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Chapter 7

Lucky watched as he walked up to Jason. His back was to the door so Lucky couldn't see his face. He said something to Jason. Jason responded. Liz smiled at first and walked over to give him a hug but as she approached him he held up a hand and her smile left her face. She turned and went back to where the children were. He told Jason something else. Jason leaned forward and said something else to him, and then Jason stepped over to a table closer to the door. He was saying something to Jason and he was very animated with his body as he spoke. Jason looked confused. Then, Jason's expression changed from bewildered to pure anger. Lucky watched as Jason leaned in and said something to him. Damn his back was still to the door so Lucky couldn't see his face. The look on Jason's face, however, was one of complete rage. That was until he pulled out his laptop and showed Jason something on the screen. He did this a couple of times. It was the last screen that made both of them turn to look at Liz. Jason's expression softened a little as he shook his head and he looked pained. Lucky assumed that it was because he had just told him that Jake wasn't his. Lucky began to get antsy wanting to know what was going on in there. He just wanted to hear what was being said and to see what was on the computer screen.

This next paragraph is the same scene Lucky was watching from the outside.

Spinelli zoomed passed Lucky and ran into Kelly's and came to a sudden stop right in front of Jason. Everyone paused to stare because no one had seen Spinelli in about 6 months. Jason spoke first, "Spinelli what are you doing here?" Jason was somewhat glad to him but was not expecting him to come back after he and Lulu broke up. The kid was completely torn apart and couldn't stand to see her with Logan again.

Spinelli leaned in close to Jason and whispered, "Well, Stone Cold, I am most apologetic for dropping in so unexpectedly and without an invite to the young stone co… I mean young Jake's birthday party. And I regret to inform you that I bring some very grim and heartbreaking news but I do believe that it's in your best interest that we speak alone first."

Liz had always liked Spinelli especially the fact that he had tried to keep Jakes' paternity a secret for a while. She smiled and went over to give him a hug but as she approached him he frowned and held out his hand and simply said, "I would prefer if you did not touch me with your foul and tainted hands, thank you very much." And he turned back to Jason. "There is something that I need to show you Stone Cold. I swear this is of the utmost importance; otherwise I would not have come back at this time to this place that reminds me of such great pain."

"Spinelli, I like you and I hope for your sake you have something really important to tell in the middle of my son's birthday party." And he walked over to the table by the door. Spinelli followed. "Spill it, Spinelli. Quickly."

"Okay well even in my absence I felt obligated, so to speak, to keep up on what was going on in the city of pain and unfairness. I still have access to the GH mainframe and set up alerts if there were any health issues on a chosen few residents. One of those chosen residents happened to be the small Stone Cold one. Well any way a few weeks ago little Jake had a doctors appointment. I received the alert and as I was looking over the medical file when I realized that it's not possible for…" Spinelli caught his breath. He was afraid to go on.

"It's not possible for what? What does this have to do with Jake?" Jason asked.

"Stone Cold I hate to be the one to crush your world but you need to know that you can not possibly be Jake's father. I believe that the not so fair, maternal one lied."

Jason's eyes went cold. He looked at Spinelli as if he would rip his heart out with his bare hands. "This is what you wanted to tell me? You come back after all this time and choose my son's birthday to lie to me? What are you trying to do exactly Spinelli?"

"Stone Cold, I realize that perhaps this was not the best way to do this but I did try to provoke action on the parts of all the parties involved. I sent you and Liz letters. I hinted to you about the birth certificate. I even brought Lucky back to town hoping that one of you would at least check into it. I thought he would request another DNA test, maybe she would come clean about lying or you would get Stan to dig into it. None of you took action so that left me with no choice but to do it today because I knew the goddess would be leaving this evening and I wanted her to be here to console you when you found out."

"You sent those letters? You made the calls?" Jason was furious.

"Stone Cold you don't understand the massive measures I took to put all the determining factors together. I have the proof right here. I mean did you ever request a second DNA test after she told you or did you just take her word for it?"

"Spinelli, Liz has never lied to me, not that I know of. So before I go approach her on this I need to know how you know that I am not Jake's father."

Spinelli opened his laptop. He punched in a few codes and opened up the GH mainframe. He typed in Jacob Webber-Morgan and up came Jake's medical file. Spinelli pulled up his birth record. They looked at the basics, date, time, weight, height, attending, but it was when they came across Jake's blood type that Spinelli pointed to the screen. "You see here Stone Cold, Jake's blood type is A positive. I checked Elizabeth's blood type and she is O positive. Stone Cold your blood type is O negative. It's genetically impossible for him to be your son. But Lucky on the other hand is A negative." Spinelli typed in the name Lucas Spencer, Jr. and pulled up his medical record to show Jason that he was more than sure of Jake's true paternity. Jason felt like he couldn't breathe. Both he and Spinelli turned to Liz.

