Chapter 3

Elizabeth was holding her son when Steven came back. "I think Lurky er Lucky got the message this time peanut."

Looking up she gave a quick laugh in spite of everything going on and said "This is Ric and Lucky nothing short of a shotgun is going to ensure they get it and even then they will just remind us they are the law."

With a snort, the blond sat down next to her and said softly "Thank god. I can't believe I almost lost you. Not after all that we had to do to get to this spot."

"Hey, that is all on Carolyn, she made you feel like an intruder and that we were all a family without you, the same thing she did to me in regards to the rest of them. But you know, I can't help wondering what she thought about dad's will."

Blowing a raspberry, he said "According to the attorney, she has no idea our net worth and thinks that Sarah got the better end of the deal. That was why she signed off on the probate so easily. I hope you are going to use what you have to make that woman pay."

"I would, I probably will, I just have to figure something out first." she said then with a heavy sigh tried to figure out what was in it for Jason, Sonny AND Lorenzo Alcazar to protect her. What did they get out of it since all three were Carly's biggest ass kissers.

Hearing a knock, Steven growled and went to the door only for his sister to call out. "Relax if it was one of the stooges they wouldn't bother knocking."

Letting in Mac, Steven asked "Is that woman still in jail?"

"Yes and I am going to have one of the ADA's charge her with attempted murder as well as a slew of lesser charges. I am not trusting my officers or Ric to handle this, that is why I am here." he said pulling out his notebook then with a sigh opened a package he had with him. "Your camera."

"Thank you Mac, was the photo a help?" she asked as she immediately checked her picture of Cam.

"Yes it was. More than you can possibly imagine. Also, here." he said handing her a wrapped flat gift.

When she opened it up, Elizabeth felt the tears flowing as she showed it to Steven. "Thank you."

Picking up the small photo in the white frame of Cam trying desperately to stick his feet in his mouth, Steven looked from the police commissioner to his sister and said "May I ask why?"

"Because Elizabeth has always been very good to my girls and I." he said then with a groan sat down in the chair next to the bed then asked "Elizabeth, I need you to tell me what happened, but is it possible to have your brother take your son elsewhere and get someone in here for you?"

Nodding he walked into the hall then seeing Emily sent her in. As the two heard first hand from Elizabeth what had happened, Mac wrote everything down while Emily vowed that Carlybabes was going to pay, big time.

"Elizabeth, do you know of any reason she would hate you son? I mean, from what I remember, she didn't have a problem with Zander at least not one that would have her trying to kill his son."

"I don't know for sure that she was trying to harm Cameron. Unless you know something different." she stated. "Like I said, she wasn't making a bit of sense."

"Okay, Emily I need a few minutes with Elizabeth alone, please." When the intern had left, Mac said "I am going to tell you a story, you don't have to confirm or deny it, but I want you to at least hear it."

Then he told her "When you were hit, the person driving the car was a druggie but it wasn't some nameless faceless person. This person deliberately aimed for you and sped up. When they hit you, they for some reason were under the belief that you were pregnant."

Seeing her shock, he continued "The person called her BFF, they called an outside third party, then within minutes everything was covered up. You were brought to GH, and Ric was called because you were only recently divorced and hadn't updated your file. Now, they somehow found out that what they believed wasn't true so they went to their normal protectors and then a lot of pressure was put on a liaison between you and them. You agreed to cover it up, I don't know what they used, but it was probably some other stuff that had happened near that time."

When Elizabeth didn't react he said "The reason they now felt safe going to that person is that they no longer believed this liaison was the father of your not so real child."

At this point, Elizabeth was in shock but it got worse. "Elizabeth today when Carly pushed you in, Sonny tossed her under the proverbial bus. Then Lorenzo Alcazar came down and made a statement. Now the only person I hadn't heard from has been lurking around this hospital, getting updates on your condition. Then immediately came to me when I arrived and without an attorney gave us a handwritten statement that confirms our belief that Carly tried to stop them from helping you."

Elizabeth wanted to sneer that whatever Jason needed from her was big but instead just asked "What do you think is going on?"

"I think that Carly finally pushed them too far, but what I need to know from you is could the reason be that Carly was determined not to rescue you was that Cameron is Jason Morgan's son?"

This time she did laugh and said "It would have had to have been immaculate conception. We have never ever had sex, Mac."

"Okay, is it possible that they think the two of you have done so?" he asked. "By they I mean Carly and or Courtney?"

"I don't know, I have no idea what is going on in either of their minds." she said.

Mac left and Emily returned and when Elizabeth laughed as she told the woman Mac's theory, she was shocked when Emily said with a sigh "See, Elizabeth... I don't see either Zander or Ric in Cameron. Are you absolutely sure?"

"Emily, I would remember having sex with Jason." she said a bit annoyed with her friend for even thinking that.

"Don't get mad, please. It's just I was kind of hoping..." she said slightly embarrassed. Elizabeth hugged her friend then said "Emily, Cam just looks like a carbon copy of me, according the photos gram has. Its why Steven calls him peanut."

Letting it go, Emily just didn't think even Carly Corinthos was that insane. That there had to be some sort of reason the blond was trying to kill Elizabeth's son... not even that nut job would harm an innocent child unless it interfered with her obsession...

At the Quartermaine house, Alan was telling Monica all that had happened. "So let me get this straight, according to Mac Sonny, Sonny Corinthos was the one who turned in Carly?"

"Yeah, he seems to think she is crazy." he said then added "Tony said she is going to be just fine but they are having a hard time locating her medical records from then. The last time he saw them was when Audrey got a copy to send to Elizabeth in California this spring."

"When will she be back from her cruise?" asked the blond when Lila wheeled herself over.

"She is off the boat and visiting with Tom and Simone. I will give her a call. The problem is that Steven and Elizabeth keep telling her everything is fine. They don't want her to know."

"Why the hell not?" snarled the elderly man near the door.

"Because she was warned by her doctor about her high blood pressure. And until Ric suddenly started chasing after poor Alexis, he was bothering the woman every single day wanting to talk to Elizabeth."

Changing the subject as Brooklynn and Dillon entered along with a new classmate of theirs, Monica asked what they were up to. "We promised to help Diego. He is looking for his mother, he thinks she was deported to Mexico."

"Just don't go flying down there on the ELQ jet, I have enough to deal with right now." warned Edward as he walked off to his study. As the others all went their separate ways, the new boy asked "Where is your girlfriend Hornsby?"

"At home, or at the hospital." snapped Dillon. He just felt like Georgie never had any time for him anymore. At least he would see her the next day, Luke Spencer had asked for their help with something.

Brooklynn tried to dump the dark haired young man on her uncle but he stuck to them like glue. "So, what was in that note you got yesterday that freaked you out so much?"

"N-nothing." stuttered the singer not wanting to tell anyone that someone had photographed her removing her shirt at the country club.

While Jason was on the phone, Sonny let him know he was heading to the penthouse to make sure the boys were in bed for the night. Seeing his sister sitting there tapping her nail against the wood of his desk as she glared at him, did NOT make him very happy but when she asked "Where is Carly?" He was furious.

"In jail and she will stay there until the courts decide what to do with her." he said then walked up the stairs hoping she got the message to leave. After checking on Michael and Morgan, the mobster changed yet again and was on his way to his meeting with Lorenzo Alcazar.

However, apparently Courtney hadn't realized he wasn't happy and snapped "How can you do this? I mean for Elizabeth Webber? Why didn't you just leave her in the damn harbor, hasn't she down enough to mess with this family? When will you realize she is nothing more than a trouble making bitch who stole Jason away from me?"

"Interesting interpretation of events, Courtney. Why don't you go home to that loft you conned my partner out of and keep pretending to be lady bountiful, maybe someone, someday will really believe you care about someone other than yourself." he said then when he had maneuvered her out the door told the guard. "Don't let anyone other than me back in here tonight."

Huffing, Courtney stood there ignored as her brother got on the elevator and kept her away as he hit the close door sign. Her hands on her hips, she said "Well I never..."

Walking over to Jason's, she pulled out her key and went to unlock it only for it not to work. "Uh, Paulie, something is wrong with my key, I can't get my penthouse door unlocked."

"Sorry, Miss Matthews, Mr. Morgan changed the locks and we were told not to let anyone in who he didn't give prior approval to." he said trying to keep a sober expression on his face.

"Well, I am his wife, so I am allowed."

"Sorry ma'am,. But I was told very clearly that that included Mrs. Corinthos and you." he said then when she stormed to the elevator hitting the button, he said helpfully "It is going to take a few minutes since Mr. Corinthos just left."

Glaring at him, Courtney stomped down the stairs, growing angrier with every step. Once in the garage she climbed into the new car she had bought herself and inhaled the smell of the leather before pulling the jaguar out into the street. Once away from the Towers, she looked at her watch and grimaced.

At her loft, she pulled out her phone and checked the missed calls. Wondering why there was no calls from Jax, she vowed to find a way to make him come to her tomorrow. Seeing the unknown number, she hit redial in spite of it being so late and soon was rushing off to meet Nicolas Cassadine and pour some more malice in his ears regarding his fiancee and her best friend Elizabeth.

Jason was waiting when Lorenzo entered a few minutes before Sonny returned. "I heard you made a statement to the police?"

"Just like you did." he retorted to the younger man. When Sonny joined them they were sitting silently and staring at one another. "You called the meeting."

Nodding at Jason, Lorenzo took the package he was carrying, opened it and tossed the various items on the desk. Lifting them, Jason grimaced as he saw the dates, and times stamped on the photos. "Lansing and Carly were meeting. Why would she talk to him, after all he did?"

Jason was already on the next set when Sonny asked the question and he felt sick as he saw the street camera photos of Elizabeth's accident. These were followed by ones of Elizabeth and him talking after Emily and Zander's wedding. But the files were what had gotten his attention.

Looking up at the man he snarled "Why do you have Elizabeth's medical records? And two copies at that."

"Read page twelve on both of them. They are from the date of her accident."

The first one was what Jason had already known, the second one made him sick. "She was already pregnant?"

"Yes, kind of interesting don't you think?" he asked leaning against the desk and staring at him. "Yet the results the doctors were given didn't include this. She was very lucky that the drugs given didn't harm or kill her child."

"How did Courtney know about this?" asked Jason. "And who changed the records. Was it you?"

"No, that was the late Andy Capelli, at the request of Lansing. It isn't until after the accident though that he learned of the pregnancy and since he knew it wasn't his kid..."

"Who is the father?" asked Jason his heart breaking for Elizabeth at the lies surrounding her pregnancy. Sonny lifted his head, he didn't know the how and it was clear that neither did his partner but he did know the who.

"You." he said then a taking a breath said "You said you never slept with Elizabeth, are you sure?"

