Switching Places
Chapter 13
Elizabeth saw the look in Carly's face and knew that the hatred reflected there wasn't for anything that Sam had actually done to Carly now, but in the future. "Carly, calm down."
"Get this lying piece of white trash out of my mother's diner, now. I don't know what you are up to Sam, but I won't let it happen."
Not sure what the blonds' problem was, she tried to recall ever running across her in the past. She had seen her a few times with Corinthos but knew that their marriage had been over for a while. "I'll just go." She said to Elizabeth looking upset, not that it was hard to pretend, she really was upset.
"Wait, could you please just stay, I will be outside with Carly, Summer is supposed to be working in about fifteen minutes. Then I will take Carly with me." She said escorting the blond outside, she whispered "I'm sure you are correct about Sam, but for now don't let her know it. Please."
"Elizabeth, that bitch watched as your son was kidnapped and did nothing. Sonny threw her at Jason to take care of when the bitch in heat got pregnant. The kid died and you know how Jason is about kids, that bitch got her hooks in pretty deep until you can back into his life. There is no way I will let her hurt anyone I care about ever again."
"Carly, calm down. We will deal with her. I promise." She said as she pulled to irritated blond into a chair and said "Now stay here, I have to go and ease her suspicions, unless you want her to get away."
"Find out who the father of the spawn she is carrying is. Elizabeth, she wasn't supposed to arrive for almost three more years."
Going back inside she made sure that Sam heard her call Alexis, then the woman listened in while Elizabeth was talking "Carly is having another fit. You know that dream thing."
She watched as Elizabeth gave a half smile to herself and said "Yes, thanks Alexis, I know that she trouble, but we made a promise. I will see you soon."
Turning to Sam she said "Sorry about Carly, she is a little impetuous. She had this strange dream a few months ago and is now convinced that all pregnant women are out to ensnare her ex-husband. Luckily she seems to come out of it, but she is convinced the whole world is out to get her sometimes. Don't worry about your job, I will tell Bobbie what happened."
"Thank you, so you are friends with that shrew?"
"Sort of, it's more like my boyfriend has known her for a while and she feels the need to be my friend since we are dating." Giving the party line that most people believed. "Look, Summer is here; I have got to get her out of here. At least it's not Sonny's kid." Elizabeth joked making sure to watch in the mirror for Sam's reaction as she pretended to fix her hair.
Once outside, she grabbed Carly and said let's get to the studio, Alexis has to talk to Ned but will join us soon.
"Good because this is her problem as well. That things claims to be Alexis missing child and I intend to prove that she is lying this time."
"Is she lying or are you just hoping that she is Carly?"
"Trust me that piece of trash is nothing but trouble. Do you recall when Sonny got shoot a couple of years ago and you donated blood to help him?"
"I didn't think you knew." She said.
"Of course I did, I also knew that Sonny had a rare blood type so I made sure to check it out. I thought you were related to him, then I asked Momma, she said that Steve Hardy and your dad have the same rare blood type. That it was only rare for someone of Latin descent to have that blood type."
"What does this have to do with anything?"
"She gets shot in the future and Nik's blood matches, but not Alexis' so I have always doubted she was related but since I hated Alexis I didn't care. Plus at the time I was trying to get close to Jax and there were a few others things involved." She said not wanting to admit she had once had the attitude anyone but Elizabeth in Jason's life.
Jason walked back down the stairs after searching Courtney's place with AJ. His brother was puzzled as to why he had wanted his help until he realized what Jason was about. "We can talk in the studio; Elizabeth isn't here since they are still renovating it."
"Fine, but just how are you going to do what you were talking about?" He asked then saw Jason's surprise when the door just opened as he put in the key. Seeing Carly stalking back and forth while Elizabeth leaned against the new sink, Jason pushed AJ back before they saw him, saying wait.
"Ladies, may I ask why you are here?" He said looking at Elizabeth and seeing how upset she seemed to be.
"Something came up and I needed to stop hurricane Carly from blowing."
