Chapter 16
Early the next morning, Annie was taking the boys to daycare when they insisted on checking in on their mother. Looking at her watch and seeing they had time, the nurse let them into their mother's room only to regret it when she heard Cameron hiss and reach out for the back of Jason's jeans and yank.
Awoken already by the footsteps, Jason rolled then stood to look at the boys. The very angry expression on Cam's face and the scared one on Jake's. Looking back, he saw Elizabeth was still asleep and hoped she remained that way because she was not going to be happy with what he was about to do.
"Annie, can you keep Jake with you for a minute, I want a word with him when I come back." said Jason before picking up a protesting Cam and placing his hand loosely over his mouth said "Not a word, young man."
Walking down the hall, he had removed his hand and had to give the little boy credit as he walked by first Epiphany, then Patrick and finally Steven without asking them to help him. "My office is free." said the blond quietly.
Nodding thanks, Jason walked into the room labeled chief of staff and sat his son down on the desk while he sat in the chair. "Enough of this."
"Go away." snapped the little boy. "I know all about you, you make my mommy cry. First you were there then you weren't and afterwords all Mommy did was cry and cry and it is all your fault."
"And how do you know that?" asked Jason. "How do you know she isn't crying for another reason?"
"I heard daddy Lucky talking to Uncle Nik about it, how you used my mommy then went back to the lady who was mean to me when daddy Lucky wasn't around. How you just used my mommy and left her with nothing to show for it but tears. That you hurt her and he couldn't wait to fix her again." he said his arms crossed and glaring at Jason.
Jason swallowed his fury, Lucky was in jail and eventually was going to end up dead, Nik was already dead and Sam, well she was going to get hers soon enough. As for the damage he did, some day when Cameron was older he would explain what had happened but for now... "Lucky was wrong."
"NO he wasn't." snapped the little boy. "I saw you, I saw you with her and that mean blond girl and her mean friend and that mean boy who is always at Miss Bobbie's."
"Cam, what mean boy?" he asked.
"Don't know his name, but he is older and mean." snapped Cam. "He was gone for a while but he came back and was even meaner than before."
Sick to realize they were talking about Michael, he asked "What did he do?"
"He would push me, tell me to go home that no one wanted me, that my dad was a loser, that someday he could get away with..." at this point Cam burst into tears and refused to let Jason comfort him while he said "You were nice to the boy who said he would do mean things to Jake and me, that he could make us disappear. I told him he was wrong, that you would bring us back, like you always did and he said that no you wouldn't, that you were only nice to me because you wanted to sleep with my mommy."
Jason pulled a resisting Cam into his arms and said "He is lying to you. I do know Michael, he is your cousin. When his mom was sick, I took care of him so he thinks I should always do that, but Cam, I love you and Jake, more. Don't you ever forget that. No matter what else, you are my son."
"He said he was the only child in your life, that I was lying."
"Michael was given the wrong information by someone and he refuses to believe that it isn't true. If I told you the sky was green, would you believe me?"
"No." he said with a laugh, "It's blue and sometimes gray and maybe really white when cloudy."
They sat there for a few minutes, Jason astonished that his son was letting him hold him this close and then Cam asked "If you are our dad; where were you?"
Closing his eyes as he knew this was going to be the hard one, he said "There was a test and I believed that test to be true. It said someone else was your dad but a bad man, changed the test to hurt me and your Mom."
"Like Lucky did." he asked softly. "I heard Aunt Annie and Grandma Monica talking about it, how he hurt mommy and us. Why didn't you stop him? You are WAY bigger than him."
"I didn't know, Cam." he said beginning to hate that phrase. "I know you are confused right now, but know one thing, even before I knew you were my son, you held a very big piece of my heart."
Cam sat there looking at Jason and said "Mommy still cries a lot when you are around."
"Your Mommy and I have to work through a lot of things, but we love each other and we love you, can you just accept that for now?"
"Are you going to make her cry again?" he asked looking into Jason's eyes and for the first time the older man really saw himself in the calm certainty that his son was showing as he asked Jason that.
"Probably, but I have cried too, sometimes crying helps." he said then asked "Do you miss Lucky?"
His lower lip trembling, Cam said "No, he made mommy cry too, he said mean things to her."
"What kind of things?" he asked then wished he hadn't when Cam said "I can't tell you, Mommy said they were bad words and not to repeat them."
Cam then said "I talked to Dr. Gail about them, she said Mommy was right that it wasn't nice words but why did Mommy not stop him? She was going to marry him again."
Holding his son, he just said "Cam, things were a little fuzzy for your Mommy and I then, we were... do you ever have to take cough medicine?"
When Cam nodded, he asked "Do you remember how you feel all off and like everything is moving very fast around you?"
Seeing him nod again, "That was how your Mommy and I felt. We stayed with people we were told would help us, but the didn't because they had hurt us before but we were scared because of all the bad things we were imagining as a result of our medicine."
Sure he had flubbed it up, he saw Cam sitting there and didn't say a word as the little boy put his chin on his knees and seemed to be contemplating something. "Okay."
"Okay?" asked Jason.
