Chapter 11
"You know...I really have a lot to do tonight Jason. Can't we just order a pizza or something? I mean it's not Thursday so it's not like we'd be breaking tradition with the boys. I have to make stuffing. I really wish I had my Dad's recipe. And...you know Mrs Watson hasn't baked any pies yet. I hope you didn't screw up by not buying one. Maybe she's baking them all today. What if she forgets to make one for us. I cannot believe you decided we'd be better off staying at home just the four of us. You know I can't cook so you are going to have to help me. I've been studying online though. You know my Grandmother used to put the turkey in the over overnight. When we lived in Texas I used to love waking up Thanksgiving morning to the smell of the turkey already cooking." Maxie whined as she steamed out a crème colored pantsuit that just came in from Chanel. The mayor's wife ordered it for her party this coming Saturday and she was meeting her at the boutique first thing Friday morning with the seamstress for the fitting. "Honestly, I really think we should skip Keegans tonight. Or maybe we could just order take out."
"Maxie, I want the fish bites. I love the fish bites." Cameron announced from behind the counter. Brittany had the night off so Cameron didn't have much to do.
They were planning to handle the new stock Friday morning while Maxie dealt with Mrs. Pickett. A rather difficult woman but someone who had spent thousands of dollars in the boutique since her daughter's wedding so they all put up with her with a smile on their face.
"Maxie we'll eat there....It won't take long. Besides, I'm really craving the She Crab Soup. I may not let you have your usual two bites at first." Jason smiled and grabbed Maxie from behind pulling her into his chest.
Cameron watched and just smiled thinking this was confirmation that he was right.. He had noticed that Jason had been doing things lately like holding Maxie's hand and hugging her a lot. Just like the way Juniors Daddy did with Hannah. He was old enough to know what that meant.
Jason likes Maxie so they will get married like you're supposed to when a boy likes a girl.
I am NEVER going to like a girl. EVER!
Except Maxie...and Hannah...and Mrs. Watson...and Vonnie...and Miss Sallywho's super nice and bakes cookies. Melanie's okay at school but not at aftercare when she was at home. Then she was bossy. Bossy Bessy, that's what Miss Sally called her when Matthew and Monte were making her crabby...Ling-Mei is okay but she's just a baby, even younger than Jake and Cookie is really fun but NOT Miss Payton-Wainwright cause she was mean to Maxie at the pizza place. Maxie said it was because she liked Jason and Jason didn't like her and Jason agreed. Well...nodded and grunted but for Jason that's like a yes.
No wonder he doesn't like her when she's so mean to Maxie. Me and Jake don't like her for the same reason.
"What do you think Jake?" Maxie asked patting Cameron on the knee pulling the little boy from his thoughts.
"I don't care. Do I haveta come back with you guys Friday? I wanna stay home with Daddy. He said we were going to show the people the new town." Jake said as he pulled a new Swifter duster from the box and started dusting the shelf with all the shoes on it.
"What?" Maxie turned to look at Jason who was glaring at his youngest son. "Jason what is Jake talking about?"
"Uh...he's...he's just confused. I was planing to go into town to get a peephole for our front door. It's safer than looking out the side window." he let out a breath as if it were a sigh of relief that the lie he told actually sounded somewhat plausible.
But Maxie was too astute.
"Why would we need to have a peephole? Is there something going on? Have you had a phone call or seen someone that looks suspicious around the house? Because if you have, I think we should move. I don't really care if we are supposed to stay there for five years. The four of us can up and leave and I wouldn't care a bit as long as we're safe."
"Hey hey hey..." Jason said as he turned Maxie around in his arms and grasped her shoulders with both hands. "Nothing has happened, we're safe. Where is this coming from?"
Maxie buried her face in his chest and he kissed the top of her head while wrapping his arms around her in a tight embrace.
Yep Cameron thought to himself watching Maxie and Jason They're getting married.
"I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop." Maxie murmured.
"What?" Jason pulled her shoulders back so he could see her face. He crouched down to her eye level and finally she lifted her ocean blue eyes to his crystal ones. "What are you talking about Maxie?"
"I'm happy. I have everything I want." she looked around the boutique and smiled at a curious Cameron watching their every move and an oblivious Jake dusting the fake plant. "Right in this very room right now. You three and this boutique. I finally have it all. All my dreams are right here so they have to be ripped away from me. It's too good to be true."
"The other shoe." he breathed and then pulled at her to follow him into the back room away from the boys. Once behind the storeroom door he pulled her back into his arms.
