a/n: I forgot about posting here at fanfiction between the holidays and everything else. So here are the chapters you have missed.
Chapter 26.
When they left the beauty salon, Claudia glared at her new sister in law, so much for liking her. "Why couldn't I just go to my salon."
"Because we need you to at least resemble her. And even with money, her hair was still dyed this way. I used to make bets with my sister about which florescent light would turn the overly dyed blond hair green."
"Okay, now what?" asked Claudia who threw a fit when she saw the kind of clothes that Georgie wanted her to wear. "Are you nuts? I wouldn't wear these dime store cast offs even if I WAS poor."
"I know but this was how she dressed when she first came to town. Now do you have the rest of it memorized?"
"Atlantic City, New Jersey, Janine Matthews, Mike Corbin. Poor waif of a pretend waitress." said Claudia who had a horrible thought and asked suspiciously. "You don't really expect me to wait tables do you?"
Laughing as they went into Penn Station, Georgie said "No, how do you feel about stripping though. Here, take this before your brother comes over."
Seeing the gun, Claudia said "If you think I need it, you should keep it. I can take care of myself."
"I would prefer you take it. I didn't want it when Lorenzo gave it to me."
"I still can't believe you are friendly enough with Lorenzo Alacazar for him to get you a gun permit and the weapon. You are going to have to tell me that story at some point." said Claudia as she looked at the girl who had won Johnny's heart. "You're not exactly what you seem are you?"
"Very long story, let's just say, between my parents, my aunt and uncles, plus who my friends are and were, my life has never been boring. Now what is the name of the woman you are looking for?"
"Brandi or Amber. Either will do. The hotel, I want either Jasper Jacks or Carly Jacks." she said then thinking on it said "Can't we just drug this woman and find out what she did?"
With a heavy sigh, Georgie said "I would so love to; you have no idea how much I like that idea, but no. Her mom is my aunt. I want proof, public proof so that she can't hide behind this habit of marrying powerful and rich men. If you knew the way that she and that witch Courtney treated Elizabeth with impunity for years, you would be just as angry."
"So, my sister, you two are friends?"
"We actually share a couple of different things." said Georgie with a laugh. "And I owe her, my sister for a while lost herself and hurt Elizabeth too. Maxie got help, is doing better, but she was pretty messed up for a while. By the way did you date Lorenzo?"
With a wicked grin, Claudia said "And Luis but that didn't last long, he was as insane as my father. So, this Jasper Jacks, would it be worth it to hit on him?"
With a giggle, Georgie said "According to Brenda, his ex fiancee, no. He is decent in bed, but gets attached. If you want unattached, I heard rumors that Dr. Julian is pretty good."
"I think we are going to get along just fine." said Claudia. Seeing her brother coming toward them, she said "So, anything else?"
"Watch out for Sam McCall, she is a con artist who lives in town. Luke Spencer, he might be able to figure it out. But otherwise, just stay away from Elizabeth and her husband."
"Crap, what is her husband's name." asked Claudia as she tried to fix the bra strap on the cheap bra that Georgie insisted she get.
"Jason Morgan." Seeing her head come up with a frown, Georgie said "Oops, I thought you were told."
Johnny arrived in time for Claudia to say "You better have a damn good explanation as to why our sister is married to Morgan, did he know and ..."
"Hold it, no. Elizabeth didn't even know. Morgan and Elizabeth go way back and trust me when I say, he loves her very much. I can even say that if it weren't for her finding her family, he would be happier if we weren't Zacharas."
"I will reserve judgment." she said before getting on the train. Johnny and Georgie went to catch a taxi back to the airport so they could arrive home in time to warn Jason and Elizabeth that they have a plan in play.
Waking up, Jason heard Elizabeth in the bathroom, and went in to see if there was anything he could do to help. Rubbing her back and helping to hold her hair, he asked "Why didn't you tell me?"
Rinsing her mouth out, she said "This is the first time I have had morning sickness. I promise, next time I will wake you so that you can hold my head. Let's go downstairs, I need a cup of tea."
Walking her gingerly down the stairs, he heard Cam waking up just as he started the teapot. "I will get him. You just sit here." Stopping to kiss her quickly, he felt her grab his wrist.
"Thank you." she said with a smile only for him to give her a small grin.
Heading out an hour later to see Emily, Elizabeth thanked her driver for dropping her off just as Carly drove up. "So, let's see it, just what did you talk Jason into buying you. A diamond necklace? An expensive bracelet, just what did you get out of him."
"Mrs. Jacks, I need you to back away." said Cooper only for Elizabeth to touch his arm.
"Carly, unlike you, I don't expect men to buy me jewelry. Now I have no idea how you knew Jason bought me a present at a jewelry store, but what I received is none of your business. Now if you will excuse me, I have a busy day."
"Did you enjoy you stay in Courtney's suite. You do know he took you to the suite I designed for her. All of it, I wonder how many time he was reminded of her while there." Carly was determined to remind her that she was the second choice.
