Circle of Life
Chapter Two
Jason had woken up from what felt like a deep sleep. As he lay in the hospital bed, his emotions were a seething jumble underneath but to anyone looking at him, they would see a calm, completely still person. Under the skin however, Jason was mentally heaving anything he had ever eaten in his entire life, Morgan or Quartermaine.
He was married to Sam McCall, the woman who had done what she had to his family. He had slept with this woman, had told her he loved her. Every single part of him was sickened as his memories flew past his eyes like a movie scene on a loop.
His only comfort came from knowing that the baby she was carrying wasn't his, that did give him some sense of relief. Hearing someone entering the room, he saw Matt Hunter who came over to check on him. "How are you feeling?"
Jason didn't answer, his mind kept seeing the doctor with Elizabeth, clearly there was something there but he knew he had no right to say anything. When the doctor started asking questions, showing him some figures, he tersely answered, but otherwise said nothing.
Matt went to the hallway and quickly called Monica Quartermaine. "Jason is awake."
"I am on my way." Looking in on Sam who was laying on her side, clearly devastated at the news she had gotten about her little girl, Monica left but ran into Spinelli who was grinning widely. "I hear that the long awaited love child of my master and the goddess has been born."
Not slowing down, Monica said "Go see Sam, she could use some cheering up."
Hurrying off to see his beloved goddess, Spinelli frowned at the words and that Stone Cold didn't seem to be in with his wife.
Downstairs, Monica read the file then entered Jason's room to see him staring up at the ceiling. "How do you feel?"
No answer. "Dr. Hunter says you cognitive abilities are fine."
"Isn't it against hospital regulations for him to tell you that." he snapped. Seeing her surprise, he looked at his mother then said "I don't like that he felt he could share my medical information without speaking to me first."
"I am your mother and the chief of staff." she pointed out.
Jason went back to looking at the ceiling, his mind on other things. "Jason, how much do you remember?"
"If you are asking if I remember my childhood? Yes." he said then with a cold grin said "I also remember my son, and all those who hurt him. As well as that I am married."
That would be quickly remedied but Monica didn't need to know that.
Monica looked at her son then said "Sam went into labor, she gave birth to your-uh, to a little girl. Jason, no matter what, that little girl is an innocent."
Lifting his head, he scoffed at his mother and said "Please, continue."
"You raised Micheal and he wasn't yours, you were going to do the same with Sam's first child." she reminded him. "How is this any different?"
"Don't ask." he said darkly just as the door blew open and Carly came rushing in.
"Jason, I just heard. I am here."
Looking cynically at the blond, he wanted to ask but why are you here?
"So I see." he said then went back to looking at the ceiling.
"What is going on?" she asked shocked at his ignoring her.
"Sam gave birth to Franco's daughter today." he said conversationally. "Monica here was just telling me how I should get over what happened in the past and raise her. What do you think, should I raise Sam's child?"
"Jason?" Carly was confused, there was a coldness to Jason's tone that she wasn't used to.
"Or should I just accept what happened wasn't meant to be, then move on, after all I can always find someone else to love, have a child with someone else, that I will be happy again. Isn't that what you told me before?"
"No, I don't think so." Carly was clearly puzzled at what he was inferring.
"Carly, my best friend in the whole world, yes you did." with that he suddenly sat up, looked around then asked the entering Matt Hunter where his clothes were.
"Don't you know, apparently my wife needs me, and that is the most important thing in the world. Since Carly approves of me being with the woman who had a child with her own husband, apparently it is okay for me to go to her."
Hurt and not getting why Jason was being so mean, Carly started to speak only for Monica to look and shake her head no, then mouth the words not now.
"Yes, do as Monica says." Once again mocked Jason. "After all you mustn't unset the man waking from a brain injury. Right, Monica?"
Standing, he took the clothes that Matt held out from the drawer and then said "Now if you will excuse me, I have to dress, go home and shower and shave. Then if I don't need to do anything for Sonny, after I have checked to make sure that Michael hasn't fucked anything up, played manny for Carly's and Alexis' children, then found out what Carly needs to be fixed, maybe, just maybe I might have the time to show up to check on my 'wife'."
Jaws dropped when instead of heading towards the elevator, Jason took the stairs clearly going down them and not up like they had actually expected. "Matt, what the hell happened here?"
