Chapter Three
Mac looked into it, almost feeling foolish as he looked at the surveillance tapes that the FBI had been making for years on the Harborview Towers. At least until the visits of the Davis girls and the dates of the hacking began to match up.
Then checking the credit card receipts for Kelly's, was beginning to piece it together as each date also had a matching receipt for Kristina's credit card, the Lake house was her home and when he looked at the dates, those were clearly times when quick action had been taken, like the night that Jake Webber had been killed. Wyndemere had them all over it when ever they wanted.
Then the most damning evidence, that the car driven without license plates was a sedan that an identical set of were being looked at by Corinthos/Morgan and that one was returned with a slightly damaged grill.
He didn't like what this was showing and even less when he had asked Steven why he had suspected Molly. Hearing about the wifi connection to the middle school, had him now very angry. He had two young girls doing god knows what or why to someone they barely knew to help out their selfish sociopath of an older sister.
Kristina never saw the tail as she went into the maintenance building and never saw she was followed in by a cop dressed in street clothes. She quickly tossed in the laptop, never noticing it wasn't on since she had no clue how boilers worked.
The man following her quickly did and he grabbed it out of the large machine and called his boss who told him to stay right there. Mac arrived on campus in his personal vehicle and told the office to hand the computer to the tech with him.
The man opened it up and typed a few letters then swore. "There is a kill switch, if we don't get it right, the computer erases everything. I have to take this back to the lab and get out the guts"
"How soon?" Mac asked.
"At least twenty four hours." he was told as the man hurried off to get the answers for his boss.
The police commissioner had no idea that Edward Quartermaine was also looking into things, something wasn't adding up in regards to Sam's child. He had snuck a peek at her records and her rotted uterus wasn't her only issue, she had problems with getting pregnant at all.
And when he had seen Kelly Lee skittering away while talking to Monica as Jason walked up it had him very, very curious as to what the young doctor was up to. "Dr. Lee, I think we need to talk."
"I really can't imagine that you need my specialty." she said trying for humor but clearly failing. "What may I do for you, Mr. Quartermaine."
"I suggest we find someplace a little more private." he said in a silky tone. When they were in private he said "I don't know what you did, but I know that you did something and I think that you might want to tell me before I go looking because I will make your deepest darkest secrets public without hesitation."
Looking at him then out the window, she said "I guess you are as good as anyone. Its an ugly story.."
"Then spill." he ordered.
"When Elizabeth Webber was brought in a few years ago, unconscious, I was blackmailed by that man Franco. He has pictures of me, of a very indiscreet nature."
"I assume that they involve sex?" he asked.
"I wish." she said miserably. "I truly to god wish that they were of that."
Edward didn't know what was going on, but she clearly wasn't a happy woman.
"My parents weren't born in this country." she said with shaking hands. "I was though, but they had to leave my sisters behind in Korea. A few years ago, I arranged for them to come here but green cards are very expensive and it was slow going. I had a man come to me, with an offer. I took it."
"In exchange for what?" he asked.
"Medical help." she said. "Strictly GSW's and broken bones and such. Except that I had to write scripts for them, pain killers. Ones that if it were known would cost me my medical license and might cost my sisters their chance of staying in the states."
"And someone found out?" he asked.
"That bastard Ric Lansing." she said not able to look him in the face. "Then he told someone, that woman Claudia Zachara. Who told someone else, Sonny Corinthos and I have no idea who found out next, just that I have been being blackmailed by this man Franco since his art show."
"What did you do for him?" he asked.
"He wanted DNA results for Aidan Cassadine and was furious when they showed him to be Nik's son. Then when it came out that it was Spencers son, he went crazy, demanded that I do something, perform surgery on Sam McCall."
"And we all know you did."
"He wanted it that specific day though, said I was to tell her when, the odd thing is she asked me for that day so it didn't matter."
"What else?" he prodded.
"Well Sam had some problems with her eggs, so he wanted me to tell her that I could run tests, I did and surprisingly they were fine. It was almost like they were the eggs of someone else, that was how healthy they suddenly were."
Holding her breath she just expelled it with the news. "Then they disappeared, I always thought he stole them."
Edward didn't doubt he did, but something else occurred to him. Calling Jason he asked "Jason, did they run DNA tests against Daniel in regards to Sam, I have reason to believe someone else's eggs were used."
"Whose?" he asked while watching as Alexis argued with Ned. He didn't know what it was about, but it was clear that she wanted him to do something and he was refusing.
"I don't know, but we need to find out the answer." Seeing Kelly Lee wildly gesturing, he said "Hold on."
"I did run the tests but only as an exemplar to figure out which were from Jason an/or Franco and which from hers when we learned about the twin." she said then told him it was in the file. Getting it, she said "They show Sam to have the same genetic markers, so it had to be her child."
Thanking her, Edward told Jason. "Daniel is Sam's, I was hoping I was wrong."
Hanging up, he said "Find a new job, one where I will never see you again. Quickly, Dr. Lee. You should have gone to Jason, he would have protected you. Now! You have no idea what you have helped do."
Elizabeth got off the plane at nine and looked at her watch, nine more hours until she saw Jason and all she wanted to do was run the opposite way. Getting into her rental car, she drove around the edge of town until she was at the Drake house.
Greeting Patrick, she crashed that night in the guest room after spending hours talking to the widower about his late wife. Patrick didn't tell her that Jason often slept at her house, but he had a plan. Checking, he saw the car was once again pulled around back and at dawn, when Elizabeth woke he suggested she check out her place to make sure everything was secure.
