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Chapter 5

After handing the list off to Milo, Elizabeth decided not to invite Emily and Ben over. This wasn't her house so she didn't have to right to have company over. Yes Jason loved his sister and nephew but that didn't mean he wanted them over tonight. He might not want anyone to know that she and Cameron were here.

While they waited for everything to arrive Elizabeth turned on the television and found the channel that showed Chuggin Charlie. It was Cameron's favorite program. The talking trains creep her out a bit but that wasn't something she'd ever tell her son. Instead she watched him smile and listened to him laugh at the adventures Charlie and his friends had. They had some Chuggin Charlie books and every night before bed time she read one.

The groceries came, while Cameron was in the bathroom which was a good thing, and she took everything into the kitchen. On her list she had asked for a quart of milk, some for cooking and some for Cameron to drink with dinner but the guys had gotten a gallon. Hopefully Jason could use the rest before it went bad. The apple juice was the same. She had requested one eight ounce bottle but they got the gallon and a half container. Maybe she hadn't been clear enough, because the guards had shopped like they would be here for more than one night.

With everything put away she folded up the cloth bags and put them on the counter. She had no idea where Jason kept them, but she was impressed that he had them in the first place. Who knew that mob bosses were earth conscious?

Normally Cameron helped with dinner. He liked to pour the ingredients in the bowl after she measured them out. Jason didn't have a stool. If Elizabeth asked for one the guards could probably scrounge one up but she didn't want to be a pest. Instead she gave him a piece of paper and a few of the sharpies from Jason's office. While he drew she got started on a dinner that hopefully Jason would enjoy.

The issue of inviting Emily and Ben over was taken out of her hands when at four thirty the door to the penthouse opened. Cameron was pushing a car across the coffee table and he instantly jumped up running to hide behind Elizabeth's legs.

"Sorry." Emily said stopping in the doorway. Ben seeing his friend wanted to run over, but she kept him by her side. "I should have called first."

"It's okay." Elizabeth bent down to look at Cameron. "Ben is here." She said softly rubbing his back. He looked over and saw his friend. "You want to play with him?" Slowly Cameron nodded. "Okay." Elizabeth said smiling. "Come in." She invited standing.

Emily brought Ben over and the little boy took over. "I brought some blocks." He held up the bag with the oversized interlocking blocks. "Wanna build something?"

Cameron nodded and the two boys moved to the empty space under the window and got started.

"We will call next time." Emily promised sitting down.

"We are only staying the night." Elizabeth told her friend. She wasn't sure if she could talk to Emily about why they were here. "Jason is letting us use the spare room."

"You don't have to explain." Emily assured the nurse. "I am so curious, but I can wait." She said laughing. "What smells so good?"

"I'm roasting a chicken." Elizabeth figured a simple meal was best. "Jason doesn't have any food allergies does he?"

"Nope, he is disgustingly healthy. The man doesn't even get colds." Emily huffed. "So how big is this chicken?" She was angling for an invite. Johnny had left them something, but it smelled really good in here.

"Seven pounds." Elizabeth said grinning.

"Good then you'll have enough for us. We have to eat in the kitchen because Jason has the pool table where the dining room table should be. Unless you want to eat at my place." Emily would help her bring everything over.

"It's best if we stay here. Cameron can only tolerate a few new places at a time. Tomorrow if you are off, we can come over before we go home." Elizabeth offered. She wanted to expand his world but at a rate that wouldn't scare him. Diane said that introducing new places one at a time was best. "What time is Johnny coming home?"

"Around noon tomorrow." Emily was indeed off. "We can go to the park if you want. It's supposed to be nice."

"We'll see. I'd like for Cameron to get used to being at your house." Elizabeth was hoping that with Jason's help they could stay in Port Charles. She and Cameron both had friends here, something they hadn't had in too long. While it was probably not some place she would have picked to settle down, big cities were easier to hide in, they could be happy here.

"I'd like that too. I think Ben and Cameron can be really good friends. Just like I hope we can." Emily said smiling. "Can I help you with dinner?"

"You said you can't cook." Elizabeth said laughing.

"I can open a can." Emily grinned.

"Everything is homemade." Elizabeth told her.

"Show off." The doctor said grinning wider. Before Elizabeth could respond there was a soft knock on the door. Shrugging Emily got up and opened it. Turning back she grinned. "It's for you."

"For me?" Elizabeth asked surprised, getting up she walked over and found Jason. "Why did you knock?"

"I wasn't sure where Cameron was and I don't want to scare him." Jason pitched his voice low. "Can I come in?" It was odd to be asking that at his own home but the little boy's reaction from last week was seared into Jason's brain.

"Sure." Elizabeth said stepping back. She wondered what the guards thought of all this. "Cameron, Jason is home." Watching him carefully she stepped aside so that Jason could shut the door.

Ben ran over, got a quick hug, and returned to playing. Cameron simply sat still and with wide eyes watched the large man. For a very long moment he kept his eyes on Jason. Waiting for him to make some sort of move. When the big man didn't Cameron reached for another block.

Jason heard Elizabeth exhale. He felt like he had passed some sort of test. It was probably the first of many. "That's good?" He asked looking over at the petite brunette.

"It is." She answered with a small smile. "He will watch you off and on for the rest of the night." Elizabeth warned. "But the fact that he has taken his eyes off you at all is very good."

"How much distance should I keep between us?" Jason wanted to know.

