The mystery bad guy isn't who you are all thinking of. Neither Manny nor Trevor Lansing.

Switching Places

Chapter 40

It had been two weeks and Carly was getting worried. At least last time Jason had been suspicious of Ric. Though when she thought back on it she could not help wondering if the man had been married to anyone other than Elizabeth would he have looked at him so hard for kidnapping her.

Trying to get comfortable, she saw the door opening and when Sam sauntered in she wondered what the woman wanted. So far she had stayed away but who knew how long that would last. The woman walked over to where Carly was chained to the wall and rubbed her belly saying. "Mommy is here now, I promise you my sweet, I will take good care of you."

Carly ignored the woman, knowing she wanted to get a rise from her. Seeing the doctor standing in the doorway, she said with a sneer, "Did you find out anything interesting?"

The green eyed man turned to Sam and said "We have to talk. Now."

Taking a deep breath as the door closed behind the two nut cases, Carly reached over and turned on the televisions, grateful for the fact that she had caused a short in the other timeline, since that meant she had seen them getting repaired.

"She is telling the truth, the brat isn't Corinthos. I got the file from my contact at GH; she is carrying the Quartermaine brat."

"What do we do now? I promised him Corinthos kid."

"We lie, and make sure she understands that if she doesn't her and the kid are dead."

AJ sat in the dark spare bedroom, looking at the assortment of baby items he had purchased since finding out he was going to be a father. Picking up the blanket, he held it up and rubbed it against his face then replaced it into the crib. Walking out into his living room, he stared at the unopened bottle of vodka and picked up to toss it at the fireplace.

Jason let himself into the apartment; he had been at the station when Sonny had attacked AJ, claiming the man had Carly. "Breaking everything in sight won't solve anything. No one thinks you are behind this except Sonny and he doesn't really believe it deep down."

"He is still in love with her." He said coldly. "As well as being delusional."

"Yes, he is, but the fact is they are bad for each other. They both know it; Carly also doesn't love Sonny. She and I have talked about it." Jason watched as his brother stalked around his place and seemed to be dealing with a burning anger.

"Who is helping them?"

"I don't know. All we know is that Sam was helped out of prison by this Trevor Lansing, but that seemed to be at the request of Ric." In fact Jason was quite aware of that fact. The sick and twisted tapes from the bugs at Crimson Point verified that. "I checked all the people in my world, and Lorenzo Alcazar did the same. Who ever this is, has a real cool head, There has been no ransom demands, no requests for territory. This is personal."

"That makes it more deadly." Said the older man as he looked bleakly at his younger brother. "I spent years hating her, but we have come to a truce. I would even say we are friends, but I don't love her. I understand why Sonny is reacting the way he is."

"Then come help us, even if you don't want to work with my men, you have spent a lot of time with Carly, you might know something and not even know it."

"Elizabeth, Alexis and the attorney she is going to partner up with have picked my brain over until I think it has been scrambled."

"I know it's there, one of us is holding a piece of this puzzle, we have to be."

Elizabeth tossed the legal pad back on the desk and turned to Alexis. "I think I have it."

"What?"

"Ric Lansing kidnapped Carly before, he held her in a house, but where and how. The first idea is a locked room, but Carly would make too much noise, so it is either soundproofed or isolated"

"We all agreed on that. What else?"

"Sam is involved, but there are at least two other known conspirators. Lucky and Ric. Do you have the list of credit card purchases?"

"Any place that both of them went?"

"No, Lucky stuck to chain stores and Ric to the high-end shops. The only common purchase is gas, at the station near Charles Street."

"Ric doesn't live even close to there, so why is he gassing up there."

Alexis called Mac and he sent an officer to find out but they were all quickly losing hope.

"Okay, we have Ric getting Sam out of jail, his father who is a man with influence helping. Trevor hates Sonny, but has to know that Carly is too connected. Why did they grab her, why not Elizabeth?" Asked an entering Diane. "She is the wife of the mob boss, they both have guards."

Mac called back as Emily entered and said "We talked to an attendant at the station, Ric was there with a man, green eyes and a wicked pretty smile was all the girl recalled. He left after getting coffee saying he had flown in from far away. That is one of the lesser roads from the airport."

"Anything else?"

Jason and AJ joined the others as they went over all they had at the warehouse, and then calling his wife asked the women if they had anything.

"Nothing you don't already know. We do have a description, but green eyes and a pretty smile aren't much help."

"What about the location?" Jason asked after hanging up on his wife.

"Nothing, she has fallen off the grid. Do you have any more names for me to check?"

