Switching Places
Chapter 51
The best time to make friends is before you need them. -from a Crossword Puzzle
Lydia snuck the food back to the room, slipping in she insisted on the devastated Zander eating.
"I can't eat. Take it away." He said. "What if we made a mistake?"
"Alexande-" she started to say when he interrupted.
"My name is Zander, if we are going to manage this you really need to start calling me by my name."
Lydia was glad to see him show some fire. Not that she had any real right to be pushing him; the love of his life was dying down the hall, hours after marrying another man. He had married a woman he had threatened to gag frequently, only to help her out. What she should do was leave him in peace, but she felt she owed him.
Zander looked up and said "You are under no obligation to be here."
Smiling slightly she said. "My husband is at the hospital on our wedding night, yes we are lying to everyone you know, but I think they might find it a little strange, after all, we got married while saying we were throwing away millions of dollars for love."
Zander looked up then found himself feeling a little better. "You are correct. We did the right thing; you might still have a good chance at the money. Emily and Nik have their fairy tale, hopefully in a few months they have another wedding and I get to pretend that I am in love with a beautiful woman. My life isn't going to be that hard to deal with."
"Emily is going to be fine. That overly efficient Elizabeth will see to that." She snarked. Elizabeth had been on her nerves every since she had meet the beautiful nurse. No one was that nice and sweet, no one.
"You have the wrong idea. I have known Elizabeth for a couple of years, she is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet, but she is also a bit of a wild child. That man she is married to is the local mob boss."
"Don't they frequently marry sweet and innocent wives, so they look better in the press?"
"Some might, but Jason and Elizabeth are a lot more than that. She loves riding his bike; in fact she has been insisting on learning how to drive one. She is also capable of throwing a mean punch on her own. That friend of hers, Carly was kidnapped a few months back. Elizabeth caught one of the kidnappers in the ladies room at Kelly's. Did a pretty good job on her, according to Taggert she tried to get him to leave so that she could give her a swirly."
"A what?"
"Stick her head in the toilet and flush. Then there is Helena Cassidine and Elizabeth's battle with her; you have no idea the lucky escape you had. The woman would curdle the milk still inside of the cow." He said with a shiver.
Dr. Meadows took care of Carly. As she finished cleaning the blond, she smiled at the nurse and said. "They were correct. Her blood has finally clotted and we needed no stitches. Could you please put her in a gown and I will go and tell the family."
Leaving the room, she went to the waiting room, where the rather somber Spencer, Quartermaine and Hardy families were waiting. "AJ, Carly will be fine. Her blood is clotting now. Do you want to go in to see her?"
"Of course, what about Morgan?"
"He will be in an incubator for a few days, but that is just a precaution. Mr. Alcazar did a fine job delivering him."
"Joyce, why didn't her blood clot?" Asked Monica as she walked over wanting to distract herself with medical problems from Emily's slow fading.
"That is the strange thing, it is like there are two different versions of her blood flowing through her. They were fighting each other, instead of clotting. While the drug Jeff suggested worked, I will need to talk to Carly and see if she had a transfusion that I didn't know about recently."
Elizabeth gripped Jason's hand; they had rushed over because of Emily and found the ambulance with Carly coming in at the same time. Jason was happy for his friend, but was being greedy in wanting good news for his sister as well.
When an incoming nurse entered, they all looked up hoping for news, but she turned to Mac and said "Sir, your daughter is coming in with an ambulance, your office has been calling around looking for you. She called there and wants you to meet her in the ER."
Alexis and Mac rushed down to the ER to see two different ambulances coming in with a couple of small town cops from nearby Bedford Falls. "Sir, please stand back."
The bay doors opened and Mac saw Sage and Georgie entering looking a little messed but fine. "Dad!" He heard. Walking over he hugged her and said what is going on."
"That party, when we got there, it was a little out of hand. Some guys from PC West crashed. They had drugs. Guy, the kid having the party, could not get them to leave. I called you, but you were not at the office. This guy gave Stacy a drink; she passed out soon afterwards. He was undressing her."
