Jason looked over when he heard the familiar ding of the fourth floor General Hospital elevator. He saw another patient step out and up towards the nurse's desk, smiling and checking in for her appointment. Rolling his head back and forth he turned back to the woman beside him who was flipping through a parental magazine, her feet tucked up underneath her, her body leaning in towards his.

A smile spread across her lips when she realized that his eyes were on her.

He realized that life couldn't get any better than this. For well over a month he spent nearly every waking minute, and his sleeping ones, with Elizabeth Webber. He still had a hard time wrapping his mind around the fact that she was his wife but the visual proof rest on her left finger, an interlocking platinum engagement ring and wedding band, showing the world that she was married to him, brain damaged, mob ties and all.

And she was so happy about it. When he first woke up to the singing in the morning he didn't know what to make of it, he thought that maybe Elizabeth had a tune in her head, but everyday, for the past two weeks, she had been humming some catchy tune that involved true love winning out in the end. He wouldn't have believed in it, but Elizabeth did.

Now he finally had what everyone else around him had been settling into for years. He had the wife, the family, the career; the contentment that he never knew existed. He had something to come home to, a reason to be a little bit more careful at work and for the first time in his life he was beginning to understand the meaning of fear.

Fear was what he felt the moment that he watched Elizabeth fall to his feet, fear of going on without her, fearing of raising his son without his mother, fear of not being able to put things back they way they should have been, the way they were now.

He watched her as she reached up and ran her fingers across her shoulders, frowning when she winced slightly. He knew that he should've demanded that she rest more and take better care of herself but Elizabeth wasn't about to stay indoors while they were honeymooning on Sonny's tropical island. She was sunbathing everyday and spending the luxurious nights in Jason's arms. Her painful face made him regret it.

"Are you sore?" he asked reaching out, his hand on top of hers.

She looked up at him with a smirk on her face, "This from the man who tried to make up for four years in the past fourteen days," she teased, "I'm sore Jason and it's not limited to my shoulder area." She finished with a wink before she tossed the magazine back on the table.

"You…"

"I know," she giggled and he loved it, looked forward to hearing it everyday for the rest of his life.

My God he was a lucky bastard.

"Elizabeth, hi," Bobbie smiled as she walked towards her and Jason.

Elizabeth got up and hugged the older woman tightly, stepping back with a smile, "It's good to see you again, Bobbie. Still wishing you were back on the island?"

"Who wouldn't?" Bobbie laughed as she rolled her eyes, "I'm grateful that you two allowed me to stay as long as I was able to. I haven't heard yet from Carly, did her and Michael get in okay?"

Jason hated the grin on Elizabeth's face when she replied to Bobbie's answer.

"We weren't allowed to use the same plane as them so they arrived last night," her twinkling eyes shifted to Jason, "But we did manage some beach time together and a few quick dinners."

Bobbie laughed as she looked over at Jason, "Your wife is enjoying teasing you. I understand, as does Elizabeth, your concern for your family. I love you for being so protective of Carly and Michael even after all these years. I know that if you thought Lorenzo was a serious threat he would've been long gone by now."

"Me too," Elizabeth nodded and then sighed, "But men just won't give in and it's going to take a lot of convincing on my part to get Jason to go to dinner with him this Saturday like I promised."

"You did what?" Jason asked with raised eyebrows.

"Are you ready for us Bobbie?' Elizabeth grinned as she stepped towards the red head, "I have to admit that my shoulder is a little tender."

"And you're running scared," Bobbie laughed, "Jason there is a nurse waiting in room one thirteen, she just wants to take a quick look at you to make sure that your wounds are healing properly because you left the hospital before you were supposed to."

Jason ran his hand over his face, "I'm fine Bobbie, I'd rather go in with Elizabeth to…"

"It's that nurse or your mother," Bobbie said, "Take your pick."

Jason nodded, "I'll be with you in a few minutes."

Elizabeth leaned up and pressed a kiss to his cheek before she smiled and followed Bobbie in a room with a curtain. She then hopped up on the table and started to unbutton her cardigan sweater as Bobbie pulled out clean bandages.

"It looks like the honeymoon period continues," Bobbie smiled as she turned around and started to pull at the adhesive tape that held Elizabeth's bandage on, "I was always a little upset that Jason and Carly could never work out because I knew how good he would be for my daughter but I'm glad…I'm glad he has you Elizabeth. You will do more for him than Carly ever could."

"I just want to take care of him," Elizabeth said quietly and winced when Bobbie pulled the bandage off, "Like he does for me."

Bobbie gasped as she turned around and pulled on some latex gloves, "Elizabeth, this is infected, this wound is filled with puss. Have you been keeping it covered and washing it out thoroughly every night like I instructed?"

"Yes, of course," Elizabeth said and then nibbled on her bottom lip, "Well, at least I thought I got all the sand out of it."

"Sand? Elizabeth what…no, I don't want to know," Bobbie sighed holding up her hand.

Elizabeth laughed, "And Jason would kill me if I told you," her laughter disappeared when she saw Bobbie pull out a needle, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to need to withdraw that so it doesn't cause a worse infection," Bobbie said as she pulled out a few tubes, "I'm going to have it tested to make sure that it's nothing serious."