"Something I should be aware of?" He asked looking at his friend.
"Not yet, if it turns into something I will let you know." Elizabeth said as she walked over to hug him, smelling the perfume that was clinging to him, she teased "Jason is there something you want to tell me, like why you smell of the same cheap perfume that Courtney wears."
"Later, trust me you will like this. Can you get a hold of Zander and have him meet me at Jake's. Also don't make any plans for tonight. We have something to do, but dress down. Jeans, a sweater and sneakers."
"Fine but you are going to have to take a shower first." She said laughing as he kissed her goodbye and told Carly if she needed him to call.
"Jason, just what are they up to?" Asked AJ as he left the bathroom where he had hid when he heard someone on the stairs.
"I have no idea, but Elizabeth will let me know later. Are you in?" He asked.
"If you think it will help solve the Courtney problem I'm in. What about Sonny? I really don't want to die because I helped with this."
"Let me worry about Sonny. Can you get away without Edward?"
"Yes, look I don't think you want us to be seen together so I will see you later."
Jason entered Kelly's grabbing a sandwich and coffee for him while getting something to take to Sonny so that he could implement his plan.
Sam looked out from the kitchen where she was finishing up her shift to see one of the best looking men she had ever seen sitting at the counter. "Wow, look at him." She said to an entering Summer. "That is my type of man."
"Don't even think about it, if that harpy Carly even hears you talking like that you will find yourself floating in the harbor baby or no baby."
"He belongs to her." Yum, was all that Sam could think, wiping her hands she went out to talk to the hot looking man wishing she wasn't in the middle of a con. "Hello!" She said "I'm Sam."
Jason looked up and said "I know. Is my food coming soon?"
Taken back, she said "I will check." She could not believe he didn't even look interested, most guys at least checked her out.
Summer just shook her head; glad that Elizabeth was almost finished working at the diner. Soon Jason would stop coming in and attracting all this attention. She had to admit that the petite brunette certainly had some hot guys panting after her. Lucky had been dumped by her and in spite of that he still wanted her attention, Morgan didn't even look at another woman.
Handing Jason his food as Sam walked back out with her, she took his money and smiled when he said keep the change.
"Looks like I found out why the hottie wasn't interested, he has a thing for you."
"No he doesn't. Why would you think that?" Asked Summer as she put away the thirty-five dollar tip.
"The huge tip he just left."
"He was born a Quartermaine then made a fortune on his own, he may not dress like it, but that guy is one of the richest men in town. Don't get any ideas though; he is very much taken."
Sam couldn't help thinking so what, she had stolen other men before, and that screaming shrew had already lost one man to her and she didn't even know it.
Zander entered Jake's to see Jason sitting at the bar talking to the owner. "You wanted to speak to me Morgan."
"I know what you are up to with Roy, it ends now. You were warned a few months ago, but you just ignored the warning, this time I mean to make sure you get the point. Leave town, now."
"Jason, why did you want to meet me here?" Asked an entering Elizabeth, not realizing she had distracted both men.
"I didn't, why did you think that?"
"The message on the desk in the penthouse said to meet you at Jakes." She said as she came over to him and wearily looked at Zander. "What is going on, should I leave?"
"No stay see what a big man you are dating, the great Jason Morgan can't stand a little competition so he is chasing me out of town." Boasted Zander.
"Zander, he is right, you need to leave before you get yourself killed." Said Elizabeth. "Go see Emily."
"Stay away from my sister, I don't think she would be too thrilled to find out that you are sleeping with Courtney."
Elizabeth just stared as Zander flushed and said "Jealous?"
"No, concerned, I promised Elizabeth and Emily I would take care of you."
"I don't need you to take care of me. I'm doing just fine."
"That is why your boss is getting in deeper with Luis Alcazar. This is your only warning."
Alexis finished the paperwork for Ned, telling him she was more than capable of dealing with her pregnancy and she didn't need his hovering any more than she had needed Kristina to do so.
