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Chapter 21
Alexis Davis sat in the private room that lawyers used to meet with their clients. It could be in any prison around the world, because they all looked pretty much the same. Her license to practice did not extend to the Dominican Republic so after this meeting she had another, with the best criminal attorney on the island. She had already been told that Interpol was pressing to keep Sonny on the tropical paradise. They didn't want him going to trial in the United States. Alexis was guessing they were going to win that one. Until Sonny's new lawyer was caught up to speed he would have to stay in prison because there was no right to a speedy trial down here.
She stood as Sonny walked in. There were no visible injuries so she guessed he was doing okay. When the guard left, without removing the cuffs, she sat again. "How are you?" While she wasn't in love with Sonny she did care for him.
"Fine." Sonny wouldn't let anyone think anything else. "When can you get me out?" He was handling being behind bars, but he'd be lying if he said his claustrophobia was easily managed.
"I can't." Alexis knew he wasn't going to like hearing that. "I don't have a license to practice in this country, but I'm meeting with someone who does after leaving here. Sonny you are in a lot of trouble. Sam is telling everyone that you planned on killing Carly." The dark haired woman was trying to trade information for a shorter sentence.
"I never said that." Sonny hadn't. On the flight down he had told Sam that Carly wouldn't be an issue much longer. He was going to have to reach out to some associates and have Sam quieted. "Have you heard from Jason?"
"No." Alexis told her daughter's father. "No one has heard from Jason."
Sonny frowned. He guessed Jason was serious when he said he would be out of contact. His partner had pulled disappearing acts in the past, however the timing on this one was the worst possible. "So if you can't help me, why are you here?"
"I wanted to let you know what was happening." Alexis felt she owed him that much. "I'll be on the island for the rest of the day working with your new attorney. I'll be working with him from Port Charles as well. I also wanted to tell you that Sam's parental rights have been terminated." Alexis provided. The dark haired woman had happily signed away her rights. With all of Sonny's assets frozen and him looking at a lengthy prison term as well, the kid was of no use to her. "As have yours."
"They can't do that!" Sonny yelled and the guard stuck his head in. The mob boss quieted.
"They can. You're in prison and Sam is due in roughly three months' time. Even if your lawyer gets you bail you aren't going to be allowed to leave the Dominican Republic until the trial is over." Alexis pointed out. "The Canadian government is within their rights because Sam became a citizen before she married Monroe. The United States government is declining to intervene." Alexis knew all this because she had checked wanting to know if there would be any blocks to her adoption request. It turned out there weren't. The Canadian government was thrilled to know that the child had family who would provide a good home. Alexis still had to go through home inspections and visits from Child Services, but she should be able to adopt the newborn.
"I need to get out of here as soon as possible." Sonny wasn't going to let them take his daughter. "I can bring the baby here, and arrange for care."
Alexis just kept quiet. Sonny didn't like to be told no, and frankly she didn't feel like arguing with him. His new lawyer could try to make Sonny see that he was in a lot more trouble than the mob boss wanted to admit. "I'll go see your lawyer."
"Tell Johnny to find Jason." Sonny ordered. His partner could arrange for Sonny to be broken out. "Also tell Johnny that I need security set up." The other day in the yard another prisoner had gotten in Sonny's face. The guards made the other man back off, eventually, but that couldn't happen again.
"I'll get right on that." Alexis promised. The fact that security wasn't already in place was telling. She began to wonder if Jason knew about this mess, and had ordered the guys to stand down. "Good bye Sonny."
"Alexis." Sonny nodded absently, he was back to thinking about how he wanted to handle Sam.
The lawyer knocked and the guard let her out. In the parking lot Shawn was waiting with the car. "Have you ever served time?" She wanted to know.
"No." Shawn answered as they left the prison grounds. "Why?"
"Just curious." Alexis had killed Luis Alcazar and gotten away with it. He had almost killed Kristina. If the man hadn't had a laundry list of enemies then it would have been obvious she had done it. Instead it was chalked up to an order by Sonny. There but for the grace of god went she, was all Alexis could think. She would do her best to help Sonny, even though it wasn't going to do a damn bit of good.
"Hey Cowboy." Luke was standing on the porch of the house he bought for Laura. They hadn't lived here that long before she ended up in Shadybrook. "Thanks for stopping by."
"Sure thing. You headed out of town?" Lucky saw his dad's bag by the door.
"I am. I have some business to see to." Luke had gotten wind of a potential score. Some diamonds that Helena wanted, but he was going to make sure she didn't get. He was meeting with an old friend in Budapest. From there he was headed to Russia. "I'm not sure how long I'll be gone."
