Jason took a look then contacted his former partner. When Sonny dodged a meeting, the blond knew he was doing EXACTLY what he had been warned not to do. He was trying to find a way back in. Calling Maximus, the man made plans to get his sons out of dodge knowing that the hammer was gonna fall and fall hard on the neck of the Cuban.
Thankful that he didn't have much to do at the office other than sign bonuses, Jason went to asked Johnny what they had found out regarding the Balkan. Seeing the younger man's uneasiness plus his hesitation before answer, he groaned and said "Why do I think I am not going to like this?"
"You won't. We were getting nowhere, when Georgie overheard Cody and I talking. Uh, she made a call, we got what we were looking for, faxed to us. Then she got a call giving her the uncensored version. The man we know as the Balkan, the original one, died two years ago."
Handing him the picture, Jason said "He looks familiar."
"He should, he spent a lot of time, here under the radar. Then about the same time you ignored Sonny's orders regarding O'Brien, he went back to Europe permanently, taking his new assistant with him. It looks like he found your man, hired him and when he died, he left everything and I mean EVERYTHING to him."
"What about the connection to Sonny?" he asked thinking what his former boss would do with that kind of money and power and shuddered at the idea.
"From the looks of things, the window is there for him to be his son. Where that leaves Mike Corbin, I don't know. Anyhow, he left Cuba, went back to his hideout in Europe and fomented revolution. But when the Iron Curtain fell, well, it didn't go his way. His country fell to pieces and he chose to stay out of it other than one more connection to Port Charles."
"What is that?" asked Jason looking at the man's picture.
"Jeff Webber, he supplied everything DWB's used in the area to take care of anyone needing medical help once the man joined the team. My guess would be in respect for Audrey Hardy. He never married by the way, short term mistresses, no marriages and no relationships, at least none long term. It looks like he was in seriously in love with the woman."
"I can't help wondering what else she might know." he admitted. "But I can't push, Elizabeth wants to let it go."
"I would let it go, it doesn't really connect to what we needed to know anyhow." he said. "As for Sonny, his mother had a cheap fake version of that jade box. It looks like he saw it at the Barretts somehow and wanted it."
"Brenda said there were rumors of it being connected to great wealth and power." he said. "So my guess is that is why Sonny wanted it."
"Oh, she ran into Sonny then Mike Corbin at the hospital today. It looks like Sonny tried to make himself out the hero, only to be shot down." reported the man entering. Cody sat down then said "Sonny then left and had a meeting with two men. Romanian from the looks of things."
"Jason, would O'Brien?" he left it open when he saw Jason's confirming nod. "Do we interfere?"
"No, let Sonny find out what breaking his word will cost him. However, I made a promise to Max's father. Check on both Milo and him." said Jason only to hear footsteps then the two men entering looking a bit worse for wear.
"Jason, Sonny was kidnapped. The men said it was at the order of the Balkan. I know you two are done, but for the sake of the past, you have to save him." said Max a bit out of breath. "I have been keeping him clean, so please consider."
"Max, the Southridge Construction Company is corrupt. Sonny has been playing you. I promised your father, we would get Milo and you out of the country, but Sonny, well Sonny is on his own." said Jason while Johnny and Cody backed him up.
Elizabeth had finished visiting with her grams when she walked down the hallway towards Alexis only to see Sam being escorted back to her room. Shivering as the emotionally dead eyes of the pregnant woman looked at her and sneered, she just kept walking past as if she didn't exist.
"You think you have won bitch, well I know this isn't real." she muttered at Elizabeth who just smiled when she saw Brenda talking to Georgie who seemed to be trying to say no to something.
Epiphany saw her part time nurse and said "When are you returning to the schedule."
"We were planning on staying in Italy until the New Years, now it looks like we will just be remaining here. There are a few loose ends, and only a couple of them connect to the delusional patient you have down the hall." she said with a heavy sigh. "Did I hear right, Dr. Niles tries to commit suicide?"
"Yes, she is at Shadybrook." the head nurse told her.
Sonny was tied up, with duct tape on his mouth and a blind fold covering his eyes. "Well, well Michael "Sonny" Corinthos, finally cut down to size."
Sonny knew that sneering voice from someplace, but couldn't recall it. When the duct tape covering his mouth was pulled off, he grimaced at the pain and said "You are making a mistake, a very big one. And you are going to pay for it. When Jason finds out."
"Morgan? He knew I have been after you, did nothing to prevent it." said the laughing man. "And I know all about the wedge between the two of you. I let your usual greed and stupidity drive it further than it would have normally but in the end, Jason Morgan will do nothing to save you."
"Who are you?" Sonny asked frustrated. "And why are you after me?"
"Oh, me, I am not after you. I have just been waiting for you to fall into my lap. Which you did so willingly. As for why, well to be honest. It is simply a matter of greed and revenge." The green eyed man reached over and pulled off the blind fold and looked at Sonny who was blinking at the sudden light.
All the Cuban saw was an outline of a tall man in good shape. As his eyes slowly adjusted, he once again had the feeling he knew this man. Then was furious when he saw who it was. "Johnny O'Brien? How the hell, Jason killed you. I told him to do it."
"Yes, you told him to kill me, but Jason knew I had been set up. So he got me out of town, fortunately for me, I made one last stop before I left and that, that step, well it gave me the world. Women in every port if I want them, more money than Bill Gates and most importantly, the power to deal with you, you son of a bitch."
"I would have heard, if you were anyone important." said Sonny dismissing his former guard. "This is all shadows and mirrors, in the end, you will die and I will have the last laugh."
"Actually, I have been the one having a good laugh for the last few years. The tiger you kept leashed, Jason turned around and bit you, like you deserved. And since there is nothing you can do about it, a little more knowledge. You have heard the saying knowledge is power, haven't you?"
Sonny tried to jerk free of the riot cuffs keeping him connected to the chair as Johnny sat down in one across from him. "Sam McCall, is pregnant."
"No shit." said Sonny scowling. "What of it?"
"It's your child, Alexis got your ex-lover, Kate Howard to help her well gain access to it in order to save Molly, Ric's daughter."
Sonny was plotting to make damn sure that that child was in his possession when the man in front of him laughed. "Aw, poor sad mobster. You aren't going to live to see the child's birth."
When he glared but didn't say a word, the man with the laughing green eyes said "I was there when Carly was killed. Someone should have tied that bitch's mouth shut years ago."
With a scoff, Sonny said "Jason will kill you for that one, alone."
"No, he won't. Sonny, I have been orchestrating this moment from behind the scenes for so long, I am almost giddy at the thrill I am receiving. And you don't even know half of it. That box, the one you had that poor stupid bouncer, what was him name, oh, I know Jared. Well Jared stole the box, he didn't switch it like you thought. Harlan Barretts daughter Julia replaced it. I even know about how your mother had a cheap copy of it."
"Leave my mother out of this." snapped Sonny.
"No, see that is what I am going to take great pleasure in ruining for you. I don't know why you never thought to run DNA tests on Courtney, after all you two looked so differently. See, she wasn't you sister."
"Yes she was, Mike knew her, helped raise her." said Sonny.
"Now I never said Mike wasn't her father. He was her, just not yours." he said with a laugh. "That cheap box, the one your mother treasured so much, that she let Deke use you as a punching bag to protect. Well, it was given to her, as a gift from a man who had made her his mistress."
"How dare you?" Sonny hissed in disbelief. "My mother."
"Was the mistress of a man who loved one woman in his life. When she chose to marry another, he used women for what they could do for him, but never fell in love with another, never chose to even provide his empire with an heir."
"What does that have to do with you?" sneered Sonny.
