Swan Song

by mandymld

Elizabeth moves to LA when PC becomes too much for her, helping a doctor with a mysterious patient, she is shocked when she learns who it is and how it has repercussions for her life. Returning to PC, the patient is a surprise to those who love them. Originally written when that Cretin in Charge tried to fire Becky.

1. Chapter 1

Swan Song...

Chapter One

Letting herself into her home, Elizabeth was bone tired but still tried to keep her energy up, after all the boys needed her. Seeing the mess, she gritted her teeth when Lucky came from the kitchen carrying a bottle of beer and a sandwich. "Lucky, what happened here?"

"Well, since Nik had his son, I decided the boys and I would play tents." he replied then when he saw her anger, pretended not to notice as he carefully placed his beer bottle down so that it would spill when she went to clean it up.

"Now that you are here, I have to go, Siobhan is waiting for me. We have a meeting with Jason and Sam about how to proceed with protecting Brenda Barrett; you know how Jason is with those he cares about. He is like a dog with a bone and he wants to protect Brenda without endangering Sam or the Corinthos family."

Not even acknowledging his little dig, she looked around then started to clean up the mess, she had had more than enough of his passive aggressive crap, but she just let it go, knowing that she had to take it, for the boys sake. At least for now.

Later than night, after spending four hours cleaning up her house, then letting in Nik as he returned Aidan, she soon had all three of her boys tucked up in bed, before retiring to her own room, wishing she had the money to redecorate it but she had a plan, one she couldn't deviate from, not if she ever wanted to escape this cesspool her life had become.

Finally after dragging down the artificial tree so that the boys and she could decorate it in the morning, Elizabeth soon was fast asleep, never hearing the sleigh bells as she dreamed of what her life should have been and would have been if she hadn't given into fear.

The next morning, gathering her boys, she soon had them placing homemade ornaments onto the tree, after they had already placed the lights and garland around the living room. Hearing the phone ringing, she sighed when she saw that it was Nik who wanted to yet again take Aidan for the day. "Nik, today is my only day off, why don't you keep him when I have to put him in daycare instead of wanting him when I have my few precious moments with all my children."

Wanting to remind her that he had offered her the world, he just kept his mouth shut, well aware that he had bigger issues to deal with. "Fine, but I am getting rather sick of visiting with my own son on YOUR schedule." he threatened as he hung up.

After a day spent baking cookies, then sledding at the park, Elizabeth was heartsick when off in the distance she saw Jason with Molly and Morgan. There were days that it hurt like hell to see him with those other children, after walking away from his own.

Then she looked at her boys, they were normal healthy children in spite of her messes, if Jason had been in their lives, if he had dropped them at a moments notice to go run off and rescue the Corinthos children, or Brenda, how would they have dealt with it?

In spite of the fact that she truly doubted he had ever loved his son, Elizabeth was grateful to Jason, for showing her his true self, after all how could any man take back the woman who endangered his children like Sam did, tell her he loved her like she had heard he was telling the woman. He couldn't not if he had ever truly cared about them.

She had spent months blaming herself for what had happened had made some serious mistakes including getting involved with Nik out of a desperate need to not be alone and then there was her mess with Lucky. She scoffed as she recalled what the doctor she had worked with in California had pointed out about their relationship.

The man had been spot on and when she returned home to find that both Nik and Lucky had moved on, she had been bitterly amused to realize how right he had been. While she could never cut her ties with Nik since he was the father of Aidan, in less than a month, Lucky Spencer was going to find out that he had nothing left to control her with.

Walking away from the park, she soon had them at home, drinking hot cocoa and a bottle for Aidan even as she did laundry, paid her bills and dealt with the world. That night, she checked on her boys, and then sat down with the book she had found in one of the storage boxes.

Reading the story of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and remembering her dream, Elizabeth sadly closed the book and then walked to the fireplace, grateful the boys had never seen this copy and tossed it onto the flames as she let go of her hopes and dreams regarding Jason Morgan for the last time.

Waking up the next morning to the sound of an excited Cam and hearing her brothers voice, she groaned and got dressed in scrubs. Coming down the stairs, she saw Steven straightening something on her tree while Jake colored and Aidan was being loaded up by Nik's nanny. "Where is Nik?"

"Mr. Cassadine asked me to pick up his son and take him back to the house, Ms. Webber." Reported the nanny.

"Where is he?" she asked.

"Mr. Cassadine went on a trip to New York with Ms. Ashton and his other son." she stated.

"Then there is no reason for my son to head over to that house." she said firmly. "When his father is in town, fine, but since he isn't, my son will stay with me at the hospital today."

"Mr. Cassadine isn't going to be happy." she was warned by the uppity nanny.

"That is his problem." she stated then told the woman thank you but that she could leave even as Elizabeth counted the weeks until she could move away. When Cam had gone with Robin for a breakfast treat before the trip, Elizabeth quietly looked at her calendar as she got control of her anger with Nik.

Steven had gone upstairs to change and then asked. "Are you sure that I can't change your mind about coming with us?"

"No, I will take the boys to daycare and spend the day covering for Epiphany." she said.

The next morning, after talking to Cam on the phone, Elizabeth hurried downstairs to answer the door. Seeing an angry Nik there she snapped "Don't start. You of all people know better."

"You were the one who wanted me to take Aidan yesterday."

"The purpose of that is for your son to be with you, not the nanny." she replied. "Nik, why on earth would you want to drag him over there then pawn him off onto the nanny?"

"I have a business to run." he snapped. "I know that you understand that, so why are you raising such a fuss, is this about Brook, are you jealous?"

Shaking her head, she let out what she had wanted to say for months. "No, I am happy for you, you say she makes you happy. Nik, we were a mistake, one I would regret if it wasn't for Aidan."

Flinching a bit at that one, he said "What is with you, lately. Is this because Lucky and I have moved on and you are still stuck in the same old patterns?"

Nik was not happy, when he had suggested she visit Sarah, he had expected her to come back humbled, ready to concede to his wishes. It was only a small part of his plan, but he had no intention of letting her run his life, none at all.

Snorting in disgust she said "No, what you don't seem to get is that we agreed to co-parent our son that means you and I, not your nanny, not your butler, but you. I was worried about this before Aidan was born, because I saw how you neglected Spencer, but you seemed to be making changes, yet here you are again, doing the same thing with Aidan you did with him. Nik, when you are ready to be a father, to be there for the hard times as well as the good, fine, show up, otherwise, don't bother."

Wanting to snap that at her, Nik instead just left, well aware that his Aunt Alexis had assured him she could get custody of Aidan for him anytime he wanted. Once he was gone, Elizabeth just sat down and worked things through in her head like her doctor suggested then went to hit stop on the device that her California attorney had advised her to get.

Soon placing the copy of the disk in her sock drawer, Elizabeth was on her way to the shower when she saw the broken glass she had thought to save for her son someday but then reminded herself that she was cleansing all of that out of her life.

Getting some newspaper and a plastic bag it was soon in the trash and seeing it there, gave her a sense of release, a sense of cutting the last of the ties...

After dealing with a delusional Lucky, a terse Nik and a smug Brook, Elizabeth came home to the house and soon had the boys eating dinner as Cam asked if he could take the trip that his Uncle was planning for the next week. "Let me talk to your Uncle Steven, first, okay Cam?"

Nodding around his fork full of spaghetti, he waited until he finished before asking. Mommy, did Santa come early?

Telling her what he had overheard between Lucky and his brother, Elizabeth just played it off but knew that her time had just become more limited if she didn't want an ugly court battle on her hands.

The next day, after sending Cam to school and Jake off with Patrick and Emma, she lay back down and slept with Aidan in her room fast asleep. Hearing the doorbell ringing, she let in Lulu who snarled about her being lazy and sleeping the day away now that she had Nik's money.

"What do you want Lulu? I am trying to get some sleep." she said ignoring the stupid nonsense pouring out of her mouth.

"I need you help." she replied then took her coat off as if to stay.

"Then you should have tried being nice when you entered my house. Now, I am tired, so I really think you need to leave." with that she edged her former sister in law out the door and then said "Why don't you see if Brook can help? Or Siobhan, see I don't have to be nice to you and don't have to give a crap about whatever little petty mess you have created, not anymore."

When the door closed, Lulu sneered and said "Well we will just see about this."

Heading over to complain to Lucky, she was told off by Epiphany who was at the police station to talk to Mac Scorpio. "Instead of bothering the woman who worked a twelve hour shift last night with your own problems, why don't you try helping her out a bit?"

"She can handle it." said Lulu. "But seriously, Lucky she was asleep when I knocked; she answered the door in her pajamas, who knows where the boys were?"

"Did you bother to ask or did you just assume the worst?" asked Detective Dimestco when he came over, he couldn't stand the blond and her holier than thou attitude, he had been given a crash course on the Spencer girl from former Detective Cruz before he had left town for greener pastures.

"Stay out of this, it doesn't concern you."

"That has never stopped you, so why should it anyone else." he told her. "Spencer, Mac wants to talk to you, the FBI is rather interested in where their undercover car is."

It was ten days before Christmas and after Lulu had gone running to both her brothers, Elizabeth had had to deal with their overbearing nonsense and when she had suggested they spend the day helping her out, she had gotten nothing but stutters and excuses as she said "I thought so."

Heading home at the end of her shift that had included Sam visiting Kelly Lee then sending a sample of blood down to be tested for pregnancy, Elizabeth was more than ready to get away from this town and its hypocrites. Calling California, she was told that all would be ready the first of the year.

"Thanks, I owe you one." she told her sister's lawyer. The dark haired man on the other end gave a cold smile as he hung up. Soon, he would have all the pieces for his masterpiece under his control and no one, but no one would find out until it was too late... looking at the lawyer's dead body, he made a call then went to catch a plane.

Wondering why someone was trying to annoy her when she opened the envelope with the articles about Jason and Sam, she just carefully put them away and called Steven and asked "Are you sure you want to take Cam with you the day after Christmas?"

Explaining how her son was loving skiing, he asked if she was sure she didn't want to go this time?

"Let see, Maxie Jones and I on the same bus, not a good idea. I am a mother now and can't go to jail for pushing her off of a cliff." she replied in only a half kidding tone. "Steven, we really need to talk this week."

Agreeing, he hung up and then went to find out why he was being paged into his office. "Doctor Webber, we are investigating a baby stealing ring and have reason to believe that they were here in Port Charles at one point last year."

"We understand you had a missing baby boy, one related to you?" asked the other agent.

"Yes, but his Uncle returned him safely to his family. It turns out that the artist Franco..."

"Sir that is just it, we have reason to believe that you were given back the wrong child." said the agent. "Would it be possible for you to arrange tests, quietly, without telling the parents, I would hate to ruin their holidays over nothing."

Grimly agreeing he said "I would guess all you would need is Aidan's and Elizabeth's samples? We have them on file."

"No, we would prefer fresh samples, just in case of tampering since we have no idea how high up this runs." said the agent. Steven agreed to take care of things then said "I was wondering about something. There is a local computer geek; if he finds out he won't keep it quiet."

"Mr. Spinelli is no worry to us, these won't be done on a computer that can be accessed by the Internet. Nor will the names be used. I am well aware that you hired someone here to do something similar in regards to that man."

"He might have set up a program to keep an eye out for my sister's results." he warned them before making plans to get the samples the next day. Just to be on the safe side, he had them taken on all three of the boys.

Elizabeth had had a very busy day but had taken some satisfaction in hearing that Sam's test results were negative then saw her talking to the young trashy blond that for some reason reminded her of Carly. Falling asleep she woke up to find Patrick Drake outside of his own home, attempting to build a family of snowmen.

Heading out to help him along with the boys, it soon evolved into a block party and for the first time in a while, Elizabeth was grateful to be able to forget her problems for a while.

An hour later, as they drank coffee in her kitchen, Robin looked at her friend who had had one of the worst years on record and that included her own bad year and asked. "How are you doing?"

"I don't know. Robin, I don't know how much longer I can keep dealing with Lucky and Nik acting like they are. They both seem to think I am the one in the wrong, like neither of them had anything to do with how all of this happened." Robin saw the confusion in Elizabeth's eyes and hugged her friend.

Robin was aware that Jason had hurt her by returning to Sam after they had broken up. She got it; after all, she had lost Jason to another woman and had fled the country to get over him. Elizabeth didn't have that option, she had children and Lucky and Nik wouldn't be too thrilled that their children were gone. She was trying to figure out how to help her friend when Mac called to tell her that Maxie was in trouble again.

Elizabeth had had the pleasure of seeing Sam doing her usual overly dramatic nonsense while talking to her mother who apparently had her hands full with Ric's daughter who was acting a bit off. Shrugging that off, Elizabeth left GH and saw Lisa Niles talking to Johnny Zachara and wondered what was up with that as the man seemed to be walking rather gingerly and favoring his side.

Grimacing as she got that he had been shot and was covering it up, she waited until he had split up from the nutty doctor and then thinking about it drove over to see her brother who seemed distracted. "Steven, what is it?"

"A few things some are hospital business but I just got a call from Sarah, that I need to tell you about." he told her while leading her to a chair. "Her attorney, the one taking care of things for you, was killed in a robbery last night."

"What happened?" she asked while feeling guilty for the selfish feeling of fear as what was going to happened regarding her own life.

"Nothing connected to here. It was a simple robbery, that painting he had in his office." He told her and when she had calmed down a bit added "His partner called, things are set up and there is nothing for you to worry about."

"I hate that I was thinking like that." she admitted to him. "Is there anything I can do to help you with the hospital stuff, oh my god, I forgot why I came to see you. I was in the hallway when I saw Lisa Niles with John Zachara. Wasn't he in the hallway when Robin swore Lisa drugged her?"

"Yes, but they are supposedly dating." he replied. "However the idea he had the needle, yeah that is a possibility. He would more than likely protect his girlfriend."

"More than likely, his doctor." she stated. "I think he was shot and that he has her taking care of him."

Swearing a bit, Steven went looking for Olivia's ex, after finding him at Jake's he greeted him and saw what his sister had. "Hey, Zachara."

Within a few seconds, Johnny went from feeling good about having Dr, Niles under his control to being on the ground trying to control the pain. "What the heck are you doing Webber?"

"Are you okay? I had wanted to talk to you about Lisa. What happened?" he asked while helping the man up who was clearly favoring his side. "Do you need a doctor?"

"No, I am fine." he snapped as he quickly hurried away and drove home to Crimson Point worried about the blond doctor finding out the truth.

Elizabeth arrived home that evening and started cooking dinner for the boys when she heard the door bell and let in Nik who placed Aidan into his playpen. "We need to talk; this really isn't working for me, Elizabeth. I think that the boys and you should consider moving out to Spoon Island. I can't keep interrupting my busy day and you complain about having to come and get the boys out there... I mean, I had to cancel on Brook since you get angry when the nanny brings him home."

"No, I get angry when I hear he is with the nanny all day when you are his father." she reminded him. "I told you, as long as you were the one taking care of him, you could keep him overnight, but yet you keep bringing him home every single night."

"I need my sleep and he still isn't sleeping through the night. Besides, you are his mother, that is your job and why you should move in." Nik was not happy at her attitude, not at all.

"With Brook and you?" she asked in disbelief, "And your homicidal and kidnapping granny when she comes to visit, or has she dropped dead and had a heart attack?"

"Yes with Brook and me. As for Helena, she is no threat to you." He could deal with his grandmother; after all he had been doing so for years.

"And my other two children, what if she decides to go after the Spencers again?" she asked. "We both know that as long as Helena is alive she is a danger to all three of my children, Nik. As for the inconvenience, seriously, you are upset at being kept up at night; well let me remind you, that when he is here, I am the one waking up with Aidan."

"Well you are his mother." he sniffed then walked to the door. "When should I tell the staff you will be arriving?"

"Nik, what part of no don't you get." she retorted. "I am not moving in."

"Well I guess we will just have to go to court and we both know that you don't have the money for that. I am quite certain that with your recent history of mental instability..."

"Get the hell out of my house." she snapped. "Nik, something to remember, I will go to Jason, ask him help me get away if you threaten me again."

"Oh please that deadbeat. He went right back to the woman he loves; you don't even exist on his radar. Besides, I am quite certain that Alexis would only be too glad to help Sam get to be a mother, and if you don't play ball..."

"Nik, don't go there, you won't like my response." she said with a cold smile then told him to leave now. Once he was gone, she took out the tape and with a pat on the back went to add this to her growing collection. Looking at the calendar on her desk, she just kept reminding herself that Nik had nothing to use against her.

It was Christmas Eve after the hospital party and Elizabeth was tired of the way Lulu and Lucky were acting as they treated her like a leper with the boys in the room. She just kept reminding herself that she only had to get through this month, that in less than eight days, things would be different.

When Nik entered with Brook, then brought Aidan directly over to her, she took her son and grimaced "Nik, how long has his diaper been wet?"

"I think he wet it when we were on the shuttle." he answered.

"Why didn't you change it." she whispered to him then looked at him and then said "Oh course, the prince doesn't do diapers."

Leaving to change Aidan, she was pissed when she returned to see Sam and her sisters there. Sam was trying to play with Jake who wasn't looking very happy. But the part that truly pissed Elizabeth off was when Lucky told Jake to be nice.

"Boys, why don't you get changed and we will head home, okay?" When Lucky started to protest, Elizabeth moved closer and said "If you ever again tell Jake that he has to be nice to that woman, I will personally go to the press with all she has done."

"Elizabeth, you need a little thing called proof, otherwise you can be sued for slander." he pointed out smugly. "Besides, what do you think Jason would say if you were to get his fiancée tossed into Jail?"

"I really don't care. Keep her away from my children and that goes for that Irish chick too, Lucky. And let me give you a warning, don't attempt this again, Sam." she said the other woman trying to move in closer. "You know what, if you are smart, you will stay far away from me and mine."

What she really wanted to say was did she truly think Spinelli was the only computer hacker in the world and that she had enough to get the woman buried under the jail. "And pass this on to Jason, the danger, it's still there."

"We can protect..." Sam was not worried, her plan had worked, thanks to Molly and Kristina she was 'engaged' yet again to Jason and they would soon have a child of their own, one not tainted by Elizabeth's presence to raise.

"Sam, the greatest danger to my children, it came from you and there is no way you are going to be near my son, none at all." she warned then gathered the boys and left. Nik walked over and said to the two of them. "Keep up your end of the deal and things will work out."

"What about Cam?" asked Lucky a bit worried he would end up having to raise that little boy. He had been enjoying his new life and playing full time daddy would ruin that.

Nik just pointed out that there was Steven to take him. "We just have to wait until after the New Year. Sam, have you told your mother about Jake yet? And what about Carly, where do you think she will fall out in this?"

"She hates Elizabeth; loathes her actually." she reminded them. Nik walked away, thinking about how he had given Elizabeth a chance, but she had refused to work with him, well now, he was going to take away his son. It was part of the deal with Sam; she was going to testify regarding the danger that the mother of his child had put him in, in exchange for Jake being in Jason's life permanently.

At the Webber household Elizabeth was determined to due her best for the boys to have one last good memory of Port Charles. "Cam, are you sure Santa is coming to our house tonight?"

When her little boy looked at her like she was crazy, she said "Why don't Jake and you get the cookies ready for Santa while I pour the milk."

Elizabeth chose to read how the Grinch Stole Christmas then had the boys in their footed pajamas and tucked into bed. Placing the presents under the tree, she went to her room and changed into some pajamas herself before curling up and having a great big cry.

Franco arrived in town to the news Christmas morning that Jason Morgan was engaged to Sam McCall. Snorting a bit he went to make the call. "This is Agent Thompson, where are you on the child stealing investigation."

With a satisfied grin at knowing they would soon be circling around the two people he wanted most to pay, he hung up the phone then went to take care of his last issue. Seeing Jerry Jacks searching Wyndemere, he slipped up behind the man and said "Helena doesn't have it."

"What?" he said and turning around found himself shoved back into the wall. Puling out the knife he kept in his boot, Jerry stuck it between the two ribs and watched as the man fell in shock then died.

Jerry decided that he would have a little fun and took the body up to the study and placed it just so. When he saw Nik asleep in his bed, he arranged things for it to look like Nik had killed the man. With a soft giggle, he left the room and went to make the call.

Taking the device he had created to sound like Helena he placed it on the phone then called the police.

At the station, Ron called his boss. "Detective Dimesteco, this had better be important."

"Sir, I just had a call from Spoon Island, they found the dead body of that weird artist Franco in the study. The caller said that Cassadine had blood on his hands and that the weapon is sticking out of the body."

Mac met him out on the Island and Nik was not happy to be woken up on Christmas morning and hauled off in handcuffs. Things got worse for him when he blew a 1.7 on the blood alcohol machine after telling the man he didn't recall the evening.

By the time Alexis arrived, annoyed to be at the station on the holidays, Mac had let them listen to the 911 call. "So, it's either you or Helena who did this."

Nik pointed out that his grandmother was who she was and Mac had to agree that it was more likely that Helena had killed Franco, but he then asked. "It does raise a question, why were either of them on the island?"

"I don't know. As far as I knew, Franco was a Jason Morgan problem." he stated. "Maybe he thought Sam was on the Island, who knows." he knew that if he kept it on Franco's connection to Morgan no one would ask questions about the drinking and why Franco would be so interested in him. Nik had received one of the man's paintings and promptly burnt it. Now, he was beginning to wonder if the man was on to them.

When they left, Alexis said "This is not good. You need to get Helena out of town if you want to go for custody of your child, but are you sure that things are that bad?"

"I had no idea, none that Helena was in town." he said frustrated. "Our people said she was in Greece, how the hell did she get here?"

"Nik, maybe you should talk to Elizabeth, come to a compromise, she was more than reasonable with Lucky when she didn't have to be regarding Cam. Are you sure that you can't work with her?"

"Alexis, she is keeping me from my son, she wants me to see him on her schedule and is being totally unreasonable when it comes to letting my family near him. Did Sam tell you that she dragged Aidan and the other two boys out of the party yesterday just because Sam was there?"

"No, but Nik, I have seen how the Spencers treat her, I am sure that that was more in response to Lucky and his sister. You need to talk to them, because your brother's attitude and the way he is running around town, months later still dogging her for doing what he himself has done... it will be brought up in court and she would be right to do it."

Leaving, Alexis felt her lips thin out as she got an uneasy feeling that she was missing something. Sam seemed to be leaving out a lot of things lately and then there was Jason's trial a few years ago, the conversation she had had with Elizabeth, Alexis was feeling a bit off and knew that she truly was missing something important.

Christmas morning, Elizabeth quickly got dressed so that she could spend the day with her boys and her brother. Hurrying downstairs, she saw that Steven was already in the kitchen. "Steven, you didn't have to go to this much trouble, when did you have the time to do all of this?"

"I uh, was wondering the same thing about you so I arranged for it to be delivered." he said then frowned a bit before telling her. "I had a call this morning, from Mac Scorpio. That man, the one who kidnapped your son, well Franco was found dead at Wyndemere late last night. Nik is one of the suspects."

Sitting down, she listened to the whole story then said "While I don't get along with Nik right now, I really doubt he killed him. More than likely it was Helena."

When the boys came down and Aidan was in his chair, they soon had opened every thing on their list to Santa and some clothes that weren't. She hid her smile when Cam frowned at the matching pajamas for his brothers and him. When the phone rang and Lucky asked to take the boys to the Quartermaine house, Elizabeth reminded him that she had let him have them night before.

"Today is for the Webbers to have with the boys." she said then hung up, knowing that at least Nik was going to be too busy to pull the same crap. As she played with her boys, Steven was feeling guilty about the test results that were coming in the very next day.

He had been watching Aidan and the little boy truly didn't look like the rest of them. Even Cam and Jake had a lot of similar features that had to have come from Elizabeth since they had different fathers. Genes that recessive were not likely to be missing in her latest child and as time went on, he spent more time thinking that something was truly wrong with this situation.

As the holiday drew to a close, Elizabeth and her brother sat down, talking about the changes to come. "I hate that I am leaving just as you moved here."

Hugging his little sister, Steven said "It's what is best for the boys, for you. When I think of them, of Lucky, Nik and Morgan... I just think of this. Someday when these boys are older and they come to town, what is the excuse going to be then. How will they look them in the eyes and not feel as low as they should for what they did?"

"Steven, I am not without guilt in this matter." she stated. "I mean, Lucky should have never been able to hear the word daddy from Jake, which I did. I went to Jason, told him that Lucky would be a good father, a better father to our child."

"Yeah, that was a bone head move, a very bad one. Elizabeth, Jason could have said no, he had that option, he still chose the Corinthos family over his own, and we won't even go into the Sam mess. I just... you say you are as bad, but I don't see it. I really, really don't."

"That is because you are my brother and you love me." she said with a laugh. Then in a more serious tone added "I made mistakes, big ones. Are you sure that you will be okay, because when they can't come after me, they will come after you."

"No, they can try." he said then went to get ready for bed. "Morning is going to come awfully quickly for Cam and I. We will be back around two."

"I will meet you at the hospital. What is going on, that we have to meet there by the way?" Her brother had been rather secretive, but had promised to tell her what was going on the next day.

"Long story and hopefully one with a happy ending." he told her before leaving her bedroom. Elizabeth was just about to fall asleep when her phone rang.

Listening to Nik's request that the boys spend time together while he was working she said "As long as it is at the Brownstone, I don't trust Helena."

Nik agreed and added that Spencer was staying there for a few days. Soon hanging up, he told Sam. "Jake will be there along with Aidan. I will get the sample since I know that Bobbie doesn't like you."

"Just get it, then when we file..." Sam was already dreaming of the day that Jake called her mommy, she would make his life miserable but for now, she would play nice, at least until Elizabeth was finally gone. As she drove home to Jason's penthouse, the place that as soon as Brenda Barrett was gone would once again be her home, Sam was dreaming of her dream life, grateful for all Spinelli had done to make it perfect.

Watching as her now growing boy went off to ski with his uncle, Elizabeth got the younger two ready and told Bobbie the latest regarding her children. "Elizabeth, what ever went down, you have nothing to ever apologize for, you are one of the best mothers I have ever seen."

Thanking her, Elizabeth said "I have to meet Steven at GH. Are you sure you are okay with bringing them there?"

"I have to take Morgan over anyhow." she told the petite nurse as she felt her eyes narrow. Nik had had the nanny drop of Spencer, claiming he was too busy, but she would have sworn he had just slipped out her back door.

At GH, Elizabeth worked her weekly short shift, and then went to have lunch. Seeing Lisa Niles hanging up her phone then slamming out of the cafeteria she heard her own name called over the intercom and went to the ER. There expecting to work, she saw Patrick Drake who was crying while Epiphany told her to head over to curtain two.

Finding Cam with cuts and bruises being taped up, she hugged her little boy and looked at her brother who had an open wound and lots of scrapes and bruises. "What happened?"

"There was an accident." he said haltingly. "A car, swerved in front of us. The bus hit it and then a couple other cars hit us. Cam was in my lap, thank god. He just banged himself up a bit, but the driver didn't make it, neither did Molly Lansing."

"Oh my god, poor, poor Alexis and Ric." she said in shock.

"She wouldn't stay in the seat." he told her. "She kept popping up and moving to where Michael and Kristina were." He didn't dare tell her the way the younger girl had copped an attitude when Michael had moved up to talk to Cam, she didn't need to hear that the little girl was bragging to all and sundry about her sister marrying the man she loved this spring and how she had been the one to fix things for Sam.

Within minutes the ER was filled with more accident victims including Aidan and Jake who were crying while Bobbie Spencer was talking to Morgan who was shaken by what he had seen. His cousin had died, her head sheared off and it had landed on the street.

Kristina and Michael had been sedated; Morgan's pulse was too shocky at this point for them to do the same for him.

Elizabeth saw that Aidan was being taken quickly to a room and called out for someone to call Nik while she went to see her little boy. "He is going to need a transfusion."

She sat down in shock watching them take her little boys clothes off, then saw the bone damage. When Steven took Jake to a room, she stood there between them, not sure what to thing as all the sudden they put out a code blue from Jake's. Cam stood next to his mother, hugging onto her as they saw the sudden rush of staff.

Jason had entered the hospital along with Sam, Steven Webber saw. He sneered as the man held his con artist girlfriend and was completely oblivious to the fact that his own son was in a desperate situation. "Morgan, I need a minute."

"Not now." he snapped at the man. "Sam's sister was just killed."

Moving in closely; Steven leaned in and whispered "Now you listen to me you piece of shit, I don't give a fuck about Sam McCall. Your own son is being worked on even as we speak, but we both know you don't give a crap. Why else would you be over here, comforting the bitch who endangered him, the same whore that you claim to have always loved, the woman who made the life of your son's mother a living hell,... but you stay here, I will come back later with news about your son. Too bad it will be too late."

Stepping back, he looked at Jason then walked away never seeing the man's shock and pain. When he tried to disconnect from Sam, she clung even closer. "Sam, I have to go and..."

"No, Jason, don't leave me, I need you. For once be there for me. You owe me, that." Sam didn't know what Steven Webber had said to him but she did know that once again, he was starting to pull away. Normally she had time to deal with this, but this time, she couldn't, and she had to stay here.

Maxie saw Spinelli and gave him the news regarding Molly and he quickly went over to offer up his condolences to Sam and Jason. When his friend tried to get Sam to let go, Spinelli said "Stone Cold, right now, you need to put away your superman suit and be there for the one you love. She is truly devastated by her loss."

There was a sudden shriek then they all saw Elizabeth Webber falling to her knees. Jason felt his heart stop then the glare from Steven and he just felt his life ending as he whimpered no, no, no.

Sam, who had been keeping her supposed news to herself, looked at him as she figured out what was going on and said with a smile "Its fine, Jason. You still have our baby."

Taking his hand, she held it to her still flat stomach and looking into his pain filled eyes and said "I was waiting for the perfect time to tell you, but I am pregnant, about two months."

Snatching his hand away in shock, he said "And you think the perfect time is when my son just died. What the hell?"

"But Jason, we both know that yes, you loved Jake, but that because you love me, this baby, our dream child will mean more. That you will finally stop putting Michael first the only reason you didn't before was because you loved Carly more than Elizabeth." Sam was certain of it, after all, Sonny and Carly had assured her plenty of times of those facts.

Backing away, he looked at her, then at the beaming Spinelli then at Maxie who was watching Elizabeth with something like glee and he said "Who the hell are you people? Sam, where did you get this idea I wanted a child? I told you repeatedly I didn't want to be a father, as for loving Jake, how the hell did you come up with this idea, because you couldn't be more wrong. I walked away to protect Jake from this, this life."

He fell to his knees looking at all of them in deep shock then struggled to stand and when Carly entered the ER shouting his name, he told her to leave him alone and left, knowing he was the last person Elizabeth would want to see at that moment.

Brenda had been watching from where she stood next to Sonny and then looked at the rest of the room, wondering about the dynamics when she heard the words my son and groaned to herself as she got what was going on.

When she saw first Sam, then Carly and finally Spinelli chasing after Jason, she just slipped into the chapel, needing a few minutes alone to process what she heard. There however, she saw Jason Morgan at the front of the meditative room, on his knees, sobbing like his life had ended.

Sitting in one of the chairs, she waited, knowing that he was beyond any help she could give him.

Meanwhile back in the ER, the word was spreading that Aidan had died. "Elizabeth, I need to speak to you."

Looking at Dr. Julian, she wiped the tears and tried to regain control. "What is it?"

"Jake, needs blood. We have been giving him plasma, but to heal faster he needs blood and you aren't a match. You need to call Lucky."

With a bitter smile as she recalled how devastated Jason had been over Molly and how he hadn't once again seemed to even think of her children, looking around she saw the old man with the silver hair talking to his daughter in law, she said "Calling Lucky would do no good, but I will take care of it."

Finding Edward Quartermaine who was clearly upset, he was shocked to see Elizabeth asking to speak to him as Monica rushed off to surgery. After being told what she needed, he hurried to find the doctor while she promised to explain later why he hadn't been told.

Elizabeth heard what Mac was being told by Dante, Ronnie and two of his uniformed men in regard to what had caused the accident, the news almost sending her into shock. Wanting to laugh hysterically, she went to Jake's room and apologized for what she had done to her little boy. "I will fix this, I swear, Jake. I will."

Two hours later, the hospital had emptied out when Nik finally showed up, Brook in tow. Seeing Elizabeth standing in a window, he snapped out in annoyance "What is going on, Elizabeth?"

"Our son died in a car accident." she bluntly told him. "One caused by your brother while playing undercover detective."

"What?" he shouted. "How could you have let that happen?"

"Lucky was in a high speed chase while undercover as this Ronan O'Rielly. He hit the bus that was carrying various members of the staff. Molly Lansing was killed, then there was a chain reaction and Bobbie's car was shoved up under the bus. Morgan and Jake were fine, but Aidan's car seat was..." Elizabeth sobbed then got control.

"Aidan's car seat was shoved under the bus. He needed blood, mine didn't match. He needed you, Nik, where were you, what was so important today?" She turned, her numbness leaving her as she looked at yet another man, another father who had failed his child.

"Elizabeth, wait, no." said Steven as he began to wish he had told her what was going on all along. He knew she would regret what she was saying and he didn't want her to feel trapped by guilt when it was time for her to leave. "Wait."

"No, tell me Nik, where were you today?" she had already called and asked Alfred, but she needed to hear him tell her himself, she needed to hear that once again, when one of her children had needed their father, that man had been occupied with something they had considered more important.

Sick he sat down and said "I was arranging for Brook's tour."

"Ah, yes, Brook the girl who is even younger than Maxie Jones, and you are even older than Lucky. You are a hypocrite, wasn't that your excuse, to me. To take back Lucky. That he was under the influence of the drugs, that that was why he was involved with a girl barely legal to drink, what is yours, Nik?"

"You were the one who didn't want Me." he yelled. "If you came back, she would be gone in an instant... I am only with her to get you back."

"That is truly a sad statement." she replied then saw the younger woman flinching. "Brook, for your sake, I am sorry. Nik, we were wrong, this was the result of the mess my life was, and if you would only admit it, it was the same thing for you."

"No, it's not. I have always wanted you, since Lucky died. It's why I..." Nik shut up and then sat down and in a dead voice said "Where is my son?"

"That is what I am trying to tell you." said Steven who saw the rest of the Spencers gathered around Lucky who was limping as he came from his room. "Aidan isn't your son, Nik."

"What?" When Lucky suddenly burst into tears and started to go on and on about how he had loved his son, how he had never had the chance to get to know his own flesh and blood, how he had been deprived of that.

"You, you did this." Lulu started to approach Elizabeth only to be yanked back by her boyfriend who had just been informed along with Mac Scorpio by the FBI what was going on. "Let me go, do you know what she did to my brother?"

"Your idiot brothers did this to themselves." he snapped. "Lulu could you for once; just shut up and listen to the whole story before going off half cocked."

