The definition of independence is freedom from control or influence of another or others
Chapter 1~ Injustice in the end produces independence. ~ Voltaire
Washington DC June 29th, 2011
Elizabeth soon had her boys ready for their long trip to New York, Cam was beside himself on the idea of traveling by train and Jake, well Jake was just excited to be leaving his house. She had to laugh how her son took pleasure in the simplest of things.
Hearing a soft cry, she moved over to the jumping gym and said to the little blond inside, "Yes, I know you are excited too."
Mommy herself was a little excited, a little worried and more than ready to deal with the injustices she had been dealt over the years. Thanks to therapy she had faced that she had created a good part of the mess by being a people pleaser and afraid to stand up against those who had hurt her.
Well as of this weekend, no one will ever be able to say that about her again. Hearing footsteps, she smiled at her friend, then said "Are you sure about this?"
Zeva gave a quick grin then looked at the two boys and said "Oh yeah, I am not going to miss a chance to see you put into action all that I supervised you learning. Do you have EVERYTHING?"
Nodding, Elizabeth looked at the children, her two sons and her darling little girl and while she wished that she could leave them here, where they would be safest, she knew that in the end, she wouldn't be returning. Zeva had promised to arrange for everything to be shipped by the end of July at the latest.
"Where do you intend to start and where oh where is our partner in this little undertaking?" asked the Israeli. Hearing footsteps, Elizabeth and she turned to grin at the woman now entering. "Well did you take care of it?"
With a smirk, Abby said "Of course and Tony won't have a clue at least not until we return."
An hour later the three women and three kids met their contact at Union Station where he handed Zeva
yet more files on a thumb drive. Walking into their private car, Elizabeth took a deep breath then said "Well what did they find."
"Enough to get Nicolas Cassadine off your back." she said showing her the computer. Abby gave a quick grin then returned to typing before saying "OH, we got secondary confirmation about that other item. Should I spike the little geek?"
Elizabeth thought about the dead body that had brought her to the attention of the Naval Crime Unit and her meeting with these ladies and said "Yes please, if you can cause his computer to explode that might give me a few more days to take care of business."
In New York, Elizabeth and Zeva met the contact of her work partner Tony's father and within minutes were on to their next meeting. After a trip across the harbor to New Jersey, Elizabeth felt some grim satisfaction at dealing with one less issue. "Now on to Bensonhurst."
After a very discreet visit with some very connected people, Zeva called Tony and thanked him for helping her friend. "Hey, a woman that knows about Audrey Hepburn and owns that particular outfit is a woman after my own dreams." he said brushing off their thanks then warning her that Gibbs would be back from Mexico a day earlier than expected.
As they left Penn Station to continue on their trip they were joined by two people. One a former guard of Jason's named Cody Paul, he had almost been killed as a direct result of Sam McCall's incessant meddling and the other well, if anyone in Port Charles knew about the other one, well more than a few people would wonder EXACTLY what Elizabeth was up to.
It was two in the morning when the tired group left the train station in Watertown to make the short drive to Port Charles. Getting in the bullet proofed limo, Elizabeth gave a quick prayer then grimaced not sure that the lord exactly had a prayer for going home and blowing it's liars, users and more importantly it's criminals out of the stratosphere.
Arriving in town, Elizabeth saw when they drove down her old street that her house still remained empty and that there were lights on at the former Drake residence. Taking a quick trip down by the docks, she saw that things had been spruced up a little but but not much else had changed.
Then she arrived at the spot with the biggest change and shivered at the unnecessary loss of life caused by what was it that freak Franco had called it... oh, that's right the seven deadly sins. When the limo pulled into her new residence, Elizabeth gave a quick grimace then asked the rest of the quartet if they would help her get the children into the house.
As dawn came to the now awakening town of Port Charles, some were awaking up smug, others worried, some not waking at all, instead breathing through tubes at General Hospital, but all would soon learn that they had created an injustice, one that was going to bite every single one of them in the ass.
Looking at Zeva, she took a deep breath then nodded before turning to her attorney and said "Turn the hell-hounds lose."
"Where do you want to start?" asked the woman as she opened her attache case. "The Cassadines, the Quartermaines, the Spencers, the Corinthos family?"
"No, I believe we start with my own family." she said grimly then added. "We work our way through until the end. And would you please let Mr. Scorpio know that I have arrived."
Elizabeth soon fell into bed exhausted, knowing that what she had done in the past had led to this moment, but she had no regrets... no wishes to have done anything differently. Her children had needed her and she had to put them first. With a smirk, she couldn't help thinking that after all, Jason should understand, hadn't he put his first child over their supposed love, over his blood son.
Her mind went back to the day almost a year ago when she had been walking through the park, heavily pregnant and had been shoved out of the way by Michael Corinthos Jr. The boy had called back a careless sorry when he had realized who it was but that had started her labor.
Ten hours later, she had given birth to her little girl... who had then almost died at the hands of Jason Morgan's enemy just like her brother Jake had been kidnapped. Once again, there had been tears on Jason's part as he had begged forgiveness. And the part that had burnt into her soul was his last statement before leaving. "This is why we were never meant to be, I am too dangerous to be around."
Tears that had lasted mere minutes before on her way to the nursery she had seen him with Sam McCall and Carly Jacks along with all of the assorted children connected to those families. She had stared then watched as Sam had made a point of kissing Jason.
Shaking her head, she had gone to the nursery and then had returned to her room stunned at what she had overheard her brother talking about with Nicolas Cassadine. She had gone through several stages of grief, then once home made plans.
Taking only what she would need, bringing nothing else, Elizabeth Imogene Webber and her three children had disappeared from Port Charles. First had been a stop in Baltimore where her Uncle Tom now lived.
After some blood tests on her and her children, she had forwarded the results to Mac Scorpio, the New York State Police and the FBI. They had put an end to APB's and the threats of kidnapping charges but she wanted more than that. She wanted to get away from everyone. Everyone who had claimed to be her friend as well as everyone who claimed to be her enemy and even those in between.
It had worked well, but then on Hugest 27, there was an explosion in Port Charles. Someone had bombed the Harborview Towers killing only two men. Jason Morgan, and Johnny Zachara. The police had quickly blamed it on the mob and since only mobsters died had buried the case.
Elizabeth had mourned for the man she had thought she knew, the Jason she had believed she loved and then forgot about it, knowing that for her children's sake she couldn't let it be a part of her daily routine.
Then had come word that since there was no recognizable body and it being Port Charles, the police had refused to declare Jason dead in spite of Alexis Davis and Diane Miller's best efforts. As a result Jason's will was in limbo. Then had come the news from Port Charles that Jason's will was null and void... then that his heir would inherit.
