(Author's Notes- Hey everyone! Here's the next chapter! Seems like a chapter everyday right? Wow, I've been on a roll. I think it's because I'm about to not be on such a huge roll because school is starting very, very soon. I'm excited, yet at the same time I'm not ready for school to be back. Anyway, this might be the last chapter for awhile (hopefully not too long.) Okay, enough with the Author's Rambling. Pleas Review! –E.B.F.R.)

Chapter #28 – Questions, Visitors, and New Friends

Port Charles Jail – Solitary Confinement –

"Cassadine! Front and center!" Bellowed the warden as he came into Jasmine's cell. Gingerly, still mindful of her bruises, Jasmine lifted the blanket off her and moved to stand in front of the warden.

"Time to bring you back into a regular cell. Be warned: you mess up again you'll end up right back here for at least another 72 hours. Privileges will be gone. Got it?"

"Yes sir." Jasmine replied quietly. Soon the warden had escorted her to her cell, now with different cellmates.

PCPD Lobby –

"Has she been informed?" Mac asked his officer.

"Yes Commissioner. Miss Webber has been informed and all things that could be given or smuggled in for an inmate has been confiscated until Miss Webber returns here."

"Good. Elizabeth, are you ready to see you're friend?" Mac asked.

"Yes. Absolutely." Elizabeth replied. Last night had been hard, practically unbearable. Nikolas hadn't called in a few days. There were no messages on the answering machine, no numbers on the caller ID, or on her cell phone. There was still much trouble getting in contact with Lucky, Nikolas or Luke, and Liz was getting beyond frustrated.

Women's Block Number 3 –

After the warden had left, Jasmine stayed to herself, huddled in a corner. 'I'm tempted to think I'd rather be back in solitary.' Jas thought. "My husband will come for me…" Jasmine whispered to herself.

"What'd you say?" Said one of two inmates in the cell with her.

"Huh? What?" A puzzled Jasmine asked. "I asked what you said."

"I didn't say anything." Jasmine replied, not realizing her reference to her husband was spoken out loud.

'So, you think you're husband's gonna save you huh? You haven't been here long have you? No one's gonna come for you. No one's gonna care. Your husband probably found someone new by now, someone better, especially considering what you're in here for. Just face it, you'll never get him back 'cause he ain't comin' back." Replied the second inmate.

"Yeah, we heard what you did…" Said one the first one. "Yeah, and we don't like it one bit." Added the second. "We especially don't like new people invading our territory and have done what you've done." Jasmine had a feeling what was coming, knew there was no way she could defend herself, and just tensed up her body to try and not crumble against the pain.

"Hey! What's going on here? Avery, this is Jones! I need backup in Women's Cell Block 3 NOW!" Replied D Jones as he happened upon the 2nd assault in the same amount of days, on the same inmate.

As Elizabeth was making her way to see Jasmine, (escorted by an officer of course) her ears were suddenly invaded by sounds of multiple footsteps, and orders by corrections officers who whizzed by her to gain control of a situation in a nearby cell block. 'Hey wait! That's the cell block Jasmine's in! I hope she's okay...' Liz worried. Liz soon found herself escorted out of the cell hallway until the situation could be controlled.

As Chris Avery and other reinforcements arrived to assist Officer Jones, both Avery and Jones realized that whoever put Jasmine Cassadine in this cell was not paying attention to who her cellmates were. They were worse than Waters, Evans, and Fields.

"I need to know who put Cassadine in here. She's in no shape to defend herself, nonetheless fend for herself in the first place!" Jones said.

"I think it was the Warden, D. Is that right?" Avery asked Jasmine.

"Yes sir. The Warden placed me in here." Jasmine said, trying to catch her breath and make the spinning in her head stop.

"Who started this?" Avery asked the three inmates. "Wasn't us." Said the first of the two. Chris and Jones looked at Jasmine, who just looked at them with pain in her eyes, and gently shook her head no. Coming to an understanding, just based on the looks shared between the two men, Avery and Jones placed both inmates who ganged up on Jasmine in Solitary Confinement for the next week, and realized they needed to keep Jasmine in Solitary herself, for her own protection.

"Permission to speak sir?" Jasmine asked.

"Permission granted." Avery replied.

"Even though I'm going back to Solitary, are my privileges going to be revoked like the warden said they would?"

"No, you will still have your privileges. You didn't start this fight, nor did you participate in it. And I know your friend is supposed to come visit you today. You'll be allowed to see her." Jones replied.