"Do you have any idea what was in it?" Asked Dr. Thornheart as he joined them.
"No, but Georgie got the baggie with drugs." Said Sage proudly. "It was so cool; she grabbed the oar from one of the boats, and knocked him out with it. Here." She offered the doctor.
"Good, I will run a tox screen but this will help."
Mac hugged the two, then said to the out of town cops, "why are you here?"
"The girl refused to come with us. She assaulted the Mayor's son."
"The Mayor of Port Charles doesn't have any children." He said.
"No, our Mayors. He was at this party and she hit him. Tom called his father, and that is why we are here?"
"So you came to Port Charles to arrest someone for assault. You have no jurisdiction."
"THERE SHE IS, DAD. SHE IS THE ONE WHO HIT ME, WHY IS SHE STILL WALKING AROUND! ARREST HER!" The blond jock ordered the small town officers. His father stood there nodding, then looking around for help for his son.
Sage looked at his with disdain and said "That is the jerk with the drugs."
"I want this girl arrested she hit my son and he has to have stitches and will not be able to play football next week when school starts." The bull looking man insisted as his face turned purple with anger at the inaction.
After Alexis pulled the two girls to the side, she said "Let me handle this."
Calling over to the state police barracks, she arranged for an officer to come over. "Sir, I have the state police on the way."
"Good." He said shortly. Turning to Dr. Thornheart, he demanded his son get taken care of. "NOW!"
"I will be with him when we get to him. Here at GH we take care of people in the order of the seriousness of the injury. Your son is low priority."
"I will have your job for that insolence; do you know who I am?"
"You are the man who is making a fool of himself in my ER." Said Dr. Thornheart. "Now I suggest you sit down and wait until it is his turn. Otherwise I will have security remove you."
Nik sat down next to Emily's bedside, holding the glass so that she could take a drink. When she whispered thank you, he swallowed the lump in his throat and wiped the tears to say you are welcome.
"Always the polite prince." She said feeling tired, but fighting it.
Ten minutes later, he heard her ask him to hold her. "Please?"
Carefully climbing into the bed, he pulled her into his arms, vowing they would have a real wedding soon. There was no way he was losing her now that he had found her. No way in hell.
Feeling Nik's heart beat slow down, Emily opened her eyes, then tucked her head into his shoulder and went to sleep, dreaming about her mother Paige. Soon, she could feel her own heart beat slowing, then coming to a stop.
She could hear the machines beeping, the loss of Nik's warmth, and was fighting to regain his touch.
No, she thought, she was not going to die. She had way too much living to do. She wanted to see Jason and Elizabeth's kids, Carly said they would be gorgeous. She wanted to see Carly marry Jax; in fact she wanted to set up a bet over it. She had so many wishes and dreams and she would not allow herself to lose them.
Nik was standing in the doorway, holding onto Elizabeth as tears flew down their respective faces, Jason was holding Monica, as Alan was trying to keep Edward together. While Dillon seemed to stand there at a loss for words.
"She can't die. She can't die. She can't die. Not now, we have too much to live for." Nik kept saying it over and over again.
Elizabeth held onto him, knowing that Emily would not let this beat her, she would not let something as unruly as cancer keep her from living her dream life with Nik. Seeing Zander collapsing into Lydia's arms, the back of her mind finally understood what their wedding had been about.
He had down this for Nik and Emily. Nodding at Lydia as she just held onto a crying Zander, Elizabeth prayed. "Please, please let her live."
When Jeff set the paddles back down, he turned with a grave face, not sure how to tell Alan and Monica that they had lost another child. Looking at Elizabeth, he wished his daughter didn't have to hear what he was about to say.
Reaching over to turn off the machine, he closed his eyes and started to turn, when he heard the sound of the EKG machine, beeping, faintly, and not altogether steadily, but beating. Reaching for his stethoscope, he placed it on her heart hoping it wasn't wishful thinking on his part.
