Switching Places
Chapter 38
Sonny listened to Baldwin while trying to get control of his temper, "So let me get this straight, instead of prison, all she is going to get is time at Shadybrook?"
"Yes, according to the deal worked out she is going to be committed there, at such a time as they consider her sane, we will get a choice of prosecuting her for the murder or accepting that what happened was the result of mental illness. Look, I can't stand you and you know that, but I had nothing to do with this. Some rather influential attorney went over my head to the Mayor and a judge."
"Who?"
"I don't know but I don't like it. The charges have been dropped in Alabama and North Carolina as well. I would have your former partner see if there are any other outstanding charges against the woman, which would be the only way to deal with her, unless you want to go back to your old ways." He sneered not really believing that Sonny was out.
Sonny called Justus and asked if he had found out anything.
"Trevor Lansing, a couple of days after Christmas."
Sonny realized that the trip to the Vineyards had been a distraction, he had been played and the woman that had killed their daughter out of greed was going to be spending minimal time in a padded cell. Reaching for his phone he called Jason and passed on what Baldwin had told him.
"We have it under control. I have people watching Lansing Sr. as of your kidnapping." Said Jason. "If it becomes necessary, I will take her out. I know that you don't want Ric touched, but Sonny it looks like he is playing you. I think you need to consider a DNA test to make sure he is really who he says he is."
"Jason, I remember my mother being pregnant, I recall being at the beach house."
"It won't hurt, Sonny. After last year and what happened with Courtney I would just feel better if you didn't take any chances."
"I cut Ric out of my life. I told him that while he may be related to me biologically that didn't make him my brother. You have been more of a sibling than either one of my so-called relatives. Look, I have to go to Adella's, we are planning out the new menu."
Elizabeth had to shower and change her scrubs, the patient had accidentally knocked her while she had been changing the bedpan. As she was finishing up she could hear Georgie and Sage entering the locker room to work as candy stripers this afternoon.
Maxie had worked the day before all glum because Kyle had dumped her. His parents were leaving town and the young man had been upset to break up with her. At the end of her shift, Elizabeth had warned the second shift nurses about the maudlin behavior of the young girl. Only for her to show up at the studio to finish the present for Alexis while she was there.
Grabbing her pens and the paperwork she wanted to take to Alan, she laughed as the two younger girls made fun of Jax and Ned, who had "accidentally" taken a swim in the fountain the New Years Eve. Trying not to laugh as she entered Alan's office, her father in law asked what was so funny.
"I think I found the culprits of who sent Jax and Ned swimming."
"Really, anyone I know."
As Elizabeth related what she had overheard, Alan sat down in his chair laughing at the knowledge that the swim had been in revenge for the breakup with his daughter. "I knew that Sage and Skye had gotten close, but this is just funny. Thank you I needed that." He said quietly.
"Emily is going to be fine." She said back.
"I hope so, I don't think I can handle losing my daughter."
"Alan, she is doing what is right for her." She said still feeling weird at calling the man by his first name.
"I'm her dad; my job is to keep her from feeling any and all pain. It makes it worse when you are a doctor or nurse; you know what is happening to the body and the damage that is happening inside."
Georgie was trying to get her coat undone, the buttons were stiff and Sage making her laugh did not help.
"So this Mrs. Hardy, she seems really stiff here, yet the night of the party she didn't."
"Her husband started this hospital, she came here to work, her sister was a nurse, and her sons Jeff and Tom worked here as well. Both her granddaughters have worked here, you know Elizabeth."
"So they are part of the brickwork." She said. Seeing Georgie unlock her locker she asked if she could store her stuff with hers.
"Yes, I wish we had gotten to work yesterday, now we are going to have to do our schoolwork here."
"So what are we doing besides answering phones and taking around magazines?"
"Who knows, I used to have dreams of performing heart surgery with a pocketknife?" Georgie said with a laugh.
"You are really; really strange you do know that. Georgie?" She asked as her friend turned white. "What is it?"
Georgie reached into her locker and pulled out the shopping bag. Inside was the purse she had used the night of the dance. There was a note inside, she knew she should not be reading it but she had to, her father would not tell her what it said.
Georgie, You don't know me, but I was in the park the night you were attacked. Rest assured, the man who hurt you is no longer a threat. I knew that purse could be replaced, but the necklace and watch looked like something important.
