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Chapter 11

Damien Spinelli was a creature of habit. One of those habits was why it was going to be so easy to grab him. The hacker liked to stay up late and play on line games. He was a regular on several sites. Often he told Jason about his nocturnal adventures and honestly the enforcer only listened with half an ear. One thing he did note was that at one fifteen every morning the kid went on a snack run. Something about the proper fuel to keep him running.

At the appointed time the kid came out of the Towers and headed to his favorite store. He didn't go to the one closest to the apartment building. The point of this wasn't just getting snacks, it was also to get a bit of exercise. To stretch his legs while his brain plotted the moves he would make when he returned to his laptop.

"Is he wearing ear buds?" Marco asked Cody.

"Yeah." The guard replied shaking his head. "He won't even hear us coming." Port Charles petty crime statics were generally on par with the national average. Which meant for the most part the town was really safe. It was the mob crime that caused spikes in the major crime stats. The kid probably wasn't worried about getting mugged. But seeing as his boss was Sonny Corinthos, Spinelli should be more vigilant when out. The other families knew who he was.

"Before the store or after?" Marco was deferring to Cody on this mission.

"Before. I've seen what that kid eats. We'll be doing him a favor." Cody chuckled. Marco started the car and they quickly drove four blocks down so when Spinelli walked past a dark alley, bopping his head to music, Cody just reached out and snatched him. He had the kid pinned against him with a hand over his mouth before Spinelli even registered anything was wrong. The hacker was in the trunk, bound, gagged, with a hood over his head, and they were heading back to the cottage within minutes.

"Where do you want him?" Cody asked as Paulie pulled a fighting Spinelli into the cottage.

"Kitchen, cleanup will be easier in there." Johnny said watching as a hard shiver wracked the kid's body.

"You playing bad cop?" Marco asked when he walked by Johnny.

"Yeah, with no good cop in sight. Seems kind of wrong, he's what eighty pounds soaking wet? I don't like beating up on kids." Johnny said as they walked into the kitchen. By the time they walked into the room Spinelli was already tied to a chair.

Jason was in the dining room, with everyone else, he would be able to hear everything that was said but Spinelli wouldn't be able to see him. If he felt it was necessary Jason would go into the kitchen. Cody joined them.

They took the hood off and Spinelli blinked to adjust to the light. The gag came next but the kid didn't say anything. He did look around before his terrified eyes landed on Johnny and Marco. Marco he would recognize from the alley and the brief glimpse of the man before the hood was thrown over his head. They made sure Cody remained out of sight, because Spinelli knew him.

"Tell me everything you know about Elizabeth Webber." Johnny said in a cold voice. He remained standing knowing it would be intimidating if the kid had to look up to see him.

"The Maternal One?" Spinelli hadn't expected to be asked about her.

"Who?" Marco asked frowning.

"Mother of the Little Dude." Spinelli tried another phrase.

Cody and Jason were in the dining room smirking. They hadn't warned Johnny about Spinelli's odd way of speaking.

"The Little Dude?" Johnny repeated.

Spinelli nodded. "Mr. Sir and Vixenella wanted me to keep track of her. She is carrying the progeny of Stone Cold, and they are worried she will use The Wee One to make a claim on the territory."

"Did you understand any of that?" Marco asked Johnny.

"As scary as it maybe I think I did." Johnny saw his friend was surprised. "Process of elimination."

"Okay." Marco gave what he had heard some thought. "Sonny is having Liz watched because of the baby. Who is Vixenella?" Both men looked at the tied up kid.

"Claudia Zacchara." Spinelli told them.

"You do speak English." Johnny said with a healthy dose of sarcasm. "Let's try to stick to that language from here on out." He requested and Spinelli nodded. "What are Sonny's plans for Liz?"

"If she stays quiet nothing, if she comes forward he was going to take her and the babe to the Pine Barrens." Spinelli didn't hesitate to tell them what he knew.

