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This is a Jason and Carly fanfic. Starting at the point they are in their lives as of November 20th 2005 I am building a story based on where I would like to see the characters go.

Rain Drenched Promises

PART ONE

Port Charles Christmas 2005
Location- Lorenzo Alcazar's home

Carly Alcazar placed the last of the wrapped Christmas presents under the tree, smiling at the massive pile of goodies her sons would wake up to in the morning. They deserved some happiness after this last year. Sonny had wanted them to sleep at his house last night but Carly put her foot down not even giving in when he asked her to stay too.

Carly could not fool herself or confuse her children any longer about the fact that her and Sonny were not getting back together. Her therapist had made it clear- the only way to hang on to her sanity, her pride, herself was to learn to live outside of Sonny Corinthos' orbit.
She walked to the window and stared out at the snow covered lawn. Carly had only been home from Rose Lawn for a week but each day she felt stronger, more sure she could do the things she learned she must do in therapy, more sure of the fact she had come home to the right place, the right man.

Lorenzo might not know all of her the way Jason did or drive her mad with passion and pain the way Sonny did but he was able to offer her his heart, without reservations or conditions. She could make tomorrow the first Christmas for her little new and still fragile family. And then on New Years Day she would make a declaration for herself. 2006 would be the year she found happiness free of shame, anger or regret.

(This is Christmas, Christmas my dear.

The time of year to be with the one that you love.
Then won't you tell me, you'll never more roam.

Christmas and New Year Will find you at home.
There'll be no more sorrow, no grief or pain

I'll be happy
happy
that it's Christmas once again)Bon jovi song

Location- Jason Morgan's penthouse
Jason Morgan stood looking out his window over the streets of Port Charles. It was just past 2 am, Sam would come looking for him if she woke up, afraid that he had another seizure. Though Robin's treatment seemed to be helping him slowly improve Sam hated to let him out of her sight these days.

Lucky business is slow.

Or else he would have to drag Sam along and that was hardly efficient. He needed this time to just decompress alone.
Jason never spent much energy thinking about the past or the future. Now was all that mattered when it came to his work. No time to focus on if the man he was about to make disappear was a former business associate who had been an ally at one time or if that man would miss seeing his kids grow up. Those thoughts were out of the realm of what Jason ever considered, for the men he took out and for himself.

But lately, over the last year really, things started to slowly change. First he fell in love for the first time in years. Her name was Lila, a unborn baby, and he dreamt of her, planned for her, waited for her to love him back. But she never got that chance. Then Michael and Morgan were kidnapped. Jason considered them nephews but deep inside of himself in a place he never talked about, tried not to think about even, they were more than that. He would do anything for them, for Carly, and most often for Sonny.

The kidnapping hit him hard. Jason knew his life could end at any moment, one wrong turn in a alley, one second delay reaching for his gun and the bullet would do its job, draining away his life before any surgeon could save him one more time. But he always believed Michael and Morgan would outlive him. To have their lives in jeopardy changed him, made him crave a safe future for all the people close to him.

And now these seizures brought his life as close as it had ever been to the end. All those gun shot wounds before were quick pain, either he got medical help or in a matter of hours it would all be over. But this was prolonged. Months and months of knowing he was moving closer to the grave, farther away from Sam, Carly and her boys, Emily, his mother, and the future he denied wanting for so long.

The snow started to fall heavier, big messy chunks of it plopping on the balcony. I should take the boys sledding tomorrow afternoon on that hill down the road from Sonny's, thought Jason. After spending the morning with Carly , Jason knew, the boys would be driven by Max to sonny's compound for a dinner with their father, Courtney, Robin, Mike, Ric, Alexis, their children, Jason, Sam, and Emily. A strange group but in Sonny's world somehow it made sense.
At that moment he decided he would call Max tomorrow and tell him he would drive the boys to Sonny's himself. Carly would love to see him on the holiday and Jason knew she had vowed to not go to Sonny's.

Their was a message saved on his voice mail to informing him of that very fact. "I will be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas day in MY home with MY children where I belong. And if Sonny does not like it he should ask himself why he kicked me out of our home.

But listen, Jase, you know you are welcome to join us.Lorenzo won't mind and I want to give you your present.Hell, bring Sam if you have to but I want to see you.Okay, Jase? Ok. Well it's midnight, so Merry Christmas.I just got done laying out the rest of the boys presentsand I am beat so ... wow, this voice mail really letsyou talk for a while... I wish you would have picked upbecause I have some exciting news. I have decided tostart a new business next year. Well I will tell you all about it tomorrow, I guess. Night, Jase."