AN: Okay, so I lied, there's going to be three parts to this lol. I realized as I was writing that if I made this two parts then this part would be humongous haha. I'm sorry it took so long to get it out but the muse has been a fickle thing lately and I didn't like what I had originally written so I rewrote it and it was longer than I thought it would be lol. I'm still iffy on whether or not I like it but I've just chosen to let you guys be the judge of that, if I keep going over it then it would never be out. So with that being said I hope you guys like it and let me know what you think, whether you do or don't. As always thank you for the reviews I really appreciate you guys sticking it out with me.
Part Two.
Quartermaine mansion, Thanksgiving day cont…
Drew and Sam held each other for about a minute before their kids joined in turning their moment into a group hug. For those couple of minutes everything was right in their world again and then the doorbell rang, breaking both Sam, Drew and their kids out of their little bubble while also reminding them that they weren't the only ones in the room. Drew sighed and pulled back leaning his head on Sam's.
"I missed you so much." She whispered quietly, ignoring the interruption as she looked in his eyes.
Drew smiled and brushed his nose against hers and softly responding. "I missed you too, more than you'll ever know." He told her and kissed her forehead before looking at his mom. Monica had her hand covering her mouth and tears flowing down her face while Tracy held her hand on her shoulder, whether in comfort or to hold her back from breaking the moment with his family, nobody knew but Drew was grateful. He needed the reunion with Sam and his kids first, they were his first priority. As he broke away from Sam the doorbell rang again breaking the silence that fell upon the room at his arrival.
"Uh, I'll get it." Alice said before leaving the room.
Drew walked over to Monica and Tracy. "Hey mom, aunt Tracy. Happy thanksgiving." He said with a soft smile.
"Happy thanksgiving Andrew. Welcome back." Tracy greeted him with a smile and a small hand grab before giving him and his still shocked mother a moment.
"You can blink mom, I won't disappear, not again." He said to Monica as he took her hands in his. That was all it took to break the dam as she pulled him into her arms and started to cry. He just held her and let her take a moment to let it out. He knew she hadn't grieved and he figured his return would probably bring months of grief out, on top of the happiness of him being alive. "It's okay mom, I've got you."
Two minutes later Monica had calmed herself down enough to actually feel the happiness of her sons return but before she could begin to even express her happiness or her curiosity about what happened Franco and Kim entered the room with Alice. Much to her confusion she felt her son tense up in her arms at their entrance. Then to her dismay Drew pulled away from her and walked towards Elizabeth and her boys and took a protective stance in front of them. Elizabeth and her sons who had all been shocked by Drew's return were broken away from watching happy moments and awaiting theirs, only to be reminded of their own heartbreak that had no happy ending. Elizabeth like Monica was confused when she saw Drew walking towards her in the corner of her eyes and noticed the look on his face as he got closer. He looked murderous, a look she hasn't seen directed towards Franco since they had first started dating and a look he never had towards Kim. She wondered what that was about but it wasn't enough to take away the fact that her husband actually came to a family dinner with another woman in front of her sons, as if it wasn't already hard enough.
"Get out." Drew said in a deadly serious voice that had everyone in the room, that knew the relationship he shared with these two people shocked.
"Drew?" Kim said in awe, completely missing the tone in his voice.
"Drew?" Frankendrew said confused, while also holding on to Kim's hand a little tighter as if he was afraid Drew would try to take her from him.
"Drew it's okay, I invited them." Monica said as she walked closer.
"Mom, I know you mean well and I know that this is the house my father gave to you but I'm gonna have to ask you to rescind the invitation."
"Drew, what's going on?" Elizabeth asked curiously.
"I just don't think they should be here, flaunting their sick relationship in your face with the boys here." Drew stated. Among other things… he added in his head.
"Hey…" Elizabeth started as she pulled him so he could face her. "I know you're just trying to protect us but it's okay, we're going to be fine, we always are. I think what you should be focused on is, I don't know, maybe hugging your best friend and your nephews before jumping into protection mode. You know, Franco isn't the only one we lost this year." She said smiling as he sighed and then pulled her into his arms. "We've missed you, welcome home."
"Thank you, I've missed you guys as well ." He said as he pulled back and went to greet the boys.
