Chapter 12
Jason heard the question, then ordered Ethan who was driving to head to the park. Finding nothing on the steps, Dante remembered what had happened to Elizabeth and quickly led the way to the park bench, nothing there either.
Jason thought about it then said "If Georgie is still alive, she… kidnapped, and this is about the kidnapping."
Rushing to the spot from where his youngest child had been grabbed, he came to a stop as he saw Maxie and Georgie. Johnny saw the blond he knew and another girl both seemed to be in some sort of cocoon about fifteen feet in the air.
"Mac, they need to know the answer to my question." Mocked Franco who said to Frisco, "What about you, who would you save, the daughter you left behind or the one you chose to ignore."
When the game show theme song was hummed again, Frisco gave up his answer, regretting it even as he heard Mac say Georgie. "Maxie."
"Well, well, we do have a conundrum here, each father wanting to save a different daughter. Mama Jones, what about you? Maxie or Georgie?"
"I can't chose." She said "I love them equally."
"Oh, how sweet, but it looks like we have to leave it up to someone else… hum, who gets to choose. I know, let's ask Mr. Spinelli. Will it be the blond who cheated on you and had sex with me or the sweet innocent sister who your pal Lulu loathes?"
Spinelli didn't even hesitate before saying Maxie. Jason saw the tree had low hanging branches and went to grab the saw from the car. "Now, what do we do?"
Ethan looked at the tree then Dante and Johnny before climbing, saying "You two are going to have to catch her."
Watching the Aussie, Johnny asked "Are we sure this is the right sister?"
"If I am right, I think I know who kidnapped her." He said grimly. When he cut the rope keeping up Georgie's cocoon, she fell then Maxie's branch released the blond. As the two men freed the blonds, Ethan picked up Georgie who Jason had cut loose and carried her to the car while Dante did the same with her sister who looked more scared than anything else.
Returning to the Hardy house, they gave Steven their latest hostage and he said "I called for help; Kelly Lee is upstairs along with my uncle and aunt."
"Don't bring in too many from GH." Warned Dante as he thought about what was going on with Nik.
Nodding, he watched as the quartet drove away and went back inside with Georgie while Maxie walked in under her own steam if a bit slowly. Sitting down, she felt a bit woozy then took the water bottle someone handed her.
Meanwhile Steven was on his blue tooth getting updates from GH. Robin was doing as well as could be expected, the blood transfusions had helped; now they were just waiting on news regarding her viral load.
Laura Spencer had a head injury and was refusing to believe that Lulu was her daughter and kept demanding to see her husband Scott or her mother who she was insisting was a head doctor at GH. She had even requested her stepfather, Rick Webber.
The patient that made Steven want to forget his Hippocratic Oath was Michael Corinthos, since the patient had arrived; he had been a pain in the rear in spite of being told he would live. Seeing his uncle he asked "Did you get an update?"
"Yeah, Morgan shot him when he wouldn't give him the code for the case. Said he just wanted to torture his uncle a little. Funny thing is, I don't believe the little shit but that could be because of my own bias regarding his worthless mother."
"Hey, watch it, that little boy in Cam's room, he is his brother and Carly is his mother." Stated Simone as she left Elizabeth's old room and closed the door. "The patient is suffering from malnutrition and I doubt she used her limbs a lot, they are extremely weak. She has marks where she has been restrained and will be going through withdrawal from whatever they had her on."
"Otherwise, she is okay. I was able to talk to her for a few minutes, she wasn't raped, just held and you are not going to believe who had her." She said in disgust.
"Nik?" asked Steven then saw her surprise at his guessing right. "I am starting to put the picture together and it isn't pretty."
Mac felt sick, he couldn't believe he had said what he had but his first instinct had been to say Georgie. As a father, he couldn't believe he had chosen one of his children over the other yet as a man who had heard what Maxie had been doing, he couldn't help it.
His daughter had spent years living under the shadow of her heart transplant but instead of it making her a better person, it had driven her to feel a very large sense of entitlement against anyone who thwarted her.