Elizabeth had laughed hysterically when she found out that Sam had been furious to be told that she wouldn't get anything from Jason, same for Carly who had put in claim in Micheal's name only to be told that the courts only recognized Elizabeth's son Jake as Jason's rightful heir.
She hadn't wanted any part of the estate, had in fact had an attorney draw up papers stating that fact, but then one day while driving the boys home from school and daycare had heard a strange pop in their usually quiet neighborhood.
Then she had seen the man in the newspaper and froze at her new work station. The man killed had been a former guard of Sonny's, she had seen him around Port Charles before moving here and more importantly, since the killing had happened close to the Navy Base and the man had been armed with a bomb, the NCIS had gotten involved.
She had continued denying any knowledge of anything when questioned during the door to door canvas of her neighborhood and she might have been in the clear but one day a woman had shown up. They had found badly deconstructed photos on the man they now knew was a professional hitman. A photo of her son and her. And then the part that chilled her to the bone, a photo of the one secret she had found out then kept from everyone...
Shaking, she managed to convince the agents who came to see her that she was innocent only when their forensics expert had figured out the man had accidentally ignited the trigger himself up. But the dark haired girl with the accent kept showing up, visiting her then one day had just sat down and said "You are hiding from someone, more than likely the mob. Fine, I get that but why are you letting yourself be a sitting punk?"
"A what?" asked Elizabeth confused, first as to why this woman wouldn't leave this alone then as to what she said.
"You know, a dead pigeon, er ah, what is that phrase. You know, why are you making it easy for them to take you out when they find you and if one did others will soon follow." she said. The next day after Elizabeth had burst into tears during one of their visits, a man had shown up, with a doctors
It was almost her birthday when Elizabeth had gone onto the Port Charles Herald website and found news that chilled her to the bone. According to it, Alexis Davis had broken the injunction on Jason's will and was trying to have Jake and her declared dead with Steven's help. Elizabeth had found out that as July 4th, 2011, Sam had a good chance of claiming Jason's estate with a newly found addendum to his will, supposedly drawn up on a computer.
Deciding that the hypocrisy and need to deal with all that had happened were giving her new courage and strength. She had then talked seriously with her doctor, then sat down with Zeva, leaving out details she had expressed her willingness to learn all that the woman could teach her.
The day after Christmas, she had moved on to other training with the woman's boss Jethro Gibbs. He had taught her to handle a variety of guns and how to interrogate people. Then just when she thought she was ready, Elizabeth had been given more training, by the strange young woman she would come to know as Abby.
Using those skills, Elizabeth had found two more partners. Cody Paul who as a former Marine was able to be tracked down by Gibbs and finally the woman who was going to have her back in Port Charles, at least in a legal sense.
Elizabeth was almost looking forward to Alexis Davis being torn to shreds, almost as much as she was that her skank of a daughter was going to disappear. In a file deep in the bowels of the J Edgar Hoover building was a piece of paper, one that was going to allow her to declare war on those that had hurt her using that Port Charles was a mob infested town that was a danger to national security.
All that was needed was a plan, one that took advantage of all her resources. Elizabeth had coolly and calmly put together what was needed and then by a twist of fate, Damien Spinelli had made the mistake of getting close to Elizabeth at the beginning of May.
In the end by Mother's Day, Elizabeth had decided to wait until school was out then return home just in time to prevent the users and losers of Port Charles from claiming Jason's estate. She would start with small stuff but by the time that the fireworks exploded over the Harbor on the Fourth of July, Port Charles and it's hypocritical citizens wouldn't know what had hit them.
Elizabeth entered the tribunal through a door on the opposite side from the three people who were about to decide whether or not her brother got to remain a doctor. As she explained to them what had happened to her and how she had overheard her brother talking to the man behind it, she saw they were skeptical but then she pulled out the big guns.
The files that proved the payoffs, the camera's showing the meetings (thanks to Abby) and more importantly the truth... that her brother had altered tests, and then had set up a patient to die. Elizabeth had later learned that said patient had been a plant, but that didn't change her dying as result of her brother's part in the conspiracy.
Leaving the way she came, she stood behind the hidden mirror and watched as her brother entered. As she watched he tried to claim the payoffs were legitimate payments, then that the meeting with Nik and then tried to say that he had no knowledge of the altered tests... she could still hear his supporting her emotionally, the playing on their childhood, the old nickname he had brought back to con her and wiped the tears as she listened to the doctors suspend his medical license for one year.
When he walked away, she got into the back of the limo and said "I need to see my grandmother next. Then since it will bring out the crazies when they find out I am back, I want security tightened around my daughter and the boys."
Cody made the call then when they arrived at Audrey's house asked if she wanted him to come in with her.
"NO, I need to face her myself." Turning to the lawyer, she asked for the check then gracefully got out of the vehicle hoping that anyone watching saw the image of the cool and calm woman that she was trying to project.
Knocking on the door, she saw Audrey's smile then the woman's tears. Wishing that they meant something to her, Elizabeth let herself be hugged then when the elderly woman finally asked about her children, Elizabeth suggested they sit down and she would show her some pictures.
As Audrey did her subtle little bites at Elizabeth for leaving poor, poor Lucky and taking away Nik's child, Elizabeth just let her go on and on then said "I have something for you."
Taking it, Audrey expected to see photos of her great grandchildren, instead she found a check for half a million dollars. "Elizabeth, what is this and how did you get this much..."
Then with a wide grin, the woman said "Oh, I knew you would do the right then, I am so proud of you my dear... Nik will make a good father, and he can encourage your sons to take a better path than you did, after all my dear, you have made some very big mistakes."
Shaking her head, Elizabeth leaned back then said. "I have a restraining over on Nik and I wouldn't marry him if the only other choice was Sonny Corinthos. And Grams, I think it is time I did the talking. That check, right there is to absolve me of my guilt for all the help you have given me over the years. I decided that it was time to cut the strings. This way we are done, even. From now on, when you should by chance think of me, just remember me as a boarder, someone you took it, and that it was a huge mistake."
"Elizabeth Imo-" said Audrey her mouth dropping. "What has..."
"No, I am speaking, remember?" she asked. "I am done living my life by your rules, because your rules lead me to nothing but heart ache. Nik, by the way, switched the test results, he wasn't my little one's father and he knew it. As for Lucky, well I am done dealing with you in regards to him. He is an abuser hiding behind a badge and pretending that his part in our past made him the victim. He was no victim."
Standing, Elizabeth looked at the older woman sitting there. "You know, I could have used a real grandmother... one that was there unconditionally... but you put conditions on your love. Well, I am refusing to bow down and meet them. Go find Sarah, your perfect grandchild, maybe she will be willing to let you live with her."
