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Chapter 10

"Dead man walking." A voice called out and a chorus of laughter followed from further in the house.

"I just walked through the door. You would think you might start with hello or I'm really glad you didn't die in the plane crash." Jason said shaking his head.

"Where is the fun in that?" Johnny O'Brien laughed at his longtime friend.

"I didn't think you were coming." Jason said as they were walking toward the kitchen since everyone else would be there.

"You seriously expect me to miss Sonny being brought down. You shot me because of him." Johnny reminded Jason.

"You were wearing a vest." Jason reminded Johnny.

"Accidents can still happen. You might have missed. On purpose." The Irishman said grinning. "Look who I found." He said to the rest of the crew.

Jason looked at the men sitting at the table playing cards. Good men who he hadn't seen in far too long.

"Nice hair." Francis said snickering.

"Elizabeth likes it." Jason said grinning. He walked over to the table and sat down. "How are you Marco?"

"Good." The former Corinthos Morgan guard replied. "I hear congratulations are in order. I always did like Ms. Webber."

"She was the best of all the ladies you dated." Paulie said to his former boss.

"Please." Johnny snorted picking up his cards. "She was the only lady he dated. The rest needed to be dipped in bleach. Some of them twice."

"Man if Renaldo was here it would be like old times." Paulie still missed his friend.

"Jason this is Shawn Butler." Francis clapped his friend on the shoulder. He was the only person in the room Jason didn't know. "He's been watching out for Liz."

"Thank you." Jason said he appreciated it.

"You're welcome. It's actually been the easiest assignment I've ever had." Shawn told the table.

"Ms. Webber never gave the guards grief." Marco told Shawn.

"You can tell she's had some safety training. She never gets in her car without checking the backseat, she always parks under a street light. She even makes eye contact with people when she walks down the street." That last one often deterred someone out to make mischief. They were less likely to attack you if you got a good look at them. She didn't know he was there, so she was looking out for herself. Shawn liked that.

"That's our Liz." Johnny said grinning. "If only you had stopped there." He couldn't resist the chance to take another shot at his friend.

"Where's Cody?" Jason hoped he hadn't been hurt.

"Making a call." Francis threw out three cards and took more from Paulie who was dealing. "He's getting Stan on the search you wanted done."

Another person Sonny thought was dead. The tech guy had wanted out but Sonny had no plans on letting him go. So Jason arranged an accident. If all went according to plan then the young man would be able to talk to his mother for the first time in years very soon. "Who else is on your crew?" Jason recalled Francis saying he had a guy inside the Zacchara organization.

"Logan Hayes." Francis told his friend. "When you are ready he'll be the one to take out Anthony."

Cody came back in the room. "Good to see you." He said slapping Jason on the back. "Wanna tell us where you've been."

Jason told them about the crash, the island, and the pilot who saved his life. He also mentioned the oil tanker that rescued them. "Shit, that's like something you see in a movie." Paulie said shaking his head. "I'm glad you made it back."

"We'll get this last part wrapped up so you and Liz can focus on the more important things. Like your baby, which is?" Francis prodded wanting to know the gender.

"Healthy." Jason said grinning at the table. Knowing them they had a pool going. Mob guys would bet on anything. "That's all you're getting unless Elizabeth says it's okay to tell you."

"Fair enough." Francis answered for the group. "So are we getting rid of Sonny or are we taking out all the trash?"

"We are cleaning house." Jason told his friend. "Ric is already gone he left to be near his daughter when Alexis moved after we got Kristina back. Sonny, Sam, and possibly Spinelli need to go." Anyone who might be an issue was getting handled.

"Possibly?" Johnny wanted to know.

"I'm fairly certain that Spinelli had been monitoring me when I left, but I need proof before we deal with him." Jason said throwing out some cards and taking more. Honestly it hurt to think that the hacker had betrayed him. Jason had been good to the kid. Hell this whole situation hurt. After the Carly incident it never occurred to him that Sonny would stab him in the back again.

