Chapter 2 - Results
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews I love hearing any sort of feedback and I must say this story has been floating around in my head and I needed to get it out. To clarify I wanted to state that in this story Lucky is being played by Greg Vaughan and Jason is played by Billy Miller. Now I will warn those that have made it this far this is NOT Liz or Liason friendly as I mentioned there will be touches of Lusam and mainly focused on Jasam.
Lucky felt frozen on the pew not knowing how exactly to say the words that were ripping at his heart to the woman that he once held so close. Sam rubbed her hand in a soothing way over Lucky's knowing that she was comforting her friend and longing for that friendship again. Lucky looked down and around the room struggling to avoid her eyes and what they would speak once he told her. "Sam, you are the only person aside from my father, Helena and I that will know what I'm about to tell you and I need you to keep it that way at least for now."
Sam grimaced a little wondering what Lucky could have to tell her that would warrant her keeping it a secret. "Lucky, whatever you have to tell me I will keep it to myself if that is what you ask on one condition. If this truth could affect myself or my family and put one of us in danger I can't keep that from Jason." Sam paused to see if she could gauge his reaction to this deal.
Lucky sighed and tensed a bit hearing the mob enforcer's name and all secrets and lies that he carried with him. "Sam I would never purposefully put you or your kids in danger. I know as well as anybody else how much you wanted a family and how important it is to you. Understand that I want you to have a happy life Sam and for it to be built on honesty. You once told me that a loving relationship could not survive without honesty. Sometimes we think that we are sparing the other person more hurt by keeping the truth hidden, but the reality is that we disrespect that relationship and the love by not living truthfully."
Lucky knew what he was about to say would rock the foundation of her life and bring the past crashing into the present. He couldn't live this lie anymore and Helena had given her orders so to keep those he cared about safe he had to follow the rules. "Sam the pieces of burnt paper were a paternity test."
Sam had a puzzled look on her face not quite following where he was going with the paternity test and how it possibly impacted her. "Okay, so who was it for? What am I saying it was for Aiden right, so this is her way to try to stick it to you yet again rubbing it in your face that there was a question of his father? Lucky, I'm so sorry that old hag lived to torment you and your family and even now she is messing with you. Please don't give her the satisfaction, you are his father and in my mind, you've been the only real father Cameron has ever had. So…" Sam trailed off as Lucky raised his finger to her mouth to quiet her.
"Sam, please let me explain. After my father and I found the book and the pieces of paper we knew that we were on borrowed time still in that heinous castle. We collected the book and the envelope and headed out of the library hoping to find the way back to the kitchen. We ended up getting lost a few times and then suddenly another glass wall bursts in front of us and there is no way out another screen lowers from the ceiling and like clockwork there is Sea Witch right on time."
"Aww bravo you two I'm quite impressed how well you navigate yourself around the grounds it's as if you've been here before and that is quite true for all of the male Spencer's. I've always been intrigued by your resiliency and your loyalty to your blood. You know Lucky they say blood is thicker than water, but you've raised those boys as your own blood or not. I'm sure when you looked at Jake you saw glimpses of yourself, it's remarkable how you are drawn or connected to another person by instinct alone. Do you ever wonder what he would look like if he were alive?" Suddenly the video switches to what appeared to be a live feed with a date stamp and time in the corner.
Lucky's eyes instantly fixed on the young boy painting, his dusty blonde hair his back was turned and then the angle shifted and the camera zoomed in and it was then that Lucky's heart sank. He couldn't believe his eyes, it was Jake. Lucky continued looking into Sam's eyes and tears began to well. "Sam, I couldn't believe it there he was as clear as day my son, he was alive and looked amazing. I wanted to shatter that glass and find him and take him into my arms and hug him, but then her voice deflated my joy."
"You see Lucky I might not have been successful with your programming, but it was as if this little boy had been handpicked for my teachings. While most of those varmints that infest Port, Charles believe you to be the father of Jacob Martin Spencer and others knew this to be true in name only I knew the truth in a most delicious way. You both well know that I adore my games with the Spencer clan, but then it occurred to me that it would be that much sweeter to involve the vile outcasts of my family in the fun as well. In my reviews of your marital state Lucky I found it quite delicious that the halo wearing Nurse had fallen from grace right into the arms of my bastard granddaughter's lethal enforcer's arms. Honestly it was so poetic that my bastard granddaughter would be thrown aside like the trash she is and then to learn that he supposedly impregnated the town Saint. So, I watched and waited for all the pieces to crumble and they did eventually, but there was one large piece that was man made by one person in particular."
