Chapter 5
Mac was working at the computer to make a composite of the witness from earlier. Something about him was off, what, he knew he had met the man before. An hour later, he printed the picture and took it with him. Meeting Harper at his old offices, he saw that the detective had created a chart of everything that had happened. "What do we have?"
"Okay, Mitchell Coleman, sleazy but not really dirty. There is a fight in his current business, he is disarmed and dragged to his old strip club."
"There he is given strong drugs to keep him a wake and feeling pain, but the inability to scream. The coroner places his time of death as 4:45 AM. Before he is killed his organs are harvested and his blood drained." said Mac.
"The body parts are handed over to be transferred with GH logos on the containers. We find out that they were stolen from the hospital. The blood is used to leave messages for Spencer in regards to his past. We later find out that Jason Morgan, not Lucky took out Manny Ruiz."
"We also learn that Spencer is lying, telling people that he has reunited with Elizabeth Webber, but why?" continued Harper.
"Because Spencer probably believed it was a matter of time. He had used their past to get back with her before and know he has a way to pull her heartstrings, her sons. She isn't interested though, so why lie?" asked Mac. The more he thought about it, he smiled at Harper than said "The lies were for Morgan, he wanted him to back away."
"Then we find Spencer dead the next day at Deception, where he photographed Elizabeth. There are messages left for Morgan, about Elizabeth leading us to believe that it is all about her. Morgan gets a call via Spinelli that makes him believe that Sam McCall is in danger."
They listened to the call, then Harper said. "I get what happened there. You said the geek gave Morgan the message, more than likely he interpreted it as being about McCall."
"Jason has his breakdown at Elizabeth's house, thinking she has been killed. Instead we are there telling Audrey about her late husband's body. Why dig up Steve Hardy and how is it connected to this case and why steal the medical files of a dead man?"
"The killer's targets; he wanted their blood types and such, but Hardy who knows?" said Harper. "Our next victim, wait, we need to deal with Sam breaking into the crime scene. Why film her, why not kill her there?"
"I don't know, but that sketch she found, Elizabeth drew that of Jason a few years ago. Morgan said that it was in 2001, so how did our killer get a hold of it." Mac thought about that, then called Elizabeth's cell and got her voice mail. Needing an answer right away, he tried Morgan, same result. Finally he called Nik Cassadine.
"Cassadine, does Elizabeth still have her art studio?"
"Yes, but she hasn't used it recently. She trashed it while Jake was gone. Why?"
"Do you know how to reach her, I need to ask her a few questions about it?"
"No, I was looking for her myself, Rebecca Shaw and her were supposed to meet and she stood her up."
Mac said if you locate her have her call me. Then hanging up called the number that Anna had given him, he learned that Elizabeth was visiting with Monica. "That mobster Morgan showed up, they have been here a few hours together."
Mac knew that that had to be about Jake, so he let it go for now.
"Okay, now next we have Corinthos, did we ever find out why he was visiting his old building?"
"No, Morgan and he had no meetings scheduled. Also the primary scene was his former penthouse. Our killer disabled the security system and brought the body parts down the main elevator while sending Corinthos' body down the freight elevator, but why?"
"To send some kind of message?" asked Harper.
"Next up is his wife, who is disabled at the airport with poison. She is pronounced dead and taken away. The men said she was in the body bag when they arrived to get the ambulance, but not when they went to place her in it. We find her at the old sanitarium, boiled from the inside out after being harvested the same way as the other victims."
"All four crime scenes have their sins listed in blood, all four have various quotes on the walls, and all four have some connection to their pasts. Except not really Claudia. What is the connection between her personally and the place she was found. The only connection was Johnny."
Mac heard his phone ringing and listened to Agent Raynor. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, they are gone. Would Morgan do something this stupid?"
"No, but Sam McCall would. She got out of Shadybrook today."
"I will arrest her if I even find she had anything to do with this. My ass is on the line. That witness from today's crime scene is in Federal Witness Protection. He saw something he shouldn't a few years ago and went ape. He just got out of a padded cell not that long ago."
