Chapter Six

Elizabeth woke up and was telling Cam they had to get him a bathing suit, that the happiest place on earth had a swimming pool. Dressing Aidan, she looked at her messages and felt her heart singing as she read what it said.

Wishing she dared tell someone, anyone but knowing she couldn't, she was shocked to realize she had considered calling Carly. Instead when she arrived at the store, she found the blond with her own son. "Hey, how about we get something to eat."

Soon seated in the cafeteria, Carly said "I did some checking, before I heard you laying it on the line with Monica. I got nowhere."

"I called an old friend, Carly." she said deciding she had to give her something. "He is looking into it. He did find that there was a car accident with a family that was wiped out."

"The kidney, you think it came from this accident?" she asked feeling sick at how she had pressed fake Jason and that he had gone to Elizabeth like he had. That should have been another tell that Jason wasn't the real one.

"I arranged for Mac to exhume the body buried with Jake's name." she said softly not wanting Cam to hear her. She didn't tell her the rest, things were too tenuous to completely trust Carly.

"I know we are never going to be besties, not like Emily then Robin, but Elizabeth, I just... there are so many mistakes, I can't fix. This one, I can."

"Carly what happens if or when Jason returns." she asked.

"I will be honest and say I don't know. I am sure that he is going to let me have it with both barrels. He warned me back when you were sneaking around, but I didn't listen." she said.

Morgan and Cam meanwhile were laughing as Aidan kept sticking his fingers in his nose after eating. "That is gross."

"Jake did it too." said Cam softly.

Across town, the Quartermaine den was locked except for the doors from the study as Jason sat down and waited for the family to arrive. He had wanted to confront them all together but then had changed his mind.

While on the terrace earlier, Jason had asked Mac to set up something for him, planning on ending this today. Jason saw the silver hair of the old man at the coffee pot and said "Grandmother would be ashamed of you and right now is spinning in her grave."

"Jason?" he turned excited only to find himself at the business end of a gun. "Jason, what is going on?"

"Sit down, old man." he said with a spiteful tone. "I have something for you to watch, something for you to compare to my beloved grandmother. The very wonderful Lila Morgan Quartermaine."

Edward was sicked at what he saw as Sam and Ric Lansing had sex. "She tried to claim she was raped. Doesn't look like rape to me. Lets continue."

First came Sam undercover as a stripper working with Abby, up next was the woman who had kidnapped Jake the first time. "Jason, tell Elizabeth I said thank you for being so forgiving. I am sorry."

"I know you didn't mean to hurt Jake." he said. "Would you please tell me who watched you kidnap Jake."

Hearing it was Sam, then looking in shock at Jason. "There is no way."

"Oh yes. Sam watched as my son was kidnapped, went to Elizabeth while she was frantic and told her that her son was dead and that made them alike." he then hit play again and this time Edward felt sick as the two men talked about being hired by Sam.

Jason only gave him a look of disgust then showed him what he had been shown himself this morning at four am. Sam and Maxie, talking about Jake. Sam threatening Elizabeth, and most importantly Sam on the boat, telling Sasha Donav about Jake.

"So, Edward, what would Lila think about you giving her wedding ring to that woman. And that isn't the worst part." he said standing. "You went too far trying to get close to me."

Standing, Jason said "Get grandmother's ring back or as the heir to her estate I will sue you. I think that your punishment will fit the crime. You wanted an heir at any cost, Edward. You have one but ELQ will cease to exist and become part of Morgan Enterprises. When I leave I want you to sit here and think about one thing. Lila, my grandmother and how you defiled her memory by giving her that ring and letting her live in this house."

Jason left without slamming the door as Edward sat there, looking at the only thing Jason had left him. A photo of Elizabeth and her boys and on the back, he had written the one and only Morgan family.

Then proof that he had done what he said and that Jason owned all publicly available stock including a note that he had taken back the stock that Tracy had stolen from Alan thereby from Jason's son.

Loping up the stairs, knowing Sam would sleep as late as she could, Jason entered Monica's bedroom while the woman was in the shower. When she came out of the bathroom, putting her watch on, he said "Hello Monica."

"JASON!" she said and tried to throw herself into his arms. "I am so glad you have no idea. They are claiming you weren't you."

Restraining her, Jason who had locked the door said "Are you drinking again?"

"No, of course not." she said offended.

"Then what the hell would convince you to believe a word out of that lying bitch Sam McCall's mouth. Emily, Alan hell AJ would disown you." he said scathingly. "Let me school you on the facts."

