FAMILY ISN'T ABOUT WHO'S BLOOD YOU HAVE, ITS ABOUT THOSE WE TRULY CARE ABOUT pg-13
CHAPTER 37
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Elizabeth looked up to see Johnny standing there with her keys. He was looking around the hub, seeing Kate talking to Corinthos. Not wanting to give Elizabeth her keys in front of the mobster, he quickly placed them in his pocket, and covering for his visit asked to see Dr. Drake. Elizabeth paged Patrick and expressed her sympathy to the younger man for his "father's" death. Patrick walked into the waiting area, asking if things had changed since they had last talked in regards to Anthony.
"Yeah, he died last night, of a heart attack. I just wanted to thank you for taking care of the man, I know that he threatened and shot your friend."
"I'm doctor and I took an oath, I would do the same for anyone. So no thanks are needed. Do you want your father's medical records?"
"No, the police may want them at some point. He wasn't my father in any sense of the word. I will bury him and then my last obligation to him is finished." he answered the doctor, while trying to not smile as Georgie walked into the hub and complained about the patient in 612.
He listened as she told Elizabeth she needed to go to the locker room and change out of her food splattered shirt. Elizabeth went to deal with the recalcitrant patient.
Johnny started down the hall and was stopped by Sonny. "Your attorney's dead, your father's dead. Still think you have what it takes to run your father's empire, kid. Your world is crumbling, and you have no one to fall back on. You should consider turning the territory over to someone who knows what they are doing before the next death is yours. After all, anyone can make a death look like a heart attack. Think on that and then let me know what you are going to do."
"I am going to run Anthony's territory, as for your threats, you are right, it is real easy. Something, you might want to keep in mind. So leave me and those I care about alone, you won't like the consequences. If I ever change my mind about running things, you are the last person I would consider turning MY territory over to. Without Morgan your nothing, I know your weaknesses, just like you think you know mine."
Johnny walked down the hall towards the locker rooms. He knocked on the door and heard a come in."Georgie? Where are you?" he asked when he didn't see the young woman.
She came around the corner, with a clean light blue shirt on, and said "Where you looking for me?"
He pulled her into his arms and licked her lower lip, wanting to see if the lip gloss she was wearing tasted like the strawberries he smelled whenever he was close to her. Nope, vanilla flavored, as he started to imagine where the strawberry scent was coming from he used his tongue to open her mouth to kiss her, as they pressed their lips to each other and he leisurely explored the interior of her mouth, he felt her hands pulling his shirt out of his jeans, then bare hands hit warm bare skin at his back. Johnny maneuvered them around until her back was against the lockers and started to ease his hand under her blue polo shirt when he heard someone.
"Miss Jones if you cannot keep your hands off the young man, find a supply closet, they have locks on the doors." Georgie turned around groaned and knew that within minutes her make out session would be around the hospital, of course it would be Dr. Lee that caught them. Georgie looked to see her grinning and leaning against the door, holding a bottle and smelling like alcohol.
"Could you take this bottle to Dr. Quartermaine, tell her it is from a Dr. Waite's over at Mercy. She is going to kill me originally there were two of them. Now one is all over my outfit, I had a run in with a way too happy father. Now I need a shower and a change of clothes, after watching the two of you, make that a cold shower." she handed over the bottle of Bowmore scotch.
"Dr. Lee, you broke a bottle of this?" asked Johnny.
"Yes, Georgie tell her I will replace it as soon as I find one."
"Let me take care of it, my father had some in the wine cellar, last I checked."
"Thank you, but I broke it, just ask her how much it is for me please."
"Look let me, these are very expensive and very, very rare bottles of scotch." Kelly sat down and weakly looked up at the mobster. "The bottles are just going to waste, let me give one of them to her."
"Thank you, how about I just pay you for the bottle." Johnny agreed, but knew he would never take the money, the pleasure of giving away the bottles of Anthony and Trevor's private reserve was the best payment around.
When the couple exited the room Johnny gave Elizabeth's keys to Georgie, the pressed a kiss to her lips as he headed out the other way towards the elevators, running into Robin as she went into Lainey's office.
