Here is chapter 54. It's not as long as I thought it would be nor do I think is it one of my best written chapters, but I've looked and thought over this chapter long enough, so I'm posting it. It is rated PG-13 for language and for some very minor violence. Mainly it's just lots of drama.
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Chapter Fifty-Four
"I'm not staying here." Lucky told his brother as they ate an early breakfast. After finding the body of the last of the rapists Helena and Andre had hired, and the note left by Elizabeth in her handwriting Lucky knew that both Jason and Elizabeth knew his part in her rape. He wanted to leave, but his brother was trying to reassure him that he was safe. Nikolas did had his men check each room and spend the whole night searching the tunnels, and had them seal some of the access points into the castle.
"Lucky, Elizabeth and Jason just wanted to scare you. They made a mistake revealing themselves and letting us know that they know. I'm telling you they won't risk a frontal assault on the island. You just need to stay here where it's safe."
"I told you Lucky. You should have just tortured and killed the bitch then you wouldn't be in this situation. You would have been the only witness and Jason would have never found any evidence linking her death to you." Sam told Lucky. Oh she wanted Elizabeth to suffer, but would have killed her afterward and any accomplices as well.
"Sam you're right I should have just killed the whore after the men were done with her. I just wanted her to suffer as much as possible, and I'll make sure she does. I just need to leave and regroup. I know where my father's safe houses are. I can lay low there for a few days until we figure out what to do." Lucky told his brother as he finished his coffee.
"Fine, but you're not leaving until the evening. It will be easier to get you off the island unnoticed." Nikolas said seeing that there was no talking his brother out of leaving.
"I hate my sister and I wanted her humiliated and embarrassed and run out of Port Charles, but you should have killed her." Sarah said talking about her own sister. "Did you think Jason wouldn't search scower the planet looking for the men who hurt his wife?" Sarah asked. "You should have thought over your plan with Helena more thoroughly." Sarah said finishing up her omelet."
"All right Nikolas I'll stay to the evening, and then I'm leaving." Lucky said not answering Sarah because he knew she was right. "I'm going to go try and get more sleep." Lucky said getting up and heading out of the room. Lucky had only gotten two hours of sleep and needed more. Nikolas watched his brother leave and then noticed his right hand man Dorian motioning him over.
"What do you have?" Nikolas asked as he walked over to his man hoping to have good news on Jason and Seth.
"Sir. First all but four of the tunnel entrances to the castle have been sealed, and the men have blocked off certain tunnel ways, so if any intruders attempt to come in they have only certain ways to gain entrance where the men have placed motion sensors and I'm have men posted in the tunnels on round the clock shifts. Sir may I speak freely." Dorian said. They Greek man had been stationed in Greece, and had little dealing with the main Cassadine family until Nikolas called on his services.
"You may."
"Why hasn't this been done before? There are too many access ways in to the castle through the tunnels. I know twenty and thirty years ago it would have been too hard for someone to map the tunnels with the risk of getting lost or dying by one of your family's traps, but technology has changed making it far easier to map tunnel systems. The tunnels are a great system to hide and escape, but their also a major security risk." Dorian explained to his boss.
"I didn't know." Nikolas honestly said not realizing the risk he and his family had put themselves in. "Good work ensuring my family is protected Dorian."
"Thank you sir." Dorian said bowing his head slightly.
"Was there anything else?"
"Yes sir. I have some good news on the Lei front. From the information you have gathered and I have gathered I believe there is blood connection between Laila Bahbam and Roman Shaw." Dorian told his boss. Nikolas knew there was more to Seth than he let on, but this wasn't something he expected. "I believe they are essentially all one company and family. There is also evidence of major illegal activity."
"That is great Dorian, but I need evidence. I want to embarrass and destroy Seth and whoever his allies are or family is."
"I do have more sir. We may have lost the mob boss, but we gained a doctor." Dorian explained.
