Morgan sighed as he watched his Mom's limo drive away from his dad's house before entering the study. He watched as his father read some sort of file then said "Dad, can I ask you something?"
Sonny sat down the paperwork, and walked over to the sofa where Morgan joined him. "Anything you want."
"Okay, but please tell me the truth." he said then taking a deep breath asked. "Why does Mom love Michael more than me? Is it because of Uncle Jason? Why does Uncle Jason spend more time with Michael and not have a family and kids of his own. Is it because of us? Does Uncle Jason not want a family?"
Sonny was taken aback at the questions as he said. "Morgan, your mother loves you."
"Not as much as Michael, she has never gone to a single event until Michael was there too." he retorted. "I am with Leticia and Grandma Bobbie now that Jax isn't there. At least he spent a couple hours a day with me. Mom didn't while married to him and is barely there at all now."
Sonny didn't like what he was hearing and then when Morgan again asked about Uncle Jason and why he didn't spend time with him like he did with Michael, Sonny got just how much Carly called her best friend over him regarding their son. As Sonny answered his son's questions, he had no idea that Morgan was taping him, trying to get answers for his friend Cam.
Sonny struggled with what to tell the little boy as his questions sank in for the mobster, finally sending Morgan away at least less confused if not satisfied, he called Jason and asked him to come out to the estate.
When Jason showed up, Sonny closed the door unaware that Morgan had gone to the back room where he had seen his mommy eavesdrop on his dad. "Jason, we need to talk about Michael."
"I saw him today, like Carly requested. I don't know what is wrong, Sonny. He is angry, he feels we are interfering in his life." said Jason frustrated at how Michael was acting. "He wants to be left alone. He says too many people are telling him what to do."
Sonny sat down and said to his best friend. "Jason, I had no idea that Michael had had another problem, Carly didn't call me."
"She might not have wanted to bother you." he offered as an explanation.
That didn't sit well with the mobster as he said to Jason. "Sit, we really need to talk."
Jason frowned and did what Sonny asked. "First of all, Michael is right, there are too many people telling him what to do, at least one too many. Jason, while I appreciate all you have done over the years for my son, he is just that, my son. Not yours."
Seeing Jason's stone face, Sonny said "No, you need to listen. This bit of Carly coming to you about Michael, it ends now. I should be the one she comes to, I am Micheal's father. I have been for almost fourteen years. I should have put a stop to this years ago. You stepped back, agreed to let me adopt Michael."
"Sonny, I am Micheal's uncle." he said.
"Exactly, his uncle, not his father." he said. "You have a son of your own, would you want me telling Jake what to do?"
"It's not the same thing. I made a promise to Michael." he said. "You know that."
"You're right. You did but Jason, how long are you going to keep that promise until Michael is an adult, until he is thirty, until he is a father, a grandfather. I will finally tell you what Carly should have years ago, what I should have years ago." he said annoyed. "That promise was fulfilled the moment Michael became my son. Stop letting Carly use that old promise to keep you tied to her apron strings. Take a good look at your life, Jason because you don't have one."
Seeing the hurt and the pain on the blond's face, Sonny said less harshly. "That is partly my fault, well no more. Jason, why can you keep my children safe but not your own?"
"Because-" Jason looked at his boss and said bluntly. "Because you can't stay on an even keel, someone needs to protect them and it always falls to me."
"Jason, that is bullshit." he said. "Lucky Spencer is even less of a stable person than I am. Yet you are letting him raise your kid."
"There is a difference, the boys at least have Elizabeth, who is a good mother." he said.
"Yes, she is you. You made a better choice than I did in choosing Carly. But Jason, why are you punishing your kids for my bad decisions." said Sonny. "You are messing up your life, man. Go to Elizabeth, beg her apology for letting Carly run your life. Go to her, go to your boy, be a family."
"I can't. I promised Elizabeth no contact. Our son was kidnapped twice." he said.
"Yeah, once because of a grief filled woman, if you two had been together, there would have been guards to help Elizabeth." he pointed out. "Sam was behind the incident in the park and that wasn't business. That was an obsessive woman going after kids out of jealousy, not business."
"You can't say that about the Russians." he said resentfully as he glared at his boss. "Look how many times your children had been kidnapped."
"How many of those were personal?" he gently pointed out. Jason turned his head, not wanting to admit his flawed reasoning. "And Jason, we still don't know why the Russians grabbed Jake, whether it was because of Lucky or you. Step up, man up, Jason. Be a father to your own kids, I am promising from this moment on to be a better one to mine."