PENTHOUSE IV
Jason handed the diaries over to Francis, as he finished reading them. He was furious, trying to calm down he went to the balcony but being in this apartment, and remember the words in the diary just made him more angry. At himself for hiding in his pain, and not following his instincts, then being lied to by his so called best friends. Courtney didn't really surprise him, the level of the hatred for Elizabeth did, but the other stuff didn't. He had seen her go from his brother to him, to that poor cop, to Jax then on to Nik, never taking care for the damage in her wake, or who she destroyed to get what she had wanted.
At Carly for her part in this mess, she had gleefully attacked Elizabeth at every turn, and all he had ever done is say to stop it, never making her really back down, it didn't matter he hadn't realized how bad it had been, he should have. ...
Courtney was a sick and twisted bitch, he needed to find out more about her background. They had never done a complete background check on her after Mike had verified that she was his daughter, just on Janine. Sonny hadn't wanted to, now Jason wanted to get one started immediately. Find out the reason she had hated Elizabeth, there had to be more to this, you don't come to town and automatically start to systematically destroy someone's life for no reason and the Jax thing didn't count. His instincts were screaming they were missing some piece of this puzzle.
As for his so-called best friend Sonny. He had paid her over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, what had the money gone for, what had she spent it on? He had more questions than answers. He had also gotten confirmation that she had drugged him, slipping Viagra in him to get him aroused and the have sex with her. No wonder she had been sure of him having sex, she had made sure of it. Once again why though, why set out to do this. Why him, it made no sense to him. Why had being connected to the Quartermaines mattered to her?
The stuff she had put AJ through, no wonder his brother had snapped and stalked his wife. She had blown hot and cold with him then made it seem like she was sleeping with Jason long before it had finally happened. When he read about how she had lied to Carly, Jason had felt some guilt for earlier but it did not allow Carly to escape justice. She was just as guilty as Courtney. Her motives had been worse in a way she had done this out of a need to control him, to keep him from making someone else a priority. How had Courtney accepted that, then he figured it out. Courtney had wanted to be his girlfriend and later wife, but his actual presence wasn't required to torture Elizabeth, and to be known as those things. He was just a set decoration and a prize to be won.
As for the condoms, putting holes in them to get pregnant, he was starting to get the picture. Elizabeth had a miscarriage, he had withdrawn from Courtney even more so she had used the advice she had given to Ric. Jason's only regret about Ric's death was that he had never paid for the damage he had done. He needed to talk to Drake about those experimental drugs, and how he had been dosed. He was starting to suspect that he had pharmaceutical help in becoming as numb as he had.
Francis finished the last diary and watched his boss and friend. He saw the guilt and anger on the younger mans face, he had been here during this, he had never understood what had happened until now "Jason, you need to get over your anger for this to work you need to be calm. If Courtney did drug you, we will find out, I promise, now trust me when I say that in the end she lost, you and Elizabeth are happy. Go see Elizabeth, right now, that is what you need."
"She has a lot to do today, I need to let her do it, she needs her space." Jason offered as he declined the chance to see his fiancée.
"Jason, don't do this, you are going to let the bastards win. Go see the woman you love, now." Francis watched him leave the door regretting his part in the motorcycle scheme. Jason could use a nice long ride right now with Elizabeth. "Spinelli, you and those computers get down here right now!"
DR. WINTERS OFFICE
Rae listened to Robin's answer. The young woman was a brilliant doctor with very low self esteem in her personal life. She covered by acting like she knew what she was doing. When the doctor had asked about Morgan and why she did what she did? Robin truly believed that she had done nothing wrong. That this whole situation would just blow over like it had in regards to Micheal.
Rae brought the subject around to Jason's child and future marriage to Elizabeth. As Robin answered, Rae asked her if Jason got out of the mob, what would he do? Robin really thought he would go back to running a garage or touring Europe. "Where do you think he would go in Europe, Spain, Italy, France, Germany. Does he have a favorite spot?" Dr. Rae asked.
"Most definitely Paris, he loved Paris, he was there when he was Jason Quartermaine and also as Jason Morgan."
"Really when I asked Monica she said Italy. That he wanted to take Elizabeth to Italy, and Egypt. Nothing was mentioned about Paris. Why do you think Paris? " she inquired.
