Switching Places

Chapter 86

Elizabeth looked at Jason, wondering why he would be so open about business, and then Tiffany said "You are Audrey Hardy's niece, right. Lucas has told me a lot about you. I hope you can convince your husband to tell me why my nephew was grabbed."

"Miss Hill, I have no idea what is going on. Stan went to Tennessee looking for a fellow computer geek, I have no idea why he would visit with Lucas, I was unaware they even knew each other." Said Jason while pinching the nerve at the bridge of his nose.

"Like I told you, when I went to visit Lucas at his dorm, his mates, told me that he was grabbed last night. That the name Stan was mentioned by my nephew along with Port Charles, New York. I called Bobbie and asked if she knew a Stan, the one who works for you was the only one. So, once again, where is your employee?"

Elizabeth looked at Francis, then said to the middle aged blond woman. "How do you know it's the Stan that works for Jason, and why do you think he would grab Bobbie's son. I think you are jumping to conclusions."

Francis slipped out the door and called Marco who had been working on something for Stan. Listening to his explanation, he told the man to call Stan and tell him to get in touch immediately with Jason.

Less than five minutes later, after listening to Tiffany's reasons for Jason grabbing Lucas, they got the call from Stan. "Jason, what is going on?"

"Why do you have Lucas Jones with you?"

"No, I called and asked for his help locating the computer geek. We backtracked his computer and found out that he had contact with someone at the Brownstone. Lucas was aware of this guy playing computer games with Michael and him. He told me that I had to bring pizza if I wanted to drag him out of the dorm."

"His roommates told his aunt he was kidnapped have Lucas call Tiffany Hill, immediately. Then get back in touch with me later." Said an exasperated Jason. Turning to Tiffany, he said "Lucas is to call you immediately, I was unaware of any connections between Lucas and the Jerome family until you told me. He is under no threat from anyone in our world."

Tiffany was still worried, but getting the call from Lucas, she felt foolish. She had chartered a jet this morning, since Sean was away on agency business. After over reacting, the former actress and reporter just wanted to check into her hotel and sleep some of her anxiety away. "I apologize for my mistake."

"Would you like one of my men to drive you to the airport?" He offered wanting to get rid of the blond and spend some time with his wife.

"Actually, do you think they can take me to the Port Charles Hotel, I will fly back in the morning?" She said gathering her purse and light jacket.

"Miss Hill, the hotel burnt down, Lucas was there I thought he would have told you about it." Said Elizabeth.

"He mentioned a fire, but not how bad it was. Thank you for telling me, I guess I will have to call an old friend." She said with a smile.

Carly was walking into her house, with Jax following behind carrying pizza. Seeing AJ and the boys waiting, she said "Pizza on Jax, he offered since he was bringing me home."

"Wicked." Said Michael as he rushed off to ask Leticia for help getting milk for him. "Dad, are you staying?"

"No." said AJ. "I need to speak to your mom for a second, then I have a meeting with my dad."

Carly looked at the grim expression on AJ's face and asked "What is it?"

"Have you talked to Sonny today?" He asked while watching Jax following after Michael.

"No, he stopped to visit me the other day at the hospital but nothing since then." Seeing his sigh of relief, she asked "AJ what happened?"

"He called and asked to visit with the boys, and then told me he was moving to his Island. That it was a permanent move. I sort of laid into him; I just wanted to warn you that I let him have it for coming in and out of Michael's life. That if he wasn't going to be there for him to take himself out of the equation."

Carly winced, while she had thought the same thing, she had not expressed it to Sonny. "I gather he blew up."

"No, he was actually calm. He wants to talk to us in the morning before his flight. He said he needed to talk to the two of us at the same time. I agree on both of our behalves. So if you want to shout, get it out now."

"I think he is about to agree with us, I will call him. I wish you had called me first, but I do know that Sonny is in a hurry to leave. He would have left today, but he had a few more people to see before leaving."

"How are you with this, I mean, I know you still love him." AJ said awkwardly.

