, that Jarred was a product of
Jerry, Bobbie, and the Spencers meet Jarred
And more!