Jason left, needing air as he wished he hadn't gotten out of bed this morning. Sonny meanwhile called his estranged wife Claudia and said "We need to talk."
The brittle brunette looked up forty minutes later as Sonny came through the portal to Crimson Point. With Anthony's death during the hospital fire earlier that year, they had separated, but were still connected because of the Zachara business interests.
"What is it, Sonny." she asked regretting her marriage. Things had been ugly since the moment she had met Sonny, and Claudia had made all copies of the CD showing she had been behind Ian shooting Michael disappear, her affair with Ric had ended the moment his father had died. She wanted a divorce a new life but her father's will had her trapped in marriage with Sonny.
With his dimples in full force, he said I know of a way to get divorced.
"I am not turning my family business over to you." she snarled.
Sitting down, he looked at her and said "I don't want it."
"Yeah, right." she sneered.
"No, I am being serious, but I can't allow you to remain in Port Charles. So, here is my offer. I sign an agreement, we get divorced you get the business but you leave town, never to return. If you do, I get it back." offered up Sonny as he put his plan in motion.
"Why are you went to such lengths would you walk away?" she asked.
"None of your business." he said smoothly. "It's a limited time offer, Claudia, It ends when I walk out the door."
"Fine, I will agree to it." she said then when he left called his attorney who said that Sonny had had her draw up the paperwork. Calling Johnny and seeing his appendage, aka Lulu Spencer with him, she said "It's family business, send the hooker to the store for some bubble gum."
Johnny looked between his sister and the blond and said "Lulu, would you please just head home I will call you later."
Lulu pouted but left, when she arrived at her apartment she saw Maxie and Spinelli kissing and just stormed to her room. Answering the now ringing phone, she got even more bad news. "Answer the damn phone yourself, Maxie. That was your sister, she is coming home, wanted to know why I was answering the phone in her apartment."
Wincing, Maxie said "You know better than to answer that phone, darn it, Lulu. I haven't told Georgie you are living here yet."
"She is not moving in here, Maxie." she threatened.
Maxie grimaced then said "Lulu, her name is on the lease. We can't kick her out, remember? We are living with her, not that she knows you are here."
John listened in surprised at what Claudia had to say, then asked if she was sure it wasn't a trick only to be told about the papers. "Get someone to go over them thoroughly."
"When are you going to break up with her?" she asked him.
Running his hands through his hair, John said "She is handy."
"I can imagine, but she was past her shelf life a year ago." she pointed out.
"There are a limited number of women willing to date me in this town, so she bores me to death, at least we have sex regularly." he said then looked a bit ashamed then said "Claudia, I walked away a long time ago for any real chance at love. While I may not love her, Lulu does love me. That has to count for something, right?"
"No, John. It doesn't." she said almost feeling sad for the annoying blond who had no idea that her brother stayed with her out of laziness and couldn't resist asking him. "What if you were to meet someone you could love, I guarantee, she walks away when she meets who you are spending time with. Dump her, go to the city if you want sex, John."
"I will think on it, what about the other plan you have in motion, are you backing off on that one now that Sonny is walking away?" he asked.
"No, operation ruin Carly is still in affect. She caused me to miscarry, then her coming to see me, to say what she did, after she had miscarried herself, no, I am still going to destroy her." said Claudia coldly. "Oh, and I have at least one more jab to take at Sonny.
A couple of days are getting Claudia Zachara out of his hair, Sonny was dealing with Carly who was saying he was wrong to have treated Jason the way he had. "Sonny, how could you, now Jason won't help me with Michael."
"Good." he snapped. "Carly, I AM Micheal's father, not Jason. If there is a problem, you should be coming to me. I have talked to Michael and from the sounds of it, the only problem is that you won't let him breath without your permission. I get why he is upset. Leave him alone."
"I won't, I am his mother." she steamed. "I gave birth to him, I fought for him, he should not disrespect me."
"Carly, if you don't stop, I am going to get an order of protection keeping both Jason and you away from our son." he threatened. When he saw her blowing up, Sonny said "ENOUGH! Damn It Carly, where is this fire when Morgan needs you, why not put all this excess love into our younger son."
"Morgan is fine, it's Michael that needs us." she said dismissing his request.
When she had left, Morgan who had hidden in the cubby hole again, heard his dad calling his attorney. Frowning as he listened, Morgan waited until she left then asked his dad if Milo could take him to the park.
Looking at his son, Sonny said "How about I take you to the park?"
Sighing, Morgan said "Can you wear something other than a suit, dad? I want to play ball."