Showing her the same bits he had shown Edward, he said "Elizabeth, who was Emily's best friend, you turned on her for my not telling you about Jake. We both thought about it, but circumstances kept us from doing so, among other things, your drinking."

"He was my grandson, she had no right making you..."

"You still don't get it, do you?" he asked mocking her. "It was my choice, Monica, not Elizabeth. You should be hating me. But instead you are attacking Elizabeth, saying terrible things about the woman who was only trying to keep her son safe. Do you remember what you said to me when Emily died, Monica?"

When she flushed he said "Yeah, you do, don't you. That is one of the reasons we never told you. You know, there is nothing left of any feelings I once had for you. You cost yourself the chance to be part of my family. I was at GH yesterday, I heard you I heard what you said to Elizabeth. I want you to remember that, I want you when you die for that to be that the last thought in your head because Monica, Sam, Sam is nothing more than a con artist, yes, she played you, but you know what. I don't give a damn."

With that Jason stood and said "I want you to resign from the hospital, today. If you don't well... I will get you out one way or another."

"How dare you, after everything you have cost me." she said no longer silent.

Scoffing, Jason looked at her and said "Monica, that whore you have in my old room down the hall, she and Lucky Spencer are why you didn't know about Jake. Tomorrow, I guarantee you will want to speak to me, to get close to Elizabeth but you cut the only ties by taking up for Sam."

Jason unlocked the door then said "I can honesty say, I hate you."

Monica sat down, her legs felt weak as Jason looked at her then said "I love you, how can you walk away from your family."

"My family is Elizabeth and her sons." he said walking away then slipping down the hall into a room. Seeing Sam wearing very little, he left her a note then went to the hospital.

He wanted what he said to Sam to be public and brutal.

Sure enough, when Sam woke up and found the note in Jason's handwriting. Reading it, she quickly dressed and went to the hospital obeying Jason's orders. Seeing him talking to Patrick Drake she said "Get away from my husband, you hack."

Patrick who had heard from Jason his horror and dismay at how Robin had died, they were waiting, because Jason had decided that he deserved to be there along with Diane.

Seeing Mac nodding as he stood at the hub intercom system, Jason saw Sam's eyes tear up as she tried to throw herself into his arms. "Come on, Sam. Not even you are that stupid."

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Sam, if you didn't know that the man you were living with wasn't me, you truly are idiotic." he said mocking her. "I warned you, I told you if you hurt my family you would pay. I warned you and you didn't listen. Instead you are foolish enough to think I would be dumb enough to fall in bed with you, let alone tell you I love you."

"No, Jason. I am your true love." she said. Tears were falling down her face as she said "You forgave me, I got self respect."

Jason's cold laughter was echoing through the hospital as Monica arrived to start her day.

"Sam, self respect you. Not hardly." he said. "Even now look at how you are dressed, hell the hookers on Courtland street wear more clothes. You are pregnant and wearing three inch heels."

"But you like me in heels, you told me so." she said blinking.

"No, Sam I never said that to you. I have always, always hated how you try to sexualize everything, I find it embarrassing and have to tell you a little secret, it has never turned me on."

"You loved me, Jason." she said. "I could feel your love."

"Sam, if the fake Jason loved you, that is on him. My guess is he didn't know about your moments of weakness. Either way, you are to stop referring to yourself as my wife. Just the idea turns my stomach. What is even worse is that Lila left me that ring you are wearing, specifically for Elizabeth. To see it on your hand is quite possibly the most revolting thing I have ever seen in my life. I promised her that if I didn't give it to her, if I didn't marry Elizabeth, I would never ever give it to another woman."

"Edward said that Lila would want me to have it." she said blinking a bit at that one.

"Edward is a greedy old man wanting an heir. Well you know what, the Quartermaines can claim your spawn. I don't give a shit, but it will be a hollow victory since I now own ELQ, all there is left is that house, that horrible house that destroys the lives of anyone who lives in it."

"Jason-" Monica was shocked at her son only for him to turn to her and snap.

"Monica, we have said all there is for me to say to you. I am not going to bother wasting my breath. Sam, that ring had better be returned to me by the end of day."

"Here, you bastard, but your little bitch will never wear it." she shouted as she threw the ring at him, hitting him in the face but he still caught it one-handed.

"Bitch?" he said then laughing told her. "Sam, someday, well never mind. I am not going to bother and I am not going to give it to Elizabeth. Your even having it on your finger has insured it needs to be sterilized but someday, who knows maybe my son will pass it on to his wife, since I would never give Elizabeth anything that has been on your tainted diseased fingers."

