Chapter 8
Mac was unsettled by the strange phone call from New York so he went home to see why Maxie was arranging this party. If this was all about saving Spinelli, she was in for a rude shock. Morgan had made it pretty plain that the computer geek had been partially responsible for Elizabeth and his sons being in danger.
Seeing Maxie changing he was even more confused to learn that it wasn't her that arranged for this little get together. "Seriously, I can't afford limos." she pointed out.
Georgie had everything set up, then went to head home to change. Seeing her guard, she ducked into an alleyway, knowing he would follow but she would slip out through Jake's.
When Johnny got the call, he said "I will track her down, what did she do today?"
Getting the list, he sighed, even more proof that he was on the correct track but what was up with this old nightclub? She had been there before. Calling Bernie he said "I need you to find out all you can about an old nightclub down by the business district. It was called the Outback."
"Don't need to, I knew it well. My brother Benny loved the place. That was Mac Scorpio's old club, when he was still a private detective and married to Felicia Jones."
Johnny took it as confirmation and went back to searching for Bella or rather Georgie. He could recall the day she had died, getting pulled into the station by her grieving father, and even the day that Maxie had read that letter from that school. He had wondered about this young girl and now he was afraid of what Diego had done to her and why it had taken almost a year after his death for her to return home.
Mac and Maxie got out of the black town car and went into the old Outback stunned to see Felicia who was standing at the bar where she was giving Monica and Bobbie drinks. "Mom what is this about?"
"I have no idea. A dark skinned woman with a middle eastern accent showed up in Texas and asked me to be here. Mac, do you have any idea why?" Felicia was not sure why but she had a very sick sense of foreboding about this whole thing.
"None." he said as he turned to see Frisco talking to Robin and Patrick, while Matt was rubbing his forehead while talking to Spinelli. "What the heck is going on? First the call from the NYPD forensics lab thinking Georgie had killed this Warren James and now this."
Georgie slipped out the studio door smirking when she saw that the guard hadn't returned. Good, she had lost him and according to Rachel all was in place at the nightclub while Emira flew the two girls she had planned to place with Kate Howard out of town.
"Rachel, don't forget, get on that train and disappear." she said worried about her friend.
"I will, but listen to your heart, Bella. Take a chance, okay?" The older girl hugged her and added. "Promise me."
"We both know that it is too late for that." she said grimly. "I made a promise and I am going to keep it."
Johnny stayed back just far enough to let her think she wasn't being followed as Bella/Georgie hung up the phone and led him to the old nightclub she had left earlier. Calling Jason the man said he would be right there, still stunned at the idea of Georgie Jones being alive.
Entering the Outback; Georgie heard her father's comments as she walked silently down the stairs and said "No, I didn't kill him, but I did go there to do so."
Matt saw everyone in the room tense as the young woman came into the center of the room. Seeing Maxie turn white then go to hug her sister with tears flowing down her face, he was stunned when the girl backed away from everyone. "Don't touch me."
"Georgie? Is... what... how?" was all that Robin said before she passed out. Mac was frozen as his little girl looked on dispassionately while Patrick and Monica revived the doctor.
"Why don't all of you have a seat." Georgie said never realizing that Johnny had slipped in and was just outside of where the bands had once come onto the stage, listening in as she gave the request.
Felicia went to hug her daughter but was rebuffed as Georgie said "I said not to touch me, that means all of you."
Frisco stood off to the side as his daughter calmly sat down on the edge of the stage and looked at the room with disdain. "Georgie, would you at least tell us how this is possible."
"Why? It's not like you really care. I didn't want you here in the first place. I just took advantage of the fact you were the one sent to take Spinelli away."
"Most faith.." Spinelli sat down stunned when she looked at him and said "Shut up, I am not your faithful anything."
Jason soon joined Johnny behind the curtain as they listened. "Okay, now that I have your attention, I just wanted to let you know that I am alive and that I will be leaving town as soon as I wrap up some things."
"Georgie you can't leave." protested Maxie.
"Actually, I can." she mocked then hearing the five people walking in, she said "Ah, the Spencer family, please join us."
Laura, Luke, Lulu and Holly along with Ethan all came down the stairs, the last one having no idea who the pissed off red head was. When Lulu passed out, Georgie waited while Bobbie and Ethan revived her. "Now if Lulu can stop acting like the weak pathetic person she is, maybe we can get on with this."
Starting to protest, Lulu saw the hard look in the girls eyes and asked "Why is your hair that color?"
"Duh, because I dyed it that color." she mocked, "Now why don't you be a good little Spencer and shut up, you might learn something, though I doubt it."