Looking shamed, she said "I have to go." When she entered Liz's studio she admired the half done room, saying to Carly "Jason did a good job. Where is Liz?"
"She went to change and was supposed to be right back, how are you?"
"I would be better if I could stop sticking my foot in my mouth. Move over this baby wants me to take a nap or is there something to talk about before Elizabeth arrives."
"No, I do have a question, but it is one you don't have to answer if you don't want to. What do you remember about giving birth to your first child?"
Alexis answered the question; there wasn't much to tell. "So Helena never even let you hold the baby?"
"No, I mean I can understand their sick reasoning, now. I would have known they were lying about him being dead."
"Did anyone else tell you it was a boy or was it only Helena?"
"The doctor did during some tests. Why?"
"Just trying to figure something out. Does the name Trevor Lansing mean anything to you?"
"Yes, he is a big shot New York attorney with political connections. Why?"
"His son is a sick son of a bitch who comes to town soon. I was just hoping since he was a lawyer you would know the name?"
Elizabeth was walking towards GH to visit her grams lately the safest place to see the woman who constantly told her that she was making a mistake. She still hadn't told the woman about entering the nursing program because the last time they talked she had walked away instead of listening to how great Lucky Spencer was.
Seeing two kids in the park, Elizabeth tried to wrap her mind around the fact that in six years she would be a mother to two little boys according to Carly. Francis saw the smile and wondered if it was possible that she was going to have a baby when they heard the shots.
Francis pulled her to the ground and pulled out his weapon only to hear a woman screaming ten feet away "No, get away. I told you to stay away from us."
As the park police came running, Francis started to pull Elizabeth away when the woman told the children to run. As they came straight towards the two of them, Elizabeth saw that a man had a gun to the woman and was saying "If I can't have you no one can."
Gathering the running kids, Elizabeth pushed their head into her shoulders as Francis let Mac know they had the kids when the man entered the park. "Francis, we have to talk them to the hospital. Get them checked out while the police deal with this."
Entering the ER, Elizabeth explained to the attending what was going on, when Monica entered and saw the blood on Elizabeth's arm. "What happened ?" She asked urgently as she escorted the young woman to a bed and told the nurse to page Audrey.
Ten minutes later, the guard called Jason and told him to get to the hospital that Elizabeth had a flesh wound and needed him.
Chapter 14
When Mac entered the ER with the domestic violence victim the woman was eager to see her children but was saying to him "Please don't arrest my husband, he needs help not to go to jail. We can't afford for him to be in jail."
"Mac, Elizabeth Webber was shot during that incident in the park. Jason is on is way." Warned Tony Jones.
Mac looked at the woman who had turned white. She knew who Elizabeth Webber was and her connections to most of the town and knew that her husband was definitely going to jail this time. Why did some rich girl do-gooder have to be the one to find her kids?
Jason came rushing in, calling out for Elizabeth and shoving the guard trying to calm him down out of the way. "What happened?" He said to Francis while the man restrained him.
"A domestic violence situation in the park, she was winged."
"Where is she? He demanded as his mother exited from behind a curtain.
"Jason, I'm here. I'm fine." Elizabeth said as her boyfriend enveloped her in a bear hug. "I needed some stitches and Monica insisted on my getting checked out by someone that is all." She said as she tried to remove the fear she could see in his eyes.
Audrey walked out from the curtain with Elizabeth's old shirt in her hands as she placed her fingers through the bullet holes that were soaked in blood. "She is going to be coming home with me; this is ending, right now. I refuse to allow you two to do this any longer. The next time I get a call, I refuse to let it be from the Morgue."
"Grams, Jason had nothing to do with this, in fact a man I had never seen before shot me in the park."
"That doesn't change things. Mr. Morgan is a dangerous man; people around him get hurt. Why couldn't you just stick with Lucky?"