Johnny walked out of the kitchen to check on Jason. "You okay?" That had to be hard to hear.

"I would have gotten her killed." Jason looked at his friend before looking away.

"You didn't Jason." Francis said wondering what the hell happened to Sonny.

"I saw my setting up that trust as making sure they would be taken care of. The minute Sonny realized what was happening he would have come for them. He wouldn't have stopped until they were dead." It scared Jason to know how badly he had misjudged Sonny. "Call Alexis, send her the proof you have the Karpov was working with Sonny and Claudia. Ask her to handle Claudia, tell her we will take care of Sonny." No one else was getting his former partner.

"She may want to take out Sonny too." Francis remembered Alexis, the woman could be scary focused when she wanted to be.

"No, she will recognize this for what it is." Jason asking her to handle the female member of the plot. "She will be happy I didn't do it all myself."

"I want to hear the rest." Francis told Jason. The blonde simply nodded so Johnny walked back into the kitchen.

"Jason was your friend and you would help Sonny kill his child and the woman he loved?" Johnny questioned.

"No, I was planning to warn the Maternal One, Elizabeth." Spinelli corrected. "I needed to figure out how I was going to ask the Valkyrie to pass on a message because they are now close." He told them.

"Valkyrie?" Marco asked starting to grin. The nicknames were freaking hilarious, and so far spot on.

"Carly." Spinelli filled in.

"Carly and Liz are close?" This was the first thing the kid said that Johnny didn't believe. "What are you smoking?"

"No, it's true. The Valkyrie has been a guardian to the Maternal One. Protecting her from the Vile One, Vixenella, and Mr. Sir." Spinelli needed them to believe him.

"I thought we agreed to stick to English?" Johnny reminded the kid.

"Sorry. Sam. Protecting Elizabeth from Sam's attacks. She is most dangerous. She wanted to take the baby and pretend it was hers, she was going to make Elizabeth think her baby died. Carly exposed the fake DNA test that Sam was setting up. The Vile One is angry." Spinelli was telling everything hoping in the end they would be willing to help him. It was a gamble, but it was the only chance he had.

"She's not pregnant at all." Johnny wasn't sure if the kid knew that.

"I know." Spinelli told them.

"If you know all this why aren't you locked in a room somewhere? Sonny just lets you walk around free?" Johnny thought that didn't make sense.

Spinelli knew this was his shot. "He is watching my grandmother. Now that Jason is gone she is the only family I have left. He will kill her if I don't do what he wants. I was going to tell Stone Cold when he returned from his trip. Beg his forgiveness for what his grasshopper had done, and then ask for his help. I have told you what you need to know, please you can kill me but I beg of you don't let him hurt my Nana." Spinelli was on the verge of tears.

"Shit." Johnny said walking out of the room again. Francis was already making calls. "You on that?"

"Yeah." Jason felt bad for Spinelli. It never occurred to Jason that the younger man was being coerced. "How long until we get someone on the ground in Tennessee?"

"I tapped a contact in the area, by the time the sun comes up we will have someone watching. What do we do with him?" Francis wanted to know. They hadn't planned on this.

"How good of an actor is he?" Johnny asked Jason.

"Lousy." Jason knew Spinelli would give them away, which meant he couldn't go back. He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall. He was trying to figure out how to make this work. He pulled out Elizabeth's phone, he really did need to give this back to her. "Mom, I need your help."

It didn't take Monica any time at all to arrive at the cottage. She came in through the front door and Jason was waiting in the living room. "What's wrong?"

Jason couldn't believe he was involving his mother in a mob plot, but she was the only one he trusted to help them. "Spinelli is in the kitchen."

"Is he hurt?" She had her bag like Jason requested.

"No, he's fine." Jason knew what he was about to ask could cost his mother her license at the very least. "He told us that Sonny is plotting on possibly killing Elizabeth and the baby so that he can keep the territory."

Monica frowned. "Is that little freak helping Sonny?"