"Yeah, trust me, that isn't something I would let myself forget." His tone made that very clear to both men who then waited. The minute it seemed to finally clink, he sat down hard and said "OH MY GOD
I am a father, but she hates me... does she know?"

"Not according to my man down at the station. Mac Scorpio asked that very question. At least you now know why Carly and Courtney came to me to cover the accident, then only went to you afterwords. Now as to today, I don't know, but I think your wife, Corinthos, I think something tipped her off that the baby is Jason's."

"NO, that is actually incorrect." said the man in the doorway. As the three of them turned, all were wondering what Max could possibly know. "Carly went after Elizabeth because of something Sam said to her today. I have been watching her and she is playing a deep game, boss."

"Why would she send Carly after Elizabeth? What does it gain Ms McCall?"

"If Carly goes to prison, a clear shot at Sonny." said Jason. "I told you she was obsessed. I just want to know why she used Elizabeth as the target."

"Well Francis has the answer but he is busy right now tracking down an anomaly." said Max. "Turns out, Sam has been meeting with Ric Lansing outside of Elizabeth's studio building since it is practically empty. The night Jason dropped her off, she saw them talking but I don't think she knows it was Lansing."

"Jason, you have to ask Elizabeth..."

"She isn't even talking to me." he said bleakly.

When Lorenzo left telling them that this didn't mean they were partners except in this Webber matter, that he had his own plans and business to ruin and if they crossed him there he would have no problems taking them out. Once he was gone, Jason said "I have no way to fix this and even less of a chance than before to tell her the truth."

"Never mind that she was angry before about you asking her to forgive Courtney, when she learns she was pregnant with your child..." Sonny knew that things just got worse and that while he had no intention of interfering, they still had to come up with a plan to deal with Sam.

"Just go home and sleep on it, it might make better sense in the morning." said Sonny as he left. Jason sat there then felt his phone buzzing. Reading the text, he hurried to the hospital and slipped up to the correct floor and then found his way into the room of the sleeping woman.

Looking at her, the slight bruising on her face and the white cotton covering the side of her neck and Jason vowed to fix this or die trying. "How are we parents, I swear I would never forget sleeping with you, one doesn't forget ones dreams."

While the brunette in the bed slept the sleep of the righteous, her best friend stood in the hall and watched as her brother held the delicate hand and kissed its palm. When he laid his head down on the bed and seemed to fall asleep, Emily thought about what she had heard him say and knew she had a medical mystery to solve.

Elizabeth woke up to the sound of her son cooing and saw her brother standing next to the window wearing his lab coat while whispering to Emily. "Morning."

"Hey sleepyhead." she replied. "Are you ready to head to the craziness that is the Quartermaines for the day?"

Resigned to the agreement she had made the day before, Elizabeth took the offered overnight bag and went to shower very carefully. When she returned she quietly fed Cameron and waited to be released. When it seemed to taking way too long, she wasn't surprised when Steven and Emily came in with a grim expression on their faces.

"What is it? Did Tony Jones find something on the tests?" she asked fearfully.

"No, look, Mac Scorpio is outside." With that Steven let in the lawman and sat down next to his sister.

"Mac, what is it?"

"Ric Lansing overrode the ADA and dropped the charges against Carly, claimed it is her word against yours. That Sonny's testimony is privileged since they are married." Mac had trashed his office when given the news, even more so when he realized that thanks to Capelli, the case against Courtney would only level charges against Morgan and the victim of the accident.

"Did Jason and Sonny do this, your opinion, since I know you wouldn't be able to prove it?" she asked in a terse tone.

"I don't think so. Why else would they come down and offer statements?"

"What about charging her for trying to prevent Elizabeth from getting help?" asked Emily.

"There is no law requiring them to do so. I am sorry, Elizabeth." he said then standing asked if she would be staying at her cottage? Emily rushed off determined to have her parents let her stay with them while Steven had a bad feeling about what was about to go down.

"No, I don't feel really safe there but I know a very safe place and I will be moving in just as soon as I clear the trash out." she said grimly. Turning to Steven she asked for her purse. Showing Mac the papers, she said "As soon as I get an attorney to file these, can you arrange their delivery?"

Reading them, Mac let out a few loud guffaws as he finally understood exactly what they said "I will do so personally. Which penthouse?"

Before she could even answer, he was on the phone with Alexis Davis and said meet me at the courthouse and I might be able to help you with that problem you are having. Or at least get you in touch with the right person.

Hanging up, he looked carefully at Elizabeth and said "Are you up to a trip to the courthouse, right now?"

Nodding yes, she said "I just am worried about protecting Cam from them."

"Not a problem." said Alan Quartermaine in the doorway. Then showed in a man who was the size of a small truck. "This is Edgar, Edgar this is your charges mother."

Seeing her look, he said "Carly has cost me a grandchild and while I know that the records say Cameron isn't ours and you say you didn't sleep with Jason... I am not taking any chances."

Courtney was now getting worried, she had ACTUALLY CALLED Jax but he had still not returned her calls. Instead he seemed to be playing least in sight. Heading towards the docks, knowing she had promised to meet Carly at the diner when she was released, she was hoping to run into Nik.

Sure enough the Greek was heading back across the island just as she arrived. "Want some company?"

Nodding, he was amused as the blond landed on him once in the shuttle craft. At the docks, he helped her up the stairs and showed her around. When they came to the stables, he grimaced but followed her in there, watching as she pretended to like horses even as he pretended to know all about these particular ones.

A bit of lunch later, along with a bottle of nice wine and they were rolling around in the hay and stable blankets. Getting dressed, Courtney smirked as she took one more thing away from the two brunettes. Kissing Nik, she hurried back to Kelly's in time for her meeting with Carly while Nik went to his dungeons.

"Well, well, well. What have you kept hidden from me?" he asked the man whose face matched his own. "The very lovely Miss Courtney Matthews was here, visiting. We used your barn, but hopefully next time I will get her in your bed. I was planning on using your fiancee but she doesn't seem to be pining the loss of you anymore and this blond, well she is seeking me out."

The real Prince just leaned against the wall and tuned out the man who blamed him for what his wife did. Hoping that somehow they had protected poor deluded Mary Bishop, he started to pay attention again as the man mentioned how he had decided not to pay his little sisters tuition. "That very lovely young woman will be coming home soon, maybe big brother should give her a big old kiss, what do you think?"

At the courthouse, Alexis listened to what Elizabeth had to say regarding her inheritance and then said "While it will hurt his ego, it won't do much else, Sonny has been building a house on the outskirts of town."

"That is fine, but we also own a few other buildings." she said showing her the paperwork. "We own the office building where Courtney has her new office and the building with her loft in it. I am thinking of forcing her out."

"How, on that one. I thought Morgan bought it for her?" she asked.

"He did, but I read the paperwork, am I right in what this says?" she showed her the morals clause and saw the moment that Alexis' eyes lite up.

Alexis called Ned then asked him to take care of his plan regarding Carly that she had something else in motion before calling her assistant. "Give Ned Ashton the file."

Seeing Elizabeth was still there and that Mac had wisely left she said "Carly blackmailed me with something I told her in a moment of weakness to represent her in court during her custody case."

"Thanks Alexis." she said when the papers were filed. "When will they be delivered?"

"You want maximum affect on Courtney, right?" When Elizabeth nodded yes she replied. "There is a party this weekend, for her foundation. I RSVP'd no, but Jax originally sent a yes, I will see if he can be my date. He told me about Sam."

"Good, I just didn't think he deserved to be screwed that way." she said. "I know the results are due in this week. I hope for his sake it comes out how he wants it to."

"Me too, as for Courtney, lets ruin it for her today, so the party is messed up." When she was about to leave, Alexis hesitated then asked "Elizabeth, Ric has been hanging around a bit,. He never noticed me before and..."

"All the sudden he is everywhere?" she asked dryly. "Well whatever it is you have that is connected to Sonny Corinthos, that is what he is after. I guarantee it. Ric, all his plans are about Sonny and Jason."

Thinking on her secret, Alexis thought about it, "No, only one other person knows and I doubt Carly will tell Ric anything."

"Alexis, don't be so sure on that." she said reaching out and touching the attorney's arm. "If Carly needed something bad enough, she would tell the person to get what she wanted. No matter the long term damage to herself... she only thinks in short term."

Getting the message, the woman just nodded, this was one secret that there was no way, no matter what the blond would tell anyone. Not if she wanted to stay married to Sonny.

Sam was frustrated, the lab tech had promised her the results in time for her big unveiling tomorrow night at Courtney's fancy soiree, she had no intention of losing now. Seeing Elizabeth Webber arriving at the station from where she was staked out waiting for Ric Lansing, she ducked behind the telephone pole. Why did the woman keep turning up wherever she was?

Jason thought about his plan to unravel Sam McCalls and made the call. When the pregnant woman asked if he was calling for Sonny, he lied and said yeah. Planning on meeting at the hospital, Jason was picking up the briefcase when the phone rang.

Answering it, he was furious at what he was told and then ordered Francis to protect Elizabeth at all costs. "Does Sonny know?"

"No, he took the boys to the park then was planning on making lunch with them." he said with a heavy sigh. "He is not going to take this well."

"No, he isn't, at least we now have proof that Carly and Courtney have something good on Lansing."

Stopping at Elizabeth's house, Jason saw that no one was there and made the call. "Where is she?"

"With Alexis Davis of all people, something regarding her dad's will." said Max. "Francis said he was on his way to trade spots with me."

"Yeah, Carly got out."

Hearing the curse words, Jason grimaced as he got that more than a few of them knew of the hatred the blond had for Elizabeth. Wanting to snap why didn't they put a stop to it, he knew the answer would have been that they thought Jason and Sonny had allowed the crap to go on.

Elizabeth had arrived at the Quartermaine mansion and had ran into Edward and Ned who were grinning as they left the study. "Have you seen my son?"

"Emily has him in the rose garden with Lila." stated Edward with a smile that scared Elizabeth a bit as she backed away. Turning to join her son and the two women, she spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the sun and the company.

When Carly let herself into the penthouse, she saw her husband sitting with his back to her as he read some sort of business file. Tossing her purse at his head she shouted. "How dare you take up for that bitch over me?"

Standing, Sonny growled. "The boys are asleep, keep your tone down. And where have you been? Justus told me that the attorney he sent bailed you out out this morning."

"Trying to fix what you screwed up." she snarled. Sonny just stared at her and realized that Carly truly thought he was in on her plan. When she proceeded to talk, he just listened as he got that she had taken his questions as meaning he had done all of this as some sort of plan.

"At least one good thing came out of this..." she said with a wide grin. "Mac Scorpio made it clear that that little bastard wasn't Jason's. I was so relieved. I was afraid we would be stuck with her muffin face until we figured out a way for Jason to get custody. It is a shame in a way, I would have loved to help him raise a child again."

