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Chapter 21
"Damn it Lucky it wasn't time yet" Mac says furious with a very alive Lucky Spencer.
"Sorry Mac but I couldn't put Sam through this anymore."
"Lucky?" Elizabeth says weakly. "Is that really you? You're alive" she says and then looks over at Mac. "Guess that means I'm free to go right?"
"Not even close" Lucky says with anger. "You aren't getting away with everything you've done. Now you need to tell them the rest Elizabeth."
"Oh my God there's more" Carly exclaims in horror.
"Yes cousin there's definitely more and I can promise it affects just about everyone in this room. Now Elizabeth either you tell them or I will but the truth will come out, all of it."
"I'm not saying anything without my attorney."
"Fine then I will fill the good people of Port Charles in on the rest of your exploits. But first I want to apologize to all of you for leading you to believe I was dead, especially you Sam". Lucky can see the pain in her eyes.
"Lucky how could you? I thought I was responsible for your death and who the fuck else was in on this."
"There's the real Sam" Carly says "I was wondering when you'd show up."
"Thanks Carly … I think"
"As for who knew it was only me, Mac and my parents. Not even Lulu and Nicolas knew I was still alive. I'm sorry Sam, I never meant to hurt you. This was actually all done FOR you. Once I learned what she had done I knew I had to put a stop to all of this so I went to Mac. He came up with the idea to get Elizabeth to confess and then I would come out but being she would have confessed to other crimes then we could nail her for those instead of the murder charge on me. I talked it over with my parents and although my mom was against it I just couldn't allow Elizabeth to get away with all of this. Are you ready to hear the rest?"
"As ready as I'll ever be."
"As bad as everything you've heard so far the worst is yet to come."
"Oh God I need a drink" Carly says with a laugh when she sees Luke head to the bar. He hands her a bottle of orange juice in lieu of whiskey.
"Sorry niece wish I could give you the hard stuff cause you're gonna need it but not with a bun in that oven."
"Well as you heard Mac say Elizabeth also changed Sam's test results. She didn't change them herself, she paid of a lab tech to change them and nobody ever questioned the results not even Dr Lee. Unfortunately the lab tech was greedy and four weeks he approached Elizabeth for more money and that's how I found out. I wasn't sure what to do with the info so I just kept it to myself. Sam was in Mexico looking for Michael and Kristina at the time so I knew I had a little time to figure out what to do. Sam I know how much you wanted to be able to have children and I just wasn't sure how to break it to you that you could have had them at any time. I'm so sorry Sam,"
"Lucky it's not your fault so you have nothing to apologize for" Sam whispers sadly.
"I'm sorry to do this to you Sam but there are three more things that Elizabeth did and two of them involve both you and Jerry and the third involves Jason and my brother."
"Oh God what did my brother do now?" Jax mutters.
"You're about to find out Jax and I can guarantee you'll never look at your brother the same way again. I'm going to start with the more recent event. I know a lot of you don't know this but while Sam and Jason were in Mexico Jason was shot by Jerry. Only a few of us were aware of this fact and we couldn't help but wonder exactly how he knew where to find Michael and Kristina. At first we thought Claudia had told him in light of Kristina being the one to cause her to miscarry but we quickly realized that she was too caught up in her grief to even consider that so we kept looking forward. Anyone that knows Jason and Sam knew they would be going after Michael and Kristina respectively so my lovely ex-wife contacted Jerry and told them that Jason and Sam were heading to Mexico to find the kids. She had overhead Jason on the phone with Spinelli planning to go to Mexico. Her plan was to have Jerry take Sam out leaving Jason ripe for the taking. I'm not sure why he decided to shoot Jason instead but he did."
"You bitch, you put my son at risk" Carly screams starting to stand before Jax gently pushes her back into her seat.
"Elizabeth you are a mother, how could you put Kristina and Michael at risk like that" Alexis asks her with venom in her voice.
"I knew he wouldn't hurt the kids, he was just supposed to get rid of Sam. I didn't care how he did it. I just assumed he would kidnap her and have his way with her again." Elizabeth shuts up realizing she went too far this time.
"Again? What do you mean again" Mac shouts.