"Only for the past. I faced up to the fact that Sonny and I were a terrible combination a long time ago. I am grateful for the help he gave me and the help he didn't. It was what caused me to grow up." She said while thinking of Michael lying in a bed comatose. "Sonny crossed a line a long time ago. I grew up, AJ, I moved on and am finally able to look at myself in the mirror and see a person worthy of love and respect."

"I'm sorry for asking." He said before gripping her hand. "I do understand. For the longest time I looked in the mirror and saw Monica and Alan's son, then the man responsible for Jason Quartermaine's death. Now I see a father, and a businessman who doesn't depend on the Quartermaine name."

Monica told Alice to let the guest into the living room and joined her family wishing Tracy on the other side of the planet, solar system even. "Monica, thank you for your kind offer."

"You are so welcome, Tiffany. I was more than happy to offer up one of our guestrooms. Lila and Edward went out to dinner, but you remember my sister in law, Tracy. Alan will be down in a minute; he went to scrounge up Tracy's son Dillon."

"Lucas' friend, I have heard his name mentioned a few times, he is dating Luke and Laura's daughter, correct?"

Monica saw Tracy swell with indignation and cut off the woman before she could rant about Lulu Spencer. "They broke up recently, before that he was dating Alan's step granddaughter, Sage. "

"He broke up with her to take up with that lowlife Spencer girl, like most males he was thinking of what is between his legs not his brain." Sneered Tracy as she stormed out the door. Stopping she told Monica, "Remind my son he is grounded for the stunt at Kelly's, I will be eating out."

"What was that about?" Asked Tiffany who listened astonished as Monica told her the whole sorted story, but before she could reply Alan entered followed by a young man with dirty blond and messy hair.

"Skye just called, we need to talk for a few minutes. Dillon can you escort Miss Hill in to dinner." Said Alan as they finished the introductions. After telling Monica about the incident at Wyndamere, they discussed Lulu Spencer and Skye's stepson.

"This boy is going to be trouble." Said Monica with a loud sigh. "What was decided in regards to him?"

"Skye said that Lorenzo is thinking of shipping him to his mother, but she thinks that will make the problem worse. She said he feels guilty about not knowing about Diego, but at the same time wants to keep him from following in his brother's footsteps." Said Alan as they entered the dining room at the same time as AJ entered. "Dad what was this meeting we need to have?"

Alan looked up confused. "I didn't need a meeting with you, though having you over for dinner is always nice."

"My assistant note said to come over and have dinner, that it would be ready at six. Mom said it wasn't her when I talked to her earlier." Hearing his phone ringing, he saw that it was Emily and answered. Then after joking with his sister and finally getting serious they talked a few minutes then he hung up. "That answers that, it was Emily."

"They need the boats for Spoon Island taken care of before the wedding, she was hoping I could arrange for it."

"The Cassidine's still own that don't they?" Asked Tiffany recalling when Cesar Faison once owned that dark gothic monstrosity in the harbor.

"Yes, Nik does, he is marrying Emily there in a couple of weeks, from what Skye said they are using several large boats to take over guests. Hello, Dillon. How is college going?"

"It's fine. So far I have only had three classes but it's okay. I don't suppose you are hiring, Mother cut off my money."

"Sorry, we use specialists on the boats, I could see if I have anything open in the office."

Elizabeth saw the phone vibrating on Jason's desk as she returned from washing the dishes. Jason had cooked dinner when they arrived home, so she had done the dishes while he had played with Lia. Now they switched off and she took their little one up to get her ready for bed, while he talked to Stan.

As she removed the baby monitor, Elizabeth looked over to check on their little girl as she slept peacefully after her bath. Wondering if she could talk Jason into taking one with her, she stopped to grab the extra bottle of Johnson's lavender bath that worked so well with their daughter.

Heading down the stairs five minutes later, she saw Jason was still on the phone and looking annoyed. "Where did he go?"

