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21.) Enemies Will Get Caught in Her Webber.
"Slow down Sonny, say that again the phone's breaking up…What about Cameron?"
Hearing Jason say Cameron's name stilled Elizabeth's descent. She turned to look at Jason, and he had his head bowed in concentration. Rather than go back up, she knew that she could trust Jason to tell her anything that Sonny had to say about Cameron, so she continued to go down the steps.
"I wonder what Sonny was saying about Cam?" Emily whispered.
"Jason will tell us. It's better we let Sonny and Jason talk without interrupting them. Sonny, no matter how he may feel about me would never knowingly let anything happen to a child."
"About that, I was surprised to hear that you went to Sonny and Max for fake I.D.s and passports, and not Jason. Equally surprising was the fact that Sonny was so cold in his dealings with you. I thought you two were at one point friends." Emily said as she made her way to the kitchen walking behind Elizabeth.
Francis was already in there, having just made a sandwich for himself.
Elizabeth set about getting some crackers and water to snack on she offered some to Emily which Emily took before Elizabeth answered, "We were friends at one point. I even sat with him the night that Carly miscarried, and held him while he cried. He did the same thing for me the night we thought that Lucky died. You want some water to go with your sandwich, Francis? Emily you want some water to go with your crackers?"
"No thank you, Doll," Francis replied.
"I'll take some. I don't get it, what changed?" Emily asked as Elizabeth handed her a bottled water.
"That's easy…Ric."
"Jason ended up with Courtney, and I ended up with Ric, and Carly ended up in a panic prison room."
"Sonny blames you for that?" Francis asked.
"To this day, Sonny, treats me as if I was aware the whole time or something. Granted, I was warned. But I was warned by Faith Roscoe, and Jason. But Jason and Ric both disliked each other, and I just thought it was a trust issue. As far as Faith was concerned, she was manipulative and I thought she wanted my husband. Which she did. I should've let that barracuda have him, it would've saved me a lot of heartache. I was just a trusting, naïve fool, who wanted to believe that her husband loved her. In return, I ended up with a snake who never loved anyone and almost got me killed several times."
"You never told me how you found out about Carly being locked away." Emily stated.
"Oh…well…that," Elizabeth said taking a swig of water.
"I've never heard this story," said Francis.
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…Meanwhile back upstairs.
"I said you need to run a paternity test on Cameron. We have reason to believe that biologically he's yours," said Sonny.
"Whose we and why do you think that?" asked Jason.
"Let me put you speaker, so Carly can tell you herself." Sonny explained.
"Jase, it's me."
"Hey," said Jason, "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything. I didn't mean to overhear it, but I did."
"Go on. You certainly have my attention now," Jason added.
"I was walking on the docks, when I saw Helena Cassadine. She was waiting for someone. Turns out it was Ric. He was late getting to the party. Anyways, he told her that the baby that Elizabeth is carrying is yours, which brought up some other crazy revelations. Apparently, Ric and Courtney were married to each other in 2003, maybe before then. They both came to town to ruin Sonny. When Sonny chose you, Ric decided to target Elizabeth and he had Courtney target you. Helena knew about it the whole time, and was in on it."
"Okay, but that doesn't explain Cameron," Jason said unconvinced, but open.
"Well Helena indicated to Ric that Cameron was your first born and that you didn't even know it, and neither does Elizabeth. The whole plan being to get Elizabeth pregnant, and kidnap the baby. You wouldn't be the wiser and Courtney and Ric would raise your child as an act of revenge," Carly said.
"Well Courtney certainly had access to my DNA. This would mean that Zander was possibly in on it, or maybe not? I mean who knows," Jason said.
"Zander worked for Faith, I bet he was in on it. 2003 was a rough year for Elizabeth. It was one of the few times I felt pity for her. I feel bad, I pushed Courtney right towards you. Jase, I'm…I'm so sorry," Carly stated completely defeated at this point.
"We all made mistakes that year, Carly. Thanks for telling me about this," Jason added.
"When you talk to Elizabeth, tell her I said that I'm sorry, and thank her for me."
"I'll pass that along. What are you thanking her for?" asked Jason curiously.
"She was right about Helena targeting me and the boys. She wants to create problems between Mama and Luke, but the added security deterred her, for the moment at least."
