Chasers

Chase after the truth like all of hell is after you, and you might free yourself...

Elizabeth was exhausted. Secrets, lies and sneaking around, when had her life become a soap opera? Standing at the hub, she saw the reason walking across the floor with Robin Scorpio and knew that if she wanted to free herself, first she had to cut the strings tying her to the mess. Looking at the chart for Kelly Lee, she saw that the results were positive and just decided enough was enough.

Calling Lucky, she froze for a couple of minutes, then decided a public place would be best. Then she called the man she had been having sex with, Nik had done little to hide his excitement at the idea of sex. Shivering from the fear of facing the truth, she clocked out, sneered at the bitch who was stealing her life and just thought to herself, time to leave. Time to tell a few people some truths on the way out the door.

When Nik showed up, she asked him to take a seat, making sure he didn't see the suitcases in the dining room. "Nik, we're done. I can't do this anymore. No more filling voids with sex, no more hiding the pain. I am only sorry I dragged you into this mess. I am telling Lucky this afternoon."

"You can't do that, it will destroy him." he said protesting then tried to seduce her into forgetting. Looking at him with disgust, Elizabeth just walked away. Once he had finally left, she placed the suitcases in the minivan and called the realtor. "I have packed everything up, you can put it on the market tomorrow."

Calling the attorney that the woman from the rape crisis center had recommended, she asked if her will was done. "Are you sure it can't be challenged?"

"Yes, are you sure about this?" she asked looking at the paperwork on her desk.

"It is ten years past due." she said grimly.

~~*~~

Arriving at the warehouse, she ignored the geek's protests that she was supposed to be staying away from Stone Cold and said "Look, you can get out of my way, or you can find out the hard way that I think you are a piece of shit, Spinelli. Why don't you track down your Mommy Sam and tell her that I am visiting her sex toy? I would like a word with that bitch as well."

Walking in, she looked at the man sitting behind the desk with scorn and said "Too dangerous to raise a child, you love your son too much to allow a child in your world. Well, I guess that only is in regards to Jake. Right? Congratulations, your whore is pregnant. Does she know you habit of tossing, wait, that is right it is only me and our son you tossed away. You are a piece of gutter trash, Jason Morgan."

The man sitting in the chair looked up in shock. "Elizabeth? What are you doing here?"

"Just telling you that I am leaving town and if I even think your pet geek is looking for me, I will ruin you both. I hate you, Jason Morgan, and someday, I am going to make sure that Jacob does too." With that she pushed past Alexis who was entering along with Kristina and Molly.

Hearing them asking where Sam was, Elizabeth got a cruel smile, then looked at Alexis with hate, and said "Maybe she is screwing one of your fathers. I mean she slept with Ric on your mother's floor while you two were sleeping a mere twenty feet away and your mommy was undergoing chemo treatments."

With that, Elizabeth left, she didn't feel good about herself, especially when she saw the look on Molly's face, but she was done with the hypocrites in this town turning Sam McCall and Carly Jacks into Saints when they were no more than gutter trash.

Seeing Carly walking in, she just laughed and said "What do you have him bugged, so that you know when I am here? Well, save yourself some trouble, I am gone. OH, and you might not want to go back there, I just informed Alexis' daughters what a whore their sister is."

Jason sat there stunned then what Elizabeth said hit him. She was leaving. Shit, that couldn't happen. Rushing past a furious Alexis and a crying Molly, he saw Sam stopping Elizabeth as she was heading out the door. When he heard what was being said, it was like a dam burst and memories flooded his brain.

Grabbing her arm, he took Elizabeth to the warehouse and snapped at Sam to help her mother deal with Molly. "Snow, you smell like snow."

When she didn't even flinch, he tried another one. "We promised to never say goodbye, it was always see you later."

Not even a flicker of recognition. Desperate he said. "A blue vase." Only for Elizabeth to retreat further into the warehouse. Hearing the distant sound of raised voices, the man chasing the brunette knew he had to get through to her, his life depended on it.

Then there was suddenly no air, .,.. blackness.... smoke.... and heat, lots of heat. He could distantly hear the sound of the sirens, and found himself whispering... Jason.....told you …. love you...

~~*~~

Lucky arrived at the Corinthos Morgan warehouse to hear Sam screaming Jason's name. Reaching her, he heard Carly insisting someone rescue Jason, that he was inside. When the fireman came out, they said to the police commissioner, "Two severely injured. A woman, I doubt she is going to make it, a man who has a head wound."

The medics rushed the ambulances to the hospital while those that loved Jason all gathered around. No one had said anything about knowing who the Jane Doe was, until Alexis snapped where was Elizabeth, that she wanted a word with her?

"Why, she isn't here?" asked Lucky.

"She was with Jason, in the warehouse." said Alexis as Sonny rushed in to comfort his daughter. Telling Sonny what had been said, he just nodded and said she wasn't the sweet girl he had known all those years before.

Robin and Patrick were operating on Jason, trying to save his life from the ruptured blood vessel in his brain. When they left surgery they saw quite a crowd gathered. "He is going to live, but we have a problem."

"What kind of problem." snapped Sam while Spinelli moved closer to help his newly pregnant goddess, she was going to need him if Stone Cold didn't get well soon. She couldn't do this on her own.