Jason was sure the girl had been brainwashed, this did not sound like the Georgie Jones he recalled.
"Now where was I, oh, I know, my death, or rather the faking of my death. Dad, you might want to reopen the TMK case, since Diego Alcazar didn't kill me. The stellar detective skills of Maxie and Spinelli should have been your first warning something wasn't right there." she said giving that twosome a set of eye rolls and head shakes.
"As for Sam McCall, yes he did come to town to kill her, shame he didn't succeed, but Elizabeth was always too nice for her own good. She should have let him carry the slut off and do her in, saved the world a whole lot of trouble."
Jason wanted to laugh at the snark but saw that Johnny was looking worried.
"I was drugged, but awake, I heard everything. Spinelli falling apart, Maxie falling apart, and the only person who was actually not at fault about my death, my dad. But seriously dad, you let Lucky Spencer investigate my death, he was as incompetent as they come. You couldn't at least call Taggert. He may have had a Sonny bias but other than that he was at least capable of doing his job."
Mac sat there, stunned into silence as his daughter talked. She looked like his girl but the words, the attitude and the scorn all said differently. "See, while you were arranging for my funeral, I was locked up in a cage in the basement here." she said. "By the way, Maxie great eulogy, even my death was about you, thanks for that."
Maxie had the grace to look ashamed as she looked at her mother then said to Georgie. "I was angry on your behalf."
"No, you were angry on your own. I have always got what Mom was doing. You never did, but that isn't a big surprise."
"Georgie who had you?" asked Frisco wanting to get things back on track.
"That is what I will tell you later, but first let me tell you what happened. See I while I was coming down off the drugs, I was told why I was grabbed and what was going to happen to me. See the kidnapper was really after Maxie, but his buyer, yes I said that right, buyer liked the idea of me more. See I don't need meds to keep me alive, and since I wasn't as shall we say as used up as my sister, I was worth a lot more." she said mocking Maxie who had furrowed her brow in confusion while Mac and Frisco turned white.
Both they as well as the two men behind the screen had heard the rumors about the white slavery ring and Johnny felt his legs weaken as the images in his head made him want to scream in denial as he realized why she acted the way she did.
"This person sold you to Diego?" she asked.
"No Maxie, he decided to give you your sickest most secret fantasy, he was selling me to be used as a sex slave, that was what you told Cooper you fantasized about. Being sold and tied up and used and abused."
Maxie started to deny it when she saw the looks on her friends and families faces but happened to look back at Georgie and saw the disgust and hatred and finally got what had happened to her sister. "No...no, please tell me that you didn't have that ...?"
"What that I wasn't stripped naked and paraded in front of a room full of old perverts, of course this was after they had drugged me again when I had tried to escape." she told her sister with a hard expression on her face, "Some great fantasy there, sis. What no dreams of being tied up and whipped?"
Maxie flinched while Bobbie found herself shaking as she listened to her niece and had a flashback to being required to service whatever man had the money. Luke saw and reached out for his sister but when she flinched and moved away, closed his eyes in pain both for her and the little girl he had seen grow up.
Mac had tears running down his face as he tried to move but saw Georgie back away even further. "But I got lucky, well sort of. Strangely enough because of Jason Morgan, a man I have always looked at with scorn. About ten years ago he helped the woman who would help me, that is the only reason I am alive today, because I would have killed myself before letting your sexual fantasys happen to me." she said looking directly at her sister.
Hearing Maxie sigh with relief, Georgie said with a mocking grin, "Don't think that I was safe, I wasn't, but that is a story for a little later. Where was I, oh, who had grabbed me. It was a man determined to impress, Miss Leslie Lu over there. See Logan Hayes wanted revenge against Maxie for destroying his relationship with Lulu."
"He was a horrible man, he tried to rape me." said Lulu shivering.
"Not that there is ever a good excuse for rape but Lulu what did you expect was going to happen. Someday you might want to think about the consequences of playing weak men against each other." said Georgie.
"You played him, like you did Dillon, like you did Spinelli and like you did Milo, but that is what you do, isn't it Lulu? Logan was tossed over because Johnny had money and he was dangerous just like you had thought Logan was. But once Logan was on a leash, you went looking for fresh meat. How long after meeting Ethan did you find an excuse to dump Johnny, because we all know that as soon as you meet the next attractive man you moved on, its your way."
"Johnny cheated on me." she said looking at Maxie with a hurt expression.
"Really, well I don't blame him, you are rather insipid." she said. "Of, I forgot who I was talking to, I should have said dull or maybe shallow or is that word too big for you as well. By the way, those secret longings you have been having towards your own brother, you might want to see a doctor for that. Incest is wrong, even for you."