Looking coolly at the woman she had spent most of her life trying to please, she said "That loan you took out to help Steven... the bank called it in. I am now the owner of this house and you have until the end of the week to vacate it. And my brother can't help you, he is having issues of his own. You spent your whole life worried about what the neighbors were saying about me, I wonder what they are going to think when your grandson, your pride and joy, the next coming of Steve Hardy loses his medical license and lands in jail for at the very least is depraved indifference to human life. Hold your head up high, Grams. Be proud of him."
Walking to the door, Elizabeth stood there looking out on the street and said sadly. "If you had ever just one, in my life been the kind of grandmother that I dreamed of, we wouldn't be here. Instead, you are going to have twenty four hours to cash that check, after that it is vacated, and Grams, I did love you, too bad you didn't love me."
"Elizabeth how dare you?" she asked. "Why? Why would you take this house away from me?"
Turning as she pushed open the drawer, Elizabeth gave her a watery smile then said "Because this house should have been my sanctuary, instead it was the source of most of my pain. And don't feel too alone, you are not the only one on my list. Because in honor of the fourth of July, I am declaring my independence. I only wish I had had the courage to do so years ago."
Chapter 2 ~ The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. ~ Emma Goldman
Elizabeth crossed Audrey and her brother off her list. She didn't need to face Steven, she was well aware that he had made a deal with Nik, not to help her or to protect her but so that the porky little bastard could manipulate what she was going through. She was equally at fault, wanting to kill the pain caused by losing Jason. Looking back, she felt disgusted with herself. To have done what she had even after knowing the truth made her sick... she only hoped that some day her children would forgive her.
"Where to next boss?" asked Cody then handing her the phone said "Your attorney called, she needs you to make a decision as to where tomorrow's little conference takes place?"
Taking the phone, Elizabeth gave her the answer then told her how to arrange for it. "And be sure that all of them are there, I don't want to be bothered with doing this more than once."
She paused listening to what the woman had to say then grinding her teeth said "Put a stop to that then do me one more favor, have them send the file to Mac Scorpio as well as the other two agencies."
As they drove away, Elizabeth thought about what had just happened. While Audrey was one of the people she had to deal with, she did feel some sense of losing what little family she had... too bad that family was contingent on her behaving the way they wanted.
She knew that after the meeting in Probate Court, it would have ended her relationship with her grams anyhow. Then snorting, she acknowledged that it wouldn't have hurt the one with Steven. If he was willing to take money to push her to be with Nik, she had to wonder what his reaction would be to finding out she was about to be worth billions.
She would have never guessed from his contempt of Heather, that he was deep down just like his mother...
AS Monica sat down next to the young man in the unused part of the mansion, she listened to the calming beep beep beep of the machines. "Oh, Jason, they are circling the wagons as the scavengers show up to pick at your remains. Why did you surround yourself with those sycophants, you, you were so much better than them..."
Feeling the grip of the gnarled hand on her shoulder, she leaned back and said "Oh, Edward, what are we going to do. And what if... what if they really were able to harm his son? To hurt Elizabeth?"
Edward's head was bowed as he looked at the man in the bed then at his daughter in law, "I don't know, I only wish that he would wake up. I could even deal with his hanging around with those people, if I knew... if I knew that he would be able to move, to think. I only wish he had or that Elizabeth had entrusted us with their secret before she had to flee from those horrible people in his world."
The elderly man thought about what he had done in the previous year, how he had sent someone after the hitman that he had been warned about. He could still hear the words. "We have to kill Jason's unwanted brat and his bitch of a mother. I need you to find someone to do that for me."
Edward had pieced it together, slowly then had told the man he hired to take care of the killer but to not disclose to anyone the young mothers location. He knew that as long as the world didn't know where she and those children were, Jason's son, his blood would be safe to live on, grow up and eventually have a family of his own.
Elizabeth was waiting in the apartment when the man came home. "Oh, Patrick, what the hell happened to you?"
The doctor's head came up and he stared as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Elizabeth?"
Standing, she went over and hugged the wrecked man. "Sit down, talk to me."
Moving over to the window, he looked out and said "What is there to tell and don't you think you should be talking to me, telling me where the hell you were. You do know that that is the only thing other than Emma that Robin and I talk about when she calls, you know. You and where you are, even a year later."
Getting her friend to sit down, she said "How did this happen?"
As he looked at her he knew he wouldn't get any answers until he gave some. So he did, telling her about how after Shirley died, he fell into bed with Lisa. How she had proceeded to make that public after Elizabeth had left. "I wish I had a good excuse, but I don't. Oh, I had a lot to throw at Robin, but in the end, I lost my wife, the woman I love for a roll in the hay with someone that reminded me of when I was a different me."
"Have you tried to talk to her, now that tempers have calmed down?" she asked.
"We haven't calmed down, that is just it." he said then asked "Now I get to ask a question, where have you been?"
"Someplace safe from the users in this town. And I wish I didn't have to tell you this now, but Shirley, was a plant, by Nik and my brother. You were used by them to manipulate me. So your marriage ending was partly my fault."
Patrick reached out and hugged her then said "No, it wasn't. It was theirs. As for Robin, she is helping create an AIDS vaccine, all the sudden, last year she just fixated on her ex boyfriend and I know I didn't help matters by reminiscing with Lisa and complaining about her friendship with Sonny..."
"No, you were right about Sonny and Lisa came after you. Yes, you should have had the courage of your convictions to say no, but I can't just blame you. I slept with a man who has been stalking me for years when I was using him to avoid the truth..."
"Elizabeth, I don't know if you heard but Steven lost his medical license today." he said a bit uneasily.
"I know, I was the one who started the ball rolling." she said simply. 'I am done being used by people, my family included. I just wanted to stop in and see my old friend. You, you need to do what is best for you but I seriously hope that part of that is getting some help to fix your marriage. You love her and she loves you. Work on it, don't let yourself lose what is truly important to you."
"I can't just quit my job." he said quietly. "I don't know if you are aware but Matt left town last year after spending some time dating Maxie. Then she moved on to someone else and broke his heart. He went to Rochester, the Mayo clinic."
"Patrick don't worry about GH, go, get your family." she said then asked "Where is your luggage, I will help you pack."
"Why do I think you want me out of town?" he asked then said "I don't care, you're right, I need to worry about my family."
After calling a cab, she watched as he left then called her attorney. "Patrick Drake just left town, tell our contact I fulfilled my part in our deal. Now the rest is up to their daughter."
Elizabeth went to the limo and ducked inside when she saw a familiar face driving up the street. Double checking, she asked Cody "Was that my ex-sister in law?"
