Chapter Two

Jason's side of the story

Jason was catching up on his paperwork when Sonny left for the day. He heard the sound of the limo leaving and as soon as he was informed that the coast was clear, he returned to copying what he needed.

"So are you ready for the big day?" teased the ghost as she entered straight through the door.

"Almost finished," he said before putting everything back where it came from. As he looked up, Kristina had to admit; even dead those eyes could do things to a girl. "What happens to you?"

"I finally get peace. You have no idea how hard it was to get the ability to reach out to you."

"Thank you for that. If you hadn't..." he left it open, knowing she would understand his appreciation for all that had been going on since the day he came in here devastated that he had lost Elizabeth and the boys. "I am only sorry it took this long to get everything in place."

"I am sorry that my impulsive action seven years ago cost you so much. I love Alexis, but I just don't understand her. I am hoping she will finally realize that her lies caused this pain."

"Are you sure about doing this, your family is going to be the ones hurt." he pointed out feeling like he was using the woman's need to move on to his own benefit.

"My family is Alexis and those two young girls," she said not adding to the mess by mentioning she doubted the veracity of Sam's claim anyhow. She had learned enough about Helena to know that Alexis' child had been more than likely killed at birth. She truly doubted that in a moment of generosity she spared it.

Jason walked into the penthouse, grateful that for once it was completely empty. Taking out the small bag, he finished his packing, only taking three things. His motorcycle keys, his pictures of his family and a box containing several files. Looking around he thought back on what he had thought would be his future when he returned here to help Sonny all those years ago. Too bad it was all blown to hell by the people in his world.

Hearing the sound of the elevator arriving he ducked down the stairwell, stopping when he heard Sam talking to Spinelli. While he felt bad for the kid, he was not bringing him, Spinelli would not keep his mouth shut nor did he seem to respect Elizabeth being in his life.

Going to his safe house, Jason quickly climbed into bed, knowing he was going to need his sleep. Tomorrow was going to be a long day. Reaching over, he pulled his wife into his arms and smiled when she muttered his name in her sleep, before curling around him.

Kissing her on the top of the head, he said softly, "It is almost over, I promise you, after tomorrow we will have peace.

Jason tried to avoid everyone that morning but it was almost impossible. After the fourth call from Carly, he was tempted to abandon the plan and just leave town now. Calling the clinic in New York, he asked for Michael's doctor, and then explained what was going to happen.

"Yes, Mr. Morgan. I have it all set. The paperwork arrived this morning."

Knowing he had to say goodbye, Jason plotting how to arrange it in between dealing with a few minor irritations. Looking at his watch, he saw it was almost time to go when he got the message about the shipment. Smiling slowly, he couldn't wait to see if it was what it was supposed to be. It was the first part in his plan for dealing with all he had to, Homeland Security would see to that.

Walking deeper into the warehouse, he heard the disturbance and saw Spinelli and Sam unconscious with the forklift driver wringing his hands saying he never saw them. "I am so sorry, Mr. Morgan, I know they are your friends, but I swear, I never saw them."

Feeling Kristina coming over, he got that she did this. She had been threatening to since finally finding a way to communicate with him. While he agreed with the sentiment, it would wreak havoc with his plans today. When he finally returned to his office, he had to grip his hands tightly to keep from killing the man sitting there.

"Jason, did Carly find you?" Max had refused to go into the warehouse, he had his own reasons for avoiding the poltergeist that the workers insisted was roaming around there.

Jason tuned out his former friend and then went to find Carly. Kristina had an especially nasty dislike for the blond and he knew that she was hoping to get a shot at her. Seeing the blond unconscious, he helped get her to the doctor.

Hearing she would be fine, Jason hoped she would still be asleep when he left. Claudia was standing in the office when he returned, he knew that Kristina would not be able to resist going after the mob princess now that she had free reign. Sure enough, the woman was soon unconscious.

Tracking down Max, he had Claudia taken to the office they were using as a medical clinic. Since her return, so to speak, Kristina had made her presence known even if they were unaware of exactly who she was. On his way back he saw Sonny lying on the floor and scolded the redhead, I want to get out of here today. You agreed to help me

Hearing her reply in Elizabeth's voice did not amuse him, but her comment made him wonder what she had overheard the day before. Asking her, his lips thinned as they pressed together as he tried to calm himself down. "Thanks, I will make sure that Sam gets EVERYTHING she deserves.

