Chapter 40

Jason stood still holding his gun and looked toward Cruz who was kneeling beside Lucky checking for a pulse. Cruz shook his head and moved to Sam and checked for her pulse as well, again shaking his head.

"Jason, I am going to do something out of character here… get outta here. I will clean this up." Cruz said.

"Are… are you sure?" he asked then moved his gun back and tucked it in his jeans.

"Go before I change my mind. You were home all night."

Jason nodded a thank you toward Cruz and walked away. Cruz pulled out his phone and dialed Mac. Ten minutes later half of the PCPD were arriving on the scene and Cruz filled them in on what happened. He had been suspicious of Lucky so he did some digging and uncovered that he and Rick were working with a Miami crime family that had plans on moving into Port Charles. Lucky took the job of being the footman in town. Rick was the organizer of the whole deal. Cruz told Mac that he was following Lucky when he and Sam blew up the warehouse and he got into it with Lucky. Sam snuck up behind and shot at Cruz, missing him and getting Lucky. Cruz shot Sam sending her down and her gun flying over the edge of the docks (he figured they would discover 2 different bullets in Lucky). Lucky again aimed his gun at Cruz but Cruz shot first.

Mac stood in shock. One of his best detectives and the D.A. This did not look good for the department. "Do you have evidence of this link between Rick, Lucky and the Miami crime family?"

Cruz nodded, "Well I do for Lucky, I have surveillance footage but the evidence on Rick is harder to prove since he actually was not physically involved in any meetings and had hidden any financial transactions."

Mac immediately called Baldwin and woke him from bed, demanding he immediately come down to the scene.

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Jason called Max and met up with him to go over the situation. After their meeting he headed home.

When Jason left, Elizabeth sat staring at the wall for the better part of an hour. She knew what ultimately would happen tonight and was preparing herself for the fall-out. She finally peeled herself off the floor and climbed into bed to wait for Jason to arrive home. She laid there for over an hour and was about to go insane from worry. She finally decided that she needed to take her mind off things. She pulled a notebook from her nightstand and began sketching. She had began sketching random pictures lately, something that she hadn't done in years. She thought about Carly's party. Tomorrow she would go buy a dress for it. Suddenly she dropped her sketchpad and her hand covered her mouth. 'HOLY SHIT!" she thought to herself. 'New years is in 2 days… its December 29th, well 30th now'. How had she forgotten?

Thirty minutes later she heard the door close downstairs. When Jason appeared in the bedroom doorway relief washed over her body. She jumped out of bed and ran into his arms only to quickly realize that he was injured.

"Jason, you… you're shot?" she said pulling his coat off to reveal his bloody sleeve.

"It just skimmed my arm, I can't go to the hospital to get stitches."

Elizabeth pulled him into the bathroom and quickly got to work on the wound. "It's a good thing you are marrying a nurse." She whispered as she cleaned it. "I could stitch it up but I'm not very good at it, you will have a scar either way." She wrapped it tightly. "Can you tell me what…."

"Do you want to know?" he asked. She nodded and he took her hand. He led them into the bedroom and sat on the bed, pulling her down next to him.

"First I need to tell you that I was here all night. I am not asking you to lie but if I am asked that will be my story…" he paused and sucked in a deep breath then continued. He told her the entire story, exactly what happened, what was said and even that Cruz said he would cover it up. Elizabeth was taken completely by surprise with Cruz's actions.

"I cant believe Cruz… but he is a good man, he knew it was the right thing to do and that you would not be treated fairly." Elizabeth said.

"I'm sorry." Jason whispered and took her hand in his, linking their fingers.

She shook her head. "No, don't be sorry. He obviously would have killed you… because of that I cannot be sorry that Lucky is dead. Sure I will miss him, but I will miss the Lucky that I knew when I was a teenager, not the Lucky that was killed tonight. He was not the same man… and I need you to know that… I am not sorry and neither should you."

Jason brought her hand up and kissed the tip of her fingers.

"So what happens now?" she asked.

"I don't know. I don't know what will happen with Rick. For some reason I have a feeling that he will get away with this and maybe even come out looking like the good guy in the situation." He stood from the bed and removed his jeans. Elizabeth climbed back and Jason returned to the bed. She immediately moved over and rested her head on his arm. Jason continued. "We still need to be careful. The Miami family may retaliate or may not and the same with Rick." She nodded.

Jason reached his arm up and brushed a stray hair from her eyes. He kissed the top of her head and breathed in the scent of her shampoo. Her hand was resting on his stomach and he brought his up and again linked his fingers in hers. They laid together for a while, awake, letting the events of the night sink in and coming to the realization of what it meant. Both of their exes were dead. Elizabeth let out a sigh. "Jason?" she tipped her head back so she could look at him to see if he was awake.

"Yea?"

"I need to talk to you about something, nothing to do with Lucky, Sam or Rick." She said apprehensively.

"What is it?"

She turned and sat up so she was facing him. "I was thinking earlier. Thinking about everything, trying to keep my mind off where you were, trying not to worry too much." She looked over at the floors as if she was collecting her thoughts and trying to find the words for what she had to say.

"Elizabeth, if you can't handle…"

She interrupted him, "Can I finish?" she chastised.

He nodded for her to continue.

"Anyway… Trying to take my mind off things, I was thinking about the wedding, which I did come up with a few ideas but that is beside the point. I thought about the fact that I needed to go buy a dress for the New Years party."

"Elizabeth, I told you that if you don't want to go, we don't have to. We can stay here."

"Jason, stop interrupting. This has nothing to do with the party." She felt herself getting nervous because she was unsure how he was going to react. "As I was saying… I realized something… do you know what today's date is?" He did not reply. "You can speak now." She said.

"I guess it's the 30th now, why?"

"Well when I realized what the date was I suddenly got a feeling in the pit of my stomach because there was something that I completely forgot about."

"Elizabeth you are driving me crazy here, what is wrong? You are worrying me."

"What I am trying to say, Jason, is that when I realized what today's date is… I screwed up." She began rambling and talking really fast. "You see, after Jake was born I didn't see a need for it and I always forgot anyway but then me and you happened again and I started it and thought I was doing good, but I started a new one over a week ago and everything has been so crazy lately that I never even realized that I didn't get my…"

Jason interrupted, "Elizabeth you lost me." He said with a perplexed expression.

She finally blurted it out "Jason, I think I'm pregnant!"