Georgie was well aware they weren't related but she wasn't finished twisting the screws yet with the blond.
Luke looked at his daughter and realized Georgie was telling the truth, Lulu was attracted to Ethan. Laura knew that it was more important than ever to take her daughter back to Paris with her.
"Okay, well I was bought by a middle man working for Emira LaChariff, a woman whose daughter was sold by her own father. She died at the hands of Warren James when he was through using her. Tossed out like garbage after he passed her around to his friends."
Jason saw the look of pain on Johnny's face and realized the younger man was in love with Georgie and knew that there was nothing he could say that would help. Thinking back on the day he had helped the women escape with those girls, he felt a sense of relief that she was okay.
"Emira took some money she had and set up a safe haven. But to protect the secret we had to remain there for at least eighteen months. She set up a school, sort of a charm school where the girls learned languages and computers and a variety of other things." Georgie had no intention of revealing all the lessons, she had no intention of giving everything a way.
"So why didn't you come home afterwards?" asked Maxie.
"Why would I?" asked Georgie. "Even if it had been possible where would I have slept? Matt is cute, but frankly I wouldn't cared to share my bed with him."
Mac saw the hurt and realized that Georgie was aware they had rented out her room. "Georgie, it wasn't like you are thinking."
"Oh, I know that. It's why I only messed with Robin and you, I just wanted to annoy both of you. The flowers, if you don't want me to hire someone to rip those trite petals out of the ground by hand, get rid of them. Frankly, that is the last way I would want to be remembered, by rose bushes."
Robin flushed, that had been her idea, she had wanted to see life and remember her young cousin. "I am sorry you don't like them, I will get rid of them."
"Good, I am happy you got your baby and well, Patrick. I hope the two of you will be happy together." she told her cousin. Robin had always been nice to her and she appreciated that her life had been hard.
When Robin stood, Georgie backed away again, "Stay seated. While I am happy for you that doesn't mean I want you to touch me."
Patrick knew that even if she hadn't ended up in a white slavery ring, something horrible had happened to that happy young girl he had once met.
"Georgie what took so long for you to come home?" asked Frisco, he could see Mac was devastated and Felicia seemed to be in shock. Only Monica seemed to be whole at the moment but when she suddenly asked "Georgie what about Emily?"
"I am sorry, Dr. Quartermaine, I have no knowledge of Emily. As far as I know she was murdered at the ball." she replied. Jason had hoped and clearly so had his mother, but then thinking on it was grateful his sister hadn't lived through whatever nightmare was haunting Georgie.
"As for why I didn't come home. Two weeks before I was to be released, the compound where I was living was attacked. Up until that point, I believed I could come home, but that is what leads up to Spinelli. Just had to show how good you are with a computer, didn't you." she said to the geek.
"Guess what, that got forty women raped and killed, and the man who did so is hunting the remaining five. So thank you, Spinelli, great job." she said faking clapping her hands.
Mac looked at Spinelli and said "What happened?"
Spinelli felt ill at the hatred spilling out of his faithful friends eyes, and repeated what Mac said "What happened?"
With a bitter laugh, she said "What happened? What happened was you gave help to the FBI, in exchange for not facing charges. A certain FBI agent unwittingly gave the information on the Persephone corp. to Warren James who was partners with the late Trevor Lansing."
"In exchange for your freedom, almost forty innocent women died, just once, I would love if you actually suffered the consequences of your actions. See, Sam was going to set up Jason, it was a backup plan, since she had to know she was only second best there, I mean even I knew that. You and your witlessness have caused nothing but pain and chaos. You need a keeper, between the fact that you are lead around by your dick and have no abilitity to control what comes out of your mouth, you are more dangerous than Sam."
Maxie started to tell Georgie she was wrong but saw the hard look in her sister's face and shut up. "See, Maxie, your friend, sold out Jason's son, more than likely wanted him dead so that she could destroy Elizabeth. Why? Because she knew that Jason loved Elizabeth."
"At the time of my arrival here, I had no idea why, but after a little B&E at ELQ I figured it out. Turns out, Lila Quartermaine and Alan Quartermaine's wills left everything to Jason's children. So Jake had to die since she didn't want to share. Sam was sure her plan would work because Spinelli there was playing head cheerleader. You know you have the worst taste in women I have ever met."
Robin was shocked at the vulgar expression but that was nothing compared to what came out next. "See, Spinelli here, he gets a hard-on at the idea of these woman. My guess is he lays in bed at night masturbating to the idea of Sam wanting him. In his mind, Jason's is really him. Like one of his POV video games."