After hanging up, he told Elizabeth. "The kid disappeared. That was why Stan needed Lucas' help. The kid lived with his grandmother who says he came home the other day and packed up most of his stuff saying he had gotten a scholarship for college. Stan figured that Lucas might be able to get more information. He knew him from GH, so he called and asked for his help. Stan now has a photo so it won't be too hard to track this kid down."

"I will try to talk to Carly again tomorrow. I finally found out why she was so reluctant to tell us anything about this Jackal. There were a couple of different things, but it came down to this game. She saw it on the computer, after playing it she remembered some things about this kid and his lack of taste in women. She is concerned because he fell so readily for Sam's lies and Johnny Zachara's sister flirting."

"But we know about Sam and as for Claudia the minute she steps into this town, I made a deal with Canto for me to take care of her. We have records that will send her to jail for a very long time. Why is she letting this influence her?"

"I plan to talk to her, maybe get the whole story. I told her I would talk to you about it, then if you agreed to rely on my assessment she would tell me the whole story. I am not sure, but I think it is something we should consider as a last resort. I hate having any secrets between us."

Jason agreed with her idea, then said "You smell rather like our daughter this evening."

"She splashed a little, I was thinking that since I already had a half of a bath, you and I could share one too, maybe so that the rest of me can be bathed. Are you interested?" She asked with a knowing smile as she started to remove her pale mauve t-shirt, dropping it on the lowest stair before removing her hair band and leaving it at the landing.

Instead of Jason picking the items up, his t-shirt joined hers and his shoes were on the landing, soon followed by his socks in the hallway as he unzipped his jeans and entered their steaming bathroom. "You are falling behind." She teased from where she was standing wearing nothing but a smile. "Do you need some help?"

Jason just raised an eyebrow and let his jeans fall before kicking them into a corner while picking his wife up and placing her into their tub. "Now what was it you needed washed?" He asked as he bends down and nuzzled her neck slowly licking at the skin there.

Kitty was excited as Johnny and Georgie changed the bed sheets for her. Instead of the pastel pink ones, she now had ones with pink strips on a white background and her new comforter had ballet slippers all over it. "Kitty, time for your bath." Said Georgie as she left Johnny to finish hanging the clothes they had purchases.

Once she had been scrubbed clean, Georgie dried her hair with the blow dryer and carried her back into her room. When Kitty refused to let her go, she knelt down and offered a bedtime story. "Angelina Ballerina?"

"Sure, now let's turn off the overhead light, we will just use the on the bed table." She said as Johnny killed the lights and moved to the other side of Kitty at her insistence. As she fell asleep, she thanked whoever would listen for the new brother and sister, and for Mr. Whiskers." She grinned as she felt herself falling asleep. Grabbing onto Georgie, she said good night.

"Good night, I will see you tomorrow." Was the soft reply.

Kitty's eyes widened in spite of her exhaustion. "You can't leave. Please don't go."

"I will be back in the morning. I have to go home and see my Dad and Alexis." She told the little girl as she clung even closer. Seeing the scared look, Georgie called Alexis who agreed she could spend the night.

Johnny groaned. His mind never went far from wanting her but he had kept his hands to himself, willing to wait until her birthday. Seeing the look in Georgie's face he knew they were going to be at least discussing this before the end of the evening.

"Kitty, I will stay, but only for tonight. My classes start the day after tomorrow and my dad is going to require me to be home then." She told the little girl as she soon fell asleep relaxed.

"This isn't a good idea." Johnny said as they walked into the small living room. "Do you have any idea what is going through my mind right now? In spite of the fact that my sister is sleeping right in there."

"The same thing going through mine." She said with a smile. "We decided to talk this through, I am holding you to that, remember no making decisions for me."

"I do remember; that is why you are not getting escorted to your car right now." He admitted. "We should talk about this."

"First let's talk about Kitty and what is going on with her. Dad told me about the man showing up claiming to be him, how are you dealing with that. I saw the guards hanging back discreetly but I assume you are doing more than that."

"I talked to Jason about assigning you a guard too. I won't let you get hurt by this." He said fiercely while pulling her into his arm and sitting down. "Things are settled but I still am worried about Anthony getting loose and then there is Claudia. She is going to see Kitty and you as a way to get to me."