"A doctor? How is this doctor going to help?" Nikolas asked confused.
"Five years ago Seth Lei was shot two times damaging his kidneys in the process. Dr. Albert Yanie was his doctor. He tried to find a match for him, but the donor waiting lists are long and can take years. That's when Laila Bahbam showed up saying she was a business associate and a friend of the family. The doctor checked and they matched. Dr. Yanie also did blood tests and according to him they a match for siblings. Dr. Yanie did the surgery saving Seth's life. After the surgery he was told to get rid of the medical files, but Dr. Yanie is an unscrupulous doctor. He does black market surgeries for money and has a working scam with the pharmacy to sell drugs to patients who had no prescriptions. He of course kept flash drive and paper copies of the files thinking it might come in handy one day. Our men found the doctor in Finland working has the head of surgery for his hospital. We're bringing him here."
"Good. We can't lose him like we lost Lukács."
"We won't we're escorting him personally, and we're taking precautions. He's first being flown to London on a private Jet and then put on of your freighters. He'll arrive in four days. He'll be taken to land near Wolfe Island and then driven the rest of the way to Port Charles." Dorian explained.
"Good. I want to be rid of Mr. Lei once and for all." Nikolas said confidently.
"Once we have all the information on the siblings you can expose them to the world, along with their suspect illegal activity will embarrass and surely cripple their operations as their investigated by governments across the world."
"Good job Dorian. May brother is planning on leaving tonight I want guards on him as he leaves tonight." Nikolas said thanking and dismissing his man.
"I will put our best men on him." Dorian said and then turned and left leaving Nikolas to think. Once he got rid of Seth and his brother and sister then he could focus all his attention on Jason. He's deal with Jason and that cop John, and then Emily would be his. Yes Nikolas thought everything would work out for him.
Across the city in Crimson Point, Carly was relaxing as she sunbathed in the warm late morning hours with her sunglasses and head phones on ignoring her children who were being watched by the nanny Trevor and Carly while Trevor was staring to make plans to deal with his enemies when a guard got his attention.
"Boss there's a Miss Miller at the door to see you." The guard told his boss.
"Fine I'll be right there." Trevor said getting out his chair and headed to the front door where Diane was waiting for him. Trevor suspected what she was here for and that meant the eviction notice Jason had promised. "What do you want Diane?" Trevor asked not even going for a presence of civility.
"I'm glad you are in such a good mode Mr. Lancing, and I'm happing to give you more good news." Diane said pulling out to thick envelops. "Here is the eviction notice for the properties you are leasing from my clients. Again you have to be off my client's property in less then six months from now."
"I know what Morgan said last night." Trevor grabbing the first envelop.
"Here are the documents and court date."
"Court date?" Trevor asked surprised and then after a moment of thinking realized what the envelop contained.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are suing you jointly with Monica Quartermaine for custody of Michael, Kristina, Morgan and Molly." Diane told him. "The court date is on June 4th. We expect you to be there. If you don't show up social services will be called in, and the children have been reflagged in that they're not allowed to leave the country. Any attempt to take them out of the United States you will be arrested." Diane said turning to leave. "I'll see you on the 4th." Diane said walking off leaving an angry Trevor behind. Trevor turns around and storms inside and out back to his wife.
"Carly come inside we need to talk." Trevor told the relaxing Carly who was still upset from the previous night with how Elizabeth had embarrassed her knocking her out and how Jason hadn't come to her aid.
"What is it Trevor?" Carly said slowly getting up and heading inside. She was still feeling the effects of having a concussion.
"Here." Trevor said handing Carly the envelope containing the documents from Diane for custody of the children. Carly read the documents seething as she neared the end and went to sit down.
"They're not taking my children, and why would Jason allow this?"
"Carly get it through your head Jason isn't coming to your aid." Trevor told his wife, and he would make sure because he would make a plan to deal with the former mob boss and enforcer.
