First Sam isn't for Jason; she is here to mess with Sonny after he treated her like a hooker in the prologue. Second, I will be following the large picture but the characters and their actions will change.

Switching Places

Chapter 12

Proverb: Never count your chickens before they hatch.

Elizabeth heard her cell phone ringing and reached out with one hand to get it while the other one was still wrapped around Jason. "Hello?"

"Get to GH, Kristina Cassidine was killed in a car accident." Was all Carly said before hanging up.

"Jason, did you hear that?" She said as she went to grab her jeans and a t-shirt. He nodded as he dressed, pulling on his boots, he said "Was this something that Carly said would happen?"

"It happened but at the warehouse, in an explosion, we thought she was safe since she wasn't there."

Carly followed Jax into the hospital room, then chased the man away. "Alexis what happened? All Jax would say was that there was a car accident."

"Carly I thought she was safe if she survived the explosion, what happened?"

"I have no idea." She said bleakly as she sat down and hugged the pregnant woman. "I thought she was safe."

Elizabeth rushed down the hall ten minutes later only for Nik to point to the room as he sat stunned by the lose of a cousin he had only meet this year. Entering she saw Carly and Alexis both just sitting there, "How?"

"We don't know."

"Alexis are you physically okay?" She asked.

"They admitted me to be on the safe side, my pressure dropped earlier." She said as she rested her hand on her slightly rounded belly. "At least I won't have to come up with another name for my daughter." She said bleakly.

Jason turned to Jax and asked what happened. Hearing about Ned, he asked the Aussie to let Elizabeth know that he was going to see how his family was doing. Entering the ICU, he saw Lila sitting in her wheelchair, looking frail and old as she watched another one of her grandchildren in a coma.

"Jason, thank you for coming." Said the old woman. "I need my family right now. How is Miss Davis doing, I'm assuming that Elizabeth is with her?"

"Yes, she is. Jax said that she was admitted merely as a precaution. Has anyone called Emily?"

"Alan and Monica went to make the call." She said holding tightly only to his hand, only easing up when Elizabeth walked down the hall looking upset. The young couple embraced then she laid her head on his shoulder asking Lila if she needed anything.

"I'm fine my dear, but a prayer might not be amiss tonight. Would you mind accompanying me?"

"I would be honored."

AJ walked down the hallway towards Ned's room, remembering when Jason had been lying there in the exact same manner. He had tried to get some sleep like his mother had suggested but even in the middle of this crisis, when he closed his eyes he saw Courtney having sex with Zander while calling out Jason's name.

Seeing Jason, he knew he had to warn his brother about the blond, but would he believe him. "Jason got a moment?"

Following the former drunk, he watched as he closed the door and said "I went to see Courtney earlier, she is scared of storms and I was worried."

"I don't care." He said bored.

"You might, Courtney has moved into one of the studio apartments where Elizabeth works. When I arrived she had someone in her place they were having sex. Jason, she called out your name. When I opened the door a bit, I saw Zander and her having sex. You might want to be worried, she is close to going over the edge and I don't want her to take Elizabeth with her. Emily would never forgive either of us."

Carly had waited until Alexis was asleep and gone looking for Elizabeth while Jax sat with his best friend. Seeing AJ and Jason together she had listened in to the conversation. Shaking her head in disgust she couldn't help wondering if her friendship and help with Jason was what had kept Courtney from going over the edge in the other timeline.

Thinking back she could see that the signs had been there, but in her fear of Jason not caring about her she had pushed the relationship with Courtney. Recalling all the unnecessary pain and suffering she had helped the blond woman heap on the other Elizabeth, it made her sick to realize what she had done.

Walking back to the sixth floor she saw her mother working the late shift. "Momma do you have a minute?"

"Sure Carly, what is it? You look like hell."

After telling her about Alexis and what was going on, she asked "Momma, when Jason was dating Robin, did I break them up because I truly wanted Jason or was it because I was insecure? What about with him and Elizabeth?"

Bobbie hesitated but knew that Carly seemed to really want the truth. "As far as the Robin situation, I think you really did see yourself living some dream life with Jason. You seemed to think he was the perfect man for you no matter what anyone tried to tell you."

"What do you mean?"

"Carly, Jason was attractive for you because you felt safe with him, you don't love him like a woman in love. So it's safe. Jason loves Michael and you saw that. Robin was a threat to your idea of the perfect life. As for Elizabeth, I think you knew that Jason's feelings for her were those of an adult man meeting the woman he was meant to be with. His soul mate."