As he did, he heard it again, then a few seconds later, again. "Alan, do you want to listen?"
Swallowing, Alan took the earpiece and held them close to his ears, not hearing anything at first, he wanted to hit the man for making him do this, but then he heard it. Faintly and definitely not regularly but Emily's heart was beating.
"Alan?" He could hear the hope in Monica's voice.
Turning he shook his head yes. "Her heart is beating on it's own. It barely there, but she is fighting.
AJ sat next to Carly's bed, wondering if he was gaining a son, but losing a sister. Then seeing Skye standing there, he asked "Why are you not with Emily?"
"You need someone with you as well." She said before entering and sitting down. "How is Morgan?"
"Steven Webber, checked him out, he is fine. They are a little worried because he is early, but his heartbeat is fine and so is his breathing while in the incubator. He needs the warmth."
Hearing the sound of footsteps, they turned to see Dillon standing there. "Emily is fine. Her heartbeat is faint, but getting stronger. Her color is better and she seems to be resting peacefully."
"Thanks Dillon." Said AJ. "Has anyone let Grandmother know?"
"She arrived just now. Ned went home to get her."
Carly felt like the fog was lifting, but she was in pain. Her back felt like Mikey had been walking on it.
Waking up she saw AJ leaning over her, looking intense. "You know, at this time last year, if I saw you leaning over me, I would think you were about to smother me with a pillow."
"Scare us like that again, I just might." He said with a faint smile.
"Morgan?"
"Five pounds. Even. He is breathing fine and they placed him in an incubator as a precaution."
"Emily?"
"Doing better. Also breathing fine."
"When am I getting out of here so that I can take the boys to Paris to go shopping with your credit card?"
Laughing, AJ said "You might want to make it Milan or Rome. After all Brenda and Robin live in Paris."
"Why do you think I want to go shopping there? I figure I would annoy them while I am at it. Does Michael know?"
"That you gave birth, no. Sonny took him to the scrimmage for Syracuse."
"I forgot that was where they were going." She grimaced. "Hand me your phone, I will call him."
After making the call and assuring Michael that his brother and she were fine, she asked to speak to Sonny.
Handing up the phone, she recalled Alcazar had delivered Morgan. "Did Lorenzo call you?"
"Yes, then he went to the police station. There was a break in your kidnapping case. They found evidence that Trevor Lansing was involved, then found a lot of stolen artwork at the house."
"Plus Alcazar wanted to flee, as fast as he could." She said dryly.
"He also had to talk to Taggert; your car was stolen."
"I left my keys in the ignition." She said laughing. "I was a little busy at the time."
"You can explain it to your insurance agent." He said. "My guess is the police are a little busy to go chasing after a stolen car right now. The electrical storm finally hit."
"AJ, I gave birth, I didn't lose my senses. I can see the lightning and rain outside the window."
"Funny, Carly. Funny." He said. "Do you want something to eat?"
"When don't I?"
When the state police arrived, Mayor Webb was blustering about the fact his son still hadn't been in to see a doctor. When Jeff came down to catch his breath, the man grabbed him and insisted on his treating his child. That it was a serious injury and needed immediate attention.
Checking it out just in case; Jeff growled. "Mister, he is in need of a few stitches, has a slight concussion. When he is dying come and get me. For now sit down and shut up. We have people with serious injuries in need of us."
Furious at being treated this way, he went over to the trooper and asked why the girl who hit his son wasn't under arrest.
"Sir, we can't just take your word for it. We have to talk to everyone."
Alexis and Georgie joined the trooper in a side room. "Now tell me your side of the story miss."
"We, my friends and I went to a party at my classmate Guy's house. His parents were allowing him to have a small party as long as there were only twenty people there. When we arrived, Sage and I were running late, the boys from PC West were already there along with this Tom kid."
"How did you know where they went to school?"
