Disclaimer: The characters of GH, as well as General Hospital itself, don't belong to me.

Summary: It's obvious Jason and Courtney can't stay away from each other, but can they overcome all of the obstacles life keeps throwing at them?

Author's Note: This chapter is mostly dialogue, which I'm not very fond of, but I found it very necessary to push the story ahead. Hope you all enjoy! Feedback is always appreciated!

Can't you see I want you by the way I push you away

Don't judge me tomorrow by the way I'm acting today.

--Skye Sweetnam – Tangled Up In Me

Three things woke Courtney up the next morning, but she wasn't sure which one woke her up first.

There was the sun shining through the curtains she had somehow managed to forget to close the night before.

Then there was the pounding that she vaguely heard as her eyes opened and sleep eased itself out of her body.

And of course, there was the fact that Jason was still sound asleep next to her, his arm securing her against his own body.

But back to the pounding. Courtney finally realized it was someone at her door and flew into an upright position, waking Jason in the process.

"What is it? What's wrong?" he asked groggily, sitting up in bed himself.

"Someone's at the door," she said in a stage whisper. Oh my God, she thought. What if it's Jax?

"Are you going to answer it or let them wake everyone in the building up?" he asked, not bothering to hide the amusement in his voice.

She glared at him as she threw on her robe and headed towards the door. "Could you just—I don't know, hide or something?"

"Hide? It's not like we're in high school Courtney," Jason laughed.

"Courtney are you in there? Open the door already!"

"Oh god," Courtney said. "Hang on one second!" she called back. She turned back to Jason once more, her eyes pleading. "Please?" she asked. "You know you don't want to deal with this either right now."

"Fine fine," he said, still smiling. "You're cute when you're panicked though," he said placing a kiss on the top of her head before going into the bathroom.

He had barely shut the door when the front door flew open.

"Were you going to answer the door or let me sit out there screaming?" Carly asked, coming into the room. "I brought coffee and bagels," she said holding up a bag.

"Carly, hey. Did we have plans today?" Courtney asked, running a hand through her hair, and glancing around the room nervously looking for any telltale signs of the previous night.

"Do we need plans now for me to come over? Court, are you okay?" Carly set her purse down on the table. "Did you just wake up? It's almost 10."

"Yeah, I had a late night," she said, looking back towards the bathroom door. "Why do you have a key to my apartment anyways?"

"You gave me a spare." Courtney felt her face heat up as Carly bent down and picked something up off of the floor. "Late night with whom?" she asked, holding up a gray t-shirt.

"Carly—"

"Oh my God, you did it, didn't you? You slept with Jax! Come on Courtney, you know better than that! I've told you from day one that he was bad news and that he was just out to use you to stick it to Sonny and Jason. I thought you were stronger than this! And what about the money for the foundation, do you think you're going to see any of that now?"

"Carly stop," Courtney said tiredly.

"Stop? Oh I'm just getting started! Seriously Courtney, how could you do that? Sleeping with Jax is a sure-fire way to drive Jason out of your life for good! Do you honestly think you two can get back together now?" She shook her head in disgust as she threw the shirt back down on the ground. "I hope it was worth it, because—"

"I didn't sleep with Jax!" Courtney interrupted.

"What?"

"I didn't sleep with Jax," she repeated, this time quieter.

"That's just great Courtney. Who then? And where is he because he obviously hasn't left yet, judging by the clothes thrown around the room." Her eyes swept over the loft and landed on the bathroom door.

"Carly, just stop!" Courtney begged as the brunette made her way over to the bathroom door and threw it open.

"Jason!"

Carly turned around with a huge smile on her face. "Forget everything I just said. Why didn't you just tell me?"

"When? While you were accusing me of sleeping with Jax?"

"Hey, it was a valid assumption. But then again, Jax would never wear a t-shirt, would he?"

"Shouldn't you be spending Saturday morning with your family?" Jason asked, coming back into the room and standing next to Courtney.