"I know Jason." Robin offered the answer as simply as she could. "He may have a different last name now, and a different career, but deep down Jason is Jason."
"When did you meet him?"
"As a kid, my parents where the police commissioner at various times, then my best friend Brenda lived at the Quartermaine house. I have known Jason the longest of any of his current friends, even before he meet Brenda, we were friends."
"I asked Monica and a few others the same questions I asked you. Do you know Gail Baldwin." seeing the younger woman nod in agreement. "She was one of the people I asked, she isn't local anymore and would be a little less biased. I also asked Bobbie Jones, and Dr. Kevin Collins."
"I know them, I don't get why you are asking so many people about me, this supposed to be about me getting my probation lifted." she asked upset at the intrusion into her life.
"Monica thought she was too biased. The same questions I asked you and them, you had none of the same answers. Most of them were similar to each other and some questions others didn't know the answer too. I think we need to dig a little deeper. When I asked those people about your younger years, those that were here at the time said that you had a crush on Jason back when he was a Quartermaine."
"I knew him before Stone. After I meet Stone, I didn't have a crush on him."
"Also you claim to be Jason's oldest friend, that you knew him longer than any of the others. What others?"
"Carly, Sonny, Sam, Spinelli, all of them."
"What about Elizabeth Webber. I notice you didn't mention her. Have you known him longer than her?"
"Yes, she meet Jason eight years ago, that is after I broke up with him."
"Really Monica tells me that Jason Quartermaine knew Elizabeth when she was still a toddler, that later Emily, Jason's sister and Elizabeth were best friends."
"Well some of that is true, but not the Elizabeth stuff, I was there when Lucky first brought Elizabeth around."
"Yes, later on, when he was Jason Morgan, the earlier information was about Jason Quatermaine."
"Jason is seven years older than her, they may have crossed paths, but Monica is trying to make it out like it is more that it was."
Thank you for coming in Dr. Scorpio. I have to submit a report to Dr.'s Quartemaine and Winters as to where I think your therapy should go. While you are a brilliant doctor and probably a good person, your people skills are terrible. You are trying to control your life by trying to control those around you and like I said you are a little too fixated on this Jason. It's not healthy. I would also recommend you hold off on that surrogacy you are planning. You are not in the right state of mind to be a parent."
LUNCH AT THE METROCOURT
Clarice sat at the table with her young runners, going over the plans for after Christmas. They had done an incredible job during lunch of helping her arrange for the staffing to have rooms here and had helped her plan for the party celebrating the opening. Serena had grown up in the cosmetics industry so she knew most of the lingo and Georgie had the contacts and personality to get what they needed with the least amount of fuss. After dessert, Serena rushed off to relieve Lulu at the diner and work the two to close shift.
"Georgie, Kate let me in on what is happening tomorrow, we have some plans to make. Do you have a favorite flower or color? I have a hair dresser and makeup artist in place, and one of our photographers is going to take some pictures." She stopped talking at the panicked look on Georgie's face. "Relax, Elizabeth, Diane and Kate want to make this look as natural as possible."
Georgie took a breath and answered Clarice's questions. "Favorite color, no not really. I wear a lot of neutrals, flowers I love roses, especially the English roses that grow in the Quartermaine gardens but that isn't exactly appropriate. So how about pink tulips and baby's breath. I don't really wear makeup, so can we go easy on that stuff. As for my hair can't I just pull it up?"
"We can do that. I know that they are going to arrange it so that it is simple and beautiful. Elizabeth is reining in Kate. It's been amusing, Kate Howard is giddy at the thought of a wedding."
Diane left Elizabeth trying to keep Kate from ordering an over sized cake and dozens of bottles of champagne. The fact that the bride was underage didn't seem to faze her. "Georgie, I just need your signature on this license. They rushed the blood tests, and were remarkably helpful about not waiting the required time. You are set for tomorrow." Georgie was surprised when the older woman bent down and hugged her saying if she needed anything to call, that this was going to be a difficult few weeks and she was there as well as Kate and Elizabeth.
Georgie was amazed that women who barely knew her were trying to help her through this. Clarice and her joined Elizabeth and Kate in time for Elizabeth to explain that Jason and her wanted simple and beautiful, not large and extravagant. She suggested that they get Max to propose and plan that wedding for Diane.
