A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 21
The General Hospital fundraiser for the Michael Corinthos foundation was a big deal. The annual event was something that the citizens of Port Charles looked forward to all year long. This year it was being held in the ballroom at the Metro Court. That's why Sonny's guards and some men that Stefan had hired were stationed all around to make sure that nothing went wrong.
Jason was pulling at the collar of his shirt while he sipped absentmindedly on a glass of scotch. His sharp blue eyes scanned the room for any signs of Helena. He knew that she wasn't due in for another few days, but with her you could never be sure.
"Jason, my boy, it's good to see you." Edward said coming up to him and patting him on the back.
"Hello, grandfather," Jason replied shaking his hand.
"How are Lila and Jake?" Edward inquired about his great grandchildren.
"They are really good." Jason answered him.
"What about the new baby?" Edward asked. He wouldn't admit it to anyone but Jason was his favorite.
"Everything with him looks really good and he is healthy." Jason informed him.
"Another boy that is exciting." Edward commented.
"Edward, I see the wheels in your head turning and I will tell you what I told Uncle Stefan, don't get any ideas." Sam warned him walking up to the two men.
"Hello, Sam." Edward greeted her kissing her hand.
"Hi, Edward." Sam replied.
"How were the kids?" Jason asked.
"Morgan, Molly, and Spencer were keeping them entertained. Dad has a guard right outside the door. Milo and Spin are both in there with them. They are fine there is nothing for us to worry about." Sam assured him.
"Do you think Helena is going to show tonight?" Jason asked her.
"Jase, I don't think she's in town yet we would know about it." Sam replied.
"That is nasty business, I will be happy for you when it is all over with. Lord knows I hope that it is over soon for Emily's sake. I can't bear the thought of anyone taking her from us again." Edward said shaking his head.
Carly came over that moment to save Sam and Jason from Edward, "Edward, come dance with me."
"I would love to dance with you." Edward said taking her hand.
"Thank God, I know that he means well, but he can get on my nerves." Jason said with a sigh.
"Jase, I promise you that everything is going to be ok." Sam swore to her husband.
Jason put his arm around her. "I'm going to hold you to that." He told her.
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Luke Spencer glided into the ballroom he was dressed very sharply. He slid up behind his wife without her knowing. "Hey, Angel, come here often?" he whispered in her ear.
"Lucas Lorenzo Spencer, don't you dare try coming on to me and think that it is going to make up for you being gone for months." Laura scolded him.
"But, Angel, it was for a good cause." Luke argued.
"You're lucky that I know you were doing this for Sam or I would be very unhappy with you." Laura told him.
"I assure you that this was purely altruistic and I in no way benefited from it." Luke was laying it on thick.
"Luke, I refuse to believe that you didn't find some poor unsuspecting person to fleece while you were away." Laura said arching her eyebrow at him.
"Ok, so maybe I ran a con or two, but I had to do something to survive." Luke admitted.
"I know you, Luke, you ran more than a few and there are probably international warrants out for your arrest." Laura said shaking her head at her husband.
"There are no international warrants out for my arrest but I would stay away from the Star for a little while if I were you." Luke mentioned in passing.
"I'll have bail money ready if you need it." Laura told him. She knew what loving Luke entailed and she was more than willing to put up with it.
"That's why I love you." Luke replied leaning in to kiss her.
"I heard that Helena is coming to town." Laura commented.
"That's why I came back. I didn't want you here unprotected. Not after all the hell the Cassadines have put you through already." Luke was dead serious for once in his life.
"Lucky already warned me about her arrival and I have been prepared. Nik also came by to make sure that I knew what was going on." Laura told him.
"I do believe that we won't have to worry about that vampire for much longer. Jason will do away with her for messing with his family." Luke assured her.
"Luke, I don't think you would know what to do with yourself if Helena actually kicked the bucket." Laura laughed at him.
"I would find something to do with my time. The world would be a much better place without that hag." Luke replied rolling his eyes. His feud with Helena had been going on so long he almost couldn't remember why he hated her so.
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"Give me one good reason why I can't smack her just once." Carly said when she saw Elizabeth walk in on Ric's arm.
"Carly, that would be assault and then we would have to get Alexis to keep you out of jail." Kristina pointed out to her friend.
"I'm thinking that it would be worth the risk though." Carly replied thoughtfully.
