A/N: this is my first foray into fan fiction, and I hope everyone will enjoy and look forward to reviews from readers. I have been so impressed by how many have written Liason stories, that I wanted to give it a try for our favorite couple.
This takes place as Elizabeth is getting ready to marry Lucky while she is pregnant with Jake. The history of the characters is the same up to the beginning of the story, except Jason never took Sam back after the Night of Passion. It will deviate from there. I had always wondered about this storyline as I watched old clips on YouTube.
The rating will be M and definitely have some NC-17 elements to it!
Disclaimer: I don't any of these characters and I am not affiliated with GH, ABC, Disney, or anything else.
Chapter 1
Jason Morgan's Penthouse Living Room
February 28, 2007
The penthouse is quiet, the hum of the city muffled behind the glass windows and the 15 stories above the ground. Jason stands at his desk, sorting through his mail that had been delivered while he had been out for a little while. His fingers pause on one envelope with elegant handwriting.
He opens it slowly, almost certain knowing what it is, but isn't sure that he wants to know. He pulls out the card
You are cordially invited
To the wedding of
Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Jr.
And
Elizabeth Imogene Webber
Jason reads it silently, his jaw tightening, ever so slightly. He takes a deep breath, but his face would be unreadable if anybody was there. He has gone into Stone Cold mode where nobody can see his inner turmoil. He sets the invitation back down on the desk.
Jason's roommate and computer guru, Damian Spinelli, has entered the penthouse.
He starts to talk about a cyber chase he is chasing when he stops mid-ramble as he sees Jason's expression.
Spinelli speaks to Jason, "Stone Cold? You, okay?"
Jason doesn't answer immediately. He picks up the invitation again, eyes lingering on Elizabeth's name.
"Just got invited to a wedding," Jason responds.
Spinelli peeks at the card, sees Elizabeth's name, and the recognition dawns on his face. "Oh…that wedding."
Jason sets aside the invitation like it doesn't matter. However, the look in his eyes says otherwise. Jason reflects back to the night of the Metro Court Hostage Crisis when his world was turned upside down by the woman that he loved more than anything.
Flashback
Metro Court Hotel
February 19, 2007
The bullets were flying everywhere, the bomb was being detonated, but Jason Morgan only had one thing on his mind. He had to reach the woman he loved and keep her safe. He got to her and shoved them inside an elevator to keep them safe. The dim emergency lights flicker. The elevator is still, suspended mid-shaft. Jason is holding a frightened Elizabeth.
"Get off me," Elizabeth shouted as she tried to get away from the masked man who had grabbed her.
"It's me." Jason told her as he took off the mask revealing his identity to her.
Elizabeth in disbelief threw herself into Jason's arms, "oh my God, Jason! How did you find me?"
"I don't know, I just always do." Jason answered her.
As their situation dawned upon them, and realizing that at the very minimum they would be stuck for a long time, and the worst they could die. Elizabeth felt the baby kick for the first time in several hours.
Jason tells Elizabeth that he feels that he is too blame for everything, especially what happened to Robin and Alan, because he couldn't get to them in time.
"Jason, you are not a superhero. Look at the lives you helped to save tonight." Elizabeth told him. "You aren't responsible for the actions of James Craig."
As the baby kicked again, Elizabeth told him that the baby thinks your ridiculous too. Jason chucked at his more than a friend. "Your baby thinks I am ridiculous?" Elizabeth reached for his hand to put it on her belly for Jason to feel the kick.
With tears in her eyes, Elizabeth finally decided that she had to tell the truth to the man next to her about her baby. "Jason, this baby…Lucky's not the father, you are."
Flashback Ends
Jason closes his eyes, the pain of the memory flashing across his face. He exhales slowly, steadying himself. Wishing that he could have, should have, would have handled things differently after Elizabeth talked about their unborn baby.
He turns back to the invitation, staring at Elizabeth's name. His jaw clenches again – not in anger, but in all the feelings that he never got to say to the woman who had held his heart since that winter in her studio.
Jason stands near the window, arms crossed, still lost in his thoughts. Spinelli, standing off to the side, watches him for a moment. The silence stretches when Spinelli finally breaks it.
"Ahem…. Stone Cold…you're thinking about the Fair Elizabeth, aren't you?" The computer hacker softly asked.
Jason doesn't answer right away. He doesn't have to. He isn't sure he wants to answer the question, and he certainly isn't sure that he wants to have a discussion about Elizabeth with anybody, let alone Spinelli.
"Fair Elizabeth. And the past… that time in the Metro Court elevator?" Spinelli asked again softly but wanting his mentor, and surrogate big brother, to know he wants to help him.