Sam waited until she was sure Carly was home then knocked on the door in spite of the guard standing there. When the blond answered the door and glared at Sam before saying "Get the hell away from my door, skank."

"I need to speak to Sonny, if I had known you were here, I would have done this elsewhere, but I guess that it is too late." she said before the blond made a gesture of haughtily showing her in. "The slut who spread her legs for you will we were apart is here and demanding to speak to you."

Sam had correctly predicted that Carly wouldn't leave even after Sonny tried to insist so she put on an apologetic face and said "Sonny, the tests, the results are tomorrow morning. Do you want to be there?"

"Tests for what?" pounced the wife from hell. Sonny almost told her, just to get her off his back but the thought of the two boys upstairs were the only thing keeping him quiet but that didn't work when she suddenly turned on Sam with narrowed eyes and hissed. "Dammit, I thought that Courtney was imagining things. You whore, you got pregnant with Sonny's child, how could you?"

"Carly, calm down. There is another possible father." said Sonny. When Carly laughed as asked "So who is the real father?"

"Sonny or Jax." said Sam quietly. She was beginning to love the idea of rubbing this woman's face in the results. "If you want, I don't mind if you are there. I think we are both hoping for the same results, I just have to ask that you not shout if it doesn't work out the way we both want. For my baby's sake because if Sonny is the father, this little one is the brother or sister of your own children."

Sending Carly screeching yet again. Sam pretended to be sorry as she left quickly. Once in private, she gave a quick laugh at the mental image of Carly's face when she found out the results.

Jason tracked Elizabeth down to the Quartermaines and slipped into the den when he saw his grandmother alone. "Jason, this is an unexpected surprise, well only partly since I am sure you know Elizabeth is here."

"I need to talk to her grandmother, but we will most likely be shouting and I am afraid the family will stick their nose in."

"Oh dear, I will see... how about I send her down to the boathouse, the two of you can get as loud as you want and no one will hear unless they should wander down that way."

Ten minutes later, Elizabeth was pacing back and forth in front of the boathouse. She had agreed to listen to Jason as long as Lila sent someone down in a half hour. Gathering her courage, she pushed the door open and saw him sitting on one of the canoes. "I was getting ready to come out."

"No, this is fine. Now, I am here because of a promise to Lila, I agreed to let you talk for the first ten minutes, but that is all." she said before crossing her arms and glaring at him.

Now that he was facing Elizabeth, Jason had no idea where to start but decided to go with the last time they had seen each other. "I saw you last night, I know that there was no lasting damage from what Carly did."

"This had bett-" Jason covered her mouth with his hand and said "You agreed to listen, remember?"

Nodding she just glared at him. "Now, I wasn't here about Carly, I just wanted to know are you sure we haven't ever had sex?"

Seeing her rage, he said "I will take that as a no." When her eyes became blue laser bolts, he continued on. "Now, I don't remember that either, but I want to ask for us to run a DNA test."

"No, I already had one done." she said "I am not going to let you manipulate things for your own needs."

"Fine, for now." he said in warning. "Now, as for what Carly did and her getting out of jail. We didn't do that, Sonny sent an attorney but that is all. Ric Lansing got her off on the charges, we think they were working together on something."

Wanting to tell them to talk to Alexis, she kept her mouth shut instead feeling she owed it to the attorney.

Jason saw she didn't respond so he said "I don't know why she did it, Gail Baldwin says she is obsessed with you, for some reason. But either way, Sonny and I had nothing to do with this."

When she rolled her eyes, he had to resist shouting that she wasn't actually listening but then continued. "I really didn't need your help that night. I just said that because you were making me angry and I wanted to hurt you back. I just wanted to talk, I was glad I did grab you because I did learn some stuff that I didn't know. However, I am sorry for scaring you and making you worried I would harm you."

When she sniffed but didn't say anything, he cautiously continued. "What you said regarding Sonny, yeah, he did talk about doing that... however Elizabeth, there was no way in hell I would have EVER LET HIM DO IT. DO YOU HEAR ME?"

When she said "Everyone in Port Charles heard you, hopefully you can convince one of them, because you won't me."

"You are the most stubborn, annoying, obstinate pig headed..." suddenly running out of adjectives, he just sat back down on the canoe and said "Elizabeth, I screwed up, yeah, I get that, but here," he said pointing at his heart. "I am the same man you were friends with all those years ago."

"I hope not, because that means you used me for years instead of just since that bitch sunk her claws into you." she said coldly then looking at her watch said "Ten minutes are up. Jason, I have proof and you know what, I don't give a crap anymore. Father or not the father, I would no more let you into my son's life than I would Ric Lansing."

"Well then I still have a chance after all you remarried him after knowing what he did to Carly." he said in a snide aside.

"Don't go there. You married the bitch who blinded me AFTER she had done so thinking I was pregnant with your child, but wait, she had an excuse, didn't she. She miscarried and was so upset she got addicted to drugs. Not that that was an excuse for anyone else, but hey, it's Courtney the lying backstabbing bitch who is the love of your life... so, she might have killed your kid, after all, she has an excuse, she can't have kids..."

"Elizabeth, I know you can't forgive me for that, but please, just listen to me." he said softly.

"No, Jason. I waited for weeks on end in that penthouse wanting to listen, wanting to work on us, but instead while I was waiting up all hours of the night, worried you were lying someplace dead, you were watching her strip and going home with your brother's wife and fucking her. No, you don't get to use that tone with me, not any more." she sneered.

"Damn it, please. Look, I..." he had no words because clearly she thought he was a liar no matter what he said. "Fine, I will go, but for the record, I never slept with her while we were together." There was silence except for the sudden rain that started to fall, making Elizabeth realize that she had been about to give in to his pleading and she turned her backbone to steal as the mental image of Jason kissing Courtney in the rain and telling the blond he had never loved Elizabeth.

"But wait, Jason..." When he turned with the hopeful expression on his face, Elizabeth said "I truly don't care. I gave up on you having a real heart a few years ago. Oh, and Jason... according to what you told Courtney, we were never really together and you didn't love me. So I guess you were telling the truth, at least if you look at it that way."

Jason walked out the door, ready to give up hope as he sloshed down the drive to where he had parked the bike. Stopping, he lifted the helmet he had bought all those years ago so that she could ride with him and glared at it before tossing it into a familiar looking tree.

Reaching in his pockets for the keys, he started to swear as he realized they were back in the boathouse. Seeing no lights on, he rushed back only to stop outside as he heard the gut wrenching sobs from within. Peeking in the window he felt his heart break as she fell to her knees and sobbed while muttering "Damn him, why can't he stop doing this to me... why does he keep hurting me like this, what did I EVER DO to deserve this... why can't I hate him..."

Stepping away, he went to the house and slipped inside and called Max. "Bring me a truck down by the oak trees at the Quartermaines in an hour."

He watched from the shadows as Elizabeth cried herself to sleep. Entering, he lifted the mother of his child and carried her up to the main house covered by one of the tarps. Seeing a silent Edward holding open the door, he just followed his directions and placed Elizabeth on the bed. When he took the towel from the old man, he dried her off then removed her shoes before tucking her beneath the sheet.

Grateful to find that the old man had discreetly left, Jason kissed her on the top of her head and whispered I love you and I am not going away.

Out the door, he saw a light on in what looked like a nursery. Stopping inside, he saw Cameron fast asleep and Edward next to the crib. "I don't know what happened tonight, but if you hurt that girl or this child in anyway, I will destroy you."

"I would never do so." replied Edward "I would safely say that the young man who came to me two years ago looking for her while she was missing wouldn't have either, I suggest you find out what happened to him because babies grow up and mothers, well if their hearts aren't cherished openly and truthfully they grow cold. Don't let that happen to you."

With that the man left Jason alone with his son for the first time ever. Kneeling and gently touching his son's cheek, Jason whispered "I love you, I promise I will fix this. I will find out why they did this to us to your mom. Then I will do whatever it takes to make us a family because I love her so much."

Walking down the back staircase when it was almost two, Jason saw the lights flashing and knew Max was out there. Exiting through the living room, he saw the picture and stopped in his tracks. Going over, he picked it up and made a plan.

Once in the truck he said "Take this make me a copy then return it to the mantle before morning."

Looking with wide eyes at the clock, Max said "That is only four hours away."

"Then you had better get me to the Towers and get moving." he said then handed him some money. "Max, thank you and after the results tomorrow, take the next two days off."

Carly woke up smiling as she stretched. Sonny was sleeping in the guest room and she just knew she would get a very nice piece of jewelry out of this. Her smile faded as she realized that it was too late to alter the tests to make sure that Jax was the father.

At least Courtney seemed to be out of her trance she had been regarding Jason. Plotting on how to right that wrong, she decided to suggest that the blond find a surrogate to carry their child. That way she would have everything she ever wanted including helping Jason raise his own child. With Courtney as it's mother she would never have to worry about him putting the child first over Michael, but like it's mother the child would know it's place... second to the Corinthos family.

Hurrying down the stairs, she wasn't happy to discover that Sonny had already left. Normally when he had pissed her off, she would have a gourmet breakfast waiting for her. Opening the door she asked "Where is the paper?"

"Mr. Corinthos took it with him. He said if you got up to tell you he was taking the boys to the new house."

Growing as she went back inside and pouted as she poured herself a bowl of cereal, she was thinking of hiring an arsonist to burn down that monstrosity so that Sonny would be forced to by a fancy house closer to where the rest of the rich people lived instead of the middle of freaking nowhere and with pillars and a huge pool in back instead of using the same dark and depressing architect who must had created the house on Spoon Island.

Hearing a knock on the door, she heard Courtney clamoring to be let inside and went to yank open the door. "What is going on?"

"They won't let me into Jason's penthouse." whined the blond who said "Hey, you have a key, let me in please?"

"I can't, they still have my purse at the police station." she said while leading Courtney into her own home. "What has you so upset."

Dropping into one of the captain's chairs she said "I figured you would be raving as well, with what I heard them talking about in Kelly's this morning."

"Oh, is this about that skank Sam McCall's supposedly having Sonny's kid, don't worry, it is more than likely Jax'."

Furious but deciding that was probably the reason he hadn't called and moving on to Nik now that she had used Jax for what she could, Courtney said "No, I am talking about the article in the newspaper."

Calling down to the lobby, Carly spate out for them to bring her up a damn newspaper, immediately.

When it arrived, they looked through it then saw the article. "How dare they write such a false story."

Calling Justus, Carly was told that he was no longer her attorney. "Mrs. Corinthos, your husband made it clear I was to file divorce papers this morning and that you could keep the penthouse since he and the boys were moving into Graystone."

"What the hell is Graystone?" she snapped. Getting his response, she said "No way in hell is he going to steal my children."

Courtney just sighed, since she had known them this had been completely normal, one or the other would cause their marriage to collapse and they would fight then end up taking each other back. It was boring actually.

