Chapter 6

Diane sat there, in shock as Elizabeth tried to comfort her. "Elizabeth, are you sure?"

"Yes, he was on some kind of special assignment for Sonny, that is all that Jason knows."

"I want to see his body." she said standing while holding the edge of her desk. "Will you please drive me to the Morgue."

Elizabeth called Jason and the two women arrived at the station as quickly as possible after he said Milo fell apart. Diane was giving the younger man emotional support, seeing the body seemed to pull her together. "Morgan, a word please."

Jason and Elizabeth followed Mac into his office. "Elizabeth, Ric Lansing was killed tonight in the house where he held Carly. Same room, his eyes removed and then approximately 20 snakes were placed in with him."

Elizabeth felt bad for Molly but knew that Ric should have been dead years ago. Sitting down, she asked if there were more messages.

"Just the usual remarks about sins and some more morality quotes. Alexis Davis is insisting that these murders are about you, since you are one of the people with connections no matter how tenuous with all the victims and your grandfather."

"Mac, surely you don't think that." she protested.

"No, he doesn't and neither do I." said Agent Raynor. "But I do think that this killer dug up your grandfather for a reason. Mac told me his theory about your brother being a twin and we are trying to find this Heather Webber."

"Good luck, she is as slippery as they come." said Elizabeth. "Mac did you get a chance to ask Monica and Bobbie about her?"

"No. They are coming down to the station later today. Elizabeth, did your grandparents have any other children other than your father and Tom?"

"Well, my dad has two half siblings, my Aunt Terry, she moved to New Zealand when I was in kindergarten, she didn't get along with her brother Rick, who was murdered a few years ago."

"Your grandmother has called me a few times to ask about your grandfather's body. I told her I would release it to you so that you all could rebury it." he told the young nurse.

"Thank you." she replied. "Mac, if I think of anything, I will call you. This man has me worried as well. Agent Raynor, the man you had in custody when you find him, would you please let me talk to him."

Not wanting to tell her that he was suspicious of the man as much as Mac was, he said "I will do my best, but there are reasons that it isn't such a good idea."

Elizabeth nodded then left the station with Jason while Diane and Milo went to call his father.

Jason and Elizabeth went to her house to grab some clothes and she wanted to visit with Epiphany and tell her about the wedding. Arriving Elizabeth saw that Nik was following Rebecca again. Going over, she drew off her friend and asked how Lulu was.

"She isn't doing too bad, she is doing something with Maxie Jones right now."

"Nik, if it is for Spinelli you might want to stop her, the FBI is threatening to arrest anyone found with him."

"I warned her, but she seems to think that Jason will protect them." he said with a sigh. "I have been trying to locate Luke, but he seems to be playing least in sight."

"Of course, he is. This is Luke we are talking about." said Elizabeth with a roll of her eyes. "Nik, how are you doing?"

"Holding on, just holding on. I have no choice." he said bleakly. "When you get an chance, will you help me arrange for Lucky's funeral"

"That might not be such a good idea." she said before pulling him off to a discreet corner. "Nik, I guess you should hear it from me first, but Jason and I are getting married. We have talked about it before, but with this new danger, we realize that we are still in danger anyhow."

Nik counted to ten, knowing he had no right to say anything, but wanted to. Then he asked "Are you sure that you are not just reacting to Lucky's death, I know that the two of you were..."

"Nik." she gently touched his arm and said "Lucky lied to you, we were not getting back together. I only recently learned he was telling people this. I had no intention of getting emotionally involved with Lucky again."

"But you were letting him raise Jake." he said a little hard.

"I made a mistake, Nik, he was the past and I should have left him there. I am sorry if this is the wrong time to being doing this." she said upset for her friend.

"No, I appreciate your telling me the truth." he said before hugging her. "If you ever need me, you know that I will be there for you, don't you."

"Of course." she said with a sad smile well aware that they were slowly growing apart.

Jason looked up and saw the tears in her eyes when she rejoined him as he talked to Cody on the phone. "So that was what Sonny had you doing?"

"Yes, but the papers were fakes, we were looking into it. But Jason, Sonny was meeting with Max at the piers why would he have been at the penthouse?"