"You are truly well, sad. Jason wasn't thinking of Courtney, I doubt he even knew she had a suite there. He wasn't thinking of Sam and he wasn't thinking of you. Well that part isn't true. When we got the call this morning that you had arrived, we immediately checked out of the hotel so we didn't have to run into you."
"Running scared? Let me guess you were too scared to invite me to the wedding, you knew I would stop Jason from making the biggest mistake of his life." she sneered then frowned when Elizabeth just laughed.
"No, see we only invited the people who were truly happy for us to the wedding. You weren't on the list and there was no way you would ever be on that list. Carly, you want Jason at your beck and call, you want to be married to the respectability that is Jax, but you and I both know that if you thought you so much as stood a chance with Jason, you would ditch you husband in a second."
"Isn't that you, running back to Lucky while lusting after Jason. You do remember the warehouse fire, and the aftermath, don't you?"
"It wasn't about respectability, Carly it was about owing Lucky. But you were right, I was lusting after Jason, I was even in love with him then. As for now, I could care less about what you think if me, you are not an equation in my marriage."
"Well hold onto that ring, soon it will be all you have left of Jason, until you pawn it for money, trust me you will bore him soon enough." she said "The minute that baby is born, Jason will realize the mistake he is making. You are not capable of raising a kid in Jason's world. You don't have the backbone."
With a hidden grin, Elizabeth said "I would suggest that you don't make comments about things you have no idea about. Now if you will excuse me, I see my best friend, we have a lot to talk about."
Going over to Emily she just said "Don't worry about Carly, tell me about Nik."
Nik walked into Jake's and sat down waiting for his man to return. "Sir, she went to that dive on Hawthorne street. What now?"
"Track her down, I have to go and see someone." Walking into Jason's office to tell him he cheated on Emily was not going to be easy but he needed his help. "Morgan."
"What is going on?" asked Jason when Nik had sat.
"Three nights ago, I went home to find Emily already there. She uh, suggested a game. I was a bit surprised but she had purchased this book and had been suggesting things from it for a while/"
Seeing his confusion, Nik said "Look, just let me finish. I let her blindfold me, and it felt off. I just thought it had to do with being tied up and blindfolded. The next morning, she was up and showered before I even woke. Which is unusual but I just chalked it up to the night before."
Jason got it, while he hadn't been blindfolded he had screwed up and slept with the wrong woman, it was the moment he knew he had lost Elizabeth the first time and he had given up on ever having a life with her. Thankfully he had gotten his head out of his ass and was now with the woman he loved. "You slept with this double, didn't you? Does Emily know?"
"She confronted me about it last night. I have no excuse, I should have known. She wants some time and is moving back to What can you tell me about this double?" asked Jason as he reigned in his anger.
"My man is tracking her down, but there is still nothing to go on. The Tattoo was a dead end, Jason, I need to know why she did this? Was she trying to destroy my future with Emily? Was it some kind is sick kick?" While Jason knew how he felt, he couldn't help thinking that all of his sympathy was with his sister.
When Nik had left, Jason called his new enforcer and asked what he had gotten from Spencer when they had grabbed him. "Nothing, all he knew was Helena. What now?"
"Find this Ethan kid, I want him questioned, find out why he is a part of this." ordered Jason just before he heard a crash in the hallway. When they opened the door, he stepped back and said "What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk." said Coleman as he pushed his way past the guards. Once seated he said "I need to know are you going to honor my deal with Sonny?"
"What deal?" Coleman had come to see if Jason was going to ensure that his liquor license was renewed but hearing Jason ask what deal, pissed him off.
"The one I made with your late partner on your behalf. I wonder how long your marriage would last if that sweet thing were to learn what you did to cover up your involvement with what happened to her all those yours ago."
Jason walked to the door and opened it "Get out, don't come back and don't ever threaten me again. Elizabeth knows all about the accident. She forgave me, so if I were you I would not make the mistake of coming in here and trying to blackmail me again."
Coleman wasn't a smart man but he did have great street instincts. Quickly exiting the coffee shop, he was shaking in his boots as he realized that whatever had happened that night, Jason Morgan had no idea about any of it. Walking with his head down, he tried to figure out how quickly he could get out of town and how quickly he could force person to give him the money necessary to leave.
Making a quick call, he quickly got to the point. "If you don't want your whole world to crumble, be at Jake's by noon."
"Who do ..."
"The person who knows that Jason Morgan isn't aware that he spent the night at Jake's with Elizabeth Webber, the person who is aware that he could be the father of a certain little boy. Be here or I am going straight to Morgan, got it?" he said hanging up and starting to clear things out of his office.
Johnny and Georgie dropped her suitcase off at the penthouse and were leaving just as Jane Jacks and her son were bringing the boys home. "Georgie have you heard Carly in the hallway?" asked Jax only to be told she had only been home a few minutes.