Elizabeth saw the various interested parties arriving for the results of the DNA tests and watched when Carly was refused admittance to GH, When she was told she was barred unless for a medical emergency, the blond fought with the two security guards then screamed at Courtney to get upstairs and protect her brother.

"Elizabeth, would you please be there?" asked Justus. When she looked at him in shock, she said "I don't know that I want to be party to this..."

Getting her to agree finally, Justus just nodded at Jason when they arrived. Courtney was going to complain about Elizabeth being there but looked down at her own designer outfit then at the brunette wearing the scrubs with her hair tied up and looking tired and knew she presented a better picture of womanhood.

Sam entered with Dr. Meadows and said "We will keep this short and please remember this is a hospital, so there is to be no shouting."

Opening it up, she said "Regarding Jasper Jax, he isn't the father."

Sam pretended to be upset while Sonny looked at Jason in surprise but that soon ended when the older woman continued on "Regarding Michael Corinthos Jr. He isn't the father."

There was shock for a minute then she continued on "Regarding Richard Lansing..."

"But he didn't give a sample." stated Sam never realizing her mistake, what she should have said was she hadn't slept with him and that there wasn't a way he was the father.

"We ran the test after it was requested by Mr. Lansing." Sam relaxed certain this was some sort of plan on his behalf.

"Richard Lansing is the father 99.8 percent positive." There was a roar in Sam's ear as she looked around in shock while Jax just fled and Sonny watched as the rest of the room quickly left including Courtney who was more than likely running straight to his wife.

"Okay, Elizabeth can you please close the door." said Justus then added after he thought about it "And please stay inside."

"Ms McCall, I have a statement from the lab tech that you you asked him to alter the tests, for the record, Mr. Corinthos is the father." announced Dr. Meadows. "I agreed with Mr. Corinthos request that this be kept quiet and now I am leaving. Elizabeth, I will send you a copy of her medical files so that you may keep me up to date on her blood pressure."

Mumbling that someone needed to keep an eye on hers as she glared at Jason then Sonny.

Sam was smugly smiling. So Sonny was the father and she was about to get everything she ever dreamed about. That smile faded when she saw the three men sit down opposite her and then the attorney say "It's real simple, Ms McCall."

When she looked around, only Jason seemed relaxed so she just smiled at Sonny and said "I told you so."

"Ms McCall you will get everything you deserve as the mother of one of Mr. Corinthos children, a place to live, money to spend, a reasonable amount. In exchange you agree to certain conditions."

"I won't give my child to you, I won't." she said suddenly bursting into tears while secretly thinking what the hell was wrong with herself, she never cried, at least not for real.

"I owe you an apology. I was angry that day and was hateful and mean out of fear of ruining my marriage, that is no longer an issue." said Sonny smoothly.

"The conditions are as follows, you live where you are told, you let Elizabeth Webber help you ensure that your child is healthy. She is not a fan of myself or Mr. Morgan so she will more than likely be on your side."

Sam looked assessingly at the naive brunette and quickly agreed. "Where will I live?"

"We would like you to move into Jason's penthouse, for your own security." stated Sonny. "Elizabeth will be there too, at least we are hoping she will agree."

Glaring at the mobster then she suddenly smirked and then giggled as she thought about how it was no longer Jason's penthouse and said "I agree to live at Harborview Towers with Ms McCall in Penthouse four. But only if I chose the guards assigned to us."

"Agreed, Sam?" asked Jason.

She was a bit uneasy about that one, but said "Fine, however I want at least 25,000 dollars a month. I have seen Carly spend that much in one store."

"She is my wife and the mother of my children, I will agree to five." said Sonny and she quickly retorted 20 and they agreed on ten.

As the deal with reached, Elizabeth saw Jason's face and knew he thought he got something over on her but she just kept her smile in place and couldn't wait for him to find out her plan and it didn't have her living in that ridiculous penthouse.

Carly was having a good day, she had been to the Port Charles Herald and had given her side of the story regarding Elizabeth ending up in the Harbor, Courtney had told her that Sonny wasn't the father of Sam's unwanted brat and she was on working on her future. Courtney had even been excited by the idea of a surrogacy.

She knew that as soon as Sonny was over his guilt he and her boys would be home but in the meantime she would take the free time and spend it at the new spa down by the Riverside building. But first, she had something to do and she was going to make someone pay.

Only to be deflated when she arrived at the Quartermaine residence when the maid told her that Ned was in Las Vegas, something about his mother eloping. Hurrying home to get her favorite purse as she made dinner plans with Courtney she found Mac Scorpio standing outside her penthouse.

"Carly Corinthos, you have been served. You have twenty four hours to vacate this premise." he said then walked to the elevator as her screams of outrage as she called her attorney then Sonny were music to his ears.

Lucky arrived at the door feeling a bit nervous as he knocked. When Courtney saw who was standing there, her expression reminded him of a confused dog while he told her the news. "Ms. Matthews, this is an eviction notice from your owners association, you have twenty four hours to vacate this loft before they have your stuff impounded. Here is the paperwork explaining how you violated the morals clause in your agreement."

Courtney stood there, the papers slipping from her open hands as she stared at Nik's brother. "Why are you here again?"

"You are being kicked out, Ms. Mathews, you have to leave." he said then suggested she call her attorney.

Sonny hung up then told Jason. "Carly is claiming she was kicked out of the penthouse. She is bringing the papers to Justus but I told her I had nothing to do with this... did you?"

"No." he said with a frown as he left the warehouse for the day to get ready for his new roommates.

"Mr. Morgan." said the nervous process server. "You have been served."

Sonny's phone rang as Jason open the papers, reading the name of the company, he wondered how the hell she arranged this even as he started to laugh. Seeing Sonny's thunderous expression, he worried about his boss' reaction until he hung up and tossed the phone into the nearby harbor. "That bastard Smith, turns out he didn't actually own the damn towers. And somehow we have never paid a dime in taxes on them so the real owners who just showed up are stealing them."

"Uh, Sonny." he said then watched as his boss paced back and forth as he snarled about how much this was going to cost to fix and that he never should have done the upgrades and how he was certain that Lorenzo Alcazar had something to do with this.

"SONNY!" he finally shouted to the shock of everyone nearby. When the man looked at him and snapped what, he said "Elizabeth, Elizabeth owns the towers. Her father has owned the property since the seventies."

Looking at Jason, then the papers and said "Jason, that isn't very funny. But this is some Italian company."

"Yeah and the name translates to The Wind. Lets just say, she wanted me to know who it was kicking you out and demanding I pay an equivalent to four years rent. To be deposited in a trust fund for art students at PCU." he said with a dry chuckle. "And our agreement from earlier, explains why my copy was so late."

"Why do I think I am not going to like this?" asked Sonny his head in his hands.

"Oh there is a nice since of snarky irony to it." he said with a laugh. "I have to go and see her, can you deal with being there when Sam moves in. Damn, I just realized, the twenty four hours she gave Carly, is the same amount we gave Sam..."

"I have to go and deal with my soon be ex-wife." stated the mobster as he slowly walked to the car. Arriving he drove to Justus' office and heard his sister shrieking from outside. From what he gathered, she had been kicked out too.

Looking at the man's assistant, Sonny reached into his wallet and pulled out all his cash. "For having to deal with them."

Going to his limo, he told his driver to head around the corner and wait until the two women had left. Returning he asked Justus. "Is there anything or anyway around it?"

"No, Alexis Davis filed the paperwork. It was sly but all above board. Sonny, I did some checking... the Webbers, they now own property near GH, the house Elizabeth has been living in, the Towers, and... er... the land you wanted for the new docks. But that isn't the end of it... uh, they are talking about suing you for the monies you received as the illegal landlord of the Towers. Your management company just informed me that the amount is in the millions."

"Pay it." he said with a smirk. Then added "As for Carly, where does she want to live?"

"She is refusing to leave the penthouse, the paperwork says she has no choice, unlike Jason's. Er, Courtney has an even bigger problem... her foundation... well she sunk all her money into it... and well she is about to have it taken over. She didn't seem to think I was serious but they are sending in an IRS audit team and this, wasn't the result of Elizabeth... turns out Courtney was using it like a bank for her personal business and openly talking about it."

Groaning he said "How bad?"

"Unless someone replaces the money, we are looking at at least two years." said Justus.

"She will talk, but she knows nothing... except about our covering up her involvement in the accident, damn, she could send Jason to jail."

"I would find a way to shut her up." said the lawyer. "What do I do about Ms. McCall?"

"Get the file ready, but make sure you don't tell Elizabeth. She already believes I am the devil incarnate but Jason doesn't want her to know the rest of the stuff Sam did, he is not sure she would agree to move in."

"Fine, but I think this is just the start of your troubles regarding Sam McCall." he pointed out.

"I can handle her."

"Yeah, but can Jason deal with her while he is trying to woo Ms. Webber? She develops crushes awfully easy and Jason is just her sort. Rich and powerful."

"See, with Elizabeth there, I am not worried besides, I have every intention of stringing Sam along." said Sonny smugly. "What could possibly go wrong."

"If you need to ask, you are kidding yourself." said the attorney.

Chapter 4

Jason arrived at Elizabeth's cottage and saw her on the front porch talking to a very large man who was laughing at whatever she was saying. When she saw him, frowned then waved him up, he walked carefully to where she was standing with her hands on her hips. "Is there a problem Mr. Morgan?"

Not letting her get to him this time, he said "You are going to live in Sonny's old penthouse aren't you?"

Seeing her smirk, he said "I just thought about what you said... that you would live at the Towers but that Sam would live in my old penthouse."

"Is there a problem with that?" she asked her smile rather ferocious.

"None." he said with a matching grin as he decided to beat her at her own game. "Now, when will you be moving in?"

"As soon as the men Steven hired remodel the second penthouse and the exterminators make sure that all bugs are removed." she tossed back at him. "Oh, did your best buddy get the news, because she was served around noon, so either her crap is out of there or I toss it in the trash. I will give Sonny a little more time to remove the boys things but his... well they will follow the same path as anything Carly leaves behind."

"Regarding Sam, why did you agree to help?" he asked watching her.

"Not for either party in this mess. I see you managed to slither out from under Sonny's demands you claim to be the father... interesting, maybe you have gotten your balls back from Carly's jewelry box. Oh, Jason, you might want to make sure she doesn't have them again, I have no problems tossing that tacky stuff she calls gems into the trash and oops, what on earth would you do without your balls... wait, you will just do the same stuff you have for the last few years. Have a nice night."

With that Elizabeth walked back into her house and closed the door on the man standing there with his mouth wide open. Turning to Steven she asked "Are you sure about this?"