"No idea, but I want you to give me all of the notes as well. Or did Sonny destroy them?"

"Max had them. He said they were someplace safe when I asked him about them."

"Find them, we have to know what Sonny was doing." he said before hanging up. Turning to Elizabeth he pulled her back into the same corner she had just been with Nik. "What did Epiphany say?"

"She just said about dang time." she said with a laugh. "Nik was fine, but he is taking Lucky's death hard. Luke pulled a disappearing act. I saw his car outside his old blues club when I drove by the other day."

Carly separated Lulu from Maxie and told her she needed her help with something.

"Sure what do you need?"

"I want to throw someone a surprise wedding, can you help me?"

"Now, Carly don't you think that it might be a little tacky to be planning a wedding so soon after Sonny and Lucky's deaths."

"No, I actually think that this will make things a little less sad."

"Who are the happy couple?" she asked while watching as Johnny beckoned to her.

"I can't tell you yet." she said. "Meet me in my office after dealing with Zachara."

Going over, Lulu asked, "How are you dealing with Claudia's death?"

"I am dealing." was all he said. "Do you know why your father left four different mysterious messages on my phone in the last two days?"

"No, I thought he was attached to Ethan at the hip." she said with a sneer. "But maybe he woke up to the jerk's lies."

Johnny just nodded, not wanting to get in the middle of that mess. "Well, if you see him, let him know that I am going to Italy. I am arranging for Claudia to be buried next to her mother in Milan."

"Johnny, for your sake, I am sorry about her death." she said before walking away. Arriving at Carly's office, she sat down and asked her cousin if there was something wrong with her.

"Why do all the guys I like turn out to be jerks or not interested in me?" she asked thinking of the string of boyfriends she had had since returning to Port Charles.

Sam was walking out of the room where Alexis had placed her after dragging her back from the Metrocourt. "What happened that had you drinking at noon?"

"Nothing." she said realizing that she had overreacted. Elizabeth had just lost Lucky and was doing what she did best, running to the next man on her list. Jason had been without sex as far as she knew and the mother of his son would have most definitely have been willing.

In the end, he would return to her the next time there was danger. Elizabeth was not capable of living in Jason's world.

"You need to be careful, I think that this killer is taking out people connected to Elizabeth Webber." said Alexis worried about her daughter. "Ric and Lucky were married to her, Sonny and Claudia have connections to Jason that were a threat to her and her grandfather's body was dug up."

"What about Coleman, what was his connection? Alexis you are grasping at straws, there is no way that anyone would go to all this trouble for Elizabeth Webber." she said laughing derisively as she left. "I have to go and find Jason. I am sure that he is finished playing house with Elizabeth, now."

Alexis stood and watched, what would it take to make someone listen to her? She was certain that Elizabeth was connected to this somehow.

Mac sat with Monica and Bobbie while Agent Raynor went to get his files. They had hoped that the women would know if Heather Webber had another child. "Sir, a call for you from Africa."

"Scorpio." he said as Agent Raynor returned.

"Mac it's Sean Donnelly. Steven Webber did some digging. He might have something for you."

"Mac, I found out that my mother is dead. She has been since September '07.

"What happened?"

"I don't know, the authorities in Venezuela could only tell me that she showed up dead with her passport on her."

"I sent someone to look into it, Mac." said Sean. "You had a drug kingpin from there didn't you?"

"Lorenzo Alcazar, I will look into it." he said grimly. "Steven thank you and I am sorry about your mother."

Laughing darkly, Steven said "My mother sold me when I was a baby and only wanted to be around when she wanted money from either Jeff or myself. I am more relived than anything else. Also, I have no idea where she is but my biological grandmother, Alice is still alive. I had thought she was dead, but the police said she claimed my mother's body."

"Thanks, I will see if I can find her. Could you send me a DNA sample, so I can test this man's against yours and Elizabeth's?"

"Mac, my sister's won't help." he said sounding like he was not sure how to continue. "Is there anyone else in the office with you?"

"Agent Raynor and Monica Quartermaine as well as Bobbie Spencer."

They could all hear Steven hesitating then he said "Mac, I need you to assure me what I am about to say goes no further, at least not to Elizabeth until I get a chance to talk to my dad."