"You need me to look after things?" Lucky didn't want to be stuck running the club. He needed time to work on Elizabeth.
"No, I have a manager for that." Luke loved his son, but Lucky had no business sense. "I remember you saying you were working on something of your own and I don't want to interfere with that."
"I appreciate that." Lucky took that to be a sign that his father respected him.
"Keep an eye on your sister." Luke told his eldest child.
Lucky just nodded, Lulu was an adult and capable of watching out for herself. He might need to leave town and babysitting his sister wasn't going to stop that. Once the newly divorced Elizabeth returned home, Lucky was going to talk her into moving from Port Charles. He would have a better chance of getting her to marry him if she wasn't near Morgan. "I may have to leave town, but if I do Nik will keep an eye on Lulu." From here he was going to Wyndamere to see if Emily had heard from her brother. "You need a ride to the airport?"
"I'm good." Luke didn't want his son to know where he was going. This was not a score he wanted to share. "I'll see you when I get back, if you're here."
"Sounds good." Lucky grinned and headed for his car.
"O'Brien." Johnny was on his way to meet Diane for a late lunch.
"Elizabeth's hospital records were hacked." Stan had found the electronic trail. "I can't tell you who owns the computer that did it because the person has that blocked. But if you get me the device I can tell you if the trail started there."
"Thank you." Johnny said hanging up the phone. They needed Lucky's computer, assuming he used his personal equipment to do this. Johnny called Stan back. "How hard is it to block that signal? Could you do it from say a public computer?" He needed to know.
"You could, but it would take a while. I'm guessing you are looking at someone's personal computer, because the hack on both tests took place within hours of one another. Late at night and very early in the morning." Stan provided. "It would be a pain to block the signal, remove the block, and then repeat that."
"Good to know, thanks Stan." Johnny was already planning.
"That's why I'm here." The tech guy said before signing off.
Johnny made another call. "I need Spencer's place tossed. Take everything of value. Make sure you get any computers." He ordered.
"I'm on it." Paulie replied. "You want the stuff fenced or trashed?"
"Fence it, put the money in the box at Queen of Angels." Johnny ordered. "Take the computers to Stan."
"Yup." Paulie said before ending the call. They had a guy keeping tabs on Spencer, as soon as they got an opening they would do the job.
Elizabeth spent some time with Cameron in the morning, and then at Jason's urging they went out to the art store since she hadn't felt like going before. Elizabeth wasn't looking to recreate her studio back home, but she was feeling the urge to create. So she picked up some sketch pads, water color pencils, pastel crayons, and charcoal. All items that would be easy to transport. Back at the house she spent some time sketching a few flowers while Jason walked the backyard with their son.
It was late in the afternoon when she decided to call Emily. Jason first called his sister's guard to make sure Lucky wasn't anywhere in the area. Emily was at the mansion, alone which was good. Before Elizabeth made the call Jason requested that she not tell Emily where they were. He wasn't worried that Em would say anything to Lucky, but he did worry his sister would say something to Nikolas. Jason still wasn't sure he trusted the prince. Jason had every intention of telling Elizabeth what Lucky had done as soon as Johnny found the proof. Until then he didn't want Lucky getting any information about Elizabeth.
When she got the all clear, Elizabeth took a deep breath before dialing. She wasn't ready to completely forgive her friend, but she did recognize that it was time they talked. "Hi Emily."
"Elizabeth!" Emily was at the gatehouse. "Where are you? Are you okay? Is Jason with you?"
"Emily!" Elizabeth said laughing. She couldn't help it. "Let me answer the first question before you ask another."
"Oh." Emily stopped peppering her friend with questions. "Before you answer let me apologize. I'm really sorry about pushing Lucky on you. I just wanted you happy, and I thought you were when you two were together before."
"Thank you." Elizabeth hadn't expected the apology. She wasn't going to bother to correct Emily's misconception over the phone, that would happen in a face to face conversation. Elizabeth hadn't really been happy with Lucky when they were teenagers. What she had been was lost, and he was there. If he hadn't died she would have eventually figured that out and they would have broken up. Elizabeth was glad that she managed to not go down that path again after he returned. Things would really be ugly now. "I'm fine."
"Good. Cameron too? I know he had blood work done before you left." Emily asked about the little boy.
"He's good." Elizabeth just shook her head at how fast things spread at the hospital. It was a wonder her getting a terminal diagnosis hadn't leaked as well.
"So why were you upset?" Emily wanted to know.