Jason's head was spinning but as he looked at Liz he forced a smile and mouthed that he would be finishing up shortly. She smiled back wondering what was going on. Jason's back was facing her so she never saw his reaction. She had split her attention between trying to figure out what was going on, why it needed to be addressed during their son's party and paying attention to the fun that her son's were having. Jason turned his back to her again and looked at Spinelli.

"Have you told anyone else about this?"

"I have only told Lucky and I believe he is waiting outside for the big reveal. He doesn't know how I know that he's the father but just that he is, so he is hoping that it proves to be true." Spinelli answered. Jason looked outside and sure enough Lucky was staring right at him with a look that screamed, "Tell me what's going on please"

"Okay here's what I need you to do for me. You need to go outside and tell Lucky that we know he's the father but that I said it's not a good time to reveal it because we don't want to upset Jake or Cameron for that matter. Today is supposed to be a happy day. Take him somewhere and show him how you came to your conclusion. I'm going to handle Liz after the party. I'm not sure if she knows the truth or not but I'll find out. I need you find out for me who performed the test, who had access to the results and if the test was ever altered in the computer. If it was that means the test proved that Lucky was the father and then someone changed the results. If they were never altered in the computer than someone switched the DNA sample. Which means someone would have to have known that I was taking a DNA test for Elizabeth's baby back then."

"Whoa Stone Cold and the Jackal, back together again. This is so awesome. Like Dude you have no idea how long it too write those crazy letters or talk on the phone in "normal people" talk." Spinelli was excited to be working for his mentor again. "I will get right on it." Just then his laptop started to beep.

"What is that?" Jason asked.

"It's a medical alert like the one that I was telling you about." He punched in the code for the hospital and was speechless at what he was reading.

"What is it? Who is the alert for?"

"It's… It's the Goddess. She has been put on a respirator. She's barely breathing on her own anymore. By order of her mother Alexis Davis, it was requested that she immediately be put on life support until the doctors can figure out an exact diagnosis and a proper treatment can be applied."

Jason got that knot in his stomach again. He felt that blow to his gut taking all the breath out of him. She was giving up. She knew she was dying. She was alone and she had nothing to fight for. Nothing to come back to. Yes, she had her sisters and her mother but her sisters would grow up to live their own lives and her relationship with her mother was anything but stable. She had no love of her life, no children and no future children to be strong for. This day was supposed to be a happy one but, for Jason, he was losing two people he loved. One, he loved more than his own life and the other, someone he never thought he would love again.

"Spinelli I need to finish up here and then I'll meet you back at the penthouse. I'll tell Liz she needs to stay at her grandmothers for tonight."

"What about the Goddess Samantha?"

"Spinelli, we'll talk about Sam later. Now go." Jason said and headed back toward the party. Spinelli headed out the door. He stopped to speak to Lucky. He briefly explained the situation and they decided to go back to Lucky's room at the Metrocourt to explain completely what was going on. Jason approached Liz when Jake ran over to him to show him one of his new cars. Jason picked him up and smiled. He asked Jake if he was having fun and Jake said yes. Jason put Jake down and he ran off back to his friends. Liz stepped over to Jason and asked, "Jason is everything okay? Why is Spinelli here?"

"I'll talk to you about it after the party. This isn't the best time." He responded.

"It's not the best time to tell me but you thought it was a good time to huddle in the corner with Spinelli during our son's party. Am I getting this right? He shows up after 6 months and you drop everything to talk to him but when I ask for answers you put me off. Jason that is completely unfair. Was it "business" that you swore you wouldn't take care of today, at least during the party? Or was this something personal that was way more important than Jake enjoying his party." She was yelling toward the end. Her eyes were burning a hole into his.

Jason wanted to yell back at her but he was not going to let her take him there. "Elizabeth, trust me when I tell you that you do not want to get into this right now. If you turn around and look at Jake, he his having the time of his life. He didn't even notice that I stepped over to the other side of the room for a whole 10 minutes. Spinelli is back because he had something VERY important to tell me. Now I think it's best if we turn our attention back to the party and to Jake and we will discuss this later."

