Author's Note: So after posting the last chapter, I realized Francis can't be the guard going with Alyssa and Kristina. I spaced on the fact, he got shot earlier in the story and definitely wouldn't be recovered enough to work at this point. I updated the last chapter with a different guard.
Sam and Drew arrived to find Jason trying to convince Kellie to relax. Johnny had let them in and their presence went unnoticed at first.
"Is anything else you can actually do until Sam and Drew show up?" Jason asked Kellie as she was pacing.
"No," Kellie said.
"Then since you've done everything you can for now," Jason said, "Why don't you try to relax a bit?"
"Don't tell me you could relax if you and Dad were ousted by your own people," Kellie replied.
"Alright, point taken," Jason said, standing in front of Kellie, "But I just don't want you to over do it."
Kellie tried to move around Jason to continue her pacing. Jason gently put this hands at her waist, stopping her.
"Hey," Drew said, getting their attention.
"Sam and Drew are here," Kellie said.
"And what's this about ousting people?" Sam asked.
"How much did Sonny tell you?" Kellie asked.
"He just mentioned you had new information about Shiloh," Sam said, "And that you wanted to talk to us.
"Is this information in addition to the connection you found between Garrett and Shiloh?" Drew asked.
"Do we need to wait for Sonny?" Sam asked, "He mentioned he would be here."
"No we can get started," Jason said, then looked at Drew, "Do you want a beer?"
"If you're offering," Drew said as Kellie caught the looks exchanged between Jason and Drew.
"Wait a sec," Kellie said.
"We can continue this in the kitchen," Jason said.
The next thing Kellie knew they had all moved to the kitchen. Drew had pulled out chairs at the breakfast table for her and Sam while Jason grabbed the beers.
"Did Jason and Drew just do some sort of twin mind reading to…?" Kellie started to ask Sam.
"To get you to sit down. Definitely," Sam said.
"Sam, do you want a beer or anything else to drink?" Jason asked.
"I'll take a beer," Sam said as Jason reached for milk in the fridge.
"You've got to be kidding me," Kellie said.
Drew stopped Jason from grabbing the milk.
"Kellie is about ready to kill you, maybe both of us, " Drew said, so only Jason could hear and then louder, "What do you want to drink, Kellie?"
"Water is fine," Kellie said as Jason glared at Drew, "Since beer isn't an option."
"Did I miss anything?" Sonny asked coming into the kitchen.
"Nothing important," Kellie said, "How are Alyssa and boys doing?"
"Max was showing the boys new video game tricks," Sonny said, "Kristina came over and took Alyssa out for ice cream. Jackson is with them"
"Kristina actually came over," Sam said.
"I'm glad she did," Sonny said, "She seemed to want to visit because she hadn't been around. Alyssa was thrilled."
"Maybe she's coming around," Drew said.
"I hope so," Sam said, glancing at Drew.
"So back to the beginning," Kellie said, "I'll let Jason start with the connection between Shiloh and Garrett."
"Sam mentioned NCIS found some kind of connection," Drew said, "So why isn't NCIS investigating Shiloh?"
"Shiloh has someone in Washington D.C. above the director saying they don't have enough to continue the investigation." Jason said.
"No one can get their hands on Shiloh's file," Kellie said, "Not even now. I'd been trying before of all of this."
"So how did you pick on the connection between the two?" Drew asked.
"It was in your file," Jason said, "Since you said you and Shiloh had a connection, we thought it was worth a shot to check. We found surveillance photos of Garrett & Shiloh together, along with Ilya Petrov, a former associate of Karpovs. You had some kind of appointment scheduled to discuss unnamed concerns. But then you went missing."
"And all they had were photos that I'm guessing didn't show anything other than Garrett and Shiloh were in the same place," Drew said.
"The agents at NCIS are not happy the investigation has been stopped," Kellie said, "Garrett using Navy Petty to transport girls while Shiloh was a Navy Contractor seems a little too coincidental. Especially with both of them ending up in Port Charles."
"Any chance the navy petty officers can tie Garrett to Shiloh?" Sam asked.
"They're all dead," Kellie said, "Garrett made sure of it. The FBI is interested in Shiloh's finances but there's nothing there at the moment."
"What about the foundation?" Sam asked, "Couldn't they run their own investigation?"
"They could," Kellie said, "But they won't. And speaking of ousting people from our discussion earlier, Charles and I were fired today."
Sam and Drew were both stunned.
"Do you think Shiloh has someone inside your foundation then?" Drew finally asked.