None of them said a word as he came to them they just all rushed to hug him at once. Drew had missed the boys as much as he missed his kids, so finally seeing them again after knowing what they've been going through meant a lot to him. He was finally back with the people he loved and he wasn't going to let anymore pain come to them. That's part of the reason why he's angry Franco and Kim actually showed up. Speaking of Franco and Kim, he broke his hug with the boys and turned back to the two who were still standing in shock.
"I thought I told you two to leave?" Drew said taking his prospective stance in front of Liz and her kids again.
"Drew what's going on? Why are you so adamant that they leave?" His mom asked.
Drew sighed. "Because mom, neither one of them belongs here. Franco is gone, and if he didn't have my alleged memories you wouldn't want him here. Kim well, she's just a manipulative, deceitful liar and she should never be able to step foot in this house after everything she's done."
"W—what have I done?" Kim asked, outwardly confused as she inwardly panicked.
"Drew?" Sam called out, making him look towards her. She looked at him and then the kids and he knew that doing this in front of them was inappropriate.
"You know what, on second thought, you two can stay. It's Thanksgiving and I have way too much to be thankful for to let your presence ruin it for me. We all do. So let's eat before the pizza gets cold. " He announced as he moved away from Kim and Franco to go stand by his family, pulling Liz and the boys with him.
"First we sing dad and then we eat!" Danny said when his dad approached him.
"That's right bud, how could I forget? First we sing and then we eat!" He responded to his son with a smile.
True to his word he didn't let Franco and Kim's presence ruin his reunion with his family and friends. He even let them stay because he wanted to confront them anyway. When dinner was over the remaining adults sat and caught up with Drew and his friends before saying goodnight, leaving only Drew, Sam, Monica, Elizabeth, Franco, Kim and Drew's two friends in the room. The kids were asleep already, having fallen asleep shortly after stuffing their faces with desert and Cam took Jake and Aiden home. Drew had begrudgingly asked Franco and Kim to stay, he really wasn't trying to prolong this confrontation. The vibe in the living room was awkward as hell to say the least but here they were.
"Alright, so I know you're all probably wondering how I'm back but before we get into that, there's a reason I asked you two to stay here." Drew said gesturing to Kim and Franco. "Franco, I have a way to reverse what Shiloh and the doctor did to you and before you object you are getting the procedure, it's safe and you'll be fine, plus you don't really have a choice in the matter." Franco was about to cut in when Drew stopped him. "I don't want to hear any rebuttals come out of your mouth Franco and Kim, if I were you I'd keep my mouth shut too. This thing that the two of you have going on is done, it should've never started. Liz I'm so sorry you and the boys had to go through all of this, especially over some bullshit."
"What are you talking about?" Elizabeth asked confused.
"I remember my life. All of it." He said and everyone with the exception of his friends gasped, Kim paled.
"You got your memories back?" Sam asked curiously.
"Yeah babe. I remember everything from the age of three onward. But most importantly I haven't forgotten the last five years and I remember dating Kim. I remember that it was only for three months and we were not in love, hell it could hardly be qualified as dating. It was more of a friends with benefits type of thing and she was fucking another man at the time. The dangerous guy that you wanted to keep Oscar away from aka his real father, Luis Alcazar. You know you got lucky that Alexis killed him before he knew that he was the father and not me right? Word is he was looking for you."
"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that Oscar isn't my son?" Franco questioned.
"First of all, he was never your son to begin with, you're not me. You don't even have my real memories man, you have the fabrication of my memories that some psycho and a mad scientist doctor put in your head. I know it's confusing but none of it is real. Look I won't go into the logistics of the shit but basically the memories that were on that flash drive were altered and this woman next to you was part of the team of doctors that Helena Cassadine and Caesar Faison hired to come after me and my brother. There was also a baseline for fabricated memories that would've been used on Jason as well. Andre Maddox was the one that did the baseline for the real memories."
"I don't believe you, none of this can be true. Kim, tell him this isn't true, he's the one that got it all wrong!" Franco pleaded to his girlfriend who was now looking whiter than snow.
"I—" Kim started before she was cut off.
"Don't you dare sit there and try to lie. Be honest, I think it's safe to say you owe everyone here the truth. Besides if you lie, I will kill you, you've caused enough pain to last a lifetime already." Drew's best friend, Naomi said vehemently.