"Carly, you're going to behave like a reasonable adult for once in your life." Alexis told her sternly.
"You know that that is no fun for me, Lex." Carly said with a pout on her face.
"I know and it is a miracle that we have been able to keep you out of jail this long." Alexis said shaking her head.
"I'm not that bad." Carly argued.
"Carly, you can't even make that argument when I know the things that I know about you." Kristina countered.
"So maybe I am that bad, but that doesn't mean I'm that bad all of the time." Carly replied.
"You can prove that to us by leaving Ric and Elizabeth alone tonight. As long as they don't say anything to you, you won't have to talk to them." Alexis told her.
"You just had to marry him." Carly said rolling her eyes.
"I know that I have poor taste in men. Jax is the most normal man I've ever been with and then he has his moments when he isn't all that great." Alexis snorted.
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"I would really like to go over and knock the smug smirk off of his face." Sonny said he was glaring daggers at his brother. He still hadn't dropped the whole custody case with Molly and Sonny wasn't happy about that.
"Sonny, it would only hurt your chances of beating him in court." Jax told him.
"He's not taking that little girl away from her mother and I. I will die before I let that happen." Sonny stated firmly.
"Sonny, I'm sure that it won't come to that." Stefan said rolling his eyes. Sonny had a flair for being dramatic.
"I don't understand why you guys won't just let me make him disappear." Sonny grumbled.
"Alexis has vetoed that idea, she said the first person they would look at is Jason and she doesn't want to put Sam through that kind of stress right now." Jax replied. For once in his life he actually agreed with Sonny, everyone would be better off if Ric just disappeared.
"The only reason he is safe right now is because Samantha is pregnant or I would gladly help Sonny do away with him." Stefan said through clenched teeth. The world really would be a better place without Ric in it.
"What are we going to do about Helena?" Sonny asked changing the subject slightly.
"I've sent Spencer away from Wyndemere. I know that is the first place my mother is likely to show up. I don't know what more to do other than that right now. We don't know if she is planning anything." Stefan replied.
"I was hoping that we could make her disappear." Jax knew that his wife would be better off if they got rid of her stepmother.
"I'm sure that that can be arranged. Although we all know that she doesn't stay dead." Sonny sighed. There was really nothing that they could do about Helena the old bat seemed to survive everything that they threw at her.
"Poison seems to work well with her. I'm not saying that it would kill her, but we would all be safer if she were in a coma." Stefan suggested.
"That is in an interesting theory that we should look further into." Sonny agreed.
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"Johnny, I agree your new shop is going to be totally sweet." Michael told his brother.
"I was thinking that if you wanted to you could be a mechanic." Johnny replied.
"I think that can be arranged. I just have to have a lot of time off because of school. Law school isn't as easy as one might think." Michael agreed.
"Law school is a pain in the ass, but that is just my opinion on the matter." Kristina put her two cents into the conversation.
"Krissy, I have a job for you if you want it.' Johnny told his little sister excitedly.
"What kind of job?" Kristina asked.
"I think that you would make a perfect receptionist." Johnny informed her.
"I think that that would actually be a good distraction." Kristina said.
"Good, then it's settled. Molly and I just have to get it decorated and get some tools ordered and we will be in business." Johnny was really excited about opening his shop it gave him something to look forward to and it made school more bearable for him.
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Claudia was standing out on the balcony she needed some time alone to get some air. She had seen Ric walk in with Elizabeth and after a brief conversation with Kristina she had found out that for the last several months she had been sleeping with the man who was causing her family so many problems. She didn't know how she could have been so stupid.
Her eyes darkened when Ric stepped out on the balcony next to her. "Fancy running into you here." he said by way of greeting.
"I think you knew that I would be here, Ric." Claudia said acid dripping from her words.
"I see you figured out who I am. I guess that is only fair, I have always known who you are, Claudia." Ric replied.
"What did you get out of all of this? Did you get some sick sense of pleasure knowing that you were sleeping with your brother's daughter?" Claudia asked him hotly. She was pissed that she had allowed herself to be used by this scum.
"You can't stand there and pretend that you didn't want it. On some level you had to have known that I wasn't any good for you, but that never stopped you from coming back for more." Ric put his mouth close to her ear as he taunted her.
"You are nothing more than a twisted pig and if I had known who you were I would have never had anything to do with you." Claudia spit out venom clinging to her words as she spoke.
