Chapter 4

Jason and Elizabeth only heard their phones ringing as they came up for air. With a quick peck on her now bee-stung lips, Jason groaned the pulled out his cell phone. Looking at it, he glared thinking that Sonny had better have a very good reason to be annoying him when he realized he still heard a ring tone.

Elizabeth answered hers without looking at the caller ID and said "Emily, call back later."

"Elizabeth?" asked the older woman on the other end. "It's Monica, I am sorry to call, Emily said you were working on something important but I really need your help with tomorrow."

"Sure, whatever you need." she asked then groaned and said laughing. "Why do I feel ambushed?"

The blond on the other end, laughed self consciously then asked "Would I do that?"

"To get elves, yes, yes you would." she moaned then looked at her boyfriend who didn't see so relaxed at the moment. "I have to go, but I will be there tomorrow, with bells on."

"Skip the bells, wear the Santa Hat." said the woman hanging up as she heard the younger girl growling.

With a soft smile, she hung up the phone and saw her daughter in law entering. "Elizabeth said yes."

"I don't want to know how you tricked her. Emily is up in her room plotting dark deeds, something about taking back her Christmas present for you." then turning when she heard the door opening saw her husband with their two children. "Michael, I have a surprise for you."

While AJ carried in the baby, Michael stumbled on unsteady feet as he approached her. "Da."

Sighing she looked at Monica and said "Da and JaJa are all he says. I would give a box of dark chocolate up for some version on my name."

Monica patted her on the shoulder then verified they were coming to the party the next day. As she went to check in on Lila, she would have sworn she saw Lucky Spencer slipping past the French doors. Shaking it out of her head, she went upstairs and saw her husband leaving his mother's room with their daughter.

"Mom, how do you feel about a costume." said her daughter with a wicked grin.

Meanwhile Sonny had hung up the phone after all but ordering Jason to come to his penthouse with Elizabeth.

"Is there a problem?" asked Jeff when the man had returned to the seating area.

Not sure he wanted to tell the man that he had the feeling Jason and Elizabeth had had their own very intimate plans for the evening, he just said darkly and with a pouting tone "They are coming over after eating dinner, I offered to cook but apparently Elizabeth prefers a greasy hamburger with chili over my pasta."

"Aw, poor baby. Sonny, if you like cooking for everybody so much, why don't you just open a damn restaurant." snapped Alexis who saw Jeff's expression of shock.

Sonny thought about it then with a sly grin said "Maybe I will, as my attorney why don't you look into what I need to file in order to do that."

Audrey pulled Jeff off to the side then asked why he had lied to her all those months ago about Elizabeth's biological mother.

"That was part of the whole plan with Carolyn, if anyone asked why Elizabeth was so close in age with Sarah." he said with a heavy sigh. "I am sorry Audrey. Things got out of hand, I just wanted to protect her. I asked to be there when Sonny talks to Rick, I have a few issues with what my brother pulled, not the least of which is Sarah."

Alexis agreed to help Sonny then asked Jeff to follow her over to her place for a private word. He felt his heart racing as his skin became clammy while doing as she requested. Looking out the window, he gave a heavy sigh then said "I used to live here years ago, back when this was mainly hospital housing."

"This suite?" she asked him as she sat down.

"No, two floors below. I was scared of heights at the time and used living here to cure myself." he replied then sat down on the chair before taking a deep breath and looking at her. "God, there are no words that can ever express what I feel about what happened that night."

Alexis felt a sense of relief as she came to realize she didn't blame him. "No, I mean, you in a way saved me from a fate worse than death."

"I raped you." he whispered hoarsely.

"No, actually I think what happened between us, more like qualifies as both of us being raped." she said sadly. When he shook his head no, she took a deep breath, reached out for his hands and said "Yes, there is no way you would have done what was done to me, you tried to refuse even after Helena was going to kill you. You only did what you did AFTER she threatened to kill me."

"Doesn't change the outcome." he replied.

"Actually think about it, you did change the outcome. I just don't get why Helena chose you, or how she knew about you, yet nothing was ever done about it, later. She is the Queen of blackmail." Alexis pointed out sadly.

"I can still hear her taunting you, asking if you were enjoying yourself." he replied sick. "I have to ask is that why you changed your name, from Natasha to Alexis."