As he looked at the ground, he gave up trying to get help. With the sick feeling of guilt eating away at his stomach, he missed seeing Monica's, Tracy's, Epiphany's and even Luke's expression of understanding.
When he heard they were safe all he could think was first how he was going to face Georgie after letting her down. She had been kidnapped over two years ago, and it had taken a psycho and four men under the threat of death to save her.
Then there was Maxie, she had to have heard his answer or she soon would and this would do a number on her already scarred and bitter psyche. Frisco leaned over and said "You did what you had to; she isn't going to blame you."
"You don't know your daughter." Was all he said before the words on the screen started to come in clearer now that the fog in his head was starting to dissipate.
Frisco flinched because that was the truth, he would hope that Maxie would understand but he had read her file, he knew what she had been up to for the last few years and he wasn't at all thrilled with the way his daughter was behaving.
Franco saw the red headed lawyer nudge the dark haired woman and turned around to see their interest was in Sam whose hair now seemed to be falling in strips around her head. "Well, well, Sammy, interesting look you have going on."
Sam had been keeping her eyes closed to hide her anger and resentment at what was going down. First, Franco had known things about Jason and Elizabeth she had never even heard of, and then there was the way Jason had stood up to the man and put someone other than Sonny or Carly first.
When her boyfriend had shot Michael to save Jake, she had taken it as a good sign that it meant he was doing what he had to. But she saw the looks of glee in people's eyes in spite of their fear and she was worried that in the end, she was going to win but lose.
As she looked at her hair, Sam wiped away the tears but thought about it, she knew that if she could blame it on Franco, Jason would feel guilty and that would give her more time, more of a chance to fix what had happened between them.
She had been feeling down, but then she had see Nik and knew that Jason after what had happened with Emily, would never be able to stomach being around Elizabeth' newest child. So all she had to do was convince him that his son, that Jake shouldn't be around Nik either. She would soon be playing Mommy to his son.
Arriving at Elizabeth's studio, Jason winced when he saw Sonny tied up but what really scared him was who was also there. Carly…Dante looked at the twosome then at Jason and said "What is going on?"
"I don't know." He said then repeated the question out loud.
"Since these are the two who you have put above the woman you love for so long, I thought we would have two going on at the same time. First we deal with here, then the two in the studio, Mr. Morgan. Do I let you save Mr. Spinelli or Ms. McCall?"
"Spinelli." He said before he had even finished saying Sam's name. The woman in the glass box was stunned but figured he knew he would need the younger man to free her.
"Interesting choice, so okay Spinelli is safe." Sam felt the gas coming up into her box then realized it was just something non lethal as she fell asleep. Alexis felt sick, she got the feeling that whatever that was; it wasn't as innocuous as it looked.
Spinelli saw the look on Franco's face just before his wheel was spun at such a force Spinelli was tossed out from it and he soon landed on the stage. "Mr. Spinelli, you may join the rest of the guests."
Before he could even right himself, he was tied up and placed next to Mac Scorpio with a file tossed in the commissioner's lap. "All his misdeeds, I let Mr. Morgan save his life but he can live it out in prison like the rest of the criminals."
Sonny and Carly were sure that Jason would chose Carly after all they had been through but were shocked when he looked at them and turned to leave ignoring their cries of help.
Franco was laughing as the time on their clocks ticked down. He saw that Sonny had thrown up but the piece de resistance was Carly Jacks peeing herself when the clock was at one second.
The two were soon electrocuted with just enough juice to shock them into unconsciousness but leaving them alive. Dante stood outside, he regretted what had been done, but he got why Morgan had done it. That had been the test; Elizabeth or the two Morgan had turned his life over to.
"Mr. Morgan, why don't you take a long road to nowhere and find two very lovely pieces of art. One a beautiful woman, the other a marble statue of a little girl, oh and you only have fifteen minutes."
As Morgan drove, he was cursing as he realized that if he had had his bike he would have made it but the large SUV wasn't as agile or as responsive to the touch.