"Who knows, we can have it melted down and reformed." he said. "My grandmother who was the nicest kindest woman in the world, well she would despise you and what you have done."

Walking away, he heard her suddenly shouting in pain, screaming she was losing her baby and shouting for him. He didn't even turn around as he walked to the stairs and down to the exit.

Upstairs, Sam was shocked to see he hadn't even looked at her as Kelly Lee had her admitted to keep an eye on her. Monica stood there, her mind all she had heard and didn't go to check on Sam, instead going to her office and finding the picture on her computer screen.

There was a timer in the corner that was counting down. When she sat down there was a banner going across the picture of Jake and Elizabeth's littlest son. "Take a good look, it is your last one."

Johnny O'Brien made the call and soon saw Elizabeth and the blond man he knew was her brother entering through the front door unaware that there was another man entering through the back door and listening as Jake was reunited with his mother.

There were tears in his eyes as Elizabeth sobbed and hugged all over their son who was telling her that Lucky had lied and told him she was dead. He just kept hugging her and asking for Cam.

"Elizabeth, take your son home. Lucky will no longer be a threat," Johnny said his Irish accent showing.

Looking at her little boy, she leaned in and hugged him then whispered in his ear. "Make it painful, make him pay dearly for what he did and make sure he knows that I am hoping he dies shouting my name."

Stepping back, she carried Jake to the car while Steven shook the other man's hand and said "Thank you."

"I owe Elizabeth and Jason. He will return and I think that this time, well he will get it right." he said knowing that there was another person in the house. Steven drove slowly since they didn't have a car seat, arriving at the house, he

went next door and let Elizabeth enter her home with Jake by herself.

"Drake." he said when the other man answered the door. "Jake is home."

"How?" he asked then said "Morgan showed up today."

"I suspected that. The man who rescued Jake, something he said. I think my sister is going to be leaving town, and rather quickly." he said sadly but at the same time he knew it was for the best.

"Trust me after what I saw today, I am rather glad I am not on this version of Morgan's bad side." he said with a soft whistle. "I think Monica and Sam well they are now paying for what they did to Elizabeth."

"There can never be enough payment for what they put my sister through." he said coldly then told him about the money from Sam to Lucky.

"Spencer, that asshole, he had Jake all this time?" he asked. "Those damn fake crocodile tears. I hope he rots in hell."

"I am sure that he will be arriving there rather quickly." Steven said "And you know what, I am okay with that."

"Robin..." Patrick swallowed the ball in his throat and said "My wife would have been happy that they are now together. This, now this I could get why she would risk so much for this man. When he heard how she died, I saw tears and pain as he said she was his friend. That he never got a chance to apologize for his mistakes all those years ago."

Gripping his pal's hand, Steven said "Take to heart that he would have done so, I have learned that it is important to live your life to the fullest."

At the house, Elizabeth saw the shock on Carly's face and said "Its really Jake."

"H-how?" she said but then decided it could wait, still stunned that Elizabeth had trusted her to babysit when she had gotten the call about an emergency.

"Let me get Cam." she said then checking on Aidan who was asleep, she went in Cam's room and said "Cam, I have a surprise for you downstairs. Someone did something very bad but we fixed it."

Cam followed his mommy and stopped on the landing when he saw his little brother. "Jake?"

"Yes, it is me. Jake." said Jake with a grin as he flew to the stairs and to his big brother. Both women were in tears as the two boys hugged one another and then their mother, then clung to her and each other.

"Where is baby?" asked Jake.

"Aidan is asleep, Jake. Do you want me to carry you up to see him." asked Elizabeth but instead of an answer, the two boys raced past her and to their little brother's room.

Then Jake suddenly stopped then looked at his mommy tears in his eyes. "Mommy, that isn't my baby. He is too big."

"Oh Jake." she said hugging her son. "Like you grew up, so did he. He is your little brother, Mommy promises."

Jake looked at Aidan then at Cam and said "Lets go play in my room."

Rushing off, he stopped again stunned to see it was empty.

"Oh god, I forgot I..."

Carly stopped Elizabeth's tears by saying. "Jake, well since you were missing, your mommy packed all your stuff up so that it would be okay but it went missing too."

"Did Lucky steal that away too?" asked Jake to their shock. Seeing them looking he said "Man who brought me home, said Lucky stole me from my mommy."