Carly was miserable, she knew it was deserved but did it have to feel this bad. She turned her head at the sound of the laughter coming from the far corner of the restaurant. Seeing Kate and Elizabeth reminded her of her pain and that Sonny was responsible for Jason's anger even more than she was. She had heard from Louisa Henshaw, Kate's trip to the luncheon had been a success except for that she had been injured. Next was telling one of Sonny's house guards she had seen something on Kate's property, a dark shadow. Send Sonny into protection overdrive. Let Kate see that side of Sonny.
She groaned as she saw Lucy Coe entering the restaurant. The woman stopped and was lecturing the new DA. Scott looked embarrassed at the verbal haranguing he was receiving over their daughter. Then Lucy saw Elizabeth and rushed over with her garment bag.
"Elizabeth there you are, I have been looking all over for you. I have something that was left for you. Tell your friends to go away this is important. I have arranged for Elton to come to town to help plan your wedding. So when in the spring are you planning for?" she sat down and opened her agenda then looked up at the people still sitting there, then started to talk about arrangements, churches vs. gardens and fish vs. chicken. Elizabeth finally had enough and figured out a way to shut the insane woman up.
"Lucy before we go any further let me introduce you to my guests. You know Georgie. This is Clarice Summers, and this is Kate Howard." she watched as Lucy's jaw dropped. She felt guilty at the satisfaction she got as Lucy fainted and slid out of the chair and onto the floor.
Carly who had been standing at the bar watching couldn't help it, she started laughing. She had seen what Elizabeth had done and had a good idea of what she had said that had Lucy fainting.
Jax walked in to meet his miserable wife for lunch, she had told him what had happened and he was hoping to try and talk to Jason. To make him see she really was trying to change. Then he saw her sitting at the bar laughing. There was a crowd around a table, when he saw them step back and Lucy Coe stand up. She sat down quickly telling everyone she was fine.
Elizabeth walked over to the bar and asked for a glass of brandy, to take to the woman. While waiting Jax asked her to stop into his office before she left that he had a message from Micheal and he needed to talk to her.
After getting control of herself, Lucy asked Elizabeth to open the garment bag, inside was a dress, it looked familiar. Seeing the Chloe Morgan original label saddened her at the lost of the young woman to Stavros. Taking the dress out, Lucy explained it was for her wedding. Elizabeth was astonished it was almost the dream dress she had once drawn, with some slight modifications. "Lucy where did this come from?"
"Lila, she saw your sketches at the gatehouse one day. This is one of the the codicils of her will. She had this made up by Chloe for when you and Jason finally figured out that you belonged together." she told the stunned brunette who held the dress up to her and knew that this was the dress, the dress she had always dreamed of marrying Jason in. She felt the tears sliding down her face at the thought that Lila had thought this day would happen, that she had done this for her.
Kate pried the dress out of her numb fingers and hung it back into the bag. The dress looked like something out of a beautiful dream. A lined with long sleeves that ended wrapped around her fingers, it was simply made of white organza with very few layers to it. Like something a fairy princess would wear. Whoever this Lila was she had been a wonderful person, her apparent faith in Jason and Elizabeth had stunned all of them.
When Lucy had escorted Elizabeth to the powder room to wipe and repair her makeup. Georgie explained that Lila was Lila Quartermaine, Jason's late grandmother. Clarice was starting to get the feeling that while simple was what was wanted, it sounds like the past had been complicated for the couple.
Georgie and her headed to the offices to plan for the wedding tomorrow and left Kate and the two women to talk. Elizabeth thanked and hugged Lucy for her help but explained that they were getting married right after the holiday and wanted to keep things simple. So no need for Elton, but that she was more than welcome to attend the service.
OVERLOOK
Johnny and Jason meet at the Overlook, discussing the next point in their plan. When Johnny informed him about Sonny, he saw the tic in Morgans jaw and was worried at the anger and pain he saw on the usually stoic man's face. "We are going to have to be more open about our meets over the next week, if Mac does what I think he will, the first domino will fall. He is too honorable and law abiding not to. So the file that Trevor had with our shipping lanes and docks should become FBI property in a matter of hours."