Looking at the time on his phone, he grimaced as he called and canceled seeing Michael. If Kristina was correct they had plans to distract him while he was there. No matter what, he had to leave at the arranged time. His family's future depended on it.

Seeing Maxie entering, he sent her straight to Spinelli. He was grateful that soon he would no longer have to act that this witch telling him what to do didn't piss him off. The last few months had been hard, in more ways than one, but at the end was the grand prize. So he had kept his head down and the people around him off guard. No one suspected anything.

Taking out his spare bike, Jason rode away never looking back, but hoping Kristina was correct that she would move on. He owed her for saving his soul.

Arriving at his first stop, Jason slipped into the boathouse, where Monica was waiting. "Jason, what is it?"

"I need a really big favor," he told her. Sitting her down, he explained all that he knew and all he had learned. "So anyhow, it was time to move on and live my life for my family. For Elizabeth and the boys.

"So you have a son. Jake is your son," she said with tears in her eyes.

"I have two sons," he said. "Someday soon, you are going to be invited to a medical conference. No matter where in the world it is, I want you to come. We will meet you there."

"This is goodbye," she said sadly.

"No, this is hello, but a different kind of hello," he promised. "We want you in our lives, but it has to be kept a secret. No Edward, no Tracy and no one else. No matter what, you can't tell them, I need to keep my family safe."

"Jason, are you ever returning?"

"To Port Charles, no, there are too many ways things could go wrong. We will be able to go public in a few years, but we can't ever return here permanently, it was part of the deal I made. I promise you, we will not disappear from your life. The other thing, I want you to the care of Michael. Here." Jagger had helped work out the deal, but the feds were still antsy that someday he would change his mind.

Monica read the legal paperwork. Crying softly, she promised to take good care of her grandson. "Will this work?"

"Yes, they can't fight you on this. Carly and Sonny are done for in his life. I only wish there was something I could do for Morgan." he admitted.

"Just let me worry about that. You, you and your family live your life. Be happy, Jason. I love you."

"I love you too," he said. Seeing her eyes water, he hugged her and then softly whispered he had to go. "We are on a tight schedule."

"Jason, how are you doing this? I mean I heard the rumor about Elizabeth moving to Colorado, but I doubted it was true."

"She isn't." was all he said before leaving. Walking up the house where his alter ego grew up, he went up to his old room and said goodbye to Jason Quartermaine. "Thank you, your past is giving me my future." The money he had been given all those years ago was what had given Jason his stake in a legitimate future.

Stopping in to see Diane, he explained what he had learned about Max. After she stopped throwing up, he gave her a bottle of water and let her question him.

"Why?"

"Leticia saw him breaking into Carly's house, she wasn't supposed to be there. Emily had found out about his obsession. She wasn't a threat until the night of the ball when she saw him on the Island as she returned to house from the barn. He had just come from attempting to strangle Carly in spite of his obsession with her. Georgie Jones was an accident. I think that Maxie saw something she shouldn't."

"I can't believe I have been sleeping with a murderer. I will deal with Sonny tomorrow then take the job working for you in Europe. Are you sure this won't blow your cover."

"Do you really think anyone will suspect I would hire you after leaving town?"

"No," she said with a smile. "What about the deal you are cooking up with Lansing, you hate him."

"Yes I do, but at the same time, he was used as well." Jason regretted not believing the liar when he accused Claudia at first. He hated the damage the man racked up on Elizabeth's psyche, but he also knew the man had been a convenient scapegoat a few times, for Carly, for Lorenzo, and for Sam.

The only thing Jason didn't regret was the beat down he gave the man a few years ago, he had wanted to do that since he had first seen him with Elizabeth all those years ago. At least Sam had finally given him an excuse with her lie.

Ric was sitting in his office when Jason Morgan showed up.

Sneering at the man, he said. "Let me guess, you figured out somehow I was telling the truth, now Sonny wants you to kill me to protect his newest kid."

"I suspected you were telling the truth before." seeing the look of surprise, Jason sat down and said "I am here to make a deal with you, one that you will not renege on."

"Why would I make a deal with you?" Asked Ric looking intently at Jason.

"I have something you want," he said smugly.

"What do you think I want?" he asked.

"Sonny for yourself, you have always wanted his respect, his love. Well, here is a newsflash, play your cards right and you might just have it." Jason could care less if he tried to help Sonny, he was very good at his job and there was no way his soon to be former partner was escaping jail this time.