"I know I've lost my Jason thanks Elizabeth. We need to get rid of Elizabeth permanitly, but first we need to sue to have Sonny's will overturned and his children's trust turned over to us." Carly told her husband. She had wanted to keep her own hands clean leaving the likes of Sam and Lucky who has soon as she found was alive knew had some kind of involvement in Elizabeth's rape, but the two incompetent idiots couldn't get rid of the bitch and now she'd have to get her own hands dirty.
"I'll agree I get started on it now." Trevor told his wife, and he planned to, but he was going to get rid of Morgan and the two detectives once and for all. Carly didn't need to know. All she would do was get in his way when it came to Morgan. As he left his wife who was getting more iced tea and heading back out to the pool.
The family pulled up in their black SUV in front of the penthouse building they had once lived and thought they'd spend their future in. Jason helped Cameron out of his car seat while Elizabeth got Jake and put him in the stroller. She had been amazed at how quiet of a baby was compared to Cameron. Cody and Isaac had teased her that Jake had gotten that from Jason while Cameron was a blabber mouth and was just like his mother. Elizabeth didn't mind she would love her one of her sons to be like her and the other to look and be like Jason and she thinks she got that in Jake. Isaac escorted them up as the rest of the guards remained downstairs, and Cody along with his men were keeping an eye on the island hoping Lucky would try to flee. Jason and Cody weren't averse to taking Lucky by force off the island, but a lot more men would die and there was a chance it could end up being a disaster for them. That is why they left the body in Lucky's bed and the note from Elizabeth to scare him, let him know that they knew and hopefully make him and Nikolas think he wasn't safe on the island and try to leave.
"Elizabeth, Jason" Georgie said hugging both of them as they came out of the elevator into the huge penthouse. "Hi Cameron do you remember me we used to play together while you mom and dad were away?" Georgie asked bending to her knees to get level to the toddler while everyone else came to greet the family.
"Yes wes play toys together ands you make funny sounds." Cameron said hugging Georgie. "Cans we play now?" Cameron asked. The three year hadn't wanted to come. Cameron had wanted to stay home in their huge home playing, but his mommy and daddy were mean and made him come.
"Cameron don't bother Georgie. You will have plenty of time to play with your toys."
"I don't mind we still have some of your toys you left behind from your move." Georgie said reassuring Elizabeth that it was all right. "Shall we go take a look?" Georgie asked and Cameron smiled happily and took Georgie's hand and walked off to find some toys. Johnny watched her go as Brenda, Jax and Maxi greeted their friends.
"Look at Jake he's so cute, and he just like his daddy. When he gets older the ladies will be falling all over each other to get to him." Maxi said seeing Jake for the first time and the baby reached up and took Maxi's hand.
"Yes it seems from what Cody and the other guards say is that Jake is miniature Jason, and got nothing from me." Elizabeth said smiling and pretending to be put off.
"He has your eyes, and when we have our daughter she'll look just like her mother." Jason said wrapping his arms around Elizabeth and leaning down kissing her.
"You may like it at first, but once she reaches her teenage years look out. I can see Jason trying to keep his daughter under house arrest and lock and key, and I pity the first man who asks her out on a date and arrives at your door. He'll end up too terrified to touch or even look at your daughter." Brenda told the couple.
"I can picture that to." Maxi said laughing as she pictured what kind of life a daughter to one of the most feared men on the east coast would be like.
"Quit teasing my husband. Though it's a ways off I think Jason would be a great father to our daughter and would respect her boundaries like he respects mine." Elizabeth said coming to the defense of her husband and though she was far from ready for another child she did want to give Jason a daughter.
"All right Maxi let's leave poor Jason alone, and let's head into the living room while the dinner finishes cooking." Brenda said as the group was going to have an early dinner. The group went to the living room where Georgie was playing with Cameron leaving behind Jason and Johnny.
"I hope my sister wasn't too much of a hassle to you." Johnny told Jason.