Looking at him, she said "No, that was to disappear from my family. Helena sliced my mother's throat, she killed my baby sister, all out of jealousy and a need to win."

There was silence in the room before Alexis looked at him and asked "I heard your explanations about Elizabeth, they aren't good enough for me. I am so angry at you for abandoning her, mainly because she thinks that it was because of something she did. That her acting like a typical teenager is why you don't love her anymore."

Jeff looked up in shock then said "Don't love... that is why I walked away. I never wanted my children, my little girls to know what I had done. I was always scared, always worried that at some point, someone was going to come and demand retribution for what I did to you."

"When you get some time, you have to tell Elizabeth that." she said then asked "We need to figure out what we do from here on out, because I am not walking away from our daughter and if you try to I will kill you." Jeff got the feeling from how calmly she said it, she wasn't kidding.

Meanwhile Jason thanked Johnny for delivering the food he had had to order from the Port Charles Grill. "What happened to Kelly's? Elizabeth said even with Bobbie for an owner she was still going to eat the chili."

With a low chuckle the Irish guard said "Edward and Ned happened. First Edward opened up a nice little diner over on Chestnut, I still want to know how he got that through the Health department that quickly then Ned hired away the manager of Kelly's to run it. Then AJ, well AJ and his wife got the Health department to come in and inspect. Turns out the bathrooms aren't up to code."

"Bathrooms?" he asked then got what that was about. "Let me guess, the tenants are staying at the Port Charles Hotel, on his dime."

"Oh, I am sure that Bobbie and Luke are wishing they were, but instead they are being required to put them up elsewhere. Spencer had a cow when the inspectors told him that they had to pay for comparable housing elsewhere. The only ones available are those brand spanking new studios that Jacks enterprises built last year. At one and half times the cost for as long as it takes to rip out the plumbing."

Shaking his head at the Quartermaine antics, he quickly told Elizabeth who frowned then laughed when he quickly mentioned that Edward had pretty much hired the entire Kelly's staff. As he handed her their dinner, he saw the salad and asked with a frown why she was eating it.

"Because with Sonny already in a tiff, this way when he asks I can say that part of my dinner was healthy." she said with a grin even as she lifted the double decker cheeseburger and took a bite. Settling on the other end of the sofa, Jason and she discussed what else they wanted to do in the future.

"How about a wish list?" she asked. "You first, five things you want to do in the next three years."

Thinking on it. He said "Be with you." then added married to you in his head stunned to realize how quickly his mind went there with her.

"Okay, number two." she asked as she took another bite. When he insisted on her giving up one, she stated to parrot what he had said only for him to from and tell her that was a given for both of them. Glaring but giving up when he just lifted his eyebrow she said "Be with you, but in the biblical sense."

Almost choking on his sandwich, he blushed then said "Okay, then how about we switch gears. Uh, I am thinking on starting some sort of security firm."

"Well I want to finish college, but I guess that is a given too." she said trailing off.

"No, that one counts." he replied. "I uh, I want to find a place for us, together."

"Okay, I like that one." she said. "My turn. I uh... I uh... I guess I want to figure out how we blend our families. Sonny for you and well everyone I consider family... well except my real one."

"I like that one." he said quietly then said "Especially since part of my family is your family."

Grinning at him, she decided to go for one that might not work. "I want to learn to ride when you get a new bike."

Leaning over, he kissed her then said "Not in this lifetime or the next."

Looking at the clock, he glared then said "We have to go. I promised Sonny we would meet him at Seven."

Returning to the other penthouse, Jeff stopped them outside the door and not noticing the guards in the stairwell asked. "Are you and Mr. Corinthos involved. I understand if it is none of my business but if he is going to be Elizabeth's step fat-"

Alexis let out peels of laughter as they entered the dark penthouse then with a giggle as she tried to regain control said "Sonny? Are you kidding, not in this lifetime. I love him as a client and even as a friend but seriously, no. I mean... just no."

"I think I am offended." said the Cuban from the doorway to his kitchen where he was wearing an apron. "Mrs. Hardy, should I be offended?"

Hiding her grin, the elderly lady looked between them then said "No, because I can't see it either."

"Food will be on the table in a few minutes." he said as he walked back to the kitchen while Alexis mouthed "I told you so" to Audrey.