"Is he dangerous?" asked Mac then rolled his eyes when the agent replied that that information was need to know.
Sam got them onto the boat and suggested they lay low. "Spinelli I am going to go find Jason, you two stay here, okay. Get on the computer I had Maxie get you, find out anything you can about the connections to the victims."
"Sure things, fair Samantha." he said going to the second part of the room. Seeing the dog, Sam grimaced. The thing reminded her of the huge thing that that blond bimbo Courtney used to have. "Nice dog."
"He is actually. I need to contact my mother soon, she tends to freak when I am out of reach."
"That will have to wait, the FBI will have her place being watched." she said. "What can you tell me about the crime scene."
"Listen, I am not telling you anything. The only reason I came was because I need to reach my family. You aren't exactly the sort to inspire confidence in your ability to solve crimes. Nancy Drew you ain't." he said. "Now if you will excuse me."
Pushing past her, when she pulled the gun, he said "I removed the clip earlier."
Sam realized too late that the gun did feel lighter, as the man walked off the boat and turned and saluted her saying. "What a joke, no wonder Morgan has to rescue you all the time."
Lulu and Maxie were looking for Luke as they slipped onto the Haunted Star. They saw Ethan standing in the shadows talking to Agent Raynor who had entered just before them. "I have been told to send you back to Washington. They are letting the case against Spencer go."
"I am this close to getting this guy." he groaned. "Why are they giving up?"
"Orders from Interpol, they think they have a better case than we do."
"Fine, but I need to make sure that his daughter is okay."
"Tell me you didn't develop feelings for this girl. You know that there is a possibility she is your sister."
"She isn't. Neither is that doctor, my mother lied." he said with a shrug. They walked past Maxie covering Lulu's mouth while hiding in a small stateroom.
When the footsteps faded, Lulu through a fit. "How dare he?"
"Lulu, deal with that later, you heard his boss, he was ordered off the case. We need to find a way to help Spinelli."
Jason and Elizabeth sat quietly for the first few minutes after they woke up. "Are you ready to listen?"
"I will try." she said. "Jason I am sorry, I keep putting up walls and attacking."
"I know you, I know how you react. It hurts when you do it but I do understand." he said. "I run and try to protect, acting like a Quartermaine sometimes. So much for letting people live their lives for themselves."
As they kept talking, Elizabeth realized that Maxie had either been lied to or had been deliberately trying to hurt her. He explained that yes, Sam had gone to Florida with him, but not because he had wanted her there. Then he explained that he had nothing to do with the Spinelli party. "It just took too much energy to fight things."
"I do understand that. Until a few weeks ago, I was doing that as well. Then I saw Lucky with the boys, he was saying he loved Cam, then added oh, you too Jake. My parents used to do that, I realized at that moment that Lucky had lied, he couldn't forget who Jake was and be a father to him."
"Grams pointed out recently that I was letting a man I didn't respect raise my sons , did I want them to think it was okay to treat women the way Lucky did. She is right, I would have been better off raising them as a single mother than letting Lucky be around. I am sorry, I thought he would be a good choice. What was I thinking?"
"That the Lucky you know as a young girl was still in there. He wasn't." Jason said. "I always understood that, it hurt but I did get it."
"Funny thing is, I knew, deep down, I knew." she said sadly. "I just knew that grams and others saw him as someone to respect. I knew the truth, but I guess I thought that I was wrong. I mean I had been before."
As they kept talking about all that had happened, Jason realized that his own fears and feelings of inadequacy need to be discussed. Elizabeth looked at him shocked then said "But why would you feel like that with only me, why not with Sam, or even Courtney?"
"Elizabeth, Sam and Courtney, they were both, well..." Jason's voice trailed off then figured out how to explain. "You are looked up to, you are truly a decent person. Can you honestly think of anyone, who would say the same about either Sam or Courtney?"
"Jax, Carly about Courtney."
"You have that one wrong." he replied. "Jax wanted to rescue her, take care of Courtney. He thought she needed to be saved from my world. Then later, he saw her for who she really was, but it was too late, he was married to her. As for Carly, she liked that Courtney fawned all over her, that was all."