"I don't know. His brain scans show that all systems are back functioning completely. So whatever that was, its not because of an injury, not anymore." Matt walked away, stunned at the coldness that Jason had exhibited towards his sick wife who was apparently a victim of rape by one of his enemies and the baby she had had.
Johnny was pacing back and forth, his mind on his visit from Carly. They had argued but their relationship if you could call it that had run its course. He was done with worrying about what others thought, he just wanted to close the last bit of this mess and get on with his life.
While he had mourned Claudia, for his father/grandfather he had told the ME to send him to be cremated, that he didn't give a shit what happened to the old man.
Hearing footsteps, he turned to see Steven Webber standing there glaring at him. "I would say I was sorry but hey, I thought you were responsible for what was going on."
Shaking his head in annoyance, Steven looked at the other man then said "I need to find out what they did with my nephew, for my sister's sake. We are going to have to share information, will you do that?"
"Hell why not. I have a meeting with Mac Scorpio and someone else in a bit, come with me to that." he said then sat down and filled in the man on all he knew.
"Cesar Faison, I know that name from some place."
"Good, then maybe we can all get together and put this to bed." said Johnny who then stood and began to pace, "Your nephew, I am sorry, I don't know anything about him. I had a list of names, gave it to Scorpio, his wasn't on it."
"That is because Helena Cassadine arranged it personally as an F U at Luke Spencer, she thought he was his grandson." said Steven pained at the idea. "Then she fucked with my sister mentally, then used me to have her committed when Elizabeth was no more crazy than I was." Steven was convinced that is when Elizabeth had been implanted with Aidan.
"This Cassadine woman, does she have a connection to this man." asked Johnny.
"I don't know, but I am hoping that maybe we can get the answers. We were just at the Haunted Star." After a moment's quiet, Steven said "Elizabeth has finally had Luke Spencer arrested for killing her son. I think that this is a good start for her, for her recovery."
"I thought Spencer was drunk?" he asked.
"Do you think that means he should be let off?" asked Steven not believing his ears.
"No, but everyone knows what he is." he pointed out. "Its not like its a secret."
"But no one did a damn thing about it. Like my sister said, everyone excuses their own moments of weakness then crucifies her for hers. Luke deserves to go to jail, to this day he has never even apologized for what he did to Jake." said Steven fiercely.
"I get that, but more than likely all that will happen is Luke gets probation and addiction treatment which he has already gone to." pointed out Johnny.
"Actually he didn't, he skipped out and went to Europe." said Steven. "And when he returned, no one dealt with him. My sister is right, he needs to face this."
"I agree, I just hope she doesn't set her expectations too high, not in this town." he said moodily.
Elizabeth had just entered her gram's house when she saw the elderly woman had the news on about the Amber Alert for Sam's daughter. "Please turn that off, I don't want to see it."
Audrey did as requested, then thought about the file that the FBI agent had dropped off then said "Elizabeth, what are you going to do about Aidan; Lucky deserves to know."
"He deserves nothing." she said looking at her grams, trying to read what she was thinking, then getting it winced. "Gram's, even if Lucky were to return, I sure as hell am not going back to him. We are done, he has turned his back on me for the last time. Those two boys upstairs needed his help, what did he do, he fled the country like the whiny little spoiled Spencer he is. Do you get that Jake's body is missing, not because of his mobster father, like I was brainwashed to fear, not because of anything I did, but because Helena wanted to hurt the Spencers."
Standing, Elizabeth looked at her and said "There is no way in hell I am risking my remaining children, just so that you can tell your friends how your sad and pathetic granddaughter has made amends for her sins. What about the sins against me, against my children. When will Lucky ever realize his guilt."
"He won't so I am not going to waste my time trying to fix him. So that you know, Luke left the Haunted Star in cuffs today. And I hope he truly rots in the hell he created."
Audrey sat down after she left, then hesitated then lifted her phone. Hitting 0, she asked for the country code for Ireland. "Elizabeth, if you won't do what is right, I will."
Getting the code, then looking at the number Lucky had given her before leaving, she dialed the number. He had come to see her, tears in his eyes, apologizing for leaving but saying that Elizabeth was tearing him down and he couldn't remain, that he just couldn't prop her up any longer. That he owed it to his wife to mourn her before coming home and being a proper father to his son.