"I can answer that Mac" Lucky says. "I didn't have time to fill you in on the latest round of Elizabeth's evilness. We have to go back a bit for this one back just before Jake was kidnapped the first time. Elizabeth could see that Jason lying to Sam was taking a toll but she was so greedy that she didn't want to wait any longer so she contacted Jerry Jax. She paid him $5,000 to set up the kidnapping of Jake and to threaten her and the boys in the park and pin it on Sam. However Jerry went one further, he told Sam what he was doing but left out Elizabeth's part in it. He also told her that if she said anything to anyone that he would have Jason killed. He forced her to stand there while Maureen kidnapped Jake and gave her explicit instructions on 'saving' Elizabeth and her kids in the park. Jerry had Elizabeth pay the actors to say Sam had hired them which is what led to the big 'I will kill you' conversation, right Jason?"
"Lucky?" Jason growls in anger.
"No don't get me wrong Jason, I hate that you threatened Sam but I do understand and more importantly so does Sam."
"You threatened Sam?" Carly says in shock.
"Yes I told her I'd kill her if she didn't stay away from Elizabeth and the boys. I was wrong and after I said it I knew I could never deliver on that vow."
"No more interruptions please I need to try and get this last part out so I can get away from Elizabeth before I do something I can't take back. Jerry did one other thing though before all was said and done. Over the course of a two week period he would break into the penthouse, don't ask me know because I don't know. What I do know is what he did over those two weeks."
"What Lucky" Jax yells. "Just what did my brother do?" he says almost afraid to hear the answer.
"I'm sorry Sam" Lucky says looking into her tear filled eyes looking for permission to proceed which he receives when she nods her head. Walking to the center of the room and looking around at everyone assembled at his 'will reading' he says the words that will forever change the lives of everyone in the room.
"He raped her!"
"Oh my God no" Alexis cries while Jax and Carly look at Sam with something that is not quite pity but something else nobody can explain.
Carly stands up and walks over to Sam who is now standing inside Jason's arms. She opens her arms and Sam slowly walks to her once enemy and Carly engulfs her in a hug surprising the entire room.
"Sam I am so sorry" Carly says rubbing the younger woman's hair as if trying to comfort her. "If you need anything and I mean anything I want to you come to me first do you hear me."
"Yes" muffles Sam.
Finally it's Jax's turn to comfort the woman who he shared a past with himself. "Sam I don't know what to say or how I can make this right for you. This is my fault, all my fault" Jax says with tears evident in his eyes. Pulling out of Carly's arms Sam wraps her arms around Jax and gives him a quick hug before looking up at the blonde man towering over her.
"You listen to me Jasper Jax" Sam says drawing a smile from many in the room. When Sam spoke everyone listened Jason thought with a smile. "You are not responsible for your brother's actions. I do not blame you and I think that I can speak for everyone when I say that you are just as much a victim of Jerry as I was. Do you understand me?" she finishes with a fiery look that shows everyone this is the Sam McCall they've all grown to love and respect.
"But if I hadn't protected him after the hostage situation" he starts to say but is stopped when Sam places her fingers across his lips promptly shutting him up.
"I said it's not your fault and that's that" she says and then standing on her tip toes gives him a kiss on the cheek before turning to look at Elizabeth.
"Now as for you Princess! I really can say you are the most evil, despicable woman I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. I never did anything to you in the beginning did I? All I did was fall in love with the man that you had convinced yourself was your soul mate which we all know is a lie because you have no soul.. I even took the blame for something I didn't do and had to listen to the man I love threaten my life. I had to live with Jerry raping me repeatedly but knowing that you put him up to that, maybe not directly but indirectly, knowing you'd been raped yourself in beyond redemption. Prison is not enough but it will do until you get true justice in hell."
With that Sam walks back to Jason and engulfs her in his arms. If there ever was a doubt that Sam and Jason were once involved it was laid to rest when he tilted her chin up and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Normally Jason was not one to show public emotion but he wanted to show her and everyone else in the room just how much he loved her.
"Well a public display of affection from Jason Morgan. Hell has officially frozen over" Maxie says causing a chuckle from several guests.
"Now as I said there was one more thing that Elizabeth was involved in. She didn't do this herself but it was her lack of action that is the biggest injustice in this matter. I have a surprise for both my brother and Jason.."
"Lucky no!" Elizabeth screams.
"What's wrong Elizabeth I think this person has waited long enough to come home."
"Who has Lucky" Jason says getting aggrevated at the delay.