"As I was saying before Lucky decided to invoke his usual woe is me act, Aidan isn't the boy Elizabeth gave birth to. Lucky, you are the idiot that brought him back and said he was the same child, well he isn't. That little boy, who died, was adopted from a Romanian orphanage by Franco for his mother. You, you idiot, you created this mess."

Elizabeth felt her knees give away and was caught by Patrick and Robin who had come over to check on her. "Where, where is my little boy?"

"I don't know, Elizabeth." Steven said softly as he reached out to help support his sister aware she couldn't take many more shocks right now. "I have talked to the FBI who are investigating but they don't know either."

While Nik started going on and on about his real child, Elizabeth slipped into the room and sat down with the little boy she had been raising and let the tears flow for the way he had lost his life, for how his life had ended because of her mistakes. Reaching out, she said "I may not have known who you were, but I loved you, don't you ever doubt that."

Steven had entered the room, laying his hands on his sister's shoulders, he kept quiet about how right now, Jason Morgan was getting his just desserts by believing his own son had died. Because Steven know that if he had been told the truth, that it had only been Elizabeth's other child, he would have carried on like nothing was wrong, acting like it made no difference.

Yet, he had been broken up by the idea of the death of Molly Lansing... it made no sense to the doctor, none at all. When he had lived in town before, he had heard all about how Jason Morgan had loved children, how he would never harm one, yet there were three children, he had harmed by his neglect, by his outright abandonment.

"Steven, if no one claims him, would I be allowed to bury him?" she asked hoarsely as her hands cupped the little boys head.

Edward who had come to ask her about Jake and how the truth had been kept from them for so long, looked at Monica who had heard the news and had had Dr. Julian take over for her and vowed to make sure that this little boy was buried and remembered, after all he had been an innocent child caught up in other people's messes.

Out in the hallway, Franco's mother had arrived just as two members of the hospital staff were wheeling out a gurney with the blond man and the coroner following. "I am looking for Doctor Webber."

"He is busy right now, may I help you?" asked Robin Scorpio. When the woman explained why she was here, Robin closed her eyes just as she heard the FBI telling her that she should have waited for them.

"I just need to see my son, to find out why this detective made such a mistake?" she asked. "First I lost Franco, and then was told he wasn't dead, then again told he had died at the hands of this Prince or his grandmother. I just need to see my little boy..."

Elizabeth had exited the room and snorted in disbelief when she saw that Nik was on the phone, ordering someone to look into his missing son. "Do you want to say goodbye to Aidan?"

"That is not Aidan, I don't know who that was, but no, he wasn't my son, I am rather busy, Elizabeth." he snapped. Walking away, she saw the woman with Robin and heard the tail end of the conversation and said "I will take care of this."

"Elizabeth?" asked her friend only to be waved off. Sitting down the middle aged blond woman, Elizabeth gently gave her the news, and then held her while she cried.

"I want to see my son." the woman said with as much dignity as she could. Leading her into the room, Elizabeth saw the only other adult outside of her family who was heartbroken over the death of this innocent child.

"I want to, need to bury him. Ms. Webber, I know that my son, did terrible things, but this child, it was his way of making it up to me. I adopted Franco as you know him when he was just a little boy, but terrible things had happened to him before I got him. I tried to make a difference, but it was already beyond me. "

Nik approached the woman, all noble indignation and snapped "Where did your sick freak of a son take my child, what did he do, did he kill him, did he give him away, what did he do?"

Stepping between the man and the older woman, the agent told the Greek to back off. "Sir, she isn't responsible for what her son did. Your brother is the issue right now. He is the one who illegally took an innocent child from its mother. He is the one who was so certain that this baby was your son. It's his fault this case was so screwed up. That this baby died."

Lucky who was back in his hospital bed, was not happy when the head of his undercover case not only told him he was no longer on it, but that they were recommending to the local authorities to charge him with vehicular manslaughter for the deaths of everyone killed in the accident.

When his sister then his father tried to defend him, Alexis entered the room and quietly walked over and slapped Lucky across the face. "You, you did this. Damn you, damn all of you."

"Alexis, it was an accident." protested Lulu. "A simple accident, you are acting like he shot her."

"No, it was a member of the Spencer family once again not thinking before acting." she snarled "I am going to make sure that you got to jail, that they throw the book at you."

Lucky was about to protest when she slapped him yet again and he had had enough "Alexis, I would think twice about that, or I will have your daughter Sam, tossed in jail for the kidnapping of my son, for the hiring of two gunmen to threaten my family, for telling Sasha Donev how the way to get to Jason Morgan was Elizabeth. That particular moment of weakness led to Jake's kidnapping. Something you need to think about before threatening me."

"Go ahead, go to the police." she snapped while sickened at his attempt to blackmail her. "You killed my little girl, my sweet baby."

Leaving Alexis walked down to the morgue, shocked to see Jason Morgan there, his back against the door, his gun in his hands as he loaded it. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I am doing nothing, I have nothing, less than nothing." he said sadly as he looked at the barrel of his gun. With a bitterly resentful snort, he said "I lost my one remaining reason to live today and your daughter."

"Molly wouldn't have wanted you to mourn for her this way." Alexis felt sad; she had had no idea that Jason and Molly had gotten that close.

"Typical, Alexis, this isn't about your daughter as anything more than an innocent child who lost her life... what I lost today... did you know Sam is pregnant?" Even saying the words made him sick at what he had created by falling back into what made things easier for those around him.

"That is wonderful news." she said thrilled as the woman at the other end of the hallway frowned, there was no way that Sam McCall was pregnant, she had told the woman herself. Kelly who had been on her way to talk to the FBI and the coroner about Elizabeth's son turned and went to find her boss instead.

"Really for who is it good news? Not for me. I told her I didn't want children, that I wouldn't bring them into this life, she knew that and we both know what she would have had to go through to get pregnant, so don't tell me this is a coincidence or some fucking miracle because I know differently." he bitterly replied.

Jason had done some thinking and was sick to figure out that she had done this on purpose, that he had been spending his days with this person, after letting her back in, after all she had done... time that he had lost...

"Jason, it doesn't matter how the baby came into the world, it's an innocent." she told him.

"Strange how you daughter didn't think that. She tried to kill my son, tried to make him disappear several times, I being the moron who didn't want to be alone, I did the one thing that would make certain I was never forgiven and fucked her, took her back. Yeah, there are some residual feelings left over from our past, ones I thought I could build a life with her on since I could never have the woman I have loved..., so that I wasn't always alone y-yet..." As the enormity of his mistake hit him, Jason looked down at the gun in his hand and felt the numbness returning and released the safety. He felt almost hypnotized by the barrel as he pointed it at himself.

Alexis shrieked when he put the gun next to his head.. "JASON!"

"My son died today, Alexis and you know what your daughter's response was? She said that it didn't matter that I still had the child she was carrying like it negated my son's life. Then had the nerve to tell me that I would love her child more, that I loved her more. She just doesn't get it, she truly doesn't. I didn't walk away because I didn't love her; I walked away because I did. I put my feelings in a box labeled never open again and..."

Alexis felt sick as she watched this man, this strong man fall apart and his hands tremble as they reached for something then pulled back. Turning around to look, she saw he was sitting in front of a drawer labeled Webber and got it.

Gasping in shock, she felt her weak knees give way and then sat on the cold floor as she understood the pain he was going through. "Jason, Aidan is your son?"

Snorting he gave her a resentful glance then said "He should have been, he should have been my chance to be there from the beginning, instead he ended up the son of Nicolas Cassadine. Everyone in this town, they crucified her for doing the exact same thing most of them have done, yet Lucky's behavior, Nik's were forgotten and then there is me. I drove her to do this, to sleep with him. I did this... me, I hurt her in the worst possible way, but I honestly mean well... I thought we would be better off..."

When his sobs started again, Alexis maneuvered around until his head was in her lap as she listened to his pain, to his words as the man who didn't break fell completely apart and told her everything. Every lie, every screw up, every single moment of pain for the last five years of his life.

An hour later, Steven was asked to join Kelly Lee in her office and was told she had an issue. "I have a patient who is pretending to be pregnant but isn't."

"You need to deal with it; the hospital is libel if she goes too far with this. You need to tell her to stop and inform her that if she refuses we have the right to go to the police about it since what she is doing is fraud."

"What about doctor patient confidentiality." she asked wanting to tell him that she got the feeling Sam McCall was up to something much worse than pretending a pregnancy.

"The state senate passed a law that if we know of a criminal action and faking being pregnant believe it or not is included in this, we are required to report it to the proper authorities." he told her then left to go and see his sister.

Meanwhile Brenda had left the now empty chapel and went to see Edward who hadn't looked so good when she had last saw him. Finding him in a room with Elizabeth Webber she listened in shock at what the woman was telling Edward about Jake and his conception.

She was completely honest about how she had messed up, how she had asked Jason to give up Jake on the day he buried Alan, the lies she had told, then about Sam McCall and what she had done. "That is why, Mr. Quartermaine, Jason will never be a father to my little boy."

Brenda backed away stunned at what she had heard. Walking away, she wanted to declare the woman as a liar, like Carly had been about AJ, but something stopped her, something about the way that Jason had reacted and she had the sick feeling that it was true.

Deciding to approach Carly, the woman who knew all things about the man, she bluntly asked her "Is it true that Sam McCall watched as Elizabeth Webber's son was kidnapped, then hired two men to threaten her and the boys in the park?"

"No, of course not. There is no way that Jason would have gotten back together with her if it was true. You off all people know how far he would go for children." she sniffed in disbelief at even the asking of the question and vowed to get to the bottom of this, there was no way she was going to let that little bitch try and ruin things now that Jason was happy and moving on.

Calling Diane she said "You need to file papers on Jason's behalf regarding his son, that jealous little nobody Elizabeth Webber is lying and telling people that Sam watched as Jake was kidnapped then that she was the one behind the two men in the park."

"Carly I can't file anything without Jason's okay, and it needs to come straight from him to Me." she pointed out then said "Are you sure she said those things, that doesn't sound like her."

Diane doubted it was true, there was no way Jason would be involved with her if it was unless he didn't know.

"Oh course I am." she snapped then vowed to make the bitch pay. Hurrying to the hotel, she was telling Jax what was being said and her husband just walked away having the feeling that it was true and that it explained a lot.

Angry that she didn't get the response she wanted, Carly went to see Sonny. "Sonny you need to do something, Elizabeth Webber is telling lies and told Brenda that Sam watched as Jake was kidnapped and hired two gunmen to threaten her and the boys in the park."

Grabbing Carly's arm, he stopped her pacing and said "I can't do anything because she isn't lying. Sam really did those things and a few others you didn't hear about."

Shocked, Carly looked at him then said "There is no way, none that Jason would have taken her back after that."

"He did and he knew who and what she was." he said wearily. "Look Carly, Jason and Sam have finally found each other again after a very messy couple of years; you need to let this go. If Jason forgave her, you should too."

Carly walked away then thought about what Jason been through, how Elizabeth was keeping him away from his child and then that Sam would let her be part of Jake's life and agreed to forgive Sam. Going to the hospital, she decided to talk to Sam, never seeing Monica who had been confronting Robin to see if she had known about Jake being her grandson.

The two women listened in shock and horror as first Carly asked if it was true then told Sam that she understood the reason she had done it. "That bitch, Elizabeth is trouble. I mean she has been trying to get her hooks into Jason for years, you should have seen her trying to seduce Jason back while Emily was dying. It was horrible."

At that point, Robin looked up to see if lightning was going to strike as she listened to Sam's moment of weakness, then her telling Carly she was pregnant. Robin choked then because she had been the patient before Sam in Dr. Lee's office and she knew the woman wasn't pregnant.

Writing a note to Monica she saw the relieved look on the woman's face and mouthed that she was going to confront Carly. "Well, well how the worm has turned. Carly I remember you shooting Tony Jones, and vilifying anyone in town who supported him after he grabbed Michael, yet Sam who did it twice, you forgive. How magnanimous of you to forgive her for hurting Jason's child." she mocked.

"You don't know what you are talking about." she stated. "There is no comparison between Tony and Sam."

"Your right about that, one was devastated at the damage you wrought to his marriage, where as Sam was the one fucking her stepfather the same night Jason finally gave into his long hidden feelings for Elizabeth. Tony wanted to be a father to Michael; Sam wanted and wants Jake dead."

"He is dead." she smugly stated. "And I am carrying Jason's child."

"Wrong on both counts." replied Monica as she moved in closer to the two women she held responsible for the nightmare her son's life was. "Jake isn't dead, he survived the surgery, Aidan died."

She saw the slight look of satisfaction when she heard about Aidan and wondered what was up with that then continued. "And you are no more pregnant than I am."

"I am too pregnant, in seven months; I am going to give birth to Jason's child." she stated with a smirk and a toss of her hands.

"Oh, I really doubt it." said Robin. "I was in Kelly's office before you, and left my purse, I heard your sobs when she told you that you would never carry a child in spite of the surgery, that you weren't pregnant."

"I went to New York, to a fertility specialist." she quickly tossed out there well aware that Spinelli could make records say that.

"No, no you didn't." said Monica. They would request your files and well, we have a new department here at GH, a man's whose job it is to keep your pal Mr. Spinelli from our files. So we know he didn't do any tiptoeing through our files."

"No, you are the one lying, I would know about you hiring anyone like that." She was certain of it; after all it benefited Nik to keep Spinelli and her informed.

"No, actually you wouldn't, we hired him in response to Helena's visits to Elizabeth at Shadybrook and due to the drugs she gave her. Nik was never told." Monica saw the twitch and was beginning to have a bad feeling about this whole thing.

Robin told Monica she had to go and check on something. Once in the lab, she pulled up all test results for Elizabeth and her children with the help of the new IT specialist, something was bothering her, she didn't know what it was, but it was there, at the edge of her consciousness. "You're right, Dr. Scorpio, someone has been in these files, things have been altered."

"Can you check to see what?" she asked. When told the tests, she swore and went to find Steven and her husband. Telling them the news, she said "Have any of you seen Jason?"

"Not since earlier, I have been too busy trying to track down Alexis Davis," he stated.

Robin went to talk to Elizabeth, needing some honest answers from her friend. When she agreed to leave Edward and Cam there, she followed Robin out. "What is it, is there something else wrong with Jake?"

"No, here. I really hate to do this to you right now." with that she eased her down into a chair. Asking her the questions and getting the answers, Robin then called her Uncle Mac and told him what she knew, Elizabeth didn't realize it, but someone was playing god with her life and she was determined to put a stop to it.

"I will look into it." he said then hung up and made a few calls as he debated whether or not Maxie would have been involved and not liking the odds.

Meanwhile Lisa Niles was not a happy camper as she took care of John Zachara who told her he needed an antibiotic. Telling him fine, she considered drugging him so she could look around for the needle but decided to wait until she got back later.

At the hospital she was lecture by Steven who told her no more unexplained absences or she was fired. When she threatened him with a sexual harassment law suit he said "Don't even think about it. I have you, now. You treated a gun shot patient without informing the authorities. I know why Zachara was at the hospital the night of Robin getting drugged; now I just have to prove you had that needle."

Sweating, she hurried to get the drugs, and then saw the Zachara's man watching her. Handing the antibiotic off to Ethan, she hurried to check on the various patients like she needed to.

In the morgue, Jason started to stir and sat up and bleakly announced. "I have no idea what I do now. Elizabeth rightfully loathes me, Alexis, I don't want to bring a child into this world with Sam. Oh, I will do all the right things; say all the right things, because I don't want a repeat of what happened with Sonny's daughter but..."

"Jason, don't." she whispered the voice inside of her grew stronger as the woman she once had been came to the forefront. "I promise, I won't let Sam hurt that child, but you, you need to figure out who and what you are. You have made some stupid decisions recently... get out of town, find out who you are."

"I can't just leave, there are people who depend on me." he protested his mind on Carly and Sonny and how they would make a bad situation worse.

"No, there are people who use you. Carly, Sonny, hell even my daughter; she loves the idea of you, but the man, I really doubt she knows the Jason Morgan who was in here with me tonight. Find yourself, find the man you were."

Leaving the room, he stopped and said "Does it make me a coward?"

"No, because Jason if you stay, you will be the man they want and ignore your own happiness and that, that would make you a coward. When you return, deal with things. Tell them what you want and Jason, fix things with the woman you love, the woman you really love. Stop settling, it's done nothing but ruin your life since you married Brenda."

Heading up the stairs, Jason stopped in the chapel, sat down and looked at the cross. "Grandmother, I really wish you were here, I need your advice. I don't know what to do. What I do know is that I have a child on the way, with a woman I knew what was, yet... I walked away from my son. I know that you would be so ashamed of me. I am of myself. I loved her, I loved him and I lost them and made all of our lives hell."

Standing he walked to the front, sat down on the steps and looked at the cross, his mind on what he had done, on the way he had no choice, none. While he had walked away from one child, how did he abandon a child to a woman he knew wouldn't …

He heard footsteps and slipped behind the folding screen in front of him not wanting anyone to see him. Seeing a defeated and distraught Elizabeth entering, he felt his heart stop as he felt it break at what he had given up to keep them safe.

"I know I shouldn't be angry, that I shouldn't be bitter, but I just don't understand. I have tried to be a good person, I have tried to..." he heard the pain in her voice, the utter desolation and held in the tears, knowing he had no right. "I don't understand. People like Carly, like Sonny like Sam, they are rude, they are selfish, yet they get whatever they want, can have whoever they want... yet, I end up with nothing repeatedly. What am I doing wrong, why?"

"I had a chance with Lucky, then he was taken by Helena, but I know that it wasn't meant to be permanent, yet, some part of me, some part of me just wanted someone to love me, for me." she said her voice breaking. "Then here was Jason, the man I spent years loving, denying that love, then you give us a chance, a son... then you take it all away and give that life to Sam, a woman who has done so much harm, has been so... please, god, I just need an answer, not just for my sake, but for my boys, please?"

Hearing her beg, his hands were reaching for the gun, yet again, but then they stopped, knowing that he owed her, he owed it to their son to tell her the truth, for once, he had to take that leap...

When he stood, intending to come out from behind the screen it was too late. She was gone and he didn't know what to say. Slipping down the hallway, he heard Dr. Lee talking to Steven and with the news that Sam had been warned against claiming to be pregnant when she wasn't, Jason felt a sense of relief then just let that go, after all, it didn't change that his son, his son had died without knowing who his father was.

On the street, he avoided everyone, before heading to the edge of town. Once there, he made a quick call leaving a message then checked to see what he had on him. Taking out his phone, he tossed it into the trash, and then cut up his credit cards, before heading to the parking lot of a car dealership.

Hot wiring a car, he soon was heading out of town, with no intention of coming back until he had his head on straight.

At GH, Elizabeth saw the various grouping when she returned from the chapel and walked over to Robin. Hugging her friend, she said "I was hoping you would take Cam home with you, so I can stay with Jake."

"I called my mother; she is going to work the case. You should know that Sam for some reason believed it was Jake that died." she told her. "I can't believe you let me have my daughter around her, knowing what you did."

"Your child wasn't in the way of her dream life with Jason. Mine was." she said sadly. "Robin, can we not discuss this right now, I just am not ready to deal."

"We will take Cam with us, if he wants to go." she offered then waited until she had gone to the hospital room. "Carly, you can come out of hiding now."

Flushing the blond stepped out and said "I was just texting someone."

"No, you were hanging around to try and keep Jason from his child, let me guess, you were going to create some kind of crisis with Michael, right?" Robin looked at the blond and was amazed that almost twenty years later, this woman still hadn't grown up.

When she just glared, Robin snorted and said "Yeah, I thought so. Carly, for once in your life, stop being so selfish. Go home, take care of your own kids. Make sure that Joss and Morgan are cared for and stop trying to run Jason's life."

At the Davis residence, Alexis was helping her daughter deal with her sister's loss, then when she was finally in bed, sat down and processed all that had gone on that day. Hearing the doorbell, she opened it and silently let in Ric. "I just don't understand, what happened, how did Lucky's car cause this?"

Getting the details, he drove over to the hospital and let himself into Spencers' room and said "I am going to take every single thing you love away from you. And I do mean everything."

Leaving, he went straight to Mac Scorpio and handed him a tape. Mac watched it and then saw the date. "You idiot, all I can do is fire him, I can't charge him now."

"Fine, just do that." he stated then left to find out where Elizabeth was. Just as he got in the elevator, he heard them talking and heard about Aidan. Ric froze sickened that for even one minute he had been considering using her against Lucky. She had suffered enough at his hands, at other people's hands.

Calling to arrange for flowers, he left and went to start the dismantling of the Spencer family. First up was Dante Falconari. "We need to talk."

Within minutes, the love that was hanging by a thread, was now gone. Dante had been trying to find a reason to still love Lulu, trying to find a reason to fight his feelings for Brenda. Soon heading home, he sat down with Lulu and said the words he had no regrets saying. "I am sorry, who knows, if I hadn't seen Brenda again... but I did and this isn't working for me."

"But, you told me you wanted a future with Me." she protested. Hours later, Ric went on to his next target, Luke Spencer himself. "Well, well, the dastardly DA, I have been expecting you."

"Don't worry Spencer, this will only hurt for a moment." he sneered then sat down across from the old man and said "Right now in Paris, Scott Baldwin is receiving a tape of how his son truly died. Why he died. My guess is that your daughter, well she won't die, I wouldn't do that, because I just wanted to make Lucky worry.., he is my true target, but Lulu, well I don't like her, not many people actually do. You are going to control her, I heard what she did and said to Elizabeth, well if it happens again... little Lulu is going to find that my father was a paranoid man who taped everything and I do mean everything."

Luke went to see his son and found him with the lovely Irish lass he was seeing. "We need to talk."

"Come back in the morning." he said moaning at the pain he was in.

"Won't work this time, cowboy. Now is the time for us to speak. You can talk to your lady later." The red head slipped into the hall with the door propped open slightly and listened as Luke warned Lucky that Ric Lansing had a way to use Lulu against him.

"It's fine, she will be fine." he said ignoring the threats. "You know that I am more than up for anything."

"No, now is the time for plain talking. Lucky you aren't up to it, you are a screw up, I love you, but the truth is, that you have never done anything successfully in your life without Elizabeth propping you up. You can't take him on, you need to face this. A firestorm is heading your way and you need to realize that there is no hiding from it."

"I wish you would stop treating me like I am an idiot." he fumed.

Sadly, Luke looked at his son and said "Lucky, the problem is that you are an idiot. You haven't been the same since you came back from being held by Faison, you used to have so much potential but that has been lost by your belief that you are the same boy you used to be. You aren't, you aren't capable of taking on that street wise little boy, let alone someone like Ric Lansing and what you don't seem to get, and you are going to have Alexis after you as well."

Sonny frowned, he had called Jason repeatedly, gone to the penthouse where he was told by Spinelli that he was with Sam, but she had shown up at his place. Looking nervous as she asked if he knew where Jason was.

When she was told he was working, she frowned a bit then asked if he was protecting Brenda. "No, Brenda is home."

Heading to the warehouse, she missed seeing Johnny Zachara as he moved in close and tagged her. "We should have audio."

Ethan watched the con artist as she left and followed her to the park. Seeing her talking to a man, he moved in and saw that it was Nik Cassadine. Listening in, he stopped, stood back and hurried to the Haunted Star.

Getting drunk, he waited and when his father arrived gave him the news. "Nik was talking to Sam, I overheard them. He was saying that he altered Aidan's DNA tests."

"Are you saying that Lucky...?" Stepping up, Luke groaned and said "We need to keep this quiet, Lansing finds this out, and he will use this baby against Lucky."

"Johnny knows; he has a copy of the tapes." he said then added. "I don't know what he might do."

"Talk to him, explain about Lansing, use Elizabeth to get him to keep it a secret." he told the younger man then went home to the Quartermaine mansion, needing to get a bead on what was going on in his family. Arriving he was told by a somber Alice that his wife was in the study.

Going her, he poured himself a drink sat down and said "So, what a little to do we had today."

In a cold voice she asked. "Did you know?"

Blinking a bit, he said "Wife, I learned what Lucky did the same time as you."

"No, I am talking about Jake, did you know that he was a Quartermaine?" she snarled. Seeing his closed up expression she said "I will take that as a yes, no wonder you were so eager to marry me, well it won't be happening, we are done. Alice has packed your bags, you are out. Don't return, there is nothing left here for you."

"Why would you care, you hate the thug." he protested still not sure what the hell was going on with the woman, this was the last thing he needed. He had to talk to Lucky, had to fix things for him then find out how the hell he could Lansing being the father of Elizabeth's eldest to quiet this mess.

"That doesn't change a thing." she said coldly. "We may eat our young, but we don't let outsiders do it. Now, please leave before I call the police and have you arrested."

"Tracy, don't do this, you know that we will be right back together, we can't seem to stay away from each other."

"Luke, I am done." she said then walked from the room as she walked past her mother's picture, she said "Lila would have been ashamed."

Elizabeth returned home the next morning where she was sitting in Aidan's bedroom and looked around, silently crying tears as she touched the blanket he slept with, the toys he gripped in his sleep. "Mommy, why didn't Aidan come home with you?"

Pulling Cam onto her lap, she said "Well, there is something I need to tell you."

She opened her mouth, but the words, well they wouldn't come out, all that happened was she would breath. Finally with tears in her eyes, she said "Do you remember when I told you about your daddy Zander and about Emily."

"Yes." he said softly then looked at his mommy who had tears in his eyes. "But Mommy, I have been good, I promise, really, really good... why does everyone I love leave?"

Shaking she wished she had that answer herself as she tried to explain. When she used religion, she felt pain as he announced he hated god, that he wanted his brother back. Then he fearfully looked at her and said "Mommy, is he going to try and take Jake too, please, Mommy don't let him take him."

Steven who had let himself into her house, listened to them, and felt his heart shatter as he heard Elizabeth sobbing as she tried not let it happen. "Cam, Jake will be home in a couple of days."

"Why can't Aidan come home too." he asked his uncle who felt his own tears being wiped away by the little boy. "Don't cry Uncle Steven, I know... I know what to do."

Heading to his room, Cameron called the big boy he sometimes would play with at Miss Bobbie's house, He had heard him giving the woman a new number for him and memorized it. "Will you help me, someone took my little brodder."

In shock the teenager looked at his phone then he asked. "Where are you?"

"At my mommy's house but I need to find Mr. Jason, he brought home Jakey maybe he can find my other little brodder." Michael listened to the little boy who he had played cars and motorcycles with and went to ask his uncle to find the little boy's brother.

Then when he arrived and listened to Sam and Spinelli as they were talking and as he got the story of Sam's announcement to Jason and that it wasn't true, he looked at them in disgust when they realized he was there and that he might have heard them. They felt a sense of relief when the figured out he had only heard the part about Abby as he said "I can't believe the two of you."

Leaving he went to see Dante and asked his own brother for help. Then when he told him he was already working the case, Michael told him what he had overheard. "I just don't understand, I mean, I know Uncle Jason, I know they are wrong. Yet, he walked away, I mean, I had no idea, none that he was a dad."

As the past few years hit him, Michael realized his uncle had almost spent five years in jail to protect him; time he would have lost with his son and felt guilty as he looked at Dante. "Me, it was because of me... I did this... I caused this."

"No, that this is the fault of the adults..." replied Dante.

"There are things, things you don't know." he said as he walked despondent to the doorway. "Dante, I will see you later. I have to attempt to fix this, I have to..."

Elizabeth was at the hospital with Cameron to pick Jake up when she was confronted by a desperate Sam who had no idea exactly how much Michael had heard and that it was already too late to try and fix things. "Where is Jason?"

"I don't know and don't give a crap." she stated then told her "Don't ever grab my arm again, Sam. Do you hear me?"

"I want to know where Jason is!" she shrieked. "I know that you are keeping him away from me."

"What your pet sycophant doesn't have him low jacked?" she asked Spinelli who was behind her looking anxious. "I don't give a crap, from the moment the man got back involved with the woman who hurt his son, he was dead to me."

"Yeah, right that is why you fucked him last year." she sneered. "Bet you didn't think I knew about that. You and he fucking off in that little shack out the old road; I saw him, I was following him and where did he go, he went to see you, you are a whore, sleeping with three men..."

"Sam, I don't know what drugs you're on, or maybe what ones you need to be one, but you have no idea, none what you are talking about." she said then looking at the security guard behind Spinelli and said "These people are disturbing me."

"Miss, you need to leave this area." he told Sam who said "Do you know who my cousin is?"

"Ma'am, that doesn't matter. Mr. Cassadine has no control over my job." he told her. "I was hired by Edward Quartermaine to expressly keep you away from Miss Webber and her family."

Elizabeth had told Edward her plan for after the new year, the man had sadly understood and had only asked that Monica and he be allowed to spent time with the boys before she left. The guard had been his idea and she had agreed, needing some peace for her family until it was time to go.

Sam watching fuming as Elizabeth and her two sons left the hospital. "Spinelli find out where she is having the service for Aidan."

When she arrived, they saw the heavy police presence and were told that they couldn't go in. "We are related to this little boy's father."

"Sam, leave." said Dante as he looked at the woman. "I would head out if I were you, Spinelli. There are going to be repercussions to what is going on and you are the weakest link. You should be very careful what you do."

Steven, Audrey and Elizabeth buried Aidan while his adopted mother sat in the pew, her mind on her lost son and the baby that was supposed to be her second chance. She watched as the small family walked to the coffin and gently kissed the little boy goodbye before leaving. "Do you want to come with us?"

"No." she replied amazed at the generosity of the young woman. "I have to head to the police station and decide what to do regarding Lucky Spencer. I know he is the father of one of your sons but..."

Stopping her, Elizabeth said "No, he isn't. He was claiming to help me protect my son but in truth, it was all about him and his wants, wishes and needs. My sons are done, I want better for them."

Hugging the woman, Elizabeth went to GH and quietly gave Epiphany her notice. Then sat down Robin and Patrick and gave them the news. "We were supposed to be leaving at the beginning of the New Year. I have decided I can't stay here, not now."

Robin burst into tears but said "I understand. Everything inside of me, tells me to beg you to stay but I know, that for your sake, for the sake of your sons, but please, don't be a stranger. I am sick of telling those I love goodbye."

Patrick just hugged her, and then whispered he would miss her but that he also understood. "When are you going?"

"We are going to pack up the house this week." she said with smile. "I just want a better life and if we stay here, my sons are not going to have that new life."

Cam was in his daycare when he heard his name being called. "Cam."

"Did you talk to Jason, did you ask him to find my brother?" he asked hopefully.

"I am sorry, Cam. I haven't seen Jason." he said hating to disappoint the little boy. "I did ask my brother, he is a policeman."

"So is Lucky and he can't do It." he said walking back to the other side of the room clearly disappointed with him. Michael hated that he couldn't help his little friend and he walked away then thought about it. Calling over to the warehouse, he asked Milo for his help.

"Sure what do you need?" Milo had once been Michael's constant companion but things had changed over the years, now, he only saw the boy when he came to see his father which was becoming more and more rare.

"For you to help me find everything Uncle Jason had on Franco but only the stuff that Spinelli didn't get for him." he asked. The blond boy called his new friend Abby then after canceling on her, went to the library. Abby was a bit worried, she knew she had to tell him about her plan with Sam but wasn't sure how he would take the news she was having a baby unaware that he already knew and was putting a plan in place to quietly help her.

"I uh, need to research something." he told the woman wearing the badge around her neck. After being shown how to search, he was soon looking into everything there was to find on Franco and he wrote everything no matter how insignificant down.

"Sir, the library closes it nine." Michael looked up and saw that it was already eight thirty and stood, stretching. "Thank you for all your help."

"Your welcome." she told the boy, and then watched as he carried his copies, his notes and a few art books. "Uh, sir you know you can still find this stuff online. There are websites..."

Taking the flash sheet she gave him, he went home, made a pot of coffee and went to work. When Dante returned, Michael had all he could find on the artist formerly known as Franco. "What are you doing?"

"I am fixing things." he grimly told his brother. "I saw something at Jason's penthouse, something that makes me wonder about a few things."

"Do you want to me listen?" he asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

"Not yet." he said. "Have you seen my Uncle lately?"

"No, not since the hospital. Are you attending the services is for Molly tomorrow?" Dante had the feeling that things would be tense there.

"Yes, I will be there." he answered. "I haven't talked to Kristina in a couple of days, she told me she wanted to be alone."

"Do you want to go with me, or are you going to attend with Sonny?" asked Dante as he sat down and read some of his brother's notes. Soon caught up in them, he said "Where did you get this stuff?"

"Articles, in magazines and newspapers, press releases, some art books." he answered. "This new stuff is from the Internet, social groups, message boards, even fan groups from her old show."

"Its interesting." he said then went to find a highlighter.

At GH, Steven was getting Elizabeth's medical records ready for transfer when he recalled his own questions and went to find out what the FBI had found out. "All we got is that the older two boys are her sons. We have Jason Morgan's DNA on record and he is the father of Jacob."

Steven thought about what he had overheard and what he had been thinking in regards to the underhanded maneuvering that had been going on recently and he was starting to doubt that Cassadine was the man he pretended to be and that maybe just maybe Sam McCall was up to her neck in this mess.

His problem wasn't that he doubted the skeezy woman was capable of the stuff he was thinking but that his dislike for her was influencing his thoughts. And the part that made him concerned was that he was quite certain Damien Spinelli was somehow involved and just how far would he go to keep that away from Morgan and Corinthos.

"Sir, there is an Anna Devane on the phone for you." he was told as he returned to the hub. Answering the phone, he listened to what the spy had to say then told her he was grateful for her help.

Across town, the funeral for Molly Lansing was beginning, several reporters were waiting outside, watching the mourners, certain that there had to be a story to come out of this. Inside, Ric was talking to Alexis and Kristina when Sam walked in with Spinelli but no Morgan.

The Corinthos clan showed up, Michael hugging Kristina and completely ignoring Sam, trying to control his temper at all he had found out about the woman he had once thought was a friend, the woman he had thought his uncle had found. Now, he just wanted to kick both of their rears.

"Michael?" Kristina heard the cold tone in his voice and wondered what was up with him. "Sit with me, please?"

Gritting his teeth as Sam sat on the other side, sobbing out loud while peeking every once in a while at the boy next to her. While Michael didn't doubt she had loved her sister, he found he just didn't have any sympathy for her. When he saw his mother entering with Jax and Morgan, he stood and walked back to hug his little brother, then sat down behind Kristina with him. Reaching up, he grasped her hand, but didn't return to his previous seat, needing distance.

The room slowly filled up, Maxie and Matt were two of the last to sit down, but the blond frowned as she whispered to the man she was now seeing "I wonder where Jason is?"

Alexis sat there, silently recalling her little girl and suddenly had an epiphany, over the last few years, she had not be a good mother, well the time had come for her to step up and be the parent her remaining children deserved.

