"Sam, really - you're going to take this man's word just like that?" Sonny couldn't believe they were buying into this.
Sam looked into her husband's eyes as she answered Sonny. "I know Jason, Sonny. I know this is Jason!"
Monica approached them then. She couldn't stay away any longer, she had to get a closer look for herself. "Jason, is it really you?" The tears wouldn't stop falling as she looked deep into his eyes in search of answers. Jason nodded his head and although it felt strange he did not move away when she reached out and touched his face. "It really is you, isn't it? It's really you!" Then she was hugging him, holding him tightly as she cried and rocked her grown son in her arms in wonderment. "Jason!"
The entire room followed suit as Carly, Michael, Morgan, Dillon and Spinelli came over talking all at once, slapping Jason's back and shaking his hand, welcoming home. Carly threw herself into his arms and cried, "How did I not see it? How did I not know?" She hugged him again as she sobbed, "Jason, I've missed you so much!"
But Sonny held steadfast to his denial. He would not allow this man to walk in and bamboozle his family and the family his brother loved so much. He'd be damned if he'd let him get away with it.
Jason held his hands up as though in surrender to the overwhelming force of all the questions and the emotions swirling around the room. "Look, everyone, I know this is a shock, believe me - no one is more shocked than I am at this, and I don't have my memories back…" He looked over at Sam, "aside from the few memories I've had of Sam, I still don't remember my life, but I know I'm Jason Morgan. That said, I think I should make absolutely sure, for Sam and Danny, as much as for myself…and for all of you too." He looked at a skeptical Sonny and Tracy as he said, "I think the one sure way to know is for me to get tested for a match to Jason Morgan."
Sonny, who was pacing near the desk with his hands akimbo and his head down, turned to look at the man, "Only sensible thing I've heard since I got here. Right now! You will go to GH right now and put an end to this insanity!"
Sam turned on Sonny, "Don't give orders in my home, Sonny, this is not Greystone! I don't need a test to know that he's Jason, but if he wants to do this then I'll support him."
"It's okay, Sam. I think I need this as much as anyone else here. I want to know for sure that I'm not allowing what I want to play tricks on my mind and lead to hurting you. I need to do this for you and for Danny. I want to."
Later that afternoon Sam and Jason waited anxiously outside the lab as Sam's brother, Lucas waited inside for the results of the tests he'd ordered. Jason's DNA was on file at the hospital so all they needed to do was test a newly drawn sample from Jake Doe against Jason's records and they would have their answers.
In her heart Sam didn't need the test - she knew she was sitting next to her husband, knew that she was holding the hand of her thought lost love, but she would give him the satisfaction of knowing for sure. She had insisted that they did it alone, without the disapproval or hovering hopes of everyone else with a vested interest in the outcome.
Lucas came out through the door and his wide smile gave them the answer before his words were even uttered. "Jake Doe and Jason Morgan are one and the same! Jason, welcome home, man!" The men started to shake hands when there was a crash behind them and they all turned to see a shocked Elizabeth Webber standing over a pile of clipboards and files that had fallen out of her hands to litter the floor at her feet. She had obviously heard Lucas' comment and seen the pure elation on the couple's faces.
All three turned back away from her dismissively as Lucas patted Jason's back, kissed his sister's cheek and went back to his rounds. Jason swooped Sam into his arms and swung her around and around, then slid her down his body and claimed her lips in a torrid kiss to weaken her knees and wet her nether regions.
"J-Jason?" The Webber woman had found her voice and her feet had moved her over to the joyous couple who had managed to block her out for a glorious minute. "What did he mean you're Jason?"
"What my brother meant is that my husband came back to me! He meant that my son has his father back!" Sam's smile was as huge as her tears were plenty. It was true, Jake was Jason. He'd come home and been right there all along and nobody knew, yet, by some great miracle had found his way to her heart again.