"Jason, I have always looked at you and saw just you. That is what part of my problem was." she admitted. "To me it looked like you were willing to be with them in spite of the danger and with me it was all warning about the danger. But you really didn't get that I love you, truly do love you."
"I never felt like I was worthy, my god, Elizabeth. You are the one person I think of when I think of something good, you always have been." he said holding her hands tightly.
"But why?" she asked confused. "I lied, I took the easy way out more than once, why would you think of me as good."
"Elizabeth, I know good and I know bad, you are not bad. Even when we were at our angriest with one another, I always knew that if I came to you for help, to have you help me, you would. Without question." Elizabeth felt Jason pushing her hair behind her ears, and looked up from the ground. Seeing the intense look in his eyes, she grabbed his hand tight. "
But I have never wanted to drag you into this world. A world with guards, and blood and guns. A world of lies. Elizabeth the secret about Jake, yes it is a big lie, but in my world it is such a small lie compared to what I do every since day."
As the two cleared the air, Jason and Elizabeth finally got that they let down their guard. Monica checked the monitor every twenty minutes and at eleven thirty, she saw them kissing and from the tears on both their faces knew all would be well. Debating letting them out, she instead went to call Robin Scorpio.
"It worked."
"Good, I knew as soon as Carly left here that something had to be done. Thanks Monica."
"You are welcome, Tracy is even now putting the second part in place for the moment they realize that they have options."
Sam knocked on Carly's door, Diane had had a file on her desk when she had checked with the attorney about Jason's whereabouts. Seeing a light come on and the sound of footsteps, she smirked when the tousled blond let her in.
"What do you want Sam?" she asked while getting a glass of water.
"Where is Jason? I need to talk to him about Spinelli?"
"Have you asked the guards where he is?" she said knowing that Sam would have only come to her as a last resort.
"They don't know, they are looking for Max as well. When you talk to Jason, tell him I have Spinelli someplace safe."
"Sam how safe could he be with you?" she snarked before locking the door after the annoying woman.
Sam called Spinelli who told her that he had traced Jason's phone to the Quartermaine mansion. Wondering if he was telling Monica about Jake. Arriving, she was grabbed from behind and told that she wasn't welcome there.
"I almost married into this family and am dating Dr. Quartermaine's son." she said pulled her arm out of his tight grip.
"Really, I heard about that, funny thing is, I also heard he found you sleeping with your stepfather. Now leave. I know all about you Miss McCall, I know about the woman who kidnapped Jake Morgan, I even know about the two men you hired. As well as that you led the kidnappers to the Morgan boy the second time. So much for being some sort of go to girl. I wouldn't go to you if I had no other choice left."
"I am more than capable of taking care of myself and I have helped plenty of people with my skills."
"Really, what skills? From what I have seen that seems to only extend to wearing skimpy clothes and running in heels and using sex to try and get what you want. Any hooker can do that. Now get off this estate."
Sam saw him reaching for his phone and made plans to sneak past him. "Devane."
HE saw her out of the corner of his eye and grabbed her while assuring Mac Scorpio he would hold her after telling him he had the woman. Hanging up he said with a smirk. "Well what do you know, the FBI is looking for you in regards to kidnapping and for grabbing a federal witness. Both of those are class A felonies."
When the police arrived Cruz shook his head when Sam tried to get him to release her. "I can't the FBI will have me fired for that." As they pulled around the back, Sam saw that was Jason's motorcycle parked on the driveway along with some sort of fancy van. Reaching into her pockets, she maneuvered her cell phone out and sent Jason a text message, hoping he came to get her out of jail soon.
At five the next morning, Jason and Elizabeth heard a click as the door opened and Monica's sheepish face came around the wide door. "I am sorry for locking you in, but I wanted the two of you to talk. Then I fell asleep listening to Tracy."
As they walked upstairs, the twosome filled Monica in on their decisions. "Grams won't be happy, but I think that she will come to accept it."
Jason didn't want to let go of Elizabeth's hand, worried. They worked well one on one, but tended to fall apart when others entered their world. "We are going to be dealing with a few things, quicker than others."