"Just okay. I get it." he said then asked "Can you take me back, Jake is going to be worried, 'member I told you that the mean boy said you make people disappear, I don't want Jakey to think I disappeared."
Jason hugged Cam yet again, and while the little boy didn't hug him back, he didn't tense up like he usually did. Returning to the room, he was upset to see Jake looking at the door clearly worried about his brother. "Jake, I am going to walk you two down to daycare. ANNIE, when will Elizabeth be allowed to leave?"
"Robin was here while you were gone, tomorrow. She wants to keep her one more day to be safe. The cut was pretty deep."
"I have to do some running around but I will be back. Will you let her know?" he said then walked the two boys to the elevators. Down at the daycare, Jason was a bit off his game when the woman in charge told him that Elizabeth had put his name down as the boys dad and that he was allowed to pick them up.
Jake just ran off to play with his friend but Cam stood there watching him leave, a serious expression on his face.
When Jason arrived at the Jacks' residence he saw the family getting ready to leave and said "Can Mercedes take Morgan and Jossalyn, we have to talk about Michael."
Looking at her son, Carly wondered what he had done now but as she listened to Jason's explanation, she started to protest what he was saying until Jax said "I thought we agreed to let him finish before talking."
Michael just sat there, he could care less what some little kid had to say about him, Cam Webber was nothing to him. Jason finished and Carly started to defend Michael when the blond said "So what? It's not like I lied."
Her eyes turned to her son and saw AJ, not Jason for the first time as she got what he was saying. "You said this to a little boy?"
"Please, do you really think the kid never heard you bad mouthing his mother to Grandma Bobbie? Do you really think that he never heard you complaining about her babysitting the brats?" he asked then went to the door as if to leave.
"Michael, go to college, far away from here." said Jason. "If you stay, I will shut down your trust fund."
"Oh, please you can't do that." he scoffed.
"Actually I can. Your father's accounts including your college fund were confiscated for RICO violations, what you have; the money you have came from accounts that belong to him but that I control. Try me, just one more word to or about my family, I will shut them down and good luck getting into school with your grades."
Jax saw Carly start to protest but when she stopped talking he turned to see what she was looking at and saw the photo of Jason holding Jocelyn she had from the baby's baptism. He could see that she was taking Jason's visit as a reconciliation, but the Aussie got the feeling it was more like closure.
"Jax." Jason nodded at him before heading to the door. Carly called out. "Come to dinner, this week."
"No. I meant what I said to you at Kelly's, Carly. I am done, fixing your mistakes cost me too much." Leaving he went to see Diane, needing to make peace with the woman. When he was waiting in her office, he saw the folders labeled Morgan Enterprises and picked them up.
"You do know it is a felony for you to read those, don't you?" she asked coolly as she sat down at the desk. "What do you want Mr. Morgan?"
"To talk." he said. "How long are you going to stay mad at me?"
"I don't know, I know that it will be longer than Elizabeth because I am not in love with you." she snarked "I know about the drugs, the impaired capacity, by the way, I used that to shut down the PI business and all access they had to your accounts. Sonny's as well."
"He tried to access my money?" Jason wasn't surprised, but then asked "I know that you sued me, how did you get away with that one?"
"It was fairly easy, I just went to a judge I knew that had worked for you before." she said with a grimace. "He thought it was all your idea."
His half grin, made her laugh. "I can't work for you anymore regarding your old business, I signed a contract for ELQ, I like working here."
"I can see that." he said "I keep up on the financial doings, Diane. I know that since you joined the company they have done a few takeovers. Including GH, I just don't understand how you got that one done as smoothly as you did."
"I bankrupted the Cassadine empire by having the Juarez family, Georgie Jones and Elizabeth sue the estate for damages along with Rebecca Shaw, Emily's twin. There is some left, a spare million or two plus estate in Greece."
"What about Spoon Island?" he asked only to be told the city had foreclosed on it. That Edward arranged for that part.
"As for GH, it helped that Stefan Cassadine stole it from it's rightful owners." She couldn't help wondering if Nik was aware that Elizabeth's family had had the hospital stolen by his uncle's accounting shenanigans which led directly to Steve Hardy's heart attack.
"What about my other accounts?" asked Jason only to be handed a list of numbers. "I need your help, I have to find a house for my family."
"Elizabeth is already looking, she called me this morning and asked I clear any house she liked through you." said Diane before adding. "By the way, I can be bought and as of this minute, you are going to be charged double for any and all personal legal expertise you need. And that may not include any member of the Spencer, Davis or Spinelli family."
"I wouldn't ask you to. Diane, I know it is too little too late, but I am sorry I ever dragged you into my mess."
"I have one question, have you said the same thing to Elizabeth and the boys?" she asked. Seeing him say "Elizabeth yes, I am just at the point with the boys where they have stopped biting and attacking me."
Elizabeth was working up the courage to have a talk with her sons when Gail stopped in. "What are you doing here?"
"Lee wanted to come home." she said quietly. "We found out, he has cancer. He has very little time left and with the memory loss, he thinks being here will make it easier."