"Thanks, I actually understood that. I have to go I need to talk to Elizabeth before the rest of the Quartermaine's annoy Jason so he wants to leave."

Two days later when Ned woke up; Alexis insisted on being the one to tell him about Kristina, working through their pain together, she had to stop herself from feeling bitter that her sister hadn't survived when Ned had.

The day they buried Kristina she barely held it together in public but when it was just the few people she invited back to the apartment, she fell apart once again relying on her new found friendships to get her through.

Jax stood in the back of the room, watching as Carly and Elizabeth kept his best friend strong and forced her to eat. He felt helpless standing there as Skye was helping her cousin sit down. Ned could barely stand the pain himself, he felt responsible since it had been his idea to drive to New York for dinner.

Once Alexis was down for the night, Jax thanked the two women and said that he would stay with Alexis for the night since he had to go see his family the next day. As they left, Elizabeth suggested getting something to eat at Kelly's, she was supposed to be checking in on the new girl and Courtney.

"I can't. I promised to have a picnic with Michael and Sonny." She said grimacing. Her son seemed to think that because she wasn't seeing anyone that it meant she wanted to get back with Sonny.

Entering the diner, Elizabeth could hear the two women both protesting to Bobbie that they didn't start the fight. "Elizabeth, I know that you had to attend the funeral today, but can you stay and work tonight?"

"I will let Francis know." She said returning to the doorway, the guard called Jason who said he would pick her up later so that the guard could go head home and get some sleep.

"There is a yacht in the harbor we need to take a closer look at. Plus Roy and Zander are acting a little squirrellier than normal."

Elizabeth went to change into the spare clothes she kept at work and returned as Bobbie told Sam to get back to work and fired Courtney saying that none of the girls wanted to work with her and she was causing her to lose business. "Maybe waiting tables isn't the best job for you." She said diplomatically.

As the two women closed the diner later, Elizabeth asked Sam if she had located her baby's father?

"I know who he is, but now I think it's best to let it go." She said not wanting to tell the petite brunette that she was setting Sonny up, she was hoping working at this diner would help. When she had heard the red head saying something about the mobster being her ex son-in-law, Sam felt like she hit the jackpot. Nothing was going to get in the way of her plan, this time. "He isn't someone who I would want to bring into a helpless child's life."

"I'm sorry about that, if there is anything you need, please let me know. Even if it's just someone to talk to. While I know nothing about babies, my entire family works as either doctors or nurses. Plus a friend of mine is pregnant, about a month less than you."

"Thanks, I could use a friend." She said recalling that the doofus across the hall had once had a thing for the other girl. She could be useful.

See you tomorrow. That sound is my ride." She said surprising Sam when she heard the motorcycle.

"Your boyfriend rides a motorcycle?"

"Yes, actually he frequently accuses me of only dating him for the bike." She said.

Jason lifted his head, watching a sleeping Elizabeth. All he could think was how happy he was and what the future could hold for them. Leaning down to kiss her shoulder he saw the sunrise and got up to go over to see Sonny. The man had been hearing rumors and needed them checked out.

Entering he asked what is going on?

"Courtney is stripping; she has been working for Coleman down at his place on Courtland Street. While I have one of our guys from the Island looking into it, I need you to go through her apartment and find out what she is up to."

"She was fired from Kelly's last night. Elizabeth had to work the rest of her shift."

"Jason, with this new threat, I want her under control. Find a way to deal with her."

Jason could see that Sonny was starting to cycle into one of his depressions, so he gathered Francis and the others and added Courtney to their list of assignments. "Jason, this feels like a bid for attention. Even fighting with this Sam girl at Kelly's was over nothing. It was like she was trying to get fired."

"She wants attention; well she is going to get it. I have an idea. Get me AJ."

"AJ Quartermaine?" Asked Johnny from the pool table. Looking at the painting on the wall, he had to admit he missed the kittens. Lila Quartermaine had taken in one and Taggert of all people the other one. Even he had to agree with Carly that the man was trying to train it to talk so he could reveal any secrets he overheard the six weeks he lived in the penthouse.

"Yes, AJ Quartermaine. I need you to have him meet me at Elizabeth's studio."

Carly walked into Kelly's and saw Elizabeth talking to someone. Waiting for the woman to move out of the way with the heavy tray she got a good look and screamed "What the fuck?"

TBC

Because I'm really, really cruel.