The Harem of Jason Morgan
Lizabeth Webber
The Hardy residence.
"That is it, Lizabeth! I am calling your parents. These lies
have to
stop. I can't believe that you would do anything so ... so...
thoughtless as planting test answers on your sister. And then
planting
condoms as well? What were you thinking? Don't you know that
Barbie
dolls are not anatomically correct?"
"Please, Gram I swear. I will never do anything like that
again...Please don't call my folks. I couldn't bear that!"
"I told you if you ever lied to me again that this
arrangement would
end. As soon as I have word from where your parents are I'm
forwarding
you and your bags... and until then you are grounded! Go to your
room,
Lizabeth."
Stomping up the stairs and then slamming her door. Elizabeth
begins to
pace the room. She brushes her tears away absently her mind
racing.
"This can't be happening. I've been trying so hard; I haven't
done a
step out of line for months... okay weeks. I'm not some puppy
that can
be shuttled off to the pound cause it piddles on the rug now and
again.
This is all Sarah's fault... perfect, plastic Sarah. I can fix her little red
wagon... I can; I can; I can! But how?"
A little bit later in the parking garage of Morgan's Penthouse.
Renaldo
watches the garage as Jason steps from the limo, offering Carly
his hand
as she steps out. Carly is dressed in a short strapless silk
dress that
matches the color of the emerald in the diamond and emerald
necklace
that she is wearing. Carly is laughing and even Jason is cracking
a
smile at a story that Carly had just finished.
"Mr. Morgan? Please Mr. Morgan, I need to talk to you!"
Liz's progress
is blocked by Renaldo. Jason keeps walking until he feels Carly's
hand
on his arm.
"Jase-- It's Liz Hardy; she's a friend of Em's."
Jason pauses and really looks at the girl for the first time but
still
holds his own counsel.
"Jase, she's soaking wet."
"Bring back memories?"
"A few."
"Come on, kid. It's okay, Renaldo. I'll handle it from here."
"Thanks Mr. Morgan, you are the only one that can help me."
"Whatever it is can wait until we get upstairs and you get
dried off."
A concerned Carly places an arm around Liz ignoring the spreading
water
spots on her silk dress. "You are soaked to the skin! Don't
worry;
everything is going to be all right."
About half an hour later in Jason's office. He sits behind the
desk.
Liz has a towel wrapped around her neck and her hands wrapped
around a
cup of coffee. Jason has put all conversation on hold until Carly
arrived.
Carly breathlessly bounds into the room. "What did I miss?"
Jason replies, "Nothing. We waited for you. How is Michael?"
"He's sleeping like an angel. Graciella said he was sweet
all night."
"Good. Okay, Ms. Webber you're up." Jason says.
"Mr. Morgan, you are the only one that can help me..."
Liz begins.
Jason interrupts, "Call me Jason, and you're repeating
yourself. What
exactly do you need?"
Liz blurts out hurriedly, "I need a place to stay. My
grandmother
won't let me stay with her anymore and I don't know what I'm
going to
do."
Jason asks bluntly, "How old are you?"
Liz replies, "Eighteen." Carly who had been leaning
against the
bookcases behind Jason's seat closes her eyes and winces at the
obvious
lie.
Jason rocks forward in his chair, his arms leaning against the
desk, his
eyes icy blue. "Don't lie to me, little girl-- especially
uninteresting
lies in my own house."
Liz looks down at her feet. "Fifteen, but you see that's
the problem.
I can't stay at my gram's and my parents are in Bosnia. I'll end
up in
some girl's boarding school and I'd hate that-- I know I would."
"But why would you think that I would help you?"
"Your sister and Lucky Spencer. Mr. Morgan, I just need a
little time."
"Time doesn't work for me. Having a 15 year old runaway
under my roof
is just the invitation that the PCPD needs to get in here."
Jason
states tersely.
"No one would know I'm here. I swear! I just need a few days
to come
up with a plan." Liz pleas.