"I am sorry." said Elizabeth then Gail said "So, how are you doing and I am asking as your therapist."
Looking at the woman and seeing someone who needed something to concentrate on other than her sick husband, Elizabeth told her what had been going on, then called Jason like Gail had asked.
The doctor took the phone into the hall then came back in and said "I agree, Jason."
Looking at Elizabeth, she said "Let him deal with the boys for now, you two can do so later, for now work on your own issues."
When Sam woke up, she looked around the shabby room and knew she wasn't at GH. Ringing for help, she asked "Where am I?"
"County." replied the nurse as she went to leave.
"Wait, I should be at GH. Has anyone called my fiancee or my mother?" she asked only to be told that Alexis was speaking to her doctor.
When her mother entered, Sam asked "Where is the father of my child?"
"Spinelli is in jail."
"So, what? Jason had to leave to go bail him out, why didn't he have Diane do that?" she tried to pretend, but something was wrong, it wasn't working. Alexis just stood there staring at her while shaking her head.
"Won't work Sam, they said there is no brain trauma and Jason hasn't been to see you once." Alexis was doing what she had, as a mother, but that didn't mean she was fooled by who her daughter really was.
"He was there, I saw him in my room, talking to Molly and Spinelli." she aid only for Alexis to state. "He was there because Spinelli dragged him there and he ended up choked for his efforts."
"He just hasn't forgiven me for sleeping with him." said Sam who asked about the television. "Would you turn it on, I will watch for a while until he shows up."
Alexis had paid so that Sam could have something to do, along with bringing in a few baby magazines. Hearing footsteps, she saw Mac and Dante standing there. "Is this really necessary right now?"
"I won't say anything without Diane Miller present." said Sam as she tried sitting up only to be told by her mother she had to lie flat for the baby.
"You won't need Miss Miller today. Sam McCall you are under arrest for conspiracy, for embezzlement, as well as child endangerment, accessory to kidnapping and we are adding on some gun charges to the list. This moves your crimes up to D felonys and you are not allowed to leave this room. We are here to handcuff you."
"Mac, is that really necessary, she is pregnant." pleaded Alexis.
Looking at her, Mac said "I know, if she wasn't, she would be in a jail cell. Don't push it Alexis."
When Sam demanded to see her attorney, Mac said "Diane Miller has filed a lawsuit against you, I don't think she is going to suddenly show up to help. Alexis, please think about this."
Dante didn't say a word, he just cuffed the woman to the bed, then looked at Alexis and said "I know this is eating Kristina up inside, what are you thinking. She called and asked if she could crash at my place. I gave her permission."
Sam could care less what that little bitch did, after all that Sam and Jason's daughter had done for her, to act like she had, who did she think she was...
Outside, Ric was waiting for Alexis, they were going to have a talk with Molly, then the ten year old was going to Mass General for her surgery. She had been distraught to find out she was not allowed to spend time with Sam, insisting that Sam wouldn't hurt her.
Hearing his name, Ric walked to the door and listened as Sam once again blamed all her troubles on others. This time it was all his fault. Walking in, he said "Alexis, if you want to speak to Molly before I take her with me, you need to get going."
Once the woman had left, Ric looked at Sam and said with a laugh "Spinelli? Really?"
"You have no idea what he has." she said as she realized she had gone almost five months without sex and was missing it. Deciding she would get ready for Jason, after all he had come back to her in the end. Glaring at the man standing at the foot of her bed, knowing that Jason hated him, she asked Ric to leave.
"Going, but I thought you might want to know, Jason doesn't know the truth about Mexico and I do, wonder what he would do if he were to learn the truth." he said before leaving. "Oh, and Sam... for the record, I know about Franco too, that one I am going to let out, at just the right time."
AT the station, Mac was dealing with Spinelli, they had to release him on his own recognizance and he wasn't thrilled as the kid once again tried to charm Georgie who stood there staring at him like he was a fascinating bug.
Walking away, she saw Dante and asked "What are you doing today?"
"I am done, now, why?" he asked.
"I sort of need a favor." she said "And Brooklynn said she would help with the later part if you came along with me now."
"What kind of favor?" he asked.
"I uh, I want to take the Quartermaine boat to Spoon Island." she said "It's something I need to do and Brooklynn made me promise to ask for help."
"I'm in, but I need to know why we are going there." he said only for her to say "I have something to check on, something I saw before I go to Monica and explain why Nik grabbed me and killed her daughter."
Elizabeth was sitting up when she saw a pair of sneakers at the foot of her bed, looking up she said "So that is the hair that is driving Uncle Tom crazy."
"Hiyah, Elizabeth." said the teenager then said "He is over the hair, now it's the earring."
"Why?" she asked as she saw the small hoop.
"I was on vacation, doing some diving with dad when I was also reading a book about pirates." he said with a grin. "There were some girls who were flirting and dad did his usual routine."
"What usual routine?" she asked reminding him they had only ever really e-mailed each other.
Plopping down, he said "The you're too busy for girls, you will have time for them later, if you want to get into a good school, concentrate on your grades."
"Oh, that spiel. He is right, you know."