Holding him tightly, Elizabeth saw the revulsion on Carly's face and said "Carly we can talk about it later, but Cam will you go in Mommy's room and get Jake's motorcycles."

"My motobikes?" he said and followed his big brother.

"Lucky needs to die." Carly said venomously. "If you don't do it, I will get Sonny to."

"Carly, he is facing prison, in Ireland." she said not quite sure what to tell her while downstairs, Jason was letting himself into the house. He had seen Carly in the house and wasn't sure he liked that at all.

"Elizabeth, do you want anyone to know?" she asked quietly just as her phone rang. Hearing what Sonny said she told him they had to talk but hanging up said nothing, sure that Jason wanted to surprise Elizabeth.

"I suspect that the person who rescued Jake dealt with Lucky." she said. "Carly, can you keep this quiet for now."

"For now, but if Lucky should have the balls to show up, I will not be quiet as I give into my need to kill him." she vowed as she walked down the stairs only to see Jason who was holding his fingers for her to be quiet.

Carly walked over, hugged him then was pulled out the back door. "Jason?" she whispered. "You need to get in there, be with your family."

"I will, what is going on here Carly?" he said his scowl at first scaring her.

Then hugging him she said "I grew up. Long story, Jason. But go to your family."

"I want to get my family away from here, I don't trust the Quartermaines." he said as they hugged one another.

"Fine, drive by over to my place, Morgan is at practice and Michael doesn't live there anymore." Then she stopped when she saw his surprise about Michael.

"Michael, he woke up?" he asked. "That is great news, Carly."

With a rueful laugh that sounded almost sad, she said "I forgot you don't know."

Sitting on the fence, they had no idea that while Elizabeth couldn't see them, Patrick could. Walking out intending to tell him to get inside, he heard what they were saying and said "Well Elizabeth is going to Disney, right?"

Nodding, seeing Jason's surprise, she got what Patrick was thinking. "That is brilliant, Jason can you arrange for a private jet to take your family to wherever it is the two of you love."

"Italy, you mean... that is a great idea." he said as he began to make plans to get his family to safety. "It will take two hours."

"Let me get this started." Carly said then went inside. Speaking to Elizabeth, she had her agreeing to fly out that evening to avoid dealing with the Spencers and the Quartermaines.

Across town, Lulu listened to the message from her father and was annoyed when she told Dante that her father had gone to Ireland to spend time with Lucky. "He is in trouble."

Dante got the call from Mac and listened to what he said then looked at his wife then reconsidered passing on the news. Leaving, he wasn't sure that their marriage would last, too many times lately he found himself reconsidering telling her things that as his wife he should be able to.

Arriving at the station, being told about Sam, he sat down and said "Lucky Spencer did what?"

"He kidnapped Elizabeth's son. Jake. Sam helped him fake his death." Mac said then told him. "I am trusting you with something you can't tell your wife. If you do, you are fired. No more chances, Dante."

Stunned, he listened to what Mac said then told him. "Mac, Luke went to Ireland last night."

Mac didn't like the sound of that, but could only grit his teeth before telling the young detective to speak to the geek. "I want to know what he knew about all of this."

Elizabeth had called Steven and said "Carly wants to take the kids early, I think it is a good idea."

Having gotten a call from Patrick, some part of him wanted to say no, wanting to be selfish with his family but getting that Jason and she would need the time away with the boys. Besides, this way he could stay here, run interference when Monica found out that Jake was alive and that Aidan was her grandson.

"Have fun, send me postcards." he said then added "I love you, peanut."

"I love you too, Steven." she said. "I feel like I have been given a second chance."

Elizabeth arrived at the airport, agreeing to Carly's suggestion of buying clothes for Jake away from prying eyes. Seeing the private charter jet, she handed over the luggage and was told that Ms. Jacks would join her in Florida.

Settling the boys into their seats and setting up their movie, she watched as Aidan who was up past his bedtime quickly went to sleep. Cam who was sitting next to Jake smiled at his mommy, his glee at having his family all together was infectious.

A bit worried at what she had heard, but seeing the note, she read what Carly wrote and did what she suggested. Entering the back of the jet, seeing Jason standing there, looking uncertain, she heard him saying he was sorry and threw herself into his arms. His arms closed around her and she began to notice the differences.

"We can talk later, right now, come out and spend time with your sons." she ordered as she held onto him tightly.

"I can't." he said then told her as the jet took off. "Go out, Johnny is getting us out of the country without paperwork. For now, go be with the boys. I am going to stay here until we are out of US air space."

