Chapter 15
Jason slipped into bed later that evening curling up around his wife, needing the comfort only she could provide.
Elizabeth turned around and said "What is it?"
Pulling her close, Jason told her everything. About the young girl alone on the streets, about Spinelli and Sam. About how he felt shame at knowing he had made excuses for her.
"You loved her. How many times have I made excuses for Lucky or even Ric when I was married to him? You loved her like I loved them. Seeing what you wanted to see." She said gently.
"There are things, things I did... the thing is, you are wrong. I am supposed to be able to see through to the darkness in people. I... I was willing to be with someone who could do something so vile, and went so far as to cover up things for her. I..." Did the same thing for Courtney, he said to himself sickened by the way he had acted in the past.
"We are all like that Jason." She said pulling him in close.
"No, see I saw the look in that girl's eyes and I knew the truth. I was with Sam and well Courtney because I never thought I... I never faced up to the fact that I pushed you away, let you walk out... for... for nothing. I hurt people I loved and now I learned that I did damage to those I didn't even know. All because some part of me, some part of me didn't want to admit a decision I made years ago, was wrong."
Jason could not help thinking of the man that Sonny had been then, was that also a case of seeing what he had wanted to. This girl had reminded him of Elizabeth and he knew that that was part of where the pain came from.
"Jason..." Elizabeth realized that he had seen in this girl's eyes what he had always expected to see in hers. "Jason, I have NEVER had any illusion about what you do, I have always known. I know that it is dangerous and dirty. I even know that part of you LOATHS who you become, but Jason that isn't who you are now."
"Elizabeth, I made that decision to let Sam stay, she was right about that. Not for the sex like she thought, but... because if I was wrong, then what would I have had left in my life. I made excuses like Sonny would have."
"Jason, we can only move forward. Accept that the past happened." She said. "You made a mistake. That is all."
"A mistake I can never apologize for. Then there is Spinelli going to Sam, saying I wanted to try again, it more than likely led to her telling about Jake. We know that she was partly responsible for the Russians, even Spinelli admits that she took chances to get me to do what I always do for people. I rescued her out of habit."
"Are you sure you want to kick him out of your life?" She said lifting her head from the hollow in Jason's neck.
"Yes." He said firmly. "He just never learns. If I need his help, I can hire him in a professional capacity, which will be it. Maybe he will mature and move on."
Alexis let Julian in, then said "They are in bed already. You had better have a damn good excuse. You told them you would visit for dinner."
"Does finding out Georgie Jones is alive and well, count?" He asked sitting down on her sofa. Seeing her stunned expression, he continued. "Rebecca is Emily. Trevor Lansing grabbed them both, why I don't know."
She lowered herself to the cushions and said "Alive?"
"Yes, alive. Georgie is even now camped out in a suite at the Metrocourt. Lansing had some doctor who was a behavior specialist mess with their minds. But he wasn't finished and that is why Emily turned up here. She told Georgie she felt a pull to this town after hearing about it from the owner of the diner where they worked."
"Georgie didn't?" She asked.
"No, in fact she only came here reluctantly. She feels more a sense of not wanting to be here."
"I have to call Mac." She said going to pick up her cell phone.
"You can't." He said firmly. "Anna arranged for a doctor to come and treat the two of them. While Rebecca is having memories, Georgie isn't. Seeing Mac or her sister could push her over the edge. We need to let things play out."
Alexis knew that if it were her daughter she would want to be there. Like she wanted with Elizabeth, and like she had tried with Sam when she believed she was hers. "Julian, maybe we can..."
"Lexie, no." he said. "Mac would want to be there for her, but we all know that won't work. I read the file on Spencer's brainwashing, I know that part of the problem was that afterwords he should have gotten more treatment. But instead people let him stop going. I know he was a pretty decent kid before hand. Do you want that for Georgie?"
"But it isn't the same thing. Helena did a real job on his mind."
"Yes and no, it isn't the same in that Georgie doesn't want to kill anyone, but we still don't know why these two girls were used as test subjects."
"If you had waited, I would have been able to answer that" said an annoyed Anna from the doorway with her hands on her hips. "Turns out it was just practice. He planned on using it on John and Claudia Zachara."
"How? What?" Asked Alexis.
"We just found the proof in the doctor's files. With Claudia married, and the doc gone, all this Lansing had left was the two women. My guess is he was holding them in reserve in case he needed something to use against Jason Morgan."
The next day, Carly let in Alexis and her daughters saying Morgan is outside with Jax.
"Is Cameron here yet?" Asked an eager Molly.
"No, he should be arriving soon though." Said Carly.