"Oh yeah, this Sam sounds remarkably like my mother... I will be glad to stop another Heather in the making. When do you intend to tell Morgan?"With that the tension was back since Cam's paternity was now the two thousand pound elephant in the room.

"Not until we get the results back. Emily is steaming but she agreed to my request." As Elizabeth went to her list, she crossed off her idea of making Jason stay with Sam, that one wouldn't work, not for what she wanted.

Then looking at Steven who had his arms crossed and his eyes wide as he looked at her in disbelief. "Request, peanut? More like emotional blackmail. I do understand but what I don't get is why you changed your mind regarding the tests."

"Because the night Emily got married to Zander, Jason and I stayed awake sitting there worried about her. Then did the same the next night. I er, had some dreams about sleeping in his arms but thought they were the result of lack of sleep." She couldn't look her brother in the face as she thought about those very hot, hot dreams.

"The kind of sweaty dreams that might make a baby?" he asked then saw her nod. "Why are you so upset then?"

"Because if it is true, I did interfere in his relationship with Courtney and that makes me just like her. I am just hoping I am wrong regarding Cam's parentage..."

"That would be selfish, little sis. Think about Cam... a dead father versus a live one who clearly wants to be the dad. And we both know that that isn't like you." with that he walked to the door and said with a laugh, "Er, Morgan is still out in the driveway, I think you broke him."

Elizabeth took a peek then said "Good, last time he was broken he ended up gaining Sonny and Carly and tossing away his real family, maybe this time, it will be in reverse. Either way, I am going to take everything away from those two."

"What about Jason, I mean if he is Cam's father?"

"I don't know. I know he has regrets but I can't deal with them. Some part of me just can't get past what he did mainly because it's almost like he thinks if he keeps saying he is sorry enough I will let it go. But I can't. I need to know, why? Why was I not good enough? Why did he do some of the stuff he did?"

"When we were in California, you said you made mistakes too, but since we have been home..." he left open the statement needing her to tell him what was going on.

"I know, but it would have been a mistake to have gone to him and apologized for my part because Steven, I don't think Jason really, really gets what he did wrong. This Sam mess is just another example of that. It's why I agreed to help... because there is an innocent child in the middle of this who doesn't deserve to have either of them as parents."

Carly and Courtney were both furious as they were turned away from the gate of Sonny's new house. "Do you think my brother did this? Why?"

"Because he is all the sudden all sunshine and roses regarding Elizabeth." she said with a growl. "You didn't hear him at the police station then last night at the penthouse... but no, I don't think he was the one who kicked me out. I heard Bernie on the phone with someone and it turns out Sonny was never the owner of the Towers, I am just going to bide my time, as soon as he gets what should be his back... I will have nothing to worry about."

"What about my place?" she asked. "Jason bought me that place, how can they kick me out and to claim I have er... what was it again, no moral fortitude, I do too have fortitude."

Carly looked sideways at the blond then with a sigh said "They mean you have no morals."

"Huh?" she asked then said "I have to go to the bank, I need to get some money out of my account. I hate that I can only take out two hundred dollars from the ATM. I need at least five for the ad I want to take out and there was a really cute pair of sneakers at the new fifties store and they don't take credit cards only cash."

"Uh, Court, that should be two separate accounts, you do know that don't you?" she asked cautiously. "You can't use the charity account for personal stuff."

"Oh course I can, Carly. I put all the money into one account and just take out what I need, it's easier that way." she said with a smile. Carly sat there for a minute, then when the blond had left decided to call Mike. Getting his voice mail, she groaned when she realized the gambler was still in the hospital.

"Great, now what am I going to do. Sonny is already pissed at me... wait..." Picking up the phone she called Alexis and told her she was going to represent Courtney. "She needs a really good attorney."

"Uh, Carly, I am Elizabeth Webber's attorney, I can't represent either of you right now." she said then hung up. When the phone rang again, she ignored the blond getting a bad feeling that Carly wasn't going to let go of her secret.

Swearing silently, she tried to decide what to do, then looking in the file Elizabeth had given her, she knew she was making a mistake but did it anyhow. When the phone rang yet again, Alexis answered and said "Carly, don't threaten me or I will make your own little secrets public."

"I don't have any secrets." she said smugly.

"Really, do you think you will still feel that way when you can't reach me from the jail cell I can send you to if you don't leave me alone."

"You don't have anything on me." she stated. "So nice try, but you WILL dump Elizabeth as a client and YOU WILL represent Courtney."

"No I won't, Carly. I know that you have been talking to Ric Lansing, I have pictures. I also know that the two of you are working together to regarding your attempted murder of Elizabeth. His letting you off in spite of the very clear and compelling evidence will convince everyone I am telling the truth. Where as you have no credibility. There are DNA tests that prove Ned is her father. And then there is Sonny who is currently angry with you."

Carly sneered then said "Yeah right, like you can prove any of that..."

"Carly, unlike you, I don't bluff." Reciting the days and times the photos showed her talking to Ric, she then said "I have Courtney in a few of them as well. Keep it up and they will be in the hands of the police and the newspaper by morning. Oh, Carly, that interview you gave today, it won't be ran. I threatened to sue them for slander on behalf of my client."

Carly hit the off button and tossed the phone. Furious, she drove home and then saw the skank standing outside of Jason's door rubbing her back. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"To protect me from Ric, I am going to be staying with Jason. We are going to be telling everyone he is the father."

"No fucking way are you going to sink your claws into my best friend, I will not let you stay here. Not across the hall from me. And not with Jason, over my dead body. You are nothing more than a disease ridden dock whore who slept with three men and didn't know which was the daddy. Go find another fool to take your greedy, well used mouth in." she fumed as she grabbed the pregnant woman's arm and dragged her to the elevator.

When it opened, she glared at the guard and said "Where were you, you know better than to leave your post, it lets the trash get up here. You are going to be fired the minute that Jason hears about this, do you hear me?"

Coming out of the staircase, Jason glared at Carly then snapped "Release her arm, immediately."

"Jase!" She shouted and tossed herself into his arms. "You won't believe the lies she is telling..."

"Carly, I don't care if she told you Michael was the father of her kid." He saw her glare and continued anyhow "Either way, you don't manhandle a pregnant woman or women with their kids. Now why are you here, shouldn't you be finding a new place to live. Noon is going to come awful quickly."

"I am not worried, Sonny will get the building back. He fixed it so it should be his." she said blissfully ignoring the law. "Besides, you won't let them toss me out."

"Carly, if your stuff isn't out by noon, the new owners made it very clear it is going into the trash and they would be well within their rights to do so."

"Then shouldn't you be moving too, unless this skank is lying about moving in." she said hopefully.

"I have to pay four years back rent, I already agreed and Bernie delivered the check along with the one from the management company since Sonny agreed to turn the past rents over."

"Then Bernie can do so for this apartment too." she said then went to her door. "I am sure you can deal with the trash all on your own, I have better things to do."

"Carly, that isn't an option, they have other plans for that penthouse and made it clear they will be taking possession tomorrow." he warned before turning to the guard and asked "Did you get all of Ms McCall's stuff?"

"Yeah, it will be coming up in the service elevator tomorrow morning. We already put the bag in your penthouse to get her through tonight." he said then asked "Am I in trouble?"

"No, I told you to help her, ignore Carly. Sam, we need to talk." he said then unlocked the door. When she was inside and had looked around a bit he said "Your room is the one up the stairs and to the right."

"Nice bath." she said then asked "Why such a large on such a small bedroom and which room is going to be the nursery."

"You will only be staying until the baby is born. So I have arranged for a real estate agent to show you some places in the price range Sonny is willing to pay so that you can start getting it ready for later."

"Fine." she said with no intention of doing so. She would be married to Sonny by then or she wouldn't be giving birth. "So, I need a key to this place and do you have the money Sonny was supposed to arrange for me. Oh, this is a request of my food requirements and the Chinese place I like best."

"Sit down, please." he said trying for politeness. When Sam had sat down, he tossed the packet with the money on the table in front of her. "Your money, as to the others items. Chinese food is forbidden due to MSG, the other you just tack to the refrigerator, the guards will pick it up when they do their weekly run. And no, you don't need a key."

"Yes I do." she said only for Jason to pull out a piece of paper then sit down on the only chair.

"No, because you won't be leaving here without a guard or Elizabeth Webber. And no, she isn't going to be at your beck and call. She is strictly here to monitor your medical issues between her job. She has a young son and will doing this on her schedule and YOU WILL make yourself available when she wants you to."

"You make me sound like a prisoner!" she pouted while letting out tears, only to see that unlike most men he wasn't moved. Frowning a bit, she saw his glare and asked "Why am I here? Why are you treating me this way?"

"We will get to that AFTER we deal with the rest of the rules. There is a maid service who comes in once a week the rest of the time you are responsible to help keep your messes clean. Your friends may only visit when they have been checked out by my staff and only in the lobby with a guard nearby... with Elizabeth and her son here, they MAY NOT come upstairs. Do you have anyone you want to have us check out now so that they can come to see you?"

"No." she spat out. "Anything else?"

Standing Jason went to his desk and pulled out the thick file and tossed it down. Sam turned white as she read her entire history. "Wait, how did you get this?"

"It wasn't hard, when Carly and Alexis had you investigated during the custody hearing, I had Bernie dig deeper and then Jacks did the same. Amazingly we both found things the other missed."

"I thought Jax hated you?" she asked then said "Why would he give you anything?"

"Because I helped out the woman he loved a few years ago and when he heard you were moving in here along with Elizabeth, he wanted to protect her and to warn me about you. Not that I needed much warning." he said then "Let me make this very clear, you are here because of that kid, we are not going to be friends, roommates or any other variation your little con mind can come up with. You so much as look at Elizabeth the wrong way, so much as say one word that she disputes and you are back to the sewers you crawled out of no matter whose kid that is, do you understand me, Miss McCall?"

Sam felt the coldness in the air and shivered as she looked into the ice blue eyes of the man in front of her then burst into tears. When she started to sob, she saw he just sat there, once again unmoved. Quieting the sobs, she tried to stand and waited for him to help her plotting out her next move only for him to suggest. "I would stay seated if you aren't steady enough to stand, oh, and one more thing, the hooker heels are gone. I will arrange for one of the stores to send over some flats or sneakers."

When he walked to the stairs he said "Miss McCall, I don't do warnings, this was for Sonny. You cross me and as soon as that kid is born and you are dead. Do you understand me?"

Sam nodded letting the pretend pants and sobs stop when she heard the door upstairs slam. Looking around in shock, she couldn't help promising to make him pay for what he had said to her. He had said the oh so perfect Nurse Webber and her kid were off limits, well she had no interest in them, but by the time she gave birth, she would have Jason Morgan eating out of her hand and this baby was the key.

