a/n: I had this idea after seeing an episode of MASH. Radar was on his way home to Iowa and met Hunicut's family. His daughter called Radar daddy and when the doc heard about it, he got drunk and then eventually cried with Hawkeye about how his little girl was growing up without him. After the first chapter, it is going to be about Jason, and his relationship with Elizabeth. About gaining her trust and love. I hope you like it.

"My baby called another man daddy."

Chapter 1

Fleeing, he tossed his cell phone and desperately tried to figure out where to hide. He knew that this day was coming, it had been since the moment he had agreed to work for Sonny. It's why those in his life were throwaways, people that would mourn him, but in the end would move on.

As he slipped into the last place he would expect any of them to look, Jason kept a tight grip on his emotions as he slide between the tight walls and into the boarded up room. Squinting as he looked up at the window, wondering what time it was, he felt his heart slow down and then glancing at the wound, just shook his head. There was no one, no one left that the the people who shot him wouldn't think to go to.

This was his last moments of either freedom or life. Acknowledging that, Jason slid the down slanted wall as he gave thanks that those he cared about were safe. Sonny had fled, taking Michael with him to the Island, Carly had been furious when Jax had forced her to come with him and the children to Australia but she would be safe there. Part of Jason didn't care, not after what she had did, but Jocelyn and Morgan needed a mother.

Spinelli... Jason winced as he thought about the geek who he had made the mistake of bringing into this world. It was his fault that Sam and he had died. When Alexis had confronted him days after her death, he had felt sick with guilt, with pain at what he had caused. Then she had sworn he would pay... Jason had no idea, none at what was to come next. He had almost looked forward to what she would do to him.

Settling into a corner, the middle aged man couldn't help it, his mind went back to the day he had felt his whole life unravel... the day five years before that Lucky Spencer had gotten drunk and told the truth. He had found out that the child Elizabeth had been carrying was his. When the little boy had died at the hands of Franco, Lucky had made public that he had been protecting Jason Morgan's unwanted kid.

He could still recall the look of horror on Elizabeth's face. She was mourning the loss of her child, when she had been confronted with the sudden danger to her two remaining sons. First someone had tried to kill her, almost taking out Cam, then had come the revelation that the curly haired little boy had been the true target.

Her sweet little boy would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, because of the danger from Jason's world. When the word had come that they had used Cam was a warning to him that his son would be next, that if Sam didn't back off from whatever it was she was investigating Jake would be dead...

Elizabeth had found out that Sam and Spinelli had been sent a photo of Cam weeks before, with a bull's eye on his face. She had come to the penthouse and stormed up to his room to confront him with the knowledge. He could still see the look of disgust in her eyes when she saw Sam dressed up in one of her costumes with Jason's jeans around his knees.

The look had made it clear that she had no use for him or any respect left but her words with Sam, had caused Jason to go on a week long bender when he had disappeared. When he had returned, it had been to find out that Carly had DARED to go behind his back and tried to get custody of Jake for him... two days later. A day before he returned, Elizabeth and her children had died when the car she was driving exploded.

He had stayed away from the funeral knowing he had no right to be there... that it was his life, those he had surrounded himself with as a way to kill the pain that had been ultimately responsible for the death of those who had died, never knowing how important, how vital their being alive was to him.

He had gone to war, killing the Lopez brothers, while torturing them, he had learned the truth and Jason had had nothing left, no hope for his life. After taking out those responsible, Jason had gone home and sat there, looking at himself as he cleaned his gun... So he had gone away, needing time to mourn, time those around him refused to give him. They all wanted him to be angry with Elizabeth for Jake, none wanted to face their part in his family's death.

He had traveled, to Italy, where he had ridden a motorcycle to every single small town, every single big city, tried to visit every single street, some part of him, wanting to believe they were still alive and hiding, waiting for him. That had all ended the day he had picked up a paper and read the article about how a small church in New York State had had their graves desecrated and how it was a small family plot that had been burnt so badly the police had had to use DNA to identify the remains.

Reading the names, had destroyed what little humanity Jason had had left... then he had gotten on a jet, returning to the town where he was born and set about making things right. First he had protected those who he had left... then he had destroyed the mob.

While he had been gone, his grandfather had died, his mother was rattling around alone in that big house bitter with the knowledge she had had two grandsons she would never see grow up. She had done some damage... the Spencers had fled her rage. Luke had found himself not only cut off from Tracy's money but running from the law while Lulu had ended up back in a padded cell.

Lucky whose big mouth had endanger Jake... well he had died in prison. Not even Bobbie or Carly had fared well, which was why Jax had forced her to leave. Bobbie, Monica's old friend had made the mistake of trying to blame Elizabeth, only to lose her job, her diner, her home and then her past made public in a very brutal way when she had been chased down by the IRS for unreported income.

Jason felt his legs start to give out and slid onto the dust covered sofa in the corner as he realized the amount of blood loss his wound had generated. Seeing the book he had uncovered, Jason picked it up, needing to avoid going to memories that served no purpose but to cause him even more pain...

Opening the book, Jason looked up and almost said he got the message, that this was just the beginning of his hell as he looked at youthful pictures of Elizabeth and Emily, dressed for what was most likely the Nurse's ball. Touching the face of the woman he had loved more than life then abandoned out of the pathetic belief that she would have a better life without him, that she and their children would be safer, Jason let the tears flow down his face as he his went to one of his lost dreams.

Elizabeth walking towards him, a soft smile on her face as she met him at the altar. Closing his eyes, he heard her saying I do, then his telling her the same when the dream changed... instead there was an interruption as Sam walked up in one of her revealing hookers are us outfits and filled Elizabeth in on all the dirty and disgusting things Jason and her had done.

He looked up as Elizabeth's eyes changed then she said "I knew it, I knew that I was never good enough, never going to be first..."

He could hear himself trying to protest, trying to tell her the truth but he saw the looks on the guests faces, the way they looked between the ethereal and beautiful Elizabeth to the trashy hooker standing confidently smiling as Sam told everyone. "Even after I almost got his kid killed, he came back. He needs this, he needs me." she said pushing up her breasts for them to see. "Why else would he have returned to me, when he would have killed anyone else that did what I did."

Jason was begging Elizabeth for forgiveness, when she suddenly was standing in front of him dressed like she had the day he had left her walk away and said "I am never going to be your first, your last or your always... you will never love me..."

Slamming the book closed, Jason pulled out the necklace he wore around his throat, opening the locket there and then fingering the ring he had bought for her, he said hoarsely... I wanted better for you, I wanted so much more for you. But I forgot that I know how you react to nothing, how you hurt... that was what you were doing, and I caused it, twice... I am so sorry, so sorry, I let you down, that I let our boys down...

Jason could see the moments in Jake's life he should have been there, the day he came home from the hospital. The first time he had a bath, the first time he crawled, walked. His heart twisted at how he had missed the first time he had said daddy. He had come to accept that he would never get that right to be there, that he had thrown it away in a moment of fear then stomped on it to get laid.

He had known the day he had seen Cam smiling as they helped him into his wheelchair that he had lost something precious... that there was one secret, one last secret that only he was alive to know now... as he wiped the tears, Jason looked at the locket, tortured himself with what ifs, with the need to finally let go of his pain, his dreams and most importantly his lost chances...

He was going to die, there was no doubt about that... whether from a police bullet for the death of Dante Falconari or from the bullet of Max, the man Sonny had sent after him... both of them were in him, both of them were slowly causing his organs to shut down...

But they were just finishing the job, Jason Morgan had died a long time ago, the same day he had he had woken up in bed with the woman who had been his dream, his nightmare and his beloved. The day she had taken the second walk out of his penthouse, leaving him alone with a heart full of love for her and no place to put it but with the flotsam and jetsam that were there.

As his heart slowed, Jason felt one regret, that he was not going to be with his family, that he was not going to see them after death. His last thought on the mortal realm was to dream a wish, to send a thought to his family so that they would know he had loved them...

Waking up, the man looked around and saw Elizabeth along with Jake and Cameron as they played in the sand. Hearing them shouting hi daddy and calling for him to join them, he looked around expecting to see Lucky or even Nik... instead he smiled with joy as he realized they were calling for him.

Getting ready to walk over, he felt nothing under his feet then looked down and saw the chasm keeping them away... "Oh my poor, poor boy..."

Turning, Jason saw his grandmother, looking confused, he asked "What is going on?"

"You are dying... this is your dream... but you can't have it... you threw it away... I am so sorry, but I promise... we will protect them, care for them... she didn't go to Italy... we tried to send you a message, but you never seemed to get it... just like when we tried to warn you about the path you were on..." said Lila as she shook her head in sorrow.

Jason looked at his family again and saw the blond little girl... "Who is that?"

"The daughter, the daughter you should have had with Elizabeth... the family you should have had. I am sorry, my son... your time... your time is up." said Alan as he faded away. "He, he is your last chance."

Jason came to from his nightmare wearing a mask... he could see people standing around, desperately looking he saw all the ones he didn't want to have there but not the one he wanted... gasping for breath, he saw the look on Drake's face and tried to ask him to removed the trachea.

When Drake removed the tube, Jason started to ask where Elizabeth was then he noticed something, that things were off... looking around in a panic, he recalled the last words his father had said and felt a knowledge fill him brain. "What happened to me? Who are you people. Corinthos, what the hell are you doing in my hospital room?"

The four people standing there, looked crushed, while Drake seemed reflective... "What is wrong with me? Where are my parents?"

"You were shot, in the head."

"Who are you and where is Dr. Jones?" he asked pretending to be suspicious.

Patrick saw the patient was getting highly agitated and went into the hallway. "Nurse Webber, could you please bring me a sedative?"

Jason heard Sam squawking that Jason had just woke up and didn't need to be put to sleep... and then that she didn't want Elizabeth any where near her fiancee. His eyes almost narrowed when he heard what she was saying. They hadn't been engaged at this point... so why was she lying...

"You?" he asked with a caustic laugh. "You expect me to believe I am engaged to a whatever you are? What is it one of Corinthos strippers or a hooker? Where is Keisha?"

Sonny started to bundle the two women out of there, Carly who was in shock and Sam who was starting to create a scene. Outside, he looked at Drake and said "What is going on?"

Ignoring them he told Elizabeth to give the patient the full dose and to avoid using his last name.

When she nodded and entered the room, Patrick turned to the three annoying people then narrowed his eyes when he saw Spinelli wasn't there and went back in. Grabbing the geek, he took him outside and said "Not a word until I figure this out."

Seeing Robin approaching, he said "We have a problem with Morgan, he is looking for Tony Jones and doesn't know anyone but Sonny who he hates."

Robin felt her eyes widen then saw the desperation on Carly's and Sam's faces and said "We have to find Monica and Alan."

"NO!" shouted Carly. She wasn't sure why, but she got the distinct felling that that was a bad idea. Sam wasn't so sure. She was thinking that this was perfect. This Jason had no memory of sleeping with Elizabeth Webber, and would come around to her side, especially if she was pregnant like she thought.

Alan came down the hall at the commotion, just as the door opened to the hospital room. "Patrick, Jason is insisting on talking to Dr. Quartermaine."

"Which one of us?" asked the chief of staff while Sam slipped in front of the door.

"Jason' isn't in his right mind and I have the right to refuse to let you see him." she said quickly.

"Miss McCall, move out of my way or you will find out where exactly my son gets his ruthlessness from." said the man quietly. He could see from Sonny and Carly's faces that he had to get in there, there was something going on, something urgent. "Do I need to call security?"

"Do that." she said confidently. "After all I am on the side of the right."

"But by the time that is established, you will have been hauled to jail and your mother will have to bail you out and frankly with your stunt last month..." Alan said with a smirk. "Now move."

Sam looked to Sonny and Carly and saw they were frozen in horror as Alan entered the room. "Jason, you wanted to see me?"

"Dad?" They heard... as the door was closed. Carly sat down, exhausted while Sonny made some frantic calls but already knew it was too late. Sam just looked around like a lost child while the medical professionals gathered at the hub.

"Elizabeth, I want you as the primary care nurse... he seems to trust you." said Patrick thinking on how Morgan's pulse had calmed down when he saw the brunette then seeing Sam trying to protest snapped "The patient is awake... you are no longer in charge Ms. McCall."

Sam went to call Alexis only for Viola to tell her that her mother was unavailable right then. Turning to Spinelli who seemed to be wandering around; she said "Do something, fix this with some of your computer magic."

"I have no idea what to do Goddess..." he said sorrowfully.

In the hospital room, Jason wrote a note to his father who just about had a heart attack. Then taking the piece of paper, Alan wrote his answer then read the next note that Jason wrote and gave a quiet chuckle and said "Your sister is going to be a problem."

With narrowed eyes, he said "No, she won't. Can you get Mac Scorpio down here."

Jason pretended to be asleep while he listened through the cracked door as his father ordered a security guard to keep everyone but Patrick, Robin, Elizabeth and Epiphany out of his room along with any member of the Quartermaine family that Jason invited. That ALL OTHERS, including Sonny, Carly, Sam and the weird kid were to be kept away...

Hurrying off, Alan made his calls then dealt with what Jason wanted.

Mac showed up in shock at what Alan had told him. "So, he only remembers the shoot out, nothing else?"

"Of Jason Morgan's life." lied Alan as he started to hide his grin then realized that most people would expect him to be happy and let it out. "I have to track down my family... but he wants you. Or rather Sean Donnelly."

"Why does he want the head of the WSB?" asked Mac confused.

Alan let the grin get wider and he chuckled as he told the man. "Because he was the police commissioner at the time of the accident and you were a PI."

Mac entered the room and asked the man in the bed what was going on, then seeing Jason's confusion realized the man wasn't faking it and this might be a good way to get Sonny Corinthos out of town. Instead by the time he left, he was furious with one of his own officers as he called the Mayor who canceled the interview with the reporter.

Lucky Spencer found himself ordered to his bosses office, expecting a promotion, he was shocked to be sacked then ordered to a drug rehabilitation center. "Sir, I don't understand.

"I have a very reliable witness who saw two blond men on the roof with a man with a tattoo holding a beautiful brunette. He was very clear that it wasn't my supposedly heroic cop who saved this town and that woman from the menace. You were given a second chance, no more. Oh, and Spencer, he has seen you once or twice out. I am talking to Elizabeth. If it is a threat of going to jail or telling the truth, who do you think she will back up."

In the meantime, Epiphany had come on shift and after a quick visit with Alan and Monica went to the six floor hub where she saw the circus was in town as the freaks that surrounded Morgan were gearing up to cause trouble. Thankfully, the Quartermaines had been prepared for this and Jason was slipped out through a second room to another floor by Patrick and Elizabeth.

As she entered and left the room, she made a point of keeping them there by returning Morgan's now fake chart to it's slot then turning. She acted like she didn't see Carly grabbing it and then becoming more and more morose.

Elizabeth meanwhile had been surprised to be ordered to the State Police Barracks. Seeing Mac Scorpio arriving, she asked "Sir, is something wrong with Lucky?"

"Why don't we look at the footage..." he said then showed her what it had taken all afternoon to gather. When she saw it onscreen, she at first gave thanks that Jason didn't know he was the father of her child. She had been terrified before but this just reenforced her fears, but then she saw the close up of Lucky's face and then looked at Mac who said "This is how this is going to go. You are going to tell me the whole truth or you will be giving birth in a jail cell. So what will it be, the baby you are carrying or the grown man who should be standing on his own two feet?"

Shaking in fear, Elizabeth told the truth, Mac had gotten Lainey to be there to help her friend as she recited in a monotone everything including how she was now divorced from Lucky. "Mac, why are you doing this to me..."

"Elizabeth, I know it doesn't look it right now, but I am doing this for you..." he said gently. "Lucky Spencer is working towards physically abusing you, he already has emotionally and mentally. You need to start putting yourself and and your children first. I don't care if Spencer is the father... if you need help and those around you won't support you emotionally, you come to me, do you hear me?" he asked sternly.