Alexis sighed; this was not going to be fun. Turning to Carly she said "Thank you for letting them come over."
"No problem. I should have thought of it, but I could not seem to get the fact that they are all related."
"Something I wish Molly had a problem with. She now thinks that since she is Cameron's aunt she can boss him around. I really wish Elizabeth hadn't tried to explain that. "
"Sort of like her Mother, huh. Always telling people what to do." Said Carly with smart-ass smiled. "We had better get out there before Kristina starts telling Jax how to light the grill since we know how much you Davis women like to boss others around."
Alexis just shook her head as they went through the door and out to the large backyard. Hearing the sound of more than just three kids, she was surprised to see Spencer there as well.
"Well we couldn't leave him out." Grumbled Carly at the look of surprise on Alexis' face. Hearing the sound of Cameron coming around the side of the house, Alexis saw that Jason and Elizabeth looked at little tense.
"What is it?" She asked approaching.
"Nothing, for right now. We will tell you later." Said Elizabeth cutting of Carly when she started to approach her best friend.
Turning to Elizabeth, she said what is going on? What did you do to Jason?
"Carly, nothing is gong on with me. Now leave it alone." He said tersely as he walked over. Julian had come over that morning and told them about Emily and Georgie Jones. Adding that to the Sam mess, Jason was more than a little worried about his sister and what Anna had told them there.
Elizabeth tried to avoid Carly, every since the apology in front of Monica and her mother along with Edward and Robin, they had declared a truce. But sometimes it was difficult to deal with the blond who didn't seem to get that Jason didn't want her popping in anymore.
Seeing Carly approaching them as they were leaving a few hours later, Elizabeth escorted Cameron and Jake to the truck knowing Jason had had enough of her questioning.
"Jason, what did she do to you?" Asked Carly forgetting all about her promise to stay out of things.
"Carly for the record, nothing happened between Elizabeth and I, we just learned something about Sam and Spinelli that upset me. Adding in the fact that I am readying things; changing over to being as legal as possible." He didn't tell her about Emily, it really wasn't any of her business.
"What about Spinelli?" She asked.
Jason weighed things in his mind then told her what had happened.
"So he is why all of last winter happened?" She asked stunned.
"Partly. I ordered him to move out of the penthouse by the end of the summer. I have had an offer on it as well as the one across the hall."
"Sell them, if I never see that penthouse again, I will be quite happy." She said still angry with Sonny. "Olivia introduced Dante to Morgan and wants to do the same with Kristina, but Alexis is waiting before making up her mind."
"I talked to Kate the other day. She said that they are leaving town at the end of the month." He said. "See you later, Carly."
The blond watched as her best friend left, with a twisted smile, she had to admit that the only reason he had stayed as long as had was because of Elizabeth, so it looked like there were some good things coming from that relationship.
Alexis was leaving when Jax thanked her for bringing the girls over. "I think Morgan needed to see his sister and cousin."
"I know the same thing for the girls. How is Michael doing?"
"The same, Carly had hope for that new procedure but it isn't for someone in Michael's condition. Between the baby and Morgan, I think it helps to keep her busy though." He said looking on as his wife turned Spencer over to his nanny. "Alexis, I don't mean to criticize but where is Nik? Why isn't he here with Spencer?"
Looking over at Spencer she said "This is one time you would be wrong about the reason. He made a decision to get away from Spoon Island; he wants to raise his son away from there. He just bought Elizabeth's house."
Alexis also knew that he was reeling from what he had been told about Emily.
Seeing his expression, she said "Julian had a house here, he gave it to Elizabeth in exchange for her ownership of his dad's old house."
"Really, so they are moving soon?" He asked hoping that if it was far enough out of town, Carly might stop trying to find excuses to just pop over.
"Next week. We are talking, it might be a while before there is any kind of mother and daughter connection, but I have hope. She seems to have been getting close to Julian."
"What is going on between the two of you? Rumor is you were caught at the Quartermaine boathouse with him." He said with a slight smile.
"The usual stuff. I say one thing; he just cajoles me into doing what he wants. Julian says I have become too stiff and too much of a stick in the mud."
Pretending shock Jax said "NO! I would have never guessed. I mean you were pretty EASY GOING when I first met you."
"You would not believe the way Mr. Julian told us mommy acted." Said Kristina as she joined them excitedly. "He said Mommy used to be wild, that she jumped off a bridge and went swimming late at night. I don't get why that one is such a big deal." With a shrug she walked towards the car while Alexis blushed at the knowing look on her friend's face.
"Not a word, Jasper Jacks." She warned as she gathered a tired Molly and left.