"I could care less about that now. I tried, I really did, but he is sleeping with her after ignoring what I said she did about Michael. He can keep her and his precious life; I have a new goal now."

"I know, the doctors told me," said Jason amused. "Too bad it won't work. As of an hour ago, Michael is now a Quartermaine again."

Ric's head came up at that, shocked. Seeing Jason's eyes, he gave a cruel smile and said what did Sonny do that finally crossed the line with you?

Jason just replied nothing you need to know about. But I will tell you this; he used you to do it. So now the tables are going to turn.

After working out the details of the deal, Ric was shocked to realize Morgan was leaving town. "Is Sam going with you?"

"Not in this lifetime." was the scoffing reply. "Ric, one more thing, if you want this you need to do one thing for it."

"What is that?" he asked knowing it was too good to be true.

"I want you to apologize to Elizabeth for all the hell you put her through during your marriage and for what you did during my trial. She deserves that and much, much more from you."

Seeing the bleak expression on Jason's face, Ric almost felt sorry for the man. He had lost Elizabeth for nothing. Ric said, "I have tried before, what makes you think she will accept it now?"

"Because she is Elizabeth, she never truly hates anyone." Ric did find himself feeling bad when he heard Morgan's whispered well almost anyone. He wondered if Jason had tried to apologize for the past and if Elizabeth had walked away finally.

"Morgan, why are you giving all of this to me, you hate me?"

Jason ignored the question, they needed his interference and he didn't want to ruin that and then replied "Sonny is going to need you. Make him pay for It." with that Morgan had tossed him a file. Reading it, Ric had felt his eyes widen but when he looked up Jason was gone.

Ric shut the file and then stared out the window. Hearing footsteps he turned and said, "Tell him I said I will do it."

The former guard nodded but never said a word as he opened his briefcase and cleaned his gun.

Jason rode the bike as far as Albany. Taking it to a chop shop he knew about, he left it for them and walked the half mile to catch with his wife and sons at the capital. "Are you done?"

"I set it up for Mac to find tonight when he arrives home. Do you want me to drive?"

Smiling at him, she said, "I am sorry I caused us to move up the time schedule."

When he was helping her into the passenger side, he touched her softly rounded belly and said with a smile in his voice "I think I had something to do with this too."

Elizabeth chuckled then turned around to turn down the volume on Chuggin Charlie. Reminding Cam that it wasn't supposed to be that loud with the headphones, she saw he removed them and was looking rather intently at Jason and her.

"Yes, Mommy. So no more secrets?" asked the little boy when he saw his new daddy driving.

"Yes, baby you don't need to keep any more secrets. The bad guys are gone."

"Good, no one can take Jake away anymore," he said fiercely.

Swallowing the lump in his throat, Jason said: "No one is taking either of you away from your mommy and me."

Crossing into Maryland five hours later, Jason smiled when he saw his family was fast asleep. Taking the exit that would lead them to Annapolis, he saw Elizabeth waking up. "You should have woken me before this."

"You are fine," he said reaching out to take her hand. "We have about fifteen minutes until we reach the harbor, any regrets?"

Elizabeth thought about the last seven months and the strain they had been under. "None, we have our freedom and our boys. Grams left for Russia this morning. She is the only one who I worry about. We can always let the others know how we are if we change our mind."

"Everything worked out, I am just sorry that I had to avoid you so much."

"We broke the rules more than once." she reminded him; bring their hands to her stomach. She thought back on the sneaking around, making plans even as they lived or rather moved through their lives and the pain they had been through.

The holidays that he had missed with his sons so that he would never have to be away from them again, the hospital scare and his fear. Elizabeth could still recall the look in his eyes when she realized that people were watching so she had kissed Lucky for cover. The pain in knowing he had to be nice to the woman who had almost cost them their son once again.

She knew there was a special gift waiting for Sam once she arrived in prison. Thanks to Marco and Francis, Jason and she had been in constant contact since the day Jake had been kidnapped. They had caught them together more than once at the safe house, in fact, they could actually thank them for her current pregnancy.

They had stopped in to update Jason at a crucial moment and afterward he hadn't recalled the need for a condom before taking her in the shower. They had no sooner come down from their high when Jason touched her stomach and told her that he thought they were having a baby.