"As long as I don't have to hear Tracy say I told you so, I-" they all could hear the sound of Edward hollering at Tracy who was trying to keep him out of the dining room.
"Tracy, I could care less if that loser husband of yours is in there naked. I want my breakfast, I have a big day today." Jason's eyes widened and then he turned to Monica and said "You better let him in, but keep him here. Elizabeth and I will be right back."
Elizabeth found herself dragged up the back stairs. "Jason, what is it?" she whispered.
"I forgot to tell you something." he said rubbing the back of his neck feeling embarrassed. "I had an idea, I was going to force you to marry me, that was what the lawsuit was about."
"How was that going to work and why are you so worried about it now?"
"That is just it. After Carly blew my plan out of the water by filing the lawsuit, I sort of went to Edward for help."
Elizabeth fell onto the bed and not sure she heard him right asked "What did you say?"
"I went to Edward. I needed someone outside the usual suspects and he was devious to do what I needed."
"Jason what did you have to give him in return, Edward never does anything without an agenda."
"Dinner once a month, here."
Looking up at him in shock, Elizabeth asked "So how was filing for custody going to help you get me to marry you?"
"Well, I knew I wouldn't get custody, so I was going to make it look like it was a possibility. Convince you that I had the judge in my pocket and that I would take Jake away if you didn't marry me."
"Jason Morgan, I can't believe you would ..." Elizabeth started laughing. "I love you."
"What?" he asked now confused.
"I love you." she said clearly. "I love you, I love you, I love you."
"I love you too, but why are you laughing?"
"Because I am mad at you but don't even care. I am going to cancel my lawsuit against you, I promise if you do the same."
"How about this, you marry me in exchange I will give you the items you wanted on that list of yours."
"Keep them." she said with a smile. "All except that box. Jason, get rid of your box of pain, no more looking back."
"Fine, as long as you remember two things. The first is that you promised to never mention Edward and my deal to anyone. Second that you don't drop the lawsuit against Carly."
"I don't intend to take it all the way to court, Jason. I just wanted to prove a point to her."
"Well, we aren't dropping it. She has interfered one too many times."
Standing Elizabeth kissed him then said "I have to find Rebecca Shaw, she wanted to talk to me last night."
"She bothers me." he admitted. "Having someone walking around with Emily's face but not Emily's sweetness bothers me."
Edward was walking down the hospital corridor, practically waltzing. Jason had done it. He was marrying the mother of his son and hopefully there would be more children for him to spoil. Seeing Nik he asked the younger man if he had talked to Lulu. He felt bad about her losing her brother but was grateful that his death had been the catalyst to getting his grandson together with the woman he loved.
"She is running around doing something for that kid Spinelli." Seeing Rebecca hanging up her phone he walked over in time to hear her telling Matt Hunter that she had finally reached Elizabeth.
"She got held up and forgot she was supposed to meet me. We are going to talk tomorrow."
"Good, she is close to Cassadine and Spencer, she would be the one to tell you what to do."
Matt saw that Maxie Jones was coming towards him. "We don't have any assignments, do we?"
"No, I was looking for Elizabeth Webber?"
Recalling what Robin said, he replied "She has the day off, try her house."
"She isn't there." said Maxie. Why couldn't the woman be where she was supposed to be, Sam had sent her a text wanting her to keep an eye on the saint of GH so that she could help Spinelli.
Alexis let Sam into her office and said "Why did you do it?"
"They have no proof of anything." Sam huffed. "How can they arrest me like that?"
"Sam, they held you on a material witness order. Now if you know where this kid is you should tell them. You are not capable of protecting him from this threat and with Jason missing he is vulnerable."
"Jason is just at the Quartermaines. We will protect him, better than the police will. YOU know that."
Mac was just arriving at his office when he got the call from Elizabeth Webber about his message. She was baffled how anyone could have gotten the sketch, explaining it had been lost a few years before. "The whole sketchbook was lost, Mac. I had it at Jason's then it went missing."
"Elizabeth do you know how to reach your brother Steven?"