Georgie was about to answer when she heard a knock at the door, opening it; she saw her Aunt Bobbie and laughed. "Just what did dad ask?"

"Just blankets for the sofa." She said handing them to the younger girl and decided to cool the young man's ardor a little bit on her own. "Seeing you in the doorway, it reminds me of when this was your parents' apartment, back before Maxie was born."

Georgie wanted to ask whether or not Mac had put her up to pointing out that her parents had once lived there, or if she had come up with it on her own, when she could hear the hall phone ringing. Seeing Bobbie turn to answer it, she closed the door and said "I forgot this was Frisco and Mom's place."

Johnny picked up the linens, and said for her to take the bed. "That doesn't bother me, now if it had been Mac's, I would be worried."

Kissing him goodnight, Georgie sighed, she had planned on being held all night long, now she was sleeping in his bed, surrounded by his scent and feeling lonely. Hearing the sound of the door moving ajar, she joked. "I thought you were determined to sleep all by your lonesome."

"Well, I hate to sleep without you." He said climbing into the bed. Wrapping his arms around her, Johnny said "I would be a fool not to take advantage of this."

Detective Garcia was glad to hand the blond over to the lockdown facility in Roselawn. "Here is her case file. Do you need anything else?"

"No, we have had all lockdown cases from Shadybrook as of today." Said the admittance clerk. "You said you had a few more questions for her?"

"No, she identified the man who helped her escape. Be careful with her, she sold a kid like she had ownership papers for her. This time for drugs. Last time it was her own son."

"We are well aware of Miss Grants past. Dr. Webber called to let us know about his mother."

The next few days flew, Elizabeth and Jason found themselves settling into a routine of Jason getting Lia ready in the morning, spending the afternoon with their daughter and Elizabeth putting her to bed at night, before spending the rest of the evening together.

Neither of them were looking forward to the weekend, Carly had been persuaded to explain about the young man who seemed to be so interested in Jason's life. It was Friday afternoon and Elizabeth was getting ready to leave work when Alan stopped her. "Elizabeth, I need you to stick around, we have an incoming. The roof at the high school caved in over the cafeteria."

"Fine, Francis please let Jason know. Alan, they should have replaced that roof years ago. It was bad when I was a student." She said before changing back into scrubs. Ten minutes there was chaos as forty students got off a bus, some suffering minor injuries, others more serious ones.

Seeing Georgie entering covered with blood, Elizabeth pulled her into a cubicle and started to take care of her cuts and bruises. "Where were you when it fell?"

"We heard it falling; Sage pulled me under a table when I tried to get Lulu to join us. She kept messing around. Elizabeth, I think she was really seriously hurt. Diego finally pulled her down. They took Trent to Mercy; he was sitting behind us. He looked really bad. We kept pressure on Lulu's wound, that is where they blood came from." She said while trying to keep from crying.

Alexis rushed into the ER in time to see Skye hugging Sage who was getting cuts taken care of. "SAGE, where is Georgie?"

"With Elizabeth, she has cuts and bruises nothing more serious." Said Skye. "Diego has a sprained wrist and needed a few stitches but Lulu Spencer and someone named Trent Michaels took the worst of it."

"Has anyone reached Nik or Luke?" She asked while pulling out her cell phone.

"No, I know that Alan was on the phone a little while ago, but-" they all turned as they heard Maxie rushing into the ER screaming her sister's name while Dillon followed.

"Maxie, she is fine. Has anyone reached Johnny?" Asked Alexis.

"I called, he is already here, Kitty had her doctor's appointment." Said Maxie even as she searched the room for her sister. Seeing several familiar faces, she winced at the cuts and bruises all of them had. Seeing Johnny entering carrying Kitty, she said "She is in with Elizabeth, so it can't be that bad, can it?"

Elizabeth tossed the gloves in the waste container and escorted Georgie out the door after she had changed. Seeing the ER filled to capacity, Alan stopped her and told her the police wanted everyone to remain until they arrived, she nodded and escorted Georgie towards her family, only to finally get to see Miss Kitty as she yelled Georgie's name and came running down the hall to the young student.