Milo hid his snicker while Sonny messed his hair up and went to change into some chinos and a different shirt. "Will this do?"
Looking down at his father's shoes, he said resigned. "I guess it will have to. But dad you really need some sneakers."
Sonny and Morgan played catch, the older man amazed at how well the ten year old was doing, shocked to realize how much he himself had missed in his son's life. When Morgan saw the Webber boys, he asked for permission to go and play on the monkey bars while Sonny gladly took a breather.
When Sonny saw Cam and Jake, he looked around for Elizabeth and saw her talking to a blond man, planning at first to talk to her, he changed his mind when Michael showed up.
Talking to his eldest, Sonny felt a sense of time passing as the teenager acted no different than any other kid his age. When Michael walked off to talk to Morgan, he was a bit worried because after a few minutes of watching his brother, the blond turned on his heel, his face red with anger as he stormed off.
Michael was steaming as what he had heard Morgan and the other boy saying. As the words sank in, he went to his mothers house. There, in his room he was looking through his closet when he heard her voice then Uncle Jason's.
Listening, he sat down on the floor as he got that his uncle was reluctant to interfere but that his mother was pressing him to help her. When his name was mentioned and some sort of promise brought up, Michael looked around, seeing the picture of his Uncle standing with him, then at the others in the room, the teenager waited silently for the voices to stop talking loudly then crept out of the house, needing to get away from his mother.
Cam was in bed that night, his mind on what Morgan had told him. Unable to sleep, he went downstairs, and looked for his toys accidentally turning on the television. "Tonight on Maury Povich, ex wives and how they don't let go."
Cam sat there, entranced as furniture flew, as people were beeped and the gray haired man talked. Then it hit him that Mr. Povich was right and he knew what to do to get his family back together like the boy on tv. He was going to sue Morgan's mommy for being an illegal wife.
Then thinking on it, wondered if he could sue her for being a bad mom too, for Morgan.
The next morning, Elizabeth had a rough time waking her eldest as she said "Cam, I am sorry but you are going to have to spend the day at the day care center. Uncle Steven had to operate on someone today."
Hiding his smile because that fit into his plans to find an attorney. Then it slid away as he got that he didn't know what an attorney was. At daycare, he listened as his Mommy told Miss Tiffany that Ducky couldn't get him anymore, then handed her papers.
When his Mommy had left, Cam faked an ear ache, wanting to talk to his favoritist doctor at the hospital, he would know what an attorney was, he was sure of it. Sneaking down the hall to avoid his mom, he overheard her talking.
Elizabeth was telling Bobbie Jones who was there about Michael that Lucky had signed the papers after much protest when she threatened to make public what he had done. "I wish it hadn't come to that, Elizabeth."
"Bobbie, I couldn't have him telling my boys that." she said unaware that Jason was eavesdropping. "He had them lying to me, he was threatening-."
"Don't get me wrong, you are in the right, I only meant that I don't like that Lucky pushed you to get his parental rights terminated. He is becoming more and more like Luke everyday."
Waiting until Bobbie had left, Jason walked over and looking around said "Why on earth would you do that to Lucky?"
Looking at the man chasing all around town for Michael, she said "No contact, remember. That was your choice, now my getting rid of Lucky has nothing to do with you, Mr. Morgan. You are not a parent, you don't get to offer an opinion when you have no idea what is going on. That was your choice this time, remember?"
That stung Jason but it also made the little boy frown as he got that just because the blond mean woman was gone, things weren't going to work out. Thinking on what the little boy on the show did, Cam really needed to talk to that attorney now.
Seeing Doctor Alan, he said "I's not really sick, I just have a question. What is an attorney. How and what does suing someone mean?"
Alan lifted the first grader onto a bed, then asked why he wanted to know. Cam was at least truthful and admitted what he had seen the night before even if he didn't tell him his own plans.
Answering him, Alan asked "Anything else?"
"Do I know attorneys?" he asked.
Alan thought about it then said "Do you know Nik's aunt Alexis?"
"Yeah, she is always looking like she really has to go to the bathroom bad but that she can't find one." he replied. "I heard Mr. Luke say she is a tight-"
Looking around for a different adult and not finding one, Cam whispered ass. "He says she has been clenching it in for so long it is coming out of her month, that is gross. Who would want poo coming out the mouth, she should just relax it would feel all better." Alan couldn't help it, he burst into laughter at the very disgusted expression on Cam's face.
Alan was wiping his tears as he dropped Cam off at the daycare, giving him a clean bill of health and covering for the kid by saying "He just slept on his ear wrong, I will let Elizabeth know."
