Chapter 37

The drive back to Greystone was in complete silence, not one word was spoken, the only sounds came from the two kids quietly sobbing inside back seat. Jason looked in the rear view mirror to see Molly, his beloved's sister sitting on Sonny's lap with her face buried in his chest muffling her crying. Morgan sat between Sonny and Milo with his father's arm draped protectively around him as he cried as well. The kids were safe and it was all because of Sam. His love did the only thing she knew how to do, she sacrificed herself for them. That was what Jason loved about her the most, her loyalty, her unconditional love, her unselfishness to make sure that these kids along with Michael and Kristina were loved, cherished, protected, and safe. That's why she would have been an amazing mother, to put the needs of others above her own. He was glad to know that Molly and Morgan were safe but he still wanted Sam with him. Should he feel guilty, should he be grateful? Probably, but he couldn't help the overwhelming feeling of loss. He lost her, he lost her to one of his enemies and he will do everything in his power to bring her back.

He drove thinking about watching Sandoval drag Sam into that house. He stood there silently fuming as he desperately tried to memorize every feature about her. Her hair, the way the silky strands flowed in the wind, the way her body was at a defensive stance as if she was waiting for a fight. And even though he was too far away to see her face clearly, he knew that her soft pink lips would have been set on a pout slightly trembling, and her dark mocha eyes would have been watered down. She was stunning and the love she had for those kids crying in the back seat made her positively glowing radiant. She was their guardian angel while he felt helpless. He clenched the steering wheel tighter thinking about how useless he felt standing there watching Sandavol touch her. He had pulled his gun and was ready to go in guns blazing, not caring if he was alone, but he couldn't risk Molly and Morgan getting hurt. He had noticed how Sandoval's men had their guns trained on the kids as they ran down the driveway, making their statement that if Jason would have fired one round, they would have killed Molly and Morgan. So he stayed back as a stone statue, useless and helpless as the kids ran down to them, as Sandoval grabbed Sam, and as his men closed and locked the main gate sealing off the driveway. Sam was behind the iron locked gate with his enemy and he needed to figure out how to get her out of there.

As they walked into the foyer at Greystone, they could hear everyone arguing and Carly's voice was overpowering the rest of them. She was yelling and demanding for something to be done and he could hear the fear in her voice. As soon as they stepped into the room, all eyes were trained on Jason and Sonny, and silence instantly fell until the cries of two innocent kids rang through the air.

"Mommy!" "Mom!" Both Molly and Morgan yelled as they ran to their mothers.

"Morgan!" Carly yelled as she ran towards Morgan, pulling him close to her as she hugged him tight.

"Oh my God!" Alexis yelled as Molly barreled towards her mother. Alexis grabbed a hold of Molly for dear life, never wanting to let her go. After a moment of their reunion, Alexis looked up at Jason. "Where's Sam?" She asked as she looked behind Jason hoping to see her eldest daughter. When she didn't see her, Alexis darted her eyes between Jason and Sonny, fear gripping her heart once again. "Where is she?" She said in a panicked voice.

Jason couldn't answer her, he didn't know what to say, and at this point he was thankful that Molly had spoken up. "She's gone mom, Sam…." Molly croaked out but couldn't finish as she continued to sob in her mother's chest.

"What? What do you mean gone? Where is my daughter?"

"She… she traded herself for us. She gave herself up so that me and Molly can be free." Morgan answered knowing that Molly was too distraught to answer her mother. "She stayed behind mom." He said now crying to his mother. "She… she… she said that she would find a way back, she promised… she promised to come back to Uncle Jason." He continued as he cried.

"Oh Jason…" Carly looked up to see how distraught her best friend was. She could see the tears silently spill down his cheeks and she couldn't help her own tears fall.

"So what happens now? How do we get my daughter back?" Alexis asked as she angrily wiped the tears that fell from her own eyes.

"I don't know." Jason whispered. He didn't know what to do, he didn't know how he was going to get her back, he could barely think, hell he could barely breathe knowing that the love of his life was taken from him.