"We are sorry but the number you have dial is not in service. Please hang up and try to dial your number again."
Frowning a bit, Audrey did just that and got the same message. "That's odd."
Hanging up a second time, she went to her old phone bills, finding the one she needed. Siohban had once used her phone to call home and the number would be on that, maybe they could reach Lucky. Dialing she heard "Hello, Molly's pub."
"Hello, I am trying to locate an American I was told was coming there to stay. Lucky Spencer." she said hesitantly unaware that she had hit record on her old answering machine.
"Oh Spencer, yeah, he was here for a few days. But that was over a year ago." said the woman. "He left with my daughter and then my other daughter joined them in Dublin late last year. Something 'bout searching for the lost gold treasure."
"I think I have the wrong pub." she said a bit disappointed. "Lucky when he left town said he was going to stay with his wife's family to mourn her loss."
"No, you have the right place. We put on a grand shindig for Siobhan, then Lucky and my other daughter Maddie went off looking for the gold. He said that he had been planning on doing so with Siobhan but then that she had died in a horrible fire caused by his ex-wife, that she had burnt down the house they were living in out of jealousy. My poor little girl..."
"May I have your address, there is something I need to send to Lucky, its a surprise so if you hear from him, could you keep it to yourself." she asked and was told surely she could.
Hanging up, her hands shaking, Audrey went to the computer and thought to herself that it was sad that Cam had been the one to give her basic knowledge of it. Getting ready to leave the house, she heard the machine click and realized she had recorded the whole thing.
Printing up the list of articles that would show the truth, she called the newspaper office then went to pick up her bundle. As she was leaving, she saw Damien Spinelli tracking someone and frowned at the way the man was talking on the phone.
He didn't even see her as he said "Goddess, yes, I am following her. Do you want me to call Stone Cold now?"
Whatever the answer, the geek clearly didn't like it but hung up the phone and kept walking right past the elderly woman he never even noticed.
Audrey then went to the diner then to the bar and gathered up what she wanted to send. A trip to the UPS store later, she called Ireland back and said "I was thinking on it, I found some of Siobhan's personal items, I sent them out to you."
Being thanked, she hung up and then with a shaky hand called Laura Spencer. "Laura, we need to talk about Lucky. Are you aware that he is telling people Elizabeth burnt your house down to kill Siobhan."
"You must be wrong, Lucky would never do that." she protested then went silent at what Audrey played for her from her old fashioned answering machine. "Oh god, why would Lucky do that?"
"I don't know, but I do know that with Helena stealing my grandson's body out of revenge against your family, I am done making excuses for your children. Take care of them, yourself." with that Audrey hung up the phone and heard a knock on her door. Seeing a young woman there, she asked "How may I help you?"
"I uh, I am looking for a young woman, but I don't know her name. She left a message with me last night about the father of my son. John McBain." Natalie had been surprised when Todd had tracked down the address connected to the cell phone to this house for her.
"That might be my granddaughter, Elizabeth. She doesn't live here, if you leave me your name and number I will have her get back to you." she said. When Natalie decided not to, she just watched the red head walk away then called her granddaughter. Getting voice mail, she left a message, unaware that Elizabeth had just arrived at the hospital.
Upstairs, Alexis was almost as hysterical as Sam when Monica reluctantly told them that Jason wasn't answering his phone. "First he leaves here earlier, without so much as visiting his wife and child, now almost five hours later, you can't reach him. What the hell is wrong with your son, Monica?"
"Right now, we have more important things to worry about, Alexis. Like who would want to kidnap Sam's daughter. Sam we need a name for the report." said Mac unaware that Jason had arrived and was standing nearby waiting to hear her response.
"I uh, I was thinking Emily Danielle." she told them only to hear a door slam shut. "Yes, Emily Danielle Morgan."
"NO WAY IN HELL." stated Jason coldly. "There is no way I am letting you name that child for my late sister. Let alone using Morgan as a last name."
"What the hell is wrong with you?" snarled Alexis in shock at the tone in his voice. Monica had tried to warn her, but this was completely beyond the pale, the way he was speaking to a rape victim about her child, let alone his wife. "Sam's baby has been kidnapped."
"Really? Are you sure she didn't have another moment of weakness?" asked Jason looking at the woman he was stuck being married to until the annulment papers arrived. "That she didn't make the baby disappear."
