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Rain Drenched Promises PART TWO
Jason and Carly Romance Fanfic
Christmas Day 2005
Location- Lorenzo Alcazar's Home

Jason Morgan carried his namesake up to the front door of the home and nodded at the security guard on duty. Michael jogged in front of them and opened the door, calling out to his mother, excitedly, about all the presents he had received at his father's home early that evening. Jason carried Morgan straight up to bed and when he came down found Carly alone in the living room, sitting on the couch with a picture album on her lap. She wore a silk robe over a matching nightgown.

Carly looked up and smiled at him when he came in the room.

"Morgan's in bed," he told her.

"Thanks. I sent Michael up to bed, too."

"So, I should go then."

"Wait, Jase!" she called playfully "It's Christmas. Come and sit down. I want to show you something."

Sitting next to her on the couch he could see the pictures in the photo album were of her when she was pregnant with Michael.

" Do you see how fat I was? Why didn't you tell me I was so fat?"

"I didn't notice."

She burst out laughing. " Ya, okay. Look at this one. It's the first picture of us as a family."

The picture showed Carly hanging onto Jason's arm staring intently at her son, who Jason held in his arms. It was taken on the day she came back from Florida.

Carly flipped the page and there she was holding Michael. And in the next shot Michael was crawling across the Penthouse floor.
Not for the first time Jason was thankful Robin's medicine was working to restore his memories and stop his seizures. Without that he could see the picture and know it happened but not remember they way Carly shook the first time she tried to hold Michael. He wouldn't be able to remember the relieved smile that she flashed him when she realized what Jason knew all along, that her instincts would show her how to mother Michael in just the way he needed.

Jason wasn't much for flipping through old photographs. Yet this was the happiest he had seen Carly in months, so he indulged her.
"Michael's first Halloween," he said pointing to another picture.

They looked through the whole book and then Carly said "I'm glad you're here. Lorenzo went to visit Diego in prison. He said he couldn't let his son be alone on Christmas. But I didn't feel like being alone either. I spent too much time alone at Roselawn, thinking about the past, trying to figure out where I went off track. Was it when I married Sonny or AJ or slept with Tony or Reese's father? Or does it not have anything to do with a man at all? Is it just something in me that I can not allow myself to be happy?"

(And talked a little while about the year

I guess the winter
makes you laugh a little slower,

Makes you talk
a little lower
about the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December
and there's reason to believe
maybe this year
will be better than the last

I can't remember all the times
I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass) Counting Crows song

" Don't say that. I have seen you happy."

"Ya, but how long does it last? I ruin it. I sabotage myself. Reese was my best friend so I had to destroy that. I couldn't trust Bobbie to accept me if she found out I was her daughter so I made sure she would hate me by sleeping with her husband. The list goes on. You should know better than anyone how I ruin a good thing."

Jason noticed she said all this matter of fact. Not ranting, as Carly sometimes does, not even crying for him to save her from herself.

"You have help sometimes,"he told her.

"Well. Lainey's right about one thing. I don't have to stay in that self destructive pattern." Carly grinned and said, "I have a plan."

Jason stood up and raised his hands in a I surrender type gesture."No plans, Carly!"

Carly stood up. " But-"

"I'm serious. Nothing good ever comes of your plans. And no I will not help you win back Sonny."

Carly rolled her eyes. "This is not about Sonny. Did Sam erase the message I left on your phone last night. That little jealous-"

"Stop it, Carly. I heard your message. But all your plans have to do with Sonny or getting rid of some woman in his life. This isn't about my sister, is it? She moved back into Wyndermere with Nikolas so she is not even hanging around Sonny anymore."

"Stop saying his name. I can't think about him right now. I went over every minute of my time in Port Charles in my head while I was in Rose Lawn. And I divided them into happy times and miserable times. There really wasn't much in the middle. And sure there were happy moments with Sonny but I realized that my happiest times were when I had my sons and when I had my businesses. So that is what I am focusing on now. And the people that never break my heart. My mother, my brother, my children and you."

"That's your plan?" Jason said skeptically. Carly never let the cards fall where they may. She made the cards fall where she wanted if it was at all possible."That's it?"

"Well, that is not exactly my whole plan." She drug out the word whole and smirked at him.

"Carly, am I going to have to save you from yourself again?"

" Nope, Jase, not this time. This time I'm saving myself."

He studied her for moment, and then smiled.