Elizabeth was tired and in pain, so she didn't hold her tongue like she usually did with her grams, when she felt Jason stiffen and knew the elderly woman's words were getting to her boyfriend she said "Lucky? Lucky is safe? On what planet. Or have you forgotten Helena Cassidine and her merry men of murderous thugs. How I had to fake my death to keep her from killing me, how Lucky POISONED SOMEONE and pulled a knife and tried to kill Jason, twice.
How Luke is just as deep into what you accuse Jason of. The difference is that Luke is impulsive and hot-tempered and has no control. Or how Helena considers anyone even remotely related to him as a walking target?
So don't you dare attack Jason, he is not at fault for what happened in the park today. As for the future, we have no idea what the future holds past this minute. The worst thing that has happened in my life was the result of a walk in the park after SAINT LUCKY STOOD ME UP TO GO OUT WITH MY SISTER, so once again, tell me why you think he is the better man.
With Jason, I know that I'm loved and protected and that we want a future together. I know that he would never even think of cheating on me, unlike Lucky who thinks with his dick. From now on if you can't accept Jason in my life stay out of it. I love you grams but you don't get to control my life."
Alexis and Carly had entered the waiting room when Jason had been hugging Elizabeth, but at the sound of her telling Audrey what was what, they decided to leave and let Jason and her be. "We can deal with this." Said Alexis.
"I have never even been to a strip club, what does one wear there?" Asked Carly as they left. She smiled as she recalled Elizabeth letting her grams know that Jason was there to stay. Now she just had to remember to mess with her birth control pills in two years on Halloween.
"I think the only requirement is those glittering things that the strippers where." Answered Alexis as they walked past an entering Alan who nodded at Alexis. Even Carly didn't get the usual glare; he had just came from the house where he had taken a call from Emily.
"Elizabeth, do you have a minute?" He asked as he joined the dispersing crowd. "It's about Emily."
Jason and Elizabeth joined his parents in a spare room then Alan asked "Have you talked to Emily in the last few days?"
"Yes, she seemed a little quiet but that's all. She said she was tired, that her physical therapy was wearing her down."
"Her doctors said she seemed a little depressed, I was hoping that she might have told you why?"
"We had stopped talking for a few weeks, she was upset that she heard from Lucky about Jason and I and not for us. When I told her that we had intended to come out and surprise her with the information, the ice thawed but there is still a slight distance."
"She doesn't want you dating Jason?" Asked Monica puzzled.
"It's actually not that. She finally admitted a few weeks ago that it was a slightly different problem with it." Elizabeth blushed but she had no intention of telling the Quartermaines that Emily was freaked out by the idea of her brother and best friend having sex.
"If you talk to her could you please try and find out what is going on? Asked Alan, he was worried about his little girl. "Maybe having Zander visit would help some."
"AJ didn't tell you?" Asked Jason surprised. "Zander is seeing Courtney."
Shaking their head in disgust, Monica said no.
"We barely see him since he moved back out." Alan was glad for AJ's sake that he was sober but his son had refused to move back home after the disillusionment of his marriage.
Jason had assumed that AJ still spent some time at the house, after all he was closer to Skye than anyone else was who lived in the mansion. Gathering Elizabeth he took her home and tried to tuck her into bed. "Jason, I'm fine. A little sore but that will go away. So what are we doing tonight?"
"Nothing, you are staying in bed and we are going to spend a quiet evening at home."
"I'm going to be okay." She said as she reached up and pulled him down onto the bed. "Where are we going and why did you smell like eau de-toilet?
"Courtney is stripping, it looks like she is trying to get attention, my guess is that she claims that she was fired and needed the money. The guards think she is trying to get me to rescue here. I have had several run-ins where she made is seem like she is in dire straights. I just told her to talk to Sonny. Tonight, we are going to make a rather serious point of showing up at the club."
"Why?"
"She wants attention; we are going to give her attention. Elizabeth she has stripped before, but it was always off the books. When we went to Atlantic City I found a poster for Sheena the Amazon Queen in her mother's house. It was her. We talked to the owner of the club; she worked there for eight months while dating this guy in a band."