"Jason, how can you even suggest that, Sam would never hurt a child?" That had him laughing loudly as he looked at his mother just as the door was tipped open again by the uniformed officers on Mac's nod.
"Jason, I think you need to have Patrick Drake check you out as soon as he returns, clearly there is something wrong with you."
"NO, Monica, there isn't." he said. "I am in complete control of my faculties, and lucky for me, my missing memories from the last several years."
Sam saw the deadly expression on his face on his face as he looked at her and decided to bluff her way through, "Jason, then why would you ever accuse me of-"
"Don't go there unless you want me to out the truth right here and now." he said just as John McBain rushed in. "Oh, here you go, McBain, my 'wife' needs comforting, why don't you help her, because I am not going to."
Seeing the expressions on the faces nearby, including a worried looking Carly and now Sonny, he called out to the man. "Sonny do you have our people looking for Sam's missing child?"
"Oh course, Jason." he said shocked that his best friend would even have to ask, of course he would have people out looking for his child. "Why would you even ask?"
"Call them back, I am quite positive that they are wasting their time. I am curious though, where was this thoroughness when Jake was grabbed." He saw Sonny flinch and knew that the other man was aware that the 'old' Jason was back and that he was not going to be a pushover.
"No one knew that Jake was your son, Elizabeth-"
Turning to Monica, Jason said. "Sam knew, Sonny knew, Spinelli knew and several others, you didn't know though. Sonny what did you say, for me not to do anything foolish, that you would take care of it. So, did you have the men out on a full out manhunt for my son? No, actually you didn't, you told Max to keep an eye out and then called Spinelli to have him work on another issue. Sam, what did you do to help locate my son?"
Seeing him taping his finger on the side of his face, she was in shock when he looked at her and said "Well, I am waiting. What did you do to "help" locate my son? Why don't we share with the rest of the room?"
"JASON, MAN, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" asked a stunned Sonny as his partner glared at his wife who was sitting up in a hospital bed, looking sick, then at Carly and finally at him.
"Carly, I am sure that you had something to say about it, well, as a woman who knows what it is like to have a child go missing, did you go over and comfort Elizabeth. Did you help her in any way?" he mocked then looked at Sam. "Did you ?"
"Fuck you, Jason. I was raped and this is nothing like that was." She was trying to remind him that it had been his enemy but he clearly didn't give a crap.
"You are certainly right about that. See, I was in love with Elizabeth, and you hated that fact." he said his eyes never leaving her. "You knew that it was about more than Jake."
"And have every since then. Sam, we both know that you aren't the brightest crayon in the box, but after how strongly I went after Claudia, you didn't think it was odd for me to take you back? To tell you that you would be a good mother?"
John looked around the room, then thought about the file he had read regarding the Jake Spencer kidnapping after his visit with Elizabeth the night before. Then looked at Sam. "You knew who had the Spencer kid, didn't you?"
"He wasn't the Spencer kid, he was Jake, my son." said Jason, his eyes never leaving his wife who flinched at what she saw in his eyes. Death was there, was almost a visible promise in them. "So Sam, answer the detective. We are all waiting with baited breath."
Tearing up, she turned to her mother and said "It was a moment of weakness. I was so hurt in knowing he had lied to me, that he had a child that I..."
Mac looked at Alexis then at Sam. "When you are well enough, you are under arrest, don't try to flee but right now, Jason why don't you tell me what you think happened to your daughter."
"That baby isn't my daughter." he snapped. Looking at Sam, he said "I am sorry you were attacked by Franco, but I won't be guilted by anyone into staying with you. And don't make the mistake of thinking that I will be pressed into changing my mind, I won't be."
Carly was absorbing the fact that apparently Sam knew who had stolen Jason's son away the first time and that there was clearly something she didn't know about things as she looked between the couple. "Oh my god, do you think that Elizabeth snapped and kidnapped Emily?"
"For fuck's sake don't call that baby Emily." Jason snapped. Turning to his mother he said "Right now, grandmother is spinning in her grave at the fact Sam is wearing her engagement set, trust me on this, she is so furious that Edward will be hearing about it a hundred years after he joins her."
"How dare you, Lila Quartermaine is the most forgiving person, she would understand that Sam made a mistake, one caused by your lies." snapped Alexis. "And my daughter came name her child anything she wants."