It had led to more activities that had almost blown their cover. Laughing she reminded Jason of how Sonny had pushed his way into Jason's penthouse one day, how she had been trapped there while Spinelli ran on and on. "If Maxie hadn't come to the door, distracting Spinelli, we would have been caught in the laundry room that day. I can't believe we lost control like that."

Jason blushed, thinking they sure did. "We were lucky we didn't get caught. I can't wait until we no longer have to sneak around. Do you want to get married again? Have a larger wedding now that it is safer."

"No, I am fine with our wedding," she said looking at him with only the lights on the dashboard to throw shadows on his face. "Father Mateo did a great job."

"I thought so. I only wish that I had realized what Max..."

"Don't go there, I feel the same, but Jason, you aren't Superman. You had no way of knowing."

He just held onto her hand tighter, then sighing said: "I get that, I just wish that I could deal with the situation."

"We discussed this, Emily wouldn't want you to. I do, but she wouldn't. Let Frisco or Mac deal with him. You sent the WSB the file."

When they arrived at Horn Point Harbor Marina, Jason parked the minivan and went to find their boat. Finding the boat, he walked on to the deck just as the 'captain' arrived. "Are you ready?"

"Yes, as soon as your family is on board we are free to leave. I dealt with everything."

"Good," he said. "We have few things that need to be carried on."

Two of the crew followed Jason and carried on the bags that they hadn't shipped ahead. Elizabeth waited until Jason took the boys, and then walked up the gangplank. Stopping at the top, she said goodbye to her car, knowing it would be in a chop shop before morning.

"Elizabeth, are you sure?" Jason asked when he saw her looking back wistfully.

"Yes, but I was beginning to like that van." Jason had to smile at that comment, he had been worried about her being upset about leaving home, she for once was upset about a material possession.

"The boys are in their rooms, let's get some sleep."

The yacht quietly pulled out of the marina and for the next ten days, their contact with the outside world was kept to a minimum as Jason and Elizabeth concentrated on their family. When they arrived in Italy, Jason arranged for the yacht to be sold through one of his corporate subsidiaries, so as to help keep his family safe even if by some miracle they traced it.

Diane got on the private jet, once seated she kept control of her emotions until they had taxied down the runway.

"Here." Looking up she saw the man holding out a handkerchief.

"Who are you?" she asked suspiciously.

"I am Frank Coren, an executive for Forth and Moore Investments. I work for Morgan."

"Why are you in Port Charles, I thought Jason didn't want any connections to here involved."

"Like you, I once worked for him locally. He needed a little help wrapping up some stuff here and I was responsible for hiring the staff for that. Now I run his European company for him. The man you talked to on the phone, is the public face of our company."

"So you are my new boss?" she asked.

"No, Morgan is still your boss; you and I are equals. We are part of a very small group of people that Jason trusts totally."

Jason waited until the boys had been shown the entire villa, Jake had been happy to have a place to run around, while Cameron had been excited to find out that there was a room full of trains. Both boys were winding down and he helped Elizabeth lie them down so that he could tell her what was going on back home.

"They are out." She said before climbing onto the window seat. "So what did Franc-Frank have to say?"

"Sonny was convicted. He should have hired Ric, but instead went with some shark from the city who left when he found out that Sonny's money all disappeared."

"Where did it end up?" she asked.

"Most of it went to hospitals and clinics around the country. The rest is in a trust for the kids. Not that they will be hard up for money even without it. But this way, Carly and Alexis can't use it to make them do what they want them to."

"What about Ric?" she asked.

"He was taken out of commission temporarily allowing me to shut down what he thought he was going to run. The warehouses and docks were sold to Nik. I think we can assume he won't sell them to anyone he doesn't trust and he is strong enough to deal with his own family."

"Especially since we took care of Rebecca." Said Elizabeth grimly. That had been her part, she had proven that Emily's half-sister had been dealing with Helena. Jason had tried hard to not let the woman get to him, he knew that Elizabeth was more than capable of handling it. The woman was going to quietly disappear as part of their deal.

Jason thought back on what he had talked to Kristina about and knew he had to tell Elizabeth. "Kristina asked me why I hated Ric so much. I was finally honest about how much I hated that he snuck in and won your heart. Looking back, I get that I have hated him since the first time I saw the two of you kissing."

Elizabeth thought back on her own visit from Kristina in her destroyed studio and smiled at him. "Jason, we just move forward. Sonny had help in destroying us, but frankly, we are here now because of him. If we had gotten together back then, who knows if we would be here now?"