Thank you for your trust, that night.
"Ca-Call my dad, wait, don't call him." She said as she stuck the items back inside and went to the hallway, walking down it like she was in a trance. Stopping at Dr. Quartermaine's office, she saw Elizabeth inside along with Emily's dad.
"Dr. Q. can you get my dad here, without panicking him."
"Sure, what is it?" He asked the young girl as he helped her into a chair. Elizabeth discreetly took her pulse and found it thready.
When Mac showed up fifteen minutes later he found his daughter holding out a bag and a note while a shocked Alan and Elizabeth looked on. As he read the note his eyebrows went up to his hairline.
"Where did you find this?"
"My locker, inside a combination lock. How did this person get inside?"
"I have no idea. I am going to check into it. Do you want me to drive you home?"
"No, I will be staying here. Sage and I are working today."
Elizabeth walked out with Mac promising to keep an eye on her. "I'm working second shift so I will make sure she gets home safely." As soon as the man had left, she pulled out her cell phone and called Jason to let him know what was going on.
"Great, what is this guy up to?" He asked.
Georgie waited until Sage had followed Mrs. Hardy out to the magazine trolley and then she opened her locker with shaking hands and finished changing. Placing her new watch on the shelf above, she felt a package. Opening it up she found a set of diamond earrings. Staring at them, she knew she should call her father but was too stunned to move.
Elizabeth entered the locker room looking for the younger girl. "Georgie?" She asked.
"Do you have a minute?" Asked the younger girl. "I think I know who did this. While I was changing, I remembered something. A guy, who held my hand, said everything would be okay. I have to tell my dad."
"I need to tell you something. One of Jason's men was in the park that night, he saw him. I wanted you to remember on your own. Marco called 911, just seconds before you dad arrived on the scene."
"Did he know the guy?"
Elizabeth knew she had to be discreet. "No, he was just walking through and stayed nearby in case your dad had tried to arrest Jason or something."
"Oh, Elizabeth why would he send me earrings?"
"I don't know, but will you let me have Jason look into it?"
Georgie was torn, but knew that this man was more than likely not a good guy if he had left before the police or help arrived. "Yes, but will you let me know what you find out."
"I will tell you anything Jason tells me about it." She said as they walked out of the locker room and to the hub where Sage was returning from visiting patients and talking to Mrs. Hardy about wanting to work in pediatrics.
Audrey looked at the young girl and sighing said "Let me think on it. Then I have to go to the hospital board, this is one of the by-laws I helped set up."
Walking into Sonny's office, Jason saw the man looked ready to explode as he talked to the woman in front of him. He waited a few minutes, then quietly opened the door when Sonny said to her "You are fired. This is not at all what I want for the decor. Not for my office and most definitely not for my restaurant."
Jason said from the chair shaped like a set of lips, "You should hire Carly. Elizabeth likes what she did with the penthouse, and she has been working on Alexis' new place."
"She is still pissed, but you might be right." Looking around at the steel and leather in his office, he turned to glare at the matching set of lips in front of him. Chuckling he said "What was the woman thinking?"
Sonny called Carly and explained the situation.
"I'm just finishing at the hospital; I can stop over on my way to the lake house."
Arriving, Carly and Maxie, who she had stopped to pick up, just stared as they walked into the room. "Sonny, who did this?"
As he explained again, Carly was amused to see the look of embarrassment on her ex-husbands face. "We can do something but this is strictly business, I want to be paid like any decorator, also you will be paying for Maxie to work with me. Since you want to open for Valentine's Day, I think I might bring in Lulu as well."
"Fine, just fix this place." He growled.
"Carly my dad will have a fit."
"No, he won't. I will have Sonny write the checks to me, I will pay you. You have done a great job at Alexis's place, I think you have a real eye for color. Besides, you just said you would not be dating again any time soon."
Jason slipped into the hospital trying not to laugh as he recalled the chairs, seeing his wife talking to a set of young parents; he waited until she was free. When she handed the small child back, it hurt a little to know that could have been them in a few months.
"What's up?" He asked after kissing her hello.
Elizabeth handed him the package and told him what was going on. "Tell Georgie I will let you know what I find out. I like the way you said it, though."