"Sam do it and you go to prison so fast you will never get to hold that child if that really even matters to you." said Jason with a smirk. "We both know that I have enough to send you to prison. So, tell Mac the truth, what did you do with your child?"
"Jason, after all I went through to get to this point, how can you treat me this way, ask me that?" she asked as the tears began to flow.
"Well you were talking about having an abortion, just like with your first child with Sonny." he said almost casually. "Then there is what you did to my son, so don't expect me to believe you any time soon."
"I can't stay and listen to this." said a furious Monica. "I am tracking down Patrick Drake, clearly there is something wrong with you, Jason."
"There is, bitter and angry regrets that are the result of a building falling on my head and knocking out any memories of what the hell Sam did to Elizabeth and Jake. Otherwise, there is no way in hell I would have had sex with her, let alone married the woman." he said coldly.
"Speaking of Elizabeth, when is someone going to find out what she was doing when Sam's baby went missing?" asked Alexis. "After all she had a breakdown not all that long ago."
"Sam, tell your mother to shut the hell up, after all, what about if Ric and Sonny were to suddenly start screwing around with Faith after she kidnapped and hurt Kristina?"
Moving his eyes onto Carly, he asked "Carly, how you do you think you would react if Sonny had done so mere months after she kidnapped Michael?"
Then his eyes were on his partner who felt a sense of doom as he asked "Or even better yet, Sonny how would you have reacted if Carly were to have started screwing around with Ric after he held her hostage?"
Seeing the shock in their eyes, he said "Well that is what Elizabeth saw me doing. Having sex with the woman who hurt our son. And no, unlike the rest of the selfish people in this room, Elizabeth would never hurt a child."
Seeing them beginning to protest and annoyed to be bogged down by all this crap, Mac took charge. "I know where Elizabeth was when the baby was taken. She was with me. So lets not waste any more time on wildly outrageous accusations."
Elizabeth was not a happy camper when her brother showed up with John Zachara. Glaring at the young mobster, she said "Why is he here?"
"I am sorry for bringing him here but I need to ask you something. He has a name, someone that they were looking into before with connections to the black market organ ring back in 2008. When the Russians were in town. It rang a bell and reminded me of you for some reason."
"What is the name?" she asked then staggered and fell onto the sofa as she choked out. "H-he is the man who was working with Helena to brainwash Lucky. He helped make it look like he is dead."
"Lucky, so this is another Spencer connection?" asked Steven.
"And Scorpio, if I recall he made it look like Robin's parents were dead, blew up their boat when they left on their honeymoon years ago." she said surprised then hesitating went to the phone and called Anna. "I know I said..."
"Its alright, Elizabeth." she said consoling the younger woman. "What do you need?"
"Its about Cesar Faison, Steven is here with John Zachara." she said.
"Mac asked me to meet with the Zachara heir later today, but that was canceled when Sam's baby was kidnapped." she said. "I will be right over, this sounds like it might be more important, since they think Sam might have kidnapped her own child to get Jason's attention."
Anna showed up and the three who where waiting were awkwardly eating dinner with Cam and Aidan when she arrived at the cottage. Sitting down to join them, she was talking to Cam about Patrick and Emma when her phone rang.
Taking it outside, she asked "What may I do for you, John?"
"I found a way in to deal with Sonny." he said his mind on what he had heard between the guard and Sonny after the crowd had scattered. Jason Morgan had left, making it clear that he didn't believe a word out of his wife's mouth and those that were closest to him were convinced that during his accident the day before something had been damaged.
"If you are wanting help, I am going to be unavailable." she said then heard what he had to say. "Now that I can help with, just watch and wait until I have done what you requested. You should also know, Elizabeth Webber isn't exactly your biggest fan."
"If I am right, she will be." he said then went to look over the files at the Port Charles Police Department, making a few calls, he reached some former police officers and what they had to say sent chills down his spine.
Hanging up he went to see the commissioner who was on the phone with the FBI. "I don't really know, but I suspect that Mr. Morgan is correct. Ms McCall was told that her child's life would be a difficult one and she was upset to find out that her little girl isn't a perfect specimen of a child."
John doubted that Sam hurt her child, that much he believed, she was truly devastated from what he had seen but he was willing to keep an open mind, since it was clear that was something the local cops had never done.
