It was almost four in the morning when Elizabeth woke up thanks to her little girl sleeping on her bladder. Starting to move, she felt Jason's hands tighten as he pulled her close and whispered no in his sleep. When their daughter moved, she relaxed a bit then thought about the loving that they had shared before they had fallen a sleep.
When Jason seemed restless and moved in ever closer, Elizabeth reached up to where his head was now resting on her pillow and ran her hands through his hair, glad when he seemed to relax and fall more deeply asleep. Kissing the side of his neck, she frowned a bit, worried. She knew the signs of Jason keeping something from her, usually it was work related but now that was no longer an issue.
Hearing him moaning no yet again, she waited until he was again calm then woke him up. "Jason, wake up, okay?"
The blond felt the hands gently soothing him as he awoke then looked at his wife. "Elizabeth, is something wrong?"
Sapphire met cornflower as she said "Why don't you tell me. Jason, what has you so worried, so I hate to say it but scared?"
Trembling a bit, not wanting to tell her, but knowing he would worry her more if he didn't, he reached over and turned on the lamp beside the bed, then sat up a bit. When she was curled up near him, he said "I keep reliving Jake's birth, over and over again. But each time, something changes..."
Her eyes saw his look across the room, at the fireplace, at the dresser then they met hers with pain in them. "Jason, talk to me. Tell me so I can help you." she pleaded with him.
"I just, I am scared, what if... what if something goes wrong, with the baby, with you?" he asked.
"Jason, Kelly says I am healthy, that our little girl is doing fine, a little too fine actually." she said with a smirk.
"I can't promise it will go perfectly but like she said my blood pressure and weight are fine, the baby is doing everything she is supposed to be doing. You will be in there, with me. I know that this is scary, this is the first time we have been … OH, Jason." she said recalling a past discussion where he had admitted feeling like he didn't deserve anything good in his life and his fear of bad things happening.
Sitting up, she straddled his legs, lifted his face so he could see her eyes before saying. "I love you, I trust you and we, meaning you, me and our children are going to be just fine. And I need you to trust, to believe what I am telling you, please?"
Holding her, his head on top of hers, Jason prayed, then looked into her eyes and said, "Yes, I believe in what you are telling me."
Elizabeth was soon back asleep, the pregnancy taking a toll on her body. Jason meanwhile got up, pulled on some sweats and went to check on the boys. Cam was fast asleep, his head buried under his pillow, his blanket and sheet kicked down to the foot of the bed as his arms and legs were stretched out as if to protect his territory. Straightening him up a bit, Jason kissed him then covered him with the sheet at least, well aware that by morning it would be gone. The eldest of their children, didn't like to be restrained by blankets, it was why during the winter he still wore footed pajamas.
In Jake's room, it was a similar story except the pillow was on the floor and the little guy was using his blanket as a pillow with his feet resting up against the headboard. When he had him turned around, he saw Jake open one eye then yawn as he said "It's too early daddy, still tired." before falling promptly back to sleep.
Walking back towards the master bedroom, Jason stopped at the nursery, opened the door and looked in. After two boys which meant trains, boats and animals, along with primary colors, to see this wonderful of fairies, unicorns and butterflies in pale yellows, greens and white still astonished him. Sitting down on the window bench, Jason looked up at the stars and thought to himself that he was a very lucky man. And that he would do whatever to protect that.
Once back in Elizabeth and his room, he slipped into bed, then realizing he forgot to remove his sweats started to kick them off, only to be stopped when his wife ran her hands down his bare chest and said "Your daughter keeps waking me up, so you have to keep me occupied."
She let out a little laugh when Jason tossed back the covers, kicked the sweats the rest of the way off and said "Let' see what we can find to do."
Morning came early, or rather Johnny did as he looked at the box of pastries then ran the doorbell. Hearing footsteps, he didn't look up when the door opened and said "I am sorry, I know that I should have talked to you first but can we please, find some common ground, I am sorry for thinking that Matt broke your heart."
"Well, I wasn't thrilled he married my daughter, but it could have been worse." replied Mac humorously as he took in the man who he now knew was the reason Georgie had been in such a rotten mood. "As for talking, please, I went through that with poor Matt, but since you brought breakfast, how about we talk about that common ground, before I agree to let you marry my daughter."
Hearing a yelp, then something breaking, Mac looked at the man in front of him then said the angry brunette, "Well what was I supposed to think. I mean, he showed up with donuts, just like Matt and Patrick, he said almost the same."
The woman glared at both men then hissed "I don't think either one of you are funny."
Walking up the steps, she slammed the door to her bedroom then opened it to slam it again. There were some more things tossed before she came back down the stairs with her purse and keys before glaring at them and said "I am going shopping and I DON'T WANT TO SEE EITHER OF YOU, AGAIN TODAY. Dad, there is tuna fish casserole in the fridge, Johnny, I don't know why you are here and I really, really am not in the mood for you today. I will see you Monday, at work, where Jason won't let me avoid you."
With that she left, then reopened the door and slammed it again. Mac just laughed, then said "Well, a two door slammer, that must mean you really pissed her off. So why don't you come into the kitchen and you can explain to me why my daughter seems to think you are I believe she said Lower than pond scum and that was an insult to pond scum."
