Catch me if you Can
Chapter Two
Alexis looked into the eyes in front of her, eyes that were identical to her own. "Sabine, why? Why would you do this to me? To your sister's?"
Standing on the threshold, Sabine looked at her mother then said "Well let's see, jealousy, yeah, there is a sense of how can she not look for me then have two more kids. Anger, yeah, I am angry, bitterly angry at how you just accept that bitch, how you did everything for a woman, a woman like that without any proof she was your child."
"S-sam had proof, letters." she said with a sad sigh as she looked at the angry young woman in front of her. "I found proof as well, things just lined up. Then there was Nik, his blood saved her, her daughter's saved your sisters."
Jax slipped off to finish getting dressed, leaving the two women to talk without witnesses. He understood both points of view. Sabine's anger and Alexis' feelings of betrayal.
"Sabine, please come in." said Alexis, needing to talk to her, needing to make her understand that she hadn't abandoned her. "Jax, he told me about your life, about your mistakes, we can work together, make changes, make things better for you."
With a bitter laugh, Sabine said "No, I think I would prefer to stay here."
Alexis heard the anger and said "Why do you hate me so?"
"I don't hate you, I just pity you, you are nothing, your life started so good, then you tossed it away. First by working with Luke Spencer when you went after Helena Cassadine. What kind of woman is that foolish to believe that anything that man did would work. You deserved to be caught."
"How, how do you know about that?" she asked surprised yet again by Sabine having the knowledge she did.
"Spencer, he told his son, Ethan. Ethan sold the information for five thousand dollars. Then your life seemed to get back on track, you were the well noted attorney for Corinthos and Morgan, until you screwed up and had a one night stand with Sonny Corinthos himself."
Alexis lips pressed tightly together at the scorn in her daughter's tone. "Seriously, Corinthos, what were you that hard up? The man couldn't keep his zipper closed and he always, always went back to that blond tart who slept with her stepfather. Then when your sister died in that warehouse, you attacked him blamed Morgan and him, when in truth, what you were really angry about, was that Corinthos went back to his wife."
Alexis started to protest, then she met Sabine's eyes and stopped protesting as she admitted "You are partially right, but he still got my sister killed."
"So you what, got involved with his brother, a man who by that time had already held a pregnant woman hostage in a safe room while he was poisoning his own wife. How much of that mother dear, was about sticking it to Sonny?"
Wincing at the scorn she heard, Alexis said "Ric is a very charming man, he claimed to have made a mistake."
"Something you can't admit doing, can you? What you thought his wife, what was her name, oh, I remember, Elizabeth poisoned herself, that his affair with Faith Roscoe, what that was an accident? Or was it that because you didn't like Carly, you didn't give a shit she was held like she was?"
"Oh please, you have no idea, none what you are talking about." Alexis finally snapped, needing to get her own thoughts into the conversation. "Ric had lost a child, he made a mistake."
"So did Ms. Webber, I didn't read about her holding someone hostage. But then you had already gotten away with a murder yourself, after letting two innocent people go to trial for the crime." she tossed out there like the words were bullets.
"Your daughter Kristina almost died before you admitted the truth about who her father was, what, were you too embarrassed to admit you had a kid with the sleazy bastard? Yeah, my guess is that is why you kept quiet for so long."
"NO! I love my little girl, I didn't tell anyone because Sonny would have wanted to be in her life, and I couldn't allow that. He wouldn't have just..."
"He wouldn't have let you have total control, isn't that what you mean?" she sneered at her mother. "Then you got lucky, the male whore had yet another child on the way with yet another woman who wasn't his wife. Sam McCall."
"Then you had yet another daughter, Molly with Ric. You were playing happy families with him, using your job to keep Sonny away because of what, the danger, wasn't it? Yet Lansing was in bed with Lorenzo Alcazar, real safe daddy you chose, Alexis."
"You learn what Trevor Lansing wants you to learn about Sam, you throw open your arms, embrace her to your well admittedly lacking bosom." Snarled Sabine. "That is when things get real interesting, you are covering up her crimes, making excuse after excuse for her, even after she slept with your husband."
Alexis went from red to almost gray as Sabine kept speaking. "Hell even after learning what she did to Elizabeth Webber and her children, you still kept protecting her, you still blamed everyone else except dear ole Sammy for her mistakes, didn't you mother." she hissed as she moved in and sat down on the sofa.
"Jason hurt my daughter." she said then saw the glare from Sabine and amended her statement by saying, he hurt Sam.