Seeing her start to protest, he said "I have seen you grow up young lady, I know that your grandmother is a lovely woman, but she has a blind spot for Spencer, one that I don't have. Same with that friend of yours, Emily thinks of Lucky first not you, not your kids..."

"But Mac..."

"Don't tell me you love him, there is a difference between obligation and love... I suggest you learn it." he said a bit harshly. "Now, here is how this is going to go... I am driving you home, then we are talking to Audrey together..."

Mac thought about what Alan had told him he had observed regarding Spencer and had been shocked at the blind disregard people in this town had for Lucky's behavior. Tomorrow morning, he was shipping Maxie to Texas... he couldn't wait to have that talk with Felicia. Things were going to start changing here and he was not going to be passive any longer.

Sonny didn't have Jason to back him up, so the mob in Port Charles would start to crumble, hopefully he could get Ric out as DA, especially now that the Mayor wanted his head on a platter for the glowing report he had offered up regarding Spencer.

As he helped Elizabeth into the front seat of his vehicle, Mac gave a quick nod to Lainey who had been shocked at what she had heard. The woman had made plans to rally Robin and Kelly because she had told Mac that she thought Emily was not going to be happy about Elizabeth's sending Lucky to jail.

Pulling up to the Hardy house, Mac saw the State Trooper car behind him with lights on as he saw Lucky's personal vehicle in the drive. Entering the house with Elizabeth, when he heard Audrey's first words were "Oh, Elizabeth what have you done now..." as she handed Cam to Lucky.

"Mrs. Hardy, please have Elizabeth's things packed. She will be moving out tonight. Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Jr. you are under arrest, please have the good sense to not make us do this in front of Cameron." stated Mac who then took the little boy. Smiling down at him, he felt his smile fade away when the troopers had to arrest a resisting Lucky inside the house.

Audrey was haranguing Elizabeth who looked wan and ready to drop when Mac saw a car pull up. Seeing who got out of it, he handed Cam to them then went inside. "Mrs. Hardy, Audrey... I have known you for years and frankly until this moment I had no idea that you were like this... as I was saying... Elizabeth-"

"I got it, Uncle Mac." said Robin as she drew her friend up the stairs, then putting her index finger to her lips as they packed, they listened as the police commissioner read the riot act and threatened to arrest for aiding and abetting a criminal to one of the oldest of Port Charles society.

Fifteen minutes later, Elizabeth found herself at the police commissioner's house while Maxie Jones stood there open mouthed in shock. As the blond burst into tears, Mac asked Cam if he liked soup...

Around town, people were in shock. The Spencers were livid at Lucky's arrest and that Alan had kicked them out of Monica's mansion... Sonny was sitting in his living room praying his best friend regained his memory while Carly schemed. Audrey was in shock as she wandered her house, her ears ringing from Mac's lecture... but still not getting why he would attack poor Lucky and believe him over a brain scrambled thug and Elizabeth who was just confused.

Sam however, Sam was sitting outside an empty hospital room, wondering what was taking Spinelli so long. Unfortunately... Spinelli had been caught buying a joint …. too bad it wasn't by the police but by two men who wanted revenge...

TBC

a/n: I needed to move the Manny death scene, sorry folks. Jason didn't beat up Ric; but the Sam escaping jail scene did happen and Jason had to go on the run to rescue her already but in late September. He made it clear they weren't getting back together but she is refusing to accept it. Instead the climatic scene between Manny and Jason happened in the end of November and he has been in a coma ever since. No one suspects Liz's baby is his because he never told anyone that it was possible. Sam suspects but has no proof. Liz ran the tests using a comatose Jason's blood.

Chapter 2

Elizabeth woke up and was confused as to where she was. There was a field hockey stick in the corner and school books on the desk. Hearing a knock on the door, she sat up and said come in. Seeing Georgie Jones, it all came back...

Lucky under arrest, her leaving her grams and now staying overnight at the Police Commissioner's house. Thinking about who the father of the baby she was carrying was, she wanted to laugh until she cried. Jason was her baby's father and here she was staying with the person most likely to toss him into jail.

"Elizabeth, are you okay?" asked the teenager. Seeing her nodding yes, Georgie continued. "My dad took Maxie to the airport. Mom and he talked late into the night, if she agrees to finish school there they won't press charges against her for stealing the pills. Dr. Quartermaine came up with the idea..."

Seeing how uneasy the younger girl was, Elizabeth started to stand but was told by an entering Patrick to stay in bed. "What are you doing here?"

"Robin went to the hospital, Epiphany called, you are to stay away today. The Spencers are all in a rage. We don't think any of them are stupid enough to show up here and attack you at Mac's place." he said just as the doorbell rang. Georgie opened her curtains looked out and said "I should have known, Patrick, I should have taken that bet. Lulu Spencer is downstairs banging even as we speak."

"I will get rid of her." said Patrick only for Georgie to get a feral grin then say "Oh no, please don't deny my this opportunity."

"I should talk to her, I can't hide forever, but thank you Georgie for the offer."

Seeing the younger girl pout, she said "On, second thought, this is your house, you do have the right to peace and quiet here." Elizabeth had to give a soft giggle at the picture of glee on her face.

Georgie smirked then rushed down to answer the door. Opening it just enough to slip outside, she said "Lulu, hello. Have you stopped over to FINALLY be woman enough to apologize to me for sleeping with my husband? I have to tell Maxie, she bet me that you were too much of a skank to realize that you were just as guilty of what you were accusing her of. I hate to be a bitch, but I don't forgive you, never will. Now why don't we just call it a day and I will see you at work later. Okay?"

The blond looked taken back then confused before she said "I am here to see that bitch Elizabeth, Mrs. Hardy said she left the house with your dad. I just knew she was out for the main chance, she threw Lucky over for his boss, how could she?"

At that point, Georgie felt the urge to laugh then asked "Wait, you think... OMG, YOU REALLY? WAIT, NO, THIS IS, THIS IS TOO FUNNY..."

Holding her sides, she started to bellow with laughter and as Lulu started to scowl, Georgie pretended to be thoughtful before saying. "You know, that isn't a bad idea. I always wanted a little brother or sister and dad has been pretty lonely... and let's face it, Elizabeth is beautiful classy and just the sweetest... it might be a little strange having a stepmother only a few years older than me, but thanks, I have to give that one some thought."

Seeing Lulu standing there, shocked. Georgie said "Bye now." Waving her hands as if to say shoo, Georgie went back inside and fell down laughing.

"Now that wasn't very nice." said Patrick from where he had come down to back her up at Elizabeth's request. Georgie could see his lips twitching as they suddenly heard from a speakerphone Robin laughing. "OH, Robin, did you hear that?"

"Georgie, if you were here right now, I would kiss you." said the doctor as she hung up the phone then went to check on her patient. Seeing Jason's distrust, she said "Relax, I really am a doctor."

"Sorry, but..." he left the statement open as Robin smirked. "What was so funny, I heard you laughing."

"Nothing that wouldn't take a week to explain but then do you remember Lucky Spencer..." she asked a bit worried.

"Yeah, punk kid who hung out with my sister. I had doubts about him but kept quiet, why?" he asked then saw her shock before admitting or rather lying skillfully. "I uh, I am finding that things I thought then, things I never spoke up about, have a habit of coming to the forefront..."

"Okay, well Lucky became a cop and is pretty much as big of a dipshit as he possibly could be." she said then added. "His ex-wife is the nurse you were asking Epiphany about."

"Beautiful, sad looking and just well beautiful." he finished lamely. Robin was reminded of JQ for the first time since this began as she nodded yes.

"Well anyhow, he was arrested yesterday for a bunch of crap he did, Mrs. Hardy, well she is Elizabeth's grandmother is one of his biggest supporters. Well Uncle Mac wants her safe so since Maxie was leaving for Texas, well he decided that Elizabeth for her own safety needs to stay with us."

Jason felt his eyes widen as he got that the mother of his child was living with the police commissioner. Grinning inwardly at the irony, he asked "I uh, my father was going to ask her to be my keeper, when I go home since so many things have changed, but I guess that won't work. So, you said she was living at your uncles, so I guess that means she doesn't have kids..."

"Er, actually she does. A darling little boy named Cameron and she is about five months pregnant."

Jason hated playing an old friend but he needed to have heard this information as Jason Quartermaine.

"Wow, so she left her husband at Christmas time, that must be hard on her." he said then asked "I er, didn't want to ask, but I saw you talking to the doctor yesterday, what er, what happened with er, I.."

"Stone died, from AIDS." she said softly then with a smile added. "When you were Morgan, you helped me, we even dated for a while. IT was not a good idea. Looking back we were clinging to one another..." Hopefully he would never learn how stupid she had acted.

"What about Brenda, she was dating Sonny but I saw the blond yesterday and I got the feeling she was with him now..."

Seeing her frown, Jason realized that Robin hid her feelings a lot with him before in regards to Carly "Okay, that isn't a happy expression."

"No, well Brenda is in Rome, and Carly, the blond was married to Sonny, she ping pongs between him and whatever new man she meets all the while keeping her claws in Jason Morgan because he made a promise to protect AJ's son for her."

Seeing her wince, he said "Alan and Monica filled me in last night. They and well I was expecting to see Emily but I guess I am estranged from her too."

"No, actually you two have always talked." said Robin without adding that Mac had told her that Emily had spent the night trying to track down Elizabeth. Even go so far as to create a disturbance at her studio.

Sam and Spinelli had finally figured out Jason wasn't in the room they had thought and soon had searched the hospital for him. Spinelli had set up a sound only bug and they were eavesdropping from the supply closet when Carly joined them bitching that they were having to hide.

Jason hated to use his friends like this, but at the same time he had every intention of being there for his family, his sons and Elizabeth who was about to be besieged as soon as he got rid of some dead weight. When the tall young black woman came to visit him, he saw the signal that Alan had given Keisha and they soon talked, he asked what had happened, her telling him the truth that she was very happily married.

"I am so glad." he said hugging her then explaining what everyone believed. "I guess I was shot or something. I woke up missing the last ten years of my life."

"When we talked, you were on your way out of town. You told me chapter and verse about this beautiful sassy brunette you were planning a future with." she said with a smile. "It was the first time since you became Morgan, I saw that you had that many teeth."

"When was this?" he asked more for the bug in the room since he had complete recall of the conversations he had had with her about Elizabeth. Sam was preening while Carly rolled her eyes. Sassy, not likely... then her eyes narrowed when Elizabeth fluttered through her brain.

"The last time we talked was a few months ago." she said and Carly relaxed, happy it was Sam. "You said you had to get rid of some trouble then were making plans to get away with her."

"I don't recall." he said a bit doubtfully since he wasn't supposed to remember and this way the users in his life would be in doubt as to who it was. "There was this hooker here yesterday, she had dark hair, I hope it wasn't her. Lord knows where she has been. All I knew was that I had a flash of her with Sonny and god, I really hope I haven't sunk so low as to take his sloppy seconds."

The two women looked at one another thinking he was talking about the other one while Keisha said she had to leave. "I wish you luck."

Saying thank you and kissing her cheek, he laid back then waited for the next part in this charade to happen. There was a steady stream of visitors, his mother and father, his grandfather (who he found it hard to fool), even Tracy who introduced Dillon to him.

He had seen how uneasy the kid was and asked him what was going on, listening to the blonds stammered tale of whoa, Jason thought about the first time he had heard this and how in all the hoopla he had forgotten the poor Jones girl who had been hurt.

Looking at his cousin, Jason saw that Dillon was horny for Lulu and not thinking about the damage he was doing. Trying to advise him, he winced at Dillon took it as Jason telling him to go for it with Lulu.

Hearing footsteps, he saw the head nurse and couldn't resist asking. "Did Dr. Drake forbid me from reading? Or can I have a medical journal or something?"

"I will grab a few books from the cart." she told him then with a sidelong look made the suggestion "How about something from Mario Puzzo or maybe the Godfather?"

In spite of everything, Jason couldn't help laughing at that, "Er, how about something that doesn't describe my life for the last few years. And there was a girl who looked like a stripper claiming to be my fiancee, I need to talk to her if you see her."

"I am sure I can find her." said Piph dryly.

"Well if you do, fifteen minutes later, can you send someone in to rescue me. I need to talk to her and she gave me a headache just looking at her yesterday." he said. It wasn't five minutes later, that Sam showed up, he could see she had pulled her shirt as tight as possible, and hiked her skirt. What sort of idiot wore a mini skirt in December?

"Jason, I knew you would come back to me." she said with tears in her eyes then added "The Quartermaines are keeping your true family away."

"What is your name again?" he asked and saw that in spite of trying to hide it, she was pissed at the question.

"Sam. Samantha McCall, we have lived together for almost three years and are engaged to be married." she said trying to sit on the side of the bed. When he moved his leg to keep her from fitting, she decided to ratchet it up a bit. "We had a daughter together who died."

Seeing the tears, Jason thought back and was a bit shocked to realize how many time she brought up her lost daughter to bind him to her. "I am sorry, for your sake. But I have no memories of this and I will not be marrying you, ever."

"Jason, we have been here before. This isn't the first time since we were together that you lost your memory." she said brightly. "I am going to hold on to that hope."

"Don't." he said coldly. "I have no intention of getting involved with you. I see you and feel the need to shower with disinfectant. That alone tells me something."

"But Jasssssinnnnnn!" she wailed with tears in her eyes. "You promised to have a baby with me, if I can't have you, at least let me have your baby."

"No." said Jason. "A Quartermaine has the common sense to know that you will use that kid to bleed me dry. There is no way on gods green earth I would ever do anything that stupid."

Sam was putting out her best stuff and nothing seemed to be working. "But Jason, after all that we have been through, how can you toss me away like I am nothing. You, you were my life."

"Don't you have any family?" he asked wondering if she would lie.

"You, you are my family, you are my life, my everything. We are meant to be together always." she said looking at him while inwardly getting ready to drain all his accounts dry if he didn't change his mind.

"Samantha, look. Thank you on behalf of Morgan, but it is time you moved on. I understand you are staying in my penthouse, at least that is what Monica told me. So I will give you to the end of the year to find a new place, Okay?" he asked really wishing he could get rid of her now. "I will arrange for my accountant to settle some money on you, but we are done."

In the supply closet, Spinelli wept for the goddess while Carly inwardly crowed. She had suffered through that bitch because Jason was happy but now that she was out on her ass, she was going to make sure Sam got nothing, she could always run to her mommy or step-daddy for money.

Sam stomped out of the room, passing a smiling Carly and snapping "What? You think that you are going to stay in his life, I really doubt it. So don't you dare look down your nose on me."

Carly sashayed past her and into Jason's room plotting out in her head what she was going to have to say. Grimacing a bit as she realized that until Jason got his real memories back, she was going to have to play nice with the Q's and that more than likely meant making Michael spend time there.

Jason didn't hide his groan. "Who are you?"

Smiling brightly she said "I am Carly Corinthos, your best friend and the mother of your nephew. I know you don't remember but you and I raised Michael for the first year of his life."

Jason listened in awe at how the blond had totally turned the story around to fit this new version of Jason and took an assessing look at the blond. "First, you said Corinthos, I have heard that I was for some god only knows why friendly with that man."

Carly flinched even as she started to write Sonny out of her life. If the choice was Jason or Sonny, Jason would win every time. Who knows, maybe she should reconsider marrying Jax, maybe just maybe she could win Jason's heart again. "I know, it wasn't the best choice, but I did the best I could."

Jason blanked his face then when she tried to sit down in the exact same spot Sam had, Jason got the chills at the expression on her face. A bit freaked to realize he had either missed this or had deliberately ignored it in his past life he said "Look, I know that Michael is my nephew. I only hope you have the good sense to let my parents into his life, but I, myself... I have no memories of him..."

