CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1


"So since everything is put away how about you tell us their names?"

"Ok fine I will. "This is Emma and Alexander." she said as she watched Johnny and Francis smile at both of them.

"So since that question was answered so fast care to tell us who?"

"Well..I...." she couldn't tell them who or could she tell them?

Hohnny noticed how pail she got about the who part. "Liz you dont have to tell us."

"I know, but I am sure you have a few guesses if not I am sure you know who it is."

They both nodded. "I feel that we both know Liz, but that does not mean we are right." Johnny said to her as he watched her worry her lip.

"What am I going to do? I mean if you two can figure it out that means everyone else will too in only a matter of time."

"But Liz isn't that why you came home?" Francis asked as he sat on the couch next to Johnny.

"No. Yes, I dont know. I want them to have a family here and not somewhere else. Port Charles is the place I know and grew up. My friends at least I still hope they are my friends and my grams are here. I just want them to know what I had and have here."

"You dont have to worry your secret is safe with us. But you should know something." Francis said. "He's not here, he hasnt been here since you left.?

"What do you mean?" she asked not sure she new who he meant but she had a good idea who he meant.

"Jason. He left a week after you did. But no one has heard from him and now that you are here someone has to phone him and tell him." Johnny explained.

"God no. You cant tell him, he will hate me for not telling him. I cant have Courtney and him know, I wont let you tell him. There is no way I will losse them to him."

"Liz they are not together. They broke up after you left. Jason to her somehing and the next thing we know is his pent house is trashed." Johnny said, but he new hearing Jason's name would hurt her.

"You need to tell him before someone else does. Courtney still lives at Sonny and Carly's and if she see's you she will shit and there is not telling what she will do to them." he pointed to Emma and Alexander.

"He has no right to know. He told me later that night after Emily's wedding that it was a mistake and that he could not see me again. So I told him fine and I went to my place and started to pack everything I would need to leave."

"Why didnt you wait around to say good-bye?" they both asked at the same time.

"Because I couldnt handle seeing Jason and Courtney walking around town actiong all lovey dovey. After the night we shared, after the things he said to me I just couldnt handle it." she said whipping her eyes.

Johnny sat there for the longest time trying to figure out the best thing to say to her. But he new nothing would ever make up for the pain Jason has caused.

"Liz how about you let me talk to him. Maybe I could find out what he plans to do or where he is?" Johnny asked as he watched the other two across the room.

"Why did he and Courtney break up really?" she asked. "I know you both know so start talking."

Francis was shaking his head. "That is not our place to say. If they want you to know honey they will tell you themselfs."

"can you guys tell me something then?" she asked as she sat on her table.

"That depends on what it is." Johnny explained.

"Can I have his number unless it has not changed. Cause I think you guys are right. I should be the one to tell him that I am back here. But I am not telling him about Alex and Emma unless I really feel he has the right to know."

"The number is the same. But you know if he is smart he will figure it out on his own. He will know by seeing them. And if he doesnt then he is stupid."

"Thanks guys. You know what I think that I need to get things unpacked and go see my grandmother before she finds out I am here from someone else too."

Both men stood up. "Sure Liz, why dont you give us a call and maybe we can all meet for lunch tomorrow or whatever works for you?"

The men left to go back to work leaving Liz and her family alone for the first time since she got back here. She new once you look at Emma and Alex you new who they belonged too. But now she needed to find a way to tell Jason. She new he had a right to them, but there was no way in hell she was going to end up handing them over to him and some other fluzzy.

*****

He sat on the beach watching the waves wash over the rocks. The sun was as bright as ever today. The thoughts of Elizabeth sitting hear day and night painting pictures for around their home. A home he wished held her in it right now. He had spent 6 months looking for her and came up with nothing. He went from Port Charles to Vancouver British Columbia and all the way back to Italy thinking the best places she new would have the spots to paint at.

He new she was somewhere, where she did not want to be found. He had his men along with Benny looking and they even came up with nothing. It's like she vanished off the face of the earth. He was going to call Johnny to see if anyone their had heard from her. But he new if she wouldn't call him at least she would maybe call one of the guards.

The ring of his cell phone brought him out of his thoughts.

"Morgan." he said into the phone.

He waited a minute and when no one said anything he said it again.

"Morgan."

"Jason?" she whispered.

That was the voice that haunted his dreams and his every wake for the past year.

"Lizabeth."