Lizzi Borden: End Game Part [1]
Why was it always cold in the white room?
Marc had been in two other white rooms in his career, both times his captors ended up dead. Marc was sure that this would not be the same. Three strikes and you're out. Lizzi had betrayed him again, and this time with more glee than sadness. She blamed him and his father for destroying her childhood, teenage years, pretty much all she considered her youth. Now the woman he loved came to him bitter and filled with revenge.
During the beating he wondered why Morgan never lost his smile. Now he knew Morgan lived in the knowledge that Lizzi loved him and would come for him. That she did. He smiled because he got the part of the woman Marc never knew. He knew the child, the teenager in a woman's body but never the woman. The woman wanted Jason Morgan. What was it about this brain-damaged moron that appealed to Lizzi?
Why did Jason get to have Lizzi? He betrayed her. Or did he? She lied about that too. She lied about him sleeping with his ex, she lied about a lot. Marc wanted nothing more than to get out of this cold bright place. He should have been thinking along other lines. Zander had walked into the room.
"Hello brother."
"Alexander, let me out."
"Oh no it's time we have session."
Liz sat next to Jason on the bed. She had called Sonny and told him what happened and that Jason was all right. Marc had asked what was it about Jason that made her love him. What could she say? When she needed him he was there. A little goes along way, even after the shit they went through he was still there. He didn't fight it when she came back after two years. They fell into a place.
Liz used to tell herself that being alone was what she deserved. Nobody had forced her to be killer, she let the Colonel make her into one. As did Jason, but he was moving out of that life or at least getting a new life around it. Now he had one with her and she had him. She wondered what her life would be like no longer living a lie. Being Liz Weber Borden Steranko Morgan, just being her not the victim. Liz stroked his cheek.
"Hm Elizabeth?"
"Yes."
"Marry me?"
"Are you crazy?"
"No."
"Yes."
"Good, I was worried you would say no."
"Why would I?"
"I know how you think remember."
Liz smiled he was right, she was questioning herself. Has she continued
down that road she would have said no.
"Sleep love. I've got work to do."
Jason nodded and smiled closing his eyes.
Zander had never taken such joy in a session before. Seeing his brother turned into a mindless, drooling, fool was a bittersweet experience to the pain the father had inflicted upon him. Sending Marc back to his father this way would make the bitter even sweeter. Marc had told him all his secrets even things he did that Liz didn't know he had done. Zander kept that information from her, Liz was starting over and she didn't need that baggage. Marc's calls for his estranged ex-wife continued and Zander took pleasure in playing the image of her kissing Jason over and over for him. Marc's throat was raw from the yelling and screaming, he could no longer make any sounds. The door opened for the first time since the barge docked.
Zander saw Sabean or should he say Vic, how strange this one woman could be so different. Sabean was the girl next door raised in the suburbs or in an apartment down the hall from you. Vic was sharp and sure, never strand of jet-black hair out of place, raised in the finest mansions in the world. Eyes always cold, Sabean's were always soft.
Today they were cold.
"What did he tell you?"
"Not too much. I did this for fun I knew he knew little."
"What little did he tell you?" She repeated.
"She's going to take out the five fathers."
"The old men?"
"Yes. It's a stupid move."
"Not really. How do you think they became the fathers? I should let her. A vacuum like that could be useful." Vic said thoughtfully.
"Not with the Tongs. They're too violent; the loses to us would be costly."
"I said I SHOULD let her, not that I was. The vacuum would be useful but
a favor owed by them all would be better."
"So what next?"
"I get Seal, you, Johnny and Liz get the bastard. Divide and conquer."
For Seal is was all so simple. Ambition bread need. Her ambitions were power and money and her need to be rid of all her enemies. After all of her careful planning she wasn't rid of one pest or should she say pet. Thomas' pet had made herself a nuisance for the last ten years. Seal refused to give her the title of enemy because she didn't have that kind of smarts.
Vic sat before the five fathers not humbled by their power. She felt herself an equal if not superior. She knew they would check her facts but who would they check it with was up to her. She and her associates were the foremost in getting facts in this world. What the fathers knew was what she wanted them to know, Seal would betray them.
"Forgive us, but Seal's family has been loyal to us for centuries."
Vic rolled her eyes at the insult and sighed in annoyance.
"Save the my ancestors where war lords while yours where still eating
horses speech I've heard it on every TV show form America to Japan."
That was a clear insult to them. Vic smiled.
"Now that I've got your attention listen carefully. She was ambitious enough
to kill Tommy, so she won't stop until she is the ONLY mother. I don't give a
shit about her loyalty, I want her gone. It's your job to deal with her, of
course her disappearing wouldn't be a problem for me."