"I know you don't remember but Jason you promised to always be there for him." she said as the tears started to flow as she began to fear what would come next. Pulling out her purse, she grabbed her photos and started to show him the pictures. "See, this is you and Michael on his birthday, you promised again to take him to Africa."

Jason had done no such thing, and as she continued on, his heart began to sink as he realized getting rid of Carly was going to be tougher than he had thought. Having an idea, he pretended to fall asleep as her monologue continued.

When Carly realized he was being silent even for Jason, she saw he was asleep and silently fumed. "Visiting hours are done, Ms. Corinthos. The patient needs his sleep." announce Epiphany who had to all but drag the blond away.

At the Scorpio house, Elizabeth saw that Cam was now awake and sat there playing with her little boy as she figured out with Patrick and Georgie what to do next. "You should just stay here, spit in the eye of everyone. Seriously, Elizabeth. Just image it, the Spencers all riled up because they think you are having an affair with my dad and they can't say a word out of fear of going to jail."

Mac had entered at the beginning of Georgie's answer and couldn't help chuckling. "Great, now I am robbing the cradle."

When the three of them turned and then Cam who was in her lap laughed, Mac said "You should see your faces."

When Georgie started to explain, he held up his hand and said "I already had a visit from Luke, with Lulu's rants the topic. Elizabeth, you and I need to talk. Georgie, don't you have a job to do and Dr. Drake just because you are sleeping with my niece and let me just say I am not happy about that, doesn't mean you need to be here."

"Sir, Robin-" he started to protest.

Mac smiled and said "I am well aware that my niece called you at three in the morning and ordered you here. Try wearing the pants in that relationship at least once in a while, Drake."

Elizabeth stared, shocked at this side of the man she tended to think of as not having a sense of humor. When they all had cleared out, Mac said "Elizabeth, I am not trying to replace your father, but right now we need to have a father/daughter talk."

Lifting Cam he said "I had this set up for him, it used to belong to Georgie. Maybe we should have purchased a baby jail for Maxie, then she might not be so wild."

Settling the little boy in the large square area with the toys, Mac grabbed a cup of coffee then sat down across from Elizabeth. "Lucky was arraigned today. His bail was set at almost a million dollars and he won't be getting out since no one has that sort of money around him."

"Nik-" she started to say.

"Mr. Cassadine is more worried about his aunt then his brother and got my message." said Mac not telling her that Alexis had been caught by two of his officers on behalf of Ric the night before smoking pot with Spinelli. The police commissioner was almost certain that Ric and Lorenzo Alcazar had set the woman up but he only had the words of two drug dealers.

The geek hadn't been arrested either, since they had only had less than the legal limit on them. Instead Mac had warned him off of Jason Quartermaine for all the good it did.

"Elizabeth, I hate to ask but Nik said something and I really need the truth. It won't change you staying here but first... did you hear Morgan-er Quartermaine's diagnosis. Seeing her nod no, he said "He took a blow to the head while shot, he has no memory of Jason Morgan, other than a few random things. Patrick said it is like a switch was thrown and the Morgan memories are gone and the Quartermaine ones are now at the forefront."

He saw her shock then dismay and finally the pain. "I thought so, I can still recall how frantic he was to find you when you were missing all those years ago. I just don't get it, why if you are still in love with him are you with Spencer?"

Elizabeth sat there, miserable. Mac let her off the hook and answered his own question. "Because everyone told you that Spencer was the right choice, the safer choice. Love, my dear, love shouldn't be safe."

Her head came up, she had once told Jason the exact same thing. Seeing he had her attention he asked "Jason is the father of your child, isn't he?"

Nodding in pain, she suddenly felt a load lift off of her shoulders and she burst into tears. Mac was holding her, letting her cry it off when he heard the front door open and Bobbie storm in. With a quiet chuckle at the shock on her face... he didn't say a word.

"Mac, I need to talk to you." she insisted glaring at Elizabeth for a minute then saying "Look, I am not judging, really I am not. But the age difference, it won't work."

Elizabeth's emotions were on edge and this just set her off again while Mac glared at Bobbie who looked upset then shaking her head, came over and patted Elizabeth awkwardly on the shoulders. "Look, I am sorry, I shouldn't be judging the two of you. I only wish that you had been truthful to Lucky about the reason you left him. Now we are going to have to pick up the pieces. Mac, when you get a moment, I need a word in your official capacity."

Elizabeth stood a bit shakily and said "I will take Cam upstairs."

"Why don't you go shower, I can handle one two and half year old." said Mac as Cam gave him what could only be called a diabolical grin. Bobbie sat down then looked over at the little boy and said "You know, he has been all Elizabeth but as he gets older, I just don't see Zander in him."

"Bobbie, why are you here?" he asked not real happy with what people were thinking.

"Nik told me about Alexis and I am here to put a stop to this. Here." she said thrusting a piece of paper at him. "It's from a doctor where it is legal."

"Bobbie..." he said warning her off. "Why are you involved anyhow?"

"I saw my best friend in the world go through breast cancer, when I found out about Alexis, I made a few calls. She didn't want to use it, but now with what Ric is trying..."

"I will see what I can do with it." he replied. "But it won't help Lucky..."

"Good." Seeing his shock, she replied. "For now. The news has been running the footage, I can't believe he lied, said he was the one who saved us from Manny. I don't want my nephew to turn out like his father and if he isn't reined it, he will."

At the door, she turned and looked at him then sliding her eyes away said "Mac, I just don't want you to get hurt, you have always been a good friend to me. Elizabeth is reeling right now and I know that you have been lonely... And frankly, she is too beautiful and a little out of your league."

Elizabeth was on the stairs, she had lost one of her bags while moving in but this statement pissed her off on Mac's behalf. Deciding that in return for all the help the man was giving her, she was going to find him the perfect woman and she was going to make sure she was beautiful. Because she got the feeling that Bobbie..., that Bobbie was jealous.

When she saw her bag hanging on the door to Robin's room, she quickly grabbed it and showered. Returning downstairs, she was amused to see Mac playing motorcycles with Cam and talking to the little boy.

"Ahem." she said then said "What now?"

Mac regretfully handed Cam back his toy then said "I love this. I tried to get my girls to play with them, but Maxie wanted Barbies and Georgie, well she never sat still long enough. Anyhow, I am worried about what Morgan's so called friends are going to do now that your pregnant."

"I don't think they know it's Jason's. Nik is only speculating."

Being honest, Mac said "He is hoping it is Lucky's, so that you will be forced to take his brother back."

Seeing her surprise, Mac said "I am afraid if he learns the truth, he will make it public to spite you."

"Nik is my friend." she said quietly then thought about it. "But you are right, he is Lucky's brother and Emily's boyfriend first. What are you thinking?"

"You tell Quartermaine." he said looking at her. "What about Sam, she is claiming to be his fiancee."

Elizabeth flinched, she still couldn't believe Jason took her back, he really must have loved Sam if he forgave her sleeping with Ric. "I don't know, I don't think she does know, since she hasn't said anything to me."

"I will see what I can do to have Alexis keep her away if need be." he said then added. "Maxie had a forced long talk with Lainey yesterday after I saw that video. It's why she burst into tears last night. She also had a run in with Lucky where she tried to talk to him, it went over like a lead balloon then she 'overheard' Lucky saying he was only with her for the drugs."

"Oh Mac, I am so sorry." said Elizabeth feeling guilty.

"Don't. I am not. I think it cured my daughter of her Lucky Spencer addiction, she will be getting treatment while at her mothers and I am hopeful that when she returns after graduating college, my daughter will be her old self again."

"Now Robin and I talked last night." he said. "Before you do anything stupid like offering money to stay here or try not to stay, don't. You are staying as sort of an adopted daughter with all the rights and privileges, including my right to tell you if I thinking you are screwing something up with your life."

He added the warning because he was rather fearful she might start to cave to those who thought she should offer up her life to Spencer. "I brought something home with me, I want you to read part of it. I redacted some bits."

Elizabeth read the paper then said "Oh, Mac, this girl needs some help. And she only has this user boyfriend for help...after he stood her up... just tell me what I can do to help."

Mac took the paperback then sat in on the coffee table in front of them and said "Elizabeth, that with a few details changed was your rape report."

Elizabeth looked up in shock as she felt a chill, then reaching for the paper, put the real names and locations back in and felt the need to cry. "YOU'RE RIGHT."

"I know I am. And I have to ask why you would stay with a man like that, thinking you owed him anything. Because as you yourself just said Lucky is a user."

Elizabeth sat there, thinking while Mac looked over at Cam and said "I have to run out, why don't I take Cam with me and you think about this for a while. Elizabeth, your family and friends are so blindly determined that you make their lives easier, they have ignored some very pertinent facts. I want you to think about your children, would you want them to live their adult lives happy with what they do and who they love or do you want them to live a life of obligation. Then think about this. Why would you want their childhoods to be about fixing Lucky Spencer..."

Jason was sitting on his bed, making plans to get out of the hospital. Hearing footsteps, he saw Spinelli and Lulu Spencer entering the room. "May I help you?"

"Jason, you have to do something, you promised to help me, remember?" she said "In exchange for my helping you get Spinelli to return."

"I am sorry Miss, but do I know you?" he asked and took pleasure in her surprise while Spinelli all but bowed to him before pulling the blond out of the room while hissing what was going on to her.

Outside, Lulu paced back and forth as she complained about Elizabeth tossing her brother over for the police commissioner. "I am sorry, blond one, but Stone Cold is in no way able to help anyone at this moment. I must watch over my master until he is once again in his right mind."

"Spinelli, I can't let this happen, I can't let her and her lover just toss Lucky in jail so she can move in with him." she said then added. "Plus, my dad has disappeared. First my Mom was put back in Shadybrook, now my dad, my dad is going to run away, I just know it."

Luke hadn't ran, instead he had gone to his old pal Sonny Corinthos looking for help with rescuing Lucky only to find the man drunk and pacing his living room. When he heard the request, he snorted and said "You didn't hear, did you? Jason, is a Quartermaine again."

Luke stopped his pacing and asked "Wait, I thought that was a story they told to kick me out of the mansion. So, it's true?"

Seeing him nod, Luke ran straight to GH. The younger Quartermaine boy had always been easy to manipulate, this might work. If he went to Mac and said he... Luke hit the brakes, realizing that there was nothing he could do. Lucky needed help and there was no one left to help since Mac had Elizabeth living at his house. That one had come out of the blue, but hey, who was he to judge?

Mac stopped into Kelly's, with Cam and talked for a few minutes to Georgie who as they left slipped Cam a bag full of cookies inside his coat. As the police commissioner struggled to do up the car seat, he got an earful as Carly entered the area whining to someone about JQ.

Smirking as he went to the hospital for his meeting with Alan, he looked in the back seat and wondered why Cam's cheeks were so fat all the sudden. Freeing the little boy, they were entering the hospital when the small boy rushed off and greeted various personal.

He had his own little route and knew EXACTLY who would slip him a piece of candy and or some sort of treat. Without Mommy it was really easy to fool this Uncle Mac as he watched amused. When they were on the elevator, Cam giggled as he realized he still had the cookies that Miss Georgie always snuck him. Mommy always caught on by now...

In Alan's office, he asked his assistant to keep an eye on the little boy who sat angelically on a chair and pretended to read the magazine. The two middle aged men were nostalgic as they went into the chief of staff's office and discussed what needed to be done.

"Our attorney had Jason's identity returned, our accountant is now in full control of his books, to Corinthos chagrin." said Alan. "I am sure he is raging even as we speak. Jason also had me find out his legal requirements regarding the two living there. Did you know that Sam was staying with her mother until the day that Jason ended up in a coma. She wasn't actually living there until then. A deal was reached with her, she has until December 31st."

"The kid can be kicked out at any time." said Mac then told Alan about Alexis and his suspicions regarding Spinelli and the pot. On their way to Jason's room, they saw that the outer office was empty. Wondering where the assistant took Cam, they left a note to bring him to Jason's room as they went to talk to Alan's son.

After Jason had given permission to evict the geek, then gave Mac permission to search the penthouse, well aware there was nothing there that could be used against him, he asked about what he had told the man the day before.

"I dealt with it." was all he could say. "Alan, I wonder what happened with your assistant?"

"I don't know. Jason, get some sleep, you are going to need it." Alan reminded him of their plan for the late evening on their way out the door. Following 'doctors orders' Jason pretended to sleep until he heard a giggle and light footsteps.

"Are you awake?" he heard and felt his heart stop as Cam slipped into the chair and stood to pour himself a glass of water with another giggle. Hearing the rustle of a bag, he watched out a slit of his eye as his son opened a bag and bit into a large chocolate cookie with a pleased sigh.

As the little boy finished off the bag while drinking water in between it took everything in Jason to keep still and silent. When Cam gave a burp then took a moment to check and see if he was still asleep, Jason almost lost it when he folded the bag quietly and tossed it in the trash before getting rid of the crumbs on the chair.

He was sure Elizabeth was frantic right now, but Jason felt something tug at his heart when his son whispered thanks mister before sliding out the door and from the sounds of it got caught by Mac and his father.

His eyes opening, Jason hopped out of bed and stood next to the door listening as Cam honestly told them all. "I knew that if Mommy found out, my cookies would be gone so I waited until everyone was busy and said I had to go to the bathroom and that I wasn't a baby."

"Then I went to find a room with water in the pink pitcher and sat down to eat them. I would have shared but the man was asleep." said Cam like that would get him out of trouble. "Anyhows, I ate them already and Mommy didn't catch me."

The police commissioner shook his head, he had been outsmarted by a toddler. "Well we need to wipe your face, you have evidence covering it."

"Whats evidence?" asked the little boy then said "Uh oh, did I forget to wipe the crumbs away again?"

Laughing, Mac took him to get clean while Alan entered his son's room. "Are you okay?"

Jason nodded from where he was leaning against the wall. "Did you run the tests?"

"We should hear back next week." he said. "How is it you didn't know?"

"Long story, that I don't want the ears to hear..." he said pointing at the flowers on the other side of the room that they knew were bugged by Spinelli. "I was a bit worried when you suggested Mac, but I am glad I was proven wrong."

Elizabeth meanwhile had spent the afternoon thinking about what she had been told by Mac and then thought about her babies. They were right, she needed to be a mother first, a woman second and never again Lucky Spencer's enabler. First step to doing that was to call Emily.

When her friend showed up and started to complain, Elizabeth snapped at her to shut the heck up.

Emily froze with her mouth open and looked at Elizabeth. "How dare you..."

"No, how dare you." she sneered. "I thought we were friends, I didn't realize our friendship was based on my doing exactly what you want and endangering myself and my family to save a man who has hurt us repeatedly and don't you dare blame the drugs..."

"But Elizabeth..." she started to plead.

"No but Elizabeth... I want to know, would you have let Lucky near your grandmother Lila when he was sick? Would you have?" she pressed.

"No but-"

"Yet it is fine for me, for my children... what an interesting double standard and you need to think about a few things." said Elizabeth taking a deep breath. "Before you answer, I want you to take at least twenty-four hours and if at the end of them the answer to any of these questions is yes or Lucky, I never want to see you again."

Emily was hurt at the tone but sat down to listen and get her friend to see she was wrong about Lucky.

"Have you seen the footage of my rescue from Manny?"

"I haven't." said Emily who then shut up when Elizabeth looked at her.

"If you had to chose between Jason or Lucky, who would you chose, your brother or your friend."

"That isn't fair..." Emily said petulantly. "They are..."

"Emily, for once in your life, listen while I talk." she snapped. "Would you let Lucky around your own kids if he was high? If he was abusive, and yes, HE IS ABUSIVE."

When Emily started to talk yet again, Elizabeth put her hand over her mouth and snapped LISTEN.

"If you had to make a choice, my son or Lucky, who would you chose? Now I have one more question, do you think that Lucky is the only reason we became friends and that he is necessary to your continuing being my friend?"