When Mac had hung up, he said "Sir, you have a real problem. I was looking into this armed assault on Elizabeth Webber in the park and that lead me to other cases, frankly sir, you have several cases that were closed that shouldn't have been. From the serial killer case several years ago, to the more recent case of the Jake Webber hit and run."
Mac looked tired, his eyes had dark circles under them as he looked at the man in front of him. "I have had corrupt DA's, my own daughter spilling secrets to the mob and police officers more interested in vendettas or protecting their own to do their job."
"Like Dante Falconari? He shouldn't be working cases involving the mob but otherwise, he doesn't seem that bad." John stated.
"He isn't, his wife always being around is another matter but then I don't care for Lulu so that might be personal bias." he said rubbing the back of his neck. "Anyhow, I have all my officers looking into this kidnapping, plus Sonny's men are looking too. The odd thing is that Damien Spinelli, Morgan's hacker pal is missing too."
"Could he have kidnapped the baby?" asked John.
"Not without help." he said then told the other man what Matt and Patrick who had arrived had told him. "And I have another problem. Morgan, his doctor is my nephew in law, he mentioned that what happened with Morgan is that he regained some missing memories, things he had repressed."
"So right now, he is a loose cannon and it seems that all his bombs are aimed at his wife."
"Uh, sir." There was a green rookie in the door requesting his attention. "Sir, there is a woman demanding to speak to you."
Diane Miller entered the room she had not missed in the last several months but the call from Jason Morgan had not only intrigued her but had her enjoying the idea of getting the last laugh on her former friend, Alexis Davis.
"Ms Miller, I thought you kicked the dust of this small town off your feet and left defending the coffee importers to your ex-partner." said Mac surprised to find himself checking out the high maintenance red head.
"Well I had, but this is a special case. Here." With that she gave him all that Jason had on Sam McCall. She had finally read the file that he had given her several years ago and was shocked at what was in it.
"My client regained his memories and his common sense. In there you will find proof of the crimes that Ms McCall committed against Ms Webber and her children, also how her and Mr Spencer's illegal investigation into the Russian mob was messed up."
Sitting down, crossing her legs, then with a thorough look over of John McBain said "Then we have another matter to discuss, it seems that Mr Franco had help pulling a fast one. There is no wedding certificate on record for the the Chinese Buffet nuptials of Mr Morgan and that woman."
"What?" Mac asked then called over and had someone woken up. When the clerk arrived grumpy and wearing his pajama bottoms, Mac and he went looking into the files, all of them. Early the next morning, Mac found a Morgan wedding certificate but not for Sam and with a smile he closed the cabinet.
Making a call, he had a little laugh then went to see McBain. Handing it to the other man he saw his confusion. "That is Sonny Corinthos current wife, she hasn't divorced him yet, or rather she was his current wife, since it looks like she is really still married to Morgan."
"They really share women, don't they?" he asked disgusted.
"Not in this case." Explaining, Mac then said "How about you watch from the Interrogation room while I tell them."
Sam was sedated against her will as she hid her cell phone next to her, waiting for Spinelli to call her with the information. She was struggling not to fall asleep even as the lights were turned out and she could hear Dr. Lee talking to Alexis.
"I have to go to the police station early tomorrow morning, Mac said you were to be there too." the doctor told the attorney.
"I am coming, Monica is going to stay with Sam. I can't believe what Jason did. Sam was raped because of him, it was his enemy." she was in shock at what she had heard, still hours later.
Carly and Sonny were sitting silently across from each other in the living room of his estate, both not sure what to say after the spectacle that they had witnessed. Jason turning on a vulnerable woman, his own wife at that.
"Sonny, what do you think is going on?" she asked as she sipped a glass of wine and toyed with her almost empty glass.
"I am sure that Monica is right, that it is just the reaction from getting punched by John McBain the other day." he said lying to himself as well as Carly.
The phone rang and Sonny looked at Carly then said "We will be there."
"What is it?" Carly asked.
"Mac needs us down at the station tomorrow morning, its in regards to Jason." he said as they quickly hurried parted, Carly to her place and Sonny up to bed.
Across town, Spinelli was not happy to be in such a bad neighborhood, shivering as he tried to stay in the shadows, he never saw the man behind him with a gun. "Give me your bag."