"Thank you." Jasmine replied quietly. Jones and Avery helped escort Jasmine to the medical ward so her injuries could be tended to, and afterward escorted her to Solitary.

After everything had calmed down, and all the inmates where brought to their appropriate new rooms, an officer escorted Liz to Jasmine's cell.

"I'll be right outside this door. Don't pull anything Cassadine, understood?" Said the officer who escorted Liz there.

"Yes sir." Jasmine replied. After the door closed, Jasmine and Liz just stared at each other. Elizabeth was shocked at her best friend's appearance, and Jasmine knew she was about to receive some bad news.

"What's wrong?" Jasmine asked, her voice thick with emotion.

Elizabeth silently walked over to her and gave her a gentle, but tight hug. Tears flowed down each girl's face. Both were shaking, both because of the cold, and because they were scared of possibly never seeing each other. Both girls had the same thought.

"I'm so sorry Jasmine, but its…"

"What is it Liz? Is it Nik? Have you heard from him?" Jasmine asked, a glimmer of hope still in her eyes. Elizabeth grimaced slightly and shook her head in reply.

"What could it be…oh my god no…it's the girls? Elizabeth what's wrong with my daughters?"

"You're going to want to sit down, Jas. Come on." Elizabeth replied softly, helping Jasmine to sit.

"Elizabeth, please. Just tell me…" Jasmine said while wiping the tears from her eyes and face.

"Cassadine!" The guard shouted, opening the door and interrupting them. Both Jasmine and Liz looked at him as they waited for him to continue.

"Time's up."

"What? It's barley been five minutes! She's allowed fifteen" Elizabeth replied. "Sorry, not my rules. I just enforce them." The guard replied, not really caring.

"You can't do this! I have important information to tell her."

"Then you should have done that five minutes ago."

"How could you be so cruel?"

"What's going on here?" D Jones asked as he was doing his regular rounds. "Visiting time is up for Cassadine. The visitor is protesting." Replied the guard.

"Officer Jones, inmates who have visitor privileges are allowed fifteen minutes correct?" Liz asked. At Jones' nod, Liz continued. "We've only had five minutes before the officer interrupted us and told us time was up."

"Is that true?" Jones asked the officer. "Yes, but she's in Solitary, she shouldn't even have visitors." Defended the officer.

"She's an inmate who has all privileges given to her. No privilege is revoked. She's allowed the allotted fifteen minutes. Prisoner Cassadine is in here for her own protection from the other inmates in this jail. If you have any further questions regarding her visitors or anything else for that matter regarding this prisoner, you come to me or Officer Avery, alright?"

"Yes officer." Replied the younger man. "Good, Miss Webber, you have ten more minutes."

"Thank you." She replied as the door was once more closed and the girls could get back to their conversation.

"Did Mac Scorpio give you my message yesterday?"

"No, what message?"

"Never mind, I'm to sure it matters too much now….After Mac turned me away yesterday from visiting you because you were here, I went back to the hospital to check on the girls…Jas…there was a woman there, Ms. Jones who, because it was court ordered was going to place the girls up for adoption once they were released. It's going to be a closed adoption."

"Closed adoption?" Jasmine gasped. "When? When are they being released?"

"I received a call this morning from my brother…He said the girls are to be released in two or three days." Elizabeth said sadly.

"No…" Jasmine trembled. "Closed adoption...this means I'll never see them again! Never know who adopted my daughters. Never know my daughters! I've lost them! I've lost my daughters, I've lost my sons…I lost my children." Jasmine ended her sentence in a whisper as she began to rock herself back and forth. She struggled against Elizabeth's comfort, until she finally gave in and let her friend hold her.

Spencer Home –

Later That Night – (Around 7pm)

Fourteen year old Lesley Lu "Lulu" Spencer missed her father and brothers. She heard that after 6 years her eldest brother Nikolas was alive, and according to her mother had a wife and four kids, though two of them weren't biologically Nikolas'. Lulu disregarded that last thought. She didn't care about that,

She wished she could have seen her brother before he left for Greece with their brother Lucky and her father Luke, but things had been terribly busy. According to her father, Nikolas couldn't wait to see her and was extremely sorry he hadn't contacted her while he was in town. Although a little angry at that, Lulu let it pass as she was promised a visit with her new nephews very soon. Lulu also noticed the looks of annoyance between her parents in the weeks before her father left for Greece. Her mom was always angry toward Jasmine, Lu guessed that she was Nikolas' wife. Luke held sympathy for her new sister-in-law, but didn't bother arguing with his wife. They had argued over her dozens of times before but never got anywhere.