"Yes, she looks like she is entering that building." he said pointing to the low slung medical building. Elizabeth took a good look at the sign in front of it then thought about what Zeva had said about every war having casualties. Handing her phone to Abby who was sitting silently as she punched up something on the computer she said "Call and ask for Detective Falconari, then tell him that a patient named Leslie Lu Spencer asked you to call him and join her."
Sitting back, they watched as the man showed up, his siren and lights going as he screeched to a halt in front of the building. When he hurried in, he said "You just called me, someone said my girl friend fell and was brought in here."
"What is her name?"
"Lulu, Lulu Spencer."
Typing the name, in she frowned then looked up at the man then back down. "Sir, I don't have a Lulu Spencer as a patient."
"She wouldn't be a patient, like I said, she fell outside." he said emphasizing the word fell. Hearing his girl friends voice down the hallway, he looked at the woman and said "That, the one that I just heard, that is my girl friend."
Taking a sigh, the nurse hit the button for security and to notify the police they had a problem even as she said "Sir, you are not the first man to try and stop his girl friend from getting an abortion. I am sorry but you can't go back there. I suggest you leave quietly and accept that she doesn't want the baby."
"LOOK, I am trying to tell you, she wouldn't do that. I was CALLED from here, telling me she fell. You have to let me back there. She isn't here for that." he said getting frantic but he tensed up and stopped as the words she was saying penetrated his brain. "Wait, what did you just say?"
"I said likely story, if that is true why did she make an appointment under another name. I am positive it's the same girl since I doubt that there are a lot of Lulu's around town. So Lulu Hornsby is more than likely Lulu Spencer." she snapped. "Now, leave before the men behind you throw you out."
Dante left, stunned. Sitting on his police car, he saw the uniformed officers rolling up and said "False alarm. I uh, I have to go. Tell Mac I will be out of town for a few days."
In the limo, Elizabeth felt bad for the younger man but yet, he had to have known who Lulu was and still got involved with her. She saw the pale blond leaving then looking around. Getting out of her car, she walked over and said "Are you okay, Lulu?"
The blond tensed up and looked at the bitch who had stolen her brother's child and went to slap her.
Elizabeth grabbed her arm and forced it down saying. "Now after the procedure, you should know from the last time that you need to keep your blood pressure down and no vigorous activity. Besides, I think you might want to hold off on that righteous anger for a just a few more minutes until I tell you what else I did today."
"Where is my brother's daughter, you slut?" she ground out.
Ignoring her, Elizabeth looked at her and said "If I was you, I would be more worried about how Dante is going to react to you having yet another abortion, Lulu. See, he didn't look too happy as he pulled away from here just now. I understand he got a call telling him you had collapsed and were begging for him to join you."
Lulu looked at her and saw in Elizabeth's eyes that she was telling the truth. Shaking she said "You, you are going to pay for what you have done. After Lucky gets his kid, I am going to watch as you are stripped of everything you care about. You whore, how dare you? I can't wait, when Jake and Cam are tossed into a foster home, or even better after Lucky gets custody and turns them against their whore of a mother who can't keep her legs closed for no man."
When Elizabeth just looked at her, Lulu felt some stirrings of misgivings then recalled who Lucky was now married to. "You just wait, with your past, Lucky and Claire will be raising his daughter to be a proper Spencer. Making sure that she is respected not a running joke like her slut of a mother."
Laughing now, Elizabeth leaned in and said to the girl "You and the rest of the hypocrites in this town have no idea what is going to be coming after your lying cheating no good asses and Lulu, I am going to take great pleasure in making sure that everyone, and I mean everyone knows exactly what happened today. You, stupid bint, you just killed Sonny Corinthos grandchild. Think about that one while you are sitting alone in your empty loft tonight because my guess is that this is the end of things for you and the latest Corinthos spawn."
"And Lulu, Lucky must not have told you, but I really was a slut, because neither Lucky nor Nik are the father of my little girl. So take that and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Your brother was shooting blanks..."
"That isn't true, Nik already has a kid or did you forget that?" she asked smugly.
"Oh, Lulu, don't try to think, you will only hurt yourself. And when you get to your brother, and we both know that will be soon because you will run straight to them ask Nik, ask him who the father is... then see if he tells the truth."
Elizabeth returned to her temporary home, then spent the rest of the day playing with her kids, looking at her little girl, she said "It is going to a rough couple of days sweetie but in the end Mommy promises that she will have made the world safe for her family."
Tucking them into bed, she went to have a review of her techniques so far. The attorney said that she did good standing up to her grandmother while Abby verified that Patrick had landed safely in Paris. "I hope that things work out for them."
"As for Lulu, I wish you had just smacked her down but I get why you couldn't." said Zeva. "You do know that they are all going to be there tomorrow and will try to make your life a living hell."
"That is why our first meeting in the morning is so important. I want Mac to understand what will and will not be allowed and that if he doesn't deal with them, the man who will replace him will." said Elizabeth grimly. "I get that he is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but I am done playing by the rules."
As the folks in Port Charles went to bed, there was some uneasiness as the rumors about the return of Elizabeth Webber were slowly being spread. At one place, a woman was pacing while a man hit keys on his new computer. "Goddess, I can't find her, it's like she is a ghost."
An hour later, he was about to give up when he saw a glimpse of a woman he thought was her and went to wake up his mistress. "Goddess, I found her, she is staying at Jake's."
A bit taken back, Sam thought about it then sneered. She could handled Elizabeth Webber. Getting dressed, she slipped out the door just as the sun rose and the woman in question was joined the police commissioner for breakfast along with the head of the State Police barracks.
When the call for an ambulance went out for Jake's, Mac turned off his police radio, he had enough to deal with. He was sweating as Elizabeth and her attorney ran off an endless litany of crimes committed by several of his officers, including her ex-husband, followed by another list committed by his current and former DA's.
Then she looked him in the eyes and said "One more thing, I was wondering why you never investigated who was getting my ex-husband stolen drugs from General Hospital. I know that Alan Quartermaine had a list of names, amazing how they were sent to you the very same day he died and yet you never worked the case."
Mac turned white, he had let it go after Maxie had promised him to get help but he had known she hadn't done so. "What do you want?"
"Mac, we both know who you covered for, it's very simple either she confesses or I go public and then you have to press charges. As the victim I can ask for the maximum and with the damage that she did to me and to my children, including being part of the coverup of my son's second kidnapping, she would be facing prison. I am quite sure that a heart transplant patient wouldn't do very well in the federal prison system."
"Elizabeth, what happened to the nice girl you used to be?" he asked sorrowfully.