She watched as Ric stood and walked to the front, remembering his only child, most in the room, even Carly feeling bad for him as he broke down in tears. Finally he sat down and let Alexis take over. Stepping up, she looked around then said "My daughter, she was a wonderful little girl, always able to see the best in others, even when they didn't deserve it. She had a romantic way of looking at life, that others took advantage of. While I will never get to see her grow up and become the woman she was meant to be, I take faith in remembering that she died before she was old enough to learn some very unpleasant truths."

Blinking a bit at her mothers angry tone, Sam saw her looking at her, then at Ric and had the sinking feeling that Alexis blamed her for Ric not being in Port Charles anymore. As if, he had moved away long after it had become semi public knowledge that they had slept together.

Tuning back in just as Alexis ended, she stood to go up and speak, planning on using the eulogy to announce her 'pregnancy', she was next to her mother when Alexis' eyes seemed to frost and she suddenly gripped her arm and seemingly mocked her when she said "Ah, my daughter Samantha, what a good girl, coming to help me sit down. Father, you may continue the services."

"I wanted to..." Sam looked at the pulpit, this was her chance, she needed to speak but found herself soon seated and her mother leaving over and whispering in her ear. "I would rather you didn't speak."

There was some rustling in the pews at the tone as the service continued. At the end, as the mourners left for the wake, Alexis stopped her daughter and said "Sam, I would prefer it if Maxie Jones, Spinelli and you weren't there. Find an excuse and don't show up."

"Why are you doing this..." she whispered hurt at the way her mother was acting then looked at Michael, certain he had done something... Then looking at Ric, she saw the sneer and slight smirk that was hidden and figured out, it wasn't Michael he had apparently kept his mouth shut, but her mother's ex-husband who had gotten her banned.

"Not now, Sam." she stated then left with Ric. Outside, Sam stopped Maxie and Spinelli and gave them the news. "Spinelli, find Jason for me."

"Fair Samantha, like I told you, he has ditched his cell phone, his car is still in the hospital parking lot and he hasn't used his credit cards." Spinelli had no idea, none what was going on, but he didn't like it at all. He had the feeling that bad things were coming, the last time he was being left out by Stone Cold, it had been while he was involved with the Maternal One, but he knew that wasn't what was going on. He had helped make damn sure that his master was done with the woman who had broken his heart.

Mac Scorpio walked into Lucky's Spencers hospital room and told his girlfriend that she had to clear out. "Lucky, I am placing you under arrest for five counts of vehicular homicide."

"Mac, I didn't cause this, you know me better than that." he protested to his boss. "Come on, this is Ric Lansing and Alexis Davis' doing. This was an accident; it wasn't like I hit that bus on purpose."

"Let me finish, you are also under arrest for kidnapping and taking a child under the age of five across state lines. The mistake regarding Aidan, I doubt that one will go any further than the grand jury but charges must be brought." Mac handcuffed the man who was dressed to go home from the hospital and took him to the station where he was soon locked in a cell.

Siobhan, drove to Elizabeth's house and knocked urgently on the door. "We need to talk; they have arrested Lucky for the accident."

"There is nothing to say. I have no control of that." she told the red head as she let her in. "Look, a word of advice, don't sweat it because there is nothing you can do to change things. Lucky will have his day in court, he can tell a jury of his peers how he didn't mean to speed, how he never thought about the rest of people on the road, he can get on the stand and prove to the world what a selfish, unthinking bastard he has been for years."

"Why would you be talking like this? I heard about that baby, I know it wasn't your real son, but Elizabeth, Lucky thought he was when he brought him back." she said bewildered. "I just don't get why you are mourning the loss of a child that really wasn't yours. And to do it at the expense of the father of your middle son."

"Oh, I guess you haven't heard, the truth came out, Lucky isn't Jake's father. Jason Morgan is. So you can take this idea that Lucky going to jail will hurt Jake and shove It." she said coolly. "Siobhan, I have nothing more to say to you, I don't like you or trust you and it has nothing to do with your romance with my ex-husband. It's just that I have been dealing with lying con artists for several years now, and I can see you coming from miles away. I don't know what it is you want, but keep away from my children."

Walking out the door, the red head called her boss and said "Morgan has a kid, yeah, the brat we thought was Spencers, no it's Jason Morgans."

"Find another way to get to Spencer, we have to find that damn box. Are you certain he didn't give it to his ex-wife?" the voice on the phone said. He almost wished the man in question was in town, so he could use the kid against him, but for now, he had more important things to worry about, like this damn box.

"No, he has given me chapter and verse about their history and I know literally every single thing about their past and no, he didn't give it to her."

Jerry hung up the phone and went to figure out what Spencer could have possibly done with the box.

Jason was at an abandoned summer cabin, sitting on the rather lumpy wood and foam cushion sofa, starring off into space as he went over the last couple of years. He had been about fifty miles from Port Charles when he had turned back and driven to Carly's house.

He had overheard her talking to Jax and had realized that if he told anyone where he went, especially his best friend, they wouldn't leave him alone and what he truly needed was time to think, time to get his head on straight. Time to figure out when his life had become the mess it had.

Looking at the fireplace, he started a small fire, sat back down and pulled out the photo album he had taken from the only place he had actually entered before heading back out of town, the Spencer home. He had lifted the photo album he was sure that Elizabeth had put together, an album of his son, of his brother Cameron and in it, pictures of them with their parents, Lucky and Elizabeth.

Seeing those pictures, with Lucky playing happy daddy to his boys, gave Jason a nauseous feeling mainly because over the last few months he had seen the way Lucky had reacted to being an undercover cop, he had come to figure out, that blaming Elizabeth's affair with Nik had only been an excuse. Lucky now that Jason seemed to be out of the picture was no longer around the boys; he was actively endangering them instead.

Removing one of the holiday photos, Jason went looking for scissors then sat down, carefully paying attention as he cut Lucky out of them. When the remaining part landed on the table in front of him, he froze at what it said. "Father's Day, 2009."

Saying it out loud, it hurt, but as he went through the other photos, removing Spencer from them, he found that it hurt, that even seeing them in pictures that he knew were lies, that it made it worse, because those little boys, they had deserved so much better than what they had been stuck living in the past few years and he was the main reason that their lives were so screwed up.

As he recalled all of the mistakes, he could excuse Elizabeth's, he could even to a certain extent excuse some of his, but the mistakes he had made by getting back with Sam, with telling her the stuff he had, celebrating holidays, family birthdays, even just being around her and her sisters were a betrayal of those little boys.

Finding the picture of the boys at what had to have been Elizabeth's birthday party, he sat there, running his hands over her face, recalling her flawless skin, her gentle nature and trying not to recall how the loneliness had led him to making one of the worst mistakes of his life... certainly the most unforgivable.

Curling up, he lay there, thinking about how different his life would have been if he had made simple changes throughout the years. Jason lifted each altered photo, returning repeatedly to the one of Elizabeth and the boys. "How different would our lives have been if you had taken my hand that day in the park, if you had trusted me when Sonny had faked his death, if you had said yes to my proposal when we found out you were pregnant."

The litany continued as he thought about all the times they had had the chance to fix things. "You said our timing was never right, but that was because you just never trusted me."

Jason was soon bitterly resentful of Elizabeth, of all the times he had asked and all the times that Lucky or someone else had been more important than him. Of all the times she hadn't just said "I want to be with you."

Eventually Jason let out the tears, of anger of frustration that Elizabeth could trust others but that she had never trusted him. That she hadn't allowed him to be a father to their son, to Cam. That she hadn't...

In Port Charles, Alexis was at home, waiting for Sam to arrive. She had sent Kristina with Sonny, had asked her ex-lover to give her some time to grieve alone. The Cuban had seemed distracted but had agreed and Michael had offered to stay over so she wouldn't be alone.

Hearing the clatter of Sam's high heeled boots, she grimaced at the idea of wearing four inch heels in the middle of December and even worse what looked like hooker boots to her ten year old sister's funeral. Silently opening the door, she motioned Sam in and said "Thank you for coming."

"What on earth was that Alexis?" she asked clearly bewildered as she just plopped down on the sofa. "What were you thinking, treating me that way on today of all days? Molly was my sister and yet you tossed me and my friends out of her wake and I get the feeling you would have preferred I not have been there.""

Looking at her daughter she said "Truth is, I would have to say you are right. I do wish you hadn't been there."

"Was this about Ric, please, like he gave a crap? And besides, he was the one who all but raped Me." she said huffing in annoyance. "And what did Spinelli or Maxie do that pissed you off so badly? I mean, I thought you liked Mac, I wonder what he thought about you tossing his daughter out and creating a scene like you did."

"Unlike you Sam, I don't live for a man's approval." she snipped back at her. "I also don't know why you keep telling that story about Ric, I mean, his daughter died today and you are still trying that same old chestnut that he raped you. Seriously Sam..." she started to laugh, "Do you really expect anyone to believe that, after seeing you chase after Lucky Spencer just because Elizabeth slept with your ex-fiancée."

Stiffening a bit, she said "Lucky and I are old news, Alexis."

"Yeah, strange how that came about. Jason ends things with Elizabeth to protect their son and the rest of the family he wanted, and suddenly you are hanging all over him, the clothes getting smaller and smaller, my guess is that your pals Maxie and Spinelli started smoothing the way. But then a pro like you, you know all about seducing a hurting and devastated man into your bed. I just have to ask; doesn't it bother you having sex with Jason, knowing that he is still in love with Elizabeth Webber? That if it wasn't for your games they would still be together."

"Jason doesn't love her, he never did. He confused his feelings for Jake with love for his mother." she growled. "Besides, Jason loves me, he told me so."

"Oh I am sure he did, but Sam was that before or after he saw Elizabeth with Nik?" she asked sweetly and saw her daughter flinch then mutter that that doesn't matter, it only mattered that he had told her he loved her.

"Oh, Sammy." she said suddenly laughing coldly. "It does matter, because the night of the bus accident, I saw Jason, talked to him."

"And...?" she hinted not wanting to let her know how desperate she was to find out where the man was.

"I saw him in the morgue; I was going to see Molly. He was there, his back to Aidan's cold body, in a metal drawer. You had just told him that you were pregnant and you know what you're oh so loving boyfriend's response was... do you?"

"No but it is rather obvious that you do." she snapped. "So tell me mother, what Jason's response to me being pregnant was."

"When I got there, he was angry with himself, for making the mistake of getting back with you, he was sitting there, with his gun in his hand and preparing to eat it. The only thing that kept him from doing so was that he regretted losing Elizabeth and his son. He sat there, telling me how he would never recover from losing her love, hers not yours, Sam."

"Stop mother, it was just guilt because he can't be with Jake, but that will change when he returns, I am hoping when I prove that I am a better mother than Elizabeth, he will let me adopt Jake, become the mother his son truly deserves."

"You honestly think he will let the woman who watched his child get kidnapped, the woman who hired two men with guns to threaten said son and his mother... you are delusional and Sam. I am still the attorney of record for GH. I had a call from Kelly Lee, she told me that you aren't pregnant and that she saw you talking to that young blond girl... who is... I am well aware of who and what she is and I know what you are planning and it ain't happening Sam. I am not letting you con Jason..."

"You have no idea, none. Jason LOVES ME, HE WANTS A FAMILY WITH ME." she yelled at the woman.

"No, he doesn't. Sam that man left GH suicidal at the idea of being stuck with you for the rest of his life. I know how the engagement came about, Sam. I know how he wasn't actually proposing but how Spinelli and you took the ball and ran with it... using your sisters for god's sake." she taunted. "Sam, you are holding onto gossamer dreams. And they are gone, done for. Get over this dream of a life with Jason, because when he returns, well my guess is that you and Spinelli are tossed out on your rears."

Sam stood and walked to the door and said "I came here to support you in your loss but clearly losing Molly has made you lose you mind."

"No, Sam, Molly's death, reminded me of losing my sister Kristina and my promise to myself then and let me tell you; you are not going to like the fallout. Now, please leave and I would appreciate at it if you stay away from my other daughter."

"You can't tell me what to do, she is my sister and my dead baby saved her life." she tossed out, needing to get her mother to feel guilty.

"Guilt won't work, Sam, not this time but nice try. Why don't you go find Spinelli and chase after Jason, not that you will find him if he doesn't want to be found. And right now, he is mourning Aidan's death and that the little boy wasn't his." she tossed out then her eyes narrowed as Sam twitched for some reason.

Then with a sinking heart, once she was gone called Ric and said "I need a favor a huge, unbelievably large one."

"I will be there in ten minutes." he said as he left his hotel room and headed towards her house. Seeing Jax as he was leaving, he asked how Morgan was doing. "I know Molly and he were spending a lot of time together."

"Not well, he saw what happened to her, Ric." he replied worried about the little boy and needing someone to tell since Carly suddenly was not around again. "I am once again, sorry for your loss; I know how much you love both of those little girls."

"I do and will until the day I die." he replied hoarsely then said that Alexis was waiting for him. "Jax, I know that you were once close to Elizabeth, how is she doing, do you know?"

"I uh..." he flushed as he stuttered unable to admit that his wife went into a jealous rage at even the idea of his offering his condolences to Elizabeth and that he had bowed to her wishes in an effort to get Carly to leave Elizabeth alone.

Getting it, Ric looked at the man then said. "I have to go."

An ashamed Jax looked at his hands, at the ring there, then with a sigh, removed it then went to make a visit that was long overdue to someone whose friendship he had let get pushed away to keep peace with a woman in whose life he would always be second best.

Ric listened to Alexis, then he sat down as she said "If Sam altered someone's DNA tests, she would have had to have inside help. They had the tests ran in two places from what I heard. And in the middle of the mess, she and that geek, well I could see her doing it. To hold onto Jason, she would kill someone."

"She would need the number of the tests." he stated. "New York State now uses a random number generator and if it was Spinelli who fixed things he would need that number. Someone on the inside would have had to give it to him."

"Someone like Nik." she said painfully aware of her nephews lies and deceptions over the last few months. She had suspected that he had been exaggerating things regarding Elizabeth's behavior but she had put it down to his not being used to someone standing up to him. Now, she had to think like a Cassadine and the one thing that Cassadines don't like was for someone to get in their way.

Robin watched as Elizabeth's moving van pulled up in the dead of night. It was black and there were no marking to indicate its purpose. The boxes were loaded, the moving men were soon pulling away with only a few remaining packages being loaded into a rental minivan she had arranged in New York City.

Hugging her friends tightly Elizabeth promised to be in touch as soon as everything was worked out. "Robin, since your mother has my number, if you want, you can send messages to me through her."

"I will, I promise." she said letting go, knowing that Elizabeth was doing this for the boys and her own health. Patrick held her close then said "I am staying with you, tonight."

"Yes, you are." she said then added. "You screwed up, but my screw up, my belief in that my way was right, that my friends weren't bad people... it was what led to the chasm between us. Yes, Sonny had been good to me in the past, but that van pulling away; he is partly responsible for that."

"Doesn't change what happened, doesn't change what I did, that I broke your trust in me."

"No, but we move on, together." she replied then led him into their house and closed the door not seeing the blond across the street who drove away vowing to get rid of her as soon as she could.

Steven was heading to his office when he heard his name being called. Seeing Alexis Davis still wearing the black suit she had worn to her daughter's funeral, he said "May I help you with something?"

"Meet me in the chapel in ten minutes." she answered a bit short as she went to make another visit. "Monica, can you come to the chapel in ten minutes, please?"

Once there, she sat down and said "I had an interesting discussion with Jason the night that Molly died. I stopped him from eating his gun."

That had a dramatic affect, Steven turned white and Monica cried out in horror. "He didn't do it, but he did tell me a few things. Monica, I know that you are aware that Jake is your grandson, but I do understand why they didn't tell you until now and my daughter is right in the middle of the mess."

After getting them caught up until Jake's second kidnapping she said "I would guess that Elizabeth told you about all of this, from her perspective already, Steven."

Just nodding because as far as he was concerned there was no other perspective, Steven listened Monica said "I heard about it from Edward who Elizabeth told. What you said was pretty much the same version, just without the mention of how he took over the business because Carly threatened to run off with Morgan after Michael was shot."

Steven snorted in disbelief at that one and when both women looked at him said "Jason Morgan is so blind to what a possessive and manipulative bitch she is, that I would be willing to bet that in his mind she has nothing to do with why Elizabeth couldn't take that leap of faith to be with him. She loathes my sister and I have seen it up close and first hand but I just don't get why she lets Sam and Sonny's sister be in Jason's life..."

"Let me tell you a little story." Alexis told him about the dance at Kelly's and how in Carly's mind it was Elizabeth's fault that Jason had firmly tucked her into the friend's category.

"That woman needs help and I have news for all of you. Elizabeth and I have talked about Carly and what kind of role she could play in Jake's life and let me tell you it will be non-existent, she said that even if she ever worked out a deal for Jason to spent time with Jake, Carly will not be allowed near her little boy."

"Then Elizabeth will end up losing Jason." warned Monica. "We tried to pry them apart..."

"Monica, my sister made it damn clear that she has no intention of being with your son again, none at all." he stated with a sneer. "And as for Carly and Jake, as his mother it is her prerogative to keep people who loath her away from her children."

"But what about Lucky and Nik, they both hate Jason and..." She tried to protest what he was saying.

"You son was a bit too busy screwing the woman who tried to kill his child at the time to give a damn, the same son he ignored for a couple of years yet went to prison for Carly's, let me tell you my sister is rightfully angry."

"Steven, it was both of their idea for Jason to stay away." Alexis reminded him. "And Monica let me tell you, Jason is a blind idiot when it comes to Carly and I hate that my own children have ever been near her but then with Sam as a sister I felt I couldn't say no. However, that has ended. I intend to make it very clear that in the future, Sonny's exes and his business are going to be kept away from my daughter. Sam has already been told to not seek out Kristina unless I am present. I am also sitting her down tomorrow and telling her everything that has been going on."

"Don't you think she is a little young to hear what her sister has been doing?" asked Monica a bit surprised at what Alexis was saying.

"No, because if I don't; I leave her open to Sam's nonsense and frankly today when I buried Molly I realized that her entire life has been a lie and I don't want that for Kristina. I want her to live a life, make her own choices but I want her to have all the facts, not just what has been deemed acceptable for her to hear." she answered rubbing her face with her hand. "Monica, I wish I could skip this part but I should continue on with why I asked you both here."

As she filled them in on all Jason had told her about his life since the breakup with Elizabeth at the courthouse, all of it, the good the bad and the very, very ugly. "Steven, I think that there is a good chance that Elizabeth's child is missing because Nik isn't the father, I think Jason is."

Stunned, Monica said "Why would Nik do something like that, I mean, that mess destroyed his relationship with his brother."

"Did it?" Alexis stated. "I don't think it did. Lucky blames it all on Elizabeth; he had that Irish woman staying out on the Island."

"Alexis, that was to stick it to my sister to say, hey see, I have moved on." he said.

"I never thought about that, but still, I don't see Lucky cutting off all contact with Nik, or punishing Nik, I heard what he did, what Lulu did, how they both publicly humiliated Elizabeth, yet, what about my nephew, because I would have to say..."

"You think he did this, don't you?" asked Monica. "I just want someone to tell me why?"

"Nik has always had a little bit of a thing for Elizabeth." Alexis admitted. "I knew about it from years ago. Monica, I hate to point this out, but Nik, his relationship with Emily, it came about after years of being her pal, her friend. He knew about her crush, yet he didn't do anything about it, until years later. I think that was because when they were young, he was a little more cautious about Lucky's feelings and didn't chase after Liz. It wasn't until he had given them up he got involved with Emily."

"Wait..." Steven had something tickling at the back of his head, something that she had said plus the FBI had said started to rattle around in his brain. "I oh crap... what if... no... but... oh crap, crap, crap. Monica when I brought in that IT guy from the FBI to work for us, he told me that Spinelli had a worm in the computer... I told him to keep it up but to monitor it. He keeps me abreast of anything the geek accesses."

"What is it, Steven?" asked Alexis. "What is this about an IT man?"

"I never told Nik about it, mainly I told him I hired someone to upgrade our systems because I was keeping his real job silent." he told them. "Well, there were a few irregularities that I took as Jason keeping an eye on Elizabeth and her sons. Then when I was given the results of the DNA tests... Aidan's wasn't a match, but they had also run Jake's and Cam's."

"I would guess for comparison..." trailed of Alexis.

"No, because I had some doubts about something I saw..." Steven was reluctant to tell them but knew he had to since Anna was looking for Aidan. "The real reason Elizabeth moved away..."

"She left town, when?" asked Alexis who saw his face close up and said "Okay, no more questions, I am sure that there was a good reason, but I am worried because Lucky is the father of record regarding Jake. He could make her life difficult if he wants to."

"No, he can't. The records were fixed yesterday both here and in the courts. I also filed paternity results on the samples the FBI ran, they had Jason's on record... but since we had... okay, back to what I was saying... I am going to call and get them to run all three of the boys' results against Jason's, just to cover up what I am really looking for."

Steven made the call and was told his contact in the lab would personally deliver the results the next day. Alexis went to find her daughter, knowing that the next few hours would be difficult but she had to do this, for all of their sakes.

Monica went home and after a talk with Tracy found out that the woman had done some checking on her own. "Why would I trust anything you came up with, after all...?"

"Luke never told me, he knew and never told me, I told him to leave, had Alice pack him up. Monica, I altered Alan's will, Luke helped, he knew that Jason's children would inherit everything. I think my brother knew." she confessed. "I set everything to rights, but am not filing anything until we find out that the McCall woman didn't do some sort of switch, that she doesn't have a surrogate out there carrying a child so that she can keep her hold on Jason."

"Relax, if I am right, she intends to produce Jason's youngest child with Elizabeth, claim to have adopted him." Seeing Tracy's shock then anger, Monica said "I don't have proof that she actually knows where he is right now, but my guess is that she will be searching."

"Then we shut down, Mr. Spinelli, right now." she said forcefully.

"No, let him look, we want all the eyes we can get on this situation." Monica said with a cold smile. "We just don't want them to know that we are aware of what they are up to."

"Who is they, I mean, that kid is easily lead, but do you really think he knows what Sam is up to?"

"I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past him." she said then went on to update her on the rest of the story. Seeing Tracy's sudden intense expression, she said "What is it?"

"What you said about Cameron and the tests in the past, Nik being involved, are we sure that Cam isn't Jason's?" she said then saw Monica's surprise and said "Hear me out. Nik decided he wanted Emily then, Emily was feeling guilty about Zander, I would almost bet she was thinking about regrets, about what had happened... then suddenly Zander is an option in regards to Elizabeth's child. I wouldn't put it past him to alter tests back then, since he had to be involved with the altered tests now."

Seeing Monica's disbelief, Tracy said "Thank god, you have me to help out with this; none of you are devious enough to see that Nik and Sam, even Lucky would want to keep this under wraps. I would be willing to bet that Lulu is part of this as well."

"What about Carly; what do you think is her part?" Monica asked.

"No, because if Carly knew that Cameron was Jason's son, she would have been all over it wanting him to go for custody, remember, Elizabeth was with Ric Lansing at the time." Tracy stood and said "You contact Steven and I will do a little research of my own."

In a cabin in the woods, Jason was getting ready to head back, needing to talk to Elizabeth, needing to see if she would be willing to let him spend time at Jake's grave. He sat there on the sofa, looking around, wondering how he had let his life become such a mess.

He wanted to blame it on Sam, on Spinelli even on Elizabeth but in truth, he had created this mess, always thinking there would be time later to fix things, to make things right with his son even if not with his mother.

He had hurt desperately when he had found out about Nik and Elizabeth, now he had come to face that that had been partly his fault and he had had no right especially since he had already slept with Sam. He had expected Elizabeth to go back to Lucky, and when she had seemed to be doing so, he had distanced himself even more. That small mistake, that simple belief in Elizabeth' falling back into her past, had cost them so much.

Jason lifted the album, the newly edited album along with his bag and walked to the door, looking back he thought long and hard and realized that he had decided to make some big changes here. Ones that he was proud of. First up was dealing with Sam and her fake pregnancy, then Spinelli. He had to move out, now, he had been part of the reason Jason had been so easily influenced by Sam.

He was going to go back to what had worked in the past, sticking with those who had been his friends all along, he would go back to trusting Carly and Sonny, after all they had his best interests at heart, well more than those he had been using as an escape from his life.

Across the country, Elizabeth had help unpacking from her brother's friends who had to be curious as to why she wasn't using her real name on her home or utilities but since they were ex- agents who thanks to John Durant being angry at them for not doing what he wanted and breaking the law to catch criminals had been let go from the FBI.

"El-er Beth, is there anything else you need. Would you like for me to arrange for pizza so that you don't have to cook?" asked the pretty blond woman as she got ready to leave. When Elizabeth said she had already done so, Rozallen just reminded her to turn on the security alarm afterwords and left.

Seeing Jake and Cam who was a bit bruised still playing in their large room, she sighed as she waited until it was eleven and made her call to the untraceable phone. "Anna, have you found anything, anything at all."

"No, so far we just keep getting false starts." she told the worried young woman. "Robin called, she wanted to let you know that you are already missed and that she took care of your mail like you requested."

"Thank her for me, will you. Without the change of address card, it will be a little bit harder for Mr. Spinelli to locate Me." she said in satisfaction. "Do you know if Lucky has gotten the papers yet?"

"The attorney was given them already. Nik was given his as well. However, you might need to talk to him when we find out the truth regarding your son." she reminded the younger woman. "What about Morgan?"

"Jason will be happy we are gone. It won't make a bit of difference in his life, he never cared when we were there, never noticed what was going on in our lives, my guess, he doesn't even notice we are missing until Lucky starts his sobbing and his woe is me act."

Anna wanted to argue but just let it pass. She knew that Morgan had left town, even what Steven Webber had said to the man and that he believed it was Jake that had died. Making a call she asked. "Did you spike Cassadine?"

"Yeah and that computer geek and his bitch of a boss as well." replied Stanley who said "I uh, also talked to my mother, she called wanting my help for Elizabeth's sake..."

"I thought you told her only in cases of extreme emergency?" groaned the woman.

"I did but she bluntly told me that she considered finding Elizabeth's son before the Pouty Prince did just that." he told her. "She also said that she thought that Spam Whores a lot is involved along with Scrappy Do. Man she was pissed about Morgan leaving town, I mean steaming mad."

"I am almost tempted to give her his location."

"You know... I could do just that, in a round about way. Send her on vacation... to the middle of the mountains, its something she would like... to take up her crocheting, a few books and get away to nowhere." he said with a slightly evil chuckle. "Momma would ream him a new rear end by the time she was finished. Who knows we might get lucky and they could be snowed in together."

Anna chortled at the idea then told Stan that they would save that idea for later. "What about Dante and Michael, any idea why they are looking into things?"

"None, but with his being Carly's son it is worrisome." warned Stan. "What about the file on Doctor Niles."

"She is leaving things alone, I like that she is at the beck and call of the mobster boy." she said then added. "Cut him loose by the way. Or I will just call Sean and tell him to do it; he might need to hear that he is free and clear."

"He made a mistake, brought on by what Morgan and Corinthos did to cover up for Michael. I looked otherwise he is clean. So you are going to give him what he wants, the files on Alcazar and Ruiz or are you just backing away from that part of it."

"He gets the files, I want him to turn what he is running over to Morgan with the understanding that Corinthos doesn't even get control when he finally turns up." she added before going to call her boss.

In Port Charles, Michael and Dante sat there in shock at what they had found at the library, then once outside, Dante looked at his brother and said "Well, do you think that he is really that stupid?"

"I am beginning to think that Damien Spinelli really, really is just that, stupid." he said slightly gleefully as he held the book bag with everything they found on the geek and his past. Most of the stuff was deleted off the Internet, but clearly having lived his whole life on a computer meant that it was doubtful that the geek realized while removing the articles and such from the world wide web didn't mean that someone with patience couldn't find it in the achieves of the library newspaper copies.

"I am going to talk to Mac, I will tell him that you were the one who found it then explain that we couldn't locate the articles on the computer. Let him work out the rest, that way Jason can't blame you when this goes down; he will be after me."

Snorting a bit in bitterness, Michael said "I hate that Uncle Jason knew all of this, did what he did in regards to Sam. I mean, I saw how he went after Claudia, how he went after you for wanting to do the right thing... then to let the woman who harmed his own son. I have heard him tell her that he loved her. He celebrated holidays he should have been with his son, with her..."

Dante didn't know what to say, clearly Michael had found out his hero has feet of clay, that he wasn't the champion of all that was good and noble in the mob world. He himself was a little bit disgusted with Morgan. He could still recall their discussion about loving a woman you shouldn't... he hoped to god that that woman wasn't Sam, that it was the very lovely mother of two sons because otherwise Dante might just puke at the idea.

Across town unaware that his best friend was looking for him as Jason headed to see Sonny, Carly was meeting with her ex-husband about Jason's whereabouts. "Are you certain you have no idea where he is?"

"No, I thought the geek had him tagged." she said in frustration. "I can't believe he disappeared so completely. We have to locate him, get him to come home."

"What do you think I am trying to do." he yelled in annoyance at the woman when there was a knock on the door and Sam with a trailing Spinelli angrily stormed in seconds before the man dressed in black pulled up. He didn't draw attention to himself, wanting to let them get inside and leave so he could talk to his friend.

On his way to the side door, he saw Carly's car and was happy, He could deal with them both, get their help in getting his life back on track.

"Sonny, you have to do something!" Sam shouted unaware that Jason was listening. "That bitch; that bitch Elizabeth Webber is gone. No one knows where she is, and I overheard two nurses talking about how she suddenly just quit with no notice. You have to stop her from getting her claws into Jason again; you just have to stop her."

Carly snorted and said "Elizabeth isn't with Jason. They have had no contact since Jake was grabbed, I helped you make sure of that, or don't you remember? She is more than likely fleeing from the news that Nik wasn't the father of her kid... I mean, we both know that my cousin will get out of jail and the moment he does... he will sue that two-timing tramp for custody of his kid."

Jason stood, almost entering in the need to find out what she was talking about and at the same time thinking about how he was going to have to deal with Carly and her unreasonable hatred of Elizabeth. Because from here on out, he intended to have contact with her, see what he could do try and make up for what had happened.

"Carly, you have no idea, none." she sneered. "No contact, you have got to be kidding me. They kept meeting until Nik and I low-jacked the bitch's purses and even that didn't stop them from fucking last winter a couple of times." At that point, Jason gripped his keys so tightly they were imprinting onto his skin.

Spinelli saw the dangerous look in Sonny's eyes and started to back away as he moved in and said "You did what? I would start answering me Sam, or you won't like my reaction."

Jason was grateful when his best friend stood up for Elizabeth, but he was still going to make Sam and Spinelli pay for that one. While Sam hadn't mentioned his name, he was sure that the geek had been involved.

"Get over yourself, Sonny. You and I both know that you were no happier that Jason was with her than the rest of us." she snapped. "I would suggest you remember that I know your part in a certain paternity switch."

At that point, Jason almost felt his heart stop as he tried to figure out what Sam was talking about.

Carly felt her Jason senses twitching and asked. "You idiot, you made Jason the father of Jake, what the hell were you thinking?"

"No, Carly, see your ex decided to be a loyal big brother when he found out that Jason was a possible father of Cameron, Elizabeth's oldest bastard." she sneered. "So he insured the outcome he wanted. When I asked him why he didn't make the brat Ric's, he said that Jason would feel the need to protect her if it was his brothers' child."

Jason's heart did stop, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, what these four people were talking about, that two of them were involved didn't shock him. His head was on straight when it came to Spinelli and Sam, but to hear Sonny not denying what she was saying and Carly demanding answers... well he was a bit sickened at what he was hearing

"You..." Carly was amazed and shocked that Sonny had had the foresight to do something like that, but let it go, not wanting Sam to know that so she turned the question. "Sonny, why on earth would you tell Sam any of this?"

"He was delirious at the time." Sam smugly and sat down before asking "So what are you going to do to get Jason back because if you don't. I will make damn sure he learns the truth."

Jason listened to Sonny tell Carly that she of all people had no room to talk. That she had been using their son to manipulate Jason for years. That of all of them, she was the one most desperate to keep Jason away from Elizabeth as he reminded her of her part in the attempt to change Jake's results until they were almost caught by Alan Quartermaine.

Carly's response of she only wished she had known Spinelli then, that things would have been a damn sight easier, that they might have actually been able to fix the results instead of just trying. "I tried to fix things. Then once he knew, I did what I could to keep them apart, but no, you just had to screw Lucky didn't you Sam?"

Outside, a frozen Kristina let the tears fall down her face. She had had a big blow up with her mom over her sister. She had accused Alexis of being a liar, of blaming Sam for things that her sister would never do but as she listened to the woman she had looked up to talk about getting rid of Elizabeth Webber and her sons, Kristina felt her heart breaking as she got that the person she had thought her sister to be, well that clearly wasn't who she was...

Jason meanwhile, he was standing there when he had a thought, a very ugly one. One that had him driving away, needing to find a way to fix things with himself so he could fix his life because clearly it had long been a lie.

Driving away, he hit black ice and went over the embankment, his car submerging into the dark and murky water. A man who had been following Morgan, stood at the top and got into his own car with the intention of calling for help when he had an idea, worried that there might be someone else in the car. Then looking at the back seat of his SUV, folded it down, then grabbing his thermal blanket waited as the man in the water struggled to get free and no one else came out of the river.

The blond was holding his head as he got out of the knee deep water, seeing the blood, he staggered to the snow covered hill. There he saw someone coming down to help him. "I uh..."

"Stay with me, Okay?" he was told as the man helped him walk up the hill. Once he was lying down on the carpet, the reflecting thermal blanket was wrapped around him then the heater turned up as he asked the man how many fingers he was holding up.

"Two." said the man as he still held his head, then looked up and said "Who are you?"

With a slightly cold grin, the man said "No one you know. Let me get you some help. What can you tell me about the accident?"

Looking around a bit, the blond hesitated then said "I don't remember, all I recall is lifting my head from the white bag in front of me and knowing I needed to get out of the car. Was there someone with me, I keep getting the feeling that there was someone else driving the car. That I was trying to talk to him about something. That there was something urgent I need to do."

The dark haired man got into the drivers seat and called his contact. "Met me at my house, bring what you need to treat someone for a head injury. Don't ask any questions and I will insure that you get what you want back. No games. But you, you head out of town, immediately, otherwise the work you have been doing for me, well it becomes public and you lose your medical license.

Over the next few weeks several things happened. Monica and Steven learned the truth and while it created more questions than gave them answers, they were very happy to learn that Cameron was a Quartermaine. Now all that was left was to find out the truth regarding Aidan or rather the baby that Elizabeth had actually given birth to...

