A/n: To my anonymous reviews thanks guy you rock. Also this is not a story for Sam lovers and remember I'm no doctor so dna takes like no time in this lol.
Annabell woke up to her alarm at 7 am and groaned, her mouth felt like it was filled with cotton and her head was pounding, how much did she drink last night? She laid in the bed for a few minutes longer before her mind started working again and she realised why she had set the alarm, the DNA test, she shot up in bed and regreted the sudden movement her body protesting but she pushed on pulling herself out of the bed, making a beeline for the bath room.
She looked at herself in the mirror, wrinkling her nose at her apperance before stripping off the cloths she had been wearing since the day before and slipping in to the shower, she took a long hot shower feeling more human as she steppped out. She pulled on a bathrob and was brushing her teeth when there was a knock on the door to her room, she tried to figure out who was there as she walked over and opened the door toothbrush still in hand.
"Good, you're alive." Carly said as Anna opened the door.
"Carly? What are you doing here this early?" She looked confussed at the woman, had they made plans yesterday?
"I wanted to make sure you were going to make your appointment at GH today, considereing the state you were in last night." The older woman explained as she leaned on the door frame.
"Yea I am, I was just getting dressed and going to grab a cup of coffee before heading to the hospital." She said though it was rather ovious that she was getting ready.
Carly nodded. "Good, I can give you a lift then." She said matter of factlly.
Annabell rolled her eyes. "Carly, I can get myself there. I may have implied last night that I wasn't going to go but I am, promise."
"I know you can but I figured I would save you the 30 dollar cab ride this way and also thought you may want the company."
She really didn't have much money and 30 there and back would be expencive so she nodded motioning for the woman to come in to the room. "I just need to finish getting ready if you want to come in for a few minutes."
"How about I grab the coffee and you meet me down stairs in about 10 minutes?" Carly half asked.
"Yea that's fine, just one cream and one sugar please." She figured it was far better to just go along with the woman, she seemed like she had a tendancy of getting her way.
"Perfect, I will see you down stairs." She said before turning and heading back down the hall like a model on a cat walk.
It was nearly 15 minutes later when Annabell made it to the lobby with a navy blue, knee leght summer dress on and a pair of white ballet flats, she had taking more time dressing then she thought she would, she went through three clothing changes before settling on the dress.
"Finally, thought I would have to come back up to get you." Carly said from her place leaning against the front desk in the lobby.
Annabell flushed slightly. "Sorry, I kinda lost track of time."
"It's fine, let's get this show on the road though." She said handing Annabell her coffee and motioning toward the door.
The ride to General Hospital was a quite one, no uncomfortable but Annabell didn't really want to make idle chit chat, her thoughts were on one thing, the DNA test, it was scary to think she could be wrong but the scarier thought was that she was right, how would they get along, would he want her around or just be indiffrent to her, though he didn't send her away he wanted to know as well so she figured that was a good thing.
"You ready kid?" Carly asked as she parked the car in the hospital lot.
Annabell jerked out of her thoughts and looked to the older woman. "Umm yea, I guess." She muttered out taking off her seat belt and getting out of the car.
Carly got out as well falling in to step with the girl. "You don't have to come with me."
The blonde shrugged. "Figured you may need a friend, I can wait here if you want?" She offered
Annabell paused for a second before giving the woman a small smile. "I don't know why you are being so kind but I really could use someone." she said with slightly glassy eyes.
Carly put on arm around the girls shoulder in an attampt to comfort her as they walked toward the elevator and took it up. "I'm with you, Kid; and as for why, like I said you remind me of myself a long time again, plus I'm fairly sure, I'm not going to lose my hotel to Jason."
The girl was about to asked what the woman was talking about when they exited the elevator and she saw Jason standing by what looked like a waiting area with a dark haired woman.
"Hi." She said softly her blue eyes meeting his matching ones.
Jason smiled ever so slightly at the girl, noting Carly's arm wrapped protectivly around her shoulder, he shot the woman a look and she gave him a shrug back.
"Hey, Anna." Jason said in a quite tone his voice not betraying the emotions he was feeling. "Carly." He nodded as and after thought.
"So you're the girl claiming to be Jason's daughter?" Sam said looking the girl over with a snear.
"Sam." Jason hissed out, he knew he should not have let her come, they had argued about it for a good hour this morning about her coming, by the time they were done he had to get to the hospital and she said of she didn't come with him she would just follow so he relented and let her ride with him, he regreted it in his moment seeing the girls face take on a frown and her eyes going down looking to the floor.
"I am." She whispered, the woman reminded her of her mother and she couldn't meet the womans eyes.
"You sould looked at people when they're talking to you." Sam snipped at the girl, she looked so weak and meek, there was no way this little girl was Jason Mogan's daughter.
