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Chapter 7
They had a great uninterrupted morning watching the fish. Cam's favorites were the sharks and Jason bought him a stuffed one to take home. Elizabeth got a yearlong membership as a souvenir. Jason didn't even ask he just brought it. When she protested he told her that Cam loved to come and she could come to sketch the fish. Looking down at the paper she saw he bought the family package.
After they did indeed go to Kelly's. If anyone was surprised that they were together no one said anything. Mike greeted them warmly and made funny faces with Cam. Since they were both regulars they just ordered their usuals. They made it almost to the end of their meal without interruption. Mike had just brought over cookies when Carly came in.
"Thank god, I have been calling you why haven't you called me back?" Carly was frantic. Jax would be home in under two hours.
"I've been busy." Jason told her.
"You're not busy now." Carly pointed out.
"I'm eating lunch." Jason pointed to Elizabeth and Cameron.
"This is important Jason." Carly hadn't even acknowledged that he was with anyone else.
"What is it?" He recognized that she wasn't going to leave.
"I need to talk with you." Carly said expecting him to get up.
"Go ahead." Jason knew she was waiting for him to walk away with her. It wasn't going to happen.
"This is personal." Carly was at the end of her patience. "Elizabeth you need to leave." She said to the brunette.
"No she doesn't. We are having lunch." Jason pointed to the table.
"You're practically finished. She can take her son and leave." Carly was being rude and didn't care.
"I can go." Elizabeth would never ask Jason to ignore Carly.
"Stay put." Jason told her. "If anyone will be leaving its Carly." He saw his friend's mouth drop open. "If it's important tell me otherwise I'm having lunch with Elizabeth and Cameron."
"You can have lunch with Michael at the house while we talk." He always came when she mentioned Michael.
"Michael's in school." Jason reminded her.
"Jason I need to talk with you now." Carly shot a nasty look at Elizabeth. She knew that they were friends again, but she wasn't going to allow him to push her aside for the waif.
Jason was done with this. "I'm not going to talk to Sonny for you." At her wide eyed stare he kept going. "It's not a secret. The limo driver has been talking to pretty much everyone. I suggest you come clean with Jax before Sonny tracks him down. Of course since Sonny's engaged he might be willing to keep his mouth shut. I also suggest you learn to keep your knees together." Jason stood up. "You ready?"
"Sure thing." Elizabeth tried not to look at Carly. The blonde was mortified and probably shocked that Jason just put her business out there like that. Elizabeth was surprised too. Once her coat was on she put Cam in his heavy jacket.
Carly was still standing there stunned.
"I told you that when I bought the business from Sonny I wouldn't have time to clean up your messes. That it was time for you to grow up. I meant it Carly." Jason put enough money down to leave a generous tip and ushered Liz and Cam out the diner.
They were driving back to her house when her phone rang. "Hello."
"Elizabeth, its Alan. Do you think you can come to the hospital?" The Chief of Staff asked.
"Sure, if you need me." Elizabeth would need to see if her Gram was around. If not maybe Georgie could sit with Cam. She was surprised to be getting this call. At just over eight months pregnant Epiphany didn't call her to sub anymore. "Do you know how long you'll need me?" Jason was already turning to take her over.
"It's not for work." Alan's voice dropped. "Maxie is dead and I think Georgie could use a friend." Nadine had been the one to tell him about the friendship.
"Oh my god. Was it the tear gas?" Elizabeth asked her boss. Jason was giving her a funny look.
"No. I can explain when you get here." Alan told the younger woman. Despite the gulf between his daughter and Elizabeth, he still very much liked and respected the young nurse.
"I'm on my way." She told him.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked concerned.
"Maxie is dead. Your dad wants me to sit with Georgie." Elizabeth explained. "He said it wasn't the gas." Elizabeth was trying to think like a nurse and find what else it could have been.
"We will be there shortly." Jason told her quietly.
They went right to Alan's office where Georgie was still sitting quietly. "What happened?" Elizabeth knew shock when she saw it.
"Maxie was murdered overnight." Alan noted that Jason was with the young mother and her son.
"Murdered." Elizabeth repeated incredulously. "Do you know who did it?"
"No clue." Alan told her the details.
"Poor Maxie." Elizabeth hadn't liked the other girl, but she wouldn't have wished this on her.
"Elizabeth." Mac walked over. He was aware that the two women had a history. Mostly Maxie getting in the nurse's face over Lucky. He was glad Robin was close with Georgie and not the troublesome blonde. He noted Morgan was holding Elizabeth's son but didn't speak on it.
"I need to ask you a few questions." Mac told her.
"Me?" Elizabeth just looked at him.
"You and the victim didn't get along." Mac pointed out. Right now the suspect pool was wide open.
Elizabeth went to speak but Jason stopped her. "Call Diane Corelli and set up a time for Elizabeth to come in." He told the Commissioner.
"That isn't necessary." Mac immediately protested.
"I think it is." Jason wasn't backing down. He didn't trust Mac or any of the officers who worked for him. Lucky had been running around high with a badge and a gun for months.
Mac just looked at Elizabeth who looked at Jason. "Call Diane." Elizabeth repeated. She knew the commissioner had the lawyer's number.
"Fine." He said clearly annoyed. He had hoped to take her name off the list. No one actually thought Elizabeth did this.
"I should go talk to Georgie." Elizabeth turned to take Cam. Her Gram hadn't answered the phone.