After getting their assurances he said "Elizabeth is adopted, I only learned it a couple of months ago. My father admitted it to me, he had a heart attack and wanted someone to know. I had to promise to never tell Elizabeth."

"Steven, why not? You know how your parents have treated her, this is something she should know." said a strident Bobbie Spencer.

"Because her mother is dead, she was killed when Elizabeth was two weeks old. Dad adopted her then. Mom wanted a boy, and was never happy about dad's decision. Also, with who Elizabeth's biological father being who he was, I got the why. Trust me, my sister doesn't need to deal with that."

"Steven is this anything that might be pertinent to this case. We had reason at first to think that this killer was targeting people who had hurt Elizabeth."

"No, her father is still alive and can't EVER know that he has a daughter but I think someone there would notice him if he showed up." said Steven wishing he had just kept his mouth shut.

"If she is in danger, you should let Jason know so that he can protect her." said Monica while Agent Raynor's mind raced about what he could do with that news.

Mac reminded the women of their promises and asked what they knew about that time period and if Heather had been gone for any length of time then.

"Only when she was locked up in the loony bin." said Bobbie. As they tried to think of anything that could help, Monica suggest he get the records from Gail Baldwin.

After they left, Raynor said "We are just spinning our wheels. Why are you so sure that this man is the serial killer?"

"I have seen him someplace before. I know it is just a feeling, but he is connected to this. What do you think of Max Giambetti murder?"

"I would have thought a simple mob hit gone wrong, but for the footsteps they tracked from the site. Why did this extra set head to the closet and then back to the body."

"I don't think Morgan has any answers yet, either. Without his computer geek, he is cut off from any electronic surveillance."

Sam returned to the tug boat and saw that Spinelli was looking into the latest death and running something else. "What do you know?"

"Someone erased Dr. Steven Hardy's files from GH and created a new file for him. I was able to track down the original, they only changed the blood types and a couple of times he was hospitalized. They also accessed every single file on the Webber family. Did you know that fair Elizabeth has the same blood type as the late Mr. Corinthos sir."

"No, but I doubt it has anything to do with the murders. Who else's were accessed and how did they do it?"

"They just went in through the main database at GH using the utility code. The murder victims files were accessed on the night of the murders and so were some old files for Roselawn." said Spinelli. "Do you want the names?"

Not getting anyplace else, she said "Who are they?"

"Heather Grant and Victor Collins." he said with a happy smile. "Did you know that Mr. Corinthos sirs, father was there about the same time?"

"Sonny's father was in a mental institution?" she asked.

"No, he worked there as a janitor." he said. Sam rushed off the boat, sure she had located some sort of clue. When she arrived at the man's apartment, he was drunk and barely standing.

"Mike, when you worked at Roselawn, do you remember two patients named Heather Grant or Victor Collins?"

"Victor wasn't a patient, he was a volunteer, as for the woman, no." he said easily lying. Heather Webber was a mistake in his past and he had no intention of telling anyone about his affair with a mental patient.

Elizabeth took her mail from Robin and said "Thank you, I forgot to get it when we were there earlier."

"No problem, what are friends for, especially nosy friends who want to find out what is going on." she said as she sat down. "First thing, what is this place?"

"A safe house that Jason owns, but I have a question of my own. Why is your cousin following me?"

Seeing the guilty expression, Elizabeth pressed her friend again.

"We were worried when you didn't want Jason's guards around. Aidan used to be WSB and my mom asked him to keep an eye on you and the boys. Two of his people are with your grams as well. Did Jason mention sending guards as well."

"Thank you." she said looking down feeling guilty about her attitude the other day. "Jason and I talked. We apologized and we are thinking about getting married."

"WHAT?" she exclaimed. "Why didn't you call me." and why didn't Monica give her the news.

"We were going to wait until this killer is caught. The Quartermaines were the only ones who knew, I told grams she wasn't happy but is going to accept that I am doing what I think is right."

"So, without details, I gather you two finally realized you were hurting each other for nothing." she said gently.

Elizabeth thought about Jason's words and asked Robin. "Robin, Jason says that he never felt good enough for me, that he has always felt like he was dragging me down by bringing me into his world. I just don't get why he feels that way."