Sonny entered and scowling at AJ said "try a variation on my mother's name. Adella, with different last names. Corinthos, Johnson, and toss in Lansing. If Ric is involved he might be using my mother's name."

Stan went to the other room and started to run records, but wished he had more to go on.

Mac sat in his office; he had gotten very little sleep in the last fourteen days. Seeing a FBI agent at the door, he asked "Anything?"

"Nothing, we still don't even know if this is mob related."

"Morgan doesn't think so. I tend to agree with him."

"Your future wife is his attorney correct?" Asked the agent. "That must make things pretty cozy around here."

"Something I have a concern about as well." Said Floyd from the doorway.

"If you don't have information about the case, Mayor, please leave my office. We are rather busy right now."

Mac went back to the papers that had been filed in regards to Sam McCall and had the agent run some more names, but nothing was popping up. On a hunch he said "Add Courtney Matthews name to the list. They worked together at Kelly's and using Corinthos' sister's name would twist the knife. She committed suicide last year."

Carly was woken up by the sound of arguing, listening as her captor and Ric argued she was sickened that her only hope was the man who had kidnapped her the last time. When she saw the man hit Ric in the face and then the sound of the body hitting the fireplace, she lost all hope.

She could not control the tears as Lucky and Sam helped drag the man away, then she heard Lucky say "What was he talking about I thought you said Carly was in a safe house."

"She is." Said Sam, "I have gone and seen her there. Don't worry baby, it will be fine."

"Fine, I can understand the need to take down the mob, but hitting your own special prosecutor was out of line, don't do it again."

Sam rolled her eyes behind the dumbass and then distracted him, Lucky Spencer was still needed, they had to have a patsy for when Sonny died. She lead the man to one of the spare bedroom and let him play superstud all the while wondering how much money she would get out of the deal, with a baby to raise she would need several million. When Lucky finished, she whispered in his ears, "That was good baby." Before watching him fall fast asleep.

When she rejoined the man in the living room, he said "Is he asleep?"

"Yes, what is the next part of the plan?"

"Lansing is going to be a problem; I will have my contact arrange for him to disappear."

"Shame not to access all that money his step-mommy left him." She said walking over and kissing the man only to be turned away.

"I don't do seconds." He said then pushed her onto the sofa. "With you it would be what, fiftieths. Keep you eye on the prize, revenge and the kid."

Carly had to laugh. When even someone like that sees through you, you are done. She smirked as Sam glared as he left closing the door behind him.

Bobbie tried to get Michael to eat, but he kept asking who took his mother and why. The little boy was staying at Sonny's because of the security precautions, but she still worried. When a drained Elizabeth entered shaking her head to the silent question, Bobbie went to get her some dinner.

"You don't have to feed me." She said.

"That is all there is that I can do. We have all gone though this a hundred times."

"I wish I knew what it is I know. I get this feeling the answers are right here." She said to the red head.

"You are doing your best plus keeping up on your schooling. Elizabeth, you are losing weight you can't afford to lose." She said to the nurse.

"Carly is depending on me I know it." She said. Going over to Michael she curled up with the little boy who was crying for his mother. "What about Leticia, how is she doing?"

"Her arm is broken, I can't believe she slipped on ice."

"I know the worst part is that she swore she saw Carly, but we know that isn't possible."

Jason tossed the office, he was frustrated and they had nothing to go on. Seeing Georgie Jones entering, he apologized for scaring her.

"Jason, I think I know something." She gulped then sat down. "The day of the christening, I was feeling like someone was watching me. I have been paranoid like that since the attack. That day, there was this car, outside the church, with government tags."

"Do you recall anything more?"

"No, but the agent my dad and I told, basically dismissed it. I told dad I was telling you."

"Thank you, you could be onto something." Thinking on what Carly had told them about her biological father, he asked Georgie to stay for a few minutes and went to find Stan. "Get me all you can find out on John Durant. He is a federal attorney."

Going back in he handed her the earrings saying "The young man who gave them to you, is the son of a mob boss. He fled because he has a strict curfew, no other reason."

"Why the diamonds?" She asked confused.

"That I have no idea, but he was in town for reasons other than being in the park that is all I can tell you."

"Thanks, it helps a little, I have to and get to Michael, I am spending the night at the penthouse so that I can stay with him tomorrow."

"We all appreciate you girls helping with him." Sonny had insisted they stay at Jason's but Sage, Brooklynn, Maxie and Lulu had all been helping on Georgie's request.

