TRUTH OR DIE

Chapter 14: Doctors

DR. FORD was sweating bullets, the attorney for the insurance company was way too knowledgeable. He had just been informed by the hospital board that he was fired. They had been unhappy, to learn that Jolene Crowell's father had been his patient, that the reason she had been so eager to help the consortium was that he had been the one to operate on her father. As he was exited off the premises he was watched by the members of his staff. He had gotten rid of almost all records of the surgery, who had the knowledge and the power to do this to him.

JASON waited until Alexis had stopped speaking then said "I only know what I have told you. Have you confronted her about the truth." he asked.

"Not until I hear from Kevin, Lucy and he is driving Serena to college. Elton told me that Lucy was going to have him call today. As soon as I hear something I will talk to her. I need to know about Ryan and her mother. It seems a little coincidental that she was that particular man's daughter."

"Let me know, I have someone on her. She doesn't know him and he is one of the best."

"Thank you, Jason. For everything, I can't ever repay, I owe you too much."

"I was used right alongside of you in this. I think she knew about Port Charles long before she arrived," he said as he escorted her out.

"Jason, I have that file from Miami, Roy got it from a contact down there."

"Should I leave?" asked Cody as he entered with Francis.

"No, stay we might need your help."

Jason sat down and read the file, then handed it to Cody. Turning to Francis, he said "Have Roy to tell his police contact that I will make sure she is ready for transport in ten days. Until then ask him to let her stay here. I will make sure she doesn't escape. Then have Sean keep a close eye on her."

"He already took over surveillance. I am the alternate guard, she is not getting away," stated Cody.

"I need you for some other things, what about Cooper, do you think he will help with it?"

"After reading that, you might want to make sure he doesn't have a weapon but yes, he could handle it."

Dr. Meadows was meeting with Dr. Lee going over the files in regards to the case of Miss Matthews, the signed permission slip with notarized signature proved that Carly had to have known about the eggs.

"She claims to not have known. Yes, she is a proven liar, but she is too selfish to donate her eggs to help another. Unless the potential father was Jason Morgan of course." she smirked.

"I know, I saw the news reports after the fire, do you need any more information from my files to finish updating yours."

"No, I need to locate Sam McCall's. Her file is missing has been since before the fire. Did you treat her for long?"

"Just the stillbirth and the attempted pregnancy with implanted sperm."

"I don't recall having that in my records. See here is the computer file, nothing about having a sperm implant."

"That's because it didn't take," she answered. "The sperm was out of date at the time, I tried to tell her but she insisted on trying anyhow."

"Was it an anonymous donor?"

"No idea, she came in with it. Still frozen but out of date according to the clinic in New York. Funny thing it was the same clinic that Alan used when he had his son's sperm harvested. The samples were accidentally destroyed in 2002"

Kelly was recalling her conversation with Jason earlier, then started to think. She was a little shaken to have admitted to selling her eggs to put herself through med school now she was wondering whatever happened to them.

SAM waited until Lucky had left then called Trevor. "Do you have any work for me?"

"What do you have in mind. Taking down Jason Morgan is all I could use you for."

"How about a contact in the police department." she purred.

"Spencer isn't a good idea."

"I was talking about his partner. Det. Harper is all that Lucky isn't, plus he had no loyalty at all. I can get him on my side. Then work him for information, all I want in exchange is one thing."

"What may I do for you Miss McCall?" he asked.

"I want a baby. Blond haired and blue eyed. Arrange it. This time I want you to get a baby not to lose one."

"You have a deal, I want dock patrols, I want anything they have on the Zaccara families as well as what they have on Morgan. I have another contact so I will know if you are lying. So don't double cross me."

LEO was glad to be exiting the hospital for the day, some man had shown up looking into his past. The fact that he had slept with one of his professors wasn't something he regretted but it had taught him to not take things at face value. She had given him a grade far better than he had deserved. She said it was for homework. It still gave him chills thinking about it.

