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Chapter 2

Port Charles, NY

As Sam stepped out of Jason's penthouse and into the hallway, to return to her home, she was met with the screams of her husband...

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE LEFT?'

"I'm sorry Sir. He said he needed..."

"I DON'T CARE WHAT HE NEEDED. I NEED TO TALK TO HIM."

Sonny was furious, and the new guard was getting the heat of it now. He wasn't really mad at him, just at his ex-wife, and the thought of his daughter going to a party with a guy.

Slowly Sam approached him, tapping him on the shoulder, he spun around.

"Jason went to get some coffee he'll be back soon. I didn't see Riley in there so I'm guessing he went to meet Morgan already." Sam stated.

She turned toward the new guard and looked him up and down. He was terrified. Who couldn't blame him, getting yelled at by Sonny was a very scary thing. Sam felt bad for the guy, Her husband always yelled at the guards, that is ever since Max left. Max had said it was to raise his daughter and Sonny was fine with that. However, when Sonny found Max was working for his sister he lost it. He saw it as betrayal and hadn't spoken to Max, or Courtney for that matter, since then. Sam turned back to her husband and spoke.

"I'm going to go wake Lila, play nice."

And with that said she walked in the door to her home. Once up the stairs Sam taps lightly on her daughters' bedroom door. Receiving no answer she slowly turns the knob and walks in. She spots Lila sleeping peacefully in her bed. Very quietly she walks up to the bed and sits on it. Gently shaking her daughter, Sam tries to wake her. Getting no response she softly speaks.

"Lila, sweetie you need to get up. We have a lot to do."

"Mom" Lila whines, "I don't wanna. I need my beauty sleep"

Frowning at her daughter Sam replies "Sweetie you have to get up. We need to get you a dress for that party you want to go to, and you still need to work on your father."

Slowly Lila turns to face her mom "Mom that parties not for like another 2 weeks, and can't Uncle Jason work on Dad?"

"I asked him to, but I want to get your dress today."

"Why? I just want to sleep."

Standing Sam makes her way for the door. Turning to face her daughter before she exits the room, She says "Because...Carly's out of town, so we won't have to worry about running into her." Turning back around she leaves her daughter to get ready for the day ahead of them.

As Jason entered Kelly's he scanned the building. Spotting Morgan, and Riley, he slowly approached them and sat in one of the two vacant seats. He looked to Morgan, and then to Riley, and slowly drifted back to their first meeting.

FLASHBACK

Morgan was 8; he had gone to the park with a now 16 year old Michael. Jason had said he would meet them there to spend some time with his nephews and buy them lunch. When Jason arrived at the park, they left for Kelly's. As they walked Morgan bombarded Jason with questions, "what took you so long...can I get some ice cream...what about Michael..." They just kept coming.

As they approached Kelly's they saw a small boy, no older than Morgan, cowering in a corner. As they approached him Jason could tell something was wrong. He told his nephews to go inside and call an ambulance. They did what they were told as Jason approached the boy. It took him some time to get the boy to trust him, but by the time the ambulance arrived you couldn't pry the boys arms off of him.

The boy was given a clean bill of health at General Hospital. Later he would go home with Jason, its not like Sam or Lila were there anymore. It was found he was an orphan, so Jason was made his legal guardian.

END FLASHBACK

As Jason was reliving his first meeting of Riley, Michael had taken a seat at the table. This drew him out of his thoughts. Looking up he saw the waitress take there order and leave four coffees. As they sipped their coffee Jason spoke up.

"So where did you mother go?"

"Where does she go every May?" Morgan responded sarcastically

Leaning over Michael slapped Morgan on the backside of his head, "She went to go see Aunt Courtney," Michael stated and under his breath added "and Emma"

"What was that," Riley asked. Who up until now had stayed silent, trying to gage Jason's response to the news that once again Carly had gone gallivanting off to California, probably enraging Sonny in the process, he had heard about Courtney. Never met her, but he knew that Jason loved Courtney. The way he got quiet any time her name was mentioned, or avoided questions about her. Jason's mind must have been reeling.

