Jason is sitting beside Sam on the couch in their room at the Metro Court. Danny was lying on his chest sound asleep. He had his arm wrapped around him and his other around Sam. He had everything he wanted. "You want to go put him in bed?" Sam asked. "No" he says without taking his eyes off of his sleeping son.
Sam laughs at softly and says "Jason, neither one of you is going anywhere. Besides, the first thing he is going to do in the morning is look for you. He's gonna want his daddy." Sam smiles up at her husband.
"I guess there is a lot we have to talk about." He says.
"Why don't you go put him down and I will unplug the phones." She says jokingly.
He smiles at her and gets up to go and put Danny in bed. He covers him up with what Sam called his favorite blanket. Ironically Tracy is the one that gave it to him. Jason shakes his head at that. Apparently, Tracy actually likes his son. He just stands there and watches Danny sleep for a minute. He still had to wrap his head around the fact that this is all real. He is really back to his family and Danny really is his son. His wife is standing just in the other room.
He leaves the door cracked just in case he wakes up and comes looking for Sam. He goes back into the living room and sees Sam standing in front of the window looking out over the city. He walks over to her and wraps his arms around her from behind. He presses a kiss to the side of her head as he feels her sink into him. Sam lets Jason's warmth envelop her. She feels like she hasn't been warm is forever.
"He go down ok?" she asks him.
"Yea. He's a pretty sound sleeper. Just like you."
Sam smiles as she turns around in his arms. "But in every other way he is just like you. Well… maybe except for his appetite. He definitely gets that from me."
"Go figure." She smacks him lightly on the shoulder and says "Watch it, buddy." Jason laughs at her and pulls her over to sit on the couch. The laughter dies and the mood turn serious when Sam asks "What do you want to know first?"
Jason takes a deep breath and says "Edward."
Sam knows that this is going to be hard for him to hear. "Not long after you disappeared I got a call from AJ saying that Edward wasn't doing very well." Sam sees the recognition in his eyes when she says his brother's name. "I will explain all that in a minute." He nods his head and she continues. "I took Danny over to see him and told him that he was your son. That was when he reached out his hand and Danny grabbed onto one of his fingers. He held onto it the entire time we were sitting there talking to Edward." Sam's eyes fill with tears as she says "About 10 minutes after we came back down stairs from visiting him, Monica came in and said that he had passed away."
Jason closes his eyes and he feels the tears forming in them. He never got a chance to say goodbye. He never got a chance to tell him he named his son after him. Ne never go a chance with Edward on anything. He feels Sam wipe the tears away that had fallen down his face. He opens his eyes and looks at his wife. "Edward had a great life, Jason. One that you know he wouldn't change for anything in this world. He had people who loved him so much and he had the love of his life in Lila. Now he is with her and they are both at peace." Jason knows that she is right but he still can't help the over whelming sadness he feels about the loss of his grandfather.
"When did AJ come back?" he asks changing the subject.
Sam knows that he is but she answers anyway. "The night after you disappeared. But nobody found out about it until around Halloween. He revealed himself to Michael. Apparently when we all thought he was dead, he was being hidden by Monica. When he found out about you he came back. He had information on Fasion so all the charged against him were dropped.
"Michael was skeptical of him at first but then decided to give him a chance. Pissed off Sonny and Carly but Michael is an adult so they couldn't do anything about it."
"How did Sonny end up killing him?" Jason asked.
"Sonny thought that AJ killed Kate." "What? Kate is dead?" "Yeah. She was shot in the office at the paper. After Edward died both AJ and Tracy wanted to run ELQ. So, they got into a bidding war with the people who has shares of the company to see who could get more. AJ thought he had more shares but turns out here was some lost Quartemaine heir that Tracy got to give her their shares and AJ was out numbered.
"AJ went back to his old ways and got drunk. When he found out that Kate was the one that ran the story about the lost heir in the paper he went to Sonny's and confronted her. Sonny walked in to see AJ with his hands around Kate's neck. He pulled him off and threatened him. Not long after Sonny went to the paper and found Kate on the flood with a bullet hole in her. While he called 911 she wrote out the killer's initials. AJ. Sonny assumed that meant your brother."
"It didn't?" Jason asked.
"No. It stood for Ava Jerome. My aunt. I'll explain all that in a sec but after Sonny saw this he went to AJ. He found him yelling at Ava and Sonny saw red. It reminded him of how he walked in on him and Kate. So, he shot him. It wasn't until a while later Sonny found out the truth. But not before he slept with Ava and got her pregnant." Jason was completely shocked by everything his wife was saying. "But they all found out?"
"Yeah, remember? The wedding from hell?" Sam says
"Right. Franco and…Carly! Oh my god she almost married him!"
"But she didn't. That is all that matters."
"How the hell did he get here, Sam? What they hell happened."
"Ok, first of all, he is not your twin. That was another lie heather told us. Franco is her son. Her and Scott Baldwin's." Jason is shocked but not mare than he is relieved.
"He came back to town for redemption. He got all the people you cared about at the Haunted Star and showed us videos. One was that he never raped me." Sam tells Jason softly. A look of rage comes across his face as she squeezes his hand. "Jason its ok. I'm fine. Danny is yours and that is all I care about." A thought hits Jason.