"We will look into it. When are you resurfacing?" Francis asked his friend.

"The day after tomorrow or two days from now at the latest. With the baby due at any point I want this handled. My aunt is going through Gino's paperwork so I want to give her some time to see if she can find anything about the Zaccharas." Jason said rubbing the back of his neck.

"I have a source inside the Feds, we can throw Sonny to the wolves." Francis suggested. "If we give them him they will most likely stay away from Port Charles for a good long time."

"He needs to die." Johnny wasn't going to settle for anything else.

"I have to agree with Johnny." Marco spoke up. "Sonny is all about revenge, you have a family now."

"He will die, but if we go with what Francis is suggesting it puts some distance between us and the crime." Jason said thinking about it. It would be better for Jason if his partner died outside of Port Charles if at all possible. A plane crash wouldn't work because Sonny had done that to him.

"Anthony will also have to die." Paulie added to the conversation. "What about the daughter?" None of them were looking to hurt a woman, but if she was going to be a continued threat she would go too.

"And the son?" Marco also wanted to know. The fact that Shawn and Cody weren't talking much wasn't surprising they were pretty quiet by nature.

"John shouldn't be an issue. He's been trying to get out of the life for years." Jason told the table what he recalled about the Zacchara heir. "If we take out the family we need to figure out what to do with the territory. Are you ready to come out of hiding?" Jason asked Johnny. Francis was going to take Sonny's place as Jason's partner.

"More than ready." Johnny grinned. "Not that I haven't enjoyed being Duke's guest, but I'm up for a change." The Irishman spent the first few years after 'dying' in Venezuela. When Duke Lavery got his own territory in Toronto, Johnny had moved there and been granted his friend's protection. Spending the last ten years living under an alias was not something he enjoyed.

"What about the Giambettis?" Jason didn't want to go up against Maximus if he could help it. Max was blindly loyal to Sonny, and might do something stupid.

"Funny thing about that." Marco said grinning. "Right after your plane went down, both boys were told to return home."

"Maximus didn't want them working for just Sonny." Paulie filled in. "So they are not an issue." Paulie was based in Italy. He often worked for Maximus in a freelance capacity. "I think he would appreciate not having Anthony to worry about."

"He could have saved us all a lot of work by just taking Zacchara out." Cody finally spoke up.

"Rudy was a good friend of his." Marco said folding his hand. "He wouldn't kill Anthony out of respect for that relationship. Besides why get his hands dirty when eventually someone else would handle the problem. Anthony has a list of enemies as long as my arm."

"Might be the way to get rid of him." Paulie suggested. "Let one of those enemies lose on him. Who could we call? What about your girlfriend? Her family hated the Zaccharas." The former guard snickered.

"She's not my girlfriend." Johnny said clearly irritated. "We just like spending time together."

"You have a girlfriend?" Jason said slowly smiling. "Who?" He asked looking at Paulie.

"Johnny has been spending time with Olivia St. John." Marco happily provided the information when it became clear that Paulie would not.

"You are dating Victor Jerome's daughter?" Jason said surprised. He didn't know if that or the fact that the woman was still breathing was more shocking.

"We are both supposed to be dead, so why not?" Johnny liked Olivia very much. Duke was also providing protection for her. It was her price for giving Duke the information he needed to able to get revenge on her siblings Jerome and Ava. Olivia enjoyed a healthy dose of vengeance.

"Based on you two the afterlife might not be so bad." Shawn grinned showing his cards and then taking he pot.

"It's always the quiet ones." Francis said in disgust. "Corelli." He answered his buzzing phone. "Hold on." He put it on speaker and laid it down on the table. "Go ahead Stan."

"Samantha McCall isn't pregnant. The surgery she had was not successful." Stan reported to the guys. "Since we don't have to worry about a baby I can make her the first domino to fall if you like."

Jason just shook his head, once a con always a con. He did wonder how Sam expected to pull this off.

"How?" Johnny wanted to know.