"Just let me know. Did you bring me dinner?" She asked.
Seeing the way his eyes lit up, she said laughing "Dinner seems to be a little more interesting than I had expected."
Jason walked her into the empty room where he had just brought the soup and sandwiches, along with a cup of hot chocolate and coffee. Spending the time eating and kissing they hadn't realized she was late until Bobbie came looking for them.
"Ahem." They heard. Seeing the grinning red head, they parted. "Sorry to part you to, but Elizabeth you are needed in the ER, car accident. Jason, my daughter is looking for you, something about calming her down before she pulls someone's hair out."
"Uh oh, Carly must have heard about Sam." Said Elizabeth. "You had better go."
AJ had shown up looking for the mother of his children, but found instead a vertigo he recognized all to well, but this time he listened before judging. Leaning against the wall, he let her rant, while trying to keep up with what she was saying.
When his brother joined him, AJ saw Jason's amusement. "Carly, calm down."
"Don't tell me what to do Jason Morgan, that witch is worse that Courtney ever tried to be. She is not going to just go away is she? Of course, not she will stick around like gum on a pair of Manolo Blankiks. She is trouble, and I just had to agree to help Sonny with decorating the restaurant. Dammit, just when I think I'm out, I get pulled back in."
AJ chuckled at the Godfather reference, but seeing the look of his brother's face didn't explain since it would require taking his eyes off Carly, and in the mood she was in right now that was not a good idea.
"Jason can you put guards on Michael and me, I don't like the idea of us being left vulnerable."
"I already did, I upped Elizabeth's guard count as well." He said knowing that Sam blamed Elizabeth for the hysterectomy as well as Sonny.
AJ said he had to head out, but handed Carly the copy of the ultrasound, saying he had ended up with both of them. "Wait, I need to talk to you both about Michael. He is playing hockey this weekend, I asked Sonny to let AJ and I trade off on who goes to the games."
When they worked out an agreement, Carly thanked them both and headed home to the Brownstone, where she put her plan in motion in regards to Lulu. Leslie had been ecstatic at the idea of Lulu doing something, anything besides moping around.
Just as she was changing her clothes, she heard her cell phone ringing. Not wanting to deal with anyone, she saw it said Elizabeth and answered. "This had better be important, I have a bubble bath and Candyland planned for this evening with my son."
"Not too important, Alexis just went into labor and delivered."
Elizabeth backed the phone away from her ears; to escape the pain caused by Carly's shout.
"Carly, she barely made it here. The baby is fine, Mother is almost asleep."
"What happened?" She asked.
"Felecia was driving her here for a meeting with Stefan. She went into labor in the car. Her water broke and she no sooner entered delivery than the baby came."
"I will be right there."
"No, stay home. She is going to be sleeping, Jason assigned a guard and Mac is here. In fact, they kissed after the baby was delivered. I think Maxie and Georgie were plotting, because they and Sage were handing money to Brooklynn."
"I will come over as soon as Michael is in bed. Thanks, hey how are you doing?"
Elizabeth wasn't even thinking of her own loss, so her response jolted Carly. "Well, almost delivering a baby myself isn't quite what I had planned after two days of schooling."
"WHAT!" Asked Carly.
"I forgot to tell you. Dr. Meadows was with another patient, when Alexis insisted on having the baby right then. By the time the doctor joined us, I had the baby out. She just had to cut the umbilical cord."
When Emily heard the news, she rushed up to the maternity ward with Nik, "so is it true?"
"A baby girl, Kristina 6pounds, 21 inches." Said Elizabeth proudly.
"That is so cool. I heard from dad you delivered the baby." She said hugging her best friend.
"I was so scared, she just had to do things her way."
Mac overheard as he left the room with the sleeping mother and daughter. "Did Dr. Meadows come back with the test results yet?"
"She is on her way up." Elizabeth said as Stefan, Ned and Jax joined them. Hearing Maxie and the girls talking Elizabeth could not look Jax in the face.
"What is taking so long?" Asked Stefan.
"They were running a few extra tests as the result of some medical issues, that Alexis had discovered in her family history." Said Elizabeth, not wanting to admit to the man that it was because of something that happened in the future.
"Elizabeth delivered Kristina." Said Nik as he hugged her.
