"Courtney is kind, and beautiful, and funny. She brought out the best in me." Jason walked into the penthouse and shut the door. Neither Audrey nor Sam had heard the door open. "Then why did you divorce her? Why didn't you fight for her?" "She couldn't handle my life and my job. I wanted it to work, more than anything. She was my life for so long and I had never loved anyway the way that I loved her. But in the end it was her call." Audrey smiled. "She was the love of your life, wasn't she?" Sam perked up at that question. "Please tell us, Jason, was she?" Jason looked from Sam to Audrey to Sam again. "It's not that simple. The kind of love I had with Courtney and the kind of love I have with Sam are totally different. In the way that I loved Courtney, yes, she was the love of my life." "I knew it." All three of them looked at the door as Carly walked in.
Sam was not in the mood for Carly. "Carly, now is not a good time. We need to talk about this." "What's to talk about? Jason doesn't love you." "Carly, I didn't say that. I do love Sam very much." Audrey wasn't about to stand there quiet when she knew that she could get rid of Sam. "Just not like you love Courtney." "No…" Jason stopped when Audrey's question sank in. She said love, not loved. He looked at Sam who had tears streaming down her face. "Do you still love her?" Sam knew that she was in a lose, lose situation. Jason couldn't lie to her so he would tell her the truth; she just wasn't so sure she wanted to hear it. "A part of me will always love her." "That's great." Sam blew past him and slammed the door.
Jason ran out after her, and Carly ran after him yelling at him to be honest with himself. Audrey laughed to herself. Maybe this wasn't such a bad family after all. She decided that since she again had the penthouse to herself, that she would clean it before Jason came back.
A while after she started cleaning Marco poked his head in the door. "Miss Audrey, Noah Calvin is here." Audrey felt her stomach do somersaults. "Oh, okay, send him in. Hey." "Hey. Is Jason here?" Neither one could explain it or even think to bring it up but they both felt connected and drawn to each other. "No, he's not. I don't know where he went. He went chasing after Sam." "Oh…" He turned to leave when he heard Audrey's voice. "You can wait for him, though, if—if you want too." He felt a small smile tugging at his lips. "Uh, yeah, sure. So what are you up too?" "I'm just cleaning the penthouse a little. You could help if you wanted." She flashed a large, infectious smile at him.
"Oh could I?" "Yeah, I'll let you." Noah laughed. "All right, what will you let me do?" She looked around the penthouse. "How about you dust, sweep, and vacuum." "And while I dust, sweep, and vacuum what will you be doing?" "Supervising." She said it as it was the most obvious answer in the world. "Chop, chop, this penthouse won't clean itself. Noah walked over to the couch and sat down. "No, no it won't." Audrey looked at him with wide eyes. "What are you…you can't slack on the job. Jason will fire you." Noah laughed. "Cleaning his penthouse isn't really in my job description." "Oh, well then, how about you help me vacuum?" "That I can do." She pulled the vacuum out and plugged it in.
She was pushing the vacuum as he stood behind her helping her guide it. She didn't really need help; she just wanted to be close to him. He started going a little too fast for her to handle. "You're going to fast! Wait, don't do that! I'm gonna trip on the cord!" As soon as she said that she tripped and fell back right into his arms. "Whoa careful there." She looked up at him and they stared longingly into each other's eyes. Their moment, however, was broken when Jason walked in the door.
"What's going on?" They pulled apart quickly Audrey took a few steps away from Noah. "I needed to talk to you about something." "Noah was just helping me clean while he was waiting for you." Jason nodded. He didn't like what he walked in on. "Audrey can you…" "Yeah, I need to shower anyway." She looked over at Noah before quickly disappearing up the stairs. Instead of going to take a shower Audrey sat on the top step and listened to their conversation.
"You and Audrey seem to be getting pretty close. She has had enough heartache. She doesn't need anymore. I don't want this life touching her. You better back off now." "Nothing's going on. I came to talk to you, she needed help with the vacuum and she tripped on the cord. It was innocent." Noah knew he was lying. He definitely felt something when she fell into his arms. He also knew that Jason would never allow anything to happen between them. "I saw the way you two looked at each other. If you want to stay in this corporation, you stay away from Audrey. The less contact with her you have, the better." Audrey couldn't help herself as soon as she heard his say those words. She flew around the corner of the steps, "You can't tell him not to see me."
She stood there, a little embarrassed that she had let them know that she was listening. But she couldn't let Jason run her life like this. Jason sighed. "Audrey, you know you shouldn't eavesdrop." "Yeah, when you're talking about business, not my life!" "You're life is mine to protect…" "And it's mine to live! Jason, I appreciate you wanting to look out for me, I really do, but you don't get to decide who my friends are." She was going to stand her ground no matter what. The feelings she felt for Noah were feelings that she had never felt before. She wasn't about to give them up. "My life is dangerous and since Noah works for me, his life is dangerous. You've been through enough in your life; you don't need to be put at risk." Audrey was starting to get mad.
"Oh but it's okay that you put me at risk because I'm your daughter, and it's okay for you to put Sam at risk because you love her, but what, we can't be friends with your employees?" Jason knew that she would fight him on this but he wasn't going to back down. He needed her safe. There were plenty of guys in Port Charles that she could date. Noah wasn't an option.
"Being friends with Noah puts you at unnecessary risk." "Jason…" "Audrey, your dad's right. My life is too dangerous for you." She was taken aback and hurt by Noah's statement. She looked over at him and he could see the hurt burning in her eyes. He felt sick that he was the one that put it there. But as quickly as he saw the hurt, he saw the anger. "You don't know that! Okay, neither one of you know me and what I can handle. Now, because you've both just tried to run my life, you won't get the chance. Well done." She ran up the stairs and locked herself in the bathroom. She couldn't believe that Noah agreed with her dad. Maybe he was just like Jason.