"The letterman's jackets. Anyhow, they were talking to Guy's sister Stacy who asked how they knew of the party. They said their mutual connection heard about it from his sister. Then this Tom guy put something in a drink that was sitting there. We stopped the girl, from drinking it by "accidentally" knocking it out of her hand.
My cousin Lucas along with Guy and a few others suggested they leave when a few more people we didn't know showed up."
"Do you know from where?"
"No, but Guy was worried, they were trashing his parents place and one broke into the liquor cabinet. They took my phone when I was filming them doing this. One of them said something about the camera coming in handy later. At that point, I left to go to my car."
"Why?" He asked looking up from writing her account down.
"My sister and I have trac phones that my dad insists we keep in case of emergencies in our glove box. I called the police station and then went back in. I saw this guy Tom following Stacy out the back door to the patio. Slipping through the garage to keep them in sight, I found the oar."
"Did you plan to hit him?"
Alexis stopped him and suggested he rephrase the question. "So what happened next."
"I looked around for other weapons; the police were at least twenty minutes away in good weather, I knew it might be a while. I was attacked earlier this year and took self-defense class. " She said with a straight face not looking at Alexis.
Her self-defense class was something not even her father knew about. Alexis had insisted on it to rebuild her self-esteem after her attack. If any one ever learned that Jason Morgan's new enforcer had taught her to take care of herself, it might not be a good thing.
"What happened after that?"
"I saw him stop and grab a drink, place something in it and replace her glass while she wasn't looking. She was too far away at this point to hear me, so I grabbed the handiest item I could find that would not kill him, then headed out there. By then he had her shorts unzipped and was pushing up her top. He is twice my size and muscled so I hit him only once, just enough to knock him out and then waited for help to arrive. My phone was in his pocket."
"Just a quick clarification, what did you mean by an item that would not kill him?"
"The garage had lots of tools, hammers, screwdrivers, and even a saw. I grabbed the weapon that would knock him out but not hurt him lethally." She said.
"Miss Jones, while I see no reason to charge you with anything, however that is not my call. You might have saved your friend from being seriously hurt."
The two state troopers compared stories, then went to speak to Tom Webb. After getting his version of the story, they looked at the cell phone and called their sergeant. "What do we do?"
"Call Mac Scorpio, this is his mess." He said.
"Sir, Scorpio's wife was in while I was talking to the girl, it was his daughter that hit the guy."
"Arrest Webb, and then hope that the captain is in a good mood. He went to PC West; he is an alumnus of the football team and will not take this well."
Chapter 52
Grays' Anatomy.... You might be confused since you were basically raised by wolves, but this is what mothers do. They stop by, they stock the fridge, they nag you about your dirty laundry...
....you think she might actually offer to do the laundry?...
Alexis found herself checking in on Sage and Georgie, it was almost two o'clock and she had been wandering the house. Mac had been called down to the station, when curators from half the world's museums started calling him. Lorenzo Alcazar who had an eventful night of his own, between delivering Morgan, and having his car totaled was with him still helping to identify the hundreds of paintings and sculptures.
He had recommended getting Elizabeth's help, but Mac had rejected it, saying she had a lot on her plate. However he had called Jason, to tell him that he would arrange a tour for Elizabeth and a few others. Using their backgrounds as an excuse. The art insurance investigators had been calling all evening, exited at the thought of retrieving the stolen artwork.
After brushing Georgie's hair out of her face, she tucked the light comforter around her, grateful for her safety. Walking down the hallway, she saw a shadow and turned to see Maxie standing there. "I can't sleep."
"How about some old movies and popcorn." Not really interested in old movies, Maxie settled down when Alexis had plopped a couple of pillows on the floor of the den and started the movies. Intrigued in spite of herself, Maxie had to admit that Ginger Rogers dresses really cute by the end of Top Hat, by the time the Gay Divorcee ended, she was asleep with her head in her stepmother's lap.
