A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.


Chapter 9

Jason's first stop was to see Carly, he knew that she needed to hear from him about Jake's parentage before she heard from someone else and got pissed off at him for not telling her. He found her at the front desk of the Metrocourt and shockingly enough she was actually doing work for a change.

"Hey Jase, what are you doing here? I thought for sure that you would be with your girls right now." Carly greeted her best friend cheerfully. She was so happy that Jason and Sam had found Lila not only because all that they had gone through when they lost her but also because she hoped the little girl would bring them closer together.

"Sam and the kids are with Alexis right now. I came here because I really need to talk to you Carly." Jason explained to his best friend.

"Well, let's go on back to my office then. It's not often that you want to talk so I know that this has to be good." Carly led him to her office she could barely contain her excitement over the fact that Jason had something to tell her. They both sat on the couch that was in her office and turned to face each other. "Alright Jase, what's going on?" she asked him.

Jason shook his head. He should have known that the blonde would pepper him with questions before he even got to the point of what he was doing there. "You know how Elizabeth getting pregnant pulled Sam and I apart?" he asked her.

"I'm well aware and what you ever saw in that floor whore I will never know. And then I love her innocent I didn't mean for it to happen act. The bitch knows she meant for it to happen she had to climb fifteen fucking flights of stairs in the middle of a blackout she could have turned around at any time." Carly raved her blue eyes blazing with hatred for the nurse.

"Carly," Jason called her name to get her to focus on him again. "The thing of it is Jake isn't Elizabeth's son, he's Sam's." he said when he saw that he had her attention.

Carly was shocked but that didn't stop her eyes from twinkling with the plan she had forming in her head. It was just in the beginning stages so it was nothing for anyone to be worried about yet. "How is that possible Jason?" she asked him.

"The best I can guess is that Elizabeth got her hands on one of Sam's eggs and some of my sperm. Sam and I are both in and out of the hospital enough for that to be possible. Or it might have Helena's doings for all I know." Jason explained to her the best that he could with the limited facts that he had at the present.

"Helena has always had it out for Sam for some reason." Carly agreed with him.

"I know that, and I'm not letting that old witch get anywhere near Sam or our children ever again." Jason vowed the muscles in his neck tensed as he spoke.

"Jason, I know that you probably don't want my input on the matter but you should talk to Elizabeth. Ask her outright if she knew that Jake was Sam's." Carly advised him.

Jason looked at her thoughtfully for a moment. "Actually that might not be a bad idea Carly."

"See I'm capable of having a good idea every now and then." Carly teased him. Jason had had to clean up one too many of the messes her ideas and plans caused to believe that anything good could come of them.

"Don't push it Carly." Jason warned her.

"Who else knows?" Carly asked him changing the subject quickly.

"Sonny, Emily, and Robin since those two ran the DNA test. Sam was going to tell Alexis and so I guess that she, Stefan, and Kristina know too." Jason answered her question.

"I'm surprised that Elizabeth is still drawing breath if Sonny knows." Carly observed.

"I told him that I would take care of it or she wouldn't be." Jason replied. They both knew that Sonny had a tendency to act in the heat of the moment and then regret it later.

"You better go take care of it then. The way Sonny sees it he has a lot to make up for with Sam. If that means killing for her then he is willing to do it." Carly advised him.

"I probably should and then I need to see what I can find out about Helena." Jason said standing to go.

"That would probably be a good idea. I would like it if my husband didn't go to jail for killing that cheap whore of a nurse." Carly said pointing to the door.

Jason sighed and shook his head. "I know that there isn't a chance of this happening but try to behave yourself." He warned her before he left.


Sam stood in the doorway of her room at her mother's house studying her two children as they slept in her bed. Lila may have looked like her but her father's instincts to protect were deeply engrained in her that was evidenced by the way she slept with her arm around her little brother.

"Don't let this go to your head Soapy, but you make some beautiful babies." Kristina told her niece walking up behind her.

