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Chapter 6

Jake came bounding into his parents room and jumped on the bed. "Mommy, Daddy, wake up, it's my birfday!" he yelled excitedly. Liz smiled and turned to face the excited three year old. She sat up, yawned, and stretched her arms.

"Good morning birthday boy." She grabbed his face and gave him a kiss.

"Morning mommy. Daddy, wake up." Jake pulled on Jason's arm. Jason pretended to still be sleeping. "Daaaaddeee wake up." Jake climbed on top of Jason and forced his eyes open.

"Gotcha." Jason shouted, grabbing Jake and tickling him. "Are you sure it's your birthday? I think it's my birthday."

"No, it's my birfday daddy, not yours. I'm free years old." He grinned, holding up three fingers.

"Well, okay then, Happy Birthday to you." Jason smiled and lifted Jake into the air.

"We gonna have my party today right, daddy?" Jake asked in between bursts of laughter from being tickled by both his mom and dad.

"Yes Sir. We are going to have your party today and that reminds me that I need to talk to your mom about what else we need to get, so why don't you go ask your brother to put on cartoons for you?"

"Ok." And he jumped off the bed and yelled out, "Cam, daddy said to turn on the cartoons for me."

"Jake, say please." Elizabeth reminded him.

"Sowee mommy. Please, Cam can you put on the cartoons for me?" And he left the room.

Jason turned to Liz and asked her, "So what else do we need for today?"

She was grinning from ear to ear. "Well the piñata and the cake need to be picked up and so do the helium balloons. Mike is doing all the cooking, bless his heart, and Emily is heading over to Kelly's to start decorating. Gram's said that she would get the boys ready while we did any last minute running around. Wait did you pick up his gift?"

"Which one?" He asked her jokingly. Knowing she was talking about the fisher price train set that they had to get him because he had a fit when Cameron got a big boy train set for his 5th birthday and wouldn't let Jake touch it.

"Jason!" She folded her arms and pretended to pout.

"I got it." He laughed and pulled her into a kiss.

"We had better get a move on if we're going to get everything done by 12:30. The party starts at 1 remember?" She said reluctantly pulling out of the kiss.

"Okay. Let's get to it then." He said getting out of the bed and heading into the bathroom.

Liz went downstairs to make breakfast. She made pancakes, scrambled eggs, and sausage for everyone. They all had breakfast together and Liz took the boys upstairs to get ready. Jason had already showered and after Liz and the boys were upstairs he pulled out his cell phone. He called in to all the guards to make sure everything was quiet. After having everyone confirm their positions and the "all clear", he called Emily. He knew she wasn't at work but he wanted to check on Sam. He didn't know what had happened after he left.

"Hey Jase, I'm on my way to take the decorations over to Kelly's so tell Elizabeth to relax." She said all in one breath as she answered the phone.

"That's good to know but that's not the reason I called." He said half jokingly, half serious, as he looked at the steps.

"You want to know about Sam, don't you?" She asked.

"Yeah, I was just wondering. Things didn't look so good when I left."

"Well it was touch and go for awhile. Her blood pressure kept dropping throughout the night. Finally this morning she responded to a steroid that increased her blood pressure. So for right now she's holding her own. I have to be honest with you though Jase, she never woke back up. She has slipped into a coma."

"Okay thanks, any word on Molly?" He said trying to hide the pain he was feeling about Sam from his voice.

"Great news. She woke up this morning. She'll be in the hospital for about another week or so. Her doctors want to keep an eye out for a developing pneumonia. Alexis and Ric are overjoyed of course. Kristina has been discharged and Sonny took her home about an hour ago."

"Okay that's good to know. I'll call Sonny now. Thanks again Em."

"Anytime, but you know we are going to have to talk later, right? I mean I know there is more going on with your feelings toward Sam than just guilt over this explosion."

"At this point you probably know more about my feelings than I do. I'll talk to you later." And he hung up. He immediately dialed Sonny's number.

"What's up Jason? I thought you'd be doing party stuff."

"Hey Sonny. Yeah I'm about to leave out. I'm going to drop Liz and the boys off at Audrey's. I just got off the phone with Emily and she told me about Kristina being home and Molly waking up."

Sonny could sense Jason was leaving something out but he knew better than to push it. "Kristina is glad to be home. I told her that if she was up to it she could still go to Jake's birthday party. That brightened her day considering her sisters are still in the hospital. She was happy to hear that Molly woke up. I took her to see her this morning before we left."

