~Something More~

~Chapter 9~

*Courtney’s Dream*

Courtney walked through the door as she saw Jason standing in their living room in a suit. He was holding one red long stemmed red rose and behind him she could hear the sound of soft romantic music being played and a beautiful little table all decorated for dinner, with Candles and Rose petals.

Jason slowly walked towards her with a nervous smile on his face which made Courtney giggle. As soon as he reached her, he pulled her up against his body and kissed her gently, taking Courtney’s breath away. While they pulled apart Jason handed her the rose that he had been holding and kissed her cheek. She smiled up at him and decided to break the silence. “God Jason it’s beautiful!” she said as she bent her head down to smell the flower.

“Almost as beautiful you” he said while taking her hand and leading her over to the table.

As she sat down Jason pulled up his chair so that it was right in front of her. He shifted his footing several times, nervously looking at the floor before finally sitting in his chair.

Courtney was watching Jason with great fascination, she had never seen him act this way and he looked so nervous that it was almost funny. “Well whatever he has planned must be important, because he looks like he is going crazy.” She thought to herself as Jason looked up at her.

He took a deep breath before starting with the reason for why he had gone to so much trouble. “Courtney, ever since the first time I met you, you have been my world, my life. I felt like if I wasn’t around you than I had no reason to live. You are what I live for and you are who I look forward to seeing when I wake up everyday. I want to give you everything that you have already given me and so much more. Courtney, will you marry m-…” Jason said, but before he could continue, Courtney once again woke up with a start.

*End Dream*

She sat up on the couch and looked around at her surroundings. “NO!!!!” she screamed, as she remembered what had almost happened in her dream. She had looked so happy and in love, it made Courtney wish that it was that easy in real life. She slowly took a breath while remembering how Jason had held her after she told him about her encounter with AJ. She shuddered as she thought of how safe she felt in Jason’s arms, she had never felt that way with AJ, considering he was what she needed protection from. It was as if her whole life was different in her dreams as it was from reality, but in a way it was all the same, because she knew that someday, she would be called Mrs. Morgan, but stopped herself as she remembered that she wasn’t even divorced from AJ yet! “Courtney this is ridiculous, He probably doesn’t even like you that way.” She said aloud to herself as she relaxed back into the couch and fell into a restless sleep.

*Kelly’s*

Leah sat down at the Table at Kelly’s, with Carly occasionally looking at her out of the corner of her eye to make sure she wasn’t about to break down after what happened in the car. She felt upset about it because she wasn’t ready to talk to anyone, even her family, about what had happened before she found her father. It was something she wished would just disappear from her memory because of all the pain that it caused her.

While Leah was sitting there looking rather dazed, Bobbie came over to give the women their orders. “Here you are girls, enjoy!” she said giving Leah a smile, who jerked away from her thoughts and returned the smile back to Bobbie, whom she had met a few minutes before.

“Thank you.” Leah said while starting in on her Sandwich that she ordered.

“Thanks mama, we’ll see you later.” Carly said while she stood up and gave her mother a hug before eating her salad.

Carly realized that Leah might think it is weird that all of a sudden, Ms. Sociability isn’t talking because of how upset her sister in-law had gotten in the car at the mere mention of her past, so she decided to tell her about the idea that had popped into her head a while back.

“Hey I got an idea” she said as Leah’s head popped up.

“What is it?” Leah asked curiously, wondering what Carly had come up with now.

“I was thinking, that since we got all those great outfits today, what better way to show them off then to our closest friends!” Carly said, ready to jump out of her chair.

“Carly what are yo-…” Leah began to ask as Carly interrupted her.

“A Fashion show!” she said a little too loudly, as some customers that were in the diner began to look over at her. “We’ll put on the clothes that we got today and then model them for the guys when we go home!” she finished, lowering her voice.

Leah was skeptical about it at first, but then warmed up to the idea since it did have something to do with Clothes. “Ok!” she said jumping up at the same time as Carly, who noticed that her sister in-law would not be able to stay seated as soon as she got used to the idea.

So with that, Both Leah and Carly rushed out of the diner while placing a tip on the table and turning away from their uneaten food. Neither one could hardly wait for the treat that they had in store for the boys when they got home.

*PH 2*

Jason had fallen asleep that night, after having woken up once again because of his dreams about Courtney. He had been thinking about what he would be doing now if he had only continued to hold her. “Well you wouldn’t be sitting here thinking about it that’s for sure!” he said to himself as he headed into the bathroom to take a shower.