Gathering Carly into his arms, Jax said "Well that went well."
Sighing she said "Yes, I can't believe how much Jake looks like Jason and yet acts just like Elizabeth."
Laughing, he pulled her into the house saying "Morgan is taking a shower as we speak, why don't we do the same then I will take you both to the movies."
Anna and Robert dealt with getting Georgie to listen to the doctor then gently showed her the photos and yearbooks. "I can't be this girl, I mean she doesn't act at all like I do."
"That is the result of what this doctor did to you." Said Anna sitting on the chair.
"So you are saying that Rebecca is this Emily Quartermaine, and we were murdered, or rather our deaths were faked. Then he had us brainwashed for practice?" She said doubtfully. "For practice? I think that you have been watching too many spy movies. Next you will tell me that you work for the government."
"Weeeellllll... not the US Government." Said Robert. "We work for a secret..."
"Yeah, right." She said not believing a word of it. "So you said that Mac is my stepfather, where are my biological parents?"
Anna explained and grimaced when she saw the look in Georgie's eyes. Calling Elizabeth, she asked the younger woman to stopover and visit. "Elizabeth knows you and the other you know her without any emotional attachments."
Jason and the boys dropped Elizabeth off then he took them home knowing they needed a good bath. When he had them in the hot soapy, he took pleasure in having the time to take care of his sons by himself. When they were ready, he sat with them out onto the porch and saw Maxie Jones entering Robins' house.
Patrick came out soon after, avoiding the blond since hearing what she had pulled. "Morgan."
"Do you mind keeping an eye on the boys; there is something I need to say to Maxie." He asked the man a bit amused to realize that over the past few months they had declared a weird truce.
"Sure, we can play race cars in the den." Cam was excited; he loved beating Doctor Patrick at Race cars. Patrick took them around to the side door when he saw that Maxie was getting ready to leave after what looked like an argument with Robin.
Jason gave a nod to the guards and they 'escorted' the blond over. "You can't force me to come over here."
"Well, we can talk about how you broke into my house, since I know that I didn't give you a key and according to Spinelli he didn't either." Jason said as he crossed his arms. "Then we can discuss what you knew about Sam's plan to send my children into danger."
"I knew nothing about that." She said trying to avoid his eyes. She wasn't really lying, she hadn't known Jake was his son.
"Really, you are a lying bitch." He said coldly. "I know all Maxie, why do you think you lost your job. The man you are working for now, is in financial trouble, I already talked to him. How long do you think before he fires you as well?"
Maxie started to protest then saw the look in his eyes. "Why aren't you blaming Spinelli as well? Or yourself, you were all so friendly with Sam when it suited your purposes."
"I don't owe you any explanations. As for Spinelli, he no longer works for me, nor will he be living in my penthouse after August. You on the other hand, you blame Elizabeth for way too many things. I am going to keep making you pay for the harm you did to my family. Every time you get a job, every time you find a place to live. I am going to take everything you have away." He said.
"But-" she started to protest. "Spinelli wouldn't-"
"No one can help you and we both know that I am rich enough for it to not make a difference to me." He said. "I have never used my money against another person but you, you I am going to ruin. Until you make an honest effort and come to understand that you and only you are responsible for what happened in the past. Not even Lucky is responsible for what happened to you."
Seeing the scared look on her face, Jason sighed. He hadn't intended for things to go this far, but he had good idea what she had done. Well no more passes for women like her. Carly was getting the hint and soon so would Maxie, she had a chance to change, he was hoping she would take it.
"Why?" She asked bewildered. "For Elizabeth?"
"Yes. Even now, even knowing what you did, she is helping you. Something for you to think about when you learn what has been going on in the past few days. Now go home and think about what you have done."
Elizabeth gently talked to Georgie, telling some of things that she could recall as the younger girl explained her first session with Anna's doctor from Pine Valley.
"So this happened to your ex-boyfriend." She said as she got comfortable with the kind woman.
"It was a little different." Said Elizabeth as she got ready to leave. "Here, this is my phone number, if you ever need an impartial ear, give me a call."
Taking the piece of paper, she gave her a shy smile as Julian escorted his daughter home. "Thank you for the ride. My guard is waiting for me."
"And miss spending time with my daughter." He said with a smile. "I hear your friend is fairly accepting of truly being Emily."
"She is working with Lainey." Said Elizabeth wishing that she had been there but the doctors had decided that it would be only be Monica until the drugs worked.
Getting a call as they pulled up he told Elizabeth and Jason who had joined them in the driveway, "I have a meeting with Mac Scorpio. Alexis went and told him that Anna had found Georgie."
