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The Flame of Franco

Having Doubts...

It was a few days later and Jason had no idea what to do about this Ethan situation. It seemed everyone was coming up to him, telling him not to kill him. But Sonny was constantly on his ass about the hit on Ethan. Jason was usually so sure of himself. But he was having doubts. It seemed like he could not make a clear decision nowadays. Ever since Franco had appeared in his life, he was always doubting if he was making the right choices or not. This was just another example of this.

First with Johnny's warning about Ethan not being the real attacker, he had thought that Johnny was protecting his friend. And trying to throw Jason off a little. But then Alexis came to him, telling him not to go through with Sonny's orders. That it would not help Kristina's recover. When she had mention Sam, he had to again think twice if killing Ethan would really solve the issue.

Not being able to think clearly, he had gone to see Kristina himself, when Sam had been in a session with Dr. Winters. The minute he saw her, he had flashbacks of Sam. Looking at the young teen, all he could see was Sam at that age, hurt by another man. She had rarely talked about her past relationships with him. But he knew she had been about Kristina age when she had first been a victim of abuse. He had treaded lightly around Kristina. He had not wanted to upset her in anyway. He just wanted to hear her side of the story. However, she had gotten upset halfway through her story. He had pushed her a little, he admitted later on to Sam. But he only wanted to find out the truth.

Kristina couldn't remember how long after they had dropped her off at home that night, that Ethan had come back an attacked her. She had told him it was all a blur. Sonny had been furious with him, walking in on him as he talked with Kristina. Sonny didn't see why he was taking so long to finish out the order. He had tried to explain his doubt, but Sonny wouldn't believe him.

Jason had then talked to Sam, he had tried to question her about that night. After she had gone to the Haunted Star to see Ethan. She hadn't understood where he was coming from. Kristina he knew had arrived at the hospital at around midnight with Ethan. He and Sam had dropped Kristina off at the Lake House around 1030. It then took them about a half an hour to get back home. Jason had gone to bed around 11. Sam had said she went to see Ethan around 11:15 and didn't get back home until 11:30 or so. That possibly didn't give Ethan enough time to attack Kristina like she had said after him and Sam had left and still be back at the Haunt Star when Sam confronted him, before going back and dropping Kristina at the hospital. However Sam did not want to hear it. She had told him that doubting her little sister wasn't good. That she had been brave enough to tell them who had hit her and that they should believe her. Sam had been furious at him for suggesting otherwise. He had hated himself for making her upset. He just didn't want to make a mistake. He had enough pressure on his shoulder already with trying to keep Michael from confessing to killing Claudia to finding Franco and killing him. While trying to support Sam and her needs. He felt like he was running around in circles trying to keep everything together.

Lulu had also confronted him about Ethan and how she thought he didn't attack Kristina. Jason knew that somehow the teen was lying but he just didn't know how to prove it. Kristina was covering for someone. He just needed to find out who it was. He wished he could talk to Kristina again but knew that it wouldn't be possible. Sonny had already made it clear that he didn't want Jason asking Kristina anything about that night.

He had Spinelli looking into video surveillance from that night at the Haunted Star, seeing if there was footage of Sam arriving there and Ethan either arriving or leaving. He needed a time line of sorts. He was hoping soon, he would have something to go by or else the wrong person might get killed.

I know it was short but more to come soon! Thanks for reading and please review!

Julie