The pregnant woman did so, entering and surprised to feel like a stranger in her own home. Walking up the stairs, she stopped in Cam's room and then Jake's bare room and finally in Aidan's when she heard something.
Entering what was her room, she was stunned at what she saw. A sleeping Jason in her bed. A naked Jason asleep in her bed. Wanting to run, she instead retreated back down the stairs, guessing that somehow Patrick was aware of this.
Sitting on the sofa, preparing in her mind what she wanted to say, her mind suddenly went to one question. Where was his child, the baby Sam had given birth to and why was he in her house?
At the Quartermaine house, Ned was telling Monica and his grandfather of Alexis' request. "She is afraid that someone is trying to harm her daughters. The shake that was poisoned belonged to Kristina."
Seeing their surprise he said "She wants me to take them with me to Los Angeles but I refused. Sonny is on his Island, hiding away, god knows where Ric is, but they are their fathers."
Monica said "I feel for the girls but Kristina is way to possessive of Daniel and Molly unfortunately that poor dear, she is very socially inept. Alexis did such a disservice to the those girls. They are as neurotic as she is and as blind to life as their fathers and unfortunately Sam is their hero. They have been lied to for so long about their sister by Alexis, that when they learn the truth, it will destroy them."
"I have an early flight, I only came back to help Jason, but I think I made matters worse." Ned said shaking his head. "What the hell happened to Alexis?"
Upstairs, Kristina was waking up and hurried down to see Daniel. Finding him awake and the nanny there, she decided to talk to Jason, this had to stop. Entering his room, she was shocked to once again find the bed made and the man no where to be found.
Downstairs, she entered the room just as Ned was leaving with his suitcase. "Kristina, tell your mom I said I will talk to her later."
Never even acknowledging the man she demanded "Where is Jason? Why isn't he here with his son? Why does the nanny spend more time with him than his own father."
"Enough, young woman, sit down." said Tracy from the doorway after having said farewell to her son. "Time for you to learn a few facts of life."
Smirking with her arms crossed, Kristina did as ordered then said "Well I am waiting for you to school me."
"Simply put, Jason isn't the father of that little boy, Franco is."
"That isn't true." she said very sure of herself.
"Kristina, Franco raped Sam, the DNA tests prove that while Jason shares genetic markers with Daniel, it is only because he is his uncle, just like you are Daniel's aunt." said Monica not sure that this was the best idea but getting that Tracy was tired of the attitude the young woman had been showing.
"And that just goes to prove you know nothing." she said smugly standing and walking to the door. "Jason is the father and I know who his mother is. I will prove it and Monica, your son is a dreadful father he should be here with his son, after all Sam died so that Jason could have this child."
When she was gone, Edward who had been silent walked to the door and looked out it, to see Kristina walking up the stairs, Closing the door and locking it, he said "Monica, explain what genetic markers mean and would a half sibling have the same genetic markers as a twin."
"Depends, see we run two different types of DNA tests, a simple one when the child has two possible fathers who aren't related and a more complicated one when they might be." she said.
"Monica, after that young woman leaves for school today, you need to take her toothbrush and compare it against Daniel. I think we are going to find that she is the biological mother of that little boy." he said as he sank into the wing back chair. Seeing them looking at him like he was mentally imbalanced, he told them the story and said "If I am right, we have a real mess on our hands."
Jason saw the woman asleep on the sofa, holding the purse and the pillow she was curled up with. Sitting down, when he knew he should leave, he found his eyes feasting on her as she slept the morning away.
When Elizabeth started to wake, the pillow dropped and Jason's eyes were drawn to the slight bump he could see. Shocked and hurt too, he swallowed his pain, knowing she had moved on. "Jason? Why were you sleeping in my bed?"
"I uh, I didn't mean to." he lied. "I figured this would be where you showed up first."
Without heat to it; she said "Liar."
Flinching, as she sat up and looked at him he was about to answer when she interrupted. "I think Patrick Drake knows you have snuck in here before, he sent me over at dawn."
"I know it is wrong and I am sorry." he said looking at her. "You look... beautiful, happy."
"I am but at the same time, I have so much to tell you." she said. "A lot has happened since Jake's birthday."
Hearing the ease with which she said their son's name, the pain that was no longer in her voice, Jason could tell she had dealt with their sons death, while he was still wallowing in the pain and loss he had created.
"I am not even sure where to start." she said with an odd laugh, one that sounded almost carefree to him as he suggested that maybe it would help to start with where she had been.
"Pittsburgh." she said then reaching for her purse, she recalled the letters and the DVD that Patrick had given her and said "My father is working there, helping get a specialize wing started up. Steven sent me to him and to a surprise he had for me."
Holding out the letter her brother had written so long ago, she said "Here, I think that this might help, since it is the first part of what I have to tell you."
Jason took the crumpled letter and slowly opened it, finding it hard to take his eyes off of her.
Dear Peanut,
I am so sorry. I have since the moment we began this regretted the pain and anguish you were experiencing but I excused it with the knowledge that if I was wrong, if I had been seeing what I wanted to see you would be less hurt than by my giving you false hope.
Jake's hand moved when I went in to prepare him for the transplant. I ran a few more tests, while I paid someone to find a matching kidney for the Jacks girl. The results frightened me. Elizabeth, there was a drug in Jake's system, one that mimics a coma but in truth the patient is still healthy.