Across the country, Elizabeth was getting weekly calls from Anna, so far they weren't good or bad news, but was that she was getting a clearer picture of what had gone down. She had begged Elizabeth not to ask her any questions, explaining that telling her too much might create a danger to her biological child.

Instead Elizabeth along with her sons mourned the little boy she had been raising. She had heard via Anna from Franco's mother, had been told the woman was praying for her, that she hoped she found her son. She had also heard from Robin and Patrick who were slowly patching up their marriage.

Her brother had told her than as soon as he could come, he would visit with her, but she had begged him to stick with their already scheduled visit, worried that one of the loose cannons from PC might follow him and bring the chaos from home back into their lives.

Patrick was also missing one of his first friends. As he spent time with his daughter Emma, Patrick thought about children and their parents and knew that if Morgan ever returned from where he had apparently fled he would sit the man down, have a very long talk with him, even if he had to drug him to do it.

The Quartermaine family was thrilled to learn the truth. Edward was trying to find away to fix things so Elizabeth could return home until Monica had pointed out that the best thing he could do was honor Elizabeth's wishes and put all his energy into find her son. The little boy they still didn't know where he was or who had him.

Monica though was working with Tracy on a few different things. The first was supporting the poor woman who had just remarried the man she had thought of her future. The heart doctor had another project as well, dealing with finding out what Nik had known and how. For that she had been spending time with a thwarted Brook who was feeling humiliated at the way he had treated her.

She had been a large vault of information on Nik and his attitudes regarding Elizabeth and Aidan. From that to his lack of parenting skills to his determination to win, it gave Monica chills to think he might have been involved in stealing yet another child from her son. When he had tried to get back with her great niece, she had listened as he gave her the same lines he had Emily and as soon as he had left, shared that with Brook.

Tracy was working with Alexis, the two of them were finding much common ground as they went over the hospital finances, the records of phone calls, then they got lucky one day when Alexis went to pick up Kristina from her brothers loft and to take her to dinner.

At Dante's; she overheard what Michael and Dante were working on and went to call Tracy. "Find out what Mac Scorpio knows, will you?"

"I thought you were involved with the man?" she asked.

"I went on a few lackluster dates, nothing more." she said. "I don't want you to romance the man, Tracy. Just tell him you have an interest in things. He won't trust me, since I am Sam's mother." They had run tests and Alexis had been disappointed to find out that it was true.

Jason meanwhile was being told his name was Jason and that he was a complete stranger to Johnny. After getting the man healthy, it had only been a small bump on the head, according to Lisa, he had given him some money and fake ID.

The blond, not wanting to rely on anyone else, went with his gut that said he needed to be far away and left town, driving off on the bike the very generous man who had saved him life had given it to him.

AT the Spencer household things were not going to good. Lucky was out on bail and was finding out that Siobhan was not around to play spy with. He had been furious when the moment he had walked out of the station; he had been served by a process server with papers from Elizabeth.

At seeing them, he had signed them, tossed them back at the man and said "Tell my ex-whore of a wife that I don't want anything to do with any brat she has. She didn't need papers to make it official, because I am done."

Now, finding out the red head was gone along with his undercover assignment, he was looking for companionship and when Maxie turned him down, pointing out she was seeing Matt, he thought about it then went to see Elizabeth, eventually she would forgive him. She always did. Driving over, he saw the empty house, then went to her grandmother's, then tried her brother who reminded him of the papers he had signed.

"I want to know where my sons are?" he demanded only for Steven to scornfully laugh then pull out the copy he had and showed it the man. "You have no rights, none."

"Where is Elizabeth, she can't keep those boys away from me. If you don't want me to go to the cops and press charges, I suggest you tell Me." he threatened. "I am still a cop and I can have you tossed into a cell until you tell me the truth."

"Go for it. And when I have you fired for false arrest, no one, I mean no one will hire you, but then that doesn't matter, after all you have a snow balls chance in hell of not going to prison for that accident." he was reminded.

Lucky went to the station and put out a bolo on his ex-wife and amber alerts on his kids; minutes later, he was called into Mac's office and told that he was suspended and had no right to put out the alert.

"I know you were told you were not to come here and then to try this. Spencer, you are done, you have no rights, none to those boys. I have had the alerts retracted and you should know that the State Police and the Sheriff were given copies of the writ you sighed and an affidavit from the man who witnessed you signing."

Stalking off, he went to find his father and siblings. All of whom were at the Haunted Star. "Have any of you seen Elizabeth and the boys?"

Ethan just shook his head no not adding that he avoided her, embarrassed at how his family treated the young woman. Lulu on the other hand, blamed Elizabeth for what she saw as tearing her family apart and she went off on Lucky for trying to get in good with the woman again.

"That's not it, I just needed to see the boys, she is keeping me from them." he said his eyes starting to water. "When we almost lost Jake, it made me face that even if Elizabeth and I no longer have a future, those boys, they need me in their lives."

Lulu got up and hugged him tightly and said "You are such a better person than I would ever be, I will see if I can have Dante find out anything."

Lucky called out a hasty no, but it was too late, Luke looked at his son cynically then said "What did

you do, Lucky? Why are you searching for Elizabeth and her whelps, you only do that when you... shit. Lulu was right; you are planning on getting back... well it won't work, not this time. You have done too much damage."

"Dad, Elizabeth loves me. She will take me back, trust me. She knows that I am the only father those boys have known, that I am the only man on this earth that will take on playing dad to her illegitimate brats." he said with a smile. "Beside, you know I love those boys."

Tracy had just come from the station, wanted to tell Luke to get his son under control. When she heard what Lucky was saying she drawled out. "With love like yours, wow... you verbally abuse their mother; call her a whore all over town..."

"She slept with my brother." he cried out at the unfair attack.

"Oh, get over it, Lucky." she sneered. "You have been playing this whoa is me act for all it is worth. Luke, I know that Nik bailed him out of jail, what you don't know is that I just talked to Mac and the judge is considering rescinding the bail, there was an agreement that says he has to stay away from Elizabeth and her children added to it. He is breaking those rules and is looking at going back in."

"Wife, I knew you cared." he crowed as he mentally ordered Alice to bring him a drink.

"I am a Quartermaine first and your son is after my great nephews and I won't allow it. Lucky, in case you didn't hear about it, Jason being Jake's father, well it came out. No one is going to be fooled; your part in this mess is well known. So don't start the tears saying Elizabeth lied to you."

With that she walked up to the doors then said to Ethan. "Maya went back to Philly, you should receive the divorce papers this week. There is a settlement, take it and help us get your family out of our lives."

Lucky immediately went to see Nik. "Where is Elizabeth?"

"What do you mean, where is Elizabeth?" he hissed as he stood behind his desk. "Alfred?"

The butler returned to the room and said "Yes, Prince Nicolas."

"I have to go across the harbor, tell the nanny to make sure Spencer is ready when I return."

The two brothers drove silently over to Elizabeth's house. Seeing the new curtains, Nik said "She just changed the curtains, Lucky. That's all."

Heading to the door, Nik took out the key he had had Alfred lift and copy from Elizabeth's set and tried to let them in. When nothing happened, he just rolled his eyes and rang the doorbell. When the older woman opened it, he pushed his way in and stopped, suddenly looking around at the changes while she shouted for her husband.

When the man came down the stairs with a fully loaded shotgun, Lucky shouted he was a cop.

"Not likely, I watch the news, I know you were fired, I even know your connection to the young woman who sold us this house." she shrieked while her husband pointed the barrel at Nik who was trying to walk up the stairs like he had a right to.

"Get out of our house and don't come back. You can be sure that I will let the cops know about this, you get out, now!" shouted the man. Nik was going to push him aside when he heard the sirens and lights.

Heading to the porch, they found themselves explaining to Dante what was going on. "Cassadine, you were told to interface with us, regarding your missing son. As for you, Lucky, there is a restraining order barring you from this address. Leave before I arrest you. And tell your sister, to stop bothering me."

"Cold man, she loves you." he was told only for Dante to look at the two of them and say "You two are a piece of work. Now don't make me reconsider arresting you."

Nik went to see if he could find his aunt only to be told by her that he had no legal standing to know where Elizabeth was. "Nik let her go. She clearly has accepted the loss of her son. You need to do the same."

Swallowing his retort, he drove over to Morgan's penthouse only to find that Sam wasn't there. "Then where is she?" he asked Spinelli who was clearly upset about something.

"Looking for my master, Stone Cold has been missing since the day of the horrific bus accident." he blubbered between tears. Nik swore than called his contacts. "Where is Elizabeth Webber?"

"I don't know do you want me to look into it?" he was asked and Nik snapped of course I want you to find her.

Hanging up, he went to the hospital and tracked down Epiphany Johnson who gave him nothing, then checked her personnel file, nothing. Calling human resources he said "I want to know the moment that someone calls to verify Elizabeth Webber's employment."

Leaving, he tried yet again to track down Sam, certain she knew something. That she suspected the same thing he did... that Elizabeth was with Jason. When the slutty woman showed up finally he said "Where the hell have you been?"

"Looking for that bitch Elizabeth, she took off with Jason's kid." she snarled. "He is my only chance of getting Jason back. My mother found out my plan for Abby's kid ; so I need to find her brat. Alexis, by the way gave me some cock and bull story about Jason trying to commit suicide when I told him I was pregnant. As if..."

Nik let the delusional woman leave and then made the call. "Elizabeth left town, find her."

Helena let her smile grow as things went according to plan. Elizabeth was gone, the truth about the baby switch was coming out, now all she needed to do to start the blood feud up again was to tell them the truth... she had no idea, none that Nik was well aware that he wasn't the father nor did she know that it wasn't Spencer either.

Calling her contact, she told the woman. "Give Spencer the information. Then find the Webber girl, I am not done with her just yet."

Alexis was reading the results and asked Steven what he thought about things. "I know that Nik is your nephew, but he had to be involved. I want to know if he knew what Helena was doing at Shadybrook. What is in these files, they prove that Lainey Winters didn't actually treat my sister, she clearly just warehoused her there."

"I am going to talk to Dante this evening; he is coming over with Michael. I think we should consider letting them help. I told you what I heard."

"And with Mac talking to Spinelli yesterday, yeah, it looks like they might be onto something. I just want to find my nephew, to give my sister some well deserved peace." he said bleakly.

"What if Lucky or Nik is the father?" she asked quietly. "What then?"

"We deal with that when the time comes. I still think that Jason is going to prove to be this baby's father as well." Steven had asked Elizabeth, been rather blunt with his sister who had her therapist listening in on the call if she had slept with Jason.

She had verified that she had. Then told him the rest, the screaming match, then tears, the accusations on both sides, the recriminations, then the sex. She had denied calling it making love, saying she would never make love with someone who did what Jason had done to their son.

Steven thought she was in denial, but then thought about it. That was the whole reason he was visiting with Alexis. "I uh, have you seen or heard from Morgan?"

Shocked to realize she hadn't so much as heard a peep about the man, she called Diane Miller. "Have you talked to your client, Jason Morgan?"

"No, what is going on, Alexis?" she asked a bit worried. "What has that daughter of yours done now?"

"A lot, come over for dinner, I will tell you then. If you hear from Morgan, just give me a heads up, okay?" she asked then hanging up called Carly. "Have you heard from Jason?"

Looking at the woman's daughter who was sitting on her sofa and bawling into a tissue, she fumed and said "No, but Sam is here. I can't believe that he is missing. I can't believe she is right and that slut Elizabeth managed to get her claws into him. I mean, he hasn't even returned my calls, not even after I told him Michael needed him."

Across town, Mac was taking the call from the auto detail as they explained about the SUV found now that the snow was melting out near the old cliff roads. "There were no prints, nothing at all we can use to track the owner down. I have some clothes that were in a duffel bag, but there are no identifying marker and they are mass production items."

"What do you have?"

"Three long sleeve black t-shirts. Two pairs of jeans, 34 x 36. Socks and underwear still in the package." he wrote than down then looked at the list before saying. "What was the last?"

"A travel guide, Italy 2010." reported the man. "There are some pages turned down, but it is too wet to get anything out of it. If it's any help, it's mainly museums that are marked. Plus something about cruising down the Eastern side."

"Okay, not much to work with." he said. "What do you think happened to the driver?"

"From the dent, he had to have a pretty nasty head injury." reported the man. Mac looked at the list again then took a drive down to the docks. Entering Sonny's place he said "Corinthos, have you seen your partner lately?"

"He is out of town, on business." he replied.

"There was a dark SUV found, the clothes match his lack of style and there was a book, a travel guide." he added. "The driver suffered a head injury. The crew that took care of it said that they think the body washed out to the harbor."

Sonny waited until Mac was gone, then called Spinelli and told him to get everything that the PCPD had on the accident then drove to Carly's. He wasn't happy to find a raccoon eyed Sam there but just asked. "Scorpio came to see me. He found a vehicle in the stream near the cliff road. There was a bag, black long sleeve t-shirts, jeans and socks and underwear in a duffel bag."

When they both denied that it could be Jason, he said "There was a book, a travel guide."

"I knew Jason was still reading them, like he did when Michael was just a baby." said Carly unaware her husband had arrived along with her two sons. Michael had come to check on Morgan, while Jax had asked for a few minutes alone.

Sam said "Was it to Hawaii?"

"No, Italy." he told her then saw her eyes narrow with anger. "Yeah, I was afraid of that. Well at least we know he isn't with Elizabeth, even if wherever he is, he is thinking of her."

"Jason and I went to Italy." Sam said loftily then heard someone snorting. Turning to see Michael looking at her with scorn, she eased back, scared of the look in his eyes as he looked between his family and her. "What? We did!"

"Sam, keep making excuses, I know that Jason wanted to take Elizabeth to Italy." he said. "Mother, as for you... while you were out chasing down your best friend, Jax and I went to Morgan's first session with the new doctor today."

Carly went to smother her younger son in concern only for Morgan to slip out of her grasp and walk up to his room. They all heard the door slam then the sound of another door slamming. This time it was the front door as Michael walked out of it; sick of them all, he had considered telling his parents about Sam, but soon realized that they would try to get him to keep it a secret.

Jax looked at his wife then at the other two then said "Michael and I were talking today... did the two of you ever talk to him about his time inside Pentonville?"

"Why would we, he had Jason." said Carly shrugging her shoulders. "HE would never let anything bad happen to Michael."

Muttering under his breath about how he only let bad things happen to his own son, the blond walked out the door and found the young man sitting on his car. "The door is unlocked."

"Did you ever tell Mom you were raped?" he asked holding his breath.

Jax opened the door and looked over the roof at the boy he had been shocked to see two days earlier entering his rape survivors support group and answered honestly. "Yes but she didn't believe me, blamed me for what happened. But your case, Michael it's different."

"No, because we both know that she won't let it be, it will be Dante's fault, it will be the judge's fault, she will want Dad to kill the man, never mind he is already dead for trying to attack Uncle Jason." he said softly. "Mom won't face it; she won't want me to talk about it. If I were to ever tell her the truth... I just am not in the mood to let her use my rape to make it all about her."

Driving off, Michael met up with Dante on the way to seeing Kristina. His sister had said she had something very bad to tell him. Walking off in the cold, he listened to what she had to say, his eyes widening as he put it together with all he had been looking at himself.

"So, Cam is my cousin?" he asked. "It explains the weird friendship I have with him."

"Yeah, do you ever thing about AJ?" she asked.

"When Ric left town, at first I was too busy to think of him, then dad and I started to reconnect, but now... with Molly's death... and his coming to town then leaving... I feel bad but I miss him."

"Don't feel bad." he said with a scornful laugh. "Clearly my mother and father, who act like they are oh so superior to him, are just as bad. Jake and Cameron are my family, but my mother wishes it wasn't true... I don't want to think about the reason... I can't... because it makes me sick and very, very angry with all of them, including Uncle Jason."

"I can't deal." she said with a sigh. "I saw Sam the other day, she waved at me then left me a text message about how it is my mother's fault she can't be near me. Like she was the victim of my mom. What are you going to do now?"

"Dante and I are going to find Cam's little brother. I won't give up. Uncle Jason may have been hurt and normally I would consider looking for him. But he made his choices and now, it's my turn. My choice is my family." he told her. "I uh, Dante and I talked. The FBI is looking for the little boy, I am going to tell them what we found."

"Your mom is NOT going to like that, not at all." she said stunned. "Wow, she is going to throw the temper tantrum to end all temper tantrums."

When they were back at the Lakehouse, he asked if she could keep what he told her a secret.

"Yeah, I promise." she said entering the house. Seeing her mom and Dante saying goodbye, she said goodbye to Michael and went to write down all she could recall about that day at GH when she had almost been shot. Then thinking about it, wrote down all Sam had told her about that artist Franco.

Two weeks later Elizabeth hung up the phone, after thanking Anna for what she had told her. Looking at her little boys, she said "What do you say to heading down to the beach?"

Once there, she let them build a sand castle, then saw one in the distance that was absolutely beautiful. As they walked near it, she was shocked to realize it was the Coliseum in Rome. Looking at the man taking photos of it, she said "It's wonderful, you put in incredible detail."

"Oh, I didn't do this. Some man who just walked away did. He looked like a beach bum, but I just couldn't resist taking a photo for my wife. We lived in Rome for a couple of years where I attempted to make it as a photographer, the light, yeah know...

Elizabeth softly said "I know, the light is different in Italy. How did you end up here?"

"Here, on the beach selling photos of tourist, well that is a weekend hobby that pays for my expensive equipment. In California, I work here, my wife has family here, As for Italy, it sounds like you have lived so as well."

Wistfully she said "No, I always wanted to though. I have read travel guides for years about it."

"Well here, the man left it." he told her handing her the latest Frommer's guide to Rome along with the quick picture of the boys he had snapped and printed at his small tent. Elizabeth looked at it then reluctantly took it. She had thought she had put Jason behind her, but then something like this, it brought him back. The pain, the dreams and mostly the disappointments on both sides.

Seeing her sons trying to build something similar, she sat down in the sand and tried to help, needing to exorcise Jason from her thoughts.

Meanwhile the blond man was sitting on the docks, holding his head. The pain would come and go, but in between he would have absolutely fantastic dreams of people, of seeing things, but mostly they were of the same things. Horrible things that made him ache even if he didn't understand them.

Walking back towards the sand sculpture he had created he saw his travel guide, still uncertain what had made him buy it. Looking around at the sound of musical laughter he watched as in the distance two little boys were splashing their mother. Feeling a strange need to join them, he quickly grabbed his book and left.

Back at the cheap motel where he was saying, he tossed the book down on his bed and saw the photo slide out of the two boys and the sand sculpture. Getting reading to drop it into the trash can at first, something, something made him keep it. Maybe it was that one boy had the same colored eyes as his, maybe it was the impish grin on the other boys face, but something made him tuck it back into the book and set it carefully down on the dresser.

In Port Charles, Sam was with Spinelli and then felt a sense of relief. "No, it wasn't one of Stone Cold's vehicles. Plus, the shirts were a size too big."

Sam said "Did you check his passport?"

Spinelli looked at her surprised she even had to ask then said "Of course, but I will check it again."

This time, there was a pop. Reading it, he frowned then said "Why would my master go to Buffalo and catch a plane to France."

"France? Are you sure?" she asked even as she went up the stairs to get her stuff. Returning she said "I have to go to my place, could you arrange a ticket for me to Paris?"

"But Fair Samantha, Stone Cold flew into Lyon." he told her. Sam called Sonny on her way to the airport after a quick stop at her place for some more clothes. "I will bring him back."

Sonny just let her go, then called Max into his office. "Jason is in France, do you have any idea why he would go there?"

Answering his ringing phone, he was about to cut off Spinelli when the geek told him that his master was hiding his tracks. Hearing what the geek said, he frowned a bit then looked at Max and said "HE went to the same hotel where he married my sister."

Now Max was frowning, most of the guards were well aware that that had been a rebound marriage and relationship for their other boss, why on earth would he go there. Being told to pack his bag, Max reminded him that with Jason gone, Sonny was vulnerable.

"Don't worry about it. You get Jason back here, before Sam shows up. I got the feeling he was a bit upset with her." he told his man.

Nik was getting no place looking for Elizabeth's child and having Lucky trying to help wasn't any help at all. Then he got lucky when his brother's trial was fast tracked. While the former cop was dealing with the charges Nik was finally getting someplace.

But in the end it led to the agency where Franco adopted the little boy for his mother. The little boy that Nik had wasted so much time and energy on. He had been rather happy when Sam had gone off to search for Jason, he still wasn't sure that the woman would not have harmed the baby he needed to get Elizabeth' back under his control.

Johnny waited until Sam had left the country then went to break into the penthouse. Within minutes, the three men with him all dressed in black had the geek's computers, his backups and then lifted the drugged man and carted him off to the waiting car.

"Try the place in Buffalo." then thinking about it said with a smirk. "No, go further south. South Carolina, Georgie, maybe even Mississippi."

"Okay boss." said the first man then the dark skinned man and Johnny went back to his secret hiding place. His plan had worked, he knew that Sam would go off to find Jason, no matter how lame and unlikely the destination was, and it had also drawn off one of Corinthos' people as well.

"What do we have?" Johnny asked then when Stan had cracked the code and started to download files, he said "Did you find what you need?"

The man was swearing as he called his boss. "Anna, head to Tennessee; Oakfield, Tennessee. That shit knew where the kid was all along. My guess, he was involved somehow in his going missing."

Anna going the directions, then called her daughter, hanging up before she answered as she decided not to give anyone the news, just in case they were wrong. Stan meanwhile gave Johnny what he needed to take down Sonny. "You do know that if Jason shows up, this will all be worthless."

"Got it." he said grimly not telling the man that Jason Morgan had no idea who he was and was even now wandering the states, Johnny would bring him back, but only AFTER he had gotten rid of the man. He had a guard watching the former enforcer; he had no issues with Morgan outside of who he worked for. Corinthos on the other hand, he was going to take him down, and enjoy doing it.

Brenda was sitting in the lobby of the hotel, wondering what was going on. Jason had left town, more than likely was trying to deal with his mistakes. She truly hoped her friend was with the mother of his son, working on getting back together, but she had doubts, mainly because Spinelli and Sam were still hanging out at the penthouse.

Sonny had been acting distant and she had overheard a few conversations with his virulent, harpy of an ex-wife that made her very curious as to what they were up to. What was even worse is that she was beginning to doubt she had made the right choice... because this man, he couldn't hide it for long, but he wasn't the Sonny she had fallen in love with all those years ago.

"Brenda?" Looking up, she saw Michael and looked over to where Dante was standing talking to a clearly upset Lulu Spencer and sighed at the mess she had made of his life.

"Are you okay?" asked the young man, sitting down next to her. "I uh, if you need help..."

Reaching out, she spontaneously hugged the growing young man. He clearly had some of the goodness of his uncle inside of him, his father too. AJ had been an angry young man, but time and experience had proven him right on a few things. Mainly regarding Carly Corinthos Jacks and her parenting skills.

"Michael, thank you for caring, but I am going to be fine, I promise." she quietly told the blond. "How are you doing?"

"Okay, I guess. I have been working on something for a friend of mine. It's been I guess you could say it has been very enlightening." he ended on a lame note, not sure how to tell her that the man she loved was part of a conspiracy to keep Jason away from his family.

"Michael, we have to go. I got permission to take you with me, from Mac." he told his brother then nodding at Brenda, knowing that she loved his father, not him... he walked away and let the pain go, for now.

Once in the car, he said "I don't want to use the sat nav, I am disabling it, we are also going to stop and get pre paid cell phones."

"Okay." said Michael a bit grimly. "Dante, how are we going to know that the baby is Elizabeth's, I mean, we don't want to be like Lucky Spencer."

"We just find out if there is a baby there, then we work with the local police."

Nik was getting frustrated, he had no idea, none and now Damien Spinelli had been kidnapped by Jason Morgan's enemies. He couldn't afford to be caught in the middle of this mess, so weighing the pros and cons, walked away and decided Elizabeth was too much trouble, he should have learned his lesson all those years ago.

When he showed up in court to support his brother, he listened as the kidnapping charges were dropped but with the ruling he could no longer be a policeman. That he had acted with reckless disregard, if not criminally. As the jury was sent to deliberate, Lucky showed his brother the note from Helena.

"She claims that the missing baby is mine, not yours. That she altered the tests." he said the tears flowing. The DA rolled his eyes, Spencer had released more water than the fountain in front of the courthouse, during this trial, and he only hoped the jury didn't buy his fake tears.

"I think she is right." Nik deftly tiptoed through the minefield and then added "I think she played us. It's more than likely why she killed Franco, so he wouldn't blow her plan out of the water. I am sorry, man. I can't believe this; I really thought that it was my child."

"That wasn't your fault that is all on Elizabeth, she is the one who played us against one another. She was the one fucking both of us, just like she did to me with Morgan, with Zander." he said pouting a bit.

Bobbie who was in the gallery, to support both her nephew who she thought deserved to pay at least slightly and Alexis, who she empathized with, snorted at that one and walked away ignoring her nephew's hurt voice crying out that his own family was on Elizabeth's side.

Seeing Sonny and Carly there, surprised her, she didn't think that either one of them would actually show up. As she approached them, she could hear Sonny assuring Luke that there was no way Lucky would go to jail, not for something like this.

The jury returned two hours later and soon announced their verdict. "Guilty on vehicular manslaughter charges, all counts."

There was an uproar and the judge looked at the DA and the defense attorney and said "I would like to take care of this now, so shall we skip the sentencing recommendations and I will mete out justice now... Lucas Lorenzo Spencer you have been found guilty of four counts of vehicular manslaughter by a jury of your peers. I hereby sentence you to 4000 hours community service,"

There was a gasp as no one could believe how light the sentence one, most especially not Ric Lansing or his ex-wife Alexis Davis. "... probation for 36 months and suspend your driving privileges for the same."

Ric hissed when he saw Luke nod at Sonny and kept Alexis from creating a scene by whispering "Sonny bought the judge, I just saw a nod between Spencer and him, but the question is why?"

When they were outside, Alexis looked at the press and said "While the criminal courts felt that Lucky Spencer was guilty but that the judge decided he had suffered enough, as the mother of one of the victims I have decided to file a civil lawsuit against Lucky Spencer. The FBI has already said Mr. Spencer broke protocol; the local police washed their hands of him. I intend to sue Mr. Spencer for every single dollar he has ever earned or ever will earn."

Sonny saw Luke's hand gesture and just walked away, He had got what he wanted, Lucky out of a jail cell. Sonny was certain that Lucky would soon have Elizabeth Webber back under his thumb and Sonny would no longer have sleepless nights thinking about Jason and what would happen.

Walking away he saw an out of state call and answered it. His eyes widening, he gleefully accepted the meeting, then frowned a bit as he realized he wouldn't have Jason for back up. Calling Max, he asked if he had located his partner.

"Sir, he was here, but he left. Do you want me to keep chasing him down?" he asked.

"No, get back here." he ordered and went to see Brenda. "How do you feel about a trip to New York City, I have a meeting there, this week."

In France, Sam was certain she had seen Jason and gave chase. Frustrated when she lost him, she grew even angrier when no one would help her. They all just kept saying the exact same thing then shrugging. Calling the penthouse, she grew even more annoyed to find that Spinelli was unavailable. All she got was a voice mail assuring her that he was going to take care of their little stone cold.

Not sure what the geek was up to, she was about to give up, when she saw how the man at the desk was licking his lips and decided to play him a bit. An hour later, after a quick shower she was on her way to the hospital, from the sounds of it, Jason was sick, she was certain that she had heard the word malade and that it mean ill.

"Chambre de réputation malade. I am looking for the nearest one." she told the taxi driver who looked at how she was dressed and drove her straight to Maremount. "Where?"

Pointing up, he took her fifty euros and drove off. Sam once again repeated the phrase and the man she had asked looked at her and pointed up the staircase. Groaning, she went up the long narrow staircase, ignoring what she was sure were insults and when she arrived at the top, was frustrated to find no hospital.

Deciding she was wrong about the word meaning, she showed them a picture of Jason, one Spinelli had taken without Jason's knowledge of the two of them while she was wearing one of her costumes and was surprised when the man nodded yes and sent her into the battered door with the naked woman in neon above it.

Furious that he would even think of hiring a hooker, she went in and demanded to see him. A bored blond at first pretended not to speak English but after ten minutes of listening to the American hooker talking about her john, she lied and said "He was here, but not today. Wow, the stamina on the man, he told Yvette she was the best he ever had. Something about her not needing the boots and whip to get him off. That it was a nice change from home."

Sam stormed out, while inside, the woman laughed and then said "What a bitch. She gives us a bad name."

At the same time in on the west coast, a man was once again walking along the beach, spending time by the water soothed him; it helped clear away the very scary memories floating through his brain. Sitting down when the pain in his head got to be too bad, he saw his book slip through his hands as he reached up and grabbed a hold of the back of his head.

The picture fell out, the two little boys looking up at him, were now inside his head, dreadful images of pain and suffering and then it got to be too much. Falling to the ground, unaware of his surroundings and the wind that had picked up and blown away the photograph; the blond lost consciousness, and the man watching, looked around then nervously disappeared.

Soon on the highway, he called his boss and said "Mr. Zachara, I seem to have lost Mr. Morgan."

Johnny swore, he had known that there was something wrong with Morgan and that he should have taken him straight to the hospital... instead he had decided that revenge was more important. Now, Jason Morgan was out in the world with no protection, no idea that there were people out there trying to kill him.

The man hung up, looked at the money he had been given at the beginning of the assignment and decided to use it to disappear. Meanwhile the same photographer who had taken the picture of the sand castle and the two boys found the man on the ground screaming his head off... begging someone to help him.

Calling for an ambulance, he could only tell the driver that he had seen the man down by the cheap motels lately. Loading the John Doe, he called the police who ran his fingerprints and nothing came back. Using photo recognition programs, all they came up with was a driver's license for a man named Jason Adams.

Checking the motels, they found his room and the clothes insides. Nothing, there was nothing to explain who this man was. A man, who was now a patient in the hospital, scared of everyone who came near him. A man, who claimed that someone was trying to kill him.

Across town a much happier day was happening as Elizabeth Webber heard a knock on her door, she was shocked when she opened it up to see her brother standing there with Anna Devane holding onto a crying little blond boy. "Oh my god!"

Anna handed Elizabeth her son, not really surprised when the very hysterical little boy quieted down as he held onto with tight fists to the woman who was even then singing softly and out of tune to him. "Elizabeth, where are Cameron and Jake?"

"Upstairs, oh, Steven, what do I tell them?" she asked slightly shocked to realize that some part of her hadn't held out hope, that some part of her had fatalistically believed her son was dead.

"I will do it, if you don't mind." he said then giving his sister a hug and pressing a kiss to the top of his nephews head, ran up to give them the good news.

As he explained things, Cam seemed confused then just asked. "So, when Lucky brought back little brodder, he brought back the wrong one?"

"Yes." he said hugging the very smart little boy.

"Mommy should have asked Jason, he brought back the right Jakey." the little boy informed his uncle, "Mr. Jason is a much better chaser than Lucky."

"Jake are you okay?" Steven asked the very quiet little boy.

"Did you bring back Aidan?"

Not sure how to explain that Aidan wasn't Aidan to someone that young, he just led them downstairs to where Anna was getting rid of the other agents except one. "Elizabeth, I know that you don't want to let him out of your sight, but there is much we need to tell you."

Elizabeth saw the maternal looking woman who smiled kindly and offered to take all three boys to the courtyard and let the older two play, hesitating at first, she knew she couldn't refuse and said, "Jake and Cameron this is..." Looking at the two people in front of her, she finished. "Since I let the other little boy who was your brother be Aidan, we are going to call him Christopher, Christopher Steven Webber, okay?"

Nodding silently, Jake looked at the little boy and then at his mommy and gave her a hug before heading outside to play. Meanwhile Chris was refusing to let go of the soft and good smelling woman holding onto him. Its okay, Frieda, I will keep him."

Anna wasn't so sure that was a good idea, but clearly didn't want to go. "So, who had my son and why?"

"First, we have to discuss a few things." Steven said sitting down next to his sister. "Jason is Cameron's father, I know you said that it was a possibility, but do you want to know how it was kept hidden?"

"How?" she asked still slightly shocked by the idea that her dream had been reality.

"Nik, he didn't want Zander in Emily's life and decided to play roulette with your son's life." Steven softly informed her. "Then Sonny at some point, learned the truth and kept it hidden to protect Courtney."

"Why bother, even after Jason learned about Jake, it didn't change anything, he still ignored us for them." she said not bitter just stating the facts. "Nothing's changed."

"There is more. Like I mentioned, like you discovered with your therapist, you slept with Jason at that cabin in the middle of nowhere. Nik found out from Sam, he gave her the numbers for the tests... Mr. Spinelli let his fingers do the walking and once again..."

"The truth about my latest child's parentage was tossed out the window to satisfy other people's whims. Cam to keep Zander away from Emily, and by Sonny for god knows how many reasons... Jake out of sheer stupidity and stubbornness on my part and then there is Christopher, why was he kidnapped?"

Taking a deep breath, Anna looked at her in sorrow and said "Because Spinelli, working with Sam planned on convincing Jason to adopt him. From what his grandmother confessed, she was to keep the baby for a few months... then Sam would work on Jason until he agreed to adopt this orphan."

"That bitch, this time, this time she is going to pay." fumed Elizabeth as she looked down at the little boy who was falling asleep on her lap and said "I should have made her pay last time, but I didn't, I didn't and this, this is..."

"Elizabeth, Spinelli fled, it looks like he thought he was out of luck when a car belonging to Jason was found in the river... after he had threatened to suicide while talking to Alexis Davis." Steven didn't tell her his part in it, knowing eventually he would have to. "Sam told that Abby girl who used to hang around with Mikey, that she would claim her child, but then when we told that we knew she was lying... she didn't seem to have much of a reaction at all.

"You should know that the reason your son was found... Cam asked his friend from Bobbie's house, to find Mr. Jason and have him bring back his real brother." Anna told her. "Jason has been unreachable, I don't think he is dead, just that he fled town. We had him there a few days after you left, he went to the warehouse, we thought he had a meeting with Corinthos, Carly and the twosome, but they claim not to have seen him and Kristina who was there looking for Sam, left, crying and told Michael she never saw Jason... we think he heard something... something that upset him."

"I don't care what Jason heard or did, I just care about raising my boys in as much safety and security as I can." she bluntly told both of them. "What about Nik? Is he going to be an issue?"

"No, we haven't any direct proof against him, but he did know that Helena altered the tests, when he learned..." Steven shrugged as if to say he had no idea. "Lucky was going to be a problem until Mac told him that his sample didn't match your sons. Then he did..."

"His usual temper tantrum?" she asked slightly exhausted at the idea of Lucky Spencer and his need to act like a five year old in need of a nap. "What about the rest, are they going to be a threat to me?"