"Yes it would."
Vic snorted.
"Is that a threat? There is little the Tongs can do to me or for me. You're a useless group of fools who don't know that governments are the true power. You're just dealers on the block to the international pharmaceuticals. Ask yourself why she wants the drug companies so much. Think about that. Good day gentlemen. "
She knew they'd call her back.
The Colonel found Marc in his house with a message. 'For Mother.' What was left of his eldest son wouldn't fit in a box. His mind was lost and his brother the youngest and smartest had done it to him. He had to get his operation back on its feet and get a hold of Zander and then he'd deal with the boy for once and for all.
That was all they needed, the Colonel had opened his line of communications, raveling his spies, connections, allies and financers. Before this without certain information form Marc they wouldn't have gotten past the Colonel's security measures that which kept this information safe. Now they had it all.
Once again Seal paid Vic a visit.
"What do you want now?"
"You're death. Take her."
Men burst into the room and began to subdue Vic. Of course she didn't go quietly and was dragged out after killing three of Seal's men.
"Now you will see what I'm capable of." Seal sneered.
"Take your best shot bitch!"
"Oh, I will."
Every government agency in world receives the mass emailed database of the Colonels operation. Names, dates, times, faces. Of course when going to be arrest, they all disappeared. That didn't last long when all the safe houses and locations were compromised and authorizes where waiting. Bank money and private accounts were frozen and it was over. As usual he ran to his young lover for protection.
The very knowledge that Vic Rasanko was in their custody had meant that they could get anything they wanted and was more than enough for him. His mind had already formed plans that would replace the empire that had slipped thought his fingers. Seal was, on the other hand, enjoying the pains her experts inflicted on her victim.
"Sign over control of Tamakmura to me and this will all be over."
"You're too greedy for it to be over. You're going after the fathers next, I can feel it."
"So what if I am?"
Flashback.
Hong Kong
They called back.
-Gentlemen.-
-So what really brings you to our neck of the wood Mrs. Rasanko?-
-Information.-
-Really and what information do you have for us?-
-You're prized cow Seal in going to turn on you the first chance she
gets.-
-You told us this before. All our people are loyal.-
-Not when greedy. You don't believe me wait and see. Or how about a test.-
-Test?-
-What could it hurt to make sure she's loyal. If she passes you prove me, your
biggest rival wrong.-
-Very well what do you propose?-
-I push Seal to come after the company she's coveted for so long. I GIVE
it to her after duress of course.-
-Of course.-
-Then we sit back and see what happens.-
-See what happens? Lies all of it.- One says to the others.
-And if its not?-
Vic smiled.
-Then you're all dead men. Seal's got loyalties you don't know about. She has
taken most of your control and you sit her behind shadows and do nothing. That must be why I see you as a threat.-
Her sarcasm wasn't lost on them.
-Very well go ahead with your plan.-
Hong Kong
"If you do it, they'll kill you. Seal do you think they're not ready?"
"They're not. I run the security. All my men and the fathers are loyal to me."
"That's what I thought. You're too good for me Seal, hand me a pen and send me on my way."
"Oh no you'll be executed for your crimes."
"This from a criminal? That's funny. I'm giving you the company, don't make me escape."
Seal laughed at that, then she noticed that Vic wasn't laughing.
"You won't LIVE long enough." She growled and walked away.
They dumped Vic in the corner she notice dried blood on the walls. Jason Morgan's no doubt. Vic never counted the hours or days when locked away in dark places it would only be unhealthy mentally and she was already nuts. Seal came into the chamber with three of her men.
"What did you do?"
"Nothing, I was just sitting here." Vic shrugged.
"Don't play games."
"What are you going on about?"
"The fathers have sent assassins after my allies and spies. WHAT did you do?" She yelled.
"Nothing! I've just been sitting her. Geez I didn't do anything what's wrong with you?"
Seal just stared at her. How did she do it?
"Beat it out of her."
"I don't know Seal. I can take a beating."
Seal walked out and listened at the door as her men began the task of getting answers. She hardly made much noise as they landed punches to her face and stomach. Seal pressed her head to the door but nothing came. She could hear the men cursing. Yet still nothing, Seal could hear Thomas' warning about Vic, she was beginning to think she should have listened.
Liz sat in the conference room looking at the board. Live action updates past from one screen to another. How the world turned even when so many lives were threatened. It seem that the scale had come to balance, even out the uneven, praying on those who preyed on weak. Superheroes-ish but true, she wasn't a superhero but a predator herself. Maybe that's what the world needed; a former predator hunting all the predators of the world.
