Chapter 11

Johnny felt the sudden cold and knew that Georgie had risen. "Where are you going? We don't have anyplace to work, remember?"

"I have to go to the station, talk to my father and find out how to get out from under these charges they are trying to bring against me. So what do you think, red, ash white or purple. I think purple it will throw them off."

"Let Diane handle it, it is what she gets paid for." he said sitting up. Then smiled when he saw the very proper outfit of a business suit paired with the high heels and white hair. "You look like a very sexy old lady."

Turning around with an impish grin, she said "Wouldn't want you to think I was too young for you, after Olivia."

"Brat." he said then climbed out of bed and realized she had to have turned off the air conditioning at some point the night before because it was actually warm in the studio.

"Hurry up, you can come with me." she said going over to feed Leo. Petting the cat, she said "I know tiger, you have missed me haven't you. I promise I will come home and we can sit and groom together."

Shaking his head as he went shower at the mental image he was getting, Johnny soon realized he had no clothes. "Georgie we have to find out where Max sent my stuff."

"Check my drawers." she said then opened the closet. "We really need to talk, you are the first man I have ever meet with more clothes than me. I only hung enough to get you through the week, but seriously, we are going to need a lot more closet space."

Returning dressed in a suit, he was amused when Georgie put down her coffee and came over to fix his tie then kiss him silly. Unwrapping her arms from around his neck, he said "I wish you wouldn't do this."

"I have to. I can't hide. There is a man out there who wants me dead, who killed several of my friend while I hid away like a scared little girl. No more, I take this on from now on. No more letting innocents die."

"Georgie, do you remember this other version of Lucky?" he asked.

"Not really, I remember his playing the guitar and stuff, but otherwise no. He just wasn't anyone I paid any attention to." she replied as they went down to the car. "You know, I was twisting the screws with Lulu in regards to Ethan, but she has to be taking this bad. Wow, can you image it. I actually feel sorry for her."

"Me too. Lulu was pretty screwed up by her family before this, but learning you have been lusting after your brother, that has to be difficult to deal with." he said driving them to the station. Stopping her from getting out of the car, he said "If I say we end this, we leave. I don't like this."

"As long as it is only because you are worried about the case, not my safety. I need to do this." she said squeezing his hand as they entered the station to see it full of people.

"Dad who are all these people?" she asked walking over to him.

"This is Mac Taylor and his team from NYPD CSI, they are investigating the Mayor's mistress's death and were the preliminary team who worked the James Case."

"I would like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind." said Stella as the first team member on the scene.

"Sure, as long as my attorney is present." she said only for the FBI to protest and Diane to tell them to bite her. "You don't have jurisdiction anyhow. According to your boss, you told him this had a mob element to it, he was rather intrigued to find out it was White Slavery you were investigating since that wasn't your case."

Raynor and his partner were annoyed but agreed to let the CSI team do the asking, after all, they could still use it against her.

"Would you please walk me through what happened from the moment you entered the International Arrivals Gate at JFK."

Looking to Diane, Georgie waited until it was only the woman with the dark hair, Johnny at her request and Diane and this Mac along with her dad Mac.

"Bella, over here." called out Rachel as her friend entered the mezzanine level.

Hugging each other, Georgie/Bella asked "Who else made it?"

"Only a few of us. Emira moved along several already but we still have ten in town including you. Are you going home?" she asked looking at the tired woman in front of her.

"Yes, but first there is someone I want to pay a visit to." she said grimly. "The man who sold us and the woman he used as a front. I want to look them in the eyes and see if I find evil."

"You won't, they are good at hiding it, you should know that." she said nervously. Looking around she said "I get the feeling we are being watched, let's get the car and get out of here."

"Your friend felt someone was watching her?" asked the investigator.

"We both did, I thought I was being paranoid this was the first time I had left the compound since I was bought." she said flatly while Johnny flinched at the word bought.

Arriving at the rental car, Rachel tossed her the keys and said "I don't have a real license. You do."

"Yeah, for a dead woman." she retorted then drove them into the city. Pulling into the valet service at the hotel, she tossed the man her keys and asked her friend to take her baggage to her room. "I will be back in a few hours."

"We were told to wait." warned Rachel.

"Then wait, I have someone I need to see." she snapped. Going to the nearest phone book she looked up the number for James Publishing and followed the owner home and waited for the darkness to fall.

"Did you see anyone while you were waiting, anyone entering or leaving?" asked Stella.