Drew smirked. "I mean, you know she will. So go ahead, tell the truth. Tell my mother, my wife, and my best friend how you indirectly for the former, and directly for the latter, fucked with their lives." Sam knew it wasn't the time or the place, but Drew calling her his wife made her shiver in delight.
"I… It— it's true." Kim said with tears coming down her eyes. "Drew never loved me, it was only a three month fling, that's it. We hung out and had sex a couple of times but I was with Luis before that and he got abusive so we broke up but we still hooked up casually whenever he was around. Drew had saved me from a drunk in the bar on the night we met and I was taken with him from that first moment. I was in love with him but by the time I realized that he was already gone and I had found out I was pregnant. I didn't know who the father was at the time and I didn't have a way to contact Drew for a DNA test because he didn't leave any information behind, which is also why we didn't talk for over a decade. Anyway, Luis and I had lived together so I had plenty of things that were his and I got a DNA test done with a strand of his hair from a brush he left behind. After finding out that he was the father I left town and never looked back. When Oscar was ten, he was asking about his father more and more and so instead of telling him, his father was dead, I told him that he was dangerous. I then concocted a plan and tried to contact the navy hoping that maybe I could find Drew and that I could tell him he had a long lost son but they told me he was MIA. Two months later Helena Cassadine called me and asked me if I wanted to make some money and also reunite with an old flame. I don't know how she knew about me or who this old flame was but I didn't care, I was interested so I said yes. I never asked any questions and I never even thought for a second that she literally meant reuniting with an actual old flame, because again, how could she know? When I saw Drew and his twin, that was it for me, I was in. I didn't know how far things would go and I didn't care, Helena told me it would all pay off in the end and I believed it. You hated me when you saw me and figured out I was a part of that team, but she said you'd never remember and that one day I could make you love me. And you almost did but then our son died, and you died and I thought it was over. Then suddenly Franco was walking around with the memories that I helped create and pursuing me every chance he got and I just couldn't help myself. He was acting how you would have acted had you gotten these memories instead, or at the very least how you would've been acting if we had gotten together after you came back. I never thought we'd be here." Kim stated and everyone except Drew, Naomi, and August were stunned.
Drew started to laugh at the fact that the bitch was still as delusional as ever. "Kim I would've never loved you. I never had, why would I start now. I cared for you as the mother of the child I thought was mine, and I wanted to help you heal, that's it. And if I had gotten those fabricated memories I would've never responded the same way he did, especially after waking up to my wife's crying face. If you think that I would ever be the type of man that would blatantly hurt the woman I chose to spend forever with and my children over a past relationship that I had clearly moved on from, then you don't know the man I am. I mean, I admit that when I was in an almost similar situation four years ago, I did just that. But then again my heart fought against me with every step I tried to take away from Sam and Danny and into a life with Elizabeth and her boys, so I just couldn't do it. Even if Liz hadn't lied to me, I would've ended up with Sam regardless of how hard I fought it. The lie just gave me a stronger reason for leaving and ultimately I got my wife, two amazing kids, a great friend and three awesome nephews out of the situation. Basically what I'm saying is Franco, you're nothing like me, you're more like the Franco of old. I would never leave my wife crying after every interaction we shared because I was too careless about how her feelings, all the while never bothering to apologize for the pain my carelessness may have caused her for a woman I don't truly love. Simply put, you're an inconsiderate prick and when you get your memories back you're going to remember every last bit of what you did and said to her over the last two months. And you're also going to remember what you did with the woman who turned out to be nothing but a snake in its most venomous form. If you don't spend that time groveling on your knees, all the while crawling over broken glass for her to take you back, assuming she'd even want to by that point, I have no problem breaking every bone in your body. You better not ever hurt her or my nephews again…" Drew said seriously before turning to his best friends. "August, let the team know that ms. Nero is ready to be brought in and Naomi you can tell the guys that Mr. Baldwin will be needing an escort to the hospital." He ordered before he got up to inject Franco with a sedative and caught him while he passed out. Sam, Monica and Elizabeth were all speechless and in pure shock for various reasons and well Kim, she started to panic before Naomi injected her as well.
Monica was the one to catch her bearings first. "Drew what is going on, what are you doing?"
