Author's Note:I know that first one was PRETTY angsty, but I think you need not worry that I'll be going for Carly heartbreak... NO WAY could I as a DIE NEVER Jarly fan go put my girl through all this without a pay off! Maybe if it were a one shot, but this is NOT! Just remember that sometimes things have to get WORSE before they get better and you'll make it through! In the mean time, thanks for reading and reviewing!

Story #2: Impossible

He watched her, trying desperately to read her like he used to, but as seems to be the case more and more she was not as easy to read as she once was. There was a time when she was clear as glass to him. but that seemed so long ago as he tried to figure out the one woman who could always keep him guessing, even when he knew her as well as he knew himself.

"Carly, what's going on? I want to help you," he began carefully. "But you have to tell me what's wrong so I can fix it."

It's impossible
It's impossible to love you
If you don't let me know what you're feeling
It's impossible for me to give you what you need
If you're always hidin' from me

Releasing a bitter laugh, Carly snarled, "What could you possibly do to help me? I haven't been your priority in years. You just stuck it out because you felt too guilty to cut me loose." She paused to take a shot.

"Drink up! It's your bachelor party! Why won't you learn to loosen up and have fun? It's like if I'm not forcing you to play pool or having sex with you, you don't know how to enjoy yourself. Not that you've bothered to get me off in years… decades really."

Why was he doing this? This is how he always dragged her in. He pretended to care and she fell for it. Then she would fight tooth and nail for some scrap of his attention and defend their relationship to God and everybody while he just… did nothing. She used to know with a certainty that what they had was a true connection. That they weren't just friends or exes, but soulmates bonded. It meant something, but now as she stared into his icy blue gaze, she saw nothing of the man she'd given her life to.

I don't know what hurt you
I just, I wanna make it right
Cuz boy I'm sick and tired of trying to read your mind

"Carly," he warned, fearing where she was going in her drunken haze. Carly never talked to him this way. Ever. It only scared him more and made him afraid of where their bond was that she could attack him this way without provocation. This wasn't the normal venting before she told him everything that was on her mind. No, this was different. Jason felt fear slowly filling him until he was afraid to breathe so for the next hour they drank in silence as the tension built and he tried to figure out how to help her.

Impossible to make it easy
If you always tryin' to make it so damn hard
How can I, how can I give you all my love, baby
If you're always, always puttin' up your guard

She felt her rage build with each drink, but when she heard three words float hauntingly from the jukebox, she snapped.

"Shut that off!" She snapped savagely in the direction of the jukebox.

Spinelli turned from the jukebox to bravely attempt to explain, "But Valkyrie, you must know that this is one of Stone Cold's favorite songs! I—"

"TURN IT OFF! NOW!" she screamed cutting him off. Coleman hurried out to pull the plug as she turned to Jason who was braced for the storm.

"Did I never mean ANYTHING to you? How dare you play our song at the bachelor party for your wedding to that WOMAN?!"

"Carly—" Jason attempted to take her hand to calm.

"Don't you dare!" She snarled, snatching her hand away only to think better of it and slap him. "You disgust me! I have forgiven you for everything and still given you everything I had to give! I married that sick, twisted freak you proudly call your best friend, and fought to make the family I wanted with you with him until it broke my mind!

"Was any of that enough for you to finally forgive me for sleeping with Sonny?! No! November 30, 1999 will forever remain my albatross with you and I'm sick of it!"

This is not a circus
Don't you play me for a clown
How long can emotions keep on goin' up and down

"That's not true, Carly," he asserted. "And it's enough, come on. I'm taking you home."

"First of all, you swear you hate lying and liars, but you're the biggest liar of them all because you lie to yourself every single day, but I'm done buying what you're selling. And secondly, I'm not going home tonight. And even if I was, I wouldn't go there or anywhere else with you!" she sneered and grabbing her purse and jacket, she swept past him toward the backstairs.

Jason took one look at where she was headed and felt his anger and resentment grow. He rushed over to her and tossed her over his shoulder.

"We're gonna settle this once and for all, Carly."

And he continued up the stairs to his old room finally determined to deal with the most painful and most important relationship in his life.

It's impossible (impossible)
Oh baby it's impossible for me to love you
It's the way it is
It's impossible (impossible)
Oh baby it's impossible
If you makin' it this way
~Impossible, Christina Aguilera

Tossing her on the bed, Jason faced his demons as memories flooded him.

"Why are you doing this, Carly? Why are you making us do this?"

"Because in a matter of days, I lose you. And this time, I've decided to give up without a fight, so that means I need to find closure… I need to understand." She sighed, dropping her face into her hands. "I just knew you loved me. Even through the rejections and the pain, I believed in it. Then, I saw you trying to recreate the past… again. I knew once I saw you with Little Lizzie that you had forgiven Robin, otherwise you wouldn't be falling for her clone.

"It was like you refused to see that you had me. I was devoted. I fought for you and I kept your secrets. I would do anything for you then and now. But it was never enough. Sure, I screwed up, but it hurt to know that no matter what I was never gonna come first, even after everything she did. You have forgiven Robin, Liz, and Sam everything they've ever done to you. What's so wrong with me, Jason? I've been more faithful and devoted than all of them together, why was I never deserving of your forgiveness?"

"I forgave you a long time ago. I told you that."

"Talk is cheap, Jason. And your actions speak louder than your words. If you forgave me, like you said, then why didn't I get my second chance? Or rather my first real chance?"