"You scared the shit out of me Aunt Tina, I wasn't aware that you were a ninja." Sam commented sarcastically and then she softened. "They are damn near perfect aren't they?" she asked in reply.

"I think that they are a perfect combination of you and Jason." Kristina agreed.

Sam rolled her eyes. "Don't say that Aunt Tina, being like Jason and me will only get them into trouble later in life."

"It's true Soapy, they got the best of both you. So I'm sure that they will be able to handle any trouble that they get into." Kristina replied affectionately.

"I can't get over how much Jake looks like Jason and Lila looks like me." Sam said with a soft smile.

"The way most people would see it is that Lila is your daughter and Jake is Jason's son. However I think that a case can be made for Jake being your son and Lila being Jason's daughter." Kristina said thoughtfully.

"What do you mean Tina?" Sam asked her a little confused.

"Lila obviously got that protective streak from her father look at how she is sleeping with her arm around Jake. And Jake got his fearless streak from you, I'm not talking about their looks here I'm talking about their personalities." Kristina explained herself.

"I guess you might be right." Sam agreed.

"I think that Jake has a little of your looks in him too he looks a little like Steffy." Kristina observed. Her great nephew had light hair and light eyes like her brother but he did resemble him that closely still it was obvious that they were related.

"That poor boy has both the Cassadine and Quartermaine legacies resting on his shoulders. I don't ever want him to feel pressured though. I don't want either of them to feel pressured by the family businesses." Sam admitted. She didn't want her children feeling that they had no choice about what to do with their futures.

"With you and Jason as parents they won't have to worry about that. You two won't make them become anyone that they don't want to be." Kristina assured her.

"I don't want to think about the future yet I just want to concentrate on showing them how much I love them. I've already missed out on so much with them." Sam wished that she hadn't missed so much of her children's lives.

"Soapy, if you want to show them that you love them the best way to do that is by taking care of yourself. I'm sure that you probably haven't had anything to eat since last night and you look like you're in need of a nap yourself." Kristina advised her.

"What I could really use right now is a shower, but that isn't going to happen because I can't get my wound wet." Sam really wanted a shower more than anything. She was dying to get the stink of the hospital off of her.

"You've come to the right place then, it just so happens that your mother and I are very good at helping you take showers after you have been shot." Kristina said putting her arm around the younger woman.

"I wish you wouldn't act so casual about this. It is embarrassing that I need my mother and aunt to help me take a bath." Sam protested.

"Think nothing of it Sam. That's what we're here for. Besides I can't imagine that you would be anymore comfortable with Jason helping you shower." Kristina teased her and she laughed when she saw her blush.

"Fine, I give up. Let's just hurry because I want to be out of the shower before the kids wake up." Sam relented finally.


Elizabeth was more than a little shocked when she saw Jason waltz into her hospital room. He was the last person that she had expected to see and the fact that he was there at all made her more than a little nervous. "What are you doing here Jason?" she demanded of him coldly.

"I came here to talk to you Elizabeth." Jason answered in a soft voice he didn't come here to pick a fight with her.

"Jason, I really don't want to talk to you right now. I would feel better if you were with Jake. You know how dangerous your life style is to him I can't believe you left him alone." Elizabeth raged at him.

"I didn't leave him alone he is with Sam. Besides I came to talk to you about Jake." Jason told her.

Elizabeth wore a look of utter disbelief on her face. "I can't believe you left my son alone with that woman after everything that she has done to him. She has no business being anywhere near him. When I feel up to it mark my words Jason, you will never see your son again." She warned him.

"It's really not wise for you to threaten me right now. I came here to talk to you rationally." Jason said trying to keep his temper reigned in.

" I would be all for talking to you rationally if you hadn't left my son with an unstable woman." Elizabeth yelled back at him referring to Sam.

"Sam has more of a right to him than you do she is his mother not you." Jason finally snapped and the words came pouring out of his mouth.

"Jason that is…" Elizabeth started but he cut her off.