"No." Jason's couldn't help but smile. "He's being forced. Sonny is threatening Spinelli's grandmother. I need Spinelli to not be able to talk for a few days. He can't just disappear right now, we don't have eyes on his grandmother." Depending on how closely they were tracking the hacker, his absence might have already been noticed.

"Give me ten minutes." Monica walked out the cottage and drove back to the mansion. She was glad she brought her car. Normally she would have just walked between the two residences, but it was cold out this morning. It took no time at all to gather what she needed and return. "Where is he?"

"The kitchen. He doesn't know I'm alive." Jason told his mother.

"Understood." Monica put on her game face and headed deeper into the house. In the kitchen she found Spinelli and Johnny O'Brien. "Well hello there." She knew the guard because he occasionally watched Emily and Liz. He was also supposed to be dead.

"Dr. Quartermaine, it's nice to see you again." Johnny said smiling. He had an inkling why she was here. Jason thought faster on his feet than anyone the Irishman knew.

"Long time no see." Monica said shaking her head. She wondered who else would be returning from the grave this week, then she remembered AJ. She needed to tell Jason and Emily about that. Probably Carly too. "Spinelli."

"Mother of Stone Cold." The hacker had no clue why she was here, but when he saw the needle his eyes got wide. "I had no choice, I didn't know that Mr. Sir was planning on hurting my master."

She had no idea what he was talking about, but if he was scared this would work even faster. "Well." Monica said walking over. "Consider this your reckoning." She said as she removed his shoes and sock. She injected the drug under the nail of Spinelli's big toe. The resulting bruise would look like he walked into something. "Give it ten minutes."

Johnny tilted his head and walked across the room. "What did you give him?"

"A benzodiazepine." Monica told the guard. "They are used for anxiety, I gave him enough to knock him out for a few days. Wait an hour for the drug to metabolize into his system. Then drop him off at Mercy."

"Not General Hospital?" Johnny figured Monica would want to watch him.

"If you drop him off at GH someone will recognize him. And with Sonny on the board he probably has an informant on his payroll. You don't want any tests being run on Spinelli. At Mercy he'll be safer. By the time you get him there the right person will be waiting. He'll be watched, to make sure he stays under and to make sure he doesn't die." Monica had made the call while she was driving. "He'll be listed as having a hematoma. Which will explain his being unconscious."

"I always did think you Quartermaines were scary." Johnny said grinning. Looking over he saw Spinelli's head fall forward. Monica checked pulse and respiration. She left the syringe on the table for them to dispose of.

Down the hall Monica stopped in the living room again. This time Francis was with her son. "All kinds of people are turning up today." She laughed.

"Dr. Quartermaine." Francis said smiling. "How are you?"

"Fantastic." She said smiling. "And you?"

"Good thank you. How is the patient?" Francis asked her.

"Out cold. I gave Johnny instructions. I need to get back home and rest a bit before heading in." She gave Jason a kiss on the cheek. "Try to be there when Liz wakes up, otherwise she will think she was dreaming."

"Cameron being gone should alert her to the fact that she wasn't if I'm not there." Jason was hoping to finish here soon.

"Cameron likes to wander over to Pop-Pop's room." Monica said grinning. "So him not being in his bed won't tip her off right away. I'd like to keep her blood pressure from shooting up."

"She having issues?" Francis looked at Jason. His friend hadn't told them that. "You said healthy."

"Liz is okay as long as her blood pressure stays down." Jason told his friend. "She's not on bed rest, but this close to the end isn't the time to push her."

"Go home with your mother. We can handle this." Francis told his friend. "You may want to tell her about Johnny before he shows up." The older man warned.

"Okay." Jason wanted to be with his girl. "Thanks."

"No problem." Francis said before walking towards the kitchen.

"Come on I'll drive you home, and you can explain what Spinelli was talking about." Since she was already involved she wanted to know why her help was needed.

"Okay." Jason said as they walked out of the cottage to the nearby car.

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