"B-but this can't be true! You can't be Jason!" Elizabeth was beside herself. Not only had the woman swooped in and taken Jake like she owned him but Jason, whom she had also taken away from her in a previous life was back and into her clutches again? What the hell was the universe doing? How could it possibly be so unfair? Sam didn't deserve Jake and she sure as hell didn't deserve Jason!
Jason, who had been in the middle of drying his wife's tears kissed her lips softly, smiled at her sweetly, then turned to face the nurse. He registered the shock on her face as well as the hate in her eyes and he addressed her coldly, "You're not a very nice person, you know that?"
Elizabeth's head snapped back in shock. "What? How could you say that to me? Jason, we've been friends forever, you know me! And now that you know who you are you should also realize how much you love me! You always have! This proves what I've always known - that we belong together!"
He studied her face and wondered if she had any idea how crazy she sounded. He also wondered if the management of General Hospital had any idea what an insane nurse they had it's patients opened up to. He mimicked her statement with incredulity, "We belong together? When have we ever belonged together?" He hadn't released Sam's hand and even as he stepped towards the nurse he refused to let her go, needing to keep contact with her like he needed to keep breathing. "Elizabeth, I don't remember the last thing about you, haven't had a single good memory of you, and after how I've seen you behave since I've known you I really don't want to. If the old me chose to look past the ugliness of your character and the meanness in your heart for some reason, then shame on me, but I don't intend to repeat any part of that."
He hugged Sam to him as he continued looking at the woman. "I just found out who I am, and the last thing I want to do is stand here wasting time with you, time that I want to spend getting to know my wife all over again, getting to know my son all over again. So goodbye, Elizabeth." He turned away from her and started to lead Sam out when she called out his name.
"Jason, wait!" He rolled his eyes in exasperation and turned back at the urgent plea in her voice, "You can't just dismiss us like that Jason, not again. You don't remember now but when you do, you will regret turning your back on us. You love me! You only stayed with Sam to give her son a name and a home, you signed the divorce papers - I bet she didn't tell you that!"
***Flashback***
A stringlight decorated, moonlit rooftop dinner proposal - a beautiful vision in white with her hair swept up to reveal her elegant, kissable neck brandishing the necklace given to her for Valentine's Day to show his love - him with baited breath as he awaits her answer to his marriage proposal as she says yes in that long-winded way that was her and her alone…
Sam: Every morning that I wake up and you are next to me
Every time that you walk out of a door and you look back for just a second to notice me
All the million little ways that you let me know that I matter
That is what I want for the rest of my life
I don't care about a ceremony, or a ring, or a dress
I don't care about being Mrs. Jason Morgan or Sam McCall - Jason, I just want you!
Jason: You have me…everyday…for the rest of my life! But if it's okay with you, I-I'd still like us to get married!
***End Flashback***
Jason smiled as he held Sam's hand tighter, turning his back and holding it in both of his behind him as he faced the nurse so she could fully hear and understand him.
"No, Elizabeth. I love Sam Morgan in an all-consuming, can't ever get enough, will die without her love, best sex I've ever had kind of way that gives me life! She has me…everyday…for the rest of my life!"
The nurse's mouth dropped open and she was rendered completely speechless. In all the years that she'd known Jason he had never and would never speak to her like that, and he would never say something so crude and ungentlemanly. She turned beet red as his words played over in her head as she watched him turn away from her to lead Sam towards the elevator. The bruise on her heart turned to a gaping wound when she heard him say, "Lets go home to our son. I'm dying to make love to my wife again…all night long!" and she almost fainted.
This was not Jason, no way was this Jason. She watched him practically devour the trollop right there as they waited for the elevator, both appearing to be totally oblivious to anyone else around them, and her heart broke in a million pieces when the doors closed and he left without so much as a backward glance. She looked around at all the curious faces staring at her, the entire Waiting Area, hallway and Nurse's Station having had front row seats to the exchange and as she bent to pick up her discarded files she wished the floor would open and swallow her whole. Humiliation stained her face and neck a bright crimson and as embarrassed tears blinded her eyes and streaked her face, the rest of the world turned and continued on without another thought to her.