"Mom Franco is going to the hospital to get the procedure done, Liz you can go with him, the guys that are coming to escort him are a part of the medical team and the WSB that helped me get my own procedure while keeping my memory. As for Kim, she's going to the WSB headquarters, she's wanted for her involvement in Helena and Faison's work, she did a lot more than help fuck with mine and Jason's lives." Drew said honestly. Before anyone could say anything else the transport teams came and collected Kim before carrying Franco out to the other van. As Drew offered Elizabeth got up and went with team but not before hugging and thanking Drew while also making him promise to fill her in on everything after he's had time with Monica and Sam.
Now there were only five of them in the room and well quite frankly all of them were exhausted. Instead of asking more questions Monica just bid her son and Sam goodnight with a kiss on the cheek before offering to show Naomi and August their room for the night, or however long they needed it, as she put it. They said goodnight as well before following Drew's mom, leaving only Sam and Drew alone in the living room. "Come on, it's been a long day. Let's go to bed." Drew said as he watched Sam try to hide a yawn as they sat on the couch.
"Both of us, together?" Sam asked softly, she didn't want to assume that's what he meant but he just chuckled.
"Yeah both of us. I don't know about you but to be honest, I'm tired of sleeping alone and I miss having you in my arms every night."
"I miss being in your arms every night." She whispered.
"Good." He smiled. "Now come on." He said as he picked her up, causing her squeal and carried her up to his bedroom.
"This feels perfect." Sam sighed in contentment. They had been laying here for a few minutes just relishing in each other's hold.
"It does. It feels right." Drew said as he softly kissed her shoulder, making her shiver. He wasn't lying, her head on his chest and her arm wrapped around his torso, and his arms around her waist, like they used to be, just felt right.
"I missed you… so much." She whispered with a yawn.
"I missed you too." He whispered back to her, before kissing her head. "Now go to sleep." She started to fall asleep but a thought popped into her mind and she was suddenly awake again.
"Wait, you never explained what happened and how you got here." She said as she sat up and looked at him.
He smiled. "I'll explain everything in the morning. Now we both should get some rest." He told her softly and she sighed before agreeing. That night she had the best sleep of her life while he watched over her, contemplating how he'd tell her everything before he fell into a peaceful sleep himself.
The next morning...
After breakfast Drew sat down with Sam, Monica to tell them what happened, along with Naomi and August who sat in on the conversation to explain their roles in everything that went down. Speechless was an understatement once Drew finished telling them everything, with the exception of him killing patient six and the fact that he'd also had other business in town that he wanted to handle before coming home. He decided he'd tell Sam that part in private, that was if she'd let him because judging by the look in her eyes she was starting to get pissed. After a moment of slightly tense silence Sam got up and thanked Naomi and August for helping Drew get her out of prison before walking out of the room.
Drew excused himself shortly after and went to go find her. He found her in his bedroom, clearly waiting to talk to him and he knew that getting her to understand where he was coming from when he made the decisions that he made wasn't going to be easy.
"So you've really been in town for two weeks and keeping in touch with our children for two months while you let me, your mom and everyone else that loved you believe that you were dead? If Peter and Shiloh were trying to kill you, why didn't you tell Curtis? He's your best friend and your head of security for fucks sake! Hell why didn't you tell me? We have two children together Drew, I think that warrants at the very least a warning of 'oh hey, by the way I'm not dead.' I mean that would've been sufficient enough for me but you didn't bother telling me at all. You let ALL of us grieve for you and then you asked my children to keep it from me! What the fuck were you thinking?!" She fumed as soon as he closed the door.
"Okay, look, first of all, they're OUR children Sam, ours. Second of all, I didn't ask them to keep it from you, I didn't ask them to do anything. Our kids are smart, all I did was let them know that I was okay, and all they cared about was getting us both to come back home. I promised them I'd come back and I promised them I'd get you back as well and that we'd be a family again because that's what I had set out to do. I didn't tell anyone else because our kids and their well-being were my main concern. And when would I have been able to tell you about Peter and Shiloh? We hadn't had any real interaction outside of our kids for months, Oscars send off was the last time we had a real conversation about anything. Also, had I told you, you would've just told Jason, who in turn would've just fucked everything up. What was I thinking? I was thinking about protecting my family. I didn't tell you about my accident being staged and me being alive because I didn't want you to know. Not right then at least. I know I sound like a dick but it's the truth and I haven't lied to you yet, so I won't start now." He said bluntly.