Liz thought about things like Johnny. Jason had told him Skye was fine but how fine could she be? He pulled her into his world and she rose to the challenge. Yet his heart ached, the fallout from taking two of the most power crime lords in the world down would be massive.
They were considered a minor threat before, but now even the governments
would consider them dangerous. Vic was the front man, he was behind the scenes. They never went after the villains of the world, they just went after the wrong. Lines tend to blur, while Liz and Zander screamed in open rage Johnny's was silent. His father's murderer would be brought to justice, with planning and time. Still the ache wouldn't leave him and he was so sure neither would Skye. What a strong, unbelievable women she'd shown herself to be. Johnny was sure she would stick it all out.
Three hours later her men were getting tired and nowhere. Vic kept silent not telling her how or why her world was falling apart. Seal sat in a chair looking a Vic's bruised and broken face.
"The moment your greed got the better of you. You were a dead woman."
Vic gasped out.
"How did you do it?"
"Die not knowing."
"He was nothing, all this for a man?" Seal spat.
"All this for love Seal. The real thing for a insane little girl bent on revenge." Vic whispered.
"We could have had it all together."
"Now I'll have it alone. Don't get me wrong power is addictive and for my family it's a habit I won't kick. You ain't family." Vic said.
"Bitch!"
"Is that all you can say Seal?"
Seal left. Perhaps she couldn't escape the power of the five fathers but she could take some with her before she went. She and the Colonel made their way out of Hong Kong, so did the Dingy. The Colonel followed the last vestiges of his money and so this would end where the story had began Port Charles. Johnny made his way home to Skye's house once inside he heard a noise in the kitchen. He went to the kitchen looking for a fight and found Skye's head in the fridge she jumped when strong hands grabbed her hips.
"Jax for the last time my hormones are not raging now, so I don't need anymore sex!"
"What?" Johnny said surprised.
Skye turned around, she wasn't expecting Johnny. She dropped the double
Mint-Chocolate Chip.
"JOHNNY!!!"
He stood back a bit surprised by her round belly.
"SKYE, you okay I thought you where going for your midnight snake. Oh, Johnny welcome home."
He just turned to Jax.
"I'm going to KILL YOU!"
[end]
AN: Bitch! I know, I know;)
Why was it always cold in the white room?
Marc had been in two other white rooms in his career, both times his captors ended up dead. Marc was sure that this would not be the same. Three strikes and you're out. Lizzi had betrayed him again, and this time with more glee than sadness. She blamed him and his father for destroying her childhood, teenage years, pretty much all she considered her youth. Now the woman he loved came to him bitter and filled with revenge.
During the beating he wondered why Morgan never lost his smile. Now he knew Morgan lived in the knowledge that Lizzi loved him and would come for him. That she did. He smiled because he got the part of the woman Marc never knew. He knew the child, the teenager in a woman's body but never the woman. The woman wanted Jason Morgan. What was it about this brain-damaged moron that appealed to Lizzi?
Why did Jason get to have Lizzi? He betrayed her. Or did he? She lied about that too. She lied about him sleeping with his ex, she lied about a lot. Marc wanted nothing more than to get out of this cold bright place. He should have been thinking along other lines. Zander had walked into the room.
"Hello brother."
"Alexander, let me out."
"Oh no it's time we have session."
Liz sat next to Jason on the bed. She had called Sonny and told him what happened and that Jason was all right. Marc had asked what was it about Jason that made her love him. What could she say? When she needed him he was there. A little goes along way, even after the shit they went through he was still there. He didn't fight it when she came back after two years. They fell into a place.
Liz used to tell herself that being alone was what she deserved. Nobody had forced her to be killer, she let the Colonel make her into one. As did Jason, but he was moving out of that life or at least getting a new life around it. Now he had one with her and she had him. She wondered what her life would be like no longer living a lie. Being Liz Weber Borden Steranko Morgan, just being her not the victim. Liz stroked his cheek.
"Hm Elizabeth?"
"Yes."
"Marry me?"
"Are you crazy?"
"No."
"Yes."
"Good, I was worried you would say no."
"Why would I?"
"I know how you think remember."
Liz smiled he was right, she was questioning herself. Has she continued
down that road she would have said no.
"Sleep love. I've got work to do."
Jason nodded and smiled closing his eyes.
