Emily was sitting at the Cassadine crypt, crying for the loss of Nik, his son Spencer and the baby she had miscarried. "I thought I would find you here."
Turning to where her mother was standing, Emily let herself be hugged then said "Why would Sam, even Sam say all those vile things? To accuse Elizabeth, of what she did?"
Monica thought back on Thanksgiving that year. She had gained two grandsons and a daughter-in-law, for that she would always be grateful for the truth coming out but her daughter had had the worst night of her life and had spent almost three months blaming Jason.
No one, at least no one her daughter had been talking at the time had ever told her WHY Anthony Zachara had been at that ball. Lulu had sat there, crying loud tears at the loss of her brother and for poor Lucky who was being demonized in the press. Luke had heard the truth from his daughter when she had talked about Johnny Zachara.
Until one day when she had heard Jerry Jacks talking to Carly of all people had she learned that no, it hadn't been mob related, that Anthony there had had everything to do with Lulu Spencer and her chasing after John Zachara. Emily had wondered at the time of Jerry's interest in the situation but that had mattered less than finding her brother and making up for the horrible way she had been treating him.
Later they would learn that he had wanted to make a play for the Zachara organization, but had backed the wrong girl, Johnny hadn't been dating Lulu like the blond had claimed. Emily not knowing though had attacked both of them for not warning people, but Monica had had the final word. It wasn't until she heard the blond whining to Dillon one day about Georgie that Emily had fully gotten what was going on.
She had kicked Luke out of the house mere days after he was released from GH, feeling no regrets. That had turned to rage when after Helena had heard the news that Emily was pregnant, had killed Spencer and left the child in a coffin on Jasper Jacks' desk. Emily had lost her baby when she heard about Spencer; that alone was reason enough to react the way she had but when Lucky who was somehow still a cop tried to arrest Jason for some of the mess.
Johnny had been out meeting with some suppliers at the beginning of December when he had cut through the park and rescued Georgie Jones from a masked attacker. When Mac had shown up, he had listened to what the two had to say then watched not sure he liked the closeness between his daughter and the now full fledged mobster.
After saving her, instead of being more at ease the young man went from hanging out at Kelly's when she was working to avoiding the small diner as he got that his feelings were not going to just fade away. Instead the Italian had gone to Morgan to protect the girl, then gave him the information about the attacker.
Since it was looking like a match to the murder of Leticia Juarez, he had been relieved to find out Georgie was fine. Same with Maxie who was attacked the next week at home when she was coming out of the bathroom. That time it was Georgie returning home that stopped her from being badly hurt..
A few days later, Mac was frantic he couldn't locate his daughter and after talking to Robin and Maxie knew that neither had they. Maxie however had lost her phone during that time, so she had pointed out that her sister could have left a note on it like she sometimes did. Mac had even gone so far as to stop over at the Zachara residence where he had been told the younger man hadn't seen his daughter in days.
Lulu once again tried to convince Johnny she was the girl for him, trotting out the Luke and Laura history as proof. When she had overheard what Mac had been saying, Lulu tried to claim that the waitress was trying to get his attention.
But something in her eyes, had him wondering and he soon had it out of her that there had been a strange message and that she hadn't passed it on to Johnny because she had no idea ANYONE could possibly think that Georgie was his girlfriend, after all she was just you know, Georgie.
After making it clear to the blond he was NOT interested he had gone to rescue the girl who was at Trevor's favorite hiding spot. When he had freed her, she had called her sister help her cover with her dad.
Days later Mac had pulled Johnny in as a suspect on the TMK killer, only to find out the evidence had been planted by a jealous Logan Hayes upset at what he took as Johnny stealing Lulu away from him. Mac when he heard what was going on, warned the mobster to stay away from his little girl.
Deciding that the way to take over was to get Morgan to take out Johnny. When it didn't work, the lawyer had decided that Morgan needed to be kept occupied so he could work on Corinthos. So Trevor had revved up Lucky Spencer; who had then tried to go to court to gain sole custody of Jake only for his past to come out and yet again be allowed to remain a cop. Mac had been furious but Trevor who had some pull was using the younger man's anger to take a bit out of the Corinthos Morgan organization.