"That man, gave the original to a partner of his. It didn't mean much to him, unlike Adella who thought it meant he would come back for her. When he didn't, she married Mike and we all know how that turned out. The woman he loved, is still alive, Sonny. You know her, she is Elizabeth Webber's grandmother, Audrey Hardy. Your mother, like you ex mistress Sam was a replacement, a whore taken to satisfy his desires, just like you used Sam." said Johnny with a twisted grin.
When Sonny ranted, claimed he didn't know what he was talking about, Johnny just socked him in the jaw and said "Shut up, I loathed listening to you when I worked for you. The only reason I stayed was Jason. You and your stable of bitches and whores, made me sick."
When Sonny stopped talking, Johnny said "I know you heard the rumors about the box, about how it was connected to great wealth and power. Harlan was right, it is. My power, my riches and they would have all been yours if your own biological father hadn't considered you worthless."
"He came to town, to get a look at you, then decided that you were not someone he wanted to turn his empire over to. Instead, he was watching the woman he had loved for so long, with her granddaughter and happened to see me sneaking in to visit with her."
"Audrey Hardy would no more invited you in then she would me." said Sonny scoffing.
"I left her a present. The box, the original that I stole from you after you had Francis steal it. No, it wasn't Lorenzo Alcazar, I did that. Then I gave it to her, along with the name of the Balkan, at the time I didn't know she was acquainted with the man. He knew who I was, from watching you, hired me. Then when he died, I took over, inherited his wealth, his power."
Looking Sonny in the eyes, he saw the moment the man realized what he had been denied. "Yeah, billions, Sonny. Control of most of the shipping lanes in Europe and enough legitimate businesses that I can never be touched."
"That should have been mine." growled Sonny the wheels of his mind turning as he thought about what he could have done with that much power.
"True but your father found you to be a waste. He once said it was a shame that Jason was a Quartermaine, that he would have made an excellent heir. Now, I have wasted enough time."
Standing, Johnny called out to his men then said "I don't want pieces big enough to be identified. Keep him alive, let the pain kill him. Except for his head, when he finally dies, I want it removed and left where I told you."
Leaving, Johnny heard the first scream and gave a cold blooded smile as he climbed into his limo and sent a message to Morgan. "The accounts he stole from you and hid."
Alexis let herself into her lake side home and saw Kristina sitting on the deck. "It's cold out."
"I know. Mom, we need to talk." she said with a sigh. "I know you are trying to save Molly, I get that, but I can't keep this a secret and clearly someone else knows what is going on."
"Don't worry, it has been handled." said Alexis thinking about how she had made sure that her youngest would be okay. She had also dealt with Sam, the blood thinners she planned on giving her, so that she would be out of it, so that Alexis would have control over the stem cells and her child.
Georgie decorated the Scorpio Christmas tree, a bit depressed because Mac had decided to work, so that Dante could be with Brook and his child, and a few other of his single detectives were doing the same.
She knew that Matt and Maxie were going to be away and didn't want to bother Patrick who would invite her, but she was glad he was getting close to one of the nurses and didn't want to intrude with reminders of Robin.
Hearing the phone ringing, she saw that it was Brenda and thought about not answering it, she had promised the model she would think about going out with a friend of her, but truly didn't want to spend the evening making small talk with someone she had nothing in common with.
Just as she was ready to call it a night and curl up with a good book, Georgie heard the sound of the doorbell. Yanking the door open, she said Brenda standing there then the woman said "I need you, pretty, pretty please. I am going to eat dinner with Jax. Please, just be in the room."
"Brenda, the answer is no." she said then went put up the last of the glass bulbs. "My hitting ignore the eighteen times you called, should have been a signal that I have no intention of helping you."
"Georgie?" Turning she saw Mac in the door as he held onto his phone. "I know you are a little old, but Rogers is looking for a baby sitter this evening."
Glaring she said "I can't, I have to help Brenda."
The woman smirked in triumph as she said "Let's get you out of these clothes and into something young and sexy."
"Brenda, my wardrobe doesn't extend to sexy." she said only to be told to wait right there. The woman rushed out to her car and returned with a garment bag. "Sexy coming right up."
When she had tossed on her jacket, Georgie glared at the model as she fought with her over taking her cell phone. "Brenda as part of my job, I am required to have it on me at all times. So get over it."
Accepting that at least she was going to have dinner with Vince Thomas, Brenda drew her to the car. "You two are going to have so much in common." she said with a huge grin.
At GH, Alexis got the call she had been waiting on. "I will be right there."
Joining her daughter, she sat down across from her. A few minutes later, Sam exploded, not believing what her mother was telling her. When she tossed out memories of the real world, and Alexis rejected each one, she was starting to panic, then the pain started.
She saw the expectant look in Alexis eyes and said "What is going on, it's too soon."
"No, Sam it isn't. You are almost nine months pregnant." Alexis decided that since Sam didn't have much time, now was the time to tell the truth.
"That's impossible," she snapped. "I want to talk to Jason, now!"
"Jason Morgan won't come Sam. He hasn't been in your life for over three years. Now calm down so that your baby can be born." Alexis said not adding what she really wanted to.
"Then if Jason isn't the father of my child, who is?" she snapped, something was off, this dream, well nightmare really was becoming painful. Did dreams cause pain?
"Sonny." replied Alexis as she called Dr. Lee. "Sam is in labor."
"No, that isn't possible." she stated. "I-I-"
Looking into her mother's eyes, Sam knew something was wrong. "What did you do?"
"You are going to give birth tonight to your late daughter's full blooded sister. I will raise her, not even Sonny knows about this child. You will more than likely slip into a coma. At least according to the doctors who advised against your being pregnant. Then you will die. And Kelly and Patrick, they have no proof that I was the one who did this. Oh, I am sure they suspect, but I made damn sure that there was no actual proof."
"Why?" Sam had tears in her eyes, she didn't want to die, not when she had so much to live for. She had seen Elizabeth was dead, she knew that this was not really happening but she had heard when you die in your dreams, you were truly dead. Looking up at the woman she once again asked "Why would you do this to your own daughter?"
Alexis looked her straight in the eyes and said "To save your younger sister. Molly is sick and you and this baby are the only way to save her."
Sam could feel the blood, then saw her doctors entering, struggling to stay conscious, she was soon out of it and felt herself floating on air even as in the distance she heard Dr. Lee talking about doing a c-section.
Sam felt herself floating, as if outside her own body. Looking down, she saw the burnt out Towers, then the warehouses down by the docks. At least Sonny's restaurant was where it normally was, she thought to herself. Until she was reading the sign on the door and started to panic.
"Closed due to Owners death." Seeing Max and Milo as they fled, she listened as the older brother explained to Milo that they had to leave and now. "Like Jason told us, pop confirmed that a deal was made to protect us."
Moving on, she saw Dante, but he was holding a baby while talking to the tramp who took money from Carly to seduce that very man. Not seeing Lulu, she frowned, then realized that no one had mentioned the blond's name regarding recent activities.
She went to Shadybrook still amused that Elizabeth had been a patient, she saw Olivia Falconari and frowned, wait, what was she doing there? Moving closer, she listened as the woman went on and on about how Sonny had betrayed her. "Yeah, right, Sonny is loyal only to himself."
Thinking on the man, she went to see what he was up to and was a bit surprised to realize she couldn't. Then tried again, finally she saw the man, or at least his head. Propped up on the DA's dresser in a box. "Contact the police, but they won't find anything left."
Floating around, she was a bit upset to see Kristina joking and laughing with friends instead of being the sullen and withdrawn teen she had known. "Michael!" the girl called out.
Turning Sam frowned even more when Michael had no angst, instead he was holding a girls hands, talking about attending college. "How is Molly?"