"That is sick, truly sick." said Lulu. "You leave poor Spinelli alone. You are just jealous that he didn't like you like that."
"No, Lulu. I am grateful. So grateful that I avoided that mess. But look at him, tell me I am not right." she said pointing at Spinelli who was appalled.
"I would never act like that with Stone Cold, I only wanted the best for my m..."
"Oh, please. If it is a lie, simply state plainly that you have never rubbed yourself off to the idea of Sam." she derided his look of shock saying "Spinelli, I am not a fool, nor am I the nice girl you knew before. But I have wasted way too much time on you."
"Anyhow, we were invaded and had been heading to the escape doors, several of us got away, those that remained are dead." she said in a flat tone that most got not to question. "Emira arranged for transport to New York but men who worked for Warren James showed up and try to grab us."
Mac had the sick feeling his daughter had done something he would have said was impossible only an hour before, and he knew that he would never let her go to prison for the crime.
He saw the look in Frisco's eyes and knew that for once they agreed upon something. Neither of them were going to let that little girl face this. He could not help recalling that originally the police had thought the man committed suicide so someone with power had to have pushed this investigation towards the murder charge and he wanted to know who.
"After Mr. James was dealt with, we all we going to head separate ways, but some of the girls couldn't face going home, so Emira who was helping me arranged for jobs with Crimson for them."
Smiling at Maxie and Lulu, Georgie said "To be specific, we bought Crimson and required that the incompetent personal assistants working for Miss Howard be fired. Lulu, Maxie, I know this is going to come as a shock, but when you have a job, you have to be there more than chasing after men or criminals. Something to remember when you are working your next job."
Bobbie smirked at the one, even she had been aware that the two blonds had treated their jobs as little more than hobbies.
"Emira is going to turn things around, mainly since it was Kate sinking her own magazine, why I don't know, but she was behind all the recent debacles."
"Georgie, what happens now, what are you going to do?" asked Bobbie as she started to come out of her shock. "Sweetie, if you want you can stay at the Brownstone."
"Thank you but I am fine where I am." she politely rejected the offer, knowing she would be leaving to hunt down the man who had raped and ordered the rapes of her friends then their deaths.
"You need to come home." said Maxie.
"No, Maxie, what I need to do is get control of this urge to grab you by the back of your hair and slam your face into the table. Do you really think that close proximity to you will help with that?" she asked.
Maxie pulled back, the bitterness and hatred coming clear through to her. "Georgie, I had no idea what he would do, you can't blame me..."
"No, I guess I can't. After all you are heart transplant Maxie, the girl I am supposed to feel sorry for. But I seriously have to wonder if that heart you got from BJ might have done a better job in someone else."
Flinching, Maxie watched helpless as her sister walked to the door and then turned to say. "That is all, except, Mac I want to buy this building from you. I want to tear it down."
"I will take care of that, I promise." he said sickened at the idea of what had started here for his little girl.
"No, I WANT to do it. I need to do it." she said before leaving. The sound of the silence latest for about five minutes then Lulu said "Well, she could have at least said she was sorry for gotten us fired."
Bobbie stared at her niece and said "Do you have any idea of what she had to have gone through, the problem with you Lulu, is you are a spoiled brat. I doubt you would have survived whatever she went through and came through as whole as she is. Because I really doubt it."
"I am more the capable of dealing with anything that comes my way. I am a Spencer, I can handle anything."
"Really, that is why you ended up in the psyche ward?" asked Patrick, more than a little sick of the Spencer family and their holier than thou attitude. "As for being a Spencer, I wouldn't brag about that. Your cousin has spent time in that padded cell, so has your mother, your one brother is an addict and your father an alcoholic. Great genes to be bragging about."
Maxie swallowed her protests, Logan was the reason Lulu ended up where she was, and Lucky had been hurt that was why he had ended up on those painkillers.
The silence that settled on the room, was quickly broken by Robin who was crying as Patrick escorted her out walking past Maxie who was trying to reach out for her cousin.
"Mac, I need to talk to you." said Frisco.
"Meet me at my office, I have to make a quick trip into the city."
"Strangely enough, that is where I am going." said the blond as they left. Neither said a word, both afraid of what they would find when they talked to the authorities.
Johnny left the club through a back door that Jason had found, not able to think beyond what he had heard. At least now he knew what the problem was and that Bella was going to need some time and help to heal.
But when it came time for her to deal, he was going to be there, he had to be. His heart was coming to face the fact that there was no other choice.
TBC