When Trevor had tried to send his men after Elizabeth and the children as part of helping Spencer in exchange for his help, he had been run off by Johnny who was struggling to run his family's organization and had called his sister home.
Sam just laughed when Alexis tried to tell her that Jason and Elizabeth had been married since Christmas that year. "Yeah, right. There is no way that Lucky or Carly would allow it."
"Lucky spent almost a year in jail for a hit and run." she replied. "He got drunk on Valentine's day and hit Logan Hayes with his police car. Logan sued the city that spring and got a huge settlement." Not even Trevor had been able to save him that time. What was worse, the minute he was out of jail, he had tried to get his job back but thankfully Trevor was no longer around."
"What about Carly?" she sneered. "Carly tolerates me, she outright loathes Elizabeth."
"At the time Carly had bigger problems." said Alexis as she thought about her best friends' life and how it had ended up so complicated. Her mind went back to what Jax had told her about that time.
Sonny had been at a small club looking for tail when he saw the dark haired woman who had made it clear she was available. Kate and he had had a fight after he had gone to the city and tossed one of her snotty nosed art friends into a wall. Now, he just wanted to forget all about his plan to be respectable and just get laid.
A few days later, finding out the woman he had used but good that night was the sister of Johnny Zachara he had claimed they were setting him up and called the spade a spade. The jade had stood up in a meeting then looked at him and said "What the hell does that make you, a lilly white virgin. I didn't come on to you, you hit on me."
A few days later, he had been admonished by the head of the familys and Sonny was vowing revenged and blaming Jason who was out of the country at a time like this. He had then made the mistake of telling Carly, wanting sympathy. He had gotten back with Kate and was now worried that the bitch might tell his fiancee about his moment of weakness.
Jax listened to Carly drone on and on about how her life just kept going to the pits and she had no idea why. He wanted to point out that taking on a female mob boss for doing the same thing she did after she had slept with her EX-husband might have something to do with it. The Italian woman had looked down her nose at his soon to be ex-wife and just laughed then walked away.
Carly had been after revenge and the first person she saw had been the editor of Crimson. Carly had gone to rub it in Kate's face. The editor had dealt with Carly with the usual class and calmness she usually had then had cried on Jax's shoulder. Carly made the mistake of taking on Claudia Zachara for laughing at her, thinking she was a bad ass because she had Jason to protect her.
But it hadn't worked out that way. Jason had warned her before he left on his honeymoon that Carly had better get used to not having him to prop her up when she caused trouble. Instead the blond had ignored what she didn't want to hear and had called the Italian woman a skank, then had suggested that if she was going to work the bars, she should at least attempt to get paid for it.
"You mean, like your mother used to. Carly, women who have no name sex and sleep with their stepfathers, shouldn't throw stones. You think you are some sort of top dog, guess what sweetie, there is a new dog in town and honey she is a real bitch."
Within days their hotel was almost closed down and had lost two of it's stars after there was a small computer problem, one that had stumped Spinelli to Carly's rage. The much in demand chef had quit taking with him all his copy-written recipes and they had had to scrap their whole menu. And then the laundry service went on strike.
Claudia had shown up in his office, told him that all his troubles would go away the minute his wife apologized to her. Carly's pride had gotten in the way, then she had tried to bother Jason. Only for Spinelli to tell her that he was forbidden to bother Stone Cold and that Stone Cold had given him a list of emergencies contact and none of them had been the man himself.
Taking the list, Carly had been hung up on several times in one afternoon, then when she had tried again the next day been laughed at and told that Jason had warned her to behave. Carly was convinced this was all Elizabeth's fault and vowed to make the nurse pay.
When Jason and his family returned in March from their trip to Italy where they had bought a house for them to spend half the year, they had kept it quiet for almost a week. Carly soon found out from Spinelli who had accidentally let it slip, then had been scared into giving her the Morgan's new address.
Carly had shown up, and at first cried all over him for keeping Jake's biology a secret. "How could you do that to me, we share everything. I keep nothing from you."