Lorenzo looked at Manny Ruiz and said "You agreed to stay away from wherever I lived."

"If this is about the blond ex-wife of Corinthos, we had nothing to do with that."

"Do I have your assurances on this," he asked.

"We made a deal, I don't welsh on my deals, but a little birdy says that a doctor with pharmaceutical connections to the Zacharas went off the gird lately. Mr. Devlin is the man you are looking for but rumor is that he is working for the government."

Lorenzo watched as the slipper tattooed man left quietly. He hesitated, the fact of the matter was he had a contact, but one that would demand a favor in return. Deciding to talk to Morgan, he went to his new hometown and called the man. "We have to talk; I have some information you need."

When Jason showed up at his penthouse suite at the Port Charles hotel, Jason turned on the white noise device and said "The government might be involved."

"They are, I have a contact in Miami. The techs contact really was a doctor, Ian Devlin. The man is a skin cutter and a drug dealer, prescription drugs for fakes. He did a deal with Zachara's disinherited daughter."

"Do you know her?"

"Claudia, black widow type. She lives in Milan with her uncle Rudy. I met her once, cold as ice and insecure as hell. Wants daddy's love desperately. Anthony despises her, not that he is to kind to the boy either."

Jason went home, to take a shower and try to get some sleep. Seeing his wife and Michael asleep in their bed, he slipped to the shower wondering where Sonny was if Michael was there. Grabbing a blanket and a pillow he was heading downstairs when his wife came out in the hall.

Once both were ensconced on the sofa, they caught each other up on what they knew. "Why would John harm his own daughter?"

"That I haven't figured out let alone where they are holding her."

Ric hadn't woken up by the next morning, so Devlin entered to check on the man, his hand was shaking when he realized the man was more than asleep. Turning to his boss, he said "He is unconscious, almost dead. We need to take to the hospital."

"Let him die, his part is done. Make sure it looks like a suicide."

Leaving he went to check on the other guests, seeing the local detective they had in their pocket, he said "What do they know."

"They are looking for the name Courtney Matthews. I'm surprised your people in the FBI haven't told you that."

"What about the nosy girl at the church."

"She believed them when they said it was someone following Morgan. She is the boss's daughter, book smart but not to up on things." Said the man. "How much longer do you need?"

"We will be leaving at the end of week; you need to handle the loose ends."

"It will be a pleasure. Any particular way you want it handled?"

"As long as it can't be traced back to me, I'm fine with whatever you do. Do we have any problems?"

"Spencer's father, but he is a drunk who no one takes seriously. He is out chasing shadows. Thinks this old enemy of his family's is involved."

"Keep it that way. Anything else?"

"No, but I want payment as soon as the bodies hit the ground. Morgan will hunt me, and he is good."

"Don't worry about Morgan, my people are going to arrest him for RICO violations." The agents were following a false trail he had laid as soon as he had found his old snitch Sam McCall was having Sonny's spawn.

Chapter 40

Four days later, Elizabeth walked into the hospital and asked Monica for a minute. "Do you have any idea how to find out if someone had arranged for a prescription for prenatal vitamins?"

"Why?" She asked.

"What if this isn't what we think it is. What if this is about the baby?"

"Give me fifteen minutes. I will find out from here and Mercy, but we have lots of places in town to fill those types of prescriptions. "

Elizabeth saw her grams talking to someone but she could not see their face, walking over she saw it was the Mayor. The man coldly snubbed her, making her grandmother freeze up and say rather glacially to the man. "Mr. Floyd if you want my backing you might not want to be rude to my granddaughter. In fact I think I will suggest to Lee and Gail that we consider backing another candidate."

"My constituents want me to run a clean campaign and talking to the wife of a mob boss is not acceptable. Even more so when the wife is a friend with the former mob boss who has never been sent to prison for his crimes."

"Mayor, people who live like you do, should not throw stones, they tend to kick up rocks and expose the slugs underneath. By the way, how is the new indoor pool?" Asked Elizabeth sweetly. "Being a servant of the people must pay better than I had heard."

Audrey watched as the man's skin turned sallow. Then she asked her granddaughter, "what do you know?"

"His son was here a couple of weeks ago; he hit his head on the diving board. I was just guessing."

"I would say good guess." Monica walked up with a piece of paper and said "Here, Epiphany had a contact at County as well. They had a large bottle go missing two days before the kidnapping. You have twenty minutes before Mac has to tell the FBI."

