A/N: Hey guys!!! I just wanted to let you all know that I made one of those C2 communities for Journey fanfiction. I think I got all of the Journey ones on this site. Im really excited about this so I hope that you all will either be part of the staff, or at least subscribe to the C2 page. It is a really cool thing. It lets you know when the stories are updated and its just the coolest thing... I hope you all take the time to look at it and check it out. Im pretty sure that there are 82 stories in all, and all of them are wonderful and Journey-centric. Well enough of my rambling!! Heres the next chapter of Tear You Apart!!! I hope you like it, it's the longest chapter of it yet!! :)

"Hi, How're you feeling?" I asked as I stood up, releasing her hand and I began to absentmindedly smooth her blankets and tuck them more securely around her.

"Better now," Courtney said to me in a voice barely above a whisper. "Jason, you look worse than I'm sure I do. Come and talk to me?" I walked over to the side of her bed, and I sat down and took her hand.

"Now what's bothering you?" Courtney asked me. How could she not know? She was lying in a hospital bed, she was sick, because I was too wrapped up in the fact that I was glad to be back at the loft with her, that I didn't pay attention. If I had been paying attention, I would have known that Alcazar's men would have reported back to him, every little detail. Every little detail.

"When I brought you to the hospital, I wasn't sure that you were going to make it. I waited and waited for Monica to come out and when she finally did, I was so relieved that you were okay," I told Courtney as she squeezed my hand, urging me to go on. So I did. "I came to your room. And you looked so small and sick. I wished more than anything that it was me in that bed instead of you. I would have done anything to take your pain away. I-I talked to you and then all of a sudden, you started shaking and yelling things that didn't make sense to me. I ran and got a doctor. They had to sedate you so you could sleep. Anyways, Sonny, Carly and Mike came to see you shortly after that," I stopped at the look of surprise on her face.

"Sonny?" she said in disbelief.

"Yeah, he as in here with you for a long time... I'm just- I'm so glad that you're awake. I didn't, well I just wasn't sure... if you were gonna make- make it..." the thought of living life without her was unbearable to me. Even though we're divorced. I don't want to be. I never wanted to be...

"Hey, I'm fine," Courtney told me, bringing me out of my mind.

"I'm going to go and call Sonny and Mike and I'll get your doctor okay? Oh yeah, these came for you," I said as I handed Courtney the flowers. I watched her open the card, and watched as a scared expression came over her face...

"What's wrong?" I asked. She handed me the card...

Courtney,

Maybe next time you'll decide to have dinner with me. Rather than eating Chinese food, you could dine with me. I'll be in touch.

My Best Regards,

Lorenzo

"I should have known," I said out loud as I took the flowers and threw them in the trash can.

"This isn't your fault, Jason. How were you supposed to know that Alcazar would send me flowers or that he would poison my food. None of this is your fault," Courtney said, in attempt to calm me down.

"Courtney, it's my JOB to protect you. And in a matter of days, you get poisoned and now you have Alcazar on your back? I'm going to handle this okay? Don't worry about a thing, I'm going to call Sonny and have him and Carly and the kids come and keep you company. I'm getting the doctor," I said all at once. Courtney looked overwhelmed.

"Yeah, okay... sure," was her reply. I nodded and kissed her on the head and made my way to the hospital parking lot.

"Courtney's awake," I told Sonny from my cell phone, in the parking lot.

"Is she alright?" Sonny asked, concerned for his sister.

"From what I could see, she was talking to me. I got her doctor before I called you. He's checking her out now. Look, Alcazar did this to her. He poisoned her food, and he sent her flowers. I have to deal with this..." Sonny cut me off.

"Do what you gotta do, I understand. I'll bring over the kids to keep her company, you know, to take her mind off things."

"Right, she'll like that," I replied.

"Okay, well talk to you later man. Make sure that Alcazar stays the hell away from my sister."

"You don't gotta worry about that. There is no way that he is getting anywhere near her ever again," I said as I slapped my phone shut and drove off in search of Alcazar.

"Morgan. I've been expecting you," Lorenzo said to me as I walked onto his yacht.

"I know that you were the one who poisoned Courtney's food," I said as I advanced towards him.

"Just out of curiousity... why do you care if Courtney has visitors or if she gets sick?" Alcazar asked me. "I mean, you divorced her. Sonny treated her like the scum of the earth and disowned her. Courtney was absolutely right to get rid of the two of you. It did her nothing but good."

"Listen to me, if you ever come near her or send her anything else ever again..." he interrupted me.

"You'll what?" Lorenzo was goading me.

"I'll make sure that you get everything that you deserve," I told him.

"Uh-huh," Lorenzo said. "Your ex-wife amazes me. Her independence and beauty are hypnotizing. You can't expect me to be able to resist her, do you?"

"You don't want her because of her qualities. You're using her to get to me." I yelled. I was getting angrier by the second. I wasn't going to let him go after her again...

"On the contrary, I mean, you couldn't resist Sonny Corinthos's baby sister. How can you expect me, or Jax, or anyone else for that matter to not find themselves falling in love with her?"

I would kill him.

He had hurt her enough, this stopped now.

I grabbed him and shoved him up against the nearest wall by the throat.

"I'm NOT gonna let you hurt her anymore! She doesn't deserve ANY of this! Haven't you caused her enough pain?" I willed for him to just drop dead right there. Then I heard him choke out,

"Haven't you?"