"Emily, like I said, I am done with Lucky, with propping him up with hurting my children, myself to take care of him when he has never once done something for me without a motive. Because even my rape ended up being about him. If the answer of a single question I asked is Yes or Lucky, don't bother contacting me ever again because I am done."

Leading her to the door, Elizabeth pushed her out and slammed and locked it hoping everyone had a key. When Emily kept pressing on the doorbell, Elizabeth opened an upper window and said "Not a wise move, harassing me here, Emily."

Shouting up, her friend said with tears in her eyes "I just wanted to say that I love you, I love Lucky too though."

"Well then I guess I have my answer,." she said getting ready to close the window on more than just the cold.

"No! Wait, you said twenty-four hours." called up Emily as she got into her car and drove to see her brother. She had been ducking Jason, not ready to face JQ with all that she had done. Arriving at GH just as Mac was leaving with Cam, she saw how happy the little boy was and stopped when she realized it was the first time in almost six months she had seen Elizabeth's son smiling.

Her mind reeling, Emily entered Jason's room cautiously and stopped to watch as Jason was laughing with their father. "So its true... for how long Jason? How long before you toss us back out of your life?"

Listening to her belligerence, Jason knew she had done something, something she felt guilty about and was taking it out on him. Looking at his father, he said "I guess I need a few minutes with Emily alone, dad. Maybe we can figure that part out this evening."

When Alan had left, Jason looked at his sister who he had seen die and said with a sigh. "Oh Emily, what have you done?"

His sister saw the soft look, something she rarely saw on Jason's face as Morgan and started to bawl as she tossed herself into his arms and spilled the whole story unaware that Jason knew it. When he listened to her version of her life, he finally got why she had stuck with Spencer this long and and knew it was pretty much for the same reason Elizabeth had. Finally he pushed her back and said "Emily, do you love this Nik?"

"Wait, what?" she asked a bit surprised at the topic of conversation switched from Lucky and what she had done to Elizabeth to Nik. "Of course I love Nik."

"Really, to me it sounds like you refuse to let go of a childhood dream, not only for yourself but for this friend of yours. I think she is one of my nurses, by the way." he then held his sister as she started to tremble then pulled back. "No, I want an answer. Do you love Nik or the idea of Nik?"

Emily squirmed then looked at Jason and saw a combination of the two versions then looked down before admitting. "I don't know but I have twenty-four hours before my best friend kicks me out of her life, what am I going to do?"

Jason thought about it then had an idea. "Why don't you go to the gatehouse, I am going to be staying there when I come home and really truly think about it, okay. Then give your friend an honest answer because even if you can't be honest with yourself about Nik, she deserves you to be honest with her."

Sam arrived at the penthouse finally. She had gone to see Alexis to gauge whether she would be up for a fight if Jason gave her one. It looked like her mother was going to be too sick to help, annoyed she had returned home in time to see Spinelli who had been given eviction papers by the police.

"Bu-but..." he said in shock when he was told he had twenty-four hours. Sam was happy, the little freak gone; the start of reclaiming her life with Jason. Like Sonny had said, Jason would soon have his Quartermaine memories processed and be back to their Jason. And Sam had no intention of losing him.

"Ma'am, are you Sam McCall?" she was asked. Nodding she took the papers and fumed as the man ordered her to turn over the car keys and then her credit cards. Keeping one hidden, she did exactly that only to be told she was to vacate at the end of a year.

Heading up the stairs with a bottle of whiskey, she glared as she climbed into bed. "My Jason will return, he did last time and if not... well I will just ensure he does."

That night at the Scorpio house, dinner was loud as Georgie and Cam giggled while Mac told Robin and Elizabeth about Cam's adventure. The two women laughed as he explained losing the child twice. Once at the hospital, the other time at the station where Cam had insisted on the new Detective finger printing and giving him mug shots.

As the family gathered at the Quartermaines, Alan was thinking about Jason's plans when a quiet and pale Emily joined them. "Emily, is everything okay?"

"Yes." she said then thought to herself that tomorrow she was going to lose a few people she cared about, either way. With a sigh, she took her dessert to the docks and sat down. Seeing the blond walking her way, she said "Jax, what are you doing here?"

Sitting down next to her, he said "Carly ended our engagement, she is thinking that with Jason's memory problems she has a chance."

Snorting, Emily gave a quick laugh. "Not a chance in hell."

"I know, I just have to get away, though. I can't stick around for the moment she realizes that. I won't be her second choice. Why are you out here?"

"Oh, let's see... I finally became a grown up today." she said with a sigh. "I used to envy adults when I was a kid, now I just want to go back to being fourteen again."

Jason meanwhile slipped out of the hospital and into Alan's car as he arrived. "What are we using as an excuse?"

"You needing to go to the penthouse to pick up clothes." he said then smirking. "I should warn you, if your mother even suspects I have an affair, I am outing the truth to her. The look she gave me when I lied, let's just say... it was very suspicious."

"Find someplace no one knows the two of you, check in and tell her." he said only for Alan to say only as a last resort.

Just as they went to knock on Mac's front door, Jason suddenly panicked. "What am I doing here?"

"What do you mean?" asked Alan a bit perplexed.

"Am I rushing things, moving too quickly?"

"Jason, you are the father of her sons, I think in all actuality, you are a bit behind in things."

When Elizabeth went to get the door while Mac was playing with Cam and Georgie was studying the last person she expected to see was Jason. "Uh, do you need something..."

Jason forgot everything but what he really wanted to ask and it spilled out before he could stop himself "Will you marry me?"

Elizabeth's jaw dropped, then she felt dizzy and before she could regain control felt a sense of blackness just before her knees gave away...

TBC

Chapter 3

Everyone was glaring at Jason while he checked Elizabeth's pulse from where she was now reclining on the sofa. Alan who was the only one who heard what he had said, told Mac softly that they had come over to see if he could go with Jason while he went to get his stuff.

"Fine, but why didn't he just call me at the station." asked the man while he watched Jason with Elizabeth. Seeing the look in Quartermaines eyes, he started to feel better about baby situation. The younger man was already looking at Elizabeth like he had feelings for her, and without his friends obsessive need to control combined with Morgan's need to fix things, maybe just maybe Cam and this baby would have a father after all.

"We were planning on it, but on the drive home, I remembered wanting to ask both Georgie and Elizabeth a couple of favors." said Alan when they saw Elizabeth starting to come to.

"Miss, how are you?" asked Jason. "I am sorry, I was trying to be funny."

Almost standing in her need to get away from the man she glared at him and said "I don't think of marriage proposals as being funny."

"Well, the timing of the proposal was, but the offer..." Jason gave her a very thorough look over and said "Something tells me that spending the rest of my life with you would be a pleasure."

Elizabeth felt her jaw dropping then an unexplainable anger flew through her as she snapped. "Maybe for you..."

"Touche." he replied then turned to his father while watching Elizabeth glare at him through the mirror over the mantle. "Dad, did you get a chance to talk to Georgie?"

"Uh, hello, I am standing right here." said the girl holding the text book and staring at the blond. "Dr. Quartermaine, did you need something?"

"Actually, Jason does. He has a limited memory of modern conveniences. Cell phones, computers, pop culture and pretty much civics. He, or rather we were hoping you would be willing to help him get up-to-date."

"What about that kid that works for you, Spinelli?" she asked.

"We er, found a listening bug in my hospital room and right now I don't trust him not to slant things in his favor." he said only for Cam's eyes to widen as he got his first look at the blond man who had been sitting next to his mommy.

The little boy toddled over and said "Are you here because I didn't share the cookies?"

Jason knew he was taking a chance, but he couldn't resist picking up his son and saying. "No, but we have cook that makes the best cookies, maybe next time you can come over and we can share some."

Cam grinned as he wiggled down and ran back to his cars, picking up the motorcycle, he asked "Do you like bikes?"

"I don't know." he replied then sat down and played with the toddler. Elizabeth just stood there watching feeling guilty because she was carrying his child, a child he knew nothing about.

Alan then asked Elizabeth if she would be willing to monitor Jason's health. Seeing her confusion, Alan said "We just thought he might be more comfortable with someone other than his parents."

"I am going to be a bit busy for a while, Dr. Quartermaine." she said feeling weird about it, but seeing Jason's disappointment said "However, I will be glad to help as much as I can."

Jax and Emily sat in his car at the top of Vista Point and the Aussie listened to her talking and then asked "Do you think Elizabeth is right, are you going to be able to continue to be friends."

"I just hate that it has to be one or the other. I can't believe she is making me chose." said the intern with her arms crossed and a frown on her face.

"Emily, want some free advice. Your best friend is a mother, she is doing what is right for her kids. She isn't asking you to chose her over Lucky, she is saying that if you chose Lucky, she won't be around. Now, think on this. If the situation was reversed, would Lucky do the same?"

Em sighed then said "I know, but you heard what Lulu said. How can I desert Lucky like Elizabeth has, how can I do the same thing?"

"Because when hasn't Lucky needed someone to clean up his messes?" asked Jax. "Lulu is trying to find someone, anyone to solve her brother's problems, instead of relying on her father, her aunt and most importantly her brother and herself. They are Lucky's family, yet their first instinct is to insist that others are responsible for fixing him."

"Jason asked if I loved Nik or the idea of Nik. I think it is the same thing with the Spencers. I love the idea of a family sticking together through thick or thin." she said with a sigh.

"I hope you aren't talking about the Spencers, yeah, they stick together so they can guilt someone else into cleaning up their messes then immediately afterwords, head back to their own lives. Even your Nik does that." said Jax with a shrug. "It's worse with them, because once you clean up after them, they think you should do it for the rest of your life. And I really hope you don't expect more than a very shallow thanks, because reciprocity and true caring about your problems you aren't going to get."

Mac got in his SUV to follow the Quartermaines, his mind on things. As they arrived, he saw the desk guard calling someone and Mac would bet money on it being Sonny Corinthos or one of his men. At the outer door, Jason took the keys he found in his pockets and let them in. Looking around, he saw it with fresh eyes and realized that other than his pool table, he had let whoever was in his life take over.

Climbing the stairs, he stopped then pretended to look around. The first door he opened was Brenda's pink room, the room where he had finally found a small piece of heaven with Elizabeth. "I don't think it is this one, at least I really hope not." he said with sense of irony.

The second room was clearly a guest room and the third showed Sam asleep in her clothes on top of the bed drunk as a skunk. "Let's be quiet, maybe she will sleep right through this."

Gathering his stuff, Jason checked all nooks and crevices, before heading downstairs and making a show of looking around before finding his boxes. Just before they got ready to leave, he had an idea and asked "Do you know where the safe is, I can see it in my head, opening it but have no idea where to find it."

Mac had had the placed searched enough to be able to point it out. Jason soon opened it and cleared everything but Sam's passport which he tossed on the desk. "I hope that is everything."

"What about your books?" asked Mac. Jason thought about it then went back upstairs and grabbed them. On his way out the door, he just couldn't resist lifting Sam's old engagement ring she had been wearing. She was leaving him with ten thousand dollars, it was an amount his accountant had found more than generous and he had been amused by it.

The next morning, while Georgie was driving over to the Quartermaines, Jason's plan to reunite her with Dillon hit a major snag when Lulu walked out of the blond's bedroom just as Georgie was meeting Jason in the second floor study.

Lulu felt the need to rub it in her face, only for Georgie to look at her and smirk. "Lulu, I told him yesterday, I don't want him back. Not after he had screwed you. Now if you will excuse me, I am here as a favor to Dr. Quartermaine."

"Yeah right, you are here to try and steal Dillon back." Lulu snapped.

Georgie looked at Jason then at Dillon and said "No, actually I am not. You are more than welcome to him. But Lulu, he cheated on me twice, once a cheater, always a cheater. Jason, where do you want to start?"

"Cell phones." he said then held up the latest model of phone.

"How about we do this down at the Quartermaine docks." she said with a grin. An hour later, he had gotten the hang of it, after pretending to have less knowledge than he did. He did learn a few new things however and this made him a bit pissed at Spinelli who had lied to him claiming his phone didn't have that capability.

Meanwhile Emily had been shocked to see Elizabeth back at work already. Stopping to talk to her friend, she asked "How are you?"

"Fine." replied Elizabeth as she finished her last chart of the morning. "Will we be talking later?"

With a nod and a smile, Emily said "A friend last night became a very good friend and pointed out a few things to me. Things I hadn't thought about before. So that you know, I do love you, and Cam,"

"Elizabeth, where is Jason?" snapped Carly in front of her. "Why can't I get in his room?"

Looking up, Elizabeth said "Jason Quartermaine was discharged last night."

"Why wasn't I informed?" she growled. "You should have called me straight away."

"Why?" she asked baldly.

There was silence as Carly looked up dumbfounded "What do you mean why?"

"Well, like it was explained to me, Quartermaine isn't Morgan. Now, even if Jason Morgan was the man leaving last night, I wouldn't have bothered to inform you, I wouldn't have wasted my time. I am sure you have his ass or maybe his balls tagged with a homing beacon anyhow."

Emily and Robin who had come over worried about trouble, felt their eyes widen and had to control their need to laugh as Elizabeth coolly went back to work. "You bitch, you are just jealous that you are stuck with some moldy old man like Mac Scorpio after trying your best to get your hooks into Jason."

"Mac? I am staying with my friend, Robin, you do remember her, don't you. As for moldy old men, you should know, isn't Mac about the same age as Tony Jones was when you slithered your way into his bed at barely twenty-one to ruin your mommy's marriage." said Elizabeth.

At that point a crowd was drawing in. Monica had been on her way to see a patient when she heard two nurses gossiping about Elizabeth Webber handing that Corinthos woman her ass in the middle of the hub and she just had to see this.

Carly flushed, then said "Well you are the woman abandoning your poor drug addicted husband, he needs you and you won't even tell him how his baby is doing."

Elizabeth gave her a cocky grin and said "So what? He is a drug addict, he slept with someone in exchange for drugs, I do believe that is called prostitution. As for the baby, who says it's his baby?"

Carly's eyes widened with glee, "You bitch, you cheated on Lucky, with his boss. How dare you?"

"Oh, please. I don't see Mac Scorpio that way, not happening but keep spreading the gossip Carly, so you can look like even more of a fool. Carly, my baby's daddy, he has asked me to marry him at least three times. I said no all three. You, you hear the words marriage and are out spending their bank account before the ink is even dry on the certificate."

"You are going to pay for that one." she hissed.

"I doubt it, Carly... who is going to make me. You?" she asked then smirked. "Sonny? Neither one of you have the courage. You both have hidden behind Jason for so long that this is going to come as a shock to you but he is no longer there. Run to him, tell Jason Quartermaine that a nurse was being mean to you. See how far it gets you."

Carly fumed, she knew she couldn't rely on Jason just yet, but the minute she could, Elizabeth was going down and she would take pleasure in it. "Well, two babies by two different daddies, doesn't that make you a slut?"

"I don't know Carly, did it you or was it not knowing if it was the man you had no name sex with or your step-daddy that fathered Michael. Of course, it could have been that you were having unprotected sex with Sonny while married to AJ and chasing Jason. Yup, I do believe we have a winner."

After Georgie had left, Jason met with his father who asked "Are you ever going to tell me what happened?"

With a faint red tint to his skin, Jason said "She just looked so beautiful standing there, and I have no idea, what happened, my brain just shut down and had only one mission, to get her with me, NOW! I still can't believe I proposed like that."

Alan laughed as he said "You should have seen both of your faces. She was in shock and you looked like I had ran you over with a truck. You are just lucky that you used to have a goofy side or no one would have believe you."

"I know, it's there, like the medical knowledge, I just access it when I need it." he said with a slight shrug. "What is up with Dillon, I mean, seriously, Lulu Spencer, Carly in a training bra?"