Jason finally turns to Spinelli, his jaw tight. "Yeah." In his typical Jason Morgan manner, he doesn't offer any additional information. He simply answers the question directed at him.
Spinelli nod, his tone shifting to a rare moment of sincerity. "Stone Cold, the Jackal remembers the crisis. The chaos. And you – you were trying to keep everyone alive. And she told you something life-altering while the building was falling apart."
"She told me the baby she is carrying is mine." Jason replied in a low voice, flat, not cold – but controlled. Like he's keeping something inside that still burns if touched.
"That… that moment changed everything, didn't it?"
The legendary mob enforcer doesn't answer right away. He looks back out the window of the penthouse. "It should have. But I walked away… to keep him safe. To protect them, all of them. I agreed to let her continue to tell everybody that Lucky is the father.'
Spinelli didn't visibly react, but he felt like his jaw hit the floor in amazement. That Jason Morgan, his Stone Cold, would voluntarily give us his progeny being carried by the woman that he truly loved. "And now she is marrying Lucky again."
Jason gives the faintest nod. Not bitterness. Not regret, but he was beginning to wonder if was. Just… acceptance. Maybe. "It's her life."
"But it is, was, your life too. For a little while."
He doesn't deny it. He just wonders where he goes from here, knowing that the one thing truly wants, a life, a family with Elizabeth seems to be slipping away.
The air is still Jason hasn't moved from the window as a single tear falls down his cheek thinking about what he has given up. Spinelli, fidgeting with the edge of his sleeve, watches him quietly before finally speaking again – gently this time.
"Stone Cold, may I… may I ask you something of a deeply personal nature?"
Jason glances at him, not answering, but not stopping him either.
"Do you… do you still love her?"
Jason doesn't react right away, just stares out the window of the penthouse, jaw set, hands in his pockets. "It's not that simple."
"Maybe not. But feeling rarely are. Especially where the Fair Elizabeth is concerned. You've…you've always looked at her like she's this light you can't quite reach." Spinelli replied. "Those of us close to you have seen how you look at her, and how she looks at you."
Jason turns away from the window slowly, his expression unreadable, but his eyes give something away – something deep and unresolved. "I loved her. I do love her. I probably always will." He pauses before continuing, "but love doesn't always mean staying. Doesn't always mean getting what you want. Elizabeth will always be what I want, but can't have. I am not meant to have a family, Spinelli, not with my job." Jason looks away again, the silence between them heavy. "She chose a life that I couldn't give her. A life that was safe and away from the danger. I made peace with that."
The young hacker in a moment of perfect timing, "but did you?"
Jason doesn't answer, he isn't sure he knows the answer. They both realize the silence IS the answer.
Spinelli responds, "I wasn't going to say anything else, but… I've never been particularly good at minding my own business where you are concerned, Stone Cold, my master. "Are you going?"
Jason exhales, slow and deep. "To the wedding?" Spinelli nods.
"Yes. To watch the woman, you still love marry someone else. To sit in the back, stoic and silent, pretending it doesn't matter – when we both know it does."
The mob enforcer leans back, arms crossed. "It's not about me."
"Maybe not. But if you don't go, will you regret it?"
Jason doesn't answer. Spinelli knows he's not brushing off the question. "Sometimes showing up is the only way to make peace with what you lost. Or… to find out if you really lost it." Spinelli then says, "just think about it. Because if it were me? If it were Maxie up there? I'd want to know I tried, even if I was one second too late."
Spinelli turns to leave his master alone and give him time with his thoughts. The door click shuts behind him.
Jason stands alone now, in the dim light of the penthouse thinking hard about what Spinelli had said. The city continues to hum, and the invitation is still on the table. He picks it up again, staring at the names. Elizabeth Webber and Lucky Spencer. He wonders why things couldn't be different and the invitation says – Elizabeth Webber and Jason Morgan. Spinelli's question echoes in his head: "Do you still love her?" Jason exhales slowly, putting the card in the top drawer of his desk. His voice is quiet, meant only for himself.
"I never stopped."
Flashback
He remembers various moments with Elizabeth that he will never get out of his head.
Elizabeth smiling at him when he sees her at the hospital
Her face lit with relief when he has saved her from the dangerous times.
Her tears in the elevator when she told him he was the baby's father.
Her pulling away rather than riding away with him.
Elizabeth saving his life twice!
Flashback Ends
Jason runs a hand through his hair, tension mounting in his shoulders. He knows he should let it go, but more and more, he is beginning to realize that she is the one who has his heart, and he won't get another opportunity.
"I loved her when I couldn't have her. I loved her when I did, but messed it up for Sonny. I loved her enough to walk away. But maybe that was never peace. Maybe it was just unfinished." Jason picks up his keys to leave for a ride. For the first time, there's indecision in his step.
