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Chapter Thirty

Sonny remained silent, this was not his place to say anything. Whatever was going on, had to be told by Jason and Elizabeth, and by their continued silence, it was obvious they had a lot to tell, or so it seemed to him.

Instead of directing his penetrating gaze on his friends, he maintained his silence by smoothing the crease in his pants and picking a small piece of lint that had some how migrated to the cuff of his pants.

Just as he was beginning to think that no one was going to say anything, Jason began to talk and what he said stilled Sonny's actions and brought his head up quickly.

"Sonny, Elizabeth and I want you to know that she is pregnant." Jason said, looking his best friend in the eyes, wondering what his reaction was going to be.

"No, Sonny, we are pregnant, this child is Jason's and I know you are here for a reason, so I am sure you have heard otherwise, considering you always have your ear to the ground." Elizabeth corrected, it was bad enough that they were going to be lying to many people, lying to Sonny, just seemed wrong.

"Well, congratulations are in order, but your news does beg the question, why are you telling everyone the baby is Lucky's?" Sonny asked, unable to keep his silence any longer.

"Both Elizabeth and myself are aware that Lucky poses a great threat to her and our child. And neither of us are willing to risk our happiness all because Lucky has an idea for vengeance. We all know he will want to pay Elizabeth back for talking, but not only that, he is going to want to hurt me and to do so, harming this child would be one of the easiest ways. Elizabeth and I have come up with a plan, we are going to convince Lucky this is his child, in order to draw him out. We want nothing more than for this nightmare to end. Elizabeth and I plan to marry and we want our life to be free of him and his insanity." Jason said, already seeing the bafflement gracing Sonny's face.

"Jason, you can't be serious, how in the world do you plan on making this scheme work?" Sonny asked, knowing already that his friend must be out of his mind.

"Well, we really don't have much to work with, none of your men have been able to find him. A paper trail was all and that ended abruptly. I love Jason more than I could ever explain, and this child is our first priority, but can we begin a family with Lucky Spencer looming on the horizon, that at some point, he is going to come back and seek revenge for all the wrongs that he sees has been done to him. Jason and I are going to play the happy couple for a couple of weeks, but the knowledge of this child not being his, is going to push his buttons, especially when I start to defend Lucky. He's going to leave Port Charles and a week or two later so am I. He is already found where he is going to stay, there is a little hotel that works perfectly for what we need. After he is settled, then I am going to be heading to a new home that I am going to rent, which just happens to be close enough to Jason, but far enough that no one would think anything about it." Elizabeth said, hating the way Sonny looked so dubiously at her.

"You are basing this assumption that Lucky will find out, but how in the world do you plan on making that happen?" Sonny asked.

"That was actually easy. It is obvious he knows something is going on here, so someone must be keeping him in the loop. Whether one of your men is leaking information to him or not is neither here nor there. We believe Luke and Laura are staying in contact, so we let it slip at the hospital that Lucky is this baby's father. Kelly is going to help me out, she has already worked out a plan to make it look like I am further along, so it all comes down to waiting. Both Elizabeth and I believe that Luke or Laura will be contacting one of us, if for nothing else than to ask questions. With confirmation, then perhaps they will send word to Lucky, and with that done, we will finish setting the last pieces of the plan into motion. There is great risk, but him loose and roaming free is an even greater risk." Jason said adamantly.

"It sounds like you two have figured everything out, but have you many contingency plans, in case something goes wrong?" Sonny asked, still not liking his best friend getting mixed up in all of this.

"We can't plan anymore than we already have. If this is going to come off as spontaneous, then we need to be able to improvise. Please don't try to talk us out of it, we know the risks and see them as acceptable." Jason replied, knowing Sonny was going to try and talk him out of this plan, but also knowing, they had little else they could do.

"You can always plan more, it is only a matter of whether you want to or not. I won't try to talk you out of this, because it is obvious, you both have your heels dug in and are bound and determined to do it. But a word of caution, if Lucky finds out the truth, you are not going to have an easy time trying to bring him down. He will not give a second thought to anything but the death of everyone involved." Sonny replied. "But on another note, I am truly happy for you too, I know this is something that was unexpected, but I am sure you will both be amazing parents."

"Thank you, Sonny. That is really why we are doing this, we can't have our child growing up in constant fear. Have you heard from Carly?" Elizabeth asked, knowing it was a loaded question, but unable to stop herself.

Sonny was a good man in a bad business, and while he liked playing the strong Don, he was a softy, maybe even more so than Jason, down underneath everyone's perceived views of him.

"No, Michael got a letter in the mail, but there was no return address or anything. It's not like I don't know where she is, but I refuse to be baited by her childish antics. If she loves me as much as she claims, then she needs to be the one to come back. I have chased after her, too many times." Sonny replied, his voice taking on a melancholy note, but his spine was ramrod straight, his words brooking no room for argument.

"You know, if Carly wrote to Michael, she would know it would be you reading it to him. Are you sure there wasn't anything in it for you, perhaps she was being coy and you just overlooked something?" Elizabeth asked, sticking her nose in Sonny's business, even if he didn't like it, it was too bad, he always managed to show up at exactly the wrong time.

"I don't know, and honestly, right now I don't…" Sonny began, but was interrupted as a knock sounded on the door and Elizabeth body checked him out of her way to get to said door.

Jason and Sonny both looked at the small woman, who had managed to moved Sonny considerably in her dash for food. Neither could contain the smile that blossomed on their faces as they watched her pawing through the food, with not a single concern for the delivery boy.

Jason quickly got up from the couch, pulling his wallet from his back pocket. Once standing in front of the boy who had brought the food, Jason merely shrugged his shoulders and said one thing, "She's pregnant!" As if that explained it all.

"$44.99 is your total sir, paying by cash I see." The young man said.

"Yes." Jason replied, extracting three twenty dollar bills from inside the wallet. "Keep the change."

"Thanks, have a good night." The young man said as he dashed out of the penthouse and into the elevator.

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Bobbie sat in her living room, knowing everything that had transpired today was just karma coming back to kick her in the butt. She had made the assumption that Luke and Laura would not know about the beatings that Elizabeth sustained, but in fact they had and had turned a deaf ear to it.

She knew without a doubt that telling them that Elizabeth was carrying their grandchild, was the wrong move. If anything were to happen to mother or child, it would rest heavily on her conscious for all eternity.

But that was not the only problems she had to deal with, when she returned, there was a message from her daughter. Begging her mother to let her come back home to live. There was no way that she could ever be with Sonny again, and Michael was better off with him, well, in all honesty, he would be better off with Jason, but since Sonny adopted him, she didn't have that choice.

Bobbie's shoulders sagged even more, the weight of the world seemed to be resting on them, and with each passing moment, it seemed like another weight was added, before long, she would be pummeled into the ground.

Her only options left, were to welcome Carly into her home, with the hopes that she could convince her daughter to go back to the man that she loved. Bobbie wasn't naïve enough to believe that Sonny hadn't played a part in their latest war, but she also knew her daughter and was positive that Carly had once again acted rashly, and was now facing the consequences of her actions. Which she would try to push off on to someone else and cast the blame every where but at herself.

Fetching a deep, soul-shaking sigh from the very depths of her body, Bobbie slowly lifted herself from the couch, stopped at the phone, shrugged her shoulders and continued on to her bedroom. Carly could wait till morning, she told herself, but wondering if she really could…

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