"I was top of my class, scored a 21 on the ACT, 1600 on the SAT, and have early acceptance at Harvard. UCLA and my school of choice George Washington University as well. I think that he should cut me some slack." pointed out Tommy who then said "Mom said some bad things went down, here, are you okay?"
"I am fine, you know, remember our last e-mail before all this started..." she asked when he nodded she said "You were right, neither man was worth it. One was drugging me to keep me away from Jason and Jason to who knows, I think kill him. The other was drugging me to make me think I was pregnant. I am fine now, Jason and I are working on issues, something you might want to consider with your dad."
"We try, but if all I have to complain about is his not liking me flirting with girls, I don't have a bad life." said the kid. "Hey, I was on my way to school when I realized I could drop off those toys for the boys, is it okay if I leave them at grams?"
"I am sorry I scared you. When you took that dive, wow. That blond man the look on his face, I could see him from where I was and let me tell you, wow." said Tommy. Hugging his cousin, he said reluctantly,. "I have to go, one of these days, we are going to get to actually spend some time getting to know one another."
Returning the hug, Elizabeth headed to the bathroom when she felt her head wound and knew she was in for at least another day in bed. Once back in the uncomfortable bed, she heard footsteps and saw Ethan standing there. "Hi, how are you?"
"Fine, a little bump, a big gash but I will be fine. How are you?" The younger man had stuck it out after people had given him a rough time since he was related to Lucky in spite of the way he had tried to help.
"Let's see, do you really want to know?" he asked with a grin. "Kristina looks like a lost soul, mainly because of what her Mom is doing and I would help but I don't want to aggravate her crush. Lulu is stalking me, she is convinced that Brooklynn and Georgie both are after all the men who used to be in her life. Oh, and I am to stay away from the bloodsucking, man stealing leeches, including you."
"What about Brooklynn or Georgie, anything I should cheer for?" she asked.
"I helped Brooklynn move into her apartment, she took the purple sofa after Maxie and her got into it when she declared Maxie had no interior decorating taste. As for anything more, Lulu sort of precludes any chance of that. And Georgie, well, she really is way too smart for me."
"Since when does that matter?" asked Elizabeth. "And what is wrong with being smart."
"Considering what I am doing lately, not a good idea. 'Sides, I think Lulu might be right there, at least as far as one of her former men, I just saw Georgie with Dante." he knew that he was going to have to endure another round of nonsense from Lulu over that one.
Elizabeth finished with her visits, including one from her newly returned grandmother and was soon fast asleep. Robin had insisted on her taking a couple of aspirin for the slight headache she had. Her head had barely hit the pillow when she started to have a dream that she could barely recall but one that seemed familiar as she slipped into it's arms.
Lulu was working her community service hours when she saw the Quartermaine boat going past the bank she was working on. Seeing Georgie and Dante on it, she wanted to scream. When they sped past them, she was sure that they had done so deliberately as the wake they caused got her boots wet.
Arriving on Spoon Island, Georgie took out the heels, and slipped them on. As they walked up to the house, she made a point of recalling everything. Coop in a tux, Nik and Emily greeting them. The couple dancing and out on the terrace, Elizabeth slapping Sam McCall.
The moment they realized Anthony Zachara was there, getting herded into a room with the rest of the guests, losing the lights, defending Spinelli against Logan and his dad. As she recalled everyone's comings and goings, she could feel it, the nugget was there, but it wouldn't come to the forefront.
"Are you okay?"
"We need to go in." she said. "Is that butler who looks like something out of a Brit horror flick, here?"
"No, he disappeared." he said while following her into the house. She walked down the staircase to the ballroom, then down the hallway and finally back. Stopping in a room, she said "I know it was in here."
"What?" he asked.
"I am here, I heard something. Two people talking but I have no idea why it is important." she said frustrated. "The part I do remember is an older man, Ric Lansing's father was talking to Jerry Jacks. Then... wait, I, we have to go someplace." she said as they walked into a large antechamber.
Moving a chair to the center of the room, she said "Sam, Sam and Lucky in spite of knowing about Nik's blackouts, they untied him that night."
"Are you sure? Neither one said anything about it in their statements." he asked.
"Yes, Jason had gotten Nik tied up after he attacked Emily the first time." she breathed. Her mind led her back into the other room, when she looked and said "I need to talk to Sam McCall, she... was one of the people in this room, and I know that it was important."
"Do you know who the other one was?" he asked as she slipped out of her heels.
"No, but I know it was a man." she replied then blinking rapidly and stopping, she said "Wait."
Looking at the ground, Georgie tried to remember what it was that she overheard, who it was that... "Dante, something else, Nik knew someone had set a bomb on the speedboat that Jason took out here. They were expecting Jason to try and rescue people from Trevor's men... Emily was supposed to be a tragic accident."
"Are you sure?" he asked feeling a bit out of place.
"Yes, Nik was pissed when Jason showed up. Emily had heard Nik talking to Jerry Jacks. Jerry and Nik had some history, something Robin might know about, anyhow. Anyhow, Emily figured out the truth, she was just led to believe it was the blackouts. It was what I heard, they were going to use his blackouts as an excuse for him to not know anything. Trevor knew... Anthony was here. It was all a plot."