"Are we understaffed that much on doctors?" Asked a stiffening Stefan.
"No, I was just the delivery room nurse, Dr. Meadows was on her way, but Alexis just would not wait."
"More like Kristina wouldn't wait." Laughed Mac. "Georgie insisted on coming in the Outback."
Georgie groaned as her friends teased her about being delivered under a table.
"Okay, where is my godchild?" Asked Carly as she stormed the hospital.
"Excuse me, I was the one who delivered her." Teased Elizabeth.
"Yeah, but I was the one who..." she stopped when she realized what she had been about to say.
"Yes?" Said Elizabeth haughtily.
Carly returned just as arrogantly. "I'm older, so therefore I get to be the godmother."
"Can't argue with that, you are older, way older."
"Watch it princess." Said Carly with a laugh. "Now seriously where is the baby?"
"In the room with Miss Davis, now this is hospital. May we please clear the hallways?" Said the new scary nurse.
Carly saw Epiphany and scattered along with the rest of them, only Stefan who after a staring contest left trying to hold his dignity intact.
Chapter 39
It was six weeks later and two days before the christening, and Elizabeth was sitting on the sofa with her books spread out when Sonny knocked at the door. "What is all of this?" He asked.
"I have a major test, so that I can start working in the ER." She said frantically.
"Why are you so worried? You know this stuff."
"Sonny, knowing it practically doesn't always translate to on paper. Here test me." She picked up a book and said "There are highlighted questions."
"How about I bring over dinner." He said. Jason was working and had asked him to check on Elizabeth that she had turned off all phones to prepare for her test.
"I don't have time to eat. Besides, I ate with Carly earlier at the restaurant."
"You are worrying over nothing." He said firmly. "Do you see me panicking over every last detail?"
That did it, Elizabeth looked up and said "I told you I was there earlier, unless you have a twin who was tossing knives into the trash and yelling at the sous chef."
"We are using only fine Swiss knives those other ones don't last."
"Sonny they were his personal knives." She said "He only brought them there for sharpening like you said he could."
"I bought him a new set." The former gangster said with a grimace.
"Fine, I will eat whatever you are testing tonight, but you will help me study or else."
"Cement shoes at the bottom of the harbor." He said laughing.
"Worse, I will let you get stuck with Lulu and Maxie again."
Groaning he vowed revenge. Carly had been pissed after a fight over table clothes and had left the two girls with him. Snowed in, he had considered asking Jason to come and shoot him by the end of the afternoon. Lulu was jealous that Maxie was thriving at the job while she kept messing up. She just didn't have the eye for color the Jones girl did.
Jason waited and watched, Carly had told him about Lorenzo Alcazar and then he arranged for Bernie to do some research on the man. A former college professor, he was in town to teach at PCU, having shut down the family business and selling out the Ruiz family.
The flight log showed the man arriving in town this evening and he had Francis already on a different assignment. The mess at Crimson Point would be a lot easier to deal with if Carly would just spill what she knew but the blond was insisting on keeping it quiet.
When Luis's twin got off the plane and went to gather his luggage, he had no idea he was being followed as he checked into the Port Charles Hotel. Jason waited and watched as the man went to the waiting hired car and drove out to the mansion.
Lorenzo knocked on the door, trying to keep warm. The cold was getting to him, and he had only been here for a couple of hours. Seeing the man who opened the door he asked for "Sage."
"Just a minute, please follow me." Said Reginald as he led him into a room with a crowd of people all arguing. When his ahem, didn't work, nor the cough, the butler said "Will all of you please shut up, this is Sage's uncle."
The silence was deafening, along with the looks of suspicion. "You are not taking that sweet innocent young girl out of here you degenerate." Said Edward to the groaning and eye rolls of the rest.
Well at least he now understood the argument, Lorenzo sighed. "Where is Sage or the woman I walked to on the phone?"
Lila rolled into the room and told Edward to stuff it. "Mr. Alcazar, please have a seat, Ned, you take your grandfather and lock him into the study. Or the attic either one would do right now. AJ please help him."
As soon as the less rational members of the family were gone, Lila introduced herself saying this is my son Alan and his wife Monica. The young man returning is my grandson AJ.
"Where is my niece?" He asked after shaking hands with everyone.
"At the hospital, tonight is one of the nights she candy stripes."
