Since this story is really supposed to be more about Aaron and his family the next chapter is devoted to them. I am playing around with them having a Quartermaine visitor but not sure yet.

I hadn't intended on making Aaron a plot point in the previous chapter but I kind of did when I had Jake recognize him from CI. It never sat well with my that they dropped trying to find out what happened to him on CI. I also got the feeling that Jason was there during part of that time while Helena was conditioning him. I plan on revisiting that in a later chapter. I just have to get it straight in my head how I want to write it out. to do that i will have to include Liz as Jake's mom even though I don't really want that.

I did include some close Jasam moments at the ending of this chapter. It is just something that screamed to me to be wrote.

Chapter 5

"I'm so sorry, " Monica quickly apologize. "Tracy came into my office at the hospital and she saw the paperwork."

"I hear you in there." Tracy yelled through the door. "I want to know what is going on!"

"You want to go hide in the kitchen?" Jason asked as he looked at Aaron.

"How bad is she going to freak out?" Aaron asked.

"I don't know," Jason admitted. "It may be fun to find out."

"Monica," Jason looked at his mother. "Did she see the DNA results before we did? Can we file HIPPA violation charges against her?"

"She did not see the results. As far as I know Brad isn't done with them yet. She just saw the order for the test. As far as the HIPPA violation, I would be happy to look into it." Monica said with a devious grin.

"I'm waiting!" Tracy said through the door.

Everyone looked at Aaron to let him known they would do what he was comfortable with.

"It's up to you." Jason prompted. "You can go hide out in the kitchen until we can get rid of her if you want."

"I think I will stay right here and see how it plays out." Aaron said. He was confidant that no matter what her reaction he could handle the situation. He hated to admit it but he was getting used to it.

"I am going to take Emily upstairs." Carly volunteered. "Sorry, I just can't take her right now and little miss Emily shouldn't have to take it either."

Jason waited for Carly to disappear up the stairs before he opened the door. He stood in the doorway with his arms crossed blocking Tracy from entering the penthouse.

He looked her right in the eye before saying, "If I had wanted this meeting to turn into a circus we would have all met at Monica's house. That way if Aaron or me had gotten too overwhelmed we had somewhere to escape or just leave. You be on your best behavior in my home where my children are upstairs. I don't want them disturbed by any arguments that usually occur when you are present."

"Alright, Jason." Tracy made herself calm down. "I am just concerned for Danny. He is my great-nephew after all. Or is he? And why would you think this Aaron person would be his father?

"Why don't you come in and see for yourself." Jason moved out of the doorway to let her in. "I think once you see Aaron you will understand the situation better."

Unlike Carly, Maxie had hung around to watch the show. She had very little to occupy her time since Nina had fired her from Crimson and now that Nathan was working out of town. She didn't want to bother Lulu right now.

Tracy did not disappoint Maxie with her reaction to seeing Aaron. She was sure that she had a similar expression on her face when she first laid eyes on him. Of course Sam had told her about Aaron so she had some warning unlike Tracy.

"This can't be real!" Tracy exclaimed. "What steps have you taken to make sure this isn't some con job someone is dragging the family through?" Tracy had to stop herself from touching his face and seeing if it would come off like the mask that Faison had used to look like Duke Lavery.

She was about to sit in the lone chair in the room when she noticed Maxie was sitting there already. "What are you doing here? This is a family matter so you should leave."

Before Sam could defend Maxie's presence there, Maxie was getting up and replying to Tracy.

"I will let you sit down because you look like you need to sit down more than I do. You are my elder after all." Maxie remarked sarcastically with a smile. "As a matter of fact, I was invited here. I don't think you can say the same."

As Maxie was walking toward the stairs she told Sam, "I think Carly had the right idea when she went upstairs with little Emily. I think I will join her and check on Jake and Danny."

"Carly is here as well!" Tracy said with exasperation. "Did you send out invitations? and shouldn't Carly be preoccupied with Avery instead of monopolizing on the family's time with little Emily?"

Jason and Sam exchanged knowing looks when they realized that Tracy was trying to distract herself from the implications of the existence of Aaron by being nasty to Carly and Maxie. They really didn't want anyone else to be next.

"Tracy," Sam jumped in. "Sit down, calm down and stop being nasty to our guests. You were going to be told what was going on later today. We didn't want to overwhelm Aaron with too much family at the same time."

