A week later, Elizabeth was gone. She gave Lucky the papers and was gone the next day. Lucky thanked Jason and Sam for making sure the boys stayed with him. Jason could not describe the overwhelming relief he felt knowing that she was gone. He did have one of his men follow her and a yesterday he got the call. "Boss, she has arrived."
"OK. Thank you Enzo. You can come back home now."
"Don't you want to know where she is?"
"Is she out of New York?" Jason asks. "Yes." "Is she in any of the states that boarder New York?" "No." "Then I don't give a shit where she is so long as she is not close to here." And he didn't. He told Sam that he was not going to be keeping tabs on her over the years. If she had the nerve to ever show her face here again, he would take care of it. But right now he needed to focus on Nikolas.
Spencer had arrived the day after Liz left town. He was settled in with Lulu and Dante and as far as Jason could tell, he was fine. The night that he arrived Lulu called him and asked him what was going on. Jason told her as much as he could but Lulu pressed on. "I know that he did something horrible to you, Jason, but he is still my brother."
"He didn't just do something horrible to me. He did it to my wife and my son and the rest of my family. You remember what that was like right? Did Stavros get a pass because he was Nikolas's father? Nikolas has turned in to his dad, Lulu. Look at what the both have done and you try and tell me otherwise?" he demanded.
"What about Spencer? He needs his dad. He already lost his mother and Emily." She tries to reason.
"Nikolas forgot he had a son the minute he arrived in Greece. Julian had him followed and every night he was seen out with a new woman, parting the night away. When my men went to get Spencer, he was with the same woman that had been taking care of Lila for over 15 years! Nikolas has not been thinking of Spencer for a long time, Lulu. He will have a good life with you and Dante. He will be around his family and people who love him. He's going to grow up and have a childhood. Not be kept prisoner like my daughter was for 15 years."
"I know that you plan on doing something. Just like I know that I can't talk you out of it, and to be honest, I'm not so sure I really want to. You are right, the person he has become is more Cassadine than the brother I once knew. Thank you for thinking of Spencer and getting him out of there."
Sitting in his office now he thinks back to that conversation and wishes things could be different. He wished that Nikolas had not done the things that he did. He wished that he hadn't hurt the people he did. The wedding was at the end of August and he wanted to give them time to grieve for the man that they all loved dearly who turned out to be nothing but a Cassadine monster.
"Hey daddy." Danny says breaking Jason from his thoughts.
"Hey buddy. Did you have a good nap?" he asked his son as he walked over to his dad and crawled into his lap.
"Yep. Can we go and see brother?" he asks.
Jason was shocked. "Brother? Do you mean Jake?" Jason asked his son
"Yeah. We haven't been to see him since his birthday and I miss him." Jason was blown away that he even knew who Jake was let alone visited him. "You and mommy go and see Jake?"
"Yep. All the time. Mommy said she stared taking me when I was a baby but I don't remember." Jason sould not believe that they did this. "So can we go? I got lots to tell him." Danny says. Jason smiles at his little boy and says "Yeah, son. We can go and see your brother."
Sam and Kristina walked out of the Metro Court after meeting with Alexis about the wedding. With the wedding date set they had a lot to do in a short amount of time. "I am happy for mom. I really am. And I want her to have her dream wedding but here is no way in hell I am wearing that ugly ass brides maid dress." Kristina says as they are walking to their cars.
Sam laughs and says "Me either. But I think that we can talk her out of it easy enough. Do you want to come over for dinner? Jason is making lasagna." Sam tries to tempt her sister, knowing that she will say no anyway.
Krissy laughs and say "Nice lure. But no." She laughs harder when she sees her bid sister pout. "I'm sorry but Carly is a slave driver. I still have things I have to get done before I go into work tomorrow. I'm going to be up way past midnight." She explains to her sister.
"That's not why you're saying no. You're saying no because you have a hot aussie waiting for you and you want to get home to him asap." Kristina looks at her sister with knowing eyes and says "Sound familiar?"
"Jason is not an aussie, thank you very much. But I get your point. How are things going with you guys? Do I need to kick his ass for anything yet?"
"No. and things are great. I told dad and he is being supportive. He's happy that I'm happy. Mom loves Ethan and thinks it's great. And Holly seems to be ok with it too. We ran into Luke the other dad and he was over the moon happy. But I think it has to do more with the fact that all of his kids are now staying in Port Charles."