"We both know that you don't go for men who are good for you. You go for the men who are going to use you like the slut that you are." Ric said grabbing her by the arm.
"Let go of me right now, Ric." Claudia demanded through clenched teeth.
"What are you going to do about it if I don't?" Ric asked her.
"You don't want to test me right now, Ric, we both know who my father is." Claudia seethed at him.
"We do know who your father is and we both know that it isn't my brother. My father worked for your crazy father for years. I'm pretty sure that you turned out more like Anthony than your brother did." Ric taunted grabbing her arm harder.
"Ric, I mean you better let me go right now." Claudia ordered again.
"I would like to see what you do if I don't." Ric said with a smug smirk. Before either of them knew it Claudia wheeled around and smacked him as hard as she could across his face.
"Claudia, is everything alright out here?" Lucky asked stepping out onto the balcony. He had seen Ric grab Claudia and he had come rushing over.
"Spencer, make yourself useful and arrest her she just assaulted me." Ric ordered him.
"Ric, you're not the DA anymore I don't have to take orders from you." Lucky sneered at him.
"Lucky, don't, you know that he isn't worth it. He would love to make you lose your temper right now." Claudia urged her friend.
Lucky took Claudia's hand. "Come on, Claudia, let's go back inside." He said.
"Don't think that this is over." Ric warned them both.
"What the fuck is his problem?" Lucky asked her.
"It's a long story, Lucky." Claudia replied.
"I'll go get us a drink and you can tell me all about it." Lucky told her with a smile. Ever since Sam and Jason's wedding those two had been sending out signals to each other.
"Thanks, Lucky," Claudia said giving him a small smile.
"You don't have to thank me. I will save you from Ric anytime you need me to." Lucky assured her.
Claudia woke up the next morning with her head spinning and the bright sunlight was playing hell on her hangover sensitive eyes. It took her a moment to get her bearings and realize that she wasn't alone. She groaned when she saw who was lying in bed next to her completely naked. "Lucky, wake up." She said shaking the detective roughly. She was just glad that they had stumbled to her apartment instead of her parents' house.
Lucky rolled over and put his arm over his eyes to keep the light from bothering him. "Just give daddy five more minutes and he will be ready to get up, Cam." He said not realizing where he was.
"I hate to break it to you, but I'm not Cam." Claudia told him.
"Jesus Christ, Claudia," Lucky said whipping his head around to look at her. "What the fuck happened last night?" he asked.
"I think that you and I fucked for lack of a better term." Claudia told him bluntly.
"Oh, God, this can't be happening." Lucky muttered to himself.
"I'm sure I wasn't that bad." Claudia said pretending to be hurt.
"Claudia, that's not what I meant. I'm really too old to be waking up in bed next to someone without having any clue of how I got there in the first place." Lucky ranted.
"Believe it or not, I did know what you meant, Lucky. It was a moment of weakness on both of our parts and we can pretend like it never happened." Claudia replied.
"I don't think I like you filing me under the same category as Ric in your memory bank." Lucky joked with her.
"You're not even close to being in the same category as Ric." Claudia assured him.
"That is good to know." Lucky replied with a smile.
"Lucky, you don't have to go right now if you don't want to." Claudia rested her chin on his chest and looked up at him with her big brown eyes.
"Claudia, I don't think that I want to go anywhere right now. As long as we are filing this under the it never happened category I figured that we might as well know what we're forgetting." Lucky said before capturing her lips with his. A small part of his brain was screaming at him to stop. He shouldn't be doing this just yet he was still on the rebound from Elizabeth.
Claudia, you really don't want to be doing this with Lucky Spencer of all people, he is still on the rebound from that floor whore. Damn, this boy sure knows how to kiss though. Claudia thought to herself as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Easy, Lucky, you have to remember that Claudia Corinthos is nowhere near as tough as she acts like she is. The last thing you want to do is hurt her that wouldn't be good for either one of you. Lucky cautioned himself but that didn't stop him from tangling his hand in her hair.
"Lucky, I don't want you to stop." Claudia moaned into his mouth.
"Good, because I don't want to stop." Lucky replied he flipped them over so that he was hovering above the muscles in his arms bulged from supporting his weight on them.
Jason smiled when he looked down at his daughter whom he had his arm wrapped around. Apparently at some point during the night she had gotten cold and she was now snuggled up to him as close as she could get. He brushed her chocolate brown locks out of her face and pressed a kiss to her forehead. He couldn't have imagined that he could ever be this happy, not after everything that he had gone through with losing his memory and the things that he had done since working for Sonny.