"Two men, suits. Both mid-fifties, the paunch that says they ride a desk all day and don't eat healthy. Then the man I was hoping to see. He was the one who took the files from the compound and told the hired gunmen to finish up with the women then kill them." she said.

"What did you do next?"

Entering the building, Georgie bypassed security mentally thanking Anna DeVane for those skills. Once inside, she soon had cleared past the camera's and was on the top floor. Knocking on the door, she checked her bag to make sure she had her gun then knocked again.

Not getting any answer, she picked the lock hoping to find the files, hoping to protect the rest of the girls. Entering the penthouse, she shook her head at the way it was decorated thinking money can't by taste. Then seeing the man on the ground, she said "Nor everlasting life, I guess I should see if you are still alive you bastard."

"I pressed my hand to his neck, found no pulse and considered dancing a jig." she said to the two strangers. "I didn't kill him but am thankful on behalf of the women he sold."

"Allegedly sold." replied the agent entering with a smug grin and a piece of paper. "Permission from my boss to question her under the Patriot Act."

Mac looked at Frisco who came in and said "Made null in void by this one."

Taking the papers, the agents scoffed and said "What is this, diplomatic immunity, what is this a joke?"

"No, the WSB is stepping in on behalf of the government of Mexico to protect a member of one of their indigenous royal families."

"I know this is a joke, that girl, sitting there is no more a Mexican Indian than I am."

Georgie hid her grin then said "My mother actually is a princess of the Tenpanac tribe."

"We, the US government isn't going to allow you to circumvent the laws of this country by claiming some nonsense about her being royalty. She is a US citizen, subject to the rules of this country." snapped Raynor as he saw his case slipping away.

"Sorry, Agent but we are not allowing you to question her. Call the state department, they will verify that the Mexican government is backing this claim." said Frisco knowing that Anna was in Mexico City even as they spoke.

Gritting his teeth, Raynor's partner placed the call, then discreetly called his contact. "Do you have her yet?"

"No, they won't turn her over. She can't be released." He was getting annoyed, they wanted her but did nothing to help.

"I want her today. I need to know what she is aware of. Either you get her here or you save me the trouble and kill her yourself, Got it." said the man. Looking at his boss, he said "Deal with this, don't let it come back on me."

His boss looked at him then thought about the Jones girl and knew he had to cut ties now before it led back to him. While Jerry lay dying, he wrote one word in his own blood. A word that would track down his killer if Mac Scorpio found it.

After they left, Johnny insisted they let Georgie take a break for a few minutes. Walking outside, they were on the bench with guards around to protect her. "Are you okay?"

"Yes. I just, his voice. He is the one." she said bleakly. "We have to settle things."

Kissing her cheek, he said "We will. I promise."

Meanwhile the Mayor was have troubles of his own. "We had the FBI looking into it, so that Mac could prove he had no bias towards protecting me, why must we do this again?"

"We found some irregularities with the reports." said Joe Kelly. He remembered Garrett from school, snotty little cretin who kissed the teachers rears instead of studying. The man claimed a learning disability to get extra time on exams and the SAT"S. He was just as corrupt as the criminals he claimed he wanted taken down.

"Mrs. Garrett we need to speak to you and your husband separately."

"I don't see why, we told you all we knew." she said stiffly then lawyered up when the state trooper insisted.

A whole lot of questions later, Floyd Garrett confessed that his wife had killed his mistress because she was aware of the illegal payoffs he had been getting from the Alcazar's and the Zachara's to look the other way. Joe was pissed that he couldn't tie it to the current mob families in town, but was glad to get rid of another politician.

When the Mayor and his wife were led through the station in cuffs, Mac thanked Joe for his help then gave him an update on the current situation. "We think Garrett knows something about this."

"He took bribes from this Lansing fellow. I am sure he does know something but after his wife tore him a new one when they were cuffed, he won't say a word. It is quite clear who wears the pants in that family." he said leaving then coming back and giving Mac the file on the Zachara's.

"It might help." he said leaving. "Certainly can't hurt."

Mac walked him out, giving him a head up about Lucky Spencer/Not Lucky. "We might be facing lawsuits as a result of this."

"Why, you did all you could. Mac, sometimes we can only look back after the fact and say hey I should have seen that." said the man leaving.

Scott entered the station and sneered when he saw the Zachara kid, walking over he said "I want to talk to you about dropping charges against Lucky."

"No, he set fire to my place. Georgie and I could have been there. Claim he is screwed up, that his mind was messed with all you want. He is a threat to me and my boss' family."

"This is all about Morgan being worried about Elizabeth rescuing my son." said Laura while Lulu stood there numbly agreeing.

