A LOST SHIP

CHAPTER 2

Author's Note: Thank you all to those that have waited for me to continue this and my other stories I will be honest the show and life have frustrated me and I've struggled to find a clear path I wanted to pursue, but now with this particular story I'm going to go full steam ahead and the waters will get rocky.

Drew clenched his fists open and closed trying to not let the adrenaline and anger consume him completely as his eyes locked onto Jason's hand on Sam's shoulder. He wanted to rip the man limb from limb at that very moment, but it wouldn't solve anything in fact it would just make matters worse. Armed and ready for a verbal assault he decided to use this lethal knowledge to his advantage and discredit the almighty Jason Morgan with his own history.

"Surprise, surprise the chips are down and things are going in your favor and the great Jason Morgan decides to cut tail and run. How many times is that now and how many women have you left in the wind? I mean first there was Robin, then Carly, then Liz, then Courtney in a way and Liz again and I don't think anyone could truly keep track of how many times you left Sam. For someone hell bent on his god complex and a constant Mr. Fix it routine you sure do know how to inflict the most damage by luring them in and running at the first difficult time."

Sam's closed her eyes and felt her entire body flinch at the recount of Drew's perspective of Jason's past and as harsh as it was to hear he wasn't lying. It was his pattern to be the hero and then leave when the emotional stuff got too much for him to bear. Sam felt a single tear slowly tumble down her cheek recalling how Jason left her in a pile of tears and anguish at the Lake house when they decided to divorce. She often wondered where he had gone after that and how she made it through that dark time. If she was honest with herself they had not ever truly confronted all the pain and hurt they had caused one another over time and maybe now was as good of time as any for that wake-up call.

Jason dropped his hand immediately feeling Sam tense at Drew's words and the assault was more damaging than any bullet wound he had ever experienced.

Drew saw the recognition in Jason's eyes and he was only getting started, there was no way he was going to leave this ship without some sort of unveiling and dismantling of Jason Morgan. He pivoted a bit and looked across the dark waters and felt the crisp wind ripping across his still cold skin and dug his hands into the railing. "I'm sure you both are thinking what I'm saying isn't fair, but the only fair thing about any of this is that I have the very unique upper hand in knowing all your little and some fairly large flaws Jason. Let me ask you when you and Sam decided to mutually divorce where did you go? Did you go for a long bike ride? No that's not it. Did you go to the cemetery and visit the grave of the beautiful little girl that brought you two together and never had the chance to take her first breath? Wrong again, wait did you go to Sonny or Carly or even Michael to try and work through this pain? No again, you went and played pool and drank beers with Liz in fact I believe you even flirted with her and teased some sort of odd jealousy to her dating that nut case doctor."

Drew chuckled at the irony that he left his wife sobbing and grieving alone and ridiculed her over and over for confiding in John McBain yet this douchebag immediately goes to Liz of all people in the aftermath.

Sam froze at the words she never knew where Jason went and had assumed that he took a long ride on his bike as he had done so many times or even gone to the foot bridge or even the cabin, but she never imagined him running to Liz. This woman managed to sneer both of these men she loved and was her achilles' heel to her relationship with Jason. There was so much hurt with even the mere mention of her name associated to both these men, but the difference being when Drew found out Liz lied and had kept the truth from him even after exploding at Sam in that house he came and apologized to her and ended things with Liz. Drew did in 3 years what Sam had waited for Jason to do for over a decade and even the lengths Liz had gone to never tarnished Jason's relationship with her. Jason NEVER put Sam before Liz or anyone else for that matter and to hear that he ran to her at their very lowest point was gut-wrenching.

"Jason is this true? I mean you had so many other people you could turn to and of all people you chose her to comfort you? Then you even covered for her after you knew she let me grieve for Danny, she sat there in Jake's and practically threw it in my face that we were over and how you wanted to move on with her."

Sam glanced at Drew and then aimed her anger again back at Jason "Jason I signed those divorce papers thinking that you had moved on…with her."

That's when Drew decided to seize the opportunity and clear a few more of those details up for Sam, which he was quite certain Jason never did. "Sam I'm sorry to interrupt, but I think you should know what truly happened and since Mr. Silent type can't seem to fess up let me enlighten you."

"In fact, on the day of Sonny and Kate's wedding Liz paid Jason an impromptu visit, which I'm sure at this point she was sniffing around to see if her little plan to ink your divorce had worked. She conveniently spotted the divorce papers on the desk, signed by you and not Jason at this point and she took the opportunity to poke at that thorn namely John McBain and embellished what the two of you may or may have not had going on. Here's the kicker though she watched him burst with jealousy and march over and sign the papers. She even played the innocent supportive friend card questioning him if he really wanted to do it. This, this man right here that's all it took was a well thought out story of you and McBain hooking up and he was ready to throw in the towel."

Drew turned his smirk to Jason and was ready for round two. "Go ahead Jason tell her I'm wrong and that I'm making this all up just to make you look bad." Drew looked at Sam and he could see she was truly devastated, but she needed to know the truth about this guy who tries to seem so noble where in fact he is greatly flawed.

Jason was seething at this point, but everything Drew said was 100% the truth whether he liked or not he had betrayed her countless times and even after he vowed to never keep anything from her he covered for Liz and chose her over Sam. It wasn't a conscious choice nor did he set out to hurt Sam their lives his and Liz always seemed to have these toxic intersections.

Jason put his hand on Sam's upper left arm to gently turn her to him and he immediately saw the pain and betrayal. He had done this to her again, but this time he could try and do it differently and prove to her that he might be the man she needed him to be or was it too late?