Getting into his car he looked at the calendar counting the days until he no longer had to perform surgery at County or Mercy. His apartment was located closer to GH and far from the other two.

ELIZABETH was finished with talking to Margie, she had been dealing with so much emotional baggage over the last twenty-four hours that she just wanted to sleep but she had the boys. They made dealing with it worth the exhaustion.

Georgie tended to sleep after a session, hers were longer and made no sense. She kept trying to get to Dillon but she didn't describe Dillon. Then there was the layout, she seemed to be convinced that the bar was downstairs and that she had been drinking in it. Never mind that she had been sixteen at the time. Nothing was adding up.

As she walked with the boys, she saw Summer ahead, the only one of the guests not looking forward to going home. She said she had nothing and no one to go home to. She liked it here. "Hello, do you want to be alone, we can go further up the beach."

"No, I am looking for noise, not peace, the sound of the waves make the voices go away."

"Voices?"

"My family, my past, lots and lots of voices. I will miss this place."

"I understand that you are one of the next to go home?" she inquired.

"Yes, as to where home is, who knows.

Lainey was rather uneasily entering the domain of Jason Morgan. Walking into the room, she saw Cody talking with Jason, who walked right by her not even acknowledging her. She greeted Cody who told her that he needed to speak with her.

"Maybe we can have some dinner later?' she asked. He was no longer her patient so it wasn't like she was violating any rules.

"I am going to be busy over the next two weeks, after that, we can have any meal you would like. I hate to tell you this, but we need to talk, someone knows about what truly happened that day in the warden's office before I was released."

"HOW?" she asked. If her cell hadn't rung they would have had sex on the top of the man's desk.

"I don't know but I wanted to warn you. Jason knows as well. He is going to run interference."

"He hates me, I don't know why but he does," she said.

"The thing where you accused the mother of his son of killing Jake, you took a drug user's word over hers."

Lainey and Elizabeth had worked it all out. Looking back, she could see that her rush to judgment was the result of being lead down the path by a man who was at best an incompetent officer, at worst a criminal himself.

Some part of her wondered if she had been used by Spencer. What kind of man automatically suspected his wife of harming a child.

ALEXIS was once again at Jason's door, she had to smile this time, then she started to cry. Kevin was trying to calm her down but not getting anyplace. He started to pound on the door and when it was finally opened by the geek holding a bag of chips and a soda, he said "We need Morgan.

"They all do, Little Red-haired girls, undead sisters, bad men with even worse attitudes, needy desperate women who want him." he sighed.

"Spinelli have you been drinking?" she asked as he started giggling. Kristina had told her all about his response to her.

"Nope. I think I have been drugged. Yup, I am certain I have been."

"Do you know by who?" she asked concerned.

"Yup, a man by the name of Big Daddy Scorpio. He came, he saw and he drugged. Oops!" Spinelli fell down and the two of them helped him to the sofa, Alexis used the geek's phone to call Jason, relieved he answered on the first ring.

"Jason I am at your penthouse, Spinelli is out of it, he has been drugged. I need to see you right away, it's an emergency. We know what Sam is up to and how she got all the information."

"I can't right now, Cody is on his way back, how did Spinelli get drugged that quickly, Cody just left there fifteen minutes ago. Look I just learned that Kevin Collins is in town and I-"

"He is here with me and says that he thinks it was only a truth serum. The files seem to be about the missing people that Robert accessed. You need to get here right away. We need to see you.

Lucky entered the mansion, his father had requested his and Lulu's presence. Along with Nik's.

"Dad, what is going on?"

"I was sent the paperwork in regards to the theft orchestrated by Scott Baldwin. I'm sorry Cowboy, you are going to have to move all your personal belongings out. Mike Webber does have a legal right to the house."

"Can't Nik buy it, give him the money."