He wasn't the only one who had done research, Ric had given her some stuff and she had found out even more BEFORE talking to Mike Corbin and finding out he had ended things with Courtney because she couldn't have his kid. Well, here was a kid, and she would use it to make Jason Morgan regret ever talking to her that way.

The next day, Carly tossed the newspaper down furious to see that they had written an article but that they had made it seem like she was delusional and lying. Calling the attorney who got her out of jail, she ordered him to the sue the paper on her behalf.

"No can do, Mrs. Corinthos. They sent proof over to Mr. Ward that everything they wrote was true."

"They are wrong." she snapped then said "Now, when Justus bothers to come in to the office, tell him to call me. I want a restraining order against that bitch Sam McCall. She seems to think she can move in across the hall from me without consequences and I won't allow that."

"Oh, you found a place to live, that's great. Mr. Ward was a bit worried you would ignore the eviction order and he doesn't have time to deal with that today. May I have your new address so that I know where to send your divorce papers?"

"Penthouse II, Harborview Towers." she snapped then hung up the phone. Did they really think she was going to leave just because Mac Scorpio handed her some papers. Looking at her watch, she swallowed the last of her coffee and hurried off to her nail appointment ignoring she had less than an hour to clear out her things.

Emily was running down test results, she had given samples to the three different hospitals in town regarding Cam's parentage. Now she was trying to find who had altered the original tests and how. Sticking her head into the lab she saw a new woman working there and said "What happened to Ernie?"

"I don't know, I was just asked to move to day shift from night shift yesterday. I heard through the grapevine he quit though." she said then went back to her samples. "Dr. Quartermaine, these tests I am running for you, will take a few days."

"I know, I am not here about that. He just was working here a over a year ago and I need him to explain some results to me." she said holding out the paperwork. "The numbers are off."

The middle aged woman said "This sample here, the blood is shown to be AB negative, but the number doesn't match. Instead that is the sample number for AB positive. The mothers does match though. Wait a minute..."

Going over to her microscope she looked at the paperwork then magnified the results. "See, someone wrote over it. The mother has the rare blood and one of the samples for the potential father is close. This other one, it looks like some realized they made a mistake and altered it."

Going to the computer, she pulled up the number then said "Yeah, see, Zander Smith was also AB+ but they originally wrote down A-."

Emily walked away and down to her father's office and sat down across from the man. "Zander was A-, yet the computer is listing his blood type as AB+."

Not getting it at first Alan just started at her, so she asked "Dad, what is Jason's blood type?"

"AB+." His head came up and he looked at his daughter and said "That was how the test was altered but where did they get a sample of Jason's blood?"

"I haven't found that out yet. But I will and I really truly hope I find a way to nail those two bimbos for this... did you hear that they can't be charged with her so called hit and run."

"I know, I was furious with your brother when Mac gave me his theory, but I have a damn good idea how they pushed him into helping them. Now that the real reason Courtney tried to hit Elizabeth is being discovered, I think that the guilt he is already feeling is going to go into overload."

"Why?" she asked. "Because of Cam being his child?"

"No, because at the time, they didn't know Elizabeth was pregnant, I think if he did, no matter what pressure they used, he would have stood firm." said Alan who then stated "Ernie quit this morning. When he was here, he had a black eye and I would say his ribs were taped up."

Getting the unsaid implications, she gave a sigh then said "Too bad Ric and the two bimbettes won't get the same treatment."

Elizabeth and Steven had spent the morning preparing things for the move. "What are you going to do about Cam's mural?"

Walking into her son's nursery, Elizabeth said "That will be the first room we fix up. For now, I am going to stay in the downstairs maid's room. Are you sure you can keep your temper staying at Jason's place?"

"Don't worry about me, I am looking forward to finally meeting this Sam McCall face to face." he said laughing as he walked out of the room then once downstairs sat on the sofa asked "Are you sure you want to grab the tiger by the tail?"

"Yeah, Mac said that Jason and Sonny didn't do this, so it HAD to be on Ric, I talked to Alexis and have decided to keep her out of it as much as possible, so I am going with that New York City woman."

"The red head." he said with sparkling eyes.

"Ms Miller is a brilliant attorney, Steven, what she looks like she have no bearing on anything. I just think that she will wipe the courthouse floors with my ex-husband." she said with a grin. "I am going to protect Alexis, though. I think I know what her secret is, and honestly... it is her right to tell it when she wants."

"Okay, so do you want me to call the locksmith or is he already on his way?" he asked looking at his watch. "It's noon."

"Let's go." she said just as Georgie knocked on the door. "Thanks, sweetie, I know you should be getting ready for school, so I won't be gone too long."

When the young girl had rushed up to see Cam, Elizabeth turned to her brother and said "Let's go ruin someone's day."

Georgie watched out the window as Elizabeth left then sat down to silently cry not wanting to wake up Cameron. First Maxie was acting pissy all day, now she had gotten into a fight with Brooklynn over Dillon, then she had pushed him away when he had kissed her only to see that new kid Diego teasing him about it as they left together...

Going back downstairs, she checked the lock on the door, then made sure the rest of the house was secure before calling her dad and asking if she could use the lab for a science experiment. When he reminded her that the lab wasn't his personal property, she said "Then can I at least use one of the portable crime scene boxes to run my own little tests, I promise to pay you back."

She heard him sigh then say that he would talk to her later that Elizabeth had just arrived at the Towers. When he had hung up, she opened the CSU box she had 'borrowed' from Lucky Spencer without his knowledge and reasoned that he was too much of an idiot to be allowed to use one of these and went to work.

Opening the box she had gotten in the mail, she frowned as she sat down to try and figure out who was gas-lighting her and why. Pulling on the forensic's gloves, she took out Sage's diary, then the menu from the now burnt down Port Charles hotel, then the photos of the empty freezer and finally crime scene pictures.

Then she put each item in the small shallow box she brought for that purpose and used fingerprint dust to check them. Taking photographs, she then went over everything carefully and followed the book she had read.

Using each item, she had gathered enough evidence that she hoped to find out who was trying to mess with her. Returning everything to her back pack just as Cam woke up, Georgie rushed up the stairs to bring down the little guy.

As they came back to the living room, she heard a knock on the door and carefully looked out the window, seeing Lucky Spencer, she back up almost to the closet door. When he knocked again, then she heard the scrape of something in the lock, she moved into the coat closet and shut the door with Cam still in her arms.

"Elizabeth? Are you home?" she heard him asking. Then he gave a soft chuckle and said "Perfect, now I can figure out how to win her back. I need to find out that brat's names again too. Somehow, I have to get rid of that annoying little cock blocker."

When he had moved upstairs, Georgie took out her phone and called the station. "Hey, this is Georgie."

The desk sergeant said "Why are you whispering?"

"I am at 245 Grove Ave, Elizabeth Webber is gone and I am babysitting her son. We were out back and when I came back in the front door was open and there are strange noises coming from upstairs."

"Can you get out without being seen?" The man knew his boss was going to freak when he heard about this one.

"Not really, I went to hide in the coat closet plus I have her 12 week old son with me."

"Stay on the line with me, Georgie. I have two patrol cars responding on silent." What felt like forever later, there were quiet footsteps onto the porch then someone opened the door. "Miss Jones?"

"Yeah." she said nodding at the two officers she knew just as she heard noises from upstairs. "Elizabeth told me to lock the doors and keep everyone out. Her ex-boyfriend Lucky has been bothering her and you know that she had a restraining order on the DA, right?"

Two of the men got her out of the house while the other two went up the stairs. Stopping outside the closed bedroom door, they felt ill as they listened to the familiar sounding man inside doing what ever the hell he was as he talked dirty to someone they knew wasn't there.

Opening the door, guns drawn, they wanted to cover their eyes as they saw Cadet Spencer standing there with his pants down at his knees while his privates were wrapped in what looked like... "Spencer, you are under arrest."

"What the hell, get out of here, this is my girlfriends house and you have no right being in here." he said dropping what he had in his hand. Noticing what it was Detective Garcia snapped "Pull up those pants, Edwards, take him into the bathroom and make sure he washes his hands."

"No, wait." said the young girl who rushed in and shoved what looked like Ziploc baggies on them before handing another one to Garcia. When the man asked why she was back inside, she replied. "I had to come back and get Cam his binkie."

"I don't think you dad is going to be too happy you are seeing this." he pointed out. Then looked at Lucky and said "I told you..."

"Er sir, we have his hands wrapped, one of us is going to have to, uh, do you think the person living here as plastic gloves?"

"I do." said Georgie as she rushed back downstairs then handed the binkie to the female officer who had shown up then before they could stop her she grabbed something out of the back pack on the floor and returned upstairs wearing her sunglasses.

Garcia laughed when he saw them and then gave in to a loud chortle when she said "I don't want to be scarred for life. Lucky, when you were told size doesn't matter by every woman you dated, they lied."

Glaring at her, he said "You had no right to call the cops, you just wait til I tell Elizabeth what you did. I was just warming up for our plans for this evening. You have no idea the trouble you are in, besides, you shouldn't be here, I don't want you around because you have such a big mouth."

Wondering why the man was making no sense, she said "You are just pissed to have been caught jerking off using Elizabeth's son's onesie."

"So, I couldn't find any towels. Once we get married, Elizabeth is going to have to do a better job keeping house, I don't want a lazy wife. As for Kevin's onesie, if she didn't want me to use it, why did she leave it on the dresser?"

Shaking her head as she left, she watched as Garcia made a call then called out "Georgie, your dad wants to talk to you."

At the penthouse, Elizabeth and Steven arrived just as the guards came off the freight elevator with what looked like Sam McCalls' worldly goods. "Hold the elevator." called out Sonny who saw it was Elizabeth and Steven.

"Can we talk?" he asked then saw Elizabeth stiffen then start to say no. "Look, please, if you want your brother can be there, but just give me a minute?"

"Fine." she said then went into what was about to become her penthouse. "What do you want Sonny?"

"I know an apology for what happened is not even close to being enough, but I just want to say I am sorry for my part in the mess over the last few years. This has nothing to do with the Towers, nor with your helping with Sam. It's just owed to you."

"You owe me nothing, remember?" she said in a icy tone. "But while we are at it, thank you for pulling my son out of the harbor."

"No thanks are necessary, Elizabeth." he said then looking at her said "I know you have no reason to trust me, or anything I say but I just wanted to tell you, I haven't liked the person I have become over the last few years and am going to be making changes to my life."

"Fine, Steven can you check to see where Mac is?" she asked then when her brother had left, Elizabeth looked at Sonny and said "For your children's sake I am happy you are making changes... the funny thing is, if I had died, my child wouldn't be here... all because you felt that I should be hurt to make your sick brother do what you want. I was an innocent, but hey, after all. I didn't matter since I was nothing to you. And Sonny, I prefer that to this sudden need for repentance. At least then I won't have to be worried about when you are going to stab me in the back again."