"Don't even try to deny it, why'd you do it huh?" Jason asked her.

"I didn't know that Jake was Sam's not at first anyway." Elizabeth admitted.

"What the fuck did you do?" Jason demanded he was tired of playing games with her.

"You have to understand that around this time Lucky and I were over in everything but name. You and Sam were drifting apart too and she was spending a lot of time with Lucky. I wanted to make her pay because she could comfort my husband when I couldn't. The reason I went to see you that night was to make her jealous enough to back away from Lucky. Not long after we slept together Helena came to me and said she had a way I could have you and Lucky while leaving Sam out in the cold so I took her up on her offer. Somehow she got her hands on some of your sperm and I was injected with it or so I thought what I didn't know at the time was that she had implanted one of Sam's eggs in me. I didn't know that Jake wasn't mine not right away anyway it wasn't until he started getting older and I noticed that he is left handed, no one in my family is left handed. That being said Alexis is so I had a DNA test run and it proved that he wasn't mine." Elizabeth told her tale.

"I don't know how I'm going to handle this but you are never seeing my son again." Jason stated bluntly.

"Jason, I'm the only mother that he has ever known." Elizabeth rationalized.

"That doesn't change the fact that Sam is his mother. Elizabeth, you knew that Helena has something against Sam and still you thought it would be a good idea to work with her." Jason flared back at her.

"I didn't think that Helena would do something like this." Elizabeth offered lamely.

"That's right you didn't think. If you had stopped to think then you would have known how stupid it was to trust Helena about anything." Jason's temper continued to warm.

"I only wanted to make Sam jealous." Elizabeth replied quietly.

"What you did is beyond words, because not only did you hurt Sam but you ended up hurting Jake in the process. Jake is the innocent in all of this he didn't ask for any of this shit but now he is the one who has to deal with it." Jason said setting his jaw in a hard line. His blue eyes were as cold as steel.

"So now what are you going to live up to your reputation and kill me?" Elizabeth asked him.

Jason glared at her. "I honestly don't know what I'm going to do about you yet. I just know that it would be wrong to kill you. Consider that me being merciful." He told her before stalking out of the room.


"Jesus Spinelli, can't you work any faster?" Dante asked the young hacker.

"The Jackal is going as fast as he can." Spinelli defended himself.

"I would really like it if we could get a bead on this loony old bat before she causes anymore trouble than she already has." Dante replied.

"The deranged one is indeed good at covering her tracks. It is going to take the Jackal some time before he is able to untangle this treacherous web of mayhem." Spinelli went on in his usual cryptic speaking pattern.

"My sister's life is in danger here. That is why I trust you over the PCPD on this one. You better not make me regret it." Dante spit out at him.

"Dante, chill out man. He's working as fast as he can. Take it from someone who knows Helena is a very elusive person. It's going to take him a little bit of time to uncover her trail." Lucky said trying to calm his partner.

"It's just that Sam shouldn't have to worry about this right now. I've heard the stories and if you ask me Helena has put her through more than enough in her life. I would like to stop the old bitch before she gets anywhere near my sister again." Dante replied through gritted teeth.

"I've had some dealings with Helena too, I know first hand what this woman is capable of. That is all the more reason that you and I need to keep a cool head about this. Dante, I need you on this one man. If you're not going to be able to handle it let me know now." Lucky said sort of shaking his head at the younger man.

"I'm in this with you all the way, I'm even tempted to look the other way while Jason works his magic on the old broad." Dante said locking eyes with Lucky to let him know that they were on the same page.

"Aha, the Jackal has recorded a minor success. It would appear that the deceptive one has been in contact with someone in the Port Charles area according to the phone records. The number is that of the shipping facility that Stone Cold and The Goddess investigated." Spinelli reported.

"We already figured that much Spinelli." Lucky told him.

"Alas, at the present that is all that the Jackal is able to find on the activities of the elusive one." Spinelli replied.