He looked over at his wife and his son who both slept like the dead and they would get pissed if they got woke up before they were ready. He had to chuckle because as much as Jake looked like him he was exactly like Sam and Jason liked the idea of that. He hoped that their new son would be just as perfect a combination of the two of them as the other two were. He reached over and gently rubbed Sam's swollen belly and he smiled again. He was glad that he was able to go through this with her again knowing that the child she was carrying was his from the beginning. He didn't get to be a part of Elizabeth's pregnancy when she was carrying Jake and there had been the possibility that Lila was Lucky's hanging over their heads.
Lila stirred in his arms and looked up at him with her big brown eyes. She was a light sleeper just like he was. Sam had insisted that the kids sleep with them last night because she didn't want to take the chance of Helena getting to them if she made it into town. "I'm hungry, daddy." The little girl told her father.
Jason got out of bed and threw a shirt on before scooping his daughter up in his arms. "Let's go make breakfast then we can bring it up here and eat with mommy and Jakie." He suggested knowing that she would love the idea. Plus he had a present for Sam from himself and the kids. It was an early Christmas present of sorts and he knew that the kids couldn't wait to give it to her.
"Yay," Lila cheered she didn't have to fear waking her mother or her brother up.
Jason carried his daughter down to the kitchen and stood her on a chair so that she could help him make breakfast. He thanked God everyday that she could cook unlike her mother. "Do you want anything special?" he asked her.
"Pancakes," Lila answered him.
"I think we can do that." Jason agreed with her. He mixed everything together in the bowel and then he let Lila stir for him.
"Is there anything that you wanted to add?" Jason asked with a smile.
"Chocolate chips," Lila, said with a grin. She was like her mother in that respect. Jason handed her a bag of chocolate chips and let her add as many as she wanted to.
Twenty minutes later Jason and Lila brought a tray up to the bedroom that was filled with food. Lila woke Sam and Jake up by jumping on the bed.
"What do we have here? Jake, I think daddy and Lila made us breakfast." Sam told her son.
"Jake is hungry." Jake said they still hadn't figured out why the boy talked about himself in the third person sometimes. Their best guess was he spent too much time with Spinelli.
The little family ate in silence for a while until Jason spoke up. "Lila, why don't you and Jake go get the pictures you made for mommy?" he asked them.
"Ok, daddy." Lila and Jake agreed in unison.
"Jason, what are you up to?" Sam asked her husband as she watched her kids run down the hall.
"Nothing," Jason replied innocently.
A minute later Jake and Lila came back with pictures that they had drawn and they gave them to Sam. "These are really good you guys." She told them kissing each of them on the head.
"I made you a picture too, Sam." Jason told his wife. He got up and went to the closet where he pulled out a long tube.
"Jason, what is that?" Sam asked him.
Jason pulled a blueprint out of the tube and rolled it out for her. "This is our house, I figured with the new baby coming that this penthouse is going to get a little crowded and I wanted the kids to have room to branch out." he explained to her.
"Jase, we don't have a house." Sam told him like he was talking crazy.
"You're right, we don't yet. I bought us piece of property right next to your mother's house and I thought that we could build on it. If there are any specifications that you want made all you have to do is tell the contractor and it's yours. This way we have room to grow." Jason replied.
"Next to my mother?" Sam asked him with an arched eyebrow.
"She is your mom, Sam, and I know how close you are to her. The kids love their grandma and it's not that big of a deal." Jason said with a shrug.
"You're right it's not, it's a huge deal. Jase, I can't believe that you did all of this for me." Sam said throwing her arms around his neck.
"I didn't do this just for you, I did this for us. We are going to make sure that these kids have the life that we want for them and it starts with this house." Jason retorted.
"Jase, you're so great, I love you so much." Sam said pressing her lips to his.
"I love you too, Sam." Jason replied before kissing her again.
A/N: Here is the next chapter sorry that it took so long to get it out. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Ric is back to making an ass out of himself and I don't think that that is going to bode well for Claudia or Lucky for that matter something interesting just might happen because of it. Jason, Sam, Jake, and Lila make the cutest little family and I just love writing them. Jason does have a sweet side and I like being able to show it. Until next time please review.