"The WSB and the FBI along with a few other agencies are looking for Mr. Spinelli and Sam for some reason is in Europe and we are going to have her arrested in a couple of days. After I arrange for Ms. Miller to lose her ability to practice law at least until the end of the trial."

Shocked, Elizabeth said "Do you think she knew anything about this?"

"No, however Alexis won't represent her, and Ric who is in town suing Lucky, my guess is that she is going to want Jason's lawyer to help her, well not this time, no way in hell." said Anna. "We have her, dead to rights, calls to Tennessee, Spinelli's grandmother's testimony alone is going to send them to prison, plus, she has tapes of calls with her grandson, he left messages on her machine, regarding the child he referred to as Jason Jr."

"Sick MFer." muttered Steven who said "Dante and Michael, well they are going to be the star witnesses."

"You mentioned that before, just what did they find and then get past Carly... Monica told me what she said about Sam, how she 'forgave' her for endangering Jason's child." Elizabeth said with disgust. Hearing her phone ringing, she quickly answered it not wanting it to wake her son.

"Yes, this is Elizabeth Webber." Listening, she smiled and said "Yes I will be available."

Hanging up, she smiled at them both and said "I have a part time job, two days a week working with patients at a children's community center, the kids are a mixture of everyday neighborhood kids and the children of the staff at UCLA medical center. This is going to be great."

"Wow, are you sure you want to work, after all, you don't have to." her brother gently reminded her.

"I can't not work, I just need the regular schedule, for the boys as well as Me." she said with a slight smile. "I am going to start painting again, the money is great and I owe you big time for the help you gave me in moving it here without anyone's knowing so that I can get on with our lives."

Steven hugged his sister and then said "I can't stay; I wish I could, but Anna doesn't want to draw any attention to here. Grandfather, would be happy about the name, by the way."

"It was for you, too." she said standing and calling for the boys to allow them to say goodbye to their uncle. "Anna, can you talk to Mac, I want to press charges against Sam and Spinelli."

In Port Charles, Mac told his niece the news then sighed when Maxie started to run her mouth, talking about how Elizabeth was a lousy mother, then going on and on about how it wasn't possible for Spinelli to have been involved. "Maxie, her son was found at Spinelli's grandmother's house, how do you explain that."

"She, she must have driven him to it, look what she did to poor Lucky." she muttered. "Sam is right, Elizabeth never pays for..."

"Sam McCall is a con artist who is going to jail as soon as we get her back here. And if I find any proof that you warned her, I swear, Maxie, I swear I will lock you up as an accessory to the crime. You should know, Anna said you look mighty suspicious in regards to the second kidnapping of Jake Morgan."

"I didn't know anything." she protested.

"I would guess that you are lying, you know something and you should also know that I am reopening every single case involving Sam, Spinelli and Jason Morgan, with some outside officers looking into things and if I find anything, I mean ANYTHING to connect you at all, I will arrest you myself."

Maxie got up and stormed out, when Robin looked at her uncle; she saw his expression and said "What do you know?"

"Let's just say that Maxie has done some things, I don't have solid proof, yet, but I do have at least various reports, including her so called pal, Lulu Spencer and a few others. That is all I can tell you as of now. When you talk to Elizabeth, tell her that for her sake, I am happy she has her son back."

Mac walked out the door and went to the station where he looked at the report from Anna who had interviewed Elizabeth Webber, then had talked to her son Cameron. Lucky Spencer should consider himself very fortunate that Mac Scorpio couldn't get a hold of him, he would have to be satisfied with sending Sam McCall to prison for the rest of her natural life.

Carly wasn't happy when she heard the banging on her front door and opening it to be pushed aside by Maxie Jones wasn't improving her mood. "Carly, you have to help Sam. That lying bitch Elizabeth Webber is going to have her sent to prison."

The tall blond hid her smile; she could go for Sam in prison, with Jason blaming Elizabeth for his life going to hell. But what the blond said wiped any thoughts of smiling from her face as she grasped the petite mouthy blonde's arm and snapped. "What did you just say?"

"Nothing." she said nervously as she realized what she had revealed. Carly narrowed her eyes and hissed for her to stop acting like she was a fool and to just tell her the truth. Maxie hesitated then said "Spinelli is being accused of kidnapping Elizabeth's newest kid and giving him to his grandmother to hide. Sam was going to bring him to town, then adopt him with Jason."

"Why on earth would Sam be that stupid?" shouted a shrill Carly. Then her eyes narrowed and she had a sick feeling. "Why did they take that... oh god, no, no, no, and no? That fertile bitch, that child was Jason's, wasn't it."

"Yes." she snapped, "She gave birth to Jason's brat again."

"Three kids, that stupid muffin faced bitch gave Jason three kids." Maxie's jaw dropped then she said "You have got to be kidding me; Cameron is Jason's kid as well?"

Carly went to the basement and screamed in anger before returning upstairs. "Maxie, you need to leave, I will take care of Sam."

When the younger woman started to protest, Carly shoved her out the door and ran to shower and change. Calling Sonny's, she was annoyed to be told he was in New York City with Brenda, she had been trying to reach the geek for the last few days and had been getting nowhere, but she tried again, just in case... nothing.

Her mind racing furiously, she arrived at her hotel and saw Lucky talking to his brother and gave a Cheshire cat smile. "Oh, Lucky. We need to talk."

When Lucky was given the news, he crowed, instead of being angry, surprising Carly. Seeing her expression, he said "I knew the tests had to have been faked. Her brother did this, he has connections at the FBI, and I knew this was my kid. I knew it all along."

His cousin wanted to roll her eyes then point out the flaws in his reasoning but just let him rant, she needed his help... she had to get him chasing after Elizabeth. "You need to find out where she is, Lucky. I mean, if Steven won't help you, why don't you see Mrs. Hardy... or call her parents or someone else in her family."

When her cousin had left, Carly went to try and reach Sam. Getting the other woman's voice mail, she left an urgent message for her to call her and let her know if she had found Jason. Then Carly tried to figure out what else she could do.

Looking at her calendar, she saw it was pretty much clear for the next few days, then making a couple of calls, was on her way to the city. Sonny could play prince charming some other time; they had a real crisis, one that could not wait.

Michael who had been coming to talk to his mother, to see if he could get her to face that things had to change, listening to her voice mail message then with his head hanging low, left the hallway and went to find Dante. "Maxie Jones went to my mother, got her all lathered up about the Sam stuff and that Jason is the father of Elizabeth's child..."

Dante had seen the guilt in his young brother's face, in the way he had been trying to make up for the damage his family had done, but the worst part was that he felt guilty about Jason spending time with him, instead of his own kids. Dante wanted to tell him that, Morgan being a dead beat dad, had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with him, that the man had had choices and had made the wrong ones... yet at the same time, he felt like he had no right, none to be saying anything.

There was a knock on the door, then opening it to see an upset Brook standing, there Dante looked at the woman he had been friends with years before and said "What do you want?"

"Can we talk?" she said with a weak and sickly grin. When he looked at her with a distrustful expression, she said "I know that I am the last person you want to see right now, but please, I need a level head and you have always had that for me."

Opening the door a bit more, to let her in, Dante saw Michael leave the room then said "What is it?"

"Nik, he came over to the house, Alice wouldn't let him in, but I went out to talk to him. He says he wants a second chance that he is over his infatuation with that WOMAN." she reported. "I want to trust him, I do, but well, what happens when she comes back. I mean, she already has two men fighting over her, the Quartermaines would bow if she farted and I can't take it, I really can't."

"Okay, answer me this question, I want you to tell me what specifically, Elizabeth did to you. I mean not indirectly, I want to know what direct harm she has done to you."

"She kept pulling Nik away, making excuses for him to go over to her place. I mean, you should have heard of some of the stupid rules she had. The nanny couldn't pick up the kid, the kid couldn't be with the nanny, and he had to be with Nik. Nik had to obey things like certain people couldn't be around her kids, she had the nerve to question me about being around her child, like she has anything to talk about." sniffed Brook.

"Okay, first, he was the father; he had obligations to put his son before anyone he was dating, and the nanny bit, that was her being a good mother. And I hate to point this out to you, but you drugged me, attempted to rape me..."

"I wasn't going to..." she started to protest hotly.

"Brook, I was drugged and you were attempting to have sex with me, that is rape." he told her. "If I had a kid you were around, I would be asking questions too. And as for her reputation, most of that is crap Lucky Spencer has been spreading to make himself look better. This whole act, please, if you are buying it, you need to go back to Bensonhurst and regain your street smarts. As for Cassadine, that is up to you, but take a good look at the guy, the Prince is only a title, as a man he is rather lacking..."

Brook got up, then walked to the door and said "I think that he really means it, that he is truly over her."

"You will do what you want, but Brook, when your cousin was raped by a man who looked just like him, he moved on to a married woman, acting like Emily was overreacting. I heard about it from Michael, he has also already proven to be less than reliable, hasn't he?"

At the door, not facing him, she said "He will pull the backing for my tour, for my future, Dante."

"Then clearly, you are being used. Wake up, Brook. No man, none of us, is worth losing your self esteem. Look at Carly, she chases after what ever rich man is around, in between rounds with Sonny a man who has never treated her with respect. Look at Sam, Maxie, even your grandmother. They are all losing their self respect, chasing after men who don't love them... don't be fooled, don't be bribed."

"You don't understand... I have loved two men in my life. The first decided he preferred men to me, and then second, I lost long before I had a chance with him. So what if Nik is using me, maybe I am using him." Dante walked up, then hugged the desolate woman and said "Brook, you are better than that."

In California, the doctors couldn't find a physiological reason for the patient's current issues. They could see from the scarring that he had had previous injuries, including a recent concussion, but nothing to indicate why he was acting the way he was.

The two specialists at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center had had the blond man a Mr. Jason Adams transferred to their own ward after getting a call from Methodist about the man. Seeing him reaching again for his head, they listened as he moaned and whimpered in fear.

"When is Dr. Rumi due back from his meeting." asked the psychologist they had called in on consultation.

"Any minute." then winced as the man disconnected the machines from himself and went to the corner of the room and seemed to be cowering in fear. "For now, what do you think, there is nothing on his scans, in his tox screens, yet, here he is, I mean, it is clear he is hallucinating, but what is causing it."

"And where is he in his stage of development, I mean, at one point the voice is that of a mature adult, then the next of a nervous teenager, then there is the this one." said the man who had just joined them. With a sigh, he said "Has anyone been able to get close to him?"

"Just Nurse Armstrong, he kept calling her Epiphany, but at least he has let her near him."

The man looked in on the clearly terrified patient then at the other three doctors and said "We have done everything we can do for him at least physically. I took it to the advisory committee and they agree with our assessment that this is mental."

"I am going to be moving him to our assisted living facilities." announced Doctor Rumi. "I talked to the police, they ran his fingerprints, and he doesn't have a record. He also doesn't have a job history and with those calluses, that is a bit strange. But until we find out what is going on in his head, I don't want to release too much information, because someone, somehow and somewhere, has clearly tortured this man."

"I am just a bit worried, you saw the bullet holes, and the scars..."said one of the other doctors. "What if we are endangering the other patients?"

In New York, Brenda had let go of her doubts and was now, planning her wedding to Sonny. On her way back from the designer, she wasn't happy to hear Carly's shrill voice coming from behind the door but what she heard, shocked then sickened her. Looking at the sketch in her hand, she crumpled it up; sent a text to Edward Quartermaine and to Dante, then walked into the room to the shock of her fiancée and then wiping the tears looked at the two of them and said "No, you won't be doing that. Carly, I would believe this of you; after all we all know how desperate you are to hold onto Jason, but Sonny..."

The sobs started and she backed away as he tried to excuse the inexcusable. "No, I am done; there is nothing left to say. Jason, of all people, that you would do this to Jason... Sonny, god, what has become of you?"

"Sonny, you can't let her leave." warned Carly. "You have to stop her before she tells someone."

"Carly, do you really think I am stupid enough to come in here, to confront you, after hearing how the two of you have been betraying your so-called best friend; for years without letting someone know. I sent a text to Dante, to Edward so that he can protect his great grandchildren." chided Brenda.

"Sonny, it is too late. Damn, you know what..." she gave a scornful laugh, "I just figured something out... I mean, I knew it, deep down, but I didn't want to face it. Your brother, Ric is right about you. You will betray anyone to..."

At the door, Brenda opened it and saw Max and Milo there and then saw them look at Sonny before moving out of her way. "Good choice, boys. Now watch your backs, because if Sonny betrayed Jason, what is to stop him from betraying you."

Sam exited the jet, she had annoyed at the messages from Carly, until she got the garbled one about Jason. Calling the airport, she had arranged the first flight out to the states and was even now on her way home. Pulling up in front of the Towers in a cab, she hopped out, went inside and ordered the man at the desk to pay the driver even as she ran up the stairs, too excited to wait for the elevator that was already heading up.

Panting as she opened the fire door, she was searching through her purse for lipstick with one hand while tugging her skirt up some with the other, so she missed seeing the shocked expression on the two men standing there.

Mac with an ironic tone asked "Can I give you a hand?"

Sam saw Mac and her smile faded as she said "I don't know what you are after Jason for this time, but doesn't this ever get old?"

"Sam arresting people who break the law, who flaunt that they think they are above the law, no, that never grows old." He said amused when she reached out and grabbed his wrist as if to stop him from knocking on the penthouse door. "However, we aren't here to arrest Jason. For once, you could say, he was the victim of the crime."

"What? What happened?" she asked wondering what could be going on, she knew that Jason would never ever call the police.

"Kidnapping, fraud, medical interference, oh, and since they involve children crossing state lines, my guess would be oh, a very long jail sentence in the future for the criminal." He drawled out then said "Samantha McCall you are under arrest for accessory after the fact in regards to the kidnapping of Christopher Steven Webber, conspiracy in regards to the kidnapping of said minor, kidnapping in regards to Christopher Steven Webber, as well as a slew of other charges including false imprisonment. Then there is a laundry list of charges in regards to the kidnappings, both of them of Jacob Martin Webber and the attempted kidnapping of Cameron Steven Webber and Elizabeth Webber. As well as conspiracy in regards to making terrorist threats against Elizabeth Webber and her minor children in the park."

Sam stood there in shock, then smugly held out her arms to be cuffed. "I will be home by dinner time."

"Sam, did I happen to mention, that your pal Mr. Spinelli has a federal warrant out for him on the same charges, that my own daughter is being brought in for questioning. Oh and that our star witness is Michael Corinthos and Damien Spinelli's grandmother who taped every single call her grandson ever made to her. She was planning on writing a book."

When she rolled her eyes, Mac looked at the female officer who was with them and said "Take her in."

Her arms were grabbed and placed against the wall before Sam was patted down, then her purse searched. Mac took her cell phone, then the second one and gave a chuckle. "My oh my, a prepaid phone. You do know that these can be traced now. All you need is the number."

Knowing that all Mac was doing was trying to scare her, Sam said "I want to talk to Jason."

"I am sure you do, a lot of people want to talk to Jason, unfortunately he hasn't been seen since the day his truck went into the creek." Said Mac as they marched her across the lobby and into a waiting squad car.

At the station, Sam growled that she wanted a lawyer and called Diane only to be told by her assistant that Diane wasn't available to take client currently and had gone on vacation to Paris. "I can turn you over to Mr. Theo."

"Get me an attorney now, I happen to know that I am covered under Mr. Morgan's orders to Diane." She shouted into the phone while Mac called Alexis who said she would be down in a bit. When the chubby man showed up at the same time as her mother, Sam said "You are dismissed; my mother will be representing me."

"No can do, Sam. I am being called as a witness by the prosecutor. Mr. Theo is your only hope." She said walking over to Dante who had let Michael and Jax know what was going on. His brother had given Jax the whole story and the Australian had gone looking for his wife only to find his daughter with the nanny and that Carly's phone tracked to NYC.

Theo sat down and got the woman talking. "Okay, we need to go through each charge and talk about this before the FBI and Scorpio come in."

When she was still stubbornly denying any knowledge in regards to the kidnapping of Elizabeth's latest kid, Theo heard the knock on the door and then ordered her not to say a word unless he gave her permission. Sam smiled then said she understood.

Mac was given permission to take the lead and when Sam stonewalled him, he told her they were looking at her in regards to Damien Spinelli going missing as well. Sam started to talk, but her attorney shut her down, she would never harm Spinelli, he was her friend. "Ms. McCall where is Mr. Morgan?"

"I don't know, I have just spent almost four weeks searching Europe for him." She cried out in frustration then looking at her attorney announced. "I want to talk to Carly or Sonny, better yet, my cousin, I want to talk to Nik."

Theo knew that wasn't a good idea, he was reading through what the police had and when they went outside to confer, he told her "I told you to shut up. That means you met me do the talking. You say nothing I mean nothing; you don't move your lips while the cops are in the room, do you understand me?"

Sam said "I have been here before and I have never been convicted, I know what I am doing."

The officer came in and ordered Sam to open her mouth for a DNA sample, when she tried to protest, her attorney told her to let them have their sample. "We have nothing to worry about."

Sam just scornfully glared at the man then was furious when she was fingerprinted and given fresh mug shots while the press watched and took their own photos. Mac waited until she was in her cell then went to his office where Maxie was waiting along with Ronnie and a uniformed policewoman. "Maxie, this woman is here to arrest you. You are going to be fingerprinted and then they need to take your photo."

"What?" she asked, then looked at her father and said "Daddy?"

"I warned you, I told you to stay out of this case. You didn't. You should know, I have enough circumstantial evidence that you are going to be charged as an accessory after the fact for the kidnapping of Jake Webber and for what Sam did in the park to Elizabeth and her sons. Why Maxie?" he begged his daughter. "Why would you ruin your life like this?"

Maxie looked at her father then said coldly "I am not saying another word without my lawyer. I want to call Diane Miller."

"Maxie, Diane has been given a temporary suspension and you can't have the same attorney as your co-conspirators, so who do you think is going to represent you?" he asked sadly walking to the door and making sure the press was pretty much gone. "Maxie, I feel like I failed you, I know I have failed you. Why else would you be doing these things, I have no idea, none when you became this person you have turned out to be, but I do know one thing, your sister, your sister would be ashamed of you."

In a small beach town outside of LA, Elizabeth was leading her class of art students. IT was almost the middle of May and they were outside enjoying the beautiful weather while finding things to put on their collages. Hearing her name, she saw Robin and Emma coming her way.

Cameron saw his friend and shouted for the lady doctor and rushed over at the same time. Robin and Elizabeth were soon crying as the class looked at their favorite teacher and were ready to lynch the lady making her cry.

"No, no class, this is my friend, Robin. These are happy tears. Why don't you keep gathering up what you need for our presents and we will go back inside and let them dry so we can glue them on next Thursday.

Within minutes, parents started to show up and the students were shouting goodbye to Elizabeth as they rushed off to head home. "So this is how you spent your afternoons, it's nice." Said Robin as she looked around the classroom then said with a smirk. "You know, this is the first time in almost my whole life I have felt taller than the rest of the room."

Looking at the miniature tables, the low lockers and the cubbyholes along with the tiny chair, Elizabeth gave a laugh and said "I know and this is my older kids. You should go to the lower room. Cam loves it in there. Jake not so much, turns out my son would rather color on the walls then on the paper."

Robin could see the grin of appreciation and recalled what her mother had told her about the boys birthdays and their plans for mother's day. Setting Emma down, she felt a small pang as her growing little girl ran off after her friends who went to get their small piles of nature.

"May I?" Robin asked as they walked to the community daycare that was in the same hallway. Looking at Christopher, she picked him up and said "Are you sure about what you asked?"

"Yes, I have been talking to your mother. I know that we can't prosecute Nik on suspicions, but I can have him removed as my children's godfather. And I think Emily would be happy that I asked you to take her place as their godmother."

Lifting the little boy who was trying to crawl, Robin saw how much he looked like Jake and said "The curls he is getting those are definitely from you, but otherwise he looks just like his middle brother."

"I know, it hurts at times but I am healing. I don't know what would have been different but right now, Robin… I am glad that things happened the way they did. Jason gave me an absolutely incredible gift in our sons. I am over wishing he wanted to be part of our lives, or even just their lives."

Robin said softly knowing that she had to tell her something but holding back the rest said "You have more company than just Patrick and I, I wasn't sure how to tell you, but Mac is here, he needs to talk to you."

"I can imagine. I have been keeping an eye on things, worried about how it was going to affect the boys. She is still denying any knowledge, I was expecting her to confess then try to blame me for her sins last time with her moment of weakness excuse." She said with a heavy sigh.

Arriving at the second classroom, she saw Robin's eyes widen at the smallness of the furniture while Cam and Jake rushed over along with her own little girl who had stayed with her playmates even when they had entered the building.

"Mommy, are we going home now?" asked Cam as they were placed in the car. Driving home, she explained that no, they weren't going back to Port Charles, that Mommy was going to have to go but that Aunt Robin and Uncle Patrick were going to be staying with them until she returned.

"Okays, but I really wanted to see Michael." He pouted. Elizabeth once again promised to talk to Michael for him then watched as they hopped out of the car at the house and greeted Patrick with shouts regarding their new cars.

Seeing Elizabeth sighing in worry, Mac who had walked over said "I am going to tell you something, take it for what you will… don't feel guilty that they don't have a constant man in their lives, I think that that was what lead up to this moment for you."

Looking at the cop who looked like he had aged ten years in the last few months, Elizabeth said "I understand you had a problem with my ex-husband."

"He doesn't like the restrictions regarding his whereabouts; he is trying to locate you and is furious that the judge informed him that even attempting to look can get him tossed into jail. His brother suddenly went mute on the subject after Helena's heart turned up at his house."

"Who killed her?" she asked astonished.

"We don't know, but they were looking for something." He told her then said "Can we talk without the boys?"

Elizabeth looked across the room to where the boys were playing with Patrick and saw him nodding at Robin before she handed over Chris and called out "Cam, why don't you show Patrick your play equipment."

Once it was just Robin and the two of them, Mac told her the news he was dreading. "My daughter had a part in this, apparently it was her idea for Sam to pretend to be pregnant and then she was going to claim a hooker name Abby's child as Jason and hers."

"Not a surprise regarding Sam, but why on earth…?" she asked confused.

"There is more, Spinelli's grandmother has tapes of him and they are pretty damning about something else. Jason has no idea, none of what I am about to tell you. We can't find him but it turns out she was warned a few years ago, when Jason had a roof drop on his head, that if he didn't get his problems treated or if he had another concussion there would be serious, even deadly repercussions."

"Elizabeth, there was a car accident almost the same day you left town. I think Jason was driving the SUV, there is a dent in the steering wheel and dashboard, he hasn't been seen since."

Gasping a bit, she let the pain go, then said in a halting tone. "Robin, do you think?"

"All I know for sure is that this doctor warned her in Mexico, he came to testify because Carly is now baying for Sam's head, convinced she did something to Jason. Sam had her attorney call this man and it turns out Monica had given him the same warning not long after the incident with the hospital fire." She told her friend worried she would fall apart.

"Where is Sonny?" she asked. "You mentioned Carly, but if Sonny is silent are you certain that Jason isn't just working on something for the man." She put out there.

"Elizabeth, Sonny is in trouble. Rumors are he overextended himself trying to take on John Zachara and he is desperately hoping that Jason is alive, but I think if he is, he is in a hospital someplace, in a coma." Mac told the woman. "Things don't look good and I should tell you that Edward Quartermaine came to see me, concerned in regards to it."

"Okay, Mac, I have to ask, have you found Spinelli yet?" she asked.

"Yes, it was why I came. Damien Spinelli is in a psyche ward in Mississippi. He is heavily drugged and they believe him to be a danger to himself and others. The DA used that to up the charges on Sam this morning saying she took advantage of a mentally ill man and got him to do what she wanted. The trial starts tomorrow and you are going to be the first witness, so unless for some reason her attorney tries to keep you around which I doubt he will do, you should be home by the weekend."

Two days later, the patients at a small private nursing home were watching television. The quiet loner in the back of the room, watched without recognition as they showed a tour of Venice's glass shops and factories.

That night, after seeing the photos of all the handcrafted glass, he went to where he kept his private stuff, the stuff he kept hidden and opened the book. The nurse walking by felt sad for the handsome but clearly troubled man as he sat down and read. She watched as his lips moved, like he was reading out loud to someone.

Then she watched as he sat the book down, then moved to the window, as if holding his hand to the light that wasn't actually coming in. When he sat back down, she was just about to move on, when the man suddenly burst into tears and within minutes was rocking back and forth and sobbing so badly the orderly had to call Dr. Rumi.

"What set him off?" asked the man as he watched the patient cry. They knew better than to sedate the man, it only made the incidents worse for him. Three hours later, with shaking shoulders that ached, Jason Adams was sitting in the sunroom, staring off into space, his head resting on his knees as his arms were wrapped around his legs.

"Jason, how are you today?" asked his doctor as he joined the patient who just shrugged, looking dejected as a five year old denied ice cream. "I was wondering if you wanted to work with the patients on their projects. Today is Mother's Day and we try to make it special when the mother's children visit."

Dr, Rumi saw the pain in his eyes and said "What are you feeling, tell me in words, Jason."

"I hate today." He stated coldly. "I hate all holidays. What is so special about mother's day?"

Letting the man go when he stood and strode off, Dr. Rumi was on his way to the courtyard when one of the patients stopped him and said "Doctor."

"Mrs. Pauley, why is when I am around you, I still feel like a kid?" he asked amused as his old school teacher who was now eighty and in a wheelchair laughed. "Can I do something for you?"

"Sit down." She said and when he sat gave a quiet chuckle and said "I still have it. Anyhow, this is about Mr. Adams. I heard the two of you earlier, I know I shouldn't be discussing it, but there is something you should see."

Taking the stack of papers, he saw the first couple were black crayons scribbled across a tall person he would swear was a woman with some sort of bottle in her hand and a cowering little boy. The next were a little more mature, with what looked like a family, one he was clearly part of and happy. "Do you think that is a wheelchair?"

"Yes, that is one of the reasons I showed it to you. I have told you how your patient avoids those of us who are women in wheelchairs." She stated.

The next few were similar, then there was a darkness, a blond woman, holding a child away, then to him then a way and then finally giving him to another man who was holding a bottle. The doctor was getting a bad feeling about these. Then one that surprised him of a pine tree prominently displaced with paper chains while in the background he could see streaks from the white crayon and what looked like a sort of bike.

More sadness, more pain, anger… then a what he had to label as a more hopeful one that showed a woman, clearly pregnant with curly hair and bright blue eyes. "I wonder if you are related."

There was a man in the background, with dark hair and what felt like a sinister shading. Followed by a different pregnant woman, with spider webs coming from her fingers, also with a man in the background, this time a blond and from the way he was off in the corner walking away the doctor got the feeling he didn't want to be there.

More of the first pregnant woman, this time with a child and what looked like a police officer in the background. Then the doctor asked a nurse nearby "This train, it looks familiar."

"That is Chuggin Charlie, I am sure your grandson went through that stage." She said with an indulgent laugh as she said "My youngest is going through it now."

Nodding he saw the words from Santa and was surprised to see a bracelet on the train. Then one of a fireplace with the same woman and what looked like a holiday tree with two little boys the part that worried him was the window that was clearly between the man painting and the children.

Then there was the last one, the man was clearly on the outside, but that part that had his doctor concerned was the picture was full of people, but he couldn't find what he was now identifying as the woman with the boys. The picture was dark, full of things and confusing but the man in the lower corner was sitting on the ground clearly dead with a gun still in his hand.

"Thank you, I gather he is the one that crumpled them?" when she nodded yes, he saw the tears and recalled the stories about how her son had died and said "He is here, he wants help, I promise you, I will help him."

In his office, Dr. Rumi sat down then spreading the pictures out, said "Well Mr. Adams, you are speaking but what are you telling me. Why did you use crayons for instance, in stead of the pencils or the markers, or even the paints? Who are these people and what do they mean to you. And why instead of drawing about Mother's day are these almost all Christmas scenes, is that when you went missing, was it Christmas time?"

In Port Charles, Elizabeth had been expecting a circus but instead was surprised to see that the press was there but that they were actually keeping their distance. As she entered the courtroom with the two FBI agents escorting her, she saw her grandmother and her brother both of whom showed her what was in their hands.

Mouthing "I love you." To them, she was allowed to take the stand and ignored the murmurs from almost everyone in the gallery. "Your honor, thank you for your time."

"Ms Webber you and your children were the ones most harmed by Ms. McCall, you can have all the time you need." He answered. "Now, Ms. McCall before I allow Ms. Webber to speak, I would like you to answer my questions as set in your plea agreement with the district attorney and I would like to remind you that you are still under oath and if I find your answers to be insufficient in any way, you will be still facing a trial and with what you have admitted on record."

Sam was not happy, not at all but she had seen the overwhelming evidence and when they added a charge in regards to Jason's disappearance, she had given up. If Jason was truly dead, she had nothing, nothing at all left.

Sonny had bluntly told her he didn't have time, Carly was out for her blood and the rest of the town, well she normally wouldn't care, but the judge had refused to move the trial and she had seen the local press coverage. Elizabeth Webber was portrayed as a saint and she the town hooker. Not even Lucky had stood up for her, he had in fact blamed what had happened in the past few years on her, saying she had taken advantage of the way he had been brainwashed.

Her only hope had lain with Jason and Spinelli. Then she had been shown a tape of Spinelli drooling in his straight jacket and no one knew where Jason was. She had taken the deal, the judge was going to decide the sentence but she was well aware that Sonny had bribed the man before and expected him to do the same for her.

"Yes your honor, I understand." She answered.

"Now, you are pursuant to your agreement with the DA to tell us what happened the day Jacob Webber was kidnapped the first time."

Sam gave the speech Theo had written for her, she had wanted to explain about how she had found out Jason was the father, but he had told her that with the way things were going that would get her lynched and they were still investigating Jason being gone.

"Now, Ms. Webber, as per the agreement do you have any questions in regards to this?" This was one of the more unusual cases he had ever presided over, but when Edward Quartermaine came to you, threatened to destroy your career, you did what you had to keep yourself from going down for being bribed by the mob.

"None, your honor." She said then looked at Sam and shook her head in disgust. "I am only grateful that the young mother is getting help for her loss."

Sam gritted her teeth as she was ordered to explain about the two gunmen in the park. When Elizabeth was asked the same question, she had one. "I was curious as to how Ms. McCall knew I would be in the park that day?"

Sam conferred with her lawyer who told her they didn't know what Lucky had told the other officers so she answered honestly. "I was with Lucky when you called that morning, telling him your car was down and that you needed him to come and get you."

"He told me he was at work, that he was on a case and that I should call out or take a bus." She pointed out to the judge who looked at Sam and then asked about the two men. "Ms McCall, do you know where the footage of this incident went?"

"Mr. Spinelli took it on himself to help me out and erased it." She said, having no problems tossing the geek under the bus since he was already insane.

"Okay, now moving on. The second kidnapping of Jacob Webber."

Sam admitted only to knowing that she was being followed by Sasha's men. "I knew that I could use this to get her out of Jason's life. I thought they would only shoot up the cabin, I had no idea that they would grab one of the kids. Its why I helped save him. That has to count for something."

"What was Ms. Jones part in this?" asked the judge.

"She uh, she was the one who told me if I wanted Jason to go after him. She had help me set it up so that Elizabeth would see me at Jason's penthouse, in very little clothes, we both knew she was weak, that she would be upset and not trust him." She answered pissing off Edward in the back of the courtroom.

The judge saw the old man's face and then said "You were also to answer questions regarding the kidnapping of Christopher Webber."

"I uh…" Sam stammered, then looked pleadingly at her attorney who just tried to hand her the cards with her speech. "I can't do it, I just won't. She should have never been pregnant with his kid, again. I mean what does it take to get rid of you?" she steamed as she watched Elizabeth sitting there. "You just won't leave us alone, you know that Jason belongs to me, he is mine. I deserve him way more than some mealy mouthed nobody. Me, he loved me, all men they love me. Not you."

There was silence in the courtroom as the judge announced. "Ms McCall this is in violation of your agreement, do you want to attempt this again?"

"No, I didn't do anything wrong." She sneered then sat down. Within minutes, the jury that was already impaneled came back in.

"We will be offering you different instructions as the following remaining charges were not part of the agreement." Said the judge who told them that Chris's kidnapping, Jason's being missing and her conspiracy with Damien Spinelli were still to be decided.

Elizabeth was not happy when she didn't get to leave town, instead she was there for the whole two weeks, during which it became increasingly clear that Carly was not going away and that her son wasn't talking to her.

"Michael, I just wanted to say, thank you, for what you did for Cam." She told the young man.

"You should hate me." He said sadly. "It's because of me, that your children are going to grow up without their dad. He left town because of me and my family."

"No, Jason had a choice, like I did. I am at fault too." She said to the younger man. "Jason isn't the only one who screwed up. I have a family, people who love me and my boys, my sons will be just fine. You, you need to do what you can, for your own family. Don't hold yourself responsible for your mother's mistakes, okay?"

"Thanks, I am trying to work through things." He said awkwardly as he watched her until it was his turn to testify. By the end, his father who was sitting in the back of the room fuming, had already turned on Dante blaming him for what was going on.

"No, Sonny. You did this, you, that ex-wife of yours, and most importantly Jason did this. Now if you will excuse me, Michael and I have plans this evening, with Brenda." He said rubbing it in.

"I had her first, you remember that, I had her first." His father hissed as he straightened his shoulders and checked the cuffs on his expensive Italian suit. Looking down at the man in front of him, Sonny vowed to make him pay for this betrayal and to make it hurt..

"Thank you for proving what a low class bastard you really are." He said with a sarcastic chuckle he added. "Brenda and I aren't lovers, I do have feelings for her, but there are some lines I won't cross. You and your coterie of sycophants, well you will soon learn. I know that you are in trouble and that if Morgan doesn't show up soon, you will be out of business… I can't wait. I have forgiven you for shooting me, but only for my mother, I have never forgotten."

Elizabeth was sitting in Audrey's house, talking to Steven when she saw the agents knocking on the door. "There is a man, a Nicolas Cassadine here to see you."

"Let him in." she said with a sigh, more than ready to deal with Nik. When the man entered, she couldn't help thinking that her doctor was right, Nik had been an excuse to end things with Lucky. She had once again tried to make it more out of guilt at having sex with a man she didn't love.

"Elizabeth." he said in his usual stiff manner, "It is nice to see you. We have to talk."

"About?" she let the sentence hang.

"The trust fund I set up for our child. Now that we know it wasn't mine, I want my money back." he stated baldly as he fixed his trousers and went to sit down.

"Nik, I never touched it, never took the papers from your house. So you can take your demands and your stuffed shirts and go home. By the way, in case you are interested, the boy I gave birth to, Christopher is doing well." she said.

