What if Claudia met Jason at the bar her first night in Port Charles instead of Sonny? So my story starts the same, but she met and had the one night stand with Jason. And she left that night with a surprise that she was to discover later on. She doesn't know that Jason works for her father's number one enemies and doesn't find out until it's to late.
Claudia, "The meeting I had with the five families went well didn't it? I have the waterfront property don't I? Yes, and Yes. So you know what that means Trevor's! That means I'm in charge, I'm the new power in Port Charles. NOT YOU, so you better back the fuck off before I give one of my nice new allies a reason to get ride of you!" Trevor holds his hands up, and backs up out the office and accidentally bumps into Johnny, "you should really get a hold of your sister. Real her in John, before she makes someone mad and gets hurt." Johnny, "Is that a threat Lancing, because I don't know if you've notice but Claudia's the calm, normal one of the family. And I don't think you want to go around making threats about my sister." Trevor, "I didn't mean any disrespect or to come off like I'm threatening anyone, I'm just saying that…" Johnny, "If I were you Lancing, I'd stop while I was ahead." Johnny, "good. Now why don't you go do what your paid for." Johnny walks into the office and goes to give his sister a hug, "don't take this the wrong why, but you are being more of a bitch than usual lately. Are you okay, Somebody make a move, Is there something I can do to…" Claudia goes to sit on the couch, "No John. You said you didn't want any part of the business, I'm fine." The look on his face makes her think she's got to prove it, "really Johnny I'm fine. Just the flu or something, and you know I hate being sick." John comes over to the couch and feels her forehead, "you feel fine." Claudia laughs and pushes his hand away from her head, "oh and you went to medical school when?" Wow, I am being a bitch, "sorry John, I didn't mean to…" Johnny gets up and pours himself a drink, "I'm just worried, since when is it a law I can't worry about my sister?" Claudia gets up to go back behind the desk, "I'm sorry, just…stressed and this stupid flu is killing me. I feel queasy one minute and the next I'm happy go lucky sunshine, then I'm ready to bits someone's head off; Its driving me fucking insane. sigh hey, how about a movie night, just us two?" Johnny smiles at his sister, puts his glass down and heads for the door, "deal."
Johnny, "Come on Robin I just need you to come and check her out; she's been weird." Robin, "Oh you mean she's been nice! That is weird." Johnny, "that's not funny, don't you have some doctor's oath?" Robin, "no. I'm not a doctor. Sorry, but your sister hates me, and believe me the feelings mutual. Try Elizabeth Webber." John sighs in defeat and heads off to find Elizabeth when he just so happens to bump into her, "Oh I'm sorry, I…I was actually looking for you!" Elizabeth's smile turns into a frown, "me? Why? I mean how can I help you Mr. Zaccarah?" Johnny finally persuade Elizabeth into coming to the house for a house call around 5:30pm. Claudia was popping popcorn when the doorbell rings and one of the guards comes into the kitchen to announce Nurse Webber's presence. Claudia, "What can I help you with? Let me guess: the hospitals not paying you enough and you want to be a personal nurse for my father? Well he's got plenty of…" Elizabeth, "No, I'm actually here to see you." Claudia turns back towards her, "me what the hell do you…Son of a bitch John. I'm going to…Know what never mind. Look I'm sorry my dimwitted brother made you lose whatever little pay you make on this house call, but I'm fine. I just have the flu. It'll pass, you can leave now." Elizabeth shakes her head, Robin was right, "look I may not have wealth like you, but I'm okay with that because no amount of money is worth it if I have to get it the way you do. I'm just here because I promised your brother I'd check you out, yes I'm regretting it, but I keep my promises. No matter who they're for." Claudia, "obviously you aren't going to go away until we get this over with, so lets get started." Elizabeth, "all done. And I'll call you if any information comes back from your blood work." Claudia calls a guard to show her out, and then goes to the living room to wait on her brother.
Johnny was late for the movie night with Claudia, I hope she has one of those mood swings and doesn't get mad. He walks into the living room and expects to find his sister ready to curse him out in some foreign language for being late, instead he finds her curled up on one of the couches. Johnny smiles, adds a blanket onto of her, turns off the TV, and then heads to bed. About an hour later Claudia wakes up and is starving! I would love some home made pizza, oh with pickles, and strawberry milk! Johnny comes down the kitchen stairs just as Claudia's pulling the pizza out of the oven with a pickle sticking out of her mouth, "when'd you wake up? You looked knocked out; thought I was going to have to check your pulse." Claudia puts the pizza on the counter to cool off while she takes a bit of her pickle, and then starts chopping the other end as if it were a cucumber for a salad, "ha ha, I should be mad at you for sending Nurse Webber over here, but I'm too excited for this pizza to scold you right now." Johnny moves closer, "are you putting pickles on that? It already has a weird combination of sorts." Claudia looks at the pizza then toward John, "what are you talking about, this is going to be wonderful! And just because your judging, you can't have any." John laughs as she sticks her tongue out at him and then goes back to cutting her pizza, "Oh well my lost." John grabs her arm just as she was about to sit, and directors her towards the living room, "since your in a good mood, lets have our marathon." About 30min into the movie John looks over and sees that Claudia's finished the pizza and at some point went and got chips, left over Chinese food, and more strawberry milk, "shit Claudia, didn't you eat today?" Before John, it wasn't really brought to her attention that she was eating much, "what, I'm hungry." Johnny laughs at her, "yeah and your eating like you have two stomachs or something." Claudia throws a chip at him, "shut up! I am not, I was just…I don't know, I was so hungry when I woke up, it was like I was starving." John just shakes his head and laughs again, "anything you miss?" Claudia, "actually I could really go for those gooey chocolate chip cookies from Kellies, and some ice cream." John watched as his sister was practically drooling, "well sorry to burst your food marathon, but we don't have any cookies." Claudia pouted a bit, until John spoke up again. John, "but we do have brownie chunk ice cream." Claudia's face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning as she dashed for the kitchen.