Carly says, "Jase, I wish I would've known someone like
you when I
was fifteen. Things might have been so different."
"I wouldn't have been much use to you when you were fifteen
and I don't
think things would have been all that different even if I had.
Liz, I
am a businessman, and you would be nothing but trouble."
Carly interjects quietly, "Michael."
Jason turns his chair around smoothly. "What?"
Carly explains, "Graciella has her own family, and she
didn't sign on to
be a nanny. It really isn't fair...."
Liz begins talking really fast. "I'm really great with kids.
I was
volunteering at the hospital on the kids' ward, and I was Santa's
helper
at the GH Christmas party."
Jason holds up a hand cutting off Liz. "Okay, fine! You can
have two
days but start making plans. If you're good with Michael then
I'll
help you with the next step and if it doesn't work out then we'll
call
it quits with no hard feelings. Carly, would you set her up with
a room
and fill her in on the way things are run around here?"
Later that night in Carly's room. Jason walks in, unbuttoning his
dress
shirt as he comes through the door. Carly sits at the vanity
rubbing
moisturizer on after her shower. She is dressed in a short
nightgown
with spaghetti straps.
Jason says, "Michael's asleep; I just checked on him."
Carly rises from the vanity and walks over to Jason. Brushing his
hands
away, she unbuttons his shirt trailing kisses down his chest.
Jason
threads his hands in her hair and studies her face intently
before
saying, "Something's bothering you."
Carly admits, "She reminds me of me. And I keep remembering
what I did
to Bobbie... moving in on her and taking over Tony."
"You aren't Bobbie, and I'm not Dr. Jones."
Carly replies with a throaty laugh. "Thank God!"
Jason frames Carly's face with his hands holding her at arm's
length.
"She's jailbait and she isn't you. This isn't my problem
anymore; it's
yours. Michael is your son. If she does anything to compromise my
business or our custody of your son then she is gone. We've got a
good
thing going here. When I walk through that door I don't have to
worry
about a thing and you don't have to worry about anything outside
that
door."
Carly bites the inside of her lower lip. "She's been a
friend to your
sister and to my cousin."
Jason nods. "And that got her foot in the door. Now it's up
to her.
Are we done talking yet?" Gathering Carly close he lifts her
from the
floor wrapping his hands around her hips. Carly giggles and
winding her
legs around his waist she grabs hold of his shoulders.
"Oh yeah!... All done.. with that."
Alexis Davis
"What? Yeah, I can be there in about 20 minutes. Yeah, I'm
on my way."
Carly pulls her head out of the pillow long enough to ask in a
sleep
thickened voice, "Is everything okay or should I even ask?"
Jason slides from the bed grabbing clothes as he goes. "That
was Luke.
He wants me to meet him at the club; it's some kind of emergency."
Carly's curiosity is piqued at the mention of her uncle and sits
up in
bed gathering the top sheet to her as she watches Jason dress.
"But
it's morning... it would have to be a real big emergency for Luke
to
even be awake at this hour?!"
"Well he wouldn't get into it on the phone so I doubt it's
either the
plumbing or the books."
"It's not that Moreno guy again, is it?"
"Don't know, but I doubt it."
Grabbing Jason's dress shirt from the floor Carly starts
buttoning
buttons and rolling up sleeves. "Oh Jeez-- if it's Luke and
it's
mysterious; it has got to be some Cassadine conspiracy. It's the
only
thing that keeps him occupied since I quit lying about Bobbie and
Laura
came home from Switzerland."
Sitting on the bed Jason pulls on his boots in rapid succession.
A hint
of impatience enters his voice. "I'll know when I get there."
Reading Jason from months of practice, Carly starts shaking her
head.
"Sorry. I'll butt out." Crawling across the bed, she
presses against him
as she offers him a long, slow moist kiss. "Tell Luke he
hasn't been
such a great uncle lately; he hasn't been over in weeks to see
his
nephew." Squeezing Jason's shoulder briefly, Carly bounds
from the bed
and heads toward the shower. "Since I'm up I might as well
see what I
can get done before Michael wakes."