"Uh sir." Johnny started to head out, not sure that this was a good idea.
"No, you have two choices, you can talk to me here, in the privacy of my own kitchen or I can violate all my ethics and have one of my detectives bring you down to talk about say your past connections. Either way at some point I am going to ask you why the hell you haven't told my daughter your intentions."
"Shit."
Mac looked at the now pale Italian and said "My kitchen or my interrogation room."
Two months later, Emily, Elizabeth and Skye who was in town needing Jax's help were sitting at the Metrocourt when Carly and Sonny who were flirting with reconciling yet again were interrupted by his eldest son approaching his father and decking the man.
"That is for my mother." he said before looking at Carly with disgust. "As for you, well you stay the hell away from my family."
When Jason and Johnny got off the elevator, Dante looked at the man then said "I need a word with you."
While the blond went to talk to his wife, Dante and Johnny went out onto the balcony. "My mother is in the hospital, she had a miscarriage today."
"Wait- we haven't..." Johnny started to say not realizing that Georgie had come out looking for both of them.
"I know, my mother told me all about." the shorter man said with obvious disdain. "I was told to mind my own business, but seriously, you would get drunk, have sex with my mother and call out your dream girls names, what the hell kind of man."
"I uh, I didn't remember doing that." he said rubbing his face in embarrassment. "Look, is your mother okay?"
"She will be, as long as that bastard Corinthos and his ex or whatever she is stays away." Dante sighed then said "Carly came to see her earlier, they got into a shouting match, that was what led to the miscarriage. I uh, have to go. Look, John when I worked for you, I mean, I know about well what is going on in your head. But seriously, you might want to think about telling her, because it really isn't fair to these women you keep uh, you know."
Walking away, he said "Maybe you should find someone new, then try and move on. I know I have no business offering advice, but I had this girl and she would have been the one for me but for my job. Lulu and I work, it's not perfect, but perfection is way over rated."
Georgie skipped finding out what John wanted when Skye called out to her. "I have a letter for you. I was just about to give it to Jason for you."
Squealing when she saw it was from Brooklynn she asked Skye how she ended up with it. "I needed to talk to her mother, Lois spent some time with Lorenzo, and I came across some stuff that she could answer the questions to."
Looking at Jason, she said "I will see you tomorrow, I am off to read this." she said showing him the very thick letter.
Meanwhile Carly who had been dumped by Sonny when he heard that she was the reason for Olivia losing his child, was vowing revenge on the woman and her kid. Olivia had no business sleeping with Sonny, not after Carly had warned her off. As for her son, well she had had it in for that little creep since Sonny had altered his will and put him in it.
Approaching Jax about spending time with Morgan and Jocelyn,she was told that it would have to be soon that they were heading on vacation for the month. "But-"
"Carly, we will be back in time for the fourth of July, like was agreed with Sonny through the courts." he snapped then added "Michael is joining us for the last two weeks and I have invited Kristina as well."
"What about Alexis and Molly?" she asked like she truly cared. Only to hear that the dark haired kid was sick. "Oh, well I guess that means Alexis dumps her kid on you, why can't Sonny take the girl?"
Holding his wife's hand as they left to go and see Kelly Lee, Jason watched Johnny looking around for Georgie and groaned. "We forgot, Johnny wanted..."
When the man came over, Jason said "Skye had a letter from a friend for her, she left."
"That's fine, I mean, she is at least talking to me again." he said with a weak smile as the married twosome left. His mind went back to the day he had a long discussion with Mac Scorpio that had ended with him sitting on a kitchen stool staring at the police commissioner like an idiot.
"No, sir, she doesn't like me." he protested "I would say she more than dislikes me."
Giving him a blow by blow account of the day before, he saw Mac's lips twitching and glared at the older man who just said "I can honestly say, that I think that is the biggest screw up I have ever heard. So, let me get this straight, in spite of the engagement announcement being in the newspaper, the wedding invitation, wait. I bet Georgie made sure you didn't get one. Okay, so maybe you aren't that dense; but I assure you, no, wait, you are that dense. Why would you think that Matt and she were dating, please explain again."
Flushing Johnny told him about the night at Kelly's, about seeing them playing pool at Jake's. About the lunch dates then about the flowers. "Why didn't you ask her? Or Dante when he was guarding her while undercover?"
"Because I didn't want to know the details, I just didn't want to hear about them being together." he replied then was told he was an idiot.
"You like my daughter, I am not sure I like that, but I am well aware that I have no say in their love lives. Johnny, I know that Georgie has feelings for you, I don't know that she knows it yet, but I do know that they are there."
"But-" John took out one of the scone things that Georgie liked and crumpled it up as he sat there "Sir, how do I get her to realize she has feelings for me, I can't deal with another year like this one."
"Try talking to her." said the man with a slight tone of irony in his voice before looking at the clock. "I have to go to work, and you need to be gone before Georgie returns. Right now, you have some major apologizing to do."
Johnny had done just that, it had taken patience and some time but Georgie had listened as he explained why he had thought she was dating Mac. As what he said sank it, she had even smiled at him then said "Thank you caring, even if you were totally wrong."
They were talking, he had slowly been working them towards going on a date. They had what she had described as hung out a few times, but no dates. He got the feeling that Mac was right, she did like him but was it possible to build that into some more, that was the question on his mind.