The next morning Johnny walked into the kitchen to find his sister in her workout clothes eating toast and drinking strawberry milk, "thought you'd be eating a feast. What happen to you're iron stomach?" Claudia looked up at him and smiled weakly, "it probably ran away and took my second stomach with it. I've been throwing up since early this morning. This toast is the only thing I seem to keep down." John had a worried look on his face, "that was you at like six this morning? Please let me take you to the hospital, there has to be something wrong." Claudia got up, to quick! And immediately went back down just as John rushed to her side. John, "that's it, lets go now." Claudia, "no John I'm…" Before she got to finish she was over the garbage can spilling her guts. John, "don't give me that shit, there's something wrong and were going to find out NOW." Johnny hardly ever yells at Claudia so she knew he meant business, so she wiped her mouth and headed to the car. John, I know there's something wrong because there is no way in hell Claudia would ever roll over like this, and there is defiantly NO way she'd go out anywhere looking like this. He laughs a bit to himself, she's going to kill me when she remembers this.
Johnny and Claudia are sitting in the waiting room when nurse Webber walks by, and then back tracks when she realizes it's the Zaccarah's. Elizabeth, "Oh Ms. Zaccarah I was just on my way to call you, This is great, you being here saves me a trip, and then you a trip, well not really because you are here now…" Claudia," What the hell are you blabbering on about?" Elizabeth, "Oh, I'm sorry I do that some times. Anyway, Congratulations!" Claudia and John both look at her like she's snapped, "what are you talking about you weird…" John, "Claudia! I'm sorry nurse Webber, my sister's just…having one of those mood swings I told you about." Elizabeth, "that's okay, it's expected when your' expecting. Her hormones don't know what they want to do, so she'll probably be just like your normal feisty, fiery sister your use to; sometimes she'll probably be um…worst; and then some days she'll be as sweet as apple pie." Claudia, "once again, you dingbat, what the hell are you talking about? Is the job finally getting to you, did you bump your head? And who's expecting what? What's that got to do with me?" Elizabeth's smile drops, "your expecting, I mean pregnant. Your pregnant, just about 10 or 11 weeks, but defiantly pregnant. We should schedule you an appointment soon to check you and the baby out and things like that." Claudia and John both just stood there in silence, and in shock as they watched nurse Webber bounce back off to her job like she didn't just drop an atomic bomb on the Zaccarah family.
John chased after his sister as she stormed into the house, "come on Claudia we should talk about this . You can't always keep everything in that your feeling. It's not good for you; or the baby." Claudia swung around and if it was anybody else she probably would have hit them but instead she just gave him a death glare, "No WE don't. If I don't want to talk about this then I don't have to, and since I don't care what's good or not for 'it'. John stopped in front of her, "you don't mean that?" He could tell she really didn't want to talk about this topic because she was silent (and there aren't many things that silence her) "fine, but 'it' your baby is real weather you want 'it' to be or not. So get use to calling 'it' a baby." After she was sure John left she let the tears stream down her face and headed to her room to regroup.
Later that night after Claudia woke up from napping, and then doing some paper work while waiting for John. Johnny was about to head upstairs when he heard something or someone in the office, "what are you doing up? Thought you were asleep." Claudia, "I was, and I thought about some things: Your right, I can't hold it all in. I feel like I'm going to explode." John laughs a little, shuts the door, and after he sits on the couch in front of the bookshelf he pats the seat next to him for her to come and join him. Claudia comes from behind the desk but before she sits down she states, "NO judging! Or Yelling, okay?" John sticks out his hand to shake hers, "deal." Claudia takes a deep breath and then takes a seat next to her brother. Claudia, "okay first thing is we're going to need our own team of doctors." John looks a bit confused but nods In agreement, "okay. Why?" Claudia takes another deep breath before continuing, "because the only nurse that will even look at me let alone touch me is going to hate me…Jason is the father." John's mouth falls open so wide a truck load of flies could file through, "WHAT! Claudia you know that dad and…" Claudia, "YOU SAID NO JUDGING!" John, "I'm not judging, I'm just stating facts. Dad is going to go ballistic, if it's possible for him to go even more crazy." Claudia starts to cry a bit, "I KNOW JOHN, SHIT! You don't have to tell me this! If our crazy ass father wanted to kill me before just for having an opinion and looking like my mother; then don't you think I know he's going to kill me on sight once he finds out I'm pregnant let alone pregnant with his biggest enemies baby!" By this time Claudia is balling, and John can't help but comfort his sister, even if he's angry at her for making such a big mistake, and with their families main enemies. John tries to calm his sister, "shhh…It's going to be okay. We'll figure something out, and you know I'll do anything to protect you and my niece or nephew."