"Yeah, and see what you can do about getting Liz some
clothes. I
already have one woman stealing my wardrobe; I'm not having
another."
Turning to stand in the doorway backlit from the bathroom behind
her,
Carly strikes a pose. "Don't you like?"
Jason's gaze heats as he examines the woman before him. The tails
of
the shirt cover her front and back but rides up high on the sides
showing off leg and thigh and the hurried buttoning job exposes
cleavage
down to her solar plexus. "Oh I like, but I also told Luke
20 minutes."
Real softly Carly teases, "Then you better get going, right?"
Shrugging into his leather jacket, Jason stands and starts
walking
toward the door. "I'm leaving Renaldo here. If there's a
problem that
involves you or the kid you'll be the first to know-- anything
else...
I'll call when I can."
Luke's club the office. Luke is kicked back in his chair hands
clasped
behind his head as he studies the pattern of the ceiling tiles.
Alexis
Davis sits primly on the lumpy couch taking up as little space as
possible. Everything in her demeanor screams that she is hiding
within
herself from her efforts to take up as little space as possible.
Occasionally as if automatically her arms hug herself and she
rocks a
little back and forth before catching herself and returning to
her rigid
motionless pose.
Rapping once on the door, Jason walks into the silent office.
"Okay,
what's the emergency?"
Luke waves a cigar in the direction of Alexis. "I need to
stash the
counselor here. She had an unexpected guest in her room last
night....
of the viperous persuasion."
"Helena came calling?"
Alexis shudders. "No, literally a viper... a snake. God, I
hate
snakes... especially snakes that bite."
"Now Babe, it wouldn't have bit you... until morning. Not
with you being
all nice and toasty... It was used to lot warmer temperatures
than
upstate New York in the middle of winter."
"You are so twisted, Luke Spencer, and I am not in the mood
for your
baiting. I think it's about time I looked into a career counting
spotted owls in the great northwest under another name."
"You can run babe, but you can't hide. And there are only a
few people
that can make you disappear but Jase here is one of them."
Crossing his arms before him, Jason interjects, "If she
wants to count
spotted owls that's her choice. Seems kind of isolated though
with
plenty of space to bury a body if it came to it."
Alexis closes her eyes briefly. "I see now why you two get
on so
well. You are both twisted."
Jason looks at Luke confused. "What did I say? That's what I
would do
if I were hunting her."
Luke waves off the concern. "She doesn't get it yet that she
needs to
start thinking like a predator rather than like prey to avoid
getting
killed."
"I don't care what you think... this was Helena's work, not
Stefan's!
Stefan is family and he wouldn't hurt me!"
"And you nailed right on the head why I think that this was
a warning
from the Prince of gloom and doom. If it was Helena she would
have just
slit your throat ... that would have had a kind of symmetry that
she
would have relished. This was a warning from someone that knows
you
really, really well. It's time for you to stop sitting on the
fence,
Sweetheart. If you come between two dogs fighting over a juicy
bone you're going to get mauled."
Alexis sighs. "What do I need to do?"
Luke grins easily. "Wow that's a change in tune, counselor."
"Don't gloat, Spencer. I'm not quite as stupid as you have
accused me
of being on occasion."
Taking a seat in the barber chair across from the desk Jason
stretches
out his legs before asking in bored tones, "Why am I here?"
Luke repeats, "I need a place to stash the counselor here.
I'm the
first person that they are going to be looking at for her. Stiff
knows
that I've been courting her on my off hours and Helena's seen a
few of
our meetings as well."
"Not to mention that your wife would kill you for bringing
another woman
into her house, especially since you're skating on thin ice with
her for
not telling her about her son being shot and having a stroke."
