I think we can all agree that in tomorrow's episode, Liz is gonna piss us off. Hell, we only saw a 2 second clip and it sure as hell pissed me off. I am really tired of GH trying to make Jason seem like this horrible father because he is not bending to Liz's every demand. Jason is completely justified in not wanting his child around the man that terrorized his family for years. So I have decided to do a two shot series based on what I want to see in tomorrow's show (even though I know we won't) and what I want to see happen with this dreadful story. There is a hashtag on Twitter that is very popular and used a lot whenever we have to deal with Friz being around out JaSam family, #FreeJason! Hopefully we will all be free from this SL soon and won't have to put up with it much longer.
Anyway, like I said this is going to be a two shot. The second part will be up later this week. Hope you enjoy : )
Sam softly rocked Scout in her arms as she walked around the living room. She had just got done feeding her and her eyes were starting to droop. She smiled down at her little girl and softly ran her fingers over her baby soft cheek seeing a little smile form on her lips. Sam often found herself watching her in amazement. She had come so close to losing her that she didn't want to take her for granted. Sam didn't know how they managed it, but she and Jason had finally gotten everything they had always dreamed of. Except for having to deal with Elizabeth and Franco because of Jake, their life was pretty great. Even though Jason had told Sam that Elizabeth had agreed to keep Jake ad Franco apart, a part of Sam didn't believe it. Elizabeth never compromised. She always thought it should be her way or no way. Sam knew she had to deal with her because she loved Jake but it was hard.
She looked down at her sleeping daughter and thought about how Elizabeth had kept Jason away from her and Danny for months. She tried to keep them away from the future they were going to have. But in the end Sam had decided to let it go because everything had worked out the way it should, despite Elizabeth's best efforts.
The door opened and Sam looked up to see Jake walk in followed by Jason and Liz. Jason and Jake looked upset and Elizabeth just looked annoyed. "Jake, go to your room. We will talk later." Jason said sternly. "But dad…" "Jake, go." Jason said, not wanting to hear whatever Jake had to say. Sam didn't know what was going on but it had to be serious by the way Jason was acting.
Jake huffed and headed to the stairs, stopping for a second to hug Sam around the waist. He buried his face in her side and said "Hi, Sam." Sam settled Scout in the crook of one arm and wrapped the other around him, leaning down to kiss the top of his head "Hey, honey." She said softly. Jake pulled away from her and stomped, yes stomped, up the stairs. Jake wasn't acting right. She turned her head and glared at his parents "What happened?" Elizabeth rolled her eyes and walked over towards the couch. Sam had the urge to slap the woman but she looked to her husband instead. "We just picked up Jake from Franco's studio." He said, walking over to her and their daughter. He leaned down and kissed her lips before pressing them to Scout's soft head.
"Oh. And he obviously didn't want to leave." Sam stated. "I thought Franco said that he was going to keep his distance?" Sam asked.
"He has." Elizabeth answered before Jason could say anything. "And as soon as Jake showed up he called me and Jason and told us Jake was there."
"Not as soon." Jason said through clenched teeth. "You had been looking for him for over an hour when you called me." He glared at his sons other.
"Looking for him?" Sam asked.
"Jake ran away again from Elizabeth's house." Jason told her. Sam looked at him shocked. "After over and an hour, Franco finally called Elizabeth to let her know where he was. And I am pretty sure the only reason I know that is because I was with her looking for him. Otherwise I know she would have tried to keep it from me."
"I don't see what the big deal is. Jake is ok and he was with someone that would never hurt him." Elizabeth defended herself.
"You don't know that, Elizabeth. Franco has always been unpredictable." Jason said.
"Oh, my god. You really need to get over your jealousy of Franco, Jason. You are not the only one allowed to move on. I am in a relationship with someone ow and you are just going to have to deal with it." Elizabeth said with a straight face.
Sam looked from Liz to her husband to see the look of pure shock on his face. Sam looked back to Elizabeth and said "Jealousy? Seriously?"