Hitting the breaks as he pulled up, he was soon over the fence with the others but stopped as he saw the topiary maze in front of him. "Spread out and yell if you find them."
The four men were soon in the maze, Johnny going right, Dante taking the left trail leaving Ethan to go with Jason straight towards the center as they rushed back and forth, calling out Elizabeth's name, as night started to fall.
Finally arriving at the center first, Johnny went to free the beautiful young mother when he realized whatever was going on, they needed Morgan for. Calling out, he soon was joined by Ethan then Dante when Jason showed up carrying something.
"What is that?" snapped the cop only for Jason to say "I had a feeling I might need this."
When they reached the center of the maze, all they could see was the building and Jason cursed when he realized it was a crypt with four doors each with a grilled window. The four of them were trying to get into it, all trying a different lock on a different side of the building when Jason realized what he was smelling in the air.
Cursing, he shouted. "Gasoline."
Johnny had been planning on shooting the lock but quickly put away his gun while Ethan looked at Morgan from around the corner and said "In the past, how did you get in?"
"I picked the lock." He growled then realized that he could hear something over the open mic and felt his heart stop when he got what Franco was shouting.
"Jacks, you bastard, I told you, not to harm her." He said as he walked over to the man tied to the wheel.
The blond in the audience felt sick when he heard his brother drawl "I didn't. I just set it up for you to do it. Morgan was too good; I knew he would get to her. And this time, I wasn't going to fail. I wasted all that time, taking out Sam, going after Sonny and I missed the best way to get to the man with no weaknesses."
Bobbie and Alexis both felt sick as they realized what he had done while Audrey stood in spite of the man with the gun and said as clear and calmly as she could. "If you don't get my granddaughter out of this, I swear to god, Morgan is the least of your worries."
"Audrey, sit down." Hissed Edward while Tracy fretted as she realized that if Jason didn't get her free there was a good chance they all would die.
Meanwhile, Dante was thinking about all he had read in the files and said "Morgan, I have an idea."
"Then do it." He snapped as he beat on the door shouting for Elizabeth and letting her know they would get her out unaware that she was watching the whole thing from inside. Thinking on what had been said by Jerry Jacks; she wiggled to free her hands and just prayed.
Dante had returned from the car and prayed before setting the building on fire as Jason screamed at him to stop. Sure enough, the window with the grill blew out and he dived in cutting his arm deeply but reaching the Webber woman.
"Elizabeth, you need to trust me." He said looking her in the eyes, then freeing her he held her head below the flames and then when they reached the window, Dante eased her out then followed himself.
Jason tried to pick her up, but Elizabeth shrugged off his hands and let Johnny help her walk out on her own just as the crypt blew. Watching the flames, Elizabeth said under her breath. "I have come full circle."
Jason flinched and just walked beside her as they drove her to her grandmothers. Elizabeth wouldn't say a word other than to say she needed to see her boys. Arriving, she thanked them then looked at Jason when he awkwardly said. "Kelly Lee is inside."
With a sad and bitter laugh, she replied. "okay." Then walked to the door without a backwards glance as far as Jason knew, but the moment she was inside she looked out but they were already gone.
Steven saw her entering and went to hug his sister just as Jake and Cam saw their mommy from where they were watching cartoons with Morgan. After the quick family reunion, Steven lead her upstairs to her grams room mentioning that Georgie was asleep in her bed.
Nodding silently, she saw her Aunt Simone and Kelly waiting for her. Steven hugged her and said "I hope that you are okay, no matter what."
Reaching out, she held onto his hand then said "I'm not pregnant."
"I know." He said sadly. "Or rather I suspected. When you are done getting checked out, we will have plenty of time to talk."
"Good, and I saw Maxie downstairs, don't let her leave until I have had a word with her." Stated Elizabeth as she went to let herself get checked out.
Meanwhile Sonny and Carly were toted off to GH and checked out. Sonny was furious when Matt Hunter told him that his son was going to need some time to rehabilitate his ankle but other than that he had walked away unscathed from his ordeal.