"There is that. I could set it up for her to get out of
town but I
would just as soon have Alexis close by when the dust settles
between
Stiff and the Gorgon. She knows all the players and now that she
is
thinking again..."
"You know I really hate being talked about like I'm not in
the room."
"So Jase, Do you have a safe house in town that I can go to
without
suspicion?"
Jason grimaces and closes his eyes. "Your niece says that
you haven't
been over to see your great-nephew lately."
"And how is the little rugrat? Mr. Michael Spencer Morgan?"
Luke
inquires with a note of pride in his voice.
"Eating, sleeping and growing with other bodily functions
thrown in on a
daily basis." Jason pulls out a cellular phone and dials a
preset
number asking Luke as he waits for the phone to pick up, "What's my cut
of this deal?" Just then the phone is picked up on the other
end.
"Yeah Carly, get another room ready we're going to have
another
houseguest... looking pretty open ended right now. And you were
right,
it's another Cassadine Conspiracy."
Emily
Carly and Renaldo are walking through the park on a bright,
crisp,
breezeless winter day that smells just slightly of spring. Carly
pushes
a stroller with a bundled Michael who looks out curiously at the
blue
sky and barren trees. Carly sets a brisk pace that is easily
matched by
Renaldo who is dressed in casual attire with a zipped windbreaker.
Carly teases, "I didn't know that you owned any jeans!"
Renaldo retorts, "I'd look kinda stupid power-walking in an
Italian
suit."
Carly wrinkling her nose laughs. "True, very true."
Carly hesitates as
she recognizes someone she knows sitting on a park bench. Renaldo
looks
around briskly until he too sees the familiar face. Carly takes
in the
air of sadness that surrounds Emily and pushes Michael to where
Em is
staring blankly in to space. "Hey Emily." Carly plops
down next to
Emily startling her.
"Oh Hi." Emily quickly smiles but it doesn't reach her
eyes.
"I see you had the same idea to get out and enjoy the
sunshine while
we've got it. Michael and I needed the fresh air. I think I'm
going to
try and find some ducks... He's got a stuffed duck at home that
he
slobbers all over."
"Can I hold him?"
"Sure, I don't mind sharing." The baby is transferred
to Emily's arms
from the stroller.
Emily holds the baby close to her and croons, "Hi, I'm your
Aunt
Emily... can you say Auntie Em, Auntie Em?"
Carly starts laughing and can't stop. "Remind me to never
have a kid
named Dorothy around you!" Even Renaldo, who watches
everything but the
two women with the baby, grins.
Emily asks hesitantly, "What you said about sharing. Is that
true? I
mean, after everything that's happened?"
Carly gets serious fast. "That was never about you, Emily.
That was
about some of your relatives trying to take Michael away from me
and
Jason. They weren't interested in sharing just taking. Tony, AJ
and
your folks not only wanted my baby but they wanted to cut me out
of his
life. No way was I going to let that happen. For a long time when
I was
growing up it was just me and my mom. I want Michael to be a part
of a
family: mom, dad... and aunts!"
Emily inquires, "But Dr. Jones....?"
Carly replies honestly. "Tony was a mistake. The result of
watching too
much television, I guess. I wanted Father Knows Best... The Donna
Reed
Show. The perfect family with the perfect father and with me as
the
perfect wife. I was deluding myself and eventually I woke up and
realized what Tony and I had wasn't going to be fixed in thirty
minutes
or an hour. And while we're being honest here-- What is bothering
you?"
Emily hands the baby back to Carly. "I was just missing Matt.
He might
not have gone about it the right way but he tried to be there for
me...
until Dorman killed him."
Carly blanches. "I remember. I remember walking into the
morgue and
seeing Jason kneeling by Dorman's body. I figured out then how
much Jase
means to me. I would have said anything to protect him and he
wanted me
to tell the truth. The truth-- I couldn't believe it.
Renaldo interjects, "Carly."