Zander had never taken such joy in a session before. Seeing his brother turned into a mindless, drooling, fool was a bittersweet experience to the pain the father had inflicted upon him. Sending Marc back to his father this way would make the bitter even sweeter. Marc had told him all his secrets even things he did that Liz didn't know he had done. Zander kept that information from her, Liz was starting over and she didn't need that baggage. Marc's calls for his estranged ex-wife continued and Zander took pleasure in playing the image of her kissing Jason over and over for him. Marc's throat was raw from the yelling and screaming, he could no longer make any sounds. The door opened for the first time since the barge docked.
Zander saw Sabean or should he say Vic, how strange this one woman could be so different. Sabean was the girl next door raised in the suburbs or in an apartment down the hall from you. Vic was sharp and sure, never strand of jet-black hair out of place, raised in the finest mansions in the world. Eyes always cold, Sabean's were always soft.
Today they were cold.
"What did he tell you?"
"Not too much. I did this for fun I knew he knew little."
"What little did he tell you?" She repeated.
"She's going to take out the five fathers."
"The old men?"
"Yes. It's a stupid move."
"Not really. How do you think they became the fathers? I should let her. A vacuum like that could be useful." Vic said thoughtfully.
"Not with the Tongs. They're too violent; the loses to us would be costly."
"I said I SHOULD let her, not that I was. The vacuum would be useful but
a favor owed by them all would be better."
"So what next?"
"I get Seal, you, Johnny and Liz get the bastard. Divide and conquer."
For Seal is was all so simple. Ambition bread need. Her ambitions were power and money and her need to be rid of all her enemies. After all of her careful planning she wasn't rid of one pest or should she say pet. Thomas' pet had made herself a nuisance for the last ten years. Seal refused to give her the title of enemy because she didn't have that kind of smarts.
Vic sat before the five fathers not humbled by their power. She felt herself an equal if not superior. She knew they would check her facts but who would they check it with was up to her. She and her associates were the foremost in getting facts in this world. What the fathers knew was what she wanted them to know, Seal would betray them.
"Forgive us, but Seal's family has been loyal to us for centuries."
Vic rolled her eyes at the insult and sighed in annoyance.
"Save the my ancestors where war lords while yours where still eating
horses speech I've heard it on every TV show form America to Japan."
That was a clear insult to them. Vic smiled.
"Now that I've got your attention listen carefully. She was ambitious enough
to kill Tommy, so she won't stop until she is the ONLY mother. I don't give a
shit about her loyalty, I want her gone. It's your job to deal with her, of
course her disappearing wouldn't be a problem for me."
"Yes it would."
Vic snorted.
"Is that a threat? There is little the Tongs can do to me or for me. You're a useless group of fools who don't know that governments are the true power. You're just dealers on the block to the international pharmaceuticals. Ask yourself why she wants the drug companies so much. Think about that. Good day gentlemen. "
She knew they'd call her back.
The Colonel found Marc in his house with a message. 'For Mother.' What was left of his eldest son wouldn't fit in a box. His mind was lost and his brother the youngest and smartest had done it to him. He had to get his operation back on its feet and get a hold of Zander and then he'd deal with the boy for once and for all.
That was all they needed, the Colonel had opened his line of communications, raveling his spies, connections, allies and financers. Before this without certain information form Marc they wouldn't have gotten past the Colonel's security measures that which kept this information safe. Now they had it all.
Once again Seal paid Vic a visit.
"What do you want now?"
"You're death. Take her."
Men burst into the room and began to subdue Vic. Of course she didn't go quietly and was dragged out after killing three of Seal's men.
"Now you will see what I'm capable of." Seal sneered.
"Take your best shot bitch!"
"Oh, I will."
Every government agency in world receives the mass emailed database of the Colonels operation. Names, dates, times, faces. Of course when going to be arrest, they all disappeared. That didn't last long when all the safe houses and locations were compromised and authorizes where waiting. Bank money and private accounts were frozen and it was over. As usual he ran to his young lover for protection.
The very knowledge that Vic Rasanko was in their custody had meant that they could get anything they wanted and was more than enough for him. His mind had already formed plans that would replace the empire that had slipped thought his fingers. Seal was, on the other hand, enjoying the pains her experts inflicted on her victim.
"Sign over control of Tamakmura to me and this will all be over."
"You're too greedy for it to be over. You're going after the fathers next, I can feel it."
"So what if I am?"
Flashback.
Hong Kong
They called back.