"Aaron is my twin brother, Tracy." Jason told her in a tone that was not to be questioned. "Monica ordered the DNA tests to rule out any con job or malicious intent by the Cassadines. We have seen photos of Aaron as well as his family going many years back. Can you please just be happy that the Quartermaines are not as sparse as we all thought?"

"When will the DNA results be in?" Tracy asked not ready to give up the idea of it being a con job.

"The DNA test that proves that Aaron and Jason are twins was in yesterday." Monica spoke up. "The paternity test for Danny will be in later today. It takes longer because they are twins."

"Is there any way the tests would have been messed with?" Tracy asked insistently. "It's not like it hasn't been done before."

"Brad ran the tests. I trust Brad." Sam told her with certainty.

"Sam," Tracy looked at her with concern. "You have to admit that there have been lots of crazy stuff that has happened to this family. Especially with identity masks, DNA switching and the Cassadines taking over our family business. I am just wary after all that."

"Tracy, I understand." Monica said to her sister-in-law. "We have all been through so much to trust a whole lot of anything. But Aaron is Alan's son, your nephew. DNA does not lie."

Tracy looked from Monica to Aaron and realize the truth in what she was telling her. It was just another strange occurrence in a long line of strange occurrences.

"Be that as it may," Tracy had to bring up another concern. "How is this going to effect ELQ and how Daddy's will was worded. This adds to how many people the stock is divided among. This could have a negative effect on Michael and how we will have to deal with dividing up the stocks."

"Diane should know what the impact will be if anything." Sam said quickly. "I don't think anyone, including Aaron wants to cause any trouble for anyone. We all just need to step back and take things one step at a time. Aaron may not even want any of the stock."

Everyone looked at Aaron expectantly. Before he could tell them that his family didn't need any shares of the company Jason interjected.

"No decision has to be made today." He said insistently to the room. "That is a decision Aaron shouldn't take lightly. He needs to consider his family and the impact it will have on them. Michael will be fine. He is a grown man that can take care of himself."

During all these exchanges Aaron's opinion of Tracy had changed every time she opened her mouth. At that point he just concluded she was one complicated woman. She seemed to have a love hate relationship with just about everyone in the penthouse.

"Aaron," Tracy addressed her new found nephew. "Everyone here knows you better than I do so why don't we rectify that and you tell me what brought you to Port Charles. But first," She looked at Jason, "I expect Carly to give up little Emily to me in a little while. I don't care if little Emily is her god daughter, I am her great aunt and I need my time with her as well."

Finally the crowd started thinning out at the penthouse. Carly and Maxie left after Emily had went down for a nap.

Monica and even Tracy had gotten around to eating some of the lunch that had been sitting forgotten on the dining table. Aaron had not been the main focus of attention since before his adoptive parent's deaths. He wasn't too comfortable with it coming from virtual strangers even though they were technically his family if he chose to make them his family. He was thankful when Monica's phone started beeping and he could take a break from telling another story about his childhood.

Everyone looked at her expectantly because they were pretty sure it was the paternity results. Aaron didn't think anyone was too worried anymore about them being switched at some point. They had compared notes and didn't feel it happened.

After she looked up from the results on her phone she said, "Everyone is where they are supposed to be. Jason is Jason and Aaron is Aaron. I will forward the results to you Jason in case you want to look them over."

"Do you mind sending them to me as well." They were all surprised to hear Aaron ask. "I just want to see if it is the same tech that I have read about in determining paternity between twins. It can be very complicated and costly."

"Trust me, it is and it was." Monica confirmed. "Sure, I will send you the results as well. From what I understand the test looks at the whole DNA strand and finds mutations and compares those to the child. Even though twins were thought to have identical DNA there are small mutations that occur that make it not so identical."

"All's well that ends well." Tracy said with relief. "I am going to go check in on the boys and peak at little Emily then I am going to be going."

"I think I will join her." Monica excused herself from the table and followed Tracy up the stairs.

"Just let me know when you are ready to head back to the Metro Court." Jason said to Aaron as he started clearing the dishes off the table. "It shouldn't take that long to get this cleared up and maybe we can all go to a movie."

"I don't know about taking Emily to the movies this soon." Sam said with concern. "I don't want her to be crying through the whole thing and ruin it for everybody else."

"If she gets upset I can take her outside." Jason promised. "It might be good for all of us to get out."