Robin realized that the damage she had done years ago was responsible for part of this. Sighing she said. "Elizabeth, you are not a slut, you don't lie to be selfish, you are kind, caring and I get why Jason would feel like that. When we were involved, Jason had no idea what he was getting into, or if he did he didn't think he would be alive for long."

"But-"

"I will get to that. Jason knows that what he does is wrong, unlike Sonny he understands that now. He sees the damage his world has done, why do you think he tries to protect so many people, he GETS that what he does is why there so much danger. You, you know, the first time I saw the two of you talking, I saw the way he looked at you. Elizabeth, I HAVE NEVER seen Jason look at anyone like he looks at you, I mean even before the two of you slept together."

Elizabeth sighed and said "I finally got that part today. I am a little thick, it took ten years but I finally figured that part out. But Robin, I am just as human as the next person. I don't want to be on a pedestal."

"And Jason finally gets that. At least I hope he does." she said. "Liz, He will eventually get over that, but for now, you need to make sure he realizes that you don't look down on him like I made him feel I did."

Seeing her expression, Robin said sadly. "I was so upset and so messed up back then. I pushed Jason towards Carly by doing so many things wrong. But in the end, I gave Carly her tight grip on Jason by telling AJ. Not that I was wrong, but if it had been handled better in the beginning so many things would have been different. I was trying to hold onto Jason Quartermaine, not Jason Morgan."

"I never really knew him as Jason Quartermaine."

"He is still there, a part of him, but I looked down on Jason Morgan, made him feel like what he did was wrong, yet was close to Sonny even after breaking up with Jason because of his job. Looking back, I know that I let things get too far with Jason. I only really let Stone go a few years ago."

"I know that you loved Jason pretty deeply."

Smiling a bit, Robin said "I did love him, but looking back, I see that I was clinging for the wrong reason, like you with Lucky when he came back after being thought dead. Jason was still growing and we made big mistakes, hurting each other, but in the end, losing Michael hurt him worse than losing me. He lost someone he had sworn to protect forcing him to break a promise."

"I get that, sometimes I feel jealous of the way he seems to put Michael before Jake." she admitted not realizing the Jason had returned from dealing with Cody.

"Elizabeth, Jason has had to protect his feelings about Jake, now that the truth is out, I don't think you have to worry. I mean I do understand why you feel that way. My guess is that Carly did some of that damage, but I want you to talk to Jason about that, trust me, Jason loves his son deeply. Same with Cameron."

In fact Robin was sure of it. She had talked to Jason before helping Monica and knew that he had been holding his love back, terrified of losing those two boys as well as Elizabeth.

"I know that rationally, but sometimes, I get these irrational thoughts." she said with a laugh.

Robin hugged her and headed out planning on attending a PPD meeting that evening. While she had been doing so much better, she still kept up with them.

Jason waited until she had left and said "You have no nothing to be jealous about. I only wish that I had the time I have spent with Michael with our boys."

Elizabeth spun around shocked to see Jason standing there. "Where did you come from?"

"Kitchen door. Elizabeth, come here."

Walking over, she saw he was holding her hand as he took her over to the fireplace and lit it. Seeing the box in his hands, said "Jason, don't do that."

"Yes, we both need to do this. Let go of the past."

Jason tossed the box in the fireplace after removing his pictures of his family with Elizabeth. She took out the ones of Michael, insisting he keep them saying she had been acting foolish.

"You are not being foolish, Elizabeth. We both made each other feel that way. I loath the idea of any picture that exists with Lucky and the boys."

Elizabeth said with a small laugh. "Grams and I burnt them all the other night. She said she was sure that some day, Cameron might have questions, but that we could explain without them."

Jason wondering about giving Audrey Hardy a hug, he had been wanting to burn those photos for years, since Elizabeth had returned with Cameron from California. Taking her hand, he led her to the bedroom, saying we need to get some sleep, that floor wasn't very comfortable.

Sam was steaming when she pulled up to the safe house. Seeing two of Jason's guards outside, she called Spinelli and asked him to get them away.