"I actually think those are real." said Alan as he thought about it from a medical standpoint. "I figured out that you were trying to help make him realize that Georgie is the better woman, but I would let that go for now. He has to learn on his own, like we all did."

"Dad, I do have a few things to deal with. I am worried about Sonny coming after you and Mom or doing something to Liz when he finds out about the baby, but how and still be Quartermaine?"

"That I don't know, but you might want to be worried about Ric Lansing. I saw him at the hospital yesterday and he was smiling, I don't think that is ever a good thing."

"Oh, I have plans for slick Ric." thought Jason with a smirk. "Now do you think she will like the flowers?"

"With a pregnant woman, candy works better." said Alan as he went to head over to GH.

Elizabeth saw the flowers at the hub and said "Dang, Robin, your uncle isn't going to be too happy, just what did you do with Patrick last night?"

"These aren't mine. They are for you." she said with a smirk. "There is a note and you so owe me a good explanation."

Reading it, Elizabeth looked around for Epiphany then gave her a quick run down.

"Oh, why oh why didn't you tell Hurricane Carly, her head would have exploded." said Robin laughing as she went back to work.

Taking a deep breath, she said "I did sort of."

Thinking back, Robin's eyes just about popped out of her head. Then looking down at her stomach said "Really?"

"Really. I have to talk to him but it is kind of difficult." she said. "It was going to be hard before but now..."

"Wow, wait, doesn't Uncle Mac know?" then thinking on his strange reaction to a few things said "He does, doesn't he?"

"Yes, I told him yesterday." she said "I can't tell anyone else until I tell him though."

"Wow, this is going to be good. Carly, ugh and Sam." said Robin. "You need to tell him soon. I heard she was here early this morning in a rampage looking for Jason."

At the end of her shift, Elizabeth was placing the flowers in the back seat floor of her car when she heard someone say "Here, let me help you with those."

Looking up to see Jason in jeans like usual but a soft blue t-shirt, she almost started to hyperventilate. "Hi, it's okay. I have it. Thanks for the flowers."

"Where is Cam today?" he asked with a smile.

"Patrick Drake and he went to the zoo, I think Cam was just an excuse." she said with a smirk. "How are you doing?"

"Not really sure. I learned how to use a cell phone today. Read a couple years worth of newspapers and then spent the day avoiding that woman claiming to be my fiancee, in spite of my telling her it is over. She is rather persistent. Does she have family?"

"Her mom is Alexis Davis, did you know her?"

"I think so. She was engaged to Ned, right? I mean, I should say I have heard of her while Grandfather updated me." he replied. "Maybe I should talk to this Alexis, get her help."

"Jason, good luck but you should know, Alexis has lung cancer." she informed him then drove off to meet with Emily like requested.

Emily told Elizabeth about her long talk with Jax the night before. "I needed those questions asked. I am so sorry I made you feel that you owed for being your friend."

"I just have to do what is right for Cam and this baby." she said.

Hesitating, Emily knew she had to tell her the rest of it. "I ended things with Nik, over the phone. I feel bad but Jason asked me if I loved Nik or the idea of him. He was right, I love the idea of marrying my high school dream more than living at Wyndemere, dealing with his crazy family. And I am still not sure how much of our sleeping together now is me dealing with my rape."

Hugging her, Elizabeth heard footsteps and saw the thunderous expression on Nik's face. "Nik."

Emily stiffened and turned. "Nik."

Looking at them, he said "So, what is this? Emily, I don't get this. What were you canceling? I didn't think we had plans this evening and Elizabeth, I have nothing to say to you, how could you hurt my brother this way after all he has done for you?"

"Nik, I wasn't canceling anything. I was ending our relationship." said Emily. "We were holding onto something that was a mistake. I wish you well and hope that you find happiness but it won't be with me and one more thing."

"What?" he snapped.

"Elizabeth owes you and your family nothing, because frankly what exactly has he ever done for her. This idea she owes him for helping her deal with her rape, please, you need to get over that. We are leaving and Nik, I would prefer it if you just sent my stuff over with one of the servants."

When he had left, Emily burst into tears then ten minutes later, ended the hug with Elizabeth saying. "I needed that. It feels good, Lighter even."

Jason looked at the paper where he had Monica write down Alexis address then knocked on the door. When the younger girl opened it, she shouted his name and tried to hug him. Staying stiff, he waited until someone came to rescue him.

Eventually both Sam and Alexis showed up. "Miss McCall, I hate to hurt whoever this is feelings but could you please explain to her that I don't know her."

Molly let him go and frowned before saying. "I heard and I just know things will work out. This is another way that the gods are testing you and Sam. It is more proof that you are meant to be." she said with a bright smile while Kristina entered the room.

"Mom, Nik is on the telephone." Alexis hurried from the room, while she loathed the idea of Jason Morgan and her daughter, the idea of her marrying this version of Jason was her secret dream. Hopefully Sam wouldn't blow it.

When Sam had gotten rid of her two sisters, Jason looked around pretending like he had never been there. "I am glad you have a place to stay, how soon will your stuff be out of my penthouse?"

"I have a year." she said in shock.

"No, you have to the end of the year, December 31st." he stressed. "Look, I don't know you and what I have seen I don't like. Move on, Miss McCall, I am planning on doing the same. You were well, a part of my past life, not my future. You certainly wouldn't make a very good Quartermaine."

"Excuse me?" asked a frosty Alexis. "I was engaged to your cousin, she is Nik's cousin, after every thing she has been through because of you, I would say you owe her."

"No, Jason Morgan might owe her, but I don't." he said while thinking the only thing he owed her was a bullet. "Ms. Davis, you are a respected attorney for the most part. Not some used up con artist who married and killed me for their money. I also had a visit from your husband, Ric. I know that she slept with him here, in this Lake house, is that why you are pushing her on me? Trying to clear the Cuckoo out of your own nest?"

Sam stammered and said "Why would you believe Ric?"

"Because others know of it as well. Sam, like I said the 31st, oh, here." Handing her a piece of paper she saw it was a check.

"Wait, what is this?"

"What my accountant figured you brought into your relationship with Morgan and of course the value of your engagement ring. I had the stone removed and the gold melted down, that is it's worth."

"Is this some sort of joke?" she asked in disbelief as she looked at the check for eighteen thousand dollars. "You have got to be kidding me?"

"No, he took out all the bills paid for you from what would be considered the salary of a mistress, there is apparently some sort of scale for this sort of thing. Clothes and other incidentals not included and this was the final left over total. Good luck with your future."

Sam stood and went to slap him and screamed "How dare you, you bastard, how dare you try and pay me off, after all I did for you."

"Look, I am trying to be nice but keep this up and I will make sure you go to jail so long that Morgan's memories will come back." snapped Alexis as she looked at the check he had used to pay off her poor daughter.

"Alexis, before you get to protective of her, did you know Sam was an ex-hooker?" he asked not aware that her sisters were listening in. "That she killed one of her ex-husbands in the commission of a crime, that she likes to claim I am the reason she was shot but in truth... Manny wanted Sam dead, and not because of me."

When the attorney nodded a bit, Jason went for the kill. "Did you know that she tried to keep you from getting the stem cells to save Kristina, that she blamed you when Danny died, did you know that no blood tests were run to prove she is your daughter? Strange, considering her con artist past."

"And lastly, Sam. I would be sure that you tell your mother your whole history before she makes the mistake of threatening me again. By the way, Alexis... just how did the bannister get weakened that Catherine Belle fell over at Wyndemere?"

Turning a sickly white, he said "You need to remember, that Jason Morgan just brought this out more, but I was never a pushover as Jason Quartermaine, ask Miss Belle if you don't believe me. But then you can't. She died at the hands of someone trying to kill Helena Cassadine."

Alexis got the message and as soon as Jason left turned to Sam and said "You need to head out of town."

"Why?" she asked in disbelief. "Jason won't hurt me."

"Maybe Jason Morgan won't, but this Jason, is no joke. Please Sam, use some commons sense. He is angry with you for something. I can see the rage in his eyes and I really think you need to leave."

"Yes, let him cool down some, then return." she said. "He should have gotten his memory back by then. We can start planning our wedding, as a matter of fact, maybe I can go to Paris or Rome and look for a wedding dress."

Alexis started to straighten her out then said "Yes, that is a good idea. Use the check he wrote then I will send you money thru Nik."

When she had left, Alexis started to shake as she thought about all that had been said She knew that it was time to take her family away. Making a few calls around the country she found the perfect spot. She would trade offices with this Diane Miller and be free of here. Calling Ric she said "I have had a great job offer, we need to talk."

Jason thanked Georgie for the next session, regretting needing her help but at the same time shocked to find out that there were things he should have known all this time about his car. Once again, he was ready to do in his so called former friend after talking to her. When she said something about chasing down a book for school, he watched her leave then thought about what she had said to Elizabeth on the phone.

Hoping the brunette was still there, he was a bit disappointed she wasn't as he wiped away the snow and sat down. "Oh Jason, it is so good to see you."

Seeing the pushy blond, Jason cringed then let her sit down next to him. "Is there something you want Mrs. Corinthos?"

"I miss you, we usually talk about ten times a day. I have been all alone."

In truth, she called him ten times a day and talked to his voice mail thought Jason cynically. "Sounds like you have no other friends, you might want to get a few because I am no longer one of them."

When she just seemed to be ignoring him, Jason grabbed her chin and made her look at him. "Look, Ms. Corinthos, I find you to be a needy whining woman and I have only known you two days. I am not your friend, I an not your confidante. You are the mother of my estranged nephew, that is it. Now leave me in peace."

Carly just kept talking until Jason stood and said "For the love of god, shut up, Please. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to buy some aspirin, for some reason I now have a headache."

Elizabeth was putting Cam to bed when she realized she couldn't keep putting it off, going to find Robin, she asked if she could keep an eye on her little boy. "I am going for it."

"You sure?" she asked then said "I will wait up if you need to talk."

Hugging her, Elizabeth saw Georgie entering and asked "Is everything okay?"

"I-I, no it isn't. I for the first time in my life... I just want to sl- ugh, I am going to bed. Elizabeth, see you tomorrow."

Robin looked at Georgie then said to Elizabeth. "I wonder what Lulu did now..."

"She was out looking for that book. The library said some guy checked it out in spite of it being on hold for Georgie." she said with a shrug. "I think she had to have met him."

"Since she was carrying the book, should we be worried about where she buried the body?" asked Robin thoughtfully. "Wow, he really pissed her off."

AT the Quartermaine residence, Elizabeth counted to ten then knocked on the door. "Hey Elizabeth, Emily is down at the Gatehouse." said Monica only to be told she was looking for Jason. "Um, I think he is down there too."

Great thought Elizabeth as she morosely drove the rest of the way. Seeing only Jason in the living room, she knocked softly. "Hi, do you have some time?"

"Sure, sit down." he said then added. "You just missed Emily, she went to dinner with Jax."

"Wow, she said they were becoming friends." she replied then nervously folded up the letter in her hands. "Er, I have something I need to tell you. And it's big."

Jason held his breath, hoping above hope that she was about to tell him about Jake. "Sit down."

"A few months ago, I found Lucky Spencer who I was married to at the time sleeping with Maxie Jones at Kelly's, then later on in our apartment. That same night, you found Sam with someone else."

"Ric." he said then seeing her surprise said "I had a quick run in with him. He seemed shocked to find out that I wasn't Morgan anymore."

"We were both hurting that night." Jason thought back, hurting yes, but only because of the trust issue, nothing more. He had at least trusted Sam until that night.

"Anyhow we spent the night talking, having some drinks then... anyhow, we slept together." she said running the whole sentence together. Looking up at him, she had expected shock instead she saw nothing of the sort.

"I know." he said then grabbed her hands. "Elizabeth, I have some memories."

Seeing her face, he said "You and I in a penthouse and hours upon hours of making love."

Elizabeth turned red at the way he had said it. It was clear it meant as much to him as it did her. But was that because he had no other memories or because of-

"Stop thinking so hard." he said then pulled her into his arms and gently kissed her. "I also remember being in a church and in pain and you told me, you told that this is our baby. Elizabeth?"

Nodding she said "Yes."

Holding her, Jason said "I was hoping you would tell me, it's why I have been clearing the decks of the ballast in my life."

"But Jason I don't want to be an oblig-"

Elizabeth didn't get another word out as Jason lowered his head and kissed her. "You aren't. Do you remember walking away telling me that Sonny was my first last and always?"

Seeing her shock, he said "That was the second worst night of my life, the worst was when you got dressed the next morning and said there would never be another night like that. That I got to have a taste of my deepest dream, my most secret fantasy then the door was closed. Elizabeth, I love you, I have loved you for a very long time."

"Jason?" she asked her eyes showing that she was putting it all together. "Wait, the amnes-"

"Yes." he said then added "I wanted a new life for us, a safe one for you and our children. The only way to have that is to get rid of the mess my old one had become. And don't you dare try to blame yourself, this isn't because I think you are weak or that I am worried you will leave me. This is me taking a chance to have the life I have dreamed about with you for so long."

"But what about Sonny? Jason, you know that you will..."

"No, no I wont. Elizabeth things changed and I am going to insure one thing, that our family, which consists of you me and our children are safe, before worrying about any one else and Sonny and Carly are clearly on the ignore list."

"But-"

"I just have one question, do you love me?" he asked his heart pounding, his head swimming as his shaking hands held hers.

"Jason, yes, I do love you." she admitted then when they started to kiss, Jason heard what sounded like a gun shot. "Wait, where are you going?"

"Stay here, okay?" he asked then circled around. He found the footprints in the snow and followed them back to the road. Checking the tire tracks he wondered how long they had been there and who it had been.

Going back to Elizabeth he held her, feeling tense as he said "We might have been exposed..."

Carly meanwhile slammed her way into Sonny's house. "You have to do something about Elizabeth Webber, she is stealing Jason away from me."

"What did you say?" asked the man on the sofa as he stopped in the middle of lifting his drink.

"I said that Elizabeth Webber is stealing Jason away from us and we have to stop it." she repeated. "She is going to get him to take care of her brats and poof, what will happen to poor, poor Michael."

Sonny just looked at the woman then said "Go home, you will only make things worse."

"But Sonny I saw them, I saw them together. You have to do something..."

Sonny thought about it then shivered. No, he didn't have to do something. There had been a meeting this evening and he had been warned to play well with others and he was not happy that that meant Lorenzo Alcazar. "Carly go home and leave this alone."

Sweating as he went up to bed, all Sonny could think was how this could all blow up in his face as soon as he learned the truth a couple years ago he should have told the truth, but he had kept his mouth shut and now he would be paying for that, big time.

Chapter 4

It was two days before Christmas and Jason was relaxing at the gatehouse while Elizabeth was at work and Cam was at daycare. Hearing his phone ringing, he saw the last name Scorpio and said "Hello?"

"Jason, this is Mac. Do you have a couple of minutes that you can come down to the station?" asked the man as he dealt with yet another B & E suspect instead of what he had planned.

When Jason arrived at the station, he saw the sideways glances as the various cops were a bit surprised to see him just walking in without an attorney. Going to the desk, he looked around and then asked "Could you please let Mac Scorpio know I have arrived."

Sitting down, he saw the man on the bench move closer to the other end and wanted to say, Hey, relax I am not that guy any more but he just kept quiet and pulled out the medical journal he had been reading. "Morgan?"

Ignoring the cop, he heard him growl and move over to stand in front of him. "Hey, I was talking to you..."

Looking up, he said "I am sorry, I didn't hear you."

"I called out Morgan, at least three times." snapped the man.

"Sorry, he's gone and I never seem to hear it. Try Quartermaine next time." he said with a smirk and then went to see Mac. "You needed something?"

Sitting down, Mac said with a heavy sigh. "I don't know what you can do about it, but Cameron is looking forward to this Chuggin Charlie..."

