Author's Note: I'm just on a role, getting all sorts of updates out, cept for the ones that two certain girls want. I hope you enjoy this and perhaps I'll get better at updating…I hope

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Chapter 4

They all heard the thud. Something had hit the floor, though none of them were sure what. They were all too worried about what Jason would do to the man he was in the process of attacking. No one was exactly sure of what set him off, AJ had whispered something as he walked off the stand and Jason had just jumped at him, swinging and hitting him square in the jaw, it had taken a guard and Sonny to pull Jason off of AJ, and a guard to restrain AJ from attacking Jason, which would only lead to more bruises for AJ. It was not something that happened often, Jason Morgan beating a man in front of so many witnesses. It was like something had set him off.

The situation was under control quickly as the mob that had surrounded the fight settle back into their seats. Carly was the first to begin walking back to her seat when her eyes caught a foot, just one sticking out of an isle just a few rows from the door. She quickly pushed the hand of her husband off of her shoulder as she ran to the back of the room. She recognized the shoe even before she got there, but seeing the face, the blood on the floor Carly couldn't contain herself.

"Courtney," Carly practically screamed as she stepped over her friend's body and kneeled next to her head. Carly gently swept her hair to the side. She looked pale, and sick, not to mention the gash on the side of her head. Carly worriedly looked up at her husband who was currently on the phone, she hoped with an ambulance. Her eyes scanned the group that had formed around her friend. They were all looking at her like some new attraction. Some were looks of concern, others looks that said they knew something like this would happen to her if she kept associating with Sonny Corinthos, and others. Jason in particular looked concerned, like his world had just ended.

"An Ambulance is on the way," Sonny said as he shut his phone and looked at his sister and wife. He wasn't sure what was going on, but hearing his wife scream, and seeing his sister looking so sick just shook him to the core. He wasn't sure what he would do if he lost his sister already. He had just found her.

Jason heard the scream of his friend. Carly screamed her name. She had screamed Courtney's name. The look of terror in Carly's eyes as she swoop down between the isles and was concealed by the bench. He felt his airway tightening up as he ran down the isle pushing people out of the way. He had to make sure everything was okay, that she was okay. He saw Carly holding a sweater to her head, he saw the sick pale look of her and his heart broke, he couldn't protect her from whatever ailed her. Before he had the chance to swoop in and save her the medics arrived and quickly set to work. Within a matter of minutes they had her ready for transport to General Hospital.

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The blonde stood looking out over the water. The waves crashed against the wood supports of the docks as the person cringed. The water wasn't soothing. It hadn't been soothing in years. It didn't have the same effect on a grown person as it did on a baby, a toddler, no older than three. How could something that seemed to take so much sooth anything, or anyone? The rain, the waves, the salty water of the ocean, and even the sweet cool water of a lake, or stream, tended to tense a person up. The reasons why any man, or woman would love the water seemed so oblivious.

The water seemed to take whatever it wanted. It consumed so much of the earth, leaving little or nothing to the people who lived on it. Understanding that water was needed to survive, but hating everything it claimed was something that couldn't be escaped for the blonde. Water seemed to take everything, it sunk even the strongest ships, took some of the best people and claimed even the strongest souls in it's crashing. It devoured all, yet it released so much. It could take your pain away in a second, the cold claiming waves of the sea could release you from the deepest deceptions, and free you from a life on earth. Water, just its very existence rocked this blonde to the core.

The red head watched from top of the stairs. He wasn't an idiot. He knew what the blonde saw in the water. It was the end, it was the beginning, and it was everything, yet it was nothing. It was the reason the blonde couldn't seem to live, hell, it was the reason the world seemed to stop for the both of them. It had claimed them, all of them, and it was a hard thing to let go of. To forget something like that, yet go on hating them because they weren't there was something they both knew. Something they dealt with daily.

"It's so strange. We spent our entire childhood avoiding it, yet it surrounds us completely. It defines us, and it makes us who we are," The blonde man spoke eyes glued to the water.

"Hmm, I always thought it destroyed who we were," The red head spoke as he walked down the stairs.

"It's hard to pick those details out these days," The blonde spoke turning to look at his cousin.

"It's hard to separate fact from fantasy sometimes," Michael countered, " So what's going on?"

"Someone keeps blowing things up, no clue who. Sources are saying it's Sanchez and Alcazar, but I don't think so. It's to clean for them."

"That's all? TJ, it's been nearly three months and we still have no clue who is doing this, or what they want. I'm worried that we won't be able to keep them all safe," Michael agitatedly replied.

"I know this, all of it," TJ said as he ran a hand through his hair.

"Well we need to do something."

"What exactly. We can't be too obvious, they got out, got clean. We only got in so they wouldn't know all the trouble that was starting. What can we do that won't alarm them Michael?"

"TJ," A bubbly brunette screamed ass she ran down the stairs onto the dock and up to the blonde man, "Oh my gosh. I had so much fun shopping. You were right, Neil was lots of fun."

"What did you do," TJ question as he eyed the brunette suspiciously.

"Nothing much, just spent some money," She spoke as they turned to see a bag falling down the stairs.

"Ms. Morgan. Please don't run to far ahead," the man spoke in his light English accent that only caused the brunette to giggle.

"Neil," Michael spoke as he looked at the tall clean-cut young man. He'd yell at himself later for hiring such a young man who looked like he came straight out of a boy's school, "Take Hailey's purchases to the penthouse. This little brat will be spending the afternoon with us. How does lunch sound?"

"Sounds great. I'm famished. Let's go to Kelly's. I saw Chance and Tina when we passed there a few minutes ago. Bye Neil," Hailey said as she chattered away.

The two young me followed to young woman up the stairs as she chattered away, nonsense for the most part. Each man had their heads full of the dangers of the town, the lurking shadow, but that could wait. They were going to have lunch with the family baby. They would forget it all as they ate a nice quite lunch, just the Corinthos and Morgan kids.