"No needles, no, Bobbie its fine," Elizabeth said pulling the bandage back up.

"Elizabeth," Bobbie smiled, "When you were shot you weren't this upset."

"I was numb," Elizabeth squeaked as she reached into her jeans and pulled out her cell phone.

"What are you doing?" Bobbie asked.

"I'm calling my husband." Elizabeth said as she quickly dialed Jason's number.

"Those aren't supposed to be on in hospitals," Bobbie said, "Emergency's only."

"I am an emergency," Elizabeth said, "Forget exam, I need you." She then clicked the phone shut and bit her lip again, "I'm sorry I am being such a big baby but needles scare the heck out of me."

Bobbie laughed softly, "How on earth did you have a child, Elizabeth?"

"I have no idea," Elizabeth said shaking her head as her eyes wide grew wide looking at the needle. She then sighed with relief and held out her hand when Jason walked into the room, "It's infected."

"We have to draw out the pus," Bobbie said as she moved towards Elizabeth, "And I think Elizabeth needs you to hold her hand. When we're done here I'll make sure to check you over and then I'll let you two go. I'm sure the results will come out fine Elizabeth, if there's anything wrong I will call you," Bobbie wrapped a rubber strap around Elizabeth's arm and had her make a fist, "Are you ready?"

Elizabeth nodded as she squeezed Jason's hand with her free one and gave him a small smile, wincing when she felt the needle prick her skin.

"It's okay," he said quietly as he slid his fingers through her dark curls.

"See?" she whispered, "I told you I'd always need you."

"I can carry these," Jason said as he reached for the brownies when they stepped off of the elevator at Harborview Towers.

"Really, it doesn't hurt anymore," Elizabeth smiled, "I'm surprised that you've let me do anything since we've left the hospital but that's one of the many, many, reasons that I love you."

"Keep sayings that and I might make you name them all one day," he said as he stuffed his hands in his pockets while Elizabeth approached Alexis' door.

"I just might," she winked as she knocked on the door and frowned when it pushed open under her fist, "That's odd," she pushed it open a little further and stepped in, "Alexis? Oh!"

Elizabeth dropped the plate of brownies in her hands and turned around to bury her face in Jason's chest which was rumbling with suppressed laughter. She heard shuffling behind her and hoped that her husband had the decency to look away.

"Obviously we need to get that door fixed," Alexis said from behind her, "We're um, we're okay now."

Elizabeth turned around slowly and elbowed Jason when she realized he was still laughing. Standing before her was her disheveled mentor and secret lover, Johnny O'Brien.

"Now I know why you requested the day off."

"Jason," Elizabeth hissed, "Alexis we're sorry. I had no idea you were going to be busy today. Jason and I wanted to stop over and go over a few things and…" she bent down to pick up the brownies that thankfully managed to stay in one area since she had put plastic wrap around the plate, "I feel like a fool."

"No, it's…" Alexis reached out and Johnny took her hand.

"We really didn't want to say anything until…" Johnny looked at Alexis with a small smile, "But we realized now that this is…something, something big."

"With the age and the job and…" Alexis blushed before she tore her eyes away from Johnny, "If you need me to find a job elsewhere I'll start looking."

"No, no," Elizabeth said turning and handing the brownies to Jason, "We were coming over here to make sure that we could still retain you for the Corinthos-Morgan company. I'm going to start up schooling again in January and I was hoping, if you're not busy," Elizabeth smiled, "I'd like to work with you again."

"This isn't," Alexis said, emphasizing to Jason, "And won't be affecting either of our jobs."

"I wouldn't think that it would," Jason said, "You hinted that this has been going on for a while and since I returned to town I've noticed that Johnny has become more determined, more focused and I guess I have you to thank for that Alexis."

"No," Alexis smiled as Johnny slipped his arm around her waist, "He balances me out."

"He does," Elizabeth said turning towards her husband, "She's been a lot calmer for the past couple of months; I just thought that was because I was taking some of Sonny's work load off of her."

"That helped too," Alexis said, "Johnny…"

Elizabeth smiled as she held her hands up, "Jason and I have other errands to run today. Call me when you have some free time and we can look into my classes and what I should be working on next semester. Johnny," Elizabeth said stepping forward and hugging him tightly, "I'm happy for you. You deserve someone as wonderful as Alexis."

"Thank you, Elizabeth," he said as he stepped back with a smile, "You know how I feel."

"Come on," Elizabeth said as she took Jason's hand and started to pull him out the door.

"What other errands do we have to run?" Jason asked as he watched his wife press the button for the elevator.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "I was making an excuse Jason besides," she smiled as she tugged on his leather jacket, "I'm sure we can think of something to do before we have to pick up JJ."

He nodded thoughtfully, "I agree."

She laughed, "I figured you might."

"Why do I have to keep my eyes closed again?" Jason laughed quietly, "Because I know where we are."

"I hope so since you drove," Elizabeth laughed as she stopped in front of their house, "Okay, now you can open your eyes for a minute."