"Are you worried that someone will make a mistake and ship something through?" asked Johnny curiously.
"No I set this up already, Sonny thinks that it is because of your ship, he canceled all incoming shipments until further notice, only coffee is going to be coming through. Next the families will call a meeting when they hear about the FBI interest. That should start the ball rolling. Are you sure about this, once this is over, there is no going back. You are out, and if you try to get back in they will kill you."
"Yes, are you sure about your part of the plan? I talked to Francis this could be dangerous for you if things don't go right."
"Sonny and Lulu Spencer are the only wild cards. What about the outing of you and Georgie?" he watched as the younger man flinched and then looking miserable answered.
"I hope she can forgive me afterwards, but I need to eliminate the threats against us. Helena will be neutralized as soon as she dies, and we find out the name of the banker and the numbers of the accounts."
"You love her, does she know that. If not tell her, she needs to be told this evening about our plan, not all of it, but the parts that involve her, if you don't there is a chance you could lose her. I am speaking from experience. Elizabeth and I had help but hurt and anger caused by my not telling her the truth about Sonny faking his death and then avoiding her did as much damage as other people interfering. Tell her."
"I tried, but we got distracted last night. Then I needed to take her home before I lost my mind and took her to my home." he admitted.
Jason still told him to tell her tonight, before things got out of hand tomorrow. That the paper would be running the blurb in the gossip columns in the evening addition. "I will, did the files help any?"
"Yes, we are still looking for a key piece of evidence, but something came to light today, some diaries of Sonny's sister that give us the same information."
"Morgan, I just hope this works out, for you and Elizabeth, as well as Georgie and I."
"It will as long as we stick to the plan." he vowed.
Jason's phone vibrated and seeing Spinelli's name stopped Johnny from leaving. "Morgan."
"I found it the whole treasure trove, you will not believe the stuff I found on the obsessive one, she was hiding really big secrets. The Maternal One was the target all along. The younger dark prince is not fruit of the dark princes loins sir, nor is he the fruit of the Valkyries life mate. Best yet, this isn't the first time she has pulled this, two previous men were victims of her vicious attacks, the women in each case were similar to Fair Elizabeth."
"Spinelli, take a deep breath. What about the other items I had you looking into?"
"Oh that was easy, the winners of the Intern contest were a my dad and your mom Dr. Jeff and Monica Webber. freaky, Stone Cold. As for the packaging nothing. The delivery service said that all the other packages had been sent and the only one COD was to ELQ, the rest shipping was paid on. No shipping list exists the hard drive was cleansed as well" offered up the hacker.
"Johnny go get caught up, and then you are meeting with Diane right? After your visit with Alexis, tell Georgie." Jason saw the stubbornness in Johnny's face. He knew it stemmed from fear of Georgie, but short of locking the two in together he had no other idea of getting him to open up on this part of the plan with her.
SNIPPETS
Tracy walked into her father's office to hear him on the phone. "Certainly Ted I was glad to hear that you got a rating's boost of my little inside information on Sam McCall, did you get the chance to read the prospectus for the venture I sent you. Yes, we are still planning of going in that direction. Thank you I will keep that in mind." Getting off the phone he turned to her and said that they needed to talk about the SEC report for earning for the last quarter of the year. Has Corinthos called at all, I had his name removed from the stockholders list.
"Corithnos will fight it, he has been after Elizabeth to sell him the stock and has tried other stockholders to get them to sell. Lee Baldwin says he sounded desperate for the stocks."
"I hope that Elizabeth can hold out against him, what has been Jason's position?"
"He is backing Elizabeth, Jax told me that Carly told him to back off as well. I think we are safe from his influence for now. Did you receive a call from an investor about the dock property we own, I at first thought it was Corinthos, but it came from an attorney I know would have no dealings with the mob."
"I checked it out as well, should we sell to this G& E Investments, or should we hold on to the property. We could use the cash flow if Sonny makes another attempt to buy up stock."
"Sell it, with the stipulations that Sonny Corinthos can not buy it from them. That if it is anything other than what it looks like we get to buy the property back at seventy five percent of what we sold it for."