When he got finished getting ready for his day he realized that he had nothing planned. He thought about going to go see Courtney, but decided against it since she might feel like he was smothering her, and that was that last thing he wanted.

So he walked over to his pool table and started racking the balls up,  since besides the Couch and the desk, it was the only thing that he had, and was the one thing he could do while waiting for someone to call and give him some sort of Job that would keep him busy. He was just about to shoot when his cell phone began to ring. “And of course it rings now” he thought to himself as he reached inside his jean pocket to retrieve his phone. “Morgan” he said.

“Jason??” Courtney said into the phone, wanting to make sure she was actually talking to him and not some weirdo who decided to impersonate him. “Well that’s one farfetched thought there Court!” she said to herself, as she waited for him to say something.

“Courtney?” Jason said, as his tone grew louder, hardly believing that he was talking to her and hoping at the same time that she was safe. “Is something wrong? Are you ok!?” he finished in a slightly panicky tone.

Courtney chuckled softly as she heard Jason’s voice get even more worried by the second. “Yes Jase it’s me, and I’m ok. I just wanted to ask you for a favor.” She said to him with smile on her face, even though she knew that he couldn’t see it.

“Alright name it.” he said simply, wondering if she was in any kind of trouble.

“Will you help me pick up some of my things and bring them over to my new apartment?” she said to him. “I’m totally useless when it comes to packing and all that, I just wanted to know if you would help me.” She finished, in her most innocent voice.

“Of course! When should I come over?” he asked as he quickly put the pool balls back into the right places.

“Umm, well I was just about to go to Sonny’s to tell him about AJ, so maybe after that we could head over to the Quartermaine to get my stuff?” she asked, rather amused at how enthusiastic he was about helping her.

Jason was not particularly thrilled about having to go to the Quartermaines, and about her talking to Sonny, because he knew that it would get nasty at some point, But Courtney needed him, so he would do it. “Yeah that sounds good, do you want me to talk to Sonny with you?” He asked her.

“I think I’ll be ok, Leah will be there so if he gets a little crazy she’ll just shut him up for me.” She said, smiling to herself as she thought about her baby sister. “I’ll just come over and get you before I leave.” She finished, hoping that he would still help her, even after she mentioned the whole Quartermaine thing.

“Ok I’ll see you then.” He said, ready to Jump around the room just as Carly always did when she got enthused about something.

“Ok bye Jase, thank you!” she said before hanging up, she had some things to finish up, otherwise known as ‘make-up, clothes and hair.’

“Bye” he whispered into the phone as he hung up and walked over to the pool table, figuring that he had enough time to play at least one game.

*PH 4*

Carly and Leah both rushed into the penthouse carrying all of their bags and things as Sonny watched them curiously with Michael, who was playing with some action figures, as the two women practically ran all the way upstairs with out so much as a hello.

“Daddy what was that?” Michael asked, wondering what his mom and Aunt were up to.

“I’m not sure Buddy, I’ll go find out ok? Just stay here and keep playing.” He said as he got up to go upstairs.

Leah had gone into Carly and Sonny’s room, with Carly right behind her, who was out of breath from trying to hide the bags and boxes from her husband and son, and flew onto the bed, setting her things on the floor as she lay down and took a deep breath.

“*sigh* ok are you ready?” Carly asked, putting her things in the closet as she turned around to face Leah.

“For what?” she asked, drawing a total blank.

“Leah, oh my god! The Fashion show?!?” Carly cried, shaking her head in amazement that she had already forgotten.

“oh yeah” she said, chuckling softly as Carly grabbed her hand and pulled her off the bed, right when Sonny walked in.

“Hey what’s going on in here?” he asked, as Carly started pushing him out of the room.

“We have a surprise for you, so go get Max, Marco, Morgan, Michael and yourself downstairs and we will be with you shortly.” She said to him while kissing him quickly and pushing him out the door.

Leah was now laughing so hard that she had to hold onto her side, as she remembered the Look on Sonny’s face when he heard the word ‘surprise’. “Well shall we?” Leah asked, wiping the tears from her eyes as she stood up and motioned over to the bags.

“Lets!” Carly yelled running over to them as she started grabbing different outfits and ran over to the bathroom, as she shut the door, leaving Leah to wonder what outfit she should wear first.

*Courtney’s Apartment*

Courtney rushed around her apartment, Curlers in her hair and makeup half done, as she searched for the phone. “Ah ha!” she said pulling it out from under the couch. She gave a deep sigh before calling Sonny, wondering what she was going to say to him when she went over to the penthouse. As she dialed the number she relaxed slightly, reminding herself that the sooner she did it, the sooner she got to see Jason.