"Probably, but I'm definitely glad I came over here. It's about time you two! Wait until Sonny hears." Carly's face lit up. "Wait until Sam hears! Oh I can't wait to see the look on her face when we tell her—"

"We're not telling her anything," Jason said pointedly.

"Well whatever, I just can't wait until she knows. Do you know what this means? This means we can plan another wedding!" Carly clapped her hands excitedly. "You know, maybe we can find a medium between your two previous weddings. You know, not as formal as the first one, but maybe a few more guests than the second one, and—"

"Carly stop!" Courtney said. "You're getting way ahead of yourself. Way ahead of us."

"What? You two are back together now, aren't you?" She looked back and forth between the two of them.

"It's a little more complicated than that," Courtney finally answered, wondering why Jason hadn't jumped in with an answer.

"And it's also none of your business," Jason informed Carly. Not the answer Courtney was looking for and she hoped her disappointment didn't show on her face.

"All right, fine," Carly said, holding her hands up in front of her. "Maybe I'm jumping the gun a little bit here, but I better be the first one to know when you are planning a wedding."

"Carly was there a reason you came here in the first place?" Courtney asked, rubbing her temples. It wasn't even noon and already she had a headache.

"I'm sure there was but I forget it now." Carly shrugged. "But anyways, I'll go so you two can be alone and finish whatever it was you were doing." She picked up Jason's t-shirt off the ground and threw it back to him. "It's kind of cold in here, might want to put that back on," she said, grabbing her purse off the table and heading towards the door. "Call me later Court!"

And just as suddenly as she had arrived, she was gone.

"How long do you think before she tells everyone?" Courtney asked, looking over at Jason.

"I'm sure she's on the phone with Sonny right now." He sat down on the sofa, pulling her down with him. "You sleep all right last night?"

"Yeah, I did," she said truthfully. She had slept better than she had in a long time. "You?"

"Yeah."

There was a period of 35 seconds of silence before Courtney sighed in frustration. "I knew this would happen," she said finally.

"What would?"

"Awkward morning-after conversation! This was exactly what I was afraid of, that last night would happen and then we'd wake up and realize it was a mistake and not know how to break it to each other."

Jason let Courtney finish her rant before beginning his own. "First of all, last night wasn't a mistake. Not from where I'm sitting. And as for things being awkward right now, we just had whirlwind Carly in here, and that's more than enough to put anyone on edge."

"Maybe," Courtney said, but he could hear the doubt in her voice.

Grinning, Jason let his hand dip a little lower from her waist and graze the bare skin underneath her robe. "Do you think last night was a mistake?"

Courtney jumped slightly at the feel of his fingers on her thigh. It amazed her after all this time that his touch was still as electric as the first time he touched her. "No," she admitted.

"I didn't think so," he said, his fingers tracing circles on her leg. "So why don't you sound so sure of yourself?"

"It's nothing," she said, feeling foolish about still wondering why he hadn't said anything other than "it's complicated" when Carly asked if they were back together.

"You sure?" he asked, his hand still making dizzying patters on her skin.

"Yeah," she said, her voice hitching in her throat as his hands began to undo her robe. "But maybe you could reassure me once more?"

"I think I can do that." Within minutes Jason had eased Courtney's mind of any doubts she may have still had about his intentions but before they could get too far, the ringing of his cell phone interrupted them.

"Are you going to get that?" she murmured when he didn't move from their embrace.

"I was going to let it ring."

"You can't do that," she said, pulling away. "It might be business."

"More likely it's Carly." He turned away to pull the ringing phone from the leather jacket her had thrown over the top of the sofa the night before. Courtney watched as his back stiffened as he saw who was on the phone and heard the tension in his voice as he answered it.

"Hey," he said, his back still turned. "Is everything okay? Yeah, I know I didn't call. I didn't think you would worry."

He was talking to Sam. Courtney could tell. And just as easily as her doubts had been removed, they all came raining down on her again.