Arriving at Kelly's, they saw Lulu working while Damien Spinelli sat there talking her ear off. "Fair Georgie, how was your time away?" he asked. "The bodacious one has been missing your presence is her very busy life."
"What do you want to eat?" asked Lulu then seeing the rings grimaced. She had been predicting that Georgie would marry Johnny. Why wouldn't she, she had no father for her kid and even Georgie Jones would get over the stench of mob money to keep from being a single parent.
"Nothing, just a orange crème milkshake." said Georgie while Johnny ordered Spinelli to give him what he had been working on. Seeing Elizabeth entering, Georgie and Johnny walked over to the coffee shop with his sister. The barista couldn't resist teasing the younger brunette "Is there something wrong with our smoothies?"
"Nope." she said then added "I just wanted an orange one, you don't do those." Entering the office, she saw the bald headed man along with a couple of guards who all left quickly.
"We need to talk." said Johnny then said "Claudia is coming into town, but she was delayed when we came up with a plan. We think that whatever Sonny did, Coleman knows. There was a hooker who was working as a stripper who he was paying off. Claudia is coming into town as a friend who slightly resembles Courtney Matthews to try and get some information."
"Don't waste your time. Turns out that secret was one we already knew." said Jason. "Coleman paid me a visit today, tried to blackmail me with it."
"We are going to let Claudia run with it, it might keep her occupied. She is rather curious about the coincidence of you marrying our sister." Johnny was certain they were on the right track but didn't want to tell them just yet. He didn't intend to let Carly slip out of trouble for this one.
Arriving in town, Claudia quickly got her bearings and went straight to Jake's. As she was walking in the front door, she heard the shots, and left just as quickly when she saw the sleazy looking man fall. Calling the from the disposable phone, she said "So does the man in question look like an actor from a bad eighties porno, because someone just shot him point blank range."
"Where are you?" asked Johnny then told her to head to Crimson Point. "NOW!"
Getting off the docks, she hired a taxi and grimaced when the driver made conversation the entire trip. Paying him off, she quickly went upstairs to Johnny's old room, not wanting to see the study or any other room in this gothic nightmare.
Georgie went to the station while Elizabeth headed home with Jason worried they might have just endangered their new sister. Georgie heard the call and breathed a sigh of relief when the desk sergeant told Mac. "Man in a baseball cap was seeing running out the back door. He tossed something and Harper is tracking it down. Do you want me to head down there?"
"Go, then keep me up to date." said Mac then looking at his little girl, pulled her into his arms. "I am so glad you are okay. What was this trip about?"
"I need to talk to you." she said then once they were in his office, "Johnny and I have reason to believe that Zander Smith wasn't the father of Elizabeth's son. We think someone faked the test results, but I can't tell you why. Can you trust me with the file from his death, please?"
Thinking on it, and wishing she wasn't involved, Mac said "Would Emily Quartermaine be in on this search, she asked for the file, saying she had been dreaming about Zander's death?"
"Thanks dad," said Georgie as she rushed out the door feeling guilty about keeping what they knew about Coleman getting shot quiet.
Emily was already reading the file, putting the pieces together. Calling Johnny she said "Can you meet me at Jake's? We need to talk to Coleman?"
"There was a shooting there, he is dead." replied the man. "I am going to pick you up after I get Georgie, we all need to talk."
Picking up the women, Johnny drove out to the Point and was amused by the less that thrilled reaction to Claudia from Emily. "Thank you, god. I couldn't stand the thought of another woman walking around looking that trashy on purpose. One Courtney was more than enough."
Running her hands down the outfit, Claudia struck a pose and said "What dime store chic isn't you thing?"
"No, it's any resemblance to the whore who destroyed one of my brothers, almost ruined my other brother's happiness out of a pathetic need to live some fairy tale, she also slept with my husband and got pregnant after supposedly being infertile."
"Oh, so she wasn't on your Christmas card list?" asked Claudia only for Emily to laugh at the raised eye brows and fake look of surprise.
"We need to piece this together." said Georgie as she looked around at the masculine bedroom. "Why are we in your old bedroom?"
Johnny said "Claudia hates this place even more than I do."
"Then lets get out of here. Why stay if you hate it." said Georgie. Picking up the legal pad and pens she stole from her dad's desk she eagerly led them outside only for Claudia to head quickly for a shed. Once there she saw the blood and asked "What happened to our playhouse?"
"Morgan, I brought him here when I was hiding him last year." he said then suggested the patio near the roses.
"Okay, now all of you think that our nephew Cameron, is really Jason Morgan's son. Who was the other option?" asked Claudia as she sat down.
"Two, maybe." said Emily. "Elizabeth doesn't remember sleeping with her ex-husband, Ric. HE was a sleazeball and I guarantee if he thought the baby was Jason's he would have faked the results, but he doesn't have the patience to wait before telling Jason. So I would eliminate him. Elizabeth was only sure she slept with him because of something Carly said later and we now know she is a liar."