Calling her he said "I thought I owed you dessert."
A guilty expression crossed her face at forgetting about him but she just said "Sorry, I got a letter from a friend of mine and she is in some trouble. I was trying to find a way to help her. Rain check?"
"Can I help?" He asked.
"Not really up your alley." she said thinking on what Brooklynn needed help with. "I am driving up to where she is staying right now."
After saying goodbye, he hung up the phone then saw Dante lean down and kiss Lulu as they left the hotel; when her boss Kate pulled up in a limo he was amused to see the blond be dragged right back up to her office. "Dante, tell you mom that if she needs anything, my aunt Bobbie is a nurse at the hospital." she said as she followed Kate.
At GH, Elizabeth saw Kelly Lee coming down the hall and joked "Well this is service, my doctor comes to greet us at the door."
Kelly returned her smile with a weak one of her own then said "I wish, but I am running late."
At the desk, Kelly handed Epiphany the file on the DNC for Olivia Falconari, the blood tests for Sam McCall then returned Georgie Jones' telephone call. "Georgie, tell your friend I will be waiting at the hospital in the morning for her. Will you need me to do an ultrasound?"
Thinking on what Brooklynn wrote, she said "More than likely. I have no idea what she was thinking, I mean if nothing else, there are free clinics."
Entering her exam room, Kelly saw Elizabeth and Jason waiting and turned on the machine. Soon, she had the little girl inside of her mother doing somersaults and saw Jason seemed to relax as he watched his little girl turning over and over. "She is active today. How is she doing at night, still keeping you up?"
"She seems to like sleeping on my bladder." Elizabeth said "Cam did the same thing, but Jake, well he just wanted to play at night. I blame that one on his father since he is a night owl just like him."
"Hey." said Jason a bit surprised at that then he seemed to tense and freeze as he looked at the screen. "Dr. Lee what is that?"
Looking, Kelly gave a smile then said "Something we rarely see, your child is facing the scanner."
Taking a picture then handing Elizabeth a tissue, just as the little one turned yet again. Kelly watched as Jason put his hand on Elizabeth's now clean belly then leaned down to kiss her on the lips and whispered something to his wife.
Holding two copies of the ultrasound, Elizabeth was showing her co-workers when Jason saw Alexis talking to a dark haired man he knew was bad news. Letting Elizabeth know he would be right back, he followed the leaving doctor.
Stopping the man he said "Do you know who I am?"
"Morgan, yeah, I know who you are, what do you want?" snapped the other man.
"What is your connection to Alexis Davis." When the man looked at him then started to walk away, Jason said "I would tell me before I blow your lucrative little side business up."
Looking around, Ian said "She wanted her daughter pregnant, I made sure it happened. She brought me the material, then seemed to change her mind. Then this spring she had me implant the embryos for a million dollars."
Letting him leave, Jason returned to where Elizabeth was talking to his sister as they looked at the baby girl's photo. "She is a ham already."
"No, she just felt her daddy." Elizabeth said with a smile at Jason. When he leaned down and kiss her, Emily pretended to throw up then said "I had a call from Laura Spencer. She was trying to reach you Elizabeth, but your grams and Bobbie refused to give her your number."
"What did she want?"
"Your help, if you can believe it. Luke of course disappeared again and there is this kid who showed up claiming to be his son. I swear that woman is delusional, she wanted you to talk to Lulu about it."
"I have barely seen Lulu, she blames me for John Zachara not dating her." said Elizabeth shaking her head in annoyance. "Besides, last I knew she was still blaming me for Lucky's death. Never mind that he was holding a gun on me."
"It's Laura Spencer, what do you expect. I seriously thing she should be dating Sonny." said Emily then groaned when she saw Carly coming off the elevator. "My guess is she is here to harass Olivia Falconari again."
Carly saw Jason and made a beeline to where he was standing. "Jason, I need to talk to you, its important. I need you to talk to Sonny for me, he wants me to move out and after the last time Momma said I can't stay with her and Jax is being a jerk about me staying at the hotel."
When he tried to deny her, she grabbed his arm then glared at Elizabeth. "Jason, I really need you."
"Carly, there is nothing for me to do. Why don't you move on, find someone new." with that he reached out and took Elizabeth's hand and said "Right now, my wife and I have to go and show the boys their new sister."
"Oh, you are having a girl, can you believe it Jax won't let me near Jocelyn. I can just see your little one, with blond hair and blue eyes, tall like you. Courtney always believed that the child she lost was a little girl. You two would have been the best parents. What a shame, that she died."
There were no words, thought Jason as Elizabeth just looked at Carly then when they had left said "She is unbelievable."
Meanwhile Emily looked at Carly amused when the blond glared at the closing elevators. "Nice try, but it won't work, Carly. Jason and Elizabeth are happy and you won't be driving a wedge between them. As for Courtney, well it's funny because I once overheard her talking to Jax about her lost baby and she mentioned thinking it was a boy. Amazing how you change things to fit your fantasies."
Jason answered his cell phone then listened to what Georgie was saying. "Sure, is there anything I can do?"
"No, she doesn't want anyone to know. Dr. Lee is going to check her out at Mercy, but she is scared Jason. She is afraid, I don't know, I mean, I can't see Lois and Ned going this far but can you talk to him?"