"She got walked over, trod on and stomped on by the bitches and real whores in this town, your step-daughter included. Well, I am done and I am taking back this town for those who don't deserve to have to deal with them. Mac, I have to ask what do you think Georgie would think about Maxie knowing that Sam McCall was part of both kidnappings of my son and the incident in the park?"
The middle aged man felt every single year of his age when she looked at him and asked "And how about you. When Georgie was kidnapped, if you had learned later on that say Tony knew about it, how would you have reacted?" she asked standing. Shaking hands with the State Trooper, she said "I will be in contact about the charges, Mac."
The police commissioner answered his cell phone and then sighed after listening to Lucky. "No, she didn't do it."
"Why would Sam lie and say it was her?" he asked smugly. "Elizabeth did this, she is back in town one day and now the woman who claimed Jason back from her is seriously hurt. I am putting an APB out on her."
Mac counted to ten then called the station after Spencer hung up. "Belay Spencer's order, Jackson."
"Too late sir, it already went out." he replied then listened to his normally calm boss swear then snapped. "Yes sir, I will get right to that."
Mac went straight to the hospital where he saw the usual suspects including Alexis exiting what he presumed was Sam's hospital room. "Mac, you need to get her in jail, before she hurts someone else. I can't believe she hurt Sam like that. I mean, I knew she was upset about Jason choosing Sam, but to deny them access to Jake and to lie about my daughter like that... really, I mean, she needs to get over it."
Looking at the attorney he sarcastically said "Like you did, after Sonny dumped you for Carly. Alexis, I need to speak to Sam."
"She is resting right now, and Lucky was here, he got the whole story." she said dismissing his request. "I want you to arrest her, she almost killed my daughter out of jealousy."
"Alexis, where is Spencer and I am talking to Sam, you can be in there but I need to speak to her." he said needing to nip this in the bud. Entering just as he saw Spencer coming down the hall talking to his wife, he saw their grins and snapped. "Walsh, Spencer get in here, now."
Once the four of them were in there, he sat there and made notes as Sam told them her story. "I was going to see if she would be reasonable, Jake is the only part of Jason, I have left. She called me names, claimed that I was the reason that Jason left her. I tried to tell her that Jason felt bad for what happened, but she just lost it and started hitting me with this bat." she said hiccuping as she cried. "She was screaming that I wasn't going to get to see Jason's son, that she would kill him before she let that happen. God, Mac, you have to something, take that little boy away before she hurts him."
"Mac, she is a danger to my little girl and then of course you heard what Sam just said." stated Lucky while the two women entering just smirked.
"Well, well, amazing!" said Elizabeth as she removed the medical mask. When Lucky tried to arrest her, she slipped out of his grip and twisted his arm up behind his back. "Mac, tell dog boy that if he tries that again, I will press charges against him then sue your department for false arrest."
"How dare you come here?" hissed Alexis as she got in her face. When the attorney tried to slap her, Elizabeth let go of Lucky, kneeing him and saying Oops, then grabbed Alexis hand and snapped it back, listening to the bone break.
"Elizabeth, I know you are angry but let her go." said Mac as he stood. "Why are you here?"
When the three woman started to all talk it once, Alexis crying in pain, the tattooed woman with her just moved her head first to one side then the other before shouting. "Will all of you please just shut up."
Elizabeth looked around then said "Alexis, I am going to let you go, but don't attack me again. And Mac, I think we both know what I am about to say."
"Alexis, sit down and we will get you medical help and Claire, please cease talking." said the commissioner. When it was silent he said "Elizabeth again, why are you here?"
"I was driving home when I heard that I was a wanted criminal for an attack on Sam McCall. Funny, I have wanted to slap the bitch but I didn't yet. So I asked my friend Abby here, to find out what happened. Imagine my shock to hear what I did. I came because I was certain you would be here."
"You expect me to believe you didn't hurt my daughter after what you just did to me and poor Lucky. I can't believe you think you aren't going to jail for assaulting a police officer." snapped Alexis.
Elizabeth looked calmly at the attorney then at the red head. "I think you can verify that hitting Lucky there didn't do much damage, only injured what little brain he has, because Alexis, little Lucky is truly little."
The man standing there glaring at her as he held himself, said "You bitch."
"Spencer." snapped Mac then saw the woman with the tattoos holding out ID to him. "What is this?"
"My bonifides." she said with a grin. Mac read them then felt his eyes widen then looked at her with more respect. "And now that I have your attention, Miss McCall would you like to retract your statement as to what happened in that room?"
"I stand by my statement, Elizabeth attacked me."
"Oh dear." she said then looked at the woman then went to the door where Zeva was holding the computer geek by the arm. "Zeva, we are waiting."
Giving Spinelli the evil eye she said "Set up your computer."
When the geek did, Sam narrowed her eyes when she heard Elizabeth Webber snark "Hey Sam, I have a present for you."
Zeva gave a grin then handed the bruised woman a book. "Here. Webster's finest."
Elizabeth sneered then said just as Molly and Kristina crowded into the room and were told to be silent by Mac. "So you can look up what I am about to tell you. If you can't spell it, maybe Molly there can help do it for you. Due respect for oneself, one's character, and one's conduct. It's the definition of self respect. What ever happened to gaining some for yourself by the way?"
The geek stepped back and watched as the tattooed woman hit some buttons and then when the screen came on hit play. They all watched and Sam was horrified by what she saw.
Mac watched as the woman in the hospital bed, entered the darkened room and shot at the lump in the bed, only to be hit by a dark haired woman in the stomach with her foot. What followed was a clear case of overkill of self defense but there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Sam instigated.
Molly narrowed her eyes then said "That tape was altered, she is doing this because she doesn't want Sam to get Jason's money, she wants to keep it all to herself."
When Alexis started to parrot what her youngest child said, Zeva handed her her credentials and said "I was the woman on the tape, the one she attacked not Elizabeth Webber."
Alexis heard the accent and asked "How is that possible you are clearly not an American citizen."
Zeva smiled at the stuck up bitch and said "You are right. I am the Mossad Liasion officer to NCIS. Commissioner, I am sure you can imagine the training I have and we both know that if I had wanted to kill that woman, I could have and you wouldn't have been able to prove it. Now, we are leaving. That bulletin had better be pulled back and Ms. Davis, I will be pressing attempted murder charges on your daughter."
"Mac? Since I was with you when this attack happened, I really want to know how you allowed this APB to go out and do I have to go to the Staties to get this taken care of?" asked Elizabeth
When she had his attention, she asked "Are you going to be pressing filing false charges against Miss McCall? If not, I will be sure to contact the nice man we had breakfast with. Oh, and Claire, you and Lucky have as much chance of getting a hold of my little girl as Sam does of Jason's son. So take those papers you tried to file yesterday and burn them. Lucky, you might at some point want to tell your wife about how you stole a million dollars and cocaine from the police evidence room and then explain that not only do I have proof of that but also of how you are no more a hero cop than Sam McCall is a virgin."