"She reminded me a little bit of Carly." Jason told the younger man and Johnny cringed.
"I'm sorry. I know you plan on taking down Trevor. I just want to let you know I won't get in the way or try to take over once he's gone. I want nothing to do with the business. I plan on going to school, but I would like a job if you are willing to give me one?" Johnny asked. He'd talked to Georgie about the future and she convinced him school was the right option and to talk to Jason about a job.
"I don't think I'll have to deal with Trevor at least I hope not." Jason said knowing that detectives Harper and Hunter had a plan on dealing with Lancing that would let Jason focus on Lucky, Nikolas, Seth and the Cassadine's. "Will your sister cause trouble once Trevor is gone?" Jason asked not wanting to have to hurt Johnny's sister unless he had to. "
"She might. She'll definitely show up once Trevor's gone and take over, but I'll talk to her." Johnny reassured Jason.
"As for the job once things settle down we can find something for you." Jason told the Johnny.
"Thank you." Johnny said as the two headed into the living room to spend some time with their friends and family, and have an early dinner.
Mei-Ling got finished her shift and headed home to her small house she had rented when she moved to Port Charles. She had to deal with the Commissioner who wasn't pleased with David and John's attitude and it was affecting some of the officers who were loyal to the two detectives. The Commissioner wanted to do something about the two, but couldn't do anything because they haven't done anything directly wrong, and John was already a hero in the city and David was quickly following him. Mei-Ling told Gregory she'd keep an eye on him, but right now she was dead tired and headed home to get some much needed sleep. The Asian Canadian pulls up to her darkened house and heads inside taking off her gun and putting it on the nightstand not noticing the man in her darkened living room. Mei-Ling heads into her kitchen turning on the light and pouring herself a glass of red wine and heads back to the living room to head upstairs to her bead when the light comes on in her living room startling her making her drop her glass of wine on the floor. She turned and saw John Hunter sitting in the chair beside her sofa.
"John you scared me." Mei-Ling said relieved it was John, but then released something. "How did you get in and what do you want?"
"Getting in was easy. I've picked enough locks in my life to know how to get by the locks on your door. As for what I'm doing here we need to talk." Jason said putting his gun down on the ottoman. Mei-Ling didn't like the feeling and looked for her gun but it was gone. "I have your gun as well as the other gun you keep in your bedroom and the Taser you keep in a kitchen drawer. I had plenty of time to search your home. Now come sit down you and I need to talk about the choices you've made. Now sit down." John said motioning her to the chair on the opposite side of the table. Mei-Ling reluctantly sat down having no choice. She didn't think John would shoot her, but she wasn't going to take a chance.
"What is this about?"
"This is about you killing my partner?" John said seeing the scarred realization in her eyes and then it went away. "Don't try to deny it I know everything." John said dropping a file on the table and Mei-Ling looked through it and realized John knew everything.
"This doesn't prove anything."
"You're right that evidence is circumstantial at best and wouldn't hold for court or at least not for your conviction, but its good enough for me and do you think if I was here to arrest you I would have shown up with some officers and a warrant for your arrest." John explained and that made Mei-Ling get more nervous. "You also missed the files that Peter had hidden. It wasn't hard to talk to the men who knew Devon Blake the drug addict criminal you set up. Once I talked to the men and gave them some money they admitted to seeing Devon talking to a good looking Asian chick. I showed them your picture and they confirmed it was you. That was enough of an excuse to dig into your background. While in Toronto you slept with and blackmailed your superior officer to get a promotion to detective working in narcotics. Apparently I wasn't the only one who found out an associate of Trevor Lancing and a young United States congressman who has truly risen in power recently. You helped Lancing's partners gain power in Toronto and would help the congressman Rebecca Hall off the books gathering dirt on her political rivals, and in turn they helped you become a homicide detective and brought you here where you gained a third master in Mayor Floyd who I relatively confident had you kill councilman Albert Gunderson and his family. It must have been hard having three masters." John told her.