Patrick was shocked to see Stephen Webber sitting patiently in his office with Elizabeth's eldest son. "Hello Cam, would you like some soda?"
Cam gave the doctor the saddest look he had ever seen and said "Mommy doesn't let me have that."
Patrick tried to keep from smiling as he went into the break room grabbing coffee for him and Stephen and a milk for the little guy. Cam was quietly playing with his motorcycle when he returned while his guest was reading the file that Patrick had handed to him.
"So you think he was dosed with this. Are there any other drugs that create that same sort of response?"
"None that I can see him needing or taking. None of this makes sense, the time line, even the missing doses getting to him make no sense in any way possible."
"I know and with the second surgery your time line is all screwed up, you need to someone to run the analysis of the blood you drew, Robin is an excellent doctor for this, why am I here?"
"She has her own agenda, the second surgery wasn't needed, the same medicine given to Laura Spencer would have cured his problem. The side affect is he would have only remembered certain memories at first, and could have possibly lost others. Only the strongest of his memories would have survived. When I asked him what memories that would be he said the early time with Micheal, Elizabeth and Lila. She lost medical objectiveness and still is certain she was in the right."
"Okay I will need access to a lab but not here. I will talk to Mo-the patient and see if he can recommend a spot. As for the time line and the doctors we need to get someone to personally verify with each patient that they had the dose. That is going to be as illegal as hel-heck," Stephen watched as his nephew sat there staring at the doctors like he understood the conversation.
Johnny exited the penthouse after saying goodbye to Diane. She had explained he inherited Anthony's money no matter what the blood tests said. There were no siblings and with Sam dead, no one else with a claim on the estate. Since he had been named his father's successor, it was all his. After arranging for the estate to be sold off at auction, he wanted the money donated to the hospital and various other charities.
He was going to go there after Christmas and take the few items he wanted out of the house and never return. He listened as Spinelli stomped down the stairs and grabbed something out of the kitchen. The computer geek handed him the folder that Jason wanted him to go through then told him to not hurt His Faithful Friend, or he would make him pay.
Johnny ignored his threat and told him that he would take care of her, seeing the look of concern on the geek's face, he realized the kid was really worried. "I love her. I promise to try and not hurt her, that I wanted a life with her."
Spinelli nodded and then turned around and said "Good, people will be watching you know, and Georgie is one of the kindest most gentle souls I know, so protect her soft heart."
Jason listened in to the two younger men as he entered, then turned to Diane and asked her if the papers were drawn up?
"Which ones, the ones for Sonny, the ones in regards to the kids, the ones in regards to Cameron, the marriage licenses or maybe the papers in regards to your commitment papers, those are the ones really needed."
After watching Johnny head out the door and Spinelli up to his room, she said. "The marriage licenses are taken care off, the adoption papers for Cam are in the file as well. The papers requiring Sonny to give up the kids as well. The partner disillusionment papers are here, but we need to discuss some things. Now the coffee warehouse stay with you, the Harborview is sold to the G & E Investments. the Casino in San Juan goes to Sonny."
"Yes, that is about it,what about the incorporation papers I had drawn up?"
"Also taken care of. By the way I verified that Sonny has been taking placebos. Do you want to tell him, or do we keep this to ourselves?"
"I think he will be easier to control if he is out of control. So lets tell him what Mac said then make sure we give him placebos as well. Now are you sure you are okay with this? Sonny hired you Diane, I don't know how ugly this is going to get."
"I'm in, Jason I sat there the night you were missing listening to him pretend concern and caring for Elizabeth, then to read those notes, to know that he is the primary reason you and her were separated. Out of concern that your loyalty would be to your love for her. I just don't get it."
"That's just it, as long as Elizabeth isn't a threat to his little empire he is fine with her being in my life, but the minute it changes he will go on the offensive."
"Call me, I am going to placate the beast. are you coming as well?"
"Yes, we need to look concerned and like we really give a shit about what happens to him."
Elizabeth finished her errands and started towards the house with Jake, Stephen was staying for dinner after bringing home Cam. As she climbed in the backseat of the SUV, for once she was glad that she had a driver. Robin had been a pain all day. Then Skye Chandler's mother had dropped off a package of photos from her daughter. Rae Cummings had admired her engagement ring and asked a lot of rather personal questions until Liz had felt pretty uncomfortable. With Epiphany off for the day it had been her responsibility to fill out the daily end of shift forms.