Maxie wasn't far behind and saw her sister wince at the movement required to bend down. Once Georgie had greeted Kitty and assured her she would be fine,

Luke rushed in as Nik and Emily came down the stairs, "Elizabeth, have you seen Lulu?"

"They brought her in while I was working on Georgie. Nik, Tony is working on her, it looks like a spinal injury." She saw the look on Luke's face as he faced possibly losing his daughter, he had been avoiding Lulu, Nik had wanted him to talk to the younger girl about her obsession with getting Dillon back and the means she had used to try and achieve that goal.

Lorenzo joined his wife and niece as Steven wrapped up Diego's hand. "I hear you are the big hero, that without your grabbing the Spencer girl she would be dead."

"She still might be, so don't offer any applause yet." Said Diego as he tried to deal with how unsettled he had felt at seeing the blond almost die. When he had grabbed her and pulled her down, it had been automatic. "Georgie was the hero; she stopped the bleeding and wouldn't let us remove the piece of beam sticking out."

Mac rushed into the ER to see his wife holding Georgie's hand while his daughter was holding the four-year-old in her arms. Seeing the look on her face, he pulled her into his arms and hugged them both. Kitty laughed and said "Too tight!"

"Georgie why are you wearing scrubs?" Asked Justus as he entered.

"The b-l-o-o-d on my clothes, Elizabeth gave me these to change into. Did the rain cause the roof to cave?"

"It looks like it. Your classmate Trent was being transferred to Mass General even as we speak along with two other students. I heard Lulu Spencer was the only other student hurt bad enough to require surgery. I was worried about how Luke would react." He told Mac.

"We cleared all the students from the school and I have some of my officers helping with cleanup and security. Georgie, there are people coming up from Albany to talk to the students. Do you know who was there at the time?"

Georgie gave him a complete list but the only names he knew were the one on her Field Hockey team, Lulu, Diego and Sage. "Did you see where this Trent kid was?"

"He had just entered from the Library and had reached the table behind ours. Lulu was sitting on top of the counter and when everyone else got down was joking around saying we were over reacting, Diego grabbed her arms and yanked her down hard. But it was too late, the roof had already started to fall, she only made it halfway under the table."

"Thanks, I need to let them know. Alexis, Dr. Meadows is waiting to check your blood pressure, I asked Maxie to go with you. Georgie, as soon as the investigators release you, I want you to go home and sleep. Either home, right now I am just happy you are safe to argue with you about where you sleep."

Johnny knew that the man had been upset that Georgie had been staying with him, in spite of knowing it was for Kitty's sake. The first night it had been just Kitty and him, she had refused to sleep. Later he had discovered why as she had nightmares and had peed the bed. The group home had frequently turned off the lights and locked the children in their dorms for small infractions.

Strangely enough, it was Mac that had given in about Georgie over Alexis' protests. He had talked to his wife and a compromise had been reached. Georgie stayed at the Brownstone, but with Bobbie. Kitty had reminded Mac of his own little girls and she had quickly won him over.

Emily was in with Dr. Meadows when Alexis was let into the office, "You too? Nik sent me up, he was worried. Tony is operating on Lulu as we speak. Mom scrubbed in to help."

After Dr. Meadows declared them both fit to head out, they joined Nik waiting for news outside of the operating room. "Where is Luke?"

"Talking to Bobbie, she just came out from the operating room to tell us that they removed the metal bar. Thank god for Georgie, someone at the school had wanted to remove it. She could have been paralyzed for the rest of her life if they had." Said Nik wearily.

Elizabeth was just leaving the ER when Jason called, "Sonny is safely in Puerto Rico, and he just called to say he made it and would sent back the boat. I heard about the school, how is Lulu?"

"It could be bad. I talked to Dr. Thornheart; he was the one who saw her first. Lulu is going to be one sick little girl for a while. Where are you?"