Mac entered the house, dead tired. While he was happy to have solved a case, and also found the billions of dollars in artwork, all he wanted was to check on his family and find his bed. Seeing that Georgie and Sage were sleeping together in her new room, he check on Kristina and Maxie. While the infant was asleep, his eldest daughter seemed to be missing.
Following the nightlights, he soon found his wife and daughter asleep in front of the sofa after what looked like a food fight with popcorn. Picking up the large ceramic bowl, he picked up Maxie and laid her on the sofa, pulling down an afghan from the closet in the hall.
Alexis smiled at the blurry image, then said to Mac. "I think our plans for this evening are shot."
"Come here." He said before kissing her and leading her to their room, as he slowly undressed her and edged her to the bed, he said "I think I have a little energy left."
As he was leaning down to kiss her; his phone rang, groaning he reached over to his side of the bed and answered it. Ten minutes later, returning to his wife, he laughed and said "I think your energy is long gone."
Alexis had fallen asleep holding his shirt. He smiled as he removed if from her clenched hands. Only his wife would take the time to neatly fold his shift in the middle of making love.
Jason was holding Elizabeth as she slept. Mac's call had reminded him of what he still had to do but it could wait until morning. Tonight he just wanted the life affirming feeling of holding onto her. Leaning down he kissed her then slowly fell asleep.
As they woke up the next morning, Elizabeth pinned Jason to the bed and slowly distracted him from his plan to make them breakfast. That was not the morning meal she wanted, and she intended on getting her way. When they were coming down off of the pinnacle, he said I want to go for a bike ride.
"Now?" She asked. Grabbing her clothes, she rushed off to the door of the bathroom, then turned and looked at him saying "What is taking so long?"
Laughing as he asked if they were conserving water, she wiggled her eyebrows and said "No, I just am not finished with you yet. Now get your cute little rear in here."
When Francis let himself into the penthouse, ten minutes later, he started laughing, but placed the muffins and coffee on the desk and left. Looking at Johnny he said "want to set up a pool on having a kid soon."
"Only if you don't mention it to Carly. She always seems to win these things lately." He grumbled. Then turning to Max he verified assignments for the guards. "Now what do we do; wait in the hall?"
Sonny had been planning on having Max arrange for the limo so that Michael and he could visit Carly, but hearing the conversation in the hall, he had an idea. "Johnny, do you have a minute?"
Once inside, after explaining his idea, the new enforcer rejected it.
"Why not?" Asked the Cuban.
"While it might work in the short term, I doubt they will stay there once they have kids."
"Well at least consider it for the short term." He said. "It worked for Jason and I."
Johnny nodded, not having the heart to tell Sonny, that while it had worked for him, Jason had been chafing from being at Sonny's beck and call. In fact he would probably beat the heck out of him for even suggest living that close, let along having the guards live that close.
When Elizabeth and Jason left the apartment and found the men waiting, he told them to meet him at the warehouse, that right now he needed a ride. Grinning Francis said "sure, boss. Elizabeth, do you need me to bring your work stuff to the hospital?"
"Sure, thanks Francis." Handing over her bag, she never saw the evil grin between Max, Johnny and Francis or she would have been worried.
As Carly sat up, she tried not to complain, but Bobbie just kept fluffing her pillows and trying to get her to eat the Jello. Not wanting to admit that she had already eaten breakfast, one brought by AJ and Dillon of all people she had lied and said she had no appetite.
"Momma, I am fine. Do you think you could use your influence to hurry along the wheel chair so that I can visit with Morgan, again?"
Still fussing as she left, Carly laid back and sighed trying to relax so that she could visit her son again. Late in the night, Monica had come to let AJ and her know that Emily's heartbeat was regular and about where it should be. When asked, the relieved woman had helped her go and visit her newest grandson.
"At least he doesn't have red hair." She said out loud, not noticing Sonny who was in the doorway. Michael had conned Alan into taking him to see his new brother, but Sonny had wanted to see Carly.
Looking in, he understood she and he were a toxic combination, but he would always love her and think about what they could have had. "How are you doing?" He asked upon entering.