As she left the room with her two friends, there was silence in the room then Sam shouting at her mother "How can you let them do this to me?"
Chapter 3~Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable- JFK
a/n: To those that asked, alas, no Georgie isn't the lawyer. The lawyer is someone who has remained suspiciously quiet so far in our story. If you notice, she hasn't been see by any of the Port Charles crowd yet.
Elizabeth was walking down the hallway when she saw her brother approaching. "Steven."
"What is going on with you? And how could you do that to grams? I know that she wasn't what you always needed but to throw her out of her home, the one she lived in with Gramps..." he said in disgust.
"Wow, you haven't figured it out yet, have you?" she said with a soft chuckle. "Sorry big brother, but I was also responsible for your troubles and I am not done. Remember that big deal, the stock offering you were talking about last year?"
Seeing him nod in confusion as he started to put the puzzle pieces together. "I am really glad I didn't take you up on it, what you did, what Dr. Niles did was insider trading and it turns out that the government frowns on it. I believe that you are going to be looking at charges for that as well as what you did to Shirley."
"Eliz-" he started to protest but Elizabeth saw Nik walking down the hallway.
"Oh look, here comes your co-conspirator now, maybe he will hire you an attorney. Oh, and Steven in case you haven't figure out, I am not dead. So stop trying to help that used up hooker get me and my son declared dead."
"Elizabeth, thank god." said the dark haired man as he tried to hug her. Elizabeth evaded him then shaking her head walked a good two feet away before smirking at the Greek.
"Nik, I know everything and by the way I mean EVERYTHING. Now be a good boy and leave me alone. Oh, I believe the feds want a word with you too about that pharmaceutical company, turns out a lot of people lost money on a stock that you told my brother was about to sky-rocket. Too bad your set up didn't pull me in, it almost did, but thanks to the broker I went to, well I didn't lose a dime on your stock and he found a nice little start up company that creates apps for Apple and Dell."
As the Prince tried once again to approach her, Elizabeth said "I just wonder... did you think I would never talk to Gia, she gave me the low down on you. I am sick to think that I slept with my stalker and that is all you were. At least you were good for one thing..."
"Yes, no matter how much you protest you did have fun in bed." said Nik puffing up.
Elizabeth laughed then said "One of the symptoms of my mental illness was indiscriminate sex, emphasis on the indiscriminate, so I would have probably have fun in bed with anyone. Well maybe not anyone, Lucky for instance, but that wasn't what I was talking about. See, the thing you were good for is that sleeping with you helped cure me of my need to protect people, my need to do the right thing and MOST IMPORTANTLY IT CURED ME OF LUCKY. Took some time, I was still a little screwed in the head when I left here, but now... now I can't wait to watch as you burn."
An hour later the State Troopers and the SEC arrested Steven and Lisa for insider trading along with Nik who called his aunt only to be told by the nurse at the hub. "I am sorry sir, your aunt is in x-ray, getting her broken hand taken care of."
Down at the station, Elizabeth walked in and saw the various detectives stopping to stare and then talking amongst themselves. Going to knock on Mac's door, she saw the Mayor was already inside. "Gentlemen, shall we talk. This is the deal my attorney drew up, I would suggest you agree to sign it or I take both of your jobs away."
"You can't blackmail me, I am the Mayor." commented Floyd Garrett. "Scorpio, deal with her."
"He can't, because I have something on him too. It is going to fall out like this... you resign and I don't leak how you are in the news constantly complaining about organized crime and yet are taking kickbacks from Sonny Corinthos." she said then looked at Mac before adding. "Nor will I disclose how Ric Lansing and you conspired with Councilman Edwards to reduce the police budget, putting the extra money allotted by the federal government to deal with organized crime into your personal pockets."
"How dare you?" snapped the man as he looked at the file. Then grabbing a pen signed the papers. When she picked them up, she handed him a single sheet of paper, double spaced. "What is this?"
"Your resignation speech. We saved you the time of writing it." replied Elizabeth standing. Looking at Mac, she said "I saw that Sam is in a jail cell, you might want to know, someone tried to use a computer to alter the camera records."
Mouthing the words Spinelli, Mac groaned then listened as she handed him file after file. "Oh and Mac, if she goes free or is found not guilty, well there will a re-trail on federal charges."
Walking to the bullpen, Elizabeth saw the now former Mayor leaving and then looked around. Seeing Claire Walsh, Elizabeth smirked as she heard Lucky following her in whining for her to fix this.
"I see you are his new mommy, good luck with that." Elizabeth saw that the red head glared at her husband before heading towards what was the hallway to her office. Elizabeth moved closer to Lucky and asked "Why are you still claiming to be the father of my child?"
With a smirk he said "We both know you altered those tests. I may not be able to get custody but I can certainly make sure that a slut like you loses custody. I already made the call to DSS and they are going to be investigating you. I can't wait... they agreed that my Aunt Bobbie will have the kids until the case is reviewed. Your grandmother called, she is going to testify for me."
Elizabeth looked at Lucky then decided to wipe the smug grin off his face. "Lucky, you are a low-life, weak kneed, spineless loser. Just how long did it take Carly..." the former nurse smirked at his shock then continued "To convince you to attempt this. Let me make one thing clear, NO Spencer, no one with your blood flowing throw their veins will ever be near ANY of my children again. And Lucky, you called me a slut, well since your pea brain can't figure it out, I will just spell it out in small words for you. I slept with more than just Nik and you."
As he flipped out screaming obscenities at her, Elizabeth looked around then asked "Aren't you going to arrest him. This is verbal battery or do you not arrest abusers any more."
Mac came to find out what the yelling was about and snapped at Ronnie "What are you waiting for, arrest suspended Detective Spencer. And add a charge of grand theft and filing a false report to the charges of domestic violence."
"But Mac, she-" The cop saw his boss glare and with a heavy sigh did as he was told while Elizabeth walked out the door. "Mac, can I take the cuffs off now?"
Looking at the detective incredulously he turned to the detective standing next to him and snapped. "Take Spencer downstairs and book him. I want your badge and gun on my desk, you are suspended. No, you can't take the cuffs off, that wasn't just a show. Lucky Spencer is going to jail and more than likely prison. Think real long and hard about whether this is a path you want to go down."
Maxie entered the courtroom looking around for Sam, wondering where she was. Hearing footsteps, she turned and smiled when she saw Michael. "Hey, where is everyone?"