Jason disagreed, he was certain that they would have been here much sooner. "I also used him to make Lucky think I have no idea where you are. Are you okay with that?"

"Yes, Lucky thinks that I am in Colorado, he won't check. Out of sight out of mind." She sighed. "What about Spinelli, are you okay with leaving him behind?"

"It was time, he has been part of the reason it took so long to get us free." He sighed. "I arranged for some money to be put in an account for him. With selling Edward the Towers, he won't have any place to live. He will more than likely end up rooming with Maxie and Lulu."

"What about Sam, any regrets?"

"Only that I didn't see through her back when she was pregnant." He said with a sigh. "She is going to be facing a long prison time."

"Jason, sorry to interrupt." Said an entering Frank along with Diane who was shocked to see Elizabeth and Jason together. She had helped the nurse sell her home and had been under the impression she was moving west.

"What is it?" Asked Jason tensing.

"News from Port Charles; Lucky Spencer went nuts at Sam's trial. He stabbed and killed her two days ago."

"I thought we agreed that she was going to face prison?" asked Jason.

"Spencer did this on his own." He said. Turning to Elizabeth, he said "It looks like Helena got control of him or either has been in control all this time. He said something about protecting the queen when he stabbed her, they found him earlier this morning dead in the dungeons of Windermere. Not a mark on him, but he had written all over the walls about protecting the queen. It looks like his brother tried to help him by locking him in, but instead, it sent him over the edge."

"Thanks for letting us know. Any other news?"

"Carly miscarried." Elizabeth felt bad for the blond but truly hoped that Jax would now free himself from her clutches.

As the year ended, Elizabeth gave birth the day after Christmas to their first daughter named after her grandmother who died while visiting her parents. Audrey Anne Morgan was baptized on a sunny day in April with their friends attending and one unexpected guest. Jasper Jacks wanted Forth and Moore's help with a new enterprise, he had been rather shocked to find out that Jason Morgan was behind the international corporation and had been for almost fifteen years.

Elizabeth had tried to play matchmaker for the Aussie who instead went back to Carly staying in that dysfunctional relationship. At first wondering about Brenda, she had been shocked to find out the former model had a secret. Brenda was married to another former guard of Jason who worked for him as head of security. Johnny O'Brien was now the father of his own little girl, something no one in Port Charles knew.

Monica had been attending lots of medical conventions, at the latest one she brought her proud grandson. Michael had woken up and made it clear to his mother that he didn't have any sympathy for her when she destroyed her life with Jax. Instead, he had been the leading witness for the state in the removal of Morgan from her custody. The courts' system gave Monica custody of both boys.

Morgan this week, however, was attending a summer camp where he was learning to play an instrument, much to the distrust of Edward who was convinced that was what had gone wrong with Ned. Monica let him play in the pool where there were lots of other kids, including both of her other grandsons and their nanny since they didn't want Michael to see Elizabeth or Jason.

Monica had explained that Jason lived overseas with his wife and kids, something that had made the young man happy. His only comment had been that he hoped he hadn't married someone like Sam.

"I am glad he is awake." Said, Jason, as he watched Michael playing happily with the younger kids. "He looks happy."

"He is, Carly keeps trying to force her way back into his life, but he is avoiding her still. I hope that someday she can mature enough to realize what she lost."

"Is she still trying to locate Jason?"

"Yes, she keeps saying that he can't know what is going on, that otherwise, you would make me give back her sons." She told them. "With Spinelli off on another adventure with Lulu, she has been doing her usual guilt trip on him. That is why I brought him along."

"Keep him safe, she is going to be trouble forever."

Jason hung up the phone, sad for his young friend. "Jason, what is it?"

Taking her to the sofa, Jason said: "Lulu and Spinelli were killed."

Touching her stomach that was once again rounded with a baby, she asked how?

"Spinelli was tracking down Luke for her, they landed in the middle of some mess of Spencer's. They didn't make it out alive." He left out that Luke had promptly blamed anyone else for the mess, still not man enough to face his own responsibilities.

"I thought that kid Ethan was hanging around Lulu?"

"He was, he was the one they were following. Luke shot him."

Jax walked into his former home and tossed the file at his wife. "Sign the divorce papers, I have had enough."