Returning to the mainland, Georgie said a bit frustrated. "There is something else, something stuck in my brain. And I know it's important."
"Have you talked to anyone?"
"Kevin Collins, and heck, I asked Lucy to consult her oogi board." Walking up the dock stairs, they saw Dante's mother and John Zachara, the later leaving while Olivia stuck around to talk to her son. "I thought you were done with him?"
"I am, he was looking for Ethan. I just ran into him. Do you have time for dinner." When she asked Georgie how she was doing, the girl said fine, then left as she got that something bothered her about the dark haired older woman.
When she arrived at Kelly's, she looked inside and saw Brooklynn being annoyed by Spinelli and entered "Brookie, let's get lunch elsewhere."
"How about my studio, I was only waiting for our food." she said as they both ignored the geek standing there. When Mike gave them their order and took their money, Georgie asked "What is his problem?"
"I don't know, and I don't care." said the songstress. As they were leaving, Michael approached with a couple of his teenage friends and looked the dark haired girl up and down then pulling her close he rubbed his hips against her and asked "Wanna go to dinner? I promise you a good time."
Brooklynn didn't like the way the kid had acted and decided to have a little fun. "Oh, how sweet, my little cousin, wants to have dinner. Do you want to play Chutes and Ladders like we did when you were still wearing diapers?"
Flushing, Michael said "Who do you think you are?"
"Brooklynn Ashton, brainiac, your dad AJ, is my dad's cousin." she said snorting in disgust. "And frankly, I really doubt you have ever used your dick with a woman, let alone to give anyone a good time."
Micheal's pals, gave him a bad time for hitting on his cousin then for the insults she had laid down. "What about the other girl, she is kind of nice looking and with that cane, I doubt she can run very fast." teased the dark haired boy. "Maybe she should be more your style, there Mikey.
The blond glared at his friend and vowed to make the girls pay for making him look bad. Thinking on it, he couldn't help recalling that Lulu was mad at the Jones girl, maybe she would help him get some revenge.
Making a call and getting an earful, he now had another reason to want to hurt someone. Georgie was seeing his brother... admittedly that was according to Lulu but he would watch, then if it was true, he would enjoy using her to hurt the man responsible for his father being in jail.
Robin was in a very good mood, as she went to check on Elizabeth. Seeing her friend was restless, she went to get a cool cloth to cool her down and pulled back quickly as she blushed at what Elizabeth was saying in her sleep.
Leaving the room, she was shaking her head as Jason returned. "Hi, uh, do you have a moment."
"Just let me check on Elizabeth, first." he said only for her to shout NO!
Seeing his expression and that he had no intention of doing as she asked she went to grab his arm and instead was dragged along by his momentum. When he heard what Elizabeth was dreaming, he blushed then said "Uh, could you go away."
"Just remember, Morgan. This is a hospital not a hotel." she teased then quickly left the room.
Jason sat down next to Elizabeth and had to restrain himself from responding to what she was saying. His body didn't want to ignore it, but his head knew that he would be wandering into some very dangerous territory.
When Elizabeth had settled back down, he went to the bathroom and quickly throw cold water on his face. An hour later, when Elizabeth woke up, she reached out and caressed his face saying. "I love you."
Then she fell right back to sleep, leaving a stunned Jason as she added. "I am so glad I can see again."
Ric and Marianna were discussing what to do with Molly when Alexis rushed from the room crying. Entering the hospital room, Ric looked at his daughter who was staring defiantly at him and snarled "I am not going anyplace without Sam."
"Really, how are you going to stop us from taking you?" he asked then saw her pout. "Really, that the best you got?"
Looking at his little girl, he said "Sam is a big girl, why do you think she needs your protection."
"Because that mean woman has everyone fooled into thinking she is a nice person but she is evil." hissed Molly. "She is trying to steal Jason away again from Sam. Sam is his true love, torn asunder by that horrible Elizabeth who stole what rightfully belongs to Sam, just like she did to Mommy. She moved here because she wanted to steal you but you were smarter than her."
Ric blinked at that one, while Alexis and Marianna looked at one another in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"I know that Elizabeth stole you away from Mommy, that you were in love with Mommy and she tricked you with a baby into marrying her. Sam told me all about it, how when that didn't work she tried to separate Sam from her true love."
"Did you know that Jason loved Sam on first sight, she told me so. They are each others soul mates and only loves." said the little girl practically glowing. "They moved in together and were going to get married and were going to have a baby, then their baby died. Then a bad man kidnapped Sam and she got shot so Jason pushed her away for her protection. While Jason was lonely, that mean man stealer moved in and tried to steal Jason the same way she tried to steal you from Mommy. This time, though, she really was having a baby cause she stole him from poor Sam."
At this point, Alexis was ready to bean Ric over the head for all those princess books he had insisted were to counter what he had called her feminist agenda.