"The train riding toy." he said mildly pissed with himself as he tried to figure out how to get one. Last time he had used one of his mob contacts. "I will make sure he has one."

"Good." said the policeman. "Elizabeth has been going crazy and she refused to tell you."

Jason gave a heavy sigh at that one, they had to talk about this, she had to understand that things were different, he had no intention of letting her down, not if he could help it. "I have to start making some calls."

Mac was agreeing with him when he heard an argument in the station. Walking back to the hub, he saw an incredibly beautiful red head arguing with one of his detectives. "Is there a problem?"

"Other than the Port Charles Police Department has apparently never read the constitution." snapped the woman, "None. And who are you?"

"Mac Scorpio and you are?" he asked.

"Diane Miller, I am taking over Alexis Davis' cases. I was requesting to see my client, one Lucky Spencer and this officer refused to grant me access." she said glaring at the man.

Mac looked at the woman then said "Mainly because he is with his court appointed doctor. Your client has been insisting he was beaten up by his ex-fellow officers."

Taking his report, she looked at it then asked "According to Mr. Spencer's complaints you are sleeping with his wife... that you are the father of her child."

Jason who was still standing there looked at the attorney and said "From what I have heard, you sound like a very smart woman, after meeting your client, if you still think he is right, give me a call and I will tell you the truth. Mac, I will go and find that train."

"Talk to Elizabeth, will you." said the man as he looked at the woman in front of him. "If you like you may wait in my office until your client is free. I will get you his personnel file, his criminal file and then give you the name of his current attorney."

"I was told by a Mr. Spencer who pushed his way into my office, that Ms. Davis left town in a hurry and just abandoned this particular client."

"Not quite. Alexis dumped him as a client when she discovered he had lied to her, that was four weeks before she left town." he stated then suggested she call the woman. "As for Mr. Spencer, Jr. He has had a public defender since then."

Answering his phone, he laughed then looked at the woman in front of him. "Thanks Robin, I will do that. Have you invited Dr. Drake over for dinner?"

Whatever this Robin said must have amused the man thought Diane as he hung up then looked at her. "Sorry, my niece is plotting Christmas dinner, do you have plans Miss Miller, you are more than welcome to join us, we intend to have a full house."

"I think it might be considered a conflict of interest if I take Mr. Spencers case." she said archly then on her way to see her supposed client, she smirked when she realized he had watched her leave. So either the Commissioner was a dog or he wasn't seeing Mr. Spencers wife, lie one.

Jason meanwhile had made a few calls and gotten no place. Getting frustrated, he had an idea. An hour later, he was on his way to buy the train paying four times its retail value. Handing the man almost a thousand dollars, he heard a voice say "Two thousand."

Turning he looked at the man and said "Look, my son really wants that toy for Christmas. So how about letting it go?"

Looking at the man he knew to be Jason Morgan, he gave an unrepentant grin and said "Sorry no can do. I have a girl to impress and she is looking for one of these. I made a deal with her. I get her one for her little nephew and she goes out with me on New Years Eve. And man, she is hot, so better luck next time."

Jason narrowed his eyes as he glared at the annoying young man. Thinking back, he tried to recall any woman he had been involved with and not drawing any answers, snapped, "I wonder what your father would think of that..."

Turning, the dark eyes turned to ice and the man moved to stand in front of him. "Don't you dare go there, I guess those rumors about your memory are wrong."

Pretending to be confused, Jason asked "What are you talking about?"

"Don't play games with me." snapped the younger man as he worried how to get the toy to the girl without endangering her now. "You know exactly who I am."

"Johnny, something or other, I heard your father telling you at that bar on Fifth to get home as soon as you were done with your drink." he said then held his breath. He had stayed out of sight, not wanting Trevor to see him, but he had made it seem like he was only there for a beer and killing time.

The younger man relaxed, thinking he was now turning into his paranoid father. Morgan whoever he was had thought he was Trevor's son, and had no idea who he really was. Just backing away, he put the toy in the trunk and drove away.

Jason meanwhile asked if the man had another one of the toys. "Yes, but the handle is wrong."

Buying it, Jason was relieved to see it was something he could fix for Cam then drove to the Scorpio house just in time to see Georgie Jones rushing into the house. "I found it, Elizabeth, You will never guess where but I found it."

Elizabeth saw Jason in the doorway and winced when she saw what he was holding. "Er, thanks Georgie but I need to talk to Jason right now."

Nodding, she hugged the pregnant woman and said "I will be back home in an hour, with it wrapped and with a bright blue bow on top."

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked quietly. "I thought we were doing better."

Elizabeth saw his face and realized she had unintentionally hurt him. "OH, Jason, I am so sorry, I just... I just wanted to be the one who found it. Though in the end it was Georgie."

"Why?" he asked quietly.

"Because, well Jason you are looking for us a house, you insisted on replacing my car. I know you more than likely already bought Cam something for Christmas... I guess, I am having a hard time figuring out to get you for a present so this, this I wanted to solve without having to rely on you." she said with a soft smile. "I just, I love you but I hate that I can't seem to do anything right now."

Pulling her into his arm, he kissed her with all the pent up passion he had felt for years. Pulling back just a bit, he said "My self-sufficent determined fiancee needs to remember that she has others to rely on. That we all love you and that right now we are just determined to take care of you because of Dr. Lee's orders."

Sighing, she leaned her head against his breast bone and listened to the beating of his heart and said "Where did you find it?"

"A black market dealer. There was something odd though." he said with a shake of his head. "There was this kid I know there, a young mobster who bought one for a girl he likes nephew. It just was strange."

"Why?" she asked looking up at him. "What was so strange about it?"

"The thing is..." Jason didn't tell her what he thought he knew, he still wasn't sure if the future stuff he had seen had been a nightmare or some weird reality. "I don't know, but Ric's father works for the man's family."

"You know he was fired, right?" she asked thinking his worry stemmed from Ric. "Alexis disappeared so they brought in some guy from New York."

"I met her replacement today, it's an attorney I have heard about. She was visiting Lucky, I told her that after listening to him, if she still chose to represent him to come and visit me, I would give her what I knew." he said then kissing her asked "How was your shift, is Carly still bothering you at work?"

"I really think it was her that was stalking us that night at the Gatehouse." she said as they got ready to leave. "So what are your plans again with Cam, this afternoon. Are you sure you don't want me to go with you?"

"That is between us men." he said with another kiss. "And I think I can handle a little boy."

Hiding her smirk, Elizabeth drove with him back to GH where Cam was coloring in Santa and from the sounds of it bragging about spending the day with his soon to be daddy. Jason felt his heart tumble as he thought about his one present to Elizabeth. The proof that Cam was his son.

He had wanted to kill Lansing when he had figured it out but had instead gotten him fired then sent Anthony Zachara faked up files proving Ric was Claudia's brother. That his first wife had cheated on him. While most people were speculating that Ric had run afoul of Lorenzo Alcazar, the Italian wasn't even on the radar screen.

Hearing his phone ringing, Jason saw that it said Sonny Corinthos and hit the ignore button. His former boss had been calling him for days and showing up at odd moments trying to convince him they needed to talk. Jason had just walked away from the man, but Carly had been the real piece of work, sending Michael and to a lesser extent Morgan to see him.

When he had explained about not knowing them, they had been hurt and while he had felt a sense of guilt all it had taken was to recall what had happened to his own children, including how he hadn't known the truth about Cam until after his death that had strengthened his determination. Carly sensing she had lost had taken to attacking Elizabeth at the hospital along with the rest of the Spencers.

Luke had made the mistake of threatening her baby's life when the truth that it wasn't Lucky's had come out. Between the arrest and the beat down inflicted by of all people two of Lorenzo Alcazar's guards and that he had become public pariah number one the man attempted to say it was a moment of weakness out of worry for his son.

That had gotten him bail from a judge but that was all. Now hearing that he was trying to get Lucky freed, pissed Jason off but he had agreed with Elizabeth that they would let the justice system handle it. Lulu and Nik had been strangely quiet lately after a visit from Spinelli who seemed to be sticking around town for no known reason.

Watching her men leaving, Elizabeth went to join Emily who was talking to Jax who had been there to attend a board meeting. "Are you ready?"

Then seeing their serious looks asked what was going on.

"Nik is dating Carly." said Jax only for Elizabeth to laugh then look at them. "You are serious, aren't you?"

"I am afraid so and I think that it meant to make the two of us upset." replied Jax with a sudden grin. "I got from Sam looking for Alexis. Turns out Mommy dearest didn't tell her daughter she left town."

"Would you tell her?" asked Emily with a sidelong glance at the blond. "Well we are off, good luck Jax."

"I am tempted to sell it to him. Let him take over paying for all her mistakes." he said as he walked off. Emily explained to Elizabeth about Carly wanting his half of the hotel then they went to go shopping and talk. "So how are things with my brother and you?"

"We are moving things a long. I am sorry we kept you in the dark about the baby." she said looking at Em feeling bad.

"Don't be. I am certain that the old me would have been telling you that you two can share custody or something equally stupid." she said cheerfully then frowning said "Though, I guess if you are getting married you will be sharing custody."

Rolling her eyes, Elizabeth said "Come on, you have to help me find something for Georgie."

"How about a book?" asked the intern while laughing. She had been at GH the day the candy-stripper had lost it on the phone with the librarian over the man getting her book. "Since she loves them so much."

"Hush, Robin and I are still worried he is going to turn up in the city morgue." said Elizabeth as she added. "No, not a book. I was thinking. She already has her dress for the dance on New Years, maybe something to go with that."

Jason meanwhile had taken Cam to the mall looking for a present for Elizabeth from the little boy. "Cam, I don't think mommy wants a toy motorcycle."

Frowning Cam sat down on the bench and placing his elbows on his knees and his chin on his hands said with a heavy sigh. "But if we get her her own she might leave mine alone."

Looking at his son, Jason sat down next to him and said "I know the feeling."

"Does Mommy take your toys too?" he asked.

"She tries to get me to let her drive my motorcycle all the time." he admitted.

Alan who had been dragged toy shopping yet again by Monica looked across the hallway and said to his wife. "Take a look at that."

Monica watched as her son and grandson had the same dejected look on their faces. "What do you suppose that is about?"

His eyes dancing and his curiosity peaked, Alan said "Lets go find out."

Getting the scoop, Monica turned her back to keep from laughing then suggest. "Well why don't you get her some jewelry or maybe some art supplies?"

"Daddy already did and I wanted to get her something from me." said Cam who looked down in the dumps. Seeing a flash, he looked up and said "Oh, its only the dumb ole Store Santa not the real one."

"Have you had your picture taken with him yet, maybe you could give that to your Mommy." said Monica.

"Yes, Mommy brought me the day after we ate all the turkey." he said with pout. Then he looked up and said excitedly. "I know, Mommy really likes taking pictures. We can get her a camera and one of those book things you put them in."

As the two went to find a camera for Elizabeth after making plans to join them for a snack later, Monica had a sudden idea and with a smirk said "Alan, how about you tell me what you have really been up to with our son or I tell Cam about how Jason and you haven't told Santa what you want for Christmas."

The older man looked at his wife then said "I have plans to tell you next week, but for now... you will just have to wait patiently."

"Then you have to sleep in the guest room." she told him sweetly as she walked away to wait outside the Camera Store.

"You know you will miss snuggling up with me." he said leaning down to kiss her quickly.

Monica pulled back and said "The truth, now or it is the guest room. And I won't miss you putting your cold feet on me, now spill."

"MO-NI-CA-" he whined just as Cam rejoined them carrying a package.

"Grandpa, Mommy said that tone isn't apppropereate. That it wont get you what you want." he warned only for Monica to laugh then stop and sit down as her heart melted. Picking up Cam she kissed him and ignored his complaints about lipstick and kept hugging on him.

Cam looked around then said desperately "Grandma, someone might see, you, stop."

At that the kisses and hugs started anew and the wiggling little boy backed away from the two old people while looking around wildly. "Cam, is there something wrong?"

Turning to his Uncle Mac who was standing there he tugged at his hand until the man leaned down and then whispered. "Grandma was kissing me, I don't want anyone I know to see a girl kissing me. I might get girl germs and the boys at daycare won't want to play cars with me anymore."

"Well how about we hurry to the bathroom and you can wash your face before they settle in on your skin?" he offered his lips twitching as he winked at Alan who had overheard and went back to tell his wife.

Mac waited while Cam had scrubbed his face until it was bright pink then they returned to Jason who had found out what had set his mother to crying and his father to grinning broadly. When Cam came running up, he threw himself at Jason's legs to the amusement of the other three while a blond narrowed her eyes in anger as Jason picked up the little boy and hugged him.

"Are wes ready?" Seeing them nod, Cam said "Can I have a Cinnabon, Mommy says they are the best things in the world next to brownies."

Alan walked off with Mac to finish shopping while Jason and Monica took Cam to get his promised treat. Looking at the huge sweet with icing all over it, Jason asked "Are you sure you can eat something this big?"

"Yups, I am almost as big as mommy." he said proudly. "'sides, you can help me."

Jason felt his stomach revolt at the sugar then was happy that Cam at least wanted milk with it. Twenty minute later, just as the little bottomless pit finished the bun he heard what the shrill voice was telling the two children at the next table.

It took everything in him not to get up and go over there but he wouldn't give Carly the satisfaction as she told her two sons that Jason had been tricked into abandoning them by that little bastard's mother and that was why he was with it instead of them. That he still loved them and soon as she proved that the woman was a lying muffin faced tart all would be well again.

He saw Monica's expression and reached out to stop her from confronting the blond. "Its what she wants, don't let her get to you."

Seeing the look of longing on Cams face when he saw the quarter fed riding toys, Jason took him over and told him he could ride any four positive that Carly won't let herself be seen near them. He was proven right when she gave her sons a handful of quarters and told them to go and play the video games.

As she walked past she said "Oh course Cameron is happy with those pathetic things, he is the sad little bastard child of a no name moron who committed suicide when he found out he was going to be a dad. No one wants his mother and lets face it the kid is an idiot who will be attending to the 'special' school for kids that will someday be a drain on the system. God, that thing shouldn't be allowed to breed."

When Cam was getting ready to change to the horsey from the bike, Jason kept his fist clenched as he tried to ignore her but when Cam tripped a bit getting off and hit his chin on the handlebars then Carly started to laugh hysterically, Jason took care of his son. Drying his tears he saw the miserable look on his face. "Cam, don't let that mean lady upset you."

"I don't daddy, Mommy says she has issues." replied the little boy who saw the mean lady turn purple and stuck out his tongue at her.

"Great manners, brat." she snapped. "You are as low class as your mother."

"Sticks and Stone may break my bones but names will never hurt me!" shouted the little boy to Jason's surprise and then looked at her and said "But I think Aunt Robin is right, you really are a bitch in heat."

Monica choked on her milkshake as she didn't know whether to giggle or pretend shock at what he said. Jason picked up his son and when Carly started to scream at Cam, went to walk away. The blond grabbed his arm refusing to let him go when mall security showed up.

"What seems to be the problem here?"

Carly told them her twisted version of what had happened, another mother who had been taping the whole thing on her cell phone said she had it on film. When the guard asked why, she said "The blond's sons have a habit of shoving other kids when they are here, I was told by my attorney the next time it happened, if we had film we could get them banned from the mall."

When the guard saw the film, he was shocked at the vitriol this woman was showing to a small child. "Ma'am, I think you need to leave."

"How dare you, do you know who I am?" she asked with her hands on her hips. Pointing to her sons she asked "Do you know who their father is?"

Mac had heard from Monica calling Alan what was going and asked to security guard "Do you want me to arrest Mrs. Corinthos?"

"No not at this time, unless these people want to press charges." he said then added "However it is in my right to ban her from this mall and the rest of the Oakforest properties."