Sam just scoffed and rolled her eyes, in her head she understood where he was coming from but in her heart, it hurt regardless of his intentions and that made her angry. "You do sound like a dick. You also sound like a hypocrite. You can't say that you haven't lied to me yet after you just admitted to lying for the last few months."
"It wasn't a lie, it was a secret. There's a difference." He countered.
"More like a lie of omission, but a lie of omission is still a lie Andrew. And the fact that you even bothered to lie or keep secrets from me hurts. And before you say that I don't have the right to be hurt by what you do or don't tell me, that doesn't keep my heart from breaking. I know that things between us over the last eight months have been strained but I thought that at the very least we could still talk to each other about the important things, especially if they would affect each other or our children. Drew you didn't trust me, with any of this and that's what upsets me."
Drew sighed before going to sit next to her on the bed. "Look, I'm sorry that I didn't fill you in at some point before all of it was said and done but Sam, none of this was about me not trusting you, I've always trusted you regardless of our situation. I just needed to be the one to handle things without any outside help or distractions, because let's face it, you are my distraction. Having you by my side throughout this whole thing would've been great but you were no longer mine to ride or die with and well I had our kids to think about. Although I couldn't foresee them losing you with you going to prison. I also didn't foresee Diane not being able to get you off of those bogus ass charges, or that you wouldn't call your mom who arguably, between the two of them is the better lawyer. I mean, what were YOU thinking? Sam, Diane is Jason and Sonny's lawyer, she might be your mother's friend but her loyalty has always been with the two who keep her and Max employed. Anyway, I just couldn't risk you knowing and then having someone come after you or the kids next."
"None of that changes the hurt that I feel now Drew."
"I'm sorry Sam, I swear I didn't do any of this to cause you pain."
"I know." She sighed. "I know, but I just… is there anything else that you're not telling me? Because I don't think I can handle you keeping things from me if we're going to try and be a family again."
"You really want to try again?" He asked softly as he took her hand in his.
"Of course I do. Drew I never even wanted it to get to the point of even having to want to try again. But we're here now and we have that chance and I don't want there to be anything that can ruin it between us before we even start. So, talk to me." She said caressing his face with her free hand as he closed his eyes and leaned into her touch. To her shock when he opened his eyes a tear slid down his cheek. And he smiled sadly, kissed her softly relishing the moment for a second before getting up and walking to the other side of the room.
"Drew?" She questioned quietly as she watched him lean his head against the window sill. That was the first kiss they shared since he walked in the door, but it felt like the last and she didn't like that.
"What I have to say will probably make you hate me." He whispered so softly she almost didn't hear him.
"I could never—" she started saying as she walked towards him, before he cut her off with the news that left her speechless and rooted to her spot.
"Two weeks ago while Naomi and August freed you from prison, I killed Shiloh, Peter and Jason. Well actually I killed Jason's clone, the REAL Jason, my actual brother has been dead since 2012."
"Wha—what?" She asked, thinking she may have heard him wrong.
"You heard me correctly. I killed…" he started.
"Shiloh, Peter and Jason, well his clone the day I got out of prison." She finished angrily. "Please tell me this is some sick joke."
"I can't."
"You can't?" She scoffed.
"No, I can't because it's not a joke Sam. It's the truth, well the actual truth is that I only personally killed Jason's clone. Shiloh was taken care of by an old friend I owed a favor, and Peter was killed by Nathan West. By the way, you should call Maxie and see how she's taking that news."
Sam couldn't believe what she was hearing, when she said she wanted nothing hidden between them, she didn't think she'd get this kind of news. "Drew…"
"Sam listen, I know this comes to you as a shock but I had to do what I did… I—"
"YOU MURDERED THREE MEN!" She roared, her voice echoing throughout the room, making him glad that his bedroom was sound proof. Sam laughed then scoffed before correcting herself. "I take that back, you ordered the murder of two men and killed the other yourself and you just had to do all of this right? For what?!"
"TO PROTECT YOU AND OUR CHILDREN! Shiloh would never stop coming after you and eventually he would've used our children and I would never let that happen. Peter was also going to be a threat, he would've come after you and the kids eventually plus Nathan deserved to be home. It was a preemptive strike made to keep you, our kids and the people we love safe."
