Sexy, Can I?

Part Five-

Last Week of October

Money. Power. Guns. Blood. Risk. Reward. Cops. Gaurds. It was all part of the world Claudia grew up in and all part of her everyday life now. There has never been a day in her existence that she has not faced the threat of her life ending in a hail of bullets.

But there's no way she will let that fate come to her brother Johnny. That's why it really pisses her off that he's once again missing with that little girlfriend of his...Lulu Spencer.

It was that girl's recklessness that brought Claudia to Port Charles in the first place. For the longest time she stayed in Milan, afraid to face Anthony...afraid she would kill him at first sight...and like it...and be more damaged that she already was, and afraid Johnny would never forgive her leaving him when he was just eight years old. She had no choice but to leave. Kids never get that, though. They only know that the person they loved left.

Lulu had forced Claudia to rush home. She ended up kidnaped by Anthony and, from what the gaurds reported to Uncle Rudy, John could have ended up dead when he tried to go against their father over it.

There was no way that Claudia would let John die over a piece of ass.

She told him to leave that chick alone. Told him to find someone who didn't bring so much chaos into their world, didn't tick Daddy off so much, didn't mean so much to John. She only wanted to protect him. To keep her boy safe.

It hadn't worked because now John and Lulu were pinned down in a barn with hitman shooting at them. John had called and told her "I don't know if I have enough bullets to hold them off...they'll wait till I run out...and come in here and execute us both."

Like hell they will. Not her boy.

Claudia presses hard on the gas pedal as she races down the country road. Nothing will matter in her life if she loses John. All her plots and schemes for business fly out of her head. All her thoughts of sexing up hard body Jason Morgan disappear.

She has to save John.

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Promises. Family. Commitment. Honor. Oaths. Death knocking. Hearts breaking. All of this is part of what drives Jason Morgan to race to the rescue of certain people in his life. There are people who believe he will always save them...or save the ones they love...because he has let them believe that. He works hard to not let their beliefs be in vain.

Lulu might be making a mistake by messing with Johnny Zacchara. Its not for him to say. All he can do is try and pull her out of harm's way in time. Today is one of those times that she needs him.

Jason was standing next to Spinelli when Spinelli got a phone call. Jason could hear Lulu screaming frantically "Oh my God, they are trying to kill me! You have to help me! Please get Jason, Milo, Sonny...SOMEONE, anyone, Spinelli don't let me die."

Jason had grabbed the phone from a frazzled and shaking Spinelli and asked Lulu where she was. Now he drives his motorcycle sixty miles on hour down a country road to get to her. He has more men on the way. But he can't call the cops. That's not how they do things.

They work outside the law...for better or worse.

Carly always worries about who Lulu is dating this week...Jason can't keep up...but he vaguely remembers she liked that screw up, quickly fired, gaurd they had Logan Hayes. She must have changed her mind...he just hoped she didn't lose her life over that choice. He hoped he could get there in time.

He has to save Lulu.

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Ten minutes later, Jason sees a car skidding to a stop twenty feet from the barn, it came from the opposite direction as him. He watches the door open and Claudia jump out. She's dressed in black jeans, a white t-shirt, leather jacket and boots. She has a gun in her hand.

Everything in him is conflicted. She could be his back-up...or be another person he has to protect...but why should he protect his enemy? Still, he knows he's going to, if push comes to shove. He parks next to her and hops off his bike.

They don't say hello. Jason whispers "I don't hear any shots being fired. Don't see any cars or shooters but that don't mean they aren't around back still."

"Lets go...it can't be too late already...it can't."

"Some more of my men are on the way. But we can't wait. Come on...stay behind me." His eyes meet hers. He doesn't see a trace of fear in them for herself...he can tell its all for her brother. He stares at her a few seconds too long and she gets agitated about the delay.

She whispers, fiercely, "Go! Or I'm going without you."

They make their way into the forested area around the barn. They circle around the back but no one is outside. Their eyes meet. The shooters are either in there, or Johnny and Lulu's dead bodies are...more than likely those are the only two options.

Crouching down, they start running for the barn when a female scream echoes through the air and then a gun shot is heard. The last thing Jason wants to do is walk into a gun battle with Claudia but he can't exactly take time to wrestle her to the ground and convince her to stay outside. Damn, he hopes she can shoot as well as she can swing those hips when she walks.