Carly was sitting in the waiting room, her body numb but her mind racing as she tried to figure this out. Why had Franco done this? Why had Jason just left them and most importantly what was the best way to get through to Jason what an ass he was making of himself.
He needed to let Sam die as far as she was concerned and then to share custody of Jake with Elizabeth, as for this nonsense about Cameron, that was obviously a set up to scare Jason even more.
Nothing else would explain it. She knew that Jason wouldn't cheat on Courtney; she also knew that Elizabeth ran a test for Cam. There had to be another explanation, like that Lucky had altered the results for some reason. Yes, that was it, Lucky had done this.
As they arrived at the gallery minus Jason, Ethan said "I am not so sure what he is doing is the right thing."
Shaking his head, Dante replied. "If I don't have a problem with it, neither should either of you."
Inside, Mac felt his hands suddenly move as the rope loosened then saw Frisco was looking at the wall. Not seeing anything, he quickly looked around and finally saw what had gotten the man's attention as Morgan was now behind Franco.
Knocking the iPod out of his hand, he told the guards to put down their weapons or he would kill the artist. "Go ahead, kill me." The dark haired man said defiantly. "Either way, I win."
Mac and Frisco disarmed the guards behind them as Max and Roy did the same to theirs while Johnny, Ethan and Dante all entered with weapons drawn. Ethan cutting his father's hands free without even looking down.
Just when it looked like it would be a standoff, Luke cut Jax free and got a gun away from the guard while Jax did the same. Freeing Felicia, Frisco handed her his knife and ordered her to free the remaining 'guests; and to get them the heck out of there.
"No one move." Said the state police as they rushed into the room. Soon the men in black along with Franco were in custody. As they cut Jerry Jacks free, he grabbed the trooper and held him in front of him before heading towards the back door.
Jason just glared at the man, and then called Milo who was waiting. "You know what to do if he gets close to my family."
"Yes, sir." He replied while sighting his weapon on the building. When the slippery snake came out, he kept a close eye on him then waited for the shot. The high powered rifle didn't make a sound as he shot the man once in the forehead and once in the heart as he fell to the ground.
Packing his weapon away, Milo went to GH where Jason wanted him to keep a close eye on Sonny until his replacement arrived. He knew there would be fallout from shooting Michael and he wanted someone he trusted to have his back and there was few guards Milo would let relieve him.
Inside the building it was bedlam as the state police had to restrain Mac Scorpio from strangling Nicolas Cassadine while an ambulance took Sam to the hospital with Spinelli riding shot gun.
Jason cursed; he had wanted a word with the geek. As he went to check on those he cared about, he got a cool greeting from most of them. He knew that things weren't good when the person who was happiest to see him was Tracy.
Edward just shrugged off his helping hand as the elderly man tried to stand and Monica soon had him in an ambulance along with Epiphany who looked at Jason and said "Give it time, when they know the truth, try talking to them again."
Walking away, he saw Luke listening to one of the men in suits and as he moved closer he got an earful as the man explained that Lucky was in the Attica hospital being treated for gunshot wound to both his knees.
Diane, Kate and Olivia were talking to Dante while Mike was being freed by Johnny. The gambler approached Jason and shouted at him. "How could you shoot Michael, how you could do that to that boy?"
Just looking at him with a blank expression, Jason said "I did what had to be done."
As he walked away, he saw family members hugging and others were rushing to check on loved ones and he went over to where Nicolas was being arrested and whispered. "I am not finished with you."
"Fuck off, Morgan." He snapped as the officer led him off the stage. Stopping at the wall, Jason saw the various people leaving and reached into his pocket and pulled out the ring. With a sad grimace, he was heading out the back door when he saw something on the wall that looked familiar.
Approaching it, he closed his eyes in pain when he pieced together the collage that Franco had made. Photos of Elizabeth, photos of them together. There were pieces of a drawing all around one dark painting in the center. Jason realized it was "The Wind" and that it had been destroyed. Reaching out, he touched the circle he knew to be the Ferris wheel, the wiping his tears away, went to check on his family.
