Thank you once again for the great reply's, I am truly grateful that you enjoy this story, and with that, here is the next chapter. I should have another one up on Monday! Enjoy.

Chapter Fifty-Four

"Please sit, I am obviously the chief of police here in these parts, my name's, Bill Williams. I know, you don't have to say anything, all my life I have been bugged about my name." The chief said as he smiled at the people sitting in his overly crowded office. "I'm sorry to have dragged you down here, especially after telling you that you wouldn't have to. But seeing as how something new has happened, I figured speaking with you now was the best course to take."

"Excuse, but what do you mean? What has happened?" Elizabeth asked, suddenly feeling very anxious.

"Yes, do tell!" Alexis said, warily eyeing up the chief.

"Deacon McGregor, with whom you have not had a very good experience with, has seemed to…" Chief Williams began to say.

"Don't you sit there and try to tell me that sloppy police work has once again allowed a criminal to escape!" Elizabeth yelled, jumping up and pointing an accusing finger at the man behind the desk. "I have spent too many years being afraid, I will slap this police station and the town with the biggest lawsuit any of you have ever heard of, if that demented detective is loose!"

Jason stood quickly, taking Elizabeth's hand in his. He wanted to shout at the chief as well, but it seemed that his fiancé had said everything that he felt needed to be said. He couldn't help the smile that rose to his face, the fire was back, blazing brighter and bigger in Elizabeth than ever before, this was the Elizabeth who he had fallen in love with all those years ago. Not that he didn't love her just as much as she was, but that fire was a good sign, a sign she was healing, ready to fight for what she wanted, not willing to back down and be a victim.

"Mrs. Morgan---." William's said.

"I'm not his wife yet, although that is just a technicality that is waiting to be rectified, for the time being, I am still Miss Webber."

"My apologizes, I didn't mean to imply anything. And while I believe you would do everything you say you would, I need you to understand that we were doing everything by the book. McGregor somehow managed to incapacitate one of the arresting officers and the other one is laying on a slab in the morgue. He is out, but I promise you that I will not rest until he is behind bars, awaiting the death penalty."

The fire that had kept her standing slowly depleted, her knees unhinged, spilling her onto Jason's lap. Strong arms wrapped around her, comforting her as her tears began to fall. "It's a nightmare Jason, one I seem to never be able to out run. Am I cursed, does the world hate me so bad, that its going to continue to tear every good thing away from me?"

"Excuse us. Sonny, you think you can get the information that is needed here, I'm going to take Elizabeth home. This isn't good for her or the baby." Jason said. He had no intentions staying, they would have to throw him in a jail cell if they wanted to keep him here.

"Not at all, you go." Sonny replied, gently grasping Elizabeth's free hand before letting go.

"I know this must be a shock to you, all of you, but it really wasn't our fault. I need to take your statements." Chief Williams said, feeling more than a little perplexed.

"Mr. Scorpio can send you our statements when we have the time to give them, goodbye." Jason said, leading Elizabeth out of the confining room.

"They can't do that!" Williams said as he looked at the retreating form of the lovers.

"They can and they just did. It was your department that screwed this up, not them. Elizabeth and Jason have been through so much in the past couple of months, you will allow them to leave and will not say another thing." Alexis said, glaring openly at Williams.

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Jason called a cab, having come in Alexis's car, it was the only other way to get back to the hotel.

"Jason, I don't care what it costs, I want those incompetent fools brought up on charges. I don't want to argue about this, I just want some retribution for everything I have had to deal with, everything we have had to deal with. This is the final straw, it's time someone pays, lets make an example out of them." Elizabeth said.

Elizabeth's tears had dried, some semblance of control she had found and what Jason realized was simple, the fire that he had admired in the chief's office, hadn't disappeared or left, it was only momentarily tamped down. For no sooner did the tears dry up, than Elizabeth was ready to wage a full blown war, he could see it in her eyes.

"I wouldn't even contemplate arguing with you about this, you're right, someone has to pay. I am sick of these small town and city cops thinking that just because they wear a badge, that it means they never do wrong. The should have to pay for the errors they incur will doing a mediocre job." Jason said, wrapping his arms more tightly around her shivering frame.

"I'm not suing them for monetary gain, at least not for us. If we win, I want the money to go to a charity or something."

"I like the way you think, but which charity?" Jason asked.

"I don't know, how bout we wait to find out if we even win."