Nodding, she did as he suggested only to have Jake explaining to Cam and to Aidan that he had already been in this jet. "Mr. O said it was fast."

Looking out the window, watching as land grew further and further away, the boys finally fell asleep. "Go, talk to him." said an Irish voice in the darkness.

Hurrying to the back, Elizabeth was hugged tightly again. When she started to speak, Jason stopped her and said "I know we need to talk, but firstly, don't blame this on yourself, none of it. Not what happened with Nik, nor with Lucky. I screwed up, took one chance too many and thanks to my mistake, we almost lost everything."

Sitting down next to one another, Jason told her what happened to him. "Why would Jerry send you back here?"

"To make Sam's life miserable. The only part I haven't figured out is who this man was nor who killed him. It would have been an almost impossible shot." he said. "I am so sorry that you had to see what looked like me with that woman."

Elizabeth took over and told him all that had happened, leaving out none of her mistakes. The fear in his eyes and the love when she told him about her visits to Shadybrook made her cry as she could see he blamed himself. "Jason, why do you supposed he gave me that money, the house. Did what he did?"

"I don't know." he said. "There has to be more to this than we know." he told her. "Are you okay with us going to Italy?"

"Do you even have to ask?" she responded with a smile. "I have to say, I am surprised Carly was able to let you go. She really might be changing."

"Carly, is she for real?" he asked. "What happened to her."

"I don't know, she seems to be." Elizabeth then told him about the changed and the mistakes. Even what Carly had done to hurt her. "But that day at the Outback, I think we saw something in each other."

"I don't know if you want to hear this, but I love you, have loved you for so long. When I got my memory back, when I came home to see you, I swore I wouldn't lose you again. Then Helena's goons grabbed me."

"Why?" she asked blinking. "I mean, she isn't nor has she ever paid any attention to you before has she?"

"No, which is odd." he said as he suddenly reached out and pulled her onto his lap. "I know it is too soon for anything but right now, I need to hold you. To know that you are not going to be gone when I wake up."

With that, Jason eased his seat back and began to sleep. Resting her head on his shoulders, she was soon asleep too. As the jet began to descend, Cam who saw the man with the accent was asleep, went looking for a bathroom.

Seeing his mommy asleep with Mr. Jason, he saw that the man looked different then saw his eyes open. Seeing the way his eyes warmed when they looked at him he said "Are you the real Jason?"

Nodding, Jason said "Yes, Cam, I am."

"Are you Jake's daddy and Aidan's daddy because I heard that loud lady and Mom talking and they said you are. And if you are, why was that other Jason there and who was he? And another thing, why did you go away. Plus, you made mommy cry."

Cam kept going and Jason could only marvel as he kept the questioning up for almost ten minutes without repeating himself once and that Elizabeth had slept straight through.

"Well?" Cam said waiting for an answer to his questions.

"Cam, why don't we wait until your brothers and we are in Italy." he said as his eldest son nodded then climbed into the chairs back there.

"Is Italy the happiest place on earth, because Mommy said we are going to the happiest place on earth." he said after a few minutes.

Hearing footsteps, he saw Jake holding Aidan's hand and felt his heart stop as he saw his youngest child who he had never met before. "Cam, right here, right now is the happiest place on earth."

Elizabeth woke up just as Jake climbed up next to Cam and Jason reached around her to put Aidan in her lap. The Morgan family heard the announcement that they would be landing soon and got into the correct seats as the plane landed in Sienna so that they could begin their new lives as a family.

Epilogue

Five Years later

Jason got off the jet and saw Carly and of all people Jasper Jacks there waiting for them. Seeing Carly's anxious eyes still on the plane, he laughed as his sons rushed forward while arguing about whether or not the snow would be different from the snow in Italy.

Carly was holding onto Jax's hand, tightening a bit when she finally saw the little girl she had been waiting to see. Elizabeth and she had kept in touch, and the artist had sent her an email of the newest member of the Morgan family and she couldn't wait to see her in person.

"Look, there they are." she said excitedly.

Jax laughed at his wife's excitement, there had been a time that only the father of this family would have caused this reaction but time and the mess years earlier had changed her, softened her.

When the family had gone through security, Jason found himself happily pushed aside so that his old friend could talk to his wife and meet her sort of namesake. While they had repeatedly tried to tell her that Lina was named for the town she had been created in, Carly refused to accept that Carolina had nothing to do with her.

