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I forgot something. For this story Sonny and Emily did date, but only briefly, and never slept together. Thanks.

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Chapter 2

Stepping onto the elevator Elizabeth let out a soft sigh. Her whole life had changed in the last twelve hours. Her lying, cheating sack of shit husband had trashed their marriage. After leaving the apartment she had wondered the streets finally ending up at Jason's door. At first she wasn't going to knock but as she told him when he opened the door she had nowhere else to go. He had gently drawn her inside and into his arms, and for a while he made the pain go away.

They were two hurt people who had come together for a night of comfort.

Or was it more?

The correct question was could it be more? She knew that she would be safe with Jason before she raised her hand to knock. And she had been. Some might look at the situation and say he took advantage but nothing was further from the truth. He'd given her the tenderness she so badly needed.

They had made love, several times, and in those moments she'd been the woman that no one else allowed her to be. For the first time in so long she couldn't remember she had been fully and truly herself. He never made her feel like she needed to apologize for what they did or how it made her feel. If she wanted to cry he let her, when she smiled he did too. It had been amazingly liberating being with Jason as his lover.

The greatest thing he did for her last night was to show her the woman she could be. The woman she'd shoved deep down inside to please her friends, her family and her husband. Last night she'd rediscovered Elizabeth and in the light of day she found she wasn't ready to give that new found knowledge up.

She'd also been forced to admit something that for the longest time she managed to ignore. She wanted Jason in her life. True she had to consider Cameron she'd mentioned that last night. But was she hiding behind her son? Was she using him as an excuse to once again hide from life? Didn't she owe it to Cameron to be the best mother she could? That meant sometimes putting her needs first. It meant finding a partner to build a life with that she could trust. It meant being loved.

Of course Jason might not be interested in more than last night. It might not have been as world altering for him as it was for her. The fact was a large part of what had shattered her illusions of the life she had been living was the sex. It was off the charts amazing. He had made her feel things that she never even imagined. They had done things that she would not even have mentioned to Lucky. Just thinking about how he had mastered her body was making her hot. The man was everything a woman wanted in a lover.

The woman who had knocked on Jason's door last night would simply hold on the memories and pull them out when life got hard. The woman who left his penthouse this morning wouldn't settle for that. This Elizabeth wanted to know, did Jason want more. By this time tomorrow she intended to have the answer.

Reaching her minivan she got inside. Adjusting the mirror she took a long look at herself. Outwardly she looked the same, but if you looked closely you would see a spark in her eyes that was new. At the traffic light she needed to turn left to go home. Turning right she headed downtown instead.

Walking into the cool office Elizabeth headed to the receptionist desk. "Hi. I'd like to make an appointment please."

"Okay." The perky young woman pulled up her calendar. "I have an opening in two weeks." She offered with a smile.

Elizabeth had hoped to get the ball rolling on the changes in her life today. "Okay." This wasn't the only thing on the agenda, but it was the one she wanted to do first. She didn't want to just talk about change she wanted to implement it. Obviously she would need to do some of the other things first.

She took the reminder card and was heading to the door when her name was called. "Elizabeth, is that you?" Diane asked as she came out of her office.

"Hi Diane." Coming to Jason's lawyer might not be the smartest move, but Diane was the best. Besides the only other lawyers she knew were Alexis and Ric, neither of whom was an option.

"What brings you by?" Diane liked Elizabeth, and while she thought the friendship between the young nurse and the enforcer was odd she knew from Max that the two had a long history.

"I was making an appointment." Elizabeth held up her card.

Diane looked at her watch. "I have time now." The relief on the other woman's face made her glad she offered. "Coffee?"

"No thank you." Elizabeth sat preparing to air her dirty laundry to a woman she didn't know all that well.

"What can I do for you?" Diane asked sensing the other woman's discomfort. "What you say is confidential."

"Last night I caught my husband having sex with another woman in my bed. He had also been lying to me about the fact that he is no longer abusing prescription pain pills." Elizabeth told the lawyer.

"He's addicted to the pills." Diane asked taking notes.

"Yes, he told me he stopped. Emily and I helped him detox last year. He refused to go to rehab." Elizabeth explained hoping that Emily would be willing to talk with Diane.

"And the other woman?" Diane asked looking up.

"Maxie Jones." Elizabeth had never liked the young woman, and if she wanted Lucky she was welcomed to him.

"Mac Scorpio's eldest daughter." Diane pursed her lips that would not go over well with the Port Charles's Police Commissioner. It was bad enough that one of his detectives was sleeping with his barely legal daughter but the man had a drug problem to boot. This would have to be looked into further.

"So you want a divorce. With the infidelity and drug abuse it shouldn't be a problem." Even if Lucky contested the action Elizabeth could still be single in a few weeks.

"No I want an annulment." Elizabeth said trying not to blush. "Lucky had a back injury when we married and then things started going bad between us. Fighting over money and him being stressed over maybe not being able to get his job back, we never consummated the marriage." She confessed.

"Okay then. Between that and the fact that he lied about his addiction, which constitutes fraud this should be a slam dunk." Elizabeth could be single in three days. "What about your son. I assume you want custody?"

"Cam isn't Lucky's biological son and he never adopted him so he has no legal claim. I make more money than Lucky will I have to pay alimony?" Elizabeth was just making it now having to pay Lucky every month would break her.

"Trust me you will not be paying him a dime." Diane had no worries about that.