"The other man?" asked Claudia.
"Zander, they were drunk, she was trying to get Ric to leave her alone. She remembers kissing him, but nothing after that. But she woke up at Jake's. Zander though, wasn't there. When she found out she was pregnant, she ran tests but he insisted there was no way he was the father. Then when the test came back positive he was shocked."
"Okay, explain how it is possibly Morgan's." asked Claudia.
"At the time, I sort of had an epiphany." said Emily embarrassed. "I was dying and realized I had been a horrible friend to Elizabeth the few years before, mainly because I resented her."
"For what?" snapped Claudia ready to smite this girl who seemed to be a major part of this mess.
"Honestly for something stupid, she was the one we all ran to solve our problems, Jason or her. I was jealous of how close she had gotten to my brother. Then she was hurt and Jason and she broke up so I helped Courtney with Jason since the sight of them didn't bother me." she said embarrassed. "I was a fool, I deliberately hurt my brother and friend because the idea of them having sex weird-ed me out."
"Okay, now tell me how this involves what we are looking into?" asked Claudia.
"The night I made the mistake of marrying Zander while loving Nik, I saw them together for a few seconds and knew they weren't happy. It was the way Jason looked at her...." she said sighing. "I saw it clearly for the first time. He in spite of everything was still in love with Liz and she would do anything for him. When I was half asleep I overheard my mother talking, she had seen them in the chapel together."
"I remember that, she was talking to Aunt Bobbie." said Georgie then her face darkened. "Carly over heard the conversation and stormed out as fast as a pregnant woman could."
"The next day, both of them returned, then Courtney showed up, I saw in her eyes, she knew. She knew my brother was in love with another woman. Then a few weeks later, Elizabeth was a victim of a hit and run."
"The blond used the guilt about her miscarriage to blame that on drugs." said a disgusted Georgie Seeing Emily's surprise, she said "Carly and Courtney had a tendency to run their mouths at Kelly's. I heard them talking. I know what they did to Jason. I heard them talking about how Courtney had used his love for Elizabeth to guilt him, saying he wanted children, just not his own wife's. There was some pretty serious guilt brought against him. I also saw your brother my guess would be right after his visit to Elizabeth. He was on the docks. I can still see the look on his face when he was staring at Elizabeth's studio. He loathed himself, it was when I started to truly dislike him for falling for that crap."
"I know, but they used Michael and children to play Jason. I saw him a few weeks later, he was watching Elizabeth, I saw his face. I saw him look at her, I saw the pain and then the moment he decided to walk away and do what he tended to do best, sacrifice his own happiness for others."
"Explain to those of us not up on Morgan, I thought you couldn't read the man, that he was like a block of concrete?" asked Claudia for the other three to laugh.
Johnny said "Except for when it comes to our sister, he is like an open book."
"So he walked away, but how do you get from that to his being the father of her son?"
"Because when my brother is in the same room with Liz, watch his hands. Before … oh my god, that is it. That is how they found out." said Emily in wonder. "Carly watches Jason like a hawk, if she so much as saw him in the same room with Elizabeth, she has this radar that pops up. They might not have known the night it happened, but they did soon afterwords."
"The masquerade ball."said Emily. "They were both missing and the overly brassy blond with dark roots was acting stranger than usual. That is the night Elizabeth thought she slept with Zander. So Zander was right, they kissed but in the end Elizabeth put on the brakes."
"The thing is, how did the dumb blonds fake the DNA test or was it Sonny?" asked Georgie.
"My guess is either Sonny or Carly did it. My money is on Carly. We know she took the sample to the lab with Jason's blood but how did she get a hold of a sample?"
When no one had an answer, Emily said "Remember when you asked why I wanted Zander's police file? I also tracked down his medical file and my brother's as well. Carly took a sample of Jason's blood to the lab. It was labeled for a drug test, who cares how she got it, it isn't important"
"We need to go to Jason and Elizabeth but first I need to remove the color from my hair, besides, I want to meet my sister as a brunette." said Claudia.
"You can't, at least not yet." sighed Georgie. Seeing them all looking at her, she said "I was thinking about Courtney's past, and something just popped up at me. Remember when Elizabeth was hit, I was talking to Lorenzo and I think I have another piece to this puzzle. He said that several of Sonny's men walked away about that time."
Seeing them look at her, she said "Think about it, we have more than a few suspects." Detailing them all, they started to realize their own personal opinions were blocking possible suspects.
"Lorenzo said that he had one of Jason's guards working for him. The man was disgusted with the way that Jason was acting, he blamed it on Sonny. We know that Sonny is involved but there is someone else who would have gained at that time, AJ. AJ might have seen it as a kid for a kid." she said grimly. "and if AJ was involved, then...