"Poor, poor Sam, her son is out there and she can't see him, the mean whore has hidden her little Jason away but at least she still had Jason until she told terrible lies about Sam to people and then Jason believed them." stated the little girl with great big wide eyes as she continued. "She was turning Jason away from his true love Sam, but in the end goodness and honesty triumphed over the evil that is that mean baby stealer."
Ric's eyes were blinking but he was not capable of any other movement as his little girl added. "I have to protect Sam and her new baby with Jason until he is better again. What if that mean woman tries to steal another of Sam's babies."
Robin had come to check on Molly's cuts near her head before they moved her but realized that her family really needed to give this little girl a lesson in reality. She was walking away when she saw someone watching the scene and hoped that he wasn't about to do what she thought he was.
Pretending not to see him nor here what he asked someone at the other end, because she wasn't sure he didn't have the right idea in spite of the age of the little girl, Robin went to find her husband. "Closet, ten minutes."
Johnny was not sure that he wasn't about to start a war but he knew that Molly was Trevor's granddaughter and that made her a threat if she wasn't told the truth. When it became clear that her parents weren't going to do so, he made a call and asked Steven Webber to do him a favor and distract her parents in the morning. "An hour should do it."
Steven wasn't sure, but then thought about what Molly was doing and knew pressing this little girl was wrong. Stopping in to check on the patient, he got a whiff of her story and decided child or not, she had to be corrected.
Johnny felt like a lowlife as he returned to GH early the next morning with the files. Seeing Steven Webber asked them to join him in the office, he slipped straight into the little girls room. "Hello, Molly, do you remember me?"
"Yes, what are you doing here."
"Did you know your grandfather Trevor worked for my dad?" he asked then saw her cautious expression and said "Yes, he did. His job was to research people, then to get them to do what my dad wanted."
"I never knew him." she said with a shrug.
"No, you didn't did you. Do you know who Elizabeth Webber is?" he asked then got another spiel on how she was evil incarnate. "Do you know when she moved to Port Charles."
"No, just that it was after my daddy did." she said only for Johnny to pull out the first item he had. "Have you ever seen one of these?"
"A year book, did you attend PC High?" she asked as he handed her the '98 book. "No, but Elizabeth did, see?"
Molly saw the picture and frowned a bit. "She is also in the next one. She graduated from there, then went to PCU, did you know that?"
"I am going to attend Harvard." she said smugly while looking at the pictures. "So?"
"Your dad moved here in 2002, while Elizabeth was twenty, she was working at Kelly's, had for years."
"No! You are wrong." she said only for Johnny to pull out the articles on the old talent shows for GH and AIDS research. "Here, look, isn't that her?"
Molly glared and said "So?"
"This is the article about your dad's marriage to her." he said showing her the dates. "It was in 2003." he said. "Trevor kept up to date about it since Elizabeth's dad is a well known doctor. Her grandparents started this hospital."
"No, they didn't my cousin Nik started this hospital." she said in a huffy tone.
"Really, then why does this article say differently, why does it say Steven Hardy."
"So, that isn't Webber." she said determined to not believe him.
"Yes, it does, he is her father's dad. Anyhow, Elizabeth lived here long before you dad, lie one."
"What lie? Are you lying to me." she asked then saw the whole pile of articles feeling slightly sick.
"Then there are these articles, did you know that Jason once owned a motorcycle shop?" he asked as she slowly said "No, I didn't."
"Here, read." he said handing her the articles about the fire and Lucky Spencer dying.
"I know you are lying, Lucky didn't die."
"Here, read these." he said handing her the ones about his miraculous return. She frowned when she saw the name Elizabeth Webber mentioned. "How about this one."
It was an article written the day after New Years about a bomb being defused in her studio by Jason and a man named Roy DeLuca. "They were dating at the time."
"NO, they weren't. Jason didn't date anyone before Sam." she said only to be handed an article about Robin, Carly and Jason. "So, someone is lying."
"Ask Carly, ask Robin, no one is lying to you but Sam, Molly." he said then showed her the article about Elizabeth's rescue from the crypt. "What about this one?"
Reading it, she wiped away a tear and said "So what?"
"What about this one?" he asked giving her the one about Courtney Matthews. "What about this one?" he asked handing her the one about Sam's testimony during Micheal's custody hearing.
Molly got stone faced, then said "So, anyone can print lies."
"Really, what about this?" he asked and took out the DVD player and ran Sam's testimony during Jason's trial for killing Lorenzo. "Is she lying?"
Wiping the tears that were gathering on the little girls face, Johnny felt even lower but showed the tapes from Franco. "What about this? See, there is Sam admitting to watching Jason's son get kidnapped, hiring men to threaten Elizabeth and the boys."
"She made a mistake, Jason forgave her." she insisted then Johnny growled, what did it take to get through to this brat. "Fine, what about this?"
Seeing the tape of Sam with her dad, Molly froze while Johnny stopped Trevor's tape before it's disgusting ending and said. "Elizabeth was married to your dad first, Ric didn't date your mom until Sam was in town and pregnant with SONNY'S KID, not Jason's. Why do you think they wanted the baby's blood to save Kristina?"
