Confrontation
Sam checked on Danny one last time and saw that he was still sleeping soundly. Her dad and brother and Brad had unloaded all the boxes into her place her mom and her sister helped unpack a lot of the stuff and everything was almost done except for her room. She walked into the kitchen and got a glass of water before going into the master bedroom to make the bed. She was exhausted but she knew that she wasn't going to get any sleep tonight. There was too much running through her head. From Patrick and Emma to Jason and Elizabeth, Sam felt like she was going to explode with all the feelings she had going on in her body. Sam spread the sheet out and tucked it around the mattress as her mind went to Jason. She really did want him to be happy but she would be lying to herself if she said that it didn't hurt with his decision. She and Jason had been through so much and it just felt like he was throwing it all away without even trying.
She knew that Elizabeth was probably nothing but giddy. Jason had chosen her and Sam was dreading the next time she saw the woman. She just knew she would be throwing that in her face. As Sam but her big comforter on her mind wondered to her cousin. Everything in Sam was telling her that he knew that Jake was Jason. His actions the past year had been so off that it all fit. She wasn't sure why though. Was business that much more important than her? Or maybe he had kept quiet so that Elizabeth could stay blissfully happy with her husband. There had been something off about Liz the day the truth was revealed. To Sam it didn't seem that she was really all that shocked. All she was worried about was making sure that Jason stayed with her. Originally Sam wondered if Elizabeth had also known the truth but she knew that wasn't right. There was no way that she would keep Jason from his sons. She wasn't that kind of person.
Sam set her pillows on the bed and climbed in under the covers. She laid her head against them and thought back over her time with Jason. From her being pregnant with Lila to Michael disappearing and Jason losing his memory again. They had been through so much and it was so hard for Sam to admit that they were over. She wasn't sure if she could admit it yet. She closed her eyes as the tears started to fall. She was too tired to try and stop them this time.
Jason pulled into the drive way of Elizabeth's house. He turned off the engine and rested his head back against the seat. After spending time talking with Sonny and Carly about his past with Sam, Jason knew he had made a mistake. He knew in his heart that Elizabeth was not the one that he loved. He knew he had to tell her the truth but he didn't want to hurt her. She had done so much for him. Gave him a place to stay when he didn't have anything and accepted him with no memory. But her couldn't keep living a lie. He didn't want to string her along. He got out of the car and noticed that there was some one there. As he walked up to the door he could hear Elizabeth's voice and she sounded upset. As he got closer he could hear her more clearly. "Laura, you can't tell Jason that I knew. If he finds out, then it will ruin everything that Nikolas ad I have been working for."
Jason narrowed his eyes. Nikolas? What did Nikolas have to do with it? "Elizabeth you can't keep lying to him. You have been doing that for the past 7 months. You and Nikolas both have. You have been using your own son to keep this secret. Do you really want to continue your life this way? As nothing but a lie?" Laura said
"I don't care. All that matters is that Jason is with me and our boys and that is the way it is going to stay." Liz argued.
"You have known who he is since the Nurses Ball, Elizabeth. Do you really think that you can keep this a secret much longer? Do you want to? I mean is this really how you want to have Jason in your life?" Laura tried to reason with her.
"I don't care how I have him as long as I do. I have waited years for this and I am not letting him go, Laura." Liz said firmly.
"And Sam and Danny don't mean anything?" Laura said.
"No, they don't. Jason has already asked Dam for a divorce and I don't think it will be hard to keep Jason away from Danny. He barley knows him but he knows Jake. All I have to do I make sure his focus stays on us. And maybe I will get lucky and Sam will decide that this is all too much to take and just leave town with Danny."
Jason could not believe what he was hearing. He couldn't believe that she would do this to him and Sam. And to his family. Jason was trying hard to keep his anger under control but he realized that he didn't want to. He opened the screen door and saw that Liz and Laura were both standing by the mantel. "That will not be happening." He told them making his presence known.
Both women looked over to him but Jason kept his cold eyes on Elizabeth. They scared look in her eyes told him she knew he had been listening. For a moment he looked to Laura and said "You need to leave."
Laura made no move and said "I'm not sure that I feel comfortable leaving…"
"I don't care. You can leave on your own or I can make you. I would suggest you go and warn your son the best you can. because I will be coming or him next." Laura grabbed her purse and walked to the door.
Jason came further into the room and Elizabeth looked at him and said "Jason please, try to understand…"
"It was right there. It was right there all along and I was too damn blind to see it. I mean when Hayden showed up you were more than willing to walk away. But not with Sam, huh? You were too damn jealous of what she meant to me."
"You…you remember?" she asked in a small voice.
"I remember enough to know that what I felt for Sam, I never felt for you. And you knew that too, didn't you?" he asked her.