"It will take a little bit, but yes. Why?"
"I can't tell you right now, but may I get that number?"
Mac went to call Anna, then giving her the number was shocked when he had no sooner started his paperwork for the day than he got a call. "Commissioner, you were looking for me."
"Steven, I know this is going to sound strange, but do you have anyway to verify where you are?"
Looking around, Steven saw the perfect way. "There is an agent for the WSB here in Chad, will he do?"
Mac listened as he was assured that Steven was in Chad. "Thanks Sean, but why are you there?"
"Possible infectious disease. Do you want Webber again?"
"Yes." said Mac. He had been so sure that Steven Webber was his killer. "Steven do you have a twin?"
"Not that I am aware of. Why?"
Mac explained then Steven said "My mother sold me, then told my father I was dead. The only other person who knew the truth was my grandmother who killed my adopted mother and made it look like some woman my dad was in love with did it."
Mac went to get the files and saw that Heather Webber had been a patient in Roselawn. How was this all connected?
Heading over to meet Elizabeth, he saw that Jason Morgan was glaring at someone across the street from Elizabeth's house. Worried that Aidan had been caught he saw that Morgan was talking on the phone while the man across the street was doing that same.
When the mobster had hung up he asked "How long have they been there watching her?"
"For over a year." he admitted.
Mac shook his head at the lengths the two of them had gone for one another and asked Elizabeth if the man in the picture looked familiar.
"He looks a lot like Steven but there are some differences. The chin in more rounded and his eyes are closer together. Who is he?"
"A witness, but I was worried when I saw the resemblance. Elizabeth did your parents ever talk about what happened when Steven was a baby?"
"Not around me, but you could ask Monica, she was once married to my dad and might know something, or even Bobbie Spencer. She lived here then."
"Thanks, what about Heather Webber, what can you tell me about her?"
"She is has a few screws loose, and would do anything for money." said Elizabeth.
"If she had twins, would she keep it a secret?" asked Mac wanting her opinion.
"Maybe if she thought there was something in it for her."
Carly was waiting for the attorney to join them. When Alcazar's attorney saw the name, she told the man representing Elizabeth that she couldn't stay on as Carly's attorney. "Mrs. Jacks you have one week to get a new attorney."
Hoping that by then, Elizabeth calmed down, Carly went to try and get someone who would help her no questions asked. She had to find Lulu. There was no way she was letting Jason down. He was going to get what he wanted, and that was Elizabeth and her sons. Carly had already gone to Diane who had reminded her that she was Elizabeth's attorney of record, not hers.
"What about the case against me."
"Since I have represented you in the past, I was going to second chair the case, with a Chinese wall between that attorney and me."
"A what?" Carly had a bad feeling about this, but knew that if she got Jason what he wanted, he would make Elizabeth drop the suit.
"It means that what I knew couldn't be used until he discovered it another way."
Shaking her head, Carly had left the office more determined than ever to get things straightened out. She went through every single scenario that Sonny had ever used and wondering if throwing a surprise wedding might do to get them together.
Jason and Elizabeth entered their private refuge removing each others clothes before the front door was even closed. Jason tossed Elizabeth's bra behind them as he picked her up and carried her into the bedroom and tossed her on the bed.
Pulling off his jeans, he was thwarted when he realized that he still had his shoes on. Elizabeth had been tossing the pillows off the bed when she found herself being pinned to the bed after he had finally freed himself from his clothes.
"Warning you right now. It has been to long and this is going to be quick." he said even as he thrust into her.
"Jason, has anyone ever told you that you talk to much?" she panted as while wrapping her legs around his hips. As they found themselves without the breath to talk, Jason bend down to kiss her needing to feel her soft lips as he was where he belonged for the first time in eight months.
When they had both came, Jason grimaced when he realized he hadn't protect them. "I didn't wear anything."
"I haven't..." she said "What about you?"
"No." he said firmly with a kiss. "Never even thought about it."
"Well, I am sure it is going to be fine." she said.
Jason felt a bit disappointed, some part of his wished it was possible for her to be pregnant but he knew that now was not the right time. They needed time as a family, with Cameron and Jake before making plans for another baby.