"What was so damn important that it couldn't wait until tomorrow? I can't get you to let go of work for one day Jason. We were making love last night and Sonny called and you jumped up to leave. And today is our son's birthday and you let your work distract you from what was supposed to be the most important thing to you today. So tell me what was so important? What is more important than Jake?"

"You know why I jumped up to leave last night and you came with me. There is nothing more important to me than Jake and that's why I spoke to Spinelli. He had something to tell me concerning Jake. Now I am going to say this one more time, drop this NOW." He was glaring down at her. She didn't let up though.

"No. Now I definitely have a right to know if it concerns my son. What could Spinelli possibly be telling you regarding Jake?" Elizabeth was yelling. Jason started to respond but looked behind Liz and opted not to speak. Liz turned around but returned her gaze to Jason.

Everyone was staring at them now and Emily thought it best to end the party before whatever this was got out of hand. She apologized to the parents and gave all the kids their goodie bags. Georgie volunteered to take Morgan, Kristina, and Spencer to the carnival in the park because it was obvious that their parents weren't going anywhere. Audrey agreed and said that she would take Cameron and Jake.

After all the children were cleared out, Liz and Jason stood glaring at each other. Carly, Emily, Sonny, and Nikolas stood wondering what was going on. Liz spoke first.

"So do you want to tell me what the hell Spinelli came all the way back to Port Charles to tell you regarding Jake?" Her voice was laced with sarcasm and anger.

"Liz, who knew that you needed a paternity test on Jake?"

"What? Why does that matter now? What does it have to do with Jake?"

"It has everything to do with why Spinelli is here because according to him and the proof that he showed me, Jake is not my son." He stared her straight in the eyes. He was reading her expression. Her eyes read total shock and confusion. Everyone else had the same look.

"That's not possible. Why are you so sure that Spinelli is telling you the truth? Why are you trying to dismiss your son?" Liz began to cry. She could not believe Jason would believe such lies. Carly jumped in

"You lying skank. You probably had the results changed so that you could trap Jason. You knew he would never question you. You see Sonny, I told you. I said that you should have told Jason to get another DNA test. I told you."

"Carly, stop." Jason's voice rang out.

"Are you freaking kidding me Jason? I warned you about this bitch. I told you that nobody is as sweet and innocent as she pretends to be. I kept my mouth shut this long for the sake of Jake being your son but since it turns out he's not, all bets are off. Elizabeth I WILL make sure you pay for this. You can bet your life on it"

Elizabeth chose to ignore Carly and turned to face Jason."Jason, this doesn't make sense. No one knew about the test except for me, you and Kelly. She never opened the results and had no idea that they said that you were the father."

"So no one ever saw the results except for you and the lab technician that ran the test?"

"That's it. Spinelli saw the results on the hospital computer but you know about him and Lulu. Why would he lie if he saw the results with his own two eyes?"

"Somebody switched the results or the DNA sample. But it's confirmed. Jake is not my son, he's Lucky's."

"Yeah it was probably that crazy bitch right there. It's amazing. She was the only person who knew the actual results and she works in the hospital. She had motive and opportunity. What better way to tie herself to Jason than to lie about having his son. I mean look how long it took for her to come clean to Jason. It was so convenient don't you think? I warned you about hurting Jason didn't I you phony ass miss goodie two shoes." Carly went to swing at Elizabeth but Sonny grabbed her.

"Sonny, can you get her out of here please? I will call you later. We have some other things we need to discuss." Jason leaned in close to Sonny's ear and whispered, "And I need for you to go to the hospital and check on Sam. She's been put on life support."

Sonny looked at Jason with shock. "How do you know?"

"Spinelli"

"I swear to you Elizabeth, if Jake really isn't Jason's son, I will do everything in my power to make sure Lucky gets full custody of Jake." And with that Sonny pulled a ranting Carly out of Kelly's.

Liz looked at Jason with tears in her eyes. "Please tell me that you don't believe this. Tell me that you aren't going to just let someone come in and tear our family apart."

"Liz I honestly don't know what to think right now. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt but if no one else knew about the test, it looks like you did it. Anyway, I just don't even know how I feel right now. I think its best if you and they boys sleep over at Audrey's tonight." He started to head for the door.

"Jason, don't do this. We need to talk about this. We have to figure out why someone wants to destroy our family." Liz pleaded and grabbed hold of Jason's arm. Jason stopped to face her.

"Do you know Jake's blood type?"

"He's A positive. Why?"

"I'm O negative. He can't be mine." And with that, Jason pulled loose of her grip and walked out of Kelly's, leaving Liz to break down into tears and be consoled by Emily and Nikolas.