"More than an arm's length is best. He will get closer if he feels it's safe." So far that was not something he'd done with any man.

"I can do that." Jason assured her. "It smells good in here."

"I'm making a roasted chicken." Elizabeth was fighting a blush.

"You didn't have to cook." Jason was pleasantly surprised. "I was going to order in for all of us. Thank you."

"You are helping us, it's the least I could do." She said downplaying her efforts. "I tried to give the guards money to cover the groceries I sent for but they wouldn't take it. They got an entire gallon of milk, Ben drinks milk right?" Elizabeth asked Emily.

"Yeah, him and Johnny both. I'm thinking of buying my own cow." Emily liked how her brother and Liz were interacting. She really liked the way Jason was looking at the brunette nurse. "We can go in together on one."

"It would be a sound investment, milk is Cameron's beverage of choice. I need to finish up dinner." Elizabeth walked over to where the boys were playing. "Cameron, I'm going into the kitchen. Would you like to stay here and play with Ben?"

The little boy looked over at Jason before looking back at his mother. Once more he leaned back so that he could look at the large blonde man. Cameron shook his head no.

"Okay." Elizabeth looked at Jason and apologized with her eyes. He simply shook his head no, telling her he wasn't offended. "Why don't you and Ben bring some blocks and you can build at the table while I make the potatoes."

Both boys gathered up armfuls of the colorful plastic and followed her out of the room.

"Liz said they are staying the night." Emily started right in.

"I have a crew going over her place to make it safer." Jason told his sister. He knew that he didn't have to tell her to not say anything.

"She could use a car." Emily pointed out. Jason and Johnny owned a fleet of cars giving one to Liz wouldn't be a problem.

Jason's mouth twitched as he fought off a grin. His sister had no problem telling him what her opinion on any subject was. "Anything else? While you're here."

"She could use a night out. I'm guessing that time to herself doesn't happen much." Emily didn't do subtle, at least not with the people she was close with. "Once Cameron is more comfortable around Johnny, you can make sure that is corrected."

"Yes ma'am." He gave up and laughed. "Did Liz invite you over, or did you invite yourself?"

"I invited myself. She wasn't going to do it. In case you hadn't noticed, Liz is very polite." Emily said shrugging. "If that chicken tastes as good as it smells we will be over whenever Johnny goes out of town."

"You act like them being here is going to be a regular occurrence." Jason liked the thought of that.

"I'm expecting it will be." Emily said confidently. "We are going to be working on getting Cameron more comfortable at my place, so you will see them often. When you run into them in the hall you can invite them to eat dinner with you." Emily was working this out mentally. "Once Cameron is more at ease he can start spending the night and we can then swap kids so that Johnny and I can get a night off."

"Last time I checked whenever you wanted a night off you only had to call mom or dad. They love having Ben over." Monica and Alan were intent on spoiling Ben rotten. Jason couldn't help but wonder what they would think of Cameron.

"I let him go over last week." It was usually more often but Emily was not a fan of AJ's wife. Alison Barrington Quartermaine was a snob who liked to look down on her and Johnny. Emily had tried to be friendly, but it just wasn't working. When the couple returned to England in a few weeks Ben's visits to the mansion would increase.

"Alison will be gone soon enough." Jason smirked.

"The only reason she talks to you is because you are a blood Quartermaine. I'm adopted and therefore inferior." Emily said rolling her eyes.

"I like Alison better than Lydia." Jason remarked about AJ's second wife. She had done everything in her power to try to end up in Jason's bed. Finally the mob boss had no other option then to point out her behavior to his brother. Things had been tense until AJ realized that Jason was not encouraging Lydia's behavior.

"He should have stayed with Keesha." Emily had really liked her eldest brother's first wife. AJ's drinking had ruined that relationship. Even now Keesha avoided her ex-husband as much as possible. Thankfully she didn't avoid the rest of the family.

Jason just shrugged. He had dated Keesha when he was Jason Quartermaine. It made things awkward between them for a while after the coma. Eventually they sat down and talked after that Keesha realized her Jason was gone and not coming back. So she learned to accept him as he was, but their romance was over. Now she was Keesha Jacks and seemed really happy.

"He could have married Carly." Jason teased his sister.

Emily shuddered hard. "Don't even joke about that." The doctor tried not to speak ill of the dead, but being in the car with Sonny when it blew up was the best thing the blonde did since coming to Port Charles. They didn't call her hurricane Carly for nothing. She slept with every rich guy she crossed paths with except Jason. She only overlooked him because she thought Sonny was the top dog, if she had known that Jason owned half the business she would have been all over him too. "Besides it's not like you did that great in the wife department. Grandmother couldn't stand either of the women you married."

"I'm hoping to learn from my mistakes." Courtney and Sam were both that. Both women were now dead. Courtney died during a viral epidemic, but Sam died on his orders. She had an intense hatred of Emily, probably because his sister saw the woman for who she really was. So Sam got the bright idea of hiring someone to kill his sister. It was supposed to look like a mugging gone wrong. Only the guy Sam hired had been incompetent and broke easily under questioning. Jason had quickly corrected his mistake of letting her in his life.

"I'm hoping you will too." Emily knew the family was going to love Elizabeth. Alan and Monica already respected her as a professional so liking her on a personal level would happen quickly.

"Dinner is ready." Elizabeth announced coming out of the kitchen.

"Let's go see what she made." Emily put her arm through Jason's and pulled him into the kitchen.

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