“Corinthos” she heard her brother say.

 “Sonny, its Courtney.” She said to him, as her body tensed up.

 “Hey Court, what’s up?” he asked, wondering what his sister had called to talk about.

“I need to talk to you, so is it ok if I come over to the penthouse in about an hour or so?”  She asked him, hoping that she could get this over with as soon as possible.

“Yeah, sure… but Courtney wha-…” he said but she cut in right before he could ask.

“Ok I’ll see you then!” she said before hanging up.

“God why is this so hard?” she thought to herself as she walked back into her so called bedroom. “Because of what your bastard of a husband did to you that’s what!” she reminded her self, remembering every bit of what had happened, she decided that she would wear waterproof mascara, considering that their would at least be a few tears during this confrontation with Sonny…. Not to mention AJ.

An Hour later, she looked at herself in the mirror, pulling a lock of her hair behind her ear; she smiled at her reflection, hoping that she would take Jason’s breath away. “God you sound like Leah and Carly!” she thought as she grabbed her keys and headed out the door.

*PH 4*

“Leah you ready yet?” Carly asked, as she knocked on the door to the bathroom. She had decided to wear a Red silk dress that came to her ankles, with a slit that came up to her knee. The short sleeves hung off her shoulder and she wore her hair up in an elegant bun. Knowing that she would drive Sonny wild when she went downstairs, she wanted to go as soon as she could.

Carly started knocking again as she saw the door open and watched as Leah walked out. She was wearing the last outfit that they had picked up before leaving that shopping mall. It was a Soft light pink halter dress, which was made of chiffon and silk, and had a beautiful lace pattern above the bodice. She wore her makeup lightly and had her hair up in a twist, with pieces of her light brown hair falling in her face. “Beautiful” Carly said as she looked at her sister in-law.

“Well I should say the same thing about you to!” Leah said while walking over to Carly and giving her a hug. 

As they pulled apart they heard someone yelling from downstairs. “ARE YOU GUYS READY YET?!?” Sonny yelled, causing both women to burst out laughing as they walked over to the stairs. “Ready?” Carly asked her.

“Yeah” she said grinning, as she watched Carly open her mouth to say something.

“Ok guys, we have a special presentation for you today, The Leah and Carly Corinthos Fashion show!” she said, as she heard Michael and baby Morgan clapping from downstairs. “First up, Miss Leah Corinthos!” she said as she gave Leah a little nudge over to the stairs.

Sonny gasped as he saw his little sister walking down the stairs, she was breath taking. She walked over to them and turned around twice so they could see both sides of the dress, stopping over by Morgan as she gave him a kiss on the cheek and walked back up the stairs as the boys started clapping.

Next, Carly walked downstairs in her red dress, as Sonny was handing over Morgan’s  rattle to Marco, who was holding him, and dropped it on the floor as he looked up to see his wife, walking down the stairs and smiling at him. She looked like a goddess as she showed off every inch of her dress. He was still watching her walk upstairs, wishing that he could go with her, when Leah resumed her place on the stair case, wearing a white baby doll tank top, a back mini skirt and a big white belt, with Black knee high boots.

“I’m going to have a little fun now.” Leah thought as she walked seductively over to Max, who was sitting next to Michael and Sonny, and seated herself right in his lap, giving him one of her signature winks.

Max was now turning deep red, as he watched Leah make her way over to him. Still blushing profusely as she made her way back upstairs, he looked at Sonny who shook his head at him. “Ok, time for big brother protection” he thought to himself, thinking that he would have to protect his sister from guys sometime or another, because she was so beautiful.

They continued for around 45 minutes, until Carly walked down in her last outfit, which resembled the outfit that Leah had worn earlier but instead she wore a white shirt under a black leather jacket, and a black mini skirt with a black leather belt and her knee high black boots. She also wore a black leather biker hat over her lightly curled hair that she let flow onto her shoulders.

Sonny was at his wits end, and after having controlled himself for the last hour, he couldn’t do it anymore and got up and ran to pick Carly up when he heard a knock on the door. “Son of a bitch!” he thought as Carly noticed the look on her husbands face and started laughing as she went over to Marco and picked up her son and carried him upstairs to put him down for his nap.

Sonny opened the door to find Courtney standing in front of him with a nervous smile on her face. “Hey sis, come on in.” he said, finally calming himself down even though he had been interrupted with Carly.