Liz looked at Sam and got a smug look on her face "Obviously. And by the way, if Franco isn't allowed to be in the equation, why should Sam?" she asked.
Sam knew that this was coming as soon as Jason told her Liz agreed to leave Franco out. Sam shook her head and looked back to Jason. There was a look of rag on his face and Sam laid her hand on his arm "I am going to put Scout down in her crib…" Jason looked to her and shook his head "Sam, no…" "Jason it's ok. I'm going to go put her down and then I am going to go and check on my stepson" Sam said looking at Liz while saying it "and see if he is ok."
"But…" Elizabeth started to say. "Don't." Jason said in a scary voice "You do not get to address my wife again while you are here." Elizabeth wisely shut up and by the look on her face, Sam could see she knew she messed up. Jason turned back to Sam and said, "Tell Jake I'll be up soon and we will talk." Sam smiled softly at him and said "Ok" before turning to the stairs and walking up them.
Jason waited from her to walk all the way up before turning back to Liz "We are going to get one thing straight first off. Do not ever compare my wife to your sadistic boyfriend ever again. Sam is Jake's stepmother. Franco is just the man that you are currently dating. He is nothing and he never will be anything to my son. And it has nothing to do with jealousy. I do not feel anything for you, Elizabeth. And as time goes by, the fact that you are Jake's mother means less and less." He said. He watched the hurt register on her face but he didn't feel bad for say what he said. And he wasn't done. "Sam is my wife, despite how you tried to keep us apart. Sam's opinion matters because she is going to be a part of Jake's life forever. She was in his life before I was. She knew things about Jake that had no clue about because you didn't want me in his life. Or rather, you just wanted me in his life on your terms. Franco is only a part of his life now. Because eventually, just like you always do, you will move on to some other guy when you get bored of Franco."
"That is not true. You make is sound like I move from guy to guy. I'm not a whore." She said.
"Really? Because according to you, Lucky is the love of your life and you cheated on him twice. The second time with his brother. You couldn't decide if it was me or Ric you wanted so you strung us both along until you found out I was Sam's husband, then you just had to have me. No matter who it hurt. And now you have moved on to your brother's brother trying to convince everyone that he is this changed man and it is all a lie. But that is none of my business but this affects Jake. And I am not going to ever be ok with the man that tortured me, my wife, my son and my nephew around my kid." He finished.
"And you think that I am ok with the woman that watched my son be taken from me and hire men to terrorize us around him?" she asked.
"First, if you had been watching your son, he never would have been taken. Second, you never pressed charges on the woman that kidnapped him so that point is moot. Third, the men she hired were actors with fake guns. They were never in any danger. And lastly, you are currently in a relationship with the man that actually did kidnap your infant son from the hospital the day after he was born." Jason snapped. "Do not ever bring that up again. If it wasn't for Sam, Jake would have been blown to bits in that cabin. She saved Jake's life. What the hell has Franco done for him? Huh? Be a shoulder for a confused kid to cry on? Franco doesn't hold a candle to my wife. Don't ever make the mistake that he does again."
The two stood there glaring at each other for several seconds before Elizabeth said "You know what? I think you were right. I think we do need to come up with a different arrangement for Jake. Because I am not too comfortable with the fact that my son is going to be around to people that are going to try and turn him against his own mother."
"Are you kidding me? After all that you did and said to try and get him to hate Sam, you can say that to my face? If it weren't for you and your hatefulness, Jake never would have been hit by a car again. And if it weren't for you and your spitefulness, Sam never would have ended up at the bottom of those stair and almost dying! You want to take this to court? Have at it. But this is mine and Sam's week with Jake based on our current custody agreement. So whatever you have to say, you will say it to my attorney. And if you think for a second, now that this is how you have decided to go, that you are going to walk away with a win, you are dead wrong. Now get the hell out of my house. And if I find out you so much as say a cross word about my wife, to anyone, you will regret it."