After Jax revealed that he knew where Jason was and hadn't told her, Carly silently signed the papers, then asked once again. Smiling cruelly at the woman he had once loved, the Aussie said "He is married, they have children. With another on the way. Carly, he doesn't want you, never did."

"Once he learns..."

"One he learns...What? That you are divorced, he was the one who suggested I move on, that you were toxic. That Michael is awake, he has known for two years." with that Jax left, he had a board meeting to attend at GH then he had a nurse he wanted to ask out.

Alexis was in town for the board meeting, wishing she had completely cut all times to Port Charles. She had been thinking on what Kristina had said to her years ago about Jax, and now that he was divorced she had intended to ask him out.

Instead, she had watched from the waiting area as he made plans with Nadine Crowell, the blond nurse who had been on and off again with Nik until his relationship with former girlfriend Sarah Webber had rekindled.

Five years to the day that Jason walked away, Patrick and Robin received an invitation to the Metrocourt. Seeing Jax sitting with his wife of two years, Nadine they joined the twosome as they talked daughters. Nadine had given birth to a little girl over a year ago and they had recently found out she was expecting again.

"Do you know why we are here?"

"No, but I do." said a smiling Monica Quartermaine as she entered with a sixteen-year-old Michael. "I received a call from Elizabeth today."

Robin had tried to locate her former friend, worried about her for years. "How is she, where has she been, why did she not stay in contact?"

Holding up her hand, Monica said: "Why don't you ask her yourself?"

Looking around they saw the beautiful brunette entering the restaurant with a blond haired little boy about seven who was arguing with his mommy. "But they have ducks, I heard them say they have ducks, please mommy, I want to see the ducks."

Not sure how to explain to Jake that the ducks where part of the dinner, Elizabeth just laughed when she saw the moment that Robin realized that she was here. The eyes became large and round before she rushed over to hug Jake and her. "Where have you been?"

Jake answered, "In the hotel suite, but I wanted to stay on our boat."

Laughing, Elizabeth turned to her husband who looked harried as he came off the elevator with their other children. "Why don't you go join your dad for a few minutes, okay Jake?"

Robin never even turned, her heart still saw Elizabeth with Jason, not some man who had taken his place. "Liz, where were you?"

"We have been living in Siena Italy. I have missed all of you so much, but we think that it is safer to raise the kids there." The rest of the table was sitting in stunned silence as they saw Jason taking off a toddler's jacket while a ten-year-old Cameron held his five-year-old sister's hand.

"Don't you ever go this long without keeping in touch again, Elizabeth Webber," she said. "When I came out of my PPD and realized you were not here, I was furious. I thought something had happened to you and that no one would tell me the truth. Then I was afraid you left of a broken heart because of Jason."

"Morgan." Seeing her confusion, Elizabeth smiled and said: "My last name is Morgan, has been since November 2nd, 2008."

"What?" she said, then "How?"

"Well you stand in front of a priest, then you..." She said as the woman kept hugging her and bemoaning that they couldn't have a GNO since she was pregnant.

An awkwardly large Nadine came over and hugged her too, then said: "We have all missed you, but from my husband's reaction this isn't a surprise to him."

"Elizabeth, how could you be married in..." interrupted Robin. Elizabeth turned her around and said, "Jason, you take care of explaining this one."

They sat down at the large table after spending time meeting Elizabeth and Jason's kids. The nanny and a guard took them back upstairs while Michael offered to show Cameron around the hotel after dessert. "Fine but remember..."

"...stay with my guard at all times. Got it dad." said the curly haired boy. Turning to the young guard he said: "Do you have on your running shoes, Craig?"

"Funny, Cameron Morgan, really funny." said his mother from where she was seated. Jason and she waited until the boys were gone before explaining all they had learned without mentioning Kristina.

"Max died, Frisco caught up with him in Florida, he killed himself rather than going to jail," explained Jason. "I am only sorry it took that long to catch him."

As they talked, they never saw the shocked look on Nik and Sarah's face as they saw Elizabeth, both had tried to locate her over the years. Seeing her with Jason they knew that he had to be the reason she had walked away all those years ago. Entering the elevator, Nik said to his wife, "Let her be, she isn't going to want any reminders of the past."

In the lobby, Nik saw Carly arguing with Kate Howard about something and interrupted wanting to distract the fashion mogul from going upstairs. She had been blaming Jason for abandoning Sonny all those years ago and Nik didn't think Elizabeth needed to deal with that, especially since it looked like she was pregnant.