"She's got several outstanding warrants on her, but under different names. She has a nice thick file in their database, they don't know she's in Port Charles." Stan provided.

"Your call." Francis said looking over at Jason.

Jason knew about the cons. He had the same file in his safe. Unless it was destroyed in his absence. Sonny had the combination to the safe for emergency purposes. Jason was glad he kept his personal mementos in another location. No doubt Sonny would have destroyed them which meant that the ring Jason bought for Elizabeth the first time he left would be gone. He wanted to see that ring on her finger. "Do it. Any clue who will come get her?" They didn't want the wrong Fed in their city.

"Nope." Stan could direct the file to anyone they wanted.

"See if John McBain is still in the New York office." Jason told the tech guy.

"That will work." Johnny said smiling. "Once McBain clues in to the fact that Sam knows Sonny she may do our work for us."

"Why?" Cody said looking from Johnny to Jason. He didn't know the history of the various players.

"McBain thinks that Sonny killed his younger sister Theresa." Jason filled Cody in. The newly resurrected mob boss was guessing Shawn didn't know this either. "He's wrong. Joe Scully Jr. killed Theresa." Jason knew that for a fact.

"There's a name I haven't heard in forever." Paulie said of the stroll they were taking down memory lane. "Will Sam talk about what she knows?"

"To save herself, she'll sing like the proverbial canary." Jason told the table. "Not right away of course. First she'll hold out for a deal."

"That could work too." Johnny told everyone. "We get her picked up, then get a message to her. You're alive but haven't come forward because you don't want to deal with Elizabeth. We can tell Sam that you will get her out, but you need her to sell out Sonny first. Just Sonny. Once they both are in custody you come forward."

"You think that will keep her from spilling about Jason?" Shawn wanted to know.

"She will not turn down a chance for us to get back together." Jason knew that for a fact. She didn't love him, but loved the power that came with being his girlfriend.

"McBain will want to protect his witness. After her statement he'll move her out of Port Charles." Francis picked up where Johnny left off.

"She can escape during transport." Marco saw where they were going. "Never to be heard from again. That is perfect."

"How will you keep Sonny from talking once you turn up?" Cody wanted to know.

"Sonny won't be allowed to cut a deal." Jason told everyone. "McBain is going to want to see him fry. Sonny could tell them where Hoffa is buried and John will make sure no one is listening." Jason paused. "Sonny may even kill himself, he can't serve time. Being behind bars will kill him."

"He's claustrophobic." Paulie said grinning. "I totally forgot about that."

"There's another way as well." Marco said dealing a new hand. "What if Alexis learned that Kristina's kidnapping was orchestrated by Sonny. She's already killed one mob boss, what's another." He knew all about the Cassadines.

"She won't stop there, she will go after Karpov too." Jason knew that the one thing that would push his former lawyer to commit murder was her kids. That was why she killed Luis Alcazar, he almost made her lose Kristina. Jason didn't care if she killed the Russian.

"So send the file?" Stan asked Jason.

"Not yet. First we need to pick up Spinelli." Jason looked around the table. "With him still in play that file would disappear. It's kind of strange that it hasn't already."

"You do realize that we have come up with a scenario where we are totally hands off?" Johnny said grinning. "We are talking about using information instead of bullets to take out Sonny. We're high tech gangsters."

"Improvise, adapt, and overcome." Cody smiled as he said the unofficial motto of the Marines.

"Oorah." Shawn added making Cody and the rest of the guys laugh.

"When do you want Spinelli picked up?" Paulie asked Jason.

"No time like the present." Jason told the guys.

"I'm on it." Cody stood up.

"I'll come with you." Marco stood as well. "Been a while since I saw Port Charles."

"It hasn't changed much." Francis had driven around before coming to the cottage.

"We'll be back." Cody said as the two men headed for the door.

"We can have this wrapped up by Sunday." Johnny liked it when things went smoothly. "Once we figure out how to handle the Zaccharas."

"I may have an idea on that as well." Jason said looking at his cards. "Let me think on it."

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