"Maxie, I don't want you over-thinking this. When you do that you make stupid stupid decisions. Just lay back and let it happen for us. Just be happy. You deserve it. We're not in danger...and...and I'm here...I'll protect us."
He pushed her hair back out of her eyes. She had changed her hair style again and Jason was surprised when he picked her up at the salon today to see it curly and standing out in all different directions. She always had millions of different hair styles and he normally liked them but this one looked like she was fresh out of a bed. Big fat curls all wildly pointing this way and that. He was lucky the kids were in the back seat of the truck when she got in or he would have attacked her in the car right there.
And he had big plans for their first time.
Which he planned to be Sunday.
They would take Mac and Bobbie back to the airport mid afternoon and then they would drop the kids off with Vonnie. She said the kids could spend the night with her and she'd drop them off at daycare and school the next morning. That way Jason and Maxie could spend the morning in bed as well.
Jason had cleared it with his boss to have Monday off, another secret he was keeping from Maxie. He figured they could really spend their time getting to know each others pleasures and then maybe go take an early afternoon walk on the beach before picking up the kids. Then they would sit the boys down and explain to them that Daddy and Maxie were a couple now.
Oddly, that conversation made him just as nervous as the speech he had rehearsed for Mac. His only comfort was that Bobbie would be there for support and that the boys were too young to ask too many questions.
He had never EVER put so much thought and effort into having a relationship with a woman. Not even with Courtney whom he admitted he had to work the hardest at because of who she was related to, who he hurt being with her and how she felt about his job.
"Jason...I have really been thinking about this...us...and...I'm so scared."
"Scared of what?" he asked smoothing his hands down her arms to comfort her. She had on a powder blue long sleeved sweater over a pair of dark blue denim skinny jeans and brown leather boots with three inch heels that matched the brown leather jacket that Jason had bought her for her birthday.
"Scared of screwing this up. Of doing just what you are thinking...something stupid that I just can't stop myself at and ruining any chance of you trusting me. I'm scared of making promises I never ever keep, I'm scared of disappointing you and the boys...and myself by just being me."
"But you've grown up Maxie. I don't want to say you've changed but you have matured. You put me and the boys first all the time and just a year ago you only considered others if it benefit you."
"A year ago?" she smoothed her hand up his chest, loving the feel of his muscles ripple underneath.
She smiled realizing he was wearing the cornflower blue button down shirt she had bought for the store but decided it would look best on him. She had just sent the other sizes back yesterday. And he had on khaki dress pants and a pair of brown leather loafers she had bought him as well.
"Okay, more than a year ago but in the last two years...with me and the boys...you...you've become so important to us and you've really taken care of us."
"You're wearing the clothes I bought you." she smiled up at him and caught him off guard.
"Huh?" he looked down at her, his train of thought broken. And he wanted to tell her how much she meant to him...and the boys.
"Your clothes...I bought this for you two weeks ago and you grumbled that you would never wear it."
"Yeah and....?"
"You're wearing it."
He smiled big back at her huge twinkling smile. "I am"
"You went to your closet today after you got home from work and showered and went past all the jeans and those ratty motorcycle boots and black t-shirts and you pulled this out just to pick me up from the hair salon and come to the boutique to do inventory, unload boxes and go eat dinner."
She stepped in to him and wrapped her slender arms around his waist. He in turn dropped his hands from her arms and behind her pulling her flush with his body, loving the feel of her stomach pressing up against his groin. Quickly his hand moved up into her hair and he tugged her head back.
Slowly he lowered his head to hers and stared into her eyes waiting for her to finish closing the distance. And she didn't disappoint. She tipped up on her toes and let her lips lightly brush against his. Jason angled his head and took her lips and devoured her mouth with his. His tongue slid across her bottom lip silently seeking entrance and Maxie granted the request on a soft sigh molding into his body as her knees when slack and she felt him lift her slightly to him.
His tongue entered her mouth and twirled with hers as his one hand tangled through her hair and the other slipped to her behind squeezing it as he pressed it against him. Her arms came up around and clasped behind his neck pulling him down to her.
The kiss quickly spiraled out of control which is what happened every time they saw each other since the first kiss they shared last night. He couldn't sleep and went to Maxie's room at four am to pull her out of bed where Jake was still sleeping and into the living room. They laid on the couch and made out for an hour until, right on time, Jake woke up looking for Maxie.
Luckily they had never fixed the squeak in her door so they were forewarned that he was coming.