"I got in over my head." Mei-Ling said trying to figure a way out of this, but she knew enough about John to know he was a well-trained and alert man who wasn't going to let his guard down around her.
"Yes I believe you did, but you're also young and very ambitious because if you truly regretted or wanted a way out you would have found one. It would have been a hard choice, but the hard choices are many times the right choices that cost you money, you job or threaten your live. In making the hard choice that may happen, but you save your soul and conscience. Believe me I know I had to make these decisions and early in my life I made the wrong ones just like you have and it cost me like it's going to cost you." John sadly explained remembering some of the bad decisions he's made in his life. "After finding out about you past and you killing my partner that eliminated other suspects like Nikolas Cassadine, and only left your three masters. Finding out which one of them had you do it was the hard part. Each had a reason. Peter had found files and documents linking our boss and the DA to Lancing taking money and meetings which leads to the assumption of what they were doing for him. It is certainly enough to have them convicted of bribery charges, have them loss their jobs and would be embarrassing for them. It could also very well bring charges against Trevor Lancing. That certainly is enough motives to kill. Then there is Mayor Floyd who has also taken money from Lancing and has helped him, but he's more for himself. As you can see I've found large sums of money put in your account a few days before Councilman Albert Gunderson and his family died in a fire at their home. I think questions will certainly be raised if people found money was transferred to your account by Floyd who has an account in another name. There are other things my partner found out about the mayor, but that is enough motive to kill. Finally there is the congressman Rebecca Hall who since being elected to the house in 2004 at just 27 years old she had risen to national prominence in her party. Peter didn't fine your connection to her which most likely got him killed thinking you were his friend, but he did find out what our local national representative was doing with the information which including blackmailing state representatives and the national senator from Buffalo Brad Klouski who apparently had an on and off affair with his wife's younger sister over the past 12 years. There is also a connection also to Roman Shaw and Seth Lei who donated money to her campaigns along with taking money from Lorenzo Alcazar. I think having all that information come to life will destroy her political career, but I guess she is a politician and all she'll do is say she made a mistake ask god and the people of New York for forgiveness and promise to never make those mistakes again and people will foolishly believe that she won't as soon as the scandal blows over do the same thing she's been doing." John explained.
"What are you going to do?" Mei-Ling asked realizing John really did know everything.
"There is one thing I don't know which is which one of these three had you kill Peter. That is the one thing I still can't figure out. Is Lancing, Floyd or Hall?" John asked putting a picture of each of them not telling Mei-Ling he knew she wasn't going to tell him. She would try to get something in return, and it was too late for that. No he'd look at her eyes. They eyes would give the answer away.
"And what do I get in return if I do tell you?" Mei-Ling asked hoping to salvage something out of this as her eyes gave her away and John notice them looking down at Mrs. Hall's picture. That was all he needed as he scooped up the pictures and file getting up with his gun.
"There is nothing I can give you, and I don't need you to tell me. I already know its Rebecca Hall." John said heading to the door as he emptied all the bullets from Mei-Ling's gun and took the battery out of the Taser.
"Wait you're just letting me go? I killed your partner." Mei-Ling asked.
"Yes I am. I have no intention of doing that. I've taken enough lives in cold blood during my life nor would I be able to look at Emily or Megan in the face." John told her.
"So I'm free."
"No. I said I wasn't going to kill you." John responded and Mei-Ling wondered what he meant by that.
"What does that mean?"
"I thought you would have realized it by now. Think about it who is Peter's brother." John said and then left. He's wasted enough of time with her. He had done what he came here to do. John had found out who ordered his partner's death and warned her. Mei-Ling had a few choices to make. She could go to the FBI and get in witness protection, and hope Michael Webb didn't find her. Mei-Ling could just make run for it or she could take he own life and save her pain and suffering, but John had a feeling no matter what she was dead woman. John had given the information he received to three people. He sent information to Michael along with the governor and state attorney general. John also gave information to Harper which he was going to meet with. Harper was getting the arrest warrant for the Mayor. Leaving Mei-Ling's home behind and the woman who finally realized what he meant John traveled to the Mayor's home where he met David along Carol and there other officers.