Startled, Sonny was wishing her brother would return when, he saw Jason coming out of the door of his penthouse and then looked at Elizabeth and said "I know I deserved that... the thing is, Elizabeth. I really didn't want to face that there was anything wrong with me."

"You sound remarkably like your brother, he doesn't want to admit there is something wrong with him, either. Funny how the two of you act like you are better than him when the only difference is that he got away with it."

"I would never ha-" Sonny started on his automatic protest that he wouldn't harm a woman at the raising of Elizabeth's eyebrow and said instead "Elizabeth, while I talked about it, I never gave the order."

"Is that supposed to make it right?" Walking off, she saw the guards were taking out the last of Sonny's things as they told their boss they were done then asked what to do about Carly's stuff.

"That is my soon to be ex-wife's responsibility." he said then went to visit with Sam like he had planned. They had a lot to discuss regarding their child.

Courtney and Carly left the spa together, the blond going home to change before her meeting with Nik, but she told Carly she had an appointment regarding a foster child. Carly went to see her mother then made plans for lunch. It was almost two-thirty when she returned to the Towers and was stopped by security.

"Uh, Mrs. Corinthos, I am sorry but you can't go up there." said the man at the front desk as he pushed the panic button underneath the counter top.

"Oh course, I can. I LIVE HERE." she said trying to be nice when she saw the crowd coming off the elevator.

"Uh, sorry but I was told by the new owners that if you showed up you were not to be let in after noon today." he said as he started to sweat. Carly missed seeing Mac Scorpio in the group which was a good thing because she also missed seeing Elizabeth Webber and her brother.

"Excuse me, do you know who I am?" she finally snapped when she saw the lobby had emptied out. "I am Mrs. Sonny Corinthos, Jason Morgan is my best friend and I am going up to my penthouse."

"No, you don't live here anymore.' he said firmly. When he started to come around the desk, she rushed to the elevator and hurried inside. Once on the penthouse floor, she stopped wondering where the guard was yet again but pulling out her keys she found they didn't unlock the door.

"What the hell?" she said out loud before going over and pounding on Jason's door. When she got no answer, she tried her key for that door only to find it didn't work. "But I just lifted the guards key yesterday, how the heck could it not work?"

Hearing the sound of the elevator arriving yet again, she saw two men getting off and snarled "Who the hell are you?"

"Mrs. Corinthos, we work for the management company, we were just informed that you were here. You need to leave this building or we will be pressing trespassing charges against you."

"Look you are obviously an imbecile, I LIVE here, this is my penthouse. I decorated it for my family. Now someone had better open this door or I am going to have you arrested."

"Why don't you call the police, Mrs. Corinthos? Let them explain it to you. But for now, you have to leave this floor."

"I am going nowhere, this is not going to happen. This is my home, this is where I live." she said slowly emphasizing the words my.

The door to the freight elevator opened and the men standing there asked "Which is penthouse 2?"

"That one. Are you from the paint company?" Seeing there gear, he looked at their ID and unlocked the door staying between Carly and the portal.

"What are you doing? Who authorized this? This is my house and I don't want these walls changed. It took forever to find the perfect shade of maroon." she screamed when they ignored her and started to spread the drop clothes. The blond was staring in disbelief then turned to the two men keeping her out. "Where are my things? What have you done with my furniture and my pictures? You are going to pay, just wait until..."

"Mrs. Corinthos they are in storage at least what wasn't taken out of here by Mr. Corinthos. You have twenty-four hours before it is all sent to the city dump."

Screaming in rage, Carly kicked the door then went over to bang on Jason's door again. When no one answered she hit the down button and vowed to make them pay for what they had done. In the lobby, she hailed a cab then told him to take her to the police station.

Entering she saw Elizabeth Webber talking to Mac Scorpio and couldn't help sneering at the paler than normal woman "Excuse me, I have real business to discuss and the huge amount I pay in taxes mean I get dealt with first."

"Carly, go sit down." said Mac. Then turning to Elizabeth said "As I was saying Lucky was found using that to..."

"I don't need to know anymore. I was planning on pressing charges I just want to see him. Make it clear..."

"What the hell, who do you think you are pressing charges against my cousin, you should be grateful he gives you the time of day, you slut." she sneered then shoving her back said to Mac. "I don't have time to wait why you deal with Elizabeth's petty and most likely imagined problems. Someone stole my jewelry, my furniture and my clothes. What are you going to do about it?"

"Tell you to sit down in that chair right there and wait until I am free to help you, Carly." he snapped then said to the officer walking past. "Would you show Mrs. Corinthos to a chair, please?"

Carly started to rant and pushed past the man and went down to DA Lansing's office and pushed her way in. Inside, Ric had been explaining to the mayor why he had let Carly go and was in hot water. He was a bit worried, he hadn't expected there to be this much backlash, but he now found out that with the article in the paper and Alexis Davis digging around in things, that he was going to have to seriously finesse his way out of this one on two different fronts.

"Ric, you do something and you do it now!" she snapped as she entered just after he had told the Mayor that his only connection to Carly was through his brother and from when he had had his mental breakdown. "If you don't, I will make sure everyone knows exactly..."

Carly froze when she saw the Mayor sitting there looking between Ric and her. "Really, Lansing, care to amend your statement?"

Ric swallowed his anger and tried to smooze the Mayor who said "Reinstate the charges, recuse your self or resign, by the end of business today."

Walking out the door, Ric grabbed Carly's arm and slammed her into the chair. "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

"I told you, you need to do something. Someone stole everything from my penthouse." she shouted.

"Maybe my brother, after you just had to bring Elizabeth to his attention yet again?" he sneered. "Why the hell can't you stay away from her. Now thanks to you, they are asking questions again about Courtney's car being stolen and hitting Elizabeth. Do you want them looking into Cam's parentage?"

"Oh relax, Zander is the father." she said with a wave of her hand. "Right now, you are going to find out who took my stuff and get it placed back where it belongs. Immediately or I am make a call..."

Gripping her hands, he spat out. "Thanks to your little temper tantrum just now, the Mayor has given me two choices, have my office bring attempted murder charges against you or resign and they will do so with the next DA."

"OH, you can make that go away, I am not worried. Now deal with this, Ric, You owe me."

Cursing he tossed himself into his leather chair and looked at her. "You just don't get it do you. I have nothing left. I have no choice but to charge you and you are going to be arrested."

"No I won't." she said in a confident tone. "Sonny can't testify and all Lorenzo and Jason can say is that I wouldn't let them call for help."

"Wrong Carly, that is what you don't seem to get. Spousal privilege doesn't cover this. I knew it going in but tried to help but there in no more try. You are going to jail."

"If you try, I will see you in the jail cell right next to mine." she snarled. "What do you think of that?"

"That you are a fool, you aren't listening to me, Carly."

"Whatever is going on, is your problem, you shouldn't have been put in as DA anyhow, not after what you did to me." she stated just as there was a knock on the door.

"Sir, Commissioner Scorpio wants you. That restraining order you refused to file regarding Lucky Spencer well he was found in his ex-girlfriends house masturbating using her son's onesie. There are reporters all over the station after they heard them discussing the case on the radios."

Ric just swore. "Damn it, Spencer, what the hell were you thinking..."

Carly left the room getting the feeling that Ric had been working with Lucky to torment the annoying little bitch Elizabeth Webber. Stopping in the hallway, she listened as Mac told Ric that the ADA was already on her way to the courthouse. "Spencer is going down for this..."

"Mac, the man needs mental health help, not a jail cell." said Ric.

Mac looked at the DA and said "Here, an order from Judge Criton, you can have nothing to do with any case involving Elizabeth Webber or her family. I also just had a little talk with the Mayor, so are you resigning or filing charges against Carly Corinthos?"

Ric went to court only to be called into the judge's chambers and then sent back to his office. After a call from the Herald asking about rumors that he had been asked by the Mayor to resign, he figured out the fix was in and took the paper straight to Floyd Garret. Tossing it down on his desk he growled. "You are going to regret this, I was your only hope of taking down Corinthos?"

"I want the mob gone and I meant all of it. I haven't said anything but I am well aware of the reason you wouldn't go after Alcazar was your past working for that family, and your father's connections to the Zacharas. You were a mistake, one I am now rectifying."

In the meantime, Nik was rolling around his bed with Courtney and winking on occasion at the camera as he seduced the blond. "It's a shame you can't stay."

"I have to meet Carly, she has been blowing up my phone for the last hour and if I don't go see her she will be all over me." she said pouting. Then looking at the hot man getting out of the bed giggled and said "But I can come back later."

"See that you do." he said standing over her. Pressing a hard kiss on her lips, he said "I have some hospital business to see to, but a late night dinner on the parapet sounds nice."

Courtney was on the docks, freshly showed and pressed, amused that the ever efficient staff had cleaned and pressed her clothes while she had waited. "Courtney, where have you been? I have been calling you all afternoon."

Turning she said "What is your problem, I told you I had a meeting today."

"I need you help, I can't find Jason and someone robbed my penthouse." she said pacing back and forth. "Have you talked to him today?"

"No, of course not." she said. "Wait, how did they get up to the penthouse to steal anything? There are always guards."

"When Sonny moved out, they are only there when Jason tells them to be. There were painters in my place, you should have seen it. How dare they think they can toss me out. That is my home and no one but no one is going to kick me out of my own house."

"Wait, I thought you said you were robbed?" said Courtney as they entered her building. Arriving at the door, she saw that there was a note posted. Reading it, she said "What on earth?"

Snatching it out of her hands, Carly said "Wait, you have been kicked out too."

Reading the rest of the paperwork, Carly felt her eyes widen then she growled. "This has to be the work of that bitch Alexis Davis. She told me she was working for Elizabeth Webber. I bet she did this, she got you tossed out of here because she was jealous that Jason loves you and not her."

Courtney looked around in disbelief then said "Where are my clothes, all my stuff, they can't just lock me out, can they?"

The two blond walked out the door and soon were at Justus Ward's office. "We need to speak to your boss."

"He is unavailable right now, but he should be back tomorrow morning." said the assistant. "May I have him call you?"

"You get your boss on the phone right now or I will talk to my husband about finding a new attorney." hissed Carly as she held out the phone to the woman; only for the woman to return the phone to its base then stand.

"Mrs. Corinthos, since Mr. Ward is on assignment for your husband, I really don't think he is going to fire him. And we both know that there are limited attorneys willing to work for him who are even half as good as my boss, so don't make threats you can't back up. Now if you will excuse me, this is an office and I have work to do."

Jason got off the elevator that evening and let himself into his penthouse and saw Sam sitting on the sofa reading a magazine. Tossing his keys down he asked "Did you have a nice visit with Sonny, get everything squared away?"

Sam stood and tried to be sexy at five months pregnant. She had talked to the mobster and all that was clear was that she wasn't going to get that wedding ring she wanted. The con artist was well aware that there was a time to cut your loses and move on.