"Carly our friendship might have lasted a bit longer if you had." he snapped. "Why are you here, when I didn't tell you where we were living or give you my new number, why on earth would you think that all of that was a mistake. I know what you have been doing Carly and I am not putting this fire out. Maybe, just maybe you will learn to stand on your own two feet and take responsibility for your actions, I doubt it, but there is hope. Now if you will excuse me, I promised to read to my sons before bedtime."
Carly had tried to talk to him, when he rejected her yet again, she was convinced that Elizabeth had to have something on him, after all, Jason would never walk away from her, she was Michael's mother. Both Sonny and Jax had tried to warn her, but Carly laid the groundwork before claiming to people around town that Elizabeth had blackmailed him into marriage using the little boy then had promised to put it to rights for 'his' sake.
Jason's life went to rights almost straight away, Carly's name was off Diane's list to help and the guards were warned to keep her away. She had been shocked to find out that without Jason to back her up, more people ignored her, or openly sneered at the blond. When she had heard he had adopted Cam while they were in Italy, that his name was now Cameron Morgan, she had vowed, right then and there that there was no way, none that Elizabeth Webber was getting away with this.
Carly found out from Bobbie that Cam had been trying to start a fire in the fireplace and the blond had threatened to report Elizabeth for child neglect when he had caused a small fire in the house. She had even gone so far as to make the call.
The woman from social services who had already investigated knew that no one had been at fault, but Carly had just gone over her head. Too bad that the person over the worker was friends with Audrey Hardy and had warned them what she was up to.
Jason who had felt guilty because he had shown the little boy what he was doing one night at their cabin, never thinking about the consequences was devastated that anyone, even someone as delusional as Carly would think what he had done was neglect. Elizabeth felt sick that Carly was causing Jason to doubt his parenting ability after years of the blond depending on him to take care of her own kids.
Stupidly, she had confronted Elizabeth at the hospital on her first day back to work and that, that would be the final straw. When Carly had attacked Elizabeth had kept it quiet, not telling Jason about it. After he found out he had first gone off on his no longer friend that it had been he who had taught Cameron how to light the fire.
When Carly had suddenly changed her tune, saying that she hadn't known that but that Elizabeth was still a bad mother to not be supervising her kids better, he had acidicly asked where her kids where?
She had just said "With the nanny of course."
"Oh course, because you can't deal with being a parent." he had sneered. "Carly, the person social services should be investigating is you, not us. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go home to my family.
Once there, Jason had then had had his first argument with his wife. She had been stunned that he had expected her to tell him about the fight between the blond and her. That had led to a long talk about their past and Carly giving both of them insight into the others feelings regarding the blond. That had ended with them making love in their secret place to hide with their family that no one, but no one knew about and Elizabeth finally getting that they needed to talk to keep from losing one another.
Carly just didn't give up however; having heard Elizabeth talking about being out on the same road as Lucky the night he had hit Logan Hayes; and that she had dented her car on a guardrail; Carly had gone to the police trying to blame her for the hit and run.
When Scott had attacked Elizabeth, Jason dealt with the attorney, then had proven that it was Lucky who had caused the accident. He had then went to Carly who had once again tried to claim that she was saving him for a fate worse than death.
The blond hadn't believed him about their friendship being over until the day she had been forced by Jax to apologize to the Zachara woman. Afterwords, she had gone to Sonny and yet again slept with her ex-husband; when she found out that she was pregnant the blond had tried to claim it was Jason's, driving the wedge even deeper between them while Jax just longed to walk away.
Less than a month later at the end of April, the TMK case was wrapped up with Spinelli who had left a message with Georgie to call him went missing. She had tracked the call to his phone with the help of Stan Johnson who was now working at the hospital as an orderly to appease his mother.
She had then went with Maxie who for some reason was spending time with the young hacker to where the signal was coming from. When her sister had kissed the hacker, Georgie had gone to look through the stuff in the large room where the geek had been trapped. After telling her father and sending him to the room with a team Georgie concentrated on helping Maxie.
Worried she was reacting to Coopers death, Georgie had even tried to set her up on a date with John Zachara only to be informed by the man that he wasn't interested in the OLDER Jones girl. The mobster was frustrated when she had missed the very large clue that maybe, he just maybe was interested in the younger one he was yet again spending so much time with.