Agreeing, Jason hung up the phone and said "That was Georgie. That letter from Brooklynn. She is in trouble and needed help."
Calling Johnny and finding out that their Australian contacts required one of them to head south, he agreed to handle the office so that the younger man could go. "I will be back hopefully in a couple of weeks."
Carly was soon out for revenge and tried to get Lulu to help. "Carly, I am hoping Olivia becomes my mother in law. Get over it, besides Sonny was the one who slept with Olivia, why aren't you pissed with him."
"Because Sonny was being Sonny." she said. When she kept pressing her cousin, she didn't know that Dante overheard her complaining about his being alive and how Olivia should have kept her legs closed.
Proud when his girlfriend defended his mother, he was thinking that he had made a good choice by dating Lulu when he froze as Carly went from cajoling to what sounded like threatening her with blackmail. "Lulu, how long do you think you would hold onto that boyfriend of yours if he were to learn your secrets."
"I don't have any secrets from Dante." she sniffed "At least none that matter."
"Really, so you told him about making a bet with Diego Alcazar regarding Georgie and your stepbrother at the time Dillon."
Dante had heard, Lulu had told him it was a childish mistake, that she deeply regretted but that she had had to move on from it. "Yes, I told him about it. Carly I am not stupid."
"But did you tell him everything?" she pressed. "Did you tell him about your CHOICE?" she archly added.
When Lulu turned pale, Dante who was listening didn't hear his girlfriend deny whatever it was that the blond was asking. The silence stretched then Lulu said "I can't believe you would do that, to me. I am family, Carly. You said you understood why I did what I did."
"That baby, Lulu. That baby was family too." was all Carly said "What is more important your family or a man who would dump you when he learns the truth about the baby you aborted?
Shell-shocked, Dante left the hotel, he had been about to visit his mother who had returned to work, needing to talk to someone. Seeing Lulu's co-worker, Maxie Jones he asked "Do you have a few minutes?"
When they were seated, Maxie almost gloated when she found out what was on his mind then said "I am not the person to be asking because I loath your girl friend. Dillon was married to my sister at the time, Georgie and he divorced and he was going to marry her when she made her choice. Dante, I am pro life, I think it is each woman's choice."
"Thank you, for being as honest as you can." he said then left to return to the station. Sitting there he read the file regarding Sam McCall and thought about it, then put it in the back of his drawer. Everyone really knew what that was about. No one was going to look at it too close but the hospital had been required to tell them about the situation.
He kept hearing Carly's words and wanted to confront Lulu but at the same time, he kept hearing another woman telling him she was pregnant and his demand for proof that he was the father and being hung up on. He had made a mistake, been angry with her for his own sins, but yet he couldn't help wondering even now...
But she had been gone when he had finally been free to find out the truth only to be told she had gotten married and left town. The news had hit him hard and he went back to what he knew, now he couldn't help thinking about her and that night.
Tomorrow was a holiday and Georgie was tired, she hated keeping secrets, even worse she hated that she couldn't do more to help Brooklynn. She was safe, at least that was good news she thought to herself. When the beeper went off, Georgie interrupted Johnny who was telling Jason what had happened and how they needed to change suppliers. "Jason, I have to go."
She was holding up the beeper and he nodded, understanding that whatever was going on with Brooklynn was coming to a head. "Do you need help?"
Looking at the man offering, Georgie said "No, I am just going to be there for moral support. But thanks." she said with a wisp of a smile before driving to Mercy. Dr. Lee arrived just as she did and they hurried to where Brooklynn was panting.
"I am sorry, I waited too long." she said then screamed as a contraction hit. "Georgie, if this goes wrong, please. Take care of things, make sure that my little... OOOOOWWWWWW!"
An hour later, Brooklynn was still having contractions as Kelly Lee entered. "Brook, we have to do a C-Section."
"I can't do this, not alone, please Georgie, don't leave me alone." she begged as the sweat poured off her forehead. When she had been given the drugs, Georgie went to the room and paced. Hearing footsteps, she saw Elizabeth, heavy as she was now in her eighth month. "Elizabeth, they just took her in, thank you for coming."
"Georgie, I know that Diane filed the paperwork to place you in charge but you should consider telling at least Monica. I know that you have no love of Tracy either, but that is her granddaughter."
"I promised Brooklynn. It was the only way I could get her to come home." she confessed then said "Oh, Elizabeth it is such a mess. She met this guy at one of her shows. She was drunk and doesn't remember who he was. All she has is a name, and I ran it for her. She has reason to be scared, Elizabeth."
Sitting down with Elizabeth she said "The man, one of the possible fathers of her child, she was scared and didn't contact him then something happened. He seems to have disappeared. Elizabeth, he used to work, well he was a very dangerous man in Jason's old profession."
"You said one of the possible fathers." asking about the other.
"She was upset, called a friend of hers. They talked and she tried to tell him but instead they slept together. They had dated before but then she found out something that she said would blow his world apart so she left, when I gather the truth came out they had a fight about it then ended up giving into what she had always wanted. She found out he was seeing someone, that it was serious according to his mother. She has been running because some men showed up, asking questions about the first guy and she called the second needing help. He was horrible, she said. Then when she called back, a woman answered the phone."