Then just before he left for work, she pulled him into the kitchen away from prying little eyes for a too quick round of tonsil diving. And he called her phone from the garage and told her to come out to the car where he kissed her again, soundly, on the hood of her Toyota.
He took a long lunch and went out to her boutique spending a half hour with her straddling him on his lap, kissing every inch of her from the neck up. Then when he got off work, he beat feet to the salon before her weekly facial, pedicure, manicure and hair style to sneak a few kisses before he went to shower and get the boys.
Then in the past two hours that they had been at the boutique, they would make excuses for the boys to go up to the loft which they were planning to turn into Maxie's open office to make room for a bigger mens section of the store. They would hide behind a display and steal quick kisses or find reasons, just like they had done this time, to go to the back room to make love to each other with their mouths.
Finally pulling away, Jason looked over the top of her head and ran his fingers through her hair. "Your hair looks beautiful like this. Sexy...it works with the leather and jeans. You look like you should be on the back of my bike."
"I'm not riding that thing." she smirked at the five month old argument.
Ever since he had it up and running, she refused to go riding with him. Even Denny had risked life and limb to take a ride on the back of Jason's bike but not Maxie. Jason could never get a clear explanation why, she just would say it's his escape.
"Yeah I like this style and Alison showed me how to do it...it's so easy." She pulled from his arms and turned to the full length mirror and gave herself a once over. She wiped some lipstick that had smeared from their kiss and tousled her hair before Jason came up behind her and rested his head on her shoulder meeting her eyes with his in the mirror. "And if you really like it..."
"I really really like it." He said sliding his arms around her again and leaning in to kiss her neck.
"You know...I make money at this boutique now right?"
"Yeah...you've been showing a profit for a few months now. You know I've been thinking, you should start paying yourself a salary as the manager of the shop. It would help with taxes to show your time as an expense. The amount we would pay in employer taxes on you would be minimal compared to the amount we'd save at the year end by putting you on the payroll."
"So I would have my own money."
"You already have your own money Maxie. The profits from the boutique and...well the credit card I gave you...you know you can do whatever you want with it."
He pulled back, not sure where this was going.
"Except change your wardrobe and redecorate the house."
"Um...I'm wearing new clothes and the house could use a few style touches that would be nice." he conceded. He loved arguing with her and really loved telling her 'no' just to get that spunk in her to let loose but he honestly didn't care what she did to the house as long as she left his room and the garage alone. And honestly, he hoped by this time next month they would be sharing a room so that just left the garage.
"So I could afford to pay for my own stuff at the salon right?"
"Yeah but why..." he trailed off realizing what she was thinking. He watched her jaw set and knew she was contemplating whether she should bring up Spinelli or not since they were doing so well and getting so close. "Maxie...Spinelli hasn't been paying that bill since two months after we moved here."
"He hasn't? Who has?" She asked, confusion setting into her forehead and eyes as she looked up at him through the mirror again.
"I...I went to the salon back in March or April or whenever and gave them my credit card to charge."
"Why would you?"
He cut off her words, "Because you do so much for me and the boys. Because...because it's...it's my...responsibility to take care of my family. Not Spinelli's."
His words literally made her melt into him and until Jake interrupted them, they spent the next few minutes doing what they had been enjoying every chance they got since yesterday.
Madly, passionately kissing each other.
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To say Maxie was surprised to see Bobbie and especially Mac sitting in their usual booth was putting it mildly. She jumped for joy, accidentally knocking over another patron's beer as she leaped into Mac's arms to greet him.
Jason stood back smiling as he watched father and daughter hug each other. He was so amazed he pulled off the surprise. Keeping things from Maxie was like trying to keep things from Carly.
"Jason...it's so good to see you." Bobbie smiled and hugged Jason hard around the shoulders.
"You too Bobbie. I'm so glad you agreed to come spend Thanksgiving with us. I know you're going to miss spending it with your family. I really appreciate your being here instead." He hugged her back, lifting her off the ground.
He had missed any connection with Port Charles. He had so many questions about Carly and Morgan and Mike and Luke. And even the Quartermaines. He was also anxious to talk to someone who knew Maxie Jones and Jason Morgan and get an opinion about their growing feelings.
"And who are these two strangers? This cannot be Cameron and Jacob. There's no way! The last time I saw them they were little babies and these two here...well they look like those two babies but you two are big big boys." Bobbie bent down to eye level with the boys.
Jake moved to hide behind his father's legs but Cameron recognized the red haired nurse. "Aunt Bobbie!" He jumped into her open arms and hugged her neck.