"I didn't say anything," Michael lied

"How come I never got to meet her?" Morgan questioned. He had always asked to meet her, but it seemed every time his mother went to visit her he was left in Port Charles. He had heard about the Max situation from Michael, and didn't get the big deal. By the time he was 14 he understood, his Dad and Uncle were being stupid. It was just a job; its not like Max divulged every secret of their operation to the cops.

"Why does your mother always go to California, her plans don't work." Jason reminded them, while ignoring Morgan. She had always tried to get him to go with her, but he never did eventually, she asked less, but never stopped.

"She doesn't have a plan," Michael stated, "She went to see Aunt Courtney, Max, Patty, Cassie, and..."

"And who?" Riley asked noticing the hesitation in Michael's voice.

"Go shopping of course," Michael covered, "Look I got some work that needs to be done." Standing Michael nodded to the three men still at the table and walked out.

"Was he acting strange or what?"

"Yeah, whatever Morgan. Look Jase we gotta go. That shipments coming in and..."

"Yeah. Go. I have to go see Sonny anyway."

As the three men walked out, Michael hid around the corner, thinking. He almost slipped up. He almost spilled the secret he had known since he was seventeen. When he had insisted on going with his mom to California. He promised not to tell. Truth be told, he understood why she left. Tearing himself from his thoughts he continued his walk to work, never realizing his Uncle Jason was watching him battle himself.

-.-

Somewhere between Port Charles and LA

She sat on the plane as it made its way to California. She was so excited to see her niece again. She had tried for years to get Jason or Sonny to go with, but neither would. She had also tried to get Courtney to bring Emma to them, and she had succeeded until Emma said she didn't want to meet them. She never got an explanation for that one, but its not like you interrogate a 5 year old.

Carly never understood why it was so hard for one of them to see the other she had begged so many times. Especially after she found Courtney was pregnant. She never told them why they should see Courtney just that she needed them. She remembered as if it were yesterday that she had discovered Courtney was pregnant.

FLASHBACK

Carly and Max sat in a car driving along the coast of California to see Courtney. Sonny, and Jason, had told her not to go. They really didn't want Carly consorting with more of the enemy; it had taken them forever to get off of Durant's radar. Now Carly was going to see the woman that had been told by Jason to stay away. Sonny wasn't that mad at her but when she found out about her and Jason, and the fact that her being there could wreck his family, he agreed it was better she was gone. Carly never listened.

Their Carly was walking up to Courtney's beautiful beach house. She paused at the door, turned to see Max at the end of the walk, and proceeded to knock. It was a few minutes before Courtney answered the door, but it left them all in shock. Carly never expected to see Courtney like that. She had to be at least 5 months pregnant, if not more. Slowly, and carefully as not to hurt her Carly hugged her best friend.

Courtney ushered the two of them in, Max still with a look of shock on his face. They sat at the kitchen table, Courtney continually played with her fingers. Finally a plate of cookies and 4 glasses of milk later, Courtney had 2, Carly spoke up.

"You're...You're...You're Pregnant. How? When? Who?" Carly sat there open mouthed while Max just stared.

"Yes I'm pregnant. How, well that's simple when..."

"That's not what she meant Ms. Mathews."

"Max, call me Courtney, I know that's not what she meant," taking a deep breath She continued, "I'm not sure how, neither are the doctors. All I know is that this baby is my miracle baby."

"Did you tell the father?" Carly questioned, hoping that the baby she was carrying was her best friend's, but finding that very unlikely.

Courtney was hoping to avoid that question. She didn't want to answer it because her friend would get all sorts of ideas in her head. "The Baby is my baby, and the father doesn't care, I tried to tell him." Courtney stated while looking down at her hands.

Not the answer she had been looking for, but she was happy for her friend anyways. "I'm sure if Jax knew he would care. Its not like he turned you out in the cold he really does care for you." Carly couldn't bring herself to say that Jax loved her so she didn't.

