Author's Note: Hey everyone! Thank you all so much for all the wonderful reviews for the last chapter of STA. They all really meant a lot, and I'm so glad that you all enjoyed the story. And I figured that I made you wait long enough for the sequel… here is what you need to know!

Jake Morgan is sixteen years old. He attends Port Charles High and is currently a junior.

Emma Morgan (yes! Jason and Courtney got their girl! Was there ever any doubt that I wouldn't give them one!) She's fifteen, and also attends PCHS, and is a sophomore.

Morgan Corinthos is sixteen, and is in the same grade as Jake.

Michael Corinthos is 22 (who can imagine a grown up Mikey! It's so hard!) He graduated PCHS and is currently… learning from Sonny and Jason about the business.

Courtney and Jason are obviously still married, as are Sonny and Carly. Carly and Courtney are still the best of friends.

Antonio Alcazar, Courtney's half brother, is Sonny and Jason's lawyer. He's very close to the family. He is not married.

Lorenzo Alcazar is still lurking, and married to Skye Quartermaine. They have no children.

Ric Lansing is married to Alexis Davis, they have two children. Molly Lansing, who is fifteen, and Trevor Lansing who is ten.

Faith is dead, you'll find out why later.

I think that's all you need to know for now. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me or leave it in a review!

Disclaimer: We all know that I own nothing. Except for the characters I make up.

Courtney tossed the pillow cushions on the floor and dug her fingers into the sides of the couch. For the life of her, she could not remember where she put that parent teacher conference form! Both of her children managed to stay on the honor roll, with an occasional C in math, which she blamed on herself. She was never good in math either.

Courtney's hand grasped something under the cushion, drawing in a breath, she pulled her hand out to reveal… a sock.

It always amazed her how many socks she found on a daily basis. This one was Emma's, considering it was pink. Jake wouldn't be caught dead in anything pink.

"Hey Mom?" Jake yelled as he walked in the door, slamming it shut behind him. Courtney heard her daughter's voice from the other side of the door.

"Jaaaaakkeee." She huffed before she opened the door that was slammed in her face by her brother. "Gosh Jake, you need to grow up."

Courtney smiled at the bickering between her kids, her teenagers. She liked to imagine that that was how she and Sonny or she and Antonio would have been had she grown up with her brothers.

"How was school you guys?" Courtney asked, straightening up and tossing the pink sock to Emma who exclaimed, "I was looking for that!"

"Fine." Jake said before his eyes darted to the pool table, to the stairs, to the desk. Courtney took the time to look at her son. There was once a time when she was taller than him, but she certainly wasn't now. Jake had his father's height, his father's dark hair, and his father's gorgeous eyes. Everyone said that he looked exactly like Jason, which was not always a good thing for him growing up. He never had that many friends when he was little.

"Are you looking for something?" Courtney asked, moving towards him and reaching up on her tip toes to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah, is Dad home? I need to talk to him." Jake continued looking around, until he looked at his sister, who was being unusually quiet.

Normally she was talking a mile a minute.

"He'll be home very soon. But you can talk to me in the meantime." Courtney stepped around her son and approached her daughter. "What's going on?"

"Absolutely nothing Mom. Jake is totally overreacting , and he's gonna get Daddy all upset about nothing and then Uncle Sonny is going to freak out, and it would all be for nothing. So please, Jake, just spare us all and keep your mouth shut." Emma sighed and dropped her books on the steps leading upstairs and headed to the kitchen.

As soon as she was out of sight, Courtney turned to Jake.

"What happened?"

"I think someone followed Emma, me, and Morgan home from school today." Jake said, as he watched the color fade out of his mother's face. "Mom, please. It's not like it hasn't happened before. I'll tell Dad what I saw, and he'll take care of it." Jake wrapped his arm around his mother and pulled her into a hug. He thought his mom was a pretty amazing woman, she was fair and kind, and had always loved him for who he was.

Emma stalked out of the kitchen, her favorite peach flavored water in hand, and picked up her books, mumbling something about homework, and dashed upstairs. Courtney and Jake both looked at each other and shrugged.