"It's ok Spin, thanks for the help. We'll leave you to your work for right now. Just call us if something comes up." Dante said. He needed to get out of that penthouse before his temper exploded.

"Dante, what is up with your temper today?" Lucky asked him as they walked out.

"I just don't like the idea that this woman is after my sister and there is next to nothing that I can do to keep her safe." Dante informed him.

"We'll keep her from doing anything to Sam and the kids. If that means that we have to take turns watching them then so be it." Lucky said putting his foot down on the matter.

"Lucky, you have a son at home to take care of. Let me take the lead on this investigation." Dante argued.

"Right now I really need to lose myself in my work." Lucky replied with a sigh.

"Elizabeth?" Dante asked. He and Lucky had been partners long enough for him to know when something was bothering him.

"She's pregnant. And of course she doesn't know if the baby is mine or Nikolas's. It just feels like the whole Jake situation all over again. And then come to find out Jake isn't even really Elizabeth's he's Sam's." Lucky said rubbing his eyebrows with the thumb and index finger of his right hand.

"At least this time you know that there is a possibility that the baby isn't yours it's not like with Jake." Dante offered helpfully there really wasn't much else that he could say.

"The bitch part of it all is that I still love her. What hurts the most is knowing that she doesn't love me enough not to do shit like this. The whole Jake situation is much worse because now I know that she purposely got pregnant with him just so she could hurt Sam." Lucky sighed.

"Come on, we have an investigation to run. Running around this town chasing a fucking ghost will help get your mind off things." Dante said if this was Lucky's way of coping then who was he to judge that?


Jason found Luke aboard the Haunted Star with his usual drink in his hand and as usual the place didn't look like it was going to be open for business anytime soon.

"Hey Bubba, what can I do for you?" Luke asked cheerfully as he drained the rest of the scotch out of his glass.

"I need to know everything that you know about Helena and I need to know it yesterday." Jason informed him bluntly. He was in no mood to beat around the bush he needed to make sure that his family was going to be safe.

"Why on earth do you want to know anything about that old bat?" Luke asked his curiosity getting the better of him.

"Because I think she's after Sam and the kids. Not only that but I'm fairly sure that she is the one who took Emily." Jason reported.

"With what I know about her it is going to take awhile to give you all the information that I have." Luke told him seriously.

"I've got time Luke. I don't care how long it takes, I'm not giving her the chance to hurt Sam or our kids again." Jason said firmly.

"Kids?" Luke asked giving Jason a questioning look.

Jason sighed at his slip of the tongue. It didn't matter it was going to come out soon anyway. "Jake is Sam's son too not Elizabeth's. She somehow got hooked up with Helena and that is how Jake came to be." He explained.

Luke's normally stoic face showed the shock that he felt upon hearing that. "I never took Liz for the type to cast her lot in with the likes of Helena." He mused.

"What do you know about the places she likes to go?" Jason asked. He needed a lead on where she might be.

Luke gave him a charming smile. "I know just the place and if the price is right I might be able to do a little work for you," he suggested.

"What kind of work?" Jason asked confused.

"I could be persuaded to take a little trip to see just what the old bag has been up to." Luke explained to him.

"You can do that?" Jason asked just to be sure. But he knew if there was anyone who could find Helena it would be Luke.

"Of course I can do it. If anyone has any hopes of finding that old viper without her catching on it's me." Luke said like it was no big deal. In fact for him it wasn't he lived to do this kind of thing.

"How soon can you leave?" Jason asked he needed someone out there tracking her movements on the ground in case there was something that Spinelli missed.

"Is now soon enough for you?" Luke asked him with a big grin.

Jason looked really thoughtful for a moment. "How much is this going to cost me?" not that money was an object he would gladly drain his bank accounts if it meant that he was keeping Sam and their kids safe.

"Considering that Natasha and Sonny are both my best friends I will do it for free. Besides that I'm sure that I will find a way to recoup my losses along the way." Luke Spencer always landed on his feet and came up smelling like a rose no matter what the situation.