Seeing the confusion, Alan explained only for the man to look even more confused. "My niece, are you sure that she is there?"
"Yes, I saw her when I was finishing up surgery. She along with Georgie Jones was watching from the observation room."
"Why? Did they know the patient?"
"No, something about a pocketknife." She said. "Anyhow, Skye went to pick her up along with Dillon and Brooklynn. I believe they were going to get something to eat afterwards at Kelly's."
AJ went off to the corner and called then said "they have already left for Kelly's. Can you give him directions; I have to get to the office. Turns out the reason grandfather is a bear, Nik sold the docks to Jason."
"Why are you involved?" Asked Alan. "You don't work for ELQ"
"No, but my boss is using the docks for the new dry dock we have arriving, I have to go and make sure that Jason doesn't plan on closing it down before it comes in." he said leaving.
Seeing his brother outside getting ready to knock, AJ dragged him off, saying "Grandfather is on the warpath about you. Don't go in."
"Is Alcazar still there?"
"Yes, he is going to see Sage at Kelly's, why?"
"Be careful, I have my people double-checking but I want to make sure he isn't a danger to anyone."
"Fine, look my boss is worried about the dry dock."
"I don't plan on changing anything; Nik will get them sold back to him as soon as he is fiscally sound again."
"Why would you do that?" Asked AJ.
"Emily and he are dating, besides, she would kill me and so would my wife."
"Emily is not going to allow the surgery, she is insisting on this alternative treatment; I can't talk to her at all. Mom is worried."
"She is going to be fine. Trust her, if we don't things would be much harder for her to deal with. Elizabeth and her made a deal, if the treatment doesn't work, she will have surgery."
Sonny was swearing that she had passed, when she said "Fine, here is the other book, I am going to get a juice, do you want something to drink."
Knowing that Jason didn't keep much liquor around he said no. "Okay, this is a book on mental illnesses, why do you have to study that?"
"Some show up with a chemical test, we have to be able to distinguish the signs between what is what."
Sonny read the questions, verifying the answers, but one got his attention, not wanting to let on, he asked about it because she had gotten parts wrong. "Why would this one be part of it?"
"Bipolar sufferers have a mental chemical imbalance in the brain." Trying to find laymen's terms she said "Like diabetes, you take insulin and watch your sugar intake."
"What is the treatment?" He asked trying for causal.
"Lithium, plus time spent with a doctor, why?"
"You missed the question, the way it was written but explained it fine. Why are you worried Elizabeth?"
"I don't want to let down the people helping me." She said.
"You are going to be just fine; you took care of Jason when he was shot, with no medical training at all."
Jason returned home worried, Elizabeth hated Valentines Day and it was only two days away. Seeing her asleep with her textbooks and highlighters around her, he picked up the assortment and placed them neatly on the table before going to pick up his sleeping wife.
Carrying her up to bed, she woke up as soon as he sat her down. "Good evening." She said reaching up to pull his head down into a kiss. "Are you in for the night?"
"Alcazar is at the hotel for the evening. He met with his niece and then she went to the hotel with him. I
Waited until Paulie arrived to relieve me." He said as they slowly drifted off to sleep at four in the morning.
Valentine's day dawned bright, cold and snowy. Elizabeth was getting in to work, so that she could leave early for the late afternoon christening of Kristina. Seeing Bobbie and the new nurse Epiphany ahead, she joined them with her shiny mug of cocoa.
"Did you bring any to share?" Teased Bobbie.
"No, Jason made it so there was none left for anyone else." She answered while pulling out the swipe card she needed to enter the staff entrance, since they were each required to scan their own cards.
Bobbie asked if they had any plans for after the party, only to be reminded that Sonny's restaurant opened that evening. "I saw it yesterday, Carly showed me around. I offered to work a double, so that the younger nurses could spend the evening with their various boyfriends. What about you Epiphany is Stan taking you for dinner tonight?"
"No, I will stop in later this week; my son is going on a date instead."
As they changed for their shifts, Elizabeth's necklace glinted off the artificial lighting all around the room. "Elizabeth, did Jason get that for you today?"
"No, actually this is a present from Sonny. He gave it to me for Christmas, but I thought wearing a cross for the christening would be a good idea."
