A/N Hello, all, sorry for the long wait, college has taken over my life, rendering it near impossible for me to update. Fortunately, I am on break now, so I am updating as much as I can.

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Dedication: usaprincess242, I sympathize completely with your Journey withdrawals, I really miss them on the show. Thanks for reviewing!

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It had been two weeks since Courtney's birthday, and since then she had worn the necklace Jason gave her every day without interruption. She knew it made him happy, even though he never said anything, and she loved everything about the necklace, especially since she had been told by Robin that Jason had picked it out entirely on his own.

Robin seemed to think this insinuated something about the both of them. Courtney pointedly pretended not to know what she was talking about. Except that it was maybe a little tiny bit true, that at least for her, the necklace meant a little bit more than a gift from one friend to another.

The most frustrating part of it all was that she was positive that Jason didn't feel the same way about her, which meant that there was no point in harboring a torch for a guy who wouldn't look twice at her. Not that she even had much of a chance to talk to him lately, as he had been wrapped up in 'business,' in other words another mob outfit was encroaching on their territory, and thus Jason was busy dealing with it appropriately.

She was currently loitering about in the hallway after cheerleading practice, waiting for Robin, whose tennis practice went a half an hour longer. She had dutifully waited as instructed for Max and Milo to arrive, so that Jason and Sonny wouldn't blow a gasket, except that she really didn't see the harm in walking home herself just this once, her school was really not that far away from home, and she kind of doubted that the one time she decided to walk home alone, a rival mob group would kidnap her or something. Color her an optimist, or whatever, but she thought Sonny and Jason were just a tad too paranoid.

Her internal musings standing thus, she figured that she could at least walk over to the tennis courts and watch Robin for the remainder of her practice from the bleachers, and that way she could spare Max and Milo the trouble of going to too separate parts of the school, and she won't have pushed the rules too much.

Thus, Courtney headed out the front doors of the school and started walking toward the tennis courts which were located a fair distance away near the back of the school. She was just turning the corner when she collided with two men.

"Excuse me, I'm so sorry to have bumped into you, I guess I wasn't paying attention, or something," Courtney hurried to apologize.

"Forget about it, you just made our job a whole lot easier." One of the men remarked to Courtney's puzzlement, at least until she finally looked up and took in their appearance. They were both tall, well-built, with suspicious bulges in their jackets.

"Oh, Fuck." Courtney exclaimed eloquently.

"Would you please be so good as to come with us?" The second man, who was slightly taller, requested, and reached out to take Courtney's arm. She kicked him in the shin. "You little bitch." He swore loudly as the first man reached out to grab her while the other one recovered. She elbowed him in the solar plexus and while he was still hunched over kicked him in a, well let's just say his chances of having children in the future just decreased markedly. The man she had originally kicked came up behind her and seized her around the waist, seemingly disregarding her kicking and screaming as she fought his hold. "Quiet, Blondie, don't make this harder than it is." He hissed in her ear as he placed a hand over her mouth. She bit him. He removed his hand with a yelp. "I didn't think it would be this hard to kidnap a teenage girl."

"What did you expect she's Sonny fucking Corinthos' sister," The other man said between wheezes.

Courtney resumed her quest for freedom, kicking wildly, and letting loose another scream. She was surprised no one had come running yet.

Her captors seemed to be thinking the same thing because the one holding her said at that moment: "We better get her to the car, before the whole school comes running." He then proceeded to drag her toward a black SUV she could see idling a few feet away.

"LET ME GO!" Courtney exclaimed loudly.

"Release her." Courtney had never been so relieved to hear that voice in her life. "Now." Jason's eyes were like steel but she could detect something like fear underneath the obvious anger.

"Jason Morgan…" The man holding Courtney hissed to the other one.

"Don't make me tell you again, let her go, immediately." Jason spoke up, leveling his gun on them.

"Do you honestly think you could shoot both of us, before we could kill her?" The first man spoke up. "I mean I know you're good, Morgan, but give us a break."

"You won't have to find out if you let her go now." Jason replied.

"We're going to take blondie here back to our boss and then we'll give your boss a call about terms to get his precious baby sister back."

"Fuck you." Courtney said and elbowed the man holding her in the gut again. He inhaled sharply and his hold loosened ever so slightly.

"Courtney, get down." Jason shouted.

She threw herself to the ground, startling her captor and managing to break out of his hold. She heard two quick gunshots, and kept her head down, all the while praying that Jason would be all right.

"Are you okay?" And, just like that, Jason was running over to her, and helping her off the ground. "I-I'm fine." Courtney exclaimed, carefully not looking at the two men who she was sure were now dead. Jason looked her up and down evidently checking for any injuries. And, then in a move that shocked her, he pulled her into a tight embrace. "What were you thinking," He whispered against her hair.

"Honestly?" She asked and felt him nod against the top of her head. "That there was no way I could have such terrible luck as to be kidnapped between the front door and the tennis courts."

Jason almost laughed at that, she could tell.

"Thank you." She whispered, pulling back slightly from the hug.

"There's no reason-"

"Yes, there is." Courtney cut him off. And, then steeling all her courage she stood slightly on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his.

A/N Review! New chapter will be out pronto, it will probably be the conclusion of this story.