"Because she was our sister." she said.
"Something she didn't learn to much later. You know this Molly, you just don't want to admit that your sister is a bad person, and I get that, but attacking an innocent like Elizabeth Webber, is what bad people do, like something your sister would do."
"She stole Jason away." protested the little girl as the man who had come in to see what all the yelling was about entered.
"No, she didn't. I knew Elizabeth long before I agreed to take in Sam for Sonny. And Molly I have loved her this entire time." said Jason.
"No, that isn't true, you love Sam, she is your true love." she was now shrieking as Johnny finally snapped and said "No, your sister is a tramp who slept with Sonny and Jax because they were rich, then did the same thing to Jason, then slept with your father to hurt..."
"Johnny stop!" snapped Jason while Georgie entered the room on her way home. "What is going on in here?"
"Make him go away, he is lying to me." cried the little girl who said "He is saying mean things about my sister."
Turning to glare at them, Georgie watched as Johnny was dragged out of the room. "What the hell were you thinking?" hissed Jason royally pissed at the man.
"I was trying to prevent another Ric Lansing from coming into existence."
"By attacking a little girl?" asked Jason doubtfully. "What is wrong with you? She is a kid."
"There is something you need to see, something that Ethan and I found." he snapped "It's what led to this."
"Later, I am here to take Elizabeth home." he snapped then went to find out when she could go home.
In the room, Georgie gathered all the articles, the yearbooks and the various other items and asked "Are you ready to talk now?"
"About what?" she asked the girl she had heard was dead.
"That you are too smart to be buying into this Sam is a saint." she said quietly. Seeing Molly's expression, she said "I have an older sister too, Maxie. And I know that she does bad things, just like you know the truth about Sam."
Her lower lip trembling, Molly said "I just want us to go back to when we were happy and if Sam is with Jason maybe, that will happen. Daddy will come home, Mommy will be happy and so won't everyone else."
"Oh, Molly." said Georgie hugging the little girl. "Elizabeth isn't responsible for that going wrong. When I was your age, I would see Jason with her, he loved her. He isn't lying to you. Your daddy is married again, he has a little boy, what about your brother, do you want him to go away?"
"No, but Mommy can be his new mother." she said only for Georgie to say "We both know it doesn't work that way. Just like Jake and Cam are Elizabeth and Jason's sons, your brother is Ric and Marianna's son."
"Cam isn't Jason's son." protested Molly.
"Yes, he is. And Cam was created long before Sam came to town. What do you think about that?"
"Then why ..."
"Molly, it's really none of your business." she said gently. "And Sam was wrong for telling any of it to you let alone not giving you the truth."
Molly wiped the tears and said "She truly believes what she told me, I could tell."
"Then, maybe instead of trying to talk Jason into taking her back, you should be trying to convince your sister she needs the kind of help you get at Shadybrook." she stated to the little girl.
Standing at the door, she turned to Molly and said "I have to go but Molly, if you want someone to talk to, you can call me. I won't judge."
Walking outside, she saw Johnny and shoved his bag of crap into his hands and said "Real nice, what were you thinking?"
"I was trying to prevent..." She glared at him then leaning on her cane to keep from smacking him, watched as he organized everything then stood to leave.
"You were badgering a confused little girl whose whole life has been blown apart by lies told her to by someone she loved. I know that you didn't have that great of a home life, but seriously did you really think you were going to change her thinking about Sam?"
"I was going to try." he snapped. He was already feeling guilty and he didn't need Mother Teresa telling him he was in the wrong.
Jason meanwhile had entered Elizabeth's room to find her waiting patiently. "You know, my grams would have been happy to come and get me."
"I know, but I wanted to talk to you." he said gently. "Do you have time to go for a drive?"
"Not really, but we could talk after Steven takes the boys to the park. He wants me to rest at home, but I don't think you intend to argue with me, do you?" she asked only to be gently pulled onto her feet and kissed. "No, I didn't think so."
Once at the house, like had been prearrange, Steven convinced Jason to step out back with him while Audrey went to the kitchen leaving Jake and Cam with their mother. "We need to discuss your behavior boys."
Cam flushed and was going to try and brazen it out but found his mom looking at the two of them. "He left us, he made you cry."
Settling onto the sofa with them, she said "Cam, you saw me crying because you were with me, how do you know that Jason wasn't crying where he was?"
The little boy looked down, a guilty expression on his face. "Now, Jason told me what Michael said to you, and he was wrong. Jason loves both of you." she stated. "Now if you were living with him, would you have treated me the way you did him?"
Looking at Cam she asked "Would you have bit me?" Then at Jake she asked "Would you have closed the door in my face?"
"No Mommy." he said then watched as his older brother seemed to be thinking about it then Cam asked. "But Mommy you were here and he wasn't."
"Yes, I was but your daddy and I both made mistakes, it wasn't only he that was in the wrong. Yes, he wasn't here and was with mean people, but at least I had you boys, I got to spend time with you and he didn't. And Mommy let mean people be around too." she reminded them. "Now, when your daddy comes in, I want you to apologize for biting him, and slamming the door in his face, okay?"