All the adults looked at each other and Jason cringed when he saw the worried look on Maxie's face. Everyone in the room at the PCPD wondered whether Cameron would remember Bobbie. It was one of the reasons the agents didn't think it would be a good idea having Bobbie as one of their three contacts. And sure enough, the little boy remembered her.
But he had done so well with the other made up stories they told to the people of Largo, Florida. Maybe they would be okay.
Maxie pulled herself from Mac's arms and with an uneasy glance at Jason she turned to Bobbie, "Mom, I'm so glad you are here. I cannot believe you and Jason pulled off this surprise."
She hugged Bobbie tightly. Although they had not seen eye to eye over the past couple of years before she, Jason and the boys left Port Charles, she was still the mother of BJ so that provided the two women with a special bond that would last a lifetime.
Picking up Maxie's prompt Bobbie pulled back from the hug and cupped Maxie's face in her hands. "Maxie, my dear sweet baby daughter, you look beautiful. Florida is treating you well I see."
Jason crouched down to Cameron and pulled Jake from behind him looking both boys in the eyes. "Cam, I know you call Bobbie Aunt Bobbie but she's to be called....um..."
"Nana" Mac interjected. "And I'm Mac. Nana's...boyfriend?"
He put an arm around Bobbie's shoulders and nodded his head in approval of his own lie.
Jason shook his head and stood up. This was insane. He hated lying and he hated that he was telling his boys lies. But worse than that, he hated that he was asking his boys to lie. It wasn't who he was and wasn't who he wanted his boys to be.
Maxie saw the look on Jason's face and took the hint. "Hey boys, lets go look at the fish tank and then go to the bathroom to wash our hands before dinner." She turned to her father and smiled, "Mac we'll be right back."
Once she and the boys left the three other adults took their seats. Jason ordered drinks for Maxie and the boys and then they discussed their new lies and how they would explain things if the boys accidentally said something.
Basically Jason didn't want to convince the boys to lie. What was just said in explanation was enough so they would just have to cover if the boys said anything to anyone from there. Bobbie said that they should explain that she had always told Cameron from birth that she was Aunt Bobbie because she was TOO young to be a Grandma. Mac agreed that the explanation was plausible. Mac would be a family friend who owned a moving company, since he had already been established as a mover by the neighbors and that he and Bobbie had been a couple for a few years. He had served with Bobbie's first husband in Vietnam. Elizabeth's father, not Maxie's.
By the time Maxie came back with the boys, Jason looked much more reassured about things so Maxie took that as a good sign. He would tell her what was discussed later when they were having their nightly talk on the patio.
Then that thought struck her hard. Mac, her Dad, was here. What did that mean for her and Jason's new relationship?
They ate dinner, chatting about this and that. The boys new friends and school. Jason's job and Maxie's boutique. They didn't talk much about Port Charles except in vague overtones. They didn't want to say much in front of the boys.
The booth was a circular booth and Jason missed sitting next to Maxie. She was next to Mac, of course, and Jake was next to her, as always. Bobbie was on the other side of Jake and Cam sat between him and Bobbie.
Throughout dinner, Jason and Maxie's eyes would meet and the corner of his mouth would turn up. He was nervous and would instantly look to see if Mac was watching them but just knowing that Maxie was probably thinking the same thing would send a warm sensation through his bloodstream.
He could not wait to find five minutes alone with her. His lips were itching to kiss her again.
When they got home, Jason showed Bobbie his room where she'd be staying and Maxie showed Mac to Jake's room. The boys went to take their baths like they were told so that they could watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and then Atlantic Squarepantis. Two shows the boys had been excited to watch all week.
Once they were settled, Maxie sat on a barstool at the breakfast counter next to Jason and watched as Mac prepared his famous stuffing and Bobbie prepped the bird and made pies. Jason's job was to peel potatoes and Maxie was grating cheese for the Macaroni and Cheese that Jason loved of Bobbie's.
Mac was oblivious to the longing glances between Jason and Maxie or the fact that Jason's chair had moved closer and closer to Maxie. Or when he would grab on to her hand for a brief moment while watching Mac's back for signs the older man would turn around.
Mac was finally done with his part of the dinner's preparations and so was Jason so they grabbed two beers and then headed out to the garage so Jason could show off his vintage motorcycle and they could check out Maxie's car which she had mentioned was making a new noise.
Maxie had moved on to picking through cranberries for the sauce and washing and snapping fresh greenbeans. Bobbie was slicing apples for the fresh Apple Pie while the pumpkin pie was baking.