"Mom won't let me be there. I think she is worried that I might go tell someone what she did." said the younger girl in an annoyed tone. "I mean, seriously, does she really think anyone cares that Sam is probably going to die?"
"Doesn't that bother you?" he asked looking at his sister.
"It should, but we weren't close. Then there is all the stuff she did to the Morgan kids." she said sadly. "Mac Scorpio said that even if she wakes up, she is facing at least fifteen years in prison."
Leaving in a huff, Sam went to the Q's, certain to be a fountain of misery. Instead she saw Monica talking to Edward who was ordering Alice to hurry and get the door. Growling when she saw the Morgan family in mass, joining them, Sam tried to stay but found she couldn't.
Heading towards the hospital, she saw the building with the lighted sigh and went inside. Seeing Johnny Zachara on the phone with someone then saying thanks, she wondered why he wasn't with Olivia, his lover at Shadybrook. Moving in, she saw the ring, then heard who he intended to give it to and screamed in frustration as she found yet again something deviating from what should be going on.
Maxie, no, she was with Matt, not Spinelli. The geek, she couldn't find him, at the hotel, she started to scream as pain hit, serious and deep pain. Looking around, desperate for something anything to tell her that this was all a dream, she freaked when she saw Jax showing off his daughter to Brenda Barrett, then explaining that he had custody of Morgan.
Relaxing a bit, Sam was in pain again when she saw Rebecca, no Emily, wait which one? Her head was hurting, her stomach felt like it was on fire as she ended up at GH in time to see herself giving birth. "Alexis, she is weak, I doubt she is going to make it. We need a name for the baby."
"Lila, since Sonny buried Jason and my daughter with his mother's name." hissed the woman only for Alexis to look at the little girl then say "Nicolina, to honor my nephew."
Sam started to scream as the pain intensified, looking around, trying to find a hold, all she felt was pain, then more pain and finally nothing. She felt nothing, like she was in an abyss. She watched from near the ceiling as Kelly covered her face with a sheet then called time of death.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Sam screamed.
Kelly swore she heard something, then wondering if even Sam McCall somehow, had had a soul said "Sam, you do know that if you die in your dreams, you are dead in the real world."
Screaming no, no, no,no,no no, no, no, no. Sam felt herself being pulled away then nothing again. Finally all she felt was light, then darkness, then...
At the Metrocourt, Georgie was laughing, Brenda was right, the man was fun. He was also engaged to be married but his fiancee was in Madrid on a shoot and he hadn't wanted to eat along. Hearing her phone ringing, she apologized then said "This had better be important."
Frowning from where he was hiding, Johnny said "I need you at the office."
Looking at the man across from her she mouthed she was sorry then rolling her eyes said "I am on a date, can't this wait until tomorrow morning."
"Did you just roll your eyes at me?" he snapped.
"What, are you here, spying on me?" she retorted. When said he couldn't see her face, she said then how would you know what I am doing?"
"The office, Georgie. In fifteen minutes, leave the date behind. He will only bore you to death."
Wanting to snap that maybe that was what she wanted she asked "Where is Jason?"
"Spending personal time with his family, which is why you and I are going to take care of this." he said playing the guilt card.
Jason watched as Jake tried to slip Adrianna a cookie, he said "Jake, she is too little to eat that."
"But they are really good and Mommy said I have to share." he said with a sigh.
Hiding his grin, Jason said "Why don't you share with mommy then?"
"Because Aunt Emily says that she can't have anymore. That she already at five daddy." he said with huge eyes. "She only let's us two at the most."
Hearing his phone ring, he listened as Georgie said "Sorry, Jason wrong number."
Hanging up, the girl groaned then looking at her 'date' said "I have to go and do this."
"Do you want me to drive you over, I know that Brenda brought you here, she made sure to inform me." he said not adding that Brenda had expected their date to be interrupted and he had been warned that if it was work related to go with her, at least as far as the office. She wanted someone, he would guess Georgie's boss from the sounds of it to think that he was dating the very nice looking brunette.
Once there, getting a look at the man, Vince let himself be sent home quickly then called Brenda to say Mission accomplished.
Inside, Johnny saw the young woman pacing back and forth wearing an absolutely sexy skin skimming dress. "I can't believe you. You can't just send my date home like that."
"You work for me, so yes, I can. He was bothering me." he replied with huff then handed her the folder. "You are the one who agreed to work for us."
"I kind of wish you were still into things I could get you sent to jail for at this moment." she muttered. "Wait, until Brenda hears about this one. She was the one who introduced me to him."
"Yes, but Georgie, you weren't going to have a relationship with him, let alone get him into bed." he smirked. Georgie growled, she hadn't intended to do that, she had just once wanted to have date, a fun nice uncomplicated date but no, her boss had to ruin it. While she hadn't wanted to be there at first, she had liked Vince and it had reminded her how much fun she used to have dating.
"Georgie, he was..." Johnny had figured out the man was a set up when Brenda called him with the information she was at the Metrocourt on a date, now he was freaked, what if she hadn't been in on it and had actually liked this guy.
"I don't care Johnny. Now where is this file..." she demanded. She had had enough, tomorrow was her one year anniversary of working for Jason and his new company, well it would also be her last day.
When she had agreed to work for Jason, she had had no idea that the man she had had a crush on for years was his partner. Then they had ended up switching assistants. While the pay was good, Georgie now had enough to quit, to finish possibly going to law school and she couldn't wait.
Getting the feeling he had gone too far when he saw her tears, he said instead. "No, it's okay. I am sorry, Georgie, I can take care of it myself."
Glaring the woman said "No, it's too late. I might as well finish this up."
Feeling sick, Jason had told Johnny not to play games, but he had been trying to get her to see him as a man, not as a pal, not as her boss like she had for the last year, but simply as a man interested in her. He had planned to get her out to the cabin, to finally, finally lay it all on the line...like Elizabeth had recommended.
When she looked up the routing number, then made the call, Georgie said "Good night, Mr. Zachara."
"Georgie girl... look... I uh..." when he turned around he was the only person in the room. Swearing he followed the path to the garage and watched as she pulled out and drove away. Returning to the house, then deciding he needed to talk to her, tonight, he grabbed his keys and drove towards town.
At Vista Point, a mile away from his house, he saw her sitting in the cold on the hood of one of the company cars and slammed on the brakes. Pulling in, he saw she was crying. Opening the door, he ignored her snapping at him to let her go, he said "I am kidnapping you."
Once the shocked girl was in his passenger seat, he thought about it then drove them to his family cabin as the snow fell. "We are going to get stuck in this."
"No we won't." he replied even as he knew they would. Its where he had planned with Mac to bring her, so they could clear the air. Then just as they arrived, admitted. "You might be right."
When they were in front of the house, he said "Let's get inside."
"Johnny, we should turn around, and head home." she did not, most definitely did not want to spend the holidays stuck in a cabin as small as this one looked with this man.
"I don't think we will make it. Let's go inside and call your dad so he doesn't worry."
Once inside, Georgie looked around the living room then at the staircase, finally to where she could see the kitchen. At least it looked like there was more than just one bedroom she thought. "Here, call you dad."
Grumbling a bit, she called Mac and told him what was going on. "Wait, your sister wants to talk to you."
Maxie got on the phone, then took it to the kitchen. "Hey, what is going on?"
"Nothing. We are at some cabin and are stuck here. For Christmas." she said glaring at the man entering with a bag. "I am stuck, with my boss twenty six hours until Christmas in a cabin in the woods."
Maxie heard the stress and gave a sigh. Poor Georgie, she still hadn't dealt with this crush. She had suggested she sleep with another guy, even tried to set her up on dates, but instead, she was just falling deeper. Thinking on it, she said "Maybe this is your chance, to make him see you as someone other than.."