"I'm okay. Morgan is doing fine. How are you?" She asked wondering how it was possible that all she felt was politeness. Even in the other timeline, she had felt something, but never nothing.
"Fine, I don't know what to say to you." He admitted. "When you get out of here, can we have dinner? I need to tell you something that is going on in my life."
Carly just chuckled. She had just given birth at home, after a car accident and Sonny wanted to talk about his life. Why did that not surprise her? "It will be a while. I am going on a quick trip in a couple of weeks." She said.
After a few more minutes of stilted conversation, Carly saw the orderly pushing a wheelchair with her mom following. Seeing the animal in the chair, she said "I think you already have a passenger."
"Oh this guy, he is staying here. A present from a Mr. and Mrs., Morgan." He said lifting the medium size bear wearing a bright blue bow and top hat and placing him on a chair. "Lets get you ready to visit your son."
Once Carly had held Morgan, she asked to be returned to her room. Waiting until the room had cleared out, Carly hugged herself. With Michael she had not gotten to hold her son, she had been suffering from PPD but with Morgan the first time she had been in a coma. This time she had been the first person to hold her son. Then she thought about it and changed that statement, one of the first.
When she woke up from her nap, she saw that her room had been come a flower shop. Picking up the cards that someone had thoughtfully placed on her table, she read them waiting for company. Seeing Dr. Meadows enter, she held her breath.
Last time she had been told it would be difficult to have another child after Morgan. When she listened astonished as the woman explained that all was well, she wanted to hug someone. When Alexis entered along with Elizabeth, she did so. "I can have all the babies I want." She boasted.
"Good, that should keep you out of trouble." Said Alexis.
"Speaking of trouble, I understand Det. Capelli is having a little of his own."
Elizabeth grimaced then said "Yes, but unfortunately the side effect is that Lucky is getting lots and lots of sympathy."
"Why?"
"The news keeps running a copy of the tape where he gets shot."
"Too bad Capelli hadn't made sure he was dead." Said Carly. "This sucks."
When talk switched to Morgan Lorenzo Quartermaine, the happiness resumed other than Carly's grimace at the middle name. AJ had a lot to answer for in her mind.
Jason waited until Max had gone to take care of his assignments, then asked Marco about their guest.
"She is still out of it. When she is lucid she attacks. Are you reconsidering letting Elizabeth help?"
"No, I told her about the woman, but I don't want her near her. Johnny, what about the new territory, any potential problems?"
"One rather strange one, turns out Lansing approached the families recently. HE wanted them to take out a woman."
"Who?"
"Get this, a magazine editor he used to date. He wants her dead. It was rejected; she is rather high profile. Also there was another burglary last night. Thief in a black mask, oxycodone, and a few other drugs. The man is also seen grabbing condoms. I know the storeowners, when I was a kid they used to help out my mom a bit."
"We are going to make sure that this guy is caught. I know that we believe it is Spencer, but now we have to find the proof. These condoms are a good start."
"I will look into it. Also what do you want to do about the shipping lanes we gained?"
"We keep the local ones; I might sell the European ones. WE also need to find out where Anthony is. We have a loose cannon wandering around who likes to beat people. Find him soon."
Sonny was getting ready for the dinner rush when Mac Scorpio entered. "Corinthos, do you a minute?"
"Do I need my attorney?"
"No, this is about a DNA sample from the crime scene."
"I think I will contact Jordan."
Mac was tired and just a little cranky, so politeness went out the window. "Look you arrogant ass, we found a blood sample from a secret room in the mansion. There were several different blood types in it. One of them came up a close match to yours. It was a sample from a woman."
"Courtney?" He asked curious now what Mac had to say, especially since he looked very uncomfortable.
"No, in fact that officer who ran the sample said it could be either your mother or grandmother."
Sonny staggered. "My mother died in Bensonhurst."
"I need to know if you saw the body?" He asked.
Sonny thought about it then said "No, it was a closed casket and my stepfather fled not long afterwards. What do you need to find out if it is hers?"