Mac took the call and said "I am on my way."
Arriving at the scene he saw Carly standing there with Jasper Jacks who was holding his wife and trying to get her to go to the hospital.
"Carly, isn't this the house where Ric held you hostage?" asked Mac. "What are you doing here."
"Jax got a text message, I insisted on coming with him." she said.
"When we arrived there were words written in blood on the wall. We went to open the door when we saw the television and realized that the camera's inside had been reversed."
"Carly, if Jax got the call why is the note to you?"
"I don't know." she replied. "Mac can I get out of here now?"
"Sure, but for the moment could you keep this to yourself until we tell Alexis."
Shuddering, Carly said yes. Looking at the screen once again, she said "The killer did this, didn't he?"
"It looks that way." said Mac as they left. Cruz and Harper stepped back to let the people from the Port Charles Zoo in. "We have possibly twenty or twenty-five snakes in that room."
The zoologist said "Someone really doesn't like your guy, those are copperheads, and they had to be woken up earlier for them to be here now. They are going to be pissed off and biting anything they see."
Mac walked outside along with Raynor who showed him the photos. "This guy broke as many laws as his brother, but why here and why snakes?"
"This was the house where he held Carly and the snakes, who knows maybe because he was an attorney."
Mac couldn't help remembering that Elizabeth had been attacked by a snake set on her by this man's ex-lover Faith Roscoe.
Sam was trying all the safe houses when she saw Max lying in one with a bullet wound. "Max, what happened? Was Jason with you?"
"Cody." he whispered. "Ask Cody..."
"Max, I don't have time. I will call for an ambulance." she snapped. "No one has seen Jason, do you know of any safe houses that I don't."
Max shook his head yes and whispered the address and tried to tell her to ask Cody, but she just called 911 and left to find Jason. Max felt himself fading away and knew he wasn't going to make it. Cursing himself as he died for ever trusting Sonny Corinthos, Max knew the moment he died. He heard the clock strike twelve even as he drew his last breath.
A few minutes later, a man entered and said "Sorry, but I need those more than you do." he said taking the paperwork that proved that Sonny Corinthos had turned over his business years ago to Luke Spencer. Problem was that they were faked. All that was left was to find the secrets that Coleman held, and thanks to Max trying to tell Sam, he now knew that Cody Paul was the key.
Spencer had been plotting for this moment since the day that Sonny had refused to hire him to help last year. Too old, too old? Sonny, take that." he thought to himself as he walked out of the room holding onto the papers.
He would let Johnny run things for him, but first Luke had one thing to do, he had to track down Jason Morgan and make sure that the younger man understood that Luke was not going to let him stand in his way.
"I'm hungry." said Elizabeth leaning over to kiss Jason's bare shoulder blade. "Please feed me?"
Chuckling softly, he said "What would you like?"
"An omelet. With toast, and juice and maybe some apple strips."
"Did I make you work up an appetite." he said playfully. "Poor baby."
"Feed me Morgan, then I will make your heart stop." She said while giving him a playful leer.
"Fine, but don't bother getting dressed." he said. On his way through to the kitchen with visions of Elizabeth and him in the shower, he grabbed all their clothing and tossed into the bedroom. He saw Elizabeth getting up and walking to the pile.
Jason was in the kitchen with his jeans barely done up when Sam let herself in. "Jason thank god."
Starting to turn, he grabbed the towel and tossed it on his shoulder while buttoning up his jeans. Sam was eying him like he was a slab of beef as she stood there wondering why he was cooking. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Looking for you, I got Spinelli out." she said proud of herself.
"Why would you do that?" he asked. "Nevermind, get out of here."
Sam was stunned, what was going on? Why was Jason being like this what had happened in the last few days.
"Jason, if you want to find out for sure if that shower will fit us, you had better hurry up." said Elizabeth entering wearing Jason's t-shirt. She was still looking at her toes and never realized that Sam was there. "By the way, you ripped all the buttons off my shirt, so you will-" she saw the look on Sam's face and smirked at the annoyance.