He kicks down the door. They see one man with a gun to Lulu's head, while Johnny wrestles with a second gun men, that guy's gun goes off again. The bullet flies wildly, lodging in the side of the barn, just as Johnny pushes the guy away. As soon as he is clear of the crowd, Claudia shoots him while Jason moves close to the other gun man.

"I'll kill her," the man says. He's shaking more and more with every step Jason takes.

"Who do you work for?"

Johnny cries out "He has to work for my father!"

"Who do you work for? Don't make me ask you again."

"She's dead if you don't back off."

Lulu's eyes are wide with fear.

Claudia runs over and grabs the gun from the dead man on the ground, then she quickly hugs Johnny and whispers "Get out of here."

"No way."

Jason has made it to right in front of the second gun man. They face off. "Let her go and I'll let you go."

"Forget about it. Stay back or she's dead!"

Just then two more gunmen come in the door, they all look that way...its not Jason's gaurds because they rise their guns and start firing...mayhem breaks out. Claudia lifts both guns and starts firing back at them, while Lulu stomps on the foot of the man who's holding her. Jason grabs at her arm and pulls her toward him while unloading on that man, and then Lulu and Jason tumble to the ground. He raises up and aims his gun at the door, but those two guys are dead already.

Claudia turns out to be fucking fantastic back-up.

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They search the pockets of the dead men. Claudia says "They don't work for Daddy...look at this... they all have money from Argentina. That equals the..."

"Alcazar family," Jason finishes her sentence.

Claudia meets his eyes. "Who's still alive to send hitters?"

"The underboss, some low level soldiers. But the bloodline is wiped out."

"Well, someone is still pissed. Or else this money is a plant. But we can't assume it was Daddy automatically. He might go after Lulu but he would never go after John."

Claudia puts on a front for Jason, seeming to protect her father, but she really is seething inside. If he dared to set this up, make it look like it goes back to some South American family and not him, she will see that man six feet under. She thinks about killing him often but then thinks she one disturbed woman for having such fantasies.

If he did this though...he will have wiped away all her conflicted emotions for good.

Jason's gaurds show up and he orders Claudia, Johnny and Lulu to leave. He walks with Claudia out to her car, as Johnny and Lulu, who are still pretty shaken up take off in his, heading for the Quatermaine mansion where they can be assured of being relatively safe.

Jason tells Claudia "I'll handle the clean up. You make sure that you and your brother don't talk to the cops."

"What kind of idiot do you take me for?"

"I don't. Just saying."

"I'm not going to any cops to confess to shooting multiple men. I need to spend my time pinning down if this really came from the Alcazar family. I won't have anyone going after my brother. Ever."

Jason nodded. "I'll let you know what I find out."

Claudia smiled, slightly. "Oh, now I'm good enough to work with?"

"This is different."

"Who's Lulu to you? How' d you know to show up here?"

"She had a phone. I got a call."

"You the local super hero or what? Is there a bat signal I can send up to get back-up when I need it?"

Jason chuckled. "I doubt you'll need it. Not with the way you shoot."

"Been tearing up the firing range since I was seven. I had a very abnormal childhood." She knew that Jason could not remember his...from her research. Claudia wonders how that would affect a person...having their past wiped out. But this isn't the time or place to ask.

For a moment they just stare at each other. She opens her car door.

"Thanks for the back up today, Morgan."

"Thank you, Claudia...this could have went south fast if you weren't around."

"But I am around now...I've been trying to tell you that's a good thing. Maybe this will make you believe me."She gets in her car, rolls down the window, and asks "You will get in touch if you find out anymore about those shooters? Don't even think about stonewalling me."

"I said I'll let you know. You don't have to threaten me every time we meet."

"Oh you know it turns you on."

He only stares at her.

Claudia adds "You were pretty excited by our gun play in the elevator a few days back."

"Bye, Claudia."

"Catch you later, Morgan."

She drives away and wishes the date she had tonight was with Jason...instead of some doctor she met at The Recovery Room. But Jason won't be anywhere near her bed until he makes her some kind of business deal she can live with...so that her drugs can move on his docks.

Business first. Pleasure later.