"Poor Brook. Okay, I can get being worried but what about talking to Jason?" she asked.
Georgie looked at Elizabeth and said "Brook was smart enough to include him in her promise to not tell her family."
With a thoughtful smile, Elizabeth said "Well you do know someone else who is quite good at protecting people and who knows the 'business' stuff."
Standing, Georgie reached down and hugged Elizabeth before going outside to use her cell phone. "Hey, Johnny I kind of need help with something, well not me. A friend of mine. Can you come to Mercy Hospital."
"Are you hurt?" he urgently asked even as he stood, grabbed his keys and left his meeting. He had only been back hours, but he would not refuse to help Georgie. Getting told no, he called Jasper Jacks from the garage as he went to drive over. "Jacks, Georgie needs me at the hospital, can we reschedule?"
The Australian agreed then told him to have Georgie call him. "I was hoping to speak to her today, Ned Ashton was looking for her."
"Who is that?" he asked as he put in his blue tooth so he could drive and talk at the same time.
"Jason's cousin and the father of one of Georgie's friends. She went missing and he was hoping Georgie knew something." Jax had been surprised when Ned had asked him for his help, since getting involved with Carly they had barely talked and knew that Ned felt bad for the seperation.
Elizabeth talked to Kelly Lee after Georgie had gone to see Brook and her little girl. "How is she doing?"
"Scared, she is so young and so alone." replied the doctor. Hearing footsteps, they both turned as Johnny looked around confused then approached them. "Elizabeth, do you know what is going on?"
"I will leave it for Georgie to tell you, but I have to go and see Jason right now." she said then left the hospital.
"Please Jason, for my children. He is spending all this time with Olivia and you know that is wrong. I mean, she got pregnant on purpose, you know she did. She is trying to trap him." Carly had gotten past security and was bothering Jason as his office.
"Carly, you need a new spiel, Olivia isn't trying to trap Sonny." Jason knew she had more to fear from the woman going after Jax than Sonny. When Carly protested calling the woman a slut and a whore, he said "I don't want to hear it. Look, why are you even here. I have told you, repeatedly that we are done and yet, every single time I turn around, you are bothering me at my office. My place of business."
"It's not like I can come to your house. The guards won't let me in and I know that it's because that bitch you are married to is too insecure with our close bond. I don't get why you let her trap you with yet another kid." Carly whined, too angry to be cautious.
"Carly, my wife is not a bitch and you are not allowed at our house because only our friends are allowed and you are not a friend."
"Jason, I am your best friend." she replied, knowing that Elizabeth was keeping him from her.
"No, you are not. You are more like a leech that attached yourself to me and won't go away thanks to a promise I made to Michael. Well Carly, you are no longer a necessity to see Michael, he lives at his grandparents house and I can see him when I visit there."
"I knew Michael was the more important." Jason held up his hand to stop her rant and said "No, he isn't but he is a lot more pleasant now that he is no longer under Sonny and your supervision. Do you know where he is right now?"
"No, but I know that Jax stole your idea and took my children to Africa, I tried to tell him that was our trip, but he just ignored me." she mumbled.
"Carly, that was your dream, not mine. And Carly there is no way in hell I would ever take you to a foreign country, hell even Sam had more common sense than you when it came to that, though in her case it was her con artist instincts. You are the rudest, most belligerent person I have ever met in my life."
Hitting the button for security, Jason told the man who showed up to escort the blond out of the building then to fire whoever let her in. "Jason, you know you don't mean that."
Looking into Jason's angry blue eyes, Carly finally got it, they were done and she had nothing left to get him on her side. Hiding her anger and her fear, Carly was furious as her arm was grabbed and led out of his office. Seeing Elizabeth entering, pregnant yet again with Jason's child, she reached out to slap the annoying woman.
Her hand was grabbed from behind and Carly felt herself being spun to face Jason. "Carly, that was your very last mistake. Go away before I make you disappear. Think about it, you know I can do that."
Shaking as she reached the street, Carly looked around not wanting anyone to see that the guard had shoved her out the door. In her car, she just sat there, with a sick feeling in her stomach, one that wasn't going away. Like there was an impending sense of doom sitting on her chest.
Johnny sat down with Georgie when she returned from visiting first Brook then her friends child. "So, your friend needs to find out the truth. What about testing the guy from her old neighborhood?"
"I don't have his name. I remember when I visited her in Bensonhurst, there was one boy, he wasn't there, she kept saying she couldn't wait to introduce me to, but then my dad wasn't thrilled with my being there. I never met him. The other guy, I have a name at least." Georgie's skin looked very pale as she recalled all that she had read, then added "This hitter, he has a connection to your family's past. I know what I am asking is not really fair, but could you do some checking."
"I need a name." he said with a smile that soon fell off when he asked her to repeat that then said the name back to her. "Wait, Dominic Perelli? Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I ran the name, got a list of his priors. Poor Brook. She was already reeling when she slept with him about something else, otherwise she would have been smarter."
"If she was drunk, how do you know that." he asked softly.
"Brook's godfather is Sonny, Johnny. Her mom grew up with him." There was one subject the two avoided, Johnny because he felt like an idiot for sleeping with a woman old enough to be his mother and Georgie because she didn't want him to know she knew.