And to add insult to injury at that very moment her cell phone rang. She stole a look at Jason whose back was still turned to her before moving across the room to answer it. "Hello?"

"Good morning gorgeous!" Jax spoke with his unmistakable Australian drawl. "How are you doing this morning?"

"Hey you," she said, trying to keep her voice neutral. "Yeah, I'm doing fine today, I'm sorry about my little outburst last night."

"Hey no problem." Jax laughed. "I knew eventually you'd be throwing yourself at me."

"Very funny," she said dryly, casting another glance over her shoulder at Jason. He was still on his phone.

"I thought so. Care to join me for dinner in an hour or so at Kelly's?"

"Sure," she said hesitantly. She knew Jason wouldn't like it, but she did have to see Jax, if only to tell them that she and Jason were working on getting back together. The sooner the better, she rationalized.

"Great, Would you rather go somewhere else?"

"No, Kelly's is fine. I'll meet you there in an hour. Bye now." She hung up the phone and turned to see Jason looking at her.

"Who are you meeting at Kelly's?" he asked.

"Jax," she said, biting her lip.

He nodded but didn't say anything.

"I'm going to tell him that I can't see him anymore," she clarified. "I couldn't exactly do that over the phone, you know that."

"Yeah, I know," he said.

"What did Sam want?" she asked.

"She was worried because I wasn't home last night. She's been trying to assemble a high chair all night. I guess I should have called her." He shrugged.

"You were busy," Courtney said softly. She sighed. "Is this going to work?" she asked.

"It's not going to be easy," Jason admitted. "But when really, have we ever been easy?"

Courtney smiled. It was a small smile, but a smile all the same. "I'll try if you will," she said.

"Definitely," Jason said, leaning down to kiss her.

Reluctantly, Courtney pulled away. "You should get going," she said. "I've got to get ready and I'm sure Sam needs your help with the chair."

"Call me later?" Jason asked, once he was dressed and poised to leave.

Courtney nodded. "Bye," she said, grazing her lips against his cheek and closing the door behind him.

Was this what life was going to be like for them? Would she always be putting herself in second place, behind Sam and her baby? She couldn't very well ask Jason to end his agreement to help protect them just for her, could she?

She sighed as she stepped into the shower, adjusting the water to the right temperature. Now at least, she had an idea of how Carly must have felt before she and Sonny had gotten back together. Standing by and watching as her husband, the love of her live, answered to every whim of Sam McCall.

No wonder Carly hated the little twit so much.

Immediately, Courtney regretted the thought. Besides, she rationalized; Sam was carrying her niece after all.

Of course, that didn't make it hurt any less knowing that Jason was going to be playing a part of that baby's life that Courtney would never be able to experience with him.

She stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around herself, trying to figure out what to wear. She would worry about Sam later, right now she had to decide what she was going to say to Jax.

No matter what she said, she knew he wasn't going to be very happy with her. And while she wasn't sure how her news was going to affect her foundation, she was more nervous about how it was going to affect Jax personally.

She halted in her step at that thought. Was it possible she cared about Jax more than she thought?

And just like that, her life became more complicated than she ever thought it could be.

And it wasn't even noon yet.

A.N: Like I said, all dialogue. Hopefully it was still an entertaining read. The reason for the Author's note down here is because the one section of my story, the part where Courtney realizes how Carly must have felt about Sam and Sonny was inspired by Rheanne's story Walk Away. Just wanted to give proper credit in case anyone recognized that, and hopefully, Rheanne doesn't mind that I took inspiration from it!

Oh! And also, I'm thinking about trying out the new C2 feature, and doing an archive of all of the awesome GH stories on this site and was wondering if anyone would be willing to contribute their stories or even want to help me with it... I know we're all busy what with school and all, or other real-life things, but I'm still thinking I'm going to do it, so let me know if you'd be willing to contribute stories or whatever, thanks!