Jason hung up the phone, after thanking Elizabeth and added the pin to the places marked. Now if it only made more sense. Calling Marco he asked the man to see if there were any house sold within the city limits in the last three months. "Have the new attorney look into it discreetly along with Stan."

Seeing AJ entering with coffee he said "We do have that here."

"I know, but I go to Kelly's really to check on Mike. He has always been the decent sort. I understand him."

Shaking his head, Jason gave him the latest information, thinking that if they didn't find Carly soon, it was going to get ugly for all concerned.

Elizabeth knocked on the door at the Spencer house, than took out her key grateful for Nik's help. Telling Maxie to watch for trouble, she went upstairs hoping to check out Lucky's room, while Georgie and Sage did the same downstairs. Lulu was searching her mom's room, so when she heard the young blond yell eeeh! She came running along with the others.

"What!"

"Used condoms, plus long dark hair on Mom's bed. Lucky had sex with someone in Mom's room. That is just sick."

"Get back to searching. I know that there has to be something here." Said Elizabeth.

She had her own little aha minute, then sat down and called Jason saying for him to meet her at the Brownstone and to bring Diane. She hid the paperwork and kept looking. Finding nothing more than a list on how to get her back, she started to rip it up when she saw step three. Making peace with her to get Elizabeth to let her guard down.

"Lulu, anything?"

"There was a woman here. These are the clothes that were hanging in the closet. I called dad, he is coming home, Lucky had better hope that Helena is behind this, other wise dad is going to want to kill him for doing that in Mom's room."

Georgie came in and tossed down some more items, saying "I called Dad and told him what Luke asked us to do then told him we found something. They are on the way."

"What is in there?"

"Proof that Sam is setting Lucky up. Get this your brother thinks he is working towards becoming an undercover operative in the FBI."

WHAT! Was the general response. Georgie grimaced and handed the letter to Elizabeth who read it and sat down stunned as the police and FBI swarmed in. The agent in charge started to snatch the note from her hand when Alexis entered and said "Don't treat her that way. She is here by invitation of the owner, looking for something to help find his lost son."

"I also believe that she is working for the Sugarplum Fairy and the Easter Bunny." Snickered an agent. "Her husband is Jason Morgan, which is who she is helping. Now hand over your purse, Mrs. Morgan."

"Do you have a warrant?" Asked Alexis.

"He can search it all he wants." Said Elizabeth as she dumped the bag on the table in front of her.

When the agent ripped it to look in the lining, Alexis called a contract of Stefan's to protest.

Elizabeth was still sitting there when Stefan walked in with the head of the state police and attorney general of the state of New York. The agent flushed when he was asked if he had ripped the bag then was ordered out of the house. "I will be contacting your superior's in Washington."

Thanking Alexis, she saw Mac's eyes bug when he read the files they had already gone through.

"Lulu, I need you to go home with Nik this evening. Leslie will be returning tomorrow and we will make sure that they clean this place up for you." Said Stefan.

"Thank you, but what do you think happened to Lucky?" She asked.

"We don't know but you can rest assured you dad will not rest to he finds out."

Elizabeth left the house, saying she had promised to check on Bobbie. "She is not eating and Sonny was sending over food with Jason."

When the girls and Elizabeth entered the Brownstone, she said thank you and left them while she went to find Jason and Diane. "It looks like Lucky was helping to manufacture evidence against Jason. This is all my fault." She said sitting down.

"Don't worry about it. I have a former classmate who works for the Justice Department; he gave us a heads up weeks ago. I have all the proof needed to keep this from going to trial, we want them looking at this stuff, and it keeps them out of our hair."

"One other thing. Lucky has used money from Laura Spencer's trust fund to pay for an electrical deposit. No address but could Stan check it out?"

"Good work, this fits into the other information we have." Jason kissed his wife then waited until she had left to go to work. Turning to Diane he asked if she could deal with this quickly.

"The FBI likes to take it's own sweet time, but I can make a push for them to arrest you sooner, but are you sure?"

"We need to deal with this, get this Durant to come out of the woodwork."

Elizabeth was working the ER when Leticia came in, "How are you feeling?"

"Sick to my stomach, I wish I could remember the house. I know it was Carly." She vowed.

"What exactly did you see?"

"Milo was taking Michael and I to his dentist appointment. I saw something out of a corner of my eye, but it didn't connect until much later what it was I saw. I went for a walk, trying to recall the house and what street but Milo was trying to lose the reporters so we drove around quite a bit." She said tearfully.

"We will find her Leticia, and you did give us hope. Thanks to you we know she is still here." Said Elizabeth as she held the young nanny's hand.