Jason almost found it hard to believe and at the same time was horrified at what he had almost caused. His son hadn't been brain dead and he had done such a wrong thing, asked the worst thing he could of the one person he had more than likely hurt so deeply she would never forgive him.
I went looking into the how and why anyone would harm your son like that. I came up with the same list of names that the police had. Frankly they all had access to Jake while he was laying in that hospital bed and there were several who might have seen his accident as an opportunity to hurt you even further, including the man claiming to be his father, Lucky.
Getting no answers, I knew that thanks to that drug, Jake would need long term care. I found the name Leo Julian in the records at GH and then with the help of Robin went ahead with my plan. She hated it but agreed that if Jake didn't wake up, this was better for you now that the truth about Jake's parentage came out.
We both knew that the sycophants surrounding Jason would have created a tidal wave of pain and anger all around you. We made a deal, she would try and get close to Jason again, in case things changed and I would distance myself from you because it was a challenge every single day to keep quiet about what I had done.
Please, if nothing else, believe that we only did this to protect your son, Elizabeth. Someone close to either Jason or you wanted your little boy dead and wasn't above killing anyone who got in his way.
The blond man wanted to deny what was written but he couldn't, he had faced up to the truth even if it had been too late.
We eliminated a few people, oddly enough Carly and Sonny. For Sonny since you weren't in Jason's life, and neither was Jake, it didn't matter. Carly wouldn't have asked for the kidney since the drugs wouldn't have allowed for it to be transplanted.
Just as we eliminated Luke, we gained another suspect, Damien Spinelli thanks to something Maxie Jones had said. The suspect list ebbed and flowed; then Robin died and I discovered what the Zachara family was doing with black market organs.
But that too ended up being a dead end as we later learned what had been going on with Johnny. You should know, he is in this exact same hospital, drugged the exact same way as Jake after I confronted him about Jake's supposed missing organs. He denied knowing anything and went looking for answers like the hot head he is and paid a very dear price for trying to find the truth.
That gave me some hope that I would find the answers, but it hasn't and now I am back to square one. But I have seen you at the hospital with Jason, have seen your anguish that you have hidden so well from him over his choices.
Jason read the words about the anguish he had caused her and knew that even after she had told him, he hadn't realized how much he had hurt her by going to her for help with the one woman he should have never gotten back with.
Then two days ago, that bitch Sam McCall confronted you and I knew that I couldn't keep this secret any longer than it took to get you moved to Pittsburgh. Someday, I hope you can forgive me for what I have done. You should know, I sent you help in getting Jake well.
Besides Dr. Julian and Dr. Winters who says she has several reasons to owe you help, I used emotional blackmail on our father who when he heard the whole story wanted to come to Port Charles and rip Monica Quartermaine's head off. I have to admit it was almost tempting except that it might have put my mother on your trail.
Jason had heard from Monica what she had done, but reading it in blue ink on hospital paper was another story as he looked up and said "Jake, did he wake up?"
"Yes, he is up and running around. There were a few missteps but the same drugs created by Robin to help you saved Jake." she said. "He was a bit weak when he woke up, but he came home less than a week later. Patrick came down and gave him a clean bill of health. And when he was feeling trapped, John Zachara who was also a patient there helped to keep him entertained."
"I heard what happened to him, that Anthony had been drugging him for the last few years." he said.
"He has memory issues, he wants to come back but he isn't sure what is real and what is not." she told him. "There is something else, Jake dreamed of Emily."
"Em?" he asked surprised.
"He knows you are his father, Emily told him in his dreams, she was also I guess in Johnny's dreams, discussing things he said she would have never known about him. It freaked him out a bit." she said with a chuckle. "He was given the all clear medically and went to see the world, until he is ready to come home, he is going to do all the things he thinks he recalls wanting to do."
"I can understand that." he said "Plus when Anthony died he inherited all his money."
"Jason, Aidan is..."
"My son?" he said "I heard from Monica about the altered files. Spinelli, what he did, I am so sorry, Elizabeth."
He would discuss later what had been done to make him forget, she didn't need to know that, but then he realized she did. Telling her, he stumbled over the words as he told her what the geek had told him.
"Jason, why was this such a shock to you, that man had an very odd relationship with you. He emulated you, why do you think he got involved with Maxie, because she was Sam's best friend."
"Sonny said I was a fool that everyone else saw what he was but that since they needed his computer skills, they didn't care." he said with a heavy sigh. "He is in prison, but the police are looking into things because there were a few things that they couldn't prove and he might have had an accomplice and since Sam wasn't smart enough, they have no idea who it was."
There it was, the pink elephant in the room. "She was never first choice, Elizabeth. I was just god, so lonely, hurting and she was always there. Everyone kept saying how she fit and how she was changing. I think I wanted it to be true than more believed it so that I could stop aching. Now, I know, I couldn't have you so I took what was easy."
"Except it wasn't easy or it shouldn't have been, Jason." she said. "Jason, we have to move past things because I am pregnant and you are the father."
Seeing his happiness, she hated to burst his bubble but she did it anyhow. "Jason, this doesn't mean we are going to ever be a couple again. It means that we have two children and a third on the way. That is all, I won't keep you from them but we will be working through either Grams or Steven. You will pick up the boys and then later on this baby, I will keep you up to date on how my doctors appointments go."