"Why would I care." he answered indifferently then added. "My brother by the way, he is wondering when you are going to bring his son home. We both know, no matter what those tests said, your brother altered them, to punish Lucky for not wanting you after you cheated on him with me."

Snorting to cover her laughter, she said "You keep up the facade, Nik. We both know you knew the truth. The police might not have connected you to this mess, but only two people had those numbers, you and I. Someone had to give them to Spinelli so he could alter the results."

"As for your brother, Lucky should have gotten the hint I was no longer interested when I screwed you." she sneered. "Nik, you were a way of cutting ties with my obligations. I couldn't face it then, but now...now, I am so grateful for that. The Spencer family will hopefully, finally get the hint its not my job to fix their lives."

Nik stood, then on his way to the door tossed out like a gauntlet. "Brook and I are back together, just so that you know."

"Poor kid." was her response then when he had left, went to the kitchen where Steven was. He had just finished telling her what he had said to Jason the night Aidan had died when her ex-lover had shown up. "Hey, I am fine. I wish you hadn't done it. I get the why, even if I hate that he might have thought Jake was dead."

Hugging her, he watched as Audrey turned back to the sink. Their grandmother was still upset about Jason's reaction. She had been upset to learn the truth about her grandchildren but more about how Elizabeth and he had screwed this up.

"Grams?" she asked then saw the older woman steel herself before she turned. "What is it? You were all right, now you are tense again."

With a heavy sigh, she walked over and hugged her granddaughter and said "I just hate, I really do that you are all alone, raising those boys... I just wanted better for you."

"But Grams, I tried, I really did and my life was a mess. It was partly my fault, yes, I picked the wrong men, but now... now, I need to do what is best for those boys, for my sons and I think I have made enough mistakes. They are thriving and happy, someday I am going to have to sit down and explain myself to them and I really don't want another mistake."

"I just don't want you to close yourself off to love." she said sadly. "I truly think that Ric and Lucky, well they were my fault as much as yours. As for Zander, you were trying to escape your mess. The part that worries me, truly is that I think Jason was the love of your life, like your grandfather was mine. That you were hurt and disappointed, it hurts."

The two of them hugged yet again then Audrey walked slowly to the living room, her mind on how she had pushed Lucky Spencer on her little girl. Stopping at the window, she looked out it, her mind returning to the times she had watched as Jason had given Elizabeth a ride home on his bike and her worry.

The trial was quick, the evidence overwhelming and legally obtained. As the parade of witnesses each took the stand and told the courts what they had done for Spinelli and Sam, all her attorney could do is try to put the blame on the geek but that backfired when first Lulu, then Carly and finally Lainey Winters testified about how the younger man was easily lead.

Dr. Winters adding that the boy had been severely maladjusted and that the doctors at his clinic had diagnosed him as having a very mild form of mental retardation. She then told the courts what the geek had confessed in therapy regarding Sam and her ways of getting information out of men.

When she read the part about how the geek had helped the "Goddess and Stone Cold" keep the "Evil Maternal One" away by altering the DNA then how Sam had convinced him that the best way to stop his "Master" from abandoning him again was to removed the newest kid, how he, the "Grasshopper" had suggested that instead of making the little boy 'disappear' they, meaning his friends should adopt him.

"Dr. Winters, what did you take this disappear to mean, did Mr. Spinelli explain?" asked the DA.

"For the baby to die." There were loud comments in both the jury box and the courtroom before the judge banged his gavel.

"I have nothing else for this witness." When Theo stood up, most of the jury saw the angry expression on Sam McCall's face and put it down to her being angry that her plan hadn't worked, and in that moment most were ready to convict the woman.

"Disappear, maybe Ms. McCall meant for the baby to go missing, like she herself did. After all she was taken from her parents..."

"Objection, does my fellow attorney have a question or is this his closing statement?" asked the DA."

"Sustained, ask a question or let this witness off the stand." the judge ordered.

"Dr. Winters with as confusing as Mr. Spinelli is to talk to, how can we be sure what he meant?" he asked with a calming smile as he looked at the jury.

Looking at the judge and then the DA she said "Because Mr. Spinelli also said in an earlier statement that Sam had said she wished Elizabeth would miscarry and that she had wished Jake Webber dead instead of brought back during his first kidnapping."

Theo sat down, then went through his list of questions but there was nothing he could do for his client. He had hoped, he had had plans for this very resourceful, bitterly angry young woman, but now, he had wasted his time and energy. Sure enough, the DA soon made mincemeat of every single one of the defense witnesses and after closing statements the jury was given its instructions.

Mac Scorpio went to see what was going to happen to Maxie while Robin made a quick call to Elizabeth who after the first day had found it too hard to be in the courtroom and not want to reach up and rip every single hair out of Sam McCall's head.

In the smaller courtroom, Maxie was in shock, she had been found guilty of the lessor charges, but not guilty in regards to the actual disappearance of the little boy and Jason Morgan. "Ms. Jones, please stand. I have the sentencing recommendations and I believe that the DA is being too generous out of respect for your father. I talked to the mother of the victim of your crime, and you know what she said to me?"

Maxie started to rip into Elizabeth but her lawyer leaned down and said don't do it, just say no. When she did, he continued. "Ms. Webber said she is too busy being a mother to her children to worry about you. That whatever I decide will be fine. Except she requested that you be required to have some sort of mental health check up."

"Well she should know, after all she was in Shadybrook." snarked the blond.

"Ms. Jones, what was that?" asked the judge. He had heard her, but wanted it on record. When she said nothing your honor, he looked at the spoiled young woman and said "It was not nothing, let me tell you something young lady, someone should have taken you over their knee and spanked you a very long time ago."

Mac looked down, then saw that Maxie was crying and knew that the judge was right. However his daughter was about to learn that judges weren't swayed by tears. "Ms. Jones, I do hereby sentence you to five years probation, during which time you must met weekly with a psychiatrist on your own dime. You are to have no contact with any of the following people, as well as anyone with criminal convictions of any sort. You will also be required to attend anger management classes and group therapy classes in regards to your heart transplant."

"But your honor, my boss will fire me if I am gone for work all that time." she protested.

"Ms. Jones, do you think your boss would prefer that you go to prison, because that is the only other option." Maxie was in shock, this wasn't the way her life was supposed to go, she was suppose to win, she wasn't the sort of person that got sent to jail.

"Your honor, I am Kate Howard, Ms. Jones' employer, I assure you, I will have no problem with my assistant attending these meetings. I currently have two other assistants, they can take on the harder assignments that require the travel." she stated and at that Maxie burst into tears as she got that she had been demoted.

In the kitchen a couple of hours later, the phone rang and Elizabeth saw the caller ID said the courthouse. Answering it, she said thank you. Turning to Steven she said "They are back in."

Calling Robin, she let her know then headed to the courthouse. She sat behind the DA and watched as various others showed up. When Sam was lead in, she watched the woman turn pale for a moment then her attorney telling her something. The judge entered then the jury... "Have you reached a verdict?"

"We have your honor. We the jury in the above action find Samantha McCall guilty on Conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping with special circumstances, and find her guilty of computer fraud."

There was a very quiet gasp in the room then loud murmurs as Sam felt the whole world staring at her. Turning she looked expecting to see Elizabeth smiling but the woman just whispered something to the DA and turned to leave the courtroom. She was starting to yell at the woman but then her attorney reached out and said "Whatever you are thinking about doing, don't."

Sam turned to see her mother there along with her sister who was talking to Michael Corinthos. She glared at the blond and then saw her sister looking at her, then stood and approached Sam. "I hope you get what you deserve. I am only glad that Molly never lived to see this. I am so glad that Jason ran away, that you are alone."

Alexis didn't say a word, she just walked away with her daughter, while Carly was torn between attacking Sam or chasing after Elizabeth. Deciding that Sam was going no where, she followed Elizabeth and her family out the door. Shouting at the nurse, she was annoyed to be ignored and then felt someone grab her arm.

Turning to where Michael was holding onto her, she hissed. "What are you doing?"

"Keeping you from making an ass of yourself." he said coldly. "What are you going to do, mother. Shout at her for having Jason's kids, why? Because he would rather be with her than you?"

"How dare you?" she said, holding her hand to her chest to hide her pain at her little man attacking her this way. "Why would you talk to your mother like that? You would have never done this before spending time with Dante."

With a mocking smile he said "My mother? Sonny is my dad? Jason my uncle? All of you are lying cheating hypocrites. You, you have no idea about anything in my life, same with Morgan. We exist for one reason, for you to control Sonny, to control Jason. Poor, poor Morgan gets the short shift, because... because I had the supposed honor of being raised by Uncle Jason, instead of his dumping me on your mom."

"He loved you, he wanted a life with you." she said. Trying to touch him, she was annoyed when he pulled back. "He loves you, my little man."

"Strangely enough, I would rather not have had him in mine. I mean, he is a deadbeat dad to his own kids, why?" Michael was getting the creeps from the way his mother was touching him, it was reminding him of prison.

"Because he made a promise to you, he loves you." she said pressing him, "Michael, don't you get it, he would do anything for you?"

"Anything except be a man and tell dad and you to leave him alone. He is no one I want as a hero, I can't believe that you think he did the right thing, but then, Uncle Jason was never given a chance, was he? Dad, you and Sam won't let him be happy, all of you claim to love him, but in truth you want to control him."

"You know, nothing, nothing at all about Jason and me." she insisted. "He is my best friend."

Jax had come to see what happened to Carly, he had been needing to talk to her but he saw the expression on Micheal's face and soon had a protesting Carly away and watched as the blond fled, very quickly and clearly far away from his mother. "We need to talk, Carly."

Sam was sitting in her cell when she heard the news that Diane Miller was looking to talk to her. Eagerly she held out her arms for the cuffs and was soon sitting across from the red head. "Have you heard from Jason, is he coming to get me out of here?"

"No, Ms. McCall, he isn't." she said coldly. "I am here in regards to my client, you need to sign this."

"What is it?" she said taking the paperwork and frowning. "Wait, according to this, Alexis is disowning me. She can't do that, I am her daughter, she can't just toss me away... not after everything."

"She can and she did. Sign, Ms McCall and you get your inheritance early." she said keeping her tone persuasive. Sam narrowed her eyes and rejected the paperwork.

"I am not going to let Alexis get rid of me that easily, I want more." she stated.

"Sam, there is no more, at least not for you. All you get is the name of your father and a way to find out who he is." she was told. Sam considered it, then thought back to all she had ever heard about her dad from Alexis and that it hadn't been much and knew that it was not going to be good news. "No, this is a one time offer, otherwise she takes his name to her grave."

"I found her, I can find him." she said loftily.

"Good luck, Sam." was all that Diane said before standing then at the doorway, took a look back and decided to heap on some more bad news, "By the way and you will have no way of proving this, because if you claim I told you, I will just say you broke into my office and stole the files... Jason, his will, leaves everything to his son and any other children Elizabeth Webber ever has. You, you got a mere five million."

"Oh please, he just forgot about changing it. And its not like he left anything to her." she snorted.

"No, Sam, he updated it after her son Aidan was brought home and he had a name. This was during the time he was telling you he loved you, I find that rather interesting. Also, the will before that, Michael was in it, at that point, he took Michael out." Diane then thought about what else she said and told the woman. "As for Elizabeth, though she doesn't know it and probably would never touch it, Jason already put almost fifty million dollars into a trust for her."

"What?" gasped Sam. "No, it was five million, I saw the paperwork."

"No, it was fifty. We had the smaller sum drawn up for Elizabeth to see, Jason knew she was reject the larger one if she knew. Sam, Jason didn't end things with her because he didn't love her, it was because he did and he wanted a better life for her than what he could ever offer. Oh, I am sure he cared for you." Sam gritted her teeth at the condescending tone but it got worse. "We all make do with what we have around, and I know that he did that with you, but one woman owns his heart and her name, is Elizabeth Webber."

Sam waited until the red head was gone and when an officer entered to take her back to her cell, she demanded the right to call her attorney. The officer was waffling then saw the tears and gave her his personal cell phone.

Calling the number for the main house, Sam waited until she heard his voice. "You had better get to the station and see me or I will give Mac the file I had created with every single one of our visits. We have an emergency, turns out that bitch had fifty million dollars, not five."

Nik thought about it, then hung up without another word. Turning to Brook he gave her an assessing smile and said "How do you feel about starting your tour off in London."

When she had gone to make a few calls, Nik made two of his own. "Lucky, you need to deal with Sam, make it plain what she has to lose and then go deal with your ex-wife."

The second call was to someone he hated talking to. "Jerry, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Webber has your box."

Jerry rolled his eyes well aware that the prince wanted the Webber woman gone and that he also wanted to punish his brother for what had happened the night before. Lucky had hit on the man's latest obsession, the young cousin of his late wife.

Looking at Siobhan and Theo who were waiting he told them. "Cassadine, he is sending us after the Webber woman."

"I searched her home, then her grandmother's, even the one in California, she doesn't have it." said Siobhan. "What is he up to?"

"I don't know, what I do want to know is where is the Barrett woman." said Theo. "She isn't staying at Corinthos estate, nor with his son."

"Morgan's old penthouse." said Jerry. "That would be my guess."

"Find my box, find Mr. Morgan, then deal with Ms. Barrett." said Theo as he added. "I have to try and find a way to fix my percentage, I can't believe I was stupid enough to take this case."

Jerry himself had been shocked when Morgan let her go to prison, but then he had been shocked to find out the man had been screwing her after what she had done to his own kid. Now, to find out that they were all Morgan's, and he got the reasoning behind Sonny's sudden fear and desperation.

The courtroom was packed, minus Elizabeth and her family who were secretly on their way to the airport without the guards who stayed behind to make it look like she was still at her grandmothers house.

The judge had just had a very private meeting at the country club and was padding his pockets very nicely from this trial. He had had four very large six figure donations for his 'reelection' campaign from the Zachara family, the Corinthos family, the Cassadines and the Quartermaines to mete out a sentence he had already decided on.

"Ms. McCall, I am not going to sit up here and reiterate what you did, we know and you know. Samantha McCall, having been found guilty of the above actions, I do hereby sentence you to life in prison with no possibility of parole."

There were shouts of yes, then all watched as Sam kept protesting her innocence, saying that Spinelli had done all of it, that she hadn't wanted to kidnap the brat, that she hadn't done anything wrong. That she was the victim. The print press got some nice photos of the court police carrying her out of the room, with Sam still screaming she was innocent.

Her attorney packed up his suitcase, told the DA he had done a good job then left, returning to his office. Then setting in his big leather chair, laughed his rear off because he had proof that Sam McCall hadn't done anything in regards to Christopher Webber, even if she had in regards to the other Webber children.

Alone, he mentally patted himself on the back for not giving in and saving her, she might have been more useful, but he had taken great pleasure in the scene that had happened in that courtroom that day. Standing, he went to pour himself a glass of brandy, then sat down, looking out the window, wondering where his box was.

Suddenly having an idea, deciding to talk to the Webber woman himself, he went to the garage, leaving the full sniffer of brandy on his desk.

Across town, Johnny Zachara had finished the Alcazar file, then started on the Ruiz one as he heard his second in command entered. "I need your help,"

"With what?" When he heard, Johnny grimaced, he guess that he had to, after all it was partly his fault the Webber woman was so unprotected. "Ethan, this isn't going to be pretty, there are FBI agents all over the place."

"Just keep him out of prison, for Lulu's sake." he tried to pull his sisters name of out the hat, unaware that Johnny was not interested in rekindling anything with the blond, in spite of her offers. He had been listening to tapes, ones found with these files, ones with a woman's voice on it. A voice he had heard before, a voice he had to track down.

Making a call, Johnny did what he could and Ethan thanked him then went to track down his father. "You need to deal with Lucky, he is on his way over to the Hardy house this evening."

Luke swore then rushed out the door, knowing his son would go to prison, Sonny had already informed him he had no more favors to offer. Luke had done some checking and had found out how bad things were regarding his old friend and was grateful that his youngest child was now connected to the Zacharas.

Ethan hoped in the passenger side seat, then told Luke to slow down, that the agents might see them as the threat if he pulled up too quickly. Luke who had already been tying one on, ignored his child and pushed down on the gas.

They took the corner quickly and in front of them was a car moving too slowly for them to avoid hitting it. Soon, the little car was crumpled up, then another car driving recklessly around the other corner, hit the driver's side door.

When the medics arrived at the hospital, Lucky Spencer had to rely on the skills of Dr. Lisa Niles, while Theo Huffman was declared DOA. Luke Spencer was without a scratch but Ethan had gone through the wind shield dying instantly.

Lulu, Bobbie and the rest of the Spencers arrived at GH, only to be given the sad news, then when Lucky's ex-girlfriend came in, they got another shock. She entered with Jerry Jacks who went quickly looking for his brother, knowing he had to give him the news.

Carly who was not going to let that one slide, attacked the young woman only to be shoved off and told to go chase after Jerry, that she owed her nothing. The tall blond did just that then frowned when she saw that he was going down to the first floor.

"Anger management classes, spousal abuse support group, AA, what the heck is he doing down here?" she muttered until she came to the rape survivors room. Pushing her way in, she saw Jerry talking to Jax in am empty room and snapped. "Did you know your brother is in town?"

"Carly, go away." he snarled at the woman he couldn't wait to divorce.

"No, I want to know what you are doing here?" she said with her hands on her hips. Then with a snort, she said "Wait, is this about your tall tale regarding being raped by what was her name, that Irina, oh please, just get over it, a man can't be raped."

The blond who had been about to enter the room, closed his eyes as his mother kept talking. "A man has to be willing, so just get over it. No real man would be here."

Taking a deep breath and thinking on what Audrey had told him, Michael took control of his own life and said "That might be true mother, but I am here. I was raped."

"Stop this, you know that isn't true." she snapped. "You and Jax have been thick as thieves for months and he must have convinced you of this, you know that that isn't true."

"Mom, do you really want to have this discussion." said Michael as the memories flooded back. "While I was in prison, before Uncle Jason arrived, a man, he held a knife to my neck, he..."

Jax went over to Michael, passing a still Carly and said "You don't have to do this, not for me."

"Thank you, Jax, but I am doing this for me." he said then with a deep breath announced. "I was raped, mother. Deal with it, I am. And on my own, I am relying on no one but me. Why don't you try doing that for once."

"Michael, why are you lying like this?" she asked completely bewildered. "What do you get from this? Hurting me? Hurting your father? Hurting your uncle Jason?"

"Uncle Jason suspected, he just couldn't face it." said Michael being honest for the first time. "I think that if he faced what I was dealing with, he might have had to face that what he did to Elizabeth and his children was wrong, that he would have had to face that danger, well it comes in many forms. Including a bitchy best friend who still years later, in spite of his making it clear he isn't interested, still wants to have sex with him, don't you mom?"

"Michael, now is not the time, for that part." said Jax hugging the trembling youngster. Seeing Audrey entering, he handed the boy off to her, then said "Remember the man I told you about, he is dead. I have to go and deal with that, are you going to be okay with just Audrey here?"

"No, but I have to deal with her, no more hiding." said Michael as he lifted his head. "Mom, you can go now, go see Sonny, through your temper tantrum, claim I am lying, claim that I am just trying to get attention, do whatever you want, but rape victims are going to be entering this room, any minute, and you need to go."

"They can just wait, this is more important." she sniped at Audrey to get out.

"Caroline, show some class for once in your life, leave this room." With that, Audrey put pressure on her arm and before Carly knew what was going on, found herself pushed out of the room past several woman and a few men, then the door closed and locked.

Storming back up the stairs, she saw Jax talking to his brother and Brenda Barrett who had come in. "It's over, but I still have to deal with Siobhan."

Hugging the Aussie, she said "Thank you, you too Jerry."

"You are welcome." he said. "What happens now?"

"I am heading back to Rome, I need to get away, deal with this, heal. Jax, I am sorry that once again I destroyed your life." With the tight hug, Brenda suddenly stopped and said "Jerry, what about Jason?"

"I haven't located him. Now that I know he wasn't involved, that it was only Sonny... this trial that ended today... I think I caused that." he said then watched the former model and his ex-girlfriends sister leave. "Jax, what now? You still haven't answered the question regarding yourself."

"I divorce my wife, take my daughter to our new home and find love again, or maybe I will avoid it for a while." he said bleakly. "Dad would be proud, Jerry."

Looking down, Jerry saw the shoes that could only belong to Mac Scorpio and said "I never found out the why, but he also never found the box."

"Let Anna deal with it from here on out." said Mac then watched as Jerry left, knowing he should be throwing the man in jail, but since he had saved Maxie by getting the truth out of Franco about the how of the kidnapping he would let him go.

"He won't, you know." said Jax. "Mac, how did this happen?"

"Spencer, over there was drunk, speeding and hit Huffman's car. However, that wasn't what killed the man. Lucky was being driven over to the Hardy residence since he was under the impression that she was still here."

"By whom?" asked the blond.

"I don't know, I am waiting until he is out of surgery to find out. The guards on the house saw everything but at a distance. Whoever fled, was a man though."

Dr. Niles was not happy when Matt Hunter joined her, however it was proving necessary as Spencer's spine was mush. Calling Patrick's cell, Matt gave them the news. "He is never going to walk again, but he will live."

Outside the blond gave the family the news, then called Johnny like ordered. "He lived, you owe me."

When she had hung up, Johnny watched the news, then heard about Ethan. Regretting that part, but well aware that the man had tried to hide something from him regarding Lucky and the Webber woman, he had never confronted the man. He should have when the truth had come out, but instead he had been slowly working him towards the outside.

Calling in the man he had recently hired he said "Anything?"

"Spencer, I was hoping he was dead, but paralyzed as long as he behaves, works." said the Irishman named Sean O'Brien. "Huffman is gone, we have his businesses order our control all ready, leaving Jack the legitimate ones. What about McCall, she could get a second trial out of this."

"She won't, she doesn't have the money or the resources, even her own mother walked away." he said then played the sound bite from his collection of tapes. "Do you know who this is?"

"No." answered the man then he said "But she is familiar, but I don't know why."

"Me either, but she is the key to unlocking the case." he said then walked away. "Any luck on the other thing?"

"No, but I took care of your former guard." Nodding Johnny walked away, heading into his family home, unhappy to be gaining power in a business he didn't want, but one he had promised to keep on behalf of the WSB. "Where oh where are you Jason Morgan, this was supposed to be your gig."

He had thought that Morgan would get his memory back quickly, had just wanted him out of the way while he took down Sonny, well aware that the other man would find it hard to do, yet, he was beginning to wonder if while waiting to see who else was in the SUV with him had cost Jason needed oxygen and if Lisa might have made matters worse.

Deciding it was time to cut the blond loose, he went back to the main room, gave the order and then went to listen to more of the tapes.

O'Brien gave a cold grin once he was gone, he had every single intention of taking out Lisa Niles, well aware that it would have to look like an accident. The doctor's connection to them was too well known now and he would have to be careful. He had plans to have a long talk with her, regarding the truth about how Elizabeth's son had been removed from the hospital and her part in it.

In California, two days later it was June 1st and Cameron, Jacob and Christopher Webber Morgan were all welcomed into the church with new godparents Patrick and Robin Drake. When Audrey who had just arrived heard, she had been a bit shocked but when she asked Elizabeth, her granddaughter explained that it was already known and that the boys deserved to know who their parents were.

"I agree, I guess, well Steven isn't doing anything to give me grandchildren or to carry on his family name, I guess..." she blushed at the knowing look then the laughter. "I oh, god, I sound like Edward."

The man in question along with Monica and Tracy saw him scowl then Monica leaned in and reminded him that they would be carrying Lila's name well into the future, the tears came then he hugged Elizabeth before asking the boys if they wanted their presents.

"We get presents, mommy why didn't you tell me we get presents?" asked Cameron. "I would have put my tie on sooner, I promise."

"Cameron, I won't bribe you to do what I want." she warned him. "That is for grandparents and great grandparents, Mommy's just expect to be obeyed."

Across town, the nurse went to find Dr. Rumi. "He was given one of the drawings from the community center kids, we have a problem though."

"What kind of a problem?" he asked then followed her into the small room where Jason was sitting holding the thick pencil and writing over and over again. "Well, what caused that and who is that?"

"The letter that came with the college." she said with a sigh. "The little boy signed it with his full name. Mr. Adams has been doing this for almost an hour."

Lifting the papers, he saw Jason shrink back and then flee. Following at a distance, he found him once again, rocking back and forth in the sunroom. "Jason, can we talk."

Nodding but not saying a word, he watched cautiously, clearly afraid as the doctor joined him. "I was wondering, about why you wrote that name out."

"Don't know." was the belligerent answer. "Just did. I LIKED IT. The picture, it made me feel good."

"Okay, how did it make you feel good." he asked, he had seen the drawing that had come with it. It had said Cameron Steven Morgan, age seven. There had been a sun, a bike and a house with a swing."

"I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST DID!" he said shouting in frustration. "I don't know, I don't know why."

"Okay, how about this, you can if you want write a thank you note to the boy, how about that." he asked. "Maybe send one of your drawing to him, would you like to do that."

"NO!" he shouted then stood, looking like he wanted to flee. "I can't, it's too dangerous, I can't, I can't, I can't."

An hour later, they found him in his room, drawing on the walls, clearly working something out in his head. The orderly who was usually assigned to Jason, called Mrs. Pauley who had taken such an interest in the man she called a boy and said "He usually responds to you now, see if you can get him to come to dinner."

Gliding in, she stopped near Jason and said "Oh my what a wonderful drawing, but you are missing dinner, Jason my boy."

He ignored her, but the tears started. They were a regular fixture when it came to Jason and her. She hated what came next, when the tears started, she would hear how he was ashamed to face her, that he had done too much wrong.

While they didn't have a name, her old student Dr. Rumi had figured out that Jason's grandmother had spent some time in a wheelchair and that it was why he had avoided her for so long until she had confronted him on the doctors behalf.

"Some of us, are going to the community center later this week, do you want to go?" she asked.

"No." was the response.

"Why not?" she asked. "The kids who drew for us, will be gone, we will have the whole facility to ourselves. You can see where they draw. That was where I worked after I retired, teaching kids to express their emotions through art."

"Can't go, please don't make me." he pleaded as he turned around. Dr. Rumi who was observing in his office, saw the new reaction and hoped she got him to go, it looks like the idea was getting into him.

"Okay, we can talk about it more, later. Right now, the cooks have finished dinner and you know how they get when we don't eat." she said with a smile. Jason was soon walking next to her as they went to the cafeteria.

Carly was not happy, Dante had just tossed her out of his place and threatened to have her arrested for trespassing if she came over again. Sonny had gone off half cocked about the story that Michael had told them and now, was believing it was true. She had to find her son, get him to tell his father it wasn't true.,.

She had tried Jax who had had her tossed out of the hotel office, then had even gone so far as to approach Steven Webber at the hospital demanding to talk to the others including his grandmother from the group. "You have to get them to stop brainwashing my son or I am going to sue you for everything you own. And if you should ever repeat the lies he has been telling people..."

"Carly, I have seen your son and he is telling the truth, now get out of my office." Then Steven looked at her and said "By the way, I suggested Elizabeth sue you for what you were attempting to do regarding Jake's parentage and you know what she said."

"What, that if the truth were known, she would have to stop lying about Jason being the father of her kids?" she retorted knowing there was nothing he could do to her.

"No, that you weren't worth the call it would take to get the ball rolling. Now, if you can't keep track of your own kids, that is your problem, not mine. However if you are so concerned about family, why don't you help your cousin, you know the one who is now paralyzed from the neck down."

Luke left his jail cell, only to be told he was facing charges of DWI and vehicular homicide in regards to Ethan, that while the unknown driver was responsible for Mr. Huffman's death, he had been in regards to Ethan.

Having heard about Lucky, he vowed revenge then went to see Johnny who had told him that he owed the Spencer family nothing, that Ethan had only been a friend and an employee. "I am not in the revenge game, Luke."

Leaving, but planning on coming back later for money, Luke went to see Lucky and offered to put an end to things for him. "What? No, I am going to be fine, dad. You just wait and see. Elizabeth will come back, she will take care of me."

His jaw dropping, Luke said "Are you sure son?"

"Yes, she called yesterday." he said with a huge smiled at the idea of Elizabeth waiting on him hand and foot for the rest of their lives. "Ask Lulu."

Going to find his daughter, annoyed to see her flirting with Matt Hunter he asked. "Did Elizabeth call Lucky yesterday."

"Yes, she didn't say anything but I know it was her." she said confidently. "She should be here soon, I heard her talking to her brother a little later, well his end of the call, he asked if she was done packing."

Luke was a bit surprised but decided to go ahead with his plan since Lucky was now taken care of. Breaking into the Zachara mansion, he went to the safe. Finding the tapes, he lifted one but then took out the money he found there, before leaving.

Back on the Haunted Star, he found an old tape player and listened in and with a frown wondered what young Johnny was up to and why he had that particular woman talking. He remembered that conversation, that young woman, but she had had no real connection to Zachara, except through the other girl she had been speaking of was connected to the Alcazar family.

Leaving town, he watched at a distance as Lulu buried Ethan along with Holly and a few other people in attendance. Amused to realize most of them were women, he soon was driving out towards Beecher's Corners, planning on using it as a hiding spot.

Dr. Niles meanwhile had had a rough couple of months, now she had various members of the Spencer family including his crazy mother blaming her for Lucky's condition. Fleeing them, she was on the roof, never seeing the man stick his foot out as Lulu called out her name.

As she went over the roof, Lisa never saw the car pulling in below. Patrick had just helped Robin get Emma out when there was an explosion from the air and a body hitting the roof. "Oh my god."

"What just... Patrick, its Lisa." said Robin while others who were showing up checked on the blond woman.

Steven arrived from his office, just as Dr. Maruchi declared the woman dead. "What happened here?"

Mac was soon in his office, looking at the security tapes. "Is this the best you have?"

"Yes, nothing in that corner." said Steven as they watched Lisa trying to escape a shouting Lulu Spencer who was still wearing the outfit she had attended her brother's funeral in.

"Is she criminal libel?" Mac called the DA and asked. Grimacing a bit, he said "I agree, I only wish there was something we could charge her with."

Hanging up, he went to the hallway then up to Lucky's room. Inside, Lulu was a mess. Looking at Laura, Mac said "I can't charge her, but my guess is that the Niles family sues her for wrongful death."

"But she just wanted her to explain how come Lucky can't move." she said frustrated, "What went wrong?"

"You have all had this explained to you repeatedly. The person responsible for this is Luke and whoever Lucky is protecting. If he gave us a name, I would be more inclined to help but instead he has stonewalled me." said Mac.

"What about Lulu?" she asked Steven as he was walking away.

"The mental health ward is on seven." he said leaving. "Laura, we don't know each other, but with the pain and suffering your family has caused mine, don't expect me to do more than I am legally obligated to. And by the way, Nik refuses to pay for Lucky's medical bills, so either he gets transferred to Mercy or County or you come up with the money. I truly don't care either way."

Laura called Nik who lied to her saying he had warned Lucky to stay away from Elizabeth, that the accident was his fault and Luke's. "I am washing my hands of the Spencers, am even considering changing Spencer's name. You are on your own. Oh, I closed off Spoon Island, and the hospital is in the hands of Jasper Jacks."

That perked her up, Jax was a fair man. Going over to the Aussie, she was not happy to be told that he left the hospital in the very capable hands of Dr. Webber. Deciding she had one more card to play, Laura went to use the number that Scotty had gotten from the FBI.

While Lulu might have believed Elizabeth was coming, she was beginning to doubt it. She would have been there by now.

"Hi, you have reached the Webber residence, we are unavailable right now but if you leave a name and number we will get back to you at our convenience." There were then giggles in the background and Laura frowned when she suddenly heard Elizabeth in a laughing tone say "Jake Morgan, you get back here, right this instant."

Hanging up, she went to see Steven. "How can you toss your own nephew out of this hospital. Or did you forget that your Uncle Rick raised me."

"Oh, the man you killed, or didn't kill, whichever it was, I don't care." he told her. "Laura, I am not guilted, not by anyone except my own nephews and don't try and use those boys because Lucky has mistreated them for years and while it wasn't brought up in the court case, Lucky had a part in that mess."

"You are lying, my son..."

"Is a bastard, now get out of my office and don't return without either payment for his care. Tomorrow morning, he is to be gone." with that Steven thought about it then decided that playing hardball was the right thing to do. He had heard Lucky refer to his sister as a slut and a whore more than once, and he owed the man nothing.

AT the community center, Dr, Rumi observed Jason from the other side of the room as he touched the paintbrushes. The man held them correctly with a kind of awe that intrigued the doctor. "Did you use to paint, is that why you use crayons now?"

"No, he isn't a painter." said Mrs. Pauley from where they were watching him. When he stopped at the various pictures the kids had drawn, sometimes he would move on quickly, other times lingering, tracing the names.

"He is in pain, that much is clear." he said then watched the man-boy wandering the room, picking up various toys, the motorcycle seeming to fascinate him as he spun the back wheel. As he walked over to the blackboard behind the desk, then played with the chalk for a minute, Rumi thought maybe they were getting to him but instead, he went to wonder down the hall.

The pool had been of no interest, the basketball courts, even the locker rooms had been inspected along with the other classrooms. Rumi was sure that Jason was going to be fine when he wandered into the other art room.

Turning to talk to the direction, he thanked him for the art work, "My patients certainly enjoy it."

"My students now that they have a new teacher, love to create it." said the man with a slight grin. "Elizabeth, our new art teacher, does a wonderful job. We are planning a Christmas in July next month, when she gets back from her vacation. Poor girl, there is one who is very lucky not to have ended up one of your special patients, she has been through a lot."

Rumi asked "What do you mean, I knew my wife recommended her for the job, but I wasn't aware she was a patient."

"No, no, nothing like that. Her children were kidnapped, then her youngest was switched at birth with another child who died, then it took them almost four months to find her real child. The father is not in the picture, he went missing when they found out about the last boy. I don't really know the story, but he just vanished from the hospital." he said sadly to his old classmate.

"She must be pretty strong, to deal with all that, how is she handling things?" he asked.

"Fine, just fine. The woman behind the theft of her youngest was attempting to use him to keep her boyfriend and there was this mentally ill young man who helped. The woman is in prison for the rest of her life, Sam McCall, I believe that was the name."

Jason had stolen a picture, not sure why, but he had removed it from the desk, taken the picture out of the inside and placed it in his pockets and had arrived at the door just it time to hear that last statement.

Something was bothering him the rest of the evening, even after he had hidden his purloined photo. At two in the morning, the orderly found Jason out of his bed, on the ground, holding his head, shaking back and forth on his knees and shouting in pain.

When Rumi entered earlier the next morning, he was immediately called and when he got close, realized Jason had a fever. "We need to get him to the hospital, now. There is something severely wrong with him."

AT RR UCLA they did tests, then the neurologists found it. "Look, a small tear in the frontal lobe. It took his head swelling for it to be seen. Wow, look at all this damage, this man has had some major work done, look at all that old scarring."