"This is all your fault!" Everyone in the room looked up towards the kitchen, seeing an angry Kristina stomp towards Jason. "You have done nothing but hurt my sister and now she is gone and it's all your fault!"

"Kristina!" Alexis yelled. "This is not helping! It's not Jason's fault…"

"Of course it is, it's always his fault, everything bad that has happened to Sam is his fault. He always puts her in danger, and this time he is going to get her killed."

"Noooo!" Molly sobbed louder in her mother's chest.

"KRISTINA! Stop it, you are only scaring your sister. Nothing is going to happen to Sam. Isn't that right Jason? Jason?" Alexis looked desperately to Jason waiting for him to jump in and say something that will reassure them that he will find Sam.

When Carly noticed that Jason wasn't answering, she knew that he was going along with what Kristina had said, he was blaming himself and Carly grew angry. "Look, Jason and Sonny will do everything they can to get Sam back. None of this is Jason's fault, Sam had made her decision, she chose to sacrifice herself to save our kids and now we have to help her." Carly finished and looked up to Jason who gave her a nod and a silent thank you.

What was he to say? Was it his fault? Yes. Kristina was right, everything bad that had happened to Sam was his fault. It was because of his life that always put her in danger. She had been stabbed, shot, and hurt more times to count and in one of those times it cost her the ability to have kids of her own. So yes, it was all his fault. If he was half the man he should be, he should walk away from her, but he couldn't, he made that mistake once before and it had cost him dearly. He couldn't walk away from her even if she asked him too. She was it for him, she was his love, his life, the very air he needed to breathe and he needed her with him. He had to find a way to help her, and him wallowing in sadness was not going to do anything to help her. He looked up into the room and defended himself. "I love Sam with everything that I have, I've made too many mistakes with her and I promised that I would spend the rest of my life making them up to her. And I'm not done yet, I'm not done loving her, and I never will be. I promise you that I will get her back."

"Max!" Sonny called after he heard Jason's speech. He had to admit to himself that he felt the love that Jason radiated off of him about Sam. He had a mistake of his own to fix, all this crap with his medication caused a rift between the partners and he needed to fix it. As soon as Max came in, he started issuing his orders. "Call everyone, we need all the man power that we can spare."

"Yes boss." Max nodded and walked out with his cell phone attached to his ear.

"What are you going to do?" Ric spoke up after moments of silence.

"What is needed to get Sam back." Sonny was careful what to say to Ric. The suspicion was still out there that his brother was the one to switch his meds, but he couldn't do anything without proof. "Why don't you go home Ric, Molly is safe here."

"I'm not leaving without my daughter." He firmly stated. "Molly could still be in danger."

"Alexis, why don't you take Molly and Kristina up to the rooms, I think its best that you stay here until we take care of this matter and bring Sam back home."

Alexis sat for a moment to consider what Sonny offered. She didn't want to stay here but at the moment, she knew her kids would be safe here. "Ok, let's go girls." She stood up holding Molly close to her as she walked over to a crying Kristina, tugging on her hands as she walked up the stairs.

"Carly, why don't you, Michael and Morgan stay here as well."

"Sure." She did the same with her kids and followed Alexis up the stairs."

"Will you keep us posted?" Alexis paused on the stairs and asked.

"Of course." Sonny answered. "You can leave." He firmly stated as he looked at Ric.

Ric stayed silent as he started to walk towards the door. But before he could make it out, he was stopped as Jason came to stand in front of him, blocking the exit.

"What do you know about Sandoval?" Jason asked as he gave Ric a cold stare and hatred burn through his icy blue eyes.

"I don't know what you are talking about?" Ric said nervously as he backed slightly away from Jason's intense glare.

"Like hell you don't! You knew that bastard was after Molly and you didn't say anything! How would you know that? How are you involved in all of this?" Jason took a quick step to Ric and grabbed him by the collar, spinning him around and slamming him up the door. "TELL ME!"

"Let go of me!" Ric yelled as he tried to pry Jason's hands off of him. "I don't know anything."

"Bullshit! You set this up. Whatever you were planning with Sandoval went haywire and he threatened by taking Molly so that you can deliver Sam to him."