"So...you and Jason huh?" Bobbie nudged Maxie with her shoulder.
"Are you going to put the turkey in the oven tonight? My grandmother used to do that and I loved the way it made the house smell in the morning." Maxie was avoiding Bobbie's comment but Bobbie didn't let up.
"Sure, we can put it in tonight before we go to bed and set it on two twenty five so it cooks slowly. The question is, which bed will Jason be sleeping in? He said Cameron's bottom bunk but it looked to me like maybe he wanted to sleep in yours. Am I seeing things or did you and Jason keep giving each other googly eyes at dinner and then barely resist touching each other on the other side of that counter a few minutes ago?"
Maxie stopped what she was doing, rinsed her hands and then turned off the water picking up a kitchen towel to dry her hands. "You...um...you weren't seeing things?"
Bobbie smiled and put down the paring knife and wiped her hands on her apron. "That's what I thought. Come on...let's hear it."
Maxie started to talk a few times but would quickly shut her mouth. Her eyes landed everywhere in the kitchen except on Bobbie and she fidgeted with the kitchen towel until Bobbie finally took it from her hands and tugged at her until Maxie finally looked into the older woman's eyes.
"I...we...he...it's new. It...we were at this wedding and..."
"Maxie, why are you so nervous? How new is this?"
"We've only kissed...and that just started last night."
"Oh so this is really new." Bobbie moved the apples and the bowl over beside the kitchen sink and went back to work, motioning to Maxie to do the same. It was getting late and Thanksgiving dinner didn't prepare itself.
"Yes and no. We've...we've really grown close. Like...like a family. And...well...I don't know."
"You've grown to care about each other?" Bobbie offered to help Maxie try to explain.
"So much. I...I really love the boys and Jason is such a good father and..."
"But what about YOU Maxie...what about Jason and you. Forget the boys and forget Jason being their father...what about Jason for you?"
"He's perfect" she whispered as if she'd told the biggest secret of her life.
"I've known Jason for many many years Maxie and he's far from perfect. He's brooding and silent. He has a really bad temper at times and he doesn't put up with crazy schemes and foolish antics."
"And that would be me." Maxie sighed.
"Well yes but...listen Maxie, you remind me a lot of Carly when she was younger but she grew up and matured and I think...well from what I've seen tonight...you have too. What I was getting at was that Jason is far from perfect especially for someone as energetic and animated as you."
"We're polar opposites." she smiled half heartedly.
"Well yes but you know what they say...opposites attract." Bobbie laughed.
They continued talking while working in the kitchen. Maxie told her about the night of the wedding how they danced and how good it felt to be in his arms. She told her about Robbie and how Jason had saved her. She told her about their big fight and how Jason had never given up when Maxie was giving him the silent treatment.
Finally she turned to Bobbie seriously when Bobbie asked her the one question she had been asking herself for weeks, months even.
"Bobbie, I'm in love with Jason. Head over heels, one hundred percent, can't stop thinking about him, tingling sensations when he touches me, butterflies in the stomach, crazy, madly, deeply in love with him."
"Have you told him?"
"No! It's too soon. It would probably scare him off. He's the one that's taking things slowly. He doesn't want to rush into a relationship because...well it would be so complicated for the boys if we tried and it didn't work out."
"What if it did? I don't think you should ever hold back on love for fear of something that may or may not happen. You cannot plan to fail."
"That's just it...I don't want to fail. I just...I love him so much but how could he possibly love someone like me?"
"Well, you just have to let him...in his own time. Jason obviously cares a great deal for you. I could see it when he didn't know I was watching. He looks at you like you are the only person in the room. The big question is...where do you two go from here?"
"And what is Mac going to say about it?" she laughed placing the colander of cranberries aside to work on snapping the greenbeans.
Jason had walked in the door and heard Maxie's admission. He stood there a few moments, silently listening in on their conversation. Finally the mention of Mac brought him out of his haze. He made some noises and reopened and shut the door to the garage loudly pulling it closed and calling out to Maxie.
"Hey Maxie...your...Mac wanted to talk to you about your car." he said as he walked quickly into the kitchen.
Maxie smiled up at him and his breath halted in his chest. She loved him. Maxie was in love with him.
And if he were honest with himself, he was in love with her too.
"Here, take him a beer." Jason reached into the refrigerator and handed Maxie a beer, brushing hands with hers and relishing the soft skin on his rougher skin. The same tingling sensations he'd been feeling for weeks every time he touched her went through him again.