At the Hardy house, as soon as Elizabeth had been okayed to move around by Kelly, she went looking for a short blond trouble maker. Glad to see the boys were downstairs she saw Maxie in the hallway.
"We need to talk." She said grabbing the girl's arm and dragging her into the darkness of the back yard. "I want some straight answers, little girl or so help me…"
With a bitter laugh, Maxie said "I don't give a crap what you want. Leave me alone."
Reaching out, Elizabeth pressed her back against the tree that Lucky had climbed all those years ago and said "No that is what you should have done to me. I never did anything to you, I had reason to, but I didn't and yet you hurt me, you hurt my children, for what?"
"Look, I don't hate you anymore." Said Maxie.
"What? So I am supposed to suddenly forget all the crap you have done? I am supposed to do what? Forgive you. I don't give a crap whether you are telling the truth or not. You have come after me for the last time, Maxie. I heard what happened, I heard Mac chose Georgie, and do you know why he did that? He did that because he like the rest of us can't help wondering what gives you a right to be a bitch."
"You should talk." She snapped. "What about what you did to Lucky?"
"Which time? The time he stood me up and I ended up in the park raped? The time I saved his family from Helena Cassadine by drinking poison. The time I walked away from the man I loved to help him after he was brainwashed? There are so many times I did thing to Lucky, at least in his mind."
"If you are talking about Nik or Jason, I don't owe you anything but let me give you a bit of advice. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and frankly Maxie your house is already full of cracks from the inside. Now stick to Georgie's room and stay the hell away from my boys and me."
Walking back inside, Elizabeth let the door slam behind her and shook her head as she tried to calm down. "Are you okay?"
Seeing Annie and her grandmother, she hugged them while the tears ran down her face. "Yes, I am getting there."
As the hostages arrived at GH, Sonny was ready to pounce on Jason, instead he was told to get the hell out of there by Tracy while Jax went to check on his wife. Seeing Carly sitting alone, he said "Are you okay?"
"No. I mean, I think I am more than know it." She said with a heavy sigh. "Jason isn't coming is he?"
"My guess is that he went wherever Elizabeth and her sons are." He said truthfully. "Then he will go after Jerry."
"Jerry's dead." Stated Harper as he walked into the room. "It happened while you were all being freed. I came to find out what all of you knew about it."
"Nothing." Said Jax, "Have you talked to Nicolas Cassadine, it seems he knows more than he is telling."
Not wanting to tell them, but seeing his boss approaching he let Mac know, "Cassadine escaped."
"How?" he snapped as Frisco didn't even stick around for the answer. He had a damn good idea where the Greek Prince was going and he had no intention of letting him escape.
Harper said "Cruz is gone as well."
Luke was on Spoon Island when Nik arrived via the hidden passage and he stared at the man in front of him and said "Why?"
Nik brushed past him and said "Which question or rather answer are you looking for."
"All of them, why kill Emily? For starters, I thought you loved her." He said looking at the man who in that moment resembled his father.
"The ball, I had been doing business with some men, she overheard me talking about it, I convinced her that I was planning a surprise for her. I wouldn't have had to kill her but she saw me meeting with Trevor Lansing."
"So after all she did for you, you killed her?"
"I had been having blackouts, those were real, I honestly didn't remember killing her until after my surgery." He said then looking at Luke. "What next?"
"Elizabeth, why do that to Elizabeth?"
"I have always found her attractive and after the stuff with Emily's look alike, I realized that she was perfect for me. Lucky didn't deserve her and he had set me up the perfect alibi."
Seeing Luke's expression, Nik said "We all tend to forget how good my little brother was with a computer. He got the idea from what happened with Lulu, then after Elizabeth's aborted trip to Italy with Morgan, I guess he decided he wanted her back or rather didn't want Morgan to have her."