She shook her head "No, that is not true. What we had was more than you and Sam."
Jason laughed and shook his head. "Then why haven't I had anymore memories of you? Why is it that every time I remember something, it is about Sam? If what we shared was so deep, why don't remember it?"
Elizabeth stood there and tried to find an answer but said nothing. "When I wanted to find out who I was, you told me to stop looking. When I told you that it was important to me, you told me that it didn't matter. The day I found out, you still kept on about how it didn't matter."
"Because it doesn't matter…"
"It matters to me!" Jason yelled. Liz jumped at his loud voice and back away a little. "It mattered to me that I know who I was. And because I have had you in my ear at all times, I have let the most important person in my life feel nothing but pain. I let you manipulate me in asking her for a divorce that I never wanted. From the second I found out who I was all I wanted to do was be with Sam. But you weren't going to let that happen."
"Jason, we are happy. You want to be with me. You chose to be with me and our boys. This life is all you know. It is our turn to be happy. Sam had you for almost 10 years. It is my turn!" she said.
Jason looked at her as if she were completely crazy. "How can you live with yourself knowing that you causing nothing but pain? How could you look me in the eyes and tell me you love me when all I ever was to you was a way to get back at Sam? Sonny and Carly told me all about our past and my past with Sam. I know everything." he said.
Elizabeth laughed and said "And you believed them? Carly hates me Jason, she will do anything to get you away from me."
"Yes, I believe them because as far as I know they are not the ones who have been lying to me. I don't care if Carly hates you, I know what she told me is true."
"So you know that Sam watched out son get kidnapped and did nothing to stop it? You know she hired thugs to threaten us in the park?" Liz said with a smirk.
"She hired actors, Elizabeth. People with fake guns. And considering that you let the woman that actually kidnapped Jake go, you and I had no right to judge Sam. We were the ones that pushed her over the edge. We are the ones that never once took her pain into consideration. Where was this concern when Sam was saving Jake's life? She jumped out of a burning building to save him."
"She is the one that brought the Russians to us." Liz argued
"No I did. My life did. That had nothing to do with Sam." Jason shot back.
Liz stepped to him and said "Can't you see that Sam is nothing but a problem for us? She always has been. If you ever truly want to be happy, you need to let this go. As long as Sam is a part of your life, you will never be happy."
Jason shook his head and said "No, as long as you are a part on my life I will never be happy. I know about all the times you tried to come between Sam and I and I am not going to let you do it again."
"You already chose me." Liz said with a smile. "Do you really think that Sam will take you back?"
"I don't know." Jason said. "But I do know that I will not stop trying until she does. Until the day that I die, I will not stop." The smile fell from Elizabeth's face.
Jason stepped closer to her and got in her face "I do not ever want to see you again. From this day on, you mean nothing to me. You are not the mother of my child, you are not my friend, you are not anything. And you will stay the hell away from my family." Jason walked to the door ignoring her tears. He turned back and said "I will see you in court. There is no way in hell I am ever letting you near my son again."
Jason walked into the hallway leading to the penthouse. He called and left a message for Diane about filing for full custody of Jake as soon as possible. He wanted his son as far away from that woman and anyone else that had kept the truth from him. He pulled his keys out and unlocked the door but didn't go in. the last time he had been in there he had come to kill Sam. Know that he knew who Sam was to him, it had made sense why he couldn't kill her. He reached for the door knob and turned it. As he walked in he was hit with a memory of picking up Sam and walking through the door
*Flash back*
"What are you doing?"
"I'm carrying you over the thresh hold."
*End*
Jason walked further into the room and looked around. He looked over to the stairs and was hit with another one. This one was of Sam falling backwards and him catching her. She looked like she was wearing lingerie. As he looked around the room he kept seeing flashes of him and Sam. Them playing pool. Them sleeping on the couch. Them dancing. Every memory was like a life line for him. He wanted to see more. He walked over to the stairs and started to walk up them. As he got to the top he had more and more images coming at him. But not just of Sam. There were memories of Sonny and Carly and Michael and Spinelli. He had no idea what was happening but he didn't want it to stop. He walked to the first room he saw and opened it. He turned the light on and saw that it was a pink room. But when he closed his eyes he saw a room that was decorated for a little girl. With a crib and a rocking chair and light up globe. When he opened his eyes again he saw the empty room and he was hit with all of it. Feeling her kick for the first time. Teasing Sam about her baby book. Hearing her hiccups. Catching Sam as she fell and watching helplessly as the doctors tried to save them both. Holding her in his arms and saying goodbye. Telling Sam that her daughter was gone. Jason shook his head at the painful thoughts. He walked out of the room and walked into the master bedroom. When he looked at the bed he saw the night that they brought Danny home and Sam made them take a family picture. He smiled at the thought.