"Why don't you worry about the kid you can save. The girl standing next to you, Ethan, Lucky whatever he is calling himself is a big boy, let him deal with this on his own."

Luke walked in the Ethan who seemed a bit out of it as well. "Mac, he needs help, not to be locked up for this."

"I think we have had this discussion before." he said wearily. "The last time Lucky came home. Look, I will agree to a lock down center, I am sure that Alexis feels the same way but he has to go to trial and I want it to be done officially."

"I talked to Kevin, he is talking years, not months. No miracle cure where he walks free like last time. Real help, not this oh, he remembers he is cured. That is how we ended up with the man who tried to kill Elizabeth Webber and her sons."

"Elizabeth will come home now, now that she knows this is the real Lucky." said Laura. "She is the best cure for him."

Seeing Luke shaking his head, Mac turned to Laura and said "I don't know what kind of dream world you are living in, but no, she isn't coming back. She is happily married to Jason and you are going to have to take responsibility for your own family."

"Oh course she will come home, this is the REAL LUCKY." said Laura while Luke looked at Scott who gave a heavy sigh. He didn't want to admit it, but Spencer was right, Laura was slipping back into her own reality.

Once they had left, Johnny glared at Mac who said "I know it's not what you want, but they had precedence and I talked to Alexis this morning. She is going to let Luke have all three of them committed."

Touching his arm, Georgie said "I get it, you have to know the real back story there. I think that there has been a screw loose in Laura Spencer's head for years. She has committed more than few murders and gotten away with them as a result."

"The first one in our house when she was seventeen. Her mother's boyfriend and her lover." said Mac. "Luke is a nut job, no doubt but the weak mind comes from Laura. One of the reasons I worry about Cassadine."

"Really?" asked Johnny thinking on his suspicions about the man.

Jax was talking to Kate as he explained why he felt she should resign from the magazine. The editor walked away regretting her choices but knowing she had the freedom to leave town to escape the mess she made of her life.

Carly stopped both of the Falconaris from leaving the hotel and said "Kate why did you reopen the case into Warren's death?"

"I don't believe he did what he is being accused of, At least I didn't. That young girls story was pretty convincing." she said tired of this town, tired of who she had become since moving here.

"Olivia, I just have one question, who is Dante's father?" Carly had been shocked when Ned had called and asked Carly to call Lois saying it was important.

"A one night stand, years ago." she said looking into the blond's eyes. "I never got his direction."

"So he isn't Sonny's?" she asked. Lois had wondered for years and said that Brooklynn knew him pretty well and had mentioned that he had reminded the singer of Sonny.

"No." she said shortly then left while Kate looked glum as she stood there.

"She is lying isn't she?" asked Carly then seeing Kate flinch said "Some day, he is going to want answers. Same with his siblings. She needs to tell him."

"Carly, why?" asked the woman. "What purpose does it solve?" she asked before leaving to join Olivia in the car. "She is right, he does need to know he has siblings."

"He is a rising star in the police department, I tell him this it could take it all away." said Olivia. "I won't do that to him."

Meanwhile Mac was going through the file about the Zachara's and found the Garrett connection and one that tied back to the Russian company that Johnny had located. Calling an old friend he asked "Can you do some checking for me?" Giving him the company name, he said "Like yesterday."

Seeing Georgie and Diane talking to that Stella woman he said "Georgie, you were right about Diego, he did only try to kill Sam and Elizabeth."

"I knew that, but who killed Emily and Leticia?" she asked.

"I think Lucky or fake Lucky rather." he said looking at the notes from the cases.

Alexis was tearing apart Sam's life, talking to everyone including Maxie Jones who would only help if she would help Spinelli. Deciphering the annoying blond's rants, she got that Sam had needed a reason to stay close, but why her? Why not Bobbie or Monica, no that one makes sense.

Calling Monica the woman came over to help. Searching they eventually found the camera hidden in the vents along with the notebook found elsewhere. "What is this? Sam created a code?" asked Monica, she hadn't thought of her as that smart.

"You aren't giving her enough credit. She was street smart if not book smart." said Alexis as she realized something. "Or maybe not. The words are simply in reverse."

Reading it, front to back, bottom to top, they soon felt headaches coming on before reaching the second page. "I have an idea."

Taking it to the police lap, they borrowed equipment then reversed everything. "Would you please read it for me?" Alexis asked Mac knowing she was going to have to have him read it eventually.

While that was going on, Mac Taylor realized that the fingerprint match to Georgie from Warren's body was planted. "How?" asked Frisco.

"It's backwards." he said. "Here, look."