"The mob." she finished lamely. "Do you know this guy?"
"Yes, but Georgie, this doesn't make sense." he said then asked "Are you sure that is the right name?"
"We found his credit card number at the hotel, then traced it back to his hotel and found some of her clothes in the room." she said blushing. "I had Spinelli track it and was up there within an hour. We conned the desk clerk and got into the room."
"Let me make a few calls." he said then went to a quiet spot and called Dante. "I need to talk to you, it's about your alter ego. And this isn't something you want to delay."
Calling Jason he asked him to come to the hotel with them, Johnny and he met with Dante and Mac who had tagged along. "Why am I here?"
"When was the last time you used the Perelli set up?" he asked bluntly.
"This year, I was looking into a possible connection to a drug supplier." he said "We traced it but the doctor disappeared last month. Why?"
"Where?" he asked.
"Why are you asking?" Mac interrupted to ask. "And what is the interest?"
"It's personal." Johnny said looking at Dante. "A better question would be who was the woman?"
"NONE of your damn business." he replied standing and glaring at the kid. "If you thought you are going to blackmail me."
"Calm down." Mac watched as Jason got between the two men then looked at his partner and wondered why he was opening this can of worms. "What is going on?"
"I just need to confirm he was with someone, that is all." When Dante once again gave him the death glare, Johnny said "Who was she?"
"None of your damn business." he replied. Then looking at his boss who just stood, he went to leave when Johnny asked "Her first name, it wouldn't be Brook would it?"
The police officer turned and decked Johnny, sending him to the floor. "You, you stay away. I won't let you use her like you did my mother. Brook hasn't been harden..."
"Wait, are you talking Brooklynn Ashton?" asked Mac feeling like he was missing something."
"Maybe." replied Johnny. "Jax mentioned earlier that his friend Ned's daughter was missing and that the man was hoping to talk to Georgie about it."
"Why would Georgie know Brook?" asked Dante in shock.
Jason took what Dante asked as confirmation to the questions being asked and said "Because Brooklynn is my cousin Ned's daughter, Georgie and she were friends. Last I heard Lois was keeping her away because of the fighting at the house while she was there as a kid."
Dante closed his eyes. He had know that Brooklynn had a wealthy family someplace, they had once discussed a grandfather but it had been an off the cuff remark. He had never connected her to Port Charles. "Zachara why are you so interested because we both know you wouldn't be involved with a friend of Georgie's."
"I think I had better show you but before we leave first answer a few questions." he said then took the ice that Mac offered from the ice machine and wrapped in a cloth napkin before he placed it on his jaw.
"Yes, I saw Brook when I was in Syracuse using my Perelli ID, she almost blew my cover. We went back to my hotel and what happened next is none of your damn business. Mac, I filed a report on this incident but left out her name."
"The night you were slipped the drugs by Devlin?" he asked then sighed before standing. "Okay, from here out this is clearly personal and I don't want to have to lie to Ned, so I will head out. Jason, are you staying?"
"No, he isn't." replied Johnny. When his partner just left quietly, the Italian was grateful that they trusted one another. "Okay, tell me about Brook and you."
"We dated, remember when I told you about having the perfect woman then losing her. It was Brook I was talking about. Then I saw her, after I started dating Lulu. We talked and it got awkward. So I left. I ran into her on my assignment. One thing led to another and then a couple weeks later at home. We had the strangest argument then slept together. I came back to end things with Lulu but she said she might be pregnant. So I waited."
"How long?" Johnny asked.
"A month, then I heard my mother talking to Mrs. Cerello who was worried because she hadn't heard from Brooklynn and had found a gold wedding ring in her laundry. I went to her apartment near school and was told by her neighbor that Brook had moved. The woman was so happy for Brook, she kept going on and on about how she had gone home and got married and was having a baby."
"Did you ever think it might be yours?" asked Johnny needing to figure this out so he could tell the other man what he knew.
"Yes, I went to New York, but when I returned to my grandparents house after trying to find out what was going on, Lulu had driven up there with my mother. Then my mother mentioned later on that she had heard Brook was living in a sixth floor walk up with some blond guy."
"Brook called a few weeks later, when she told me about the baby. I said something I shouldn't have. Then when I went to apologize she hung up on me."
Thinking on what Georgie had told him, Johnny said "Man, I hate to tell you this but you have spent the last nine months jealous of yourself."
"What?" he asked confused.
"Brook didn't remember that night. She woke up and panicked. She called Georgie who tracked back the credit card number. All they had was a name and a list of crimes and convictions, Dante."
"Oh man. Fuck." said Dante as he recalled the supposed past of Dominic Perelli then the conversation with Brook. "She came to see me, we oh fuck, we couldn't seem to tell each other what was going on. In my case that I had stupidly been dating someone while working undercover because I was upset at losing her and she tried to tell me, I just didn't want to hear she had found someone."
"Have you thought this through yet?" asked Johnny.
"Wait, the baby." Dante's eyes closed as he got what was going on. "The baby was mine. Mom said she heard she miscarried."
"She didn't." he said then looking at the man announced. "She ran in fear after someone came looking for Perelli. The blond man, I don't know about but she has been on the run. Georgie convinced her to come here, to stop running. She is at Mercy and gave birth this afternoon."