Elizabeth had never seen him this way before. Even after he found out she knew who he was for so long, had he been this scary. She had played her card too early but she was so mad that Sam had convinced him she was this horrible person, she couldn't let it go. "You are a former hit man for Sonny Corinthos. Sam is a former con artist that married men for money and even killed one. If you think that any judge with give you custody of my son, your stupider that most think you are." She said with a sneer before walking around him and out the door.
Jason closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down. Never in his life had he wanted to strangle a woman so bad. He took out his phone and dialed Diane's number "Diane, I need a huge favor…"
Sam closed the door to Scout's nursery and walked to Jake and Danny's room. They had told Jake he could have his own room but he and Danny had wanted to share a room. The two were more than just brother's, they were best friends. She softly knocked on the door and then heard a soft "Come in" before she opened the door. "Hey buddy." She said from the door way. He was laying on his bed tummy down with a pillow under his head propped up on his elbows staring at his headboard in front of him. Sam walked into the room and to his bed and sat down beside him. he moved over and then settled into her side when she got on the bed. "Where is Danny?" he asked.
"He's over at Grandma Alexis's house but he will be back in a few hours." She told him. she ran her hands over his head and asked "Do you want to tell me what went on today? Why you ran away from your mom's?" she heard him sigh dramatically and say "I wanted to see Franco. I had to ask him why we had to be secret friends. I wanted to know why my dad could know he was still around." Sam closed her eyes and sighed quietly "And did you?" she felt him nod. "What did he say?"
He shot up from the bed and said "He said that dad didn't want him around me anymore because he wants me all to himself. He said that dad was jealous of him because he was dating mom and dad wants to be the one to date her. He said that dad doesn't want me to be happy. He said that deep own, dad doesn't want me at all."
Sam tramped down her anger and looked softly at her boy "Honey, do you really believe that?" she watched the confusion settle over Jake and it just made her angrier. "Dad told me he doesn't want me around Franco." He said.
Sam nodded her head "Yes he did. But do you think that if your dad didn't have a very good reason to not want you around Franco, he would do it just because?"
"But why? Dad keeps telling me that I can't be around him but he won't say way. I know that her hurt your feelings but he said he was sorry. Why can't you guys forgive him?" he asked.
Sam sat up straighter and said "Jake, he didn't just hurt my feelings. He hurt me. Physically. Do you know what that means?" Jake nodded. "And he hurt your dad. And your cousin Michael. And he hurt Danny."
At the mention of his bother Jake's spine straightened "He hurt Danny?" Sam nodded her head. "And while he may have apologized to me, he only did that because you were there. He has never apologized to your dad or your brothers, Danny and Aiden. But even if he did, buddy, there are somethings in this world that even if you say you are sorry, it's not enough. That is want Franco did. The things he did, saying your sorry doesn't make it right." Sam tried to explain. She didn't know if, at his age, he could understand but she didn't want to give him the specifics of what Franco had done. He was too young for that. "But why? Doesn't saying you're sorry make up for everything?"
"No it doesn't, Jake." Jason said from the doorway
Sam and Jake both looked to him as he walked closer. "There are somethings that you are still too young to understand or hear and this is one of them. I am not telling you that you need to stay away from Franco because I just don't want you around him. The reason Franco hurt Sam and Danny is because I love them and he wanted to hurt me. At the time, you weren't around for him to hurt but that didn't mean he wouldn't have if you were. In one way or another Franco has hurt everyone that I love just because he wanted to hurt me. They did nothing wrong other that be a part of my life and he hurt them because of it. That is not a good person, Jake. And I don't want you to be around people that aren't good. Can you understand that?" Jason asked his son.
Jake looked at his dad and then to Sam could see the worry on their face. He recognized it from when he was in the hospital after he got hit by that car. He didn't want them to worry about him. He thought that Franco was his friend but how could be his fiend if he did things to his dad and Sam and Danny. Danny was just a little kid. He nodded his head and said "Ok, dad." Jake watched the relief come over his dad.