*Flashback*
"Ok, um, say cheese?" Sam said with a smile.
"Well no, he can't really talk yet." Jason teased her, leaning toward her.
"Well then I guess you have to say it for him." She said before kissing his lips.
*End*
He looked around the room and saw Sam everywhere. He saw them.
*Flashback*
"You know as much a love having Spinelli around, it is really, really nice having you to myself."
*End*
Once it started, it seemed like it just couldn't stop.
"I remember."
The next day, Jason walked up to the door of Nikolas's house. He had received a call from Diane this morning telling him she would file the custody papers today and was scheduling an emergency hearing to get Jason temporary full custody. More than anything he wanted to go straight to Sam after he had his memories back but he knew he needed to take care of a few things first before he went to his wife and begged for forgiveness. But first he was going to make sure that there was nothing to get in their way again. He knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. A moment later, Alfred opened the door and let him in. He told him that Nikolas was in the study with his wife. Jason smiled when he heard that Hayden was there as well. She had a lot to answer for a well. Jason walked closer and could hear them talking.
"Maybe we should just pack up and leave. Your mom said that Jason knew everything. Do you really think he is just going to let it go?" Jason heard Hayden ask.
"Jason isn't going to do anything to me. First of all, now that he knows, he still doesn't have his memory back. Stone Cold Morgan is long gone…" "Guess again." Jason said, revealing himself.
They both looked over and saw him standing there. "I do have my memory back. I got it back last night. I remember exactly who I am." The fear that Jason saw in Nikolas's eyes gave him a bitter sweet satisfaction. Nikolas was going to answer for what he had done but not in the way Jason wanted him to.
"What are you doing here?" Hayden said as she went to stand in between him and her husband.
Jason smiled and pulled out an envelope. "I am here to get my families business back. You need to sign these." Jason said coming closer and holding them out to him.
Nikolas laugh humorlessly and shook his head. "You must have your memories back because you as stupid as ever. I'm not signing my company away. No way in hell." Nikolas moved to the bar to pour himself a drink.
Jason put the envelope in his back pocket and pulled out a larger folder from his back. "Then I guess I am just going to have to take this to the police station." Nikolas looked over and asked "And that would be?" "Proof that you tried to have your wife killed."
Hayden gasped and Nikolas went white in the face. "You should know by now that Spinelli can find anything. No matter how good you thought you covered your tracks."
Nikolas shook his head and said "Your bluffing."
Jason smiled and pulled a picture out of the folder. The picture was from a traffic camera of the man that actually shot Hayden. "That doesn't prove it had anything to do with me." Nikolas said.
"No but the paper trail that connects you two does. Added to both Sam's and mine statement that Hayden had showed up to tell us something makes you look more than guilty." Jason added. He looked to Hayden and said "Curtis confirmed my suspicions. That along with the fact that you have known for a while. Which only tells me that you two have been trying to play each other. But I could care less about that. What I want to know is how long you have known as well? How long have you known that I had a real wife and didn't tell me?"
"I overheard Nikolas and Elizabeth talking at the Nurses Ball. I used it as leverage against Nikolas."
"Hayden, shut up!" Nikolas yelled.
"It's over, Nikolas! You lost." She yelled back.
"No, I haven't. if I give you back ELQ, you give me that file and we call it even." Nikolas tried to negotiate.
Jason pretended to ponder the thought before he said "Ok, sign the papers and then you can have the file." Jason pulled the papers out of his pocket and Nikolas grabbed them and signed them.
"Here." He handed them back to Jason as Jason gave him the file. Nikolas walked over to the fire place and through them into the burning fire. Jason saw him visibly relax and Jason almost felt bad about what was about to happen.
Just then Jordan, Dante and Nathan came through the door. "Nikolas Cassadine yo are under arrest for the attempten murder of Hayden Cassadine…" "What?" both Nikolas and Hayden exclaimed. Nikolas looked to Jason and saw him smirking.
"We had a deal!" He yelled.
Jason shrugged his shoulders and said "You should have known better, Nikolas. You hurt my wife. You really think I was just going to let that go?" he asked.
Jordan made a move to cuff Hayden and she asked why "You willingly withheld information about 2 ongoing federal investigations. That a crime, honey." Jordan cuffed her and read Hayden her rights.
Dante came over and asked Jason "Are you sure you want us to arrest Elizabeth as well? I mean she is the mother of your child, why didn't you just keep quiet about it?"
Jason shook his head and said "She isn't anything to me. This is the only way to let her know that I am serious. She needed to pay for the pain that she had caused Sam. And she is going to."