"It's lovely. I heard Carly mentioning an outrageous gift you felt weird accepting but wow."
"He said he gave it to me for helping with Sam and all the other stuff last year. I just don't wear expensive jewelry that much, so it mainly sits in my jewelry box, but it is the only cross I own." She said as they separated and all went to work.
Elizabeth heard her name over the intercom and went down to Emergency, where she saw Alan and others suiting up. "Elizabeth, we have incoming from a car accident, Car went through the window of a flower shop. So you are doing triage with Dr. Thornheart."
When they finally wrapped up the last of the incoming Elizabeth found herself sewing stitches and cleaning glass out of cuts, when she saw a familiar looking patient. "Dillon?" She asked.
"I'm fine, just a few cuts. I hate Valentine's Day; I just had to cut out on my lunch break to pick up the corsage for the dance tonight. Now my flowers are ruined and I have cuts all over my face."
"You will be fine, as for flowers, try your grandmother, she should have something you can use. Who are you going with?"
"Lulu, since Sage and Georgie won't come with me. Georgie is going with someone named Guy and Sage with Lucas."
"I heard that Brooklynn is performing, so try and have some fun." She said giving him a paper so that he could leave the ER.
"Finally." Said Carly, "Why are you down here? I have been looking for you all morning."
"What's up?" She asked.
"I was helping Mac and Alexis and felt a little in the way, so I was riding around and saw Sam out on the street. I considered gunning the engine and running her down but Greg refused to let me drive."
"Shame on that, what was she doing?"
Carly looked ill at ease then said "she was standing in front of Laura's house with Lucky."
"I was wondering about that. Do you think that they are together?"
"I do, I mean they were kissing." She said.
"Do you think we should warn him? Or let him find out for himself, I mean he is a cop he had to read her file."
"I know, but lets find out why she would be using Lucky, let's face it. He has very little money and nothing in the way of power."
"He has to have something she wants, you are correct about that. I have to go finish my paperwork so that I can get out of here to be at the church on time."
"Hey, I saw what you gave Alexis for the baby it's cute." She said about the small silver rattle.
"I went into the baby store with Maxie, she would not take no for an answer."
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me." She said dryly thinking of the younger girl's insistence that she should go out with the cute salesman at the furniture store. Too bad the date had ended when the man rushed from the movie when finding out she was pregnant.
Elizabeth was walking through the corridor as she went to change running into a handsome man she soon realized was Lorenzo Alcazar. "I'm sorry about that." "Excuse me." They traded, when he stopped a few feet past her and turned around saying "Elizabeth Morgan, right?"
Milo and Max moved in closer not happy the supposedly former mobster had stopped her.
"Yes, may I help you Mr. Alcazar?"
"Two things, I am looking for the boardroom, I have a meeting with Skye Quartermaine. Also I was hoping to have a word with your husband, could you please have him call me."
"You can reach Jason at his office, as for Skye take a right at the end of the hallway." She said. "Good day."
Max glowered at the man until he walked out of sight, then told Elizabeth he had to call Jason.
"Okay, but tell him to meet me at the church after his visit with the man." She said cheekily.
Sonny was sitting in a pew, thinking on what the woman had told him. The results would be in next week. While part of him wanted answers, another part of him was scared to find out the truth. After talking to Father Coates, he was exiting the church at the same time Carly was entering it with AJ.
Nodding at each other, Sonny asked for a moment of Carly's time. "I can't take Michael this weekend. I will be at the new place and don't want to have him sitting alone waiting on me."
"Fine, we can take him to the city with us." She said thinking that Bobbie would be glad for the extra time since she was getting ready to move out of the Brownstone.
Nik and Stefan grimly stared at one another, and then the older man said we have to warn them.
"After the christening, I don't want to spoil this for Alexis."
"I was hoping my mother had finally fallen into the pits of hell."
"Well, Vlad, she hasn't. Now what is going on at this shindig that Alexis is hosting." Said Luke as he entered the cold room.
"Her daughter is being christened and she is announcing her engagement."
"Who is she marrying, just tell me it isn't Corinthos."
"Mac Scorpio, they are raising the kids together."
"Wonder how the blond bombshell known as Felicia is taking that news." He mused. "Fine, I will keep tracking down the she-devil; you go to the shindig."
