AN:

Okay this chapter is icky very icky but needed. Just don't eat while reading it.

~Kelly~

For Luv.

Chapter Seventeen

"Thanks for coming over." Carly said letting Jason into the house.

"It's no problem. Besides you said it was important."

"I think so." She said trying to stall. "It's about Sam."

"I'm not going back to Sam."

"Okay. Fine. I think you're making a huge mistake but that's not why I called you."

"It better not be." Jason warned his so-called best friend. He already had this same talk with too many people already.

"There's something you have to understand about Sam, Jase. She still loves you even you can't deny that." Carly pressed to Jason. She had to make him hear her out. "She'll never stop loving you, Jase. Not as long as Sam believes there's any kind of hope."

"There isn't I've already told her."

"Just telling her isn't going to work. You have to go over there and make her accept this. I know you want her to move on to be happy. Letting her hang on hoping you might change you're mind is just cruel."

"I don't want to hurt Sam."

"I know you don't Jase. That's why you have to talk to her."

"Carly I know you're trying to help but…"

"You know I'm right. I have been there with Sonny. Waiting to see if the man you love is going to change his mind is torture. Please Jase just think about it."

"Fine. I'll think about it."

"Good." Carly said pressing a kiss to Jason's cheek.

"I'll talk to you later." He said deciding to go ahead and talk with Sam.

As soon as Jason was out the door Carly ran to the phone. She quickly dialed Sam's number. When the other woman answered, Carly didn't even bother with hello. "He just left. So I suggest whatever your brilliant plan is you get it in to motion."

"Thanks Carly. I'll let you know how it works out." Sam said quickly and then hung the phone up. She turned to Ric and adjusted her robe. If this was going to work, she had to make it look real. "I'm sorry Alexis is shutting you out."

"She's just mad because I refuse to do what she wants."

"My mother is a control freak." Sam pointed out pouring them both a glass of scotch. She sashayed over to Ric and sat down right beside him.

Ric smiled and took the offered glass. "Yeah she is."

"Do you ever just want to hurt her for treating you like crap?"

"She's my wife Sam."

"Doesn't that make it worse?"

"What exactly are you suggesting?"

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Jason couldn't explain why he was at the lake house. He had made it clear to Sam more than once that they were over. However, he couldn't shake the responsibility Jason felt toward Sam. It was his life that got her shot.

When Jason saw Sam laying in a hospital bed his first instinct was to push her away. For a while, it hurt not having the woman in his life. However, it did not take long for that to fade. Now all he felt was a sense responsibility towards the other woman.

In fact that was the only reason he was there tonight. He wanted, needed Sam to move on. There was no chance of him going back to her especially now. Being with Elizabeth was something Jason refused to regret.

He stopped just short of knocking on the door. Jason could see in to the living room through a partially opened curtain. What he saw shocked him to the core. Sam and Ric were rolling around on the floor.

Jason knew first hand about her self-destructive tendencies. However he never thought she would go this far. He backed away from the house without ever knocking.