Payback

Jason pulled back from the kiss and rested his head on Sam's. Sam closed her eyes at the feelings running through her. She was happy, sad, furious, and exhausted. Not because she as tired but because she was tired of fighting. Sam pulled away from him and took a step back from him. He looked up into her husband's face and saw him in his eyes. She saw the love in them. She saw the joy but she just couldn't bring herself to believe it. "Sam, what's wrong?"

Sam turned her back to him and ran her hands through her hair laughing humorlessly "What's wrong? Everything is wrong, Jason. In the span of one week my entire life has been turned upside down mare times then I can count. I went from finding out my husband was alive to him wanting nothing to do with me because he doesn't remember me to now he does remember me and we are just supposed to pick up where we left off and I just…I can't, Jason." Sam said with tears in her eyes.

Jason felt his heart drop to his stomach at her words. "We have been through so much, Jason. We are constantly going from one problem to another and I can't do that anymore. I can't keep fighting for us. I shouldn't have to, but I always am." Sam shook her head and wiped the tears from her cheeks.

"Sam, everything is going to be ok now. I am not going back to the business and I am not ever going to leave you and Danny again." Jason said taking a step toward her.

"You can't promise that, Jason. You have before and you are always taken from me. If not from the business, then by Elizabeth." She said in hatred.

"Elizabeth is out of my life for good, Sam." Sam shook her head "She is Jake's mother. She will always be in your life. She will eventually wear you down because she always does. You are blinded by her and I am always the one that suffers in the end. I can't trust you when it comes to her. You have proven that more than once. Every time there is something wrong with us, she shows up and I am just supposed to take it because she was your friend and the mother of your child. Never once did you even try to understand that her being around makes me uncomfortable. I am always the one making sacrifices for us, Jason. And I am done doing it."

Sam walked over to him and placed her hands on each side of his face "Jason, we are not meant to be together. It shouldn't be this hard. We shouldn't have to keep going through obstacles to be together. That is not the way love is supposed to work." She said.

Jason brought his hands up and placed then over hers. "Sam, please…"

Sam leaned up and kissed his forehead "You deserve to be happy. And I really hope that you find that, Jason. After what you have been through, no one deserves it more." Sam dropped her hands and moved around him.

Jason held on to one of her hands, stopping her. "I love you. I am going to prove to that to you. I'm not giving up, Sam." Sam refused to meet his gaze as her hand fell from his grasp. Her tears fell freely as she continued walking away, leaving a heartbroken but determined Jason behind.

It had been a week since that day and true to his word, Jason had not given up. Not when Sam told him over and over they were don't. Not even when she gave him the signed divorce papers. Sam finally knew what Jason had gone through when she did that. Seeing the devastated look on his face when she handed him those papers broke her heart all over again. But in her head she knew it was the right thing. No matter what her heart was telling her. And Jason knew her heart was telling her it as wrong. He had been there. He just needed a way to make her listen to it. He sat on his couch trying his hardest to come up with a way to make her see. There was a knock at the door that pulled him out of his thoughts. He walked over and answered the door and was shocked to see Lucky standing behind it. He quickly recovered from it when he remembered that he was one of the people that had kept the truth from him.

"What do you want?" Jason said in a dead tone.

"I need to talk to you about something. Can I come in?" Jason really just wanted to shut the door in his face but he had a few things to say to the man so he allowed him in.

"I got a call from Elizabeth begging me to come back to town because you had had her arrested." Lucky said turning to face Jason.

"And?" Jason shrugged.

"So it's true? You had her put in jail? Jason, what in the hell is the matter with you? She is a mother." Lucky raged.

Jason laughed humorlessly and said "She is no mother, Lucky. Not a good one anyway. She used my son to make sure her precious was kept. She allowed her kids to count on a man that she knew had his own family. She played them. That is a good mother to you?"

"Elizabeth had been making bad choices but they are not on her. If you would just leave her alone…"

"Don't!" Jason yelled. "Don't put this on me. I had no idea who I was. But she did. Nikolas did. Laura did." Jason took a dangerous step closer to him and said "And so did you. You want to sit here and blame me for the way this turned out when all along you had the power to stop it? All because you are a shit father just like your old man, you allowed my wife and my son to go on thinking I was dead because Elizabeth was all that mattered. If you had just done what everyone refused to do, none of this would have happened. You want to blame someone for Elizabeth being where she is? Look in a mirror."