When the man stood unsteadily, Johnny pushed him back into the chair. "You should deal with Lulu first. Then go talk to Brook with a fresh slate."
"No, I have to talk to her, see her. You don't understand."
"About your relationship with Brook, no I don't. But I have seen this Lulu in action since I moved here and she has to be dealt with and putting it off won't help."
"I agree, I won't talk to Brook but I need to see her, to see she is okay."
"She isn't. They had to do a C-section." he replied bluntly. "Deal with Lulu."
Jason was listening to his wife who had come with him to the hotel. "I should call Ned."
"Let them work this out. I think that it might all be resolved without creating more trouble. Then we can offer to help but right now, the only person she trusts is Georgie and we don't want to ruin that." she said distracting him with a kiss.
Stopping to pick up their boys, Jason was carrying in the groceries when the phone rang. Elizabeth who was on her cell phone listened in amusement as Cam picked up the phone then said "Morgan."
The curly haired boy mimicked his father then said "Let me see."
Holding his hand over the phone, he walked to the window then opened the drapes frowned then said "No, sir Daddy can't see to find himself with Jake. Would you like to speak to my mommy."
Seeing Mommy was still on her phone, he said "Okay, I will tell mommy but I don't understand. If Missus Corinthos is sauced why don't you just use the water hose to wash her off or call her own Mommy to do it?"
Cam said "Goodbye." Hanging up he turned to his dad and said "That man said Missus Corinthos is sauced down at Jake's. Then asked if you could see your way down there sometime soon. I told him no that you couldn't see Jakes and to clean Missus Corinthos off with a hose."
His lips twitching, Jason gravely said thank you then watched as the little boy smiled then called to Jake that he was going to beat him to the playroom. Her lips twitching, Elizabeth said "Someone needs to hose Carly off."
"It won't be me. Not after the display she put on again today." he said shaking his head. "Maybe a night in a jail cell will wake her up."
Dante had seen Georgie sleeping by Brook's bed, then had gone to the nursery and saw the baby labeled baby girl Jones and went to deal with the woman he should have broke up with long before this moment. Calling and having her meet him at his place, Dante thanked Johnny for his help then hurried to his loft.
"Dante, I am glad you called. Things have been so tense between us and I really don't understand why." she replied.
Looking at the blond who had been a replacement for the woman he had loved and thought lost twice during this mess of a relationship and Dante felt bad for what he was about to do. "Sit down, please Lulu."
Doing so, she looked at him with a smile, certain from how nervous he was that she was about to get engaged. "Lulu, we have been together for a while."
She felt the smile grow when he sat down near her. "But before I came here, there was the woman. I was in love with her but thought that with my undercover work, she wouldn't be able to handle things. I never gave her a chance just ended things. I came here, we started dating and I tried to put her out of my mind."
"Tried?" she asked not sure she wanted to hear this. "But Dante we have been together for over a year and a half."
"Do you remember when you thought you were pregnant. Well with my history, I couldn't end things between us, just in case, but something had happened. I had decided I wanted to try with her. But that changed things, the possible baby."
Lulu was getting ready to try and claim to be pregnant again, there was no way she was losing him and saying she was having his kid would certainly keep him. "Dante, there is something we need to talk..."
"Let me finish, please?" he asked. "I went to her school, on assignment and we ran into one another then a few weeks later while I was back home we did so again. I returned here, then she called to talk to me. In between I had been told she had gotten married. And I didn't want to be the loser yet again, so I just let things go, kept dating you."
Furious to be made to feel like a replacement, she was at least relieved to find out the other woman was married.
"Then my mom was hospitalized. You were so helpful and I felt bad about not loving you as much as you love me." he said. "I came to visit you, wanting to make sure you knew I appreciated all you had done for me. I overheard you talking to Carly."
"She is my cousin, I know what she did was bad, Dante." she said not sure why but feeling certain that the ax was about to fall. They had been slowly drifting apart since Olivia had had a miscarriage.
"My problem isn't with what she did and I have no right to judge but at the same time, Lulu what you did might have been right for you, but I would be a hypocrite if I didn't admit if I had been the father. I would have never talked to you again."
The ax fell. "Dante, it was the right choice. I had no one on my side. I couldn't, just couldn't be a mother that soon."
"See, that is what I am talking about, Lulu. I get that it was your decision, but I don't agree with it. That is why I have to end things with you. I look at you and I see what you did. The same choice my mother had and she made a hard choice, one that cost her so much. Good bye Lulu."
Standing he showed her to the door, watching as she left unresisting until he was about to close the heavy door. "Dante, I get that you are hurt but I will be waiting when you want to talk about this."
"Lulu, there is nothing to talk about. That choice, I know exactly all the options you had, and then there is the girl I loved. She faced the same choice, thought horrible things about me. That I had moved on, and I can never make that up to her. That she did this all alone because I was too scared to live alone."
"What do you mean?" she asked almost whispering as she watched the pain in his eyes.
"I mean that I am a father. A little girl born this afternoon to the woman I have loved since she was a teenager. And she almost died but I would never have known because I was too afraid to take a chance and chase after her."
"You, you cheated on me?" she asked stunned. "How could you?"