"Spencer, I don't take orders from you." Sneered Stefan. "I will be helping track down Helena."
"No, you won't. One of us has to be at the wedding, though if Elizabeth is there so will Morgan be so that might be the safest place in town." He said.
Ric slithered into the room, wanting to escape notice. While this had originally been his plan, Sam had taken over and now it had taken on fatally sinister tones. He had to find a way to warn the annoying woman about the threat against her but would she take him seriously.
Hearing Sam's partner, he shuddered as the man placed the gun to his head and said "Where do you think you are going?"
"To take care of my part of the plan."
"You did your part by getting Samantha out of the hospital. Let us take care of the rest before you screw things up again." Turning to Sam, he said "Is your patsy all set up?"
"Spencer thinks that this will break up his one true love and that she will come running back to him. I have had him singing my tune for months. His part should work, he is considered harmless by the ex-girl friend."
"Don't underestimate her. According to what I have read, she is a lot smarter than she looks."
"Elizabeth Webber is little more than Pollyanna. She has no idea what real life is like. She is some softhearted do-gooder."
They were getting ready to start, Maxie and Georgie were holding what was soon to be their new little sister while Alexis and Mac talked to Father Coates. "Elizabeth could you get Carly?" Asked Jax, who was going to be the godfather. "We don't exactly get along."
"Sure, she went to check on something in the vestibule." She said walking down the aisle as her husband walked in with Lorenzo Alcazar of all people.
Seeing the question on her face, he said "Where are you heading?"
"To get Carly, she went to get something left out front."
"There was no one there; we just came from there." Said the other man.
"Where did she go?" Asked an annoyed Jax. "She knew that the priest was on a tight schedule."
Jason called Carly's guard and got no answer. Turning to Milo and Max, he told them to go and find Greg.
He then told Elizabeth to stay with Mac, then had the others in attendance spread out to locate the missing blond. Twenty minutes later, they found the guard tied up with a stab wound.
"Who did this?" Asked Mac furious that someone had ruined this day.
"I didn't see his face, but I saw Lucky Spencer and was keeping an eye out because he was acting weird." He said before passing out. Monica and Alan rushed over to take care of the man along with Bobbie.
"Morgan, what is going on?" Spat out Mac.
"Things have been peaceful." He said as he started to call his men when AJ walked in with the missing package. "Where have you been and have you seen Carly?"
"No, I gave her a ride over and she left this in my car. I saw it when I got to the office, what is going on Jason?"
"Carly is missing. He guard was stabbed."
"This is all my fault. I called and told her I would bring this over, but before I could get out of the office, a new client called about ordering a new yacht. I could not get off the phone."
"What client? Could it have been a setup?"
AJ sat on the stone behind him not ever realizing what he was sitting on as he panicked. "My god, it could have. I would have sworn I carried this in early, plus it had been on the seat between us during the drive over, I found it on the backseat along with my briefcase."
"What did this man want?"
"It was a woman; she had very specific requests, which is why I took the call. She knew a lot about boats."
"Sam." Said Elizabeth softly. Then stronger "Sam McCall. Carly saw her earlier; we were joking around about running her over with the car."
Taggert entered in response to Mac's call and went to check for himself at Shadybrook. Capelli said he would check out the Spencer home.
"Why would she grab Carly?" Asked AJ.
"Better question is why would Lucky help her."
Bobbie started to protest when Luke entered along with Nik and Stefan and he protested his son's innocence. "Carly is still a Spencer and with the she-devil in town,"
"Luke, Lucky was seen earlier today kissing Sam McCall, plus I know Helena Cassidines voice, it wasn't her. She is someone rather unforgettable." Said AJ. "Where as I have no recall about this McCall woman."
Jason looked at Mac then nodded, taking Elizabeth off to the side, he said "Go to the office with Max and write down everything you can recall about what Carly told you about last time. I will see if I can find Lansing's whereabouts."
Carly woke up, groaning as she realized she was being held in the same place as last time. Thinking on whether or not she had ever told Jason about this place, she groaned to realize she hadn't. The only time this place had been mentioned was as a possible home for Elizabeth.
"Well, well you are awake. You don't look like much, but lets help you ex-husband wants you back enough to give us what we want." She heard. Shivering when she realized that things had changed, because this person was not supposed to be here for several more years.