Carly's POV

I sighed with discontentment, missing my best friend came in waves. Jason didn't deserve to die, he would never get to see his son. I walked out of my office nearly bumping into AJ Quartermaine, I noticed his eyes were red as if he'd been crying. What did AJ have to cry about?

"What's wrong with you?" I raised a brow, I didn't feel like being my usual snarky self.

"I never got to apologize to my brother, I was a bad brother to Jason. One of the reasons I came back...was to be better. Finding out Jason was dead nearly killed me. I saw Danny today...he's the perfect mix of Jason and Sam." AJ didn't know why he was opening up to Carly.

"Maybe you're not as bad as I thought you were." Carly says, taking a good look at AJ.

"Hell has officially frozen over, Carly Jacks has admitted that I'm not such a bad guy!" AJ smirked, earning an eye roll from Carly.

"And there it is. You're so smug!" Carly chuckled despite herself.

"I have to be." AJ shrugged.

"I shouldn't have made you sign away your rights to Michael. Maybe he wouldn't have had to go through everything he has if I hadn't been selfish." Carly sighed, she'd been doing a lot of thinking recently.

"I don't want to talk about the past, Michael's a good person. Although I would have liked to raise him, I love the relationship we have now. I don't want to hate you anymore, Carly." AJ sighed, what was happening to him?

"I'm glad that you two have a relationship, Michael deserves to know his father. I wanted his father to be Jason all those years ago but, it just wasn't meant to be. I don't know what's going on between us but, I don't hate it." Carly was ready to stop hating the father of her oldest son.

"Thank you, Carly. Maybe...we could try to be friends. I'm not sure it will work but, I think it's worth a try." This was uncharted territory for them both but, what could this hurt?

"I'd like that, all we can do is try. It's what Jason would have wanted." Carly slightly smiled.

"Let me buy you dinner, as friends." AJ smirked at her, Carly shaking her head.

"Fine, but I get to chose the restaurant."