Carly looks at her watch and then nods. "Em, I have to get
back to the
apartment. If you ever want to talk or see Michael, call okay?
Renaldo
or one of the guys will come pick you up wherever you are and bring you by the
apartment-- Night or Day, okay?!" Carly takes off one of her gloves and takes
one of Emily's gloveless hands and squeezes it reassuringly. "You're important
to me and not just 'cause you're Michael's aunt or one of the few people that
Jason cares about but because you are a good person. And I am the lying
conniving b...um witch your mother says I am, but I'm your lying and conniving
witch, okay?!
Emily laughs and squeezes Carly's hand. "Okay." Carly
rises and fusses
briefly with the stroller before starting down the path. "Carly."
Carly looks over her shoulder. " Yeah?"
"Thanks"
"Just call, Em." Striding purposefully Carly and
Renaldo head back to
the apartment.
Later that evening Carly and Jason get ready to go out to Luke's--take
him his books and shoot a game of pool.
Carly runs a quick brush through her hair. "I can't believe
that Alexis
Davis is staying here! I mean, she is Tony's lawyer."
Jason tosses the towel from his shoulder to the dresser and pulls
out a
clean t-shirt. "Yeah, well I seem to be running a haven for
wayward
females with family problems. And Carly, no one can know she is
here."
Carly grins. "My specialty. You duck the questions and if
it comes
down to it... I'll lie like crazy."
Jason retorts, "One of these days people are going to start
catching
on."
Carly replies smugly. "Nope. Since Michael was born I've
been telling
the truth at least ... oh half the time. And hanging with you
fulltime,
I've been getting rusty; although Liz is a refresher course. I
saw
Emily in the park today and got real honest with her. Oh Jase,
she was
just sitting there staring into space-- she didn't even notice me
until
I was right beside her."
Jason asks seriously, "Was she high?"
Carly shakes her head. "No, I don't think so but Jase, she
was so sad
and she was missing Matt."
Jason confirms, "Her dealer?"
Carly nods. "Yeah, I just think that things must be really
bad if the
person that you're thinking about and missing is the guy that you
used
to get high with."
Jason agrees. "I'll check it out. I've already talked to
Reginald and
things are set up for me and Michael to see grandmother tomorrow.
Carly goes over to the dresser and pulls a packet from a stack in
one
drawer. "I've got new pictures if you want to drop them off
for me."
The next morning at the Quartermaine Mansion Jason enters through
the
patio doors with Michael. Lila looks up from her book as the
doors open.
"Darling! And you brought that precious child with you!"
Jason walks over and places Michael in Lila's waiting arms before
giving
her a kiss on her powdered cheek. Sitting on the couch next to
her
chair, Jason rolls his eyes slightly as Lila greets her great
grandchild
with coos and cuddles.
Lila looks over at Jason. "I think he's grown since the last
time you
were here. He's definitely heavier."
Jason shrugs. "Carly just about weighs every ounce that goes
into the
kid and she agrees with you. She is still freaking on the time he
spent
in the hospital when he was born."
Lila nods her head sagely. "It was a very frightening time
for all of
us but a mother's worst nightmare. How is Carly?"
"Better. She's over the blues now and having no worries
about Michael
helped with that. Gets out into the sunshine whenever she can,
takes
the kid with her. She sent these over for you." Jason
reaches into his
leather jacket to an inside pocket and pulls out the packet of
photos.
"Oh you must thank her for me. Reggie and I have just
finished the last
packet she sent over. I ordered a lovely set of photo albums from
Wyndams and you know..."
Jason shakes his head ruefully. "Yeah, I know...they deliver.
Grandmother, Carly saw Emily in the park yesterday and she was
concerned. She says that Em seemed sad. Have you noticed
anything?"
"Oh Dear, Emily HAS been more quiet of late. I know that my
Edward has
been watching her like a hawk! He is so concerned that she isn't
eating
right. She is the only grandchild he has at home now and so he
fusses a
bit, I know."