Sonny went to the door and ordered in Max and Francis to eat while telling Marco he drew short straw and would have to eat later. The good natured guard just shrugged and said to tell Max not to eat all the bread before going back to his post.

As they ate dinner, Sonny and Jeff told the women their plan for confronting Rick. "I also want to know what Sarah is up with your nephew."

Thinking on it, Alexis added "And why was Nik suddenly talking to Elizabeth a couple of months ago. She thought it was strange because other than when Sarah was around they never said two words to each other."

"Even when she was here, they didn't have much to say to one another." stated Francis. When they all looked at him he said "You all know that Jason had guards on her, after the attack. I was one of them. There is something else to add to this, Jason overheard Laura talking about buying Elizabeth a Christmas gift today."

"Spencer?" asked Audrey in shock. "Well that is strange. What did she chose for her, maybe they meant Sarah?"

"No, it was an art set. You know one of those beginner sets like you would get for a teenager first starting out." replied Max. "Bernie found it on her credit card receipts."

"We have enough to worry about, we can just deal with that one later." said Sonny just as they heard a quiet knock on the door. When Jeff looked up at the entering couple, his heart stopped then broke. "Oh my god, you look just like your mother at your age."

Blinking and in shock, Elizabeth stopped her forward movement while Jason pulled her close then looked at the man with his ice blue eyes and said "What are you doing here?"

"Jason, I was hoping to catch you two before you got here." said Sonny looking down at his watch as he got that it was already seven and cursed. "I grabbed him, but mid-air it became voluntary."

Rejecting Sonny's offer of food, Alexis and Jeff both pushed their plated back, the Tortellini Bolognese sitting on their stomachs. Audrey just gently ushered them into the seating area then with a worried glance poured a glass of the single malt scotch and handed it to her granddaughter.

"My dear, I am afraid you are going to need that in a few minutes." she said then looking at Alexis said "I was worried about something so I ran a DNA test on you."

"I am not a Webber, am I?"she asked her voice trembling.

"Well, not actually I mean but Jeff isn't either, I mean he is really a Hardy, like you." she relied then was horrified as she realized she had made Elizabeth burst into tears. "Oh, I am so doing this wrong."

Fretting and twisting her hands, she took a sip of Elizabeth's drink then stood to pace.

Jason looked at his now former boss and said "Sonny, what is going on here?"

Knowing that the others were too emotionally wrought to hand this, Sonny sat down then said "Elizabeth, Jeff is your father, but he was unaware of that fact until a few hours ago."

"So that excuses his behavior?" snapped Jason glaring at the older man.

"No, let me tell you everything, it is a long convoluted story and some of us don't want to tell you all of it, but I think that is the best thing." replied the short dark haired man. Sitting on his coffee table in front of Elizabeth, he held the highball glass out to her and said "Take a sip every time you feel the need to question me, okay?"

Nodding, she sat there as he said "First of all, according to DNA tests ran. Alexis Davis is your mother."

Elizabeth took a gulp as she looked over at the uptight woman and saw her fear. With a slight smile and look of confusion, she listened as Sonny told her what they knew about her birth but not about her conception.

At the end, Jason went over and found the tequila, drinking a sip himself. Sonny then told her how she ended up with her biological father, about Sarah being Rick's and then with a sideways glance at Jeff about what Carolyn had done in regards to the trust fund.

At that point, Audrey poured more scotch into the nearly empty glass as Sonny then told her the most difficult part. When her eyes widened and she stared at her father then Alexis, before bursting into tears, Jason glared at all of them. Picking her up, he snapped out. "Alexis, we are using your guest room, if there is anything else, forget about it. She didn't need to know this, why the hell are you telling her."

"Because Helena is in town and we think she is up to something." said Alexis wiping her own tears as her daughter couldn't even look at her. Jeff had always known how his little girl would react to finding out the truth about him, so he was able to hold it together slightly more than the lawyer.

"If she or any other member of that branch of Cassadines even looks sideways at Elizabeth I will kill them, so don't worry about it." he said coldly as Francis opened the door for him. Stopping in the entrance way where he held his now numb girlfriend he added "Sonny after Elizabeth is asleep, I am returning and I want all of it. Then you had better damn well have a plan."