"Stop being a bitch, Sam, this doesn't concern you." Carly hissed out at the woman, glaring at her.
Sam laughed. "Like it concerns you?"
"Enough, both of you." He said in a cold tone he would not usually use on either woman but as he saw the girl shrinking more into herself, wrapping her arms around herself in a self comforting gesture he had enough.
"Sorry, Jase'." Carly said quickly, turning her attention back to the girl and pulling her a little closer.
Sam said nothing but let out a small huff.
"Jason." Patrick called as he walked over to the group.
Jason turned to the doctor and nodded. "Hey, Patrick. Thanks again for doing this. "
The dark haired man stopped beside Jason and looked between him and the young woman. "It's no problem, it's not like it will take long anyway." He turned his gaze to the girl. "Hi, I'm Patrick Drake, I will be the one preforming the DNA test today. You're Anna, right?"
The girl looked up at the dark haired man in the lab coat and nodded. "I'm Anna, it's nice too meet you, Dr. Drake."
Patrick smiled. "You can just call me Patrick, Anna."
"Can we hurry this up, the sooner this is settled the sooner this little liar can go back to where she came from." Sam gritted out.
Patrick looked from the girl to Sam and back, Christ the girl looked like she wanted the earth to open up and swallow her at this point before anyone else could speak he spoke up. "Jason, Anna why don't you to come with me to the exam room."
Anna nodded and pulled away from Carly walking toward the doctor and Jason.
"Lead the way." Jason nodded to Patrick.
"Wait, I want to be there for this." Sam whined.
"Sorry, patients only." Patrick lied as he motioned for the pair to follow him.
Once they reached the room Patrick motioned them in to the room. "I need to go grab a few things, I will be back in a few minute, will you two be ok?" Anna nodded and Jason muttered a 'yea' before the doctor slipped out of the room pulling the door closed.
"I'm sorry, about Sam, what she said." Jason said looking her as she leaned on the exam table.
She shrugged. "It's fine." she said her voice soft.
"It's really not, for what it's worth, I don't think you're lying." Jason told her taking a step toward her, looking at her but her eyes were still on the floor.
She looked up at that comment and met his eyes once more. "Really?"
Jason nodded coming to stand beside her. "Yea, don't pay attenion to Sam's comments, she doesn't know what she's talking about."
"Is she your wife?"
"No, girlfriend though." No married yet and if Sam kept up this shit maybe not even together at all, if she was his kid he wouldn't let Sam talk to her like that.
"She doesn't like me." She stated.
"She doesn't know you, I'm not saying she will but once we know for sure that will change." Hopefully he added to himself.
The door opened again and Patrick came back in to the room carrying a tray with needles and tubes on it.
She eyed the needles. "I thought it would be the cheek swab thing?"
Patrick looked to her as he set the tray on a small cart. "This is the fastest way, is there a problem?"
She bit her lip. "I'm not good with needles." Lie she was damn terrified of needles.
"It will only feel like a pinch, I promise." He assured.
"Why don't I go first." Jason offered, as she eyed the needles with a pinched expression on her face.
"Take a seat on the exam table." Patrick nodded to the table.
Jason hopped on to the exam table and Patrick came over with the cart, Anna stood on the other side of the table looking none too impressed.
It only took a few minutes before Patrick had the needle in Jason's arm and a little vile on the end was filling with blood and a few seconds later it was done and the needle was pulled out.
Jason slid off the table and motioned to Anna. "It's not so bad, hop up on to the table."
Anna wrung her hands but hopped up on to the table, Patrick smiled reassuringly at her as he tied a band on her upper arm before using an alcohol wipe on the bend of her elbow, when he picked up the needle she pulled back out of his reach.
"No, I'm sorry, I can't." She her voice shaking.
"It's ok, I swear it won't hurt." Patrick tried to sooth.
She shook her head.
"Anna." Jason said touching her shoulder lightly. "It's ok, Patrick won't do anything to hurt you. I know some people are afraid of needles and it's ok, would it help if you looked at me and not the needle." He said his hand slipped down her arm to take her small hand in his.
She shrugged. "I don't know."
"Why don't we try that just look at me and don't pay attention to what he is doing, ok?" His voice was soft, caring as he spoke, it was usually one he used with Michael and Morgan.
"Thanks." She said meeting his eyes, tears glistened.
"It's all fine, just stay with me." Jason held her hand tighter as Patrick put in the needle.
"All done." Patrick said a few minutes later.
She let out a breath and looked down at her arm, the small piece of tape, with gauze under it.
"Wasn't as bad as I thought." She smiled to Jason as she let her hand.
"The results will take a few hours, I'm going to put a rush on it, if you could come back in 3 hours they should be in." Patrick told they as he picked up the tubes.
"Thanks again, it's appreciated." Jason nodded to the man.
Patrick waved off his thanks. "I'll see you both around 1:30?"