"You have no right..." said Carly who then looked around and sneered as Morgan and Michael were brought to her. Looking at Jason, she started to cry and said "See, you did this, you abandoned me for that woman. You promised, you promised your son Michael to always be there for him."

"Carly, Michael is my nephew and I never promised you a darn thing. Now dig deep and find some class and leave quietly." he said then walked the other way pissed that she had ruined his first outing with Cam.

When they had returned to the Gatehouse, Jason was quietly helping Cam wrap up the presents wondering what or how to talk to him about what Carly said when Elizabeth and Emily showed up. "How was my men's day?"

Cam told her about the present ideas that were rejected, about the girl germs and his confusion as to why Grandma started kissing him all the sudden, then about the bun with a guilty expression and then finally about the toys, no mention of Carly at all.

Before Jason could ask, he then whispered something to Emily and the two of them went up stairs. "Thank god, I was a bit worried, we saw the security guards escorting Carly out and I was worried she had done something." said Elizabeth leaning back in relief.

"She did." he said in a monotone then proceeded to give her a play by play. Elizabeth listened then called up to ask Cam to join them. "Cam we need to talk about your day, okay?"

"Okays!" he said then sat between his mommy and the man that Georgie assured him was going to be his daddy.

"First, I am sorry I had no idea I was upsetting you by playing with your motorcycle." she said then looked up at Jason with a sassy grin as if to say but not yours.

"Its okay Mommy, I know I have to share, but you walk off with them and I found one in the refrigerator before we moved." he said with a concerned look on his face. Elizabeth looked back up when she heard Jason's half laugh and glared.

"Now on to the next item. When did you start calling the Quartermaines grandma and grandma?" she asked a bit worried how Jason was reacting to that one.

"Well, I asked Georgie and she said when you get married, Jason is going to be my daddy. So I asked if that meant his 'rents would be my new grams and gramps, she said yup." he replied. "I only tried it out today.

Seeing his darkened expression, Elizabeth said "Did you not like it?"

"It was great but she started kissing me and Mommy, you know how important it is to a boy to avoid girl germs in public." he whispered. "And you really need to tell Daddy and Grandpa about it, other wise no one is going to want to play with them either."

"I will do my best." she said with a serious expression while inwardly wondering how much longer this girl germs thing would last. "Now we need to talk about the Cinnabon."

Getting a guilty expression on his face, he didn't keep it for long as he started to giggle. "My new daddy said yes. So that makes it okay."

"But young man, you know better. Only half a bun, isn't that the rule?" she asked then saw his expression. "Cam, there will be no more sweet treats for a week in the new year. I won't punish you just before Christmas, but I will be speaking to Georgie."

His lower lip trembled as he said softly "I know mommy and I did drink milk with it, I promise."

Hugging him, she said while looking at Jason. "Now you owe Jason an apology too for being bad."

Looking up at Jason, Cam said "I am sorry, daddy. I knew I wasn't supposed to eat all of it."

Jason all but crushed the little boy at the words daddy, reaching over he pulled Elizabeth into the hug until Cam started to get squeezed. "Daddy, yous have to stop, my new brodder is pushing on me."

Seeing his confusion, Elizabeth put his hands on her stomach were the baby was kicking. "I am afraid that Cam is right."

Jason kissed Cams cheek then Elizabeth's belly before looking at Elizabeth knowing they had to deal with what Carly had done. "Cam we need to talk about what happened next."

Looking up, he was confused. "But Mommy since I tricked daddy I only rode a couple of the toys."

"I was talking about the lady yelling." she said. "I was wondering how you felt about that."

"Well..." Cam thought about it then said "She is really loud and mean, I feel bad for her boys. She isn't a very nice Mommy."

Jason felt his jaw drop. "Cam, I am sorry she said such bad things..."

"Why?" he asked looking at daddy in confusion. "She said them not you. Mommy, I did say something bad. You told me not to say that bad word and I said it to her."

Jason looked at Elizabeth and repeated what he said leaving out the actual word. Emily meanwhile who had been sitting on the stairs, watching the family moment with tears in her eyes, felt them widen and went to call Robin to warn her Hurricane Carly might be blowing her way.

"Cam, it is a bad word and all I am going to say is don't use it again, Okay?" she asked. "Did she upset you with what she was saying?"

"No, but she made daddy mad, I could see it." he replied. "But daddy was counting to ten like you tell me to do mommy and Uncle Mac offered to arrest her. Mommy why did her face turn purple?"

As they talked, Jason and Elizabeth realized Cam didn't really get what exactly Carly had been saying, just that she was mean. Meanwhile upstairs, Emily could hear Carly in the background as she called GH. Telling Patrick who had answered Robin's phone what was going on, the she let him go and rescue his girlfriend.

"CARLY!" he shouted. When the blond shut up long enough to stare at him, he said "Let me get this straight. You showed up here, endangering a patient because after verbally assaulting a child, he called you a bitch and told you that he heard Robin say it. If you can't outwit a child how are you going to a brain surgeon?"

At the gatehouse, Cam fell asleep on his parents and Jason lifted the phone and called the Scorpio residence. As he told Mac they were spending the night, he smirked at Elizabeth who seemed embarrassed. "What?"

She stood giggling then said "It's weird, Mac has been more of a dad to me than my own ever was. I just feel like a kid with my dad knowing I am sleeping over at my boyfriends."

As he lifted Cam and carried him upstairs, Jason pointed out. "Elizabeth, you are five months pregnant with my child, I think it is a little late to pretend to him we don't have what was it Dr. Lee said that day, oh yeah, Carnal knowledge of one another."

Emily grabbed her coat and gloves slipping out to go and visit Skye, she had a question for her sister while Jason and Elizabeth were soon tucked into bed with Cam between them. Meanwhile Georgie was picking up the Charlie and glaring at the man holding it hostage.

And in a jail cell, Lucky Spencer was fuming, the lawyer his dad had heard about had just rejected taking his case. Carly was vowing revenge on a three and a half year old and Sonny was drinking himself to death in guilt and out of fear.

Another man was regretting his mistake in the past that cost him his child while Sam was excited, she had found the PERFECT wedding dress. Calling Nik, she listened as he offered to fly her home and offered to let her stay on the Island. "I have seen Jason around town, Sam. He really looks like he is missing you."

Chapter 5

The day before Christmas, Jason woke up with Cam asleep on top of him and Elizabeth curled up beside him. Reaching over, he kissed the top of her head, then looked down at their son. Hearing a noise, he looked up to see Emily sneaking down the hall to her bedroom. Wondering what was up with his little sister, he decided to have Elizabeth find out, though she probably already knew.

As Elizabeth woke, she snuggled closer to Jason's warmth and said "Good Morning."

Edging up on her elbow, she leaned down and kissed him saying. "When did you wake up?"

"Just a few minutes ago, Emily just came in." he said in an inquiring tone.

"I wonder how her talk with Skye went?" She said with a frown. Seeing Jason looking confused, she said "Emily has been spending a lot of time with Jax, but because he is Skye's ex, she felt she should talk to her before things went any further."

Jason shook his head at the apparently complicated rules that women had in regards to relationships and then asked "Can we spend the day together?"

"I wish." She said groaning. "I am supposed to help with the party today. Are you going to be okay with being at the Scorpio's tonight?"

"Yes, even if I wasn't, I would be there. Elizabeth, I know that Mac has come to mean a lot to you over the last month and I am glad you have someone in your life as a father figure." He said quietly. "Besides, I will enjoy watching Mac rake Patrick over the coals."

Thinking on it, she said "There is another reason I am glad you will be there. Georgie has been acting a little strange lately. First the way she reacted about that book, then the other day she was so pissed off about something in Kelly's, that even Lulu had the good sense to back off. Then there is the Chuggin Charlie, I mean, she had this determination to find it that was a bit well, over the top."

An hour later, Elizabeth watched as Jason drove off with Cam while she entered her room and grabbed some clothes to change. "Elizabeth?"

Turning she saw Mac and then looked at the suit he was wearing then the two ties in his hand. "You have court on Christmas Eve?"

Seeing him flushing, she hid her smile and said "Go with the dark green one, it is more festive."

"I have a meeting with Alexis Davis' replacement, she is insisting on it taking place at the Metrocourt." He said grumpily before leaving then added. "I invited her for dinner tonight, what was I thinking?"

Elizabeth got ready for work then with a chuckle went to GH where she tracked down Robin. "What do you know about this woman who is replacing Alexis Davis?"

"Nothing why?" she asked then listened to what Elizabeth had to say. "No, you don't think?"

"I think so. Find out what Georgie knows, will you?"

"She has been in a good mood all morning. I was a bit worried there after the last couple of weeks." Joked Robin as they went to the hub and got their charts for the day. Robin groaned when she saw her patient was not reacting the meds she had ordered while Elizabeth just went to find Epiphany who informed her that she had been seconded to help with the party.

"I should warn you, I saw your grandmother earlier, with a blond man." She said then ordered Elizabeth off to work.

As the day progressed, the various parties started to gather in the central hub for the annual Christmas party. Audrey had tried to introduce her grandson around only to get a cold shoulder from many of her former colleagues. Stephen had no idea what was going on but was a little perturbed at how they were treating his grandfather's widow.

Finally seeing someone he knew, he asked Emily Quartermaine what was going on. "Your grandmother is living in the land of delusion. She has repeatedly visited Lucky in jail in spite of seeing with her own eyes the evidence of his lies and then heard about his abuse of Elizabeth. She keeps insisting that Elizabeth is exaggerating and that Lucky made a simple mistake."

Thinking on what he had heard from his grandmother he said "Why should I believe you over her?"

"Because I saw it, I was one of the sheep, leading Elizabeth to even more danger, but that is over. Your grandmother has pushed Elizabeth out of her life and refuses to be happy that she is marrying my brother."

"I heard something about that, but Emily, your brother is a criminal." Steven had no love for Morgan, the man was nothing more than a mob enforcer.

"You didn't hear, did you? He got hurt; he is back being Jason Quartermaine. Jason Morgan has been declared dead." She said quietly. "Stephen, if you want your sister to be happy; you should let her live her own life without interference."

"But what about Lucky's baby?" he asked.

"It's not Lucky's and that is all I am going to say on that subject." She said quietly before walking over to talk to Jax who had just arrived. "Merry Christmas."

The Quartermaines started to arrive, Edward blustering around, wondering where his family was, Tracy glaring at Lulu and Dillon while glad that Luke had done a runner, it made getting rid of his daughter much, much easier.

When Monica arrived walking Cameron down the hall, she saw Audrey trying to approaching the little boy, so she distracted him then had Edward go and talk to the woman. A few minutes later, Stephen joined them then asked his grandmother for a minute, then he was seen leading her away from the hospital.

Soon seated with his dad, Cam watched really getting all that was going on for the first time while celebrating. Jason just held his son and waited for Elizabeth to finish and join them. Seeing Lulu Spencer glaring at him then giving him a rather strange smirk, he couldn't help wondering what she was up to, the feeling of something being wrong got even stronger when he saw Carly and Nik arriving together and then ignoring him.

Elizabeth arrived with the patients and soon was seated with Jason while Emily was joking with Jax. She saw Skye arriving and then saw her sister smiling and knew that she had come to the decision that she didn't care what happened between her sister and her ex-husband.

As the time for Santa to arrive came, Elizabeth saw Robin looking around a bit worried and asked "What is it?"

"Do you see Georgie anyplace?" Robin realized it wasn't the first time Georgie had disappeared lately.

"No, I haven't seen her since lunchtime, she was talking to Monica. I believe she had to do some shopping then was returning to be an elf." said Elizabeth then noticed something. Georgie had arrived but she looked flushed and there was a man behind her and his expression wasn't exactly unfriendly, more like frustrated.

"Jason, do you know that man?" she asked but by the time she turned, he was gone. "Never mind. Did you see who is hiding over by the elevators?"

"Spinelli and he had a very private conversation with Nik a bit earlier." said Jason softly. "Something tells me that he is in on whatever the two of them are up to."

When Mike Corbin had greeted everyone as Santa and had passed out the presents, he asked Jason if he had a moment. Wanting to deny the man, he pretended to not know who he was other than from Kelly's.

"How may I help you Mike?" he asked. Then pretended to be surprised when he told him about being related to Sonny.

"Look, something is up with my son, and I am not talking business, he just said something about a mistake he made while being caught between a rock and a hard place. That he had done something he regretted in regards to you and that it was something that he felt guilty about."

Jason changed his mind about not meeting Sonny, deciding to do so that evening. He watched as Carly kissed her boys goodbye then turned them over to Leticia then ordered the nanny to take them to their fathers.

"Mrs. Corinthos, I told you what he said when he called earlier, he won't be there." Leticia wasn't going to endanger those boys holidays just to let her boss get back in Jason Morgan's good graces.

"Oh course he will, it's Christmas. Where else would he be?" she asked then looked around. Turning to Nik, she said "Do you want me to come with you to meet her?"

"No, she is more likely to trust me if I am alone."

"Good, I have something I need to take care of." she said while glaring at Cameron Webber who was giggling and playing with Edward Quartermaine. She knew that Elizabeth would try to change Jason and it looks like she had succeeded but Carly didn't want to rely on Sam, she knew the woman's plans always failed, she had a plan of her own.

When Diane knocked on the door, she couldn't help asking herself what on earth was she doing there. The man who had invited her had been wearing shoes that were at least three seasons out of date and she was almost certain that he had bought that suit without getting it sized. Yes, he did sound intelligent and he wasn't bad looking but seriously, the man had no sense of style.

"Merry Christmas." said the petite brunette as she opened the door with a grin. "You must be Diane Miller."

"Merry Christmas to you, are you the niece, the stepdaughter or the adopted one?" she asked as she took of her overcoat and gloves then handed her the bottle of wine.

"Niece, my name is Robin, let me introduce you to everyone." she said leading her around the room. "This is Dr. Patrick Drake, my er, well boyfriend." she said then saw Patrick's smirk and added "But not for long."

Shaking her head, Diane was soon introduced to Cam who was sitting playing with some toys quietly then Jason Quartermaine and then she saw a young girl coming out of the kitchen backwards.

Well maybe not so young when she saw the woman was actually pregnant. "This is Elizabeth, adopted daughter."

Shaking hands, Elizabeth found herself looked over as much as she looked over the red head and thought eat your heart out, Bobbie. She saw the way Mac reacted to her arrival and was already making plans to find a way for their paths to cross later.

"We are only missing Georgie, I wonder where she went again." said Robin as she looked around then saw the patio doors close. "I wonder what she forgot in the shed."

In the shed however, Georgie was glaring at a good looking man with smiling eyes. "What are you doing here?"

"Hey, you were the one who invited me to dinner." he said with broad grin as he leaned against the door and held out the Poinsettia.

Growling, she backed him up to the rough wall took the potted plant and put it on the shelf before she snarled "You knew that invitation wasn't for you. It was for the nurse I was talking to."

With a heavy sigh, he said "But she wasn't actually there when you issued the invitation. Now, you know you would feel guilty at me spending the holiday all alone eating a TV dinner with no presents under the tree."

"Oh, I am sure you will get at least one present." she snipped at him. "I do believe that coal is usually given to bad little boys and girls."

"Hey, I found you that toy you were looking for..." he pointed out. He had started this as a way to get her attention after seeing her at the library but the more time he spent around her, the more he found himself attracted to her physically and more curious intellectually.

"And I am paying you back for that, by going to this party with you." she pointed out to him. "Why are you doing this to me?"

"You know what you have to do to get me to leave you alone." he said back with a grin. "But we both know you would be lying."

"But I wouldn't be. I don't like you, I don't want to kiss you and I most definitely want to spend the holidays with you. I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME!" she glared at him. "You are stalking me, First you steal my library book, then you keep showing up where I am at, why are you doing this?"

Leaning in, he gave her nose a quick kiss then said "Because we are perfect for one another."