"If we are all going to go out I would rather it be to the park." Sam confided. "Not really in the mood for a noisy movie."

"If it is all the same to you," Aaron spoke up. "I think I would rather go back to the Metro Court and get some rest before my flight home tomorrow. With everything that happened yesterday I didn't sleep very well."

"We didn't exactly have a relaxing lunch like I had planned." Jason admitted. "I'm sorry things turned into such a circus."

"We're sorry too." Tracy told them. She smiled brightly at them. "Too make up for it Monica and I want to take the boys home with us for the night. I would like to have little Emily as well but I know you are going to say no so i'm not going to bother."

They all decided that Tracy would take Aaron back to the Metro Court while Monica would take the boys home with her. Since lunch had taken place much later than planned Aaron figured he would just head to bed and eat an early breakfast before Jason took him to the airport.

After everyone had left and Emily woke from her nap Jason and Sam decided to take a walk in the park. The last twenty-four hours had been a major upheaval for both of them. For most of the walk they were both content with the silence. Then all the sudden Jason asked in a humorous tone, "So how weirded out were you to see the two of us side by side?"

"Like I said before," Sam grinned at him. "It was fine since I knew about it ahead of time. But yea, it was weird. However, as much as you two are alike you are different as twin are. I think you are more alike now than you would have been three years ago. You have become more open with your feelings even though you still don't like to talk about them much."

"I just pray that there are no negative ramifications for Michael over ELQ." Jason admitted. "I know I said Michael is a grown man and can take care of himself but a part of me still wants to protect him from anything harming him."

"That is because that is who you are." Sam looked at him lovingly. "You will always want to protect your family and I don't ever want that to change."

Jason looked down at his beautiful wife then as if he remembered something he said, "We need to get home. While the boys are gone I have something I want to give you."

"What is it?" Sam demanded to know.

"You will know when I give it to you." Jason told her as he bent down to giver her a quick kiss her on the lips.

They shared a quiet evening together with Emily. Both of them enjoying giving her a bath and getting her ready for bed. They were blessed that she did sleep most of the night.

Sam had forgotten that he said he had something for her until he walked into their bedroom carrying a small gift box. She held out her hands and motioned him to give it to her.

"I have to tell you a story first." Jason said with a laugh as he held the small box away from her. "You also have to promise not to get angry with me."

"Angry for what?" Sam asked confused.

"I lied to you and myself that day after we found out I was Jason." he started. "I was just so confused about everything and didn't know which way was up."

Instead of answering him, Sam hurriedly reached over and yanked the box out of his hands and pulled the lid off to see the phoenix and the dragon figurines on pillows of tissue paper.

"How do you have these?" Sam asked in astonishment. "I left these at the Noodle Buddha the night of our anniversary in my attempt to let you go."

"I know," Jason told her. "I watched you leave them there and I found myself just staring at them. Something propelled me to them. I didn't understand why but I couldn't leave them there. I convinced myself that I wanted to save them in case you might want Danny to have them someday. I never let myself think too deeply about my feelings for you or the deja vu moments I would have whenever we were together or the dreams I had of you and Danny."

"Why did you wait so long to tell me all of this?" Sam asked not understanding why now. She knew he loved her and he had let his fear of who he might be, then who he was to keep him from acknowledging his feelings for her.

"I was going to give these to you on our wedding night." Jason said as he got in the bed beside her. He pulled her close to him before going on. "After our wedding something always seemed to come up. One disaster after another. Things just settled down enough."

Jason took a deep breath before continuing, "It wasn't just my fear that kept me from acknowledging our connection. It was the guilt I felt for what I had put you though when I took you hostage. I had no right to ask you to help me sort out my feelings for you after I had done that to you."

Sam jumped out of the bed with figurines in hand. Jason watched her place them on top of the dresser. "Now they are where they are supposed to be."

She practically danced back to bed. She looked him in the eyes intently. "Please stop feeling guilty. It is in the past and I forgave you a long time ago. You know you were not responsible for your actions during that time because of Helena. Now let's move forward with the family we have created."

"That sounds like a wonderful idea Mrs. Morgan." He told her as he took her into his arms and gave her a kiss that left them both breathless.

He figured they had talked about Helena enough for the day so he didn't tell her he was going to find out what happened to him and Jake. They may both be alright now but that could change and he didn't want anymore surprises. Tomorrow was soon enough to talk it over.