"Your daughter fucked who she thought was her stepfather, what Morgan did after they had broke up that spring was none of her damn business." she pointed out.
"But weren't you by the way, the one who wanted them apart? Besides, Sam didn't go after Jason, after Elizabeth, she went after two innocent children, could have gotten them killed, yet what, Jason hurt her? Are you that stupid, that immoral you find that acceptable?"
Alexis had no answer as Sabine went through her past with Sam, tearing every single moment that Alexis had looked on as bonding between Sam and her apart, then looked at her mother and said "You are a lying hypocrite. When I came to town, when I figured out you were my mother; I had decided to turn over a new leaf, to make changes, to get away from the life that Juan had created for us."
"Yet, you call me a hypocrite." snapped Alexis. "Juan became a mobster, you have openly admitted knowing he held Jason Morgan hostage, that he sold him."
"Yes, see the difference is I admit to my sins, I don't hide behind my office, my law degree." Seeing Alexis frown, she said caustically, "Yes mother, I have a law degree. My adopted parents paid for me to attend George Washington University while they were on a diplomatic assignment in Washington."
"Never used it, my parents died and I went on a sabbatical, it's where I met Juan, but yes, I am a licensed attorney."
Alexis felt an odd combination of pride and anger at the woman in front of her who added. "I just came here, because I wanted to face you, to have you look at the child you didn't bother to find, then I would love for you to compare me to the woman you accepted as yours."
Alexis said "There is no comparison. Sam is a convict, she is in jail for the rest of her natural life. You, you could do anything you wanted with your life."
"Yup, I could. But see, I am dying. I have an aggressive cancer, eating my body. Something that if you had bothered to look for me, I might have been tested for sooner. Instead, well I won't live out the month."
With that, Sabine walked out the front door, leaving her shell shocked mother alone in the living room of the Lake house. By the time Alexis came back to rational thought, she could only stare at the now closed door, tears flowing as she got that her shame, her inaction had cost her so much.
Crying as she stumbled to her bedroom, to where she kept the photos of her children, she lit a fire in the fire place and fed the ones of Sam into the flames. Coming to the end of the album, she sat there on the floor, ashamed of her past actions, of how she had done all that she had. Sabine's scorn eating at her very soul.
Jason woke up at the bottom of the pile of people on Elizabeth's bed. Jake's elbow was resting into his side, Cam was curled up on top of him while Aidan was curled up top of the woman asleep next to him. When the toddler, snuggled closer to his mom, Jason reached out and ran his hands over his head. "Humph."
With a soft giggle, Elizabeth lifted her head and said "We need a bigger bed."
"What happened that we ended up with all this company?" he asked.
"Plow truck, early this morning." she said. "I woke up, went downstairs to check the weather. Not a lot fell at least snow wise. You might need to read the paper. Alexis had quite the shock this morning. A certain person isn't her daughter and her real daughter told her story to the Port Charles Herald."
"Did you read it?" he asked softly amazed at how heavily the boys slept on.
"Yes, its interesting, but leaves open whether Sam knew the truth, it's clear that Trevor Lansing did." Turning her eyes to meet the chocolate brown ones now awake on Jason she said "What do you say oatmeal or cream of wheat before we go and drag daddy outside to play again today?"
"Cinnnammmonnn and brown sugar." said the excited little boy as he slid off Jason then reached over to wake Jake. "Jakie, c'mon gotta wake up. Mommy is threatening us with cream of wheat again."
The blond head popped up, looked at his brother with fearful eyes, then placed his elbow in his daddy's stomach as he rushed to get off the bed and dressed muttering about the idea of cream of wheat.
Elizabeth was laughing while Jason just looked at her confused as he heard the boys padding down the hallway to get into the clothes laid out the night before. "What just happened here?"
With a slightly more somber expression, Elizabeth explained. "Dad used to do that to us kids, Steven and I were not morning people at the best of times, but the threat of cream of wheat, not only got us out of bed without a fuss but to eat the oatmeal since we couldn't stand cream of wheat."
"I started it with the boys by accident one morning when I was in a hurry." she said. "I had forgotten to pick up their cereal at the store, they didn't want to get up so early since Cam didn't have school until noon that day but I still had to go to GH. What they haven't noticed is that it is the same cream of wheat box I used to torment them three years ago."