"I do, maybe even on the board," Kellie said, "I'd been trying to contact the Rescue Coordinator since I got back to discuss investigating Shiloh. He wouldn't return my calls and the receptionist refused to schedule me an appointment for over a month. The executive director was supposedly on vacation. When I showed up this morning to find the rescue coordinator, the executive director let Charles and I know we'd been let go."
"On what grounds?" Sam asked.
"The appearance of involvement in organized crime," Kellie said, "The perception that the foundation is front for illegal activities."
"But they've known you're Sonny's daughter for years," Sam said, "Even when you married Jason, they seemed willing to accept that."
"As long she wasn't running things," Sonny said, "I know you resigned, but they would have made that a condition of the accepting the marriage if you didn't."
"Apparently they chalked off the seriousness of our relationship as rumors," Jason said, "Until they found out Kellie was pregnant."
"They moved awfully fast to terminate you," Drew said, "You just found out this week."
"I'm sure this gave them whatever they thought they needed to move forward," Kellie said.
"They were planning to nudge you out?" Drew asked.
"I think so," Kellie replied.
"When did you tell the foundation you were pregnant?" Jason asked.
"I didn't," Kellie said, "and come to think of it. The only two people that would have said anything were Charles and Uncle Lo. Neither one would have told them for me."
"How did they already know that you're expecting?" Sam asked.
"Garrett knew too before I did," Kellie said, "And all the reasons why I thought I couldn't have a child. He told Obrecht who told me."
"That information has definitely not been out in the media," Drew said, "What are the odds that the same person who told Garrett also told the foundation?"
"It's possible it's two different people," Sonny said, "But I don't like this."
"We can't rule out the possibility it's connected," Jason said, "The foundation and Garrett knowing about the baby."
"I wish I could help," Drew said, "That I could remember or that have the procedure to restore my old memories wasn't so risky or wipe out my memories of the kids and Sam, of Monica."
"You're too important to lose," Sam said, rubbing Drew's back.
"Besides if Shiloh is as lethal as Garrett," Sonny said, "It might be better if you don't remember."
"Besides, if there is one thing I'm definitely good at," Kellie said, "It's digging up dirt on people they really don't want found and try to hide. Besides, Oscar needs you the most right now."
"So tell me more about this Petrov," Drew said, "Sam mentioned there's a theory that Shiloh's running a sex cult."
"Petrov ran something like the one they just busted out of New York City," Jason said, "We think Shiloh and Garrett may been using Petrov's model as inspiration. Petrov's group did community outreach. The Dawn of Day folk already pay tons of money for classes and Shiloh seems to be their leader in addition to the outreach. Petrov had an inner circle and was blackmailing members for sex."
"I can't speak to blackmailing women for sex," Sam said, "But I think I Shiloh has an inner circle. I've heard reference to something called the trust. But I don't know much about it yet."
"When Daisy confessed to going after Sam," Drew said, "It didn't feel right."
"It didn't seem like the type of thing that Daisy would do," Sam said, "Unless someone made her."
"Cult leaders can manipulate people into doing their dirty work," Jason said.
"So what comes next?" Drew asked, "If law enforcement can't do anything and the foundation's been compromised, how we prove any of this?"
"Spinelli is already looking into Shiloh and Garrett's backgrounds as well as staff and board members at the foundation," Kellie said, "I've also retained Curtis Ashford to investigate as well."
"I'll keep investigating and getting close to Shiloh," Sam said, "See if I can confirm something that indicates he's running a sex cult or something else. Preferably before Kristina gets in any deeper."
"Are you serious?" Drew asked, "Not only did the man take you to Canada to do God knows what if I hadn't shown up, but now he has ties to a known human trafficker and this Petrov. He's more dangerous than we thought."
"That's exactly why we have to keep doing this," Sam said, "Kristina has no idea what she's getting into."
"I'm with Drew on this one," Kellie said, "Let me see what I can dig up through the back channels before we put any more people in Shiloh's crosshairs. As long as Shiloh thinks she's a devoted follower, she should be okay."
"What if she's not okay?" Sam asked, "Because Shiloh blackmails or forces her to something she doesn't want."
"So if you try to get deeper into this and it is a sex cult," Jason said, "What's Shiloh going to ask of you, Sam? You've already separated your family to con Shiloh. How much are you going to risk?"
"Jason and I could just take care of it, problem solved," Sonny said.
"We've already discussed why that's not a valid option," Sam said.
"We're not solving it…." Kellie said, hesitating, "That way."
"And right now Kristina is hardly speaking to any of us," Sam said, "I'm sure if I went all anti-Shiloh, she'd cut me out too and we'd know nothing."
"Look, Sam, I'm saying completely do a 180," Kellie said, "But don't get any deeper, see what you hear just from being involved at the community outreach level. And quit this fake separation from Drew."