"You're right we are. You are Romeo and I am Juliet. Why don't we skip the declarations of love and marriage and go straight to the part where you swallow the poison?" she asked brightly.

"And here I thought you would have read that play as smart as you are. She kills herself first."

Hearing her mumble, he cupped his ear and said "What was that?"

"I didn't read it, didn't like the ending." she said then with a frustrated groan said "Okay, kiss me,":

"No, the deal was you had to prove that a kiss didn't affect you, so you need to initiate it." He really would have love to kiss her, but just thinking about it affected him so actually do so would make it harder (pun intended) to walk away.

"There is nothing in our deal that-humph" Johnny took a chance and leaned down to capture her lips with his. As he explored and memorize the taste of her, he pulled her closer and eased his tongue into her mouth, searching, claiming and most importantly imprinting himself onto her.

When he could no longer breath he pulled back just a bit when he felt her hands in his hair and her body trembling. "See you New Years Eve."

Georgie rejoined the party in the living room missing the looks the others were giving her at the rather obvious rug burn on her face as she pretended nothing was going on. Sitting down at the dinner table, she held her hand out to Diane and introduced herself while her father was carrying in the last of the food. "Georgie, what would you like to drink?"

In her mind she was saying scotch, straight while out loud she just replied she would have milk like Cam. Dinner was lively as Diane found herself debating legal searches with Mac, talking clothes with Elizabeth and listening as Mac gave poor Patrick Drake a rough time. Wondering why he didn't harass Elizabeth's beau, she almost choked when she figured out he was former mob enforcer Jason Morgan.

Elizabeth meanwhile was talking to Jason about their plans for the next day. "Are you sure you want to open our presents with the entire family?"

"It's easier to give in then head back down to the gatehouse later. Besides, this way we get the visiting with everyone out of the way then can spent the rest of the time with just Cam and us."

"What about Emily?" she asked reminding him that his sister lived with him.

"She agreed to vacate the premises." he replied with a smirk that slowly faded as he thought about what he was showing her the next evening.

"Georgie, what are your plans for tomorrow?" asked Elizabeth a bit worried about the younger girl, Mac and Robin were working so those with small kids could have the day off, its why they were celebrating that evening.

"I intend to do nothing. Absolutely nothing. I think sloths are going to do more than I am tomorrow." she replied. "I have a book, I am assuming new pajamas and I just bought this really great loofah set and new bubble bath."

"I like bubble bath." said Cam excitedly. "Can I play too, Georgie?"

"You promised to visit with grandma and grandpa tomorrow remember?" Elizabeth asked.

"Okay, maybe we can take a bubble bath together, later Georgie." said the smiling little boy while a few of the adults gave quiet chuckles at the idea.

Only Elizabeth heard her say sadly "Great, I really, really need a boyfriend over legal age."

The next morning, a nervous Jason awake in the exact same position he had been in the day before with Cam on top of him and Elizabeth beside him but something was different. Then with a sense of awe, he realized that what had woken him up this morning was the baby moving and kicking from inside his or her mother.

Moving his hand just a bit, he cupped the rounded belly where the baby was and said "Did you like the story last night, are you wishing you were opening presents this morning?"

Hearing Elizabeth moan as she moved in closer, Jason made sure Cam's head was above the comforter before pulling it up over his fiancee. Feeling her kiss his shoulder then go back to sleep, he said to their child, "I think Mommy and your big brother want to sleep Christmas morning away."

When he felt the foot kicking at his hand, he laughed at the idea of their child agreeing. He tucked his head down on top of Elizabeth's and gave a silent and contented sigh. His first Christmas, well his second Christmas with Elizabeth and the first with their children and while he was excited, they were still in the land of nod.

When his eyes saw the clock, he said to himself to go back to sleep that it was only five in the morning, but instead he laid there, imagining what the day would be like. As he heard footsteps, Jason grimaced as he recalled where they were.

Mac Scorpio's house and in what was now Elizabeth's bedroom but had once been Maxie Jones' room. As he tried to figure out from the tread whether it was Robin or Georgie he heard Mac's baritone asking what sounded like Robin if she needed a ride to work.

Hearing her hesitate, he knew immediately that someplace in the house, Patrick Drake was either asleep or hiding. Amused, he was considering going to help Mac torment her only to feel Elizabeth clench his arm. Looking down he saw the knowing look in her eyes and instead of getting up, he leaned down to kiss her. "Merry Christmas."

Seeing excitement in his eyes, she said "What happened to not understanding why people celebrated and gave presents on today."

Looking at her, he said "I finally understand, it started last night when all I wanted to do was watch Cam as he opened what he received here and how he took pleasure in watching everyone else open theirs."

He had known it would be different from the holidays he had celebrated with the Corinthos family and the two women he had been involved with. In there cases the more expensive and glittery the present the louder they were in appreciation.

He knew that if he had decided to bring a tree into the gatehouse and not decorate it with all the fancy geegaws and bright lights, Cam and Elizabeth would be just as happy to hang construction paper and popcorn with him.

His heart ached to know that he had lost all this time with his family out of a need to protect them from his world and his heart from what he perceived as protecting himself against them walking away. Feeling his son's knee about to travel someplace that insured he would only have one sibling, Jason stopped Cam from moving and asked Elizabeth, "Is he awake?"

"Yup, with eyes opening as we speak." she said then noticed Cam couldn't move. "Jason you are going to have to let him go, he usually hurries to the bathroom first thing."

"Uh, if you ever want to have er, carnal knowledge again, we have to get him off me first." he stated while his face flushed. Elizabeth laughed as she removed the covers from them then watched as Jason carefully removed Cam from where he had slept. By now the little by was wide away as he ran to the door. "Be back."

"Now where were we?" he asked as she leaned over him and gave him a kiss. "Yes, that is where were we."

Giving Jason soft kisses, then pulling back, she felt his arms go around her waist then herself being flipped to her back as he deepened the kiss and his hand started to move up her rib cage. "I just need to touch -"

"Daddy, we have to go find it Santa got you any presents." Jason pulled back then looked up at the ceiling then asked a laughing Elizabeth. "What do you find so funny?"

Sitting up, she leaned over and gave him a quick kiss before getting off the bed. "Come on, we have to head to the gatehouse so you can shower. Breakfast at the Q's remember."

"I have a better idea, lets drop off Cam right now, they will be so excited to see him that we might have time to shower together." he said his head coming off the pillow.

Elizabeth smiled that Mona Lisa smile and said "Maybe you can unwrap your present."

"But Mommy, we promised grandpa we would all open our present at the loud house." Cam said then added. "And I am hungry."

Jason left the bed then picked up his son to carry him off to get dressed. Seeing Mac coming down the hall, he was amazed to realize he had spent the night down the hall from the police commissioner and hadn't once thought about him. "Sir."

"Coffee in the pot downstairs." he said then warned. "I would get there before Georgie or Elizabeth decide to dump it and make cocoa."

Dressing Cam, Jason watched as his son insisted on struggling to get into his clothes himself, only really needing help with the laces. After watching Cam frown as he attempted to tie them for the third time, Jason was relived when he finally asked for help. "Daddy, would you please show me again?"

In the kitchen, Elizabeth was wearing sweats and a thick sweatshirt when Georgie came down. Handing the younger girl the mug of cocoa, she said "Robin got it ready once Mac went upstairs."

"Yum." she said then grabbed one of the muffins still in the pan. "So, are you going to slip away and get some?"

Choking on her drink, Elizabeth looked at the smirking twenty year old and said "I certainly hope so, is that what you have been doing when doing your disappearing act?"

"Thankfully no." she said shuddering at the idea then frowned when she realized her body wasn't rejecting the idea like her mind was. "But I do have a new present from Maxie."

That caused Elizabeth to shudder, she had also received one for some reason. When she had opened the lime green rubberized item, she had been horrified until she had found out Maxie had sent all three of the woman one. "Thanks for the mental image I really don't want."

With a smirk, Georgie said "I don't intend to use it for that purpose for now."

Elizabeth went to dress, then stopped in the doorway, "I just don't get why she sent one to me."

"You sent her that purse, Maxie isn't really bad Elizabeth. She got really screwed up after Kyle then Jessie dying. The practical joker side of her, that is all this was. Well maybe not for Robin, since she intends to use her toy. She already bought batteries for it."

"I just really don't have any need for that toy." said Elizabeth not seeing her son and Jason arriving.

"Mommy, if you don't need it, you should do what you tell me and share it." said the clueless child while Georgie and Elizabeth both shook their head no. "But Mommy, maybe daddy would like it..."

Georgie walked away talking into her mug as she said "Oh, I am sure daddy would like it, I think he had one stuck up his behind for years as Morgan."

Horrified, Elizabeth quickly got her two men out of there by reminding Cam his new toys were in the truck so they could be shown to his grandparents. Driving to the mansion, Jason saw the lights in the gatehouse then frowned as they kept driving up to the house.

Seeing Emily as soon as they were inside, he asked "Did you leave the lights on?"

"No, I came straight up here last night." she said with a frown of her own. Then seeing Cam hugging Monica she asked "What time did he wake up?"

"It wasn't Cam who woke up first." said Jason with a rueful smile. "It was me, I sort of woke up everyone else. But Elizabeth and I have to run down to the gatehouse so that I can shower and change. Will you keep Cam and grandfather out of the presents?"

"Sure, leave me with the impossible mission." she said with a heavy sigh then grinned at them. "Now be sure to conserve water."

Telling Cam they would be right back, they had no sooner closed the door then he announced to the others on their way to the dining room. "Mommy shouldn't have gone with daddy, she was talking about letting him unwrap his present before they took a shower. But they promised they would unwrap everything together, remember Grandma?"

Elizabeth was protesting the need to drive the couple hundred yards but Jason insisted saying it was a little slick out. Arriving at the door, he looked around and said "I wonder why Alice put up these decorations, I told her I would prefer just a simple tree with no lights."

Once inside, they both stopped. "Why does it look like the tacky decorations from Sonny's house threw up in here?"

"Really, this bad?" she asked looking around at the over abundance of lights and gold and silver candles. "I mean, seriously, even in a place as big as Sonny's this would be overdoing it. But here?"

As they walked in further, Jason lifted a purse and showed her. "Carly, I should have known. Let me get her out of here."

"Wait, look around Jason, she isn't here. She probably left." Elizabeth wasn't going to let Carly spoil their holiday. "Besides, there wasn't a car outside."

Looking happier, he said "Well then, I believe we were discussing unwrapping presents." he said practically purring as he moved them up the staircase to the bedroom. Removing his shirt then her thick sweatshirt, he groaned when he saw her spilling out of her bra because she was undoing it in the back.

"Let me." he said his hands on her waist and moving upwards as they walked slowly to the bedroom. Kicking off his shoes, then getting ready to unzip his pants, Jason had lifted Elizabeth so that her legs were around his waist as he got them into the bedroom. Maneuvering them closer to the bed, he knelt on it and lowering her to the counterpane when he saw a lump and cursed.

Pulling Elizabeth close to him, he grabbed the comforter and pulled it back. "Shit, what the hell are you doing here?"

Sam was lying there in what was possibly the tackiest and trashiest underwear set he had ever seen in his life. When she sat up and stretched while saying Merry Christmas, her eyes shoot open when she heard instead of Jason's appreciative groan a snarky voice saying "Well it was."

Fury raged through Sam as she saw Elizabeth without a shirt on and wearing what looked to be a pair of raggedy sweats. "Get out, get out and get out of our bedroom. Jason is my fiancee you tramp."

"Really, funny that should be my line. Where is your ring by the way?" asked Elizabeth as she showed her what was on her hand. Sam saw the silver band with the small diamond and laughed. "Yeah right. More proof he doesn't love you. Mine cost over fifteen thousand dollars."

"Mine belonged to Lila Quartermaine." said Elizabeth quietly. "Now get out of here. Jason Morgan is dead and this man, doesn't want a thing to do with you. Now I don't have a clue how you got onto this estate because I know that security has you barred but I have a good idea."

Jason started to pull the comforter over Elizabeth but then realized it had been against Sam's skin and just pulled her to him and said "And tell Cassadine, that his new girlfriend and he had better stay far away from my family. You, well, you need to leave and don't come back."

Sam sashayed over to get dressed slowly, certain that Jason had to be watching her. She was pissed but knew that she had work to do. With Carly firmly on her side, there was no way she would lose Jason to that pasty faced bitch.

Once dressed, she turned around only to see she was in the room alone. Stomping her feet, she went down the stairs only to see Elizabeth sitting there calmly drinking a glass of juice. "You know, eventually, he is going to dump your ass. You think you can use this baby of yours to trap him, but Lucky isn't going to allow it."

"Lucky?" Elizabeth said with a laugh. "Lucky has no say in anything. And Sam, I am not trapping Jason in anything. We made plans together and unlike you who used the threat of aborting Sonny's kid to get your temporary place in Jason's life, mine is permanent and created by our love."

Snorting, Sam said "Yeah, right. It took brain damage to get him away from me. He will come back to me, we were meant to be together. We are perfect for one another."

"Sam, go home. You don't even know Jason and of course you are perfect for one another, isn't that what cons do, they make themselves into whatever the mark needs."

"Jason isn't a con to me." she said then added "I love him with all of my heart."

"Then I feel sorry for you." Elizabeth said quietly. "Sam, the man you knew, he is gone. He isn't coming back. And I hate to tell you this, but he really wasn't that into you."

"You had to have tricked him. Carly and I are going to prove it and things are going to go back to the way they should have always been. Jason with me and you, you out in the cold. Carly promised me that if I helped her, she would give me Jason."

Jason had done what Elizabeth wanted, he had gone to shower, he had been worried about protecting her from Sam but Alice was in the kitchen. As he came down the stairs he said "I am not Mrs. Corinthos property, she can't give me to anyone. Sam, I have no idea why you seem so sure of yourself but face facts. I am not the man you knew."

"Jassssiinnnn, you asked me to marry you, you were going to be with me always. You asked to stay with you until you died." she said her eyes pleading with him in between glaring at Elizabeth.

"Sam, your Jason, he did die." said Jason not adding that he had been settling when asking her that. "Sam, I have a family, Elizabeth and I are Cam's parents and her baby, this child, is ours."

"What?" she asked dumbfounded. "What do you mean, ours?"

"As in the baby Elizabeth is carrying, it is mine or rather Jason Morgan's but since he is me biologically, it is mine."

Sam screamed and then clenching her hands into claws went after Elizabeth shouting at her that she was lying that she was trying to steal Jason from her. But Alice got in the middle of things and picked up the small woman in her arms. "Time to take out the trash, Mr. Quartermaine?"

"Yes, Alice. Sam, Jason was with Elizabeth, I found a ring with her name on it in his safe and from the sounds of it, he was finished with you in May. Yes, he helped you later but because he more than likely felt guilty about the mess you were in. But, Sam, even if he wasn't with Elizabeth, I am. And I control this body and his life. And our future is going to be with Elizabeth and our children."

Nodding at Alice he said "I made a call on my way down, there is a police car waiting outside, they are either taking you to the docks, you can go to Spoon Island or you can go to jail, either way I want you out of here."

Sam glared at Elizabeth then hissed at her. "I am going to prove you are lying, you won't get away with this."

Jason kissed Elizabeth's brow as they watched Sam leaving with Alice. "They are going to be trouble."

"Yes, they are but they don't know that I have both of you on my side." she whispered as she elbowed him and discreetly pointed at the camera she had found.

"Both of us?" he asked then smirked as he got she meant Morgan and Quartermaine.

"We should go join the family." he said then leaning down to kiss her say the cameras and said "You have to call Mac, tell him she is back in town. I know that Miami is rather eager to have her extradited."

On the other end of the screen, Spinelli fell for it and was soon letting his fingers do the walking unaware that a man had made a deal to protect his daughter. One that was going to sent him to jail and Sam, well Sam was going to finally pay for her crimes.

TBC