"Luke, just be sure to keep in touch. I know how fond you are of disappearing off the face of the earth for weeks at a time." Jason told him. He was no good to him if he didn't have a way to get Intel from him.

"I'll try to check in a couple of times a week if it takes me that long to find her. But I promise you that I'm not just going to drop off the grid without a trace. I am quite fond of Sam and if you ask me Helena has caused her more than enough pain for one lifetime." Luke assured him.

"I'll be looking forward to hearing from you Luke." Jason said shaking hands with the man. It was a scary thought but he was putting his children's safety into his hands.


"I would like for someone to tell me how the fuck I got stuck moving Sam's stuff into the penthouse." Johnny bitched.

"The same way I did. Mom called and said that we better get Sam's clothes and stuff moved over to the penthouse before the end of the day. That's how we got stuck doing this." Michael answered the man he thought of as another big brother.

"I love it how Princess Claudia is just sitting there on the couch doing nothing. We had no reason at all to bring her with us." Johnny said glaring daggers in his sister's direction.

"I heard that Johnny, I'm not deaf you fucking moron. Besides I had to come over here and make sure that you two didn't go pawing through Sam's private stuff." Claudia pointed out to her younger brother.

"I'm telling you there is no living with mob princesses. Thank God none of my other sisters act like this." Michael said rolling his eyes.

"Your other sisters are all Cassadines they are actually princesses." Johnny reminded him.

"I really don't understand why mom just have someone from the Metro Court come and move this stuff." Claudia said she was filing her fingernails while the other two did all the real work.

"I will be so glad when Ethan gets back with the rest of those boxes that we needed. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to stand her without killing her." Johnny seethed. His sister knew how to set off his temper like no other person on the face of the planet.

"You can't kill her dad wouldn't be happy if you did. We all know that you can't afford to piss dad off anymore right now. Not only did you break the don't breathe on Claudia's car rule you also aren't doing that great in school." Michael cautioned him.

"I'm sure that he would admire me for my restraint in not killing her sooner. Claudia gets on his nerves too sometimes and he knows it." Johnny huffed crossing his arms over his chest.

"If you don't shut up I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to have Jason dump your body." Claudia retorted.

"That is so not happening Uncle Jason likes Johnny better than he likes you." Michael said with a smirk.

"Hey now, I leave you people alone for five minutes and there are hits being planned when I come back." Ethan said coming in with the extra boxes that he had left to get.

"Johnny started it." Claudia said stubbornly.

"Ethan, it would be better if you just didn't ask. Those two are both in rare form today." Michael said shaking his head.

"I don't want to know mate, then I don't have to get in the middle of it." Ethan said throwing his hands up in the air.


"DADDY!" Jake and Lila called out and ran to their father when he walked in the front door of the lake house.

Jason scooped each child up in one of his massive arms before kissing each of them on the head. "Were you guys good for mommy while I was gone?" he asked them setting them back down on their feet.

"Jason, they're yours and Sam's good is a relative term when referring to those two." Kristina pointed out to her sister's boyfriend.

"I'm serious keep it up with me today liver lips and I will put you out of my misery." Sam dared her oldest sister.

"Bring it on wart face." Kristina retorted.

"Your mommy and your Aunt Krissy are silly." Jason told his kids.

"Jason, they have been warned more times than I care to count about the name calling today." Jax said coming into the room.

"Jax, you haven't even been home that long." Sam said smiling sweetly at her stepfather.

"That's true but I know you girls and I'm sure that your mother has told you numerous times not to call each other names." Jax retorted.

"I have but that doesn't mean that they listen to me." Alexis agreed with her husband as she came in the room on his heels.

"Krissy, do you think that you could take Jake and Lila to your room or something? I need to talk to Sam and your mom." Jason asked her hopefully.

"Sure thing," Kristina agreed and then she offered a hand to her niece and her nephew. "Come on kids, let's go bug Molly and Spencer." She said leading them off.

"Did you do anything productive today?" Sam asked her boyfriend.