"That's good. I checked in with all the guys and everything seems to be all clear this morning. I'm still waiting on a call back from Stan." Jason said still not bringing up Sam.

"Good. Keep me posted. Let me know if you need anything for the party. And I guess I'll see you later." Sonny hesitated before asking, "Hey is everything okay with you? You sound a little off."

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired I guess. I'll see you later then." Jason hung up the phone before Sonny could press him any more.

Just then, Liz came down the stairs with Cameron and Jake fully dressed and ready to hit the road. Jake was excited to be having a birthday party and Cameron was excited about the magician they were getting for the party. They quickly discussed the game plan for the next couple of hours. They were going to drop the boys at Audrey's house, then Jason was going to take Liz to Kelly's to help Emily with the decorations while Jason went to pick up the cake, the piñata and the balloons. He had paid Mike for one of the rooms over Kelly's which housed all of Jake's presents, so he wouldn't have to lug them over the day of the party. Jason quickly filled Liz on the status of the girls as they walked out the door.

Lucky woke up to his cell phone ringing. He had to force his eyes open. He had spent the night drinking heavily, first at the hotel bar and then he cracked open the mini bar when he got back to his room. He was sad about Sam and what she was going through. All she wanted to do was leave town, to get away and start over. It hurt that he couldn't be the one to save her or be there for her. When he had went to see her she kept calling out for Jason. He wasn't mad, surprisingly he understood, but he knew at that moment that Jason had always been in her thoughts and in her heart. He felt the same toward Liz. The cell phone stopped ringing but started again. With a husky voice and a massive headache he answered it reluctantly. "Hello."

"Lucky, I hope you don't plan on going to claim your son sounding like that." It was the electronic voice.

"Who is this?" Lucky was suddenly awake.

"This is the same person that brought you back to Port Charles. I told you that I would give you back your son and I will. Today. Make sure you're at Kelly's at 3pm. I am going to reveal it all for everyone to see." Said the voice.

"Look I've been following your lead for days. How do you know that Jake is really my son? Tell me who you are." Lucky yelled into the phone.

"I'm a friend. I'm serious. I am as serious as…. Look just believe that I am not the one playing games. I am just someone who detests liars and believe children should be with their rightful parents. Whoever they may be." Replied the voice. "Just be at Kelly's at 3." And the line went dead. Lucky had no choice but to believe this stranger who chose to hide his or her identity. He needed to know if Jake was really his son. He dragged himself out of bed and headed for the shower. If this person was actually telling the truth, then at 3pm he would have his son.

Jason had just finished picking up the cake and was placing it carefully in the back of his Escalade when his cell rang. It was Stan. "Yeah, Stan? Did find out anything?"

"No. Nothing. Whoever did this covered there tracks up really well. I even hacked into PCPD's files to see what they had in evidence and got nothing. No bomb particles, no traces of anything. Their files say that it looks like a gas leak. But the funny thing is the boat wasn't turned on. If there was a gas leak there would have had to be something to ignite it."

"There must have been a remote trigger. Are there still cops on the scene?"

"Yeah, but not many." Stan said.

"Okay, here's what I want you to do. Get someone to the boat. Make sure he knows that he needs to blend in. tell him he's probably looking for some small plastic particles. Whoever did this probably used a plastic trigger. Something that would melt under the fire but would cool off again once it hit the water and looks like garbage. Just have them look around. I'm not sure if they will find anything for certain but it's probably more than what the cops are looking for."

"Okay will do."

"I'm headed over to Jake's party now so try not to call me unless they find something or if it's really important."

"Got it. Enjoy man." Stan said.

"Thanks." And Jason hung up.

Jason headed over to Kelly's. He walked in holding all the balloons and the piñata in one hand and the cake in the other.

"Now that is a photo op if I've ever seen one. Jason Morgan holding 2 dozen multi-colored balloons and a clown face piñata." Said Emily laughing and ran to get the camera. Elizabeth laughed and walked over to take the cake from Jason. Jason was grinning. Emily caught the picture right before Jason put the piñata down on the table. "Gotcha!"

"You know I'm going to take that camera later and delete that picture, right?" he smiled at Em.

"You're going to have to pry it from my cold dead fingers Jase. It's a memory from my nephew's birthday. Why would you want to delete it?" She said waving the camera around.

"Okay you two let's get going on finishing this place. People will be here in about half hour." Said Liz, laughing at the brother and sister pair going back and forth. "Jason do you want to go get the boys from Gram's or do you want me to?" She walked up to Jason and put her arms around his waist and looked up at him.