"Alright. But you need to know that what you did today was not ok. You had me really worried. You can't run off like that again, do you understand?" Jason said sternly.
Jake nodded his head "I'm sorry I worried you. I wasn't think about that." He said. Sam ran her hand back over his head and he looked up at her "It's ok this time. Just remember to never to that again. You're still a kid so we need to know where you are at all times, ok?"
He nodded his head "I promise."
"Good job, buddy. Your brother should be home soon. You want to come downstairs and wait for him or stay up here and settled for the week?" Sam asked.
"I'll come down once I get my stuff put away." He said. He got off the bed and went to his backpack as Jason and Sam walked out of the room. They headed downstairs and when they got to the bottom Sam asked, "So did everything go ok down here?"
Jason chuckled and said, "Not by a long shot." But before he could elaborate, his phone rang. "Hey, Diane. Did you get it?" he asked. As soon as Sam heard Diane's name, she knew thing were going to get ugly. She watched her husband smile and say "Thank you Diane. You really are the best. Two week. Got it" then he hung up.
"Diane?" She asked.
"Elizabeth made the play. I'm just making sure she doesn't win." He told her.
"Jason, what the hell is going on? Why did you need to call Diane?" Sam asked.
"I filed for full custody of Jake. We have temporary physical custody of him pending a hearing set it two weeks. Elizabeth threatened to take him away from us saying she didn't want him around people who would bad mouth her to him."
Sam narrowed her eyes "She thinks we make her look bad to Jake?"
"Apparently but it doesn't matter. I need to make sure Jake is kept away from Franco. And if he is going to sneak off to see him right under her nose, then I need to limit his access to her." he told her.
Sam bit her lip and said "Jake told me that the reason he snuck off was because he wanted to know why he and Franco had to be secret friends. He wanted to know why you weren't allowed to know that Franco was still living with them."
Jason turned to look at his wife and said, "He's been around him all this time?"
Sam nodded her head "According to Jake. But Jake is confused. I know you and Elizabeth agreed to have him see another therapist but if he is still around Franco, I don't think it will do much good."
Jason ran his hand through his hair and clenched them into fists "She has been lying this entire time. Putting Jake at risk with his therapy just so that she can have him in her bed at night. How can she be ok with that? How can she be ok with knowing that her son, who clearly has serious issues, be around a man that is just going to confuse him more?"
Sam walked over to him and put her hands around his waist. Jason wrapped his arms around her and held her close "I don't know, baby. But clearly being around Franco is doing more harm that we thought. Now we just need to make sure that a jury sees it too." She said to his chest.
Jason knew that too. And he knew just the way to do it but he didn't know what that would mean for Sam and Michael.
"It was so funny. Grandma looked like she was dancing all around the kitchen when she was making lunch." Danny told his parents and brother. They were all sitting at the dining room table eating dinner. Scout was secure in her bouncer between her mom and dad. Jake and Danny sat next to each other on the opposite side. "Grandma really can't cook. I don't know why she keeps trying. She had aunt Molly to do it." He said with a funny face making his parents laugh. "Yeah, buddy, most of the Davis women don't know how to cook." Jason said, looking pointy at Sam. Sam faked shock and said, "I'm a better cook then mom."
"Not by much." Jason muttered, making the boys laugh.
Sam glared at each one and said "Fine. Let's see if I ever make caramel cheesecake for you all again." She said.
All three boys stopped laughing and immediately and started apologizing, knowing that she made a great cheesecake.
Sam shook her head and laughed at them. As Danny started to jabber way about his day at his grandma's, Sam took notice at how Jake became quiet and shut down. After the meal was over, Sam asked Jake to help her clear the table as Jason took Danny and Scout into the living room to set up the movie they were going to watch.
They were loading the dishes into the dishwasher when Sam asked "Jake, is something wrong?" he looked up at her and shook his head "no."