"Hello Carly." said Elizabeth as the other woman said "You owe Morgan, Joss and I a trip to Disneyland and if you don't go I am taking the boys without you."

After surrendering her daughter, she said "We agreed, why do you think we are here?"

"Oh we both know why you are here." she said with a sad smile then a snicker at the other reason. "I want to be there, please?"

"Carly, I know you do, but would you please just stay with the children." said Elizabeth. "I still don't trust her."

"I understand that." she said her mind on all the trouble that Sam had caused over the last few years in her desperate attempts to find out and get to would never forgive the woman's reaction to Michael's rather reluctant olive branch on behalf of his sister, only for Sam to get a restraining order keeping him away from his sister using his past to do it.

Arriving at the discreet home they had purchased ages ago, Jason and Elizabeth settled the boys down and began to talk to the other couple. Jax agreeing to help with Jason's wishes and Carly terrorizing the boys with talks of shopping trips and showing them the town.

"Elizabeth, it is almost time." Jason said looking at the clock. The mood sobered as they told the boys to be good and then warned Carly to stop threatening them with shopping trips. "After they are my sons, Carly. They don't like to shop."

Patrick Drake did what he could to make the patient comfortable, his wife standing next to him as they worried about the scavengers outside the door. "When did they say they were coming?"

"In about a half hour." he told Robin. His wife had been kidnapped by Helena Cassadine in some desperate attempt to fix Nicolas who had been having seizures. She had been so certain that whatever was going on with fake Jason was the same as what was wrong with Nik.

In the end it had exposed several truths, first that fake Jason had been a Cassadine, but not which Cassadine. There had been rumors of his being Tony and Alexandra's but that had proven false when Sam's baby had been born.

It had also exposed the truth that Sam had not been a blood Cassadine, though out of guilt Alexis still called her daughter. Nik had eventually lived then had tried to convince Robin that they were meant to be together. Luckily Robert who had not truly believed she was dead had located and rescued his little girl.

Hearing screeching sounds, they turned to see Maxie slapping Sam as they stood in the waiting room. "I wonder what that is about?"

Grimacing, Patrick said "I was hoping I was wrong, but I guess I wasn't mistaken. Sam was trying to work her wiles on Dante."

Dante and Maxie had come together in grief after the death of Lulu. Lulu when the truth about Aidan and that Jake was alive had run without a word to her husband. When Dante had learned she had known all along what her brother was doing he had been distraught and had been shocked at Maxie's own grief at the news.

She had gone straight to Belfast to track down her brother and father to warn them about Jason, and her big mouth had gotten all three killed in battle between two warring factions of the IRA. With their death, what the Spencer family had done had come out and Ethan who had no part of it fled the anger of the entire town but especially the Quartermaine clan.

Hearing shouts, Robin said "I think it is a safe bet to say they have arrived."

The patient in the bed, being kept alive purely by the drugs pumping through their system, gave a ghostly smile as hope of forgiveness ran through their veins.

"Jason!" shouted Sam as she tried to rush towards him. "I knew it, knew you wouldn't desert your family in their hour of need."

Johnny O'Brien who had been waiting at the hospital entrance stopped the rushing women as Jason and Elizabeth gave them a wide berth and entered the room. "Patrick, Robin."

"Hi." with a hug the couple who had visited them several times in Sienna gravely explained Monica's medical condition. "She has at most a day."

Jason and Elizabeth had talked about this, both in agreement that if Sam was no longer at the mansion, they would forgive the woman but if she was still living there, there could be no forgiveness, no letting go of sins like they had with Edward.

Edward had been conned, had made a grievous error but he had never attacked Elizabeth. Never had treated her the way Monica had. So on his deathbed, they had snuck into town and gave him forgiveness.

Monica smiled through the pain, happy to see her son, knowing that he would honor her will and that in the end, she would have righted the wrongs committed. "Jason, can you forgive me?"

While he tried to feel bad for her, Monica had brought this onto herself as her liver failed from drinking since losing her job at the hospital. It had covered the cancer eating at her until it was now all over her body.

As she lay there, she refused to look at the woman who had cost her so much, over the years, Sam had told her the whole sordid story and she couldn't believe that Jason was still with this woman who thought nothing of stealing a man away from his true love.

Jason leaned down just as he saw Monica begin to fade. "Do you remember what I told you when I came home, what I said I wanted to happen, well Monica, I have three healthy sons and a daughter and you never got a chance to be a grandmother to none of them. And by this time tomorrow that whore living in your house, well she will be out on her rear."