"Who is all going to be there?" She asked.
"Just Francis, Johnny, AJ and Dillon. He is a little young but the idea is that AJ is bringing him for some kind of boy's night out. You and I are going to show up looking for the guards. No one will believe that AJ and I are working together so that should make it more realistic."
"What about her need to be rescued?"
"The reason that Johnny and Francis are there is they are entertaining some men from Jersey who work for us. They tend to hang out in strip clubs down there. Johnny asked around and found out that they knew Sheena. WE are going to make sure to bring her back here, along with Zander who has been hanging around to 'protect' Daisy.
"I hope you know what you are doing, do you think that Sonny will finally step in and make her get some help?"
"That is the plan." He said. Taking off his boots he looked at the clock and saw that it was almost five. "Let's get some sleep her first set isn't until eleven."
"Fine, but this had better not just be a way for my loving boyfriend to check out a strip club." She giggled as he growled and pulled her on top of him.
"I have you; I have no need for that mess." He said. "Now get some sleep."
Carly had Alexis pick her up then they went to the club. Not sure what she had expected but the level of sleaze was off the charts. Looking at the blond wig that Alexis was wearing, she said "It really doesn't suit you, where did you get that thing?"
"Felecia Jones, she uses it when she is undercover. Why did you go so far as to dye your hair?"
"It's only temporary. Let's sit in the back." She said as a man tried to grab her rear. Turning she said "If you want to keep the thumb, don't ever even think of trying that again."
Two hours later, both women were ready to call it a night when they saw Johnny and Francis enter with several other men. Alexis felt a bit of disappointment in the two of them, she had thought they were better than paying to ogle half-naked women.
"Crap, we can't leave without them seeing us. Let's hope they leave early." Whispered Carly as she asked for another drink.
When it was close to ten thirty, they saw an entering AJ and the youngest member of the Quartermaine clan. Carly just cringed. She had thought even AJ better than this. The idea of this man teaching their son it was okay to treat women like a commodity sickened her.
She was confused when instead of sitting up close the two of them sat almost in front of Alexis and her. Hearing the words coming out of AJ mouth, made the two women look at each other even more confused as to why he had brought Dillon here if all he was going to do was tell him not to touch these women.
Zander slipped in and went straight to the bar not looking at the audience, he hated that Courtney felt it was necessary to strip. The blond was just confused and needed guidance; he chuckled bitterly at that one, like he had any business offering guidance to anyone. Sonny was still not taking his calls and he wanted to be the one to rescue the blond so that the man would know what he threw away in order to sooth Jason Morgan's ego.
Hearing the Madonna song that "Daisy" danced to, he just tightened his grip on the bottle and looked over at the stage. Watching as she gyrated all over and worked the pole. Finally he saw that she was gathering up the money tossed by the men in the audience and slipped back stage to talk to her before her second set.
Seeing the smile, he asked "Why are you so happy?"
"Great tips." She answered automatically when in truth she had seen a couple of her brother's men by the runway. Hopefully Jason would come to rescue her soon. Then it was on to a life of luxury as the mob boss' sister and girlfriend. No more working for a living.
"There has to be a better way." He said as he walked away.
It was almost eleven thirty when Jason entered with Elizabeth; she was turning her head sideways as the girl on stage did a vertical split on the pole. "What is so entertaining about that?" She asked curiously as Jason tried not to laugh.
Johnny saw his boss and nodded towards Francis who was pretending to make a call in the back of the room, closing his phone AJ got the signal to go and create a disturbance over Courtney. When she came out for her second set, Courtney had no idea what was in store for her.
Starting to strip she had gotten Daisy's short skirt off when she saw her ex-husband standing there. When he grabbed the sound track and ripped it out, the entire room could hear what he was saying "There is no way a member or even ex member of the Quartermaine family is going to do this. Get you rear off that stage."
Jason turned and suggested that they leave, when he saw Sonny walk in. Crap that hadn't been part of his plan; he wanted to take the bimbo to her brother not deal with this here. "Sonny what is going on?"