"Grandfather." Emily said "God, I hope you are wrong."
"Me too, but I doubt that he did anything more than arrange for the sample, I think we need to figure out how Carly would have got it. I also think that Edward was
hoping for a positive result, not knowing that Carly wanted the exact opposite."
Seeing them looking at her, she explained about AJ and his past to Claudia who gave a cold grin. "I get the list of names, but I don't think it was this Spencer; you have the same problem as with the dumb blond and that Ric guy, he would have pulled the trigger long before now. The dead guy, he does sound like a possibility but here is the important question, how did he know about the baby?"
Georgie said. "We need to do two things, first, we need to get everyone together, then we do this publicly to prevent anyone from escaping their part in it. Two we need to get your dad on board, Emily. Make that three, we need to find out the trust about Edward before ruining Carly."
"Already in the works." said Emily then with a quick grin, said "I know how we are going to do this. Georgie can you make a few calls, we are going to have a gala ball celebrating fathers in honor of... we need someone who has … Steve Hardy. We do it to honor his legacy at GH."
"Aren't you worried about using Elizabeth's grandfather." asked a doubtful Georgie.
"No, because I think we need some of Elizabeth's adopted family there to help support her and this way Tom and Jeff will be there. Claudia, you need to check into the Metrocourt." said Emily with a grin. "I don't suppose you know anything about planning gala's in four days?"
"No." was all she said then asked "Why don't we delay things?"
"I thought you no longer wanted to be a blond. Actually, you can dye your hair back. We just need to find a wig." said a thoughtful Georgie. "I also need to do some questioning of a former police officer. Unless you want to visit with Taggert?"
Emily looked at her then giggling said "Are you sure you want to go there?"
"Oh, yes. Trust me, that man has files on Sonny Corinthos and his family that have got to have something to help us with this." said Georgie. Kissing Johnny she said "Do you have other cars here?"
"Yes, of course, why?" he asked.
"Now isn't that a rather telling question." said Emily pointedly. "Almost like something a husband might ask his wife."
Seeing her looking at their rings, Georgie said "Oops, yes, we got married. I will explain later, but since it is going to take a couple of hours to reach Marcus, I have to get going."
"Not without me." retorted Johnny only for his wife to grin.
"Taggert will take one look at you and shout mob. No this has to be done without you." she said then added. "Though, I do know one other person he would be willing to talk to."
"Don't take Elizabeth." said Emily then realized that wasn't who she was talking about. "Wait, who are you taking?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know." said a mischievous Georgie. Making the call, she soon had the woman on the other end laughing as she said she would be more than happy to help.
Emily fell off the chair laughing as tears ran down her face. "OH MY GOD!!! I can't breathe." when she had regained her breath, she looked at the brother and sister and started again. "I wish I could see this."
"Georgie, what is wrong with your friend, does she need medication?" asked Claudia only to go and get some water and hold it over the hysterical brunette who kept muttering the name Alexis in between chuckles.
"No, let's just say... Taggert has several write-ups in his personnel file, most the result of Alexis Davis threatening to sue the department. But at the same time, Taggert has the same soft spot for her that he does for your sister."
"Why is he like that in regards to my sister." she asked curious to learn more about Elizabeth.
Emily was no longer laughing and Claudia picked up on both of the women's somber faces. "What is it?"
"When Elizabeth was fifteen, she was raped in the park on her way home from the movies. Long story but she showered and they couldn't do a rape kit, the guy went to jail for something else, but never faced punishment for Elizabeth's rape. Taggert was the officer who took her statement. Even Capelli who was a dirty cop was still protective of Liz until the day he died. They were the ones who went through the mug shot books with her."
Johnny lead the foursome up to the house, where he got some keys for Georgie. Grimacing the brunette said "Do you have anything less pretentious."
Looking at the Cadillac, Johnny said "I would rather you didn't drive one of the sports cars, they have air bags."
"I will be fine." she said kissing him gently. "I promise. Emily would you like a ride to Port Charles, I am picking Alexis up at the Lake house."
When they had left, Claudia let her anger explode. "There is a man alive who dared to rape our sister? What the fuck, Johnny?"
Seeing her heading to the house and talking about finding a gun. Johnny put his hand on her arm and said "He's dead. Morgan had him killed a few years ago, discreetly."
"That rat bastard should have been hanging from a pole in town." said a furious Claudia as she paced back and forth. Then turning she said "Did he at least die painfully?"
"Yes, and the reason it was handled discreetly was Morgan would have been the chief suspect for what the man did to his little sister let alone what happened to Elizabeth. But when I went looking I found out he died a week after he was released."
"Good, maybe Morgan isn't an asshole after all." she said calming down. "Do you have any idea what those two have planned?"
"No, but I at least know that I will be there to protect my wife." he said then added "You had better go check into the hotel, make sure that either Carly or her husband see you."
"What do they look like?"