"No." he said urgently then felt the gun in the middle of his back. Fighting with the man, he was not thinking clearly and soon found himself shot in the back. Laying on the ground, after the man had walked away, Spinelli tried to call Sam on his cell phone, but got no answer.
As he bled out, the geek was looking up at the stars and realizing that dead really meant dead.
Jason entered the diner, hungry and wanting something quick to eat. The waitress handed him food just as a mouthy blond entered. "Jason, I want to talk to you."
The blond man walked around her and out the door as she chased after him. "Hey, where are you going? Didn't you hear me, I want to talk to you."
Reaching out, she grabbed his arm and he dropped his take out container. Bending down to pick it up, he dumped it in the trash, retraced his steps, still ignoring her and went back inside. "I need another Number six, it was knocked out of my hands."
The woman put the order in again, offered him a cup of coffee then went to continue closing up. "Do you really think you can just ignore me?"
Counting to ten, Jason just took his food and thanked the waitress five minutes later having ignored Lulu all this time. At the doorway, she blocked him from trying to exit and snapped "Now what are you going to do?"
"Look you overly indulged yapping spoiled brat, get the hell out of why or I will show you what I will do." When she just crossed her arms and looked at him, he said "Okay, you asked for it."
Picking her up, Jason carried her out through the back and past the waitress and the cook, then tossed her into the open dumpster and walked away, her shrieks music to his ears.
Reentering the diner, he picked up his food and went out the door with the waitress locking it since it was closing time. At the waiting car, he sat down inside and ate the food, hearing echos of all the times he had wanted to do something similar to the annoying blond Spencer female.
Lulu held her nose, while trying to brush garbage off her clothes. Screaming when she realized her cell phone had fallen deeper into the messy smelly food refuse, she tried to climb out and fell back inside.
Calling out for help, she was furious when at first no one from inside the diner came to rescue her but then she saw a man. "Who are you?"
"What are you doing in the dumpster?" asked the tall blond man as he looked at the blond wearing what looked like a dirty napkin as a hat.
"I was tossed in here." she said furious at what had happened to her. "By someone who should know better."
"Okay, well I will get a ladder or something." he said stepping back towards the door to the small rundown diner.
"Look, just pull me out by my hands." she said reaching out for him.
"No, no, lets get a ladder." he said holding his nose from the smell that was emitting from the large green box.
Lulu was not happy to be standing there in the middle of the soft trash, trying to keep her mind off of what she was sure was staining her clothes. Hearing the man returning, she was about to speak to him when she heard her phone ringing.
Looking down she saw it hadn't sank very far and reached in, grimacing at the noodles from the left over chicken noodle soup that were sticking to her smart phone. Answering it, she said "I will be right there."
Todd opened the ladder and took a step back, just as he heard the blond close the phone and begin to mutter. "What the hell, I have bigger problems then some stupid bimbo that has stuck herself onto Michael. Who the hell does Starr Manning think she is... seriously, she is probably happy the kid is dead, I know I would be."
His rage growing as the blond muttered to herself, Todd asked "What is your name?"
"Lulu, I am Lulu Spencer, Luke and Laura's daughter. Do you know my parents?" she asked holding out her hand for him to take to steady her as she placed her first foot onto the ladder.
"Not yet, but I guarantee I will before the sun rises tomorrow." he said then moved in closer, risking his suit coat as he said "You, Ms Lulu Spencer had better hope that they don't have any secrets."
With that he shoved her back in, removed the ladder and then with a wicked smirk, shut the rubberized black lids and walked away.
Taking out his phone, he called Blair and said "Find out all there is to know about a Lulu Spencer, daughter of Laura and Luke Spencer. She just made the worst mistake of her life and since I just found her in a dumpster, that is saying something."
Elizabeth hung up the phone, stunned at all that she had gotten from the General Hospital gossips. Jason had accused Sam of kidnapping her own child to get his attention. Had laid into most of the people in the room.
Looking at her brother she said "You weren't kidding, I can't believe this."
"Patrick told me to tell you, Monica is insisting he retest Jason, but like he said on the phone. All that is going on is Jason getting who he is back." he said with a shrug.
When they were seated, he asked "What do you think that Johnny and Anna will find?"
"I just hope she doesn't end up in bed with him, he seems to like older women." she said her mind on all she had heard about the young mobster.