Spinelli thought about it, and was considering not doing it, but knew that Jason would not be happy to learn that they could have prevented another victim from dying. Sam said she knew who the next victim was.

Seeing the guards moving towards the SUV parked outside, Sam slipped inside and saw that someone was burning something. Seeing it start to turn red, she realized it was Jason's box that he had kept hidden while she had lived in the penthouse.

Going over she got it out of the fire seeing that only the outer box was singed. Opening it, she saw pictures from various events with Carly in quite a few of them. Most were off people that had died. Seeing the one of Courtney, she grimaced as she tossed it back into the fire. Then stiffened when she realized that there was one of her in there from when she was pregnant along with her daughter's only photo.

Why would Jason be burning these, he had always treasured them. Seeing the pictures on the mantle, she picked them up and gritted her teeth as she went through the rather thick pile as the fire seemed to burn out from lack of material.

She saw the picture of Jake and Cameron and knew that Elizabeth had to have given him them. She sure as heck wouldn't want Jason to forget the only thing tying them together. Finding the sonogram, she smirked then saw it was one for Jake.

Then opening a faded one expecting to find one for Michael, she saw it was unnamed but looking at the date figured out it was for about five years before. Wondering if it was for Morgan or Molly, she soon saw the picture with it. A pregnant Elizabeth. Flipping it she saw it said Elizabeth and unborn son.

When she kept looking she saw pictures of a young Elizabeth, dressed up for some sort of costume party in a strapless dress and tiara and a few others, including one where she was playing pool in Jason's apartment. "If you are interested, that was from when I lived there. Now why are you here Sam?"

Turning she saw Elizabeth standing there holding a water bottle as she turned on the light switch. "I am looking for Jason, we have work to do."

"Sam, Jason could care less about your so-called work. He just left, a call from Cody, by the way the two guards outside called the police. What will it take for you to get the message, you are not supposed to be around me."

With a nasty chuckle, Sam said "You can't stand the competition. You know that Jason will be coming back to me in the end, that is why you are burning his box."

"Jason did that, but I will give you a boon, Sam. I did ask him too, we are moving forward. We have dealt with the past, and are working towards a future with our sons. Cameron and Jake are coming home in a few days, we are going to be looking for a new home, without any bad memories. You should move on, Sam. Find someone that can be your adrenaline junkie pal."

"You know that Jason will there when I call him. How long until I get him back into bed do you think. I mean I got Lucky into bed and Jason has already had me, he knows how good I am."

"Sam, if he didn't sleep with you during the last eight months, he isn't going to do so now. As for Lucky, he slept with my sister and with Maxie, he had no self control. He was like Luke that way. You, said it by the way, he already had you and Jason tend not to go back for seconds, why don't you ask Carly if you don't believe me."

Sam was getting ready to slap her when Harper entered and handcuffed her. "Elizabeth are you okay?"

"Yes, Jason had just left when I went to get a water and saw her in my living room."

When Elizabeth saw that the fire was out, she re-lit it and tossed the pictures back into the flames and then went to her purse and took out the letter she had written to Lucky and tossed it in as well. "I won't be needing that."

Jason looked at the file and knew that he had to deal with Luke Spencer, now. Turning to Cody he said get some of the men and meet me at the blues club on sixth street as soon as possible."

Tightening his grip on the photos, Jason felt sick. So Spencer had found out about this and had been blackmailing Sonny with it? He had thought the two of them were friends, but he was well aware that a Spencer would do anything for money. Shaking his head at Sonny's pride in not coming to him with this, he may have cost them everything if he had still been alive.

Stopping to lean against the wall near Kate Howard's place, he wondering if he should even bother stopping Luke, let him have everything. He didn't need the money and he knew that the guards would protect his family since he was sure that most of them would not want to work for Luke Spencer.

Hearing a beep on his phone, he listened to the computerized voice telling him he had fifteen messages. The first four were from Carly, who was excited about something. She was demanding he come over to the Metrocourt the next day.

Then one from Johnny Zachara telling him about a call from Luke Spencer.

"I turned the offer down, but thought I owed it to you to let you know what he was up to. How did he get control of your business? Anyhow, I am taking Claudia's body to bury it next to her mothers.