Walking her out the door, Elizabeth saw Lorenzo Alcazar picking up Sage. Walking over she asked if Georgie had worked today.

"Yes, but one of Jason's guards came to pick her up. She is staying with Michael for the afternoon, then returning him to Sonny." Realizing she had forgotten her gloves she left her uncle with Elizabeth while rushing back to the third floor.

"Mrs. Morgan, I sincerely hope your friend is found. Miss Quartermaine mentioned last night that she was carrying her brother AJ's child. A child is the hope for the future, a legacy for those of us who... Mrs. Morgan is everything okay?"

"I need to get to Jason, I think I get why she was taken." Turning to Monica who was leaving she said urgently "I figured it out. I know why Carly was taken."

Max called Jason and told his boss his wife wanted him now. Lorenzo stayed by now curious as to what the young woman had come up with, sending Sage with her extra guard, Max ordered Lorenzo to stay close while he called AJ like Elizabeth had requested.

When the two men arrived she took them and Alcazar to the waiting room and said "Find out if John Durant has some sort of will binding him from inheriting something. Carly might be his kid, so he could use DNA tests to prove that the baby is his descendant."

"Why not just claim your friend?" Asked Lorenzo still confused. "A grown daughter would work as well if you were correct."

"Because Carly has never had a day in her life where she would submit to anyone. She is headstrong, and never thinks before acting." Announced a weary AJ. "Our child would be a fresh start, Michael is still listed as adopted by Sonny and this man is all about appearances."

"I will have Stan and Diane look into it, Alexis is running interference with the FBI, so call me if you have anything else. Where did this come from?"

"Something Mr. Alcazar said plus something with my family. My mother's grandparents, disowned her years ago for her behavior, but left money to Sarah. She never stopped trying to get the money from her daughter."

"Why did they leave it only to Sarah?" Asked AJ confused.

"They were always rather standoffish towards me." She said with a shrug as she walked away.

Sonny was helping his son with the class project he had due at school, wishing his mother was here to help him. Jason had refused to send Michael away, saying that it wasn't mob related and that the little boy had no one to go with him.

Hearing the door opening he was happy to see the younger Jones, girl. She soon joined Michael with his project and then announced they needed some model glue. "Dad, I want to go and get it with Georgie." Michael whined.

"Fine, but take the guard with you." Said the tired former mob boss. Telling Paulie to follow them, he said he would be fine by himself for a while. Picking up the file that Dr. Saunders had given him on manic depression, he tried to distract himself from worrying.

Sam was wondering the streets, not a smart thing to be doing when you were wanted by the police and the FBI, but she didn't know what else to do. Durant had ordered Ian Devlin and his co-hort to kill her. Placing her hair inside the ball cap she slid into the back room of Kelly's.

When she saw Elizabeth and another woman entering, she looked around then went into the stall of the ladies room

"Emily, I wish I could do something, all this thinking things through is not helping get Carly back." Said Elizabeth as she brushed the snow off her coat.

"We are all doing are best. Did that list from her room help any?" Wiping her hands, Emily went out the door to wait for Elizabeth to change out of her scrubs.

"No, but I have some ideas about some other stuff that will be happening." She said unhappily. "I will be right out."

Perfect, thought Sam. Little Miss Sunshine was her ticket out to town. Leaving the stall she went to stand next to where the door would open and waited. Seeing the soap bottle and grimacing about the fact it was all she has to use, she picked it up and held it over her head.

In the stall, Elizabeth was squirming around trying to change her clothes in the minimal space provided when she saw the shadow and pretended to get a text message. "Dang it, who?"

Sam heard the nurse texting someone back and hoped she would hurry before someone else entered.

Elizabeth placed her bag next to the toilet, only taking out the only weapon she had. Her hairbrush and then pulled up her hair, before moving to leave the stall.

The woman outside just waited calmly knowing that the mob boss would have made sure his wife had unlimited credit and most likely lots of cash. Seeing the door open she was applauding herself for the great plan when she was pushed back into the tiled wall behind her.

"That's isn't very nice Samantha." Said Elizabeth as she blocked the other girls exit.

Cursing the con woman reached out to grab the wimpy girl's hair, only to feel a sharp sting across the face. "Where is Carly, what have you done with her?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about?" She said going to grab her arm, only to find herself grabbing empty space.

"I would tell me, Jason isn't going to be so polite when he asks." Said Elizabeth as she danced out of the reach of the other woman's grasping hands. When the talons got a hold of her shirt, Elizabeth sighed and balled her hand into a fist and punched the woman.

