A/N: Sorry for the long time between posts….. the muse is being a bit of a reluctant B. That, and I'm currently reading the Fifty Shades trilogy. Without further ado….

Chapter Twenty-Six

As soon as Lucky walked out of the room, Elizabeth wilted to the floor in hysterical tears. She couldn't believe how badly that went. She also realized how much worse it would have been if Nicholas and Emily hadn't been there. She was inconsolable.

Emily thought about calling her brother, but decided that she didn't want to take the chance of him running into Lucky while Lucky was still so pissed. Wrapping her arms around her best friend, she murmured soothing sounds while her friend cried.

Jason was standing on the docks waiting for the launch from Spoon Island to arrive. He was anxious about what was going on with Elizabeth and Lucky. He vaguely saw the launch approaching, but was too distracted by his own thoughts to pay it much attention. He had an unsettling feeling in his gut that things weren't going to go well. Seeing the boat dock, he moved forward automatically only to be caught by the fist flying into his face. He stumbled backwards seeing that it was Lucky that hit him, he knew that the other man obviously knew about his and Elizabeth's night together. Understanding the other man's anger, he allowed this one hit to go unreturned. "Lucky…" he started to say.

"Stay the hell away from me Morgan, or I swear to God, I will kill you!" shouted the unreasonable man. He had hated this man since his return from captivity and seen how close Jason and Elizabeth had become in his time away. "I fucking apologized to you for trying to set you up! And you didn't have the balls to tell me that you fucked my wife!"

Trying to reason with his long ago friend, Jason said to him, "Look, I know you're pissed. You have every right to be. We should have told you. But Elizabeth was already scared because you were using then, and she didn't want to give you a reason to go back to using."

"Oh, so I'm supposed to forgive her, because she was trying to protect her pathetic, loser husband?" he sneered.

"No. I'm just trying to get you to see where she was coming from when she asked me not to tell you," the older man explained.

"Yeah, well, fuck both of you!" he yelled and stormed off. Even through his anger, he knew that Jason wouldn't allow him to just beat the hell out of him, like he wanted to.

Jason stared after Lucky for a few moments before anxiously boarding the launch that would take him to Elizabeth. He needed to see if she was alright. He was worried that if Lucky had gotten that physical with him, there was no telling what he might have done to her. Lucky had better pray that he didn't lay a hand on Elizabeth, or else nothing would stop him from giving him the beat down he deserved.

Elizabeth was still on the floor, with Emily's arms wrapped around her, when Jason walked into the room. Emily started apologizing as her brother made a beeline to the woman he so obviously loved. Waving his sister's apologies off, Jason crouched down beside the mother of his child, "Lizabeth?"

Barely raising her head, she launched herself into Jason's arms, rocking him back on his heels a bit. Settling her more firmly in his embrace, he picked her up and carried her to the couch. Sitting down with her in his lap, he proceeded to rub one hand up and down her back, while cradling her cheek with the other. Whispering words to her, her sobs begin to lessen after several minutes, slowly dying down to sniffles.

Burying her face in the crook of his neck, she began to brokenly tell him what had happened during the argument with Lucky. Jason managed to reign in his temper, she didn't need his anger. She needed him to comfort her. He could get angry later. He'd been doing a good job, until she got to the part with him calling his children bastards.

Elizabeth purposefully left out the part where Lucky grabbed her and would have hit her if Nic hadn't stepped in. She was hoping that neither Emily nor Nicholas would mention it, either. Wiping the tears from her face, she looks up at Jason and sees the large bruise beginning to form on his jaw. "Oh my God! Jason, what happened?"

Confused, it took him a minute to remember the sucker punch that Lucky had thrown getting off the launch. Glad that he didn't know what had already happened, he knows that his temper would have prompted him to give Lucky the beating of his life. "Lucky caught me off-guard when he was getting off the launch."

"How bad does he look?"

"What?"

"Well, he obviously got in one punch, how many did you get?"

"Oh, none. I figured after what he just found out, he deserved that one. Of course, I didn't know what had happened here, or that really wouldn't have mattered to me."

Raising one perfect eyebrow, she looked at him, "Why?"

"Because what he said about you, Cameron and our baby was uncalled for. He shouldn't have said that. I don't care how angry he was, to call you and the kids names was unnecessary. I wouldn't have been able to let that go."

Nicholas came back in with an ice pack for Jason's face, "I'm just sorry I couldn't get to my brother in time from grabbing her, it all happened so fast. I'm just glad I was able to stop him from hitting her."

If Elizabeth hadn't tightened her hold on him, he would have jumped up to chase after him. Looking at her, "When were you planning on telling me about that?"

"Later, after you had calmed down a bit."

Reading her face and looking into her eyes, he can see that she is telling the truth. "Did he hurt you? Did he leave a mark on you?" he asked ferociously. He was ready to track Luckless fucking Spencer down and put a bullet in between his eyes!

"Honestly, I don't know, I haven't really had time to look. My arms are a bit sore, but that's all. I'm just glad he didn't push me or knock me down. I was more worried about him letting me go too quickly and that I would fall."

"Jase, maybe you should take Elizabeth home. It would probably help to see Cameron," his sister told him.

"Where is Cam?" Elizabeth suddenly panicked.

"Cam is fine. He's at home. I called Georgie and asked if she could come and watch him for a little while. She was happy to spend some time with him."

"Can we go? I just really want to hold my little boy right now."

"Sure," Jason said as he stood up with her still in his arms. Saying goodbye to Emily and Nicholas, he walked out of the room and towards the exit.

"Jason, you can put me down. I can walk just fine on my own."

"Humor me, please? Just until we get to the launch, okay?"

"Fine," she relented, realizing that he needed to do this more for himself as opposed to thinking that she wouldn't or couldn't walk on her own.