"You're crazy!"

"You bet your ass I'm crazy, and if I find out that you had anything to do with this, I will kill you and nobody will stop me. I don't give a DAMN who you are, neither Sonny nor Molly will protect you this time. If something happens to Sam, I will take you apart piece by piece." He gritted out as he suddenly let him go causing Ric to stumble slightly as he gained his balance.

"It's not my fault that slut of yours…" But before Ric finished his sentence, Jason gave him a swift punch to his jaw knocking Ric backwards.

"Don't you EVER speak about her like that, she just saved your daughter's life, you worthless BASTARD. NOW GET THE HELL OUT!" He shouted out as he gave Ric a hard shove towards the doors.

"JASON! You need to calm down, you need to keep your head straight if we are going to get Sam back."

"I KNOW! I know ok, I just couldn't help it, that son of a bitch was behind this."

"You're right, but we can't worry about that now. He will get his in the end, but right now we need to concentrate. Max!"

"Yes boss, I called them all, we should have at least 30 guys here in an hour."

"We have that many to spare?" Sonny asked wondering who all these men were, he didn't' think that he had that many employees.

"Actually, I called about 20 of our guys and word got around fast, they are all loyal and they all cared about Sam. Word got to the Zacharra's and Johnny said that he would bring in his team also."

"Really?" Sonny questioned. There was bad blood between Sonny and Johnny but Sonny knew that Johnny was loyal to Jason. "That must be your doing?" Sonny looked over at his partner.

"I've saved his ass enough times to count." Jason said thinking about all the times that he was ordered to kill Johnny but never went through with it. He let out a huge sigh and turned to look at Sonny. "Look, I personally don't give a damn who is helping us, as long as we get Sam back, I don't care."

"Good, then we wait for the cavalry and we formulate a plan." Sonny said as he walked behind his desk and pulled out the blue prints that Spinelli had found on the old Alcazar mansion.

As Sonny was looking over the blue prints, Jason made his way over by the patio doors thinking about Sam. "What do you think she is doing right now?"

"I don't know." Sonny answered truthfully. He had no idea what was going on in Sandoval's mind, let alone his mansion. He knew that he was infatuated with Sam and he just hoped for Sam's sake and Jason's that he didn't hurt her.

"Sonny, if something happens to Sam… I don't know what I'll do." Jason sighed as he ran his hands through his hair as he walked towards the bar. "If she's hurt… If he touches her…" He couldn't even finish his sentence, he didn't want to think about what was going on under that roof, he couldn't even think about what was happening to Sam. "I'll fucking kill him!" He gritted out as he picked up a glass and threw it at the fireplace, shattering it.

"Jason, you need to keep it together. You need to clear your mind." He tried to calm down his long time friend.

"Boss." Max came in with Milo in tow. "They are all here." He said referring to the reinforcements that he had called.

"Good, send them in."

One by one, each one of his employees filed into Sonny's living room, nodding respectively to their boss and to Jason. "Let's get started."

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As soon as Sam was dragged into Sandoval's mansion, she removed herself from his grasp. "Let go of me." She gritted out as she pushed him away. She couldn't stand the feeling of being that close to me, of having his arm around her waist. Nobody had the right to touch her that way, only her Jason.

"Easy my angel, I won't harm you." He slithered out as he walked towards his office with his men following behind him escorting Sam in. "Can I offer you anything? Is there anything you would like?"

"Yeah, for you to drop dead."

"Haha, see that is exactly what I love about you, feisty. You don't know how happy I am to have you under my roof."

"I wish I could say the same, but can't."

"Soon… soon you will give in to me."

"Never."

"Please, never say never. I finally have you here and I will enjoy having you in every way."

"In your dreams."

"Oh trust me, my sweet, you will be the star of my dreams." He grinned at her.

Cringing, Sam turned away, she couldn't bear to look at him anymore, this isn't where she wanted to be. She tried to keep the tears from falling as she thought about Jason. It tore her up inside to see him standing at the end of the driveway, all she wanted to do was run to him, but she couldn't risk the kids getting hurt. Now all she had to do was keep a clear head and find her way out of this hell hole.