Georgie had been walking the docks, trying to figure out what was going on with Johnny and her heart. And also why he was always around after all he should have way better things to do than hang around someone he referred to as his friend.
Just about giving up in understand men, she saw wet footprints disappear into the basement of Kelly's where Carly's old club was. The guard that John had on her called his boss when he saw her vanish into thin air and the man showed up within minutes and followed the same path only to come out of the tunnel into GH's basement.
Up the stairs, he saw Georgie seemed to be watching the floor closely then stop outside of the coma ward. Moving in, she peeked into the room and with wide eyes, she backed away and searched through her purse. When the younger girl called the cops, she also let him in on what was going on.
He watched her grab a fire extinguisher then head into the room. Grabbing her arm, he was stunned to see a man wearing a mask trying to smother Sam McCall. Entering he shot the man holding a pillow over the still patient just as the police showed up. "Zachara, drop your gun."
Mac glared at the younger man in spite of being grateful he was around yet again to save his daughter then went over to remove the mask. Hearing Georgie gasp, Johnny looked at the dark haired younger man on the ground, then heard Mac say "Take her out of here."
Out in the hall while the medical personnel checked on Sam, Johnny asked what was it. She was soon seated in the waiting room drinking the camomile tea that Lainey Winters offered and explained about Diego and their past leaving nothing out, including the deal the man had made with Lulu. "I had thought he died when Sam shot him on the docks last year."
Fighting the urge to embrace her, Johnny gave his statement to Mac, then nodding that he understood he could pick up his gun at the station the next day. Taking her home, he hugged her then kissed the top of her head when she returned the embrace. "I am glad you are okay, I would miss not having you in my life."
Looking up, she smiled a slightly bittersweet smile and said "Yeah, me too. I don't have that many friends and would hate to lose even one."
A bit frustrated that the young woman didn't seem to realize he liked her as a woman, Johnny had gone to Jake's getting into a bar fight. Hours later, his sister had bailed him out of jail, smacking him in the head and telling him to move on, that clearly the girl wasn't interested.
Out in the hall while the medical personnel checked on Sam, Johnny asked what was it. She was soon seated in the waiting room drinking the camomile tea that Lainey Winters offered and explained about Diego and their past leaving nothing out, including the deal the man had made with Lulu.
Carly went to see Jason only to find him driving off with Elizabeth towards the edge of town. Wondering what they were up to, she followed. Seeing them on the old bridge, talking quietly then she watched as Jason kissed his wife before answering his phone.
As the couple drove off, Carly followed, then speeding up when she saw it was close to the time she had promised to meet Jax about the hotel. Since she wasn't driving her car, she took the chance and passed them on the road, never seeing Jason lose control of the car on the slick newly paved surface.
When the car stopped rolling, Elizabeth saw that driver's side window had shattered and that glass had cut Jason's face, arms and wrists. Holding a cloth on them as she called for help, Elizabeth desperately prayed that her unconscious husband would be okay.
She never noticed she had cut an artery in her leg on the glass until she tried to climb up into the rescue vehicle. Passing out, she missed hearing them call the hospital, then that she had to have surgery herself. Waking up, her first words to Robin who was in her room was "How is Jason?"
"You need to let us take care of you, first." she said forcing her to stay in the bed. When she finally got through to her, she said "Jason damaged his wrists, he is going to need specialized help for the damage. Patrick is talking to a specialist in Seattle, then I will let you know what is said. For now, please for his sake and your boys, let us take care of you."
The next morning when Carly saw on the news that Jason was harmed in a car accident, she went to the hospital and verbally attacked Elizabeth ignoring the warning from the young nurse who said that Mrs. Morgan was to be kept calm. Carly then sneered that her life wasn't worth all he had to have gone through.
"Jason needs his hands to do his job, that he was hurt saving you." Carly had no idea that Jason was in the next room and had heard everything, nor that he was aware that of what Sonny added.
"You are trouble and always have been." he added. "I get that Jason loves you and you love him. Yet, every single time he gets involved with you, something happens that puts my business at risk."