"His body rejected the blood transfusion. We had to use plasma." she said still trying to figure out what had happened in the operating room. "We are going to wait for him to stabilize then take care of the minor cuts and bruises, but for now, he is in recovery."

"When can I see him?" asked Sam.

"Only immediate family, I am sorry Sam." said Patrick. He had something he wanted to check out and this was his best chance to do it without Spinelli standing there. "For at least twenty four hours."

Epiphany had left the second operating room, stunned to have to give Lucky the news. "I am sorry, but Elizabeth didn't make it."

"Good." said a vindictive Sam only for Patrick to give her a strange look. "She told my sisters that I slept with Ric."

"Didn't you?" he asked coolly before walking away from the hypocrites that were sympathizing with the woman. He had talked to a therapist who had given him a bit of the background on Elizabeth and her past with Sam McCall. He had insisted on his friend talking to someone when he had seen she was slipping into a very dark place and had been kept informed in his role as chief of staff.

Robin was furious with Patrick but she didn't agree with Sam at all, until Lucky informed her that Elizabeth had been sleeping with Nik while engaged to him. She didn't know what had caused her friend to lose it like that, but really, to verbally attack children, what kind of person did that?

~~*~~

A few days later, Nik went to see Audrey Hardy who was arranging Elizabeth's funeral. When the elderly woman slammed the door in his face, he sighed and knocked again. "Look, hate me all you want, but you need to know that Lucky is going to fight Elizabeth's will."

Opening the door, the elderly woman said "He has no rights to either of those boys and if Jason Morgan ever gets out of that hospital bed, I intend to borrow that huge SUV of his and run that thug down with his own car. Now get off my property and you tell Lucky if he doesn't bring those boys back tonight, I will have him arrested. Do you understand me?"

Nik froze, then stared at the elderly woman. "Mrs, Hardy, Lucky doesn't have the boys. He thought they were with you."

"Don't even try it. You don't have any idea who you are messing with. Tell your brother, that I don't give a crap who he thinks is behind him. I want my great grandson's here when Steven arrives this tonight."

Calling Lee Baldwin, Audrey verified that Elizabeth's attorney had sent the paperwork terminating Lucky Spencer and Jason Morgan's parental rights. Neither man were going to be allowed near her grandsons.

Sam sat at the side of Jason's bed, tears on her face as she realized Jason hadn't woken up. Turning to Robin she asked "How much longer?"

Shaking her head, Robin said "I don't know."

Feeling her beeper vibrating, she went to see what Patrick wanted, then heard him saying. "We have a specialist coming in to deal with the reconstructive surgery, will you let Sam know."

"What is your problem with her?" asked Robin bewildered when once again Patrick didn't say anything then he looked at her and said "You like to think you are good at reading people and yet you don't think there is something wrong with that woman?"

Nik hurried to see Luke and when he passed on Audrey's message then older man thought about it then said "Something is very wrong here. Track down Lulu, I will go and see my cowboy."

Arriving at Laura's house, he saw that Lucky was not there, heading over to Elizabeth's house he called Nik to get directions. Seeing the for sale sign, he called the realtor and found out it had been for sale since the day of the explosion.

Spinelli, was listening to Tracy and Monica and knew what he had to do. Going into the computer, he set up the results, knowing that he had to protect the goddesses child with Stone Cold.

Hearing his phone ringing, he thought about things and tracked down the Maternal one's bank account. Calling back Luke Spencer, he said "All her money is accounted for."

"Are you sure your boss didn't give her funds that you weren't aware of?"

Spinelli said "No, I was unaware of this account until recently." Then hanging up, he did one more thing and then went back to the room where his master was lying in a bed, still as the Stone he was named after.

Audrey called Mac Scorpio who went to talk to former detective Spencer about custodial interference when he got the call. "Mac, check your e-mails."

Heading to his computer, he was stunned at what he saw. Hanging up, he wrote out a letter then went to see the Mayor who tried to talk him out of what he was doing. "I am done. You find someone else to deal with the criminal element in this town."

Heading home, he wrote two letters, packed up a duffel bag and left town, knowing he couldn't trust a single soul in Port Charles with what he had found out. Stopping to see Audrey on his way, he informed the woman that Lucky didn't have the boys. "I am sorry, I have no idea where they are."

Holding the elderly woman who was sobbing, he said "I promise, I will find them. But don't trust anyone, I mean no one. Tell Steven when he arrives to do the same. Get out of town, please Mrs. Hardy."

"I have to bury my granddaughter first." she said scared when he mentioned he was leaving that night. "Mac, what is going on?"

"I am not sure, but it is going to get ugly with Jason Morgan down."

~~*~~

The man looked in on the two boys, seeing them playing, he thought about what he was doing, then decided it was for the best. Jake and Cameron deserved a better life and they certainly wouldn't get that in Port Charles.

"When are we going home?" asked Cam as he saw the man standing there. "I want to see my mommy."

"I know, I will find her, I promise and I will make whoever took her regret it." said the dark haired man to himself as he ruffled the curls of the little boy. "Have you are flown on an airplane?"

~~*~~

The blond man looked in on the woman in the padded cell then down at his bleeding arm. Looking over at the two men in the room he said "She is awake, what now?"

AJ leaned against the wall and turned to his companion. "It's your call, but from what I remember hearing about Elizabeth Webber, she isn't going to be easy to convince."

"That is what you are here for. My first plan was an abject failure, let's see how yours works."

TBC