"What if Kristina gets hurt in the meantime," Sam said.
"Last time I checked Kristina's an adult," Kristina said, "We can't protect her from everything. If recall when I want to scope out an abandoned night club for Lila Rae last year because the cops were arguing about how to get warrant to search it, you pointed out that going off by myself and putting myself in a situation where I could end up hurt as well wasn't going to solve anything. Pot, Kettle, Black."
"The cops were investigating and working on finding Lila Rae," Sam said, "Law enforcement isn't even looking at Shiloh for anything wrong."
"Sam, let me start pulling at some threads," Kellie said, "It's cleaner and none of us get caught in the crossfire or the backlash if it goes wrong."
"Sam," Drew said, "I want our family back together. I want the sneaking around to see each other to end. I want you running to Shiloh at the drop of a hat to end."
Kelly's Diner
Alyssa and Kristina were finishing their ice cream sundaes. Alyssa had gotten ice cream and syrup on her hands.
"Let's take you to the ladies room to clean up," Kristina said, looking at Jackson to make sure he had heard. He nodded indicating he had heard. Kristina left money for the ice cream. Jackson followed them and stood outside the door.
"How would you like to go on an adventure?" Kristina asked once Alyssa had washed her hands.
"What kind of adventure?" Alyssa asked.
"It's a surprise," Kristina said, pointing to a window, "But we have to start our adventure by crawling out that window."
"What about Jackson?" Alyssa asked.
"He knows all about the adventures and will be following from a discreet distance," Kristina said.
"What's discreet?" Alyssa asked.
"It means he'll be with us, but we won't see him," Kristina said.
"Then let's go," Alyssa said as Kristina opened the window.
Outside the ladies room, Jackson knocked on the door when they didn't come out. No answer. The door was locked. Jackson picked the lock and found the room empty and the window open. He tried calling Kristina's cell phone, but heard it ringing in the bathroom. After checking outside, he pulled out his phone and called Kellie.
Kellie and Jason's House
Kellie, Jason, Drew, Sam, and Sonny's conversation was interrupted by Kellie's phone ringing.
Seeing it was Jackson, Kellie picked up.
"Kristina and Alyssa disappeared," Jackson said, "They were in the ladies room at Kelly's. I had to pick the lock when they took too long and didn't answer."
"I'll try calling Kristina," Kellie said.
"I already did, her phone was left in the bathroom," Jackson said.
"I'll call the cops," Kellie said, "You keep canvassing the area."
"What's going on?" Sonny asked when Kellie hung up.
Kellie ignored the question and called the police, "Hello, I'd like to report a missing child."
Kellie gave them the information they needed.
"We'll send an officer to Kellie's to talk your guard," the dispatcher said, "We'd recommend you stay home in case she tries call you or just show up there."
"Thank you," Kellie said.
"Kristina and Alyssa are missing?" Sonny asked.
"They are," Kellie said, "Kristina's cellphone was left behind. They're sending an officer to Kelly's. They want me to stay home in case she shows up here."
"I'll go down to Kelly's and help Jackson and the cops," Jason said.
"I'll go with you," Drew said.
"I'm going to go check on the boys," Sonny said, "Sam, can you stay here with Kellie?"
"No problem," Sam said.
Jason's phone rang. He answered, "Monica."
"Jason, Danny ran away," Monica said, "He didn't come down for dinner. I went to check his room. He took his overnight bag. We've searched the grounds and can't find him. I've already called the cops."
"I'll be right there," Jason said, hung up and then realized he couldn't be in two places at once.
"Danny's missing too," Jason said, "Monica thinks he ran away. She's already called the cops."
"I'll go to Kelly's," Kellie said, "And you go to Monica's."
"But the cops want you to stay here," Sonny said, "Look I'll go to Kelly's and Jason can go to Monica."
"I'll call Carly to check on the boys," Kellie said.
"I'm going to Monica's," Sam said, "I know I said I'd stay."
"Someone might want to check the penthouse," Kellie said, "In case that's where Danny went."
"I'll go to the penthouse," Drew said, "If you want to go to Monica's Sam or vice versa."
"I'll go to Monica's," Sam said.
The Dawn of Day House
Kristina and Alyssa approached the Dawn of Day house.
"What kind of surprise is this?" Alyssa asked.
"I have this friend that likes to help people," Kristina said, "He's helped me a lot. I know you've been having some nightmares after you were kidnapped. I think he could help make that go away and make things not seem so scary."
Alyssa thought about it for a minute.
"Have I ever steered you wrong?" Kristina asked.
Alyssa shook her head.
"Then what do you say?" Kristina asked when the front door to the house opened.