Looking under the microscope Frisco said "Wait, be right back."

Bring Georgie with him, he showed the man her hand. "Georgie when did you get fingerprinted?"

"Years ago, after Luis Alcazar kidnapped Maxie and I, why?" she asked while Johnny just hovered and Diane looked on confused.

"When did you cut your finger?" he asked showing her right hand to the scientist.

"A few years ago, when I locked Sage in the freezer why?" she asked only for the man from NY to explain about the fingerprint. "We now know that someone accessed your file to plant that evidence."

"But she confessed to touching the body in that spot." said Stella from the doorway.

"The killer was still in the room, or whoever covered the murder up and it was someone who knew you were still alive. How else would they know where to find this print to lift."

Johnny thought about it then said "Why not kill her then?"

"They need something, something Georgie knows or has is why she is still alive."

"But what?" she asked thinking on it. "I didn't bring anything out of the compound but my clothes. And if they were hoping to find Emira she is gone. Same with the rest of girls."

"No, my guess is that you knew something before. I mean, yes this Logan Hayes grabbed you, but why not punish him if he was supposed to grab your sister and the meds wasn't the reason. What did you know before you left town."

Sitting down, Georgie looked at him and said "I have no idea."

"I do." said her father entering. Mac held up Sam's encoded notes. "Johnny, you were right and I am going to need your help. We need to get Nik off the Island."

"Why?" asked Alexis as she joined them in the crowded lab.

Looking at her, he said. "Emily, Rebecca is Emily. Nik had to have hurt her, more than likely while still out of it from the tumor but he did it. It is all here. Sam was trying to track back the drugs at the clinic. She had it all here, but the girl never went to anyone who could think."

"What do you have?"

"Nik is behind it all. The Cassadine empire went into the crapper when he got sick. He needed the money, they needed the ships for the meds and women."

"But what is going on with Emily?"

"She overheard something. Same thing Sam did but Sam never connected it to the parts they did find out. Jerry Jacks, Ian Devlin and the shooting of Kate Howard several months ago on the docks. The pushers who sold Michael the gun, they worked for Devlin, sold to Spencer as well." he said triumphantly.

Seeing they hadn't got it he said. "Jacks was the middle man, He had something that Nik needed and they did a trade. Nik just didn't know it was fake drugs."

"Wait, how do you know Emily is this Rebecca?" asked Georgie doubtfully.

"How do you control someone. With money, the Russians are already doing that, but what if it isn't enough. I don't think Spencer would work, I hate to say this, Alexis but I don't think he cares too much about his son as other than an heir."

"So Emily. Makes sense, we know that Georgie wasn't an accident. But why Leticia?"

"She was living at Carly's. Jerry had to know the house would be empty so why not schedule a meeting there. Johnny, you were in town, everyone knew about your dad and what happened in Ohio. They used fear to make it look like a serial killer."

"But what is it I know?" asked Georgie. "Why me?"

"Think, do you ever recall seeing Nik or Jerry doing something, anything they shouldn't have been doing?" asked her dad.

"No, but I wouldn't pay any attention to Nik, I saw him all the time. Jerry I would cross the street to avoid." she said frustrated. "I mean, I saw him talking to his brother, I saw him talking to Sonny, heck after the Metrocourt I saw him talking to Lorenzo Alcazar and Cooper Barrett all the time."

Johnny took Georgie to a late lunch then sat there letting her pick at her food before asking if he could do anything for her.

"Help me piece this together. But tomorrow, for now, I just want to get away," she said looking at him. "I can't wrap my mind around all of this."

"Miss Jones?" Looking up, Georgie saw the dean of students from her college.

"Hi, Dean Rose." she said standing to hug the woman. "Uh, I guess I should explain."

"No, I mean actually yes. What is going on?"

"I was kidnapped. There is more but the police don't want me to talk about it." she said feeling uneasy with the woman. It was bringing back memories of a life she would never have again.

"Okay, how long have you been home?" she asked.

"A couple of months." she said awkwardly. "We uh, it has been hard to go back to my old routines."

"I would say so. We have a booth over at the carnival today if you are interested in stopping by." she said leaving while Georgie got a grin on her face then said to Johnny "Would it harm the mobsters reputation to be seen at a carnival."

"No, shall we head over?" he asked then called Mac. "I am taking Georgie out for a while, she needs a break."

Mac said "Thank you for taking care of it."

Looking at the woman tossing their lunches with a happy face for the first time in days he said "I will."

TBC

a/n: Up next is the carnival and Nik's secrets come out.