Searching for the files, he showed the two to Claudia who said "Do you suppose flirting with hubby would hurt?"
"No, but he isn't the sort to cheat." said Johnny. "Here, look at this one."
Seeing the picture, Claudia asked who the hooker was? "Sam McCall, watch out for her. She is trouble."
Four days later, Elizabeth and Jason were getting dressed to attend a gala that Emily and Georgie were planning in honor of Father's day. They had had a busy week and neither wanted to attend but since it was to help set up a Residency in honor of her grandfather they really had no choice.
After kissing Cam goodnight, Jason was brushing his hair of his forehead when he saw the band aid on his arm. Still a bit worried, he asked Elizabeth if his pediatrician had come back with the test results. "No, but it was only to be safe. I don't think Cam has any worries in regards to lead poisoning."
Emily was standing at the entrance talking to her parents and watching as the guests arrived. Seeing Mac talking to Maxie and Robin, she looked around until she saw Georgie with Bobbie and Laura while Sam was talking to Lucky who was in a wheelchair. Wondering why he would come when he had only been out of the hospital for a couple of days, she just went to greet the unknown guest of honor.
"Hello Jax, Carly. Glad you could come." she said while trying not to glare at the woman. The DNA tests they had rushed had proven that Cameron hadn't needed to be adopted, he truly already had been a Morgan. She felt someone touch her arm, and sighed. She knew that Nik would be here, but she still wasn't ready to deal with his sleeping with her lookalike.
Carly walked into the room, slightly relieved. She would swear she had been seeing Courtney for the last few days but was sure that it was the result of seeing Coleman getting killed. She had never been so grateful for a burglar in her life. The last remaining proof that she was involved in making Jason's past with Elizabeth disappear was gone.
Hugging Jax's arm, she eased him over to a hospital board member, only to stop dead in her tracks when she heard a familiar voice. Turning to glare at the woman she said to her husband, "Did you know she would be here?"
"Who?" he asked then winced when he saw Brenda talking to Robin and Dr. Drake. "Uh, no. I didn't. But remember one thing. I married you." As they kept walking, Carly kept an eye on the former model who was talking to Kate Howard and a few other well known celebrities about town.
Brenda saw Jason arriving with the woman she assumed was his wife and pulled Robin off to the side. "How are you doing with that?"
Looking at where she was pointing, Robin said with a laugh. "I faced the truth a long time ago, Brenda. Jason and I were there for each other when we each needed something to keep us sane, but that is true love. Now if he was with that blond tramp or Sam, I might be upset, but Elizabeth and he, no. I do envy them though."
Watching the doctor her best friend had introduced her to, she said "You are in love with him?"
"Yes, but one minute things are fine, the next he is distant again." she said with a sigh. "Look, there's Georgie, did I tell you she is married to John Zachara?"
"Yes, gangster in training. We already discussed this, but I will wait until you are ready then we are speaking about Dr. Feelgood." she warned her friend just as Jason and his wife approached.
"Do you have a minute?" the blond asked her.
Walking off to the side, she answered his voice mail question. "Yes, I wouldn't put it past them. But just what do you suspect?"
"That Carly and Sonny were trying to control me using Courtney. That there is more to this than I know. But yet, why? Why encourage me to marry his sister if he knew I was in love with another woman?"
"For control. By the way, have you found him yet?" she asked.
"No, but I will. Sonny can't hide forever. Not in these times." he said before going to greet Emily who had come with Steven Webber instead of Nik. "Em, what is going on?"
"Nothing, why?" she asked only for him to point out she was acting strange.
"You have been avoiding Elizabeth and me for the last few days. IF this is about Nik, just talk to me." he offered.
Feeling guilty, Emily just kissed his cheek and said thanks before heading to the bathroom where Claudia was changing. "How do I look?"
"Perfect. Are you ready?" she asked before leading the brunette out. Walking around, she pointed out various people then frowned. "Great, I can't find Jason and Elizabeth. I will be right back. Can you wait on the balcony?"
Walking towards the quiet alcove, Claudia heard someone giggling and interrupted something. "Is anyone out here?"
Lulu and the young man she had been kissing said "Uh, nope, we are heading back in. See you inside, Ethan."
The younger man waited until the blond was inside then placed a call on his phone. "Are you coming to the party."
"Good, see you there. But be careful they are all here." Before hanging up he said I love you.
The brunette looked at the younger man and said "What about the blond?"
"She is just an appetizer, now what business is it of yours?" Claudia thought about it and decided she had enough on her shoulders. Tomorrow after all of this was made public, she had to visit the bastard who called himself her father. The man who had exiled her to Italy for telling him the truth.
Carly saw Jason and Elizabeth talking in the corner and moved their way just as Emily and Georgie took the mike being handed to them from the conductor. "Welcome ladies and gentlemen. We are here for two reason's this evening. To raise money for the resident scholarship fund for General Hospital and to honor those whose hard work at long hours and low pay is the start of a very rewarding career."