Courtney took a deep breath and walked into the apartment, as she saw Leah coming downstairs, in a jean skirt and peasant top. “Hey!” Courtney said, relieved that her sister was there.

“Hey to you to” she said as she gave Courtney a hug, and heard her whisper something into her ear.

“Will you get rid of them for me? I have to talk to sonny.” She said motioning over to Max and Marco, who were still sitting on the couch.

Leah gave her a ‘don’t worry I got it covered look’ and turned to the two guards.

“Ok you to, breaks over, get your asses up and get back to work!” she said, startling the two guards, who jumped up and practically ran out the door as Leah chased them away.

“*sigh* ok, well I’ll be upstairs… have fun guys!” she said while she turned and headed upstairs.

Sonny turned to Courtney, who walked over and sat on the couch, motioning for him to come and sit down. He walked over to her and sat next to her as he started to speak. “Courtney what’s going on?” he asked, totally confused and wanting to know what this was all about.

Courtney took a deep breath before she started telling him about why she had come over here. “Sonny I have to tell you something, that you will either like, or be very pissed off about… but knowing you it might be both.” She said, looking at him for an answer before she started. All she got though was a nod because Sonny wanted to hear what she was going to say.

“Ok well yesterday I was woken up by AJ, who started screaming at me about how I was supposed to obey him and love him and everything” she started, as she felt tears in her eyes. “And I yelled at him saying that I didn’t love him and then….” She tried to continue but the tears were too strong.

Sonny put his hand on her shoulder as he opened his mouth to say something. “Courtney, what happened?” he asked, afraid of what she was going to say.

“He hit me, and kicked me as soon as I hit the ground.” She said letting out the breath that she had been holding, and started wiping her tears. “Then I got up and screamed at him and I packed my things up and I left. I have an apartment about 3 blocks away. I just wanted you to know why I wasn’t living at the Quartermaine’s anymore.” She finished as fresh tears fell from her eyes.

Sonny pulled his sister into an embrace as about a hundred thoughts went through his head. He knew that AJ had to be stopped; he had already gone to far the day he laid a hand on Courtney. And Sonny was going to make sure that he never got that chance again. 

Just as they pulled apart Jason walked into the Penthouse. Not realizing that Courtney was there he started asking Sonny something. “Hey Sonny have you figured out what w-…” he started saying, before noticing Courtney on the couch smiling at him while wiping her tears away. She was so beautiful, despite how much pain she had been through lately. She was wearing a knee length Light pink sundress that fit her form perfectly. Her hair hung lightly on her shoulder in soft curls and her eyes sparkled when she looked at him.

“Courtney, are you ok?” he said before remembering what she had probably just done. He walked over to her and sat down on the other side of her and looked into her eyes. She smiled at him and nodded while standing up. She gave him a look as if to say ‘I’ll meet you outside.” And gave Sonny a hug before heading out the door.

“Have I found anything out about AJ?” Sonny asked him, as Jason just stared at the closed door, wanting to go after her but he had to talk with Sonny first. 

“Yeah.” He said, finally turning away from the door.

“Not yet, But I have someone calling me later about It.” he said as he walked over to the bar.

“Alright, well I’m going to go then... I have some thing’s to take care of.” Jason said as he walked out the door, leaving Sonny completely clueless.

*Hallway*

Jason walked out of Sonny’s penthouse and came face to face with Courtney, who had been waiting for him.

“Are you alright?” Jason asked with concern in his eyes.

“Yeah I’m ok now.” She said smiling at him. She turned towards the elevator and grabbed Jason’s hand, throwing him off balance since he wasn’t expecting it, and started laughing when he tripped over himself.

Finally getting himself under control, he followed Courtney into the elevator and led her over to his motorcycle. As soon as Courtney saw it she jumped right onto the front of the seat and grabbed the handle bars.

“Jason oh my god you have a motorcycle!?!” She cried while he looked at her in shock.

“Yeah, I have for awhile now.” He said as he watched her jump around excitedly on the seat of his bike. “Why do you like them or something?” he asked her suspiciously. He had never met anyone who liked to ride motorcycles before.

“Uh yea!” she yelled, making Jason burst out laughing. “I have loved motorcycles ever since the first time I saw one.” She said to him, finally controlling her voice and looked up at him to give him one of her brilliant grins.

“Alright lets go, but on one condition” he said to her as he walked towards her.

“What?” she asked him, with a questioning face.