Sam got off the elevator at GH to pick up Danny's medicine. She was bone tired because she had not gotten any sleep the night before. After she had dropped Danny off at school this morning she went back to the apartment and unpacked the rest of the boxes. She had gotten a call from Patrick this morning but didn't answer it. She wasn't ready for that yet. He left a message wanting to know how she and Danny were doing. Sam could hear the guilt in his voice and tried not to let it affect her. He had made his choice after trying his hardest to have him be hers. Sam really wanted to be mad but she understood. Jason was it for her and Robin was it for Patrick. You can't control what your heart wants. And neither Jason's or Patrick's heart wanted her. Sam shook her head and the thought away. She was tired of crying over something that wasn't going to change.
As she came closer to the nurses station she heard a loud voice. She instantly knew who it was. Carly. But why was she yelling? As Sam got closer she could see that she was yelling at Liz. Liz had a defensive stance and a hard face.
"You are nothing but a whore who will do anything to get a man in her bed…" Sam's eyes got wide as she heard the words come from Carly's mouth.
"Carly, what are you doing? This is a hospital." Sam said as she walked over to them to try and calm Carly down.
Carly whipped around to Sam and said "She knew! She has known for months that Jake was Jason and never said a word!"
Sam stood back shocked. She looked over at Elizabeth and could see that annoyance written on her face. "I ran into Laura this morning at Kelly's and she told me everything." Carly sneered at Liz.
Elizabeth's annoyed changed to worried after she said it. "She is lying Carly. I would never keep Jason away from his family." Liz tried to defend herself.
"Oh, bullshit! Why would she lie about this Liz? She doesn't have anything to gain from lying." Carly said.
Sam looked back to Liz and knew it was true. And Sam was done playing nice.
She walked up to Elizabeth and punched her right in the eye. Elizabeth fell back with a cry and landed hard on the floor. Carly let out a laugh and walked closer to Liz.
Sam glared down at her and said "If you ever come near me again you will get a lot more than a black eye. You stay the hell away from me and you stay the hell away from Jason. I know he isn't going to want a damn thing to do with you once he finds out." Sam said to her coldly.
"He already knows." Sam heard Carly say. She turned to her and said "What?"
"Laura said that he overheard her and Liz talking and that is how he found out."
Sam was in shock. If he knew this, why hadn't he come to tell her? "I tried calling him after I found out and it went straight to voice mail." She explained.
Sam gave Elizabeth one last glare before walking away. She picked up Danny's medicine and went for a walk. She ended up down by the docks looking out to Nikolas's place. They only way that Elizabeth would know is from him. He had told Elizabeth the truth and not her. And Liz used it to her advantage to get Jason in her bed. She felt her anger rise the more she thought about it. She was making her way toward the launch when she heard "He's not there."
Sam turned around and saw Jason standing there. She looked into his eyes and saw something different in them. He wasn't looking at her as if she were a stranger. He was looking at her the way he used to. "What?" she asked.
Jason came down the steps and walked closer to her. "He is at the PCPD. He is being booked for Hayden's shooting." Sam eyes bugged out of her head.
"What?" she whispered in shock. Jason took a deep breath and said "I asked Spinelli to look into her shooting. Something was just off to me. And he found the link between Nikolas and the real shooter. And a photo of the hitman at the garage. I gave it all to Dante before I went out there to get him to sign ELQ back over to the Quartermaine's."
Sam could not believe what she was hearing. How could Nikolas stoop so low? "He tried to have her killed just so that Hayden wouldn't tell you who you really were?" Sam asked in bewilderment.
Jason nodded his head and walked closer. "That and he wanted to keep ELQ. He knew I would be the only one able to take it away." Sam closed her eyes and shook her head. Jason looked at her and couldn't believe that he could ever forget her. "You are more beautiful that I remember." He found himself whispering. Sam's eyes popped open and she looked at him with shock.
"What?" she asked.
Jason came over to her and cupped her cheek in his hand. "Last night I went back to the penthouse. The second I walked into the door, I was hit with a memory. You remember the time I came home from the hospital after getting my memory back? I carried you over the thresh hold?" Sam felt the tears well up in her eyes as she nods her head. "So do I." he whispered. "I also remember the time you tripped down the stairs in your stripper outfit." Sam smiled through her tears as Jason went on "I remember you falling asleep on the couch while you were pregnant with Lila, I remember the first time we kissed was after Emily's wedding, I remember it all." He said to her.
Sam could barely see him through her tears. "You remember?" she whispered.
Jason leaned forward and rested his head to hers. "I also remember why I love you. And that I am never going to stop." Sam closed her eyes at the emotions running through her. Jason was back. He was really back. Jason placed both his hands on her face and brought her lips up to his. All the fuzziness in his head melted away with a single touch of her lips. Everything was so clear to him now because of Sam. It was always because of Sam. The had been apart for 2 years but with one kiss it all came natural. Like they had never been apart. And he was going to make sure they never were again.