"What about Michael?" he asks. "There was a video that showed him telling Carter to leave Michael alone. But you know what happened with that. He thinks that that should somehow make up for the fact that it did happen. When he was arrested, Diane became his lawyer. Turns out, Franco had a brain tumor. That is what made him do all those evil things he did. Jury bought it." Sam says.
"Son of a bitch. Has he hurt you at all?" Jason asked her.
"Before he had the brain tumor removed there was an incident. He thought he was you so I was his wife and Danny was his son. I found him at the penthouse. He was dressed in your clothes and everything. He thought I was crazy because I wasn't reacting right. He knocked me out and kidnapped Danny from the hospital. Carly found then on the bridge and everything was fine. He had the tumor removed the next day."
Jason was seething with every word that came out of his wife's mouth. But he was caught on one thing. "Why was Danny in the hospital?" he asked.
Sam looks at her husband and asks for strength to be able to tell him this. "He was in the hospital because he had leukemia. He was diagnosed with it on his first birthday."
Jason freezes. "What?"
"He's ok now. He has a checkup every six months to make sure he is good and so far no problems." She assures.
Jason exhales. His son had cancer. His baby boy was sick and he wasn't there for him or his wife. "He needed a bone marrow transplant. But not one was a match. We ended up and doing a donor drive. That's actually how we found my dad." Sam tells him.
That is when it dawns on Jason. "Julian Jerome is your father."
"Yea. He is" Sam laughs.
"How did you find out?" he asks.
"When we did the donor drive, I went to ask the new owner of the paper to run a story on it on the front page. He agreed but then then the news of the lost Quartermaine heir was brought to his attention and he went with that instead. He felt bad so he decided to get tested. And he was a match. I guess my mom and he got to talking and she told him about the night I was conceived. He remembered the night it happened. But because he came to town with his sister Ava to take over the mob, he kept quiet for months. Sonny was the one to figure it out first and confronted him at Franco's art show. He admitted who he was. He had been in the witness protection program."
Jason looks at her and say "How did you deal with it?"
"At first I was mad. I mean, he was my dad. Danny's grandfather. But because he wanted to take over the mob he never said anything. And never was. I eventually got over it and he has turned out to be a good father. It's nice to know who he is. He definitely has his issues. But he is my dad." She smiles at him.
He sighs and says, "Sonny couldn't have been happy."
"No he wasn't. But he had a lot going on. When Michael found out that he killed AJ he went ballistic. He went looking for Sonny and pulled a gun on him. Dante talked him down and arrested Sonny. Michael was furious with Carly too. When he found out she knew about it, he cut her out of his life also. Jason, it has been crazy. Morgan and Michael hate each other now because of it. That's why Morgan didn't come to the party. He didn't want to cause a scene if Michael and he got into it." She says.
Jason get up from the couch and starts to pace. "Why did Sonny have to kill him? Why couldn't he for once stop and think! And now looks what's happened. Michael hates him and he lost his daughter!" Jason exhales.
"Jason, losing you put a strain on both Carly and Sonny. They did stupid things. And now they have to be the ones that pay for them. It's not your job to fix this. Believe it or not, having to face this has been good for them. They need to grow up some time Jason." Sam tells him.
"I'm not going to get involved. They are all adults but I will be there for them." Sam smiles at him. "You always are. That's why they love you."
A thought occurs to Jason. He looks over at his wife and says "You and Carly share a sibling." He starts to laugh when she says "Shut up, or else you are going to die for real this time." That only makes him laugh even hared. "Ok, whatever you say Mighty mouse."
She punches him in the shoulder. He grabs her hand and brings it to his lips to kiss it. Sam lets out a gasp as she feels her husband's lips on her skin. "Sam, I have to ask you this, but I don't want to upset you."
Sam can see what he wants to ask her in his eyes. "Jason, you did not know who you were. Jake was with Elizabeth and you are not Jake. I know the difference. You have nothing to feel guilty about. This is on Liz and my cousin. Who we will deal with together." She tells him in a serious voice.
Jason stares at his wife in amazement. "You really are amazing, you know that?" he says.
She gives him a small smile "I know that we have a lot more to talk about but do you think it can wait till later? All I want to do is go to sleep and I know that Danny is going to be up at the crack of dawn looking for you." Jason perks up at the idea. Sam laughs when she sees the look on her husband's face. "Sleep, Morgan! Sleep."
Jason smiles at her and grabs her hand as they stand up. "For now." He says. That makes Sam laugh harder. On their way to the bedroom there is a knock at the door.
"Wow!" Sam says looking at Jason. "I'm surprised Carly hasn't knocked on the door a million times by now." Jason laughs as he walks to the door. He opens it planning to tell Carly that they would talk tomorrow. When he opens the door and is shocked by who is standing there.
"Lucky? What are you doing here?" he asks him. Sam goes over to the door when she hears who is on the other side. "Hey guys. I know it's late but can I come in and talk to you?" "Lucky, if this is about Liz and Nik…" "It isn't. Well, it involves Nikolas. But it also involves your daughter, Sam."