Struggling to stand in spite of the very heavy drugs, Jason came through the door just as Sonny went down the hallway. After consoling his wife, he vowed to make damn sure that Sonny knew that as of this moment, he was done with him.
The man had come to him, asked him to take over. He hadn't wanted to do so, but like Elizabeth had said, with Jason in charge things would be safer than the man who overreacted to everything. As of this minute, Sonny Corinthos didn't know it, but he was out, with only the few men he had for protection. The boys would be kept safe, same with Kristina but Carly and Sonny, well they were on their own.
"Morgan, we need to talk." Said Patrick as he explained about the needed operation on his hands. Jason got what he was saying then asked if Elizabeth was well enough to travel with him.
The Morgan family went out of town and only came back in May when Monica called with the news. "Jason, you both have to come home. Things have gotten worse"
Hanging up the phone, Jason watched as Elizabeth cleaned up the remnants of Jake's first birthday. "What is it?"
Waiting until the boys were down for the night, he gave her the news. "Michael ran away from home two weeks ago. The guard I had on him knew where he was, but couldn't get the message out to Sonny. He grabbed Georgie Jones for some reason as a way to control John Zachara who he was convinced grabbed Michael. He had her trapped at the old Roselawn Institute. Tried to get the docks from Zachara in exchange for the girl when Michael came home."
"Johnny agreed, but in the transfer, Claudia, his sister was shot, Carly had a miscarriage, then it came out that it was Sonny's child. That she bribed a tech to alter the DNA tests."
"Poor Jax." she murmured. "Poor Georgie."
"When they were at the hospital, Sonny denied grabbing Georgie, claimed that they were lying, so now, Mac is out for blood. Then it looks like Michael saw Johnny beating up on Sonny when he insulted Zachara's sister while she lay breathing through a tube."
Jason was still in shock at what he had been told and blamed himself for leaving that little boy with the two most selfish people he knew but at the time, he had been blind to who and what they were.
"He ran his mouth?" she asked a bit surprised. Then recalling the rumors said "I bet you Kate didn't like hearing about Carly's baby."
"No, she just blamed Claudia who told her. Michael, apparently bought a gun a few months ago when he heard the adults talking about what Diego was doing. He went looking for Johnny and shot, damn, he shot at Georgie Jones and said it was because of how Johnny had disrespected his father."
Swearing, Elizabeth said "What happened?"
"Elizabeth, he pulled the gun in the middle of Kelly's lunch rush. He missed, thankfully but he then ran again." said Jason."
"What happened?" she asked then closed her eyes at the horror of what Jason was telling her, that he went home and hid the gun, that Morgan had found it. "Morgan, oh my god, poor, poor Carly."
Jason grimly continued. "No, poor Morgan. His mother has been by to visit him once, the day he was shot and before she found out where Morgan got the gun. At first she had blamed Sonny, causing problems between them. Now she is all about saving Michael."
"WHAT?" she asked almost yelling. "What is she doing?"
"Trying to get Michael out of jail, and that isn't the worst." The expression on Jason's face told Elizabeth that whatever it was was very very bad.
"Jason?" she asked softly "What is it?"
"Sonny tried to intimidate Georgie into dropping the charges against Michael. When it didn't work, when he didn't get his way; Trevor Lansing who was somehow involved because Molly was at the diner went to visit Sonny, there was an argument, Trevor died. Lulu Spencer however had shown up there, looking for Carly since she was back living there."
Jason looked sick then whispered "Lulu and Sonny are missing together. Diane thinks that Sonny and she are going to show up married."
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Sam snorted, she could believe part of that, Carly would go out of her way for Michael and would ignore Morgan. Everyone knew that the way to get to Jason was through Michael, even the kids' mother.
"What about Logan Hayes, did he try to rape Maxie, then attack Lulu?" she asked.
"No, Logan left town, with the money he got from the city after the hit and run." Alexis stated. "Sam, I am not lying. This is what happened."
The pregnant girl, just laid back down and said "I am tired mother, and don't have time for your delusional fantasies."
Falling to sleep in her dream, Sam woke up just as she was preparing to kick Carly out of Jason's life.