Venturing upstairs to her room, she stopped by her mother's room as she heard her mother on the phone. She was hoping it was her father on the other end, but decided to listen at the door and wait.

"She deserves everything she gets. She deserves to be there. Nikolas doesn't deserve her. If this is the step I have to take to prove that to him, then so be it. She may be truly innocent on the inside, but I'll make sure Nikolas never sees that." Laura paused for a moment as she listened to whoever was on the other line. "Not if I can help he won't. Not them. His daughters, yes of course. Full and sole custody."

'What? Mom what have you done?' Lulu thought, not entirely sure what her mother had done, but knew it wasn't good. With that Lulu went to her room to try and figure out what her mother was talking about.

The Next Day –

General Hospital –

There was good news, and bad news for the Cassadine girls, as well as Elizabeth Webber. The good news: they were being released earlier than expected. The bad news: they were directly thrown into social services and the foster care system.

Elizabeth watched as a final medical checkup was done on her nieces, and there was nothing she could do as Ms. Jones and her assistant carried the girls away in car seats, off to a destination unknown. She was done crying on her brother's shoulder for the week, as she tried to wipe her tears away and walked into the hospital lobby.

There she ran into a visibly upset and shaken Lulu. They both hugged each other and cried, both for different reasons, both not knowing why the other was crying.

"Liz? What's wrong?" Lulu asked through hiccupping sobs. 'I can't believe it…' Lulu thought.

"Sweetie…Nikolas and Jasmine's children were taken from them in the past few days. The boys were taken a few days ago, and Jasmine just had twin daughters the same day her boys were taken from her. The girls have just been taken into foster care."

"What! Why!" Lulu asked astonished.

"Because, Nik's wife Jasmine, well she was convicted of a crime she didn't commit, and thrown in jail for the next 10 years."

"Who would do that to her?" Lulu asked.

"Don't worry about that now. Right now I can't get a hold of either of your bothers or father. Jasmine's sitting in Solitary Confinement right now, for her own protection from the other inmates. I didn't think the girls would be released so early…I don't know how I'm going to tell her."

"And Nikolas doesn't know?"

"He has no idea…I can't get a hold of anyone. He's going to be so heartbroken." Liz replied.

"We have to do something! Can't you adopt any of them?"

"We can't. I've tried everything. Jasmine can't even get a lawyer for her appeal. No one wants to take on the case. And even if they're appointed by the court, they don't bother. They find her guilty and now she continues to rot in there. I already thought of adopting the girls myself, but there was no documentation stating that Lucky and I are uncle and aunt, godparents or next of kin. Because of the courts, the boys…they went with Helena Cassadine to be given to their biological father."

"That's horrible!" Lulu said, now upset and seriously concerned for her sister-in-law. "Wait, so what my mother said about Nikolas' sons not being his is true? Who then is their biological father?"

"Do you really want to know?" Liz asked.

"Yes."

"Stavros Cassadine, also known as Lucien Cane."

"Wait…Oh my god…No…"

"Yeah…don't think about it in the technical, biological sense. It's easier to stomach. Besides, Nikolas is their father, in every way that matters. He, Jasmine, and the boys themselves don't care about biology."

"That's good."
"Definitely…We'll figure something out, I hope. So onto you. Why are you upset Lu?"

Lu shook the memory from her head. "I just can't believe…I saw it, unfortunately, but I still can't believe it."

"Believe what?"

"What I saw…" Lulu couldn't even finish her sentence. Her eyes swelled up with fresh tears.

"Lulu, what happened? Where you hurt?"

"Emotionally yes. Physically I'm fine with the exception of being slightly nauseous."

"Why?"

"Well….last night I heard my mother on the phone, I thought it was with my dad, but it wasn't. She said something about a 'she' deserving to be 'there' and said that if it was the step she had to take to prove to Nikolas that 'she' wasn't good for him, than so be it. Mom also said something about Nikolas gaining full custody of the girls, but not 'them'…and something else about 'she' being innocent on the inside but making sure Nik never saw it. Please tell me she's not referring to Jasmine? Please? Please tell me that it wasn't my mother who put Jasmine in prison, please?" Lulu begged.

