Part 2

"Are you sure you're ready for this, man?"

Shawn and Jason shared a look of understanding as the music began.

He smiled as his best friend made her entrance. As she made her way down the aisle to take her place, she looked amazing and he couldn't take his eyes off of her through the whole ceremony. He was feeling his love reaffirmed with every moment. When he finally took her in his arms, he felt like life had finally come full circle. Walking down the aisle hand in hand, she whispered, "That wasn't so bad."

As they looked at Lucky and a very pregnant Sam, he smiled and whispered, "Ours was better."

"What could be better than you, me, the kids, and a few Spencers on the beach in Florida?" she quipped kissing her husband.

"Nothing," he assured her with a chuckled. "That's what I'm saying."

She laughed that special laugh that she reserved for him alone. "And who'd have thought a couple of years ago today I'd be matron of honor for Sam with you as best man for Lucky."

"Not me," he grumbled tugging at his collar. "Lot's changed."

"Well, one thing never will," Carly swore. "I told you a long time we would never be over."

Jason pulled his wife closer. "And you were right. We never will be."

They looked at the crowd surrounding them. Maxie released Shawn's arm to take Spinelli's. He nodded to and turned to wrap his arms around Gia, who had been talking to Jax and Alexis. After Carly had left him for her best friend, Jax had turned to his own best friend and things had finally blossomed between them.

For whatever reason, Brenda had gotten really upset about Jason and Carly's reconnection. In a fit of temper, she'd run off, probably expecting him to leave town chasing after her. He hadn't, not when he knew it would hurt Carly so much. Besides, Sonny had chosen to follow her instead. And Shawn had finally gotten enough information from the Balkin to verify his identity, allowing Jason to put an end to his threat. They hadn't seen Brenda or Sonny since they left, but he was receiving regular updates. They had been chasing Suzanne around the globe in search of Brenda's son.

Carly nudged Jason as she tried to hide her laughter. Luke and Laura stood bickering as did their respective spouses, Tracy and Scott. Watching their squabbles brought to mind the man who Lucky had originally intended to be his best man, Nikolas Cassadine. Unfortunately for the brothers, Liz was nearing her due date and it wasn't safe for her to travel. She was on Cassadine Island in Greece after all and it was a lot of hours for such a heavily pregnant woman to be cooped up on an airplane. Spinelli had a surprise for the reception. There would be some kind of web chat or video chat or whatever set up so that the brothers could share what should be the most important moment in Lucky's life.

His own reconnection to Lucky had been a real surprise for him. It had started when Lucky decided to leave the force and join Sam & Spinelli's PI agency. Lucky had bonded with Spinelli and rekindled his relationship with Sam. It took time, but everything had worked itself out and Carly and Sam had even managed forge a bond that was stronger than either had ever expected to share with the same sex. They became closer than anyone could have anticipated.

The Spencers were closer now than ever as well and as much as Luke had held things together in the past, it had somehow fallen to himself and Carly now. Lulu had finally broken ties with Dante and come crying to them desperate to apologize and make things right. Carly had been hesitant, but eventually they had begun rebuilding their tattered relationship. As he and Lucky had gotten closer, so had Lucky and Carly. Now, theirs was the home that everyone gathered in for holidays. When advice was needed or a shoulder to cry on, they became the ones to go to. Even Carly and Luke had formed a strange almost father-daughter relationship.

"Come on, we have to make an appearance at the reception," Carly whispered happily. "If we hurry, we might be able to complete all of our matron of honor and best man duties and then sneak away for a little while before we have to pick up Joss, Mason, and Jacey. Not to mention, before Morgan gets home."

"Do you think we can pull it off?" he chuckled glancing at her.

Carly's eyes twinkled with mischief. "Oh, are you doubting me? That sounded like a challenge mister. Besides, it has been four weeks since the twins were born and I am ready to make love to my husband."

Jason felt the blood begin to rush and his eyes darkened. "I thought we were supposed to wait six weeks," he whispered huskily.

"You saying you want to wait," she challenged receiving the answer immediately as his mouth crushed hers. "That's what I thought."

"Hey, none of that you two," Maxie smirked arm in arm with Gia.

"Yeah, we have a reception to get to and you're not the newlyweds anymore," Gia insisted sticking her tongue out at Carly.

"Shawn," Jason called. "Get your girl before I call Taggert in New York, and tell him what his little sister's boyfriend does for a living."

Carly chortled, "Checkmate! Let's go."

As everyone began filling the waiting limos as jokes and insults were traded, Jason had the thought that life had never been better. Carly began leading the way to their car when he stopped her. Carly tugged at his hand before looking at him curiously with one eyebrow raised. He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. "Thank you for trusting me."

Her eyes lit up and a smile spread across her face. "No, thank you for catching me."

The End

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Author's Note: Hope you guys had a wonderful holiday weekend, and that you've enjoyed my little history rewrite...

For those of you confused by my addition of Sam-considering my intense pixie hate-I can explain. Since her arrival on the show the ONLY time I've EVER liked her AT ALL was during LuSam. I even removed her from the pixie category during that time, and considered the possibility of a CarSam friendship... Not my fault TIIC threw her back into the pixie bucket! I stand by my current hatred of everything about this character and ALL other pixies: *DeathtoPixies* *AllPixiesMustDie*