"She'll be fine. You know how she gets." Jake said as he moved towards the door. "I'm gonna go talk to Morgan. I'll be back pretty soon." Courtney nodded.

Jake opened the door, and saw his father getting off the elevator. He waved to his mom, and shut the door to their penthouse. He hated not telling her the whole truth, but she didn't need to be worrying.

"Hey Dad. I need to talk to you." Jake said as he walked over to the elevator, nodded to Max, and looked at his father, the man he looked up to more than anyone in the entire world.

"Yeah sure. What's up?" Jason's heart got lighter at the sight of his son, but it soon darkened when he saw the look in Jake's eyes.

"Look, I don't want you to freak out, Emma's already mad at me for telling Mom the half-truth."

Jason sighed and put his hand on his son's shoulder. "What happened?"

"Me, Morgan and Emma were driving home from school in Morgan's car, and we were being followed."

"By someone in a car…?" Jason ran his hands through his hair. The business was getting bad again, and the new guys in town weren't happy with Morgan-Corinthos Coffee Imports.

"I think Emma must have recognized him, because she got all weird and tried to make me promise not to tell you. She thinks you have enough to worry about with Michael training and all that stuff…"

"Have you seen this man before?" Jason asked, looking deeply in his son's eyes, the eyes identical to his own. "Have they approached you?"

"No. The guy hasn't come up to me, but what I'm trying to tell you is, I think he's approached Emma. That's why she's so scared."

"You did the right thing, Jake. Thanks for trusting me enough to tell me what's going on." Jason patted his son's shoulder before heading towards his home. "I hate to do this to you again, but I have to put guards on you and Emma while you're at school. Things are getting bad, and I need to know that you're safe, or else I can't do my job."

"I understand Dad. You don't have to explain that to me. But I can take care of myself, and I can protect Emma…"

"I know you can." Jason smiled before he watched his son go into Sonny's penthouse. Taking a deep breath, Jason entered his own home.

He needed to talk to his daughter, something that wasn't as easy as it used to be. But it was imperative that he found this guy who was following his kids home from school. And if he'd approached Emma…

Jason closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. His hidden talent was getting Emma to reveal her secrets. She could never keep anything from him.

"Jason, what's wrong?" the sweet sound of his wife's voice had him looking up. Courtney was as beautiful as she'd been when he first laid eyes on her when she was a waitress. He never thought he'd end up here, so madly in love with her still, with two kids of their own.

"I talked to Jake. He thinks that the guy that followed them… approached Emma." Jason saw Courtney stagger, and he grabbed her around the waist and led her to the couch.

"No. This- this can't happen again. This can't be happening again…" Courtney put her face in her hands and took deep breaths.

"Look, I don't want you to worry." Courtney glared up at him icily. "Sorry, bad choice of words. I'm going to talk to Emma right now, okay? Then, Sonny and I are going to handle this. If anyone threatened our daughter, I'll find out, and you can believe me when I tell you that it won't happen again." Jason kissed Courtney's head before getting up and heading upstairs.

"Emma? Can I come in?" he was greeted with silence, so he cracked open the door a little bit, to find Emma asleep over her Biology homework, pen in hand, head on book.

Her blonde hair was spread all over her face, and her mouth was slightly open. Ever since she was a baby, she'd always slept with her mouth open. Jason smiled as he slowly crept over to her.

He removed the pen from her hand and set it down on her desk, and with expert skill, he picked her up and cradled her body close to his own and held her in his arms for just a minute.

Jason realized, as he looked down at his beautiful, exhausted daughter, that he didn't watch her sleep nearly enough anymore.

Jason laid her down softly on her queen-size bed and covered her with a blanket she had hanging over her chair. Emma was always cold, so Jason made sure to tuck her in tightly. Kissing her forehead, Jason sat on the edge of her bed just a little while longer.

Courtney's second pregnancy came as a surprise. Doctors called it a medical miracle. Jason called it love. They had so much love in their lives for each other, for Jake, it had to go somewhere! When Emma was born, Jason had cried when he held her.

Not because he was sad, but because she was perfect.

And looking down at his daughter now, her mouth hanging slightly open, tears filled his eyes because she still was.