"I can't talk about that right now." Elizabeth answered. Jason mentioned that the hospital was waiting to learn if she was going to sue them. So until Elizabeth spoke with Diane, which would also happen today, it was best not to speak about what was going on.
"Okay." Emily said a bit confused. She wasn't used to Elizabeth not confiding in her. "So where are you?"
"Away." Elizabeth knew the answer was cryptic, but that was all Emily was going to get.
"Away? What kind of answer is that?" Emily wanted to know.
"I needed to leave Port Charles." Which was true. Elizabeth looked out the window and searched for the right words. "If I wanted everyone to know where I was going then I would have left a note."
"I'm not used to you not telling me things." Emily said sadly.
"Me either." Elizabeth admitted. "Things are different now." As Jason's wife he would be telling her things that Emily wouldn't ever know. While Elizabeth hoped that she and her now sister in-law could remain close, their relationship would have new boundaries.
Emily wanted to ask again if her friend was with Jason but decided against it. Elizabeth seemed a bit guarded in her responses. Emily figured her friend was still upset with her. "Do you know when you might be coining home?"
"No clue." Elizabeth answered honestly. "Not for a while yet."
"But you are coming back?" Emily wanted to be sure about that.
"Yes, Emily. Cameron and I are coming back." Elizabeth promised. "How have you been?"
"Good. Spending time with Nikolas." Emily had to smile at the mention of her boyfriend. "Something is happening at the hospital." She passed on some gossip. "Rumor has it there is a major lawsuit coming. No one seems to know about what though. The hospital's lawyer is spending a lot of time in my dad's office."
"You can't believe everything the gossip mill cranks out." Elizabeth warned her friend.
"Well I do have news to share that isn't gossip." Emily was excited to tell her friend this. "Sam's baby isn't my brother's."
"I know. Jason told me." Elizabeth could talk about this.
"You knew!? And you didn't tell me?" Emily couldn't believe this. It was like she was talking with a stranger.
"It wasn't my information to share." Elizabeth told her friend. "Your brother didn't want that getting out. He was trying to protect Carly."
That was when it was hammered home to Emily that Elizabeth and Jason had their own relationship. One that she was not a part of. It also clued her into the fact that Jason and Elizabeth were a lot closer than Emily realized. While she was pushing Elizabeth to reconcile with Lucky, Jason was confiding in Liz. Her brother was most likely angry at what Emily had been doing. Another mess to fix because she couldn't mind her own her business.
"It's no fun having great news to share if you already know it." Emily pouted. She really did hope that Elizabeth was with Jason. That they had left Port Charles together to figure out how to be a couple without out all the drama the small city held. If that was the case when they returned Emily was going to offer them her full support.
"I have some good sources." Elizabeth laughed.
"So you know Johnny O'Brien is back and Carly and Sonny are divorced?" Emily questioned.
"Yup." Elizabeth was smiling wide now. "How is Nikolas?"
"He's good. Busy. Stefan is out of town so Nik is handling the family interests. He knows about the possible lawsuit, I'm trying to be good and not ask him about it." Her boyfriend was like her brother when it came to business. He didn't share details. "When Nik's uncle returns he and I may go out of town for a bit." With it being summer break it was a good time to travel. "Hopefully I'll be here when you return."
"I can call and let you know before heading back." Elizabeth did miss her friend.
"We'll have a sleepover." Emily missed just hanging out with Liz.
"We'll see." Was all Elizabeth said. Now that she was married sleepovers wouldn't be happening unless Jason was out of town.
"You guys are both okay?" Emily just needed to check again.
"We are both great." Elizabeth said looking out into the hall where her guys were walking around. Cam was getting a bit more stable every day. "I'll talk to you later."
"Okay." Emily said before ending the call and flopping back on the couch. Elizabeth had seemed a bit distant during the call, and Emily knew that was her fault. When her friend came home she was going to work hard to fix the damage she had done to their relationship. Now she would go see what her boyfriend was up to.
Elizabeth hung up and walked out into the main hall. Jason saw her and swung Cameron up into his arms. The little boy laughed out loud and then cuddled into his dad.
"Everything okay?" Jason checked. He would call his sister after they made a decision about Lucky.
"Everything is fine." Elizabeth assured him tilting her face up for a kiss, which he granted. "I'm going to talk to Diane later today, and tell her I'm not going to sue the hospital."
"I'm hoping she sends some listings soon." Jason was excited to buy them a house. "We have time for a walk outside before dinner."
"Okay. I can tell you about what I'd like to do when we return home." Elizabeth was ready to pursue her art full time.
"Let's go." Jason linked their figures and led his family out the front door.
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