On his way back to his office, Cam's words kept coming back to him at the most inappropriate times. "What is going on with you?"
Looking up at his wife, he explained what Cam had said, only for Monica to say thoughtfully "You know, that fits Tracy too."
"Oh it gets better. Tracy has been foaming for days because Grandfather just announced he is hiring a friend of Brooklynn's for the summer. Guess who?"
"Lulu?" he asked.
"No, Georgie, she is coming home from Italy for the summer. Tracy is convinced she is after Dillon. I think father did it just to screw with Tracy because Georgie is studying law not business."
"What?" asked Alan. Georgie had become Edward's favorite after she had save poor Emily from Cooper and Logan who had been working together as the Text Message Killer. Then Emily had died months later giving birth to a still born daughter, Nik still hadn't recovered from the loss.
"Georgie didn't want anything to do with him after the Lulu mess, where did that come from?"
"No idea, but then Tracy has never been very rational." she said. "I was talking to Michael today, Carly showed up, you should be warned just in case she goes to Jason."
Carly did try to go to Jason, only for him to point out that they were his grandparents and then she stormed off when he said he regretted keeping them from their grandsons. "Don't compare my son to your kid."
That didn't go over well, not after Elizabeth's words. Jason went for a bike ride after finding Sam stalking out his truck. Knowing that Spinelli wouldn't help her after he had warned him, Jason was going to find out just how she kept tracking him down, no matter what.
Cam meanwhile had made his escape and taking out the money he had gotten from his piggy bank went to the courthouse since he had been told that was where attorney's worked.
Seeing the tight-butt lady, he said "Hey, I want to hire you, please."
Alexis turned around to look at the kid who came up to her and said "Cameron Spencer?"
"Duh, no. I am Cameron Webber." he said not so sure he wanted to hire anyone this dumb. "I need an attorney and Doctor Alan said you were one. I want to hire someone to get the mean lady to leave my daddy alone."
Blinking a bit, she said "Lucky is big enough to protect himself, it is his job to protect you, Cam. Now it is great that you are so worried but your daddy is a big person, an adult."
"Lady I am seven not two, stop talking to me like that." he said when her tone got softer and she spoke to him like he was an idiot. "Never mind, I will find someone else, someone smart, you know, with some real brains."
Walking away disappointed, Cam stopped then said "Besides Ducky acts like he is five, so how can you call him an adult. I heard Miss Bobbie telling Miss Monica that Ducky needs to grow up and that my mommy doesn't need three kids and that Ducky acts like he is one of my mommy's kids, not her ex."
Alexis frowned, then decided to tell Lucky that his family was denigrating him in front of his sons. Then she asked. "Why do you call him Ducky, does it stand for daddy Lucky."
"No, it doesn't." he said with a rhyming sing song voice as he offered her attitude back to her. Getting serious, he sighed and said "It stands for dumb Lucky. I heard Lulu's boyfriend Mr. Johnny calling him that. He is only staying with Lulu because he is sleeping with her, that it is too much trouble to find someone else to sleep with. The other lady wanted to know how he puts up with how she never shuts up and he said he found another use for her mouth."
Alexis mouth gaped at what this little boy was saying then he added "I don't know what it could be because Lulu even talks while she is chewing her food, that is disgusting."
The red head who saw her client's young son talking to her rival looked around then saw no one with the boy. Worried what Alexis might do with this information, had approached only to get an earful of why one was careful of what was said in front of children. Hastily moving in, she said "Mr. Webber, aren't you supposed to be somewhere?"
Turning he saw the wink and said "At daycare."
"Then I suggest I drive you back there, young man. Your mother isn't going to be very happy with you."
Diane saw the way the intelligent little boy got that whatever was going on wasn't good as he said "You are right. I am sure that by now they know that I am no longer with Doctor Alan."
In Diane's car, she soon had him belted in and said "We need to talk."
Making a call to GH, Diane talked to Alan Quartermaine and explained about Cam. The doctor said he would cover, telling her about the little boys late night tv foray and his questions.
Closing her phone, she sat next to him in the back seat and said "Cam, do you have any money."
When the little boy pulled out a crumpled bill and offered it to her, she said "Okay, well now I am your attorney. That means I can't tell anyone any secrets you share with me. So how about telling me why you were really at the courthouse."
Diane sat there, her eyes growing wide as she heard about Lucky and Sam, about Cam's parentage, about Carly and Michael and Cam's anger. What really shocked her was the recorder he produced with Sonny and Jason talking.
