The Longest Night

This chapter takes place on February 8th in the city of Port Charles, New York between the hour of 4 am and 5 am.

Chapter Thirty Nine

The Eleventh Hour- Part One

4 am

Laying on the floor, completely breathless and naked, Alexis asked Sonny “Did we really just do that?”

“You got to ask then I must have done something wrong.”

Her cheeks were flushed. Her hair was a mess. Yet his dark eyes were raking over her as if she was the most gorgeous woman on the planet. It was all a little overwhelming. She grabbed her dress and held it in front of herself. “Um....what were we thinking? Don’t answer that because I know the answer. We were not thinking. We were rushing. We have rushed into this....reunion...or whatever technical term you want to use for this mad path we are setting upon.”

“I call it long overdue,” he said with a smirk.

Alexis started to slip on her dress.

Sonny teased “Don’t do that. I’ve seen it all already. Come on now. You don’t plan on sleeping in that dress, do ya?”

“I don’t know what I plan. Obviously I did not plan on sleeping with a mob boss but I have.”

“And it was good.”

She tried not to grin. “My plan for right now is to take a shower and ask myself what in the world I should tell my daughters about mommy’s reckless choice.” Holding the dress up to herself she headed for the bathroom.

“If you go in there and change your mind about us, Alexis, then I’m just gonna have to change it back when you come out. And believe me I got lots of ideas about fun ways I could do that.”

“I’m not changing my mind. I’ve officially lost my mind. Poof! Its gone. Because if I had any good sense I would not be thinking about how the district attorney can pull off dating the local crime lord....but I am thinking about that. Because I do want that. See? My good sense is officially on vacation and its all your fault.”

His eyes held hers. In a deep, soothing tone he told her “We can make it work. Bet on it.”

“Its complete insanity to think this will end well but all I know is you’re in my heart. You’ve always been in my heart. So if it means that I have to give up my job and eat my words and take a million risks and even get more gaurds ...whatever it means I know I can’t walk away from you another time, Sonny. We’ve come too far to give up without one hell of a fight first.”

“Now you’re talking my language, counselor.”

Alexis walked into the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She blew out a long breath. Her body was still tingling and her skin was overheated.

She felt better than she had in years.

Logically she knew it would be hard to be with Sonny because of his job, if you could call being a mobster a job. But this wasn’t about logic and it never had been. It was pure emotion.

He was the man who snuck in her heart so many years before and claimed it as his own forever. She wasn’t going to talk herself into giving him up twice in one lifetime.

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4:06 am

Maxie was sleeping with her head resting on Johnny’s chest. He couldn’t fall asleep because all he could think about was his sister who was on the run.

What if Jason caught up with her? How could Johnny just lay her with this beautiful woman, making love to her several times tonight, when his sister needed him?

Claudia was the only family that meant a damn to him.

He slipped out of bed and grabbed his clothes, slipping them on while making as little noise as possible.

He couldn’t sit around and hope Dara Jensen pulled off a win in court tomorrow, getting his father committed to a mental hospital so that John had full control of the family finances and soldiers. He had to do something to help Claudia right now.

Or else she might not even survive the night. He had told he that he would wait to hear from her but he couldn’t wait anymore. He was slowly losing his mind with worry about if she was a dead woman walking.

His eyes focused on Maxie for one long last look before he left the room. He would never regret being with her. He might die today but, if he did, he spent his last hours right where he wanted to be.

With the woman who tempted him in a way no woman before her ever had. He had hurt his girlfriend and he made a stupid mistake, in the heat of the moment, by telling Lulu he was involved in the hit on Michael. He really risked a lot tonight. But Maxie was worth it all and more.

If all they ever had was this night then it was worth dying over. She was amazing, even if she didn’t know it yet. She thought she needed Spinelli to make her someone special but Maxie Jones was extraordinary all on her own.

He walked over to the bed and lay a kiss on her head before he left the room.