"What about Jason? Why kill him, he wasn't a danger to us." She asked and Drew burst into laughter.
"Did you really just say that with a straight face? That thing wasn't my brother." He said with the most derisive tone she's ever heard from him. "He was the biggest threat to the most important part of my world, you and my children. I mean just look at the way our lives have been since he came along. Even my brother wouldn't have been this detrimental to your life had he actually lived long enough to make it back here. For example the real Jason Morgan would've never let you put yourself out there to be drugged and raped only to save you at the last fucking second… what? Didn't think I knew about that, huh? That motherfucker sat by and listened while that sick fuck branded you, touched you and took you away to a private place where he could rape you and he almost did. How many times in the last two years has that bastard come in to save you at the last second only for it to be too late to spare you some of the emotional, physical or mental pain that comes with the trauma you've experienced? I'd get it if his saving you at the last minute couldn't be avoided but each and every time it could've been and he still came too late. It was his way of keeping you indebted to him, to make you believe that nobody, not even you, could save you but him. It worked, and in the end you were his damsel at the expense of yourself and of your children losing their mother, only he couldn't save you this time. Nope this time he was the main reason for that judge even remotely leaving you to rot in a jail cell for two years on bogus charges and yet you still looked to him and no one else for answers, to save you. So yeah I killed him, I killed him to keep my children from eventually becoming like Sonny's children and I killed him because he almost destroyed the best part of the most beautiful soul I've ever known and I'm not sorry about it."
"Wow. I mean should I say thank you? Drew do you honestly think that I'd want blood on your hands for me?! I don't care how detrimental to me he was, how could you think that I would ever want that for you, for us?! I have never wanted anyone's blood on your hands because of me and now you're telling me that I'm the reason for the blood of not one, but three men being on your hands. I understand the motives but I don't understand you taking the risk. If anyone traces this back to you, then we lose you all over again… I…"
"You won't lose me, none of this will be traced back to me. This plan was carefully thought out from every angle Sam, besides I had government backing in killing them. Getting rid of national and international threats was my job in the navy, I was the leader of seal team six and I was in the black ops, I'm not stupid. Their blood isn't on my hands because of you, they were always going to die, they just fucked it up even more for themselves when they decided to come for you. But that's not the real reason you're upset. You told me not to lie, so give me the same courtesy. You're not upset that I killed Shiloh and Peter, you hated them and wanted them dead yourself. No you're upset because I personally killed the man you believed to be Jason. Just be honest about it."
"Fine, I'm not upset that you killed Shiloh or Peter, or ordered their deaths or whatever. And I am upset that you personally killed Jason. I'm upset because I never wanted things to get that badly between the two of you. I'm upset because, no he may not have been the real version of your brother but he was a version of him and that hatred and resentment you held inside for him was very real, regardless of the body that housed the consciousness of the man himself. I'm upset because even though he may not have been good for our lives, he didn't deserve to die. And I'm upset because I had no choice in the matter, it feels like you got rid of him because you didn't trust that I would have an epiphany and decide to choose my family and continue my life with my children after getting out of prison. I fucked up, okay? I know I did, but sitting in that jail cell for months woke me up to quite a lot of truths and in that time I realized two important things. One: this relationship I had with him led me here and I was going to end it and two: after breaking up with him I was going to rejoin Aurora to honor your memory and the memory of our family while rebuilding the life we wanted to share, and figure out how to do that with just me and the children since you were gone. You see Drew, I'm not stupid either and yes I've done some stupid shit, especially over that man but I had no intentions on fucking things up again. Clearly you didn't bother to find that out for yourself seeing as how you decided to eliminate the problem before I had the chance to do so myself."