I left some information for you at that studio I have seen you at a few times recently. My sister had a connection to Lorenzo Alcazar that I was unaware of. Its because of this your sister was murdered along with Georgie Jones. Good bye."

The three messages from Spinelli had Jason grimacing then he called Mac and told him where to locate the kid. He was not going to break his deal with Mac. For once Sam and Spinelli can deal with their own consequences. He had told the geek on the phone to stay with the FBI.

Hearing Sam's calls, he knew he had to reign in Alexis Davis, she had to stop trying to pin this on Elizabeth. Her remarks made him want to point out that she had Cassidine blood flowing through her veins and she shouldn't be throwing stones.

Finally a call from Bobbie Spencer intrigued him. "Jason, I made a promise not to tell Elizabeth something, but never mentioned not telling you. IT is VITAL I talk to you as soon as possible."

After a call from Elizabeth telling him that Sam had shown up and was arrested, a similar one from Monica had him even more curious as to what was going on, but the next call had him rushing to the police station and into chaos.

"Jason, she is in my office for now." said Mac who was looking harassed as Monica and Bobbie entered as holding old files and looking triumphant while Alexis was haranguing Mac over Sam's arrest.

That mess was added to by Agent Raynor's men leading in Spinelli.

Arriving in the commissioner's office he saw a very pale Elizabeth holding a letter tightly in her grip. "Elizabeth, what is it?"

"I got a letter from the killer." she said still shuddering.

When the Mayor arrived, Mac gave up any possibility of control as the pompous windbag agreed with Alexis that they had a right to know what was going on in their town. Hearing the man order Harper to bring up Sam after Alexis' request had Monica and a now entering Diane protesting. "There is a restraining order keeping that woman away from my client. If it is isn't honored, I will make sure that I take this to a judge."

"Elizabeth Webber will be quite safe in the middle of the police station and if she has any knowledge of this crime, Alexis of all people has a right to know."

Elizabeth entered holding onto Jason's arm trying to calm him down, he had heard the Mayors disparaging side remarks to Alexis and wanted to make the man apologize but Elizabeth said let me deal with it.

"So what has all of you astir." asked Agent Raynor after offering Elizabeth a seat.

Monica and Bobbie insisted on going first.

"Tell us." said Alexis.

"Heather Webber was in Roselawn years ago as a patient of Gail Baldwin. While talking to her, she mentioned that another doctor took over. We got a hold of those files. Heather was pregnant while there. No one knows who the father was."

Taking the file, Mac asked about the call.

"Jeff is heading to his office to call me back. Turns out he had been approached by Heather several years ago, she claimed to have given birth to twins. But medical tests proved the second boy was a year younger than Steven."

"So this killer, or possible killer is Elizabeth's brother?" asked Sam. "And you claim I am dangerous, must me something in the blood. Jason you might want to check out Jake, who knows what kind of mental illness he could have."

"Sam, shut up." said Monica. Her phone rang while Sam continued to mutter to her mother and Spinelli about how she should have seen Elizabeth was involved with this mess.

"Jeff, what did you find?"

"Nothing, which is strange. Steven told me that Alice was still alive, if she had this boy, you have a major problem. Alice makes Heather look sane."

Hearing her dad's voice, Elizabeth felt upset, until she heard Monica turn off the speaker phone and then hand it to Elizabeth. "Dad?" she asked.

Listening to his words, they all saw Elizabeth tear up and then grab Jason's hand. "Thanks dad, I will."

Hanging up, she told Monica thank you, then said "Why did he send me an e-mail and tell me to read it with you?"

"I will explain later." she said sadly.

"Well, so this guy is your brother?" once again someone asked.

Agent Raynor read the letter and asked about the envelope.

"As soon as I realized what it was, I called in Aidan Devane, he has been protecting me for Anna and Robin. He was sending it to their lab." she said. "He copied the letter, that is what that is."

"May I read it out loud?" he asked. Raynor found himself a little protective of the petite brunette, he had done some research and knew that if his hunch turned out, her life was going to be turned upside down.

Seeing Elizabeth nod, Spinelli wondered why the man was so nice to Elizabeth. "Dear Elizabeth, My name is Peter Taylor.