"Georgie girl." she said bitterly then glaring when Johnny returned with firewood. "Maxie, I can't do that. I will talk to you tomorrow. Wait, I don't have my charger on me."
Hanging up, she glared at the man starting the fire in the cold cabin. "NO central heat, huh?"
"None. We don't usually use this place in the winter. Those stove will work, it's on the generator and was filled last week. So unless we are stuck here for a month..."
"By that time, I will have done myself in," she muttered as she went to see what was upstairs and how she would keep warm... stopping at the top, she clunked her way down, glaring at him. "There are no bedroom's upstairs."
"Oh course not." he said "Like I said, we don't-"
"Where am I supposed to sleep?" she asked.
"Georgie, would you please calm down." he said. He had this brilliant idea, now it was going to blow up in his face, like his plan to ruin her date. "There is a bedroom over there but you do realize that there is only one fireplace. We both might need to sleep in here."
Looking around the cabin, yet again, Georgie opened the door to the bedroom then saw Johnny looking at her "What?"
"You might want to borrow one of my hoodies or something from in there. You have to be freezing." Georgie looked down at the party dress, then up at Johnny before closing the door and heading for the closet only to find no closet.
Hearing the door front door close, Georgie just started to yank open drawers then found women's clothes. When she heard Johnny again, she thought about it, not wanting to wear clothes some woman he had brought here had left... with a sigh, she opened the door. "Are these clothes Claudia's?"
Deciding not to lie, he said "No."
Debating between her pride and freezing, Georgie pulled out the jeans and a long sleeve shirt. Once they were on, she saw the sweater and thought to herself, well at least the woman had had decent tastes. In the other room, Johnny was hoping they fit, he had checked the sizes but Elizabeth had warned him that each style had a different fit and size at times.
Returning, she was pulling on a pair of his socks and he had to hide his laughter but when she had pulled one of the many throw blankets on her shoulders, he said "The fire should warm the room up soon. Are you hungry?"
"No, I ate on my date." she snapped. "Did you check the weather?"
"In the car. Onstar says we are screwed." he told her. "A blizzard, a bad one."
"We should conserved our cell phones, how about I turn my off for now." she suggested then watched as he went to the small kitchen and heated up water for making tea. Handing her a cup, he saw her surprise when she took a sip.
"I can't believe it, Sing's red black." she said sipping yet again and moaning in pleasure. Why one earth.
A bit nervous, but knowing they had to talk, he asked "Why were you crying?".
Setting the mug down, she said "Because I a sick and tired of my life. Nothing is going to change until I do something to change it. No one with magical fairy dust is going to wave their wand and poof, my life becomes what I want."
"What do you want?" he asked softly, hoping to get some hint of the answer.
"Everything. A career. A family, one of my own, with a husband who doesn't run off to play secret agent, a couple of kids. Boys preferably." she said then seeing his expression said "After helping raise Maxie, I want an easier time with my own kids."
"You have a career, at least I thought so." he said.
"Yes, but I think I want more. I want to go back to Europe someday, to show my children all the incredible stuff I have seen." she said. "I want to do nothing more than to have a place like this, nearby to bring them. So they can see nature as well."
"Me too." he said quietly. "Georgie, I have been screwing this up for so long. Jason tried to warn me, so did his wife. They both said to talk, to be honest about things. I need to do that. I can't waste another year in misunderstanding and miscommunication."
"With who?" she asked confused.
"You." he said then seeing her shock he added quickly. "When we met, it wasn't the best of circumstances. I was there with a stolen invitation, trying to prevent my dad from killing someone just for me talking to them. You, you seemed to be dealing with some stuff and yet."
"Wait, you were the one who stole Scott Baldwin's invitation." she said with a laugh.
"Yes." he said remembering the man's fury at not finding it. "And then we kept running into one another, and Georgie, I was attracted to you, but you didn't seem to notice I was even a guy, heck you tried to set me up on a date with your sister."
"What is wrong with Maxie?" she asked defensively.
"Nothing, but like I told you then, I didn't want to date the older Jones sister. I just don't get why you didn't realize that I mean I liked you." he said looking at her.
Georgie felt her jaw drop, then she reached for her tea, needing something in her hands because he had just shocked the hell out of her. Then she asked "If you were so attracted to me, then why the heck were you letting Olivia feel you up in a bar, then go upstairs with a woman old enough to be your mother?"
Mentally swearing he said "Because I saw you with Matt, I thought the two of you were dating and I just decided to go and get shitfaced since I had clearly no chance with you. She hit on me, I just let her."
Looking down, she said "I liked you too, then."
His eyes came up, he heard the hurt tone in her voice and said "Then why didn't you say something."
"I was at the bar getting change and there was this guy I liked sitting there, with a smug woman cupping his rather obvious erection in the middle of Jake's. Yet I AM SUPPOSED to be able to figure out that you like me?" she asked not believing what he was saying.
He almost told her what had caused the problem was her, in that outfit she had been wearing on what he had thought was a date, but decided that wouldn't be the wisest move he ever made. "I thought I lost you, I didn't give a damn, I had spent almost a year, looking for just one smidgen of proof you liked me... I gave up, dammit. She knew she was a replacement and didn't give a damn."
Standing Georgie walked with her tea closer to the fire. "I went to Italy that fall, dating various guys and hating you. I would try to get over what I swore was a crush, then I saw you when I came home, then again for the fundraiser, I saw you with her at the hospital."
"She asked me for a ride home." he said moving closer to where she was. "Georgie, we were sex partners every once in a while, it wasn't exclusive, she could have slept with anyone, I wouldn't have cared. I just would get soused and sometimes she would be there. Making my pain go away."
Wishing that it had been her, Georgie sat her now empty mug down on the mantle and said "That was so long ago, things change, don't they."
"Some things do. One hasn't." he said. Then closing his eyes, and praying Elizabeth was right he admitted. "I am still in love with someone who doesn't feel that way about me."
Turning she said "I wish that was the case. I do love you, I wish I didn't because I know what I look like, I know that most people consider me boring. How long, after spending time with me, before that love fades. Johnny. I. Do. I love you."
Closing his eyes, he said thank you to whoever was listening then slid his arms around her waist and pulled her onto the sofa in front of him. Leaning down to kiss her quickly on the lips, he saw her pull back a bit disappointed and said "For now, because if I kiss you like I want, I will be breaking a promise to your dad. So for tonight, we will stay here, together, my mind thinking off all the ways I can kiss you, then tomorrow, after I go out and turn on the generator for the heater."
"There is a heater?" she asked slowly. When he moaned yes as she reached up and caressed his hair, she pulled his head down and into a teased him with a kiss. When their lips slowly pulled apart, she said "You are going to be in so much trouble tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" he asked his mind already returning to kissing her and his lips soon followed.
When they parted again, gasping for breath, she said "Tomorrow, but for tonight, kisses will just have to keep me warm."
Jason waited until the kids were tucked in bed fast asleep before going to find his wife. Seeing her fixing the lights on the tree, he kissed her neck then said "I still think that they look better in the woods."
Laughing lightly, she said "Then you can be the one to tell our children that there will be no Christmas tree next year."
Shuddering theatrically he said. "I would rather face Sonny off his meds than our children with that news."
When they settled down on the carpet in front of the sofa, he said "I was thinking what do you say about spending a week in bed?"
Leaning over to kiss him, she was breathless when she pulled back and said "Sounds good to me, but what about the children? I could call your mother, or maybe Emily." Jason had pulled her onto his lap and was soon undoing the buttons on her light green sweater. When he found the turtleneck underneath, he said "I love summer, less clothes to remove.
