Chapter Four

Melanie ran to her room, with tears streaming down her face. She was a rape child? No, that couldn't be true. A rapist was her father? That definitely could not be true. Jason Morgan was her father. The man who had been in her life for as long as she could remember.

Melanie began to cry. For the first time in a long time, she cried. She had never had a reason to cry for a long time. But this, this was a reason to cry. Melanie curled up next to her big stuffed dog and cried hard. When she heard the knock on her door, she ignored it.

"Please Mellie, please baby let me explain," Sam cried from the other side of the door.

When Melanie didn't say anything, Jason's voice was heard, "Melanie, come on sweetheart, please let us explain."

They heard feet shuffling on the other side of the door and the door unlock. Sam turned to Jason and Jason realized that she wanted to talk to Melanie by herself. He nodded his head, gave Sam a kiss on her forehead and walked towards the other childrens' rooms to make sure they were still asleep.

Sam walked into her daughter's room to see her daughter staring out the window which caused Sam to burst into more tears when she remembered how she did that after Melanie had been taken. She walked over towards Melanie and tried to hold back more tears when she pulled away from Sam's touch.

"Mellie, I'm sorry hunny. I should have told you this sooner," Sam whispered.

Melanie stayed quiet, so Sam continued, "When I was in Pine Valley over 15 years ago with Greenlee, I had met Jonathon. He was Greenlee's brother in law at the time. Well, he was always touching me inappropriately and things, but I chose to ignore it and just didn't tell anyone. But one night when I was at Fusion by myself, cause I always worked late, Jonathon showed up. When I asked him what he needed, he said he forgot something," Sam stopped for a moment to hold back the tears that threatened to fall, "I thought nothing of it and when back to filing some papers, that's when his hand touched my butt. When I went to walk off he grabbed my arm and I went to jerk away he got mad. I called him a name and that got him even more mad. He threw me to the ground and that's when he raped me."

Sam began to cry all over again, the memories from that night had been buried deep inside of her and it was hurting like hell to have to tell Melanie the truth about her biological father.

Melanie cried to but wouldn't allow Sam to hug her. Instead she said, "Get out Sam."

Sam gasped and her eyes filled with more tears as she turned around and slowly walked off, turning around once to look at her daughter. As Sam made her way out of the room, she met Jason on the other side of the door and she sank into his arms and cried hard. When she began to shake violently, Jason picked her up and carried her to their room where he lied her down and reached for his cell phone. He quickly called Carly and Greenlee and told them what was happening and they both said they'd be there within minutes. Jason sat on the bed holding Sam as her body shook harder and harder.

Greenlee and Leo arrived first and they both ran up the stairs to Sam and Jason's room. Greenlee ran over to the bed and began to talk Sam as she to cried, "Sam, it's okay. Melanie will realize that you didn't tell her out of love for her."

Sam didn't say anything, just kept shaking and crying in Jason's arms. Carly and Sonny came up to the room shortly after Leo and Greenlee arrived. Both of them made their way towards Sam and tried to calm her down. As they were all trying to calm Sam down, Leo made his way down to Melanie's room. He looked in to see Melanie on the windowsill, crying.

He walked cautiously into the room and made his way to the girl. As he sat down next to her, she moved closer to him and he hugged her to him as she cried. He didn't say anything for a few minutes then spoke, "Mellie, your mom is so sorry for not telling you."

"She lied to me Leo. Almost 15 years of lies," Melanie whispered, "Dad lied to me too."

"Melanie, your mom did what she thought was best for you. She didn't want you to have to deal with the fact that Jonathon was a pig. Neither did your dad. They love you to much to have to hurt you this way. Please Melanie, go talk to your mom. She is in really bad shape," Leo tried to explain.

Melanie looked up at Leo through tear filled eyes, "What's wrong with mom?"

Leo sighed, "Mel, she's really upset. More than you could ever imagine. Please go talk to her. Tell her you understand why her and your dad did what they did. Melanie, did you ever think about how much this was hurting your mom? She's the one that will always remember that night. You know something though?" Melanie looked at him, "When you were two years old, your mom told all of us that she forgave Jonathon for what he did. She said that she forgave him because you wouldn't have been born and that she loved you more than life and that she wouldn't have been able to meet Jason because she probably wouldn't have come back to Port Charles.

Melanie wiped some of her tears away and stood up off of the window sill as Leo carefully helped her, "I called her Sam"

"Why did you do that?" Leo asked, shocked.

"I was mad at her. I wish I wouldn't have done that now though," Melanie said as tears fell down her cheeks.

Leo stood up beside Melanie as she still held on to his hand and they walked out of her room and down to her parents' room.