The pair both nodded and Annabell got off the exam table and Jason was leading her back out to the waiting area, where Carly and Sam remained.
"All set?" Carly asked the girl with a smile.
Annabell nodded back to the older woman. "I have to come back in a few hours." She told her.
"Well I cleared my afternoon, so why don't we go and grab a late breakfast, you could come to Jase." Carly offered purposely not extending the invite to Sam.
"You didn't have to clear you schedule for me but I could eat." As if on queue the girls stomach rumbled, she hadn't eaten since yesterday after noon. She looked to Jason slightly hopeful that he would join them.
"Why don't we meet at Kelly's in 20?" Jason said looking at Carly a silent conversation passing between them.
Sam opened her mouth to protest but a look from Jason had her closing it a second later, leaving a scowl on her face.
Carly nodded. "Let's go kid." she said tugging the girl along with her to the elevator.
"What the hell Jason?" Sam asked as the door closed.
Jason ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "Sam, I told you it would be best if you stayed at home, I don't want to deal with the snippy comments right now, I want to be able to talk to her a bit with out you in the middle and right now it's just a little wait until we know for sure so please just go home for now."
"Oh for fuck sake, you don't even know if the girl is your kid and you are already choosing her over me." Sam huffed out.
"I'm no choosing her, I just want to wait in peace for the results, get to know her when it comes back she's mine." He said realizing he had basically called her his.
"Don't come crying to me when this all blows up in your face." She turned around and stomped off toward the stairs.
A laugh came from behind him and he turned to see Claudia Zacchara, just what he needed was to deal with her.
"Lovers quarrel?" Claudia asked gleefully.
Caludia and himself had been on relatively good terms for months, Sonny didn't really care to deal with the Zacchara's so it fell to him, but he figured that was better then starting a war; he and the woman in question had a few things in common, one being the loyalty to people they claim as family, she wound kill and die for Johnny just as he would for his family.
"It's nothing." He deflected.
She rolled her eyes, "Heard something about you having a kid, doesn't seem like nothing, so did you cheat and knock the girl up?"
He scrubbed his hand over his face. "I didn't cheat on Sam."
She stippled her hands under her chin waiting for the man of few words to say more.
Jason shrugged and sat down motioning to Claudia to take a seat, if she was his word would travel fast and Claudia wouldn't break the peace by doing something stupid. He explained the situation to her, from the girl showing up, her lie, Sam's reaction, some of her comments and the DNA test and lastly his gut feeling she was his daughter. He didn't know why he told her, maybe it was because she was an outsider of sorts, no direct connection to the whole thing unlike Carly, Sonny and Sam.
She didn't look as amused as before more surprised. "Huh, you with a grown daughter, who would have thought. You know I can picture you in over protective daddy mode, you're in for some fun if she is your because that woman of yours..." She trailed off.
Jason raised an eyebrow in question.
"She likes you all to herself, you having a kid will take attention away, trust me it won't end well, I know women like her." Claudia told him bluntly.
"Aren't you a woman like her?" He asked.
Claudia scoffed at the notion. "Please, I like attention but I would rather be free to do what I want and my man, if there were one, would hopefully be the same."
"Shit." Jason said as it dawned on him, Sam had the key's to the car and had most likely taken it when she left.
The dark haired woman looked to him.
"Sam took the car, we road here together, I have to go, I need to get to Kelly's." He said standing and the woman did as well.
"I can give you a lift, I was going to be grabbing some food with Johnny at Kelly's too." She offered.
Jason ended up taking her up on the ride and the pair arrived at Kelly's about 10 minutes later, as they walked in the door to Kelly's Jason scanned the room quickly finding Carly and Anna.
"Thanks for the ride." He said to his companion before stepping away but Claudia stayed in step with him.
"If you thought I wasn't going to want to meet the girl, you're not as smart as I give you credit for." She smiled at his obvious annoyance.
"Claudia." Carly nodded with a raised brow.
"Sam took the car when she left GH, I bumped in to Claudia and she gave me a lift, she's meeting John." Jason offered as he took the seat beside Carly and across from Anna.
"Claudia, this is Anna Lenux, Anna this is Claudia Zacchara." Jason introduced.
When he said the last name Anna choked on her drink in surprise, she coughed to clear her throat and smiled tightly looking between Claudia and Carly, the latter seemed to be wearing a grin.
"Nice to meet you." Anna said politely, her cheeks pink.
Whatever the woman was going to say was cut off my person calling her name and a few seconds later, Johnny Zacchara was at his sisters side.
"John, good timing, this is Jason's daughter, Anna." Jason raised an shot her a look, "Sorry his maybe daughter.
Johnny and Anna shared a long look neither of the pair saying a word for a good minute.
"Something to share with the group kids?" Carly asked.
Tbc...