Jason lifted Aidan, carrying his son back to his bed, then went to get dressed, his mind on all the things he had figured out he had left on Elizabeth, even before he had been kidnapped. The day to day living, raising the boys was only the largest part of it. Downstairs he saw the boys eating breakfast, the slightly gray color of the mash making him wonder about it only to hear Elizabeth whispering in his ear. "Jason, it is very healthy for them."
Hearing the phone ringing, Jason quickly grabbed it so as to not admit how unattractive the food was. "Morgan residence."
"Jason, it's Monica. I was just calling to remind you that Steven was supposed to be bringing the boys over to be photographed by Alan today."
"We promised the boys they could go sliding." he confessed. "I think both of us forgot about it."
"Then just bring them over, they can go sliding down the hill here. Then we will get them ready for the pictures here." she offered. "We already have sleds, this will stop Edward from complaining. He wasn't too thrilled you came back early, the boys were supposed to have movie night here last night."
"Jake said he missed us." he offered as an explanation, well aware how nuts that sounded.
"You are parents, it is perfectly normal, considering everything you have gone through, but since Audrey spent time with the boys and Edward hasn't been allowed to because of the cookie jar incident, he thought he was in trouble."
Jason agreed, then asked "What cookie jar incident?"
Groaning in amusement as he heard about Mummy Alan, Edward and the cookies jar and how Steven Webber had taken three hyped up boys to the produce department at Morrisons and was now banned, Jason hung up the phone. "That was Monica."
There was silence from the boys, Elizabeth who was getting a cup of tea, turned looking between the guilty looks on her children's faces and the clear struggle not to smile on Jason's and asked "What is it?"
Cam stuttered as he suddenly became a fountain of information about playing doctor, about a cookie eating race, about wanting grapes and eating them before asking the cashier to ring them up. How she had threatened to call the cops when Cam had handed her an empty bag. How Uncle Steven hadn't liked her calling them heathens, how he had been ordered to leave the store.
"Anyhows, Mommy. You always buy us a bag." he pointed out.
Elizabeth groaned, her head hitting the counter. Her own habits had bitten her brother on the butt. "Cam, I always pay the cashier first."
His lip trembling, Cam said "I didn't know that. She was mean though."
Hugging him, then her eyes meeting Jason's she said "Well we for now on will just go to the other grocery store."
Perking up, Cam said "The one that gives away free bites?"
Elizabeth had stopped going there because the boys would try things without her being aware, but clearly that was going to be their only choice for now on. "Yes."
Reminding the boys they had to each bring their favorite toy to Grandpa Alan's studio, Cam and Jake rushed off while Elizabeth grabbed Aidan's well worn bear. Jason lifted the paper, read it, and winced on Alexis' behalf, that had to sting.
"Daddy's we have to get our sleds." said Cam tugging at Jason's hand.
"They have lots and lots of sled your grandmother was going to get them ready for you." he announced then was dragged out to the truck so the boys could 'clear' off the snow.
John woke up from his very erotic dream, aroused and knowing that his vow of celibacy was starting to get to him. As he stretched, then licked his lips, the dryness in the air making them feel cracked a bit.
Frowning at the slight vanilla flavor, he tossed back the blankets, then hurried to shower to relieve the pressure that was building up, he quickly finished then turned the taps for icy cold water.. Soon reaching into the medicine cabinet for his shaving cream, he saw the small stick container and lifted it. "Vanilla flavored hydrating lip oil."
Reminded of his cracked lips, then the flavoring, John tossed it back into the cabinet, shaved and went to get dressed. Feeling a slight cold draft when he returned to the bedroom, he went to the balcony and saw it had been swept or shoveled. "Who are you and why are you doing this?"
Returning to grab clothes, he once again ignored the suits and went for jeans. Opening the underwear drawer with a grimace as he recalled he still hadn't gotten anything to replace the boxers, he swore when he saw the boxer briefs and a note asking if these were better.
Dressed in the jeans, tailored dress shirt and grabbing some shoes, he went downstairs to what he knew he would find. The coffee pot was ready, freshly made hot coffee, in the fridge, he saw the groceries his guard had told him were delivered the day before.
Reaching for an apple, he poured himself the bran cereal, ate, left for the hotel, frowning as he admitted to himself that he was getting too complacent about this person who had invaded his life. At the hotel, he took a short cut, wanting to avoid Carly Jacks who had left repeated messages with Marty about wanting to talk to him, as he hurried into his office.
Stopping in shock at the door, he saw the changes, then stepped inside, lifting his phone. "Sir, I need to speak to you about a crime. Could you please come to the Metro."