"He changed Morgan's drugs, I saw someone had used my pass code just before the fire and pieced together what he was doing. He then did his usual half ass job of it and I guess it was taking too long for him, since he started drugging Elizabeth. It wasn't that hard to take advantage of it."
"Elizabeth WAS your FRIEND!" he yelled, "Do you realize what you did to your so called friend. She is going to have a reminder of this for the rest of her life."
"No, actually she won't. I am sure she has figured out by now, there is no baby." He said while gathering the rest of what he needed. He had already sent Spencer to Greece, this was his final stop.
"Nicolas, what happened to being better than your family, being a Cassadine people would respect, be proud of?" asked Luke.
"When Helena stole all my money, back when we found the treasure, it wasn't enough. I had to make deals, deals that pulled me in. I have to go, but do me one favor, please tell Elizabeth… tell her that I am sorry for what happened to Jake, I didn't order that, my cousin was responsible for that part. I was trying to save her, you know, I wanted to give her a better life than Lucky would, than that bastard Morgan would."
"What about the Jones girl?" he asked.
"She was supposed to be freed, but her memory wouldn't erase. I was going to send her away, give her a better life after making her forget seeing me with blood on my hands." He stated. "I took care of her; she is going to be fine. It's the least I can do."
Alfred came to the doorway and shot Luke, disabling the man so his master could get away. "It was an honor to serve you, your highness."
"Alfred." Said Nik as he quickly left the Island.
When the police arrived, they saw Luke shot in the back and hauled the man to GH where Patrick reluctantly left Robin to remove the bullet. Telling Bobbie he would be fine, he listened as Lulu cried while Laura once again denied knowing her.
"What a mess." He said before going back to his wife who was fast asleep.
"Patrick, I am so sorry." Said Lisa as she wiped tears. "For you to have to go through all of that…"
"I am fine, Lisa." He snapped. "If you will excuse me, my WIFE needs me."
Lisa growled then felt herself spun around to face a woman with long dark hair and then heard the woman say "If you don't leave my daughter and son-in-law alone, you are not going to like where you end up."
"Who are you?"
"Anna Devane, Robin's mother and someone you don't want to mess with." She snapped before turning to Sonny who was walking down the hallway. "Do me a favor; let the good doctor here know what I am capable of."
Sonny just looked at the blond and said "Give it up, Patrick loves her. Things have been rocky for the last few months, but you don't stand a chance and yes, Anna can make you disappear."
Rolling her eyes, she pissed off the mobster who was already having a bad night. Moving closer he hissed. "Don't you dare disrespect me. As fast as Anna could make you go away, I could do it in a way that you would never come back from."
A bit frightened, she called Claire only for her friend to say "I am a bit busy right now and I told you to let this go, find another man."
Jason was outside; hidden by the tree as he watched the Hardy house fill up then start to empty out as Morgan was loaded into an ambulance along with Maxie Jones who was protesting she wanted to go with Georgie.
When Kelly Lee hugged Elizabeth and told her to check in with her tomorrow, Jason hid back further then watched as Steven went into the back of the vehicle with the younger Jones girl.
The house started to settle down, he saw the boys hug their mother then go up to bed with the tall woman he didn't know but that they were calling Aunt Annie.
Feeling more than hearing footsteps, he saw Max, Milo and the rest of the men who had helped tonight. Looking at Dante he said "I would have thought you would be rather busy this evening."
"Mac said to let the Staties handle it." He replied. "Franco took a poison pill on the way to the station saying he would die famous."
Roy looked at Jason and said "Now that she is safe, I am going home."
"Thank you." He said quietly. "For everything you did."
"What happens now, is up to you." He said before shaking hands all around then leaving. Ethan awkwardly said "I gather I should go check on Lulu and my father, make sure he isn't doing anything stupid."
"Ethan, thank you. For your help and for… well being a safe person to the boys." Said Jason as he looked at the upper window with the light on. "I am glad there was someone they trusted during this."
Max and Milo let him know that they had Cody on Sonny and that Jerry was no longer a problem before leaving. "Milo, I thought I told you to watch Sonny?"