"They don't call it under armor for nothing." she replied as she lifted her shirt by it's hem and pulled it over her head. She was finally getting her arms untangled while Jason was already unsnapping her bra. When he ducked his head to nip his way down her neck to the tips, she arched her back to make her breasts more easily accessible.
"Ummmm." was all he said as he lifted her onto the sofa. Lowering his head to kiss her, he used his hand to cup and mold her while teasing her tip with his thumb. Pulling back to admire his handiwork, he was licking his lips just as they heard the phone ring.
"Ignore it." she said as he went to latch on to one of the rosy points, just as there was a knock on the door.
"Ignore it." he repeated her advice only for someone to pound loudly. Groaning he said "I will get that, you better find out who called."
Elizabeth grabbed her bra and sweater before hurrying up the stairs, seeing it was Emily who had been calling went to call the mansion while down stairs, Jason tried to get some of his fabled control back.
Opening the door, Jason saw Mac Scorpio standing there with the DA and looking grim. "Why am I having a bad feeling about this visit?"
"Can we come in." he said. When they were seated, Mac said "Sonny was found dead, or rather part of him was found dead."
"Mac, you know that I no longer have anything to do with the man." he started to say.
"That isn't why were are here, it's that we have to tell his family. Jason, all that was found well I went home and found his head on my dresser." stated the older looking man dressed like the lawyer he was. "Along with a note that the body would never be found and not to bother wasting precious resources looking for it."
Swearing a bit, Jason looked at Mac and said "I have no idea, none."
"Me either, but I have to go and tell Dante, then Michael and am not looking forward to telling Alexis." he said. "She has been at the hospital. Molly had surgery today. She is doing better but Sam McCall died."
Looking at the man, Jason said "Are you going to prosecute her?"
"I would, mainly because this is the second time she has gotten away with murder, possibly the third." he said looking at the DA. "She killed Luis Alcazar, claimed temporary insanity, I have never believed it. Then there were the rumors about the Katherine Belle death, the original one. I have heard that Luke was trying to kill Helena."
"Then why would you suspect Ms. Davis?" asked the DA."
"Frankly because Spencer wasn't that smart, the plan would have worked, except that Helena was arguing with Katherine on the parapet, Katherine stumbled and fell instead of Helena." said Mac. "I have never hand any proof of her involvement and as for Spencer that is one I have tried to find proof of but Nik never let me really investigate."
"Regarding Ms. McCall, the most I could get would be manslaughter, and I doubt a jury would convince because Alexis' attorney would bring in what Sam has done and there isn't a jury in the world that would convict. I am going to talk to her, make it clear that she should be prosecuted but that she is getting away with it for one reason only."
Elizabeth got off the phone with Emily just as Jason came up the stairs. Seeing him tossing his t-shirt on the dresser, then starting to undo his jeans, she pulled off her sweater only for him to say "No bra?"
"Why bother?" she said as they quickly got rid of their clothes. Jason was easing her down on the bed and lowering his head yet again when they heard Adrianna crying out. "Oh little girl, I really want to give you a baby sister but you aren't cooperating with me."
Laughing, Elizabeth reached for her sweater, only for Jason to grab it away and then toss her his shirt. Pressing a hard kiss to his lips, she went to take care of their little girl while he just laid back on their bed and counted all the ways he intended to have her that evening.
Alexis walked into Sam's old room, removed her few personal items then walked down to the morgue. Once there, she asked to see her late daughter, then sat there, watching the stillness and touching her now cold body. "I am so sorry, Sam. If I had raised you, or even found you sooner, who knows, maybe your life would have been different. I tried, I really tried to love you. I did care, just some part of me, some part of me couldn't let go of the fantasy I had about my child and come to embrace who you really were, warts and all."
Wiping the tears that were falling, she leaned down and kissed her on the forehead saying. "But you can take one thing to your grave, you, your daughter is beautiful. She will grow up to be the person I had always hoped you would be. I am not talking about a specific career, or even marrying someone I approve of. Your daughter, will learn morals, she will learn there is a difference between right and wrong... all the things I couldn't give you."
Walking back, she took out the letter she had prepared along with her will and then made the call. "Mac, can you come to the hospital. I have to talk to you. You might need to bring one of your detectives as well."
Mac tried to tell her he was already there when she hung up. Walking with the DA up to the correct floor, he found the woman sitting in the waiting room, patiently. "Alexis?"
Taking a deep breath, she said "I killed my daughter."
"Alexis, let me get you an attorney." he said hastily. "Don't say another word."
With a bittersweet smile, she said "Mac, thank you, truly and I am sure you are not going to be happy at my next request, but please, here, read."
Looking at the legal papers, then frowning at the letter then looking at her said "Alexis, what is this?"
"The reason I was so insistent of saving Molly... on not having Kristina here was this, this moment. My cancer is back. It is spreading to my heart. I don't have long. I knew last year." she said with knowing look at Mac. "That is why I am imposing on you like I am about to."
The DA took the papers from the suddenly lifeless hands of the police commissioner. Reading them, he said "Is all of this accurate?"
"I don't think I left anything out. I so wanted to be better than my family, then Helena or my father, but in the end I have less than a week to live. I know that you could toss me in a jail cell, I would understand if you did."
The DA thought about it then said "I will hold this, say we are investigating. Alexis, you have my sympathy."
"Alexis, are you sure about this?" Mac asked his eyes tearing up. "I mean... what about.."
"No, I am certain. Mac, you have raised three very wonderful young women. Maxie was a handful, but that was one of the reasons I am doing this. You have dealt with some of the most horrific things a father can deal with short of losing a child. My daughters, well with who their parents are they need someone like you. There are a few things. I have money set up."
"Alexis." she placed her hand on his arm and interrupted. "No, I know that you are quite capable and that is why I am asking this. There is a back up in place, I know you aren't getting any younger, well none of us are."
"Don't worry about it." Mac said quietly. "I would be honored but I do have to admit that I wish you had come to me sooner."
"I couldn't, I was aware that if you knew, you would be required to stop the stem cell transfer." she said with her daughter's future in mind. "Now, as for Nicolina, Mac, she is going to be the one you have to worry about. Someday she is going to find out about her mother. I worry about that day."
Stephen Webber walked over, then said quietly to Alexis"Are you ready to be admitted now?"
Nodding yes, she followed him to the hospital room, then almost tripped as she felt what little strength she had left give away. She had been fighting and hiding this for so long, that it had almost been a relief to let her body give in to its inevitable conclusion.
Steven walked to the hallway, then told Mac. "She has maybe a week at most. Now, I know that you are taking on quite a burden but there is a little baby girl, who hasn't been held, who has had none of the usual mother/ father contact and for her sake, someone, needs to be there for her."
The DA watched as Mac nodded and followed him. Then reading the note Alexis had given him, he made the call. "Ms. Miller, Alexis Davis requested that you open the letter she wrote to you."
The red head slipped out of her bed, then downstairs to her office. Opening the letter, she read stunned at what the woman had wrote. Sitting there, she debated what to do then went to get dressed. Seeing all the snow, she called her most favorite client and Jason who sounded a bit frustrated at the interruption promised to arrange for a snow mobile to be there in twenty minutes.
When she arrived at GH, after getting scolded by Epiphany Johnson for coming out on a night like this, took the offered hot cocoa and then closing her eyes to pray, got it together then walked up the stairs. One the correct floor, she saw Mac Scorpio sitting in the newborn area, holding a little girl and telling her all about his daughters and niece and her older sisters.
"Mac?" she said approaching the man. Sitting down next to him, she took the offered bundle and said "Alexis asked me to help."
His eyes meeting hers, he said "I might just need it. The first three times I screwed up a bit."
"Yet the girls never seemed to scarred." she teased. "What little I knew of your niece and what I do know about your daughters well they are wonderful young women. Have you told them yet?"