Once Kate had left the hotel, he breathed a sigh of relief and they were soon heading out the door while talking to Carly when they saw a sight that made Carly happy. Michael was coming her way.

"Uh oh." said the redhead. The curly haired youth looked at the blond and realized he had residual memories of the woman.

"Uh oh, is right. That is the woman that used to constantly attack my mom."

"That is my mother, the one I was telling you about," he said with a grimace. He never realized she was behind him when he said: "We have to get back to the restaurant to warn Uncle Jason."

The guard who was alert and already trying to reach the nanny and the little one's guards.

Jason's orders were always the kids and Elizabeth first, so he had no idea the mistake he made by staying on the phone and then getting Cameron and Michael up to the suite to join Jake, Audrey, and Christopher.

Carly rushed off the elevator past Marty, and straight to the middle of the room. Looking around she saw Robin and Patrick talking Matt and Maxie who had just entered. Maxie had grimaced but had long ago accepted that Jason wasn't responsible for the loss of Spinelli.

She saw the blond who stole her husband talking to a brunette whose back was to her along with Monica Quartermaine. Looking around she saw Jax at the bar talking to someone on the phone, but no Jason.

"Where are you?" she muttered. Then she saw someone standing out of the corner of her eye. Turning she saw the mystery brunette was a pregnant Elizabeth Webber. Grinding her teeth, she walked over to the table but a guard kept her away as she reached out for her. "What are you doing here? YOU have no business being in my hotel. GET OUT!"

Jax arrived at the same time as the guard when Elizabeth replied. "Carly, we are in town because Jax sold the hotel to us, now how could it possibly be your hotel? You sold your shares a couple of years ago."

"You bought it, right, you never had two cents to rub together, how could you afford it?"

"Carly, you have no idea about anything, you never did," she replied calmly.

"I know that even having Jason's kid you still lost him, didn't you? He is off someplace with another woman, whose kids he did want to raise, you were just a one night stand that wanted more. He dropped that kid of yours like a hot potato." she sneered then saw the man in question coming in from the balcony and approaching her worried.

"Carly, Carly, Carly."

Carly had no idea why Elizabeth kept shaking her head but saw that Jax wasn't looking at her angrily, instead, he seemed to have pity in his eyes. Seeing Jason arriving she said "Where have you been, do you have any idea how much I need you? How much Michael and Morgan needed you?"

Walking over, he ignored her and asked Elizabeth if she was okay?

At that moment Carly saw the matching bands and got it. "You tricked him into marrying you didn't you? How dare you, we will right this, I will make sure that this is corrected. What did you do refuse to allow him to see Jake?"

"Carly...Carly...Carly. No, all I did is say yes to his fourth proposal. Carly, Jason and I have been married five and a half years. Before we even left Port Charles. We just kept it hid to keep people like you out of our lives."

"How dare you?" she steamed.

Jason took Elizabeth's hand and walked away leaving a devastated Carly when she saw that the nurse was pregnant again. Jax called Bobbie. Their relationship had been strained for years after he had refused to try and track down Jason when Michael first woke up. "Bobbie, Carly needs you, Jason and Elizabeth are in town."

The redhead was happy at first but early the next morning she saw Jason and Elizabeth surrounded by small children at GH. Afterward, as they were leaving she heard Epiphany explaining to a new nurse that they were all their kids.

Monica had stopped her from approaching them, saying "Bobbie; Carly, Lulu, and Lucky are part of the past, move on. They did."

The next day, meeting in the park with the kids, Monica watched as for the first time all her grandchildren were playing together. Edward had been invited but the elderly man had just sat on the bench watching with tears in his eyes.

Meeting Jake and Audrey he knew that Lila would have loved having grandchildren with her eyes. But seeing Cameron with the youngest member, he smiled slowly. The two dark-haired members of the family had their mother's eyes and coloring.

Seeing Jason walking over, he said "Someday, when you are my age, those two are going to be the ones you cherish the most." seeing him stiffen, Edward said "I didn't say you won't love them equally, but in those to you will see Elizabeth the most. Its why I have always been so worried about you, in you I see your grandmother. Cherish the time you have, Jason. Cherish it."

Watching as with a nod, his grandson joined his kids, Edward knew that the past was finally where it belonged. Staying or leaving, Jason was with his family. One that would love him for himself and not what he could do for them. He had finally found and accepted true love.

The End