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4:07 am

Lulu felt sick to her stomach about what she was going to do. She wasn’t sure it was the right thing. Was she doing this out of revenge because she was pissed off at Johnny for cheating on her? Or was she doing this because it was only right that Carly knew the truth?

It wasn’t just Claudia who plotted to kill Sonny and caused Michael to be shot. Johnny was involved in the whole thing up to his eyeballs.

She didn’t know why she was about to confess the truth to her cousin. She just knew that she hadn’t been able to sleep because she was thinking about it. And how was that fair?

Why should she carry the burden and guilt for Johnny’s choices? He didn’t love her enough to be faithful to her? Why should she love him enough to keep his secret?

Lulu left Milo asleep on the floor of the Crimson offices and headed for her cousin’s hotel room.

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4:08 am

There were so many times that Carly told herself she would never know this feeling again, having Jason inside of her and her legs wrapped around his back.

Even if she was committing adultery this didn’t feel like a sin to her. There was nothing ugly in making love to him. It was a beautiful expression of all the felt for each other. Much more emotional than it ever was in the old days because she didn’t love him with the depth she did now back then.

What they had grew every day and she knew it would keep growing till the day one of them died.

There had never been a doubt in her mind that if they got back together again it would work out and last. She was amazed though that he was finally ready to be with her again.

This seemed like a day that would never come but now it was here and she simply could not get enough of him. All the pain from earlier in the evening was drowned by the pleasure of this moment.

She would rage at the world later, and Jason would be by her side when she did, but she wouldn’t let that anger and pain cloud this joy.

Making love to this man was life changing. It always had been. She prayed that they were making a baby together because then their lives and their family would be complete. Michael would wake up from his coma- she was sure that one day her little boy would come back to her- and they would be a perfect family.

It wasn’t just her dream. With Jason in love with she knew this would be her reality.

He nipped at her ear. His voice was deep and filled with possessiveness when he said “I’ll never give you up again.”

It was just what she wanted to hear. What she needed to know. They were forever this time.

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4:11 am

Spinelli was now checking security cameras to see if he could find an image of Ric and Claudia in the car together. He caught Ric on several cameras but none of them showed Claudia with him.

The cameras in the parking garage nearest to where Claudia and Sam got in their gun battle was shot when the bullets started flying, rendering it useless for recording evidence of what car Claudia absconded in. Though he lacked any proof Spinelli felt it was a good bet that the DA of Darkness had helped her make her escape.

Why else would he now be an hour away from The Metro Court on a night when the roads were closed to traffic? There had to be some reason he ventured so far in these hazardous conditions.

Luckily he was not smart enough to disable the GPS on his car and as long as that was working Spinelli would have an exact bead on his whereabouts. Spinelli doubted Stone Cold had fallen asleep when he was so worked up about all that happened at the party and yet he had not called him back yet.

Picking up his laptop Spinelli decided to go back to Jason’s room to inform him of his findings. If there was one thing Spinelli thought gave his life meaning it was being the grasshopper to his master.

Even if Maxie crushed all Spinelli’s romantic dreams she could not take away his skills as a cyber sleuth. This would be his saving grace because his fair Maximista certainly would not be.

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4:13

Jason lay on his back next to Carly, breathing heavily, as she ran her hand over his abs. He didn’t have words for what making love to her had meant to him but he knew he didn’t have to give her words.

She felt it in his touch, his kiss, in the way he cherished her body.

He knew that this was going to cause a mess in her life because she was married to Jax, even if they were going through problems and talking divorce. But Jason couldn’t regret what happened tonight, even if it was gonna get complicated now.

Carly was his again. She promised she would be his forever. Nothing else mattered. They could get through the drama together, through the pain, through their fears, through anything. Together they were always stronger than they were apart.

He had been aching for her since he watched her marry Jax and now the aching was over. She was his. He pulled her close and ran his hand down her bare back.

Their eyes met.

A teary smile formed on her lips. “Well worth the wait.”

He was just about to kiss her when there was a knock on the door. Jason groaned.