-Gentlemen.-
-So what really brings you to our neck of the wood Mrs. Rasanko?-
-Information.-
-Really and what information do you have for us?-
-You're prized cow Seal in going to turn on you the first chance she
gets.-
-You told us this before. All our people are loyal.-
-Not when greedy. You don't believe me wait and see. Or how about a test.-
-Test?-
-What could it hurt to make sure she's loyal. If she passes you prove me, your
biggest rival wrong.-
-Very well what do you propose?-
-I push Seal to come after the company she's coveted for so long. I GIVE
it to her after duress of course.-
-Of course.-
-Then we sit back and see what happens.-
-See what happens? Lies all of it.- One says to the others.
-And if its not?-
Vic smiled.
-Then you're all dead men. Seal's got loyalties you don't know about. She has
taken most of your control and you sit her behind shadows and do nothing. That must be why I see you as a threat.-
Her sarcasm wasn't lost on them.
-Very well go ahead with your plan.-
Hong Kong
"If you do it, they'll kill you. Seal do you think they're not ready?"
"They're not. I run the security. All my men and the fathers are loyal to me."
"That's what I thought. You're too good for me Seal, hand me a pen and send me on my way."
"Oh no you'll be executed for your crimes."
"This from a criminal? That's funny. I'm giving you the company, don't make me escape."
Seal laughed at that, then she noticed that Vic wasn't laughing.
"You won't LIVE long enough." She growled and walked away.
They dumped Vic in the corner she notice dried blood on the walls. Jason Morgan's no doubt. Vic never counted the hours or days when locked away in dark places it would only be unhealthy mentally and she was already nuts. Seal came into the chamber with three of her men.
"What did you do?"
"Nothing, I was just sitting here." Vic shrugged.
"Don't play games."
"What are you going on about?"
"The fathers have sent assassins after my allies and spies. WHAT did you do?" She yelled.
"Nothing! I've just been sitting her. Geez I didn't do anything what's wrong with you?"
Seal just stared at her. How did she do it?
"Beat it out of her."
"I don't know Seal. I can take a beating."
Seal walked out and listened at the door as her men began the task of getting answers. She hardly made much noise as they landed punches to her face and stomach. Seal pressed her head to the door but nothing came. She could hear the men cursing. Yet still nothing, Seal could hear Thomas' warning about Vic, she was beginning to think she should have listened.
Liz sat in the conference room looking at the board. Live action updates past from one screen to another. How the world turned even when so many lives were threatened. It seem that the scale had come to balance, even out the uneven, praying on those who preyed on weak. Superheroes-ish but true, she wasn't a superhero but a predator herself. Maybe that's what the world needed; a former predator hunting all the predators of the world.
Liz thought about things like Johnny. Jason had told him Skye was fine but how fine could she be? He pulled her into his world and she rose to the challenge. Yet his heart ached, the fallout from taking two of the most power crime lords in the world down would be massive.
They were considered a minor threat before, but now even the governments
would consider them dangerous. Vic was the front man, he was behind the scenes. They never went after the villains of the world, they just went after the wrong. Lines tend to blur, while Liz and Zander screamed in open rage Johnny's was silent. His father's murderer would be brought to justice, with planning and time. Still the ache wouldn't leave him and he was so sure neither would Skye. What a strong, unbelievable women she'd shown herself to be. Johnny was sure she would stick it all out.
Three hours later her men were getting tired and nowhere. Vic kept silent not telling her how or why her world was falling apart. Seal sat in a chair looking a Vic's bruised and broken face.
"The moment your greed got the better of you. You were a dead woman."
Vic gasped out.
"How did you do it?"
"Die not knowing."
"He was nothing, all this for a man?" Seal spat.
"All this for love Seal. The real thing for a insane little girl bent on revenge." Vic whispered.
"We could have had it all together."
"Now I'll have it alone. Don't get me wrong power is addictive and for my family it's a habit I won't kick. You ain't family." Vic said.
"Bitch!"
"Is that all you can say Seal?"
Seal left. Perhaps she couldn't escape the power of the five fathers but she could take some with her before she went. She and the Colonel made their way out of Hong Kong, so did the Dingy. The Colonel followed the last vestiges of his money and so this would end where the story had began Port Charles. Johnny made his way home to Skye's house once inside he heard a noise in the kitchen. He went to the kitchen looking for a fight and found Skye's head in the fridge she jumped when strong hands grabbed her hips.
"Jax for the last time my hormones are not raging now, so I don't need anymore sex!"
"What?" Johnny said surprised.
Skye turned around, she wasn't expecting Johnny. She dropped the double
Mint-Chocolate Chip.
"JOHNNY!!!"
He stood back a bit surprised by her round belly.
"SKYE, you okay I thought you where going for your midnight snake. Oh, Johnny welcome home."
He just turned to Jax.
"I'm going to KILL YOU!"
[end]
AN: Bitch! I know, I know;)