They opened the patient up, fixed the tiny tears, shocked to find more than one when they got inside. As he woke up, Jason felt weird, he knew his name was Jason Adams, but only because that was on his chart, but other than that, he knew nothing, nothing at all.

"Jason, my name is Dr. Rumi, I have been treating you for the last several months, do I look at all familiar?"

When he nodded no, Rumi showed him the drawings, and the bald man shook his head, no,no, no and Rumi said "Can you tell me what you see when you look at these."

Seeing the violent shaking, the doctor said "Can you try to speak, even the word no, would do."

He saw the man try, then fear, then the tears of frustration. "It's okay, we were afraid that might take a few days."

In Canada, Elizabeth and the boys were having a grand time. In each large city a different family member had joined them. Vancouver had been Monica who had stayed with them on the train until Calgary, when it had switched to Steven, followed by Edward in Windsor, then Audrey who had been quiet most of the trip as they went to Ottawa, then she suddenly said "I have something to tell you."

Explaining about Michael, her helping the young man in a way that she had rejected helping her own granddaughter, her shame as she saw her behavior in Carly's, how he was spending a lot of time at the house, needing to get away from his parents... how Dante and he were becoming close, "I am so sorry, Elizabeth. I just spent the last couple of months, facing that my fears were part of the reason it took you coming out here, to heal."

Hugging the elderly woman, Elizabeth said "There was a whole set of circumstances, not one individual incident created my problems. I am fine, now. The rape will be with me, always because it does affect the way I do certain things, but there were a lot of things that molded me, most long before I moved to Port Charles."

When she got off the train, Audrey said "When do you arrive in Boston to start your journey west?"

"On Monday, I am going to take the boys to Maine, let them enjoy the wilderness, then we will head back." she said with a smile. "Grams, you do know you are more than welcome to come and stay with us, at any time."

"Thank you, I will." she said then went to catch the AMTRAK south into the states while Elizabeth and the boys continued on to Quebec City. Once there, she let them spend the day playing, then packed them up into the mini van and drove south to Augusta.

In California, Carly Jacks, newly divorced had tried to break into Elizabeth's house, then getting no place, went to the neighbors who said she worked at the local community center. There, pretending to be a friend, was told she was on vacation.

Furious at getting no place, she drove back to the house that night and spray painted the word bitch on the garage for all her neighbors to see, then caught a flight home. Stopping out to Sonny's, she was soon sweating up the sheets with her very desperate ex husband who left quietly once she was asleep for his meeting.

"You have nothing left, you are bankrupt. Turn it over, Corinthos." he was not happy, not at all. "But I just need a little more time, I can turn it around."

"No, you should be glad we can't kill your, not right now there is too much heat on upstate New York, heat you created." he was told. "One wrong step and you will be dealt with, there are ways..."

"What about my coffee business?" he asked in a tone the others would later describe as whining. "Do I keep that?"

"I believe that you offered that up to Mr. Zachara in exchange for using his shipping lanes, are you trying to renege on the deal?" he was asked. Sonny looked at the self satisfied bastard, the man he was going to make sure died by the next day and said "No."

"Good, then we are done. You will keep your restaurant, that is all." With that, the room emptied out and John walked to his waiting limo. He was not happy to see Sonny standing off to the side, as if watching for something.

"Bastard didn't learn his lesson, there is a bomb under the hood." he was told when he got in. "Our man is dead, that is Max driving. He doesn't know that I am in the car."

"What do you think, a toy to lock us in and he flees?" asked Johnny.

"I used the passage, got out and delayed things a bit, it won't go off without this being triggered, I say we use it to send a message that you are smarter than him."

"I owe Max, but I don't want to bring his father down on us." he warned. "We don't want that kind of trouble."

"How about this then, he is found knocked out a few feet from the car, let the police deal with it." he heard. "The old man will be demanding answers from Corinthos, soon enough."

Five minutes later, Max locked the doors on the rear of the car, got out, then started running only to be shot. Swearing a bit, he turned in time to see the car exploding and whispered "That is what you get for coming after Mr. C."

"No, Giambetti, this is what your boss is going to get." with that he was knocked out, then left near the fiery ball. Sonny waited a few minutes, then grimaced as he realized Max hadn't made it, but told his driver to hurry home, that way when the cops came he could say he had been there all night. "Carly will cover for me."

Three weeks later, Jason was back at the nursing home, wandering around, trying out words. He had heard the doctors talking and knew that they were concerned about his ability to speak. He had been shocked to understand every single medical term they had used, had also been surprised when he had gotten out of bed and had been able to stand, walk, do all sorts of things. Everything but speak.

Dr. Rumi saw his patient approaching and while Jason seemed calmer, there was a new sort of caged attitude to him now. "How did therapy go?"

Shrugging but knowing he wanted him to try talking, he stuttered a bit as he came up with "Oookk-kkk-ay."

"It will come, Jason. You are doing amazingly well." he stated then added. "You seem almost penned in, how do you feel about getting out and about a few hours a day. Edgar, the van driver, he said if you want, he would be happy for your company when he drives the others to the stores."

"Would I be allowed on my own a bit." Jason had quickly grabbed the pen and paper he kept with him to write his request.

"I don't see why not." then ruined it a bit by saying. "I would prefer if you were away from people, just in case..."

Nodding, Jason went to his room. Grabbing his bag, then some money, he headed into town with the others. "Are you sure that is the right thing?"

"Yes, Jason needs a change of environment, besides, today is the day they are decorating for Christmas in July, it's better for him not to have to deal with that." he told his nurse. "What was that call about earlier, did they agree to bring the kids?"

"No, they were actually calling to see if any of our patients saw this blond woman, She apparently was threatening the art teacher. It looks like she stole a picture from her desk."

"I will ask around a bit, but I don't recall seeing her." he told the woman then went to call his old friend. Listening he said "So, your teacher discovered the picture missing when she returned from vacation?"

"She was not thrilled when I described the blond, then told me that she had done some damage to her house as well. I asked her if she was still up to visit this week with the kids, she just laughed and said she was more worried because hers would be at the center without her."

In Port Charles, Sonny was being ordered by his own son to sit. "You are going to leave Michael alone. He doesn't want you around, with your nonsense. What you don't want to face, is yes, Michael was raped, by another man."

"Stop this, now." stood Sonny in spite of the handcuffs, "I don't know what you are doing to him, but it stops now. Michael wasn't raped, Jason wouldn't allow anything to happen to him, never."

"Just like he wouldn't to his own son." sneered Dante who then said slightly less combative. "Jason wasn't there, and this, if this is anyone's fault, it is yours. You and your need for secrets and lies, over the truth... you married that bitch, brought her into your household for what, power, for control. Even before that, you were the one who screwed her, than was pissed off at her for it."

"She lied to me." he complained.

"Oh grow up." snapped his son. "That is your problem, everyone else is required to tell the truth, but you. Your entire life has been like this. From what Brenda has told me, you and she ended the very first time because of lies, yours regarding another woman you married for her family's power. That one died."

"You leave Lily out of this." he fumed.

"No, because you think you're invincible, you have Carly lying for you, yet again. You would think she would learn, but she is another person caught up in your web of lies and deceit. Michael is done, he wants no part of you. Morgan was given to Jax, since Carly is yet again living at your house. Kristina is gone for the summer, and even before she left, she had made it clear to the courts she wanted nothing to do with you."

"She is my daughter, Alexis brainwashed her into believing I am the bad guy." he stated.

"No, you are the reason she thinks you are the bad guy." he said disgusted with the man in front of him. Hearing his boss entering, he said "Mac, I am going to the hospital to see John Zachara, question him about the incident."

At GH, he saw the newly appointed mob boss talking to Olivia who then left with Steven Webber. John saw Dante and said "Thank you for meeting me here."

"We need the truth." he snapped only to be told not here. Following the man, he was not happy nor did he feel safe when they went into the basement of the hospital. There was a very beautiful older woman waiting for him. "Mr. Falconari, we need to talk."

"Who are..." Taking the badge handed to him, his eyes widened a bit when he saw the WSB insignia then was handed some papers. Reading them, he looked at John then at the man in who had just came in and said "Who are you?"

"Stanley Johnson." then two more men. Seeing Jerry Jax, he said "You are under arrest."

"No, actually he has been working for us. He gets a free pass for his past. Now, anything from here on out, he is on his own. Mac is aware of this, he doesn't like it, but he is aware of it." said Anna.

Jerry looked at Dante then said "Your father is out, hopefully he will decide being a parent is more important than the mob, but you should know, rumors on the street is, one screw up and he is dead. You should also know, Alexander, the man you new... the Balkan was right, Brenda did come after his son..."

"No, Brenda didn't." he insisted.

"The woman you know as Brenda, no, she didn't. What he didn't know, what no one did, is that the woman Alexander was angry with, the woman he wanted to kill, the woman he thought betrayed him. Well, you know the story."

"That she slipped into his hotel room supposedly to surprise him, that she seduced him, then stole from him, yeah, I know that ridiculous story he used for his excuse to come to New York and attack her."

"What you don't know is that it was true, but that it wasn't Brenda Barrett. This happened in Vegas, in early 2003. Here, take a look." Dante looked at the picture, it did resemble Brenda bit, then his eyes narrowed, no it looked like Sam when she had been... "Oh my god, that is Sam McCall."

"Yeah, which brings up an interesting idea. "What if the woman he was after, the woman he believed was pregnant with his kid, what if it was her." he drawled. Dante looked up and said "What?"

"We think she also might have been carrying his kid, when she came to town." The truth shocked both Dante and Stanley who had never heard that part of the story. Johnny didn't care, Sam McCall was a skank, there was no doubt about it.

When Anna had left, Dante was about to leave when Stan said "What about the tapes?"

"Hey, Falconari, stay a moment. We are looking into something. Do you recognize this voice?" Hearing the young woman, he said "No, she sounds rather nice though. Who is she?"

"I don't know the who, but the what, it is very simple. She was on tapes found at the Alcazar house. According to the notes Lorenzo left, she is the clue to gaining whatever it is he lost." said Johnny not adding his own interest. He had hours upon hours of tapes, he had listened to them all, was finding himself interested in the girl, even if he didn't know who she was.

Stan said "Play that again."

When he had, the man looked at him and said "I know the voice, but I don't know where from." Johnny was getting annoyed, he had heard that repeatedly from several people. "Dante, what about you?"

"No, never heard her before in my life." he stated while Jerry frowned a bit. He had at first thought he knew, but it kept slipping away from him. In his pocket, he hit record when he heard the tape again, then quickly left.

He liked the idea of finding the rest of the Alcazar fortune, he could use the money.

In California, Jason was enjoying the day out. He had gone to the beach while the ladies had shopped nearby. Sitting there, he had built a small castle, not knowing that he was being watched by one of the orderly. Then he went shopping, buying a small collection of non fiction books, then in the children's section, saw the book with the cartoon train.

Meanwhile at the nursing home, Elizabeth was helping the patients decorate and having a grand time as she talked to Mrs. Pauley who told her about her time working at the community center. "So they glued their hands together, but it gave Imad his interest in medicine so I would say I did good."

"I can see my boys doing that some day. Jake doesn't like to color within the lines. Cam, well he is more likely to do so, but with odd colors. This spring he made the Easter Bunny lime green and then colored the eggs in some very odd combinations."

"Cam, would that be Cameron Steven Morgan?" she asked amused. Seeing Elizabeth's expression, she said "His drawing got the attention of one of our special patients here. Mr. Adams has had a severe trauma, not much is known about him otherwise, but he loved Cam's drawing and then when we toured the center, loved the ones there."

"I will ask Cam to make him another one, if he would like." said Elizabeth. "Oh no, its almost time for me to head out, and we didn't get to the sun room."

"That is fine, my dear. You got these old men up and helping and trust me that takes some doing." she said with a soft chuckle.

"I had fun." she said then taking the packages that they had created for the kids, stopped on her way out in the sun room, feeling guilty about not getting that room done, Dr. Rumi had told her that their more traumatized patients spent a lot of time there.

In the main area, Jason entered, having had a good day. Stopping in the entry way, he saw the holiday decorations and felt his heart stop. "NO!" he shouted, "NO! NO! NO!"

Dr. Rumi came out at the sound of Jason's shouts, then saw the man curled up, holding his head while his bags lay spilled all over the floor. The nurses started to escort the other patients back to their rooms, meanwhile the cheerful holiday music was turned off.

Sitting on the ground, Rumi saw Jason suddenly reaching for his head, then screaming in pain, before attempting to stand. The blond found himself falling into the wheelchair they had placed under him and begging his doctor to take him someplace dark. "I had a memory, a strong one and I think it is real."

A bit shocked at the articulate statement after all this time, he nodded at the orderly who pushed the man holding his head to one of the dark rooms.

In the sun room, meanwhile Elizabeth was frowning a bit as she listened to her grams request. "Have you told him what his mother did? I rally wish you hadn't."

"It won't be only him, Dante is going to be coming as well." she stated. Not really sure it was a good idea, not after the call the day before from the police who had found unknown prints as well as Carly's on the picture frame. However, she knew that Michael and Cam liked one another. "Okay, I will let Cam know just before they arrived, though, just in case something causes them to cancel."

Hearing the shouts as she put away her phone, Elizabeth had left the paper and glue along with her scissors as she hurried to see if she could do anything. Arriving in the main living area, she saw that the patients had scattered and that Dr. Rumi and someone in a white lab coat where pushing a patient down the hall.

"Is everything okay?" she asked the nearest nurse. "I am a registered nurse, can I help with anything?"

"Thank you, but that was Jason. He sometimes has terrible pain. It is such a shame, because he is such a nice man. Dr. Rumi will take good care of him." replied the older woman. "Ms. Webber, things here, they look wonderful, you must really love the holidays."

"I did." she said then added "I do, l do love them. My boys and I will be here for the party, I can't wait for them to see this."

"How old?" she asked telling her how hers were now teenagers.

"Six, four and a one year old." she said. "All boys, I sometimes wish for a girl, but then remind myself I already have my hands full."

"I can imagine. Wow, I had two girls and a boy. My son is almost eighteen and he is going off to college, he just asked us about getting a motorcycle license, his father and I were scared but we agreed as long as he took lessons."

"That is the hard part, knowing when to hold on tight and when to let go." said Elizabeth. "I am glad I don't have to deal with that, just yet. Right now, my big thing is in spite of being on the front porch being nervous about Cam walking two doors down to his pals house."

"It's hard, being a parent nowadays. With all the danger. I used to watch those royal kids, you know the British ones, and think what a hard life they had, with the guards and stuff, but there are days, when all I can think about... is what I would do to have that kind of protection."

Seeing Elizabeth looking at her in shock, she said "I uh, I was a huge fan of Diana's, Watched everything from the wedding to the funeral, after that her boys. All I could think was that if she had had royal guards, she wouldn't have died that night. That her complaints about the dangers, well in the end, that if she had had them the paparazzi wouldn't have gotten that close. I am sorry, here I am going on and on... and you probably could care less, after all you are a bit young for them, aren't you."

"It was fine. I know a bit of what that must have felt like for her, though. IN love with a man who loved another woman, then after things ended so publicly, to have everyone know your business, judging you. It's hard, but at the same time, I think that the boys, she would have been happy for her boys."

Elizabeth left, drove a ways and pulled over to cry. Lately all she could think about was Jason and her mistakes with him. She had been slowly facing that he hadn't even loved her, but in the end, he had given her a wonderful gift, their children.

She didn't hate Sam for having his love, she couldn't hate her for that, but she did for what she had done to her children. That was the hard part, letting go of the hate; even the anger with Jason for lying about loving her. Oh, she was certain he was grateful for their son, that it was what had led him to attempt to make it more, but in the end, she hadn't been enough for him...

She had come to face that her own past, was not much better. Her obsession with Lucky Spencer, to a love that had ended as romantic love a long time ago, but that she had clung to him out of fear of abandonment. Then there were her other mistakes, Ric, Zander, and mostly Nik.

While the Nik one hadn't had any impact on Jason, the other two, they had been her reaction to feeling alone, like Jason and she hadn't been connected. And while it was true, he hadn't attempted with her, she hadn't either. She had constantly believed and trusted others over him. Unable to trust him one hundred percent because that meant trusting the same heart that had let her down so many time before.

Jake had suffered as a result, Cam and Christopher too, to a lessor extent because she hadn't known that Jason was their father, but she had been the one to ask him to give up Jake, she had made that choice of Lucky so that she could protect her heart.

Getting her act together, she drove back to the community center and gathered up her boys before heading home. After dinner, she called her therapist and had a phone appointment and was emotionally settled when she hung up.

At the nursing home, Jason thought back to his session and hoped they could find some answers. He had been dealing with thoughts all day, memories he was certain. He saw a woman, a very large woman dead, with blood on the floor. He had seen himself scared to wake her, even as he tried.

The doctor had speculated that he had seen someone, maybe his mother murdered, He had also suggested she was the same tall woman he was cowering from in some of his pictures. The woman who was holding a bottle and walking away from him.

Shaking a bit, he fell into bed, having nightmares of people shouting, of a man who scared him. A lot more shouting, then it moved quickly and the movie sped up, terrifying him with the images. Waking up, he stood, pulled on a shirt and walked down the hall.

In the sun room, he saw the naked tree and the rest of the decorations along with the paper and scissors. Holding them in his hands, they felt alien until he started cutting. A nurse walked by but left him alone as she continued her rounds.

At eight, as the various members started to waken in, they were all telling the others to check out the sun room. Mrs. Pauley who had been having breathing treatments rolled in and stopped, looking around at the handmade but perfectly concentric paper chains, then the angels on the trees, then finally the paper one on top, she breathed out the name Jason even as Dr. Rumi entered the room.

"Well, well. What do we have here? A man who hates holidays, once again drawing Christmas." As they approached the drawings on the only wall without windows, they saw the same four people. A little boy with brown hair, a woman with curly hair and blue eyes and a man holding a baby in front of a fireplace, in the woods among pine trees. Opening presents with a very prominent Chuggin Charlie. And the last one, the one with the most detail, the woman pregnant while dancing with the man in front of the Christmas tree.

"Where is he?" asked the woman in the wheelchair.

"He went to town, already with the early birds." he told her then walked around in astonishment. Back in his office, he pulled out his recorder and started to tape. "Mr. Adams has had a life filled with trauma and I am beginning to think that this is his family, that they died... that this is what he can't face."

In Port Charles, things were going as planned for for Maxie Jones, she was obeying the court order, well as far as they knew. She still had her job, Lulu had gotten fired over the Lisa Niles incident but that had moved Maxie back up to assistant number two and number one was now pregnant by her married lover and Kate wasn't happy.

She was no longer public enemy number one, after months of having complete strangers sneer at her and feel the need to tell her that she belonged in prison right along side Sam. Matt and she were still seeing one another, but it had slowly been cooling.

However to her surprise, she had been spending time with Lucky, even if it was in secret as he worked on the regimen the doctors require of him at County. They were working on plan of how to make Elizabeth Webber pay for what she had done to them, to those they loved.

Sitting down to lunch in a very good mood, she opened the paper and almost screamed in anger at the headlines on the front page with her picture prominently displayed. "Damien Spinelli declared well enough to help in his own defense trial to start in August."

Heading back to work, she made a quick imprudent stop to see Lucky, then hurried to her office. Once there, she started work, keeping busy until Kate and Assistant Number One, Jasmine returned. They were talking then there was sudden silent.

Seeing her dad, Maxie said "Hi, did we have plans?"

"No, I certainly didn't plan for this." he said then turned to the uniformed officer who entered. "Read her her rights then cuff her."

"WHAT? Mac, what is going on, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"

"Answer me one question. Were you visiting with Lucky Spencer today?" he asked almost hoping there was a legitimate reason for her to be there."

"Uh- I- UH..." she flushed then saw the look on Kate's face and just said "This is all her fault, she is why he is all alone."

"This her, it wouldn't be Elizabeth Webber still, would it?" he asked. "Maxie, you are going to face a judge for violating your probation conditions, you could be facing jail time, then there is this. A nurse said you have been there almost three times a week. Why? Why would you throw your life away?"

Maxie saw his anger and his pain and then the look on Kate's face and her heart started to drop as she got that whatever was about to happen she wasn't going to like it. That night in her jail cell, she demanded her call and placed it. "I need your help."

Johnny looked at the phone and then at the evening news and said "No, whatever it is you want, the answer is no."

"Not even if I can give you away to make Jason Morgan return. I know how to find out where Elizabeth Webber is hiding. Laura Spencer has a phone number."

Johnny came to the station then left with the number, calling Anna she gave her the news. "At least we now know where Carly got it. You need to warn her."

"I will, I will also tell Mac what she did." she said then went to the station. "Mac, we need to talk."

Hearing it, he said "I can bust her without exposing your man, there are taps on all outgoing prisoner calls."

The next morning, Maxie was fitted with an ankle monitor and her sessions were upped. "Ms. Jones, as of this moment, there is no other choice, step out of line, just once and you go to prison. The only reason you haven't before is that with your heart condition it could be considered a death sentence, but try my patience again and that will be my only option left."

Soberly leaving the station, she went home and saw her father waiting. "Stop being so disapproving, you know that I am a screw up."

"Sit down, Maxie. As of tomorrow, you are moving into a small house I found, I will be arranging for Epiphany Johnson to be staying with us and when you are not at work, you will be with either one of us."

"Don't you think that is a little harsh, I have this," she said showing him the bracelet and mocking it.

Hitting play he said quickly. "All outgoing jailhouse calls are taped. There is a sign right above the phone."

Flinching at what she heard, she said "I can explain, I really wasn't going to give him the number, I promise."

"Clearly your promises mean nothing." he stated. "Maxie, it's done. The judge heard this after you left, there is an open arrest warrant, if you so much as cross the rules, once, you go straight to prison."

Later in bed, whimpering, Maxie tried to figure out where she had gone wrong. Nothing came to mind, the only people she had ever been mean to had deserved it. She was a nice person, a caring person... maybe not as nice as Georgie, but she did do good, in honor of her sister.

Carly meanwhile looked at Kelly Lee and said "Could you please repeat that, I have to be pregnant."

"No, you are in the early stages of menopause."

Staggering as she stood, Carly was in denial. "Carly, you are forty five, it is a bit early but it has been known to happen. We have to discuss hormone replacement and how to work your way through the hot flashes, there are shots..."

The door slammed as the tall blond left and went home. There she trashed her bedroom, pushing everything off the shelves as she heard what Kelly Lee was saying in her head. When Sonny showed up, she didn't tell him, certain that the woman was wrong.

"Carly, I am sorry, I really wish you had been pregnant, after all none of our children are here, but you have to get over this, we will keep on working on it. I promise." he said trying to calm the woman down, he needed her to get pregnant, it had to happen.

There was a knock on the door, then a still slightly hurting Max entered and said "Boss, you have company downstairs.."

"Let me wash my face." said Carly, they were expecting their new attorney to help them get back their kids.

"Mrs. C, this isn't about the lawyer, it is something else." he said ill at ease, not wanting to be around when she found out this news. Sonny saw the look on Max's face and quickly followed him.

Entering his study, he saw the woman with the baby in the car seat, then thought to himself that someone up there loves him as Claire announced "I had a daughter, her name is Gloria, Gloria Adella Corinthos."

Carly who was about to enter, screamed no, then pushed her way in past Max and grabbed the baby out of the chair and looked at it. Shouting in anger, she found her wrists grabbed by Sonny who said "Carly, stop it."

"No, tell me you didn't get this slut pregnant? Tell me, Sonny, tell me she isn't the mother of your child, a child you promised to me." Carly got in her car and drove to the Brownstone, finding her mother, she started to sob as she told her the news.

Bobbie looked at her little girl then with a sigh told her. "Carly, have you noticed that Sonny has more children with other woman than with you. Look at this, Alexis, Olivia, now Claire, then there was Lily, Sam, and Claudia who were all pregnant with his children. You have to face it, Sonny can't be keep it in his pants."

"Momma, he loved me, he really does." she said. "After Jason, he is the only man who has ever stood by me."

Sonny meanwhile had called Father Coates to his house, within the hour, Claire was now Mrs. Corinthos. Making the call to his accountant, he was soon in control of the trust he had sent up for his kids.

Calling Max he said "We are back in business, get on the phone, arrange for a shipment to come to the restaurant. Tell them to make the stamps look good."

In California, Jason was walking along the beach behind the row of family homes, needing the time to think. He was getting memories, almost like photographs without names. He could see what was happening but had no idea what was being said. It was forcing him to reach body language and he didn't like what he was seeing.

From the nasty controlling blond to the manipulative short man, then the women, it was clear that the short one was always watching him, wanting something more from him, something he clearly couldn't give her.

Then the blond was back, worse than ever. Then the woman who always was a bit distant, a bit careful around him. Then there was the man who was manipulating her, a dark haired man, then an angry blond one who was clearly violent but that she defended for some reason.

Then the other tall blond woman, it was clear she had loved him, but she was also always looking for something. Where as the first dark haired woman seemed to want something from him, the blond was smug and expecting him to do what she wanted, there was also a sharpness to her, that he could see.

The other woman was always around, there was anger between them, pain, that much he knew. Then there was something wonderful, a night together, then nothing, just the blond again then a pregnant brunette who wasn't what she seemed and made him angry and anxious when he saw her.

As the pictures went through his head, he found himself wanting more time with the woman whose eyes made him feel safe, loved in spite of the distance between them. Then he saw them, together, a night of wonder, a night of watching her, of chasing her, of clearly loving her in spite of the pain he sensed he had been in.

Then more pain, more anger, then finally what felt like happiness, the woman in a pink robe, lying in his arms, no distance between them. More anger, more pain, more darkness, then pain, lots and lots of pain.

Back at the home, he laid down, slept, needing to let what was in his head go, it was hurting him. Waking up later, he sat down at a table in the sun room and drew, drew the house, he had seen in his head, his safe house...

Elizabeth and the boys were just sitting down to dinner when she heard the doorbell. Looking at Cam, she said "Would you like to help me get the door."

Cam blinked a bit then went to the door, seeing his friend, he got the lower lock while his mommy turned the high one. "Michael, you came."

Hugging his young cousin, Michel looked up at Elizabeth as he knelt and said "I hope you don't mind."

"No, the boys will be happy to see you. Dante, it's nice to see you too." she told the older man who said "Are you sure you don't want us to stay at a hotel?"

"No, I have the room." she said then letting them in, watched as the boys pulled Michael over to the dinner table with the two extra settings. "I should warn you, I am only a mediocre cook."

Looking at the chicken, rice for the adults and Mac-n-cheese for the kids, Dante said "Me either."

Within minutes, all were eating, except Cam who was trying to tell them all they had done since moving away starting with Christopher then moving on. "We took a train, and went to ride a swan, then someone painted our house, Mommy wasn't happy."

Dante looked at Elizabeth as he got that was when Carly had come out there. "Elizabeth, did you hear about what is going on back home."

"Mac and his sister in law keeps me informed. I was told that they were going for a deal. That his lawyer doesn't want to take him in front of a jury." Dante had heard that with the stuff going on regarding Maxie and that Sam was not adjusting to prison, she had been in the papers for a deadly fight, no one expected the jury to go easy on him.

"I just want it over, I want to be the mother my children need, that is all." she said then told them about the community center and how she taught art there two days a week. Eventually the excited boys were tucked into bed, leaving Dante and Michael with Elizabeth.

"Elizabeth, I uh, I was talking to your grandmother, she has been talking about you and what happened when you were a teenager. Uh, Michael needs to tell you something."

Michael sat down on the ottoman, then said "My first night, before my uncle joined me, I uh, I was attacked by a man, a man named Carter. He uh, forced me, held a knife to me, he uh, he... raped me."

"Oh Michael." she said sadly. Reaching out, she said "No one should have to live with that, I can't imagine what you are going through."

"I know that you have been attacked, I couldn't tell anyone, especially not Uncle Jason. Looking back, he was hurting, something was bothering him. I think that it was that he was blaming himself for things, that he was doing what I do, blaming himself."

"Michael, I know you mean well, but what happened between your Uncle and me, is between us, it is our problem." she said as nicely as she could.

"I get that, but one thing before I drop it, Uncle Jason and you have had a lot of people keeping you apart, I think that for once you two need someone on your side." he said looking at her.

"Michael, while I appreciate the sentiment, it is several years too late. It was too late the moment I found out that Sam had a chance to take down Franco, and didn't. That Jason knew that and still forgave her. This after what we thought was my child was kidnapped and returned, and not once, not once did he come to me, and acknowledge the fact that once again my children were in danger because of that woman."

Dante looked at her then said "Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah, I overheard Lucky and Nik talking about it with Sam, they didn't know I could hear them at first. I should have stuck around, I might have found out they were plotting together but I left, intending to confront Jason. Instead I saw him with Spinelli and Molly and Kristina. They were making plans for something for Sam and I walked away."

"Elizabeth, Jason rarely never initiated that stuff, Molly would push and he would do what ever was suggested."

"Dante, that is truly a sad statement considering Jason is who he is and Molly was barely ten." she said then told them they were welcome to stay but that Jason was not to be a subject of conversation. "Michael, I get that you mean well, but like I said, both of us are responsible for this mess. I did stupid things too. However I have to live with my own, I don't want to live with his too."

When she had gone, Dante looked at Michael who was clearly upset with himself. "She is right, they are the only two who know the whole truth."

Michael stood then said "You know, Dante you are a very smart man, but you didn't grow up watching my mother and father manipulate Uncle Jason, watching both Courtney and Sam do the exact same thing. I spent the last few years of my life, believing that he owed me something, that I should get whatever I want. I never noticed what it was costing my uncle. Those boys, asleep upstairs, they deserve to have him in their lives, she does to. And he, he deserves someone like Elizabeth. Someone who will let him be himself."

"Are you sure about that, I think you are projecting on your Uncle what you want." he said quietly. "I saw him with Sam, he didn't seem to mind what she was dressing like, how she behaved."

Michael had no answer for that, but he had seen his Uncle, without Sam there, he didn't remember her. It was like she didn't exist. He got the feeling that it was case of just taking what was offered. Yeah, he had screwed up, badly but the one thing he knew was that there was something wrong with this picture.

Dante sat in the living room, his mind on things, what was going on in Port Charles, the news that his father had married and had yet another kid. His mother was running around town, demanding a DNA test, creating scenes. Yet his siblings had only shrugged when told.

Alexis had called Kristina at her camp, Jax had taken Morgan and Joss to Alaska after Carly had created a scene at the hotel. Dante and Michael had taken it in stride as well. Olivia had made a few jokes, same thing with Brenda, but in truth it was a sad statement of his father's life, that he was now the butt of jokes.

Over the next few days, the entire group had gone to the beach, all of them spending time in the sand and surf, including Michael attempting to teach Cam how to body board. That had been amusing especially since Michael was the one who ended up in the water.

When it was time for them to leave, Michael asked if they were going to ever come back. "We promised Edward we would come home for the holidays."

Cam was sad for a couple of days but soon received an email from Michael, and he sent one back, Elizabeth including a picture that she had taken of the four of them together. Michael holding Christopher while Jake and Cam were holding rabbit ears over his head.

At GH, Monica opened her email and quickly transferred the picture to her cell phone than ran to the nearest Walgreens where she printed it up. Taking it home, she framed it and soon had it on the mantle.

Tracy came into the room and held out the note she had received. "Luke, he seems to think all should be forgiven. He is on his way back to Port Charles. Suggested I leave a light on if he is welcome."

"I gather he hasn't heard the news." she said with a sigh. "Either that or he isn't aware that Lucky still needs help."

"Oh, he will show up, thinking that all is forgotten. I am going to call Mac, have the police on the lookout. What is that." she asked then moved in closer and said "Jake, he looks a lot like Jason... and mother."

"Christopher does too. Cam on the other hand, resembles Alan." she said ruefully. "When I spent time with them this summer, I saw he has the same grin, I just never ever saw it before."

"We had no reason to look. None of us had any idea. I still think that Corinthos should have paid but like Elizabeth said We have no real proof."

Across town, Sonny opened the cases of his second shipment and cursed at the smell. "Find our contact, tell him what we discovered."

Max went to the drop off point and found the dead body. Heading back his phone rang and he was told to be silent and listen. Hearing his father, he said "He is my boss."

"You will be coming home in a body bag if you stay there, do you get that?" he was asked the large man on the other end. He didn't know what it took to get through to his boy, Max was going to lose himself, he was going to go too far and die for a man who had no loyalty to anyone but himself..

"Not if Jason returns." said a confident Max as he walked along the docks never noticing his tail.

"When you get your brother killed, I will kill you myself." he was told then the phone. Max told Sonny as soon as he got back then watched as his boss went to his office, slammed the door and from the sounds of it, broke most of the glassware within.

There were footsteps, then Johnny entered with two other men. "Giambetti, I am here at the request of the families, tell him it is over, there is nothing left. And if he is waiting for Morgan to return, it won't be happening."

Another man came in the front door, one Max knew. Turning a sickly shade of gray he said "You are dead."

"Funny about that, I feel rather alive. Now, tell you boss that I work for Zachara and that Jason is not going to save him, not this time. It's done." Max saw the cold look in O"Brien's eyes and knew that his boss was not going to win this time and that there was no Jason left to rescue them.

Sean heard the sounds coming from the office then said "Oh course, he might have already gotten the message."

They turned and left, leaving an entering Milo who had made the mistake of reaching for his gun looking foolish when his brother grabbed him and said "No, don't. Go home, pack up your bags and I want you on the first plane to Papa. Milo, remember, don't make my mistake, don't put your loyalty to one man in front of your honor."

That night, there was an explosion on the docks, Milo could see it as his jet took off. Bowing his head as he realized that Max had done something, more than likely whatever Sonny wanted. And now, his big brother had paid the ultimate price for his loyalty.

Carly showed up at the funeral, surprised to see her son there. Michael however left after paying his respects to the man in the coffin, walking past his parents and when they reached out to grab him shook them off. "No, Dad I know you are responsible for this, Mom, you and I both know that you will never accept me or what happened to me. I am done, this isn't the place for this, let this be for Max's friends and family, his true friends and family."

Leaving he saw Diane and surprised the woman when he gave her a hug and said "You were the best thing in his life."

In the nursing home, it was July 25th, the patients were all gathered, the older children had arrived. Soon, they were celebrating Christmas like they had years ago. With homemade gifts, from flour ornaments, to felt dolls and wooden toy cars.

Jason was still in his room, his doctor had been working with him on his memories. He was recalling a large house with an elevator, an very kind elderly woman, a boy who he fought and played with. School away from home. Memories of crushes, of broken hearts, then things change... there is the darkness to the memories.

Getting up, avoiding the room with the children, he was sitting outside at one of the picnic tables when he heard someone, turning he saw the woman leading two of the more mischievous kids back inside, but her scent, vanilla and something else called to him.