"Why would you bring Elizabeth to a strip club? Let alone let her meet our associates."
"Johnny and Francis are trying to get them out of here. Look, just head back to the penthouse, I will talk to you later, please take Elizabeth with you."
"Jason, you need my help to get her..." Elizabeth pretended to stop talking acting embarrassed.
"Jason, who are you trying to get out of here. Is Carly here, is this her latest attempt to get my attention?"
Alexis restrained Carly, as the blond wanted to lunge at the Sonny. "Let's get out of here." She told the woman and tossed a fifty at their waitress for their last drinks. Three sodas and the woman made a huge tip.
Hitting the door for the emergency exit, they could all here the alarm going off, Coleman looked at the waitress and she showed him that they had paid, so he just shrugged and turned off the alarm.
Courtney froze as her brother's eyes meet hers. Sonny just said to her as he walked into the room. "Get off that stage and get dressed. Who owns this place?"
"I do, Mr. Corinthos. I'm Mitchell Coleman, do you have a problem with Daisy."
"That is my sister, I don't ever want to see her on that stage again. Gentlemen if you will excuse me." He said furious that his associates had been tossing money at his sister. "Elizabeth could you please join me in getting her out of here. I would not ask but --"
"No problem Sonny." She said quietly as they walked back stage and through the glitter gulch. Sonny saw AJ shouting at Courtney that if she had needed money that bad, she shouldn't have turned down the settlement he had offered, and why hadn't she come to him.
"Quartermaine, you are divorced from her, this is now my problem. I told you to get dressed."
"No!" She said. She started to cry why did this always turn out so wrong. Jason was supposed to rescue her, he was supposed to take her away from all this. No her brother or her now poor ex-husband. Jason was supposed to be her knight in shining armor.
"Elizabeth, if she doesn't get dressed in the next five seconds, I want you to help me get her changed."
Courtney stomped her feet and walked into the dressing room, looking for an escape when one showed up. "Come on; let's get out of here." Said Zander as he pulled her over to two boxes in front of a window.
Luis meet with Roy and ordered him to shot Sonny. "Are you insane, I will not shoot him? Morgan will kill me before I get off the floor."
"Do it elsewhere, but I want his dead. Immediately." He said as he took the shuttle back to his boat. Entering he saw that Brenda was just waking up "Did you find anything out?"
"Yes, I did. Why don't you arrange for a meeting with Mr. Corinthos? Ask for him to meet you at the church where you almost got married. That should do."
"Thank you Luis, you have been so good to me."
As they entered the elevator Sonny was ordering the guards to find Zander and his sister. "I want them brought to me. Jason, next time don't keep things from me." He said as he entered his penthouse and slammed the door. His sister had been nothing but trouble since the moment she showed up.
How dare she embarrass him this way? What was the purpose of it, he had set up a bank account month ago and she had accessed it during that time. Why was she stripping just what did it get her?
As they entered their place, Elizabeth listened to the message to call GH in the morning, and groaned hoping that her grams hadn't learned about the nursing program yet. She had been so angry when she had stalked off earlier.
Carly checked in with Felicia, she had once again hired the woman to do a search on Sam, she was going to use the past to get rid of the slut. She was not going to be allowed to get her hooks into those she cared about, not this time.
Telling Courtney to stay there, Zander went to check on things. Hearing Roy talking to some dark haired man with an accent he smiled. That was there way out of this mess, he would get the money off the ship and they could run off before Sonny found them.
Hiding on the ship he carefully checked the room, entering the cabin after the man left, he saw the drugs on the desk and the money, hiding it in his jacket, he went to get away. He never even saw the man before he was hit on the head.
"Who is he?"
"DeLuca's man. Toss him overboard. Make sure he is found. I want the man to get the message."
"What about Corinthos, we had a deal."
"Patience Lansing, I will deal with Mr. Corinthos, you just take care of my money. WE will still be here next week, so don't come down again."