Mac grimaced as he escaped from a ranting Carly who had cornered him in the lobby and demanded he do something about the changes, he had only pointed out she was no longer the owner so there was nothing that could be done.
Calling down to the station he asked his desk sergeant to open the file of the John Doe hit and run and to have the police pick up Carly Jacks from the Metro. Knocking on the office with the discreet sign with John's name, he heard himself being told to enter and did so.
"Zachara, what is going on?"
The frustrated man said "My groceries are being purchased, my laundry is being done, new clothes were purchased. My e-mails are getting answered, the contractor are being told what to do for the hotel, and then I got this..."
Taking the phone being thrust at him, Mac blinked "This is a text reminding you to get a flu shoot. John, that isn't a crime. Why are you wasting my time with this nonsense."
"These... these clothes, I didn't order them." he said shoving the dress shirt in his small wardrobe at the police officer. "I would never buy oatmeal, I hate it, there are apples and fruit at my house. I have lip oil in my medicine cabinet, then there is the fact I am sleeping well all the sudden after years of nightmares. You have to do something, I can't take it much longer."
By now convinced something was up, even if he didn't understand Mac said "What am I supposed to do? I need to know what crime was committed Zachara and you not having nightmares isn't a crime unless you are being drugged."
Frustrated, the Italian mumbled about lavender and sugar cookies before admitting that he wasn't being drugged. "Steven Webber tested my blood, there is nothing in it."
John's phone rang, picking it up, he listened then after audibly counting to ten he thanked the person then hung up. "See, this is what I am talking about. Now, they are making dentist appointments for me. Mac, you have to do something about this person."
"Who is it, do you at least have an idea?"
"I think it is a woman." he muttered about the boxers and the notes. "I don't want them to go to jail, I just want them to stop. I mean, I don't really want them to stop, just ask me before arranging my life. I mean it's weird thinking there is someone out there who knows me so well. I mean..."
"Zachara, just what do you mean." asked a now amused Mac as the kid went on and on about how someone had taken to arranging for his life to be easier but how he hated not knowing who it was. "Is there anything else you can tell me about your stalker?"
"Not without sounding crazy." he admitted.
"Don't let that stop you, I am already concerned about you sanity." retorted the man, ignoring the glare from the hotelier. "What is it?"
"I think that it is a separate incident but someone stole my watch the night after the Morgan wedding and left a picture of my mother holding me at her piano. They managed to get into my penthouse from the roof." he admitted, distracted in part by what else he wasn't telling the man, he missed seeing the startled expression on Mac's face as he quickly stood and told John he would look into it.
When Mac had left, John sighed then reminded himself of why he had decided against sex, his erotic dreams were now showing up as full color daydreams as he leaned back to relax for a moment.
Hearing the banging on the door, his daydream fulled arousal faded as Carly Jacks stormed in and shouted at him about the changes. "And what gives you the right to change the name of the hotel. It is the Metrocourt, not the Metro."
"Carly, get out of my office." he said annoyed. "I own the hotel, I get to decide on it's name."
"I don't like that, you need to change it back. This hotel was named in honor of my best friend, Courtney who lost her life giving birth. You can't just erase her presence away." she fumed.
"Carly, ownership papers say I can. Now, I am not going to sit here and debate this with you. If you have a problems take it up with your husband who sold this place to me. And one more thing, that little scene you created when you checked in yesterday, if it happens again you will be kicked out. You are a guest, you are no longer the owner, so your bad behavior won't be tolerated."
Standing, Carly stormed out as quickly as she entered. She wanted to scream and shout but Jax hadn't come back last night and she was almost certain that she knew where he was.
He had threatened to humiliate her if he found out she was chasing after Jason, and she wouldn't put it past some of the backstabbing lowlifes here in town to to have reported to him who she had been looking for. Like that bitch Robin Scorpio who couldn't keep her nose out of everyone else's business.
In her suite, she called down to the garage and ordered her car to be ready, determined to put an end to this nonsense. Just as she reached for her charged cell phone, her husband entered the room looking freshly showered. "Where have you been?"
"With Alexis." he said. Reaching for his briefcase, seeing the scratch marks where he was certain she had tried to pick it, he said "I have a board meeting at GH, stay out of trouble."
Gritting her teeth, she couldn't help holding the newspaper up and snapping. "Let me guess, you spent the whole night comforting her about this?"