"I have" someone says from the back causing everyone to turn and stare at a figure dressed in a white hooded jacket.
"I know that voice" Jason says.
"Well I should hope so." Suddenly the person lets the coat slide from their body causing everyone in the room to gasp.
"Emily!" Jason says in shock. He walks in front of his baby sister to look her in the eyes not really believing what he sees.
"Hello Jase" she says placing her hand on his cheek. "I've missed you big brother." Suddenly Emily finds herself wrapped in the strong arms of her brother. After a few minutes he lets her go and she turns to see the eyes of the man she loves more than life itself.
"Emily please tell me you are real and that I'm not just dreaming this" Nikolas says afraid to close his eyes for fear she'll disappear.
"No my love you aren't dreaming. I'm really here and I'm fine now" she says playing a gentle kiss on his lips before walking to Elizabeth. "As for you my best friend" she says before giving Elizabeth a solid right hook that knocks her right on her ass.
"Emily? What was that for?"
"How dare you ask me that. You knew that I was alive and that Helena was holding me hostage but you didn't do anything."
"Wait a minute Helena had you hostage?" Nik says filling with rage at mention of his grandmother's name. "How do you know Elizabeth knew you were alive?"
"Because Nikolas I saw her and she saw me. Isn't that right Elizabeth? Helena had summoned her to the house she was keeping me at on the pretense of saying she was going to reveal the affair you two were having to Lucky but I think she wanted Elizabeth to know I was alive and to see what she would do with the knowledge being she was suddenly in love with you."
"Emily I'm so sorry."
"No Nikolas I am not angry at you for moving, it's what I would have wanted for you. I would have rather you chosen someone other than my supposed 'best friend'. I'm angry because she was supposed to be my friend and I assumed she would come back and tell either you, Lucky or even Jason that I was alive but after a couple weeks passed I realized exactly what had happened. She didn't want to lose you and she was afraid if you knew I was alive that you would …"
"Drop her like a bad habit" he finishes for her. "Well she would have been right. Emily you are the love of my life. All others pale in comparison." Suddenly he turns to his brother. "Thank you for bringing her home to me but how did you find out."
"Helena let it slip in one of her tirades about Emily. She said she had finally gotten her out of your life. Well supposedly Diego had killed Emily so I investigated. I found proof that Diego had been hired by Helena, that's how he got into Windamere the night of the ball. I simply followed her car one morning and after snooping around I found Emily in a dungeon in the basement."
"I'm home now that's all that matters" Emily says before walking over to Sam. "I am so sorry at what you have been put there and I want to apologize for not believing in what you and Jason have. It's obvious you love each other very much and I didn't have enough respect for that. I tried to push him to Elizabeth and I was wrong. Can you ever forgive me?"
"There's nothing to forgive Emily. She was your best friend and he is your brother. I'm just glad you are home. You have no idea how much you were missed" Sam says before wrapping the younger woman in a hug.
"Mac can I ask a favor?" Jason says prompting heads to turn so fast he'd swear someone had broken their neck.
"A favor from me? This ought to be good."
"Can you please get this woman" Jason says looking with disgust to Elizabeth "out of our sight."
"It will be my pleasure" Mac says before nodding to his officers. "Gentlemen please remove Ms Webber from the premises" he says with a big smile on his face. "Now I'm going to leave all of you to your own devices. I trust you all can behave yourselves. Oh hell that isn't going to work. Just try not to kill each other would you?"
After Mac and the rest of the PCPD leave with Elizabeth in tow nobody quite knows what to say to each other. Carly being Carly makes the first move.
"Well this is awkward. Are there any more surprises anyone is waiting to spring on us."
"I have one" Jason says quietly.
"Jason I don't think I can take anymore surprises tonight" Sam says fearful of what else is left until she sees a smile come across his face.
"Well Jason you might as well enlighten us" Jax says even though he's pretty sure what the surprise is when he says Jason take Sam's hands in his and look into her eyes.
"Sam this surprise is for you but I'm glad our friends and family are here. Despite everything we've been through, here we still are. No matter what or who has been thrown at us we are back where we should have been all alone … together. So I just have one question for you Sam."
"Ok?" Sam says not sure if she's ready for another revelation after the day she has had. She looks into the eyes of the man she loves and braces herself for his question.
"Will you marry me?"