Alexis had been very vocal earlier that day when speaking about the situation. Jason got where she was coming from, but thought that their first priority had to be Georgie.
Mac wondered why Alexis had asked him to meet her at the Q's. When the attorney and Julian arrived and argued before walking over, he was even more confused.
Ten minutes later Mac sat stunned, then turned to Anna and said "Are you sure it is Georgie?"
"Yes, but she isn't ready to deal with her family. I brought in a doctor I know, and my ex-husband. David is an expert on these type drugs, so while he is working that angle, they are working with Georgie."
"How long?" He asked looking at Rebecca/Emily as she joined them.
"That doctor is creating a cocktail, so I am going to be the first to take it. Then your daughter." She assured the man. "Since I felt a pull towards Port Charles, we think that I am less likely to resist it mentally."
Julian and Alexis were arguing with someone outside his hotel room when Georgie woke up. She rubbed her sore arm where the doctor had given her the second shot a few hours earlier.
Walking to the door, she saw the man who had been helping her arguing with a couple in shadows. "Would you please take this argument elsewhere?"
They watched as she slammed the door, Julian turning to Alexis saying. "I think I proved my point." Mac just walked away, dazed as he realized his daughter truly didn't know him.
"Yes that it is on the top of your head and needs to be hammered down." She snapped before going to the elevator. Following her, he stopped her as she got on and kissed her thoroughly, then hit the button for the lobby.
"You know you missed me." With that the doors closed before she could make the retort on her lips. Sauntering back to his room, he went to bed knowing that tomorrow was going to be interesting.
As the various guests arrived for the party, Monica was helping Rebecca deal with her other half's past. "Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, Nik and I talked. I don't think we are ever going to get that part of us back." She said sadly.
Monica hoped her daughter wasn't making a mistake, but the talk with Elizabeth about what had happened to Lucky and her in the past had helped.
Walking down the stairs, Monica was excited. Even Tracy's sons had made the trip across country to help celebrate the adoption as well as the return of Emily. "Ned, where is Brooklynn?"
"She is outside with Kate Howard and Olivia Falconari. Did you know about Sonny's son?" He asked still amused at the idea of even more Corinthos kids. Hadn't that man ever heard of condoms?
Dillon saw Maxie pouting in the corner while talking to Mac. He went over to see her, needing that quick contact with his old love's sister. Seeing Spinelli arriving and then only saying a few words to the blond intrigued him. Last he had heard, they were seeing each other. "Maxie, how are you?"
"Well if you cousin wasn't trying to ruin my life, I would be great." She said pouting and then perking up when she saw the hot looking guy talking to Kate and her cousin. Dillon shook his head, same old Maxie as he saw Spinelli talking to a dark haired man who did not look happy with him.
"Look, I doubt that Maxie or you were meant to be on the guest list, why don't you leave?" Johnny knew that Jason was not going to be happy with his being here.
"I don't know who you are, but Spinelli is welcome and so is Maxie." Said Dillon as he approached.
"Really, talked to your cousin lately, heard about how Maxie and his irresponsibility led to the kidnapping of Jake Morgan and the almost end of Jason and Elizabeth?" Mocked Johnny. "That Spinelli has been kicked out of the penthouse?"
"Spinelli, what is he talking about?" Asked Dillon as Brooklynn and some dark haired friend from her old neighborhood approached. Spinelli found himself confessing to Stone Cold's cousin and the rest of the late Fair Georgie's friends.
Johnny just shook his head and walked away, sick of the whole thing. Walking over to see Matt Hunter and his brother discussing drug protocols, he rescued baby Emma from boredom by making faces at her.
"You know if your face freezes like that, I know a good surgeon." Teased Robin.
Flushing he said "I have never been around kids much."
"You look like you would enjoy them." She said then added. "Not that your entertaining my little one isn't funny, but why are you not hanging around with your friends?"
"Them?" He asked pointing at the mess with the voices getting louder in annoyance. "They are really my only choice. Have you ever felt maturer than anyone around you?"
"Quite a bit." She said with a slight smile. "I know that things were rough, but you have family now."
"I know I have been over at Elizabeth's. She has been more than welcoming, but I feel awkward."
"Because of who your father was?"
Laughing he said "For once that isn't it. Have you ever seen Jason and her, after the boys are in bed. I feel like a fifth wheel."
"Gotcha." She said with a laugh. "What about Lulu weren't you seeing her?"
"She was fun, but long term, I don't think we were meant to make it. Our end goals are too different."
Robin didn't add the level of maturity as well. Seeing Nik, she sighed. She had hoped things would work out for Emily and him, but that too much had changed.