Then had came her few bright spots in the day. Listening to Kate try and plan an elaborate wedding in two day had been a riot. It had taken both her and Diane to reel her in.
Lucy had brought her the dress, Elizabeth was feeling teary-eyed again at the beautiful present she had received from Lila. The dress had been incredible but the faith that she had in Elizabeth and Jason was even more wonderful.
Jax had informed her that they needed to speed up the packages, that Micheal was feeling guilty. She knew that Jason had a lot on his plate right now, so she suggested they continue at the same pace, that she would try and shore up Micheal and talk down his fears. As she listened to him talk about the Carly situation, she was debating what to do, she wanted to make Jason happy, if Carly was learning her lesson and was staying out of their lives for now, it would make the next two weeks easier, at least until they had dealt with Sonny.
Milo helped her out and into the house with Jake and her packages, Stephen came out from her kitchen with Cam following. After a hug from her son and being told that dinner was under control Stephen picked up Jake and brought him into the kitchen with his brother and told Elizabeth she had received some Christmas cards today, and that he knew how much she enjoyed opening them.
Elizabeth opened the card from Sarah, sent from Quebec, and one from Carly addressed to Jason and her, a few from her coworkers and one from the Quartermaines it looked from the envelope, she was a bit disappointed that it was addressed only to her. As she opened it, a post it note was attached to the front saying this is a very special card that she had only had two made up, one for herself and one for Elizabeth, signed with love, Monica. As she lifted the note Elizabeth fell from her chair laughing there was Jason and Emily standing in front of the fireplace in matching sweaters, Matching reindeer sweaters. Elizabeth calmed down and called Monica.
"Dr. Quartermaine."
"Thank you Dr. Quartermaine, this is truly a unique card, one I swear I will cherish." Elizabeth started laughing again and then asked how?
"I had the people at the print shop take a copy of the sweater and place it on Emily. I know this way he will feel too guilty to destroy the card."
"This is great, I can't wait for him to get home later, Monica where did you find the photo."
"Lila had it, by the way Lucy came here, she explained about the dress, I am sure that it is wonderful. Lila always had a soft spot for you, she would be very happy that the two of you have overcame the obstacles in your path. I have to go they are calling me to the ER, I hope I can see the dress before the wedding."
"Oh course, and thank you again Monica."
Johnny knocked on the door and waited for his mother. A little dark haired girl about six opened the door, smiled and slammed it in his face. Johnny guessed that he had just seen his sister Kristina, the door opened again this time there were two little girls, so the younger one was Molly. "Hi, is your Mom home?"
"Yes, but she is taking a shower, Molly dropped her soup all over her, and Mommy smells like soup, who are you?" asked Kristina.
"My name is Johnny." he was amused at the thorough look over he was getting from both the girls, then the talkative one said "I can't let you in, Viola said Mommy was waiting for a Mr. Zaccarra, not you so you can't come in."
"Thats me." he said.
"You said your name is Johnny, I don't believe you." Viola entered the room and told Kristina to let the gentleman in that he was here to see Alexis. Johnny entered the room but felt two pairs of eyes on him as he sat down, then the older girl came over and handed him her crayons and started to color, then stopped and looked up, then ordered him to color with her. Molly just sat next to him staring at him, not saying a word.
Feeling awkward but not wanting to offend his newly found sister he picked up the brown crayon and started to color the dog, only to be stopped and informed in a long suffering tone, that Clifford was the big red dog, not brown. Johnny's mouth twitched from the effort it took to not laugh.
"Kristina what are you doing, you march right up to your room young lady, you know you were told to pick up your toys, and that if you didn't no coloring. I am not going to tell you again. Or the next punishment will be no sundae this week." Alexis walked down the stairs finally seeing it was her son on the sofa with the girls. She stopped and starred, she had seen him at the ball but hadn't paid close attention. My god she thought, he looks so much like his father. "John, I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell in front of you. Kristina move it now."