"On my way home, then Lia and I are taking you out to dinner. I figure you are going to need a break." He said even as he pulled into the garage. Upon entering the penthouse, he saw Stan sitting on the sofa holding a folder.

"This was all we found on this Spinelli kid." He said apologetically. "He's good; I will give him that. I don't think he is a deliberate threat, but could be more dangerous because he is just blundering around. Has Bernie found anything about why you?"

"Not yet. Go ahead and get some rest. Your mother might want to see you, there was an accident at the school today, the roof caved in."

"Let me guess, the cafeteria, it was dangerous when I was a student. You could hear it creaking all the time. Ask Elizabeth, she was a couple years behind me, but she should remember that."

Mac saw the two men entering the station and groaned. Mitch Lawrence was the state assemblyman for Port Charles and spent most of his time posing in front of camera's instead of working for his community, but the other guy he didn't know.

"Commissioner, this is Joe Kelly. He is former officer here in town. He works for the state building inspectors office and will be leading the investigation on behalf of the state and my office. I am quite sure you will find that this is the fault of the contractor, after all, we both know they are a part of the organized crime problem here in Port Charles. Please let me know when I can take this public, they are demanding answering for us. Hopefully you can use this to take down the mob." He said before pompously walking out.

Joe was shaking his head, "That man is an idiot. Look, I saw the records. I know there has been repeated requests for the city to replace the roof and that the state was asked for the money. I am also aware of Assemblyman Lawrence's backdoor deal that kept that from happening. He is trying to use the mob to cover up his screw up but I won't allow that to happen."

"I will be glad to offer any help you need, my daughter is one of the students who were injured today." He told the man. "Come into my office and I will arrange for some space to be set up for you. There was a Chief Kelly years and years ago, are you related?"

"My father, my family once owned Kelly's before my mother left it to Ruby Anderson. I understand that Bobbie now owns it." He said as they sat down.

"Yes, along with Luke Spencer, I gather you are familiar with the family. Luke's daughter was seriously hurt, they are operating now. A second student was airlifted to Mass General."

"I sent my assistant there to help the family anyway possible. Lawrence tries too hard, wanting people to forget his own connections to organized crime and how that connection ruined his relationship with Tracy Quartermaine, they were married years ago."

"Are you staying locally?"

"I am thinking of contacting Bobbie about a room at Kelly's. I spent a good part of my youth there. I talked to one of your men at the site, a Detective Garcia, he arranged for my men to start work already. Here is my card with my numbers, if you need to reach me for anything."

"Have you already talked to the students?"

"Yes, but I don't recall the name Scorpio, so I must of missed your daughter." He said standing in the doorway.

"Her last name is Jones, Georgie Jones."

"The brunette with the medical experience, yes I do recall her. She had a little girl with her. Clung to her like a limpet."

"That would be Kitty." Mac laughed ruefully. "Very long story, there, If you get bored with Kelly's food, give me a call. We would love to have you over for dinner. Our older daughters have been deserting us and Kristina is almost two, so we rarely have company ."

"I may take you up on it." Joe replied. Walking out of the office, he drove to Kelly's and asked to let a room.

"We have two available" said Mike. Looking at the bulge under his shoulder, "One thing, we don't allow guns."

Joe showed him his badge and the man handed him a key. "Was it the name that made you decide to rent?"

"No my family own this place years ago. I am in town to look into the school roof collapse." Entering his room, Joe took out the folders and tossed them on the dresser. He had one more item to take care of while in town. The man who had killed his father was out wondering the streets and he was determined to take him down.

Tiffany left the Quartermaine mansion in a hurry after answering Sean's call. "Are you sure it is Robert?"

"Yes, he is a little bruised and broken, but Frisco and I are taking him to the clinic in Switzerland. I need to reach Anna."

"What about Robin?" She asked as she was driven to the airport.

"Not yet. Robert doesn't want to place her in danger. We have a bigger problem, who wants to be the one to tell Anna she is a bigamist."

Thinking on it, Tiffany said "She isn't. She divorced David after their daughter's death earlier this summer. I still can't believe it, Robert Scorpio is alive."