"No, that didn't come up until this morning." he said then left, before adding. "You should know, Brenda is in town, stay away from her."
Carly puffed up in anger but had no one to vent it on as she left. Ordering her driver to take her to the coffee warehouse, she saw Maxie Jones and snapped "Tell your cousin I am going to make her pay."
Shrugging Carly off, Maxie turned to the two young blonds and said "Now do you understand?"
Serena looked at Carly then saw Dante entering and said "Stepmommy is on the war path."
Kissing his girlfriend and greeting her sister who was dating Michael, he said "Carly what are you doing in town?"
"What do you think?" she asked tossing down the paper. "Jax had to be here for this, I came so I could talk to Jason."
Then looking at the petite blond standing next to Dante her eyes narrowed as she thought the girl reminded her of someone and said "Who are you?"
"Serena." Carly just dismissed her at that point, missing the smirk as the girl continued. "Serena Baldwin."
When Carly heard the last name, she started shrieking at Dante about betraying his father by being involved with Scott's daughter just as Michael, Alan and a now calm Kristina entered. Michael hugged his own girlfriend and watched as the blond unraveled yet again in public. "What is her problem?"
"Something about my dad." said Cristina whose arm was wrenched back by Carly who rasped out wanting to know who she was. "Cristina Baldwin. Scott is my father too."
Carly tossed the water on the table at the two girls who just wiped it away while Michael called 911. Within minutes, Carly was under arrest and down at the station. After Mac got no where on the hit and run, he issued her an appearance ticket for the assault and ignored her protest.
Dante meanwhile had chided both girls, "Now that wasn't nice."
With a kiss, Serena said "Oh, you know you were enjoying watching her head explode."
Dante had been warned by Jason about how Scott would react to Michael and him dating the man's daughters. He hadn't been thrilled but both girls who had been raised by Lucy and Kevin not him, had minds of their own and Scott was still in Paris fighting Luke for Laura.
The two Baldwin girls supported Kristina who was telling them she had no idea about this Sabine. "I don't think Mom did either."
"How is Molly doing?" asked Cristina, she had met Molly a few times and the young girl while she had faced what Sam did, was still convinced that she had done it all because of her love for Jason.
"Not good. She left to stay with Ric, it's his year for Christmas. He invited me but I know my dating Alan still unnerves him." she said with a grimace. "He tries to act like it doesn't, tries to be supportive but I know it."
"I hate to admit it, but I have my appointment at GH today." said her boyfriend rubbing her shoulder. "Do you want to come over with me?"
"No, I will head to the diner, see if Catherine needs me at all this week." she said slightly hopeful. She loved the work, found it a challenge to try and remember what regulars ordered as they came in the door.
Jason and Elizabeth sat across from Steven who was grinning at them. "Why do you look so happy."
"Okay, first of all, you will be happy to know that all three boys are yours, Elizabeth." he offered up.
"Steven, I gave birth to them, I think I know that." she said dryly.
"Will you just let me do this my way." he tossed out then said "We know that Cam is Zander's biologically, and that only leaves Jake and Aidan. Who share the same father."
Stunned, she looked at Jason then at her brother and said "Wait, how?"
"Don't know, but that is what the tests proved. Jason, do you have any idea?"
"Not really." he said frowning. "Why would Helena use my sperm?"
"No idea, maybe to screw with Lucky but who knows." he said with a shrug. "Elizabeth what time is the board meeting?"
"Uh, one PM." she said shaken as she looked at Steven. "I don't understand this, are you sure?"
"Yes, I ran the tests five times. The dates match up to Jason being sold to Helena and Nik about the same time. I don't know what happened just that it did."
Hugging Jason, Elizabeth said "Aidan is your son. Wow."
Steven went back to his lab, then made a call. Telling Frisco Jones, he said "Why were you so interested?"
"Helena was playing deep games, I think that there is something missing in all of this. What I do know is that she was desperate for Nik to have another child, then when it became public about Elizabeth, she was sweating bullets. She cut off all contact with that nutty artist Franco all of the sudden."
"Could he have been the one to make sure Elizabeth had Jason's kid? And why?"
"I am not sure. I will add it to my list of things that don't add up about this case." he told the blond doctor. "My daughter is there in town, I received an e-mail from her letting me know. I think she knows more than she is telling."
Steven hung up, then went to Crimson hoping to talk to Maxie who was giving Kate her coffee and telling her what Carly had pulled. "Dr. Webber, may I help you?"