"I sort of quit for both of us, a few days ago." Said Max. "We are going to clean up some things then head home."
"Good luck." Said Jason then looked at Johnny and said "What about you?"
"I am sticking around, I get the feeling that the vicious hoard is going to be showing up here tomorrow and I love to find ways to stick it to Sonny. What about you? Are you going to talk to her or stay out here?"
Elizabeth had come around the side of the building, she had seen Jason and had wanted to talk to him but what she heard caused pain that she hadn't been expecting.
Looking up at the window, Jason said softly. "No, I will arrange for her and the boys to be protected, but she is pregnant and right now… my being here isn't going to do either of us any good. Her family seems to have gotten it together, they will be there for her. She is a good mom, and I won't do this again. I can't try with her, not and act as father to that child…"
Shaking his head in disbelief, Johnny said "What kind of man are you?"
Looking at the younger man, Jason said "A man who had done too much, who has lost too much to wait around and be the loser yet again." Walking away, he never saw the woman who dominated his dreams as she fell apart.
It was almost dawn when Johnny went around the building having heard something fall. Seeing Elizabeth sitting against the wall, he lifted her and carried her inside.
Annie was coming down and growled. "What happened? She was going to talk to Morgan? What did he do?"
"He walked away before she even got there." He said quietly as he asked "Which room, she is getting heavy in spite of how light she seemed at first."
Leading the way, Annie watched as he laid her down then once he left said "You can stop faking now."
Sitting up, ashamed Elizabeth said "I just couldn't face him after what I heard."
"Do you want Gail?" she asked gently.
"No, I just… I finally got it, Aunt Annie. I finally understand." She said sadly. "Jason was talking to him and a few others. I heard what he said clear as day."
Getting up, she went to her closet and got out some clothes needing a shower. "You know, Jason raised Michael, who wasn't his, was going to do the same for Sam's baby… yet he couldn't for his own and now…" with a bitter laugh she said "He was asked outright what he was going to do, get this… he left for my own good. According to him, I am a good mom, so…"
Elizabeth fell down crying as she got that Jason would never be there for her, that she wasn't someone who he wanted to be with. Yes, he had rescued her but that was more than likely because of Jake.
Annie got Simone and they sat down beside the tormented nurse and held her while she cried. An hour later, Elizabeth was showered and dressed along with her boys as they went to GH to take some samples to send out for some tests elsewhere.
At GH, Jason saw Michael was asleep and shook him roughly. "Don't even think of following in Sonny's footsteps and after last night and what you did, don't look for me, because as far as I am concerned you have turned out just like AJ."
Leaving, Jason saw Sonny and Carly bearing down on him and said "Carly, I am not in the mood and frankly if I were the two of you I would stay away right now. And Sonny, I turned over my stock in the company to John Zachara."
"How dare you? You have no right and then to shoot Michael, this is all that bitch…" Sonny was on his ass before he realized it. Spitting out his front teeth, he went to make another comment but Claire walked up and said "Sonny Corinthos you are under arrest for jury tampering and threatening a federal judge."
Carly watched as Sonny was forced to stand then saw Jason walking toward Spinelli. When he slugged the boy, she cheered thinking maybe just maybe things would get back to normal but instead was disappointed as she heard what the nerd was shouting.
"But I did it for you, I wanted you to be happy and Sam, the goddess makes you happy. You know she is the best woman in the…"
Mac watched from Georgie's door then went back into the room while hoping the prison dentist was off that day as once again a former friend of Morgan's lost teeth. He knew that Harper was planning on arresting the geek as soon as the judge signed the warrant.
He looked at Maxie who wasn't speaking to him as she sat next to Georgie and went to find Felicia who was talking to Bobbie and Lulu. "How is Laura doing?"
"Her memories are starting to come back." Said Bobbie then asked if he had heard about Luke.
"That he is recovering from being shot."
"Lulu, a minute of your time." Said Harper who told her. "You are required to begin your community service today."