"I'll let her know that her warning helped. Sonny maybe we need to send Carly, Bobbie, Lulu and the boys to a different locale if you catch my meaning."
"I'll discuss it with them and get back to you," Sonny replied vaguely.
"Thanks for the update," Jason said.
"No problem," Sonny replied before ending the call.
Jason made his way downstairs and could hear the beginning of a story as he made his way to the kitchen, but stopped just short to hear what was being said by Emily, Elizabeth, and Francis.
"You never told me how you found out about Carly being locked away." Emily stated.
"Oh…well…that," Elizabeth said taking a swig of water.
"I've never heard this story," said Francis.
"Well, it all started when I met with Sonny at the park and asked him not to kill Ric, which in retrospect was stupid. I asked him, based on the friendship that we used to have not harm Ric; that Ric was going to give up his obsession with him and Jason, because we had a baby on the way."
"Sounds like a reasonable request," Emily stated.
"At the time, given that I didn't know what an ass Ric was it seemed reasonable to me. Anyways, as soon as Sonny left, I began my descent down the steps and was pushed with significant enough force to render me unconscious and kill my baby."
Francis sighed, "I don't know how much one person is supposed to suffer but I think you've more than had your fill."
"Thanks Francis, but 2003, was as Queen Elizabeth II put it, 'My annus horrilibus,' I guess this year was my family's annus horrilibus. Anyway, I told Ric when I awoke that I had just met with Sonny, but that I didn't think he would do a thing like that. Ric wouldn't let it go. He was so certain it was Sonny. Sonny, who I'd never seen be forceful with anyone, especially a woman. I just couldn't believe it and he was so angry with me for defending Sonny. We had some arguments about that, and Sonny flat out denied hurting me, which I believed, but Ric didn't. I guess Ric got it in his head that Carly and Sonny's unborn baby Morgan would be the perfect replacement, so he kidnapped Carly at Jason and Courtney's wedding and hid her in a panic room that he had made before he even showed me the house."
"How did you make the discovery," Emily asked.
"I had just gotten home from seeing Dr. Meadows and had been given clean bill of health to go ahead try for another baby. I was so excited that I planned a picnic for Ric at the park to tell him our exciting news. What I didn't know was that while we were at the park Ric decided to dose my drink with birth control pills, and that was on top of the pills that he'd given me that morning that I didn't know about. It was important that I not get pregnant, because then there would've been no reason to kidnap Carly."
"That son of bitch," Francis said shaking his head, "Just why is he still breathing?"
"I knew he was responsible for what happened I just didn't realize it was that nefarious, Elizabeth," Emily said.
Jason just against the wall listening. 'I almost lost her in 2003, and for what?' Jason thought, 'Courtney is my biggest regret. That and not killing Ric.'
"Yeah, so get this. Ric thought he was so clever, but he left the bookshelf door ajar, and I went to straighten out the shelf and noticed a peculiar button, which I of course pressed. And wouldn't you know that when I pressed the button, the door to the panic room slid back and out came an ankle chained Carly."
"Oh you must have freaked out Elizabeth," Emily said.
"I was horrified. Everything I was building my life upon was a lie and hanging in the balance was Carly and her unborn baby. I almost had a mental breakdown there, but managed to pull it together enough to walk over to her and try to help her get free. Carly, told me to call 911, that Ric had the key, so I walked over to the phone and started to dial, but by the time I got to the phone a pulmonary embolism caused by the insane amount of birth control given to me and the shock of finding Carly, caused me to collapse, my last memory, is of me throwing the phone to Carly at her request before I passed out. And that's how I found Carly. Not that it mattered much. I might as well been as guilty as Ric, for all Sonny has been concerned. I can't say that I blame him. I didn't listen when Jason and Sonny warned me. I honestly don't know how Jason could even stand to look at me."
"Elizabeth," Francis started, "You have a great loyal heart. Ric took advantage of that. He saw how hurt you were that year in your breakup with Jason and used that against you. You would never hurt Carly, Sonny or Jason intentionally."
"So what happened when you woke up?" Emily asked.
"Well after they removed the Pulmonary Embolism, I had a heart attack and went completely Asystole, and was brought back."
'I remember that,' Jason thought, 'the worst moment of my life up until that point.'
"I didn't remember everything at first, but then I had a rather unwelcome visitor in my room and was reminded of the panic room."
