Author's Note: AHHHHHHHH, teachers need to die. Gosh, Third week of being back in school and teachers already want me dead. LOL, sorry I haven't updated, between school, work and trying to have a life I've been rather swamped.

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Chapter 27

"WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING"!

Courtney's jumped so high at hearing the voice behind her. She quickly shut Jason's door hoping not to wake Emma and Jason. Turning around she was met with the face of a person she was hoping to avoid. Sam.

"Sam, How are you," Courtney said trying to hide her dislike for the woman in front of her.

"Why are you here," Sam asked in a not so pleasant tone.

"I'm good. It's nice to see you in such a good mood," Courtney joked.

"Who do you think you are," Sam questioned.

"Anything other than questions come out of your mouth," Courtney asked.

"You think you're so great," Sam mocked, "Don't you."

"Sam," Courtney said almost pleading, " I don't want to start a fight."

"You don't want to start a fight," Sam screamed, "then what are you doing here. Huh? Do you really think anyone wants to see you?"

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Emma shifted in her sleep as the door slammed shut. She knew it was early, she could always tell. She had been woken up by the slamming of a door and sure she wouldn't get back to sleep.

Emma shifted her head on Jason leg, not realizing it was a leg. She currently lay on her back eyes shut as she faced the ceiling. She stretched her arms up trying to make herself less tired only to have her arm hit something. She froze. Whatever her arm had hit was harder than she remembered the couch being.

She started to move her arm back and forth hitting the object a few times. She was afraid to open her eyes. She was unsure of what she would find. Deciding that hitting whatever it was she was hitting wasn't working she started to run her hand over it. She started to make a funny face as she realized what she had done.

"You done yet," Jason asked.

"No," Emma replied, as her hand remained frozen on Jason's face.

"You sure."

"Yes," Emma said as she cracked an eye open hoping that it was all just a dream and that she hadn't hit Jason in the nose.

"Darn it," Emma exclaimed.

She had opened both eyes only to be met with Jason's face towering above her. He looked rather rested and seemed to have a slight grin on his face.

"What," Jason asked a bit worried something was wrong.

"You're not a dream," Emma said with a pout as she looked up at him, her head still resting in his lap.

This caused Jason's grin to grow as he started to laugh.

"You think this is funny," Emma questioned in mock anger, "I could have smashed your nose in, or poked your eye out and you find it funny."

"Yes," Jason said still laughing slightly.

"Well I'll remember that you like to be knocked around next time I go to punch Sam," Emma said with a smirk.

"You should really stop doing that," Jason said becoming serious.

"Why," Emma asked as she sat up next to Jason, "She deserved every punch I threw."

"That may be the case, but you should lay off. Be the 'bigger' person," Jason said hoping Emma would listen.

"I'll think about it," Emma said, "But it might be a while before that happens. I've spent too much time with Carly, ask Michael he'll tell you, I act then think. Though like Carly I don't think too hard, too much effort."

"You sure your not some type of mini Carly. You sure do shop like her. How much of my money did you spend," Jason asked with a laugh.

Emma playfully hit him on the chest as she glared at him. He had to laugh. She looked so much like Courtney when she did that.

"Well if you gave me the time I could make you go bankrupt. And I am so not a mini Carly. I have better hair," Emma said with a grin, "Though Aunt Carly would never admit it."

Jason just continued to laugh. He wasn't sure why he felt so relaxed around her, but he was.

Jason's laughs were interrupted by screams from the hallway. He looked to the door with a puzzled expression plastered on his face, and then back at Emma.

"Stay put," He commanded as he rose from his seat on the couch to open the door.

What he saw shocked him. There in the hallway was Sam screaming at a very flustered Courtney. Sonny stood across the hall in his doorway mouth gapped open. Jason guessed he was surprised to see his sister standing in the middle of the hall with an annoyed Sam yelling at her.

Sonny had walked out of his penthouse and shut the door hoping that the argument hadn't waken Lila. That was the last thing he needed, his angry teen daughter yelling at his sister. He ran a hand down his face as he continued to watch Sam scream and Courtney just stand there.

He wasn't sure what she was doing there, not that he minded. He just wished that his wife would stop screaming, she screamed and yelled more than him and Carly did when they were together, and that was just by herself. Sam and Sonny also faught more than he and Carly did. He was never sure why, but it was always the same topic, Carly.

He watched as Jason stepped out of his penthouse and shut his door, probably in hopes of keeping Emma out of it. Sonny knew that Emma would probably punch Sam again if she found her yelling at Courtney. He wasn't sure why he thought that, he just knew she would.

"Sam," Sonny spoke softly as he reached for her.

Sam didn't respond as she continued to yell about how Courtney wasn't wanted and that she should leave before the guards threw her out.

"Sam," Sonny said as he took hold of his wife's arm and spun her around to face him, "That's enough."

Sam finally stopped screaming as Courtney released the breath she had been holding. She didn't know why but Courtney found the woman to be much more annoying than when they had first met.

Sonny let go of the now silent Sam who turned back to Courtney with an evil glare on her face. Sonny just looked at Courtney. God had he missed her. She still looked as beautiful as the day he left her, the years had been good to her. Sonny went to speak as his voice caught in his throat. He didn't know what to say, not that he could have if he knew.

"I missed you," Courtney said as she addressed her brother at the lack of verbal skills he was showing.

All Sonny could do was node as the tears silently gathered his eyes.

She could feel Jason's eyes on her as she continued to face her brother. It was true she had missed him, and seeing his reaction made her realize that he had missed her too.

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Emma was getting impatient waiting in the penthouse. She hated to be left in the dark. She hated to worry, like her mother. And worrying was exactly what she was doing. The screaming had stopped, which only managed to heighten her curiosity.

Slowly Emma stood and walked to the door. Placing her ear against it she heard nothing, maybe the soft murmur of voices, but nothing more. Letting curiosity get the better of her Emma reached for the doorknob and turned it.

She was met with a most unlikely sight as one word escaped her mouth as she went charging into the hallway…

"MOMMY"

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