"No." he said with a sigh. "Maxie is determined to have the perfect Christmas, poor Matt is scared she is going to attempt to cook again."
Having heard about the young doctor getting his stomach pumped during his first year with Maxie and her determination to cook him dinner, Diane certainly understood that. "What about Georgie?"
"She is off in the woods, hopefully by the time she returns home Johnny and she have figured out how to admit that they are in love with each other. Because if they haven't, I am locking them in one of my jail cells together." he said looking at the sleeping little girl and smiling.
Diane asked him was on his mind. "I just had an awkward thought, I am about to be a father again, yet there is a dang good chance I will be a grandfather in the next couple of years."
It was almost dawn when Johnny reluctantly slide from under the covers where he had spent one of the most enjoyable nights of his life and yet all they had done was kiss. Grabbing his boots, he tied them up, then went to find his coat and some gloves.
Walking out the front door, and holding a flashlight just in case, he soon had the heat turned on. He was about to head back in when he decided to save himself a trip later and went to the trunk of his car and removed the box and carried it to the porch, then made a couple more trips.
Once inside, he saw that Georgie was slowly awakening and went to stick what he had brought in upstairs and under the pool table before heading back downstairs. His teeth were chattering in spite of the heat starting to kick on and he hurriedly went to grab one of the comforters only to feel warm arms surround him and pull him back to the sofa.
"Here, let me warm you back up." she said then gently kissed his slightly bruised lips before laughing and saying. "My lips are sore. I didn't know you could bruise them, did you?"
Just tucking her in under the covers, he was rubbing his hands on her back and then said "If your lips are bruised, maybe we should behave for the day."
Her voice thickening as she thought about it, she then said "Haven't you heard the
best way to get rid of an ache caused by exercising an unused muscle is one the second day to gradually ease back into the activity that caused the ache."
Jason woke up to his wife easing over his hips and sliding his already hard erection inside of her. When she moaned with pleasure, he grasped those hips within reach and said in a slightly sleepy voice "are you sure they don't have our house bugged."
Laughing and ending up falling forward a bit, causing the angle of his penetration to change just enough to make her moan in enjoyment, Elizabeth listened to Jason gasp when she tightened her Kegel muscles and slide downwards taking him in even deeper. "If they do, why don't we show them what they are missing."
Pulling her down, so that he could capture her lips in a kiss, he rolled them over until she was underneath him and raised her thighs until they were now encircling his hips. Bracing his arm just a bit, Jason looked into her eyes and said "You asked for it."
"No, not yet." she said with a smirk, then when he lowered his head to kiss her she turned her lips quickly to his ear, gave it a light kiss then said "Jason, show me how wet and satisfied you can make me."
With a knowing grin, he leaned back on his knees a bit, positioned his wife so she would have no control of what he did, then lifted her legs until they were resting on his shoulder, then grasped her hips and pulled back out of her.
"Jason." she moaned then when she started to talk, it turned into a gasp as he reentered without warning, hard and fast, then again and again. She lost track of the thrusts when he pulled out, the moved one of his hands to her stomach, then with his other caressed his way down her leg and cupped her.
When their eyes met, he teased her clit with his thumb then slid his middle finger inside her tightness and removed it. Shaking his head in disappointment, he licked the wetness of his finger then said. "No, not wet enough."
An hour later, her head buried in her pillow to contain her loud moans, Elizabeth shrieked when she felt her body orgasm yet again, her back arching, her legs clenching. What made it different was this time she could fell Jason's own body losing control. When he stiffened then sped up, she clenched at the muscles in his back as he came while buried inside of her.
His body went limp with exhaustion, his arms now feeling like spaghetti, Jason rolled them back into their original position and whispered "How was that for a Christmas present."
"I am not going to be able to get out of this bed." she moaned then laughed saying. "I always said you were the most original gift giver."
Kissing his wife, he said "What do we have planned for today?"
"Um, let's see. The hospital Christmas party and you have to go and see Michael and co." she said gently. "I will be busy dealing with the caterers then tonight, we can reopen this present."
"Sounds good to me." he said his voice thickening with desire. Just as he went to kiss her, he saw his phone buzzing and picked it up. "Zachara this had better be damn important."
"Georgie and I are at the cabin, we will be out of reach until the New Years Eve party." he said. Jason could hear a gasp, then his partner trying to hide his moan with a cough.
"I guess that means you got things straightened out with Georgie?" he asked then heard a dial tone as he tossed the phone back down and went to chase after his wife who had dared to slide out of bed and go to take a shower alone.
"I thought we had a deal when we had this shower built." he said letting himself into the large shower stall. "That we would always share."
Holding up the lathered up loofah from where she was sitting on the bench, she said "I have been waiting for you to get in here what took you so long?"
At the Cabin, another shower was being used, alas only by one but Johnny didn't mind. Georgie had decided that since they were staying she would cook them some breakfast, then ordered him to take a shower to warm up, that he was still shivering in spite of her best efforts.
Dressing quickly in spite of the warmth now flooding the cabin, he was in the kitchen just as his now girl friend placed the food on the table. When he saw her frowning at the clothes, he said "Do you not like them? I asked Elizabeth were to get them."
She sat down next to him, then said "I just felt weird borrowing some ex-girl friend of yours clothes, now that I know that... wait... this isn't by accident, our being here, is it?"
"No, I have been planning this for a few months. I uh, I was choking on the words, they just kept tripping out of my mouth wrong, but I was going to get us marooned and hopefully we would be table to talk." he admitted.
Kissing his cheek, she went to the refrigerator and then looked in the cupboards then said "We are missing a few things, but I think we can have a very good dinner without turkey and a few perishable."
When the crazy man stood and dashed out into the freezing weather wearing nothing but a t-shirt and no shoes, she went to chase after him but he had only gone as far as the porch and returned with a cooler, "Turkey and the fixings. I figured it was cold enough outside that it would be fine overnight."
Shaking her head in amusement, she said "Hurry up and sit down."
Grabbing the kitchen towel, she tossed it in the over for a few minutes then wrapped it around his feet that were starting to warm up. When he pulled her across his lap, then buried his head into her shoulder she said "Oh no. I have to call Maxie."
"Here." he said lifting his phone. When she dialed her sisters' number, he slowly unbuttoned the sweater she was wearing and eased his cold hand inside. When she jumped, he pretended innocence then whispered just as she went to talk. "My hands were cold too."
"Whose hands?" asked the woman on the phone then when Georgie said Hello, Maxie replied. "Do you have time to talk?"
Looking at Johnny who nodded, she laid her head on his shoulder then listened to what Maxie had to say. "Let me get this straight, Sonny's head was found at the DA's house, Alexis is dying and dad is going to take in her daughters. Oh, and Sam thankfully died."
"Uh, yeah," said Maxie feeling bad about laughing in regards to Sam.
"Okay, look, do me a favor. There is a package that is supposed to arrive, can you keep it for me."
"Would that be the very enthusiastic puppy that chewed on my favorite pair of black pumps." said Maxie glaring at the dog who was now laying his head down on her feet as if in apology. "Since when do you want a dog."
"He is a Christmas present for dad, it was so he wouldn't be lonely at the house now that we were all adults." said Georgie groaning in part because she now didn't know what to do with the dog and partly because Johnny was now sliding his hands under her bra and 'warming' his hands as he cupped her.
"Tell her to keep him, that we will need a dog." said Johnny.
Holding her hand over the speaker, not noticing that Maxie could still hear them. "Why do we need a dog?"
"Practice, so that we can get used to the idea of being parents together someday." he said then seeing her shock, took the phone and said "Maxie, we will be back to Port Charles to pick up.. wait, what are you planning on naming him and what kind of dog is he. I mean, I really can't see myself walking a poodle. I mean, I love you, but I don't think it would be good for my image to be...?"