When Sam woke up, she saw Patrick Drake in her room and staring at her. "What?"
"Sam, you need to face that what you believe to be true isn't. For your own sanity." he replied. While on a personal level he didn't give a damn, as a doctor he had to treat his patient. When Sam just sneered and said "Alexis was up to the summer of '08, according to her, Sonny had disappeared with Lulu Spencer."
Sitting down, Patrick looked at her then said "Well my life was pretty busy, Robin had found out she was pregnant and we were getting ready to be parents."
"I know all about that, the blog wars where you made it clear she was the last woman you wanted to marry." she replied. "I know that Spinelli helped set it up for you."
"Spinelli?" he asked wondering what she was talking about. That was a name he had heard so infrequently other than as Maxie's friend that he didn't know what to say but continued on. "Sonny did come home married to Lulu, Luke Spencer showed up and they had a huge fight."
On the phone with his second in command, Jason sighed at what Cody was telling him. "Why would any of the men take orders from him, knowing he was no longer in charge."
Getting the names Milo and Max, Jason said "I want to talk to them, tonight."
He had had a bad feeling when it came to the brothers, well aware that they were loyal to Sonny first, and would obey his orders without talking to Jason like ordered, but to grab Georgie Jones, to grab any woman, well they had better have a damn good explanation. Calling Italy, he let his contact know and was soon called back. "I understand, do what you need to do."
Jason and Elizabeth got off the jet and drove straight to their house, with the now added security features.. Kissing Jason, Elizabeth heard Audrey pulling up and the boys rushing out before he could even tell her he was going to find out what was going on. "You take care of that, I am going to see Emily, find out what she knows."
Grimacing at the idea of dealing with either of his past friends, Jason soon helped his boys into Mrs. Hardy's car, saw her wave then drive off. The boys had been looking forward to this sleepover and they had been running late and apparently Wall-E waited for no man or in this case boy.
Getting into the SUV, Jason drove to hospital and saw Jasper Jacks sitting alone in Morgan's room. Entering he asked "How is he?"
"Like you care." he sneered as he wiped away the tears. "We all know you are here to get Michael out of this, once again Morgan is tossed to the side."
Placing his hand on the shoulder of the man he had disrespected for so long out of nothing more that other people's likes and dislikes and Jason thought about the little boy he had found dead on his desk. Spencer having been placed there by Helena, then how he had gotten a copy of the police reports and found out that Jax who had been dropping off the last of the boys stuff had been the one to find Morgan lying in a pool of blood while downstairs Sonny had been arguing with Alexis about getting his son out from under the charges he was facing.
"I do care and I am going to talk to Michael, but Jax, I am not going to bail him out of this." he said firmly. "That is part of his problem, his parents keep bailing him out. One of the reason's I didn't want him with the Quartermaines was that I wanted him to stand on his own two feet unlike AJ. Clearly I made the wrong choice."
At that, Jax looked up and saw Jason's eyes were on the still little boy with the bandage around his head. "Carly thinks..."
"She is wrong. I have to go and deal with this, but may I come back. Sit with him for a while?" he asked the man who clearly cared more about Morgan than his own parents.
"Yes, I think he would like that. I have been reading to him." Jax showed him the book about tigers. "He has always hoped you would take him when you take Michael to Africa."
Frowning a bit, Jason said "What do you mean, take Michael to Africa?"
Telling him how Carly had always talked about Jason taking Michael to Africa, made it sound like a family trip, but when he said "She would describe it as Michael, her and you."
Shaking his head, Jason replied. "That was not going to happen. Dammit, what the heck is wrong with that woman? And then to ignore Morgan in this fantasy let alone my wife and kids."
Hesitating, Jax said "She has a picture of you holding Jake, when I asked where the one of Cameron was; she refuses to call him your son. Said that he wasn't yours, only Elizabeth's. I don't have to tell you that there is no wedding picture either."
Getting the message, Jason said "Here."
Opening up the bag, Jax said "Elizabeth got this for him, didn't she?"
"She said she saw him reading it one day." Jax pulled out the globes, one inflatable and the other one just like Michael's and said "What are these?"