"Who was the visitor?" Francis asked.
"Lorenzo Alcazar."
"Lorenzo Alcazar visited you?" Francis asked.
"Yeah."
'Son of a bitch,' Jason thought, 'She may as well faced the entire mob that year.'
"What did he say?"
"He told me that my husband was very dangerous, and that he'd observed Ric hold a pillow to my face earlier in the day but was interrupted, and that he held Carly hostage in a hidden room."
"Did he tell you why he decided to divulge this information to you?" Francis asked.
"He said that he thought I was a good woman who'd been hurt too many times. Apparently, he'd been in my home a lot. When we weren't there."
"Did you remember the panic room at some point?" Emily asked.
"I didn't remember the panic room right away, but about 15 minutes after Alcazar left I recalled the room, and seeing Carly and I called the police to make a statement against Ric."
"My God, Elizabeth," Emily started, "He was going to kill you. I mean he had actual intent to kill you."
"I know," Elizabeth stated.
"Why did you go back?" Francis asked.
"I don't know. I wanted to try to love him. I mean if I couldn't have Jason, which is who I wanted all along, at least Ric was interested and occasionally attentive, when he wasn't trying to kill me. I walked out of Jason's Penthouse a damn fool and into the arms of the Devil himself, and that's what young and naïve will get you, but no more."
'She wanted me all along. I should've gone after her. Stubborn idiots. He was gonna kill her,' Jason thought as tears streamed down his face.
"You don't really see Ric anymore. Do you, Elizabeth?"
"Well not really, Francis. Until this year."
"What does that mean?" Francis asked.
"It means that once he found out I was pregnant, he's been strangely attentive. I've maintained an uncomfortable cordiality with him throughout the years in passing, but things took at a strange turn in October."
"How so?" Emily asked.
"I must've forgotten to tell you, with all of Lucky garbage going on. Ric propositioned me to become his wife again should Alexis die, because I'm so good with kids. I mean can you believe that crap? Be a mother to his child. I shudder to think, then a month later he corners me at the hospital and threatens to kill this baby and have Cameron and Aurora taken from me. The day he takes my children is the day that I kill him."
Shaking his head Jason emerged from around the corner, "That day may be sooner than you think. You didn't tell me about the pillow incident."
"It never came up. Honestly, until I regaled this whole story, I forgot about it, but it happened," Elizabeth stated.
"Of that I have no doubt, and here's why…"
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Port Charles
All of Port Charles high society was gathered in remembrance of the late Dr. Sarah Webber, but there was one distinct absence that people were starting to notice.
Nik, stood stoically to the side. Sarah had once been his childhood sweetheart. For her to die in such a grizzly manner was awful.
"Where's Elizabeth?" Lulu asked.
"She's probably not coming." Nik replied.
"She's so selfish. I mean first she won't reconcile with Lucky, and then she lies to him about him not being the father their unborn baby, and now her sister is viscously murdered and she's too important to show up."
Carly walked in and listened to her cousin rant, while shaking her head, 'God is this what I sound like all the time? Do the right thing Carly.'
"Lulu, there's a lot you don't know about. Maybe now isn't the best time to pass judgment. Elizabeth may have reasons for why she can't be here. I mean Emily as I understand it, was friends with Sarah and isn't in attendance either. There's just a lot going on. I think you should calm down and…and come talk to me for a moment."
"You hate Elizabeth, why are you defending her?"
"Let's just say, that I may have condemned her too soon. There's things that she does that grate my nerves, but she's not a bad person. Just come sit down with me. We'll go to Kelly's after this and have a talk."
"Fine," Lulu said miffed.
"Hey mama."
"Carly, correct me if I'm wrong but did I hear you just defend Elizabeth."
"You may have, but this doesn't get back to the muffin."
Bobbie just shook her head and laughed to herself.
It was at this point that a barely sober Lucky Spencer came into the room. As expected he greeted his sister and his brother and then slowly made his way to the coffin. Kneeling down at the altar, that lie where the coffin was Lucky began to pretend to pray over his old friend Sarah.
"Dear Lord…" Lucky began looking around as he whispered, "I'm sorry I had to kill you Sarah, but I need Elizabeth back in my life. She's mine. She has to pay for having a baby with someone else. I'm going to make her pay. She'll bleed much like I made you bleed, and so will the father of her baby."