For the first time that he could recall, he understood desire, need and attraction. Standing as if to follow, he looked down at the drawings and then went back to his room, hoping she hadn't left by the time he got there.

Seeing the van pulling away, he could only watch in frustration as he got the feeling that this woman, this woman and the feelings he had needed to be explored. Heading back in, he was called to the desk. "A present was left for you, Jason."

Wanting to reject it, he instead carried the prettily wrapped box back to his room and sat down on his bed. As he started to open it, he found it hard to not just rip the newspaper, and when he had opened it, looked at the drawings, all signed Cameron Steven Morgan.

Pulling them out, he went to his hiding place, pulled out the picture and looked at it's back. Then at the picture itself. The happy little boy with the curly hair and smile was looking at his mommy and the baby in her arms, there was love in that little boys eyes, and for some reason, that filled him with a sense of joy, a sense that had completely obliterated his need from a few minutes ago.

"I don't know who you are, but this, seeing this means more to me than finding out the truth." he said while putting the photo carefully away. Lying down, he soon was asleep dreaming of playing dad to that wonderful family... of loving the woman in the picture.

"Elizabeth, thank you staying behind." Dr. Rumi said as he joined her. "I know that you only work because you want to, but I need a favor."

"If it is feasible, I will try to help." she said cautiously.

"I have a patient, a man with memory loss, there are things in his head, dark things. He saw his mother murders, she was neglectful way before that, I think she had a drinking problem. I have never had much interest in art, Ms. Pauley used to say I had no imagination because when she told me to be creative, I would draw my dream house, with straight lines. I don't think I drew a single curve for anything other than a circle."

"I don't get what you need." she said a bit confused.

"I wrote down the descriptions of the events in his head, along with his very detailed account of the events. I was wondering if you could take his drawings and working from them and his descriptions, create something a bit more realistic, so that he can move ahead by facing what he his dreaming."

"Doctor, I haven't really drawn in years." she warned. "Mainly my own children. I don't know how much help I could be, but I would like to help."

"Mrs. Pauley said that I should show you this, he did it, after a particularly bad night. Some days after better for him, others have him wake up screaming, others sobbing as the memories built up until the emotions make him all but catatonic."

As they walked, he said "The day after you came and helped decorate, he found your leftover art supplies and did this."

She gasped when she saw the room, the memories of the Christmas she had spent with Jason in her studio flooding her. "Your patient did all of this?"

"Except the angels, the names and such was Mrs. Pauley. All of this from a man who supposedly hates the holidays, a man that around mother's day, ended up needing to be carried to his room because the idea of celebrating it, hurt him."

Looking at the loops, the way the colors were evenly spaced out, then at the wall, she moved closer when all she saw was tape. "Was there something here?"

"He drew some pictures, but took them down, said they hurt him." he replied. "I will be honest, besides the trauma he suffered as a child, I believe that his family died. There is a reoccurring theme to the pictures, a woman, with two boys, you can clearly feel how much he loves them, but there is a distance, a separation... it's like he is trying to get to them, but something, something is keeping them away."

"Poor, poor man. I can attempt to draw what you need, may I take the files with me." While she knew that there wasn't much she could do, this man's story, touched her, awakened her own dreams and hopes now shattered. If in helping this man with his own nightmares, her own were awakened, she could see how far she had come, how far she had moved on.

"I will give you the transcripts, they will be heavily redacted, because what I need is to concentrate on the original trauma. It gave him a sense of feeling unwanted, then alone. His memories have him sitting alone, beside his dead mother, in her pooling blood."

When Elizabeth kept it together, Dr. Rumi said "You are most definitely the right person for the job, I was a bit worried how you would take some of the descriptions. Thank you, Ms. Webber."

Heading home with the childish drawings, she took care of the boys, started some laundry and then she took them out, really looked at them. Picking up the transcript, she heard Jake calling out and hurried up stairs only to find that he had somehow gotten tangled up in his PJ's while going to the bathroom.

Back downstairs, still chuckling at Jake's confusion, she sat down and started to read. A bit shocked at the boy's age, she couldn't help recalling what Lainey had said about how we retained unseen memories at an early age and felt guilt in regards to the damage she had already more than likely wrought on her own sons while making the mistakes she had.

Then she kept reading and felt sick on behalf of this man, that more than likely fifty or sixty years later, these memories were still haunting him, made her determined to help.

Just before heading to bed, her phone rang. Seeing the Port Charles area code, scared her, made her worried that something was wrong as she grabbed the phone. "Hello?"

"Elizabeth, it's Monica. I just had a late night surgery and thought I would take a chance on you still being up." said the woman on the other end as she sat back in her office chair, needing a few moments of something other than medicine and blood.

"I am, I expect to have nightmares so I am dreading going to bed." she soon told the woman just of what she had been asked to do. "So anyhow, I can't imagine what this man feels."

"I do understand." she said her mind on Jason and what had happened to Susan Moore. "I was wondering if you would mind some company, I have to attend a conference next week, maybe we could have a day at Disneyland with the boys."

Hearing the hopeful tone, Elizabeth said "Sure but we have to avoid Chip and Dale, for some reason, they scare Jake."

At that, Monica laughed, then said "Okay, I will just bring Alice, those chipmunks will flee from her."

Waking up Jason went to therapy, then to the beach. Finally he went to Walmart with the woman. Looking down at his clothes, he went shopping. Jeans, some t-shirts, new underclothes and socks and finally seeing the school supplies, spent a small fortune on Chuggin Charlie themed items.

Heading back, he kept his packages hidden until they were in his room. Taking everything out, he placed them in his closet, then changed out of the hospital scrubs he had been wearing.

"Jason, do you have a moment?" asked Dr. Rumi when he found him in the sun room. "Are you up for an extra session."

Not sure he wanted to deal with the memories of the older man, the fears, the pain, the deaths he saw in his head, Jason was combative, then angry and then he went to his safe house, his hiding place.

"Jason, why don't you tell me about something, anything... just pick a subject, talk to me. What is going on in your head?" Lifting the books on the desk, he said "I saw you at the library, I know that you have been reading a bit, tell me about them, about something in them, like what you are looking for, maybe."

It came out almost involuntarily. "It only rains in Uzbekistan when you don't bring an umbrella, I know it is true, but I can't find it in the books."

That one surprised the good doctor. "Okay, tell me in what context that came up. If you can."

"I can see myself, there is a woman there, telling me this... and I..." the blond shut down, Dr. Rumi was once again treading into the territory that shut Jason down every single time.

In Port Charles, Spinelli was in front of the judge, as he started to spout his usual gibberish, the man in the robe frowned and asked the DA if he was sure that the man was now competent.

Spinelli was not happy when his attorney gave him the papers and told him to read exactly what is said. Within minutes, he was being carted back to the police station and was soon to be transferred to Shadybrook, to a special cell where he would have no contact with anything electronic.

"I want to see Spinelli." Sonny said as he entered the room.

"Mr. Spinelli is being denied visitors on orders of the judge." said Mac taking pleasure in denying the man. "Now if you are here to talk about the death of Max Giambetti, you may stay."

Calling Claire, Sonny was furious when she told him there was nothing she could do. "I have been boxed out, no one will tell me anything. I did get a copy of the court reporters transcripts and it is clear he hasn't seen Mr. Morgan since the night of the bus accident."

Swearing, Sonny hung up, then went to see if Carly could get in to see him. When he was told she had tried, but that no one, not even Maxie was allowed to talk to him. "We need him to track down Jason, this can't go on."

Carly watched on television along with Lulu as the reporters announced that Damien Spinelli was not placed in Shadybrook like expected but that because of his susceptibility to outside influences and his computer skill, he was being taken to an undisclosed location, they were furious. Both had counted on his being placed there.

As Spinelli was led off, he found himself alone in car, with two agents who stopped to pick up another man. "Hello Mr. Jackal, we need to have a talk."

"B-but, you, you are dead." he said then fainted. Waking up to see Stanley was still there, he said "How?"

"It's a miracle." he mocked. "Anyhow, you are going to be placed under the care of the two up front, but for now, you are going to work with me on a little project, breaking this code."

As the car drove, in the backseat, Spinelli was not working hard at all, then he saw Jason's name and got that this was his way out of this mess. Finally, he was not happy, he didn't have any idea what the code was but he knew it was a verbal command that would open whatever they were after.

"A verbal command, from Lorenzo Alcazar?" he asked.

"From someone, but I doubt it was Mr. Alcazar, because according to this, it was opened after his death." said Spinelli. Stanley had been aware of that, they had just wanted to see if he would be honest. "Does my master know you are alive."

"No, Sam McCall is completely unaware of it." he snarked at the kid.

"I meant Stone Cold, the master of all, the king of men... " Stan had them stop the car, then watched as it pulled off. Calling Johnny he said "He confirmed it is a verbal code and it has to be a real voice, not a recording."

"That where is this woman and how does she access this money?" he asked the man. "We have to figure this out, there is a briefcase full of bio-chemicals out there and we both know that if Jerry Jacks gets them he will sell them to the highest bidder."

Jerry was however still searching for the box, he was certain that the way to access the funds was connected to that box. Theo had spent the last few years searching for it, before that he was aware that the various family's were looking into what Alcazar had been up to.

The problem was that no one had any idea how he had accessed the files, who the mystery woman was, and most importantly, how they had been accessed after the man's death. He had researched Skye Chandler Quartermaine, Carly, even Lois Ashton, but none of them were the connection.

He had no idea, none but the woman had been important to Lorenzo, all he knew was that the man had been very secretive, totally unlike his code for the briefcase at the Metrocourt, that had been the name of his first love.

Sitting down, writing a list of every single woman in Port Charles that he could recall having the least bit of contact with the man, he had quite a long list and was getting no place. Then thinking on it, went to the Brownstone owned by his ex-lover and slipped into her daughter's room.

When Carly returned, clearly angry, he said "How would you like to help me with Lorenzo again. I will split the fortune that should belong to Skye Quartermaine with you but I get any and all papers."

Aware that Sonny needed money and that she needed him, Carly in her desperation said "What are you looking for?"

"A woman, she is the key to getting access to the funds set up for Diego. I need a list of every single woman he came in contact with, no matter how insignificant the contact was."

Carly sat down, wrote up the list rather quickly to his shock, then reading it, crumpled up what she had given him and snapped. "No, Lorenzo, not his kid."

At the other end of the bug that had been placed in Carly's room, Stanley thought about something then called Johnny Z. "What if we have it wrong, what if it is a contact of Diego's?"

"What do you mean?" When Johnny heard, he said "I will need someplace to start, maybe Maxie?"

"No, she hated him. I would try Lulu, they were working together when she set out to destroy her stepbrother's marriage to Georgie Jones." Stanley felt something tickle his memory but nothing came to the forefront.

Jerry took the offered list and compared it to his, then said "Who do you think this is?"

Carly listened then shrugged. 'I don't know who she is, is she the key, because she sounds awfully young."

Recalling that they were on old cassette tapes, Jerry was not happy, starting to think that maybe the woman was from before Port Charles and that everyone was chasing after a ghost. Leaving he told her to see what she could find out, but to search quietly.

Elizabeth dropped off the drawings, having felt ill at ease since the moment she had drawn them. The little boy, in shadows since she didn't know exactly what he looked like, scared and alone, his mom dead on the floor.

That one was horrible, but the description of the boy, of being small and scared as his mother acted strange was the one that got to her. This past year, she herself had been that way, her boys without her as she had fallen apart.

Returning home without speaking to Dr Rumi, she quickly called her own doctor, then met him in his office. "I had an image in my head, I uh, I had forgotten somehow, it was there, but it wasn't until today that it hit me."

As she explained about running into Jason near the diner, of his holding her as she fell apart, she stopped for a moment to gather her thoughts then told him. "I went home, then there was a knock at the door. I opened it, then a woman came in, I know it was a woman but not the who."

"I can see myself getting defensive, then shouting at her to leave, then there is nothing just a whiteness but then, but then I can see things, like they were at a distance. I can hear a man in the room, talking to her. Then a sense of nothingness, a sense of worthlessness. I have only ever had that feeling once before, when I was raped."

"Were you assaulted?" she was quickly asked.

"No, at least not sexually. However, I think that Helena messed with my memories, I also can hear her talking, and that is what I need to discuss with you." Taking a deep breath, she said "Helena, she hid something in my house. I heard her saying no one would suspect me of having whatever it was. But when I packed up and moved here, there was nothing that didn't belong to me."

"Could she have come back and taken whatever it was?" she was asked.

"No, maybe, I honestly don't know. I just know that whatever it was, it was gone." she said. "Or just hidden rather well in my old home. I sold it, should I call the owners, warn them?"

"You might just want to call the cops, give them a heads up." she was told. "Is there anything else, you have been a bit jumpy."

"Yes, and it's not good." she said. "When Helena kept coming around, afterwords is when I would run to Nik, but I would forget things there. I don't think he messed with my mind, but I might I would do things, think things out of what was going on."

As they went over the memories, she started to work through what was real and what had been fantasy. Crying as the session ended, she thanked her doctor then drove to the center. After checking on all three of the boys, she went to the empty classroom and sat down and started to free draw.

A frantic twenty minutes later, she looked at what she created and said "That, that was why I did it. Oh my god, I knew, I knew Jason was the more than likely father. Yet, in my head, I couldn't accept it, not after all that had happened."

Standing she went to wash her hands and was loading the boys into the car when her cell phone rang. "Dr. Rumi, you're welcome. No, I can't accept payment, helping your patient, helped me with my own problems. No, I am sure. Have a good afternoon."

At the clinic, Jason was tracing the outline of the little boy as he haltingly talked in group. "My mom, at least I think she was my mother, she was a good parents, a caring parent but then something happened and she would drink... then it was like I didn't exist. I can't believe I remember this, after all this time, that it is still there, that I can still feel alone, that I can still hear myself crying in a crib and being ignored. Is this normal?"

Dr. Rumi saw the group therapist explain that when someone has a head trauma things that are only feelings, things from your past can come back to you. "You have been feeling this, but not understanding why. It's like knowing how to eat, you had to be taught, but now, it is ingrained."

"So I will always feel this way?" he asked.

"Yes and no. You will feel it but now that you know what is causing it, you will change your pattern. I would be willing to bet that in those locked up memories of yours, that it created issues for you, mother issues."

"What do you mean?" he asked then stopped, a bit surprised to be the only one talking. However the other two were amazed, Jason never said a word in this room, normally he just sat there, listening to them talk.

"Uh, I can explain." said the older man wearing a clerical collar sitting next to him. "My parents were alcoholics, since I never lost control like that, I had a disdain for them, for what I saw as weakness. I had younger brothers and sisters, I tried to protect them, but it didn't help, out of the four of us, three have a serious problem with drinking or drugs. For years, I fought for their kids, for their very lives. While doing so, I never realized my own wife was letting go."

"Shouldn't she have stood by you, after all you promised to protect him." Jason was a bit taken back at how the words were making him feel things, dark things.

"Him?" asked the woman in charge. "Who is he?"

"I don't know." said Jason soberly. "Still if she loved you..."

"My own kids should have been my priority, but I can still recall telling my wife, that they had us, that they had her, but what did my nieces and nephews have. What I didn't see was the damage I did to my own family, by constantly leaving to save them. Then one day, my eldest son got kicked off the soccer team for drinking."

"Did you talk to him?" he asked.

"I did and you know what he said, he told me to go worry about my other family, clearly they were more important than my own kids. My wife divorced me soon after that, I can still recall thinking that that was fine, that she was a better parent than me. I remarried not long after, a woman who needed me, who had some of the same problems my parents did. I never saw my children and they lived in the same small town. My wife never remarried, she dated a bit, back then even dating was frowned upon." Greg had never really talked about this, he had kept it private, but now, he knew that this man needed to hear this for some reason.

Jason was seeing pictures in his head, but stayed, needing to hear this, feeling compelled to hear this as the older man continued. "My best efforts did nothing. Out of my family, two are dead, from illnesses related to drinking, but my remaining sibling, she told me that my constant 'help', didn't. She didn't get better until she got away from us. Her children turned out fine, of the other children... four died, two in Vietnam, one a deserter who is still missing. My own childen..."

"Let me guess, they were fine." Jason needed them to be fine, he didn't know why but he really, really did.

"My son, the one who got kicked off the team, he became a lawyer, has never spoken to me since. The other two, my daughter, she speaks to me, when she needs something, but otherwise, no. And my youngest, he died in the passenger seat of a car driven by his cousin. They believe I don't love them, and the worst part is, my wife, she died several months ago, I was with her when it happened... told her I was sorry... she said she forgave me."

Jason didn't want to hear this part, he could hear the pain and knew it was going to hurt. "And I left but came back, needing to be near her. I heard her talking to a nurse, she said she had lied, that she had told me she forgave me, for me, so I could forgive myself but that she would never forgive or forget that I broke my wedding vows from the day we got married."

"You cheated on her?" he asked Greg in shock.

"No, there is a part that says you will forsake all others, that doesn't mean just physically, it means that your family, your wife and children must come before all others. Emotionally, mentally, in every way. I spent years telling others that as I advised them before marriage, then because I felt my calling required me to help others, I forgot who I should have been helping the most." With that, Jason stood, fleeing the room, words in his head.

"What was that?" asked the others. Greg, got up and wandered around the home, finally finding Jason alone in the sun room where he spent most of his time. "I think I hit a nerve."

"You did, but I just don't know what it means." said the man staring out the window. "Where is your second wife, what happened there?"

A bit surprised at the question, he gave a sigh then said "She was a ministers daughter, I thought the perfect woman, one who will understand... she didn't. She was expecting me to save her... but I didn't love her as a wife, I didn't help her as a minister and eventually my church collapsed in on itself when she had a car accident and killed an innocent man whose only crime was driving home from work."

"Back then, DWI was just gaining prominence, most still considered it okay to drink and drive. I had been working with victims of that type of violence, they had joined our church because of me, then my wife is found drunk."

"I think I lost my family, I can see them dead, in my mind." Jason said softly. "I see images, but they are scattered moment of happiness. Of joy, of love. There are others there, others I care about, but only one woman in them, she is the only one I find peace with. I almost don't want my memories back, I know there is pain, and some of it I caused, I have to admit that, but there is also my own pain."

"Tell me." he was ordered as they watched the rain start to fall outside the window..

"I see her marrying another man, I am hiding how badly it hurts, I don't want to be there, but I am. I see the same man, talking to me, I can't hear his words, but there is pain, deep, agonizing pain. There is another man, a smug man, it hurts me to see them together, but more for her, because I keep hearing myself say that I have no rights, that she chose him, that she is not the woman I love... but she is... and there is another woman, one I hurt because I lied to her, I can hear myself doing it, but not the words... and then there are the darkest memories, they were the worst... a room with four people talking about me, I can hear them, and I realize that what I gave up was for nothing... that what I lost... that what I lost... was gone and I could no longer get it back... that my own pride, my own hubris, that my family was no more... now I sit here, knowing the memories are bad, that they are no longer mine."

Walking away, Jason went to his room and started to pull out his hidden cache, instead he tossed it at the wall, pulled on his jacket and left the home. Walking until he reached the beach several miles away, he sat down, no tears, just pain, just pain and loss.

Elizabeth looked out her window, saw the man huddled almost to the pier and for a moment thought it was Jason... her heart stopped, then started as she told herself to let it go, that it was the memories from helping Dr. Rumi's patient.

Seeing Cam trying to convince Chris to stand, she laughed when he fell on his but then glared at his brother. Looking over to where Jake was, she said "Jake, what are you looking at, sweetie?"

"Man." he said pointing out the window at the same person who had caught her attention earlier. "Wet man."

Watching as the man stood, his hood still up, but clearly soaked, she waited until he had walked away before trying to get Jake away from the window and back playing. "Bye, bye Man."

Kissing her son on the head, she sat down to make out her grocery list and was soon laughing as the two older boys tried to convince her that they absolutely needed to make Rice crispy treats that week. "I will think about it."

Rushing up to their playroom as Chris went down for his name, Cam and Jake were back at the window when Jake said "Man was here."

"What man?" asked Cam frowning a bit. He was old enough to remember both of his brothers getting grabbed and didn't care for strangers.

"Man from home, motorcycle man." he was told. Cam just shrugged, he had seen the man around a bit, when they had gone to the old people place he had been there. Not seeing that man as a danger, he said "It is Mr. Jason, he doesn't come around anymore."

"Okay, who is Mr. Jason?" asked Jake.

"Don't know, he was just around. He had a motorcycle." Cam had memories of mommy being happy when he was around, but Cam just knew he went away after saving his brother, then never returned.

Hearing the doorbell, Elizabeth let in Monica who said "So much for Disneyland, I thought it never rained in California."

"Well, I guess it doesn't, at least in song lyrics." Elizabeth pointed out. "The boys are up in the playroom, Chris is down for his nap. I was hoping you had a moment. My therapist and I were talking about the boys and explaining about Jason. He thinks that the longer I put it off, the harder it is going to be for them."

"So you want me to be there when you tell them?" she asked.

"Yes, I don't have him here, at least not physically, but I drew some pictures of him since I don't have any photos." she told her. Monica went over to her bag, then pulled out an album. Giving it to Elizabeth, she saw her pain as the woman opened it up and saw Jason from childhood to adult. "Monica, is this Susan?"

"Yes, I found all the photos I could of her for him, then the accident happened and he didn't remember her. I uh, also got her medical records for you, along with Jason's, just in case you ever need them for the boys." she added. "I didn't know how to handle certain things, so I left those photos out. I did put in a couple of Michael and him."

"I think that they are going to need to know, warts and all when they are older but this is perfect for now." she said sadly as she closed the book. "I uh, created someone similar, just in case anything ever happens to me. Steven has access to it, I should give you the code as well, just in case."

Getting that Elizabeth was being smart, Monica still didn't want to think of her grandchildren as being orphaned. Moving on to a brighter subject, she asked. "What about your plans once the boys start school?"

"I hate, absolutely hate that Jake is old enough for pre-k." she was told bluntly. Monica laughed and said "I went through that too, wait until they are driving, and dating, that was the really tough one."

Jake came down the stairs, and saw his grandma Monica and called up to Cam, Daddy's mom is here. Elizabeth looked at Monica and gathered both boys, then said "We need to talk to you."

They had already explained a bit to Cam about how Monica was his grandmother without using Jason's name since he was aware of who he was. This time, they told him. "So Mr. Jason is our dad? Is that why he is around?"

"Yes, that was why he would visit." said Elizabeth while her heart wished that it had been more frequently, so that her sons had more than photos of their dad. "Are you okay with that?"

"Yes, but I wish he would come to the house, I liked him. Did he tell those people who kept us from him that they were bad?" he asked.

"Jason..." Elizabeth had no idea, none how to explain that Jason was missing, that no one had heard from him in almost eight months. "He went away, honey. He is working on something, when he is done, we will tell him all we have learned. I promise."

"Okay, but can't I just go and tell him?" he asked.

Elizabeth didn't know how to answer him, then said "Jason isn't in Port Charles, Cam."

"I know that." he said pouting a bit. "Can I go and see him where he lives now?"

"Its complicated." she lamely told him. "Now, do you have any other questions, what about you Jake?"

"Man is daddy?" he asked Cam, ignoring the adults. When the older boy nodded yes, he said with a smile "Motorcycle man is daddy."

"I think Jake is okay with this." said Monica with a laugh as the little boy got up then stopped and said "Call him daddy?"

Nodding, she sighed then said to Monica after they had gone upstairs, "This was way too easy."

Easy was not how Sam McCall described her life these days. Sitting in her small solitary cell, she crumpled up the newspaper announcing that Spinelli had been found guilty, then that he had been taken into federal custody.

"Sweet, sweet Sam, amazing how a gutter rat like you finally ended up in the cage where you belonged." drawled out Jerry wearing a guards uniform. "So, sweet Sam, are you interested in freedom?"

"Get away from me, when Jason comes home, he will get me out." she said, needing to believe that, she had nothing else.

"Jason? My guess is that he runs to that fertile little nurse of his, marries her and has a half dozen more babies." he replied. "No, Jason Morgan, is no longer an option for you. I do have some news for you, though. Lorenzo Alcazar left a fortune, one that I am looking for, but I need the code. Carly thinks you being who you are, might know something, something insignificant that that geek might have told you."

Going back over every single discussion she had ever had with Spinelli regarding Alcazar, she stretched it but could come up with nothing. "No, I wish he had."

Hitting play, he saw the voice had no affect on the woman and groaned, they had checked every single name on the list, nothing nada, and time was running out before someone caught on that he was not staying out of trouble.

Jerry left and Sam went back to laying back on her cot, her mind on her dream life with Jason, never noticing the time until she was told "Prisoner McCall, yard time."

Once there, she was soon battered yet again, having barely healed from her last beating. In the infirmary, she was taped up, then sent back to her cell after being told they had no more pain medication. "Yeah right, just like the last time and the time before that." she snapped.

Gasping for breath from the pain, Sam gingerly laid down only to hear the door open. "McCall, you have a visitor."

Standing she staggered to the room with the wall of phones and saw her mother. "What do you want? Did you put the money in like I asked."

Holding up the letter, Alexis said "I received your request. Sam I would need access to your funds to do that, because I am not giving you a single dime of my money."

"Get me the papers." she said. "Here hand this to my mother."

The guard gave Alexis the list of accounts then the woman after looking at them said "I will take care of it first thing in the morning. Why can't you stay out of trouble, the warden told me how you keep picking fights."

"They are picking fights with me, because I am Jason Morgan's woman." She said like it was something to be proud of. Alexis shook her head, then folded the paper and stood.

"Sam, I know the truth, I saw the tapes, I believe the words used were kidnapper, child endangerer and that no one considers you under Morgan's protection, that it is open season on you." Walking away, Alexis said "You do know that there is a hundred dollar limit to what I can put in there, don't you?"

Swearing, Sam said "I need more, without it, they are going to keep beating on me, please mother, you have to help me."

"Sam, I will do what I can, within legal limits." Alexis felt a sense of guilt but yet she was not going to fight for Sam. Her biggest regret was finding out who her daughter was. Not because of the criminal background but because Sam never could see that she was at fault for anything.

Carly had tried every single contact and was getting no where. Seeing Jax coming her way, she asked "Where are my children?"

"At their new home, I was coming to invite you to dinner. Morgan would like to see you." he said offering up an olive branch, knowing that they had to try to get along for their sake. "Carly, Joss is now walking. I thought you should know."

Sitting down, bursting into tears at the time she had missed, Carly said "What time, can I come over early and see them?"

"I need to talk to Olivia about that, she is taking Morgan to his new school for me since he doesn't want to go back to his old one. He doesn't have a lot of time to pack." They had long discussed Morgan's request to attend the small boarding school nearby. Carly had always taken in Sonny's wishes and had said no, she was not happy to know that Jax was going to let him go, but knew she had to keep her mouth shut if she wanted any chance of time with her little girl.

Making the call, Jax said "Olivia and he are leaving around seven in the morning, he says he is already packed. So you are more than welcome to come over around six. You should know, Steven Webber will be there, he and I have hospital business to discuss and he is dating Olivia."

Sniffing in annoyance, she just left and went to see Sonny. "I am going to see Morgan, Jax is sending our little boy off to boarding school, but you can't create a scene, he won't let me near my little girl, if you do."

Sure enough, she had just been seated on the sofa by Olivia while Jax and Steven had walked off when Sonny banged on the door and demanded to be let in, Claire with him and holding a blue backed piece of paper.

Carly was barely hiding her grin, certain that Sonny and his baby mama had done what needed to be done. "You have no right, none to access his trust... if you want to send him to boarding school, you should be paying for it yourself."

Blinking a bit, she looked at Sonny, that wasn't what she was expecting. He was supposed to be stopping him from sending her little boy off to school.

Jax took a sip of the water he had poured then said "Sonny, I did, however my accountant happened to notice some unauthorized withdraws regarding payments for his schooling this year. So, they arranged for the money to be sent to the Edmond's academy, then I am replacing the money that was somehow already set to be paid."

Swallowing his anger, he had thought he was clever, he had known from talking to Bernie that Jax had already informed him that Morgan was going away to school, he had clear access to some free funds, now the check had been stopped, and he no longer had a way to hide the money he needed from his very well watched accounts.

"I don't want my son so far away." he tossed out there. Claire had kept silent, she had no bone in this fight, Morgan was not her child, however when she saw the expression on Dr. Webber's face, she asked "What right do you have to judge him?"

"I am not judging him, not for this... just amazed at his shouting in front of the child he claims to love." he said pointing out Morgan standing on the stairs, frozen in fear. Jax was not happy when Sonny tried to maneuver around him to the boy, but was even angrier when Carly knelt in front of the scared child and tried to make him feel guilty about wanting to go away to school.

"Carly, let it go, Sonny I think it is time you leave." he stated then had Olivia take Morgan back up stairs then looked at Carly and said "I hope you are happy, I know you had a part in this, go upstairs, see our daughter then get out. If Morgan approaches you, fine, but otherwise, stay away from him."

"He is my son, I was the one who gave birth to him." she said wiping away her tears.

"I am glad you love him, Carly. However you don't see to get that that love shouldn't be about you and your wants but about what Morgan wants and what is best for him." said Jax as he sat down watching her head to the upper rooms. Looking at Steven he said "At one point, she was trying... now... it's like without Jason here... she is unraveling."

"I have to admit, I am worried. I think Jason Morgan is dead." he bluntly told the man. "All of his usual hot button pushing topics have had very public meltdowns and he hasn't shown up to fix things."

"That is just it, I think that that day in the hospital, Alexis told me what happened, about his attempting to kill himself. I think that it woke him up, but Jason has never learned how to say he was sorry, that he has made a mistake, because with those people who surrounded him, they didn't care, as long as he was there to clean up after them, they would put up with anything including Carly."

"I was watching her, around town and you know what I see, I honestly think that she can't live without him fixing her messes." he snorted. "I know that you love her, but seriously, what on earth do you see in her?"

"At the time, well she was helping me with something criminal." he said ironically. "Then it sort of became a habit, she isn't bad in bed, but at the same time... part of me, liked knowing that she had married me, not Sonny. Stupid huh?"

"Like I once told my sister, boneheaded decision. You know, the police out there they have an open arrest warrant for her vandalizing Elizabeth's house. My sister was more annoyed than anything, by the time she got back from vacation, her neighbor had had it painted over, she was more upset about the picture Carly stole from her office."

Carly had been coming back down, quietly, when she had heard them talking about her but at that, she stomped in and said "I never stole a damn picture from your slut of a sister. She is lying."

"Really, funny how it went missing about the time you were there." said Steven. "Carly I don't care, neither does Elizabeth, since it was only a copy. The center was more worried because of liability issues when someone who isn't completely stable sneaks onto their property and removes things."

"Like I said, she is a liar, I didn't steal anything." she said then picking up her purse said to Jax. "Don't let Morgan leave before I get to see him in the morning."

"Then be here before seven, because we won't wait." was the response. Carly walked out, still cursing out Elizabeth and heading to the Brownstone to talk to her Momma. Entering she saw Lucky on his walker, her cousin had regains feeling in his arms but not his legs.

As she blew up at what Steven had told her, Lucky said "Typical Elizabeth, lying to create drama. Why would you want a picture of my kids?"

Luke looked at his son, then at his daughter who was pouting. Johnny had taken her out to dinner several times in the last few months, then suddenly the night before had said thanks and quickly left her alone. When she had called him, he had told her she had given him what he needed and that he had no use for her anymore.

Everyone she had talked to that day had heard the story, now she was telling Carly who stopped her and said "Wait, you were talking about Diego. With Johnny?"

"Sort of, we were talking about mistakes we had made, not that I think working with Diego was a mistake, except for his telling Georgie the truth about Dillon and what I was up to." she stated. Carly's wheels were turning then she quickly made a call. "Where are you?"

Ignoring her family, she went to her car then told him. "Meet me at my house. Yes, I know it is empty but it is perfect for this, it's what we have not been looking at."

There she said "My original list, what happened to it?"

"What?" he asked then listened and swearing said "Write it out again."

"Maxie, it has got to be Maxie Jones." she said then frowned before adding. "Or it could be that annoying sister of hers, but we had better hope not, because Georgie is dead."

"It's not her, she died in December, the account was accessed by Diego for the only time two days before he died." Jerry pointed out. "I will go have a talk with Ms. Jones, you get things moving."

AT Maxie's fathers house, John Zachara asked her father for a moment of his time. When they met down at the station he said "Your youngest daughter, Georgie. I hate to ask but you are aware of what I am doing, what can you tell me about Diego Alcazar and her."

"Why?" Hearing the reason, Mac told him all he knew. Then said "Well at least we know the account can't be accessed, Georgie is dead, I have no clue, none why he would have killed my daughter if he knew that he needed her to access those accounts."

Calling his contacts, Johnny was not happy to hear that Jerry Jacks was looking for quick transport to Caracas nor that it couldn't be the late Jones girl, she had died before the account was last accessed. Calling his own pilot he was airborne within minutes of filing the flight plan, having called O'Brien to warn him.

Maxie woke up, feeling uneasy, something was off. "Drink this."

Seeing Jerry Jacks then realizing the noise was an airplane engine, she freaked. "No, you can't do this, I can't go to jail."

"Relax, I left your father a kidnapping note. However if you cooperate with me, I have a deal for you." he said with a smirk. "A quick voice command and when the door opens you get ten million dollars, your freedom and I get anything else inside."

"Why are you being so generous?" she asked suspiciously.

"I had a different partner but she is going to attempt to betray me, its why I grabbed you without warning, I had to get to you before Sonny Corinthos does." he said sitting back then handing her her medicine. "I also doubt he would have remembered to grab these."

Taking her pills, Maxie looked at him and said "Why should I trust you?"

"Under normal circumstances you shouldn't but you have done me a good turn or two and then there is Cooper. That alone gets you at least one free pass with me. As for any fears you might have regarding the ankle monitor, I arranged for someone else to wear it."

"Fine, I am in, what do I have to do?" she asked then frowned as she read the statement and struggled with the Spanish words. Jerry thought about the tapes, the voice was similar but still different. Maybe it was not her... then he asked "Why would Diego use you?"

"I don't know, but he tried to kidnap me a few years ago, this must have been what he wanted." she replied as she listened to the tape and tried to sound out the words on the paper until they were the same.

Monica spent the day with the boys while Elizabeth was spending time with Mrs Pauley at her request. "What do you think?"

"They have quite a future as artists." said the older woman who saw the sadness in her eyes at times and asked "What is it?"

Flushing a bit, she said " My sons, their grandmother, you remind me of Lila a bit. I thought it was just the wheelchair at first, but it is the steel under the velvet."

"Sounds like you knew her when you were still a young girl, for you to notice that." she said with a smile. "I gather she is no longer with us?"