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. "You know your grandmother can't stand me, especially if you're not around. Isn't she coming to the party? Why can't she bring them?"

"She is coming but she doesn't have a car seat for Jake. So I guess that means that I'm going to pick them up." She said letting go of him and going to grab her purse and keys.

"Guess so." He said nodding in agreement.

"See you guys in a few. Make sure you finish up." And she left out.

It was just Emily and Jason now. "Hey Jase you want to help me with these streamers?"

"Sure why not?" he said heading over to where she was standing on a chair. Emily asked Jason to tape the streamers to the wall while she held it in place. After they were done she looked around please with their work. She sat down and looked at her brother. "So are you ready to talk while no one else is around?" She asked.

Jason shook his head. "What is there to talk about?" He asked and looked up at the ceiling out of the corner of his eye, already knowing what she wanted to talk about.

"Um I don't know maybe the fact that you clearly have some underlying feelings for Sam. Look Jase, I don't want to pry but I'm just trying to figure out what's going on with you. I've seen you by Sam's side when she's been in the hospital before and the look in your eyes yesterday when those machines started to go off spoke volumes even though you didn't say a word. You were scared to death of losing her. You may not realize it but I was right next to you when you asked her not to leave you. I heard you."

"I asked her not to die okay. I may not be with her anymore but I don't want her dead. Especially if it could be my fault."

"Jase. I know you and what I heard you say specifically was 'please don't leave me, not yet' you asked her not just to live but not to leave you. You Jason." Emily poked him in the chest. Jason hung his head and rubbed the back of his neck.

"What is it that you want me to say? That I think I might still have feelings for Sam. The truth is that I might. Seeing her again stirred up some old memories and feelings. It has caused me to dream about her and think about her more often than I should, especially since I'm with Elizabeth. I'm confused and unsure of a lot of things right now. I don't know what I'm feeling exactly for Liz or Sam right now. But what I do know is that today is my son's birthday and I'm going to smile and laugh and be happy because today is about him and how I feel about him." Jason stood up from his seat thinking that he had just ended the conversation. He was wrong.

"Jase I'm sorry that you're confused but you and I both know dragging this out and denying your feelings is going to do nothing but cause everyone involved to get hurt. You, Liz and Sam and let's not forget Cameron and Jake can be affected by your choice. And don't you dare let them be the determining factor. You know from experience that being with someone just because of the kids NEVER works out. So after this party you really need to take a little time to sort out your feelings for both Sam and Liz and come to some kind of conclusion." Just as Emily finished her sentence Georgie walked in. She had offered to help with the party. Jason had never been happier to see the girl in his life. They said their hello's and did last minute straightening up.

At about ten after 1 the guests began to arrive. Nikolas brought Spencer. Carly brought Morgan, Sonny came with Kristina. Liz showed up with Cameron and the birthday boy. Audrey followed right behind her. Robin and Kelly stopped by briefly to drop off their gifts. Some other parents from Jake's day care came with his classmates and the party was in full swing. Emily manned the camera taking pictures of everything and everyone. They all ate lunch and watched the magician as he dazzled the kids with his tricks. Jake was so excited. At about 2:30 they cut the cake. After the cake they busted the piñata. The kids scrambled to pick up the toys and candy that exploded out of it. Next came the gifts. The kids Ooohed and AAaahed at all of Jakes toys. He got 2 remote control cars, the fisher price train set, he got clothes for months, and he got a ninja turtle watch, a Lego set plus too many other toys to name. This kid was obviously loved. It was almost 3 o' clock and everyone was so excited inside that they didn't even notice Lucky seating outside waiting for this mystery person to show up.

I'll give whoever it is until 3:10 then I'm going to leave. He thought to himself. This is crazy. I don't even know why I'm here. Why did I take the word of someone who types letters and speaks through an electrical voice box? Because I need to know that's why. Just as he was contemplating that he was going to leave. He saw someone blow past him in a blur to head inside. Could that be them? He said to himself. He had not been facing the door of Kelly's so he took his time turning around to look inside and was shocked to see who was now standing in the center of Kelly's pulling Jason to the side. It can't be him. Please tell me it's not him. But if it is, why would he do this? I thought nobody has seen him in months.

A/N: I know this wasn't a very exciting chapter but I had to tie everything together. Okay, so of course this means that the big reveal is coming in the next chapter. The good news is you won't have to wait so long to get it.