A/N – Thanks for the comments! - I am so happy you guys were surprised by the twist! Kevin Rocks! Guest – No plans for anymore rape! * skatiefan – I honestly have no idea because I'm not finished yet. But, I have a lot of storytelling left to do. Honestly, I'm in love with the story so it will probably be a longer one. Although, I do feel like I've written a lot already. Lol. I think it's the subject matter being so deep. Kevin is trying to trick his brother so that he says the wrong thing to Jason. * Kikimoo – Irina is messed up but she now has a lot of good people around her to help her heal. And I brought Nikolas back so she has someone from her family that treats her right.

Chapter 37 - Duplicitous

Irina and Johnny left his apartment and they got on the elevator.

"Johnny, I know something that you might be able to use to torture Helena."

"What? I'm open to suggestions."

"She's really afraid of big spiders."

Johnny grinned. "It looks like I'll be stopping at the pet store on the way home."

Irina nodded. It was so twisted that she really wasn't upset that her own mother was being tortured by the man she was dating. It was all so surreal.

Johnny opened the door to the penthouse and walked inside. Michael was coloring at the table and Carly was online ordering things.

"Hey." She said looking up.

"Hi."

"You can't come over here. Santa Carly is busy." She said looking back down at the screen.

Irina smiled. "That's fine. I'll go color with Michael."

Johnny kissed her. "I'll talk to you later."

Carly waited until Johnny left and then turned towards her. "Okay spill."

Irina laughed. "What? We're dating. Is that okay?"

Carly smirked. "It's more than okay. Now, we need to find me a man."

"We can try ." Irina said.

Carly's eyebrows rose. "Hmmm. I don't know. I would think you'd get a lot of creeps."

"But there's still a chance that you might get a good one too."

Carly gave her a look and both of them started laughing.

Elizabeth walked in.

"Hey, where's Jason?"

"He's with Kevin." She said plopping on the couch. "Oh I like those." She said looking at Carly's computer screen.

Carly smirked. "I have good taste. What can I say?"

"I should have brought my laptop."

"There's another over there on the desk. Knock yourself out."

Elizabeth grinned and went to get it.

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Ryan took a seat across from Jason in the living room. "So, what's going on?"

Jason shrugged. "Things have been a little crazy but Elizabeth and I are doing well."

"That's good. But, there must have been some reason that you called."

Jason nodded. "There is and I kind of feel embarrassed bringing it up."

Ryan was so giddy on the inside. He had made it into Jason's home. He could kill him right now and leave and no one would know. "Go on."

"Elizabeth wants to be more intimate and I do too but I'm still a little gun shy."

Ryan leaned forward and rested his elbows on his legs. "Well, maybe it's because of your residual feelings for Sam."

It was a good thing that Jason was good at wearing a mask because he was genuinely shocked that Kevin would say something like that. Not only was it odd but it was completely untrue. He kept his eyes down and then slowly looked up Kevin. "Sam hurt me greatly. She tortured me." He said waiting to see what Kevin would say next.

"But still, you have feelings for her."

Jason tried to maintain his composure. It was like he was talking to a complete stranger. "I don't want to talk about that."

"But maybe you should. You can't be with Elizabeth until you get those feelings straightened out. Maybe in the end, you'll be able to forgive Sam and want to be with her instead of Elizabeth."

Jason's muscles ticked under his shirt. He couldn't figure out if Kevin was fucking with him or had lost his mind. He stood up abruptly. "I don't want to talk about her." He yelled.

Ryan was taken aback by his sudden outburst. "Okay—just sit back down. We'll talk about whatever you like."

Jason sat back down. "Help me be with Elizabeth. Can you do that? I just need to get my head on straight."

"Maybe we should try hypnosis."

Jason wasn't sure how far he should let this go. "Why would that help?"

"Because we could go back and you can confront Sam with everything; your true feelings and anger. You could let it all out so that you can let it go."

"I'll think about it. Perhaps we can do it next time."

Ryan nodded. "Sure Jason, whatever you want to do. For now, I think you should back off from Elizabeth. You're still having flashbacks and you might hurt her. I know you wouldn't want to do that."

Jason agreed. "No, I wouldn't. Maybe you are right."

"Is she living here with you?"

Jason was now downright flabbergasted. "Yes."

"Well, maybe you should have her move out. You can get better perspective if she's not here."

Jason sighed. "Maybe you are right. The last thing I'd want to do is hurt her."

Ryan smiled. "Well, you have a lot to think about. Maybe we can meet again tomorrow."

Jason nodded.

"Where is Elizabeth?"

"She's across the hall. Why?"

"Do you think I could talk her for a few minutes?"

"I'll go get her." He said standing up and going across the hall.

Elizabeth watched him walk inside. "Are you done already?"

Jason looked around and made sure that Michael wasn't in the room. He was surprised to see Francis sitting at the dining room table. "I don't know who the fuck that is over there. But, it's not Kevin."

Francis and Carly looked up at him. "What?" They said in unison.

"He has lost his fucking mind."

"Jason, what happened?" Francis asked.

"He keeps telling me that I have feelings for Sam and that I need to make Elizabeth leave. I feel like I'm in the fucking twilight zone."

They all looked at each other.

"You know, Kevin had a twin Ryan, but he supposedly died." Carly said. "He was crazy and obsessed with Felicia." Bobby had told her the whole story once.

