"I don't know why I expected that you'd actually listen to your doctors and stay put," Robin said when Jason, Sam and Danny stepped off the elevator.
"I had somewhere I needed to be," he said, unlocking the door and letting Robin in. "Don't blame Sam, I woke up and left before she was up."
"I'm going to Grandma's for cookies!" Danny said happily to Robin.
"Oh, that sounds like so much fun!" Robin said. "I am here, as promised, to check up on you, Jason."
"I feel fine," he groaned as he sat down. "Better than ever, actually."
"Yeah, Robin will be the judge of that," Sam said, leaning over the back of the couch to kiss his cheek. "Robin, do you want anything?"
"No thanks, I'll be quick," she said as she sat down. "Any headaches?"
"Not really."
"And what do you mean by not really?"
"I mean my head is kind of sore, but I did fall off my bike yesterday," Jason said and gave her a look. "Really, I'm fine."
"I'm sure you are, but as someone who has been there through every brain injury you've had, I want to make sure. Call me neurotic," she shrugged.
"You never gave up on me," he said after a moment. "You could have just kept me in that lab, but you left your family to save me."
"I couldn't live with myself if I didn't. When Molly told me that Danny was yours, but that you died thinking he was Franco's, I knew what I had to do," she said, acting as if it was no big deal. "You were there for me when I thought I had no future, I wanted to do the same for you."
"I don't know how to thank you."
"Just be a good father to Danny, and the new baby," Robin smiled. "You never have to thank me, you should know that by now."
"How's Emily doing?" he asked. It was a lot harder knowing she was alive but still believing she was a different person now that his memories were back.
"She's happy she's finally able to leave. I won't know if the treatments work for a few weeks."
"I'm sure they will."
"I hope so," she sighed. "I should get going to head over there. Do you think it would be a good idea to bring Monica with me one day?"
"I think she'd love that," Jason nodded. "I was awful to my family over the years, wasn't I?"
"You were confused, the first accident was rough on everyone. They weren't the most understanding about it all, there were mistakes on both sides," she said. "Things seem better now."
"Thanks to Sam," he said with a smile. "She always wanted me to make amends with them, but it was hard."
"I'm very glad you found her," Robin said sincerely. "She's the only one who's ever really understood you, who never expected you to be someone your not."
"I can't see my life without her," he said simply.
"You won't have to," Robin smiled as she stood up. "You seem to be doing okay, take aspirin for your head. Make sure you call if the headaches get worse."
"Will do," he said, standing up to hug her. "Thank you for always being there."
"Same to you," Robin said before pulling away. Sam headed back downstairs once a Robin and Jason were done talking. "I'll let you know how things go with Emily."
"Oh, so you have a heads up, I told Maxie about Emily being Claudette yesterday," Sam said. "I have no idea what she's going to say to Nathan or when."
"Knowing Maxie she's going to plan some big conversation but end up exploding and blurting it out at the worst time," Robin sighed.
"Might be funny, maybe we'll be around when it happens," Sam said. "When are you heading back to California?"
"Hopefully soon. Kind of funny that I spend more time here now that we've moved away than I have in a while."
"Patrick understands," Sam said, knowing how much he loved Robin.
"I think if I don't come back before the end of the month, he'll come with Emma for a week or two," Robin smiled.
"Well, hopefully you guys can save some vacation days to come back in September when we renew our vows," Sam said with a smile as she walked over to Jason.
"It would mean a lot to the both of us if you guys could make it," Jason said.
"I'll make sure we put the dates in," Robin smiled, genuinely happy for Jason and Sam. "I'll talk to you guys later."
"Can we go to Grandma's now?" Danny asked as he walked down the stairs.
"Yeah, let's go," Jason laughed, picking up his son and carrying him out of the penthouse. Sam smiled as she followed them out, watching her favorite boys interact. She didn't think she'd ever get tired of seeing Danny with his father.
"Oh, you actually stayed here last night," Elizabeth said as she came downstairs and saw Lucky sitting on the couch with Aiden. "What a surprise."
"Aiden, why don't you tell your brothers if they get dressed, we can get breakfast and go to the park?" Lucky said and Aiden nodded in excitement, jumping off the couch and running upstairs. "I see you're still in a mood today."
"I'm sorry if I'm hurt that I can't help my friend while he's recovering and I have no one to stand up for me."
"Elizabeth, you don't see how crazy you've been acting," he said, no longer sugar coating things for her. "Jason is with Sam, they're married and they love each other. You two tried to date in the past and it didn't work out."
"We were supposed to get married not even a year ago."
"Yeah, and only you and Nikolas knew he was Jason! Jake Doe was under the assumption he has no family looking for him and you let him believe that while Sam grieved for him."
"She was doing just fine without him."
"That doesn't make it okay," he said, not believing she didn't realize how far gone she was. "You put your job in jeopardy yesterday, you realize that right?"