Lucky got up from the altar not knowing that his confession had been videotaped for all of WSB to hear and see.
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Back in Cortona.
"Of that I have no doubt, and here's why. I think Ric has always planned on killing you."
"What…why?" Elizabeth asked.
"I just got off the phone with Sonny. It turns out that you were probably never legally married to Ric and I was never legally married to Courtney, because they were married to each other. I'm going to have to look up the records to find out when they got married."
"How was this information revealed?" Elizabeth asked.
"Carly was hanging around the docks again and overheard a conversation between Helena Cassadine and Ric, of all people."
Elizabeth started to become visibly ill as Jason walked up to her and said, "We were played. There's more, do you think you can handle hearing more?"
"Does it have to do with Cameron?"
"Yeah."
"Oh God, please tell me he's not actually Ric's. I might vomit right here."
"Actually, you might be relieved when you hear who the alternative is."
"Oh God, is it Sonny? Did…did they conspire against Sonny, by impregnating me with his…his…his biological material?"
"Actually, what was revealed on the docks is not that far off. It's not his material. They said it was mine."
"Yours?" Liz looked up with a mixture of hope and relief, and a smile.
"Mine," Jason said as he nudged his face toward hers, "We'll get tested this week."
"If this is true, it's the best news in hours. But…but that would mean that I…I kept you from your child," Elizabeth looked suddenly sad.
"I got to feel his first kick and you never turned down an opportunity to let me hold him. Elizabeth, if what they said is true, then you were a victim in this, and were violated at some point in order to make this happen. That's important to keep in mind."
"That is true, but if it turns out that you're the father of Cameron, then the violation while awful, will have been worth it. Cameron will have his real father in the man that I love. You will know your first born, and they won't win. I won't let them win. This is a violation if true that I can live with," Elizabeth said as she turned her small hand into a fist.
Looking up at Jason, Elizabeth regained her strength.
"Wow," said Emily, "You two know how to bring the drama without even trying."
"They've just sealed their fate. If they thought that this revelation would someday destroy me to essentially be raped twice. They were mistaken. I'm going to enjoy every second of taking down every single one of the bastards who played a part in this. Anyone who has hurt me or my family, to include my extended family, will not be getting second chances," Elizabeth said.
"How do you plan on accomplishing that?" Francis asked.
"After our son is born," Elizabeth said looking at Jason before continuing, "I'm going to spend all my time training: Fighting, shooting, driving and most importantly learning more about psychological warfare. When I'm not with the kids, this will be what I dedicate my life to. They fucked with the wrong one."
"Elizabeth, are you serious?" asked Emily.
"I am. I have children to protect, and people to kill," Elizabeth said before marching off.
In the distance they could hear Elizabeth calling the dogs out for their afternoon training.
"My God, she's serious," Francis said unbelieving, "Jason, are you okay with this?"
"I don't know…but I'm not upset with her for wanting to be able to defend herself and our children. I'll just have to be supportive and hope she doesn't get into too much trouble."
"You guys are thinking she's going to be another Carly. Elizabeth is nothing like her. She's a planner. Elizabeth generally doesn't go out of her way to be vindictive…anymore, but I knew her before the rape and let me tell you, we all may have underestimated just how dangerous Elizabeth can be."
"What do you mean, Em?" Jason asked.
"I mean that there's a part of Elizabeth that used to be incredibly vindictive. The kind of vindictive that you don't see coming until it's too late, and you realize you never had a chance. Elizabeth used to be great at psychological warfare. I watched her torture Sarah. In some cases Sarah had it coming, in other cases it was Elizabeth being cruel. I think Helena may have made a critical error, and Ric just broke the proverbial camel's back."
"I'm finding this hard to believe," Jason said having never seen this side of Elizabeth.
"Me too," said Francis, "This is a little hard to take. Don't get me wrong. I will support her efforts, it's just that it seems so unlike her."
"Well the rape changed her, but it didn't kill her. It made her patient. Kind of like a spider and now she's going to let her enemies come to her. Where she'll be awaiting…and they'll get caught in Webber's Web."
I just want to thank the readers for their continued support. This has been a fun project and your kind words and interest have made all the difference. Thanks Dani, I fixed the error! LOL!