Chapter 3

*Sam*

Sam was nervously making sure that everything was right and in place. She hurries upstairs to her bathroom and stares in the mirror for a minute. Trying to fix her hair in many styles that are not working at the moment she lets out an exacerbated sigh. She hears Rafe downstairs playing with Danny. She loved hearing Danny's laughter, especially when he's playing with him. Rafe was like a big brother to him. Always looking out for him, making sure he was ok. When Danny got sick it affected him as well as the whole family. He was family and she was gonna make sure it stays that way. Even though Silas has custody of him now.

Silas. The name only made her blush. Sam was smitten with him she didn't know why. Most of the time Silas was cold, unfeeling, and an arrogant jerk. He's emotionally withdrawn at times for reasons he's never divulged. But he has another side to him. One Sam has seen for herself. Silas appeared to be compassionate and capable of feeling for another human being. He was not only one of the reasons why Danny is alive, he was her rock. He saw her at her weakest and pulled her through it. Sam knew she couldn't let him walk out of her life. Sam's broken out of her thoughts when she hears a voice downstairs.

"Hey Uncle Silas!" "Hello Rafe and hell big guy!" Silas says as he picks up a laughing Danny. "Si-Si!" Danny says. "He can talk?" Silas asks surprised. "A little. He can say mama, Mo-mo which is Molly, Kri which is Kristina. He calls me Rae and Molly and I are trying to teach him to call Ms. Davis nana. And Sam taught him how to say your name." Rafe says after a moment. "Really? Isn't that cool." Silas says laughing. Sam smiles to herself. She heads downstairs, not before checking her hair in the mirror one last time. Sam makes it within viewing range of the stairs and sees Silas playing with the boys and is taking back a little. "Sam don't get nervous now." She says to herself but she couldn't help it. The butterflies were churning deep inside and she couldn't stop them. In fact she didn't want to. This was the first time she felt like this since…well since Jason.

She finally made her way into the living room where the guys are. "I see ya'll are enjoying the company." Sam says as everybody looks at her. "Mama!" Danny says he crawls to Sam. Rafe laughs as Silas smiles up to Sam. "That smile…" she thinks to herself as her butterflies got worse. "Well is everybody ready to go?" Silas asks as he stands up. "Yea just let me get his shoes." Sam says as she goes and starts to put on Danny's shoes as he starts giggling and kicking his little legs. "Are we gonna fight putting on your shoes again today?" Sam says playful like as she gets one show on. "Eh!" Danny says holding his foot. "He hates shoes. I think it's hereditary." Sam says trying to get his foot away from him. "No!" Danny protests. "Oh I forget. He also knows that word." Rafe says which made Silas chuckle a little. "Danny come on now we gotta go. You don't want Silas to leave us now do you?" Sam says as she looks at Silas. "Pretend to leave…" Rafe whispers. Silas gets up slowly. "Bye Danny…I'm leaving…" Silas says slowly walking backwards. "See, he's gonna leave us." Sam says. Silas waved bye as Danny looks at him with his head tilted. "Si?" Danny questioned as he looked at his mother. "Eh!" Danny says as he sticks his foot towards Sam. "Thank you." Sam says as she finally gets his shoes on. "Ready." "Alrighty, let's move out." Silas says as he opens the door. Everybody heads out and to his truck.

*Silas*

Everyone is heading to Alexis' house for dinner. Silas was actually surprised that Alexis had even invited him. She wasn't very fond of him to begin with. But she thawed towards him. Mainly because of Sam and Molly. Samantha Morgan who is sitting beside him riding to her mom's. And singing with Rafe to make Danny laugh. 'Come on Silas! Sing with us." Sam says playfully hitting him. "No….I don't want to subject you to the tragedy that is me singing." Silas says as Sam laughs. Sam's laughing made his heart skip a beat. For so long all he saw was Sam sad, mad, depressed that she couldn't do anything to help Danny when he was sick. He tried to cheer her up but that only lasted for a few minutes. Now she was laughing, smiling. Looking like a raven haired beauty in the night. Silas snapped back to reality when Rafe says "Look Danny, we're at Nana's!" Danny starts to bounce in his car seat which made Silas smile.