"Elizabeth, you are avoiding the topic." he said gently. "Don't slip back into old habits, you have been doing so well."
"Its... just with what Grams told me tonight, I don't know what to think, about anything." she confessed. "That she would go behind my back, I kind of expected, but that she is finally realizing that I was right, I am enjoying that."
"Mac said that the DA is going to press charges on Luke, are you ready for the battle you are going to have to deal with, the Spencers and maybe even Tracy Quartermaine." he told her, trying to goad her into strengthening her spine.
"I am ready, I didn't do what was right for my son while he was alive, I will be damned if I let him down again in his death." she said. "If this Faison is involved, then I will send the boys to Sarah, but for now, I don't want them away from me."
"I agree." Steven didn't tell her what Johnny had told him, he was going to do some discreet checking, because he hated to get her hopes up, but her big brother was beginning to wonder if Jake had really died. Looking at the clock, he said "I have to go home, while I am still suspended, I have decided we are going to get this house painted."
"We?" she asked.
"Well, Patrick and I did." he said with a smile at her. "You chose the colors, we do the painting."
Elizabeth laughed then said "Just what will GH do with the two of you not there?"
Hugging his little sister, Steven whispered in her ear. "You are stronger than you know, don't let anyone tell you differently."
"I love you, Steven." she said returning his hug.
"I love you too, peanut." he said then went to the back door and headed home.
Elizabeth went around, locking doors and checking windows as she started towards the stairs, Hearing a knock on her door, she too a peek then stood there, still as she could not, sure what to do.
The answer was taken away from her as she heard a key in the knob and her door open. "Jason?"
"Hi." he said looking at her and then around at the cozy house he had long dreamed of being his home. "I don't know if you heard, but well I went to sleep at the hospital forty eight hours ago."
"I heard." she said.
"Did you also hear that Robin's protocol kicked in?" he asked putting his keys back into his jeans pocket and then shoved his hands into them too.
"Yes, I heard." she said not sure what to say to him.
Looking at her, then at the house she shared with their children, he said "I have made so many mistakes in my life, you and I, being together, it wasn't one of them. I woke up with my memories that I didn't know I was missing back. Recent Jason Morgan ones."
"I didn't know that you were missing any." she said her eyes on his hands, the way they seemed to strain against the denim.
"Funny thing is neither did I." he said sadly. "Elizabeth, what happened, what we lost, I can never make up for. But I want you to know, I am going to try."
Wiping the tears that were falling, she looked at him and said "Jason, you weren't the only one making mistakes."
"Maybe not." he conceded. "And we will have to talk about them, at some point, but I came to ask a favor of you."
"You can ask me anything." she said softly.
"I know that this might be an inconvenience, but can I sleep in Jake's room?" he asked, Elizabeth sobbed at the words, while Jason reached out and pulled her into his arms, trying to console her. "I know, I truly, completely know."
They drew comfort from one another, then Elizabeth said "I have to tell you what happened to Jake's body."
"Mac Scorpio told me." he said his eyes closed as he dealt with the pain. The man had spoken to Sam and him both about her child's disappearance and he had given Jason the news that the FBI had told him.
"How can you possibly want to even speak to me?" she asked heartbroken at what she had done.
"Because Elizabeth, you don't have a malicious bone in your body." he said lifting her head. "You asked me to let Lucky raise Jake because you were confused, and I was not telling you what I should have been. I was protecting my heart from the one person on this earth that if I give it to, will do the same."
"J-Jason, I painted over the mural in Jake's room." she said the tears flowing again. "I didn't want to, but Lainey suggested it might help, but it didn't, it only felt like I lost him all over again."
As the parents gravitated towards the sofa, Jason reached out and lifted Elizabeth, carrying her to the long comfortable piece of furniture. Holding her, he said "Our son knew he was loved, that is all that matters."
"He was loved." she said agreeing, her mind on all that they had lost.
When Elizabeth had fallen asleep, Jason looked around, then at the photo of the three boys and lifted it. "I promise you, Jake. I have left your mommy for the last time. From now on, we are in it together. I swear I will protect your brothers and honor you by loving them."
Wiping his tears, Jason then said "And I will make sure that someday, when we meet again, if we do, I can look into your eyes and say with pride that I am your dad."
TBC