"Ow!" Said the woman as she held her bleeding nose. Then she went back to grabbing at the nurse whose hand was still stinging from the punch. Not holding back, Elizabeth punched her again, this time drawing a lot more blood and from the sounds of it breaking cartilage.

"Where is Carly?" She asked as she reached over and grabbed her by her hair after knocking off the ball cap. Pulling tightly, Elizabeth heard the door opening as Mike responded along with one of Jason's guards and Taggert who had been eating at the counter.

"Mrs. Morgan, you need to release her. Elizabeth, this isn't the way to do this." Said Taggert while inwardly enjoying the sight. "Let me take care of this."

"Not until she tells me where Carly is. Sam, have you ever had a swirly in the girl's toilet? Asked a vengeful Elizabeth. "Taggert you owe me."

"Not like this, there are FBI agents all over this case."

"Darn it." Said Elizabeth as she tossed the woman towards the bald detective and his now entering partner.

Capelli just helped Taggert cuff her and once he was taking her to the patrol car "Keep you mouth shut if you know what's good for you."

Sam whitened when she realized she was traveling to the station with her co-conspirator. She was grateful when Taggert said he would be riding with the man after telling Elizabeth to get her hand taken care off then show up down at the station in the morning.

Max was on the phone with Jason relaying what had happened when the man himself showed up with Francis and Johnny. Telling the guards to find out anything they could, he took Elizabeth to the hospital to get checked out.

Ian Devlin had to hand it to Durant the man was smooth. The private jet would be arriving tomorrow to take them away for the birth of his grandchild.

Going in to check on his patient and its mother he saw she was pale and breathing heavily. Running all the different possible problems that were connected to high fever, he went to see Durant and said "We have to wait to move her. She has the flu."

"So?" He asked "Would this harm the kid?"

"If she doesn't get well, yes. We have to wait for her fever to go down."

"Get it done, I want to leave as soon as possible." Said Durant as he walked out the door.

Mac looked in the room at Sam McCall and tried to hold back Alexis from tearing her hair out. "She has already gone one round with Elizabeth, let them deal with her."

"The FBI is more interested in going after Jason, then in getting Carly back. I want to talk to her, just talk." She said while crossing her fingers.

"Alexis let them deal with her." He said as he drew her off into his office and closed the door. Reaching for his phone he removed the device that Sean had sent to him this week and placed it inside before calling Jason Morgan.

"Morgan." They heard.

"This is Mac Scorpio; I have an address for you. A house with the electricity turned on in the name of Courtney Matthews. She is listed as the personal assistant of one Laura Spencer."

"Where?" He heard urgently. Then the sound of Elizabeth in the background.

Telling Jason, he said for them to get Carly out of there, then he was sending his men to pick up John Durant.

"Elizabeth, I want you to promise to stay in the car until I call you." Said Jason as he arrived down the street from the Spencer house.

"Fine, but I need to see how Carly is doing. Dr. Meadows is on standby and so is your mother."

Hearing the sound of someone knocking on the window Jason got out and asked Johnny why AJ was there.

"He refused to stay behind."

"Fine, but stay out of the way." He told his brother while pulling out his gun and edging closer to the house grateful that it was almost eight-thirty at night. The darkness provided cover as they eased closer to the house and raided it.

Finding only papers and some notes, Jason saw a word that was circled in red ink. Panic room.

"This isn't the place. However I know where she is. Carly showed me this house while she was looking to buy one for herself."

Going to the SUV, Jason told Elizabeth and she tried to recall if they had an address on the house, then pulled out the ever present legal notepad with Alexis' handwriting from that fateful day in May when their lives had changed and looked it over.

"Here." She thrust the address at Jason and they drove off just as a man with a killer smile and green eyes arrived at the rental safe house. "Durant, we have a problem someone was here."

"Who?"

"I don't know but it was trashed." He said.

"Sam was arrested tonight, she is a lose end that is being taken care off. Get back to the house and stay with my child."

Lucky snuck into the stairwell, he needed money to get away and knew where to find it. As he crept into the hallway, he saw a girl in a bright red hat and dark navy blue peacoat, leaving the penthouse. Smiling slowly he grabbed Elizabeth and knocked her out.

Tossing her into the box, he put it back onto the trolley and wheeled it to the service elevator. Morgan would pay to get his wife back, what a shame she would not be returning. Elizabeth was going to be coming with him.

Michael walked back into the hall and then said to his dad inside. "Where did Georgie go? She left her purse here."

TBC