Jason looks up as he hears the click of the french doors opening, he
relaxes
slightly when he realizes that it is Reginald but picks up
quickly on
the clue that Reg wants to talk to him... privately.
Stepping over to the windows, Jason asks in an undertone. "What's
up?"
"I was just upstairs. Dr. Alan didn't go into work today; he
called in
sick. I had no idea that he was still home."
Jason grimaces slightly, "I'll try to be gone before he gets
down
here." Just then the doors open.
Reg quips ruefully, "Too late, I'm out of here. Call me in
case of blood
or breakage."
Jason stands over by the windows out of direct view which allows
him to
observe Alan-- the lost weight, the slight tremor in his hands,
muddied
complexion, the hollows under his eyes. And even though Alan is
home
sick, it hasn't stopped him from being dressed in a suit and tie
which
has Jason wincing in disbelief. Jason watches as Alan places his
hand
in his pocket and then a minute later pats that same pocket as if
for
reassurance.
Alan calls out in a falsely cheerful voice. "Good Morning,
Mother!"
Lila replies, "Good morning, Alan; see who has come to
visit me?"
Alan does a double take as he recognizes the baby. "Is that
Michael?"
Then starts at the voice behind him.
"Yeah. Alan, can I talk to you... outside?" As the two
men walk toward
the patio doors Jason smoothly brushes up against Alan and picks
his
jacket pocket folding the pill container into a closed fist. Once
outside the men face off. "Alan, you look like hell."
Alan is rocked slightly at the blunt comment. "I'm fine just
a little
under the weather is all. Michael is looking good." Alan
pats his
pocket and is NOT reassured. Sliding his hand into his pocket he
searches for the small vial... not finding it; he reaches into
his other
pocket and starts to sweat.
"Looking for these?" Jason raises his clenched fist and
opening it
examines the bottle then opens the lid and confirms the pills.
"Hydrocodone. A synthetic opiate. Isn't that the same drug
that Brenda
was hooked on?"
"Brenda took more than the recommended dosage. Those are
quite safe.
Now return those to me. They were prescribed to me for my hand."
Jason snaps the pills out of Alan's reach observing his flushed
face and
the sweat that has begun to appear. The tremble in Alan's hands
is more
evident. "You aren't in pain... you are looking for a pill
to stop the
craving. Don't tell me that these things are safe 'cause right
now, you
aren't. I don't want you near the kid, Carly, me, any of my
people.
What you want to do with your life is your choice, if you choose
to
slowly kill yourself with this poison I'm not going to stop you.
But if
you hurt one of mine in your drug induced fog you won't have to
worry
about suicide." Jason's eyes narrow as Alan is reduced in
stature by his
cutting phrases. "This has been going on for months, hasn't
it? You
were there the night that Cassadine was shot and you could have
helped
and didn't-- because of these." Jason holds up the pills.
"Emily
knows, Alan. She might not know about these, but she knows
something
isn't right. She was there that night too. Just stay away from me
and
the kid. We'll be out of here soon enough." Jason tosses
Alan back his
pills. "Here, I don't need these."
Late that night there is a phone call that rings by Carly's bed.
"Yeah? Em... is that you? Where are you? Okay, I'm on my way--
just
stay put." Carly flips on a light and then flipping her hair
out of her
eyes, eyes the clock questioningly and the empty bed beside her.
Hitting the speed dial on the phone, she orders up a car and
driver.
Quickly she dives into sweats and pulls on running shoes
gathering her
purse she stops briefly by Liz's door.
"Liz, I'm so glad you're still up. I have to go out and
Jason isn't
home yet... could you keep an ear for Michael? He should sleep
until I
get back but just in case."
"Yeah, No problem; how long are you going to be gone?"
"No longer than an hour. I'll see you in a little bit."
Brenda
Inside the rebuilt wing of the Forest Hills Psychiatric Hospital.
"Okay, I'm here-- What does she want?"