Emily took over the mike while Georgie worked her way offstage to set up the next part of their plan. "But Steve Hardy was a man who did more than work to create one of the finest medical establishments in the state, he was a husband, married to the late Audrey Hardy. He was also a father of two sons. Thomas, his adopted son with Audrey and his eldest. Jeff. Jeff and Steve Hardy never knew they were father and son until they were adults."
"So in honor of the fathers amongst our illustrious guests, we would like each of you to accept this small token of appreciation for the love you give, the strength to overcome the fear that you will be a terrible dad, and most importantly the time you spend with us, your children. See that is the important part of being a father, spending that time with us."
"Now, first up, I would like to honor my own dad, Alan Quartermaine, from the moment Mom and you adopted me, you have been there for every single big moment but most importantly for every single little one as well."
Emily hugged Alan then gave him the small engraved silver Tiffany's key chain that they were using as a present. Georgie, then urged Maxie and Robin to the stage before saying. "My father is a wonderful man, he has taken everything my sister and my cousin have thrown at him in stride. From marriages, to teen angst. To removing oversized bears from my car. Mac, you have been the strength behind all three of us. Thank you."
As the various guests were handed key chains, Georgie made sure to slowly herd the select few to the side of the room. When she saw the Q's, the Spencers, and her co-conspirators, she made a point of getting Jasper Jacks attention.
"Thanks, Jax. I just wanted you and Carly here for these ones. This is for you. For the way you have stepped up for Michael and Morgan. Those two boys are very lucky." said Georgie. "Trust me, I know a lot about dads. You are going to be a good one, isn't he, Carly?"
Carly got a bad feeling about this, but just smiled and said "Yes, he is. Hopefully we will soon have a child for him to be a father too."
"What about Michael and Morgan, isn't he their stepfather?" she asked and Carly blinked and said "Of course, he is married to me."
"This one." said Emily holding up the last key chain with a smile. "This one is for my brother, Jason."
Her back was now sweating, Carly saw the brunette standing with John Zachara and would have sworn she was glaring at her. "Of course, Jason deserves one, he has been a great stand in father to my boys, and of course to Elizabeth's son. He even went so far as to adopt the fatherless little boy."
No one knew what was going on, but Alan couldn't help remember his discussion with Emily and knew that whatever was up, a certain blond was about to face some serious trouble.
"Fatherless little boy, how can you say that. I HAVE BEEN A FATHER TO CAM!" insisted a loud Lucky. "Someone had to."
Elizabeth and Jason felt the undercurrents and knew that something was up that got worse when Emily turned to Lucky and said "You are correct, someone had to. Unfortunately, thanks to circumstances beyond her control, Cam's dad was stolen from him. Right Carly?"
Wondering how long they were going to blame her for AJ, Carly started to ease back only to see Nik standing there. "AJ-"
"This isn't about AJ." said a grim Emily. "This is about Cam and how his father was stolen from him."
"Em, look, I know that you loved Zander, but you need to let it go." said Lucky while Laura thought back and knew Carly had done something.
"Oh, you see, Lucky, Zander isn't Cam's father. Is he Carly?" she asked only for Sam to get a gleeful expression as she remembered the rumors.
"If it wasn't Zander's does that mean Cam is Ric's?" she said looking at Elizabeth with a smirk as the nurse just stared at Emily.
"No, see Elizabeth didn't sleep with either of the men. Ric lied, wanting to win Elizabeth back, and Zander has always insisted they only kissed. But since Elizabeth woke up at Jake's, she didn't believe him."
"Oh, please, the DNA tests proved that Cameron was Zander's." said Carly rolling her eyes while Jason froze. Zander and Elizabeth had been at Jake's when he had fled there, sick of his life and the lies. He remembered seeing them but he also knew that Zander had come back down the backstairs minutes later.
As he tried to piece things together, he felt sick wondering if what he suspected was the truth. Then looking at Elizabeth realized she was upset at the idea of not knowing who her son's father was. Pulling her back into his arms, he could feel how her body was trembling but it go worse when Emily said "See, Jason was there that night, now according to my recollections, he had finally had enough of his life with the lying piece of trash called Courtney Matthews and had tried to get his balls back from his so called best friend. But something happened. I don't know what, but I do know that whatever it was, Jason went back into his shell."
He had thought he killed someone. When he woke up at home, he had been told that he had killed an intruder in the warehouse. He had went for a walk to recover the lost memories and had seen Elizabeth in the distance, playing in the leaves. He had decided she would have a better life without him, without his filth hanging over him.
Emily saw that something had upset Jason and moved on. "We also know that Elizabeth ran blood DNA tests, they proved Zander was the father only thing was, Zander didn't father Cam. The blood sample was switched by a frazzled nurse at GH by the name of Bobbie Jones."