"I can't, my mother…" she snapped only for Harper to tell her that "The judge knows, he thinks you can spare a couple of hours this afternoon. If you don't show up, you will be arrested."
Jason in the mean time was in Sam's room staring at the woman. "Jason, you came."
His lips twitching from an urge to laugh, he said "I had to."
"I knew it, you wouldn't abandon me, not when I need you so much." She said beaming.
"Sam, we need to talk, there are a few things I need to tell you." He stated then said "I know you are aware of the notes that Spinelli sent me, what you weren't aware of was that I was taking a migraine medication. Someone with computer experience messed with it; instead I was drugged with the same drug given to Elizabeth."
"Elizabeth?" she parroted then thought about the trial and felt herself swell as she got ready to rant.
"Yes we were given the drugs. I am sorry for any promises I made you will under the influence, I did some stuff that under normal circumstances I wouldn't have. Getting back with you was one of them."
"But you told me you loved me that I would make a good mother… I was hoping we could raise Jake, together, be a real family." She said tears flowing down her face.
Jason looked at her and said "Sam, I am sorry, but I didn't mean it, at least not like you took it. I was hurting and you were there, that was all there was to it."
"How can you do this to me?" she asked hoarsely. "After all I have been through…"
Looking at her, he said "And what about what you did, what you did to my son, to Elizabeth, the woman I …"
"Don't you dare say that?" She hissed, "Don't you dare tell me you love her, after all she ran and I stayed. I am the one who fits your life; I am the one who will kill for you."
Jason looked at her and realized the soft approach wasn't going to work and made plans for her to be taken out, one last deed he could do for his family before he left.
"Sam, my job isn't my life… you want my job so bad, so see Johnny maybe he will hire you to do it. But I am done, I am leaving here and after I walk out that door, if I see you, I will kill you." He had no intention of letting her live but knew enough not to give her warning as to what was about to come, at least he knew that Milo would do a good job with it. This was one body that would never be found.
Elizabeth and the boys were surrounded by men with guns as they were escorted into GH. Seeing Max standing to the side she snapped "Is this really necessary after what we have been though?"
"For now, Nik escaped." He said and Elizabeth realized that the danger was still out there.
Max hated to use Elizabeth as cover, but Milo and he had a job to do before leaving town.
Checking in on Robin, she was glad to see her friend holding her daughter as they played patty cake with Patrick looking less than amused at the giggling looks coming his way from his wife.
Leaving, they saw Mac talking to the Spencers and wanting to avoid a scene Elizabeth asked Epiphany at the hub for Sam's room, there was another person she wanted to have words with.
Milo was following her while Steven, Audrey and the boys were heading to his office. Annie was following Elizabeth well aware of the landmines that still surrounded her niece.
As she was heading to the room, Elizabeth saw Spinelli and decided to let him have it while she was in a confrontational mood but the door behind him opened just as Harper called out to the geek.
Seeing Jason leaving Sam's room, she froze then looked at him and said "Well I guess that answers that question."
"Elizabeth, please we need to talk…" While Spinelli was gleefully once again putting two and two together and getting eight.
"About what, exactly?" she asked.
"Jake and how it is a possibility I am Cam's father."
"Sure, but I want to have a word with Sam, first."
"No, this has to happen now." He said quietly.
Looking at the woman with the rash and splotches of hair, she said "I will be with you in a minute."
Jason went down the hall then asked if she would be willing to let them get a DNA test for Cam.
"We are doing one as we speak." She said then saw him look at his phone then tell someone to take care of it before looking at her and asking where.
Leading him to Steven's office, she waited until they had taken samples from them both then went to find Jason who had left earlier. Epiphany was at the hub and said "Elizabeth, Jason left you a note."
"I will be back for it in a moment." Walking to Sam's room, she saw the empty bed and knew… going back to the hub, she asked for the note with a dead voice then after reading it crumpled it.
Tossing it in the trash, she walked to the new chapel and slipped past the police tape and sat down and cried as she recalled the simply worded message that had started and ended with goodbye.
TBC