"How did Luke seem to you?" Sam asked, concerned about the man he had been the past year.
"He seems better. He and Tracy are giving it another go. He seemed happy." "I don't know what happened to him but whatever it did changed him drastically. I'm just glad that he is better."
"Me too. Ethan was really worried and I can imagine Lucky and Lulu were also. But everything seems to be working out great." Krissy smiled. "I'm glad that you're happy. Tell Ethan I said hi." The sisters hug and go home to their men.
Sam walked into the house and was bulldozed by her 3 year old. "Mommy!"
"Hey baby. How was your day?" she asked, picking him up.
"Great! Me and daddy went to see brother and then me and sissy beat him at bowling on the Wii." "You did? You didn't make him cry did you?" "No silly. Daddy is a big boy." Sam laughs at him and walks into the kitchen. She sees Lila cutting up some vegetables for the salad and she goes over to hug her daughter. "Hey sweetie. How was your day?"
"Good. Dante, Michael and Morgan took me to lunch. Then Michael took me to ELQ to see when grandpa and grandma use to work. I met Tracy."
"Was she nice?" Sam asked her daughter.
"Yeah. She told me a lot about grandma Lila and Grandpa Edward. I don't even know them and I miss them. Kind of weird huh?"
"No. I didn't even get to see you after I woke up in the hospital. And I missed you every day. I didn't even know what you looked like and I missed you. You would have loved your grandfather. I never got the chance to meet Grandma Lila but every story I heard about her was amazing. Your dad can tell you a lot about her too." Sam said looking over at her husband, who was looking at them.
"You can? I know about you accident. Do you remember Grandma Lila?" She asks he dad.
"Yeah. I don't remember her before the accident but she was one of the only people who loved me as Jason Morgan. My last name comes from her. Before she married Grandfather her maiden name was Morgan. Lila Morgan." "Did she have a middle name?" Lila asked her dad. "Not that I know of. After she married Grandfather she changed her last name to Quartermaine and the Morgan became her middle name."
"So who did I get my middle name from?" she asked.
"When we found out you were a girl I started thinking of names. And when your grandmother Lila passed away I asked your dad if it would be ok to name you Lila. We told Sonny that was what we really wanted to name you and he said ok so long as he got to pick your middle name. You share a middle name with Krissy. Adela was the name of you father's mother. Your grandma. She past way many years ago." Sam explained.
"Wow. He hadn't said anything to me about her." "It's kind of a hard subject for him to talk about but if you ask him he will tell you all about it." Jason says. Lila nods her head and goes back to making the salad. "It smells so good in here. Is it almost done?" Sam asked walking into her husband's arms.
"Yeah. Lila why don't you go put the salad on the table and help Danny set it." "Ok." She said and goes into the dining room. "So. You boys went to see Jake today?" Sam asks.
"Yeah. Danny said that he hadn't been to see him since his birthday and he wanted to visit him." Jason leans down and gives her a long slow kiss. "Hmmm. What was that for?" She asks when he pulled away. "Thank you. Thank you for doing that. You didn't have to but you did and that means a lot to me. I know that you loved Jake too. Hell, you spent more time with him than I ever did. Danny also said that you told him storied about Jake." "I did love him. I still do. And I would never dream of depriving Lila or Danny of the memories I have of their brother."
Jason leans down and kisses her again, they continue to do so until they hear a little giggle, followed by "Daddy, why are you ALWAYS kissing mommy?"
"You don't want to know." Lila says, smirking at her parents. Sam and Jason both narrow their eyes at their daughter. "Have you and Mr. Giggles here set the table?" Jason asked. "Yep. It all done."
"Good. Because it's time to eat. Go wash your hands." "Is there anything I can do to help?" Sam asks. "No." Jason answers a little too fast.
Sam sees the look on his face and says "Hey! I will have you know that I can cook now, thank you very much!"
Jason laughs and says "Well you're just going to have to forgive me for not believing that."
Sam glares at him and says "Fine. I guess I'll just have to prove it." She turns her back to walk to the dining room. "Or you can just ask Patrick. I cooked for him quite a bit." Sam snickered. Before she made it out of the room she heard Jason growl "Not funny." But she still laughed anyway.