Seeing everyone turn to her, Bobbie protested only for Georgie to take over. "The description was a tall blond woman, who signed the paperwork Bobbie Jones."
Everyone in the area turned to Carly who said "How would Courtney manage to get Momma's badge."
"It wasn't Courtney, she doesn't have the brains. We thought Granddad was your accomplice or AJ. But it was neither, you should know that Taggert still has all of his old files and when we visited him, he turned them over to us. I know that you used Max Giametti, I just have two questions."
"No, I get this pleasure." said Georgie who looked at Carly with a sneer on her face. "Did you sleep with him or just flirt with the poor dumb bear. The second one is this, why on earth did you steal yet another child from it's father."
Jason saw the look on her face and bowed his head, thinking of all the things he had missed with his son as a result of what he saw. "Because this time, she knew that I would fight to be with it's mother. She knew that her days of using me would be over. Carly, I just don't get it. Why do this to us. To Elizabeth, to me?"
"She doesn't deserve to be the mother of your child."
"And who does? You? Leticia is more of a mother to your sons. Courtney? She didn't love me, I didn't love her. She was disillusion and living some sort of fantasy. I was just a prop."
"You loved Courtney, I wasn't going to let Elizabeth steal you away from her."
"I didn't but we aren't here to argue about that. As for Elizabeth, no one could steal me away, because she has always had me."
"Really what about Sam?" snapped Carly. "You were going to marry her, you loved her and her baby. You were going to make a family with her."
Jason felt bad for Sam but knew he had to make Carly face facts. "We have already discussed this, Sam was threatening to abort her baby, I knew that would be a mistake and then I let her stay. I was lonely, the woman I was still in love with was happy and safe, at least I thought so. So I tried, I did, but in the end, she wasn't Elizabeth and I made a mistake out of loneliness."
"Carly none of this excuses you for stealing Cam away from his parents, from your so called best friend." snapped Jax as he looked at her. "You say all the time that you would do anything for him, but how can you consider this a good idea?"
"Because that little bastard was Elizabeth's. She SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO HAVE HIS CHILD!!" she shouted then looking around added. "Come on, you all know that, she isn't good enough for him? She won't last ten minutes in the real world."
"Who is Carly, who do you think is good enough to be the mother of his children?" asked Elizabeth moving closer to the blond. "You? Oh, please, you have got to be kidding me. You are an obsessive bitch who can't even take care of the kids you have. Without the nanny, your kids would have no parental figure in their life until you married Jax."
"YOU BITCH, YOU ARE THE REASON THAT MICHAEL DOESN'T HAVE JASON, YOU JUST COULDN'T STAY AWAY." she shouted. "YOU STOLE HIM AWAY FROM ME, FROM MY CHILDREN. I WAS NOT ABOUT TO LET YOU GET EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED. NO WAY IN HELL!"
Shaking her head at Carly finally admitting the truth, Elizabeth just said "Carly, this wasn't about you, it wasn't even about me, it was about Cameron. But then to you he doesn't matter since he isn't yours. You know I always wondered if you were truly Bobbie's daughter, but you just proved yourself a true Spencer. Go to hell, and by the way.... this idea I wouldn't last long in Jason's world. I was born into that world."
Johnny and Claudia realized what she was about to do at the same time as Jason and moved in closer. "I was born Isabella Antonia Zachara. Trevor Lansing stole me away from my real family. I was already part of that life to parents who loved me, To a father that killed for what he thought happened to me. You, you're the result of a condom breaking in a business transaction. How appropriate, considering you have never held a real job in your life and have made what you have divorcing rich men. I have always been nice to you, for Bobbie's sake, for Jason's but no more. You are going to pay for what you did to my son."
Carly turned to Mac who was standing there with disgust on his face and said "You just heard her threaten to kill me, arrest her."
"Ahem, I never threatened to kill you, that would be letting you off too easy. I would rather you be alive. Living the sad pathetic life you have left knowing you lost." said Elizabeth while Jason was making plans for Michael and Morgan after her death.
"Carly Jacks, you are under arrest..." The newly minted parents walked away, stunned. They just wanted to go home to their son. Both needing to hold Cam, one wishing she remembered the facts surrounding her son's conception, the other wishing he had had the courage years before to try and figure out the truth about the bond he had felt to Elizabeth and Cam.
He could hear Carly's shrieks and didn't turn around, he couldn't deal with this tonight, but someday somehow she was going to pay for what she had stolen from them.
Arriving at the house, Jason paid the young student nurse who had been babysitting and told one of the guards to drive her home. At the door to Cam's room, Jason saw Elizabeth on the floor, her knees curled up underneath her as she touched their son's curls and cried.
Slipping down so his body surrounded her, he kept saying. "I'm sorry, I am so sorry, how did I not know. I can't b..." as the tears slid down his face, he pulled her into his arms just wanting to hold them both. "I love you."
Wiping away the tears, she said "I love you too. Both of you."
TBC