"I bought one for our boys and then when we were at the store in Seattle, I saw them. The day that Elizabeth went to pick out the globe I gave Michael; she pretended she had only gotten the beach ball one." he said his mind going back to the past.
Carly who had heard from Momma who had heard from Audrey that Jason was in town, knew that he would be here. She had just arrived at the door when she had heard Jason discussing the globe. Furious, she had always assumed Jason had gotten it for Michael directly.
She had imagined him spending time, making up his mind after gather items for her little boy, to know that Elizabeth had picked it out. Tarnished it's memory for her and she would make sure it was gone that very afternoon.
Opening the door, she looked at her son and let the tears flow. "Jason, I knew it, I knew you would come when you heard about our little boy."
The enforcer didn't say a word, just looked at her as she threw herself into his arms and cried. Jax saw the cynical expression on Jason's face grow as instead of the little boy who lay not five feet away, Carly went on and on about Michael.
Knowing he couldn't outright reject her if he wanted information, Jason slowly disengaged Carly then asked "Carly, how is Morgan doing?"
"As well as can be expected. Dr. Drake says he will be this way forever, but of course he won't. I wasn't, after getting shot in the head. They just want to use this as an excuse to punish Michael for their own incompetence at never being able to convict Sonny or you."
"Carly, since you just got here, why don't you stay with your son. I have some things to take care of and will come back when I can." Jason didn't care that he was manipulating the woman into spending time with her comatose son, dammit, Morgan needed her.
"No, that fine. I was here earlier." she said as she tried to head out the door "I want to be there when you talk to Michael."
"No." he said firmly. "Stay here, be with Morgan like I know you want to."
Starting to say something different, Carly realized she couldn't and just turned to Jax and said "I want to be alone with my son."
"Fine, we are on page 29 of his book." he said then handing it to her watched as she tossed it down on the desk and went to talk to the boy.
Seeing Jason had slipped out, Jax listened from the doorway as Carly sat there offering excuses to the little boy about how he had ended up there. And not a single apology for why she hadn't been. Then he heard "I wish I could be here Morgan, but right now, Michael needs me more."
Jason drove out to Sonny's and entered the room. "Jason, good you are here. We need to take out those Zacharas. They are the ones..."
"Who did nothing." Jason said with a sigh. "Sonny, you turned the business over to me, remember? Why on earth would you think that I wanted those piers, let alone would accept them the way you tried to get them?"
"When you were getting ready to marry Kate, you signed it all always, remember? What happened with that anyhow? I have a truce in place with Johnny and you , you keep pressing to start a war. It won't be happening."
"They are the reason..." he started to rage then heard Kate entering and played it off like he hadn't been trying to get back into the business.
"Mr. Morgan." she said icily. "If you are here to offer your condolence regarding Morgan, thank you, but you may go now. I have to have a word with Sonny."
Looking at the woman who had to be furious Sonny had married her own assistant, Jason just nodded then looked at Sonny then her before saying. "Sonny, I am going to visit with Michael."
"Diane ordered me to stay away from that Jones girl, you need to talk to her and then you need..." Jason just looked at the man, then thought about the reason they had stayed gone for so long and walked away just as Kate put her hand on the door.
The door slammed and Sonny looked at the furious woman standing there glaring at him. "What is your problem? I thought you got that you were replaced."
"Lulu told me the truth, Sonny." she replied. Seeing his eyes narrowing, she added "I am not going to say anything, but what on earth were you thinking, marrying her? She can't keep her mouth shut about her own secrets, let alone yours. And Carly going along with this. I want to know what you said that convinced her that your marrying her cousin was the right thing to do."
Arriving at the Crimson Point Estate belong to the Zacharas, Jason had yet another encounter with Claudia who seemed to feel the need to hit on every single man she met. "I am here to talk to your brother, not you."
When she started to protest, Johnny entered the room and looked at his sister and said "Leave now."
Walking to the door, she looked at him and said "Remember what I said, no one, no one connected to Corinthos can be trusted."
Looking at Jason, Johnny and he moved to the sofa area and sat down. "Sorry about that, my sister has had a few run ins with your ex-partner. Why are you here?"