Hearing first his door than Alexis' door slam, Sonny looked at them and said "That went well."

Seeing their open mouth glares he said "We are still alive, Jason didn't shoot any of us."

Next door, Jason gently laid down a still Elizabeth. Settling down next to her he asked "Do you want to talk about what we just learned?"

Elizabeth's eyes filled with tears as she looked at Jason then started sobbing as she recalled all that she had heard. "My dad raped my mother, what is there to talk about?"

Holding her, rubbing her back as she drenched first his shirt then turning to the pillow, screamed into it.

Feeling Jason tense, she then said in a small voice. "I heard what they said to Sonny, I heard that Alexis doesn't blame Jeff, but how do I deal with this? How do I get past this, how do I feel whole again?"

Kissing her as she laid half on top of him and half on the bed, Jason just said "What happened, Elizabeth none of that reflects on you. You didn't do anything wrong. Helena did this."

"Alexis must hate to see me, to know that I am..."

"No, I could never hate you. I don't hate your father either." said the woman in the doorway wiping away the tears. Stepping in, she ignored Jason's expression then said "Elizabeth, even before I knew you were my daughter, I loved you. Nothing will ever change that. You heard what happened, if your father hadn't done what he did, it would have been so much worse... he saved my life."

Shaking her head, sick at the thought, Elizabeth looked at her and asked "How did you get past it?"

Sighing, Alexis sat down on the farthest corner of the bed then stated "I didn't, not for years. First I went back to school, kept my head down, working things out in my head. I never hated Jeff, never blamed him for what happened, even then."

"Then when I found out I was pregnant, I was terrified, but then the first time you kicked..." Elizabeth saw her smile and felt a sense of awe at what she saw on the older woman's face. "You became real to me. When I was told you were dead, it destroyed me. I vowed to make them pay. Then Mikkos was dead, and all I had was Helena to take out. I tried, but missed. I swear, I won't let her harm you. I couldn't live with myself if she did."

Elizabeth looked at the woman and saw the resemblance between them. "I can't believe how much we do look alike."

With a slow smile, Alexis said "I spent years in therapy dealing with your loss, and when Sonny and Audrey were discussing where you had been born. I had hope for the first time in years. There is a lot to discuss, a lot we have to figure out but I hope in the end, well I hope you don't mind having me for a mother."

Meanwhile Jeff and Sonny had decided to confront Rick that evening. Heading over to his apartment building they were waiting outside when they saw him leaving in his late model sedan. As he drove to the police commissioner's house, they saw he was being followed by yet another car, this one a luxury sedan.

When they saw the luxury sedan peel off as Rick entered the empty house, Sonny looked at his driver and said "Where is Scorpio?"

"He took the girls to New York, they are due back tomorrow." he replied after a quick call to Bernie.

Waiting outside, they heard the gunshot and Sonny watched as a blond man rushed out followed by Lucky Spencer. "Fuck."

"What?" asked Jeff frowning when he saw the sleazy attorney.

"That is a dead man following Scott Baldwin." he replied then heard another gunshot from down the street. "This isn't good."

As the police came, Sonny was glad they were in a nondescript car as they quietly passed the cars coming at them with lights and sirens. At the penthouse, Sonny called his inside men then swore as he hung up the phone. "I am sorry to say that they only found Scott in the neighbors yard."

"Rick is out there, can your men find him?" asked Jeff.

"No, they can't look. Not yet. Scott's death is being investigated, we have to wait." he replied as there was a knock on the door. Seeing Johnny and Jason entering he said "We have a problem. Someone else just took a shot at Webber, and you aren't going to believe who it was?"

"I don't have time for riddles tonight, Sonny." he snapped.

"Lucky Spencer, the same man who died in your garage."

Swearing, Jason sat down then said "What now?"

Telling him what they had kept from Elizabeth, about Sarah and the dark haired man, they saw Alexis entering looking exhausted but happier. The woman looked at the photos for the first time, then asked for a magnifying glass. "NO! Oh god no!"

"Alexis?" asked Sonny as she seemed to rock back and forth. "What is it?"

"I know what they wanted, I know who that is and you have no idea what the hell is going on here. That is my late brother Stavros. Nik's father and the one man on this earth as evil as Helena." she whispered. "What is going on here?"