Carly rushed into GH; she had been at the hotel with Jax when the men had asked to borrow the big cranes stating there had been an accident at PCH. Calling her mother she had gotten voicemail, but then checking hers found a message from Elizabeth about Lulu.

"How is she?" she asked as she sat down next to Lesley.

"They removed the metal fragment, now they are working on repairing the spine." Said Nik from the other side of the room where he was holding onto Emily. "Elizabeth just checked a few minutes ago, they were closing up the wound, so it might not be that bad."

Tony Jones entered the waiting room in time to hear that and wished he had better news. "Okay, there was no brain damage." He said to the relief of the occupants. "We have repaired her spine, now we just have to wait for the swelling to go down. We won't know anything more until after that."

"What are the odds?" Asked Luke.

"Spencer, this isn't Vegas I don't do odds. All I can say is that the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been thank to the surgical removal of the fragment. So you owe Georgie a very big thanks, it's because of her that Lulu even has a chance to walk again. Now I have to go and make sure that she is settled."

Georgie was fast asleep with Kitty on the sofa when Johnny heard a knock on his door. Opening it, he saw Bobbie and a couple of people there.

"I just wanted to let Georgie know that Lulu is out of surgery. How did you get her to take the sedative?"

"I didn't. Kitty did." He told the redhead. "How is your niece?"

"They won't know the extent of the damage until she wakes up. This is Joe Kelly; he needs to speak to Georgie when she wakes up."

"I saw you there when I was talking to her earlier. Could you just ask her when she wakes up to contact me, here is my card. Someone said she was playing with her camera phone before the cave in. I was hoping to take a look at the photos."

Johnny told him to wait, then went over to pick up the battered phone from the sofa table. "We just called her dad, her camera was destroyed, but the sim card might be intact."

"Would you tell her I will get it back to her as soon as I can."

"No hurry, I got her another one on the way home." He said before turning to Ned and asked what he needed while watching Joe and Bobbie walk away.

"Strangely enough, I need a pianist. I know it's a cover, but could you help me out. I need to lay down some piano tracks for a recording and my usual guy is unavailable."

Thinking on it, Johnny decided to, was perfect cover. "Sure but when, I am rather busy right now."

"In the next week, the singer won't be arriving until the end of the week. He is only staying for a couple of days, and I promise you will have no contact with him."

Joe was walking out with Bobbie, when he asked "What was wrong with that picture?"

"Nothing, it's a long story, but Johnny and Georgie meet a while ago when she was attacked in the park. You wouldn't believe it from the togetherness, but they are not sleeping together." She said thinking back on the last couple of days. "I know as a cop it bother you, it bothers Mac. But she is seventeen almost eighteen. Now let's get some coffee and you can catch me up on things."

Joe knew that if it had been his daughter he would NOT have allowed her to spend time with that young man, but let it go for now.

Jason and Elizabeth were settling down with Lia at Vista Point as they discussed all they had learned. "So what did Carly tell you?"

"This Spinelli lived with you. He seemed to have a big case of hero worship but that women, including her used it to get around him. Brilliant but socially awkward was what she said. She thinks that the last part of the mess in '08 might not have been so bad if he hadn't been involved. Something about Maxie Jones and Sam. After what Stan said, I think we just let him come to us."

"I agree, if he even does. What about how he learned so much about me? That has to have changed from before, I mean unless he knew about me before he came to town."

"She has no idea." Said Elizabeth. Hearing her phone beep, she checked the message. "That was your father. The swelling is starting to go down, but the boy who was airlifted died."

Looking at his daughter, Jason was thinking of arranging for home schooling when the time came. Maybe at a convent with nuns as teachers. He thought to himself. Seeing the look on Elizabeth's face he said "I know, I am overreacting, but at least we wouldn't have to worry about her dating."

Elizabeth leaned in and kissed him saying "We really should have had a boy first."

"Sounds good to me." He said as they drove home to spend the night reminding themselves what they had and what they could have lost. As Jason fell asleep, he pulled Elizabeth into his arms and said "I love you.