"I would like to attend them." he said.
"No." she said shuddering.
Seeing that, he asked why not. "Jason, because the image of you going to appointment with Sam is etched in my mind and the rage I felt at how public you were willing to be with her, it eats at my soul and for the sake of this child, I can't let it. Besides, I am not sure I want to return to Port Charles and the mess that exists here."
"Then I will move to Pittsburgh." he quickly said.
"That is your choice, but it won't get me to change my mind on anything." she said.
"Then how will I see the boys?" he asked.
"I am not sure, until I came home and found you in my house, I was considering moving back." she said honestly. "Now, I am not so sure that is a good idea. Maybe I will move closer by, but still have Steven pick up Jake and Aidan to bring them to you."
"Wait, what about Cam?" he asked. "Why can't I see Cam?"
"Because thanks to me my son has been repeatedly disappointed in his life, yes, you are Jake and Aidan's father, so I won't stop you from seeing them, but Cam, no." she replied. "He is dealing with with my father in that role, I can't trust you with him, unlike what I have to do with Jake and Aidan."
That hurt, deeply but Jason took it, hoping to change her mind at a later date. He had known this wouldn't be easy, but he had also known that he didn't deserve it to. "And Lucky, what about his role in this mess?"
"Lucky was told he no longer had a role, He didn't like it but I think being told by an FBI agent and a federal judge just might have convinced him." she said a bit annoyed with the fact that if he hadn't escaped custody, she wouldn't have to worry about him at all.
"How do I know you won't change your mind?" he asked. "What assurances do I get?"
"Here." Elizabeth handed him the new birth certificates and said "He has no standing anymore."
"Thank you." he said looking at his sons with the last name Quartermaine. "Not Morgan."
"No." she said not telling him she didn't want her boys sharing the same last name as Sam's son, as petty as that was.
Reaching for his wallet, Jason handed his new driver's license to her. "I did this the day after you left me on the bridge."
Reading the name, not happy about it, she said "Here."
"Is that all?" he asked.
"What do you want me to say, Jason?" she asked knowing she was being bitchy but unable to help herself.
"I guess, I want to know if I am forgiven for my mistakes."
"If that is what you want, yes, I will forgive you. Jason, I made huge mistakes too, this isn't all on you." she said looking down. "Some very unforgivable. And while I hope that someday you can forgive me, I can't forget, not for Sam, Jason. It was a cut that went too deep and got infected."
"I get that." he said soberly. "Elizabeth, Monica made mistakes too, she told me what she was doing."
"Jason, I get that she was in pain, but she said I was abusing my children, she wanted to have them taken away from me as I lay in a hospital bed, I had almost died. That she forgave me, it was only after you told her the truth, right?"
When he nodded yes, she said "Jason, you were her child, not me. I wasn't the only one she should have been angry at. Yet you got a free pass, this from a woman who cheated on my father with my uncle, who had her own paternity secrets and then cheated on Alan with the same Uncle. No, she wants to apologize, fine, after all she will be the boys grandmother, which I have no control over, but for me personally, I am not sure."
Kristina had gone to the over look at Six AM, not sure if Jason was meeting with that bitch in the morning or the evening. When no one had shown she was making plans to go back this evening as she took the gun out of her book bag and placed it under the seat of her car.
Going to class, she never saw the police officer following her, but her brother did. Going to the station, Dante asked his boss. "Did Alexis convince you that her paranoid rantings were true. Did someone actually attempt to poison Kristina."
Lying through his teeth, Mac said "No, it isn't about that, I saw one of your father's men in town, I was sure he was trying to contact his kids. Michael was too obvious, but it turns out he was only hear to check on his old girlfriend. I pulled the officer ten minutes ago."
That was true, a state trooper in street clothes had picked up the surveillance, but Mac knew that if Dante was aware of what was going on, he would get his sister out of town and he couldn't allow that because the data was coming on from the laptop and he had enough on both girls and more than enough to get permission to have Molly locked up for life.
Dante went outside and called his mother who pretended to call Sonny before calling back and lying to him. "Yes, Sonny had someone in town."
Hanging up Olivia looked in on Kate who was fighting so hard to recover from that man's special brand of misery and considered having him caught so that he went to prison.
Patrick;
First of all, I just want to say thank you for loving me, for our daughter and for everything that you have given me in the last few years. I am well aware that my drug regimen is failing, that there is a very slim chance that I will live out the year.
I have been keeping a secret from you, not because I didn't trust you but because I owed someone a whole lot for everything she has done for me. Jake Webber is alive, when Steven went in to prepare him, his hand twitched.
We ran tests while we used some of my parents contacts to get a kidney for Joss Jacks and found some very dangerous drugs in his system. Drugs that we use to put patients in coma, this innocent little boy was given a large enough dose to kill him.
We didn't want to tell you because it looks like it happened during surgery, like a label was switched. Someone wanted you to blame yourself. Steven used some old FBI contacts and we sent Jake to Pittsburgh and dealt with guilt every single day as Elizabeth mourned.
The list of suspects was long and people who were very near both parents so as we eliminated suspects we gained others. Dr. Webber, Steven and Elizabeth's father moved home and is the doctor in charge of comatose patients at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
When Jason's latest brain injury came across our path, I noticed that his brain fires a lot like Jake's and had an idea. The drug protocol was the same one I was going to give to both patients. Dr. Webber was checking my research while I worked on it here.