Nodding at the tall blond he said "I actually need a moment with Maxie, if she is free."
"Make it quick, Maxie and I have a lot to do to put our March issue to bed." she ordered then went into her office.
"Steven, what is it?" she asked the blond.
"Have you heard from your sister?" he asked a bit uneasy about the attraction he felt towards the blond. It had been growing but he just put it down to not seeing anyone right then.
"Yes, she is supposed to arrive this week. She wants to meet with Robin and I before talking to dad." she offered up. "Why? What is your interest in my sister?"
"Just some questions regarding what happened while she was without her memories." he said then hearing his phone ringing, asked her to have Georgie contact him.
Back at GH, he entered the board room as they settled in. "Maxie is at work."
"I know, this is about the nursing scholarship. Tracy would you share the news?" Elizabeth asked.
Tracy stood, then with a wide smile said "The auction is set for New Year Eve. The estimate is valued at almost ten million dollars."
There was some clapping and Jax thanking her for her hard work then Tracy frowned and said "There is one thing. We are missing a few pieces that Cassadine wrote were to be sold. They are of Mexican decent, but the bigger issue is that they have no providence."
"Do you think they were stolen?" asked Edward as she passed out the pictures.
"No, or rather, yes but I think the Cassadine family were the ones doing the stealing. The auctioneer said these pieces, their images and description match some reported stolen from a museum in Mexico City."
Hearing the murmurs, she said "What took so long was we verified the providence of every single other piece we offered up for sale. Elizabeth, Nik donated some paintings to GH after the fire. We can't find the papers for them and we might have a problem."
"What kind of a problem?" she asked with a sinking heart.
"Just this, there are some that Sonny donated as well, on behalf of himself. We don't have papers for them either. And Cassadine insured them, having supposedly had them authenticated but we have no paperwork proving that."
"What should we do?" she asked Jackson Montgomery who was the legal council.
"Take them down, notify the insurance company and then ask them to hire outside authenticators." he promptly suggested.
Tracy said grimly she would take care of it then looked at Elizabeth. "I have to talk to Laura, would you care to do it?"
"Yes, if there is a problem, she can scream at me. When will we be able to get this done?" Hearing that they would be able to have it expedited. That the Insurance company would insist, she went to the hub and back to work.
Jax meanwhile had a meeting with Steven Webber regarding the cancer that Sabine had then drove back to Alexis house. Finding the attorney on the floor, curled up he forced her to stand. "You need to deal with this. Go see Sam, find out what she knew. Where is Molly?"
"Kristina put her on the plane to LA." she said her voice hollow as she went to dress. The long drive to Pentonville, she got her act together then was let in as Sam's attorney into a private room.
"Mother, did the appeal work?" she asked eagerly as she entered the room.
"No, this isn't about that." she said her eyes not meeting Sam's. "Sam, you are not my daughter, at least not biologically. Trevor set it up for it to look like you were."
The other woman in the orange jump suit sat down, then asked "Are you sure?"
"Yes, it changes nothing." she said with a sad smile. "I owe you, if I hadn't interfered in your life, who knows where you would be now."
"H-how is he?" she asked, her broken heart still not recovered from the games played by AJ Quartermaine. Her love for Jason was as strong as the day she had first told him, she knew that someday, he would figure out she was the only woman for him.
"Elizabeth and he are married." she said and felt bad for the woman who flinched, then knowing she had to tell her said "Rumors are, she is pregnant."
The tears slide down Sam's face as Alexis said "I left a package with some presents and put some money into your account. Sam, once again, I promise, I will get you out of here."
Alexis left, feeling guilty about her relief in knowing the sad mess locked behind those iron gates wasn't her real child. Thinking on Sabine, she found herself wanting to know more as she accepted the truth. She would save Sam, she owed it to the woman, but the forced love, that was gone. And she was certain that with proper medical care, her real daughter would be fine.
Answering her phone, she put it on speaker and listened to what Jax and Jackson Montgomery were telling her. "I will look through my files, but I am sure that Nik would no more steal anything than he would..." she started to say commit murder but then she stopped as she faced he already had tried.
Calling the hotel, she asked to be connected to Sabine's suite only to be told that the woman had requested no calls be put through. Driving over, she entered the lobby and stopped, amazed and delighted at the changes.
What had once been a gaudy and overblown hotel was now simple and elegant. Letting Marty know where she was, she asked him to pass on a message to her daughter as she avoided the stares, the glares and even a few smirks as she began to face how many people read the Port Charles Herald.