Maxie was in shock as she mouthed the words parents at the dog who lifted his head then seemed to shrug at her and return to using her feet as a pillow. Meanwhile Georgie said "I don't know, how about something cute like Spot or Brownie? And he is a scooby doo dog."
"You mean a Great Dane?" he asked incredulously . "Do you know how big that thing is going to get?"
Nodding enthusiastically, she realized her movements were creating some friction where his hands were still cupping her. Taking back the phone, she said "Maxie, there is food in the garage, and the rest of the stuff. I also have presents for everyone in my room. Dad included, I just saw the poor sweet leftover puppy at the pound, someone dumped them off and I had to bring him home. The vet was..."
Maxie heard dial tone and vowed to make someone buy her a pair of shoes then looked at the dog and said "Okay, well since they didn't give me a name, I am going to call you Chewy, how do you like that?"
When the puppy scampered after her, then barked she said with a laugh, "Okay, chewy it is."
Over the next two days, things were closed down, Elizabeth never got to take the kids to the hospital party as it was canceled, Jason didn't get to talk face to face with Michael or Sonny's other kids... those that hadn't gotten their holiday shopping done were now out of luck as eight feet of snow had fallen on Port Charles.
Maxie had been stuck alone at the Scorpio house since Matt had been called in to the hospital and her father had been busy at the station and at the hospital. The Quartermaines and Elizabeth's family was upset that they weren't able to spend time with the children, but were glad when Jason and she called on Christmas morning.
In a hospital room, Alexis held on, not wanting her daughter's holiday memories to be sadly connected with her death. Kristina had been brought to see her, Molly had woken up. They were both allowed to spend as much time as possible with the dying woman and they had also gone to see their newest relation.
Molly had taken Sam's death hard, mainly because she had frequently sat in her comatose sister's room, taking to her. Kristina who was a little older and more mature was now scared, she had been told that Mac was going to take them in, but she hated feeling like she was being fostered out.
"Mom, please, please, don't die. Please!" she begged. When Mac had sat her down and told her about Sonny, she had cried but said "I am going to be fine, you don't have to stay with me."
"I don't have to, but I want to." he said. Then walking her down the hall, showed her Nicolina and then made a point of telling her about Robin, about Maxie and Georgie, she had already known that story but getting that he was doing this because he wanted to, didn't make it any easier to face that she was about to be an orphan.
At the Morgan household, the holiday was spent as a family, with Jake and Cameron playing with their new toys and trying to get their newest sibling to do something, anything but so far all she did was eat and poop as far as they could tell.
Watching all three of her boys while she feed Adrianna, Elizabeth felt sad for poor pathetic Sam, the woman had died with nothing in the end. Her child, the one thing that Sam had wanted most, had lived but Sam had never gotten to hold her, never even known the baby's name.
Seeing Jason was looking worried at her quietness, she just leaned over and said "I was giving thanks for what we have, our family, our love and most importantly the peace we have found."
Taking Adrianna he held her to his shoulder, gently patting her back so she would fall asleep, he pulled Elizabeth down next to him on the floor as the two boys build the race track, Jake patiently handing the pieces to his older brother who was biting his tongue which was sticking out as he concentrated on putting the child's track together.
When done, they waited as their dad put their little sister in her daybed then excitedly had him make sure that Cam had done everything correctly then they sat down and chose what cars to race while Jason handed Elizabeth the camera and moved over to join them. "I don't see a motorcycle Cam, did Santa forget to bring one?"
"Daddy, this isn't that kind of track." he said laughi ng then offered up the green car. "Mommy said it was yours favorite color."
Looking at Elizabeth wearing the green sweater set he had gotten her, he said "Yes it is. Now, we have to have Mommy to say when."
As the boys and their dad raced, the snow continued to fall outside, as inside the warmth of the Morgan home came from the love they shared did more to heat them then the fireplace and furnace.
Five years later.
"Mom, hurry." said a twelve year old Cam as they exited the elevator. "Dad is already there."
Eight year old Jake and 5 year old Adri were trying to takeover pushing the stroller, thinking that their mom was going slow because she was tired. They had heard her telling their dad so that morning. "DAD!" There were shouts, then the younger two looked at their mom then rushed off to hug Jason as he left the board room.
Picking up the two of them, Jason gave them both kisses then said "What has the two of you so happy?"
"Daddy, tomorrow is Christmas." said Adri. "Plus, Mommy said we were going on a trip."
"Are you planning on deserting us, Jason?" asked Johnny as he left his office. When he had greeted the Morgan family including two year old Sienna, he told the older three. "Georgie is in her office."
When they had gone to see Johnny's wife, Jason said "Did you take care of it?"
"Two puppies, are you sure?" he asked doubtfully. Chewy was still enamored with shoes, five years later in spite of all of Maxie's dog obedience training. When they had finally arrived at the Scorpio residence six days the newly engaged couple had found her sister had been snowed in with only the dog and that they had bonded. Maxie had made it dang clear they weren't taking her pal.
Georgie had been skeptical until Maxie had offered to let Georgie return the very nice purse she had brought for her older sister and let her keep the dog instead. That Maxie would give up a Kate Spade original in exchange for a dog that drooled had shocked the whole family and convinced Georgie to let her have both.
"It was Elizabeth's idea." said Jason. He had suggested getting the children dogs, then she had been talking to Diane the day that Maxie had called. Chewy had been a very bad dog and had been spending time with a pedigree female dog. Maxie was now being sued by the owners unless she took care of the puppies. The blond had been frantic, she had finally convinced Chewy that chewing on her shoes was bad, and now the dog only ate Matt's shoes, she didn't want to have to start that again with two more dogs.
Georgie whispered her secret in Elizabeth's ear then went to join her husband. "We had better get going. Jason, don't forget to give Alice the keys to your car."
"We can take them from the garage around nine thirty, if you will still be out that late." he said with a knowing grin at the glowing young woman. She had gone into law practice with Diane a few years ago when she had finally graduated from law school, now Johnny had given him the news regarding their new addition.
"We should be leaving for the cabin about then." she replied then dragged her husband out of the office. "We have to go, no more delaying."
"But Georgie, she will be there." he whined. "She lives there."
"I think you can handle it, like Diane said, if you can't do the time, don't commit the crime." she smirked at her husband. He had come to see her at the office the day before Halloween, and soon had had her on her desk with no clothes on. Unfortunately, Diane had stopped in to give Georgie a heads up on her father's behalf and had seen way more than she wanted to of the couple.
"Why isn't she mad at you." he groused as he followed his wife to their car. "You were just as naked."
"Because I wasn't the one who started to seduce you." she said then kissing him said "Oh, you poor baby, I promise, when we get to the cabin, we can recreate our first night together."
Moaning at the memories, he said "Let's go get this over with."
At the Scorpio household, Niccy was trying to get her daddy to let her help cook, as her sister Molly complained about having had to be an elf earlier that day. Meanwhile Kristina and her brother Michael entered the house. "Dad, is it okay that Michael stays for dinner?"
"Sure." he said then asked "I thought you were going to talk to Ethan about your car?"
"He was busy." she replied not adding that the car was an excuse, she had liked the Australian the moment he had arrived in town, but he had been with one or another woman since arriving in town. Looking around she said "Where is everyone?"
"Maxie and Matt are putting the Morgan boys puppies in the boxes she got, Georgie and Johnny are on their way and Patrick dropped Emma off before going to get her special present."
Diane came into the room, then handed the two teenagers the directions to the electronics she just bought and said "Have at it."