Today, I saw my immunologist, things are looking bleak but I have sworn that before I die to do five things. One to save Jake and to reunite his parents because I truly think that there is something wrong in Jason's brain. Three to make sure that you know you have been the love of my life. And there are several more of these DVD's for our daughter. And lastly to find peace with what is going on, because as terrible as it sounds, I don't want my death to be from AIDS, I would prefer to go almost any other way.
Jason was looking at the DVD and wiped away his tears at Robin's last words. "She gave us back Jake, I can never thank her enough."
"She did." Elizabeth said wiping away her own tears. "Jason, Robin is right, there was something wrong with your brain and I get that it excuses a lot, I just am not sure how much."
"I understand. Please, Elizabeth, I know the damage we have between us, but give us a chance."
"I am sorry, but I can't." she said. "Maybe I am wrong, I know that both Emily and Robin seem to think so, but there is too much between us that can't be fixed, that a band aid won't help. I just can't imagine us as a blended family and I know that truly makes me a bitch but that is simply the way I feel and I won't ever make anyone feel the way I did growing up."
He didn't understand, he said he did, but Jason just couldn't get why she wouldn't give him a chance as he stood. "Where do we go from here?"
"The boys will be arriving later today, Jake has his one month check up tomorrow and Patrick is doing it here. Maybe you could keep Monica way, at least for the time he is at the hospital, Jake doesn't need the stress of the tension before hand." she said.
"I will talk to her." he said then looked at her and said "I have to go take care of some things. What are you going to do the rest of the day."
"Sleep." she said blushing. "Right now, I am at the part of being pregnant where all I want to do is sleep and the boys will be here with my dad so for now, I will sleep. And maybe order some food from Kelly's."
"How about I bring it back." he said. Seeing her start to refuse then clearly have an internal struggle with herself, he was relieved when she said yes and ordered chicken and a salad along with a milkshake.
Leaving, calling his grandfather, Jason said "Mac wants to me to meet him where?"
Getting told the hospital, he said "I have so much to tell everyone, but first when are Kristina and Molly going home?"
"I will find out." said Edward as he went to see Tracy who was with Daniel. "You know that eventually that little boy will no longer be here, right?"
"Yes, I just hate that Jason can't find it within him to bond with him." she said then added "I know why, god knows with all he has been through with his own son how hard this must be on him, But he took him in, why do that if he wasn't going to step up."
"I don't know." Edward said then looked at Tracy. "What did you ever find out?"
"Nothing, there is no record of who the father is." she said.
"I had an idea and I am looking into it." he said then told her. "Scott Baldwin."
"Oh shi—p." she quickly changed the end of that. "It fits the time line."
"It sure does." he replied then went downstairs to call the private lab.
At General Hospital, Molly and Kristina were visiting with their mother after school. "Mom, you wanted to see us."
"Yes, I think that someone is trying to hurt you and I have called Ric, he is on his way to take you with him." she said and saw her daughter's looking at each other and speaking without words like they had been doing for months. "What is going on?"
"We aren't going." said Molly.
"No, I refuse to leave Sam's baby, not with that bitch coming home, I won't let her, I won't let her raise Daniel, not after everything she has done to destroy our family."
"What are you two going on about." said Alexis. "Who is coming home?"
"Elizabeth Webber." said Kristina as she spat out the name.
"Elizabeth?" she asked confused. "What do you mean, she destroyed our family?"
"I know that she had an affair with dad, I know she is the reason you two got divorced." said Molly. "Its all her fault that my dad doesn't live with us."
Alexis wanted to tell them they were wrong, but knew that they had somehow heard Ric and she discussing the night with Sam and had believed it to be the nurse. Not addressing that, she said "Why do you believe she is going to take Daniel?"
"Because Jason has been talking to her, I heard him." said Kristina. "I won't let him take Daniel away and give him to her, she is a bitch, she will..."
"Okay, I have waited for you to step up and tell the truth long enough." said the man in the hallway. Entering he said "Alexis, you are letting them malign an innocent young woman, how many more lies are you going to tell, before this blows up in your face?"
"Jax?" she asked almost like she didn't believe who was standing in front of her. "I wait, does your wife know you are alive."
"We will get to my death or life after you tell your daughters the truth." he said looking at Alexis shocked to see that Ned was correct and that Alexis was in very deep crap. "Now or I will do it and I won't spare the details."
"Elizabeth isn't why my marriage to Ric fell apart." she muttered.
"More Alexis, tell him who he did have an affair with." ordered Jax wanting to shake some sense into her.
"I know that he had an affair with Elizabeth I know it. I saw the pictures he kept of her." Molly replied.
"Molly, I don't know about any pictures but Ric was married to Elizabeth long before he moved on with your mother. Elizabeth kicked him out after he had held Carly in a panic room at his house while she was pregnant with Morgan." he said never taking his eyes off his old friend. "Tell them the truth, or they will get all of it, Alexis."
"You are lying." said Kristina.
Alexis took a deep breath and said "No he isn't. Elizabeth and Ric were over long before we got married, I am sure that Ric only kept the photos as memories of the past."
She knew the truth, but would at least spare them the fact that their father only married her because he couldn't have... god, Alexis swallowed hard as she realized why the hell she had gone to so much trouble to help Sam, because she had been jealous of the Webber girl for something she had had no control over, Ric's lingering feelings for her.
"And who he truly cheated on you with, now Alexis." prompted Jax.
