I woke up with her wrapped in my arms. Loving the feeling... I didn't bother to move. If I had to pick one thing about Courtney that I missed, the one thing that had me not sleeping at night... it would be me, just thinking about the way her cheek puffed up to her eye when she was against my chest. It was the way she wrapped her arms around me when she needed me to be close to her. It was the way she smiled in her sleep. How beautiful she looked when her eyes were all groggy and her hair was everywhere. And then, as if on cue, Sonny walked in.

"Jason? I need a word with you... alone," he whispered so he wouldn't wake his sister.

I sighed, and got up, slowly and carefully so Courtney wouldn't have to wake up. As soon as my feet hit the floor and her body detatched from mine, I felt cold. So, not wanting to be away from her for long, I walked out the door behind Sonny, looking at her one more time. Then I shut it. And I didn't know... that that would be the last time I would see her in three days. And they would become three of the hardest days of my life.

Courtney searched all around her when she opened her eyes. She thought for sure that Jason would be there. And she wasn't about to deny that she was disappointed. Disappointed didn't even begin to describe. She had wanted so badly to wake up in his arms. She felt so safe with him. So loved. Maybe he had to work... that had to be it. He wouldn't just up and leave her... would he? Maybe he went to see Sam. Yeah... he wasn't working today... he would have told her... he must have gone to check up on Sam and the baby. The baby. Courtney couldn't help but be jealous of Sam. At one point, she could have given Jason the child he had always wanted. The child he had wanted with her. What was she thinking? Jason had a life now. He had someone he could love, a baby he would be a father to. She was just complicating things. So before Jason got back, she would be gone. He wouldn't have to deal with her anymore.

"Sonny, I want to get back to Courtney. Can this wait?" I asked, desperate to be there when she woke up.

"No, it can't wait. This is about my sister," Sonny told me, anger overcoming him.

"Wh-what are you talking about? Is someone making threats?" I inquired, fearing for her life once again... and reminding myself that it shouldn't have to be like this for her.

"Lorenzo Alcazar, Jasper Jax, and others, they have all left messages. Notes slipped under the loft door, messages on Courtney's machine..." Sonny put his head in his hands and sighed, as I looked at him, not knowing what to say.
"Look, I'll protect her. I'll take her to the island. I'll do whatever I have to to keep her safe. I- I'm not letting this happen to her again. It can't happen to her again Sonny," I told him all in one breath.

"I want you to listen to these messages Jason. Go to the loft. And tell me what you think we should do," and with that, I left.

When I opened the door to the loft, I became immediately worried about Courtney. She had been here recently. I could feel it. I completely forgot about the messages. I went straight to her closet, and noticed clothes missing, shoes gone. I went to the shower for the ultimate test. Her Rosemary mint shampoo was gone, and with that I knew, so was she. Someone must have taken her. I was frantic, and not thinking at all, I ran off, in the direction of General Hospital, I had to be sure she wasn't still at the hospital and I had to make sure to talk to Sonny.

And I didn't listen to the messages.

Courtney was walking towards Jax's penthouse. He would take her in. And she could learn to love him. Or she could at least pretend to. And just as she was about to turn the corner, someone grabbed her from behind, put a chloroform cloth over her mouth to prevent her from screaming, and everything went black.

Dead black.