"Steven and Mike made a deal with the courts, they will get their blood money but Mike said he wants the house, not the value of it."

"How can he do that?" asked Lulu. "Mom owned that house long before Scott took that money."

"Laura signed the papers, Princess, I doubt she knew what was going on, but they are holding her accountable."

"I wish Elizabeth was here, she wouldn't have let them toss me out of Mom's house. She would have fixed this, for me." announced Lucky. "We should see what will happen to her share, maybe we can use the fact that I should have been named her heir, to take care of this."

"After all, your money helped support her sons and her. She owes you. Can't you sue her estate?" asked Lulu.

"Spencer, if you and those greedy little brats so much as try that, I will destroy you. Now all of you get out of my house. Nik, Emily would be ashamed of you." Monica knew that for sure, since her daughter was presently hiding in the other room furious at her fiancée.

"Emily would have agreed, this is a travesty. My mother wasn't responsible, Scott was. Going after the house is just being vindictive." argued Nik.

"Mike lost any chance of attending college, something your brother and sister just tossed away. So I can understand his point of view. Then there is the fact that your mother is in the middle of his father's death. The Spencer's are experts at being vindictive. So are the Quartermaine's as a matter of fact. Nik you have lots of room at the house of yours, maybe you can take in your sister, she won't be remaining here. Luke, you are married to Tracy so I have to tolerate you, but your daughter I don't."

"I will go and stay with Johnny." she threatened.

"Give me the address, I am sure I can have the chauffeur drop off your clothes." was all that Monica said.

Patrick was raging at his father. So much had been explained by the file he received. His parents had come to love each other but it had been an arranged marriage to keep his great uncle from losing his Senate seat.

The great man had been in danger of losing his support in the Republican party but had offered up his nephew to marry the party chairman's pregnant daughter. A conservative candidate at the time she had been about to lose her seat unless she got married.

She had suffered a miscarriage weeks after the election. They had fallen in love while separated but his parents had gotten together for one reason only. To protect a greedy selfish politician with ambitions to move into the White House.

CLAUDIA was having a rotten week, first Ric was disbarred. Negating all use she had for him. A woman was now daddy's attorney. Her favorite red shoes had just broken a heel and now Lulu Spencer was unlocking the door to her penthouse, she had thought the blond was gone. Johnny hadn't had her around in days and hadn't said a word when she had insulted the needy and whining blond.

She saw that she couldn't get the door opened. "Are you sure you have the right key?" she mocked. Then tried with her own. It didn't work either.

Calling downstairs she ordered the building manager upstairs immediately.

"Miss Zachara, I am sorry for the inconvenience, your brother requested the lock change. Something about an ex-girlfriend. She had a key and he wanted to keep her out."

Maybe, just maybe her day was looking up. "Well, Lulu, it seems like my brother is finished with you. Why don't you run along now? Mr. Simpson, could you please let security know that she is to be stopped before getting into the building." with that Claudia took the key and went into the penthouse, being sure to slam the door in the blonds face.

"Did you enjoy that?" she heard.

Turning she saw the most beautiful man, with deep green eyes. Shame to have to kill him. She pulled out her gun only to have him pull his faster. "Word of warning, from Morgan. He knows." with that Sean got up and went to relieve Cooper Barret from the slut patrol.

Jason was glad to see Spinelli come down from the drugs, to tell him what the man had asked and what he had done to his computer. "Stone Cold all he got was a bunch of gibberish, my computer doesn't allow that kind of download. When he tried to upload the information it will just give him nonsense, like my score at games and my private investigator course. We, however, will have access to anything they try to do."

Jason called Mac, he was going to call in the second biggest gun he had to deal with the aging spies.

"I have already gone to Mac if that is why you called him," stated Alexis.

"He needs to know about this?" asked Jason in surprise.

"Jason the file you had sent from Miami, an officer from their CSI lab, sent me one as well. I know about Daphne Ellsworth being Sam, I know about the little girl and I know that the members of the Ruiz family wanted her dead. We will discuss that later.