"Hello, Sam. What are you doing in my house?" she asked sweetly.
"Your house?" she said sneering.
"Mine, well mine and Jason's." she said crossing to the man in question.
"Sam, you should have left well enough alone, now leave. Go back and arrange for Spinelli to turn himself in, now."
"I need you, Max is dead and you have to come WITH ME. So that we can figure this out. You can go back to playing house later." she said with a venomous look at Elizabeth.
"Max is on a special assignment for Sonny. Stop it Sam, I don't believe a word you say." Jason saw the look on her face and knew that she had truly believed they would get back together. "Sam. What ever you thought was going on between us, it wasn't. I am sorry I used you to make myself stay away from Elizabeth and the boys. I knew that as long as you were around, I would stay away from my family."
Sam glared at Elizabeth speechless as the woman looked at her and said "If you were anyone else, I would feel bad for you, but since it is you, I don't."
Turning to Jason, Sam said "When you are ready to play with the big boys again, come look me up. Trust me, she will bore you again soon enough."
Jason wrapped his arms around Elizabeth and said "Are you okay?"
"Yes, I just wish she hadn't seem me wearing nothing but your t-shirt, your ripped t-shirt at that."
"It looks like you are going to have to make an honest man of me soon, we both know she won't keep her mouth shut." he said sighing with regret. "So much for doing this quietly."
The snakes were gone, and Mac and Agent Raynor looked in as the coroner examined his body. "Heart and lungs still here. All that is missing is his cornea's. The snakes bit him over ninety percent of his body. My guess is that either the shock of the snake bites or the shock of the removal of his eyes were what killed him."
"Time of death?" asked Mac.
"From Liver temp, I would say between 4:00 and 5:00 this morning."
Alexis was pushing her way in and saw the body being loaded onto the gurney. "Mac when are you going to bring in Elizabeth Webber and find out who is doing this and how it is connected to her."
"We have no proof..."
"Ric and Lucky were married to her, she is connect to Sonny and his wife through Jason and her son is named after that bar that Coleman owned."
"Alexis-"
"Come on, Mac." she protested. "What more do you want."
"Some evidence." he said not wanting her to know what was going on. Raynor had agreed that Alexis Davis was too personally involved and they were dealing with a federal attorney on the case.
"Alexis, if you think about there are quite a few people in this town connected to those people you mentioned."
"Yes, but how many are connected to Steve Hardy?" she asked waspishly.
"Not a lot, but Alexis, Elizabeth isn't the only one. Even Morgan is connected them."
Alexis left wanting to make sure that someone listened to her, she knew that Sam was in danger and her daughter was going to die because she refused to let anyone protect her. She just knew that this was connected to Elizabeth, it had to be.
Answering her phone, she stopped and thought about what had been said before rushing off to find Sam, her daughter had just been found sitting in the bar at the Metrocourt. According to the bartender Sam had drank three bourbons straight before wandering out to the deck.
"What has Morgan done now?" she thought to herself when she saw Sam sitting on the edge of the wall.
Elizabeth hung up the phone, then turned to tell Jason. "She said she wasn't surprised. She thinks I am making a mistake but will be there to support me."
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yes, I knew that she would react that way, but I still wanted to tell her first." she replied.
"Monica knows and of course Edward." he said with a half smile. "Anyone else can be told by Sam, I could care less about anyone hearing it before then."
"Not even Carly?" she asked in disbelief.
"Not even Carly." he said thinking about how she had almost ruined this. "What about your friends at the hospital?"
"Robin will be happy for us, Patrick will just accept. As for the others, I only want to tell Epiphany."
"We should go and see what happened to Max. Milo is on his way to the station even as we speak." said Jason then realized he had to tell Diane.
"I will go to Diane." said Elizabeth. "You take care of Max."
The killer watched and waited, he had a list of seven victims, his grandmother had always said seven was a lucky number. Five down and two to go. One was going last, he wanted to savor her death. The other was just filler. Someone to kill to give him luck.
Taking out his list, he crossed off Ric Lansing and circled the sixth number on his list, wondering how hard this one would be.
TBC