Shrugging, the malcontent youth sat down in the last row and glared as others started to show up. First Sonny along with Max and Milo, then Carly who gave her ex-husband a glacial smirk before moving to sit up behind the railing. When the Quartermaines entered, both snorted, muttering "Yeah right, like Jason would ever leave them anything."
Spinelli slipped into the room just as the judge took the bench. Trying to move up to warn the Valkyrie, he was told by the judge to sit down where he was and not to move. "Now where is Miss Davis?"
Standing, Spinelli raised his hand only for the man to look at him in annoyance and said "What?"
"Your honor, sir. The most determined legal eagle was unfortunately detained by the most vile maternal one grievously wounding the beloved matriarchal unit of the soul mate of posthumous Stone Cold."
"Son, do you have a head injury, do you need a doctor? Bailiff, call an ambulance for this rather unfortunate young man."
Diane entered the courtroom and breezing past the geek said "No need sir. Mr. Spinelli was trying to inform you that Alexis Davis attacked a woman at General Hospital today and is now a patient there herself."
"Why didn't he just say that." snapped the man. "Are we ready to proceed?"
"Yes, your honor. Now as to the first matter, the Elizabeth Webber and her family are alive and well. I spoke to Ms. Webber and she has signed the papers accepting Mr. Morgan's estate on the behalf of her children." announced Diane while the crown behind her started to grumble.
"I need proof of her being alive." said the judge then taking the offered papers, he said in a bit of a shock. "These are from the head of the FBI, why would he be involved."
"Your honor, there was an attack on Ms Webber and her children with days of announcing she inherited Mr. Morgan's estate then at six o'clock this morning, one of the respondents, Miss McCall went to Jake's Bar and attempted to kill Miss Webber. Instead she ran into a federal agent. Miss McCall is now a guest of the city. Her mother, Miss Davis then physically assaulted Miss Webber in the hospital."
"I would assume that is how Miss Davis ended up a patient there?" he asked with a heavy sigh. "Fine, I will agree that the paperwork to declare her and her children dead be rescinded. Anything else?"
"Your honor, may I come forward?" asked Edward as he stood. When the elderly man moved forward, Carly sat up, hoping he would scotch Elizabeth getting so much as a dime. When the white haired man was in front of the judge, he handed something to the dark suited man next to him and let the judge get it. "As you can see, these are blood tests confirming the validity of the claim against my grandson's estate. Elizabeth Webber should be named the sole executor of the estate since there is bad blood between the other parties and her."
The judge read the note attached to the DNA tests and narrowed his eyes as he looked out into the packed gallery. He saw plenty of people with reasons to create fake wills and to harm this family and from the note they had all tried at one point or another.
"I agree, I will vacate the unsigned codicil since we have no way of proving that it was Mr. Morgan that wrote it. Ms Jacks, you will no longer have to deal with this. I am going to appoint the children's mother as executor."
"But your honor, Jason Morgan was my best friend, he would want me to protect his money." she said then sweating added "And his son of course."
"I think that I will let this stand as I have ordered. Now before I declare that Mr. Morgan is dead, does anyone have proof to the contrary." when there were no takers, he announced. "On June 30, 2011, I Judge Robert C. Boggs to declare Jason Morgan to be moved from the officially listed as missing to dead. Hear yeah, hear yeah."
When the gavel hit the desk, there was a sudden pallor in the room before the various members of the crowd went one of two ways. Some out the door, and several swarmed up towards Diane Miller and started to complain to her. "Enough."
When they were silent, she snapped "Maxie Jones, you have no business here. Leave. Really none of the rest of you do either but you can't mind your own business."
"How dare you, everything about Jason Morgan is my business." huffed Carly.
Diane listened to them complain about not obeying their wants and needs then rapping the desk with her shoe said "I left this town last year, what part of I don't work for any of you don't you get? Sonny, Carly, I was Jason's attorney in this, that is why I am here. I am supposed to represent his interests in this case, not yours. And we all know that he made it very clear last year what he thought of each and every single one of you. Mr. Spinelli, I know that you are delusional, but how much longer are you going to try and live your life for a dead man?"
Spinelli started to protest but Diane cut him off. "I don't care. I am so grateful not to have to deal with any of you any longer. We all know that the codicil you tried to give the judge was a fake Carly, since the moment Jason learned the truth about you, about Sam and your ex-husband there, he was done. D-O-N-E."
When they all kept talking, Diane picked up her briefcase then with a withering glare at Max Giambetti walked out. Getting into the limo with the very dark windows, she quickly made the call and asked "How did it go?"
Getting the answer she expected, the red head, sighed, wishing that she could tell her female client about how much Jason had loved her. But Elizabeth refused to listen to anything other than legal stuff. Diane understood, even she had had a hard time with learning what Sam had done then that Jason had seemingly taken her back. For Elizabeth it must have been devastating.
Elizabeth meanwhile was on her tear through the Spencer family, she now owned the building with Luke's old blues club and the wharf where the Haunted Star docked. After sending him an eviction notice, well aware that the tub was barely afloat and wouldn't make it five feet without an overhaul, she moved on to Bobbie.
Sure enough, she heard the screams as she approached the diner. She smiled as the guests rushed out without paying their bills. "Is there a problem?"
"Don't go there, I just found a cockroach in my soup." said the man leaving as he walked over and heaved what he had eaten into the Harbor.
Elizabeth entered just as Mike and Bobbie saw the bugs. "Wow, I mean there used to be standards of cleanliness when I worked here. I mean, yes, we had Courtney who didn't bother to wash her hands, but other than that, I mean there were no bugs."
The older woman came to where Elizabeth was leaning against the jukebox and said "You? You did this? Why? After everything I did for you?"
"Wow, I am sorry Bobbie, but I didn't do this." she said with a smirk as she mentally thanked Abby for her help. "I am enjoying it, but no, this wasn't my work. I came to give you this."
Bobbie took the blue backed papers and gasped. "How did you...?"
"I played the stock market with my payoff for Jason screwing me over. Turns out I am pretty good at it." she replied. "And you owe the bank almost a million dollars. Well now you owe me, almost a million and half. I also bought the mortgage on the brownstone while I was at it."
Elizabeth walked to the door and then said to the two of them. "Oh and if my property is damaged between now and when I take over, I will sue you. And Alexis Davis is no match for either of my attorneys on her best day. So Bobbie if you and the staff would exit, my people will be changing the locks and according to federal law, I have to give you a full ten days to find other lodging. Good luck with that."
"But my tenants..." she started to protest.
"Bobbie, that is your problem. And strictly yours according to the law. But your daughter owns a hotel, I am sure she would be willing to help you out in your time of need." said Elizabeth. "By the way, I had a talk with Lucky, I don't know how much you knew about this plan to take my kids away from me, but stupid move, this was for the past. You can imagine what I am going to do to you for that. Oh, Mike, don't bother going to Sonny, he is about to have troubles of his own."