“You let me sit up front.” He said to her as he picked her up and slid in front of her, as she giggled and wrapped her arms around his waist.

He started up the bike, and they drove over to the Quartermaine’s. As they reached the front door, Courtney grabbed Jason’s arm and he wrapped it around her as the door opened and Reginald welcomed them in.

“Mrs. Quartermaine, Mr. Morgan, it’s nice to see you both.” He said nodding towards them.

“It’s Ms. Matthews now Reginald, thank you.” She said as she led Jason up the stairs.

When they reached her and AJ’s room, she ran inside and grabbed the suitcase that was underneath the bed. Jason stood in the door way and watched as Courtney threw everything that she owned into the suitcase. She looked up at Jason as soon as she finished and he started walking towards her. She motioned for him to come closer and when he only came about an inch she grabbed the side of his face and pulled him closer to her as she whispered into his ear. “Can you help me with this?” she asked him as she pointed to the large suitcase that was overly packed.

He chuckled at her and nodded, picking up the suitcase as held onto Courtney with his free hand, as they started walking back down the stairs. When they were almost out the door a voice from behind them stopped them from leaving.

“So did you come back to show your boyfriend the house? Oh wait he already has seen it, considering he used to live here, isn’t that right little brother?” AJ said, as both Courtney and Jason spun around to face him.

“Look Jack ass, I just came with Courtney to help her get her things so she doesn’t have to deal with your shit anymore.” Jason said as his grip tightened around Courtney’s waist. Courtney was terrified about the look that was in AJ’s eyes, but she trusted Jason and she felt safe as long as he held onto her.

“Well, Golden boy, as I see it. You have something that belongs to me.” AJ said as he started walking towards them.

Jason walked to stand in front of Courtney but she pushed him away and stood face to face with AJ.

“I do not belong to you, or anyone else for that matter!” she spat into his face, with the hatred coming back to her. “You will never own me! I WANT A DIVORCE!” She screamed and grabbed Jason’s hand, as she ran out of the house. Leaving AJ shaking on the spot.

*Courtney’s Apartment*

Leah walked all the way up the stairs to Courtney’s apartment, after she had left the address for her earlier. She heard voices and lost her footing as she fell backwards into the Laundry shoot, and used her feet from making her slide all the way down. She slowly crept up to the entrance, as she recognized the voices of her older sister, and her new best friend Jason. She looked through the shoot and saw him holding onto her while pushing a giant suitcase up to the door of her apartment. She smiled while she watched them.

“Thanks again Jason, I totally appreciate you helping me out.” Courtney said while she leaned over and gave Jason a hug, resting her head on his chest right where his heart was.

“I would do anything for you” he said to her as he lifted her head up with his hand.

As they leaned towards each other, all of a sudden Leah came falling out of the Laundry shoot and both Jason and Courtney looked at her with Shocked and pissed off looks on their faces.

“*cough* hey guys! How’s it going?” she asked them, while she stood up brushing the dust off her pants.

 “Um Leah.” Courtney said, as she pointed to the bright red bra that was stuck to the side of Leah’s shirt.

Leah looked down and saw the bra. With an embarrassed look on her face she jerked it off her shirt and hid it behind her back, giving a deep sigh before saying anything. “Ok! Well I just wanted to see how you were doing, and obviously your fine so I’ll see you guy-…” she said but Jason interrupted her.

“No you know what, I have to go anyway but I’ll see you both later.” He said about to head down the stairs but Courtney stopped him.

“Jason?” she said, causing him to turn around and look at her. “Would you mind coming to dinner tonight? I mean if you don’t mind?” she asked him, as she suddenly became fascinated with the floor.

“Yea, I’d love to.” He said as he smiled at her.

“Ok! Um... is 7 ok?” she asked him as she looked up into his eyes.

“Yeah, I’ll be here.” He said to her as he turned and heading down the stairs, his heart about to pound out of his chest.

Leah looked at her sister, who had a big grin no her face and started laughing so hard she was almost hysterical.

Courtney turned to face her with a big look of confusion. “What’s so funny?” she asked her with her hands on her hips.

“You like him!” Leah said as she continued to laugh and had to hold onto the wall for support.

Courtney thought about denying it, but realized that she couldn’t keep it to herself and she trusted her sister to not tell anyone. “So what if I do?” she said with a sparkle in her eye as she unlocked her apartment and walked in with her sister at her heels.

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Chapter 10 coming soon!

Journey Dinner!

Leah goes spying

Someone from Leah’s past confronts her.