"Okay, you win." Jason said, he was planning on saying more, but the cab he had ordered, pulled up.

Silence permeated the cab, a noxious smell seemed to have buried itself within the material of the backseat. Jason could barely control his desire to fling himself from the vehicle, but managed to still the desire as he noticed the cab pulling up to the hotel.

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"You may think you are hot stuff in Port Charles, but here, in my town, you are a nobody, Mr. Corinthos. I will not sit here and have you running things, that is not the way I run my department." Williams said, his disdain very clear.

"Excuse me, but it was not me or my business partner who allowed a deranged man to escape our custody, that I am sad to say, was all you. Whether you care who I am or not is beside the issue." Sonny replied, not bothered in the least with the chief's outburst. "Alexis, I think it is time we leave as well. As Elizabeth mentioned, I think it is time for you to fully be on the clock, think you can draw up a lawsuit here?"

"That won't be a problem, I am sure there are many ways we can bring this department to its knees." Alexis said, taking extreme satisfaction at having the chance to bring down a group of incompetent fools.

"And what exactly are you going to be filing us with?" Williams asked, slightly fearful for the first time.

"Let's see, incompetence, inability to do your job. Perhaps you even let McGregor go, that would be harboring a fugitive. You name it, I will bring those charges against you. You are not dealing with a small town lawyer, you threatened my employer, more or less, so now we will see who feels the heat!" Alexis said, turning on her expensive heels and walking out of the office.

Once outside, Sonny gently grasped her arm, turning her to face him. Slowly, almost reverently, he bent his face towards hers, before she could deny him though, his lips captured hers. It was meant to be a quick kiss, a kiss of gratitude perhaps, but as soon as his lips found hers, he was lost, a prisoner to his ever growing desire.

Unable to think, let alone stop what was happening, Alexis moved more fully into Sonny's embrace, enjoying the way she fit in his arms, the way his body responded to hers.

Panting and out of breath, Alexis and Sonny finally pulled apart. The world seemed to slowly fall back in to place and as Alexis began to speak, the under hum of reality beginning to assert itself once more. "Sonny?" It was all she was capable of saying for the moment, her heart was beating too fast and her legs felt wobbly.

"I know, I was out of line, I shouldn't have done it, you hate me or something like that." Sonny said, trying to cover all the bases.

"Actually, I was going to say… You could do that again when we got back to the hotel. It's cold out here."

Suddenly speechless, Sonny merely grasped her arm, walking her to the car and opening the door. He was nobody's fool, he had passed up her advances earlier, he wasn't going to do it again.

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Jason was used to the erratic mood changes of his love, but the immense anger was something he rarely saw. More than happy to never have had her anger directed fully at him, at least not this raw anger, but he understood the anger for what it was, fear and desperation. They had just lived through one horror, it wasn't fair that she had to deal with another one. Perhaps if he had had the strength to stay out of her life, these things wouldn't be happening…

"Jason, I know what you are thinking and I am telling you now, stop it. Don't you even contemplate walking out of my life or our child's. You think you have been in hot water with enemies before, trying walking out on me and you will see what hot water feels like. I love you and you love me, we're in this till the very end, got it?"

"Loud and clear! But what if I told you I wasn't even thinking that?"

"Please, I have loved you for far too long to not know what you are thinking. Let's get this something straight right now, I will not be your next ex, this ring is on my finger for all eternity, if you wanted out, you should have run sooner, besides, try it and you may just never know another woman in the biblical sense." Elizabeth said, stabbing a finger into Jason's chest.

Jason looked curiously at Elizabeth, he couldn't recall a time she had ever said something so violent, and yet, he'd be telling a lie if he didn't admit that it was kind of a turn on. "Don't worry, you're stuck with me forever. I love you too much to let you go."

"Good, glad we understand each other! Otherwise, we might just have a fight on our hands."

Jason pulled the car off the road, got out of the car and opened Elizabeth's door. Words never seemed to come to him, at least when it really mattered, instead of allowing Elizabeth to think something that could possibly hurt them in the long run, he planned on showing her what she meant to him, what he truly felt for her, even if that meant him doing it on the side of the road…

Tomorrow they would discuss the current problems, tonight, tonight he was going to rediscover his soon to be wife. Tonight, he was going to reaffirm exactly what Elizabeth meant to him, and show her, there was not another woman as perfect for him…

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