Warning for language and adult situations, just to be on the safe side. Hope you all enjoy and will let me know what you think.

Chapter Eight

*Flashback*

"Elizabeth, I need you to trust me. Things are going to be happening and our lives are going to be in turmoil until I can figure things out. I need you to believe in me and the feelings I have for you."

"What…what are your feelings Jason?"

"You, you know I love you right?"

"No…I don't think I know that. Jason, everything between us has been so hot and cold. I don't even know if we can get past this."

"Please, please baby, don't say that. I love you; I have loved you, for what feels like my whole life. I know everything has been screwed up and we've missed our chance more often than not, but my life, it has been hell ever since you walked out, all those years ago and when you started dating Johnny…I thought my life was over. I can't promise our life will be easy, but I can promise you I will love you till the ends of time and beyond."

"Jason, why now, what's changed?"

"First let me tell you what I want. First I want us to get married tomorrow, I want to bind myself to you in all ways possible. Secondly, I want you to move into a house that I am going to have set up for you, it will have top of the line security features and will keep you as safe as possible and thirdly, no one can know yet."

"Jason?"

"I can't tell you everything, but I think your rape was staged by Sonny and quite possibly some of our guards. I don't know who yet or the why's of it all, but I am being betrayed by those I am closest to. Carly has something to do with this but I don't know what exactly. I know I am asking a lot of you, but you need to know how much I love you, that above all else, is what matters."

"Let me get this straight, we get married, I get a house, but I can't tell anyone about our love, I can't say we are married and if I understand right, we will only get to spend sparse moments together until you figure out this deep, dark plan of Sonny and his loyal flunkies, who just so happen to be not so loyal to you?"

"That's about the gist of it baby. Did I mention I'd love you forever?"

"Yes, you did and I may be completely off my rocker, but my answer is yes. I think maybe this would be the time you send me in to get lobotomized or something." She said with a sardonic smile.

"Well, maybe we both need to be, but I don't care, you said yes, that is all that matters."

"I did say yes."

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"Jason, it has been over two years and you are no closer than you were the day we got married. This has to end. There has to be a way to discover where all the betrayal begins and ends. You need to figure this out and fast."

"I've been trying baby, but every time I think I am making headway, I take five steps back. Please be patient, I am doing as much as I can, without causing anyone to get suspicious."

"Well, you need to move up your plan or time frame or something, because Jason, you know that night you came to see me, when you were talking about Sonny and we made love…well guess what, I'm pregnant. You decided to be loyal to the family brand, except Tracy was cutting corners and there are hundreds of lawsuits because a lot of them were defective."

"Pregnant?!"

"Yes."

"Pregnant, really?"

"Jason…"

"A Baby?"

"Plan on wrapping your mind around this any time soon?" Elizabeth asked but she was smiling.

"Umm…Nope don't think so."

"What has your gears grinding?"

"…you are pregnant and…fuck…I am so damn happy…but I am scared. Everything is going to hell and things are getting more out of control."

"You know I didn't plan this right but I am happy. We've been waiting years to start our lives and this finally feels like a start. We need a plan, a plan to put an end to this. We need to live Jason, not this constant state of fear and wariness."

"Well, since my plans have yet to work or do more than piss us off, got any bright ideas?"

"Yeah, I do, but I don't think you're going to like it."

"Screw liking it, if your plan can do more than mine, I'm all for it."

"Okay, well, here is what I think we need to do…"

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"If this goes badly, I could lose you both."

"True, but if we don't do something, we aren't really living anyway."

"Okay, but if this goes completely hari-kari I want you to go to our safe place. No one and I do mean no one besides you and I know about it. You'll be safe there."

"Jason, please don't talk like this, don't be fatalistic. We may not have a perfect life right now but we have the ability to make it so."

"There was a reason we didn't run off into the sunset when we got married. Even though we don't talk about it, there are still people here that we care about."

"I know, but you mean more and if that makes me a bad person, so be it."

"You could never be a bad person and you are right, there is more at stake now, than ever before."

"So, we fake going on the run and a fight, you leave me and hope the people you are leaving to protect me, will do so, once I'm taken."

"They have damn near everything I own bugged and tracking devices in everything. We have to sell this, like we are going for an Oscar."

"We can do this. Just remember what we have to come home to."

"It is all I think about."

"Wait, how do you know they are going to arrest you for Ric's murder?"

"I paid some vagabond to say he saw someone fitting my description in the area around the time of Ric's death."

"Who tipped you off that Carly was going to kill him?"

"I can't tell you right now but thankfully we still have men loyal to the Morgan side of the business."

"Okay, so tomorrow…" Elizabeth said but trailed off. Her heart heavy, but she knew freedom was around the corner, in one form or another.

"Yes, tomorrow…" Jason agreed, but also trailed off. His heart just as heavy.

*End Flashback*

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