"Fine." said Cam while Jake just looked stubborn. Finally seeing Elizabeth wasn't back down, Cam nudged his little brother who said "Fine."
"Boys, at some point, when you are a lot older. Mommy and Daddy will sit down and explain, all of this, maybe by then, I will understand, but I want you to know two things. First that we both love you very much and second that adults, big people make mistakes too."
"I love you mommy." said Jake hugging her. "I's soorrry I's bad."
"Oh, my boys." she said tightening her grip while pulling Cam closer. "This has been very confusing for all of us, we were all bad and we were all good, I just want us to move forward."
"But Mommy we would be outside." said Cam only for Elizabeth to laugh as she wiped away her tears. Hearing a cough, she turned to see Jason standing there. "You too."
"I want all of that, going forward, but as a family." he said quietly. "Can we try?"
Seeing her wiping her tears, he moved in and used his t-shirt to do so.
"Daddy, you aren't supposed to do that." said Cam always the knowledgeable older brother. "Mommy said so after Jakey blew his nose in Miss Alice's apron."
He couldn't help it, hearing Cam calling him daddy and the story he told, made Jason laugh and cry at the same time resulting in his coughing. When Jake heard Cam calling Jason daddy, he moved over and said "Daddy?"
Elizabeth held him in her lap and hugged her son saying "Yes, daddy."
At the hospital, Molly and her parents were walking out the door, Ric telling Alexis to be sure to thank Georgie for getting through to their little girl as Marianna held her medical file. Alexis whispered to Marianna, "You have changed him."
"No, he has changed himself." she said proudly. "I promise we will take care of your little girl."
Alexis went to see if she could find Georgie only to be told she more than likely went home after her meeting with the support group. Driving to the Scorpio residence, she was knocking on the door when she heard a shout then nothing.
Peeking in the window to make sure that Georgie hadn't fallen, she was stunned by what she saw. Picking up a brick, she smashed in the window next to the door and reached in to get it open.
Entering, she saw Michael fighting with Georgie who was telling the boy to stop. "What is going on here?"
Michael suddenly turned, and Alexis saw the knife by the sofa and the pillows all tossed about as well as the tear in Georgie's shirt and said "Nothing, we were just messing around, weren't we Georgie?"
Alexis could hear the threat in the boys tone and saw Georgie start to protest but Michael was out the door. "Call your father now!"
"I can't. It is my word against his." she said. "And I left GH with him, earlier, he said he wanted to apologize for something that happened at Kelly's."
"Georgie, if you don't, I will." she stated as she bent down and picked up the knife by it's blade. "And I think this might work to convince someone." That and the cuts that were starting to bleed on the younger girl, thought Alexis sick to her stomach at what she had just interrupted.
Shaking as she made the call, Georgie listened and said "I would like to report an attempted rape."
Alexis flinched as the four letter word was used and after Georgie hung up, Alexis made two calls of her own while Georgie sat down, stunned on the sofa after the attorney refused to let her change or clean up the room.
Jason hung up, stunned. "Jason?"
The boys had left to go to the park with Steven and he turned to Audrey and Elizabeth to say "Michael just tried to attack Georgie Jones. He had a knife and was going to rape her."
Hearing Elizabeth's gasp, he said "Can you come with me, are you up to it?"
Nodding, she hugged her grams and they were walking out the door when Jason's phone rang again. "Morgan?"
"Are you still meeting me at the Overlook?" asked Johnny as he watched as Corinthos self-absorbed son arrived and began talking to his friends in a hushed manner.
"I can't. Michael just attacked the Jones girl." Hearing nothing but dial tone, he turned and said "We have to get going."
Mac was in his office when Dante entered and said "Sir, a 911 call just came in from your house."
When they arrived, Mac saw Georgie being checked out by Bobbie Spencer who was insisting she go to the hospital and get the cut on her arm checked out.
"Mac, she won't tell me who did this." said Bobbie while Alexis moved next to Georgie while the officers were taking photos of the destroyed living room. Georgie started laughing, hysterically.
When Elizabeth entered, she sat down next to Georgie on the other side from Alexis and asked "Do you want me to tell them, for you?"
"I can't." she whispered as she calmed down, "No one is going to believe me."
Jason took Dante to the side and said "Find Michael and get him in a cell before Mac hears what she has to say."
"What?" he asked.
"Michael did this." When Dante wanted to deny it, Jason pointed to the knife on the table and said "I took a knife just like this away last year, Sonny bought him another one, identical. If you check the blade, his name is etched on it."
Dante looked at the knife and swore then knelt down in front of Georgie and asked "Can you tell me what he said?"
"Dante, who did this?" asked Mac furious when his officer looked into Georgie's eyes then swore before heading out the door.
Elizabeth pulled Bobbie out the door and said "Bobbie, it was Michael, some sort of incident between Brooklynn, Georgie and him at Kelly's."
Shaking, Bobbie started to deny it, then saw Georgie's hands shaking as she tried to hold the glass of water that Alexis had brought her and then looked at Elizabeth to say "Oh my god, what has my family become?"
TBC