It was an uneasy group that finally went to find bed, Jason was soon curled up with Elizabeth while Alexis tried to sleep but instead paced back and forth in her room as she tried to put everything together. Sonny was asleep in his room, his mind going back into his past yet again while Audrey had gone home against everyone's wishes.

She was hoping that Sarah would show up, she knew the blond was in trouble and that she had the sense to come to someone for help. Meanwhile Jeff had asked the guard to take him back to the house where his brother had once live only instead to to head to the docks.

Looking out across the harbor he said to the man "Do you feel it?"

"The malevolence emitting from that place?" he asked then nodded yes. "Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and yet that place looks as dark and scary as ever."

The next day, Elizabeth called Emily and agreed to meet her friend at the hospital to help make sure the patients on the peds ward had a good Christmas. Her mind wouldn't stray far from what she had learned the night before but she needed the time to think things through, to figure it out. Jason understood and he let her go with two guard while he kept his ears to the ground.

Good thing because when Mac Scorpio returned home, he found a very large bleach stain on his carpet. Calling the station, he heard what had gone on next door and said "Send a team to my house."

Packing up the girls, he at first thought about sending them to Bobbie's but sighed as he recalled that they had been having issues every since Carly's arrest. Taking them to the Quartermaine's, he loathed to ask but found instead that Emily was more than willing to take them to GH with her. "We are meeting with Elizabeth."

Taking Monica and Alan to the side, he told him what he had found only for Alan to tense then say "I think I know who your victim is."

Seeing the man's interest, he said "Rick Webber, he used to live in that house. We had a meeting with him this morning, he never showed up and we saw him talking, rather arguing with Scott Baldwin yesterday."

"About what?" asked Mac as he pulled out his small notebook and wrote all they said down.

"I heard the name Spencer and figured it was about Laura, after all Rick was her stepfather and Scott was married to her. That is the only connection I know about." said Monica who added "Rick has been acting strange lately. He uh, we used to be involved and he was rather well pushing for the same again. When I told him no..."

Alan hated to admit it, he didn't want to be suspect number one but said it anyhow. "I pulled him off of her, then decked him. He swore he would destroy me, threatened to use the hospital to do it. Claimed he had inside stuff on the HMO takeover attempt. We scotched that yesterday and he was furious. I have never seen him so angry."

Closing his notebook, Mac thanked them for the information then asked "I hate to ask but where were you last night."

Giving him a rundown on their evening, they saw him nod as he walked out the door calling Taggert. "I want all you can find on Rick Webber's visit to Port Charles."

At GH, Elizabeth found herself relaxing and enjoying the time she was spending with Emily and the Jones girls. As they took flowers to patients, candy to others and even grabbed a few candy stripers to sing Christmas Carols badly. When AJ showed up with his two sons, he was amused that Michael went straight for Elizabeth. As his son grabbed her hair, he teased the younger woman about the red head's obsession with her.

As she slowly separated the grimly fingers from her hair, she saw Jason coming over then hesitate until AJ beckoned him. Michael laughed and giggled but when he called AJ da, she saw the slight expression of pain on Jason's face and eased her boyfriend away quickly. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, I always knew that was going to happen, it just hurts a bit. I am happy for them, both of them." he said then hugging her said "When do you have to change into this infamous elf costume?"

Looking at her watch, she yelped then said "I have to go."

With a lingering kiss she gave him a smirk and said "Mistletoe." as she left.

Jason walked to where the various denizens of the hospital and the town were gathering. When his girl friend came in escorting Santa after Alan had read the story of the first Christmas, Jason waited until everyone's eyes were on the man in the costume and pulled off her hat. Teasing her by holding it just over her head, he saw the moment her eyes shifted and looked around to see his family watching them.

"Aha." she shouted in triumph as she got the red felt hat back from him. "I win this round."

Leaning down, he whispered "But in the end, I win the battle, because you are coming home with me."

Feeling eyes on her, she turned and saw the expression on Nicolas Cassadine's face. Shivering she pointed it out to Jason who frowned at the man until he withered and left them alone. "What was that about?"