In the small antechamber, she made a few calls, then found there were no papers in regards to the paintings. Calling Diane, she had her check the files only to find they weren't at the former partnership office. With a feeling of foreboding, she called Jax and gave him the message just as she heard the shrill tone of Carly's shriek.
Entering the lobby in time to see Carly jerking flowers out of someone's hands, she was amused when two guards escorted her to the elevator while the staff whispered about the brash blond. Calling Jax back when moments later, the blond was escorted out the front door, he looked around with regret and said "Thanks for letting me know."
Carly was soon checked into a small boutique hotel on the edge of town as she made a dozen different calls, furious to find that no one wanted to hear from her. "Carly, what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Looking up at her husband she said "Did you know what was going on here? At the hotel, with the boys dating the trash they are seeing? That Scott Baldwin's bitch of a daughter has her hooks into Sonny's son?"
"A, we don't own the hotel and I think he has done wonders. It is finally what it should have been all along. Carly, who are you to call anyone trash and as for Serena, she is a wonderful young woman studying to be a doctor. What is there to object to?" asked Jax.
Carly silently fumed then stood. "I have to run out, where are you going to be tonight?"
"At my room at the Metro, John called to tell me that while you aren't welcome I can stay." he tossed out as he left. "Oh, and Carly. I talked to Jason Morgan about an hour ago, he says you are bothering the staff at the coffee shop and to stop coming there."
Carly waited until he left, then made a few calls. Hearing that Spinelli was locked up in a padded cell, she did a bit of detecting on her own and soon had the Morgan family's address. Frowning because it was the same small squat hovel Elizabeth had lived in while she was in town, Carly was drove over.
"Turn around, get back in your limo and leave." said Jason as he came onto the porch. He had just picked Cam up from school and had no intention of dealing with her.
"Jason, please, I have missed you. You know you forgave me already, It's what you do." she said pleading with him. "Please, I need you."
"Carly, I will call Mac in two seconds." he said as she went on about Jax cheating on her with Alexis, how he had sold her hotel to that bastard John Zachara, how she missed him, how the boys missed him. How he was her children's godfather and how they needed him to save them from Jax.
Dante and his partner pulled up silently behind Carly and got out of their car. "Jason, is this what the 911 call is about?"
"You promised me, you promised to listen to me." shouted Carly.
"Carly I gave you two seconds, you have been going on and on for almost fifteen minutes. I have heard nothing that I care about. You were told not to bother me, not to come to my family's home. Carly that promise I made, it was to Michael. He is an adult and you, you are finally no longer in my life."
"No, please, Jason. I need you, I love you. We have each others back." she said the tears flowing.
Jason looked at the sad woman in front of him and said "Carly, go away. There is nothing left for you. You have disrespected my wife, hurt my children, lied to my face. I owe you nothing and I don't love you. I never loved you like you wanted. You were a friend, at least I thought you were but in truth, you are lying to yourself and to me. Go back to Australia with Jax, accept what he has to offer you."
Carly looked between the detective with the cuffs, then Jason before getting into the backseat of her limo and ordering the man to take her back to her hotel. Calling to check on her kids, she was sobbing as she told her momma that too much had changed.
Mac finally got a chance to check the cameras on the buildings near Harborview Towers and was annoyed to find that none of them had an angle on the building. The traces he had put out led no where, the inquiries only came back to Zachara.
Letting the man know, he hung up, wondering what his daughter was up to, it had to be Georgie, only someone with WSB training could make things happen without any kind of trace.
John hung up, he had heard the news about Aidan being Jason's son, congratulated the man then went to his dentist appointment. Back home, he cooked dinner alone, his mind reeling around and around as he tried to figure out what was going on in his life. Pushing the full plate away, not really hungry, he decided to go to bed grimacing since it wasn't even seven o'clock.
The shadow picked the new improved lock, smirked at the pathetic attempt regarding security and quickly slid into the room. Going down the hall, knowing she had about an hour before he returned, she took her book on hotel management and went to room intending on heading to her secret hiding spot.
Freezing when she saw the body already lying in the bed, she got worried when she saw he was asleep. Concerned he was sick, she laid her hand against his face, relieved to notice he was cool like normal.
In the closet, she changed silently, then returned to the bedroom, turned on the music box she pulled out of her hiding place, then eased down onto the bed. Soon, with a sigh, she set the wrist watch for four AM and was soon fast asleep.