Jason was surprised. "He wants to see you Elizabeth."

She looked at Jason warily. "Do you really think that's safe?"

"We need for him to think we're playing along with him until we know what he's up to."

"Okay."

"Just go along with him and react to what he says."

"I'll be right outside the door." Francis said.

"And when he leaves, I'll have someone follow him. He could be holding Kevin hostage."

Jason was convinced the person in the other room was Ryan. There was no way in hell Kevin would say the things that were said.

"And Francis, we'll need to sweep the penthouse for bugs as well."

Francis nodded.

"Elizabeth, if he tells you that you shouldn't be around me, go along with it okay?"

She nodded.

Jason kissed her. "If he tries anything, scream and Francis and I will be there in a heartbeat."

She nodded and went out the door. Francis followed her and Jason sat down.

Irina spoke up. "Do you think that he's working with Stavros?"

"Yeah, but I think he must have Kevin and he fed Ryan false information."

Carly sighed. "If he wasn't stupid enough to listen to Kevin, he would have had us."

Jason nodded. "We need to be really careful."

"We need to get Kevin back. We can have him pretend to be Ryan and then we'll know what is going on with Stavros." Irina said.

"That could be really dangerous." Jason said.

"It will be more dangerous if we don't stop him."

"True." Jason said softly. He still couldn't get over how close to disaster they came.

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"Hello Elizabeth." Ryan said shaking her hand.

"Hi Kevin. Sorry I took so long. I was in the bathroom washing paint off my hands."

Ryan smiled. She was even more beautiful in person. "I wanted to talk to you about Jason."

"What about him?"

"I know you two have been close. And Jason tells me that he wants to be more intimate with you."

Liz blushed. "We both want that."

"Elizabeth, I don't think that would be a good idea."

"Why?"

"Because Jason has feelings for someone else."

Stavros listened with a smile. He had Ryan plant a bug in the house so that he could listen in.

Liz frowned. "No he doesn't."

"I'm afraid that he admitted to me that he had feelings for Sam."

Liz shook her head. "No, you're wrong. He—he would never say that." Liz said allowing tears to come to her eyes.

"Don't cry. I didn't mean to upset you. But you see now why you should back off from him; maybe move out and put some distance between both of you. It's for the best until Jason figures out if he wants to go to Sam."

Liz looked at him in shock. "He wouldn't do that to me."

Ryan sighed. "Elizabeth, you can't help who you love. Even though Sam and Jason had an unconventional relationship…."

"Relationship?" Elizabeth standing up. "Are you crazy?"

Ryan almost growled. "Do not ever call me crazy." He said almost menacingly.

Elizabeth's breath caught in her throat.

Ryan shook off the murderous feelings that were building up inside of him. "Elizabeth, it's for the best. Will you at least think about it?"

She nodded yes.

"Good. Well, I'm going to go. You have a great night."

Elizabeth watched the imposter walk out the door and plopped down onto the couch. Jason ran into the room a minute later and she jumped up and ran into his arms. He hugged her tightly, and then looked down at her. Directing her towards the couch they sat down.

"Elizabeth, we need to talk."

"What's wrong? Please don't tell me that what Kevin said was true."

"I'm afraid it is. I'm sorry. You just don't understand what I went through."

Liz stood up. "How could you love her after all that she did to you? How could you do this to me?" She yelled.

It was breaking Jason's heart even though he knew they were just acting.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you."

She ran towards the stairs. "Where are you going?" He asked loudly.

"To pack. I can't stay here."

"Elizabeth." He yelled as he watched her disappear upstairs.

Stavros started laughing. Everything was working out perfectly. Soon he would have his angel.

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Johnny walked up to Helena. She was still chained to the wall. They had been giving her an IV to keep her hydrated.

"Are you awake you old bag?" He asked. "I brought you something. It was actually your daughter's suggestion. Did I mention to you how much I love kissing her? She's beautiful and she's mine. Doesn't that just make your little Grinch heart grow?"

Helena wished she could choke him. The visual in her mind of Johnny with his hands on her daughter disgusted her. If she wasn't disowned before, she certainly would be now.

He held up a clear container right in front of her. "Can you see that you old bat?"

Helena saw the tarantula and if she could have screamed she would have.

Johnny grinned. He put some gloves on and then fished it out of the container and put it on Helena's foot.

Helena was screaming in her head. She watched it crawl up her leg and she was beyond upset.

Johnny laughed. "It's coming for you."

When the spider finally reached her face, Helena passed out.

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Milo called Jason. "Jason, I know where he is and Spinelli is tracking us with GPS."

"Good. Sit tight."

Jason ended the call and watched as a few men swept the house. They found the bug Kevin planted under the lip of the coffee table. Elizabeth came downstairs and they went out into the hallway.

He hugged her. "Are you okay?"

She nodded. "That was certainly the definition of insanity."

"We just need to get to Kevin."

His phone rang again. "There are two guards. One is inside and one outside."

Jason paused. "Johnny is busy."

"Do you want me to call Cody?"

Jason looked down at Elizabeth and sighed. Her words fluttered into his mind about letting other people help. "Sure. Have him meet you there. You know what to do with the guards. We'll replace them with two of our own."

"You got it boss."

"Thank you." Elizabeth said softly.

Jason didn't say anything back. The guards came out of the room. "All clear boss."

He nodded and they went back inside.