Elizabeth only cried harder at the young girl's pleas. Both girls hugged each other as Lulu came to realize the severity of her mother's actions. "That's not all is it Lu? What else are you upset about, what did you see?"

"Well…"

Flashback – (Earlier That Morning)

Up early, Lulu decided to go downstairs to see what was to eat in the kitchen. Passing her mother's door, she decided to see if her mother heard from her father at all. She didn't think so, but decided to check anyway. Pushing her mother's door open, she wasn't surprised to find her mother still asleep. She was about to back out the door when she heard a groan, or a grunt, Lu couldn't exactly distinguish which this early in the morning.

"Lulu! What are you doing in here?" Laura asked surprised.

"Huh? What? What is it?" Asked another voice. With both now sitting up, sheets around them Lulu stared into the eyes of her mother and her mother's lover.

"Mom! How could you do this? To me? More importantly to Dad! Lu screamed as she ran out the door, hearing her mother shout her name.

End of Flashback –

"I swear…." Liz shook her head in frustration. "Look Lu, I don't care what you're mother thinks of what I'm about to do, but what do you say we go and give your sister-in-law a nice surprise by having her meet you okay?"

"Yes, I'd love to meet her…So, could you tell me about her?"

"Well I don't know too much about her except I can see she's a great friend to have, and you'll never want to not be her friend once you become her friend."

"How did she meet Nik?"

"Under really horrendous conditions…I'm not going to say much out of respect to her and your brother. Maybe if you ask them one day, they'll tell you."

"Does he love her? Does she love him?"

"Oh yes! Now there's something I can talk to you about…" Replied Liz as she wrapped an arm around Lu's shoulder and both walked to the PC Prison.

Port Charles Prison –

"Cassadine, you have two visitors. You still only have fifteen minutes, total." The guard said as he escorted Elizabeth and Lulu into the room.

Jasmine was happy to see Elizabeth and happy to see the girl with her. She assumed this is Lulu because she has Laura's hair and Luke's dark blue eyes. "Jasmine, I'd like you to meet your sister-in-law, Lesley Lu "Lulu" Spencer."

"Nice to meet you." Lulu said, sticking her hand out.

"Likewise." Jasmine replied quietly, taking Lu's hand in hers. "So, you're my husband's younger sister huh? He's told me so much about you. I hope you know that he loves you very much, as do I even if I don't know you."

"Thanks. It was all that good huh?" Lu said with a laugh, which Jasmine and Liz returned.

"Yeah, it was. I feel like I've known you most of our lives." Jasmine replied kindly.

"My family and close friends call me Lulu. Otherwise I'll usually have them call me Les. But you can call me Lulu."

"But…I hardly know you. If you'd prefer Les–"

"No, it's okay really. If my name weren't in honor of my grandmother, I would consider changing it. But considering the way Liz speaks of you, I know you're a good friend. And if you love my eldest brother the way Elizabeth describes, and vice versa, then you're definitely family in my book. I have a strong feeling that you'd never want to hurt him, or ever could."

"Lulu…that means so much to me, I'm touched. Thank you." Jasmine said, silent tears slowly running down her face, an she hugged the younger girl.

"Now…what to do about my mother?" Lulu asked bitterly.

"Don't worry about that Lu, let me and Jasmine handle it." Liz replied

"Fine…but I want in. I want to help. I can't just sit here and do nothing while our family is suffering because of this."

Both Jasmine and Elizabeth looked at Lu, puzzled at her choice of words. "What? Right now I'm not sure I want to be a Spencer the way my mother sees fit. I'd rather consider you two, my father, brothers, nephews, and nieces my family. My mother has a lot to work on, starting with a complete reversal of what she did to you all behind everyone's back."

"Cassadine. Time's up." The guard replied. All three became sad that their time was already up.

"Thank you for coming. It was great meeting you and I would love to get to know you more…I just wish you didn't have to come here to do it." Jasmine replied softly, hugging Lulu close.

"I'll come as often as I can. I'll aim for everyday. Liz, thanks for bringing me."

"Of course Lu."

"Liz, thank you for bringing Lulu here."

"Cassadine, now."

"Sorry sir." Jasmine replied. "You two take care okay? Stay safe." Jasmine replied giving Liz a quick hug.

"You too." Both girls were led out of the room, and Jasmine placed the blanket around her as a cold chill had settled itself into the room.

(Author's Notes- Please Review! Thanks! –E.B.F.R.)