Looking around she saw that Elizabeth and Jason were talking to Monica who was hugging both of the boys who in turn were trying to go and play with their friends. Seeing Cam's look of relief on his face as he raced away as quickly as possible made both of them laugh.
"What?" Asked Patrick. He had heard most of her conversation with Johnny and knew that she was thinking of trying to set him up with someone. It was how Robin was, everything had to have a place, and everything had to fit.
Then she watched as Patrick took Emma over to where the younger set were playing on the newly built jungle gym set that put the local private elementary school's to shame.
Jason saw the way Elizabeth was trying to drag him off, but that no one seemed to be willing to let her. Wondering what was going on, he saw the desperate look on her face and quickly pulled her into a private alcove. "What is it? Do you want to leave?"
Sighing she knew that her plan had been shot to heck the previous evening. Jason had been at a meeting and after getting good news had been more than a little happy to see her. They had gotten distracted and her planned surprise had gone out the window.
The problem was that working in the hospital meant too many people knew or had figured it out and she had wanted to find some private time to tell him the news. So much for that, she thought ironically. "I have something to tell you."
"Elizabeth!" Shouted Nadine as she looked for her with Steven. He had seen the couple so he suggested that they try inside having a good idea what Elizabeth was trying to do.
"What is it?" He asked worried. Elizabeth had been keeping a secret for days and he was now more than a little concerned.
"I'm ..."
"Jason, where are you?" Shouted an excited Carly. She had overheard Monica and Bobbie talking about Elizabeth being pregnant and wanted to congratulate him on being able to be there all the way this time.
Elizabeth knew that Carly was like a bloodhound and would not give up. "Okay, here it is. I am pregnant. Four weeks."
"Preg...?" He started to say, shocked, awed and ready to commit murder when Alexis saw them and started to call out to Julian. Knowing what he was about to do was wrong, he did it anyhow. Placing his hand on her mouth, he said "Not a word, now go away, we are trying to hide. We are having a baby, so go away."
Elizabeth grabbed her stomach from laughing as Alexis' eyes went from furious; to stunned and then to excited as she realized what he was saying. When she was released, Alexis rushed to find someone to tell, seeing Mac refereeing an argument between Julian and Robert with Bobbie and Carly there as well. She knew EXACTLY whom she wanted to tell.
"Congratulations, grandpa."
The three men looked at one another, Mac sick with worry that Maxie had done something foolish and Robert wondering if Robin was pregnant again. "So Julian, anything to say?"
Getting it, he said idly wanting to annoy her some more yet have witnesses for what he was about to do, he said "Don't you think that before our daughter has more kids, maybe her parents should be wed first?"
Carly was laughing at the way Alexis' jaw dropped when it hit her what she had said. "How do you know that?"
"Jason just told me." She said well aware that Carly had been trying to find confirmation of the baby since arriving.
Hurt that Jason hadn't told her yet, she walked off to see Jax talking to Ned. "So have they made the announcement yet?"
"You KNOW?" She asked her feeling really hurt now. "Jason told you about the baby before me?"
Both men denying what she was talking about, Jax drew her off and explained about Kate and her former boss Warren James getting married.
Elizabeth found herself being carried up the back stairs of the Quartermaine mansion once Jason had gotten himself back under control. First had come the shock, then the excitement, then the worry they had been too rough the night before, followed by his being rather 'excited' by the idea, hence the visit to his old room.
Laying her down, Jason lifted the A-line dress and removed it leaving his wife only in her bra and panties. "Jason, the boys!" She said laughing as he went to the window and then said "They are with Edward and Alice, I think we are safe."
Quickly unbuttoning his shirt, he soon joined her on the bed, slowly removing the rest of their clothes while enjoying the teasing and laughter as they found the joy too much to contain. "So a girl or boy?"
"I don't care." He said kissing his way down her neck. "Healthy and happy."
Panting, she said "I sort of want a girl, I feel a little outnuummmbb.." She didn't finish as Jason kissed his way down her still flat stomach and and settled between her thighs. "JJJASSSSEE..."
Jason and Elizabeth had felt their body temperatures lower as they got their breath back. Hearing the sound of people calling their names, she said while laughing "You are the one explaining this one."
"We just look them in the eyes and tell them it is none of their business" he said looking around for Elizabeth's bra as they got dressed.
"Oh my god, I can't go without a bra, not in this dress." She said moaning. "I am going to..."
Jason decided to distract her by lightly sucking on said problem when she held his head and said "Behave, you got me into this mess like that."
Slipping on her dress, she felt her body reacting to the soft silky material and said roughly. "Help me!"