"Jax, no." she said pleading with her eyes for him to not make her do this. When she saw his stubbornness; cursing his stupid need to be right, she said "It was an honest mistake they were both drunk."
"Who, who did daddy sleep with, what is the name of the whore?" demanded Molly.
"Sam, Ric slept with your sister."
"NO, NO YOU ARE LYING." Said Kristina as she moved closer to her mom. "WHY, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, TELLING THESE LIES. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TURN US AGAINST HER, WE BOTH KNOW YOU WERE JEALOUS THAT WE LIKED HER MORE THAN YOU, THAT IS WHY YOU ARE DOING THIS, LYING LIKE THAT."
"Your mom isn't lying." said Jax. "Its a matter of public record, she admitted it during Jason's trial for the death or Lorenzo Alcazar."
Molly refused to accept it, she saw that Kristina didn't and she wasn't going to either. "YOU, YOU ARE LYING. Sam would never betray me like that, not after.. not after all I have done for her, she wouldn't. She told me, she told me how everyone is jealous of her. I can't believe you Mom, I can't believe you would lie to us this way."
Choking at the pain her daughter's words were causing it sent her into cardiac arrest when Kristina looked at her and said "I wish you would die, why won't you die. I tried to get rid of you, I wanted to move in with the Quartermaines where we belong, but no, you didn't drink the entire damn shake. If you had it would have ended our misery, I hate you, did you know that Sam hated you, she laughed at you behind your back. You are ridiculous mother, no one likes you and I wish you had just died but you couldn't do that, you ruin everything, you always do."
Hearing medical staff entering the room, Kristina came out of the trance she was in and began to run out of the room followed by her sister. "Kristina, why didn't you keep your mouth shut, now we are going to go to jail."
"NO, no, we won't. Remember who my dad is, he will get us out of this." she said as they hurried towards the elevator. Seeing Mac Scorpio get off of it, they ducked into a hospital room and were going to wait when they heard "What are you two doing in here?
Seeing the large head nurse, not sure what she knew, Molly said "Shoot her."
"Excuse me?" asked Epiphany as she glared at the little girl. "What did you just say?"
"Kristina, do it." she said while her sister struggled to get the weapon out of her bag meanwhile Epiphany had opened the door and had begun to leave shaking her head at the nonsense these two young children were in the middle of.
Suddenly there was a breeze as something moved past her and Epiphany realized that they had a gun. Quickly pulling on the handle to close the door and moving as fast as her rear would let her she called for security and instead found Mac Scorpio.
"Those crazy ass Davis girls are running around my hospital with a gun and shooting at people. Get them the hell out of here." she ordered with her hands on her hips.
Mac told the officers with him to spread out but be careful, that they more than likely had suffered some kind of mental break. "Hell no, those girls are just as nutty as their fathers and as high strung as that bitchy mama of theirs."
"Nurse Johnson, let me and my staff handle this." he said.
"Well it would be a first time wouldn't it." she snapped as she went down the hall just in time to hear Jax informing Monica what the Davis girls had announced to their mother. "Well sounds like they have had a busy week, those brats just took a shot at me."
Elizabeth had woken up and was bored as she decided to stop in and see Steven. Finding her car keys, she drove over to the hospital and saw Steven frowning at her when she entered. "You could look happier to see me, big brother."
"Elizabeth, please, leave." said Jason entering and seeing Steven trying to get her to the door.
"Not until someone tells me what is going on." she said completely confused only for Michael to rush up and stop when he saw his uncle.
"I just heard the craziest rumor when I came in, that Kristina and Molly are running around this place with a gun and tried to kill both Alexis and that large nurse."
"Epiphany?" Elizabeth asked her brother. "Is she okay?"
"Yes, she got away, pulled the door on them so they couldn't take another shot. Michael, the police told me that they might have poisoned your mother too."
"What? You are so wrong." said Michael. "Kristina was so worried about my mom, she called me daily asking how she was doing."
The two older men nodded and then Jason began to pull Elizabeth to the exit. "Jason, wait where are you going, you have to help me save my sister."
"Michael, I have to get Elizabeth to safety first. Then I will come back, but for now, stay out of it, the police are searching for them." he said and saw his nephew was pissed. "Michael don't try to help them escape or you will be sitting in a jail cell right next to them."
"Aw, I am touched; my big brother wants to go on the run with me, again, Like that worked out so well the first time." said the young voice behind them. Jason tensed when he turned to see Kristina pointing a gun at Elizabeth. Stepping in front of her, he saw the gun waver and hoped that he could prevent this from becoming a blood bath.
The younger girl hissed at the nurse and said "Why are you back? No one wants you here, not me, not Kristina and neither does Jason. He is mourning my sister, he is to mourn her for the rest of his life. They are to be like Rochester and..."
"Shut up, Molly." snapped Kristina. "We don't need any more of your romantic mumbo jumbo."
"Why are you talking to me like that?" she asked clearly hurt. "After all I did to help Sam, you helped too."
Mac came into the room and said "Girls there is no place to run. Hand over the gun before you get hurt."
"NO, she has to die, I am not going to let her steal him away from me, not again." said Kristina. As she glared at Elizabeth. "He is mine, he was supposed to be mine."
"Who?" asked Jason confused thinking oh god, another Maxie and obsessed with Lucky Spencer, he didn't get it, what did they see in the whiny assed kid..