John woke up for a moment, not sure what had disturbed him, then relaxed at how safe he felt. Within moments he was fast asleep, his arms encircling the warm body next him, inhaling the by now ever present scent of lavender and soft piano music.
Waking up feeling hungry, John was about to get up and go microwave the food he had cooked earlier when he noticed he wasn't alone. A bit wary, he looked over to his right and saw the beautiful young woman sleeping on his arm. "Well, well look whose been sleeping in my bed."
The young woman just frowned, reached out and tucked the covers up over him then snuggled in close. Not sure if he should call the police or just wait for her to wake up so he could get his answers, all that was tossed out the window when she moaned his name and moved her leg on top of his body.
Mentally screaming at himself to get back under control, it was soon tossed out the window when she leaned in to kiss him. As his very erotic fantasies came to life, John felt his cock stiffen and lost all sense of control as he got that he HADN'T been dreaming and that he had more than likely been making love to this woman over the last few nights.
Leaning down to kiss her, he saw the brown eyes in the darkness just before he captured her lips in a passionate kiss. An hour later, exhausted, they were both fast asleep, Johnny wrapped around the woman who had rocked his world, determined to make sure she would be there when he woke up this time.
Georgie woke up at four and grimaced when she realized that they had had sex again. Looking around, she frowned when she didn't find the boxers she had been borrowing as nightclothes since he refused to wear them.
Looking at the watch face, then at the man stirring, she quickly rushed to the get dressed and leave before he woke up and found out that all of this was real. In her dark clothes, she reached for the music box and was heading towards the door.
Stopping, looking back at the sleeping man in the darkness, she returned, gently kissed him before whispering thank you then left. Back in her small hotel room, she sighed as she showered, well aware that she wouldn't get any sleep. She hadn't slept more than four hours a night since Kevin Collins had forced her to face the truth about who she was.
Thanks to the nights with John, she was now at least getting five or six hours, but she knew that eventually she was going to have to face him. That was one thing she wasn't sure she could do, after all what man would be interested in a woman who needed him like she did him? That she was odd, she accepted. That she was broken, she accepted but deep down, she wanted to be normal again.
To have the ability to sleep through the night without imagined images of dead husbands and ghost babies. To have the ability to love again, that had been crushed first by what had happened in her admittedly disaster of a marriage and then by how easily she had been forgotten by those in Port Charles.
Across the hall, Carly had called Lulu, getting the blond all riled up about Dante dating Serena Baldwin then offered to fly her home. There was silence then Lulu said "No, Carly. I won't go back. I can't. I may hate it but it is none of my business."
Hanging up, certain that Lady Jane was rubbing off on her cousin, Carly went back to calling Jason's old voice mail and listening to the sound of his voice saying Morgan and that you know what to do.
Elizabeth watched as Jason checked on the boys before returning with her early morning snack. "Elizabeth, isn't it a little early to be eating ice cream?"
"Not that I have ever heard." she teased then when he had rejoined her, she said "Besides, it's not me that wanted it, it is your daughter."
Looking at her slightly rounded stomach, he said "Really, because I haven't heard her announcing that. I think Mommy is using her sweet innocent daughter to get ice cream for breakfast."
Moving in as if to kiss Jason, she wanted until he had moved closer than said "Prove it Morgan."
When she went to pull back, he tugged her closer, kissing her then licking her lips saying. "Yum, butter pecan."
"Daddy are you and Mommy eating ice cream for breakfast?" asked Cam from the doorway with a happy grin.
Jason was stumped as to what to say then offered up Elizabeth's excuse regarding the baby only to see her shaking her head no, he didn't get it until Cam said as if trying to figure something out. "Daddy, since our little sister gets ice cream for breakfast, that mean we can too, right?"
"Uhhhh, how about just this once." he said stuttering while Elizabeth started to laugh as she saw the shock on Jason's face at what had come out out of his own mouth and the excitement on Cam's.
"You had better hope we have more ice cream." she said as he went to chase after his son who was waking up his younger brothers with the news before Jason could tell him any differently.
Johnny woke up, feeling good then swearing as he got that he was once again alone. Then all that had happened came back to him, including what the young woman had looked like. Making a call, he ordered the man to meet him at his office, showered, found the note to use the lip oil and left for the hotel.
An hour later, the composite artist for the state police left his office with an extra two hundred dollars as John propped up the likeness of his lover/stalker. "What was it you said Catch you if I could. I have what you look like, soon I will have you."
TBC