"You must be very tired, it's been a long night and in a few short hours it will be morning. How about you go on up to your room and get some rest, tomorrow afternoon we will be flying back to our home in Puerto Rico."

Hearing that he planned to fly her out of Port Charles, Sam shot him a glare, she wanted to yell, she wanted to protest but she knew it would fall on deaf ears so she remained silent. The side door caught her attention as she looked up and immediately felt her stomach turn. There standing tall and totally pissed off was Jose Sanchez, the man that she stole the file from, the man that, thanks to her, Judge Carroll sent to prison. He was also the man whom she got away from in the hotel in Puerto Rico.

"You remember Jose, don't you my dark angel." Sandoval said as he gestured towards his enforcer. "Jose, show my lovely Samantha up to her room."

"It will be my pleasure." Jose said as he grinned walking towards her grabbing her arm roughly.

"Let go!" She protested as she tried to pry her arm out of his tight grip.

"Easy baby, you wouldn't want to hurt yourself." Jose bent down to whisper in her ear causing her to cringe away from him.

Seeing the exchange between his enforcer and his Samantha, Sandoval immediately became possessive. "Jose, if you so much as hurt one hair on my Samantha's head, you will deal with me."

"Sure boss, whatever you say." Jose replied as he pulled Sam with him out of the room.

As they made their way up to the bedroom, Sam kept trying but unsuccessfully pulling herself out of his grasp. "Let go of me, you heard what your boss said, you can't hurt me." She said as he shoved her into the room she would be staying at.

"Oh please, that fool doesn't know anything. One look at you and he thinks he's in love." Jose said as he pushed her towards the bed. "Can't say I blame him though, I wonder what it is about you that has him all fired up." He said as he walked up to her, towering over her.

"Get away from me!" She said as she tried to push him away but it only caused her to stumble backwards onto the bed.

"Close the door." He ordered the guard that would be in charge of watching her room.

As soon as the door closed, Sam couldn't help but have a bad feeling that sent shivers down her spine. "What are you doing?" She said as she noticed Jose coming closer to her.

"I'm going to figure out what it is about you that has my boss all crazy for you." He said as he quickly pounced on her grabbing her wrists and pinning them over her head on the bed.

Sam tried with all her might to get away from him, but he was too big and too strong. As soon as he pinned her arms down on the sides of her head, fear set in, she knew what he was about to do and she needed to fight her way out. "GET OFF OF ME!" She yelled as she tried to raise her legs up to kick him off of her but again he proved to be too strong for her as he laid on top of her pinning her beneath him. He pulled both her arms above her and held both of her wrists with one hand as he moved his other hand to the zipper of her jeans. "NOOO!" She yelled and squirmed as she felt his hand moved to unzip her jeans as well as his. She could feel the his hardness pressed against her and she could feel the bile that was rising to her throat. He was going to rape her and she couldn't fight him off. "NOOO!" She yelled again and fought even harder.

"Don't make this harder for me or I'm going to slit your throat." Jose whispered and licked her ear as he pulled his switch blade out of the back of his pocket. He held it up to her throat and pressed firmly. When he felt her body suddenly still, he traced the blade down towards her shirt tearing it open as he made his way down.

"Please stop…." Sam whimpered as the tears started to flow down her cheeks. "You bastard." She cried out.

"Ohhh, I'm definitely going to enjoy this." He said as he saw her black laced bra peaking threw where he tore her shirt.

"Nooo! NOOOO!" Sam yelled again as he put his blade aside to work to pull her pants down. But before he could get any further, the door to the room suddenly swung open and Sandoval appeared wide eyed and crazed like.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH HER!" Sam heard Sandoval yell as two shots were fired. She figured one of those shots must have hit the man on top of her because he suddenly stilled as his eyes grew wide, but then why did her shoulder suddenly start to burn. As she quickly jumped off the bed after releasing herself from his grip, she looked down to see the blood pour down her arm. She was hit, she was shot and before she could say another word, she felt like the world was fading away and a second later she gave into the darkness.