Looking at the man she knew loved kids and wanted them more than anything before saying. "Yeah, he made things very clear. Why did he stop me from getting an abortion if he wasn't going to take an active role in this child's life?"

"I don't know that he won't. Sonny made it clear however that while he will love his child, that your relationship was over. I am sorry if you thought it might be more, but that is the way Sonny is." he said then asked. "Did the guard get you everything you needed? Did you get your things arranged the way you wanted them in your room?"

"Yeah, I just don't know what to do about the baby stuff I got. I mean, you said I can't set up the room here, but I just need to see what works and doesn't. The houses that that accountant sent over just don't work when all I can do is read about them and look at pictures."

"Wait, Bernie said he didn't send them over yet." he said looking at her. "When did they arrive?"

"Right after Sonny left." she said then lifted the package from the real estate office.

Opening it up, Jason's confusion left, "These are for me. Yours should be arriving tomorrow. Good night Sam. Oh, Elizabeth said that she will start monitoring your health tomorrow when she moves in."

Sam gritted her teeth then smirked. Little miss no backbone would be no problem when it came to her plans, she had heard that Jason and her were friends but that that had been before she had been married to the man who held his best friend hostage.

Frowning when she thought about Carly, that was going to be her real problem. The blond was too possessive and suspicious to let her have an easy time of winning Jason over. Seeing Jason returning from the kitchen, when he went straight upstairs she asked "I am bored, how about a game of dominoes?"

"No, I have to read about these houses this evening. May I suggest you try on those shoes Max brought over from the mall. You really shouldn't be wearing four inch heels while pregnant." he said with a grimace then started up the stairs again, Sam threw out.

"I was wondering if we can head over to Kelly's tomorrow. I was a bit worried about Mike but I heard he was released from the hospital today."

"Uh, sure, I will have Max take you. I am going to be busy and you need to give me a schedule of your appointments, just put it up on the fridge." Once he had escaped to his room, Jason sat down and plotted his next move.

Just as he had it planned, his cell phone rang. Shocked to see it was Elizabeth, he answered cautiously. "Morgan?"

"We need to talk. Meet me down at the docks."

"Are you sure you should be down there, it is dangerous." he said "How about your old studio?"

"No, if that won't do, why don't we meet at Kelly's, I still have a key." she said then hung up.

Checking to make sure that his roommate was in her room, Jason let the guard outside know that he was leaving then hesitated before asking. "Did she leave today?"

"Only with Sonny, he took her for a drive." said the man on the door. Jason had known Sonny wanted to avoid being in the same room with Sam and a bed so that there could be no chance of repeating his mistake but a drive, that must have been close quarters for telling her that she wasn't going to get the brass or in this case the gold ring she wanted.

Mac hung up the phone then gave a feral smile as he looked at Garcia. "The DNA matches this Conner Bishop. I am going to go over and use Lucky as an excuse, I want you to come with me, be disingenuous, ask to explore the place a bit."

"Where should I look?" asked the Detective as he took the paperwork from Mac. "Why not just plan an all out search? We have the warrant?"

"Because this Conner Bishop is very handy with guns." said Mac. "I would like to be home to help my daughter deal with what she saw earlier."

Nodding, they took the shuttle over to Spoon Island and asked Mrs. Lansbury to speak with her boss. "Tell him it is regarding Lucky Spencer."

The housekeeper hated to disturb her master, Nicolas had been rather tense lately and she really wasn't looking forward to his being upset but she knocked on the door anyhow.

"Sir, there is a police officer downstairs, regarding your brother, Mr. Spencer." Conner wanted to tell him to come back but knew he had to play the part of loving older brother. Looking at the woman lying asleep after he had worn her out, he said "Tell him I will get dressed and be right down."

Turning, he growled as he pulled on some clothes, his night wasn't turning out the way he had wanted at all. First the blond had spent most of it bitching about being evicted, then stated she was going to crash at her brother's palatial mansion after many sideways glanced and expectant pauses.

He had finally gotten her in bed and put her mouth to good use before she had collapsed exhausted.

Hearing the housekeeper grumbling as she returned, Garcia acted the part and when Nik/Conner arrived, wandered around then asked "So, I heard this place is haunted and that you have secret passages and stuff. Do you mind..."

Nik just waved his hand as if to say, go look, just wanting to deal with this and get back to the bedroom where the blond was sleeping. Mac sat down with Nik and told him all that was going on, not leaving a single thing out.

Meanwhile Garcia trotted to the dungeons and found them just where he had been told they would be. Eventually he saw the time was close and made the prearranged call to his boss. "Sir, I am lost, do you think that Mr. Cassadine can tell me how to get back from what looks like the basement on the water side."

Nik heard and rolled his eyes, they were surrounded by water. "Tell him to stay where he is and I will come find him."

Mac made a point of coming with him and saw Nik/Conner hesitate then backtrack at one point. Pretending to hear something, Mac went down the hall only to be called back by the dark haired man. Once they had found Garcia, the man saw his boss' nod then said "Conner Bishop, you are under arrest for kidnapping, and the murder of Mary Bishop earlier this month. You..."

When they had the man cuffed, Mac called in the two men on the boat he had just off shore. "Take him to the station."

Meanwhile Garcia went to where Mac directed him and busted open the door. Seeing the real Prince tied to the bed and looking like he was barely hanging on, he was in shock when the man asked "My wife, how is Mary, is she safe?"

Mac started then asked to see his wrist. Seeing the mark he knew that Nik had, he listened and was surprised to find out that Nik had already pieced the story together then said "Mary, I had married her, but with Conner alive... I just don't know..."

Hearing she was dead, the man broke down and they left the Island to head to GH, no one remembering that Courtney was fast asleep in an upstairs bedroom but the malevolent woman who had snuck onto the island. "Find out who she is then let me know what is happening down at the station."

As the men arrived at the station, Conner struggled with the two men and soon had a gun. Shots were fired and as he was dying he claimed to be the real prince.

AT Kelly's, Jason entered and saw Emily, Steven Webber and Elizabeth all sitting at a table and from the looks of it drinking hot cocoa. Shuddering as his sister offered to make him one, Steven said "They needed it, but I made coffee."

Getting a cup, he sat down then said "What is going on?"

"Jason, I asked Emily to not tell you using medical privacy issues but we ran another DNA test." said Elizabeth as she sat across from the man who was her son's father.

""The woman down in the lab, put a rush on them and they came back this evening." said his sister then shut up, knowing that Elizabeth had to be the one to tell him.

"I am, aren't I. I am Cameron's father?" he asked holding his breath while positive it was true.

"Yeah, you are." she said then added. "The second night, when Emily almost died, I had what I thought at the time were dreams, weird dreams but I never suspected they were true."

Jason sat back then shook his head. "I remember being at the hospital, being exhausted and just grateful you were there with me... I remember..." he didn't tell her, she would be furious to know that he had been thinking and wishing that it had been them getting married. But that he had believed she wanted nothing more than friendship if that at the time.

They sat there waiting for him to finish just as Emily's phone rang. Looking at the caller ID, she said "It's the hospital."

Calling them back, she said "Mom wants me to come back tonight."

"I can drive you,Emily." said Steven knowing the other two needed to talk and do so without witnesses.

Once the room was again quiet, Jason looked at the mother of his son then said "Why didn't you tell me about the dreams, earlier?"

"Because I had a DNA test ran, but here is the question, who knew what and when? And why would Ric set it up for Zander to be the father... why not put your DNA as a substitute for his?"

"At this point, I only have one question, and the rest of it we can figure out together, Elizabeth, are you going to allow me near my son?"

"You yes, your friends and that includes Sonny no. If he is even in the same room, we will be in court and I just want to point out that I have a damn compelling case to keep you away if you do anything I don't like regarding Cam. That being said, you are his father and I won't keep him from knowing you. You have to decide... what legacy do you want to leave your son?"

With that she stood then said "If you want you can come with me, I am staying at my grams tonight, Cameron is there."

"What about your house?" he asked.

"Lucky was arrested there today, I won't be returning there. Even Steven agrees, not after what Lucky did. Poor Georgie, to witness him doing that..." she said then filled him in as they left the diner.

Locking the door, they missed seeing Courtney as she got off the shuttle wondering what was so bad with Lucky that Nik had left her alone. Her eyes narrowing, she went straight to Bobbies where Carly was staying.

Being let in, she said "Jason was with Elizabeth, down by the docks."

Carly vowed to deal with that tomorrow then went to bed as she plotted out her plans to return everything to normal. Courtney was soon asleep, having no idea her own life was about to be ruined.

In the morning, the town of Port Charles woke up to the news that Prince Nikolas Cassadine had a twin, one who had died in police custody after he had tried to kill two officers. Nik was in serious condition at GH and how, that Courtney Matthews was about to be sued by the IRS for fraudulent claims on her charity.

Meanwhile, Carly took the test and went to Sonny's fortress in the wood. "We need to talk."

"Carly, we have said everything there is to say."

"I wish." she scoffed. "I am pregnant. And, yeah, it's yours."

Rocked back by the news, Sonny said "We need to figure this out. But for now, I guess you have to move back in. Carly, don't make the mistake of thinking that means we will be living happily ever after, it ain't going to be happening."

When Elizabeth woke up in her teenage bed, she felt a presence and saw to her shock that Jason was still there sitting on the floor next to Cam's travel pram. "Jason, did you ever go home last night?"

Nodding no, he said "He is our son. I just have lost so much time with him, with being there for you."

With a sigh, she said "Jason..."

When she saw his face the nurse sat back then looked at the man who was hiding nothing and said "A few years ago, before this nightmare, I would have given anything for you to look at me that way, but now... it just reminds me of what has happened and that I can't trust you."

"I know you don't believe me, but I did love you. I was just angry and bitter that you didn't trust me, that you just let me go. I just wanted to make the pain go away. Then it all just snowballed." he said with his crossed arms on his raised knees. "I just wanted to prove that I was more than Sonny's go to guy, that what you said wasn't the truth... instead..."

The two looked at one another, the brick walls crumbled on the ground as they got the pain and anger that was going to be hard to overcome. Elizabeth looked at the pram then at Jason and said "No matter what, we have to find common ground, for Cam."

"And if I want more?" he asked then said "Elizabeth, we both made mistakes, I just made worse ones, I get that. Do you think you can ever get past what happened with Sonny, with me?"

Standing, she walked to the window having no idea how beautiful she looked to Jason as she stretched a bit in her pajamas bottoms and camisole. "I don't know that I want to. At least regarding Sonny, as for us, I am going to try."

When they heard a knock on the bedroom door, Jason opened it as Elizabeth went to check on Cam. "Elizabeth, my dear, what is Mr. Morgan doing in your bedroom?"