The next morning, Carly and AJ meet to discuss Sonny's offer. "What do you think?"

"I think we should talk to Michael, but I have no problem with it as long as Sonny is getting treatment." Carly said. "One of us has to go along as well. It's only for two weeks."

"I agree. Now how about telling me what is going on between Jax and you?"

She said. "It's strange but it is an adult relationship where I am not running to him to fix my mistakes and he isn't scolding me like I am twelve. We haven't emotionally set out to destroy each other or anyone else close to us. But I don't want to push it, my history sucks."

"I know the feeling. I went out with this young nurse at Mercy, it went fine but I don't want to make a mistake."

"Is this someone you plan to have a future with?" She asked surprised.

"I don't know." he admitted. While he enjoyed spending time with Jolene, she kept heading home to Ohio, her father was very sick and she wanted to be close to him.

Johnny O'Brien waited for Kate at the airport. The fashionista had been adamant about rejecting contract but her attorney had suggested it might help her in the long run. Watching as her entourage followed her, he said "You do know the penthouse is only a four bedroom."

"They will not be staying very long. They are heading back to civilization tonight." She said.

"Good, now we need to talk, so tell them to go away." He told her.

"You don't order me around. I am a very busy woman who is only here so that I can say I tried."

"Really, then try and deal with this. How would you like me to go over and announce we need privacy to deal with your past relationship with Sonny Corinthos?" He asked while using one of Jason's favorite tactics and raised his eyebrow.

Kate stiffened and turned white. Turning to her assistant, she said "Go ahead with the driver, I need to talk to this gentleman alone.

Smiling at his victory, Johnny said "Let's go someplace private."

Joe listened to Bobbie and then said "Sure, I would be glad to be your date. I am surprised it wasn't cancelled."

"They had intended to, but Lulu insisted they go ahead with it. They did cancel their honeymoon though."

Elizabeth was walking down the stairs; glad she had the morning off. Seeing Jason with Lia as they attempted to get more of the cereal inside of her instead of on her, she asked "Do you want some help?"

Turning to look at his wife, he said "No, there is an omelet in the microwave and fresh fruit in the refrigerator, then I have plans for us today. We also have to pick out something for Nik and Emily's wedding."

"I already took care of it. We are having the bridal shower tomorrow evening as scheduled but cancelled the bacholorette party."

Hearing a knock at the door, Elizabeth changed direction and let in her mother in law. "Monica, it's nice to see you, but you look terrible."

"I was at the hospital all night. Triple bypass surgery. I actually am here to see you about Lila. She wants to have a small birthday party for Edward. With all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren there."

"When?"

"Tomorrow actually. I was supposed to mention it yesterday, but I forgot." She admitted. "Then when Joyce stopped me and asked if I had seen you this morning, I recalled."

"Do you know why Dr. Meadows was looking for me?" She asked. A pregnant woman had come through the ER the day before, but she had not treated the woman, instead she had sent her straight up to delivery.

"No, but I was to tell you to call her immediately." She said. "Now just let me know if Jason and you will be available, for now I am heading home to bed." With a yawn she walked out the door. Picking up the phone, Elizabeth called the hospital and after talking to Dr. Meadows sat down shocked. "Jason, can you come in here for a minute?"

Entering in a hurry at the strange tone of his wife's voice, he saw her sitting on the sofa shocked. "Elizabeth, what is it?"

"The birth control shot, it didn't take. Dr. Meadows has been trying to reach me for the last two days." She said still in shock as she recalled how many times they had had unprotected sex since getting the shot.

Stunned Jason sat down while holding Lia. "Are you pregnant?" He asked smiling inside at the idea even as he thought about how they had discussed not having more kids until Lia was at least a year old.

"I don't think so, but I made an appointment. I am so sorry, Jason. I know we discussed waiting."

Her head shot up at what came out of him "I wouldn't be upset. You know that, I just thought you wanted to wait."

"I thought you did." She replied as they sat there staring at one another in shock.

TBC