"About eight years ago, a girl showed up at the hospital, her name was Livvie, she claimed to be an orphan then quickly insinuated herself into lives in town. She claimed to be looking for her parents, She talked Karen into helping her. In the meantime, several mysterious deaths started to happen. Lucy was seriously confused at the time, she seemed to believe she was a vampire slayer." he said with a wince.

"Like Buffy?" asked Spinelli to the confusion of Alexis and Jason.

"Alexis, she was hallucinating and acting strangely. She believed that vampires were attacking us and that she was the only one who could stop them We didn't want anyone to know how bad it had gotten. Karen came across some evidence that she was my daughter. Now I knew that it wasn't possible at the time I live in Europe and was in a committed relationship. Twins have identical DNA though. So I did some looking and found out that one of Ryan's exes had given birth in prison a few years before he started killing people."

"I went looking into it and didn't want Livvie to learn her father was a serial killer, I thought that no one deserved that. So I told her she was my daughter. She was reluctant at first to get to know me then came the feeling she wasn't good enough to be my daughter, then came the rest of the revelations. She had been a con artist forced into it at her father's orders, that her husband Caleb had forced her into prostitution. A few other things, including a slow brother. Who I had transferred to a private clinic in nearby Scottsdale. We set up a trust fund for his care and arranged for schooling for Livvie."

"When Lucy collapsed, Livvie offered to help out with Serena and Kristina. She helped me out at the office quite a bit, She was told to stay out of my current files. I didn't think to order her to stay out of my files from here. She went through them and would ask me questions. She was going to study to be a psychiatrist. She was always asking questions about what was in the files and I would answer them with the understanding she would never reveal that she had seen them."

"I get that Sam is this Livvie but what is so special about those files?" asked Jason.

"They are the files from Port Charles. Alexis, who I treated in regards to her family and the missing child. Lucky when he was getting treatment for being brainwashed. The file I had on Elizabeth that I inherited when Gail retired. Sonny, I was the police consultant and had created a file for Mac about him. Carly, under court-ordered therapy for shooting Tony. Jason, I had a file on you. Your father had wanted to commit you at one point, this was after the arrest for train trespassing. Monica was fighting it and had me create a report to keep you out of the hospital. Jason, it was a very thorough report. There were several others as well. Brenda Barrett and a few other well-known names."

Jason got the message, this Livvie/Sam had gotten a lot of information about the people here and when she needed to hide she came here. "What about Jax?

"I treated Brenda, remember?"

"There was a plastic surgeon he was the son of a doctor in town, the man who had rebuilt a young girls face after an abusive husband had broken some bones. The woman's name was Angela Monroe. The doctor had a sister. Kristina, my daughter's mother was named Dr. Eve Devlin. Daughter of Dr. Bennet Devlin and brother of Ian."

Jason froze, Ian Devlin had said there was more. At the time had tried to figure out more what. More responsible, Claudia, and Jerry. What if that wasn't what he was saying What if he had known who Sam was. She had connections to the files, what if she had sold the information, how was she supporting herself now? Spencer certainly wasn't.

"Jason Livvie supposedly died in 2003, after getting my father's money from him. Around four million dollars he had from an invention he created. Danny disappeared. The trust fund cleaned out. I contacted Mac, but at the time he was dealing with Sonny kidnapping someone, so I left a message with Lt. Capelli, Alexis tells me he was a bad cop so I know why the message never reached Mac."

"The picture she has of Sam is similar enough to Livvie, but there are differences. Sam' face is harder and slightly thinner. The chest has been expanded. A lot tanner as well. The hair lighter. I never even paid any attention when that show came on, I knew she had a connection to you but didn't think anything of it. I am sorry for any inconvenience this caused."

"Thank you for telling me, it certainly explains a lot. I have to deal with a situation with the Host. Alexis, I will call you. Kevin thank you. Can you leave the photo?" he asked.