Worried, Jason called Sonny over and gave his boss a heads up while Audrey slipped over to Monica planning on telling her their holiday plans. Instead she was caught behind the hub only to eavesdrop in on a whispered conversation. Her eyes widening, she went to find someone to help but felt a hand cover her mouth. "Mrs. Hardy, please let me handle this."

Stunned when she heard Mac Scorpio, she nodded that she understood then quickly left the area while the cop made a call, his hands shaking. The person on the other end agreed to what he had suggested then asked "Can you get us into town without anyone noticing?"

Meanwhile Mrs. Hardy made a call of her own. "Jeff, let me speak to the guard with you."

Francis took the phone and listened. "Thanks, I will let Sonny and Jason know."

Back at the towers later that evening, they discussed this latest development. "Let me get this straight... Lucky is alive and with Sarah?" asked Jeff. "Why? After all that went down, why would either one of them want to be together?"

"The part that has me worried is this idea that Nik thinks that means Elizabeth and he should be together." said Alexis with a heavy sigh.

"We just tell them that Nik and she are cousins, that should scotch that." said Jeff. "I mean, your brother should be reasonable, Stefan that is."

With a sad sigh, Alexis replied. "You would think but Helena is Mikkos first cousin. They wouldn't object."

Elizabeth had sat silently as they talked about her and what her grandmother had overheard. "What I don't get is Laura Spencer, why would she get me a present? Why would she or ANY Spencer go along with this?"

"I don't think she is." said Sonny lifting his head. "My guess is that it went something like Nik telling her he likes you and then Laura expecting that to mean you like him. What we need to do is talk to Luke and her, tell them that Elizabeth is a Cassadine."

Alexis lifted her head then took out her cell phone. "Luke?"

The man on the other end looked around at the sad family scene with Laura and Lulu sitting there talking to Bobbie who was still upset about Carly being in jail. She had pissed Tony off so badly the man had taken Lucas to Tennessee.

"What can I do for you this holiday season, Natasha?" he drawled.

"I found my daughter." she heard him choke then added. "Helena is trying to pair her off with Nicolas. And more importantly I have seen someone who looks like Lucky."

Tensing up, he clipped out. "Where?"

"The night that Scott killed Rick Webber." she said then added. "Look, we know how phones can be bugged. Where can we meet?"

Luke's mind raced then said "What about the Haunted Star?"

"Helena more than likely has it bugged." she said. "Someplace else?"

"Kelly's." replied the man as he went to get his coat. Turning to his wife, he said "That was Alexis, Helena is up to her usual nonsense and she needs me to go meet her. Are you going to be okay?"

"Yes." she replied then added. "I only wish you were going to be here later, Nik was going to tell me his plans for courting Elizabeth."

"Laura, she is involved with Morgan, I really doubt he will let her go." he said trying gently to make her see that it was all in Nik's mind. Unfortunately he was well aware that his sister in her determination to fix things for that daughter of hers was making things worse. Walking out the door, he got the feeling that someone was watching him and just whipped whatever man Corinthos had on him the bird.

Meanwhile the rest scrambled as they hurried to arrive at Kelly's before Luke and without the Cassadines finding out. Jason and Sonny had agreed to stay out of sight while Jeff was going to be with Alexis as she confronted Luke. They needed to know how much the man knew before dealing with him.

At the station, Taggert looked at the results then swearing called his boss. "It's a match, now what?"

"Felecia just showed up tonight, I will be down after I talk to her." he replied then went to check on his daughters and his ex-wife who acted like her showing up out of the blue was no big deal. Making sure the presents were under the tree, he went to tell her he had to see Taggert at the station.

Hearing her heavy sigh, he snapped. "We can talk when I return. Felicia, you need to spend more time with our girls, they need to know that their mom is going to be a constant presence in their life."

At the station, Taggert looked at his boss and said "So Spencer is alive? What do you think? Did he kill Rick Webber and why?"

"No, I think Baldwin killed Webber but I think someone else, covered it up. I also think that Lucky killed Baldwin to cover up whatever is going on." he relied. "Did Capelli give you the DD5's from the car that went over the cliff this morning?"

"No, he is still writing them up, but it is pretty much a clear cut case of Drinking and driving in a stolen car, why?"

"I would bet it was staged to look like that. My guess is that the body will turn out to be the missing Webber man. There is one more thing, you know Elizabeth Webber, right?"