"I was trying; you are the one insisting on getting dressed." He said sitting on the bed, thinking this was one of the more enjoyable parties he had ever been at.
Glaring at him, she heard the sound of arguing and went to the window. Listening in, she started laughing and came over to pull Jason to the window.
"You are deranged aren't you? You are just looking for someone to take care of you when you are in the insane asylum." They heard hissed back.
"Sure, so I chose my neurotic ex-girlfriend who would toss my rear into the nearest government run facility. I am asking you to marry me; I even did it in front of witnesses this time."
"Stop making a mockery of me." She was sure it was all a joke.
"I am serious, I think that before we become grandparents again, it might help our daughter to know that she has the stability of a happy family. So marry me, besides, Molly and Kristina are already on my side."
"Only because you bribed them with horses." She whispered back.
"It worked; nice thing is I am rich enough that the bribes can keep getting bigger until you just give in. Com'n Lexie we would have been together a long time ago, if we had done what we wanted then."
"Go away, Julian, go annoy someone else. I think that Diane is still into bad boys, maybe Olivia is if she isn't."
"Sorry, I don't share with relatives. She had a One-Night Stand with Johnny a few weeks ago. Nothing came of it, but I am not going there, so save me Alexis. Save me from dying a lonely old man with a broken heart."
Elizabeth could not help it, she leaned out the window and said "Since Molly and Kristina got horses, what do I get if I throw my vote your way, Julian?"
Looking up in amusement, he saw the horror on Alexis' face as she realized that Elizabeth and Jason had to have heard the whole thing. "Well since I doubt a pony will do, what would you like?"
Thinking on it, she gave Jason a slow smile and asked "Did you give them riding lessons as well?"
"Yes, why?" He asked getting the feeling he was about to regret his answer.
"Then I want a bike, a nice shiny black motorcycle with lessons. If not from you than from Jason." She said with a sidelong look at his expression.
"No way." He said crossing his arms.
Julian looked up and said, "Sorry, have to go with Jason on this one."
"In that case, Alexis I am on your side. Don't marry him. Don't let the man bully his way. Julian, instead of stalking her, why don't you try doing normal date things, like dinner and movie, or maybe ice skating, how about a picnic. You know the things that women like?" She said with another look at Jason.
"Why do I get the feeling that advice was for more than your father?" Asked Alexis amused as she saw her daughter pulled back gently into the room and then the sound of male laughter from above.
"Lexie, I still love you. Say yes?" He asked.
Looking into his eyes, she said "I must be insane. Yes."
Arriving back at the party, Elizabeth felt self-conscious as they joined the boys while waiting for Monica's announcement about the adoption. Seeing the look on Carly's face, Elizabeth couldn't help wondering what had her so upset, as the pregnant blond seemed to be leaning on Jax for emotional support.
"As many of you are aware this party is a celebration of life. From the return of my daughter, Emily to Cameron officially joining the family as well as the baby that Elizabeth is carrying." She said with a smile. When everyone else had been looking for the couple earlier, she kept well aware that they had more than likely been celebrating.
"But it is more than that, we have been through a rough couple of years, we lost some people along the way. But it is time to move on to the future, so lets be thankful for those we have in our lives and for those in the future." She said before toasting them with the sparking juice that was in the glasses.
Mac knew that Maxie was avoiding him and went to find Robin. He said that he had news about Georgie and suggested that she get Maxie and meet him by the Quartermaine docks.
Arriving, Maxie asked "Did Emily know something?"
"Yes." He said not as happy as he should have been. "Georgie is alive. She is here in town."
After all the happiness had settled, Robin and Maxie insisted on seeing her. Mac waited until Anna and Elizabeth had joined them before explaining. Maxie paled while Robin asked Elizabeth how she was involved.
"I was the impartial person she talked to yesterday. It is Georgie, but she is going to need time. From what was explained to me earlier, this is nothing like what happened to Lucky." She said smiling when she saw her cousin approaching with Jason.
"What do you mean?" Asked Maxie not liking that Elizabeth of all people was helping HER sister.
"David said that Emily was taken first, so she was the first test subject. This doctor fixed the mistakes he made with Emily's training. It is one of the reasons that Emily still felt a pull towards here. Georgie he used the better technique on. Her training went a little deeper."
"But Emily is fine, right?" Asked Maxie as Robin recalled what Nik had told her earlier.
"No, there was emotional damage. She doesn't remember loving Nik, or Spencer. She has her love for her family but that is still a little weak."
"She is able to remember dark emotions much easier than happy ones." Said Elizabeth. "Same thing with Georgie."