Lucky shook his head and said "I was doing what I thought was best for everyone."

Jason laughed and said "I have said that line so many times but now that I hear it, it is nothing but bullshit. You want to do what is best for everyone then you tell the truth. You want to do what is best for everyone then you make sure that the people you care about aren't hurt. You sit here and say you care about those boys but if you had just done the right thing then their mother wouldn't be going to prison." Jason looked him dead in the eyes and said "You are Cam and Aiden's father. Not much of one but you are. So if you want to allow her to be around them that is your choice. But my son will never see her again. She will never lay eyes on Jake again. She doesn't deserve to after she all but ruined him." Jason walked around him to go and open the door for him to leave when he heard

"That is not your choice to make either, Jason."

Jason stopped dead and whipped around "Excuse me?" he said.

He watched Lucky pull a piece of paper out of his jacket pocket. "This is what I wanted to talk to you about. When I went to see Elizabeth she told me that Jake is really my son and not yours."

Jason shook his head and said "I don't have time for anymore of her bullshit lies, Lucky."

"That is why I have a court order for another blood test." He held the paper out to Jason.

Jason took it from his hands and looked down at it. He looked at it and saw that it was real. "This is another lie, Lucky. Jake is my son…"

"Not legally. As far as the law goes he is still mine. Tomorrow we will find out for sure." Lucky walked around him and out the door as Jason was left to wonder if what he had put Sam through all those years were for nothing.

Sam was sitting on her couch looking online at houses she and Danny could move into. She had looked at a few of them yesterday but Danny had not liked any of them. She was starting to think he and his father were up to something because Danny kept asking why they didn't just move back in with him. At the thought of Jason Sam realized that he had not called today or yesterday. He usually called a few times a day to check in with her and Danny. A part of her found it annoying but ever since they had told Danny that he was his father she understood the need to want to see and speak with him as much as possible. There was a knock at her door and she set aside her computer to go and answer it. When she opened the door she saw Jason standing there and he didn't look good.

"Jason…" "Hi. I know I should have called first but I was wondering if I could see Danny."

The look of him was more than Sam could take. He looked broken. She allowed him in and called out for Danny. "Jason, what's wrong?" she asked.

Before he could answer Danny came into the room and saw his dad. "Daddy!" he ran over and Jason lifted him up and held him close to him. He wrapped his arms tight around him but not too tight that he hurt him. He closed his eyes and let himself feel his son in his arms. His son.

"Jason, your starting to scare me. Is everything ok?" Sam stepped closer to stand in front of him. Jason opened his eyes and looked at her. He saw her worry and didn't want her to think something was wrong. "I'm fine." He said.

She gave him a look and said "You are not fine, Jason. What is going on?" He looked down to Danny and Sam could see that he didn't want to say it in front of him.

"Danny, why don't you go and finish putting your toys away so that you can visit with Daddy." She said. Danny nodded his head and Jason set him down and watched him go back into his room.

Sam turned back to Jason and asked "Now what is going on?"

"Lucky showed up at my door yesterday." He finally said.

Sam felt her blood run cold for a moment. She used to think of Lucky Spencer as a friend. Someone that she could trust. That all went away when she found out that he was yet just one more person that knew that Jason was alive and didn't tell her. "What did he want?" she asked.

"Apparently Elizabeth called him when she got arrested and asked him to come. And like the lap dog he is, he came." He said in disgust. Sam had to stop the giggle she felt in her at his words. Lap dog described Lucky Spencer perfectly.

"Elizabeth told him that Jake was really his son. And that she needed him to make sure that their son was not raised by a mobster." Jason said.

All amusement in Sam died. "What?" she whispered.

Jason nodded his head. "Lucky got a court order to have another DNA test done on Jake. And because he is still Jake's legal father, there was nothing I could do about it. The test was this morning." He finished on a whisper.

Sam felt a sense of dread come over her. "And?" she asked although she knew she didn't need to.

"She lied." Jason said. "His entire life, she lied to both me and Lucky. She knew from the start that Jake's was Lucky's and never said a damn word." Sam was at a loss for words. Her and Jason's entire life had changed because of that. Elizabeth knew the only way to get them apart would be to have his kid so she made it happen.

The anger in Sam was getting to a boiling point and she was getting tired of controlling it. A part of her wanted to rage at Jason for allowing her in their lives but she knew that this all was on one person. And that one person was going to answer for it. Sam took a deep breath and said to Jason "Why don't you spend the day with Danny. I know that it will take you a while to get over it but I know from experience that Danny is the best medicine for anything."

