The next morning Jason is standing on the balcony with a cup of coffee in his hand. His wife, his son and his daughter all still asleep inside. Last night still replaying in his head. It was hard enough to wrap his mind around the fact that he was finally home to his family after almost 2 years of them all thinking he was dead but now is daughter, who everyone also thought had dies, was alive. His beautiful 15-year-old daughter who looked just like his wife. Yes, Sonny was her biological father but that never stopped him from thinking of Lila as his also. And nothing was going to change that.
Sonny left last night with the promise that he would see Lila this morning. They had all decided to send a text to their loved ones for them to meet at the Metro Court where they had had Danny's party. They would tell everyone then. They were supposed to be there at 10 this morning. Jason checked his watch and noticed that the meet was in 2 hours. He was going to go in and order room service when a pair of arm wrapped around him from behind. A pair of arms that he would know anywhere and that he had missed so much.
"What are you out here thinking so hard about?" his wife asks him.
He gives a small chuckle and says "Everything." He turns around and wrapped his arms around her. "I missed you. I didn't even know you but I know that I missed you. From the moment I woke up I knew something was missing, I just couldn't place it." He sighs and looks deep into his wife's eyes and says "I am so sorry, Sam. I am so sorry that I didn't fight hard enough to get to back to you and Danny."
"Don't you dare." Sam grasps the sides of his face and makes him look at her. "Jason, it doesn't matter if you fought or not. You are not in control of when you remember things. Those memories were going to come back when they were ready. Not before. None of this is your fault."
"I know that you are right. I do. But I just wish that they had come back sooner. I wish that I had never lost them at all. I never should have gone to meet Bernie that night. We had just brought Danny home. I had no business going out there and look at what it did. I lost two year with you and my son and I was put in a position where I was kelp from you. By people we should have been able to trust!" Jason exclaims.
"I know. I wish the same but we can't change any of that. There is no point in what-ifs right? You are here now and that is all that matters. That and I am never, ever letting you out of my sight again.
Jason laughs and says "Ditto." "Did you just say 'ditto'? Sam teases him. He gives her a mock glare before he pulls her into a kiss.
"I'm not going back to work for Sonny." He tells her as they pull apart. "I just can't take the risk of this happening again. I have lost enough time with you and Danny. And now with Lila. I won't lose anymore." Sam does not tell her husband that Sonny was also getting out because she figured that would be a talk best saved for them. "I will stand by you no matter what you choose, Jason. Always." Sam says as she caresses his cheek.
"Daddy!" an excited voice yells from inside the hotel room. They look over and see Danny and Lila coming toward them. Danny runs to his father and Jason picks him up and says "Hey buddy. Did you sleep well?" "Yep."
Lila walks over to her mother, who pulled her into her arms and asks the same. "Yea. I did. Better than I have in forever. Until someone decided to use me as a trampoline." She says with a pointed look and Danny. Danny lifts his head from his father's shoulders and says to his big sister "The sun is up. Means time to get up. Right, mommy?" he says looking over at his mother.
"That's right, baby." They all share a laugh before Jason says "Well we have about two hours before we have to be down stairs. Why don't we go inside and get some breakfast and then we can start to get ready?" "Sounds good." Sam says as they all head inside to get ready for the day.
Sonny is sitting in his living room waiting for Michael to arrive. He wants to tell Michael what happen last night alone because he was older than the rest of the kids when it happened and he remembers more. He asked Jason and Sam last night if he could do this and they had no problem with it. Jason was a little skeptical at first considering things weren't so great between then right now but he came around. "Alright Sonny. I'm here but if this is about AJ you can just forget it. I know that you plan on going for custody again…"
"This isn't about Avery." Sonny interrupts him. "This is about your other sister."
"What has happened to Kristina?" Michael asks worried.
"It's not about Kristina either. Please. Sit. There is something I have to explain to you and I'm not sure how to go about it." Sonny goes to sit in his chair while Michael sits on the couch.
"Last night at about midnight I got a call from Jason asking me to come to his and Sam's room at the Metro Court. They had something important to tell me. When I got there Lucky was there also. He had heard what Liz and his brother did so he wanted to confront them. When he went to see Nikolas, he heard him and Helen taking. When he walked in to the room he heard Helena tell Nikolas that if he didn't stick to the plan that she would tell Sam that her daughter was still alive and that he knew about it." Sonny finishes.
Michael is in shock. He doesn't know what to think. "Do you mean the daughter that you and Sam had? The daughter that everyone thought was stillborn?" he asks.
"Yes."
Michael has the look of a deer caught in head lights. He can't believe what he is hearing. "How do you know that it is real? How do you know that they aren't just messing with you?" Michael asks.
"Because I saw her." Sonny tell him. "When I got there last night she was there."
Michael stands up and starts to pace. "How did this happen? Why did it happen?" he asks.
"We don't know. Lucky went to go and ask but when he turned around, they were gone. Last night me and Jason did some digging and found out that the Cassadine jet had took off not long after Lucky said he went to confront his brother. They are in Greece. At the family estate." Sonny gets up and goes to stand by the back doors and looks out over the yard.
Michael stares at the man that raised him and thinks back to the time when they all thought that Lila was gone. He remembers getting up sometimes in the middle of the night and going to get a drink of water and he would hear Sonny crying. He never told him that he saw him. He would just go back upstairs and try to go back to sleep. He knew that people didn't think Sonny loved Lila, but Michael knew differently. He remembers his mom and dad telling him what happened. He remembered being sad that he wasn't going to have another sister but he was even sadder for his dad and Sam.
"The reason that I am telling you this is because you were older than Kristina and Morgan when this happened and I don't want you to be blindsided today when you are told."
"That's what Jason's text was about last night? The reason I am supposed to go to the Metro Court?"
"Yeah. We are going to tell everyone today." Sonny takes a deep breath and says "I also wanted to tell you that I am putting of the fighting for custody of Avery for now. I still want her and do plan to fight for custody but right now my main focus needs to be Lila. Avery is safe and happy and I need to make sure that Lila is also. She seems to be adjusting fine so far but she has been told all of her life that her parents didn't want her and me, Sam and Jason need to make sure she knows different."
Michael is shocked by what Sonny just said. "You're ok with Jason being in her life as a parent?" he asks.
"He is her parent." Sonny says matter of fact. "He may not be her biological father but that doesn't make him any less her dad. He was there for Sam and her when I wasn't. I may have been an asshole about it back then but I have learned from my mistakes. Jason is just as much Lila's parent as Sam and I are. Nothing will ever change that." Michael could tell that Sonny was not just speaking of the situation with Lila. He was talking about him and Sonny also. And while Michael had slowly begun to forgive Sonny, he wasn't all the way there yet.
"Thank you for telling me." he says.
"Of course. But can you not tell anyone else. Sam really wants everyone to find out together."
"No problem."
"Ok. Let's go." Carly says as she is walking down the stairs. "Jason and Sam have something to tell us and I don't want to be late." When she gets to the bottom she notices Michael is there and asks "What's going on?"
"I just wanted to let Michael know that with everything that is going on, I am putting the custody fight on hold." Sonny answers her. "Oh." She says.
"Yeah and I'm going to go. I have to get to the office before I go to the Metro Court."
"You got a text too?" His mother asks him.
"Yeah. Last night." They all walk out the door as Carly says "I wonder what more they could have to tell us