At the mention of Jax's name, Courtney's head popped up. She was going to have to say it. She ran her hand down her face all the while gathering her strength to tell them that Jax wasn't the Father, but she never got to say it. Max beat her too it.

Upon seeing the look on Courtney's face at the mention of Jax's name, Max figured that he wasn't the Father. So he spoke up.

"It's Jason's isn't it?"

"Yes, She is Jason's," Courtney stated stressing the she, "And he can't know about her."

Carly who had been sitting in shock finally spoke up, "Why not? He would want to know. Remember what happened last time."

"Yes, yes Carly I do. He would drop everything for this baby, and me but I won't have it. We can't be together. He's with Sam. He needs to take care of Sam, and Lila. They need him more than I do. That and you didn't see the way he looked at me, they way he spoke, it hurt, Carly. It hurt a lot. I can't go back, at least not now."

With a few more hours of convincing, Courtney had it so both Max, and Carly would keep her secret. Of course she had to agree to let Max and his family move out to help her when and if she needed it.

END FLASHBACK

Carly continued to think about that time. They had returned a few days later. Max would leave again the following week, and Carly's already stressed marriage would end. She had tried to hard to get Sonny or Jason to go see Courtney, and had become sick of their excuses of them not caring or saying she had betrayed them by taking one of their guards. She got sick of it so she left. She took her boys and moved into Courtney's loft. The one she couldn't sell. Carly and Sonny ended up sharing custody, but she hadn't forgiven them for not going to see Courtney.

Carly settled into her seat and drifted off to sleep thinking about her past, about everything really, but mostly how her niece would be had she grown up around her Uncle and Father.

-.-

Los Angeles, California

As Courtney walked up the stairs she hears the splash of the pool followed by the scream of a girl that was so much like a daughter to her.

She laughed to herself while saying "You should have just gotten up, Cassie." As Courtney approached Emma's room she paused, bracing herself for the inevitable battle ahead of her. She turned the doorknob and entered the room. Scanning it for her daughter Courtney realized that after a long night of movies, junk food, and laughs, her daughter had actually made it up to her room, and into her bed, a miracle for the hyper, energetic child that Emma was.

As she approached the bed Courtney looked around the room. Emma had her clothing tossed everywhere, shorts haphazardly thrown everywhere along with her tank tops and other shirts. Her Dozens of bathing suits were everywhere but the draws. She had movies, candy wrappers, cans of pop, and more junk food wrappers lying on her floor by her entertainment center, couch, and fluffy air chairs. As Courtney went to sit on her daughters' bed, Emma rolled over and looked up at her mother.

Emma's baby blue eyes bore a hole into her mother. As Courtney looked down she couldn't help but think how much her daughters eyes looked like her fathers. Courtney gently swept Emma's golden blonde hair out of her eyes. Emma's hair was the perfect combination of her parents. The coloring of her hair was mostly her fathers, that darker blonde, yet it was streaked naturally with her mothers softer blonde hair color.

Courtney slowly began to speak "Munchkin...You need to get up."

"Five more minutes."

Courtney laughed at her daughter "Munchkin, Now. Do I need to get your Uncle Max to throw you in the pool?"

"Yes" Emma mumbled as she turned in bed burying her head in her fluffy pillows.

Courtney laughed again as she made her way to the door. Stopping at the door she turned and spoke again. "Fine. I'll get your Uncle. Just so you know, you won't have time to shower. We have to pick your Aunt Carly up at the airport at noon."

Emma sprung up in bed at the mention of her Aunts name. Turning around and walking down the hall Courtney yelled, "Breakfast is in ten minutes, then you clean your room."

Falling back in bed Emma groaned. She hated to clean her room. She slowly rolled out of bed and into the bathroom for her shower all the while thinking sleep would be better.

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Alrighty another chapter posted. : )...So I realize that I made Sam married to Sonny, gag me, but it works for my FF. I Dislike Sam very much so no worries about that. I got plans for her...Hope you liked it!