Jason smiled and looked to Danny's room. "Are you sure? I don't want to interrupt your day." He said. "Jason, Danny is your son too. Anytime you want to see him or spend time with him, please don't hesitate to do it. He needs you just as much as you need him." She smiled.

She called for him from his room once again and told him "How would you like to spend the day with daddy?" his eyes lit up. He had yet to spend any alone time with his father since he found out about him. "Really?" he asked looking up to his dad.

Jason leaned down and said "Yep, just us. And we can do anything that you want to do." Danny smiled big. "Why don't you go and get your coat?" Sam told her son.

"Thank you for letting me do this." Jason said as he stood up. "Of course. Danny has been asking to do this all week." She smiled.

Danny came back out with his coat and put it on. "You ready to go?" Jason asked his son. "Yep." Danny gave his mom a hug and kiss and the boys were off. Sam closed the door behind them and went to pick up her coat. She waited a while to make sure the boys were long gone before grabbing her coat and making her way out the door. She had a lot to do before the end of the day.

Jason and Danny walking into the living room of Sonny and Carly's place. The minute Carly sees Danny her whole face lit up. "There is my favorite guy!" Danny made a dash for his aunt Carly and she picked him up in her arms. "How are you?" She asked.

"I'm ok." He answered. Carly looked over to Jason and narrowed her eyes "What is the matter?" Jason took Danny from her arms and set him down "Why don't you go and find Morgan? I'm sure he could use a little cheering up too."

Danny nodded and went in search of his cousin. "Jason, what the hell is going on? Why is Danny so sad?" Carly demanded.

Jason took a deep breath and face his friends "Because I had to tell him something."

"What was it?" Sonny asked. "That Jake is not really his brother." Both Carly and Sonny stared at him shocked. "What?" Carly asked. Jason proceeded to tell the mhat had happened and just as he thought, Carly went nuts.

"That stupid, hypocritical bitch! And who the hell does Lucky think he is? All of a sudden he is ok to be a dad? Isn't that why he left town in the first place?" "Carly…" Jason started but she went on "She just can't help herself can she? She always has to ruin Sam's life so that she can have you. She isn't getting away with it this time."

"Carly, stop!" Jason said as she made a move to leave.

She turned around and said "Are you really going to sit here and try and defend her? Because if you are I will shoot your sorry ass." She seethed. Jason heard Sonny chuckle but ignored him.

"No, I'm not defending her at all. But she is not yours to handle."

Carly narrowed her eyes and said "And I am supposed to trust that you will? When have you ever held Elizabeth responsible for what she has done?"

"I get that you're mad, Carly. I am too but we need to let Sam deal with her as she wants." Jason says.

Carly and Sonny both looked at him shocked. "You are going to let Sam deal with her?" Sonny asked.

Jason nodded his head. "After the tests came back, I went to see Sam because I really needed to see Danny. I told her what was going on and she suggested that I spend the day with him. I was going to ask her if I could anyway but with her offering I knew she had something planned. As much as this is about me, it is about Sam more. The whole reason Elizabeth did this is because she wanted Sam and I to split up. She wanted Sam out of the way and I let that happen. Sam needs to be the one that confronts her with this. I told her I never wanted to see her again and that she wasn't the mother of my child. Now she really isn't so there is no reason for me to see her. But Sam has every right to."

Carly stood there and crossed her arms over her chest with a smirk "There may be hope for you yet." She said.

Jason raised his eyebrows at her in question. "Don't get me wrong, if Sam decides to leave you hanging for the rest of your life, it is what you deserve and she has my full support in it. But if you keep this attitude up, maybe you have a shot."

Jason looked over to Sonny who was trying to hide his smile before looking back to Carly "Since when were you Sam's biggest fan?"

Carly looked at him with a serious face and said "Since I had to watch what losing you did to her. Since I had to watch her try and find a way to go on without you for the sake of her and her son. And I had to watch her try and find a way to go on after you kicked them to the curb. You have no idea what it is like to think the love of your life is dead. But right about now I am guessing you know what it is like to know the love of your life wants nothing to do with you. And know that you may never get them back."