Kissing his wife, Mac stopped Niccy from sticking her fingers in the pie and lifted her out of the chair, walking to where Molly was trying to read the directions on the new iPod she had just been given he said "Your turn."
The teenager rolled her eyes when she saw the mess on Niccy's face then said "Why does she have chocolate all over her?"
"Maxie." was all Mac said then watched as Molly took Niccy to wash her face. Then he asked Michael if he had a moment. When they were in the kitchen, he asked about Morgan and how they were doing with the anniversary of their dad's death.
Michael explained that he was fine, that Jax had taken the whole family to Australia where it was summer. "I was invited but I had an assignment for work and didn't want anyone to think I was getting special treatment from Jax just because he is my dad."
Emily was just about to knock on the Morgan family's door then looked at the man beside her. "I just don't know about this. I mean, Jason knows about you, you said he told Elizabeth."
Johnny O' Brien reached down and kissed his wife. "Everything will be fine. I called Jason, gave him a heads but made him promise not to tell Elizabeth, I know you wanted to do that yourself."
Hearing noises, Elizabeth opened the door knowing that there guards would have warned them if anything dangerous was going on. "EMILY!"
Hearing the sound of running footsteps, the Emily felt the arms of three kids encircling her and all shouting her name. "HELP!"
Standing back and letting her tribe greet her best friend and sister in law, Elizabeth walked over to the man in the shadows and said "Get inside, Mr. O'Brien."
"Lizzie." he said with a wry grin. When she reached out and pulled him inside, he asked "Are you sure, I am officially notorious."
Getting a hold of the beautiful woman, he said "I will leave you with Em, she has some news."
Moving closer, Elizabeth said quietly, "Jason warned me, we don't keep secrets, none."
"Then you know..." he said soberly. "What I did?"
Hugging him, she whispered "Carly and Sonny Corinthos got what they deserved and his children are better off with him gone. Dante is married and happy in spite of having Tracy as a grandmother in law."
"That old bat of a mother of his was perfect training ground. She did some stuff, that makes me see what Carly would have been like when Michael was older." Johnny had never told Jason his part in the Lucky and Luke mess, but was sure that he was aware what had been done.
Shuddering, Elizabeth soon had her children off to play then took Emily to the family room. Sitting in front of the fireplace and drinking their special hot drink, they got caught up. "I am sorry, but I just was so scared at what you would think... I mean, he warned me, then sat me down and told me all he did."
"How did you deal with that." Elizabeth asked Emily. "Considering everything with Sonny."
"Strangely enough, fine. I just feel bad, but then I know that Michael is working on his own future, one he wouldn't have had if Sonny had lived. Morgan, well I doubt he would be as well adjusted as he is." said Emily with a heavy sigh. "I mean, look at Kristina, she has blossomed with having Mac Scorpio as a dad. Though, Alexis and Diane, other than the same profession, not really a comparison. Alexis, was too controlling, too high strung."
"I was shocked when they started to date, in awe when she convinced him to marry her." said Elizabeth recalling the day the red head had hand cuffed herself to the police commissioner, pointing out they were practically living in sin. Mac had given in, said yes, then had joked that since she had asked, did that mean he got the engagement ring.
While waiting for his wife, Matt sat down and read that week's People magazine then asked his wife when she came in. "Since when do you buy this?"
"Oh, there was an article in there. Remember that computer geek, you know Damien Spinelli, he used to live here a few years ago, he is in an article. He just sold his computer company for a fortune and went to work creating games instead. I just wanted to show Georgie." she said tossing it back on the table. "I need to talk to you about something.
Okay." he said then when she had sat down, he watched as she took a deep breath then said "I want to adopt a baby."
"Do you have a specific child in mind?" he asked his wife. He knew that she loved being a big sister to the Davis/Scorpio girls, that she loved being an aunt to Emma, but both had known when they got married that they might not be able to have kids of their own.
"No, but how do you feel about us finding out what we need to do?" she asked.
"Well, we have an attorney on retainer." he pointed out. "We also have a good chance."
"I was a bit worried, with my past." she said lamely. "Elizabeth Morgan said if it came up, to send them to her. I have been seeing babies and kids a lot, I would be happy if it was an older child; maybe that would be better, after all, I know about being screwed up and could probably related better to a child like that."
Telling Mac and Diane as well as the girls at dinner, Maxie saw Johnny trying to get Georgie to say something then figured it out. Squealing in excitement, she said "Georgie, are you having a baby?"
"Nope, it's an alien. I saw the picture." said Molly with a sideways smirk at the pregnant woman. "Dr. Lee had me help her bring the equipment back to the other room and I saw the file. I read it, but I was already punished."
"What do you mean?" asked Mac looking warily at the teenager.
Shuddering she announced. "They made me help in the daycare. Maxie, Georgie congrats, but please, dear lord, please, don't ask me to babysit as long as they wear diapers."
Lifting Niccy onto her lap, Maxie asked the little girl with the straight black hair what she thought about all this.
"I want a horse, but a baby is okay, if it's a girl." she said glaring at Johnny who was trying not to laugh. "Boys eat worms."
That night at the now annual Quartermaine Christmas party, the Morgan's, were joined by the now growing Jax family. Brenda was holding their twin girls and Jax and Morgan were trying to keep his four year old sister from eating the decorations.
Hearing laughter, they saw Monica and Elizabeth's rather elderly grandmother pointing at something, then heard barking just before the two puppies chased into the room with tinsel streaming behind them, ran straight at Maxie and then around the room. When Cam and Jake finally helped the various male guests corral the dogs, Elizabeth regained her breath from falling down in laughter and looked at the destruction. "Monica, I am so..."
"You know, you might be believable if you weren't laughing." said her mother in law who then saw what had Elizabeth so hysterical. "Should we tell him."
"No, let him figure it out himself." she said as the tinsel stuck to Jason's rear end. There was laughter, there were tears, mainly from young Niccy when she found out that HER puppy wasn't there. Adri generously offered to let her play with theirs while she went to talk to her Uncle Steven who was talking to a nurse from GH.
As the five generations of Port Charles families, gathered, Edward who had moved off to the side to avoid the melee looked around, grateful to be alive as he realized his life was coming full circle.
When his latest great grandchild toddled over and held out her hand to be lifted, he was about to bend when a blond head now with a slight trace of gray lifted the little girl who had her mother's curls but her great grandmother's eyes, Edward looked at his grandson, then around at the friends and family gathered to celebrate with their family.
"It's a wonderful dream, son. Your father would be so happy with the life you have found."
Reaching out, grasping the elderly man's arm, Jason said "It's not a dream, it's my reality and I am so grateful everyday that what I am living is just that life, it's messy, it's aggravating at times, but at the end of the day, when I am home listening to my children, reading with Elizabeth, or even just taking out the trash, that I wasn't the coward I believed I would be."
Going over to where Elizabeth and a few of the women were talking, he drew his wife to the window just as the snow started to fall. Kissing her he said "I was talking to Edward, and something occurred to me. Something I have never said to you."
Seeing the softness, in her eyes, then kissing her gently. "Thank you, thank you for taking the chance that was once too big to take."
"How could I not,, look what we have gained." she said as their sons let their new puppies loose. Their older daughter was playing with Niccy Scorpio who looked a lot like her father but had none of her parents selfishness. Then at Sienna was holding onto Edward fascinated with the older man's gray hair. "We are a family, a large slightly chaotic family."
Someone had hit the play button again on the stereo and music was softly playing as in the sky, a star show shined brightly. Lila looked down, grateful for joy her family had gained. Things could have gone so differently all those years ago, but she had gotten lucky, somehow, her grandson had found the strength to win the heart of the woman he loved. Bringing peace to the wounded heart of a man in a world he had never belonged, had brought peace to a small harbor town in upstate New York.
The end.