With that announcement, Jason saw the shock in the woman's eyes, then saw her go to her past and he was certain she heard his words, Monica passed away, knowing that Jason hadn't forgiven her.

Robin called time of death, then covered her face as Jason stood and walked over and gripped Elizabeth's hand tightly. Monica had tried several times over the years to find a way to get Jake and Aidan away from them.

Spinelli had died as a result of one of those attempts. The geek risking his life to warn them having come to his senses about his goddess too late. Sonny who had at first been accepting of Jason and Elizabeth had had a slow decent into madness when it became clear the blond man wasn't coming back to the business.

He had tried everything from kidnapping to trying to murder a pregnant Elizabeth, but Johnny O had stifled him. Eventually after his death, while the autopsy had been preformed they had found out that he had had an undiagnosed venereal disease which had killed him from not getting treatment.

Johnny had stepped in to run the business as Michael thanks to learning who he really was had walked away thankfully before Sonny could drag him down with him. Michael now worked for Jax and stayed friendly with Starr Manning who ran her family's newspaper empire in Landview.

As they stepped from the room, Johnny said "The security staff will keep them out, for now. Jason, do you still want things done like was discussed."

"Yes, no funeral, just a burial in the family crypt. When can you get the team in?"

"As soon as the will is probated." he said.

"Not necessary, see while Monica owned the estate, Edward took care of the taxes. No one had been doing so since his death three years ago. I own the mansion. I will give Sam twenty four hours to vacate."

"You should know, Alexis has been making noise about Sam's daughter." he warned.

"God save the world from people like that, please?" asked Jason who saw Elizabeth walking off to greet her brother and sister who both worked at GH now. "I will deal with her. Tell me, is she still at the Lake House?"

When Johnny nodded, Jason went over to kiss his wife and tell her he would see her later. Stopping him, she asked "Are you sure you are okay?"

"I am fine." he said then added "This was a long time coming. I am off to deal with Alexis. Johnny said the little girl is at school. I think this is for the best."

"What Sam is doing to this child is criminal." she said shaking her head then hearing her name being called greeted Epiphany Johnson who had pretty much retired from her duties but had known that the couple would be arriving that day.

Arriving at the house, Jason was let in by Alexis who stared at him, not saying a word. Neither did Kristina who was home for the day and seventeen year old Molly. Then Molly said "Are you proud of yourself, proud of abandoning my sister?"

"Molly, not now." said Alexis annoyed with how her daughter seemed to think that just Jason still owed Sam. Alexis didn't care about that right now, all she cared about was helping her grandbaby. "You need to head to school."

Molly wanted so badly to say something but instead she grabbed her bag and her keys and left. Once in her car she called Sam. "Jason is at the Lakehouse."

"Thanks Molly." she said and rushed to her car. Finding it wouldn't start, she began to curse as she drove off quickly knowing just what she had to do to fix this.

Alexis looked at Kristina then said "Jason, thank you for coming. I could have used your help several years ago."

"Alexis, I did what I could. I can't prevent Sam from naming her daughter what she did or giving her Quartermaine as a last name. The courts did agree she couldn't use Morgan but Monica adopting her prevented me from stopping her from using that name."

"She is ruining that little girl." she said. "I know she isn't your daughter, but please, you have to help me."

"Alexis, there is nothing I can do. The ball is strictly in your court. I tried to get her put away when she tried to kidnap my children, but YOU are the one who saved her, who was her attorney. You are reaping what you sow. I only came to say that she might show up on your doorstep because I own the mansion and it is coming down as soon as possible." he said.

Kristina looked at him and said "She lives her life waiting for you to return."

"That is truly sad because I am happy. I have a wife and four children, Kristina, they are who I owe my loyalty to. And don't start repeating the crap your sister has been spewing, you won't like my reaction." he said coldly.

"I won't, I know it is lies, I have seen the tape." she said. "Its just Jason, you loved her at some point... can't you see if you can find some last vestiges of that love and forgive her."

Counting to ten, he said "That love you seem to think was so great, it wasn't. It was the result of resigning myself to never having the one I truly loved. Well guess what, I have her now. I have children with her, children your sister repeatedly endangered and tried to kill. There is no forgiveness, there can be no forgiveness. Ask your mother, ask her if she forgave Luis Alcazar."

With that, he was on his way out the door when they heard a car pulling Sam paying the cab drive, Alexis felt sick at the collision course that was about to happen.