Sam sat across the table in a visiting room at the county jail waiting for Elizabeth. After she left her place she had put in a call to her father and asked for a favor. She knew he was out of the business but he was able to give it to her without creating a problem for himself. The door opened and in walked Elizabeth in a blue jumpsuit. She looked like hell and it gave Sam great satisfaction to see her this way. The officer cuffed her to the table and went over the rules. He then gave Sam a small nod and left the room.

"What the hell do you want?" Elizabeth asked with a sneer.

Sam cocked her head and said "What's with the attitude? I just wanted to come by and see how you were doing in here." Sam smiled.

Liz narrowed her eyes and said "Tell me want you want Sam before I call for the guard."

"Oh, you can call all you want but no one will be coming in here." Sam said. Liz sat up straighter and got a worried look on her face. Sam laughed and said "Don't worry, Lizzy. I'm not going to hurt you. Not physically anyway."

"What are you talking about?" Liz asked.

"You crossed way over the line, Elizabeth. You took things too far and now it is my turn to make you suffer." Liz snorted and said "I see Jason told you. But you know it won't matter. Jason will forgive me, Sam. He always does."

Sam shook her head "Not this time. You won't be seeing Jason again. I made sure of it." She said with a smile.

"Oh, really? And how did you do that?" Liz asked. "By framing you for murder."

The smile dropped from her face as Elizabeth looked at her "What?" She asked.

"Being the daughter of a Jerome and Cassadine has a lot of perks. Those names on their own strike fear in people's hearts but I am the only one that is both." Sam leaned forward on the table and said "But do you know what really scares people about me, Elizabeth? What really makes them quiver with fear? Being Jason Morgan's wife." The hatred that came into her eyes made Sam smile wider. "Let me tell you what is going on right about now. You see two days ago, I'm sure you know, a woman was stabbed to death in the showers." Sam said.

Elizabeth did know that because the place went on lockdown. "And right now the guards are doing a sweep of everyone's cells looking for the murder weapon. And they are going to find it. Under your mattress with your finger prints on it."

Elizabeth froze at her words. "In about 2 minutes the warden is going to come in here and you are going to be charged with that murder. And you are going to spend the rest of your life behind bars." Sam finished with a smile.

Elizabeth shook her head "No, there is no way you will get away with this. There are cameras all over including in here. They will know that you set it up."

Sam laughed and said "Camera system is down today for maintenance. In fact, there is no record of me being here today at all." Sam said. Sam could see Elizabeth start to panic and smiled "My best friend isn't a computer genius for nothing." Sam pushed back her chair and stood up but not before leaning down to whisper to her face "Have a nice life in hell, Lizzy." Sam went and knocked on the door and waited for the guard to open it. As soon as the door was shut, she heard Elizabeth scream that it was a lie and she smiled in happiness that Elizabeth Webber was finally getting what she deserved.

Sam saw him standing there and fought the urge to go and push him into the freezing water. She hadn't been looking for him but she was more that glad that she had run into him. "Thinking of more ways that you can help ruin people's lives?" Sam asked as she descended the stains on the docks.

Lucky turned around and saw her and his eyes went guilty. "Sam…"

"Shut up. You do not get to try and defend yourself because there is now way to do that." Sam sneered. "You come back to town and try and play the hero in giving Elizabeth back her son and then just leave after denying my son his father? You think you are going to get to walk away from that?" Sam asked.

"I thought I was doing the right thing, Sam. You were happy with Patrick and…"

"You know you sound just like your piece of shit brother. You really need to stop acting like any of this was for me. This had nothing to do with me and everything to do with the fact that you are just as much of a little bitch when it comes to Elizabeth as ever. You let her call the shots because you sure as hell have no balls to do it yourself. She gives you a call and cries her tears and plays the victim and your sorry pathetic ass comes crawling back just like you always do. Because you actually believe she wants you." Sam said.

"Elizabeth did want me until Jason came into the picture again." Lucky tried to defend himself.

Sam laughs in his face "You really think that? Honey, you were never what she really wanted. You were what she settled for."

"That is not true. She married me. Twice!" he said.

"The second time, she was in love with Jason. She was playing you, Lucky! She wanted the nice normal father for her kids but she wanted the dangerous bad boy in her bed. And you and Jason both fell for it. You believed her at face value and never questioned her. The entire time you thought that you were raising another man's child, again, you were really raising your own. Because it was the only way she could keep Jason on the hook so that when she got over her fear of his life and was ready to have him back, she could dangle Jake in front of him to make it happen. The only reason she told you the truth now was because it was the only way to get you back to town to help her. You will never be who she really want's, Lucky. That will always be Jason. You are nothing more than a pawn in her scheming." Sam finished.