"So what you are saying is that my sister won't recognize me. YOU are wrong; you have NO idea of the bond between us." Said Maxie as tears flew down her face.
"Why did he do this, that is the one thing no one will tell me?" Said Mac.
Sighing, Anna wished that Johnny wasn't here as she explained what Trevor had planned. Seeing him pale, she said "You are not at fault. Lansing was."
Walking away, he saw the party in the distance and got into his car and drove needing to get away.
Maxie left after realizing where they had her sister, bulldozing her way into the room; she was stunned at the fact that her sister didn't even seem to see her. "Georgie?"
The girl looked up and said "Maxie; you are the one who is my sister right?"
"Yeah." She said sitting down, knowing that they had been wrong.
"Good, then maybe you can explain the rest of these to me." She said showing her a family photo album. "Who are these people and what are these pictures about?"
Four hours later, Maxie left feeling as flat as a human being could. Wandering the streets, she found herself going to see Robin, but instead of pulling into her drive she went into the one next door.
The guards were outside watching Elizabeth sketch on the porch as Jason took his turn putting the boys to bed again. "Mrs. Morgan?" Said the guard.
Looking up she saw the expression on Maxie face, and setting down her pad, walked off the porch to meet the blond. Seeing the girl with bewildered eyes, Elizabeth got what was going on as the blond let the tears flow and then the knees gave way, Elizabeth held onto her as shudders raked through the younger girl's body.
"SShh. It might not be the same, but I promise, you will get through it." She said rubbing her shoulders as the blond's head landed in her lap as the sobs were heard throughout the yard.
Jason walked out onto the porch, wanting to protest but knowing that there was no way Elizabeth wouldn't help the young girl. Seeing her expression as she looked up to him, he went back inside and called over to see if Robin was home.
When they had gotten her over to the doctor's house, he saw his wife returning. "She is wreck."
"What happened and why did she come here?"
"Because she knew that I had been there, she told me that in between the sobbing." She said curling up with him on the sofa. "I think Maxie is going to need help. Haywood says Georgie will regain the memories but none of her previous emotions."
Jason shivered he had been there before, but he thought having the memories would make it worse, much much worse. "What caused this incident?"
"Georgie told her that she only came here to help Emily/Rebecca, she is leaving for Europe tomorrow. I think it was what set this off."
Jason was walking up the stairs with Elizabeth recalling how much they had gained and yet had lost. Tomorrow they were moving into their new home, moving towards that future together they had always wanted.
He only hoped that others would find what they needed. Feeling the tug from Elizabeth, he realized he had stopped on the stairs. Looking up at her, he was once again amazed at how beautiful the woman he was married to was.
Not only her outer beauty, but the inner beauty that allowed her to help those in need, to love him in spite of what he had done in the past. "I love you, you do know that don't you?"
"Yes." She said smiling. "I love you too."
Twenty months later..
Jason was trying to convince his one-year-old son that a coat was necessary as they went to pick out up his brothers. Hearing the sound of soft laughter he looked up to see his wife sitting on the central staircase. "What are you doing up?"
"Kelly said I am fine. Just a little dehydrated." She said. "I can't believe I am pregnant again."
"You said you wanted a girl." He said "Something about evening things out around here."
Walking down, she took the coat and soon had Alain's coat on him. "Well we do have Stefanie living with us."
"You are still down one." He reminded his wife. She had found Sam's young victim and had slowly brought the girl into their lives. Stef had finally given in when she had helped Elizabeth's guard when she went into labor at Kelly's. Now the young girl was a sophomore at PCU, and with Lainey's help dealing with the past.
"Maybe I will have twins this time." She said smugly. Seeing his expression, she said "No, I don't know anything you don't know."
Hearing his phone ringing, she took Alain so that he could answer it. Whatever was said soon had him looking at her worried. Seeing Alain down, she said what is it as soon as the phone call was over.
"How are things with Maxie?"
"She is still missing her sister, why?" Maxie had been suicidal after Georgie's return and quick exit. Elizabeth had been the one to get through to the girl who was now dating Matt Hunter and well on her way to being a normal human being again.
She had confessed all she had done in the past to Elizabeth the day she had stood on the top of the Metrocourt hotel and tried to jump. Jax had pulled the blond back in, he had been going to take his helicopter up to Montreal when he had seen her.
Elizabeth had forgiven her and as the younger girl finally got the mental health help she should have gotten years ago, they had declared a truce.
"That was Johnny Zachara, he found Georgie. They are together and neither is ready to come home, but he wanted us to tell Mac that they got married and are expecting."
Elizabeth all but fell down she was so astonished. "Georgie? Johnny, how? You only talked to him two days ago?"