"I've been at that hospital for years, I'd fight it if they fired me for caring about a friend and because his wife can't handle that."
"And you'd lose because you harassed the Chief of Staff's son, you ignored the wishes of a patients wife to not treat him," Lucky said. "Our sons need you."
"That's rich coming from the father who went away for years, only calling every once in a while. Now that you're here, you spend all your time with Nikolas and Hayden, and if Sam calls you go running!"
"That's not true, Elizabeth," he said, shaking his head. "You don't know the full story."
"That's because no one tells me anything! You didn't even want to look into what happened to Jake when he was taken by Helena, I had to convince you, but then I'm the one who gets shut out and treated this way."
"You're being treated this way because of your actions, that's on you. You want to know what's going on? That's fine, but I don't think you can handle it."
"I'm not a delicate flower, Lucky."
"When Nikolas and I went away a few weeks ago, we went to the Cassadine property in Greece since Helena died there. We were hoping to find some documents or something that would lead us to where Jake was held. We found Emily Quartermaine instead."
"Emily's alive," Elizabeth gasped, tears filling her eyes at the thought that her best friend was alive. "She's been with Nikolas this entire time and you didn't think to tell me?"
"Sounding a little hypocritical there, Elizabeth," Lucky warned her and she stopped. "She has no memory of being Emily, she's lived as Claudette for years. She was married to Nathan West, but then divorced when they couldn't have children."
"What does this have to do with Jake?"
"She watched him and the other children," he said and nodded at the look of horror on her face. "Yeah. Helena was collecting children to raise some type of army that wouldn't be able to fight against her conditioning."
"Did she hurt him?"
"No, Emily said he didn't take well to the conditioning. He'd cry for us at night when she locked him away."
"And we thought he was dead," Elizabeth said as she cried.
"We had good reason to think so, we donated his kidneys," Lucky said. "She took him because of my family."
"Funny, because I never let Jason know him when I thought he was his because I thought it would put Jake in danger," Elizabeth said, laughing humorlessly. "So now what?"
"Robin is here to see if she can help get her memories back, but if you see Emily around town, she has no idea who you are."
"Everyone knows before me? You don't think I deserved to know?"
"After everything that you've done, no I didn't," Lucky said honestly. "I'm hoping that the fact that Jake needs his parents more than ever would help you focus on what's important, but I'm worried I was wrong about that."
"I have been here for him through everything! You drop him off and then show up months later because Nikolas called? What about all those times I called? We needed you here, I needed you."
"I know, I'm sorry. I should have come back sooner, but I'm trying to make amends for that and learn from my mistakes. Maybe you should do the same."
"Dad, we're ready to go," Cam said as he ran down the stairs, his brothers right behind him. "Is Mom coming too?"
"If she wants to," Lucky said. "Spending the day as a family would be nice."
"Yeah, please come, Mom," Jake said, taking Elizabeth's hand.
"How can I say no to that?" she said as she smiled down at him. Maybe Lucky was right. She needed to do better for her boys. She just prayed she could do that and hold out hope that Jason would come back to her.
"Danny, what are you doing?" Sam asked as she watched her son pull a key out of his pocket and open the front door to Quartermaine mansion. "Daniel Edward Morgan, we knock and wait for someone to answer the door, that was rude."
"How did he get a key?" Jason asked and Sam shrugged.
"Hello Morgan family," Alice said as she approached them. "I didn't hear the doorbell."
"That's because our son has a key apparently," Sam said. "I'm really sorry about that."
"Aunt Tracy said all the Quartermaines should have a key to the house and that I'm a Quartermaine," Danny said with a smile. "Dominator!"
"Danny!" she yelled back excitedly. "I have cookies in the oven for you."
"He's been looking forward to these cookies all morning," Jason said as he ruffled Danny's hair. "Is Monica around? I was hoping to talk to her."
"Yeah, I'll let her know you're all here. You can wait in the living room," Alice said.
"I think I need to talk to Tracy," Sam said and Jason laughed.
"I didn't think of all people that Tracy would have a soft spot for my son," Jason said and smiled when he said it.
"Feels good knowing he's yours, doesn't it?" Sam said knowingly.
"I would have loved him either way, but yeah it does," he said, leaning down to kiss her.
"If you all could refrain from having an orgy in my living room, it would be greatly appreciated. This isn't the '60s," Tracy said grumpily as she walked in from the yard.
"What," Sam asked as she turned around and then noticed the couple on the couch. "Oh, awkward."
"Didn't see you guys walk in," Dillon said, his face bright red as he moved off of Kiki.
"You were preoccupied," Jason smirked.
"It's actually my living room," Monica said with a laugh. "Sam, Jason, what brings you two by?"
"Danny wanted cookies, and he has a key to the front door?" Sam asked, glancing over at Tracy.
"Of course he does, he's a Quartermaine," Tracy said matter-of-factly.