"Yes, I did as a matter of fact and you are going to find this shocking but Carly actually has a good idea every once in a while." Jason replied.

"There is no way that that crazy blonde ever has a good idea that is going to pan out." Kristina disagreed as she and her brother came into the living room.

"I know that that's hard to believe but Carly did actually have a good idea today." Jason informed them.

"How did she react when you told her about Jake?" Sam asked. She knew that her friend was very likely to go through the roof when she found out that she hadn't been the first to know.

"Honestly for Carly, she wasn't that bad. She just asked who else knew and that was it." Jason said with a shrug. It was hard to believe but Carly could act like an adult when she wanted to.

Sam just nodded her head. "So what did you do today?" she asked him again hoping to get an answer this time.

" I went to see Elizabeth today." Jason said carefully he didn't know how Sam was going to react to that.

"And what did Saint Liz have to say?" Sam asked sarcastically.

"She tried to deny it at first but then she broke down and confessed to everything she said that Helena came to her about a way to piss you off. She honestly thought that Jake was her son though. She thought that she had just been inseminated with my sperm but as you know Helena took it a step farther." Jason explained to her.

"I thought we were going to wait about talking to Elizabeth?" Sam asked him. She was kind of pissed that he had talked to her without first telling her about it.

"I wasn't going to but then I talked to Carly and she said that the sooner we got that out in the open with her the better. Like I said Carly does have a good idea every once in a while. If it makes you feel any better I'll leave how we proceed with Elizabeth up to you." Jason replied it was the best that he could do for her at the moment.

"If you ask my opinion we should just allow Sonny to dispose of her. She has already been compromised by my mother there is nothing stopping her from getting to her again." Stefan suggested. Very rarely did he agree with Sonny's way of handling things.

Sam shook her head. "No Uncle Stefan, I don't want my dad to take the risk of going to jail over her. I'll have to think about where we go from here. The only thing I'm sure of right now is that my little boy needs to know the truth so he isn't confused."

"Sam, if it's any consolation, Jake is only two so this shouldn't affect him too badly." Jax offered.

"I know and that is what I have been telling myself." Sam said biting her lip.

"Soapy, we talked about this earlier that little boy is just like you he will bounce back." Kristina put a comforting hand on her niece's shoulder.

"And we have also talked about you calling me Soapy. You know that I don't like it Tina." Sam replied rolling her eyes.

"And I'm sure when they get older Lila and Jake won't like the nicknames that I'm about to give them either." Kristina replied with a grin.

"Do I want to know how you plan on torturing my children?" Sam asked shaking her head.

"With Lila I haven't decided yet, but with Jake it's between Bam Bam and Crash." Kristina reported.

"Either one of those is good for Jake. That kid is an accident waiting to happen." Jason chuckled.

"He sure likes to do things that could get him hurt." Sam agreed.

"I can already see that I'm going to have to get Jax to put childproof locks on the backdoor. I can see Jake getting in that lake like it's not big deal." Alexis said. The thought of having another kid like Sam around scared the hell out of her.

"Samantha is his mother I don't know what more you expect." Stefan threw out there.

"Sam, are you about ready to go? We still have to get your stuff all moved into the penthouse?" Jason asked. He wasn't going to admit it but he was a little uncomfortable at the lake house.

"If you could go move my clothes and other stuff for me that would be great. The kids and I have to stay because tonight is family dinner night." Sam told him rolling her eyes.

"Jason, I would really like it if you would stay too. You are family after all." Alexis said she couldn't believe the words came out of her mouth.

"If Sam wants me to stay I'll stay." Jason said. He knew that the truce that he and Alexis had called was going to take some getting used to.


A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I figured that I had to throw a little Johnny and Claudia in this time since it's been awhile since we've heard from them. Luke is on the case now and that is a somewhat scary thought but if anyone can track Helena it will be him. If there is anything that you guys want to see in here or any characters that you want to come into play feel free to drop me a line. Until next time please review.