Kristina stomped over to the stairs and told Alexis she was the meanest mommy around and she didn't want to clean her room, she liked having her toys where she could find them, that the stuffed animals couldn't breath in the toy box. and that she wasn't going to eat her green beans ever again. They heard the door slam at the top of the stairs. Then reopen and slam again.
Johnny tried to not laugh, but the green bean thing just got him. He hated those things as well. Turns out he had something in common with his little sister.
Alexis was embarrassed she had already been nervous and scared about this meeting, now she was afraid he would leave. Johnny got up of the sofa and walked around to the window and said your not really what I would have expected. Georgie was right, you aren't some put together, overly rigid person like Trevor had described.
"No that is just what I want to project, unfortunately it never seems to work out, even before Kristina I would fall to pieces easily on a personal level, professional I can deal with anything,"
"I just have to ask, did you really flee a wedding on a truck?"
"Oh, god, who told you about that?" Alexis was embarrassed that he had heard about that, and she wondered who had opened their mouth.
"Let's see Elizabeth Webber said you are a good mother, a little neurotic but a good mother, Morgan seems to think your a good attorney and Georgie's dad likes you, I believe it was Francis who told me about the aborted wedding."
The thought that her mobster son was talking to the police commissioner intrigued her, "Mac and you are having civilized conversations. He is really protective of Georgie. Poor Dylan was just about tossed into a jail cell at the drop of a hat. So how are you managing to get along with the man?"
"Well unlike Dylan I'm not dating Georgie and sleeping with another girl, and I think that Mac knows I am not going to go away, other than that you will have to ask him. Georgie is the main reason I am even here, look I am sure you are a nice person, but I had a mother, maybe not a biological one, but Maria was my mother in every way, she died to protect me, I feel like I am betraying her by even being here.
Until a few days ago, you thought Sam was your child, you forged a bond with her, to the point of blindly denying her faults from what I understand." Johnny felt like he was suffocating, this felt like a mistake, she was related to the woman who was trying to run his life from the grave, and he was sitting here trying to make small talk. He quickly headed towards the door and turning said "I'm sorry can we do this at a later date, I need to get out of here."
Alexis watched as her son didn't even allow the door to close completely before rushing down the stairs. She sat down and felt the tears flow down her face and Molly came over and crawled up into her lap offering her doll to Mommy. She hugged her youngest daughter and picked up the phone and called Bobbie Spencer, the woman had offered a sympathetic ear earlier, Alexis had been so sure this would go well, that she had all but ignored the offer, now she needed someone to talk to who had already been through this.
Jason rushed home, he wanted to eat dinner with his family, Sonny had needed calmed down and placated. So far the plan was working. Diane had given him the new bottle of drugs and made a point of flushing the old pills down the drain. Sonny had overreacted, wanting Jason to kill Johnny like they had expected. Diane had talked him down when she had seen the tic in Jason's neck start to pulse.
They had fourteen days until this was over, but for now she was going to have to act as a go-between before Jason killed him outright. He was dealing with learning more truths everyday, and the pressure of not attacking Sonny was starting to get to him. Pulling into the driveway he saw Milo supervising Cam on his sled with Stephen helping. Cam waved at Jason then went back to trying to slid down the little hill.
Taking his coat off as he came inside he saw Elizabeth at the fireplace hanging Christmas cards. Seeing her made the darkness and pain disappear. He crossed the room pulling her back into his arms as watched his younger son attempting to crawl off his blanket and towards his mother. Elizabeth handed him some cards and told him who they were from, the grin on her face making him curious, most of them he would have expected. The one for Carly surprised him. The last one made him blush, his mother apparently found a picture in the dreaded sweater and made it into a card for Elizabeth.
Looking at Emily so young and smiling made him laugh, he hugged Elizabeth saying "That card is not being hung, please." It had started out as an order but he finished by begging.
"No that card is going to our bedroom, I may frame it, I am concerned though. I would have thought you would have been more thorough in searching and destroying all evidence of this."
Jason was embarrassed at the proof he had missed something along the way, looking at Elizabeth he got the feeling she knew more than she was telling, he decided to get it out of her later, for now he was just going to enjoy his family time, tomorrow was going to be busy with the wedding and the paper, he knew that Helena was going to reappear at some point but for now he was going to enjoy dinner with his fiancée and their sons.