"We need to talk about Georgie Jones." Johnny tensed and Jason saw the glare and said "Wait, listen to me. Your interest in that girl is becoming public. I am going to give you some advice I wish someone had given me."
Standing, Jason walked over to the window, he didn't like discussing his private life with others but in this case he needed to make sure this younger man got what others were thinking. Telling him about Elizabeth and his past, he saw the moment he talked about her ending up in the hospital, the man was going to go about this the wrong way. "No, don't walk away, not if you truly care."
"I do, she doesn't." he said bluntly. "To her I am an occasional person to talk to about things. Like how her ex Dillon moved to LA and how it hadn't bothered her. For god's sake, she tried to set me up on a date with her sister."
"Then if you and she aren't going to be together, you need to for her sake, let it go." Jason said softly regretting giving the advice even as he stated it. "Be seen with another woman, publicly so that people get she is only a friend."
Johnny got the message, then when Jason was at the door, offered up advice of his own. "Morgan, Sonny is going to betray you, oh, not deliberately but he is desperate for power."
At the door, Jason said "I know, I just can't let him back in, the family's made that clear when I took over."
"Watch your back." was the last words they both said while they went to deal with something neither wanted to do.
At the station, Jason listened to Micheal's story and groaned "Let me get this straight. Diane wants you to apologize, you want to apologize and take the deal, but Sonny and Carly won't let you?"
Nodding, Michael looked pained. "Jason, I was next to the jukebox, standing there, with this gun in my hand and watching Georgie, like I have a thousand times. I was so angry, so mad at Johnny. I had seen him earlier that day watching Georgie but when I was about to fire, I saw Georgie, just Georgie. She has always been nice to me and I had wanted to hurt her, cause pain to her to hurt someone else."
"Oh Michael. I am so sorry, I left you with those people." he said feeling guilty. "This is my fault."
Looking down at his hands, at the hands that pulled the trigger and then with tears up at his uncle and said "No, it's mine. I did this. Not you, not even dad. If she had been hurt, or d-died. I don't think I could have lived with myself."
"Then, then there is Morgan." Michael said "No one will tell me anything, not even Diane. All Mom says is that he will be fine, but I saw the blood, Uncle Jason, I know that there is no fine when someone looks that bad. I did that, me. I knew he liked to go through my stuff and I didn't even think about it before putting the gun in there."
Closing his eyes, Jason said "I am going to talk to Elizabeth, see if she will go to the courts and maybe we can get custody of you. Then you will have to face the charges, Michael. Are you willing to do that?"
"I have been trying." he stated. "I even went to Mac; he was furious, Uncle Jason but he sat down and listened to me. He said he wished he could just let me go in front of the judge."
In the station, Jason saw Elizabeth entering with his sister. Walking over, he heard what Emily had to say "I talked to Alexis, she was willing to represent him in the case but this is going to get ugly."
"Elizabeth, I was wondering how you would feel..." he felt her hand on his arm and then her smile of acceptance only for another voice to be heard.
"Jason, that isn't a good idea." Alexis said. "I want to talk to Monica, she has the best chance."
Sam listened in stunned disbelief as she heard that Monica had legal custody of Michael, then that Carly had attacked Jason when her son had taken the choice Mac had offered with the DA's help. That she had screamed and shouted as Michael went away to a military academy. "You expect me to believe that Jason stood up to Carly, yeah right."
"Wait, I thought Sonny was facing charges, what happened there?"
"Lulu fell apart on the stand and Sonny almost went to jail but Diane was able to prove that Trevor had been the first to fire. Thereby what happened was self defense. He was fined for contempt of court for his marriage and Lulu, well Lulu started flirting with some long haired boy before the ink was dry on the annulment papers."
"Her brother, she was flirting with Ethan?" she asked in shock.
"No idea but the name I heard wasn't Ethan." he said then looked at his watch. "Sam, do you see that your dreams were just paralleling reality? That they were just that, dreams?"
"No, because this is the dream. I LIVED THAT OTHER WORLD." she said "I was there, for every single moment of what I told you."
"Sam, yourself this... if you were there, how is that possible, did you sneak in and watch as these moments happened. Were you acting like a voyeur."
TBC