At the end, after he explained about wanting to sue Carly for being an illegal alien, she frowned. "Cam, I don't think Carly was born elsewhere."
"What does where she was born have to do with it." he asked. "She alienated our daddy's love from us. That has to be illegal."
Getting that he was talking about alienation of affection she looked at this boy and said "Someday young man, you are going to be brilliant, and I want you on my side. I will tell you what. I will be your lawyer. Now is there anything else?"
As she listened yet again, she said "Let me get this straight you want to sue your parents for emotional neglect."
"Yup, they are neglecting each other because they are mad at each other." he said.
Diane made sure that she got Cam to the hospital, after telling Alan Quartermaine she couldn't explain what was going on, that Cam had hired her, he just sighed and promised to keep this adventure to himself.
Alexis meanwhile had asked around about Lucky having troubles and found that as far as most people knew, the only person Cam considered mean was her own daughter, she kept silent about the kids visit, not wanting to be dragged into any more drama involving her daughter's love life.
Diane got busy, asking her paralegal to pull all relevant cases, she went to free herself of any entanglements that might interfere with her case. "Jason, I have a case coming up that requires I distance myself from you for a couple of weeks. It's called a Chinese wall and I really need you to avoid getting arrested until it is over."
"Diane, there isn't anything going on business wise." he promised.
"That is going to have to include all of those on my list." she warned and Jason frowned because with the way Michael was behaving the teenager just might be in need of her services but he said he would do his best.
Diane then drove out to see Sonny. "I have a new client and I have to distance myself from your family for a few weeks until his case is resolved."
Frowning he said "What about my request regarding Carly?"
Looking at Sonny, then thinking of her other case, she said "Would you tell me why after all these years of letting this go, you suddenly are so concerned?"
Hearing about Morgan, about what had happened, she said with a smirk. "I think that I can keep you involved. You should know, that my other case involves something similar. I have a pint sized client suing his parents."
"Morgan?" he asked shocked and a little hurt.
"No, not Morgan." she said then added. "You should know, he would have a good case though."
"Not if I can help it." he said grimly. "It's why I did what I did. What other kid in this town can afford your fees?"
"Oh, this one's payments come in giggles, I have never meet a kid that makes me laugh as much. He is smart, patient and methodical already. Someday I expect him to run this country." she said seriously. "In one day he came up with a very good plan, found out what he needed and executed it. My guess is he rocks the very foundation of Port Charles."
Sonny watched her leave, then went to call Carly's house. When Leticia said she wasn't there he asked to speak to Morgan. "What do you say to eating dinner with me tonight?"
"Can we have Kelly's please?" he begged as the older man gave in.
Diane meanwhile had gone to visit an old friend of hers. "Do you have time for me Judith?"
The two women sat down, Diane telling her what she was doing and asking what the family court judge thought. After a good laugh at the kids description of Alexis Davis, she said "Dang, the way he set it up, he has a good case. What about this parentage bit?"
"I am going to get samples but in order to do so, I need to tell someone." she said then had an idea. "What about Alan Quartermaine?"
"Good because you need to talk to him about something else." she said. "If this goes public, DSS will get involved. What you need to do is spike that by having the tests done first and then after getting the results have their grandparents act as in loco parentis."
"It will also spike Spencer who was another worry of mine. Thanks Judith."
"Good luck, you do know that this is going to hit the papers, that it will go national." she said. "I will see what I can do to help you avoid that."
"I know, it was my one worry but I honestly think that this boy is right about what he is doing." she said. Diane left the office and went to her own. Then looking at the clock, made a call. "Dr. Quartermaine do you have some time free tomorrow?"
Cam felt bad as that night his mommy coddled him worried he was sick in spite of being told he was fine. She had let Jake and him get away with not doing their chores, then had made their favorite food, he really felt bad.
After dinner and his favorite movie and dessert, Cam slipped off to bed at the same time his mommy was putting Jake down, once there he pulled out the hall phone and called the number Morgan had given him.
"Hello?" said the quiet voice on the other end.
"Morgan, it's Cam. I did it, I am going to fix everything for Jake and me." he said excitedly. Telling him about the show and his plan, he said "Doesn't that sound neat?"
"I guess so." said Morgan who added. "I wish I could get a new mommy too but I am stuck with mine. I wish Leticia were my mommy."
"Maybe we will make your mommy be nicer" said Cam a bit uncertainly. "I can ask Miss Diane."
"It won't work, nothing can make my Mommy nice." he said while wishing that he had a different Mommy.
TBC