Maxie headed out to the garage and Jason moved to the living room and told the boys it was time to brush their teeth and get ready for bed. He'd be in there in a minute to read to them.
"Jason, do you think they would mind if I read to them tonight? I really have missed them a lot."
"Um...sure I think they'd love that." Jason smiled at the older woman.
"And maybe you could figure out a way to get Maxie alone for five minutes." she winked.
If only... He thought suddenly feeling like there were way too many people at his house.
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That night Maxie and Jason met on the back patio for their usual meeting at the lounge chair. Mac had gone to sleep and about one am Jason pulled Jake off of him and tiptoed to Maxie's room praying the squeaking door would not wake Mac who'd been down for about an hour.
Jason couldn't sleep. He'd been thinking about what he overheard Maxie admit to Bobbie. Then what Bobbie had said after the boys were asleep and Maxie and Mac were on the back patio talking to Robin on Mac's cell phone.
She said that he should be very careful with Maxie's heart. That she had suffered so much already and that the heart she shared with BJ could only take so much damage. She made him promise that he would be understanding and remember that she was so much younger than him and was bound to make a lot of missteps with the relationship but that she could tell that Maxie really wanted to work hard at keeping the four of them a family.
Also that she saw Jason listening in and that he should let Maxie tell her in her own time. And that she knew Jason had a hard time with words but sometimes women needed to hear what the man is thinking to reassure them.
He held Maxie for about twenty minutes before he ever said a word. Maxie talked enough for the both of them and after his surprise, she had a lot to say and thank him for. Finally, realizing they were cutting it close. That Mac could wake up any time and catch them on the patio with her in his lap, he stopped her constant chatter with his lips.
They kissed for a few minutes and he pulled back and tipped her chin up to look straight into her eyes.
"I want to ask your father's permission to date you."
"What?"
"I want to do this the right way Maxie. You mean so much to me...I want the one person that really matters to you to give me his blessing to be with you...to lo...to live with you and..."
"Jason, Mac isn't the only one that matters to me...you...you and the boys...you are so important to me. Even if Mac said he didn't approve I would be with you."
"Still...I want him to know."
"When are you going to talk to him?" she sat up and looked out at the yard absently in thought. She could have sworn he was going to say he wanted Mac's blessing to 'love' her but then he stopped himself and said 'live' with her.
"Well...I was thinking...maybe I would wait to talk to him just before they leave for the airport...just in case he draws his gun on me or something. That way I won't have to hide too long."
She laughed, an infectious, belly rumbling laugh. She threw her head back and smiled widely. Jason smiled watching the joy on her face.
GOD he was falling in love with this woman more and more every day.
Bobbie watched from the sliding doors that lead to Jason's bedroom. The look on Jason's face told her everything she needed to know. There was no way she could tell him what she had intended to tel lhim now. No way she could possibly interrupt his happy life with the news that she knew he would want to know but then would want to see and handle for himself.
He had a beautiful new life here in Southwest Florida. Beautiful boys that were thriving and a budding romance that had the promise to be everything he could never find in Port Charles.
Maxie had everything he needed. She was a 'take charge' kind of person like Robin. She kept him on his toes always needing him to rescue her from her own self like Carly. She was comparable to Courtney because both women had lived a semi hard life and had to live with some of their poor decisions but refused to give up. They were judgmental and they were both bleached blonds which was not the norm for Jason. She was adventurous like Sam, which Jason thrived on and she was maternal and giving and loved to ramble on and on like Elizabeth.
Nope, the look on his face watching Maxie laugh told her that he was exactly where he needed to be...living the life he wanted to. She wasn't going to ruin that with talk of Port Charles, knowledge that they knew Claudia hired Jerry Jacks and Ian Devil to shoot Sonny but the police couldn't prove it. The assassination attempt which accidentally backfired and Michael was shot instead. She couldn't tell him that Claudia got out of jail on a technicality. She couldn't tell him that Carly was pregnant with a baby girl but was also suffering from a rare blood disorder and that if the pregnancy didn't kill her, the birth could. She couldn't tell him that four months ago Mike Corbin was killed by one of the Five Families that had moved in to try to take over parts of Port Charles that Johnny Zacharra, with his sister's help, had not yet taken over. They made it look like he had gotten killed over an old gambling debt but Bobbie knew Mike hadn't slipped since Sonny went to jail and Jason left town. He knew there was no one there to protect him anymore.
And she couldn't tell him that two months ago, Carly approved for Michael to have an experimental surgery and that now he was alive and awake and just as angry of a young man as Jason was when he woke up all those years ago.