"You got it?" John asked. Harper had worked around their boss and the DA and went directly a judge.
"Yes." David said showing John the warrant for the Mayor's arrest.
"All right let's go." John said and the team walked up to the large home and knocked on the door.
"Hello officers what can I do for you?" The mayor's wife asked after opening the door.
"We're here for your husband." David said walking in and followed by John and other officers. They found Mayor Garrett Floyd in the den watching TV. He got up when he saw the detectives and the officers entering.
"What can I do for you officers?" Garrett asked.
"We have a warrant for your arrest." David said as Carol pulled out her handcuffs and went to put them on the mayor.
"ON WHAT CHARGES!?" Garrett asked yelling as Carol grabbed the older man's hands and bringing them behind his back.
"Conspiracy to commit the murder of Councilman Albert Gunderson, murder and a whole slew of bribery charges." John told him.
"Marge call my lawyer. When I get out of this you're finished." The mayor said as John, David and the officers escorted them to their cars.
"I wouldn't count on it. Both the our boss Commissioner Gregory Smith and DA James Everett will be having problems of their own win a representative from the State's attorney's office shows up sometime tomorrow." John said as he put the mayor in the back of the squad car. John actually thought someone might show up sometime this evening. With the information he sent there was no way the governor or state attorney could ignore the overblown corruption in Port Charles. The corruption in this small city could rival any major city in the United States and needed to be fixed.
Lucky and his two guards moved through the tunnels as they headed off the island. Lucky had said goodbye to his brother and sister reluctantly took the guards. He thought they would just get in the way. The made their way to a hidden exit no one knew about. It led to a small cove where a boat was hidden. Lucky and his guards boarded drove over the lake in the darkness without any lights. Arriving at the docks Lucky and his two guards got in the car Nikolas had waiting for them not realizing they were being watched. The car began to drive through Port Charles heading south to one of his dead father's old safe houses. As they were driving they didn't notice the blue Ford following behind them Cody's men had gotten as an untraceable and disposable car. Lucky's car came to empty traffic light in an empty intersection on the dark and late night, and the blue car pulled up beside them. When the light turned green the driver of the blue Ford stepped on it getting in front of Lucky's car and then stepping hard on the breaks almost stopping instantly forcing Lucky's car to run into the back of the Ford. Lucky and the guards were stunned not seeing the SUV speeding for the passenger side where one of the guards was sitting. The SUV sped down the road t-boning Lucky's car killing the guard in the passenger side and flipping the car upside down. Another SUV pulled up and Cody got out along with three other men.
"I told you that would work." Quinton said who had taken the night off from guarding Georgie to help Cody.
"Yes you did." Cody said as they slowly approached the car and looking down making sure the guard or Lucky didn't have gun and opened fire. Cody saw the guard in the back seat was unconscious, and Lucky was hurt but awake. The men got the front door opened and dragged Lucky having one of the men make sure he was all right.
"Where were you trying to go Mr. Spencer? Don't you want to talk privately with Jason and Elizabeth? I know they really want to talk to you." Cody smiled as they through a not seriously injured Lucky in the back of the SUV and drove off followed by the damaged, but still drivable SUV leaving the Ford and Lucky's car behind. Lucky tried to fight when he realized what was happening, but he was hurt, disoriented and the guards held making sure there was nothing he could do to escape his fate.
I know this chapter wasn't perfect and if I missed any spelling mistakes or grammar issues please let me know.
I told you this before that what Peter was investigating and his death would have a huge impact on this story. To be honest the information Peter and John got will have more of a lasting impact on Port Charles then what Jason is doing. It starts off a chain reaction that will clean up the city's government and police. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