"I got him. We'll wait out here." Jason would be happy to watch Cam. "If he gets bored we'll go walk around." He took his phone out of his pocket and turned it on.
"You don't mind?" Elizabeth wanted to check on her friend.
"Not at all." Jason could tell Alan was curious but he just ignored him. They were doing better but still had some work to do. Things had been good with Monica, but when she let Emily's poisonous attitude toward Elizabeth change how she treated the nurse that ended. "Go ahead."
"Thanks." Elizabeth gave him a smile before following Alan into his office.
Jason was walking back from the bathroom, he would have to complain about the lack of changing stations in the men's rooms, when he crossed paths with Sam. It seemed it was his day to deal with the problem women in his life.
"Hi Jason." She gave him a wide smile. Then narrowed her eyes when she saw the little boy in his arms. "Who's your friend?"
"How are you Sam?" Jason ignored her question.
The little boy looked familiar, but Sam couldn't immediately place him. "I'm good. I have an appointment with Kelly." She would take advantage of running into him. "She thinks there is a procedure that could reserve the damage done by Manny's bullet." She would try for guilt.
"That's good." Jason shuddered internally. If there was a person on the planet who shouldn't have children it was Sam. He was sorry she lost her daughter, but the woman was too self-absorbed to have kids. He had harbored guilt for the fact that she couldn't have children until Johnny had learned that Manny hadn't missed his target. He had been aiming for Sam, seeking revenge for a con the woman had pulled. "I hope it works."
"I'll never be able to replace our Lila of course." She worked up some tears.
"Lila wasn't mine Sam, she was Sonny's." Jason reminded her.
"But you loved her." Sam could see this wasn't working.
"I did, yes." Jason would have been there for her. He loved her, but it would have only been a matter of time before Sonny wanted his daughter. Jason had already been preparing to lose another child to his friend. When the little girl died he tried to fill that hole for Sam, first with Hope and then with himself. Alexis's protest, which ended up breaking them up, were the best thing that happened to Jason. He had been free the night Elizabeth came to him. "But she wasn't mine."
"Daddy." Cam chose that moment to speak up.
"He called you daddy." Sam said in a tight voice. "That's Elizabeth's son isn't it?"
"Good luck." Jason told his ex-girlfriend before heading back to Alan's office. When he turned into the reception area out of the corner of his eye he saw her still standing there. Sitting down he pulled out his phone.
"O'Brien." Johnny answered.
"Don't you ever sleep?" Jason asked his friend.
"I left here at midnight. Came back an hour ago. How is Georgie?" He liked the young woman.
"She's in Alan's office with Liz. Sam is here at the hospital, I want someone on her." Jason had a feeling she was going to do something stupid. If the stupid thing she did involved Liz he would kill Sam without hesitation.
"Yup." Johnny already had someone on her. He didn't like or trust Sam. "She do something?"
"Not yet." Jason told his friend.
"I want someone on Liz and Cam too." Jason told Johnny.
"Seriously Jason, do you think Francis and I don't have someone on her already?" Johnny said out loud, what he was thinking was 'finally'.
"Who?" Jason wanted to know.
"One of the orderlies who works at the hospital works for us. He always works the same shift as Liz thanks to Epiphany." The head nurse had only been too happy to help.
"You didn't tell me?" Jason didn't like being kept out of the loop.
"You were suffering from a case of the stupids." Johnny never held his tongue with Jason.
"Is he good?" Jason wanted to know.
"She's my sister Jason, do you think I would just trust her to anyone?" Johnny pointed out. The fact that they didn't share DNA did not factor at all into that statement. "He follows her to and from work. Her hanging around with me and Francis also keeps the idiots at bay."
"No, you wouldn't trust her to just anyone. Thank you. Does she know?" Jason asked his friend.
"No." Johnny said leaning back in his chair. "She'd object, then we'd have a fight and Francis would yell at me for yelling at her. When she ditched the guy Francis would yell at her and it would just get ugly." He was tired thinking about it.
"And Cam?" Jason wanted the little boy safe.
"His daycare teacher knows to call if there is an issue." Johnny told his boss. "We are watching."
"Good. I was lax with them. Not anymore." Jason told Johnny because if he backed off again his friend would kick his ass.
"Good to know the stupids can be cured. My source in the PCPD will pass along anything they find out in regards to Maxie." They weren't so much concerned with who killed the blonde, but they didn't like a murderer anywhere near Liz. "Also Carly went to see Sonny. No word on whether they stayed clothed or not."
"The two of them never learn." Jason was glad that Sonny wasn't his responsibility anymore. As much as being in charge wasn't Jason's goal he had to admit things had calmed down since Sonny's retirement. Now they just had to keep Sonny from messing everything up.
"Some habits are hard to break." Johnny snickered. "Tell Lizziebell I will see her for dinner on Friday."
Jason just rolled his eyes at the nickname. Both Johnny and Francis had a variety of pet names for Beth. "I will pass the message along. By the way how are you doing in the baby daddy race?"
"Still in the lead." Johnny said laughing. The people of this town were in for a shock. He wanted to be standing next to Carly when she found out. He couldn't wait. Maybe her head would explode. "Call me if anything else pops up."
"Yeah." Jason hung up and looked down to find Cam asleep. He put his feet on the couch and let the little boy cuddle into him. He wanted to feel this every night. Sooner rather than later.
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