"Just for a minute?" he asked as he opened her eyes and frowned, looking at the banner above her head, "Happy birthday?"

Elizabeth looked up at him, her smile fading, "I wasn't sure if you'd like this idea or not so that was why I kept it between you and me. I knew that one day JJ would start asking when your birthday was since we celebrate everyone else's and I know that you want nothing to do with Jason Quartermaine so I figured that we'd use the day…"

"Of the accident," he said quietly, "The day I became me."

She bit her lip and nodded.

Jason stepped towards her and took her face in his hands, "You know how I feel about celebrating birthday's, it's not really a big thing for me and I could let it come and go but I know that it's going to mean something to JJ and I can see that it means something to you so I'm glad…I'm glad that you chose this day Elizabeth because this day eleven years ago is when I became Jason Morgan."

"I know," she whispered with a smile as she placed her hand over his, "And I wanted to give you as wonderful a birthday that you gave me, gift included."

"Elizabeth, you didn't…"

"You have to close your eyes again," she smiled.

He groaned and rolled his eyes before he leaned down and pressed his lips against hers. He pulled back with a smile, loving the sigh that escaped her lips and closed his eyes. He could hear her opening the door to their temporary cottage home and leading him into the living room. He could feel the fire burning in the fireplace and the scent of pizza assaulted him. This was purely Elizabeth and while he didn't expect anything he was getting a little curious as to what she had gotten him.

"Okay," she said quietly, "Open."

Jason opened his eyes and stared at the living room before him. The black leather sofa set that Elizabeth had been talking about finally arrived and was set up in the living room. In the middle was a glass coffee table with motorcycle magazines scattered next to back dated issues of Parents. His eyes shifted to where a picnic was laid out in front of the fireplace, beer and pizza with brownies for dessert and then his eyes made their way over towards the window, the beautiful view of the trees and park that surround them. There in front of it stood a pool table.

"I don't know what Sonny did with yours when Alexis moved in," Elizabeth said quietly as Jason moved away from her towards the pool table, "I didn't want to ask so I just bought you a new one and…" she frowned when she watched him run his hands over the red felt, she chose red because it was different, just like her husband.

His fingers ran over every ball that lay racked on the table and then against the four sticks that she left out for him to see. She didn't know which stick to purchase, she just simply told the man to give her the best ones he had, four of them, enough for a game with friends. She watched him as his eyes found the paper that lay folded up on a corner pocket and she hurried over before he could grab it.

"Not until I get your reaction to the table," she laughed nervously, "Because I'm a little…"

"I'm taking you on it later," Jason growled, "After my beer and pizza."

Elizabeth let out a sigh of relief and held the paper against her chest, "For a second there, I didn't think that you'd…"

"You know me better than I know myself," he said, "I didn't think that was possible, but your always there Elizabeth, right there with me, knowing what I think, what I need before I do. It was something that we always had, something that no one else could get. Not Sonny, not Carly, just us."

"Just us," she whispered as she held out the paper to him, "It's just another sketch."

"I thought you knew by now that your work meant more to me than that," he said as he opened the folded paper and stared at it. It was done in pencil and Elizabeth tried to make it as vivid as possible for him but still, some of the lines blurred together.

"This," she said as she pointed to the whole page, "Is our office, if it's okay with you. I figured we're both going to be working for the Corinthos-Morgan company why not just room together," she gave him a small smile, "My desk is the larger one since I'm going to be dealing with your arrests and search and seizure paperwork and this one, is just as big, with a little less space since you only like to deal with numbers. This room," she said pointing to the right of Jason's desk, "Is when people need to see you and you have to," she quoted with her fingers, "'Discuss business'," she grinned, "But I won't be leaving, you will be. There's some space here for JJ and his toys for after school or day care and a few chairs for when Carly stops by because you know she will."

She was rambling, describing pictures, and completely skipping over the square box that sat in the middle of his and her desk.

"What's this, Elizabeth?" he asked pointing to it.

"That," she whispered and then swallowed, "That is the crib."

"The crib?" Jason asked with raised eyebrows, "Isn't JJ a little old for a crib?"

"It isn't for JJ," she said quietly, "Didn't I mention that Bobbie called earlier with the results from my tests she ran? Seems there was some blood drawn out from that infection and they ran that too, found some inflated numbers, turns out I'm…we're…" she gave him a watery smile, "Jason I know that we just got married and I know that you probably had no plans of…mmm."

Jason wrapped his arms around her body and pulled her tight against him as his tongue slide inside of her mouth and danced with hers. She was having his baby, their baby, and this time he was going to be around to enjoy every minute of it.

"It's wonderful, it's…" he tried to catch his breath as he pressed his forehead against hers, "It's the best birthday present I could've ever asked for." His hand reached down around her thigh and pulled her leg up against his.

Elizabeth looked at him curiously when she felt herself being raised up from the floor, being settled down on the polished wooden edge of the pool table, "Jason, what are you…"

"I'm taking you now."

"But what about the beer and pizza?" she asked as she felt herself being lowered onto the fuzzy felt, his body coming down on hers.

"Screw the pizza."

"I like how you think," she murmured as she pulled him in for another kiss.