"Good. Um, speaking of paying. Do you have an installment plan?" Jason often said Diane was the best and the best was expensive.

"Part of Jason's retainer stipulation was that I am available to help his friends and family. I'm sure that he would want me to help you." Diane told the young mother.

"I'd rather pay myself. I don't expect Jason to provide for me." Elizabeth told Diane firmly.

The redhead was surprised and impressed. Most people in Jason's life expected him to take care of them. Diane was liking Elizabeth more and more as the minutes passed. "We can work something out. Now is there anything else I can help you with this morning."

"I'd like to make a will. I don't have one and as a single parent I should. And I'd like to give my Power of Attorney to Emily." Actually she'd like to give it to Jason, but she needed to talk to him first.

"Why don't we take care of all that right now?" Diane pulled up the appropriate files and the two women got down to work.

From the lawyer's office Elizabeth went to her Gram's house for breakfast. Cam was living there right now because Lucky's temper had gotten shorter with the pain. That was what she had assumed anyway, it was probably jonesing for a fix that made him so mean. Anyway after he yelled at her son for no reason Elizabeth asked her Gram to take him. Now she was glad she had.

The two women talked about the blackout and some issues at the hospital. Whenever her Gram tried to steer the conversation to Lucky, Elizabeth changed the subject. Audrey Hardy was an unapologetic Lucky supporter. She would most likely not believe that he was back on pills or having an affair. Once the annulment was done then Elizabeth would talk with her Grandmother.

Audrey took Cam with her to the hospital where she would drop her great grandson at daycare. Elizabeth headed to her apartment. She needed to get some important papers and pack some clothes for herself. Even though it was in her name there was no way she was living here anymore. Lucky should be out so if she made this trip quick she wouldn't even have to see him.

Elizabeth was putting clothes in a suitcase when Lucky appeared in the doorway to their bedroom. "Where are you going?" He asked. His head hurt and he was out of pills. He was hoping to meet up with Maxie in a few hours and get more.

Elizabeth hadn't wanted to do this right now, but since he was here she might as well get it over with. "I'm leaving." She told him. "You've been lying to me for months. Probably since we got married and I'm done. You can keep the apartment, have Maxie move in with you." She was still throwing clothes in the bag.

"Is that what this is about? Maxie. It's just sex." Lucky shrugged not bothering to deny the affair. "Maybe if you weren't so frigid I wouldn't have to go out looking for what I should be getting at home."

"You're blaming me for the fact that you're sleeping with a barely legal girl. I guess it's my fault you're a junkie too." Elizabeth wasn't backing down. He wasn't going to blame his problems on her.

"I'm not a junkie. I have pain; if I was a junkie then no doctor would write me a prescription. Besides you've got no grounds to judge me, you should be grateful I took you and your bastard son back after you whored around with Ric and Zander. And do you thank me; no you go out and spread your legs for Patrick Drake." Lucky yelled at her.

"I am not sleeping with Patrick." Elizabeth slammed the suitcase closed. "But you don't want to believe that. You want a reason to sleep with Maxie in my bed." She was pissed. How had she been so weak as to allow this man in her life and around her son? No more, this ended now.

"Where were you last night?" Lucky asked coming into the room. "I was here, where were you?"

She didn't know why she said it. Looking back she knew it was a mistake, but she was so angry and tired of the lies she'd been stupid enough to believe that it just came out. "In Jason's bed."

"You whore." Lucky said in a low voice. "You come in here and you call me out for sleeping around and you're doing the same thing. With a criminal." He grabbed her arm twisting her wrist until she cried out in pain.

"Lucky, stop you're hurting me." Elizabeth began to worry that he was actually going to hurt her badly. His eyes were glazed over with a mixture of pills and rage. He hated Jason. The enforcer was the one person that Lucky would not tolerate her leaving him for.

"I haven't even started. Maybe I want a taste of what you've been giving away to that thug. You are after all my wife. Isn't that right Lizzie." Lucky backhanded her and she slammed into the wall. "Maybe I just need to show you what it means to be my wife." He advanced on where she was sitting on the floor.

Waiting until he was close enough Elizabeth shot her foot out and kicked him square in the groin. He dropped but with all the drugs in his system he didn't stay down for long. He grabbed her by the hair as she running for the door. Throwing her on the bed he came down on top her once again twisting her wrist this time until she felt something snap. With a scream of pain she bit his shoulder while he ripped her blouse. Desperate knowing he wasn't going to stop Elizabeth shoved two fingers up his nose causing him to jerk upwards giving her enough space to roll from the bed. Opening the night stand drawer she removed Lucky's service revolver and pointed it at him. "Get out."

"Put that down." He sneered. "You won't shoot me."

Elizabeth cocked the gun, managing to bite back the moan that action caused. Her right wrist was badly damaged, possibly broken. "There are at least nine bullets in this clip; I'm willing to bet I'll hit you with at least one." She had no idea how to shoot a gun but he didn't know that.

"Your lover teach you how to kill people." Lucky asked not backing down but not moving forward.

"What to find out? GET OUT!" She yelled, not sure how much longer she could stay upright. He wasn't going to rape her that much was sure she'd shoot him in cold blood first.

"This isn't over Lizzie. You belong to me. Morgan will tire of you and then I'll come back." Lucky told her with an evil grin before walking out of the apartment. Sinking to the floor Elizabeth reached for the phone and called 911.

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