"Your permission to remove her casket and check."
"Bring me the papers, in fact I will come with you to sign them." He said before getting his sous chief's attention. "I will be back in an hour. Get the specials set up and make sure that the Hostess has the waitresses try the new side dish."
Jason entered the small safe house, then saw that his men were waiting outside the door. Knocking to let Alan know it was him, he entered and quickly closed the door. Seeing the woman awake but groggy he said "What is wrong with her?"
Alan looked up and said "I had to give her a mild sedative. Just enough to calm her down. Why?"
"Is she capable of talking?"
"Why don't you ask me, instead of the man with the needle?" He heard. Surprised he turned and saw she was trying to stand. "Why did you kidnap me?"
"We were setting you free. As soon as you are healthy we will get you someplace safe."
Laughing sarcastically, she said "Someplace safe that is a joke. There is no such place, as long as Anthony and Trevor are alive. All you have done is endanger my children."
Jason's head shot up and said "You are a mother?"
"Twice over. My son is older, but my daughter is about three."
"Johnny, Johnny Zachara is your son?"
Seeing her stiffen, he said "We saw him the other day, but no little girls. She is the reason he is taking the beating from Anthony, isn't it?"
"No, in fact he knows nothing about her. He is trying to keep Anthony from going over the edge. Believe it or not he can get much, much worse."
"Where is your little girl?"
"I have no idea, Trevor came and stole her away when she was born. He promised that as long as I behaved he would never hurt my little girl."
Jason looked at his father and saw the man looked ready to puke. "I have something to take care of, but I need you to trust me. I promise to find your little girl."
"It will be too late. Trevor gives me a drug without it I get sick and things get much worse for me."
Jason turned white, only for her to reach over and grab his hand. "I just want you to promise me that you will find my little girl; death will be a relief after what I have been through. Go to my old home and find my diary, it will help you locate someone who can help you."
Jason turned to Alan, who drew a sample of blood, then he called Jeff and Steven. While he was a heart specialist, they were both internists, this was their specialty.
"Why have you been attacking my men and why did you stop?"
"I stopped because I heard that Trevor was in jail, as long as he is their, my little girl is safe." She said with a sad smile. "I was trying to get back to protect her."
"We will do our best to get you what you need." Promised Alan, then going home, he drew Monica off to the side and told her what was going on. Her dazed reaction had him laughing at the same time as worrying him.
"So let me get this straight, Jason, our son Jason asked you for help?"
"Yes, he did. I need to meet with Jeff and Steven, so that we can find an antidote."
"I hate to say it but I still am in shock, Jason came to you for help?" She asked again.
Johnny O'Brien waited until the police had left then searched Trevor's own place, finding nothing. Then he waited until his former mistress had left her home then searched Kate Howard's, pay dirt.
Calling Dr. Quartermaine, he met him in a lab with two men and handed it over.
"Do I want to know where you got this?"
"No, if asked I will say I was at the warehouse all evening."
Jeff flinched when he realized that the man worked for his son is law. "How are you not uncomfortable with this?"
"There is a woman who has spent the last fifteen years of her life in a cage, who is going to be dealing with withdrawal and who knows what else. We need to find out what it was and how to help her. So yes, I have no problem with them breaking into the house of the man who did this. Jeff, I recall when Heather had Steven; I recall your relationship with Diana. Don't you dare act like you never cut corners?"
Jeff heard the underlying remark that he recalled how he had broke up with Annie to save Steven, only to find her a few years later and lose her again. This time when she died. They had lost that time together, then in his jealously that she had trusted others with the knowledge of their daughter, he had ruined Elizabeth's life.
He knew that Alan and Monica had never forgiven him for taking his daughter away from them. He gave a slight chuckle at the thought; Elizabeth was still closer to them than she had ever been to him. His eyes had taken one look at his daughter when she was about ten and saw her mother. Since that moment, his heart had never let him forget what he had lost. The life with the woman he was still in love with years after her death.