When I was born, I was sold by our father and I never was brought back to my true family. The man you know as Steven Lars is not your brother. My grandmother and my mother hid me to protect me from him."

Sam was crowing inside, Elizabeth was related to this nut job who had killed all these people. "Some blood lines should not be allowed to continue."

Elizabeth just kept letting her dig her own grave, while Bobbie watched her like she was an interesting exhibit at a freak show as Monica seemed to be laughing inside.

Raynor read on as the man explained that he had found out his heritage several years ago and came to town to see her. "I got a job at the hospital while Steven worked there and saw that he had a superficial resemblance to me. But I know that I am your true brother. While there I was caught during that flu epidemic-"

Mac started, "That is why he looked familiar, I saw him at the hospital. He was working as an orderly in the maternity ward. I was wondering why he seemed so happy in the middle of the crisis."

Raynor continued as he got to the bottom, he said. "I'm sorry Elizabeth, but your ex-husband has to die. The man who owns Jake's was an accident, a happy one, but an accident. I was looking for proof of something. He refused to give it to me so that I could make Sonny give me my due."

"Sonny promised me a fortune if I made sure that Alexis Davis died during the flu epidemic, he wanted his daughter."

There was no sound in the room as Alexis stared at the letter like it had come alive.

"I took his money and knew that I could not be responsible for her death. I fled town afterwords, but promised to make him pay."

Alexis sat down on the desk, then asked to read the letter.

Raynor continued on and explained that Lucky wasn't good enough for her and that Luke Spencer was responsible for his mother's death. He had helped get her locked up in that horrible place. "She was visiting her doctor when a man entered and asked if she was a nurse. Mom was at one time so she said yes. He grabbed her and took her to Central America where she died. I vowed to make all those involved pay for hurting my family."

Sam snarked at Elizabeth again about her supposed blood lines, not realizing that the woman wasn't listening. Monica was though and when Sam said that it was too bad she wasn't the mother of Jason's son, replied "Sam, you are making a really big fool of yourself and once again proving what an idiot your are. Heather Grant Webber was married to Elizabeth's dad, she isn't any relation to Elizabeth."

Seeing her shut up, Monica looked at Jason and said with a smile "Thank god, Elizabeth is Jake's mom, I mean besides the fact that Jason doesn't want you as the mother of his kids, there is the Cassadine factor or did you forget that your biological family is a group of megalomaniacal nut jobs who married one another to keep the money and power in one family. Adding that to Heather's genes would have been a big mistake."

"Most Maternal one, why would you make that mistake? Jason and Sam's child would not..."

"Spinelli." said Elizabeth with a laugh after looking at Jason, "Heather's cousin was Jason's biological mother Susan Moore."

Sam sat down and shut up when she realized that she had been running her mouth about Jason's family. Not that he cared about family.

Mac looked at Monica and said "Susan Moore, Jason your mother owned a house here in town, who owns it now?"

Monica stopped to think, then said "Jason does, well he should. Alan and I kept it for him."

Jason looked at the address and said to Mac "I don't know this address."

Raynor sent agents over and they called back as soon as they arrived. "Sir, we found Alice Grant, she is dead. From the looks of it, natural causes and it was several days ago from the stench."

"Mac." called out Harper. "There is a call for you."

At the same time Jason's phone rang, and Cody explained what was going on. "Where?" said Mac and Jason at the same time.

Looking up their eyes met and Mac said "Haunted Star?"

"Haunted Star." he confirmed grimly.

"My men were called to the blues club."

Raynor and his men went to the Haunted Star. Jason conferred with Diane who told him to tell Mac as Alexis realized that Luke had been a victim of the killer.

The killer saw the police and went to his bolt hole. Arriving he saw that Spinelli had been taken, shame that, he had been looking forward to making him watch as he killed Sam McCall. Letting him martyr the woman he esteemed so much.

He was watching the reporter standing in front of the police station and saw Sam McCall slipping out along with Spinelli. Thank god for her stupidity, now it would be so much easier to take her out. He even had the perfect spot to grab her and then later he was going to enjoy killing her.

Because if anyone deserved to die, it was Sam McCall. She was the reason that Diego killed his mother, so she would pay last, and have the most pain.

TBC