SPINELLI typed the data in, he didn't want to believe that fair Samantha had done what was in the report it was despicable, to treat a child that way. All for money. He read the rest of the report, seeing Dr. Chamberlain had been a serial killer along with a father, the information about Drs Drake and Julian. The secrets of the family Devlin.

Dr. Winters made him laugh, he liked Cody and her together. He made a mental note to help Dr. Lee. Dr. Ford just made him angry on Nadine and Jolene's behalf. Dr. Quartermaine's secrets in the past surprised him. Plus learning Jason's mom had been married to Elizabeth's dad. He had to go back and edit, he had written stone cold, not Jason, The Host had sent back his first report, making him use proper names. It made typing these reports ten times harder.

Jason went to Jake's. He was thinking about Elizabeth and wanted to go someplace with happy memories of her, only to see that Johnny was sitting at the bar. "Getting drunk won't help," he said.

"I know, that's why I called Brenda. She dragged me here, for some fries smothered in the most disgusting things I have ever seen."

"They're called Chili cheese fries and are the best things in existence for what ails you unless you want to get some Ben & Jerry's and watch chick flicks." she laughed at the looks on both of the men's faces. A manly looking brunette entered and walked over saying Johnny who is your friend or is she Morgan's. Is this how you are dealing with the loss of your little nurse."

Before she could finish, Brenda had stood up and said: " I know that look, professional or strictly amateur?"

"What are you talking about?" Claudia asked.

"Do you get paid or is it strictly a free all you grab buffet?"

"What are you talking about?" she asked the bimbo.

Leaning in, Brenda whispered, "I recognize your outfit, about five years out of date, too tight, wrong color and from the Amsterdam couture line, isn't it."

Johnny had spent part of the day with Brenda and knew that she had Morgan's back, that she thought she owed him and his girlfriend but taking on his sister didn't seem like such a good idea. When he started to intervene he saw Morgan shake his head no, so he waited.

"This is a designer outfit, specially designed in Milan for me," announce Claudia haughtily. "I think I know more about fashion than some bar bimbo who looks like she was dressed by Mattel."

"Really, I would sue the designer. Thank you for recognizing the outfit, aren't you a little old to be playing with Barbie. This is the outfit that they created as part of their model's collection, she was created in my likeness. Minus the jacket, of course, I gave that to my friend Robin's young cousin, she likes coats with toggles. The leather jacket is one of only five in the world by Alex."

"You expect me to believe that I'm not one of the losers who hang out, here."

The battle of the Titans was getting the attention of the others in the room, some of the hospital personnel and a few regulars when Carly and Lulu walked into the place.

"Really, you did walk into here, Coleman seemed to know who you are. By the way, Claudine do you have a last name."

"Zachara," she said smugly waiting for the brunette to turn and run.

"Well Claudine, I'm Brenda Barrett, a former model, a friend of Jason and Elizabeth, and I don't like you. So stay away from my friend, before I have to ruin my manicure."

"You think you scare me, I have been breaking little girls like you for years."

"You should be, I survived Sonny and that shrew of an ex-wife of his. Luiz Alcazar and his ilk. Your just a wanna be daddy's girl playing in the big bad mob world. Now leave us alone. Little brother will be home when he is done here. So go now, shoo!"

Carly was debating whether Brenda would make it out of Jake's alive when Jason interfered and said "Brenda why don't you and your date get out of here and I will take care of the bill. We need to talk later."

As he paid Coleman he ignored the two blonds who were trying to talk to him. His phone rang as he left the bar, not quite how he had intended to spend the evening but he could now go to Elizabeth's house and sleep. She was going to be upset when she returned. He hadn't changed the sheets since they smelt like her since she left.

When the phone rang again he answered saying who is it? Hearing Tony Jones and Karen Wexler, made his head hurt.

TBC