They get to the door of Alexis' house to which Molly opened the door. "Hey guys!" Molly says as she goes to hug Rafe. Silas really wished they would date but Rafe says they are just friends. "Mo-mo!" Danny says as he tries to wiggle out of his mother's arms. "Alright, alright I can take a hint." Laughs Sam as she passes Danny off to his aunt as they go inside the house. "Good evening everyone." Says Alexis as she goes to hug everyone. "Evening Ms. Davis" says Silas. "Why do you still call me that? Call me Alexis." "Ok." They all sit in the living room and chat. Sam is sitting very close to Silas. "Wow….this is amazing!" Silas thinks to himself. He's sitting close to Sam with her family and they are all having a great time. For the first time in a while he was enjoying himself.

"Dinner's ready!" Shawn* says as he brings the lasagna out. Shawn had been dating Alexis for a couple of months. For an ex marine he seemed like a nice guy. All Silas knew about him was that he worked for Sonny Corinthos. And that is all he wanted to know when it came to Sonny the mobster. They all settled down into eating and swapping stories ranging from Rafe starting high school with Molly next week to Danny covering himself with mashed potatoes at Kelly's one day to the guys talking about the new pro football season coming up and getting into a team war with the women shaking their heads laughing. "I don't know Shawn, I believe Silas got the upper hand on that bet ya'll got going on." Sam says as she drinks her drink. "Really? I didn't know you like football." Asked Silas surprised. "Hell yea! Maybe you could come over and watch football with me and Rafe." Suggests Sam. "Ummm….sure. I would like that." Smiles Silas. Sam smiles as everybody stares at the two of them.

Everyone says goodnight as they leave. Everybody was quiet on the way home. Danny was sound asleep; Rafe was texting Molly talking about what classes they got together in school, Sam was staring out the window. Silas would every now and then glance over and smile. "Wonder what's going through her head." Silas thinks himself. Silas breathes deeply trying get up the nerve to ask her. "What's on your mind Sam?" Silas asks after a minute. "Oh nothing. Just thinking about how much of a good time we all had tonight." Sam smiled. "Yes it was. Been awhile since I've had so much fun." "Really? An accomplished doctor like you doesn't have any fun?" Sam says sarcastically. "You got jokes. I've been so busy. Now I don't have as many patients as I used to. Focusing on helping you raise Rafe and making sure Danny's remission goes accordingly is all I do now." Silas says looking straight ahead. "Well, maybe you should go out. See what Port Charles has to offer. You never know what you might find." Sam says as they pull into the parking lot of the penthouse. "You know maybe your right." They make it to Sam's house and go inside. "Ummmm could you wait down here while I put Danny to bed." Sam asks as they get inside. "Yea sure." Silas says. "Goodnight unc." Rafe says as he heads upstairs. "Night kiddo. I'll pick you up from school tomorrow."

Silas anxiously waited for Sam to come back down. "What could she want? What does she has to say?" Silas thinks to himself. He fidgets to himself and tries to occupy his time by looking around and reading a magazine he found on the coffee table. "Sorry it took so long." "Its fine…..so what's up?" Silas asks after an awkward moment of silence. "Nothing, I just wanted to thank you for coming to dinner at my mother's." Sam says. "Well I never turn down an invitation." Silas laughs nervously. "Yea, hopefully there will be more of that to come." Sam says trying to get a hair out of her face. Silas takes the stray hair and swept it behind her ear. They stared at each other for a minute. "Think fast Silas…if you kiss her it might be too soon." Silas thinks to himself. Sam just stared at him with those big brown eyes. God he wanted to kiss her so bad. "No…too soon." Silas says to himself. "What?" "Nothing…well I better get going. Got an early morning at the hospital…" Silas says as he heads for the door. "O…k…?" They reach the door and Silas is halfway out when he turns around. "Sam, if you don't mind…and if you have the time…maybe, you would….I mean if you could…" Silas starts to ramble. "If I could what?" "Maybe grab some lunch with me tomorrow?" Silas finally gets out. Sam's face lights up, which is a good sign to Silas. "Sure that would be great." Sam says. "Alright…well I guess I see you then. I'll call you." "Ok. Goodnight Silas." "Goodnight Sam." Silas says as he leaves. He gets on the elevator smiling from ear to ear. He gets to his truck and looks back up at the penthouse. He smiles and soon leaves.

Author's note: The "*" by Shawn's name meant to read this little bit of commentary. I shipped Shawn/Alexis or Shalexis and I will keep on shipping it. They were so good together and I feel Alexis was a hypocrite for ending it. That is all