Two hours later then were at a stand still. "I might now someone that can help. A team in Paris, they are working on mapping the area this drug effects."
"Call them, I have to talk to someone." Said Alan, before going to his office. "Jason, the little girl, might not be so little."
"What?"
"My guess is that this drug slows down time in her mind. What she thinks is a week might be a year."
Elizabeth entered Kelly's to get something to eat at the end of her shift, only to see her father standing there running his fingers through his hair. He looked irritated. When she saw who he was talking to, she stiffened then made plans to walk away.
Then she heard his answer to what ever Lucky had been saying. "So you are the guy who tried to grab my daughter, have you been taking something? Your eyes look a little out of focus."
"I'm just a little tired, I have been taking calls all morning from people telling me how sorry they are for thinking I deserved to get shot, that no one deserves that." He said smugly. "I was hoping to talk to Elizabeth, but Morgan is turning her head. He has her convinced that he is the good guy and I am the dangerous one. I was hoping you could help?"
Jeff thought back on the manipulations of Lucky's Aunt Bobbie and what he could recall about his father. Nothing good there, in fact the only good think he had ever heard about a Spencer was that he had helped Elizabeth after her rape.
Elizabeth waited for her father's answer grateful for the large man between them eating his meal.
"I agree that Jason Morgan is not who I would prefer my daughter was married to, you are not any better. You are drug addict, who seems to feel a sense of entitlement to my daughter. Stay away, your whole family is a bunch of manipulative asses. Go find someone who still thinks that you are a good guy and leave my daughter alone."
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Lorenzo finished talking to Mac Scorpio, then went home with Sage. The young man who had drugged the girl at the party had agreed to give up his source in exchange for the charges being reduced. Sage and Georgie were not happy.
Calling Skye he checked on her sister and new nephew. Then invited her over for dinner. When he had offered to cook, she had laughed and said "Ordering takeout from Adella's and putting it in the warming over isn't cooking. Why don't you come over to the house and bring Sage. The annoying beast misses her."
Elizabeth went straight home and waited for Jason. When he arrived later, she saw how upset he was and just held him. "Her daughter is dead; the police found an unmarked gravesite on the property. Trevor Lansing is trying to blame it all on Anthony but it isn't working."
"What are you going to do?"
"Tell her, but I just can't face it. All I wanted to do since I read the police report is come home and crawl into bed with you. Elizabeth, how can anyone kill a child that way. The scary thing is there were three different graves with kids in them."
"Sonny called he was looking for you. He told me about Adella. Lainey Winters was in the office with him."
"He called me on the cell. What was going on out at that estate and why is it that no one knew?"
Nik held onto Emily, wanting her to wake up but knowing that she needed the sleep. Seeing his uncle in the doorway with flowers, he gestured him in.
Stefan sat the huge bouquet down and said "I took care of what we discussed. The stockholders are still a little worried but for now things seem to be settling down. We need to talk about where you are going to live if you decide to sell the Island."
"I changed my mind. Emily has always loved it out there. Did Lydia get her things?"
"She is on a plane as we speak with this Zander Smith. While I am glad you didn't have to marry her, I think she is making a mistake."
"That is up to her, she is the one with everything to lose." Nik felt Emily squeeze his hand in her sleep, something she seemed to do at regular intervals. He had hated leaving, but Monica had threatened to sedate him if he didn't get some sleep while here earlier.
Seeing the woman in question along with her husband entering, he told Emily he would be back and kissed her forehead before leaving to go to another room, grateful for the perks of being on the board.
Carly was holding her son, when she got the note. Thanking the orderly she sighed and smiled. Jasper Jacks had heard she had given birth and sent her some chocolates saying he was sure that she had plenty of flowers.
Her heart felt a pang at the fact his father was going to be dying soon. While she wished she could change that, she had come to accept that some deaths were meant to be. So she would concentrate on preventing the violence and let nature and old age deal with the rest.