Sam closed the dishwasher and took his hand and they went to sit at the kitchen table "Jake, come on, buddy. What's wrong?" she pressed.
He shrugged his shoulders "I just wish it was like this at my mom's."
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
"I wish we all had dinner together at my mom's house. It's fun here. We all tell storied and we laugh. We never do that at mom's" he told her.
"You and your brothers don't have dinner together?" she asked him.
"I haven't seen Cam or Aiden in a while. Mom says they needed to stay at Grams but when I asked her why she said it wasn't my business." He said in a small voice, looking down at the table.
Sam shook her head. She couldn't believe that Elizabeth would do this to her kids. "Do you remember the last time you saw them outside of school?" he shook his head, telling her that it had to be more than two weeks. "How about since tomorrow is Saturday, we give your Gram a call as see if we can go and visit her and the boys?" "Really?" he brought his head up in excitement. She smiled and said "Really. I'll give her a call now. Why don't you go get a comfortable spot on the couch for the movie? Tell your dad I'll be in in a sec." she watched him rush out of the kitchen and then pulled out her phone.
"Hi, Mrs. Hardy? This is Sam Morgan. I'm doing wonderful, how are you? Yeah, a little girl. We named her Emily. Thank you so much. Listen, Jake was just telling me that it has been a while since he has seen his brothers outside of school and I was wondering if we could come by tomorrow so they could see each other?" Sam listened to her for a second and her body lock with surprise "Mrs. Hardy, Jake hasn't had the flu. He's been just fine."
Silence met her on the other line before Mrs. Hardy said she much have been mistaken. Sam clenched her teeth and listened to her tell Sam how she was sure Elizabeth had told her the boys needed to stay with her while Jake was recovering from the flu so they wouldn't catch it. They made plans for them to come by with Jake the next day before they said goodbye. "Mommy! Come on, the movie is starting." She heard Danny shout. She took a deep breath and clamed herself before walking out to the living room to watch a movie with her family
"She told her grandmother Jake had the flu?" Jason asked Sam later that night. It was after the boys were in bed and asleep that Sam told Jason about what Jake had said. Sam sat propped up in their bed with Scout at her breast, feeding her daughter. "Yeah, she said they had been there for almost three weeks. Elizabeth kept telling her that Jake wasn't improving much and that his doctor's appointments kept getting canceled."
Jason paced in front of the bed. "How can a mother just pass her kids off for three weeks to another person and not care?" he wondered aloud.
"I have no clue but with every passing minute it becomes increasingly clear Jake shouldn't be there. There must be a reason she wants just Jake around and it can't be a good one. Not while Franco is involved." Sam said. Jason walked over to his wife's side of the bed and sat next to her "I need to run something by you." he said.
"Ok. What?" Sam asked.
"Do you remember when Franco first came back? You said he had DVD's of proof that he didn't do the things he let everyone believe." Jason said, looking closely to her reaction.
"Yeah," she said.
"They may be proof that he didn't hurt you or Michael they way he made it look but it is proof that he drugged you and touched you and proof he put Michael is Carter's sights." He said.
"And you think that it would be proof enough for a jury that he shouldn't be around Jake? He didn't do those things to Jake, how would it help?" she asked. "I think it would prove that he is unfit to have around any child, let alone one who is clearly a little unbalanced. I know it is a lot to ask because of what he did…" "No, Jason if you think that it will help with getting Jake away from all that then I am more than willing to show that to the jury. But how are we going to get the DVD? I have no idea what happened to it." She said.
"Spinelli has them. After you knocked Franco out he took them as insurance to make sure Franco couldn't destroy them. They may be as bad as people think but what he did to you and Michael isn't ok." he said.
Jason and Sam both looked down at their sleeping daughter and Jason softly caressed her cheek "I'm not going to let Franco hurt my family anymore. And I sure as hell am not going to let him try and use my son either."
Let me know what you think! XOXO