Lucky shook his head and said "Elizabeth has always loved me. She always will."

"The girl loved you Lucky. But the woman only used you. But you don't have to worry about that anymore." Sam smiled.

Lucky narrowed his eyes on her and said "What are you talking about?"

"Let's just say that your one and only is finally getting what she has had coming to her for a very long time. She is going to finally pay for the hurt she has caused both me and my son. And so are you."

"What?"

"Jake Doe's identity was an F.B.I case, Lucky. As a cop you should know that with holding that information is a crime. And if you think it is not very well known that you have known the truth as long as Elizabeth has, then you are stupider than ever. You see, when you came riding back into town to play Elizabeth's hero, you ended up screwing yourself. Because I just came from the PCPD to let them know that you are here in Port Charles. So there should be a warrant out for your arrest at any time now. And if I may suggest, if you want leniency, turn yourself in so that you aren't in prison any longer that you have to be." Sam cuffed him on his shoulder and walked past him. "You should have just told the truth, Lucky. You should have just told the truth." Sam sang out as she walked back up the stairs.

Sam waited in her apartment for Jason to get back with Danny. He had called and said he was on his way 10 minutes ago and Sam wanted to make sure her demeanor was ok before Jason figured out what she had done. There as a knock on the door and Sam went to answer in revealing Jason and their son. "Wow, you look like you had quite a day." Sam smiled at her boy.

Jason's arms were full of toys and other things Sam couldn't quite make out. "We went to the carnival and it was so much fun mommy." Sam laughed at her son and his Ironman face pain. She looked up and Jason and said "You can put that stuff in his room. He is going to want to put it away."

Jason nodded his head and said "Thank God." Sam laughed as he went into the room.

"You have a good time with daddy?" he nodded his head and yawned. Sam smiled and said "Why don't you go and take a shower and wash your face and then maybe daddy can read to you before you go to bed." Danny nodded his head and went to get ready for bed.

Jason came back out of Danny's room and said "They said that stuff wasn't permanent so I let him get it." Sam smiled and said "Danny loved face paint. Did you guys have fun?"

Jason nodded his head "Yeah, we did. He is a little ball of energy but I love it. In all the time I spent with Elizabeth's kids, today was the first time I actually felt like a dad. It was the best day ever." He said with a smile.

Sam returned it and watched as his smile turned into a smirk "How did your day go?" he asked knowingly.

Sam glared at him and said "Did you have me followed?"

Jason laughed and said "I don't work for Sonny anymore, Sam. I don't have that perk. You really think I didn't know why you wanted me to take Danny for the day?" he asked.

"I wanted you to have some time with our son to help you." Sam said honestly.

"Yes, I do believe that but I also know that you wanted to deal with Elizabeth." Sam narrowed her eyes on him and it just made him laugh more.

"So are you going to ask?" She said.

Jason shook his head and said "No. if you want me to know you will tell me. I washed my hands of Elizabeth before this. This is all yours." Sam stood there in shock at what he said.

She crossed her arms over her chest and said "So you really want nothing to do with her? Because she seems pretty convinced that you are going to forgive her. And considering your track record, I think she could be right."

Jason walked over to Sam and placed his hands on either side of her head "I know that my past concerning Elizabeth is not the best. And I know the person that always suffers for it is you. But I am done, Sam. She means nothing to me. I know that I have to prove that to you and so much more. All I want is the chance to do that." He pleads with her.

Sam tried to stay strong but the look in his eyes is making it hard. Sam knows that he is telling the truth but she doesn't want to get hurt again.

"I know that I can make you happy. I know that we can make each other happy because we belong together. I have never believed in soulmates before you, Sam. But I know that you are mine and I am yours. Please let me prove that to you." He added.

Sam thought back over their time together and knew that he was right. No one had made her happier that Jason. The last time she can remember being genuinely happy was with Jason. But no one had broken her heart the way he had either. Sam knew that if she wanted to have the happiness back then she needed to take the chance of being hurt again. She needed to believe that it would be worth that chance. She closed her eyes and leaned into his touch. "I swear to God Jason, if you ever again…"

She was cut off by Jason leaning in and sealing his lips over hers. Sam sighed into the kiss as she let herself believe in him again. Her head was still a little guarded but she could feel it in her heart that everything was going to be ok. After two years, they were finally home.