Jason with his two holograms in tow came walking through the doors of the Tipton. For some odd reason Al had insisted on waiting until they got back there before telling him anything. As soon as they walked through the door Sam pointed to the blonde girl behind the candy counter.
"Do you see that girl?" he asked
"Yeah," said Jason, "What does she have to do with why I'm here?"
"Everything," said Al, "Her name is Madeline Fitzpatrick and she is about to find out that a great uncle she never knew has left her a multi-million dollar fortune. But the day after she finds this out a young man named Jeffery Stokes arrives, he's handsome and charming and she falls hard for him."
"I have a feeling that right here is where the story turns sour." Jason said folding his arms over his chest as he spoke. Al nodded Ziggy says that as it turned out Maddie's Crush was a con-artist that her great uncle's greedy kids hired to scam her out of the inheritance. Apparently they were pretty miffed at being cut out of the WILL. Maddie was so heart broken and ashamed of herself for being fooled that she committed suicide. That started a chain reaction. London, though no one realized it, was deeply attached to her friendship with Maddie. When Maddie killed herself; London went out for revenge, lured Jeffery into a trap and stabbed him to death. She was arrested and sent to jail for the rest of her life. Zack Martin who has had a crush on Maddie since he first moved here lost his mind from grief and Cody had to give up his college plans so his mother could afford the bill for the psychiatric ward he had to be put into. Without London to take over the estate, the Tipton will go belly up when Mr. Tipton passes away."
"So," said Jason, "My Job is to make sure that Maddie doesn't get scammed by that con artist."
"Al," nodded, "That's what Ziggy says."
"But how am I supposed to do that?" said Jason/Cody once they entered the elevator and the doors had closed, "I can't just go up to Maddie and say your about to inherit a fortune and meet a dreamboat whose really a con artist that was hired to cheat you out of that fortune. She'd have me thrown in the loony bin."
"Well," said Sam with a shrug, "he who controls the leaps just puts us here and expects us to play it by ear."
"Terrific," muttered Jason as they walked into the suite, "My first jump and HE sticks me with an assignment that may turn this boy into the laughing stock of the century. Why couldn't he give me an easy assignment like jumping into the life of a nuclear physicist?"
Jason sat there on the bed in his and Zack's room trying to figure out where two start when all of a sudden he heard Maddie talking excitedly to his "Mother" in the other room. He stood up and walked casually into the other room already fairly certain that he knew what the excitement was about.
Maddie was talking a mile a minute,
"It seems that this man Carter Fitzpatrick, a Multi-Millionaire was my great uncle and I didn't even know it," she was saying, "But apparently he knew of me. This lawyer came to tell me that I was in Carter Fitzpatrick's will and asked me to attend the reading of the will. Carrey, would you go with me to the reading?" London's busy and I'm kind of nervous about going by myself.
"I can't," said Carrey, "Mr. Moseby has me doing two extra shows to day for Mr. Tipton's business partners." Just then she looked up and saw Cody/Jason standing there."
"Take Cody with you," she said
"Okay," said Maddie, "it's better than nothing," she turned to Cody, "the reading is at 5pm I'll be back in an hour and half to get you."
Cody/Jason and Maddie walked into the board room at the firm of Benton and Sterns attorneys at law. Jason looked around the room Carter Fitzpatrick's children were all their.
Their professed grief of their father's death was so fake it could have made a stoic laugh. There was William the oldest his dirty blonde hair was unruly and he was in a motor-biking outfit and was sitting there with one foot up on the table. His sister violet was dressed in Armani dress he hair was bleached half to death and she must have been wearing three inches of makeup and a half million dollars in jewelry. She reached over and swatted her brothers foot off the table.
Cody/Jason leaned over to Maddie and said,
"Behold your textbook spoiled brats." Maddie nodded. The Lawyer walked to the room.
"Ladies and Gentleman," he said, "it is now time to read the will of the late Carter Fitzpatrick." He opened the manila envelope that he was carrying and took out a document. He cleared his throat and began to read.
I Carter Fitzpatrick, Being of Sound Mind and Boy do affirm this a being my last will and testament to be carried out upon my death.
For sometime I have watched my grandniece Madeline Fitzpatrick and have decided that she is the kind of person that I want to tend to my estate. My kids never learned the value of money because they have always had to much of it and they grew up thinking that they are better than everyone else simply because they were better off. That is largely my fault and my last gift to them is to do what I can to correct that attitude. Both of them are to be given the some of 5,000 dollars. From there they will have to make it on there own. The remaining bulk of my estate some 250 million dollars is to be given to my grandniece Madeline Fitzpatrick. This firm is instructed to hand over full control of the money and the software business to her on her eighteenth birthday unless she signs away control of it before that. I leave that in her capable hands.
Maddie sat there in stunned silence in the space of a minute an a half she had gone from being a teenager that was barley able to make ends meet to being the heiress to the Fitzpatrick software fortune.
"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE," thundered William and Violet almost in unison.
"Our father couldn't have been in his right mind when he wrote this," snapped Violet
"I assure you he was," said the attorney, "I was with him when he wrote it,"
"What does a lawyer know about a person's mental health!" snapped William he walked over and glared down an Maddie, "we not going to take this laying down dear cousin." He snarled. With that he and Violet stomped from the room.
TBC
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