"Turns out they have been together, traveling the entire time. That was why he dropped out of sight. They meet at the airport." He said shaking his head. "When he called the other day, he chickened out in regards to telling us."
"Maxie, wow. She is not going to take this well. She still has hope that the old Georgie will come home."
Jason arrived at the Jacks residence to pick up the boys, knowing that their presence was helping Morgan cope with his losses. First they had lost Michael, his body had grown weaker, and then Carly had killed herself when she had miscarried days later. She had walked into the front of a bus, completely despondent upon hearing that she would never have another child.
"Thanks for letting them come over." Said a weary Jax. He still felt guilty about Carly, having saved Maxie but not his wife.
"We know that it helps." Said Jason. He still felt horrible about his old friend. Elizabeth had suggested that she would need some help but the blond had ignored her and Jason hadn't pushed either Jax or her about it.
Soon the boys were home running around waiting for their grandparents to join them along with their aunts. Hearing the sound Grandma Monica talking to Grandma Audrey they rushed out to greet them. "Guess what, Mommy is sick again."
"What?" Asked Monica worried they should have canceled until she saw her daughter and Robin leaving the kitchen talking. "What is wrong with Elizabeth?"
"Baby Morgan on the way again." Said Robin still shocked. Alain was barely a year old and they were having another one.
Sitting down to dinner, Elizabeth asked. "Robin, how is Maxie doing?"
"Fine, she is busy planning her wedding. Talk about the bride from h*ll, this is going to be huge." She said watching as Patrick faked being scared.
Telling them what was going on, Robin knew that this news would hurt Maxie. Lowering her voice, she said "Jax had lunch with Nadine this week."
"I know, but I am not sure it is what you think." She said. "I hope I am wrong, but Jax is still carrying a lot of guilt about Carly. You know that they had been fighting for months before that."
Nodding, they were joking about Kelly and Cody getting caught by Spinelli in the office and that the younger man had been rushed to the hospital for stitches to a head wound when he had tried to back away unseen.
"Have you talked to Lulu since her return with Ethan?"
"No, I saw them with Spinelli and we waved but I think she sees me as a reminder of her brother. Nik said she avoids discussing Lucky at all costs."
"I think that he is still reeling from the mess with Emily marrying Leo. That was one I wasn't expecting especially since the last woman I ever heard of his being interested in was you."
"I had no idea." said Elizabeth as she asked Robin about Mac. "I know that with Max and Diane broke up that they went out a few times."
"Nothing happened. He also went out with the old Mayor's wife as well."
"Scary woman." said Elizabeth. "Cold as ice."
Jason was talking to his mother watching as Robin and his wife talked to Patrick and Julian who joined them. Seeing Alexis walking over and handing the phone to Julian, he saw the man laugh then hang up and announce they were leaving.
Kissing his daughter, he whispered something in her ear and Jason saw her look up at him then she whispered something back.
Once the party had cleared out, Jason found himself dragged out to the garage where a nice and shiny motorcycle stood. Bright red with a matching helmet. "Do you think I will ever learn to ride it." she said touching her small stomach.
"Not if I have my way." he said leaning in to kiss her. "I figure I will just keep your pregnant, that should keep you off that bike.
Elizabeth found herself pinned to the back of the SUV as Jason kissed his way down her neck
"That is just gross." said an incoming Stephanie as she parked. "Hasn't any one ever told you that if you are going to make out, at least be inside the car. 'sides, she is already pregnant."
"You do know that I can make you disappear?" threatened Jason from where he was standing.
Laughing she said "Yes, but then who would be around to annoy you?"
"I have a whole list of people that do that. You are a very small cog on that list." he said with a smile. "I would have thought Diane would have kept you busy longer."
"The slave driver is sending me to New York tomorrow morning, now I am going to play with Cameron." she said blowing a raspberry at the man who had become like a bossy older uncle to her. "Night Elizabeth."
"Night Stef." she said laughing. "Wait, can you keep an eye on the boys for a while. The guards are here and so is my grams."
"Sure, where are you going?"
"To take your suggestion." Driving away, Jason drove out the cliff roads to the old bridge and soon got to do something he didn't recall getting to do ever. He finally made love in a car. "Elizabeth, next time we should move to the back seat."
Catching her breath, she replied. "Well, I am going first." with that she slipped into the back as Jason chuckled then joined her.
"I love pregnancy hormones." was the last thing heard out of either of them for the next two hours as they made up for lost time. Then Jason pulled her into his arms and grabbed the boys blanket out of the back so that they could cuddle before heading home.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
The End