"You, don't you get it, I did it all because I loved you and I knew that someday, someday you were meant to be mine that it was fate. That was why you got with Sam, she was just a legally acceptable version of me. Its why I did everything, from the moment I heard that Sam was my sister, I knew, I knew that we were destiny."
That did it, Elizabeth found herself in spite of the danger wanting to laugh if for no other reason than truly dumbstruck expression on Jason's face as the clearly emotionally disturbed teenager with a gun poured out her heart to him. "Kristina, what are you talking about? You are not making any sense. I was with Sam the first time to keep her from getting rid of Sonny's child. I felt a need to take care of someone, she was just there."
"What are you talking about, Sam didn't have a child with my dad." protested Kristina with Molly nodding her head in agreement that they were lying to them.
"Uh sis, she was pregnant with his kid." said Michael rather shamefaced at what he was hearing from his sister who clearly had gone over the bend. "I was small but I think that the baby died."
"She did." said Jax who had joined the party on behalf of Alexis who was on her way down, thinking she could stop her daughters from whatever was going on in their heads.
"But you did what I wanted, you went back with her. After I got rid of that bitch who stole you away. I couldn't let her take you away from me. Sam wanted you and that was okay because I knew that you truly loved me. It was why I gave you Daniel and got rid of that other brat."
"How did you do that Kristina." he asked as his heart sank at her words.
"I watched as Sam hit him, she didn't know, it was kind of funny when she heard and went rushing around after he died, trying to cover up for what she did. I helped her, I made it look like Mr. Spencer did after all he was always drinking, I knew that everyone would believe it."
"Then I helped." said Molly very proud of herself. "I have been learning from Spinelli but the student surpassed the master. I used his back doors and accessed the computer long before that, when the hospital caught fire. But you didn't die, I don't know why, you should have died from the lack of drugs."
Seeing her puzzled expression as she looked at Elizabeth, Jason heard what Jax was saying and closed his eyes as he got that Alexis's covering up Ric's affair had almost got Elizabeth killed. "But I did get rid of your son, it was so easy. I made it look like when the doctor scanned the medicine he got one thing when he really got something that made it look like he was dead. It was so easy."
Shuddering as they listened to these two young girls bragging about killing a little boy, Elizabeth gripped tightly onto Jason's shirt as Kristina said "I had a part in that too, I told her to make it look like Jake was a match for Jossalyn, I knew that Carly in her obsession with Jason would ask him for a part of his son, it was so easy to manipulate her and you."
"Why?" he asked. "What could have possibly made that right?"
"He was in the way and he had to die, It was as simple as that, after all it wasn't like you really wanted him, Sam told me how you regretted that he wasn't hers."
"Sam lied, I have always been happy that Elizabeth is the mother of my son." Jason said quietly but proudly. "Jake could have no better parent."
"No, no, I am meant to be the only mother of your children." said the girl her hand shaking as she debated between shooting Jason so he couldn't have children with Elizabeth ever again and shooting the nurse but she needed Jason to move first.
"Kristina, Jake is alive and I have another son." said Jason as plainly as possible, hoping to shock her out of whatever the hell was wrong with her.
"No, Jake is dead, I made sure of it." she said with a little giggle. "And Daniel, he is mine, I gave him to you but you are a bad daddy. You aren't there for him, you leave him to nannies, why aren't you a better dad to your son?"
Jason didn't answer, he was adding two and two and getting a horrible number four. "Kristina, when did you meet up with Franco, when did you decide to help him?"
"No, it wasn't like that. I swear, Jason, I would never betray you." she said earnestly. "I swear, I am not Carly nor Sam. I just made sure that I was the mother of your son, I switched my eggs with Sam's, she knew about it, she was upset that Dr. Lee wasn't sure she could get pregnant, so I helped, I took the drugs and used my eggs."
Most in the room had figured out that Kristina was nuts but none had any idea what having Alexis arriving in a wheelchair would cause. "Oh Kristina, how could you?"
"You, you bitch you are the reason my life sucks so bad. You kept my dad away, you are the reason that I had no one." she shrieked as Monica who had reluctantly agreed to this stepped in front of the stricken woman as her own daughter fired at her, luckily missing as the bullet went into the elevator door.
"Monica, move, or I will kill you." she said in a deadly tone. "I have nothing left to lose, that bitch has returned, you know that I am right, you hate her too. I heard you, you know that she is stealing Jason away from me."
Alexis looked over and saw the rounded belly of Elizabeth and felt anger at Jason but kept still knowing she had to deal with Kristina first. Starting to speak, she froze when Kristina fired the gun into the crowd and said "No, shut up. I am sick to death of the sound of your voice."
Mac saw one of his officer go down just as Dante joined the now large party. "Kristina what the hell are you doing with a gun?"
"Hi Dante, I am taking back what is mine. She is trying to steal Jason away from me." she said her hand waving the gun around. "I can't let that happen, I just can't."
"Kristina, hand me the gun, we will work this out." he said trying to cajole her into turning over the weapon.
"I can't, Dante. See, she has to die, she is the devil, she is evil, don't you get it, she is our enemy, I have heard people, Carly and Maxie, even my dad thinks that the world would be better of if she was gone." she said her eyes now on her brother, asking him to see that she had to do this.
"Kristina, you are wrong. Carly hates Elizabeth because she knows that I love her. She blames her for Carly's own mistake in sleeping with your dad, as for Maxie, she slept with Elizabeth's husband and thinks that Elizabeth is the reason that Lucky didn't love her."