"Molly." said Kristina annoyed as she got what happened. "She must have called Sam."

Alexis watched as her daughter instead of rushing straight in seemed to be opening the opposite door of cab and swore. "Morgan, please for an innocent child's sake either go along with this or go out the back door."

Turning looking for his response, she was shocked to see he was walking out the front door. Grateful he seemed to be going along, she saw him prevent Sam from hugging him then knelt down next to the five year old and speak to her.

Whatever was said, the little girl smiled then looked at her mother confused then rushed in after Jason had forced Sam to let the little girl go. "Grandma, that nice man said Mommy is ill. But I don't understand, he looks like the pictures of my daddy but he said he wasn't."

Outside, Jason just looked at Sam, shaking his head. "You need to get out of my life, now. Sam, if you keep this up, I will go to court, get custody of that child and you will never see her again. Elizabeth agrees that no child deserves to suffer with you as a mother."

"See, see you are admitting you are her father." she said. "I knew it, I knew the minute you saw her, you would come back to us."

Cursing under his breath at his stupidity in even saying that, Jason said "No Sam, she isn't my child. I have four kids, Cameron, Jacob and Aidan are my sons, Lina is my only daughter. And to name that child what you did, my god, how can anyone not put a stop to your madness."

"They know the truth, they know we are meant to be together." she said with a bright smile that quickly went away when Jason bent down and whispered something in her ears. "Jason, you know you don't mean that."

"Oh Sweet Sam, I won't be the one killing you." he said. "That will be Jerry. I had no idea, until he stopped you and Monica from trying to kidnap my children, the depth of his hate for you."

Shaking a bit, since she had had a run in with Jerry mere days before, Sam tried to brazen it out. "No, won't work this time Sam. And you have twenty four hours to get your shit out my mansion."

"Monica left it to me." she said with a smirk.

"Too bad Monica didn't own it." he said wiping the smile away. "Twenty four hours, then it comes down. There have been repeated notes ordering you to be moved out, Monica ignored them, ignored reality."

With that, Jason left, while inside Jasicina didn't understand why her mom kept insisting that that man had been her father. He hadn't felt like he was her father and she didn't look a thing like him. He had been kind but firm in telling her her father had died a long time ago.

Two days later, the mansion at 66 came down. Sam standing there shouting at Mac who had her handcuffed and was about to take her to jail when a shot rang out, then looking up he was astonished to see unknown woman Monica's age holding a gun.

"Drop the gun." he said even as Alexis to see that Sam was grievously injured. "Who are you?"

"I uh, didn't do this." she said holding out the gun. "A man standing next to me fired. With an accent, maybe English or something like it. He pressed the gun in my hand when he left."

The description soon given matched Jerry Jack as Sam died on the way to the hospital, while Jerry, well he left town to get a new face now that his work was done in Port Charles.

A week later, Jason was not sure this was such a good idea. Carly, Robin and Elizabeth were taking their various children to Walt Disney world while Jax and he dealt with the last remnants of ELQ.

Kissing his wife, he whispered I love you.

"I love you too." she said then added "I want to go and show the kids before I get too big Jason."

"Too big..." His eyes widened then traveled down her waist. "Are we?"

"Yes." she said with a laugh and felt his arms tighten around her. "We promise we will behave.

Years later as Jason explained to Cam about the ring he gave him for his fiancee the reshaped Irish gold that was now a new symbol of love, the twenty two year old man looked at the picture of his brothers and sisters and their mom and said "I guess that is what Mom means when she says that love is hard work but in the end it is worth it."

"You have no idea." Jason said then added as Cam slipped the ring in his pants pocket. "But you will learn and find that love has no limits. Congratulations, son."

Watching him leave the study, he felt his wife's arms come around his, "Our little boy all grown up."

Pulling her into his lap, Jason kissed her and said While I would change some things, I would never change what we now have nor how we ended up here."

"Me either." Elizabeth said lifting the photo on the opposite end of the desk. "Jason, how much longer are you going to keep this photo of me with Mouse ears? I swear there are days when I see it I want to travel to Australia and slap Carly."

"You shouldn't." he said kissing her neck as his hands traveled from her waist upwards. "To me that is the quintessential you. Lovely, playful, most importantly giving. We both know you wore that for the boys. After all they are in it too."

As they moved off towards their bedroom, Jason could only marvel as he thought back to Cam's question about Italy being the happiest place on earth that day on the flight here, because it had become the happiest place on earth, after all it was where his family was.

THE END