Seeing his sober expression, Mac continued then told him. "I think that Nik is in the middle of this."

"We need to get on that Island." said Taggert just as the desk sergeant popped in. "Sir, your wife is on the phone hysterical, I can't understand her."

Mac picked up the phone, turned white then said "Felecia, I am on my way."

Hanging up he said to his lead detective. "Two men, pushed their way in and grabbed the girls from their beds. Felecia was knocked out and just came to, she has no idea how long ago."

AT Kelly's, Luke was crossing the courtyard when he heard what he thought was a call for help but when he went to the docks he saw the boat pulling away and just dismissed it as someone telling the other man to help with the lines.

In Kelly's, he saw Alexis talking to a tall blond and thought he looked familiar. "Alexis, what do you know?"

"Elizabeth, Elizabeth Webber is my daughter." she stated baldly then saw Luke look at the blond and sneer.

"I thought you looked familiar, Jeff, right?" he said then turned to Alexis and said "Why does this involve me and what do you know about Lucky?"

"It's all connected. Luke, Stavros is alive." she said. When she saw the man turn white, she added. "Helena is interested in my daughter, wants her with Nik."

"That is because he wants her for some reason." he said absentmindedly then his head came up. "Webber, your brother has been spending a lot of time in the basements of GH, now we have a dead man alive, do you think it is a coincidence?"

"No, I don't because Stavros Cassadine doesn't look a day older than when you shoved him into that pit." replied Alexis as Jeff agree. "And I think that Nik and Lucky are in the middle of this. Sarah Webber left Switzerland in the company of Nik, Luke."

"What? Why?" He hates her for what she said about Lucky after his death and during that trial." said Luke just as they heard a scream. Hurrying to the other side, they saw a dark haired man holding Elizabeth while Jason was bleeding on the ground.

"Not another step, Spencer." said the man while a blond stepped from the shadows. There was a gasp in the room as Lucky lifted his gun and held it on Luke.

When the man tried to entreat his son to drop it, Stavros gave a malicious smile then said "Protect your queen."

Lucky didn't even hesitate before shooting Luke then moving to the Greek's side. "Now I would accept Elizabeth Webber as lost if I were you."

When they went to disappear, Sonny's men rushed the scene. Elizabeth found herself tackled by her father while Johnny O'Brien shot the not so dead man. Lucky just stood there like a robot until Stavros screamed "Go protect your queen, protect her."

Suddenly the blond tried to rush Jeff, screaming to let go of his queen, that he had to release his queen or he would kill him. Alexis lifted the gun she picked up in all the confusion and went to shoot Lucky but Luke screamed no and stepped in front of the bullet as she fired.

From chaos there was sudden silence then madness as the police rushed in and the Cassadine goons along with Lucky disappeared. "Corinthos, what is going on here?" shouted Mac. "Are my girls here?"

Turning to look at the police commissioner, he said "No, they just tried to kidnap Elizabeth."

Jeff stood helping up his daughter then looking around and dropping down to where she had knelt beside Jason. When she checked for the wound that was bleeding, she was glad to see the bullet on the ground behind him. "Dad, he needs help."

Reaching out for her hands, he grasped them and said "I know, let me take care of him for you."

Taggert moved over and said "I have a kit in my car."

Sonny, Alexis and Mac gave each other what they knew just as Laura rushed in with Bobbie. "Mac what is going on, we were told there was a shoot out at Kellys."

Laura stumbled as she saw the familiar coat and hair of her husband. Screaming, she turned on Sonny and shouted. "Did you do this, did you kill Luke, Sonny?"

The gangster looked at the screaming blond and said "No, the Cassadines did this and your son Lucky was right in the middle of it. Luke jumped in to save him in spite of your son trying to kill him."

"Lucky? He wouldn't hurt anyone." she said confused. "He's dead."

Hearing a groan, Elizabeth moved down next to Jason who said "My head hurts."

"You are going to be fine." said Jeff as he cleaned the bullet wound. "It's going to hurt like hell when you have to lift your arm for a while but otherwise it is only a flesh wound."

"Which makes me wonder..." said Mac looking around. "Why not kill him? If Elizabeth was the goal why not take out the most dangerous weapon around her? And why grab my daughters?"

TBC