"You're right about the fact that I hated him, I did. I hated that version of him, because that version of him was the fraud I always knew he was from the beginning. And everything that I found out about him when I was gone strengthened my resolve and reasoning for killing him. He deserved every bit of the death he got, he was not my brother. I remember my brother, I was housed with my brother during the memory mapping experience. I don't remember all of what happened to us but it was extensive the trials they put us through and he was injured through it all." He said with a sigh as he recalled the memory. "You know during this process he got his memories back too. He was his childhood self again before he succumbed to his injuries, and I found out a lot. I found out that he grew up as little Andy in the orphanage, that he lived the life that I was supposed to have if it wasn't for Heather Webber and Jim Harvey. Heather Webber switched us when we were three, after Jim convinced Betsy to give me up and I grew up as Jason Quartermaine, while my brother was stuck in the hands of two predators until he ended up in the orphanage. That's why after the accident he didn't know about the life that everyone said he lived and had no connection to it. Same with me, I had no connection to the life Andrew Cain lived prior to joining the navy. When we were in that facility, before he died, and after he had gotten those memories back we talked and got to know each other and it was nice. I didn't hate that version of my brother I loved him and then he was dead, and the man known as the real Jason Morgan died with him. As far as trusting you to make the right decisions when you got out of prison, I never had any doubt about that. I knew you'd get out of prison and make the right choices, but he had to be eliminated and I just simply wanted it done quietly and that's literally all of it."
"I don't know what to say."
"There's not really anything to say that will change any of what happened. The only thing we have to do is figure out where we go from here."
"Where do we go from here?" She asked suddenly exhausted.
"I wish I knew." He said feeling exhausted himself.
Sam sighed. "Well maybe we can start by talking, and I mean actually talking about things. No more secrets, no more lies, no more being afraid to be honest about things that matter, we have to do things right this time."
Drew smiled. "That sounds awfully familiar, but you're right. This time we have to do things right and yeah we definitely should start by talking about things but not just talking, we need to actually communicate. Last time we stopped communicating, we were talking but leaving things unsaid and that can't happen again, because when that happens the trust goes and when the trust goes, well…"
"Well then things end up like they did and neither one of us wants that again. We can't do that to each other again and we can't do it to our kids either, so if we're doing this then we have to really do this."
"Okay, now that that's settled I think that before we do start this again there's one more thing you should know. I think you should sit down for this one though." He said as he pulled her to sit on the bed with him.
"What is it?" She asked apprehensively.
"Nothing bad, depends on what you feel about it." He said as he looked down at their intertwined hands.
"Will you just say it? You know I don't like being kept in suspense." She said making him chuckle.
"Danny's my biological son." He told her seriously after a second.
"He's… how?" Sam asked at a loss for words.
"Helena and Faison. It's a long story but it's the truth babe, he's ours. I have never loved him any less when we thought he wasn't mine, but knowing that we made him… you and me, out of our love just like we did with our daughter… I don't know. It just does something to me." He explained.
"You know, I shouldn't be shocked by this revelation. From day one you and Danny have had a connection I could never explain and I always felt something pulling me to you and well this partially explains it, in Danny's case at least. You have always been his father even after we told him about Jason. He absolutely adores you and I won't say that he wasn't getting used to the idea that patient six was his real dad because he was but it wasn't the same. Their bond wasn't the same as yours, their relationship had to be built whereas yours was instant. I think he grew to love him but it started as an obligation to get to know the man that was gone for five years, but I also think that he still held himself back a little because of his love for you. You being his dad and still loving him even though you weren't his real dad has always been important to him, but now knowing that you're his real father... I'm sure he's going to be ecstatic."
"Yeah I think he'll be happy, if not more confused." He said with a soft chuckle. "What about you? How do you feel about it?"
"I'm happy. Drew I got two of the most beautiful miracles I could've ever received in our children and they came from you. How could I be anything but happy about this? Our family is ours and ours alone, that's all I have ever wanted, a family that was mine and the right man to share it with, I have that now."
"Me too and I wouldn't trade it for anything."
"Me either. But you know speaking of our family, do you have any idea where our children have been hiding all morning?" She asked suspiciously, making him smile.
"I may have some idea, but that's for me to know and you to find out." He said mischievously.
She glared at him playfully. "No secrets remember? Now tell me what you have up your sleeve."
"Sorry babe, this doesn't count especially since the kids swore me to secrecy." He said with a smirk. "Patience is a virtue my love, good things come to those that wait. But in the meantime I think there are a few things we could do until they're ready for you to know." He said wiggling his eyebrows making her roll her eyes.
"Ha-ha you're cute and I love you but there will be none of that for awhile." She deadpanned.
"I didn't…" He started and then stopped to pull her onto his lap with a smile on his face as he realized she snuck in that I love you. "I love you too." He said softly before sealing his words with a kiss.