Bobbie called Carly while Mike ambled down to Sonny's office in time to hear him screaming at Max to deal with it.
"But sir-" he tried to protest only for the Cuban to keep screaming.
"No, if that man we sent last year had done his job right, none of this would be necessary." he snapped. "Get it down and then take your brother with you to find my son."
When Mike entered the office, Sonny threw the glass he was drinking from at the wall and said "Get out I don't have time to deal with your shit. I have enough crap of my own."
"Elizabeth Webber just kicked Bobbie Spencer out of the diner." he said expecting Sonny to rant like he always does but was shocked instead when Sonny gave a cold grin the said "I don't care. Every single Spencer can rot in hell. They had to know what that bitch Lulu was doing and none of them stopped her. Well she is going to pay."
Mike didn't know what was going on, but decided to head home and lay low only to find that his building was being condemned. "Sorry buddy."
Elizabeth had gone to her studio, walking around, she felt the sadness that permeated the room and taking one last look, walked away. She was meeting her attorney on enemy territory but didn't care. That was on confrontation she was looking forward to.
Arriving at the Metrocourt, she was soon seated across from Diane and said "Well how is it going?"
"Alexis should have received the papers by now. Claire Walsh filed for divorce minutes after you left the station and the Mayor, well former Mayor didn't so much as deviate from the speech we had him give. What next?"
"Well, I own Kelly's, the Brownstone, my grandmothers house and we have Sam, Lucky and now Lisa, Nik and Steven in jail, I feel bad about Dr. Niles, though. Can you represent her?"
"Taken care of." she said crisply then asked why.
"Because Patrick had a choice too, and he made the wrong one." she replied. "What about Nik and Alexis have they received the other papers?"
"Not yet. Brenda Barrett took care of the others when she found out what Sam did." smirked Diane. "What about Spinelli?"
"Yes, Elizabeth. What about the freak who was more of a son to Jason than his own?" sneered Carly from where Jax was trying to restrain her. "What about Spinelli?"
"Carly, if you know what is good for you walk away. I am not ready to deal with you just yet." said Elizabeth. "I do believe you are coming up on my list though, so just wait your turn."
Zeva and Abby were at a separate table just in case of this and they were wishing for popcorn as Carly didn't have the good sense to walk away.
"Diane, how dare you betray Jason by helping her." screamed the blond. Jax was attempting to control his wife but it was becoming clear that no one was going to be able to stop what was coming.
"Carly, have you talked to your mother?" asked Elizabeth then added. "Or Sam or how about Lucky or even Nik?"
"What does that have to do with anything?" she sneered. "What are you spreading your legs for the two of them again?"
"Carly, how recently has it been since you screwed both your husband and ex-husband on the same night. We both know it was less than since I left town. So ball park, when was the last time? And did you have the sense to use a condom this time? No? No answer? Well how about that baby you are carrying is it Jax baby number 2 or Corinthos baby er, what is it now. Lily's baby, your baby, Michael, Morgan, Sam's kid, Claudia's kid, Kristina, that baby you miscarried during the cannery explosion, and well, I guess that makes this one number 9, wait I forgot Dante, number 10."
Elizabeth knew that the blond had miscarried and she would have felt bad for her but Carly like Sam used her kids and non kids to bludgeon people while having no thought to the damage she did to others.
When Carly screamed in rage, Jax looked at Elizabeth who just shrugged then said "You knew what she was when you married her. Thank god Jocelyn is a blond, otherwise you might have some doubt there too."
Carly wanted to scratch Elizabeth's eyes out, No one and she had made sure of it knew she had been pregnant. When she had had a sudden miscarriage, she had been grateful because she didn't want to have to tell Jax what she had done. The man was her last chance now that Sonny had been tricked into marriage by that bitch Kate Howard who had then left town.
She didn't know what the former magazine editor had on him, but Sonny kept her supplied with money and refused to even entertain the idea of divorcing her.
Jax let Carly go, stunned to find out that other than their daughter there was a good chance he had never been the father of any of her miscarriages. "Carly, tell me she is lying?"
When the blond looked at him beyond rage and now into complete fury, she answered "What is this a shock to you?"
Turning back, Carly hissed "You may think you have won something but I will have Jason's son and you you will be nothing more than a bad nightmare."
"You obviously haven't talked to Lucky." said Elizabeth pretending to be sad on her part. "See, Lucky is under arrest, and as for taking my kids... well... I can't help remembering when you called my kids bastards and said that Cam would end up in a foster home while Jason got custody of Jake. I didn't come into town without making plans Carly. If anyone is going to loss their kids, it is going to be you."
"Starting with Michael. See, while he got off for what he did to Claudia, he was never officially charged for what he did to Kate and the State Police agree that by Alexis being involved there was collusion on the part of the DA's office. Then there is Morgan, you do remember Morgan don't you?" she asked with faux concern.
"As I was saying that while Jax has made several well stupid choices in his life he is a good father, but you, well not so much. Jax, if you want Morgan, you need to talk to DSS, but Carly well, you have no kids and within a few days my guess is no husband and then well all that is left is for me to take your hotel." said Elizabeth standing. Tossing down the money to pair her bill she asked Diane "Where are we on suing her by the way?"
"The papers were filed this morning." she said gleefully. "Oh and Carly good luck finding an attorney able to take me on."
Elizabeth said "Carly want to know the difference between you and me. Unlike you I don't need a man to back me up and do my dirty work. I am quite capable of doing it myself. See without Jason, without Sonny, you are nothing more than the same girl struggling to get out of that trailer park by sleeping with your rich best friends dad."
Carly lost contact with reality and without thinking. "I am nothing, who do you think you are? You are nothing, no one wanted you, NO ONE! That is why I helped Nik, at least he wanted you. Why I don't know but then he liked his women flat chested. I got rid of you twice from Jason's life and now I will do the same for his son. For our son. I was the one meant to be the mother of his children, me and only me. ME! ME! ME!"
"Wow, delusional much." sneered Elizabeth then hid her smile when Carly shoved her back into the table. "Thank you for doing that because it frees me to do this."
Pulling back her fist just enough to give it momentum, she slugged Carly in the nose and mouth. As she saw the blood starting to flow and then saw the dangling teeth, she said "Once again, thank you for the free pass. Jax, good luck."
Walking away, Carly heard Elizabeth laughing as she was joined by Diane and two restaurant patrons in the elevator. Screaming vengeance, Carly never saw the reporter taking snapshots with his cell phone as he gleefully called his boss.
TBC