"You told me to call if she asked for you."
"Yeah, but after the last time I didn't think that she'd ask.
How is
she?"
Lorraine shrugs. "She's as stable as they get in this looney
bin."
Together they start walking down a long hallway toward a steel
door.
"Your bedside manner could use some work, Lorraine"
"And if Carly hadn't blown it with Dr. Jones I could have
had a cushy
desk job at GH. They get what they pay for and believe me--
nothing is
worth getting beat up by these psychos. But they had an opening
and I
needed the rent money."
"Well I hope that you don't smoke; that's what killed the
last nurse, I
hear."
"Yeah, that and Greg Cooper. Can you believe that he is
here? They
brought him back for a psych eval. He has to have one every six
months. His parents think if he stands trial that they are off
the
hook. They'd rather have a kid that's a criminal than crazy."
"And then there are parents that would prefer the reverse.
Is Jax still
monitoring her visitor's list?"
"Everyday when he comes in to see her. Now that's a fine
looking man--
and rich."
"Whatever. Does she know I'm here?"
"Yeah, I told her that I called you. They're all locked up
for the
night so just beep me when you want out..."
"Right." A thick heavy door swings open to a dayroom
where a small
brunette stares out into the darkness by a wired shatterproof
window. "Hello Brenda."
"Hello Jason." There is a long pause.
"You asked for this meeting."
"I want to disappear. You're good at making people disappear."
Brenda
throws her hands wide and cocks her head to the side. "So
Abracadabra!"
Jason pulls out a chair from a table and reversing the chair
straddles
it. He rests his arms along the back of the chair. Pointing to
the
chair across the table, "Are you sane?"
Brenda sits in the chair across from Jason with one leg curled
beneath
her. "Sane enough to know that if I don't get away from Jax
I'll be back
on a psych ward within weeks. I'm getting out of here tomorrow.
Jax
comes by every day at 10am; I can be released at seven. I want to
be
long gone before he shows up."
"He must know that you're getting out."
"My 'Doctor' and I have come to an... accommodation-- being
a former
model still has some advantages. Unlike you, some men still think
with
their crotch. Jax has no idea that I'm due to be released."
"You've changed."
"I had to. Like you said being locked up it was either be
killed or
kill myself. Well the old Brenda Barrett, nearly Jacks, nearly
Corinthos, is dead and this is what's left over."
"Okay that answers the Jax question. What about Sonny?"
"Sonny's gone and frankly I wouldn't spit on him if he was
on fire. He
left me holding the bag in our relationship and it got awful
heavy."
"Brenda, that was never his intention."
"I think I read a bumper sticker once-- The road to hell...? Well
I've
been to hell, and I'm not going back. Are you going to help me or
not?"
"Why should I? You've been nothing but trouble-- first for
Sonny and
then for me. Making you disappear sounds like a tall order."
"Because you owe me. If it weren't for me, you'd be living
in one room
over a seedy bar taking orders rather than giving them. And you
like
giving the orders... I can tell."
"It'll take at least a few days to set things up."
Jason rises from the
table, and taking out his cell phone dials Lorraine's pager.
"The last
place Jax will look for you is my place especially after what
happened
last time."
Coming around the table, Brenda frames Jason's face with both
hands and
kisses him on the mouth lingering in the embrace. Jason reaches
up and
takes her hands in his removing them from his face.
"I already have a woman."
"She has my condolences."
Turning Brenda's hands over, Jason examines the thick healing
scares
that crisscross the inside of Brenda's wrists. "I know a
plastic
surgeon that can take care of these."
"It was a lesson learned. It can't be erased."
"A cab will be waiting for you outside at seven AM. One of
my guys will
be driving it."
"See you tomorrow."
"Oh and Brenda-- you're right. I like my life; you do
anything to
complicate it and you're on your own."
"Get me clear of Jax and his delusions of a pretty little
woman on a
pretty beach and we'll be even."