"My men had been watching her as a precaution so that I was tuned into every aspect of your life. I knew of your marital issues and the infidelities, but what I was quite puzzled by was what happened after the twit had a DNA test performed. Now before you start assuming the worst of me I am simply relaying the information as I heard. On the day, she received the test results she did the most peculiar thing, she burned it. Now I'm going to let you know what this means now, take a look in the envelope. Look at the words remaining "Jacob Martin.." "Lucas Lorenzo…99.9%" Remember as I stated I had nothing to do with any alterations in this test I'm giving information that has been withheld from you and so many others for far too long. I'm sure you are questioning the validity of this information as was I when my people brought me the remaining discarded pieces to my next player."
"I looked at the screen and couldn't say anything and I was barely breathing Sam I could not process her ridiculous accusation. I immediately dismissed it and thought she had somehow created a computer animated likeness to Jake and was trying to mess with me I mean why would Elizabeth burn a paternity test that had me listed as the father to Jake? It made no sense after the fallout of the infidelities there would be no reason for Elizabeth to lie about Jason being the father or was there? I started to think back to when everything was so messy and how information came out and by whom.
Sam was dumbfounded by the information with so many questioning circling her brain she had a hard time remembering to breath herself. Everything from that time was bombarding her from overhearing Jason and Liz talking about him keeping the secret he was Jake's father and then flashing to watching Maureen kidnap him and then of course to holding the little boy in the blanket after escaping from the Russians. That little boy had built her up and broken her down in the rawest way, even today she felt reminders of past mistakes and the ripples of such things.
"Okay, hold on Lucky" Sam said as she rubbed her hands over her face and through her hair squeezing her eyes shut trying to rationalize all of this. "You are telling me that YOU are in fact Jake's father and Elizabeth has known the whole time? This is crazy Lucky she told you and Jason the results I mean practically told Jason on her dying breath why on earth would she pick then to say something like that and then to continue the lie? Helena has truly gotten to you and I'm so sorry, but this simply can't be true. Jason is his father and though there were times I hated to admit that because of my own selfish reasons they now have a wonderful relationship and our arrangement with visitation with Elizabeth is finally settled. Even if there is a remote possibility this is true why carry on with this lie when it could be so easily tested. At any given point, there could have been a reason to draw blood and with Danny's cancer scare there might be a reason for Jake to be screened. What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't make any sense the extent to which Elizabeth would further this supposed lie."
Lucky grabbed her hands and looked her sincerely in her eyes trying to search for that trust or that faith. "Sam I know this sounds crazy, but I had my own tests run and it's true now obtaining the sample and conditions around that is another discussion. I have the proof Sam, but here's the thing I was allowed to bring Jake back under some serious conditions and anything violating those terms could have disastrous consequences for many people. I'm not sure of the details, but what I can share is that Helena had some freakish change of heart about you and your connection to the Cassadines. She instructed me to come here now and share this with you because you are demonstrating your link to your linage. That crazy hag was rambling on and on about the next Cassadine heir and how you would eventually embrace your family heritage and the amazing potential and fire you lived your life by. "
"Lucky, now I know you're joking because that old witch sat on her death bed cursing me and mine and all I beget does that sound like an admiring grandparent to you? I mean I even pricked my finger on Jason's plaque and then that horrendous nightmare I had of him being shot and dead in our bed. That bitch makes Joan Crawford look like June Clever. For someone claiming to adore me and see such vast potential she was sure quick to try and decimate my character and reason for living."
"Sam I need you to let me finish because this is critical to you and your family, that finger prick was manufactured. It was all set-up by her Sam, she has been slowly poisoning your system and her people are the only ones with the cure. This is serious Sam and I can't emphasis this enough she will allow you to be treated privately, but no one can know otherwise..." Lucky was halted mid-sentence by Sam standing abruptly.
"What the hell? I'm 8 months pregnant Lucky and you are telling me that my deranged dead grandmother poisoned me and is restricting me from telling any of my family anything. This is unbelievable I mean I knew you could be cruel, but now I know you're lying because you couldn't possibly think it is okay to come to me and say that I'm poisoned and my life and my baby's life could be in jeopardy if I don't follow Helena's sick rules this is low even for you."
Sam started to try and leave anything to get some air back into her lungs after such a gut punch. Lucky tugged on her elbow pleading with his eyes "Sam there's more please sit down. You know that Helena doesn't just willingly offer up life altering information out of the goodness of her heart so of course there is a catch inlaid in all of these various revelations. I was told I could reveal Jake's paternity and your poisoning only under the condition that I would bring you back to Cassadine Island to be treated without anyone knowing otherwise she would unleash her schoolings of Jake upon all of Port Charles."
"Sam he is my son and I did this I put all of this in motion and all of you in jeopardy, please I'm begging you to go along with this there are too many lives at stake. Please let me make this right for you and all of us, you have to believe that I want you to have a long and happy life surrounded by those that support and love you the most." Lucky searched her posture and body language to see if he could sense any shift, but he felt nothing so he waited.