"Lulu as the other woman in your very first relationship, you have no right to judge me. I am sorry for hurting you, but I hurt her worse. And that is the one that
matters to me."
The blond left, drove home and threw herself onto her bed. Hearing footsteps, she turned and snorted when she saw her Aunt Bobbie leading a very obviously drunk Carly to her room. Needing to get away, she thought about what Dante said and drove to GH.
Checking the nursery she didn't see this supposed child so she walked down the hallway and saw Alexis Davis talking to her daughter. Listening as the woman described her daughter as a hero for some reason, Lulu snorted in disbelief before heading to the roof.
Sitting quietly, she looked out over the Port Charles skyline and wondered why her life sucked so bad.
At Mercy, Georgie left Dante in the hospital room, stunned at what the man had confessed.
Johnny looked at her and asked "Are you ready to head home."
"Thanks, but I drove." she said yawning.
"I don't think you should be behind the wheel of a car." he said then directed her to the passenger seat of his car. Arriving at the Scorpio house, he saw she was fast asleep and reached out to brush his fingers against her soft skin.
"UMMMMM!" she murmured breathlessly as she pressed her lips against his hand.
"Georgie, time to wake up." he said then leaned over to gently shake her. Instead he was the one shook when she lifted said lips and kissed him. Closing his eyes and leaning his forehead on her shoulder, he said "Georgie, if you don't want me carrying you in and staying the night, you really need to wake up."
When she just leaned against him, he released the seat belt and moved to the other side of the car. Lifting her, he really hoped someone was home when she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pressed a kiss against his cheek.
"You are killing me, you do know that don't you?" he asked humorously as he ran the doorbell. When Mac let him in, he directed him to the upstairs room where he then laid down the woman still not stirring. Covering her up, he stood then walked back to where the older man was waiting.
"I just got a call from Brook's parents, they are on their way. She woke up and called them. I don't know if she told them about the baby but I know that she did tell them about Georgie talking her into coming home."
Two weeks later Elizabeth was sitting in the window, their daughter keeping her awake as she kicked Mommy's insides. Feeling hands encircle her waist then lips kissing the nape of her neck, she leaned back into Jason's arms. "Where are you?"
"Thinking about the difference between this pregnancy and Jake's." she said. "Last time around, I spent so much time trying to convince everyone I was happy, trying to protect a man I didn't love anymore, well that I wasn't in love with. Worried about you, worried about Cam. With our daughter, I only worry about the normal every day things that I should be worrying about. Like does Abbots still have mint custard or does a dill pickle taste better cold or fresh from a jar."
"I wish that we could go back and change things." he said when she rested against his body.
"Part of it, me too. But I don't know that things would have worked out if I had told the truth then." she said. "We were both a mess, Jason. Emotionally we gave ourselves over to everyone but each other and we needed to see that being selfish can be a good thing, on occasion.
Hearing footsteps, they heard Cam rushing in. "Mommy, is it baby time yet? Grandpa says she is going to come early."
Picking up the little boy, Jason kissed him then said "No, mommy is just awake because your little sister won't let her sleep. She is a night owl."
"An Owl?" asked Cam who as Jason explained fell quickly asleep. Carrying the little boy back to his room, he soon joined Elizabeth who was now in their bed. Seeing the work he had brought home with him, he said "I can't wait until Johnny gets back from New Zealand, I am sick of paperwork."
"Oh, my poor sweet baby, what can I do to make it better." she offered only to laugh when he picked up the file and handed it to her. "You are on your own with that."
"At the office too. Georgie is off helping planning Brook's wedding, Diane is doing whatever with Max and Bernie is at a cribbage tournament."
"You said that things were slow right now, that other than a new supplier you were planning on just keeping things running smoothly. Take a deep breath, relax, because Jason, in less than a month we are going to be parents to three children under the age of six."
That was why his staff was gone now, he had plans to surprise Elizabeth and the rest of their family with a trip to Italy after their daughter was born. Johnny had agreed to it and they were training Georgie to take over the non-security part of the business. Jason was still planning on running his part from Italy but they were going to take a step back, to keep from getting too big.
Jason thought about his fears, not even a month before then looked at Elizabeth who was drifting off to slept curled up next to him and thought to himself that he was a very lucky man. He had his world close to how he wanted it and even the minor annoyances like Carly and Sonny were being managed.
As he finally joined his wife in dreamland, Jason reminded himself that he had two more wishes to come true and hopefully by New Years Eve this year, his last remaining fears would be gone. Sonny's restaurant was in trouble and Carly, well Carly was drinking way too much. Both kept expecting him to rush in and save the day but like he had told Jax, they were adults and could take care of themselves.
He had no idea that Dr. Ian Devlin before he left town had given Sam more than just the embryos he had implanted. He had wanted to test a drug on behalf of his boss, and with the comatose brunette he had the perfect test subject as the injuries were similar.
He also had no idea that his ex-wife, the one who still had a room in his old penthouse was in trouble, deep trouble, nor that Trevor Lansing had left a time bomb one that would explode now that he had been gone for so long. Things were converging and there was a good chance it would happen in Port Charles.
If Jason knew, he would have been scared, instead he slept that night his arms around his wife, already planning his family's Christmas with their little girl. But then he had no idea that what someone was about to do would change Port Charles forever.