"No, no, that isn't right."
Mac saw his daughter who had remained hidden in the corner and saw her struggling with something then step forward. "Kristina, yes it is. I hate Elizabeth because when I was your age I decided I wanted Lucky. It didn't matter to me that he didn't even think of me that way, I wanted him and didn't care who I hurt to get him. It was wrong and I resented Elizabeth because Lucky chose her."
"But see, she is siren, she pulls men in and leads them to their deaths." said Molly belligerently.
"No, she doesn't. Elizabeth Webber is a woman, just like any other, she is just a bit too perfect so you have to hate her, but no, you are wrong, she doesn't have to die." she said her mind on all her long talks with her mother.
"Yes, she does, I won't let her have my son." she said by now in a state of complete terror.
"Kristina, I don't want Daniel, I have three boys of my own and another child on the way." Elizabeth said trying to get what was going on with this girl and Sam's son.
"Wait, what?" she asked stunned momentarily. "No, that isn't right. It can't be."
"She is telling the truth, Kristina." said Steven as he palmed the two syringes from the nurse behind him. "Elizabeth has three boys of her own and with what your sister did to her, she would never raise her child. She would never want him to feel like she didn't love him enough so she wouldn't do that."
"B-but." The young woman couldn't even think as she looked around at everyone watching her. "I want to talk to my dad, I need to talk to me dad. Please?"
"Morgan, get Corinthos on the phone. I won't trace it, not now." said Mac thinking maybe talking to Sonny would get to give up her gun. It would work with Maxie, so maybe it would work with Kristina.
Making the call, Jason put the phone on speaker as Kristina said "Daddy?"
"Kristina, how did you get this number?" he asked.
"Sonny we have a situation, Kristina is in the middle of the ER waving a gun around trying to kill innocent people, she agreed to give up the weapon if you spoke to her." said Mac looking encouragingly at the young girl.
"Daddy, I want Jason, tell them to give me Jason. I did what you always told me to do, I fought for him. Molly and I, we killed that little boy to get rid of him, so that Jason would have a baby with Sam, but then Sam told me she wanted to leave town, after she gave birth. I couldn't let that happen, I really couldn't daddy. I did it, I just did it."
There was a bit of shock at that one as the girl spoke to her father. "Daddy, I need you to come home and save me, please?"
"Kristina, I am sorry sweetie, but I can't, they will arrest me, I will call Ric, have him to come represent, you, how about that, okay?" with that they all heard the phone click as the man hung up.
"No, no, that isn't okay. Why won't he be a good daddy? Jason, you were supposed to be a good daddy to our little boy, I killed for you to love him, but you won't. I can't, I can't take this." she said.
Molly saw her sister beginning to flag and was reaching for the gun. "No back away, all of you, just back away, we are leaving that you can't stop us."
Moving back as the two sisters were heading for the door but Molly kept talking. "Jason, you are a disappointment, you were supposed to have an epic love, supposed to be the hero. The man who was true to his beloved."
"Molly, I am sorry but I am just a man and not a very smart one at that. I do have an epic love, someone that I would die for and it wasn't Sam. I am sorry that you believed it was so, that is my fault, I never should have lied about who I wanted in my life." He couldn't believe how open he was having to be, but he was hoping tell them the truth, might snap them out of this mess.
"My sister loved you, and you never treated her very good." she said sadly her mind clearly on what she believed to be true about Sam. "Why not?"
"Molly, you can't help who you love." he said knowing that outside there would be police and hopefully this would end without anyone further getting hurt.
"OH Molly, shut the fuck up with this Sam deserves Jason, she didn't, He was with her because she was easy, its how I knew she would be tossed away when I was ready for him." said Kristina laughing at her sister's distraught reaction. "Oh grow up, you are such a child. Sam was a whore, even before I knew about daddy I knew that, look how she dressed."
"Stop, stop, Sam loved us, she loved me, I know she did." said the pre teen as she pointed the gun at her sister. "Stop, Krissy, just stop this, we know you were jealous because Sam was a great woman and you were just a kid. Jason didn't love you, he loved S-"
There was the sound of a gunshot, then Molly looked down at the weapon in her hand as she looked at her sister's forehead and the bullet wound in the middle of it. "There isn't enough blood, there should be more blood."
With that she dropped the gun and was grabbed by medical personal and sedated by Steven Webber.
Monica reached down, closed Kristina's eyes and took her pulse to be sure. "Time of death, 4:01 PM."
Alexis was shouting no, no when Steven gave Ewan the spare syringe and watched as the man sedated the lawyer. Mac was silent, his mind unable to believe what it had seen. The two sisters had been struggling for the gun and the youngest had shot her sister dead.
Across the room, Elizabeth was sobbing into Jason's chest as he rubbed her back. Seeing his mother he asked where Dr. Lee was only to be told she had resigned recently. "I will get our new obstetrician, take her into room two."
Dante was holding Michael who had slipped down the wall in shock. "I can't believe, it, she... Kristina did all of this, Molly and she killed a baby... hurt Sam... wow. I have to call dad."
Dante had heard their father's dismissive attitude and said "Why, clearly he couldn't be bothered. Michael."
When the younger man began to protest, Dante said "No, no more kidding yourself. He heard his little girl falling apart and his solution was to pawn the problem off on someone else."
TBC