"He was supposed to give the key to you, but he must have forgotten," Monica said. "You are more than welcome here anytime."
"Thank you, Monica, that's so sweet," Sam said. "I am going to talk to my cousin about this new development."
"How are you feeling, Jason?" Monica asked.
"Better than ever, actually," he said with a smile. "I remember everything."
"Everything?" Monica asked and he nodded. "Even from before?"
"No," he shook his head sadly. "I think my memories from before the first accident are gone forever, and I'm sorry. I was wrong for how I acted all those years, you and Alan were my parents and just wanted what was best for me."
"We wanted what we thought was best, but we didn't know the new you. We pushed expectations on you and that pushed you away, so you don't have to apologize," she said. "Your father would be proud of you."
"I wouldn't go that far," he shrugged. "I just wish he was here to meet Danny. I'm really glad he's so close with you all."
"Sam made sure of it," Monica said as she glanced over at Sam, who was laughing at an embarrassed Dillon and Kiki. "I'm so glad you finally remember your past."
"Me too," he said. "I'm going to try to do better."
"You don't have to. You're my son, and I will always love you," Monica said as she hugged him. "You've done wonderful over the years, and I'm sorry it took me so long to accept you."
"Grandma! I won!" Danny said as he ran into the living room. "I beat the Dominator!"
"Winner gets all the cookies!" Alice said, winking at Jason as she placed a plate of cookies on the living room table. "Will you all be hanging around for a while? I can make lunch."
"I would love to, but I have to head over to Crimson," Dillon said.
"Yeah, my shift at the MetroCourt starts soon, I should probably be leaving too," Kiki said, taking Dillon's hand as she stood up. "Sam, I'll talk to you later?"
"Yeah, okay," Sam nodded with a smirk. Jason walked over and sat down on the couch next to her.
"Did you get the information you wanted?"
"Of course I did," she laughed. "They are officially a couple. Started talking at the Nurse's Ball, and things went up from there."
"Does Morgan know?"
"She told him," Sam nodded. "She said he was surprisingly okay with it, but we'll see how that works when he gets released soon."
"Carly still doesn't know I have my memories back," Jason said with a groan. "She's going to flip out that I waited to tell her."
"She'll understand. Want to find her and tell her?" she asked and he nodded. "Monica, is it okay if we leave Danny here for a little while? Do you mind?"
"Not at all, I was actually going to ask if he could stay," she smiled. "Oh, Robin had called me about going to Wyndemere tomorrow with her."
"That's great," Jason said. "Just prepare yourself, it'll be hard because she doesn't remember."
"I've had some experience with that," she said with a sad smile. "I'll see you two later."
Sam was fighting with herself about whether she should tell Jason about Carly and Franco or wait and see if Carly told her herself. She didn't want Jason to lash out on Carly, but didn't want Carly to get angry with her and think that Jason was never going to find out.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked as he pulled into a spot in the parking garage. "You've been overthinking something this entire car ride."
"Carly's going to be mad at me if I tell you, but you're going to freak out if you find out," Sam said with a sigh. "I can't decide what to do."
"Maybe if you told me, I can help you make that decision," he said with a smirk.
"You can't get mad, especially when you talk to Carly, and you have to pretend like I didn't tell you. Which I know you're not going to do, but at least I tried," she said quickly. "Carly and Franco dated when he showed up to town."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"No, don't do that," Sam said, knowing him well enough that he was going to explode soon. "It all has to do with that tumor. Sonny had him beat up, Alexis found him and brought him to the hospital to see if he was a match when Danny was sick. He had a seizure and woke up and thought he was you."
"Me?"
"Yeah, kissed me and everything, the psycho. We fought, he knocked me out and took Danny. Carly was able to convince him to give Danny back and not throw him off the bridge."
"You really expect me not to get mad after hearing that freak did all that?"
"Yeah?" Sam said sheepishly. "She let him stay at the hotel, and then he fell for her and when he saved Michael from drowning, I think she fell for him too after that. You know how Carly is."
"But Franco? After everything he's done to you? To me?"
"I know," Sam nodded. "It all blew up in her face when Franco found out she was sleeping with Sonny. He proposed to her and at their wedding he revealed that Sonny shot A.J., which devastated Michael."
"I still can't believe Sonny shot A.J.," Jason said, shaking his head. "Robin told me yesterday."
"Things went a little haywire without you here," Sam said, getting out of the car to head up to the restaurant. "Carly and Sonny depended on you a lot, they needed to learn to live without you."
"And you?"
"I was holding on to hope that you were still alive for a long time, it was hard. Carly and Spinelli had to convince me to move on. Spinelli was the hardest to hear that he lost hope. But you're back, and the rest doesn't matter. Things happened, everyone moved on. I just know Carly is going to be waging a battle with herself to tell you or not, so maybe me telling you now helps."
"Maybe," he said. "Let's go tell Carly I'm back."
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